Twenty-eight days to Election Day: Steve Schmidt on Trump's 'take out' remark
His answer to the president's words about Iran, Los Angeles and San Diego drew more comments in nine hours than a regular video on The Warning usually gets in a full day.
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 101,268 views a day, 7.1 times a normal first day on this channel (14,312).
Trump Will Answer to America in 28 Days | Steve Schmidt
"Trump Will Answer to America in 28 Days | Steve Schmidt" is the newest commentary on The Warning, and its countdown is exact. Count 28 days from its October 6 upload and you land on November 3, Election Day for the midterms.
The subject is a remark in which, as the description puts it, Donald Trump called on Iran to "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego. Schmidt, the former Republican strategist who has become one of the president's most persistent critics, treats it as a betrayal of the presidential oath. The description says he argues that Trump must face "retribution", and the title places that reckoning at the ballot box.
Nine hours after going up, the video had passed 56,000 views. A regular video on the channel usually gathers about a quarter of that in its whole first day. The comment section had already outgrown a usual first day too. Much of the talk there is about the election itself: viewers say they have already voted early, one of them at a town hall in Maine on a bright fall day, and others are calling for impeachment.
The video follows straight on from the day before, when Schmidt took apart Trump's rally in Ohio, as we reported here. That video has since passed 90,000 views. Next to the countdown, Schmidt kept his Fighting Americans series going with a sit-down with Jamie Davis, a third-generation Louisiana farmer running for the Senate against Rep. Julia Letlow. They talk through home insurance, rural hospitals and the data centers arriving in the state.
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- Subscribers
- 530,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,214,282
- Channel views, pace per day
- 225,250 (on a normal day: 146,613)
- Video published
- October 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 56,026 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 101,268
The numbers
The video's first hours ran well ahead of what this channel's regular uploads usually manage, and the channel as a whole is drawing more views a day than usual.
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