Trump wins the election. Who's to blame? Biden? The media? The DNC? The liberal media? And what does that mean for the future of the country? Today's special guest, Michael Knowles, answers all of those questions and much, much more.
00:04:06.360But we can't say with certainty what the final results will be because all sorts of ballots are going to keep coming in in certain places in the Rust Belt over the next few days.
00:04:18.760So we can't say with certainty what the total final tally is.
00:04:21.820However, the New York Times prediction, as of the wee small hours, was that Trump would get 312 electoral college votes.
00:04:54.740Now, that would still give the libs the opportunity to whine and complain, as Chris Hayes on MSNBC attempted to do in the usual liberal way when those numbers came in.
00:05:07.420We have this very funky and terrible system called the electoral college, which decides elections in a way that's totally different than every other election in the United States decided and the way that anything's decided anywhere else in the world.
00:05:19.420So we have this really terrible, awful system called the electoral college.
00:05:22.460The electoral college is evil and awful and terrible, and it's totally different from any other election in America.
00:05:27.120First of all, yeah, duh, because you're talking about the difference between state elections and then the national elections that pertain to the United States of America.
00:05:35.560So obviously those are going to be conducted differently.
00:05:39.040Yeah, well, it's been our system for all of American history, and it's served us pretty well as we've become the most powerful and prosperous country in the world.
00:05:44.900So I don't know, maybe I wouldn't throw out the genius of our founding fathers and the framers of our constitution for the whining and musing of Chris Hayes on MSNBC.
00:05:54.000But even put all that aside for a second, the libs can't blame the electoral college.
00:05:58.660Because not only is Trump projected to win 312 to 226 in the electoral college, Trump won the popular vote.
00:06:08.300The libs are so used to reflexively knocking the electoral college and demanding purely out of opportunism, not based on anything in our constitution or in our political history of two centuries plus.
00:06:22.680They say, well, actually, the election should be decided by the popular vote.
00:06:26.380They only say that because in the past 20 years, they've won the popular vote on a number of occasions.
00:06:32.000The only time in this millennium that the Republicans have won the popular vote was in 2004, Bush's reelection, until last night, when Trump decisively won the popular vote.
00:06:46.620New York Times projecting that Trump will win the popular vote by 1.4%.
00:07:09.220Even if you did that, even with the way the campaign was conducted, Trump still would have won.
00:07:15.700You know, there is something called the popular vote compact, and it's this experimental agreement that certain liberal states are signing on to to say, okay, no matter how the vote goes in our state, we will give our electors to whoever wins the national popular vote.
00:07:35.060And this agreement is of dubious constitutionality, so it's not really in effect.
00:07:40.760But man, if that were in effect now, it would have been even more of a slaughter in the electoral college.
00:07:46.080You know, Trump would have won basically all of the votes.
00:07:48.320So the libs can't, they can't blame it on the electoral college.
00:07:54.460By the way, had Trump campaigned for the popular vote, had he campaigned even more in New York, had he campaigned even more in California, say, or someplace like that, then it probably would have been even more of a landslide in the popular vote totals.
00:08:18.880I was very excited to go to the Madison Square Garden rally.
00:08:22.020A lot of people said, what's Trump doing campaigning in New York?
00:08:24.500And I was asking some Republican muckety-mucks about this, and the answer was, he wants a big show, he wants a big final statement, this iconic venue, Madison Square Garden, but also he wants the popular vote.
00:08:36.720That's why he's spending time in blue places.
00:08:38.640And I thought, wow, he thinks he's got the electoral college locked up.
00:08:43.560In a way, it's vanity, but no, it has a political payoff, which is the libs can't even try to delegitimize his election the way they did in 16, the way they've tried to do to Republicans.
00:09:50.340That was a crazy election, but good that you came around.
00:09:52.440Some of us, however, are longtime Trump supporters who supported him in 16, 20, and 24.
00:10:00.820Even back in 16, when we heard that Trump is a terribly flawed candidate, we would have been so much better off had we picked one of the other candidates in the primaries.
00:10:10.380He created all these liabilities and vulnerabilities and challenges for Republicans that were needless and pointless and stupid.
00:10:17.200Oh, that dastardly Trump, he's got good policies, but he should keep his mouth shut.
00:10:21.640Oh, that Trump, he's turning off voters.
00:10:24.660Oh, that any other Republican would play better.
00:12:31.040He did something that no other president in our lifetime, certainly not in our lifetime, no other president in American history had done, other than Grover Cleveland, which is to win a non-consecutive second term.
00:12:42.900And he did it in a more astounding way, overcoming more legal hurdles of being nearly assassinated twice.
00:12:48.660And putting together an impressive coalition that bodes well for Republicans for years, potentially decades to come.
00:12:58.720Now, I want to tell you about First Liberty Institute.
00:13:01.220There is a looming threat to our constitutional republic that the mainstream media won't cover.
00:13:05.800The radical left is plotting a Supreme Court coup.
00:14:12.740I just mentioned Trump put together a coalition of Hispanic voters, of black men, of union workers, of people that you just, of Arabs, of Muslims, of people that you don't associate usually, of Jews in New York, of people you don't associate with Republicans.
00:14:29.240CNN was as shocked, if not more shocked, as anybody.
00:14:32.800We wanted to look across all three blue wall states that John was just walking us through, looking at this slice of the vote, the Latino vote in the blue wall states.
00:14:42.660Now, they only make up 6% of the electorate in each of these states, but look at the difference in the margins.
00:14:47.520So, Harris is getting in Pennsylvania 58% of the Latino vote, again, 6% of the electorate, to Donald Trump's 41%.
00:15:51.040In terms of Republicans with Hispanics, we have not seen these numbers since the Bush re-elect in 2004.
00:16:00.000In terms of any of these other demographics, black voters, black men specifically, or Arabs or Muslims, more prominent in more important states now than they have been in the past.
00:16:17.900So this is a big takeaway for the pundit class and the chattering class and the academics and the intellectuals.
00:16:24.280We've heard a lot about a political realignment in our country, certainly since Trump's 16, but even before that, some calls for a political realignment.
00:16:42.520Well, and that was, you know, 40 years ago.
00:16:44.340And it hadn't happened for a long time.
00:16:47.180We are now seeing a path to that may be happening.
00:16:50.340At the very least, a path to Hispanic assimilation.
00:16:52.800Obviously, many Hispanics have assimilated into America, but an electoral assimilation with this mass migration, that didn't look all that likely.
00:17:02.920One way you can tell that a group is assimilated is when you can't look at them and know exactly who they're going to vote for.
00:17:09.620The Italians, my people on my mother's side, are a good example of this.
00:17:14.420You have Scalia and you got Nancy Pelosi.
00:23:56.040Okay, so Jonathan Capehart, this bum from PBS, blames the American people for subverting democracy by voting for the thing that they want and the candidate that they want.
00:24:08.860They chose to blame Joe Biden for waiting too long before dropping out.
00:24:13.000Well, and that's what makes the timing, I think, of President Biden's decision to step down after the debate, something that if she does, in fact, lose, will be under a microscope.
00:24:22.900Because, of course, there was so much discussion, even over the summer, about potentially having an open primary and having that fight play out within the Democratic Party.
00:24:32.480So I think it's one of the big questions moving forward.
00:24:59.260Democrats then changed the rules and booted him out and swapped out the candidates for someone that no one had voted for while she was running for president.
00:27:13.980So when you drill down into the counties, I think there might literally be a county or some handful of counties in which Harris did a little bit better.
00:27:21.340But broadly speaking, that map is right at the state level.
00:27:24.260She did not perform better than Biden in any state.
00:27:27.140I think a lot of people are asking themselves this morning.
00:30:20.720Much of yesterday gave big 2016 vibes.
00:30:24.720But to send your supporters home without even showing up, you just send out a campaign flack, albeit a top campaign flack, to go out there and say, hey, thanks so much for your support for Kamala.
00:30:36.320She's not here for you, but anyway, go home.
00:30:38.780Whenever she stops crying or, I don't know, whenever she sobers up, I don't know what was going on in Kamala HQ.
00:30:44.060But whenever she is in a position to actually meet the moment, then she'll come out and talk to you.
00:30:50.620This is a total vindication of people who said this woman does not have the chops.
00:30:54.740She does not have the leadership qualities to be president.