The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 124 – Paths to 270 Remain Open For Trump and Biden. Is The Era of Speaker Pelosi Almost Over？ Lil Wayne Chooses Trump Over Girlfriend. French Bulldog Wins Mayoral Race in KY.

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

00:00:13.980 welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news boat counting still

00:00:21.660 happening and it appears both candidates still have a path to victory right now it looks like

00:00:27.760 the president is closing the gap in arizona each ballot drop resulting in a reduction in the biden

00:00:34.720 lead in that state now it's down to about 60 000 votes with more than 400 000 votes left to be cast

00:00:41.220 and in the last two tranches the president has done what he's needed to do getting 57 to 59 percent

00:00:47.220 of that vote in the state of georgia we see that the number of ballots remaining to be counted doesn't

00:00:54.040 appear to be sufficient to allow joe biden to take a lead it's it's going to be very close in

00:00:59.020 both arizona and georgia maybe five ten thousand votes either way could decide it and lord knows 0.93

00:01:05.060 what's going on in pennsylvania there it looks like they are continuing to have a large number of

00:01:12.580 ballots left to be counted the president won the election day vote overwhelmingly you'll remember

00:01:18.060 from prior episodes of the podcast this is exactly what i said would happen no one really believed

00:01:24.300 that donald trump wouldn't win the election day vote he did overwhelmingly and then there is now this

00:01:30.420 period of uncertainty from the tuesday election until now on thursday where we really have a media

00:01:40.200 narrative that is controlling more than maybe the votes themselves ap and fox news calling arizona

00:01:46.920 obviously prematurely it's obviously premature just based on the ballots we see coming in and what

00:01:52.660 i thought was particularly noteworthy was yesterday brett bayer was pressing someone from

00:01:58.000 the fox decision desk about these outstanding votes left to be counted in arizona and the fox

00:02:02.960 decision desk said well we're not worried about those because donald trump's only going to get about

00:02:07.840 45 percent of that vote the reality is he's getting a lot more of that vote particularly in the early

00:02:14.360 tranches now i've seen some reporting from arizona sources saying that as more and more of those

00:02:20.180 ballots are counted they're going to be more people in those pools that do not have major party affiliation

00:02:26.840 so they've been pretty republican to date but there are several uh of those batches of ballots that have

00:02:34.420 a large number of no major party voters now i don't think that necessarily means they're not voting

00:02:38.560 for donald trump remember this is arizona i think a lot of those voters are a bit older a bit whiter

00:02:45.100 they've moved from other parts of the country to arizona for climate and tax reasons for low cost

00:02:51.320 of living and those might be just the type of voters who would break at the end toward president

00:02:56.680 trump so i'm not saying he won arizona i'm not saying he didn't i'm saying that the call was way too

00:03:02.140 early and more importantly the assumptions baked into that call regarding the percentage of the

00:03:07.700 outstanding vote just was wrong it just wasn't accurate and there hasn't been a reckoning for

00:03:14.240 that for fox news yet i don't think it's a good sign for fox news to have people draped in trump

00:03:19.780 flags chanting fox news sucks i think that erodes the confidence that exists between this the major

00:03:25.840 news network in our country and the people who turn to that channel for news and commentary it does

00:03:32.860 appear to be a strained relationship at the moment i also want to make mention of the decision

00:03:37.680 to count these mail-in ballots after the election and i know in different places different you know

00:03:43.520 the legislature might have made that call or a governor or a state elections official might have

00:03:47.640 made that call here's how we do it in florida first we count all the ballots that were in before

00:03:55.080 election day and in fact that count happens before election day and then on election day you find out

00:04:01.520 the election day vote and that's why we were able to get a result out of the state of florida in a

00:04:06.340 pretty timely and orderly fashion the reason we do that is because you're always able to ascertain

00:04:12.640 the universe of total ballots you see when you do election day first and then you spend days or

00:04:18.800 weeks or however long counting the mail-in ballot it becomes harder to ascertain well how many ballots

00:04:24.380 really are there out there and the concern is you don't want a situation where people just want to

00:04:29.260 obtain the requisite number of ballots necessary to flip an election in the event of fraud i'm not saying

00:04:35.340 that's the case but i am a bit confused when i see reporting that 28 000 ballots in philadelphia

00:04:43.220 county pennsylvania were on a pallet and all of them were for joe biden literally 100 percent of

00:04:49.920 them not one out of those 28 000 in this particular pool went for donald trump or similar reports in

00:04:56.640 michigan where there was a pallet of over 120 000 ballots all of them for joe biden it almost makes you

00:05:04.160 wonder whether or not that's the consequence of actual humans voting their ballots or whether that's

00:05:09.900 a consequence of some machine that harvested ballots without the person's actual vote being

00:05:18.660 manifested through that ballot so again i i not saying that this is explicit evidence of fraud i'm

00:05:27.040 saying it's very fishy and you can cure that you can bring greater confidence to the process if you

00:05:34.840 get those legitimately cast mail-in ballots counted before the election that's what we do in florida

00:05:41.720 it might be a better model for the nation than what we're going through now

00:05:45.480 in the house of representatives right now nancy pelosi is dealing with quite the consternation among

00:05:55.160 her membership house democrats believed that they would actually grow their majority in this election

00:06:00.360 believing the pollsters and pundits who were all projecting this biden blowout this blue wave 2.0

00:06:08.880 the reality is that did not come to fruition many of the polling entities now have a good amount of egg on

00:06:15.400 their face and also the number of democrats is shrinking in the house of representatives not growing

00:06:22.000 republicans may be picking up seven seats i know there's still some sorting out of some ballots out

00:06:27.840 in california where there's still some competitive seats but certainly the republican majority growing

00:06:33.660 growing through the addition of additional conservative women veterans minorities and there will be some in

00:06:42.120 the democratic caucus who say this is a consequence of going too far left there will be some who say that

00:06:48.480 it's the consequence of not going left enough and they'll have that little battle here's my hot take

00:06:54.060 elections are about the quality of the candidates and i'll give pelosi and the democrats credit in 2018

00:07:01.520 they recruited an excellent slate of candidates and beat a lot of republicans but i think in this

00:07:07.720 particular election our candidates were better we had folks from really a wide array of professional

00:07:15.320 and personal experiences and we brought it to them in florida we flipped two seats down in miami-dade

00:07:22.260 county there no doubt the democrat embrace of socialism uh really cut against them in miami-dade county

00:07:30.420 not just for cuban americans but for venezuelan americans el salvadorian americans uh nicaraguans you know a lot

00:07:39.560 of south america has been decimated by socialism and far left-wing politics and so for the democrats to embrace that

00:07:49.000 it really drove away a lot of hispanics that might have been unique to florida i don't know that they lost hispanic support

00:07:56.820 to the same degree in arizona but i guess when you look at texas you know there uh there were a lot of hispanics that

00:08:03.420 came the president's way so maybe not constrained to florida and and ultimately we'll see how the final

00:08:08.760 result shakes out in arizona i do know one thing there is an arizona scottsdale area seat currently

00:08:14.400 held by congressman david schweikert on election night that appeared to show schweikert behind but

00:08:21.120 now that we've had these additional votes coming in from arizona he's retaken the lead so it may be an

00:08:27.600 even better day for republicans in the final tabulation uh when we look at our control over

00:08:35.840 portions of the membership and if nancy pelosi is nursing you know a majority that's in the single

00:08:42.280 digits low low double digits that becomes a governance problem for her it may become a problem for her 0.98

00:08:49.180 election as speaker they may have to have a different candidate that's that's less divisive even within

00:08:54.220 their own caucus but i've learned this after four years in washington i don't bet against nancy pelosi

00:08:59.640 because she is a ruthless political operative highly highly effective at managing her fellow democrats

00:09:06.880 and she rules them with an iron fist so we'll see if she's able to maintain power 1.00

00:09:11.580 but they were not able to maintain the same number of congressional seats

00:09:15.880 the hills justine coleman has a story that we all may need right now

00:09:23.640 french bulldog wilbur beast wins mayoral race in kentucky and the photo they have we'll tweet it out

00:09:32.200 shows the french bulldog in quite the mayoral pose the french bulldog prevailed over a rescue pit bull

00:09:39.980 he got 13 143 votes a total of 22 985 votes were cast in rabbit hash kentucky

00:09:51.140 in rabbit hash they've had dogs as mayors since the 90s they serve as ambassadors for the town

00:09:58.500 and each vote apparently comes with a dollar toward the animal politician of their choice i guess and so

00:10:07.340 the uh runner-up and third place winner were beagle jack rabbit and golden retriever poppy they will

00:10:15.700 serve as ambassadors for rabbit hash kentucky a spokesperson for the mayor elect wilbur beast

00:10:22.420 was his human amy nolad she thanked supporters for the win congratulations to the new mayor

00:10:30.340 six counties in virginia vote to keep confederate monuments the story comes to us from justthenews.com's

00:10:41.140 sophie mann and in these six rural virginia counties there were non-binding resolutions and

00:10:48.440 you often saw approval rating for the monuments exceeding 70 percent in 2020 a virginia house bill

00:10:55.520 removed language from state law that made it illegal for local authorities to disturb or interfere with

00:11:01.860 monuments and memorials the past ballot measures require local authorities to present residents with

00:11:08.400 30 day notice for public hearings in which officials vote on removing monuments but it is interesting

00:11:14.940 to see that in the circumstances where this question was put before the voters there wasn't really this

00:11:21.320 desire to virtue signal or erase history and it's long been my view that we shouldn't be tearing down

00:11:27.720 our monuments or our history even in the case of confederate monuments if anything we should add to them

00:11:33.960 provide richer context deeper understanding of the social circumstances and events of the moments

00:11:40.580 and recognize that as tragic and awful as the civil war was we have come back from it we have stitched this

00:11:48.520 great nation back together and we are moving forward with a great sense of determination and prosperity

00:11:55.400 foxy knoxy getting into it with piers morgan on social media folks may remember amanda knox the american

00:12:06.940 student who went to study abroad in italy her roommate meredith kircher was brutally murdered

00:12:13.400 in the residence that they shared amanda knox was not at the residence she was off with her boyfriend

00:12:20.400 raffaele selecito at the time the italian authorities arrest amanda knox try her for murder convict her

00:12:27.520 she is then released based on an appeal that showed that the forensic evidence was not well maintained she

00:12:35.440 returns to the united states they then overturn that appeal but of course she does not return to italy

00:12:42.620 i studied the facts pretty closely as this was going on my belief was that amanda knox

00:12:48.480 was not guilty of this crime that in fact rudy gaday who was fleeing was apprehended was directly linked to the crime

00:12:57.740 scene was in fact the perpetrator of this and amanda knox tweets out during this election period of uncertainty

00:13:05.260 no matter how bad the next four years may be it will not be worse than my four-year study abroad in italy

00:13:12.440 again a good amount of that she spent behind bars piers morgan lashes out back at amanda knox saying that

00:13:19.540 she should not utilize humor that there was tragedy here associated with this young woman who was murdered

00:13:26.340 amanda knox then says that she is not in any way utilizing humor in relation to the trauma others felt

00:13:33.800 but she feels entitled to joke about her own incarceration and to deal with her trauma in that

00:13:40.540 way here's my hot take if another country falsely imprisons you for a crime you didn't commit a vicious

00:13:47.260 high profile crime like the murder of your roommate i think you get to joke about it afterwards and i don't

00:13:55.240 think piers morgan gets to really say anything about it so here's to foxy noxy i'm glad she's back in the united

00:14:02.060 states terrible tragic outcome but it certainly goes to show us how lucky we are to live in a country

00:14:08.720 like the united states of america with due process with protections for the accused and uh we'll see

00:14:15.900 if amanda knox continues to offer political commentary going forward

00:14:20.500 bros before well you know how the saying goes and apparently lil wayne does too lil wayne sticking with

00:14:31.020 president trump over his relationship page six reporting that lil wayne's model girlfriend

00:14:37.800 denise bidot has left him as a consequence of his support for president trump the 38 year old

00:14:43.960 took to twitter to talk about the breakup he said i live the way i love and love the way i live

00:14:51.740 i'm a lover not a lighter because they burn out i am an eternal flame of fire and burning love either

00:15:00.220 leave with a tan or a third degree burn or stay and die in love sincerely the fireman lil wayne

00:15:09.100 choosing to stick to his politics more than maybe this particular romance we wish him luck and we wish

00:15:17.620 the young lady luck who i guess has to find a better woketopian match thanks for listening to hot takes 1.00

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - November 05, 2020

Episode 124 – Paths to 270 Remain Open For Trump and Biden. Is The Era of Speaker Pelosi Almost Over？ Lil Wayne Chooses Trump Over Girlfriend. French Bulldog Wins Mayoral Race in KY.

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