Dave Rubin hosts a marathon 2024 election night stream featuring Megyn Kelly, Ben Shapiro, and Jordan Peterson, celebrating Donald Trump's projected victory after Fox News calls Pennsylvania. Guests like Clay Travis and Dan Crenshaw argue the "war on reality" has ended, while Gad Saad critiques "suicidal empathy." The broadcast mocks mainstream media failures, highlights shifting demographics among Latino and Black voters, and concludes with Rubin declaring a return to meritocracy and announcing his own retirement from the show. [Automatically generated summary]
We either continue with democracy or we end it tonight.
It's happening.
The polls are starting to close across the nation.
It is election night in America.
And before we do anything, and I am telling you, right off the top, we have the zaniest, wackiest, star-studded bonanza of a show you have ever seen.
Like, we saw what some other people are doing, and I think we have absolutely That just knocked it out of the park at every possible level.
We will go as many hours as it takes.
If I have to sit in this chair with a numb ass for six hours, I will do it.
Do we have anti-numbing cream?
We have some anti-numbing cream on standby, just in case.
But we got a ton of fun things we're gonna do and silly things.
We got a great guest list, which I'll get to in just a moment.
But before we do anything else, we have tequila, lots of stuff.
Before we do anything else, I really...
I just got to say a couple things.
I just want to level set and just really connect with you guys for just one second.
First off, right before we started, and I know we're a couple minutes late here for our 6 p.m.
start time, I said to the guys in the room, the guys and the gals in the room, I said, you know, do you guys want to pray for a second?
Like, literally.
Do you literally want to pray?
And I think everyone watching this, you at home and us right here and Everybody that's on, let's say, the right side of this thing, no pun intended, is kind of praying right now.
And I have no doubt that people on the other side of this thing, I guess, are praying.
They're a little less into praying maybe than we might be.
But everything, the dream of America, I guess, is what is really up for debate tonight.
You know, I've been telling you about how this isn't about Republicans and Democrats and conservatives versus liberals and all that stuff.
It's really been, this is an election in essence over reality.
Will we continue to have people who can think for themselves and build things and follow the American dream and do things differently or will we hand it all off To the system, the system that has repeatedly lied to us, and locked us in our homes, and injected us with things, and then lied about it, and then lied about it, and then lied about it, and lied about it, and lied about it.
Like, is that the way we are going?
And to whatever extent elections are real, if we believe that they are real.
And I do, by the way.
Not to say that shenanigans can't be within the system, but I do believe that elections are real.
I voted today in Florida and it was pretty damn secure with a pen and a paper and people that made sure that my ID matched my name and my address and then put it in, then had my private booth and then put it in the machine myself and it was clean and clear and we'll have results out of this state very cleanly.
There will be other states where it won't be as clean.
But we're all praying right now.
Like, this really is a seminal night in the history of America.
So with that in mind, I really, more than anything else, I just wanna, before we get to the fun and silly stuff and the tequila, and I made some pretty bomb-ass Wagyu tri-tips for my team.
We're working hard today.
I just want to thank you for being here.
I know that there is a million shows you could be watching.
There are a million live streams.
I have no doubt you'll be flipping around and all of that stuff.
But I hope that we will provide something that's a little bit different and a little bit special.
Connor, you could flick to the other camera if you want for a second.
How special will it be?
Well, we'll even have Super Mario Brothers being played.
I am going to try.
Because there are a lot of downtime.
You know, one of the things is they bring all these panels, CNN, MSNBC, panels, 18 people, none of them particularly interesting, each one more asexual than the next.
And they just talk the whole time.
And they're talking and talking.
And either they're happy or they're not happy.
Or if it's CNN or MSNBC, they have one token Republican and they throw a cookie in his mouth every now and again.
We thought, well, how can we do this a little differently?
When there is downtime, which there will be downtime over the next six hours or so, we're going to see, can Dave Rubin, Beat Super Mario Brothers.
8-bit 1985 Super Mario Brothers.
Maybe we'll bust out the Duck Hunt 2.
We've also got a PS5 ready to roll.
I'm told Contra is up on there, and I've got four controllers, and I have young people in here who want to play me in that.
We'll see about that.
We're just gonna do zany, zany things, and I hope you're gonna have fun.
We have tons of great throwback clips and just weird stuff.
We also have a giant screen, by the way.
We have a giant screen upstairs in the home that I will get out of the seat and run to So that I can analyze other people on the giant screen, right?
That's when they have a giant screen at CNN, it's John King standing in front of a giant screen and white people in suburban...
We will stand in front of John King standing in front of the giant screen, do some stuff over there.
And we're just going to have some fun and drink some tequila and see what happens.
But again, I really, really thank you.
I can't overstate the importance of...
What this is tonight in America.
And we have a unbelievable guest list.
So let me just roll through the guest list for you.
It is really spectacular.
Oh, and you're gonna see a lot of people on cable news tonight with fake glasses to look smart.
You know I've made fun of them for years.
I'm wearing these occasionally for actual visual purposes because for six hours, if I'm sitting here, I do want to be able to read the things that are thrown in front of me.
We have an unbelievable guest list.
Really, I'm so impressed that we were able to pull this off.
We got Clay Travis, we got Dan Crenshaw, we got Xavier Durusso, we got Aaron Wexler and Emily, oh my God, Emily Wilson, Emily Saves the World.
We got Carol Markowitz, we got Gadsad, we got Lionel McGloin, we got Russell Brand, we got Adam Carolla, we got James Lindsay, we got Dr.
Phil, we got Tim Bilyeu, we got Dr.
Drew, we got Glenn Beck.
We have Sage Steel on location just for us, nobody else.
At Mar-a-Lago.
So hopefully she's going to bring in Tulsi and RFK and some others, but she's going to be in the mix of the party over there.
We have the wonderful Megyn Kelly.
We have Josh Hammer.
We have Alex Stein.
We have Viva Frye, Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson.
I mean, I just can't imagine a better list.
I cannot imagine a better list.
And that is to the backdrop, of course, of everything that I've been talking about lately on the show, but particularly this morning, that...
Everything that this election now seems to be about, this new wide tent coalition thing, and all of you that have come around and people that had Trump derangement syndrome that suddenly see the world in a new way, see him now as the guy that's defeating the evil monster and all that stuff.
It's like, this is what I've been fighting for.
So I do not know what is gonna happen tonight.
And I should say something else.
You're gonna watch an awful lot of people tonight.
And these experts who are gonna tell you things, and the experts, they are no more expert than you at any of this.
They study the data.
Oh, I saw the 538 guy, what's his name, Nate Silver, 538.
He ran 80,000, he just tweeted this, he ran 80,000 simulations, and it came back that Kamala Harris won 40,015 of them.
It's like, dude, dude, are you kidding me?
That is your analysis?
Do we have my analysis that we did this afternoon?
Do we have that yet, Conor?
The basketball analysis.
We don't have that yet.
We're going to get to that in a little bit.
I did my own statistical analysis, which we'll show you in just a moment.
We will have an election map up, of course, throughout the evening.
That will be live and on the fly.
I think we can show you that right there.
We'll have an election map coming up every now and again.
We've got Connor working 80...
Hours a day for the last three years, and you will be paid for it eventually, I promise you.
So we'll obviously be updating that.
Of course, the key states, the key states, we all know what the key states are.
The key states are specifically, it's Pennsylvania.
Everyone seems to think this thing is going to come down to Pennsylvania.
But obviously, Arizona, Nevada is important.
New Mexico is important.
Colorado is important.
We'll see about that.
From what I can see here in my own home state of Florida, from the early stuff that's coming in, it is going to be an Absolutely insane onslaught and just destruction of whatever is left of the Democrat Party, which is great to see.
We'll also show you some Kalshi betting maps and what's happening live on the fly there.
Do we wanna show one of those right now?
What is the betting market at right now?
We'll see if we can throw to one of those.
I think we have it right now.
So the betting market right now, this is from Kalshi.
It's got Trump up a little bit.
This is where I need the glasses.
What, it looks about 57?
What do we got?
58.42 to Trump on the betting markets right now, but these things are constantly changing.
And you know, look, we're just gonna have fun with a lot of this stuff because it's a lot of craziness and a lot happening.
And again, I just, I really want to emphasize, you guys know as much about this as half of the people that are wearing suits with their thick We're in this with you.
I really, really mean that.
And we're gonna eat some Wagyu Tri-Tip, and we're gonna drink some tequila.
Oh, and speaking of tequila, and Clay Travis is gonna be our first guest in about five minutes.
Clay Travis, who's really, you know, I don't mention Clay enough when it comes to the people that have woken up over the last couple of years, because Clay was kind of like a marginal apolitical sports guy, too, who's become a huge Trump person and fought against the media and built Outkick.com in direct competition with ESPN because they went woke and then he built them and they combined with...
With Fox News.
I should mention that what I have here in this bottle, this is Dave Rubin's tequila.
It is the first time it's being seen.
Now, obviously we don't have the label on the bottle yet.
I was hoping that we were gonna be able to launch the website tonight for you guys to do pre-sales.
There was a little hangup regarding the Mexican government and a UPC code.
Apparently it's all very technical and you're selling tequila.
So it should be out before Christmas for sure.
But this is what I've got left.
This is what I have left from the original case of Dave Rubin's tequila, and some of it will be drank tonight throughout the evening.
There's going to be a drinking game we'll get to and a whole bunch more.
But first, let's check in with the Harris campaign.
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How are you doing?
Have you voted already?
Give me a second.
You did?
Thank you.
Thank you so very much.
You know, it's so important that everybody participates, and I thank you, because I'm sure you've got a lot of other things you could be doing, taking the time to go through.
So she's on the phone pretending to talk to somebody.
You can't talk to somebody when you have your camera like this because the audio does not work.
This literally happened in the last hour and a half.
The woman is going out in a blaze of glory.
And look, she might win.
She might be the next president of the United States.
The woman who has the brain power of a third grader, perhaps, no insult to third graders, And she did coup with the sitting president, so I gotta give her a little credit there, right?
She did pull off something there with Nancy and Chuck and Brock.
But like the fakery of this entire thing, this insane cackle, this ridiculous, circular way of thinking with her, and the fact that at the end, At the end, we showed you on the live show today at 11 a.m.
that she goes up and it's such a stage thing as she shows up at somebody's house and, oh my God, you happen to be a Kamala supporter who happens to be a poll watcher?
I can't believe it.
And now she's faking freaking phone calls like you cannot imagine it.
Anyway, I mentioned all of these very serious people that have very serious data and they're crunching the numbers and they're carrying the one and they're doing all of this stuff with papers and pens and calculators and all of this stuff.
And we were discussing, well, what could we do to give people an honest assessment, like a real true percentage of what might happen tonight?
And I said to Brock, why don't we get out there on the basketball court and see if we can come up with something?
So enjoy.
All right, guys, about three o'clock here on Election Day.
Huge day for America and the world.
Our coverage starts at 6 p.m.
on the Rubin Report.
Tons of great guests, all sorts of stuff.
But, you know, cable news, they're going to have all these data scientists, people with thick-rimmed glasses telling you about numbers and percentages and everything else.
But we're going to do it the scientific way here at the Rubin Report.
I'm going to shoot 10 threes right now, and however many threes I hit, that is the exact percentage chance that Donald Trump has to win the election.
60% chance Donald Trump will win the election tonight.
See you at six o'clock.
I'm telling you guys, that is as good cracked analysis as you're going to get anyone else.
This dork, Nate Silver, at 538.
These people all think he's in such...
They hold him in such high regard.
And he's literally, I ran 80,000 simulations and it came back 50-50.
Well, there you go.
I hit the last three.
So this is our prediction.
We're rolling in with this to start the night.
Donald Trump...
Donald J. Trump has a 60% chance of winning because I hit six out of 10 threes.
That is as scientific and sensible as anything else you are gonna hear this evening.
I think we have Clay Travis on the line?
No, we don't.
All right, we're working on getting Clay Travis on the line.
In the meantime, we wanna show you a couple clips because it's one of the things that makes all of this so difficult to deal with.
Is that we are all so siloed in our own ways, right?
Like, I try to pay as much attention to media across the board as possible.
The people that I dislike, that I play on the show every day, I pay probably more attention to them than the people that I at least like.
Because you need to know what these people are thinking.
And in many ways, this election tonight, because this is the election of reality.
That is what we are electing tonight.
Is which reality are we going into?
Are we going into a reality that will have a flicker of the human mind, an individual choice, or are we going deep, deep into the matrix?
Like, we gotta figure it out.
That's what this is about.
But you know, if you watch CNN or you watch MSNBC, obviously people are in very, very different states of mind, but it's important to check in on them.
You know, recently I've been very interested in this woman, Dana Bash, over at CNN, because there's something about her I find deeply inauthentic.
They're all kind of inauthentic, but I always feel like she doesn't believe anything she's saying.
And here she is, this is just about an hour ago, she seems very concerned that not enough people got a chance to meet the real Kamala Harris over these last four or five months.
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I would say that 2020 was a historic turnout.
I mean, the highest since the 1900s.
So if it doesn't match that, who stayed home and why?
And I think so many of our questions will come to that.
Which group stayed home and why?
Donald Trump has been running for two years.
Kamala Harris has been running for 107 days.
So one of my big questions is, particularly with her candidacy, is whether that was just enough time to introduce herself to the country and to candidates who were dead set on voting for a Democrat, weren't so sure about him, or whether she could have used a little bit more time.
Oh, if we only had more time to analyze what's going on in Kamala Harris' brain, well, right now I'm going to bring on Kamala Harris' brain analyst, Clay Travis.
Clay Travis, I believe you are in Tennessee right now over at the Daily Wire studios with several other Kamala Harris brain analysts, a whole crack team of people studying the brain of that woman.
What have you found out via the research you're doing over there?
I am now dressed as an either circus performer who is going to look like he has had lions wrangled, or I'm going to be like the guy who paints his face and then his team loses and the camera pans to him and he just looks like the saddest SOB on the planet.
I don't know about you, but I am nervous.
And I was thinking about this as we sat down to talk, and I know I was in your studios down in South Florida, what, a couple of months ago.
But you and I, I feel like we're kind of on the front lines of people who had voted Democrat in the past and just had seen how the Democrat Party was losing its mind, didn't like identity politics, the woke attack on free speech.
And at a minimum, as we sit here on election night, the fact that we have added people like Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr.
to our team, I think kind of is incredibly encouraging to me about where we're going in the future.
But my goodness, if Kamala Harris gets elected tonight, it is just going to be an incredible blow to the solar plexus.
Mike Tyson at the peak in 1980 style catching you without being able to protect yourself.
Right, it does feel like it's gonna be the knockout punch.
I hate to laugh at that, but I mean, that's what Elon's been saying, that in essence, it's not that we won't have elections.
We will have elections, but the system will have been so strengthened, so calcified against us that we'll end up like California.
And then why wouldn't they use the power of the state to go after X where we can express ourselves or the other, or say Rumble or Locals or whatever it might be, or try to take out the Daily Wire where you are, et cetera, et cetera.
Clay, real quick, I don't know if you saw this, we're getting breaking news right now, literally.
Biden, Joe Biden, the sack that, you know, was running for president that they cooed, that guy, he will not be attending Kamala Harris's election party tonight.
You think that's a bedtime issue or is that a signal?
One, they wouldn't let him come on the stage at the Ellipse when he could legitimately see the stage from the balcony of the White House.
And instead, they had him in the basement doing a Zoom interview.
So I think they clearly want him off the stage.
But the honest broker about this information is, to me, the takeaway.
That they probably don't expect a result tonight.
I think if they thought Kamala Harris is going to win that they would bring him out on the stage for his triumphant raise of the hands sort of wrestling or boxing style when somebody wins a combat sport and make him sort of glisten a bit in her sheen.
I think they are believing that this is going to go on a couple of days.
I hope they are wrong.
I hope we come out when, in a couple of hours, North Carolina and Georgia go Trump and we get a strong indication in Michigan and Nevada and Arizona.
But my concern is, you're old enough to remember this, some of the audience honestly isn't, I'm afraid that there may be a state that is akin to Florida 2000.
Where it's one state, it decides who wins.
I don't know how well this country would hold up compared to how we did in 2000 in a social media age if we have one state that decides who the president is.
How worried with that in mind, how worried are you that...
Everyone in America that is watching something tonight, whether you're watching me or The Daily Wire or you're on the complete opposite side of this thing and you're watching whatever they're showing at the mental institution or at the home, that will never agree on what happens tonight.
In some ways, it feels to me like, that's what I keep saying, that this isn't Democrat-Republican.
This is the election on reality.
That's what I said right before you joined.
Because basically, we now have two completely divergent worldviews that I don't see how you possibly arbitrage those things.
Yeah look and and I would say in the 21st century every election with the exception of 2008 has come down to essentially a field goal and when you have a game in a sports metaphor context that comes down to a field goal Ass kickings are clarifying.
If you get your ass kicked and you lose 42-3, you're like, we had the wrong game plan.
If you lose 20-17 in every race, you stare at it.
In 2004, you say, if you're Democrats, hey, boy, we've got to be better in Ohio.
And in 2000, you say, boy, we've got to be better in Florida.
And then meanwhile, Republicans come back and they say, boy, we've really got to be better in the Midwest states or we've got to worry about the bleeding that we're seeing in Arizona.
And when it's so close, it comes down to a couple of plays.
When you lose, and I've coached a lot of sports and I've lost a lot of games badly, Dave.
When you come off the field and you have lost by 20 or 30 points, you're not saying, boy, you know who really screwed us was that ref with that one call.
When it is in this magnitude and people don't trust larger institutions, I think the only way Kamala Harris can win, this is my take, is by an absolute white knuckler.
I am cautiously optimistic that Trump could pull away and that there still is enough of a movement in his direction.
I saw you tweeting earlier.
I thought it was a great point and I shared it as well.
Got some good responses.
I know a lot of people who didn't vote Trump in 16 and 20 and are voting Trump in 24.
I don't know a single person who voted Trump 16, 20 that's voting Kamala.
For better or worse, me and you have the exact same voting record.
We both did Gary Johnson and then Trump and now Trump again.
But what was interesting about the responses to that tweet, maybe we'll show some of them throughout the evening, is that the people that are voting for Trump now that have broken They are the most excited to vote.
Like they suddenly are seeing the world with completely fresh eyes that maybe you and I have now seen things for all.
It's not as exciting to some extent where they're like, they are just all freaking in.
Yeah, and look, this is one of the things I talk about with my wife a lot.
One of the challenges I think that's out there is, you know, when Ron DeSantis swept the floor with Gavin Newsom in the debate that they had on The Sean Hannity Show.
One reason he did that is because Ron DeSantis knows every argument that Gavin Newsom is going to make because they're well distributed and widely discussed in media.
Most people have no real idea what arguments you and I are going to make, Dave.
We know their side argument, and we can explain why our side is better, but we very rarely get to have these head-to-head conflicts where we're able to explain why we believe what we believe and why we believe our side is right compared to their arguments.
They don't even really engage with the arguments that we put forward.
They essentially just say, oh, these guys are Hitler adherents.
These guys are fascists.
These guys are garbage.
They're unintelligent.
No, I think actually Trump has the right side of almost every argument out there.
In fact, I would argue every side.
I don't even think it's that difficult.
The problem is a huge percentage of Americans never hear what we actually believe because we're so caricatured by their side of the media that it's impossible to tell.
Yeah, you know, I was at the rally at MSG last week, and to be there for over seven hours, I got there at about 12.30, I left about 9 p.m., to see the most joyous, America-loving, Orthodox Jew next to a Muslim woman in a burqa, literally, happy group of people, Praying, celebrating American flags everywhere, joy, and then to see the way the machine just flexes and turns it into a Nazi rally is incredible.
Clay, I want to throw to this video, I saw this right before we went live, because as I keep talking about this war on reality thing, you know that Gavin Newsom, who you mentioned, and many of the Democrats really want to censor the internet.
That's why Elon bought Twitter, and thank God he did.
And check this out.
So this is, someone created this.
It's AI replacing the words, our democracy, with our bureaucracy, via cable news host.
And listen to how different things actually sound.
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If the Democrats fail, it might be the end of American bureaucracy.
Like, that's first off a perfect example of why they want to censor the internet, why they want to take Elon out, why they hate AI, they hate all the things that are coming on the horizon.
But in essence, that made more sense than anything they say on their network.
Democracy is not at stake if Donald Trump wins.
Democracy explodes in the best way and a renewal of the American spirit comes.
They're the ones coming through bureaucracy for our democracy.
Yeah, look, it strikes the chords of incredulity for me for them to be arguing that the party that is trying to bankrupt, imprison, and kill Donald Trump is actually trying to defend democracy while simultaneously elevating a woman who had never gotten a single vote for presidency in her entire life.
And one reason why I think this election is so important, leave aside many other issues out there.
If Kamala wins, the lesson that Democrats are going to take is lawfare works and the American public respond to it.
And so we need to try to lock people up more.
We need to try to shut them down more.
Dave, you know what I think is going to happen if Trump wins?
I think he's going to get in office.
I legitimately believe this.
And I think he's going to pardon Hunter Biden.
And do you have any faith at all that Kamala Harris is going to pardon Donald Trump?
I don't.
I think they'll try to put him in prison for the rest of his life.
And once you cross that Rubicon, once you establish that if you lose an election, you and potentially members of your family and your supporters go to prison for the rest of their lives, we don't have a functional republic anymore.
And how many people out there that are otherwise very talented and would make great leaders are going to say, you know what?
I'm not putting my name in.
I'm not risking my family.
I'm not risking my wealth.
I'm not risking my freedom.
To me, that is why we have to win.
We have to send the message that this fails, that it blows up in people's face, and that one reason we won is because of the lawfare, not that Democrats were able to get to the White House yet again because of lawfare.
Look, I'm going to be on with Fox Nation a little bit later.
Do you know where I'm going to be?
Kid Rock's Country bar on Broadway in downtown Nashville.
So you want to talk about a wide range of potential outcome?
We're either going to have one of the most awesome nights that has ever existed, or it's going to be one of the saddest nights in a honky-tonk in Nashville in a very long time.
Wide discrepancy here based on how this night goes.
Fingers crossed.
I hope I'm not the idiot with the painted face in the lion wrangling jacket.
Can you imagine being in Nashville if this goes Trump's way?
Like, that is gonna be a fun town.
All right, guys, we told you we're gonna do, we got Congressman Dan Crenshaw coming up in a few minutes from Texas.
And Dan Crenshaw, let me tell you something quick about Dan Crenshaw, then we're gonna do some funny TikTok stuff.
Dan Crenshaw, when I was still on the fence about Trump, I was at a Turning Point USA event about five years ago, and Dan Crenshaw, it was in the middle of the impeachment thing, and Dan Crenshaw, who I liked a lot, was one of Trump's main supporters, helping him during the impeachment fight all of that bullshit.
And that night, I heard Trump speak at Turning Point in West Palm.
I hung out with Crenshaw.
I then met Trump later that night.
You guys know the story of when I met him at Mar-a-Lago and how great he was and everything else.
But seeing some of the politicians that I genuinely like years ago, like Rand Paul, who went hugely towards Trump.
Seeing some of those guys, Ted Cruz, people that ran against Trump go towards Trump.
That is some of the stuff that loosens up a lot of this for some of the other people.
But before we get to...
Congressman Dan Crenshaw.
I believe we have some TikTok videos that I'm going to react to live.
I have not had tequila yet, or anything else funny, if you know what I mean.
I did vote on No on 3 today, by the way, here in Florida.
I voted against recreational marijuana, which I explained, which actually Governor DeSantis explained to me yesterday.
But we've got some funny TikTok videos, and we're just going to throw them in, and I'm going to react live on the internet.
You know, even that right there, that just shows these guys are now, that's what they're afraid of.
The thing that they're afraid of most in many ways that Trump has broken through was the image of the old Republican was this stodgy guy in a backroom, you know, Mr.
Burns and his cadre of people in a rainy It's raining outside with the lightning going off and they're all counting their money.
They're burning their money at the fireplace and smoking cigars and drinking whiskey and all this stuff and that they only care about money and oil and war.
And then suddenly you've got Trump who completely blew that thing apart.
Then you've got J.D. who they kept saying was weird and yet he's just kind of normal and they can't deal with any of that.
So we're gonna throw in a whole bunch of stuff like that.
I think we have Dan Crenshaw coming on in just a second.
We'll bring Dan.
Yeah, we've got him right.
All right, we've got Congressman Dan Crenshaw on the line.
When you see a group that now includes, say, RFK and Tulsi, et cetera, et cetera, whether you agree with them or not, that clearly something else has happened here that would not have happened years ago.
I mean, what does that mean for the general platform of the party?
It's a conservative party, or at least it should be.
To the extent that you're adding this bigger populist wing, I don't think there's anything good to say about that.
Populism is liberalism.
There's no difference to me.
Yeah.
For campaigning purposes and disaffected liberals like Tulsi and RFK coming to Trump's side, great.
It's good for campaigning.
And look, it's not like nobody ever had any good ideas.
Maybe they bring some interesting thoughts to the table.
I don't know what they are just yet, but we'll see.
But I see that more as a campaigning personality thing than I do as a radical change in a party platform.
And the reason I say the word conservative and say this is the party of conservatism, or at least it should be, is because conservatism by its very nature isn't supposed to change that much.
That's like the whole point.
And I don't think it has.
I think Trump governs as a regular mainstream Republican.
I know people don't like hearing that.
People want it to be a different thing.
And his personality was certainly different.
And there were some policy differences, like a willingness to take on China.
But that was...
I would say that was kind of happening anyway.
That was sort of America as a whole waking up from this giant Chinese trick that they'd been playing on Washington for a very long time, and Trump was the guy who was calling it out, and it's great.
Definitely more of a skepticism on trade and unfair trade practices, which is a reasonable skepticism.
You've got to be careful with that, okay?
It doubles in the details.
You end up hurting a lot of American workers in the process of trade war, but still, it's It's something worth pointing out.
But does that make it a massively different party?
I'm not so sure about that.
You know, if I'm going to point fingers at a massively different party, I'm going to point fingers at the DNC. I mean, when I was on Bill Maher a couple of months ago...
Ted Cruz, you know, his race, actually, his Senate race, which we'll get some updates on, I'm sure, throughout the evening, was bizarrely close, because Cruz has done a really fine job, I think, in Texas.
And suddenly, in the last couple weeks, it's started to divide quite a bit.
So I think Ted Cruz will be fine over there in Texas.
All right, should we, what should we do?
Why don't we do a little more reaction stuff at the moment?
All right, we're gonna do a little more reaction stuff, and then we should bust out some tequila.
You can see throughout the evening, we're going to also show you something about age discrepancies and generational shifts in both humor and cultural attitudes. we're going to also show you something about age discrepancies I think that was one of them that we just saw right there.
I think, yeah, so the map, so nothing has changed.
Nothing has changed on the map, obviously, because nothing has closed yet.
Yeah, there is obviously some votes in, and Indiana's got something going on over there.
So there is some stuff rolling in.
My guess is probably within the next, well, probably the first, my guess is some of the first stuff probably closes about seven o'clock, and then we'll get something out.
We're being told that about 9% of the vote is in right now.
I have to say, Crenshaw, a little black-pilled on life right now.
Didn't offer us much on the Trump train.
I just don't know.
You know, it's interesting.
The interesting thing about Trump, and this is why people have so many confounding and conflicting feelings about him, is he sort of has become whatever you want him to be, right?
So I don't think he's like this magical hero, but I think in essence, he's kind of as close as you can get to one while being a person.
Like after everything he has been through, I think he has now stepped into the role of magical hero.
I think he is a real human just like me and you who bleeds blood and we saw it not too long ago, about four or five months ago.
But everyone wants to put everything on him.
They put all their fears and aspirations on him and everything else.
And in a functional society, we would have a...
Government that was kind of small and the politicians wouldn't have to be so braggadocious and over the top and everything else.
But this is the guy we need right now, right?
You don't get the hero you need, you get the hero you deserve.
Or did I say that backwards?
I think that was the Batman thing.
I think I did that right.
It was something like that.
Like we're getting the one we deserve.
All right, the Kalshi betting market is narrowing, we're being told right now.
It's now 55 to 45.
So Trump is still up.
There is a general feeling right now that early votes were pretty good.
That the male vote, and you could feel the other thing that they're trying to do right now is they really wanna set this thing up as it's a war between the sexes.
That if Trump wins, it's because of those evil men who wanted to control their wives.
And I had a couple interesting discussions just privately in the last week, I don't know many people that were supporting Kamala anymore or that voted Kamala, but I know a handful, I guess, and I know many, many people, to Clay's point earlier, that were anti-Trump, radically anti-Trump over the years that ended up voting.
For Trump this time around.
But you know, the one thing that seems to keep so many of the people stuck is this women's rights stuff, which is largely connected to abortion.
And without getting into, let's not do the whole abortion debate right now.
Everyone can decide whether they think it should be six weeks heartbeat bill, like we have here in Florida, or 12 weeks, which seems a little more reasonable to me.
What's unreasonable is what the Democrats want in places like Minnesota, where Tim Walz has no, as the governor, has no Limits on abortion or in California where there are no limits on abortion and all of that stuff.
But they've somehow combined abortion, which is ending a life.
They've combined that with women's health.
And you know, a lot of the babies they abort actually are girls.
They are females.
That's a real thing.
So you might want to care about them.
But also if you really cared about women's lives, if you cared about women's safety and all of those things, well, you might want to put the border on A little higher in that order of importance when you're voting because the people that are coming here, say MS-13, they're probably not too great to women.
So you are another interesting character, someone that people might say is not stereotypically what a conservative or a Republican is supposed to be, all of that BS nonsense, you know, very kind of factory setting thinking.
But you're out there trying to convert people and I think making a dent.
When I go around in L.A., so many people come up to me and say that they are so grateful that I'm saying all the things that they feel like they're not allowed to say, but that I'm unapologetically saying.
And you're seeing more and more people being tired of being lied to or tired of being gaslighted.
Is that the weird thing that's going on right now, that the Democrats, yeah, they've got the machine, they've got the celebrities that somehow, you know, there's like a long slew of celebrities between what's-her-name with her wet you-know-what in the bucket and all that, that weeks ago wasn't gonna support.
Kamala then comes out and supports, or Usher, who weeks ago said he wasn't gonna support, then he comes out and supports.
Like, there's some weird stuff going on there, but it's kind of running real thin right now.
Like, young people don't seem to care.
Wait, who is the wet bucket woman?
What's her name again?
Cardi B, Cardi B. Like people don't seem to care about her and her wet bucket and the wet bucket and the thing.
Does the Karis campaign even research these people that they're bringing on stage?
Because Cardi B just a couple of years ago was bragging about how she was drugging and robbing men all through her stripping career to get to where she is today.
Is that really the person that you are going to use to try to win over the Black and Hispanic votes?
It's honestly embarrassing.
They don't try to bring someone who is an intellectual with an impact in the young or minority communities.
They instead bring someone who is textbook definition of illiterate to go up there and represent Kamala Harris.
And honestly, her entire speech was so embarrassing, it might have costed Kamala the campaign.
Yeah, I mean, for people that didn't see it, we showed you a portion of it.
I mean, the teleprompter went out and Cardi B literally stood there, had nothing to say, could not say a word until they handed her the phone.
And then she, yes, was able to read off it.
But it was just, the fact that you can't, as a performer, just get up there and speak freely just from your heart for two, three minutes is just such a condemnation of all of them.
As a black man, let me ask you the stupid question, as a black man, there's been a lot of talk, you know, with Obama kind of pandering to black men, if you don't vote for Kamala, you know, in essence, sort of what Joe said, you ain't black.
It's that sort of movement.
I mean, that has just got to be the worst.
And by the way, we see this with the gays and a whole bunch of other minorities.
It's just kind of the worst pandering there is, isn't it?
How dare you in 2024 reduce me to the expectation that I need to think with my skin color to tell me that because I have extra melanin in my skin that I have to pretend to be uneducated enough to think that Kamala Harris is going to Do justice for our country is insane.
But it shows just how outdated the Democratic Party is when it comes to what Black people are discussing.
We are over this notion that fear is our Achilles heel.
For way too long, they weaponized fear to keep us in line and keep us believing all of the different narratives that they put on us.
But we're tired of that.
We have moved on from that.
And that's the thing about Donald Trump is I look at him, I'm like, yeah, he might be a little bit of an a-hole sometimes.
He might offend you and your entire community.
But at least we're not becoming North Korea.
At least we know what to expect from Donald Trump.
And at least we know that he overall has the interests of every single American in mind and in his heart.
So that is what we're focusing on is what is actually going to change for us rather than Barack Obama lying to us and the ovarian version of Barack Obama peddling the lies that Obama fed to her.
I'm being told that we have video of Melania Trump.
I have not seen this before.
we have to throw to it right now.
She's been indoors with sunglasses all day.
People are wondering what's going on with that.
What's going on with Melania indoors with sunglasses?
You know, one of the things that people think is that they somehow hate each other or that she's this kept woman or something.
And I don't know if you've ever heard me talk about it, but when I met them at Mar-a-Lago, I saw them together and I saw them holding hands on top of the table, her hand on his.
He kept referring to her as honey and I said something to him about what I thought was happening with the Democrats.
And he said, honey, honey, you should hear this.
And I was like, that's not a man who hates this woman.
Asking her opinion on something.
And the way she responded to him was so obviously that they don't.
But it's all just, we've just created these characters, right?
First of all, Melania wearing the sunglasses inside, that was just her serving looks.
That was a fashion statement.
I think it was Rob Smith that said it best.
It is an injustice that we did not view Melania Trump as a fashion icon enough all throughout Trump's first presidency, because she could have been our Princess Diana.
But that being said, it's like people try to make up these fairytale versions of what they think of Trump and Melania's relationship and thinking that they know every single detail.
It's like, please, especially those of you who are married or been in serious relationships, you know that there might be situations where you don't want to hold hands or you might be a little annoyed with each other.
I mean, I definitely think there's gonna be some progress here in Orlando, but there's way too many adult Disney kids here, and I think they're too busy living in fairytale land to switch over to the Republican Party.
We're going to get through the first board before we bring on Aaron Wexler and Emily Wilson, who are doing some great work on their podcast, by the way.
And we will continue with World 1-2 in just a moment, but I think I'm I'm gonna bring on Erin Wexler and Emily Wilson, Emily Saves America, and non-lib take.
You were a PlayStation girl, a little younger than me.
What do you make of what's happening right now?
What do you make of what's happening in the world right now?
You've been doing all these videos, sometimes with Aaron, sometimes solo, sort of like hitting this new kind of like female empowerment thing in the right sense.
Like go out there, you're allowed to be hot and like dudes and dudes are allowed to like you and there's nothing misogynistic about it and that the other side is just sort of hysterical and mean and out of shape and bitter and all of that stuff.
It's funny because people forget that there's girls who are obviously Republican in California, but they also forget there's a lot of women in very blue states and very blue cities that are living very conservative politics and have conservative values.
Not every woman in a blue state has a blue hair, works at a blue bottle, and has abortions every year.
But it seems like an awful lot of them do have some of that.
Do you feel like there's this, I was just talking to Xavier DeRusso, I don't know if you heard, but I'm sure you know who he is.
You know, he's under the impression, and I've heard this from an awful lot of people, from younger people, Isabel Brown talks about this a lot, that the 20-something crowd really is gonna break very hard from the woke, that they got kinda hit by it the most in high school, in college.
And they're gonna break the opposite way, probably in record numbers, if not right now, at least as they get older.
I see how a lot of these girls saw someone like Alice Cooper and they're like, oh, she's famous and she makes all this money and she interviews these celebrities.
But I think these girls are waking up and being like, hey, the messages that these girls are pressing are actually extremely harmful as they're pressing drugs and alcohol and sleeping around and all these things.
And I think these girls are starting to realize that maybe that's just not fulfilling and that's not the life they really want.
So I think they're starting to finally feel free because maybe they see girls like me online who they can relate to and are a little bit more younger and normal and they live in cities and they're like, well I'd rather be like her than like these girls and she seems a lot more normal and more relatable.
Emily, it has nothing to do with Super Mario Brothers, but we have actual election information that has just broke.
Donald Trump has won Kentucky and Indiana, so neither one of those are surprises.
Obviously, the numbers will keep rolling in, but he is the projected winner of those.
And it looks like Kamala Harris has won Vermont, so we've got three.
We've got three.
No surprises so far.
What are you expecting to happen tonight?
Like, do you think we even get a result tonight?
A lot of people seem to think that if we get something in the first couple hours, that kind of bodes well for Trump.
But the longer this thing drags on throughout the evening, or certainly into tomorrow and the rest of the week, that it just gets worse and worse for him.
So I apologize to any viewers if this is grainy quality or if I break up at all.
The service isn't great because I'm here in the convention center right near Mar-a-Lago where thousands of Trump supporters and Trump team folks and just other Florida people are going to be hopefully, God willing, celebrating in a few hours.
So hopefully if he wins, I assume he does the acceptance thing probably at Mar-a-Lago or if they said that he'll do it there, that's like the offsite party, do you know?
Emily, talk to me about the white dudes for Harris because we played a couple of their videos and I have never seen a group of asexual people who couldn't get a boner if their life depended on it.
We're not doing family friendly and it's not even 8 o'clock.
Yeah, so I ran into them and they are just as insane as you would think they are.
It's also so funny hearing from a man who wants to quote-unquote protect women, protect daughters, that was what he posted, but hopes random ones are sexually assaulted.
You know, what's incredible about that video is you were in West Hollywood, and West Hollywood, with their rainbow crosswalks, I thought they were supposed to be diverse and lovely, and everyone's supposed to be great and wonderful, except all you did, as far as I could tell, was put on a red hat, and next thing you know, he literally was like, you should get raped, and you were basically like, what?
And he's like, yeah, you should get raped.
From what I understand, he's deleted all his social media accounts.
Well, I really, I just got here, and so I didn't get the lay of the land, but I wanted to get in for our segment because I thought it would be exciting.
They're handing out a, hold on, sorry, it's chaos right now.
On-the-ground coverage, very exciting.
We have free MAGA hats.
Sorry, I'm really bad at this.
Free MAGA hats in case you needed one at this point, although I didn't bring one in.
I wasn't sure what security would allow.
But people are filtering in.
It's still early in the night.
We have a long night ahead of us.
Hopefully celebrating in a few hours again.
Actually, I heard what you and Emily were discussing when I first signed on.
I was having some trouble before.
I actually think, I sort of disagree, and we'll find out what the numbers are after the election, but I don't think that the younger vote is necessarily going towards Trump.
I think a lot of it certainly is.
But I actually just think this time around we're going to see a lot of people who are not voting.
That's what I think we're going to see.
I know a lot of people who just cannot vote, but they would have been voting for Kamala.
They voted for Biden in the past.
They never have voted for Trump.
So we know a lot of people who switched over to Trump.
We know a lot of people who were Biden last time who are not voting at all.
But it's a lot of first-time Trump voters.
I don't know a single person who voted for Trump in 2020 who is not voting for him this time around.
I mean, I talk to a lot of people, especially I talk to a lot of diverse people in LA, obviously, from different industries, from fashion, modeling, real estate, politics, whatever it is.
And I don't know one person who went from voting Trump to voting Democrat, especially because anyone that was left-leaning or middle loves Kennedy.
So they're going to vote for Trump as well.
The crazy thing is, I think we're forgetting about a huge party, which is the silent party.
The party that lies as well.
This is all my friends who are in the LGBTQ +, that are in movies, that do stuff with Netflix, that work at corporate companies.
They are all lying about who they're voting for, or they're secretly voting for Trump.
I feel like if I had started planning two weeks ago instead of two days ago, I could have somehow snuck in a suitcase.
But listen, tonight, either I'm in the exact right place and we're partying, or we're all swallowing cyanide pills, and I'm not sure which one is, you know, which it's going to be.
And at this point, I feel like it's like you studied for the test, and now you still have to take it, but you know you studied as much as you could.
And that's really the mood here tonight.
We know we did everything we could.
And thank God, thank God Kamala Harris went after the unattainable Muslim vote of Michigan instead of choosing Josh Shapiro for governor of Pennsylvania.
We'd feel very differently right now if she actually had a brain and didn't hate Jews.
While I go to the big screen, we have some incredible, I believe we can call this breaking news.
Would we say this is breaking news from local affiliates around the country?
Local affiliates around the country are constantly breaking important stories.
We all know this, and you guys know I love when local affiliates do the good work that must be done, these small news stations reporting on things.
We're going to show you some local affiliates breaking some important news while I run out of the garage and up the stairs into the theater and then I will be in front of the big screen, in front of someone else talking in front of the big screen.
I was going to go downstairs, and then we said, no, change the channel to the televised mental institution known as MSNBC, and get in front, and they show a map, and they break down the map, and they get it very, very granular, and then they mostly tell you why white men, especially middle-aged white men, middle-class middle-aged white men, are the devil.
That's mostly what he's focusing on right here, and you can see he's Right over here.
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There's a lot of things happening over here, and it's very serious stuff over here.
That's, I think, is a good picture of Donald Trump.
That's pretty good.
So Donald Trump right now has 19 electoral votes.
I guess he's got Kentucky and Indiana so far, unless something else happened.
And Kamala's got, what has she got?
She got Vermont.
So what's that?
That's got to be like six or seven.
And what are we seeing here?
Oh, so she got three.
There's only three over in Vermont.
Donald Trump won 61% of the vote in...
What happens when you stand in front of a giant screen?
That is a projector right there.
Kamala Harris, as you can see, this is her face, nicely shaped hair.
Kind of goes like this.
I feel like if I was a woman, that's the kind of hair I would have.
I would do the hair like this with a little bit of up right there.
Donald Trump had a perfect comb-over for him right there.
And Trump's got about 80%, with 84% in Union County, Georgia.
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All right, guys.
This is just the beginning.
I'll be back up here analyzing that man with his electronic devices in his pockets, all of the numbers, the maps, the colors, the thing that's going this way over there, and much, much more.
But I've got to get downstairs right now.
Super Mario Brothers.
Come on!
I am!
Hold him tight.
I am!
I am!
You got it.
I am!
Oh, it's okay.
All right.
All right, Joni, you got it.
First and last name, please.
Erica O'Donnell.
And can you spell first and last?
F-I-R-S-T-L-A-S-T. I met you first and last night.
Well, the sign says that it's four quarters for an hour, but a quarter only gets you 15 minutes.
The kids were not happy that I didn't stop and play with them for a little bit, but that's what we do over here at the Rubin Report on election night for you people.
I ignore the children so that I can run upstairs into the theater, have a very bright light shine in my eye, and make fun of people over at MSNBC. That's Different than happening on any other channel you're watching across the internet right now.
We've got the New York Post, Carol Markowitz coming up in just a couple minutes.
We're connecting with her.
She's an interesting one who also moved to Florida the same exact week I did, came from New York, was very public about what they were doing during lockdowns with her kids and everything else.
And we've become fast friends and she's a true fighter for Florida and for freedom.
So we'll talk to her.
In just a moment, she wrote a great book about children and what the education system and the teachers' unions and everything else have done over the last couple of years, along with Bethany Mandel.
Should we bust it?
You know what?
Let's run back to Super Mario Brothers, because I'm only at board one-two.
Yeah, you know, from your lips to God's ears, Dave Rubin.
I think that a lot of Jews have woken up.
Obviously, I think that the number should be way higher than it is.
Donald Trump got 30% of the Jewish vote in 2020.
I've been predicting 38%.
But in the recent days, I've heard from so many liberal Jewish friends who would never in a million years vote for a Republican, that they voted for Donald Trump, that I'm now You know, I say I'm drinking the over 40% Kool-Aid.
It is that the Jews that are voting for Democrats largely came to America at the turn of the last century.
They missed the pogroms in Russia and Ukraine.
They missed World War II. They had no strife.
They have no idea what's out there.
You get immigrant Jews like me who came here from the Soviet Union in the 70s and 80s and into the 90s.
You get Iranian Jews, you get Iraqi Jews, you get Israeli Jews, you get Syrian Jews, you get Jews from places where they have experienced strife and trouble and they get what a threat is.
I think those Jews have voted Republican for a long time.
So what you're seeing now is this post-October 7th that even the Jews who have been safe in their Jewish life in America their whole entire life and for generations Have woken up and seen that maybe those crazy Jews who arrived here from crazy places were right.
Maybe that we need to make changes in who we vote for.
And we need to go with the side that not only supports Israel, that's a part of it, but supports us as Jews in America, lets us defend ourselves.
That's such a big part of it for me.
And, you know, really wasn't out there celebrating on October 8th, one of the main things, I think, for a lot of Jews.
What do you make of, I know your feelings on this because we talk about a lot of this stuff all the time privately, but how radical the Democrats have become.
That it's not just like, oh, there's a few of them that are kind of nutty, which is what people thought maybe ate.
Six or eight years ago, that it largely has overtaken the party.
Obama, just in this last week, again, repeating very fine people, lecturing black guys, like just the endless pandering.
You know, I mentioned the Latino vote, and as I said it, I was like, should I make the Latinx joke?
But that's not even really done anymore because they realized what a vote suck that was for them.
There was a study that Latino voters were literally turning against Democrats because of the term Latinx.
Let me tell you, that term was everywhere a few years ago.
My son, who is now 11 when we lived in New York, you know, we were coming up on the three-year anniversary, came home from school one day saying Latinx.
So it was everywhere.
The insanity was everywhere.
I had someone say to me today, you know, because all this conversation about the male vote, the female vote, oh, you know, since when do we care about gender, right?
But somebody said to me on Twitter today, I made the joke, I was told men could get pregnant, and they were like, no, you weren't.
No, you weren't.
We weren't?
Now we weren't told that men could get pregnant?
What was the whole last few years all about?
How am I a birthing person if men can't get pregnant?
So I think that they're trying to dial it back because they see what a loss it is Look, if Kamala Harris pulls it out tonight, that means no lessons will get learned.
And obviously they'll go right back to pregnant men and Latinx, you know, doing their thing.
But I don't think that's going to happen.
And I think that they should take a lesson and try to get back to sanity, try to be more normal.
It is a picture of Jill Biden as she walked out of the voting booth.
I don't know that we have one of Joe Biden walking out of the voting booth.
And we're also, I don't know if you heard this already, but apparently Joe Biden, regardless of whether Kamala wins or loses, will not be at her acceptance speech or her concession speech tonight.
I mean, the fact that she comes out in a red pantsuit, what is Jill Biden trying to tell us?
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if they Did vote for Trump.
I think we're gonna hear some amazing stories of these last few months in the Biden White House, once obviously the pressure's off from trying to get Kamala in.
We're gonna find out what really went down, what they really thought of each other.
That America as we know it, we really can't get it back.
I mean, I think a lot of us have been thinking, you know, post-COVID that eventually things would get back to something like normal and we live in a bubble here in Florida where things are flourishing and great.
But that the national project, in effect, the thing that your parents brought you to America for, you know, just within your generation, your life, would be over.
It's so tough because I do feel this sense of protection in Florida that I would love to extend to friends and family in blue states.
But the fact is that even if Donald Trump wins tonight, which I hope and think that will happen, It's tough to say that the blue states will even fix themselves then, because they'll just double down on being part of the opposition to Donald Trump.
They'll go back to being the resistance.
I mean, the fact that Washington, D.C. boarded up the windows of restaurants and bars and stuff tonight, they're expecting trouble if things don't go the way that they want it to.
Right, they're not expecting Trump supporters to rampage through DC. They're expecting Kamala supporters to rampage through DC. But my point is that civilization is very hard to save when it's already starting to decline.
I hope that this election could turn things around.
I hope Donald Trump wins.
Get on the right foot to head back to where the American project should be.
But I'm worried about these states even if Donald Trump wins.
I don't know that it's going to be as easy to claw back as we might imagine.
And I think as we let in, let's say, more illegal immigrants Millions and millions of people have come across that we don't know anything about them and they don't share our values and all of that.
It will get harder and harder for us to get back to where we hope this country will be.
Again, I feel very secure in Florida.
I wish that other people felt that security in their states.
And I hope people vote in their local elections.
I hope they make changes in their local elections as well.
Yeah, let me just add to that real quick, which is that, you know, in the area of Miami that I'm in, we had a whole bunch of ordinances and propositions and straw polls and all of these things.
And I made sure, and I made sure that David was well aware of all of them.
Go in there, and at least you have some degree of control of that if you think that the federal thing is completely out of control.
Carol, I don't know if you saw it, but it went across the chiron on the bottom while you were speaking a moment ago.
Trump has won South Carolina.
Not much of a surprise there.
Carol, I have one other question for you.
Which is, you are one of the few people, I think under 20 people on planet Earth, who have tasted Dave Rubin's tequila.
And we will, I'll text you probably in five minutes so we can continue this while I'm doing some other stuff.
All right, we're gonna bust out the drinking game right now because I shouldn't be the only one that has to drink tequila around here.
This is the official Rubin Report election night drinking game, and I have no doubt that you guys have your drink of choice.
Do we have the image up right now?
Let's see what we've got.
So the election drinking game is this.
Here we go.
You are to take a sip of your drink of choice when the news throws to a chart guy.
If you're watching MSNBC, you're gonna be drunk in a half hour because they love these chart people.
They've got people in front of maps constantly, any kind of chart.
They just love it.
And they will tell you things that somehow they didn't know five minutes before as if they are exactly true.
It's incredible what they're doing over there.
That means you have to take a sip.
You also have to take a sip every time someone on mainstream media says that democracy is under attack.
Oh man, people are gonna be wasted, wasted.
You also have to take a sip if CNN's pet Republican is allowed to speak.
Well, that probably won't happen very often.
So for that one, you probably, you know, they fired, what, two of their pet Republicans.
They fired Ryan James Gerdusky a couple days ago, or what was it, a week and a half ago for a silly beeper joke, even though the heart of what he said was completely true.
So that one, probably not too bad.
And then you have to take a shot, which by the way, I do have the official Dorothy Sbornak B. Arthur shot glass here.
Where am I looking?
Where am I looking?
Oh, I've got to go over here, right?
Somewhere over here.
Somewhere over there.
Over there.
There we go.
I've got the Dorothy Sbornak.
Look at that.
Look at that zoom in on the lens right there.
Shot glass.
Right there.
And Dorothy's Borneck, why would you be drinking out of a Dorothy's Borneck, shot glass, Dave?
But Dorothy was a classical liberal in The Golden Girls, often talked about classical liberalism, the ideas of classical liberalism, and I have no doubt that she would be a Trump supporter now, so I thought that would be appropriate.
So you have to take a shot every time a lesbian is on MSNBC, and that includes Mark Cuban, so that could be big.
Every time Donald Trump and fascism are mentioned, that also, that's gonna happen a lot.
When Maricopa County has election problems, I assume that's happening already.
Of course, that's in Arizona.
And if a celebrity is shown endorsing a candidate, you have to take a shot.
People are going to be under the table.
You have to finish your drink.
When a swing state is officially called, so that has not happened yet as far as I know, when a former presidential candidate is interviewed, that'll probably happen a lot throughout the evening, and when Trump or Harris gives a speech, which I don't see either one of those happening probably before midnight.
It is gonna be a long night.
And then the team felt that we should put, please drink responsibly in there.
Frankly, I don't care how you drink.
You know what I mean?
You do what you gotta do.
What do I care?
But they said put that in there, so you know.
You do what you gotta do.
I believe we have something to throw to right now.
And this involves, I think, a woman.
No, no, this involves a man.
This is a male Kamala Harris supporter.
Oh, oh my.
Do we have it?
Do we have it?
Let's see if we have it.
We're gonna grab this.
We have a male Kamala Harris supporter.
They do exist, apparently.
And he's gonna be very emotive over something.
I haven't seen this before either.
Here we go.
unidentified
Who'd you vote for today?
I voted for Kamala Harris.
Why is that?
I have three daughters, four children overall, and women's rights is pretty important to them and my daughters.
Sorry, I'm getting a little emotional about that.
I didn't think that I was going to do that, but just their bodies, their choice type of a mentality.
I want them to grow up in a world that's welcoming to everybody.
It's like that sort of, as Gad said, who will be on the show later, calls suicidal empathy, that these people have, it's good to have empathy.
It's good to have empathy and feel the pain of your co-citizen, your friend, your family member, but not suicidal empathy.
And he's so concerned of my body, my choice, but as a Democrat voter, he probably was for forcing people to be injected with things.
When the state came around and said, you better force your daughters to get injected with an experimental vaccine that actually isn't a vaccine, he probably was for it.
I think actually one of the reasons that they went so hardcore with the vaccine on kids was they knew once you allowed the state to force you to inject your kid with something, you could really never turn against the state, because then you look pretty damn evil.
You'd have to really look in the mirror and be like, holy shit, I did not do my duty as a parent.
I did not protect my child from being injected with God knows what.
Oh, and now they're having some sort of side effect, or if it was a young male, That they're having myocarditis or whatever it might be.
But again, this is what they've done.
They've made this into a bizarro sex war where you have sort of These marginal neither here nor there guys, and I don't mean to make this about this one specific man, I'm sure he's a perfectly fine human being, but they take these guys and they're like, oh, you've got a wife and daughters.
They're coming for the women, they're coming for the girls, and they're not.
You wanna protect women, you wanna protect girls, how about close the border?
How about make sure that the cities are clean and that there aren't drugs and homeless people on the streets so they don't get accosted?
How about make sure that people can't just walk into your house and take your house?
Right, which these are all things that are happening, right?
It's just absolutely crazy.
We have something out of CNN right now.
I believe it involves Jake Tapper.
I am always interested in Jake Tapper because people always say, when you say, they'll say to me, Dave, you're always making fun of CNN, but CNN has Jake Tapper.
He's not terrible.
Well, here's Jake Tapper.
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Trump is winning them by 11 points in these early exit poll results, 54% to 30%.
Jake, four years ago, Joe Biden won independent voters in Georgia when he won the state by nine points.
So we've seen a swing of...
20 points towards Trump in terms of the margin from 9-point advantage four years ago with independence for Biden to now an 11-point advantage with independence for Trump in Georgia, Jake.
Wow.
They're a giant.
And, Dana, that is really significant.
We see some incremental changes here and there when it comes to young voters.
And what I like about hearing independent voters, it's not saying white people, black people, people with a limp and somebody who's got a lazy eye.
It's saying independent voters, people who aren't part of a party, who maybe have sort of a mix match of different political opinions, never found a home in either party, that they are now breaking in massive ways.
I mean, that sounded like almost a 20 point swing from what happened with Biden in Georgia last time.
That is absolutely huge.
That's actually indicative of hopefully what we will see more largely throughout the evening.
But I just mentioned my friend Gad Saad, the sexiest man on the internet.
And I also note that you're not hiding under the desk.
You're usually hiding under the desk because somebody, Donald Trump is coming for you or some other horrific figure is coming and you're hiding in the desk and your wife is often in the distance making sure that you're being fed well and that you're okay.
I don't know if you heard my previous interview or what I was talking about, but I mentioned a phrase that you have been bringing up quite extensively lately.
I think you are, if I'm not mistaken, your next book is gonna be about it, but you've written about it and we've talked about it before, suicidal empathy.
And that really seems to be the affliction across the West That is driving the liberals, unfortunately, to kill us all.
That empathy has become the most important piece of the hierarchy.
Can you explain maybe when you first saw this and why you think it's so dangerous?
Because I think it's perfectly indicative of what is happening with this election right now as it comes to the intersectional alliance that the left is trying to put together.
That's exactly the topic of my next book, Exactly Suicidal Empathy.
So look, many emotions make sense when they are triggered within certain ranges, right?
So take, for example, OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder.
It is a maladaptive firing of an otherwise adaptive process.
Now, that sounds like a mouthful, so let me explain it.
It makes perfect evolutionary sense for us to check that the back door is locked before we go to sleep.
But we check it once, we make sure it's closed, and then we move on.
OCD is the hyperactivation of that mechanism.
I'm stuck by the door, rechecking and rechecking for the next eight hours.
So there is nothing wrong with empathy.
It's a laudable, virtuous emotion to have.
The problem arises when it hyperactivates.
And it targets the wrong people.
So, for example, when it comes to immigration, to spend all of our capital of empathy on illegal immigrants over American vets would be a manifestation of suicidal empathy.
To argue that all immigrants are alike, because people will, for example, write to me, well, why are you against immigration?
You're an immigrant.
Your buddy Elon Musk is an immigrant.
Well, that presumes that all immigrants are equal, just like George Orwell said, all animals are equal except some are more equal than others.
So suicidal empathy is simply the maladaptive application of an otherwise adaptive emotion.
Because it seems to me that if we just had a certain set of people that maybe were a little too empathetic or a little too emotional or whatever, that that could operate functionally in a society.
But it seems to me that it has been weaponized to the point that everyone else now is Hitler, everyone is a racist, Donald Trump showing up at MSG is like Hitler in 1930, whatever, all of the stuff.
And it seemingly has taken over an entire...
It's not even electorate.
It has taken over an entire segment of the population that will gladly import people who will behead them.
In Quebec, by the way, the Quebec government is perfectly happy to let in hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants as long as before they behead you, they say bonjour.
So as long as the beheadings happen in French, then it's all good because at least we've protected our linguistic heritage.
But to come back to your point of how that happened, let's draw an analogy with football, right?
What you're trying to maximize to win a game is to score more points than the other team, right?
Everybody agrees that that's the rules by which you win.
Imagine if somebody came along and said, no, no, no.
I have to simply hold on to the ball more than the other team.
That's what I use for me to win the game, right?
And so this is what's happening in the West.
It's no longer about protecting our foundational values.
The highest goal, the most virtuous objective that you can achieve is to be orgiastically empathetic.
So let's say they acknowledge, boy, these empathetic people, they're getting a whole bunch of us killed and they're importing all of these people and something's not good here, but they instead choose to bury their head in the ground.
If you presume that it is completely gauche and inappropriate for you to ever criticize someone's religion, then you become bound to that rule of conduct, right?
So it doesn't matter how much evidence slaps you in the face to argue that maybe Islam might be more inherently violent than say Jainism.
I'm unwilling to admit to that and therefore metaphorically I bury my head in the sand and presume that it hasn't happened or I look for alternative causal explanations.
So I can show you a list of 40,000 terrorist acts that have been committed Since 9-11 alone in nearly 70 countries, and then Bill Nye, the science guy, will say that it is climate change that's causing this, or it's lack of art exposure that's causing this, or it's the Zionist occupation.
So all causal explanations are okay as long as you don't blame the noble faith.
That's ostrich parasitic syndrome mixed up with suicidal empathy because I want to be empathetic to that religion of the noble brown people.
We're doing a bit of the sad greatest hits here, but I do want to do one other because this is election night and because I have seen something really extraordinary.
I was just talking about it with Carol.
So many liberals, former, let's say, New York Cali liberals, whatever that meant, moderate Dems, who for the first time are breaking towards Trump right now.
One of the phrases that you've talked about that has stopped so many people from doing that over the years is that they consider Trump an aesthetic injury.
And I really like this.
And I think it's something that finally a certain set of people are getting over this idea that, oh my God, he eats ketchup with his steak that's well done.
But that's not the only part of the aesthetic injury.
Before I let you go, in that you are up in Canada, and it seems to me that Canada actually, joking aside for a moment, Canada actually is in far worse shape than America is.
Would you like to give a warning to some of our American friends who, I don't know if anyone, well, everyone's basically voted if they're gonna vote at this point, but just to the American that is kind of unsure or doesn't quite see what I think you and I see the dangers to be in the world at the moment?
A middle class family in arguably the highest income neighborhood in Canada.
By the way, my sister lives in that neighborhood, so I know it very well.
This is not a humble brag.
It literally is the case that every home is a castle.
So it's such nonsense that she says, so the warning to the United States, unless you wish to emulate the trajectory that Canada has taken, I hope that you've made the right choice tonight.
I mean, I've always said though, you know, I just think conservatives really, like Donald Trump, he's just never had the experience of being with a Honduran guy.
Their stamina, you know, they can go under high duress.
And they're just absolutely incredible.
I mean, so I think if Trump was with the Honduran guy and most conservatives, they would see, I think it would totally, she would actually not only would you rather be with a legal immigrant, she would just be with one, I think.
All right, guys, as we roll into the 8 o'clock hour, we've got, oh, we just, are we switching it up?
I'm told we have Jordan Peterson at 8 o'clock, and then I think we're going to have Russell Brand after, so we somehow are going to go from that to Jordan Peterson, but that's what happens on election night on a free Whelan-Rubin report all happening live.
But I think we're going to have a couple, we have a couple clips that we're going to play and a few other things.
Should we jump back to, I paused Mario right before we jumped in with Gad Sad.
Oh, this is very important.
You know, a lot of people are focused on California these days, that it's the lost state, you know, that horrible things have happened to California.
And I fled California, as you know, and many, many people have left California.
But Sonoma, Wine country.
It's one of the great places that still remains in California.
Well, if grapes don't be quite your thing, you can come and spend the day listening to live music, eating international foods, having wine tours and tasting, vineyard tours, seminars, arts and crafts.
I told you guys this was gonna be an election show like no other.
That was the first, I think that was literally the first video, viral video that I saw on the internet where I was like, oh my God, the internet's a cool place.
It's not just for a bunch of weirdos, although here we are and it kind of turned out that way.
Did you ever think when you were a simple clinician 20, 30 years ago that you would be hanging out with all these right-wing maniacs in Nashville on election night at the precipice of the end of Western civilization?
Well, one of the things that we have noticed with the crowds, I would say, is that they're more put together than they were six years ago.
So most of the people who show up, maybe it's because the ticket prices have increased in price.
You never know.
But I don't think so.
I think the reason is that most of the guys who show up now are much more put together than they were six years ago.
They've got their acts together.
They're aiming up.
They have...
They bring their girlfriends.
They bring their wives.
They often bring their children.
They have positive stories to tell.
They're much more put together.
And I think, Dave, that probably corresponds with that movement that the New York Times even reported.
And you know that something like this has to be happening if even the New York Times will report it.
There's quite a marked influx of young men, in particular, back into traditional religious organizations.
And, you know, they're leaving the universities in droves, obviously.
It's about two to one women to men now in universities.
And the question is, where are they going?
And one answer to that seems to be back into the houses of worship, which is a very strange phenomenon, you know.
We don't want to underestimate the significance of this, and I think it'll be highlighted more.
The reasons for that are highlighted more, I think, in this new book that I'm releasing on November 19th, which is called We Who Wrestle With God, and I'm making a case there for the validity of the stories in the biblical library and their insistence on sacrifice as the basis of community, which I think is Technically, scientifically, and theologically accurate, rather than power.
We're in a revolutionary time, Dave.
That's why there's such a culture war going on.
There's all sorts of ways it could go.
It could go in the direction of hedonism.
It could go in the direction of power.
And it could go in the direction of nihilism.
The alternative is a revolution of tradition.
And I think that's partly what the Trump campaign has been tapping into, especially in the last month or so.
You know, because it's a very funny thing to see with regards to what's happening with Trump, because he's got these remarkable people around him, and they're entrepreneurial revolutionaries with a very traditional view of the world.
Has that been the most surprising part of all of this?
Because you obviously don't come from a political background, yet you've become an astute political analyst.
But when I saw you a couple of weeks ago at the Rescue of the Republic rally, I'm watching you and Russell Brand on stage basically doing a wrap-off about sort of the existence of God at a political rally where you've got everyone there to support RFK wearing MAGA hats.
We definitely live, what do they say, in the most preposterous of all possible timelines.
But that's all an indication that there's something major shifting way down in the tectonic plates.
And it is a restructuring and reformulation of...
The fundamental story on which Western civilization and free societies themselves are predicated.
And I can see that popping up everywhere.
I mean, one of the things that I try to lay out in this new book, for example, is the revolutionary realization from many different disciplines that we necessarily see the world through a story.
I think that that's already established well enough so that it can be considered a scientific fact.
That's Being discovered by people in at least five different, separated disciplines.
Artificial intelligence, linguistics, literary criticism, psychology, neurophysiology, they all point in that direction.
And that's a lot of convergent evidence.
And so once you understand that, and it really is a revolutionary development, it invalidates the propositions of both the empiricists and the rationalists.
And I think to some degree that means the end of the Enlightenment.
I think that's what we're living through right now, is something like the end of the Enlightenment.
And that could be a catastrophic collapse into something like hedonism and power or nihilism.
But it doesn't have to be.
It could be A revolutionary restoration of the story on which the West and freedom itself is predicated.
And I think there's a non-zero probability that that's the interpretation that will win.
Because to me, we are now on his hero's journey story.
I don't know if you saw it, but yesterday at his closing speech, he had Megyn Kelly on stage giving the best defense of him that I think I've ever heard.
And yet it's only nine years after the first debate where he was saying, you know, she bleeds out of her whatever.
And I thought, wow, what an incredible story here.
They were at opposite ends of everything.
So many of us were, and now they've been completely aligned on all of this.
And it seems that his story has now become our story.
Well, you know, one of the things that's very strange about this election at a deeper level is that it's, you know, it's DEI Barbie against the old patriarch.
And that is emblematic of itself of a massive division in the culture.
And Trump Trump is a pretty good representative, I would say, of the flawed patriarchy, right?
I mean, he's bombastic.
He's entrepreneurial.
He's bombastic.
He terrifies people with the possibility that what he's truly after is power.
And then set against him is this new, you know, the first black woman president, which is everything the DEI people could possibly hope for, who's the champion of the oppressed and the marginalized.
And so this isn't a normal left-right competition by any stretch of the imagination.
Is Trump the last hurrah of the traditional patriarchy?
That's certainly one way of looking at things.
I'm hoping he wins because I think Trump, especially given the people he's aggregated around him, I think Trump can do things.
And the problem with bringing the margin to the center is the margin isn't competent.
And so the problem with that for the margin is that If you center the marginalized, let's say the first thing you destroy is the margin, not the center.
It obviously happened to Trump and Musk and Gabbard.
And I mean, in a sane world, Vance would be a Democrat, not a Republican, like in the world of 40 years ago, right?
Because he's a guy who struggled up from the working class to take his place.
And it is definitely the case that Well, the left, it's certainly the rise of the progressive left that has made me into a conservative insofar as I'm a conservative.
It's like, look, guys, you've gone way too far, not only as far as I'm concerned from my position of privilege, but with regard to your own interests.
And I think you can see the fact that the majority of people, for example, who are transformed surgically for their gender, as a consequence of their gender confusion, The fact that a majority of them are gay, that's a perfect example of how the multiplication of the marginal destroys the margin first rather than the center.
Well, I'd like to think that, except the field of psychology itself and the way it's taught has also fallen completely prey to the woke mob.
I mean, in Canada now, it's increasingly difficult for university programs that train clinical psychologists to become accredited as educators in that realm unless they have a social justice orientation.
And I think we're in a situation where The realm of clinical practitioners probably does more harm than good now because it's been so invaded by the woke mob.
I mean, this is a real conundrum for conservatives, right?
Because conservatives are generally for institutional preservation, but the institutions are so bloody captured that it isn't obvious what to do with them.
I really can't see how the universities can be rescued.
So now you have, in essence, the liberals, the lefties are defending the institutions.
They wanna keep them alive, whether it's the CDC or the NIH or Columbia or Harvard, and you have the conservatives now- Or the legacy media.
So that was where I wanted to end this with you, because I know you've got to get over to Ben and the rest of the guys.
But for years, you and I have been talking about this.
The tension that has existed between the legacy media, corporate press, mainstream media, whatever you wanna call it, and the online media.
And now with Elon jumping in and opening up X and the fact that this election to me is way more about the war on reality that we are all a part of more than say, are you a Republican or a Democrat?
How long do you think a society can hold when so many people Actually live in different worlds because we're all holding a phone that's giving us different information.
Well, I think that part of the reason there is a move back to more traditional forms of worship, let's say, among young men, is the counterposition to that.
You know, Dave, people tend to find their way.
I mean, one of the things that I think will happen, too, is that live events will become much more valuable, right?
Because they actually bring people together physically, plus you know they're real.
You know, we're going to adapt to this weird dynamic AI-fueled virtual reality.
I don't know how that's going to happen.
God only knows because things are changing so fast you can't even tell what's changing.
The AI landscape is shifting so rapidly and the robotics landscape as well that whatever you think the problem is at the moment is very unlikely to be the problem in a year.
You know, even with regards to teenage overuse of cell phones, you know, I mean, we've only had cell phones that we could overuse for about 10 years.
And I don't imagine it's certainly possible that we won't have them at all in 10 years, that they'll be replaced by something entirely different.
We have no idea.
And so, how do you adapt to a technological front that's transforming so rapidly that you don't even know what's changing?
I think you do that by returning to some degree to the eternal verities, because I don't know what else can possibly ground you.
Well, then I guess my final question to you would be connected to that, which is for all of the people tonight, regardless of what side they're on, if they're watching this show, I tend to know what side they're on, but regardless of what side you're on, if you're watching this thing tonight thinking, oh my God, the world is about to completely spin off its axis if I don't get the outcome that I want, What would be your ultimate message to them?
Okay, so my question in essence was this, regardless of what side someone's on politically, and obviously most of the people watching this are on, let's say, one side of it, for everyone that's just feeling this unbelievable tension right now, that it really could be it in three hours, that they're gonna lose everything that they know, that society will never come back, and everything else.
I think you've sort of illustrated what you think is the out on that, but what would be the sort of most comforting thing you could say to someone if they don't get the outcome they want tonight?
Well, I would say you're morally required not to lose hope and despair.
Right?
It's a sign of courage to maintain faith in the future.
And it's a sign of faith to assume that if you are committed to Doing the right thing and pat and following the pathway of truth that things will work out for you as well as they can and I don't think you should underestimate the power of that I mean you put together for yourself a very rich private life for example and you have that as a Buttress let's say a fortress against the insanity of the outside world and you know that and so I would say you know if the macro world
Doesn't sort itself out according to your desires then you can retreat to some degree To the more private and micro world, and you can do everything you can to set that straight.
You know, if Trump isn't elected tonight, you still have a thriving business enterprise and a family.
You have people around you that love you.
You can focus your attention on that and continue to work on the political front.
And there's no reason to despair.
And four years into the future isn't that long a period of time as well.
So, you know, you're required morally to maintain faith in the future, regardless of the evidence at hand, let's say.
We did a little psychological analysis of the American electorate, and his main takeaway was that we're That we're gonna kind of be okay.
But here you are, I believe you're in Florida right now, in the free state of Florida, and you've become quite an astute political analyst here in America. and you've become quite an astute political analyst here in Annualer level.
Jordan's take, unsurprising to you, was in essence that if you think that tonight, whatever, if we get the result that you don't want, so if Kamala wins tonight and you think that the world is over, well, as he said, first off, the next election's only in four years, but really what he said was, you still have autonomy over your life.
You have autonomy over your family and your job, and yeah, they can hit you on every which way and every side of the whole thing, but there are some things that you control.
I mean, in essence, it was clean your room before you clean the world.
But we've all engaged in so much hyperbole on both sides.
We all saw Elon Musk on Rogan saying, if Kamala wins, X is going to shut down, he's going to be foreclosed upon.
Did you hear the bit where he said, one of the bits that struck me was when he talked about the Stalin torturer-in-chief who said, show me the man and I'll show you the crime.
Yeah, and when Mike Pence, I know you've spoken to, said to me, when people say democracy now, they don't mean a process of representative electoral procedure.
What they mean is a set of institutions that they're in control of, whether that's the media or the judiciary.
And I've got to tell you, I'm I am pretty scared.
I spoke to Dana White, not today, like another day, and he said, you know, get up on November 6th, there'll be a normal day.
It's like, you know, JP saying there.
But it's difficult.
Like, we've participated, haven't we, in escalating this sort of hyperbole in this sense of tension today without content.
Sometimes the sarcasm can be a little angrier maybe than I want it to be or something like that.
In some ways, to me, we're fighting something that is so deeply dangerous that is the unbelievably never-ending, always-growing Marxist idea that is so historically evil that If I've engaged in a little hyperbole along the way,
which I undoubtedly have, I think sometimes it's kind of, it's sort of why when people are like, oh, I like Donald Trump, I don't like the way he talks, that I find that that, it kind of runs thin with me at this point, because it's like, you gotta fight however you can, something like that.
I felt like egalitarianism, the principle of equality, was very important.
I felt the biggest threat that society in the world faced were powerful corporations and only the state, a state that responded to the will of the people, could oppose the titans of capitalism that were set to take over the globe.
Over time, I've come to realize that what the state has been trying to do since the advent of Mark, but probably from earlier than that, is replace, and this is Jordan Peterson territory, God in our lives to have absolute power.
Now, because of the advance of technology, there is the ability for omniscience through surveillance.
We're present through the devices that we all carry.
And the sort of control of our consciousness through this deep programming we're all encountering.
You'll have seen those memes, Dave, of like, you know, if you Google, where can I vote for Kamala, someone comes around to our house and drives to a voting booth in a limousine.
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And if you say, where can I vote for Trump, someone comes and kicks in the ass.
And what I'm starting to see is that social democracy leads to totalitarianism, unless it's minimalized.
I still think you've got to work out how to take on massive operations with nefarious goals, but I don't think it's by empowering the state because they're too lined up with it.
Where are you at in terms of just pure hope of that this thing will, whatever goes right means to you, that it goes right, and that we can get out of some of this?
The problem with me is I'm a pretty impressionable person.
So if I'm going for my ex-feed and I see you being optimistic and then see Tucker being optimistic, then I'll be like, oh, okay, yes.
Then if I watch something else and I see people that believe that Trump's a monster in the manner that you just described, saying, yeah, we've got this, and look, their rallies are crap.
I start to get concerned because I truly believe, I watched your videos where A brilliant video where you appealed to liberals that said, like, you know, just look at the facts now.
Look at the people that are aligned with Trump.
This is not Trump of 2016.
Look at what's happening with surveillance and censorship, the degree of control that's being asserted in the name of protection.
Look at the shallow vacuity of these cipher candidates that they're putting up before us.
I thought it was a brilliant video.
I thought we did a great job of that.
Do I feel hopeful?
I'm too easily in.
I'm too easily straight.
Like, I could open the course just two hours, and this is without drink or drugs.
There could be points where I'll be ecstatic, and there are points where I might cry.
Well, there is a little tequila here, and in the 30 seconds we have remaining, do you want to tell people what happened when you were at my house a couple weeks ago involving a glass of tequila?
Well, you know, it would mean we would probably hit our saturation point in the next four years and then we would revert back to something that worked.
You know, California is ahead of the United States in terms of the dumpster fire S show.
Probably Canada's five years ahead of California is kind of the way I look at it.
So we know where this thing is heading.
The question is, do we stop it before we bottom out?
I've talked to people a few times about this.
Like, clearly, California is not going the right direction.
When is enough going to be enough?
And everyone always says, we haven't bottomed out yet.
And then I always say, but why do we have to bottom out?
I would say, I said to Tucker Carlson once, I said, if you walked into your son's room and you found syringes everywhere and methamphetamine and cocaine, would you get them help?
Or would you wait until you walked in and he was flatlining and you had to hit him with paddles?
To me, seeing the syringes and the cocaine and the heroin is enough for an intervention.
And yet, Callie doesn't go the intervention route.
And a guy like you, who is one of the most, you're one of the, I would say, the most functional, well, certainly comedians that I know.
I mean, you're a contractor as well.
You build things.
That's your background.
And yet you live in a place that doesn't seem to do these things right.
But do you think that if, let's say Trump wins tonight, do you think it does send a signal to California, like maybe clean up your shit a little bit and that things could maybe turn around because of an external force hitting Callie?
I mean, as we all know, politicians are spineless cowards who just lick their finger and put it in the air and try to figure out which way the wind is blowing.
I mean, we've all seen all the footage of Kamala Harris saying she was against fracking and she's going to shut down offshore drilling.
And is that the thing that you think maybe has brought more people to Trump than anything else?
That it's just like, we actually do believe that he says what he believes.
It's not that he doesn't lie about crowd size or exaggerate or sarcasm or off color jokes, but like, in essence, it's like, you see what you get, you get what you see, and that's good enough for most people.
You know, if you really think about the problem Ellen got into several months ago, it's because she pretended to be nice and she was actually a mean person.
Marge Schott, the woman who owned the Cincinnati Reds, I believe it was, was mean her whole life.
And everyone knew she was mean.
And she acted mean.
And she didn't make bones about it.
And we kind of left her alone.
And George Steinbrenner owned the Yankees.
And he was a mean dude.
And everyone knew it.
And they did a bid on Seinfeld about it.
It was fine.
It was...
Bill Cosby pretending to be America's dad and turning out to be Bill Cosby, and it was Ellen trying to be the nicest woman in the Queen of Nice, who turned out to be the Queen of Mean.
That's what we don't like.
Even Lance Bass I'll talk about your tribe for a second here.
You might have just blown someone's mind with that news about Lance Bass.
But putting that aside for just a second, Ron DeSantis just tweeted this out.
This is great news for the people of Florida.
It doesn't affect you, but you might appreciate it.
Amendment three, which was gonna legalize recreational marijuana.
I'm not against personal marijuana, and I believe if you wanna just get the card, go get it.
Amendment three was gonna put it in that it was a constitutional right recreationally.
That failed, which I'm very happy to hear.
And Amendment four, which was basically gonna completely upend everything that Florida's done on abortion.
We do have the Harpy Bill, six weeks, it's a bit much for me, but they were gonna basically turn it into something that was gonna have no limitations, more like Cali.
Yeah, people like sanity, they like rule of law, they like order, they like education, they like good neighbors, they like clean streets, they like a small homeless population, they like a closed border.
If you're not a criminal, you should like the police.
I mean, that's kind of who we are and we strayed so far away from it and we let this sort of lunatics and especially all the transgender stuff and men competing in women's sport, All things COVID, we let a handful of nutjobs hijack our society and we sat by silently because we were scared to say anything because you would be ostracized.
If you even asked questions about COVID or transgender or where the virus emanated from, possibly not a wet market.
And I think the same people Really, it was the same people that got cudgeled into going along with insane ideas, and that's starting to wear off.
Adam, I have one more question for you, very important on this election night.
We discussed this on your show, but I'd like my audience to know about it too, because when I was in LA about two, three months ago, I took a bunch of people out to dinner and it was you and it was Dr.
Drew and Sage Steele and Dennis Prager and Larry Elder, Michael Shermer.
And you sat next to David Sachs from the All In Podcast, former COO of PayPal.
I think he's a billionaire, certainly has hundreds of mil.
He's done okay.
And I was paying for dinner.
Everyone's welcome to buy whatever, have whatever they want, fancy a steak, Wagyu, get the most expensive tequila.
Yet you turned to a billionaire, David Sachs, and you asked him if he would share a potato with you.
And I just want to know once again what you were thinking when you did that.
All right, we got Brett Weinstein coming up in a couple minutes.
I think we're gonna throw to the election map right now.
What do we have going on?
Are there any updates?
Has anything crazy happened yet?
So Trump, okay, so there was a little bit of movement, but again, still everything right now.
I mean, and you really, you know, it's so interesting as the night goes on and we get to look at these maps a little bit more, what you really do see is that for some reason, the liberals seem to live on coasts by water.
I guess they want an easy escape.
And generally, in the landlocked areas, you're gonna see more of the red stuff.
We're getting some Senate results that should be in in a little bit.
I'm gonna go out on a really crazy ride here and assume that Rick Scott won.
Oh, well, there I have it right there.
So Rick Scott here in Florida, which of course, again, just because the Democrat Party has been just demolished here Rick Scott won.
The Democrats did put a decent amount of money into getting rid of him.
We'll find out about Ted Cruz in a little bit.
Jim Justice has won in Virginia.
And Joe Manchin, he won, I assume.
Oh, Joe Manchin lost.
Oh, so Jim Justice beat, oh, okay, okay.
Sorry, I'm reading a lot of things at once.
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Joe Manchin who retired, Jim Justice beat the Democrat.
Joe Manchin who retired, Jim Justice was the Republican who beat the Democrat out of West Virginia.
So interesting things happening.
So that's plus one now on the Senate side for the Republicans tonight.
So that's good.
So look guys, so far, What are we?
We're about two and a half hours into the coverage right now.
I don't know how many shows you're flipping between and watching.
Hopefully you're just staying here with all of us, but between some of the guests we've had on, some of the zany stuff and the odd videos and the Nintendo and everything else, I think you're seeing, what I think you're also seeing beyond whatever happens electorally tonight is we are now officially seeing the rise of the new media, that you don't need to watch CNN and MSNBC with their plastic puckered people And their ridiculous, overly studied data to get actual true information.
I think listening to Jordan Peterson or Russell Brand or some of the other people that we're going to have on and have had on already is going to give you just more insight and pleasantness during an evening that can be pretty freaking stressful, though I happen to think at the moment it hasn't been too stressful because it seems to be working.
Oh, we're going to take a one-minute break so that I'm able to use the facilities, and we're going to make sure everybody in here is well-fed and doing okay.
How about some gaffes from the man that they kicked out of the office of the presidency, and then we'll be back in about a minute.
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He wants to be the president of the United States again.
Think how crazy it is that not only is that man still president right now, but they pretended in the first place that he could run and that, oddly, he actually would be better at this very moment than the woman that they installed or that she went around him to figure out how to make this all happen, etc., etc., however you want to analyze it.
Let's jump on with my old friend...
I'm gonna say former lefty, but I'll let him say that for himself if he wishes, Brett Weinstein, formerly of Evergreen College, now professor in exile, Dark Horse podcast, Rubin Report party attendee last week, and great hair on this guy.
I feel like this whole election in many ways is a culmination of so many of the things that you and I have been talking about for a long time.
Me sort of first with the why I left the left and then you particularly in this last year about how to create an alliance that will fight against this evil machine.
And that's what you did with Rescue the Republic.
And I suspect you're feeling pretty decent tonight.
It must be tough to be an evolutionary scientist because you're basically always looking around the corner.
I mean, is that sort of how you view all of this, that even in the moments where it feels like it's kind of working, you're already thinking about the next thing they will do?
I think it's completely warranted.
We discussed it last week with a whole bunch of interesting people.
But it's also like it's got to keep you just generally on edge in life, right?
One of them is you do tend to be looking a little farther down the road and there are a lot of things that can go wrong.
On the other hand, it simplifies a lot because at some level this is all game theory and it's very easy to get overly tied up in the particular details of who said what, but that's not really what drives the system.
So the thing that everyone knows about you, I'm jumping all over the place just for brevity's sake because we have so much going on right now.
The thing that sort of put you on the map, of course, was what happened at Evergreen, which really was the most lefty sort of progressive school in the entire country.
Have your politics changed?
I would say your alliances very obviously have changed, but have your politics changed amidst all of this?
I mean, now clearly supporting at least the Trump movement.
You've got to break it down into a few different pieces.
My values are almost unchanged.
There are a few places where I've rethought some things, but in general I think the values that I held were the right ones.
And frankly, they're the values that has me aligned with many people who would call themselves on the right at this moment.
I have changed my position on a number of important issues.
But overall, I would say, you know, it's become a cliche, but...
The left-right distinction has lost its meaning.
My feeling was always that what made our system work was a tension between the noble impulse of good, honest liberals to make things better and the correct restraint imposed by conservatives who better honest liberals to make things better and the correct restraint imposed by conservatives who better appreciate So the system works when those two things are actually keeping each other honest.
And I still believe that we're not going to conserve our way out of our current crisis.
We are going to have to get to a place where we Do recover the values that we are currently destroying.
And then we're going to have to figure out how to carefully bootstrap a new way that addresses all of the novel hazards that we now face, which are things that the founding fathers couldn't have understood or anticipated.
And so it does fall to us to figure out how to responsibly manage the new reality.
So Brett, I want to back up for a second because Barack Obama just tweeted this and I think this is a perfect tweet to show you relative to the way you look at the world.
This is just in the last few minutes.
It took several days to count every ballot in 2020 and it's very likely we won't know the outcome tonight either.
So please keep a few things in mind as you make your voice heard today.
Thousands of election workers around the country are working hard today.
Respect them, thank them.
Don't share things before checking your sources.
Let the process run its course.
It takes time to count out every ballot.
Brett, I think it's very fair to say that if he was feeling confident about what's going on, there's no way in high hell he puts that tweet up.
Do you think that that's them foreshadowing that this thing isn't getting wrapped up tonight and they need some time to figure out how to do it?
Yeah, my feeling is something has decided that it likes complicated elections.
It likes elections that are drawn out over long periods of time, court battles.
It likes bizarre constraints like a lack of a requirement for ID to cast a vote.
And the, you know, an honest team wouldn't need any of that.
An honest team just simply needs a system in which votes are unambiguous and are counted in the normal way.
And yes, very occasionally you run into a system where you're so, or a situation where you're so close that things have to be counted, you know, by hand because the margin doesn't allow you to extrapolate.
But that should be a rare circumstance.
That shouldn't be every election.
The Democrats have become the party that...
Wants to hold open every mechanism for cheating in an election and then dare us to point it out.
So I frankly resent President Obama stepping in as if he's the adult voice of reason in the room when, frankly, he said nothing about the fact that his party has nominated a candidate who literally can't function absent a teleprompter.
Who quite literally nobody voted for before all of this.
So what do you do when you see the machine, or whatever you wanna call it, when you see it recalibrating right in front of your eyes, what's the best tactic To me, that's a signal.
Obama just sent a signal out into the ether, which is, oh, we probably don't know the results tonight.
Again, he's probably only doing that because he thinks that his side may lose.
So what would be the best way to actually deal with that, actually incorporate that, see it for what it is, and then move forward with it?
Well, I think a lot of us have started to point out that For some reason, one of the parties loves the discretion that comes along with a drawn-out electoral process in which nothing is standardized.
And I think we just have to watch the process like a hawk.
It is absolutely a requirement of democracy that one party not have an advantage because it's simply more willing to cheat.
And I'm afraid as embarrassing as it is as a lifelong Democrat to say that the blue team does seem in love with power and willing to cheat, obviously cheat.
It certainly cheats before we get to the actual voting.
Is it willing to continue that process in I see no reason to doubt it.
It's harder to do, but I certainly wouldn't put it past them.
So as they carve out that room to cheat, we have to point out what it is courageously and not put up with it.
Brett, I don't know what your plans are for the rest of the evening, but perhaps we should get you back in a couple hours, because if we see some more shenanigans, I'd like to get your take on it.
But I've got to jump over to James Lindsay and Dr.
Phil.
So I thank you for your time, and I'll ping you in a bit.
I think we'll have James on just, we'll have James on in just a second.
We're a little bit tight right now because at nine o'clock, so in about 10 minutes, in exactly 10 minutes, we're gonna do a cross stream for a half hour with Dr.
I mean, you probably, I reference you on my show all the time.
You've been on the show a million times, but I reference you all the time because it seems to me that you have, I would say, probably the most, the widest breadth of knowledge as it relates to all of the tactics that we are fighting from the Marxists or the communists or whatever you may wanna call them right now.
Are you confident that this might be our full-on assault against them and it might be happening in real time right now?
I'm kind of keeping an eye on the results so far, and it looks like even Virginia is tipping red at the moment, which even if it ends up going to Harris, nobody expected that.
Nobody expected Virginia to really be in play, but it looks like it's really in play.
Georgia is kind of, at the moment at least, it's not two in the morning in Fulton County yet, but it seems to be running away for Trump.
And it's actually very exciting.
This might be happening.
I still am not entirely positive the election is going to occur.
I haven't settled on that much As far as the outcome goes, will there be an election?
I don't know.
But I think we're getting close to there being an election and I think it's looking actually potentially good.
But yeah, I think in the long run we can be okay.
No matter what happens tonight, although it would be far better, obviously, if Donald Trump won, but we have to react correctly.
No matter who takes this tonight, no matter how many weeks before we know the results, we have to react correctly because, like you said, I know their tactics and their tactics are provocation and we're going to be provoked no matter what happens.
Not to sound like Tucker Carlson at the moment, but we need to stay like a cool-headed, calm dad who's in control, more or less.
And we're not going to flip out.
We're not going to take rash action, but we're also going to hold the line.
Even if we win tonight, many things will occur.
We can expect the leftist hooligans to take to the streets at some point and go bananas to try to provoke people to go vigilante back on them.
We shouldn't do that.
We should hold the line.
We should bring law enforcement into it, and we should take care of it more responsibly.
We can expect...
We can expect a major media push.
We can expect a major move to destabilize Trump's presidency or even to refuse to certify him before his presidency.
And again, we have to hold very firm, very steady, and we have to be lawyered up, ready to fight this, not with a bunch of craking lawyers, not with a bunch of grifters, but with some serious attorneys who are ready to make sure that this goes through legally and cleanly and this doesn't turn into street violence.
We have to dedicate every ounce of effort we have in every single state, in every single local community, to putting up bastions of resistance against a federal government that we have every reason to believe will be every bit as bad as what we see in England right now and probably more desperate and more dangerous and worse.
And so we have to very tightly hold on to power at the states and to wield that power responsibly to fend off a globalist nightmare and a federal government that will be out of control.
James, my friend, as I just said to Brett, I'm sorry we had to do this so briefly.
Let's get you back on the show for a proper interview soon because, again, I think you have a way of analyzing this with deep knowledge of what we're up against.
And that's why I always appreciate what you're doing.
And I really appreciate the fact that as a lifelong lefty atheist, you have found common cause just like I have with a whole bunch of people that maybe years ago we wouldn't have.
And I think that that's what is so exciting about America right now.
Apparently, I've never been on live television before, but Apparently sometimes I don't watch the news because I'm a kid and apparently every time grandpa just gives me a remote after we watch the Powerball.
Tell me about the ride.
What did you think about the ride?
Well, it was great!
Why?
Because apparently you're spinning around, and apparently every time you get dizzy, because all you do is get dizzy.
Is it fun?
Yeah.
And I've never, ever been on live television.
I've never, ever been on live television.
Are you excited?
Yeah, and apparently I already went down the super slide.
When I went down alone, I was scared half to death.
I just freak out.
Harry's screaming.
I meet my McDonald's.
I come outside.
I see this girl going nuts, trying to get out of her house.
So I go on the porch.
I go on the porch, and she says, help me get out.
I've been in here a long time.
And like I say, my neighbor, you got some big testicles to pull this off, bro, because we see this dude every day.
Oh, brah, it's just like, dude, you get the best barrels ever, dude.
Just like, you pull in, and you just get spit right out of them, and you just drop in, and just smack the lip, whoopah, drop down, snap, bah, and then after that, you just drop in, you just ride the barrel, and get pitted, so pitted, like that.
Surveillance tape is catching a routine morning at this gas station on Bannister until chaos erupts.
I was putting one more tap of coffee in my coffee cup and out of the corner of my eyes I saw two guys come in, one with a black hoodie and one with a white hoodie.
And the guy with the black hoodie said, we want your money, everybody up front and down.
And I'm like, oh!
Oh, why do I need coffee now?
The guy in the black starts coming down, and I'm like, don't look, don't look, don't look.
So I'm putting my hair down, you know?
And he comes right to me, and he goes, get down now!
And I go, yes, sir!
And I just drop to my knees.
Then I hear, boom, boom, boom!
And I'm like, oh, my God.
So I back farther and farther away, and I think, maybe I should faint, but I don't.
And so then I'm thinking, count to 2,000 again.
So I did, and then I go, me amigos, me amigos.
Nobody said nothing.
I'm like, oh, my God, they're dead.
Can I ask you, if you won all the money, what would you do with it?
He's a man of integrity, an intellectual rigor, a compliment, a moment of expression.
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Consummate.
something he's avoided over the years.
The week kicked off with a sit down on ABC is first following the disastrous debate.
- We have, I mean, I guess, anyway.
I don't want to take much credit, I insist that. - Their concerns about your age and your health are growing, so that's why I'm asking to reassure them.
But I will also say that I'm really enthused about where I sense people are watching the news right now.
They are tuning out of corporate press in droves.
They're watching you.
They're watching me.
They're watching plenty of other people online.
And it's not to say we're all perfect at all of this and there's a learning curve with some of it.
But I think part of what has been so wrong with everything in America over the last couple of years Is that the news media has gone so completely out of control.
And I think we're seeing a little bit of a course correction tonight.
I fled from California during COVID, and I moved two businesses and multiple employees.
I brought about 20 people here.
And I'm not shocked that Florida went red, obviously, but Miami-Dade, where I am, which really was the blue center of what has become a very red state, has now become redder than red.
I mean, there, in effect, is no Democrat party here anymore.
And that's not to say that that's the healthiest thing for a system.
I mean, I think the healthiest thing for a system is that you have two somewhat moderate parties that disagree mostly on the size of government, and then there's a healthy tension between them.
What we have in Florida is we've now decimated the Democrat Party because of good governance, largely because of Ron DeSantis during COVID and then subsequently everything that's happened.
And then because of the migration into the state where we've taken in About a million people in three years, which is an extraordinary number.
People are not doing what they used to do, which is, you know, these people would flee California and then vote for the wrong things in, say, Colorado or Montana.
Here people are coming from, you know, they're coming from Cali, they're coming from New York, and they're voting the right way.
And that's why we have a thriving economy in Florida.
We're building homes at unbelievable rates.
Our infrastructure projects are fast and efficient.
And so that's not surprising to me, but to see something that consistently works, consistently work, it's always nice to see, if not surprising.
Well, I would say the immediate pressing issue is that we're going to, regardless of who wins, I obviously want Donald Trump to win, but regardless of who wins, and I really do hope we get the result tonight one way or another because I don't think it's good for the country or any of our psychological or spiritual health if it goes anything beyond tonight.
But I think the first thing is that we're going to have to, I'm not a big fan of just saying, you know, these platitudes like, oh, we need unity.
I don't think you necessarily need unity with everyone, but we do sort of need Most of us to believe in the system and that the rules work and they're equally applicable and everything else.
So I would hope that virtually everybody will believe that the results were legit and then we can kind of go on from there.
I would say, putting that aside, putting the immediacy of the election aside, The most important thing at the moment is we have to return to meritocracy in this country.
I think that that is what Trump sort of caught on to almost by mistake in a weird way.
We have to just get back to a place where your race and skin color and your gender and your sex and all of the immutable stuff that none of us really want to be judged on, that stuff should not matter.
And unfortunately, the Democrats went deep with identity politics.
It took over many of our institutions.
It has completely wholly infected the Democrat Party.
And until we get over that, until we decide, hey, you will get a job because you're the most qualified.
You will get this opportunity because you work the hardest and not because of some other nonsensical attribute.
Until we get over that, nothing will work.
We will build worse things across the board.
Whether it's literally building worse airplanes or a worse military, or it's that our doctors will be less qualified, and quite literally our janitors will be less qualified, and that's not good for anybody.
Well, you know, I couldn't have said it better myself, and as you know, that's why we named Merit Street Media Merit, because it's all about Hard work, added value, and talent.
And I think that's what we have to focus on.
And I really hope that's what people vote for when they make the votes that they do.
And you said it really well.
And listen, I look forward to talking to you again soon.
I hope we have a new president.
Tonight, as you do, and things go the way of supporting the kind of meritocracy that made this country what it is today.
So maybe we can talk and celebrate that very soon.
So I thank you for coming on, and I'm going to tell you that we're getting ready to call Texas right now, where I'm sitting right now in Dallas-Fort Worth.
So you can add this one to your list as we part right here because we're getting ready to let Lindsay call Texas.
Well, no, because it's resting on some paper, and so I didn't want the little tea light to overheat, and then all of a sudden we've got breaking news here at the channel.
You know, we're doing a lot of technical things at once that we're figuring out on the fly.
I want to give a special shout out to Connor, my director, who's actually my longest employee with me at the moment, who is now, he actually has 18 hands, and he was just pulling wires and switching things and all sorts of stuff.
As you know, when Connor does a good job, we give him a little extra guacamole.
And Connor?
Guacamole for the year, my friend.
All right, so hopefully you guys caught me on Dr.
Phil over there.
We're gonna have a couple other people coming up in just a few minutes.
Right now, what I'm seeing, what I can see, or we're gonna break some numbers now.
So here's the map at the moment.
So Donald Trump's got 195 electoral votes.
Kamala Harris at 113.
So right now, the map is basically looking like What people thought it was going to look like just in the last little bit.
And so it looks like Ted Cruz will remain the senator from Texas, which obviously would be great.
He's a constitutional lawyer and expert and really...
He's one of the good ones.
I know him personally and professionally at this point, and he really is one of the good ones.
We're gonna grab some coverage of some of the other news networks as well.
Phoenix, we can have Brock grab something that I just tweeted from CBS News about Pennsylvania, that basically CBS News is reporting that Pennsylvania will probably not have their results in tonight.
And then the reporter said, oh, but that doesn't mean anything nefarious is happening.
And that's sort of where they bake in this weird thing that, oh, if it doesn't go our way, I guess we'll have to do something to slow it all down.
But we'll also tell you that nothing bad is happening our way or that nothing bad is happening out there.
And that's not good.
There are some reports that North Carolina is looking quite good for Trump.
So that would be the first sort of swing state situation of the night that went in a little bit of a different direction.
So we'll see.
Do we want to show this Fox video right now?
Yeah, so let's jump over to, this is Fox reporting that Kamala apparently is doing really poorly with black voters in Georgia.
All right, so we're going to cut that a bit short.
You guys know I don't like getting caught up in the hyper-racialization and gender thing and then focusing on the numbers.
The key part that I wanted to show you there, though, is that black men, at least in Georgia, do seem to be breaking towards Trump in different numbers.
He's still losing significantly, right?
So Kamala's still got 70-some-odd, 80-some-odd.
But if he jumps by about 10% from, you know, four to 14 or seven to 17, something like that, that can be significant.
So again, this goes to where everybody, I wish, and hopefully maybe one day we'll be able to analyze Let's jump over to MSNBC because there's something interesting happening right now, which seems to be happening nationwide, which is that the Latino boat is definitely going more than usual towards Republicans.
And that doesn't play well for the MSNBC crowd because they think that, you know, the Republicans are supposed to be white supremacists.
And as Carol Markowitz said earlier, the Latinos have basically been reduced to white adjacent the more that they break towards Republicans.
Maria Theresa, we have some broad national exit polling about Harris' strength among Latino men, and they seem to be breaking for Donald Trump, which is a very big difference from 2020 when they broke for Joe Biden by, I believe, 23 points.
They may be breaking for Trump by as many as 10 points.
Alright, I'll stop saying it because I could say it 500 more times throughout the night.
But this idea that Latino men brought this way, it's such a bad way of looking at everything.
We're all Americans first.
It would be so much healthier if they would look at it and be like...
People that care about the economy, people that care about foreign policy, people that whatever, like instead of just keeping us all at odds with each other seemingly because of our sex or our skin color, it's just not healthy for a melting pot society that we are.
Maybe it could work for some other sectarian country somewhere else or would have worked 200 years ago, but I don't think it's particularly healthy.
Right now.
But in any event, you're gonna see some wild stuff.
If the Latino numbers do bear out the way that they're looking and that it keeps going towards the Republicans, they don't have to get more voters than the Democrats, but that the numbers just shift a little bit in the Republicans' favor than what usually would happen, you are gonna see all sorts of bananas stuff come out of the left about Latino men who have now abandoned their wives and they have abandoned black people and everything else.
And it's really just...
Boy, you know, an awful lot of, and I know many of them here in Florida, an awful lot of Latino people came to America legally.
And that means when you came here legally, you don't necessarily want people to come here illegally and get all sorts of benefits.
You want people to wait in line just like you waited in line.
And that seems to be one of the disconnects with the left, that it's like, oh, you're Latino.
That means somehow you should just be pro-immigrant.
And if you're pro-immigrant, you should be pro-illegal immigrant.
And that just doesn't kind of work.
Tom Bilyeu from Impact Theory will be on with us in about five minutes.
Let's jump over to Larry Kudlow.
I was on his show on Fox News, Fox Business, actually, about a week ago.
And he right now, right, we have the Kudlow, and he is feeling good about Donald Trump's positioning at the moment.
All right, so for those of you that aren't big on the financial shows, I mean, Kudlow's running a major, major financial show, in essence saying things are looking good for Trump, but I think he's right.
We can't get overconfident at the moment.
I am definitely concerned from what I'm hearing about Pennsylvania that somehow, you know, Obama, what was it, 45 minutes ago that I had Brett Weinstein on, and Obama put out that tweet basically saying we're not going to get the results from...
Pennsylvania tonight, and then CBS News, we'll try to get you the video in just a moment, but it's basically what I just referenced, that they basically were like, we're not gonna have results tonight, but that doesn't mean anything nefarious is happening.
It's like, if we don't have Pennsylvania tonight, We're good to go.
Well, here we go.
We saw what was happening earlier in the night.
For a moment, it started to get closer, and now things are starting to separate again.
It's got 75%.
Again, this is the betting market.
This is obviously not scientific.
This is just the people who are throwing money on this.
But 75% of them right now, there's a 75% chance that Donald Trump will be president, according to the bettors, and 25% That Kamala will be.
When we started the stream at six o'clock, which is now three and a half hours ago, the market was at 55% to Trump.
It's at 75% right now.
So things seem to be moving a certain way.
I think we've got Tom Bilyeu from Impact Theory and crazy Los Angeles, California on the line.
I mean, we're three and a half hours into this thing.
No major surprises at the moment, but nothing's gone particularly haywire.
So I can't complain, right?
Like we seem like it's all kind of working and hopefully everything kind of gets wrapped up tonight.
Well, I guess that's a good place to start.
Are you confident that we'll have a result tonight?
Because to me, putting aside, obviously everyone knows who I want to win, but I do think it's important to have election day and not election three days, election week, election three months.
Yeah, I think, honestly, you're going to have to have some pretty extreme election reforms if we want to build back confidence.
The only thing I'm hoping for is that it is just a very convincing victory.
If we have a very convincing victory, then we have a little bit of time to figure this out.
But I think people have to take seriously what the last two, for sure, maybe three elections have been, what they felt like as the people That there's so much margin for distrust, and I think there are very simple things that can be done to eliminate that, not the least of which would be requiring ID. But yeah, I think we have to make some pretty simple but very direct changes, otherwise people are not going to have it.
So we've been on each other's shows multiple times in the last year or so, and we constantly are talking about Los Angeles and Florida and all the red-blue stuff, everyone gets that.
So let's put that aside for a moment, but specifically talk about it on the election front.
So you live in a place, Los Angeles, California, that does not require ID, that you can literally just walk in.
It's what I did last time I voted there, which was the recall election, and just said my name and my address.
I could have been my neighbor.
I knew his name and his address, and they would not have asked me for any sort of ID. It seems to me that the question of fraud is baked into the system there.
Yeah, so this is where, okay, look, tinfoil hats abound.
You have to be careful not to take things too far, but there is certainly a line of logic that you can follow that says, look, this is really about lowering wages and we want to let a lot of people into the country and it's going to help us suppress The wages and costs, and that's great for everybody.
And then there is a straight line that you can follow that says, well, not only do we get that advantage, but we also get the advantage of being able to fly people into states that are swing states and If you go with the propensity of somebody who got in on the good graces of the government and is promised a lot of stuff, and they must continue to vote Democrat in order to get those things in the future, it isn't a crazy stretch to believe that they would disproportionately vote Democratic.
And you can do...
And I mean, look, a lot of people blame Reagan for the fact that California...
So Reagan, a Republican, gets the blame for California becoming a pure blue state because of the amnesty program that he did back during his term.
And so if that kind of thing really does have that knock-on effect of an immigrant is more likely to vote Democrat, it's certainly possible that by shipping people specifically into these swing states that you create a problem.
Now, I don't know that I want to go that far.
I would certainly much rather believe that this is purely economic.
But no matter how you look at it, I hope that that is a referendum that people are really Turning this election into regarding the way that the border has been handled, but not requiring ID is crazy.
There's literally no argument.
You require it for everything else.
And if you can say with a straight face that democracy is on the line and therefore it's so important you don't need an ID, then it's like, well, there are other things.
I'm driving my wife to the hospital.
Do I need an ID to drive in the car?
The joke being, if you get pulled over on the way to the polls without your ID, just say, you know, I'm on my way to vote.
You may have heard this, but Nikki Haley, when she was governor of South Carolina, everyone kept saying, oh, people don't have IDs, people don't have IDs.
So she allocated several million dollars to make sure that everyone could get IDs.
And I think what she told me was 16 people used the program.
Yeah, I mean, it certainly, it points out a flaw in the underlying logic.
So in business, we talk a lot about base assumptions.
So, hey, you have a base assumption that people don't have easy access to the ID and therefore very good, qualified people that should be voting are not going to be able to vote because they can't get the ID. Cool, run a test and see if that's actually true.
And something like that, you know, I mean, how far you can extrapolate, it's another question, but that would certainly peck at the veracity of that claim.
I talked a bit about this with Jordan Peterson about an hour ago, but what I also see happening here right now is we're seeing, regardless of the outcome of tonight, that clearly there is now a shift in where people are getting their news.
We all know this, of course, Joe Rogan is in effect bigger than CNN at this point.
But whatever podcasts or streams people are listening and watching, that there's a certain set of people that are still willing to pay attention to what the system is offering.
And then there's a whole other group, I would say a much bigger group at this point, that wants the other thing, the thing that we're doing, right, that we're part of.
Do you think those two things can ever be connected in a way that will be healthy for the country?
I think it's inevitable that they're going to ultimately diffuse into each other because they're When you raise a generation on a thing, that just becomes the known thing, the norm for them.
They're not even going to think about it.
So even if this is just a question of time, there's no doubt that over time people will get more and more of their information via social media, via the internet, and more traditional means of watching it on the news.
You've done some stuff yourself with health and helping people lose weight and making some Quest bars and cookies and all kinds of stuff in your day.
I suppose you're pretty happy about the idea of, say, an RFK being involved with somebody like Trump, where we could actually start addressing some of our problems that are outside of politics, some might argue more important than politics?
This is why I think what Trump has done here is really incredible, is he's created a deck of people that you can choose from.
So if you're like, oh God, I cannot vote for Trump, but I can see what he's doing with RFK and RFK is my guy.
RFK was certainly where I was headed before he got elected.
Lawfare out of existence and Seeing him put together this gallery of people from Elon to RFK to Tulsi Vivek It's it's really pretty impressive and it gives if if he is sincere and he holds it through and he actually listens to these people and engages them in a meaningful way and it isn't just a get elected stunt and I think it's really incredible because yes, when you start talking about making America healthy again, you're on to something that actually matters.
If you could make America balance a budget again, then you'd really have me.
But getting people in that are looking at these broader social trends that are so impactful to our health, to our safety as a country, very powerful.
I mean, to me, if they're already teasing this Pennsylvania thing, like if that becomes a far gone conclusion, then Trump has to basically run the show on everything else so that Pennsylvania becomes irrelevant.
But that's gonna be a tough one.
So Trump just won North Carolina.
So that is a good sign for that because that was one of the swing states.
So that actually is a good sign that if he can do all the other stuff, that Pennsylvania may not matter.
It's obviously early, but they've apparently called it.
So that's really fantastic.
Hopefully, this Pennsylvania stuff, we're just getting some early rumors about this.
I really don't like...
That Obama would put a tweet like that out.
You just have to remember, these are all signals that they send to the system, right?
So you just, Obama sends the signal out there.
If he thought that Pennsylvania was trending towards Kamala, does he send out the signal like, oh, we better wait?
No, of course not, right?
Look, I get it.
There's versions of that on the other side too.
Okay, fine.
But I'm just dealing with what we have in front of us right now.
And if that is the situation we're in, where they're just going to delay and delay Pennsylvania so that we can't get to some kind of volition tonight, that would be rough.
Why do I want to sit and watch a bunch of talking heads talk about, speculate about numbers when I can hear this incredible lineup of guests that you have?
I mean, I think it's the thing that so many of us have been building.
And as I said at the top of the show tonight, I mean, I think that's really what's happening here tonight.
I'm not making that about me.
I'm not making that about you.
But the shift now from a hyper-controlled news that clearly does not give you actual news to something that's messier that we're doing here, where every now and again, somebody's earpiece isn't going to be in at exactly the right time.
But you're going to at least get something directionally I think that is just way better, and I think most people agree with that.
I was talking to a woman, two women today, who were analyzing the bureaucratic, the parallel bureaucratic world that the World Health Organization has put together.
And when you really start to see what's going on, it just becomes chilling, frightening.
Bureaucracies, they just keep building.
And once you have a job in a bureaucracy, you're just doing your job and you're going to do what you got to do to protect your job.
And these jobs, this is why I'm excited.
Like you said with the last guest, you know, RFK is my guy.
Musk is my guy.
These guys need to be in Washington.
We did not design this federal government to be doing what it is doing.
It was not supposed to be involved in our lives.
It was supposed to regulate interstate commerce and defense, and the rest was supposed to be the state and the local practice of democracy.
That's how this country works.
And the fact that the federal government is up in our lives all over the place, is anathema to the principles upon which we were founded.
I just love it, though, because I knew you when it was starting to happen, and you were the first guy, I think, that ever put me on television when I was a lefty way back when.
Although your show at the time was not political.
And to see what happened to you during COVID and how you woke up, I just think is great.
But Drew, let me throw to this because I just mentioned it a few minutes ago, but this is video from CBS News where they're already hinting and Obama tweeted out that we may not get the results from Pennsylvania tonight, but don't worry, nothing bad's happening over there.
Drew, putting aside the overproduction, the way that they talk to each other, which is not the way that you and I are speaking to each other in a normal cadence and everything else, putting aside all that theatrics and the great lighting that they have, I'll give them that much for the lighting grid.
Every other country manages to put it out in a day, and they do it with paper ballots for the most part.
I was watching the French elections where they just announce it all at once.
They're just, there's your results, and that's that.
And it's at the end of the day, and there's the results.
And the fact that we're not being held to that and things drag on, yes, there may not be anything nefarious happening, but doing so leaves the door open for something nefarious to happen.
And that's why they feel—it's like, methinks they doth protest too much.
It's why they add that coda, because they know that if things are going to happen with shenanigans, it's going to be because things are delayed.
What would you say, I asked Jordan Peterson a slightly different version of this earlier in the evening, about sort of the mental health state of people at the moment as it relates to politics?
Because even me today, and you know me, I burn pretty cool.
Politics and media is not everything to me, all of that stuff.
But everyone is dealing with a certain stress level.
I have no doubt that there's a certain stress level on the other political side as well, right?
They think Hitler's on the way, so that would be somewhat stressful.
How do we get rid of that?
I mean, if we can't solve our political problems, what can we at least do sort of on our own psychological profile front that might help alleviate some of this craziness?
I also spent the weekend with Matthias Desmet, who sort of invented this construct and is a brilliant psychologist from Belgium.
And we are in a delusional state and hysteria a lot of the time.
My estimation is it got going with sort of Trump derangement, then it got put on steroids with COVID, and the media has been a source of a lot of it.
I didn't realize how duplicitous the government was in all this, but I could see it on the media.
And if you're not, if you're just listening to Dave Rubin's report, The Rubin Report all evening, I'm not whipped into frenzy, but just even hearing those women talk about Pennsylvania, I got anxious immediately.
A lot of our problems are coming from the news media in particular, and just media generally, but particularly the news media.
And back to what I said about bureaucracy and over-centralization, stay local.
The fact that we're not putting the faith into one doctor and one patient, that we want to put some system on top of that, look what happened with COVID. Patients were sent home because the hospital administrators told the doctors to send them home, have them come back when they're blue.
This was anathema, the practice of medicine was disgusting.
Same thing is true in so many aspects of our life.
The more we focus on our connections, and by the way, the way mass formation works and the way they Foment hysteria is with disconnect, the loneliness, the disconnect, the lack of attachment and love that we have for the important people in our life.
We must re-entrench locally in all respects.
It's how democracy in America is designed to work.
It's how the structure of this country has succeeded.
It's always been that case, and we need to roll back to that.
So, yeah, we are very narcissistic.
Yes, we are very hysterical.
We are very disconnected.
But we can do something about that.
Rather than being swept into mass formation and mobs, you can choose—we're adults—not to be a victim, not to engage in the mob action, not to get involved in cancel culture and Mob focusing of aggression on some sacrifice and just get it back to our local relationships.
So Drew, let me float this one to you because it seems to me that if Trump wins tonight, if we actually get a result and it is a Trump win tonight, I know he doesn't take office for a few months, but shortly after taking office, I think we can fix a lot of stuff really quickly.
I think we can fix the Middle East really quickly.
I think we can fix Russia, Ukraine really quickly.
I definitely think we can fix our border really quickly.
I think we can fix some of the trade stuff really quickly.
We can go on and on down the list.
Now, I know that there'll be a certain amount of people, to your point, that will remain apoplectic and we're gonna have violence and whatever, but I wanna take the other version of that for a moment, that if Kamala wins, the forces that have woken you up, that everyone watching this knows what they are, they will be so emboldened They will be like, holy cow, we kicked out Biden right in front of their eyes.
We installed a woman that is clearly not competent to do it.
We lied to them about virtually everything.
We threw Barack Obama out there two days before the election to save very fine people again.
They will be so emboldened because they will be so high on their own nonsense that...
I think Elon's right.
This would be the last election in essence.
Not the last election that we show up at a ballot box, but the last one that would actually matter.
But I'm sort of advocating against leaning into what he's saying.
And I'm saying that, you know, the French Revolution is a model for how things are playing I'm sorry to tell you, a lot of the things were the same.
But one of the slogans I heard just today, studying it a bit, was behind the mask of every patriot is a traitor.
And that is the kind of sloganeering we've been dealing with.
And I think just in time, and I think it's maybe COVID that did us this favor, people kind of woke up, people shifted, people came out of their sort of party silos and started looking at reality and lining up and forming coalitions.
That will be able to keep moving forward no matter who wins here, it seems to me.
Because even if Trump wins, those coalitions still need to do their work.
We need to understand better what happened during COVID. We need apologies.
Okay, so now let's bounce back to the other side, which is we get the result that you and I think would be better for the country tonight, and then Trump brings in some of these other people, we start getting this wide tent, things start moving forward in a positive way.
So if policy starts working better, and now Bobby's fixing some of the health stuff, Yes.
What other areas would you want to see fixed?
You know, I could see you getting a call from Trump and saying, hey, help me out with what's going on at the CDC and the NIH. Bobby can't do it by himself.
Is the problem with the budget thing, it's like, yeah, I actually do believe that Elon could get in there and clear out two trill because it's like, we just, you know, they buy a toilet for $700.
Like, none of it kind of works right and it's always, you know, it's backhanded, backdoor deals, all that stuff.
But the problem with really fixing it, unless we get an Elon in there, that it's just not a sexy enough thing to sell to people.
It is just politically not functional to say to people, oh, we are going to have to not give you as much crap.
Yeah, well, in Europe, they call it austerity, and they fight against it.
And there's a psychology that believes, well, they just print more money.
They've got the printing press.
Just print the money.
Science and economics has got to be taught back in schools again because our science, our understanding of the scientific method, our understanding of how homo economicus works is woefully pathetic.
That concerns me also more than anything.
If they want help with that, that's the other thing I would help with.
It wouldn't be that hard to have a basic curriculum around these things that people need to be able to function effectively in the world.
But yes, it's not sexy, but Bill Clinton did it.
He did it quite well.
So let's look to old Bill to help us out and to be the standard bearer for doing it again.
Reality is reasserting itself, I think, is what's happening.
Reality is breaking out all over.
And that's really important.
And we can now say things and talk about things.
That literally you couldn't say without being endangered a year ago, two years ago.
Now we're starting to once again have real discourse.
Jay Bhattacharya had that wonderful conference up at Stanford with differing scientific opinions, shared ideas.
The president of Stanford University stood up and said, we are going to defend And the university is where you bring lots of different ideas and express them.
That's the beginning.
There's things like that happening all around, and I'm very optimistic about that stuff, independent of what happens tonight.
Well, now I'll reverse on what I started this conversation by saying, and I will ask you something about California, which obviously it's going to Harris for the presidential part.
But do you see any signs, I mean, relative to some of the good things you're talking about right now, that there is this wake-up, people are tuning out of mainstream media, etc., etc.
Do you see any signs there that at least there could be some little wins at the micro level, if not taking over the whole thing?
Drew, all I know is voting here in Florida today was such a joy to show the ID, to do it with paper, to fill it out with a pen like an old school test that you took back in my day in elementary school or junior high, to then put it back in the envelope of functional adults standing there helping you make sure it goes into the machine properly, someone thanking you.
All right, we're going to jump on in just a sec with the team over at the Blaze, Glenn Black, and the whole crew, I think, is over there, and I'm going to join them.
We'll keep it on our channel as well, so we'll do a little simulcast.
I think we are doing a little South Park, a little something.
You people love it when I watch South Park episodes I've never seen before.
The whole team is in the room right now.
Everyone wants me to do this.
Okay.
Oh, we're throwing to a South Park reaction thing.
Here we go.
1995 or 1996, I was still a South Park when it originally came out.
I have only seen clips over time.
My team is constantly demanding that I watch South Park and they want to show me clips and I react to them and that's what people do on the internet and that's what we're doing today.
Why am I talking like this?
Here we go.
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I did not watch South Park when it originally came out.
I have only seen clips over time.
My team is constantly demanding that I watch South Park and they want to show me clips and I react to them and that's what people do on the internet and that's what we're doing today.
Why am I talking like this?
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We're going to learn about the diversity of Asian people.
I would like to ask, if we can get somebody on stage two to answer the question, how are the amendments or the propositions going where it is, what do you call it, the vote?
We're, what, rolling into hour four of our coverage over here, and there hasn't been any tragic disaster yet.
Things have all kind of trended in our direction.
But, Glenn, before we get too excited, I would remind you That four years ago on election night, you and I spoke at about this time and everything was looking pretty damn good for Donald Trump.
And then a pipe burst in Philly, and then obviously everyone knows the history there.
So I am cautiously optimistic at the moment.
I'm very happy about what happened here in Florida, which we knew was obviously staying red, but the amendments that were on the ballot that were gonna potentially change our constitution as it related to marijuana and abortion, they failed.
And the fact that we now accept that as normal, you know, you guys probably read the tweet, but that Barack Obama about 20 minutes ago tweeted out, oh, we probably won't have the results from Pennsylvania tonight.
That's a signal to the system that, oh, it's okay.
It's not election day.
It's election three days or election three months.
I think that's a problem.
There was also CBS News Which in essence said, oh, if we don't get the results tonight, that doesn't mean anything nefarious is happening.
We don't, as Trump said the other day, we don't have to live this way.
There's no reason why the rest of the world, much of the third world, can count their votes accurately, and here we are, the most powerful nation in the world, Currently, check what time it is.
Well, of course, there's no true sense to it unless you wanted skepticism to be built into the system.
Look, I voted in Florida today.
And I did it with a paper ballot and a pen and it was very easy to do and clean and clear with competent people.
And then, you know, at the end you fold up your paper, you walk over to the box, someone shows you exactly how to put it in and you walk out of there.
I walked out of there very proud to be a Floridian and proud to be an American and feeling confident that my vote matters.
Now that's in stark contrast to what I was dealing with just four years ago when I voted in the presidential election and in the recall election of Gavin Newsom.
Which was a little bit before that, in California.
Because there, I did not have to show an ID. All I did have to have was my name in my brain and my address in my brain.
And guess what, Glenn?
I know my neighbor's name and his address, so I could have been him too.
Did you see that video that came out a couple of days ago with the guy who walked in and they said, what's your name?
And he gave his name and he said, could be.
What's your address?
Could be, and he gave it an address.
Are you a citizen?
Yes, but maybe not.
And they still allowed him to vote.
I mean, it was the craziest thing.
And they asked him, wait a minute, what do you mean you're a citizen, but no you're not?
Well, I mean, I am a citizen, but maybe not, but you can't ask me.
I don't know.
Could be.
And they still let him vote.
There's no reason that, you know, you see these poll numbers on this particular question about the credibility and getting an ID and having to prove who you are.
It's almost universal.
I think the number is an 80 percent range of all Americans, no matter how you vote.
No, but this is what the left has done with everything.
They've made everything about race, and then they somehow tell you that black people don't know how to get IDs.
You know, Glenn, I was on a plane last week.
I saw black people.
It was a miracle.
They somehow figured out how to get an ID and get on a plane.
You know, occasionally when you go, I don't know when the last time you went mini-golfing was, but when I went mini-golfing last time, I kid you not, they asked for my IDs so that I wouldn't steal the golf clubs.
It's completely, Literally absurd unless you want enough skept, unless you want enough fraud in the system and or you want enough skepticism in the system so that you can delay an election night so that we could feel good about something until we don't.
I don't know how you feel about the campaign that Donald Trump ran, but it was not the 2016, definitely not 2020.
He is, I think...
I think the assassination and the time that he had outside of the White House to really think about what he had just experienced and what he would do differently.
The man became a true leader and president, I think, this time around.
And you're seeing RFK, Tulsi, you know, already people like you and Weinstein and others.
There is this new kind of, I don't even know if I could call it conservative or Republican, but it's really an independent kind of thing where Donald Trump is bringing people that don't agree on everything.
It's kind of like the old American.
We don't agree on everything, but we have these principles and he has been selling something that, and I think he can do it with credibility because of Elon Musk, This is one of the last things he said.
We don't have to live this way.
There is a bright future.
And I think that is the beginning of something.
Whether he wins or loses, I think there's something to this new kind of coalition that loves the founding principles, you know, the Bill of Rights, that don't agree on everything, but they know we're much better than this.
Glenn, it's become a running joke on my show that if Trump wins this election, that my life's work is almost complete because as everyone knows at this point, you know, I very famously left the left and I did that why I left the left video for PragerU.
And then suddenly I found myself talking.
To all of these people like Larry Elder and Ben Shapiro and you.
And if you remember, Glenn, when the first time I had you on in my show, if I'm not mistaken, it was early on in 2017.
First time we ever met, I had you at my house.
I still had a lot of liberal principles, I would say.
And you and I sat there for an hour and a half or so.
We had never spent any time off camera together.
We do a show live.
We're suddenly, halfway through the show, We both kind of realized at the same time, boy, we have some differences here.
Okay, where we exactly fall on abortion may be different or even death penalty or some of these things.
Now, over the years, you and I have definitely come closer together, probably because I've shifted more in your direction.
Right, so the shift, it's interesting, because you usually think of a shift from right to left, but in some ways, we now have a circle, and shifts are happening in every which way, right?
But what really has happened here is that this is not a conservative movement, per se, or a Republican movement.
This is a pro-America movement.
If you think that this country is great, if you think our founding documents are the greatest manmade documents that ever freed people, If you think that basic things like having functional borders and institutions that we can trust, and if you think that the Bill of Rights is good and free speech is good and the right to assembly is good and all of those things, well, then we can deal with marginal tax rates and we can deal with some of the foreign policy stuff and all the rest of it.
So that's what's brought these people together.
And for years, this is exactly what I wanted.
because what I found having left the left was, "Oh, I'm suddenly in common cause "with people like Glenn Beck, "so how do you make that a movement?" Not just, "Oh, it's a couple of us "talking about these things." And I think this is the moment for it, And if tonight continues to go our way, I'm not retiring tomorrow, but it would be a nice feather in my cap, I suppose.
If we can get past the next 72 days, you know what I mean?
What happens in the next 72 days could be very, very dicey, especially globally.
I mean, you're being a Jew, you understand.
Can you imagine what it feels like to be either in Iran tonight and being somebody who hates the regime, But has had this administration just funneling money to that regime.
What your hope is with another Donald Trump attempt, what it feels like in Israel, what it feels like in any of these countries where you are watching America And you're seeing a guy saying, you know what?
We're going to deport all of these people.
Bill Clinton is the president who deported more people than any other president in history.
He deported 11 million illegals.
Nobody said a word about it.
Donald Trump is saying 15 million.
That's not that big of a deal, especially with the changes in our population.
This guy could set the entire world in a different course because they're looking for somebody like America to stand up and say, enough of this.
And imagine what it feels like to watch this in another country, the hope it could give you.
Yeah, if I could speak to the Israel point for just a second, I am Jewish, and I really hope we're gonna see record turnout for Donald Trump on the Jewish side of things, from the Jewish population tonight.
But on the Israel side of things, you know, all Israel wants is support from America, basically diplomatically, and then obviously they get weapons from us, which really becomes, you know, every dollar that we give them, they have to spend in the United States, so it's not like they keep that money.
But putting that aside for a moment, every success that they've had in this war Which is now a seven-front war over the course of the last two months, this miraculous thing where they've taken out all of Hezbollah's leadership by getting Sinwar in Gaza and everything else.
It's not because of America, it's because they ignored America.
Kamala Harris, what was it, three weeks ago or a month ago, said that, I mean, the audacity of the woman, She said she studied the maps of Rafa and Israel can't go into Rafa.
Well, then they ignored her and they killed the head of Hamas.
And there's many, many other examples of this.
They just need the leeway to finish the war so that they could, you know what, putting aside the 100 plus Israelis that are still hostages, there are five Americans.
So let's get a couple numbers out real quick on some of the other ones that are important.
Arizona with about 48% in, Phoenix, can you just lower that for me a little bit?
Arizona with about 48% in is basically 50 to 49.2 in favor of Kamala.
Pennsylvania with 51% in is basically 50-48 in favor of Trump.
And so everything else right now, Georgia has got Trump up by five points with 82% in, so Georgia's looking pretty good.
Larry, before we dive into just like the numbers and the map and the whole thing, do you feel that what we are seeing tonight outside of the pure political part, there's been a theme for the hours that we've been doing this show amongst most of my guests, that we're seeing a real shift in the media in terms of what's happening online versus the corporate press.
And that might be really the meta story here that's maybe, it's not more important than the election, but it's right next to the election.
unidentified
I think you're right.
And you know who started all of this?
Who let that fuse?
Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is the one who popularized the expression fake news.
He really got people, I think, looking far more I know you and I have been talking about this for a long time, other people have, but Donald Trump has really singled out the news, called him out, called him all sorts of nasty names, and they've gone after him with a vengeance, and virtually every time Donald Trump has called him out and said, you guys have done this, you guys have done that, he's been proven right.
There's a reason that the LA Times did not endorse Kamala Harris.
There's a reason that the Washington Post did not endorse Kamala Harris.
There's a reason the Gannett newspapers did not endorse Kamala Harris.
They are beginning to realize that That their left-wing bias is starting to offend people.
Is she the worst candidate in modern times, regardless of what happens tonight?
Just, I mean, in terms of someone able to sell their ideas and that you could authentically look at them and believe that they believe what they're saying.
unidentified
Well, Dave, look at the hand she was down.
She was a co-pilot for four years.
She said that she'd been the last person in the room for every major decision.
The only way she could win is to dump on Joe Biden, distance herself from him, say that, well, when he pulled out of Afghanistan, I said, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Joe.
When he did build back better, I said, I don't want to be the tie-breaking vote for that.
unidentified
When he went and reversed Donald Trump's policies on the border, I said, you know, you can't do that.
She can't say that credibly because it's not true.
So she was dealt a pretty bad hand.
Most people feel we're on the wrong track.
And the bottom line is, are you better off now than you were three and a half years ago?
Unless you're an illegal alien, the answer is no.
I don't know how you can squirrel your way around that if she couldn't do it.
Elon's prediction basically was that if Kamala wins, that we end up as Cali.
I brought this up with Dr.
Drew a few minutes ago.
That feels right to me.
We will continue to have elections, but the system will be so corroded that they will be largely irrelevant.
Do you think that's a fair diagnosis?
unidentified
I do, but there are some sprouts of common sense even here in California.
Just today, front page of the LA Times, which I read so nobody else has to, a long article self-examining whether or not there are too many Democrats in Sacramento.
As you know, we have a supermajority Democrat in the Senate.
Supermajority in the Assembly, and believe it or not, the article said, maybe, just maybe, we're all talking to ourselves, no other ideas, maybe that's not a good idea.
unidentified
I was shocked to see that article on the front page.
Also, George Gascon, the LADA, is probably going to go down by about 30 points.
And then there's a proposition called 36, which essentially will repeal 47.
Kamala Harris's fingerprints are all over 47.
unidentified
She was AG and wrote kind of a glowing little description about 47, about it being criminal justice reform, which is why voters were duped into voting for it.
They're now very angry.
And the Proposition 36 is probably going to win by about 30 points.
Listen, I hate bringing up all the, every time we talk, unfortunately, we all get caught in this race nonsense, and then I have to ask you these stupid race questions, and I know how you feel about them, but there are some positive trends that seem to be happening right now.
From the numbers that I just saw out of Georgia, it does seem like the black vote in Georgia is gonna go up probably by like eight to 10% to Trump.
That seems good.
We're seeing the Latino numbers go up towards Trump.
These are good indicators, as much as we don't want to talk about race, that something else is happening here, right?
Well, Dave, whether you're Hispanic or Black, when you walk into a grocery store and you're paying 21% more than you were three and a half, four years ago, it's going to bite.
I also believe that there is a real anger over illegal immigration.
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When Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott began putting illegals on buses and sending them to places like New York and Chicago, then and only then did the media begin focusing on this.
And the cohort that's most hurt by illegal aliens are unskilled black and brown people living in the inner city.
They've got to compete against these illegals for jobs.
And the presence of illegal alien labor, according to a study done by the Civil Rights Commission, puts downward pressure to the tune of almost $2,000 on the wages of black men And Hispanics every single year that they're there.
And I also think school choice is a sleeper issue.
So with that in mind, I mean, is this the most hopeful you've ever been in some sense, regardless of what happens specifically over the next couple hours?
I mean, the things that you just mentioned when you're talking about the inner city violence and school choice and all of these issues, I mean, these are the issues you've been talking about for at least three decades.
unidentified
Well, that's right, and also crime.
You've got Kamala Harris, Barack Obama maligning the police, causing what's called the Ferguson effect or the George Floyd effect, and that's the phenomenon of cops pulling back from their normal proactive policing.
As a result, you're finding violent crime up in places like LA, Chicago, New York.
Because the police no longer are engaging in proactive policing for fear they're going to be called systemically racist.
unidentified
Polls show that black people want the police there as much as white people do because they're the ones who are disproportionately affected by things like cashless bail and soft on crime policies by these George Soros-backed DAs.
If things work out tonight, or even if it takes till tomorrow or the next day, but hopefully tonight, because we all know the longer it goes on, the worse it looks for us.
And you got the call from President Trump, which I think you would get.
What would you do?
What would you want to do?
Because I do think you would get a call.
I think you have been so ahead on so much of this.
Several other of the candidates during the primary were repeating Larry Elder lines constantly, constantly.
And of course, that is Donald Trump's country club slash...
Facility slash venue slash home slash hotel slash all of the stuff.
So we're going to have her there in a few minutes, and we'll see if maybe she can grab some people in.
We're really doing all of this on the fly, so we'll see what Sage can do over there.
Then I'm going to be doing a cross-stream with Megyn Kelly and a couple other things.
Can we get back to some of those numbers that I wasn't able to get to right before?
Let's see.
Just Virginia.
Virginia with 64% in is 49.66 to Trump and 48.7 to Kamala, so that's way too close to call.
Pennsylvania, you know, it's almost a 2.2% advantage to Trump with basically 51% in.
That's pretty good, but again, it sounds like Pennsylvania is gonna be the screwy one tonight, so we'll see.
But you can see the maps starting to come together.
We're getting there.
Let's see.
It sounds like he might've just won Georgia, which is huge.
All right, Ted Cruz won the Texas Senate seat.
So that is great to see that Ted Cruz will remain in the Senate.
That's not a surprise, but he wanted 52 to 46.
And Georgia, is Georgia official?
We're trying to figure out if Georgia's official right now, but it sounds like, and Georgia about a half hour ago was definitely trending in that direction.
So if he gets Georgia and he gets North Carolina, there is some, we'll start crunching the numbers, but there is some situation that would allow for Pennsylvania, I think, to not be called tonight and it actually wouldn't matter.
There's gotta be some scenario that the math adds up on that.
But we'll get to that in a second.
We've got Sage Seale at Mar-a-Lago.
In just a couple of minutes.
And what should we do in the meantime?
unidentified
We're going to throw to a video of...
We've got something from the Televised Mental Institution known as MSNBC. They want some good news tonight.
It's a pure Project 2025 in miniature in Florida and that kind of extreme sort of extremist right wing fascist type government in Florida, does that make it a more attractive place?
And I knew I had to come home because I was going to be on air with Glenn Beck.
And I was on air with Glenn Beck, and you can probably find the video online, and we were talking about how Trump is going to win and everything's going to be great and it all worked out.
And then Somewhere around right now, that pipe burst in Philly, and then things started getting crazy.
The updated map so far is Republicans have 48 seats, Democrats 36, and obviously you need 50 for control, and then of course the VP is the deciding factor in all of this.
But they will flip Montana, so that's good.
So in essence, Republicans will have at least 49 seats.
Yeah, I think it's, for the most part, I'd say it's super positive.
I've talked to a lot of people here who are on the campaign with Trump in 16 and in 2020, and everyone really believes that this just feels so much different.
Obviously, there's been a ton of momentum That has come the Trump campaign's way over the last few days.
I was on the plane last night with him, with his staff, coming from Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Before that, we were in Pittsburgh.
I'm in awe, Dave, of the enthusiasm.
By the way, he didn't start speaking in Grand Rapids until about 12.30 in the morning.
It was a packed house.
Everybody stayed until he left stage at 2.05 and began dancing.
So I feel like that kind of vibe has transferred down here in Palm Beach.
And Everyone is very very positive.
But to your point, I think there's a lot of PTSD because people remember exactly what happened and the shock that occurred when everybody woke up the next morning.
But it does feel different.
That's according to the veterans, because I'm a rookie here doing this stuff.
So you may be a rookie on that stuff, but you've been really inside this thing for the last, I don't know, two months or so and traveling with the women for Trump and with Laura Trump and the crew.
So now that you've been inside this thing and you mentioned you were just on the plane with him and traveling last night, literally the last night of the campaign and all that, what's been the most surprising thing about the inside part that maybe people don't see when we're just looking at the clips or watching the rallies or the rest of it?
First and foremost, there goes another tray of cookies, so I might have to break off and steal some cookies.
First and foremost, the word joy that the Democrats kind of took over at the DNC, I don't know how it is over there, but it is genuine joy with his team and with this campaign.
I'm really blown away by it.
And that's what it felt like on the plane ride home.
We landed here in Palm Beach at 5.45 a.m.
Eastern Time.
And everybody was smiling and happy from the Secret Service to Donald Trump himself and of course Junior was on the plane and Eric and Laura Trump and Tiffany Trump and everybody is literally so happy.
I cannot tell you how exhausted this team is but they're all so genuinely positive and literally say that they would do it again a thousand times over.
So I think the true Happiness of his team, as cheesy as that might sound, it's real, number one.
Number two, everybody talks about his energy.
I am shocked, Dave, at what this man does every single day.
Last night, I'll tell you this, everybody just wanted to take a nap.
I think we got on the plane at like 2.45, maybe 2.50 Eastern time, a.m., of course, and we're zombies, right?
right?
But in like six different states yesterday, many people are six cities, four states, whatever it was, secret service, everybody's tired.
He is a DJ.
He pulls out that playlist and like you're all in or get off the So his energy is insane.
He's probably the oldest person on the plane for sure.
He's 78 years old.
And the conversations we were having, the music, the music videos, the sports.
Obviously, you at home are feeling the exact same thing that I'm feeling, that all these people are feeling, that Sage is feeling, everyone in that room at the convention center in West Palm Beach is feeling, and probably across the nation right now.
It's all looking good.
But it's everything that we've all talked about all year.
Like, what juice does the system have left?
What shenanigans are there?
Why is Obama hinting out the Pennsylvania thing, etc., etc.?
So we're going to be doing a cross-stream with Megyn Kelly, and I think in about two minutes or so.
You know, I've never smoked an entire cigarette in my entire life.
I've smoked maybe 12 drags of a cigarette over the course of 47 years of my life.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Okay, what's next?
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Turn on your heart light.
Let it shine wherever you go.
Let it make a happy blue.
Eric, what is it this time?
Fever.
Light...
lightheadedness.
I don't know what's wrong with me.
You don't feel warm.
Oh, that's a relief.
I thought maybe I had a fever, but I... Oh!
Oh, my buns!
There's a sharp pain in my buns!
Can you lay on your stomach?
I'll try.
I'll try.
What the...
What is this?
A hamburger?
A what?
Why are there hamburgers in your underwear?
Are you serious?
How could there be-- oh my god!
You're saying I have Asperger's?
This doesn't make sense.
Are you trying to sneak food into the school or something?
What are you talking about?
I got vaccinated from the school, and now clearly I have Asperger's.
All right.
I'm glad you think Asperger's is funny.
Just note my condition on your records there.
Get out of my office.
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Dave, welcome.
So far, it's looking very good for Trump.
Anything could happen.
You hate to count chickens, but man, I feel like I can hear little tweets.
Look, we're all thinking the exact same thing, and this is exactly what we've all been thinking, not just tonight since this all started, but for weeks, which is that clearly things were trending in Trump's way.
We see the new alliance.
We see all the disaffected Dems.
We see this really wide tent Republican thing that so many of us have wanted for so long.
But what would happen late night on election night?
So we are exactly...
I think where we all kind of thought we were going to be.
So I am feeling as good as you are.
And by the way, I just very quickly want to say how proud I am for what you did yesterday on stage with him.
It was just so absolutely wonderful.
I think it was part of both of your hero journeys and considering where you both were with each other, you know, nine years ago at that first debate.
And it was just so wonderful.
But I think we're at the exact moment that we all thought we were going to get to right now.
And let's just hope that, you know, pipes don't burst and nothing crazy happens.
Because I think the American people have just had enough of the nonsense and we are about to reset the thing and it would be so freaking wonderful and so overdue and we can have it all back again if we can just stay on this path right now.
Okay, the New York Times Electoral College estimate, just updating now, suggesting Trump looking likely to hit 300 to Harris's 238.
We're getting down now to about the Biden-Trump margin of victory, if that's actually where it lands.
If Trump wins this, it needs to be by a healthy I don't know, Dave, unless it's big and indisputable, I don't think the Democrats are going to go quietly into the night.
I don't even know if Kamala Harris will concede.
It's a tricky question, given all the criticism of Trump for not doing it, but they don't want this guy to take office.
Right, so let's get through a couple hours, but let's say it does continue to trend in the way it's going.
So we get through the couple hours, let's say we get an actual acceptance speech tonight and it really looks legit.
I mean, we still have months and months of craziness ahead of us.
You know, I don't even want to think about it too much, but we really do.
I mean, you know, it doesn't get certified till the 6th.
He doesn't get, you know, put into the office until the 20th of January, obviously I'm talking about 2025.
And, you know, this was always the danger.
If you were going to run around and say that your opponent was Hitler or a fascist and his supporters were...
White supremacists and neo-Nazis and all the rest of the nonsense.
What wouldn't you do to stop him?
What wouldn't be legitimate to stop that movement?
This is the thought exercise that people have had for 50 years.
Would you kill baby Hitler?
It's a real thing that philosophers debate and think about.
And that really is the problem right now.
And it's so unfortunate because it did not have to be this way.
They could have had an honest, we could have had six months, well not six months because she just got in a couple months ago, but we could have had four months of an honest political debate in this country.
The real difference between these two parties, these two people, the candidates, et cetera.
And instead, we got your Hitler, and then what it does is it puts a whole bunch of Democrats, who hopefully end up on the losing side of this thing, thinking that Hitler's in charge, and he's not in charge, but it's not gonna stop their craziness, and that's the real problem.
I mean, to some extent, unfortunately, their voters do have no idea what's been happening because their voters mostly apparently watch mainstream media.
And I think the other thing that's happening here tonight is we are seeing a wholesale shift in the media landscape.
People watching your show, people watching my show, whatever the guys at The Daily Wire are doing, etc., etc., That something, and there's lefty versions of all of us, of course, that people are tuning out of the lies, and the machine has lied to so many of us for so long, and just way too many of us have now woke up.
I mean, think about, to me, the craziest thing that happened in this last week was that Barack Obama, two days before the election, so on Sunday, goes up in Wisconsin, gives a speech, and says, very fine people, again.
This thing has been debunked into oblivion.
But he thought he could go up and, first off, he called it a white supremacist rally, which it wasn't.
Obviously, it was a debate about statues, Robert E. Lee in this case.
But then Donald Trump, we all know, Donald Trump said, I'm not talking about the white supremacists or the neo-Nazis.
He was talking about very fine people on both sides of the debate about whether you take down statues or not, which, of course, there are very fine people who could have opinions on that.
But the fact that Obama thought he could give that speech, he knew he was lying.
There's no way Barack Obama, it would be so generous to say to him, oh, you just didn't know what you were saying.
That's absurd.
So he went on stage knowing that he was going to lie, knowing that it was going to be debunked.
I put up a 30-second video which just had Obama saying it and then Trump's answer.
It got like 100,000 retweets.
I'm not a genius.
I just did it because it was obvious.
So he knew it was gonna be debunked, obviously, yet he still lied to them.
So what does that tell you?
They think of their own base.
They think they are A, dumb, or B, brainwashed, and they don't care.
Yeah, as my friend Maureen says, not this friend Maureen, but a different friend, he stinks of desperation.
They stink of desperation.
That's what it really shows you.
They got increasingly desperate because their internal polls were showing, I'm sure, some of what we're seeing tonight, and they knew more than they were letting on.
And that explains some of the mood, and that explains some of the messaging, because they kept shifting.
And if you're winning, you're not shifting.
You know, one other thing, Maureen Callahan, I wanted to ask about is the fact that she closed this campaign out with Oprah, Beyonce, J-Lo, Cardi B, who, I mean, honestly, it was like, okay, Cardi B is the most foul-mouthed, four-letter word-loving, like, raunchy, but that's fine if that's how you want to do it.
But She leaned into the Hollywood elite.
She was not with the guys in the hard hats over and over, taking pictures of them, talking to them, connecting with them in the campaign or otherwise.
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And the Dems wonder why they keep shedding the working class vote, the white working class, why they're now shedding the Latino vote, the black vote, the male vote.
They don't understand it.
And I was really puzzled, particularly by the J-Lo, allowing her to endorse her so publicly at her rallies.
And she's just an interchangeable part who lives in service to the system.
And the reason, and by the way, if I was Kamala, I would live in service to the system because she's done nothing to deserve to be the nominee and certainly done nothing to be the president of the United States.
So you would just give the system what it wants.
So when you ask the question about the actors, I think you know what the answer is.
The answer is actors that do this, that just go all in, And by the way, what's her name?
Who's with the bucket and the girl?
Cardi B. Sorry, I know she has the bucket and the song.
This is a woman who just weeks ago was railing against Kamala, but then clearly got some sort of call like, you're going to have to do it.
Same thing as Usher.
Remember, Usher was on The View about two months ago saying, I'm not going to get political, and then suddenly he was on stage with her.
The reason they all do it is actors and musicians and everything else, for as talented as some of them might be, they're all interchangeable.
Why is it that the entire cast of the Avengers, every single one of them, as good as an actor as Robert Downey Jr.
is or whoever you like there, Scarlett Johansson, how did they all come out on the exact same side of the political issue?
Well, it's because they're in service to the Hollywood system.
Actors can be replaced.
You might think Robert Downey Jr.
is the greatest Iron Man of all time, but someone else can do it.
And so because their talent is actually not that rare and very interchangeable, they are very easily put into any system to do whatever the system wants.
We're going to jump back over to right outside of, or I guess it's sort of adjacent to Mar-a-Lago, the convention center where it's...
Again, I don't wanna get ahead of myself, but Donald Trump may give some sort of acceptance speech if things keep going in this direction, but a pipe might burst.
We shall see.
But let's get to the New York Times electoral map for a moment.
Right now it is 214 to Donald Trump, 179 to blue.
I don't even think we have to say her name anymore.
She represents nothing other than blue, a blob, a blue blob that doesn't really care about you.
But we do have some other interesting numbers right now.
So Georgia with 93% in is now 4%.
Towards Trump.
So Georgia definitely seems like it's gonna go to Trump at this point.
That seems pretty clear.
Arizona is significantly closer with 53% in.
It's 904,000 votes to Trump and 901,000 to Kamala.
So clearly that can go either way.
So we'll see what happens in Arizona, but Georgia's looking good.
Pennsylvania with 69% in is three points in favor to Trump, but that seems to be the place that we need to be focused on.
At the moment, Wisconsin with 61% in, Trump's got about a 2% lead over there.
Michigan with 29% in, Trump's got about a 4% lead, so that's a nice lead, but 4% obviously at this point.
With 29%, it is too early to call.
Let's put up the Kalshi market map for just a second, because now they are at 90% that Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States.
Again, these are not scientific.
These are the people that are betting, and some people will make an awful lot of money tonight, and some people are gonna lose an awful, well, hopefully tonight, and some people will lose an awful lot of money tonight.
We will see.
I have to say, guys, the cast of characters that we've assembled for you tonight, I hope, is indicative of really what will happen now with the media going forward and all the things that I've been trying to build here for so long and that for whatever portion of this you've watched, if you've been with us for the entire five plus hours at this point, Or just been checking in here and there while you're flicking around.
Like we really can build such a better media at this point.
And I guess maybe we built it while they weren't even paying attention or while they were trying to censor us or destroy us or the rest.
But with, you know, a limited staff of less than a dozen people here, I think we've already shown you that we can put together a more entertaining, informative election night than what they are doing with these ridiculous staffs, insane budgets in massive studios and everything else.
And clearly we're testing things out.
Little Nintendo and this and that, and we ran upstairs for something and everything else.
And we can make all these things better.
And that actually can be the thing that frees us beyond just the political part, right?
There's the personal part, there's the political part.
I think there's a media component to it.
There's a lot of buckets that we can really start reorganizing and fixing.
I think tonight is showing a lot of good signs that we can get to the other side of all of that.
The type of people that would spit in your food is the white people that go to the And this coming from you, a white dude for Harris, I mean, it clearly has some heft.
I mean, you're not just wearing the hat for humor purposes.
I mean, that thing, I'm telling you guys, hang on to that shirt and those hats because it will become, it's so ridiculous.
It's so profoundly ridiculous.
It will become a major, it's going to be like the, when people wanted Garbage Pail Kids in 1986 and you could only get, you know, certain ones, you know?
Well, Alec, wait, sorry, but real quick, you know, your producer who's still behind you, it's starting to feel a little creepy to me, sort of like a white dude for Harris thing.
I mean, that's what I saw literally right before we brought you on.
Look, I'm feeling very good about it.
Everyone's feeling exactly the same way, Alex, right now, which is that everything is trending in our direction right now, but we all know what happened four years ago tonight, so I think everyone's just kind of, I'm going to be in this seat for a lot of hours tonight, and you're going to be wearing that hat until the cows come home.
Alex, you do so many funny videos, but which was the video you did maybe six months ago at one of the protests where someone's getting in your face?
I literally cannot remember if it was a boy or a girl or a half-boy, half-girl or half-unicorn, whatever, but they're really getting in your face, and you sort of just kind of lightly touch them, and they go flailing.
They were doing drag queen story time at a damn bookstore and they had all those Antifa outside of it, but that shows you, that's why these Antifa aren't that scary, because it only takes a push and they fall down.
I didn't even really give him that much force, but his momentum, and I'm big, Dave.
We've never met in person, but I'm 6'3", 250 pounds.
So I'm just saying, even my little push, little elbow will knock down a guy that's probably immune deficient or who knows what issues he has.
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But I know that he's probably on a lot of SSRIs and that's probably affecting his strength. - Yeah, you start getting weak in the legs with that stuff.
Before I let you go have fun with the Hamas people, and please do send us video, we'll gladly show it.
When you go to these things, you talk to these people, I get it, they don't know what they're talking about, but what would you say is the most consistent argument they make?
You know, honestly, there's tons of anti-Trump rhetoric, but what blows my mind the most, and this is where I really saw it was recently at that Kamala rally, Is they literally say that Donald Trump wants to control women's vaginas.
Like, there's multiple people saying, Donald Trump, get your hands out of my vagina.
They brainwash these people into thinking they can't even get an abortion.
You can go to a state and get an abortion.
Abortion's not illegal in every state.
So these people, they create a narrative that Donald Trump is literally going to stop you.
And that was my one complaint with Donald.
And I get it because he gets hated by the conservatives for not being pro-life enough.
But he probably should have – because that issue is so important to women.
These women want to kill their baby.
It is what it is.
They just want to do it.
You know, maybe – I don't know.
His messaging should have been, hey, you can still get one, just not in certain states.
I don't know if that helps him, but I think considering abortion – and that's all they talk about.
All right, we're gonna bring Sage Steele back, I think, in any moment now.
She's back at the convention center, and we had to cut a little bit short there because we had to jump on with Megyn Kelly, but we'll try to get Sage throughout the evening, and particularly if we start getting close to getting what looks like an actual summation of the evening with a call that Donald Trump is president, it'll be great if we can have Sage on the line At that point.
Pennsylvania now has 77% in.
So, I mean, they still are tallying some votes and Trump's ahead a little bit from what I understand.
So yeah, there's the map updated right now.
It's 2.30 to Trump 179 to the blue thing, the blue blob thing.
And some of the friends I've made in the campaign over the last couple of months, there's a lot that the smiles are bigger and they don't look quite as reserved, if that makes sense.
Yeah, there's a really, really, really good feeling here, Dave.
So the thing that I was asking you right before we jumped off was sort of about some of the insider stuff that you saw over the course of the last six weeks, you know, not just the policy, but you've been so on the inside of this thing, and you started to, and then I had to jump.
I always take the calls, but this is an important night for our country.
I sense a lot of gratitude from him towards his staff.
And then we got on the plane and like I said earlier, it was quite a festive atmosphere, but Yeah, cautious optimism.
This is, you know, less than 24 hours ago, just because everybody understands what can happen.
There is, of course, distrust of the system.
Election integrity is a constant conversation within this campaign, and for good reason.
So there was certainly talk of that last night, but in the meantime...
You know, you can only talk about it so much because at some point you know what you can and can't control.
And Donald Trump then pulled out the iPad and began his DJing skills, which I've been on the plane for two separate trips, like four or five legs with him.
And it's pretty much the same playlist every time.
You can go from Sinead O'Connor to Elvis and it's a blast.
Have you had a chance to sort of think about how your story in the last two years is so connected to what seems to be the Trump momentum?
You know, coming out of the mainstream thing with ESPN, the COVID nonsense, the BLM stuff, fighting for what you believe in, going independent, doing what you're doing now.
All of these things seem very obviously connected to why people are attracted to Trump.
But I guess you're so on the inside, maybe you just haven't had a moment to really think about it yet.
I think a few years ago I might have been, you know, just too tired or nervous because, yeah, my career is still evolving for sure.
But Dave, I was very present over the last couple of weeks.
They must have called.
Okay, this is the reaction to officially, I guess, on these channels, North Carolina being called.
So a lot of cheers back here, as you can see.
A lot of happy people were starting from USA chants as well.
I think I, just like everybody else, we know what's at stake here.
We know that this is historic.
So from a selfish perspective, I've really tried to smell the roses and be very present when I was able to moderate that town hall with Donald Trump and the week before that with J.D. Vance.
That's certainly things that journalists do.
I never dreamt that I would be able to do something like that.
Certainly if I were still at ESPN, that would never have been allowed to happen.
But I think it's just, it's an honor.
And I will say there's so many people here who have come up to me and told me their stories.
A New York City public school teacher who got fired because he wouldn't take the vaccine and he had tears in his eyes.
And then I did too, because you know me.
But there's so many people with similar stories of risks that they have taken to stand up for what they believe in.
And it's been quite costly for a lot of people.
I personally didn't realize that there were so many like-minded people.
So this has been super healthy for me.
I just feel so grateful because You realize you're not alone.
When we speak up and talk about what has happened to us, good, bad, or ugly, others realize they're not alone, and that is the beauty of this movement.
I was at RFK's Maha party earlier tonight as well, and that's what people were talking about.
No matter what the result tonight, something has changed in this country, and there really is a movement here, a movement certainly towards health of our country, but also the freedom of speech.
Everyone's You know, everybody freaks out, just like they did at Madison Square Garden last week when the name Elon Musk is brought up.
People are so grateful that others with massive platforms are saying enough is enough and talking about the importance of what we have to get done tonight.
So really, really an honor to be a very small part of it.
Let me ask you one other thing, and then we'll jump off with you.
And then hopefully as the night continues, if you still don't mind talking into that little microphone, we'll have you back as many times as you're willing to jump back on.
But this is really for the people at Media Matters and the organizations that watch my show very intently trying to take anything I say out of context.
You are there right now at what we're told would be a celebration of white supremacy.
I'm kind of off in a corner now because I wasn't sure what to experience.
My bulletproof vest is on.
You never know.
I got to meet a lot of the Secret Service people the last few weeks, so I feel very protected.
They have my back.
There are so many different people here.
I mean, just like it has been at the rallies, right?
Muslim, Black, so many of the, frankly, the African American population who I've connected with via social media, saying, hey girl, I'm out there too.
There's so many people, I mean, of all different religions and backgrounds and cultures.
So go ahead for the mainstream media.
Go ahead and try to continue that narrative.
It's all BS. And I think...
I'm proof.
You're proof.
So many people are proof.
I'll also say this.
Danica Patrick and I spent a lot of time together on the road over the last couple of days.
And Danica is another great example of someone who, through sports, as a NASCAR and IndyCar driver for all those years, she was like, I don't have time to think about this stuff.
And over the last year or so, when she simply went to a Turning Point event, And Phoenix, because she loves America and got hate and threats from it, as we all have received, she's like, what is this?
So when you have a Danica pastor come out like that, when you have an Elon Musk, when you have RFK Jr., when you have Tulsi Gabbard, who we've been on the road with specifically on the ground in North Carolina the last couple days with hurricane victims, these people who have a lot to risk by not just coming out in Danica's case, but making a change like RFK and Tulsi, the courage that that takes To me is tremendous.
And it's such a diverse party.
There is so much joy and acceptance and tolerance.
I will send out several texts on your behalf momentarily.
All right, make sure your phone is charged because if we can get on with you, if this thing keeps going in the direction we hope, I think we get a resolution tonight.
It would be pretty awesome if we were on with you when we officially hear.
Viva Fry, everyone knows Viva Fry, great legal mind, a man from Canada who now spends part of the year in Florida because of the tyrannical government of Canada and the pure love and joy of freedom and fishing and chasing alligators with his children.
Dave, I've been spending the better part of the last three years here, and by the looks of things, I might not get deported anytime soon.
If the numbers, as they look like they're going to hold up, in fact hold up, this is a sigh of relief, but until they declare it, until I hear her cackling Kamara concede and give the concession speech, I'll be cautiously optimistic.
I don't think it was with the Obama people because, you know, Obama taking four or five days before formally endorsing her.
And remember, it was that phone call that she had.
And she's talking on the phone, although she's putting it to her ear for some reason.
While it's on speakerphone.
I think she might have outmaneuvered with the help of Willie Brown, like, politically outmaneuvered Obama, because I don't think they wanted her.
And, you know, Barnes had been saying forever, like, they're not going to pull Biden because nobody is more popular than Biden.
And he was wrong on that they were not going to pull Biden, but right on the fact that there was nobody more popular or less unpopular to replace Joe Biden with.
And they did it, or at least she outmaneuvered, got it.
I've never read the book, nor did I know that it was actually a book before the movie.
I'm joking, I did know that, but I didn't read the book.
But no, she's like Johnny, whatever, Johnny every day.
We realized that they could run a non-existent human.
They could run an AI-generated caricature.
And Democrats would be duped into voting for it because they listen to MSM, they listen to the propaganda, and it doesn't matter what it is so long as it's not orange Hitler.
No, but we've seen it in real life.
It's actually mildly depressing, but mildly encouraging that it doesn't pay off at the end because at the end of the day, the more she spoke within the last couple of weeks, the more she became detested the way she should be detested.
Well, first off, Miami went red in the last, in the gubernatorial election for the first time in God knows how long, but it went plus 11, I think, tonight.
And, you know, setting aside California, which will always go the way it goes, because that's what happens when you descend into one-party state rule, that says something for all of the Latina vote in between, you know, in the middle of America.
And it's wild.
Dave, do you know how many Haitians live in Florida?
But I think you make an interesting point that over the last couple of days, everything has been trending in the right direction up until literally the moment we're speaking right now.
There hasn't been this crazy surprise.
There hasn't been this crazy break.
And you mentioned the Latino voters.
Let me show you this from Fox from a few minutes ago.
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It is in Democrats' nature to be anxious, and we are certainly at peak anxiousness.
I think the conversation that you were having in the last panel about the Latino vote is really interesting.
Some of these numbers are a little bit jaw-dropping.
45% for Donald Trump in some states.
And that is going to cause a real reckoning within the party on how we talk about message to and integrate a huge part of our base, typically, in all of this.
I would say, though, that...
The campaign and people that I've been speaking to said nothing has been called.
Our paths to 270 have not been blocked off.
And as we continue to get more voting, and I should add to the numbers that they messaged you, Detroit is coming in.
And Detroit had a very good day with in-person voting today.
And the suburbs of Atlanta.
Outperforming where Biden was there.
One point of concern is that she's not doing as well in the rural areas as Biden did.
And that's something that they're paying attention to.
Aviva, I've only got another minute because we've got Dennis Prager on the other side, but right there, I mean, that's a Fox show, but clearly an analyst who's, let's say, sympathetic to the Democrats.
I mean, the right, it feels like the writing's on the wall.
They're like, oh yeah, but we've got our most corrupt of the big blue dots or small blue dots in big red states.
Oh, we can hold our breath for that.
Maybe we can still pull something out of our butts.
No, the bottom line is the writing is on the wall.
45% of Latinos voting.
Congratulations, you've reaped what you've sowed by taking advantage of the demographics you took for granted and then shoving them aside when it was time to cater to another minority for the purposes of your pandering.
They've neglected everyone they promised to represent, and indeed the day of reckoning has come.
Look, we've been burned, and so I'm not ready to...
I did say to the Daily Wire people where I'm talking to you from, I did say to them that if Trump wins, I will do something I haven't done in decades, and that is have whiskey.
All right!
I love tobacco.
I can't stand alcohol.
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But I will definitely have a drink if it happens.
Look, I'll tell you what will be among the many interesting things if this develops as it seems to be developing.
And by the way, even more amazing, perhaps even the popular vote for Trump.
If this happens, the analyses will be as interesting as the actual election, and I'll offer you one immediately.
What the Democrats did to their electoral chances is what that young woman did to Bud Light.
Oh no, that really, that is what is happening.
They really believe, the people on the left believe there is nothing that is too far for the American people.
They will tolerate anything the left imposes on them, including taking five-year-olds to drag queen story hours on behalf of the school.
And teaching them that America was founded, not in 1776, but in 1619, in order to bring slaves to the country.
I don't know if they'll learn a damn thing, to be honest, although Bud Light did learn a lot.
But there is apparently a limit to which even the left can go.
So, of course, saying that is to the backdrop of we don't know and a pipe could still burst and everything else, but everything is leaning in our direction.
But let me ask you something about I think what you've focused on probably more than anyone else that I know in public life, which is you always say that you hate evil more than anything else, which sort of sounds broad, and it's like, can you really define what that is?
But it seems to me, for the last decade, we have been living in a fairly evil time, that lies have been just allowed to be spewed and amplified and everything else, that all of the people who have been good have been told we're bad, the bad people have been told we're good.
If this works out tonight the way that it feels like it might, do you think this is a seminal moment for goodness to actually repel evil?
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It's seminal, but the battle against evil is never won permanently.
It's the human condition.
As I've come to say, I have a suspicion that God lives Groundhog Day every generation.
And I, you know, it's not a cute line.
I really mean that.
So the big picture is that if it turns out the way it looks at will, America has definitely sort of saved itself because the left destroys everything it touches.
That's the understanding of life that I have and because it's accurate.
Well, I'm curious because you've always, as long as I've known you, even when I was on the left before I did the Why I Left the Left video and all that, you always have made the distinction between leftists and liberals.
For you to see this new liberal crew now ally with Trump, so the RFKs, the Tulses, me, the Elons, all of these new people, How do you feel about that as someone that actually is a true conservative?
Can the thing hold?
It must be exciting to some extent in terms of winning, but is it something that you think is strong enough to hold?
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Oh, I think it will hold, but the issue is numbers.
You're giving me exceptional individuals like RFK Jr.
and Tulsi Gabbard and so on.
The average liberal, look, to take the example that I heard just tonight here at the Daily Wire, the Jewish vote in New York State for Trump was 43%.
That's the assumption.
So that means that 57% of New York State Jews Still voted for the left, not for a liberal.
There's nothing liberal about Kamala Harris or Tim Walz.
You can't get more radical than them without joining the Communist Party.
So if Jews are typical liberals, and most are liberals, not left, most Jews don't believe that girls should have their breasts removed if they say they're boys.
But what they do is they ignore that or they dismiss it as, well, look, there are kooks on both sides.
So I don't know when liberals will awaken to the horror of the left.
It may never happen.
It didn't happen tonight.
It may have happened to just enough to determine the election.
That would be a very big deal.
What the left is going to have to rethink, though, is its identity politics doesn't seem to be working.
There's still an element of blacks who will say whites hate us.
I don't think most blacks believe that.
The daily intercourse between races in America Is as close to perfect as the human species can get.
Basically, nobody gives a damn if you're black.
Nobody gives a damn if you're white.
End of issue.
Nobody gives a damn if you're a Jew.
Okay?
With all the increase in antisemitism, and I have a third edition of my book on antisemitism, and I'm a religious Jew, but I'm telling you, by and large, it's a non-issue.
All right, well, we're just catching up right here.
And then listen to this, Phoenix, can you jump ahead to this New York Times piece?
This just came out from Nate Cohn, who's chief political analyst at the Liberals' favorite paper, New York Times.
He said, there's still a lot of vote left in Milwaukee, Detroit, and Philadelphia, but for Harris to win, she would need to outperform Biden's numbers there in 2020.
And so far, she's underperforming Biden's results just about everywhere in the country.
So that really shows you we might be pretty damn close now.
Well, as I'm sure you know, his initial campaign ad when he announced he was running for president was based on the very fine people hoax in Charlottesville.
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Which continues to be said.
Continued.
He continued.
And she says, and Barack Obama says, because lying does not disturb their conscience.
Dennis, my final question for you, and then we will let you go as this night ain't going anywhere anytime soon, although it's slowly creeping our way.
My final question for you, I've asked this to a couple people tonight, some version of this.
I asked it to Dr.
Drew.
I asked it to Jordan Peterson from sort of psychological perspective, but maybe from a religious perspective or a philosophical perspective.
Our obsession with politics, we all love it.
You and I love it.
We have dinners, we talk about this stuff for hours, and then we love a whole bunch of other stuff.
You love classical music, I love basketball, whatever it might be.
Do you think if Trump wins here that the country might be able to reset to a degree that we can stop obsessing over this thing, which ultimately may not be that healthy for us?
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It will only increase because that's all the left lives for.
You live for other things.
You have a family.
You have basketball, as you said.
You have hobbies.
You have passions.
So do I. You love politics more than I do.
And you have other things aside from it.
But people have to understand, for the left, having abandoned country, God, and religion All they have is politics.
Their life has no meaning without politics.
If I told you, you could not read about politics for the next year because the country would be fine in any event, you would be fine.
I would be delirious, but they would be dead.
Their lives, the people who write at the New York Times, they would have no life.
This is their life.
Their life is white supremacy, fighting white supremacy and global warming.
So right now, guys, New York Times prediction, 90% likely Trump will win, 301 to 237 Trump.
That's where we're at right now.
The popular vote is plus 1.1%.
Oh, no, I'm sorry.
Sorry.
Obviously, that's not where we're at right now.
That's their prediction.
And the popular vote is plus 1.1% to Trump at the moment.
Let's see.
Yeah, we have a couple videos we can jump over to and then we've got Ben Shapiro coming up in a little bit and Josh Hammer from Newsweek and a couple other people.
Here is something from MSNBC where apparently they're starting to realize that they might be the racists.
The remaining hope is that Nebraska sends an independent senator to the Senate who would then vote for the Democrats in organizing the Senate, which would get them to 50 votes.
But this does now look like the Senate is probably gonna be in Republican control.
I also just get a smile on my face every time I see you, Dave Rubin.
It's always just a delight, but especially on an evening like this.
Look, I mean, this is basically the best case scenario, what we're looking at right now.
I mean, 52 to 48 in the Senate, by the way, I think that's like the most conservative estimate possible.
I think you could easily see a scenario where Mike Rogers wins in Michigan, Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania, Eric Hovde over in Wisconsin, maybe even Sam Brown in Nevada.
I mean, you could be looking at I don't want to get ahead of my skis here, but you could potentially be looking at 55 to 56 Republican senators, which would be the largest majority of Republicans in the Senate in almost 100 years, if I'm not mistaken.
So I don't want to get too far ahead there.
But if this starts to start trending in the same direction that it's been trending in for the past few hours, this is going to be one for the history books.
But right now, like you and so many others, Dave, I'm just paying attention to those Rust Belt battleground states, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris there.
The rumors, just before I hopped on with you, the rumors are that Kamala Harris' team is now apparently privately confiding to Democratic Party officials that they do not see a path to victory.
Apparently, the campaign spokespeople are no longer taking questions from the media.
People are filing out of the campaign watch party in Washington, D.C. You know, it's probably like a funeral parlor there at this hour, if I had to imagine there.
At this point, if Kamala Harris wins, it would essentially be the equivalent In poker terms of pulling an inside straight on the last card.
I mean, she's facing a very, very bad situation, which really more people should have seen coming.
I mean, not the to my own horn, but I mean, last week I publicly said I think Trump's going to win all seven swing states.
That's three into 12 electoral college votes.
I'm not sure why more people were not saying this.
I mean, yes, it's Donald Trump.
Yes, you know, people have the Trump derangement syndrome, TDS and all that there.
But, you know, fundamental politics still matters to an extent, where you have a right track, wrong track dichotomy, where, like, between 30 and 40 percent at the most, sometimes even less than that, sometimes even 26, 27, 28 percent of Americans say that America's on the right track.
You're probably going to lose an election.
I mean, at some point, Politics 101 just has to take over, and it just makes no sense.
You know, cognitive dissonance only goes so far.
America is not ultimately going to send that same party back into power.
That has just been catastrophically destroying us and all the issues that the people tell pollsters they care about.
So it just doesn't make sense.
It's all looking pretty good.
Pennsylvania, Donald Trump is way outperforming his metrics in certain parts of the state.
The vote in Philadelphia is really not coming through what Kamala Harris needed.
I saw one data point speaking in Pennsylvania, actually.
So where Penn State University is and State College, that's one of the bluest counties in the state, apparently Donald Trump's actually outright winning there right now.
You know, Ryan Gerdusky, I saw, tweeted also about Zapata County, Texas, the most Hispanic country in the United States of America, a 97% Hispanic county.
Donald Trump won by 16 points.
I mean, these are just incredible statistics that we're starting to see happen here, Dave.
And fundamentally, the conclusion that I reach, which I think we've been hanging towards for a few years now, is this is the end of the road for the 2008 Barack Obama intersectional coalition, this whole intersectional coalition of aggrieved interests.
I think this is it.
I think this is the night that it actually dies, Dave.
God, if it dies tonight, we could get America back.
We really could.
Even if Trump doesn't do half the things that we think he could do, it's like if that thing just dies and we can move past the evils of intersectionality and these horrific DEI-based policies, if that alone would be worth it.
Phoenix, could you just jump back to those Pennsylvania numbers I just saw?
Because in Pennsylvania right now, 84% is in.
That's a pretty big chunk.
It may not include all of Philly, which obviously is a huge population center.
If Pennsylvania actually goes to Trump, I mean, that's essentially game over.
I mean, Kamala Harris, what does she have to do at that point?
She has to win Arizona and Nevada.
I'm actually still not sure if the math actually works out even at that point.
But, I mean, Pennsylvania has been ballgamed the whole time.
Way back in March, I hesitate to toot my own horn on the Rubin Report, but I guess I will just do it just real briefly here.
So way back in March, after Donald Trump got the nomination, Dave, you and I were both strong supporters of Ron DeSantis in the primary, but Donald Trump gets the nomination.
And looking at the situation back in March, it was pretty evident to me even back then that the path to this White House runs through the Rust Belt.
Through Pennsylvania, through Michigan, Wisconsin.
And back then, I said that this campaign strategy needs to double, triple, quadruple down there.
One possible way of doing that would be to select J.D. Vance, the guy who wrote Hillbilly Elegy as his running mate there.
And sure enough, it's basically gone according to plan.
But part of it is Donald Trump.
He does have a unique appeal there when it comes to his trade immigration policies and all that there.
But part of it is just the utter catastrophe that has been Democratic Party policy for the past four years.
I mean, Kamala Harris having to pull a 180-degree turn when it comes to electric vehicle mandates for Michigan for the auto industry there when it comes to China and the lithium batteries and EV, when it comes to fracking and natural gas there in Pennsylvania.
I mean, they just put themselves in a horrible, horrible position for listening to these You know, blue-anon left-wing Twitterati lunatics on social media as opposed to the actual sentiments of the American people.
The Democratic Party does not have a wake-up call after the schlacking, the schlonging, I guess you might say, that they are getting tonight.
So I think you're probably going to see a BLM, Antifa, George Floyd riot style thing happen.
I'm not sure it's going to be the same scale as that, but at least to a lesser extent in cities like Washington, D.C., Chicago, L.A., San Francisco, you're almost assuredly going to see that.
Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not Thursday, but at some point over the next week, you're almost assuredly going to see that.
I've already seen some photos in D.C. of people boarding up their businesses.
That's happening, and that's happening probably sooner rather than later.
Especially kind of putting on my legal hat, is what stunts are Democrats going to try to pull when it comes to the very things that they were condemning four years ago in 2020, when it comes to sending alternative slates of electors to the vice president to try to certify the votes, when it comes to January 6 itself there, when it comes to just not trying to certify the election.
I mean, I guess four years ago, you were a radical insurrectionist who should go to jail for treason.
You're a fascist, Putin lover, whatever.
And I guess now it's your patriotic duty.
I mean, it's funny how that works.
So that is very much kind of what I am kind of attuned to over these next few days.
I want to kind of really hone in on where the conversation on MSNBC and so forth, where it's actually headed, because I think that that is really exactly where this conversation is going.
I hope that Republicans know that that's where this is going and that they are prepared to try to stop it because the Democrats, as you and I both know, Dave, are going to stop it.
Absolutely nothing whatsoever.
Even at this last, last dying gasp, these dying gasps of air, they're going to try their darndest to try to prevent him from taking the White House come January 2025.
But I guess for the rest of my life, Dave, as long as you and I both stay here, I can say that I got to the free state just a few months ahead of that guy, Dave Rubin, out in Los Angeles.
But look, I mean, our state is obviously in a tremendously good place right now.
I mean, if there was any doubt whatsoever as to whether the 2022 midterms that saw DeSantis win by 19 and a half points, Rubio win by 16 plus points— If there was any doubt as to whether or not that was something of a fluke and a one-off, those doubts have now been completely eradicated in the minds of anyone watching these results come in.
I mean from a pro-life perspective, just the defeat of Amendment 4 is a tremendous victory.
This is the first time the pro-life side has actually won one of these ballot box referenda since the Dobbs decision two and a half years ago.
That is a huge deal unto itself.
But DeSantis and Rubio both won Miami-Dade County by double digits two years ago in 2022.
Donald Trump now winning it by double digits as well here.
This is a real shift.
I mean, I think the number I saw was that Hispanics overall over the past four years from when Trump only won it by about 3.7 points or so four years ago, from then until now, I think Hispanics shifted 30 points in the Republican direction overall here.
I mean, we live in a ruby red state.
I can't believe it.
I mean, I kind of came a political age, you know, years ago thinking of Florida as like the swing state, Bush versus Gore and everything.
And here we are and it is a bright red, ruby red state.
We are living in strange times, my friend, but I'm happy to be living through it all with you.
Yeah, I think at some point over the next hour and a half, if I had to put a time on it, at some point over the next hour and a half, we probably will have the major network start to call this thing for Donald Trump.
The way this is trending.
Now, I would not be shocked.
I mean, here's me putting on my cynic hat again.
If there is kind of deliberate obfuscation and they deliberately decide not to call it in those three battleground states in the Great Lakes region in particular, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, that's where it starts to get dicey because I really, really do not want to repeat a 2020 where we kind of pause the counting and then the 4 a.m. battleground.
ballot dumps come in.
I don't think that's going to happen because I actually think that the margins there in those states is going to be, as Donald Trump would call it, too big to rig.
So I actually don't see that happening.
I do think it's more likely that we are going to have a winner announced at this point before we go to sleep.
But it's going to be at least another hour, hour and a half or so, probably at a bare minimum to be honest with you.
Generally speaking, he is overperforming what he did in 2020, and she is underperforming what Joe Biden did in 2020, and that ends up what was a narrow edge for Biden, is at this point, we have to condition it, a narrow defeat for Harris.
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And the thing about North Carolina, and John has been talking about this and will do more, at the wall is you do have kind of a sense of the country in the state of North Carolina in that there are growing minority populations and there is a growing sort of suburban, maybe more moderate population in and around the big cities.
And so that is why the Harris campaign thought With the dynamics of the country right now, that she would have a better shot.
But look, the headwinds of the economy, the inflation that people are feeling, the difficulty in everyday...
their everyday lives...
Yeah, she could not outrun that Biden economy.
Yeah, and the economy, Chris, that is what people are feeling every single day.
I mean, we were talking earlier about whether or not the sort of women and the idea of this being the first post-Roe presidential campaign was going to supersede how people felt when they were buying eggs and milk.
And certainly North Carolina and other places that we are seeing start to formulate in these other states, the answer is...
I have to say, guys, watching those videos, it's like, I can't imagine how anyone right now that pays attention to any of this could watch any program where the hosts and analysts don't say what they actually think.
Dana Besh, say you're a Democrat, and here's where we're at, right?
Like, you're obviously a Democrat.
You're depressed right now.
You're a Democrat.
Chris Wallace, you're obviously a Democrat at this point.
It's a state that I think Democrats definitely were reaching for.
There was a lot of work to try to turn out the college campuses, which were really thick and really packed, and try to turn out the suburbs.
And I think there was a lot of hope because of just the insanity, can we say fairly, of the person who's running for governor in that state and the thought that You know, defeating him would also carry Harris in.
But in the end, you know, if they didn't make their numbers and essentially exceed the numbers that Joe Biden had in the suburbs, and I think we have to be blunt about why.
Black voters came through for Kamala Harris.
White women voters did not.
That is what it appears happened in that state, is that if you can't flip enough white women, and we've talked about this on this set numerous times, is that you have a state where you've got a six-week abortion or a 12-week abortion.
I think theirs might be 12 weeks.
But it's a state where women lost their reproductive rights, where there was a very heavy push to get women to focus on not putting in place, you know, re-electing, putting back into the White House the person who was responsible for taking those rights away and restoring them.
But that message obviously was not enough to get enough white women to vote for Vice President Harris, a fellow woman.
This will be the second Opportunity that white women in this country have to change the way that they interact with the patriarchy.
And, you know, God bless Shannon Watts, who has tried to have that conversation.
But if people aren't receptive to it and if people vote more, you know, party line or more on race than on gender and on protecting their gender, there's really not much more that you can do but tell people what the risks are and leave it to them to do the right thing.
All right, so that's Kamal H.U. They are filing out whether they be Hamas supporters, intersectional lunatics, people without their proper genitals, blue-haired crazy people, whatever.
It does seem like they are seeing the signs and they are not hanging around.
For a concession speech that may or may not happen, I think we might have Mr.
Benjamin Shapiro.
We'll have him in just a...
Yeah, we do have him.
We do not have him.
We will have him in just a moment.
We just connected.
Give him a second to settle into the chair over there.
But all right, again, we're still...
Now we're in this weird part where I don't have to overanalyze everything like they're going to do on most of the shows.
We are just...
Sort of in like the dead zone for just a little bit.
And I will say that Donald Trump did this without the help, without the help of the white supremacists who abandoned him in this election cycle because there was just too many Jews nearby.
For Captain Hitler over here, for Orange Hitler and his seven mustaches, President Trump sure has built together a rather racially interesting coalition of giant Hispanic support, outsized Black support, outsized Jewish support.
Shapiro, you have described yourself to me publicly and privately as a pessimist, and yet here I am at this 12.21 a.m., the day after we started this election day, and it's not over, obviously, and we know that hijinks can happen, and yet you seem oddly...
You are by far the happiest person I've spoke to.
Everyone's been happy but cautiously optimistic or something.
We're all just waiting until the time when they're going to call it, and that ain't going to happen tonight.
So you can go to bed happy.
You know, the reality is that when the Kamala Harris headquarters is going silent, when Nate Cohen at The New York Times is saying she doesn't have the votes anywhere, that she needs the votes, that she's underperforming Biden pretty much everywhere, there are no good indicators on the horizon.
In 2020, there is always the, oh, well, you know, Milwaukee's about to come in.
Or Billy's about to come in.
And tonight, it's just like, well, it's already coming in and it ain't coming in at the rates that they need it to come in at.
And she's underperformed in North Carolina, in Georgia.
She's underperforming pretty much everywhere.
The Republicans are overperforming pretty much everywhere.
This is the red wave that was promised in 2022 but never arrived.
And there are a bunch of reasons for that.
I mean, the most obvious of which is that Donald Trump wasn't on the ballot in 2022, which, as it turns out, is a pretty good way to get those marginal, low-propensity voters out to vote.
The other thing is that Republicans made the It's a signal decision not to raid the mental asylum for a set of Senate candidates, which as it turns out is also a good decision.
When you run a bunch of people who actually are credible human beings, shock of shocks, it turns out you do better.
But the big story of this election campaign, I understand that it's Trump.
Of course, it's Trump.
Trump is the man of the era.
He is the man for the time.
I said a little bit earlier on our broadcast that people are constantly looking for, like, the biblical Trump comparisons.
They go to King David.
The actual one they should be looking at is Noah.
It says about Noah in the Bible that he was a good man in his time.
President Trump was made for this time.
He was just made for this time.
And I have been saying privately—I think, Dave, I've said it to you—God wants Trump to win.
I mean, from the moment that Donald Trump turned his head and the bullet flew right by it within this far— God wanted Trump to win.
As a religious person, I actually do believe that.
I'm not even being facetious.
I think that is just the case.
With that said, the big story of this election campaign is that Democrats are awful at this.
Awful at this.
Kamala Harris somehow underperformed a dead person.
The happiest person in America tonight is not me, Dave.
The happiest person in America is a man named Joe Biden.
Somewhere at the White House right now, Joe Biden is having the best night of his fucking life.
He is just enjoying himself beyond all possible measure.
He is there.
He is just like, you know what?
That lady who stabbed me in the back, it could have been me.
I didn't even have to run against Trump.
He would have gotten clocked by Trump.
But now he can claim for the rest of his life, all seven days of it, he can claim that he would have beaten Trump if he'd been on the ballot.
And then he was ousted by the horrible machine.
And he told them all along that she was a bad candidate.
It's just that as a very clean living father of four, at about 8.30 at night, I start to get real tired.
And it's getting real late.
And I gotta tell you, You know, this failing to call states just because, oh my god, there might be likes and battles, it's horseshit, okay?
Donald Trump is gonna win the election.
He had wrapped up the election probably half an hour ago.
When the New York Times is saying that there's a high probability he wins all three swing states, you're not talking about like, Is there going to be, like, you know, is it one of them?
Is she winning in the other two?
She's winning in Michigan and Wisconsin, but maybe she's going to lose Pennsylvania?
When it's like she's trailing solidly at this point.
She's down like 100, last time I checked, like 160,000 votes in Pennsylvania with 84% of the vote in.
In Michigan, the exit polls are insane.
The Michigan exit poll has Donald Trump beating her with Hispanics by 25 points, 60 to 35, with Hispanic voters in Michigan.
If I said that to you before today, like as a joke, You wouldn't believe me.
You would not believe me.
It turns out that Tony Hinchcliffe is apparently the greatest Hispanic outreach director in the history of political campaigns if these numbers hold.
I mean, this is total insanity.
And it turns out that, you know what, politics have consequences.
If you pursue a series of the worst policies of my lifetime, bar none, people really, really hate it.
They really hate it.
They don't care if you swap out the person who is dead for a new person who is part of that same administration.
They just don't want that.
They don't want that.
And they're willing to go back to the guy who everyone calls crazy and hilarion so long as he gives them the things that they want.
The American people basically decided to put aside all of the trash, all the garbage that people are talking about, all the stupid nonsense, you know, the whatever excesses Trump has.
And you know what they went with?
They went with who can fix the toilet.
Donald Trump can fix the toilet.
This person threw a cherry bomb in the toilet.
Donald Trump can fix the toilet.
It's that simple.
And you know what?
If we thought about policy that way, we'd be a lot better off.
Does it also feel like to you that, assuming this now all go, let's just go on, I'm on the Shapiro crazy train here, it's over, okay, fine.
But does it also feel like that the other piece of this is that now the thing that you and I have been part of and this alt media versus the mainstream media pretending, these people on CNN pretending that they don't have an opinion on anything And all of the over-analysis and the cover-up of the lies and that Obama's doing very fine people two days ago and no one talks about it on CNN, that that is the other thing that maybe even needed to be destroyed more than the Democrat Party itself.
I mean, I've called it the Democrat media human centipede, because that's effectively what it is.
The Democrats crap something out, it's ingested by the media, then crapped out upon the American public, not to be too graphic.
But that is precisely what the media are.
They are the apparatchiks of the Democratic Party.
And in this election cycle, every narrative they trotted out, Utterly failed.
All of them.
First there was the Joe Biden is well narrative.
Done.
Then there was the Kamala Harris is brat narrative.
Totally done.
Then there was the Donald Trump is orange Hitler.
Totally done.
Then there was the Donald Trump wants to kill Liz Cheney or some such nonsense.
Totally done.
Every narrative they tried to plant out there was a fail because it turns out that when the American public, by polling data, Trust you less than they trust Congress.
That is the latest data.
That you don't have that kind of sway.
And you know what podcasts like yours or mine or Joe's do?
What those do is they expose these candidates to the light of day in an authentic manner.
I mean, I had President Trump on the podcast like two and a half weeks ago.
It's not the same thing as Joe, right?
Joe has a way bigger audience than any of us, and he had him on for like three hours.
But Donald Trump is an authentic human.
Kamala Harris is not an authentic human.
And that means that you get a good picture of who these people are because it's very difficult to act for full-on three hours when you're just having a conversation with somebody.
And so, you know, the alternative media has flexed muscle in a way here that is so...
You know, I think that he will, you know, in foreign policy, he'll probably cut his role off at the knees, just like Barack Obama did on his way out.
It'll be his sort of revenge tour.
He's gonna try and sign a bunch of executive orders that Donald Trump will then promptly undo.
They're gonna try and stack up the executive branch with career bureaucrats.
In the hope that those people will sue to prevent Donald Trump from firing them.
Now's the time to get those permanent employees in there.
There's been talk about this for a year and a half.
The Democrats were basically going to stack the permanent side of government with all their allies, so that even if Republicans took over, then they still wouldn't be able to achieve their agenda.
I don't think they're gonna get away with it.
I think that Trump goes in, eyes open this time, knowing that there are tons of people who are inside the executive branch who oppose him, and he is going to unleash the power of Do you think there's any chance over the next couple of months that Biden actually doesn't go crazy because he'll have realized the crazy energy was with Kamala and that if he wants his legacy to remain intact,
I think he wants to think of himself as a transformative president.
He's obviously not getting any legislation done under current circumstances.
So there is the possibility that he spends the next two months basically going on a salutary kind of goodbye tour in which he says, listen, if I'd been on the ballot, maybe I would have won.
They ousted me.
They did me wrong.
They put in my vice president as the candidate, and she lost.
But the way you should remember me is as the person who is willing to do anything on behalf of the American people, including stepping out of my own nomination, and here I am, love me.
I mean, that's all Joe Biden really wants in life, is to be loved.
And the great irony of politics being that he will leave office as one of the most despised people in American political history.
But I think that there is that possibility.
I have a hard time believing that he, like Obama, won't attempt to take a few final bites at that apple.
Yeah, dude, I gotta say, I've been saying it all night.
Season 8 of Trump, this season kicked ass.
I mean, like, this season, I thought the writing was overdone.
I thought that, like, God had pulled out one too many stops.
You know, he's like, you know, not just one assassination attempt, two.
We're not just going to make the opposing candidate, like, die on the stage.
We'll replace him with this person, and this person won't be able to talk, and then she'll pick a weirdo who flails his arms all weird and has a weird wife and...
And then we'll make our husband, like, allegedly a person who beats, like, just, it was like really bad writing, just overwrought, you know, too much.
It was like, see, it was like the last season of Game of Thrones, just really rushed and forced a little bit, but they hit the finale.
God really hit the finale.
God just nailed that finale, 10 out of 10, would watch again, downloading for the flight.
All right, well, yeah, I got to at least do one thing, which is I had Dennis Prager on about a half hour ago, and he said that if Trump wins tonight, he'll have a whiskey.
The man has not had more than a white glass of wine in like 10 years, so you got to make that happen and see what you can do with Peterson as well.
This is an update that looks like New York Times, right?
The Harris campaign just shut off the sound on the TVs at her watch party and replaced it with music after a guest on CNN said tonight felt more like 2016 than 2020.
unidentified
So, again, I mean, I don't, can we get excited yet?
Like, I don't know that I can go to Shapiro mode yet.
I don't.
Am I more of a, well, I consider myself a world-weary optimist.
Ben considers himself a pessimist.
We've got the pessimist taking the optimist approach.
I just don't put anything past these freak weirdos.
All right, so Phoenix is throwing some numbers at me here.
Michigan right now, which obviously is one of the big ones.
So Michigan, he's got, Trump's got basically a 200,000 vote lead in Michigan right now, which is about 6%.
That's with 56% reporting.
But it's really, really hard to make up 6%.
When already, you've got half the people having voted already.
I mean, at some point, it just, that was Ben's point.
At some point, these numbers just stopped working.
So Arizona, look, the Arizona difference is only about 13,000 votes with 53% in, right?
So like, right.
So it's like that clearly anything could happen.
Pennsylvania's getting to a weird spot here where it looks like he'll get it because with 3% difference, it's about 250,000 votes, something around there.
That gets tough to make up with only 12% remaining.
Wisconsin is about a 4% difference with 81%.
That'll be kind of tricky.
It's about, what, about 100,000 votes there.
So at some point you literally, it just becomes basic math and they can't fiddle with it.
But the fact they've sent people home, right?
So they've sent people home, they've shut off the TV. We showed people walking out, the TVs have no audio.
Clearly they're doing the post-mortems at cable news right now.
The question is how late does the evening go and how crazy are we willing to get with this thing?
How's everybody doing in here?
Has anyone gone to the bathroom at any point this evening or is it just me?
Can we throw to an old, how about a little, what can we throw to so that I can use the facilities for just a moment?
We're going to, Connor's going to pull up something for you for just a second.
We are doing a sit-down, although it's a slightly different sit-down because he is doing it via the phone, the classic style of interviewing from an undisclosed location.
But before we start, I want to say one thing, which is that his team made it very clear.
I can ask him absolutely anything.
Nothing is off the record.
Nothing is to be hidden or not to be asked.
And will I get booted off YouTube for this?
I suppose we will find out.
So here we go, my interview with President Donald J. Trump.
unidentified
All right, President Donald Trump, welcome to the Rubin Report.
So something happened that's I think you've seen, and that's very interesting.
I do press releases like I used to.
You know, the circle goes round and round, right?
I do press releases, and it seems that a lot of people are waiting for those press releases.
And if you look at the, of all places, the New York Times did a story a week ago about the circulation of what I'm saying is essentially as big.
It's very big.
And the word is getting out.
I did a couple of them today.
I like because I'm not confined as to number of characters, but you know the number of characters, you don't want to keep it too long anyway.
Okay, that's one thing we all learned maybe from that.
No, I think we're doing very well.
With that being said, I'll be on social media in the not-too-distant future.
We're looking at a lot of options.
We had hundreds of millions of people.
You know, if you look at, we had 91 on one site, we had 10 on another, we had 36 on another, we had POTUS. We have a lot of people and a lot of people on Facebook.
And I hear it's become very boring, to be honest.
And I hear in particular Twitter has become very, very boring.
And a lot of conservative voices have gotten off.
Some have been thrown out and a lot of them have gotten off.
And I hear Twitter is not doing well and it's lost its voice.
And when I started there like 11 or 12 years ago, it was not a success.
I mean, it was not a...
I don't know who was going to make it, but it was not a success.
It became very successful.
And I think you're going to see a lot of people are going to be finding other...
There's a lot of platforms out there.
That's what we're looking at, getting the right platform, a perfect platform.
All right, we got something over here we're going to put on in just a second.
Again, guys, I really do, I know that there's a million things you could be watching and jumping around to and everything else, so we really do appreciate all of you guys staying with us, and we try not to do those interstitials too much so that you're getting everything live.
I think we've got something coming up.
unidentified
And CNN can project that Georgia will go to Donald Trump.
Georgia, a very highly contested battleground of 16 electoral votes.
This is the second of seven battleground states that we have called, and both of them have been for Donald Trump.
Let's take a look at what that means for the electoral mass.
Donald Trump right now has 246 electoral votes.
Kamala Harris right now has 182 electoral votes.
There are 270 needed to win.
As of right now, CNN is not ready to project who is going to win the presidency.
There's a certain amount of people, as happy as we may be right now, there's millions of people in the country that think Hitler's taking over right now.
And it's so unfair, and it's so unjust, and it's because of such a dereliction of duty by the media that they lied.
They know.
Joy Behar knows nobody's coming for her tomorrow.
Nobody's coming for Sonny Hostin.
Nobody's coming for Jake Tapper or Rachel Maddow, and that they did this.
And created such chaos and lied about so many issues and people and made it seem like everyone in America hates everybody.
It's just so awful.
But maybe we can get past all of that after this.
It's going to take some time for sure.
Phoenix is telling me that my former boss, I guess, over at the Young Turks, Cenk Yeager, he is not doing well tonight.
Oh, and we've got video from the Harris HQ. I'd imagine it's a hell of a party.
They're probably playing YMCA backwards while listening to Dark Side of the Moon go.
unidentified
They're saying are accurate, and she would need to outperform, really turn things around, and what's coming in is not showing that that is likely or possible.
And I think we have another video we can throw to you in the meantime before we get sage.
unidentified
But we are now hearing from sources that Donald Trump is making plans to come over here.
Obviously, they have to prepare the motorcade for him to get in to take about a 10-minute drive over here where the convention center is.
But, Jake, that is a sign of how good the Trump campaign is feeling based on the numbers that John King just read there, that Donald Trump is preparing to come over here.
So I will admit to you, there's no one behind me because I went up to my room because my feet hurt and I got my tennis shoes and I'm walking back right now because it's been a lot of standing and a lot of chatting and so much excitement upstairs.
So I'm heading back there now and reports are yes, I overheard the TV you had on in the background and that's what we're hearing too.
I'm here with Tulsi Gabbard's people actually.
She's on her way up as well.
And they're like, okay, he's coming over much sooner than many people expected, honestly.
So that to me is a very, very good sign.
And you look at what happened with the Senate and Georgia now.
So I think there's a lot of positivity and for good reason.
It's just, I was saying in between segments here, that it's just so, for as exciting as this all is, and again, let's not count the chickens till they hatch, it's just so unfortunate what the media has done that half of the country, or at least I don't know, whatever you want to say, 60, 70, 80 million people really think that some really racist maniac is about to take the office.
And it's so counter to everything that you and I have seen on the inside, what so many of us have seen on the outside, and yet they did this to us.
To me, I liken it to kind of how we felt with COVID. And, okay, we have to move on, right, and do our things.
But Never forget.
Hashtag never forget.
I think that that's really important.
When we sat together at MSG, it's something we talked about is just how diverse the crowd was for that rally of 20,000 people.
And then just the last few days when I've been on the road, like I told you earlier, in North Carolina and throughout the state of Pennsylvania at the rallies and then doing work with the hurricane victims.
And, you know, everybody looks a little different.
And at the end of the day, sometimes it isn't about Donald Trump.
It's literally about The policies, which is what I think it always should have been.
But you have a ton of people who are like, I didn't vote for them in 2020 or 2016, but I'm in now.
And it's been so fascinating for me to have time to ask them why.
And it is so much about lack of trust with her and lack of transparency.
I mean, Dave, how long did it take her to put just something on her website as far as the policy is concerned?
And so that's a big deal.
I think they took a lot for granted and little things to me like not going on Joe Rogan, which, hey, if I'm running her campaign, I'm probably like, yeah, let's not because she can't handle that.
But when you only choose very, very, like I think that they took for granted that the American public would just be like, no, it's fine.
And people don't realize, Sage, I hope you don't mind if I give a little insider info that I know from you and Tulsi, but people don't realize, you guys are traveling, you're not flying in first class, you're in coach, just taking crazy flights, not being paid for much of this or any of this, and you're doing this because you believe in the country, you believe in the mission here, and finally maybe we're seeing the fruits of that.
Oh, it's like you people are actually having some sort of self-awareness suddenly.
Yes, she was a terrible candidate.
And yes, Donald Trump does have a way to talk to the people that feel forgotten.
And he eats like them and goes to McDonald's like them.
And he's a real person like they are.
And you guys all decided to be forgotten.
Robotic, artificial weirdos caring more about chopping children's genitals off than covering the border.
And then you wonder why you ended up here, and tomorrow you're gonna debate all day long how evil white women are, that they didn't do what they needed to do for you, or that black men are now evil because they changed in some numbers towards Trump.
None of it makes sense.
None of it works.
You know, the other thing that'll be interesting after all of this will be what happens to the Democrat Party.
Do they purge the progressives and somehow some sane Democrat Party comes back?
Like, I don't think so.
I don't think there's enough of them left.
All right, let's do a little crazy reaction to TikTok stuff.
You know what?
I have not had a sip of tequila in quite some time, but it is here.
All right, all right, it's time.
I think we can start celebrating a little bit.
unidentified
You did say bananas, democracy, Elon, Pennsylvania, and immigrants.
It should be noted that when young people, younger people say gay, they don't mean gay like you're gay, like you want to like, you know, do it with another person of the same They mean gay like you're a dork, you're a...
Kind of like you're a loser.
That's what they mean.
They don't mean gay like you're just gay.
Ah, you're two dudes having a good time.
They don't mean that.
You know, they don't mean you're dancing to the YMCA, they mean you're just a loser, basically.
Yeah, all right, let's go, let's go.
unidentified
Where'd you go to college?
I didn't go to college, but I turned it down.
Yeah, I turned it down just to do this, just to grind from the rap.
Guys, I'm not a math magician, but if you're up by 118 Trump and there's only about 100 left, there's pretty much no way that that can be resolved.
So yes, Georgia will go to Donald Trump.
That is quite clear.
Here is Harris campaign co-chair saying that Kamala ain't talking tonight.
unidentified
Short and to the point statement from Cedric Richmond, the Harris campaign co-chair, speaking to what is still a considerable crowd at Howard University in Washington, D.C. You now see them turn as one to start to leave the grounds.
They're letting the crowd assemble there for the Harris campaign and in support of Vice President Harris, letting everybody know that she's not going to be speaking on any subject over the course of this evening.
I don't see how they could pull off any kind of stunt that we're all afraid of at this point.
I mean, I know they, I know, I know, I know, like the last thing you want to do is be overconfident about everything, but like every sign is on the wall.
The numbers, I see no way that the numbers make any sense.
We've got more video of the crowd from Kamala's watch party leaving.
Oh, that was?
Yeah, I think we have more on that in just a second.
But I just see no way around this at this point.
So we're going to have Sage jumping in over at Mar-a-Lago at, sorry, not at Mar-a-Lago, at the convention center in West Palm Beach.
Hopefully she'll get a good seat and maybe we can get some of this live streamed as Trump gets up there, which at this point it's 1 a.m.
Why don't you throw it to the New York Times It just seems to me that knowing everything we know to get, to just like call it, even if the numbers don't make sense in any other way, the system's just evil.
Clearly now Donald Trump will speak probably, my guess is in the next 15 minutes or so.
Maybe they'll have one or two people.
Maybe Junior will speak before him or Tulsi or whoever, but like, I think this is the first time I've ever put a MAGA hat on, period, actually, if I'm not mistaken.
Look, as I've been saying on the show for the last little bit here, everything that's happened in this country in this last...
I don't know, in the last two years, I guess?
No, it's really since COVID, I guess.
I feel like it's been so connected to what I've talked about on the show.
When the government overreach of COVID was happening in Cali, and I was talking about it, it was like...
It was like, well, do something about it.
Do something about it was move to Florida.
And now Florida is the strongest red estate in the country.
And then what do you do after that?
Well, you support the guy that was here, that was running the show here, and that was DeSantis at the time.
And it did not go the way I wanted, but I have no regrets whatsoever.
I don't think he has any regrets.
And no one should have regrets.
You win some, you lose some in politics.
But if you're fighting honestly for what you believe in, Then you don't lose.
You don't lose.
You can lose an election, but you don't really lose.
And it seems to me now that finally after everything, assassination attempts and trials and media bullshit and lies and just everything, we have been so deep.
You know, I always say that it's like we're just gonna follow them into the abyss and we have been so deep in that abyss now for so long that sometimes it was getting hard to see the way out.
Like, will we just be in this thing forever?
But I think it's possible that starting tonight we won't be in this thing anymore.
We can actually restore America.
The thing that now united me and Elon and you and Trump and Rogan and Tulsi and Bobby, et cetera, et cetera, it is real.
It is real.
And it's going to be the political movement that saves the country.
And quite literally, maybe even saves the world, because as goes America, goes the world.
I think things could get rapidly better very, very quickly, significantly better very, very quickly.
We'll still have a couple months of weirdness, and the Democrats will try all sorts of weird things, and there will be some violence and all that stuff.
So you don't want to be Pollyannish about it and pretend anything is better than it actually is, because I am a realist more than anything else.
The decision desk, is that the Fox News decision desk?
The decision desk.
Decision desk has officially called the election for Trump.
Guys, to whatever extent I had a piece in any of this, in any little way through connecting with Elon and doing the show and pushing very clearly for the alliance that maybe did this thing, that's pretty good.
Let's just assume that everything is okay over the next couple months.
And yes, it will get weird.
But then we can really start restoring things.
Think how quickly we actually could do it if Elon gets in there.
And Elon's like, I'm going to clean this up.
We are going to cut the waste.
And Bobby is like, you know what?
We're going to look at what's going on.
With the food supply, and we're gonna do something at CDC or NIH, or Dr.
Drew, who I had on earlier, if he was to head one of them.
There's so many opportunities here.
There's such an unbelievable...
When Trump won in 2016, I was with the Daily Wire guys.
I was with the Daily Wire guys in 2016 when he won, and I was with the Daily Wire guys in 2020 when he lost, although when I left them that night, we thought he was gonna win.
And the night that he won, In 2016, nobody knew what the hell was going to happen, but everyone really thought Hillary was going to win, basically.
And we were all kind of shocked.
And Andrew Klavan said something that I thought was really great that night.
He said, you know, how amazing is it that in this country, things that people don't think can happen can still happen.
He said that can't happen in most countries, but it really can still happen in the United States of America.
He's not gonna hate anybody because of the color of their skin or anything else.
He's not gonna...
Use the Air Force to attack the view, although I would be for it.
Things could get better quickly, and in a weird way, that's what they want the least, because then it would show you that everything that they've tried to sell us through identity politics and ridiculous backwards economics and peace through weakness and all of the rest of it, that it was all just bullshit nonsense.
And that things can be fixed properly when you have good leadership and you have a good team.
And that's what he's going to have this time.
And this will also largely be the death knell of the mainstream media.
Yes, they'll be more hysterical.
They're never going anywhere.
They've got a lot of money.
Okay, fine.
But people more and more will tune out.
This is the proof in the pudding moment.
Like, how is it that for all of the...
Shows that we did here, we were closer to...
I always knew we were closer to being right on the ideas.
The ideas that I talk about on the show, we can explain.
I can explain them.
I can explain why I think the things that I think, why I've evolved on this issue or that issue.
And they can't do those things.
And that's why they're left with the racist, bigot nonsense.
And that the media...
To me, the...
At the end, what did they do at the end?
They threw Obama to save very fine people.
That was all they fucking had at the end.
They did not deserve to win this.
They did not deserve to run America anymore.
They've got to go home.
They don't have to go home, but they can't stay here.
Like, that's it.
That's it.
Enough is enough.
And this country is so unbelievably extraordinary.
And it's so, people, you can't even, and maybe none of us, That living it right now can really realize how incredible it is, that the default position of this country is that we should all be treated equally, regardless of our skin color or any of those things, and that's not what virtually any other country in the history of the world was ever predicated upon.
And for some reason, we let people for the last 20 years tell us that this place was bad, and then we let a culture tell us that it was bad, and we let everything rotted out from the inside, and we let the inmates run the asylum and all of these things.
Well, no more!
Maybe this is the no more moment.
It is the no more moment as far as I'm concerned.
Hopefully more people will get on board that.
And hopefully Donald Trump will have learned from his mistakes and will lead properly and it will be okay.
I did, and I'm trying to be professional and not get emotional right now.
If you could have heard, and I'm sorry the signal went down, if you could have heard the elation in this room and people screaming in this room, the thousands of people, I don't know that I fully believe it yet, because people like you and me have been so scared, frankly, because the system we don't trust.
And the fact that they just called Pennsylvania tonight, what?
What's going on?
We need to give so much credit to the RNC and what they've done over the last several months with the attorneys and the 500 attorneys all over this country to try to make sure that there's no issues like 2020.
I mean, the thousands of people behind me here, I don't know if you can kind of see the stage behind me where he's going to be speaking.
People lost it.
People went nuts.
And they're all, at this point, yeah, just waiting.
There's been a lot of jockeying for position, as you might imagine.
Everybody wants a front row seat.
The red carpet is out.
There's, you know, with the, whatchamacallit, the little banners, swingy rope things, whatever those are, it's all prepared for when he comes in.
You know, you and I were there last week at MSG. And then the last couple of nights, last night when I was with him in Grand Rapids and in Pittsburgh, Listen, those are hour and a half speeches.
What he's been through, I do believe it is truly one of the greatest comebacks of any kind, whether you think of it politically or with sports, you name it.
It's incomprehensible what he's gone through.
And I always say to people who question and doubt, I always say, he didn't have to do this.
He could have just had his spawn on his multiple golf courses and properties around the world.
He wanted to do this because he believes in this country.
He is poorer.
He has less money because of it.
And all these people here grasp it.
They're celebrating because they're calling Minnesota, I guess.
That's what that cheer was for.
But there's so many people have come up to me, Dave, who were never Trumpers from New York or California.
Yeah, it's just, gosh, I really wish we could feel, well, we can feel it to whatever extent we can feel that energy in that room.
It's kind of coming across the internet vibes with you being there right now.
Wow, it really is, it feels surreal, right?
Like, it's like, I'm still, you know, Ben Shapiro, we had him on an hour and a half ago, and he was willing to call it then, and I was like, dude, I'm just not there with all their shenanigans, but now it's real, and I don't know that I'm emoting properly.
Like, this is the thing I've been praying for for the last year.
And then the media, of course, the mainstream media, just give full context.
Let the American people decide.
And they were unwilling to do that.
I actually am surprised in some ways at how the Democrats ran this campaign.
You and I were together on June 27th for the debate, that infamous debate.
And in hindsight, I'm sure that they would change a million things, but they let it go on way too long, obviously, with Joe Biden.
But even since then, with how they chose to keep her away from interviews and away from the mainstream, I guess it was just the mainstream and not anyone else would ask tough questions.
And I think that's a huge mistake, but maybe they're smart because they knew she couldn't handle it.
And that was proven down the stretch when they had no choice but to allow her to talk to some people and it didn't go well.
It really is, if you think about it, he was put through a lot, like an assassination attempt or two and all the legal stuff and the ballot stuff, but he didn't run an inefficient campaign.
He ran quite an excellent campaign, actually, scandal-free in terms of real scandals and everything else.
Like, he really ran a disciplined campaign and kept widening the tent and kept bringing on new people and doing that whole thing.
And now, in retrospect, Everything about the Democrat operation from halfway through the Biden presidency when they should have pulled the plug on him, if not even before, every single thing they have done has been awful but propped up by the media.
Yeah, I heard about half of what you said, but I think I understand.
As far as the mainstream media, there's a lot of tears being shed, liberal tears, which never makes me sad.
But at the end of the day, it probably will help them.
If you think back to when Trump was in office, I think that's when CNN's ratings were at its highest, and MSNBC, because they have something to bitch about, frankly, and that's exactly what's going to happen, you know?
But at the end of the day, I hope that they, and maybe this is me being too optimistic, I hope that the mainstream media can take a look in the mirror and really evaluate, because if they were honest, this would have been a very different last four years, and certainly just of the campaign.
But they chose to tell lies.
They chose to push that narrative, fascism and all of those things.
And I, as a journalist for almost 30 years myself, yes it was sports, but it still had integrity.
And they didn't have that.
They chose that.
The leadership chose that.
And it has nothing to do with you and me, American people.
They were not fair.
So it'll be interesting to see how they handle it.
And if there's finger pointing or if there's accountability and ownership, just looking at how they ran the campaign, much less themselves.
But this is such a victory for the good guys, for people like you who changed your mind.
And you chose to take a deeper look at your beliefs and made a massive change for you, for your family, for your team.
And I do see it differently because I'm thinking about the people who are not a part of anybody's elite who are hurting tonight.
There are African-American women who know a little bit about being talked down to and know a little bit about having their economic dreams crushed, who tried to dream a big dream over the past couple of months.
And tonight they're trading in a lot of hope for a lot of hurt.
And they were hoping that maybe this time one of their own could be seen as worthy.
And once again, they're facing rejection.
And that hurts.
They thought tomorrow morning they're going to walk out with their shoulders back a little bit.
Maybe able to breathe for the first time and feel like they belong someplace.
They did everything that they knew how to do.
And it's going to be harder than it should be tomorrow for them to hold their heads up.
And they're not the only people who are hurting tonight.
If you're a parent of a trans kid, Your child's face was used as a springboard to power for somebody.
That doesn't feel good.
There are going to be people tomorrow, we're going to be handing clothes at the dry cleaners to people who don't have papers.
There are going to be people who are going to be cleaning your teeth tomorrow who don't have papers.
And they are terrified tonight.
And so it's easy to blow this off.
Oh, look at the elites.
They're going to get their comeuppance.
It's not the elite that's going to pay the price.
It's people who woke up this morning with a dream and are going to bed with a nightmare.
And those people didn't deserve to be respected and held and talked to.
Those are the people who are going to pay the price for whatever Donald Trump decides to do.
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How do we know that those people didn't vote?
A large portion of those people aren't a part of the people that elected Donald Trump.
Shut the fuck up with that old ass bullshit from 2015 that nobody's buying anymore, Van, with your crocodile tears and the rest of it.
That people can't breathe now and everybody's racist and they had dreams.
And oh, and somehow that Kamala wasn't in defense of the elites?
Donald Trump is the guy going after the elites, right?
Everything he said there was backwards, but we could flash the whole show probably, various guests throughout the evening hit on all of these points, but Gadsad talking about this suicidal empathy, like he's just trying to play up empathy.
He's so empathetic.
These people could finally stand up straight with their shoulders back.
How about you could still do that?
And the government shouldn't have that much to do with your life.
And you know what you're gonna find out under Donald Trump?
We're gonna have a secure border and the economy is gonna start working again and there are gonna be less wars and that's good for everybody, including black women.
The intersectional bullshit story is over.
It is over and buried tonight.
It is long overdue.
It should have been buried years ago.
It probably should have never materialized in this country in the first place.
But that sort of overly emotional nonsense is, How about the band?
Whatever the hell your name is.
Are you concerned ever about the girls who are getting the shit kicked out of them by boys in wrestling or in basketball or in volleyball?
Like, absolutely...
Insane.
Fox News officially called the election for Donald Trump at 277 now.
But that's not the complete map, I guess, still.
He won Wisconsin.
Yeah, so he won Wisconsin, too.
So 277.
So it's over.
It is over, over, over.
Sorry, Van Jones.
Like, and all of you people, you don't deserve jobs anymore.
I mean, that's the other thing.
I don't need to gloat yet, but all of you people on MSNBC, you race-hucksting, put the camera back on me for a second, all of you race-hucksters, all of you liars, all of you frauds who've lied about America, lied about Donald Trump, lied about half the country, none of you deserve jobs.
If you're an NBC network exec and you're watching this right now, fire everybody at MSNBC. Turn it into a 24-hour cartoon network.
It doesn't matter.
There would be no, well, that would be actually, wouldn't be that off what you're doing right now.
But enough, like nobody wants any more of your bullshit.
And I know what you guys are gonna do.
You're gonna double down.
That's all you do.
That's all you do.
That's all you've ever done.
There's no, because you're fighting Hitler.
You're fighting Hitler.
So why would you look yourself in the mirror?
And what you're gonna find out is that Hitler's actually pretty good for the country, and you're gonna have to grapple with that one day, but we know you people are kinda slow to come around, but as you do come around, we'll gladly collect you like Pokemon cards.
We'll take you, we'll collect all of them, and do what we gotta do.
Are we bringing Sage back?
I think we're maybe bringing Sage back a little bit, or should we throw to Clay?
You know, we started the night with Clay Travis, which was about seven hours ago.
Apparently, here is breaking video of Clay Travis's reaction to the Trump win.
You are the media now from Elon Musk, and that's right.
You know, one of the things that he did, one of the first things that he did when he took over Twitter was the blue check was impossible to get.
You basically had to be well-connected in Hollywood or work for a giant company or something.
And then it made it seem like these people, that their voices were more important because they had the coveted blue check.
He came in and he said, everyone can have the blue check.
You got to pay a couple bucks and verify who you are, and then you get the check.
And that did democratize the way news started getting spread on Twitter.
And there were some downsides to it as a user of Twitter in that it's sometimes harder to find people that you follow because you can't see verified mentions as easily.
Anyway, this is a little in the weed stuff.
But he made it just so that we're all in on this thing together.
And that is the point of this entire campaign right here.
Like, it's a really, really incredible day for the world.
I don't even know that I have much more to add at this point.
Like this was a lot of hard work by a lot of people.
This literally in this room is a lot of hard work by these guys.
But everybody that was part of this, everyone that put, you put yourself on the line by telling your friends what you thought and you encourage people to think about things a little more deeply or you shared some of our videos and maybe helped somebody wake up.
You know, one of the things that I did first thing this morning was I said throughout the day I'll retweet people Who tell me why they're a first-time Trump voter.
And all day long, I was reading these stories from these people who had Trump derangement syndrome.
And something has fundamentally shifted in this country right now.
And it just goes to show, if you fight hard enough with a just enough cause, the thing that feels impossible, this is the second time Trump's done the thing that feels impossible, right?
And in between doing the two things that felt impossible, winning the presidency twice, they tried to kill him also.
And what the real opportunity now will be is that, you know, I talk about kayfabe a lot, and in wrestling, sometimes the heel, the bad guy, becomes the ultimate hero, right?
Like, you take the bad guys, and everyone hates them one day, and then something happens, and then everyone loves them, and maybe that's the ending to the Donald Trump story, if we have four great years right now.
Like, not everyone.
They'll always be the haters, but, like, you can...
You can get most people on your side, right?
Like at the heyday of Hulk Hogan, most people loved Hulk Hogan.
Well, first off, thank you for being part of this insane adventure that we pulled off tonight.
This really, again, this is not just about Trump now.
This is about a wholesale switch of the media and the things that we're working on and projects that we have planned and expansions that we're working on and all sorts of stuff, that just got rocket fuel tonight.
Because the old thing is dying, and it's dying really fast now, and the new thing is here, and we've been at the forefront of that for years on several fronts, whether it was going independent or locals or whatever we've been doing, and home studios and all of the stuff.
So in some ways now I suddenly feel like we're right at the beginning again, but what an incredible night.
You know, I did think at one point I thought at one point today at about four o'clock, we did the Chebain show during the day and then we were doing things all day long and from four to 4.30, I just laid on my bed and I closed my eyes but there was no chance I was gonna fall asleep but I was just trying to like, you know, just like expunge some stuff from my head or just clear my thoughts or whatever.
And I thought, man, what will happen tonight?
If we're rolling into 8, 9 o'clock and Trump's losing and it's just going to be bad, bad, bad, what will I be doing on camera?
It would be an unbelievably horrible moment for America.
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I don't know that I want to be on camera for that.