The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 130 – Trump Campaign Scores A Huge Legal Victory. Newsmax's Big Ratings. Chicago Mayor Urges Canceling Thanksgiving. Twitter’s Meltdown Over My Tiffany Trump Tweet!

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz. Let's talk about the news. The biggest

00:00:20.960 win yet for the Trump campaign in court comes in Pennsylvania. The PostMillennial.com's

00:00:27.400 Mia Cthell has the story. Ballots of first-time voters who did not present proper identification

00:00:34.680 will not be counted according to this order and the very logic regarding the need for

00:00:40.760 authentication and also the departure from the law set by the legislature would also seemingly

00:00:47.960 extend to the decision of the Secretary of State in Pennsylvania to count late ballots. So the legal

00:00:54.560 issue that is unpacked by the court is whether or not the Secretary of State has the authority to

00:01:00.520 make changes to the voting laws, to the way in which ballots are counted, to which ballots are counted

00:01:06.400 independent of the state legislature. Here are the courts saying that's the legislature's decision,

00:01:12.400 not the Secretary of State's decision. And so there are two such decisions the Secretary of State made

00:01:18.040 that are impacted by this holding. The first being these first-time voters that didn't have proper ID

00:01:24.320 under the legislative regime. Those would not be counted. The Secretary of State counted them. So

00:01:31.020 that's got to get undone. Second, you've got to deal with these late arriving ballots where the issue will

00:01:37.580 likely go before the Supreme Court now that there's a full complement on the Supreme Court. But it is a win

00:01:43.180 for election integrity. It is a win for the Trump team. It also tells us something else. These state

00:01:50.140 legislators are incredibly important for election integrity and really for the preservation of order

00:01:58.100 and confidence in our voting system and the way in which representatives are secured. The Democrats know

00:02:04.460 this. They might know it better than Republicans. Years ago, Eric Holder, who was the Attorney General

00:02:11.200 under President Barack Obama, started a group to go and flip state legislatures from Republican to Democrat.

00:02:19.100 They raised millions of dollars. And one might think, well, why would Eric Holder, of all people, have an interest

00:02:25.440 in this project? And it's really twofold. First, they want to control the state legislatures because they want

00:02:32.260 to control redistricting and how district lines are drawn. And they would like maps that more favor Democrats.

00:02:39.080 But the second reason is the voting itself. The control over the voting process really resides

00:02:45.880 at the state level. We don't want to federalize elections. We want our states to run elections. Now,

00:02:50.960 we want them run fairly, honestly. We want them run in a way that doesn't violate equal protection. And by

00:02:57.760 the way, in Pennsylvania specifically, there's pending litigation now on the equal protection question

00:03:04.400 because in blue counties, voters were able to go and cure their ballots if there was a mistake.

00:03:10.200 That was not the case in red counties. And so that would be a lack of equal protection under the law

00:03:16.280 for those voters in the counties that did not allow that curing to occur in other areas. So Eric Holder,

00:03:23.820 very focused on this. They spent millions of dollars in Florida. They've spent millions of dollars in Texas

00:03:30.400 trying to flip legislative bodies. And really, so far, they haven't been overwhelmingly successful.

00:03:36.660 They haven't been successful in Florida. But we need an Eric Holder type organization on the right

00:03:43.780 to ensure that we fight for these Republicans who are showing courage in state senates and in the

00:03:50.640 state House of Representatives bodies around our country. Right now, the Democrats are outgunning us.

00:03:57.860 They're outspending us. And they are organizing around the concept of state legislative battles

00:04:05.880 to a better degree than the Republicans. The Republican National Committee should immediately

00:04:12.560 launch an operation to ensure that we grow Republican legislatures, that we try to flip the

00:04:19.760 ones that are blue to red, and that we make the case to voters that Republicans are best positioned

00:04:26.180 to draw districts, best positioned to preserve election integrity, and I would say enact the

00:04:33.000 policies that improve quality of life for people. That's what we've done in Florida.

00:04:37.320 Low taxes, fund education, fund the environment, ensure that we've got a pro-business climate so that

00:04:44.660 people can start and grow businesses, and more people and more capital continue to come to the

00:04:50.720 state of Florida. We also run elections clean. So I would say we're a pretty good model for America.

00:04:55.980 Usually we only talk about the news of the day on the podcast, but there's a flashback that I think

00:05:04.980 is particularly relevant to May. It's a piece in the New York Post by Vincent Barone,

00:05:11.060 ex-Philly election official pleads guilty to stuffing ballot box for Democrats. And this goes through a

00:05:17.740 federal investigation, a federal plea, where Dominic DeMuro between 2014 and 2016 and during those election cycles

00:05:26.740 would stuff ballot boxes for Democratic candidates. And so this New York Post piece, we're going to send it out on

00:05:33.420 our social media platforms. It really lays out how the fraud would work. Democrat political consultants would slip cash to

00:05:42.060 this poll worker. He would then vote ballots that were blank for the candidates that he was being paid to support.

00:05:49.060 And it is unclear whether or not that actually had an impact on the outcome of elections in these local races where he was engaged in this conduct.

00:05:57.060 But if there are Democrat political operatives who know that they can slip cash to people who work in elections offices and

00:06:04.060 that those people in those elections offices in Philadelphia then have the ability to stuff ballot boxes, do you think they didn't try that in the 2020 election?

00:06:16.060 Do you think that they were just doing that in 2014 and 2016 and got caught and stopped? No. You know, I think that these elections officials know that they wield a tremendous amount of power, particularly when observers are kept, you know, 50, 60, a thousand yards away.

00:06:33.860 It would only seem to tell us why there were such lengths taken to keep observers away if people in these elections offices are moonlighting for political consultants to stuff ballots into boxes and to pollute the legal, legitimate votes of the people of Pennsylvania with this nonsense.

00:06:55.140 So, again, this is a charge, a plea of guilty from elections past, but I think it tells us a lot about the culture in the Philadelphia Elections Office, and it should raise tremendous concern based on what we've seen in this 2020 presidential election.

00:07:12.860 Last night, I joined Greg Kelly on the Newsmax channel, and I've got to tell you, Newsmax has just seen their audience exploding lately. Take a listen to our interview.

00:07:26.220 Congressman Matt Gaetz, he was a warrior for the president. He is for his district and for the country, and I'm thrilled that he's on Newsmax tonight. Congressman Gaetz, welcome.

00:07:33.780 I've spoken to the president recently, and he is built for the battle. He understands that if we don't fix these problems now, Republicans may never win another election again.

00:07:42.860 Now, we know that dead people don't always vote, but when they do, they most certainly prefer to vote by mail.

00:07:49.420 And as we've bounced the number of voters in some of these swing states off of the national change of address database, we're also seeing tens of thousands of illegal votes cast where people in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona literally manifested their intent to move out of those states and then cast ballots in those states that were counted.

00:08:09.740 And there's another piece of data. I prefer the data over the anecdotes. In the state of Pennsylvania, there's something called the Dorothy effect in the data.

00:08:18.300 In the year 2020, more people over the age of 90 registered to vote than in the four years previously combined.

00:08:25.740 Now, either you have to believe that in the middle of a pandemic, there was this explosion of interest in people over the age of 90 and registering to vote, or this is evidence of ballot laundering, of mechanized fraud.

00:08:39.500 And I think we could prove that fraud. The question is, will we be able to do it quickly and will we be able to show sufficient scale to demonstrate that there might be a different outcome than the media wants the American people to believe?

00:08:52.300 Carl W. Smith has penned a very persuasive data driven essay for Bloomberg opinion, Trump's economy really was better than Obama's, at least until the pandemic, the president's unconventional policy got unprecedented results.

00:09:12.300 So between December of 2009 and December of 2016, the unemployment rate in America dropped 5.2 percentage points from 9.9% to 4.7%.

00:09:24.200 And Trump's economy then brought that unemployment rate down an additional 1.2 percentage points to 3.5 percentage.

00:09:32.840 Now, some might suggest that that's just the continuation of the Obama trend, but if you look inside the numbers, the story is quite different.

00:09:41.800 You see, under the Obama economy, the Congressional Budget Office and a number of other groups that were within the administration said that we were at full employment and that further improvement in the labor market just wasn't likely, it wasn't attainable, that this was the best we could do.

00:09:58.140 And maybe it was Trump's stubbornness, but he ignored that consensus and got going on tax cuts, regulatory reform, and a lot of pressure on the Fed to cut interest rates.

00:10:10.160 And when he said that we were going to have, you know, 3% growth, a lot of people derided that.

00:10:15.320 But we really did see quality of life improve.

00:10:17.660 Not only did the unemployment rate continue to fall, but the percentage of Americans, 25 to 54, either employed or looking for a job, saw its first increase since, like, the 1980s.

00:10:30.360 And that inflection point did change the labor market. 0.96

00:10:34.020 It changed it for the better.

00:10:35.740 It led to rising wages.

00:10:37.920 The key to the number is, like, the agenda of the Trump administration on the tax cuts piece.

00:10:45.060 I mean, that is what brought back so much investment and led to so much of the wage growth that really propelled the Trump economy.

00:10:52.320 And, you know, we'll see what the, you know, future holds with the current uncertainty about the election result.

00:10:58.880 But I am encouraged that the policies of President Trump have been vindicated by a stronger economy than Barack Obama had and a stronger economy than Barack Obama told the rest of us that we could ever have.

00:11:13.400 I love an America that's ambitious and forward-leaning and always thinking about how we can be better, more productive, more encouraging to investment, more attractive for growth and opportunity for our people.

00:11:29.000 On yesterday's podcast, we talked about the goals of Joe Biden to see a national mask mandate in the country.

00:11:38.800 And so I wanted to dive a little deeper into that subject.

00:11:42.040 And PJmedia.com's Matt Margolis has an exceptional data analysis that we're going to put out.

00:11:49.520 And it raises the question, do mask mandates really work?

00:11:53.220 And there are a series of charts in this article that show in the state of Hawaii, in the state of Kansas, in L.A., Orange, Ventura, and San Diego counties, in California, in West Virginia.

00:12:07.640 You can see where the mask mandates are implemented from a date, time standpoint.

00:12:13.200 And then you can see subsequent to those mask mandates, real big increases in coronavirus cases.

00:12:19.120 And so it just may not be that a mandate from government that makes mayors and governors and city council members and maybe even future presidents happy, it doesn't really work for our people.

00:12:32.500 It doesn't really make folks safer according to this data.

00:12:35.800 Now, I know there are likely alternate causalities that can impact the coronavirus increases or decreases in particular states and communities.

00:12:44.300 But I was motivated, compelled, persuaded by what I saw in this PJmedia.com piece.

00:12:51.300 I encourage everyone to check it out.

00:12:55.600 U.S. backs down on TikTok.

00:12:58.700 Commerce Department retreat follows federal court ruling, which the U.S. appealed Thursday.

00:13:03.800 The Wall Street Journal's John D. McKinnon and Georgia Wells have the story.

00:13:08.440 The Commerce Department said Thursday it wouldn't enforce its order that would have effectively forced TikTok to shut down.

00:13:15.960 And the latest sign of trouble for the Trump administration's efforts to turn this company into a U.S. company.

00:13:23.840 Here's my hot take.

00:13:25.180 This is the swamp fighting back.

00:13:27.400 There are a lot of people in Washington, D.C. who benefit, get rich when China does well.

00:13:33.800 And there are a lot of people in Washington who believe that in a potential Biden administration, the United States will draw China in, that we will become more interconnected with China, and that the elites will have opportunities for vast riches as a consequence of that change in policy.

00:13:51.120 So this may be just the Commerce Department having a delay as a consequence of a court order, but to me, it smells a lot like cozying up to China with some elements of the swamp with hopes that in a potential Biden administration, there will be great opportunities for wealth for the elites and more hollowing out of the American economy where our workers and our people deserve greater protection from China.

00:14:20.120 Why Georgia, why? 0.99

00:14:50.100 Why?

00:14:50.520 Why?

00:14:50.600 the filibuster, potentially pack the court. That would be the agenda you would be looking at. And

00:14:55.300 what's odd is that we've seen major figures in the media calling for people to move to the state of

00:15:01.980 Georgia just for the sake of voting in this election. Most recently, New York Times columnist

00:15:06.700 Tom Friedman saying, if you've got the means to temporarily move to Georgia, you should. And that

00:15:12.400 raises the question, would that be fraud? If someone doesn't intend to live in the state of

00:15:17.480 Georgia, if they just want to cast a ballot there for a U.S. senator and then depart, that seems to

00:15:22.400 deprive the people of Georgia who are there legally, lawfully casting their ballot with the intent to

00:15:28.140 be Georgians for the foreseeable future. It dilutes them. It undermines them. It undermines our 1.00

00:15:34.600 representative republic. And so let's hope that the good people of Georgia understand the critical

00:15:40.160 role that they will play and that it will in fact be the people of Georgia who cast their ballots,

00:15:45.540 who elect Republican senators, and who ensure that we have some check against the radical

00:15:50.460 left agenda of reparations, redistribution of wealth, repealing the Trump tax cuts, perhaps even

00:15:58.320 adding new taxes like we've talked about on other episodes of the podcast. I trust the people of

00:16:04.000 Georgia, and I hope that it's the people of Georgia making the decision.

00:16:07.800 Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has canceled Thanksgiving. I didn't even know that mayors 1.00

00:16:16.620 had the power to dictate Thanksgiving or holidays, but she's recently put out a message that on

00:16:22.940 November 16th at 6 a.m., a stay-at-home order will go into effect, limiting non-essential travel,

00:16:29.940 instructing Chicagoans not to have their family members over, and quite directly telling them to

00:16:35.780 cancel their traditional Thanksgiving plans. Here's my hot take. In a time of national tragedy,

00:16:42.500 in a time of pandemic, it's all the more important for us to maintain connections with family and loved

00:16:49.060 ones. And of course, if we can avail ourselves to testing to create better confidence in a family

00:16:54.340 situation, we should. And if there are family members who are uniquely vulnerable or frail given

00:17:00.780 their condition, maybe they ought to take special precautions. But for an entire city, for the mayor

00:17:06.520 to just say, I hereby cancel Thanksgiving? I mean, I thought these people's principal duty was to pardon a

00:17:11.680 turkey, not tell us that we can't get together and share time with loved ones. What's the value of a

00:17:17.820 Thanksgiving to a family? Potentially that last opportunity to spend time with a family member.

00:17:23.660 Maybe that first opportunity to celebrate a new arrival at a family or special joy that someone

00:17:29.940 is experiencing. These lockdowns, particularly by local government officials, aren't even particularly

00:17:36.400 backed by the evidence. They're often the result of someone wanting to show that they're doing

00:17:41.940 something, that they're taking some action, that they're being responsive. But it's not responsible

00:17:46.840 to take action that doesn't directly correlate to the health, safety, and welfare of your citizens.

00:17:52.320 So let's stop the virtue signaling. Let's stop the cancellation of our holidays. Let's recognize

00:17:57.760 that there are things that we can do with outside spaces, with distancing, with sanitation, with

00:18:04.700 extreme focus on hand washing to ensure that we are safe around one another and that we don't need

00:18:10.560 the mayor of Chicago canceling our holidays. As a native of Miami, Florida, I am a long-suffering fan of

00:18:21.340 Miami Marlins. It was great in this last postseason to see them make a bit of a run. And they're making

00:18:27.660 some news now with the hiring of the first female general manager in North American male sports. They've

00:18:36.480 named Kim Ang as their general manager. We pick up the story from fishstripes.com. And I'm excited to see

00:18:45.200 the Miami Marlins move in this direction. This woman is intensely qualified. She started as an 0.89

00:18:51.520 intern in 1990 for the Chicago White Sox and has been a part of a number of Major League Baseball

00:18:57.840 teams. Marlins CEO Derek Jeter saying,

00:19:00.720 her leadership of our baseball operations will play a major role in our path forward to sustained

00:19:06.800 success. Additionally, her extensive work in expanding youth baseball and softball initiatives

00:19:12.360 will enhance our efforts to grow the game among our local youth. So this lady, Kim Ang, Asian American,

00:19:21.440 she worked for 21 years for the Chicago White Sox, also worked for the New York Yankees,

00:19:26.920 the Los Angeles Dodgers. She has been a part of eight postseason appearances, including six league

00:19:33.140 championships and three World Series championships. The only blemish I see on her record is apparently

00:19:39.400 she serves on the Anti-Defamation League's Sports Leadership Council. The Anti-Defamation League is

00:19:46.180 perhaps bizarrely named because they seem to defame a great number of people and they've really become

00:19:52.040 somewhat of a racist organization in my experience. But nonetheless, it's great to see the Marlins make

00:19:57.940 this move. Let's hope Derek Jeter is right and that Kim Ang is the general manager to lead the fish

00:20:03.860 to sustained success.

00:20:05.440 I think Tiffany Trump and I may break social media. Tiffany posted a lovely picture of herself at the

00:20:15.740 White House in a gorgeous red dress. She and her outstanding boyfriend Michael are very good friends

00:20:21.600 of mine and I wanted to show the love. So I posted four emojis, the fire emoji, the heart emoji, the heart

00:20:29.440 in the eyes emoji and the thumbs up emoji. And oh my gosh, the media went crazy. I got write-ups in

00:20:36.200 Vanity Fair, People, Mediate, oh no, Matt Gaetz being creepy on social media. Tiffany replied by liking my

00:20:43.840 tweet and then giving the blushing emoji, the American flag emoji and the heart emoji. So seven emojis

00:20:51.180 exchanged back and forth and I just don't understand what the like obsession is with some of these outlets

00:20:57.660 to try to always cast things regarding the Trump family or the president's supporters in the worst

00:21:03.380 possible light. We're friends wanting to compliment each other. Get over yourselves.

00:21:10.000 Thanks for listening to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz. Make sure you subscribe, give us a five

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - November 13, 2020

Episode 130 – Trump Campaign Scores A Huge Legal Victory. Newsmax's Big Ratings. Chicago Mayor Urges Canceling Thanksgiving. Twitter’s Meltdown Over My Tiffany Trump Tweet!

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