Ep. 364 - Polls Say Every Democrat Beats Trump!
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
170.64076
Summary
A new poll says that President Trump will lose to every major Democrat running for president, even Cory Booker. Does that mean that Trump s re-election chances are doomed? We take a look back at some of our favorite polls and election predictions from 2016. Then, Democrats' Watergate testimony flops in Congress, and a jury orders an American university to shell out $11 million to a bakery that it wrongly smeared.
Transcript
00:00:00.000
Checking off your to-do list? Here's an easy one from Pennzoil.
00:00:04.340
Get up to a $30 MasterCard prepaid virtual card with the purchase of 10 liters of Pennzoil Ultra Platinum at Canadian Tire.
00:00:11.900
Maximizing engine protection and getting a reward for it? That's two checks on your list.
00:00:19.740
Offerants 831.25. Valid at participating locations only. Valid email address required.
00:00:23.940
Terms apply. See Pennzoil.ca slash offer for details. MasterCard is a trademark of MasterCard International Incorporated.
00:00:30.120
A new poll says that President Trump will lose to every major Democrat running for president, even Cory Booker.
00:00:38.400
Does that mean that Trump's re-election chances are doomed?
00:00:41.280
We will take a look back on some of our favorite polls and election predictions from 2016.
00:00:46.680
Then, Democrats' Watergate testimony flops in Congress and a jury orders an American university to shell out $11 million to a bakery that it wrongly smeared.
00:00:57.460
We will analyze the high price of social justice.
00:01:00.620
All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:14.800
I mean that very literally. You are not going to believe them because they are absolutely ridiculous.
00:01:22.420
Support for The Michael Knowles Show comes from our friends at Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans.
00:01:32.400
Yeah, look at all these nice houses and they're everything.
00:01:35.000
Either they're $7 zillion or there's something wrong with them or it's hard to get financing or it's hard to do this or do that.
00:01:40.580
Finding the right mortgage can be very difficult.
00:01:43.740
But Rocket Mortgage is doing more to help you understand the home buying process so you can get exactly what you need.
00:01:54.180
Their team of mortgage experts is obsessed with finding a better way, which means that their number one goal is to make the home buying process smoother for you.
00:02:03.260
You know, if you've ever even looked at homes, you know how difficult this can be.
00:02:07.600
Rocket Mortgage is there with award-winning client service and support every step of the way.
00:02:12.940
Quicken Loans has helped millions of Americans achieve their dreams of home ownership.
00:02:17.480
And when you are ready to purchase the home of your dreams, they can help you too.
00:02:21.400
When you work with them, you get more than just a loan because Rocket Mortgage is more than just a lender.
00:02:25.380
Get started online right now at rocketmortgage.com slash Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S, equal housing lender licensed in all 50 states, NMLSconsumeraccess.org number 3030.
00:02:41.860
A shock poll out just today from Quinnipiac University.
00:02:46.560
This is not a poll of who's winning the 2020 Democrat primary contest.
00:02:51.540
This is a poll that shows head-to-head how people would vote when someone gets the nomination and they run against President Trump.
00:02:59.400
So the poll shows that Joe Biden beats Donald Trump 53 to 40.
00:03:15.260
shows that Bernie Sanders in, in second here is going to beat Donald Trump 51 to 42.
00:03:27.240
I mean, those two guys have been running at the top of the pack for a long time in the Democrat race.
00:03:31.980
Then it shows Kamala Harris beats Donald Trump 49 to 41.
00:03:50.480
Even at this point, I'm thinking, I guess maybe this is plausible.
00:03:57.360
And then I just stopped believing it at all because this poll shows that Cory Booker beats Donald Trump 47 to 42.
00:04:09.580
He is most certainly never going to run against Donald Trump and he's never going to beat Donald Trump.
00:04:17.020
But it reminds us of an important truth about these polls and these predictions and everything the experts are telling us now, which is that it's not reliable.
00:04:29.040
Don't forget, in 2016, I was reminded of one of my favorite stories.
00:04:33.620
This was being reported from the Huffington Post, from the Independent, all over the mainstream media.
00:04:39.020
And it was based on a study that came out of Princeton.
00:04:42.960
So surely those experts know what they're talking about.
00:04:47.000
The headline read in the Independent survey finds Hillary Clinton has, quote,
00:04:50.860
more than 99% chance of winning election over Donald Trump.
00:04:56.720
The Princeton Election Consortium found Ms. Clinton has a projected 312 electoral votes across the country and only 270 are needed to win.
00:05:07.280
The probability statistic was found by the university's statistical Bayesian model.
00:05:14.460
Other polls were less bullish on a Clinton victory.
00:05:20.860
That winning was 65% while the New York Times upshot said there was an 85% chance.
00:05:27.020
Okay, the polls show between 65% to 99% chance that Hillary Clinton wins.
00:05:37.180
Huffington Post reported another similar story.
00:05:40.320
They said, HuffPost forecasts Hillary Clinton will win with 332 electoral votes.
00:05:47.800
Democrats stand a strong chance of taking control of the Senate.
00:05:52.160
How did the Democrats still don't have the Senate?
00:05:54.740
The Huffington Post presidential forecast model gives Democrat Hillary Clinton a 98.2% chance of winning the presidency.
00:06:08.660
Republican Donald Trump has essentially no path to an electoral college victory.
00:06:14.320
So the Princeton version said that Hillary would get 312 electoral votes to 270.
00:06:20.580
Huffington Post said that Hillary would get 323 electoral votes.
00:06:33.940
The idea that Cory Booker is going to beat Donald Trump is ridiculous.
00:06:40.440
Frankly, even the idea that Joe Biden is going to beat Donald Trump is crazy.
00:06:45.080
And Joe Biden is far and away the front runner right now.
00:06:47.540
But does anyone actually think he's likely to win the presidency?
00:06:58.200
This guy was chased out in 1988 for lies and plagiarism.
00:07:01.780
He lost in 2008 because he was a weak candidate.
00:07:07.860
He obviously plagiarized his climate change platform from other left-wing environmental groups.
00:07:14.920
Actually, just this week, he is plagiarizing Michael Avenatti on a theme campaign motto
00:07:22.800
He is now saying that we don't need to make America great again.
00:07:31.700
I don't think it's old-fashioned way of doing things that says the system has to be restored.
00:07:38.820
You know, I think it's time to, you know, he says, let's make America great again.
00:07:50.820
This is not a great slogan, by the way, because it's just reacting to Donald Trump.
00:07:56.460
It's reacting to Trump's slogan, make America great again.
00:08:01.840
Here, Joe is just setting himself up as someone attacking Donald Trump instead of offering
00:08:07.180
But then we found out, apparently he cribbed that line from Michael Avenatti, the disgraced
00:08:11.100
lawyer who pimped out Stormy Daniels and apparently didn't pay her very much.
00:08:20.000
Avenatti goes on Twitter and says, you took my line.
00:08:23.080
Actually, it turns out that both of them stole the line from Scott Baio, who was endorsing
00:08:27.760
Donald Trump at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
00:08:45.260
So what this means for 2020 is that the Democrats' best chance, their top candidate, their far
00:08:53.180
and away front runner, is a guy who's parroting Michael Avenatti, parroting Scott Baio.
00:09:13.780
It won't matter if and when these predictions are incorrect.
00:09:22.560
The people who bought them won't stop believing the people who made them.
00:09:27.840
The left never has to apologize for wrong predictions.
00:09:31.540
A perfect example of this came out just the other day from ABC News.
00:09:36.900
It was probably Media Research Center, somebody like that.
00:09:39.600
They dug up this clip from 2008, so 11 years ago, of ABC News predicting the end of the
00:09:47.960
world if we don't get serious about global warming.
00:09:51.960
A hundred years from now, New York is abandoned.
00:09:55.280
I picture some explorer coming to Manhattan saying,
00:09:58.580
those ignorant people, how on earth could they have ever expected to survive?
00:10:19.020
We have a chance to move in the right direction now.
00:10:21.420
I don't think that window of opportunity is going to be open very long.
00:10:24.160
One can hope that suddenly society will realize that it's on a doomsday path and change very rapidly.
00:10:45.460
I'm scared as hell right now, but I have to get this out.
00:10:52.020
If we continue on the business-as-usual trajectory, there will be a tipping point that we cannot avert.
00:11:09.340
Gas is going to be $11 a gallon, something like that.
00:11:21.540
It cost 81.5% less than they predicted it would.
00:11:27.940
Gallon of milk was supposed to cost $9 a gallon in 2015.
00:11:34.220
In 2015, a gallon of milk in the United States cost, on average, $3.31 a gallon.
00:11:47.500
Do the people who appeared in that video have to say, oh, we were wrong?
00:11:51.020
What happens now is the left says, oh, yeah, that was crazy.
00:11:55.220
But global warming is still super-duper serious.
00:12:01.440
But the people who are making the same predictions today, they're right.
00:12:04.860
Those people in the video, they weren't scientists.
00:12:09.400
They were some of the leading scientists and scientific policymakers in the country.
00:12:14.120
But first, I have got to tell you about an absolutely incredible new product that I just got.
00:12:25.620
And so I have this new sponsor, PaintYourLife.com.
00:12:30.020
And Paint Your Life, what they do is you upload a photo that you like of you or your family or a friend or something.
00:12:45.900
And I thought, I don't know, this is some online service.
00:12:50.840
PaintYourLife.com then takes this photo that you sent them.
00:12:55.140
They make an actual painting done by hand by a world-class artist just created from your favorite photo.
00:13:04.460
If you don't like how it is, then you can send them feedback.
00:13:07.260
You can check out every single detail until it's perfect.
00:13:15.820
I am now going to use this for many of my other friends.
00:13:19.560
And you'd think it would be super-duper expensive.
00:13:22.720
It makes a truly special gift for someone you love or for yourself.
00:13:26.420
I'm going to try to upload a video of my stepbrother and his wife seeing this.
00:13:34.800
Right now, as a limited-time offer, you can get 30% off your painting.
00:13:46.760
Or get it for a friend and give it out as a gift.
00:13:51.180
If you don't like the painting, if you reject it, you'll get a refund.
00:13:57.500
Get it while you can, especially with this offer.
00:13:59.740
The way to get this offer, do it right now, is to text Knolls to 484848.
00:14:15.040
So that video about how climate change is going to destroy the world and gas is going
00:14:26.600
But it so happens that these are expert, totally established people.
00:14:34.960
John Holdren was Barack Obama's top science advisor in the White House.
00:14:39.500
He was the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
00:14:43.740
He was the co-chairman of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
00:14:48.580
This guy was top of the heap for science policy.
00:14:53.780
Also, the Teresa and John Hines Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School
00:15:01.160
Again, just because someone works at Harvard doesn't mean I take them seriously, especially
00:15:05.180
if they're the Teresa and John Hines Professor.
00:15:08.020
Teresa Hines, you will remember, is the wife of John Kerry, the former losing Democrat presidential
00:15:19.320
He's the real policymaker, top policymaker at the White House.
00:15:26.520
He appeared in a news documentary that was just completely ridiculous.
00:15:33.000
The purpose of these predictions is not to warn you.
00:15:36.700
It's not to predict what's actually going to happen.
00:15:38.580
It is to create a panic and then get us socialism by the back door.
00:15:45.340
If I didn't have the video, I guess you wouldn't have to believe me, but it just keeps happening.
00:15:51.120
All the predictions from the late 60s to the 70s to the 80s, the whole world is going to
00:15:55.580
end in 10 years if you don't give us socialism.
00:15:58.260
10 years goes by and the world doesn't end and everything's perfectly fine and the predictions
00:16:03.200
And they tell us, no, but it's really going to end in 10 years if you don't give us socialism.
00:16:08.020
It's all about taking control of your property, of your liberty, of your government.
00:16:15.420
It is about, coincidentally, they say, this environmental catastrophe that's going to destroy the world
00:16:20.120
just coincidentally requires that you have to give the political left every single policy
00:16:27.980
That's the only way to solve it and save the world.
00:16:31.020
And this is why, just a little bit of a side note, there was a piece in the Wall Street
00:16:33.760
Journal that came out today, said some Republican lawmakers break with their party on climate
00:16:39.220
So the GOP has not taken climate change or global warming or global cooling or whatever
00:16:43.240
you want to call it today very seriously because they have understood, as I have just
00:16:48.300
explained, that it is socialism by the back door.
00:16:50.860
However, now some younger Republicans want to be super hip, cool guys or something and
00:16:56.420
say that we have to take global warming seriously.
00:17:06.820
Matt Gaetz was the one who, a couple months ago, offered the Green Real Deal and he was going
00:17:12.780
to have the Republican response to take on global warming.
00:17:18.160
This is not to say that Republicans shouldn't take the environment seriously.
00:17:24.160
Every Republican I know wants to protect the environment, conserve the environment, have
00:17:31.080
Having beautiful spaces and preserving nature is a very conservative virtue.
00:17:38.900
But that's not the same thing as global warming.
00:17:41.540
That's a very different thing than global warming.
00:17:44.580
Because global warming is not about environmental protection.
00:17:51.380
The purpose of these predictions, whether it's this guy from the Obama administration or it's
00:17:56.860
AOC saying the world is going to end in nine or ten years, just give us all your money.
00:18:04.960
The purpose of it is to convince people that everything is predetermined.
00:18:10.080
It's no coincidence that right now so much of the left is denying free will.
00:18:18.140
You see it in a ton of left-wing Silicon Valley.
00:18:25.420
Really, we're just drawn by unconscious forces.
00:18:34.960
This is not some cool new futuristic idea out of Silicon Valley.
00:18:40.180
The early socialists and communists, 100 and 150 years ago, they said that they had discovered
00:18:50.980
This is the famous reporter, Lincoln Steffens, who visited the Soviet Union.
00:18:56.360
He famously said, I've seen the future and it works.
00:19:01.860
History is not moved by the individual choices of individuals.
00:19:05.740
It's moved by great environmental, economic forces that we cannot control.
00:19:12.180
We're just brought along on the tides of history.
00:19:15.360
And actually, the modern conservative movement in the United States after World War II, founded
00:19:20.420
by William F. Buckley Jr., was set up exactly in opposition to this idea.
00:19:26.280
So you had Lincoln Steffens saying, I've seen the future and it works.
00:19:34.280
And then you have the conservative, William F. Buckley Jr., who said, in the first issue
00:19:38.620
of National Review, he said, a conservative is one who stands athwart history yelling, stop.
00:19:45.420
Oh, you socialists and communists, you think you have the science of history?
00:19:50.600
I'm a conservative and I'm going to stand here and I am going to say, stop.
00:20:04.560
Your predictions are bogus and you're not going to use those crazy, fear-mongering predictions
00:20:10.340
to get us to give up our liberty and our property and our freedom.
00:20:14.460
When left-wing schemes go wrong, they never have to apologize.
00:20:37.980
But I say almost because there is one excellent story out of Ohio in which the left had to apologize
00:20:44.700
for their aggression, their overreaction, their social justice, all of their actions recently.
00:20:53.780
This is a terrific story out of Oberlin College, which I'll get to in a second.
00:20:57.380
But first, if you don't know your numbers, then you don't know your business.
00:21:00.720
The problem that growing businesses have, and that often keeps them from knowing their
00:21:05.340
numbers, is they just have a ton of different business systems.
00:21:23.300
If you've ever worked at a small business, started a business, time is money.
00:21:30.660
This brings us to NetSuite by Oracle, the business management software that handles every
00:21:36.920
In an easy-to-use cloud platform, it gives you the visibility and control that you need
00:21:42.740
This is one of these things I think people overlook if they're just a little lazy or they're
00:21:49.120
And it's really hampering their growth, but they just don't want to have to deal with
00:21:52.760
With NetSuite, you save time, money, and unneeded headaches by managing sales, finances, and
00:21:58.500
accounting, orders, HR, instantly, right from your desktop or phone.
00:22:04.700
Don't get stuck in your old ways that are costing you money.
00:22:07.620
That's why NetSuite is the world's number one cloud business system.
00:22:11.220
Right now, NetSuite is offering you valuable insights with a free guide, seven key strategies
00:22:15.520
to grow your profits at netsuite.com slash Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S.
00:22:20.640
That's netsuite.com slash Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S.
00:22:25.200
Download your free guide, seven key strategies to grow your profits, netsuite.com slash Knowles,
00:22:34.920
Rarely does the left have to apologize when it gets things wrong, but today we have one
00:22:42.000
An Ohio jury is ordering Oberlin College to pay $11 million to a bakery that it libeled
00:22:54.680
This is Gibson's Bakery and Market just outside the school.
00:22:59.580
A couple years ago now, a student, Jonathan Aladdin, was accused of attempted robbery for
00:23:06.020
allegedly trying to, quote, steal wine or otherwise illegally obtain wine from the bakery.
00:23:14.400
They were arrested and accused of misdemeanor assault.
00:23:20.020
College kids all the time either try to buy booze illegally or maybe they try to lift it
00:23:26.780
This became a big deal because the Oberlin College staff decided to get super social
00:23:31.080
justices about it and this includes not just low-level staff members, this is deans and
00:23:35.740
professors, and they gathered together a bunch of students and they had massive demonstrations
00:23:40.560
in front of this bakery, calling them racists, calling them bigoted.
00:23:45.520
The vice president and dean of students, Meredith Raimondo and other college staff members, handed
00:23:51.920
out hundreds and hundreds of copies of a flyer that said, don't buy all capital letters.
00:23:56.620
This is a racist establishment with a long account of racial profiling and discrimination.
00:24:03.020
And then this dean of students listed a number of competitors to the bakery that students
00:24:09.600
Obviously, this cost the bakery a ton of business and the bakery sued.
00:24:17.140
Because three months after all this happened in August of 2017, that student, Aladdin and
00:24:24.860
Endia Lawrence, another student, pled guilty to attempted theft and aggravated trespass,
00:24:32.160
They pled guilty to the crime that the bakery accused them of.
00:24:37.380
This is what the student wrote, quote, this unfortunate incident was triggered by an attempt
00:24:43.540
I believe the employees of Gibson's actions were not racially motivated.
00:24:46.900
They were merely trying to prevent an underage sale.
00:24:49.360
It's a student himself that never let the facts get in the way of a good social justice narrative.
00:24:56.580
Instead, not just the students, not just some idiot professors, the dean of students, the
00:25:01.840
administration of Oberlin, decided to try to destroy this business based on lies, based
00:25:08.220
Since that story came out, and since the jury, in this case, forced Oberlin to pay 11 million
00:25:15.380
bucks in damages to that bakery, do you know what Oberlin's university has to say for itself?
00:25:28.800
Oberlin College is now going to pay for the cost of social justice.
00:25:35.560
I think that the way that they should try to recoup this $11 million in losses is by firing
00:25:40.580
the administrator who caused it, and other administrators as well.
00:25:44.240
So much of the problem at our colleges right now is administrative bloat.
00:25:47.980
You have deans and deputy deans and deputy assistant deans of diversity and students and inclusion
00:25:52.820
whose entire job it is to stir up trouble and create problems and stir up politics.
00:26:01.140
It's the administration that's ginning this sort of thing up.
00:26:03.800
And they provide an awful example for students.
00:26:06.860
They not only miseducate students, they indoctrinate them in terrible ideas.
00:26:17.040
I was physically assaulted at the University of Missouri-Kansas City because I had the audacity
00:26:23.440
This happened to a lot of other conservative speakers.
00:26:25.260
And when the students get rowdy, guess what happens?
00:26:28.500
Instead of the administration saying, listen, students, you should hear out other ideas and
00:26:37.400
It's awful that those conservative speakers came to campus.
00:26:41.660
Huge embarrassment for Oberlin College right now.
00:26:45.100
Symptomatic of a larger embarrassment for all of these American universities.
00:26:49.540
And it shows you this important truth about the left.
00:26:53.320
Ann Coulter actually told me this when I was in college.
00:27:00.160
When the left calls you racist, you know you've won the argument.
00:27:04.640
We will explain and examine a key aspect of this from the 2020 race.
00:27:09.340
Plus, we've got to get to Joe Biden's big flip-flop and the Democrats' Watergate flop.
00:27:13.880
But first, coming up tonight at 7.30 p.m. Eastern, 4.30 p.m. Pacific, tune in to our next episode
00:27:21.680
Daily Wire God King, Jeremy Boring, little old me, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, and this
00:27:25.460
week's special guest, Dave Rubin, will be sipping whiskey, smoking stogies, and figuring
00:27:31.280
out how to not have all of our shows taken off the air, which is a daily threat that we
00:27:36.340
are now getting from YouTube and other platforms.
00:27:39.320
As always, only Daily Wire subscribers get to ask the questions.
00:28:02.440
That sounds like a, it tastes like the 2016 polls.
00:28:08.920
Sometimes Leftist Tears taste better with a little bit of age.
00:28:11.100
So you age them for about three years, and there's polls that show, mm, Hillary has a
00:28:20.960
Mm, Hillary's going to get 323 electoral votes.
00:28:24.480
Mm, it's like a little, it's a little indulgence because none of it happened.
00:28:40.200
When the Left calls you racist, you know that you've won the argument.
00:28:44.000
Kirsten Gillibrand is the latest Democrat to expose this eternal truth.
00:28:50.040
So Kirsten Gillibrand, who's polling at like negative 3% right now, she is the most extreme
00:28:56.820
Democrat candidate on the question of abortion.
00:28:59.980
She's trying to stake out this ground for herself.
00:29:05.100
She can't defend her defensive or her support for abortion up until the moment of birth.
00:29:10.160
So she's resorting to the Left's old strategy of calling anyone who opposes her racist.
00:29:16.740
And I think it's wrong to deny women basic reproductive freedom and basic human rights.
00:29:21.860
You've said you're worried about judicial independence, but imposing a litmus test on your nominees
00:29:27.840
has long been seen as an encroachment on judicial independence.
00:29:36.520
I think there's some issues that have such moral clarity that we have as a society decided
00:29:44.620
Imagine saying that it's okay to appoint a judge who's racist or anti-Semitic or homophobic.
00:29:53.020
Telling, asking someone to appoint someone who takes away basic human rights of any group
00:30:00.480
I think that we are, we've, I don't think those are political issues anymore.
00:30:05.060
And we believe in this country and the separation of church and state.
00:30:09.080
And I respect the rights of every American to hold their religious beliefs true to themselves.
00:30:16.680
But our country and our constitution has always demanded that we have a separation of church
00:30:22.660
And all these efforts by President Trump and other ultra-radical conservative judges and
00:30:28.420
justices to impose their faith on Americans is contrary to our constitution.
00:30:35.340
And so I believe that for all of these issues, they are not issues that there is a fair other
00:30:43.760
There is no moral equivalency when you come to racism.
00:30:48.020
And I do not believe there's a moral equivalency when it comes to changing laws that deny women
00:30:53.220
So that's a big old word salad until she gets to the end point, which is, she says, if you
00:30:58.720
oppose killing a baby at the moment of birth, you're basically just like a racist.
00:31:04.580
She starts out and she says, I believe in religious freedom.
00:31:07.760
You say, well, first of all, no, you, you don't.
00:31:09.740
I, I bet she doesn't believe in religious freedom for the baker who wants to not participate
00:31:19.500
But she says, I believe in religious freedom and we don't have, we have a separation of
00:31:24.440
And so abortion is just a question of religion.
00:31:32.840
If the baby is not a baby, is it some other kind of animal?
00:31:46.600
Then she says, Donald Trump is trying to force his faith on Americans.
00:31:52.120
Does anybody really believe that Donald Trump is some devout Christian going to church every
00:32:02.620
I think no one ever said that Donald Trump was some Christian zealot before he was the
00:32:08.840
Most people don't say it now because it's, it's crazy.
00:32:11.200
Then she lands on her actual answer, which is some ideas should be totally prohibited
00:32:21.500
She's saying the pro-life argument, any pro-life argument to say you shouldn't kill a baby
00:32:25.520
the day before it's born should be banned from public discussion.
00:32:29.560
It is equivalent to saying that black people are less than white people, that they should
00:32:36.940
To support not killing a baby, even at the moment of birth, is the same as being a racist.
00:32:47.700
Ninety-four percent of Americans oppose late-term abortion.
00:32:55.160
Kirsten Gillibrand and other Democrats have now staked out a position for themselves that
00:33:02.480
In fact, I think the six percent who don't oppose it are basically just all the Democrat
00:33:12.200
Worse than that, she is now accusing ninety-four percent of Americans of basically being racists
00:33:18.280
or of holding a view that is the equivalent of racism and that is unacceptable and that
00:33:25.420
The view that a baby who's about to be born shouldn't be killed.
00:33:31.140
This is an extremism that is not going to serve them well in the general election.
00:33:34.820
It's part of a broader abortion extremism that we're seeing among Democrat candidates.
00:33:43.560
He was trying to stake out his position as the moderate.
00:33:49.060
And the Hyde Amendment is an old law which prohibits taxpayer funding for abortion.
00:33:57.280
In America, we give Planned Parenthood over half a billion dollars a year.
00:34:01.960
And the way that we say that it's not violating the Hyde Amendment is that we say that money
00:34:07.740
is only going toward the non-abortion services.
00:34:10.740
So you can't use any of the taxpayer money for the abortion services at the abortion clinic.
00:34:14.600
You can only use it to pay the electricity bill or to keep the lights on or to keep the cable
00:34:24.600
So if you give money to an organization and you say, spend that dollar on one product but
00:34:33.140
But that's at least the way that Democrats have convinced us that we're not paying for
00:34:43.360
He said, OK, at least in name we can't have taxes go to abortion.
00:34:49.700
I can't justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability
00:34:55.040
to exercise their constitutionally protected right.
00:34:58.780
If I believe health care is a right, as I do, I can no longer support an amendment that
00:35:04.420
makes that right dependent on someone's zip code.
00:35:09.240
What he said is, if I believe that health care is a right and I also believe that abortion
00:35:16.620
is health care, I mean, that's the new Democrat line.
00:35:20.300
Used to be abortion should be safe, legal and rare.
00:35:22.640
Now Miley Cyrus licks a cake that says abortion is health care.
00:35:26.840
And I licked a cake that said taxation is theft, which you can see on the internet.
00:35:31.960
So if you believe those two things, abortion, or rather health care is a right, which is
00:35:41.460
Do you have a right to someone else's property?
00:35:50.020
And if you believe that abortion is health care, which again, obviously it isn't, sure
00:35:56.040
ain't health care for the baby that you're killing.
00:35:57.900
If you believe those two things, then you have to logically conclude that abortion is
00:36:04.840
a right guaranteed by the government and therefore paid for by the government.
00:36:09.900
You start out with two faulty premises, you're going to get to a faulty conclusion.
00:36:15.560
And Joe Biden is spewing that garbage out of his mouth from the campaign trail.
00:36:19.740
And this is alienating a lot of his prospective voters.
00:36:23.080
There are a lot of people who are anti-Trump, never Trump, moderates, conservatives who hate
00:36:29.220
the president, whatever, who probably could convince themselves to vote for Joe Biden.
00:36:40.760
I mean, the key constituency here is the McCain family, which is a moderate sort of
00:36:45.380
Republican family that obviously hates Donald Trump largely for personal reasons.
00:36:50.720
And Meghan McCain was on The View and she said that this puts her in a really tough spot
00:36:55.260
because now she doesn't think she can support Joe Biden.
00:36:58.080
The Biden Amendment was historically a great compromise between pro-choicers and pro-lifers.
00:37:02.780
And if you don't know what it means, it means that it bans federal funding for abortions,
00:37:11.580
And I think for him, he was for it for 40 years.
00:37:17.180
And to make this flip, and there's reports out that said it was Alyssa Milano calling
00:37:22.180
him the actress and him getting pressure from people like that.
00:37:25.040
And for me, everyone knows how much I love Joe Biden as a person.
00:37:27.960
He's truly the most decent person running, in my opinion.
00:37:31.620
And I think flip-flopping on something like this, I actually was surprised by it
00:37:37.140
because he's filling the moderate compromise lane as the candidate.
00:37:42.040
And you're not going to out-progressive progressives.
00:37:44.460
If Democrats want a progressive, they're going to go with Elizabeth Warren
00:37:47.380
or they're going to end up going with Cory Booker or someone that's so much further to the left.
00:37:52.040
So he's alienating the lane that I still see as the easiest way to beat President Trump.
00:37:58.860
And you're alienating a lot of moderates, and especially for pro-lifers like me.
00:38:06.020
So Meghan McCain saying, I really want to vote for Joe Biden, but this is too far.
00:38:11.140
I can't use my money as a taxpayer to pay for abortions.
00:38:17.600
But she said, I can't, if I lose that fiction, at least, that I'm not spending my own money on abortion,
00:38:27.400
He's not a politician who stands for something.
00:38:36.580
He's just there now, which is why I don't believe the polls that say that he's going to trounce Donald Trump
00:38:45.720
The best laid schemes of Democrats often go awry.
00:38:48.860
One of those happened in Congress just this week.
00:38:52.380
They had been promoting this for a couple weeks now.
00:38:55.160
The Democrats in Congress said, we're going to call John Dean, a witness from Watergate.
00:39:01.560
And he's going to testify and tell us how much like Watergate the Trump administration is.
00:39:10.940
For those of you, by the way, who don't know who John Dean is, John Dean was a White House counsel for Richard Nixon.
00:39:20.400
He ended up flipping, testifying against Richard Nixon.
00:39:24.060
He's a convicted felon, and he's just made a career at this point out of attacking other Republicans.
00:39:34.480
Here is Republican Matt Gaetz, who I was actually criticizing a little earlier for his environmental stuff.
00:39:39.360
Here is Matt Gaetz really shining, giving an A-plus performance, and exposing what a ridiculous sideshow this testimony was.
00:39:47.260
Here we sit today in this hearing with the ghost of Christmas past because the chairman of the committee has gone to the Speaker of the House and sought permission to open an impeachment inquiry.
00:40:00.420
And so instead of opening the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump, which is what the chairman wants to do and what I presume a majority of Democrats want to do,
00:40:07.500
we're here reopening the impeachment inquiry potentially into Richard Nixon, sort of playing out our own version of that 70s show.
00:40:15.700
And what I really regret, Mr. Dean, is that you're here as a prop.
00:40:19.740
You are functionally here as a prop because they can't impeach President Trump because 70% of Democrats want something that 60% of Americans don't.
00:40:31.280
He is being used as a prop, and the testimony was a total flop.
00:40:35.680
You probably didn't even hear about the testimony.
00:40:42.820
I mean, since Watergate, this guy, John Dean, has spent most of his time comparing Republican politicians to Richard Nixon.
00:40:50.140
During the George W. Bush era, he published three books on this very accusation.
00:40:55.720
He published one during the Bush era called Worse Than Watergate.
00:41:00.420
Published another one, Conservatives Without Conscience.
00:41:02.880
Published another one, Broken Government, How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches.
00:41:11.140
His whole career is just, first he was a rat, and then he smeared his friends and his former allies, and now just old Republicans.
00:41:21.360
Another reason that I don't believe these polls coming out that say that Democrats are going to trounce Trump.
00:41:37.340
Even if you want to argue about obstruction, which Donald Trump was practically exonerated on obstruction, but even if you want to argue about that, the collusion thing is done.
00:41:52.260
And Democrats are not going to win 2020 by relitigating the relitigating of 2016.
00:41:58.100
The Mueller report, the Mueller investigation, was trying to relitigate the 2016 presidential election.
00:42:03.860
Now they're trying to relitigate the relitigation.
00:42:06.940
You've got to look to 2020 if you want a chance to win.
00:42:11.260
I don't care if Democrats win or I don't want them to win, so that's fine.
00:42:16.860
I don't want to conclude this without getting to a couple polls that I do sort of believe.
00:42:25.140
Here are a few primary polls that I think are sort of interesting, especially one of these.
00:42:38.380
That's when I knew that Beto was going to lose, by the way.
00:42:40.640
Vanity Fair does not tend to pick winning candidates.
00:42:43.100
And they had the cover there, and Beto said, I was born for this.
00:42:48.200
Well, the new polls say that he wasn't born to be in it.
00:42:52.040
Look, there is a lot of time before the Iowa caucus.
00:43:01.620
If you were to look at the Texas Senate race the first couple months after we were in,
00:43:09.380
no poll was going to say that we were going to win that.
00:43:13.380
No poll said you were going to win, and then you didn't win.
00:43:18.740
It doesn't look like he's going to be able to resurrect his campaign because Pete Buttigieg crawled inside of Beto's body, ripped out his intestines, and ate his soul.
00:43:27.580
So there are other bad polls for Bernie Sanders.
00:43:32.360
Bernie Sanders has been consistently ranked number one or number two in the Democrat pack.
00:43:37.340
Now he has been overtaken in a new poll conducted by The Economist and YouGov.
00:43:47.960
So Elizabeth Warren has now got 16% of Democrat support, edging out Sanders at just 12%.
00:44:02.960
Bernie is somewhat likable, but he's just ancient.
00:44:07.580
Elizabeth Warren is also much smarter than Bernie Sanders.
00:44:13.640
She's also more mainstream than Bernie Sanders.
00:44:16.460
Bernie has been an independent or a socialist his entire life, except for the brief moments when he identifies as a Democrat to run in their primaries.
00:44:24.060
She's a woman, so in this time of intersectional politics and victim politics, she can claim that.
00:44:31.040
And while she's unlikable, she doesn't seem evil.
00:44:36.340
And I think that is enough to help propel her a little bit.
00:44:39.060
I still don't really think she's going anywhere, but really tough news from polls that are probably more likely to be correct.
00:44:47.200
I mean, these are polls that are tracking a very particular thing in a short period of time.
00:44:52.200
The first Democrat debates are about to happen.
00:44:55.440
They're just tracking how the Democrats are faring among Democrats.
00:44:59.060
That's very different than trying to take some national poll of some random candidate that no one's ever heard of and put him up nationally against Donald Trump when there hasn't been a primary, there hasn't been anything like a general election.
00:45:10.220
So I think the left probably should not take too much solace in the general election polls, but they probably could be a little bit worried about those primary polls because at the moment their front runner is weak.
00:45:24.960
You've got surging candidates and none of them are terribly likable.
00:45:28.320
We've got a lot more to get to, but you'll have to ask it on backstage.
00:45:31.320
Then get your mailbag questions in for tomorrow.
00:45:36.080
The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production.
00:46:06.980
Hey guys, over on The Matt Wall Show today, you know, Congress wants to give itself a raise and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been at the forefront of this fight, insisting that she needs a raise because if she doesn't get a raise, then what's going to happen is that congressmen are going to end up being corrupt if they don't get a raise.
00:46:25.740
And also, I have a different idea about what we might do about congressional pay, which I will share with you.
00:46:31.160
Also, Justin Trudeau, there's a video of him babbling nonsensically, and I want to play that for you on the show today just because it's, I mean, really funny, honestly.
00:46:41.500
And finally, 60% of male managers say that they're uncomfortable with women, working around women in the workplace and working one-on-one with women.
00:46:51.700
We'll try to get to the bottom of that mystery today over on The Matt Wall Show.