00:00:39.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:47.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:08.000We do know that three out of four people in the country are upset with the direction of the country, that President Biden has low approval ratings, that, you know, objectively speaking, the economy is bad.
00:02:22.000These are all real things that contribute to the confusion people feel about the end result.
00:02:28.000And I think that while there are, you know, easily you could, usually when people name a thing that they think went wrong, they're right.
00:02:35.000I think one thing that people really need to understand at a very high level, and I do appreciate that you get this, is that Democrats really targeted their ballot harvesting operations in key races, you know, 20, 25, 30 key house races.
00:02:51.000They turned on their machine in those places.
00:02:55.000And I don't mean like a physical machine.
00:02:56.000I mean a getting the ballots into the boxes kind of machine and maybe like five Senate seats.
00:03:05.000They just knew where they were vulnerable and they focused there.
00:03:08.000And I think that actually explains why New York saw such big gains.
00:03:12.000You had, what, five seats flipped to the Republican?
00:03:15.000Because Democrats really didn't turn on their machine there.
00:03:19.000Or you look at a state like Florida, which like New York had a 17-point swing in Republicans' favor.
00:03:25.000I think the big thing there, in addition to good candidates and slightly better election integrity laws, the Republicans have a machine in Florida that banks ballots.
00:03:36.000They do have, they did have a good handle on how many early votes they had.
00:03:39.000And so if Republicans want to win elections ever again, they A, should continue their efforts to return to an election day type situation.
00:03:53.000But until and unless they achieve that, they absolutely need to play the game according to the rules that are there, which means banking ballots early so that you don't lose the whole race two weeks before election day.
00:04:06.000Yeah, so I guess, Molly, what we're looking at is, I mean, and it's taking us a little while to realize this, Democrats designed it.
00:04:12.000It's the world that Mark Elias designed and we're just living in it, is that the idea of politics now is less about debates, Katie Hobbs than debate, less about candidate equality, Fetterman, just look at it.
00:05:09.000This is why I say the changes are bad for the country.
00:05:12.000When you had an election day model, it was about building momentum, building cohesion, persuading people, building excitement, because whether you wanted to vote or not was actually one of the ways that democracy works.
00:05:26.000And with this ballot harvesting operation that we've moved to, you might not even know there's an election.
00:05:54.000I mean, we go seek modeling and like, well, who's going to be able to persuade to our message?
00:05:58.000Where they just go all in and they have drop boxes on college campuses and they're able to run up the score in ways that are probably illegal, by the way, Molly.
00:06:07.000For example, at Arizona State University, entire sororities were bringing in boxes of ballots, of which a state it's illegal to ballot harvest.
00:06:13.000And they say, well, we are all housemates.
00:06:16.000I guarantee not every single person is living in that sorority house.
00:06:18.000There's not 70 people living in that house.
00:06:21.000Some people are probably in dorms and they're in apartments.
00:06:58.000The challenge is that if you don't play according to these new rules that Democrats have spent, frankly, decades putting into place, but were able to accomplish thanks to COVID hysteria.
00:07:10.000If you don't play according to those rules, you'll never have power ever again.
00:07:15.000So in some of these states, like, how do you win the state legislature to reform and strengthen election integrity if you can't win the election?
00:07:25.000So the thing is, like a lot of people oppose it, and it is true that Republicans are overwhelmingly less likely to vote early, but there are a lot of groups that are fine with it.
00:07:36.000In fact, most people don't share our opinion that it's bad for the country.
00:07:42.000All the election integrity stuff polls extremely well, except for unsupervised balloting, which is the big one, where people actually tend to support mass unsupervised balloting.
00:07:53.000So I think it's a tricky message, but it's just one that needs to get through.
00:08:11.000If you care about, if you think that you're helping the people by having power, you need to get power and you need to play according to the rules as the law has them now.
00:08:20.000And what's nuts is that, you know, Democrats were behind their projections in Arizona.
00:08:35.000I wonder if that isn't from something else that happened this election, which is that Joe Biden had federal agencies spend taxpayer money to get involved in the ballot operation.
00:08:47.000And one of the ways that they most emphasized this was in exploiting federal work study programs on college campuses.
00:08:57.000And they matched it with the, you know, since fought by courts promise to pay off student debt through fear-mongering about ending unborn human lives.
00:09:10.000Like all these things kind of worked together.
00:09:12.000They had orders that went out to college campuses to be receptive to this federal work study scheme.
00:09:18.000I bet that had a lot to do with Arizona, which has such a large campus population.
00:09:24.000And then you have also the, as you mentioned, the federal agencies even on top of that and military bases and all sorts of different types of things.
00:09:31.000And look, the FOIA requests, when the FOIAs were actually done, it showed a bunch of blacked out pages as well regarding what exactly happened with the federal agencies becoming basically get out the vote operations.
00:09:43.000Despite all of that, Republicans won the generic ballot and there were a lot of victories to celebrate.
00:09:49.000But again, 2020 was the first chapter.
00:10:08.000And if we're not going to play the game, we're going to keep on having some par results.
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00:11:20.000So, Molly, I think one of the other kind of struggles people have is maybe we set our expectations too high.
00:11:27.000There is a debate on the right of the role that Dobbs played in this election.
00:11:32.000I do believe that in certain states, especially in the state races, interestingly enough, it was actually an anchor, especially in Michigan and in Wisconsin.
00:11:42.000In a year that otherwise should have been a very good year, we lost by five, six, or seven points when we had really good candidates.
00:11:51.000I mean, you take very strong pro-life governors like Ron DeSantis, Bill Lee, Brian Kemp, Greg Abbott, who signed effectively, or, you know, who's in a state that essentially has an abortion ban, they all won their reelection.
00:12:09.000Incumbent pro-abortion supportive governors also did well.
00:12:15.000I think there was clear failure on the part of the Republican Party to deal with that issue.
00:12:22.000And it's criminal because they knew it was coming.
00:12:47.000You know, it was a big change in abortion policy and one that many people had worked very hard for and had prayed for for a very long period of time.
00:12:57.000And instead, Republicans kind of did this ostrich head in the sand approach of showing that not only were they weak, but they were scared to talk about it.
00:13:07.000In fact, the vast majority of Americans support at least some protections for unborn children.
00:13:13.000They might not want to ban all abortion, but it's like two, three quarters of the country supports a second and third trimester ban.
00:13:21.000And instead of saying that, Republicans were just terrified and you could see the terror in their eyes.
00:13:26.000They didn't know how to talk about it.
00:13:28.000And it really was once again, letting down their voters, letting down their base.
00:13:48.000The problem, Molly, and I could say this in Arizona, because we lost a very critical state Senate race, Nancy Bartow, who's a great American, they were running ads relentlessly that they want to, Republicans want to jail doctors.
00:14:00.000And look, I'm 100% pro-life, but most people are not.
00:14:02.000They don't, they believe in exceptions for rape and incest.
00:14:08.000And they ran that relentlessly, relentlessly, Molly.
00:14:12.000And I think that our candidates were just unable to be able to message or to kind of, you know, navigate past that, if you will.
00:14:22.000Yeah, well, they, it is difficult when you've got, I mean, you could spend $400 million and convince someone that, you know, someone's evil because they hate puppies.
00:14:31.000You know, like you can do anything with $400 million.
00:14:34.000But again, every single, every single Democrat at the national level has supported not codifying Roe, as they claim, but actually no protection for unborn children or their mothers through all nine months of pregnancy.
00:14:50.000Some of them even support no protections after the pregnancy is over, meaning the child is born.
00:14:55.000If you, you know, what should have been happening was help so that people could swiftly pivot to pointing out the extremism of pro-abortion Democrats, which is on the record.
00:15:06.000They actually have voted for this multiple times.
00:15:10.000This would have been helpful instead of just hoping the issue would go away or hoping that other issues would predominate.
00:15:16.000But, you know, again, people can get a little too, I know, I know it's very bad.
00:15:19.000There are particular races and Gretchen Whitmer and things like that, but there were also a lot of pro-life successes as well.
00:15:25.000In closing, Molly, tell us about the Federalist great website doing really well.
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00:18:16.000I know that there's speculation that it will change the optics of the DOJ or the FBI in terms of putting in any additional investigations or bringing any charges, but I think that that's a very dated thought.
00:18:34.000I think that the DOJ and the FBI that we're seeing these days don't really care, especially when it relates to Trump.
00:19:30.000You know, obviously Letitia James' case up in New York, we have a judge who's been incredibly difficult, but we're moving right along in that.
00:19:41.000We're trying to work with the AG, like we've always said.
00:19:44.000You know, we're all these cases, we cooperate as much as we possibly can.
00:19:49.000And I think he's going to continue to do so.
00:20:09.000So from a campaign standpoint, is there anything you can kind of cue us into about things he might be doing differently or reimagining his campaign for 2024?
00:20:19.000So I can tell you the team is being, the team is strong on the campaign so far.
00:20:26.000I am really looking forward to seeing what their leadership does.
00:20:30.000I think that the message should be, in my opinion, and I've told him this, and I really believe that the message should be moving forward and really taking a look at how terrible our country has been in the last two years.
00:20:46.000And I have said this before, I'll say it again.
00:20:48.000I don't know anybody that could say that their life is better in the past two years.
00:20:51.000And we went through a pandemic with President Trump.
00:22:12.000Harmee Dillon is handling that case and doing a great job with it.
00:22:16.000And I understand that they filed a motion recently because they couldn't get an agreement on terms.
00:22:23.000You know, I think that what the J6 committee did with video depositions or interrogations and then parsing out the parts that they want and airing them was so corrupt.
00:22:35.000You know, this is not, this is a legal issue.
00:22:39.000And I think we have to make sure that we focus on the people that are still in jail, the people that have been in solitary confinement, that get an hour out a day, that many of which they haven't even had their day in court.
00:22:55.000So I'm not saying there are people that did things wrong that day.
00:22:58.000There were, but everybody should have their day in court.
00:23:00.000There is no reason that you should be politicizing something like this and having individuals with families, with children suffering for what?
00:23:08.000You know, it's just not, it's not okay at all.
00:23:12.000So there hasn't been a lot made of kind of some illegal wins here.
00:23:16.000The media wants to shut up President Trump.
00:23:19.000But talk about some of the big wins that you actually can celebrate legally.
00:23:25.000For me, top of mind is this week we won a lawsuit against Michael Cohen.
00:23:30.000He brought against the United States and Bill Barr and Donald Trump, of course, for First Amendment violations.
00:23:37.000And his claim was basically that he was put in solitary confinement, treated unfairly, treated differently than anybody else would be treated because he was coming out with a book and that it was retaliatory in nature from the Trump administration and the president personally, which was absolutely ridiculous.
00:24:05.000And it was another Michael Cohen, you know, ridiculous attempt to become relevant based on his very long, very long ago relationship with Donald Trump.
00:24:36.000I'm really, I'm really proud of the work that we're doing.
00:24:38.000And I think it doesn't get the attention, Charlie, that people like you might give it because they want to tear him down so much or they're on the DeSantis train or whatever it is.
00:24:48.000And realistically, he's been very successful in a lot of this litigation that comes at him that is completely frivolous.
00:25:50.000But they didn't even show up actually to vote on game day, which is to be expected in a midterm election, but also goes to show that there's so many more supporters out there that can and should show up.
00:26:04.000I want to get to some emails that we're receiving here, but I do want to play a piece of tape here and to kind of set the tone.
00:26:15.000And look, the situation in front of us is going to require renewed grit and focus and tenacity, unlike anything we've had to see in quite some time.
00:26:28.000It's not going to be for the fate of heart, but there are so many great wins that we can celebrate.
00:26:36.000Now, while all of this is ongoing, did you know yesterday that several of your Republicans in Congress went out of their way to try and nullify state laws when it comes to marriage being one man and one woman?
00:26:54.000Now, I'm not trying to depress you further, but it just honestly needs to be said.
00:26:58.000The Senate is trying to codify same-sex marriage into law.
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00:29:35.000I'm just making a fact that in some of the strongest Republican areas, Kerry Lake did very well, but there was a drop off between Donald Trump turnout and Kerry Lake turnout.
00:30:33.000By the way, I'm about to walk through some numbers with you that are going to shock you about how urban turnout was way down, but it was white rural voters that actually decided to vote Democrat in Pennsylvania.
00:32:00.000And I say for a while, we actually need to care more about politics, but not get to a place where we are dominated by it at every corner and every single turn.
00:34:13.000With all that being said, though, if it was not for Lee Zeldin, if it was not for the pastors in California that ballot harvested and got out in the streets, Democrats would control the United States House of Representatives.
00:34:30.000If that is, that is the clearest, most convincing argument to not give up.
00:34:38.000And by the way, Karen Bass, who is a Marxist communist, is going to be the mayor of Los Angeles.
00:34:45.000And by the way, John Duarte, the one race I just mentioned, another congressional pickup possibly, is in the lead with 91% in.