The Ben Shapiro Show - The Iowa S***show | Ep. 946

00:00:00.000 The Iowa caucuses turn into a total cluster bleep.

00:00:03.000 Every Democrat declares victory and President Trump prepares for the State of the Union.

00:00:06.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:24.000 So, let us begin with the best Iowa caucuses ever!

00:00:30.000 These were amazing!

00:00:31.000 So, the party that wants to handle your healthcare, that wants to run the economy, that wants to run every aspect of your life.

00:00:36.000 And they promise you, government is supremely competent.

00:00:38.000 And they are supremely competent.

00:00:40.000 They can handle everything.

00:00:41.000 Don't you worry.

00:00:42.000 Don't you worry.

00:00:43.000 There won't be any death panels.

00:00:45.000 There won't be any rationing of care.

00:00:46.000 They can make sure that all the payments hit the providers exactly when they are supposed to.

00:00:50.000 Everything will be hunky-dory.

00:00:51.000 They couldn't handle an Iowa caucus last night.

00:00:53.000 Now, I will be honest with you.

00:00:54.000 Yes, because that's what we do here on the show.

00:00:56.000 Yesterday, I was in a really bad mood leading up to the Iowa caucuses. 0.93

00:00:59.000 The reason I was in a really bad mood is because the horse race Of Democrats is really off putting to me because I think frankly that most of these Democrats are awful. 0.97

00:01:07.000 I think they're awful. 1.00

00:01:08.000 I think there are a couple that are sort of palatable and then I think most of them are just garbage. 0.99

00:01:11.000 So Joe Biden is somewhat palatable in the sense that he's a corpse and he's not going to do too much damage to the country if he's president. 0.97

00:01:17.000 Not the sort of damage that you'd see from some of the radicals in his own party, mainly because again, he's not an alive person.

00:01:23.000 And then there's Amy Klobuchar.

00:01:24.000 And Amy Klobuchar wouldn't do tremendous damage to the country in the same way that some of the more radical members of her own party would. 1.00

00:01:30.000 But the big winners last night were expected to be the people who exactly would do that kind of damage.

00:01:35.000 So Bernie Sanders, who's basically a communist.

00:01:38.000 I mean, he says he has not changed his views since 1963.

00:01:40.000 Well, in 1963, dude was a communist.

00:01:42.000 So I'm pretty certain that he's still a commie, considering that he has never actually backtracked on any of his old views from the 1960s and the 1970s.

00:01:50.000 I pointed this out on Twitter yesterday.

00:01:52.000 The entire left went insane.

00:01:54.000 I pointed out that thanks to Andrew Kaczynski at CNN, he uncovered a quote from Bernie Sanders in 1976 when he was 35 years old.

00:02:01.000 Okay, for contrast, I am 36.

00:02:03.000 Okay, so Bernie Sanders was my age and he was talking about nationalizing every major industry in the United States, including banking and the energy sector.

00:02:12.000 All of it.

00:02:13.000 OK, and I pointed out that Bernie Sanders had never been asked a serious question about this, that one person had asked him about it one time and his campaign and then said, well, Bernie's been incredibly consistent.

00:02:22.000 And then Chris Cuomo asked him about it.

00:02:24.000 And then he said, well, I didn't do any of that as mayor of Burlington, Vermont.

00:02:27.000 And the answer is right, because as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, what are we going to do?

00:02:30.000 Municipalize a national institution?

00:02:33.000 Like you don't have the power as a mayor of a city to nationalize anything.

00:02:36.000 Also, you have to explain on an ideological level why you were for nationalization then, but you are not for nationalization now.

00:02:41.000 Okay, fine.

00:02:42.000 So, Bernie was widely perceived to be the frontrunner going into Iowa.

00:02:46.000 And then there was Elizabeth Warren, who had a great ground game in Iowa. 1.00

00:02:49.000 She'd been fading. 0.99

00:02:50.000 But Elizabeth Warren is a damned liar who spends her entire life lying about her old positions and then lying about her new positions. 1.00

00:02:56.000 The kind of person who goes out on the campaign trail and explains why her next Secretary of Education will have to be approved by a random trans child. 1.00

00:03:03.000 Literally a thing that she said.

00:03:05.000 Literally a thing that she said, and that she wants to regulate misinformation online, and prosecute people for distributing misinformation online from the lady who claimed that she was a Native American for three decades. 0.99

00:03:15.000 And then you had Pete Buttigieg, who pretended initially to be a moderate, and then came out as a non-moderate, and suggested that everybody who voted for Donald Trump was actually a brutal, vicious racist, and suggested that everybody who was a Christian who didn't agree with Pete Buttigieg's take on same-sex marriage was somehow a bad Christian, which sort of flies in the face of, you know, the entire Old and New Testament.

00:03:32.000 So in any case, This was a bevy of not wonderful people who are going to win the Iowa caucuses last night.

00:03:39.000 And one of them was going to end up with a big boost in momentum.

00:03:42.000 Now, the way that the Iowa caucuses work is that there'd be a boost in momentum only if he can make a big speech that night.

00:03:46.000 So the best case example of this is Barack Obama in 2008 wins the Iowa caucuses.

00:03:51.000 John Edwards comes in second.

00:03:52.000 Hillary Clinton comes in third.

00:03:54.000 And Barack Obama gets up and he makes a very famous speech.

00:03:56.000 This is the speech where he says that this is the moment when all the seas began to recede.

00:04:00.000 This is the moment when we began to take back the world. 0.99

00:04:03.000 And all this kind of garbage, right? 0.95

00:04:04.000 And you got this big bump moving into New Hampshire.

00:04:06.000 I believe Hillary Clinton ends up winning New Hampshire in 2008, but Obama ends up with the momentum and he ends up going on to win the nomination.

00:04:12.000 In order to seize that momentum, you have to have a clear result in Iowa, or at least clear enough that you get the media boost in the aftermath of Iowa.

00:04:20.000 As a counterexample, in 2012, Rick Santorum actually wins Iowa, right?

00:04:23.000 He beats Mitt Romney in Iowa, but the early results tabulated show that Romney and show that Romney and Santorum are basically neck and neck.

00:04:32.000 And it's a few days until we find out that it was Rick Santorum who actually won, by which point it's over, right?

00:04:36.000 Rick Santorum doesn't get to make his big I-won Iowa speech, and so he doesn't get that big boost going into New Hampshire, which was going to be a Romney state anyway.

00:04:43.000 Okay, so last night, going in, there are a few stories.

00:04:47.000 One is, Democrats are going to have heavy turnout.

00:04:49.000 It's going to be massive turnout. 1.00

00:04:50.000 People are so excited to throw this bastard Trump out of office. 1.00

00:04:53.000 They want him gone. 1.00

00:04:54.000 And they're going to show up in huge numbers.

00:04:55.000 Huge, huge youth wave.

00:04:57.000 Everybody's going to show up.

00:04:58.000 Second, it's going to be a competent, well-run, well-executed caucus.

00:05:03.000 Three weeks in advance, the Democrats were talking about how well-run, how well-executed this thing was going to be, how we have tested this thing, we are ready for it, and we know it's a little complicated because we're going to report three separate steps here.

00:05:13.000 We're going to report first the raw vote total, which they didn't do last time, and that was a sop to Bernie Sanders, because last time Bernie Sanders did well in the raw vote total, and he didn't do quite as well in the actual caucus totals.

00:05:23.000 He ended up losing very narrowly to Hillary Clinton in Iowa in 2016.

00:05:26.000 So they're going to report the raw vote totals, and then they're going to report the caucus totals, and the caucus totals were a second round of voting.

00:05:34.000 Okay, so that was all a sop to Bernie.

00:05:36.000 So this was the plan.

00:05:37.000 The plan was that Bernie was going to at least win the raw vote totals, and then if he didn't win the caucus, then he could talk about how to lose jobs, and then the media would make a big deal out of it, and Bernie would be the man with the momentum coming out of Iowa.

00:05:47.000 Well, none of that happened.

00:05:49.000 Because it turns out that apparently, apparently, the Russians hacked Iowa.

00:05:49.000 None of it.

00:05:55.000 It's amazing.

00:05:56.000 I mean, I don't know how this happened.

00:05:57.000 And no one knows how it happened.

00:05:58.000 But it's incredible.

00:05:59.000 I don't know if Joe Biden was in the back room unplugging the app, like the weird guy from Airplane.

00:06:04.000 I have no idea how any of this happened.

00:06:05.000 I don't know if by shifting Kansas City into Kansas, as opposed to Missouri, President Trump screwed up the magnetic fields in Iowa, which borders Missouri in the north.

00:06:16.000 I don't know what happened here, but no one knows what happened.

00:06:18.000 There are no results.

00:06:19.000 None.

00:06:20.000 We have no idea.

00:06:20.000 Zero zip zilch.

00:06:21.000 There's not been a single tabulated vote in Iowa.

00:06:24.000 Maybe later today we get some results.

00:06:25.000 The Sanders camp has been releasing its own results of this thing, but we don't know if those results are legitimate.

00:06:30.000 And Biden's been like, you can't release results preliminarily, right?

00:06:33.000 None of that has been actually verified.

00:06:34.000 So now you're screwing with the process.

00:06:36.000 You're screwing with the election integrity.

00:06:37.000 And Bernie Sanders's people are like, no, this is all a cheat right now on Twitter.

00:06:42.000 C.I.A.

00:06:43.000 mayor, or C.I.A.

00:06:44.000 Pete is trending, and so his mayor cheats.

00:06:46.000 So the Bernie Sanders people are like, Buttigieg screwed this whole thing up!

00:06:49.000 If it wasn't for Buttigieg, then we would have walked away with this thing, but somehow he cheated. 0.99

00:06:53.000 And so there are, it's a circular firing squad of incompetence and idiocy, and these people want to run your healthcare. 0.99

00:06:59.000 This is their plan. 0.98

00:07:00.000 These highly competent, technocratic, nationalization-friendly Democrats want to run everything in the world, but they cannot run a simple process where a bunch of people get together in a gym and decide which candidate they like best.

00:07:13.000 We're going to bring you all the details because it was spectacular across the board.

00:07:17.000 It's so good.

00:07:18.000 And listen, is it good for democracy?

00:07:21.000 Uh, no.

00:07:23.000 It's never good for democracy when somebody screws up the process this badly, but the Democrats had it coming, and frankly, it really screws with the democratic process.

00:07:23.000 I mean, no.

00:07:31.000 Nate Silver has an analysis of that, too, so we have a lot to get to with regards to these Iowa caucuses, because this is one of the great screw-ups in modern American electoral history.

00:07:40.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:07:44.000 We do.

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00:08:46.000 Alrighty, so what exactly went down?

00:08:49.000 Politico has a great rundown this morning.

00:08:51.000 The title is, it's a total meltdown.

00:08:53.000 Confusion grips Iowa with no official results in sight.

00:09:00.000 Good, good.

00:09:02.000 According to Natasha Korecki, Alex Thompson, and David Siders reporting, a technical meltdown in Iowa Monday night set off bedlam in the critical first contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, triggering competing claims of victory and stoking doubts about the legitimacy of the eventual outcome.

00:09:16.000 No results have been reported by Midnight Eastern.

00:09:18.000 By the way, it is not Midnight Eastern anymore.

00:09:20.000 Okay, we are now, like, more than 12 hours removed from this, and we still don't have results.

00:09:26.000 No results have been reported by Midnight Eastern, and the Iowa Democratic Party said on Tuesday morning it plans to release caucus results as soon as possible today, while also emphasizing its ultimate goal is to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the process.

00:09:37.000 Meanwhile, candidates stepped into the void.

00:09:40.000 Every Democrat simultaneously rushed to the microphone to claim victory.

00:09:44.000 I mean, it looked like it really looked like a clown car. 0.60

00:09:47.000 It was like a clown car.

00:09:48.000 They opened the doors and every Democrat rushed to the mic.

00:09:50.000 They were on split screens like Elizabeth Warren was on a split screen with Joe Biden, both of them claiming some sort of victory.

00:09:56.000 But as Politico points out, the biggest winner might've been Joe Biden, because according to the Iowa entrance poll, he was hovering close to the viability threshold of 15% statewide, but he was doing really poorly.

00:10:06.000 I mean, according to most of the exit polls, according to most of the reports from precincts, Biden was not performing at all.

00:10:11.000 Like Biden, there's a good shot that Biden was gonna come in either fourth or fifth, that he might've even finished behind Amy Klobuchar, which would've been a disastrous finish for Joe Biden, who didn't bother to build an organization on the ground in Iowa, which is unthinkable, Because the only thing that matters in Iowa is your organization, as Pete Buttigieg shows.

00:10:26.000 Dude has 7% nationally, but there was a good shot he was gonna win the Iowa caucuses last night.

00:10:31.000 He's the one who's hardest hit.

00:10:32.000 I mean, if you're just looking at who's hardest hit, big winners, big losers last night, Buttigieg is the hardest hit, because Buttigieg is the one who needed the biggest bounce, right?

00:10:39.000 Sanders has a national organization, he has scads of money, he's likely to win New Hampshire.

00:10:43.000 Buttigieg really needed the bounce.

00:10:44.000 Buttigieg's not gonna get the bounce, because there are no results coming out of Iowa.

00:10:48.000 He had spent all of his time and all of his money and all of his organizational ground game in Iowa, He's got to be very disappointed today to have that victory stolen from him.

00:10:55.000 So while the Bernie people are bitching about this, the person who really got jacked last night is Pete Buttigieg.

00:10:59.000 Okay, Bernie Sanders was going to be a big winner too, and then he was going to claim he had this wave going into New Hampshire.

00:11:04.000 That gets swamped.

00:11:05.000 It gets stopped.

00:11:06.000 Iowa basically gets taken off the table as a state that matters.

00:11:09.000 There's some delegates allocated, but No big news, no big headline for Bernie Sanders.

00:11:14.000 Elizabeth Warren has a bad night, because there's a good shot that Elizabeth Warren ends up certainly in the top three, maybe in the top two in votes, and maybe in the top two in delegates, once all of that is said. 1.00

00:11:24.000 And she needed, she really needed that bump going into New Hampshire, because Warren does have to win New Hampshire in order to have a future beyond New Hampshire.

00:11:31.000 Right?

00:11:31.000 In order for her to do well in these caucuses and in these primaries, she actually does have to be seen as the alternative to Bernie Sanders.

00:11:38.000 That only happens if she overperforms in New Hampshire. 0.97

00:11:41.000 She needed that bump in New Hampshire.

00:11:43.000 She's not going to get that bump. 0.98

00:11:44.000 Not from Iowa, anyway. 0.97

00:11:45.000 So those are your big three losers, which are all of my favorite candidates. 0.92

00:11:48.000 All the people who I can't stand the most in the Democratic caucuses really got jacked last night. 0.98

00:11:52.000 They got jacked hard.

00:11:53.000 And this is why they're all claiming that the party establishment did this.

00:11:56.000 The party establishment didn't do this.

00:11:57.000 The party establishment is scared bleepless of Bernie and his crowd.

00:12:01.000 They're scared bleepless of Elizabeth Warren and her crowd.

00:12:04.000 The last thing they want is to be seen as the conspiratorial elites cramming down an alternative to Bernie again, because this happened in 2016, then a lot of Bernie voters stayed home.

00:12:12.000 So that's the last thing that they want.

00:12:13.000 The people who are helped the most, well, Amy Klobuchar was denied a headline, but her headline won't be that great.

00:12:18.000 She's going to finish like fourth. 1.00

00:12:20.000 So she gets sort of the perception that she was doing well or that she was doing OK.

00:12:24.000 And so she ends up in fairly decent position for Amy Klobuchar, who really has no national hopes at this point.

00:12:30.000 Joe Biden is the one who is saved.

00:12:31.000 Joe Biden Again, the man was expected to completely collapse early last night, and the early results were showing that he was in a state of complete and utter disarray, that he was winning.

00:12:41.000 Like, the Bernie Sanders team has released these unverified results.

00:12:44.000 Their unverified results show Bernie up at, like, 28%, and I believe it was Buttigieg at, like, 24% or 21%, and Warren at, like, 18%, and then it was Joe Biden all the way down there at, like, 12%, and then Klobuchar at, like, 11%.

00:12:56.000 So it was just a disastrous night for Joe Biden, except the night never happened.

00:13:01.000 It's like the night just disappeared from memory.

00:13:03.000 It's like Brigadoon, the Iowa caucuses.

00:13:05.000 They appear every four years and then they fade back into the mists of time.

00:13:08.000 And so this whole thing falls apart.

00:13:10.000 So that's sort of how this thing pays off for the various candidates.

00:13:15.000 It is especially good for Joe Biden, according to Nate Silver, because if you were trying to build a forecast of how the future primaries go, the weight you give to Iowa makes a big difference.

00:13:25.000 So according to Nate Silver, He says, more specifically, we estimate, based on testing, how much the results in various states have historically changed the candidate's position in national polls that Iowa was the second most important date on the calendar this year, trailing only Super Tuesday.

00:13:38.000 It was worth the equivalent of almost 800 delegates, almost 20 times its actual numbers, thanks to that magnitude of the balance that comes out of Iowa.

00:13:47.000 And Nate Silver says everything was a little weird in Iowa this year.

00:13:50.000 There were already some signs that the Iowa balance, which essentially results from all the favorable media coverage the winning candidates get, might be smaller than normal.

00:13:56.000 Iowa was bracketed by an extremely busy news calendar, President Trump's impeachment trial both before and after the caucuses, the Super Bowl on Sunday, the State of the Union address on Tuesday.

00:14:04.000 There was not the usual climactic uptick in media coverage around Iowa.

00:14:09.000 And the worst news for the Democrats in all of this is that the turnout in Iowa ended up being pretty low.

00:14:14.000 Okay, which is a really, really bad indicator for the Democrats.

00:14:18.000 Like a seriously bad indicator for the Democrats.

00:14:21.000 Originally, the Democrats had suggested that this was going to be the highest turnout ever in Iowa because people were so excited to get rid of Trump.

00:14:26.000 Nope.

00:14:27.000 Nope. 0.93

00:14:28.000 The Democrats are now acknowledging that it was on pace for about 172,000 people showing up in Iowa, which by the way, demonstrates how ridiculous this whole system is.

00:14:39.000 172,000 people deciding for the rest of the country sort of Who is going to be the frontrunner in Iowa is pretty astonishing.

00:14:46.000 The record high was 240,000 in 2008.

00:14:48.000 That's when everybody was very enthused about Obama and about Hillary.

00:14:52.000 And now it's like 170,000, which means the enthusiasm is really not as high as the Democrats suggested.

00:14:58.000 But, says Nate Silver, we weren't prepared for what actually happened, which is that as I'm writing this at 3.15am on Tuesday, the Iowa Democratic Party literally hasn't released any results from its caucuses.

00:15:08.000 I'm not going to predict what those numbers will be, although early indications are that Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, and perhaps Elizabeth Warren had good results.

00:15:15.000 The point is that the lead story around the 2020 Iowa Democratic Caucuses is now, and will forever be, the colossal bleep show around the failure to release results in a timely fashion.

00:15:25.000 Maybe there will be eventually a decent-sized Iowa balance despite all this, but there's a good chance all the candidates who did well in Iowa get screwed, and the candidates who did poorly there get a mulligan.

00:15:34.000 So who might this help?

00:15:36.000 So according to Nate Silver, he says, the presence of Iowa on the map was helpful to Bernie, whose chances of winning the national delegate majority would have been 24% without Iowa, as opposed to the 31% chance he had with Iowa as of Monday afternoon.

00:15:49.000 If Bernie had walked out with Iowa, if he had walked out with a big lead in Iowa, then his chance of winning a majority of delegates would have shot from 31% to 58%, who had been the prohibited front runner, if Bernie had won Iowa.

00:16:01.000 But there is no winner in Iowa, right?

00:16:04.000 Iowa doesn't exist.

00:16:06.000 I was just in your mind.

00:16:07.000 I was a figment of your imagination.

00:16:09.000 And so that means that right now, without Iowa existing, the chances of Biden winning a majority of delegates are now 50% according to Nate Silver, but with Sanders lagging at 24%.

00:16:19.000 Because this means that the biggest headline that's coming out now will be New Hampshire.

00:16:23.000 Everyone expected Bernie to win New Hampshire.

00:16:25.000 He won it last time.

00:16:26.000 And that means that Biden gets a reset. 1.00

00:16:28.000 So right now, if Biden is not expending bajillions of dollars caucusing in Nevada, he's being a moron. 1.00

00:16:33.000 Right? 1.00

00:16:34.000 He's got a second shot at this.

00:16:35.000 He's got a second bite at the apple.

00:16:36.000 Because last night, he was gonna get walloped.

00:16:39.000 He was gonna get walloped.

00:16:39.000 I mean, we'll get to the Joe Biden problem in just one second.

00:16:43.000 And we'll see how the media covered this thing throughout the night.

00:16:46.000 It was amazing how this thing morphed throughout the night.

00:16:49.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:18:39.000 Okay, so...

00:18:41.000 First, let us begin with the recap of the night.

00:18:43.000 So early on in the night, before the extent of these screw-ups became clear, and it is a nightmare for the Democrats, because as it also turns out, the app that failed last night was originally designed, allegedly, and Robby Mook is denying it, but Robby Mook, who is a Hillary Clinton staffer, allegedly designed the app that just failed.

00:19:03.000 So if you want conspiracy theories, we shall bring you conspiracy theories.

00:19:07.000 Because that is, I mean, what a disaster.

00:19:10.000 He's saying, I didn't have anything to do with it, except there were public reports that he was involved in the initial stages of developing the app that was used in Iowa.

00:19:18.000 By the way, Democrats who are constantly complaining about Republicans who want to crack down on voter fraud and use voter ID and don't want online voting.

00:19:25.000 Yeah, how did online voting go for you last night?

00:19:26.000 Go real good?

00:19:27.000 Was that a real solid pick for you?

00:19:29.000 How's all this working out?

00:19:30.000 Your new fancy tech?

00:19:32.000 Is it working out great?

00:19:34.000 It isn't?

00:19:34.000 Oh, sorry to hear that.

00:19:35.000 In any case, the early story in the night before any of this started was that Biden was collapsing, right?

00:19:39.000 Biden gets saved last night, because the big story last night was Biden collapsing.

00:19:42.000 So Jake Tapper was on the ground in Iowa, and he was walking up to Biden supporters, and there were like two of them.

00:19:47.000 And they were saying that, don't worry, we're viable, we'll get up to the 15% threshold.

00:19:52.000 And Tapper's like, when, next year?

00:19:53.000 Because there's like two of you.

00:19:55.000 Biden, how are we doing over here?

00:19:56.000 This does not look like 56 people.

00:19:59.000 So you look like lovely, wonderful people, but it doesn't look like you made the viability threshold.

00:20:08.000 Not yet.

00:20:10.000 This year?

00:20:10.000 There's time.

00:20:14.000 I'm not trying to be funny, but I'm trying to be a little funny.

00:20:17.000 Okay, so this was the story last night is that Biden was collapsing in on himself like a dying star.

00:20:21.000 Chuck Todd was immediately saying last night that Joe Biden was done based on these results because Joe Biden was finishing solo.

00:20:27.000 I mean, maybe finishing fifth in the Iowa caucuses.

00:20:29.000 Here was Chuck Todd early on in the night before.

00:20:31.000 Chuck Todd lost it and declared that Iowa was an effing disaster, a thing that he said on a hot mic.

00:20:38.000 Notice Chuck Todd's declaring Biden dead.

00:20:39.000 Okay, so that was the story, right?

00:20:40.000 Biden, he's it is interesting.

00:20:42.000 He's an afterthought in these college towns.

00:20:45.000 And that is it only you know, he's the electable guy.

00:20:49.000 But Sanders big shot at him is can he get young voters out?

00:20:53.000 It's not a good look if you're not even getting threshold.

00:20:57.000 OK, so that was the story.

00:21:00.000 Right.

00:21:00.000 And then Chris Matthews was on MSNBC.

00:21:02.000 I know what's going on here.

00:21:04.000 I think he's dead.

00:21:04.000 Joe Biden.

00:21:05.000 I come in here, I roll on in here, come in, I shoo, drink heavily, I'm all rumpled.

00:21:09.000 A lot of people in here, so I got to kind of hold it together.

00:21:12.000 But look at that crowd for Joe Biden.

00:21:13.000 None likes Joe Biden. 0.88

00:21:14.000 It's like a walking dead man. 0.99

00:21:16.000 He's a corpse.

00:21:17.000 Go, Chris Matthews, go.

00:21:18.000 It's the first rule.

00:21:19.000 Win Iowa.

00:21:20.000 Because nine out of 11 Democratic presidential candidates who won Iowa won the nomination.

00:21:25.000 And the only people that didn't were the local guy, Tom Harkin, and the neighbor Dick Gephardt.

00:21:30.000 So it has always been a really good leading indicator.

00:21:32.000 But this time, I think we've got a lot more game ahead of us, a lot more game ahead of us, with Bernie coming out really strong.

00:21:39.000 I believe the first couple contests staying strong for a while.

00:21:42.000 Biden, I don't know if he's going to make it.

00:21:44.000 We'll see tonight if he makes it on.

00:21:46.000 Okay, so they were already declaring Biden dead early on.

00:21:50.000 And then Katie Tour at MSNBC was reporting the other big story, which was, of course, turnout was incredibly low.

00:21:54.000 They were expecting big turnout and nobody showed up because no one likes these candidates.

00:21:59.000 In terms of turnout, in 2016 they had around 767 people here.

00:22:06.000 They were prepared for twice that many number, over a thousand they thought, at least at this precinct.

00:22:12.000 They had 849, so turnout was not quite as high.

00:22:17.000 As they expected here, and I'm not sure if that says what that says about maybe the evening, maybe people were busy, or maybe there were so many candidates they needed someone else to choose for them, but keep that in mind.

00:22:27.000 Turnout was not as high as expected, although it did exceed expectations at least in this one precinct.

00:22:33.000 Or, alternatively, maybe the entire Democratic theory, which is that people hate Donald Trump with such a fiery passion outside of the major cities, that they're going to show up en masse in order to stop Trump.

00:22:42.000 Maybe that's just not true.

00:22:43.000 Maybe that's just not true.

00:22:44.000 There's a new Gallup poll out today.

00:22:45.000 It shows Trump all the way up to a 49% approval rating.

00:22:48.000 If his approval rating is 49% the day of the election, he's going to be re-elected.

00:22:51.000 And there's no question he's going to be re-elected.

00:22:53.000 Because the fact is, he won election with a 41% approval rating last time.

00:22:57.000 If he's anywhere close to 50%, this thing is a done deal.

00:23:00.000 It's a done deal.

00:23:01.000 Okay, maybe the fact is that outside of California and New York, where everybody is morally upset about Donald Trump, the rest of the country is like, okay, yeah, we've all taken it in.

00:23:10.000 We know what Trump is.

00:23:11.000 And guess what?

00:23:11.000 We're not willing to hand the country over to full-fledged socialists right now.

00:23:15.000 So, no, we're not all that interested.

00:23:18.000 Maybe nobody is up for this stuff.

00:23:19.000 The Beltway insiders who are so into impeachment and the Mueller report and every inch of the news cycle, maybe that's not reflective of the middle of the country.

00:23:27.000 Because the Democrats in Iowa, who showed up in 2008 because they were excited about both Hillary, they're excited about turning a new page, right?

00:23:32.000 Hillary and Barack Obama, a new wave in the Democratic Party.

00:23:36.000 Maybe they look at Bernie and they're like, hmm.

00:23:37.000 And they look at Biden and they're like, oh, that guy's dead.

00:23:39.000 And they look at Pete Buttigieg and they're like, this guy's mayor of South Bend, Indiana.

00:23:42.000 Like, really?

00:23:43.000 And they look at Trump, they're like, all right, like, don't like him. 0.94

00:23:47.000 Think he's a doof, but... 1.00

00:23:49.000 Like I'm not really, like do I really want to get up and go to a gym tonight and like hang out with a bunch of people and pretend like we are doing something important for the country?

00:23:56.000 Okay, so those were the early narratives.

00:23:59.000 The Biden was done and also the turnout was low.

00:24:01.000 And then the evening turned.

00:24:03.000 Then the evening turned in a glorious and wondrous way.

00:24:06.000 Everything started to fall apart.

00:24:08.000 So CNN was the first to start reporting that things were clearly off.

00:24:10.000 So last night, CNN reports, yeah, we got a problem here.

00:24:13.000 These vote tallies, they are not happening properly.

00:24:16.000 We'll get to this in just one second.

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00:25:48.000 OK, so CNN begins reporting fairly early in the night that something is clearly off.

00:25:53.000 We've got a problem.

00:25:54.000 People reporting they were typing things into the app and the app was immediately freezing.

00:25:54.000 The app isn't working.

00:25:57.000 People reporting data was sort of disappearing.

00:26:00.000 People had not fully tabulated results properly.

00:26:03.000 Many of the campaigns were complaining that there were problems with the initial tabulations and with the secondary tabulations.

00:26:08.000 People didn't understand how the process works. 0.99

00:26:09.000 They're reporting things wrong because it's all complex and stupid. 0.99

00:26:12.000 And so here is CNN reporting, uh, we got a problem guys. 0.99

00:26:17.000 This was not the plan.

00:26:19.000 Something is clearly off from the plan that the Iowa Democratic Party had at the start of the night.

00:26:24.000 They did not expect to have no vote reporting at 10.30 Eastern at night.

00:26:29.000 That is dramatically later than we've seen in the past.

00:26:32.000 So Mark is right.

00:26:33.000 It's a brand new process in the sense of what they're reporting out.

00:26:37.000 Not just the state delegates, but also the popular vote for the first round and final round.

00:26:42.000 So I understand that they are doing something brand new.

00:26:45.000 Okay, Bernie's people were bitching about this.

00:26:47.000 You did this!

00:26:48.000 Okay, you're the ones who insisted that the Democratic Party report the initial vote assessments before the caucus tallies.

00:26:53.000 That was you.

00:26:54.000 So, you know, eat it.

00:26:55.000 Really?

00:26:57.000 I don't think that the Bernie people have that right to be angry, really.

00:27:00.000 I think Buttigieg has the right to be angry.

00:27:01.000 Like, Bernie's going to do fine.

00:27:02.000 He's going to go on to New Hampshire.

00:27:04.000 Bernie's going to be competitive throughout.

00:27:06.000 Bernie's going to claim victory and, you know, he did win a lot of votes last night by pretty much every indicator.

00:27:10.000 Buttigieg was the one who was going to miss that giant boost that he was going to get, the signal boost that he was going to get after winning Iowa.

00:27:15.000 He was going to be able to give his Obama speech.

00:27:17.000 By the way, We'll get to the Democratic speeches in just a second because it was delicious.

00:27:21.000 But this caused no end, no end of heartburn for Democrats.

00:27:25.000 The best clip of the night, best clip of the night.

00:27:27.000 So, Wolf Blitzer was interviewing a precinct captain, okay?

00:27:31.000 Somebody, well actually he was interviewing somebody at DNC headquarters, okay?

00:27:34.000 Oh sorry, he's, I'm wrong.

00:27:35.000 He's interviewing a precinct captain on CNN.

00:27:38.000 That person was on hold with the DNC headquarters in Iowa.

00:27:42.000 Getting ready to report results.

00:27:44.000 Wolf is on the line with the precinct captain, and the DNC guy picks up the phone.

00:27:50.000 And the precinct captain, who's been waiting an hour to report the results, is busy with Wolf, and he says, hold on a second, Wolf.

00:27:56.000 By the time he picks up the phone with the Iowa chair, the guy hangs up on him.

00:28:01.000 So because of CNN, a precinct captain is unable to report the results of a caucus.

00:28:05.000 It's unbelievably great.

00:28:07.000 Here is the clip of the night from CNN.

00:28:08.000 This is a real coincidence, Wolf.

00:28:16.000 I just got off hold.

00:28:17.000 Just now.

00:28:19.000 So I've got to get off the phone to report the results.

00:28:21.000 Alright, go ahead and report your results.

00:28:23.000 Can we listen in as you report them, Sean?

00:28:25.000 Yep.

00:28:25.000 Alright, let's listen.

00:28:28.000 Hi.

00:28:28.000 Okay.

00:28:29.000 Hello?

00:28:31.000 They hung up on me.

00:28:32.000 They hung up on me.

00:28:34.000 Okay, I've got to get back in line on hold.

00:28:37.000 They just hung up.

00:28:38.000 Oh, that is spectacular stuff.

00:28:41.000 Yes!

00:28:42.000 The Democrats, who could not wait for 10 seconds on the line, the guy waited an hour to report the results, and the Democrats were like, hello?

00:28:48.000 Hello?

00:28:49.000 Click.

00:28:50.000 Yes.

00:28:51.000 And Wolf was like, can we listen in as you report the results?

00:28:51.000 Yes.

00:28:53.000 Absolutely, you can, Wolf.

00:28:55.000 Excellent, excellent stuff.

00:28:56.000 So Chris Matthews has a solution.

00:28:57.000 He's like, why are we even starting in Iowa?

00:28:58.000 We can't do this anymore.

00:29:00.000 I need to get home and drink.

00:29:01.000 It's late.

00:29:02.000 Why am I even here?

00:29:03.000 What the hell's going on?

00:29:04.000 Where is Iowa anyway?

00:29:06.000 Isn't this like the place where Kevin Costner plays baseball?

00:29:08.000 Go, Chris Matthews, go!

00:29:10.000 I think the reason they keep, if they go too much to a primary here and it begins to look like every vote counts simply, you go in, you vote, you leave, then they're afraid they won't get first anymore because then there'd be the first primary.

00:29:21.000 And New Hampshire's the first primary, so how would they have the right to that?

00:29:24.000 I don't know.

00:29:24.000 Michael knows a lot about this from the Republican side.

00:29:26.000 We got to get Tom Perez in here and beat him up a little bit and make him tell us, why do you still start in Iowa?

00:29:32.000 Because it's a strange decision.

00:29:34.000 It just is.

00:29:35.000 Sorry I'm here.

00:29:36.000 I'm here.

00:29:37.000 It's cold.

00:29:38.000 I'm here.

00:29:38.000 It's cold.

00:29:39.000 I don't even know why the hell I'm here.

00:29:40.000 You see this?

00:29:41.000 I've been out here for like three years.

00:29:42.000 I don't even have a hot toddy to get me through the evening.

00:29:46.000 Come here with my hair brushed with a shoe.

00:29:48.000 Don't even bother to put together a show list or any sort of real show.

00:29:51.000 Just come here and talk.

00:29:52.000 That's how you run a caucus.

00:29:53.000 I'm not in charge of the Democratic Party.

00:29:55.000 Get Tom Perez in here. 1.00

00:29:55.000 I want to kick the crap out of him. 1.00

00:29:56.000 I want to beat him up like Robert De Niro. 1.00

00:29:59.000 Like Robert De Niro and the Irishman, just gonna kick him off a straight corner. 0.51

00:30:01.000 Sure, I can't move all that well, just like Robert De Niro and the Irishman. 1.00

00:30:04.000 Sure, they're gonna have to CGI my face. 0.99

00:30:06.000 It'll be a brutal scene, a brutal scene as I kick the crap out of Tom Perez. 0.99

00:30:09.000 Don't feel the tingle up my leg anymore, do you, Tom? 0.99

00:30:12.000 Do you?

00:30:13.000 Spectacular stuff.

00:30:15.000 And then, this was also a great clip, and it's being underrated because it was on Fox.

00:30:18.000 Donna Brazile.

00:30:19.000 Who was innately and inherently involved in trying to skew the primary system last time for Hillary Clinton, right? 1.00

00:30:24.000 She was working with CNN and she leaked the questions from CNN to Hillary Clinton, allegedly, during the debate, right?

00:30:31.000 Donna Brazile was on Fox News going, oh, this is so terrible because now people are going to think that the primary system was rigged. 0.93

00:30:37.000 You guys have been rigging it!

00:30:38.000 It's your fault!

00:30:39.000 Your fault!

00:30:40.000 You're the former head of the DNC!

00:30:42.000 Oh no, they might think that it's rigged.

00:30:44.000 Oh no!

00:30:45.000 Yeah, well maybe it turns out that when now the Democratic snake has eaten its own tail, we have an Ouroboros on our hands.

00:30:50.000 A snake eating its own tail, that's what that means.

00:30:52.000 Okay, the Democrats have been claiming that if Donald Trump was not impeached, There would be widespread election problems and loss of trust in institutions.

00:30:59.000 And boy, were they right!

00:31:01.000 Donald Trump wasn't impeached, and we do have widespread election problems and lack of trust in our elections.

00:31:06.000 Here's Donna Brazile, who was complicit in helping Hillary Clinton win the nomination last time, talking about undermining trust in our fundamental institutions. 1.00

00:31:15.000 I was here in 2012 covering the Republicans, and that night we all left here thinking Mitt Romney was the one, and we learned later.

00:31:23.000 You talk about momentum matter, it matters that we get this right.

00:31:26.000 Yeah, Rick Santorum was the one.

00:31:27.000 You know, I spent a lot of time in those rules and bylaws committees setting up this procedure, which I've done now for more than five cycles.

00:31:35.000 You want to get it accurate, because if we don't get it accurate, somebody's going to complain tomorrow that they were rigged or something happened.

00:31:43.000 Okay, this all led to the greatest clown show I've ever seen on TV. 0.75

00:31:48.000 I mean, it was just a clown show. 0.63

00:31:49.000 It was phenomenal. 0.89

00:31:50.000 It was great.

00:31:51.000 We need the Benny Hill music or something, right?

00:31:53.000 We need Yakety Sax. 0.98

00:31:56.000 Because it's so good.

00:31:57.000 So the Democrats suddenly realize, in the middle of the night, they realize, wait, there's not gonna be a winner tonight.

00:32:03.000 And Amy Klobuchar's like, so no matter what happens, I'm not gonna get to make a big victory speech.

00:32:08.000 And Amy Klobuchar takes a binder and just cracks one of her staffers over the head and runs up on stage, and she's like, I won!

00:32:14.000 Guys, I'm here!

00:32:15.000 I won!

00:32:17.000 It was me!

00:32:18.000 I know we don't have results, but I did great!

00:32:19.000 Let me tell ya, it was awesome!

00:32:22.000 Guys, and if you don't believe me, I will make you eat this salad with a comb.

00:32:26.000 So Amy Klobuchar, the senator from Minnesota, she gets up and she gives a victory speech with no results. 0.99

00:32:32.000 So here is Amy Klobuchar declaring victory and all her fans are like, yay?

00:32:37.000 Woo! 0.99

00:32:39.000 This is at 10 p.m.

00:32:40.000 Central Time last night when it became clear there would be no results.

00:32:44.000 We know there's delays, but we know one thing.

00:32:47.000 We are punching above our weight.

00:32:53.000 My heart is full tonight.

00:32:55.000 So even in a crowded field of candidates, even during the well-earned impeachment hearing of Donald J. Trump, which kept me bolted to my Senate desk for the last two weeks, we kept fighting.

00:33:11.000 And you kept fighting for me.

00:33:15.000 Okay, I love this.

00:33:16.000 I love that she's giving a victory speech with no result.

00:33:18.000 It's spectacular.

00:33:19.000 It's spectacular.

00:33:20.000 My favorite thing about this is, by the way, if you're Amy Klobuchar and, like, your only shot at the nomination is to do well in Iowa, don't you have a better scripted speech than that?

00:33:28.000 Like, why don't you have a barn burner set up?

00:33:30.000 Just give a barn burner! 1.00

00:33:31.000 She was smart to get out there in front of the cameras first, though, and this led to a jailbreak of Democratic candidates. 1.00

00:33:36.000 They had criminal justice reform in the middle of the Democratic primary, and all of the Democrats rushed from jail directly to the cameras.

00:33:44.000 So much so that it turned into an episode of Hollywood Squares.

00:33:47.000 Like it was like Joe Biden here, and Elizabeth Warren here, and Amy Klobuchar here, and Pete Buttigieg here.

00:33:53.000 And somewhere Tom Steyer was speaking to a camera, but nobody cared.

00:33:55.000 It was amazing, like they were all rushing to the cameras.

00:33:57.000 It was spectacular.

00:33:58.000 I'll show you the rest of this, because believe it or not, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren ended up on a split screen.

00:34:02.000 And many of the networks were covering Biden, but not Warren, which led Warren to be like, everybody's a sexist. 0.91

00:34:08.000 And also they hate Native Americans. 0.92

00:34:09.000 Oh, wait, I'm not Native American.

00:34:11.000 We'll get some more of this in just one second, because all of this, if you're not enjoying this, folks, if you're not enjoying this, then let me recommend that you check your sense of humor, because this is inherently hilarious.

00:34:21.000 It is.

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00:34:27.000 It is much ado about socialism.

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00:34:30.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:37:03.000 Okay, so Amy Klobuchar runs to the camera, and this sets off a chain reaction where every Democrat decides to run to the camera simultaneously. 1.00

00:37:18.000 It's like Kiddush at my show.

00:37:19.000 Like, everybody is running to grab the herring.

00:37:21.000 Like, boom!

00:37:22.000 Brawls, full-on brawls. 0.98

00:37:24.000 It's like Black Friday at the Walmart.

00:37:26.000 Everybody is just piling on top of each other, trying to get to the cameras.

00:37:30.000 Like, it's a zombie apocalypse, and we're all trying to get to that last ax.

00:37:33.000 It's fan-freaking-tastic.

00:37:34.000 So, Bernie then leaps to the microphone.

00:37:36.000 He says, when the results come in, we'll have done very well.

00:37:39.000 This, of course, is true. 0.99

00:37:41.000 Bernie did get jacked, not as much as Buttigieg, but he got jacked last night.

00:37:44.000 Here was Bernie talking about how when the results come in, we will have won.

00:37:47.000 The problem is he didn't get the big moment.

00:37:49.000 He didn't get the big moment, right?

00:37:50.000 He wanted the big moment, and he needed the big moment to catapult him not just to victory in New Hampshire, but to broad victory in New Hampshire.

00:37:55.000 Instead, just seems like a guy who won New Hampshire last time is going to win New Hampshire this time.

00:37:59.000 So here's Bernie being robbed of his moment.

00:38:02.000 I imagine, have a strong feeling that at some point, The results will be announced.

00:38:13.000 And when those results are announced, I have a good feeling we're going to be doing very, very well here in Iowa.

00:38:22.000 Just spectacular.

00:38:23.000 Just spectacular.

00:38:27.000 Really, really great stuff.

00:38:28.000 Bernie is like, I don't know where I am.

00:38:30.000 Also, we need to nationalize healthcare.

00:38:32.000 Sure, we cannot handle a primary. 0.97

00:38:33.000 Sure, everything here is a crap show, but you know what would be good?

00:38:37.000 Is if the changes I recommended that have completely failed here, what if we instituted those on a national level with regard to your healthcare? 0.89

00:38:42.000 So if you have cancer, you can now go to a caucus in Iowa and you can figure out whether you can convince enough people whether you should have chemotherapy.

00:38:50.000 Bernie Sanders, man, the fact that this guy is your Democratic frontrunner and that the media have not vetted him.

00:38:55.000 I mean, this is I'm never going to stop saying this.

00:38:57.000 The fact the media have not vetted this communist for three decades is beyond insane, beyond insane.

00:39:04.000 OK, this man has been in national politics longer than I have been alive on planet Earth.

00:39:09.000 And still nobody has seen, and he's now run in two consecutive elections and been very competitive in both, and no one has seen fit to ask him, he has said his views have not changed since the 60s, and no one has seen fit to ask him, okay, so if your views didn't change since the 60s, how about that time you were defending Cuba, Venezuela, and the Soviet Union?

00:39:24.000 Did your views on that change at all?

00:39:26.000 I mean, the views he holds are not manifestly just wrong.

00:39:29.000 They're manifestly evil on a variety of topics.

00:39:31.000 And he will not be asked a solid question by the Democrats because he just keeps saying things like, Norway and Denmark.

00:39:36.000 It's like, OK, well, yeah, but for decades you were defending the Soviet Union in Cuba.

00:39:40.000 So what is your point of differentiation in any case?

00:39:43.000 Bernie robbed of his moment.

00:39:44.000 The man who's most robbed of his moment is Pete Buttigieg, who was, by most of the data, expected to either win or come in second in Iowa, particularly after the caucuses.

00:39:53.000 Now, he has a controversy of his own going on.

00:39:55.000 The controversy is that if you look right behind him in the speech, what you will see is a bunch of people of color.

00:40:01.000 Right?

00:40:02.000 We found Pete Buttigieg's six black supporters and they were all standing behind him.

00:40:06.000 Okay, I'm not making that up.

00:40:08.000 According to one of those humans, one of those humans literally said that Pete Buttigieg went out and picked black people from the crowd to put behind him during this speech.

00:40:22.000 One of the black women standing behind him said that Pete Buttigieg took her away from her friends and brought her behind him so that it would look like he had a lot of black support. 0.97

00:40:30.000 So here's Pete Buttigieg giving a speech that nobody saw because it was, again, a clown car last night. 0.85

00:40:37.000 Tonight, an improbable hope became an undeniable reality.

00:40:43.000 By all indications, we are going on to New Hampshire victorious!

00:40:53.000 An awful lot of skeptics who said, not now, not this time.

00:40:59.000 All this talk of belonging and of bridging divides is too naive, too risky.

00:41:07.000 So tonight I say with a heart full of gratitude, Iowa, you have proved those skeptics wrong.

00:41:13.000 Okay, well, Iowa actually proved that they don't know how to do an election.

00:41:16.000 So that's really what they proved last night.

00:41:17.000 I also love Mayor Pete doing the hope he change he thing directly after calling 65 million Americans racist, which he did in the last 48 hours.

00:41:24.000 That's exciting stuff.

00:41:25.000 The best part of the night, though, was when Joe Biden went to the mic at the same time as Elizabeth Warren, and they basically started clawing the mic from one another.

00:41:31.000 It was pretty spectacular.

00:41:32.000 So Joe Biden gives his speech, which is to say words come out of his face, but they're not quite intelligible.

00:41:38.000 And also he may not be alive.

00:41:40.000 Here is Joe Biden being a not alive human.

00:41:44.000 The Iowa Democratic Party is working to get this result, get them straight.

00:41:48.000 And I want to make sure they're very careful in their deliberations.

00:41:52.000 And indications are, from our indications, it's going to be close.

00:41:56.000 We're going to walk out of here with our shared delegates.

00:42:00.000 We don't know exactly what it is yet, but we feel good about where we are.

00:42:03.000 And look, so it's on to New Hampshire.

00:42:06.000 And I'm going to get on a plane and get the hell out of here because I really underperformed.

00:42:10.000 I love that Amy Klobuchar is like, we punched above our weight.

00:42:13.000 And Buttigieg is like, we proved everything to the world.

00:42:16.000 And Bernie Sanders is like, we did amazing here.

00:42:18.000 And Joe Biden's like, and people voted.

00:42:23.000 It's spectacular.

00:42:24.000 It's so good.

00:42:24.000 Every Democrat's like, we did amazing here!

00:42:27.000 Pete Buttigieg, we proved all the haters wrong.

00:42:30.000 We did, we proved all the haters wrong.

00:42:32.000 Giving the, even the, here's the Obama inflection even.

00:42:35.000 And Bernie like, and when all of this is said and done, when, when I claw back against the voter redistribution that has happened here, I'm the 1% of the voting contingent.

00:42:46.000 And Joe Biden's like, we'll leave with our share of delegates.

00:42:49.000 I don't know what the share is, how many people that is.

00:42:52.000 But by the rules, we have to leave with our share of delegates because otherwise that's illegal.

00:42:56.000 And also, bye!

00:42:57.000 And then he just hops on a plane, he's like, going to Jersey!

00:42:59.000 See you later! 0.99

00:43:01.000 And this is the last anyone will ever hear of any of these candidates in Iowa again, because that is Trump territory and Trump's going to win Iowa running away in 2020.

00:43:09.000 But as Joe Biden was speaking, Elizabeth Warren, she sent up some smoke signals.

00:43:14.000 And then she exited her teepee and she went up and she discussed how she was just getting started, which is to say that she is not just getting started.

00:43:22.000 She's in serious trouble because she needed to bump more than any of these other candidates in New Hampshire, because New Hampshire borders Massachusetts. 0.97

00:43:28.000 She should be competitive for first place. 0.91

00:43:29.000 She is not competitive for first place.

00:43:31.000 Bernie is running away with it in New Hampshire.

00:43:32.000 Here is Elizabeth Warren trying to claw back some attention. 1.00

00:43:37.000 Again, she jumped up there at the same time as Biden.

00:43:38.000 So they put them on a split screen.

00:43:40.000 It was Hollywood Squares.

00:43:42.000 It was the Brady Bunch.

00:43:43.000 They're putting Marsha in the corner. 0.96

00:43:45.000 I mean, it was just amazing.

00:43:46.000 Here is here's Elizabeth Warren. 0.98

00:43:49.000 Together, together, we have built a movement powered by hopeful, courageous people who will do the work to make the change we need.

00:44:00.000 And we're just getting started.

00:44:00.000 No.

00:44:02.000 This race will be decided by people like you.

00:44:07.000 Well, and then she just sort of went away.

00:44:10.000 So, sad day for Elizabeth Warren, who presumably will have to go back to hunting buffalo as per her declaration of her Native American heritage. 0.56

00:44:20.000 So, well done, Elizabeth Warren. 0.99

00:44:22.000 Complete, utter crap show for the Democrats. 0.77

00:44:24.000 Now, the biggest problem for the Democrats, of course, is not for any of these candidates, because in the end, the candidate's going to be who the candidate's going to be. 0.98

00:44:29.000 Bernie Sanders still has the leg up.

00:44:30.000 Bernie is going to be widely perceived to have won Iowa.

00:44:32.000 He's going to win New Hampshire.

00:44:33.000 And then we move on to Nevada.

00:44:35.000 Joe Biden, if he proves to be as lackluster in New Hampshire as he has proved to be in Iowa, he's in serious trouble.

00:44:41.000 Mike Bloomberg somewhere is sitting in his billionaire lair, and he is just sipping a glass of Chianti, and he is Michael Bloomberg is, maybe he's just like a nefarious billionaire from the movies.

00:44:54.000 I'm wondering if maybe Michael Bloomberg is sitting there and he's smoking a pack of banned cigarettes and sipping from a 16-ounce can of Coke and oiling up his 12-gauge shotgun and going, everything here is going exactly according to plan.

00:45:05.000 Because you know who looks best in all of this?

00:45:06.000 Michael Bloomberg, who didn't even compete in Iowa, right?

00:45:08.000 All the rest of these Lilliputians are running around in Iowa pretending that any of this matters. 1.00

00:45:12.000 And then the thing turns out to be a complete cluster.

00:45:15.000 So what actually matters here?

00:45:18.000 What matters here is the perception that the Democrats don't know what the hell they're doing and can't get their act together.

00:45:21.000 So if their claim has been all along that Donald Trump is incompetent, that Donald Trump runs a chaotic bleep show, the best way to prove to Americans that Donald Trump should stay in office is to prove that you run your own chaotic bleep show you can't even run in Iowa caucus.

00:45:35.000 And yet you want to run our healthcare, you want to run our energy sector, you want to run our economy, you want to run Wall Street.

00:45:40.000 You know best.

00:45:41.000 You have a plan.

00:45:42.000 Really, you didn't even have a plan to get like 170,000 people's votes tabulated.

00:45:46.000 Seriously.

00:45:47.000 We have more people listen to this show in like a five minute increment than voted in Iowa last night.

00:45:55.000 And they could not handle that.

00:45:56.000 They couldn't handle it.

00:45:57.000 So well done, everybody on the Democratic side.

00:45:59.000 If you want to prove that you're incompetent in the run-up to 2020, you're doing a hell of a job.

00:46:03.000 And it's not just they're doing a hell of a job on that.

00:46:04.000 They showed that they were completely incompetent when it came to impeachment because impeachment is now sputtering.

00:46:09.000 Sort of verdict.

00:46:10.000 This is the New York Times word.

00:46:11.000 Sputtering toward a verdict.

00:46:13.000 Because the Senate was not for, they will not get a single Republican vote.

00:46:17.000 Now, let's face it.

00:46:18.000 Okay, the Democrats keep saying things like, well, you know, the Clinton impeachment, there was bipartisanship.

00:46:22.000 Nope.

00:46:23.000 There were five Democrats in the House who voted in favor of Clinton's impeachment and none in the Senate who voted for his removal.

00:46:27.000 So this one is about as partisan as the last one.

00:46:29.000 Which is to say Democrats voted one way, Republicans voted another.

00:46:32.000 The Republicans are going to vote to acquit President Trump, probably tomorrow is the way this is going to go.

00:46:37.000 The Democrats pushed that off past the State of the Union so that there would be the awkward spectacle of Trump giving the State of the Union in front of a House that had impeached him and Senate Democrats who wanted to impeach him.

00:46:46.000 But honestly, Trump's just going to say, Trump's not going to say anything about it.

00:46:49.000 If he does say something about it, it will be, and now I'm about to be acquitted because this is all bullcrap, and then they move on.

00:46:54.000 The Democrats really botched this.

00:46:56.000 You can tell because Nancy Pelosi is shrieking to the sky that they did not botch this.

00:47:01.000 And when Nancy Pelosi has to keep insisting that she did not, in fact, botch this, that she's not owned, she's not owned, she screams as she slowly shrinks into a corncob, Nancy Pelosi Says she always knew impeachment would end this way with the acquittal of President Trump.

00:47:14.000 This is according to the New York Times.

00:47:16.000 Well, except that she claimed that she was going to be able to get bipartisan support and that she should never have a wholly partisan impeachment and then she did exactly that. 1.00

00:47:23.000 Democrats argue that Ms.

00:47:24.000 Pelosi won by losing, setting the stage for an election that is not only about kitchen table issues that carried them to the majority in 2018, but also about exposing the president as unfit for office and Republicans as complicit in his misbehavior.

00:47:36.000 In an interview Monday, Pelosi said Democrats had forced Republicans to do what Mr. Trump never has, admit he was wrong to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.

00:47:43.000 Well, no, pretty much.

00:47:45.000 A large number of Republicans, including yours truly, said from the very outset that the Ukraine call was not perfect, but this was also not impeachable.

00:47:51.000 The Democrats accomplished nothing.

00:47:52.000 You know what the best proof is that the Democrats accomplished nothing?

00:47:54.000 That Trump's approval rating is now at all-time highs.

00:47:56.000 According to Gallup, he has now hit his personal best of 49% that poll was taken during the Senate trial.

00:48:02.000 He was up 10 points in the Gallup poll since the Ukraine craze in October.

00:48:07.000 So, Democrats have proved themselves incompetent in Iowa.

00:48:10.000 They've proved themselves incompetent in impeachment.

00:48:13.000 It's complete, complete disaster for the Democrats.

00:48:17.000 It turns out that not there's a huge backlash to Democrats, but they have shown the world that they are not competent to handle anything.

00:48:25.000 And they showed it right at the outset.

00:48:27.000 Which of these Democrats looks competent?

00:48:28.000 Is it Bernie?

00:48:29.000 Does Bernie look like a super competent guy?

00:48:31.000 Is it Elizabeth Warren, who's run a complete meltdown of a campaign? 1.00

00:48:35.000 Is it Joe Biden, who doesn't look like he's alive?

00:48:37.000 Is it Nancy Pelosi, who just botched an impeachment hearing by rushing the thing forward without any witnesses and then whining that the Senate wouldn't call the witnesses that she herself had failed to call? 0.95

00:48:46.000 Where exactly is the level of Democratic competence?

00:48:47.000 So the Democrats had a couple of attacks on Trump.

00:48:50.000 One was that he was volatile.

00:48:51.000 The problem is the American public are used to the volatility at this point.

00:48:53.000 I think most Americans knew he was volatile when he was elected.

00:48:56.000 Most Americans are no longer shocked by the volatility.

00:48:58.000 We get it.

00:48:59.000 That's who Trump is.

00:49:00.000 And then the Democrats had a secondary line, which was, Trump is deeply immoral and we are deeply moral.

00:49:05.000 And I'm sorry, nobody buys that.

00:49:07.000 We all know that that's partisan hackery.

00:49:09.000 You're the party of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

00:49:10.000 Nope.

00:49:11.000 Doesn't work.

00:49:11.000 Didn't work in 2016 and can work in 2020.

00:49:13.000 And then there was the final line of attack, which is Trump is incompetent.

00:49:16.000 And here, they at least could point to the chaos inside the administration and the fact that the administration is kind of a mess internally.

00:49:21.000 They could point to all of that.

00:49:23.000 Except they just demonstrated that they do not know how to punch their way out of a paper bag.

00:49:28.000 They demonstrated that they do not know how to play a simple game of chutes and ladders.

00:49:32.000 It's incredible.

00:49:34.000 I mean, truly amazing.

00:49:35.000 So...

00:49:36.000 Well done, Democrats.

00:49:37.000 You have, in the first week of the actual election, demonstrated your full-scale incapacity to do basic things, and yet you claim that you want to run all of our healthcare.

00:49:46.000 Good luck for that.

00:49:47.000 President Trump tonight, State of the Union.

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00:49:59.000 Okay, time for a quick thing I like, and then we'll get to a quick thing that I hate.

00:50:04.000 So, things that I like today.

00:50:05.000 There is a magnificent article in The Guardian that is just wonderful by Poppy Noor.

00:50:11.000 It is titled, Why Liberal White Women Pay a Lot of Money to Learn Over Dinner How They're Racist. 1.00

00:50:15.000 Now, the short answer is because they're morons. 1.00

00:50:17.000 The long answer is because they want to demonstrate how woke they are by paying a bunch of people of color to tell them that they are bad, right? 0.99

00:50:24.000 They're paying for their own malice struggle sessions now, according to The Guardian.

00:50:29.000 Freshly made pasta is drying on the wooden banisters lining the hall of a beautiful home in Denver, Colorado.

00:50:34.000 Fox hunting photos decorate the walls in a room full of books.

00:50:36.000 A fire is burning and downstairs, a group of liberal white women have gathered around a long wooden table to admit how racist they are. 1.00

00:50:43.000 Recently, I've been driving around seeing a black person and having an assumption they are up to no good, says Allison Goobser.

00:50:47.000 Immediately after that, I'm like, that's no good.

00:50:49.000 That is human just doing their thing.

00:50:51.000 Why do I think that?

00:50:52.000 This is Race to Dinner.

00:50:54.000 A white woman volunteers to host a dinner in her home for seven other white women, often strangers, perhaps acquaintances.

00:50:59.000 Each dinner costs $2,500, which can be covered by a generous host or divided among guests.

00:51:03.000 A frank discussion is led by co-founders Regina Jackson, who's black, and Sairai Rao, who identifies as Indian-American.

00:51:09.000 They started Race to Dinner to challenge liberal white women to accept their racism, however subconscious. 1.00

00:51:14.000 If you did this in a conference room, they'd leave, Rao says, but wealthy white women have been taught never to leave the dinner table. 1.00

00:51:20.000 Okay, well, if they're already voting the way you want them to vote, then I'm happy that you're guilting them.

00:51:23.000 I'm happy you're making them feel bad about themselves.

00:51:24.000 I mean, that's exciting stuff.

00:51:25.000 And there is something wildly delicious about watching a bunch of socialists pay each other to call each other names.

00:51:30.000 Well, if they're already voting the way you want them to vote, then I'm happy that you're guilting them.

00:51:33.000 I'm happy you're making them feel bad about themselves.

00:51:34.000 I mean, that's exciting stuff.

00:51:35.000 And there is something wildly delicious about watching a bunch of socialists pay each other to call each other names.

00:51:41.000 That's pretty fun.

00:51:42.000 White women are uniquely placed to challenge racism because of their proximity to power and wealth, says Jackson. 1.00

00:51:48.000 If they don't hold these positions themselves, the white men in power are often their family, friends, and partners.

00:51:54.000 It seems unlikely anyone would voluntarily go to a dinner party in which they'd be asked one by one, what was a racist thing you did recently by two women of color before appetizers are served? 0.84

00:52:01.000 But Jackson and Rao have hardly been able to take a break since they started these dinners in the spring of 2019.

00:52:06.000 So far, 15 dinners have been held in big cities across the United States.

00:52:09.000 Okay, so let's just calculate that out.

00:52:10.000 It costs $2,500 for dinner.

00:52:12.000 Let's assume That $500 goes toward the food, because there's only like seven people there.

00:52:15.000 So let's assume that $500 goes toward the food.

00:52:17.000 So let's say that Jackson and Rao are clearing $2,000 a dinner.

00:52:21.000 Okay, so $2,000 a dinner.

00:52:22.000 They've cleared $30,000 to have liberal white women genuflect before the altar of intersectionality. 1.00

00:52:29.000 That's pretty good business.

00:52:30.000 That's a pretty solid business.

00:52:32.000 Really, capitalism always wins, gang.

00:52:34.000 Pretty exciting stuff.

00:52:36.000 The women who sign up for these dinners are not who most would see as racist. 0.99

00:52:40.000 They're well-read and well-meaning.

00:52:41.000 They're mostly Democrats.

00:52:42.000 Some have adopted black children.

00:52:43.000 Many have partners who are people of color.

00:52:45.000 Some have been doing work toward inclusivity and diversity for decades, but they acknowledge they also have unchecked biases.

00:52:50.000 Aha! 0.94

00:52:50.000 So what they're doing is preying on women who really are not racist, and then they have to prove they're not racist by claiming that they're racist. 0.94

00:52:57.000 Right?

00:52:57.000 This is the way that this works.

00:52:59.000 The counterintuitive way that the intersectional mind works is that if you're not a racist and you say you're not a racist, you're a racist.

00:53:05.000 If you are not a racist and you say you are a racist, then we know you are not a racist because you acknowledge your own racism even though you're not a racist.

00:53:12.000 So that means you're not racist.

00:53:13.000 So if you say you're a racist, you're not a racist.

00:53:15.000 If you say you're not a racist, you're a racist.

00:53:17.000 You got it?

00:53:17.000 That's how all of this works.

00:53:18.000 And you can pay $2,000 for the privilege.

00:53:21.000 I mean, this is one of the great cons I have ever heard of.

00:53:24.000 Seriously.

00:53:25.000 I don't know how to get in on this thing, but this is like, I will invest in Jackson and Rao, just as a capitalist proposition.

00:53:31.000 I will give them free ads on this program for this thing if they will cut me in on the back end. 0.97

00:53:35.000 Because I have a feeling there are a lot of morons out there who are eager to pony up to be absolved of their racism by Jackson and Rao. 0.97

00:53:42.000 Because now, what do they get to tell their, what's this really about? 0.99

00:53:44.000 They get to tell all their liberal friends, Yes, you know, I didn't know, I didn't acknowledge my own biases until I went to this dinner.

00:53:51.000 Tom Wolfe, the famous writer, he wrote a fantastic, fantastic essay that was back in the 1960s, I believe it's printed in the Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test.

00:54:01.000 And the entire essay is about how this is basically what liberals have been doing since the 60s.

00:54:05.000 There's a dinner at Leonard Bernstein's house, right?

00:54:07.000 Leonard Bernstein, incredibly wild leftist.

00:54:09.000 There's a dinner at his apartment.

00:54:11.000 And the Black Panthers, right, who at that time were actually like a criminal group, and people who had engaged in criminal activity, like racial criminal activity, showed up at Leonard Bernstein's apartment and these Black Panthers would tell liberal white women about how they wanted to kill Whitey and how Whitey was the problem and all this and the liberal white women would swoon because now they get to go and tell all their friends how they got up close and personal with people who've been victimized by the American system and they know their own complicity. 0.64

00:54:38.000 They would say as they reached into their Chanel handbags for their For their... cigarette? 0.95

00:54:44.000 I mean, like, the whole thing was ridiculous, right?

00:54:47.000 The essay is one of the great essays in American literary history by Tom Wolfe. 0.53

00:54:51.000 All about, again, the way that the liberal white world in New York and Manhattan pandered to this.

00:54:56.000 So this is just the extension of that circa 2020.

00:54:59.000 Campbell Swanson was one of the hosts.

00:55:01.000 Jess Campbell Swanson, she says, she comes across as an overly keen college student applying for a prestigious internship. 0.93

00:55:06.000 She can go for days about her work as a political consultant.

00:55:09.000 When it comes to talking about racism, she chokes.

00:55:11.000 I want to hire people of color, not because I want to be a white savior.

00:55:14.000 I've explored my need for validation.

00:55:16.000 I'm working through that.

00:55:16.000 Yeah, I'm struggling, she stutters before finally giving up.

00:55:19.000 That is wonderful!

00:55:20.000 Listen to that quote, it's so good. 0.97

00:55:21.000 She wants to hire black people, but she can't say that she wants to hire black people to give black people an opportunity, because if she says that, then she's the white savior, and black people don't need a white savior, so she has to give another reason why she wants to hire black people that is not contingent on them being black, but if she makes it non-contingent upon them being black, she's colorblind, which means she's a racist. 0.92

00:55:41.000 Like, if you think of the decision tree here to not be a racist, at the end of every decision is you're a racist, right? 0.99

00:55:46.000 So if you say, I'm hiring a black person because I want to help black people, too bad you're a racist, you're a white savior. 0.99

00:55:51.000 If you say, I want to hire this black person because they're the best qualified, you're colorblind, you're a racist. 1.00

00:55:55.000 If you say, I want to hire a black woman because I am a racist, then they're like, okay. 1.00

00:56:01.000 And then everybody else is like, well, but if you're a racist, why do you want to hire a black woman? 0.99

00:56:04.000 They're like, no, no, because I'm a racist, I want to hire a black woman. 1.00

00:56:07.000 Ah, but then you're using the black person to absolve yourself of sin, so no, no good. 0.99

00:56:11.000 Right, so no matter what, the end of every logical proposition in this insane mindset is you're a racist and you get to pay money for the privilege. 0.83

00:56:19.000 Across from Campbell Swanson, Morgan Richards admits she recently did nothing when someone patronizingly commended her for adopting her two black children as though she had saved them.

00:56:27.000 What I went through to be a mother, I don't care if they were black, she said, opening a window for Rao to challenge her.

00:56:30.000 So you admit it is stooping low to adopt a black child?

00:56:34.000 And Richard's accepts that the undertone of her statement is racist.

00:56:37.000 Oh, oh, the wonder, the wonder.

00:56:40.000 So a woman adopts two black children, which adopting two children of any color is a good thing. 1.00

00:56:45.000 Adopting two black children as a white woman sometimes Means something, depending on where the black children came from, right? 0.99

00:56:52.000 I mean, if you're talking about a white woman adopting white children, then you are accused of racism, because you have to adopt somebody of the same race.

00:56:57.000 But if you're adopting cross-racially, then sometimes there are additional sacrifices that are associated with that for the black child and for the white parent.

00:57:04.000 Because now you have to face down the reality that there is racism in society, and you're going to have to face that down in a way you wouldn't have had to if you adopted a white kid, right?

00:57:11.000 I mean, this is just a reality.

00:57:13.000 I have many friends who have adopted black kids.

00:57:14.000 Nick Sirisi has a black son.

00:57:16.000 David French has a black daughter, right?

00:57:18.000 And there are additional challenges associated with that.

00:57:21.000 If you point out that it's a good thing to cross-racially adopt, you are secretly a racist even though you gave these black kids who are maybe not even going to be adopted.

00:57:28.000 Maybe they were orphans. 0.72

00:57:29.000 Maybe they were in an orphanage.

00:57:30.000 Maybe they were in foster care. 0.99

00:57:32.000 This woman adopted black kids, therefore she's bad. 1.00

00:57:34.000 Because she pointed out that she was adopting black kids. 1.00

00:57:37.000 Even though, again, it is a reality that you are going to experience additional challenges.

00:57:40.000 I mean, I thought the premise of the left is that racism is prevalent in American society.

00:57:44.000 If that's the premise, then it also happens to be true, presumably, that if you adopt black children, then you're going to face additional challenges in society you wouldn't if you adopted a white kid.

00:57:54.000 And that has nothing to do with you being a racist.

00:57:55.000 That's a recognition of reality. 0.90

00:57:57.000 But apparently, if you recognize that reality, you're also a racist.

00:58:00.000 As more confessions like this are revealed, Rao and Jackson seem to press those they think can take it, while emphasizing with those who can't.

00:58:06.000 Well done for recognizing that, Jackson says to soothe one woman.

00:58:09.000 We're all part of the problem.

00:58:10.000 We have to get comfortable with that to become part of the solution.

00:58:14.000 Amazing, amazing stuff.

00:58:16.000 It's just, it's spectacular.

00:58:17.000 So, well done, Guardian.

00:58:19.000 Well done, liberal white women. 1.00

00:58:20.000 I'm so glad that you have decided that you are going to shell out thousands of dollars for the privilege of being called a racist.

00:58:26.000 Well done.

00:58:26.000 Okay, quick thing I hate, and this isn't gonna take long.

00:58:33.000 Obviously the news broke yesterday that Rush Limbaugh revealed that he had advanced late stage lung cancer or advanced lung cancer.

00:58:40.000 That is horrific.

00:58:41.000 Rush is a totemic institution in American politics.

00:58:45.000 He has been my entire life.

00:58:47.000 Rush mentioned this yesterday on air.

00:58:49.000 Here's what Rush said.

00:58:51.000 So I have to tell you something today that I wish I didn't have to tell you.

00:58:59.000 And it's It's a struggle for me because I had to inform my staff earlier today.

00:59:06.000 I can't escape, even though people are telling me it's not the way to look at it.

00:59:15.000 I can't help but feel that I'm letting everybody down with this.

00:59:19.000 But the upshot is that I have been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.

00:59:29.000 Diagnosis confirmed by two medical institutions back on January 20th.

00:59:36.000 First realized something was wrong on my birthday weekend, January 12th.

00:59:42.000 And I wish I didn't have to tell you this.

00:59:44.000 And I thought about not telling anybody.

00:59:47.000 I thought about trying to do this without anybody knowing, because I don't Like making things about me.

00:59:55.000 Obviously, our prayers are with Rush.

00:59:57.000 Rush is the godfather of talk radio, which means that really he's the godfather of podcasting as well.

01:00:02.000 Rush is somebody I grew up listening to.

01:00:04.000 Every conservative I knew grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh.

01:00:07.000 He is going to be seen, no matter what happens, as a historic figure in the history of the republic, really a heavy force behind the contract with America during Newt Gingrich's time, really a force during the Bush administration, a force against the radicalism of Barack Obama, and a force in favor of President Trump, obviously.

01:00:22.000 Rush Limbaugh is a person who helped inculcate an entire generation into basic conservative principle, I will admit.

01:00:30.000 Freely, and proudly, that I was a graduate of his Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, as were millions of other Americans, and his impact is going to be felt for generations.

01:00:38.000 All of our thoughts and prayers are with Rush and his family.

01:00:41.000 His family is wonderful as well.

01:00:43.000 And I think that we're all praying for him today, and we all should be praying for him today.

01:00:46.000 It was really upsetting news to find that out yesterday.

01:00:49.000 You know, Rush, he said he has the best medical care.

01:00:52.000 And obviously, we're all behind him.

01:00:54.000 And despite the fact that the left is vile and we're tweeting vile things about him, Rush is a good person who has done amazing things for the country.

01:01:02.000 All right.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 04, 2020

The Iowa S***show | Ep. 946

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