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00:02:31.000I know it's supposed to be election day and we were supposed to have results that night, like the great state of Florida did, but nope.
00:02:36.000It is now Thursday, the election was Tuesday, and we are still counting votes in Nevada, where a single blind nun in Mozambique is apparently tabulating all of the votes.
00:02:45.000The same thing is happening in Arizona, where apparently a similarly situated blind nun, this time in Saskatchewan, is tabulating all the votes.
00:02:53.000In Nevada, it looks as though Adam Laxalt is going to pull off his race against Catherine Cortez Masto, which puts the Republicans at 50 seats in the Senate.
00:03:02.000Which means that the Republicans need to win one of the final two outstanding seats.
00:03:07.000Blake Masters looks like he is trailing there.
00:03:08.000It is very likely that he loses in that race.
00:03:11.000Over in Georgia, the race is headed to a runoff.
00:03:13.000So once again, control of the Senate will come down to a runoff in Georgia, as we are used to, as has become our custom here in the United States.
00:03:20.000This time, Hershel Walker is not going to have Brian Kemp's coattails to hang on to.
00:03:25.000To cling to, to drag him into victory.
00:03:27.000So Republicans presumably are going to have to put every effort into elevating Herschel Walker, an extraordinarily weak candidate in the state of Georgia.
00:03:33.000I say he's extraordinarily weak because again, Brian Kemp walked all over, stomped Stacey Abrams in the gubernatorial election.
00:03:39.000Pretty much any generic Republican in the Senate would have beaten Raphael Warnock, but Herschel Walker is not generic R. And as we have learned, not generic R very often does worse than generic R.
00:03:48.000So Adam Laxalt with about 80% of the vote in, 80 plus percent of the vote in, is still about 15,000 votes over Catherine Cortez Masto.
00:03:56.000Many of the outstanding areas trend Republican.
00:04:00.000Predictions are that he is going to end up taking that seat.
00:04:03.000Meanwhile, as we say in Arizona, votes are still being counted.
00:04:06.000Carrie Lake could still end up as governor of Arizona.
00:04:09.000That race has gotten extraordinarily close.
00:04:11.000The current outstanding vote count has Carrie Lake down in the single thousands of votes.
00:04:18.000Somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000 votes is where she is right now, but a lot of the results are still coming in.
00:04:24.000Arizona still has one quarter of the vote to count, and the gubernatorial election is just too close to call at this point.
00:04:30.000So Carrie Lake could still pull that one out on the governor's side.
00:04:33.000On the Senate side, Blake Masters is lagging fairly badly.
00:04:37.000Carrie Lake at this point with about 75% of the vote in, 76% of the vote in.
00:05:08.000In other words, some of the Democrat major triumphalism is out of place.
00:05:12.000This was not a wave election for Republicans.
00:05:14.000It was barely a trickle for Republicans, but it is quite possible, not probable, but possible that Republicans end up in control of the Senate by one vote and they will end up in control of the House If they do lose the House, the Democrats, then they may have New York and Florida to blame.
00:05:30.000Which means largely New York, because a lot of the people who came down to Florida are from New York.
00:05:34.000Except it's a lot of Republicans who came down from Florida to New York.
00:05:36.000Lee Zeldin, who did not win his gubernatorial race against Kathy Hochul, but only lost by five to six points.
00:05:41.000He apparently had serious coattails and he dragged a bunch of Republican candidates in New York State to victory, according to the New York Times.
00:05:47.000As Democrats sought to maintain their narrow House majority in this year's midterms, they counted on New York to be a crucial bulwark instead.
00:05:52.000As the party mostly outperformed dire predictions across the country Tuesday night, one of the nation's most liberal states morphed into perhaps the most powerful drag on its chances.
00:05:59.000Channeling angst over persistent crime and inflation, Republicans ran a nearly clean sweep through the slate of New York's congressional toss-up races.
00:06:06.000While their parties struggled in swing states like Virginia and Michigan, Republican candidates made inroads deep into the suburbs of Long Island and the Hudson Valley, even into pockets of Brooklyn and Queens, where President Biden had won handily.
00:06:16.000When they were done, Republicans had flipped four Democratic House seats more than any other state.
00:06:20.000They'd won a staggering prize, the defeat of Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, who was the House Democratic campaign chairman charged with protecting his party's hold on Congress.
00:06:28.000So Democrats did exceedingly poorly in New York.
00:06:30.000Again, reading this election as a referendum on excellent democratic governance is wrong.
00:06:35.000This election ended up being a referendum on crazy people, on bad candidates, on candidates who simply were not up to snuff and were nominated because of enthusiasm of the base very often for President Trump or for election 2020.
00:06:47.000But this was not about a green light for all the Democrats policies.
00:06:52.000This was a rebuke to Democrats, but what will be fascinating to see is if Democrats refuse the rebuke.
00:06:56.000If Democrats see this instead of a rebuke, sort of a rebuke that was that was sort of softened by the bad quality of many Republican candidates and the distracted nature of their campaigns.
00:07:07.000If Democrats instead see this as a triumph, this could be a big mistake for them.
00:07:32.000Well, this is the one thing I did say.
00:07:34.000How independent voters decided was going to decide this election.
00:07:39.000In 2010, independent voters broke like two to one for Republicans.
00:07:43.000In 2018, independent voters broke on behalf of Democrats.
00:07:47.000Independent voters should have broken heavy on behalf of Republicans, considering that Joe Biden has a 28% approval rating with independent voters in the United States.
00:08:05.000What that says is that they were looking at Republican candidates and they said, these guys are not serious, we can't hand them power.
00:08:11.000It didn't say that they love Democratic policies.
00:08:13.000The exit polls showed Americans don't like Democratic policies.
00:08:16.000They think the Democrats are wrong on the economy.
00:08:17.000They think the Democrats are wrong on crime.
00:08:19.000They think the Democrats are wrong on illegal immigration.
00:08:23.000There's really only two areas where Democrats dominated.
00:08:26.000One was responsibility for government, because again, Republicans ran a lot of very irresponsible candidates.
00:08:31.000And two, abortion, which we'll get to in just one second.
00:08:35.000And as a pro-lifer, This speaks to what kind of strategy pro-lifers should use going forward, particularly when running for federal office.
00:08:42.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Democrats appeared to hold off the steep losses in Congress if preliminary results pulled up that are traditional for the president's party in midterm years.
00:08:51.000They did so in large part because their own voters came to the polls with unusual enthusiasm and swing voters broke in their direction.
00:08:59.000In many states that were decided by the narrowest margins in 2020, Democrats came closer to matching their presidential year vote totals than did their GOP opponents.
00:09:06.000In Pennsylvania's race for an open Senate seat, the winner, Democrat John Fetterman, who is not with us, drew about 76% of President Biden's 2020 vote total.
00:09:13.000Republican Mehmet Oz drew 73% of the vote that went to former President Donald Trump.
00:09:17.000Now, Mehmet Oz was not a good candidate.
00:09:19.000It also happens to be the case that a lot of people split their ticket.
00:09:23.000Meaning that a lot of people voted for Josh Shapiro and then voted for Mehmet Oz in the Senate election.
00:09:28.000What if the Republicans had not run Doug Mastriano, a person who literally went to QAnon rallies just before he was nominated?
00:09:35.000What if they had nominated someone who is significantly more palatable in a purple state?
00:09:40.000And so the Republicans did poorly with independents.
00:09:43.000Democrats notched an unusual achievement.
00:09:45.000They brought their own supporters to the polls in large numbers while persuading independent voters that Republican candidates were an unacceptable alternative.
00:09:51.000Independent voters were expected to break for the GOP because of economic anxiety.
00:09:55.000Instead, backed Democratic candidates by three percentage points nationally, according to one large survey of the 2020 electorate, 2022 electorate called AP VoteCast.
00:10:02.000Independence broke for Democrats by far larger margins in many states with competitive Senate races, by 19 points in Pennsylvania, 28 points in Georgia, more than 30 points in Arizona.
00:10:15.000So very few of the Democrats cross the aisle to vote for the Republicans.
00:10:19.000But a lot of people who are independent cross the aisle to vote in favor of the Democrats.
00:10:24.000In Georgia, where the survey asked about the personal quality of Senate candidates, 56% of voters told VoteCast they believed that Raphael Warnock had the right experience for the job.
00:10:32.000Only 40% said that former football star Herschel Walker had the right experience.
00:10:38.000Scott Reid, Republican and former chief political strategist for the U.S.
00:10:40.000Chamber of Commerce, said that Republicans had everything going for them.
00:10:43.000Trump turned out to be the deciding factor, picking a lot of second-rate candidates.
00:10:45.000In the final three weeks, he made the election about him.
00:10:47.000Now, again, losing independence in a year when the president has a 28% approval rating with independence is a shocker.
00:10:55.000And the only rationale for that is that the Republicans ran some really bad candidates.
00:11:01.000It also happens to be that abortion turned out to be a major issue.
00:11:03.000So if you look at the exit polls, the economy was in fact the number one issue.
00:11:06.000According to the CBS News exit poll, something like 32% of the Americans, the American voters said that the economy, inflation, that was their top issue.
00:11:13.00027% said abortion was their top issue.
00:11:15.000Now, For Republicans to have avoided any blowback from Roe v. Wade at the federal level would have not been all that hard.
00:11:23.000All Republicans would have had to do is say, this is a state-level issue.
00:11:32.000Roe v. Wade says the overruling of Roe v. Wade in Dobbs literally says this is a state-level issue.
00:11:39.000It is highly doubtful, by the way, whether any significant pro-life legislation at the federal level would be greenlit by the Supreme Court anyway.
00:11:46.000So federal candidates should be saying, no matter how pro-life they are, if you're a pro-life person and you wish to see legislation passed in your state, which is mostly how restrictions on abortion are going to get passed, if you wish to see that happen, it has to be relegated back to the states.
00:11:59.000And in order to get those restrictions passed, you actually have to win.
00:12:03.000And losing, but being very loud about losing, does not do you any good in helping to save the lives of the pre-born.
00:12:09.000So if you wish to save the lives of the pre-born, perhaps you ought to be strategic about it.
00:12:12.000This is why in purple states, for example, pro-lifers would be wise not to go for broke.
00:12:17.000A lot of pro-lifers in states like Michigan, which is a very, very purple state.
00:12:37.000When it comes to the federal, when it comes to the Senate and the Congress, even when it comes to the presidency in 2024, pro-lifers would be wise to acknowledge that this is in fact a state-level issue until a constitutional amendment is passed to change the law.
00:12:51.000As a practical matter, that is what it is going to be anyway, because the Supreme Court is not going to allow, if the federal Congress today Passed a law barring abortion from birth?
00:12:59.000The Supreme Court would strike it down saying that it is not within the power of interstate commerce.
00:13:02.000I'm just telling you that's what would happen.
00:13:04.000Brett Kavanaugh essentially says as much in his concurrence in Dobbs.
00:13:09.000Nonetheless, abortion did become an animating issue for a lot of Democrats.
00:13:13.000I thought that Republicans were going to do a better job of avoiding this issue, but they didn't.
00:13:17.000According to the New York Times, voters in three states, California, Vermont, and highly contested Michigan, decided to protect abortion rights in their state constitutions.
00:13:24.000In a fourth, Kentucky, a conservative bastion and home to Mitch McConnell, voters rejected an amendment saying their constitution gave no right to an abortion.
00:13:32.000For decades, abortion politics worked a certain way, rallying the Republican base and abortion opponents with far more intensity than abortion rights supporters.
00:13:39.000Conservative evangelicals and Catholics often voted on abortion, or the future of the Supreme Court, even if it meant compromising other priorities.
00:13:44.000But overturning Roe v. Wade appears to have flipped the script.
00:13:47.000In the months since the June decision, Democrats seized on the issue, linking abortion to everyday family economics and health care, tapping into voter fears about the rise of far-right Republicans, and then they wove that into broader Democratic messaging about Republicans' extreme views.
00:14:00.000By the way, this is statistically true.
00:14:01.000I mean, the one group in America that went heavily for the Democrats is single women.
00:14:05.000Single women went heavily for the Democrats.
00:14:08.000Presumably because of the issue of abortion.
00:14:11.000Does that mean that pro-lifers should avoid the issue?
00:14:12.000No, it doesn't mean pro-lifers should avoid the issue.
00:14:14.000What it does mean is that pro-lifers should use common sense when it comes to what they believe they can actually get done and when it comes to how they campaign, particularly, again, for federal office.
00:14:25.000You should be honest about what it is that you are seeking and about what it is that you can achieve.
00:14:30.000Okay, but when you wrap all of this up, there is one problem for the Democrats.
00:14:34.000One very, very large problem for the Democrats.
00:14:36.000And that is that under the tip of the iceberg, this election was the tip of the iceberg, the iceberg under the water is moving against the Democrats.
00:14:45.000Demographic trends are actually now moving against the Democrats.
00:14:47.000Sean Trendy over at RealClearPolitics He says one of the quiet stories under the hood is Republicans are looking like they will win the popular vote.
00:14:55.000Probably a popular vote swing of 5% depends on how California works out, swinging about 2% of the chamber.
00:15:01.000The generic polls, by the way, are likely to be about spot on.
00:16:14.000Linda Sanchez is at 54% in a 66% Clinton, 62% Biden district.
00:16:20.000Anyway, nice reminder that structural advantages aren't permanent, and as the GOP vote migrates to rural areas where they're already strong or minority areas where they'll do better but not well enough to win, they're going to start to produce some of the inefficiencies that have bedeviled Democrats these past few cycles.
00:16:32.000What he's talking about there is the Democrats complaining that they win the popular vote but lose the electoral college.
00:16:37.000Here, what you see is that the Republicans win going away in the congressional popular vote, but they don't pick up as many seats as they should because a lot of the seats are apportioned differently.
00:16:47.000What does that mean for the Democrats?
00:16:48.000Well, it was not an amazing day for the Democrats.
00:16:50.000It was a dodge-the-bullet day for the Democrats.
00:16:53.000What happened here is that Republicans pulled failure out of the jaws of victory.
00:17:43.000But because Joe Biden didn't get clocked in the face by reality, because his party did not get clocked in the face by reality, because they dodged the bullet, they're now interpreting that as a mandate.
00:17:53.000Now again, this does not mean the Republicans had a good night.
00:18:53.000And instead of reading that as, maybe we ought to course correct a little bit, guys.
00:18:57.000Maybe we ought to think a little bit more about what it is that we are doing.
00:19:00.000Maybe this is just a warning shot from the American public.
00:19:02.000And if Republicans, if Republicans get their act together, we are cruising for a bruising in the future.
00:19:07.000This is about Republican incompetence, not about our own genius.
00:19:10.000Instead of taking that message away, Democrats seem to be taking away the opposite message, which is we have been validated.
00:19:16.000Everything we have done has been a good idea.
00:19:18.000This is one of the crucial mistakes that seems nearly everybody makes in politics.
00:19:21.000In 2004, George W. Bush ran for re-election.
00:19:25.000He ran on the heels of the war in Afghanistan beginning, and 9-11, and the war in Iraq, and he barely eked out a victory against John Kerry.
00:19:33.000I remember being in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the time, and the expectation by many people was that Kerry was actually going to win and George W. Bush would be a one-term president.
00:19:41.000In fact, I was so preemptively depressed about the possibility of John Kerry winning that I went over to the local Tower Records.
00:19:47.000Yes, there used to be, children, stores where you would buy these things called CDs that would play music.
00:19:51.000And I bought a copy of Mozart's Requiem to play.
00:19:55.000In case the election went the way that a lot of people were saying.
00:19:58.000It didn't go that way, but here's the thing.
00:20:00.000George W. Bush took away from a very narrow victory, not the message that he ought to be a little bit chastened in his policies.
00:20:06.000Instead, what he took away was, it's time to privatize social security.
00:20:09.000I'm going to use my political capital and mandate to mandate.
00:20:12.000Same thing happened with Barack Obama.
00:20:13.000In 2008, he wins a broad victory based on unity.
00:20:17.000Blue strike, red strike, blah, blah, blah.
00:20:19.000And instead of taking that as a mandate to unify the country, he took that as a mandate for a socialistic scheme to essentially remake healthcare.
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00:22:46.000So yesterday, Joe Biden stumbled out to the microphones to take a triumphant victory lap.
00:22:51.000And listen, listen, you can't blame the guy too much.
00:22:53.000The fact is that Joe Biden's party overperformed in this election in a way that no president has overperformed in a midterm election since George W. Bush in 2002.
00:23:02.000And that was literally around the heels of 9-11.
00:23:06.000This was, by historical standards, a win for Joe Biden, and he's going to treat it that way.
00:23:11.000So Joe Biden goes out there and he says, it was a good day for democracy.
00:23:20.000And it was a good day, I think, for democracy.
00:23:23.000And I think it was a good day for America.
00:23:27.000Joe Biden finishes there by starting to cough and then he says he has a little horse like little Sebastian on Parks and Recreation, which apparently he rides around the White House garden in his off hours.
00:23:36.000It's funny how the democracy is at stake stuff went immediately to democracy is alive, well thriving.
00:23:44.000Almost as though it was an election ploy, this whole democracy was at stake stuff.
00:23:47.000But the real message that Joe Biden was there to give yesterday is that he is not changing course, not one iota, not one bit.
00:23:54.000This is validation of everything that he has ever done or ever will do.
00:23:57.000And there's a president who basically lucked into his position by virtue of COVID, an incompetent campaign by his opponent, and the fact that he was able to lock himself in a basement for six months, and who has proceeded to run the country directly into the ground.
00:24:10.000And here he is basically saying that he gets that voters are still frustrated, but... So he's asked about this.
00:24:17.000And another thing that we know is that voters spoke clearly about their concerns about raising costs, the rising costs that they're in, and the need to get inflation down.
00:24:28.000There's still a lot of people hurting.
00:25:36.000We went from a world that was shot through a dingy red lens to a world shot through a yellow lens with beautiful sunlight streaming into your warm, cozy kitchen.
00:25:47.000And Joe Biden's sitting there, sniffing your hair.
00:25:58.000So, he's asked, so are you going to change anything or do anything differently, considering that you still do have a 43% approval rating?
00:26:03.000You just lost control of the House of Representatives.
00:26:05.000And the reason you didn't lose control of the Senate is because Republicans decided that they would go down to the local homeless shelter and pick some candidates.
00:26:12.000Do you have anything you'd change, Mr. President?
00:26:16.000I'm not going to change the direction.
00:26:19.000of voters say the country is heading in the wrong direction, despite the results of last night.
00:26:24.000What in the next two years do you intend to do differently to change people's opinion of the direction of the country, particularly as you contemplate a run for president in 2024?
00:26:34.000Nothing, because they're just finding out what we're doing.
00:26:37.000So I'm not going to change the direction.
00:27:50.000Donald Trump wants to be ridiculously popular.
00:27:52.000It's a thing he loves more than anything.
00:27:54.000And yet he seems to not be able to get out of his own way.
00:27:56.000And for Joe Biden, Joe Biden believes that because he has lucked into many things in the past several years, including he lucked into the vice presidency, and then he lucked into the nomination, and then he lucked into the presidency, and now he has lucked into an escape act in the midterms.
00:28:11.000He believes that he's going to do amazing.
00:28:13.000I mean, it's like watching a Greek tragedy.
00:28:16.000His character flaw, which is that he has a self-confidence of a guy coming off the bench who goes 0 for 10 from three point range, but heaves him up from half court.
00:29:04.000But what I can't do is I can't guarantee that we're going to be able to get rid of inflation, but I do think we can.
00:29:14.000We've already brought down the price of gasoline about $1.20 a gallon across the board, and I think that the oil companies are really doing the nation a real disservice.
00:29:30.000So again, he's not going to bring down inflation.
00:29:32.000Also, he maintains that we are nowhere near a recession.
00:29:35.000He's just going to keep whistling this tune.
00:29:39.000So there's a lot of things we can do to affect the things that people need on a monthly basis to reduce their inflation, their cost of living.
00:29:48.000And so, but I am optimistic because we continue to grow.
00:29:53.000And at a rational pace, we are not anywhere near a recession right now in terms of the growth.
00:30:00.000But I think we can have what most economists call a soft landing.
00:30:05.000We're going to have a soft landing, he says.
00:30:06.000Also, he says that, are you worried, he's asked, are you worried that the Republicans are going to do a Hunter Biden investigation?
00:30:29.000Republicans have made it clear that if they do take control of the House, that they want to launch a raft of investigations on day one into your handling of Afghanistan, the border.
00:30:41.000They want to look into some of your cabinet officials.
00:31:27.000The predictions were, and again, I'm not being critical of anybody who made the predictions, I got it, okay?
00:31:33.000There's supposed to be a red wave, you guys, you were talking about us losing 30 to 50 seats, and this is gonna, nowhere near, that's not gonna happen.
00:31:41.000And so there's always enough people on the other team, whether it's Democrat or Republican, that the opposite party can make an appeal to, and maybe pick them off to get the help.
00:31:53.000Okay, so, finally Joe Biden is asked, are you going to run for re-election?
00:31:57.000He's not changing course and absolutely he's going to run for re-election.
00:32:00.000Ironically, by Republicans not winning a major victory, Democrats were ready to take Joe Biden and they were ready to tie him up and put him under the train like snidely whiplash to Nell.
00:32:09.000But instead, along came the Republicans, like Dudley Do-Right, to save Nell from the train.
00:33:53.000First, what if I told you there was something that could make the fine lines, forehead wrinkles, dark spots, even under eye bags disappear?
00:35:09.000In 2018, marriage rates hit an all-time low in the United States.
00:35:12.000That is a disaster for the United States.
00:35:14.000We need to rekindle what marriage is supposed to mean and how it can make you a better person.
00:35:17.000That's what Jordan does with On Marriage.
00:35:19.000Daily Wire Plus members can watch all three episodes of Jordan Peterson's On Marriage today.
00:35:23.000If you're not yet a member, go to dailywire.com slash men and join today.
00:35:27.000So as I say, first party to sanity wins the race.
00:35:31.000Right now, Joe Biden looks like he's going to double down on the insanity because he didn't learn the lesson of this election.
00:35:35.000Will Republicans learn the lesson of this election?
00:35:38.000Well, apparently the leadership won't because after all, they have a stake in pretending they did an amazing job.
00:35:43.000So RNC chair, Ronna McDaniel, she actually suggested that Republicans won the Super Bowl.
00:35:48.000If by won the Super Bowl, you mean won the play-in round of the playoffs and got defeated before heading to the national championship at all, then sure.
00:35:59.000I mean, if your standards are so low that winning a couple of seats in the House to take the majority is enough for you, then I guess that's your baseline.
00:36:07.000But a historically bad performance by the out-of-party power with the president at 43% doesn't sound like winning the Super Bowl to me.
00:36:14.000Unlike in football, basketball, baseball, the margins matter.
00:37:25.000Anybody who says that it wasn't a good night for Republicans, I feel like you have a stake in this ballgame since you are the head of the RNC.
00:37:31.000I like Ronald McDaniel, but can we stop pretending that like if anybody is pretending here, it's like whoever learns the lessons of last night will do well in 2024.
00:37:40.000And if you refuse to learn the lessons of the election night, you're not going to win.
00:38:08.000And meanwhile, the Republicans are like, I may not like the plans on the wall, but I love the inmates.
00:38:11.000The inmates are amazing over at Arkham.
00:38:14.000So Ronna McDaniels says, this is a wave because we are waving goodbye to Pelosi.
00:38:20.000There was discussion that this was going to be a red wave.
00:38:23.000You know, for every text that I got today that said, you know, I thought there was a red wave coming, and you're telling them that they won the Super Bowl, they might want to know, they might want to hear more than that, Ronna.
00:38:33.000Listen, we never used the word red wave at the RNC because we knew the map had shrunk.
00:38:38.000There were less competitive seats because of redistricting, and we picked up 14 in 2020, and everybody forgets that.
00:38:44.000But Republican governors were overwhelmingly re-elected last night because of what they did in the pandemic because we did have a message. We kept our schools open. We kept our economies humming.
00:38:55.000And from Florida to Ohio to Iowa, across the board, we didn't lose a single Republican governorship. And the wave did happen because we are waving goodbye to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
00:40:28.000He's very upset, not just because some of his candidates lost, but because his handpicked candidates did poorly and mostly because Ron DeSantis did really well.
00:40:36.000And you can tell because Donald Trump has been spending the last few days attacking Ron DeSantis, the most successful Republican governor in the country, by a long shot.
00:40:44.000He spent the last couple of days just defending him.
00:40:46.000I mean, just ripping on him, ripping on him nonstop in jealous, petty fashion.
00:40:51.000If Donald Trump actually wants to run for president victoriously in 2024, what he should be saying is, we won amazing victories in places like Florida because I endorsed Ron DeSantis and he's a great candidate.
00:41:00.000I look forward to his support in 2024, right?
00:41:03.000Instead, Trump goes on Truth Social and he says, now that the election in Florida is over and everything went quite well, shouldn't it be said that in 2020, I got 1.1 million more votes in Florida than Ron D got this year?
00:41:41.000If he would sort of change his tune going into 2024.
00:41:45.000Because he picked candidates this time to back based almost entirely on whether they supported the narrative that he won the 2020 election.
00:41:51.000He picked Don Balduck in New Hampshire based on the narrative that he won the 2020 election.