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00:01:57.000Despite allegations of voter irregularities in Michigan and Wisconsin, all of which, by the way, should be pursued because only legal votes should be counted and all illegal votes should not be counted.
00:02:07.000The fact is that the amount of voter irregularity in Michigan or Wisconsin is unlikely to overcome the deficits that Trump has in those states, which means that in order for Trump to win the election, he needs to win Arizona.
00:02:17.000Where the margin has been steadily decreasing over time.
00:02:19.000He needs to hold on to Georgia where the margin has also steadily been decreasing over time but in the opposite direction.
00:02:25.000And he needs to hold on to Pennsylvania where the margin has been decreasing also in the wrong direction for Trump over the course of the last 48 hours.
00:02:31.000All of those states are too close to call.
00:02:33.000There will be litigation in all of those states.
00:02:36.000So a few predicates before we get into the actual news.
00:02:39.000A few things that we ought to discuss.
00:02:40.000First of all, there's a lot of talk about voter irregularity and voter fraud.
00:02:46.000The scale of them is not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of votes by the available evidence, but to pretend they do not happen is to ignore the fact that they do in fact happen.
00:02:53.000And in fact, this has happened in places like Philadelphia.
00:02:56.000In fact, just back in May, reporting for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Mensah Dean and Julie Shaw, A former judge of elections and Democratic committee person from South Philadelphia has pled guilty to accepting thousands of dollars in bribes to inflate the vote totals for three Democratic candidates for common pleas court judge in 2015 and for other Democratic candidates for office in 2014 and 2016, according to U.S.
00:03:17.000Dominique DeMuro, 73, pled guilty to conspiracy to deprive Philadelphia voters of their civil rights by fraudulently stuffing the ballot boxes for the judicial candidates and for other candidates seeking office in the 2014 and 2016 primary elections.
00:03:30.000He admitted violating the Travel Act that forbids the use of a cell phone to promote illegal activity as well.
00:03:35.000Apparently, DeMuro, who could not be reached for comment, was paid between $300,000 and $5,000 for each election.
00:03:41.000According to the prosecutors, DeMuro fraudulently stuffed the ballot box by literally standing in a voting booth and voting over and over and over as fast as he could while he thought the coast was clear.
00:03:49.000This is utterly reprehensible conduct.
00:03:51.000The charges announced today do not erase what he did, but they do ensure that he has held account for those actions.
00:03:56.000DeMuro admitted that a political consultant paid him to add votes for Democratic candidates running for the bench and other federal, state, and local offices as well.
00:04:03.000In May 2014, DiMuro inflated vote totals by adding 27 fraudulent ballots in the primary election, 40 votes in May 2015, 46 in 2016.
00:04:12.000According to court documents outlining the scheme and the charges against him, those numbers may have seemed small, but they made up a significant percentage of the total votes cast at that particular voting place.
00:04:20.000In 2014, 118 total ballots were reported there.
00:04:23.000That meant DiMuro's fraudulent votes accounted for over 22% of the total voting in that division in 2014.
00:04:28.000Again, is that like a huge number of false votes?
00:04:31.000It's not a huge number of false votes, but...
00:04:34.000You start to aggregate stuff like that and it could start to look kind of ugly.
00:04:37.000And this is also true if you look at the possibility of voter fraud in Philadelphia.
00:04:41.000If you're talking about, for example, the new Pennsylvania court ruling that went up to the Supreme Court and then was remanded back down because the Supreme Court didn't act on it regarding when ballots are to be accepted.
00:04:51.000This is the really controversial provision that went all the way up to the Supreme Court in which the state law is very clear that you're only allowed to count ballots that have been received up to election day.
00:05:00.000And then they changed that because of COVID.
00:05:02.000And the courts suggested they could single-handedly rewrite that.
00:05:05.000So if a ballot was received before November 5th or 6th, and if it was postmarked as of election day, then it would be counted.
00:05:11.000And even if there was no countervailing evidence that it was cast before the deadline, then it would be counted, right?
00:05:18.000So those votes are apparently technically being sequestered.
00:05:21.000It's unclear whether they're being counted or not, and then they'll have to be uncounted and all that.
00:05:54.000Second, you actually need evidence to prove this sort of stuff.
00:05:57.000So, suspicion that bad stuff is going on is not sufficient to prove that voter fraud or voter irregularity is responsible for the outcome of an election.
00:06:04.000Just like in everything else here on the show, we demand evidence of allegations that are made.
00:06:09.000The left is famous for suggesting that evidence is unnecessary where it doesn't support their narrative.
00:06:14.000And they'll suggest that every white cop shooting a black person is an act of systemic American racism.
00:06:18.000And then when we go through the actual facts of the case, it turns out that it is not.
00:06:41.000If we find out on Monday who won the election, or if we find out two weeks from Monday who won the election based on the investigation of all of these allegations, the world will not be materially changed in any way because all the votes have already been cast.
00:06:54.000And the rush by media outlets who want to announce this thing, the rush By Democrats who want to announce an outcome.
00:07:00.000The rush that you're getting from various members of the media going to foreign countries and saying, look how humiliated America is.
00:07:06.000Why in the world would I care what the Germans think of our election?
00:07:09.000The only reasons they can even hold elections is because we gave them elections.
00:07:12.000If it were not for us, elections would not be a thing in Germany.
00:07:14.000So I'm really not interested in hearing from the German government exactly what they think of our free and fair elections here in the United States.
00:07:20.000So everybody needs to take a chill pill and let the process play out, is I guess what I'm saying here.
00:07:23.000And we should always make sure that serious allegations are supported and that allegations are supportable.
00:07:30.000Okay, so that's point number one and point number two.
00:07:34.000Democrats are very upset today because President Trump did a presser yesterday in which he declared basically the only way that he can lose is through voter fraud.
00:07:42.000Now we'll get to the actual allegations Trump is making there in just one second.
00:07:47.000Suffice it to say that on the Democratic side of the aisle, they have not only no leg to stand on, they do not have stumps of legs to stand on on this particular point.
00:07:56.000Democrats do not get to claim that they are deeply upset about the undermining of the legitimacy of American elections after spending four years claiming that the 2016 election was a giant bamboozle by the Russians.
00:08:07.000They do not get to claim that they respect the outcome of elections when they still trot out Stacey Abrams as the governor of Georgia after she lost by 50,000 votes in Georgia.
00:08:18.000You guys don't get to run around claiming that you deeply respect the outcome of every election you won, every vote counted, and then use Al Gore as your baton to say that.
00:08:27.000I'm not just making up that Democrats don't respect the outcomes of elections they don't like.
00:08:31.000They literally do not respect the outcomes of elections they don't like.
00:08:34.000So, I don't like that from any side of the aisle.
00:08:36.000Once all the votes are in, once all the votes have been counted, once we root out any impropriety, that's the election.
00:08:43.000And that should be a non-partisan statement.
00:08:45.000It happens to be a truth that Democrats have not accepted the results of the 2016 election and never did, so it's very difficult to hear from people like Hillary Clinton that now Donald Trump is supposed to preemptively concede the race before all of the legalities are gone through.
00:08:57.000Here is Hillary Clinton, just about a week ago, suggesting that the election of 2016 was stolen from her, using exactly the kind of language that she now decries Trump using.
00:09:07.000There's an air of illegitimacy that surrounds Trump's presidency, and that just infuriates them.
00:09:14.000It makes them crazy, and that's a big piece of it, so they have to keep striking out at me because— Why you?
00:09:23.000Well, because I was the candidate that they basically stole an election from.
00:09:28.000I was the candidate who won, you know, nearly three million more votes.
00:09:31.000They basically stole the election, guys.
00:09:32.000And she's not even talking about voter fraud or voter irregularity.
00:09:35.000She's saying the process actually working amounts to stealing.
00:09:39.000She says that I won more votes than Trump on a rollout.
00:09:41.000It's not a popular vote contest, lady.
00:09:43.000This was, and still is, the prevailing notion in the Democratic Party.
00:09:47.000So hearing about the undermining of American elections from Hillary Clinton today, and from her allies today, that's pretty rich stuff.
00:09:53.000It's also pretty rich to hear from Al Gore.
00:09:55.000So you'll recall 2000, if you're old enough.
00:09:58.000I was 16 in 2000, and I remember, that's really the first national election that I remember in any detail, because it was such a big thing, right?
00:10:07.000Al Gore was being trotted out by MSNBC today as a proprietor of election legality.
00:10:13.000He was trotted out by MSNBC, where he promptly explained that he was a great defender of every vote being counted.
00:10:19.000Here was Al Gore, the same guy who basically forced us to go through over a month of election confusion before the Supreme Court settled Bush v. Gore in 2000, claiming that he is definitely a person who stands up for election legality.
00:10:35.000But the most important principle that I defended 20 years ago that Joe Biden and many others are defending tonight is let's count every legally cast vote and obey the will of the American people.
00:10:52.000My favorite thing there is when Al Gore says and I do love it when Al Gore says that he defends every vote.
00:11:08.000He tried to disenfranchise military ballots.
00:11:10.000The only reason he didn't get away with it is because Joe Lieberman went on national TV and said they weren't doing that.
00:11:15.000And people in the Gore campaign apparently were pretty pissed, according to contemporaneous accounts.
00:11:20.000He also demanded recounts only in the areas where he thought he was going to win.
00:11:24.000And in those recounts, he wanted people to divine voter intent.
00:11:27.000That was the pregnant Chad controversy, if you remember all that.
00:11:29.000Now, pregnant Chad connotes the media's view of men getting pregnant.
00:11:32.000But back then, a pregnant Chad was just, you tried to vote and you may have dinged a Chad, but you didn't actually punch it through on a punch card.
00:11:41.000And therefore, we tried to divine your intent by looking into our heart.
00:11:59.000I'm going to get to all of the latest updates from Pennsylvania with regard to some of these voter impropriety allegations and Michigan and Nevada.
00:12:07.000We'll get to all of that in just one second.
00:12:09.000First, let's talk about something awkward.
00:13:13.000Here is the actual latest when it comes to developments in Pennsylvania.
00:13:16.000As I say, that race is too close to call.
00:13:18.000Trump was up a significant number of ballots.
00:13:20.000Now the thing is basically a dead heat.
00:13:22.000Same thing is happening down in Georgia, where briefly this morning, Joe Biden leapt into the lead.
00:13:27.000Military ballots still have to be counted.
00:13:28.000Presumably, those will split in favor of President Trump, you would think.
00:13:32.000There's some provisional ballots that still have to be counted.
00:13:34.000So a lot of these states are still up in the air.
00:13:37.000There's a lot of controversy over the last 24 hours because the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit.
00:13:44.000And now the Appellate Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has sided with Team Trump, rejecting a deadline extension for absentee voters to provide missing proof of identification.
00:13:53.000And so basically, the Democrats wanted people to have like three weeks or a month or some extended period of time to show that they were who they said that they were.
00:14:03.000According to the RNC, in a huge victory for election integrity, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania sided with the RNC and Donald Trump in the challenge to Secretary Buchvar's unlawful deadline extension for absentee voters to provide missing proof of identification.
00:14:15.000The court has enforced the proper statutory deadline and ordered that those ballots be segregated and not counted. RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said, the RNC is doing everything in our power to ensure these kinds of issues are resolved and the letter of the law is followed.
00:14:30.000The letter of the law should be followed.
00:14:33.000Also, a Pennsylvania court did mandate access to poll watchers.
00:14:38.000According to dailywire.com, Tim Pierce reporting, a court in Pennsylvania ruled on Thursday morning, GOP observers must be allowed to watch ballot counting across the state.
00:14:49.000Apparently, they ruled that GOP observers could watch the ballot counts from 6 feet away, but they had been pushed out to like 16 or 100 feet away.
00:14:58.000The court order allows GOP observers to stand closer.
00:15:01.000Previously, they had been using binoculars.
00:15:04.000The Trump campaign, of course, had preemptively declared victory in Pennsylvania yesterday, suggesting that the number of ballots is too big for Biden to overcome.
00:15:13.000We'll see whether that is, in fact, the case.
00:15:16.000Now, as to the actual claims of election fraud in Philadelphia that have been made at this point, some are somewhat substantiatable.
00:15:42.000And again, that is the big issue, right?
00:15:44.000Because that preliminary ruling suggested that as long as there was no countervailing evidence to suggest that the ballots were cast before Election Day, they have to be counted.
00:15:52.000So un-postmarked ballots could be counted.
00:16:04.000And I'm sure that all of them will be for Biden.
00:16:07.000President Trump also suggested that they are counting these votes in Pennsylvania without any ID whatsoever.
00:16:14.000As the Philadelphia Inquirer says, Pennsylvania requires people voting in person to provide proof of identity if it is their first time voting at that precinct.
00:16:21.000That's also required from anyone registering for a mail-in ballot.
00:16:25.000Apparently the Pennsylvania Secretary of State has advised that ballots should not be counted if a name on a mail-in ballot cannot be verified or if identification was not received.
00:16:32.000And this is where the Trump campaign came in and they said, okay, you don't get a week or a week and a half to provide ID.
00:16:37.000Like you should have done it at the time.
00:16:39.000It is also true that the Trump campaign was pointing out that Republican election observers were being forbidden from viewing the vote count closely in person.
00:16:51.000Now, city lawyers for Philadelphia say the GOP representatives observing the counting could see the entire setup of the canvassing room and could watch every detail of the counting process.
00:17:00.000A lawyer representing the Trump campaign did tell a judge there have been representatives of the campaign observing the counting process.
00:17:05.000The city solicitor, Marcel Pratt, said in a statement, That is according to the city solicitor.
00:17:09.000have been given access to the convention center throughout the entire day and since Tuesday, just like observers from other campaigns, the board has set up a location from which candidates and party representatives, potentially in large numbers, can easily view the room without impeding the operation. That is according to the city solicitor. But again, why would you be filing a lawsuit if it weren't the case that you were actually being prevented from seeing what in the hell was going on? This led to a bit of a confrontation between Team Trump and Philadelphia officials.
00:17:36.000Now it is unclear whether the Philadelphia officials are stonewalling, whether they violated the law here.
00:17:41.000So take all of these videos with a grain of salt because very often these videos are slightly out of context.
00:17:46.000One of the allegations I saw here is that the court order being shown was in order to remand back to the local court for a final order and that the election officials here were waiting for the final order.
00:17:55.000In any case, here is what that sounded like in Philadelphia yesterday.
00:18:15.000It says that no later than 1030 today you're to follow the election code and my people, my clients, representatives, are to be within six feet of the process.
00:18:29.000Okay, so that was Attorney General, former Florida Attorney General, Pam Bondi, who is a lawyer for the campaign.
00:18:35.000Bondi said, we plan on entering that building right now and legally observing if there's one illegal vote cast, it takes away from the great men and women of Pennsylvania who came out and issued a legal vote.
00:18:50.000And obviously we should change that particular standard.
00:18:54.000So that is where things stand right now.
00:18:57.000Okay, so obviously these sorts of controversies are not good for the American public, and we need to know all of the details of them, and they should all be fully investigated.
00:19:05.000In a second, we'll get to the response from the Pennsylvania Secretary of State.
00:19:08.000Okay, we'll get to that in one second.
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00:20:12.000So, the Pennsylvania Secretary of State, Buchvar.
00:20:14.000Right, who we've mentioned several times here.
00:20:40.000Look, these were four years ago, and at the time I was not in the administration, I was not in any public service, I was a private citizen, it was a personal Twitter account, and, you know, so...
00:20:55.000So that, and then when I became Secretary of State, I took an oath, Dennis, and I took an oath to defend and protect the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Constitution of the United States.
00:21:07.000And partisan politics have no place in the Pennsylvania Department of State or any county elections office.
00:21:15.000Okay, so, you know, again, is there a reason for people to be suspicious?
00:21:27.000And should everybody just take a chill pill and wait for a second while we do all these investigations and while the legal process moves forward?
00:21:34.000Meanwhile, in Nevada, similar accusations being made.
00:21:36.000The Nevada GOP put out a tweet yesterday saying our lawyers just sent a criminal referral to AG Barr regarding at least 3,062 instances of voter fraud.
00:21:44.000We expect that number to grow substantially.
00:21:46.000Thousands of individuals have been identified who appear to have violated the law by casting ballots after they moved from Nevada.
00:21:51.000This is one of the big problems with mail-in ballots generally.
00:21:54.000Seriously, it's a real problem with mail-in ballots, and it's been a problem for a long time.
00:21:58.000Jimmy Carter once said that mail-in ballots were rife with the possibility of fraud.
00:22:02.000I mean, this makes perfect sense, right?
00:22:04.000I just moved from California to Florida shortly before the election.
00:22:08.000And then I had my mail forwarded to me, right?
00:22:10.000So I looked at my mail, and there they were, my California ballots.
00:22:13.000And my California ballots arrived in Florida.
00:22:15.000Now, were I an unscrupulous person, I could theoretically fill out those ballots, vote in California, and then also vote in Florida.
00:22:21.000I wouldn't do that because it's illegal and because it's immoral.
00:22:26.000When you send out a bunch of ballots to people's addresses, assuming they still live there, that does open the possibility of voter fraud.
00:22:32.000Could somebody have come by my house and picked up the mail in my mailbox while I wasn't there and filled those out and I don't live there anymore and then the ballot gets filled?
00:22:40.000I mean, the possibilities of voter fraud are real.
00:22:42.000That does not mean that the evidence of voter fraud is necessarily going to materialize in the numbers that you would need in order to shift a major national election.
00:22:51.000With that said, the Nevada GOP did issue a letter to the Clark County, Nevada District Attorney alleging voter fraud by people who are not legal residents of Clark County.
00:23:00.000The firm of Weir Law Group LLC sent a letter to Marianne Miller, who is indeed the Clark County, Nevada District Attorney, suggesting that a bunch of illegal ballots have been accepted.
00:23:11.000They say this firm in conjunction with Harvey and Benally PLLC represents Donald Trump for president.
00:23:15.000As you know, we've been concerned for months about improper ballots being cast in the 2020 general election.
00:23:20.000Yet Joseph Gloria has yet to take any reasonably basic and fundamental steps to ensure mail ballots are free from fraud and abuse.
00:23:25.000His inaction has had and continues to have material adverse consequences on our election security.
00:23:29.000We've confirmed thousands of votes have been cast improperly.
00:23:32.000Indeed, we have initially identified over 3,000 voters who moved from Nevada before the election but still cast ballots in this election.
00:23:38.000We verified this by cross-referencing the list of general election voters with publicly available change of address records.
00:23:43.000For example, demographic experts agree the National Change of Address Database only captures about one-third of relocations, so we think that this number will likely grow by 6,000 voters at a minimum.
00:23:53.000Okay, well, that starts to look closer to the margin of error in Nevada, given the current vote counts.
00:23:59.000And so, again, all of this should be checked into.
00:24:02.000Now, does that mean that every allegation of voter fraud is real?
00:24:08.000It does mean, once again, for the 1,000th time, just as I said earlier this week, you shouldn't declare victory in an election until all the votes have been counted.
00:24:16.000This holds true for every single side, and I am amused at the Democrats who say that this is only true so long as Donald Trump is declaring victory, but it is not true if Joe Biden or his team are declaring victory.
00:24:25.000If the Democrats declare victory, we all go home happy.
00:24:27.000If the Republicans declare victory, they're very immoral and bad.
00:24:30.000That is the way the logic of the media and the Democrats work.
00:24:32.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:24:58.000You know, let's just let's ease off a little bit.
00:25:00.000Sure, the election could be theoretically called by major media outlets today, but I'm just going to arrive like, you know, like 45 minutes late to the show and then and then announce that I had a really good sleep.
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00:26:19.000The Harry Reid machine recklessly threw ballots into the mail and now we cannot check.
00:26:28.000Whether or not there are non-residents, which we have evidence, publicly available evidence, that you all in the media should be also looking at.
00:26:39.000Alrighty, so there is Rick Grinnell saying that the votes have not been checked there.
00:26:43.000The former AG of Nevada, Adam McSalt, he also said that he thinks that there is lots of mail-in fraud.
00:26:49.000We firmly believe that there are many voters in this group of mail-in people that are not proper voters.
00:26:59.000In the last many days, we have received reports of many irregularities across the valley.
00:27:06.000We believe that there are dead voters that have been counted.
00:27:11.000We are also confident that there are thousands of people whose votes have been counted that have moved out of Clark County during the pandemic.
00:27:25.000The Trump campaign also brought forth a woman named Jill Stokke who claimed that somebody took her ballot and voted on her behalf.
00:28:24.000She brought her claim to me, we reviewed the ballot, and in our opinion, it's her signature.
00:28:29.000We also gave her an opportunity to provide a statement.
00:28:32.000If she wanted to object to that and provide a challenge to that, she refused to do so.
00:28:37.000A member of the Nevada Secretary of State's Office Investigation Team also interviewed her, and they had no issue with the assistance that we tried to give her.
00:28:46.000Okay, so, you know, all of this will be litigated.
00:29:54.000The fact is that Republicans far outperformed what the polls suggested.
00:29:57.000Republicans are going to end up with maybe 214 seats in the House, which is an unthinkable outcome.
00:30:02.000Cook Political, which was a nonpartisan outlet, was suggesting Republicans were going to lose anywhere from 5 to 10 seats.
00:30:06.000Instead, Republicans are going to pick up anywhere from 10 to 15 seats in the House of Representatives.
00:30:11.000Plus, there's a likelihood that they maintain the Senate.
00:30:14.000I know there's a lot of heartburn out there about the two Georgia Senate races, which are both likely going to run off at this point.
00:30:20.000OK, I'm fairly sanguine about those races.
00:30:22.000The reason I'm fairly sanguine about those races is because Donald Trump is not going to be on the ballot in Georgia.
00:30:26.000What we've seen across the country, a lot of Democratic ballots where it's just Joe Biden and nothing underneath, meaning the motivation to get out for a special election in Georgia for Senate just to give control to Chuck Schumer.
00:30:36.000It's not really there for Democrats in huge numbers.
00:30:39.000For Republicans to stop Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden from having unified control of government, lots and lots of motivation.
00:30:44.000Plus, the reality is that one of the races, David Perdue, in that race, he did beat the Democrat.
00:30:52.000He just didn't get directly above 50%.
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00:33:03.000OK, so then we get to the crux of Trump's press conference.
00:33:07.000And this is where this is going to launch a thousand think pieces.
00:33:10.000President Trump suggests that the election has been stolen from him via voter fraud and voter irregularities as they are trying to steal the election.
00:33:48.000Detroit and Philadelphia, known as two of the most corrupt political places anywhere in our country, easily cannot be responsible for engineering the outcome of a presidential race, a very important presidential race.
00:34:03.000Now, the reality is that you want to make sure that everything is not corrupt.
00:34:05.000So any call by President Trump to make the process less corrupt is a good call.
00:34:09.000Trump then continues to say they never believed they could win this honestly.
00:34:13.000Democrat officials never believed they could win this election honestly.
00:34:38.000Okay, his complaints about the mail-in balloting process, as I've talked about at length on the program before, I think are not unjustified.
00:34:44.000I think that the mail-in balloting process can be a problem.
00:34:47.000Is that evidence that it was a problem here, or that it makes up the margin of error in these various states?
00:35:07.000I suspect that there are many outstanding ballots that are being unfairly counted.
00:35:11.000You know, that would... That's perfectly legit.
00:35:14.000Him suggesting the only way for him to lose is voter fraud or voter illegality is obviously a broad overstatement, but the president traffics in those.
00:35:20.000If you count the legal votes, I easily win.
00:35:25.000If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal The election from us.
00:35:32.000If you count the votes that came in late, we're looking at them very strongly.
00:35:38.000Okay, so, you know, him saying that if you count the votes that came in late, well, we don't know the numbers on that.
00:35:43.000That's obviously something that should be litigated if, in fact, that is the margin of error in Pennsylvania.
00:35:48.000And finally, Trump concludes we're going to take all the legal action at our disposal to ensure that only legally cast ballots are counted, which, of course, is legit.
00:35:56.000That's perfectly fine for any candidate is to file any legal challenge that they feel is appropriate in order to ensure the veracity of the ballot.
00:36:03.000I have been talking about this for many months with all of you, and I've said very strongly that mail-in ballots are going to end up being a disaster.
00:37:21.000It's wrong when Democrats suggest that the only way that they could lose is through voter suppression, right?
00:37:25.000I've been on this bandwagon for a while now, that it turns out that sometimes elections go the way you don't want them to, but for the media to immediately dismiss all possibility of voter fraud and voter irregularity or to suggest that anybody who's worried about that is a dupe or an idiot, that's not right.
00:37:45.000So, Jim Acosta and ladies, find you somebody.
00:37:48.000Find you anybody who loves you like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta.
00:37:52.000Here is Jim Acosta celebrating Trump's presidency is disappearing before our eyes.
00:37:56.000I can't imagine why the trust in institutional media is at all-time lows because this guy's an objective journalist who's tubing all over the place.
00:38:03.000President is watching the lights go out on his presidency right now.
00:38:07.000That is what we're witnessing in real time.
00:38:10.000As these votes are being tabulated and Joe Biden is catching up in Pennsylvania and in Georgia, the presidency of Donald J. Trump is vanishing before our eyes.
00:38:20.000Okay, weird, I don't remember them saying this about Al Gore during the challenges of 2000.
00:38:24.000I don't remember anybody at CNN suggesting that Stacey Abrams was full of crap after she declared that voter suppression was the rationale for losing her Georgia gubernatorial race.
00:38:31.000I remember everybody at CNN for four long years declaring that Donald Trump was illegally made president by the Russians.
00:38:36.000Okay, so no, I don't buy this kind of high-dudgeon nonsense from Jim Acosta, from Anderson Cooper.
00:38:42.000Anderson Cooper came out, he trashed Trump, it's pathetic.
00:38:45.000Which of course, again, you really want to up the faith in an objective media, continue along these lines.
00:38:51.000It's sad and it is truly pathetic and of course it is dangerous and of course it will go to courts, but you'll notice the president did not have any evidence.
00:38:59.000That is the president of the United States.
00:39:01.000That is the most powerful person in the world.
00:39:03.000And we see him like an obese turtle on his back, flailing in the hot sun, realizing his time is over.
00:39:10.000Oh, that's a reporter who's reporting without animus right there.
00:39:31.000Now, on CNN, I'd say probably four years ago at this point, I said you guys need to take the journalism-ing up to an 11, and you need to take the tenor down to a 1.
00:39:39.000And they have decided to do precisely the opposite.
00:39:41.000They're just going to assume out of hand that anything Trump says is unworthy of even considering the possibility of.
00:39:47.000They're going to get into high dodging, and then they're going to do the... What makes Anderson Cooper, as a reporter, distinguishable from Rachel Maddow?
00:40:00.000We're going to get into this in a second.
00:40:02.000The reason that the Democrats are focusing in on Trump and they're focusing on the Trump-Biden race is because there is something else that happened in the election last night, and they don't like it very much.
00:40:12.000There is significant unrest in the Democratic Party.
00:40:15.000The Democratic Party is on the verge of a breakup.
00:40:18.000They have way bigger problems than the Republican Party, regardless of what happens with all the lawsuits, regardless of what happens at the top of the ticket.
00:40:23.000I know everybody wants to pay attention to that.
00:40:24.000The fact is, election night was a terrible night for Democrats, a terrible night for Democrats.
00:40:28.000They lost 100 state legislative seats all over the country.
00:40:31.000They lost state legislatures in New Hampshire.
00:40:33.000They lost the governorship in Montana.
00:40:35.000They did not pick up any of the state legislatures they needed in a redistricting year.
00:44:43.000The DCCC chair, a woman named Sherry Bustos, she told House Democrats, per a person on a House Democrat call yesterday, quote, I'm furious.
00:44:51.000Something went wrong here across the entire political world.
00:44:54.000Something went wrong here across the entire political world.
00:44:57.000Well, first of all, let me just say this.
00:44:59.000The Democratic Party needs to start using ZipRecruit ASAP.
00:47:03.000The Democrats have some fundamentally incompatible demographics in their coalition.
00:47:08.000I'm not talking about racial demographics.
00:47:09.000I'm talking about ideological demographics.
00:47:11.000So you've got the squad who are declaring that socialism is the way forward.
00:47:14.000And then you've got purple district Democrats who are like, hold up just a second.
00:47:19.000You're going to get me kicked out of Congress.
00:47:21.000You've got AOC suggesting socialism is the way forward and then you've got Latino voters down in Florida, Cuban voters and Venezuelan voters going, hold up, we just came from a socialist country and you are a crazy person.
00:47:33.000You got a bunch of woke white people who are saying to black people, defund the police and black people looking at them like, are you insane?
00:47:41.000You've got a bunch of people in the Democratic Party who believe that the top issue in America is allowing biological boys into girls' locker rooms.
00:47:49.000And meanwhile, I got a bunch of working class white people going, I don't have a job.
00:48:19.000She was sounding off on her election battle.
00:48:24.000She won her race by something like 5,000 votes out of 450,000 votes cast over Nick Frietas, if that ends up being the final margin.
00:48:32.000She said, quote, we lost races we shouldn't have lost. Defund police almost cost me my race because of an attack ad. Don't say socialism ever again. Need to get back to basics is yelling. Right.
00:48:42.000This is Erica Warner, Washington Post congressional reporter is yelling.
00:49:14.000If you did, it was by the narrowest possible margin over a candidate you guys said was so historically unpopular that Joe Biden was gonna win 55% of the vote and 400 electoral votes.
00:49:25.000And then Pelosi says, we have a mandate.
00:49:53.000Also, earlier in the call, Debbie Mercarsol-Powell, who lost her race in Florida, was crying and she mentioned how people can't pronounce her name and said, stop being negative on Twitter.
00:50:01.000Then Hakeem Jeffries came back on to tell people to stop leaking and that reporters aren't your friends.
00:50:06.000Then Representative Jayapal came on and told Jeffries to find the leakers.
00:50:11.000Erica Werner says it just keeps going, as Pascrell now calling out Schumer.
00:50:14.000Pelosi's done an amazing job, but where's Schumer in all this?
00:50:17.000Says Pelosi has one hand tied behind her back.
00:50:18.000Rashida Tlaib says before we make painful statements, we need to wait and see how the numbers come down.
00:50:22.000Feels like I'm being asked to be quiet, and we need to appeal to certain people, and that's not right.
00:50:26.000So Tlaib is like, you're trying to silence me!
00:50:28.000One of the loudest members of Congress.
00:50:31.000Then Tlaib says, they called Obama worse.
00:50:33.000They called him a Muslim, a socialist.
00:50:34.000You can blame these words, but if it wasn't on BLM, it would have been on something else.
00:50:39.000Okay, no, the reason it didn't work on Obama is because Obama was not, in fact, easily paintable as a socialist.
00:50:45.000You guys decided to run Bernie Sanders!
00:50:49.000The Honorable Estimo Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez was a registered member of the Democratic Socialists of America and declares socialism is a good idea.
00:50:57.000Barack Obama never did that because he's not an idiot.
00:51:11.000And then Jared Huffman, who's a Congress person from California, tweeted out, some of my colleagues are literally live leaking our internal Democratic caucus right now to CNN, The Hill, NBC, Politico, etc. I've gotten texts from three different reporters asking me to live leak juicy details to them. No, we, Dems in the media, need to stop this nonsense.
00:51:27.000So first of all, I've been informed that leakers are patriots.
00:51:48.000That coalition is falling apart, in fact, because it turns out the people they should be listening to, like Abigail Spanberger, are being cast out by the people from pure blue districts like AOC.
00:52:17.000So, this crystallized most of all in an exchange that happened yesterday via Twitter and other places.
00:52:23.000Claire McCaskill, former senator from Missouri.
00:52:26.000She was on MSNBC and she says, the problem with the Democratic Party is you guys are ignoring all the issues people care about in favor of your culture war bull crap.
00:52:33.000Here's Claire McCaskill pointing out the perfectly obvious.
00:52:37.000The Republican Party, I think, very adroitly adopted cultural issues as part of their main theme.
00:52:45.000Whether you're talking guns, or issues surrounding the right to abortion in this country, or things like gay marriage and the right for transsexuals and other people who we as a party have tried to quote-unquote look after and make sure that they're treated fairly.
00:53:02.000As we, you know, circled those issues, we left some voters behind and Republicans dove in with a vengeance.
00:53:10.000Okay, so she is right about all of that, right?
00:53:12.000You dove into the cultural issues, you ignored the needs of your own constituents, right?
00:53:22.000The simple fact of the matter is that if everybody who voted Republican For Congress voted for President Trump in Wisconsin, he would have won Wisconsin.
00:53:30.000There are 49,000 voters in Wisconsin who voted Republican on House ballots who didn't vote for Trump at the top of the ticket.
00:53:38.000Conversely, there were 69,000 Democrats who voted in Wisconsin and voted for Joe Biden at the top of the ticket and did not vote for a Democrat down ballot.
00:53:46.000Which means that there are a lot of people who do not want Democrats in control.
00:53:49.000There are a lot of people who may not have liked President Trump very much, and so that's masking the Democrats' utter failure the other night.
00:53:55.000But that is a very shallow mask, okay?
00:53:58.000And Claire McCaskill is pointing out that our coalition is not a durable coalition, right?
00:54:01.000So what is the response of the squad, of the Honorable Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez?
00:54:06.000Again, I keep calling her this because she has declared that despite the fact that her Twitter handle is AOC, we can't call her AOC because that's disrespectful to her and to women everywhere or some such nonsense.
00:54:15.000And having been accused of catcalling her for simply suggesting that we have a debate, now Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has declared you can't call her AOC.
00:54:21.000So now I call her the honorable representative, the honorable, estimable, brilliant representative, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D-Twitch.
00:54:30.000She tweeted out, Why do we listen to people who lost elections as if they are expert in winning elections?
00:55:25.000Suggest that Claire McCaskill is wrong, the culture war issues, the socialism, all of this is a good idea.
00:55:30.000Follow the squad down the rabbit hole.
00:55:31.000See, here's the problem for the Democrats.
00:55:32.000This is a real problem for the Democrats.
00:55:34.000They decided they were going to, they're a dying party in some ways, that they are going to live off the lifeblood of the intersectional coalition.
00:55:42.000Like a 70-year-old Hollywood celebrity bringing in a 20-year-old and then having their blood filtered to them.
00:55:48.000That's what the Democratic Party has become.
00:55:51.000You've got 95-year-old Nancy Pelosi trying to live off the life energy of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and posing with her and Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
00:56:03.000Okay, well, it turns out, what happens if the 20-year-old whose blood you are living off of, what happens if that 20-year-old has a blood disease?
00:56:16.000They have decided they're going to live off the energy of the woke socialists, and the woke socialists are not going to be complacent just being part of the coalition.
00:56:23.000And because you need them, you cannot alienate them.
00:56:26.000And that's why Nancy Pelosi refuses to acknowledge that the other night was a bad night for Democrats, even though everybody knows it was a bad night for Democrats.
00:56:32.000If they acknowledge it was a bad night for Democrats, and that campaigning on Black Lives Matter, and the police are racist, and defund the police, and socialism is good, and transgender bathrooms, and everybody who doesn't like me is a racist, that that's a bad campaign strategy?
00:56:44.000The minute they acknowledge that, they implicitly rebuke the squad.
00:56:50.000See, what's happened here is a process that the author Nicholas Nassim Tlaib has called renormalization.
00:56:55.000So renormalization is the idea that if you have an extremely solid core of a small group of supporters who are intransigent in their beliefs, they can force everybody over to their side.
00:57:05.000So take, for example, this is the example that Tlaib uses.
00:57:08.000Take, for example, you have a family with one daughter who's a vegetarian.
00:57:12.000And that daughter, who's a vegetarian, says to mom, listen, I'm a vegetarian, you can eat what you want, but I'm not eating anything you put on the table that's not vegetarian.
00:57:20.000She can either cook two meals, one for intransigent vegetarian daughter, and one for everybody else, or she can just cook a vegetarian meal for everybody.
00:57:27.000And then, let's say that that family goes to a block party.
00:58:29.000There's an article in the Washington Post today.
00:58:34.000An angry dispute erupted among House Democrats on Thursday, with centrist members blasting their liberal colleagues during a private conference call for pushing far-left views that cost the party seats in Tuesday's election that they'd worked hard to win two years ago.
00:58:49.000I'm old enough to remember because I'm more than 30 seconds old.
00:58:51.000When Democrats said, the only thing that would save our souls is ousting Trump.
00:58:54.000If Trump remains in office, the world is lost.
00:58:55.000nominee, Joe Biden, stands on the brink of achieving their biggest goal of the year, ousting President Trump. But here's the thing, it was never about ousting Trump.
00:59:01.000And this is what I said yesterday. For Democrats, I'm old enough to remember because I'm more than 30 seconds old. When Democrats said the only thing that would save our souls is ousting Trump, if Trump remains in office, the world is lost. Now they think that Biden has won the election, and yet they are deeply unhappy.
00:59:16.000Because it was never about their disdain for Trump's character or the fact that he was violating norms or anything like that.
00:59:23.000That was all an excuse to get rid of Trump and, hopefully, to get rid of Republicans across the country who they were trying to tie to Trump, right?
00:59:29.000It turns out Americans didn't hate Trump enough for that, and they didn't hate Republicans enough for that, and they really, really hate the Wolksters.
00:59:47.000Representative Pramila Jayapal, Democrat of Washington and co-chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, argued that Democrats should not single out people and ideas that energize the party base.
00:59:57.000Rashida Tlaib accused her colleagues of only being interested in appealing to white people in suburbia.
01:01:37.000Privately, Democrats in interviews over the past two days have said the answer is obvious.
01:01:40.000The party in recent years has moved further left, with some members embracing such liberal ideas as free college, the Green New Deal, eliminating the filibuster and adding justices to the Supreme Court.
01:01:49.000Many of the House's rank and file support those policies, though Pelosi and the DCCC have done their utmost to steer the caucus away from those ideas.
01:01:57.000At the same time, one member noted 130 House Democrats face primaries this cycle, with such groups as Justice Democrats defeating Establishment Democrats seeking to punish members who aren't liberal enough.
01:02:07.000One lawmaker said, there's no question that was a huge albatross on the necks of so many of our candidates who unfortunately went down.
01:02:12.000There has to be a reckoning within our ranks about this because a lot of justice Democrats don't give a damn about the Democratic Party.
01:02:17.000They're all about purity and orthodoxy, and it is damaging our opportunities.
01:02:20.000Meanwhile, the executive director of Justice Democrats, Alexandra Rojas, she said they had one job and they blew it.
01:02:26.000We need a Democratic Party that stands for something more than just being anti-Trump.
01:02:30.000Conor Lamb, a centrist who barely won his seat on Election Day, said Spanberger was talking about something many of us are feeling today.
01:02:35.000We pay the price for these unprofessional and unrealistic comments about a number of issues, whether it is about police or shale gas.
01:02:42.000These issues are too serious for people we represent to tolerate them being talked about so casually.
01:03:18.000Honestly, when I am looking for moral guidance, the people I look to most are late night comedians.
01:03:23.000When I look to the future of America, I think Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert.
01:03:30.000These are the people I look to as the moral light of our time, the torchbearers for decency, who are our late night hosts lamenting that America is so terrible, so horrible, so bad, and then they go back to their palatial estates where they don't have to worry about any of these issues protected by private security.
01:03:44.000He is a liar and a cheat who wants them to stop counting thousands of legitimate votes, and almost half of us are apparently okay with that.
01:03:55.000If you let Trump do this, then voting could soon become one of those things that people do to feel better but doesn't actually do anything.
01:04:02.000As usual, the state that got us into this mess was Florida.
01:04:05.000Every four years, Democrats hope they'll take it.
01:04:08.000But once again, last night, Florida was called for Donald Trump.