On today's show, Glenn Beck and Betsy Phetasysses give their final predictions on who's going to be the next president of the United States. Plus, a look at the 5 key bellwethers to watch on Election Day.
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00:02:17.560Who knows what things will look like by then.
00:04:10.820But also, there's a good chance that one of these two candidates, you know, sweeps all seven of these swing states and winds up with what feels like an easy victory.
00:04:23.460You know, I don't think it will be an easy victory.
00:04:25.320If you start seeing someone taking out states, those fringe swing states, you know, New Hampshire, Virginia for Trump, you know, going the other way, Texas for Kamala, Florida for Kamala, Iowa for Kamala.
00:04:39.200If that stuff starts happening, that's a blowout.
00:04:41.600But, like, you know, these seven swing states, if they all go to one of the two candidates, I don't think it's going to be too much of a blowout.
00:04:46.780It's going to be very, very – I'm very, very undecided on it.
00:04:50.160I came up – my final count was 291 electoral votes for Trump.
00:04:54.120But as I was putting it together as a final prediction yesterday for the show, I reversed myself on two or three states multiple times.
00:05:02.260And that is not – when you're doing that, you know – I've been watching this obsessively for 18 months.
00:05:09.860And an hour before I go to the air, I'm reversing states.
00:07:39.320They're the ones that are going to give you the first results.
00:07:41.580But Florida also isn't always the best bellwether.
00:07:44.400You know, we've seen this before where, you know, in 2022, it was a big situation, if you remember correctly, because DeSantis won by so much that everyone was like, oh, my gosh, this is a Republican wave election because they were one of the first results.
00:07:59.040And it did not wind up panning out in other states.
00:08:01.940Sometimes Florida is a little bit different.
00:08:03.680And since they're the first kind of like big state we hear about, it often gives you the wrong impression.
00:08:09.260I mean, if it goes poorly in Florida for Donald Trump, it will be a bad night.
00:08:14.640Well, the polling is interesting there, Glenn, because, you know, we've kind of thought now that because of what DeSantis has done in Florida, that this is just a bright red state.
00:08:22.900Look, Rick Scott is up by three points in Florida in a lot of these polls.
00:08:26.100Donald Trump is up by four or five points in some polls in Florida.
00:08:28.860I think he's going to win, but it's going to be a heck of a lot closer than DeSantis when he won by, what was it, 19?
00:08:33.620Yeah, and I have to tell you, the other thing that's disturbing is the Cruz campaign called us to get him on the air today.
00:08:40.880They are concerned about Texas, and you should be concerned about Texas.
00:09:02.900You know, I mean, McConnell not giving money to Cruz is a factor, but the Democrats are targeting this with hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:09:10.280So another thing to watch for is the Muslims in Michigan.
00:09:13.180If they don't show up or they're voting third party or they're voting for Trump, which I find that hard to believe, but you've had, you know, the mayor of the biggest Muslim community in Michigan come out and endorse, along with a lot of the imams, endorsed Donald Trump.
00:09:31.880Yeah, if Trump is going to be like, hey, you know, we're going to win this election if we get a lot of the Muslim vote, I think he's, you know, probably, that's not the position you want to be in.
00:17:13.960There were so many million, you know, I was thinking about this Glenn the other day, that it's actually more death by a million cuts.
00:17:21.560I think it was really trying to engage with them and then just being pushed out and being told, you know, in the early days of coming on your show, nobody on the left wanted to, no panel wanted to hear why I was injured, what issues I had with my own party.
00:17:41.060They would say, oh, you're, you know, racist and xenophobic and transphobic for even going on any of these other shows that you've gone on.
00:17:50.180And then there is, um, I think COVID really broke a lot of brains, particularly those of us who were in states that were heavily locked down.
00:18:02.160And we saw the government overreach and felt completely powerless to do anything about it.
00:18:08.740And then there were just the, the, the looting, the rioting, the, um, turning the other cheek with the smashing grabs, the degeneration, like the, just decay everywhere in the cities.
00:18:23.760And, um, how much, how much, how much of a role did the, um, transgender stuff for kids play a role with you as a mom?
00:18:36.220I mean, becoming then as I was getting to that 2022, I have a child, I'm radicalized in a different way.
00:18:43.000I'm sitting in, you know, birthing classes and they're calling us birthing persons, which sounds way more handmade tale than anything that's coming.
00:18:53.700They accused the right of, and, um, people act, you know, the thing, then there's the frustration of people acting like this isn't happening.
00:19:04.160So I'll say, people will say, this isn't a big deal.
00:19:15.980If you don't think that this stuff is happening and parents are discussing it and they're making decisions about where they live, where they send their kids to school based on if there's pronouns in the bio of the people who are emailing them or not.
00:19:35.060And then October 7th was a big one for me.
00:19:37.680When I saw people tearing down posters of kidnapped children and siding with literal terrorists, I was like, okay, okay, I am sorry.
00:19:48.300This is, there's something wrong with this ideology that is, is deeply destructive and toxic to Western civilization in general.
00:19:59.560You know, I, I can see people that, um, disagree on abortion and have honest disagreements, but when it comes to having an abortion van outside of your convention, um, it, it just goes way out of the mainstream.
00:20:17.560And you, you start to think, wow, that, I mean, huh, is Satan running on this ticket?
00:20:38.980And I was burned in 2022 by thinking there would be a red wave as punishment for a lot of the draconian stuff we saw and mistakes around COVID.
00:20:49.660And I underestimated how much abortion would play into that decision-making.
00:20:56.100And I will not make that mistake again.
00:20:58.980And I think people in, on our side, I can't believe I'm saying that need to be, um, I, I think we need to be very prepared for what could be a decisive Harris win tonight.
00:21:17.540I, it would, it would be somewhat surprising, but every, I'm in a bubble, you know, I, I'm surrounded by people who are people it's, it's preference bias, it's confirmation bias.
00:21:30.380It's all of these things that are telling me that led me to believe that, um, that there would be a red wave.
00:25:21.520I hope that the men, you know, I, I really do understand being disaffected more than,
00:25:27.780than I think being in this space kind of caught in the crossfire and coming from one place and really having good faith discussions with the remaining people on the left who aren't completely out of their minds and good faith, um, just debates about things.
00:25:45.940I do believe that people care deeply about this country.
00:26:08.440The sun just broke through the clouds as I'm talking about this in a very poetic moment, but I do, I, you know, I don't like all of this discussion of like, this could be the last.
00:26:19.740It was funny because Oprah and Elon were both trending because they both said this could be our last election.
00:26:24.780And I'm like, well, if they both are saying it, can we just, can it like cancel each other out?
00:26:35.500We choose one direction or another, and they are both very, very different, uh, Americas in the end.
00:26:43.140I, you know, I, I, I prefer to look at it and Donald Trump, I thought in the last few weeks has really done a great job at this.
00:26:49.640Uh, and with the help of RFK and, uh, Elon Musk and Tulsi Gabbard, this is a new America.
00:26:55.900There could be a, a golden era around the corner.
00:27:00.320If we vote the right way, pay attention and he can do the things with this, this coalition of different minds that he wants to put around himself.
00:27:11.900I think there could be a new golden age of America.
00:27:14.400So it's, it's, uh, the, either the death of the Republic or the rebirth of the Republic.
00:27:21.340I mean, that's what, like I said, that political realignment, no matter what happened, we, we, we, we're all like that, that occurred, you know, something happened.
00:27:31.780No matter what happened, something happened.
00:27:34.620And that momentum and energy is not going away.
00:27:37.920One last question for you on the, um, do you think the endorsement of Elon Musk and yesterday, Joe Rogan, do you think that makes any difference at all?
00:27:46.760I think even mine, people have, not that I'm some huge star, but I think people need permission in this moment.
00:27:56.800And it was part of the reason that I wanted to come out.
00:27:59.980And I've heard from so many women in particular that they were on the fence or they were, because people alone feel crazy.
00:28:17.400And they feel crazy because they've never voted a Republican in their life.
00:28:21.440And you just need a little push, just a little bit of somebody saying like, Hey, I didn't want to do this, but here's why I think, and lay it out.
00:28:30.600And I think people like Elon Musk and Joe, they give people permission to, um, do that thing that they might not want.
00:28:39.160And they might not be comfortable doing, or they might feel like, you know, if your brain, it's like you're, you're, if you're a liberal, you're just, it's hard to make that leap.
00:28:52.460That's Bridget Fetasy, the, uh, spectator, contributing editor and columnist, uh, also the host of Walk-Ins.
00:28:58.840Welcome and the host of the weekly dumpster fire, uh, Bridget Fetasy, Fetasy.com.
00:29:05.140This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:29:11.780Senator Ted Cruz has been campaigning and fighting an uphill battle here in Texas because, uh, several, I think it's, is it 200 or $300 million have been spent, uh, by George Soros and the likes of George Soros, uh, to stop Ted Cruz from being, uh, a senator.
00:29:31.260And his, uh, competitor is, I mean, you watch TV and it is just agonizing.
00:31:17.000I think with the people that are running that would join you, Ted, in the Senate, I think things would actually get done.
00:31:25.680Well, and I'll tell you, let me say something in particular.
00:31:28.600There are voters in a number of states, in states like Ohio and Arizona, that are right now saying they're going to vote for Donald Trump and for the Democrat Senate candidate.
00:31:38.840And let me say, please, for love of all that is good in America, do not do that.
00:31:45.060Because every Democrat Senate candidate running will fight to oppose Donald Trump on every step of the way.
00:31:54.320And if that vote gives Chuck Schumer the majority, it could stop the entirety of everything that President Trump will accomplish.
00:32:03.100That if you want President Trump to be able to secure the border, to get our economy moving, to bring inflation down, to end the wars, then the only way to do it is to have a Republican Senate that's going to back him up and support his nominees and support his policies.
00:32:16.820And we've got to stop with this executive order stuff.
00:33:49.120And if you want to turn that nonsense around, you've got to have a Republican Senate that can stand unified with Trump.
00:33:57.000And also, you're exactly right, Glenn, that can make changes that are actually passed into law, not just through executive order, so they can be durable and last.
00:34:05.280And we've got to, I mean, we have got to make sure that Cornyn, who is a disgrace to Texas, is not the guy who is replacing McConnell.
00:34:19.560We need an actual group of Republicans that are at the top of the leadership, that represent what the Republicans are today, not what they were in 1985.
00:34:35.180Well, look, my issues with Republican leadership, as you know, have been longstanding.
00:34:40.160You noted at the outset of this segment that this entire race, Mitch McConnell has not spent a penny in my race.
00:35:40.720So why are you lying to me and saying that?
00:35:43.740And the only way I've survived is millions of patriots in Texas and across the country who go to TedCruz.org and who make contributions.
00:35:54.580And so, you know, I'm getting contributions of $10, $25, $50 from people all across the country at TedCruz.org, and that fills the gap where Republican leadership should be.
00:36:07.100But they don't want strong conservatives in the Senate.
00:36:10.160They want people who will follow orders and sit down and shut up, and that's not something I'm interested in doing.
00:41:25.440And honestly, like, at the end of the day, Wisconsin, not all that important because, and Nevada, I guess, not all that important in this particular thing because you'd still be above 270.
00:41:35.020Pennsylvania, obviously the big ticket there.