The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 126 - Biden Moves to Force Mask Mandate. Radical Dems Seek Political Domination Through Georgia. Light at the End of the COVID Tunnel？

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

00:00:06.100 be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended

00:00:09.740 with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates

00:00:13.940 welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news is there a light at

00:00:21.940 the end of the tunnel in our fight against coronavirus pfizer ceo dr albert boulard was

00:00:28.320 on cnbc's squawk box with great news about a vaccine take a listen it was exactly what you can

00:00:35.180 imagine it is a great day for science it is a great day for humanity when you realize that

00:00:43.880 your vaccine has a 90 effectiveness that's overwhelming you understand that the hopes of

00:00:52.900 billions of people and millions and businesses and hundreds of governments that were felled on

00:00:59.440 our shoulders now we can credibly try them i think we can see light at the end of the time so dr fauci

00:01:06.420 originally told us that a 50 to 60 success rate for a vaccine would be a winner i know a lot of these

00:01:13.500 drug companies were aiming for that 75 number and so if this vaccine developed by pfizer has a 90

00:01:21.540 success rate that's really something that's really something that would be great for our country for

00:01:27.940 our businesses for our economy i do note that the cdc is indicating that if you've had the virus and

00:01:34.960 get the antibodies you could have an immunity that's three to four times longer than even that

00:01:40.460 of the vaccine i recently tested positive for the antibodies some in the washington media put out

00:01:46.720 that i had tested positive for coronavirus but i am virus free and antibody full so we will look

00:01:55.040 forward to additional news from pfizer i did note that donald trump jr and senator ted cruz took some

00:02:02.060 exception with the timing of this announcement you know it is just days after the election and now we get

00:02:08.960 this breakthrough news that the coronavirus might not really be the big challenge to our country going

00:02:15.520 forward that some had perceived and that some had even messaged during the election the coronavirus was

00:02:22.060 central to the biden campaign's message you know donald trump was i think making a broader argument about

00:02:28.360 economic success and the need for our country to have higher wages and better jobs things that

00:02:35.200 really went beyond just a very narrow focus on coronavirus i certainly uh am hopeful that we

00:02:42.640 get a vaccine no matter how no matter when because i know what it will mean to america but if any of

00:02:49.620 these companies had good news on the vaccine and they held it for the sake of politics that would be

00:02:55.660 despicable and it would also have some pretty serious sec implications if folks were sitting on good

00:03:02.220 news because of politics uh that could impact stock prices that could impact the type of information that

00:03:09.100 different investor classes had so i certainly hope there were none of those shenanigans i i also noted

00:03:16.160 that a dr scott gottlieb former fda official saying that distribution of this vaccine could happen to

00:03:24.060 those with the greatest need for it as early as december you know wow i know there are a lot of

00:03:30.580 distribution challenges for anything that will be needed to the extent that the coronavirus vaccine

00:03:36.960 will be needed but you know you heard a lot of these talking heads and so-called experts saying oh

00:03:42.340 you know it won't be until well into 2021 that there's any real availability for the vaccine and

00:03:48.040 here now you're starting to see a lot more optimism again i hope that's not a consequence of elections i hope

00:03:55.680 it's a consequence of developments and innovation and america rising to the challenge and defeating

00:04:01.820 the coronavirus the trump administration operation warp speed they all deserve a lot of credit pfizer

00:04:08.540 would not be in the position to give this news to the country if not for the herculean efforts of the

00:04:14.840 trump administration and of those involved in operation warp speed so congratulations to those involved in

00:04:21.740 this breakthrough development we hope it means a lot of good for a lot of our fellow americans

00:04:26.380 georgia georgia that old sweet song keeps georgia on my mind but so does the 2020 election cycle

00:04:39.300 georgia's on the minority leader's mind here's chuck schumer talking about his ambitions in the state

00:04:45.980 now we take georgia and then we change the world now we take georgia and then we change america if

00:04:53.320 president trump ends up losing the state of georgia if we've put ourselves in a posture where a special

00:05:00.540 election for the united states senate in georgia is all that stands between our great country and

00:05:07.420 socialism then we have georgia governor brian kemp to blame i'll give you the background i'll lay out the

00:05:15.700 story but you will see how governor kemp has put us in a position where we've really now got to go

00:05:22.980 fight for our country in georgia and i think the outcome could have been very different for the

00:05:28.180 president and for the united states senate so it all starts back when georgia u.s senator johnny isaacson

00:05:35.120 resigns he leaves the senate that gives governor kemp the ability to make an appointment now president

00:05:41.540 trump wanted him to appoint doug collins he made that pretty clear but it is of course the georgia

00:05:46.740 governor's prerogative to appoint whoever he wants so instead he appoints kelly loeffler who's now the 0.83

00:05:52.940 current senator from georgia but somewhat surprisingly doug collins runs anyway now governor kemp could have

00:06:01.220 set a primary election for republicans between his pick kelly loeffler and doug collins they could have

00:06:08.960 had that primary resolved that issue and then there would have been one republican running against

00:06:14.620 one democrat that would be rafael warnock in this november election that we just concluded but

00:06:21.780 instead governor kemp set this election to be a jungle election between collins and loeffler and

00:06:30.400 rafael warnock now what was the practical political impact of brian kemp making that decision well first

00:06:37.740 it meant that loeffler didn't have to run against collins facing only republicans and at the time

00:06:44.300 senator loeffler and her team believed that they needed every day possible and every million possible

00:06:50.280 to beat doug collins among republicans because at the early stage of that race doug collins was

00:06:55.420 beating loeffler very handily among republicans so that was one practical impact is that it gave kelly

00:07:01.660 the ability to claw back spend a lot of money and then face collins in an electorate that wouldn't

00:07:08.260 just be republicans but here's the second and far more significant impact if you go look at the

00:07:14.280 messaging in this race collins and loeffler are both just campaigning for their share of the trump vote

00:07:22.320 none of the tens of millions of dollars that were spent on the republican side in that u.s senate race

00:07:29.680 were at all spent on finding low propensity republicans new voters persuadable democrats

00:07:36.980 are in the pendants to come our way the whole deal was that loeffler and collins were trying to appear

00:07:43.600 the most loyal to the president and the most capable to execute on his agenda that left rafael

00:07:48.920 warnock like on the basketball court scoring uncontested layups throughout the entire election

00:07:56.360 it gave rafael warnock the ability to go and register new voters find new voters engage low

00:08:02.620 propensity democrat voters and turn them out and in a race that's so close in an election with such

00:08:08.320 razor thin margins this is the kind of stuff that can make the difference you know if we had had kemp

00:08:15.080 set the collins and loeffler primary for before november and if one of them had come out of that race

00:08:22.060 and the entire georgia republican party could have unified behind senator purdue and behind whoever

00:08:28.500 the nominee was between collins and loeffler i believe donald trump would have won the state of

00:08:33.300 georgia outside the margin of fraud i believe purdue likely would have nudged over 50 percent

00:08:39.840 and i believe that you would have likely seen warnock knocked off by either loeffler or collins

00:08:46.760 but you see the selfishness of governor kemp the singular focus to help kelly loeffler over president

00:08:54.480 trump over the republican party has now put us in a position where quite literally some special

00:09:00.480 election that we're going to have in georgia is all that stands between us and socialism

00:09:03.840 i can tell you this nothing forges unity like desperation i campaigned for doug collins in this last

00:09:12.320 election cycle but i'll do everything possible to endorse and elect senator purdue and kelly loeffler

00:09:19.060 because i know what happens if you get joe biden a democrat senate and nancy pelosi or someone even

00:09:27.240 more radical even more left-wing as speaker of the united states house of representatives they will use

00:09:32.980 the power far more effectively than paul ryan and mitch mcconnell did during the initial years of the

00:09:41.020 trump administration if they are given that opportunity now we hope they're not given that

00:09:44.920 opportunity we're going to campaign hard to see that it's not the case but we are only in this

00:09:49.860 position with our backs against the wall in georgia with the president not so decisively having won the

00:09:56.900 state that he's outside the margin of fraud because it was more important for brian kemp to support kelly

00:10:03.760 loeffler and to give her the best chance to beat doug collins than it was to actually keep georgia red for 1.00

00:10:09.900 the president and to keep georgia's senate delegation republican it's very sad that brian kemp was selfish

00:10:16.080 and now we've got to go to georgia and we've got to fight and that's exactly what i'm going to do

00:10:21.780 if in fact joe biden is inaugurated the 46th president of the united states and i still think

00:10:31.240 there are questions before the courts that could impact that potential eventuality what would be joe

00:10:37.340 biden's first big move it's a question pondered by foxnews.com's lucas manfredi and i'm reminded

00:10:44.580 that when george w bush was initially elected he used that first time period in office to federalize

00:10:53.020 education through the no child left behind act and barack obama utilized his initial time in office to

00:11:00.680 federalize health care through obamacare and president trump seemed to break the trend of

00:11:06.420 wanting to seize power in washington and spend a heck of a lot more money on things he instead

00:11:12.040 passed a tax cut to rescue and reinvigorate the american economy and was pretty effective in doing

00:11:18.440 just that and so what will joe biden do to potentially grow the power of government if he's

00:11:24.660 inaugurated in this fox news article i cited they talk about a national mask mandate as a result of

00:11:31.020 coronavirus taking the power away from our local communities and our states to determine when a

00:11:37.080 mask might be appropriate taking that power away from the individual utilizing the central authority

00:11:42.800 of washington dc to tell everyone to wear a mask but i actually believe that the biden ambitions

00:11:51.020 would be far more expansive than what this fox news piece contemplates there's no question that

00:11:58.280 in you know the initial hours of a potential biden administration they're focusing heavily on

00:12:04.380 coronavirus i mean it's really what he's talking about it's what his campaign focused on and the

00:12:10.160 initial meetings joe biden seems to be in seem to be all about coronavirus i believe joe biden would use

00:12:16.880 coronavirus as a veneer to enact a lot of the very socialist policies that the left has been pushing

00:12:23.680 for universal basic income i could very easily see a joe biden and the democrats getting maybe enough

00:12:31.460 republicans to support the notion of a coronavirus relief package that makes permanent the stimulus checks

00:12:38.440 depleting ambition in our country reducing the incentive for work making our money

00:12:45.760 less sound making our debt less affordable but they could do it they could say coronavirus is the

00:12:52.200 reason that we now need permanent stimulus checks to people at all times now i supported stimulus checks

00:12:58.600 where they were appropriate to bridge the gap for our fellow americans whose jobs had been deemed illegal

00:13:04.540 but making them permanent doesn't make them a bridge to a brighter future i think that would be an anchor

00:13:11.260 around our country it would drag us down to just take the position that everyone here whether they're

00:13:17.560 legal or illegal would get a check and by the way that is the incarnation of the stimulus as per the

00:13:24.580 nancy pelosi heroes act passed out of the house of representatives that i voted against i cannot support

00:13:31.820 any system that gives stimulus payments to people who are not here legally that cheapens the rule of law

00:13:38.860 in our country it creates an incentive for people to violate our laws and come here illegally and it's 0.99

00:13:45.360 unfair to americans who are following the rules working hard trying to get through this pandemic to force them

00:13:51.920 to pay for stimulus checks for people who are not in our country legally is the coronavirus going to be

00:13:58.200 the trojan horse vehicle for joe biden to get his public option right now i see that there are a lot of

00:14:05.680 private health care entities that have really risen to the occasion i mean there's a reason in america

00:14:11.500 the death rate was pretty low relative to the rest of the world in dealing with coronavirus there's a

00:14:17.100 reason why no one who needed a ventilator didn't get a ventilator in this country there was historic

00:14:22.640 cooperation and mobilization between the trump administration and the private sector to meet the

00:14:28.640 needs of our country a public option could be devastating to the private sector health care

00:14:34.760 system in america that has innovated that has developed solutions and that has worked to ensure that where

00:14:41.600 americans needed emergent care they got that care so the public option could be not a standalone bill it could

00:14:49.460 be something that isn't given its own dignity it could be tucked into a potential coronavirus relief package it is my

00:14:56.600 expectation that the very first legislative push from joe biden if in fact he is sworn in as president will be

00:15:04.320 coronavirus but it will be coronavirus with a lot of ornaments a lot of bells and whistles and they could sound a lot

00:15:12.340 like socialism

00:15:13.520 the huskies of the university of connecticut are hunkering down as a result of coronavirus sending their students home

00:15:26.440 the university of connecticut is suspending their in-person academic instruction at their main campus

00:15:33.440 and telling students they'll see them in the spring semester and the rationale does seem a little strange

00:15:40.740 listen to the justification for this shut down the rationale to suspend the in-person instruction from the university

00:15:48.080 we know that when people leave and come back they usually bring the virus with them

00:15:51.360 so by having students go home for thanksgiving and remain home

00:15:55.120 we'll be able to contain them within their own families and not risk spreading the disease through travel

00:16:00.980 this seems a bit odd because no matter when the students are coming back they're going to have to travel

00:16:06.220 so if they come back in the spring they're going to be engaged in precisely the same travel that they would have been engaged in

00:16:11.780 had they come back for finals at the end of the fall semester so it seems

00:16:15.520 bizarre that with a positivity rate on the campus that is less than one percent that you would have this type of

00:16:23.300 very draconian response

00:16:25.380 there's tremendous value in the college and university setting

00:16:30.300 just from being around your fellow students being around your professors being around teachers assistants

00:16:35.420 engaging in the extracurricular activities that universities offer

00:16:39.720 i don't believe the scientific evidence justifies the shutting down of universities

00:16:45.740 where young people need to be developing and learning and preparing for their next stage in life

00:16:51.160 so let's hope that what we see from the university of connecticut does not become a national trend

00:16:56.360 after talking to the governor of florida i'm pretty sure our students here are going to have the option to be in class

00:17:02.780 to learn to develop and to grow as the next great generation of americans

00:17:07.940 america must keep our eye on china as they potentially prepare for war 1.00

00:17:18.160 and major power projection nationalinterest.org's chris osborne has the story

00:17:24.800 china wants four aircraft carriers armed with stealth fighters

00:17:29.280 china is sending a fighter jet and helicopter armed aircraft carrier to the south china sea

00:17:35.180 as part of an overt demonstration to show that its first indigenously built aircraft carrier

00:17:41.640 the shandong is ready for war 0.99

00:17:44.700 while there are still many unknowns with china's first home-built carrier

00:17:49.100 it does appear to massively increase the country's power projection possibilities

00:17:54.640 bringing new pacific area and international threat possibilities to the united states navy

00:18:00.660 one of these threat possibilities includes the possibility that china is now building a new 0.84

00:18:06.040 threat carrier launched variant of its fifth generation j31 stealth fighter to rival the united states

00:18:13.280 marine corps f-35b and the navy's f-35c china is getting very aggressive in the south china sea

00:18:21.000 it's important that the united states fund and support taiwan that we encourage our allies in the region

00:18:29.500 to push back against chinese hegemony this is the fight that matters for who will win the 21st century 0.99

00:18:36.660 usa today's wayne washington and chris prasad have a story out about the florida democratic flop

00:18:48.340 i talked earlier in the podcast about what was going on in the state of georgia

00:18:53.060 and really florida and georgia are the tale of two trajectories and the tale of two leaders

00:18:59.700 in the 2018 election cycle both ron de santis and brian kemp started in their republican primaries

00:19:07.620 well behind more established political figures in their states both ron de santis and brian kemp

00:19:14.340 earned the endorsement of president trump in their primaries both then went on to win their primaries

00:19:20.120 by very large margins and then both ron de santis and brian kemp went on to win general elections

00:19:27.220 by very very slim margins since that time where really the paths were quite similar the paths have

00:19:34.440 deviated substantially ron de santis has unified the republican party in florida there aren't any

00:19:40.920 anti-de santis republicans in this state he went to build a party that registered a ton of new voters

00:19:48.340 that built big margins that made broad appeal to hispanics african americans asian americans

00:19:55.380 and ron de santis then saw florida have a real turn to the red column not only going the president's

00:20:03.860 direction by almost three times the margin it went by the president's direction in the last election

00:20:10.040 but also we picked up two congressional seats we picked up seats in the state legislature and it

00:20:17.000 really has been a successful party building enterprise meanwhile in the state of georgia

00:20:23.220 they're having these other problems now in the usa today piece there are a few specific reasons

00:20:29.120 why florida seems to be doing particularly well under the de santis leadership hispanics new residents

00:20:36.900 you know a lot of the new residents that are moving into florida are escaping democrat run states with

00:20:44.440 poor economic policies with high taxes with high cost of living and so because we've had almost unified

00:20:52.540 republican control of the government in florida for a political generation now the red policies low taxes

00:21:00.860 good investment in education right-sized regulation pro-business climate easy to start a business easy

00:21:08.020 to run a business you see those things have then attracted people who are more likely to vote republican

00:21:13.640 now they're not all republicans matter of fact a lot of them are not registered with any major party

00:21:19.400 but they're voting red another factor in the usa today piece is just enthusiasm you know the republican

00:21:25.940 party was a more joyous experience during this last election cycle flags rallies camaraderie you know

00:21:33.580 the democrats were walking around all the time talking about a deadly virus and while you know

00:21:38.260 obviously we need a strong approach to that and we certainly see it through the advancements we've seen

00:21:44.060 through project warp speed you could talk about something other than the virus to try to provide vision

00:21:49.900 to the country and to give people a sense of hope that better days are ahead and republicans seem

00:21:55.500 to do that better than democrats according to this piece and it concludes with the question as to

00:22:00.300 whether or not florida is a bellwether anymore we have a republican governor very popular we have two

00:22:05.780 republican senators we have a republican legislature and the only democrat elected to statewide office is the

00:22:12.680 agriculture commissioner she's a good friend of mine matter of fact i think she does a decent job as the

00:22:17.640 agriculture commissioner in specific areas of helping our farmers but i don't believe that there is a

00:22:24.600 strong robust democratic party in florida making a compelling case to people particularly because so

00:22:31.640 many floridians are just a generation or two removed from the type of socialism that we see espoused by the

00:22:38.480 squad and other national democratic leaders so i'm proud to be a florida man glad to be representing this

00:22:45.740 great state in the united states congress i'm proud of the work i did in the state legislature as the

00:22:51.140 ways and means chairman to really build out an economic strategy that put our state on a path to success

00:22:57.240 and in florida no matter what happens with the rest of the country we're going to do all we can

00:23:02.360 to embrace economic freedom to embrace the power of our citizens to be able to live their own lives

00:23:09.260 and we're going to keep the good times rolling in the sunshine state thanks for listening to hot takes

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - November 09, 2020

Episode 126 - Biden Moves to Force Mask Mandate. Radical Dems Seek Political Domination Through Georgia. Light at the End of the COVID Tunnel？

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