The Great America Show host Lou Dobbs reacts to the results of the mid-term elections and talks about the new leadership in the House of Representatives and the implications for the future of the Republican Party. Lou also talks about President Trump's announcement that he is running for President in 2020.
00:05:47.180And that red-white wave never materialized across the country.
00:05:52.060And Republicans are barely going to take back the House.
00:05:56.840And the problem is that with these elections, with election season where we have several weeks of early voting and mail voting,
00:06:07.400it does not reflect the will of the people anymore.
00:06:11.360It is about the Democrats using their labor unions and their machine to go find every vote that they can and turn in those votes.
00:06:19.340And we need to change this until we change these election laws where we have election day with limited mail-in voting like they've done in Florida.
00:06:32.300We're going to see this across the country.
00:06:34.500We're going to see Republican states turn from deep red to deep blue all across the country.
00:06:40.380I lived in Colorado for 10 years before I got sucked back into the swamp with Justice Gorsuch's confirmation.
00:06:46.760And in less than a decade, Colorado went from a deep red state to a deep blue state because of all-mail ballots.
00:06:55.560Unless Republicans get the backbone to change that, we're going to lose across the country.
00:07:01.940And I don't want to hear the Democrats cry about democracy and disenfranchising voters.
00:07:07.600We saw what they did on Election Day in Maricopa County.
00:07:10.760All these machines, one-third of the machines went down on Election Day in Maricopa County for the supposed malfunction for several hours.
00:07:19.980They went down, and it's disproportionately Republicans who show up on Election Day.
00:07:26.100They were sent to other polling locations.
00:07:28.560When they got to the other polling locations, they were told that they were already checked in at the other locations so they could not vote.
00:07:36.500The Republicans filed a motion with the courts for a very reasonable brief extension of a few hours so these people can vote.
00:07:45.700Senator Mark Kelly and other Democrats opposed that motion that the Democrat-appointed judge said,
00:07:53.480no, these voters could not vote, and they disenfranchised these voters.
00:07:56.520And the point is that, look, this early voting, this mail voting is bad.
00:08:31.660We learned about taking tactical advantage.
00:08:34.260We learned about strategic advantage as well, whether it's bringing in the 51 veterans of the intelligence services to sign a silly letter that's an outright lie for a presidential candidate that gave him cover in a presidential debate and changed history.
00:08:53.320I mean, we know all that they're trying to do and much of what they accomplish each election.
00:08:59.180We don't have intelligent political leadership, whether it's Mitch McConnell, whether it is Kevin McCarthy, or Ronna McDaniel.
00:09:07.640They are the three amigos of disaster.
00:09:46.620We're the only party that brings in a little separate group of people who are basically Democrats, and then many of them get to be leaders.
00:09:56.620I mean, that's just sheer madness on the part of the Republican Party.
00:10:17.120They need to understand that there are real Americans in the real world who are paying attention to what they're doing,
00:10:23.900and these uniparty Republicans need to stop following the special interest in Washington,
00:10:29.820stop siding with Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple with big tech as they're censoring, silencing, deplatforming, canceling conservatives.
00:10:38.700So I have no problem with your call for a fresh look at leadership.
00:10:46.280Let me say this about Mitch McConnell.
00:10:47.680I worked very closely with Mitch McConnell in the Senate when I was the chief counsel for nominations to then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley from my home state of Iowa.
00:10:58.080And I'll tell you that Mitch McConnell, I worked very closely with him for two years.
00:11:01.860Mitch McConnell was rock solid on judges.
00:11:04.980We would not have gotten through the judges that we got through for President Trump if it weren't for Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley being rock solid.
00:11:12.180And that is particularly true for the nomination of Justice Kavanaugh.
00:11:16.480If either McConnell or Grassley would have blinked at all, that nomination would have certainly failed.
00:11:24.280Democrats would have won back the Senate in 2018 instead.
00:11:28.240Republicans knocked out several Democrat incumbents and picked up two Senate seats.
00:11:39.220It was a huge, huge, huge leadership test.
00:11:43.660And Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley delivered on that leadership test in 2018.
00:11:48.200So I personally like Mitch McConnell because I've worked with him and I know him.
00:11:53.020He has a tough job because his job as the leader of the Senate Republicans is to lead all 50 Republicans.
00:11:59.580So he does things that he may not like, but he has to do it because maybe Lisa Murkowski or Susan Collins or someone else demands that he does something.
00:12:08.760I always say that being the Senate Republican leader is like your job is to herd schizophrenic cats called unruly schizophrenic cats called Senate Republicans.
00:12:21.300I will say, though, that once primary voters make a decision, whether you like that decision or not, your job is to help your party win.
00:12:29.700And your job is to put the resources into these races to make sure that your party wins.
00:12:35.360And so if you don't win, you're going to get all the credit if the party wins.
00:12:39.620Maybe you should have some self-reflection if the party loses.
00:12:43.260And so that's what I would say about Senator Mitch McConnell.
00:12:46.260I do think he's going to win this leadership fight at the end of the day because a lot of Senate Republicans like him and respect him and like the fact that he leads and takes a lot of bullets for them.
00:12:57.220But I understand your point, Lou, that we need to, you know, that people need to own up to the mistakes that were made over this last election.
00:13:04.740And as for Ronna McDaniel, I don't know her, so I just I don't I can't weigh in there.
00:13:13.380I will say that Harmeet Dillon is a warrior lawyer out in San Francisco.
00:13:18.780I would love to recruit Harmeet Dillon if her husband and her would move to D.C.
00:13:22.940If we could borrow them for two years, I would love to see Harmeet Dillon have a very senior role in the Republican National Committee.
00:13:50.820They are uniformly together on their their goals, their purpose, their elections.
00:13:56.380They come together and they mean to win.
00:13:59.060I would say this, the same people complaining about candidate quality backed Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio in the 2010 Florida Senate Republican primary.
00:14:11.100And we wouldn't have all star senators like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Rand Paul if the D.C. insiders instead of actual voters picked our Senate candidates.
00:14:25.080And so I understand it's a tricky balance.
00:14:27.120I think my biggest gripe with Senate leadership right now is once Republican primary voters picked the candidates, the primaries over, it's time to get on board and do everything you can to win.
00:14:41.280And there are Supreme Court nominees who I may or may not have wanted, but once they're picked or lower court nominees, once they're picked, it's time to get on board and get them confirmed.
00:14:52.160Once Senate primary candidates or Senate candidates are picked in the primary, it's time to get on board and do everything you can to help them win.
00:15:00.720Absolutely. And Mitch McConnell, as you know, basically cratered the the chances of three important candidates to to succeed to the Senate.
00:15:14.080And I and I think it's just utterly unforgivable as I do about Kevin McCarthy, who was trying who was picking winners and losers with the the money machine that is the Republican House campaign committee.
00:15:31.700Awful, disgusting. And there have to be changes or no Republican.
00:15:36.440No Republican should even think about contributing a dime to this party again.
00:15:41.960Let's turn to this election and why in the world we have not at this point come to terms with an election that means we're going to see a very fine balance in the in the balance of power in the House of Representatives, whether it becomes Democratic, stays Democrat or becomes Republican.
00:16:06.260We have a different atmospheric. This is tribal. This is primitive.
00:16:13.040It is it is absolutely in your face. Raw politics. I don't know where we're headed. Do you?
00:16:21.820Well, like we talked about earlier, we have to get rid of these are these mail ballots, what they did. Democrats and weak, stupid rhinos went along with this notion that we have COVID.
00:16:37.100So therefore, we can illegally change election laws under our Constitution elections for the time, place and manner for federal elections, president, Senate, House races is set by state legislatures, not unelected boards, not not Supreme State Supreme Court justices, state legislatures or Congress.
00:16:59.880Congress can override that. Congress can override that. What we saw during COVID is is we have these these Democrats and weak Republicans use COVID as an excuse to illegally change these state election laws and they mailed ballots out to an entire list of voters, even if those were college students who had moved, even if those are people who have died.
00:17:21.300I live in D.C. I live in D.C., unfortunately. I got a ballot in the last election of the 2020 election for someone who had died eight years prior who lived in my house before I bought it.
00:17:32.800So the only thing stopping me from taking that ballot and filling it out and sending it in is you have signature verification that doesn't work a good deal of the time or election observers.
00:17:45.360And what Democrats did is not only did they go to all mail ballots with the 2020 election blaming COVID, this illegal change in our election systems across the country, then they got rid of signature verification.
00:17:58.860They turned signature verification on these machines down to the point where it was meaningless.
00:18:04.100And then they said because of COVID, you couldn't have Republican election observers look at this process.
00:18:10.860And so the Republican election observers, those are the evidence gatherers.
00:18:14.620If there were irregularities with the election, those are the people who are supposed to gather the evidence to go to court.
00:18:19.620I did this for five election cycles when I lived in Colorado with all mail ballots.
00:18:25.180If you get rid of the election observers, you have no one to gather evidence to go into court.
00:18:29.940And so when you go into court after the 2020 election and say, look, there were all these irregularities, and then the judges say, well, they, you know, you don't have evidence.
00:18:38.960Well, it's because the Democrats threw out the evidence gatherers, and we need to learn our mistakes from this election.
00:18:45.480And some places did, like down in Florida, the Florida Republicans with Governor DeSantis, they changed the election laws.
00:18:52.260And so these shenanigans don't happen in Florida, and we saw with Florida that DeSantis was able to win by 20 points down there when in other states it was a lot closer than it should have been.
00:19:17.020And what we are watching is that constitutional republic is sinking every day that passes, and it is going to emerge as something entirely different.
00:19:41.940It should have been a tsunami for House Republicans, and House Republicans are barely clinging onto power in the House, maybe 219 when you need 218 to have a majority.
00:19:51.900If we don't change these all – not only are they going to all-mail ballots or going to rank-choice voting, they're trying to make it where elections are not about the will of the American people.
00:20:03.760It's about pure power and Democrats' ability to go hunt down votes and deliver it.
00:20:08.840And we have to change the system like they did in Florida.
00:20:12.720Every state should do that Florida election model, every governor, every state legislature, because we're going to lose our country.
00:20:20.500You're going to see these red states like Colorado, like Nevada, like Arizona.
00:20:25.220They're going to start falling like dominoes if we don't start to fix these election laws.
00:20:29.920And, by the way, I didn't mention it, but mentioning California, Harvey Dillon, I think, would be good.
00:20:39.300I think that there should be a number of choices from which to draw for a Republican National Committee chair.
00:20:46.920Why can't people see what is obvious before their very eyes?
00:20:51.280Well, I think another problem with the election is we get that Biden is bad and he was very unpopular and the Democrat policies were unpopular, and that's good.
00:21:03.780But we also should have had a positive agenda, an alternative agenda, and what Republicans would do if we were given power in the House and the Senate.
00:21:14.360One of the things that Republicans must do in the House, if we win back the House, which looks likely now, is we have to have oversight over the Justice Department.
00:21:25.320We have to have oversight over the Department of Homeland Security.
00:21:29.080These two agencies have been politicized and weaponized beyond recognition.
00:21:35.640This FBI, this DOJ, they will send the full force of the FBI to hunt down every Trump supporter who trespassed and took selfies on the Senate floor on January 6th and many others, right, under this insurrection theory.
00:21:54.480And they will put them in solitary confinement and lock them up before their trials for over a year, and yet they will not do anything about the abortion industry activists who are obstructing justice by threatening, intimidating Supreme Court justices and their families outside of their homes.
00:22:17.920They're giving amnesty to those abortion activists, yet they're going after, you know, they're going, these abortion activists are firebombing Catholic churches and firebombing pro-life pregnancy centers, yet they're sending the FBI, the Justice Department, after pro-life Christians who are praying outside of abortion clinics.
00:22:39.360This cannot continue, you can't have President Biden, his son Hunter, and President Biden's brother James get amnesty for absolute, blatant, illegal foreign corruption by taking money from Ukraine and China while Joe Biden was the vice president.
00:22:57.220Yet we're going to send the FBI and the Justice Department, after every Trump supporter, after President Trump's senior aides like the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, the senior outside advisor, Steve Bannon, the trade director, Peter Navarro, even White House counsel, the president, Pat Cipollone, you're going to wait 250 years of constitutional executive privilege to get Trump.
00:23:21.640We're even going after Trump for having presidential records at Mar-a-Lago, which he absolutely has the right to have under the Presidential Records Act.
00:23:30.440They've weaponized it. We have two systems of justice in America, and this cannot continue.
00:23:35.440Unfortunately, I think we have only one system of justice. It's a corrupt one.
00:23:41.280And I want to put what you said in the active voice. Who is it that corrupted it?
00:23:47.740Who are the corrupt leaders of the Justice Department, the FBI, and the White House?
00:23:54.680We know who they are. And too many people want to speak in the passive voice.
00:24:00.580These are crooks and criminals that people this administration.
00:24:07.120It is rancid from top to bottom, whether we're talking about the FBI or the Department of Justice.
00:24:12.900There are no holdouts, it appears. There are a handful of whistleblowers, thank God, who have stepped forward, and God bless them.
00:24:21.240But I mean, we're talking about tens of thousands of people and dozens of people have stepped forward as whistleblowers.
00:24:29.000And our Congress and our committees have done so little, it's just sickening.
00:24:34.480And when we talk about this corruption, when we talk about the direction, as long as we leave these three people in place,
00:24:42.900Ronna McDaniel, Kevin McCarthy, and Mitch McConnell, nothing will happen because they are powerless to take action.
00:26:18.040We always give our guests the last word.
00:26:20.900And, Mike, if you will, your concluding thoughts.
00:26:23.560Well, I appreciate that everything you do, I think it's really, really, really important that Republicans,
00:26:30.220conservatives get behind Herschel Walker for his runoff race in Georgia on December 6th.
00:26:35.680The reason it's so important is if Herschel Walker wins, it will be a 50-50 Senate.
00:26:41.980And that means there has to be a power-sharing agreement between Republicans and Democrats.
00:26:47.000It also means that Republicans, if there is a radical Supreme Court or other judicial nominee that Biden and Democrats are trying to jam down our throats,
00:26:56.180they can walk out, they can grind the Senate to a halt because you need 51 senators in order to have a quorum.
00:27:02.900This is a critical, bright-glass Senate race down in Georgia.
00:27:08.680And we have to win this race because if Democrats get 51 votes instead of 50-50, they don't need a power-sharing agreement.
00:27:17.400And we could see Democrats nuke the legislative filibuster, meaning it goes from 60 votes down to 51 votes.
00:27:23.840And they can try to pack the Supreme Courts.
00:27:27.520They can try to add states like Puerto Rico with more Democrat senators.
00:27:43.620If we want a fighting chance to stop President Trump's record-smashing transformation of the federal judiciary,
00:27:50.380including potentially the Supreme Court, it will all be lost if the Democrats, if the Marxists left, win the federal judiciary.
00:27:57.220That is our last line of defense, and we need to protect it.
00:28:00.400That means getting out there and supporting Herschel Walker.
00:28:02.360Would you be surprised if Mitch McConnell showed up in Georgia supporting Herschel Walker?
00:28:10.720I hope that Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, I hope every Republican in this country gets behind Herschel Walker so we can get him over the finish line and we can have a 50-50 Senate.
00:28:27.160Remember, we have Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin who are in cycle.