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.

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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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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.

the video's first day

usual first day here

14,312

this video

101,268

subscribers

530,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

171,435,900

views per day

225,250

typical day: 146,613

the video

views

56,026

likes

5,628

comments

651

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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As of October 7, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.