Kamala’s Final Moment: Election 2024
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Trump's victory speech at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night was a total rejection of the leftist project on immigration, abortion, crime, the economy, and the "pro-choice" platform. The American people stood up on their hind legs, and said, "No, we are tired of this. You have been proclaiming that Donald Trump is not normal for eight years. For eight long years, you've been claiming that he's not normal. And what Donald Trump does is he brings back the normal."
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What I most appreciate about Cabot is that, like J.D. Vance last night during Trump's acceptance
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speech, when given the mic, he knows his job. I would like to correct him, though.
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28 words, mostly flattering, and then kick it back to the big guy.
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The one correction, though, for what Cabot said, he said he was kicking it over to the big guys.
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There is only one giant guy on set. That is Dennis Prager, followed perhaps by Matt Walsh.
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Dennis, you would appreciate the showbiz of this joint. We decided that we were going to make this
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video, right, where all the Daily Wire hosts in black and white, sort of silhouetted lighting were
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going to encourage people to go and vote. It worked.
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And so, clearly it worked. They lined us all up in front of the LED wall, and they framed up the
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picture, and then the director came over and said, yeah, you're all too short except for Matt Walsh,
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so we're going to make you stand on a box, and we're going to make you stand on a box,
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and we're going to make you stand on a box. I wish you had been there so that Matt would know
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the humiliating reality of being able to step onto an Apple box.
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So, guys, on a scale of one to ten, how good are you feeling right now? Like, really, let's just,
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like, enjoy, right? There's going to be so many more battles in the future. There's going to be
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so much more to come. The lesson's just going to go away. I understand that it feels in the moment as
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though, you know, the thousand-year reign has begun. But in reality, there will be battles for
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tomorrow. But let's just, like, you know, take a moment to just bask in the awesomeness that is
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America, because this country just kicks royal ass. I mean, seriously, the American people
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stood up on their hind legs, and they said, no, we are tired of this. You have been proclaiming
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that Donald Trump is not normal for eight years at this point. For eight long years,
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you've been claiming that he's not normal. And what you mean by that is that he acts kind of
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weird and says kind of funny things. But the actual normal that we want is, you know, like,
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to be able to live with our families without you bothering us and telling us that our kids are
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members of the opposite sex, and that we ought to be able to keep the property, that we build wealth,
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and actually create things, and then keep the products and exchange them, and that we ought
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to be able to have a safe and secure border, and that we ought to be able to have a powerful
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America. That's, like, normal. Normal is what my parents wanted, what my grandparents wanted.
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That's normal. And you know what? I don't care what Donald Trump says. I care what Donald Trump
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does. And what Donald Trump does is he brings back the normal. And so the normies rose up yesterday
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and in a fit of righteous wrath, smote down the non-believers in normiedom. And it's damned
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wonderful. It really is. It just is great. It's great. I mean, I feel great. I feel like I'm on
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cloud nine. It also could be slightly sleep deprivation because two hours, about 48 in the
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last 48 hours. But to me, and we talked about this last night, but what I keep coming back to is that
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this really feels like just a total rejection of the leftist project on pretty much every count,
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certainly on all the big counts. Abortion, DEI, trans, the economy, crime, immigration.
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This was just a total rejection of the leftist position and all that. Now, you hesitate to say
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that because it makes it sound like, well, it's over. We can all go home. The fight's over. Of course,
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it's not. Now, it's just a matter of, well, we know we have a winning argument on all of these
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things. We have the winning argument. But to translate the winning argument into actual victory
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beyond this election, legislative victories, policy victories, that becomes the project.
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Can I just say before everybody else jumps in, I want to give a special shout out to Matt Walsh
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because I was talking with Jeremy and Dennis a little bit earlier. Listen, everybody at this
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company has been working unbelievably hard to make things like this happen. That's what we do here,
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which is why you should, in fact, go subscribe and join us. 47% off with code Trump because he's the
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47th president, thank God. But Matt's three big sort of hits over the course of the past three,
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four years. What is a woman which made the trans issue absolutely toxic to the left and was used in
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every single major campaign this election cycle? The Budweiser boycott, which was the American people
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saying, you are not allowed to just leverage down on us a bunch of trash that we don't want,
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and then combine that with what you just did with Am I Racist, where you completely exposed DEI for the
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grift that it is, and you were knocking out the legs of their stool. And those are all major,
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major components of what just happened to the Democratic Party last night. So a special shout
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out to Matt who's worked hard. And of course, the entire company, which, I mean, let's be real about
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this. Only Jeremy Boring would have made those films and would have produced those films.
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Only I would have signed off at a very tangential level on those films and let everybody else do
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the work and then, you know, reap the benefits, which is what I do here. But Matt, like really
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spectacular job on that. I'd like, if I may, I want to describe, I analyze my own self. So last night to
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my shock, I didn't feel happiness. I felt overwhelmingly shock and relief. Today, it's all happiness. But I
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figured out why, and I gave this analogy on my radio show. If you see a drunk driver just about to hurt a
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loved one, maybe kill them or certainly terribly injured them at minimal, and then at the last
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moment, it hits a lamppost, the drunk driver hits a lamppost, then what do you feel? You don't feel
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elation at that moment. You feel shock and relief. The drunk driver is the left. The lamppost is the
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American people. The analogy to me is perfect. That's what happened. And that's why I understand
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my first reaction was not, wow, terrific. You're beloved. My country is my beloved, just as my
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family, believe it or not. I mean, if I don't have my country, yes, it's wonderful to still have your
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family, but people had their families in the Soviet Union. It didn't compensate for what they had there.
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So that is my transition from relief to happiness, like the drunk driver.
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I think that's beautiful. I think it is a perfect analogy. And when I, you know, every time that I've
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been drunk and almost about to hit the lamppost, I have nowhere to go with that because like Matt
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Walsh, I slept two hours, so I can't finish any joke. Instead, I'm going to kick this thing over to
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our dear friend, host of The Megyn Kelly Show, I think one of the most important shows that is not
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on the Daily Wire. And always a pleasure to have here with us, Megyn Kelly.
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I felt both, but I'm more in the happiness camp. I just feel like the people who are chopping up our
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children and opening our border and allowing these illegals to kill our young women are evil
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and must be stopped. They absolutely have to be fought and defeated. We tried being nice.
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They didn't listen. And therefore, it was hand-to-hand combat. And we won. We won.
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And so I feel incredibly gratified and hopeful about the fact that that nonsense is going to stop
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and soon. And we finally have a powerful warrior in the top position. And there's actual real agenda
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items he can do to stop those things I just mentioned.
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You know, Megyn, unlike the rest of us who are mostly partisan hacks, if I'm being honest,
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you're an actual journalist. And yet, you did something that I don't think you've ever done in
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your career. And you came out and endorsed Donald Trump, spoke at his final rally, if I'm not mistaken,
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right before on the eve of the election. What went into making that decision? And what was it like,
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you know, being in a friendly position with someone with whom you had so publicly sparred in the past?
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Yeah, we've had our ups and downs, Trump and I. But, you know, it's complicated, as I always say,
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because I am not just a booster of his. You know, I am a journalist. And so when he does stuff that I
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disagree with or that, you know, I feel an obligation to critique, I do it. And for some reason,
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I get under his skin. You know, he doesn't like it when I critique him. And that's fine. I understand it.
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That's part of my business. So it's been, you know, rocky at times, including in the past year.
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But net net, he knows I'm a supporter of his. And I know he's going to do controversial things and
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attack me if I, quote, attack him. That's how he sees it. Nonetheless, none of that matters. You know,
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this is about the country, the future of our country. And he there's there's just no question.
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He's the he's the man for the job right now, even even if they had a normal Democrat, I would have
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felt that very clearly. He's he's a fighter. And that's exactly what we need. That bloodied
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in danger guy who stands up there with a fist is exactly what we need to fight these people who are
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not just notwithstanding what you heard this morning and morning, Joe, going to roll over on
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any of their radical agenda. They're not that their leftist based base will not allow it.
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They're too beholden to them. I mean, I think Matt Walsh knows this firsthand. They
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these little darlings are really important to them. They are not going to let go of the trans
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radical ideology. They are not going to let Rachel Levine go into the night and be forgotten.
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This stuff matters to them. So we need that guy. We need the guy who stood by Brett Kavanaugh. We
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need the guy who got up when shot. And so if for me, it was a no brainer ultimately when when asked,
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like, do I show up there and support him on his last night with the message in particular to women
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who might be gettable for Donald Trump, but on the fence about him still and considering,
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can I handle him for four more years? And I just felt like the second point is they'd been so
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overwhelmed. They'd been deluged with information about how if you're a good woman, if you care about
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women's rights, there's only one clear choice and it's her. And I felt like being somebody who is more,
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you know, middle of the road in her politics, I could speak to them. I could I could speak their
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language to convince them as to why there is only one clear choice. And it's him, not her.
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Well, I'm glad that you were able to have that conversation. Obviously, Trump actually managed
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to pick up a few points with women in the election, which is sort of to everyone's great surprise. And
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I don't think you obviously played some role in that. And I think it's very brave of you to show
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your shoulders here. Now that the Reich has begun, obviously, it's all handmaid's tales from now on.
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Megan, where's your bonnet? I don't see any bonnet on you.
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Megan, you know, I want to get your take on sort of the left's reaction to this. So last night we
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were having a discussion as this all emerged and we were experiencing the sheer joy and wonder of
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the evening as to how they were actually going to react as who they were going to blame.
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My suggestion, because as always, I was wise and brilliant, was that they would blame the American
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people. And they promptly have been doing just that. And it feels like this election has finally
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loosed the fetters upon them. And they are now finally just going to say the thing they've always
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wanted to say about the American people, which is that we're a bunch of rubes and hicks and horrible
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people. And it's not about social media. It's not about the Russians. It's just about us. So it feels
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like they're just going deeper into the crevasse. I mean, we've had so many examples of that this
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morning. They, of course, have been railing about these damn Latinos who for years now they've been
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calling white adjacent as they express their conservatism. And so they've got to be written
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off because they are a minority group, but it's not OK because they're not pro Democrat. And, you know,
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that can kick you out of the cool club. And suddenly you're white adjacent. And that means
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I guess you're going to get mocked on The View every day. Then speaking of The View,
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you had Sonny Hostin come out today and rail on these damn uneducated people who are to blame
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for her loss. They're uneducated. And of course, by that, what she means is non-college educated,
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which in her elite world, she went to Harvard. Her son's at Harvard.
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I could be wrong on law school. But her son is definitely at Harvard. And her daughter's
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probably there. And she's railing today about her daughters, how her daughter has less civil
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rights than she had. Why again? You live in New York. You can get an abortion one day before birth.
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Well, I don't know what she's referring to, but she's deeply concerned about the civil rights of her
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child and our country. And they are all multimillionaires, including Sonny and her
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daughter. And they live in a state that looks like Mar-a-Lago. But she wants to go out there
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and cry like a victim, just like we saw from Michelle Obama and Beyonce and J-Lo and Oprah,
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who have been made billionaires in some cases from this country. But when we don't do what they say,
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we have to be berated for our racism, our sexism, our internalized misogyny, take your pick.
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I'm just glad that Michelle Obama will have exactly one single moment in her entire life
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Well, I mean, the celebrity factor was so annoying throughout the whole thing,
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and it didn't work for them. And they don't learn. They did this with Hillary Clinton.
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That, you know, who on the Democratic side didn't stop to say, who is Trump doing well with? Oh,
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it's the working class across all races. Well, how can we reach them? Oh, I've got it.
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Taylor Swift. She's going to be able to rule in these white working class guys, these Hispanic guys
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who are feeling, absolutely not. They didn't even try. They're just so drunk on celebrity
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At least Taylor Swift is genuinely beloved and talented. I don't understand
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how we live in a time where Cardi B can be invited by the sitting vice president of the United States
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to address her supporters and give an endorsement. I mean, it's like-
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All my hilarious responses to that are unspeakable, so I-
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She literally tweeted out something like, what does pee taste like? And then she gets invited
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to go speak for Kamala Harris. I have a Kamala Harris joke here, but I cannot say it.
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In the last, like, two days of the campaign, Kamala also had, I believe it was Jennifer Lopez,
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Christina Aguilera, and the rapper Fat Joe, which are really powerful celebrity endorsements
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in the year 2002. And that's what she, that was kind of her closing, that was her close,
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J-Lo was out there like, I want to speak to Latinos and how terrible what they said about
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Puerto Rico was and going on. Meanwhile, that didn't move the needle at all. This is how
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out of touch they are. And I think about the Oprah. Remember the Oprah round table?
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I do wonder with J-Lo, I do wonder if people looked at her past judgments with men,
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like P. Diddy, who she dated, and went, maybe she makes bad decisions about men kind of generally.
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I mean, when you're just going through the white party list for your final reach out for
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the campaign, it feels not like a great thing, probably.
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Exactly right. I mean, not to mention, I don't like bringing people's kids into it,
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but she's obviously got a kid who is having identity issues. She's got a stepkid who's having
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identity issues. This is no accident. You know, they live in this world in which identity is
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everything. It gets prized. It gets pushed. They get social rewards for having said kids.
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They're conducting social experiments on their own children. Then they want to get out there and
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lecture us about the future of the country. And I'm so thrilled that America saw right through this
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BS. And not only did they see through it, it was definitely one of the issues that rose to the top of
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Megyn Kelly, thank you very much for spending some time with us on this joyous day.
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By the way, did I promise, did I promise I would take a drink?
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So I think people need to understand the last time I had whiskey, I literally don't remember.
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I'm not opposed to it. I don't, I love tobacco.
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I understand. So what are you giving me so I can tell people what I had?
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Sounds like a shampoo to me. I don't understand. I don't bet.
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All right, what is that? Is it a scotch? What is it?
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Well, let's let the people at home see this great moment from last night's show,
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where we learned that Dennis had not had a drink in some of our lifetimes.
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Here's my vow then. If Trump wins, I will drink anything you give me,
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which is more than I have drunk in 50 years. I love tobacco. I don't like alcohol.
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Well, I'm really on tape here, yeah. Okay, I give you...
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I am a man of my word. So, I do know this question. What proof is it?
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If I have to drink, it's with you guys I want to do it.
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By the way, do you all love this? I'm just curious.
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I basically don't drink, but I drink. I'll have a drink.
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And I drink for the two of us, actually, so it balances out.
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I do. I can't wait for Dennis to start speaking in cursive during Kamala's speech.
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This is a letdown, because the setup was you would drink anything we hand to you.
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We just got him off the wagon for the first time in day.
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Dennis, if you drink any more, you'll be eligible to run for president as the vice president of Biden's.
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And by the way, Dennis, you think your first glass is good?
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Listen, this is what happens when you want to surprise Dennis Prager with a little pink umbrella.
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I specifically told the team to have all this ready for after the concession speech.
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I will say that while we did think about funny things to make you drink, there's nothing.
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Essentially, I'm not a teetotaler, but you can see teetotaling from where I am.
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But even I will say that on a day like today, whiskey has never tasted better.
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Although I am starting to feel a little squirreled.
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In the celebratory spirit, you might have noticed I'm wearing a sort of wide late 90s tie.
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It is a part of the official Donald J. Trump tie collection.
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It's obviously held up very well, as has the president.
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And I figure if one does not wear the DJT tie today, because I actually feel real vindicated
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They say, I don't like his tweets or whatever, but I like his policy.
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And so I've thought he's actually a pretty good candidate.
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And people say he's a terrible candidate, but, you know, he somehow makes it across.
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The fact that this guy won the Electoral College by a lot, that he won the popular vote,
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that he assembled this coalition that is unlike a coalition that any Republican has done
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I think we have to conclude he's a good candidate.
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I mean, geniuses do things that you've never seen before, and they break all the rules,
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I don't think that 20, I don't believe that in 2016, Donald Trump did anything particularly
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I think that Hillary Clinton did something spectacular.
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Which is why he was, as I've said before, why he was able to win with fewer votes, say,
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in Wisconsin than Mitt Romney lost Wisconsin with, right?
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But what you cannot deny is someone then coming back and winning not only an overwhelming majority
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in the electoral college, but also winning the popular vote.
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And what that tells you is that while what Trump did in 2016 may or may not have been spectacular,
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what he did in 2024 is a true feat of political.
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Only the greatest politicians are able to accomplish what he just accomplished.
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He's like a guy who can look at the Rubik's Cube of life and solve it.
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I've seen him do it again and again, and you can see him shift.
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You read the field and all this stuff, and he just figured it out.
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And I think, by the way, I just want to add this, throw this out there.
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I think it's going to be the best second term we've ever seen because he has actually taken
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God has arranged it, so he's taken four years to learn what he needed, what he did wrong
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There's another thing to add there, which is in 2020, if he had won, he would have been
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In 2024, he has an overwhelmingly Republican Senate.
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He's actually going to have a majority that he can work with.
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And if you want more good news, because, you know, I bear glad, I bring glad tidings.
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The Electoral College, I've mentioned this before, that they screwed up the census in
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There are actual extra votes in the South that were not properly counted.
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I am calling right now on the Congress of the United States, the President of the United
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States, to pass legislation that allows for the recapitulation of the census figures sufficient
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so that in the 2028 election, those votes actually shift to the states where they belong
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because that's where those votes belong, people being disenfranchised right now in Florida,
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people being disenfranchised right now in Texas because the count is not correct.
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And then in 2030, there's going to be another census.
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And if that census goes how people think that census is going to go, 12 Electoral College
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votes are going to shift from blue states to deep red states.
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That is all the states, that's three to Florida, that's four to Texas, that's one to Arizona,
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that's one to Idaho, that's, I believe, one to Georgia.
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So what do you think the rate, less in California, coming from California.
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Five fewer in California, three fewer in New York.
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What do you think the Democrats are going to do, try to do about that?
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Because there's no way they can just sit and allow that to happen.
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Because the problem for them is that Donald Trump occupied the other half of the agenda, right?
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So if their agenda was normally two things, right?
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One was the kind of woke, racialist, intersectional crap.
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And then one of it was the sort of Bernie Sanders, socialistic redistributionist stuff.
00:25:31.600
The truth is that there's some crossover between the stuff that Trump has said about entitlements
00:25:37.120
Like the most robust arguments that have been used against Republicans in my lifetime
00:25:40.740
on the financial stuff where Paul Ryan's shoving granny off the cliff and all the rest of it.
00:25:45.420
And you're not going to be able to use it on vans because the Republican Party has basically said,
00:25:48.580
all right, you guys want to ride across the cliff?
00:25:53.620
And with that off the table, by the way, abortion is off the table, too.
00:25:59.900
It will not be a live issue in twenty twenty eight.
00:26:01.860
And the reason it will not be a live issue in twenty twenty eight is every state will
00:26:04.540
have already picked the abortion regime that it actually wants.
00:26:07.860
And the Supreme Court will have already spoken by twenty twenty eight and said there cannot
00:26:11.000
be widespread federal legislation on abortion, which means it will be relegated back to the
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And by the way, you saw some of this last night, right?
00:26:17.920
So, for example, Missouri did pass a referendum that was a pro-abortion referendum in Missouri
00:26:22.000
and Missouri went by 10 points to Donald Trump.
00:26:24.380
So people are already shifting away from thinking of their congressperson, senators and presidents
00:26:31.160
They're thinking of their governors and their state legislatures as the people with the fundamental
00:26:34.920
So you take abortion away from the Democrats on the federal level.
00:26:37.100
You take entitlements away from Democrats on the federal level.
00:26:40.940
Higher taxes and weak foreign policy and an open border?
00:26:46.640
I don't understand what you're missing about joy, brat and vibe.
00:26:50.800
You know, another thing, if Trump had won in 2020, he still would have had COVID and they
00:26:57.580
still would have had COVID to beat him up with.
00:26:59.680
You know, it was still this it was right in the middle.
00:27:01.760
And he would have had to deal with inflation that was being put.
00:27:04.360
It was spending that was being pushed by Democrats, but Republicans led it through or didn't have
00:27:10.580
Biden amped it up with the inflation reduction.
00:27:15.040
But but he he would have been dealing with a lot of economic challenges that he well,
00:27:19.240
part of the grace that's obviously the country received enormous mercy from God here.
00:27:24.220
But so so did Donald Trump because Donald Trump deserves a lot of blame for what happened in
00:27:30.920
You know, COVID isn't just a thing that happened to Donald Trump, although certainly it was
00:27:35.020
weaponized against Donald Trump by not just the domestic left, but I think even the global
00:27:39.840
But also the worst aspects of Donald Trump's presidency were his handling of COVID.
00:27:45.520
And in a way, God spared him from having to be the one who paid the immediate price for
00:27:51.420
I mean, he surrendered the country to Anthony Fauci for months and months and months.
00:27:54.900
You know, although although you're you're right, I think you're too hard on him since every
00:28:00.000
other Western leader did the same thing except Sweden, but I don't think this is fair.
00:28:06.380
I think that we should hold Donald Trump to a high standard.
00:28:09.400
I don't think we should hold him to no standard.
00:28:12.400
Donald Trump doesn't purport to be like every other Western leader.
00:28:15.880
He purports to be the one of one, the wrecking ball, the guy who can't be pushed around,
00:28:20.080
the guy who sees through the bull crap, the guy who doesn't buy the conspiracies.
00:28:23.540
And I would further say that when we point to the way that the global Western leaders
00:28:28.720
responded to COVID, I believe that a large portion of what originally inspired their response
00:28:33.960
was attempting to defeat Donald Trump, meaning that I even think that the heads of states
00:28:37.940
of other nations were engaged in some level in a try to defeat Donald Trump because he
00:28:45.540
And when Donald Trump gave his, we're going to reopen on Easter Sunday speech, which was
00:28:50.600
basically America will rise again on the day that Christ rose.
00:28:53.960
It was one of the great speeches, I believe, in American presidential history.
00:28:58.560
Had he done it, I would have voted four times for him.
00:29:06.940
Again, I just think you're being too hard on him.
00:29:10.160
You know, who would you listen to if a plague came through?
00:29:13.880
Literally last night, though, we were saying that maybe he shouldn't have gone to war in
00:29:17.200
Afghanistan when literally any president of the United States, left, right, center, RFK
00:29:22.500
Jr., Ron Paul would have bombed Afghanistan over 9-11.
00:29:26.880
First, I agree that Trump did the wrong thing, but also, George W. Bush had a freedom agenda
00:29:37.880
George W. Bush developed a freedom agenda for the Middle East after 9-11 and the realization
00:29:46.060
But anyone would have gone to war in Afghanistan.
00:29:48.820
Donald Trump would go to war in Afghanistan if they knocked down the Twin Towers.
00:29:51.560
I think that you're arguing past each other just a little bit in the sense that whether
00:29:56.980
The reality is that bad decisions were made during 2020 by President Trump, decisions
00:30:05.700
The American people were giving Donald Trump a lot of credit, and he deserves an enormous
00:30:09.680
I mean, I really think that, I mean, I read the famous Teddy Roosevelt quote on the air today
00:30:18.380
The people who deserve the credit are the people who voted for Donald Trump.
00:30:21.080
The people who showed up in droves to vote for Donald Trump because they rejected all
00:30:25.700
the things that they were being told about themselves and about their country.
00:30:28.900
Now, there are a lot of people, I mentioned this before, but Sam Harris and I had this
00:30:32.620
conversation about Trump versus Kamala, and he was saying, ah, on character grounds, don't
00:30:39.560
I care about the character of the American people.
00:30:41.900
And I care less about the character of the president of the United States.
00:30:44.340
What I want from the president of the United States is to fix the toilet.
00:30:46.300
I care a lot about the character of the American people.
00:30:48.680
And it says something deep and abidingly true about the character of the American people.
00:30:52.340
That they were willing to stand up in the face of a tsunami of lies about Donald Trump,
00:30:56.580
a blizzard of lies, unlike anything I've ever seen in my lifetime.
00:30:59.700
The last month of this campaign alone was just lie after lie after lie.
00:31:03.000
A tsunami of lies, you don't even need to add about Donald Trump.
00:31:09.600
This is what, I am convinced that they're charged that Trump always lies.
00:31:14.300
And the Washington Post, which is almost defunct, listed 2,000 lies, allegedly.
00:31:22.360
But name one lie of Donald Trump that compares to the Russian collusion with the Trump campaign lie.
00:31:34.580
I mean, the list of lies from the left is so enormous.
00:31:39.240
51 heads of intelligence said that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
00:31:47.220
By the way, many of those were actively in the government.
00:31:52.880
But this is sort of why I totally see your point, Ben, that, you know, in answer to a Sam Harris of the world,
00:31:58.740
you can say, look, I don't really care about the politicians as individuals.
00:32:01.740
I care about what they represent and the people who support them.
00:32:04.420
But I also think we don't have to concede the point.
00:32:07.160
Donald Trump has much better character than Kamala Harris and then Joe Biden.
00:32:13.920
But the point that I was making is, because I'm trying to argue in that case to the median voter who's looking at this
00:32:18.660
and may have problems with how Donald Trump acts on the public stage.
00:32:21.720
But, I mean, I started that little speech right there by saying that he is the man in the arena.
00:32:27.000
Okay, the thing is, as I said yesterday, I'll go back to it, the best biblical analog to Donald Trump is not King David, it is Noah.
00:32:44.640
In his generation, he is a complete person in his generation.
00:32:49.620
In a flood generation, you need a man who builds an ark.
00:32:51.860
Donald Trump is a man who builds the ark, and then the floodwaters recede, and then he goes out.
00:32:56.760
If you read the story of Noah, he does some pretty bad crap right after that.
00:32:59.560
But the reality is, he was Ishtadig Tamim complete Hayab Bedorotav, right?
00:33:05.920
He's built for the, this is a time built for Donald Trump.
00:33:10.160
And this is, it's times that make great leaders, okay?
00:33:15.100
And Winston Churchill in 1920 is not a great leader.
00:33:18.820
And Bibi Netanyahu, five years ago, is, you know, in trouble.
00:33:23.420
And now he's a man for his, like, great leaders are made by the time in which they live.
00:33:27.700
And this time demanded Donald Trump, and Donald Trump rose to be the man for that time.
00:33:31.360
We're moments away from Vice President Kamala Harris walking out to hopefully speed us some delicious leftist tears.
00:33:37.480
In the meantime, we have Daily Wire's very own Spencer Lindquist at Howard University, where the Vice President is about to speak.
00:33:48.240
So last night in the early hours of the night, it was very optimistic.
00:33:54.100
And we saw that start to die down, especially when North Carolina was called for Trump.
00:33:58.760
Tonight really is nothing like last night in those early hours.
00:34:03.540
Maybe I'd say 30 or 40 percent of the people that were here last night are now here.
00:34:10.220
And I'm seeing, you know, very sad faces, people giving each other hugs
00:34:13.320
and just patiently waiting for Harris to take the stage.
00:34:21.240
Or have they been so neutered by President Trump, who has saved all the dogs and the cats in Springfield, by the way?
00:34:27.540
Have they been so neutered that it is no longer possible for them to riot?
00:34:31.300
You know, we haven't seen any violence, really even any protesting.
00:34:36.620
Last night, afterwards, we went over to the White House to see if there would be people gathering outside,
00:34:40.700
if there would be protesters, if there would be rioters.
00:34:47.480
And, you know, maybe they've just tired themselves out after a decade of going up against this man,
00:34:51.800
who, of course, has just been bouncing back from everything they've laid against him.
00:34:55.340
So, Spencer, do you know when Kate McKinnon plans to croak out a whining dirge of Leonard Cohen's...
00:35:21.480
You know, we've talked to a couple people, and really, you know, kind of the question that's on my mind is,
00:35:32.400
Because last night, you know, when that co-chair came out, the co-chair of the campaign,
00:35:37.320
the co-chair came out and said, she's not going to be addressing you tonight.
00:35:42.180
And by that point, we were already pretty certain on the outcome.
00:35:45.300
A lot of people made the decision to just not come back out.
00:35:53.200
So, some people are just here really to witness the history.
00:35:54.600
It's absolutely historic that Donald Trump is defeating, vanquishing his second female opponent for president.
00:36:03.660
That was their biggest single theory, that it was a woman.
00:36:08.280
Remember I asked last night, what are they going to say?
00:36:16.580
That's why he got a two-point bounce among women.
00:36:30.820
Are people starting to take down their boards around the D.C. area?
00:36:33.300
You know, the D.C. area right now, I mean, we were out kind of just walking the streets earlier, and it's pretty quiet.
00:36:43.940
I mean, it's 80 or 90 percent Democrat, really, within the district itself.
00:36:47.140
So, the mood is somber, even just on the streets of D.C., but of course, specifically here in this party, it is especially somber.
00:36:54.820
And I'm seeing people kind of, I saw one group sitting in a circle kind of commiserating and talking about what the next four years looked like.
00:37:02.540
Of course, those were all Harris supporters, and they were there kind of reassuring each other, hugging each other.
00:37:08.480
It looked like a little bit of a, you know, a therapy circle, almost.
00:37:38.480
From Howard University, where Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to take the stage any moment to give her concessions.
00:37:46.440
It does, she does have the opportunity to actually give an important speech, and she could actually say some things that, you know, to in some way, if not unify the country, at least assure her supporters that this guy is not actually Hitler.
00:38:06.460
I'm just pointing out that, like, this doesn't have to be a totally useless speech.
00:38:13.720
She could actually help the country with this speech.
00:38:21.780
I mean, I think instead of saying what she should say, let's say we're rooting for her to say.
00:38:24.560
So what I'm rooting for her to say is for her to come out and be like, listen, we all knew old Joe had to go in 2022.
00:38:35.060
And I had to somehow run this thing across the finish line.
00:38:40.920
And then somebody's going to have to come drag Doug Emhoff off the stage before he spots a nanny in the crowd.
00:38:47.940
I think Doug Emhoff is the happiest man in America today.
00:38:51.260
I think the idea that he wanted to be first gentleman is ridiculous on its face.
00:38:54.600
Like, that is a dude, given his personal history, that is somebody who's very happy to be going back to Beverly Hills.
00:39:01.140
Isn't the only thing that she can blame just the Don Corleone lament, if only we had more time?
00:39:09.720
Yeah, you have to understand it was a last-minute thing, and we did the best we could for that.
00:39:20.260
I mean, it was absurd that they swapped out their nominee at the last minute.
00:39:24.020
Well, you know, what I'm looking forward to is her next run.
00:39:28.900
I think Kamala Harris 4.0 will be so much better than Kamala Harris 3.0 ever was.
00:39:35.100
I mean, each upgrade has been treated with just rapturous joy by the media.
00:39:40.980
It's like the iPhone 16, just a new reissue that's just going to get better with every single update.
00:39:47.300
There is a way forward, to Matt's point, really, where the cooler heads in the Democrat Party start to seize back the party from the radicals.
00:40:01.480
Okay, just that's very important that everyone know that.
00:40:09.900
And then as soon as they have power, they will go back to X, Y, and Z.
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00:40:24.900
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00:40:28.540
Is there any concern that the left won't give up power come January?
00:40:41.160
The great loser, one of the great losers is the New York Times.
00:40:47.460
This is really important that people understand this.
00:40:50.800
The New York Times is no longer, I was telling Ben earlier, I will never use the term mainstream media again.
00:41:04.640
PragerU, Daily Wire, all the, you know, Megan Kelly, Joe Rogan.
00:41:15.940
The only people that read the New York Times are leftists.
00:41:23.240
The New York Times now realizes, to some extent, I don't think fully, they have no influence on the country.
00:41:30.900
But to say to the average American, you know, the New York Times said, you might as well say, well, Harvard said.
00:41:39.200
It is a tragedy because, A, the New York Times is the best digital media company in the world, which is an amazing thing to say.
00:41:46.740
Four years ago, they weren't a digital media company at all.
00:41:49.520
It's one of, they are blockbuster who became Netflix.
00:41:53.680
It's the greatest transformation I've ever seen of a company, maybe in history.
00:41:59.040
The other reason it's tragic is they still do the best journalism of any publication in the world.
00:42:05.560
It's, no one on the right can yet field a fraction of the actual investigative journalistic power that can be fielded by the New York Times.
00:42:14.460
We can't field a fraction of the Washington Post.
00:42:16.600
We can't field a fraction of the Wall Street Journal.
00:42:19.480
And so to see that, well, just those three that I just named, they control something like 80% of all the actual investigative firepower in the country.
00:42:29.640
It is a real loss to the country that those institutions, which were always of the left, have become leftist, which is different.
00:42:37.940
They've become instruments of the Democrat Party.
00:42:39.820
By the way, just if you're talking, though, about raw news, I know I read one of the only newspapers I read every day.
00:42:48.700
By the way, I do read the New York Times physical edition, not just digital every day, just for the record.
00:42:54.160
But that's just to know what the left is saying, not to really learn about the world.
00:42:58.520
The Telegraph in Britain, that is a magnificent newspaper.
00:43:03.940
The Epoch Times is a magnificent newspaper, in my opinion.
00:43:10.540
I mean, they're not, they don't have the money to have reporters in Rwanda.
00:43:22.820
You're absolutely right that they have all that firepower.
00:43:28.300
I mean, I was thinking about it this morning, that they really have been relegated to porn.
00:43:32.300
By the way, the Daily Wire, you guys have a lot of news.
00:43:39.960
The other thing is that what they realized is that as their margins began to shrink, they became fan service.
00:43:49.280
And so they just kept doubling down on their fan service.
00:43:51.040
Audience capture is one of the truly pernicious phenomena of the digital age.
00:43:57.660
I mean, and you can tell because I think the only person at the New York Times who voted for Trump in all likelihood is Ross Douthat, right?
00:44:04.540
I mean, Ross is the only one who probably even considered that.
00:44:07.280
At the Washington Post, there's literally no one.
00:44:09.360
The Washington Post, I think that now that Hugh Hewitt stepped away, right?
00:44:13.180
Now that Hugh Hewitt, there's literally no one there.
00:44:20.060
But since, so every major newspaper, the biggest newspapers in the country don't have anyone who's even writing for their editorial page who can even say that they voted for a person the majority of Americans voted for in the last election cycle.
00:44:32.420
At the New York Times, the conservatives who do, who are allowed to contribute to the editorial section, all voted for Kamala.
00:44:48.980
I know what's conservative about Brett Stephens.
00:44:55.780
Well, I think that David French is still committed to most of the same values that he was committed to.
00:45:08.660
Because he is so outraged by Donald Trump that he's willing to side against the people who want to advance the things that he writes in favor of.
00:45:18.020
He's abandoned our values out of hatred of Trump.
00:45:27.600
I don't think that it's the same as him being a leftist.
00:45:34.840
He's become a quizzling for the left in a bizarre belief that if he does so, eventually, a right that he approves of will emerge.
00:45:43.080
Today, I was on Piers Morgan's show with Joe Walsh, who was a right-wing radio host and congressman who then, I think he ran for president.
00:45:57.120
And I thought, you know, I actually kind of like the guy, but I thought, man, you can't, I think you get, like, three election cycles.
00:46:03.180
If you don't vote for a Republican, you're out, okay?
00:46:06.620
And it is true that their derangement causes them to also not support any other Republicans.
00:46:11.000
So when you have, listen, I said last night, I think Jonah Goldberg is one of the greatest writers in the country.
00:46:20.720
Because Trump has made them so mad that anything that isn't like Jeb Bush, they're going to oppose.
00:46:29.780
Because they, I had, Jonah Goldberg did a course for, did a video for PragerU.
00:46:35.500
Jonah Goldberg, I think liberal fascism is one of the most important books of the last 50 years.
00:46:46.120
I don't know, that's why the derangement is not an invalid word.
00:46:52.680
Because I think that one of the things that's been, it is happening on a lot of sides of the aisle,
00:46:57.920
is we now have gotten to the point in American life where if people don't vote the way you want,
00:47:04.860
And you can't function in democracy where you're constantly disappointed with the people.
00:47:10.080
It makes it very difficult to actually believe in the country when you're constantly disappointed.
00:47:15.880
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
00:47:24.260
But it also means that you have to have faith that eventually they're going to make some good decisions.
00:47:28.880
And that if they make a decision that you don't like, maybe there were some decent reasons.
00:47:31.240
Especially to be disappointed, to have these commentators that are disappointed in the people.
00:47:35.680
Well, your whole job, our whole job is to convince the people.
00:47:39.940
And so if the people aren't agreeing with you, then you can be disappointed in them or you can be disappointed in yourself.
00:47:51.180
Ultimately, they get to choose how they want to live.
00:48:01.080
The majority of Republican primary voters disagreed with me.
00:48:06.920
The question before me in November of 2024 isn't, who would I like to see be the Republican nominee for president?
00:48:21.620
You know, on this point of people kind of coming together, the Republicans did unify here in the general.
00:48:26.820
And the election was conducted efficiently and with sufficient margin that, hey, we found out on election night.
00:48:33.460
And so I think it gave people, and this actually is important for the Democrats, even if they won't admit it now.
00:48:39.960
It gave people a confidence that the system still holds and that the people's choices are still reflected.
00:48:49.580
And I mean, I'd said before the election that the worst case scenario, the worst case was Kamala Nero.
00:48:55.000
That if I had to have like order of what was good for the country, Trump big, Trump narrow, Kamala big, Kamala narrow.
00:49:00.900
If you're looking at like things that are – because the worst case scenario that would have been terrible for the country is Kamala sneaking it out at 3 a.m. by a margin of two votes in Wisconsin.
00:49:09.120
It would have been awful for the country at every possible level.
00:49:11.500
So we got the best possible scenario because God has shined upon this country once again.
00:49:18.460
That's why I think you're not seeing – because it was a clear-cut victory.
00:49:24.100
And, again, Democrats are going to have to go back to the drawing board and they're going to have to think to themselves about what they have done wrong.
00:49:32.000
You're going to have to figure out exactly what it was that went wrong.
00:49:34.820
Because if you think about Barack Obama as a singular figure who was elected for a host of reasons that really had very little to do with his policy, which is actually what he was.
00:49:45.840
Obviously, his personal characteristics, his race, all of that kind of stuff.
00:49:48.960
The last successful national Democratic politician, truly successful, is Bill Clinton, who today would be characterized as a moderate Republican by his agenda.
00:49:57.700
How do you run on a left-wing agenda that the American people do not like without the signal power of a Barack Obama?
00:50:04.540
And so the question is they're either going to have to find another cult figure, which is what Obama was.
00:50:08.480
They're going to have to find a celebrity cult figure like Barack Obama.
00:50:10.400
Or they're going to have to start reexamining the agenda of, say, James Carville and Bill Clinton and maybe start looking at the blue dog Democrats once again.
00:50:20.700
And I think that they're actually – look, the only sane reaction to a defeat like this is to say, where have we gone wrong?
00:50:26.780
And if you come up with the idea that it's messaging, which is what they usually do, then you're never going to get anywhere.
00:50:37.480
I can't think of a single major left-wing figure who will say, gee, maybe I really am wrong on a person being able to change sexes.
00:50:55.180
They're actually some of them in there in the media.
00:50:57.560
The question is whether they can yank back the party from –
00:51:01.220
The people who are going to be sane about this do exist on the left.
00:51:09.800
So believe it or not, on the gender issue, Van Jones.
00:51:12.380
So actually there are Democrats of color who are more likely to be the people who yank them back on those issues than the white Democrats.
00:51:18.920
The white Democrats are the nudges of the Democrats.
00:51:23.180
He also tends to track a little more toward the middle when he's not being pushed by CNN.
00:51:29.520
Will any of them say, you know, maybe America was not founded in 1619?
00:51:45.340
What if we just keep beating them until they do learn the lesson?
00:51:48.360
Michael, here's a question from a DailyWire.com subscriber.
00:51:51.000
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00:51:55.600
Will the truth of all the corruption finally come out now?
00:51:59.300
Will leftists see the lies that they swallowed?
00:52:01.740
There are people in our lives that bought all the lies and they still think we're the bad guys.
00:52:05.900
Will they be able to see the truth once Trump takes office?
00:52:14.880
Everyone is broadly aware of the great corruption in our government and our culture.
00:52:19.040
Both sides of the aisle are aware of it and they disagree a little bit over the nature of it.
00:52:21.960
But they're aware of it and some of that will come out and I think Trump will clean house to as great a degree as he can in the federal bureaucracy in particular.
00:52:29.440
And that will be difficult and it will be unsatisfying, but I think he can get somewhere.
00:52:33.000
In terms of will Democrats see the error of their ways?
00:52:37.120
I think it's going to take them a little while longer to do that because they've really bought in and they've accepted their views not so much as a matter of practical political conciliation
00:52:48.380
or, you know, just, you know, resignation, but rather as a matter of deep religious faith.
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I want to know in light of what you're saying, I'm waiting to see the left-wing source, because it was almost universal, that says, wow, America elected Hitler.
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Why don't they own up to the staggering horror of calling him Hitler?
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So say, the new republic had a picture of Hitler in the face of Donald Trump.
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Will the new republic now say, America elected Hitler?
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Jews started to leave Germany when Hitler was elected.
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Well, Richard Gere did say that he's going to Spain.
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We have Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota, now entering the arena here.
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Weirdly, he still looks happy and no one knows why.
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I do want to say, Dennis, you're a very large, perhaps the largest on earth Jewish man.
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How many times have you been to Israel in your life?
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And Tim Walz has been 30 times to China, a country that is not his ancestral homeland, that is not the center of his religion, and that currently has hundreds of nuclear weapons pointed at us.
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And we've been engaged in a Cold War for 50 years.
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It's a remarkable moment, by the way she's coming in.
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Vice President Kamala Harris walking to the podium.
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We'll rejoin you as soon as the vice president's remarks are concluded.
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Full of gratitude for the trust you have placed in me.
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Full of love for our country, full of love for our country, and full of resolve.
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The outcome of this election is not what we wanted, not what we fought for, not what we voted for, but hear me when I say, hear me when I say, the light of America's promise will always burn bright.
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To my beloved Doug and our family, I love you so very much.
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To President Biden and Dr. Biden, thank you for your faith and support.
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To Governor Walz and the Walz family, I know your service to our nation will continue.
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And to my extraordinary team, to the volunteers who gave so much of themselves.
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To the poll workers and the local election officials, I thank you.
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Look, I am so proud of the race we ran and the way we ran it.
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Over the 107 days of this campaign, we have been intentional about building community and building coalitions.
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Bringing people together from every walk of life and background, united by love of country, with enthusiasm and joy, in our fight for America's future.
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And we did it with the knowledge that we all have so much more in common than what separates us.
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Now, I know folks are feeling and experiencing a range of emotions right now.
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But we must accept the results of this election.
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Earlier today, I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory.
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I also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition.
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And that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power.
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A fundamental principle of American democracy is that when we lose an election, we accept the results.
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That principle, as much as any other, distinguishes democracy from monarchy or tyranny.
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And anyone who seeks the public trust must honor it.
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At the same time, in our nation, we owe loyalty not to a president or a party, but to the Constitution of the United States.
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My allegiance to all three is why I am here to say,
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while I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign.
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The fight, the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness, and the dignity of all people.
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A fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation.
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I will never give up the fight for a future where Americans can pursue their dreams, ambitions, and aspirations.
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Where the women of America have the freedom to make decisions about their own body and not have their government telling them what to do.
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We will never give up the fight to protect our schools and our streets from gun violence.
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And America, we will never give up the fight for our democracy, for the rule of law, for equal justice,
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and for the sacred idea that every one of us, no matter who we are or where we start out,
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has certain fundamental rights and freedoms that must be respected and upheld.
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And we will continue to wage this fight in the voting booth, in the courts, and in the public square.
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And we will also wage it in quieter ways, in how we live our lives.
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By treating one another with kindness and respect.
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By looking in the face of a stranger and seeing a neighbor.
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By always using our strength to lift people up.
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To fight for the dignity that all people deserve.
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And the fight for our country is always worth it.
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To the young people who are watching, it is okay to feel sad and disappointed.
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On the campaign, I would often say, when we fight, we win.
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Don't ever stop trying to make the world a better place.
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And don't you ever listen when anyone tells you something is impossible because it has never been done before.
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You have the capacity to do extraordinary good in the world.
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And so to everyone who is watching, do not despair.
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This is a time to organize, to mobilize, and to stay engaged.
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For the sake of freedom and justice and the future that we all know we can build together.
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Look, many of you know, I started out as a prosecutor, and throughout my career, I saw people at some of the worst times in their lives.
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People who had suffered great harm and great pain.
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And yet found within themselves the strength and the courage and the resolve to take the stand, to take a stand.
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There's an adage an historian once called a law of history.
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The adage is, only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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I know many people feel like we are entering a dark time.
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But for the benefit of us all, I hope that is not the case.
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America, if it is, let us fill the sky with the light of a brilliant, brilliant billion of stars.
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And may that work guide us, even in the face of setbacks, toward the extraordinary promise of the United States of America.
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And may God bless the United States of America.
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Well, folks, that is Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States.
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I got to say, she was a little more naturalistic than usual.
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Obviously, she's a permanent resident of the Uncanny Valley, so she could only take short trips outside the Uncanny Valley.
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She seemed to make it almost to the border of the Uncanny Valley at that time.
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But, unfortunately, she was then dragged screaming back to the center of the Uncanny Valley for the finale of the speech,
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where she talked about how there would be a billion points of light, not just a thousand, a billion, yay, perhaps a trillion, perhaps a trillion, trillion.
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So many points of light because, you know, when it gets real dark, you can see the stars outside.
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And that means that now that it's really dark, you can be a star, too, just like J-Lo or something.
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And that little concession speech was also a big nothing burger.
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So there are a few things she could have said that would have been useful.
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Like, for example, you remember that time I said that my opponent's Hitler?
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She said you're going to be fine, but it's very hard to square that with my opponent is Hitler and you need to vote to stop him.
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It is very difficult to square all the things that she said on the campaign trail about the threats to America.
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There will be giant internment camps, what Democrats were saying,
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that every woman in America was going to be put under the gun,
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that essentially all rights would be stripped from you with the sort of inspirational rhetoric she was using right there.
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If she had campaigned as this Kamala Harris, maybe she would have had a better shot.
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If she hadn't tried the scare tactic of claiming that Donald Trump was Hitler with seven mustaches and more orange,
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if she hadn't tried that, maybe people would have taken her more seriously,
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or maybe they wouldn't because it turns out that was just a bunch of platitudinous nonsense.
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Again, in the end, the thing about Kamala Harris is nothing, because she is nothing.
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That speech could have been given by 1,000 different Democrats, nay, a billion stars of Democrats.
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It could have been any Democrat in the United States who gave that list of platitudes and bumper stickers
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that mean absolutely nothing when ripped out of any sort of context or any sort of meaning.
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And because that is the case, what you have to do is look behind the facade that is Kamala Harris of the Democratic Party.
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And that's the reason she lost. She didn't lose.
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Honestly, I would feel bad for her if I thought that she actually were a real human being.
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But the fact that she is an NPC and that she effectively is just a stand-in for a party,
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don't feel bad for the party that she represents because that party is lying to you.
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They put up these platitudes and these bumper stickers so you don't look through the veil.
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They don't want you to see the actual policies they pursue.
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This lady who says that she was a prosecutor, this same person suggested on a questionnaire from the ACLU
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that taxpayers should fund the transition of illegal immigrant prisoners.
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This same person who is talking about how be friendly to the stranger who you just meet on the street,
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that same person was personally attempting to bail rioters out of prison during the George Floyd riots in Minneapolis.
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The same person who is telling you that young people, you ought to have hope in the future,
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was also telling young people that they effectively don't have any hope in the future
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unless they're having their student loan debt relieved by the grace of government.
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The agenda does not match the rhetoric. It never matched the rhetoric.
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The rhetoric is completely empty because Kamala Harris is completely empty.
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It's why no one, I noticed that for all the talk in the media about how she was brat and joy
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and a wonderful candidate, joy reads that she ran a flawless, flawless campaign.
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That for all of that, ain't nobody talking about her running again in 2028.
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Weird. If she's that great a candidate, they should be talking about that.
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So, I think we can all bid a fond farewell to Kamala Harris from the public scene.
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We can bid a fond farewell to Tim Walls, who will be as memorable as Tim Kaine,
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meaning that in about six months' time, you won't remember who he is,
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except he sort of reminded one of Don Rickles in some sort of bizarre way.
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And that's going to be the last you hear of Kamala Harris.
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So, once again, goodbye to Kamala Harris. Raise a glass at your exit.
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Can I say, I'm disappointed that she did not announce her re-election bid during that speech.
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That's what I was hoping for out of the speech, and we didn't get it.
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But maybe they'll run, like, they're just running progressively more unpleasant women with each election.
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but I think she did a good job because it's relatively easy for her to be gracious,
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is she had no business being the nominee in the first place.
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She's already made it so much further in politics than she ever deserved.
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So, for her, I guess she can think, all right, well, you know, on this fluke, I almost became president.
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I made it to be VP when I really had no business doing that.
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It's not just the bizarre policies that those speeches cover up.
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It's the open policy, the central policies, things like price controls, which is a Soviet idea,
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the taxing the money that you've made on your house but haven't realized yet, which is pure robbery,
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the misinformation idea that they are going to decide what misinformation is,
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Those are central ideas to the Democrat Party, and they're completely anti-American and unconstitutional.
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And it's, you know, we pick on these things, and we should,
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we pick on these things like, you know, funding trans operations for people in federal prison,
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but their open policies, their central policies are absolutely disastrous.
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So, I agree that the election was a repudiation of leftism, which is basically Matt's point at the top of the show.
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And I agree with Ben that in many ways Kamala wasn't even a person running for president,
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so much as she was a position, you know, she occupied a space on behalf of the machine itself.
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They needed something that looked approximately like a human to carry forth their ideas.
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But people do matter in politics, and had the person we just watched for the last 12 or 15 minutes
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run for president the last 120 days, it's not clear to me that Donald Trump would have emerged victorious.
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Because even though the speech was, even though the speech.
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I know that you guys grant to Donald Trump immense superpowers and holds.
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But that person we just watched on stage was credible.
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Yes, it said nothing, but the American people don't always, I mean, they flip wildly between election and election on different policies.
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I have never seen the person who just stood at that podium.
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I, as a follower of American politics, much more closely than most, one might say,
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I've never even met the person who just walked out to that podium.
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She gave a speech that had a sort of political rabble-rousing kind of spirit, but didn't actually say anything particularly divisive or particularly offensive.
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I mean, certainly her Valium dealer either died last night, ran out of stock.
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But that person we've never seen before, and that person might have made a run for president.
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A lot of people give their best speeches in concession because the pressure's off and it's all over.
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And I don't grant Donald Trump superpowers, but he did get shot in the head and fight back.
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I think Donald Trump does a lot of good things.
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I become the most anti-Trump that I ever am when I'm sitting here hearing all the supernatural elements of Donald Trump.
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The thing is, the reason that that wouldn't have worked is because at the beginning she kind of tried it and it's not sustainable.
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You can see all the tricks that are being played.
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And so this whole attempt to portray herself as a sort of, you know, just family woman who cares about the normie life,
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that doesn't work for more than five seconds at a time.
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And the minute that you think about it, it really, really doesn't work.
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And so, you know, again, I think it's sort of offensive when people play act at it.
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My culture of being in the normie is not your costume.
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You know, the one where I'm married and I have four kids and I live in a stable household and I have a stable community.
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And I come home from a job and I take care of my kids.
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Don't pretend that you're a member of my normie community while you're out partying at Drag Queen Story Hour with your weird husband, Doug.
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In fact, to offer up something actually kind about Donald Trump, I actually think that part of his unique charm is that he never plays like a normie.
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So, when he goes to drive the garbage truck, he doesn't take off his $3,000 shirt and tie.
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When he goes to work at McDonald's, he is the famous, wealthy, self-aware, self-deprecating billionaire serving you French fries.
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It's not—he doesn't put on the costume of normalcy.
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When I was down in the Rio Grande Valley with Cruz, the fact is Jill Biden had visited that same community.
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And that's the community where she made the famous breakfast tacos speech.
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Where you're all—you had the wide variety of humanity, just like the wide variety of breakfast tacos.
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They're still like, what the—what in the—like, what the—
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Because meanwhile, Donald Trump would be like, Cinco de Mayo.
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And they don't feel disrespected by that because, guess what?
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He's not pretending that he knows anything about breakfast tacos.
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He's like, yeah, I went down to the local restaurant.
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After that—after the garbage truck stunt, he goes to a rally.
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And he spends five minutes telling a hilarious, off-the-cuff story about how ridiculous the whole thing was.
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And how he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to get up the—get up into the truck because it's too big and he's old.
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And then he—but he keeps the vest on because it's slimming and he's fat.
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And you realize that—I mean, this is the difference.
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There's so many differences between him and Kamala.
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But this especially, that Kamala is totally incapable of that, both speaking off the cuff and being funny for five minutes or for even one minute, but also to be self-deprecating in that way that's just very—
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Well, by the way, that is a bone that Trump grew.
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Okay, when Trump first stepped on the scene in 2015, 2016, he did not do self-deprecating.
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He had that great line where he said, I'm supposed to do self-deprecating humor, but I've got nothing, remember?
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He had that moment on the other podcast, the name of which escapes me, where he said, when you invent an ugly name to call somebody, he's got to be like, phew, phew.
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You know, and I just thought, like, that is brilliant because he's actually telling you he's a character.
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You know, he's playing the character to some degree, and he's happy to let you know it, you know?
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Here's a question that is worth posing to people in your life that loathed him and loved her or loathed him and were okay with her.
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And it just occurred to me now, ask them, do you think you know Donald Trump?
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See, this is a great point, Dennis, because we're saying she did a good job on this speech.
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We're saying she did a good job because she didn't sound deranged or drugged up or comatose.
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And so I agree with your point, Jeremy, that she would have done better, for sure, if we saw that candidate.
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I think she would have done better to, like, 235 electoral votes.
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You know, I think she's getting a little bump out of that, but she still didn't offer anything.
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To your point, Ben, she tried this at the beginning of the campaign.
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One thing that might have helped her in the campaign is if people could have pinned her down on a policy position or an achievement ever, once, even in her life.
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But she tried to be all things to all people, and without any actual convictions, it just totally flopped.
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And I think the other thing that happened is that even when she would tell stories about herself, they would betray nothing about her.
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She would say – she obviously relished in telling the story about how Joe Biden called her and said that he was dropping out.
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But she said – she was doing an interview, and she's like, you want to know a detail that was happening then?
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And you know something that you know about Donald Trump?
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You know why, for example, he doesn't drink or do drugs.
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Because he has actually told us why he doesn't drink or do drugs because of his brother.
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And so, like, these are things that – if you're talking about, like, personal, authentic details, these are actual things that do matter.
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I do want to raise a glass to the person who's even happier than we are today.
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And that, of course, is Dr. Jill Biden, the greatest doctor in America.
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Dr. Jill, if you're watching this, a tribute to you, madam, because let me just say, you and your husband did an excellent job of just putting that knife directly between Kamala Harris and shoulder blades in the late stages of this campaign.
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You and Donald J. Trump, you will meet on a beach in Zihuataneo after – where you will be friends, lifelong friends one day.
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Because it is – I have to say, Jill hates Kamala – like, hates Kamala Harris.
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And the happiest person today – I'm not sure it's President Trump.
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The happiest person today might, in fact, be Joseph Robinette Biden.
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Kamala Harris, not the brightest bulb, is introduced to Dr. Jill Biden.
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Dr. Jill Biden writes a prescription on a napkin to Kamala Harris.
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Kamala Harris doesn't know that Dr. Jill Biden isn't a doctor.
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Kamala Harris goes and gets that prescription filled.
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She is stoned for 118 straight days, can't form a cogent sentence, drifts through her campaign.
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Jeremy, I've noticed a sort of light motif to your commentary on this.
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On the day after losing, the prescription runs out.
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She walks out on stage, not even sure how she came to be here.
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Suddenly she's cogent and coherent, still not smart.
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You know, I will say, as insulting as the narrative that the media ran out,
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that Joe Biden was mentally competent, which was the most insulting narrative.
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And I think it really did have a market effect on this campaign.
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Like, if Joe Biden had been the campaign since – if Kamala Harris had been the candidate since 2022 or 2023,
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this is a very different-looking race, I think.
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The fact that Joe Biden did stick around that long and that that lie was promulgated for full-on years –
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We'll still say that behind closed doors, man's doing back handsprings and such.
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The other lie that I can't – there are so many lies about Kamala Harris and her entire campaign that I cannot abide.
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Obviously, the one personally that I cannot abide is Doug Emhoff Jew.
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Like, if I have to hear Doug Emhoff as an emissary of the Jewish people one more time,
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I'm going to – my head will turn 360 like Linda Blair in The Exorcist.
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But the real lie that they kept saying is they kept telling us how qualified and intelligent she was.
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And I know Donald Trump got ripped up and down for saying that she was a low-IQ person.
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She's not an ADIQ person, but this is not a person who's two standard deviations above the American average.
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You watch her speak, and she's doing an impression of what a middle-brow person thinks a very smart person sounds like.
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And that lie was so transparent and so obvious.
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And they kept saying that she was intellectually outclassing him.
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And all you got was just this, just like pap and pap and memorized pap.
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Donald Trump, for all of his flaws, the man has an innate grasp of important things.
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And it turns out that an innate grasp of important things is significantly more important than your ability to regurgitate platitudes that you memorized in the back room before a debate.
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The other lie is that there's one thing that I'm the only person in American public life who I heard talk about the reality of how our enemies perceived us elevating a woman of no merit to run the world's sole global superpower.
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It's amazing to me that we just ran this race and no one talked about what it would mean for our national security to do such a thing.
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There's another unique point of view that I heard during this race, and it came from Matt Walsh, who is the only person I've heard have the audacity to point out that she is not a parent, that she gave speech after speech after speech talking about how one of the hardest things she's done in her life was parent children, which she never did.
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She married a man with a 20-year-old, which is an adult, and a 15-year-old, which I know the world's a little different now than it used to be.
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See, my parents cannot tell you what I did from the ages of 14 to today, right?
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I'm not trying to take away any contributions that she may have made in their lives.
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But when you tell someone that parenting is the hardest thing you'll ever do, that is not what they have in mind.
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He wouldn't have said this, but it's also true that women grow wise raising children in the same way men grow wise working.
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And that is really why older women, you talk to them, and they don't have to have the highest IQ.
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They don't have to think in the same way men do, and they say things, and you go like, oh, yeah, that's right.
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That actually is telling me something I didn't see before.
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It doesn't matter that you have a leader with no children.
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It matters if you have too many leaders with no children.
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I mean, this is what invests you and gives you flesh in the future.
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And I think that that actually is an important fact about her.
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And I'm not saying it is because she doesn't have children, but it's because she doesn't have children.
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Yeah, I'm not saying also, though I do think the left makes a point when they say her sex was a factor here.
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I know plenty of women who wouldn't vote for a woman to be president.
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Okay, and it's politically incorrect to say so.
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But there are plenty of women who feel that way and plenty of men who feel that way, too.
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Because they think men and women are different.
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Thatcher is a PM or, I don't know, Empress Maria Theresia or Queen Elizabeth.
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Although Queen Elizabeth wasn't actually a head of state.
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You know, and she ain't, Kamala ain't no Margaret Thatcher.
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At least when our enemies around the world, who have no respect whatsoever for women,
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The Chinese don't believe that a female president is going to be a credible threat against them.
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Vladimir Putin doesn't believe that a female president can be a credible threat against them.
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The Iranians don't believe that a female president can be a credible threat against them.
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At least when they look at Hillary Clinton, who did stare them down as Secretary of State,
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whose husband had been president and deployed the United States military,
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who was kind of a tough old battle axe by the time.
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At least when they looked at her, there was, it was possible,
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they would at least have to think, well, I don't know, what if I'm wrong?
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They don't look at Kamala Harris and feel any of that.
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And I'm sorry, the world doesn't work based on American values,
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The world works on strength and is run by bad men.
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And bad men don't look at Kamala Harris and think, oh, I wouldn't test her.
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They look at Kamala Harris and think, I am taking Taiwan.
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By the way, she doesn't understand the thing you're saying.
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One of the reports that came out like a week and a half before the election
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was that report in the New York Times that said that very early on,
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And one of the first things she did when she read the intelligence briefings
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is she thought that the intelligence briefers were using gendered language
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to describe female leaders of foreign countries.
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And so she literally called up the members of the intelligence community
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and asked them why they were using sexist language
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to describe female leaders of foreign countries.
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And this led to the formation of a DEI committee in the intelligence community
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It turned out, by the way, they weren't using gendered language.
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They still built up an actual structure inside the intelligence community
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to make sure the intelligence briefings did not contain sexist language.
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I pulled a Dennis Prager-like experiment this morning.
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I have a friend in New York who is a devout Jew who is as shattered by October 7th as Ben.
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So I've told her what I think in very mild mannered terms.
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And she doesn't believe me because she's got that Democrat thing.
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So I said to her today, this is going to be a great presidency.
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Watch what this president does, not what the media says he does.
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And just tell me if he's not better for the things that you care deeply about.
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She's almost been all Israel since this has happened.
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If it hasn't worked already, I have doubts that it's going to work in the future.
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Again, the reason I don't believe you is not because you are innately non-credible, although that is one reason.
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The real reason I have trouble believing that is if somebody is truly shattered by October 7th and truly shattered by what happened.
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If it changed your entire personality, I don't know how you can look yourself in the mirror and look at what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have done to the state of Israel in the middle of an existential war on seven fronts.
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And then say that Donald Trump, the most pro-Israel president in American history, bar none, there are no close competitors, that you are so bewildered and befuddled by Donald Trump that you have to vote for Kamala Harris,
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who couldn't bring herself to even say that Israel was not committing a genocide when people were protesting her rallies.
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Yeah, she gets all her news from places like the New York Times.
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And the New York Times was not shattered by it.
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So she gets her news from something that has no empathy with her own reactions.
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But that's the part I find bewildering because I don't know how you could read the New York Times,
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which runs stories that, shall we say, are mildly non-credible about things like Israeli soldiers shooting children in the head for sports.
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They ran a front page story suggesting that's what Israeli soldiers were doing.
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And then they ran x-rays that were clearly not credible x-rays along with that story.
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Every Orthodox Jew that I know canceled the New York Times in 1997.
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Because that was the year that they ran on the front page of the New York Times a photo showing an Israeli soldier who was defending a kid who was having the crap kicked out of him by Palestinians.
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And they ran the caption underneath the picture suggesting that it was an Israeli soldier beating a Palestinian child.
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They ran it on the front page of the New York Times.
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Every single Jew that I know, except for Dennis, who has to read it for informational purposes, every single Jew that I know canceled the New York Times if they cared about that.
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The New York Times has been a laughingstock in the Orthodox Jewish community for the last three decades.
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By the way, I should point out that Donald Trump did great with the Jews this election.
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He won in excess of 43% of the vote in New York.
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One-third of New York City went for Donald – New York City went for Donald Trump in this election cycle.
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There were trucks that were broadcasting songs in Yiddish about voting.
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I showed one to Knowles before the actual – it was amazing.
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They're going through Lakewood, New Jersey with a school bus blasting out in Yiddish.
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I want to say that this is a place where I think you have a little bit of a blind spot then.
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And it's because you have a very high expectation of people generally and particularly have a very high expectation of your fellow Jews.
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The truth is most people are only beginning to wake up to the fact that the media is not credible.
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And it is incredibly hard to change your priors.
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I mean, it's almost impossible for a person to change their priors.
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It requires the one thing that humans are the most loathe to do, which is admit that they are wrong.
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And I'm not exaggerating when I say people literally take their own lives because that is easier.
01:35:12.900
Than changing their view of themselves and their view of the world.
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I don't think it does that much good to name them because we have had relationships with them in the past.
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But we have friends who act today as though Donald Trump were never president of the United States.
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There is no, there is, they are not impacted at all by the actual record of the man being president.
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They are still reacting to him as though it were the year 2016 because they came to a conclusion in 2016.
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By the way, I came to that same conclusion in 2016.
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I wrote a series of letters to my friend Dennis Prager in 2016.
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The presidency of Donald Trump was the test of the theories that I put forward in 2016.
01:36:04.200
And I can tell you how that's impacted how I see Donald Trump.
01:36:08.100
I want to react to your point about people not giving up what they have held, which is, that's the great book, The God That Failed.
01:36:15.880
It's about people who believed in communism and then saw that it was the greatest mass murder movement in the history of humanity.
01:36:23.220
So, what people need to understand, and this is the central message of my life's work, has been the consequences of secularism.
01:36:37.600
That's been the most constant theme of all of my work.
01:36:41.960
And the answer is that people do not stop being religious.
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Secular religions simply substitute for Judaism and Christianity.
01:37:03.960
And an environmentalist is as likely to give up the belief that the world is about to implode from global warming as a Christian is going to give up belief in Christ.
01:37:25.420
They say it's from G.K. Chesterton, but we have no proof that he said it.
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But he probably did because he was just so bright.
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But whoever said it, when people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing.
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And it's only secular people who say men give birth.
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Not all secular people say it, but only secular people say it.
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Why that alone doesn't keep people or convince people that God is necessary, even if you don't believe, you don't know there's a God.
01:37:59.220
I want you to understand what Douglas Murray, who was an agnostic, understands.
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The end of religion in the West is the end of the West.
01:38:07.200
You know, the thing that I'll say also to you, Jeremy, is you're right.
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I do hold religious people and my fellow Orthodox Jews to a higher standard.
01:38:16.020
And that's because they're supposedly holding themselves to a higher standard.
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So there is a higher burden on you if you're a religious person to hold up the facts of the world against the religious values that you claim to hold central to you.
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You know, the thing as a religious person that you are called upon to do is to place aside your personal valuation of particular situations in favor of the values that are actually eternal.
01:38:40.500
And so if you are having such a hard time giving up your perception that the New York Times is a solid and wonderful newspaper,
01:38:45.980
they are unwilling to see through that because for some reason that holds an identity to you in some way.
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No matter how many times your fellow Orthodox Jews are saying to you, for example, look at what he's actually doing.
01:38:59.540
Then that betrays a lack of – it does betray a lack of principle in some way.
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But at a certain point, ignorance is no longer a defense, right?
01:39:10.380
Of course, I'm defending Drew's friend whom I do not know or know anything about only because I'm a Zionist shill.
01:39:19.120
And I assume that at some point I'll be paid for my defense effort.
01:39:26.720
But no, all I'm saying is that the very fact that she said to Drew today, okay, I'll do that, means that in this one individual case, there's some hope.
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I don't think that we can say that this is a person for whom we can conclude that ignorance is no longer a defense.
01:39:43.500
I think this is a person who possibly is in the process of waking up to their ignorance.
01:39:48.700
And it's difficult particularly – I bring this up sometimes on the show, right?
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It's difficult for people like us who spend our time advocating for values.
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And when you advocate for values, you're necessarily advocating for black and white.
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But no humans live within the realm of absolutes.
01:40:11.380
Humans live in the very, very messy thing called reality.
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And in the messy place called reality, when we say – I only say this for the audience.
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But when we say, for example, if you want to have a successful life, it's easy.
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There's really only three things you need to know.
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But Ben has cited this study many times that the three most determinative things, don't have a child before you're married.
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But most people to whom we're speaking, if they're not already living the life that we're trying to call them to, have already failed at one or two or three of those things.
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And so we have to make sure that while we're advocating for our set of values, we leave room for people to live in the messy world and draw near to – because, by the way, we also don't perfectly embody our values.
01:41:06.520
At best, we're trying to draw near to God, and we have maybe different points of view about exactly how that's accomplished.
01:41:12.240
But that's the only place where I'm pushing back.
01:41:15.640
And pushing back in particular because I know that I think that you – in some ways, because of your superpowers, in some ways, because of them, it can be hard for you sometimes to see that mere mortals sometimes are striving towards something because –
01:41:30.060
I get that, but I will say that I think particularly because the last year has been what the last year has been –
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It is an angering thing that people have not woken up earlier.
01:41:41.280
Like, I mean, again, I hope that your friend really holds by that.
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I hope that the whole American people take this opportunity, frankly, to reconsider the inevitability and the reality of Donald Trump's second presidency and stop looking at it through the prism of MSNBC's linguistic inability to understand Donald Trump and start looking at it as, is your life better?
01:42:03.080
Because I think 51 percent of the population in the United States already concluded their life was better than Donald Trump.
01:42:09.320
A lot of people, even on the left, have said that voters paid attention to the fact that life was better under Trump.
01:42:15.020
And I hope that your friend will make the check payable to Jeremy D. Boring.
01:42:22.500
Yeah, we also just can't underestimate the extent to which most anti – and maybe not your friend, but the extent to which many anti-Trump people have just organized their whole identity around the simple fact of being anti-Trump.
01:42:35.480
And, you know, we talk about the cult of personality around Trump, but there's this like – there's this – on the other side, there's this strange sort of answer to that where – I'm not sure we've ever seen that before around a particular person where you've got millions of people who find their identity in hating that one individual person.
01:42:59.060
Well, there's a deep religious phenomenon going on, which is, like so much of liberalism, just an ape and an inversion of Christianity.
01:43:06.820
Just in Christianity, especially drawing from the Neoplatonic tradition that comes up through the scholastics in Christianity, going back to St. Augustine even, there's this notion that existence is good.
01:43:20.180
We're not living in a Manichean dualist world where there's the good force and the bad force, and they're ever at odds.
01:43:27.520
And evil, in the Christian view, is the privation of the good.
01:43:31.240
In modern liberal ideology, there really is no absolute good.
01:43:38.780
There is the pure incarnation of evil in Hitler, where you could say even Hitler is not Hitler, or now in Trump.
01:43:45.700
When they say Trump is Hitler, they're saying evil is evil, Trump is evil, he's the...
01:43:50.120
But that is an inversion of the Christian view.
01:43:53.280
There have been three major horror movies that came out in the last year in which there was a demon, but there was no God.
01:44:08.240
And you could bring in all these other religious traditions to exercise them.
01:44:10.760
Yes, and any religious tradition was as good as any other.
01:44:12.860
But I've never seen that in a horror movie before, where the evil is pure and the evil exists.
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He promised me that we would win so much I'd be tired of winning.
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So as a preamble to this first question, I want to tell you about the most moving moment
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I think Caleb experienced the actual moment of it.
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And I experienced a version of it a few minutes later.
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Because, so we probably all had a moment of this.
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Walked up and said, he put his arms around me and he said, I'm not going to prison.
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Siaka did not engage in any violence on January 6th.
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He had his home raided by the FBI in Southern California two years ago.
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He had his home raided two years ago in Southern California.
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And then an entire year after having his home raided by armed agents,
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he flew out here for the premiere of Lady Ballers,
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which he had played a small and very, very funny role in.
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And when he flew home, they pulled him out of line at the airport in LA and arrested him.
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They had had years, three years to have done this.
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In fact, they had raided his home and still not.
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And so here was Siaka realizing, and I say this to say,
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there are genuine, genuine consequences of elections.
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And here was a man realizing in real time what this means for him as a person.
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And the question from the member is, do you think Trump will pardon everyone from January 6th
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and the people that were jailed for praying in front of the abortion clinics?
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I think he, if he doesn't, that would be the worst possible sign that he's not going to use this opportunity
01:47:18.600
He might not, pardon every single, there may have been people who actually committed acts of violence.
01:47:23.120
There were people on January 6th who deserved to be in jail.
01:47:29.120
There's an important point to make looking down the barrel that we have a Republican White House,
01:47:34.520
When the member asked this question about people who are jailed for praying in front of abortion clinics,
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they're talking about a law called the FACE Act, which was passed in the 90s.
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It was a dishonest law from the start because it said it was going to protect access to abortion clinics on one end
01:48:05.600
And they've been burned down and nothing has been done.
01:48:07.400
It is only used to go after pro-lifers who demonstrate peacefully at baby killing mills.
01:48:13.560
And I am calling on Republican lawmakers in the House and in the Senate and on President Trump,
01:48:19.260
who is the most pro-life president we've ever had.
01:48:20.800
Please put all your political capital that you got behind repealing the FACE Act,
01:48:26.800
which is one of the most unjust laws in the United States.
01:48:32.280
75-year-old women who all they do is pray peacefully in front of abortion clinics are sitting in prison right now,
01:48:39.060
in nasty, dangerous prisons because of this disgusting law.
01:48:42.380
It's one of the gravest injustices in the country.
01:48:44.980
Every Republican lawmaker, get up when you're sworn into office and repeal the FACE Act finally.
01:48:52.100
But before that is repealed and that needs to happen, Trump also just needs to pardon.
01:48:58.680
There are old women who are right now going to federal prison for praying in front of abortion clinic.
01:49:04.000
And so that's something that I truly believe he'll do this almost right away.
01:49:08.740
How do you think, I love asking questions, how do you think Merrick Garland will be regarded to the extent that he is ever remembered?
01:49:27.180
And that was the portrayal of him when he was nominated for the Supreme Court was angelic.
01:49:35.560
Well, it may even be the case that he was a better man.
01:49:53.240
And it seems to me that Merrick Garland gave in to this hatred.
01:49:57.440
So it's one of these great philosophic questions to which there may be an answer.
01:50:04.220
Can you know anyone, including yourself, until you're tested?
01:50:14.080
Yes, and it goes to my fundamental problem, as we've been discussing this of late, too, with Christians in America in particular, with evangelicals who abstain from the political process to maintain their vision of their own purity.
01:50:32.660
That doesn't mean that God punishes those whom he loves.
01:50:35.500
It doesn't mean that God breaks those whom he loves.
01:50:40.660
I think it's a New Testament idea, but that a bruised reed he will not break.
01:50:52.580
So I think that, no, you cannot know yourself until you are tested.
01:50:56.140
And I believe that it is the responsibility of a man to go out into the world where the tests await.
01:51:02.000
And if you abstain from life to maintain your idyllic view of yourself, what you're actually doing is saying, I would rather not be tested and see myself as good than be tested and find out.
01:51:16.180
Or probably more accurately, it's not be tested and find out.
01:51:22.140
You know, it's an interesting paradox that, as Jordan said last night, and this is absolutely true, the left looks at every relationship in terms of power.
01:51:31.480
And yet they never question what it's going to do to people to have the power, for instance, to redistribute wealth.
01:51:37.260
Which is, to me, the great flaw in Marxism is that there's this entity, this state, that is going to do all these things, but nobody's going to have any power.
01:51:44.280
And, you know, the minute you give people that power, they become corrupt.
01:51:48.760
So in terms of tests, I'd like to share something that I addressed to Christians about, yeah, a year ago, after October 7th, when a certain eruption, I don't want to overstate how much,
01:52:01.200
but a certain eruption of anti-Semitism took place in the most pro-Jewish, non-Jewish country in the history of the world since perhaps Darius's Persia.
01:52:08.860
And what I'd said was, not a lot, but I'm reading reports of Jews taking down the mezuzah from their doorpost.
01:52:18.720
The mezuzah is this little box containing a little part of the Torah, love God with all your heart, and the credo of Judaism,
01:52:27.440
hero Israel, the Lord our God, and the Lord is one.
01:52:30.280
And I said, instead of Jews taking it down, why don't Christians put up the mezuzah on their doorpost?
01:52:38.000
And I want to just say, and I'm almost holding back tears,
01:52:43.640
the number of Christians who sent me pictures of themselves standing in front of their door with the mezuzah,
01:52:49.000
and I, this is a perfect, the Daily Wire is a perfect vehicle for that project.
01:52:56.000
This, this is, you're not defying the Gestapo, you're not risking your life or limb,
01:53:08.560
I know several people who started wearing Jewish stars.
01:53:12.920
Patty, an incredibly devout Catholic and actress and Nashville resident and long-time friend of all of ours, I think,
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It was, it's basically, it's not in any way for a Christian a violation of anything.
01:53:30.560
Love God and love your neighbor, the two great principles.
01:53:36.100
Instead of putting the mezuzah up, could I just wear a giant strimal?
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Or I'll put a picture of you wearing one instead of the mezuzah.
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What can say, this is actually, this is my favorite question of all the questions asked by dailywire.com members during the broadcast today.
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What concessions should be made by Republicans to keep this level of participation and support from the center and center left?
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Essentially, Donald Trump picked up enormous gains among non-traditionally conservative voters.
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It's what continued compromises should be made to keep that coalition in place.
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He spoke in a somewhat mealy-mouthed way on abortion, which was the one issue the Democrats were getting some traction on.
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But other than that, and I don't think he conceded much, if anything, in principle, Bobby Kennedy was scandalized by his own party.
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The people on the left were just, the left had gone too far.
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And so they started to make this turn of their heads and their minds to the right.
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Just as, I don't know, when I was younger I was less conservative.
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I was always kind of conservative, but I've become deeper in my conservatism over time.
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Well, good, let's welcome Kennedy or Elon, wherever they are, but let's invite them to come a little deeper into conservatism.
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I think, you know, they're on our team now, and team politics is important.
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So that's very idealistic, and I think almost totally wrong.
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So I think the reason I say that is because Donald Trump went through the Republican national platform and stripped three-quarters of the policy out of it.
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He forcibly dissociated from Project 2025 and then said publicly a week before the election,
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anyone whose name was in Project 2025 could not be part of the administration.
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So the idea that he didn't make concessions in order to win a broader coalition is not true.
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Now, I think the answer to the question is it's situational.
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Okay, so one of the things that I think is really important, particularly in our line of work,
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is to separate the principled from the pragmatic.
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And when you are in the practice of politics, the principle has to be tempered by pragmatism.
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So it's our job to say how far politicians are straying from principle,
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and then it's their job to try and get 80 percent of the pie.
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And so the question is, how much do you have to give up in order to continue to receive 51 percent of the vote?
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It was a landslide in the terms that we use for presidential elections.
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I mean, like, normally if you say 51-48, that's now considered a presidential landslide.
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But in any other area of American life, if you said that you had a room of 100 people and 51 voted one way and 48 voted the other,
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In other words, this is a very, very tightly divided country still, clearly.
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We've had three consecutive, incredibly tight elections.
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And if you go back before Barack Obama, you had a very tight election in 2004 and a very tight election in 2000.
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What that means is William F. Buckley, who is now widely derided for reasons that escape my understanding.
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William F. Buckley once said that the purpose of a primary is to select the most plausible conservative candidate who could win.
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Who is the, what is the most conservative thing that you can push and still win?
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It sounds like ugly to us because we're in the business of principle.
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And it should sound ugly because pragmatism is dirtying.
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It's what you said about, you know, religious people getting involved in politics.
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It means that you have to make concessions and bargains with things that you don't like.
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Listen, as you say, Jeremy and I are exactly the same on the pro-life issue.
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I'd love a candidate who came out and tomorrow said constitutional amendment banning all abortion in the United States.
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But also, that is a great way to alienate Elon Musk and alienate Joe Rogan and all the people who voted for, if Donald Trump had run on a platform that we all approve of socially, right?
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Like, traditional marriage, for example, traditional, let's say he went back to, like, the 2004 Republican platform.
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Traditional marriage, no abortion, even up to, even if you took the George W. Bush position with exceptions for rape and incest, it would have been too much for them.
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The Republican Party just jettisoned two-thirds of its economic program in terms of spending.
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The Tea Party was all about government spending in national debt.
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But Donald Trump spent the most money of any president in history up until Joe Biden.
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And so that was jettisoned in order to win votes.
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Pretending that didn't happen doesn't make the thing go away.
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And I also think it's dangerous to pretend that it did because then you actually are sacrificing the principle.
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The principle is, in fact, being negotiated in order to achieve the thing.
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That is how you get to the coalitional majority.
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There's a little idealism in this view of things, too, though, because we all remember the halcyon days of the Tea Party.
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The Tea Party in office did not accomplish very much.
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Republicans have not cut spending since Calvin Coolidge, by my calculation.
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The point I'm making is that the revealed preferences of the American people tend to actually be pretty consistent.
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Okay, here's where the American people are by pretty much every poll statistic.
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Okay, and regardless—this is not about what we want.
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The American people, on abortion restrictions, if you were to take, like, a national average, okay, because we're doing national elections, not in each state, right?
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New York's going to have abortions until they're nine.
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But, like, on the average, the American people are somewhere between 12 and 15 weeks on abortion bans.
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If you're looking at entitlement spending, the American people are fine with entitlement spending.
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And they get very, very scared anytime anyone talks about a serious entitlement reform, including smart ones like the one that should have been done in 2005 when George W. Bush essentially recommended, you know, for all the hatred we have, his proposal on Social Security would have made this country so much richer it's not even imaginable.
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Okay, he suggested that we just take what you were putting into Social Security and put it in a private savings account that would have been invested in the stock market.
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The stock market is currently riding at 43,000, the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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I don't even remember what it was riding at in 2005.
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They want some abortion restrictions, but not tons of abortion restrictions.
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They don't seem to care too much about gay marriage anymore, right?
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They want school choice, and they want the border closed.
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They want a strong American military that deters war and prevents foreign actors from
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I do wonder when it comes to mass deportations, whether the revealed preference of the American
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people will be different from the thing that they're saying right now.
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Because I think when most people think mass deportations, they're thinking of the Venezuelan
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gang members who are taking over apartment buildings in Colorado.
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They're not thinking of, you know, the gardeners in Los Angeles.
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That's why he's not going to do it, by the way.
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The other thing we're really fortunate about is we need some structural changes that nobody
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You know, the whole thing about the bureaucracy, about Chevron.
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Because they, you know, I think of Trump, you know, before the running back, I hate to
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Before the running back can take off, some 300-pound guy has got to knock the lineman out
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You know, you should teach this stuff to Tim Walton.
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You know, when you're running a pick-six play—no, I think this is the moment when
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the future of conservatism, the structure of the future of conservatism will be built.
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I would like to read one thing to everyone and then ask Dennis Prager a question before
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I have not read this in advance, so you're experiencing it as I do, but I suspect you
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From the official Barack Obama Twitter account, here is our official statement on the results
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A statement by President and Mrs.—this is the actual header—statement by President and
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They've decided to put out a written statement because, as we know, they're very camera-shy.
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Over the last few weeks and through Election Day, millions of Americans cast their votes,
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not just for president, but for leaders at every level.
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Now the results are in, and we want to congratulate President Trump and Senator Vance on their victory.
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This is obviously not the outcome we had hoped for, given our profound disagreements with
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the Republican ticket on a whole host of issues.
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But living in a democracy is about recognizing that our point of view won't always win out
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and being willing to accept the peaceful transfer of power.
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However, Michelle and I couldn't be prouder of Vice President Harris and Governor Walz
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to extraordinary public servants who ran a remarkable campaign.
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And we will always be grateful to the staff and volunteers who poured their heart and soul
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into electing public servants they truly believed in, including Hitler.
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As I said on the campaign trail, America has been through a lot over the last few years,
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from an historic pandemic and price hikes resulting from that pandemic
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to rapid change in the feeling, a lot of folks have that no matter how hard they work,
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Those conditions have created headwinds for Democratic incumbents around the world,
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and last night showed that America is not immune.
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The good news is these problems are solvable, but only if we listen to each other,
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and only if we abide by the core constitutional principles and Democratic norms
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In a country as big and diverse as ours, we won't always see eye-to-eye on everything,
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but progress requires us to extend good faith and grace,
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That's how we've come this far, and it's how we'll keep building a country
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that is more fair and more just and more equal and more free.
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I want to say that this is a very gracious statement,
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much like her very gracious statement, probably written by the same person.
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And it is obvious that they are setting up their next move.
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They're saying, we believe in the peaceful transfer of power,
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And they're saying that we have to abide by the Constitution.
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They are obviously prepping to shift toward a full assault against Donald Trump
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It's not the first time they've trotted out this particular play.
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Well, the biggest problem that they've got is that
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that they're going to claim are anti-Democratic?
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I mean, these are people who wanted to kill the filibuster
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Now they're not going to want to touch the filibuster
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you promised Ben and I a story about your sons.
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have your kids, have your sons heard you say that?
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This is what I got unsolicited from my two sons.
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Dennis, thanks for spending this time with you.
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And we look forward to seeing you down the road.