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00:15:55.860The freedom, as my buddy saying here, and continuously lead us in the way that any president should.
00:16:02.580Or, as he has said and as we as known, as any other president has done, he has done tremendously greater than any other president known in American history.
00:16:13.400I hope he gets rid of abortions in our country because if you look at it, it's a million deaths a year.
00:18:59.700Bring that shit here and we'll see what happens.
00:19:01.460So many people think they're woke, but they're not.
00:19:04.380I think a lot of people out of backlash and bitterness will riot, which will be a sad, sad case for each and every American known to mankind.
00:19:13.600And do you think there's going to be violence if Trump wins in a bunch of the major cities?
00:20:39.820Based upon some of the rhetoric that we've heard out of the Biden campaign, I think there's a real tell there in terms of his campaign manager saying, well, you know, we can lose Florida.
00:20:52.760If I was the candidate, that's not what I would want to hear my campaign manager messaging early in the day on Election Day.
00:21:00.200But I really do think what this comes down to is if you're the president, it's not just about retaining the states that you had last time and fighting in some of those states where he won by a fraction, by a very small margin.
00:21:13.700You have to beat the litigation and the fraud margin that exists this election.
00:21:39.660But, you know, you have 50 Democrat Party workers, Antifa Party workers, BLM Party workers, counting the votes in Philly, and it can neutralize them.
00:21:51.460Here, take a quick look at this video.
00:24:50.980And then it becomes a contest of can you win one or several of Nevada as a smaller state, but then Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota.
00:25:02.020Can the president get one of those states?
00:25:03.700And it may well be that if he has a good night and retains essentially the south up into Virginia and Arizona and Ohio, then maybe it's a clean sweep in those states.
00:32:47.520Trump lost there by 4,000 votes in 2016.
00:32:51.480It looks like Republican precincts are at least matching their turnout from last time, and Democrat precincts in that county are down.
00:32:59.040So, that would obviously be significant if a county last time that went for Hillary Clinton actually flipped to President Trump this time.
00:33:06.240So, those are some of the bullish signals that I'm seeing, and we'll have to see as more results roll in what it says about this head-to-head contest.
00:33:14.280You know, that's very exciting, and I'm looking at those Miami numbers, and it's 54% to Biden, 45% to Trump in Miami-Dade.
00:33:23.880And that is remarkably close for what is such a blue case.
00:33:28.200I mean, I don't know the stats from last election in front of me, but I've got to imagine they were, you know, Trump wasn't within, you know, 45% in Miami for Trump.
00:33:42.760And, you know, there's data out there showing that as Cubans get further removed generationally from living under the tyrannical Castro regime, that they tend to start going more blue.
00:33:54.740And the Cuban population in America, of course, has traditionally been a Republican, a staunch Republican constituency.
00:34:01.680I think it's very telling if you have second and even third generation Cubans in America, Cuban-Americans, who are starting to go back towards the Republicans.
00:34:10.920It's an indicator of fear of, again, a socialist-dominated Democrat Party.
00:34:16.160And I think it's a fear with great reason.
00:34:18.840So, absolutely worth keeping an eye on.
00:34:21.620And I would also point out, Jeff Rowe, who was the campaign manager for Ted Cruz in 2016, has pointed out a couple districts that we ought to keep an eye on tonight.
00:34:30.260And those are Missouri 2 and Oklahoma 5.
00:34:32.960One of these seats is a Republican seat.
00:34:37.820They're in districts that have traditionally had a Republican tilt.
00:34:41.140If there is a suburban bloodbath for the president and that ends up trumping gains in terms of turnout in rural areas, in terms of winning a greater percentage of votes among black Americans as well as Latino Americans, those may be sort of telltale congressional districts in terms of looking at places that are sort of on a knife's edge.
00:35:02.780And we'll see if the suburban vote is really something that does the president in.
00:35:06.360So, we've talked about some of the bullish signals.
00:35:07.700Those are some of the signals to look at from a more conservative perspective.
00:35:13.580I mean, I'm pleased that Florida, which was such a battleground in 2000, I mean, that was where it all came down to, and was pretty close last time.
00:35:24.720And I think it's, even though numerically right now he's not ahead, judging by how he's moved up in some of those deep blue counties, I think it's safe to say he's likely going to win them.
00:35:37.700We'll check in with you again, maybe in 45 minutes or so.
00:35:41.240Keep us posted on those bellwether districts that you mentioned, counties.
00:35:45.020You've told us some of the hopeful signs, and we do need to know the pessimistic signs.
00:35:52.760But right now, would you say that Trump is overperforming what the pundits had said?
00:35:59.020Yeah, I absolutely think that he is outperforming what the poll has said.
00:36:05.300And the question really is, and I think if you look at this from a macro perspective here, you have to adjust these polls for non-representative samples, for the fact that some pollsters have a vested interest in, I believe, trying to demoralize the Republican vote, adjusting for the shy Trump voter.
00:36:23.860Let's say that's somewhere between 2% and 4%.
00:36:27.580So the question really is, where does that all shake out?
00:36:32.040Is that enough to cover the margins that we saw in many of these battlegrounds?
00:36:36.100And when you looked at the real clear average of battleground states this time versus last time, it's pretty close.
00:36:41.100It's still, you know, another point or two in Biden's direction, a margin relative to Hillary Clinton.
00:36:46.880So we'll have to see as the night plays out.
00:36:48.780But these bellwether counties are certainly quite telling.
00:36:52.780And, you know, we'll see where we go with Georgia and North Carolina and the like.
00:36:56.940And if the president is able to hold those, then it really does come down to these Rust Belt states, I think.
00:37:01.280And it'll be a fascinating finish to this evening.
00:37:03.600And we'll see if it's a finish to the race or if the race really picks up over the next three weeks or more.
00:37:09.120Since you were just talking about Minnesota, interestingly, Keith Ellison, the attorney general, tweeted out something earlier today around, I believe, 5 o'clock Eastern time, saying, we need more votes.
00:37:25.840Now, an attorney general should not be saying that we need votes, in particular, of course, for his party.
00:37:30.640And what happens if it turns out in Minnesota that it is a dead heat of a race and law enforcement or the election officials are forced to come up to some rulings and the like?
00:37:42.840I mean, you can see the corrosive nature of an attorney general voicing his opinion.
00:37:46.700By the way, same thing in Pennsylvania.
00:37:48.600The secretary of state there tweeted out infamously that if all the votes are counted, Democrats will win in Pennsylvania.
00:37:55.720And he also tweeted out today that if there are any issues at the polls, that people should reach out to the Pennsylvania Dem voter assistance line.
00:38:04.500So I think it's a good representation of where the Democrats are.
00:38:09.040And, you know, the left loves to talk about an independent, impartial justice system and then look at how their attorney general is and secretaries of state act.
00:38:17.800As for what we're seeing out there, I think Florida and Georgia going the president's way obviously bodes well.
00:38:24.520He needs to retain these southern states.
00:38:27.140North Carolina, New York Times forecast was showing it at about 67 percent Biden as of about a half hour ago.
00:38:34.400And at last check, it was actually at 56 percent Trump.
00:38:37.340Now, this is with, I believe, less than a percent.
00:38:43.440What they saw that made them change their minds, I think, is interesting.
00:38:46.940And we have to be patient because all of the early numbers across all of these states are the early voters.
00:38:54.400And that obviously trended significantly Democrat in most places.
00:38:57.660And then, of course, on Election Day, Republicans substantially outperform Democrats everywhere.
00:39:02.700So we have to take the early numbers with a grain of salt.
00:39:05.280But I think it is interesting that North Carolina shifted, at least in the New York Times forecast.
00:39:09.980Lastly, with respect to Ohio, it seems a bit as the turnout in the big cities there, and maybe this is a trend that we'll see across the country, was down in those cities.
00:39:22.640And then you had President Trump, it seems like, picking up a slightly higher margin than last time.
00:39:27.360And there have been a lot of reports out there showing that, as a general matter, the vote of black Americans come in at lower rates than last time.
00:39:34.540And Donald Trump is taking a bigger proportion of those votes.
00:39:37.680Now, the other side of the equation, the other part of the coin is, it appears that in the suburbs, Joe Biden might be outperforming Hillary Clinton relative to last time.
00:39:47.020And if that holds, that offsets what we're seeing in the more urban area.
00:39:51.700So, you know, again, as I mentioned before, that whole question of the suburbs, which in many ways had already been trending sort of liberal, elite, progressive in terms of their culture, we're seeing that in the vote as well.
00:40:06.120On the other hand, the tradeoff has been that Republicans are winning blue-collar middle American voters under President Trump.
00:40:12.720And will that be a permanent realignment?
00:40:38.280But no, I think it's crystal clear that people who work in factories, people with hard hats, people who work outdoors, people who extract things from the ground, chop trees, mine mines,
00:40:50.820that used to be, I mean, a lot of those are union jobs, some are not union jobs, that used to be the heartland for any dem, but those people have gone to Trump.
00:41:00.800And part of it's because of his infrastructure plans, part of it is because of his reshoring of factories, fighting China with tariffs.
00:41:10.860And I think it's also a cultural thing.
00:41:22.300Not, I mean, Trump had a few rappers endorse him, and it was very funny because some of them are very, very different than your average Republican.
00:41:30.540I mean, Lil Pump, the rapper who was there in Miami, he's just, he's very funny.
00:41:37.200But the party of the celebrities, the party of Lady Gaga, is not the same party as a steel worker in Indiana.
00:41:45.440Yeah, the Democrats have become the party of, it's, and then a, what they've tried to create in a dependent class in America.
00:41:57.140And the Republicans have really become the party, or at least a Donald Trump-led Republican Party.
00:42:02.320I do think that his gains are going to echo for years to come, and I do think it is going to transform what conservatism means and what the Republican Party stands for.
00:42:11.920Or at least it should, otherwise the party won't exist for very long.
00:42:15.380He has converted it into a party of union workers, the police, military veterans, those who are common-sense patriotic Americans who have been forgotten and left behind by the political, and have to admit,
00:42:29.160Carl had a monologue about this the other night, and he basically said that Donald Trump is a big middle finger to the political elite, the political establishment.
00:42:36.500And so the love of Trump, in some ways, is proportional to the hatred of an establishment that is forgotten about these forgotten Americans who helped build the country, fight the American war, and were our labor force in heavy industry for decades.
00:42:52.760And so, and I think it's a positive shift in the Republican Party.
00:42:55.900And we'll see if the Democrats can hold that coalition together for long.
00:42:59.880Is that really going to be a winning strategy long term?
00:43:04.240I want to throw one more thing at you.
00:43:06.200You mentioned earlier that one of the, I mean, the New York Times has such large resources, so many reporters, and although their editorial line and their biases are so pronounced,
00:43:15.440the one thing, because they have such resources, they can do the kind of calculations, county by county, voter turnout.
00:43:25.060So when it, when it's no commentary, just, like sports scores, you know, there's no commentary, you either scored the goal or you didn't.
00:43:33.660And I think tonight is that kind of night.
00:43:43.740One of the, you mentioned earlier, one of the things they do is based on those sort of entrails, reading the entrails,
00:43:49.740because they give a day of prediction.
00:43:54.180Now, yesterday, if the Donald, if the New York Times said Trump has a 10% chance of winning, I'd say that's BS, that's predictive, that's polls.
00:44:04.280But today, if they say Trump has a 10% chance of winning this county, I know it's based on voter turnout and trends.
00:44:13.220So I actually give some credence to it today, because it's not guesswork.
00:44:17.200It's based on these factors we've been talking about.
00:44:20.460When you and I last spoke, the New York Times was saying that Joe Biden was quite likely to win North Carolina.
00:44:31.600Or is that about two hours ago that happened?
00:44:32.940And right now, the New York Times is saying that Donald Trump has a 71% chance.
00:44:38.960I don't know how they give it that precision of winning North Carolina.
00:44:42.560So over the course of the last two hours, that state looks increasingly red.
00:44:48.300And I should tell you, the two-thirds of the votes are in.
00:44:55.180Yeah, look, it makes the path seem much more realistic in terms of retaining those core states that the president had last time and just needing to win one or two of these Rust Belt states.
00:45:08.560Now, again, of course, it may well be that given how similarly some of these states are comprised of voters in terms of the demographics and the ideological inclination, that if you're going to win, let's say, a Pennsylvania, then all of the states are going to fall.
00:45:23.680And you're going to win Michigan and Wisconsin.
00:45:25.740And you're going to come really close in Minnesota like last time.
00:45:29.180But retaining these states in the south, I think, is critical for the president to have a chance against what the odds showed themselves to be.
00:45:37.680And, again, you know, my running theme is you don't want this to come down and hinge on just a Pennsylvania because, again, the litigation and voter fraud margin is just too strong there.
00:45:49.160And we'll be counting votes for days of these ballots that maybe weren't even sent in at the proper time where you can't verify the signature.
00:45:58.280But because of terrible court rulings at the state level and then at the federal level, these ballots will be counted.
00:46:04.420And they'll keep counting them until you have a Joe Biden victory.
00:46:07.380So, yeah, again, we have to look at these states like in North Carolina.
00:46:12.660Democrats harbored these hopes of winning in Georgia.
00:46:16.000Plenty of pollsters had Biden winning in Florida.
00:46:19.160We'll see where Arizona shakes out as well.
00:46:22.320And Texas had been talked about as well.
00:46:24.100And I saw a statistic before we came on showing that in Harris County, which I believe has Houston and several other more Democratic leaning cities and suburban areas, that the votes are not there for Biden to win Texas.
00:46:37.620Obviously, if Texas fell, it would be it would be a catastrophe for the Republican Party.
00:46:42.740The fact that all of these states that the Democrats harbored hopes of winning are all falling obviously bodes pretty well for the president.
00:46:49.740Let's see where we are in another hour or so when it comes to Ohio and Pennsylvania as more results trickle in.
00:46:55.900And again, as we get past the early vote count, which is going to make it look like a Dem victory in many of these states.
00:47:00.780But let's focus on those three states, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
00:47:07.300At about, I don't know the exact time, there was an announcement in a variety of Democrat-controlled battleground states that they were simply going to stop counting.
00:57:58.400So there could be another million votes, sure.
00:58:04.860There could be another two million votes, millions of votes.
00:58:09.320I'm skeptical, though, because the attorney general of that state announced in advance, before the polls had closed, that the Democrats would win.
00:58:19.420He didn't say could win or should win or are on track to win or he thinks they'll win.
00:58:34.100And he said that in his capacity as a senior officer in the government of Pennsylvania.
00:58:40.260I think that the vote is being stolen.
00:58:43.000And I think that the kind of people who would pack the court, as they threatened to do, who would challenge the very concept of the Electoral College, as they do constantly, who would change the rules in the Senate under Obama for their own advantage,
00:59:00.320I think those kind of people would literally do anything to win, the kind of people who would accuse Brett Kavanaugh of being a serial rapist, a gang rapist in college, the kind of people who would make that up.
00:59:19.600The kind of people who, I mean, this is Jussie Smollett territory.
00:59:24.160These people will do anything and say anything.
00:59:26.460They'll do anything and say anything to try and knock out a Supreme Court judge, Brett Kavanaugh.
00:59:33.100Do you doubt they wouldn't do as much or more to knock out a president?
01:00:08.680I'm continuing to cover the protests and disruptions caused by the election fallout, or should I say the waiting fallout, considering no election has actually occurred yet.
01:00:18.640Everything is still up in the air, and that is definitely contributing to an increase in tensions across the country.
01:00:24.960Now, the reason why I'm in my hotel room instead of outside is that it is extremely loud out there.
01:00:30.260There are police and media helicopters swarming around the convention center, which is right outside my accommodation.
01:00:35.700And police sirens are going off every few minutes.
01:00:50.460The protest started around 5pm in Christopher Park.
01:01:15.100And when I arrived, I was immediately shocked by the amount of police officers that were piled into every single corner, every single intersection of the borough.
01:01:24.920They were on bikes, in trucks, on foot.
01:01:27.480I had never seen so many police in my life.
01:01:30.280And, of course, I was a little bit nervous because the last time I had an encounter with the NYPD while covering protests in New York City, I spent a few nights in jail.
01:01:41.200But fortunately, I didn't get arrested last night.
01:01:45.240What I did was witness an incredible show of power from the NYPD while they attempted to stop the protests from turning into a riot.
01:01:53.520Immediately, the protest march was flanked on both sides by hundreds of NYPD.
01:01:57.740This is a technique called kettling, where police follow protesters and effectively seal them in to control the crowd and make arrests easier.
01:02:07.300The technique worked because around 8pm, the protests had become fragmented and the remaining protesters ended up in Union Square.
01:02:14.740At first, I thought things were going pretty well.
01:02:22.320But just as I was about to call a cab home, things geared right back up.
01:02:29.020Protesters continued to fill the streets and obstruct city buses.
01:02:33.020So it was then that the NYPD began standing off with the protesters, filling the opposing side of the street and demanding the crowd disperse.
01:02:40.980Protesters began riling up, standing in front of cars and even throwing things at the police officers.
01:02:45.880At one point, the police charged the square, hundreds of them descending on the remaining protesters and firing pepper spray.
01:02:54.120At one point, a protester accused an NYPD officer of killing a black man that night, though he could find no evidence that that had happened.
01:03:01.680And that immediately geared the protesters right back up.
01:03:42.000And if you did, you can go to rebel2020.com to contribute towards the travel costs of setting me down here and bringing you whatever I can.
01:03:50.600Today, I'm in Philadelphia, and I'm going to go hit the streets and see what I can see for you guys.
01:03:57.180I recall that Leslyn Lewis, who had a very strong race for the leadership of the Canadian Conservative Party, an accomplished black woman, an immigrant, a lawyer, very thoughtful, had a very strong showing.
01:04:11.320And in the end, the CBC gave her precisely one minute and 45 seconds of airtime because a strong, thoughtful black woman immigrant lawyer, well, that just broke the narrative.
01:04:27.440At the same time, and this was before Kamala Harris was chosen as Biden's vice presidential pick, the CBC gave 20 times as much coverage to Kamala Harris, a foreign political candidate who, at that point in time, had merely succeeded in losing the Democratic presidential nomination.
01:04:46.720And so it is in the race recently in the United States Congress.
01:04:52.380Of course, there was the mighty presidential election that's still being counted.
01:04:55.980But across America, there were a new bumper crop of Republican women, including young women and minority women, success stories, immigrant women from Vietnam, people of Cuban descent.
01:05:12.660But, of course, the attention was focused on the left-wing Democrat squad, as they call us.
01:05:18.360Joining us now via Skype from the West Coast is our friend Joel Pollack, senior editor-at-large at Breitbart.com.
01:05:25.260Joel, the idea of young, powerful, high-energy women being a Republican force, that just confounds the left too much.
01:05:35.080So they just pretend it doesn't exist.
01:05:49.900I go and punch some leather a few times a week.
01:05:53.680But the women in the Republican Party know how to be fighters.
01:05:57.040And I think one of the reasons that the Republican Party is attracting so many talented women and minorities is because Americans like a challenge.
01:06:05.220And when you tell Americans that the Democratic Party is going to set aside certain positions, they're going to use identity politics here in California, they're going to reserve corporate board seats for people who are historically disadvantaged.
01:06:20.560That doesn't really motivate people to do better, to do more, to break the mold.
01:06:24.760But the Republicans say, we're not going to do any of that.
01:06:27.820We're just going to judge you as you are.
01:06:29.520But we're open to anybody who has the talent to compete.
01:06:32.940That ironically produces the kind of freshman class that Republicans are going to arrive in Washington with in January.
01:06:40.500The 10 seats that Republicans have won so far in the House elections of 2020 are 100 percent women and minority candidates.
01:06:52.280And that 100 percent statistic is going to stick around because there is a Korean-American woman who is about to win a race in Orange County, California.
01:07:02.840She's ahead by several thousand votes.
01:07:04.380It's probably going to be called in the next few days if it hasn't been this morning already.
01:07:08.560So Republicans are attracting talented women, talented minorities who want to make their mark on American politics and don't want to be reduced to their identity, don't want to be handed a set of talking points by a Democratic Party that essentially treats them as if they are functionaries carrying out a kind of representative role but not really seen as future leaders.
01:07:33.180It's interesting that Kamala Harris, who is presumably our vice president-elect, almost never spoke to reporters once during the entire general election campaign.
01:07:41.820From the time she was nominated in mid-August to Election Day, I think she held maybe one or two press briefings.
01:07:49.940They were all very brief, something like 10 minutes or less.
01:07:53.560And they were all in the presence of Joe Biden.
01:07:55.600She never really sat down with the press for spontaneous, extemporaneous questions.
01:07:59.860So that's the role that the Democratic Party reserves for women and minorities.
01:08:06.300You basically follow the script and you offer different versions of the accusation that the Republicans are racist and greedy and so forth, whereas Republicans don't put any labels on people.
01:08:31.580And it's incredible that they've come so far and done so well.
01:08:37.100But it tells you also that Donald Trump, who may be on his way out as president, has diversified the Republican Party by sheer force of example.
01:08:45.640And against a media and an opposition that have constantly referred to him as Adolf Hitler, that are referred to his supporters as neo-Nazis, white supremacists and so forth.
01:08:56.700Christiane Amanpour was on CNN yesterday talking about how the Trump presidency reminded her of the Nazi regime in 1938 on Kristallnacht.
01:09:07.460Now, that's a form of Holocaust denial when you reduce the unique suffering of the Holocaust to some kind of ordinary political event.
01:09:16.720That is kind of Holocaust denial is recognized as such by scholars in the field.
01:09:22.520But CNN gets away with it because everything is permissible with regard to Trump.
01:09:26.240And yet Trump has attracted this outstanding crop of female and minority candidates for the House of Representatives.
01:09:32.820He has, as someone said, longer coattails in defeat than Joe Biden had in victory.
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01:18:23.040Tides Canada, who shares an office floor, now we know for sure with Dominion Voting Canada,
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01:18:53.820This company, which has an ungodly amount of power, some might even say they might control who sits in the White House at the Resolute desk.
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