The Jim Benson Show
The Jim Benson Show, September 13, 2026
The Jim Benson Show Why Is Trump Still Waiting to Declare a National Elections Emergency? Jim Benson devotes the show to his own case for a Trump-declared national elections emergency, then runs an extended sequence of video clips covering Trump's Texas rally, a deep dive into the contested Los Angeles mayor's race, Trump's combative Meet the Press interview, DOGE's findings on non-citizen voter registration, and disputed audits of Georgia and national voter rolls. Benson's Opening Case for an Elections Emergency Jim Benson opens the show with a lengthy monologue arguing that Democratic-controlled states deliberately keep bloated, corrupted voter rolls so that mass mail-in ballots can reach illegal aliens, deceased residents and other ineligible voters. He blames Democrats he calls communist-aligned and their Republican-in-Name-Only allies for blocking common-sense election reform, tying the fight to open borders policy and climate change politics. Benson says he has lost hope that the Senate will pass the SAVE Act before the midterms and argues President Trump should immediately declare a national elections emergency to impose the act's requirements on resistant states. He repeats a claim that electronic voting software originally written in Venezuela let remote engineers manipulate vote counts in the United States and roughly seventy other countries, a claim the transcript does not independently verify. Benson then introduces four video clips he plans to run largely without interruption, covering Trump's Texas convention speech and reports on Los Angeles, Georgia and national voter-roll data. Trump's Midterm Rally Speech in Texas The show plays a clip from conservative podcaster George A.A.'s YouTube channel showing part of President Trump's speech at the Republican Midterms Convention in Texas. Trump tells the packed arena that with voter support the country will become stronger, safer, richer, freer and greater than ever, dismissing unfavorable coverage as fake news while noting the venue is full with more supporters standing outside. He tells the crowd that in fifty-five days Americans will vote in one of the most important elections in the country's history, warning that handing power to the radical left would set the nation back a decade. He contrasts what he calls the failures of the Biden years with what he describes as the two most successful years of any presidency, financially and otherwise, and urges the audience to vote Republican so the party can finish the job. The crowd responds with sustained cheering and chants of USA throughout the clip. De Gregorio and the Los Angeles Mayor's Race Benson runs a long segment from Zach De Gregorio's Wolves and Finance YouTube channel examining alleged election fraud, beginning with disputed anomalies in the 2020 presidential vote count before turning to the Los Angeles mayoral primary. De Gregorio revisits Mayor Karen Bass's admission that traveling to Africa during the wildfires was a mistake and plays a clip of her linking homeless drug use to self-protection, which he calls out as nonsensical. He profiles challenger Spencer Pratt, a former reality-television figure whose home burned in the fires, and city councilwoman Nithya Raman, who trailed Pratt by about forty thousand votes on election night and delivered what sounded like a concession speech. De Gregorio says mail-in ballots counted in the following week reversed the result, moving Raman thirty thousand votes ahead of Pratt while Bass finished first overall. He calls the swing statistically suspicious, though he adds that Pratt likely would have lost the general election regardless. Trump's Meet the Press Clash and DOGE Findings The clips turn to President Trump's contentious Meet the Press interview with Kristen Welker, in which he calls California's slow vote count in the Los Angeles race rigged and repeatedly tells Welker her network is crooked before ending the interview. De Gregorio then plays footage of DOGE's Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk describing how asylum seekers can obtain work permits and Social Security numbers without an interview, which Musk frames as part of a deliberate effort to reshape the electorate. A chart shows Social Security numbers issued to non-citizens spiking above two million in fiscal year 2024. The segment then contrasts Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson insisting there is no evidence of non-citizen voting with a news report that Attorney General Dana Nessel charged six people, including five non-citizens, with illegal voting in 2024. A clip of Barack Obama telling an interviewer that voting records stay confidential closes the sequence, which De Gregorio argues undercuts the safety of federal election data. Georgia's Voter Roll Audit Disputed The program shifts to video attributed by Benson's introduction to attorney Robert Gouveia's Watching the Watchers channel, though the transcript continues to label the narrator as De Gregorio, examining a Georgia secretary of state audit. The narrator disputes Secretary Brad Raffensperger's public claim that the state's voter rolls are 99.9 percent accurate, saying the underlying report actually found about 129,000 voter records with no Real ID number that were never checked, plus 432 potential non-citizen voters confirmed to have cast ballots. The segment notes Georgia removed nearly 466,000 names from its rolls since 2020, including roughly 146,000 dead voters and tens of thousands of duplicate or out-of-state registrations, and argues the original 2020 election, decided by about 11,700 votes, occurred before that cleanup. The narrator accuses Raffensperger of highlighting favorable figures while omitting the unverified records from his public statement, framing the audit as a partial vindication rather than the clean bill of health it claims to be. Nationwide Violation Tallies and a Call to Action The final clip cites Unite for Freedom, a self-described election integrity organization, which alleges roughly 10.7 million apparent violations of the National Voter Registration Act across six states including California, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas. A California breakdown lists more than a hundred thousand duplicate registrations, millions of backdated entries, and a 77,000-vote discrepancy between certified results and the state's own voter database. Former Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin, newly departed for the Center for Renewing America, tells the camera that dozens of House districts and several Senate and state races will be decided on the margins, and that citizens need to focus attention on ballot access and voter-roll integrity heading into the midterms, citing what he calls hundreds of thousands of noncitizens on New Jersey's rolls. Benson closes the show, thanking listeners and directing them to The Jim Benson Show pages at BBS Radio, his X account, Rumble and Apple Podcasts, and promising a new edition in two weeks. Communist Democrats Election Fraud Election Integrity National Elections Emergency
