Dave Rubin hosts a live election night special from DeSantis HQ in Tampa, celebrating Governor Ron DeSantis's re-election victory by roughly 19 points. Interviews with Jeanette Nunez and Byron Donalds highlight Florida's rejection of pandemic lockdowns and rapid post-Hurricane Ian recovery, while Carol Markowitz contrasts voting integrity in Florida versus Georgia. Rubin argues for federalism over Democratic centralization, citing the "red wave" as a rejection of woke ideology, and concludes that states like Florida serve as vital refuges of sanity where citizens exercise freedom through foot voting against medical authoritarianism. [Automatically generated summary]
Okay guys, this is going to be a bit of a crazy night, obviously for the country, also for us and this live stream right here.
So first off, we are at the Tampa Convention Center here at DeSantis Campaign Headquarters.
Victory Party, Freedom Lovin', Florida Freedom, the whole thing, it's all happening right here.
At the Tampa Convention Center.
We had a studio set up in an alternate room with beautiful lighting.
We were going to do our whole thing in there, and then at the last minute, we were like, wait, wait, wait, we need to be in the room.
So it's going to be loud, okay?
I'm telling you right now, we're doing some of this on the fly.
I think you can tell by the lighting, bit of a party atmosphere in here.
They've got the Fox feed running.
There's literally thousands of people here.
It's the convention center, so it's absolutely massive.
You can tell the feeling here is really fantastic.
Like, people are just psyched.
There's just such a feeling of that regardless of what happens throughout the country tonight, although everyone's feeling pretty good about that, that it just has been done right here.
And it's a real celebration of the guy who's going to be coming on stage in about a half hour from now, obviously, Governor Ron DeSantis.
Some early numbers are trickling in.
I've got an iPad that is connected to the internet so my guys can give me some numbers on the fly.
I'm sure many of you are watching probably on a computer or a phone or an iPad.
You've got a TV on.
Sounds like something good is being reported on Fox right at the moment.
But yeah, there's a real feeling that this wave is going to happen.
You don't want to count the chickens.
Before they hatch, but I'm just super psyched to be here in Florida and doing this.
So bear with us if we have some technical stuff and some audio stuff.
The Lieutenant Governor of Florida, Jeanette Nunez, is going to join us in a few minutes.
Also, Congressman Byron Donald.
Who is the congressman from the Fort Myers-Naples-Sanibel area dealing with all this Hurricane Ian craziness.
He's going to join us.
Fox News' Lisa Booth is going to join us.
Carol Markowitz from the New York Post is going to join us.
John Cardillo is going to join us.
We are going to try to get the governor.
That is the plan after he speaks.
But, as I think you'll probably hear, the guy has pretty much lost his voice.
He has been out there, despite all the polling and all the energy and all the numbers, he's been out there alongside Casey DeSantis, the first lady, and they have been campaigning, busting their butts.
So his voice is going a little bit, but hopefully we'll get him.
But it's a serious celebration here.
One of the many bars is about 10 feet away, so I will probably bust out some tequila once we get the official numbers from Florida.
And I think we have the Lieutenant Governor coming in in just a couple minutes, and we're just really doing this on the fly, guys, and we appreciate you watching, whether you're on Rumble or Locals or on YouTube right now.
I voted this morning, and I think we've got the Lieutenant Governor right now.
We're gonna get her mic'd up real quick, and then we're just gonna jump right into it.
For those of you that live in Florida, you get it.
For those of you that just watch my show, or whatever it might be, just reading about what's going on here in Florida, there really is just a... there is a renaissance of freedom.
People walking across the camera, what'd I tell you guys?
As I said, we had a studio over there.
We wanted to be in the party atmosphere, so we're just going for it tonight.
This is called live production.
There you go, walking under the camera.
From what I'm hearing, let's just quickly, as I wait for the Lieutenant Governor to check in here, Right now we're seeing that Governor DeSantis is up 8 points in Miami-Dade County, which is absolutely massive, with 60% in.
He lost Miami-Dade by 20 points back in 2018.
So it's worth noting that not only are the numbers changing, but as I said several times on the show in the last couple weeks, Governor DeSantis, congressman at the time DeSantis, only won in 2018.
So something really remarkable has happened here in Florida and I really believe it is the blueprint that has to be mapped across all of the country.
A couple other things that are rolling in at the moment is that Republican Governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine, is expected to win his re-election, according to Fox News.
And as I said, Fox is going right behind us, so we're just going to do this all on the fly.
I told the guys that, I just told my audience, we had a nice studio in a side room ready to go.
It's going to be nice and quiet.
And at the last minute, I forced everybody right here in the back.
What do you make of what is going on here tonight and broadly in Florida?
unidentified
Well, I mean, I think this is the beginning of a movement, right?
It is a movement that recognizes what we've done, what Governor DeSantis has done in Florida, protecting people's liberties, making sure that kids can get a quality education without indoctrination, protecting parents' rights, And ultimately, making sure that people can live their lives, open their businesses, run their businesses, have employees come to work, and what you're seeing here is the culmination of a tremendous amount of enthusiasm.
New Floridians, old Floridians, people that have lived here all their lives, 7th generation Floridians, and everyone realizes And what we've done here is probably nothing short of historic.
Can you talk a little bit about what it was like at the height of COVID When the governor really, you know, people forget now, like as if everything was open the whole time and everything else, but when the governor really was going against Fauci, going against the CDC, fighting to keep everything open, you along, side him obviously, what kind of pressure was brought to bear on you guys?
unidentified
It was a tremendous amount of pressure from the corporate media, from all the liberal elites, from the establishment, you know, folks that thought they knew better, everyone from Fauci on down, They were criticizing us.
They were saying that we were going to be, you know, the worst thing that Florida was going to be, you know, the kiss of death.
And so, you know, the governor stayed the course.
He didn't flinch.
He did not cave to the pressures that came from all over.
And I think that that's a testament to his leadership style, his courage.
And then I think people recognize a leader when they see him.
Someone that's willing to make tough decisions, because there were difficult decisions, let's not kid ourselves.
Not a lot was known at the time, a lot of fear, a lot of panic, a lot of it driven by the media.
But he made those difficult decisions, he stood firm, and he realized that he was doing what was in the best interest of Floridians.
And if that was going to cost him his job, so be it.
But I think the proof is in the pudding here, what we're seeing, again, the amount of people that have moved to Florida, the amount of people that can come to us and tell us, I have my job because of you.
I was able to keep my family business because of you.
My child was able to get an education because of you.
That is above any one individual.
That's above any one particular race.
So that's why I always say freedom was on the ballot this time.
Because, again, it now seems easy to look back and be like, oh, he did the right stuff.
But sometimes people actually, it happens to them on the fly.
And since you know him in a more intimate way than everyone watching.
unidentified
So what I would say is that leadership traits are always there, right?
So courage, bravery, commitment, principle.
Not someone that's going to waver and is going to take a committee and do a poll He led, and I think that that's always, intrinsically, who he is.
But, of course, you have to learn on the fly.
You have to sit through data.
You have to trust your instincts.
You have to, again, be willing to make difficult decisions that may not be popular.
But, when things settled, when the dust settled, and when we saw all the different moving parts as related to COVID, and beyond that, obviously hurricanes and other things, other crises we've had to deal with, building collapses, things that weren't in the playbook, right?
I got one more for you because I'm sure you want to get out there with all the people as well.
Going on the assumption that tonight works out, and I sense that we're pretty much okay saying that here, what do you guys have planned for the next couple of years?
for you because I'm sure you want to get out there with all the people as well.
Going on the assumption that tonight works out, and I sense that we're pretty much okay
saying that here, what do you guys have planned for the next couple of years?
I think you're going pretty well.
unidentified
I think they are going well and we want to make sure that they continue to go well.
Florida's Future Directions00:05:50
unidentified
So a lot that we still have to tackle, a lot on education, a lot on the environment.
I think the governor has already talked a lot about combating some of that corporate wokeness like ESG and continuing down that path because we see what's happening.
Clearly we want to tackle We'll be working on a special session to address some of those issues.
And then, you know, who knows what the next four years have in store for us.
I'm sure it'll be interesting.
It's always fun.
It's always, you know, a lot of energy.
And he's someone that, again, energy in the executive and a lot of decisiveness you're gonna get out of him.
Well, Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Munoz, I thank you for your service, and it's an exciting night.
When I voted today, to go in with the pens, actually mark it down, put it in an envelope, then walk it over to... Oh, is that how you... Oh, it wasn't.
You put it in like a folded thing, and I walk it over to another person who confirms that I am me, even though that I was right there.
Isn't it weird in a way, it's almost like the default position is that nothing works, so when things don't work, we're all just like, oh sure, elections always used to be done at midnight, but now they're three week adventures, and people are like, oh well.
unidentified
That's how it is now, right?
That's just the thing that we do now.
But Florida's so interesting because they had some election trouble, and then they decided, like, no, we're going to fix this.
And then they fixed it.
And just living in a state where that happened is so magical and, you know, encouraging.
We really should all have sidekicks as real as you.
Congressman Byron Donalds is going to come in a few minutes.
I'm actually thrilled he's here.
You know, so Congressman Byron Donalds is the congressman from southwest Florida.
That's Fort Myers, Naples, Sanibel Captiva area.
Obviously Hurricane Ian just completely decimated the area.
Even coming here today, We drove across Florida.
When you drive through southwest Florida, 75, it's known as Alligator Alley because you're basically on one road, you got like a long moat, everglades on the side, and you're seeing alligators and birds and whatever.
But as we got towards southwest Florida, the further west we came, started seeing more of the destruction and just old, awesome trees that were toppled over and roofs that are ripped off and all sorts of stuff.
But Florida is rebuilding so incredibly fast.
It's really remarkable.
So the congressman is on his way in just a minute.
I'll give you some numbers.
I'm sure you guys are watching on many screens at this point.
Right now is 63% in here in Florida and we'll try to widen out of Florida.
I get I get I'm very Florida focused right now.
We have Marco Rubio a little over 54%, Val Demings about 44%, so that's looking good.
DeSantis up by 13 points right now, 56 to 43 for Charlie Crist.
13 points!
I want DeSantis at 14, 15 points.
And with 16% in Georgia, which is a very low number obviously, Raphael Warnock 56%, and Herschel Walker at 43.
But that's very early, so we'll see about that.
But let's take it back to Florida right now, Congressman Byron Donalds.
It's gonna be tough because we brought so many people into the state.
This is what I try to explain to Joe Biden and those guys.
When you have a lack of product, but everybody's got money, the prices go up.
Well, in Florida, we didn't have...
Yeah, I gotta do my job, man.
That's what people send me to do.
But listen, when you have a limited amount of housing, which, I mean, in Florida, we have housing stock issues because people keep moving here.
But when you have so many people come, and then they have the money to spend, the prices go up.
Secondarily, roads.
The roads were built for an estimate of X amount of people.
Y showed up because the Democrats don't know what they're doing in the blue states.
So it was a good problem to have overall.
Now where we are, you kind of get an opportunity for that to settle in.
We're going to open, you know, build more houses, stuff like that.
Hopefully at the federal level, we get our economy back on track and we get inflation under control.
So your home builders, your electricians, your roofers, they're not having to pay through the nose for their materials, which then falls on the back of the people who actually buy the homes.
Byron, I want you to get out there and party with the people.
The last numbers I'm looking at here in Florida, that 56% DeSantis, 43% Crist, is just beautiful.
It's just beautiful.
I don't know if you guys saw it, there was a clip going viral from CBS News, I think it was, earlier today, where they sent some people out and about in Florida just trying to find Charlie Crist supporters, and they literally could not find anybody.
It was actually Quite hilarious.
I have a non-Floridian with me.
unidentified
That's true, although you've made your best efforts to turn me into one.
What do you think, we've talked about this a little bit privately, usually over some drinks, but what do you think we have to do about all of the people that have gotten everything wrong?
Not just the ones who got everything wrong, but who actively were trampling our freedom.
unidentified
The Atlantic did the big...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I hope tonight is the beginning of the demise of traditional pollsters.
And I've got to tell you something that really pissed me off was GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel saying, oh, now Republicans are going to win big.
They've got to make peace.
They've got to work with Democrats.
Hell no.
We've got to crush them.
Make them feel pain.
There will be no amnesty.
No amnesty.
They need to be held to account.
I want to see people, Dave, I want to see them prosecuted for what they did to Americans, knowing they were pushing products, profiteering, and doing it on junk data.
And that's not hyperbole.
That's not sensationalism.
Lives were destroyed.
People died alone.
Weren't allowed to go to funerals.
I think people need to be held to account.
Investigations need to happen in Congress.
People need to be prosecuted.
Don't walk them out of their houses like they do to the right.
We don't know exactly when the governor is going to jump in, but what we're going to try to do, I think we're going to keep the live stream going.
Until the governor jumps on.
When he jumps on, I'm just going to get out of the way.
All of the mainstream media is right behind us over there, so they're going to give you the traditional view, obviously, of the governor's speech.
We thought it would be fun, since we did this all on the fly and we left the studio and we just camped out here, basically.
We're right in the midst of this thing.
As I said, we got the bar two feet away from us.
We thought it would be fun.
When the governor comes out, I'm going to get right out of the way.
We're going to just shift the camera We'll give you a different view than anyone is going to have because they obviously all have the mainstream networks and all that, have their cameras directly on the stage.
So we'll see who comes out.
I think Byron, who is just here, Congressman Byron Donalds, I think he's going to speak before the governor.
There may be one or two other people.
Let's see.
I got a tweet here from Mike Cernovich.
Mike's been on the show a couple of times.
I used to get in a lot of trouble for having Mike Cernovich on, and he's become actually quite an astute political pundit, I think.
He said, I'm reading these just on the fly, he says, Red Wave doesn't even begin to describe what's happening.
The turnout doesn't even seem possible.
Total destruction occurring.
I don't even see how they can get away with cheating at this point.
Let me mention, let me talk about the cheating, this cheating situation for a second.
Because everyone feels, everyone, regardless of what side you're on, if you're a Republican, you kind of felt like Trump got screwed one way or another, depending on how deep you went into that, right?
If you're a Democrat right now, for the last week, Hillary Clinton and MSNBC and The View has been telling you that the Republicans are about to cheat.
There's a very noxious and, I would say, pernicious idea in the system that no one's going to trust the system.
It's very dangerous and it's why I was so proud, again, to vote today in such a clear, concise way here in Florida.
A piece of paper, a pen, A private booth, an envelope, walking that over to another person at the actual receptacle where I then put it in.
It was all done and it was clean and legit.
And there simply was going to be no doubt that things were going to be done on the up and up here in Florida.
And that's why I think this election, as I said to Carol, It's about sanity, and it's about confidence.
I would love, actually, if after this massive destruction, which I've been calling for for a long time, right?
I have.
The Democrat Party needed and needs, again, I still don't want to get ahead of myself, it still needs to be destroyed.
Let's see what happens for the rest of the night.
It's looking good right now.
unidentified
And Cernovich's tweet notwithstanding, but let's see.
So as I said, when the governor gets out here, I'm going to get out of the way.
And then our hope, of course, is that we're going to get the governor.
He's losing his voice.
If you heard the governor the last couple of days, these guys, even though they knew, we knew what was going to happen here in Florida.
We have that luxury because things have been so good and so strong.
But he and Casey, the first lady, they just campaigned their butts off.
They were all over the state for the last, really the last two weeks.
And really, if you think about it, you know, if you go from Hurricane Ian, which was only a month ago, and that they were out there every single day in the midst of a campaign, right?
And basically had to stop campaigning, end that, and then just roll right into everything that's going on right now, the last couple weeks and see these results.
Anyway, on a personal note, I have to say how refreshing it is to be in a place that is congruent with my beliefs.
I moved here so that this could happen.
So that maybe I could be a little piece of this.
So that the ideas that were working in Florida, that I was watching from 3,000 miles away in California, Watching all the wrong ideas, and I was watching all the right ones here, and I thought, I want to be part of that.
And the fact that now I'm sitting here on an incredible night like this, that I've been welcomed into the fold, into what's going on here, in the right way, in Florida, is just so freaking awesome.
It really, it's a complete validation of my life.
Not to make it about me on this night, because it's not.
It's about America.
unidentified
And I got a lot of people waving at me and yelling at me from the side.
You know, it's interesting about Stacey Abrams because she was an election denier who ran for governor last time, obviously did not accept the results, but nobody really called her out in the mainstream.
unidentified
And as you know, I always say that it's because of what?
Democrat privilege that you can lie and cheat and get everything wrong and destroy things, but you fail your way up.
But it's sort of interesting because in the last couple weeks the media really shifted off the Georgian gubernatorial race, which kind of makes you think that it is not going to go well for the Democrats.
But credit where credit's due with about 30% in, Abrams does have a little bit of a lead over there.
Like, I'm excited, clearly, because of what's going on here in Florida, and I'm in a room of freedom-loving people that are happy tonight, no matter what happens with everything else.
But if this continues, if this continues the way it looks like it's going to continue, then the X The liberals, or the disgruntled liberals, the libertarians who just want government out of the way, the conservatives who may have different religious beliefs, all of these things, all of these groups could come together and say, well, what does unite us?
What is it that we all just voted for?
What did we all vote against?
What did we all leave from the blue states?
Why did we come to the red states?
unidentified
And the common denominator It is freedom, guys.
It is freedom that people want to live free.
It is the most fundamentally human attribute that there is.
That you watching this right now want to live your life in a certain way and to organize a society, we need something called a government.
But our founders did this thing in such a beautiful way with our Constitution.
To limit the power of government.
To give you a bill of rights to enshrine these incredible protections.
And then, unfortunately, in the course of 250 years, the government kept coming.
We stopped realizing what makes us free people.
What makes America so special.
We started becoming like the rest of the world.
We started becoming like the countries that our ancestors fled.
Two fled from to come here.
But maybe we're about to get it back.
Maybe we're about to get it back and we will look back, imagine.
Guys, and I really mean this.
And I think about this often.
Running a DeSantis ad right now.
I think about this often as a new father of two beautiful young boys.
It's like, what if I can say to my kids, you know, in 10 years, in 15 years from now, right?
We start talking politics.
And they ask me, what was that thing?
What was the squad?
What was woke?
And I just tell them about this little blip, this aberration, this ridiculous time that was fueled by algorithms, and this thing, and this thing, and we didn't know what we were doing, and we almost gave it all away, but we fought for it, we got it back, and then we gave that great promise to the next generation.
I think we can do it.
I think it starts right here.
Call me crazy!
Alright, so they're going to start the speakers on stage soon.
So depending on who goes on, I may continue for a little bit or get out of the way.
I promise you I will get out of the way when Governor DeSantis gets back up there.
And then we're going to see.
I mean, the guy has been talking forever, so I'm not going to beg the guys.
I'm going to get him on for tonight.
We'll see if we can do it.
If not, I'm sure we can do it in the next couple weeks or whatever it might be.
Let's see.
Wait, this is not a joke?
This is not a joke?
I'm being told what I'm about to read to you is not a joke.
And he's telling me it's not a joke.
Joe Biden has turned off the TV in the West Wing, according to a White House staffer.
What he was watching, we don't know.
Geez, wow, well that really does mean that things are looking good.
Republican Governor Chris Sununu of New Hampshire has won re-election, so that is good.
So at the moment...
As far as I can tell, nothing has gone horrifically awry yet, right?
We haven't seen one of the major states that we thought might flip.
We haven't seen any of them fall.
I hope you guys can hear me, by the way.
It's getting louder and louder here every second, and I can tell if DeSantis doesn't have a voice, I ain't gonna have much.
By the end of this.
But the speakers are going to speak soon.
We'll see who goes up there.
It's obviously a massive celebration here.
Just everywhere.
I mean, literally everywhere I'm looking, it's just smiling people.
We had a very orderly program planned for you, but we just felt that this was the better way to do it.
And yeah, the signs are coming in.
People are psyched.
And you know, there's also some other interesting stuff, some subtext to what's going on here in Florida.
Obviously, President Trump gave a big rally here in Miami two days ago.
He clearly endorsed Marco Rubio.
He endorsed Governor DeSantis.
He did vote for Governor DeSantis, and there's video of him saying that today.
You know, there is this potential.
It's, I think, mostly a media creation at the moment, this tension between DeSantis and Trump.
But it's like, who knows what it really is and what they're doing on the deal.
I also, again, I've said this a million times, I have no idea what DeSantis wants to do in the long term.
But I do know that he loves this state.
But the Republicans right now, there's a bright prompt there.
There really is a feeling like, man, there's some good people here, regardless whether, if we're looking at 2024, whether it was Trump.
And there's obvious great reasons for that.
And there's some Some messy reasons that you wouldn't want it to happen.
Obviously there's DeSantis.
There's Mayor Suarez here in Miami who I think has a great opportunity for a much bigger stage.
You've got Nikki Haley.
You've got maybe a Marco Rubio or a Ted Cruz.
It's just a better crop than you have on the Democrat side.
But what I really think will be interesting The takeaway from tonight, again, assuming things kind of continue to shake out the way we're looking at them, is what are the Democrats going to do if Joe Biden has shut the TV off?
And I know his bedtime isn't well, technically, his bedtime is 830.
unidentified
So he shut the TV off just a little bit early tonight.
Worst case scenario is that federalism has to fight for itself, meaning that the states, which are supposed to be independent experiments of democracy, will have to do it, and they'll do it very differently, and Florida will just be very different than New York is, and Texas will be very different than California is.
That's the way it's happening already.
But that's also why, you know, it's one of these weird things.
I'm so excited to be here in Florida for this, because this is where it directly affects my life.
But we shouldn't, you know, in a functional society, if things were working the way they were intended to work, it wouldn't matter to you that much if you lived in Florida, whether Nevada was red or blue, right?
It really wouldn't matter that much.
There would be some level of it, But not that much.
And we flipped everything.
You know, it's ironic, right?
Why did the Pilgrims come to America?
Why did the Boston Tea Party happen?
unidentified
Why did we fight to create this incredible free country?
So basically from everything I'm seeing here, there's been no disasters yet.
So far so good, guys.
You know, I'll throw in a couple comments from the locals, community, and then if the governor doesn't get up here soon, I think we'll probably end up cutting the stream and I'm gonna get out there and party with these people.
They also got a pretty sweet food spread.
Republicans don't mess around.
It's all good out there.
Jesse says, do you think there will be rioting when Republicans win the House and the Senate?
unidentified
Well, Jesse, let's just, let's just, let's pace it.
But look, I do honestly believe that using violence and occasionally releasing it when it feels necessary or prudent is one of the tools that the Democrats have.
Why did we have all of those, that summer of peace, the riots all over these blue cities when Trump was president and then Biden becomes president and there's no more BLM, right?
There's no more fighting over systemic racism.
Antifa kind of disappears.
It's like the Democrats use these people as foot soldiers.
Is it coordinated, uncoordinated?
It's a little hard to fully understand how they do it.
But these are the same people.
Maxine Waters, you know, get in their faces.
AOC, the point of protest is to make people uncomfortable.
They've instigated so much of this.
The shooting of Steve Scalise, all of this stuff.
And one of the things we'll have to decide, again, as the states maybe go in their separate ways, is we're not going to want much out of them.
Alright, so I think a mistake did get across before.
Maybe it was that I couldn't hear properly, but the Ohio race is very early on.
So I think I did say that earlier, and I apologize.
There's obviously a lot going on here at once.
Let's see, EK says, this is a little out of what's happening specifically tonight, I want to know how Dave keeps up his schedule and still looks happy and rested all the time.
Well, I can definitely tell you in the last three months since Justin and Luke, I am not as rested as I used to be.
But fortunately, we do have a nice amount of help and David's doing an incredible job.
You know, I love what I do.
That really is the truth.
How could I not love what I'm doing right now, right?
Like, this is the coolest gig in the world.
Like, I'm literally sitting here in the state that I love, talking about stuff that I love, and fighting for the things that I believe in.
Surrounded by people that I love.
Not only who work with me, but who are in this audience.
And being part of something that I think is important.
Like that's the main thing that kind of gets me going.
That really is the main thing.
And I try to take that into all of the parts of my life that I can.
And it's not to say that at times it isn't hard, or at times you're not going to believe this every now and again, someone online says something mean to me, but you know, you just get past it.
But I think the other things are, I try to exercise every day, at least a half hour of cardio, I think that really helps.
I try not to bring the telephone into the bedroom, I think that really helps.
Try to eat right.
Drink a decent amount of water.
You know, I just, I've got good friends.
I've got a good family.
Yeah, things are good.
Okay, so something has flipped a little bit here, but again, this is early with only 37%.
Brian Kemp, obviously incumbent Republican, has the lead at 50%.
Stacey Abrams at 49%.
And again, that's one of the bizarre races because there was, you know, the media loved, loved, loved Stacey Abrams and then suddenly in the last two weeks they kind of got real quiet about her so who knows what's gonna happen there.
Oh I see we're testing some cameras on the fly that could be interesting we might be able to get a camera to move within the room.
The Herschel Walker Warnock race is also tightening about six points separate them but again it's very very early in people are screaming they're very happy here.
Okay, and the Ohio race is just way too early.
Alright, if you want to throw me a couple more questions, and then I think, we don't know what time this address is going to go, so there's obviously guys, I know you love me and I appreciate it, and I love you too.
There's so many places that you can get full coverage of all of this.
So my hope was that we could go until DeSantis comes out.
But since they haven't even started the program, I suspect we're probably not going to do that.
I might jump on and do some live streaming from my phone.
I'll certainly be in the locals community talking to you guys.
Try to do a live chat a little bit later and see what else is going on.
Let's see, so I'll just do... We'll go for about five more minutes, and if we don't have word on DeSantis, I think we'll wrap up.
All's good.
Macy says, is David with you tonight?
No!
The two children did not want to come to the big election event and be in the car for four and a half hours from Miami to Tampa, so David is home with both babies.
I have no doubt that I have 7,000 text messages with updates about boobs.
She liked that one.
She liked that one.
Alright, yeah, we're getting these early results in Ohio, so I don't want to get too lost in all of that.
Tim says, what are you drinking tonight?
I have not drank anything yet tonight, but there's a full bar about two feet that way.
There's bars throughout, and it really is a celebration here.
And what was nice is it was a celebration from the second we got to the hotel, which is a couple blocks away.
Everyone in the hotel lobby, you could feel it.
People were just like, tonight's going to go well, at least here in the free state of Florida.
And how cool to just plant our flag and be like, we're going to do it right here.
And as I said, even if it doesn't, even though things are seemingly tracking well throughout the country, even if the night turns or we don't get results or whatever, you have to find those blips of goodness.
And if you're watching this right now, and let's say you live in Cali, and I know a lot of you, Especially because I talk to you guys in the locals community.
I know a ton of you have either left California or you're thinking of leaving to California.
It's like by the end of tonight, as Newsom wins again, and LA probably sticks with this Democrat mayor and all this stuff, it's like you have a chance to pick up and go.
And that's a beautiful thing.
You can't do that in most countries in the world because they have more centralized governments than we have here in the United States.
And that's also why the Democrats hate our system.
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And they're always trying to, we want to add Supreme Court justices.
Republicans... I actually couldn't see that last part, but it sounded like things are going pretty well.
Isn't it fun, I suppose, to be watching something that's a little bit looser, and a little bit sane, and a little bit more real than whatever the robots on CNN and MSNBC are doing?
With their charts, right?
Oh, the white people live here, and white working class people are here, and black people are over here, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and it's all just like, it's so boring and gross, and they get everything wrong, and they're so lost in the numbers.
It's why on the show I try to talk about ideas More than I talk about numbers.
Because I just think, I think ideas are what matter.
Ideas are what, over time, turn states red, and wrong ideas, I suppose, turn states blue.
You guys don't get to see that normally during the show because he's sitting behind the camera.
He's a little camera shy.
We'll see if Phoenix maybe wants to wave, too.
Oh, we got people taking pictures of the camera right now.
Sir, you're using your flash.
He's using his flash.
All right, so it sounds like Governor DeSantis is going to come out in about eight minutes, so if you can bear with me for eight more minutes off the cuff, on the fly, we'll get a couple more questions.
All right, I'm getting some updates here.
Don't worry, guys.
Getting some updates.
Things are being copied and pasted as we go right now.
By the way, although we are in Tampa, which is about a four and a half hour drive, we are going to do a show tomorrow.
So we're going to get up crack of dawn tomorrow.
I don't know that we can make it for the 11 a.m.
show.
That might be pushing it, but we will be doing a live show tomorrow.
Maybe we'll make it a happy hour show and hopefully there'll be plenty to celebrate.
I also sense that tonight's going to be a bit of a late night.
There will be plenty to celebrate and as I said the bar is two feet over there and I'm being told that they do have tequila.
Let's see, Ryan in the locals community says JD Vance is encroaching on Tim Ryan.
Do you think he's going to win tonight?
I would be surprised if he does not.
Look, this is one of those things where How many times did I say on the show in the last two weeks, we all live in our own bubble and I am just like you, right?
I am a person just like you are.
We all cater our news to ourselves.
I do my best to get a plurality of voices and opinions and all of those things.
I was trying to find people that really were supporting Tim Ryan to really get an understanding because it's clear to me why you would vote for JD Vance.
If you're in Ohio and you're upset about the fentanyl, and you're upset about what's going on with the border and people that are moving all the way up there, and you're upset about what's happening to the economy there, like, it all makes sense.
I don't know what the real argument for Tim Ryan is, but it sounds like it's going to be a close race.
Oh, it looks like Marco Rubio is giving his acceptance speech right now.
That is somewhere else here in the free state of Florida.
And I have to say, I have to say, you know, I've gotten to know Senator Rubio a little bit.
He would fully want this to be said, but I was at a fundraiser a couple weeks ago where there were a whole bunch of Republicans there, big-time Republicans.
Dr. Oz was there, and Adam Blacksalt was there, and J.D.
Vance was there, and Blake Masters was there, and Senator Rubio.
Major money people are there, and they were all there to give a talk and schmooze and raise funds and everything.
And as the night began, Senator Rubio got up first.
He said, I hope you guys don't mind if I just speak quickly and get going, but my son's football game is tonight.
And he said, my son isn't the greatest, but he's playing tonight, and I really want to be there for that, because he doesn't play all the time.
So he said, I hope you'll vote red.
I hope you'll support me.
And I hope you don't take offense that I'm going to get going.
And he just left.
And I thought it was actually really, like, nice and human and decent.
And I don't know if he made any money that night.
I don't know if his campaign people weren't thrilled.
But he's been through the wringer, right?
The guy's run for president.
Trump banged him up pretty badly when he did that.
You may remember that.
But Trump's endorsing him now.
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And he won by a landslide here in Florida tonight.
So now that the mail-in ballots are getting out of the way, the early voting's getting out of the way, or the mail-in ballots, whatever, but the early voting, Republicans like day of voting, so just absolutely awesome.
Absolutely awesome.
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All right, so Congressman Byron Donalds is going to talk.
Why don't we try to get me out of the way for a moment?
I'm going to get out of the way so you can hear Congressman Byron Donalds.
I think he may be bringing the governor on.
If the audio is absolutely terrible, I may just come back for a sec and then we'll cut the feed again.
We're doing this on the fly.
We just felt like trying something a little bit different.
I thank you guys for bearing with us.
But let the congressman take it away.
And one way or another, I think I'll be back in some form or another throughout the evening.
Thanks for watching, everybody.
God bless America.
God bless the free state of Florida.
And enjoy the rest of your evening, everybody.
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You know, I've been to a lot of states in the last two years.
You know, I've been to a lot of states in the last two years.
I've been told in Arizona, in Nevada, in Massachusetts, in Illinois, in North Carolina, in Georgia, in Texas,
that a red wave is coming to the United States of America.
And that red wave is starting right here in the great state of Florida.
We have four new Republican members going to the House of Representatives tonight.
We have our new colleague and your former Secretary of State, Laura Lee.
A veteran of our military, Emporee Hills.
A former servant of our great state of Tallahassee, Erin Maynard.
And a personal favorite of mine as well, she's a rock star, you're going to hear her soon, Ms.
Anna Pulley, y'all give her a round of applause.
Did y'all just see what wonderful people y'all did?
I mean, Of course, a million votes for him.
Woo!
Wilson Simpson is going to be our Agriculture Commissioner.
He has re-elected the President as Attorney General of the United States of America.
But look, he has the resistance.
The top of the food chain is a guy who four years ago was newly elected Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
He then became America's Governor Ron DeSantis.
And he is now being crowned by me.
This is all on top of my head, y'all.
American People's Verdict00:03:26
unidentified
We have been crowned by me and the man who knows how to set Charlie Prince into permanent retirement.
God bless you.
Applause.
None of this, none of this would have been possible without all of you.
You are the ones who have knocked on the doors.
You are the ones who made the calls.
You are the ones who texted your friends.
You are the ones who pushed somebody out of the front.
You are the ones who broke the checks.
We know who you are.
We see you.
We thank you.
But more than that, You have told the rest of the country we are sick and tired
of Democrat leadership and if you're enough, we don't want to see it anymore.
You told the sound and clear they could keep their lockdowns in New York.
You told the...
You told them loud and clear they could keep kids out of class from Miss Chicago.
I love you both. I love you both. I75 or I95 is the land of Miami International or Jacksonville International. You are
now in the land of the free, which is the right to have votes.
So now I have also a special joy because in a couple days we have to go back to Washington,
and we get to look at the rostrum in the House of Representatives.
Yeah, I guess they like that one.
You are now fired by the American people.
Yeah, I guess they like that one.
I guess they like that one.
You know, Chuck Schumer...
Again, Chuck Schumer, but nobody wants to see him anyway.
But we're going our way to take it back to the United States safe.
But man, Flora, I gotta tell you.
The one thing I'm really happy about tonight is I have to wait for Miami-Dade to report it.
I mean, the people in Miami-Dade said, oh, uh-uh.
Uh-uh.
Uh-uh.
Ron DeSantis kept our businesses open, and he's to be rewarded.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages.
Now, these are children running around the world at night, and they're getting all kinds of snacks every day.
But I'm going to tell you right now, in a couple of moments, I'm trusting you, some very, very few moments.
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unidentified
Shh.
Don't give up, Ron.
In a few moments, you are going to do the thing that the rest of America has been waiting to do.
for the newly re-elected Democratian Freedom Standing for America's Governor Ron DeSantis.
Thank you.
Let me see what county this is.
This is Davie County.
All right, no votes are in, but what happened two years ago at the presidential level?
Well, Trump was a big winner of that county.
He took about 12,000, 15,000 votes total raw.
Here we are.
11,005.
We're doing that recording.
So that's out there.
Let me come back out here.
Do you mind, guys?
And let me do the, uh, shoot.
You did not work.
You're good.
I'm going to reload it for you.
Why are you reloading?
One thing that's pretty interesting about North Carolina, when Bill and I had an opportunity to talk to Ted Bugg,
who was in town, he moved from Flushing to Barnard.
And it's a state of the art, and it's as weird, apparently not as exciting.
And basically, it's just, which is what respect the judge in North Carolina.
One thing that's really happened in these cities, though, is the amount of people who have moved into Raleigh
and Charlotte and that whole area, though, that has changed as a population.
A lot of people are talking about how many people left New England or New York for Florida.
And I found that changed something there.
North Carolina, I don't have it this time around, but those big counties that Kellyanne mentioned,
and those urban areas, I want to watch it while I'm here in my car.
Yeah, but it's not only rural, it's just from the river,
and this is our main way, main way, from here in Raleigh to Raleigh to Raleigh.
The place that you're seeing here, on the downland end of the river,
virtually all of the inland road is gonna be mainland balanced.
Because they start processing from the mainland, they're bouncing over.
Newsy is before the townships, is behind in these races,
won by a small number of people.
and several hundred thousands of those because the local economy is becoming
an expert question.
Just to cue Florida as a whole, Ohio, we're watching very closely,
that's a Republican defense, but Pennsylvania also,
the Republican seat, they're trying to hold onto it
as is North Carolina.
Yeah, I'm gonna have to offer you the political commentary.
Okay.
Arizona's Tight Race00:05:18
unidentified
Maybe one time, but please, and I'm not saying you should,
but the GOP's got this, Florida, Florida, Jerry Maynard.
Well, that's a pretty big track, but then if it lets us talk about
the Republican sauce too, that's accurate.
It was really a big deal for a lot of us to see the open room,
because the GOP has access to a lot of the new defense,
so I want to let you know that it's really important here
to a lot of us in this room.
And so, I mean, it's amazing that even with a lot of the cuts,
we did not get a lot of the cuts to the actual fights.
And some of the communities that see the cuts,
they're like, except for our North Carolina team,
it's not a big deal.
I mean, we're talking about getting the team to be together
and having a good roster.
We're going to begin here in Battle Ground State of Arizona.
It is 9 o'clock in the east and voltages close in 15 more states.
We're gonna begin here in battleground state of Arizona, where a Democrat Senator Mark Kelly and Republican venture
capitalist, Blake Master, are in very tight race.
Over in Wisconsin, in Colorado Republican Senator Mark Johnson, Democrat Lieutenant Governor Mandela Bronx,
also locked in a very close race in Wisconsin.
In Colorado, also a two-thirdly call here by Democrat Senator Michael Fedde.
We lose at this point Republican Kaleena Jo Jay, who is a local business owner, independent type Republican,
has a good chance to take that seat.
We can project that in Iowa, the Huffington and Chuck Grassley has a solid lead in the incentive race.
The flexibility to election he will become, if not restored in the sitting Senate.
In New York, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will win his fifth term in office.
Senator Gerald Grant will win his third term in office.
Senator John Holden has to leave, but we do not have enough data to make that call.
Republicans want to vote for the two-member Senator Gerald Grant.
We'll win as they're trying to win us.
There's a code that can project that Republican Senator John Holton
has to leave, but we do not have an update yet to make that call.
And Republican Senator John Finnan has won reelection in South Dakota.
As we head to the ballots, we'll come up in the Senate.
We're taking down a few Democrats with 39, Republicans with 33,
we have a majority of 51.
Republicans, again, holding those seats in Florida, they're looking at Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina,
but they're leaving with their golf seats.
And now we're versus the other side.
and 9-0-1, and we're gonna see what just sits there for a really long time, and it's gonna represent.
We're going through those numbers.
One, number 18, Washington, just sits there for a really long time
in the middle of the Senate.
So let's take a look at this.
So let's take a look at this.
In New York, we have a big hotline, really, personally, while we're trying to think of a crime issue.
In New York, this has become a really closely watched likely war crime issue.
In New York, we have a comment from Captain Bill McCarthy.
In New York, they are coming.
Cathy Hillmore has a meeting at this point against the New Belgians,
At this point, against the New Delta, we have a new townhouse in Hawthorne,
now here in the town of Chicago, where we have this really meaningful force
and we have a community of people that we have really worked with
that we have really been working on for 20.
and have money, so we will see how this all goes.
So we will see how this all goes, but that's where it stands at the moment.
Arizona, the Republican contest, a two-way call goes between Governor Sanchez,
State Senator Hobbs, and Republican Kelly.
The Michigan-based Democratic Congress, Whitmer has a slight lead,
that race to the polls.
And in Wisconsin, there's a between Governor Tom Inouye, who's his opponent, Tim Michaels,
and the Republican, two-way call there.
Just like in the Senate, another very tight race.
Texas, the Republican governor, Greg Abbott, has a lead Republican, two-way call.
In Kansas, we've got a new judge, a new state, and then we've got a governor,
a new one, Kelly, all around the Republican-type race.
Democrats have a lot of hopes around Kansas.
In Minnesota, the Democratic race, Democratic incumbent Tim Walz has a lead against his Republican challenger, Scott Jensen.
And in New Mexico, I have David Lett to call this race.
This is a showdown between Democratic incumbent Michelle Unan-Person and Republican candidate Barack Machado.
And so the Rocky Mountains and Oklahoma's incumbent governor, Jared Polin, will defeat GOP candidates.
Tighten it up.
In South Dakota, a lot of people have projected a win in governor's race between incumbent Kristi Noem and Democratic challenger Jamie Smith, but none does lead at this time.
of the Southern.
So high level, we can project that Republican being part of the CUNY.
We will try to work with the CUNY for a second term.
And in Alaska, Republican Judy Conway is in the lead again tomorrow fall.
Especially in Wyoming, where there are a lot of disgruntled people, apparently, going to a high school
and they're projecting that Republican Dr. Clark Gordon will be closer to another term, or maybe still
a candidate for the CUNY.
And I'm going to be in the middle for a little bit.
But I'm not going to say anything.
I'm going to say, you know, we're going to do, we're going to do a little bit of a push-up.
We're going to do a little push-up.
and the staff who's got a good stand on these.
I don't think government has a right to put these people out of work.
Blaze Guys: Glenn's Stand00:15:19
unidentified
The chance that I am going to back down from my commitment to students and back down from my commitment to parents'
rights, the chances of that are extremely slim.
Play every retiree after having a good life.
I have my brothers, you know, you take them and you chuck them across the entire country.
It's a fake narrative.
I'm just going to accuse you of a narrative that you don't care about at all.
I don't care what corporate media outlets say.
I don't care what Hollywood says.
I don't care what big corporations say.
Here I stand.
I'm not backing down.
We are going to carry this torch of freedom onward, and because our mission is very simple, we are keeping the state of Florida free.
Thank you all!
Ladies and gentlemen, Governor Ron DeSantis.
♪♪♪ ♪♪♪
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Yeah.
Well, thank you so much.
You know, over these past four years, we've seen major challenges for the people of our state, for the citizens of the United States, and above all, for the cause of freedom.
We saw freedom in our very way of life, and so many other jurisdictions in this country wither on the vine.
Florida held the line.
We chose facts over fear.
We chose education over indoctrination.
We chose law and order over rioting and disorder.
Florida was a refuge of sanity when the world went mad.
We stood as a citadel of freedom for people across this country and indeed across the world.
We faced the task.
We took the hit.
We weathered the storms.
But we stood our ground.
We did not back down.
We had the conviction to guide us, and we had the courage to lead.
We make promises.
We make promises to the people of Florida and we have delivered on those promises.
Today, after four years, The people have delivered their verdict.
Freedom is here to stay!
Thanks to the overwhelming support We not only want Lexington, we want to be written with a
little more power.
Thank you for honoring us with a win for the ages.
I thank all of our campaign staff, from campaign manager Genera Pat Down,
who just won the front campaign in the history of the Florida Power.
I want to thank all of our wonderful volunteers who worked so hard to get out the vote.
Your support means the world to Casey and I. God bless you and thank you.
I would like to thank Mr. Ramani Jain for being here today.
I would not have been able to receive the level of accomplishments that we saw
unless I had outstanding personnel working in the executive office of the governor,
as well as heading state agencies.
These folks worked hard to implement our agenda.
They believed in our agenda and the results have been historic.
Thank you for your support.
Thank you.
Oh, yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you to Miami-Dade County.
Thank you to Palm Beach County.
Thank you to Palm Beach County.
Now, we're still tackling the votes, but it's clearly apparent that this election, people have garnered a significant number of votes from people who may not have voted for me four years ago.
I just want to let you know, I am honored to have earned your trust and your support.
Thank you.
And most important of all, thank you to the people of the United States of America for
your support.
Thank you.
to the greatest First Lady in all of history.
For being a great wife, giving them way great support, being a tremendous mother to our
three young children, and serving as an example for women throughout this state, especially
Here's what we're going to do, since I can't hear because it's so loud here, you'll just give me a thumbs up when the Blaze guys throw to me and I'll just say hi to Glenn and everybody and see what happens.
It's going to be hard to hear everybody.
I hope you're appreciating the alternate version at the different angle that you're getting here, seeing this a little bit differently than normal.
A little hard, I've got to voice it.
I got the governor in that ear.
There's a lot going on, but it's a big party here.
People, obviously, feeling great about things.
And it's also great, I should say, it's great to see the First Lady out there, KC DeSantis, obviously, her cancer in full remission and incredible recovery by her.
unidentified
And then to be out and about is just absolutely awesome.
And there's just such goodness here, and let's see how the rest of the night goes.
unidentified
But even if you're living in a place that isn't having great results, although everything's looking pretty good at the moment, just know there are beacons of hope.