00:00:00.000Welcome. It is a fabulous day in America. It's Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, and Senator Donald Trump trumped them all.
00:00:11.500The Democrats, the globalists, the deep state, the fake news, the fake polls, even the assassins. And now we have a very different day in America.
00:00:22.240It is an extraordinary day in America. You and I are here at 1.11 p.m. on Wednesday, right after the election.
00:00:32.960And last night was simply a spectacular night. It was an election that defied all the pundits, that defied all the analysts, and that transforms America and transforms the world.
00:00:47.520I'm reminded of 1984. It's morning in America again. It is that again. I believe God has answered our prayers for our nation, and I am so grateful.
00:00:58.240Donald Trump has been re-elected president in what has to be the most remarkable comeback in political history.
00:01:06.280I'm also very, very grateful that Republicans have taken a majority of the Senate, and we've got a real chance of it being a sizable majority in the Senate.
00:01:15.500That included me getting re-elected, which didn't suck at all, and we'll talk about that as well.
00:01:24.500And it looks like we've got a real shot at Republicans holding the House.
00:01:28.180That is the one that is not clear and determined right now, but hopefully we will hold the House as well.
00:01:34.640That'll make a big, big difference if we do. It is an incredible day.
00:01:40.400Yeah, it really is. And we get to finally talk about your race. I'll explain that in a moment.
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00:06:00.620You want to talk about a transformation.
00:06:02.700And we saw South Texas counties and a region of the state that has been bright blue for 100 years is rapidly, rapidly turning red.
00:06:14.760We had major victories throughout South Texas to win Hispanics statewide by six points is transformational.
00:06:23.740And I believe what we did in South Texas with this election and what Donald Trump did in South Texas with this election, I think is generationally transformative.
00:06:34.080And in fact, my prediction is in the next year, we will see many, many elected South Texas Democrats switching parties, leaving their party and joining the Republican Party.
00:06:46.120And I think once it starts, it's not going to be one or two.
00:07:21.820It is about saying yes to our kids instead of having to say no, whether that's when you go to the grocery store or if they want to go outside in front of your house and play.
00:07:30.620These were the basic issues and the elitist in the media and the Harris campaign refused to stop dictating to Americans and actually listen to Americans.
00:07:41.620And you went all over the state and we listened to voters.
00:07:45.340And what their concerns were was, I don't feel like I'm secure.
00:07:50.100I don't feel like that we're heading the right direction.
00:07:55.100I don't feel like my grandparents or my parents are safe.
00:07:58.220And I want to live in a society where I can say yes to my kids at the grocery store, yes to going to events, yes to having that birthday party instead of saying no, no, no all the way.
00:08:09.760And as Fox News described it, they said the most important issue facing the country with exit poll data was the economy.
00:08:28.520Fox News voter analysis could tell the story of this night and tell the story of the election.
00:08:33.640Just a reminder, different than exit polls, we ask voters, over 120,000 of them, all over the country, all 50 states, leading up to and on Election Day, different from exit polls.
00:08:46.240And right now I can start to begin to give you our key findings and takeaways from what we ask voters.
00:08:52.740This is really to give you an idea of not only how they voted, but why.
00:08:57.060Early in the evening, we can't reveal how they broke down to the candidates, but we can reveal how they're feeling.
00:09:02.860We asked about the direction of the country.
00:09:06.560Those who feel like the country right now is moving in the wrong direction, 7 out of 10 American voters.
00:09:12.760This is 10 points higher than it was in 2020, just four years ago.
00:09:17.520If you were to break this down, also new technology, our heat map, you can see some of those darker areas on the heat map, especially those sunbelt states.
00:09:26.380This is where they don't like how the country is heading or where it's heading.
00:09:30.560And that could be very revealing as we continue to watch the election results throughout the night.
00:12:55.060I don't know if we've ever had this moment before where it is so crystal clear,
00:12:59.780the agenda of Donald Trump, that is going to be brought to Washington, D.C.
00:13:04.020There is a clear mandate to drain the swamp.
00:13:06.280There's a clear mandate to change the way government works.
00:13:08.500There's a clear mandate to work with Congress on securing the border.
00:13:12.220There's a clear mandate in the Senate.
00:13:13.680It looks like there's going to be a clear mandate in the House.
00:13:15.940And there's a mandate that obviously investors are responding to.
00:13:21.180There's also a clear mandate that's coming to the border and other countries and the Middle East and oil and gas and all of these things.
00:13:30.140And that's the reason why I think you're seeing these massive gains on Wall Street is there's just a moment today where Americans took a deep breath.
00:15:19.040Whether Congress goes along is a different question because the Democrats are still going to have enough votes in the Senate to filibuster legislation.
00:15:27.720And it will be interesting to see if congressional Democrats have learned anything from this ass kicking.
00:15:35.700Let's be clear. That's what this election was, was an ass kicking across the board.
00:15:41.780And I'll be very curious next week. I'll be in in in D.C.
00:15:45.860I'll see my colleagues. I'll be very curious if any Democrats are looking around going maybe being wild eyed, leftist, communist, America hating lunatics is not a path to victory.
00:15:58.900I don't know if they'll say that or not. They might double down and, you know, you know, start, you know, dig in even harder.
00:16:07.500I don't know. They do hate Trump's guts. So they're probably just losing their minds right now.
00:16:13.600Well, they're losing their minds on social media. And by the way, didn't the Democrats want to get rid of the filibuster?
00:16:18.280Can we go back to that just for a second?
00:16:19.800Oh, they absolutely did. Now they all love it. And now I will say, let's not take for granted that we know the outcome in the House.
00:16:29.300And that right now is the most consequential question that is outstanding.
00:16:34.080Ben, it is a big, big difference, whether Republicans, whether we keep the majority in the House or we lose it.
00:16:42.080And the House is still very much in the balance. It could go either way.
00:16:45.920Mike Johnson, the speaker, is saying that that he thinks that we'll hold on to the House, that the votes are there.
00:16:50.840But there's still a bunch of races that are outstanding. We don't know right now.
00:16:55.000And let me tell you why it's such a big deal.
00:16:57.760Let's say the Democrats take a majority in the House by one vote.
00:17:01.180I don't want that to be the case. But if that happens, it decreases by a factor of 100 what we can accomplish in the next two years.
00:17:11.700And here is why. Because I mentioned securing the border. Trump can do that unilaterally.
00:17:16.960We'll also see big national security victories. I think we will see in the next year both of the wars come to an end.
00:17:23.700I think the Ukraine war will come to an end. Russia will suffer a loss.
00:17:27.120There'll be some negotiated outcome that is a loss for Russia, but it will end.
00:17:32.160And I believe the war in Israel will end as well. And Israel will defeat Hamas as a result of that.
00:17:37.720All of that Trump can do essentially unilaterally as commander in chief.
00:17:43.440However, for legislation to pass, you've got to get it through the House and Senate.
00:17:47.960And the big kahuna is the 2017 tax cuts that are expiring. Most of them are expiring next year.
00:17:56.300If we have both the House and Senate, we will be able to take up what is called budget reconciliation.
00:18:02.000Budget reconciliation, the most important thing about that is it is an avenue around the filibuster.
00:18:07.720So it is a way that we can pass budget and tax and economic legislation without the Democrats being able to stop it.
00:18:16.820And so if we have the House, we'll do a budget reconciliation.
00:18:21.580We will extend the tax cuts. I think we'll make them bigger and bolder.
00:18:25.960And beyond that, I think we will see serious reg reforms.
00:18:30.720I think we will see advances on energy.
00:18:33.220I think budget reconciliation opens a lot of legislative victories if we can do it.
00:18:39.420If the Democrats have the House, even by one vote, they'll refuse to do reconciliation.
00:18:45.000And so it will mean, look, we'll have to negotiate something on the tax cuts, but they become – the economic policy becomes massively less good if the Democrats have the House.
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00:21:20.640Senator, let's also just talk about, I think, the silent majority was sick and tired of being dictated to and yelled at and called Hitler and called garbage.
00:22:09.460It turns out it is a bad electoral strategy to insult and condescend and treat the voters like crap.
00:22:17.040And that's what the Democrats, look, in the last two weeks, you had Kamala Harris launch their strategy of calling Donald Trump Hitler.
00:22:25.600You then had Joe Biden calling half of America pieces of garbage.
00:22:30.300And you then had Mark Cuban on behalf of Kamala Harris, her top surrogate, go out and insult women and say there are no smart and strong women voting for Donald Trump.
00:22:40.240That combination, look, I got to tell you, I've run in a lot of elections.
00:22:46.000I've never found that insulting the voters is a smart electoral strategy.
00:22:51.100And it was a little bizarre to see the Democrats go all in on that.
00:22:55.520Yeah, it didn't work. And it was a failure there.
00:22:58.140Let's talk about what happens in the Senate, because I think this goes back to how important it was with your race and the fact that you were able to win by such a large margin over Allred.
00:23:08.720There was an incredible amount of money. We didn't get to talk about this on verdict, as we mentioned earlier, but there was an incredible amount of money.
00:23:15.520And Chuck Schumer, you were his number one target. They came after you.
00:23:19.160They basically kind of pulled away from this race a little bit financially after you just wiped him during the debate.
00:23:26.160Congratulations on that. Something we didn't get to talk about on the show.
00:23:28.900But if people are bored and they're junkies like I am and you want to watch one hell of a debate, go watch Senator Cruz and they all were debating.
00:23:34.860It was unbelievable. And that shifted the race financially.
00:23:39.160But the amount of money that came in from outside to try to turn Texas into a liberal state.
00:23:45.900But at the end of the day, Republicans are closer to flipping New York than than Texas.
00:23:51.780And that is a data point as well that I think you've got to look at.
00:24:36.240Schumer poured well over a hundred million into the race.
00:24:40.520And I got to say, one of my more fun things that I enjoyed doing last night at the election night speech is I took the opportunity to thank Schumer.
00:24:57.800And and and it I got to say, I guarantee you, there are some Democrats who are who are second guessing that who are questioning, did that make any sense just to pour the money into Texas and and lose the states they lost?
00:25:12.120You talk about the Senate agenda moving forward.
00:25:14.520Obviously, the border is going to be something very quick.
00:25:16.620But there are some new ideas that have come out of this Trump campaign that connected with voters.
00:25:21.580A great example is Elon Musk and Trump talking about, hey, retired people should be completely tax exempt.
00:27:41.800I'll tell you, Sherrod Brown and John Tester are two of the very best politicians in the country.
00:27:46.720You don't get elected counter to the way your state generally votes unless you're really, really talented.
00:27:54.340And, you know, John Tester with a flat-top haircut and eight figures, he seemed like a big old fat Montana rancher that just was a regular guy.
00:28:02.160And it got him elected even when Trump was carrying the state and Republicans were carrying the state in past years.
00:28:08.080Same's true in Ohio where Sherrod Brown seemed like just a regular guy at the Union Hall.
00:28:13.600And there were voters in Ohio that were voting Donald Trump, Sherrod Brown.
00:28:17.640Now, both Brown and Tester vote like communists.
00:28:41.760We were leading a good chunk of the night.
00:28:43.880Eric Hovde was narrowly leading Tammy Baldwin.
00:28:47.800Wisconsin's now been called for the Democrats.
00:28:50.160So assuming those numbers are right, it looks like we did not win Wisconsin in the Senate, although Trump won Wisconsin in the presidential.
00:28:58.860Right now, we have a shot at winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona.
00:29:06.360And all of those are uncalled right now.
00:32:21.020And so that dynamic, you know, you look at, I would love to see some Democrats recalibrate and say, let's move to the middle.
00:32:32.320Well, but I think right now they're just emoting.
00:32:36.120They're just engaged in a combination of rage and shock and disbelief.
00:32:43.980Look, you know, you and I talked about Mark Halperin, who used to be the head of political news at ABC, did an interview with Tucker Carlson,
00:32:51.820where Halperin said that he thought there would be real mental health crises and violence from the left if Trump won.
00:33:00.700That he was laying out the case that those of us not afflicted with Trump derangement syndrome do not understand just how much of a meltdown this will be.
00:33:12.680Look, I hope we don't go there, but I do think I don't see many Democrats willing to repent and change their ways.
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00:35:25.180All right, let me ask you this question.
00:35:26.960You've actually met and chatted with Elon Musk.
00:35:30.320There is something different that's happening right now, and that's the people around Trump.
00:35:34.720So there's a very good chance that Elon Musk could be involved in the Trump administration on a real level.
00:35:41.700We see him bring in people like RFK Jr.
00:35:43.960We see him bring in different minds that traditional politicians have not done.
00:35:49.260How significant could it be to have a guy like Elon Musk coming in and looking at accountability and efficiency with the United States government, which is clearly bloated?
00:36:00.460And this is something he's really good at.
00:36:21.200Like, you look at the incredible success he has, whether it's Tesla, whether it's SpaceX, whether it's the boring company, whether it is X.
00:36:32.020Like, he has an ability to run a – and by the way, many of those companies are, like, really precise manufacturers.
00:36:41.740You look at SpaceX, where they're manufacturing rocket ships with precision within, like, a tenth of an inch or less.
00:36:50.400I mean, it is – and I've been down to, like, their factory in Boca Chica down by Brownsville in the southern tip of Texas.
00:37:11.680I think he made a difference in Pennsylvania, where he really devoted a lot of time and energy and money and personal credibility.
00:37:18.300And I think it will be significant, his impact on the federal government.
00:37:22.660Now, there are structural impediments to having efficiency in government.
00:37:28.460And so I don't think people should think we're suddenly going to be in nirvana and everything will be solved because in a company, Elon can walk in and fire anyone he wants.
00:37:40.200And, by the way, when he bought Twitter, he fired a whole bunch of the folks there and all the woke radicals.
00:37:45.320He basically said, bye-bye, you're out of here.
00:37:47.800In the federal government, that is much, much harder to do.
00:37:50.500You've got civil service protections that enables career bureaucrats to burrow in.
00:37:56.560I think we will see the Trump administration take on the career bureaucracy in a way that has never, ever happened before.
00:38:05.180I expect Elon to play an important role in that.
00:38:07.500But I don't want to understate the legal barriers, the bureaucratic barriers, that it is not like just coming into a company where you have the ability to give anyone a pink slip.
00:38:24.240And, by the way, in the first Trump term, we saw the deep state wage war on Donald Trump.
00:38:29.900I very much hope the team coming in understands much, much better just how dangerous the foe is they're facing of the radical leftists who burrowed into the federal government and that they're better, better prepared and ready to take them on.
00:38:48.200And, by the way, saving free speech by buying X.
00:38:50.920Just so people know how biased I would say the media is, and I'm talking about the media you have control over, Facebook.
00:39:00.820We were comparing last night many conservative influencers, and, Senator, you're going to find this interesting.
00:39:07.060From October the 9th through November the 5th, the reach that I had on Facebook was down 83.6% as a conservative on Facebook in the month leading up to election day.
00:39:26.020And there were quite a few other conservatives.
00:39:28.980I was talking earlier with Meghan McCain about this, and we opened up our analytics, our insights on our public pages.
00:39:36.900And, again, I'm looking at it right now, 83.6%.
00:39:41.320That's how much they turned off the faucet to free speech of conservative influencers on Facebook, on Meta, on Instagram in the last 30 days before the election.
00:39:53.440So the liberals had free flow of intel and information and their side, and conservatives were throttled almost 85%.
00:40:02.900I just think that's interesting to see what Elon Musk did to save.
00:40:07.620Freedom of speech on X, he didn't do that there.
00:41:09.680The people, and you're just ordinary people, students, senior citizens, single moms, Hispanics, African-Americans, just Texans standing up and saying, we want to keep Texas, Texas.
00:41:23.280We want low taxes, low and reasonable regulations, lots of jobs.
00:41:34.860We want free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment.
00:41:37.200All of that was on the ballot last night, and I want to say it is breathtaking, the Texans that came out for me.
00:41:43.960And nationally, the people who supported the campaign, who contributed to the campaign, thank you, thank you, thank you.
00:41:50.300And the people who supported Donald Trump, who supported Senate candidates and House candidates across the country, you helped change America, and I believe pull it back from the brink of destruction.
00:42:05.180And I just want to say thank you to the incredible patriots who together saved America last night.