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Nov. 7, 2018 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Still — Barely? — a Country for White Men
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Good day, ladies and gentlemen.
This is Jared Taylor with Radio Renaissance, and I have my usual guest, the great, reliable Paul Kersey with me.
And this is the day after the midterm elections.
We have moved up our usual podcast in honor of this extraordinary day, and we're going to spend quite a lot of time on what just happened in the last 24 hours.
But to begin with, There were a couple of quotations that I thought I would read, and one goes back all the way to Booker T. Washington.
And this is something he wrote in his autobiography, Up from Slavery, which is actually worth reading.
I really recommend it.
He reflected a kind of wisdom of his time.
But he was writing about Alabama in the 1880s.
And he wrote this in black dialect about the black people in that area who were explaining to him what they did when it was election time.
And he says, we can't read the newspapers very much, but we knows how to vote.
And we want you to vote just like we votes.
We watches the white man.
And we keeps watching the white man till we finds out which way the white man's going to vote.
And when we find out which way the white man's going to vote, then we votes exactly the other way.
Then we know we's right.
Now, this is exactly the way Booker T. Washington wrote it.
He wrote it in dialect.
And I just thought it was an instructive thing, because we see something like that happening even now.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Mr. Taylor, as you noted, he wrote that in the 1880s about blacks in Alabama, as we're going to be talking about in regards to the exit polling data.
Not much has changed.
Not much has changed.
This struck me as very, very prophetic.
And now we have two more people, neither of which is a black person, also writing just much more recently.
And Bill Crystal.
Bill Crystal, who can usually be counted on to get most things wrong.
He wrote, I've always disliked the phrase, demography is destiny, as it seems to minimize the capacity for deliberation and self-government for reflection and choice.
But, looking at tonight's results in detail, one has to say that today, in America, demography sure seems to be destiny.
And, as you noted, Bill Kristol tweeted this out last night as the results, the exit polls started to come out, the returns, and you started to see what was happening in some of the hotly contested House Rep seats, the Senate, and of course the Governor's battles, which we'll talk about extensively.
In Florida and in Georgia.
That's right.
He seems to be discovering certain patterns.
The very patterns that Booker T. Washington discovered back in the 1880s.
And then here's David Brooks writing in the New York Times.
He says, Over the next few decades, America will become a majority-minority country.
It's hard to think of other major nations down through history that have managed such a transition and still held together.
Then he goes on to say, it seems that the Democratic Party is going to be leading us through this transition.
The Republicans have decided to pretend it's not happening.
That line, that last line, I think, is absolutely the best.
It's absolutely true.
We're seeing today deranged and unhinged former Fox News contributors.
I'm thinking, of course, Max Boot, who is now, I believe, on the Washington Post editorial board.
He tweeted out that the Republican Party is now a white nationalist party.
If only.
It's so crazy.
It's white people who are the last folks to wake up to the fact that we're having this transition.
They're the last ones to realize that every one of those people marching across the border is a new Democrat.
I love the way...
Ann Coulter refers to them as undocumented Democrats.
They seem to be the last ones to realize what is implied by demographic change.
Well, one of the terrifying things about this midterm election that we'll get into shortly is that white people continue to refuse nationwide to take their own side in an argument.
They will go down with the ship clinging and clutching their principles, even if it means the suicide of their nation.
You know what, Mr. Taylor?
There is nothing noble or moral in national suicide.
No, no, there is nothing noble or moral.
And I think that the fact that David Brooks is pointing out, though, he is regretting the fact that the Democratic Party is supposed to lead us through the transition, but later on in this piece he says the Democrats do not seem to be talking in terms of unity.
He points out that it is race identity, race identity all the way.
And without specifically saying so, he's saying, wait a minute, there are a few white people left in this country too.
We better think about them.
Reconciliation is not on the menu for the Democrats once they take power.
And I think that is one of the great lessons of what's happening.
And hopefully, Hopefully there are some strategists, there are some sober thinkers out there who have a position of power in the Republican Party who are looking at these returns and they're saying, wait a second.
Something is amiss here and that is the paucity of non-white voters who are voting for our candidates.
Well, Mr. Kersey, it's a lesson that you did not require this midterm to learn, nor did I. But if Republicans continue to refute this lesson in the face of the kind of rub their nose in it we got this time around, I don't know when they're going to learn.
Now, it was an interesting thing, though.
The turnout for this midterm election was 114 million versus, in 2014, 83 million.
That is a very substantial increase.
People are talking about, you know, the typical turnout is about 40% of the electorate in midterm elections.
We're nosing around 50% now.
People were motivated.
In 2010, it was 91 million, but this has got to be some sort of record.
Some record in terms of numbers and perhaps even in terms of percentage.
Let me pose a question to you.
Why do you think that was the case?
Was it Republicans who were inspired by what happened with Kavanaugh?
Was it the incredible A schedule that Donald Trump kept up.
I know you aren't exactly the biggest fan of Donald Trump, but you have to hand it to a guy who's in his early seventies.
He was out on the campaign trail every day.
In some cases, three cities.
Rockstar-esque performances.
If you haven't seen the reception he got in Macon, Georgia, you've got to see this sea of humanity.
It's as if Mick Jagger decided to come back and And invite the top rock stars to come and put on a concert.
That's the type of reception Donald Trump is getting.
That is true.
That is true.
And I think this high turnout can be explained in two words.
Donald Trump.
Love him or hate him.
He gets people to the polls.
And I've been saying this for a long time.
I think Donald Trump is probably the most hated figure in American history.
Compared to Benedict Arnold, for example, or who are the other great hate figures in American history?
A lot of people absolutely.
The blacks all hate Justice Thomas, for example.
But if you look back through American history, I don't think he has been hated more intensely.
No one has been hated as intensely.
And this brings out the Democrats have just been in a state of frothing insanity on his subject.
And I think Republicans are reacting in part to that kind of frothing insanity.
Both sides marched the polls.
Very interesting.
Now, I suppose we have to say what everybody has already aware.
The Democrats picked up control of the House by, what is it, 26, 27 seats at this point.
And the Republicans hung on to the Senate, adding two or three Senate seats.
Three Senate seats, according to at least this poll.
And there are still, we should point out, there are still a number of seats the Republicans will pick up in Mississippi.
Of course they did not pick up Montana or they did not pick up West Virginia, although in West Virginia the Democrat who won did vote for Kavanaugh.
Tester in Montana, who I think they're actually going to do a recount, He voted, of course, against Kavanaugh, and one of the things that I think is so important about looking at this data we're about to, Donald Trump made this election all about immigration.
At the speeches he gave, he talked over and over and over again about immigration.
We went to these various cities, and as you know, the conservative Inc., the Republican establishment, whatever you want to call them, all they wanted to talk about was tax cuts.
This new tax cuts 2.0.
And the economy.
And a lot of the incumbent Republicans, I'm speaking about Paul Ryan, they decided to go home, take their lunch pail and go home and just retire as opposed to try and embrace this Trumpian eclipsing of whatever the Republican Party was prior.
And you have to wonder, If they had been on board from the beginning, what would these midterms have looked like?
Well, that's right.
We had an unprecedented, what is it, nearly 40 Republican congressmen dropped out.
Correct.
They were not running with the incredible advantages of incumbency.
Some of these were like Jeff Flake, the never-Trumper types, the ones who are clearly uncomfortable in the Republican Party today.
Maybe it's just as well for them to go home, take their marbles, and clear out.
But if they had been good team players, if they had tried to stay in, then it's possible that the Republicans could have hung on.
Positioning and angling your post-career for a slot on MSNBC or CNN is not an admirable avocation.
And I think that what we're seeing now, as you just pointed out, If you actually look at the historic data, Mr. Taylor, for how a president's party has fared in midterm elections, I think it's safe to say that Donald Trump, looking at the past hundred years, hey, you know what?
He fared quite well in comparison to other presidents.
Yes, yes, that's certainly true.
We're looking at data now that show that compared to Barack Obama, his first midterm elections, he lost 63 seats in the House, compared to 26 with Donald Trump this time around, as well as nine seats in the Senate.
I remember in state houses as well, there was a huge sweep of Republicans.
And so compared to a Donald Trump with a gain of three seats and a loss of only 26, Donald Trump is doing much better than Barack Obama did.
Remember what else happened in 2010?
Tom Tancredo ran as the Constitution Party candidate because the Republicans wouldn't endorse him.
And he almost won the governor's race in Colorado.
I think it was only one or two points.
It was crazy.
That real red wave was stunning to look at, but then you have to look at some of the other historical data.
Look at Bill Clinton in 1994.
Well, exactly.
In 1994, he loses 54 seats in the Congress and, again, 9 seats in the Senate in his first midterm elections.
And you go back further on, Gerald Ford as a Republican, he lost 48 House seats, 48 House seats, and 4 Senate seats.
Even Lyndon Johnson lost 47 House seats, as well as 3 Senate seats.
So, comparatively speaking, now there are people who have done better.
Barack Obama in his second term, he lost only 13 House seats, but he did lose 6 Senators as well.
13 House seats as opposed to 26 this time around for Donald Trump.
If you go all the way back to Dwight Eisenhower, we think of him as a remarkably popular sort of bipartisan, you know, he was asked to be the candidate for both the Democrats and the Republicans.
I was well aware, yeah.
Yes.
It's impossible to imagine that today, isn't it?
He was such a unifying figure.
But when he ran in midterms, he lost 48 seats.
So, in historical terms, the way this turned out was really not too bad for Donald Trump.
Now, I think that it was a mistake for Donald Trump to inject himself so overtly into this campaign.
He said several times, I may not be on the ballot, but this is a referendum on me!
Now, there is some truth to that, but I think where there are local elections, and there were people who were likely to support the Republican for local reasons, to keep rubbing their noses into Donald Trump, Donald Trump was a mistake.
But I think he's a guy who cannot control his ego, and he wants to make everything about him.
But the fact that historically, his performance in losing 26 seats is not all that bad, maybe this is not the mistake that I consider it to have been.
Well, like it or not, the Republican Party, I don't want to say that they're uncucking themselves because we know that members of the NCC attacked Steve King and repudiated him for purportedly being a white nationalist.
We know that most Republicans are afraid of their own white shadow, but the point is,
as we get to talk about the exit polls from these states and from these battles, it is
quite evident that this concept of minority outreach is a bridge that takes you absolutely
nowhere.
And in the increasingly racially fractious environment that David Brooks and Bill Kristol
have, you have to have known that they have known this all along, and it's fascinating
to think that almost simultaneously David Brooks publishes this piece where he, hey,
wait a second here, what's happening?
And then Bill Kristol, of all people, Bill Kristol, the gentleman who tried to convince a CIA asset to run against Donald Trump in the presidency, and they thought they could win Utah, a guy who is the architect of the Never Trump concept, of the Never Trump movement, Yes, it is remarkable.
Absolutely remarkable.
You have all of these Republicans who have had their eyes tightly, tightly closed to reality about this.
I'm just repeating myself, but if this doesn't buzz them awake, who knows what will.
Let me throw something out at you real quick.
These guys were around in the early 1990s.
Bill Criss, I can't remember when Weekly Standard was founded, but these guys were part of the conservative, neoconservative, whatever you want to call it, that probably clamped down on a lot of the racial stuff.
I one time tweeted at Charles Murray.
And I attacked Bill Kristol in a tweet at Charles Murray.
And Charles Murray responded almost immediately.
He said, well, hey, Bill Kristol's right next to me.
Would you like me to tell him what you said?
And I said, yes, please do.
It was a Sunday.
And of course, they're friends from AEI.
And I think that they go on the weekly standard cruises.
You have to wonder, these guys, how long?
Obviously, they've known all about the racial changes for decades, if not longer.
I guarantee that they've both read Camp of the Saints.
They probably are familiar with your work.
Maybe.
No, they have to be familiar.
Obviously they're familiar with Steve Saylor's work because we know that David Brooks has just lifted and plagiarized from it repeatedly.
But my point is these two guys were gatekeepers, if you will, of what was allowed of conservative respectability.
Correct.
That's exactly right.
And now here they are at the end.
They've been attacking Trump non-stop and yet they admit Something that they could have admitted in the 1990s and this could have all been avoided.
You know, I think that part of it is they just don't want to look like idiots when the Democrats have been pointing this out so loudly and so obviously.
And when the numbers, the patterns are just so egregiously obvious.
But before we get into some of the details, I just wanted to mention, as usual, Silicon Valley is trying to put its thumb on the scale.
Lyft was offering free rides to the polls to underserved communities.
And we can imagine what they were including Voto Latino and local Urban League affiliates.
And also Lyft was using BuzzFeed as the portal for their free and their half-price offers.
Now, why BuzzFeed?
Why BuzzFeed?
It just makes you wonder.
Why not Breitbart?
But anyway, let's move on to some of the exciting and interesting races.
Some of these were real cliffhangers in Georgia.
One that you and I have been following for some time.
There was Stacey Abrams, the black Democrat, and Brian Kemp, the white Republican.
Blacks were 30% of the electorate and whites were about 60%.
Stacey Abrams got 92% of the blacks and Kemp got 74% of the whites.
Pretty much what you would expect.
Pretty much what you would expect.
But the male-female breakdown among the white voters was something pretty surprising to me.
Stacey Abrams did better among whites than Hillary Clinton did in 2016.
I'm very surprised by that.
26% of the vote for, as opposed to 21% for Clinton.
Now, and white college-educated women, nearly half of them supported Stacey Abrams.
Nearly half, compared to only about one-third who supported Hillary Clinton.
To me, this suggests a number of things.
One is, a lot of white women really detested Hillary Clinton.
I think they were sick of her almost as much as white men were.
But for Stacey Abrams to cruise in and pick up nearly half of college-educated white women, this is extraordinary to me.
Well, CNN's exit polls are also fascinating because they break down education and gender by race, and we find out that white college-educated men voted 60% for Kemp versus 37% for Abrams.
Now get this, Mr. Taylor, white non-college-educated men in the state of Georgia, 81% for Brian Kemp, 17% for Stacey Abrams.
But you have to wonder, you have to wonder, who are those 17%?
I'm sorry, but anyway, yes, please continue.
I got one better, though.
Okay.
So let's talk about the white college-educated women versus the white non-college-educated women in Georgia.
Right.
CNN's exit polls show that 57% of white college-educated women voted for Kemp versus 43% for Abrams.
83% of non-college educated white women in Georgia.
More More than white, non-educated college.
More than the men?
The men, yes.
83% of white women who don't have a college degree in Georgia went for Kemp versus 16% for Abrams.
The lesson is, hey, don't send your kids to college.
That's not the lesson.
But this is fascinating data when you look at Brian Kemp has still, as of this podcast, that race is still in contest.
It could go to a runoff if Kemp's lead Well, apparently Abrams is going to demand a recount.
She is.
So that is going to slow things down.
But it is extraordinary that white women without a college education Well, I'll tell you what it is.
to this black woman than white men without a college education.
Maybe there was some sort of female thing going on there.
Well, I'll tell you what it is.
It's because college-educated whites can afford to live away from diversity in metro Atlanta.
And whites who don't have a college degree, unfortunately, they'll get stuck in these counties that
shift so significantly.
I'm thinking of Gwinnett and Clayton and Cobb County, and they're forced to live around this diversity.
I agree entirely with that, but why would the women be less likely to support this?
Isn't that the case?
Didn't you say that the white women without a college education were even more likely to support the white candidate than white men without a college education?
I'll tell you what I think it is, because they They have white children and they see what it's like for whites to be in public schools that are predominantly black.
I think that there is this sense that this system is not for us.
They're white working class people who have no voice.
Republicans begrudgingly get their votes.
They do absolutely nothing for them.
The white working class in states like Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama, they are just walked all over.
This goes for the entire country.
Let's just be honest.
It's the entire country.
And they are unable...
Mr. Taylor, to escape diversity as white college-educated men and females can.
They can afford to live away from it.
Well, and you know, I've quoted this quote from the great Joe Silberman so many times I should be embarrassed, but he's the one who made this memorable observation that the purpose of a college education in the United States today is to give people the right attitude towards minorities and the means to live as far away from them as possible.
And we see this with this college-educated vote every time, practically.
Now, but this leads us to the racial demographics of the vote from, now these data are from the New York Times, and they're supposed to be national data here.
I'm not quite sure how they got them so quickly, and who knows how reliable they are, but what this showed is that practically every single demographic in the entire United States moved more Democrat in these midterm elections as compared to the 2016 presidential elections.
I was a little bit surprised at that.
White women, for example, voted 55% to 45% for Trump over Hillary Clinton.
In these midterm elections, they apparently split about 50-50, Democrat and Republican.
And for those listening at home, I'd like to say if you go to www.newyorktimes.com forward slash interactive forward slash 2018 forward slash 11 forward slash 07 forward slash US forward slash elections forward slash house dash exit dash poll dot analysis dash analysis you'll be able to follow along with us because this is we'll find a way to put a link within this so you can actually see this because this is really fascinating data that Mr. Taylor's referring to because it does show and I think this is important to point out that the country is souring all racial groups are souring on
Donald Trump.
And that has to be the case.
Well, who knows?
Who knows what will happen in 2020, assuming that he's on the ballot.
But, and white men, white men also, they went for Donald Trump 65% to 35%.
However, in these midterm elections, they were only 60-40 for the Republicans.
Now, Hispanic men and Hispanic women didn't change all that much.
Hispanic men were 64-36 for Hillary, and then they're 65-35 for the Democrats this time.
65-35 for Hillary and 68-32 for the Democrats.
It's the Asians.
Now, these samples have to be small, and I wonder just how reliable they are.
But according to the New York Times, in the 2016 presidential elections, 65% of Asians broke for Hillary Clinton, 35% for the Republican, Donald Trump.
In the midterms, no fewer than 78% of Asians voting for the Democrats.
That's 10% more than Hispanic women.
Almost 4 of 5 Asians voted for the Democrat according to this data in 2018.
Now, as I say, the samples are probably pretty small.
Who knows what's going on?
Blacks, of course, as we would expect, they voted overwhelmingly Democratic.
But according to this, only 88% of Blacks voted for the Democrats in Hillary Clinton in 2016.
And that has been nudged up to 91%.
Now, maybe it's because this time around there were a number of black candidates.
Oh, there were black candidates.
I mean, Massachusetts and Connecticut both elected their first black members of the House.
In Minnesota, Ellison won the Attorney General.
You have your first two Muslims that were elected in Minnesota.
First lady Muslims.
First lady Muslims, of course, in Michigan.
And in Minnesota.
So you had a lot of black candidates.
But it's fascinating.
We never talked about the the Blexit nonsense with Kanye West and Candace Owens from the Turning Point USA.
It was laughable.
It was embarrassing that President Trump actually invited these so-called black leaders from Turning Point USA, the future black leaders, to come and show up because, as we found out, there was no Blexit.
Well, explain what Blexit is supposed to mean.
Blacks exiting the Democratic plantation.
Their votes are... We've been held down by the Democratic plantation for decades and we're going to get up by our bootstraps and we're going to go find some new masters in the Republican Party.
That's basically it.
This is this persistent myth that Republicans seem to perpetrate upon themselves election after election.
What are they going to learn?
What are they going to learn?
Well, they're not going to learn because there was a black female who put a picture of herself on Twitter with a Make America Great Again hat and said, hey, when I put this hat on, my parents decided to cut off my college education.
They're not going to pay for it anymore.
She successfully raised $150,000 from white conservatives, from Republicans, who thought that this was actually real before the scam was discovered.
A lot I saw on Alex Jones' site, well this just shows how this idea that white Republicans are racist, it just completely throws it on its head that of course they're not.
No, you're gullible and you're stupid if you're going to give any money just because, oh my gosh, this individual has melanin.
They're so much better than us.
They're a better conservative.
Let's go ahead and put them as the primary speaker of the next CPAC.
Yes, exactly, exactly.
That's, you know, that old joke.
What do you call the only black person at a Republican convention?
Oh, I know what it is, but you gotta finish it off for us.
The keynote speaker, yes.
No, they are so, they are so dying for approval.
Oh, a black person agrees with us.
And I wonder if she cashed all the checks.
I wouldn't be at all surprised.
But the other shift, all of these demographic groups voting more Democrat in 2018 than 2016,
also at income levels, too.
Every single income level shifted Democrat, to the point where, again, according to this New York
Times data, and our readers, if they follow that link, it's very worthwhile to look at this stuff.
Only, only voters that were making more than $100,000 consistently voted Republican over Democrat.
And even in states like Tennessee or Michigan, in which you would expect Poor people to be voting Democrat.
The correlation between wealth and voting Democrat is very, very clear.
And this is something that Henry Wolfe pointed out in a discussion earlier.
He seems to think that it's when the economy is doing well.
That is when white people seem to think they can afford to vote for non-white candidates, they can go easy on the borders, they can vote for more welfare.
Maybe that's, in fact, the case.
And if the economy were doing poorly, they might have voted more in their own interests.
But it's hard to say.
I'm not convinced of that explanation.
Well, I mean, when you look at, we'll talk about what happened in the suburbs of Atlanta and Georgia District 6 momentarily.
It is fascinating.
There is this idea, I was talking to A very well-respected racial realist today, and he just pointed out and said quite bluntly, hey, Kersey, white women seek absolution for this imaginary sin of racism, and so they're going to cast their vote for Abrams.
They're going to cast their vote for Gilliam.
They're going to cast their vote for whatever candidate they believe will wash away their original sin of white privilege and all the other ideas, structural racism, implicit bias, whatever else exists now.
Well, you know, we had spoken the other day about one of those academic findings in political science, the fact that something that you and I have noticed years and years ago, and that is that race is the best predictor for politics today.
It's the very best predictor.
If you know somebody's race, you know, that is the one thing you need to know to realize which way that person is going to go, especially if that person is non-white, and it works pretty well for white people, too.
But let's move over to the Florida governor's race.
Ron DeSantis, the white man, managed to squeak through.
He managed to beat Gillum, the former Tallahassee mayor.
And I thought it was quite interesting, in his victory speech, he said, every two years, There's one day in November when elites don't call the shots.
They don't craft the narrative or set the agenda.
That's Election Day.
Thought that was interesting.
And he also thanked Donald Trump very much for standing by him.
And, you know, he really should be thanking Donald Trump because his primary election against Adam Putnam, who was the state agriculture commissioner, beat him by 20 points.
Putnam had, he was sort of the shoe-in, the machine candidate for Republicans.
And only when Trump stepped in to support him, then did he pull it out.
This might have been one of the more important referendums on the whole Trump agenda because DeSantis never shied away from being a Trumpian-esque Republican.
Right, right, right.
No, that was very, very significant.
And the fact that he won, and he has gone on to pledge to choose constitutional judges.
He'll get to name replacements in January for three liberal judges because they get term limits on the state Supreme Court.
Very good.
Now, this is something that who knows whether he actually had to do this and what the significance of this is.
He talked about his secret weapon.
Well, Mr. DeSantis' secret weapon was his running mate, State Representative Janet Nunez of Miami, who has now become the first female Latina lieutenant governor.
It's thought that she garnered support among Cuban Americans.
Well, there might be some data to prove that that's the case, Mr. Taylor, because the CNN exit polls in Florida show that of the electorate, whites are 66%, blacks are 13%, Latinos are 15% of the Florida electorate.
DeSantis got 60% of the white vote, he got 14% of the black vote, and he got 44% of the Latino vote.
Compared that to Gillum getting 39% of the white vote, 86% of the black vote, and I think you could actually say only 54% of the Hispanic vote, Latino vote.
Now if you're going to look at that by gender, this is where what you just said though about I don't know if you specifically cited gender, but white women only went for DeSantis in Florida with 51% to 47% for Gillum.
Wow!
Shocking numbers, actually.
If you compare that to white men, 69% of white men voted for DeSantis versus 31% for Gillum.
And my question, I think you also echoed it before we started here.
We're going over production notes.
Who are these white guys voting for Andrew Gillum?
What in the world?
I'd like to meet one of these guys, especially the ones who don't have a college education.
The ones who don't have a college education and vote for, I mean, especially in Georgia, you know, this almost militantly anti-white woman who, well, we won't go into her personal characteristics, but not an attractive candidate in my book.
Who are these guys?
But maybe we have some listeners who will explain it to us.
Who are these voting?
But then, let's move on to the Michigan race, the Michigan Senate race.
John James, he was a black helicopter pilot, you know, reasonably attractive candidate, who had an attractive white wife.
Now, lost to the Democratic incumbent, this was the great black hope who was going to lead the Republican charge against the Democrats.
Well, Mr. James, the great black hope seems to have lost.
And it was you who called my attention to just how it was he lost.
Well, let's go back and point out James had a massive push from Donald Trump Jr., Ted Nugent, and Kid Rock, who a lot of people wanted to be the candidate, Mr. Taylor.
I know you laugh, you're like, who's Kid Rock?
He's a popular A singer from the Detroit area, and a lot of people were trying to get him to run.
He endorsed this guy, James.
They put on a big concert celebration, pep rally for James.
Well, you know what?
what in Michigan, 75% of the electorate is white, 15% is black, and 5% is Latino.
Whites only voted for James with 53%.
45% went to Stabenow.
ballots cast. 45% went to Stabenow. Blacks, meanwhile, voted 90% for the
Democratic candidate and merely gave 8% of their votes, 8% to the
brother running, James, the Republican brother.
Right.
Only 8%.
See, this to me is extraordinary.
Just this race alone should forever torpedo this Republican myth.
Here they have a black guy who is voting and they're expecting their fellow blacks.
He got less support than probably Ted Cruz got of blacks.
Way less support.
It's funny you just tossed that softball because I actually have that CNN exit poll data right here.
Yes, let's hear it.
Received 11% of the black vote in Texas when he went up against Beto O'Rourke.
Mr. O'Rourke received 89% of the black vote.
So Ted Cruz actually got more of the black vote in Texas than James, the Republican black candidate for senator in Michigan, got of the black vote in that particular state.
This is extraordinary.
Are you listening, Republican strategists?
Are you listening?
Are you paying attention?
No reply.
Oh boy.
Now then, there was this Georgia race.
This is as surprising as any of them, really.
This was in the congressional district that used to be Newt Gingrich's district.
He hasn't been in for quite some time, but it was considered sort of a safe Republican seat for the most part.
But a black woman, a black woman took it away from a white woman, Karen Handel, who had won the special election.
She was incumbent, no less.
A Republican incumbent was upset by a first-time political candidate named Lucy McBath.
Now, she's quite an interesting case.
Her father was a dentist, and he owned a black newspaper called The Black Voice.
And he also served as the president of the NAACP's Illinois chapter.
So she's been marinated in this black consciousness business.
She attended Virginia State University, which is a historically black college.
And then after college, she worked as an intern for Douglas Wilder, who was the black man who was elected governor of the state of Virginia.
Now, what really put her on the map was the death of her son, Jordan Davis, in November 2012 in Florida.
You may remember this episode.
It was an encounter in which a white guy pulls into a gas station and there's a car full of blacks and they are playing music so loud it is rocking the cars all around.
And he gets out and tells them to turn it down.
They exchange words and he ends up shooting several people.
One of which was this Lucy McBath's son.
Correct.
And this sort of shot her into prominence.
She joined something called Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and became the national spokesman.
Then she also joined up with this thing called Mothers of the Movement.
You remember that.
Those were the black mothers of blacks who had been killed under what became celebrated circumstances, such as Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland.
The mothers of all these people recruited to stump for Democrats.
And I had forgotten this, but Lucy McBath, She actually spoke at the 2016 presidential at the Democratic Convention in favor of Hillary Clinton.
I remember this very well.
These were incredible shots because you had Trump surrounded by police, obviously the candidate of law and order, and then you had Hillary embracing this...
These black mothers.
These black mothers of such wonderful sons.
Yes, yes.
And again, it's so astonishing that the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, that they should be trotted out as the mothers of victims and martyrs But that was what Hillary Clinton was, I think, very cynically trying to accomplish.
And there were people who accused these mothers of being cat's paws for Hillary Clinton.
I don't think they felt that way at all.
They enjoyed being on stage and they thought they were standing up for racial justice.
Surprisingly enough, this Lucy McBath, her first time as a candidate and did not get much attention, did not get much money, she got herself on the ballot and she unseats the white incumbent, the white Republican incumbent.
Now, Georgia's 6th congressional district, it's a northern suburb of Atlanta.
Is it not?
Oh, it is some of the wealthiest area, not just the South, but the entire country.
This encompasses Buckhead, Roswell, Sandy Springs.
And fascinating enough, this is a lot of those cities that incorporated about seven or eight years ago because they wanted more of their tax dollars staying within the city of Sandy Springs.
and Brookhaven and Roswell as opposed to going to fund all of South Fulton, which, hey, if
you listen to these podcasts, that area is heavily black and obviously lower median incomes,
household median incomes.
So this was an area, before you get these demographics, this was where Newt Gingrich
made his claim to fame.
This is where he represented for decades.
Contract of America was birthed from this district.
It was 80% white in 2000.
This district was 80% white in 2000.
Flash forward 18 years later, Mr. Taylor, you're talking about a district that is 60% white, 15% black, 11% Asian, and nearly 13% Hispanic.
This was the district where they had a special election in June of 2017 where John Ossoff became the cause celebre for the Hollywood and the coastal elites.
They flooded this district with money and Handel still won.
Right.
Now she goes up against this first-time candidate virtually no one outside of the Atlanta media is paying attention and now this election is still in doubt.
They are to recount so she has not officially won.
Macbeth has actually claimed she has won.
Handel has not yet conceded.
I do believe though that Handel will be defeated and this is a once again a It's a tragedy to think about what's happening to Georgia.
I wrote a piece that American Renaissance published a couple days ago about what is happening to Georgia and I'll probably do a deep dive into the racial transformation of Metro Atlanta and look at how they voted in this Abrams election because it is a tragedy.
I mean, Georgia was 70% white in 1990.
These Metro Atlanta counties From Cobb County to Gwinnett, you're talking about 92% white in 1990.
Now they're either majority minority or a county like Gwinnett County, it's like 35% white.
And this is just the brazilification of these Cities in the south and all across the country is happening before our eyes and we look at the voting data I mean, we're already there.
You keep hearing people say, oh imagine what 2050 is going to be like or imagine 2040.
Hey, imagine 2018 where David Brooks and Bill Kristol, two of the architects of the neocon movement, the neoconservative movement, who have held back racial truths from circulating among conservative minds across the country, they are now admitting Oh, crap.
They don't seem to be regretting it, though.
Not really.
All David Brooks is saying that, oh, come on, Democrats, you can't be beating the racial drum too loudly.
Don't forget, we have to unify.
You say the right things and white people will join you.
But back to this Lucy McBath win.
The fact that, of course, the wealth of this area, no doubt, plays a huge role.
And despite the fact that it is 60% black, in the 2016 vote, Donald Trump got 48% of the vote, and Hillary Clinton got 47%.
Donald Trump still carried this district.
Well, it's 60% white.
It's only about 15% black.
It's only about 15% black.
And one of the reasons why this district has become so heavily non-white,
regrettably, MARTA decided to put a couple stations.
MARTA, of course, is the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority.
They put a couple metro stops in North Springs, a couple other stops, and then they also have the bus system.
So that has a lot of greedy developers decided, let's put in some apartments, and lo and behold, what do you have?
The increase in the Asian, Hispanic, and Black population, where 20 years ago, all you would see were white faces throughout Sandy Springs, Roswell, Dunwoody, and Buckhead.
I mean, this is one of those areas.
One of the reasons why I believe Handel didn't win is because white women in these areas voted for Abrams.
And they just decided, hey, I'll just do a straight Democrat ticket.
Yep, that's probably very likely to have been the case.
And she cruised in.
We'll see what kind of Congresswoman she makes.
Apparently, she really has basically one issue, and that's gun control.
Also, she apparently wants to spread around.
She wants basically Medicare for everybody.
She's one of those people.
It's funny, because Georgia has Glock is based in Smyrna.
Their North American facilities are based in Smyrna.
And Daniel Defense, which makes AR-15s, AR-10s, they just broke ground on a massive new facility, I think in south, it's either south or north Georgia.
And the point is, everyone thought that Georgia was going to be the safe state for gun rights.
Hey guys, we still don't know who's going to be governor.
And I can tell you one thing, Stacey Abrams made it quite clear that she is not against the idea of confiscating firearms in some very strange interview she's done.
No, I'm quite confident that she will not be the governor, but maybe I'm just keeping my fingers crossed here.
So, this means, of course, that leadership will change parties in the House of Representatives.
And there are a number of blacks who are saying that they're going to call in some chips.
And I'm not very surprised.
South Carolina Representative Jim Clyburn.
He's black.
He has announced his intention to run for Democratic whip.
And the position of whip is currently held by Steny Hoyer.
Clyburn is not saying he's going to challenge Nancy Pelosi.
Or Hoyer for the top spot.
But that would not surprise me.
And there are going to be a lot, I believe, of these newcomers.
Alexandra Octavio Paz, Ayanna Pressley, the ones who say, it's our turn now.
They're going to be marching in and saying, we have had enough of these old white people.
And it's our turn to be leader.
And here, Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond.
He has sent a letter saying that some African American should be either Speaker of the House or Majority Leader.
They are going to throw their weight around, and understandably so.
They have been such a consistent vote for the Democrats.
I can imagine they're putting on, along with their new female and Hispanic allies, they'll be putting a lot of pressure on.
There was one vote that we really forgot to cover, and that was Chris Kobach's loss for governor in Kansas.
Do you know any of the details about that?
I didn't print the details off.
Again, Kansas is a strange state.
Where Sam Brownback was not a very popular governor, the departing governor Republican, and Kobach was not universally supported by the Republican elite in that state, and obviously they never unified around him.
There were hit piece after hit piece after hit piece about it as purported.
Well, not as significantly as they were against Steve King, who was, of course, the only Republican to retain his seat in Iowa in the House, so congratulations.
Yes, congratulations to Steve King.
But, you know, Kobach, again, he's one of those people that I think a lot of people on our side We're hoping would be part of the Trump administration from the beginning when the photos emerged of them meeting during the transition in late December 2016.
They were seen meeting and there was speculation that he would be in the running for the DHS position.
I think we're going to see that because Mr. Trump visited Kansas and had a raucous crowd at a campaign event for Kobosh, and he quite literally said, hey, I kind of hope you lose, because I'd rather have you in Washington.
That's a direct quote from Mr. President himself.
Well, things are opening up in Washington, at least in the Department of Justice.
I was very sorry to see Jeff Sessions.
He's going out the door.
He has resigned under pressure.
This infuriates me because I think Jeff Sessions has been one of the most useful of Donald Trump's appointees.
And he has taken an enormous amount of undeserved abuse from his boss.
He's leaving with a certain amount of dignity, I think.
Let's hope he goes back and runs for the Senate again.
I think he will go back and run for the Senate.
Jeff Sessions, Jeff Beauregard Sessions is one of the more admirable Americans and if we were actually a real country he would have been a tremendous statesman whether an ambassador or even as president.
He is a gentleman that his class and dignity Obviously, he speaks itself because he doesn't really fit in with this administration and he was the only bright spot in my mind, and I think you'd agree, actually trying to push the MAGA agenda.
He was not for criminal justice reform and he was pushing hard against marijuana legalization because, as we know all across the country, DAs use marijuana offenses to plea down so they can actually get some of these criminals in jail because I want to point out one thing though real quick before we move on.
Virginia was interesting.
And just because of how the DAs are just, the court system is so overloaded, so to say.
I want to point out one thing, though, real quick, before we move on.
Virginia was interesting.
So Virginia's electorate is actually whiter than Georgia's.
66% of Virginia's electorate is white.
24% is black.
6% is Hispanic.
Outside of Northern Virginia, Virginia is actually a beautiful state.
It's a stunning state, actually.
And Corey Stewart, he, of course, was not adopted either as Kobosh by the Republican
establishment.
In fact, they were embarrassed by him.
I actually feel they were embarrassed by Kobosh, as well.
Neither Corey Stewart nor Chris Kobosh are going to be invited to Heritage Foundation
any time soon.
No, no.
You know, Corey Stewart, he was defeated substantially by one of the few white Democrats left, it seems like, in Tim Kaine, who, again, he doesn't have much of a future.
What was the score?
55-45, something like that?
57-43?
It was a substantial... It was a substantial beating, but when you look at it by race, Corey Stewart won 56% of the white vote.
Now, obviously, that's nowhere near the 74% that Kemp won in Georgia, or what DeSantis won, I think he won 65% of the white vote in Florida.
So obviously, that is the problem in a state like Virginia, when you only get 56% of the white vote and 66% of the electorate is still white.
Now, you were just saying that blacks need to be rewarded for their racial loyalty to the Democrats, that we see the monolithic black vote.
91% of blacks in Virginia showed up and cast their votes for Tim Kaine.
When you have that type, and they're 24% of the electorate.
So, already in Virginia, whites are disadvantaged by that monolithic black vote that is never going to break.
Well, as they are practically everywhere.
Even if the Republicans had put forth a black candidate, I think that the Democrat would probably have gotten,
he probably would have gotten less of the black vote than our friend did in Michigan, our black helicopter pilot.
Mr. James, yes.
I guess they think, well, he's just an Uncle Tom, who knows what, and the fact, you know,
it's interesting to know whether or not the fact that this black helicopter pilot was married to a white
woman, was that good for him for blacks or bad for him?
Was it bad for him for whites?
Because he did not do that well with whites in a state where 75% of the electorate Yes, Caucasian.
I bet you any amount of money, if black women were polled and they answered honestly, they'd say, nope, he's sniffing around white women, I'm not voting for him.
We can actually look at the data and see what the black female vote was.
No, are you sure we had that?
Go ahead and scroll down.
I think no.
Race by gender.
Race by gender, okay.
Black men, no, it's 90%.
Whoops, no.
Black women actually supported him by 2% more than black men.
Well, well.
Well, that's surprising again.
But yes, we had the data after all.
Well, our last result here that we want to talk about was Letitia James.
This is not a congressional race.
This was not a gubernatorial race.
Not a race for the Senate.
This was the race for New York State Attorney General.
And we had mentioned her earlier when we were talking about selective outrage and selective prosecution.
Because she was one of the people who has been raging, raging against any kind of manifestation of anything that could be even conceived of as people standing up for whites.
And when the Proud Boys were invited, when Gavin McInnes and the Proud Boys were invited to speak to the Republican group in In New York City, they were Antifa lying in wait for them.
We talked about this on another podcast.
They were a bit of a street rumble.
They were provoked.
They reacted.
And this is what she said about them.
She was, quote, disgusted by the videos I've seen of members of the neofascist White supremacist, proud boy group engaging in hate-fueled mob violence on the streets of New York City.
I mean, how many more buzzwords can you possibly string together in one sentence?
And of course, she makes it sound as though they were just rampaging through the streets, beating up people.
They were provoked.
They were provoked by these black people in masks.
And then, she also had something to say about Identity Europa.
And she said, let's not mince words.
Identity Europa is a white supremacist hate group.
They aren't welcome here.
The only invasion, and she's of course talking about the people on their way to our southern border, the only invasion is by those who feel empowered to spread their hate-filled rhetoric by the White House.
Then she's going, I'm running for Attorney General to stand up and fight back against hate.
Well, she's running for Attorney General, and she won Attorney General because she wants to curtail the First Amendment in the state of New York.
It's funny how many states are becoming no-go zones for not even white racial realists, but just white conservatives.
When you look at what's happened in New York, when you can have a multiracial group like the Proud Boys be called neo-fascist white supremacists.
And these are guys who are explicitly aracial in their ideology.
And this by a woman who's going to be a prosecutor.
Prosecutors are supposed to pay attention to the law.
They're supposed to look at the facts.
And for her to say this multiracial group, as you point out, that has been explicitly against any kind of white racial identity, to call them white supremacists, as if they were just unprovokedly wreaking havoc in the streets of New York.
Wow.
But anyway, it has been an exciting day, and this is, I think, a sign of many exciting elections yet to come.
And I hope, I hope that this is an aberration insofar as, as we've seen, the white vote shifted more Democrat than during the 2016 presidential election.
Let us hope that we start shifting back and that the predictions of an acquaintance of mine who is a professional in the politics business.
He thinks that within 10 years, 80% of white people will be voting for the Republican Party.
I think David Brooks and our good friend Bill Kristol would probably say it's going to be five years.
This has been a fun hour.
If you have any questions you want to shoot to us because there's a lot of stuff coming out about the election still.
We'd love to talk about it next week.
We have some questions that we'll hold off until answering until next week.
Shoot those questions or any ideas of what else we should cover, any other topics you'd like to talk about.
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And for Jared Taylor, this has been Paul Kersey.
Our time is not up.
But for today, we'll have to talk to you next week.
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