1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,480 Speaker 1: To tell you what the best thing about the result is. 2 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: You can't argue with it, right, Yeah, you can hate it, 3 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: but you can't argue with it to when not just 4 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 1: the college but the popular vote gives the result a 5 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: legitimacy that is rock solid. As I said yesterday, it's 6 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: hard to know what the bigger deal is, a Trump 7 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: victory or a Harris defeat. I mean, how they will 8 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: ask themselves, is it possible with all their money, all 9 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: their incumbency, all the endorsements, can they lose to that? 10 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 1: The answer, of course is obvious. That's not the point. 11 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: The point is whether they will ever be able to 12 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: bring themselves to see it. The lack of planning post 13 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 1: Biden was astonishing. You wonder whether an Obama who wanted 14 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 1: a contested race as opposed to a coronation was right 15 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:37,199 Speaker 1: or would it have made no difference Biden had done 16 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: the irreparable damage. Demography does not lead to democracy was 17 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:44,920 Speaker 1: a Kellyan Conway line I liked yesterday. In other words, 18 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: treating blacks or women or Latinos as a singular group 19 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,200 Speaker 1: and expecting them to act like sheep is a path 20 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: to nowhere. Why don't they get that there is a 21 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 1: lesson there for this country to an our debate a 22 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: un mari as a message. It's almost like America didn't 23 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: realize what they had in Trump last time, or maybe 24 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 1: COVID in the economy was all they really cared about, 25 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: and the carnage that they're living through is so great. 26 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: They just want better times. If there was a consistent 27 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: line I heard over and over and over, it was 28 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 1: I was richer under Trump. I mean, that's uniquely American 29 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:15,479 Speaker 1: when you think about it, you would never hear those 30 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 1: words in New Zealand. I was richer under Key, I 31 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 1: was richer under Luxeen. How do you explain young people? 32 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: I mean, Harris underperformed everywhere New York, for God's sake, 33 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: they hate him, apparently indicte them and then vote for 34 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,320 Speaker 1: them and increase numbers. Speaking of indictments, what happens to 35 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,199 Speaker 1: us legal wise? And how mad does that all get? 36 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 1: How about the Iowa poll from the Seltzer group that 37 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: we fell over. Yes, it was an outlier, clearly, and 38 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: a blow to their reputation and Polsters I would have 39 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:46,479 Speaker 1: thought everywhere, although within the margins they roughly seemed right 40 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: these poles, I mean, although the remaining States will probably 41 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: go the way we think they are close as predicted. 42 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: As I also said yesterday, you've got to admire the 43 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: force of nature. He is. He is a lesson in 44 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: being unrelenting. For all the madness, dishonesty, in illegality, he 45 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: overcame it, not once but twice. They will study it 46 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: for years and try and make sense of it. Or 47 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: maybe they already have made sense of it, and it's 48 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 1: uniquely American and it's us that thinks it's odd either way, clean, clear, unambiguous, 49 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 1: show stopping, possibly gobsmacking, and the prospect of four years 50 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: of who knows what you would like to think? Given 51 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 1: the campaign with slicker this time, much slicker. The presidency 52 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 1: will be slicker this time as well, little bit of 53 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: legacy in the back of their minds, let's see. 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