Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 322

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Happy day after the election. So obviously

00:00:15.640 you guys know this episode did not come out when it usually does on the listening site.

00:00:21.040 It comes out first thing in the morning, but what good would an episode be that I recorded

00:00:27.960 yesterday and that came out this morning without any analysis of the things that happened last

00:00:32.820 night. And so I'm going to go through some of the things that happened in the election,

00:00:37.440 some of the things that are still happening, why so many people on both sides of the aisle

00:00:41.920 are freaking out, why there are some rumors of fraud, some surprising numbers, and why

00:00:47.460 I feel good even though I don't know the results of the presidential election. I'm actually

00:00:54.680 pleasantly surprised. I went to bed at midnight last night, feeling good about everything.

00:01:02.120 I woke up this morning feeling good about everything, even though there's a lot of

00:01:06.660 contentious things going on. And we're going to go through some of that. And I'll talk a little

00:01:12.040 bit more about why I think there is a reason for conservatives and especially conservative

00:01:16.780 Christians to be comforted about the state of the election right now. So Trump had a pretty good

00:01:24.340 night. I mean, if you were on the pessimistic side of this and you were listening to the polls

00:01:29.300 and you were watching the news, you were thinking this is going to be a landslide for the left. I

00:01:34.300 mean, definitely the past five years since Trump announced his candidacy, it's been an onslaught

00:01:40.540 of negative media attention towards Trump, especially while he's been president. And then especially

00:01:46.220 since the coronavirus started, it has been nonstop, pedal to the metal, negative coverage of Donald

00:01:56.760 Trump and his incompetent leadership. And so we were told that this was going to be a blue wave,

00:02:03.600 that there was absolutely no way that Joe Biden could lose because this is the most unlikable,

00:02:08.900 the most incompetent, the dumbest candidate that we could ever have in Donald Trump. And so of course,

00:02:14.440 good old uncle Joe is going to lose or is going to win. That's what we were told. And I'll be honest,

00:02:21.260 I kind of bought into that a little bit, obviously not believing those negative things about Trump,

00:02:26.480 but thinking, okay, the hatred towards Trump, the vitriol towards this candidate really does seem

00:02:32.460 unprecedented even more than it was four years ago. I actually think that there might be some kind

00:02:39.500 of blue wave for Joe Biden. It's not because I thought that Joe Biden, think that Joe Biden is

00:02:45.280 a compelling candidate at all. Obviously he's not. I still hold to the position that no one is really

00:02:50.240 for Joe Biden. There's a lot of people against Donald Trump. And so I just thought that the hatred

00:02:55.380 against Donald Trump was going to end, maybe not in a blue wave, but in a better night for Democrats.

00:03:02.580 And so that's why I kind of feel good because no matter how you shake this, this was a much worse

00:03:08.320 night for Democrats than Democrats themselves anticipated. And certainly the democratic media

00:03:12.940 anticipated that much is true. When Trump finally won Florida, I mean, we knew that he won Florida

00:03:18.940 early in the night. For some reason, some media outlets refused to report on that. But when they

00:03:23.540 finally called Florida, I said, okay, this is actually going to be interesting. We knew that Florida

00:03:28.880 would probably go red, but you never know. It's a contentious state. Obviously there are a lot of

00:03:34.440 electoral votes there. It's the state that both candidates want at the beginning of the night.

00:03:40.240 And it could have really gone either way. What was interesting about that is that Trump performed so

00:03:45.740 much better than he did four years ago in what is typically a very liberal county, Miami-Dade County.

00:03:51.420 And the reason for that is because a lot of Cuban Americans supported Trump. Why? Because they've

00:03:57.500 watched the Democratic Party shift so far to the left and start echoing so much of the social justice,

00:04:03.200 socialistic rhetoric that they heard back in Cuba. And so they are hearing echoes of the dictatorship

00:04:10.400 of Fidel Castro. They know what communism is like. And when they see people on the left, even if it's

00:04:17.220 not Joe Biden himself, but Kamala Harris putting out a video the other day that's saying equity

00:04:22.640 means equality of outcomes. That is communism. When they hear things like that, when they hear

00:04:27.520 Bernie Sanders, who is on the Joe Biden unity task force, talking about socialized health care,

00:04:33.860 talking about reconfiguring the suburbs in a way that ensures equality of outcome. Cuban Americans

00:04:40.220 realize, okay, that sounds eerily similar to what we heard in Cuba that ran the country into the ground.

00:04:48.420 We don't want that again. And of course, you have Democratic pundits here and you've got

00:04:52.960 a left-wing activist on Twitter saying, oh, Cuban Americans, they've just been propagandized.

00:04:59.380 They don't understand. No, let me tell you, the person who has been a beneficiary of capitalism in

00:05:06.100 America, how great communism and socialism actually is, you refugees from a communist country.

00:05:12.760 It's amazing how patronizing the left becomes towards these minority and immigrant groups that

00:05:18.780 don't end up aligning with their dogma. There was a lady last night who says that she is also

00:05:25.200 a Cuban American. She is some kind of left-wing activist. And she actually said, okay, her name is

00:05:32.880 Andrea Alpino Silva. And she's got a blue check mark. She said she's a movement scholar. And she is

00:05:40.920 co-founder of an organization to end rape on campus, which that sounds great. But also her

00:05:48.840 bio says that she would like to abolish la policia. So that's where she stands on things. Here's what

00:05:55.820 she tweeted about the Cuban vote in Florida going for Donald Trump. She said that Cubans have been

00:06:01.560 sold a narrative that they have a guaranteed path to whiteness. And many will sell out every other

00:06:07.700 minority to get at Trump's appeal is the appeal of white supremacy. So the reason why Cubans voted

00:06:14.220 for Trump, according to this left-wing activist, is not because Trump had an appealing message

00:06:19.560 of economic opportunity, of freedom, of fundamental human rights, things that are denied to Cubans on a

00:06:26.400 daily basis. The reason why so many Cubans have fled here for freedom. It's not because of that. It's

00:06:32.680 because these Cuban Americans who are not white have been appealed to by white supremacy. Now,

00:06:40.960 how many mental hoops do you have to jump through to get to that conclusion? It's really amazing.

00:06:49.360 Here's another tweet about how racism is really the thing that is working in Trump's favor. Mike Freeman,

00:06:58.260 he's another blue checkmark, a journalist, USA Today sports race and inequality editor,

00:07:04.620 interesting job title, said that polls don't have an algorithm for racism. So the reason why Trump had

00:07:10.260 a better night and the polls didn't indicate that he was going to have a good night is actually because

00:07:15.940 of racism. That is something that we're seeing, not just in regards to Trump winning Florida

00:07:20.380 because of the Cuban American vote, but also because he performed a lot better than he did four years ago

00:07:26.700 among black Americans and among other Hispanic Americans. So this is from Charles, Charles Blow.

00:07:35.420 He is a writer for the New York times. He said, let's see, is it the New York times? I just want,

00:07:42.380 yes, he's New York times call columnist. He said this, this is so personally devastating to me.

00:07:47.680 The black male vote for Trump increased from 13% to 18%. So 13% in 2016 to 18% this year,

00:07:57.940 the black female vote for Trump doubled from 4% in 2016 to 8% this year. So Trump did a lot better

00:08:05.460 among black voters than he did four years ago, a lot better among black voters than,

00:08:10.660 than most Republicans typically do. He worked very hard for that vote. And then among Hispanic voters,

00:08:17.160 some polls say that he got about 47%. I think that's the highest number I saw of Hispanic voters.

00:08:23.840 Others say about 41%. Way, way outperformed his performance from last year, way outperformed

00:08:33.600 expectations for the Hispanic vote. Now, there are a few reasons for this. Some of them I listed.

00:08:39.920 A lot of these people are immigrants from socialist countries, from countries that have a lot of unrest.

00:08:46.240 So not only are they hearing the message of economic opportunity and hope and freedom from

00:08:50.640 Trump, and they're like, yeah, that's why I came to America. And they're hearing the doom and gloom

00:08:56.100 message from Democrats about how America is this awful, terrible place. And it is so racist,

00:09:02.840 and it's not the land of opportunity. And actually, we just need more big government,

00:09:07.580 and we need more socialism. And they're like, hey, that's, you know, not why I came to America.

00:09:11.380 I also think because of these Hispanic communities, or in these Hispanic communities in particular,

00:09:16.900 who fled a lot of these places that are filled, characterized by social unrest,

00:09:23.120 they're looking at what's happening in the streets, in these Democrat-controlled cities and states.

00:09:28.680 Black Lives Matter and Antifa, these are left-wing activist groups that really the Democrats will not

00:09:35.440 denounce by name. They will make, you know, generalized comments about how violence and

00:09:40.080 looting is bad, but they won't call out these organizations by name. They won't dissociate

00:09:45.080 from them. I think that Hispanic voters are probably looking at that, and they're like,

00:09:49.680 I just left that. Like, I just left Honduras. I don't want that again. You're talking about Democrats

00:09:55.420 defunding the police, or you're talking about at least, like Joe Biden said, redirecting some money

00:10:01.660 away from the police. I don't want that. I came here for economic opportunity. I came here for

00:10:06.240 liberty. I came here because America is supposed to be better than the country I left. I came here

00:10:11.060 for safety and security. I don't want that. I also think another reason why Trump did so well with

00:10:26.760 Hispanic vote and is doing so well, as you guys know, votes are still coming in, and we'll talk

00:10:32.440 about that in a second, is because the media has actually been pretty quiet on the whole immigration

00:10:38.580 issue. In 2016, that was a whole big thing, how the wall was so racist and how Trump was so racist

00:10:45.700 against immigrants. And actually, that has not been a main pitch in the left-wing media for the past few

00:10:54.620 months. And so it just makes you wonder, sans propaganda, targeted propaganda that the media

00:10:59.980 just loves to peddle against minority groups, sans that kind of propaganda, you wonder if certain

00:11:09.140 groups are finally just free to think for themselves and free to actually assess the candidates and assess

00:11:16.640 their rhetoric, assess their policies and promises, and then decide which one is better for them,

00:11:22.500 rather than waiting in the muck and the mire of identity politics and victimization.

00:11:29.020 But what's interesting is that definitely the left-wing media have been targeting, with propaganda,

00:11:35.560 black voters more than they did probably four years ago, saying how awful Trump is, how racist he is,

00:11:41.960 how white supremacist he is, and talking about how America is this white supremacist country. I mean,

00:11:47.220 the past few months have been just an onslaught of criticism towards America as this white supremacist

00:11:54.640 country and how Donald Trump is a tool of that white supremacy. All white people, and especially

00:12:00.680 white Christian conservatives, are tools and perpetuators of white supremacy. That has been

00:12:06.700 the main propaganda for the past few months. And we have debunked those myths a thousand times on this

00:12:14.340 podcast. And obviously, black voters predominantly voted Democrat this go-round, but Trump improved

00:12:22.040 among them. Again, increased from 13% in 2016 to 18% in 2020 among black men. And then the black female

00:12:32.320 vote even doubled from 4% to 8%. So obviously, black males and black females are still predominantly voting

00:12:39.240 Democrat. But the fact that Trump improved at all among these groups, when so consistently the media

00:12:46.220 is saying that he is a vicious racist, shows that that message is not quite as convincing. It's not

00:12:54.680 quite as effective as the left thinks that it is. And I think that's what this night speaks to in

00:13:01.260 general. That Trump, that he obviously, he won Florida, he won Texas. Some people for a while were

00:13:07.500 saying, oh, I'm really nervous about Texas. I mean, we knew that Texas was going to stay red.

00:13:13.940 You have to look at which counties are reporting when you're looking at these numbers. Even if a

00:13:19.160 state says, okay, 75% reporting and Biden's up in Texas, you have to look at the map and you have to

00:13:24.440 say, okay, well, what counties are not reporting? And when Biden was up or when it was really close in

00:13:29.360 Texas, you had Harris County and you had Dallas County and you had some border towns that are so deeply

00:13:35.540 blue that, of course, it's going to skew in that direction. But if you looked at the rest of the

00:13:39.560 state, you saw that there were a lot of counties that were uncounted and were going to go Trump

00:13:46.460 because that's oil country. And Mr. Joe, I'm going to ban fracking Biden was not going to win those

00:13:53.200 counties. And so Texas was never really, it was never going to go blue. It was never really close.

00:13:58.300 Trump won Texas. He won Florida. So obviously those were big wins for him. He is leading in

00:14:09.200 Georgia right now. He's leading in North Carolina. He's leading in Pennsylvania, although that is very

00:14:14.520 precarious. As I'm telling you this now, by the time you listen to this, it could be totally,

00:14:19.520 it could be totally different because things seem to be changing by the minute. Biden is barely up in

00:14:24.640 Michigan. He's barely up in Wisconsin. He is up in Nevada. He is also a little bit up in Arizona.

00:14:32.400 So these are the most contentious states right now. And the reason why people are freaking out,

00:14:38.900 the reason why people are, some people on the right are saying, okay, this is an example of,

00:14:45.420 you know, this is fraud. Things are going awry. Why is this happening? Is because they seemed to

00:14:52.960 stop counting the votes in Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona when Trump was up. And then all of a sudden

00:14:59.540 they started counting votes again and Biden was up or the margin was much thinner. Now that in and of

00:15:05.920 itself is not evidence of fraud. That in and of itself, that alone is not evidence of fraud. Now,

00:15:13.480 one weird thing that people are talking about in Wisconsin that I do think is, that I do think

00:15:19.520 is very weird that, or sorry, in Michigan, that Donald Trump was up in Michigan. And then they had

00:15:28.820 about 128,000 absentee ballots that they counted. And apparently 100% of those went to Joe Biden,

00:15:38.000 reportedly 100% of those went to Joe Biden, not a single third party vote, not a single Donald Trump

00:15:44.540 vote in all of those absentee ballots. And that closed the gap very significantly between Donald

00:15:51.280 Trump and Joe Biden. And so people think that's weird. People think it's weird that Pennsylvania

00:15:55.460 and Arizona, that Wisconsin and Michigan seem to be putting a hold on the counting. Some people are

00:16:02.140 saying, you know, this is an indication that they're going to find more votes, that they're

00:16:06.440 going to, you know, make sure that these states go for Donald Trump, that the governors and

00:16:12.220 and that the officials in those states are just going to ensure that Biden wins by doing some,

00:16:21.180 you know, some, some, some fishy, some fishy things. We don't have any evidence of that right now.

00:16:27.120 I do, however, think that there is a reason for people to be concerned about that. I mean, we had

00:16:34.320 the attorney general of, of Pennsylvania already say, he already said two days ago, look, if,

00:16:41.560 if every vote is counted in Pennsylvania, Trump will lose. And so what he is saying by that very

00:16:48.480 partisan statement, because he is expressing the desire for that to happen, and he's not supposed

00:16:54.080 to do that. But what he is saying is that if Trump wins Pennsylvania, it's because not every vote was

00:17:00.720 counted. Well, that is obviously a very premature statement. That's a partisan statement. That's an

00:17:05.640 inappropriate statement to make before an election, because you are already sowing seeds of doubt.

00:17:10.480 You are assuming that if Trump wins Pennsylvania, that it's because of fraud, or it's because of

00:17:15.500 voter suppression, or it's because not all the votes were counted when that is that that is not

00:17:21.540 a given in Pennsylvania. So there is a reason for conservatives for Republicans to wonder, okay,

00:17:28.740 what is really going on in these states? Now, in the state of Georgia, the county that we don't have

00:17:34.340 is Fulton County. And I think there are some other votes that we are waiting on. What happened

00:17:38.520 in Fulton County? It's a county of Atlanta. They were counting the absentee ballots, and

00:17:45.200 apparently a pipe broke in that room. And so they were unable to keep counting the absentee

00:17:50.900 ballots, which again, is a little bit weird. Now, Georgia is really close. It's too close

00:17:55.760 for comfort, quite honestly. Now, I predicted that Georgia was going to go blue, because I spent some

00:18:04.060 time in Georgia last week, and I said, whew, these are a lot of signs for Biden in what should be

00:18:10.820 a stronghold for Republicans. But you also, you never know. There is the shy Trump voter. There

00:18:17.200 are people who are going to vote for Donald Trump, aren't going to put a sign in their yard. I'm not

00:18:21.920 going to put a Trump sign. I mean, we didn't put a Trump sign in our yard, and we wouldn't, because

00:18:25.760 we're uncomfortable in some ways because of that and because of the district that we live in. And so,

00:18:31.980 of course, a lot of people in Georgia are probably the same way. It's not necessarily an indicator of

00:18:37.020 what's going to happen. But when I was there, I was surprised in the areas that I was in that I knew

00:18:43.660 were very strongly conservative areas, the number of Biden signs that I saw. And I drove throughout

00:18:49.760 the state, and I saw that. And so I just made a little prediction that I thought that North Carolina

00:18:54.920 would go red, that it would go for Trump. I spent some time in North Carolina, too. That was the vibe I

00:19:01.160 got. I'm getting this off of vibes, by the way. This is not any quantitative data that I am going

00:19:07.040 from. And my feeling, my vibe, was that Georgia was going to go blue. I still don't think, now looking

00:19:15.040 at the numbers, I don't think that's going to happen. Now, Fulton County did go for Hillary Clinton

00:19:20.240 last time. And so it is very likely that it'll go for Donald Trump this time. We don't know that for

00:19:25.920 sure. In Arizona, it looks like Joe Biden's going to win. The weird thing about Arizona,

00:19:31.860 the reason why people were upset about Arizona last night is because it seemed like it was called

00:19:36.460 too early. And that a lot of people were upset with Fox News for calling it so early.

00:19:45.140 And people were also upset with different networks for not calling Texas, for not calling Florida,

00:19:51.160 for not calling North Carolina. But, you know, every decision desk at these networks, they have a

00:19:56.840 different, they have a different strategy. They have different standards that they have to reach

00:20:01.860 before they'll call a state. But calling Arizona so quickly was a point of contention for a lot of

00:20:06.980 people, in particular, the Trump campaign saying, hey, it was way too early to call that. And that's

00:20:13.180 just unfair. There's still a chance that Trump can win Arizona. That is looking less and less

00:20:18.060 likely right now. And Fox News and other outlets, of course, stood by their decision to call Arizona

00:20:25.580 Martha McSally. She lost her Senate race in Arizona, but she said, you know, I'm not going to concede

00:20:33.900 because, again, she believes that her race was called too early. So there's a lot of contention

00:20:40.620 right now. We still don't know a lot of information about certain states that are saying that, you know,

00:20:46.700 it's going to take them a while to count all of the votes. I don't have proof right now of any

00:20:53.420 kind of voter fraud. My prayer is that there's not. Like, even if Joe Biden wins, my hope is not

00:20:59.600 that this is endlessly litigated. Now, it probably will be. Like, there's probably going to be

00:21:04.580 litigation. There are probably going to be questions. There might even be recounts in some

00:21:09.060 of these states, depending on how close it is. That's not my desire. My desire is for whoever wins,

00:21:15.780 whether it's Joe Biden or Donald Trump, to win fair and square and for it to just be over with.

00:21:20.920 And if Joe Biden is the president, then we learn how to live with Joe Biden as the president.

00:21:25.940 The reason I'm not too anxious about it is because it looks like Republicans are going to keep the

00:21:31.420 Senate and we've got a conservative Supreme Court. Joe Biden is not going to be able to pack the court

00:21:37.760 if the Democrats don't take the Senate. So he is not going to be a Joe Biden president if he wins.

00:21:44.860 And by the way, that is not a given at all. I'm just saying, worst case scenario,

00:21:50.060 if Joe Biden does win the presidency and Republicans keep this in it, which it's looking

00:21:55.960 very well, like they will, and Republicans gained as much as they did, did as well as they did in the

00:22:03.120 House, then Biden and Harris are not going to be nearly as powerful as they want to be. They're not

00:22:10.000 going to be able to accomplish all the things that they want to. Now, is he going to make broad use

00:22:15.040 of executive orders? Yes, probably so. But again, that can only go so far. That's true under Trump.

00:22:22.380 That was, of course, true under Obama. There's going to be a lot of pushback. I think state

00:22:28.320 legislatures probably happened along predictable lines. Now, when I say predictable, I guess that even

00:22:37.180 is a controversial term because I think Democrats really predicted that there would be a blue wave,

00:22:43.760 not just in the presidency. I think they probably thought Biden was going to get Florida, like there

00:22:48.600 was a possibility that he was going to get Texas, like he was probably a shoe in a North Carolina,

00:22:53.460 Wisconsin and Michigan. I think that they probably assumed all of those things. And that just hasn't

00:22:58.020 been the case at all. But I think they also thought that they were going to flip the Senate,

00:23:01.640 that they were going to take control of the Senate and that they were going to gain

00:23:04.040 all of these seats in the House. And guys, that just did not happen. So as of right now,

00:23:09.240 according to the New York Times, Dems flipped two seats in the House. Republicans flipped seven

00:23:14.600 seats for a net gain of five seats. Democrats in the House did not see that coming. Democrats in the

00:23:21.240 media did not see that coming. So Democrats or Republicans are still going to be a minority in

00:23:29.360 the House. I saw I heard someone last night say that it's possible that Republicans take control of the

00:23:33.720 I don't see the possibility of that happening at all. I mean, hopefully I'm wrong, but I don't I

00:23:39.980 don't think that that's possible at all. We're still waiting on, I think, a few results to come

00:23:44.780 in, but it's it's just not going to happen. But Republicans have a very strong minority in the

00:23:51.040 House. Democrats did not anticipate that. They thought in the Senate that it was very likely that

00:23:56.340 they were going to take the majority. They flipped two seats, gaining one so far. Again,

00:24:01.300 we're still waiting for some results there. In Georgia, there's going to be a special election

00:24:05.620 between Kelly Loeffler and Warnock. Warnock is a far left Democrat. It would be terrible if he won

00:24:12.080 that Senate race against Kelly Loeffler. I don't think I don't know if she's a strong enough

00:24:16.820 candidate. I honestly don't. But we'll see what happens. I think come January, Republican flipped

00:24:21.800 one in the Senate. And the one that they did flip was pretty obvious. Doug Jones got ousted out of the

00:24:30.340 Senate. That was honestly kind of a mistake that he won in the first place against Tommy

00:24:33.700 Tuberville. A Republican Tom Tillis will probably win in the Senate race in North Carolina. David

00:24:39.620 Perdue will probably win in the Senate race in Georgia. But we are still trying to figure that

00:24:45.600 out right now. So it just was not the blue wave that Democrats anticipated at all. And I think that in

00:24:55.200 and of itself is amazing to me like that in and of itself gives me a comfort because what you hear

00:25:01.440 so constantly is that the Republican Party is totally out of step with most of the country.

00:25:06.560 Some of the exit polls that we saw last night, it was I mean, they were ridiculous exit polls. I was

00:25:11.680 like, there's no way this is true. This is before before we got any results. The election or the exit

00:25:18.960 polls were asking questions like, do you want government health care? What do you think about abortion

00:25:22.860 restrictions? And it was so far to the left. It was like 72 percent of exit poll responders said that

00:25:29.980 they want said that they want government run health care. And 60 percent of exit poll responders say that

00:25:37.480 they don't want any restrictions on abortion, like something like that, something crazy like that.

00:25:42.320 And 60 percent say they want a mask mandate, a federal mask mandate. And I was like, wow,

00:25:47.100 if this is really how the country thinks, then I am in more of a minority than what I thought. But what

00:25:54.280 we see from last night, even if Joe Biden wins, is that it's going to be a close presidential race.

00:26:01.720 First of all, Republicans made gains or Democrats said that they could not make gains. This country

00:26:06.580 just is not as far to the left as Democrats want to believe that it is. This whole game of critical race

00:26:13.000 theory and white guilt in identity politics, it just doesn't resonate with enough people. And I have

00:26:19.960 to remind myself of that. The world is not Twitter, that very few Americans spend their time on Twitter

00:26:25.060 or even Instagram. And that kind of colors my view of the world. And it makes me think people in America

00:26:30.960 are a lot further left and more people are on the left than than really are. But the reality is,

00:26:36.420 is that most people vote with their pocketbooks. Most people vote for the safety and security of their

00:26:41.440 family, both economically and the physical safety and security of their family. They're voting for

00:26:46.440 jobs. They're voting for economic opportunity. And a lot of Americans aren't stupid enough to believe

00:26:51.780 that the Democrats who have been calling for lockdowns are also going to be the ones to save

00:26:56.980 the economy. I mean, Joe Biden and and Barack Obama oversaw the slowest recovery, economic recovery,

00:27:04.420 after the recession that America has ever seen. That recovery accelerated massively under Trump,

00:27:11.440 due to a lot of its policies. And I think a lot of Americans see that maybe, maybe Donald Trump

00:27:18.620 loses because, you know, the media campaign has been effective against him. The negative rhetoric

00:27:25.400 against him has just, you know, caught hold of a lot of people. And, you know, he works against himself

00:27:31.740 in a lot of ways. And so maybe Joe Biden, in a razor thin margin, maybe he pulls it off and he wins

00:27:38.920 the presidency. But the fact that it was so small, when there's been so much negative coverage of

00:27:45.120 Donald Trump, when the entirety of big tech, when all of corporate America, when all of the mainstream

00:27:51.400 media and social media is against Donald Trump, internationally, there is a push against Donald

00:27:59.720 Trump. The fact that Joe Biden might, well, Donald Trump might win, but the fact that Joe Biden might win

00:28:05.760 by a tiny, tiny, tiny margin shows you that this country is not where Democrats think that it is

00:28:13.040 and not where leftists around the world want it to be. It just isn't. That's, that's the truth.

00:28:19.740 Um, now let's look at some of the demographics and how they broke down. Um, so, uh, 58 percent

00:28:37.040 white men went for Donald Trump, 40 percent for Joe Biden, 55 percent white women went for, uh, went for

00:28:47.400 Donald Trump, 43, uh, 43 percent for Joe Biden. Now that is interesting because, uh, it went up a

00:28:57.380 little bit among white women for Trump in 2000, in 2016, 52 percent of white women voted for Donald

00:29:05.860 Trump, 43 percent for Hillary Clinton. So in 2020, it's 55 percent. And we have been hearing that there

00:29:11.880 is going to be this big falling away of white women from Donald Trump because white women are just

00:29:17.120 realizing that, you know, Donald Trump is the Antichrist and they are just going to leave him

00:29:24.300 in droves. Well, that didn't happen. He gained three percent of the white female vote. Um, 18 percent

00:29:31.580 black men voted for Donald Trump again, compared to, uh, 13 percent, uh, last time, eight percent black

00:29:41.400 women, Latino men, 36 percent went for Donald Trump compared to 32 percent last time. Latino women,

00:29:51.080 28 percent for Donald Trump compared to 25 percent last time. And so he made gains there. Um, and so

00:29:59.320 that's, that's the, the gender and racial breakdown between last year and this year. So, I mean, Trump

00:30:06.400 gained in a lot of these categories. Now, among evangelical Christians, let me, uh, let me pull

00:30:14.780 that up. Are you, so New York Times asked this in an exit poll. Are you a white evangelical or white

00:30:21.040 born again? Christian 76 percent voted for Donald Trump compared to 23 percent voted for Joe Biden. Now,

00:30:31.600 that is a little bit down among white evangelicals from 2016. For Donald Trump, it was, let's see,

00:30:41.120 last time it was 81 percent voted for Donald Trump, white evangelical Christians, and this time it was

00:30:47.420 76 percent. So it did go down five points. That's not very significant, but it is, it is something,

00:30:54.660 it is something to speak of. And I think, honestly, that goes, uh, that speaks to the efforts of Joe

00:31:01.200 Biden's campaign to recruit those white evangelicals. I mean, I'm in the white evangelical world and I

00:31:07.880 see a lot of it. A lot of them have gone woke. A lot of pro-life white evangelicals I've seen on

00:31:14.360 social media say, oh, you know, I'm, I'm voting for Donald or I'm voting for Joe Biden for decency.

00:31:20.060 I am voting for him because he cares about all of these other issues. We've also debunked that myth

00:31:25.540 on this show. Um, but even with all of that, there was only a five percent difference. That is

00:31:33.580 something, but it's not a lot. It is not, um, really relative to the effort that they seem to

00:31:41.420 put in, in the Biden campaign to get those white evangelicals. It just didn't work as well as they

00:31:47.120 wanted it to. 76 percent still went for Donald Trump. And of course, people on the left are going

00:31:52.300 to say that's because of racism. They're going to say that that is, um, that that's just because,

00:31:58.780 you know, bigotry and all that craziness. They will not make any effort. They won't make any effort

00:32:05.480 whatsoever, uh, to try to understand why we care about our constitutional rights and how we see the

00:32:11.620 current state of the democratic party fighting against those constitutional rights. Uh, it was Chrissy

00:32:17.560 Teigen who said on, uh, on Twitter, it's insane what our fears are. If we lose, I'm guessing she's

00:32:26.360 talking about people on the left compared to their fears. Conservatives, if Biden wins, like we will,

00:32:32.320 like we will probably all die or be handmaids and they're worried about bathroom safety. Now, Chrissy

00:32:38.100 Teigen, I came to your defense when people were, I think very viciously and cruelly calling you out for

00:32:46.780 taking pictures when you lost your sweet, precious child. And I am still so sad and sorry about that.

00:32:54.040 I prayed for you during that time. And I didn't think that anyone had the rights to be criticizing

00:32:59.760 you during that time and your personal decision to post pictures, which I thought, you know, I had

00:33:04.700 nothing wrong with that decision. So, you know, I'm not saying this out of hatefulness, but this

00:33:11.640 statement that you made is so perfectly indicative of why the left isn't more popular. Like why the

00:33:19.400 Democrats, even if they win the presidency, why they don't have these landslide victories that they

00:33:25.740 assumed that they're going to have, like they assumed that they were going to have in 2016, in 2018, like

00:33:30.320 they assumed that they were going to have this year. They just don't. And the reason why that is, is because

00:33:35.280 you guys do not understand or make any effort to understand why we vote the way that we do. Maybe

00:33:41.920 it's because we don't like socialism. Like maybe it's because we actually believe in free speech and

00:33:46.820 in the first amendment, the electoral college and the impartiality of the Supreme Court. Maybe we don't

00:33:52.040 want socialism. So Meghan McCain, I think explains this really well. She says, she says this in a tweet,

00:33:58.260 normalizing socialism, mostly peaceful protesting, cancel culture, insane tax rates, arrogant identity

00:34:04.640 politics, apologizing for loving America and patriotism and overall coastal elitism about

00:34:09.820 Christianity and anyone, anyone making under a hundred K a year there. I explained it Democrats.

00:34:16.220 And she is replying to a tweet that talks about that Tuesday was a failure for Democrats. The tweet

00:34:21.420 that I will read in just a second from someone that works at Politico, but she's absolutely right.

00:34:26.120 And Democrats, people on the left, especially the celebrity left, because they are so insulated

00:34:30.660 from reality. They don't understand why people possibly could think differently. Why people who

00:34:36.880 make less than a hundred K a year actually want an economy that provides them with some kind of

00:34:42.600 opportunity and freedom. They don't understand that in the slightest. They're like, why, why don't you

00:34:46.960 just care about my transgender bills? Like I do, because it doesn't affect people's life the way that

00:34:53.300 you think that it should. So normalizing socialism, absolutely true. And you can say that's fear

00:34:59.920 mongering. That's propaganda. It's not. They have democratic socialists in the party that almost won

00:35:05.900 the democratic nomination that worked on Joe Biden's unity task force. They are self-described

00:35:11.420 socialists. I mean, you've got a self-described Marxist organization supporting the democratic party,

00:35:18.260 the democratic party supporting them. And so it is totally normal for people who have fled

00:35:23.160 socialism, for people who have read about socialism to be scared of socialism coming to America via the

00:35:30.700 democratic party. That is totally rational, uh, based on the things that they have said and the things that

00:35:36.120 they have promised. And again, Kamala Harris coming out and saying, oh, we need equality of outcome.

00:35:41.580 Yeah, that's communism. That's what every communist dictator has said for the past 100 years. And so people

00:35:47.440 are worried about socialism. Normalizing socialism is going to push people away. Mostly peaceful

00:35:53.600 protesting. She's referring to the media saying that, oh yeah, Kenosha might be burning down.

00:35:59.940 Minneapolis might be burning to the ground. People might be looting and rioting and little kids and

00:36:05.120 elderly people and vulnerable women and children in these areas, poor women and children in these areas

00:36:09.960 are put at a lot of risk, but it's probably fine. And you know what? Riots are the voice of the

00:36:15.060 herd. It's, it's probably okay, but it's mostly peaceful. Anyway, anyone with eyes watches that

00:36:21.180 and is like, I don't want that to come to my, I don't want them to come to my County, my city,

00:36:25.680 my neighborhood. Meanwhile, they're talking about Joe Biden is talking about taking away my guns,

00:36:30.080 making it harder for me to get guns and defunding the police. That doesn't sound safe. That's why

00:36:34.200 you're not getting more people. Yeah. That actually scares people, Chrissy Teigen, who don't have private

00:36:40.000 security and don't live in a gated community within a gated home. Like, yeah, that affects

00:36:45.500 people's life. And she also talks about Meghan McCain, cancel culture. People don't want to live

00:36:51.780 in a country to where free speech might be a part of the constitution, but it doesn't actually exist

00:36:57.680 because if they express their very normal political opinions, they might get fired from

00:37:02.240 their job or they might be facing a social media mob, arrogant identity politics. Again,

00:37:09.140 assuming people, assuming that people actually care about intersectionality. It, it just, it,

00:37:15.320 it, it's not something that normal middle of the country people care about thinking that someone

00:37:20.540 like Kamala Harris, who couldn't even pull it 1% in the democratic primary was going to win any of

00:37:25.180 the black vote when she didn't at all. That's arrogance. It obviously didn't work. Apologizing for

00:37:30.840 loving America and patriotism. We have seen that only 22% according to Gallup in 2019 of Democrats

00:37:37.160 said they're extremely proud to be Americans. They think patriotism is bad. I mean, they're the

00:37:42.600 party of the 1619 project. They're the party that says America is fundamentally bad. We need to

00:37:47.820 basically start over. Most Americans don't feel that way. Overall coastal elitism about Christianity.

00:37:54.900 Yes, that is absolutely true. We saw that when they were talking about Amy Coney Barrett and her family

00:37:59.500 and how she is able to do all the things that she does and condescending her and just completely

00:38:05.560 misunderstanding anything about evangelicalism or conservative Catholicism, um, that comes out

00:38:12.860 and people don't like that. I mean, the people who are reporting the journalists in the media,

00:38:17.880 they don't, most of them do not understand the rest of the country. Like on a fundamental level,

00:38:22.320 they don't understand our concerns. Like they don't understand our fears that is reflected in these

00:38:26.920 elections. Again, even if Joe Biden wins, I'm not saying no Democrats ever win. And they have a lot

00:38:32.960 of effective strategies, I think, to try to win over some conservatives. But the reason why they're not

00:38:37.960 seeing the blue wave, that all the money that goes into their, uh, campaigns indicate that they should

00:38:46.780 be getting, uh, is because of this is because of these issues. And until the Democrats take a good,

00:38:53.380 hard look at themselves and say, you know what? We've gone too far left and we're having too hard

00:38:58.880 of a time. We're having too hard of a time getting the people in the middle of the country and we're

00:39:02.440 just not going to be able to convince them. And uh-oh, we might be losing some of the black vote

00:39:06.180 and the Hispanic vote. That's not good. Unless they take a good, hard look at themselves and realize

00:39:10.900 that the country is not the country of the 1619 Project. We're not the country of critical race theory.

00:39:16.580 We're not the country of intersectionality. We're not the country of Antifa riots.

00:39:21.520 We're not the country who wants communism. Like you might be able to indoctrinate enough young

00:39:26.080 people into thinking that these things are okay, but you're going to have to live with the rest of

00:39:29.320 us for a while. And you're going to have to figure out at some point that it's you. It's not everyone

00:39:34.440 else. Like I was thinking about this earlier. I was talking to my husband. I was like, they're like

00:39:38.580 the women in, in, uh, he's just not that into you. They don't realize that the reason why the guy

00:39:45.960 didn't call is because you're annoying because he doesn't want to talk to you because after the first

00:39:50.860 state, you were a creep. That is how a lot of people, that's how the Democratic Party needs to

00:39:56.120 think. They need to think, okay, you know, like why didn't these voters, these Christian voters,

00:40:01.020 why didn't more of these people, why didn't Cuban Americans vote for us instead of saying,

00:40:06.040 which so many people are now saying on, on Twitter, that it's racism and sexism, that that's

00:40:13.020 the real reason why Donald Trump is doing well and Republicans are doing well. Instead of just

00:40:18.420 playing that same old game that is so tired, that people are so tired of, why don't you just look

00:40:23.480 in the mirror for one second and say, oh, the reason why they didn't call us back is because

00:40:27.200 I'm terrible, because I'm super annoying, because I'm just like, I'm not attractive and I'm not

00:40:33.160 appealing. Like maybe you should just have a self-reckoning for a second and realize most people

00:40:38.300 don't want the brand of leftism that you're selling. Yes, at one point, the Democratic Party had

00:40:43.940 a better platform that was appealing to a wider swath of Americans that could still be appealing.

00:40:49.780 I think that you could probably say, you know, we want better health care. You could run on that.

00:40:55.720 You could say, you know, we want, you could even say we want common sense gun laws.

00:41:01.500 And we want to make sure that the poor are taken care of whatever. But most people see that the

00:41:08.260 Democratic Party is the party of abortion through nine months on demand, funded by the taxpayer.

00:41:13.640 You are the party of either soft socialism or outright socialism. You are the party of Antifa.

00:41:20.980 You're the party of Black Lives Matter rioters. And most people don't want that. You're the party of

00:41:25.200 intersectionality and critical race theory. Most people don't even comprehend what the heck you're

00:41:28.860 talking about. You're the party run by the guy who said that it's fine for eight year olds to be

00:41:34.240 transgender. Most people don't want that. Most people don't want that. And so until the Democratic

00:41:39.220 Party looks into the mirror and says, OK, we got it, we got to get out these radicals. We got to

00:41:44.840 denounce the radicalism. And we've got to kind of move to the center. And we've got to focus on these

00:41:49.180 policy issues that are popular. And we've got to stop the radicalism and the far leftism that has just

00:41:55.920 intoxicated our party. You're not going to see a blue wave. You're just not. Not outside of ballot

00:42:01.360 harvesting voter fraud and just outright tyranny. You're just not going to see it. You're going to

00:42:07.340 win some elections here and there, of course. You're going to win over some voters. Yeah, that's

00:42:11.920 that's true. That's that's going to happen. But you're not going to see the blue wave that you've

00:42:16.040 been predicting at least since 2016. It's just not going to happen. Even when Barack Obama was

00:42:21.000 president, Republican legislatures were dominating in the states. And it's because the majority of

00:42:28.720 Americans, even if some of them vote Democrat moderately, they think that they're moderate.

00:42:33.500 They're not on board with the far leftism. And until Democrats realize that it's not us, it's you,

00:42:39.880 you're not going to see the blue wave that you want to see. So that's my that's my take on all of that.

00:42:48.560 It's a crazy time. We don't know. We don't know what's going to happen quite yet. I feel pretty

00:42:54.240 comfortable as long as it is sure that Republicans are going to keep the Senate no matter what wins

00:42:59.420 with what happens with the presidency. Of course. Do I want Donald Trump to win the presidency? Of

00:43:03.780 course I do. And there's still a chance for him to do that. And I think this is going to be litigated.

00:43:08.980 Donald Trump is already talking about them trying to steal the election. I don't think that he should

00:43:13.120 be talking about that. I think that that is a little premature to be talking about that. I also just

00:43:18.360 don't think it's helpful. I don't think it's helpful. Like, let's not raise the temperature

00:43:22.920 anymore in this crazy contentious time. Just say, like, look, I'm going to be patient. We're going

00:43:28.700 to figure this out. We're not going to let any fraudulent stuff happen. Democrats should say the

00:43:33.240 same thing. We're not going to let fraud happen. We're going to make sure every vote is counted.

00:43:37.380 We're going to make every make sure every vote is counted with integrity. Say that. Don't make

00:43:41.980 accusations yet. Don't jump to conclusions yet. The last thing we need to do

00:43:46.440 is to raise the temperature by saying that the election is stolen when we just like we just

00:43:53.800 don't know that. That's I think that's all. Oh, let me let me say this. I thought that this was

00:44:07.200 interesting. So and this just goes to show again what we were talking about, how Democrats just have

00:44:12.540 not been able to reconcile with reality. Amy McGrath, she she ran against Mitch McConnell and

00:44:20.080 Jamie Harrison. He ran against Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. Amy McGrath and Jamie Harrison

00:44:25.780 raised a combined $199,004,686. That is $200 million combined their campaign spent and lost

00:44:40.880 to both Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham by a combined 35 points. That's that is something I

00:44:48.940 mean, we kind of see this a lot like John Ossoff in Georgia. He's been well funded. We saw this with

00:44:55.640 Beto back in 2018. So well funded, just national push for these people to unseat these incumbent senators

00:45:03.560 and celebrity endorsements and all that stuff. And to no avail, to no avail, hundreds of millions

00:45:12.680 of dollars to no avail. I just don't think Democrats have a good they don't have a finger on the pulse

00:45:19.120 of America. Oh, let me read you this tweet from Politico from Anna Palmer at Politico. I I really like

00:45:28.020 her. I think that she is a fair person that works there. She said she said this today's so today's

00:45:35.580 playbook. What blue wave Tuesday was an abject disaster for Democrats in Washington. I'm this is

00:45:41.160 not a this is not a conservative commentator, by the way, an abject disaster for Democrats in

00:45:46.900 Washington to imagine the amount of soul searching and explaining the party will have to do after Tuesday

00:45:50.960 is absolutely dizzying. The infighting will be bloody as it should be. Democrats told us in the weeks

00:45:56.880 and months leading up to the election, leading up to election day that they were on track to win the

00:46:01.820 majority of the Senate. And they don't appear poised to do that. D's and R's said that Dems would

00:46:06.460 win a dozen seats in the House and knock off a whole host of Republican incumbents. And that was

00:46:10.960 completely wrong. Instead, they'll have north of 200 House seats, making House R's extremely powerful

00:46:15.200 minority with no matter who wins the White House. Wow, that is crazy. And so that's kind of the

00:46:22.880 commentary that we are getting from some people in the media. And I appreciate that. Like, I appreciate

00:46:28.120 that on his commentary rather than just saying it was racism and sexism, which just gets us nowhere.

00:46:33.720 So as you guys know, God is not surprised. He's not thrown off. He's still on his throne. He's not

00:46:39.080 wondering what's going to happen. He's not still counting up the votes. I mean, the Bible says that

00:46:43.400 all of the hairs on our head are all numbered. That's what Matthew 10 says. And so God has all of the

00:46:49.020 votes. Number two, he knows exactly how many votes there are for each candidate. He knows exactly

00:46:53.800 what's going on behind closed doors. He knew exactly who each of us were going to vote for

00:46:57.400 before we did. He knew the results of the election. He knows the results of the election. Now he knows

00:47:01.900 how the litigation is going to go. He knows every single thing that is going to happen and nothing

00:47:07.200 can thwart his will. Nothing happens apart from his sovereign will. That doesn't mean that he likes

00:47:13.200 everything that happens. That doesn't mean that he approves of everything that happens,

00:47:17.540 but nothing thwarts his will. Job 42.2 says that. It says, nothing is too hard for you.

00:47:26.400 And so God can do anything that he wants to do. We should pray for a speedy process. We should pray

00:47:31.620 for integrity in this election, no matter which way it goes. We shouldn't assume just because Joe Biden

00:47:36.340 wins, even if it seems weird to us, which it does seem weird in places like Wisconsin and Michigan,

00:47:41.280 but we shouldn't assume that that is because of fraud. We shouldn't automatically latch on

00:47:46.020 to that narrative. We can, of course, be skeptical. We can ask questions, but we can't just assume that.

00:47:51.420 We have to pray for an efficient and an honest process, for a quick process, for there to be

00:47:58.880 as little controversy as possible. I know that's hoping against hope for God to be glorified and for

00:48:04.560 Christians, for us to be joyful and for us to be at peace, for us to go about doing the things

00:48:09.260 that we are called to do, to love our neighbor, to love our family, to be obedient, to be in prayer,

00:48:16.400 to be in the word, to not let our anxiety crush us. I mean, I slept fine last night. I slept fine

00:48:23.060 the night before last too. I know God is completely sovereign. So we can enjoy the beauty and the peace

00:48:30.840 of God being in complete control, knowing that he knows exactly what's going to happen. He's never

00:48:37.860 thrown off or surprised, and he is not limited by time or space. He is certainly not tied to the outcome

00:48:43.860 of the election. His kingdom ever never ends, and he will rule in perfect peace forever. And so we can

00:48:51.620 trust in that and rejoice in that. So that's where I am right now. I'll keep you guys updated on

00:48:55.780 Instagram. I'll probably do like an Instagram live later because I know all this stuff is changing

00:49:00.380 by the moment. But I will be back here on Friday. I'll talk to you guys then.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - November 04, 2020

Ep 322 ｜ It Ain't Over

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