Latest / David Pollack Primetime / Post Mortum
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- 0:11Speaker 1: REPUBLICANS TOOK A BEATING LAST NIGHT NO WAY TO SPIN
- 0:14Speaker 1: IT I WISH I COULD SO TONIGHT HERE'S AN HONEST
- 0:18Speaker 1: POST-MORTEM WHAT WENT RIGHT WHAT WENT WRONG AND WHERE WE
- 0:23Speaker 1: GO FROM HERE LET'S START WITH WHAT WENT RIGHT BECAUSE
- 0:28Speaker 1: THERE WERE REAL WINDS FLORIDA MY HOME STATE IT'S STILL
- 0:35Speaker 1: RED SOLID RED BYRON DONALD'S IS THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF
- 0:38Speaker 1: FLORIDA FIRST BLACK GOVERNOR IN THE STATE'S HISTORY BY THE
- 0:41Speaker 1: WAY Ashley Moody held her Senate seat, and Florida voters
- 0:44Speaker 1: passed the biggest property tax cut for homeowners with more
- 0:47Speaker 1: than 60% of the vote. Donald thanked President Trump for
- 0:52Speaker 1: being in his corner.
- 0:53Speaker 2: The second call that I received tonight was from the
- 0:58Speaker 2: President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
- 1:06Speaker 3: Mr.
- 1:06Speaker 2: President, I want you to hear from Florida that we
- 1:10Speaker 2: are still red. But Mr. President, I also want to
- 1:17Speaker 2: tell you thank you for your support and thank you
- 1:20Speaker 2: for being.
- 1:20Speaker 4: In my corner. Now, let's be fair.
- 1:22Speaker 1: It wasn't an easy win for Donald's. Democrats made a
- 1:25Speaker 1: strong push for Florida. They flipped Seminole County blue and
- 1:30Speaker 1: picked off three of the four new House seats created
- 1:33Speaker 1: when Republicans corrected the maps. In the fourth, near Orlando,
- 1:36Speaker 1: the Democrat is ahead by about 1,500 votes, but Republicans
- 1:40Speaker 1: won statewide anyway, and that speaks to the success of
- 1:44Speaker 1: Florida last night.
- 1:46Speaker 4: And there were wins elsewhere, too.
- 1:48Speaker 1: Tommy Tuberville is the next governor of Alabama. Marsha Blackburn
- 1:51Speaker 1: is the next governor of Tennessee. And Pete Ricketts held Nebraska.
- 1:55Speaker 4: Now, what went wrong? And there is a long list.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Susan Collins lost in Maine, but now I still think
- 2:03Speaker 1: that's a win for Republicans. In Texas, Ken Paxton lost
- 2:07Speaker 1: to James Tallarico. And Greg Abbott lost to Gina Hino-Josa,
- 2:13Speaker 1: the first Democratic governor of Texas in more than 30 years.
- 2:18Speaker 1: John James lost a governor's race in Michigan. We lost
- 2:21Speaker 1: Senate seats in North Carolina, Ohio, Iowa, and Kansas. And
- 2:26Speaker 1: in the House, on the current count, Republicans are on
- 2:29Speaker 1: track to lose close to 50 seats. Not as bad
- 2:32Speaker 1: as it could have been, though. Two Senate races are
- 2:35Speaker 1: still too close to call in Mississippi.
- 2:37Speaker 4: Yeah, Mississippi.
- 2:38Speaker 1: Cindy Hyde-Smith trails by just 43 votes, with the affidavit
- 2:45Speaker 1: and late mail-in ballots still to count.
- 2:47Speaker 4: So there's hope there. We might pull that one out.
- 2:49Speaker 1: In Alaska, and this one's very interesting, Dan Sullivan trails
- 2:53Speaker 1: by about 600 votes. WITH ONLY THREE QUARTERS OF THE
- 2:58Speaker 1: VOTE IN, AND ALASKA WON'T RUN ITS RANKED CHOICE COUNT
- 3:02Speaker 1: UNTIL NOVEMBER 18th. IF REPUBLICANS HOLD BOTH, WE'LL END UP
- 3:05Speaker 1: WITH 46 SENATE SEATS. IF WE LOSE BOTH, 44. EITHER WAY,
- 3:10Speaker 1: WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS. BUT IT
- 3:12Speaker 1: IS WHAT IT IS. AND BEFORE THE FAKE NEWS TELLS
- 3:15Speaker 1: YOU THIS IS THE WORST LOSS IN HISTORY AND MAKES
- 3:18Speaker 1: IT SEEM LIKE, OH, MY GOSH, THE SKY IS FALLING
- 3:21Speaker 1: AND IT'S ALL TRUMP'S FAULT, REMEMBER, Bill Clinton lost 54
- 3:27Speaker 1: House seats in 1994. Barack Obama lost 63 in 2010.
- 3:33Speaker 4: So, yes, it does hurt.
- 3:36Speaker 1: But part of this is historical because the president's party
- 3:39Speaker 1: almost always loses in the midterm. And past Democrat presidents
- 3:43Speaker 1: have lost bigger. Part of it is the party. And, yes,
- 3:47Speaker 1: part of it is the president. We have to be
- 3:49Speaker 1: honest there.
- 3:50Speaker 4: Then there's turnout.
- 3:51Speaker 1: More than 61 million Americans voted before Election Day. a
- 3:55Speaker 1: midterm record, and Democrats banked far more of those ballots.
- 3:59Speaker 1: Republicans' early voting lagged its own pace from four years ago.
- 4:02Speaker 1: And according to public reporting, Republican Election Day turnout lagged
- 4:07Speaker 1: 2022 in Arizona, Florida, and Texas, although Florida did beat
- 4:11Speaker 1: its 2024 numbers. And as far as early voting goes,
- 4:14Speaker 1: in 2024, President Trump's campaign and the RNC pushed our voters.
- 4:18Speaker 4: To bank their votes early and by mail. And we won.
- 4:22Speaker 4: This year, the party didn't match it. IT'S NOT ON TRUMP,
- 4:25Speaker 4: THAT'S ON THE GOP.
- 4:27Speaker 1: THE MOST SIGNIFICANT THING, I THINK, IS SOMETHING THAT WE
- 4:30Speaker 1: ALL KIND OF EXPECTED, THE SWING VOTERS SWUNG. ACCORDING TO
- 4:35Speaker 1: FOX NEWS, A VOTER ANALYSIS SHOWED THAT REPUBLICANS WHO DID
- 4:40Speaker 1: VOTE STUCK WITH REPUBLICANS BETTER THAN 9 TO 1, BUT
- 4:43Speaker 1: INDEPENDENCE BROKE FOR DEMOCRATS BY MORE THAN 20 POINTS. HISPANIC
- 4:47Speaker 1: VOTERS WENT BACK TO THE DEMOCRATS. THE COALITION THAT WON
- 4:51Speaker 1: IN 2024 CAME APART AT THE SEAMS. And the swing
- 4:54Speaker 1: voters sank the majorities. Now let's look at the issues. Immigration,
- 5:00Speaker 1: voters went Republican nearly 10 to 1. That's the border
- 5:03Speaker 1: Trump secured. And the voters noticed. But the number one issue, well,
- 5:07Speaker 1: as I've been saying, it's the economy. And there we
- 5:11Speaker 1: split nearly even. When you don't win the kitchen table,
- 5:15Speaker 1: you don't win the majority. And many will say that
- 5:18Speaker 1: the Iran war is to blame. And that might be true.
- 5:21Speaker 3: J.D.
- 5:22Speaker 4: Vance said it himself today.
- 5:24Speaker 1: GAS PRICES WERE THE STORY LEADING UP THROUGH THE START
- 5:27Speaker 1: OF MAIL-IN VOTING SEASON AND EARLY VOTING.
- 5:29Speaker 4: THEY JUST STARTED TO GO DOWN BEFORE ELECTION DAY.
- 5:32Speaker 1: AND I STILL THINK, THOUGH, THE PRESIDENT DID THE RIGHT
- 5:35Speaker 1: THING WITH RESPECT TO IRAN. BUT HE DID PAY A
- 5:38Speaker 1: POLITICAL PRICE FOR IT. SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO PUT THE
- 5:40Speaker 1: COUNTRY BEFORE POLITICS. AND WHILE TRUMP'S INVOLVEMENT IN IRAN MIGHT
- 5:45Speaker 1: HAVE DROVE THE COALITION APART, TRUMP WENT ON THE BALLOT.
- 5:53Speaker 1: AND IF WE'RE GOING TO SAY THIS IS A REFERENDUM,
- 5:56Speaker 1: IT'S NOT A REFERENDUM ON TRUMP.
- 5:58Speaker 4: IT'S A REFERENDUM ON THE GOP AND THE SENATE.
- 6:01Speaker 1: AFTER ALL, IT WAS THE SENATE ESTABLISHMENT THAT REFUSED TO
- 6:04Speaker 1: END THE FILIBUSTER EVEN WITH THE PRESIDENT PUSHING AND THE
- 6:07Speaker 1: SAVE AMERICA ACT STALLED. VOTERS SENT REPUBLICANS TO WASHINGTON TO FIGHT.
- 6:12Speaker 1: AND TOO MANY OF THEM DIDN'T FIGHT. BOTTOM LINE IS THIS.
- 6:17Speaker 1: You can't take a mandate from the American people and
- 6:20Speaker 1: not deliver on the promises. And you can't be an
- 6:23Speaker 1: outsider who takes on the establishment if the establishment doesn't
- 6:28Speaker 1: get taken down. In the end, all of the president's
- 6:33Speaker 1: wins and all of his successes, and there's a lot
- 6:36Speaker 1: of them, couldn't change the way people felt about.
- 6:40Speaker 4: The way things were going. You know, they say facts
- 6:43Speaker 4: don't care about your feelings. But here, the feelings... They
- 6:47Speaker 4: don't care about the facts. And that's what happened. We lost.
- 6:50Speaker 4: We lost big. We lost the coalition. We lost the argument.
- 6:54Speaker 4: And we lost Congress.
- 6:57Speaker 1: It's time to pause, reflect, regroup, and figure out a
- 7:00Speaker 1: path forward because the fight for 28 and the fight
- 7:03Speaker 1: for America, well, they're just getting started. Still ahead tonight,
- 7:09Speaker 1: Democrats aren't offering an olive branch. They're threatening the switch.
- 7:13Speaker 1: The Democrat in line to run House oversight told the
- 7:15Speaker 1: administration to lawyer up. And Hakeem Jeffries says they haven't
- 7:19Speaker 1: ruled out anything on impeachment.
- 7:23Speaker 4: So what stands in their way?
- 7:25Speaker 1: Well, the president's veto pen, then the race to lead
- 7:28Speaker 1: this party after Trump is already heating up, and then
- 7:30Speaker 1: one governor's stock just shot up overnight, and later voters
- 7:33Speaker 1: under 30 went Democrat nearly three to one.
- 7:36Speaker 4: Wait till you see who they elected and why. Stay
- 7:39Speaker 4: with us.
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- 8:21Speaker 1: Democrats are headed for control of both the House and
- 8:25Speaker 1: the Senate.
- 8:25Speaker 4: When the new Congress is seated in January.
- 8:27Speaker 1: And we already talked about what happened that led to
- 8:31Speaker 1: the loss of power there.
- 8:33Speaker 4: But let's talk.
- 8:34Speaker 1: About what they're going to do with that power. AND
- 8:38Speaker 1: WHAT'S STANDING IN THEIR WAY? THEY'VE ALREADY TOLD US LAST
- 8:42Speaker 1: NIGHT ROBERT GARCIA, THE DEMOCRAT IN LINE TO RUN THE
- 8:45Speaker 1: HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE, SENT THE ADMINISTRATION A TWO-WORD MESSAGE ON
- 8:50Speaker 1: X SAYING, QUOTE, LAWYER UP.
- 8:54Speaker 4: NOT LET'S FIND COMMON GROUND. LAWYER UP.
- 8:58Speaker 1: ANOTHER HOUSE DEMOCRAT, SUMMER LEE, SAID SHE WANTS TO GO
- 9:02Speaker 1: STRAIGHT TO THE TOP. DONALD TRUMP AND THEN EVERYBODY I'M
- 9:08Speaker 1: GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT I'M GOING TO TELL YOU
- 9:12Speaker 1: WHAT I'M GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT I'M GOING TO
- 9:14Speaker 1: TELL YOU WHAT I'M GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT I'M
- 9:15Speaker 1: GOING Impeach, investigate, indict, subpoenas for the president's family, his pardons,
- 9:41Speaker 1: immigration enforcement. And in the Senate, the new Democrats aren't
- 9:46Speaker 1: hiding the ball. Juliana Stratton, the senator-elect from Illinois, said
- 9:51Speaker 1: it plainly, when Democrats take back the Senate, I want
- 9:54Speaker 1: us to end the filibuster and get things done.
- 9:59Speaker 2: Now.
- 10:00Speaker 1: watch the money, because that's where the real fight's going
- 10:03Speaker 1: to be. Democrats will control spending.
- 10:06Speaker 4: So get this.
- 10:07Speaker 1: They stuffed their agenda into must-pass funding bills. The president vetoes.
- 10:13Speaker 1: The government shuts down. The media blames Trump for every
- 10:17Speaker 1: closed office and every missed paycheck. This is a party
- 10:23Speaker 1: that has already shut down the government three times in Congress.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Mike Johnson saw it coming. And here's the speaker in
- 10:29Speaker 1: Shreveport last night.
- 10:31Speaker 6: Now, look, I'm not going to exaggerate when I tell
- 10:33Speaker 6: you that there is not a single American, not a
- 10:36Speaker 6: single American family anywhere that's going to be made better
- 10:39Speaker 6: off if Democrats turn Congress into a circus. And I'm
- 10:43Speaker 6: afraid that is what some of them want to do, okay?
- 10:46Speaker 6: If they make the next two years about retribution and
- 10:49Speaker 6: lawfare and partisan games, every American will suffer by that.
- 10:53Speaker 6: And I'll tell you what we will do.
- 10:55Speaker 7: We will put a firewall of.
- 10:56Speaker 6: House Republicans standing in their way to ensure that doesn't happen.
- 10:59Speaker 4: But come January, the firewall isn't in the House.
- 11:03Speaker 1: It's at the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue. Trump's pen
- 11:09Speaker 1: will save us. THE PRESIDENT ALREADY PUT IT ON A
- 11:12Speaker 1: HAT VETO. LAST NIGHT HE SAID THEY'LL SEND OVER THINGS
- 11:17Speaker 1: THAT ARE INSANE AND I'LL VETO THEM. And after a
- 11:20Speaker 1: couple of months of that, he says Democrats will come
- 11:23Speaker 1: asking how to get something done.
- 11:24Speaker 4: And think about whose pen that is.
- 11:27Speaker 1: According to House Oversight Republicans, Joe Biden's aides used the
- 11:32Speaker 1: auto pen on pardons without confirmed approval from the president.
- 11:36Speaker 1: Biden's pen was in the hands of his staff. Trump's pen,
- 11:41Speaker 1: it is in his own hand. To override a veto,
- 11:44Speaker 1: Democrats needed two-thirds of both chambers. That's 67 senators, and
- 11:48Speaker 1: with a full House and 290 members on the current count,
- 11:52Speaker 1: Democrats would need about a dozen Republican senators and close
- 11:55Speaker 1: to 30 House Republicans to cross over. So the veto
- 11:59Speaker 1: holds as long as Republicans hold. The question is, will they?
- 12:02Speaker 1: Utah Senator John Curtis said last night, it's time to
- 12:05Speaker 1: put petty partisan politics aside and come together. Sounds nice,
- 12:11Speaker 1: but if you can't meet halfway with a party that
- 12:13Speaker 1: just told the president to lawyer up, will Trump work
- 12:16Speaker 1: with them? He says he will. He says he's already
- 12:18Speaker 1: talked to some Democrat friends, but would.
- 12:20Speaker 4: Democrats work with Trump?
- 12:22Speaker 1: Jeffrey's first priorities are rolling back the president's tariffs, reversing
- 12:26Speaker 1: his Medicaid cuts, and ending the Iran war.
- 12:29Speaker 4: That's not a.
- 12:30Speaker 1: Hand across the aisle. It's a demolition list. Make no mistake,
- 12:33Speaker 1: the next two years will be decided by who holds
- 12:35Speaker 1: the gavel. And they'll be decided by whether the president's
- 12:39Speaker 1: pen holds as well and whether Republicans stand behind it.
- 12:43Speaker 1: So when Democrats come with a switch, will Republicans stand
- 12:47Speaker 1: with the president or hand everything over to them? Joining
- 12:50Speaker 1: me now is George Papadopoulos, foreign policy advisor to President
- 12:53Speaker 1: Trump's 2016 campaign, the author of Deep State Target. George
- 12:57Speaker 1: understands what happens when Democrats get power, probably better than anybody.
- 13:02Speaker 4: Welcome back, David Pollak, Prime Time. George, look, we lost.
- 13:06Speaker 1: I've already talked about why we lost, what we need
- 13:08Speaker 1: to do next. But I think Americans need to understand
- 13:11Speaker 1: what's coming for them.
- 13:12Speaker 4: And it's not bipartisanship, is it?
- 13:17Speaker 8: Hi, David.
- 13:18Speaker 4: No, it's really not.
- 13:19Speaker 9: And what woke 2.0 is starting to look like is
- 13:23Speaker 9: a more crazy version of woke 1.0. The Democrats clearly
- 13:30Speaker 9: did not learn anything. the lessons of their failed leadership
- 13:35Speaker 9: era when they controlled Congress during the first Trump administration.
- 13:41Speaker 9: And basically, I believe that they're going to attempt to
- 13:45Speaker 9: repeat the same exact mistakes that led to their abject
- 13:50Speaker 9: failures the first time around. Look, this past election wasn't
- 13:55Speaker 9: some sort of embrace of the Democrat Party. It was
- 13:59Speaker 9: really an indictment on the perception that the GOP abandoned
- 14:04Speaker 9: America first policies and principles. And now that the Democrats
- 14:10Speaker 9: did gain control, they ultimately did not gain the numbers
- 14:16Speaker 9: to have a super majority or to have the 60
- 14:19Speaker 9: Senate seats required to basically overcome the filibuster or to
- 14:25Speaker 9: circumvent the president's veto. So I don't think that the
- 14:29Speaker 9: Democrats are going to have the numbers to basically have
- 14:34Speaker 9: the foundational structural overhauls to the legislative process or the
- 14:41Speaker 9: constitution that they would have liked, for example, like packing
- 14:44Speaker 9: the Supreme Court or adding new states in Washington, DC
- 14:48Speaker 9: or Puerto Rico. So they're basically going to resort to
- 14:52Speaker 9: weaponizing Congress once again with various investigations, subpoenas, wasting taxpayer dollars,
- 15:00Speaker 9: and ultimately showing the American people once again that when
- 15:03Speaker 9: the Democrats are in power, they do not put the
- 15:06Speaker 9: American people's priorities at the forefront, but TDS and bizarre
- 15:11Speaker 9: wokeness will always overcome the American worker.
- 15:16Speaker 4: Yeah, and honestly, I think.
- 15:19Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are still absorbing what
- 15:21Speaker 1: they saw last night and what it's going to mean.
- 15:23Speaker 4: And I know Trump's being optimistic. I'll work with the Democrats.
- 15:26Speaker 1: And I know Republicans always have this tendency to say, OK,
- 15:29Speaker 1: where can we find common ground?
- 15:30Speaker 4: That's what Republicans do.
- 15:31Speaker 1: That's what makes so many conservatives angry, is that Republicans
- 15:34Speaker 1: tend to try to negotiate with Democrats when Democrats haven't
- 15:37Speaker 1: shown even an ounce of wanting to work with Republicans.
- 15:41Speaker 4: I don't even think there's even been a honeymoon period.
- 15:43Speaker 1: I mean, it was before elections were even certified that
- 15:46Speaker 1: they were telling Trump to lawyer up. They're talking about impeachment.
- 15:48Speaker 1: They're talking about everything they're planning on doing. This isn't
- 15:51Speaker 1: going to be a collaborative government. This is going to
- 15:53Speaker 1: be a very antagonistic and dangerous government.
- 15:56Speaker 4: And I think in two short years, one of two
- 15:58Speaker 4: things is going to happen, George.
- 15:59Speaker 1: I think either one, the country goes into pure chaos
- 16:02Speaker 1: and the media continues to blame Trump for it, and
- 16:05Speaker 1: they try to campaign off of that in 28, or
- 16:08Speaker 1: America rejects the Democrats once again after handing them back power,
- 16:12Speaker 1: remembering what they did with it, and then whichever campaign
- 16:16Speaker 1: or candidate can come through and promise wholesale sort of
- 16:20Speaker 1: change at the top will end up winning in 28,
- 16:23Speaker 1: I think probably the latter.
- 16:26Speaker 4: You know, how do you think this goes?
- 16:28Speaker 1: Do you think people will reject all of this weaponization
- 16:33Speaker 1: from Democrats, or do you think they'll even.
- 16:34Speaker 4: Hear about it?
- 16:36Speaker 9: David, the Democrats have a sub-30% favorability rating. This was
- 16:42Speaker 9: not an embrace of their movements, their ideology, or their candidates.
- 16:48Speaker 9: In fact, I would argue that the Democrat candidates that
- 16:51Speaker 9: we saw this past election were some of the worst
- 16:54Speaker 9: candidates that the Democrats have thrown into an election cycle
- 16:58Speaker 9: in the last 20 years. from extremists to DSA candidates
- 17:03Speaker 9: to outright socialists. This is not the mainstream Democrat party
- 17:10Speaker 9: that many expected would emerge from the first go-around with
- 17:17Speaker 9: the failed woke policies, the socialist policies, and the outright
- 17:22Speaker 9: weaponization effort. They've simply doubled down on their failed policies.
- 17:28Speaker 9: And I ultimately believe that because they ran on this
- 17:33Speaker 9: populist messaging and this attempt to basically shake up the
- 17:37Speaker 9: system in their own way, that as long as the
- 17:40Speaker 9: Republicans identify, embrace, and support a new wave of America
- 17:47Speaker 9: First candidates from both urban settings and rural settings, folks
- 17:52Speaker 9: that are telegenic, smart, embrace the America First ideology, its principles,
- 17:57Speaker 9: put the American people first, will ultimately show that we
- 18:01Speaker 9: do provide an alternative to the Democrats who have no
- 18:05Speaker 9: real policy prescriptions to address the American people's issues, from
- 18:10Speaker 9: the economy to social issues to foreign policy issues. And
- 18:14Speaker 9: history will show that this was simply a two-year pushback
- 18:19Speaker 9: against what the American people believed was the abandonment of
- 18:24Speaker 9: the America First and the populist economic policies of the
- 18:29Speaker 9: Trump administration that have been so successful in the past.
- 18:32Speaker 9: So that's what's going to end up happening here, David.
- 18:35Speaker 9: But we do need to coalesce around the new generation
- 18:38Speaker 9: of the GOP and learn from these very serious mistakes
- 18:43Speaker 9: so that history does not repeat itself moving forward.
- 18:45Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're going to have to learn about communication.
- 18:48Speaker 1: I think it comes down to communication, and I talked
- 18:50Speaker 1: about it. I'm in my opening segment about the fact that,
- 18:53Speaker 1: you know, they say facts don't care about your feelings.
- 18:55Speaker 1: But in this election, I kept saying it. It came
- 18:57Speaker 1: down to feelings not caring about the facts, the economy
- 19:00Speaker 1: being strong and actually Trump's policies working. People weren't feeling it.
- 19:04Speaker 1: And I think we weren't able to articulate a winning message,
- 19:08Speaker 1: and that's something we need to fix going forward, because
- 19:10Speaker 1: Democrats are not going to make anything more affordable. Shutting
- 19:12Speaker 1: down the government and impeaching the president makes your 401
- 19:15Speaker 1: go down, makes your gas prices go up, and all
- 19:17Speaker 1: the Democrat policies are going to make everybody's prices go up.
- 19:20Speaker 1: So I think people will realize very quickly that they
- 19:22Speaker 1: don't have a solution, which I think goes in our
- 19:25Speaker 1: favor in 28. If we can figure out in the
- 19:27Speaker 1: next two years, actually, in less than that, a winning message, then, George,
- 19:31Speaker 1: I know you and I will be talking about that
- 19:32Speaker 1: a lot going forward. Thanks for being here, as always,
- 19:34Speaker 1: and look forward to having you on again real soon,
- 19:35Speaker 1: my friend.
- 19:37Speaker 7: Appreciate it, David. Thank you. Thank you.
- 19:41Speaker 1: Coming up, some Republicans are already blaming Trump for last night, seriously.
- 19:46Speaker 1: And if they tear him down, will they tear down
- 19:49Speaker 1: Vice President J.D.
- 19:50Speaker 4: Vance with him?
- 19:51Speaker 1: So who leads this party into 2028?
- 19:54Speaker 4: Vance? Rubio? DeSantis?
- 19:56Speaker 1: Or the establishment crowd that spent years fighting the American
- 20:00Speaker 1: First agenda?
- 20:01Speaker 4: We break all of that down right after this.
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- 20:47Speaker 1: PEOPLE ARE ALREADY ASKING WHO LEADS THIS PARTY AFTER DONALD TRUMP.
- 20:51Speaker 4: SERIOUSLY.
- 20:52Speaker 1: THAT FIGHT STARTED LAST NIGHT BEFORE THE VOTES WERE EVEN
- 20:55Speaker 1: COUNTED AND THE FIRST PUNCHES AREN'T COMING FROM DEMOCRATS.
- 20:59Speaker 4: REPUBLICANS ARE ALREADY BLAMING TRUMP. SHOCKING, I KNOW.
- 21:03Speaker 1: A SENIOR SENATE REPUBLICAN TOLD REPORTERS IT'S A BLOOD BATH.
- 21:09Speaker 4: TRUMP DID THIS.
- 21:15Speaker 1: Give them a few weeks, they'll pile on with the
- 21:18Speaker 1: media to get what they've always wanted, a Republican Party
- 21:21Speaker 1: free of Donald Trump. But understand what that really means.
- 21:27Speaker 1: They tear down Trump, they tear down J.D. Vance with him.
- 21:32Speaker 1: So let me walk you through the paths in front
- 21:35Speaker 1: of us. START WITH THE VICE PRESIDENT, J.D. VANCE IS
- 21:38Speaker 1: STILL THE FRONTRUNNER FOR 2028. HE LEADS THE PREDICTION MARKETS
- 21:43Speaker 1: TO BE NOMINEE, THOUGH HE DID SLIP ABOUT FIVE POINTS OVERNIGHT.
- 21:47Speaker 1: BUT WHATEVER BLAME LANDS ON THIS WHITE HOUSE IN THE
- 21:50Speaker 1: NEXT TWO YEARS, THE MEDIA WILL HANG IT ON VANCE
- 21:52Speaker 1: IN 2028. TAKE OUT FROM UNDER IT, YOU'D HAVE TO
- 21:56Speaker 1: BREAK WITH TRUMP, AND THE MOMENT HE DOES THAT, HE
- 21:59Speaker 1: RISKS THE MAGA BASE THAT MADE HIM.
- 22:02Speaker 4: THAT'S A NARROW ROAD, BUT J.D. VANCE HAS WALKED NARROW
- 22:04Speaker 4: ROADS BEFORE. Then there's Marco Rubio.
- 22:08Speaker 1: He's been one of the most successful secretaries of state
- 22:10Speaker 1: in modern memory. The cartels designated as terrorist organizations. Nicolas
- 22:15Speaker 1: Maduro removed from power in a matter of hours and
- 22:18Speaker 1: brought to justice. USAID's old model shut down and folded
- 22:21Speaker 1: into the Senate Department.
- 22:23Speaker 4: That's right, thanks to Trump.
- 22:25Speaker 1: And through all of it, Rubio has kept himself clean
- 22:29Speaker 1: in the media. If anyone in this administration can survive
- 22:32Speaker 1: what's coming, it's probably Marco Rubio. Now, Ron DeSantis, he's
- 22:36Speaker 1: the only outsider left, and he's not in the administration,
- 22:41Speaker 1: and he's term-limited, so he leaves the governor's office in January,
- 22:44Speaker 1: replaced by Byron Donalds.
- 22:45Speaker 4: He's free to run. He made Florida the model for
- 22:48Speaker 4: conservative governing.
- 22:50Speaker 1: And last night, while so much of the map went blue,
- 22:52Speaker 1: Florida stayed a red beacon, and the markets noticed on Calchi,
- 22:55Speaker 1: DeSantis jumped from about 4% to 19% overnight to win
- 23:00Speaker 1: a nomination. And on Polymarket, he went from about 4%
- 23:03Speaker 1: to 16%. Then there's the path I worry about the most.
- 23:08Speaker 1: The establishment strikes back. The Bushes, Mike Pence, Chris Christie,
- 23:14Speaker 1: Nikki Haley, Mitt Romney, John Thune. The polished crowd that
- 23:18Speaker 1: looks presidential on the debate stage. In my view, that's
- 23:24Speaker 1: nothing more than the Uniparty, the same go-along, get-along politics
- 23:28Speaker 1: that gave rise to the modern Democrat Party to begin with.
- 23:33Speaker 1: THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO SPENT YEARS FIGHTING THE AMERICA
- 23:36Speaker 1: FIRST AGENDA INSTEAD OF FIGHTING FOR IT, AND THEY'RE NOT
- 23:39Speaker 1: GOING ANYWHERE. SO DON'T BE SURPRISED IF THEY TRY TO
- 23:42Speaker 1: COALESCE AROUND DESANTIS OR EVEN RUBIO AND SELL IT AS
- 23:45Speaker 1: A MAGA ESTABLISHMENT COALITION. WE'LL HAVE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS THERE.
- 23:49Speaker 1: SO WHAT DECIDES IT?
- 23:50Speaker 4: WELL, TRUMP DOES.
- 23:52Speaker 1: IF THE PRESIDENT CAN FIND A WAY TO WIN WITH
- 23:54Speaker 1: DEMOCRATS IN THE ROOM IF GAS PRICES COME DOWN AND
- 23:57Speaker 1: THE WAR ENDS ON HIS TERMS, That might say Vance,
- 24:01Speaker 1: and it strengthens Rubio. But if the next two years
- 24:04Speaker 1: are nothing but gridlock and the media sells it as
- 24:06Speaker 1: Trump's defiance, they'll try to take down Vance with him.
- 24:10Speaker 1: And that's the opening DeSantis is waiting for, certainly. So
- 24:14Speaker 1: here's what it comes down to. The future of this
- 24:16Speaker 1: party is not the establishment.
- 24:19Speaker 4: IT'S A FIGHTER WHO.
- 24:20Speaker 1: WILL CARRY THE AMERICA FIRST AGENDA FORWARD. VANCE, RUBIO, DESANTIS,
- 24:26Speaker 1: WHOEVER IT IS, THEY HAVE TO UNDERSTAND ONE THING. TRUMP
- 24:29Speaker 1: DIDN'T JUST WIN THE ELECTIONS.
- 24:32Speaker 4: HE BUILT THIS MOVEMENT. SO REPUBLICANS BUILD ON WHAT TRUMP STARTED.
- 24:37Speaker 1: Or give the party back to the people we fought
- 24:39Speaker 1: so hard to take it from. Joining me now is
- 24:41Speaker 1: Tommy Sotomayor, conservative commentator and host of the podcast, Your World,
- 24:45Speaker 1: My View. Tommy, welcome to David Pollak Prime Time. Look,
- 24:49Speaker 1: we know what happened yesterday. We all saw it. We're
- 24:51Speaker 1: all still dealing with it.
- 24:52Speaker 4: We're processing. I get it.
- 24:54Speaker 1: I'm not ready to throw Trump out, you know, with
- 24:56Speaker 1: the bathwater and say this is all on him. I'm
- 24:59Speaker 1: putting us on the GOP. But either way, we got
- 25:01Speaker 1: to figure out how to win it back in 28.
- 25:02Speaker 1: What do you think the future of this party is,
- 25:04Speaker 1: my friend?
- 25:07Speaker 10: That's a hard one. And the problem is we haven't
- 25:09Speaker 10: put together a secession plan.
- 25:10Speaker 7: We never did. It was Trump and it became the
- 25:13Speaker 7: party of Trump.
- 25:14Speaker 10: And many people smarter than I am started to tell
- 25:17Speaker 10: people we cannot be the party of Trump. But the
- 25:19Speaker 10: party of Trump was feeding everybody. So what happens when
- 25:23Speaker 10: Trump's name falls? What happens when you're a band, but
- 25:26Speaker 10: everybody knows the lead of the band and no one
- 25:29Speaker 10: cares about anyone else?
- 25:31Speaker 7: That's what happened. And that's what this midterm showed.
- 25:33Speaker 10: It showed that, well, no one cared about the band
- 25:36Speaker 10: because the leader we no longer like. And this is
- 25:39Speaker 10: something we should have seen coming after he lost in 2020.
- 25:45Speaker 10: That should have been something that we were ready for.
- 25:48Speaker 10: But the surge that came back or the perceived surge,
- 25:52Speaker 10: And you have to remember, the surge that we got
- 25:54Speaker 10: was against a guy who was really old, senile, an
- 25:58Speaker 10: economy that was thanking, and then a person that he
- 26:02Speaker 10: put in in place for him that nobody liked. That
- 26:06Speaker 10: was a perfect storm for Donald Trump to win, but
- 26:09Speaker 10: we looked at it as, oh, that shows how powerful
- 26:11Speaker 10: he is. And then as we talked about in Texas,
- 26:14Speaker 10: once you start having losses and you have people making
- 26:18Speaker 10: excuses for the losses instead of pointing out the losses,
- 26:21Speaker 10: this is what you have left. It was a power
- 26:24Speaker 10: vacuum and a Democrat step right in.
- 26:26Speaker 1: Yeah, and— And we did see this in 2020, and
- 26:31Speaker 1: it's such a great observation because, I mean, it didn't
- 26:35Speaker 1: take but, what, 30 seconds for Trump to lose in
- 26:37Speaker 1: 2020 before everybody said, see, it's time to move on.
- 26:41Speaker 4: We've been waiting for this moment. We're moving on. And
- 26:45Speaker 4: then Trump came back.
- 26:46Speaker 1: I mean, it was Governor DeSantis didn't even show up
- 26:49Speaker 1: in Miami when Vivek did and was like, these charges
- 26:52Speaker 1: against President Trump are ridiculous. They couldn't wait to find
- 26:56Speaker 1: somebody else to put up in Washington. And you have
- 26:58Speaker 1: to think of who the they are.
- 27:00Speaker 4: I mean, is it the Uniparty? Is it the establishment?
- 27:02Speaker 4: Is it conservatives? Who is this party?
- 27:05Speaker 1: Now, Trump made it very clear when he did his
- 27:07Speaker 1: barnstorming tour in lines, around the buildings, and I believe
- 27:10Speaker 1: it would have been a much worse outcome yesterday if
- 27:12Speaker 1: Trump didn't do that barnstorming tour.
- 27:14Speaker 4: I think this party still belongs to Trump.
- 27:16Speaker 1: I think the people who very much wish it wasn't
- 27:19Speaker 1: and it didn't, I think they certainly would like to
- 27:21Speaker 1: see somebody else. But the media will destroy Trump.
- 27:24Speaker 4: And the media will take down J.D. Vance with him.
- 27:27Speaker 1: When the Democrats start their shutdowns and start their impeachments,
- 27:29Speaker 1: Trump is going to have a really hard time getting
- 27:32Speaker 1: on the other side of the narrative. And I don't
- 27:34Speaker 1: know if J.D. Vance can survive it without putting distance
- 27:36Speaker 1: between him and Trump. And if he does that, the
- 27:38Speaker 1: MAGA base is going to shut down on him, and
- 27:40Speaker 1: we can't lose the MAGA base.
- 27:41Speaker 4: What has to happen, Tommy— and I'm.
- 27:43Speaker 1: Sure you think this, too— We have to rebuild this coalition,
- 27:47Speaker 1: and that's the swing voters, the NPAs, the Republicans that
- 27:49Speaker 1: are willing to vote Democrat, the conservatives, the establishment.
- 27:52Speaker 4: Everybody has to come together.
- 27:53Speaker 1: And there's only a handful of people in this country
- 27:55Speaker 1: that can articulate a message.
- 27:57Speaker 4: You know, it could be J.D. Vance, but, like, I
- 27:59Speaker 4: love J.D.
- 27:59Speaker 2: Vance.
- 28:00Speaker 1: I just think he's going to get destroyed in the
- 28:02Speaker 1: next two years with this media coverage. Marco Rubio might
- 28:05Speaker 1: stay clean, and if he does, he might be the guy.
- 28:08Speaker 4: He's Hispanic.
- 28:09Speaker 1: He can speak Spanish. He's done a great job as
- 28:12Speaker 1: Secretary of State. The establishment likes him. He's been aggressive
- 28:16Speaker 1: when he needs to be domestically and foreign.
- 28:19Speaker 4: He works well with the press. Is Marco Rubio our answer?
- 28:25Speaker 10: If I were to give advice, which no one should
- 28:26Speaker 10: probably listen to mine, avoid being a sycophant.
- 28:30Speaker 7: Avoid being a Trump sycophant.
- 28:32Speaker 10: Do not come across as a guy or girl who
- 28:36Speaker 10: just rubber stamps Trump. Look like you have some pushback
- 28:41Speaker 10: against some things that you don't agree with or some
- 28:43Speaker 10: things that obviously you wouldn't agree with that.
- 28:46Speaker 7: We say, hey, that's a loss. We're going to call
- 28:48Speaker 7: it a loss.
- 28:50Speaker 10: You have to make some inroads to the MAGA base,
- 28:53Speaker 10: but my question is, is the MAGA base with what
- 28:56Speaker 10: we just saw yesterday, is it a real thing? And
- 28:59Speaker 10: if they are a real thing, did they just sit
- 29:01Speaker 10: at home? We have to ask that. We have Keisha,
- 29:04Speaker 10: I'm here in Atlanta. We have Keisha Lance Bottom. I
- 29:08Speaker 10: remember believing there was no chance she could win the
- 29:13Speaker 10: governorship here.
- 29:14Speaker 7: No chance. And she won. And she won pretty big.
- 29:19Speaker 10: And something like that makes me say, well, where was
- 29:23Speaker 10: this MAGA base? Because Jackson came across as the Trump candidate.
- 29:27Speaker 10: He never shot away from it. So where was the
- 29:30Speaker 10: MAGA base when they needed his votes? Something's wrong here.
- 29:34Speaker 10: And I think maybe that MAGA base is not, it
- 29:37Speaker 10: may be louder. It's like what I have to deal with.
- 29:40Speaker 10: There's a bunch of ratchet people who are very loud
- 29:43Speaker 10: and they speak a lot. So we think there may
- 29:45Speaker 10: be more ratchet people than, than they're not because the
- 29:48Speaker 10: regular people don't speak as much. I think the MAGA
- 29:50Speaker 10: base was a bunch of loud people who then, well,
- 29:54Speaker 10: what happened when it was time to show? So if
- 29:57Speaker 10: you are going to do like, I think you said something,
- 30:00Speaker 10: And I think you'd be in Texas and you'd be
- 30:02Speaker 10: a very good press secretary. You need to put in
- 30:05Speaker 10: your resume for it because you said they need someone
- 30:08Speaker 10: to articulate the wins. You're one of the few people
- 30:12Speaker 10: who I heard that said, hey, there are wins here
- 30:16Speaker 10: and they are doing a poor job of articulating them,
- 30:19Speaker 10: which allows the people with the voices against this this
- 30:23Speaker 10: presidency to be louder. And that's what won. So the
- 30:27Speaker 10: only way to get back is to do exactly what
- 30:29Speaker 10: you said. Is Rubio a person who can do that?
- 30:33Speaker 10: I think if he starts stepping out of the Trump
- 30:35Speaker 10: shadow and start becoming his own man. But if, again,
- 30:38Speaker 10: he goes back to being a sycophant and saying, hey,
- 30:41Speaker 10: I just whatever he says, I agree with. Nobody's going
- 30:44Speaker 10: to want someone who agrees with the lame duck.
- 30:48Speaker 4: Well, that's a good point.
- 30:49Speaker 1: You know, and I think the other thing is and
- 30:52Speaker 1: you've pointed out in the governor's race in Georgia. is
- 30:55Speaker 1: the Trump base, the MAGA base, it's not transferable. And
- 31:00Speaker 1: this is something the GOP has not understood since 2016.
- 31:04Speaker 1: Acting like President Trump, pretending you're a version of President Trump,
- 31:07Speaker 1: trying to emulate President Trump, at least the version the
- 31:11Speaker 1: media created about him, that doesn't attract the MAGA base.
- 31:14Speaker 1: People don't understand President Trump or why people vote for
- 31:17Speaker 1: President Trump.
- 31:17Speaker 4: That's the biggest fallacy.
- 31:19Speaker 1: They assume that Trump voters were just a bunch of
- 31:22Speaker 1: YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THEY THINK OF US, DEPLORABLE, SITTING AROUND LIKE, YEAH,
- 31:24Speaker 1: I HATE.
- 31:25Speaker 4: EVERYBODY, I LOVE TRUMP. IT'S WAY MORE SOPHISTICATED THAN THAT.
- 31:28Speaker 1: AND THAT VOTE IS NOT TRANSFERRABLE TO JUST SOME RICH
- 31:32Speaker 1: WHITE GUY IN GEORGIA JUST BECAUSE TRUMP GIVES HIM THE NOMINATION.
- 31:34Speaker 1: IT'S NOT TRANSFERRABLE TO SOME RICH WHITE LADY WHO SHARES
- 31:38Speaker 1: THE SAME NAME AS A LATE SENATOR IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
- 31:41Speaker 4: MAGA ISN'T TRANSFERRABLE. MAGA, IT'S A MOVEMENT, IT'S A FEELING.
- 31:45Speaker 1: AND THAT FEELING, I WILL ADMIT, They didn't show up
- 31:48Speaker 1: for the GOP yesterday because Trump wasn't on the ballot.
- 31:52Speaker 1: His policies might have been, but Trump wasn't. And MAGA
- 31:55Speaker 1: isn't transferable. So we have to create a movement like MAGA.
- 31:59Speaker 1: It's not going to be MAGA. And whichever candidate can
- 32:03Speaker 1: create a movement like that, and God forbid it's somebody
- 32:05Speaker 1: like James Fishback who builds a movement that's anti-Semitic and racist.
- 32:09Speaker 1: We can't have that. But we need to go to
- 32:12Speaker 1: the black community. We need to go to the Hispanic community.
- 32:14Speaker 1: We need to go to the communities that are underserved.
- 32:16Speaker 4: Where Trump went in. Trump didn't ask.
- 32:19Speaker 1: He didn't go into certain neighborhoods in Atlanta on his
- 32:22Speaker 1: way to getting booked in Fulton County, telling people they
- 32:25Speaker 1: had to show up. They showed up because you're like,
- 32:26Speaker 1: you know what, Trump, you're a billionaire, but you're one
- 32:28Speaker 1: of us. That's who the next candidate has to be.
- 32:31Speaker 1: They have to be somebody that can appeal to people,
- 32:34Speaker 1: these boring, rich, show up, not shake hands with people,
- 32:39Speaker 1: doesn't do television, doesn't interact with people.
- 32:41Speaker 4: That can't win. It won't win.
- 32:43Speaker 1: We have to find somebody with some spirit, and we
- 32:46Speaker 1: have to build this coalition around that.
- 32:48Speaker 4: The MAGA base is not transferable, Tommy.
- 32:50Speaker 10: I'm going to say something that is probably problematic. I
- 32:55Speaker 10: don't mean to knock another network or another group of people.
- 32:58Speaker 10: Donald Trump was able to win because he had the
- 33:01Speaker 10: tech bros. He had the Manosphere guys. He had all
- 33:05Speaker 10: of these guys who felt like they were disenfranchised. Well,
- 33:09Speaker 10: you don't gain a group of people who literally left
- 33:12Speaker 10: a group of people because they felt disenfranchised. If I
- 33:16Speaker 10: mess around with someone's wife and she leaves him for
- 33:19Speaker 10: me because I told her how horrible he treated her,
- 33:22Speaker 10: if I treat her bad, too, she's going to recognize
- 33:25Speaker 10: this looks the same. And now she's going to hate me, too,
- 33:29Speaker 10: because I caused her to leave her original spouse. That's
- 33:33Speaker 10: what you did with a lot of these tech bros,
- 33:35Speaker 10: with a lot of these Manosphere guys. And I can
- 33:39Speaker 10: say it personally, again, to knock the network, but not
- 33:41Speaker 10: knock the network. Before the elections, Fox had me and
- 33:47Speaker 10: every other black guy that they could think of throwing
- 33:49Speaker 10: them on Fox.
- 33:51Speaker 7: After the election, they never called any of us back.
- 33:53Speaker 3: Exactly.
- 33:54Speaker 10: They never said, let's have them back on this segment.
- 33:56Speaker 10: Let's put them on this segment. Almost every one of
- 33:59Speaker 10: these conservative places, and right now it's going to be
- 34:01Speaker 10: a bunch of black people telling me right now.
- 34:03Speaker 7: See, told you those whites were just going to use you. Well,
- 34:06Speaker 7: that's what a lot of people felt.
- 34:08Speaker 10: The inroads you made with blacks during the last election
- 34:11Speaker 10: in 2024, you literally threw it in their faces and said.
- 34:15Speaker 7: Go back on, boy.
- 34:16Speaker 10: We don't need you anymore. Because I would even reach
- 34:19Speaker 10: out to them and say, hey, you know, I haven't
- 34:21Speaker 10: heard from y'all in a while. Oh, we'll get back
- 34:22Speaker 10: to you. Jesse wants you back on the show. Never
- 34:26Speaker 10: heard from him again. And almost every person they put
- 34:28Speaker 10: on there, they never showed up again.
- 34:31Speaker 7: You don't think those people got long memories?
- 34:33Speaker 10: You don't think those people got voices when they're talking
- 34:35Speaker 10: on their platforms and saying this is how they treated me?
- 34:38Speaker 7: And then you hear others say they did the same
- 34:40Speaker 7: thing to me. They did the same thing to me.
- 34:42Speaker 10: So you don't make inroads by getting with a woman
- 34:45Speaker 10: and then being able to bed her that night and
- 34:47Speaker 10: then never calling her again until you need it again
- 34:50Speaker 10: and wonder why she don't want to pick up her phone.
- 34:52Speaker 10: And this midterm election was a whole lot of people
- 34:55Speaker 10: not picking up their phone when you called and needed them.
- 34:57Speaker 4: That's I agree with you completely. And that's where the
- 34:59Speaker 4: coalition fell apart.
- 35:00Speaker 1: And, you know, you and I have been on debate
- 35:02Speaker 1: stages and we've heard everybody complain about all the things
- 35:04Speaker 1: they didn't get for Christmas and they're going to punish
- 35:06Speaker 1: President Trump and press Republicans for it. But I think
- 35:08Speaker 1: it goes way deeper than that. And that goes, like
- 35:10Speaker 1: I said, the transferable mega base. I think a lot
- 35:13Speaker 1: of people were taken for granted. I think a lot
- 35:16Speaker 1: of these Republicans.
- 35:17Speaker 4: Trump didn't do it. This isn't on Trump. He held
- 35:19Speaker 4: the rallies.
- 35:20Speaker 1: The GOP did not go in any of these communities.
- 35:23Speaker 1: They ignored these communities. Instead, they spent a billion dollars
- 35:27Speaker 1: on mailers and said, oh, they'll show up. That's not
- 35:29Speaker 1: how this works. That's why we lose every time Trump's
- 35:31Speaker 1: not at the top of the ticket. Tommy, you better
- 35:33Speaker 1: come on often because I'll keep calling you win or lose.
- 35:37Speaker 1: You better keep coming on because we're going to have
- 35:39Speaker 1: a lot to talk about the next couple of years,
- 35:40Speaker 1: my friend.
- 35:40Speaker 4: I appreciate you being here.
- 35:42Speaker 7: Thank you for having me. And again, put that resume
- 35:44Speaker 7: in for press secretary.
- 35:45Speaker 10: If more people had your passion going into this, we
- 35:49Speaker 10: wouldn't have failed.
- 35:49Speaker 7: As miserably as we did.
- 35:50Speaker 4: I'm going to put you as my reference, okay?
- 35:53Speaker 7: Got it. All right.
- 35:54Speaker 4: Take care, my friend. Coming up, young voters went Democrat
- 36:00Speaker 4: nearly three to one.
- 36:01Speaker 1: And look at who they elected. A Medicare for all
- 36:03Speaker 1: Democrat in Michigan. Tim Walz's right hand in Minnesota. And
- 36:08Speaker 1: the left's hate isn't staying rhetoric. We look at how
- 36:12Speaker 1: the rhetoric has turned into violence. And later, the latest
- 36:15Speaker 1: on Sunday's deadly crash in Palm Beach.
- 36:18Speaker 4: New details. Stay with us.
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- 37:02Speaker 1: A LOT OF PEOPLE SHOWED UP LAST NIGHT TO VOTE.
- 37:05Speaker 1: A LOT OF PEOPLE SHOWED UP IN THE MONTHS BEFORE
- 37:07Speaker 1: ELECTION NIGHT. Young voters in the exit polls, voters under 30,
- 37:15Speaker 1: went Democrat.
- 37:16Speaker 4: By nearly three to one.
- 37:18Speaker 1: Young women, 77 to 21. Young Hispanic voters, 78 to 19.
- 37:24Speaker 4: Look who they elected.
- 37:26Speaker 1: Michigan, Abdul Mohammed El-Said, a Bernie Sanders-backed Medicare for All
- 37:31Speaker 1: candidate who says the money we spend to subsidize apartheid
- 37:35Speaker 1: in the West Bank should be spent in Detroit instead.
- 37:39Speaker 1: In Minnesota, Peggy Flanagan, Tim Waltz's right hand for eight years,
- 37:44Speaker 1: who once shared a post calling Mount Rushmore a symbol
- 37:46Speaker 1: of white supremacy.
- 37:48Speaker 4: That's a new left. Michelle Myers, a former.
- 37:52Speaker 1: Miss United States and a Trump administration alum at Homeland Security,
- 37:55Speaker 1: greeted voters at the polls this past week with RSPN.
- 37:59Speaker 1: AND SHE SHARED ONE CONVERSATION WITH ME.
- 38:01Speaker 4: SHE TOLD A.
- 38:04Speaker 1: YOUNG DEMOCRAT SHE WANTS TO PROTECT LITTLE GIRLS IN THE
- 38:08Speaker 1: BATHROOM FROM MALE PREDATORS.
- 38:09Speaker 4: THAT SEEMS REASONABLE, RIGHT? WELL, THE ANSWER, IT'S JUST A.
- 38:16Speaker 1: Then she shrugged and said she respected Michelle's hustle. Michelle's
- 38:20Speaker 1: take was that these young leftists think hateful rhetoric is
- 38:24Speaker 1: a threat.
- 38:24Speaker 4: To their lives.
- 38:25Speaker 1: And while Republicans understand that rape, murder and molestation are
- 38:29Speaker 1: the real threats. And it doesn't say it doesn't just
- 38:33Speaker 1: stay rhetoric, by the way, guys. On Sunday at the
- 38:36Speaker 1: University of Michigan, you probably have seen this, police say
- 38:39Speaker 1: they watched an El-Sayed-supporting student, a Chinese student, by the way,
- 38:44Speaker 1: parents fled communist China. She shoved a Jewish student on
- 38:50Speaker 1: the ground, said she wanted to kill her. Prosecutors have
- 38:53Speaker 1: authorized assault charges.
- 38:55Speaker 4: Check it out. Am I wrong?
- 38:56Speaker 2: Am I wrong?
- 38:56Speaker 6: If she walked around like this in Iran, what would
- 38:58Speaker 6: happen to her?
- 38:58Speaker 8: Oh, oh, get off.
- 38:59Speaker 3: Get off.
- 39:00Speaker 2: Of her.
- 39:01Speaker 4: Don't punch her.
- 39:20Speaker 1: All that girl did was stand there and say, you
- 39:23Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to say that in Iran, and she
- 39:25Speaker 1: got attacked for it. Now, Charlie Kirk was taken from
- 39:27Speaker 1: us on a college campus. Prosecutors say the man charged
- 39:30Speaker 1: with his murder texted, I have enough of his hatred.
- 39:33Speaker 4: And it's not just one campus, by the way. Look overseas.
- 39:36Speaker 1: In France, protests turned into riots and masked mobs set
- 39:40Speaker 1: a 19th century city.
- 39:42Speaker 4: Hall in Le Manger on fire.
- 39:45Speaker 1: France's own prime minister blamed what he called small far-left
- 39:49Speaker 1: and ultra-left groups. In Spain, a conservative commentator they compare
- 39:55Speaker 1: to Charlie Kirk was set to speak in Bilbao. Thousands
- 39:59Speaker 1: of self-described anti-fascists showed up and acted like fascists. The
- 40:04Speaker 1: event got canceled, and radicals torched cars and police motorcycles
- 40:08Speaker 1: and threw rocks at a police station.
- 40:10Speaker 4: Hmm. AND IT'S HERE, TOO.
- 40:13Speaker 1: IN ATLANTA, FEDERAL PROSECUTORS SAY A MAN THREW A MALTOP
- 40:15Speaker 1: COCKTAIL AT THE ICE BUILDING IN THE BRONX.
- 40:18Speaker 4: PROTESTERS THREW WATER BOTTLES AT POLICE.
- 40:20Speaker 1: ONE WEEK AGO, AGITATORS SHUT DOWN THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE, CHANTING NYPD, KKK, ICE.
- 40:25Speaker 4: THEY'RE ALL THE SAME.
- 40:27Speaker 1: AND YESTERDAY AT A POLLING PLACE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, A
- 40:30Speaker 1: 70-YEAR-OLD MAN SLAPPED AN 18-YEAR-OLD TURNING POINT VOLUNTEER ACROSS THE FACE.
- 40:36Speaker 1: POLICE HAVE CHARGED HIM WITH ASSAULT. THEY CALL US THE
- 40:39Speaker 1: HATEFUL ONES, RIGHT? THEY SAY IT'S BOTH SIDES. That's the danger.
- 40:42Speaker 1: Those young voters are the future of the Democrat Party.
- 40:45Speaker 1: That's who's showing up to vote. And they're being taught
- 40:49Speaker 1: that the word hate is more dangerous than the people
- 40:52Speaker 1: who act on it. Joining me now is Michelle Myers,
- 40:55Speaker 1: former Miss United States, a Trump administration alum at the
- 40:57Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security and a former communications director on
- 41:00Speaker 1: Capitol Hill.
- 41:01Speaker 4: Michelle, welcome.
- 41:02Speaker 1: We're up against programmed, indoctrinated automatons. who have no interest
- 41:09Speaker 1: in actually understanding what it is that they're so upset about.
- 41:12Speaker 4: That's hard to beat.
- 41:13Speaker 1: It's hard to beat people that will show up to
- 41:15Speaker 1: the polls, gather their friends around, and advocate for something
- 41:18Speaker 1: passionately that they don't even care to take the time
- 41:21Speaker 1: to understand. They're just that angry. So our answer to
- 41:24Speaker 1: them isn't gonna be reasoning with them.
- 41:27Speaker 4: That's never gonna work. Charlie tried that, and look what
- 41:29Speaker 4: they did to him.
- 41:30Speaker 1: I think we're just gonna have to motivate our young
- 41:33Speaker 1: people people who can think for themselves, who are not automatons.
- 41:36Speaker 1: We have to motivate them to show up. And that's
- 41:38Speaker 1: where Turning Point, I think, can really fill the gap.
- 41:41Speaker 4: I mean, you.
- 41:41Speaker 1: Saw a lot of Trump supporters, a lot of Republicans,
- 41:45Speaker 1: a lot of conservatives on the ground as well.
- 41:47Speaker 4: What was the positive message you were hearing from them,
- 41:49Speaker 4: even though the result wasn't what we wanted?
- 41:52Speaker 11: I think the positive message from the Trump supporters was
- 41:56Speaker 11: safety was a huge factor. I mean, if you look
- 41:59Speaker 11: at that, that is a promise from the president that
- 42:02Speaker 11: he absolutely fulfilled. I mean, if you look at our country,
- 42:09Speaker 11: the murder rate fell 18.1%, David, the absolute lowest ever recorded.
- 42:21Speaker 11: But that's not something I think people really think about
- 42:25Speaker 11: every day. They see prices, they see you know, gas prices.
- 42:33Speaker 11: But they're not actually thinking about that. I mean, the
- 42:36Speaker 11: actual reduction in crime is massive. I mean, 18.1%. Think
- 42:42Speaker 11: about how many people were saved because of the president.
- 42:48Speaker 11: And these kids on these campuses, they can't really wrap
- 42:51Speaker 11: their minds around that. I mean, you know, I think
- 42:53Speaker 11: a big thing about these midterms was, you know, talking
- 42:59Speaker 11: about communism and socialism. And I think a lot of
- 43:02Speaker 11: these young people really don't understand the threat of communism
- 43:07Speaker 11: and socialism. I mean, if you look at the just,
- 43:10Speaker 11: you know, human toll of life, you know, the Soviet
- 43:14Speaker 11: Union from 1917 through 1991, up to 61 million people killed.
- 43:17Speaker 11: If you look at communist China under.
- 43:28Speaker 11: Mao up to 65 million people killed, you know? And
- 43:34Speaker 11: so I think that was kind of a problem in these.
- 43:40Speaker 4: Midterms.
- 43:40Speaker 11: I don't think people quite understand the threat of socialism
- 43:44Speaker 11: and communism. You know, they're seeing prices there, you know,
- 43:49Speaker 11: maybe not feeling as confident in their jobs, economy, But
- 43:55Speaker 11: if you look at the threat, that is something that
- 43:58Speaker 11: I don't think they could quite understand, unfortunately.
- 44:02Speaker 1: Well, they're going to find out one way or the other. And,
- 44:05Speaker 1: you know, we'll be there to offer them a better solution. Michelle,
- 44:07Speaker 1: thank you so much for being here. Great work out
- 44:09Speaker 1: in the field. And thanks for bringing us this story.
- 44:11Speaker 4: Thank you so much, David.
- 44:12Speaker 7: Thank you.
- 44:14Speaker 1: Coming up, nine people died Sunday in a Learjet crash
- 44:18Speaker 1: in Palm Beach County, and investigators found part of its
- 44:21Speaker 1: tail miles from the crater. Did that cause the dive,
- 44:25Speaker 1: or did the dive tear it off? Where the investigation
- 44:29Speaker 1: stands right after this.
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- 45:15Speaker 1: Nine people were killed Sunday when a private jet fell
- 45:18Speaker 1: out of the sky in Palm Beach County, Florida. The
- 45:21Speaker 1: election swallowed the news, but I want to catch you
- 45:23Speaker 1: up on where the investigation stands.
- 45:25Speaker 4: A lot of interest in this still. The Learjet 60,
- 45:28Speaker 4: it took off from Austin, Texas, bound.
- 45:31Speaker 1: For the Bahamas, up around 35,000 feet, the crew reported
- 45:35Speaker 1: ice and moderate turbulence and asked to climb.
- 45:38Speaker 4: Seconds later came the mayday.
- 45:39Speaker 1: The jet fell from about 35,000 feet to under 9,000
- 45:43Speaker 1: in a little over a minute and hit the ground
- 45:45Speaker 1: nose first near Military.
- 45:47Speaker 4: Trail, leaving a crater. Nobody aboard survived.
- 45:51Speaker 1: Now, here's NTSB board member Tom Chapman on what investigators found.
- 45:57Speaker 8: Yesterday, the majority of the aircraft's left elevator crashed was
- 46:01Speaker 8: located in three pieces within a range about 1.3 to 3.8
- 46:07Speaker 8: miles away from the accident site. Those items are being
- 46:11Speaker 8: retained for analysis. For those not as familiar with aircraft components,
- 46:16Speaker 8: the elevator is a control surface located on the tail,
- 46:20Speaker 8: which controls the up and down pitch of the aircraft.
- 46:23Speaker 4: So that part of the tail came off in the air.
- 46:26Speaker 1: What investigators don't know yet is whether it caused the
- 46:29Speaker 1: dive or whether the dive tore it off.
- 46:31Speaker 4: That's what I think happened. Weather is a key focus.
- 46:34Speaker 1: Crews are pumping water out of the crater looking for
- 46:37Speaker 1: the cockpit voice recorder. The co-pilot was a young woman
- 46:41Speaker 1: from Boca Raton who earned her pilot's license at 17.
- 46:44Speaker 1: Hers is the voice on those final radio calls. And
- 46:48Speaker 1: she kept talking to air traffic control right to the end.
- 46:52Speaker 4: So remember this.
- 46:52Speaker 1: The NTSB says a preliminary report comes in about a month.
- 46:56Speaker 1: And the final cause could take more than a year.
- 46:59Speaker 1: The Internet solved it in about an hour, they think.
- 47:02Speaker 1: I know which one I'd bet on, the official report.
- 47:05Speaker 1: Joining me now is Buzz Patterson, retired Air Force lieutenant colonel,
- 47:08Speaker 1: a 20-year Air Force pilot, and the military aide who
- 47:13Speaker 1: carried the nuclear football for President Clinton.
- 47:16Speaker 4: Buzz, that's quite a resume. Welcome back. David Pollak, Prime Time.
- 47:18Speaker 4: You know a lot about flying, a lot about airplanes.
- 47:20Speaker 1: And by the way, every time I fly, I always
- 47:21Speaker 1: look at your post because you tell me which airplanes
- 47:24Speaker 1: and airlines to fly and which ones not to. So
- 47:27Speaker 1: I encourage everybody to check out your social media on that.
- 47:29Speaker 1: But this Learjet story, you know, it's getting buried in
- 47:32Speaker 1: the news, but.
- 47:33Speaker 3: Wow.
- 47:34Speaker 4: What a story.
- 47:35Speaker 1: A plane hitting probably 700 miles an hour, nose down
- 47:38Speaker 1: into the ground. Everybody's blaming the female because that's whose
- 47:41Speaker 1: voice is on. You hear the pilot praying that should
- 47:43Speaker 1: be trying to take control of the situation. Maybe he
- 47:45Speaker 1: couldn't and he knew it. What's your take about what happened?
- 47:49Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that the crew screwed up, quite frankly.
- 47:52Speaker 3: You know, the pilot in command for whether you're military,
- 47:57Speaker 3: and I also flew for Delta for 15 years as
- 48:00Speaker 3: a commercial pilot. The pilot in command of an airplane
- 48:04Speaker 3: is ultimately responsible for everything that goes on with that airplane.
- 48:08Speaker 3: And if they were concerned about the weather, I've never
- 48:13Speaker 3: flown a Lyric, David, so I can't talk to their
- 48:16Speaker 3: weather radar or whatever. But when you're flying an airplane
- 48:20Speaker 3: with passengers, you basically have to depend on your weather
- 48:24Speaker 3: radar and ATC to tell you what's coming up in
- 48:28Speaker 3: front of you. because we don't have a lot of
- 48:31Speaker 3: visibility on that in the air. That being said, I
- 48:36Speaker 3: thought the pilot in command, they might have had get-home-itis.
- 48:42Speaker 3: They might have been trying to get to their destination.
- 48:45Speaker 3: And I think that they, you know, in my 35
- 48:49Speaker 3: years of flying, David, I have never flown through a thunderstorm.
- 48:53Speaker 3: I have never flown through severe icing. I've flown through
- 48:56Speaker 3: severe turbulence because it was, clear air turbulence and we
- 49:00Speaker 3: couldn't see it. So this stuff happens. You've got to
- 49:04Speaker 3: avoid the weather at all costs.
- 49:06Speaker 4: I mean, mother.
- 49:08Speaker 3: Nature in the flying aviation is very fickle. And if
- 49:12Speaker 3: you push her, she's going to push back. And I
- 49:14Speaker 3: think that's what happened to these poor folks. And I
- 49:18Speaker 3: know that the co-pilot was taught If she's on the radio,
- 49:22Speaker 3: she's not flying. That's how it works. So the captain's
- 49:26Speaker 3: flying and the co-pilot's doing the radios. That's typically how
- 49:29Speaker 3: it works. And so I thought she handled it about
- 49:34Speaker 3: as well as she could. honestly, but I do think
- 49:38Speaker 3: that they made a mistake trying to push that weather.
- 49:41Speaker 3: And I have learned long time ago, David, you just
- 49:44Speaker 3: don't do that. Especially if you have passengers on board,
- 49:48Speaker 3: unless you're going into combat, if you're going to combat,
- 49:50Speaker 3: all the rules are off. But if you've got passengers
- 49:53Speaker 3: and you're trying to fly from point A to point B,
- 49:56Speaker 3: you don't push the weather.
- 49:58Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 49:58Speaker 1: And unfortunately, it seems what happened here, they shouldn't have
- 50:00Speaker 1: flown through it. But more so than that, you know,
- 50:04Speaker 1: there was a situation and I'm not a pilot. I
- 50:06Speaker 1: just read about what could have happened with these Lear jets.
- 50:09Speaker 1: And it's called a mock. What do they call it?
- 50:12Speaker 4: A mock. Mock tuck.
- 50:14Speaker 1: Yeah, mock tuck with these Learjets because of the way
- 50:16Speaker 1: that once you get to a certain speed, you can't
- 50:18Speaker 1: even control the airplane. And to get out of the
- 50:20Speaker 1: mock tuck, you're supposed to put the landing gear down.
- 50:23Speaker 4: You're supposed to create drag.
- 50:24Speaker 1: You're supposed to slow down as much as you can
- 50:26Speaker 1: before trying to pull out of the mock tuck. And
- 50:28Speaker 1: it appears here probably that vertical stabilizer came off in
- 50:30Speaker 1: the attempt. And then I think once the vertical stabilizer
- 50:33Speaker 1: came off, I'm sure the pilot at that point knew
- 50:35Speaker 1: there was no recovering the aircraft.
- 50:36Speaker 4: And maybe that's why he went to prayer.
- 50:38Speaker 1: But it never should have been in that situation, and
- 50:39Speaker 1: I think that's what you've articulated here.
- 50:41Speaker 4: Buzz, it's a sad situation. It is.
- 50:45Speaker 3: Praying for the families, David. Praying for the passengers. I mean,
- 50:49Speaker 3: that was a young family, and they were going on vacation.
- 50:52Speaker 3: I mean, the whole thing is tragic. But the bottom
- 50:55Speaker 3: line here is, yeah, they did exceed Mokhtar. They achieved Mokhtar,
- 51:00Speaker 3: and they made a couple mistakes there. When you're in
- 51:05Speaker 3: icing and moderate turbulence, you don't climb.
- 51:09Speaker 7: You go down.
- 51:10Speaker 3: It's warmer down than it is going up. And I
- 51:14Speaker 3: think that's what got him in trouble, too.
- 51:16Speaker 1: It's a sad situation, Buzz. Thank you so much for
- 51:17Speaker 1: sharing your experience on this. Look forward to having you
- 51:20Speaker 1: on again real soon, my friend.
- 51:21Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
- 51:21Speaker 8: Anytime.
- 51:22Speaker 7: Thank you.
- 51:24Speaker 4: Well, that's our show for tonight.
- 51:25Speaker 1: Tune in tomorrow where we're going to break down what
- 51:29Speaker 1: we need to do to win 2028 a little bit further.
- 51:32Speaker 1: I have former Congresswoman Mayra Flores coming on to talk
- 51:35Speaker 1: about getting back that all-important Hispanic vote seems to have
- 51:38Speaker 1: been ignored by the GOP in this last election. We're
- 51:40Speaker 1: going to break that down and so much more. And
- 51:41Speaker 1: as always, stay in touch with us on social media.
- 51:43Speaker 1: I'm David Pollack, USA on all social media platforms, or
- 51:47Speaker 1: send us an email, davidpollackprimetime at oedblen.com.
- 51:50Speaker 4: I'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place. Until then...
- 51:52Speaker 4: Stay classy, America.
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