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00:00:18.000The media pushed Clinton to her perch atop the Democratic Party, then ensured that she would stay there despite being destroyed by Barack Obama in 2008 and nearly beaten by septuagenarian asylum escapee Bernie Sanders in 2016.
00:00:31.000A charisma-free, grating personality, visionless candidate like Hillary never could have ascended to the White House without her friends in the media.
00:00:38.000If nothing else, this election has exposed the media for what they are.
00:00:42.000Between new Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile funneling CNN town hall questions to Hillary, and the networks running anti-Trump fact-checking chyrons under Trump's speeches, the media have made pretty clear where they stand.
00:00:54.000Next time around, no matter how this goes, Republicans will have one crucial advantage.
00:00:58.000Nobody, nobody, nobody will trust the lying media to tell the truth about the next Republican.
00:01:03.000HBO's Bill Maher admitted he'd spent more than a decade fibbing about Republicans and their Hitlerian tendencies, then of course immediately called Donald Trump Hitler.
00:01:10.000He'll do the same thing in 2020, but Americans won't take him seriously.
00:01:13.000After all, we've now seen the Democrats and the media, but I repeat myself, will treat Mitt Romney and Donald Trump exactly the same way, which means they'll treat the 2020 nominee, if Trump loses, the same way.
00:01:24.000Which means we should never, ever, ever take their opinions seriously on candidates ever again.
00:01:29.000This election has been a real acid test for everyone from Democrats to Republicans.
00:01:33.000But the ultimate losers of this acid test are the members of the press, who may have told the partial truth about Donald Trump, but in doing so demonstrated how often they lie outright about non-Trump Republicans and in favor of all Democrats.
00:01:53.000Election day is here and we have so much to talk about.
00:01:56.000I'm going to give you sort of my election guide.
00:01:57.000I'm going to give you five arguments in favor of voting for Donald Trump and five arguments against voting for Donald Trump.
00:02:03.000Today we'll try to be as fair-minded about that as possible.
00:02:05.000We'll go through all of the news of the day.
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00:06:07.000I mean, we have some live footage from some folks, you know, just, and, and, you know, how people are really feeling just about this election cycle.
00:06:14.000You know, make sure you enjoy a drink today.
00:06:18.000You know, just feel good about yourself, because it's America.
00:06:22.000Yeah, just, you really got, yeah, that's how we're feeling today.
00:06:28.000America is soaring like an eagle today.
00:06:31.000We are just, we're flying like an eagle into the future.
00:06:37.000Make sure that you dress up when you go to the polls today as well.
00:06:39.000I mean, put on your Tuesday best, as I like to say.
00:06:43.000And I know I'm pretty stoked for the election results tonight.
00:06:50.000Yep, just launch yourself right into the stratosphere.
00:06:52.000That's how things are just going spectacularly today.
00:06:55.000You know, this is how I sort of feel about this, I gotta be honest.
00:06:59.000If you're really revved up for the vote today, I don't blame you.
00:08:09.000Neither of them meet my basic standard for human beings who get to be President of the United States, and my vote means something to me beyond the instrument of my vote.
00:08:16.000But, I want to go through the honest arguments for voting for Donald Trump, because I think that there are a lot of people who are convinced by these arguments, and I'm not going to try and argue you out of it.
00:08:25.000I'm just going to make the arguments on both sides.
00:08:26.000So, I think there are five good arguments for voting for Donald Trump.
00:08:30.000First of all, there are people who argue that if you're voting for Trump, you're not voting for Trump the person, you're voting for Donald Trump's platform, or against Hillary Clinton's platform.
00:08:38.000So you don't have any moral qualms, right?
00:08:39.000My vote for Trump is not a vote for Trump.
00:08:41.000It's a vote for all these other things that I think are not Trump.
00:08:55.000You might as well use it against the person you like the least.
00:08:58.000Your vote is an instrument of policy only.
00:09:00.000Then there's the most popular pro-Trump argument, which is really just that Trump is better than Hillary.
00:09:05.000Right, the argument that you saw in that South Park cartoon, that Trump is better than Hillary.
00:09:08.000Andrew Klavan, my good friend, we were having a knockdown-dragout battle before the show about this particular argument, but basically what he says is that there's a binary election.
00:09:16.000One of these two people is going to be president, and he writes today, in principle, and to some degree in truth, for a conservative not to choose is to give aid to the greater leftist Hillary Clinton.
00:09:23.000These people are bad, but one of them is going to be president, and if one is better than the other, it's my patriotic duty to try to figure out which one that is and vote for him or her.
00:09:48.000And Victor Davis Hanson basically says that on a bunch of issues like the Supreme Court and Obamacare and the debt and rebuilding the military and the Second Amendment, Trump is different than Hillary and better than Hillary.
00:09:57.000So that's the Trump is better than Hillary argument, which has some merit to it.
00:10:01.000Third argument in favor of voting for Donald Trump today.
00:10:05.000And this comes from Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, and Drew makes the same argument.
00:10:09.000Basically, Trump is less corrupt than Hillary Clinton.
00:10:12.000He's been part of this crony capitalist machine, but Hillary has actively corrupted government.
00:10:17.000That's what Ed Morrissey writes at Hot Air.
00:10:19.000Drew says, there will be moments of grotesque bad behavior that will lower the dignity of the office from Trump, but they'll be nowhere near as damaging as a new Clinton-ocracy.
00:11:03.000We can't hand them that sort of advantage.
00:11:05.000Republicans have to hold their note and vote in the same way the Democrats hold their nose and vote, or we'll never win another election.
00:11:11.000And finally, there's the argument that I think underlies a lot of this, and this one comes courtesy of Dennis as well.
00:11:17.000Also, this is the Flight 93 election argument.
00:11:20.000And Dennis says that he's not willing to turn America over to four more years of leftism since the damage would be permanent.
00:11:25.000He says, America, as envisioned since its founding, as the world's beacon of individual liberty, Lincoln's last best hope of earth, it won't be here.
00:11:42.000And Flight 93 election basically says the same thing.
00:11:45.000We're either hitting the building or hitting the ground, but this is the last stop for the plane, so you may as well hit the ground as opposed to letting this hit the World Trade Centers.
00:11:53.000Now, here are the arguments, and a lot of people find these arguments convincing.
00:11:56.000I'm not going to try to convince you that those arguments are wrong or false.
00:12:02.000But I find some of these arguments have logic that is compelling.
00:12:06.000Okay, now I want to talk about the five arguments against voting for Trump from a conservative perspective.
00:12:10.000And note, by the way, there are zero arguments for voting for Hillary.
00:12:13.000There are no arguments for voting for Hillary.
00:12:15.000Hillary does not reflect any character or policy positions that conservatives should support in any way and in fact it is imperative that conservatives never show support for Hillary Clinton because then it gives her permission to do all the terrible things that she's going to do.
00:12:28.000So these are just five arguments basically for voting for McMullin or for not voting at the top of the ticket at all.
00:12:35.000I did not vote at the top of the ticket which is something I did not foresee certainly when this election cycle started and makes me sick to my stomach as I sit here.
00:12:42.000Okay, so here are five arguments for foregoing voting in favor of Donald Trump.
00:12:48.000First of all, your vote is more, and I think this is true, your vote is more than an instrument of policy.
00:12:53.000So the Trump people say, look, your vote is a coupon, it expires November 9th, and that's it.
00:12:57.000You use it, you don't use it, doesn't really matter to anybody else, your vote's your vote, that's all.
00:13:03.000I don't think that's true, particularly for public figures.
00:13:16.000If you can simply vote for one or the other as an instrument of policy, a lot of Republicans would vote for somebody like David Duke to repeal Obamacare in the Senate.
00:13:26.000Everybody has a minimum standard of a Republican who they think they agree with more on policy but they wouldn't vote for on character grounds.
00:13:33.000Does Donald Trump meet your basic standard on character grounds?
00:13:36.000Trump may meet your standard for president, but if he doesn't, that's a problem even if you hate and despise Hillary Clinton and think she'll be terrible as I do.
00:13:44.000Donald Trump's policy knowledge is nil.
00:13:48.000He panders to some of the worst people on the planet, from Vladimir Putin to the alt-right.
00:13:52.000He has no history of listening to his advisors, despite all talk to the contrary.
00:13:55.000He said he wants to cut deal with Democrats.
00:13:57.000He is toxic to every demographic group that is growing in the United States.
00:14:00.000He's the worst Republican candidate of my lifetime, which is why he's losing to the worst Democratic candidate of my lifetime, Hillary Clinton.
00:14:35.000Okay, first of all, on Supreme Court justices, which is the one you hear all the time, the chances that Donald Trump nominates and confirms a Supreme Court justice who is conservative are essentially nil.
00:14:45.000This entire election cycle was predicated on the idea that Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, that Senator Mitch McConnell was going to ram through, was a wimp.
00:14:54.000I mean, that was the entire, the entire election cycle was Mitch McConnell's a giant pansy.
00:14:59.000That was the entire election cycle, right?
00:15:01.000Well, now the idea is Donald Trump's gonna nominate somebody, Mitch McConnell will have maybe 50 senators, maybe 50 senators, and then he's gonna ram through a conservative?
00:15:36.000So, you don't have to create fantasy Trump, but people have been creating fantasy Trump, which means that the fourth argument against voting Trump is happening right now.
00:15:44.000Handing the conservative movement over to Trump is a big mistake.
00:15:48.000If you support Trump, it means you're handing party leadership over to him.
00:15:51.000It means carving the heart out of a possible constitutional conservative party and replacing it with Steve Bannon-esque nationalist populism, Trumpian nationalist populism, which basically is just big government leftism on behalf of a voting bloc that Donald Trump likes better.
00:16:05.000Donald Trump has never talked about freedom or liberty.
00:16:07.000He doesn't care about the Constitution.
00:16:08.000He actually sees these things as obstacles to his Trumpian rule and fixing all the problems, unrigging, uncucking the system for his supporters.
00:16:17.000It turns the Republican Party into a far-right nationalist party from Europe, and that's not something I want to see happen.
00:16:24.000Republicans are better than Democrats, okay?
00:16:26.000The argument before from the other side was Republicans have to act like Democrats if we want to win.
00:16:30.000The counter-argument is Republicans should never act like Democrats because Democrats act like bad people when it comes to elections, and we shouldn't just fall into that trap morally.
00:16:38.000And finally, this is the one I think is the most real.
00:17:36.000They'll run somebody who's likely to beat Donald Trump, who is really, really unpopular.
00:17:40.000Plus, Donald Trump's going to spend the next four years making asinine comments about every minority group that he can possibly find and alienating all of them.
00:17:47.000So those are the arguments against voting for Trump.
00:17:51.000I've given you all the arguments for voting Trump that are good, and I've given you all the arguments for voting against Trump, and those are all the arguments.
00:17:59.000You have to take a—well, you consider your vote.
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00:19:10.000Okay, so all of that said, everybody is now making their final pitches.
00:19:14.000Barack Obama is making his final pitch, and again, every time you listen to Democrats, this is the way that this election works.
00:19:20.000Every time you listen to Democrats, you want to vote Republican, and every time you listen to Donald Trump, you want to shoot yourself in the face.
00:19:25.000So, Barack Obama makes his final pitch, and he makes a strong plea why you should vote for Donald Trump.
00:19:32.000Here he is saying that we have to make the GOP pay for not listening to me.
00:20:09.000A good shot that Republicans may even keep the Senate.
00:20:12.000538 has it as a toss-up right now, like literally 50-50.
00:20:14.000I think it's 50.3% chance Democrats take the Senate, 49.7% chance Republicans maintain the Senate.
00:20:21.000At the very least, you have to vote today and vote down ticket, even if you choose not to vote for Trump.
00:20:25.000You have to vote down ticket for your senator to stop Hillary Clinton and stop the left's agenda.
00:20:29.000Because the fact is that Obama is just, whatever you think of Mitch McConnell and the senators, and I think that a lot of them are terrible, the fact is that Obama's agenda in the first two years does not even come close to what he was not able to accomplish in the last six.
00:20:42.000All of his hard work, Obamacare, the stimulus package, all the most brutal stuff that Obama did except for DACA and the executive orders, the immigration executive orders, which he could have done anyway because he did it as the president, and then he lost in court about it.
00:20:56.000All of that happened in the first two years.
00:20:57.000Handing Hillary Clinton the Democratic Senate is a dangerous, dangerous thing, and we should make Hillary Clinton pay.
00:21:03.000At the very least, by giving her a Congress that she has to overcome.
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