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Silent Majority Wins the Day, Biden Grins in the WH Rose Garden & Elon Musk's Influence in Trump Campaign Week In Review · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: What an amazing week, a massive red wave. Welcome it
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  Speaker 1: is Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, the Weekend Review, Ben
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  Speaker 1: Ferguson with you, and well, you know what the big
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  Speaker 1: story is. Donald Trump is the forty seventh President of
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  Speaker 1: the United States of America. So let's start with this.
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  Speaker 1: The silent majority made the difference in this election. The
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  Speaker 1: silent majority woke up and said we are sick of
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  Speaker 1: the radical extremist policies of Harris and Joe Biden. That
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  Speaker 1: was the difference. Will break it down for you. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: could the happiest man in America actually be Joe Biden? Well,
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  Speaker 1: he was all smiles when he had his first press
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  Speaker 1: conference talking and promising a smooth transition of power to
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump after they forced him out of the White House,
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  Speaker 1: and finally Elon Musk all up in a Trump campaign,
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  Speaker 1: and now he could be bringing some of his magic
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  Speaker 1: to the White House. It's the week in Review and
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  Speaker 1: it starts right now. Senator. Let's also just talk about
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  Speaker 1: I think the silent majority was sick and tired of
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  Speaker 1: being dictated to and yelled at and called hitler and
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  Speaker 1: called garbage. I think that played into this race for
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  Speaker 1: the first time a Republican has won the popular vote
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  Speaker 1: in two decades, twenty plus years. If that doesn't feel
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  Speaker 1: like vindication, I don't know what is. But this was
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  Speaker 1: a moment where Americans stood up to the media. They
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  Speaker 1: stood up to the Taylor Swifts and the Beyonces and
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  Speaker 1: the George Cloonies of the world and all these radicals
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  Speaker 1: in the media and said, no, no, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: be quiet. I'm not going to be told them a racist,
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  Speaker 1: are a bigot, because I set up for my traditional
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  Speaker 1: values and.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to bully me anymore. This is massive.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're exactly right. It turns out it is
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  Speaker 2: a bad electoral strategy to insult and condescend and treat
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  Speaker 2: the voters like crap. And that's what the Democrats. Look
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  Speaker 2: at the last two weeks. You had Kamala Harris launch
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  Speaker 2: their strategy of calling Donald Trump hitler. You then had
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden calling half of America pieces of garbage. And
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  Speaker 2: you then had Mark Cuban on behalf of Kamala Harris,
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  Speaker 2: her top surrogate, go out and insult women and say
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  Speaker 2: there are no smart and strong women voting for Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: That combination, look, I got to tell you, I've run
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  Speaker 2: in a lot of elections. I've never found that insulting
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  Speaker 2: the voters is a smart electoral strategy. And it was
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  Speaker 2: a little bizarre to see the Democrats go all in
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  Speaker 2: on that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it didn't work and it was a failure. There.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about what happens in the Senate, because I
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  Speaker 1: think this goes back to how important it was with
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  Speaker 1: your race and the fact that you were able to
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  Speaker 1: win by such a large margin over already there was
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  Speaker 1: an incredible amount of money. We didn't get talk about
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  Speaker 1: this on Verdicts, as we mentioned earlier, but there was
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  Speaker 1: an incredible amount of money and Chuck Schumer, you were
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  Speaker 1: his number one target. They came after you. They based
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  Speaker 1: kind of pulled away from this race a little bit
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  Speaker 1: financially after you just wiped him during the debate. Congratulations
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  Speaker 1: on that something we didn't get to talk about on
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  Speaker 1: the show. But if people are boring, they're junkies like
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  Speaker 1: I am, and you want to watch one hell of
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  Speaker 1: a debate, go watch Center Cruise and they all read debate.
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  Speaker 1: It was unbelievable and that shifted the race financially. But
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  Speaker 1: the amount of money that came in from outside to
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  Speaker 1: try to turn Texas into a liberal state. But at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, Republicans are closer to flipping
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  Speaker 1: New York in Texas. And that is a data point
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  Speaker 1: as well that I think you got to look at.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, that's exactly right. I will say the debate.
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  Speaker 2: The debate was ridiculous fun. I loved that debate. I
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  Speaker 2: had a lot of fun doing it, and I think it
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  Speaker 2: went well. I will look this race. Chuck Schumer was
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  Speaker 2: explicit that I was his number one target in the country,
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  Speaker 2: and they flooded cash into the state of Texas. This
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  Speaker 2: race was the single most expensive Senate race in the
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  Speaker 2: entire country. It will end up being nearly a quarter
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars. Nearly two hundred and fifty million dollars will
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  Speaker 2: have been spent on both sides in this race. That
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  Speaker 2: ain't cheap. Schumer poured well over one hundred million into
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  Speaker 2: the race. And I got to say one of my
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  Speaker 2: more fun things that I enjoyed doing last night at
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  Speaker 2: the election night speech, as I took the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: thank Schumer, I said, thanks, Chuck, we may have won
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  Speaker 2: a couple more Senate seats tonight because you wasted so
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  Speaker 2: much money in the state of Texas. So I appreciate that,
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  Speaker 2: and it I got to say, I guarantee you there's
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  Speaker 2: some Democrats who are second guessing that, who are questioning
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  Speaker 2: did that make any sense just to pour the money
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  Speaker 2: into Texas and lose the states they lost.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about the Senate agenda moving forward. Obviously the
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  Speaker 1: border is going to be something very quick. But there
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  Speaker 1: are some new ideas that have come out of this
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  Speaker 1: Trump campaign that connected with voters. A great example is
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk and Trump talking about, Hey, retired people should
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  Speaker 1: be completely tax exempt. They've already paid their taxes. We
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  Speaker 1: need to stop taxing Social Security benefits. Some of these
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  Speaker 1: common sense things. What are the chances that some of
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  Speaker 1: these ideas that connected with the American people? No taxes
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  Speaker 1: on tips is another example, will turn into a reality
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  Speaker 1: if we have the House and Senate or is that's
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  Speaker 1: still going to be a really tough thing to get done.
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  Speaker 2: Look, if we have the House, I think we'll get
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  Speaker 2: it done. No taxes on Tips. I'm the author of
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  Speaker 2: that legislation in the Senate. When I introduced it, it
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  Speaker 2: was interesting. It's bipartisan legislation, both of the Democrat senators
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  Speaker 2: from Nevada joined almost immediately. They told me twenty five
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  Speaker 2: percent of the workers in Nevada are tipped workers, and
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  Speaker 2: so they jumped on immediately. If we have the House,
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  Speaker 2: I think it will be part of the tax cuts,
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  Speaker 2: no taxes on tips. I also think we'll get it done.
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  Speaker 2: No taxes on Social Security. That is a little bit
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  Speaker 2: harder to do because in terms of the budgetary cost,
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  Speaker 2: it's not cheap, and so the negotiations back and forth
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  Speaker 2: there'll be some bumps on that. But the President is
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  Speaker 2: pushing for it. I'm strongly in favor of it. I
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  Speaker 2: think we'll get it done as part of the tax cuts.
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  Speaker 2: Both of those are big, big important policy ideas. And listen,
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  Speaker 2: in terms of the Senate, let's break down where we
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  Speaker 2: stand on the Senate right now. So we went into
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  Speaker 2: last night with the Democrats having a fifty one forty
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  Speaker 2: nine majority. As of right now, Republicans have fifty two.
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  Speaker 2: So we have three pickups that are clear. One of
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  Speaker 2: them is West Virginia. We knew that was one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: And so Jim Justice, the governor, is going to now
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  Speaker 2: be the Senator. He's going to replace Joe Manchin, the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats basically conceded West Virginia once Joe Manchin wasn't running.
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  Speaker 2: There wasn't a Democrat alive who could win West Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: They conceded that the two others that we have won
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  Speaker 2: are Montana and Ohio. Montana was John Tester. Montana is
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  Speaker 2: a bright red state and Tim Shee He just just
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  Speaker 2: beat Tester. That's a victory we thought was quite likely
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  Speaker 2: and it happened. Montana is too red a state to
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  Speaker 2: be represented by a Democrat. Ohio, likewise, Sharett Brown was
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  Speaker 2: beaten by Bernie Moreno last night. That's a great victory.
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  Speaker 2: That was a hard fought victory. I'll tell you Shared
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  Speaker 2: Brown and John Tester two the very best politicians in
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  Speaker 2: the country. You don't get elected counter to the way
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  Speaker 2: your state generally votes unless you're really really talented. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, John Tester with a flat top haircut, Nate figures.
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  Speaker 2: He seemed like a big, old fat Montana rancher that
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  Speaker 2: just was a regular guy, and it got him elected
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  Speaker 2: even when Trump was carrying the state and Republicans were
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  Speaker 2: carrying the state in past years. SAME's true in Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: where Shared Brown seemed like just a regular guy. At
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  Speaker 2: the Union Hall, and there were voters in Ohio that
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  Speaker 2: were voting Donald Trump shared Brown. Now both Brown and
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  Speaker 2: Tester vote like communists, they vote like Chuck Schumer, but
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  Speaker 2: they're very good character actors, and when they're back at
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  Speaker 2: home they pretended not to. Those two victories ensure that
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  Speaker 2: we have the majority in the Senate. And then on
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  Speaker 2: top of that, right now we have four other possibilities.
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  Speaker 2: We had one hard loss. We did not win Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: We were leading a good chunk of the night. Eric
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  Speaker 2: Hoved was narrowly leading Tammy Baldwin's Wisconsin's now been called
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  Speaker 2: for the Democrats. So assuming those numbers are right, it
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  Speaker 2: looks like we did not win Wisconsin in the Senate,
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  Speaker 2: although Trump won Wisconsin and the presidential Right now, we
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  Speaker 2: have a shot at winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona,
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  Speaker 2: and all of those are uncalled right now. And here
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  Speaker 2: are the numbers. Pennsylvania right now, Dave McCormick, the Republican
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  Speaker 2: is leading forty eight point nine percent to forty eight
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  Speaker 2: point five percent, so it's really really close. Michigan. Michigan
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  Speaker 2: right now, the Democrat is leading forty eight point six
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  Speaker 2: percent to forty eight point three percent, so we are
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  Speaker 2: down by point three percent both Pennsylvania and Michigan. Ninety
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  Speaker 2: seven percent of the vote is in Nevada. Nevada right now,
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  Speaker 2: the Republican Sam Brown is leading forty seven point five
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  Speaker 2: percent to forty seven percent. That would be a flip
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  Speaker 2: if we won Nevada. Eighty eight percent of the vote
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  Speaker 2: is in there. And then Arizona, Arizona. Right now, this
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  Speaker 2: is probably it's the furthest distance we have to have
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  Speaker 2: to climb. The Democrat is leading fifty point four percent
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  Speaker 2: to forty seven point seven percent, so it's three points
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  Speaker 2: that we need to pick up, almost three points. Now,
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  Speaker 2: only sixty three percent of the vote is in in Arizona,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a Merica Copa County. It's the suburbs of
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  Speaker 2: Phoenix that are still counting. So look, it is certainly
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  Speaker 2: possible that we win Arizona. Trump has won Arizona, but
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  Speaker 2: three points is a bigger margin to close than the
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  Speaker 2: other states. And so all four of those we're going
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  Speaker 2: to wait and see.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk finally about the takeaways from the media, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll go back to what I said earlier. Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: trumped them all. He trumped the Democrats, he trumped the globalists,
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  Speaker 1: he trumped the deep state, he trumped the news media.
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  Speaker 1: They're still having meltdowns. This morning, The View, the girls
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  Speaker 1: on the View, the ladies in the View came out
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  Speaker 1: wearing black like it was a funeral, mental health crisis.
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  Speaker 1: MSNBC's O'donald Trash as the Founding Fathers called the electoral
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  Speaker 1: College voter suppression. This morning, Joy Reid at MSNBC said,
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  Speaker 1: Florid extreme right wing fascist state now officially Van Jones
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  Speaker 1: came out and started playing the race card in the
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  Speaker 1: gender card. Stewart had a total meltdown on his show,
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  Speaker 1: and this is just what we're seeing in the moments
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  Speaker 1: after a Trump victory. It's like they didn't learn their lesson.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you would think they would take away and go, okay,
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  Speaker 1: what did we do wrong. They're not stopping.
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  Speaker 2: You know, look, we'll see what happens. I think there
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  Speaker 2: right now, there's a lot of blaming of Kamala for
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  Speaker 2: being a terrible candidate. There's a lot of blaming of
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden for having been essentially unconscious for several years.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see the Democrats right now taking responsibility for gosh,
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  Speaker 2: we advocated an agenda that was horrible for America. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there used to be Senate moderates among the Democrats. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know of any Senate moderates left. The only two
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  Speaker 2: arguable ones where Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinemon. They're both
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  Speaker 2: on and and so that that dynamic. You know you
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  Speaker 2: you look at I would love to see some Democrats
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  Speaker 2: recalibrate and say, let's move to the middle. But but
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  Speaker 2: I think right now they're just emoting. They're just engaged
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  Speaker 2: in a in a combination of rage and shock and disbelieve. Look,
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  Speaker 2: you know you and I talked about Mark Halprin, he
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  Speaker 2: used to be the head of political news at ABC,
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  Speaker 2: did an interview with Tucker Carlson where Halprin said that
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  Speaker 2: he thought there would be real mental health crises and
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  Speaker 2: and violence from the left if Trump won. That that
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  Speaker 2: he was laying out the case that that those of
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  Speaker 2: us not afflicted with Trump derangement syndrome do not understand
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  Speaker 2: just how much of a meltdown this will be. I look,
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  Speaker 2: I hope we don't go there, but but I do
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  Speaker 2: think I don't see many Democrats willing to to to
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  Speaker 2: repent and change their ways.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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  Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
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  Speaker 1: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. You know,
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that's also interesting about this conversation
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  Speaker 1: is the fact that Democrats who said, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we were trying to say democracy were screwed. Now we
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  Speaker 1: got to dictator a tyrant coming in, are actually the
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  Speaker 1: ones acting like that. Governor Newsom has already come out
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  Speaker 1: saying I'm calling a special session to prep the battle
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  Speaker 1: against incoming Trump administration, calling it a special legislative session
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: focus on potential state litigation against the Trump administration over
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  Speaker 1: issues that could impact his state.
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  Speaker 2: Look, they're going to resist on every front. They're going
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  Speaker 2: to fight because why because they hate democracy. That's the irony.
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  Speaker 2: They talk about democracy constantly, but what they mean momocracy
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  Speaker 2: is we will force you to obey us, whether or
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  Speaker 2: not the voters want it. They don't actually want democracy.
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  Speaker 2: If they want a democracy, they wouldn't have prosecuted Trump
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  Speaker 2: four different times because they would have trusted the voters.
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  Speaker 2: They like power, and they mask their lust for power
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  Speaker 2: in calling it democracy. But I gotta say, there's at
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  Speaker 2: least one Democrat right now who is celebrating, who is
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  Speaker 2: smiling ear to ear, who may well be the happiest
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  Speaker 2: man in the world, and that would be Joseph Robinette Biden.
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  Speaker 2: He is joyful. And I'm going to wager you twenty
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  Speaker 2: bucks that Joe Biden and Jill Biden they both pulled
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  Speaker 2: the lever for Donald Trump when they voted on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: It wouldn't surprise me because if you go back to
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  Speaker 1: this coup, and to quickly remind people, it was the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic mafia and the fam the five families, it was
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  Speaker 1: the Schumer, Pelosi, Obama Clinton's that were in this and Harris,
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  Speaker 1: those five families had a coup. I think they probably
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  Speaker 1: threatened him with a twenty fifth amendment if you don't
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  Speaker 1: step aside, we're gonna do this too, because we don't
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  Speaker 1: want to lose, and we think we can win. With
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  Speaker 1: Harris and Joe Biden. I have not seen him have
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  Speaker 1: a bigger grin on his face when he did this
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  Speaker 1: Rose Garden conversation. Whatever. Well, look the whole thing started.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think Biden found out about it when
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  Speaker 2: he woke up with his dog Major's head in his bed,
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  Speaker 2: and he was just screaming and screaming and screaming. And
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: for those of y'all too young to get the reference,
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  Speaker 2: that's a reference to The Godfather, where where the movie
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  Speaker 2: producer who refuses to cast a young Frank Sinatra has
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  Speaker 2: this this prize race horse that that the Godfather decapitates
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  Speaker 2: and puts the horse's head in the bed. And it
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  Speaker 2: really was. It was the five families they met and
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  Speaker 2: they said, mister Biden, your services are no longer needed.
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  Speaker 2: And and you know what I think Joe Biden is.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's an accident that Joe Biden put
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  Speaker 2: on a Maga hat in the middle of the election.
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  Speaker 2: I do not think it is an accident that Jill
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  Speaker 2: Biden when she went to vote, dressed in all read
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  Speaker 2: I think that was quite deliberate. But listen to Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to the joy that he is emanating today.
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  Speaker 1: Now take a listen to Joe Biden. And I'll say
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  Speaker 1: it again. When he came out, he was grinning from
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  Speaker 1: ear to ear in the Rose Garden.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good to see you all, particularly good to
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  Speaker 3: see my granddaughter sitting in the front row here. Hi
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  Speaker 3: Van how are you, honey. For over two hundred years,
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: America has carried out the greatest experiment in self government
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  Speaker 3: and history of the world. That's not hyperbole, that's a fact.
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  Speaker 2: For the people.
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  Speaker 3: The people vote and choose their own leaders, and they
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  Speaker 3: do it peacefully, and we're in a democracy.
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  Speaker 1: The will of the.
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  Speaker 3: People always prevails. Yesterday, I spoke with President elect Trump
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  Speaker 3: to congratulate him on his victory, and I assured him
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  Speaker 3: I direct my entire administration to work with his team
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  Speaker 3: to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition. That's what the
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  Speaker 3: American people deserve. Yesterday I also spoke with Vice President Harris.
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  Speaker 3: She's been a partner and a public servant. She ran
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  Speaker 3: an inspiring campaign and everyone got to see something that
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  Speaker 3: I learned early on to respect so much her character.
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  Speaker 3: She has a backbone like a rammod. She has great character,
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  Speaker 3: true character. She gave her whole heart and effort, and
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  Speaker 3: she and her entire team should be proud of the
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  Speaker 3: campaign they ran. You know, the struggle for the soul
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  Speaker 3: of America since our very founding has always been an
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  Speaker 3: ongoing debate and still vital today. I know for some
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  Speaker 3: people it's a time for victory to state the obvious.
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  Speaker 3: For others, it's a time of loss. Campaigns, your contest
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  Speaker 3: of competing visions. The country chooses one or the other.
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  Speaker 3: We accept the choice the country made. I've said many times,
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  Speaker 3: you can't love your country only when you win. You
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  Speaker 3: can't love your neighbor only when you agree something. I
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  Speaker 3: hope we can do no matter who you voted for,
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  Speaker 3: they see each other not as adversaries, but as fellow Americans.
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  Speaker 3: Bring down the temperature. I also hope we can later
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  Speaker 3: rest the question about the integrity of the American electoral system.
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  Speaker 3: It is honest, it is fair, and it is transparent,
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  Speaker 3: and it can be trusted win or lose. I also
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  Speaker 3: hope we can restore their respect for all our election
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  Speaker 3: workers who busted their next and took risks at the outset.
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  Speaker 3: We should thank them, thank them for staffing voting sites,
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  Speaker 3: counting the votes, protecting the very integrity of the election.
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  Speaker 3: Many of them are volunteers who do it simply out
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  Speaker 3: of love for their country and as they did as
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  Speaker 3: they did their duty as citizens. I will do my
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  Speaker 3: duty as president. I'll fulfill my oath, and I wanted
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  Speaker 3: the Constitution. On January twentieth, we'll have a peaceful transfer
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  Speaker 3: of power here in America. To all our incredible staff, supporters,
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  Speaker 3: Captinet members, all the people who have been hanging out
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  Speaker 3: with me for the last forty years.
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  Speaker 1: God love you.
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  Speaker 3: As my mother would say, thank you so much. You
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: put so much into the past four years. I know
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: it's a difficult time.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this was a different Joe Biden. You can
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: even say, a joyous Joe Biden is not what you
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: would normally think. And you gotta look at it and go, man,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: he was living it up on election. I like, you
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: guys threw me out and guess what, you didn't get
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  Speaker 1: the prize after all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And look, I am certain that Joe Biden looked
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: at his family, looked at his top staff, and said,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: if it had been me, I don't want he believed.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: He believes it through and through. And I don't think
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: he will ever forgive Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer for throwing him overboard, doing it unceremoniously and
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: saying we want Kamala instead. And look, we'll never know
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: what that alternative reality would be. I mean, Biden's first
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: debate was a disaster. That's undoubtedly true. But I will
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: tell you on election night, Biden did better everywhere than
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Kamala did like Kamala or let me frame it in
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: the obverse, Kamala did worse than Biden did everywhere. And
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden, I think, is celebrating and not even that quietly.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: And you know what, I'm celebrating too, because it means
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: the country. It's morning in America again and we're turning
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: the country around as before.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to hear the rest of this conversation
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: on this topic, you can go back and down the
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  Speaker 1: podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I want to get back to the big story number
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  Speaker 1: three of the week. You may have missed. All right,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: let me ask you this question. You've actually met and
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: chatted with Elon Musk. There is something different that's happening
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: right now, and that's the people around Trump. There's a
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: very good chance that Elon Musk could be involved in
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the Trump administration on a real level. We see him
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: bring in people like RFK Junior. We see him bringing
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: in different minds that traditional you know politicians have not done.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: How significant could it be to have a guy like
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Elon Musk coming in and looking at like, you know,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: accountability and efficiency with I say, it's government, which is
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: clearly bloated, and this is something he's really good at.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, Elon is extraordinary. I know him well, he's
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: become a friend. I've spent a lot of time with Elon.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you that they're smart people you encounter in life.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Elon is next level. I mean, there's just the guy
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: is freakin' brilliant and he knows how to run a
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  Speaker 2: company like you look at the incredible success he has,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: whether it's Tesla, whether it's it's SpaceX, whether it's the
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: boring company, whether it is uh X, Like he has
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: an ability to run. And by the way, the many
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: of those companies are like really precise manufacturers. You look
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: at SpaceX where they're manufacturing rocket ships with precision, with
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: with within a like a like a tenth of an
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  Speaker 2: inch or less. I mean it is And I've been
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: down to the like they're factory in Bocachica down down
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  Speaker 2: by Brownsville in the southern tip of Texas. I mean
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: it is remarkable. They're turning out of rocket ship a
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: month and they just built it out of nothing. I
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: mean is it's incredible and Elon is all in. We
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: saw him pour himself into this election. At the end,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: I think it made a difference. I think he made
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: a difference in Pennsylvania where he really devoted a lot
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: of time and energy and money and personal credibility. And
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I think it will be significant his impact on the
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: federal government. Now, there are structural impediments to having efficiency
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: in government, and so I don't think people should think
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: we're suddenly going to be in nirvana and everything will
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: be solved. Because in a company, Elon can walk in
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: and fire anyone he wants. And by the way, when
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: he bought Twitter, he fired a whole bunch of the
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: folks there and all the woke radicals. He basically said,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: bye bye, you're out of here. The federal government, that
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: is much much harder to do. You've got civil service
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: protections that enables career bureaucrats to burrow in. I think
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: we will see the Trump administration take on the career
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: bureaucracy in a way that has never ever happened before.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: That's a big deal. I expect Elon to play an
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: important role in that. But but I don't want to
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: understate the legal barriers, the bureaucratic barriers, that that it
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: is not like just coming into a company where you
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: have the ability to give anyone a pink slip. The
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: bureaucracy will fight back. And by the way, in the
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: first Trump term, we saw the deep state wage war
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: on Donald Trump. I very much hope the team coming
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: in understands much much better just how dangerous the foe
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: is they're facing of the radical leftists who burrowed into
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: the federal government, and that they're better prepared and ready
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: to take them on.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it. And by the way, saving
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: free speech by buying x just so people know how
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: biased that I would say the media is. And I'm
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: talking about the media. You have control over Facebook. We
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: were comparing last night many conservative influencers and center. You're
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: gonna find this interesting. From October ninth through November the fifth,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the reach that I had on Facebook was down eighty
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: three point six percent as a conservative on Facebook in
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: the month leading up to election well, and there were
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: quite a few other conservatives. I was talking earlier with
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Megan McCain about this, and we opened up our analytics,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: our insights on our public pages and again I'm looking
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: at it right now. Eighty three point six percent. That's
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: how much they turned off the faucet to free speech
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: of conservative influencers on Facebook, on Meta, on Instagram in
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the last thirty days before the election. So the liberals
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: had free flow of intel and information and their side
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: and conservatives were throttled almost eighty five percent. I just
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: think that's interesting to see what Elon must have to
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: save freedom of speech on x He didn't do that there.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: He let everybody talk. God bless America when it comes
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: to that. Your final thoughts to all the listeners of Verdict,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: all those that came out and voted for you, I
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: know you want to say something to them as well.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Look to the listeners of Verdict, you guys are amazing.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: You're the most informed, you're the most engaged. You care
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: about our nation. You're fighting to save our nation. And
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: everyone in Texas who worked so unbelievably hard. Look that
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: this was a battle I believe about keeping Texas, Texas,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: my race, the money, the media, everything that came in
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: against us. They if you live in Texas, by the way,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: thank god the ads are over. I mean, you couldn't
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: turn on your TV without every second or third AD
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: being an attack AD, just hammering the living daylights out
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: of me and the people of Texas. I'll tell you
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: it was inspirational. You can out on the road with me.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: We did a fifty three stop bus tour all across
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: the state of Texas, over nine thousand miles we covered,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: We did rallies everywhere, and it was incredible. The people
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: and you're just ordinary people, students, senior citizens, single moms, Hispanics,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: African Americans, just Texans standing up and saying we want
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: to keep Texas Texas want. We want low taxes, low
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: and reasonable regulations, lots of jobs. We want security, we
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: want the border secure. We want to support law enforcement.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: We want criminals in jail. We want to defend our freedom.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: We want free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment. All
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: of that was on the ballot last night, and I
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: want to say it is breathtaking the Texans that came
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: out for me, and nationally, the people who supported the campaign,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: who contributed the campaign, thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: And the people who supported Donald Trump, who supported Senate
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: candidates and House candidates across the country. You helped change America.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: And I believe pull it back from the brink of destruction.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: And I just want to say thank you to the
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: incredible patriots who together saved America last night.
• 28:15
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• 28:31
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