The Ben Shapiro Show - It’s Election Day! | Ep. 1606

00:00:00.000 We examine all the data as voters head to the polls for Election Day 2022.

00:00:04.000 We look forward to what Republicans could do with control of Congress and celebrities announce they will be leaving Twitter.

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00:02:27.000 Well, Election Day is always the time where we just sit around waiting to find out what exactly is going to happen.

00:02:33.000 And all we can do is sort of speculate as to how this thing is going to come out.

00:02:37.000 There are a couple of different pollsters and analysts who have different analyses of how they think this thing is going to come down.

00:02:42.000 The general widespread perception is that Republicans will likely take both the House and the Senate.

00:02:46.000 The question is going to be the margins.

00:02:48.000 Will Republicans take the House with 30 seats or 25 seats?

00:02:51.000 Will Republicans take the Senate by gaining one seat or picking up four seats?

00:02:56.000 These are the big questions.

00:02:57.000 Henry Olsen over at the Washington Post is suggesting that he believes that the Republicans are going to end up taking 54 seats in the Senate and 246 seats in the House.

00:03:04.000 246 seats in the House would be like historic levels of Republican majority.

00:03:10.000 54 seats in the Senate would give them not only a solid majority, but the possibility of taking a super majority in 2024.

00:03:15.000 Remember that when it comes to the Senate, because only one third of the Senate is up for election every two years, this means that this particular election cycle actually has a bunch of races that do not favor Republicans.

00:03:24.000 There are Republican incumbents who are supposed to be vulnerable in places like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

00:03:29.000 In Pennsylvania, there wasn't even an incumbent.

00:03:30.000 The incumbent is out, Pat Toomey.

00:03:32.000 And that's why that was an open race.

00:03:34.000 Next time around, there are a lot of vulnerable purple to blue Democratic seats.

00:03:38.000 And so if Republicans end up with 54, there is the possibility that in a 2024 wave election for a Republican for president, if Joe Biden is running again, for example, then this would mean that Republicans have the possibility of having a historically large majority in the Senate.

00:03:51.000 So when it comes to Senate elections, it's not just about this election.

00:03:54.000 It's also about the next election.

00:03:55.000 The same thing is true in the House of Republicans have a very large majority in the House.

00:03:59.000 Then even if they don't do amazing in 2024, they can still maintain their majority in the House.

00:04:03.000 So every election is about a little bit more than just that election.

00:04:07.000 Henry Olsen says that this election is essentially a referendum on President Biden.

00:04:11.000 He says, my predictions are more optimistic for Republicans than most of the other prognosticators.

00:04:15.000 The Cook Political Report, for example, predicts the GOP will win between 12 and 25 House seats.

00:04:19.000 FiveThirtyEight's model forecasts the Senate as a dead heat.

00:04:22.000 Those estimates and other underestimate the effects of a political truism.

00:04:24.000 Midterms are always a referendum on the president.

00:04:26.000 Biden is a historically unpopular president.

00:04:28.000 Compared with every other president since World War II, Biden's job approval rating at this point in his tenure is slightly ahead of the approval of only two presidents, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.

00:04:36.000 Since Republicans lost 26 House seats in Reagan's first midterm and 40 in Trump's, that does not bode particularly well for Democrats.

00:04:43.000 He says another reliable predictor is the generic congressional ballot, which measures which party voters plan to support for House seats without mentioning specific candidates.

00:04:49.000 One prominent political science model shows that losing the generic House ballot by six points results in, on average, a loss of 26 seats.

00:04:56.000 These two indicators show Democrats are in a deep hole because RealClearPolitics' poll average puts Biden's job approval at 42.3%.

00:05:02.000 Even if we round that up to 43% and assume Democrats will exceed that number by two points, as presidential parties did in both 2006 and 2014, Democrats would take only 45% of the national House vote, which would be an awful outcome.

00:05:14.000 He says there are 56 House seats seriously in play.

00:05:17.000 How many seats are vulnerable to flip?

00:05:18.000 14 are Democratic-held seats that Trump won.

00:05:20.000 Republicans hold 12 seats that Biden won.

00:05:22.000 Democrats hold an additional 24 seats that Biden won by 10 points or less, yielding 50 seats below the line.

00:05:28.000 The parties are seriously contesting an additional six seats that Biden won by 10 or more.

00:05:31.000 So that means that if you're just looking at Biden plus 10 districts and everything less than that for Democrats, that's 50 seats.

00:05:38.000 Midterm history suggests Republicans will win the overwhelming share of these districts.

00:05:41.000 During the 2010 GOP wave and the 2018 Democratic tsunami, the party not in control of the White House captured between 70% and 80% of similarly vulnerable seats.

00:05:48.000 So Henry Olsen is very bullish on the Republican chances.

00:05:51.000 Meanwhile, Larry Sabato over at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia suggests that the Republicans are going to net one seat in the Senate.

00:05:58.000 They believe that for some reason they think that Raphael Warnock will go down to Herschel Walker in Georgia and that Dr. Oz will end up winning in Pennsylvania, but that Catherine Cortez Masto will pull out a close race in Nevada.

00:06:11.000 I think that is very unlikely to happen.

00:06:13.000 I think the Republicans will end up with at least 52.

00:06:16.000 I think 53 or 54.

00:06:18.000 Obviously, that means Blake Masters and Don Balduck in New Hampshire.

00:06:21.000 I'm going to go optimistic.

00:06:22.000 I'm going to say the Republicans win 53 to 54 seats here.

00:06:25.000 I'm a little more dicey on Balduck just because the polling there, it closed so suddenly and so fast that it's sort of hard to see what's going on in New Hampshire.

00:06:33.000 Arizona, I could see Kerry like dragging Blake Masters over the finish line in Arizona.

00:06:37.000 Bottom line here is that again, it seems betting markets are now suggesting at a 70% clip that Republicans are going to take the Senate.

00:06:44.000 And if you look at the RealClearPolitics poll averages, you can see why.

00:06:47.000 Right now in Pennsylvania, Dr. Oz is up 0.4.

00:06:50.000 Virtually all of the latest polls have Dr. Oz up in Pennsylvania.

00:06:52.000 The question is going to be how much the early voting hurt in Pennsylvania.

00:06:55.000 We'll get to that.

00:06:55.000 Voting tabulation procedures and what we can expect on actual election night in just a moment.

00:06:59.000 In New Hampshire, Maggie Hassan is up just 1.4 points according to the RealClearPolitics polling average.

00:07:04.000 Now, she is up in four of the last five polls, but virtually all of them are within the margin of error.

00:07:08.000 This is why, again, I'm not sanguine about taking New Hampshire for the Republicans when I say 53 as opposed to 54.

00:07:15.000 In Arizona, Blake Masters is actually now up in the RealClearPolitics polling average, which is a shocker.

00:07:21.000 The last three polls have masters either tied or up one.

00:07:24.000 Now, again, that does not make a huge difference.

00:07:26.000 Essentially, when you're within margin of error, it's a toss up.

00:07:29.000 But you can see that, you know, for example, Larry Sabato has Nevada going Democrat.

00:07:34.000 I don't see that at all.

00:07:36.000 The last four polls in Nevada are Laxalt plus five, Laxalt plus two, Laxalt plus six, Laxalt plus five.

00:07:42.000 I think Laxalt takes the Nevada Senate seat.

00:07:45.000 And then you see a bunch of seats that were supposed to be vulnerable for Republicans, and they are turning out not to be particularly vulnerable.

00:07:50.000 Ron Charlton in Wisconsin would be one of those seats.

00:07:53.000 Bud in North Carolina was supposed to be one of those seats.

00:07:56.000 Vance in Ohio was supposed to be one of those seats.

00:07:58.000 And those races have really, really opened up.

00:08:01.000 So right now, if you're a Democrat, you got to be freaking out a little bit.

00:08:04.000 And here's the big stat.

00:08:05.000 Hey, obviously when it comes to the approval rating for Joe Biden, which is very indicative of how parties do in midterm, they're not good.

00:08:11.000 It's 42, 43%.

00:08:12.000 But among independents, and remember, independents are the ones who are going to decide this election.

00:08:17.000 It's going to be you.

00:08:18.000 You have to get out to vote, regardless of your party.

00:08:20.000 You should get out.

00:08:20.000 You should vote today.

00:08:21.000 Whoever you want to see win, make sure that you vote today.

00:08:24.000 These elections are too close.

00:08:25.000 These are like, these are hair's breadth, extraordinarily close elections.

00:08:30.000 Again, if you look at that RealClearPolitics polling average, you are seeing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6 races minimum in the Senate that are within margin of error in the polls.

00:08:41.000 So these are really, really tight races, and there are a bunch of House races that are also extremely close.

00:08:47.000 There are an extraordinary number of gubernatorial races that are really, really close.

00:08:50.000 Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan is up in the RealClearPolitics polling average by 1.1%.

00:08:55.000 Very close race in Arizona, where Carrie Lake is up in the Royal Club Politics polling average by three and a half. 1.00

00:09:02.000 Over in Wisconsin, it's a margin of error race for the Wisconsin governorship.

00:09:07.000 So, again, get out and vote.

00:09:09.000 But, one of the things that's important to mention here is that independents are going to be the deciders in a lot of these elections.

00:09:14.000 This is what happened in both 2016 and 2020 in the presidential.

00:09:16.000 In 2016, late deciding voters broke 2-1 for Trump.

00:09:17.000 In 2020, late deciding voters broke 2-1 for Joe Biden.

00:09:24.000 This time around, independents, who presumably would be the late deciding voters, they really don't like Joe Biden at all.

00:09:29.000 Chuck Todd over at NBC had to wipe away the tears as he announced this fact.

00:09:34.000 Biden's job approval rating sits at 44% in this final NBC News poll.

00:09:38.000 By the way, all-time low with independents, his approval rating is just 28%.

00:09:43.000 And let me put this in context for you.

00:09:46.000 What does a job rating mean?

00:09:47.000 Some people believe it's the single most important indicator to understand where a midterm election is going.

00:09:52.000 Bill Clinton's 44% job approval rating translated into a 54 seat loss for his party.

00:09:57.000 A 45% job approval rating for President Obama in 2010 translated to 63 lost House seats.

00:10:04.000 46% for President Trump, 40 House seat loss for his party.

00:10:10.000 So what will 44% give us?

00:10:14.000 Okay, so one of the big problems for Republicans in terms of defining a wave is the fact that Republicans are actually in very strong position in the House going into the election.

00:10:21.000 By the way, one way that you can tell that Republicans are about to do very well in a lot of these states is what Donald Trump has been doing at his rallies.

00:10:28.000 So remember, Donald Trump Tried to run David Perdue against Brian Kemp in the primaries for governor of Georgia and David Perdue just got walloped.

00:10:35.000 And then Donald Trump yelled at Brian Kemp for like several months there about how terrible Brian Kemp was because Donald Trump didn't win Georgia.

00:10:41.000 Last night, Donald Trump came out, endorsed Brian Kemp for re-election in Georgia.

00:10:46.000 Of course it's going to because Brian Kemp is going to win by a thousand points over Stacey Abrams.

00:10:49.000 Okay, so the question becomes what does a red wave look like?

00:10:51.000 So there are a few things that are worth noting about the red wave.

00:10:54.000 We'll get into the sort of red mirage of all this and how voting procedures work in just a second because there are a lot of people on the right who are very much afraid that they're going to go to bed tonight and it's going to look like a red wave and then tomorrow it's going to look like a red ripple or something because of voting procedures.

00:11:06.000 So we'll talk about realistically What voting tabulation looks like in places like Pennsylvania.

00:11:10.000 It is pathetic that many states do not count like Florida.

00:11:13.000 Florida is going to close and within an hour you're going to have solid results in Florida. 0.91

00:11:17.000 Because again, all the absentee ballots as they come in are being tabulated.

00:11:21.000 Everything is tabulated electronically.

00:11:22.000 That means that you get results incredibly fast.

00:11:24.000 There's no reason in a civilized country you cannot have results same night. 0.98

00:11:27.000 But there are procedures in place in these places and a lot of these procedures suck. 0.88

00:11:31.000 So that happens to be real.

00:11:32.000 However, one thing that you can watch from the media is that if Republicans come in anywhere below say 40 seats, If they come below 30 seats, then Democrats are going to suggest that it was not a good night for Republicans.

00:11:41.000 This is a lie.

00:11:42.000 Remember, when it comes to the House, Republicans currently hold 212 seats.

00:11:48.000 212 seats out of 435.

00:11:50.000 What this means is that if you look historically at the size of House majorities for Republicans, there have been only four times since World War II and three since 2010.

00:11:59.000 But four times since World War II, the Republicans have had over 240 seats in the House.

00:12:05.000 They would only have to win about 28 seats to get over 240 seats in the House.

00:12:09.000 So you could see Democrats easily saying, well, you only won 28 seats.

00:12:12.000 Is that really a wave?

00:12:13.000 I mean, normally, I mean, look at those stats.

00:12:14.000 Normally, when the president's approval rating is at 44%, you're losing 50 seats or 60 seats.

00:12:18.000 The answer is Republicans outperformed the president on the ballot in 2020, which means that Republicans have a very narrow minority in the House right now.

00:12:26.000 Republicans are not down by 40 seats.

00:12:28.000 Republicans are not down by 30 seats.

00:12:30.000 Republicans are down by 10 seats.

00:12:32.000 And that means the possibility of them picking up a lot of seats is a lot lower.

00:12:36.000 And that means also that it wouldn't take a whole hell of a lot for Republicans to have a historically large majority.

00:12:42.000 If the GOP adds 36 seats, which is less than all of those other quote unquote wave elections.

00:12:48.000 I remember in 2010, Republicans picked up like 60 seats, but that's because they went into that election in a horrible position in the House.

00:12:55.000 If you look historically at the House divisions and you look at 2010, going into the 2010 election, Democrats had 257 seats in the House.

00:13:04.000 So when Republicans picked up 60 seats, they ended up at 242.

00:13:08.000 In order for Republicans to end up at 242 tonight, all they have to do is pick up 30 seats.

00:13:14.000 So the question is not really how many seats you pick up.

00:13:16.000 The question is how many seats you end up with.

00:13:19.000 If Republicans won 36 seats, this would put them at over 247.

00:13:23.000 Republicans would have the largest House majority since 1928 if they pick up 36 seats.

00:13:28.000 So yes, that will be a red wave.

00:13:30.000 So when Kevin McCarthy says, and he was kind of mocked for it yesterday, that if the GOP wins 20 seats, it's a red wave, that's not historically inaccurate because that would put the Republicans at 232 seats, which is a very, very solid House majority.

00:13:43.000 Realistically, I think that if you want to call it a wave, you have to win over 30.

00:13:46.000 If Republicans win over 30, this puts them in like 242 position, which is back in the position they were after the 2010 elections, which was a wave election.

00:13:54.000 Here's Kevin McCarthy trying to explain what a red wave constitutes.

00:13:58.000 Last question.

00:13:59.000 Can you give a prediction for how many seats do you think Republicans are going to pick up on Tuesday?

00:13:59.000 Yes.

00:14:02.000 At least enough to win the majority.

00:14:05.000 We're going to fight for every single one possible.

00:14:08.000 What do you see as a red wave?

00:14:10.000 What will be a red wave on Tuesday night?

00:14:13.000 Well, I think anywhere over 20 is a red wave.

00:14:16.000 Okay, so he's giving you a low estimate so that he can claim that there's a red wave, but the real number is above 30 would be a red wave.

00:14:24.000 Above 25 would be like a red tide.

00:14:27.000 And a red wave would be, a red tsunami would be like 35 plus.

00:14:31.000 35 plus seats is a red tsunami.

00:14:33.000 30 seats plus is a red wave.

00:14:34.000 25 seats is sort of a tide, is the best way to think about all of this.

00:14:39.000 Okay, now again, one of the big issues here is going to be how the independents go.

00:14:43.000 It looks like the independents are going to show up and it looks like they are going to vote.

00:14:47.000 Turnout is going to be a big part of this.

00:14:49.000 So again, I urge everybody to go out and vote today.

00:14:52.000 One of the things that's really fascinating about this particular election is that if it is a red wave election, if Republicans do show really strong in this election, Democrats are going to do what they usually do.

00:15:02.000 They're going to blame White racism and the evils of white supremacy and all of the rest of this.

00:15:08.000 But that's not going to be the story.

00:15:10.000 Because as we talked about yesterday, the Wall Street Journal has a poll showing that the GOP is getting significant ground among black and Latino voters.

00:15:15.000 Basically, they're running almost dead even with Latinos, and they're picking up to 17% of the black vote, which is an insane number. 0.99

00:15:21.000 Democrats typically draw 92, 90 percent of the black vote.

00:15:25.000 If Republicans got to 11 percent of the black vote in prior elections, that was a massive win for them. 1.00

00:15:29.000 If Republicans start clocking in at 15 to 20 percent, Democrats are toast.

00:15:33.000 They have a serious problem on their hands.

00:15:35.000 And all of this is happening, by the way, amidst a simple fact.

00:15:38.000 America is getting more integrated.

00:15:40.000 So what the left would like to suggest is that the country is getting more Republican when it comes to the House and the Senate and maybe the presidency in 2024.

00:15:46.000 As America is getting more segregated, more racist, worse.

00:15:48.000 That's not true.

00:15:49.000 By census data, more Americans are living near people of other races.

00:15:53.000 And as that happens, what's actually happening is that more people are voting Republican.

00:15:58.000 According to the Washington Post, deep in the bowels of the nation's 2020 census lurks a quiet milestone.

00:16:02.000 For the first time in modern American history, most white people live in mixed-race neighborhoods.

00:16:06.000 So it's not that white people are separating themselves off from the rest of the population, then voting as a voter bloc.

00:16:11.000 That's not what's happening.

00:16:12.000 What's happening is that white voters are voting kind of typically how they always have, and a lot of minority voters are now living near white voters and not in segregated areas because racism, because white racism, and because of in-group cohesion.

00:16:24.000 A lot of these things have declined in the United States, and because of that, people are voting More homogeneously population-wide and more heterogeneously inside their own groups.

00:16:33.000 What that means is that you can now look at Latinos and they're voting more divided than they would have before.

00:16:38.000 They're not a voter bloc.

00:16:39.000 Hispanics are not a voter bloc.

00:16:41.000 Increasingly, if these stats are right, blacks may not be an ethnic voter bloc. 0.55

00:16:45.000 Ethnic voter blocs may become a thing of the past in the United States, which by the way would be a wonderful thing. 1.00

00:16:49.000 That'd be a great thing.

00:16:51.000 If people stopped voting based on race or ethnicity, and instead started voting based on which policies benefit themselves and their families, that'd be a great thing for the United States.

00:16:59.000 It'd be a great thing pretty much everywhere.

00:17:02.000 According to the Washington Post, this marks a tectonic shift from just a generation ago.

00:17:06.000 Back in 1990, 78% of white people lived in predominantly white neighborhoods, where at least 4 out of every 5 people were also white.

00:17:12.000 In the 2020 census that has plunged to 44% only 44% of white Americans live in an area where four out of every five people were also white.

00:17:22.000 Large pockets of segregation remain, but as America's white population shrinks for the first time, and Hispanic, Asian, Black, and Native Americans fuel the nation's growth, diverse neighborhoods have expanded from urban cores into suburbs that were once colored by a steady stream of white flight from inner cities.

00:17:35.000 Across the 9,700 neighborhoods that became mixed in 2020, white population dropped by about 300,000.

00:17:40.000 Meanwhile, the number of Hispanics jumped by 1.5 million, the largest part of a 4.3 million increase in non-whites in those neighborhoods.

00:17:46.000 What's amazing about all of this is that it's actually not having the impact that Democrats thought it would have.

00:17:50.000 Their suggestion was that as the white population declined in the United States, that the country would become ever more left-wing.

00:17:56.000 That is not what is happening.

00:17:58.000 Instead, it turns out that large swaths of minority voters don't like the woke, equity-based nonsense that Democrats are pushing.

00:18:07.000 The Washington Post acknowledges this demographic shift has scrambled the nation's politics, introducing new groups of often left-leaning voters into typically conservative-dominated, white-dominated enclaves, according to Chris Maggio, a sociologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice.

00:18:21.000 Now, he tries to claim that this is what's causing a backlash, but that's not what the stats are showing.

00:18:26.000 What it's actually showing is that more Hispanics are voting for Republicans than ever before.

00:18:31.000 It's showing that maybe more Blacks are voting for Republicans than at any time since the New Deal, depending on whether these stats come in.

00:18:38.000 So, that's kind of shocking.

00:18:40.000 And if you look at the share of the population living in mixed-race neighborhoods, it runs the gamut.

00:18:46.000 In Oklahoma, 93% of the population lives in mixed-race neighborhoods.

00:18:51.000 Oklahoma is a deep red state.

00:18:55.000 And again, it's not as though the deepest red states are the ones that are inherently segregated.

00:19:02.000 That's not right.

00:19:06.000 Some of the places that are the least segregated are the most Republicans, and some of the places that are the most segregated are the least Republican.

00:19:18.000 Rhode Island is a very democratic state.

00:19:19.000 Only 41% of the population lives in mixed-race neighborhoods.

00:19:23.000 Meanwhile, Alabama is deep red, and 58% of the population lives in mixed-race neighborhoods.

00:19:27.000 In Georgia, that number is 67%.

00:19:29.000 In other words, the lie that Democrats told, which is that as the country becomes more diverse and as everybody starts living together with one another, the country would get more Democrat.

00:19:38.000 That's not true.

00:19:39.000 That has not happened.

00:19:40.000 I mean, what has actually happened is that bad Democratic governance is now hitting everybody across the board to the point that Katy Perry is now endorsing billionaire Democrat Rick Caruso for mayor of L.A.

00:19:51.000 Rick Caruso is not a Democrat.

00:19:53.000 He is running as a Democrat.

00:19:54.000 He is not a Democrat.

00:19:54.000 He was historically a Republican.

00:19:57.000 She shared several photos and a clip on Instagram with her 178 million followers casting a vote for Rick Caruso.

00:20:03.000 Quote, I'm voting for a myriad of reasons, but in particular because Los Angeles is a hot mess.

00:20:08.000 Well, surprise, surprise, it turns out that bad governance has some consequences.

00:20:13.000 OK, so meanwhile, let's talk about what to watch for on election night.

00:20:16.000 So how are we going to know whether it's a ripple or a wave or a tsunami or a tide?

00:20:20.000 There are a few different races to watch.

00:20:23.000 So Politico has a good rundown on this.

00:20:26.000 They say that it's worth looking at, for example, Illinois' 17th district.

00:20:29.000 They say that's an open seat in blue territory in Northwest Illinois.

00:20:33.000 Biden won that seat by 8 points.

00:20:35.000 Cook Political puts that at D plus 2.

00:20:38.000 If that goes Republican, that would be an indicator of a red wave.

00:20:41.000 Nebraska's 2nd district would be another good district to watch.

00:20:44.000 That's a Biden 6.4 district.

00:20:48.000 Again, the GOP represents that area.

00:20:51.000 So if Representative Don Bacon, who is the Republican in that area, wins, then that would suggest that Republicans are holding even in somewhat strong Democratic areas.

00:21:00.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

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00:22:59.000 Pennsylvania's 8th District.

00:23:01.000 is an area with an incumbent Democrat.

00:23:03.000 Trump won that area by three points.

00:23:05.000 It's R plus four, according to Cook Political.

00:23:07.000 And so if he loses that seat, then that would be an indicator of a red tide.

00:23:13.000 If Abigail Spanberger loses in Virginia 7th, and that one should come in fairly early because Virginia is on the East Coast, then that would be a good indicator that Democrats are about to have a terrible night if Abigail Spanberger gets kicked out. 1.00

00:23:23.000 Because Abigail Spanberger is considered a sort of moderate Democrat in a Biden plus six district. 0.94

00:23:29.000 And that means that that would be a disaster for the Democrats if Spanberger were to lose.

00:23:33.000 So those are a few early indicators.

00:23:35.000 Also watch for Florida.

00:23:36.000 Again, Florida results because we count our votes correctly in Florida.

00:23:41.000 It is worth watching what happens in Florida.

00:23:42.000 If Ron DeSantis walks away with a double-digit victory in Florida, it's going to be a super bad night for Democrats.

00:23:48.000 Marco Rubio, right now in the latest election polls, is up anywhere from 6 to 12 points.

00:23:52.000 If Marco Rubio comes back at plus 10 over Val Demings, bad night for Democrats is on its way.

00:23:58.000 In New York, there are several different races that would be early indicators of whether the Democrats are doing poorly or not, including the governor's race.

00:24:06.000 Now, one thing to watch for, the media are, of course, warning of the quote-unquote red mirage.

00:24:11.000 Now, some of that is exaggerated. 0.93

00:24:14.000 It's exaggerated because, again, not every state counts votes late or tabulates in the stupid fashion that Pennsylvania tabulates votes.

00:24:21.000 However, it is worth noting that in the 2020 election, Donald Trump declared victory on the night of.

00:24:26.000 The votes had not even been fully tallied yet, not even close.

00:24:29.000 And so you do have to worry about the late mail-in votes.

00:24:31.000 The idea of a red mirage is predicated on the notion that Democrats tend to outweigh Republicans in the mail-in balloting, and that tends to get counted later.

00:24:39.000 So it looks as though the early returns day of a Republican and then the mail-in ballots get counted.

00:24:44.000 And then that seems to turn things a little bit more Democrat.

00:24:46.000 And I think that's a little bit exaggerated this year because the mail-in ballots.

00:24:49.000 According to folks who are looking at the stats, the mail-in ballots are not heavily weighing in favor of the Democrats the same way that they did back in 2020.

00:24:55.000 A lot of mail-in ballots are being held Republican, so I don't think that the red mirage is going to be as much of a thing.

00:25:00.000 But it is worth noting how votes actually get tabulated in Pennsylvania so that you're not surprised by it and you're not taken in by either the left saying that the red mirage is coming or By people who say, election night results are in, it's 9 o'clock eastern time, we know who won, and any change from here on in is obviously voter fraud or people screwing around with the ballots.

00:25:21.000 Here is how the voting gets tabulated in Pennsylvania, as sort of an informational note.

00:25:26.000 So there's election night reporting in which teams of county election officials begin tabulating all the eligible votes, including mail-in and absentee ballots.

00:25:33.000 It's 8.01 p.m.

00:25:34.000 on election day.

00:25:35.000 Because of Act 88, most counties must begin canvassing mail-in and absentee ballots at this time.

00:25:39.000 So unlike the state of Florida, which actually starts to tabulate the mail-in and absentee ballots, like in the middle of the day, so that you can actually get the results right away, Pennsylvania has an incredibly dumb rule, which is that you're not allowed to even start tabulating the absentee and mail-in ballots until 8.01, until the polls actually close.

00:25:55.000 At 12.01, which is going to be tomorrow morning, counties that received Act 88 funds have to post the unofficial number of absentee ballots and mail-in ballots received.

00:26:03.000 That doesn't mean that all of them have to be counted by that time.

00:26:06.000 So it's four hours after the polls close in Pennsylvania, and the counties are still tabulating exactly how those ballots went down, but they're giving you a general number of ballots.

00:26:16.000 Then the official canvas doesn't happen until November 11th at 9 a.m.

00:26:20.000 That's when each county's board of elections has to begin the official canvas and compute the returns of votes cast.

00:26:24.000 The canvas has to continue through November 16th to ensure that the tally includes valid military and overseas ballots received by 5 p.m.

00:26:31.000 on November 15th.

00:26:32.000 So, as we will see, there's now controversy over exactly what to do with mail-in ballots that, for example, are wrongly dated.

00:26:38.000 How do you know if they're wrongly dated?

00:26:40.000 John Fetterman would like for ballots that have been wrongly dated to be counted.

00:26:44.000 Republicans are like, well, how do we know that those weren't sent after Election Day?

00:26:48.000 The unofficial returns don't happen until 5 p.m.

00:26:51.000 November 15th.

00:26:52.000 So, I'm laying all of this out to suggest that yes, there will be delays in the process, and yes, it will be annoying, and yes, this all has to get fixed.

00:26:59.000 It is not definitive evidence of quote-unquote voter fraud or screwing around with the vote.

00:27:03.000 If it takes a while to tabulate the ballots, that's literally how the system works in Pennsylvania.

00:27:08.000 Again, that doesn't mean there's no fraud, but you're going to have to show independent evidence of fraud other than it takes a long time to tabulate the ballots. 0.99

00:27:13.000 That's how their stupid process works in Pennsylvania, which is why they need to fix their dumbass process in Pennsylvania. 1.00

00:27:18.000 It is stupid. 1.00

00:27:19.000 There is no reason that any state should be running like this. 1.00

00:27:21.000 And there are similar problems, by the way.

00:27:23.000 In Michigan and in Wisconsin. 0.98

00:27:25.000 Those are the three states where you tend to have really dumb voting procedures. 0.96

00:27:29.000 In terms of tabulation, the same way that you do in Pennsylvania. 0.96

00:27:32.000 Speaking of which, Pennsylvania Democratic Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman's U.S.

00:27:35.000 Senate campaign filed a lawsuit on Monday against state election officials arguing mail ballots with either an incorrect or a blank date should in fact be counted in Tuesday's election.

00:27:43.000 Plaintiffs have now asked a federal judge, according to Daily Wire, to order all mail ballots to be counted regardless of the date voters pen on the envelope.

00:27:50.000 The lawsuit comes a week after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled officials should set aside and not count mail ballots with an incorrect or empty date.

00:27:57.000 The lawsuit says the date requirement imposes unnecessary hurdles that eligible Pennsylvanians must clear to exercise their most fundamental rights. 1.00

00:28:03.000 This is stupid. 0.99

00:28:04.000 If you can't write a date on a ballot, you shouldn't be voting. 1.00

00:28:06.000 It's not that hard.

00:28:07.000 Voting, it turns out, in this country is extraordinarily easy.

00:28:10.000 Is in Iraq circa 2005 where people are braving suicide bombers to go to the ballot box. 1.00

00:28:15.000 If you can't write a date on your ballot, you're an idiot and your vote shouldn't be counted. 1.00

00:28:19.000 Write a vote, write a date on your ballot. 1.00

00:28:21.000 Seriously, like just don't be stupid. 1.00

00:28:23.000 How about that? 1.00

00:28:24.000 Everyone should have their vote counted as long as it is a properly cast ballot.

00:28:27.000 Cast your ballot properly. 1.00

00:28:28.000 Don't be a moron. 0.99

00:28:30.000 Lawsuit alleges election officials are rejecting qualified voters who accidentally failed to write the date on their ballot envelope and more still will be rejected when voters enter an incorrect date such as their birth date instead of the date they completed or signed. 0.99

00:28:39.000 Why would you write your birthday instead of the date that you signed your ballot on the slot that says signed ballot date?

00:28:47.000 So the fact that the Democrats want to count a bunch of votes that are that are cast If not illegally, then at least incorrectly, is a sign of how Democrats wish to confuse the process.

00:28:57.000 Meanwhile, late voting changes in Philadelphia make this even more confusing.

00:29:01.000 This is why you have to have good vote procedures state by state, and it is ridiculous that Pennsylvania has not fixed this after 2020.

00:29:05.000 According to the Philadelphia Enquirer, counting Philadelphia's votes will take longer than expected this election.

00:29:11.000 Oh, good.

00:29:11.000 Because if you want to shore up everybody's worries about election integrity, definitely make it take longer in Philadelphia.

00:29:17.000 Excellent.

00:29:19.000 Again, you know everybody who has doubts about the election.

00:29:21.000 If it starts to materialize looking like an Oz victory and then all of a sudden, Philadelphia's ballots start coming in late, the accusation is going to be that there's somebody in the back room in Philadelphia who is shoveling ballots.

00:29:30.000 Now again, accusations are not tantamount to evidence.

00:29:33.000 I say this over and over and over.

00:29:34.000 Evidence is evidence.

00:29:36.000 Accusations and speculation are accusations and speculation.

00:29:38.000 If you wish to actually have people trust your election results, maybe you should shore up the process of how it's done.

00:29:43.000 The adults.

00:29:45.000 According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, city officials voted Tuesday morning as polling places opened and the vote count began for the midterm elections to reinstate a time-consuming and labor-intensive process for catching double votes that will slow how quickly they can report results.

00:29:57.000 If Pennsylvania's high-stakes U.S.

00:29:58.000 Senate race is as close as expected, a wait for results out of the state's largest city is sure to shine a national spotlight on Philadelphia just the way it did in 2020.

00:30:05.000 The city commissioners, the three-member elections board, voted 2-1 to reinstate what is known as poll book reconciliation.

00:30:11.000 That's a means of flagging mail ballots submitted by voters who also voted in person during an emergency 7am meeting.

00:30:16.000 It was a sudden reversal of a decision they made less than a week ago and came a day after a city judge, responding to a Republican lawsuit, said they could move forward without the process.

00:30:24.000 So, actually, the sole Republican commissioner voted in favor of the reconciliation, he said, I want to be clear that when there are conversations that occur later this evening about whether or not Philadelphia has counted all of their ballots, that the reason some ballots would not be counted is Republicans did target Philadelphia and only Philadelphia to force us to conduct a procedure no other county does. So this is worth noting also for Republicans who are like, why is it taking so long? Why can't they just count the ballots in Philadelphia? The answer is Republicans asked for it to take longer to count the ballots in Philadelphia.

00:30:51.000 They asked for it to take longer because they want to make sure that people aren't voting twice.

00:30:55.000 That you voted in person and you sent in a mail-in ballot and your ballot isn't getting out.

00:30:57.000 Again, they have procedures in place generally to catch that sort of thing, but they want to make sure that everything is counted twice before it's actually tabulated.

00:31:05.000 So, When it takes time to get some results from Pennsylvania, just understand that's part of the process.

00:31:10.000 It's a crappy process that needs to be fixed.

00:31:11.000 And meanwhile, the closing election pitch for Democrats again is that democracy is at stake.

00:31:17.000 As always, as always, democracy is at stake unless you vote for us and our friends.

00:31:21.000 That is what the New York Times editorial board says.

00:31:23.000 Midterm elections in the United States are often presented as a referent on the party in power.

00:31:26.000 That message appears to be resonating this fall, but voters need to consider the intentions of the party that hopes to regain power too.

00:31:32.000 And what each vote they cast will mean for the future of this country.

00:31:35.000 Eight Republican senators and 139 Republican representatives sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election on the basis of spurious allegations of voter fraud and other irregularities.

00:31:44.000 We're going to do the January 6th stuff again.

00:31:47.000 And their presence in Congress poses a danger to democracy.

00:31:50.000 OK, talk to Jamie Raskin, who voted against certification of the election in 2016.

00:31:52.000 There have been multiple Democrats who over the years, in 2004, in 2016, every time a Republican wins, vote against the certification.

00:32:00.000 Are those people a danger to democracy?

00:32:03.000 But, says the New York Times, the greatest danger to election integrity may in fact come from the results of state and local races that will determine who actually conducts the election and counts the votes in 2024.

00:32:12.000 In the weeks that followed the 2020 election, Mr. Trump and his supporters saw their efforts to deny the election results and prove rampant voter fraud thwarted by two things.

00:32:18.000 First, their inability to produce credible evidence that fraud occurred.

00:32:20.000 And second, an election infrastructure that was defended by honorable public servants who refused to accept specious claims of wrongdoing.

00:32:26.000 Over the past two years, Republicans in dozens of states have tried to dismantle that infrastructure piece by piece, particularly by filling key positions with Trump sympathizers.

00:32:33.000 Okay, but the argument that the New York Times editorial board is making is vote Democrat up and down the ballot in order to stop presumably a couple of people running for Arizona Secretary of State who aren't going to count the ballots properly.

00:32:44.000 That is a weak case.

00:32:46.000 That your local congressperson is a threat to democracy is an idea that people are just not going to buy.

00:32:52.000 The New York Times admits that Democrats have largely failed to connect with voters' concerns about inflation and public safety during the campaign season.

00:32:57.000 They've struggled to communicate their tangible achievements.

00:32:59.000 Well, yes.

00:33:00.000 Undoubtedly, there's more work to be done on these and other issues.

00:33:02.000 But the 2020 elections are an opportunity for Americans to do their part in defending the integrity of American elections.

00:33:08.000 Now, I would find this a lot more convincing if Democrats weren't simultaneously already attempting to warn about voter suppression.

00:33:15.000 The New York Times literally has a piece today Claiming that there will be voter suppression in Florida.

00:33:21.000 This is from, sorry, it's the Washington Post.

00:33:23.000 The Washington Post has an article, same day as the New York Times, claiming this is all about preserving democracy.

00:33:27.000 Quote, black voters in Florida express fear, confusion, as DeSantis' election laws kick in.

00:33:32.000 Oh, so you mean if Val Demings loses by a thousand points to Marco Rubio, it'll probably be because of voter suppression.

00:33:37.000 The same people who are lecturing you about threats to democracy are telling you that if the Democrats lose, not only will be that a threat to democracy in the future, it means that the election was not properly held today.

00:33:48.000 Says the Washington Post, Tuesday will mark the first major election changes in Florida since the legislature pushed through those changes affecting voters voting in the Sunshine State.

00:33:55.000 Voter advocates say the laws disproportionately affect black voters, making it harder for many to vote and have created an environment of confusion and fear.

00:34:03.000 Voters can deliver ballots for immediate family members, but there are new forms to fill out, and some worry that even a small mistake could result in a fine or an arrest.

00:34:10.000 It is now illegal to turn in more than two ballots that don't belong to a close relative.

00:34:14.000 Well, as it should be.

00:34:15.000 You shouldn't be able to go out and pick up ballots from everybody in the neighborhood.

00:34:19.000 That is an opportunity for voter fraud in action.

00:34:22.000 But, says the Washington Post, this is disincentivizing black voters to go to the polls, and therefore you have to worry about election threats.

00:34:29.000 Meanwhile, Politico has an entire article today titled, Six Election Security Threats to Watch for on Election Day.

00:34:36.000 So now we're worried about voting equipment.

00:34:38.000 I'm not kidding.

00:34:39.000 They say that we have to worry about myths and disinformation.

00:34:42.000 Lies and conspiracy theories about the security of election systems are what most worry election supervisors and federal cybersecurity and intelligence officials because those falsehoods can inflame mistrust.

00:34:51.000 Also, by the way, in the same article, they say that there could be serious worries about wireless modems enabling hacks of voting machines or vote tallies.

00:35:01.000 So Politico already warning about the possibility of actually like Diebold machines being hacked circa 2004.

00:35:08.000 At least seven states and Washington DC use wireless modems to transmit unofficial election night results to their central offices.

00:35:13.000 These modems use telecommunications networks that are vulnerable to hackers and malicious hackers could exploit them to tamper with unofficial vote data.

00:35:20.000 So, guys, you have to vote Democrats who preserve democracy.

00:35:23.000 Also, the vote might not be legit, voter suppression, and all of the rest.

00:35:28.000 This is the case that Charles Blow is making also.

00:35:30.000 He aptly named Charles Blow over at the New York Times because his columns routinely blow.

00:35:33.000 He says that democracy is a threat.

00:35:37.000 He says, modern presidential elections don't often end in landslides.

00:35:40.000 In fact, no president has won by a margin of the popular vote greater than 10 percentage points since Ronald Reagan in 1984.

00:35:45.000 These slim margins are obscured by the flaws and peculiarities of our electoral process.

00:35:49.000 But that same fluke means the country's last two Republican presidents were able to win the Electoral College while losing the popular vote.

00:35:54.000 This is all to say we are a cat's whisker away from calamity.

00:35:57.000 From calamity!

00:36:00.000 If the Republicans take the House and the Senate, then that means that we will never have a clean election again.

00:36:08.000 That it'll be the end of the country.

00:36:10.000 As Biden has pointed out, the country is perilously close to installing officials who want to undo and remake it, who want a partial democracy or none at all.

00:36:16.000 America is one bad election away from being a memory.

00:36:19.000 That's their closing pitch.

00:36:20.000 Also, if Republicans win, it's probably because they cheated.

00:36:23.000 So that's part of the Democratic closing pitch. 0.98

00:36:24.000 The other part of the Democratic closing pitch is, of course, that the Republicans are all evil, violent people who attack Paul Pelosi with a hammer. 0.96

00:36:30.000 Nancy Pelosi, in highly cynical fashion, actually suggested that last night. 0.99

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00:37:36.000 Well, folks, the day everyone has been waiting for is finally upon us, Election Day.

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00:38:21.000 Okay, so the Democratic closing pitch.

00:38:23.000 is yelling at voters and or saying that Republicans are violent attackers who hit people with hammers. 0.98

00:38:27.000 Nancy Pelosi was on CNN last night suggesting that basically Republicans are responsible for an insane nutcase who is a nudist drug abuser hitting her husband in the head with a hammer. 0.99

00:38:38.000 In our democracy, there is one party that is doubting the outcome of the election, feeding that flame, and mocking any violence that happens. 0.91

00:38:49.000 That has to stop.

00:38:50.000 The former president of the United States, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, others have spread stories, casting doubt on what happened, fomenting conspiracy theories.

00:39:00.000 What do you have to say to them?

00:39:03.000 It's really sad for the country.

00:39:06.000 It's really sad for the country that people of that high visibility would separate themselves from the facts and the truth in such a blatant way.

00:39:17.000 It's really sad and it is traumatizing to those affected by it.

00:39:23.000 They don't care about that, obviously.

00:39:26.000 But it is...

00:39:28.000 destructive to the unity that we want to have in our country.

00:39:33.000 But I don't have anything to say to them.

00:39:35.000 I mean, we have nothing, there would be no common ground to have any conversation with them. 0.59

00:39:40.000 Okay, listen, I'm actually sympathetic to the idea that people who are putting out theories about how her husband was having gay sex with a crazy nudist who hit him in the head with a hammer, I'm sympathetic to her being upset about that. 0.97

00:39:49.000 They're talking about her husband who just got hit in the head with a hammer. 0.98

00:39:51.000 I'm sympathetic.

00:39:52.000 What I'm not sympathetic to is the idea that they are destroying unity in the country as though unity was something that Democrats are seeking, that Nancy Pelosi is seeking, that Joe Biden has been seeking.

00:40:00.000 That dog ain't gonna hunt. 1.00

00:40:01.000 That Republicans are all at fault for what happened with her husband is not an acceptable closing pitch.

00:40:06.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden is making his pitch.

00:40:08.000 He tweeted this out. 0.96

00:40:08.000 This is just, this is ridiculous. 0.96

00:40:10.000 So Joe Biden tweeted, quote, You don't get to accept hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic loans and then attack my administration for helping working folks get some relief. 0.87

00:40:21.000 And then he fell asleep.

00:40:22.000 I've noticed there's not a lot of video available of Joe Biden over the last couple of days because he's not alive.

00:40:27.000 They just keep not putting him on the campaign trail because he's terrible. 1.00

00:40:30.000 Um, that is the stupidest argument in the entire world. 0.99

00:40:33.000 That we are not allowed to criticize you spending more money than has ever been spent by any human being in the history of planet Earth by a long shot. 0.99

00:40:41.000 We're not allowed to do that because the government forcibly shut down our businesses in 2020 and then had to compensate us for shutting down our businesses.

00:40:49.000 That is not the same thing.

00:40:51.000 I'm sorry, if the government forces me to shut down my business and then says, you must be compensated for that.

00:40:55.000 That is not the same thing as you took out a student loan.

00:40:57.000 You didn't repay it because you got your degree in lesbian dance theory. 1.00

00:41:01.000 And now I'm going to repay that loan. 0.99

00:41:04.000 It's so smearing and ridiculous. 1.00

00:41:06.000 And this is why Joe Biden is a failure. 0.98

00:41:08.000 It is why he is not going to have a good night tonight.

00:41:11.000 And it's also why Americans don't actually believe White House spokesperson Kate Bedingfield when she says that Joe Biden's top priority is working families and helping them create jobs.

00:41:19.000 That is not correct.

00:41:20.000 No one believes this.

00:41:22.000 In terms of the president's agenda, I would say look at what he has prioritized over the course of the first two years.

00:41:28.000 He has done everything that he can do to help working families.

00:41:32.000 He's going to continue to do that.

00:41:33.000 Significant bill to increase manufacturing here in the United States, the Chips and Science Act, which puts us on stronger footing competing with China and has helped contribute to the creation of 700,000 manufacturing jobs, up above the number of manufacturing jobs we had before the pandemic.

00:41:49.000 So he, if you're thinking about, if you're wondering what the president's going to do moving forward, look at what he's accomplished so far. You can see his priority, his working families, creating jobs, giving them breathing room, and that's what he'll do moving forward.

00:42:01.000 Yeah, I don't think so.

00:42:04.000 I don't think so.

00:42:05.000 And so then they revert to the sort of vague language.

00:42:08.000 Because whenever Joe Biden gets specific, it's a problem.

00:42:09.000 Like, Joe Biden, over the weekend, said that he was going to shut down basically all the coal plants in the country.

00:42:13.000 And Karine Jean-Pierre's like, oh, that was twisted.

00:42:15.000 It was very twisted.

00:42:15.000 It was twisted.

00:42:16.000 You know, it was twisted.

00:42:17.000 It wasn't true.

00:42:17.000 It was twisted.

00:42:18.000 It wasn't twisted, guys.

00:42:19.000 We played the clip of it yesterday.

00:42:22.000 Briefly to clarify something you mentioned here at the podium.

00:42:25.000 You mentioned about the President's statement or what the President said on Saturday regarding coal.

00:42:30.000 You mentioned a couple times or repeated a couple times today that those words were twisted.

00:42:34.000 So who twisted them?

00:42:36.000 Did Manchin twist them?

00:42:37.000 Did someone else twist them?

00:42:39.000 It's how it was reported out was being twisted.

00:42:42.000 So if you, and I want to be really clear because this is important, if you read the full transcript the president was very clear commenting on a fact of economics and technology as it has been from the its earliest days as an energy superpower.

00:42:57.000 America is once again in the midst of an energy transition and the president is determined to make sure that this transition helps all Americans and he's been very clear about that.

00:43:08.000 Um, so no, uh, he has not been clear about all of this and this is why you are going to lose.

00:43:14.000 I mean, Democrat after Democrat is running a final, a bad final closing pitch.

00:43:18.000 Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, for example, her closing pitch is to use the phrase people with a period.

00:43:24.000 You want to know why so many voters are ignoring whatever Republican weirdnesses and conspiracy theories there are?

00:43:29.000 Maybe the reason is because your mainstream party is saying that women are people with a period.

00:43:33.000 That would be the reason, guys.

00:43:35.000 People with a period. 0.80

00:43:36.000 You're all weird. 0.98

00:43:37.000 It's because you're weird. 0.94

00:43:38.000 You're being weird. 1.00

00:43:39.000 You keep saying weird crap. 1.00

00:43:39.000 Latinx. 1.00

00:43:40.000 People with a period.

00:43:41.000 That's why you're losing.

00:43:42.000 income Michiganders. Saving people with a period from paying taxes on up to $4,800 in spending people with a period.

00:43:50.000 Their lifetime. You're all weird. It's because you're weird. 0.94

00:43:53.000 You're being weird. You keep saying weird crap. Latinx people with a period. That's why you're losing. And then you're like, why don't people think that we're taking inflation seriously? You shut down all the schools for two years. 1.00

00:44:04.000 You amassed children.

00:44:06.000 You tried to force a Vax via OSHA on tens of millions of Americans. 0.87

00:44:10.000 You spent more money than God.

00:44:12.000 You put equity at the center of all government policy, meaning affirmative action and active discrimination.

00:44:20.000 You decided that transing the kids was a moral duty. 1.00

00:44:23.000 And then you're like, ah, but those guys, we can't trust them with governance.

00:44:26.000 Probably democracy's a threat if they win. 0.83

00:44:28.000 Solid closing pitch there.

00:44:29.000 Really, really solid.

00:44:30.000 Alrighty, guys, the rest of the show is continuing now.

00:44:32.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:44:32.000 We'll be getting into Hunter Biden's laptop, what Republicans are going to investigate if they win with Megyn Kelly, plus Sean Trendy of RealClearPolitics stops by.

00:44:39.000 We go through every single major Senate election.

The Ben Shapiro Show - November 08, 2022

It’s Election Day! | Ep. 1606

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