Speaker 1: Welcome. It is a fabulous day in America. It's verdict
Speaker 1: with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, and Senator
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Trump to them all the Democrats, the globalists,
Speaker 1: the deep state, the fake news, the fake polls, even
Speaker 1: the assassins, and now we have a very different day
Speaker 1: in America.
Speaker 2: It is an extraordinary day in America. You and I
Speaker 2: are here at one eleven PM on Wednesday, right after
Speaker 2: the election, and last night was simply a spectacular night.
Speaker 2: It was an election that defied all the pundits, that
Speaker 2: defied all the analysts, and that transforms America and transforms
Speaker 2: the world. I'm reminded of nineteen eighty four. It's morning
Speaker 2: in America again. It is that again. I believe God
Speaker 2: has answered our prayers for our nation, and I am
Speaker 2: so grateful Donald Trump has been re elected president in
Speaker 2: what has to be the most remarkable comeback in political history.
Speaker 2: I'm also very, very grateful that Republicans have taken a
Speaker 2: majority of the Senate and we've got a real chance
Speaker 2: at it being a sizable majority in the Senate. That
Speaker 2: included me getting re elected, which didn't suck at all.
Speaker 2: And we'll talk about that as well, and it looks
Speaker 2: like we've got a real shot at Republicans holding the house.
Speaker 2: That is the one that is not clear and determined
Speaker 2: right now, but hopefully we will hold the house as well.
Speaker 2: That'll make a big, big difference if we do. It
Speaker 2: is an incredible day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is. And we get to finally talk
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Speaker 1: have to start with because this is just such a
Speaker 1: fun one for me. And we can explain why we
Speaker 1: haven't actually talked about your race on Verdict, because everywhere
Speaker 1: I go people are like, why are you guys not
Speaker 1: talking about this race against Alrid And I can explain
Speaker 1: it in person. I couldn't talk about on the show.
Speaker 1: You couldn't either, But let's just put in perspective here,
Speaker 1: Republicans were closer to flipping New York than Democrats were
Speaker 1: to flipping Texas. Even though the entire Democratic machine came
Speaker 1: after you and tried to unseat you. That didn't work.
Speaker 1: What it was a massive victory for you last night,
Speaker 1: almost a ten point victory. Congratulations, a million vote difference
Speaker 1: between you and your opponent. So let's just tell people
Speaker 1: for a second here why this is something we haven't
Speaker 1: talked about here.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, we had an incredible victory at my race
Speaker 2: last night. You and I were both at the victory
Speaker 2: party past three in the morning. It was a remarkable outcome.
Speaker 2: And regular listeners of the podcast, you guys have noticed
Speaker 2: that a word I have never once said on this
Speaker 2: podcast is all read. I've never mentioned Colin Allread. I've
Speaker 2: never talked about my race even once. We have talked
Speaker 2: about issues. We talk about issues a lot. We have
Speaker 2: talked about the presidential race, we've talked about Senate races,
Speaker 2: we've talked about other races, but we have never talked
Speaker 2: about my race. And that was because if we had
Speaker 2: talked about my race on this podcast, it would have
Speaker 2: prompted complaints to the FEC. I don't think they would
Speaker 2: have succeeded, but it would have prompted complaints, and we
Speaker 2: decided that we didn't want to unnecessarily give a basis
Speaker 2: for a complaint, and so we just didn't talk about
Speaker 2: the race at all. I got to say, it was
Speaker 2: mildly schizophrenic, however, because I'd go and do any other interview,
Speaker 2: I'd go on Fox News, I'd go on talk radio,
Speaker 2: I'd go do something else. I'd go on on a
Speaker 2: different show, and I talk about a race all the
Speaker 2: time because I was in the middle race.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you'd get to go on my show and
Speaker 1: we could talk about it, but not on Verdict.
Speaker 2: And I know our listeners found that odd, and it
Speaker 2: was just it was avoiding in any potential legal peril.
Speaker 2: We just didn't talk about it. But now that it's over,
Speaker 2: the race is done. And wow, what a night we
Speaker 2: had last night. As you noted, we won by nearly
Speaker 2: ten points, we won by a million votes. I mean,
Speaker 2: it was an extraordinary victory. It was a victory across
Speaker 2: the board. And one of the one of the amazing,
Speaker 2: amazing outcomes was what happened in South Texas and what
Speaker 2: happened with Hispanics, and and NBC News is reporting that
Speaker 2: I won Hispanics statewide by six points. That is a big,
Speaker 2: big deal. You want to talk about a transformation, and
Speaker 2: we saw South Texas counties and a region of the
Speaker 2: state that has been bright blue for one hundred years
Speaker 2: is rapidly, rapidly turning red. We had major victories throughout
Speaker 2: South Texas. To win Hispanic statewide by six points is transformational.
Speaker 2: And I believe what we did in South Texas with
Speaker 2: this election, and what Donald Trump did in South Texas
Speaker 2: with this election, I think is generationally transformative. And in fact,
Speaker 2: my prediction is in the next year we will see many,
Speaker 2: many elected South Texas Democrats switching parties, leaving their party
Speaker 2: and joining the Republican Party. And I think once it starts,
Speaker 2: it's not going to be one or two, It's going
Speaker 2: to be an avalanche. I think they're all looking around
Speaker 2: and you hear these conversations down in the valley, wait,
Speaker 2: are we all Republicans now? And it is. It's a big,
Speaker 2: big deal for Texas, and it's a big deal nationally.
Speaker 1: It's nationally as well. And I want to go back
Speaker 1: to something that happened and it goes back to what
Speaker 1: we've talked about here. Why Donald Trump won last night,
Speaker 1: why you won last night, came down to the basic issues,
Speaker 1: which is, it's the economy stupid. It is safety. It
Speaker 1: is about saying yep for our kids instead of having
Speaker 1: to say no, whether that's when you go to the
Speaker 1: grocery store or if they want to go outside in
Speaker 1: front of your house and play. These are the basic issues.
Speaker 1: And the elitists in the media and the Harris campaign
Speaker 1: refused to stop dictating to Americans and actually listened to Americans,
Speaker 1: and you went all over the state and we listened
Speaker 1: to voters, and what their concerns were was, I don't
Speaker 1: feel like I'm secure. I don't feel like that we're
Speaker 1: heading the right direction. I don't feel like my kids
Speaker 1: are safe. I don't feel like my grandparents or my
Speaker 1: parents are safe. And I want to live in a
Speaker 1: society where I can say yes to my kids at
Speaker 1: the grocery store, yes to going to events, yes to
Speaker 1: having that birthday party, instead of saying no, no, no,
Speaker 1: all the way. And as Fox News described it, they
Speaker 1: said the most important issue facing the country with exit
Speaker 1: poll data was the economy. Thirty nine percent that was
Speaker 1: economy twenty percent then said it was immigration, which also
Speaker 1: deals with fentanyl and deals with the crime. Here's how
Speaker 1: they described.
Speaker 3: It toose voter analysis could tell the story of this
Speaker 3: night and tell the story of the election. Just a reminder,
Speaker 3: different than exit polls. We ask voters over one hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty thousand of them all over the country, all
Speaker 3: fifty states, leading up to and on election day, different
Speaker 3: from exit polls, and right now I can start to
Speaker 3: begin to give you our key findings and takeaways from what.
Speaker 2: We ask voters.
Speaker 3: This is really to give you an idea of not
Speaker 3: only how they voted, but why early in the evening.
Speaker 3: We can't reveal how they broke down to the candidates,
Speaker 3: but we can reveal how they're feeling. We asked about
Speaker 3: the direction of the country. This number is key those
Speaker 3: who feel like the country right now is moving in
Speaker 3: the wrong direction seven out of ten American voters. This
Speaker 3: is ten points higher than it was in twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: just four years ago. If you were to break this down,
Speaker 3: also new technology, our heat map. You can see some
Speaker 3: of those darker areas on the heat map, especially those
Speaker 3: Sun Belt states. This is where they don't like how
Speaker 3: the country is heading or where it's heading, and that
Speaker 3: could be very revealing as we continue to watch the
Speaker 3: election results throughout the night. Another top finding, we know
Speaker 3: the economy has been key, and Americans just haven't been
Speaker 3: feeling good about their finances. We asked about their famili's
Speaker 3: financial situation, and look at this. While thirteen percent say
Speaker 3: they're getting ahead, fifty six percent holding steady, thirty one
Speaker 3: percent of respondents said they feel like they're falling behind.
Speaker 3: That's more than three to ten voters also perspective, that's
Speaker 3: thirteen points worse than it was just four years ago
Speaker 3: when it was at eighteen percent.
Speaker 1: You listen to that center and it's the economy, stupid,
Speaker 1: That is what mattered. And the Democrats did not listen
Speaker 1: to the American people.
Speaker 2: Well, it was certainly the economy, but more broadly, it
Speaker 2: was also it was the border, it was inflation, it
Speaker 2: was safety and crime, and it was chaos. I mean, listen,
Speaker 2: the Biden Harris record is a train wreck. Everything they've done.
Speaker 2: There's a reason Kamalin never talked about anything they've done.
Speaker 2: She ran as the change candidate because she sure as
Speaker 2: that couldn't run on her record. And you know what
Speaker 2: the American people said, to hell with that. We want change.
Speaker 2: As you just played seven and ten Americans said, we
Speaker 2: want to change the path we're on. Well we just did.
Speaker 2: And you look at the results of Trump's win the
Speaker 2: seven swing states. As we sit here today at now
Speaker 2: one twenty two pm, Trump has won five of those
Speaker 2: seven swing states. He won North Carolina, he flipped Georgia.
Speaker 2: Georgia went for Biden, This time it went for Trump.
Speaker 2: He flipped Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania went for Biden, this time it
Speaker 2: went for Trump. He flipped Wisconsin. It had previously gone
Speaker 2: for Biden. This time it went for Trump. And he
Speaker 2: flipped Michigan. Previously it went for Biden, this time it
Speaker 2: went for Trump. And right now Trump is leading in Arizona, Nevada,
Speaker 2: the other two so they haven't called those states yet,
Speaker 2: but there's a very real possibility that Trump will win
Speaker 2: seven out of seven swing state winning everywhere. The current
Speaker 2: count is he has two hundred and ninety one electoral votes,
Speaker 2: he only needs two seventy to win. Kamala Harris has
Speaker 2: two hundred and twenty three. And I'll tell you every
Speaker 2: bit is astonishing and powerful and transformational. Is Trump won
Speaker 2: the popular vote as of the current count by nearly
Speaker 2: five million votes. The current the current count according to
Speaker 2: CNN is seventy one million, eight hundred and eighty three,
Speaker 2: seven hundred and ninety five votes for Trump and sixty
Speaker 2: seven million, six eight hundred and sixty four votes for Kamala.
Speaker 2: That is fifty point nine percent compared to forty seven
Speaker 2: point four percent. That is historic, a big, big transformation,
Speaker 2: and and and it is. It is changing America. The
Speaker 2: stock market is exploding, going crazy. Bitcoin is soaring like
Speaker 2: people are jubilant, and it is changing the world.
Speaker 1: And the reason why they're jube one is because they
Speaker 1: understand now what's coming back. No one is in Uncertainty
Speaker 1: is what causes markets to have instability.
Speaker 2: Everyone not just and also crazy ass socialists destroying your
Speaker 2: company's taxing you out of existence, putting in crushing regulations
Speaker 2: that destroy your ability to make a profit. All of
Speaker 2: that hurts too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you look at where we are. I don't
Speaker 1: know if we've ever had this moment before where it
Speaker 1: is so crystal clear the agenda of Donald Trump that
Speaker 1: is going to be brought to Washington, d C. There
Speaker 1: is a clear mandate to drain the swamp. There's a
Speaker 1: clear mandate to change the way government works. There's a
Speaker 1: clear mandate to work with Congress on securing the border.
Speaker 1: There's a clear mandate in the Senate that looks like
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a clear mandate in the House. And
Speaker 1: there's a mandate that obviously investors are responding to. There's
Speaker 1: also a clear mandate that's coming to the border and
Speaker 1: other countries and the Middle East and oil and gas
Speaker 1: and all of these things. And that's the reason why
Speaker 1: I think you're seeing these massive games on Wall Street
Speaker 1: is there's just a moment today where Americans took a
Speaker 1: deep breath, they went out and they voted, They declared
Speaker 1: what they wanted. Damn be the media and their lack
Speaker 1: of influence and trying to lie to you, trying to
Speaker 1: take out Trump. As we mentioned in the beginning, there
Speaker 1: is a mandate now to go back to what this
Speaker 1: country looked like in twenty sixteen when Donald Trump went
Speaker 1: in the White House. Except this time it's even more
Speaker 1: clear what he's going to.
Speaker 2: Do well, and we're going to see a number of
Speaker 2: big changes early on. The biggest thing that we will
Speaker 2: see immediately is the border. And I have said this before,
Speaker 2: but I'm going to say it again. We will secure
Speaker 2: the border, and it's going to be fast. It's not
Speaker 2: going to take a year, and I don't think it's
Speaker 2: going to take six months. I think we will do
Speaker 2: it in January and February. The reason I say that
Speaker 2: is that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did all this
Speaker 2: damage through unilateral executive action, which means Trump can undo
Speaker 2: it through unilateral executive action. And the most important determinant
Speaker 2: is what happens when you arrest an illegal immigrant, and
Speaker 2: if you put them on a plane and you fly
Speaker 2: them home, the numbers plummet, and they plummet immediately. And
Speaker 2: on January twentieth, that's going to happen. And in fact,
Speaker 2: I think we're going to see the numbers. We may
Speaker 2: see the numbers fall even before Trump is sworn in,
Speaker 2: although there might there might also be a surge in
Speaker 2: November and December. I am worried that we'll see a
Speaker 2: surge of illegals trying to rush across the border right
Speaker 2: before Trump gets here. But as soon as Trump is
Speaker 2: in office, we are going to see the border be secured.
Speaker 2: You were at our election night party last night, we
Speaker 2: had a packed house, we had north of a thousand people,
Speaker 2: their incredible energy. In the middle of my victory speech,
Speaker 2: the crowd began channing build the wall, Build the wall,
Speaker 2: to which I responded, we will. We are going to
Speaker 2: do that. Now, whether Congress goes along is a different question,
Speaker 2: because the Democrats are still going to have enough votes
Speaker 2: in the Senate to filibuster legislation. And it will be
Speaker 2: interesting to see if congressional Democrats have learned anything from
Speaker 2: this ass kicking. Let's be clear, that's what this election was,
Speaker 2: was an ass kicking across the board. And I'll be
Speaker 2: very curious next week I'll be in in DC. I'll
Speaker 2: see my colleagues. I'll be very curious if any Democrats
Speaker 2: are looking around going maybe being wild eyed leftist communist America.
Speaker 2: Hating lunatics is not a path to victory. And I
Speaker 2: don't know if they'll that or not. They might double
Speaker 2: down and you know, you know, start, you know, dig
Speaker 2: in even harder. I don't know that they do hate
Speaker 2: Trump's guts, so they're probably just losing their minds right now.
Speaker 1: Well, they're losing their minds on social media. And by
Speaker 1: the way, didn't the Democrats want to get rid of
Speaker 1: the filibuster. Can we go back to that just for
Speaker 1: a second.
Speaker 2: Oh, they absolutely did. Now they all love it. And
Speaker 2: now I will say, let's not take for granted that
Speaker 2: we know the outcome in the House, and that right
Speaker 2: now is the most consequential question that is outstanding. Ben
Speaker 2: It is a big, big difference whether Republicans whether we
Speaker 2: keep the majority in the House or we lose it.
Speaker 2: And the House is still very much in the balance.
Speaker 2: It could go either way. Mike Johnson, the Speaker, is
Speaker 2: saying that he thinks that will hold on to the House,
Speaker 2: that the votes are there, but there's still a bunch
Speaker 2: of races that are outstanding. We don't know right now.
Speaker 2: And let me tell you why it's such a big deal.
Speaker 2: Let's say the Democrats take a majority of the House
Speaker 2: by one vote. I don't want that to be the case,
Speaker 2: but if that happens, it decreases by a factor of
Speaker 2: one hundred what we can accomplish in the next two years.
Speaker 2: And here is why. Because I mentioned securing the border.
Speaker 2: Trump can do that Unilatterally, we'll also see big national
Speaker 2: security victories. I think we will see in the next year.
Speaker 2: Both of the wars come to an end. I think
Speaker 2: the Ukraine War will come to an end. Russia will
Speaker 2: suffer a loss, There'll be some negotiated outcome that is
Speaker 2: a loss for Russia, but it will end. And I
Speaker 2: believe the war in Israel will end as well, and
Speaker 2: Israel will defeat Hamas as a result of that. All
Speaker 2: of that Trump can do essentially unilaterally as commander in chief. However,
Speaker 2: for legislation to pass, you got to get it through
Speaker 2: the House and Senate. And the big kahuna is the
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen tax cuts that are expiring. Most of them
Speaker 2: are expiring next year. If we have both the House
Speaker 2: and Senate, we will be able to take up what
Speaker 2: is called budget reconciliation. Budget reconciliation, the most important thing
Speaker 2: about that is it is an avenue around the filibuster.
Speaker 2: So it is a way that we can pass budget
Speaker 2: and tax and economic legislation without the Democrats being able
Speaker 2: to stop it. And so if we have the House,
Speaker 2: we'll do a budget reconciliation. We will extend the tax cuts.
Speaker 2: I think we'll make them bigger and bolder. And beyond that,
Speaker 2: I think we will see serious reg reforms. I think
Speaker 2: we will see advances on energy. I think budget reconciliation
Speaker 2: opens a lot of legislative victories if we can do it.
Speaker 2: If the Democrats have the House, even by one vote,
Speaker 2: they'll refuse to do reconciliation, and so it will mean, look,
Speaker 2: we'll have to negotiate something on the tax cuts, but
Speaker 2: they become the economic policy becomes massively less good. If
Speaker 2: the Democrats have the House, I'm hopeful that we have it.
Speaker 2: I hope we actually have a decent majority in the
Speaker 2: householdthough I think that's probably unlikely. I think it is.
Speaker 2: If we have a majority, I think it is likely
Speaker 2: that it's going to be an excruciatingly small majority in
Speaker 2: the House. Sold that'll be frustrating and have its own challenges,
Speaker 2: but it is a binary flip of the switch. If
Speaker 2: the Democrats have the House, our ability to legislate grinds
Speaker 2: to a halt.
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Speaker 1: service today. Senator, Let's also just talk about I think
Speaker 1: the silent majority was sick and tired of being dictated
Speaker 1: to and yelled at and called hitler and called garbage.
Speaker 1: I think that played into this race. For the first
Speaker 1: time a Republican has won the popular vote in two decades,
Speaker 1: twenty plus years. If that doesn't feel like vindication, I
Speaker 1: don't know what is. But this was a moment where
Speaker 1: Americans stood up to the media. They stood up to
Speaker 1: the Taylor Swifts and the Beyonces, the and the George
Speaker 1: Cloones of the world and all these radicals in the
Speaker 1: media and said, no, no, no, I'm not going to be quiet.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be told of them a racists
Speaker 1: are a bigot because I stand up for my traditional values.
Speaker 2: And you're not going to bully me anymore. This is
Speaker 2: massive I think you're exactly right. It turns out it
Speaker 2: is a bad electoral strategy to insult and condescend and
Speaker 2: treat the voters like crap. And that's what the Democrats
Speaker 2: look In the last two weeks, you had Kamala Harris
Speaker 2: launch their strategy of calling Donald Trump hitler. You then
Speaker 2: had Joe Biden calling half of America pieces of garbage,
Speaker 2: and you then had Mark Cuban on behalf of Kamala Harris,
Speaker 2: her top surrogate, go out and insult women and say
Speaker 2: there are no smart and strong women voting for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: That combination. Look, I got to tell you, I've run
Speaker 2: on a lot of elections. I've never found that insulting
Speaker 2: the voters is a smart electoral strategy. And it was
Speaker 2: a little bizarre to see the Democrats go all in
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it didn't work and it was a failure. There.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about what happened in the Senate, because I
Speaker 1: think this goes back to how important it was with
Speaker 1: your race and the fact that you were able to
Speaker 1: win by such a large margin over already there was
Speaker 1: an incredible amount of money. We didn't get talk about
Speaker 1: this on Verdicts as we mentioned earlier, but there was
Speaker 1: an incredible amount of money and Chuck Schumer, you were
Speaker 1: his number one target. They came after you. They basically
Speaker 1: kind of pulled away from this race a little bit
Speaker 1: financially after you just wiped him during the debate. Congratulations
Speaker 1: on that something we didn't get to talk about on
Speaker 1: the show. But if people are boring, they're junkies like
Speaker 1: I am, and you want to watch one hell of
Speaker 1: a debate, go watch Center Cruise and they all read debate.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable and that shifted the race financially. But
Speaker 1: the amount of money that came in from outside to
Speaker 1: try to turn Texas into a liberal state. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, Republicans are closer to flipping
Speaker 1: New York in Texas, and that is a data point
Speaker 1: as well that I think you got to look at.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, that's exactly right. I will say the debate.
Speaker 2: The debate was ridiculous fun. I loved that debate. I
Speaker 2: had a lot of fun doing it, and I think
Speaker 2: it went well. I will look this race. Chuck Schumer
Speaker 2: was explicit that I was his number one target in
Speaker 2: the country, and they flooded cash into the state of Texas.
Speaker 2: This race was the single most expensive Senate race in
Speaker 2: the entire country. It will end up being nearly a
Speaker 2: quarter billion dollars. Nearly two hundred and fifty million dollars
Speaker 2: will have been spent on both sides in this race.
Speaker 2: That ain't cheap. Schumer poured well over one hundred million
Speaker 2: into the race. And I got to say one of
Speaker 2: my more fun things that I enjoyed doing last night
Speaker 2: at the election night speech, as I took the opportunity
Speaker 2: to thank Schumer, I said, thanks, Chuck, we may have
Speaker 2: won a couple more Senate seats tonight because you wasted
Speaker 2: so much money in the state of Texas. So I
Speaker 2: appreciate that, and it I gotta say, I guarantee you
Speaker 2: there's some Democrats who are second guessing that, who are
Speaker 2: questioning did that make any sense just to pour the
Speaker 2: money into Texas and lose the states they lost.
Speaker 1: You talk about the Senate agenda moving forward. Obviously the
Speaker 1: border is going to be something very quick. But there
Speaker 1: are some new ideas that have come out of this
Speaker 1: Trump campaign that connected with voters. A great example is
Speaker 1: Elon Musk and Trump talking about, hey, retired people should
Speaker 1: be completely tax exempt they've already paid their taxes. We
Speaker 1: need to stop taxing social Security benefits, some of these
Speaker 1: common sense things. What are the chances that some of
Speaker 1: these ideas that connected with the American people. No taxes
Speaker 1: on tips is another example, will turn into a reality
Speaker 1: if we have the House and Senate or is that
Speaker 1: still going to be a really tough thing to get done.
Speaker 2: Look, if we have the House, I think we'll get
Speaker 2: it done. No taxes on tips. I'm the author of
Speaker 2: that legislation in the Senate. When I introduced it, it
Speaker 2: was interesting. It's bipartisan legislation. Both of the Democrat senators
Speaker 2: from Nevada joined almost immediately. They told me twenty five
Speaker 2: percent of the workers in Nevada are tipped workers, and
Speaker 2: so they jumped on immediately. If we have the House,
Speaker 2: I think it will be part of the tax cuts,
Speaker 2: no taxes on tips. I also think we'll get it done.
Speaker 2: No taxes on Social Security. That is a little bit
Speaker 2: harder to do because in terms of the budgetary cost
Speaker 2: it's not cheap, and so the negotiations back and forth
Speaker 2: that there'll be some bumps on that. But the President
Speaker 2: is pushing for it. I'm strongly in favor of it.
Speaker 2: I think we'll get it done as part of the
Speaker 2: tax cuts. Both of those are big, big, important policy ideas.
Speaker 2: And listen, in terms of the Senate, let's break down
Speaker 2: where we stand on the Senate right now. So we
Speaker 2: went into last night with the Democrats having a fifty
Speaker 2: one forty nine majority. As of right now, Republicans have
Speaker 2: fifty two. So we have three pickups that are clear.
Speaker 2: One of them is West Virginia. We knew that was
Speaker 2: one hundred percent, and so Jim Justice, the governor, is
Speaker 2: going to now be the Senator. He's going to replace
Speaker 2: Joe Manchin. The Democrats basically conceded West Virginia once Joe
Speaker 2: Manchin wasn't running. There wasn't a Democrat alive who could
Speaker 2: win West Virginia. They conceded that. The two others that
Speaker 2: we have won are Montana and Ohio. Montana was John Tester.
Speaker 2: Montana is a bright red state and Tim Shee he
Speaker 2: just just beat Tester. That's a victory we thought was
Speaker 2: quite likely and it happened. Montana is too red a
Speaker 2: state to be represented by a Democrat. Ohio, likewise, Sharett
Speaker 2: Brown was beaten by Bernie Moreno last night. That's a
Speaker 2: great victory. That was a hard fought victory. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you Shared Brown and John Tester two the very best
Speaker 2: politicians in the country. You don't get elected counter to
Speaker 2: the way your state generally votes unless you're really really talented.
Speaker 2: And you know, John Tester with a flat top haircut,
Speaker 2: Nate Figures, he seemed like a big old fat mine
Speaker 2: tan of rancher that just was a regular guy, and
Speaker 2: it got them elected even when Trump was carrying the
Speaker 2: state and Republicans were carrying the state in past years.
Speaker 2: SAME's true in Ohio where Shared Brown seemed like just
Speaker 2: a regular guy at the Union Hall, and there were
Speaker 2: voters in Ohio that were voting Donald Trump Shared Brown. Now,
Speaker 2: both Brown and Tester vote like communists. They vote like
Speaker 2: like like Chuck Schumer, but they're very good character actors,
Speaker 2: and when they're back at home they pretended not to.
Speaker 2: Those two victories ensure that we have the majority in
Speaker 2: the Senate. And then on top of that, right now
Speaker 2: we have four other possibilities. We had one hard loss.
Speaker 2: We did not win Wisconsin. We were leading a good
Speaker 2: chunk of the night. Eric Hovedy was narrowly leading Tammy
Speaker 2: Baldwin's Wisconsin's now been called for the Democrats, So assuming
Speaker 2: those numbers are right, it looks like we did not
Speaker 2: win Wisconsin in the Senate, although Trump won Wisconsin and
Speaker 2: the presidential Right now, we have a shot at winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada,
Speaker 2: and Arizona. All of those are uncalled right now, and
Speaker 2: here are the numbers. Pennsylvania right now, Dave McCormick, the
Speaker 2: Republican is leading forty eight point nine percent to forty
Speaker 2: eight point five percent, so it's really really close. Michigan,
Speaker 2: Michigan right now, the Democrat is leading forty eight point
Speaker 2: six percent to forty eight point three percent, so we
Speaker 2: are down by point three percent both Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Speaker 2: Ninety seven percent of the vote is in Nevada, Nevada
Speaker 2: right now, the Republican Sam Brown is leading forty seven
Speaker 2: point five percent to forty seven percent. That would be
Speaker 2: a flip if we won Nevada. Eighty eight percent of
Speaker 2: the vote is in there, and then Arizona. Arizona. Right now,
Speaker 2: this is probably the it's the furthest distance we have
Speaker 2: to have to climb. The Democrat is leading fifty point
Speaker 2: four percent to forty seven point seven percent, So it's
Speaker 2: three points that we need to pick up almost three points. Now,
Speaker 2: only sixty three percent of the vote is in in Arizona,
Speaker 2: and it's America Copa County. It's the suburbs of Phoenix
Speaker 2: that are still counting. So look, it is certainly possible
Speaker 2: that we win Arizona. Trump is one Arizona, but three
Speaker 2: points is a bigger margin to close than the other states.
Speaker 2: And so all four of those we're going to wait
Speaker 2: and see.
Speaker 1: Let's talk finally about the takeaways from the media, and
Speaker 1: I'll go back to what I said earlier. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: trumped them all. He trumped the Democrats, he trumped the globalists,
Speaker 1: he trumped the deep state, he trumped the news media.
Speaker 1: They're still having meltdowns. This morning, the View, the girls
Speaker 1: on the View, the ladies in the View came out
Speaker 1: wearing black like it was a funeral, no health crisis.
Speaker 1: MSNBC's O'Donnell trash as the Founding Fathers called the electoral
Speaker 1: College voter suppression. This morning, Joy Reid at MSNBC said,
Speaker 1: Ford extreme right wing fascist state now officially Van Jones,
Speaker 1: came out and started playing the race card in the
Speaker 1: gender card. John Stewart had a total meltdown on his show,
Speaker 1: and this is just what we're seeing in the moments
Speaker 1: after a Trump victory. It's like they didn't learn their lesson.
Speaker 1: I mean, you would think they would take away and go, Okay,
Speaker 1: what did we do wrong? They're not stopping.
Speaker 2: You know, look, we'll see what happens. I think there
Speaker 2: right now, there's a lot of blaming of Kamala for
Speaker 2: being a terrible candidate. There's a lot of blaming of
Speaker 2: Joe Biden for having been essentially unconscious for several years.
Speaker 2: I don't see the Democrats right now taking responsibility for, gosh,
Speaker 2: we advocated an agenda that was horrible for America. You know,
Speaker 2: there used to be Senate moderates among the Democrats. I
Speaker 2: don't know of any Senate moderates left. The only two
Speaker 2: arguable ones where Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema. They're both gone,
Speaker 2: and so that that dynamic, you know, you look at.
Speaker 2: I would love to see some Democrats recalibrate and say
Speaker 2: let's move to the middle. But I think right now
Speaker 2: they're just emoting. They're just engaged in a combination of
Speaker 2: rage and shock and disbelief. Look, you know you and
Speaker 2: I talked about Mark Halprin, he used to be the
Speaker 2: head of political news at ABC did an interview with
Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson where Halprin said that he thought there would
Speaker 2: be real mental health crises and violence from the left
Speaker 2: if Trump won. That he was laying out the case
Speaker 2: that those of us not afflicted with Trump derangement syndrome
Speaker 2: do not understand just how much of a meltdown this
Speaker 2: will be. Look, I hope we don't go there, but
Speaker 2: I do think I don't see many Democrats willing to
Speaker 2: repent and change their ways.
Speaker 1: No that I couldn't agree with you more. I want
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Speaker 1: something different that's happening right now, and that's the people
Speaker 1: around Trump. Uh, there's a very good chance that Elon
Speaker 1: Musk could be involved in the in the Trump administration
Speaker 1: on a real level. We see him bring in people
Speaker 1: like RFK Junior. We see him bringing in different minds
Speaker 1: that traditional, you know, politicians have not done. How significant
Speaker 1: could it be to have a guy like Elon Musk
Speaker 1: coming in and looking at, like, you know, accountability and
Speaker 1: efficiency with the United States government, which is clearly a
Speaker 1: bloated and this is something he's really good at.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, Elon is extraordinary. I know him well, he's
Speaker 2: become a friend. I've spent a lot of time with Elon.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that they're smart people you encounter in life.
Speaker 2: Elon is next level. I mean, there's just the guy
Speaker 2: is freaking brilliant, and he knows how to run a company.
Speaker 2: Like you look at the incredible success he has, whether
Speaker 2: it's Tesla, whether it's it's SpaceX, whether it's the Boring Company,
Speaker 2: whether it is X, like he has an ability to run.
Speaker 2: And by the way, the many of those companies are
Speaker 2: like really precise manufacturers. You look at SpaceX where they're
Speaker 2: manufacturing rocket ships with precision, with with within a like
Speaker 2: a like a tenth of an inch or less. I
Speaker 2: mean it is. And I've been down to the like
Speaker 2: they're factory in Bokachika, down down by Brownsville in the
Speaker 2: southern tip of Texas. I mean, it is remarkable. They're
Speaker 2: turning out a rocket ship a month and they just
Speaker 2: built it out of nothing. I mean, is it's incredible.
Speaker 2: And Elon is all in. We saw him pour himself
Speaker 2: into this election at the end, I think it made
Speaker 2: a difference. I think he made a difference in Pennsylvania
Speaker 2: where he really devoted a lot of time and energy
Speaker 2: and money and personal credibility. And I think it will
Speaker 2: be significant his impact on the federal government. Now, there
Speaker 2: are structural impediments to having efficiency in government, and so
Speaker 2: I don't think people should think we're suddenly going to
Speaker 2: be in Nirvana and everything will be solved because in
Speaker 2: a company, Elon can walk in and fire anyone he wants.
Speaker 2: And by the way, when he bought Twitter, he fired
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of the folks there and all the
Speaker 2: woke radicals, he basically said, bye bye, you're out of here.
Speaker 2: The federal government, that is much much harder to do.
Speaker 2: You've got civil service protections that enables career bureaucrats to
Speaker 2: burrow in. I think we will see the Trump administration
Speaker 2: take on the career bureaucracy in a way that has
Speaker 2: never ever happened before. That's a big deal. I expect
Speaker 2: Elon to play an important role in that. But I
Speaker 2: don't want to understate the legal barriers, the bureaucratic barriers,
Speaker 2: that it is not like just coming into a company
Speaker 2: where you have the ability to give anyone a pink slip.
Speaker 2: The bureaucracy will fight back. And by the way, in
Speaker 2: the first Trump term, we saw the deep state wage
Speaker 2: war on Donald Trump. I very much hope the team
Speaker 2: coming in understands much much better just how dangerous the
Speaker 2: foe is they're facing. Of the radical leftists who burrowed
Speaker 2: into the federal government and that they're better prepared and
Speaker 2: ready to take them on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it. And by the way, saving
Speaker 1: free speech by buying X just so people know how
Speaker 1: biased I would say the media is. And I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the media. You have control over Facebook. We were
Speaker 1: comparing last night many conservative influencers and Center. You're gonna
Speaker 1: find this interesting. From October ninth through November the fifth,
Speaker 1: the reach that I had on Facebook was down eighty
Speaker 1: three point six percent as a conservative on Facebook in
Speaker 1: the month leading up to election. By and there were
Speaker 1: quite a few other conservatives. I was talking earlier with
Speaker 1: Megan McCain about this, and we opened up our analytics,
Speaker 1: our insights on our public pages, and again I'm looking
Speaker 1: at it right now. Eighty three point six percent. That's
Speaker 1: how much they turned off the faucet to free speech
Speaker 1: of conservative influencers on Facebook, on Meta, on Instagram in
Speaker 1: the last thirty days before the election. So the liberals
Speaker 1: had free flow of intel and information and their side
Speaker 1: and con conservatives were throttled almost eighty five percent. I
Speaker 1: just think that's interesting to see what Elon must have
Speaker 1: to save freedom of speech on X he didn't do
Speaker 1: that there. He let everybody talk. God bless America when
Speaker 1: it comes to that. Your final thoughts to all the
Speaker 1: listeners of Verdict, all those that came out and voted
Speaker 1: for you. I know you want to say something to
Speaker 1: them as well.
Speaker 2: Look to the listeners of Verdict, you guys are amazing.
Speaker 2: You're the most informed, you're the most engaged. You care
Speaker 2: about our nation. You're fighting to save our nation. And
Speaker 2: everyone in Texas who worked so unbelievably hard. Look that
Speaker 2: this was a battle I believe about keeping Texas Texas,
Speaker 2: my race. The money, the media, everything that came in
Speaker 2: against us. They if you live in Texas. By the way,
Speaker 2: thank god the ads are over. I mean, you couldn't
Speaker 2: turn on your TV without every second or third ad
Speaker 2: being an attack ad just hammering the living daylights out
Speaker 2: of me and the people of Texas. I'll tell you
Speaker 2: it was inspirational. You came out on the road with me.
Speaker 2: We did a fifty three stop bus tour all across
Speaker 2: the state of Texas, over nine thousand miles we covered,
Speaker 2: We did rallies everywhere, and it was incredible. The people
Speaker 2: and you're just ordinary people, students, senior citizens, single moms, Hispanics,
Speaker 2: African Americans, just Texans standing up and saying we want
Speaker 2: to keep Texas Texas. We want low taxes, low and
Speaker 2: reasonable regulations, lots of jobs. We want security, we want
Speaker 2: the border secure. We want to support law enforcement. We
Speaker 2: want criminals in jail. We want to defend our freedom.
Speaker 2: We want free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment. All
Speaker 2: of that was on the ballot last night. And I
Speaker 2: want to say it is breathtaking the Texans that came
Speaker 2: out for me and nationally, the people who supported the campaign,
Speaker 2: who contributed the campaign, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: And the people who supported Donald Trump, who supported Senate
Speaker 2: candidates and House candidates across the country. You helped change
Speaker 2: America and I believe pull it back from the brink
Speaker 2: of destruction. And I just want to say thank you
Speaker 2: to the incredible patriots who together saved America last night.
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