The Ben Shapiro Show - It’s Not Over Yet | Ep. 1131

00:00:00.000 Arizona keeps everybody up late into the night despite Fox News' very early call.

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00:00:25.000 Slash Ben, we're going to get to all of the news in just one second, because believe it or not, it is now Thursday and the presidential race is still not over.

00:00:31.000 There's still ballots to be counted in Arizona.

00:00:33.000 There's still ballots to be counted in Pennsylvania.

00:00:36.000 Some of the networks have called Wisconsin and Michigan in favor of Joe Biden, which means that the entire election really does come down to those two states, although we are still waiting on Nevada as well.

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00:02:05.000 Okay, so Joe Biden is basically preemptively declaring victory.

00:02:09.000 He's not saying that he definitely everybody saying, yeah, we're gonna win.

00:02:12.000 So here was Joe Biden yesterday walking out to the cheers, presumably of the members of the media, declaring that they were on track to win the presidential election.

00:02:22.000 Now, after a long night of counting, it's clear that we're winning enough states to reach 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.

00:02:34.000 I'm not here to declare that we've won, but I am here to report When the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners.

00:02:44.000 Okay, so, um, that is not helpful in any way, shape, or form.

00:02:47.000 It's also not helpful because the fact of the matter is there are still votes to be counted in Arizona.

00:02:52.000 So this morning, the Arizona Republic Reported that Trump is actually getting the share of votes he would need to reclaim Arizona.

00:03:01.000 And according to the Arizona Republic, azcentral.com, as Maricopa County released the results from 140,000 more ballots on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, President Donald Trump received almost the exact share he would need to charge back to win Arizona's 11 electoral votes and potentially re-election.

00:03:15.000 Trump won the batches of ballots from Maricopa County, counted Wednesday and early Thursday, by a roughly 57 to 40 margin over former Vice President Joe Biden.

00:03:22.000 Those votes, likely early ballots, sent to the county on Monday and Tuesday, narrowed Biden's lead over Trump in Arizona to 68,000 votes.

00:03:29.000 His lead had been more than 90,000 votes earlier on Wednesday.

00:03:32.000 Paul Bentz, a Republican pollster with the consulting firm High Ground, said Trump needs to win 57.6% of the 470,000 votes the Arizona Republic estimates remain to be counted.

00:03:43.000 He said that's almost exactly what he got in the first batch.

00:03:45.000 He could do it.

00:03:46.000 The problem for Trump is he needs to replicate that performance across all of the remaining 470,000 votes left to count in the state.

00:03:51.000 He needs to do it across all of Arizona's 15 diverse counties.

00:03:54.000 That includes Pima, Coconino, and Santa Cruz counties.

00:03:58.000 Trump needs to repeat that performance with every single batch, every single ballot, every single day, said Bent.

00:04:02.000 The first step in the long journey was a successful one in Trump's tightrope walk.

00:04:09.000 President Trump also needs to maintain that vote margin through different batches of ballots that include those that arrived in the mail before Election Day, early ballots dropped off at the polls on Election Day, and provisional ballots voters cast because they didn't have the right form of identification or they went to the wrong polling place.

00:04:21.000 But this means that there is a pathway that is still open in Arizona, and this is giving everybody over at Fox News heartburn.

00:04:28.000 And it should, give everybody over at Fox News heartburn, because you'll recall that very, very early on Tuesday night, Fox News called Arizona in favor of Joe Biden.

00:04:36.000 And it really shifted the momentum of what everybody was feeling, because it came shortly after Florida had been called for Trump, and it looked like Trump was running away with Florida.

00:04:44.000 Now, does that impact the vote?

00:04:45.000 Not really.

00:04:47.000 There's some speculation that perhaps the call in Arizona came so early that there were a few people who were left in line.

00:04:51.000 That theoretically could be a problem.

00:04:54.000 But I believe the call didn't come like five minutes in.

00:04:57.000 It came probably an hour and a half after Arizona actually closed the polls.

00:05:00.000 An hour after Arizona closed the polls.

00:05:01.000 So my guess is you're not talking about thousands and thousands of people who are left in line just to be perfectly accurate about all of this.

00:05:06.000 With that said, Fox News calling it early was seen by a lot of people, including a lot of conservatives, as a sign that Fox News wants to get away from Trump just generally.

00:05:15.000 And it caused an awful lot of consternation on Fox News.

00:05:17.000 A Trump campaign official yesterday reamed Fox News for the early Arizona call.

00:05:22.000 As this narrows, there is going to be great pressure on you guys, to be honest with you, Fox News, to rescind your call.

00:05:29.000 It was a premature call.

00:05:31.000 You know we were livid about the fact that you and then the AP made that call.

00:05:35.000 There are seven organizations that call states on election night from time to time.

00:05:39.000 Seven.

00:05:40.000 Five of those seven did not make that call.

00:05:43.000 Okay, we got it.

00:05:45.000 We don't want to be in a position... Thank you.

00:05:47.000 This is going to lead Joe Biden to falsely declare himself the president-elect at some point.

00:05:51.000 Understood.

00:05:52.000 Okay, so there's a lot of pressure on Fox News, and you can see it actually on the ground.

00:05:57.000 MSNBC was reporting on a crowd yesterday outside some of the Maricopa County offices where the votes were being counted, shouting, Fox News sucks, which is not something that you normally hear from crowds of Republican voters.

00:06:09.000 Here's a little bit of that footage.

00:06:12.000 MSNBC guys, this is amazing.

00:06:14.000 They're not shouting at me.

00:06:15.000 and then start up here. 1.00

00:06:17.000 Fox News sucks! 1.00

00:06:18.000 And they're actually chanting, Fox News sucks. 1.00

00:06:24.000 Fox News sucks. 0.99

00:06:25.000 The reason why they're chanting that is because Fox News called Arizona for Biden yesterday and a lot of people are angry about that. 0.99

00:06:35.000 MSNBC guys are like, this is amazing.

00:06:37.000 They're not shouting at me.

00:06:39.000 That's amazing.

00:06:41.000 Probably the best clip from last night was actually Rachel Maddow. 1.00

00:06:44.000 when it finally dawned on her that Trump could actually win Arizona.

00:06:46.000 Because remember, the map is such that if Trump wins Arizona and he wins Pennsylvania, remember the votes are still being counted in Pennsylvania, guess who wins the election?

00:06:54.000 And so this dawns on Rachel Maddow in real time as Steve Kornacki, who actually is quite good at his job, is going through the stats.

00:06:59.000 And you can see Rachel Maddow almost begin to collapse in on herself. 0.99

00:07:04.000 If things go this way, we are looking at something that looks very close to a tie.

00:07:09.000 Yeah, and I would just say it at this point, because it's 75,000 out of 400,000 in change that are going to come in.

00:07:15.000 So we're not sure it's exactly going to be 59% when all is said and done.

00:07:19.000 If it ends up at 55%, I think he'll be short.

00:07:22.000 If it ends up at 65%, I think there's a chance he would overtake Biden there.

00:07:27.000 So we haven't really established the rate.

00:07:28.000 What we've established right now is the possibility.

00:07:31.000 Okay, and Rachel Maddow then starts to almost fall apart. 1.00

00:07:34.000 And it's pretty fantastic.

00:07:36.000 Okay, meanwhile, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, he reamed Fox News as well.

00:07:40.000 He said, you guys need to retract the call.

00:07:42.000 I mean, Fox News was under heavy pressure for the last 48 hours to retract a call that obviously was premature.

00:07:47.000 So here's Ron DeSantis going after Fox News.

00:07:50.000 Trump is gaining in Arizona.

00:07:52.000 There's probably 500,000.

00:07:54.000 So here's my thing, Sean.

00:07:55.000 If you're going to be quick on the trigger, then be quick on the trigger for both sides and stand by it.

00:08:00.000 But it seems like with Trump, they never want to call the state.

00:08:03.000 And then Biden, man, they'll do it right away.

00:08:06.000 It's inconsistent.

00:08:07.000 It's unacceptable.

00:08:09.000 And look, North Carolina should be called for the president, for sure.

00:08:14.000 Arizona, Fox should rescind that call.

00:08:17.000 Meanwhile, Nate Silver is saying the same thing.

00:08:20.000 So this is not just Republican partisans like members of the Trump campaign or Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida.

00:08:25.000 And he's making a good point there too, which is it took them four damned ever to call Florida on election night.

00:08:29.000 I mean, it took like four hours for them to call Florida, even though we all knew within the first hour, because all of the ballots were already in and were counted very, very quickly.

00:08:37.000 Florida has a very smooth, because of 2000, tabulation system.

00:08:40.000 They really come out with excellent voter data very quickly.

00:08:43.000 It took them forever to call that state.

00:08:44.000 But Arizona, they were really quick on the trigger.

00:08:46.000 And he's right about that.

00:08:47.000 Nate Silver said, I don't know.

00:08:49.000 I guess I'd say that Biden will win Arizona if he forced me to pick, but I sure as heck don't think the state should have been called by anyone.

00:08:53.000 I think the calls that were previously made should be retracted now.

00:08:56.000 That's Nate Silver.

00:08:57.000 So there's a lot of heartburn out there for people who think that this election is already over.

00:09:02.000 It is worth noting here, by the way, that Georgia may end up in the Democratic lane.

00:09:07.000 That's how close all of these states are.

00:09:09.000 So there's still votes coming in in Fulton County, which includes Atlanta.

00:09:12.000 It is quite possible that those votes split in favor of Joe Biden, which means that Joe Biden would end up winning Georgia.

00:09:18.000 So you could see a situation in which Trump loses the election because he loses Georgia, but he wins Arizona and Pennsylvania.

00:09:22.000 So there's still a lot of outstanding questions as to where this race is right now.

00:09:27.000 Plus, there are now lawsuits that are on the books.

00:09:29.000 So anybody who's declaring that the race is over, anybody who's declaring that this election is done, Not yet, it ain't.

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00:10:53.000 Meanwhile, President Trump has now filed lawsuits in three separate states.

00:10:56.000 According to the Associated Press, President Trump's campaign filed lawsuits Wednesday in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia, laying the groundwork for contesting battleground states as he slipped behind Democrat Joe Biden in the hunt for 270 electoral college votes needed to win the White House.

00:11:09.000 The new filings, joining existing Republican legal challenges in Pennsylvania and Nevada, demand better access for campaign observers to locations where ballots are being processed and counted and raise absentee ballot concerns, the campaign said.

00:11:20.000 However, at one Michigan location in question, the AP observed poll watchers from both sides monitoring on Wednesday.

00:11:24.000 I am enjoying the AP using one example of bad things not happening to now suggest that the lawsuit is baseless.

00:11:31.000 We'll find out whether the lawsuits are baseless.

00:11:33.000 The Trump campaign availing itself of the courts in order to ensure that there are enough poll watchers at particular polling stations, that is perfectly within the balance of legal and perfectly within the balance of the predictable.

00:11:44.000 And you would assume that all of this is going to hash out in the courts and in the end.

00:11:48.000 The AP has already called Michigan for Joe Biden on Wednesday.

00:11:51.000 Nevada, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona.

00:11:53.000 These are all undecided.

00:11:54.000 The Trump campaign is also seeking to intervene in a Pennsylvania case at the Supreme Court that deals with whether ballots received up to three days after the election can be counted, according to deputy campaign manager Justin Clark.

00:12:04.000 And that is because in the lower court order, there is a suggestion that ballots received after Election Day that were not postmarked before Election Day could still be counted, which is totally crazy.

00:12:13.000 And that could mean that you're ballot packing after the election is already over.

00:12:17.000 You start to see the ballots come in.

00:12:18.000 You start to see that the race is too close to call.

00:12:20.000 And you say to yourself, OK, well, I didn't vote.

00:12:21.000 I'm going to go and I'm going to vote now.

00:12:23.000 OK, you can't do that.

00:12:23.000 That is that is election fraud, right?

00:12:25.000 If you actually vote after Election Day, Election Day is called Election Day for a reason.

00:12:29.000 There is no such thing as Election Day Part 2.

00:12:32.000 The Trump campaign also announced it would ask for a recount in the state of Wisconsin, a state that AP called for Biden on Wednesday afternoon.

00:12:37.000 Campaign manager Bill Stepien cited irregularities in several Wisconsin counties without providing specifics.

00:12:43.000 It is unlikely that a recount in Wisconsin will result in a Trump victory in Wisconsin.

00:12:48.000 Scott Walker, former governor of Wisconsin, now the head of Young America's Foundation, which is an excellent organization.

00:12:52.000 He says that we've had recounts in the state before.

00:12:54.000 It tends to move a couple hundred votes.

00:12:55.000 It doesn't move 20,000 votes.

00:12:59.000 Biden's campaign spokesman, Andrew Bates, said legal challenges were not the behavior of a winning campaign.

00:13:04.000 What makes these charades especially pathetic is that while Trump is demanding recounts in places he has already lost, he's simultaneously engaged in fruitless attempts to halt the counting of votes in other states in which he's on the road to defeat.

00:13:14.000 Okay, and this has become the talking point for Democrats because in some states, you're hearing Republican voters chant, chant, count the votes like in Arizona, right?

00:13:22.000 And meanwhile, over in Michigan, they're literally shouting, stop the count, right?

00:13:27.000 Because they are worried about the possibility of voter irregularities.

00:13:29.000 So here is some footage from protesters in Michigan shouting to stop the count.

00:13:33.000 Okay, so this has been used by Democrats as an excuse to proclaim that Republicans are attempting to engage in voter suppression because you have some people chanting, stop the count in Michigan, and other people in Arizona chanting, count the vote.

00:13:56.000 First of all, stop the count also happens to be, this is the best tweet of yesterday that I saw, that also happens to be a chant that was very popular around Transylvanian castles back in about 1870.

00:14:07.000 Right, stop the count.

00:14:07.000 But in any case, that is intellectually dishonest to suggest that because people want some vote counts stopped in Michigan and other people in Arizona want the votes to be counted, that that is an inconsistency.

00:14:20.000 As Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal points out, she says, lots of folks saying incorrectly, GOP wants to both count and stop ballots at the same time.

00:14:27.000 Let's be more precise.

00:14:28.000 There are three categories.

00:14:29.000 Republicans calling to count votes that came in by election day or before per state law.

00:14:33.000 That is obvious, right?

00:14:34.000 That'd be Arizona.

00:14:35.000 Two, Republicans calling to halt votes until GOP observers give an access to vote counting.

00:14:40.000 No one is suggesting the votes not be counted, only that Republicans be allowed to witness the counting. Why not? Transparency is good. We'll raise confidence in outcome. That would be Michigan.

00:14:47.000 Three, Republicans questioning states that want to count votes that contravene state law on deadlines.

00:14:53.000 Left is claiming this is disenfranchisement, but why?

00:14:57.000 Laws are laws.

00:14:58.000 We're all expected to follow them.

00:14:59.000 And why should some states get extra judicially granted privileges, not others?

00:15:03.000 And that would be Pennsylvania, right?

00:15:05.000 So you can't treat every state as though it is the same.

00:15:07.000 In Arizona, there's not a lot of accusations of voter irregularities.

00:15:09.000 We'll get to a couple of accusations that turned out not to be true yesterday.

00:15:13.000 In Michigan, there are accusations that poll watchers who are Republicans have been thrown out of the polling places and so are not able to monitor properly.

00:15:21.000 We'll see whether there's evidence of that.

00:15:23.000 And then in Pennsylvania, there are serious questions about how exactly the votes are being counted, right?

00:15:27.000 Are you actually tabulating ballots that are coming in after the election day and doing so even if they were not postmarked before election day, right?

00:15:34.000 That's an open question.

00:15:36.000 So to pretend that there is some sort of inconsistency there for Republicans is to be intellectually dishonest.

00:15:43.000 It's not intellectually honest to suggest that all situations, no matter how different, ought to be treated exactly the same.

00:15:50.000 That's the point that Kimberly Strassel is making.

00:15:52.000 Okay, so with that said, Republicans are focused very heavily on the possibility of voter irregularities deciding the election.

00:15:58.000 Now, I don't think that that is the case.

00:16:00.000 I do not think that voter irregularities are going to decide the election.

00:16:02.000 I think that we have a bevy of systems across the country That's actually a fairly good protection against widespread nationalized voter fraud.

00:16:09.000 If you had a centralized system in Washington, D.C.

00:16:12.000 that was actually handled by a federal bureaucrat, that would be a lot more troublesome than having this bevy of systems all over the country.

00:16:18.000 With that said...

00:16:19.000 When the sausage gets made, it can be very ugly, right?

00:16:23.000 And people don't pay a lot of attention to how the sausage is made until voting day.

00:16:27.000 And then it's like, oh my gosh, look at that.

00:16:29.000 There are batches of mail-in ballots that are being brought in.

00:16:31.000 Well, yeah, I mean, how did you think they got counted?

00:16:33.000 Somebody had to drive them over in a car and then they got counted.

00:16:35.000 Does that open the possibility for voter fraud?

00:16:38.000 Sure.

00:16:38.000 Why not?

00:16:38.000 It could.

00:16:39.000 But you actually have to evidence voter fraud if you're going to suggest that voter fraud is the rationale for a particular loss.

00:16:45.000 I don't like when Democrats do this.

00:16:47.000 Democrats have done this for years.

00:16:49.000 Stacey Abrams is still walking around out there in the wilderness claiming that she is the governor of Georgia because of voter suppression without any evidence. 1.00

00:16:55.000 So I want the lawsuits to go forward.

00:16:57.000 I think it is good for transparency.

00:16:58.000 I think it is good for the American people to feel safe and secure in their elections.

00:17:02.000 I think all proof should be brought.

00:17:04.000 And I think it's good that people are eagle-eyed.

00:17:05.000 I've been getting all sorts of emails from people asking about voter irregularities.

00:17:08.000 It's good to be eagle-eyed about voter irregularities.

00:17:10.000 But then we have to investigate.

00:17:11.000 It's not just enough to put the accusation out there.

00:17:13.000 You actually have to show that there is, in fact, a real problem.

00:17:16.000 We'll get to this in just one second.

00:17:18.000 Because we should be as accurate about all of this, I think, as possible in the interest of the country, in the interest of holding clean and fair elections.

00:17:26.000 The election may not be fair for other reasons.

00:17:27.000 We'll get to the media's intervention in this election because, frankly to me, if you're going to talk about impacts on elections that seem unfair, just in a generalized sense, the media's intervention in this election was obviously unfair.

00:17:39.000 Corporate intervention in the election is unfair.

00:17:41.000 Social media intervention in the election is unfair.

00:17:43.000 But the voting system itself, calling that into question, has some pretty powerless consequences.

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00:19:18.000 Okay, so as I say, a lot of accusations of voter fraud.

00:19:21.000 Andy McCarthy, who writes about this sort of stuff for National Review, obviously an excellent lawyer and a Trump voter as well.

00:19:28.000 Andy McCarthy has a piece today about voter fraud.

00:19:32.000 And I think it is worthwhile going through the piece because I think that this is relevant.

00:19:37.000 He says, Pennsylvania, which I've discussed extensively over the last three weeks, is a good example.

00:19:40.000 There are plenty about fraud, but we'll have to remind ourselves to ask, did it make a difference?

00:19:43.000 Even if the Trump campaign has potential claims in law, they would collapse if, as a matter of fact, they would not affect the outcome of race.

00:19:49.000 Pennsylvania, which I've discussed extensively over the last three weeks, is a good example.

00:19:53.000 As repeatedly recounted, the state Supreme Court by fiat ordered a three-day extension of the November 3rd election day deadline for the state's receipt of mail-in votes, i.e. until close of business, November 6th.

00:20:02.000 I believe this was an unconstitutional usurpation of the state legislature's power to set the rules for elections.

00:20:08.000 If so, that would give the Trump campaign a basis to seek the Supreme Court's intervention.

00:20:12.000 Indeed, four justices on the high court were poised to grant a stay against the state court's order in mid-October.

00:20:19.000 Just last week, three of those justices induced Pennsylvania to agree to segregate the ballots received during the three-day extension, anticipating the court might review the matter on an expedited basis after Election Day.

00:20:30.000 In addition, the Trump campaign could also argue there was a significant potential for vote fraud because of the presumption the Pennsylvania court imposed on its extension order.

00:20:37.000 Ballots are to be deemed timely submitted, even if they lack a legible postmark or any postmark at all, proving they were mailed on or before November 3rd.

00:20:44.000 Obviously, this creates the possibility ballots could be harvested and submitted post-election without postmarks, right?

00:20:48.000 This is what I'm talking about.

00:20:49.000 Pennsylvania, that lawsuit is well-founded.

00:20:52.000 So, says Andy McCarthy, we have a viable legal claim and a potential for fraud in the battleground state.

00:20:56.000 It was reasonably anticipated it could decide the election.

00:20:59.000 Clearly, that was why a number of Supreme Court justices were inclined to intervene.

00:21:02.000 And yet, all of this only matters if there are enough late-arriving ballots to change the result.

00:21:07.000 Right before I appeared on Fox News on Wednesday afternoon to talk about this legal terrain, Bill Hemmer interviewed an election official from Luzerne County, northeastern Pennsylvania's most populous county, with over 320,000 people.

00:21:16.000 He explained that for all the legal huffing and puffing over illegality and fraud, only about 200 ballots arrived by mail there on Wednesday.

00:21:23.000 Obviously, each day we get further from November 3rd, we should expect fewer ballots, to the point where it's down to a trickle on Friday.

00:21:28.000 Now, there are 67 counties in Pennsylvania, but if that is the late arrival rate in Luzerne, most counties are going to have fewer.

00:21:35.000 Many will have significantly fewer.

00:21:36.000 As I write this post at 6 p.m.

00:21:38.000 Wednesday evening, Pennsylvania is reporting 87% of the statewide vote is in.

00:21:41.000 President Trump leads by 4.8%.

00:21:43.000 That translates to almost 300,000 votes.

00:21:45.000 Now, says Andy McCarthy, it is certainly possible the remaining 13% of the vote could break heavily for former VP Biden, and he could eke out a razor-thin win, in which case every vote might count.

00:21:54.000 And then there would be a convincing legal claim.

00:21:56.000 It is also equally likely that either Trump holds on and wins the state or the vote breaks so sharply for Biden that Biden wins by one or two points.

00:22:03.000 In the first of those latter two scenarios, the likely illegality and potential fraud would be irrelevant.

00:22:06.000 You wouldn't have standing.

00:22:07.000 And even if Biden wins, it only matters if so many Biden ballots arrived between November 4th and 6th that they could have been the difference maker shifting the contest from Trump to Biden.

00:22:16.000 And this is something to keep in mind as we move forward.

00:22:20.000 Spotting an instance of voter irregularity is not evidence that the voter irregularity is so significant statistically that it would actually shift the nature of the election itself.

00:22:28.000 In order, for example, for Wisconsin to have been decided by voter irregularity, you would have to assume that the 20,000 vote margin would be swamped by voter fraud.

00:22:38.000 We've not seen evidence of that sort of widespread voter fraud.

00:22:40.000 The same thing in Pennsylvania.

00:22:41.000 We'll have to see how the Pennsylvania count comes out.

00:22:43.000 That's the point that McCarthy is making.

00:22:45.000 Nonetheless, yesterday, the Trump campaign held a press conference.

00:22:48.000 Eric Trump appeared there.

00:22:49.000 Rudy Giuliani appeared there.

00:22:50.000 Here was Eric Trump yesterday suggesting that voter fraud is rife in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia in particular.

00:22:55.000 They're trying to cheat.

00:22:56.000 They have three by five printed big posters in polling locations all over the city saying to vote for Biden and Harris, which is totally illegal.

00:23:07.000 They're passing out flyers.

00:23:08.000 And now they won't let.

00:23:09.000 And we brought one great gentleman here with us today, Jeremy, who's a poll watcher.

00:23:15.000 Okay, so to clarify on that particular allegation, I think it's important that we actually go through the allegations so that we're as factual as possible about this election.

00:23:22.000 can't see the counting happening. Guys, this is fraud. This is absolute fraud.

00:23:26.000 Okay, so to clarify on that particular allegation, Ian, I think it's important that we actually go through the allegations so that we're as factual as possible about this election. I think that the system breeds distrust.

00:23:38.000 I think that all of the systems should run like Florida does.

00:23:41.000 I think that the sort of haphazard way that all these systems are run is really not particularly good.

00:23:46.000 But as far as that first allegation that, for example, people are posting signs in polling places telling people to vote for Biden in violation of law, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office did investigate the allegation.

00:23:58.000 They tweeted out the polling place is located in an interior room.

00:24:01.000 The sign in question is further than 10 feet from that.

00:24:03.000 The tweet is deliberately deceptive.

00:24:06.000 So not a ton of evidence that that amounts to voter fraud as far as people not being able to watch because they're placed too far away.

00:24:13.000 Again, lawsuits are being filed on this basis.

00:24:15.000 A similar lawsuit is being filed in Michigan on that basis.

00:24:18.000 So if you are staking the results of the election on lawsuits alleging voter fraud, You have to imagine that those are probably not going to be the deciding factor in the election.

00:24:28.000 Either Trump wins Arizona and Pennsylvania outright.

00:24:32.000 I don't think the lawsuits are going to shift around the nature of the election.

00:24:36.000 I don't think they will.

00:24:37.000 Just to be perfectly blunt about it.

00:24:39.000 We'll get to more of the allegations over voter irregularity and voter fraud in just one second.

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00:26:20.000 Okay, so again, lots of allegations from Team Trump that there is voter fraud.

00:26:26.000 This is all going to get litigated.

00:26:27.000 It's all going to get litigated.

00:26:28.000 So just I'm telling everybody not to call the election because there's still outstanding votes, because there's still outstanding litigation, and I'm saying the same thing to Republicans before Republicans declare that the election has been quote-unquote stolen.

00:26:41.000 Before they declare that it's a foregone conclusion that the election has been stolen.

00:26:44.000 This is all going to get litigated.

00:26:45.000 There is a process for this stuff.

00:26:47.000 And I think it's important to remember that, that this process is going to move forward.

00:26:50.000 So Kayleigh McEnany suggested that Philadelphia has a history of peculiar results.

00:26:53.000 She's not wrong about this.

00:26:54.000 Again, I'm not saying the suspicions are wrong.

00:26:56.000 I'm just saying, let's wait.

00:26:57.000 Let's wait.

00:26:58.000 Is let's wait a bad thing?

00:26:58.000 I don't think let's wait is a bad thing.

00:27:00.000 Here's Kayleigh McEnany.

00:27:02.000 Philadelphia in particular has a history of very peculiar results.

00:27:06.000 You had, in the case, 59 different precincts where Mitt Romney got precisely zero votes, which is very unlikely and curious indeed.

00:27:15.000 Just six months ago, you had a Philadelphia judge who was convicted in a scheme to accept bribes as he cast fraudulent ballots.

00:27:22.000 Four months ago, you had a Democrat individual who was charged for, in 2014, 2015, and in 2016, stuffing the ballot box with fraudulent ballots.

00:27:32.000 We want to be on alert.

00:27:33.000 Okay, and that is perfectly acceptable.

00:27:35.000 It is.

00:27:36.000 Anybody who's saying that they shouldn't be on alert, why not?

00:27:39.000 This is an extraordinarily close election.

00:27:40.000 It's going to be decided by thousands, not hundreds of thousands of votes in places ranging from Arizona and Georgia and Pennsylvania to Wisconsin and Michigan.

00:27:47.000 This is an extraordinarily, extraordinarily close election.

00:27:50.000 Like a very, very close election.

00:27:52.000 Okay, so with that said, that means that we should actually, you know, take a solid look at the allegations that are being put out there.

00:28:01.000 So, right now, there is an allegation that was put out there that people were covering up windows in Michigan.

00:28:06.000 And on the face of this, this does look really suspicious, right?

00:28:08.000 There are a bunch of people outside who are attempting to see what's going on inside a place where the votes are being counted, and suddenly see workers bringing over poster board to cover up the windows.

00:28:17.000 Nothing quite says transparency and openness like covering up actual windows.

00:28:20.000 Here's some footage of that.

00:28:22.000 Okay, so that obviously is not exactly a great look.

00:28:46.000 So what exactly happened in Michigan?

00:28:48.000 So according to the Detroit Free Press, they say the issue was sparked when some poll challengers were not allowed into the counting area as limits had already been reached.

00:28:54.000 Republicans and Democrats are each legally allowed to have 134 challengers observe the counting process.

00:29:00.000 According to the Detroit News, issues flared when both parties had more than 200 challengers in the room, exceeding the limit.

00:29:05.000 Republicans complained that the block on challengers entering the hall had allowed more Democrats to be present to observe the counts.

00:29:10.000 They were saying, yeah, we have 134, but they've got 175 challengers who are being allowed into the room.

00:29:16.000 Police stood outside the entrance of the center to prevent further challengers from entering the building to observe the tallying of results in the key swing state.

00:29:23.000 Footage posted on Twitter by a Washington Post photojournalist, Solomon Georges, showed a few dozen people gathered outside the hall, a smaller portion raising their fists and chanting, stop the count.

00:29:33.000 Newsweek contacted the Michigan Department of State for further details and comments.

00:29:37.000 While the situation unfolded in Detroit, President Trump's re-election campaign filed a lawsuit at the Michigan Court of Claims, arguing they had not been provided with meaningful access to counting locations so they could observe the counting of the ballots.

00:29:48.000 Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who is a Trump opponent, it is worth leaving out, later dubbed the lawsuit frivolous and claimed its complaints did not have merit.

00:29:55.000 Well, we will see whether that is true, because again, all of this is going to end up in litigation.

00:30:01.000 The apparent Michigan Secretary of State suggests that the covering up of the windows was about people looking in and not being allowed legally in, and then trying to gather information Based on that about voters, like looking at ballots they weren't supposed to be looking at.

00:30:20.000 In any case, that'll be investigated.

00:30:22.000 It should be investigated because why the hell not?

00:30:24.000 Everything should be investigated.

00:30:25.000 OK, another story that came out yesterday that people were suggesting was indicative of voter fraud.

00:30:29.000 This is called the Sharpie story.

00:30:30.000 So you're hearing a lot of rumors yesterday in Arizona that people had been told that they could fill in their ballots with Sharpie and then those ballots filled in in Sharpie were not actually processable by the machines.

00:30:41.000 Well, that turns out not to be true.

00:30:42.000 Here's the Arizona Secretary of State, Katie Hobbs, pointing out that all of those ballots have in fact been processed and will be processed.

00:30:48.000 There is no concern about ballots being counted because of the pen that was used to mark the ballots.

00:30:57.000 All of those ballots are being counted.

00:30:59.000 And even if the machines can't read them for some reason, a marker bled through to the other side, we have ways to count them.

00:31:06.000 They're going to be counted.

00:31:07.000 There is absolutely No merit to saying that this was some conspiracy to invalidate Republican ballots.

00:31:15.000 It just, there is no there there at all.

00:31:18.000 Okay, it is worthy of note also that this was being live streamed, so you can actually tune in in real time and watch the ballots being counted.

00:31:25.000 So there are recount provisions of Arizona law.

00:31:30.000 And she says that the provisions of recounting in Arizona law, it has to be within a particular kind of margin of error.

00:31:38.000 We'll see whether it is inside that margin of error.

00:31:42.000 So Wolf Blitzer did ask about the Sharpie situation.

00:31:45.000 Is there any truth to that claim?

00:31:45.000 He said, have you heard of that?

00:31:47.000 She said, I've been talking about markers all day today.

00:31:49.000 Certainly I want to validate voters who have concerns about their ballots being counted.

00:31:53.000 There's no concern about ballots being counted because of the pen that was used to mark the ballots.

00:31:56.000 All of the ballots are going to be counted.

00:31:58.000 All of them.

00:31:59.000 Okay, so, that is where things stand.

00:32:02.000 There was also some rumors yesterday, people saying things like, well, look at that, there are more votes in Wisconsin than registered voters in Wisconsin.

00:32:07.000 Wisconsin has same-day voter registration.

00:32:09.000 So that is why you're seeing those stats.

00:32:12.000 Again, worthy of myth-busting, this sort of stuff, simply so that we know exactly what the scope of voter fraud is, and the scope of potential voter fraud, and the scope of potential voter irregularity.

00:32:21.000 Now, the truth is that this has been a pretty calm process.

00:32:25.000 I mean, for a country that was sort of on the edge of a cataclysm, it seems like the process has been pretty calm.

00:32:31.000 Many of the people who are showing up and protesting are protesting peacefully.

00:32:35.000 Like, I haven't seen any violence breaking out at the polling places.

00:32:37.000 I haven't seen Republicans punching people because they're so angry about what's going on or anything like that.

00:32:41.000 Didn't stop MSNBC from freaking out.

00:32:43.000 So there was a crowd in Maricopa County literally just standing around.

00:32:45.000 And there's an MSNBC reporter who's freaking out as though these people are kneeling and praying And the MSNBC reporter is like, We're all gonna die.

00:32:53.000 What do we do?

00:32:55.000 Here was MSNBC covering, you know, people peacefully protesting by claiming that they're on the verge of breaking into, rioting, and looting.

00:33:03.000 This is the same network that actually covered rioting and looting as though they were on the verge of breaking into prayer.

00:33:07.000 Here was MSNBC covering a peaceful protest.

00:33:11.000 Right now they're kneeling in prayer, but one of the things that we've seen is them chanting very loudly, count that vote, count that vote.

00:33:20.000 And then we've got poll workers that are coming off of shift, and the poll workers have to be escorted out by armed sheriff's deputies down those stairs and into vans and taken away from here.

00:33:32.000 So this is the type of scene that we're seeing.

00:33:35.000 We're going to get a little bit closer here.

00:33:37.000 We don't want to get too close.

00:33:38.000 A lot of people in the crowd are not wearing masks.

00:33:41.000 Okay, so, you know, obviously this is scary, scary stuff over at MSNBC.

00:33:46.000 They were also freaking out in Detroit where there were Republicans showing up at the polling places to make sure the votes were counted.

00:33:50.000 And MSNBC freaked out about that as well.

00:33:53.000 What we see here is essentially an increasing mob-like scene of self-proclaimed poll watchers who say that they want to get access to the building.

00:34:05.000 So many of them have rushed into the building here that I'm actually talking to official Democratic Wow, I mean, look at these people.

00:34:12.000 Look how dangerous they look right behind her.

00:34:13.000 outside of the balloting room, which they are supposed to have access to.

00:34:18.000 It's gotten to the point where we do have a police presence here that is blocking access to the building because not only have they swarmed the room, but they are now over in terms of COVID restrictions.

00:34:31.000 Wow, I mean, look at these people, look how dangerous they look right behind her.

00:34:35.000 I mean, doesn't that look like just a terrifying scene?

00:34:37.000 It was mostly peaceful though.

00:34:39.000 They should just claim that they were protesting Black Lives Matter and then everything would be totally fine. 0.99

00:34:42.000 By the way, there were protesters out there in some of the major cities yesterday.

00:34:46.000 There was a protester spitting on an officer in the West Village.

00:34:48.000 I didn't see MSNBC covering it quite the same way.

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00:36:16.000 Okay, so while MSNBC was freaking out over people who are literally standing outside polling places and praying, There are actual crazy people who continue to do crazy things all over the country.

00:36:26.000 Over in the West Village, a protester spit on an officer.

00:36:28.000 It didn't go well for her.

00:36:29.000 her. It turns out this is a bad strategy.

00:36:31.000 I hope you're ready for this.

00:36:33.000 You die for this! 1.00

00:36:35.000 You fascists! 1.00

00:36:37.000 You fascists! 1.00

00:36:39.000 You're all f****** pieces. 1.00

00:36:45.000 Yeah, when you spit on an officer, like, when you actually assault an officer, there's a good shot that you're gonna be arrested. 1.00

00:36:51.000 But don't worry, it was mostly peaceful.

00:36:53.000 Mostly peaceful spitting on officers.

00:36:55.000 Good times all the way around.

00:36:58.000 I will say that this has not been without its amusements, this entire process.

00:37:01.000 Probably the most viral moments of yesterday happened when there was a presser in Nevada and a man with a shirt reading barbecue, beer, and freedom.

00:37:09.000 Invaded to shut down an announcement that votes were not going to be released yesterday.

00:37:13.000 The Biden crime family is stealing the election!

00:37:17.000 The media is covering it up!

00:37:18.000 The Biden crime family is stealing this election!

00:37:21.000 The media is covering it up!

00:37:23.000 The Biden crime family is stealing this election!

00:37:25.000 The media is covering it up!

00:37:26.000 We want our freedom for the world!

00:37:28.000 Give us our freedom Joe Biden!

00:37:30.000 Joe Biden is covering up this election!

00:37:32.000 He's stealing that!

00:37:34.000 Um, okay.

00:37:36.000 So, yeah, things are still going great.

00:37:38.000 But here's the truth.

00:37:39.000 This election, for all the talk leading up to it about how this is going to be chaotic and horrific, it has not been.

00:37:44.000 And in fact, it turns out, this has been an excellent, excellent election for Republicans.

00:37:48.000 Okay, excellent election for Republicans, broadly speaking.

00:37:51.000 There are a bunch of new indicators about how well Republicans did across the United States.

00:37:56.000 Republicans are likely to pick up anywhere from 7 to 13 seats in the House, which nobody saw coming.

00:38:00.000 Republicans are likely to hold the Senate at this point in time.

00:38:03.000 There may be two runoffs in Georgia.

00:38:04.000 It is highly likely that Republicans win both runoffs in Georgia.

00:38:08.000 Republicans are going to hold the seat in Montana.

00:38:10.000 They're going to hold the seat in Maine, and they're going to hold the seat in North Carolina.

00:38:14.000 And so even if Joe Biden is, God forbid, elected president when all of this is said and done, he's going to be facing down a Republican majority in the Senate, which is a very different presidency than Joe Biden thought he was going to be facing.

00:38:23.000 In fact, Joe Biden is the first Democratic president elected since 1884 not to enter office with a Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate.

00:38:32.000 Isn't that an incredible stat?

00:38:34.000 You can see it in the markets, by the way.

00:38:36.000 The markets are really looking good this morning.

00:38:38.000 The reason they're looking good is not because they're excited about Joe Biden.

00:38:40.000 in control of both the House and the Senate.

00:38:42.000 And that's going to make an awful lot of difference because, and you can see it in the markets by the way, the markets are really looking good this morning.

00:38:48.000 The reason they're looking good is not because they're excited about Joe Biden.

00:38:52.000 It's because they're excited that Democrats didn't take over all the facets of government.

00:38:56.000 The markets were afraid Elizabeth Warren was going to be secretary of the treasury. 0.98

00:38:58.000 That ain't happening.

00:38:59.000 The markets were afraid Bernie Sanders was going to run policy.

00:39:02.000 Mitch McConnell is the head of the Senate.

00:39:04.000 So, like, that is very, very good news for the country.

00:39:07.000 That gridlock is going to be good for the country.

00:39:09.000 And by the way, it sets up Republicans really well for 2022.

00:39:12.000 If, God forbid, Biden is the president and Mitch McConnell is the head of the Senate, he's the Senate Majority Leader, and it's not Kamala Harris who's breaking ties or something.

00:39:20.000 Well, what that means is that Republicans are now set up probably to win the House in 2022 and probably to extend their Senate lead in 2022.

00:39:27.000 And everybody knows it, including the Democrats, which is why you're seeing so much depression on their side of the aisle.

00:39:31.000 I was reliably informed that all they cared about to restore the soul of the country was getting rid of Donald Trump.

00:39:35.000 Then why are they so disappointed when it looks like they're on the verge of doing that?

00:39:39.000 The answer is because it wasn't about that.

00:39:40.000 It's about how much they dislike Republicans, how much they dislike conservatives.

00:39:44.000 It wasn't sufficient for them to defeat Trump.

00:39:46.000 It was never about Trump.

00:39:47.000 It was about you.

00:39:48.000 And that's why they're so all-fired upset.

00:39:50.000 They're upset that Donald Trump won that many votes.

00:39:52.000 They're upset that Mitch McConnell is still the Senate Majority Leader.

00:39:54.000 They're upset that Republicans gained seats.

00:39:56.000 By the way, not noticing a lot of articles about the historic number of Republican women who were elected.

00:40:00.000 Something like 13 Republican women are now, were elected in this election cycle in the House. 1.00

00:40:05.000 Haven't seen any stories about the new feminist breakthrough.

00:40:08.000 Have you?

00:40:09.000 Oh yeah, that only works when we talk about Democrats, of course.

00:40:12.000 We'll get to more of this in just a second because, honestly, these are major victories for conservatism, these are major victories for Republicans, and they shouldn't be.

00:40:19.000 They should not be ignored just because we're all still focused on what could happen in the presidential race, which remains very fraught.

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00:41:33.000 Okay, we're gonna get to much, much more because I wanna bring you a lot of good news, like all the way around the country.

00:41:38.000 Good news for conservatives, And the continued reliance on a racial narrative by the Democrats that spells, frankly, future wins for Republicans coming up.

00:41:48.000 We'll get to that in one second.

00:41:49.000 First, you may have noticed that this year has been just a complete bleep show.

00:41:52.000 It feels like America is coming apart and it feels like the Democratic Party is out to undermine fundamental American values.

00:41:58.000 That was what was at stake in the election.

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00:43:10.000 So the excellent news for Republicans really was coast to coast over the course of the evening.

00:43:21.000 And the presidential race is still up in the air again.

00:43:24.000 We don't know the outcome of the presidential race yet.

00:43:27.000 Trump has some steep hills to climb still in Arizona.

00:43:30.000 He's got some hills to climb in Nevada.

00:43:32.000 He's got some hills to climb in Pennsylvania.

00:43:34.000 But we don't know the outcome yet.

00:43:35.000 But one thing is for certain, and you can see it, you can sense it.

00:43:38.000 Democrats are deeply unhappy with the result.

00:43:40.000 They're really unhappy with the result.

00:43:42.000 Even if Joe Biden ekes out a very narrow victory, They're very unhappy with the result.

00:43:46.000 And the reason they're unhappy with the result is, again, it was never about getting rid of Trump.

00:43:49.000 This was the lie of the campaign.

00:43:50.000 The lie of the campaign is that Democrats were deeply concerned about Trump's character.

00:43:54.000 That was the only thing they were worried about.

00:43:55.000 No, no.

00:43:56.000 They were using that as a front for the usual leftist claptrap, the usual leftist agenda.

00:44:01.000 They were hoping to ride dislike of Trump into the White House with a big majority in the Senate.

00:44:07.000 And they were hoping they would then be able to cram down their unpopular agenda on the American people.

00:44:10.000 It's why Joe Biden refused to talk about his policies the entire campaign.

00:44:13.000 Because it was all a lie.

00:44:14.000 It was never about Trump's character.

00:44:15.000 It was about you.

00:44:16.000 They think that you, if you are a Trump supporter, or you, if you don't vote for them, you're a bad person.

00:44:21.000 You're a lesser person.

00:44:22.000 And voters rejected that.

00:44:23.000 Not only did they reject that, they rejected that in extraordinary ways.

00:44:27.000 Republicans are set up for the next four to eight years in a pretty solid way going forward.

00:44:33.000 Hey, the New York Times reporting.

00:44:34.000 But by Wednesday morning, these hopes were greatly dimmed.

00:44:36.000 You can hear the despair reeking from the New York Times.

00:44:38.000 Heading into Election Day, Democrats in New York had high hopes across the ballot, with three House races targeted in a national red to blue campaign.

00:44:45.000 But by Wednesday morning, these hopes were greatly dimmed.

00:44:47.000 You can hear the despair reeking from the New York Times. The three Democratic candidates, all women, were far behind after the initial machine count of ballots. 0.74

00:44:53.000 Elsewhere in the state, two first-term Democratic congressmen, Max Rose and Anthony Brindisi, were in danger of losing their seats.

00:45:00.000 Just two years earlier, they'd been hailed by their party as trailblazers who prevailed in districts traditionally held by Republicans.

00:45:05.000 In the state capitol, where Democrats harbored visions of a supermajority in the state senate, the party seemed far from that goal and may even cede ground.

00:45:12.000 The Republican hold on the suburbs seemed to wane in 2018, with Democrats taking seats in New York and similar suburban districts in other states.

00:45:18.000 On Tuesday, the tide seemed to turn back again, reflecting the Republican success at ousting House incumbents in swing districts across the country.

00:45:25.000 That trend was mirrored nationally in results from statehouses, with the lowest number of chambers slated to change hands in more than half a century.

00:45:32.000 While Democrats won both legislative houses in Arizona, they lost both the House and the Senate in New Hampshire.

00:45:37.000 While some Republican candidates sought to distance themselves from President Trump, whose popularity was thought to be waning, they still clung to a Trump-like law-and-order message.

00:45:44.000 And it turns out, by the way, as we'll talk about in just a second, that law-and-order message is durable with minority audiences.

00:45:50.000 It turns out you know who doesn't like rioting and looting? 0.96

00:45:52.000 A lot of black folks who live next to people who are rioting and looting. 0.99

00:45:54.000 A lot of Hispanic folks don't like illegal immigration. 0.96

00:45:58.000 It turns out that you don't have to pander and pretend to pander to a racial group in order to win their votes.

00:46:04.000 It turns out that people act as individuals and in their own best interest, and they can assess their own best interest as individuals.

00:46:10.000 And that is what Republicans found out the last couple nights.

00:46:15.000 According to the New York Times, They tied Democratic candidates to defunding the police and progressive radicalism in the party, a strategy that seemed to work in many parts of the nation as Republicans sought to maintain control of the Senate and claw back some House seats.

00:46:27.000 It definitely worked in South Florida, where Cuban population, the Venezuelan population, they voted in outsized numbers for President Trump because they don't like socialism and they don't like what the Democratic Party is preaching.

00:46:39.000 Max Rose was targeted in a series of attack ads from the Congressional Leadership Fund that featured a group of men in police union shirts criticizing him for marching with demonstrators calling to defund police departments.

00:46:49.000 Similar strategies were employed by the Trump campaign and Republicans across the country.

00:46:52.000 Democrats were initially slow to push back, a reluctance that some Democratic lawmakers and strategists warned would backfire.

00:46:59.000 So, Republicans are starting to win back those suburban districts that the Democrats thought were permanently lost to them.

00:47:06.000 Meanwhile, according to Politico, a decade of power, statehouse wins position GOP to dominate redistricting.

00:47:14.000 Here's something else Republicans can be happy about Tuesday.

00:47:16.000 Okay, this is actually huge news, because I was deeply worried about this.

00:47:20.000 A bad election cycle, to have a bad election cycle is anyone ending in zero.

00:47:24.000 Because every 10 years, That is a census year, okay?

00:47:29.000 And the census is when redistricting is done.

00:47:31.000 And when redistricting is done, that is a real problem if you have the opposite party doing those district drawings.

00:47:37.000 An abysmal showing by Democrats in state legislative races on Tuesday not only denied them victories in Sunbelt and Rust Belt states that would have positioned them to advance their policy agenda, it also put the party at a disadvantage ahead of the redistricting that will determine the balance of power for the next decade.

00:47:50.000 The results could domino through politics in America, helping the GOP draw favorable congressional and state legislative maps by ensuring Democrats remain the minority part in key state legislatures.

00:47:59.000 Ultimately, it could mean more Republicans in Washington and in state capitals.

00:48:03.000 By Wednesday night, Democrats had not flipped a single statehouse chamber in its favor.

00:48:06.000 It remained completely blocked from the map, making process in several key states, including Texas, North Carolina, and Florida, which could have a combined 82 congressional seats by 2022, where the GOP retained control of the state legislatures.

00:48:20.000 After months of record-breaking fundraising by their candidates and a constellation of outside groups, Democrats fell far short of their goals and failed to build on their 2018 success, and they may have President Donald Trump to blame.

00:48:30.000 It's clear that Trump isn't an anchor for the Republican legislative candidates.

00:48:33.000 He's a buoy, said Cristina Palisa, a spokesperson for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee.

00:48:38.000 He outperformed media expectations, Democratic and Republican expectations, and lifted legislative candidates with him.

00:48:45.000 Okay, that may or may not be true because he performed basically in line with most of the candidates around the various states.

00:48:51.000 For example, in Georgia, the Senate candidates seem to have won more votes than Trump did, but he certainly was not an anchor.

00:48:55.000 That part is certainly true.

00:48:57.000 Trump drove enthusiasm.

00:48:59.000 Voters came to the polls to defend Trump and they voted for Republicans in the process.

00:49:02.000 And a lot of people split the ballot.

00:49:03.000 A lot of people came and they voted for Joe Biden at the top of the ballot.

00:49:06.000 And then they said, you know what?

00:49:07.000 I don't want that guy actually generating policy.

00:49:09.000 I just don't like Trump very much personally.

00:49:10.000 And then they voted down ballot for Republicans.

00:49:12.000 There was some ticket splitting here.

00:49:14.000 Democrats had a disappointing night in congressional and state legislative races across the country as they realized the suburban revolt against Trump did not extend in 2020.

00:49:21.000 And this is one of the theories that was out there, is that in 2018, the only way that you could provide a referendum on Trump was to vote against Republicans who sided with him.

00:49:30.000 But Trump himself was on the ballot.

00:49:32.000 So there were a lot of people who were like, okay, I can vote against Trump and also for my favorite Republican congressperson.

00:49:37.000 Or at least against the Democrats.

00:49:39.000 Republicans appear poised to hold on to the Senate, gain seats in the House, pick up a governorship in Montana, defying expectations, but it is the victories they won in state legislatures that could be the most consequential of all, giving the GOP outsized influence over the congressional and legislative redistricting process that begins early next year.

00:49:54.000 This is why the Democrats are freaking the hell out.

00:49:56.000 They are freaking out.

00:49:58.000 And Democrats are deeply afraid of all of this.

00:50:01.000 They are not happy this morning.

00:50:03.000 They're not happy on Thursday.

00:50:05.000 It doesn't matter that they think they now have the upper hand in the presidential race.

00:50:10.000 It's really, honestly, it's really funny to watch some of the Lincoln Project members today, because like, look, we're getting rid of Trump.

00:50:14.000 Aren't you guys so happy?

00:50:16.000 Aren't you guys so happy?

00:50:17.000 And meanwhile, the Democrats are like, I can't believe this went this badly.

00:50:20.000 Because it turns out it was never about Trump for the Democrats.

00:50:23.000 Never.

00:50:23.000 It was always about the pursuit of power.

00:50:26.000 I mean, there's an article in the Washington Post today called Democrats' Ambitious Agenda for 2021 Runs Into Unexpected Obstacle, McConnell's Resilience.

00:50:34.000 Yes, yes.

00:50:37.000 Feel your anger.

00:50:40.000 This is good.

00:50:41.000 This is very good news.

00:50:43.000 So Republicans have a lot to be positive about, even as we wait out the final results of the election.

00:50:50.000 And so that is a, all of that is very, very good news.

00:50:53.000 And that should be celebrated by Republicans coast to coast and conservative, and frankly, Americans coast to coast because you don't want the radicals in charge of the government.

00:50:59.000 You don't.

00:51:00.000 No matter what you think of Trump, it is very obvious Americans do not want the radicals in charge of the government with unchecked power.

00:51:05.000 That is not a thing that, that's why, am I kind of sanguine about the Georgia Senate races that are going to probably have runoffs in January?

00:51:11.000 I'm kind of sanguine about it.

00:51:12.000 I don't think the Georgians are going to show up en masse to give Joe Biden a majority in the Senate.

00:51:18.000 I just don't think that's going to happen.

00:51:19.000 I think Mitch McConnell is very likely to be the Senate majority leader when the next president is inaugurated or even if Trump is re-inaugurated in January.

00:51:28.000 Okay, meanwhile, you can sense the despair in liberal circles.

00:51:31.000 They're desperately attempting to cling to a narrative that they've been pushing for quite a while.

00:51:36.000 Okay, that narrative is that racial polarization needs to happen in order to better the country.

00:51:43.000 There's only one problem with that.

00:51:44.000 In this election cycle, the Republicans did better with black voters than they did better with Hispanic voters.

00:51:47.000 Now, doing better with black voters did not mean that black voters did not put Biden over the top.

00:51:52.000 By polling data, black voters did put Biden over the top.

00:51:54.000 The difference between Biden and Trump, if Biden ends up winning, which again, is still pending.

00:51:59.000 If that happened, the reason would be because of heavy black turnout. 0.98

00:52:03.000 So you can win a heavier share of the black turnout, but if the black turnout overall is larger, that means more absolute votes in the black community went for Joe Biden.

00:52:10.000 So for example, in Michigan, there are 94,000 black voters in Michigan.

00:52:16.000 There are 308, this is according to Andre Banks, of We Win Black and Color of Change.

00:52:23.000 He said, there were 94,000 black voters in Michigan in 2016.

00:52:26.000 There were 389,000 voters in Michigan in 2020.

00:52:31.000 And that makes the difference.

00:52:33.000 In the presidential battlegrounds in 2016, black voters cast 2.7 million.

00:52:36.000 These are early votes, actually.

00:52:37.000 Black voters cast 2.7 million ballots early in the presidential battlegrounds in 2016.

00:52:41.000 In 2020, they cast 6 million votes early.

00:52:45.000 Nationally, black voters in 2016 cast 4.4 million votes early.

00:52:47.000 In 2020, it was 9.7 million votes early.

00:52:52.000 So heavy black turnout did spur Biden to an advantage if he ends up winning this election.

00:52:58.000 With that said, one thing that was completely repudiated here was the idea that you can absolutely tell the future of the country simply by looking at the racial polarization in the country.

00:53:07.000 It is just not true.

00:53:09.000 Trump won a historic number of minority voters.

00:53:12.000 Trump won more minority voters, just on a percentage basis, than any Republican candidate since 1960.

00:53:19.000 What that means is that we are actually watching, maybe, we can all pray and hope, the end of intersectionality rather than the beginning.

00:53:25.000 Democrats had basically banked on the idea that some woke white ladies, along with typical liberal millennials and youngers, together with a minority coalition, a heavily minority coalition, polarized into obedience to the Democratic Party line by accusations of racism against Republicans, that would be the new coalition, the new governing coalition for Democrats. 0.94

00:53:45.000 And it turns out that that is falling apart on them.

00:53:48.000 And they are just, they're not gonna let it go.

00:53:50.000 They're angry about it, and they are not going to let it go.

00:53:53.000 It doesn't matter that the data do not support this contention, that they are going to be able to use the demographics as destiny argument and build their coalition on the back of an intersectional racial coalition.

00:54:03.000 I mean, this is this is what's amazing.

00:54:07.000 I mean, if you actually look at the polling stats in minority communities, I know that we're not supposed to actually look at what people who are black or Hispanic think about the world.

00:54:14.000 We're just supposed to treat them as a monolith, according to Democrats.

00:54:16.000 But it turns out they have some ideas that don't exactly jive with the Democratic Party line.

00:54:21.000 According to a piece at NBC News from Musa Algarbi, He says, It may be that minority voters simply do not view some of Trump's controversial comments and policies as racist.

00:54:35.000 Too often, scholars try to test whether something is racist by looking exclusively at whether the rhetoric or proposals they disagree with resonate with whites.

00:54:42.000 They frequently don't even bother to test whether they might appeal to minorities as well.

00:54:46.000 The article is saying is that basically pollsters and media members will find if a policy is popular with white people and then they'll say, ah, if it's popular with white people, it must be racial animus.

00:54:56.000 But what if some of those policies are also popular with black people?

00:54:59.000 So, for example, school choice.

00:55:01.000 When they do look at the opinions of black and Hispanic Americans, the results tend to be surprising, says this columnist for NBC News.

00:55:07.000 For instance, one recent study presented white, black, and Hispanic voters with messages the researchers considered to be racial dog whistles or coded language that signals commitment to white supremacy.

00:55:16.000 It turned out the messages resonated just as strongly with blacks as they did with whites.

00:55:21.000 Hispanics responded even more warmly to the rhetoric about crime and immigration than other racial groups. 1.00

00:55:27.000 That is, on balance, these quote-unquote racist messages seem to resonate more strongly with minorities than whites.

00:55:32.000 Across racial groups, most did not find the messages to be racist or offensive, despite the researchers viewing these examples as clear-cut cases of racial dog whistles.

00:55:41.000 So in other words, when Donald Trump said, I don't think America is systemically racist, or when Donald Trump says, I don't like illegal immigration, or when Donald Trump says, we need law and order in our cities, all of the pollsters, all the media members are like, ah, that's racism.

00:55:52.000 We all know it's not racism.

00:55:53.000 And you know who else knows it's not racism?

00:55:55.000 Many blacks and Hispanics.

00:55:57.000 But Democrats are never gonna let go of this.

00:55:58.000 They're never gonna let go of it, because they think they had discovered that they had performed alchemy.

00:56:04.000 They had transformed rust into gold.

00:56:08.000 This is what they thought.

00:56:09.000 They thought that they had taken the Marxist brew and poured it into a racial vessel, and the racial vessel would be capable of carrying the Marxist brew.

00:56:19.000 That's what they thought.

00:56:20.000 They thought that they could just pour a bunch of socialistic, big government nonsense into a vessel That was all about rage against quote-unquote white supremacy and that would hold it.

00:56:29.000 It turns out that vessel doesn't exist.

00:56:30.000 It turns out that people are still individuals.

00:56:32.000 But the media aren't gonna let go of it.

00:56:33.000 So the worst column of the day comes from the aptly named Charles M. Blow at the New York Times.

00:56:38.000 His column is called Exit Polls Point to the Power of White Patriarchy.

00:56:42.000 Really do they?

00:56:43.000 Do they point to the power of white patriarchy?

00:56:44.000 Because it turns out that Trump won an elevated share of the black vote and an elevated share of the Hispanic vote.

00:56:48.000 And in fact, he won a depressed share of the white vote, particularly.

00:56:53.000 But Charles Blow has a theory, and he's never going to let those facts get in the way of the theory.

00:56:56.000 He can never let the facts get in the way of the theory.

00:56:58.000 He says, it is obscene that the presidential race is too close to call at the time this column is published, Wednesday, 630 p.m.

00:57:04.000 Eastern Standard Time.

00:57:05.000 After all that Donald Trump has done, all the misery he has caused, all the racism he has aroused, still roughly half the country voted to extend this horror show.

00:57:14.000 Let me be specific and explicit here.

00:57:17.000 White people, both men and women, were the only group in which a majority voted for Trump, according to exit polls.

00:57:22.000 To be exact, nearly three out of every five white voters in America are Trump voters.

00:57:26.000 It is so unsettling to consider that many of our fellow countrymen and women are either racists or accommodate racists or acquiesce to racists.

00:57:33.000 I love this.

00:57:34.000 You're just going to keep calling everybody a racist.

00:57:36.000 Just keep doing it, man.

00:57:37.000 Just keep doing it until you are in the permanent political minority.

00:57:40.000 Please.

00:57:41.000 Let's be real about this.

00:57:43.000 It is that sentiment that has caused the upsurge for Trump.

00:57:45.000 It is that sentiment that caused a rejection of wokeism all across the country.

00:57:48.000 Keep doubling down.

00:57:49.000 Keep saying everybody you disagree with is a racist.

00:57:51.000 See what it brings you.

00:57:52.000 See how much people appreciate it. 1.00

00:57:54.000 It turns out people think you're a jackass. 1.00

00:57:56.000 It turns out that when you call people racist without evidence and your only evidence is you disagree with them, that makes you a jerk. 1.00

00:58:02.000 It makes you a bigot. 1.00

00:58:04.000 Charles M. Blow is a bigot.

00:58:06.000 Here's what Charles Blow says.

00:58:08.000 This is my favorite part. 0.96

00:58:09.000 He says, not just white people are the problem. 0.99

00:58:11.000 It's all the people who want to be white people. 1.00

00:58:14.000 See, now white has become a synonym in Wokeland for evil. 1.00

00:58:17.000 So if you're white, you're evil, right? 1.00

00:58:19.000 And also if you are black and you voted like Then you are also evil because now you're white on the inside, right? 1.00

00:58:26.000 This is just... It's gross, disgusting stuff that's been pushed by the racial left for quite a while here. 1.00

00:58:32.000 He says that that's only part of what was shocking to me about the exit polls. 0.57

00:58:35.000 First, the stipulations.

00:58:36.000 As the New York Times makes clear, these data are preliminary estimates.

00:58:38.000 Second, some people wondered whether the exit polls would include voters who voted early or by mail.

00:58:43.000 Finally, exit polls are just exit polls, but I am still stunned.

00:58:47.000 Yeah, I'm sure you are.

00:58:48.000 A larger percentage of every racial minority voted for Trump this year than in 2016.

00:58:52.000 Among Blacks and Hispanics, this percentage grew among both men and women, although men were more likely to vote for Trump than women.

00:58:57.000 Among Hispanics, the movement by sex were marginal and have held remarkably steady over the last four presidential elections.

00:59:02.000 The fascinating story and movement are in the Black vote.

00:59:05.000 Black people vote overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates.

00:59:07.000 Black women vote more reliably Democratic than Black men.

00:59:09.000 Only 3 or 4% of Black women voted for the Republican candidate in 2008, 2012, and 2016. 0.80

00:59:14.000 However, Trump doubled that number this year, winning 8% of Black women's votes. 1.00

00:59:18.000 Black men have been inching away from the Democrats in recent elections.

00:59:21.000 5% of Black men voted for McCain in 2012, 11% for Romney, 13% for Trump.

00:59:24.000 This year, 18% voted for Trump.

00:59:28.000 These men were specifically targeted by the Trump campaign.

00:59:30.000 That targeting may well have worked.

00:59:32.000 Democrats are going to have to pour some energy into specifics, listening to and understanding these black men.

00:59:36.000 They are still the least likely group of men to vote Republican, but this trend away from Democrats is undeniable at this point.

00:59:42.000 Also, as it turns out, 28% of LGBT people voted for Donald Trump.

00:59:48.000 So, what is his conclusion?

00:59:51.000 Here's his conclusion, right?

00:59:52.000 Not that maybe people vote as individuals and that you can approach them as individuals and that they can have disagreements on a variety of issues and still vote for a candidate. 0.85

00:59:59.000 No, Charles Blow's, his conclusion is all these people have been taken over by the parasitical white patriarchy.

01:00:07.000 All of this, says Charles Blow, points me to the power of white patriarchy and the coattail it has of those who depend on it or aspire to it.

01:00:15.000 It reaches across gender and sexual orientation and even race.

01:00:19.000 Ah, there it is.

01:00:19.000 But don't worry, you're the bigot.

01:00:20.000 chest trumping and alpha male dismissiveness and in your face rudeness are aspirational to some men and appealing to some women. Some people who have historically been oppressed will stand with the oppressors and will aspire to power by proximity. Ah, there it is. So you are now white. Black men, if you voted for Donald Trump, congratulations, you have been conferred with evil whiteness by Charles Blow. Gay people, you are now straight by virtue of the fact that you voted for Donald Trump. Women, you are now men by virtue of the fact that you voted for Donald Trump, according to Charles Blow. But don't worry, you're the bigots. 0.64

01:00:48.000 You're the bigots. It's Keep doubling down on this crap. 1.00

01:00:52.000 Please. 1.00

01:00:52.000 Do it. 1.00

01:00:57.000 And it's not just Charles Blow, who again is terrible.

01:00:59.000 It is the Washington Post political reporter for The Fix, Eugene Scott. 0.93

01:01:05.000 Ah, you're not white anymore. 0.98

01:01:10.000 See? 0.98

01:01:10.000 You support white supremacy. 0.98

01:01:11.000 That's it. 0.98

01:01:12.000 All those black men who voted, those 18% of black men who voted for Trump, they're all big fans of white supremacy as it turns out. 0.98

01:01:18.000 Weird. 0.99

01:01:19.000 Weird.

01:01:19.000 I'll admit, weird.

01:01:21.000 I mean, if Eugene Scott, and that is some heavy journalism right there.

01:01:24.000 That is some hot, sticky, heavy journalism right there from Eugene Scott.

01:01:27.000 He's just tubing his journalism all over the place right there.

01:01:30.000 He's a political reporter for The Fix.

01:01:32.000 By the way, I love his profile.

01:01:33.000 This shows you the nature of our crap media and why we need a replacement media right now.

01:01:37.000 Go subscribe at Daily Wire. 0.88

01:01:38.000 This is it right here in a nutshell.

01:01:40.000 Here is his profile, Eugene Scott.

01:01:42.000 Washington Post political reporter for The Fix.

01:01:45.000 All politics is identity politics.

01:01:48.000 All politics is identity politics.

01:01:51.000 Unbelievable.

01:01:52.000 Unbelievable.

01:01:53.000 So you're overtly stating your religious worldview, and this is considered good journalism.

01:01:57.000 Solid, solid stuff.

01:02:00.000 Really, really good.

01:02:01.000 Meanwhile, Nicole Hannah-Jones, the de facto editor of the New York Times, another one of these papers of record, again, replace the media. 0.99

01:02:07.000 They're garbage. 0.84

01:02:07.000 Nicole Hannah-Jones, the author of the 1619 Project, which is a pseudo-historical piece of dreck, awarded with the Pulitzer Prize because the people who award those sorts of prizes don't like America very much. 0.84

01:02:18.000 She tweeted out, Also, whiteness is not static.

01:02:20.000 It is expandable when necessary.

01:02:22.000 A lot of folks who don't think of as white, think of themselves as white, because the lines have never been entirely clear.

01:02:26.000 That's the beauty of white supremacy.

01:02:28.000 It is extremely adaptable.

01:02:30.000 Well, no, that's the beauty of white supremacy to you, because you get to use the term white supremacy to slather on anything you don't like.

01:02:37.000 White supremacy is actually not an adaptable term.

01:02:39.000 It means something quite specific.

01:02:41.000 Historically speaking, it means people who believe that white people are supreme. 0.51

01:02:44.000 White supremacy.

01:02:46.000 That's what it means.

01:02:47.000 But according to members of our esteemed media establishment, white supremacy, it's a beautiful excuse for everything.

01:02:53.000 It's plastic.

01:02:56.000 It's like peanut butter.

01:02:56.000 You just put it over anything and it makes it taste better.

01:02:59.000 Or in this case, taste worse.

01:03:00.000 Or in this case, excuse any sort of behavior.

01:03:03.000 Karen Attia, who of course is one of our esteemed journalistic betters.

01:03:08.000 She runs Global Opinions at the Washington Post.

01:03:10.000 She was Journalist of the Year.

01:03:12.000 And she wrote White Women. 0.97

01:03:15.000 Okay, so I have to say, one of my favorite exchanges yesterday, there was an exchange on Twitter, and I gotta find it for you because it's just, it's so good.

01:03:29.000 Okay, so here is the exchange.

01:03:32.000 It is between a woman whose name I'm going to mispronounce, not on purpose, but just because I literally don't know how to pronounce this name.

01:03:38.000 I'll try.

01:03:39.000 Okay, I believe that it is Kelly Bogil-Zvabko.

01:03:43.000 So forgive me if I mispronounce it.

01:03:45.000 She tweeted out a graphic showing the voting breakdown in the exit polls.

01:03:49.000 White people, we will not forget. 1.00

01:03:51.000 This is how y'all roll, election after election.

01:03:54.000 Okay, Anne-Marie Slaughter, who is a former Harvard law professor and Princeton dean.

01:03:59.000 She worked at the State Department under Barack Obama.

01:04:01.000 She'll probably be in the Biden administration if Biden ends up being president. 1.00

01:04:04.000 She tweeted, Whoa, what about those white people in the blue column?

01:04:08.000 Those of us who believe that a plurality America will be a better America than a white majority America. 0.93

01:04:12.000 OK, so first of all, that is in and of itself racist, is it not?

01:04:15.000 Because the reverse is also racist.

01:04:17.000 If you say a white America will indubitably, under all circumstances, be better than a plurality America, that's kind of racist.

01:04:23.000 Because now you're assuming that whiteness is the deciding factor in whether the country is good or not. 0.93

01:04:28.000 So now she's saying that non-whiteness is the deciding factor, but that's not the part that's funny.

01:04:31.000 Okay, so she says, What about the white people who are voting along with you?

01:04:35.000 Why are you cutting us out?

01:04:36.000 Why are you being so mean?

01:04:37.000 And Kelli Bogle Zvobgo writes back, I have tremendous respect for you, but I cannot accept this response.

01:04:44.000 Overwhelming majorities of people of color, notably black women, consistently vote to elect leaders who will be humane.

01:04:48.000 And we keep getting left in the lurch. 0.83

01:04:51.000 Okay, so black women are the heroes, white women are bad, and even Anne-Marie Slaughter, who votes the way you want her to, she is part of the white female problem. 1.00

01:04:59.000 So what does Anne-Marie Slaughter do? 1.00

01:05:00.000 This is the best part.

01:05:01.000 This is the best part.

01:05:02.000 She apologizes.

01:05:04.000 She apologizes for saying that many white women did not support Donald Trump.

01:05:08.000 Quote, to all the people on this thread, including New America folks, I hear you and apologize.

01:05:13.000 I do not mean to deflect attention from the realities of racism and the deep racial divide between voters on the right and the left.

01:05:18.000 I see how hashtag not all white people does that, just like hashtag not all men.

01:05:25.000 So the wokeness will never stop.

01:05:27.000 It will never stop.

01:05:28.000 There will be no coming together as long as the woke rule the roost. 1.00

01:05:31.000 And they're going to rule the roost so long as the Democrats believe that the future of their party lies in the intersectional coalition building started by Barack Obama, particularly in the 2012 election.

01:05:40.000 Until they get over that, it's going to get worse.

01:05:43.000 And let's just be frank about this.

01:05:44.000 The more Democrats decide to go down this path, the more Republicans are going to win.

01:05:48.000 So by all means, continue.

01:05:49.000 I think for the good of the country, you should abandon it.

01:05:51.000 I would prefer that we have two parties that stand for individual identity rather than group identity.

01:05:55.000 I think that would be better for a country that is dependent on the idea of having discussions and having free speech.

01:06:02.000 But if you're not going to do it, if you're going to go for it, then fine, go for it.

01:06:04.000 And we'll see how it works out for you.

01:06:05.000 It's a bold move, Cotton.

01:06:06.000 We'll see how it plays.

01:06:07.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here a little bit later today with two additional hours of content.

01:06:10.000 Otherwise, we will see you here tomorrow.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 05, 2020

It’s Not Over Yet | Ep. 1131

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