In this episode of The Wyatt Claypool Show, Wyatt talks about the shocking loss of Kamala Harris to Donald Trump in the U.S. election, and how Canada's liberal media and politicians failed to see what was clearly obvious: that she wasn't going to win.
00:00:00.280Welcome back to the Wyatt Claypool Show, everyone. Today, we're going to mix things up a little bit, and I'm going to be talking about the U.S. presidential election that just happened yesterday.
00:00:11.540Still some votes to count in certain states, but Donald Trump has decisively won in the Electoral College and is likely to win the popular vote as well.
00:00:20.220But I'm not going to be talking about the U.S. election from the perspective of America. I want to talk about it from the perspective of Canada, and specifically all of the liberal NDP media commentators and politicians who cluelessly thought that Kamala Harris had this in the bag.
00:00:40.040I tweeted this just now, and I had said similar things last night, and I think it sums things up pretty well from at least the media standpoint.
00:00:48.220A lot of Canadian lefty commentators who pride themselves on their nuanced political analysis need to wonder if they were ever good in the first place.
00:00:57.760So many of these people who think that they are wise sages about how politics really works and what the average voter values completely missed the appeal of Donald Trump and thought that Kamala Harris must be super popular, even more popular than Joe Biden was in 2020.
00:01:14.460She was going to obviously overperform how Hillary Clinton did in 2016. She's like Barack Obama. She's not. It was so obvious she wasn't.
00:01:24.180There were so many public data points to prove that she just wasn't going to win.
00:01:29.200Usually, presidential elections where the Democrats only have like a 1% to 3% registration advantage nationally over the Republicans, the Republicans tend to win those ones.
00:01:42.180If it's like plus 8% Democrat registration imbalance, then that's like an election where Obama just has a landslide victory in 2008.
00:01:52.120In 2024, there is a 3%, a 3-point advantage for Republican registrations compared to Democrat registrations.
00:02:03.000And there were people who thought that Kamala Harris was going to win Iowa because of an Ann Seltzer poll that showed that somehow Kamala Harris was going to win Iowa, which Trump won by large margins in 2020 and 2016, that Kamala Harris was going to win it by three.
00:02:20.900She got blown out in Iowa. She lost by 14 points.
00:02:24.800This is where you have to be able to understand what is a good poll and what is a bad poll.
00:02:31.280If a poll doesn't even make sense to you at all, like if you walked through Iowa, does it feel plus 3 Kamala Harris, Democrat?
00:02:39.160It doesn't. You don't even have to go to Iowa to know that that wasn't right.
00:02:43.760There are so many really ridiculously stupid takes from Canadian media commentators pretending like it's a shocking loss for Kamala Harris.
00:02:52.840You guys live in a bubble. You truly think that people vote for the most professorial candidate, the one who has that very moderate aesthetic.
00:03:04.200Kamala Harris is an aesthetically moderate candidate.
00:03:07.520Even though on policy, Trump is arguably way more moderate than Kamala Harris is.
00:03:12.540Kamala Harris is actually more on the Bernie Sanders left of the Democratic Party,
00:03:17.500she literally was rated as the most liberal senator by a nonpartisan group back when she was still in the Senate prior to 2020.
00:03:26.460And what? She was going to be, she was going to have a mass appeal in this country?
00:04:45.560So many people pontificate on politics and and like analyze polling and whatnot and voter behavior who've never door knocked in their life.
00:04:53.540Who've never taken a phone call with a voter.
00:04:55.900They don't actually know how voters think.
00:04:57.580Some of them are actually quite good, but usually they're not in the commentary business like Janet Brown.
00:05:01.860But let's get into some of these other takes from people in from people in Canadian media.
00:05:07.040We have Erica Ifill here, who is legitimately a very racist far left commentator.
00:05:12.620But she works for the Hill Times somehow.
00:05:14.780And when I say racist, go look at her timeline.
00:05:16.980Type in white people into Erica Ifill's timeline and you'll know what I mean.
00:05:22.800She also called somebody who was like a brown woman who disagreed with her fair skinned because you're not actually brown if you disagree with Erica Ifill.
00:05:30.840So she says, as I've been saying, Gaza matters in Michigan, even if that's not like the rest of the country.
00:05:37.260But each county has its own political issues that are oriented around the people who live there.
00:05:42.460And she is responding to this person whose name is austerity is theft on Twitter, just to show how much of a socialist bubble Erica Ifill is living in.
00:05:52.260And they say the margin in Michigan is down to 90,000 votes.
00:05:56.140There are over 200,000 Muslim votes in the state and more than 88,000 Lebanese Americans of any faith.
00:06:05.460He literally won Muslim voters because it turns out Muslim voters and more so just Arab Americans in general don't care about defending Hamas.
00:06:15.840Yes, there is a sub-faction of Arab Americans who might vote that way.
00:06:19.880And actually, because Harris didn't pander enough to specific radicals on the ground, she ended up being beaten by the Green candidate Jill Stein in certain precincts in Dearborn, Michigan.
00:06:33.000But the idea that Erica Ifill thinks that, no, actually, Harris just needed to be more pro-Hamas, more pro-Gaza, as she would probably put it, that that's why she would have lost Michigan.
00:06:44.480No, she wouldn't have won Michigan by doing that.
00:06:47.000She would have lost every other state even harder.
00:06:49.700Why do you think currently – I should bring this up on screen.
00:06:53.240Why do you think that even in deep blue states, Trump gained massively in some of the bluest district of blue states?
00:07:01.720Trump won Florida, which some Democrats were pretending, some liberal commentators in Canada were pretending could be in the pocket of Kamala Harris on the night of the election, that she could win Florida or Texas.
00:07:15.960Donald Trump won Florida by a wider margin than she won New York State.
00:07:23.240She won – he won it – he came closer.
00:07:26.660He had a more than double margin of victory in Florida than she did in New Jersey.
00:10:11.440He is very much like a lefty, socialistic type prime minister.
00:10:17.440I do jab David Eby as being a communist, but that's far more tongue in cheek.
00:10:21.560And it's more so that if anyone says, can you prove he's a communist?
00:10:24.440I will just say I can't prove he's a capitalist either, so you tell me.
00:10:28.220But I guess we can move on to another take.
00:10:31.120We have Bruce Arthur here from the Toronto Star.
00:10:34.140He says, in response to this guy saying, stock markets at record highs, low unemployment wage growth exceeds inflation, the best handling inflation of any G7 nation, energy independence, and I can go on and on.
00:10:45.700So what's funny about that comment immediately from that Brett guy that Bruce Arthur is responding to is that isn't Canada supposed to have the best inflation record?
00:10:53.480If you mess with the metrics, every G7 country can pretend it has a great record on inflation.
00:10:58.800It's been pretty bad in both Canada and the U.S.
00:11:01.440Because there was massive inflation in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
00:11:06.200And now in 2024, they're like, oh, it's only 2%.
00:11:08.840The problem is that 2% compounding on years where it was like 7%, 9%, and 6%.
00:11:15.280Anyways, but here's what Bruce Arthur says.
00:12:48.660When Trump became president, he actually started giving offensive weapons to Ukraine, Georgia, the Eastern Bloc countries, Finland, Sweden.
00:12:58.260He started upping the military budget.
00:13:00.740He was actually intimidating to Russia.
00:13:03.420When Biden became president in 2021, do you know that Biden immediately cut offensive weapons to Ukraine?
00:13:10.280He just said, no, no more Javelin missiles, no more artillery.
00:13:13.660I'm slashing the military budget to pay for some other stupid entitlement in the U.S.
00:13:18.380And then he only restored the funding after the invasion started from Russia again.
00:13:22.860So there's the 2014 invasion that kind of stalemated.
00:13:25.500And then when the 22 invasion started, that's when Biden started kicking money in to the Ukraine defense.
00:13:30.520That's Russia invaded because Biden basically signaled we're not going to defend them at all by cutting their funding and saying, yeah, we don't want a part of it.
00:13:37.480And if Russia makes a small encouragement, we won't do anything.
00:13:48.840And that's usually enough to keep people away.
00:13:51.180You know, Trump's actual plan on Ukraine, if you've actually heard it from from national security advisors around him, is that he wants to triple the Ukraine funding unless Russia finds an off ramp, which is actually the right way to negotiate.
00:14:03.700I know some people who are more anti-interventionists, they're like, well, you should just cut Ukraine's funding so that they'll negotiate for peace.
00:14:10.600Ukraine's the underdog in this scenario.
00:14:12.500If you cut their funding, Russia's going to be like, well, let's just bag the whole crowd down and keep pushing.
00:14:17.560You actually have to make it harder for Russia to move forward.
00:14:20.840So then they have an excuse to then trade like the Kursk regions where Ukraine gives back the Kursk regions that took a little bit here and there.
00:14:29.360And then Russia gives some of the Ukrainian regions back.
00:14:33.880That's the practical that that's the practical nature of foreign policy.
00:14:37.700Regardless of who you personally think started it, you need a balance of power usually and a way for both sides to claim minor victories in order to stop stuff.
00:14:46.200This is what Teddy Roosevelt did in the Russo-Japanese War back in 1903 or 1901 or something in that range, because both sides need to be able to pretend that they can claim victory, even if in that war, Russia got absolutely destroyed by Japan.
00:15:02.680But now let's move on to Greg McEacherin, because I find this endlessly hilarious.
00:15:09.300So he's responding to Jeff Bezos saying, big congratulations to our 45th and now 47th president on an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory.
00:15:19.540Wishing real Donald Trump all success in leading the uniting of America we all love.
00:15:24.180And everyone's mad, Jeff Bezos, because at the National Post, which he owns, he basically said, you guys are not going to be issuing any sort of endorsement for candidates.
00:15:33.400I think he knew that Kamala Harris was probably falling apart.
00:15:35.740Why look embarrassing by endorsing this late?
00:15:38.960And so Greg McEacherin, a liberal commentator and strategist who is on a left CBC panel, says, how much money is enough money?
00:15:47.300I mean, Kamala Harris spent, outspent Donald Trump, and this is just campaign to campaign, not counting PACs, although PACs tend to be pretty equal on how much money they use.
00:16:00.020Kamala Harris spent three times, almost three times as much money as Trump spent.
00:16:09.780Or is it now Greg McEacherin's mad because, well, Jeff Bezos shilled out for the evil orange man and didn't let Washington Post give out the decisive endorsement that apparently would have clinched it for Kamala Harris if it was given.
00:16:22.600And now he's mad that Jeff Bezos has money.
00:16:50.540So, Heather McPherson, the very pro-Hamas NDP MLA for, I believe, Edmonton Strathcona, it went to Wisconsin to do ballot observations in Wisconsin, I believe, for the Democrats, or at least watching the process.
00:17:09.060If I was a conservative MP or MP candidate, I wouldn't be going to the U.S. to help out the Republicans.
00:17:15.880It's deeply inappropriate, although I will give a shout-out to, I'm not going to name them, but people who watch my channel, we met up a couple times when we were in B.C. at some events, and they went down to help out Charlie Kirk's organization go and get out the vote.
00:17:31.300And I believe it was Arizona or Pennsylvania, and they were actually in a video with Charlie Kirk saying that they came in from B.C. to help flip the state's red, which is, you know, that's a lot of fun.
00:17:42.340And good job on you guys for getting involved.
00:17:44.160You know, I always like when people get involved.
00:17:45.960And people are going to be like, Wyatt, like, if I ever run for office at some point again, they're like, Wyatt, you like Trump better than Kamala Harris?
00:17:52.660Yes, he is a conservative candidate overall.
00:17:56.120Kamala Harris is a lefty progressive candidate.
00:17:59.760Why is this difficult to understand that a conservative might like the conservative candidate?
00:18:04.500But Wyatt, he said bad things sometimes.
00:18:07.300Yeah, I don't like bad things that he says.
00:18:13.480And with the 2020 election, too, you got to understand, even right now, there are some Democrats going around saying that it was like rigged or whatever.
00:18:20.740You're always going to have a bunch of people on one side saying it was rigged.
00:18:23.440And if you want to stop people from saying it's rigged, make sure the ballot counting happens faster so everything isn't crazy.
00:18:29.240Don't mass mail out ballots to people so then people start becoming worried that people didn't actually fill out the ballots themselves.
00:18:34.900If you want to avoid stuff like that in the future, do voting the way Florida did.
00:18:39.400Do voting in Canada the way Saskatchewan did.
00:18:41.580Don't do it like B.C., who we still haven't gotten the judicial recounts for in places like Kelowna Center and Surrey Guilford.
00:18:48.680Anyways, but now I just want to move on to the stuff that was going on in on the CBC.
00:19:02.240Maybe I'm going to I'll go to the shorter version because there is a longer version of this clip, but we don't really want to be here for like two and a half minutes.
00:19:08.620Well, there may not be many left after Trump decides he's going to round them up and deport everybody.
00:19:13.560I mean, this is the thing that like really.
00:19:23.040Just here illegally is different than calling people illegal.
00:19:26.800She's the Democratic commentator on the CBC panel, by the way, and he's a Republican.
00:19:31.260Who could have best why you lost when somebody is having normal concerns about illegal immigration and you say nobody's illegal as like some gotcha.
00:19:39.580And then they have to say, so wait, you don't care if people enter the country illegally?
00:19:47.240The fact that you go to a stupid slogan like nobody's illegal proves why so much of the country just rejected the platform that Kamala Harris ran on, the character that she ran on.
00:19:57.480Like, I know she technically ran as a border hawk here, but the problem is her record is the nobody's illegal type sloganeering.
00:20:03.240But, you know, I'm just reminded of a time when there was authority to have internment camps and to round up Japanese people and someone who is of Japanese descent.
00:20:13.840When you say I have a concept of a plan, but I'm going to just start mass reporting people, what does that look like and what does that mean logistically?
00:20:21.840Those are the things that I'm really interested in.
00:20:23.460What's she implying that, like, Trump's going to line people up against a wall and shoot them?
00:20:27.400He's actually articulated this before.
00:20:29.020He's basically mostly going to be focusing on anyone with a criminal record and moving them out of the country.
00:20:33.620And then probably then moving on to people, you know, obviously not paying taxes or doing other, you know, like people who are basically living on the streets and don't have homes.
00:20:43.440And they obviously shouldn't be in the U.S., especially if they're not citizens.
00:22:40.080And that's not exactly why you lose races.
00:22:42.100But that's going to make people feel like it's unfair when even if there was a well-meaning FBI agent who truly thought it was Russian disinformation,
00:22:51.460you generally shouldn't be sticking your finger into an election unless you are bulletproof sure that something is literally a fake story and you can prove it.
00:23:22.800Georgia's fixed up, you know, their system a bit.
00:23:25.820They all, what they all need to do, and I don't know why they don't do this, is just call Jeb Bush and have him come in and do what he did to Florida and just do that in your state.
00:23:33.940Let's talk about exactly the question that you're asking is one that I've been catching a lot of heat for answering.
00:24:28.760The things that Trump has done masterfully, frankly, is to get the entire, you know, to get a big part of the population to believe that the game is rigged and to sow distrust in public institutions and the free press.
00:24:48.740That is a tried-and-true playbook that we have seen time and time before that has resulted in really disastrous things for society, and that is what's working.
00:25:07.560Well, like, actually, what was the big enough lie?
00:25:09.700That, like, America, like, unless she's claiming that, like, saying that American, like, the free press is very biased to the left, that our institutions basically just perpetuate themselves and they're not actually looking out for your best interests and whatnot.
00:25:33.840Or he'll lie about doing something embarrassing 10 years ago because who's going to, like, admit to being an adulterer when you're running for president?
00:25:44.940Yeah, the 2020 election thing, that was, like, if anything, that one probably hurt him because it probably kept some people home because they're like, what's the point of voting because they're going to print ballots anyways?
00:25:53.400And that's just not what happens in 2020.
00:25:55.560Anyways, but, yeah, like, it was really just mass mail-in voting.
00:26:00.360It was a gamified 2020 election where the Democrats have a better ballot harvesting operation, ergo they were able to win some of these states by very thin margins.
00:26:08.920And obviously to a lot of Republicans observing, that feels deeply unfair because it wasn't, like, you got really passionate voters out to vote for you.
00:26:18.180You kept going back to someone's house until they're like, sure, I'll just mark Biden, leave me alone.
00:26:22.080Because they had an unprecedented amount of ballots in 2020 where they only marked the presidential candidate and that was it.
00:26:27.680Even though you could have just kept going down the list and just marking, like, Democrat candidates, it makes it super easy to vote down a single slate.
00:26:33.640And, like, hundreds of thousands of people in specific states were not voting for anyone but the president.
00:26:37.640And folks around him, like Rudy Giuliani and others, have are, you know, have literally been found liable for telling those lies that weren't true.
00:27:52.980And I think he actually makes a better case for why the Democrats lost the election than most.
00:27:59.440But I still want to just talk about it because I find even his perspective on it as a more lefty guy that the Democrats were not lefty enough is quite humorous.
00:28:10.780And the message that progressives and liberals are going to take from this is that they have to move more to the right.
00:28:14.700That is the absolutely wrong thing to be doing.
00:28:17.060The political strategy that we should be learning from this event is not that wokeism or left wing ideas aren't going to win because Kamala was not a left wing politician.
00:28:25.880Literally rated in 2019 as the most liberal senator in the Senate, more than Bernie Sanders.
00:28:34.320When you actually exit polls showed, and exit polls can be off, I know, but these were pretty big margins, that 36 percent of people thought that Trump was too conservative.
00:28:44.880I think it was like 48 percent or like something like that thought Kamala Harris was too liberal.
00:28:51.120It's not because they've been lied to or anything like that.
00:29:18.740It was black voters and Latino voters who actually elected Donald Trump this time.
00:29:22.080What we need to learn from this is that big audacious goals, big claims and big promises are what get people to vote when they are on the margins of the undecided or maybe won't vote.
00:29:31.800People think that there's an issue with illegal migrants in the U.S.
00:30:32.780But it is still a big audacious idea because most people wouldn't run on that.
00:30:36.880And Harris, the problem is she came out with a wealth tax.
00:30:40.400She came out saying that we're going to give everyone a $25,000 down payment on their house if you buy a first.
00:30:46.680And it's like that's just going to inflate housing prices.
00:30:49.060That's like the bubble all over again, the housing bubble all over again.
00:30:52.460There's a few other things she wanted to do that just made her seem very out of touch, very San Francisco left, anti-price gouging laws, pretending that it's grocery stores, just like Jagmeet Singh in Canada, that it's grocery stores price gouging people.
00:31:06.500And it's just not the fact that like the inflation is crazy because we keep printing money and increasing spending.
00:31:12.780But I'll give Frank this that generally speaking, Trump had the big ideas that people could actually wrap their hands around and they knew what he was running on.
00:31:19.560You couldn't tell what Kamala was running on.
00:31:41.920Well, that is the status quo position from Trump, to be fair.
00:31:44.940And she actually wanted to bring back Roe v. Wade.
00:31:47.080So I think he just wasn't paying attention.
00:31:48.660So in a certain sense, she had the big audacious idea on that front.
00:31:52.080But the problem is more Americans are far more pro-life than the media and commentators think.
00:31:58.580Yes, they might not vote for a full-on abortion ban in a specific state.
00:32:02.220And we can even see places like Kansas reject ballot initiatives for a full ban.
00:32:06.360But that doesn't mean that people want ninth-month abortions back on the federal level that any state can do or every state has to have up to at least 24 weeks or 16 weeks or whatever.
00:32:18.580Even when they did promise bigger things like legalization, they kind of swept it under the rug.
00:33:04.860But, Frank, because he is on the left and he doesn't want to admit that lefty governance, even if it's from, like, Joe Biden, who he probably would consider too right or whatever, he still wants to pretend that actually things are better.
00:33:16.740And Republicans and conservatives in Canada are exploiting your bad feelings to pretend like it's a bad economy.
00:34:31.580On our side, we've been preparing for this.
00:34:34.200We're looking forward to doing this work.
00:34:36.640I'm sorry, but were they preparing for this?
00:34:38.840I'm about to have to get to what he was doing before all this and how he was preparing.
00:34:42.860But oh my goodness, no, you were not preparing.
00:34:44.600And we're going to make sure that this extraordinary friendship and alliance between Canada and the United States continues to be a real benefit to Canadians,
00:35:04.040Let's go to the – I'll do this one after.
00:35:07.880I don't need to show you the Jagmeet Singh clip.
00:35:10.360He's like, oh, yes, congratulations, Donald Trump won.
00:35:12.400But there's a lot of Canadians hurting over this.
00:35:15.400Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau and the rest of the liberals kept calling the conservatives maple mega, far-right, fascist extreme,
00:35:23.860that pure polyives like Trump and that means he's evil and bad.
00:35:27.760We're about to have to do trade negotiations with the guy that you've been saying your opposition is evil because they are like him in some way.
00:35:42.440Never wade into another country's elections or labeling who you like and who you don't like unless it's like, you know, we're talking about like a full-on dictatorship.
00:35:55.140Yeah, we don't have to say nice things about Assad in Syria.
00:36:25.220Say nothing because you are about to negotiate with them and you don't have the amount of distance.
00:36:30.880You don't have a lot of distance between what you just said and when they enter office where they can say, ah, it was something he said five years ago.
00:36:36.660This is what you said less than a year ago about Trump, saying that just like pure poly is an evil far-right person because he's like him.
00:36:46.820Here is – okay, actually, I just want to quickly talk about this.
00:36:50.000There is a lot of lefty election denial already going on, and I'm saying this because I actually understand the emotion.
00:36:59.600There is a lot of people who get really upset when they lose.
00:37:02.080So let's not attack people who immediately say, I don't believe it.
00:37:05.860Sometimes, legitimately, the emotional space you were in, you weren't going to believe an outcome that wasn't a victory, even though you should have prepared yourself.
00:37:13.420So this guy, Neil Lombard, says a recount is not enough.
00:37:16.780Demand a re-vote and investigation into election interference by Russia and swing states that previously went to President Biden.
00:37:23.560Both Biden and Harris and other prominent voices need to support this motion.
00:37:27.760And naturally, this happens when you've been saying that Trump's Adolf Hitler 2.0, and naturally, if he wins, how could he have won?
00:47:39.660I try and take some influence from them in the next episodes.
00:47:43.320Especially, I usually figure out how to pronounce words because of people sounding them out for me in the comments when I don't get it right.
00:47:53.500So throwing stuff in there really helps me out.
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00:48:47.360People who are interesting, people who you might want to watch out for in negative ways.
00:48:52.600Anyways, but that's it for me today. Have a good one, everyone.