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Oct. 31, 2022 - Doug Collins Podcast
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Getting the lay of the land: What has drove this elections cycle
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Hey everybody, it's Doug Collins.
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Today, I want to start one, and this will, you know, we'll start the week out with this.
I wanted you to sort of get some thoughts, just as a random thoughts on the campaigns, what I've seen in general, What I'd like to see better, where I see this heading, and then the rest of the weeks in the podcast, I'm going to give you some in-depth looks at both the Senate races and the governor's races so that you can have the week ahead look as we go into these general elections here just in a few short days from now.
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Alright, let me just give some random thoughts here.
And this is one of those episodes where it's just you and me.
I hope as if we're having a cup of coffee together.
And we're looking at what has been on in this last couple of years in this cycle since the 2020 elections, which has been a turmoil in many parts for a lot of things that were done out of the ordinary that the complaints from From many about what happened in the 2020 election, you know, from President Trump on down, and then the results of it.
Now, I'm going to take it past that.
And since Joe Biden, you know, took the White House, we have seen a steady dose of liberalism.
We have seen a steady dose of a president who ran without really being challenged on his ideas, without being forced to do what many, what all, you know, People running for president should have to do.
And that's actually to give clear and concise, you know, hard interviews and talking about what he wanted to do for a country and how he did it.
And because of the pandemic, because of, I think, his age and because, frankly, his advisors didn't want him out just talking to the media, he stayed in the basement and the people really didn't get a chance.
This became more of a referendum of personalities.
And, you know, the press and others would attack Donald Trump for four years incessantly.
You know, we're able to convince, I think, a lot of the voters that a change needed to be made, even though the economy was good, the world standing was good.
There's a lot of things to be positive about.
They just didn't like Donald Trump.
And that's what you saw, again, coupled with a lot of problems that were brought out with people and in the discussion of our country in the election process of 2020. This is where you brought us into this, quote, next cycle.
Over the past year, we have seen money from the Biden administration poured into the economic jump-starting inflation.
His own economist said, hey, this isn't going to be a good idea.
Liberal economist saying you don't want to put money into the system when you have supply chain shortages, when you have, you know, the issues that we're having with supply and demand.
And you put more money into the system, which is already saturated with federal money.
In many of these states and areas, you don't want to do this.
He did it anyway, and we go from 1-2% inflation to year-over-year 8-9% inflation, highest in 40 years.
That has caused, again, problems in this election cycle.
Then you have what many of us viewed as the biggest foreign policy debacle in ages, and that is the withdrawal from Afghanistan, in which we lost 13 American lives.
But not only more, just as important as we remember those lives that were sacrificed in that During that time and taken from us is also the loss of world standing in how we did this.
Our military leadership, the administration, and how they handled the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which is a complete debacle.
And for many believe that it actually turned in To, you know, what we saw in Russia this year attacking Ukraine, the Chinese more aggressive stance toward Taiwan, all because when you do not have a strong America on the world stage, it is a time in which those who want to be strong will do everything that they can.
You also had an infrastructure bill that had nothing to do with infrastructure.
You had a year in which you had school boards and others who had been experiencing shutdowns, lockdowns, however you want to call it, of students, and curriculum was getting examined by parents who were actually seeing what their kids were doing and asking questions at school board meetings.
You had school board meetings in which were turning into chaos because school board members thought that they were Much better than the parents who were coming to ask simple questions about their parents, and many of them basically were saying, you know, look, the schools are much better equipped to train and educate your kid, not only in math and sciences and social studies, but also in social engineering as well, from critical race theory to, you know, the promotion of alternative lifestyles, all apart from the parents' consent.
And the Biden administration and the Democrats in Congress went lockstep along with this.
People were beginning to feel isolated.
You saw this in the Yunkin election last fall in Virginia, and it has carried on into this election cycle as well.
But all of that put together led us to what we knew was going to be a contentious election cycle.
We saw a lot of primaries that were very close.
We saw a lot of contentiousness on the Republican side, the Democratic side.
And as we get ready for really this last week, just some things that I wanted to point out about Where we're at and what's going to go on.
And two things that really stuck out to me is the Democrats who are having to, you know, deal with the decisions that they have made, you know, trying to twist the narrative that, you know, it's not their fault, that everything, you know, for the first 18 months was Donald Trump's fault, not the Democrats' fault.
And people aren't buying that.
I think we've seen that over time.
Not that some do not, not that some still want to blame the former president for everything that is wrong.
You are seeing more and more of a time now in which The electorate is, you know, more concerned with what actually is happening and not who to blame is, but one, why is my gas prices, you know, over $4 a gallon or going, even if it's back down to $3 a gallon?
Why is it, you know, more than a dollar plus than when Joe Biden took office?
Why is my food prices going up?
Why is inflation like it is?
And then for Nancy Pelosi to simply, you know, basically ignore the realities around her just the other day and said, you know, inflation has nothing to do with cost of living.
You know, I don't even know how to answer that one.
You know, you look at it from perspective.
If you're saying the Speaker of the House is saying inflation doesn't have anything to do with cost of living, then Madam Speaker, what does it have to do with?
Then what is inflation to start with?
Inflation is basically a regressive tax.
It is keeping the buying power.
You lose almost an 8% of inflation in this country.
You're losing almost a month's worth of buying power.
No, that is the reality that people are facing.
And when you're going into a winter in which gas and oil prices because of the attack by the Democrats on our energy independence has succeeded, and then we're begging from Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela and other parts of the world to up our gas and still trying to blame it on I think it's just simply,
again, people, again, at the end of the day, they're not as concerned about where it's coming from, except they know that this was a policy set forth under Democrats and it's affecting their pocketbook.
It's affecting their everyday life.
It's making changes to their lifestyle that, you know, frankly, these are the issues that people vote on.
At the end of the day, I had a good friend of mine who made this comment.
He said, campaigns can do everything they want to try and shape the narrative.
They can take out ads.
They can spend hundreds of millions of dollars.
They can do whatever they want.
The speeches from the candidate can talk about issues until they're blue in the face.
But at the end of the day, it is the voters that decide what is important.
It is the voters who get a say.
And right now, across this country, we're seeing, you know, turnout in record numbers in early voting.
We're getting ready for, I believe, a record number of votes in an off-year midterm election in many of these states, and it is the voters who will have a say.
Polls are fine, campaigns are fine, speeches are fine, but at the end of the day, it's going to be the voters who have a say.
And as we look at this, You know, it is these issues that have shaped this campaign.
So as I talk over the, you know, in this week ahead, as I give out, as we talk more about these Senate races and I give you my predictions and where the polls are, I wanted just to do this one to frame the topic.
So as we look at going ahead, the inflation, the economy, these races have come back to the basics.
Now, many of you will say, well, what about the Mississippi and the Roe v.
Wade decision?
What about the rolling back of Roe?
That's going to make a difference.
It did for a while.
I'll be frank with you.
It did.
I think the pro-life community was...
Not caught off guard, but in some ways caught off guard and surprised by the decision to actually go ahead and overturn Roe and Casey.
There was rejoicing on the pro-life community that now laws such as, you know, the limits on abortion in states and some, the absolute ban on states, was now here.
There was a discussion on what do we do.
The media, of course, went Completely unhinged about this, saying that it was going to affect every election, that people were going to come out in the streets, that the democracy, the Supreme Court is politicized.
I mean, you just heard everything.
And when it was leaked, I mean, the vitriol from the left, which was downplayed by the media, I think at the end of the day, when people across the country saw these, you know, the left, you know, protesting at Supreme Court Justices' houses, you have somebody who was arrested just a few blocks or a few houses from a Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh's house wanting to kill him.
This is what was playing out in America saying, look, you know, the press is downplaying this, but You know, these are real issues that are affecting how we view our safety, how we view crime.
And at the end of the day, it looks like in this election cycle, the abortion issue will play a prominent part in some of these races, but not all of these races.
It's not what, in fact, you see Democrats here in the last couple of weeks have been switching messages from the abortion, abortion, abortion narrative to back to where this election is coming into focus.
Sort of reminds me of the James Carville quote from the Clinton run back in 92 when he said, it's the economy, stupid.
This is true.
It is the economy.
It is the security.
It is the safety of people.
There are two areas that people want in their life.
They want economic security and they want physical security.
And right now, both of those feel threatened, especially if you're in cities.
This is why we're seeing, you know, I think the results of closeness of races in places like Oregon that you would have never expected a Republican to possibly win in the governor's seat out there.
We're going to talk about that later in the week.
You know, we're Washington State where they're putting $3 million more into Patty Murray's Senate seat out of Washington State.
Why?
It's because people, liberal and conservative states, still want an economic future that is bright, and they want a safety for their family, and they want to be involved in their kids' lives.
They want their government to be what government should be and not what government should not be, and that is overbearing in their life.
But real quickly, back to the abortion debate.
So you saw this come out, and this is what the republic...
Democrats thought that they could turn the economic narrative on its head by saying this is going to turn these races and change the outcomes, especially in the suburban races, maybe in the In different states where they were struggling.
And what they saw was a temporary bump.
We saw this in certain areas.
And then Republicans finally went on the offensive.
I think the final straw for many Republicans, myself included, was the New York 19 race, a special election, in which two male candidates, a Republican and a Democrat, went at this one.
The male Democrat took on the mantle of Planned Parenthood.
They put a lot of money into this race.
The Republican kept up the economic message but never answered The abortion question in any real and tangible way.
And that allowed this race in late August to be dominated by the Democrat and abortion.
What we saw since then is Republicans now coming out and actually fighting back, if you would, against the abortion narrative and against, you know, what happened, putting it back in the states where it belongs, taking the lies that happened in Kansas and where, you know, a constitutional amendment, the left was lying about, the pro-abortion groups were lying about saying, if you pass this, automatically all abortions will cease in the state of Kansas.
It was a lie.
Frankly, I mean, you can't pretty it up all you want, but that was just a lie.
But yet a lot of people were affected by it because they didn't read, and the amendment, frankly, was poorly written, to where that was what people began to believe.
So in Kansas, you had this amendment that was turned down on abortion, and the left just said, yep, this is our pathway.
But what happened was is the Republicans went on the offensive.
They began to look at abortion.
They began to put it back into terms that have happened over the last, you know, 40, 50 years in this country.
Why the idea that some restrictions on abortion were good, even in liberal states, was the fact that they began to see the child in the womb for what the child was, and that is a baby, whether it was through ultrasounds, whether it was through testing.
I mean, you began to see in literal figure images Of, you know, the baby and the womb.
And this is what's over the last 40 years has been moving this debate more decidedly into pro-life direction for years.
The Republicans, you know, went back to that.
They began to frame the narrative as the issue of life, the issue of, you know, that we're a culture of life.
And then also began to push back.
And you finally began to see Democrats being asked the question, well, do you favor any Now, look, as much as liberals like to claim that Roe v.
Wade was a settled precedent, well, number one, remember, it was a court-ordered, a court-decided right, not a constitutionally-found right.
The courts, just out of thin air, found this.
Even liberals who agreed with the decision over the years have written that there is no legal underpinning to the Roe v.
Wade decision.
Given that discussion, when you have the ability to frame it as something that people have a choice about, then you have the Democrats having to answer the question, do you still favor any of the restrictions placed on abortion?
Now, if they said no, then they're for basically abortion up until the moment of birth.
That's an opinion that is not shared by anywhere close to the majority in this country.
In fact, it has gotten bigger and bigger.
Late-term abortions are not something people want to think about.
They're horrific.
They are murder in the purest sense.
And now you are having Democrats who, for fear of their base, Saying, well, I don't support restrictions, or I think that should be left to the doctor and the patient, and all these sort of euphemistic phrases.
So now when put on the defensive, the idea that the Roe v.
Wade overturn was going to be the predominant effect in some of these races really just went out the window.
And so when you look at it from those terms, when you look at it in the sense that finally the Democrats were being asked the question, do you support abortion for sex change, for sex selection?
Do you support abortion for contraception?
Do you support abortion for children who have deformities in the womb?
These are the kind of things that Democrats were now finally forced to answer.
And as they answered them, it became more and more clear that they were just out of touch with anybody except their very liberal base.
Why does that matter?
Because it mattered that the Republicans then were able to put the narrative back on the economy, the inflation, gas prices.
Our immigration, again, is another issue that keeps coming up, especially among our border states, especially among states that are experiencing a high fentanyl level because it's just pouring across our southern border.
And the vice president, who is supposed to be the borders are, doesn't even know where the border is.
Joe Biden ignores it.
Democrats are avoiding the question at any time.
And people are seeing this.
That is why you're seeing Hispanic polling numbers turning toward Republicans in places like Florida and Texas, Arizona, even New Mexico.
You're seeing African American numbers rising for Republicans when it comes to the economic issues and education issues for their children.
They want to be able to give their children the best education.
They want to have a choice in it.
They don't want to simply be locked into bad schools in which teachers unions are basically Keeping their own children captive to bad students, bad teachers, bad curriculum.
And this is affecting all voters.
Inherently, over the past few years, we're seeing a turn in the understanding among, maybe through the pandemic, whatever you want to call it, that parents have a real role in their child's education and they care about it.
And these are coming out in just as much of economic nuts and bolts issues as you have.
So as I lay all this out, I don't want to just belabor these points, but as we get into these final few days, as people are turning out to vote, this is the state of the country.
I think in some areas, liberals will do a little bit better based on maybe some of the abortion issues.
I think that will affect some suburban races, especially if the Republicans have not done a very good job framing the issue.
But at the end of the day, the overriding issues that are going to affect the most in the election on November 8th is going to be the inflation, economy, gas prices, immigration, our standing in the world, crime is definitely up there as well.
Because, as I said before, people want to not only feel economically safe, they want to feel physically safe.
They want to make sure that their families have the opportunities.
For education and opportunities for advancement that many of them had, and they're not willing to put that aside for what they see as out of touch policies or liberal policies in which they just don't agree with.
And I think this is where The Biden administration has hurt.
And if you don't believe me, all you got to do is look at some of these moderate, quote, moderate Democrats who went along with these, who are now in races in which they're probably going to get beat.
When you look at races in which Biden won the District 5 to 10 points, those races are toss-ups at best with Republicans gaining.
At the end of the day, I think you're going to see a house that is going to go anywhere from 25 to, you know, 225 to 240 in final number.
A very bad night is 225. A good night is going to be 235 to 240. We're seeing that break.
We'll see if that continues this week in the trends of elections as we go forward.
So again, we talk about a lot of things and we're going to get back to a lot of different guests as we've had in the past on the Doug Collins podcast in the weeks to come.
But this is an important election cycle.
And then let me finish before I get done with today's broadcast on the podcast and then getting you into the next couple of days of broadcasting that you're going to get from the podcast about these races.
And that is to go vote.
Voting is a right given to you as an inherent right of the founding fathers who said that we give the people the right to vote to choose the republic in which they live.
And if you're not voting, you know, I've said this many, many times before, but if you choose not to vote, then please do not make an opinion about your government.
Please do not tell anybody that you're upset about tax increases or you're upset about tax cuts or you're happy that abortion is legal or abortion is not legal.
If you're out there and you're willing to not go vote, then you're willing to not participate in the system.
So, you know, quit listening to, you know, political broadcasts.
Don't get involved because, again, your vote is the way that you're involved.
You can mouth all you want.
You can talk all you want.
You can write opinion pieces to the editor.
You can even write books.
But if you're not actually using what you have been given as an American citizen and that is your right to vote, it is a shame because you are basically turning your back on those who have died for the right to even have a country like we have and who have protected that country across the world.
For freedom across this country and across the world for years.
Don't give up your right.
You may not vote like I do.
You may not believe like I do.
You may listen to this podcast just to make fun of me.
And that's fine.
You go vote still.
I want everybody to use their right to vote.
And what is even sadder in this country is that there are more people who are eligible to vote who are not registered than those that will actually vote.
Why is that?
I know you're busy, but do you realize that everything government does affects every part of your life?
Shouldn't you have a say in it?
And you say only your one vote matters.
Just go look up how many elections were decided by a single vote.
Do you want to let this race and these races in your state and your county and your district be decided without your input?
I hope not.
This is Doug Collins signing off from the Doug Collins Podcast.
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