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This is a Fu Manchu, okay.
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This is a manly Western mustache, okay.
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my father, who was one of the people that I was mentioning that was very, very close
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to me, he actually is a cancer survivor.
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It is in remission.
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All that's great.
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Thank you to all of you guys that were praying for this random person without actually knowing
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them by name.
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So in terms of today's episode, no quick hitters today, there's just not going to be time for
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it.
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Maybe next week, we'll do all quick hitters.
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We'll have to see how everything shakes out because we're going to be sending the entire
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show discussing how the red tsunami that we were sold was coming turned into the red whimper.
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Okay.
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So as it stands right now, I'm recording this at just afternoon on Wednesday, the night.
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Okay.
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So I'm going to be releasing this here in a few hours or something like that.
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There are many races that have not officially been called yet.
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Okay.
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But this is where we stand right now.
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Again, it's 1218 on November, the ninth Wednesday, November, the ninth, okay.
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The Republicans look like they are going to take the United States House of Representatives,
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but only barely.
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We're talking like four or five, six seat majority, which for a lot of legislation that
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could possibly go through, Republicans don't just stay as that, you know, unified voting
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block.
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So that's not a very sizable majority.
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Also, the most likely scenario at this point for the United States Senate is that it stays
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50/50 split because it's been 50/50 split this entire time, which means Kamala Harris, Kamala
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Harris can come in and do the 51st vote to break any tie.
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It looks like right now by all the available metrics and data and polling and, you know,
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whatever, it's going to stay 50/50 split.
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The second most likely scenario is that Republicans will actually lose a seat to make it a 51/49
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majority for Democrats lose a seat.
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And then the third most likely scenario is 51/49 Republicans, but people aren't really
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feeling like that's going to happen.
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And guys, this is after every political pollster, all of them, every pundit, liberal or conservative,
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Democrat or Republican, all of them predicted that the Republican Party would get a sizable
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advantage in the House and take the U.S. Senate outright.
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This is after all of that.
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Guys, the reality of last night and into this morning is that no matter how you slice it,
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this was a disastrous night for the Republican Party, a disastrous night, okay, this election
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was legitimately disastrous for Republicans considering what was on the line and considering
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the low-hanging fruit that was available during this election cycle, to have a president that
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is so unbelievably unpopular, to have the country and the state of disarray that it
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is and to not be able to take advantage of that.
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So the red tsunami that we were promised never materialized.
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The red wave that we were promised was nothing.
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It didn't actually happen.
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It simply was a red whimper.
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Now, we're going to do a full breakdown of all this stuff, and we're going to look
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at a lot of these races.
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But before we get to all that depressing news, let's start off with something positive.
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I mean, guys, I tell you all the time, I'm a very pessimistic guy, but let's start off
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with something positive.
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The state of Oklahoma, my state, apparently understood the assignment, okay?
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Because Republicans swept all the major races in Oklahoma.
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So Mark Wayne Mullen, who is a friend of mine and a friend of this show, he won Jim Inhofe's
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old US Senate seat by around 26 points, 26 points in absolute shellacking.
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We want to thank Mark Wayne Mullen for coming on this show.
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We're so happy that we were able to help him because a lot of people during the election
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process for the runoff, they actually switched their votes from TW Shannon to Mark Wayne
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Mullen because of the show.
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That's a lot of the feedback that we got, but we're so happy for him and we're happy
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with the stuff that we're going to be doing with him in the future.
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James Langford, who was already in the United States Senate, he won his reelection bid by
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around 32 points, Kevin Stitt, the incumbent governor won reelection by around 14 points
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and Ryan Walters won election for superintendent of public instruction by about 13 points.
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Now here's the thing.
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I'll say about Okey's before I move on.
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So if you went on liberal Okey Twitter or on just anybody's Facebook for people here
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in the state of Oklahoma, there was a lot of lamenting what happened in the state of
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Oklahoma.
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Oh, you know, Oklahoma's so raggedy and we're so backwards and we're doing all these terrible
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things and why do we keep electing people that hate teachers and why this and why that.
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And the funny thing about what was happening in the state, there were a lot of people that
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were convinced that Joy Hofmeister was actually going to win the governor's seat over Kevin
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Stitt.
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And again, she lost by 14 points, but the polling in the last the weeks before the election
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was showing that she was up six or seven points.
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Now Mark Wayne Mullen actually called me one day and explained to me, Hey, part of the
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reason why those polls are showing that is because they're essentially and to put it
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in layman's terms, they're only talking to first time voters.
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So these are people that, you know, this is the first election they're able to legally
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vote in because of their age.
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Maybe they're a young teacher or maybe they're, you know, just a first time register voter
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because they're so excited about joy or some other candidate or something like that.
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And when you over, you know, select for that population, you're going to get wildly skewed
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statistics about what's actually going to happen on the ground.
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And so the thing that I have to say to people in Oklahoma that are lamenting and there's
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not a whole lot of people that listened to this show that are lamenting that, but just
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in case they are listening is you keep complaining about how read this state is.
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You keep complaining about how every single county will vote read in the general elections
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and all these different things.
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And you're so angry about the state of this and the state of that.
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Why do you still live here?
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Now I don't want you to leave, like, you know, it's okay to have the people with differing
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point of views and all that.
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And I think that's great for an overall populace.
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But why do you live here?
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If you hate it so much, it's a little bit different when it's like, Hey, why do you live
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in the United States?
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Somewhere else.
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It's really not that easy.
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But in America, if you live in Oklahoma, you can easily move anywhere, right?
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And so if you like what's going on in San Francisco and in Chicago and in Austin and in Washington,
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D.C., and in Boston and in New York City, then go like no one is keeping you here.
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If you're lamenting how people don't love everything that you love and how they apparently
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hate teachers if they don't think that we can pay teachers with fairy dust and unicorn
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farts, then just bounce, man.
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Like nobody's begging you to stay, but you just want to sit here and scream at the sky
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and do all these different random things.
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Like I'm just not into it.
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It's like stop complaining and do something about it.
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If you can't get your people elected, and if that's just something that you can't live
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with, there are other options for you.
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Okay.
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So guys, to dig into the generalized election, I got a bunch of random thoughts and what's
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funny is I had a bunch of random thoughts before the election and I had to delete them
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because I was like, man, I thought things were going to go a certain way and they just
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didn't go that way.
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Go ahead and dig in here.
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Even though they lost the house, it's not official yet, but even though we can assume
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that they lost the house, Democrats across America have to feel amazing about last night's
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results.
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And I mean, amazing because again, everyone predicted across the spectrum left and right
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everything in between that they were going to get shut lacked last night and that just
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didn't happen.
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And what's probably the best for Democrats is that independence were supposed to break
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heavily for Republicans and they didn't break for Republicans almost at all.
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So Republicans are sorry, independents seemingly split and or just stayed home.
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So it's almost as if they were looking at the two parties being like, okay, let me evaluate
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the Democratic Party.
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Let me evaluate the Republican Party.
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Let me kind of evaluate where we're at currently in the society and culture in the economy
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and all those different things.
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And what they did was they just kind of went, I guess I don't really like either of you.
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I'm going to sit at home and watch Netflix.
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That's essentially what independence did.
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And so if you're a Democrat, if you're a Democratic strategist, you might get the idea
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that, Hey, let's double down on all this woke stuff.
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Let's double down on all this, you know, abortion and transing the kids and all that.
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And that may be the message that you get.
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And maybe that's going to work for you in the future or maybe it won't.
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But all you can think is if you're a Democrat this morning, you woke up happy now losing
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the house.
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You basically lose the last two years of Joe Biden's presidency from a legislative point
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of view, but you kept the more important part of Congress, which is the Senate because
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of the judicial picks and nominees and things like that, but you've got to be ecstatic if
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you're Democrat.
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Another random thought here is almost all of the hotly contested seats that Republicans
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were predicted to win or predicted to be really, really close, like fighting where they shouldn't
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be fighting.
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They lost almost all of them.
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So John Federman, you know, the guy from sling blade, he beat Dr. Oz for the US Senate seat
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in Pennsylvania.
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Raphael Warnock, he will eventually be the winner of the US Senate seat in Georgia over
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Herschel Walker, because right now it's within one point, but it doesn't look like Warnock
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is going to get above 50%.
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You have to get 50% plus one in the state of Georgia, which is one of the dumbest rules
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possibly ever.
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So this will go to a runoff, which actually spells disaster for Herschel Walker because
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he's not going to be able to get pulled up by any of the other candidates like the governor's
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candidate.
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They're in the state of Georgia who did incredibly well in one that race yesterday.
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So Wardock will actually win that seat Hassan, a Democrat beat Bulldog or Bulldog for the
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US Senate seat in New Hampshire, that was supposed to be competitive, it wasn't Democrat incumbent
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Kathy Hochl won reelection for the governor in New York over Lee Zeldin.
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Now that was within about five points and, you know, it should have been in the double
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digits.
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Some people were pointing that as a good thing, but that was some, some people were actually
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predicting that Kathy Hochl was going to lose and she won Democrat incumbent Gretchen Whitmer
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won reelection for the governor of Michigan.
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That was supposed to be a close race and it wasn't.
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And there's a bunch of other ones like that and there's still some others that are to
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be determined.
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And it looks like an Arizona.
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It looks like Kerry Lake might lose.
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It looks like, you know, by the time this comes out and, you know, hits your ears, maybe
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some of these things have taken care of themselves, but all those tight races where it looked
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like Republicans had the majority, they lost.
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And I mean, all of them, right?
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And it's just, it's crazy to think about, but they just lost them all.
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Another random thought is when the Republican party runs serious candidates that are also
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good candidates, they win.
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I mean, look at Ron DeSantis last night.
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So he won his reelection bid for governor in Florida by a historic margin.
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Okay.
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So he beat his Democratic challenger, Charlie, Chris, by almost one and a half million votes.
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Okay.
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So to put that in perspective, DeSantis won his race for governor four years ago by only
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30,000 votes.
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So in four years, he turned a margin of 30,000 to a margin of 1.5, mama, mama, mama,
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million votes.
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Okay.
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Now I'm going to talk a whole lot more about Ron DeSantis later.
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So stick around for that.
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But that him winning by 30,000 votes four years ago might end up being one of the most
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consequently tight governors races in American history, depending upon what DeSantis does
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into the future.
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Okay.
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But again, when the Republican party runs really, really serious candidates in Florida
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in Georgia, in some of these other places, Ohio, they're going to win these races when
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you have people that are in office that aren't only fighting the culture war, but they're
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also good governors, good legislators, good, you know, in terms of organizing people to
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get out to vote and all and registering and all those different things.
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Those people typically win.
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That should be something that the Republican should learn from all this and we'll get way
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into more here later as to what Republicans should learn from all this nonsense.
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Another random thought is Democrats had been, not anymore, but they had been preparing their,
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you know, the election was stolen from us narrative for weeks.
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And now they're going to go very, very silent on that, okay?
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Because they were ready to talk all about voter suppression.
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Now some of the early notes we got were that there was record turnout, but then they were
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going to somehow argue in the same breath that there's record voter turnout, but also record
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voter suppression, which doesn't exactly work.
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But it's going to be amazing to see them now not talk about any of those things because
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they won, which makes total sense.
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I'm not faulting them for it.
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Like quit while you're ahead.
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Once you get the answer, you won't stop talking for any of you guys out there that are in
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sales.
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That's some of the best advice you can get.
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Get the yes, move on to the paperwork, just kind of keep it going.
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But these, they, they were so ready with all their different things and they were preparing
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to basically kick by into the curb and none, that's going to happen now.
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Another random thought is for all their faults, of which there are many, a myriad of faults.
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There's one thing that you can say about Democrats.
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They understand the power game.
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They understand it to a T.
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The Democratic Party and the Democratic voting base are unified.
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They are absolutely unified and they proved in the 2020 general election and in a lot
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of the elections here this time around that they don't care who they're voting for.
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They care about the control of power.
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They care about the pendulum staying swung to their end.
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There are no such things in the Democratic Party as never Bideners, right?
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There's never Trumpers that are in the Republican side.
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There's no such thing like that for Biden people or there's not even something similar.
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Okay.
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Joe Biden is definitely going to be running for reelection now.
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That's, that's a certainty.
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If they got shellac last night, which they didn't, but if they had, they'd be people
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talking about him needing to move along and then we get somebody else in there and he
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will get the full support when he re when he runs for reelection, he will get the full
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support of the entire Democratic Party and the media establishment.
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But I repeat myself.
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But the thing about it is is John Federman, again, he's, he's not a functioning person.
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But the people of Pennsylvania decided to just vote for him as a rubber stamp because
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they knew he, he's not going to write legislation.
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He's not going to eventually run for president.
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This guy is a, is a worthless person in just about any way that you could describe it.
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He lived at home until he was like 50 years old.
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He basically didn't have a job.
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His first job was being like lieutenant governor of the state and then he had a stroke during
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the, the primary and then he comes all the way through and the people of Pennsylvania
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are like, yeah, yeah, we, we just want a Democrat.
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We don't even care.
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Oh, his brain doesn't work.
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He can't talk.
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It doesn't matter, which again goes back to Republicans.
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When you run good candidates, like Dr. Oz, Pennsylvania Republicans, what was the plan
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here exactly?
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Dr Oz, Herschel Walker, really?
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These people in very, very, very winnable races against weak Democrats.
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You pick those people like it's absolutely flummoxing, absolutely shocking, but Democrats
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apparently don't have a problem getting their base unified, which is it should be a, a major
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warning for all Republicans out there for future elections.
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Now, I know I've been kind of pessimistic here, but let me kind of sneak into a silver lining
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here.
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So the silver lining for last night, if I, if I could figure out a single one, is that
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the results of that show us that the American public won't be able to blame Republicans for
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how bad things will be in the next two years because the, the economy is probably going
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to take a nosedive into next year.
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It's already been bad.
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It's going to be way, way, way worse.
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It's not just going to turn around magically.
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Okay.
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You know, a lot of the markets aren't going to like what happened in a lot of these elections,
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but the biggest problem here that I see is that we'll kind of go back to the last point.
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When you have these individuals that are in Congress that are in the house, it's going
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to be hard to blame them if things continue to go wrong because it looks like the Democrats
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are going to keep the Senate and they certainly still have the White House.
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Now, legislatively, that does create a little bit of a log jam, which would be appropriate
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for this time.
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So that's the one thing that could bode well here for a couple of years from now is that
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if things continue to get bad, we can still blame Democrats.
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Okay.
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But the biggest problem is the fact that Republicans perform this badly when there was so much
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low hanging fruit in this election cycle because again, it looks like in the house they're
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going to pick up like maybe 15 seats and there are people protecting them to pick up maybe
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even double that amount of seats.
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Like basically if you take Florida and New York off the map for the house, then the Republicans
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would not have even taken the house.
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So those two states accounted for the majority of that, you know, 10 or 15 that the Republicans
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are going to end up getting in terms of the seeds gained inside the House of Representatives.
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Okay.
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So there's my silver lining, but let's get back into some other stuff.
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Another random thought is unfortunately, it looks like I may have been proven right on
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abortion having a major impact on them in terms.
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Okay.
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Now this is still to be determined, but I remember saying this summer and I remember
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saying in, you know, a lot of people disagreed with me that abortion was going to be a major
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thing in people's minds for the midterms.
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And I was told, no, no one's going to make abortion their major issue.
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When people rank quarter their issues, abortion's not even in their top five, even for Democrats,
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the economy's so bad, inflation's so bad, the Southern borders non-existent, there's
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so many other things to worry about.
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But you have to start digging down and wondering why independence didn't break for Republicans
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in the way that they did.
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And why did a lot of these tight races that were supposed to be tight turned into blowouts?
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I think that social issues made a difference.
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And here's the other thing, Democrats spent, I think I forget the figure I just heard,
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but I think it was like $150 million in this one election cycle on abortion ads, convincing
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women all across the country that if you have a miscarriage, you're going to go to jail.
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If you don't vote for them, that if you need to be treated for an ectopic pregnancy, that
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you're not going to be able to do that and you're probably going to die unless you vote
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for them, that unless you want your daughters to not be able to potentially kill their grandchildren,
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you need to vote for them.
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Perhaps that worked, guys.
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Perhaps that worked.
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Another thing here is that Gen Z, I'm trying not to be hyperbolic here whenever I was like
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preparing my notes, but Gen Z may spell the death of America as we know it.
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And this is why when you look at the exit polling, they look at who voted for which party based
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on their age.
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Okay.
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So for the people that are 65 and older, they were plus 13 for Republicans.
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Okay.
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So 65 and older, plus 13 for Republicans for 45 to 64 year olds, plus 11 for Republicans
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for 30 to 44 year olds, plus two for Democrats, but here's the big one for 18 to 29 year olds.
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This is Gen Z plus 28 for Democrats for 18 to 29 plus 28 for Democrats.
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That should be astonishing and terrifying for everybody listening to this because you
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know why that broke so much that way.
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And again, there are people that are like, Oh, just wait until they get out in the real
22:26
world, wait until they have kids and wait until they whatever.
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Then yeah, certainly some of those people are going to turn more conservative, but these
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have been people that from the moment they were in the government and run public schools
22:35
all the way through their collegiate careers, they were basically steeped and this socialist
22:40
communistic, postmodern milieu, which is brew of nonsense.
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They've been marinated in it.
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It's resonating with them that.
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Can you explain to me how you can walk up to just about any 16 year old and ask them what
22:53
they think about socialism or communism and they have generally good things to say.
22:57
You ask them about the Holocaust or Mao's China or pole pots, Cambodia or any of those
23:01
types of things and then they can't answer anything about those places.
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They don't know anything about what happened in these areas.
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They don't know about the tens of millions of people that were murdered in the 20th century
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based on these, you know, atheistic, socialist and communist organizations and government
23:15
run entities.
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They don't know about those things, but they know about, you know, Oh, well, socialism
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hasn't been done the way we would do it and we can make it better and we can do those
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different things.
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So that's an astonishing thing we saw last night is that young people, we knew we were
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going to go for Democrats, but plus 28 for the 18 to 29 year old cohort.
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That's astonishing.
23:36
Another random thought here is most Republicans leading up to the election, we're talking
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about how the polling is not going to be right.
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Okay.
23:43
So even if you look at the polling, the polling is just not going to be right.
23:45
You know, they always, they under represent their Republicans and conservatives in these
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things. And a lot of these people are like quiet Republicans.
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They don't want to answer over the phone what they really think.
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But once they go in the booth, it'll change.
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And the thing is, is these people ended up being very, very correct about that.
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The only problem was that almost all of the polling just days before the election showed
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Republicans winning just about every major house in Senate and gubernatorial race, just
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about all of them.
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And all that was wrong.
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I mean, if you listen to daily wire or the blaze or you read Wall Street Journal or you
24:16
watch Fox News or any of these types of things, you were ready in all that polling pointed
24:21
to one thing that ended up not materializing.
24:24
So it feels a whole lot like the polling from the 2016 general election, but in the opposite.
24:29
So this is to say that when you're looking at polls, if you're basing who you're going
24:33
to vote for based on polls, if you're waiting, you know, waiting for it to see if you should
24:36
even go out and vote that day based on polling, do not trust the polling.
24:41
Apparently polling is impossible to do because nobody does it right.
24:45
We hear how we constantly have this like churn every eight to 12 years of these polling organizations
24:50
is because they raise all this money, they get all this notoriety, and then they blow
24:53
it.
24:54
They're like the weathermen of the political, you know, establishment, you know, weather
24:57
men like, you know, 25 years ago, where you had to walk outside, lick your fingers, stick
25:00
it up in the air and guess your best, right?
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The end of all this radar and all this other stuff.
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But man, the polling was just super, super bad during the cycle.
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Another random thought here is that Biden said before the election, okay, this is astonishing
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to think about.
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So I really want everybody to kind of tune in here, okay?
25:17
Joe Biden said before this election that if Democrats were able to keep Congress, that
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he would move to codify abortion federally into law.
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And the Republicans performed so poorly that that almost came true again, we're assuming
25:37
that Republicans will end up taking the house.
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So if he does try to codify abortion federally into federal law, the Senate will obviously
25:44
go along with him and we would just have to hope that Republicans could stay together
25:49
because it looks like they're going to have a single digit majority in the house.
25:54
But just think about that.
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When people are talking about, oh, you know, don't bring, you know, your morality into
25:59
the voter booth with you or any of those types of things.
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Well, guess what?
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There are a bunch of people that took their atheistic morality into the voting booth.
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Their pro baby murder, baby sacrifice, ideology into the voting booth.
26:10
And look what happened because what I thought Joe Biden was doing, and I think I said this
26:14
on one of the shows leading up to this, is that he knew they were going to lose the house
26:18
and probably lose the Senate.
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So he could just, you know, say that, say that he was going to codify it in the law and
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be, you know, gosh darn it, we were so close to being able to codify it into law because
26:27
nothing was stopping him from codifying it into law over the last two years when he already
26:31
had both houses of Congress and plenty of a majority there.
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And so there, there's no reason to say that he couldn't have, you know, forced that through
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at this point.
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But he was just kind of saying it to have something to say, but he was literally this
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close to being able to pull that off and make it happen now to kind of wrap up my random
26:46
thoughts.
26:47
We need to talk about early voting just a little bit because I think that we need to
26:50
get rid of early voting almost entirely.
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But as with most things, when people get used to doing something new, they're just going
26:56
to keep that they're not going to go back on that.
26:57
So I think there should be very, very, very, very few exceptions for people that need to
27:02
vote early. So I'm thinking military folks are people that are maybe in the hospitals
27:06
or nursing homes or something like that. I think there's a ways for you for people to
27:08
do that.
27:09
But to open up voting for weeks and weeks before election day, just for people to on
27:14
their whim, whenever they find it, convenient to go and do that, I find that to be silly,
27:18
because here's the thing is if you can't make it to your polling station on the day of voting,
27:22
even though you have like two years to prepare for that date, you shouldn't vote like there
27:27
are a lot of people like, Hey, everybody should vote. I'm not, I'm not big on that.
27:30
I hate the fact that there are so many uneducated voters that vote for things that they don't
27:33
even understand. You know, I'm glad they have the right to do that. But at the same time,
27:36
it's like, look, if you can't get off a random Tuesday in November and you have two years
27:41
to prepare for it to get a babysitter to take off work, to convince your boss to give everybody
27:44
the day off so they can go vote or whatever the situation is, you just shouldn't be voting.
27:48
And here's the thing, like honestly, somebody out there, like send me an email info at Undaunted
27:53
Not Life, somebody make a good argument for why we shouldn't just vote on one day and
27:58
on paper ballots. So like in the UK, they still do paper ballots for everything and you vote
28:03
on one day, and they have no issues with elections, no issues with corruption. Because I really
28:08
don't see the advantage of having tons of early voting and voting machines that can malfunction
28:13
or be tampered with or be hacked into. Like that's part of the reason why we haven't seen
28:17
returns for the state of Arizona right now, because almost immediately, like one of the
28:20
first notifications I got when I woke up last night was that the voting machines in Arizona
28:24
are messing up already. Well, it was, you know, a few hours after I woke up, but the voter
28:27
machines in Arizona are already messing up, you know, they're misreading ballots at a
28:31
clip of about 25 to 30 percent. People that are putting in their ballots that were voting
28:35
for the Republican candidates for Senate and governor and all those different things. They're
28:38
being spit back out of the machine. And then when you do a little bit of research, the person
28:42
in charge of the voting in the state of Arizona is the secretary of the state of Arizona, who
28:46
just so happened to be the gal that was running for governor on the Democratic side of the
28:50
ticket. She is in charge of that. And then we see all the chicanery happening in the
28:55
state of Arizona. Okay, if you have paper ballots and you have plenty of people watching
29:00
it that are of both parties or libertarian party out of third party or a fourth party
29:04
with independence, then what is what is the major thing we gain from having it with machines
29:10
as opposed to paper ballots? I don't understand it doesn't make any sense to me. And I also
29:14
literally don't know the answer to this question. But why don't they count the early ballots
29:19
before voting day? Like it makes no sense to me at all that the early voting should slow
29:25
down the process of counting the votes because presumably you could have counted them before
29:30
the polls even open on election day. Now, maybe people are like, Oh, we don't want the results
29:35
of early voting to be leaked and all that. And maybe that's fine. But there's, I think
29:38
the state of Pennsylvania, they won't even allow you to start counting the early votes
29:42
until voting closes. And I think it closes like seven or eight p.m. Eastern time. And
29:46
so why in the world would you do that? Like if you have a whole lot of people voting early,
29:50
go ahead and count those people so that you're not worried about it on election day when you're
29:53
trying to count everybody else. There's no excuse why we have to sit around right now.
29:57
Again, this is, you know, I don't know, 16 hours after the polls closed or something
30:02
like that last night, and we're still waiting around on results. State of Oklahoma, every
30:06
race is decided. State of Florida, every race is decided. But we have all these other very
30:10
important states where it's like, Oh, we're not exactly sure yet. There's got to be a
30:13
better way. And I think what the main reason why we should get rid of early voting, and
30:18
this is just so important, especially for the race in Pennsylvania, is you can't know everything
30:22
that happens during a campaign until the very, very end of the campaign. And the thing is,
30:28
is like, if you're not motivated enough to vote on election day, then you, you shouldn't
30:35
have your voice heard. Like I know people that love to lament and cry and complain about what's
30:39
going on in politics and they've never voted. It's like, I'm sorry, but your opinion just
30:43
doesn't carry much weight. You want to sit there and complain about everything? But you've never
30:47
got your butt over to a polling station. You've never gotten your butt up and went and registered
30:51
to vote. But the thing about it is like with this early voting, a lot of early voting happened
30:55
in the state of Pennsylvania before the debate between Dr. Oz and Fetterman, where Fetterman
30:59
literally looked like a person that couldn't string a sentence together because he couldn't
31:02
string a sentence together. Now again, Dr. Oz was a horrifically stupid and terrible candidate.
31:07
But don't you think that there were a lot of people that cast their votes for Fetterman
31:10
because they were just generic Democrat and then they saw him in person and they were like,
31:13
Oh, no. But at this point, you've already turned into your vote. You can't go back and change it.
31:18
So that's another reason why I think early voting should basically just be done away with now.
31:23
There's a few things here that I want to talk about in terms of election results that no one
31:27
is talking about, but then I'm going to get into some lessons Republicans should learn and some
31:30
predictions for the future. But a few things to talk about. Disgusting pro-abortion measures
31:35
were approved in five different states last night, California, which we saw coming, but then also
31:41
Kentucky, Michigan, Montana and Vermont. So all these voters, sadly voted for these pro-abortion
31:49
laws or things to go in the books there in their states. And none of the races were particularly
31:54
close. Now, with Vermont and Michigan and California, you could basically assume it would be that way,
31:58
but with Kentucky and Montana, it wasn't particularly close either. And again, this shows the power of
32:02
marketing, because all the things I said earlier about all the money that was dumped into all these
32:06
states about abortion, the same thing happened in the state of Kansas a couple of months back,
32:10
whenever they they were able to basically allow for some more more pro-life legislation on the
32:14
books and the constitution of that state. And it was roundly defeated, like 60 40 or something like
32:19
that. It was an absolute shellacking. And it was because women and dummies have bought into the
32:24
lie that are put into all these ads. And I mean, this is a call to anybody in the pro-life space to
32:29
whether that's 40 days for life or live action or or any politicians that support that, you need to
32:33
like, you know, five X, 10 X, 20 X, what you're doing. Because literally, all the Democrats were
32:40
doing was dumping all this money. So when Democrats are like, Oh, we're not pro-abortion,
32:43
well, let's just look at their ads, this news cycle. They spent more on abortion than they did on
32:48
anything else. And the second place thing was not even close in terms of issues that they put out
32:52
there for the electorate. That's another reason why I think I may be proven right that the abortion
32:56
issue had an outsized impact on this election is because Democrats spent way more money on this one
33:01
issue than anything else. They didn't spend a bunch of money on democracy is going to potentially die
33:06
and they didn't spend money on this is how we're going to fix the economy. They didn't spend money
33:08
on, you know, it's okay that all these people are just coming across the border and there's no big
33:12
deal. They spent all their money on abortion. And they they won by all intents and purposes,
33:18
they won last night, right? But also weed was on the ballot a lot last night. So Missouri and
33:24
Maryland voters, they voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use. And then we had Arkansas,
33:28
North Dakota voters that voted to not legalize marijuana for recreational use. So not going to go
33:34
a lot into this. But this is a really, really terrible thing for these states and for the society. So
33:39
specifically Missouri and Maryland, because what don't people say is like, Oh, the only way we're
33:43
going to get rid of the black market of marijuana in our state is if we, you know, approve legal
33:48
weed. And then all of a sudden the black market will go away and drug dealing will go away.
33:51
Well, if that were true in states like Washington and California and Colorado, why are the black
33:56
markets bigger than they've ever been? You have to ask yourself that question. Why are there more
34:01
drug dealers than there have ever been in those states could have something to do with the fact
34:06
that whenever you have a store that is approved by the state that charges taxes and all those
34:10
different things, and that is all paid through them, that there's not going to be an entity that's
34:14
going to try to undercut them because of course they will. And whenever it's legalized in a state,
34:18
guess what? More people are going to want to do that particular thing. And so you're going to have
34:22
a wider market of people that are looking for discounted weed. Also, when you have something
34:26
like that that is legal, you significantly increase the chances of children using it because people
34:31
in their life are going to be able to more easily get it and then give it to them. And if you know
34:36
anything about marijuana use, you know that especially for preteens and teens, it is horrific for them.
34:41
And there are some outsized negative consequences for them. You have schizophrenia breaks, you have
34:45
major mental issues. It does become a gateway for other drugs that they use once they stop getting
34:50
what they want from the hits of weed and all that. So weed was on the ballot. But today's not an
34:54
episode about that. We need to move into how Republicans should respond to what happened last
34:59
night. I say should respond to what happened last night because I know they're not really going to
35:04
learn the lessons that they should. But you know, we need to talk about it anyway. The first lesson
35:08
that they should have learned from last night is if you have no unified message, you will lose.
35:15
If you don't have a unified message, you will almost certainly lose, okay? So Republicans have
35:22
to have a unifying message, but Democrats apparently don't because apparently the democratic message of
35:30
will destroy the economy. You know, we'll make sure there's a bunch of crime in the streets. We'll
35:33
make sure you can conveniently and legally murder your children. You know, we'll make sure that
35:37
doctors can mutilate gender confused children. We'll make sure millions of illegals can walk
35:41
across the border. Apparently that message works. That message resonates. These messages work
35:48
when your party is unified, as I talked about earlier, unified in the struggle for power because
35:54
Democrat Democrats proved it again. It does not matter who you put up. They will vote for them.
35:59
It does not matter how bad things are going in that precinct or in that state or in that country.
36:04
They will vote for the person wearing the blue tie. They will do it. Republicans need to really,
36:09
really think about that. Another lesson that Republicans should learn from the response to
36:14
everything that happened last night is for the love of God, stop running terrible candidates.
36:18
Like, I don't want to beat a dead horse, but again, Mehmet Oz, Herschel Walker,
36:23
like these were the people that you thought were going to win these races. Like, my goodness,
36:27
put better people in these positions to win. Another lesson, and this is going to rub some
36:32
people the wrong way. And I'm all here for it. Okay. So I've already given you my email address.
36:37
I'll give it to you again at the end and I'll give it to you again. Now info at undaunted.life.
36:40
So guys, listen to me. I've talked about this before, but listen to me listen in
36:44
because now I've got all the goods from yesterday. It's time to officially move away from Trump.
36:50
That's what Republicans should learn about from last night. Okay. It's time to move away from Trump.
36:56
But I don't think they will. Because here's the thing, for all the MAGA people out there,
37:01
and you know, if you look at the country and the electorate, you know, it's maybe 20,
37:04
25, 30% of the electorate are like MAGA people, you know, Trump's the best, you know, he basically
37:10
took all the bullets. So we wouldn't have to be fought for me, blah, blah, blah, those types of
37:13
people, the people that voted for him in the general election and the primary in 2016 and
37:16
voted for him again in 2020, those people. Okay. For the MAGA people out there, you have to see
37:21
the writing on the law and you have to jump out of the plane before it crashes. Because last night,
37:27
Trump endorsed candidates for the most part got smacked. They got smacked right across the face.
37:34
A lot of Democrats did something that they thought was going to backfire here in the last,
37:38
you know, few weeks of the campaign, but they poured tons of money into pro MAGA pro-Trump
37:43
candidates in the Republican primaries, right? Democrats poured money into the Republican primaries
37:48
because they thought it would be much easier to defeat MAGA candidates than it would be for
37:52
some other generic Republican or Republican. And that's exactly what happened. That's exactly
37:58
what happened. The Trump endorsed candidates did not perform well, essentially anywhere.
38:03
Also, this is incredibly damning for people that are big MAGA people. The exit polling last night
38:09
showed Trump to have a 37% favorability rating. Trump is not in power right now.
38:16
Trump is not on Twitter right now. So Trump has been out of the collective consciousness for the
38:22
most part of the electorate for about two years. And exit polling showed him to have a 37% favorability
38:28
rating, 37%. And Donald Trump, again, is not somebody that can control himself.
38:34
So in the days before the election, he's going out and doing these events and these rallies,
38:40
and he's calling Ron DeSantis names. And he's getting after Republicans that haven't sufficiently
38:47
supported him in the past, or people that he claimed begged for his endorsement. Like he's
38:51
getting out of these people, then he's pointing to himself and how he was robbed of the 2020 election.
38:56
In the middle of an election cycle, where you presumably want Republicans to win every open seat,
39:02
he literally could not control himself long enough. And he kept hinting to his followers,
39:08
again, his base, which is a very, very small portion of the overall electorate of the country.
39:12
He kept hinting, Hey, I've got big news. Ham, I'm going to announce this big thing right after the
39:17
midterms. And we all know what that is. It's that he's going to be running for president again.
39:22
But again, if we can forget about Trump, that would have potentially been better for a lot of
39:27
these Republican candidates. Because again, the overwhelming populace in the United States
39:31
does not like Donald Trump. Okay. And again, whatever you think about January 6, that's your
39:36
opinion. But the opinion of the generic electorate or the generic voter here in the United States
39:41
is that he is at least somewhat responsible for that. And that was he got beat by Joe Biden,
39:47
by millions of votes, and in the electoral college before January 6 happened.
39:52
So literally make an argument for how he's the guy that is going to lead the Republican party
40:00
to victory in two years, Donald Trump, the former president. And here's the other thing,
40:05
even if he does win, he only gets four more years. So you already need to be looking,
40:09
even if he wins to what's going to happen next, because he can't serve another term after that.
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subscribe at prolonlife.com/now. So this is the big thing of all the things that Republicans should
40:46
have learned last night. This one that I'm about to say is the big one. It's time to go all in on
40:53
Ron DeSantis. And I know I've said before, I'm like, Oh, you know, I don't just want to support
40:57
Ron DeSantis. I want to, you know, have, you know, Nikki Haley get a shot at Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz
41:03
and Tim Scott. And you know, just random Republicans, generic Republicans, like they should all
41:07
should get a chance. It shouldn't just be Trump. I'm all about going all in on Ron DeSantis now.
41:11
Because as I said earlier in the show, Ron DeSantis single handedly turned a purple state into a
41:17
red state in less than four years. And not just a red state, a deep red state. Okay. Yesterday in
41:25
Florida, Republicans won Miami date, the county of Miami date. They hadn't won there in 20 years.
41:35
That is a heavily blue district or it was, and it was a heavily purple district or it was now
41:41
it's a red district. Miami date, one of the most liberal places in all the country went red last
41:47
night. Okay. Ron DeSantis did that because the thing about Ron DeSantis, he is everything that
41:52
Trump is, but he's young and under control. Because again, everyone's concerned about Joe
41:57
Biden's age and for good reason, the guy can barely talk and barely walk. But Donald Trump's
42:01
going to be close to 80 years old by 2024. Is that the guy? Is that the leader of the Republican
42:07
party? Is that the leader of the future? I don't think so. So Ron DeSantis is a younger guy. He's
42:12
in his 40s. He's still got all the energy, but he governs so unbelievably well. But he still fights
42:19
the culture war. And he does that incredibly well. And so you have Trump who's all about
42:24
dunking and all those different things. And when he was in office, especially the first three years,
42:27
the legislation was fantastic. A lot of things that he did was absolutely fantastic. I've talked
42:30
about that a lot on the show. But again, Ron DeSantis, he's the guy you want moving forward in the
42:35
future. Because here's the other thing about Ron DeSantis. So you can only serve two consecutive
42:39
terms as governor in the state of Florida. Okay. So after these next four years, he's going to be
42:44
out anyway. Okay. So if you assume that he's just going to not do, if he's just going to not, you
42:50
know, run for president in 2024, basically what you're assuming is in 2026, when his second
42:57
governor's, you know, time or whatever is over, that he's just going to sit on his hands for another
43:02
two years, having been been nowhere in government and then run for president in 2028 and win.
43:08
Is that possible? Yes, it's certainly possible. But typically people are already in political
43:12
positions when they're running. So if you're the person that's like, yeah, yeah,
43:16
Ron DeSantis eventually, but Trump now, what you're saying is you're, you're basically limiting the
43:22
chances that Ron DeSantis is going to have because again, he's got four more years. So that gets us
43:26
to 2026. And then that's two years before the next election. It's not like he's going to get a spot
43:30
in a democratic run White House. It's not like he's going to get a spot in a Trump White House.
43:34
Like it's going to be a very, very negative thing if he's going to be sitting around doing
43:38
nothing for two years and then running for president in 2028. Okay. So if you're a Republican, you have
43:43
to ask yourself. Okay, you really got to ask yourself this question. In 2024, which two years from now,
43:48
right? Do you want a night like last night in Florida? Or do you want a night like last night in the
43:54
rest of the country? Because again, when I left you Jitsu last night, I looked at my phone and I saw
43:59
the red wave that had completely taken over Florida, that Rubio won by a, by a huge margin. And that
44:04
DeSantis, we want one by huge margin. I was like, all right, buckle up red tsunami. It's coming.
44:09
And then it just didn't basically every other race that everybody was excited about turned
44:16
out negatively for the Republican side. So what do you want? Do you want more of that? Because I
44:22
think that's exactly what you're going to get. If you put all of your support behind a guy like
44:26
Donald Trump, which I think again, and I've said this and I've gone on the record, I think Donald
44:30
Trump loses to every one of the major Democratic candidates. So if something happens to Joe Biden,
44:35
which I'm praying that that doesn't happen, I don't want anything negative for him as a person.
44:37
I think Donald Trump loses a Kamala Harris, who is deeply terrible and awful. If Hillary Clinton
44:43
jumps back into the race, he loses to her. I think he loses to Gavin Newsom. I think he loses to Pete
44:48
Buttigieg. I think he loses to Oprah. I think he loses to Michelle Obama. I think he loses to the
44:52
rock. I said, Oh, by Michelle Obama, you know, I was funny for it. It was right, I guess he loses
44:57
to Dwayne Johnson. He loses to just about anybody the Democrats could run out there.
45:01
Because that is how deeply unpopular Donald Trump is. Okay. Again, when he's on the ballot,
45:07
whether literally or figuratively Republicans underperform. Okay. So Republicans, what do you
45:13
want for 2024? You really have to think about that. Because again, I voted for Donald Trump in
45:17
the general election 2020 because I thought he did enough to prove his conservative bonafides that I,
45:22
you know, he was going to be a guy that I could vote for. And guess what? If he's representing the
45:26
Republican Party in 2024, I'll vote for him again. But is that the guy that thinks that you think
45:31
is going to give you the best chance not only to win the White House, but to flip all these other
45:35
seats. Look, if you can make the rest of this, like it's not make America great again, it's make
45:39
America like Florida, right? Again, eight years ago, a purple to blue state now deeply red.
45:46
One guy is mainly responsible for that. That's Rhonda Santas. Okay. Now, I need to give you guys
45:50
my very, very early predictions for 2024. Because here we are talking about the future and all that
45:55
and I'll get into that more here in a second. But here are my predictions. I think that Joe Biden
46:00
will certainly run for reelection, but he will not fully serve out a second term. So that's what I
46:05
basically you can kind of see the writing on the wall. I think he will win a second term,
46:09
but I don't think he serves it all out. I think he will probably bow out at some point,
46:13
which means he may even kick Kamala to the curb before 2024 before she's is running made again,
46:19
because she would basically be next in line. You know, we'll see. He doesn't really need her
46:22
anymore. And she's been absolutely awful as vice president, but I think Joe Biden runs for
46:26
reelection. I think Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination with Rhonda Santas running a distant
46:31
second. Unfortunately, I think Joe Biden very easily beats Donald Trump and even by a wider margin
46:36
than he did in 2020. But then in 2024, I think Republicans would keep the house, maybe even
46:40
increase their house margin a little bit, but then Republicans will take the Senate. And the reason
46:44
why is because this was the election cycle, where Republicans had a bunch of hard races that if they
46:50
won was going to set the Senate up for two years from now to potentially go for a super majority,
46:54
because there's a lot of very bad blue candidates or people that are coming up for reelection in 2024
47:00
that are very, very, very winnable, very likely winnable for Republicans. So if Republicans had
47:05
gotten to like 54 seats in the Senate, which they are not going to be anywhere near that with this
47:09
election cycle, they literally had a 60 vote super majority in their sites. So I think Joe Biden
47:15
wins a second, a second time against Donald Trump. And then from there, Donald Trump may be moves
47:20
on as I've talked about before, Donald Trump's definitely going to run when he decides he doesn't
47:25
want to run. I think he's going to endorse Trump Jr or Ivanka or something like that. They're going
47:29
to try to make the Trump's the new bushes or something like that. They're going to try to make that a
47:33
reality. And overall, this is a terrible, terrible thing for Republicans overall, because Donald Trump
47:39
is going to suck all the air out of the room. So if Ron DeSantis runs against him, which I do
47:43
think Ron DeSantis will do, he's just not going to have the popularity. He's not going to have the
47:48
the charisma. He's not going to have the, I guess the the the motivation from the voter base. He's
47:54
not going to be able to raise the amount of money. But let's just play this out a little bit since
47:57
we're already kind of dealing with the future. Let's say Ron DeSantis does somehow beat Donald
48:01
Trump and become the, you know, the nominee for the Republican party in 2024. I think Donald Trump
48:06
will do what he did after he lost the 2020 general election. Look what he did in the state of Georgia.
48:11
He's almost single-handedly responsible for the fact that the state of Georgia
48:15
voted for two Democrats to get into the United States Senate, one of them being Rafael Warnock,
48:20
who was the now the incumbent who's probably going to be Herschel Walker, very, very likely to be
48:24
Herschel Walker. That's Donald Trump's fault. Because he basically said, you know, the election
48:28
in Georgia is fixed. It's rigged. You know, you guys shouldn't even vote. And you know what Republicans
48:31
did? They didn't vote. And the problem is, is again, remember what happened with, you know,
48:36
the unified votes that come from the Democratic party or whatever, they're never going to allow
48:41
what happened in 2016 to happen again, where Bernie Sanders voters stayed home and sat on their
48:45
hands. And then those were the votes that were needed for Donald Trump to be able to be beaten by
48:48
Hillary Clinton. And those people didn't vote. But if these always Trumpers, if these MAGA people
48:53
can't get behind Ron DeSantis and they sit around and don't vote, all those states that are going to
48:58
be, you know, toss up states, they're all going to go to Joe Biden because Republicans don't have
49:03
the votes generically to be able to lose people to the independent party or lose people to the
49:08
libertarian party or lose people because they just don't want to show up. I think it's a disaster,
49:12
no matter what, if Donald Trump runs, you know, I could be wrong. Again, there's two years between
49:17
now and then, but you know, we'll just have to see the main point, I guess, with all of this before
49:22
we wrap up is that elections have consequences. You know, Albert Mueller says that all the time,
49:26
a lot of people say it all the time, but elections have consequences. So again, if you're one of
49:30
those people that that sits up in lemons about how horrible things and how terrible things are all
49:34
the time, and you don't go out there and vote, that's a you problem. I mean, so many of you guys
49:38
spend all your time focused on whether or not your team, you know, is going to sign that player in
49:42
the off season or whether or not they won the playoffs or whether or not they did this or
49:45
whether they're going to get into the championship or if they're going to get relegated, like whatever
49:47
your sport is, there's all those concerns. And guess what? You don't have the single,
49:53
a single thing that you could do to affect that outcome. There's nothing that you can do to
49:57
help your favorite team win a damn thing, nothing. And yet in politics, you do have something you
50:04
could do. You can get the word out about your candidate that you think would be better for your
50:08
community, your candidate that you think will be better for the greater community of the United
50:12
States of America. And yet you don't put nearly as much time or effort into that. Okay, but elections
50:17
have consequences, guys. These people that are going to be in these positions of power are going
50:22
to do things to either make your life better or to make it worse. They're going to do things that
50:26
are either going to lead to human flourishing or not. And we're seeing a lot of that right now.
50:32
And think about how much worse it would be if Republicans didn't at least take the house. I've
50:36
already talked about Joe Biden saying he wanted to codify abortion law federally. I just think about
50:42
what that would do for human flourishing. Because as we've seen, we've seen dozens of abortion
50:46
facilities close and we've seen, you know, I think the estimate was up to 10,000 babies have been
50:50
saved so far since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Okay, so elections have consequences. You don't get
50:55
those three conservative justices that voted for the overturning of Roe v. Wade and Planned
50:59
Parenthood v. Casey. If you didn't get Donald Trump in office, we'd be living in a very,
51:03
very different country right now. But before we leave, I do want to give a quick word about
51:08
what I'm seeing a trend, you know, even in myself, but certainly in a lot of other people. And this
51:12
may seem a little bit vapid considering the last 50 minutes of this podcast have been spent just on
51:17
politics. But I want to talk to the people that are living their lives into your cycles.
51:23
So you were living your life absorbed by the election cycles, by off your elections and by
51:30
general elections, you're living that way. Because people are already talking about 2024. We talked
51:36
about a lot on this show already. And for good reason, we talk about faith culture and politics,
51:39
we're going to talk about it all. If it doesn't make you comfortable, there are 2.5 million podcasts
51:42
out there, you don't have to listen to mine. But people are already talking about 2024. And what
51:46
this could be, what this could mean for that. And you know, a lot of these people, they get paid
51:49
out these opinions. And so yeah, sure, they should do that. But to the Christian men out there,
51:52
do not fall into the trap of living your life in election cycle years, right? People, you know,
51:59
talk about dog years and different things like that. They're people that live their lives waiting
52:02
for the next election cycle, because that's where they get their meaning. If their guy or gal wins,
52:08
right? Because here's the thing, regardless of the outcome of the election,
52:13
Jesus is still risen. God is still in control, which is not to say, I'm not going back on what
52:19
I said just a few minutes ago that elections have consequences because they do. But that shouldn't
52:24
be everything that we focus on. And can go back to Psalm 139 23 through 24, which I led the podcast
52:30
off with, search me God and know my heart, test me and know my anxious thoughts, see if there is
52:35
any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. This was very, very convicting for
52:39
me when I read it this morning, because last night when I left you, Jitsu, I felt anxiety in my gut
52:44
before I looked at my phone, hoping that the candidates that I wanted to win would win. And again,
52:49
those are real world consequences. If your team lost the World Series, that's not a real world
52:53
consequence. If your team's not going to make the playoffs in the NFL this year, like if, you know,
52:57
your favorite player in the NHL got hurt in his outfit season, like that's not a consequential
53:00
thing for you in your life. I mean, come on. You've got kids, you got a community that you live in,
53:05
you got a business, you work somewhere like, dude, like these things are ridiculous. But here I am
53:09
anxious about the results of an election in a bunch of precincts that I can't legally vote in,
53:15
right? I was anxious about that. And hey, search me God and know my heart, test me and know my
53:21
anxious thoughts. Why was I so anxious? And then I was doing some other Bible reading this morning,
53:26
and I had a few other things that I want to kind of bring out to you. So Deuteronomy 31 8,
53:30
the Lord himself goes before you and will be with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you,
53:35
do not be afraid, do not be discouraged. There's a lot of discouragement this morning. And for good
53:40
reason, people are somewhere between discouraged and completely [inaudible] off. And I get it, right?
53:45
When you think your side's going to win, when you think the country's going to move in a particular
53:49
direction, then it doesn't, it can be very, very discouraging. Don't not be afraid. Do not be
53:54
discouraged. Then if we look at Isaiah 55, eight versus eight through nine, for my thoughts are not
54:01
your thoughts, neither are your ways, my ways, declares the Lord as the heavens are higher than the
54:06
earth. So are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. So again,
54:12
it's very, very easy for us to get lost in the news cycle. Again, I know we talk about the
54:16
news cycle a lot on the show. And for good reason, whenever pastors don't talk about the news cycle,
54:20
and then you're confused about what to do, I think that's a bad thing. So we try to like, you know,
54:23
bridge some of that gap. But if that's all you're focused on, this is the reason why we're talking
54:27
about this at the end after spending almost an hour on the other stuff, if that's all you're focused
54:31
on. And that's what you're worried about. You got to think God's probably looking down and you like,
54:35
really, dude? Really? These birds out here, like they're taking care of that scriptural.
54:42
Like, he knows, he knows the number of hairs on your head. Like, he's so focused on, on his glory,
54:49
and providing for his children, of which you are one, right? And your thoughts about what the world's
54:55
going to look like. Just think about, you know, people talk about all the time, like the thing
54:57
that you thought was the biggest thing in the world when you were 16, when you're 40 years old,
55:00
you look back and you're like, Oh, that was so stupid. You know, I thought my world was over
55:04
because we broke up or I thought my world was over because I didn't get that job. I thought my world
55:07
was over because I didn't get into that college. And you look back and you're like, yeah, not that
55:09
big deal, right? Think about this election cycle. Maybe maybe you shed tears last night, maybe you
55:14
punched a wall. Dude, 20 years from now, you're not going to be thinking about that. And last thing
55:19
I want to share with you is Philippians four versus six or seven. Do not be anxious about anything,
55:24
but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving, let your request be made known to
55:28
God and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your heart and your minds
55:33
in Christ Jesus. Guys, our hope is not in the Republican Party. I hope is not in the independent
55:38
party. Our hope is not in the libertarians, certainly not with the Democrats, right? In
55:42
regardless of the world that you live in or the country that you live in, rather,
55:46
those are not the people that you can put your entire hope and trust in. Now, I think we should
55:51
vote for candidates that have biblical values that lead to human flourishing. I think that is
55:55
something we should absolutely do. But that is not the be all end all point. The be all end all point
56:00
is there was a Middle Eastern Jew that around 2000 years ago was walking this earth doing ministry.
56:06
And because of that, and because God sent him here for this purpose, he was killed on a Roman
56:11
cross at the behest of the Jewish Sanhedrin. And three days later, he rose from the dead showed
56:15
himself to hundreds and hundreds of people before he ascended back to heaven to the right hand of the
56:19
father. And if you just believe in him, if you put your faith in that, and if you repent from your
56:26
sins, you can have everlasting life, because no matter what happens on this planet, right,
56:31
no matter what happens, there's an everlasting life for all of us. And see, they're going to be
56:37
at the right, it's going to be near the father, or it's going to be in hell. That's the choice that
56:42
you get to make. Okay. So I know it might be weird for some of you to hear, you know, hear the gospel
56:46
here at the end. But that is the ultimate faith that we have. You know, I've had this thought a lot.
56:50
You know, I'll be watching Tucker Carlson or listening to Ben Shapiro or something like that. And I
56:53
just think to myself, if I were to die in a car accident today, Tucker Carlson's still going to do
56:57
a show tonight. And he's going to still going to do it tomorrow next week in a month from now.
57:01
All these people that I listen to and they get you so wound up about the news cycle and things
57:05
that are going on. And again, I do the same thing on this show. Life's just going to go on.
57:08
But your life on this planet is now over. And so it's your eternity that is now the focus, right?
57:16
And if you don't have your affairs in order, you're probably not going to like the outcome
57:20
where you end up. So you need to reckon with. And if you're one of those people that's on the
57:24
fence, I know there are atheists and agnostics that listen to the show, we're so happy to have you.
57:28
You need to cry out to Jesus as if he's real and see if he reveals himself to you. You need to go
57:34
to the scriptures. Start in the book of John, just read and ask God to reveal himself to you.
57:39
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57:44
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