U.S. midterm elections： Setback for Trump, but no “blue wave”
Summary
Donald Trump was supposed to lose big last night in the U.S. midterm elections. Instead, he won the House of Representatives and increased the Republican majority in the Senate. Is this a Blue Wave? Or a Red Wave?
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Tonight, the U.S. midterm elections give the Democrats the House of Representatives,
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It's November 7th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Donald Trump was supposed to lose big last night in the U.S. midterm elections.
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I mean, it's obvious, right? Everyone hates him.
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He was elected in some sort of fluke in 2016, or maybe it was a Russian hack, or whatever the excuse is today.
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But we're all so much savvier now, so much better educated because of the media,
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so a blue wave was going to wash over America and clean off the stain in the past two years.
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In the U.S., blue is the traditional color of the Democrats, red is the color of Republicans.
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And I think we're going to see a real blue wave.
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There's an enormous tsunami-like blue wave coming.
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Can the president save his party and knock down that blue wave?
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There was some hope that the Democrats would have a wave election.
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I don't think we're seeing some massive blue wave.
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In the statewide races, no signature win for Democrats.
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Democrats are not winning in the way they were hoping to win early in the 90s.
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I mean, Trump's Republicans did lose 27 seats in the 435-seat House of Representatives as of last count.
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That number may have changed somewhat due to late counts.
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So, it is true the Republicans did lose their majority there.
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But it is not unusual for voters to back away from a president during his midterm election.
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That is, in the middle of the president's four-year term.
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Well, in 2010, halfway through his first term, Barack Obama lost 63 seats in the House.
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In 1994, halfway through Bill Clinton's first term, he lost 52 seats.
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Even mighty Ronald Reagan lost 26 seats halfway through his first term in 1982.
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But then, just a few weeks ago, the country, and I'd say the whole world, because we saw it up here in Canada,
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and the CBC in particular, was obsessed with that up here,
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we all saw what a Congress would look like if it were under control of the Democrats.
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We saw the assassination attempt of Brett Kavanaugh,
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a judge with a sterling reputation, loved by his staff, by his friends,
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his clerks, both past and present, including the many female clerks who had worked with him,
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until the Democrats revved up their smear machine.
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And this Democrat Party lawyer, Michael Avenatti,
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the same lawyer who acted for that porn star, Stormy Daniels,
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clients who claimed that Kavanaugh had raped them,
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including some who said he repeatedly raped them as part of a gang in high school.
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I mean, if they were true, not only should Kavanaugh not be put on the Supreme Court,
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But none of these charges had ever been made in public in decades,
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not during Kavanaugh's previous confirmation hearings for other judicial positions,
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not during all the FBI background checks on him in the past.
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The Democrats said anything they could say with a straight face.
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It was so extraordinarily over the top and backed up with no facts or changing facts.
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And I think the world thought, oh, my God, look at these maniacs.
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Not just the maniacs in the official Democrat Party, like Dianne Feinstein of California,
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who pushed these accusations against Kavanaugh inside the Senate.
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Literally banging on the 13-ton doors of the Supreme Court as if they were wild animals.
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By the way, I'm not sure if you've heard, but several of Michael Avenatti's witnesses
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that were weaponized by Feinstein and the Democrats,
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they have recanted their testimony, said it was fake.
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And so now the Senate has referred them to the FBI, along with Avenatti himself,
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But my point is, the world that had been told that Donald Trump was crazy
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And they backed away from the party of Stormy Daniels and Michael Avenatti.
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Of course, Republicans in the main supported Kavanaugh.
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But Democrats in the Senate had to vote on him, too.
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These three states in particular, Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota,
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Joe Donnelly in Indiana, Claire McCaskill in Missouri, those are Democrats.
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And they voted against Kavanaugh, and they lost.
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But the one Democrat in the reddest red state in the Union, West Virginia,
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where Donald Trump literally got 69% of the vote last time,
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And he voted for Kavanaugh, breaking with the crazies in his party.
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As in, he declined to be part of the Avenatti-Feinstein mob.
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Now, Trump and the Republicans had a jobs-not-mobs theme as their campaign.
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He would sometimes do more than one rally a day.
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The states that Trump visited tipped into the Republican category.
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As I write this, the state of Montana is still counting their ballots.
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So Trump did have a big rally in Montana, which obviously closed the gap.
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But even without Montana, the Senate held and Trump's power there grew.
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Now, Barack Obama broke with tradition for ex-presidents.
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There's a custom that you go non-partisan, not this guy.
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You really didn't even see that much from Bill Clinton other than when his wife ran,
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But Barack Obama never really cared for tradition, including that tradition.
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But he had, I think he had the opposite effect of Trump.
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In the last week of the campaign, Obama worked hard too.
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But each of the candidates he stumped for lost.
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But my point is, I don't think he's as magical as the media thinks.
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Maybe Trump is not as detested as the media thinks.
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He is deeply detested, but I don't know if he's widely detested.
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It just looks like everyone hates Trump if you're talking to think-alikes,
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if your sense of the world comes through the mainstream media.
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Now, Florida was a great success for Trump, as it was back in 2016.
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And yesterday, Republican governor, Republican senator.
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Just 35,000 votes was the margin in the Senate, out of 8 million votes.
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Florida votes to restore ex-felon voting rights with Amendment 4.
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The victory means more than 1 million people will regain their right to vote.
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I'm guessing that convicted criminals, if they vote, they're going to vote Democrat.
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And even if voter turnout amongst ex-cons is only 10%, well, that's the Democrats winning Florida forever.
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And Texas, that right-wing state, the caricature of American red-blooded, patriotic, cowboy, T-bone state conservatism.
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Oh, my God, I came way too close to going blue this time.
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Ted Cruz, the Republican, beat Robert O'Rourke by just 200,000.
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And if Texas and Florida go blue, you're never going to elect another Republican president ever.
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So I think last night was a temporary victory for Trump.
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It used to be that foreign policy in America was something that Republicans and Democrats more or less had in common.
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They both supported democracies around the world.
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It was a military veteran Democrat named John F. Kennedy who brought in the Cuban blockade,
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who did the Berlin airlift, who pushed back in the Soviet Union.
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I mean, the Democrats, I think, were always softer, but they were still respectable and patriotic.
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They're full-out supportive of Iran, of course.
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And they've embraced not only anti-Israel candidates, but outright Islamists.
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And note the only flag you'll see at the victory party is not the Stars and Stripes.
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I want you to know my mom, who's from a small village in the West Bank.
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It's like 5 o'clock or 6 o'clock in the morning.
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My grandmother, my aunts, my uncles in Palestine are sitting by and watching their granddaughters.
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I want them to know, you know, as I uplift the families of the 13th Congressional District,
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I'll uplift them every single day being who I am as a proud Palestinian-American and woman.
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I want to thank you so much because for so many years they've multi-humanized.
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And I tell you, as a Palestinian, I mean, you know, a lot of my strength comes from being a Palestinian.
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But I can tell you, my mother's, like, the compassion this woman has, that is in me.
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This woman doesn't even understand when people are being racist to her.
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Because she believes that people can be better.
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You know, Trump probably, as they have lots of flags, Pledge of Allegiance,
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because that's a Democrat victory party, and they're actually u-u-u-lating.
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Now, I'm not saying Palestinian-Americans should not be allowed to vote or be allowed to run,
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but that lady there clearly has the Palestinian grievance narrative.
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She's bringing that Intifada spirit into America and the Intifada flag.
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It's not the party of an 85-year-old Jewish liberal named Dianne Feinstein
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or a 77-year-old Jewish liberal named Bernie Sanders.
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The future of the Democrats is hard left-wing, anti-Israel, and I would say even anti-Semitic.
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Now, Trump held his own against the Democrats, but the real enemy, of course, is the media party.
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They hate when Trump says they're the enemy because the truth hurts.
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If Trump were to say something crazy like truck drivers are the enemy of the American people
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or restaurant owners are the enemy of the American people.
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They'd mock him, and it would backfire because it would be patently weird and untrue.
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Everyone knows that truck drivers and restauranteurs are not the enemy of America.
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It would be like the lies about Brett Kavanaugh that were so obviously ginned up.
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People would say you're crazy, but when Trump says that the fake news media are the enemy
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of the American people, and he always has that adjective, fake news, well, they go nuts,
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Because it resonates, because people know it's true.
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You say that to a trucker, he said, you're crazy.
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But these media, they go crazy because they know it's true.
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She literally writes from the United States for a Chinese Communist Party newspaper.
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So she works for the Communist Party of China that literally has a one-party system, but
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she's bashing Trump as being a one-party state.
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But how is that any weirder, that tweet, than this one by a New Yorker named
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I don't think people are ready for the crisis that will follow if Democrats win the House
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After Kavanaugh, Trump, Garland, Citizens United, Bush versus Gore, etc., the party is on the edge
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of losing faith of losing faith in the system, and reasonably so.
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Now, first of all, there's no such thing as the House popular vote.
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Every district in the United States elects one congressman, whether they win by one vote or by
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If we are denied our power as we were in 2016, when Hillary had it stolen from us.
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Now, Trump lost ground in the Congress last night.
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But even a fancy Democrat like that, Ezra Klein, was ready to riot.
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He'd probably have some staff riot for him if he didn't get his way on the left.
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I'm up here in Canada, but America affects the world.
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And I like what Trump is doing on policy issues and in his style.
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And I love that he bashes the left, rhetorically.
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Because for so long, the right has given deference to the left.
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But I cover Canada as much as I cover America, I think.
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And if I cover Trump too much, well, that's up to me as a person.
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That's up to you as a viewer who chooses to watch, I guess.
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But what about our Canadian state broadcaster, the CBC,
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that was created by a law of Parliament called the Canadian Broadcasting Act,
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specifically to stop Canadian media from being dominated by America.
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The CBC now, with our Canadian taxpayers' money, is obsessed with Trump.
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Partly because they hate Trump because they're all liberal.
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Partly because they hate Trump because their boss, Justin Trudeau, does,
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And partly because the CBC is not really allowed to criticize Trudeau.
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So they pretend they're doing real accountability journalism by going after someone, anyone,
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just not their own country's leader, Justin Trudeau.
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They'll be really accountable for American taxpayers or whatever.
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Fox News calls appearance of two network stars at Trump campaign event unfortunate distraction.
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Says it doesn't condone Sean Hannity, Janine Pirro, speaking at Monday rally,
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but doesn't say whether they'll be disciplined.
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That's their star on the left there, David Suzuki, literally cutting a TV ad with Dalton
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And remember Mary Walsh of the CBC, who did this really weird homemade attack ad about Stephen
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Harper and called him a Nazi, Herr Harper and Stasi Steve.
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Yeah, I don't think the CBC is your best moral authority to criticize a private foreign media
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company, Fox News, in a foreign land for campaigning for their president.
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They actually sent down, at great expense, their Ottawa political reporters to the United
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Here's Rosemary Barton in Ohio, in a foreign country's politics, meddling on behalf of Canada's
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My greater concern is what I think is happening for the people in this country.
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And he is incredibly polarizing, has certainly given permission to, for racism, for the expression,
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Give an example just so we all are on the same page in terms of what you're talking about.
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Yeah, so they literally sent Canadian government journalists down to Ohio to do a poor man's
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How weird is that for the Canadian state broadcast?
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Imagine if Donald Trump sent a Trump-allied team of reporters up to Canada in the final
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I don't even know how that would work, because there is no government state broadcaster in
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Imagine if Trump sent someone up here in the last week of our election to stir up anti-Trudeau
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Meet the Canadian journalist tracking Donald Trump's false claims.
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It's praising a Toronto Star reporter named Daniel Dale, who is obsessed with Trump and
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They have this whole vanity website dedicated to it.
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It looks like a Democrat Party website, and it sort of is.
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But if you read through it, it's actually extremely boring.
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I don't think they expect anyone to read through it.
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Because most of those 3,000 points are just him quarreling with Trump's opinions about
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But even if it were accurate, and even if it were great journalism, and fair and objective,
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which it isn't, can you tell me why a Canadian media company called the Toronto Star pays
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a full-time Trump-obsessed critic with the explicit mission of documenting Trump's lies?
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Now go catch him and get the numbers up as high as possible because we want a big number.
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Why would you do that when you don't even do that in your own country to your own country's
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There's not a single journalist in Canada who has that kind of obsessive scrutiny of our
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It didn't happen to any liberal premier either.
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I think it's going to start being done to Doug Ford, the new conservative premier of Ontario.
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Wouldn't surprise me if they started extreme obsessive critical journalism against Ford.
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But where's it been for Trudeau and Kathleen Wynne and Rachel Notley?
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And it's telling how obsessed the Canadian media are with fighting Donald Trump.
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Oh well, the media in Canada doesn't get a vote in America's election, and American
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journalists only get one vote each, and those votes are usually wasted in New York or L.A.,
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Thank God, at least for now, the decisions are being made in places like Florida and North
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Honestly, I think you should let me run the country.
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And if you did it well, your ratings would be much better.
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Let me ask you, if I may ask one other question.
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Mr. President, if I may ask one other question, are you worried?
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If I may ask on the Russia investigation, are you concerned that you may have indictments?
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I'm not concerned about anything with the Russian investigation because it's a hoax.
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Mr. President, are you worried about indictments coming down in this investigation?
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CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them.
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And the way you treat other people are horrible.
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That is a testy press conference today in the wake of last night's historic midterm elections.
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I want to show you a different angle of Jim Acosta of CNN.
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It looks like she's pushing away the hand of a young White House staffer.
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He knows how to handle a lady if she's conservative and he's liberal.
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Joining us now via Skype from the world headquarters of Breitbart.com in the Los Angeles area is
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our friend Joel Pollack, senior editor-at-large over there.
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Well, Joel, I bet you didn't get a lot of sleep.
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And some of those local congressional votes went down to the wee hours.
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Yeah, they're still counting in some of those districts.
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But it looks like Democrats have picked up three out of the seven races they were targeting
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And internally here in discussions at Breitbart, we thought that the seven districts would be
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We thought that if Republicans limited their losses to one or two, that would mean they
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probably had held the House across the country.
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But as it happened, Democrats won three of those seats.
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Now, they didn't win four, five, six, or seven.
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So the House majority the Democrats have nationwide now is actually a very narrow one.
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So that means they'll have a nine-seat majority, maybe give or take one or two when all the
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But it means that Nancy Pelosi is going to have a tough fight to be elected speaker because
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there are roughly a dozen or so Democrats who are coming in who said they would not vote
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So that's going to be a gut-check moment for them, keeping in mind that her fundraising enabled
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So we're going to see an interesting squabble on the Democratic side.
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But it also means that the Republicans, if they stay united in opposition, are going to
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have significant leverage in this new Congress, maybe more leverage, ironically, than they
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But from a policy perspective, as Trump pointed out in that press conference this morning,
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you can get deals done more easily if you have a president from one party and someone
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leading one House of Congress, the House of Representatives, which is really the house
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You can get deals done if a member of the opposition leads there or the opposition leads
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there because there's a potential for dissenting factions on the majority side, if the majority
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is in the president's party, to torpedo pieces of legislation he'd like to put through.
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And that's the scenario we've seen over and over again with health care and other policies
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that the Republicans just could not get done on the Senate side more than the House side.
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But the Republicans could not fully repeal Obamacare in the last two years, partly because
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And so they had small factions dissenting and making demands, meaning that the ultimate
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But if you can have the Democrats with some responsibility for coming up with their own
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policies, and then you can have Republicans respond to those, Trump pointed out you can
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cobble together a coalition to get things done more easily.
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That might not please conservatives in every instance, but it might be the political reality
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and it actually will help Trump boost certainly his presidential power over Congress.
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But it'll also help him score some legislative achievements.
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He sounded very optimistic about immigration, health care, and a few other things as well.
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Well, of course, Bill Clinton, for part of his, in fact, I think for much of his presidency,
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had a hostile Congress, but he was able to get some deals done, whether it was NAFTA or
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Some would write that off to him being non-ideological, pragmatic, triangulation, whatever you want to call
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it, you could say that other than his personal scandals, he had a successful presidency, as opposed
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I can't even think of a single policy issue from Obamacare to the nationalization of the
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auto industry, where he actually reached across to do bipartisan deals.
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And I think when you look at Clinton, you can contrast him to Obama in the sense that, as
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you pointed out, Clinton did deals with Republicans.
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Clinton shifted after losing both houses of Congress in 1994.
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And he accomplished welfare reform with Republicans.
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He accomplished a balanced budget with Republicans.
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When Obama lost the House in 2010, he did not shift.
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That's when he backed the Occupy Wall Street movement, when he gave that infamous speech in
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Osawatomi, Kansas, basically declaring economic warfare, when he backed Trayvon Martin and so
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Obama never took an election loss as a sign that he was doing anything wrong.
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Never took it as an opportunity to reach across to the other side.
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In the most infamous example, in 2011, right after Republicans won the House, Obama torpedoed
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And this was written about in Bob Woodward's book, The Price of Politics, just how Obama
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And then when a bipartisan commission recommended steps on fixing the national debt, Obama ignored
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Barack Obama did not go into politics to make deals.
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Barack Obama went into politics to change the world in his utopian image.
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But Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, I think, both went into politics with some talent as
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But also because I think they wanted to do the best they could for the country.
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And so they were willing to put aside ideology.
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Trump didn't really have much ideological baggage, if you want to put it that way, when
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They're not giving up on their principles, necessarily.
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I mean, Clinton certainly stuck to certain principles.
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And Trump is sticking to his principles on immigration and so forth as well.
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But I think you're seeing Trump follow the Bill Clinton model in a different way.
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But he's closer to the Bill Clinton model, I should say, than to the Obama model.
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I want to tell you something that scared me very much.
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I always thought that Robert O'Rourke, or Beto, as he liked to call himself, I thought
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The idea that a fancy Democrat popular in Manhattan and Hollywood could win in Texas.
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I laughed and laughed, and I thought, all those people wasting their money.
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Well, he came within about a percent of winning, and Florida was less than a percent.
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And those are massive wins with massive states.
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The Electoral College wasn't at play, but the governorship, the senators, very important.
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But, Joel, I've got to tell you, I am terrified that you move the needle just half a percent,
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whether it's through the media effect or fundraising, or even just demographic changes by bringing
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You're not electing a Republican again in our lifetime.
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Am I missing something from being way out of the country?
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No, I think you're 100% correct, and I think that's why Republicans are upbeat about last
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Democrats lost in every race where they poured their most expensive assets, their Hollywood
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stars, their big money, their dark money, their left-wing institutional organizations.
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They lost in Florida, and they lost in Texas, and they also lost in Georgia, it looks like,
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So, the big states are still in Republican hands.
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There was a shift in the Midwest where I think Midwesterners basically had had almost a decade
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now of Republican reform and decided, you know, we've got those reforms, and now we want
00:32:44.020
But I think that Republicans retaining Florida is so huge, and Ted Cruz beating Beto O'Rourke
00:32:52.460
Well, no, but I think I'm making the opposite point, Joel.
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I'm saying they're important wins, and they're wins that any conservative or Republican or fan
00:33:03.300
of Trump would celebrate, but they were razor thin.
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And, you know, I pointed out earlier in the show that there's this proposition that passed
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The win was so fingernail thin, is what I'm saying.
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Look, it's always going to be that way in Florida.
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Now, they have a new block of voters from Puerto Rico who relocated there since the hurricane.
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You also, in Texas, have a changing demographic in that state Democratic column.
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I think there are probably some people who will benefit from the felon voting in Florida
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For the same reasons other people vote Republican.
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You know, just being a felon doesn't necessarily make you a Democrat, although being a Democrat
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might be a good first step, if that's the way you want to go.
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But, you know, look, I think it's too early to say we're not talking about a measure that
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It's not a measure that would increase crime, as we've seen in California, with some of the
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prison reforms that unfortunately haven't gone so well.
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I think there's going to be a considerable amount of widespread public support for this
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only because there are some felonies that are so, in retrospect, you know, many years
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later and so forth, that are so independent from the act of voting that I'm not sure that
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the people, I mean, look, to use an example, the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, his
00:34:47.100
You know, there's all kinds of different reasons people go to prison, and I'm not sure it necessarily
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Probably on balance it does, but I think that that's not as big a worry as what's happening
00:35:00.880
in Texas, where you've got not only immigration changing the demographic profile of voters
00:35:05.500
there, but you've got migration from failing blue states, high-tax blue states, to low-tax
00:35:12.040
successful Texas, and they're bringing their political beliefs with them.
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They're not changing them just because they voted with their feet.
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So they're changing the demographic profile of voters in Texas, especially in those urban
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areas, and so that's a bigger problem for the GOP in the long run.
00:35:27.380
Yeah, well, I mean, I've been to the Breitbart World Headquarters there, and like our world
00:35:33.920
headquarters in Canada, you have a very low profile because you are behind enemy lines.
00:35:38.720
California, home of Nixon, home of Reagan, it's about as deep blue as it ever, ever gets.
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I'm just worried that's what the demographic destiny of America is.
00:35:53.580
If there's one more thing I'd like you to touch upon, I know you're so busy today, but
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I showed a clip of a Palestinian-American Democrat who was celebrating her win, not with
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an American flag, but rather with a Palestinian flag.
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There was lots of eulation, if I'm saying that word right.
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That's a lot more normal in grassroots Democrat politics now than the ancient Jewish tradition
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Is there still a pro-Israel, pro-Jewish spirit left in the Democrats, or is it all moving
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in the way of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party in the UK?
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Oh, it's definitely moving in the Corbyn direction.
00:36:46.380
I mean, last night, there were several anti-Israel Democrats elected, and a couple of pro-Israel
00:36:53.980
But Republicans also defeated a large number of anti-Israel Democrats, including that candidate
00:37:04.300
Republicans are pro-Israel, Democrats are anti.
00:37:06.280
It doesn't mean that every Democrat is opposed to Israel, but there really is no constituency
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anymore in terms of the House of Representatives for solid pro-Israel Democrats.
00:37:18.300
None of them came to the embassy opening earlier this year.
00:37:23.880
The woman you described wearing the Palestinian flag, Rashida Claib, she's so anti-Israel that
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even J Street, the far-left George Soros-funded organization, they dumped her because it was
00:37:34.960
embarrassing to them to have somebody who openly advocated for the destruction of Israel
00:37:41.840
So I think that the Democrats are now saddled with this baggage.
00:37:45.400
I don't think it infects the rest of society because the Democrats who are the most anti-Israel
00:37:54.060
And so I think when Americans look at that, they say, well, you know, maybe that's just
00:37:58.180
It doesn't necessarily mean the rest of America has to feel that way.
00:38:01.120
But it is interesting, I think, that Republicans basically are the only pro-Israel party now.
00:38:10.740
Thanks so much for giving us so much for your time on this very busy day.
00:38:15.940
Joel Pollack, senior editor-at-large at Breitbart.com in one of the bluest states there is, California.
00:38:24.920
Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about countries asking China about human rights
00:38:41.660
Paul writes, is it surprising that Canada fails to call out the Chinese on their human rights
00:38:48.580
Um, yeah, I mean, it's, it was, it's not surprising, but it's striking to see.
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There's a lot of like really progressive, woke countries, Sweden in particular, Netherlands.
00:39:09.980
One or two of them asked about women's rights and gay rights also, because the number one
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problem with China is not that you can't get gay married there.
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The number one problem with China is you can't do anything freely.
00:39:25.900
You can't speak, think, move, vote, campaign, organize, anything.
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Yeah, being gay married, that's sort of priority number 100.
00:39:38.320
But it was the only thing Trudeau talked about.
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It just shows that he is in the league of failed states like Belarus and Pakistan when
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it comes to being a moral authority in the world.
00:39:55.200
Jonathan writes, that is quite the hypocrisy coming from the UK concerning journalists.
00:39:59.820
After all, they have put Tommy Robinson through.
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And the other day was some symbolic day about not locking up journalists.
00:40:08.220
And I saw that the UK embassies around the world were tweeting scolding remarks around
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And I just thought, you just put a journalist in prison for 10 weeks in solitary confinement.
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But you know, listen, I'm glad the UK is not sitting it out.
00:40:26.700
I want them to correct their hypocrisy by improving their conduct at home.
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I don't want them to stop speaking truth to power to China like Trudeau has.
00:40:34.520
On my interview with Gordon Chang, Jerry writes,
00:40:38.620
whenever I watch Ezra's interviews with intellects like Gordon Chang, I always feel smarter.
00:40:42.880
Anytime I watch MSM interviews, I'm quite sure that I lose some brain cells.
00:40:48.580
Well, you know, let me say two things about talking to Gordon Chang.
00:40:51.740
First of all, I try to say less than I normally do.
00:40:56.120
And that is so hard for me because I want to make points.
00:40:58.620
And I want Gordon Chang to respond to some of my points because I think he's so smart.
00:41:02.140
So I try not to talk more than 51% of the time in an interview.
00:41:16.280
He knows the exact geography, the exact history, the who's who in the police.
00:41:23.680
And I mean, I try and read his columns or whatnot before he's on.
00:41:27.220
But I basically just sit back and say, all right, take the wheel, Gordon,
00:41:32.220
And I like his temperament and his demeanor, don't you?
00:41:35.600
I think it's actually pretty cool that he comes on our channel.
00:41:43.840
I mean, the Daily Beast is where he hangs his hat most of the time.
00:41:50.240
Well, anyhow, thanks for the compliment for him.
00:41:52.200
And I'll try and stay out of the way of the smarts from getting...
00:41:59.040
But with Gordon Chang and a few others like that, I say, okay, Ezra, say fewer words so
00:42:04.120
Gordon can get in more words, because that's where we're going to learn things.
00:42:07.860
Anyways, that's a long way of saying I agree with you.
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I wish that Trump held the House, but that's just not that normal.
00:42:20.220
When you have a, you know, first-term president elbows up, you're going to lose ground.
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Will the Democrats go even crazier than they did on Brett Kavanaugh?
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home.