Verdict with Ted Cruz - Silent Majority Wins the Day, Biden Grins in the WH Rose Garden & Elon Musk's Influence in Trump Campaign Week In Review

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00:00:04.300 What an amazing week.

00:00:06.700 A massive red wave.

00:00:09.060 Welcome.

00:00:09.780 It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:00:12.080 The Weekend Review.

00:00:13.280 Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:14.480 And well, you know what the big story is.

00:00:16.560 Donald Trump is the 47th president of the United States of America.

00:00:19.880 So let's start with this.

00:00:21.840 The silent majority made the difference in this election.

00:00:25.340 The silent majority woke up and said we are sick of the radical extremist policies of Harris and Joe Biden.

00:00:34.000 That was the difference.

00:00:35.240 We'll break it down for you.

00:00:37.220 Plus, could the happiest man in America actually be Joe Biden?

00:00:40.900 Well, he was all smiles when he had his first press conference talking and promising a smooth transition of power to Donald Trump after they forced him out of the White House.

00:00:51.820 And finally, Elon Musk all up in a Trump campaign, and now he could be bringing some of his magic to the White House.

00:01:01.080 It's the Weekend Review, and it starts right now. 0.97

00:01:04.700 Senator, 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.

00:01:17.080 I think that played into this race for the first time a Republican has won the popular vote in two decades, 20-plus years.

00:01:25.620 If that doesn't feel like vindication, I don't know what is.

00:01:29.340 But this was a moment where Americans stood up to the media.

00:01:33.020 They stood up to the Taylor Swift's and the Beyoncé's and the George Clooney's of the world and all these radicals in the media and said,

00:01:41.860 no, no, no, no, I'm not going to be quiet. I'm not going to be told I'm a racist or a bigot because I stand up for my traditional values,

00:01:47.540 and you're not going to bully me anymore. This is massive.

00:01:51.960 I think you're exactly right. It turns out it is a bad electoral strategy to insult and condescend and treat the voters like crap. 1.00

00:02:02.080 And that's what the Democrats look. 0.99

00:02:03.760 In the last two weeks, you had Kamala Harris launch their strategy of calling Donald Trump Hitler. 0.99

00:02:09.380 You then had Joe Biden calling half of America pieces of garbage. 0.97

00:02:14.680 And 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. 0.97

00:02:24.720 That combination, look, I got to tell you, I've run in a lot of elections.

00:02:30.360 I've never found that insulting the voters is a smart electoral strategy.

00:02:35.540 And it was a little bizarre to see the Democrats go all in on that.

00:02:39.560 Yeah, it didn't work. And it was a failure there.

00:02:42.500 Let'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.

00:02:53.180 There was an incredible amount of money.

00:02:54.800 We didn't get to talk about this on verdict, as we mentioned earlier, but there was an incredible amount of money.

00:02:59.420 And Chuck Schumer, you were his number one target.

00:03:02.240 They came after you.

00:03:03.540 They basically kind of pulled away from this race a little bit financially after you just wiped him during the debate.

00:03:10.520 Congratulations on that.

00:03:11.660 Something we didn't get to talk about on the show.

00:03:13.200 But 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 the Allred debate.

00:03:19.320 It was unbelievable.

00:03:20.660 And that shifted the race financially.

00:03:23.020 But the amount of money that came in from outside to try to turn Texas into a liberal state.

00:03:30.280 But at the end of the day, Republicans are closer to flipping New York than than Texas.

00:03:36.040 And that is a data point as well that I think you've got to look at.

00:03:39.960 Yeah, no, no, that's exactly right.

00:03:41.960 I will say the debate.

00:03:43.280 The debate was ridiculous fun.

00:03:45.620 I loved that debate.

00:03:47.140 I had a lot of fun doing it, and I think it went well.

00:03:50.980 I will look this race. 0.99

00:03:53.920 Chuck Schumer was explicit that I was his number one target in the country, and they flooded cash into the state of Texas.

00:04:02.900 This race was the single most expensive Senate race in the entire country.

00:04:07.920 It will end up being nearly a quarter billion dollars.

00:04:12.220 Nearly 250 million dollars will have been spent on both sides in this race.

00:04:18.180 That ain't cheap.

00:04:20.640 Schumer poured well over 100 million into the race.

00:04:25.120 And 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.

00:04:33.620 I said, thanks, Chuck.

00:04:35.240 We may have won a couple more Senate seats tonight because you wasted so much money in the state of Texas.

00:04:40.960 So I appreciate that.

00:04:42.960 And I got to say, I guarantee you there are some Democrats who are second-guessing that, who are questioning, did that make any sense just to pour the money into Texas and lose the states they lost?

00:04:56.460 You talk about the Senate agenda moving forward.

00:04:58.920 Obviously, the border is going to be something very quick.

00:05:01.400 But there are some new ideas that have come out of this Trump campaign that connected with voters.

00:05:05.780 A great example is Elon Musk and Trump talking about, hey, retired people should be completely tax-exempt.

00:05:12.400 They've already paid their taxes.

00:05:13.760 We need to stop taxing Social Security benefits.

00:05:16.760 Some of these common-sense things.

00:05:19.060 What are the chances that some of these ideas that connected with the American people, no taxes on tips is another example, will turn into a reality if we have the House and Senate?

00:05:30.580 Or is that still going to be a really tough thing to get done?

00:05:33.520 Look, if we have the House, I think we'll get it done.

00:05:36.160 No taxes on tips.

00:05:38.040 I'm the author of that legislation in the Senate.

00:05:40.960 When I introduced it, it was interesting.

00:05:43.060 It's bipartisan legislation.

00:05:44.980 Both of the Democrat senators from Nevada joined almost immediately.

00:05:48.560 They told me 25 percent of the workers in Nevada are tipped workers.

00:05:52.520 And so they jumped on immediately.

00:05:55.700 If we have the House, I think it will be part of the tax cuts, no taxes on tips.

00:06:02.060 I also think we'll get it done, no taxes on Social Security.

00:06:05.380 That is a little bit harder to do because in terms of the budgetary cost, it's not cheap.

00:06:10.360 And so the negotiations back and forth, there'll be some bumps on that.

00:06:14.700 But the president is pushing for it.

00:06:16.260 I'm strongly in favor of it.

00:06:17.540 I think we'll get it done as part of the tax cuts.

00:06:20.140 Both of those are big, big, important policy ideas.

00:06:23.880 And listen, in terms of the Senate, let's break down where we stand on the Senate right now.

00:06:28.480 So we went into last night with the Democrats having a 51-49 majority.

00:06:34.580 As of right now, Republicans have 52.

00:06:37.440 So we have three pickups that are clear.

00:06:40.500 One of them is West Virginia.

00:06:42.020 We knew that was 100 percent.

00:06:43.820 And so Jim Justice, the governor, is going to now be the senator.

00:06:48.520 He's going to replace Joe Manchin.

00:06:50.120 The Democrats basically conceded West Virginia.

00:06:52.320 Once Joe Manchin wasn't running, there wasn't a Democrat alive who could win West Virginia.

00:06:56.300 They conceded that.

00:06:57.720 The two others that we have won are Montana and Ohio.

00:07:02.360 Montana was John Tester.

00:07:03.680 Montana is a bright red state.

00:07:05.260 And Tim Sheehy just beat Tester.

00:07:07.920 That's a victory we thought was quite likely.

00:07:11.040 And it happened.

00:07:12.340 Montana is too red a state to be represented by a Democrat.

00:07:16.980 Ohio, likewise, Sherrod Brown, was beaten by Bernie Moreno last night.

00:07:22.880 That's a great victory.

00:07:24.240 That was a hard-fought victory.

00:07:26.260 I'll tell you, Sherrod Brown and John Tester are two of the very best politicians in the country.

00:07:31.280 You don't get elected counter to the way your state generally votes unless you're really, really talented.

00:07:38.140 And, 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.

00:07:46.580 And it got him elected even when Trump was carrying the state and Republicans were carrying the state in past years.

00:07:52.360 Same is true in Ohio where Sherrod Brown seemed like just a regular guy at the Union Hall.

00:07:58.280 And there were voters in Ohio that were voting Donald Trump, Sherrod Brown.

00:08:01.900 Now, both Brown and Tester vote like communists.

00:08:05.780 They vote like Chuck Schumer.

00:08:08.380 But they're very good character actors.

00:08:11.220 And when they're back at home, they pretended not to.

00:08:13.740 Those two victories ensure that we have the majority in the Senate.

00:08:18.760 And then on top of that right now, we have four other possibilities.

00:08:22.800 We had one hard loss.

00:08:24.760 We did not win Wisconsin.

00:08:26.320 We were leading a good chunk of the night.

00:08:28.260 Eric Hovde was narrowly leading Tammy Baldwin.

00:08:31.580 Wisconsin has now been called for the Democrats.

00:08:34.560 So assuming those numbers are right, it looks like we did not win Wisconsin in the Senate, although Trump won Wisconsin in the presidential.

00:08:43.200 Right now, we have a shot at winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona.

00:08:50.900 And all of those are uncalled right now.

00:08:53.820 And here are the numbers.

00:08:55.060 Pennsylvania.

00:08:55.620 Right now, Dave McCormick, the Republican, is leading 48.9% to 48.5%.

00:09:04.140 So it's really, really close.

00:09:08.500 Michigan.

00:09:10.140 Michigan right now, the Democrat is leading 48.6% to 48.3%.

00:09:15.860 So we are down by 0.3%.

00:09:19.280 Both Pennsylvania and Michigan, 97% of the vote is in.

00:09:24.060 Nevada.

00:09:25.640 Nevada right now, the Republican, Sam Brown, is leading 47.5% to 47%.

00:09:33.400 That would be a flip.

00:09:36.060 If we won Nevada, 88% of the vote is in there.

00:09:40.020 And then Arizona.

00:09:42.180 Arizona right now, this is probably the, it's the furthest distance we have to have to climb.

00:09:47.580 The Democrat is leading 50.4% to 47.7%.

00:09:53.640 So it's three points that we need to pick up, almost three points.

00:09:58.680 Now, only 63% of the vote is in in Arizona, and it's Maricopa County.

00:10:04.080 It's the suburbs of Phoenix that are still counting.

00:10:08.240 So, look, it is certainly possible that we win Arizona.

00:10:12.280 Trump has won Arizona.

00:10:13.420 But three points is a bigger margin to close than the other states.

00:10:17.100 And so all four of those, we're going to wait and see.

00:10:19.660 Well, let's talk finally about the takeaways from the media.

00:10:23.820 And I'll go back to what I said earlier.

00:10:26.380 Donald Trump trumped them all.

00:10:28.340 He trumped the Democrats.

00:10:29.360 He trumped the globalists.

00:10:30.900 He trumped the deep state.

00:10:32.960 He trumped the news media.

00:10:34.880 They're still having meltdowns this morning.

00:10:37.940 The view, the girls on The View, the ladies on The View came out wearing black like it was a funeral. 1.00

00:10:43.760 Mental health crisis.

00:10:45.880 MSNBC's O'Donnell trashes the founding fathers called the Electoral College voter suppression this morning.

00:10:52.900 Joy Reid at MSNBC said Florida extreme right-wing fascist state now officially.

00:10:59.380 Van Jones came out and started playing the race card and the gender card.

00:11:04.220 Jon Stewart had a total meltdown on his show.

00:11:06.980 And this is just what we're seeing in the moments after a Trump victory.

00:11:15.020 It's like they didn't learn their lesson.

00:11:17.660 I mean, you would think they would take away and go, okay, what did we do wrong?

00:11:21.160 They're not stopping.

00:11:22.440 You know, look, we'll see what happens.

00:11:26.600 I think there right now, there's a lot of blaming of Kamala for being a terrible candidate. 0.95

00:11:31.460 There's a lot of blaming of Joe Biden for having been essentially unconscious for several years.

00:11:39.240 I don't see the Democrats right now taking responsibility for, gosh, we advocated an agenda that was horrible for America.

00:11:50.960 You know, there used to be Senate moderates among the Democrats.

00:11:56.900 I don't know of any Senate moderates left.

00:12:00.400 The only two arguable ones were Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.

00:12:03.960 They're both gone.

00:12:05.400 And so that dynamic, you know, you look at, I would love to see some Democrats recalibrate and say, let's move to the middle.

00:12:16.700 Well, but I think right now they're just emoting.

00:12:20.500 They're just engaged in a combination of rage and shock and disbelief.

00:12:28.380 Look, 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, where Halperin said that he thought there would be real mental health crises and violence from the left if Trump won.

00:12:45.100 That he was laying out the case that that those of us not afflicted with Trump derangement syndrome do not understand just how much of a meltdown this will be.

00:12:57.240 I look, I hope we don't go there.

00:13:00.000 But but I do think I don't see many Democrats willing to to to to to repent and change their ways.

00:13:07.160 Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week.

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00:13:45.860 Now on to story number two.

00:13:48.320 You know, one of the things that's also interesting about this conversation is the fact that Democrats who said, well, you know, we were trying to save democracy.

00:13:57.260 We're screwed now.

00:13:58.860 We got a dictator tyrant coming in are actually the ones acting like that. 0.88

00:14:03.320 Governor Newsom has already come out saying, I'm calling a special session to prep the battle against incoming Trump administration, calling it a special legislative session focused on potential state litigation against the Trump administration over issues that could impact his state.

00:14:23.720 Look, they're going to resist on every front.

00:14:27.060 They're going to fight because why?

00:14:28.580 Because they hate democracy.

00:14:30.680 That's the irony.

00:14:32.180 They talk about democracy constantly.

00:14:34.220 But what they mean of democracy is we will force you to obey us whether or not the voters want it.

00:14:39.040 They don't actually want democracy.

00:14:40.340 If they wanted democracy, they wouldn't have prosecuted Trump four different times because they would have trusted the voters.

00:14:44.280 They like power and they mask their lust for power and calling it democracy.

00:14:50.560 But I got to say, there's at least one Democrat right now who is celebrating, who is smiling ear to ear, who may well be the happiest man in the world, and that would be Joseph Robinette Biden.

00:15:04.240 He is joyful, and I'm going to wager you 20 bucks that Joe Biden and Jill Biden, they both pulled the lever for Donald Trump when they voted on Tuesday.

00:15:15.060 It wouldn't surprise me because if you go back to this coup, and to quickly remind people, it was the Democratic mafia and the five families.

00:15:26.500 It was the Schumer, Pelosi, Obama, Clintons that were in this, and Harris.

00:15:34.060 Those five families had a coup.

00:15:37.200 I think they probably threatened him with the 25th Amendment.

00:15:39.660 If you don't step aside, we're going to do this to you because we don't want to lose,

00:15:43.540 and we think we can win with Harris.

00:15:45.600 And Joe Biden, I have not seen him have a bigger grin on his face when he did this Rose Garden conversation, whatever the hell you want to call it.

00:15:54.920 Well, look, look, the whole thing started.

00:15:56.320 I mean, I think Biden found out about it when he woke up with his dog Major's head in his bed.

00:16:02.080 And he was just screaming and screaming and screaming, and for those of you all too young to get the reference, that's a reference to The Godfather, where the movie producer who refuses to cast a young Frank Sinatra has this prize racehorse that The Godfather decapitates and puts the horse's head in the bed.

00:16:22.680 And it really was.

00:16:25.060 It was the five families they met, and they said, Mr. Biden, your services are no longer needed.

00:16:32.320 And you know what?

00:16:33.740 I think Joe Biden is pissed.

00:16:35.700 I don't think it's an accident that Joe Biden put on a MAGA hat in the middle of the election.

00:16:40.540 I do not think it is an accident that Jill Biden, when she went to vote, dressed in all red.

00:16:45.620 And I think that was quite deliberate.

00:16:48.620 But listen to Joe Biden.

00:16:50.100 Listen to the joy that he is emanating today.

00:16:55.180 Now, take a listen to Joe Biden, and I'll say it again.

00:16:58.500 When he came out, he was grinning from ear to ear in the Rose Garden.

00:17:03.140 Yeah, it's good to see you all.

00:17:05.580 Particularly good to see my granddaughter sitting in the front row here. 0.97

00:17:09.220 Hi, Finn.

00:17:09.620 How are you, honey?

00:17:10.080 For over 200 years, America has carried on the greatest experiment in self-government in the history of the world.

00:17:19.680 And that's not hyperbole.

00:17:20.920 That's a fact.

00:17:22.720 For the people, the people vote and choose their own leaders, and they do it peacefully.

00:17:28.380 And we're in a democracy.

00:17:30.240 The will of the people always prevails.

00:17:34.360 Yesterday, I spoke with President-elect Trump to congratulate him on his victory.

00:17:40.080 And I assured him that I would direct my entire administration to work with his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition.

00:17:49.900 That's what the American people deserve.

00:17:53.100 Yesterday, I also spoke with Vice President Harris.

00:17:57.040 She's been a partner and a public servant.

00:17:59.680 She ran an inspiring campaign, and everyone got to see something that I learned early on to respect so much.

00:18:07.420 Her character.

00:18:09.300 She has a backbone like a ramrod. 0.95

00:18:11.080 She has great character, true character.

00:18:13.740 She gave her whole heart and effort.

00:18:16.440 And she and her entire team should be proud of the campaign they ran.

00:18:19.560 You know, the struggle for the soul of America since our very founding has always been an ongoing debate and still vital today.

00:18:32.860 I know for some people, it's a time for victory, to state the obvious.

00:18:38.640 For others, it's a time of loss.

00:18:42.340 Campaigns are contests of competing visions.

00:18:46.480 The country chooses one or the other.

00:18:49.820 We accept the choice the country made.

00:18:52.460 I've said many times, you can't love your country only when you win.

00:19:00.320 You can't love your neighbor only when you agree.

00:19:05.960 Something I hope we can do no matter who you voted for.

00:19:10.280 You see each other not as adversaries, but as fellow Americans.

00:19:15.100 Bring down the temperature.

00:19:16.300 I also hope we can lay the rest of the question about the integrity of the American electoral system.

00:19:23.340 It is honest.

00:19:24.760 It is fair.

00:19:26.180 And it is transparent.

00:19:29.180 And it can be trusted.

00:19:31.340 Win or lose.

00:19:33.620 I also hope we can restore the respect for all our election workers who busted their necks and took risks at the outset.

00:19:41.840 We should thank them.

00:19:43.720 Thank them for staffing voting sites.

00:19:46.300 Counting the votes.

00:19:48.120 Protecting the very integrity of the election.

00:19:51.040 Many of them are volunteers.

00:19:53.740 Who do it simply out of love for their country.

00:19:57.460 And as they did.

00:19:58.820 As they did their duty as citizens.

00:20:01.300 I will do my duty as president.

00:20:04.400 I'll fulfill my oath.

00:20:06.400 And I will honor the Constitution.

00:20:08.960 On January 20th.

00:20:10.740 We'll have a peaceful transfer of power here in America. 0.51

00:20:13.980 To all our incredible staff, supporters, cabinet members, all the people who have been hanging out with me for the last 40 years.

00:20:22.140 God love you, as my mother would say.

00:20:24.540 Thank you so much.

00:20:25.640 You put so much into the past four years.

00:20:28.120 I know it's a difficult time.

00:20:30.020 I mean, this was a different Joe Biden.

00:20:32.800 You could even say a joyous Joe Biden.

00:20:35.040 He was not what you would normally think.

00:20:36.940 And you've got to look at it and go, man, he was living it up on election night.

00:20:41.140 Like, you guys threw me out.

00:20:42.780 And guess what?

00:20:43.540 You didn't get the prize after all.

00:20:45.420 Yeah, and look, I am certain that Joe Biden looked at his family, looked at his top staff, and said, if it had been me, I'd have won.

00:20:54.500 He believes it.

00:20:55.460 He believes it through and through.

00:20:57.680 And I don't think he will ever forgive Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer for throwing him overboard, doing it unceremoniously, and saying, we want Kamala instead.

00:21:09.280 And look, we'll never know what that alternative reality would be.

00:21:13.840 I mean, Biden's first debate was a disaster.

00:21:16.320 That's undoubtedly true.

00:21:18.880 But I will tell you, on election night, Biden did better everywhere than Kamala did.

00:21:28.560 Like Kamala, or let me frame it in the obverse.

00:21:32.360 Kamala did worse than Biden did everywhere. 1.00

00:21:36.600 And Joe Biden, I think, is celebrating, and not even that quietly.

00:21:41.180 And you know what?

00:21:42.060 I'm celebrating, too, because it means the country.

00:21:45.180 It's morning in America again, and we're turning the country around.

00:21:49.060 As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go back and download the podcast from early this week to hear the entire thing.

00:21:58.360 Canadian women are looking for more. 1.00

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00:22:27.540 I want to get back to the big story, number three of the week you may have missed.

00:22:33.620 All right.

00:22:34.040 Let me ask you this question.

00:22:35.340 You've actually met and chatted with Elon Musk.

00:22:38.620 There is something different that's happening right now, and that's the people around Trump.

00:22:43.760 There's a very good chance that Elon Musk could be involved in the Trump administration on a real level.

00:22:50.020 We see him bring in people like RFK Jr.

00:22:51.800 We see him bring in different minds that traditional politicians have not done.

00:22:57.720 How 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?

00:23:09.100 And this is something he's really good at.

00:23:12.200 Yeah.

00:23:12.360 Look, Elon is extraordinary.

00:23:13.920 I know him well.

00:23:14.880 He's become a friend.

00:23:15.740 I've spent a lot of time with Elon.

00:23:16.900 Elon, I'll tell you that there are smart people you encounter in life.

00:23:22.460 Elon is next level.

00:23:24.040 I mean, there's just the guy is frigging brilliant and he knows how to run a company like you look at the incredible success he has, whether it's Tesla, whether it's it's SpaceX, whether it's the boring company, whether it is X.

00:23:40.400 SpaceX, like he has an ability to run a company.

00:23:44.020 And by the way, many of those companies are like really precise manufacturers.

00:23:49.960 You look at SpaceX where they're manufacturing rocket ships with precision within like a tenth of an inch or less.

00:23:58.800 I mean, it is.

00:23:59.540 And I've been down to their factory in Boca Chica down by Brownsville in the southern tip of Texas.

00:24:04.960 I mean, it is remarkable.

00:24:05.960 They're churning out a rocket ship a month and they just built it out of nothing.

00:24:09.560 I mean, it is it's incredible.

00:24:12.840 And Elon is all in.

00:24:15.140 We saw him pour himself into this election at the end.

00:24:19.040 I think it made a difference.

00:24:20.060 I think he made a difference in Pennsylvania where he really devoted a lot of time and energy and money and personal credibility.

00:24:27.140 And I think it will be significant, his impact on the federal government.

00:24:31.040 Now, there are structural impediments to having efficiency in government.

00:24:36.540 And 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.

00:24:48.660 And by the way, when he bought Twitter, he fired a whole bunch of the folks there and all the woke radicals.

00:24:53.660 He basically said, bye bye, you're out of here in the federal government.

00:24:57.060 That is much, much harder to do.

00:24:58.880 You've got civil service protections that enables career bureaucrats to burrow in. 1.00

00:25:03.740 I think we will see the Trump administration take on the career bureaucracy in a way that has never, ever happened before.

00:25:12.480 That's a big deal.

00:25:13.580 I expect Elon to play an important role in that.

00:25:15.880 But but but I don't want to understate the legal barriers, the bureaucratic barriers that that it is not like just coming into a company where you have the ability to give anyone a pink slip.

00:25:29.200 The the bureaucracy will fight back.

00:25:32.600 And by the way, in the first Trump term, we saw the deep state wage war on Donald Trump.

00:25:38.400 I very much hope the team coming in understands much, much better just how dangerous the foe is.

00:25:47.860 They're facing of the radical leftist who burrowed into the federal government and that they're better, better prepared and ready to take them on.

00:25:54.240 Yeah, no doubt about it.

00:25:56.580 And by the way, it's saving free speech by buying X just so people know how biased that I would say the media is.

00:26:06.020 And I'm talking about the media you have control over Facebook.

00:26:08.900 We were comparing last night many conservative influencers and center.

00:26:14.440 You're going to find this interesting from October the 9th through November the 5th.

00:26:19.680 The reach that I had on Facebook was down eighty three point six percent as a conservative on Facebook in the month leading up to Election Day.

00:26:34.300 Wow. And there were quite a few other conservatives.

00:26:37.360 I was talking earlier with Meghan McCain about this and we opened up our analytics, our insights on our public pages.

00:26:44.820 And again, I'm looking at it right now, eighty three point six percent.

00:26:50.200 That'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.

00:27:01.800 So the liberals had free flow of intel and information and their side and conservatives were throttled almost eighty five percent.

00:27:11.980 I just think that's interesting to see what Elon Musk did to save freedom of speech on X.

00:27:17.720 He didn't do that there. He let everybody talk.

00:27:20.520 God bless America when it comes to that.

00:27:22.180 Your final thoughts to all the listeners of Verdict, all those that came out and voted for you.

00:27:27.060 I know you want to say something to them as well.

00:27:29.120 Look, to the listeners of Verdict, you guys are amazing.

00:27:32.180 You're the most informed. You're the most engaged.

00:27:34.480 You care about our nation. You're fighting to save our nation and everyone in Texas who worked so unbelievably hard.

00:27:42.100 Look, this was a battle, I believe, about keeping Texas, Texas, my race, the money, the media, everything that came in against us.

00:27:50.800 If you live in Texas, by the way, thank God the ads are over.

00:27:56.120 I mean, you couldn't turn on your TV without every second or third ad being an attack ad just hammering the living daylights out of me.

00:28:03.440 And the people of Texas, I'll tell you, it was inspirational.

00:28:05.900 You came out on the road with me.

00:28:07.100 We did a 53-stop bus tour all across the state of Texas, over 9,000 miles we covered.

00:28:14.800 We did rallies everywhere, and it was incredible.

00:28:18.060 The 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.

00:28:31.660 We want low taxes, low and reasonable regulations, lots of jobs.

00:28:36.040 We want security.

00:28:37.020 We want the border secure.

00:28:39.120 We want to support law enforcement.

00:28:40.460 We want criminals in jail.

00:28:41.700 We want to defend our freedom.

00:28:43.120 We want free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment.

00:28:46.120 All of that was on the ballot last night, and I want to say it is breathtaking, the Texans that came out for me.

00:28:52.340 And nationally, the people who supported the campaign, who contributed to the campaign, thank you, thank you, thank you.

00:28:58.680 And 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.

00:29:13.540 And I just want to say thank you to the incredible patriots who together saved America last night.

00:29:20.600 As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:29:26.440 Don't forget to download my podcast, and you can listen to my podcast every other day if you're not listening to Verdict, or each day when you listen to Verdict afterwards.

00:29:33.480 I'd love to have you as a listener to, again, the Ben Ferguson podcast, and we will see you back here on Monday morning.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - November 09, 2024

Silent Majority Wins the Day, Biden Grins in the WH Rose Garden & Elon Musk's Influence in Trump Campaign Week In Review

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