LARRY with Larry O'Connor

Larry O'Connor breaks down Senator Ted Cruz's closing-night speech at the Republicans' midterm convention, where Cruz warned about a "red-green alliance" between communists and Islamists inside the Democrat Party, drawing on his own family's experience under Cuban communism. O'Connor plays CNN Newsnight's reaction, where host Abby Phillip clashes with commentator Noah Rothman over whether Cruz's remarks target Islam as a religion or Islamism as a political ideology, with O'Connor walking through the distinction in detail and arguing Phillip doesn't understand the difference she's mocking. The segment closes with a speech from the same convention night by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a lifelong Democrat, making nearly the identical argument about Islamism as an existential threat, a clip O'Connor points out CNN conveniently left out of the conversation.Become a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Larry O'Connor breaks down the fallout from the hung jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial, opening with a CBS Mornings clip where Gayle King presses a juror on the racial and age makeup of the panel — then visibly freezes when she learns the lone holdout juror who refused to acquit was a Black man. O'Connor walks through Gayle King's reaction moment by moment, arguing it reveals she'd assumed the holdout was white. He then turns to Oprah Winfrey's podcast, where a guest reframes the case around race and privilege rather than the murders themselves, drawing applause from the audience. In the back half, O'Connor plays juror interviews describing the holdout's behavior in the deliberation room, including a moment where he tied an exercise band around a water bottle to demonstrate how deliberate Clancy's actions were, and how he stood alone against the rest of the panel. He closes the segment with a homily from Father Dan Hill, an exorcist in the Archdiocese of Nashville, offering his take on the case and the public reaction to it.Become a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Larry breaks down the Texas Senate race — predicting a coin-flip finish or a Ken Paxton lead over James Talarico — and hands the mic to rising GOP star Congressman Brandon Gill, whose midterm convention speech torches the Democratic Party's "land acknowledgment" culture and calls out its most extreme nominees by name. Then it's Talarico's turn in the hot seat: Larry replays his Fox News interview where he's pressed on saying "God is non-binary" and that there are "six sexes," and closes with a bombshell report on what Talarico's own pastor says about their congregation. For complete Medicare guidance, dial 580-308-0975 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/oconnorBecome a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The special tells the story of how Charlie started Turning Point USA in his parents’ garage and built it into one of the largest youth organizations in the country, becoming the most consequential conservative voice of his generation.Narrated by Mike Gallagher, Larry O’Connor, and Alex Marlow, with a special appearance by Larry Elder, the program will tell Charlie’s remarkable story largely through his own voice, including rare audio from his first interview with longtime host Dennis Prager when Charlie was just 22 years old.The program draws from rare archival interviews and recordings, along with stories from those who knew Charlie throughout his rise from a young activist to a national conservative leader. More than anything, it will give you another chance to hear Charlie as you remember him: in his own voice.Become a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Eight weeks from the midterms, every cable panel is explaining the 2026 election with a single number — Donald Trump's approval rating — while telling you Trump isn't on the ballot. Larry O'Connor makes the case that the number answers the wrong question. Elections are choices, not referendums, and being annoyed about grocery prices is not the same as wanting a 33-year-old democratic socialist running the country. He walks through why August polling always looks like this for Republicans, who actually answers polls in August, and why the "polls are tightening" story arrives on schedule every single October. Then the part nobody on television will connect: the anger about Iran isn't about the Strait of Hormuz, it's about what happened to gas prices — and the national average everyone quotes is being pulled up by one state. Gavin Newsom's California adds a premium to every gallon through regulations and taxes, and it lands in the number Democrats then blame on Trump. Plus the 2018 comparison the media keeps reaching for, why 2022 is the better analogy, and what Joe Biden's raid on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve actually bought him. Check out the latest news from Heartlander News: https://heartlandernews.com/Become a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kathy Hochul said on live television that she wishes ICE would disband, then blamed Donald Trump for defunding the police. At a press conference the New York governor claimed the federal government is withholding 40 percent of the state's counterterrorism money, $87 million, and translated it as Donald Trump defunding the police. Larry O'Connor walks through the vote: not one New York Democrat, not Chuck Schumer and not Hakeem Jeffries, voted to fund the Department of Homeland Security during the shutdown their own party ran at ICE and the Border Patrol. Hochul then goes further on television, calling ICE a rogue agency and saying she wishes it would disband and go back to the old Immigration and Naturalization Service. That is Abdul El-Sayed's talking point, and Larry sets it against the decades when the same coalition called the INS a secret police force, and against Hochul's own campaign stop at a New York mosque. The clip closes on the Times Square stabbing that killed one person and left another hospitalized, and the NYPD officers who ended it after a taser failed. Check out the latest news from Heartlander News: https://heartlandernews.com/Become a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Abdul El-Sayed refused to say Hasan Piker's name at a Michigan press conference, calling him "a social media person in California" — after inviting him to campaign. Larry O'Connor breaks down El-Sayed's damage control: the "hurt people hurt people" statement after the attack on a synagogue and a Jewish summer camp in Michigan, the walk-back that never quite becomes an apology, and the shift from "we" to "I" depending on whether he's distancing himself or defending himself. A Fox News reporter presses him on whether he'll condemn Piker, notes that Jewish voters are asking the question, and El-Sayed shakes his head while his press secretary tries to take control of the room. Then Dave Weigel gets Piker on the record: El-Sayed's campaign asked him to come to Michigan, not the other way around. Larry raises the question no one has asked yet — whether any money moved between the El-Sayed campaign and Piker's podcast for the appearances, the travel, or the mentions. Plus Mike Rogers on Democrats for Rogers in Detroit, the Haley Stevens voters in play, and the new ad built entirely out of El-Sayed's own words. Check out the latest news from Heartlander News: https://heartlandernews.com/Become a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner stood at a podium and said the White House ballroom is going to get blown up in an "official ceremony" — and that he'll keep a piece of it as a paperweight on his desk. Larry rolls that clip, then the one where Krasner tells ICE agents he'll hunt them down "the way they hunted down Nazis," then Attorney General Todd Blanche's on-air response. Plus: Krasner gets cornered by a kid with a camera in a public park and completely loses it, and Kathy Griffin resurfaces to explain why she's the real victim of 2017. For complete Medicare guidance, dial 580-308-0975 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/oconnorBecome a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chris Cuomo told Andrew Kolvet that Democrats have "learned their lesson" and will never reopen the border — so Larry O'Connor rolls the tape on what Democrats are saying right now. Kathy Hochul just turned all of New York into a sanctuary state and threatened legal action against any sheriff who cooperates with ICE, while Sarah McBride called enforcing federal immigration law un-American. Then Larry asks to play George Stephanopoulos' interview with the mother of a Fairfax County stabbing victim killed by an illegal immigrant — and finds out on air that it doesn't exist. For complete Medicare guidance, dial 580-308-0975 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/oconnorBecome a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The New York Times reported that Jared Kushner met privately with Hakeem Jeffries — and the online left completely lost it. So Jeffries sat down in front of a Brooklyn housing project in a hat eight sizes too big and recorded a slow-motion selfie video to calm his own base, and it is the single most ridiculous thing you will see today. Larry O'Connor breaks down the pauses, the "Trump cartel" line, the Wolf Blitzer interview that followed on CNN, and the one thing Hakeem Jeffries never once said Democrats would actually DO for you. Raise your hand as a Social Security voter: https://AARP.org/SocialSecurityVoterBecome a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

ICE just refused a Freedom of Information Act request about the Ilhan Omar immigration fraud investigation — citing the exemption for ongoing enforcement proceedings, which effectively confirms the probe is live and could end in deportation. Larry O'Connor walks through the marriage timeline Omar has never explained, then plays her own TikTok calling ICE a "racist terror campaign." Plus: CBS News builds a sob story around a deportee, Nebraska Republican Don Bacon champions another one until you read the actual article, and Nevada's Secretary of State says the quiet part out loud about which voters Democrats are protecting. For complete Medicare guidance, dial 580-308-0975 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/oconnorBecome a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A new AARP poll of Michigan likely voters has the Senate race in a dead heat — Democrat Abdul El-Sayed at 48% and Republican Mike Rogers at 47%. Larry O'Connor sits down with AARP's John Hishta and pollster Bob Ward of Fabrizio Ward to break down the generational split driving it: Rogers up 9 points with voters 50-plus and 13 with seniors, El-Sayed up 14 with voters under 50. With voters over 50 projected to make up at least 59% of Michigan's midterm turnout — and a 15-point motivation gap in their favor — this race may come down to who actually shows up. Visit https://www.AARP.org/votes for more informationBecome a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.