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Republicans Don’t Have a Single Leader AND THAT IS OK. WE DON'T NEED A TRUMP vs. DeSANTIS WAR! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: There are two ways that you can look at what
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Speaker 1: just happened in the midterm elections. You can look at
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Speaker 1: it as a referendum on candidates that we're weak. You
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Speaker 1: can look at it as an embarrassing moment for Mitch
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Speaker 1: McConnell and proof that Mitch McConnell would rather be the
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Speaker 1: leader in the minority than a majority with conservative candidates
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Speaker 1: MAGA candidates. You can also look at the midterm elections
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Speaker 1: as a referendum that's time to blow up the Republican
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Speaker 1: Party and have a civil war, which seems to be
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Speaker 1: where we are headed. And you can also look at
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Speaker 1: this from another standpoint, which is Democrats are loving every
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Speaker 1: scenario that I just mentioned to you because they know
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Speaker 1: that they got away with one. Now you talk about
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Speaker 1: this civil war that is brewing right now, it is
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Speaker 1: very obvious that there is a civil war brewing, specifically
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Speaker 1: between Donald Trump and Rhonda Santis. What did Rhonda Santus
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Speaker 1: do wrong? He had a massive red wave in Florida
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Speaker 1: that undermined Donald Trump's power on the GOP. It showed
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Speaker 1: that there are other people out there that are willing
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Speaker 1: to lead and can lead in the Republican Party, and
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Speaker 1: that is exactly why Donald Trump is attacking Rounda Santis
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Speaker 1: is dysanctimonious. It's also the reason why he's threatening his
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Speaker 1: political career by saying, I have more dirt to know
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Speaker 1: more about you than your own wife does. We also
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Speaker 1: have a present that's very angry right now. Former President
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. He was also claiming now that he did
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Speaker 1: not pick doctor Oz to be the kid at the
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Speaker 1: disaster of Pennsylvania who lost a fetterman, an incompetent individual
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Speaker 1: that's clearly incapacitated. He actually threw his own wife under
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Speaker 1: the bus, claiming it was Melania's idea. Than he did
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Speaker 1: come out and apologize to his wife later. But what
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Speaker 1: I do know is Democrats are loving all of these scenarios. Now,
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Speaker 1: is there a break after this midterm elections? It was
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Speaker 1: a disaster because it was clear going into the midterms
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Speaker 1: that the leader was Donald Trump, And are people willing
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Speaker 1: to now move to another leader like de Santis? I
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Speaker 1: think if you read the tea leaves, that's exactly what
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Speaker 1: seems to be starting to happen in this country. Mike
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Speaker 1: Pence has also come out, the former vice president of
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and he had this shocking these shocking words
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Speaker 1: that he now has said about Donald Trump. Listen, members
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Speaker 1: were barricaded inside the House chamber and in the middle
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Speaker 1: of it all, you can see that the President has
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Speaker 1: tweeted to twenty four PM, the President tweets Mike Pence
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Speaker 1: didn't have the courage to do what should have been done.
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Speaker 1: It angered me. But I turned to my daughter who
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Speaker 1: was standing nearby, and I said, it doesn't take courage
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Speaker 1: to break the law. Takes courage to uphold the law.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the presence words were reckless. It's clear he
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Speaker 1: decided to be part of the problem. Mike Pence shots
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Speaker 1: fired at his former ally, his former running mate, Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: Mike Pennce calling Donald Trump on January six reckless. He
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Speaker 1: said he endangered me and he endangered my family. Now
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Speaker 1: why is Mike Pennce saying this now? Because I think
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Speaker 1: and he understands that there was a disaster on election
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Speaker 1: Day and he's seeing an opportunity to stand out as
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Speaker 1: his own man. Now, while all of this is happening
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Speaker 1: right now, there's something else that has just happened, and
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Speaker 1: that is on the Immigration and Border policy. Customs and
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Speaker 1: Border Protection Commissioner has now resigned at the request of
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Speaker 1: the Biden administration, there have been a record number of
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Speaker 1: migrant crossings in the last year. Democrats learned from the
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Speaker 1: midterm elections that this was their achilles heel in many
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Speaker 1: of these races on the border, and they're not willing
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Speaker 1: to make that mistake. So now, instead of blaming Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden for the actual policy of open borders, they are
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Speaker 1: now telling the Customs and Border Patrol commissioner to resign,
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Speaker 1: making him their scapegoat, trying to imply now moving into
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Speaker 1: the presidential hey, hey, hey, we're gonna get things under
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Speaker 1: control at the border. Now, this was obviously a policy
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Speaker 1: of the Biden administration. Shouldn't listen to this news. Forty
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Speaker 1: eight past the hour, the Commissioner of Customs and Border
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Speaker 1: Protection resigned at the requests of the Biden administration over
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Speaker 1: the weekend after reportedly refusing to step down. I mean
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Speaker 1: see Juliet Ainsley is following the story. Juliet, good morning.
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Speaker 1: So why him? What do we know about why? Now? Well,
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Speaker 1: of course there's a lot of pressure on Customs and
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Speaker 1: Border Protection, Jose. As we know, they've had a record
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Speaker 1: number of migrant crossings in the last year, over two million.
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Speaker 1: In the fiscal year that ended at the end of September.
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Speaker 1: But besides that, it just seemed that Magnus didn't quite
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Speaker 1: get along as well with this administration as his deput did,
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Speaker 1: as his deputy, Troy Miller did. Now Troy Miller will
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Speaker 1: now be filling in as acting Commissioner. He was already
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Speaker 1: acting commissioner for all of twenty twenty one. They chose
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Speaker 1: Magnus because he had a law enforcement background. They thought
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Speaker 1: that that might be a contribution to CBP, but actually
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Speaker 1: it seemed that because he didn't come up through DHA spranks,
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Speaker 1: he actually had a fission something that didn't quite work
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Speaker 1: out between him and majorcas as well as the White
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Speaker 1: House and with NCBP ranks. Now it's not unheard of
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Speaker 1: to have some clashes between people in Washington and the
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Speaker 1: people who were rank and file doing the mission at
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Speaker 1: the border, but in this case, it seem that there
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Speaker 1: were a lot of Border Patrol officers who were not
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Speaker 1: pleased with Magnus. We saw reports that they said he
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Speaker 1: was falling asleep and meetings. People didn't think that he
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Speaker 1: was engaged in taking the mission that they were carrying
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Speaker 1: out seriously enough, especially considering the record number of microts
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Speaker 1: crossing the border that these men and women are dealing
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Speaker 1: We also know that, unfortunately, you have another major problem
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Speaker 1: now in Arizona. We have lost that Senate seat, meaning
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Speaker 1: But even in these victories right Arizona, Mark Kelly fifty
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Speaker 1: one point six to Blake Masters forty six point three,
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Speaker 1: I think you could argue that's a beat down, especially
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Speaker 1: knowing what we had go go on and the opportunity
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Speaker 1: we had. But Democrats learned from the exit polls. What
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Speaker 1: they realized was they can't keep going down this path,
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Speaker 1: at least publicly of an open border policy, because it
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Speaker 1: will undo them in the presidential That's exactly why they
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Speaker 1: have now put pointed a finger at the Customs and
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Speaker 1: Border Patrol Commissioner, demanding that he resigned. He's their new
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Speaker 1: scapegoat now. He enforced the policy of the Biden administration,
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Speaker 1: which was an open border policy. But they needed at
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Speaker 1: least look like they are listening to the voters and
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Speaker 1: giving a crap. I do I believe the policy of
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Speaker 1: the border is going to change. I do not. But
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden is on a victory lap. Biden on the midterms,
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Speaker 1: he said, the American people prove once again, quote the democracy,
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Speaker 1: that a democracy is who we are. They're using this
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Speaker 1: as a referendum on MAGA candidates. Let me start with
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Speaker 1: a few words about the recent elections held in the
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Speaker 1: United States. What we saw was the strength and resilience
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Speaker 1: of the American democracy. We sought in action, and the
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Speaker 1: American people prove once again the democracy is who we are.
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Speaker 1: And there was a strong rejection of election deniers at
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Speaker 1: every level, from those seeking to lead our states and
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Speaker 1: those that seeking to serve in Congress, and also those
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Speaker 1: seeking to oversee the elections. And there was a strong
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Speaker 1: rejection of political violence and voter intimidation. And there was
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Speaker 1: an emphatic statement that in America, the world of the
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Speaker 1: people prevails. I've traveled this week and it's been clear
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Speaker 1: just how closely the world and our allies and our
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Speaker 1: competitors as well have been following our elections at home.
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Speaker 1: Excuse me a little cold. And what these elections showed
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Speaker 1: is that there's a deep and unwavering commitment in America
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Speaker 1: to preserving and protecting and defending democracy. Now, let me
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Speaker 1: speak briefly about our agenda over the past few days
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Speaker 1: in Egypt. And yeah, you can hear the president. He
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Speaker 1: wanted to make that clear to the world. The American
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Speaker 1: people proved once again that demcrisy is who we are.
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Speaker 1: We saw that the strength and resilience of the American democracy.
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Speaker 1: This is a victory lap for them. Now there are
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Speaker 1: things that they have learned from this election faster than
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Speaker 1: we have learned what we needed to learn from these
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Speaker 1: midterm elections. I wish right now there wasn't a civil war.
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Speaker 1: I wish the president was not taking shots at the santis.
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Speaker 1: I wish that Mike Pence wasn't taking shots at Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump now. But the wheels are coming off this machine.
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Speaker 1: And if that means we rebuild the machine, then so
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Speaker 1: be it. But what does that cause us to do it?
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Speaker 1: Because the Democrats are now understanding they almost lost and
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Speaker 1: they should have lost the midterm, and they're making they're
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Speaker 1: fixing their mistakes and weaknesses, including forcing the resignation of
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Speaker 1: the Customs and Border Patrol head. That's how smart the
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Speaker 1: Democrats are learning and how quickly they're learning from these midterms.
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Speaker 1: We clearly aren't even anywhere close to where they are
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Speaker 1: in this game. Now. There is one big thing that
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Speaker 1: came these midterms. It could be a massive blessing in disguise,
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Speaker 1: and that is now the Democratic Party has clearly coalesced
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Speaker 1: behind Joe Biden. He is their nominee unless he chooses
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Speaker 1: personally not to run for reelection. Now that these mid
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Speaker 1: terms are over, in the blood bath for the red
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Speaker 1: wave turned into a red mirage, even Nancy Pelosi has
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Speaker 1: come out publicly saying that Joe Biden should run again.
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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, Nancy Pelosi went on the Sunday shows,
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Speaker 1: and it made sense for her to do this because
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Speaker 1: they basically had a victory, even though they're more than
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Speaker 1: likely going to lose the House. The fact it wasn't
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Speaker 1: a blood bath, as bad as the economy was, as
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Speaker 1: high as crime is in this country, as terrible as
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Speaker 1: some of the candidates they ran like Fetterman, and as
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Speaker 1: bad as a leader, and how underwater Joe Biden was.
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Speaker 1: The Democrats had with all that, an amazing Tuesday, if
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Speaker 1: you put it in perspective. And she went on on
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Speaker 1: all the Sunday morning talk shows to make sure that
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Speaker 1: everybody knew what a big victory this was for Democrats.
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Speaker 1: And Nancy Pelosi had this to say to George Stepanopolis
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Speaker 1: about President Biden, should he run again? Do you think
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Speaker 1: President Biden should run again? Yes? I do. President Biden
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Speaker 1: has been a great president for our country. He has
12:17
Speaker 1: accomplished so much ten million jobs, over ten million jobs
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Speaker 1: under his leadership, working with the private sector. Of course,
12:26
Speaker 1: he has just done so many things that are so great.
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Speaker 1: We knew a lot more to show to tell her.
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Speaker 1: But he's put money in people's pockets, vaccines in their arms,
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Speaker 1: children back to school, people back to work, for starters,
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Speaker 1: creating ten million jobs he has made in America and
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Speaker 1: independent by pat passing the chip spill that says we're
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Speaker 1: no no longer reliance on those who withhold products that
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Speaker 1: enable us to manufacture in our country, the era IRA.
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Speaker 1: I just saw him make the speech in Egypt where
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Speaker 1: he spoke about America's commitment to preserving the planet with
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Speaker 1: the legislation the IRA three hundred and sixty eight billion
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Speaker 1: dollars in good paying green jobs, clean air, clean water
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Speaker 1: for our children, national security issue to stop migrations and
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Speaker 1: competition for habitat and food, as well as honoring our
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Speaker 1: responsibility to future generations, the packed acting our veterans, the
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Speaker 1: bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, all of it with justice, with equity,
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Speaker 1: with inclusiveness, with diversity, taking us to a new place.
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Speaker 1: He has been a great president and has a great
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Speaker 1: record to run on. He's been a great president, and
13:53
Speaker 1: he has a great record to run on. Now forget
13:57
Speaker 1: the fact that half the problems you'd claimed that he
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Speaker 1: solved were created by the president right, the people locking
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Speaker 1: down of schools and loss of jobs. But what Speaker
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Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi understands now is because of the survival of
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Speaker 1: Democrats in this mid term, President Joe Biden, she now says,
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Speaker 1: and the rest of the Democratic Party is saying, should
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Speaker 1: run for reelection. If it would have been a bloodbath
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Speaker 1: for the Democrats and the midterms, they would have gotten
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Speaker 1: rid of Joe Biden. That would have thrown a lifeline
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Speaker 1: to Donald Trump as well, and it would have been
14:27
Speaker 1: a great day for the Trump because for the Trump team,
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Speaker 1: because they would have walked out and said, look what
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Speaker 1: we did to this country. Look how well we did
14:34
Speaker 1: what we did for this country. We gave you this
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Speaker 1: red wave. Donald Trump would have definitely been the front
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Speaker 1: runner and Joe Biden they would have dismissed. They probably
14:45
Speaker 1: would have used the Hunter Biden investigation and just let
14:48
Speaker 1: the wheels come off of it to implicate Joe Biden
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Speaker 1: and to get rid of him. They would have used
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Speaker 1: the Republicans to do that to move on to another candidate.
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Speaker 1: But because that didn't happen, now you have Democrats that
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Speaker 1: are one hundred percent behind Joe Biden. If he wants
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Speaker 1: to run free election. It is his I believe no
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Speaker 1: one serious will oppose him in a primary, and I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure anybody will oppose him in a primary. You'll
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Speaker 1: look at the Republican Party now. We are totally in shambles,
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Speaker 1: and we deserve to be. We've got to rebuild this thing.
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Speaker 1: The way that we just did things was a disaster.
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Speaker 1: The way that we just moved with all of these
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Speaker 1: things was a disaster. We made a huge mistake. We
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Speaker 1: should have done better, and the in fighting has clearly
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Speaker 1: begun now. If there's any silver lining in these mid terms,
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Speaker 1: it is that I do believe now we have a
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Speaker 1: genuine and a real opportunity to beat Joe Biden if
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Speaker 1: we don't screw this up. I do not like, by
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Speaker 1: the way, the civil war that's happening right now between
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Speaker 1: Trump and De santiss. I think it's a dumb move.
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Speaker 1: I don't like the President attacking him the way that
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Speaker 1: he is. De Santis is the only state and was
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Speaker 1: able to pull off in the only state a genuine
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Speaker 1: and authentic red wave. I believe there's room for multiple
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Speaker 1: leaders in the Republican Party right now, and to imply
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Speaker 1: that I have to pledge allegiance to Donald Trump and
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Speaker 1: no one else I can like. That's a bad and
16:15
Speaker 1: faulty narrative. It's a bad political mindset. It is one
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Speaker 1: that we should not be having to debate. We shouldn't
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Speaker 1: be having, but we are right now. And this really
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Speaker 1: worries me because I'm afraid now that we're going to
16:29
Speaker 1: screw it up even more. Instead, we should be focusing
16:33
Speaker 1: on the civil linings of this midterm election. Number one,
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Speaker 1: that Nancy Pelosi is still the leader of the Democratic
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Speaker 1: Party in the House. And number two that Joe Biden
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Speaker 1: is still going to be the leader of the Democratic Party,
16:44
Speaker 1: and he's vulnerable and he's underwater. But if we sit
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Speaker 1: here and we screw around with Mitch McConnell being our leader,
16:53
Speaker 1: that's going to make for a disaster. If we have
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Speaker 1: this massive civil war between Donald Trump going after you know,
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Speaker 1: de Santis instead of lifting him up, it is going
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Speaker 1: to be another disaster. Democrats are way smarter when it
17:09
Speaker 1: comes to learning from elections. And Republicans are forcing out
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Speaker 1: the Customs and Border Protection Commissioner at the request the
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Speaker 1: Biden administration. Forcing him to resign tells you they learn
17:22
Speaker 1: from this midterm election. They realize that their Achilles Hill
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Speaker 1: going into these presidential elections is the border and the
17:29
Speaker 1: border issue there. Republicans have to also focus on Georgia.
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Speaker 1: As I mentioned on Sunday night and I mentioned it
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Speaker 1: Monday in our podcast, we have got to win Georgia.
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Speaker 1: We have to coalesce behind Georgia. We have to make
17:45
Speaker 1: sure that we win Georgia. If we do not win Georgia,
17:49
Speaker 1: we are in serious trouble. Because I do believe that
17:51
Speaker 1: the Democrats could move to end the filibuster, pack the
17:54
Speaker 1: Supreme Court, and add four more senators to unite siate
17:57
Speaker 1: Senate with statehood. I have no reason to believe that
18:00
Speaker 1: they wouldn't. I have no reason to believe that the
18:04
Speaker 1: Democrats won't go nuclear. They have shown no indication they
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Speaker 1: care about this country and our democracy. They've shown no
18:12
Speaker 1: indication that they care about our constitution. So why now,
18:15
Speaker 1: all of a sudden would they do that. I just
18:17
Speaker 1: think that they are going to do whatever they can
18:19
Speaker 1: to make sure that they solidify their power. Chuck Schumer,
18:26
Speaker 1: he came out and said working with the GOP will
18:28
Speaker 1: be easier because they lost the Red Way proved to
18:30
Speaker 1: be a red mirage he said, the non Maggar Republicans,
18:33
Speaker 1: stop letting them lead your party. He's giving advice. Now,
18:37
Speaker 1: I want you to listen to this very carefully. Are
18:39
Speaker 1: you going to talk to Mitch McConnell. What does that
18:41
Speaker 1: look like. Let me just say this, the American people
18:45
Speaker 1: are yearning for us to get things done. And the
18:47
Speaker 1: American people first, they believe in democracy. I just want
18:50
Speaker 1: to finish that last point. The roots of democracy are
18:53
Speaker 1: much deeper than a lot of warriors. Were people who
18:56
Speaker 1: worried about the election give it credit for and they
18:58
Speaker 1: understood democracy was being eroded. But they also are practical.
19:02
Speaker 1: They want us to get something done for them. They
19:05
Speaker 1: don't expect us to do everything at once, but they
19:07
Speaker 1: want us to get something done. And that's why I
19:09
Speaker 1: think so many of them chose Democrats over Republicans, because
19:12
Speaker 1: we were focusing on what they cared about and what
19:15
Speaker 1: they needed, as opposed to just sort of tossing these
19:17
Speaker 1: hand grenades across the wall. But I am going so
19:21
Speaker 1: I will say to my party, we're not going to
19:23
Speaker 1: get everything we want, Like on the guns bill, we
19:26
Speaker 1: didn't get everything we want. But let's try to sit
19:28
Speaker 1: down with the Republicans and get something done. And even more,
19:31
Speaker 1: and just as importantly, I am going to say, who
19:34
Speaker 1: the Republicans in the Senate who are not the macarepublicans?
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Speaker 1: Stop letting them lead your party, work with us to
19:41
Speaker 1: get things done. And I intend to sit down with
19:44
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell and express that. And I think, just quickly,
19:49
Speaker 1: what are you gonna You're sitting down Mitch McConnell this week. No,
19:51
Speaker 1: I'm gonna. I intend the Democrats again being smart here
19:59
Speaker 1: saying the American people, we're yearning for us to get
20:01
Speaker 1: things done. They're going to look like they are one
20:06
Speaker 1: party with one leader, with one message. That is the
20:10
Speaker 1: opposite of what the Republicans are doing right now. And
20:14
Speaker 1: if we don't hurry up and realize that shooting each
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20:21
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Speaker 1: certainly not right now. If we don't get our act
20:27
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Speaker 1: I think at third point, I want to make about
21:46
Speaker 1: the mid term elections and what just happened. Mitch McConnell
21:50
Speaker 1: is racing to a vote on Wednesday for him to
21:53
Speaker 1: continue to be the minority leader in the Senate. He
21:57
Speaker 1: does not deserve that job. That is vote that should
22:00
Speaker 1: not take place. In fact, even the Democrats aren't doing this.
22:04
Speaker 1: They're waiting till after the Georgia runoff so that Warnock
22:08
Speaker 1: can vote on who should be the leader in the Senate. Now,
22:11
Speaker 1: why is Mitch McConnell, who really screwed up these elections,
22:15
Speaker 1: who did not give money to Republican MAGA conservative candidates.
22:20
Speaker 1: He hung them out to dry. Why is he trying
22:22
Speaker 1: to rush this election because he doesn't want there to
22:25
Speaker 1: be time for there to be a base that builds
22:28
Speaker 1: against him because of this midterm elections. He doesn't want
22:33
Speaker 1: herschel Walker to be able to vote against him, possibly,
22:38
Speaker 1: so they are rushing this election. Why would we re
22:41
Speaker 1: elect the guy that just failed us as miserable as
22:45
Speaker 1: this failure was in the midterms. We should not be
22:48
Speaker 1: doing this, And every single one of you that's listening
22:51
Speaker 1: right now should be calling your senators, whether no matter
22:55
Speaker 1: where you are, and telling them to not allow for
23:00
Speaker 1: a leadership vote to happen on Wednesday. Last night, I
23:04
Speaker 1: was doing Verdict, the podcast that co host was sentaor
23:07
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz. He had just had a meeting with several
23:10
Speaker 1: senators about delaying this vote. Many have come out saying
23:14
Speaker 1: they want to they want to delay this vote. Why
23:16
Speaker 1: because there mad as hell over what just happened, and
23:19
Speaker 1: many of them believe that Mitch McConnell should not be
23:22
Speaker 1: the leader of the Republican Party in the Senate. In fact,
23:25
Speaker 1: I would argue it doesn't need to be a leader
23:26
Speaker 1: of the Republican Party in any capacity now because the
23:29
Speaker 1: way that he hung out Conservative candidates to dry. I
23:33
Speaker 1: want you to hear a little bit of what Senator
23:35
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz had to say about not just his reaction
23:37
Speaker 1: to the midterms, what a disaster it was, but also
23:41
Speaker 1: about the politics behind Mitch McConnell trying to force everyone's
23:45
Speaker 1: hand Wednesday, immediately before the election has even been settled
23:50
Speaker 1: because of the Georgia runoff. Well, Ben, let me start
23:54
Speaker 1: out by saying, I am so pissed off I cannot
23:57
Speaker 1: even c straight. We add an extraordinary opportunity, We had
24:02
Speaker 1: a generational opportunity. This should have been a fundamental landslide election.
24:09
Speaker 1: We should have won the House and the Senate. We
24:12
Speaker 1: should have a thirty forty fifty vote majority in the House.
24:15
Speaker 1: We should have fifty three fifty four to fifty five
24:18
Speaker 1: Republicans in the Senate. And instead, holy crap, the Democrats
24:23
Speaker 1: keep the Senate. Worse than that. The Democrats potentially grow
24:28
Speaker 1: their majority in the Senate. Worse than that. Yes, we
24:32
Speaker 1: take the House, but at best we're going to take
24:35
Speaker 1: the House with a couple of seats. Maybe there is
24:38
Speaker 1: an outside chance we lose the House. I don't think
24:41
Speaker 1: we will. I think the numbers are enough that we
24:43
Speaker 1: will hold onto the House, but it's going to be
24:46
Speaker 1: a majority of two nineteen to twenty to twenty one
24:49
Speaker 1: to twenty two to eighteen is a majority. So we're
24:53
Speaker 1: going to be looking at a two three four vote
24:55
Speaker 1: majority at best. The rage Americans are feeling across this country,
25:03
Speaker 1: the rage that I'm feeling, there are almost not words
25:06
Speaker 1: to describe it, because this opportunity was screwed up. It
25:11
Speaker 1: was screwed up badly, and the people are going to
25:13
Speaker 1: pay the price, or the American people the country is
25:16
Speaker 1: screwed for the next four years because of this, We're
25:20
Speaker 1: gonna see horrible left wing judges confirmed for the next
25:24
Speaker 1: two years. Because of this, We're going to see judges
25:27
Speaker 1: taking away our free speech rights, our religious liberty rights,
25:31
Speaker 1: our Second Amendment rights. It is an enormous missed opportunity,
25:37
Speaker 1: and I got to say it, it is hard to
25:39
Speaker 1: describe my feelings as anything other than rage right now.
25:43
Speaker 1: One of the things that I still think is so
25:45
Speaker 1: shocking is the exit poll data did show that Americans
25:50
Speaker 1: were very concerned over the issues of the economy. They
25:54
Speaker 1: were very concerned over inflation, they were very concerned over
25:59
Speaker 1: parental rights, they were very concerned over all of these
26:03
Speaker 1: types of issues that clearly leaned to the Republican candidates.
26:08
Speaker 1: Yet on election day we still see and Democrats were
26:13
Speaker 1: as shocked as anybody. They were expecting a bloodbast senator.
26:18
Speaker 1: And then they went on TV this weekend on the
26:20
Speaker 1: Sunday shows, and they were basically sitting there in total disbelief.
26:25
Speaker 1: They were actually saying out loud, we cannot believe how
26:29
Speaker 1: well the Democrats did, comparing it to how bad the
26:34
Speaker 1: economy was and how low the presence approval rating was,
26:37
Speaker 1: and how low the democrats approval rating was as a party.
26:41
Speaker 1: Look the Democrats that assumed they were going to get
26:43
Speaker 1: utterly obliterated in the House, and the Democrats thought they
26:47
Speaker 1: would lose the Senate, and on every objective in disia
26:52
Speaker 1: they should have the top issues. A large majority of
26:56
Speaker 1: Americans believer on the wrong track. They believe the economy
26:59
Speaker 1: is terrible. They leave Joe Biden is doing a terrible job.
27:02
Speaker 1: The top three issues in the country number one, inflation,
27:05
Speaker 1: number two, crime, number three illegal immigration. Democrats are disastrous
27:10
Speaker 1: on all three of them. And yet at the end
27:13
Speaker 1: of the day, Look, one of the patterns we have
27:15
Speaker 1: out of this election, incumbents, by in large one across
27:19
Speaker 1: the board. So the voters came in, we said, we
27:21
Speaker 1: think it's all crap. Let's vote for the guy we
27:24
Speaker 1: got right now. And so a whole bunch of incumbents prevailed,
27:29
Speaker 1: despite the voters recognizing their lives had gotten a lot worse,
27:34
Speaker 1: and yet they reelected the same people who did this.
27:39
Speaker 1: In terms of whose fault it is, this is going
27:43
Speaker 1: to be a discussion We're going to have four weeks
27:45
Speaker 1: and months going forward. I think there is plenty of
27:50
Speaker 1: blame to go around. Everybody bears some of the blame.
27:55
Speaker 1: But I will tell you, Look, the issue right now
28:00
Speaker 1: that I think is critical. The Republican Senate has a
28:06
Speaker 1: leadership election scheduled for Wednesday, two days from now. It
28:12
Speaker 1: would be insane if we reelect the same leadership two
28:19
Speaker 1: days from now. If we say, hey, nothing happened, everything's good.
28:25
Speaker 1: Keep rowing off the waterfall, crash into the rocks, everything's awesome. Listen,
28:30
Speaker 1: if you have the number one team in the nation
28:32
Speaker 1: and you get crushed, and you get crushed, and you
28:33
Speaker 1: get crush you know what happens. They fire the coach.
28:37
Speaker 1: The idea that we would have leadership elections on Wednesday
28:41
Speaker 1: is insane. I can tell you I have publicly called
28:45
Speaker 1: for delaying the leadership elections of the Senate until at
28:48
Speaker 1: a minimum after December six, which is when the Georgia
28:51
Speaker 1: runoff is, because at this point we don't even know
28:55
Speaker 1: who the Republican conference is. Sadly, we know it's a
28:58
Speaker 1: minority at best. We're going to have fifty senators and
29:03
Speaker 1: with Kamala Harris as the vice president, that means the
29:06
Speaker 1: Democrats will have a majority. But we don't know who
29:11
Speaker 1: the senator from Georgia is. It could be Herschel Walker.
29:14
Speaker 1: We don't know who the Senator from Alaska is. They're
29:16
Speaker 1: still it's gonna be a couple of weeks before they
29:20
Speaker 1: reallocate the ranked choice voting, so we don't know who
29:23
Speaker 1: the Senator from Alaska will be. And yet what is
29:26
Speaker 1: happening is the Republican Leader, Mitch McConnell, is trying to
29:30
Speaker 1: force through a vote on Wednesday. Now. One of the
29:33
Speaker 1: things to understand people ask, well, gosh, what's a Republican
29:38
Speaker 1: leader election like? And I have to admit, when I
29:42
Speaker 1: first arrived here ten years ago, I didn't know what
29:44
Speaker 1: it would be like. I went to my first one.
29:46
Speaker 1: So they do it deliberately immediately after the election. And
29:49
Speaker 1: the people that vote, the old retiring senators don't vote,
29:53
Speaker 1: So the people who vote in a leadership election are
29:55
Speaker 1: all of the new senators coming into the new Senate.
29:58
Speaker 1: So you show up when I showed up there in
30:01
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, I'm a baby senator. They put you in
30:04
Speaker 1: a little temporary office down in the basement. You have
30:07
Speaker 1: like three little offices, which with a bunch of people
30:09
Speaker 1: packed in there, you don't know what you're doing. You
30:12
Speaker 1: don't even know where the men's room is, and you
30:14
Speaker 1: immediately walk in and have to vote on leader. And
30:16
Speaker 1: they do that because they don't want the freshmen, who
30:20
Speaker 1: are the least they have the least hooks in them
30:22
Speaker 1: at that point. They don't want them to be able
30:25
Speaker 1: to organize and vote against any existing leadership there, so
30:28
Speaker 1: they try to force a leadership vote through before you
30:31
Speaker 1: have a chance to do anything. The first leadership election
30:36
Speaker 1: I went to in twenty twelve, I was amazed. I
30:40
Speaker 1: kind of set back and said, oh, this should be interesting,
30:42
Speaker 1: and I assumed the Republican leader was Mitch McConnell then
30:46
Speaker 1: would stand up and give a speech and say, hey,
30:49
Speaker 1: here's what I want to do. Twenty twelve, Barack Obama
30:53
Speaker 1: had just been re elected to a second term. We'd
30:55
Speaker 1: had a really disappointing election like this one. I'd got elected.
30:58
Speaker 1: I was one of the few bright spots, at least
31:01
Speaker 1: from my perspective and not necessarily from mitches of the Democrats' perspective.
31:05
Speaker 1: But you know, I was waiting for a Republican leader
31:10
Speaker 1: to lay out a vision of here's how we're going
31:12
Speaker 1: to fight against Obama. Here's what we're gonna do to
31:15
Speaker 1: press back against these disastrous policies. Then it will amaze you.
31:21
Speaker 1: At leadership elections, the leaders don't give speeches, they don't
31:24
Speaker 1: lay out agendas, they don't say what they intend to do.
31:27
Speaker 1: They say absolutely zero about their plans going forward. Instead
31:33
Speaker 1: what happens. It was a shocking by the way, because
31:35
Speaker 1: if it's a leadership election, you would think and that's
31:38
Speaker 1: the first time I'm learning about this. I thought for
31:42
Speaker 1: sure there was a Hey, here's why I still think
31:44
Speaker 1: I should be the leader. Mitch McConnell, right, this is
31:46
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. This is what we're gonna how
31:49
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do things, this is and then would answer
31:51
Speaker 1: questions you're saying that will not happen on Wednesday, and
31:54
Speaker 1: does not happen in the past either, So I can
31:57
Speaker 1: tell you in the past it has never happened. And
32:00
Speaker 1: look you point out think back to like when you
32:03
Speaker 1: and I were in junior high student council elections. Sure
32:07
Speaker 1: someone would stand up and say elect me to student
32:10
Speaker 1: council and if you do, I'll have chocolate ice cream
32:13
Speaker 1: in the cafeteria. Like like they'd have some promise of
32:17
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do, and you'd be like, oh, okay,
32:19
Speaker 1: I like that. I'll vote for you. I naively came
32:22
Speaker 1: in and said, okay, I assume that's what the leader
32:24
Speaker 1: elections are like. They don't give any speeches at all. Instead,
32:27
Speaker 1: other senators stand up and give nominating speeches, and the
32:31
Speaker 1: nominating speeches are like, are these epic poems composed to
32:37
Speaker 1: the leaders? And so I've been there ten years. I
32:43
Speaker 1: have never voted for or against Mitch McConnell. Why is
32:45
Speaker 1: that no one's ever run against him? And every election
32:49
Speaker 1: has been a vote by acclamation. In other words, he's
32:51
Speaker 1: just been adopted by acclamation. We've never had a cast
32:53
Speaker 1: a vote. My first year I saw that. I was like, okay,
32:58
Speaker 1: this is really bizarre. But then two years later, twenty fourteen,
33:02
Speaker 1: i'd been in the Senate for two years, something new developed,
33:06
Speaker 1: which is, in twenty fourteen, for the first year, Mitch
33:08
Speaker 1: McConnell created a superpack. And Mitch's superpack raises and spends
33:15
Speaker 1: about three hundred million dollars every two years to elect
33:18
Speaker 1: Senate Republicans. I remember sitting there in twenty fourteen, two
33:23
Speaker 1: years into my term in the Senate, amazed and horrified,
33:28
Speaker 1: in fact, texting Mike Lee, the wonderful conservative from Utah
33:33
Speaker 1: and my closest friends. This is terrible because today Mitch
33:39
Speaker 1: McConnell is the single largest donor to every single Republican
33:42
Speaker 1: senator almost without exception. He doesn't give to my campaigns.
33:46
Speaker 1: He didn't give a penny to Mike Lee's campaign six
33:50
Speaker 1: years ago. He didn't give a penny to Ron Johnson's campaign.
33:54
Speaker 1: But Mitch. For most of the Republicans in the Senate,
33:57
Speaker 1: Mitch is spending ten million, in twenty million, thirty million,
34:01
Speaker 1: as much as forty million dollars on their races. So
34:04
Speaker 1: most of the Republicans are scared to cross him. I
34:09
Speaker 1: do think this cycle it may be different. So I
34:12
Speaker 1: have publicly called for delaying the leadership elections from Wednesday
34:16
Speaker 1: till after the Georgia runoff, which is on December sixth. Now,
34:19
Speaker 1: Senator Cruz had a lot more to say than just this,
34:22
Speaker 1: and if you want to hear the rest of it,
34:24
Speaker 1: download Verdict with Ted Cruz, the podcast that co host
34:26
Speaker 1: with him. You can hear our entire conversation. But the
34:29
Speaker 1: crutch of what he was saying here I wanted to
34:31
Speaker 1: play for you because it was that important. Also, don't
34:34
Speaker 1: forget to download our podcast and wherever you get your
34:38
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34:44
Speaker 1: your senator tell them to delay the vote on Mitch McConnell.
34:49
Speaker 1: This vote should not happen. This vote is a disgusting
34:54
Speaker 1: vote that they're trying to ram down our throats. Mitch
34:57
Speaker 1: McConnell should not be in leadership anymore, and he is.
35:00
Speaker 1: He screwed a lot of Republican candidates, didn't give the
35:04
Speaker 1: money should have been given to places like Arizona where
35:07
Speaker 1: we lost, and it is It is a shame that
35:11
Speaker 1: he is still in power right now and we need
35:13
Speaker 1: to demand that it stop.