The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1122 - Democrats Survive ＂The Red Wave＂

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00:00:30.000 While the Georgia Senate race remains neck and neck,

00:00:32.760 potentially heads to a runoff,

00:00:34.080 and Arizona continues to make a mockery of our electoral process,

00:00:37.660 the rest of the country has finished selecting its politicians for this cycle.

00:00:44.020 The night seems like I hope it will technically be a win for Republicans,

00:00:50.260 sort of actually remains to be seen.

00:00:52.200 Either way, even if Republicans do take the House,

00:00:55.260 even if Republicans do take the Senate,

00:00:57.560 given the lofty ambitions of the GOP,

00:01:00.680 the modest pickups have felt more like a loss.

00:01:04.540 But we won't be talking about that for very long,

00:01:07.280 because even though the Maricopa County voting machines

00:01:10.980 haven't even cooled off yet,

00:01:13.560 the GOP has already moved on to the race for 2024.

00:01:18.060 The election is dead.

00:01:20.500 Long live the election.

00:01:22.580 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:23.640 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:32.420 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:33.760 My favorite comment yesterday is from Aaron Levitt,

00:01:36.900 who says,

00:01:37.340 The Dems are telling us that they have managed us so well

00:01:40.380 that we, the richest country in the world,

00:01:42.560 can now afford canned pasta.

00:01:44.980 Yes, not a great election pitch,

00:01:46.840 and yet the Dems did pretty well.

00:01:48.380 Although the man who made that claim,

00:01:50.860 the man who advised people who are struggling

00:01:53.940 in Biden's economy to just go eat Chef Boyardee,

00:01:56.860 that guy did lose his job last night.

00:01:58.880 And we'll get to that,

00:01:59.580 because I'm very excited about that race.

00:02:01.140 There's still some big wins.

00:02:02.320 There's still some great stories from election night,

00:02:05.160 but it was not the total bloodbath

00:02:07.060 that a lot of people had been expecting.

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00:03:46.780 So there was good news last night.

00:03:48.840 There was.

00:03:49.620 I don't want to be one of these conservatives

00:03:51.040 who is just constantly catastrophizing everything

00:03:53.260 and saying that the sky is falling down.

00:03:54.720 There was good news.

00:03:55.900 J.D. Vance beats Tim Ryan in Ohio.

00:03:58.740 An important Senate seat.

00:04:01.240 This race had been kind of close.

00:04:03.560 J.D. Vance is a new right kind of candidate.

00:04:07.840 He's a candidate who's running

00:04:09.140 not just on the old, tired, you know,

00:04:12.300 tax cuts and ignore the culture kind of issues,

00:04:14.820 but J.D. Vance is running on explicitly

00:04:16.900 a pro-family policy.

00:04:19.580 He's running on an anti-immigration platform,

00:04:23.440 not just anti-legal immigration,

00:04:25.020 but restricting all immigration.

00:04:27.020 So he's running a very conservative,

00:04:30.900 kind of Trumpy, kind of populist,

00:04:33.400 kind of nationalist, kind of, I don't know,

00:04:34.820 whatever ist you want to call it,

00:04:36.280 not the old rhino establishment kind of campaign.

00:04:38.920 And that was a big win,

00:04:39.720 because Tim Ryan, the Democrat,

00:04:41.260 had positioned himself as a working man's Democrat.

00:04:44.480 You know, I'm not one of these

00:04:45.260 latte-sipping liberals.

00:04:46.740 I'm a blue-collar kind of Democrat.

00:04:49.080 And it was completely disingenuous

00:04:51.040 coming from Tim Ryan,

00:04:52.100 but the pitch seemed to be kind of working

00:04:53.900 on the campaign trail.

00:04:54.800 Okay, J.D. wins in Ohio.

00:04:56.200 They say, as goes Ohio, so goes the nation.

00:04:58.320 So that was good stuff.

00:05:00.080 Bad news, we just got out of Michigan.

00:05:02.300 Michigan Whitmer,

00:05:03.880 this awful leftist governor in Michigan,

00:05:07.160 she beat Tudor Dixon,

00:05:08.920 who had made a real play for Michigan.

00:05:11.380 Good, seemed like a decent Republican candidate,

00:05:14.480 but just could not go the distance.

00:05:16.060 So Democrats win there.

00:05:18.800 Kathy Hochul in New York

00:05:19.940 beats Lee Zeldin, the Republican.

00:05:21.960 I don't want to beat up on Lee Zeldin too much.

00:05:24.620 Lee Zeldin ran a New York Republican

00:05:26.660 kind of campaign.

00:05:27.820 He's not some rock-ribbed,

00:05:29.540 right-wing conservative.

00:05:31.120 But he put up the most credible campaign,

00:05:34.780 the most credible threat

00:05:35.980 to Democrat power in New York

00:05:38.120 since George Pataki.

00:05:39.920 It was a really impressive campaign.

00:05:41.860 He got pretty close.

00:05:43.300 He lost in the end.

00:05:44.440 Kathy Hochul wins.

00:05:45.400 The Democrats win. 0.56

00:05:46.920 Too bad.

00:05:48.220 The big race that people are looking at

00:05:50.340 is Herschel Walker versus Raphael Warnock.

00:05:52.500 Right now, that is in a complete dead heat.

00:05:54.740 Neither candidate,

00:05:55.480 as of some minutes before this show began today,

00:05:59.760 neither candidate had over 50%,

00:06:01.840 which means that that race

00:06:03.220 is likely headed to a runoff.

00:06:05.520 It's a little frustrating too,

00:06:07.560 because the Libertarian candidate there

00:06:09.600 did act as a spoiler.

00:06:12.160 And even just the 1% to 2%

00:06:13.840 that the Libertarian candidate got

00:06:15.160 would be enough

00:06:16.240 to have put Herschel Walker over the line.

00:06:18.800 But Herschel Walker had problems as a candidate,

00:06:20.620 so it could be headed to a runoff. 0.51

00:06:21.820 If that race goes to a runoff,

00:06:24.520 probably doesn't bode very well

00:06:26.240 for Herschel Walker,

00:06:27.860 because Herschel Walker was riding,

00:06:30.300 I think he hoped,

00:06:31.560 national political headwinds

00:06:33.180 for the Republicans

00:06:34.040 and was riding on Governor Kemp's coattails.

00:06:37.540 Governor Brian Kemp won,

00:06:38.960 so that's an important race.

00:06:40.660 But for Herschel,

00:06:41.960 if it's just him,

00:06:43.060 just versus Warnock,

00:06:44.400 knowing also that Democrats

00:06:45.760 are much better at runoff-type races,

00:06:49.060 that's not great news.

00:06:50.040 Now, I mentioned Brian Kemp.

00:06:52.160 This was fabulous news.

00:06:54.120 So Brian Kemp absolutely destroys

00:06:57.180 the governor pretender in exile,

00:07:02.920 Stacey Abrams,

00:07:03.860 the president of the universe,

00:07:05.220 according to Star Trek.

00:07:06.880 Stacey Abrams has never really conceded

00:07:09.140 her gubernatorial loss in 2018,

00:07:11.320 and she just got completely destroyed

00:07:13.460 with facts and logic and votes last night.

00:07:16.840 It was so bad that she had to concede.

00:07:19.040 This is a woman who a lot of us thought

00:07:20.580 maybe she just won't concede.

00:07:22.520 She still hasn't conceded her race

00:07:23.940 from four years ago.

00:07:25.240 Well, she had to concede this time.

00:07:26.760 It was just so bad.

00:07:28.200 He beat her 53.5% to 45.8%.

00:07:33.240 So you can't really claim voter fraud

00:07:36.920 in that kind of a race,

00:07:39.020 especially when the Democrat loses,

00:07:40.680 and the Democrats are the ones

00:07:41.640 who are known for their shenanigans.

00:07:43.240 So she lost, and she has conceded.

00:07:45.680 And then another totally satisfying race. 0.91

00:07:48.900 This was so delicious.

00:07:51.060 This was so delectable.

00:07:53.380 Beto O'Rourke just got BTFO'd.

00:07:58.060 I mean, just got absolutely blown out of the water.

00:08:01.540 And the race was 55.6% to 43.1%. 0.88

00:08:07.640 Devastating.

00:08:09.880 Republicans are just being absolutely merciless 0.97

00:08:12.500 and their mockery of him,

00:08:13.940 which we will get to a little bit later on in the show.

00:08:16.920 But really, really good news there.

00:08:20.020 And then there were just some losses.

00:08:22.380 And one of the most painful losses

00:08:23.820 for a lot of people, I think,

00:08:25.200 is the Pennsylvania Senate race.

00:08:27.400 Dr. Oz loses to John Fetterman.

00:08:28.900 Here's Fetterman's victory speech.

00:08:31.060 Yeah, I'm not really sure really

00:08:33.900 what to say right now.

00:08:35.100 My goodness.

00:08:35.520 We love you!

00:08:36.960 We love you!

00:08:38.000 We love you!

00:08:38.500 We love you!

00:08:39.500 We love you!

00:08:40.500 We love you!

00:08:41.500 I am...

00:08:44.620 Is that your winner?

00:08:46.820 Yeah.

00:08:51.860 Say your statement!

00:08:56.000 You're on the气елей! 0.68

00:08:58.400 You did it!

00:09:00.460 Yeah, I mean, uh...

00:09:02.020 So, I am...

00:09:07.620 I'm so humbled.

00:09:08.440 Thank you so much, really.

00:09:09.760 Thank you. Thank you. John Fetterman, I am not really sure what to say right now.

00:09:16.060 Truer words have never been spoken by a victorious Senate candidate. Now, this one did not surprise

00:09:21.320 me. This surprised a lot of Republicans. Didn't surprise me. I was predicting Fetterman would

00:09:25.080 win going into the election. That's because, well, one, it's because Philadelphia is known

00:09:30.820 for some shenanigans, especially in close races. But even more than that, because Dr. Oz was a

00:09:35.440 terrible candidate, and I've made no bones about that fact. I think he's just awful. I think he's 0.56

00:09:39.160 a total loser. And so I'm not surprised that he lost. And it was unfortunate that he was the 1.00

00:09:44.580 nominee. And then he lost to a man who had an absolutely horrible record, no professional

00:09:50.160 accomplishments in his life, a radical vision for the country, and brain damage such that he

00:09:54.760 couldn't even really campaign. Nevertheless, he won. And that's a real gut punch for Republicans.

00:09:59.300 Now, again, I don't think the fact that Republicans lost to a guy with brain damage, as is the headline

00:10:05.020 right now. I don't think that's actually the big issue here. Okay? Because if it were me,

00:10:10.860 if I were a Pennsylvania voter, and it were reversed, and it was the Republican who had

00:10:15.080 had some health problem, and he wasn't really functioning, he wasn't on the campaign trail,

00:10:20.220 versus some articulate Democrat, I would still vote for the Republican. I don't really care.

00:10:24.820 I want the Senate majority. I want a guy who's going to reliably vote for the right stuff.

00:10:28.780 And so I'm not really surprised by all that. The health issue doesn't bug me nearly as much

00:10:35.860 as his just insane policy agenda. Now, I mentioned this question of fraud and irregularities and

00:10:44.120 shenanigans and all of that. I don't think Republicans can blame these losses on voter fraud,

00:10:50.920 because we did get most of the results last night relatively quickly. Now, you might still say

00:10:57.320 there's a big problem with widespread mail-in voting. I do think that's a problem. I do think

00:11:01.520 that's open to abuse. I do think there's a problem with ballot harvesting. I do think

00:11:05.040 there's a problem with early voting. I think all of these things are absolutely awful and have no place

00:11:10.160 in a stable, sacred democracy that we are supposed to be. And I do think it opens up the possibility

00:11:17.820 of fraud. That's not my crazy conspiratorial view. That's the view of Barack Obama. That's the view of

00:11:23.200 basically everybody with two brain cells to rub together. So yeah, that's all a problem. But we

00:11:29.180 did get most of the results last night. And so there are other problems. There are other political

00:11:33.840 problems. Why did the Republicans not do nearly as well as we were supposed to? We'll get into that.

00:11:39.340 In terms of the issues where, the places where fraud really may have been a problem,

00:11:45.060 the top of that list, is Maricopa County. Maricopa County, early in the day,

00:11:54.300 we're talking about a county that had problems in 2020 in a state that was hotly contested in 2020.

00:11:58.900 There were lots of questions about voter integrity. And early in the day, one-fifth of the voting

00:12:05.740 machines in Maricopa County malfunctioned. Here's a poll worker explaining what happened.

00:12:10.900 So I pulled my ballot in, but so it didn't, it got misread, but then what was happening?

00:12:17.600 Put it in there. Yeah. And tonight, a Republican and a Democrat will sit and go through all of the

00:12:23.840 misread ballots all over the county. Okay. And count them. And it will get counted. Okay. Okay.

00:12:30.620 And both machines were not working, yeah? No, nothing's working in the last half hour. Nothing.

00:12:35.220 Thank you. Nothing's working for the last half hour. Sounds like the people who,

00:12:39.120 not that nice sounding lady, but the people who set up those machines, the people whose only job 1.00

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00:13:52.220 the smartest way to hire. Lots of problems in Maricopa County. Some of the poll workers made 0.97

00:13:59.580 it sound even dodgier. Take a listen. So what happens if we have two tabulators?

00:14:05.220 One of the tabulators is not working, okay? The other tabulator is taking about 75% successful.

00:14:13.440 So 25% of them are being misread, and it could be a printer issue, or it could be the tabulator itself.

00:14:20.920 So when it's misread, you have an option to put it into what's called box 3, and it gets read,

00:14:26.580 whether it goes downtown and gets read manually, or whether it gets refed in into our tabulator.

00:14:31.460 You don't want to adjudicate. It gets read, okay? So no one's trying to see in any way.

00:14:37.720 Of course not. Not on election day. That would never happen, right? No. That would never happen.

00:14:42.760 So choices are, you know, you guys...

00:14:45.920 Can I ask you a question? Sure.

00:14:46.780 If I get up there, and that happens in my ballot, can I take my ballot with me and go somewhere else?

00:14:51.320 You do not need premises with the ballot. Sorry. And there's not even a...

00:14:56.500 Because I don't trust you going to box. The box may never make me down there.

00:15:00.100 No. No way.

00:15:00.780 And that happens all the time. The choices...

00:15:02.080 I'll come back.

00:15:03.080 So you hear this poll worker, and he says, listen, yeah, it's true. A huge number of these voting machines

00:15:08.740 just don't work for some reason in this hotly contested county, in a swing state, in a oopsie-daisy.

00:15:15.560 But no one's trying to deceive anyone. And you hear the guy filming. He says, oh, yeah, right.

00:15:19.280 Yeah, no one's ever trying to deceive anyone on election day.

00:15:22.800 Which brings me to this question of election denial and questioning the integrity of our elections.

00:15:29.020 There has been this ironic attack from Democrats since 2020. The attack of the election denier.

00:15:38.100 You're an election denier. And they use that phrase because it reminds people of Holocaust denier.

00:15:43.660 The event denier formula is meant to direct your attention to Holocaust denier. That's why they

00:15:51.440 sometimes do it with climate denier as well. And so it's just a disgusting sort of a smear.

00:15:57.300 And it's ironic, of course, because Democrats have been denying elections a lot longer and in

00:16:01.480 much greater numbers than the Republicans have. But now are we really to believe that there are

00:16:08.820 no questions ever on election day, that no one ever tries to deceive anyone on election day?

00:16:12.820 What are you talking about? Everyone is trying to deceive everyone on election day. That's why we

00:16:17.120 have poll watchers. That's why we had such serious rules in place to prevent this kind of stuff from

00:16:23.340 happening. The conspiracy theory is not election denial. The conspiracy theory is election denial

00:16:29.520 denial or election fraud denial. That's the conspiracy theory because there has been fraud.

00:16:36.240 There have been shenanigans in every election going back at least to Pericles and probably much further

00:16:41.020 back than that. That's why we need rules in place to prevent this sort of stuff from happening. 0.98

00:16:46.060 You hear the guys come out who are in charge of this in Maricopa County, and they just sound

00:16:53.940 absolutely feckless. They say, yeah, there's some problems. Don't worry, we're working on it.

00:16:57.880 We had all 223 vote centers have opened. We've already had over 45,000 people who have checked in

00:17:05.720 and already voted today. We did want to come out and discuss one issue that's going on out there

00:17:11.460 in about 20% of the vote centers. Again, we have 223 vote centers across the county. In about 20% of

00:17:19.660 those, when people will go and they try and run the ballot through this tabulator, maybe one out of

00:17:26.880 every five or so of those ballots, they're not going through.

00:17:31.240 So it's, yeah, it's, you know, it's not, look, everything's going great. It's just that one out

00:17:35.280 of five votes are not being counted properly. So what's the solution to that? The solution,

00:17:39.980 as this guy explains, and it's funny, his name is Bill Gates. I assume no relation, but for those who

00:17:45.440 are a little more skeptical of the established powers that be, that's kind of a funny coincidence,

00:17:50.740 lots of coincidences. And so anyway, this guy says, okay, if your ballot's not being printed or

00:17:56.800 being processed correctly, then here you go, just put it in this random box.

00:18:02.100 We've got about 20% of the locations out there where there's an issue with the tabulator,

00:18:08.940 where some of the ballots that after people have voted them, they try and run them through the

00:18:13.440 tabulator and they're not going through. But the good thing is, is we do, first of all,

00:18:18.700 we're trying to fix this problem as quickly as possible. And we also have a redundancy in place.

00:18:23.960 If you can't put the ballot in the tabulator, then you can simply place it here in where you

00:18:30.220 see the number three. And this is a secure box where those ballots will be kept for later this

00:18:37.160 evening, where we'll bring them in here to central count to tabulate them.

00:18:41.460 So this will function much like early voting functions.

00:18:44.220 And there we go. I bet it will. I bet it will. This will function, this redundancy that's in

00:18:50.000 place for 20%, what an implausibly high number of the ballots in Maricopa County.

00:18:55.600 This will function largely as early voting. Right, I'm sure it will. And the reason that

00:19:01.020 Republicans are crying foul over this is because early voting, one, is more open to fraud than same

00:19:07.440 day voting than proper register, get the count by the end of the night voting. And because

00:19:12.400 mail-in voting and early voting both favor Democrats. So I have no doubt that that's how

00:19:19.880 the redundancy would function. But that's a big problem. Carrie Lake, who was looking great, 1.00

00:19:25.360 the Republican candidate for governor, Arizona, she was looking great early yesterday. And now it's 0.86

00:19:29.740 very unclear if she will win. Carrie Lake decided to go vote in a liberal precinct. She said no problems

00:19:36.360 there. We switched from a Republican area to vote. We came right down into the heart of liberal Phoenix

00:19:42.240 to vote because we wanted to make sure that we had good machines. And guess what? They've had zero

00:19:48.580 problems with their machines today. Not one machine spit out a ballot here today. Not one in a very liberal

00:19:55.860 area. So we were right to come and vote in a liberal area. They got to fix this problem. This

00:20:01.120 is incompetency. I hope it's not malice, but we're going to fix it. We're going to win. And when we win,

00:20:08.020 there's going to be come to Jesus for elections in Arizona. There's going to be a come to Jesus.

00:20:13.860 So I hope Carrie Lake wins. But the point she's raising here is, yeah, it's one in five 0.84

00:20:19.840 poll centers, poll machines in Maricopa County, but it's not evenly distributed.

00:20:25.520 Her claim, at least, again, we don't know. We're kind of in the fog of war on this election night.

00:20:30.880 But her claim is that the liberal precincts did not have the problems. It was the conservative

00:20:37.120 precincts that did, which would explain how Maricopa County, which is pretty liberal,

00:20:42.420 would be the epicenter of some of these problems. Well, yeah, if it's only affecting the conservative

00:20:48.220 precincts, not the liberal ones, again, that's an if based on what Carrie Lake is saying,

00:20:53.460 then that seems a little strange. One place where there was no ambiguity,

00:20:58.900 this was the bright spot of the night, Ron DeSantis absolutely destroyed in Florida.

00:21:05.680 He destroyed his opponent, Charlie Crist. Ron DeSantis won re-election 59.4% to 39.9%.

00:21:13.240 Ron DeSantis barely won his first election as governor of Florida. He absolutely crushed it

00:21:19.860 in his re-election. Why did that happen? Well, in part, let's not forget, he did tighten up

00:21:26.360 election laws. I don't think that's the chief reason. That's part of it. Why did he? Because

00:21:30.540 he's been a great governor of Florida, and everybody loves the guy down there. And he just led the way

00:21:35.600 in the nation, especially among the governors, on COVID and on education and on dealing with woke

00:21:42.120 corporations. And he's just been a fabulous, fabulous governor. And so as a result of this last

00:21:48.340 night, Ron DeSantis has a very credible case to run against Donald Trump for president.

00:21:56.460 Going into last night, a lot of people would not have said that. They would have said Donald Trump

00:22:01.160 is so far up in the polls, it's 70% plus. DeSantis is somewhere around 10%. It's just,

00:22:07.260 if Trump decides he's running, he clears the field. No one can credibly run against him.

00:22:14.380 After last night, especially where a lot of Trump-endorsed candidates did not do very well

00:22:19.160 for whatever reason. And Ron DeSantis not only destroyed in his re-election campaign,

00:22:25.860 but really brought Florida very firmly into the Republican camp. Ron DeSantis now could very

00:22:32.760 credibly come out, even if Donald Trump announces that he's running for president next week.

00:22:36.880 And it's, I think, unclear that he will do that. He had implied that he would do that,

00:22:41.960 but after last night, after the Republicans did not do nearly as well as we thought we would,

00:22:46.500 it's unclear if he will do that. But even if he does, Ron DeSantis, I think, could announce a run

00:22:50.800 against him. And he could have, he could have a very serious campaign. And if Ron DeSantis runs on his

00:22:58.640 record, runs on the election wins in Florida, runs on the underperformance of the Republicans

00:23:04.320 nationally, particularly some of the Trump-endorsed candidates, that's a good case.

00:23:08.940 Now, there's one candidate in Florida who is a Senate candidate there, Republican,

00:23:14.080 who Trump did not endorse, who Ron DeSantis did endorse. And that candidate lost. So some people

00:23:19.060 are going to say, well, look, it's not just that Trump's endorsements weren't that great,

00:23:22.400 but DeSantis' endorsements nationwide, that one guy didn't do that well. And on the rest,

00:23:27.460 DeSantis and Trump were basically agreed. Okay, yeah, I just think that gets wiped away when you look at the

00:23:33.120 massive shift of voters to the Republican Party in Florida. Now, again, is that all thanks to

00:23:39.900 DeSantis? Is part of that thanks to the coronavirus? Is part of that thanks to the lockdowns and people

00:23:45.020 voting with their feet? So you just see an influx of Republicans into Florida. Now, is that thanks

00:23:50.300 to Ron DeSantis? Because Ron DeSantis was covering in a good way. There's a little bit of a chicken and

00:23:53.920 an egg here. But the upshot of all of it is, we now have, now that the 2022 midterms are over,

00:23:59.100 we now have a much, much more competitive 2024 Republican presidential primary than we did

00:24:05.820 two days ago. How is Donald Trump reacting to the much more competitive Republican presidential

00:24:13.580 primary because Ron DeSantis did so well in Florida? He is threatening him. So Trump comes out,

00:24:22.720 says in an interview with Fox News Digital, quote,

00:24:25.000 quote, DeSantis shouldn't run. You know, I don't think he should run. It would not go very well

00:24:30.320 for him. And then he says, this is a direct quote, I would tell you things about him that won't be very

00:24:36.140 flattering. I know more about him than anybody other than perhaps his wife. So there's a threat.

00:24:45.320 Trump is, and I don't think it's an idle threat. I bet the Trump campaign has pretty good oppo research

00:24:50.200 on DeSantis because DeSantis has been the chief threat to Trump on the right for months now or

00:24:57.400 more than months, even over a year now. And so I'm sure he's got some oppo on it. What is the threat

00:25:02.300 here? The threat here seems to me, Ron DeSantis, I'm going to say that you've got woman problems, 0.99

00:25:08.840 right? I think that's why he includes that line other than perhaps your wife. And that's one of the

00:25:15.660 lowest hanging fruits in politics is to accuse someone of having an affair or whatever. Obviously,

00:25:20.520 Trump has been accused of this many times. And it was an issue in the 2016 campaign.

00:25:25.100 So I think that's what he's saying. He said, I got a lot of dirty laundry on you.

00:25:28.100 Now, maybe he's, Trump is also insinuating, I've got, you know, more political scandals,

00:25:34.240 or I've got financial scandals, or I've got this, or I've got that. But I think from this threat here,

00:25:39.060 Trump is clearly insinuating that he's got a sex scandal up his sleeve. Now, is Trump bluffing?

00:25:45.200 Trump has bluffed many times before. But what you can see is this is starting to get

00:25:50.220 nasty. Now, all the nastiness is coming from Trump. You'll notice DeSantis is not attacking

00:25:55.240 Donald Trump at all, which does seem to suggest that DeSantis is feeling very confident right now.

00:26:01.760 Trump is feeling less confident. The fact that Trump attacked DeSantis the other day,

00:26:05.980 called him Ron DeSanctimonious, was evidence, I think, of Trump feeling a little insecure here.

00:26:12.840 Because Trump, whatever you want to say about his attacks, and they can be brutal and they've

00:26:17.900 destroyed people. Trump, to my knowledge, has never started a fight. Someone always attacks

00:26:25.980 them first, and it might just be a mild offense. And then Trump comes in and clobbers them.

00:26:31.060 But Trump, as a rule, does not really seem to attack first. In the case of DeSantis,

00:26:36.440 he attacks first. Why? Because I think he realizes he's got to sideline Ron because Ron right now has

00:26:44.000 a ton of momentum. And coming out of these midterms, he's got a ton of momentum. Again,

00:26:48.700 though, everybody seems to be going into camp. So I'm still a Trump guy. Well, Ron DeSantis is the

00:26:55.700 greatest thing since sliced bread. Every other Republican's got to go away. And the reason we

00:27:00.780 were asked last night on Backstage, Trump or DeSantis, who do you pick? And everyone's going

00:27:05.220 around and they say, I'm, you know, I guess in that case it was uniformly DeSantis. But they said,

00:27:09.960 I'm, and we're, I'm totally committed and basically signed me up for the campaign.

00:27:12.960 And it got to me and I said, guys, one, I don't make endorsements in primaries as a general rule,

00:27:19.120 okay? But two, it's 2022. At this time in the 2012 election cycle, do you know who the frontrunners

00:27:28.680 were? Mitch Daniels and Haley Barber and Bobby Jindal, okay? Do you know, I mean,

00:27:36.480 they were the ones who were being talked about. In 2016, who were the frontrunners?

00:27:41.480 It wasn't Trump. It wasn't Cruz. It was the guys who were some of the first ones out. And so I just

00:27:49.440 think, I love Trump. I'm not willing to throw him under the bus, not willing to trash him and blame

00:27:55.920 every problem on him. I love Ron DeSantis. I think Ron DeSantis has done a fabulous job as governor of

00:28:00.760 Florida. What he's done has absolutely been incredible. He had a huge win last night.

00:28:04.440 Love a lot of other Republicans too, who, who could run. And so I'm just not willing to,

00:28:09.840 I just think it's silly and frivolous to, to come out and make an endorsement this early.

00:28:15.980 Also, if Trump manages to be able to run and clear the field, then it's pointless to,

00:28:25.140 to play this horse race game. And if Trump can't clear the field, if other people run against him,

00:28:32.100 or if he doesn't run at all, then it's also pointless to jump on board with the candidate right

00:28:37.840 now. Because that, that means that everyone's going to get in. If Trump is not clearly clearing

00:28:42.440 the field, you're for sure going to get DeSantis. But think about all the other people who have run

00:28:50.200 for president, who could run for president again. Tim Scott has, his publisher said he was running

00:28:55.280 for president. Remember that Nikki Haley's clearly intimating she would run for president. Ted Cruz was

00:28:59.980 the number two guy last time. He could mount a very credible campaign. Josh Hawley is intimated that

00:29:04.260 he might run. Rand Paul could easily run. I mean, I just think it'll be everybody.

00:29:08.480 I think everybody will jump into that race. So what happened last night? What do we blame?

00:29:14.640 Do we blame voter fraud and rigging and shenanigans? I'm not saying there's no role for that. And that

00:29:22.380 could be playing out a little bit, especially in Arizona. And I think it could be playing out less

00:29:28.260 from the batches of ballots coming in, in the middle of the night, and more from the,

00:29:31.920 look at this. They've turned election day into election season. And people were voting in

00:29:35.780 Pennsylvania in September before they realized that John Fetterman doesn't have a properly 0.74

00:29:40.580 functioning brain. And that is, and there's ballot harvesting in a lot of states. And there's all

00:29:45.280 sorts of, and there's all sorts of corrupt practices. Yeah, that does play a role. And

00:29:50.000 Republicans need to get serious about tightening that up. You don't need to be an election denying

00:29:55.980 conspiracy theorist to say that two months of voting, it favors Democrats and it's wrong and

00:30:02.120 it has no place in a proper republic. And we need to get rid of it. Republicans need to stop just

00:30:07.100 talking about the fixing the fringes of these electoral problems and get down and say no early

00:30:12.100 voting except for rare exceptions, no mail-in ballots except for rare exceptions. People vote on

00:30:17.700 election day. We get the results by nighttime. Okay, that would be good. But I don't blame election

00:30:22.440 fraud for the Republican weak performance. Do I blame Trump? Some of the Trump picks were pretty

00:30:28.960 bad. But again, I'm not even willing to blame him too much for Oz. I think Oz is a total loser.

00:30:33.640 But David McCormick, who was the chief rival to Oz, and he was more the establishment pick. 0.87

00:30:38.640 David McCormick was a socially liberal hedge funder who wrote an amicus brief to the Supreme Court on the

00:30:44.180 Obergefell case and who was vocally in favor of gay marriage. And it was, I think he wrote an amicus

00:30:50.620 brief. He was very, very strongly in favor of gay marriage. And he's not exactly Attila the Hun.

00:30:58.360 Okay, he was not much more conservative than Dr. Oz. And then Kathy Barnett, people felt,

00:31:03.020 couldn't make a credible general election play. And they may have been right about that. She was 0.96

00:31:06.700 the conservative in the race. So again, you blame Trump for the Oz endorsement. Okay, but

00:31:11.300 would McCormick have done much better? I'm not totally convinced of that. Maybe he would have,

00:31:15.820 but I'm not totally convinced of that. And I think a lot of people who just hate Trump are looking

00:31:20.440 at this as an excuse to attack Trump. That said, Trump's record last night just wasn't that great.

00:31:25.940 So it does hurt his presidential prospects. And I think people are going to cool on him just as a

00:31:32.580 result of it. Do you blame Biden because Biden's doing such a great job? No. Obviously, I think that's

00:31:37.400 insane. Do you blame Roe v. Wade, the overruling of Roe v. Wade? No, I don't think that really played

00:31:42.020 any role in the race at all. I don't see that reflected in the polls. I think that's kind of

00:31:47.800 silly. But one place that people are not really talking about, and it goes a long way to explaining

00:31:54.440 why Republicans couldn't quite put it over the edge in New York, why they couldn't really get it done

00:32:00.180 in Pennsylvania, why nothing really happened in California, why Florida was just so overwhelmingly

00:32:06.700 Republican. Why Texas had an extremely good night for Republicans, and that is that people have

00:32:12.720 voted with their feet. I'm one of the people who voted with my feet. I moved out of Mussolini's

00:32:17.080 hellscape of California, came to the free state of Tennessee, which is fabulous. And a lot of other

00:32:21.880 people did that to Tennessee and Texas, and especially Florida. But one of the consequences of voting with

00:32:27.140 your feet is then you don't vote at the ballot box in the state that you left, and it becomes harder

00:32:32.860 for Republicans to win. So that's another macro trend of the night that you can't just blame on

00:32:37.320 Trump or just give credit to some other candidate for. You have to say that's a macro trend in

00:32:41.300 politics where it's, yes, Republicans are going to do better in the red states. The red states are

00:32:46.640 going to get redder, but that means the blue states are going to get bluer, and it's going to be harder

00:32:49.400 to have those purple kinds of wins. Now, I mentioned Texas. I mentioned Beto O'Rourke got destroyed.

00:32:55.940 And usually I say, okay, let's take the high road. Let's not rub it in anybody's face.

00:32:59.540 But Beto, he just bothers me, okay? And so Alex Stein, who has become one of the absolute

00:33:06.620 top trolls in America, and he's just, he just seems, you know, completely unleashed and like 0.55

00:33:14.500 a dog with a bone. And I had him on the show, you know, and he just does things that are so

00:33:18.140 vulgar and mean. And you just say, I could never do that. Well, anyway, he did it to Beto and it was

00:33:22.460 very, very funny. Do you feel guilty about the millions of dollars you wasted on your campaign,

00:33:26.740 Beto? Why do you want to protect trans children? How are you going to protect trans kids by cutting 1.00

00:33:42.820 off their genitals? How does that protect trans kids, Beto? Beto, how does that protect trans 0.99

00:33:49.140 kids? Beto, how are you protecting trans kids by cutting off their genitals? Let's do it. 1.00

00:33:57.820 Let's do it. Beto, you know you're going to lose, Beto. This is how many losses in a row?

00:34:02.380 How many more losses are you going to take, Beto? Let's move forward. Beto, how many more

00:34:08.120 losses are you going to take? Are you going to quit? Where's your campaign money going?

00:34:12.960 Beto, are you quitting after this failure? Are you going to quit after you fail today?

00:34:17.140 Do you want to give back the money that you have? Beto, do you feel guilty that you're

00:34:22.000 a loser, Beto? Beto, do you feel bad about losing? Beto. Hey, get out of my shot. Come on, 0.96

00:34:28.760 get out of the way. Let's step out of the way. Back up. Back up. Beto, do you feel like

00:34:32.480 a loser, Beto? You know, the election night, it was a little bit, I just feel like I'm getting

00:34:38.760 a little sick. You know, I just, I was so excited. I thought I was going to be popping champagne

00:34:42.980 and now I'm feeling just a little down, you know, like I've got, oh, I'm just a little

00:34:47.020 worn down. And that video of Alex Stein just yelling at Beto and calling him a loser and 0.74

00:34:53.220 asking if he feels bad for wasting millions of dollars on another failed campaign. It's

00:34:57.400 just like a nice bowl of chicken soup. You know, it's just like a nice warm broth. I just

00:35:00.980 like, and then people are trying to pull Alex Stein away and pull, you know, kind of hit him

00:35:05.140 in the head with, with signs. But he's just kind of a big belligerent madman. And so he doesn't 0.98

00:35:09.740 even care. He just doesn't, just a dog with a bone doesn't even stop. Beto, you're a loser.

00:35:13.980 You want to chop off kids' genitals. Why are you such a loser, Beto? So it was a nice, 1.00

00:35:18.660 after the kind of headache and aches and pains of election night kind of set in, that's just

00:35:24.760 a nice little, nice little bit of chicken soup. Are you still giving your money to woke

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00:36:17.380 and shave. Okay, I've got to get to a little non-election news. I've got to get to the really 0.99

00:36:22.480 important stuff, okay? The really important news, like how Jennifer Lopez is now Jennifer Affleck.

00:36:29.500 Did you know this is a New York Times essay on why it matters that J-Lo is now J-Aff. I'm not joking.

00:36:40.400 And I actually agree with the writer, Jennifer Wiener. It does matter. It actually does matter

00:36:46.500 that Jennifer Lopez is calling herself Jennifer Affleck. Jennifer Lopez was asked about this.

00:36:53.620 She said, of course I changed my name. It's romantic and traditional. Now, this lady who

00:36:59.380 wrote the op-ed says that it's cringey. Such a long, long, I don't recommend that you read this

00:37:05.760 entire article. But she says it's cringey and peak patriarchy. And says Ms. Affleck, by the way,

00:37:13.900 she's not Ms. Affleck, she's Mrs. Affleck. Ms. is a feminist prefix invented in the 1970s. 1.00

00:37:23.160 Miss or Mrs. Those are the proper terms. So Mrs. Affleck may be surrendering to the power of love 1.00

00:37:29.620 with this, her fourth marriage. But given the cringey history behind the practice, a woman 1.00

00:37:34.140 doesn't take her husband's last name. A woman taking her husband's last name feels to me like a

00:37:39.340 submission, a gesture that doesn't say I belong with him so much as I belong to him. And at this

00:37:46.880 fraught moment for feminism in America, a woman like the former Jennifer Lopez deciding to change 1.00

00:37:51.780 her name feels especially dispiriting. Okay. Well, yes, in part, it is a submission. Yeah,

00:37:57.700 it is a wife submitting to her husband. And in turn, the husband is called to love his wife. And

00:38:03.660 the two are not separate. And it's not this domineering relationship where you've got a master

00:38:09.460 and a slave. But it's two people becoming one flesh. That's at least the idea. Again,

00:38:14.360 she mentions fourth marriage and all this craziness in Hollywood. So I'm just speaking

00:38:19.160 in principle about marriage and a wife taking her husband's name. But the reason this is such a

00:38:26.200 stupid essay, the reason it's such a stupid point that the left makes that women shouldn't take their 1.00

00:38:33.080 husband's last names is because inevitably a woman is going to have a man's last name. A woman will 1.00

00:38:42.360 either have her husband's last name or her father's last name. But either way, the patriarchy wins.

00:38:51.880 And if you're in a marriage, it seems kind of weird for the wife to have her father's last name.

00:39:00.160 Because marriage is when people leave their mothers and their fathers and they come together,

00:39:05.680 a man and a woman come together and become one flesh. And the man is the head of the household. And so

00:39:11.300 it would stand to reason that the woman takes the husband's last name. If the man took the wife's

00:39:19.320 last name, that would be weird because then he would have her father's last name. And that just

00:39:23.940 gets very, very confusing and complicated. Now you might say, well, Michael, what about the case where

00:39:28.000 a feminist has a child and the feminist does not take her husband's last name. And the feminist gives 1.00

00:39:35.380 her daughter her last name. And then the daughter gets married and she doesn't have her father's

00:39:41.320 last name. She's got her mother's last name. Well, that's true. But hey, you just go back up one

00:39:45.960 generation. Guess whose last, guess whose name the feminist has? Well, no, the feminist has her 1.00

00:39:52.020 mom's like, well, guess who has, guess whose name? And at a certain point, you go up the line enough,

00:39:56.400 you're going to get to a fella. And so really what this is, is not an attack on the patriarchy or

00:40:01.880 whatever. This is an attack on family. It's an attack on marriage itself, which is what the left

00:40:07.200 is always after. And it's a sort of a stupid, frivolous attack. Now, speaking of transitions, 1.00

00:40:14.800 this turned out to be a big issue, I think, in the 2022 midterms. I think it's turned out to be a big

00:40:20.680 issue even before that, going back to the Glenn Youngkin race in Virginia. The establishment

00:40:27.040 Republicans think that transing the kids is a sideshow. It's a fake issue. It's contentious.

00:40:34.020 It's culture war. They should avoid it. Dr. Oz doesn't really talk about it. The establishment

00:40:39.140 kind of hack, rhino candidates don't really talk about it. You know who does talk about it? Ron DeSantis. 0.97

00:40:45.140 You know who does talk about it? Glenn Youngkin. You know who does talk about it? The conservative

00:40:48.580 Republicans who do very well. Well, this is backed up by polls. So a recent poll found that more than

00:40:55.740 70% of American voters in the 2022 midterms said that they are not likely to vote for a candidate

00:41:02.320 who supports allowing minors to undergo gender transition procedures, sexual genital mutilation.

00:41:09.260 Nearly 80% of independents and 43% of Democrats joined the Republicans in opposing candidates who support

00:41:17.620 allowing kids to transition, transing the kids. That's a huge number. Obviously, yeah. Basically, 0.51

00:41:26.660 all the Republicans are on board. 80% of independents. That's bad news for Democrats.

00:41:31.280 43% of Democrats are with the conservatives on this. So if you're just looking at those numbers,

00:41:37.460 the GOP going into the midterms should have been hammering this issue. Not as a sideshow,

00:41:42.620 as a matter of justice, but also as an important political matter. This is a uniting, good, serious,

00:41:49.480 important political issue. And by the way, an analysis of voter registration done by the AP in

00:41:56.040 June found that more than 1 million voters across 43 states, especially in the suburbs,

00:42:01.580 where the swing voters often sway the election results, switched to the GOP over the last year.

00:42:06.460 And one of the issues that's driving that, yes, it's the misery index. Yes, it's inflation. Yes,

00:42:12.140 it's the economy. But one of the issues is this insanity where Democrats are chopping off kids' 0.99

00:42:16.320 genitals. So Republicans, I think, failed to deal with that as well. It was a bit of a rough night. 0.98

00:42:27.940 And it's hard to figure out exactly what the takeaway is. Now, I will say, I try not to make

00:42:34.180 predictions. You'll notice, I usually do not make these firm predictions about election night. In

00:42:40.140 fact, in as much as I did make predictions, I said, you know, guys, I actually don't think we're

00:42:43.560 going to really win Pennsylvania. I don't think Mastriano is going to win. I don't think John

00:42:47.500 Fetterman is, or rather, I don't think Dr. Oz is going to beat Fetterman. I think Fetterman is going

00:42:51.840 to be an upset. I did predict that Sean Patrick Maloney, the head of the DCCC, would lose in New York's

00:42:57.280 17th Congressional District. He would lose to the Republican, Michael Aller. I was right about that one,

00:43:01.680 too. So I made very particular predictions where I felt that the evidence was relatively clear.

00:43:10.960 I did not make grand sweeping predictions. And even other than, you know, maybe advertising copy

00:43:15.860 for the election show, I didn't say, you know, it's guaranteed we're going to have a red tsunami.

00:43:20.600 I'm going to be drinking leftist tears all night. I tempered expectations because I said, you know,

00:43:24.200 there's going to be some questions. People have been voting since September. There's lots of,

00:43:28.020 there's some not great candidates out there. And so I just think, as Drew Klavan says,

00:43:33.520 you can't predict the future. The future is the future. That's why it is the future. And so

00:43:37.800 there is this funny thing that goes on, which is that the pundits and the prognosticators

00:43:42.700 who make it their job to say, I know exactly what's going to happen on election night. And

00:43:47.440 they get all the predictions wrong. Then the next day they come out and they tell you precisely why

00:43:51.860 their predictions, precisely why things happened as they did happen. And they kind of ignore the fact

00:43:56.600 that their predictions were all wrong. That happens across the aisle and it happens all

00:43:59.600 the time with political pundits. Being a political pundit is never having to say that you're sorry,

00:44:03.940 especially if you're the kind that just tries to predict every single race.

00:44:07.500 And so you're going to see a ton of people today say, well, this is exactly why the Republicans

00:44:12.260 didn't do very well. And you're going to see a coincidence here that the reasons why the

00:44:17.720 Republicans didn't do as well as they were supposed to is going to totally line up with all of the

00:44:22.200 pundits' priors. It's going to affirm every premise that the pundits had going in, even if

00:44:27.560 those premises did not result in accurate predictions for election night. And that's just

00:44:32.060 what happens. That's just politics. But I've got a less popular, but I think more accurate take,

00:44:37.700 which is there are a lot of factors here. And you can't just blame it on the fraud. And you can't

00:44:41.980 just blame it on Trump. And you can't just blame it on early voting. And you can't just blame

00:44:47.560 it on Roe v. Wade. And you can't just, there's a lot going on, especially when you look at two

00:44:53.100 races. You look at J.D. Vance and Blake Masters. J.D. Vance in Ohio, Blake Masters running for Senate

00:44:58.720 in Arizona. They ran the same campaign. They're basically the same candidate. They've got the

00:45:03.820 same background. They've got the same backers. They ran on the same platform. J.D. wins. Blake

00:45:09.320 very likely will lose, or it's just very unclear, at least at the moment. Why is that? Well,

00:45:14.880 Ohio and Arizona are different. That's part of it. There's just a lot. There's just a lot in there.

00:45:20.740 And so what you're going to see now is the battle over what happened. And the battle over what

00:45:27.740 happened is nothing more than a proxy for the battle for 2024. When I say the election is dead,

00:45:36.000 long live the election, this is not the second day of counting the votes of election day 2022.

00:45:41.560 This is the first day of the 2024 Republican presidential primary. And so all of the commentary

00:45:48.120 that you're going to be seeing today is a facade, a thinly veiled facade for a campaign for one

00:45:58.600 candidate or another in 2024. And because I actually have not picked a candidate and I'm not endorsing,

00:46:05.280 certainly not at this stage, in a presidential primary, that's why I am just trying to present

00:46:09.340 all of these sides and all of these factors that went into the midterms last night.

00:46:16.700 Though I am very interested in hearing from you as well and what you think happened in what you were

00:46:22.460 seeing in your polling places. I mean, the listeners to this show are spread not just all around the

00:46:28.380 country, but all around the world. And we know that people all around the world are watching the

00:46:32.660 American elections as well. Most of the people here at the Daily Wire have coincidentally just

00:46:37.700 been overseas in Europe or the Middle East within the past month. And we know that people overseas

00:46:44.160 everywhere follow the American elections. But especially for those of you who are listening

00:46:48.020 from the United States right now, what did you see in your precinct at your polling place with your

00:46:52.760 candidate, with the Republican congressional candidate in your district? Some races that we thought we

00:46:58.720 were going to win. My friend Bo Hines was running in North Carolina. He lost. Lauren Boeber, really,

00:47:03.720 really on the ropes. Republican congressman, another friend of mine in Colorado. So what happened? What

00:47:08.560 did you see? And especially as everyone is just looking to be so vindictive the next morning,

00:47:14.620 who do you blame? Let me know. You can let me know on Twitter or in email or whatever,

00:47:19.980 comments and mailbag, but you can especially let me know in the member block of this show.

00:47:24.460 So the rest of the show continues now. It is Woke Wednesday. We've got an ad from Fetterman that my

00:47:29.120 producers tell me is one that I actually didn't play. I haven't seen this one. So I guess they

00:47:33.600 just want to rub salt in the wounds of Senator Fetterman coming out. You don't want to miss this

00:47:38.700 part of the show. If you're not a member, click on the link in the description and join us.

00:47:54.460 Thank you.

00:47:57.600 Thank you.

00:48:01.600 Thank you.

The Michael Knowles Show - November 09, 2022

Ep. 1122 - Democrats Survive ＂The Red Wave＂

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