The Great America Show - VICTORIES DON’T HAVE TO BE RED WAVES

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and welcome to The Great America Show.

00:00:04.540 I have to be straightforward with you from the very beginning. I had hope leading up to this

00:00:10.920 week that the midterm elections would, in some profound ways, resolve important issues that

00:00:16.420 divide our nation and our people. I know you, perhaps most of us, were, in fact, hoping for

00:00:22.840 the same resolution. Of course, an election that ended on our own terms with our values and

00:00:30.380 philosophy and beliefs held up by most, if not all, of our countrymen, our fellow patriots.

00:00:36.500 We didn't succeed, did we, in that hope? But we did make advances in that direction.

00:00:42.960 Our existential midterm election has answered some important questions in and about America,

00:00:49.960 and did succeed in halting, at least momentarily, our blind descent into open conflict in our

00:00:57.000 fractured society. But yesterday's vote didn't answer all our questions or truly and finally

00:01:04.200 resolve our conflicts between warring parties and between our visions for this great republic

00:01:10.600 and all Americans united. It was supposed to be a great red wave, a red tsunami, predicted by a

00:01:19.060 number of pollsters and politicos, and most of us had hoped against hope that we would see that

00:01:24.660 unfold. So, no, we didn't win a wave. We didn't win a transformational victory, nor a mandate.

00:01:33.060 But we did win victories, like the re-election of Congresswoman Claudia Tenney of New York.

00:01:38.820 We talked with her last night as she celebrated her re-election to the House of Representatives.

00:01:43.780 Congratulations, Representative Tenney, on winning re-election. You're a terrific force in Congress,

00:01:50.820 and I know you have to be pleased with your margin of victory, richly deserved.

00:01:56.020 Well, thank you so much. It's been a tremendously difficult year in New York. We've had redistricting,

00:02:00.820 lawsuits, two primaries, lots of confusion. And I have a very new district that thankfully looks

00:02:09.460 favorably on me as I had a big primary win, and now we're seeing an even bigger general election win,

00:02:15.300 which I'm really grateful to the voters and hoping to see a little more excitement on the statewide

00:02:20.420 level. I know we've got a lot of tight races here, but there's still a lot of votes to be counted,

00:02:25.780 and we're hoping that these are going to come down to the wire, and we're going to see some big

00:02:29.700 winds, and we're going to take back the House. Well, as you would say, it looks like there's

00:02:37.380 going to be some headwinds. Is it your judgment that that tsunami is now perhaps more of a wave,

00:02:45.620 or perhaps is it even not a red wave? I was always cautious about this. I thought we would

00:02:52.980 probably gain around 15 seats, and I still think that we're probably on track to do that.

00:02:58.740 I see some big winds out there still. It's early. You don't know what you can watch on TV. You don't

00:03:04.180 know where these votes are coming unless you've got the inside data. Because I know, first of all,

00:03:09.380 you see them all come out, and they're all early votes popping out first. And then you're going to

00:03:13.940 see the early votes are typically Democrats. The absentee ballots are typically Democrats,

00:03:19.060 usually two to one margin. So you're going to see as the numbers come in, the Republican

00:03:24.260 candidates chip away at those. And that's what we're seeing. So a lot of the votes are just

00:03:28.580 starting to come in. A lot of confusion. Obviously, we see issues in Arizona. But it's going to be

00:03:34.980 interesting to see what ultimately happens when we get to the end here. I see some nice wins out of

00:03:40.020 Virginia. I see Glenn Youngkin was on. Some good wins out of New York. I think Michael Lawler is

00:03:44.900 looking really strong. It should be interesting to see who ends up winning. You know, they're not

00:03:49.380 showing, they're only showing the swing seats. They're not showing a lot of the big wins that we could be

00:03:54.340 seeing down in New York, in Long Island, where although it looks like Lee Zeldin is not going

00:04:00.100 to prevail here yet. He was very strong in different parts of the state, including Long Island, where

00:04:06.260 he's from in New York. So I see that there's still a lot of a lot of votes to be counted. So it's going

00:04:12.100 to come down to the wire. Thankfully, I'm not going to be the one with my votes down to the wire as I was

00:04:16.900 in 2020, where I was up by 28,422 votes and ended up only winning by 109. And that's after 100 days in

00:04:26.100 court. But we fought it out. We started the Election Integrity Caucus. As I've cautioned everyone who

00:04:31.780 talks about this red wave, red tsunami, we have huge issues we've got to deal with with election

00:04:37.700 integrity. And we are going to continue to work on those issues. So I'm hoping that we're going to,

00:04:43.540 you know, continue to correct that as time goes forward. And, and we take back the House this,

00:04:48.100 this year. As bad as the state of this economy has been, and is the pain that's been inflicted by this,

00:04:56.260 this puppet president, this election is far, far closer than anyone, I think, frankly,

00:05:04.740 a conservative Republican independent could have ever imagined. Your thoughts?

00:05:09.860 Yeah, it is very close. And that's because we have a lot of problems with communication. We've got

00:05:16.500 a media that is in the tank with the left wing and the Democrats. We have Democrats who

00:05:22.260 don't acknowledge, you know, that, that we are a constitutional republic. We keep hearing about

00:05:27.220 democracy, democracy. You know, we are a constitutional republic that's self-governing.

00:05:32.260 We are not a straight democracy. And that's by design, because our founders were concerned about

00:05:36.500 the tyranny of the majority. It's one of the reasons, you know, I'm a former newspaper owner.

00:05:41.060 I'm an attorney. I explain every vote that I take in the House because I want to decode what's going

00:05:45.940 on in Washington. I want the voters to know that they, what, what, why bills are named a certain way

00:05:52.420 and they don't do what they say they're going to do. I want to make sure that the public is able to be

00:05:57.540 self-governing. Remember, that was the quintessential question that Lincoln asked during one of the

00:06:02.500 worst moments in our nation's history. The civil war was the question of, yeah, can we save the

00:06:07.140 republic? But more importantly, can we be self-governing? And we're at that precipice.

00:06:11.540 And it looks to me right now, like New York state is not in a position to be self-governing. I'm very

00:06:17.380 concerned about the future of New York state. If we continue with one party rule and the kind of tyranny

00:06:23.300 and the kind of authoritarianism we're seeing from Kathy Hochul, unprecedented.

00:06:28.420 She makes Andrew Cuomo look like someone who's a moderate. And this is a, this is a, I'm very,

00:06:34.500 very worried about the future of New York state. I'm very worried that the empire state is going

00:06:39.540 to look like the exodus state if we don't take back some of these key seats in Congress and we

00:06:44.740 don't chip away at some of these Senate seats and also a number of the assembly seats that,

00:06:50.340 to take back the super majority that they hold in the New York state legislature. I think what you're

00:06:56.020 seeing, you know, you see the Democrats talking about Ron DeSantis saying, you know,

00:07:00.020 oh, he won because he gerrymandered. And my question is, yes, he moved all kinds of Republicans

00:07:05.300 from the Northeast where they didn't feel their government was working for them. And they moved

00:07:09.860 to Florida where they could find freedom and a governor that actually represented their values.

00:07:14.580 And that's why you see a resounding win out of not just Governor DeSantis, but all the waves he

00:07:21.700 brought through big wins in Miami-Dade, those areas which are traditionally Democrat areas,

00:07:27.060 he brought in a huge number of votes. Maria Salazar winning with big numbers, Carlos Jimenez winning

00:07:32.820 in big numbers. It was amazing. So I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the votes coming

00:07:37.780 in, but I'm seeing now, as we flip through the screens here on my TV, that more and more Republicans

00:07:42.820 are coming in. So I don't think the wave is going to be as big as some projected, but it's going to be about

00:07:48.260 where I projected. And that's because I'm concerned about election integrity and whether we're really

00:07:53.300 getting our message out there on that issue. And to that issue, Congresswoman, Maricopa County in

00:08:01.540 Arizona, machine problems. Also in New Jersey, as we look around the country, Pennsylvania, some of the

00:08:11.620 the original problem states, certainly. Having problems once again with two years to prepare,

00:08:20.740 it's inexcusable. Electoral integrity is, as you are demonstrating through your leadership,

00:08:28.580 is absolutely critical. Yet we still have three major electronic voting companies, private companies,

00:08:36.820 who are all unregulated. And that is just a straightforward fact. I don't want them,

00:08:42.420 frankly, regulated by the federal government. I want them regulated by state governments, but

00:08:47.700 they're not even that. Most secretaries of state and county clerks who administer, who run elections in

00:08:55.940 the states don't even know what a machine is or what happens in that little black box. Can you speak to that?

00:09:02.740 Yeah, it's a huge, it's an issue. Look, it should be one citizen, one vote. You're seeing the

00:09:08.900 vote diluted by attempts to put non-citizens in to vote in our elections. You see a move by Democrats,

00:09:14.980 particularly in New York, against having a photo ID to vote, which has been, it's an 85 percent winner

00:09:23.220 when you deal with all, across all polling, all demographics and all ethnicities. Everybody agrees that

00:09:29.460 that's something they want. But I mean, it's really about being bold enough to get the message out

00:09:34.420 there and not be accused of being an election denier. This is what the Democrats are so effective

00:09:39.220 at saying. You challenge an election or the situation in an election, and suddenly you're an election

00:09:44.580 denier. I've had Democrats in New York City, where it's all about primaries there because they're all

00:09:50.260 Democrats, complain to me and say, we need election integrity. I'm like, join my caucus. And you know,

00:09:55.300 they end up losing in primaries. They have issues down there. But because they, the majority ruling

00:10:01.380 class of the Democrats in New York, they don't want to fix it. And that's what you're seeing around the

00:10:05.460 country. We need to be bold and we need to take this seriously. We cannot let the Democrats continue

00:10:10.900 what they've been doing to undermine our elections while they accuse us. That's exactly what they're

00:10:15.860 doing. While they suppress the vote, we want every citizen to vote because guess what happens? And we

00:10:20.820 have huge turnouts. Republicans win. And that's because people feel trust in the system. So it's

00:10:26.740 a never ending fight. We've got to continue on that on that on that vein. We thank you very much,

00:10:31.860 Congresswoman, for being with us. Thank you so much. Congratulations. Thank you for the kind words.

00:10:37.540 Yeah, thank you. It is, as Congresswoman Tenney said, a never ending fight. While some of our elected

00:10:44.660 officials like Congresswoman Tenney are pursuing important and critical public policy goals,

00:10:50.820 our media of all kinds, but last night, mostly the cable and TV network kind,

00:10:56.900 press propaganda and refer to Republican politicians and elected officials who question the integrity of

00:11:04.260 the 2020 election as election deniers. They insist that you not be properly skeptical of all media in

00:11:12.100 this age of disinformation and lies, particularly of the political kind. Here's CNN's John King asking

00:11:20.740 his audience to suspend their critical judgment and rely on the good work of government,

00:11:26.820 especially the government most proximate, closest to you.

00:11:32.420 Keeping an eye on that one. That's good. But you see, that's our first votes. And that's the

00:11:35.540 wonder of democracy, whether you're a Democrat or Republican. And I wanted to point that out

00:11:39.060 to be a little bit of the crank in the room following Brianna there. Stay off social media,

00:11:42.820 people. If you're trying to figure out, if you're trying to figure out, are there really issues with

00:11:46.740 voting? Trust your local officials. Trust us here. Trust a news source that you know and trust to be

00:11:52.020 honest about this. They're doing their jobs and they're doing it right. I offer another request

00:11:56.340 of you. Don't suspend your critical judgment, please. Especially when it comes to politics,

00:12:02.180 government and media, all of it, but particularly corporate media. And when it comes to elections,

00:12:09.140 we need to first speak honestly about them. And when there's a question about irregularity

00:12:14.900 or anomaly or outright appearance of impropriety or fraud, we should investigate. And we, the public,

00:12:22.820 should have the answers forthwith. And certainly, at least in the time it takes to hold an election

00:12:29.220 and to count the votes. Until then, the clock is ticking on the survival of our great republic.

00:12:35.860 Let's fight. And let's fight to win. Thanks for being with us. Thanks for voting. And here tomorrow,

00:12:42.580 our guest will be Congressman Andy Biggs, former head of the Congressional Freedom Caucus,

00:12:47.380 and a great American. Till then, God bless you. And may God bless America.

The Great America Show - November 09, 2022

VICTORIES DON’T HAVE TO BE RED WAVES

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