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00:03:03.000Also, Colorado is now within five points.
00:03:06.000Where Michael Bennett is running a very close race.
00:03:09.000All of this bodes very, very ill for the Democrats.
00:03:12.000And they are freaking out about it, as well they should be.
00:03:14.000The RealClearPolitics polling average suggests that Republicans are likely to pick up at least 31 seats.
00:03:19.000It could be all the way up to 48 seats.
00:03:20.000At this point, if you look at sort of the nature of the wave, I'm predicting closer to 40 seats than to 30 seats.
00:03:26.000At this point, probably 38, 39 seats is not unlikely.
00:03:30.000Even CNN is recognizing how bad this is for Democrats.
00:03:33.000You have Harry Enten, who is their elections analyst, pointing out that Republicans are gaining with less than a week to go.
00:03:39.000He says, we're dealing with a deeply dissatisfied electorate, which almost always means the president's party is punished by voters.
00:03:44.000Take a look at a Gallup poll released Tuesday.
00:03:46.000Just 17% of Americans say they were satisfied with the direction the country was going.
00:03:49.000That is the worst in any midterm since at least 1982, when Gallup first measured satisfaction in a midterm.
00:03:55.000So, that means the worst on record, essentially, because the polling data has become a lot more sophisticated since 1982.
00:04:01.000Importantly, the satisfaction with the direction of the country is highly correlated with midterm outcomes in the House.
00:04:05.000In the midterms, when more Americans are dissatisfied than satisfied with the direction of the country, the party that held the White House has lost an average of 33 seats.
00:04:12.000That jumps to 46 seats in a president's first midterm.
00:04:15.000If you look at the seat totals instead, the party holding the White House ends up with 186 seats on average.
00:04:19.000When more Americans are dissatisfied than satisfied in a president's first midterm, this would be an over 35 seat loss for Democrats in the 2022 midterms.
00:04:27.000Again, very ugly numbers for the Democrats.
00:04:31.000And they know that it's getting very ugly out there, which is why they are dumping money into a bunch of districts that really should be safe.
00:04:38.000According to Politico, GOP Representative Mike Garcia holds one of the House Republicans' most vulnerable districts, but Democrats have barely spent a dime on TV to take him down.
00:04:45.000The decision, according to those involved, was driven by a relative lack of resources.
00:04:48.000As Republicans' biggest House super PAC floods the election with hundreds of millions of dollars, their Democratic counterparts have lagged far behind.
00:04:54.000Some members of the California Democratic delegation were alarmed by the decision to leave Garcia's district untouched.
00:04:59.000They've urged their party's campaign arm in recent weeks not to abandon a seat Joe Biden won by double digits, according to multiple people familiar with the discussions.
00:05:06.000Similar pleas are coming from Texas, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere.
00:05:09.000Frustrated Democrats are bemoaning that their party's outside groups are unable or unwilling to devote precious funds toward what they see as winnable seats.
00:05:16.000The result is a shrinking battlefield for Democrats that has seen leadership and rank-and-file members like pressuring the rest of their party, including Biden, to pony up more support in a bid to save the House majority.
00:05:25.000They're not going to save the House majority.
00:05:26.000There is literally no way they will save the House majority.
00:05:28.000is effectively a 100% shot that Republicans take the majority in the House of Representatives.
00:05:32.000At this point, House Democrats' panic, according to Politico, has escalated this month as GOP outside groups continue to smash fundraising records.
00:05:39.000Despite high candidate fundraising, Democrats have been unable to respond.
00:05:41.000With the same volume of money, the party has struggled to free up the resources to attack potentially endangered Republican incumbents, a crucial part of their strategy because they need to offset expected losses in more conservative Democratic-held districts.
00:05:52.000Democrats currently have just a five-seat majority and they're abandoning tough seats in Arizona, Wisconsin, Texas, and Michigan.
00:05:57.000They're now spending money defending seats in places like California and New York, which is a disaster area for the Democrats.
00:06:03.000Meanwhile, the polling shows that white suburban women are swinging back toward Republicans for Congress.
00:06:08.000You remember that that is precisely the demographic that President Trump underperformed with.
00:06:12.000President Trump did very, very well with men.
00:06:13.000He did Very well with rural outlying areas, actually better than expected with minority groups.
00:06:18.000Where he really failed was with white suburban women.
00:06:21.000It's the idea that Republicans without Trump on the ballot would do really well with white suburban women.
00:06:27.000Democrats were hoping that that group of women was going to stay in the Democratic camp forever.
00:06:33.000White suburban women being highly educated and again living near major urban areas.
00:06:37.000These women would be in the Democratic camp forever.
00:06:39.000They weren't in it for more than about five minutes.
00:06:41.000According to the Wall Street Journal, white suburban women, a key group of midterm voters, have significantly shifted their support from Democrats to Republicans in the closing days of midterm campaigning because of rising concerns over the economy and inflation.
00:06:51.000The new survey from the Wall Street Journal shows white women living in suburban areas who make up 20% of the electorate now favor Republicans for Congress by 15 percentage points.
00:06:59.000That is a 27-point shift from the Democrats since the Journal's August poll.
00:07:04.000It also suggests the topic of abortion rights has faded in importance after Democrats saw energy on that issue this summer in the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
00:07:11.000Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio, who conducted the poll, along with Democratic pollster John Anzalone, said, We're talking about a collapse, if you will, in that group on the perceptions of the economy.
00:07:19.000The poll showed 54% of white suburban women think the United States is already in recession.
00:07:23.00074% think the economy is headed in the wrong direction.
00:07:27.000Very often these are women who are shopping for their families at the grocery store and have to bring home groceries that are costing them significantly more than they would have two years ago.
00:07:35.000Views of the economy among that group were substantially more negative than in the Journal's most recent prior survey in August.
00:07:40.000Only 43% thought the economy had entered a recession.
00:07:42.00059% said the economy was headed in the wrong direction.
00:07:45.000The movement comes as several voter groups are giving Republicans a boost in the final stretch before Election Day.
00:07:51.000So again, right now, Democrats are in a world of hurt.
00:07:56.000And this has led President Biden back to the campaign trail.
00:07:59.000Now, a lot of Democrats are not real fond of this because the fact is, the more people see Joe Biden out there, the less they want to vote for the Democrats.
00:08:06.000I talked about yesterday the fact that presidents, usually their party in midterm elections, gets shellacked.
00:08:11.000But whatever hopes the party has generally do ride on the president being able to stump and draw up some sort of support, however feeble, for his own party.
00:08:20.000The problem is that Joe Biden is so unpopular, no one wants to be seen with him.
00:08:23.000And every time he speaks, he actually embarrasses both himself and his party.
00:08:26.000And so people are very upset with him on the Democratic side of the aisle today for having done what he did yesterday.
00:08:31.000So Joe Biden, in a fit of pique basically, decided that he was going to recapitulate His Independence Hall speech where he declared that half of Americans were super mega ultra duper mega and that they were a threat to democracy.
00:08:44.000He decided that he was going to speak at Washington's Union Station.
00:08:47.000Apparently they had to clear a homeless encampment in order to make this happen.
00:08:52.000So the optics of this one are pretty weak.
00:08:54.000I remember when Union Station was really kind of a beautiful gem in the heart of Washington, D.C.
00:08:58.000Now apparently it's been taken over by the homeless since they actually had to clear the place.
00:09:02.000According to the New York Post, Conservatives ripped President Biden's choice of Washington's Union Station as a venue for one of his final pre-midterm speeches to writing it as a ghost town frequented by yelling psychos, homeless people, and drug addicts.
00:09:13.000The statue-filled marble-covered transit hub has fallen on hard times since the onset of COVID-19 in March 2020, with many stores in the terminal and adjacent shopping mall shuttering and never reopening.
00:09:22.000Washington Times national politics correspondent Susan Ferrecchio tweeted Wednesday, President Biden plans to deliver his address Tuesday night from Union Station in D.C.
00:09:30.000This once thriving shopping center is now practically a ghost town.
00:09:33.000I took this photo of empty stores on Saturday.
00:09:35.000In August, even Starbucks announced it was closing its location inside Union Station due to rising crime and drug use inside the store.
00:09:41.000When Starbucks is shutting down stores in one of the busiest transit hubs in the United States, you know that things are really, really bad.
00:09:48.000And this is exactly where Joe Biden chose to speak, which is bizarre.
00:09:51.000DC actually cleared the tent city from in front of Union Station.
00:09:54.000They'd apparently left it there for years on end.
00:09:56.000But now that Joe Biden was speaking there, it was important to clear it out.
00:09:59.000So again, none of the optics here work for Joe Biden.
00:10:03.000Meanwhile, Karine Jean-Pierre, world's most untalented press secretary, was asked Whether Joe Biden's speech, which was going to be on the theme of whether democracy was in threat, whether that was really just a Democratic get-out-the-vote effort.
00:10:14.000Because if those two things are the same, if we are just days from an election, which we are, and if Joe Biden is looking at the polls, which he is, and if he sees the incoming red wave, which is not going to be a wave, it's going to be a tsunami.
00:10:23.000If he sees that, and his final case is, we have to save democracy, that naturally implies if you vote for his opponents, then this means that you are a threat to democracy.
00:10:32.000So Shoes asked about, they said, no, no, no, that's not what he means.
00:10:34.000It just means that everyone's vote should count.
00:10:36.000OK, well, if all that this meant was that everyone's vote should count.
00:10:40.000And why precisely is Joe Biden giving the speech?
00:10:42.000What exactly is the purpose of the speech?
00:10:44.000Obviously, it has to do with the campaign, obviously has to do with the timing of the campaign.
00:10:49.000And so the not particularly subtle message here is vote for me or democracy ends.
00:10:53.000Vote for my party or democracy is a threat.
00:10:56.000Karine Jean-Pierre denied all of that in the least convincing fashion.
00:11:00.000Following up on your comment that there's an alarming number of Republicans who are saying they're not going to accept election results, does that mean President Biden thinks it is a threat to democracy if somebody votes Republican?
00:11:24.000It is something that the president wants to protect at every turn, and he has done that.
00:11:30.000He's taken actions to protect the right to vote.
00:11:34.000And you see Democrats in Congress also doing the work to protect the right to vote.
00:11:40.000Okay, so she's overtly denying that this is about getting the Democratic votes out there or getting people to vote for Democrats, which makes the timing super duper weird.
00:11:51.000Also, when you hear Karine Jean-Pierre out there stumping for the idea that election denial is tantamount to treason, it is important to remember that Karine Jean-Pierre is an election denier.
00:12:00.000It is amazing that nobody in the press room, aside from Peter Doocy, is going to ever ask her this question, but it happens to be a fact.
00:12:04.000April 2nd, 2020, quote, Reminder, Brian Kemp stole the gubernatorial election from Georgians and Stacey Abrams.
00:12:13.000Can we stop pretending now that election denial is a phenomenon on only one side of the political aisle?
00:12:18.000But that, of course, is the predicate for everything that Joe Biden was intending on doing.
00:12:21.000And in the run-up to Joe Biden's speech, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was trotted out on national TV to talk about political violence and how it was largely being driven by Republican political rhetoric.
00:12:35.000Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spoke exclusively with ABC's Pierre Thomas about the current threat environment.
00:12:42.000How toxic is this moment and how concerned are you?
00:12:44.000There are a number of forces that are fueling a violent extremism.
00:12:51.000Ideologies of hate, false narratives, anti-government sentiment, personal grievances.
00:13:02.000Okay, um, you may have noticed that when it comes to political violence, this is not one side of the political aisle.
00:13:07.000Brad Kavanaugh's family was threatened.
00:13:08.000I know that was wildly downplayed by the media in a way that Paul Pelosi's beating simply was not.
00:13:13.000Last night, the GOP New Hampshire Senate hopeful Don Balduck, who, as I mentioned before, right now appears like he could knock out Maggie Hassan in the Senate.
00:13:21.000Apparently, according to the New York Post, he dodged a punch from a would-be assailant before stepping on stage to debate Senator Maggie Hassan.
00:13:28.000The individual who attempted to assault the Senate candidate was arrested, according to his campaign.
00:13:33.000He's not the only Republican candidate who's been physically attacked during this particular race.
00:13:37.000Lee Zeldin was physically attacked on stage by a man carrying what appeared to be a sharp implement.
00:13:43.000And he fought the guy off and was uninjured, thankfully.
00:13:47.000So, again, if we're living in a climate of political violence, what you would suggest is that that's probably an all-sides problem.
00:13:53.000And perhaps one of the things you would do to bring down the temperature is stop suggesting that your political opposition is literally going to end the republic if you vote for them.
00:13:59.000But Joe Biden decided to go in a different direction.
00:14:01.000So last night he goes out and he gives this speech.
00:14:05.000Joe Biden, he does not have the energy.
00:14:35.000The president didn't seem like he could keep it together for much of the evening.
00:14:38.000I don't know whether he was physically tired or what the story was, but he just he did not seem like very enthusiastic about a speech that he himself called.
00:14:46.000Instead of doing it in front of a crowd, he did it in kind of a small room.
00:14:50.000It felt like a much more minor speech, but this was meant to be his closing pitch.
00:14:54.000So Joe Biden's closing pitch seemed to be.
00:14:59.000If you don't elect me and my party, there will be more Paul Pelosi's getting hit with hammers by apparently crazy, nude, quasi-homeless people who buy into conspiracy theories online, but also wave around LGBT and Black Lives Matter flags.
00:15:14.000That's going to happen if you elect Republicans, and also there will be more January 6th if you elect Republicans, or they just won't count your vote at all.
00:15:25.000He started off, of course, by mentioning the Paul Pelosi attack, which the opportunism, the political opportunism here is pretty stunning.
00:15:33.000Democrats have a habit of doing this sort of thing.
00:15:35.000After Gabby Giffords was shot, Barack Obama flew to Arizona where he gave an anti-gun rally.
00:15:40.000After Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash, Democrats basically held a giant political rally ripping on Republicans.
00:15:47.000You don't tend to see this sort of stuff as much from Republicans, this particular kind of opportunism.
00:15:51.000After Steve Scalise was shot, you didn't get Republicans en masse doing big rallies talking about how Democratic rhetoric had led to Steve Scalise getting shot.
00:16:02.000It seems almost entirely located on one side of the political aisle.
00:16:08.000Maybe because Democrats actually believe that their opponents are evil, whereas Republicans tend to believe that their opponents are wrong, or did until very recently.
00:16:16.000Maybe this will change in the near future.
00:16:17.000Maybe because both sides now see their opponents as evil rather than wrong.
00:16:20.000You'll see more of the, somebody on my side got attacked, it must be the evil people on the other side who are to blame, more broadly speaking.
00:16:27.000But Joe Biden certainly did that routine.
00:16:29.000So he got out there and opportunistically used the beating of Paul Pelosi as an excuse for why you must vote for his party in the upcoming elections.
00:16:36.000Just a few days ago, a little before 2.30 a.m.
00:16:39.000in the morning, a man smashed the back windows and broke into the home of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the third highest ranking official in America.
00:17:41.000And then he continued to suggest along these lines that what happened on January 6th was the result of the quote unquote big lie. And he says that that big lie is responsible for the rise in political violence and voter intimidation. And we'll analyze this particular claim in just one second. It was an enraged mob that had been whipped up into a frenzy by a president repeating over and over again the big lie that the election of 2020 had been
00:18:10.000stolen. It's a lie that fueled the dangerous rise in political violence and voter intimidation over the past two years.
00:18:21.000Now, I noticed that the dangerous rise in voter intimidation and political violence started well before the last two years.
00:18:30.000It actually started in 2020, not at the beginning of 2021.
00:18:34.000I seem to remember the most damaging riots in American history, egged on by a media that pretended these riots as fiery but mostly peaceful, and a group of Democrats who literally attempted to bail out the rioters, as in Kamala Harris, and promoted the bigger lie.
00:19:24.000Okay, that obviously is language borrowed from Holocaust denial.
00:19:27.000Denying the change and impact on the climate of human activity To the extent that the IPCC says is nowhere near the same thing as saying the Holocaust did not occur.
00:19:37.000And suggesting that Donald Trump didn't lose the last election is not the equivalent of suggesting that the Jews are responsible for the German loss in World War I and therefore ought to be genocided, which was the actual big lie.
00:19:48.000It is kind of amazing that we've sort of just normalized that in a time when he's talking about the polarization of political rhetoric and then he uses this kind of language.
00:19:57.000More than that, this idea that political violence only cropped up since January 6th, 2021 ignores the fact that I remember being curfewed in my house in Los Angeles so riders could go loot the footlocker like four blocks away.
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00:22:47.000And Bolsonaro is on the verge of winning over in Brazil.
00:22:50.000Democracy is a threat unless Lula wins.
00:22:53.000And then it was, even if Lula wins, if Bolsonaro doesn't acknowledge his defeat, democracy is a threat.
00:22:58.000Hey, well, Bolsonaro said that he will transition away from office because, actually, he's relying on democracy to bring him back into power, banking on the fact that Lula will likely fail.
00:23:08.000It seems as though the left, internationally and domestically, has used threat to democracy as the all-purpose catchphrase for why you should vote for them when their policies suck.
00:23:17.000They say the only reason to vote for us, you can't vote for us based on our policies because our policies run directly contrary to what you would like from your politicians.
00:23:33.000These are all bad policies, but if you don't vote for us, democracy will end, which, by the way, is kind of anti-democratic.
00:23:40.000If the idea is that the final bumper slogan pitch here is vote for me or democracy is over, that doesn't sound super democratic.
00:23:49.000And that sounds a little bit tyrannical.
00:23:53.000It's basically asking for one party rule because if you vote for the other party, democracy will end, which doesn't sound super like you like democracy all that much.
00:24:00.000Here's Joe Biden trying to trying to cram this giant, weird Democratic policy foot into Cinderella's glass slipper.
00:24:09.000My fellow Americans, we're facing a defining moment, an inflection point.
00:24:15.000We must, with one overwhelming, unified voice, speak as a country.
00:24:22.000And say there's no place, no place for voter intimidation or political violence in America, whether it's directed at Democrats or Republicans.
00:24:55.000That seems like that would be a better strategy than going out there broad spectrum and just laying out there that there's a shadowy cabal of people who love political violence and those people, you know who they are, wink wink, it's all the Republicans.
00:25:07.000If he actually doesn't like a particular candidate and he thinks that that candidate is in favor of political violence, shouldn't he name that person?
00:25:13.000And shouldn't he connect that person more closely to, you know, Nancy Pelosi's husband getting hit in the head with a hammer?
00:25:19.000That guy's not running for office, the guy who hit Nancy Pelosi's husband in the head with a hammer.
00:25:37.000He says that there's a lot at stake in these midterm elections, but you should ignore all of that stuff because the only thing that matters is that if you don't vote for me, the fascists will march in with their jackboots.
00:26:03.000I know there's a lot at stake in these midterm elections.
00:26:06.000From our economy, to the safety of our streets, to our personal freedoms, the future of healthcare, social security, Medicare, it's all important.
00:26:30.000Recent polls have shown an overwhelming majority of Americans believe our democracy is at risk, that our democracy is under threat.
00:26:40.000They too see that democracy is on the ballot this year.
00:26:46.000And talk about hijacking polls right here.
00:26:48.000What the polls actually show is that a huge number of Americans believe democracy at risk and they are split half-half as to which party they support.
00:26:54.000A lot of Republicans believe that democracy is at risk because the President of the United States is irrigating unconstitutional power to himself, unilaterally declaring that he can use OSHA to cram down VAX mandates, unilaterally declaring that he can relieve $500 billion minimum in student loan debt.
00:27:10.000Unilaterally declaring that transing of the children is now a federal priority.
00:27:14.000A lot of people feel that democracy is at risk, that the voter procedures that Joe Biden and his party would like to put into place, endless early voting, ballot harvesting by politically motivated groups, that that makes our voting less secure.
00:27:25.000A lot of people on the right are worried about democracy being at risk for very different reasons than Joe Biden is talking about.
00:27:30.000But he's trying to now grab that entire stat and say, well, you know, if a huge number of Americans believe in democracy, they're all for me.
00:28:43.000So Josh Barrow, who is not a member of the right, I would say he's kind of a center left figure, Josh Barrow, a person with whom I frequently disagree, has a good piece on this.
00:28:50.000He says the problem with pro-democracy rhetoric He says, the message makes no sense on his face.
00:28:55.000When Democrats talk about democracy, they're talking about the importance of institutions that ensure the voters get a say among multiple choices and when they most prefer gets to rule.
00:29:02.000They're also saying voters do not get to do that in this election.
00:29:05.000The message is there's only one party contesting this election that is committed to democracy, the Democrats, and therefore only one real choice available.
00:29:10.000This amounts to telling voters they have already lost their democracy.
00:29:16.000Again, it is also true that Democrats who supposedly see the deep threat to democracy, they spent most of 2022 trying to nominate the most ultra-MAGA, super-duper MAGA, pooper-scooper MAGA Republicans they could in nominating contests by spending in primaries.
00:29:32.000Are you- It was Democrats who were spending in order to get Don Baldick nominated in New Hampshire.
00:29:39.000It was Democrats who were spending in order to get Doug Mastriano nominated for the governor's spot in Pennsylvania.
00:29:44.000If they really fear that this is a threat to democracy, is that what you do?
00:29:47.000If you really fear Hitler's on the other side, do you give to his campaign?
00:30:01.000And coming from, again, a person who has spent his presidency centralizing power in himself, in defiance of institutions, ripping on the Supreme Court, treating their decisions as though they are illegitimate, suggesting that the checks and balances of government are in and of themselves bad, using the bureaucracy in order to foist upon the American people unconstitutional and invasive policies.
00:30:24.000This guy's going to lecture us about the workings of institutions and democracy?
00:30:27.000And yet that, I guess that's the pitch.
00:30:30.000The issue couldn't be clearer in my view.
00:30:32.000We, the people, must decide whether we'll have fair and free elections.
00:30:41.000We, the people, must decide whether we're going to sustain a republic where reality is accepted, the law is obeyed, and your vote is truly sacred.
00:30:53.000We the people must decide whether the rule of law will prevail or whether we will allow the dark forces that thirst for power put ahead of the principles that we've long guided us.
00:31:10.000Oh man, blowing the punchline right there.
00:31:12.000Thirst and thirst and thirst and thirst and howl for power.
00:31:17.000Again, the sort of dark forces versus the light.
00:31:20.000Barack Obama could do credibly the Lightbringer routine.
00:31:23.000I thought it was cynical and ridiculous at the time, but at least Barack Obama was a talented politician who had a gift for soaring oratory.
00:31:30.000Seeing this feeble elderly man lecture us about lightness and darkness as though he is Moses on the Mount is pretty insulting.
00:31:38.000And again, when we talk about people who are thirsting for power, you are the president of the United States.
00:31:43.000You now say that you wish to run for re-election, which will leave you 86 at the time of your end of term.
00:31:50.000We're supposed to believe that you are but a humble servant of the people?
00:31:53.000That your party is not thirsting for power at every level?
00:32:10.000The great irony about the 2020 election is that it's the most attacked election in our history.
00:32:17.000And yet, and yet, there's no election in our history that we can be more certain of its results.
00:32:25.000Every legal challenge that could have been brought was brought.
00:32:32.000I don't know who won the 220 election.
00:32:34.000My understanding was that it was a guy named Legabalus in the Roman Empire, the famous election of 220.
00:32:42.000But when he says that it was the most secure election, every legal challenge that could have been brought was brought.
00:32:47.000It's true that a lot of legal challenges were brought.
00:32:50.000What people who I think are more credibly afraid of the 2020 election results are afraid of is not really the idea that there were giant boxes of fake ballots that were brought in and processed.
00:33:00.000And they're not really afraid that there were giant boxes that were just tossed in the river.
00:33:02.000I think most people who are afraid of election 220, as Joe Biden puts it, Most of those people are mostly afraid of the fact that there was endless early voting, endless mail-in voting, ballot harvesting in a lot of states, and that all of this undermines the credibility of the elections.
00:33:18.000Put aside the fact that the media put their thumb on the scale by literally shutting down a major story one month before the election and spending the entirety of the election ignoring the fact that Joe Biden was the other candidate.
00:33:27.000Every word printed during 2020 was Trump.
00:33:30.000Joe Biden basically sat in his basement and won the presidency.
00:33:34.000But if you have any of those doubts, then this means that you are an extreme mega-mega-muga-mega.
00:33:52.000Joe Biden's branding, everything he does is like New Coke.
00:33:56.000Every attempt to brand his opposition is just a giant fail.
00:33:59.000So here we go again with Extreme MAGA Mooga MAGA Mrega MAGA Malaga MAGA.
00:34:05.000Yet now, extreme MAGA Republicans aim to question not only the legitimacy of past elections, but elections being held now and into the future.
00:34:18.000The extreme MAGA element of the Republican Party, which is a minority of that party, as I said earlier, but it's this driving force Is trying to succeed where they failed in 2020 to suppress the right of voters and subvert the electoral system itself.
00:34:38.000The beginning of that paragraph is very different from the end.
00:34:40.000So the beginning of that paragraph is extreme Muga Magga super ultra duper Magga that those people.
00:34:46.000are questioning not only the legitimacy of past elections, but future elections.
00:34:49.000And then, the last part of that paragraph is, if Republicans win, you will have no reason to believe they actually won ever again in the future.
00:34:56.000He's the one who's actually questioning future election results.
00:34:59.000He's the one who's questioning whether there will ever be a legit election again.
00:35:02.000He talked in the speech multiple times about voter suppression.
00:35:04.000There is no evidence of voter suppression in the United States.
00:35:08.000There is significantly less evidence of voter suppression than there is of voter fraud, and there ain't much evidence of voter fraud in the United States.
00:35:14.000And yet Joe Biden has made that his stock in trade.
00:35:17.000If this election goes forward, no one in America will ever sleep secure in the knowledge that an election was legitimate again.
00:35:24.000Because if the Republicans win in this election, he says, then they will suppress the right of voters and they will subvert the electoral system.
00:35:30.000Well, aren't you doubting this election and future elections, Mr. President?
00:35:34.000Isn't it you who is undermining democracy with that doubt?
00:35:37.000Shouldn't you have a little more faith in the systems and institutions you say that you prize so much?
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00:37:03.000Okay, so back to Joe Biden and his pitch, which is that if you elect the other guys, then all future elections will be skewed, also stop doubting elections.
00:37:14.000He made this pitch more specific in true McCarthy fashion, like Joseph McCarthy, suggesting there are more, I have a list here of 300 Republicans who are election deniers.
00:38:05.000When he cites stats like there are 300 election deniers and here is my list, I think it's important to actually break that down a little bit.
00:38:12.000So 538, I assume, is the source that he is using for this particular contention.
00:38:17.000The idea here is that you are an election denier of some sort if you have no comment on the election of 2020, for example.
00:38:25.000Or if you express doubts about the election of 2020, not based on voter fraud, but based on any other notion of skewing or rigging of, for example, the informational inputs from social media.
00:38:37.000FiveThirtyEight did an entire kind of breakdown here.
00:38:39.000They said out of 552 total Republican nominees running for office, we found 199 who fully denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
00:38:45.000These candidates either, but there's a further breakdown.
00:38:47.000These candidates either clearly stated the election was stolen from Trump, which Again, you sort of have to determine what stolen from Trump means in this context, right?
00:38:56.000If you think stolen from Trump means that there was full electoral fraud and that ballots were being shipped in in the dark of night and that the poll workers were stopped and new ballots were— that would be like the election was fully stolen.
00:39:06.000But then there are people who say the election was stolen because the media were involved in essentially rigging the public discourse.
00:39:11.000Corporations were involved in rigging the public discourse.
00:39:26.000But this breakdown from 538 doesn't take that into account in that vague language.
00:39:30.000Or people who took legal action to overturn the results, which I assume would mean people who filed the lawsuits originally, which is a perfectly legal expression of how you challenge election results and then those lawsuits were thrown out.
00:39:41.000So that is the biggest cadre, apparently, of the election deniers.
00:39:46.000They said that there were 61 candidates who raised questions around the results of the 2020 election.
00:39:49.000By this standard, by the way, a huge majority of Democrats, I would assume, after 2016 would be counted election deniers.
00:39:55.000They're either people who thought that Trump had stolen the election, using that broad language again, or raised questions around the results of the 2016 election.
00:40:02.000That was mainstream Democratic discourse.
00:40:05.000And then they counted 122 candidates whose position on the 2020 election we could not determine. They either had no comments or they avoided answering when asked directly.
00:40:12.000And they say there were 77 who fully accepted the results, 93 accepted with reservations.
00:40:18.000Well, these are very vague categories, but according to Joe Biden, more than half of all Republican candidates are full-on threats to election integrity in the United States.
00:40:30.000And this is what it comes down to for Joe Biden.
00:40:33.000Again, vote for my opponents and threaten democracy, or vote for me and get crap policy, but democracy will be preserved forevermore.
00:40:40.000And then he got into some romantic talk about democracy and autocracy.
00:40:43.000And again, the irony is quite thick here.
00:40:48.000Democracy means the rule of the people, not the rule of monarchs or the money, but the rule of the people.
00:40:57.000Autocracy is the opposite of democracy.
00:41:01.000It means the rule of one, one person, one interest, one ideology, one party.
00:41:09.000What we're doing now is going to determine whether democracy will long endure.
00:41:17.000Well, I mean, I noticed that when we're talking about the rule of one interest, one ideology and one party, when you castigate the entire other party, Or the driving force behind the other party, as he said.
00:41:26.000He said the driving force behind the other party.
00:41:27.000When you castigate them as threats to democracy, it seems as though what you are seeking is one interest, one ideology, one party, and one person, considering that you'd like to wrest authority from the legislative and judicial branches of government.
00:41:38.000If we're talking about threats to democracy and the rise of autocracy, as I've discussed before, centralization of mass power in one dude at the head of the executive branch might be a bit of a problem.
00:41:50.000This schtick is incredibly cynical, but you know, President Biden is a particularly cynical person.
00:41:58.000Now he did warn that we don't know how many states are, we know many states are not going to start counting until after the polls close.
00:42:03.000And that we might not know the winner until a few days later.
00:42:41.000I wish I wish I could say the assault on a democracy to end it that day, but I cannot.
00:42:48.000As I stand here today, there are candidates running for every level of office in America for governor.
00:42:55.000Congress, Attorney General, Secretary of State, who won't commit, they will not commit to accepting the results of the election that they're running in.
00:43:17.000I've said before, you can't love your country only when you win.
00:43:24.000My polling data, by the way, Democrats generally like their country a lot more when they win.
00:43:28.000Republicans have been very consistent in polling data going back decades, that whether Democrats win or the Republicans win, they're very patriotic.
00:43:33.000Democrats are only patriotic when Barack Obama is president or Joe Biden is president.
00:43:36.000When Trump is president, their patriotism drops by double digits.
00:43:40.000As far as the notion that you have to commit to the integrity of the election beforehand.