Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 8.5.26
August 5, 2026
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5 min readA Closing Argument for the Midterms
Steve Harvey closes out his morning show with a direct, urgent appeal to his audience. The day went fast, he says, but before signing off he has something he needs to say. He is not speaking in abstractions. He is naming specific threats, naming specific people, and telling his listeners that their vote is the only thing standing between them and something worse.
"We're in some difficult times here in this country," Harvey says. "Now for us as a people, we are accustomed to difficult times. We've never had a glorious era. And every time we did have a glorious era or we tried to build something for ourselves, they came and they destroyed that. Wall Street, Tulsa, you know, all the things I could just go on and on. But they destroyed it. Well, they're back at it again."
The central thesis is simple and blunt: the current administration is pursuing an agenda that threatens the progress Black Americans have made, and the only effective response is to vote in the upcoming midterm elections. Harvey is not making a general case for civic participation. He is arguing that the stakes are concrete, immediate, and existential.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (03:03) **Closing Argument: Your Vote Matters Now More Than Ever** - Steve Harvey delivers a passionate closing monologue urging his audience to take the upcoming midterm elections seriously, arguing that their votes are the only defense against the current administration's agenda.
- 2 (06:53) **War and Geopolitics: A New Danger** - Harvey pivots to foreign policy, arguing the president was talked into a war with Iran by Israel's prime minister and that the conflict is being justified with shifting rationales.
- 3 (08:15) **The Call to Action: Midterms and Primaries** - Harvey returns to his central thesis, directly rebutting the idea that individual votes don't matter and framing the midterms as a last chance to stop unchecked power.
- 4 (08:57) **Final Plea and Sign-Off** - Steve Harvey closes with a direct, emotional appeal to his listeners to get out and vote, followed by a spiritual blessing.
- 5 Standout Quotes
- 6 (04:08) "And what we can't do is sit around idly and act like we're not under attack and keep saying the ridiculous thing that our vote doesn't matter because it does matter."
- 7 (06:53) "We're in a war now because he sat with the president or prime minister of Israel and was talked into this war."
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