The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz

00:00:00.000 you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not

00:00:06.120 be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended

00:00:09.780 with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates

00:00:13.960 happy election day everyone welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the

00:00:21.580 news and the news today is the voting that is occurring to choose our next president i think

00:00:27.780 one of the best hot takes came from president trump's campaign manager my good friend bill

00:00:32.420 stepian and bill walks through some specific data on what has to be done today by the president's

00:00:39.300 supporters to re-elect him so i'm going to read this thread from bill stepian you can check it out

00:00:44.500 we'll put it out on social media too he writes so there's been a lot of bluster from pollsters and

00:00:49.680 pundits about what we should expect president trump has the momentum in this race and the math available

00:00:55.460 for him to win on election day president trump is ahead of where he was in 2016 by a very key

00:01:02.280 measure it's the measure that actually matters votes cast and votes left to be cast you've been

00:01:09.780 seeing reports of democrats being nervous and well they should be let's start with ohio where joe biden

00:01:16.200 is wasting a few hours weeks ago the partisan makeup of the electorate was d plus 10 today it's d plus

00:01:23.660 0.6 going into election day in 2016 the gap was d plus 2.5 president trump has a projected election

00:01:33.200 day votes cast margin of over 400 000 net votes president trump's also been campaigning hard in

00:01:41.420 north carolina democrats jumped out to a d plus 32 advantage during absentee only voting today that

00:01:49.460 number is d plus 5.8 going into election day in 2016 the gap was d plus 9.7 president trump has a

00:01:58.300 projected election day votes cast margin of over 400 000 net votes in north carolina as well president

00:02:05.800 trump and biden are also both counting on pennsylvania the dems have banked a ton of high propensity voters

00:02:12.700 we have millions of voters left president trump's election day margin needs to be significant and we

00:02:19.400 project an election day votes cast margin of over a million for president trump so so think about that

00:02:26.360 just for a moment there in pennsylvania i think it's where we've got some of the most work left to do

00:02:31.940 because our margin there is expected to be over a million on election day in those other states we

00:02:37.540 mentioned you know 400 000 300 000 500 000 is more of the range so really need a big effort out of

00:02:44.460 pennsylvania we've also been campaigning hard in arizona weeks ago the makeup of the electorate there

00:02:50.980 was d plus 11.9 today it's d plus 1.2 going into election day in 2016 the gap was d plus 2.5 president

00:03:01.300 trump has an election day votes cast margin expected to be about 150 000 there and that brings

00:03:07.500 us to florida where i don't need to look at the steppian tweet because i've got my own vote tracker

00:03:14.260 my own algorithm that goes in and scrapes from the supervisors of elections that report now this isn't

00:03:20.780 entirely accurate because there are some counties like for example bay county de soto county hardy

00:03:27.760 county jefferson county madison county seminole county union county miami-dade county and sarasota

00:03:32.660 county county that are not included in this uh only miami-dade there is projected to be a big blue

00:03:38.460 county uh actually do i have the orange no i don't have the orange county numbers too and that'll be a

00:03:43.440 big blue county but as we sit right now uh democrats as at the time of recording have a 548 vote margin

00:03:51.500 on votes cast that will disappear in a matter of moments by the time this podcast is posted there will

00:03:58.040 be far more republicans than democrats who have voted in the state of florida so the math is fun

00:04:04.560 and exciting for predictions but we all know that the next several hours are going to decide this thing

00:04:09.280 they're going to decide the kind of country that we're going to have and as i see our nation's capital

00:04:15.440 boarded up in plywood shut down i'm reminded that they aren't doing that out of fear that trump

00:04:22.880 supporters are going to do something devious or destructive or evil it's the party of love and

00:04:28.800 tolerance the democratic party that uh folks are worried will riot and burn uh and engage in really

00:04:37.080 un-american behavior if the president is re-elected i hope he's going to be re-elected and the math says

00:04:43.620 it's quite possible zero hedge.com gives us the report of activations of national guard throughout

00:04:54.480 the country national guard troops have arrived in multiple u.s cities ahead of election night

00:05:00.400 potential chaos in preparation for any emergencies including social unrest following the election

00:05:06.420 results tuesday night the national guard has been deployed in several states fears of election night

00:05:11.360 chaos have gripped state governments for the last month forcing governor charlie baker of massachusetts

00:05:16.820 on monday to activate a thousand massachusetts national guard members and in oregon governor kate brown

00:05:23.480 for the second time in two months has declared a state of emergency for the portland metro area

00:05:28.980 citing potential social unrest surrounding the election governors have also mobilized guard forces in

00:05:35.480 texas alabama and arizona also in major cities elsewhere so we hope that this is not a feature of

00:05:43.880 modern day elections we should not have violence no matter who wins but we should have a fair vote

00:05:51.260 a fairly counted vote and a vote that is determinable and not one that relies on counting ballots

00:05:59.060 a week two three after the election we're better than that and we're better than a country

00:06:04.380 that would do harm to our fellow americans to our property to our businesses and to our cities

00:06:09.780 whether president trump is re-elected today or not and i hope he will be i think many historians will

00:06:19.260 analyze the conditions that brought such a non-conventional person to the highest political office in our land

00:06:26.720 and tucker carlson last night i thought had very insightful analysis a searing hot take on what

00:06:35.760 the donald trump presidency means regarding the perception of the american people of the political

00:06:41.840 elite take a listen to tucker millions of americans sincerely love donald trump they love him in spite of

00:06:48.860 everything they've heard they love him often in spite of himself they're not deluded they know exactly who

00:06:53.760 trump is they love him anyway they love donald trump because no one else loves them the country they

00:07:02.400 built the country their ancestors fought for over hundreds of years has left them to die in their

00:07:08.720 unfashionable little towns mocked and despised by the sneering halfwits with finance degrees but no actual

00:07:15.600 skills who seem to run everything all of a sudden whatever donald trump's faults he is better than the

00:07:22.160 rest of the people in charge at least he doesn't hate them for their weakness donald trump in other

00:07:28.160 words is and has always been a living indictment of the people who run this country that was true

00:07:35.680 four years ago when trump came out of nowhere to win the presidency and it's every bit as true right now

00:07:41.840 maybe even more true than it's ever been and it will remain true regardless of whether donald trump

00:07:47.600 wins re-election trump rose because they failed it's as simple as that if the people in charge had

00:07:55.840 done a halfway decent job with the country they inherited if they cared about anything other than

00:08:01.440 themselves even for just a moment donald trump would still be hosting celebrity apprentice but they didn't

00:08:08.080 instead they were incompetent and narcissistic and cruel and relentlessly dishonest they wrecked what

00:08:13.920 they didn't build they lied about it they hurt anyone who told the truth about what they were doing

00:08:19.680 that's true we watched america is still a great country the best in the world but our ruling class

00:08:26.640 is disgusting a vote for trump is a vote against them

00:08:31.040 on this a bit of a tense election day i would say we all need a good florida man story the new york

00:08:41.120 post has one for us from hannah frishberg florida man catches thousand pound alligator after it stalked

00:08:49.520 him for years and the story is of cory capps who lives in bluntstown florida which is really only about

00:08:57.040 an hour and a half down the road east of where i live and he talks about this thousand pound alligator

00:09:03.520 whenever he would go fishing in the apalachicola river he felt that the alligator would stalk him

00:09:09.040 and he's quoted as saying three different times in the last two months i've been back there fishing

00:09:14.480 and he stalked me so me and him something was going to give between the two of us cory saw the

00:09:21.520 gator lounging and sunning on the beach he got a buddy and a john boat and harpooned the gator it

00:09:29.120 actually ended up taking him quite a bit of time to load the gator up it ended up being 1008 pounds

00:09:35.520 and 13 feet long now it's not a florida record the florida fish and wildlife commission says that the

00:09:41.520 record is 14 feet 3.5 inches long weighing 1043 pounds but what's interesting about this is that i bet

00:09:51.040 you that that record gator that was you know just a few pounds more than than the stalking gator in

00:09:56.080 this case was captured way further south in florida bluntstown the apalachicola river that's in north

00:10:03.680 florida where when we get alligators but we usually don't get the thousand pounders they usually require

00:10:09.680 warmer weather to get to that size down in the florida everglades so looks like the swamps of north

00:10:15.520 florida are getting a bigger breed of gator a bigger size gator and i'm glad cory caps was there to

00:10:24.000 fish this one out of the river

00:10:28.720 reuters has the story of the trump impact on interpersonal family relationships you are no

00:10:36.400 longer my mother a divided america will struggle to heal after the trump era the piece by tim reed

00:10:43.520 gabriella border and michael martina when a lifelong democrat myra gomez told her 21 year old son five

00:10:51.120 months ago that she was voting for donald trump in tuesday's presidential election he cut her out of

00:10:56.000 his life he specifically told me you are no longer my mother because you are voting for trump gomez 41 a

00:11:03.840 personal care worker in milwaukee uh their last conversation was so bitter that she's not sure they

00:11:09.760 can ever reconcile even if trump loses re-election quote the damage is done in people's minds trump

00:11:16.800 is a monster it's sad there are people not talking to me anymore and i'm not sure that will change said

00:11:23.760 gomez who is a fan of trump's crackdown on illegal immigration and handling of the economy i think that

00:11:30.880 we've got to be friends with republicans democrats independents we should still love one another we are

00:11:37.440 each other's fellow americans and i think it's critically important particularly within a family

00:11:43.120 that you don't allow politics to impair what would otherwise be productive love and care and nurturing

00:11:50.880 of one another i hope no matter how this election goes that we can be caring and accepting and

00:11:57.040 understanding of one another but there are a lot of people like mrs gomez who feel like they can't go out

00:12:02.640 there and fly their maga flag at full mast because they'll be ridiculed by family co-workers people

00:12:09.200 that they interact with socially and frankly the hate that i take from the mainstream media from the

00:12:15.200 democrats it's probably you know about the maximum amount of hate other than that which is directed at

00:12:21.200 the president and his family i'm probably right there in that next tier and i think a lot of people

00:12:25.920 look at that and say well you know i can't take on that hate in my life because of my family or what i do but

00:12:32.560 matt gates takes on that hate and he goes and fights for the president and the country i think that

00:12:37.200 creates a very special relationship between me and the maga nation it's a relationship that i believe

00:12:43.280 will endure no matter what the result is of this election but then again i think that for us to truly

00:12:50.000 come together it takes two willing entities i mean if president trump is re-elected are the democrats

00:12:56.960 going to try to impeach him again are they going to try to delegitimize his victory again or will we

00:13:02.640 actually work together get an infrastructure bill continue to drive the economic conditions that will

00:13:08.880 make our fellow americans more prosperous and more successful and richer and throughout the world will

00:13:15.120 america be the best version of itself rather than being the world's piggy bank and the world's policeman

00:13:21.600 that's what it means to put america first and it's the reason i'm putting donald trump first on my ballot

00:13:30.480 horror and death in vienna the result of radical islamic terrorism we pick up the story from bbc

00:13:38.640 vienna shooting austria hunts suspected suspects after the islamist terrorist attack a gunman was shot

00:13:47.120 dead and has been identified as a 20 year old who was released early from jail in december two men and

00:13:54.320 two women died of wounds after a gunman opened fire at six locations in the city center on monday

00:14:01.360 evening 22 people were wounded austrian chancellor sebastian curse says four the four who died were

00:14:08.240 an elderly woman an elderly man a young male passerby and a waitress witnesses have described how

00:14:14.720 the gunmen had opened fire on people outside of bars and chased them as they fled and look in

00:14:21.920 the era of coronavirus where people already are a bit on edge and concerned when they're in social

00:14:28.720 settings certainly this type of political violence this type of terrorism that we see from radical islamic

00:14:36.240 extremists only further erodes the connectivity that we would have with one another so we're certainly

00:14:42.960 hopeful that other gunmen are apprehended and brought to justice

00:14:50.400 on a day when americans are voting and making choices not just on the president but ballot initiatives

00:14:56.320 sometimes it's interesting to look around the world and see how other countries have resolved

00:15:01.280 ballot questions on policy we picked this story up from rnz.com from new zealand where the political

00:15:08.080 story is that they recently had a referendum where they voted to legalize euthanasia but not cannabis

00:15:16.400 that's sort of a strange split 65.2 percent voting in favor of legalization for euthanasia but 53.1

00:15:25.760 voting no against legalization of recreational cannabis you can i guess kill yourself under a euthanasia

00:15:33.840 doctrine but you can't reduce the desire to kill yourself by reducing the pain very strange that

00:15:41.760 that would be how the vote would come out i would like to think that in the united states maybe it

00:15:46.560 would come out differently thanks for listening to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates we'll be here

00:15:52.640 tomorrow breaking down the results seeing what position we find ourselves in regarding the counting

00:15:58.480 and the result and certainly on such an exciting day you'll want to be here for all the hot takes

Episode 122 – Go Vote! Election Night in America. Terror Attacks in Vienna. Florida Man Catches 1,000-Pound Gator!

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