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Results, Reckoning, Reality · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by politiweek.com.
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  Speaker 2: And Rich Valdez is with us, former Christie administration official.
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  Speaker 3: You work for Chris Christie, you've been in politics, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of public service stuff. Rich Valdez, columnist now with
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  Speaker 3: the Washington Times.
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  Speaker 1: This is America.
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  Speaker 3: Richie V, you're on the air with the nation.
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  Speaker 4: This is America with your host, Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 3: What's up, America? I am Rich Valdez. Valdez with an
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  Speaker 3: S at Rich Valdez on all of the social media.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome.
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  Speaker 3: It's election night bringing you the coverage. Although a lot
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  Speaker 3: of these results are coming in way early, as you know,
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  Speaker 3: so many times we have to wait hours and hours
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  Speaker 3: and weeks and weeks. And we're seeing things come in very,
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  Speaker 3: very quickly. A rapid, immediate loss in New York by
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  Speaker 3: Bruce Blakeman. Kathy Hochul winning 60 to 40. They're still
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  Speaker 3: counting votes, but it looks like it's going to go
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  Speaker 3: in that direction. We've got footage coming in as I've
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  Speaker 3: been looking at these results. I was doing some interviews
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  Speaker 3: on different outlets. I joined my friends at WPHT to
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  Speaker 3: do some analysis there. And I got to tell you,
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  Speaker 3: we were used to waiting for elections on election night.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like now we're going to be waiting till Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 3: but not so fast. Here we are just a couple
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  Speaker 3: of hours removed from the polls closing. We've got stuff
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  Speaker 3: coming in. The blue wave looks to be alive and well.
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  Speaker 3: I'm taking a beating over here. But I want you
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  Speaker 3: to hear some of the clips of these acceptance speeches
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  Speaker 3: as they've come in. I want to get your reaction
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  Speaker 3: to those. First up, we're going to go to Michigan,
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  Speaker 3: Abdul Rahman El-Sayed, telling everybody how it goes. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 3: My name.
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  Speaker 6: Is Abdul Rahman Muhammad El-Sayed. And I am so proud
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  Speaker 6: and honored to stand here as your senator-elect from the
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  Speaker 6: great state of Michigan. Up until right about now, you
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  Speaker 6: might have noticed I always say, Inshallah, or God willing,
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  Speaker 6: whenever the outcome of this race was mentioned.
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  Speaker 3: But today, tonight, we.
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  Speaker 6: Can turn that Inshallah into Alhamdulillah.
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  Speaker 3: America voted for Abdul Rahman, Americans at least in Michigan.
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  Speaker 3: This is what they wanted. This is who they wanted.
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  Speaker 3: And it wasn't that different in Texas. We move over
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  Speaker 3: to Texas to James Talarico, known as Talafrico. Listen to
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  Speaker 3: his acceptance speech as he claimed victory.
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  Speaker 7: We just took back Texas. We just proved that all
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  Speaker 7: the money in the world is no match for the
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  Speaker 7: people of Texas.
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  Speaker 3: This is James Tallarico standing in front of a sign
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  Speaker 3: that says, Love Thy Neighbor. Surrounded by what looks like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, 30 people that are no older than
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  Speaker 3: 21 years old. We just showed.
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  Speaker 7: that a politics of division is no match for a
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  Speaker 7: politics of love. And we just sent a message to
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  Speaker 7: every billionaire megadonor, every trillionaire megadonor, Every corrupt defender of
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  Speaker 7: this broken political system in this state, in this country,
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  Speaker 7: power belongs to the people.
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  Speaker 3: This is Mr. God is not binary, right? The guy,
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  Speaker 3: the only candidate standing in front of a sign that says,
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  Speaker 3: love thy neighbor. You want to talk about the prostitution
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  Speaker 3: of the gospel, the perversion of the faith. He did
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  Speaker 3: it and he's done it effectively.
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  Speaker 7: I'm reminded of that story from Scripture of a shepherd
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  Speaker 7: boy who goes up against a giant. For 40 days,
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  Speaker 7: Goliath teases and taunts. On the day of the fight,
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  Speaker 7: he shows up in full armor. He's carrying so many weapons,
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  Speaker 7: he needs someone else to carry his shield. In this race,
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  Speaker 7: we went up against our own Goliaths. the richest man
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  Speaker 7: in the world, the most powerful man in the world,
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  Speaker 7: and the entire Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 3: Establishment.
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  Speaker 7: David wasn't as big or as strong as Goliath. He
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  Speaker 7: didn't have as many weapons, but he had hope. He
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  Speaker 7: had faith, and he had a slingshot. You were my slingshot.
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  Speaker 7: The people of Texas were my slingshot. And tonight, and tonight,
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  Speaker 7: we defeated Goliath.
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  Speaker 3: All right, that's James Tallarico again accepting victory in Texas
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  Speaker 3: for the United States Senate. He was on the ballot
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  Speaker 3: with Gina Hinojosa. She ran and defeated Texas Governor Greg
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  Speaker 3: Abbott as well. And around midnight, we... got a clip
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  Speaker 3: from Dasha Burns calling President Trump. Dasha Burns making a
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  Speaker 3: call from Politico to get reaction from the president. And
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  Speaker 3: like the stand-up guy he is, he took the call.
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  Speaker 3: Listen to this. Hey, Dasha.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Mr. President. I'm doing well. You're on with me
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  Speaker 2: and my colleagues here at Politico. I'm just wondering, what's
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  Speaker 2: your message? What do you think happened with your party tonight?
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  Speaker 8: I wasn't on the ballot, and we didn't get the
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  Speaker 8: people out, but I wasn't on the ballot.
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  Speaker 1: If I was on the ballot, we would have won.
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  Speaker 8: We would have won it all very easily.
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: President, you told voters that you were on the ballot
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  Speaker 2: to go vote as though you were on the ballot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I said, say you're on the ballot.
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  Speaker 8: Think about me being on the ballot, but They didn't
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  Speaker 8: agree and they didn't like the candidates in most cases.
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  Speaker 8: Just one of those things.
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  Speaker 1: Are there certain people.
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  Speaker 8: Elected, by the way, too, but not enough.
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  Speaker 2: Are there candidates that you think didn't do enough in
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  Speaker 2: this election?
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  Speaker 8: No, I don't want to blame anybody. I just want
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  Speaker 8: to say, you know, it was a very interesting period
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  Speaker 8: of time. I watched with great interest.
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  Speaker 2: Learned from it. What did you learn, sir? Curious what
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  Speaker 2: you learned.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're going to.
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  Speaker 8: Work with the Democrats to Make sure things go well
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  Speaker 8: for our country.
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  Speaker 4: Very important.
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  Speaker 3: President Trump being a man of honor, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: saying we're going to work with the Democrats to make
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  Speaker 3: sure things go well. Listen, I think that's all you
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  Speaker 3: can do. This is a very sobering moment because President
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  Speaker 3: Trump is the guy who revived the Republican Party. The
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  Speaker 3: Republican Party was dying. I would say it died when
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  Speaker 3: we had put up Mitt Romney and we basically lost
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  Speaker 3: our way. It was the establishment country club Republican and Voila,
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  Speaker 3: in comes this brash New York City builder who was
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  Speaker 3: a former Democrat, and he took whatever energy was left
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  Speaker 3: in the Republican Party, breathed new energy into the party,
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  Speaker 3: and created the MAGA movement. The MAGA movement got hijacked.
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  Speaker 3: It got hijacked by isolationists, and I'm going to get
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  Speaker 3: into that in a moment, but I want you to
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  Speaker 3: hear the rest of this conversation because I thought it
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  Speaker 3: was worth listening to.
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  Speaker 4: I'm already called, and I want to work with you.
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  Speaker 8: I have the right to veto everything.
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  Speaker 4: Is it?
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  Speaker 3: But I don't want to.
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  Speaker 8: Be just sitting there for two years vetoing everything. We
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  Speaker 8: want to see things happen, too. I've already spoken to
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  Speaker 8: certain leaders of the Democrat Party, and we'll probably have
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  Speaker 8: a lot of friends of the Democrats also.
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  Speaker 2: Has Hakeem Jeffries called?
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  Speaker 8: I don't want to say who, Tasha, but we'll work
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  Speaker 8: with the Democrats and we'll.
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  Speaker 1: Make things work out well for the Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: Would you consider doing an immigration deal with Democrats?
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  Speaker 8: Consider doing whatever I think is appropriate and good for
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  Speaker 8: the country.
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  Speaker 2: Have you spoken to Chuck Schumer?
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  Speaker 8: I don't want to tell you, but I've spoken to him.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of Democrats called me.
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  Speaker 2: So you're willing to do some bipartisan work?
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  Speaker 3: Over the last 20 minutes, actually.
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  Speaker 2: Over the last 20 minutes?
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  Speaker 8: I'm always willing to do that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm always willing to do that.
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  Speaker 8: I'd be willing to do that any time, including two
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  Speaker 8: years ago, I would have done that.
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  Speaker 2: How much do you think, Mr. President, this changes the
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  Speaker 2: trajectory of the final two years of your administration?
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  Speaker 4: I'll let you know a year from now.
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  Speaker 8: We have a powerful veto power, the ultimate. It's the
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  Speaker 8: ultimate power. And if I think it's not good, we're
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  Speaker 8: just going to veto. They're going to come back and say,
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  Speaker 8: how do we.
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  Speaker 1: Get it done?
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  Speaker 3: We'll see if we can get something done.
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  Speaker 8: Something to.
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  Speaker 2: Does this change your thinking about 2028 at all? Marco Rubio, J.D. Vance,
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  Speaker 2: some of the other people that have been thinking?
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  Speaker 3: We'll have to see. That's still a long way off.
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  Speaker 4: That's a long way off.
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  Speaker 2: What is your message to the Republican Party now in
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  Speaker 2: this moment?
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  Speaker 8: All they have to do is come together.
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  Speaker 3: You have to just keep good policy.
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  Speaker 8: A lot of people say the oil price because of Iran,
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  Speaker 8: but I'm very.
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  Speaker 8: I am totally convinced that my decision on Iran for
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  Speaker 8: the long-term good of our country and even the world
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  Speaker 8: was an absolutely correct one, and it continues.
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  Speaker 3: To be.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: President, what can Americans expect in Iran? Are you going
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  Speaker 2: to escalate now?
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  Speaker 8: Well, we're going to take a look, and if we
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  Speaker 8: see any opportunity to do one thing or another, we're
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  Speaker 8: going to do what's.
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  Speaker 1: Best for this country.
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  Speaker 2: There's been speculation that it might be willing to use
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  Speaker 2: nuclear power over Iran.
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  Speaker 3: Is that a possibility?
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  Speaker 2: I don't need it.
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  Speaker 8: We've knocked him out already 90 percent.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need that.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think?
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  Speaker 2: We spoke to Byron Donald earlier tonight, who, of course,
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  Speaker 2: is someone you have endorsed and you have supported. He
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  Speaker 2: was a real bright spot for the Republican Party. What
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  Speaker 2: do you think he did to be successful where others weren't?
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  Speaker 8: Well, he's just a good guy and a good candidate.
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  Speaker 8: And he ran a good race. And I endorsed him,
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  Speaker 8: which was very important. He called me an hour ago
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  Speaker 8: and he just thanked me. And we had the senator, Ashley,
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  Speaker 8: also elected with my endorsement. You know, my endorsement elected
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  Speaker 8: a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think, sir, that Mike Johnson should stay on
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  Speaker 2: as minority leader in the House?
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  Speaker 3: I think he's done a very good job.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's.
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  Speaker 3: Done a very good job.
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  Speaker 2: So you think he should keep a leadership position?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I think he's done a good job.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're going to have to make that decision.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to have to make that decision.
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  Speaker 8: But he's a good person and a good man, and
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  Speaker 8: he's done a good job.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see you.
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  Speaker 3: We'll do an interview.
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  Speaker 4: I've got to get out of here.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: President.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 5: Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. That is President Trump on the phone
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  Speaker 3: with Dasha Burns just around midnight, Tuesday night. And listen,
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  Speaker 3: this is who he is, telling the truth. took his licks,
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  Speaker 3: keeping it moving, willing to work with the Democrats. Byron Donald,
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  Speaker 3: they just mentioned, Byron Donald's doing an amazing job, the
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  Speaker 3: new governor in Florida, him taking the podium, and he
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  Speaker 3: had something to say that I thought was so different.
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  Speaker 3: If you compare and contrast what you heard from the
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  Speaker 3: Democrats taking their victory lap to Byron Donald making his
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  Speaker 3: victory lap, listen to this.
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  Speaker 5: I want to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 5: My 30 years in Florida has been a very interesting
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  Speaker 5: 30 years, but more than anything, it's been a story
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  Speaker 5: of redemption.
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  Speaker 3: A story of redemption. Kudos to Byron Donalds, because I
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  Speaker 3: think that's a beautiful thing. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. I'm
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  Speaker 3: glad we got a couple of good guys in. Marsha
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  Speaker 3: Blackburn also winning. And like President Trump alluded to in
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  Speaker 3: that interview with Politico, yes, there were other victories that
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  Speaker 3: Republicans made. But of course, this gets overshadowed. by the
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  Speaker 3: massive losses right and i would say they're massive now
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  Speaker 3: this doesn't mean like president trump said it's all about
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  Speaker 3: assigning blame a lot of this is commonplace historically contextually
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  Speaker 3: midterm elections are are bellwethers for the people saying you
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  Speaker 3: know we're going to go the other way we want
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  Speaker 3: this division of power it happened to trump before it's
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  Speaker 3: happened to president clinton it's happened to president obama and
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  Speaker 3: this is part of the nature of the beast, but
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  Speaker 3: most people are going to say it was because of Iran.
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  Speaker 3: It was because it is, it was because of that.
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  Speaker 3: All I can say is what we can expect. Investigations, impeachment,
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  Speaker 3: incumbents that lost and isolationists that won, right? You know,
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  Speaker 3: it was really on the ballot here. I think Israel,
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  Speaker 3: Israel was put on the ballot. I think Tucker Carlson and,
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  Speaker 3: and the, the, the likes of people like Tucker Carlson, the, um,
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  Speaker 3: people that hate Israel, the people that hate any type
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  Speaker 3: of foreign intervention in American politics, they did a great
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  Speaker 3: job at fracturing MAGA. That's a victory for them. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to tip my hat to them because it's
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  Speaker 3: not something I agree with. But I am going to
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  Speaker 3: say they were effective. I mean, most people in America
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  Speaker 3: may not know the issues at hand. They may not
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  Speaker 3: know their position on whether they want to end the
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  Speaker 3: Fed or not. But they do know whether they hate
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  Speaker 3: Israel or not. That was put front and center. And
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  Speaker 3: El Sayed, who hates Israel, and Mamdani, who hates Israel,
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  Speaker 3: and AOC, all out crazy, who's been very critical of Israel,
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  Speaker 3: and everybody that won tonight, along with Tucker Carlson and
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  Speaker 3: those that agree with him, who also hate Israel. They won.
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  Speaker 3: They won. They had a big victory tonight, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to take that from them. I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to sit here and sugarcoat it. I'm not here to
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  Speaker 3: hate the Jews. I've never hated the Jews. And I
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  Speaker 3: don't have a problem with Israel existing. I don't have
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  Speaker 3: a problem with the Palestinians having a place to live either, right?
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  Speaker 3: And I think I fall into the camp where there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people. A lot of people want to
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  Speaker 3: see things work well. Of course, when you look at
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  Speaker 3: what happens there, a two-state solution is probably untenable, as is...
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  Speaker 3: been proven by history. And maybe a three-state solution might work, right?
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  Speaker 3: Because you've got to get the other people from the
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  Speaker 3: West Bank involved. But either way, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 3: get into a big geopolitical discussion on that. I just
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  Speaker 3: wanted to make my point that the power of incumbency
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  Speaker 3: was proven weak last night, or this evening, I should say.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we've crossed midnight at this point. But the
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  Speaker 3: power of incumbency didn't work. The isolationists did win the
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  Speaker 3: Iran war, whether it was itself a big issue, as
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  Speaker 3: President Trump just alluded to, or whether it was gas prices,
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  Speaker 3: which I will say, listen, you're always going to do
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  Speaker 3: poorly when you're dealing with high gas prices and high anything, right?
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  Speaker 3: If things go up and become uncomfortable, and I'm one
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  Speaker 3: of those people, I'm not going to say I like
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  Speaker 3: paying more in gas, right? I'm willing to do it
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  Speaker 3: to endure. What are you going to do? I think
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  Speaker 3: we have to defeat Iran. And again, I would say
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  Speaker 3: I loved everything President Trump said except for his response
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  Speaker 3: on Iran. I wish he would have taken a stronger posture.
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  Speaker 3: I understand he's trying to not put everything on the
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  Speaker 3: table and play it very close. Got it. I understand.
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  Speaker 3: But I would love to hear President Trump say, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to do whatever it takes to take out Iran.
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  Speaker 3: Iran will not exist the way it did before. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the things he said during the campaign trail. I want
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  Speaker 3: to see that happen. And honestly, I wanted to see
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  Speaker 3: it happen before the midterms. I wanted an end to
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  Speaker 3: this war, a very quick and decisive one. And obviously,
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  Speaker 3: if it was that easy to do, we would have
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  Speaker 3: done it. I think so. I think some things likely
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  Speaker 3: have been underestimated and we're paying the price for those
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  Speaker 3: right now. And I think we're going to pay an
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  Speaker 3: even bigger price because one thing that I think a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people are missing by voting in the other direction.
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  Speaker 3: by electing John Ossoff and James Tallarico and Abdul El-Sayed
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  Speaker 3: and Kathy Hochul and the rest of these Democrats that
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  Speaker 3: lean very hard to the left, that is not a
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  Speaker 3: prescription or a recipe to fix the problems that are
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  Speaker 3: at hand. Many of them didn't run with any type
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  Speaker 3: of policy position that's going to fix a problem that
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  Speaker 3: most of us are facing. Most of them ran on
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  Speaker 3: an anti-Israel platform. Most of them ran on a platform
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  Speaker 3: that was just against Donald Trump. Abdul Al-Sayed did run
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  Speaker 3: on a platform of Medicare for all in Michigan. Clearly,
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  Speaker 3: it worked. It wasn't close. None of these races were close.
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  Speaker 3: The polls were wrong. What can you say? We got beat.
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  Speaker 3: More on that and everything else that we've got straight ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Keep it locked right here. I'm Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 4: This is America. This is America.
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  Speaker 10: All right, familia, welcome back.
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  Speaker 3: Election night coverage with me, Richie V. Happy to be
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  Speaker 3: with you. Unhappy about the results, but we do it
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  Speaker 3: no matter what. We're here, and I'm going to go
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  Speaker 3: back to Michigan because this is one of the races
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  Speaker 3: that I think was probably most talked about in the country.
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  Speaker 3: Abdul Rahman El-Sayed. Muhammad, he's in there. He said, Abdulrahman
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  Speaker 3: Muhammad al-Sayyid al-Sayyid. That's what he said. And he and remember,
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  Speaker 3: I tried to pronounce his name the way he told
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  Speaker 3: me to pronounce it, because he said, if you can't
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  Speaker 3: pronounce my name right and keep it out of your mouth.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: So he in his victory speech said a lot of things.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: One of the things that he said was that winning
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: a single Senate seat was never his goal. The goal
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: is to completely transform American politics. Listen to this. Winning
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: a single U.S. Senate seat was never the goal.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: The goal is to use that seat to transform our politics.
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  Speaker 3: And that's how it's working, right? The other day, somebody
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: from the DSA said that the Democrat Party needs to
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: learn more from the DSA, the Democrat Socialists of America.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: because they know how to bring about big, bold changes.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: And I have to say, yeah, listen, if you want
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: to make big changes like the ones they talk about,
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: abolishing ICE, abolishing the military budget in America, changing the
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: structure of the United States Supreme Court, these are huge
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: ideas that are going to require some constitutional change. They
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: would love to go away from the electoral college towards
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: a popular vote to take America from being a republic
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: to becoming a pure democracy. These are huge structural changes,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: things we've never seen in the existence of America. And
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: that's what they want to bring. And yeah, that scares me.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I'm a change-a-phobic. I like America just the way it is, right?
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: With the problems that it has, we can work through
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: the problems without changing the structure, right? You can have
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: a disagreement with your spouse or your children or the
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: people that you love in your family without saying, all right,
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to trade you in and get a
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: new one. You shouldn't trade in the people that you love,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: in my opinion. But he went on letting Michigan know
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: exactly how they won and what they did and how
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: they did it. And this is exactly how elections are won, right?
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Winning over the hearts and minds of the people. And
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: I always say it's the marketplace of ideas where these
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  Speaker 3: things happen, and that's where we've got to win and lose. Today,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: I'm going to say my ideas lost in the marketplace
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  Speaker 3: of ideas, and Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, his ideas won. Listen
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  Speaker 3: to this. You know how we do? Money out of?
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  Speaker 5: Money!
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  Speaker 3: Money in your?
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  Speaker 1: Market!
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  Speaker 3: Medicare for?
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  Speaker 8: All!
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  Speaker 3: Michigan, we did it! All! My name.
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  Speaker 4: Is Abdulrahman Muhammad Al Sayyid.
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  Speaker 3: And the crowd going wild, right? The crowd absolutely loving that.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: And listen, I get it. I get it. There's always
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: people that are going to be rooting for people. And
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: it's not wrong or bad, let me emphasize. Rooting for
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: somebody that's an underdog, right? I get that. My issue
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  Speaker 3: with him is not that he is an Arab, not
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: that he is a Muslim, and it's not. That he's
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: a Democrat per se. It's his alignment with the Democrat
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Socialists of America. It's his alignment with the most far
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  Speaker 3: left wing policies that we've ever seen in our history.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that he wants all minorities to vote as
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Marxists and that he believes that billionaires shouldn't exist, that
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: they should be stripped of their money so that other
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: people could have it. This is such an anti-American, anti-capitalist
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: idea that to me really flies in the face of America.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, sure, there are some other countries around the
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: world now where you might be able to become a billionaire,
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: but the United States has pretty much always been that
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: place where you could become a billionaire. Now, he might
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: argue against me and say, not you as a little
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: brown Puerto Rican guy. Maybe if you were a white guy,
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: maybe if your dad's name was Vanderbilt, And you could
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: argue those points, but I don't necessarily need to be
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: a billionaire. I think there's so much opportunity in the
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: United States for people to amass wealth. And we see
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: it all the time. People do it all the time.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: That we need to protect that system, that capitalist system,
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: instead of abolishing it and harming it. At least that's
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: my perspective, my reality. But this is where the big
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: difference came in, right? And there was a number of
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: reasons that the Democrats won. I think another big reason
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: was what happened with ICE, right? You've heard me say
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: now for at least a year and a half or
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: two years that I understand why the ICE officers are
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: wearing masks, but that's not going to play out well
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: in the midterms. All the tapes are there. You can
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: go to richvaldez.com and listen far back as you want.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: I'm not siding with anybody here. I'm just telling you
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  Speaker 3: the truth. I am an American citizen. I never, ever
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: want to be confronted by a masked police officer. I don't.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: The easy answer to that is, well, don't sneak into
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: the country and you won't have to. All right, you
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: could say that all you want, but I think we
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: saw the reality of it. This is Law enforcement has
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: always existed. And law enforcement officers have largely not hidden
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: their identities. Now, this is not a big sticking point
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: for me. If ICE wants to wear masks, I want
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: them to be safe. I want their children to be safe.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: If that was the decision that they came up with
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: to protect people instead of prosecuting people who are doxing.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: But no, they went that route. And again, like I said,
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: this is not a hill I'm going to die on.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: It's a critique decision. that i say i don't think
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: it's a good thing it's going to harm us the
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: political fallout from a cop wearing a mask is it
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: makes it so much easier for the left and and
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: the enemies of of everything good and holy to say
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: that uh these guys are the gestapo masked goons and
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: yeah listen i would do the same thing if i
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: were the democrats if the democrats ever right when they
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: did you remember the the moms in virginia who were
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: speaking out against transsexuals in their kids schools And Joe
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Biden sent and the others, Mayorkas and the rest, they
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: allowed for Department of Homeland Security officers to go and
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: arrest these moms and harass them and interview them aggressively
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: and all those things that went on. These things were
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: not acceptable when Biden did them. Imagine if those officers
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: had masks on. how easy it would have been. And again,
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: we did win, right? Trump did beat Biden after that,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: but mainly on the economy, I'd say, and on the
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: fact that the open border was a disaster and all
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: the casualties that came from the open border. But just
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: imagine if Biden had been using or allowed for the
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: use of masked federal agents. And I'm sure, you know,
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: there are SWAT teams and they put masks on when
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: they have their gear. And that's not what I'm talking.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, everyday enforcement and removal operations being masked. Listen,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: I get it as a matter of policy, but as
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: a matter of politics, I think it's a death trap.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I think it's a losing proposition every single time. So
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: I just wanted to put that out there. I think
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: that was a big part of what happened. Maria Elvira Salazar,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: I think she won this evening, last night, a couple
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: hours ago, whatever the case is. I'm half asleep myself.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: But I'm glad she won. I don't I didn't want
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: to see her lose. And she did that for political survival.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: She had to distance herself from a lot of these
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: policies because she realized these things went too far for
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: we the people in her district. The Americans that vote
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: that are of Hispanic descent said, you know what? We
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: want a safe border. We want a secure country, but
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: we don't want this. And things got out of hand. Now,
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying they actually got out of hand. But
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: it appeared to get out of hand when people were
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: playing all these fake videos. And I've talked about that
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: here as well. I told you about people sending me,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: my personal friends sending me inbox videos of law enforcement
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: officers tackling kids at graduation and the captions saying ICE
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: detaining migrant kids at graduation. None of it was true.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: It wasn't AI either. Matter of fact, it turned out
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: that the kid that got tackled was tackled by a
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: local county sheriff And the county sheriff was doing that
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: because the kid had threatened to harm the principal upon
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: receiving his diploma. So when his name was called and
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: he walked up to the stage, he was tackled by
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: the cops. Now, of course, the left takes that and
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: they turn it around. They say, no, that's ice. And
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: they're going after your kids, right? Again, lies, propaganda. It's
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: what they do. This is how they thrive. I understand it.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: But I'm saying this is an information war and we're
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: fighting it. We've got to be able to push back.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: And every time they put us on defense, we have
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: to not only push back, but we have to put
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: them back on offense. Because that's the only way. Now,
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: as we switch gears a little bit to Tallarico, this
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: is probably the one that surprised me the most. I
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: wasn't surprised in Michigan. I was very hopeful. I thought
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Mike Rogers did an amazing job. But I believed that Texas,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: of all places, and I guess I overestimated Texans. I
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: overestimated their love for Jesus and America. And I don't
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: mean that in a bad way. I'm not trying to say,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: because of you, Texas. No, I'm not saying that. I'm
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: just saying it really was an overestimation. I think the
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: same way people overestimate New York and the patriotism that
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: comes out of New York. I think New York is
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: a haven for people that hate America. And the people
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: that love America have largely left. They've either left to
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: New Jersey, they've left to Florida, they've left to Tennessee.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: The biggest examples of which I can think of are
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump, Sean Hannity, me, right? I'm not trying to
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: put myself in their category. I'm just saying there's a
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: lot of people. that will defend this country, but nobody
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: wants to live within the ranks of NYC where the
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: mentally ill are now your neighbors on the streets, your
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: homeless neighbors. It's not just that they're unhoused, as the
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: left likes to say. They have permanent resident in the streets.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Why is this allowed? It's allowed because the people that
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: live in New York don't mind it. Because the people
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: that minded it have left. And there's like five people
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: left fighting. Like my friend, Vicky Palladino, who lives in
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: a beautiful neighborhood in Queens. If she lived in Manhattan,
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: I think she would have left a long time ago.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: She's still safe. And that's why she fights as hard
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: as she does to protect her neighborhood. And her district
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: is fantastic. And she's done an amazing job. That's why
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: she won twice. Second time in a huge landslide. But
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: these little pockets of peace, these little bastions of America
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: are becoming few and far between. And anybody who's been
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: to the city anytime soon realizes it. It's not what
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: it was. And it's only getting worse. Keep it locked
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: right here. It's Rich Valdez. I'm coming back.
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  Speaker 1: This is America. This is America.
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  Speaker 2: President Donald J.
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  Speaker 3: Trump, Mr. President, welcome to the program, sir.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
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  Speaker 8: I know you very well, and I listen, but I
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: have a lot of people that listen.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: And they love your show, and I appreciate it very much.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: All right, familia, welcome back. Election night coverage here with me,
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Rich Valdez, at Rich Valdez on all of the social media.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Coming at you from my Times Square studio, New York City,
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: 17 blocks away from Madison Square Garden. Happy to be
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: with you. Unhappy about these results. We go to Maine.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Troy Jackson. Troy Jackson is a logger. I think that
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: means a lumberjack. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm just uneducated
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: on this topic. But Troy Jackson, very funny looking guy,
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: in my opinion. But Senator-elect Troy Jackson, nonetheless, defeating Republican
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Susan Collins. Troy Jackson making it clear who he stands
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: with and what he believes about the American economy, saying
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: that he doesn't owe the billionaires anything. Sounds like a
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: page out of Bernie Sanders' playbook. Listen to this. So,
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: you know, Donald Trump and the billionaires need to understand
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: one thing very clear.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Something about your new senator.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: I don't owe them a damn thing! Again, Jackson here
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: is ecstatic. He's having his victory speech. He really is very,
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: very happy, as many people would be, right? I'm sure
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: I'd be happy if I won a United States Senate seat.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: But he goes on to just take in the moment
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: as the crowd, which was largely being reported as a
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: largely union crowd, broke into a song singing, chanting solidarity forever.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Listen to this. Solidarity forever because the union makes us strong. Now, again,
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: this is how the Democrats, and I should say the
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: communist wing of the Democrats, have taken over through organized labor.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: And I'm not being hyperbolic here. This is historical. I
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: got this information from Marxist.org, reading documents from the late 70s,
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: saying that the way for us to take over is
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: through labor unions. The way to maintain control in labor
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: unions is to give positions of seeming authority, not real authority,
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: but seeming authority, to what they described as the national minority.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: And you can look this stuff up yourself. It's going
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: to take a couple hours to research it, but you'll
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: be much more educated as a result. And more than
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: 100 years ago, this was their plan to take over
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: labor unions. And once they did the takeover of them,
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: they realized we have to build them up, make them strong,
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: and have more of them. And that's why today we
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: have the NEA, the National Education Association, the NFT, the
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: National Federation of Teachers. Teamsters and others. Now, Teamsters and
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: whatnot have broke ranks with the Democrats and went with
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Trump in this last election, even if it was a
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: tacit endorsement, not a direct endorsement, but they didn't go
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: with Democrats. And because they didn't go with Democrats, it
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: can be inferred that they went with Republicans and vice
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: versa with a couple of other unions. But for the
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: most part, this union power This union voting bloc is
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: an idea of the communists, right? This is how they
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: did what they did. And again, I don't say that
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: in lieu of socialist or in lieu of leftist. I
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: mean actual communists like Fidel Castro communists, like Che Guevara communists,
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: that type of communism. And the people that call each
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: other comrade. And they are alive and well. And they're
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: recruiting more and more people. And sometimes they're able to
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: recruit people in the name of socialism. And they get people,
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: seemingly intelligent people like Abdul El-Sayed that really have their
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: heart in the right place. I don't think Abdul El-Sayed
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: is a hateful person. I think he's a person that
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: is bothered by injustice that he sees injustice in his opinion.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: And when people are bothered by injustice... it motivates them
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: to become very active, and that's the birth of an activist.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: And the injustice for me is when I think that
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: the American family is under attack, when I think that
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: parents won't have a right to protect and raise their
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: children the way they want, to worship the way they want,
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: to live in what we once thought was a Christian nation.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: And I understand this is not a theocracy, and I
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: understand that on paper that the same people who are
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: worshiping Jesus Christ when they started this country, our very founders,
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: wanted to make sure we left room for religious expression
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: of all kinds. I get it. No one had done
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: this before. They were creating this massively forward-thinking, I'm going
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: to call it progressive document. And one could argue they
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: never thought that we'd be dealing with the likes of
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: radical Islam. Perhaps not, perhaps yes. I mean, the Crusades
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: were a thing. Spain did fight the Moors for 800 years.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: These things had occurred. And this is why the imperial
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: crown was imposing the Anglican church upon their people. Because
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: religion was one of the ways to keep away the
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: bad guys. Because that's how things were done. And, you know,
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: we were shocked at October 7th, but this is how
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: warfare happened. Things were done in the name of real
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: estate and in the name of religion. And the way
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: we start the war, pirates come in, we steal your ships,
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: we take your land, we rape your women and your children.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: They get killed, right? I say we, them, whomever. But
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: that is how warfare was conducted in the days of
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: the Barbary pirates and forward. And not just them. It's
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: barbaric to say the least. And we have modern warfare
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: like our taking of the colonies away from England. to
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: become the United States. And that was a little more modern, right?
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Using ships and being able to defend ourselves in a
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: different way. Muskets with rocks in them and whatnot. But
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: let's make no mistake, warfare is warfare. And that's how
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: it's always looked. Now, I'm going to get on my
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: high horse for a second because I believe a large part,
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: or at least some part, significant part of why we
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: are where we are is we took our eye off
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: the ball And when I say we, I'm talking to
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: the people that largely agree with me in most ways, right?
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: That think, look, if you want to be a transsexual,
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: you should do that, but that should not be in
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: the mainstream. That is a mental illness. If you're a
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: man that wants to manufacture yourself surgically into becoming a woman,
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: that should be a decision you make as an adult,
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: not something that you make as a child, not something
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: that the state helps you make while you're a child.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: not something where the state will prevent parents from protecting
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: their child. These are things that we've seen happen and
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: they're just flat out wrong. There are people that disagree
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: on matters of economic policy. Okay, have your disagreement about policy,
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: but we're not going to sit here and demonize and
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: criminalize people who've been successful. This is not a matter
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: of policy on economics. This is a matter of political philosophy,
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: of Marxism taking root And, you know, I had a
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: discussion yesterday with someone who said, look, people like to
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: say a lot of bad things about Hitler. But let
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: me tell you, this guy's been one of the most
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: influential people of the times. And I thought to myself,
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: I've heard this before and I understand that I'm not
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: trying to glorify Hitler in any way. The guy's a
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: despot and he's a murderer and he's disgusting, all of
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: the above. But I think somebody with more influence than Hitler,
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: Karl Marx, I mean, look at the amount of adherence
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: he has that are worshiping, bending down at the altar
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: of big government. It's fascinating. Even people who believe what
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: I believe, they get themselves a good government job, cop, firefighter,
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: city clerk, whatever. And boom, they're like, look, I don't
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: agree with all that, but listen, I got a pension.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: I got 20 years in. I can retire at 25. Boom, boom, boom.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: And pensions and paychecks have taken over people's priorities and
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: and patriotism for a long time. I've seen it time
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: and again. I myself was in that system, and I
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: got out of it. Not because I thought I was
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: better than anybody, because I knew I could not survive
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: in government. The best I could do is a stint
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: in anybody's administration. I'm there while they're there. A year,
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: two years, four years max, maybe eight if it's a
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: super long stretch, and even that sounds tough. Because the
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: way the wheels of government move, there's always a political
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: target on you. There's always a deep state. There is
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: no real draining of the swamp. It's like you pull
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: the drain plug and the water might go down, but
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: those things keep coming back up, the swamp creatures, out
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: of the drain. This is how politics works. It's not
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: something that is devoid of evil. Evil exists everywhere, and
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: it exists way more in politics. There's more corruption. There's
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: more greed. They have that everywhere. There's greed and corruption
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: in the church. There's greed and corruption in the police department.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: There's greed and corruption in humanitarian organizations. But people who
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: thrive on greed and corruption, they tend to congregate in
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: this profession known as politics. Okay, so now if you
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: know you can't survive with people like that, then you
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: got to get out of it. Maybe get into something
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: cleaner like selling drugs or selling used cars, right? Because ultimately,
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: that's who permeates that society. And, you know, people used
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: to tell me, oh, well, you seem like you did
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: good in government. Why wouldn't you stay? Who can live
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: walking around with one eye open while they sleep, you know,
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: trying to keep your eye on your own back all
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: the time, looking for the next person to stab you
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: in the back? It's brutal. It's brutal. Not something I recommend.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: But it's where we are. Do we get out of this?
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: Of course we can get out of it. Do we
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: ever get to this utopian fantasy that we've created over
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: the number of years? I don't know the answer to that.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know if we ever get to a place
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: where the nuclear family is the norm in America. I
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: don't know if we get back to a place where
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: men typically marry women, women typically marry men, they typically
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: have children, and they live a life where they have
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: enough income to do well. I don't know. I don't
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: know that my children in their 20s are going to
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: experience what I experienced in my 30s, living with my
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: wife and my two children in a home that I owned.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Guess what? Didn't last that long for me.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: I got divorced, right? Things got shaken up for me.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: And those are realities of life. So I just don't
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: know the answer. I think it's still a reality for
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: a lot of people, but I don't know that's a
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: reality for most people. I don't know the answer. We're
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: watching things change in front of us. We're watching the
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: godless amongst us, right? Or those that reject God, those
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: that reject traditional values, godly values, the the traditions and
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: morals that made America what it was. We're watching them
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: lose because the other side is doing a better job
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: at creating more of their disciples. Now, people are going
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: to push back on me and say, no, Rich, they're cheating.
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: They're stealing the elections. There's no way. I'm going to
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: argue with you all day and tell you eight out
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: of the 10 people I meet in a day don't
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: agree with me. Yes, I live in northern New Jersey
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: and grew up in New York City and in Hudson County,
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: New Jersey. Shout out. But maybe it has to do
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: with my environment. But how do you explain all the
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: rest of these elections? Are Texas, I should say, excuse me,
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: Florida and Tennessee the only places that are left where
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: you can potentially raise a family? My nephew's a state
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: trooper in Tennessee. Shout out to the Tennessee State Patrol.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: And I can tell you that he's out there. He's
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: going to make his life out there. It's a beautiful place.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: I've been out there. And when I have discussions with
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: my brother, that's my brother's son, and we talk about it,
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: he says, listen, make no mistake. It's beautiful out here.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: But you've got everything that we've got in New York.
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: It's here. And they're coming in, especially into Nashville. He
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: said it's turning blue and it's turning blue fast. So
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: what does that tell you? Are we the dinosaur dying breed? Well,
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: we are if we're not going to have five, six, seven,
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: eight kids. We are if we're not going to become
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: university professors so that we can teach what we know
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: and believe to others. We're not if we're not going
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: to do to make more of us. If we don't
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: work to multiply ourselves and we continue this posture of
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: I just want to mind my own business. I just
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: want to be left alone. We're going to be left
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: alone to die and disappear. And that's it. We're going
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: to be extinct. One day they're going to be like,
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: this is the prehistoric time. This is the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: This right here is the American conservative Christian. And they
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: were once things that existed, but they don't exist today.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: Today we have Tyrannosaurus Troll, right? A left-wing liberal lizard.
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, what do you want me to tell you?
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: We have to do more. I have to do more.
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: We all have to do more. If this doesn't become
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: our life work, if we continue to be controlled by
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: a pension and a paycheck and not put in the
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: effort to succeed, which will come at great personal cost,
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: like it did to Trump nearly going to jail, like
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: it did to Trump nearly getting killed, like it did
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: to Trump's children getting interviewed and interrogated and nearly getting
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: put in jail themselves, Trump trying to be bankrupt with
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Trump getting charged with 100 years in jail, four times over,
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: 400 years in jail. If they could do it to him,
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: they'll do it to anybody. So I understand your fear
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: and your trepidation, but I'm just trying to paint a
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: realistic picture. We only beat the ideas of the left
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: when they can see how well ours work. And you
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: have to speak to people. If you live in a
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: place where you say, look, I don't talk about politics.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: I don't talk about religion. I don't get into that.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: We're going to continue to lose. It's that simple. Trump
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: has laid out a blueprint. Whether you like his style
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: and his delivery or not is irrelevant. If you want people,
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: forget Trump. Abdul Syed has laid out the blueprint. AOC has,
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: they're all doing the same blueprint. Trump just happens to
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: be winning with our values. but they're all doing the
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: same thing. Look, this is the bold idea I believe in.
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: I'm going to dedicate my life to it, right? Abdul
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: El-Sayed went to medical school, never seen a patient.
• 47:13
  Speaker 8: Why?
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: Because he believes in this Medicare for all. He believes
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: that people are downtrodden because of the healthcare system in
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: this country. So he decides to take his left-wing loony ideas,
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: get himself a PhD from some Ivy or wherever he
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: went to, Cambridge, Oxford, whatever he did, And now he's
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: running for the United States Senate and he's won. He's
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: now Senator-elect El-Sayed. That's the blueprint. That's the model. AOC
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: went from being a bartender to being one of the
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: biggest fundraisers in Congress, sitting congresswoman. Never passed a bill
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: or maybe two, max. She's been there for six or
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: eight years. Come on. It's working. They're winning. It's not
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: because of their ideas. It's because of the blueprint that
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: they've laid out. AOC has dedicated herself. She's not married.
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: She doesn't have children. She works day in and day
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: out to recreate more AOCs. What are we going to do?
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: Sit there and watch them multiply or beat them? Don't
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez. Don't move a muscle.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: This is America. This is America. He's making podcasting great again.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: All right, America, welcome back. It's Rich Valdez keeping you
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: company tonight. Election night coverage with me, Richie V. Happy
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: to be here with you. I'm happy about these results,
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: that's for sure. And we were just talking about Tennessee,
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: Marsha Blackburn and Jerry, whatever her name was. And we
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: have her concession speech here in Tennessee. Let's go to that.
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: with Jerry. What is her name here? Well, Jerry Green.
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 49:26
  Speaker 9: See, the future of this.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: State is my flesh and blood. So I'm not done fighting.
• 49:31
  Speaker 11: So Tennessee Chattanooga, thank you for this incredible journey.
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: That we've been on together this past year.
• 49:39
  Speaker 11: And I want you to know something, Tennessee.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: I'm not going anywhere.
• 49:44
  Speaker 7: This is our home.
• 49:46
  Speaker 11: This is where I'm raising my children. See, the future
• 49:50
  Speaker 11: of this state is my flesh.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: And blood, so I'm not done fighting.
• 49:54
  Speaker 11: I've spent my career fighting for people who've been left behind.
• 49:58
  Speaker 11: I've dedicated my life to standing up for the forgotten,
• 50:01
  Speaker 11: the overlooked, and the people who too often get let
• 50:04
  Speaker 11: out of the decisions That shape their lives.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: Let me tell you something right there. This lady, the
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: Democrat that ran against Marsha Blackburn and lost. Listen to
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: what she's saying. She said she's dedicated her life to this.
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: Pay attention. These are true words. I'm not here to
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: defend the left. I'm just pointing out their strengths. They won, right?
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: You got to sit there, study your opponent. And she
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: said she's not going anywhere. They're here for the long game.
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: It's not one election, one and done. She's like, no, no, no,
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: I'll be back. Trust me. The days of the Bible thumping,
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: Bible waving, marry a woman, marry a man, straight white male,
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: it's over. That's what they believe. And they will take
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: as long as it takes in order to beat them.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: Play the tape.
• 50:55
  Speaker 11: And the results tonight are not going to change that.
• 50:59
  Speaker 11: They're not going to shake my belief in this state
• 51:02
  Speaker 11: or my commitment to To its people.
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: We may not have gotten the result. That we wanted tonight.
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: But tomorrow. We get back up. Tomorrow. We get back
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: to work. And the next time. That they hear from us.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: They'll know.
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: That we're still here.
• 51:22
  Speaker 11: We're still organizing.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: We're still fighting.
• 51:25
  Speaker 11: And we're still demanding a Tennessee that.
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: Works for everyone. There you go. The left isn't going anywhere.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: The left is ready. They're not going anywhere. Again, I'm
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: not a cheerleader for the left. I'm trying to point
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: something out. The reason they're winning is because of our
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: inherent desire to be left alone. That I just want
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: to mind my own business and raise my family and
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: go on two vacations a year. No, you can't be
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: in a war with someone and say, look, I don't
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: want to fight. You go fight by yourself. That doesn't work.
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: Before you know it, they're going to be in your
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: living room. You have to be able to fight. And
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: it's not just about defense. You have to go on offense.
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: If they have an army of 10 people and you've
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: got one or two, you're going to lose. You've got
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: to bring more soldiers into your side of the fight.
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: That's the reality of politics. This is about a battle
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: of ideas, about the influence of power. And right now,
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: that influence, that power has tilted to the left. There's
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: no denying it. But in places like Tennessee, thank God,
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: Marsha Blackburn won. She's now Senator Blackburn, is now Governor-elect
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: Blackburn of Tennessee. God bless her. Listen to this.
• 52:41
  Speaker 9: You can count on me to fight with every fiber
• 52:46
  Speaker 9: of my being against these socialist, communist.
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: Islamic policies.
• 52:53
  Speaker 9: We have really sent the message that what people want,
• 53:00
  Speaker 9: low taxes, light regulation, pro-life, pro-family policies, safe communities, educational freedom,
• 53:07
  Speaker 9: a strong economy, and the opportunity for every, every family
• 53:14
  Speaker 9: to benefit. Now, we ran a different kind of campaign.
• 53:19
  Speaker 9: And it was a campaign that was focused on Tennesseans,
• 53:25
  Speaker 9: not on the media's terms, and not on any other
• 53:29
  Speaker 9: candidate's terms. But we ran a campaign that was for
• 53:34
  Speaker 9: the people of Tennessee, and we have proved, we proved
• 53:41
  Speaker 9: that this is how you win. You build your campaign
• 53:47
  Speaker 9: from the grassroots, from the bottom up, not the top down.
• 53:52
  Speaker 9: And elections are tough. I fully appreciate that not every
• 53:59
  Speaker 9: Tennessean voted for me, but I can tell you this.
• 54:02
  Speaker 9: I will be a governor for each and every Tennessean.
• 54:07
  Speaker 9: And I wish the best for Tennesseans. It is time
• 54:13
  Speaker 9: for all Tennesseans to come together for the good of
• 54:17
  Speaker 9: our state. And I am thrilled that we're going to
• 54:22
  Speaker 9: have the opportunity to work on some of the issues
• 54:26
  Speaker 9: that are so important to our state. We want to
• 54:29
  Speaker 9: make certain young families are putting down roots in Tennessee.
• 54:34
  Speaker 9: Our administration is going to treat criminals like criminals. And
• 54:40
  Speaker 9: law enforcement like the heroes that they are. The real
• 54:44
  Speaker 9: work is going to begin tomorrow. We are going to
• 54:47
  Speaker 9: start building a team. And this starts with each of you.
• 54:54
  Speaker 9: We are going to tap the best and the brightest
• 54:57
  Speaker 9: to be a part of our administration. Everybody has something
• 55:02
  Speaker 9: that they can do to serve our state.
• 55:05
  Speaker 8: Amen.
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: Praise God.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: Marsha Blackburn, governor-elect of Tennessee, winning last night, beating the Democrat,
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: Jerry Green. As you just heard, Jerry Green taking her concession.
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: Marsha Blackburn now making her victory speech. Outstanding. And I
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: love it. I mean, we're in the twilight here, the
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: wee hours of the morning. I love to see a
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: few victories. I love to be enthused by the energy
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: when you see the good guys win. And here we are. Now,
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: I want to talk about some of the numbers, right?
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: Because things were tricky, to say the least, right? Let
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: me see what I got here. I think we got really,
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: really beat bad. I mean, I'm not going to try
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: and change that up anyway. I was looking at some
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: of these numbers, and it got off my page. Shoot. Anyway,
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: you're talking about nine or ten seats picked up in
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: the United States Senate.
• 56:01
  Speaker 8: Right?
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: The Republicans had a majority of, uh, one or two,
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: I think at, at best, uh, Democrats now have a,
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: I think it's 44, 54, whatever it was. It was
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: a lot. I think they picked up nine seats. Uh,
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: that was insane. I think the number of congressional seats
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: is somewhere between 90, less than a hundred, but above
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: 90 or in that area. So when you talk about
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: two thirds of, uh, the house of representatives, maybe not
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: an exact two thirds, but close to it. Um, a
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: clear majority in the Senate, here we are. Again, the
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: dust still has to settle. I'm going off of 60-something
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: percent reporting on some of these vote counts. But this
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: is where we're at. This is where we're at. We
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: have to look at everything, right? Oh, it's the messaging. Oh,
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: it's the candidates. Oh, it's a lot of things. The
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: number one thing is, listen, the Ragin' Cajun, James Carville,
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: said it best. It's the economy, stupid people. When you
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: mess with their paper, they turn into weird people, right?
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: They turn into that caged animal backed into a corner.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: They're going to do what they got to do, number one.
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: And when I say they're going to do what they
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: got to do, that doesn't mean they're going to become
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: leftists overnight. That just means they're going to stay at
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: work longer on election day and be like, look, I
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: can't afford to not take this overtime. I've got to work.
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: And guess who gets paid to be off? Every last
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: union worker. They get paid to be off. They get
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: encouraged to go and do campaigning. They've rent buses. They
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: bring people. They get out the vote. Pay attention. This
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: is how elections are won and lost. Again, I don't
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: know what we could or could not have done, but
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: I would have loved to see some strategic oil reserve
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: being released. It looks like the Putin deal, instead of
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: harming us, actually hurt us. I mean, instead of hurting us,
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: actually helped us. I looked at gas yesterday on the
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: way home, $ 3. 83 a gallon for regular in North Jersey.
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: And all right, cool. Very good. Too little, too late?
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: Very much so. We needed more. Maybe releasing some strategic
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: oil reserves, bringing it down to $ 1. 99, even if it
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: was for two weeks, and then going back up to $ 2. 50, $ 2. 80, $ 2. 73,
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: something like that. People would have been like, man, there's
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: a trend going. It needed to happen in September. We
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: needed to take Cuba. We needed to end Iran. Those
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: victories right there, those three things, and maybe let people
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: have a barbecue. It was 70 degrees this week, right? 60-something,
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: 70 degrees. This little bit of Indian summer that we're
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: having would have been nice to go to the grocery
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: store and pick up a steak for, you know, six
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: or seven bucks a pound instead of the nine fifty,
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: ten fifty, eleven fifty a pound that people are paying
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: and say, you know what? There's hope. We needed that
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: little glimpse, just like every last Democrat before Election Day,
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: a month before Election Day, two months before Election Day.
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: You know what they do? They pave every street. They
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: do every crosswalk. New concrete is poured. They paint those
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  Speaker 3: curbs yellow and they come and they say, hey, we're here.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 3: The mayor's in your face telling him doing a great job.
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  Speaker 3: Perception is reality. And the perception we had right now,
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: it wasn't great on many fronts. Do I give Trump
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  Speaker 3: any flack for this? Not much. I think he's. done
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  Speaker 3: everything he can do, except for maybe a couple of things.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't hold him responsible for this. I largely
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  Speaker 3: always hold the electorate responsible. Me, you, people listening. Sometimes
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  Speaker 3: you get a candidate that drags their feet. Sometimes you
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  Speaker 3: get the wrong candidate. And sometimes you pick the wrong candidates.
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  Speaker 3: That happens. South Carolina, I don't know what the answer
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  Speaker 3: is there.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think people in the North, we think
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina is Tennessee. We're wrong, right? We might think
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  Speaker 3: it's Texas. We're wrong about Texas. I guess we should
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: use Florida as that example. We think every red state
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  Speaker 3: or perceived red state is Florida. And look, Florida fought
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  Speaker 3: like hell. There's no automatic wins in Florida. Byron Donalds
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  Speaker 3: fought hard. He was out there. Thank God he had
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  Speaker 3: an advantage, a majority on his side. But it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: mean you didn't have to fight for that. This is
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  Speaker 3: where we're at. We have to be informed patriots. We
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  Speaker 3: got to know something. We got to do something. We
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: got to stand for something. Because if we stand for nothing,
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  Speaker 3: we'll fall for anything. And the only thing necessary for
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  Speaker 3: evil to triumph is for good people like you to
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  Speaker 3: sit there and do nothing. Hasta la proxima. Take care.
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  Speaker 3: Good night. And God bless you, America. I'm Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 3: And this is America.
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  Speaker 1: This is America.