Andrew Clavin dissects Biden’s victory through razor-sharp satire, slamming mail-in ballots as fraud magnets and media bias for ignoring Arizona vote swings. He contrasts Trump’s unfiltered attacks—like mocking John McCain’s POW record—with Lindsey Graham’s post-McCain pivot to bipartisanship, framing both as tragic cultural clashes. The episode argues voters rejected identity politics over elite narratives, citing Axios’ failed predictions and leftist racial exploitation, while praising Mitch McConnell’s institutional defense. Ultimately, it frames 2024 as a referendum on assimilation vs. division, with culture—not just policy—deciding the stakes. [Automatically generated summary]
Well, the strange thing about the hilarious satirical opening you're about to hear is that because of time constraints, I had to write it before the votes even started to come in yesterday.
For all I know, I could be reading this when you're so crushed by despair.
You're actually hanging from the rafters in your attic, your blackened face staring emptily into the middle distance while your body twists slowly to the mournful rhythm of the creaking rope you tied around your neck in the realization that every possible good thing that was ever going to happen to you had already happened and there was nothing to look forward to but the sweet embrace of Mother Death.
In which case, you may not find the satire as funny as I hoped you would.
On the other hand, maybe the news was good and you're now hiding under your bed as followers of the party of love and tolerance burn your city to the ground, destroying your neighborhood, your business, and your dreams, leaving you with nothing but the empty satisfaction of knowing that your candidate will have four more years in office while your life slowly sinks into ruins until you finally tie a rope around your neck in the realization that there's nothing to look forward to but the sweet embrace of Mother Death.
In which case, you should be in a great mood and we can laugh and laugh together right up until the moment, you know, you hang yourself.
But whatever the outcome of the election is or was or may yet be, I'm sure we can all find some peace and satisfaction knowing that God is in charge of history.
Or at least he was until he lost control of the House and Senate.
Now he's just in charge of casting the entire earth into a lake of fire where every single one of us will roast in agony for all eternity.
In which case, maybe we'll just skip the satire.
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I haven't woken up yet, but when I do, I'll let you know.
We may be here.
I was just saying to one of our production team, McKenna, I was telling her that they forgot to pick up the garbage outside my house this week.
So it's just been sitting out there getting worse and worse and uglier and uglier.
I'm afraid if I stand next to it, they won't know which of us to pick up.
It was a long, long night.
I'm sure many of you are in the same situation, but now we're all here together, angry and depressed and lost.
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Counting Votes With Integrity00:02:37
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That's kind of a good deal.
I may take that one.
So listen, before I start talking about what is essentially a crap show brought on not by our fellow Americans on either side of the aisle, but by our oh-so-clever leadership who think it's worth screwing with our democracy if it gives them even the slightest advantage.
And let me just say, this should not be.
And real Democrats and real Republicans in the populace should rise up as one and put an end to this garbage.
How hard is it to hold an election on Election Day?
You want to vote, show up on Election Day.
Why are we voting before the race is even run, before the candidates have finished making their cases and having their debates?
If nothing else, that just encourages idiots who think they know what they know and are never going to change their mind, which makes them idiots twice.
Why should people be mailing in their ballots?
They're perfectly capable of going to the polls.
Every time some jackass, and this is usually on the left, says waiting online is voter suppression, she should be hit in the face with a custard pie.
We are objects in space.
We can't all fit into the voting booths at once.
We have to wait online to get there, just like when we go to the movies.
We know when elections are coming.
There's no reason we can't prepare for the day and let people vote in person on the day unless they have a very particular reason not to.
And how hard is it really to count votes in such a way that a reasonable man or woman feels he has been rightly served?
How hard is it to get honest people who are Republicans and Democrats both overseeing the process so that not only is the cheating kept to a minimum, but so that we trust the cheating is kept to a minimum.
Is your particular party's rise to power so freaking important that it's worth sacrificing our democratic system to have messes like this?
Count the votes in a way we can trust, lose gracefully, win gracefully, don't be an unpatriotic jerk.
Today, right now, Trump's people are saying he's won Arizona, that they know he's won Arizona.
Obviously, we have this crazy thing going on where they said, oh yeah, we've counted 98% of the vote.
Oh no, it's 86% of the vote.
Counting Votes Trustfully00:02:32
So we just don't know what's going on.
Other people are saying that every single vote that has been counted in the aftermath in Wisconsin and Michigan, every 100% of them all went for Biden.
How hard is it for the press to hold people to account, to not want so badly for one candidate to win that they don't hold people to account?
I haven't heard anybody question this.
I don't even know if it's, it's on Twitter.
I don't even know if it's entirely true.
We need elections that are not only fair, but that look fair.
That is not that hard.
It really isn't.
Other countries do it.
We can do this.
This should not be.
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So we're not going to know the full results of this for days.
I mean, first of all, there's going to be the counting, then there's going to be the lying, then there's going to be the accusations, then there's going to be the court.
I'm hoping this is not going to go on forever.
I think it'll end up, it's got to end up in court, but I don't think it'll go on for more than a week.
You know, maybe, yeah, about a week, that's what I'm guessing.
But we're not going to know today.
So I'm not, you know, I'm going to keep checking Twitter, but I'm not going to look unless something incredible breaks, you know, and just report you every new rumor and every new development.
Let's just look at what happened, what's happened so far.
Putting Words to Win00:07:27
Here are the statements that were made.
We did a great show.
I think I was there, I think, for 12 hours, 14 hours.
Here's the statement that Biden made as the night was winding down and people were starting to say we're not going to count anymore because why?
Because they couldn't stay awake.
I don't know why, but that's what they were saying.
Here's Biden's statement that's cut 15.
We believe we're on track to win this election.
We knew because of the unprecedented early vote and the mail-in vote, it was gonna take a while.
We're going to have to be patient until the hard work of Tallian votes is finished.
And it ain't over until every vote is counted.
Every ballot is counted.
That's Biden.
Said the right thing.
That's what you basically say in that situation.
And here's Trump, what he said, cut 16.
North Carolina, big victory with North Carolina.
And so we won there.
We lead by 76,000 votes with almost nothing left.
And all of a sudden, everything just stopped.
This is a fraud on the American public.
This is an embarrassment to our country.
We were getting ready to win this election.
Frankly, we did win this election.
It was pretty funny because we were sitting there.
It was me and Michael and Ben and Jeremy and Bill Whittle, I think, was there.
Yeah, Bill was there.
And we're watching him and we're waiting, watching him.
It's like watching this car get closer and closer to the edge.
And we're going, no, don't go over there.
But he did.
He went over the edge.
He said he'd already won, which wasn't true.
He said he'd already won and people were trying to steal the election.
And it was really the reactions in the room were very funny because, of course, Ben got very upset.
He said this.
He always goes too far.
Knowles supported him.
I fell in between.
And the reason that's our personality.
I mean, Ben, Ben is not, you know, the funny thing about Ben is he talks about politics, but he's not really a political person.
What he is is a moralist.
He is a guy who talks about morality.
And I think that that's a wonderful thing to talk about.
Sometimes when you apply it to politics, it doesn't quite jive.
So sometimes you're getting angry at people because they're acting like people in a political situation.
And that's what I think is happening here.
Knowles is a partisan.
Knowles goes over the top.
And I'm a novelist.
I'm always sort of reflecting on what's happening.
And the reason that brings me down between the two of them is because I'm rooting for Trump.
I think he's the better candidate.
Obviously, I think Ben is right about the morality of the situation.
But the thing is, sometimes Trump says the wrong thing because he doesn't have ABC, CBS, NBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post to say the wrong thing for him.
That is why when they say Trump is borish, when they say he's rude, I say, yes, he is, and that's wrong.
But at the same time, he doesn't have that vast network of communication systems to say the wrong things and be rude and borish for him.
He doesn't need to, you know, he has to call people names because he doesn't have the Washington Post and NBC and CBS to call his opponents names.
He has to do it himself.
He's the only one who has the voice to do the wrong thing the way the left does the wrong thing.
And that's why I fall in between.
It's just, you know, when they say character is fake, that certainly is what you get at the Daily Wire.
You get three different characters, you know, and soon you'll have more.
We've got Candace Owens coming in.
But you get different characters giving you different takes, but giving you our honest takes.
And each one of us does something else.
And, you know, you do have to remember that a lot of things, a lot of things leading up to this went wrong.
You know, it was so late in the day that I was having a hard time putting some of this into words, putting into words why I was willing to support what was clearly, clearly not the right thing to do, what Trump said.
But again, he doesn't have this massive, massive narrative machine spewing out the wrong thing, saying that it's going to be a cheat.
You know, the AG, the AG in Pennsylvania, where we're going to have, obviously, this is going into court.
This guy, Josh Shapiro, saying, you know, when it all comes in, when all the votes come in, Biden will have won.
And then suddenly, when he realizes that, oh, he's giving them a lawsuit right there, he comes out and says this is cut eight.
We can have confidence in this process.
These votes are going to be tabulated.
They're going to be counted.
And at the end of the day, the will of the people of Pennsylvania is going to be respected.
I think you're going to see a lot of movement in those numbers today just by virtue of the fact that these ballots are counted.
You've correctly pointed out that there's a significant amount of ballots outstanding in Southeastern PA, which historically has been a large Democratic vote.
But the most important thing from my perspective right now is that we get an accurate count, that we count all the ballots as required by law, and that the will of the people is respected.
Too late, jackass.
It's too late.
We already know you're a partisan skunk.
And that's the thing.
Trump does not have the machinery of communication that that guy has, that he has in all the news media.
And so Trump says things.
He goes over the top, drives Ben crazy.
I don't blame him.
But at the same time, he's fighting against an empire of lies.
So I got to reflect on it.
I'm going to reflect on the last night a little bit.
You know, just to, I'm sure you all know the results at this point, but it does look like we're going to hold the Senate.
That is a massive, massive win.
It does look like we're going to pick up House seats.
Nobody predicted that.
The pollsters lost last night, big time.
The mainstream media lost last night, big time.
The whole Trump is Hitler thing is not playing.
Identity politics, a lot more blacks voting for Trump, a lot more Latinos voting for Trump.
I think the most people of color voting for a Republican candidate, I believe, since 1960, I think.
I think that's quite right.
I mean, obviously a major, major realignment against this guy, Trump, in spite of and with all of the mainstreaming of this entire empire of lies spewing nonsense about him being a racist.
They're not buying it.
Very, very important.
We'll talk about that.
You know, that's part of the culture.
It means that it means, you know, identity politics, what is identity politics?
It's socialism by other means.
In America, because we've usually had fairly flexible class systems, because in America, a guy who was born in the upper middle class can be friends with a guy who was born in the lower class.
It doesn't matter if they come into the same sway, if they come into the same class through their work and their effort and their merit, they will become friends.
I lived in England.
I'm not going to tell the story now, but I had a dinner party of people of different classes.
It was one of the ugliest things I've ever seen.
I actually have to separate them, not physically, but I actually have to take them off each other.
The classes can't mingle there because they don't have the flexibility that we have.
And so we don't have a class system, so Marxism hasn't worked well here.
You can't sell it to us on a class system, but you can sell it to us using the racial history that has been here.
It's been everywhere, but they can pick on us for that.
We came to terms with our racial history, so we have a lot of shame about it, which is right.
It was shameful.
And so we've come to terms with that, and we fixed it.
We actually fixed it.
We didn't fix the human heart, but we fixed our country.
So the communists, the socialists play on that, try to keep that alive.
And I think that that's falling apart.
And we'll talk more about that.
Level Of Conversation00:05:12
But I want to just talk about our show last night because I think it's really important.
You know, a lot of we frequently talk about Andrew Breitbart saying politics is downstream from culture, but that doesn't mean what people think it means.
That doesn't mean that culture causes political things.
It means that culture comes first.
Culture sees the future.
You know, T.S. Eliot said that a great poet, when he writes himself, writes his time.
But when a great poet, a great writer, a great artist writes his time, he also writes the future because you can look into the time and see how things are going to unfold if he captures it so well.
That's why Hamlet has been true for 400 years.
You can see things happening today that are predicted in Hamlet because it's such a great piece of work.
And that's the thing about the culture.
And yesterday, the God King, who earned his title yesterday, I gave him that title.
He earned it yesterday.
He earned it.
He is turning the ship of the Daily Wire toward the culture, which is a wonderful, wonderful thing, bringing Candace Owens in to do a show before a live audience, getting some investigative reporters, something I've been banging the drum about for 20 years, moving into fiction, which I hope I will have a large hand in.
And, you know, it's funny because these are things that I've been militating for not for 20 years, but at the Daily Wire since I got there.
When I first saw Candace Owens, I brought her on the show and I walked out of the show and I walked into Jeremy's office like four years ago and said, you know, you've got to hire this girl.
But the thing is, I won't say that it's easy for me to do that because I actually have a gift.
I actually have a gift of seeing which way the culture is going.
I actually have a gift of seeing talent when it comes out.
You've seen me pick people out, including Knowles.
I'm still repenting for that.
I actually go to Catholic, even though I'm not a Catholic, I go to Catholic Confession for picking out Knowles' talent.
But still, I do have a gift for that.
But it's a different gift than making it happen.
This is the thing.
I've been banging this culture drum for a long time, but I'm Geppetto.
I go into a room, I make stuff.
That's my job.
That's my nature.
That's who I was made to be.
I'm not a guy who creates big structures.
I can do things because an artist travels alone and he travels fastest who travels alone.
But Jeremy is running a big operation.
He's the guy who's got to throw the money around.
He's the guy who's got to make the investments.
He's the guy who's got to make, you know, put the people in place at the right time when it'll work.
I can be ahead of my time because if I write a book and it's ahead of its time, and I've done this numerous times, it'll still sell a lot later.
You know, it'll have what they call in publishing a long tail.
It might come out and people say, I don't get this because it's ahead of its time, but people will catch up with it.
I can do that.
He can't because if he does that, he loses the money and then he doesn't get to do it.
So it's really a beautiful, beautiful thing to see what he's doing.
And I was watching.
I can't help this because, again, I am a novelist and I stand back and I look at things.
And I was watching our conversation last night and the people who are coming on and the level of conversation, the kind of conversation we're having, the fact that we're all different, the fact that Ben's a moralist and I'm a novelist and Knowles is a partisan and Jeremy is kind of having a different view of it from his capitalist perspective, we'll say.
You know, that's just the fact that we all have those different points of view and we argue in a friendly way and we talk about different things.
But we also had these people on, you know, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, came on.
Megan Kelly, who has her new podcast, came on.
I was sitting there just listening to these people who are adults, you know?
And the difference between Megan Kelly on cable news, where she is restricted by commercial concerns that she has to serve cable news, and having her just come on and talk to us with her expertise and her intelligence and the fact that she has covered courts and is a lawyer, and listening to this woman of high intelligence and insight just discuss things with us without the kind of sensationalism of either network or cable news.
That was an amazing thing.
I was sitting there going, wow, I always knew, obviously she's a bright woman, but I didn't know this was a genuinely bright person and an obviously decent person looking for answers and not going off in a partisan rant.
Governor DeSantis, the same thing, talking about working with people on the left, talking about going into black neighborhoods and talking to people who don't agree with him, who don't vote for him, but whom he wants to help, talking about the way he treated the flu and opened up Florida when everybody else was shutting down because he was reading the numbers.
And then we had on Eric Weinstein and people were going off because it's hard to know what the hell he's talking about because he talks in this very intellectual, over elevated way.
But I was trying to, in my small way, trying to understand what he was saying.
And he's a liberal.
He was on the other side and he was blaming us for a lot of things we're not to blame for.
But at the same time, I was listening to him and I thought, no, I see some areas of where we can meet, where we could talk about things.
I mean, it was just the level of conversation.
on the Daily Wire.
And I'm not doing this as an ad.
I mean, Jeremy will tell you.
I never say anything I don't mean, which can annoy the hell out of him and everybody else.
But I'm telling you, because I was really touched and moved by this, that if we had this, if we could move this spirit into the culture, we would have a very, very different culture.
I mean, that's a very, very different culture than we have now.
Sleep Quiz and Custom Mattress00:02:16
I mean, compare it to Czenk.
I don't even know how you pronounce his name.
There's a young Turk, Cenk Unger, is that how you pronounce his last name?
All right, they're telling me that's close enough for jazz, which is what we're doing here.
Listen to him when he thought that the tide was turning and Trump was going to win.
Cut 17.
Forget him being a racist.
Forget him being a fascist.
The guy's IQ is lower than 70.
He's an idiot.
He's a total moron.
And you couldn't figure out how to crush him in an election?
Man, the corporate Democrats and the mainstream media suck at this.
They absolutely, positively suck, and they brainwash smart people into compliance.
That's been the culture for 50, 60 years.
God willing, the Daily Wire is going to change that.
And good for God King Jeremy Boring, who, like I said, earned his title.
I gave him that title.
He deserves it.
I would take my hat off to him if I had a hat.
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I'm never going to make it for the rest of the day.
But so I want to talk about something else a little bit.
The Ghost of John McCain00:15:51
Again, as a novelist, just stepping back, looking at what happened, I couldn't help but feel that the ghost of John McCain hovered over everything.
And the reason this is important, the reason this is important is because it illustrates a point I've been making since Donald Trump got elected.
And a lot of people have yelled at me about it.
A lot of Trump partisans have yelled at me about it as if I were criticizing Trump, but I'm not criticizing Trump.
Trump is a world historical figure.
What I mean by that is he represents something very true about the time.
And he reminds me in this, I've come to sometimes compare him to Napoleon because Napoleon, not because he was a great, you know, Napoleon was a great general and a conqueror and more than Donald Trump is.
But Napoleon represented a moment in War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy's great novel.
He puts forward this theory that Napoleon doesn't matter, that history will find a Napoleon to represent it, that history needs Napoleon.
It'll find a Napoleon.
It just happened to be Napoleon.
I don't agree with that.
I sometimes think Tolstoy wrote that entire book.
It's 1,400 pages long.
I think he sometimes wrote that book to try and explain away the fact that the Russian people, even though they were attacked by Napoleon, loved him.
All of Europe was just absolutely taken with Napoleon.
That's all they talked about, just like Trump.
It's all they talked about was Trump.
And Trump represents something in the culture.
But Tolstoy was half right.
History does find people who represent it.
I mean, individuals matter, but history does find people who represent it.
And history in America has found Donald Trump.
Now, he lost.
Well, Arizona is still in play.
They're saying that they may have won Arizona.
But if he lost Arizona, we've certainly lost the two Republican senators we had there.
And now they have two Democrat senators.
And that was the turning point when Trump won Florida yesterday.
We thought, wow, he's in with a chance.
But then when he lost Arizona, we thought, wow, this is a much, much harder way to go.
And I have to think, you know, there may be a million reasons why he lost Arizona, but I have to think that part of it has to do with his attack on John McCain.
And John McCain was a beloved figure.
He won, you know, the Senate in Arizona again and again.
And he was a much-admired man.
And, you know, I'll tell you, when you think back, remember, it started, people always quote Trump, but it started with John McCain.
John McCain called all of Trump's followers crazies.
It was kind of the first, the pre-deplorable, deplorable line.
And this was Trump's response.
We'll play the whole thing just so you remember how egregious it really was.
This is cut 13.
So he insulted me, and he insulted everybody in that room.
And I said, somebody should run against John McCain, who has been, you know, in my opinion, not so hot.
And I supported him.
I supported him for president.
I raised a million dollars for him.
It's a lot of money.
I supported him.
He lost.
He let us down.
But, you know, he lost.
So I never liked him as much after that, because I don't like losers.
But, but, Frank, Frank, let me get to it.
He hit me.
He's not a war hero.
He's a war hero.
He's a war hero.
Five and a half years ago.
He's a war hero because he was captured.
I like people that weren't captured, okay?
I hate to tell you.
Do you agree with that?
He's a war hero because he was captured.
Okay?
You could have, and I believe perhaps he's a war hero, but right now he said some very bad things about a lot of people.
All right.
So as a politician, I really dislike McCain.
He was a poodle for the press.
He loved being called a maverick.
He never understood that when he actually ran against a Democrat, as he did against Obama, they would turn on him like the wolves and coyotes they are and rip him to pieces, which they did.
He just never quite got that it was all fake.
He was a maverick because he sometimes voted with Democrats.
The McCain-Feingold Law was absolutely horrible attack on free speech.
It needed to be busted.
It was busted by the Supreme Court finally.
His refusal to repeal Obamacare was a personal attack on Donald Trump.
We know this because he promised again and again to do it.
He had the chance to do it, and he didn't do it in a way, you know, he was dying at that point, but he flew to Washington to give it thumbs down because he wanted to get Trump for that.
He was all those things.
He was a bad Republican.
He was a rhino.
There's no question about it.
He was also a guy who was shot down in Vietnam, who broke both his arms and then was beaten with rifle butts and bayoneted and then taken to the Hannaway Hilton, the Polo prison where they tortured him some more.
His captors didn't treat him.
He was beaten.
He was offered to be released because his father was high up in Admiral and they thought it would be good press if they released him.
He refused to go.
He refused to be treated better than his men.
They then just unleashed a hellish torture on him until he finally signed some document attacking the U.S., for which he never forgave himself.
The guy was a hero.
He was a hero in a major way that, let's face it, Donald Trump, nor you, nor I, can really comprehend.
He was a gigantic, patriotic war hero.
So, you know, when Donald Trump did that, can you blame Megan McCain?
His daughter, when she stood up, here she is standing up at her father's funeral.
And this is what she said, cut 14.
We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness.
The real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who lived lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served.
So this had to have an effect on Arizona.
And, you know, if you can blame a daughter for doing that, and you can say, well, you know, get in line.
Come on.
We got to get on the Trump train.
You know, baloney, baloney.
If you're going to forgive Donald Trump for being allowed, nothing, we all forgive him.
We're all used to him by now.
You got to forgive a man's daughter for not wanting to see her hero father dissed like that.
And this had a huge effect.
You know, when I say Donald Trump is a tragic character, people think I mean that it's sad that he's the president.
That's not what I mean.
Tragedy is when two imperatives, two things that must be, conflict.
That's what tragedy is.
It's when two things that have to happen can't both happen, right?
My son Spencer, no relation, who did a great job last night on the show, he's a classic scholar.
He always talks about the Orastaya, the great play cycle, the great ancient Greek play cycle, in which the imperatives are you must not harm your parents, but you must avenge your father's death, and then your mother kills your father, right?
So you must avenge your father's death, but you can't harm your mother.
But one of those things has to happen.
That's tragedy.
And the tragedy of Donald Trump is that it takes Donald Trump to fight the press, to fight the academies, to fight the left, who have so much cultural power in this country.
It takes his rudeness.
It takes his crudeness.
It takes his insults.
It takes his brashness.
But it may have cost him Arizona.
It may have cost them Arizona.
And I'll tell you another place where the ghost of John McCain was haunting me, Lindsey Graham.
Lindsey Graham used to follow, they were good friends, but it was clear that John McCain was the kind of dominant personality.
After John McCain died, Lindsey Graham became Lindsey Graham 2.0.
Do you remember this when he was fighting?
He was defending Brett Kavanaugh.
They just play this moment.
There's cut three.
If you wanted an FBI investigation, you could have come to us.
What you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in 2020.
You've said that, not me.
You've got nothing to apologize for.
When you see Sodomire and Kagan, tell them that Lindsey said, oh, because I voted for them.
I would never do to them what you've done to this guy.
This is the most unethical sham since I've been in politics.
And if you really wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have done what you've done to this guy.
Are you a gang rapist?
No.
So that was a Lindsey Graham who never existed when John McCain was alive.
That was a Lindsey Graham who did not exist until John McCain died and let him go.
So that ghost of him was there today, yesterday when Lindsey Graham won re-election.
Here's part of his acceptance speech, cut one.
We got a mountain of debt.
There is no way for the Republican Party to get the country out of debt.
Have to work together like Ronald Reagan did in Tip O'Neill.
I may be the budget chairman.
It looks like we're going to hold the Senate.
I promise my Democratic colleagues that if you'll work with me, I'll work with you because the debt is going to ruin the country.
And I just want to remind everybody, whatever differences we have, they pale in comparison to what we believe in, which is the right to pick our leaders.
I can tell you there are people out there that hate Chuck Schumer just as much as Lindsey Graham.
That's hard to believe, isn't it?
But radical Islamists don't see us as Republicans or Democrats.
They see us as infidels.
That's, you know, that again, Lindsey Graham was always a hawk, always followed McCain in his hawkishness.
But that is a speech calling for unity, but reminding us that that unity has to come in terms, in American terms.
Maybe we're not going to have unity with people who make excuses for Islamists.
It was a powerful speech.
He went after the press.
He talked about the fact that the press lost.
And that also has to do with the ghost of John McCain.
He was a big figure last night in a lot of different ways.
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So big hero yesterday, Mitch McConnell, apex predator, cocaine, Mitch.
You know, this is another thing, another thing we should think about, right?
Partisans, people like me, you know, people who want one side to win, we frequently don't like the institutional man.
And a lot of old political hands have lectured me about this.
The institutional man is the guy like John Boehner.
He just drove me crazy, Boehner.
Mitch McConnell, I remember when Mitch would drive Ben crazy.
You know, you want them to do the right thing.
Do the moral thing.
Why don't you, where's your courage?
Where's your backbone?
But they're thinking in a totally different way.
They are pulling the strings of a gigantic puppet, which is this gigantic machine, which is the institution, the institution of the Senate, the institution of the House.
They are working.
You know, they say politics is the art of the possible.
They're working for the possible in the situation.
Remember, Mitch McConnell said the winners make laws, the losers go home.
That means you've got to win first.
That means you've got to make sure that your majority stays in place.
That means you've got to make sure when you're the leader of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, where the money is going to go, where the Democrat Party money is going to go.
This guy held off a challenge.
They were spending hundreds of millions of dollars going after Senate seats, and they lost.
They lost big.
I mean, they won.
Where did they win?
In Colorado, they won, but they lost their attempt to gain others.
We lost two seats and gained one in Alabama and may have gained another one.
So that's Mitch McConnell.
That's heroic stuff.
And they went after Mitch McConnell big time.
They set a ton of money on fire going after Mitch McConnell.
And he beat him.
He beat him.
And he's been great during the entire Trump era.
Why?
Why was he great during the Trump era?
And he wasn't before.
I don't mean to make fun of Ben making bad predictions.
We all make bad predictions.
But this was one where Ben said, Mitch McConnell will never have the guts to stand up for Supreme Court justices if the left stands against him.
Well, he proved that to be wrong.
Why was it wrong?
It was wrong because Ben was reacting to the institutional man, which is a very frustrating thing.
It's very frustrating.
These institutional guys will not act if they don't think they can win.
When he saw Trump in there, he thought, I can get these judges now.
And suddenly he turned into apex predator Cocaine Mitch.
That's exactly what happened.
Because the institution, because that possibility was there, he suddenly was a different person because he is the institutional man.
Let's take a quick look at his victory speech.
Really, quite an amazing, impressive victory, seeing there's so much against him that's cut for.
This is no time to attack our Constitution like some outdated relic.
These are the times it was made for.
This is no time to tear down statues of our founders and heroes.
This is the time to follow their example.
This is no time to declare war on our institutions because one side is angry that the framers made it hard to achieve radical change.
This is a time to defend all that we have inherited and pass it on even stronger.
That's the voice of a winner.
That's the voice of a guy who knows he has done the thing that he set out to do.
So are they going to learn anything on the left?
Times Are Changing00:11:17
You know, the media just lost.
They lost in a big, big way.
Their polls were wrong.
Their predictions were wrong.
All their attempts, I was playing yesterday, Trump is Hitler, Trump is Hitler, Trump is Hitler, all that stuff went up in smoke.
It did not work.
You know, there's a way to look at this where you just say, what happened?
Let's say Trump loses.
I mean, it's going to be close.
It's going to go into the courts.
But let's say he loses.
He didn't lose by much.
He certainly didn't get.
It was about the same, really, in terms of the popular vote as it was last time.
All that work didn't go anywhere.
The fact that Donald Trump didn't expand his base is what will have taken him down if that's the case.
But it means that everything they did was wrong.
So it means that the public was kind of making decisions, kind of supper kitchen table decisions.
It was saying, well, the economy, you know, he had a great economy, but the economy's gone now.
Look, we can sit around and talk about the fact that that's not Trump's fault.
But, you know, you're an ordinary American out there with working, not paying attention to politics every minute of the day.
You know, suddenly things are not going as well as they were going.
Donald Trump didn't do a good job.
Maybe your folks got sick from the flu and we say, well, you know, it's not Trump's fault, but Trump's the guy.
You know, so maybe people were just making kind of common sense decisions and not listening to all this garbage that makes us crazy.
Here is Jim Vandehey from Axios, a left-leaning outlet, but not an entirely dishonest outlet.
He's the CEO of Axios and co-founder, I think.
This is cut seven.
All of us have to have a little bit of humility.
And a lot of people living in bubbles have to realize they don't understand America.
Republicans way overperform.
There's so much that we're going to be unpacking in the coming weeks.
But I do think the one thing all of us can learn is to have a little bit of humility that there's something going on.
And we talked a lot about it on the show, all these flags, the votes, everything.
There's something going on out there that most of the media has been missing.
And obviously Donald Trump and Republicans are the big beneficiaries of that as we sit here today, even if Trump loses the presidency.
See, that actually is insight.
And look, I've been saying that for four years, right?
I've been saying that ever since Trump got elected.
Take a look at why.
You know, don't tell the people that they're deplorable, ugly, stupid racists.
You know, what do they say?
It's their country.
It's the people's country.
It's not your country.
You know, it's your country insofar as you are one of the people, but you have no special right to it because you went to Harvard, because you went to Yale.
You have no special right to it because they stick a microphone in your face and you get to talk on TV.
You got no, it doesn't make you any better than anybody else.
I don't care what you're an expert in.
You may not know as much as the guy on the line doing the job.
If you sit around and you studied how to, you know, this is the old comparison.
If you sat around studying how to make, you know, the pencil industry and you have a business major, so you think you know about pencils, you do not know as much as the guy who makes the eraser about making erasers.
And that's the thing that these people never understand, that people spend their money more wisely than the government can.
So taking money away from them is taking wisdom out of the market.
Obviously, there are going to be taxes, death and taxes.
We always know that's going to be there.
But this is the thing.
Will they do any of this well?
Let me show you a really funny clip of Mike Barnacle.
I think this is gut five.
On Morning Joe, he's talking to Mika Brzezinski, and he's trying to get this assessment of what, you know, what went wrong.
You can listen in real time to the guy getting everything wrong all over again.
This is gut five.
We are now living in a nation seeking an identity.
One of the few things we do together as a nation in this day and age is vote.
And we all voted yesterday.
And look where we are today.
So clearly, there's a huge, huge number of Americans who resent being told what to do, how to live, how to feel about things, resent, in particular, us, the media, for trying to tell them these things.
And whoever is president of the United States, look at COVID is going to be the number one issue to deal with.
There's no doubt about that.
But around COVID, around every other issue, every other economic issue and cultural issue, the job of the next president of the United States, whoever it is, is going to be to try to figure out how we can heal this nation because the rupture in this country is incredibly wide.
Well, and COVID did not resonate with a lot of voters.
That's right.
She's absolutely right.
What was so great about that cut from Mike Barnacle is Barnacle is saying that people don't like being told what to do, what to think.
They don't like us telling it what to do.
And obviously, COVID is going to be the big issue.
It wasn't the big issue.
That way, the economy was the issue.
The economy was the things that people in the exit polls were telling them most about.
And the other thing that was, he gets it wrong, he starts telling people what to do and what to think, even as he's telling people that they don't like being, they resent him for telling them what to do, what to think.
It's just, it's just who he is.
He can't stop himself.
And that's, of course, not even the far left, which you get over at MSNBC.
Their guy, Jason Johnson, here's his reaction to the fact that people of color were voting for Donald Trump.
This is cut nine.
We look at the lower numbers for Latino, you know, Biden underperforming with Latinos, Biden underperforming with African Americans.
I think we also have to remember to put the focus in the right place, though.
This is about white folks.
This is about white people who saw a president who was corrupt and sexist and violent and mismanaged an entire pandemic that's killed over 230,000 people by the election.
And they said, I want some more of that.
So even if every single black person and every single Latino person had come out and said, hey, we're going to support Joe Biden, it wouldn't have been enough to overcome the number of white people who are okay with Trump and his mini version of Trumpism, which is DeSantis, who was also responsible for some of the voter suppression in the state, which kept black and Latino voters from getting to the polls.
What?
Latino voters, we're going to the poll.
I mean, Trump did so well in Miami, Dave, because of the Latino voters there.
But it's all about white people.
He just can't stop hating the white people.
Even when blacks and Latinos are voting for Trump, it's white people's fault.
Unbelievable, unbelievable stuff.
And also, I just love this take from Univision's Maria Alina Salinas.
This is a cut.
Well, I don't know which cut it is.
Do you have that?
Well, you know, that has been a message throughout with Cuban Americans.
It has resonated with Cuban Americans.
But this time, the message was much stronger.
There was a lot of disinformation in radio stations in Miami and Spanish language media there.
And they really scared people into socialism.
And especially now, Venezuelans.
Venezuelans are only 2% of the vote, the Latino vote.
However, they are coming out in larger numbers.
So it really is the turnout that is being effective.
You also have Central Americans.
You also have Colombians.
So that's why it's resonating so much.
They were scared by disinformation.
I love the condescension.
It's not that they sat around and thought, these people are socialists.
We've seen some of that.
I don't want any more of that.
We'll vote for the other guy.
Common sense.
No, no, no.
Oh, those scared Latinos.
They hardly even speak English.
How could they even understand what people were?
The condescension of the left telling people who they should be according to their identities.
This is, as far as I'm concerned, and listen, this is my gift.
I do see things in the culture.
I see them up ahead.
This is the good news in this election, no matter what happens.
This is the good news.
I've been saying this for quite some time.
The racial divisions in this country are actually healing.
They are healing naturally.
People are starting to understand that, you know, everything takes time.
Things take a long time.
There was a lot of animus in this country, a lot of mistreatment of black people.
Yeah, was it international?
Sure, but still, there was something here.
You know, here we are asking people to assimilate into the culture that is the same culture that oppressed their ancestors.
That's a little bit of an extra move than Jews, Italians, and Irish.
We're asking them for a little bit of extra grace.
Conservatives have to appreciate this.
We love assimilation.
We want everybody to come in and be part of America.
But we are asking blacks for a little bit of extra grace because it happened here.
Jews were tormented in Europe.
Italians came over because they were escaping Italy.
Irish escaping the Brits.
Here, you come in, we all supposed to get together under the creed of the country.
But blacks, the problems happened here.
That's an extra step of grace required for assimilation.
But assimilation is happening, and the way we know it's happening is from the culture.
The culture is telling us it's happening.
Hamilton is telling us it's happening.
Get out, that movie Get Out, was about the fear of it's happening.
That's what it's about.
It's about the fear of black assimilation.
Will we lose our souls if we become a bigger part of America?
But the welcome mat is out now.
The welcome mat is out, and that is making the socialists crazy because that's the only thing they've got.
They can't start class war here, they have to start a race war, and that tool is falling out of their hands as we speak.
And that's why the panic, that's why the riots, that's why the overblown rhetoric from the left, which is ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, that is the left.
That's why they're spreading these false stories about the police.
That's why they're spreading this craziness about defund the police, which brought Latinos out in droves to vote for Trump.
That's what they're doing.
But the fact is, we don't hate each other in this country.
We are not, and Lincoln said it, we are not enemies, we're friends.
It's them.
It is they have built, you know, talk about building a wall.
They have built a wall between us.
I think the wall is coming down.
I think the wall is tumbling down.
And I think that's the good news of this election.
Whether there'll be more good news to come, we don't yet know, but we'll keep on it and we will find out.
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