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Election Recap: Victory for Trump and the Senate · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is a fabulous day in America. It's verdict with
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  Speaker 2: Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, and Senator Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Trump to them all the Democrats, the globalists, the deep state,
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  Speaker 2: the fake news, the fake polls, even the assassins, and
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  Speaker 2: now we have a very different day in America.
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  Speaker 3: It is an extraordinary day in America.
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  Speaker 4: You and I are here at one eleven PM on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 4: right after the election, and last night was simply a
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  Speaker 4: spectacular night. It was an election that defied all the pundits,
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  Speaker 4: that defied all the analysts, and that transforms America and
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  Speaker 4: transforms the world. I'm reminded of nineteen eighty four. It's
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  Speaker 4: morning in America again. It is that again. I believe
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  Speaker 4: God has answered our prayers for our nation, and I
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  Speaker 4: am so grateful Donald Trump has been re elected president
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  Speaker 4: in what has to be the most remarkable comeback in
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  Speaker 4: political history. I'm also very, very grateful that Republicans have
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  Speaker 4: taken a majority of the Senate and we've got a
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  Speaker 4: real chance at it being a sizable majority in the Senate.
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  Speaker 4: That included me getting re elected, which didn't suck at all.
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  Speaker 4: And we'll talk about that as well, and it looks
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  Speaker 4: like we've got a real shot at Republicans holding the house.
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  Speaker 4: That is the one that is not clear and determined
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  Speaker 4: right now, but hopefully we will hold the house as well.
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  Speaker 4: That'll make a big, big difference if we do. It
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  Speaker 4: is an incredible day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is. And we get to finally talk
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  Speaker 2: have to start with because this is just such a
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  Speaker 2: fun one for me. And we can explain why we
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  Speaker 2: haven't actually talked about your race on Verdict, because everywhere
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  Speaker 2: I go people are like, why are you guys not
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  Speaker 2: talking about this race against Alrid And I can explain
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  Speaker 2: it in person.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't talk about on the show.
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't either, But let's just put in perspective here,
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  Speaker 2: Republicans were closer to flipping New York than Democrats were
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  Speaker 2: to flipping Texas. Even though the entire Democratic machine came
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  Speaker 2: after you and tried to unseat you. That didn't work.
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  Speaker 2: What was a massive victory for you last night? Almost
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  Speaker 2: a ten point victory, congratulations, a million vote difference between
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  Speaker 2: you and your opponent. So let's just tell people for
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  Speaker 2: a second here why this is something we haven't talked
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  Speaker 2: about here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Look, we had an incredible victory at my race last night.
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  Speaker 4: You and I were both at the victory party past
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  Speaker 4: three in the morning. It was a remarkable outcome. And
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  Speaker 4: regular listeners of the podcast, you guys have noticed that
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  Speaker 4: a word I have never once said on this podcast
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  Speaker 4: is all read. I've never mentioned Colin allredd. I've never
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  Speaker 4: talked about my race even once. We have talked about issues.
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  Speaker 4: We talk about issues a lot. We have talked about
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  Speaker 4: the presidential race, we've talked about Senate races, we've talked
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  Speaker 4: about other races, but we have never talked about my race.
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  Speaker 4: And that was because if we had talked about my
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  Speaker 4: race on this podcast, it would have prompted complaints to
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  Speaker 4: the FEC. I don't think they would have succeeded, but
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  Speaker 4: it would have prompted complaints, and we decided that we
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  Speaker 4: didn't want to unnecessarily give a basis for a complaint,
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  Speaker 4: and so we just didn't talk about the race at all.
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  Speaker 4: I got to say it was mildly schizophrenic, however, because
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  Speaker 4: I'd go and do any other interview, I'd go on
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  Speaker 4: Fox News, I'd go on talk radio, I'd go do
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  Speaker 4: something else, I'd go on on a different show, and
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  Speaker 4: I talk about a race all the time because I
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  Speaker 4: was in the middle of the race.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you'd get to go on my show and
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  Speaker 2: we could talk about it, but not on Verdict.
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  Speaker 4: And I know our listeners found that odd, and it
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  Speaker 4: was just it was avoiding in any potential legal peril.
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  Speaker 4: We just didn't talk about it. But now that it's over,
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  Speaker 4: the race is done. And wow, what a night we
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  Speaker 4: had last night. As you noted, we won by nearly
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  Speaker 4: ten points, we won by a million votes. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it was an extraordinary victory. It was a victory across
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  Speaker 4: the board. And one of the one of the amazing,
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  Speaker 4: amazing outcomes was what happened in South Texas and what
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  Speaker 4: happened with Hispanics and and NBC News is reporting that
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  Speaker 4: I won Hispanics statewide by six points.
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  Speaker 3: That is a big, big deal.
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  Speaker 4: You want to talk about a transformation, and we saw
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  Speaker 4: South Texas counties and a region of the state that
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  Speaker 4: has been bright blue for one hundred years is rapidly,
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  Speaker 4: rapidly turning red. We had major victories throughout South Texas.
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  Speaker 4: To win Hispanic statewide by six points is transformation. And
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  Speaker 4: I believe what we did in South Texas with this election,
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  Speaker 4: and what Donald Trump did in South Texas with this election,
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  Speaker 4: I think is generationally transformative. And in fact, my prediction
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  Speaker 4: is in the next year we will see many, many
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  Speaker 4: elected South Texas Democrats switching parties, leaving their party and
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  Speaker 4: joining the Republican Party. And I think once it starts,
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  Speaker 4: it's not going to be one or two, It's going
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  Speaker 4: to be an avalanche. I think they're all looking around
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  Speaker 4: and you hear these conversations down in the valley, wait,
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  Speaker 4: are we all Republicans now?
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  Speaker 3: And it is.
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  Speaker 4: It's a big, big deal for Texas, and it's a
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  Speaker 4: big deal nationally.
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  Speaker 1: It's nationally as well.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to go back to something that happened
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  Speaker 2: and it goes back to what we've talked about here.
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  Speaker 1: Why Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Won last night, why you won last night, came down
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  Speaker 2: to the basic issues, which is, it's the economy stupid,
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  Speaker 2: It is safety. It is about saying yet for our
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  Speaker 2: kids instead of having to say no, whether that's when
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  Speaker 2: you go to the grocery store or if they want
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  Speaker 2: to go outside in front of your house and play.
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  Speaker 2: These are the basic issues. And the elitists in the
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  Speaker 2: media and the Harris campaign refused to stop dictating to
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  Speaker 2: Americans and actually listen to Americans. And you went all
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  Speaker 2: over the state and we listened to voters, and what
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  Speaker 2: their concerns were was, I don't feel like I'm secure.
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  Speaker 2: I don't feel like that we're heading the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: I don't feel like my kids are safe. I don't
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  Speaker 2: feel like my grandparents or my parents are safe. And
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  Speaker 2: I want to live in a society where I can
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  Speaker 2: say yes to my kids at the grocery store, yes
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  Speaker 2: to going to events, yes to having that birthday party,
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  Speaker 2: instead of saying no, no, no, all the way. And
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  Speaker 2: as Fox News described it, they said the most important
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  Speaker 2: issue facing the country with exit poll data was the economy.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty nine percent that was economy. Twenty percent then said
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  Speaker 2: it was immigration, which also deals with fentanyl and deals
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  Speaker 2: with the crime. Here's how they described it.
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  Speaker 5: Ecose voter analysis could tell the story of this night
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  Speaker 5: and tell the story of the election. Just a reminder,
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  Speaker 5: different than exit polls. We ask voters over one hundred
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  Speaker 5: and twenty thousand of them all over the country, all
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  Speaker 5: fifty states, leading up to and on election day, different
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  Speaker 5: from exit polls, and right now I can start to
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  Speaker 5: begin to give you our key findings and takeaways from
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  Speaker 5: what we ask voters. This is really to give you
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  Speaker 5: an idea of not only how they voted, but why
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  Speaker 5: early in the evening. We can't reveal how they broke
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  Speaker 5: down to the candidates, but we can reveal how they're feeling.
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  Speaker 5: We asked about the direction of the country. This number
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  Speaker 5: is key those who feel like the country right now
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  Speaker 5: is moving in the wrong direction seven out of ten
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  Speaker 5: American voters. This is ten points higher than it was
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  Speaker 5: in twenty twenty, just four years ago. If you were
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  Speaker 5: to break this down also new technology, our heat map.
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  Speaker 5: You can see some of those darker areas on the
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  Speaker 5: heat map, especially those sun Belt states. This is where
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  Speaker 5: they don't like how the country is heading or where
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  Speaker 5: it's heading, and that could be very revealing as we
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  Speaker 5: continue to watch the election results throughout the night. Another
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  Speaker 5: top finding, we know the economy has been key, and
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  Speaker 5: Americans just haven't been feeling good about their finances. We
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  Speaker 5: asked about their famili's financial situation, and look at this.
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  Speaker 5: While thirteen percent say they're getting ahead, six percent holding steady,
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  Speaker 5: thirty one percent of respondents said they feel like they're
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  Speaker 5: falling behind. That's more than three to ten voters also perspective,
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  Speaker 5: that's thirteen points worse than it was just four years
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  Speaker 5: ago when it was at eighteen percent.
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  Speaker 2: You listen to that center and it's the economy, stupid,
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  Speaker 2: That is what mattered. And the Democrats did not listen
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  Speaker 2: to the American people.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it was certainly the economy, but more broadly, it
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  Speaker 4: was also it was the border, it was inflation, it
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  Speaker 4: was safety and crime, and it was chaos. I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 4: the Biden Harris record is a train wreck. Everything they've done.
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  Speaker 4: There's a reason Kamalin ever talked about anything they've done.
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  Speaker 4: She ran as the change candidate because she sures that
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  Speaker 4: couldn't run on her record. And you know what, the
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  Speaker 4: American people said, to hell with that, we want change.
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  Speaker 4: As you just played seven and ten Americans said, we
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  Speaker 4: want to change the path we're on. Well, we just did.
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  Speaker 4: And you look at the results of Trump's win the
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  Speaker 4: seven swing states. As we sit here today at now
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  Speaker 4: one twenty two pm, Trump has won five of those
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  Speaker 4: seven swing states. He won North Carolina, he flipped Georgia.
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  Speaker 4: Georgia went for Biden. This time it went for Trump.
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  Speaker 4: He flipped Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania went for Biden. This time it
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  Speaker 4: went for Trump. He flipped Wisconsin. It had previously gone
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  Speaker 4: for Biden. This time it went for Trump. And he
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  Speaker 4: flipped Michigan. Previously it went for Biden, this time it
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  Speaker 4: went for Trump. And right now Trump is leading in Arizona, Nevada,
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  Speaker 4: the other two so they haven't called those states yet,
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  Speaker 4: but there's a very real possibility that Trump will win
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  Speaker 4: seven out of seven swing states, winning everywhere. The current
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  Speaker 4: count is he has two hundred and ninety one electoral votes,
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  Speaker 4: He only needs two seventy to win. Kamala Harris has
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  Speaker 4: two hundred and twenty three. And I'll tell you every
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  Speaker 4: bit is astonishing and powerful and transformational. Is Trump won
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  Speaker 4: the popular vote as of the current count by nearly
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  Speaker 4: five million votes. The current the current count according to
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  Speaker 4: CNN is seventy one million, eight hundred and eighty three,
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  Speaker 4: seven hundred and ninety five votes for Trump and sixty
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  Speaker 4: seven million, six eight hundred and sixty four votes for Kamala.
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  Speaker 4: That is fifty point nine percent compared to forty seven
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  Speaker 4: point four percent. That is historic, a big, big transformation
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  Speaker 4: and and and it is. It is changing America. The
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  Speaker 4: stock market is exploding, going crazy. Bitcoin is soaring like
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  Speaker 4: people are jubilant, and it is changing the world.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason why they're jubei one is because they
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  Speaker 2: understand now what's coming back. No one is in Uncertainty
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  Speaker 2: is what causes markets to have instability.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone not just and also crazy ass socialists destroying your
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  Speaker 4: company's taxing you out of existence, putting in crushing regulations
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  Speaker 4: that destroy your ability to make a profit.
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  Speaker 3: All of that hurts too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you look at where we are.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if we've ever had this moment before
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  Speaker 2: where it is so crystal clear the agenda of Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump that is going to be brought to Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 2: There is a clear mandate to drain the swamp. There's
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  Speaker 2: a clear mandate to change the way government works. There's
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  Speaker 2: a clear mandate to work with Congress on securing the border.
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  Speaker 2: There's a clear mandate in the Senate that looks like
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  Speaker 2: there's gonna be a clear mandate in the House. And
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  Speaker 2: there's a mandate that obviously investors are responding to. There's
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  Speaker 2: also a clear mandate that's coming to the border and
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  Speaker 2: other countries and the Middle East and oil and gas
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  Speaker 2: and all of these things. And that's the reason why
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  Speaker 2: I think you're seeing these massive games on Wall Street
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  Speaker 2: is there's just a moment today where Americans took a
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  Speaker 2: deep breath, they went out and they voted, They declared
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  Speaker 2: what they wanted. Damn be the media and their lack
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  Speaker 2: of influence and trying to lie to you, trying to
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  Speaker 2: take out Trump. As we mentioned in the beginning, there
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  Speaker 2: is a mandate now to go back to what this
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  Speaker 2: country looked like in twenty sixteen when Donald Trump went
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  Speaker 2: in the White House. Except this time it's even more
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  Speaker 2: clear what he's going to.
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  Speaker 4: Do well, and we're going to see a number of
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  Speaker 4: big changes early on. The biggest thing that we will
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  Speaker 4: see immediately is the border. And I have said this before,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm going to say it again. We will secure
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  Speaker 4: the border, and it's going to be fast. It's not
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  Speaker 4: going to take a year, and I don't think it's
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  Speaker 4: going to take six months. I think we will do
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  Speaker 4: it in January and February. The reason I say that
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  Speaker 4: is that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did all this
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  Speaker 4: damage through unilateral executive action, which means Trump can undo
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  Speaker 4: it through unilateral executive action. And the most important determinant
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  Speaker 4: is what happens when you arrest an illegal immigrant, and
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  Speaker 4: if you put them on a plane and you fly
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  Speaker 4: them home, the numbers plummet, and they plummet immediately. And
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  Speaker 4: on January twentieth, that's going to happen. And in fact,
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  Speaker 4: I think we're going to see the numbers. We may
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  Speaker 4: see the numbers fall even before Trump is sworn in,
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  Speaker 4: although there might there might also be a surge in
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  Speaker 4: November and December. I am worried that we'll see a
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  Speaker 4: surge of illegals trying to rush across the border right
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  Speaker 4: before Trump gets here. But as soon as Trump is
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  Speaker 4: in office, we are going to see the border be secured.
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  Speaker 4: You were at our election night party last night, we
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  Speaker 4: had a packed house, we had north of a thousand people,
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  Speaker 4: their incredible energy. In the middle of my victory speech,
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  Speaker 4: the crowd began channing build the wall, Build the wall,
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  Speaker 4: to which I responded, we will.
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  Speaker 3: We are going to do that.
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  Speaker 4: Now, whether Congress goes along is a different question, because
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  Speaker 4: the Democrats are still going to have enough votes in
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  Speaker 4: the Senate to filibuster legislation. And it will be interesting
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  Speaker 4: to see if congressional Democrats have learned anything from this
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  Speaker 4: ass kicking. Let's be clear, that's what this election was,
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  Speaker 4: was an ass kicking across the board. And I'll be
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  Speaker 4: very curious next week I'll be in in DC. I'll
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  Speaker 4: see my colleagues. I'll be very curious if any Democrats
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  Speaker 4: are looking around going maybe being wild eyed leftist communist America,
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  Speaker 4: hating lunatics is not a path to victory. And I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if they'll say that or not. They might
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  Speaker 4: double down and you know, you know, start, you know,
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  Speaker 4: dig it even harder. I don't know that they do
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  Speaker 4: hate Trump's guts, so they're probably just losing their minds
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  Speaker 4: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they're losing their minds on social media. And by
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  Speaker 2: the way, didn't the Democrats want to get rid of
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  Speaker 2: the filibuster. Can we go back to that just for
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  Speaker 2: a second.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, they absolutely did. Now they all love it.
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  Speaker 4: And now I will say, let's not take for granted
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  Speaker 4: that we know the outcome in the House, and that
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  Speaker 4: right now is the most consequential question that is outstanding.
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  Speaker 4: Ben It is a big, big difference whether Republicans whether
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  Speaker 4: we keep the majority in the House or we lose it.
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  Speaker 4: And the House is still very much in the balance.
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  Speaker 4: It could go either way. Mike Johnson, the Speaker, is
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  Speaker 4: saying that he thinks that will hold on to the House,
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  Speaker 4: that the votes are there, but there's still a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of races that are outstanding. We don't know right now.
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  Speaker 4: And let me tell you why it's such a big deal.
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  Speaker 4: Let's say the Democrats take a majority of the House
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  Speaker 4: by one vote. I don't want that to be the case,
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  Speaker 4: but if that happens, it decreases by a factor of
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  Speaker 4: one hundred what we can accomplish in the next two years.
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  Speaker 4: And here is why. Because I mentioned securing the border.
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  Speaker 4: Trump can do that unilaterally. We'll also see big national
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  Speaker 4: security victories. I think we will see in the next year.
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  Speaker 4: Both of the wars come to an end. I think
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  Speaker 4: the Ukraine War will come to an end. Russia will
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  Speaker 4: suffer a loss, There'll be some negotiated outcome that is
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  Speaker 4: a loss for Russia, but it will end. And I
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  Speaker 4: believe the war in Israel will end as well, and
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  Speaker 4: Israel will defeat Hamas as a result of that. All
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  Speaker 4: of that Trump can do essentially unilaterally as commander in chief. However,
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  Speaker 4: for legislation to pass, you got to get it through
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  Speaker 4: the House and Senate. And the big kahuna is the
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  Speaker 4: twenty seventeen tax cuts that are expiring. Most of them
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  Speaker 4: are expiring next year. If we have both the House
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  Speaker 2: vote in two decades, twenty plus years. If that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to bully me anymore. This is massive.
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  Speaker 4: I think You're exactly right. It turns out it is
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  Speaker 4: a bad electoral strategy to insult and condescend and treat
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  Speaker 4: the voters like crap. And that's what the Democrats look
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  Speaker 4: In the last two weeks, you had Kamala Harris launch
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  Speaker 4: their strategy of calling Donald Trump hitler. You then had
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  Speaker 3: That combination.
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  Speaker 4: Look, I got to tell you, I've run on a
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  Speaker 4: lot of elections. I've never found that insulting the voters
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  Speaker 4: is a smart electoral strategy. And it was a little
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  Speaker 4: bizarre to see the Democrats go all in on that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it didn't work and it was a failure. There.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about what happened in the Senate, because I
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  Speaker 2: think this goes back to how important it was with
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  Speaker 2: your race and the fact that you were able to
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  Speaker 2: win by such a large margin over already there was
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: an incredible amount of money. We didn't get talk about
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: this on Verdicts. As we mentioned earlier, but there was
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: an incredible amount of money and Chuck Schumer, you were
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: his number one target. They came after you. They basically
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: kind of pulled away from this race a little bit
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: financially after you just wiped him during the debate. Congratulations
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  Speaker 2: It was unbelievable and that shifted the race financially. But
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: the amount of money that came in from outside to
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: try to turn Texas into a liberal state. But at
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: the end of the day, Republicans are closer to flipping
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  Speaker 2: New York in Texas, and that is a data point
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  Speaker 2: as well that I think you got to look at.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, that's exactly right. I will say the debate.
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  Speaker 4: The debate was ridiculous fun. I loved that debate. I
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  Speaker 4: had a lot of fun doing it, and I think
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  Speaker 4: it went well.
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  Speaker 3: I will look this race.
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  Speaker 4: Chuck Schumer was explicit that I was his number one
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  Speaker 4: target in the country, and they flooded cash into the
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  Speaker 4: state of Texas. This race was the single most expensive
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: Senate race in the entire country. It will end up
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: being nearly a quarter billion dollars. Nearly two hundred and
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: fifty million dollars will have been spent on both sides
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: in this race. That ain't cheap. Schumer poured well over
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: one hundred million into the race. And I got to
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: say one of my more fun things that I enjoyed
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  Speaker 4: doing last night at the election night speech, as I
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: took the opportunity to thank Schumer, I said, thanks, Chuck,
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  Speaker 4: we may have won a couple more Senate seats tonight
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  Speaker 4: because you wasted so much money in the state of Texas.
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  Speaker 4: So I appreciate that, and it I gotta say, I
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  Speaker 4: guarantee you there's some Democrats who are second guessing that,
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  Speaker 4: who are questioning did that make any sense just to
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: pour the money into Texas and lose the states they lost.
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  Speaker 2: You talk about the Senate agenda moving forward. Obviously the
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: border is going to be something very quick. But there
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: are some new ideas that have come out of this
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  Speaker 2: Trump campaign that connected with voters. A great example is
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Elon Musk and Trump talking about, hey, retired people should
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: be completely tax exempt they've already paid their taxes. We
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: need to stop taxing social Security benefits, some of these
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: common sense things. What are the chances that some of
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: these ideas that connected with the American people. No taxes
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: on tips is another example, will turn into a reality
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: if we have the House and Senate or is that
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: still going to be a really tough thing to get done.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Look, if we have the House, I think we'll get
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: it done. No taxes on tips. I'm the author of
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: that legislation in the Senate. When I introduced it, it
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: was interesting. It's bipartisan legislation. Both of the Democrat senators
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: from Nevada joined almost immediately. They told me twenty five
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: percent of the workers in Nevada are tipped workers, and
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: so they jumped on immediately. If we have the House,
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  Speaker 4: I think it will be part of the tax cuts,
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: no taxes on tips. I also think we'll get it done.
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  Speaker 4: No taxes on Social Security. That is a little bit
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: harder to do because in terms of the budgetary cost
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: it's not cheap, and so the negotiations back and forth
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: that there'll be some bumps on that. But the President
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  Speaker 4: is pushing for it. I'm strongly in favor of it.
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  Speaker 4: I think we'll get it done as part of the
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  Speaker 4: tax cuts. Both of those are big, big, important policy ideas.
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  Speaker 4: And listen, in terms of the Senate, let's break down
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: where we stand on the Senate right now. So we
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: went into last night with the Democrats having a fifty
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: one to forty nine majority. As of right now, Republicans
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: have fifty two. So we have three pickups that are clear.
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  Speaker 4: One of them is West Virginia. We knew that was
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: one hundred percent, and so Jim Justice, the governor, is
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: going to now be the Senator. He's going to replace
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Joe Manchin. The Democrats basically conceded West Virginia once Joe
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Manchin wasn't running. There wasn't a Democrat alive who could
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: win West Virginia. They conceded that. The two others that
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: we have won are Montana and Ohio. Montana was John Tester.
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  Speaker 4: Montana is a bright red state and Tim Sheeh just
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: just beat Tester. That's a victory we thought was quite
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: likely and it happened. Montana is too red a state
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  Speaker 4: to be represented by a Democrat. Ohio, likewise, Sharett Brown
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  Speaker 4: was beaten by Bernie Moreno last night. That's a great victory.
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  Speaker 4: That was a hard fought victory. I'll tell you Shared
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Brown and John Tester two the very best politicians in
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: the country. You don't get elected counter to the way
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: your state generally votes unless you're really really talented. And
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: you know, John Tester with a flat top haircut, Nate Figures,
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: he seemed like a big old fat mine tan of
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: rancher that just was a regular guy, and it got
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: them elected even when Trump was carrying the state and
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Republicans were carrying the state in past years. SAME's true
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: in Ohio where Shared Brown seemed like just a regular
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: guy at the Union Hall, and there were voters in
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Ohio that were voting Donald Trump Shared Brown. Now, both
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Brown and Tester vote like communists. They vote like like
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: like Chuck Schumer, but they're very good character actors, and
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: when they're back at home they pretended not to. Those
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: two victories ensure that we have the majority in the Senate.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: And then on top of that, right now we have
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: four other possibilities. We had one hard loss. We did
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: not win Wisconsin. We were leading a good chunk of
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: the night. Eric Hovedy was it was narrowly leading Tammy
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Baldwin's Wisconsin's now been called for the Democrats, So assuming
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: those numbers are right, it looks like we did not
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: win Wisconsin in the Senate, although Trump won Wisconsin and
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  Speaker 4: the presidential Right now, we have a shot at winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada,
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  Speaker 4: and Arizona, and all of those are uncalled right now.
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  Speaker 3: And here are the numbers.
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  Speaker 4: Pennsylvania right now, Dave McCormick, the Republican is leading forty
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: eight point nine percent to forty eight point five.
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  Speaker 3: Percent, so it's really really close.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Michigan, Michigan right now, the Democrat is leading forty eight
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  Speaker 4: point six percent to forty eight point three percent, so
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: we are down by point three percent both Pennsylvania and Michigan.
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  Speaker 4: Ninety seven percent of the vote is in Nevada, Nevada
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: right now, the Republican Sam Brown is leading forty seven
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: point five percent to forty seven percent. That would be
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: a flip if we won Nevada. Eighty eight percent of
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: the vote is in there, and then Arizona, Arizona. Right now,
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: this is probably the it's the furthest distance we have
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: to have to climb. The Democrat is leading fifty point
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: four percent to forty seven point seven percent, So it's
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: three points that we need to pick.
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  Speaker 3: Up, almost three points.
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  Speaker 4: Now, only sixty three percent of the vote is in
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: in Arizona, and it's America Copa County. It's the suburbs
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: of Phoenix that are still counting. So look, it is
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: certainly possible that we win Arizona. Trump is one Arizona,
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  Speaker 4: but three points is a bigger margin to close than
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: the other states. And so all four of those we're
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: going to wait and see.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Let's talk finally about the takeaways from the media, and
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: I'll go back to what I said earlier. Donald Trump
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: trumped them all. He trumped the Democrats, he trumped the globalists,
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  Speaker 2: he trumped the deep state, he trumped the news media.
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  Speaker 2: They're still having meltdowns. This morning, the View, the girls
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  Speaker 2: And this is just what we're seeing in the moments
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  Speaker 3: You know, look, we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: I think there right now, there's a lot of blaming
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  Speaker 4: for several years. I don't see the Democrats right now
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  Speaker 4: horrible for America. You know, there used to be Senate
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  Speaker 4: you know, you look at. I would love to see
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  Speaker 4: And I've been down to the like they're factory in Bocachica,
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  Speaker 4: down down by Brownsville in the southern tip of Texas.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it is remarkable.
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  Speaker 4: They're turning out a rocket ship a month and they
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  Speaker 4: just built it out of nothing.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it is.
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  Speaker 4: It's incredible, and Elon is all in. We saw him
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: pour himself into this election. At the end, I think
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: it made a difference. I think he made a difference
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  Speaker 4: in Pennsylvania where he really devoted a lot of time
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: and energy and money and personal credibility. And I think
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: it will be significant his impact on the federal government. Now,
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: there are structural impediments to having efficiency in government, and
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: so I don't think people should think we're suddenly going
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: to be in Nirvana and everything will be solved. Because
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: in a company, Elon can walk in and fire anyone
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: he wants. And by the way, when he bought Twitter,
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: he fired a whole bunch of the folks there and
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  Speaker 4: all the woke radicals, he basically said, bye bye, you're
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: out of here. The federal government, that is much much
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  Speaker 4: harder to do. You've got civil service protections that enables
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: career bureaucrats to burrow in. I think we will see
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: the Trump administration take on the career bureaucracy in a
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: way that has never ever happened before. That's a big deal.
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  Speaker 4: I expect Elon to play an important role in that.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't want to understate the legal barriers, the
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: bureaucratic barriers, that it is not like just coming into
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: a company where you have the ability to give anyone
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: a pink slip. The bureaucracy will fight back. And by
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: the way, in the first Trump term, we saw the
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: deep state wage war on Donald Trump. I very much
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: hope the team coming in understands much much better just
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: how dangerous the foe is they're facing. Of the radical
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: leftists who burrowed into the federal government and that they're
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: better prepared and ready to take them on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, saving free speech by buying X
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: just so people know how biased that I would say
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: the media is. And I'm talking about the media. You
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: have control over Facebook. We were comparing last night many
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: conservative influencers and Center.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: You're gonna find this interesting.
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  Speaker 2: From October ninth through November the fifth, the reach that
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: I had on Facebook was down eighty three point six
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  Speaker 2: percent as a conservative on Facebook in the month leading
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: up to election.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: By and there were quite a few other conservatives.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: I was talking earlier with Megan McCain about this, and
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: we opened up our analytics, our insights on our public pages,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: and again I'm looking at it right now. Eighty three
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: point six percent. That's how much they turned off the
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: faucet to free speech of conservative influencers on Facebook, on Meta,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: on Instagram in the last thirty days before the election.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: So the liberals had free flow of intel and information
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: and their side and con conservatives were throttled almost eighty
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: five percent. I just think that's interesting to see what
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Elon must have to save freedom of speech on x
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: He didn't do that there. He let everybody talk. God
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: bless America when it comes to that. Your final thoughts
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: to all the listeners of Verdict, all those that came
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: out and voted for you. I know you want to
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: say something to them as well.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: Look to the listeners of Verdict, you guys are amazing.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: You're the most informed, you're the most engaged. You care
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: about our nation. You're fighting to save our nation. And
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: everyone in Texas who worked so unbelievably hard. Look that
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: this was a battle I believe about keeping Texas Texas
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: my race. The money, the media, everything that came in
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: against us. They if you live in Texas. By the way,
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: thank god the ads are over. I mean, you couldn't
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: turn on your TV without every second or third ad
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: being an attack ad just hammering the living daylights out
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: of me and the people of Texas. I'll tell you
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: it was inspirational. You came out on the road with me.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: We did a fifty three stop bus tour all across
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: the state of Texas, over nine thousand miles we covered,
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: We did rallies everywhere, and it was incredible. The people
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: and you're just ordinary people, students, senior citizens, single moms, Hispanics,
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: African Americans, just Texans standing up and saying we want
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: to keep Texas Texas. We want low taxes, low and
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: reasonable regulations, lots of jobs. We want security, we want
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: the border secure. We want to support law enforcement. We
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: want criminals in jail. We want to defend our freedom.
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: We want free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment. All
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: of that was on the ballot last night. And I
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: want to say it is breathtaking the Texans that came
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: out for me and nationally, the people who supported the campaign,
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: who contributed the campaign, thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: And the people who supported Donald Trump, who supported Senate
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: candidates and House candidates across the country. You helped change
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: America and I believe pull it back from the brink
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: of destruction. And I just want to say thank you
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: to the incredible patriots who together saved America last night.
• 42:13
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