Best of the Program | 11⧸9⧸22
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
156.40952
Summary
Glenn Beck talks about the results of the mid-term elections and how they affect the balance of power in both houses of Congress and the White House. He also talks about why Joe Biden is still running for re-election in 2020.
Transcript
00:00:00.000
Warning, today's podcast has descriptions of bloody, brutal murders.
00:00:13.620
No, I just heard that on a BBC podcast right before, and I was like, ooh, I want to listen to that.
00:00:19.780
So they're not going to actually get what you're, this is just false evidence.
00:00:30.420
If you're one of the millions of Americans who suffer every day from pain, I want you to listen up.
00:00:34.560
Only a couple of years ago, I had all kinds of pain.
00:00:38.320
So much pain, I really thought, this is the end of my career.
00:00:41.760
And that was about four years ago, Stu, four or five years ago that I was just like this.
00:00:54.260
It was developed by doctors for people who really don't want to be spaced out all the time.
00:01:03.080
And for 70% of the people who try it, they go on to order more.
00:01:06.320
And I read testimonials every single day from people.
00:01:09.900
It takes a lot for somebody to write in and say, oh, by the way, that was great.
00:01:30.120
You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:01:43.100
We don't know yet about the House or the Senate.
00:01:48.480
And he just said, which I thought was was really much more than I expected.
00:02:08.940
You know, you mentioned sometimes these things work out for the best, even if they don't go the way that you want.
00:02:16.040
Because his the chance of him being told that he has a health problem or a family problem and he needs to not be the nominee in 2024.
00:02:29.320
The fact that this is not it was definitely not a red wave that that's not that did not occur.
00:02:34.000
Republicans could still win the House and the Senate.
00:02:37.640
And the fact that that did not happen strengthens Biden's case to remain the nominee in 2024.
00:02:45.520
That might be something we were really thankful for later on.
00:02:47.500
So let me give you can I give you the picture of the Senate here where we stand right this second.
00:02:51.180
There are five races that have yet to be called.
00:02:53.780
One of them is sort of anticlimactic in a way because we know it's going to be a Republican seat.
00:03:02.500
But this is the race in Alaska and the race between.
00:03:14.680
You know, you'll have a Republican speaker or Senate leader if if Murkowski wins.
00:03:20.020
And yes, she'll fail you on a bunch of votes, but you'll be able to block a lot of stuff.
00:03:23.920
So Murkowski and Chewbacca are in a very tight race.
00:03:27.180
We don't know where that's going to turn out, but we know that's going to be a race.
00:03:34.400
I will say I would have loved to have a Wookiee in the Senate.
00:03:37.020
You know, I mean, we kind of do with Fetterman, but to have an actual Wookiee would be great.
00:03:47.580
OK, so so we get let's give that one to Republicans because Republicans are going to have
00:03:57.400
It's sort of drama we really hoped to avoid here.
00:04:00.260
So that means of the four races left, Republicans need to win three, three of the four.
00:04:13.900
Ron Johnson is up by one point and it looks like he will win.
00:04:17.780
One interesting part about this race is for the past several cycles, polls have missed
00:04:22.220
badly against Republicans in favor of Democrats.
00:04:27.120
In other words, as we led up to these elections, looked like the Democrats were going to do better
00:04:32.320
The reverse seems to have happened here this time.
00:04:34.900
And one of the worries we talked about yesterday was at some point these pollsters are I mean,
00:04:39.340
they're always trying to correct themselves for errors they made in the past.
00:04:42.280
They may have corrected those errors and maybe overcorrected here in Wisconsin because the
00:04:47.160
polls showed Johnson with a little bit more solid lead than this.
00:04:50.780
It looks like he's going to win, but win very narrowly.
00:04:53.940
So let's say Johnson wins that you get to forty nine for Republicans, meaning you need to
00:04:59.040
win two of three of these races, Nevada, Georgia and Arizona.
00:05:21.620
If you look at the vote that's left, it looks like it's going to tighten.
00:05:25.340
And I think at the end of the day, you're going to have you really have a coin flip still.
00:05:29.940
If you if you want to say there's a slight leader, you might say it.
00:05:36.660
I'll tell you it's Laxalt, but it might not be.
00:05:38.800
I think I would say this is like a forty five percent chance for Republicans to win.
00:05:44.520
It's like slightly under 50, maybe, but still very, very doable.
00:05:54.140
Now, if if there was no runoff, I think Warnock would win.
00:05:58.520
But they have a runoff system and I don't think Warnock is going to get to 50 percent.
00:06:04.240
But if he stays below 50 percent, he's currently at forty nine point four.
00:06:07.640
If he stays below 50 percent, then you'll have a situation where December 6th, that race will be up for for, you know, for a runoff.
00:06:17.880
So just for the people who weren't scarred enough by 2020, we get to do it all over again.
00:06:23.720
But so let me give you the optimistic picture here in the Senate for the Republicans.
00:06:29.860
You win Wisconsin, which I would think is you'd rather be Ron Johnson than Mandela Barnes in this race.
00:06:55.780
For the Senate in Georgia and all of the marbles on that one race, which will be freaking insane now that that's not that we're counting out Blake Masters here who still has a chance.
00:07:05.180
I just think it's a small chance at this point.
00:07:08.100
He could come back that those races are narrowing.
00:07:11.320
But he's currently down by six points where Carrie Lake is down by what a point one point eight or something.
00:07:18.280
So it's a lot closer in the gubernatorial race.
00:07:20.820
And I think Lake has a good chance of winning that one.
00:07:22.880
But Masters may come up slightly short in the Senate.
00:07:36.080
It's not the wave you wanted, but it's not it's not terrible.
00:07:40.600
It's where we expected it to be before we got into the race.
00:07:46.300
Yeah, we thought we will get the House, but it's not going to be a tidal wave, but we'll get control of the House and maybe we can stop it and maybe we can get the Senate.
00:07:58.600
I think people, because you look at the history where usually the opposition party from the president does very well.
00:08:06.600
You see that going on and you think, OK, well, they're going to win.
00:08:09.600
But the structural advantages with the Democrats in the Senate this term, and this is not some like conspiracy theory.
00:08:17.340
It's going to be a very good Republican year in the Senate in 2024, at least as far as the playing field goes.
00:08:23.780
They're going to be favored going into that election.
00:08:27.020
So, I mean, I think you look at this and you say a bit underwhelming from the amount of change we saw in the House.
00:08:35.540
But like you go, they started from a strong position.
00:08:38.840
Remember, Republicans in 2020 in the House did pretty well.
00:08:44.140
They outperformed what everyone thought they were going to do in 2020.
00:08:48.120
Republicans, you know, people remember the presidential race, but Republicans did better in the House than people expected.
00:08:54.300
It's just that the Senate fell apart with those two runoffs and it turned into the catastrophe that cost us $5 trillion.
00:09:03.320
Yes, however, remember Alaska's, it's not Chewbacca, it's Chewbacca.
00:09:08.320
And it also is a situation where they have a different system there.
00:09:18.640
Okay, so what will happen is they have four candidates in this race.
00:09:21.900
When all the votes comes in, no one will have 50%.
00:09:25.420
So they will take the bottom candidate, which will probably have three or 4%, maybe 5%.
00:09:30.040
They will eliminate that candidate and take everyone's second choice votes and apply them to everybody else.
00:09:36.640
In that case, Murkowski, because I believe the fourth place candidate is a Democrat, Murkowski will pick up most of that vote.
00:09:44.140
Then it will be down to another Republican if no one is over 50%.
00:09:48.560
Most of that vote will go to, probably to Chewbacca, but we don't know that for sure.
00:09:53.400
But I think, I still think, and we don't know for sure, we will see.
00:09:58.240
But I still think that Murkowski will have enough to get across that finish line.
00:10:06.560
I'm trying to give you, Glenn, the facts of the situation.
00:10:26.080
Because that one's going to cost us trillions of dollars if both of those things don't happen.
00:10:29.560
You know, I got home and I got a note from a friend that said,
00:10:32.900
Hey, I just want you to know, at least you don't live in New York.
00:10:41.160
We're not lying in a pool of our own blood on the streets of New York this morning.
00:10:50.820
Although much more narrow than anyone would have expected going in.
00:10:56.700
But it just shows there's a real difference in New York from where it was,
00:11:00.320
even when we all considered it a blue state and Chuck Schumer was still winning elections,
00:11:04.140
when George Pataki could win, when Rudy Giuliani could be mayor of New York City.
00:11:09.860
Honestly, even when Michael Bloomberg could win election in New York City,
00:11:16.260
And a lot of the people who looked at how bad Andrew Cuomo was,
00:11:20.220
and Hochul obviously part of that catastrophe in New York,
00:11:23.900
a lot of those people, well, sadly, a good chunk of them died.
00:11:27.720
But in addition to the people who actually just perished at the hands of Andrew Cuomo,
00:11:36.320
Lee Zeldin voters moved out of New York previous to the election,
00:11:42.240
and instead voted for like Ron DeSantis in Florida or Greg Abbott in Texas.
00:11:45.940
I will tell you, that is the message to me at least today,
00:11:49.520
is if you're not living in one of these places,
00:12:00.820
And the people, like for instance, in Pennsylvania,
00:12:07.320
they should pack up their wagons and their carriages
00:12:14.760
Well, H-E double hockey sticks, they wouldn't say that.
00:12:36.220
You're not going to be leaving there eventually.
00:12:52.740
living in a town with any one of our listeners.
00:15:53.800
The betting markets think it's about a 20% chance.
00:15:59.240
yesterday they were saying it was a 70% chance for Republicans to regain control of the Senate.
00:16:05.260
I think the last 538 model had it at 59% for Republicans to win.
00:16:23.820
Everyone's going to find their little narrative out of this.
00:16:27.560
it was an uphill battle for Republicans from the beginning in the Senate.
00:16:34.560
very close and fall just short or just get across that finish line.
00:16:41.060
we need to find a candidate with dementia and run that person.
00:16:46.340
And have them weigh in office because people love candidates with dementia.
00:17:04.840
Aren't there those movies where like the kid seems like she's a little out of sorts and
00:17:10.720
And all of a sudden you realize she has superpowers.
00:17:23.400
I bet it came out with her either rubber dress or leather dress.
00:18:21.440
the man who I believe holds the record now for the,
00:19:06.560
they endorsed 12 school board candidates in Florida donated to the
00:19:11.620
The Democrats endorsed 20 candidates and they got six wins and 10
00:19:29.780
he is going to march through the state institutions and cut this cancer out.
00:19:46.880
the real message we should get is from Ron DeSantis.
00:19:57.660
He's not afraid or ashamed or timid about being an American and believing
00:20:04.360
in individual rights and believing that you as a parent have the right to
00:20:09.600
raise your own child and we shouldn't mutilate children.
00:20:18.080
governors and all of these Republicans that are so mealy mouthed on it.
00:20:22.680
If you can't see the difference between good and evil now,
00:20:27.440
when you have somebody like Spencer Cox in Utah,
00:21:04.300
But if you get waylaid by the politics and Twitter and everything else,
00:21:14.220
he doesn't egg people on and he doesn't call people names.
00:21:19.840
It's like DeSantis coming out of that election where the rest of the country for Republicans,
00:21:30.400
And DeSantis far outperforms even his best poll.
00:22:02.620
but then she also refused to call a special session to allow the legislature to pass a bill banning COVID vaccine passports.
00:22:15.460
on the whole gender identity thing for girls in schools.
00:22:36.400
If things ever went really horrible in this country,
00:22:45.760
you will see people go to jail for what they believe.
00:22:53.360
People are preparing themselves to be able to stand when all odds are against them.
00:22:58.880
I know people who are willing to lose their entire fortune,
00:23:27.200
and they are based on everything this country was based on.
00:23:30.880
Where are these governors that have the balls to follow the lead?
00:23:40.160
he also shifted Florida from a swing state to solidly GOP.
00:24:03.420
Ohio and Florida really aren't the swing states that they used to be.
00:24:12.560
And then you have other states that are going the opposite way,
00:25:11.860
If Carrie gets in and she actually does what she says she's going to do and
00:25:28.660
different candidates work best for different states.
00:25:31.400
Carrie Lake is one of the more talented communicators we've seen come around in a
00:25:38.120
we also need to step back and remember that if,
00:25:45.460
there's certain types of candidates fit certain types of states.
00:25:52.080
He's done some really good things with like school choice that we,
00:26:00.840
but this is a state that loved freaking John McCain,
00:26:08.780
So it's an interesting case here where in some ways we don't know if,
00:26:14.680
if Arizona is looking at Carrie Lake and embracing that,
00:26:19.580
We don't even know really what she would do as governor.
00:26:29.140
to bring herself over the line where Blake masters,
00:26:32.140
who might've had maybe even may have been more aligned with,
00:26:37.960
maybe policy wise was it looks like he was unable to do it again.
00:26:43.780
I don't want to give any final situations on that,
00:26:46.060
but although masters is behind by like six points.
00:27:00.120
were that masters was going to lose by between two and three points.
00:27:04.340
So if you see that same type of movement in the gubernatorial race and they
00:27:09.420
stayed about four points apart from each other the entire time last night,
00:27:13.900
that means Carrie Lake would probably get across the finish line barely,
00:27:20.800
it is inexcusable that the secretary of state who is running for governor,
00:27:35.520
but I can't imagine she can oversee the election.
00:27:49.720
like when you're running for a higher office overseeing,
00:27:54.620
but I will tell you that that's the first thing you think of when the voting
00:28:13.020
did you not feel a little shame like Florida did in 2000 in 2020?
00:28:24.820
there's no reason for these states to do it except the Democrats want it to be
00:28:36.680
And every Republican independent and Democrat should be against that.
00:28:48.660
There's no reason in 2020 that we're acting like it's,
00:29:00.240
a lot of this has to do with Democrats wanting to receive mail-in ballots two weeks after the election.
00:29:06.620
there are Republicans have voted for measures that,
00:29:12.500
It is something that we really should focus on correcting because it's not,
00:29:21.000
this is something everybody should be able to agree on.
00:29:23.220
Let's get these freaking results the night of the election.
00:29:27.200
but just know you cannot go on to a rant about this without pointing out you do not want that dictated by the federal government.
00:29:39.460
And that's what the Democrats are trying to do.
00:29:45.200
You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:30:05.940
Any Republican that's not willing to look at Ron DeSantis and see what he did and how he did it and begin to model themselves after that is a fool.
00:30:33.180
People are perceived sometimes as divisive because a lot of people don't want to make it changes.
00:30:48.000
The largest distance between he and a competitor in the history of Florida.
00:31:04.680
are there any Republican GOP governors that care to join him?
00:31:12.840
Is there anybody that is a governor watching last night and going, you know what, damn it, I really, I need to step up my game?
00:31:25.900
They're not looking for another mealy mouth person.
00:31:29.500
They are looking for people that take decisive action.
00:31:35.820
Look at the people who took decisive action that we thought was divisive because we don't agree with them.
00:31:47.840
Second thing, our nation is spiritually lost, completely lost.
00:31:59.020
There is only one savior, and he's not on a ballot.
00:32:03.440
And until we drop the manifest destiny arrogance of God's on my side, we will continue to suffer defeat, hardships, and darkness.
00:32:14.360
And I mean, as a nation, we are all going to pay for this.
00:32:34.260
And until we humble ourselves, we will have it done for us.
00:32:41.420
And the humbling is going to be very, very painful.
00:32:46.460
I believe that I found an answer last night to something I didn't want the answer to.
00:32:52.920
I've said for 20-some years, alcoholics are going to be the ones that save this country.
00:33:03.680
We just keep going back to the bottle and saying, I want more.
00:33:11.020
And I've said to you, alcoholics cannot be saved.
00:33:18.060
They have to feel the ramifications of their own mistakes.
00:33:32.820
And I truly believe now the answer is our bottom, unfortunately, with far too many people, is death.
00:33:43.560
The death of our nation, the death of our lifestyle, the death of our culture, the death of the Western way of life.
00:33:55.580
When you have no gas, no fuel, no heat, no meat, no control, no wealth, don't own anything, that's the death of everything that you know.
00:34:16.460
Third thing is Mitch McConnell was and is wrong.
00:34:23.200
Lukewarm Democrats, lukewarm Republicans are not going to defeat the Democrats.
00:34:38.480
And Mitch McConnell should feel the ramifications of this loss.
00:34:42.100
Mitt Romney said just last week he tweeted that a red wave was coming and it was all thanks to Mitch McConnell.
00:34:51.500
What was coming is all thanks to Mitch McConnell.
00:35:13.740
I have a hard time not not actually calling what he proposes collusion.
00:35:27.040
Mitch McConnell said over the summer, we don't have to do anything.
00:35:33.520
Now, let me get off Mitch McConnell here and ask all of the Republicans.
00:35:49.680
The Declaration of Independence didn't just say, we just don't have we just don't want to be like the king.
00:36:02.400
We want to go away that no one else wants to go because we believe certain things because we have spiritual wisdom.
00:36:18.620
And with that spiritual wisdom applied, we see things that are self-evident that you don't.
00:36:30.100
We don't need to put people in jail because they disagree.
00:36:33.540
These things are obvious when you humble yourself enough to fight for his will and not our will.
00:36:45.380
What do we have now that are self-evident truths?
00:36:52.480
There's a portion of the Democrats that will mouth the words, oh, oh, men are created equal.
00:37:03.540
They're just as likely to put somebody in for revenge purposes or whatever.
00:37:09.800
They're just as likely to violate the Constitution as anybody on the left.
00:37:39.440
The plan of Satan, if you will, is the plan of collectivism.
00:37:51.300
We will not allow you to feel the consequence of anything.
00:38:00.200
Life, as long as the collective agrees, then you have the right to life.
00:38:06.680
I mean, that's if they agree your life is worth living.
00:38:14.060
We should just line people up and ask them, justify your life.
00:38:24.240
As long as you believe, think, speak, and do what the collective tells you is part of liberty.
00:38:33.280
No, there's no path for the individual to do what he or she believes that she was sent here to do.
00:38:40.220
Let alone just have your own business because you're not going to keep any of the spoils.
00:38:45.600
The God of this world will tell you what to do.
00:38:52.540
You know, I know I shared Ephesians with you a couple of days ago.
00:39:05.280
Let me just run through this quickly because I want to add on to what I said the other day.
00:39:13.200
Remember in Ephesians it says, look, you cannot, I'm paraphrasing horribly,
00:39:18.260
you can't live as the people of the world do, as the Gentiles do.
00:39:33.200
They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God.
00:39:39.560
Do you believe that people are darkened in their understanding?
00:39:45.160
How can people not notice what's happening to their own lives because of the way they vote?
00:40:01.980
And listen, because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
00:40:18.760
I've hardened my heart to anything that is outside of my worldview.
00:40:31.780
Think of this just with what porn does on the internet.
00:40:40.100
Having lost all sensitivity, they've given themselves over to sensuality as to indulge in every kind of impurity.
00:40:53.300
And then he says, but that's not the way of life you learned.
00:41:01.540
When you heard about Christ, you were taught in him accordance with the truth.
00:41:28.080
He just says, you were taught better than that.
00:41:34.760
You were taught with regard to your former way of life to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires.
00:41:44.420
You were taught to be made new in the attitude of your mind and put on a new self.
00:42:00.820
You have to put off all falsehood and all lies.
00:42:09.080
He doesn't say speak truthfully to the people you like.
00:42:13.260
He says to your neighbor who you are supposed to love.
00:42:18.940
Don't let the sun go down while you're still angry.
00:42:25.900
Anyone who's stealing must steal no longer, but must work.
00:42:38.860
There is a comma, which the Republicans don't get.
00:42:43.320
You must work doing something useful with your hands that you might have something to share with those in need.
00:42:59.280
It is work so you can choose to share with others.
00:43:32.500
You've been enriched in every way with all kinds of speech and knowledge.
00:43:51.120
Because he is faithful to things that are true.
00:44:09.220
The message of salvation, that's, I mean, that's crazy talk to people who are, you know, on the other side denying all reality.
00:44:29.200
God said, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, the intelligence of the intelligent.
00:44:35.580
So, where is that wise person that we trust that really is truly wise now in the ways of the world?
00:44:52.340
There's no one that fits in those categories that you're like, oh, yeah, I trust him.
00:45:17.040
When we first started our spiritual life, how many of us were wise by human standards?
00:45:29.520
How many of us were born to the right family and had the right wealth?
00:45:37.560
Those of us who really converted probably really struggled for a long time.
00:45:45.320
And that's when you chose God or God chose you.
00:46:17.360
You're not part of the wise counsel that everybody wants to be a part of now.
00:46:27.140
If we seek the truth, the truth, no matter where it takes us, all will be better than well.
00:46:46.380
Look to the people who have done it politically.
00:46:51.400
And then look inside of yourself and rely on God.