00:06:04.780The Virginia election was a wake-up call.
00:06:07.680But the 2022 elections are poised if Republicans stay on message and use their advantages to be a watershed election, a rejection of big government, unlike what we've seen in a very long time.
00:06:20.400Yeah, big government right now has a tag-along, and that is big business.
00:06:26.500The old alignment between big business, corporate America, U.S. multinationals, the globalist elites, and the Republican Party was always secure.
00:07:32.620And that's where we have to watch our—that's what we have to look for, what we have to watch over, and hope that the Republican Party establishment comes to its senses well in advance of these elections in November 2022.
00:07:50.720Listen, there is an enormous—Donald Trump realigned the American electorate unlike anyone in a century.
00:07:56.320And the middle class, the working class, along with evangelicals and Christians and freedom-loving Americans, all created a whole new coalition.
00:08:05.720And joining that coalition more and more every day are Latinos.
00:08:14.300The woke CEOs of corporate America are talking like Joe Biden in AOC, and they're getting repudiated.
00:08:20.400But the truth of the matter is their companies need Donald Trump's policies.
00:08:25.140If they don't want Joe Biden's policies, they're suffering under Joe Biden.
00:08:29.040There was an amazing survey on our site the other day.
00:08:32.080We got it from one of the great management companies that are like the horse whispers to CEOs.
00:08:36.220And they did a survey, and they said they surveyed CEOs, and 63 percent of CEOs say, we love that we're taking on social policies in America, and we think we're making our companies stronger.
00:08:46.100And then they interviewed the consumers of those companies.
00:08:51.860Focus on services and products and leave my social and politics alone.
00:08:55.640Only 36 percent of the consumers thought the CEOs were right to do that.
00:08:59.420There's a disconnect in corporate America.
00:09:01.460And in 2022, I think that reckoning is going to come.
00:09:04.320You're going to see more and more departures from Twitter, more and more departures for some of these companies that back Black Lives Matters and now have regret for what Black Lives Matters are doing in the policy sphere.
00:09:14.880The entire paradigm of corporate America is going to get shaken up by the consumer base who said, get out of this crazy politics.
00:09:47.980They are playing with – it's a public company.
00:09:50.940And what they're doing to shareholders is the stuff of – in any other administration, the SEC would be all over them for what they're doing.
00:10:14.920There'll be a moment next year when Donald Trump's Twitter comes into place.
00:10:18.680Listen, if it becomes the chosen social platform of the Trump nation, you could see 10, 20, 30 million people close up their Twitter account and move over to truth.
00:10:30.480And, you know, they've been waiting for this moment.
00:10:32.020We thought Parler was going to be that moment or maybe Getter.
00:10:35.020But I think people are waiting for the truth platform, the Trump social media platform.
00:10:39.000Imagine if you're sitting at Twitter or you're a shareholder at Twitter and 5, 10, 20, 30 million people say, see you later.
00:11:02.920But I don't think Twitter's future, when truth comes aboard, is going to be very bright.
00:11:08.420Yeah, it's going to be a very interesting 12 months as we watch all of that unfold.
00:11:17.620There's also the issue, without any question, in terms of election integrity.
00:11:24.280Are the Republicans doing enough to assure that they don't get run over in an election that is historically and existentially, in my opinion, the most important that we will see since, well, all the way back to 2020?
00:11:42.120Yeah, you know, I don't think establishment Republicans are doing enough.
00:11:46.760I don't think the Ronna McDaniels and the RNC, they didn't do enough in 2020.
00:11:50.360They settled for all of these agreements and changes in election law that weren't authorized by legislators.
00:11:57.020There is a group of grassroots, fact-based, driven warriors on the ground in many of these states, in Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania particularly, that are not giving up on the 2020 election.
00:12:08.900They're finding the facts, not the theories, they're finding the facts.
00:12:12.580And I'm going to make a big prediction, because I've been reporting on this now for about six weeks chronically.
00:12:17.620I believe Georgia will become an extraordinary lightning moment in the next six to eight weeks.
00:12:23.420You're going to see the conversation in Georgia flip from things that it's been about to something called harvesting, ballot harvesting.
00:12:31.400There are videotapes, there are records, and I think you're going to see the establishment, the Kemp-Rassenberger establishment,
00:12:37.540dig in and realize there was a problem in Georgia, there was a problem in Arizona, there was a problem in Wisconsin, there was a problem in Pennsylvania,
00:12:46.220and harvesting will be the word we'll all be talking about in the new year.
00:12:49.800The unfortunate aspect of this is all of the focus on the machines, you know, led by Trump administration folks, people who otherwise, you know, were, in one case, I'll just refer to Sidney Powell.
00:13:07.320I mean, that woman was a hero, and yet she carried on far beyond, if you will, her brief and the facts that could support her.
00:13:24.200When you gave me and helped me with Russia collusion and all those things that we did, we stuck to the facts, and we unraveled Russia collusion because we had facts, we had FBI documents, we had videos, we had witnesses, we had.
00:13:36.560And I think that early period after the election, there was more emotion than there was fact.
00:13:40.800Listen, though, I think Georgia is going to become ground zero for the election integrity debate in 2022.
00:13:46.660There have been a lot of things going on the ground.
00:13:48.520Now that all the theories and all of the emotion has been stripped away, people are beginning to take a look at the facts on the ground.
00:13:55.660Even Governor Brian Kemp, Brian Kemp, who has been saying for months everything was fine in Georgia,
00:14:00.480he just made a referral to the state election boards pointing out something that just the news first broke in June,
00:14:06.500that there are hundreds and actually thousands of ballots that were counted in the audit that was then used to certify the election that appeared to be erroneous.
00:14:18.040It could be several thousand votes that are changed by the state election board.
00:14:22.380That was initiated by Governor Brian Kemp, a guy who once claimed that there were no problems in Georgia.
00:14:27.880Separately, Secretary of State Brad Rauschenberger, the man who went on 60 Minutes in January and said everything was fine, we had a perfect election,
00:14:35.860he has now got several investigations open in Georgia.
00:14:39.600Shredding of ballots or ballot applications have been confirmed.
00:14:44.120He has an investigation into ballots that were counted that didn't have proper chain of custody.
00:14:48.860And I predict that the thing we're going to be looking at in 2022, that the Georgia Secretary of State and everybody else is going to be looking at in Georgia,
00:14:55.960it's going to be a thing called harvesting, which is illegal, meaning someone goes out and takes your ballot and delivers it for you.
00:17:41.000It's absolutely ignorant that the current leadership is still in place after the debacle of 2020.
00:17:48.780We have some FOIA battles that we're fighting in Georgia.
00:17:53.740I'm sure we're going to win them, where we know that the Secretary of State's office in Georgia briefed the RNC,
00:17:59.260briefed the Trump campaign lawyers and other people, and told them these are the things Stacey Abrams is doing that are problematic.
00:18:04.880We see no evidence that the RNC and others have ever followed up,
00:18:08.940and we hope to get that body of documents in the next few weeks and make that public so people can see.
00:18:13.340There were lots of points of failure, right?
00:18:15.260Some of the failures are things like the incompetence of Fulton County and the corruption of Fulton County, Georgia.
00:18:20.420But some of the failures were on the Republican machinery who sat by and allowed rule changes to go that should have been contested.
00:18:27.780We know that because, listen, the Wisconsin Legislative Auto Bureau says there may have been as many as 30 illegal law changes that the Wisconsin Election Commission did.
00:18:36.700Those are unelected bureaucrats, and they made changes that only the legislature should have been allowed to do.
00:18:42.400Everybody who sat still and let that happen has to join in the blame of the 2020 election loss.
00:20:15.360This is personal, and there are more instances beyond this.
00:20:19.540But your thoughts about how the Republican Party needs to handle it and what will be the upshot?
00:20:25.160I was very lucky before he passed away to get a day with President George H.W. Bush.
00:20:32.320And while he wasn't the quintessential conservative, he had this incredible insight to Ronald Reagan.
00:20:37.120I asked him when I was sitting with him, what was the best piece of advice the great Ronald Reagan gave you?
00:20:41.840And he looked at me, smiled, and he said, right after the very bitter 1980 primary, Ronald Reagan brought in and he said,
00:20:47.580George, I want to tell you something, if you're ever going to pull a pin in the Republican foxhole, for God's sake, throw the grenade onto the enemy.
00:20:55.280And there's a lot of wisdom in what Ronald Reagan said there.
00:20:58.340Republicans have a lot of disagreements.
00:21:00.140There's a battle for the soul of the party.
00:21:02.420The greater enemy to Republicans is the Democratic Party, the woke socialism, the big government socialism.
00:21:08.200And I think a lot of Republicans, if they can set aside some difference, settle them behind closed doors, the opportunity to obliterate the Democratic Party, to literally have the American people crush big government socialism, is sitting right there.
00:21:21.700Glenn Youngkin erased a 12-point Democratic advantage in Virginia.
00:21:26.760If that isn't something that everybody in the Republican Party can get excited about, I don't know what it is.
00:21:31.840But the American people want to hand government back to Republicans, to common sense, Republicanism, conservatism.
00:21:39.620All the Republicans have to do is run on the great ideas that they all share, because they share almost all the ideas together.
00:21:46.040Yeah, they're rhinos and they make stupid mistakes and they're conservatives, they get too edgy.
00:21:50.160But the Republican form of government, federalism, state rights, smaller government, less taxes, less government spending, the American people are craving it.
00:21:59.580And they're going to hand it to the Republicans in 2022.
00:22:02.140Only the Republicans can lose that election.
00:22:04.380I agree with you to a point, but let me explore that foxhole.
00:22:09.680That grenade in the foxhole is often brought there by the rhino combatants.
00:22:19.080And they are more aligned with Democrats than they are Republicans.
00:22:22.940And to me, the existential question for the Republican Party itself is whether or not they can build a party firmly on conservative principles and move forward.
00:22:37.820Because when they're being led by Mitch McConnell in the Senate, when John Thune is hanging around like an albatross, you're talking about people that are soulless and principled and not anything approaching a conservative.
00:22:55.380And the American people are not going to be fooled.
00:22:57.940They're not going to put up with nonsense.
00:22:59.500And they mean to have America first principles because I think the – I guess what I'm really saying here, John, is the Republican Party is now validated as the party of Trump.
00:23:32.280So it's going to be how strong the party is, it seems to me, and committed to the Trump principles, putting America first, putting America first, and everything.
00:24:05.380Stop making stupid deals with the Democrats that don't advance the American cause.
00:24:09.760If they do that, 2022 is going to be an extraordinary year for conservatives and Republicans.
00:24:14.800If they continue to do stupid deals with the Democrats, fold their cards after drawing a line in the sand and show weakness.
00:24:21.200As Ronald Reagan said time and again, you win peace through strength.
00:24:25.900Right now, the Republican leadership doesn't show strength, but its base does.
00:24:29.580And I think it's incumbent on the base to force that principle to the front of the line and get through the 2020 election where real change can occur.
00:24:38.000I don't think Mitch McConnell will be the Senate leader in 2022.
00:24:43.000It'll be very interesting to see if they win, if he's still the Republican Party leader.
00:24:46.960And even Kevin McCarthy, a lot of people say he doesn't have the votes yet.
00:24:50.700Let's wait and see how history plays out.
00:25:31.980Today, we're taking up the Biden administration's peculiar approach to this new variant of the COVID virus, or if you prefer, the Wuhan China virus.
00:25:43.760I say peculiar, but with some hesitation, the Biden White House does almost everything in a peculiar fashion, whether trying to mandate vaccinations, mandate masks, or how a small business runs its business.
00:25:59.660I don't know about you, but there's something just a little terrifying about this White House, which is obviously distracted by what is almost open combat between the president's staff and the staff of the vice president.
00:26:14.080The president continues to get lost, of course, entering and exiting rooms.
00:26:19.120He denies news reports that his staff has to confirm them 24 hours later.
00:26:24.000His inability to communicate in coherent sentences is also troubling, to say the least.
00:26:33.700To think the Biden administration tries to mandate to order American citizens, small and big business, to do anything is hard to accept, given their inability to do much of anything right themselves.
00:26:49.400No wonder the president's approval rating remains underwater.
00:26:54.520His disapproval rating has been higher than his approval rating since mid-August.
00:26:59.620Even the radical Democrats and Marxist leftists are getting a little nervous, make that extremely nervous, with the midterm elections now less than a year away.
00:27:12.560When anyone talking politics asks that question, there is just really one person that I think of turning to.
00:27:22.080And with us is that legendary political strategist, pollster, and campaign consultant, best-selling author, and columnist for the New York Post, Dick Morris.
00:27:32.400Dick, welcome to The Great America Show.
00:27:47.680But it is, as you know, a complicated world, the video world.
00:27:52.300And so we'll see how all of that unfolds.
00:27:55.000And I'm just thrilled to be, you know, it's so much fun for me on this podcast to be rejoined with my audience and to be talking about the issues that matter most to this country, as you well know, better than almost anyone.
00:28:25.260The friction between the two staffs and apparently some friction directly with the president of the United States, if you can imagine that.
00:28:33.480What's going on and how difficult are these days going to get for the country and for, in particular, the Democratic Party?
00:28:52.920When you make the transition from people noticing inflation to people anticipating inflation to people adjusting to inflation, it becomes impossible to get rid of it.
00:29:05.980It gets written into collective bargaining agreements, escalator clauses in contracts.
00:29:11.420Stores raise their prices in anticipation of what the suppliers are going to do.
00:29:17.020And the trend toward inflation, the inflationary psychology, sets in.
00:29:21.700And at that point, it's almost irreversible.
00:30:31.680Transitory, as was the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
00:30:35.140Now, suddenly, it's a permanent feature of our lives, and there will have to be serious pain.
00:30:41.580How does the Biden administration in any way expect the American people?
00:30:46.560And I really don't care whether you're a Democrat or a Republican.
00:30:49.100When you hear administrations reverse themselves within 24-hour periods, when you hear them reverse their judgments on professional matters, such as the view of the Federal Reserve, the view of the Treasury Department,
00:31:02.560they look like bloody fools and absolutely confused about fundamental economic theory.
00:31:10.640Well, I think there's a reason they look like bloody fools and absolutely confused about fundamental economic theory,
00:31:17.160and that's because they are bloody fools, and they are totally confused about economic theory.
00:31:22.920The point is that Biden has reached a critical economic and, therefore, political mass of inflation concern, and the polling reflects that.
00:31:39.180And everybody is incredibly focused on inflation.
00:31:44.940John McLaughlin does monthly national surveys of 1,000 nationwide each month.
00:31:51.540And in August, he had Biden won ahead, and in September, Trump won ahead, and in October, Trump won ahead.
00:32:00.500And then in November, he had Trump 6th ahead.
00:32:03.800And what happened between October and November was politically, of course, the Virginia election,
00:32:09.420but more importantly, the national realization that major inflation was here and was likely to stay.
00:32:16.040And that has just destroyed Biden's credibility.
00:32:19.220His solution is to sign new legislation, spending more money.
00:32:25.140And as far as the voters are concerned, he's signing not a stimulus package, but an inflation bill.
00:32:31.060They literally think he's signing it as a death and signing a bill to have more inflation.
00:33:49.560You'll be talking about a president after the midterm election who's in the 20s.
00:33:54.840And they're just not going to re-nominate the guy, even if he wants it.
00:33:59.460And they might sidetrack him with the 25th Amendment, but I doubt it because they don't like Harris either.
00:34:05.780And I believe that there is a pattern that's very important here that goes on historically.
00:34:13.360Whenever a left party, a liberal party, loses an election of consequence, they immediately solve the problem by exacerbating it and moving further to the left.
00:34:28.060When Reagan defeated Carter, the Democrats nominated Mondale and Dukakis before they became sane and nominated by my old boss, Bill Clinton.
00:34:38.400When Thatcher beat Callahan in Britain, the Labor Party nominated Michael Foote and Neil Kinnock, two crazy leftists.
00:34:47.060So they got sanity and nominated Tony Blair.
00:34:49.640And the reason that happens is that when the Democrats and the Labor Party lose, their purists say we didn't energize our base, we compromised on our program, we passed half measures, now let's go all on.
00:35:05.620And that all drives moderates out of their primary.
00:35:09.180And they become Republicans, and in Britain they become conservatives or Lib Dems.
00:35:13.460And it makes the party move further to the left, because its primary electorate is moving further to the left.
00:35:21.960And I think what's likely to happen in 2024 is that there's a consensus that they need to get rid of Biden.
00:35:30.900He'll probably step aside when it becomes clear.
00:35:34.140And that Harris is no replacement, and she'll probably be forced out also.
00:35:38.320And I think at that point, the Democrats are likely to be controlled by Obama, who will try to designate a black candidate.
00:35:48.400My own guess is somebody either on the left, like the former Attorney General Eric Holder, or in the center, somebody like Duval Patrick, former governor of Massachusetts, or Cory Booker, the senator from New Jersey.
00:36:04.780And, of course, the blacks are in a position to control the Democratic nomination, because they've structured the calendar that way.
00:36:13.460The current math is for New Hampshire and Iowa and Nevada.
00:36:17.800The traditional primaries don't mean anything.
00:36:22.100Dick, let me ask you something on that point.
00:36:24.020At what juncture do Hispanics in this country say that 12% of the country should not be making decisions about 60% of the Democratic Party, that is, including Hispanics, which are the largest minority?
00:36:41.860It's almost as if, you know, that's got to be a deeply disturbing trend for the Hispanic community.
00:36:51.300Yes, well, I've done some very in-depth research about Hispanics.
00:36:57.940McLaughlin and a guy named John Jordan and I collaborated two weeks ago on a 1,000-interview poll of Hispanic voters in the U.S.
00:37:07.600And we found that Trump continues his game.
00:37:16.760In 20, he got 34%, and our polling now has him at 38%.
00:37:22.540And I think by the time we get to 24, he'll be well over 40 and perhaps even carry the Latino vote.
00:37:30.040There's a trend going on with Latinos that's very important and nobody's noticed.
00:37:34.400Trump carries evangelical Protestant Hispanics by about 19 points, and he loses Catholic Hispanics by about 10.
00:37:48.080And the ratio between the two changes almost monthly.
00:37:51.280In 2007, evangelicals were 15% of the Hispanic population in the U.S.
00:38:00.020Then by 2011, they had grown to 19%, and then 26% during the 2020 election, and they are likely by 2024 going to be 38%.
00:38:13.280So even if Biden does nothing and Trump does nothing, there's a movement of almost five points every five years from Democrat to Republican because of the underlying religious demographics of the Hispanic population in the U.S.
00:38:32.600But let me continue my elaboration about the calendar, okay?
00:38:38.100I think that Obama's theory, obviously, was you eclipse the first three primaries by South Carolina, which is basically like D.C., a black primary in the Democratic Party.
00:38:50.360And then three days later, you have Super Tuesday, where a huge number of the votes are black, almost 40%.
00:38:56.920And that's how you control the Democratic nomination.
00:39:00.360And I think that's what he's going to try to do, because I think that the extreme woke left of the Democrats are going to begin to lose total confidence in the establishment of the party.
00:39:12.380And they're going to say, look, we are not going to run on a ticket of senility and incompetence, which is the Biden habit.
00:39:19.260And we think that they sabotage these reforms, this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for fundamental change, out of deference for Senate traditions like the filibuster.
00:39:34.560And I expect one of the squad, very possibly AOC herself, to run for president.
00:39:40.140And I think that confronted with the desperation of a wipeout in 22 and the danger in their minds to the turn of Donald Trump, who is going to run and is going to be the Republican candidate, I think that they will have a ready audience in the Democratic primary.
00:39:58.620And increasingly, the Democratic voters will say, let's get rid of this old leadership and turn into young, new, charismatic, dynamic, Hispanic woman as a candidate.
00:40:09.860And I think that she will sweep the primaries.
00:40:13.800And I think the Democrats will suffer the same fate as Dukakis and Mondale and Fort and Kinnock and lose a decade worth of elections.
00:40:44.720But let me put it forward to you, if I may, a scenario that appeals to me.
00:40:51.100One is after two impeachments, attempted impeachments of the president during his four years, almost four years of FBI investigation under the Russia collusion hoax perpetrated and funded by the Democrats and specifically Hillary Clinton's campaign,
00:41:11.980and the harassment and the hounding of this president.
00:41:16.560I expect the Republicans will nominate him by acclamation almost immediately, whether he wants to run or not, I don't know.
00:41:24.700But I think it will be by acclamation, out of shame and embarrassment for what they've done to him.
00:41:31.980And the other part of it is, and the other part is, perhaps the Democrats, out of their shame and embarrassment for what they did to him and the American, this great republic, maybe they will also join in nominating him by acclamation.
00:41:58.580But I do believe that there's only one thing that could screw up the scenario that I was laying out, which is that the triumph of the Republicans in the off year goes to their head.
00:42:11.800And they pass crazy proposals that alienate the country just as much as the Democrats have alienated him.
00:42:18.760And I think it's very important that there be some control rods in that nuclear reactor so it doesn't blow up in their face.
00:42:28.820Well, I think that's a very good point because the Republicans, as you were talking about the left and the response of the Democratic Party to defeat is to go even further left,
00:42:41.200The response in the Republican Party has been to tolerate rhinos and those who would otherwise be very comfortable in the Democratic, just as comfortable in the Democratic Party more so, perhaps, than in the Republican Party.
00:42:55.680That group of people has moved into leadership.
00:42:58.460They will be an impairment, an obstacle for even President Trump should he try to run for office again in 2024.
00:43:11.800And I, amongst others, certainly want that to happen.
00:44:06.920And I think it's rhino hunting season in 2022.
00:44:12.180I think of the 10 congressmen that defied Trump and voted for impeachment, there will not be a single survivor.
00:44:19.860I think Liz Cheney is going to lose by multiple ratios, not just numbers, three to one or four to one.
00:44:27.140And I think that, I think Kinzinger is gone and all of them are gone.
00:44:31.460And I think there's going to be, they're going to be a reign of terror against rhinos.
00:44:37.140I am not concerned that the, that the moderates or the rhinos will sabotage the agenda of Trump too.
00:44:47.540I am concerned that after they take Congress, the Republicans will so overreach that we'll be right back in the situation that enabled me to help Bill Clinton come back in 1995 and 96.
00:45:02.460And second term by moving for impeachment and bringing up the, using the moniker thing.
00:45:08.740And I think that, I think that the dangers of overreach and arrogance are very much there.
00:45:16.400And you need, we need to work to control that process.
00:45:19.860You know, you and I have a different outlook on, in this general area on arrogance.
00:45:26.860You're worried about the arrogance that might, might visit the Republican party after winning.
00:45:34.820I'm concerned about the arrogance of the rhinos in defeat.
00:45:38.320Uh, and, and the reason I include Kevin McCarthy is because he is, he's been ineffectual as a leader, uh, has not got a, uh, obviously has not had a, uh, a good count.
00:45:50.840If you will, uh, in terms of his caucus, uh, it's, uh, you know, saying that there would be, you know, no, uh, infrastructure bill.
00:46:00.440Meanwhile, 13 Republicans go over and make the Biden spending plan for trillions of dollars, not only possible, but at the reality.
00:46:12.920And I think the concern of many Americans, one of the things that I think we, if you've got some time here, uh, and I, by the way, I want to say about Kevin McCarthy, I think he's a perfectly likable, uh, fellow, uh, which I can say, unfortunately, just about, uh, most politicians, uh, on the, at least in the Republican party.
00:46:32.760Uh, what I'd like to see is results, uh, and, and strength, uh, but let's go to the issue of the last election, which is, have we, and the question really becomes, have we fixed that problem in the Republican party or will we be played for the fools we were in 2020?
00:46:49.960And I'm referring to the RNC, not having a sufficient ground, uh, presence, not having lawyers where they needed to be, nor lawyers who could respond even when they were, or they should have been.
00:47:02.760Well, there's, there's one fundamental issue, which is photo ID.
00:47:07.320Eighty-four percent of the country wants it, uh, including majorities among blacks and Hispanics.
00:47:17.800But, um, you need photo ID in all of those states.
00:47:21.920And because H.R.1 and S.1 are effectively dead, you're not going to have said that in the Arizona court decision on, uh, ballot harvesting, you're not going to have federal preemption.
00:47:33.980And I think the states can, uh, for the most part, be counted on to deliver.
00:47:39.260Now, of course, in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Michigan and, uh, North Carolina, you have opposition governors who oppose what the legislature is doing, other parties.
00:48:48.380A turnout was 20% up in 2020 and that's permanent.
00:48:51.700And they have to understand the philosophy that every pizza delivery boy knows that home delivery beats eating out and have to bring the ballots to people.
00:49:02.740The very phrase, G-O-T-V, get out the vote is oxymoronic and counterproductive.