Transcript of War (Ep. 2631)

For me to tell you, like, last night was just apples and cinnamon oatmeal and it's going to be A-okay, is BS. However, I am here to tell you this: if you've been a listener to this show for the last 10 years or so, you've been with—you've been through this with us before. Andy and Josh are new here. Gyi and Justin are not. We've been through actually worse.

Remember the 2020 debacle with the mass mail-in balloting and that shady stuff that happened? Folks, do you remember the Obama reelect, what a disaster that was, when the whole world thought Obama was going to lose after the Obamacare debacle? I was there. I was there that night, running for office myself. Is that in any way good news? No. But I am going to give you a battle plan moving forward. Because what you don't want to do from midterm losses that have happened before to both parties—I'll show you the evidence.

Whether you believe it or not, it's not relevant, it's evidence. This has happened to both parties. What's really important is we don't learn the wrong lesson going forward from this. Because I lived through this before. I'll tell you what I mean. Big show today. Thank you for tuning in last time. Sorry about some of the audio problems. You know, we had a bunch of stuff going on in the studio, so the team was working through everything we could. But I appreciate you all tuning in. Last night, we were a top 20 show last night. So thanks, everyone, for going through that with us. It was not a great night. But listen, man, this is politics.

There is no dissent allowed. They're not interested in dissent. They will effectively, like, court-martial you politically if you speak outside the lines, as Haley Stevens and Fetterman have learned out. That is just how they work. They vote like an army. They got up and they dusted off. And last night, there's—listen, it was a drubbing. I mean, there's no way to describe it any other way. There were Senate seats we didn't even think were in play that were in play. But we do need a battle plan moving forward, because I think the people who voted—a matter of fact, I don't think, I know a lot of the people who voted—I'm not talking about the Islamo-radicals and the Democrat fanatics, the progressives, and the communists.

This is exactly what they voted for. They voted for the destruction of the United States. Please, make no mistake. But the people on the fence who were, like, trying to send the GOP a lesson or something like that, I'm not sure you're prepared for the wrath these people—the progressives, liberals, commies, and Islamo-radicals—are about to rain down upon you. They are not kidding. The country you had yesterday is going to be far different in, you know, 60 days when a lot of these people swear in. So again, there's no pig lipstick, lipstick pig.

The Democrats and the people looking to denialists that want to destroy the United States have been crystal clear in their strategy for a long time. It's to use a bunch of useful idiots to vote for them who fall for this stuff. It's their term, by the way. Get a bunch of people to vote for them. And as those people become less useful to them, throw them under the bus too. What I'm getting at is what I just opened with the show, that if you voted for this thinking, like, this was going to lead to lower gas prices or inflation under control or men out of the women's room, folks, you're about to get a lesson good and hard from the Democrats.

They didn't mean any of that. They meant the opposite. And once you—now that your utility with them is done, you speak out against it at all, they'll throw you under the bus too. Check this out.

They think that they will come to power. That will never happen, of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot.

Not us. We've been saying this the entire time. They were always going to hit us. You become the biggest threat. You've been warned on that. I want you to watch something today too. This is a fascinating phenomenon I warned you about weeks ago. People out there swearing to you that the last two years, all of this horrible stuff happened, and the things that you voted for—closed border, public safety, the reindustrialization of America—people who told you none of this happened, despite endless receipts and evidence that it happened.

I want you to watch today. This is really important. I think today is going to be one of those exercises that's going to be clarifying and purifying for a lot of people. I don't—the criticisms of election strategy and candidates are not only fair, but welcome. You know, you only get better as a party when you say, hey, here's what we did wrong in South Carolina. Analyzing an election and being critical is, again, not only fair, but welcome. I've said this a thousand times on the Policy on Iran. You've heard it.

You can go back and do a super cut of me telling you. I know where I stand on it. However, there are people, when we put our soldiers and our military in harm's way, that are, rightfully so, very skeptical about doing so. They believe in Fox-Connor's rules of war too. But there are other people out there who are not—they don't care about the issue as much as they care about nihilism and destroying the United States. All I'm getting at with this is: watch who's not analyzing today and watch who is celebrating. There's a difference.

And I want you to ask a question of yourself. Were these people ever with us? Were they ever with us? If you think what happened last night is a good thing, that somehow your children and grandchildren are going to inherit a more prosperous economic country, better health care, better schools, safer streets, a closed border, I'm really sorry, but you're deluded. Folks, before we discuss the results, you know, again, someone asked me in the beginning, hey, can you tell us something good?

No, but I can put a lot of this in context and perspective. Ladies and gentlemen, I promise you, I promise you on my integrity, we have been here before. The irony of this is so have—excuse me—the Democrats. Two Democrat presidents who left office with extremely high approval ratings on the Democrat side. Bill Clinton left office with high approval ratings, even, you know, overall.

They left office with incredibly high approval ratings with the Democrats, got absolutely destroyed in midterm elections. Is this a good thing about last night? Maybe we should have got destroyed. No. But I hope it puts into context that Donald Trump is still the president of the United States for two years. In other words, we still have two out of the three branches of government. You have somewhat conservative appointees to the Supreme Court.

Somewhat. We always got Roberts to worry about, Amy Coney Barrett that haven't been great. But we haven't been total losses at the Supreme Court. And we also have the presidency. And we can take back the House in just two years if we follow the appropriate battle plan and don't take the wrong lessons out of this. There are a lot of lessons, but don't take the wrong ones. Here, I want to—ChatGPT, please compare the losses from Obama and Clinton in the midterms to the losses of President Trump's party last night in the midterms.

Here, show this. I want you to see the numbers. In case you think, like, this is unprecedented, nothing like this has ever happened. Obama and Clinton left office with extremely high approval, extremely high approval, despite getting totally, completely wrecked. Put up that chart. Here was Clinton in '94. 54 House seats lost, 8 Senate seats lost. Here was Obama in 2010. 63 House seats lost. Annihilation. I remember that well.

6 Senate seats lost. Now, this is so far. This is going to get worse. I just want to prepare you. But Trump 2026, at least 18 House seats and at least 7 Senate seats. We'll see what happens in Mississippi and Alaska. The House seats are going to take a while. You get this ranked choice voting. California counts for forever. California will be counting through the presidential. But folks, we are not castrated. Our NADs haven't been cut off. The legislative branch last night, yes, was an election night debacle.

No pig lipstick. But I'm not giving up on my country. Where are you going to go? I don't understand. Like, what are we going to do? Forfeit the country? Like, ah, man, I got kids. I want to have grandkids. We've been here before. Now, again, maybe you listen to the show and you're like, you know, I need a more elder statesman of the party, a limba type. Victor Davis Hanson has been through far more election cycles than I have, although we've been here a long time.

We have been through this before. The Obama re-elect night was a nightmare. I got to tell you, last night, if you watched the show, you could tell. I obviously felt terrible about it. I felt terrible about the results. Nothing compares to the Obama re-elect. I was on the ballot in that election. I could not believe he won re-election. Here's Victor Davis Hanson, though, again, putting this in perspective, that midterm losses for the party in power, they're pretty common. They're never good for the party in power, but they happen a lot. And we still have two of the three branches of government to preserve this beautiful republic we still have.

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There's no doubt that Donald Trump will be impeached. And there's no doubt that everybody around him will be subpoenaed. There will be investigations. He will not be able to get an appointee confirmed by a partisan Senate should he lose it. But if we look at the Clinton-Obama precedents, it didn't bother them a bit. Obama and Clinton both face that.

But at the top of the ticket, we did quite well. I don't know what happened in Texas. But I want to remind you again, folks, we have been on the air as not just a candidate, an activist, since 2015. And I've run for office. I ran for office for the first time in the 2012 election cycle. I want to show you some—these pictures are a little sensitive to me. They're not, like, weird or anything, but they're a little sensitive to me. But I want you to go through this with me because some, not many, but some of you may be new to politics.

You may be first-time Trump voters. You weren't really active in politics before you found this show. A lot of you may have lived through this, but not really have lived through this. For those in the chat, do you remember 2012 election night when just about every Republican was convinced that there was no way Obama would survive re-election? There's no way. Obamacare, total flop. The country was enmeshed in what was the beginning of a DEI woke nightmare. Obama was running around the country with all his "you didn't build that crap" and all this of Bibles, Klingers, and all this other.

People were like, this guy's going to lose. Now, Romney was not a great candidate, but I got to tell you, I was pretty convinced that night at least Romney had a shot. He did not have a shot. He got smoked. Here's a couple pictures of election night. Dan, why are you in a suit with hair? And who is that little one? My daughter had just been born. That's my youngest. I ran for the U.S. Senate that night. And that was about—this is about 11:30 at night.

I believe the race had already been called for Obama. We had lost the U.S. Senate race in deep blue Maryland. And folks, there were about 500 people there in a ballroom who had done a lot for my campaign, just like you did a lot. Came up short. But here's another picture of me. And I just want you to notice I'm still smiling. Because I was happy? No. I had skin in the game. I was on the ballot.

Ask your favorite SI program who ran for Senate on the—who won the Republican primary in Maryland in 2012. You're going to see my name. I wasn't smiling because I was happy. I was smiling because I knew I was alive to fight another day. And then after Barack Obama, we got President Trump. And the rebellion began. I used to urge people in the Obama years after I lost myself. I had skin in the game and not election.

That was a tough night to give that speech. But I did it, and I did it with a smile. I used to ask people to be the unsilent minority. You're the minority in the legislative branch of government right now, by far. But don't be silent about it. I want to show you something else, folks, because you want some perspective and say, well, you know, what do you know about what's really hard, Dan? Well, this is a picture. Kind of a weird picture. Why am I showing you a picture of my neck?

Well, if you're listening on audio, I encourage you to just go check this out on Rumble. That was a picture I—that was a picture I sent to my doctor friend about an hour after shaving, where I noticed I had a big, huge lump on the left side of my neck. I didn't think it was anything. I thought it was, like, a fatty tumor or something. Or I had been doing some grappling the day before, and I gotten choked out, and I thought maybe it was a hematoma or something.

I don't know. I'm not a doctor. I got to tell you, I didn't think anything of it. I just sent it to my doctor friend. And he responded, "Get over here, quick." And I found out I had cancer that night. And it was a bad moment. Most of you, not all of you, but most of you awaken up today without a cancer diagnosis.

Most of you are waking up today without a phone call that your kid was in an accident, got hit by someone in a DWI. Most of you are waking up to really horrendous political news. None of it's good. But folks, perspective and context matter. We'll live to fight another day. Last night did not work out for us. But I promise you, we will live to fight another day.

It is critically important after last night, too, that we do not learn the wrong lesson. This show is never about silencing people's opinions on any issue, from inflation to gas prices to Iran, people's vote, ever. I have a difference of opinion. I've said repeatedly, you are entitled to yours. But none of those problems are about to be fixed at all by the incoming socialist Democrats. I keep bringing this up about learning the wrong lesson because if you haven't heard this story, I want you to remember this.

Everyone in the room was like, "Are you crazy? This is the worst advice I've ever heard. This is the lesson you took from that?" In case you missed it, Donald Trump won the presidency just years later, running on a signature issue of Build the Wall, which he did. Not all of it. He effectively shut down the border, at least in the second term when they got rocking and rolling and finally got rid of the Biden regime and had public support behind them.

I will never forget that night. Actually, it was in the day, that meeting, where that consultant told us that. It is critical we do not learn the wrong lessons from this. We still have two-thirds of the government. We have an opportunity in two years to hold the presidency and win back the House. Why am I not mentioning the Senate? Because folks, I told you the other day, this is the ugly part. I'll give you the—there's no good. I'll give you the bad, the badder, and the ugliest parts of last night. The Senate seats we lost last night and we're now stuck with for six years.

We're stuck. There's nothing you can do. I have a path forward, so. You want a bit of good news? I will give you a little bit of good news. Not related to last night. There's nothing good about last night. But about the future of the party and the country. There is a path forward. And there's a right lesson to take from last night, too. It doesn't do me any good to sit here and tell you, "Oh, this is what went wrong," without saying, "Okay, well, how are we going to fix it?" We clearly fixed it after losing to Obama the second time.

Because folks, the industrialization of America, as I discussed with President Trump yesterday, is a national security issue. If we cannot produce steel and medicines and drones on U.S. soil and relying on foreign partners and shipping lanes that can be taken out, we're going to be in big trouble. But pursuing some trade deals at this point, I think, would be if we can ink a couple and juice the economy to 3 to 5 percent each quarter, President Trump could leave office with 55, 60 percent approval. We're already at those economic growth levels at 3.4.

So anyone telling you the economy is dead and away is just lying to you. There are issues we're getting through. But anyone telling you the economy here is dead is just making that up. That's not true. So we should double down on that. Folks, number two, we can dramatically shrink the government workforce. It's clear at this point, President Trump as the chief executive of the United States government has broad-based powers to shrink the federal workforce. There is zero question among sane voters out there, even across the aisle, with working-class blue-collar Democrats, that government employment is out of control.

The president has done a good job lowering the number of federal employees down to a more reasonable level. We need to now dramatically move forward. You want to talk about a mandate? Well, we'll give a mandate to that. Right now, we've got two years left. It's time to move on that quick. The lame duck session of Congress, where these Republicans—we've still got time—they should take a look at dramatically cutting government spending. No more of this kind of nipping around the edges and this crap. Folks, there should be some dramatic cuts in spending.

Throw the bill out there. Let the Democrats say no. At least get some template moving forward and send a message to the American people that you're serious about cutting spending or this inflation problem is going to be really hard to get rid of. Fourth, move on Second Amendment and pro-life issues. I know there are old kind of establishment folks who are like, "Ah, nobody believes that." No, we believe in that stuff. Are we a constitutional conservative party or not? We've done some great work through regulations, but on the law front, things like constitutional carry.

On the pro-life front with these grotesque abortion drugs, it is time to move on those things. Get it out there. You've got a lame duck session to send a message to people. Well, this is what you missed because this is what they missed. They had the opportunity to do a lot of this stuff, a lot of the Republicans in the House, and they didn't. Next, ladies and gentlemen, this Make America Healthy Again agenda is popular. And that's not—the reason to do something is not because it's popular. The reason to do something in this case is because it's right.

America is moving in a different direction when it comes to health. The days of eating donuts and smoking a cigarette with black coffee for breakfast are over. There are a large swath of voters out there who really care about what's in their food and their kids' food. Like, a lot. They're interested in talking about things like raw milk. Oh, that's not an issue. Really? Go put that in X. Put "I hate raw milk." Watch what happens. This matters to people. It matters to me. I showed you that freaking picture of the damn tumor growing in my neck.

You think I want to die? I'm worried about things like microplastics. Who cares about that? I do. Embrace this MAHA agenda fully. Fully embrace it. Next, ladies and gentlemen, look at the Florida model if you are in the States. Florida was not great last night. We lost some congressional seats. But how the hell is it that my great state of Florida way, way overperformed Texas, Kansas, South Carolina?

Ladies and gentlemen, that doesn't even make sense. The reason it makes sense is because we have had, from Rick Scott to Ron DeSantis, we have had now 16 years of effective leadership where people in Florida are happy with their lives. They don't want to vote for communists. The election was closer than we thought, but a win is a win, especially in this environment. Huge credit to both Rick Scott and DeSantis. I don't get—I don't care about the primary stuff anymore.

I'm just telling you, Byron Donald's won that race because people don't want to change direction in Florida. The Florida model works. What is the Florida model? It's very complicated, Justin. You know what it is? Don't tax people, a lot of their money away. Work on whatever you can with school choice. Keep the freaking liberals and their crap out of your state. Don't trans up the entire state. It's not hard. If you're in a red state and you're not doing this stuff, and you got places like Ohio and elsewhere where some of the leadership there at the state level is really not that conservative, there's going to be somewhat of a backlash.

The Florida model for the States should be your default mechanism. Next, we got to finish the job in Iran. We have to. We have to. There's two options as I see going forward: finish it, finish it quick, or keep control of the strait at this point and move the military operation back here and get the oil out. We have to. A lot of people are pissed off about it. I told you that. Folks, I saw a different data set.

My opinion on the matter has been well vocalized on this show. You're free to agree or disagree. But I would not downplay the opinions of people who care greatly about putting our military men and women in combat. But my opinion on the matter has not changed. I'm not here to lick my finger and see where the winds blow. I have never been, whatever a neocon or whatever label, look at what I—you know, when I ran for office, my positions on stuff. But we've got to finish the job there.

Next, we've got to clean up the tax code. Folks, we have to. Are we going to get a fair tax or a flat tax? We are not. We don't have the votes for that in the lame duck session. We don't. However, we can clean up the tax code significantly and just make it easier so you don't have to pay an accountant $50,000 a year just to figure out how to pay your damn taxes. The regulatory costs alone are bankrupt in Americans. We have an opportunity in the lame duck and then in the next two years do executive orders or tinkering around the edges here.

Couple more. President Trump went to war on government red tape. I mean, went to war on it. He dumped four federal regulations for every new one, and the new federal regulation was only to dump old ones. Let's make that 20. Let's get the federal register of what showerhead you can use, how to flush your freaking toilet, low-flow faucet crap, all that, your air conditioning unit that breaks after 10 minutes. Let's shrink that 50 to 1.

Next, our military. We've got to finance our military for these future fights, folks. The world isn't getting any less dangerous. Drone technology, Golden Dome, hypersonic missiles, space satellite warfare. These are very real threats. You don't want to wake up the day after tomorrow to find out a major American city got hit by a hypersonic missile and say, "Well, what did we do? Nothing." It's time to double down on the restructuring of our military.

And last, lessons to take away from this, and don't—the wrong lessons to not take away, is do not stop the crackdown on crime and the border. Do not stop. That would be completely the wrong lesson from this. There are Americans in blue cities that do not want their kids mugged. They don't want them raped. They don't want their homes invaded. Crime changes everything. Everything. I lived through the New York City—I mean, the murder years in New York City when Rudy Giuliani won reelection as a freaking Republican by 18 points, cracking down on crime.

Do not, do not take your pedal off the gas at the border either. We cannot have 20 more million people enter the country. Well, why would that happen? Folks, if you think for a second now that these Democrats, these lunatics, Talarico and others, El Sayed, that they won, I'm going to go into the bad, the badder, and the ugly because I don't really have a lot of great news for you. I have an agenda. I think we have a good battle plan. I don't have a lot of great news for you last night, but we have been here before. And we will live to fight another day because we have no other choice.

The country's worth saving. That flag over my shoulder represents something greater than you and me. It's a promise you've made to your kids and grandkids. There's no giving up. None. Because this is your alternative. This was a segment I heard driving in this morning on Fox and Friends. Here are the candidates last night after winning the Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota and others. You would think they would say, "Hey, listen, man, it's time to moderate a little bit." Oh, no. They won absolutely crazy last night.

This is the contrast we're going to be dealing with, and even worse when they're sworn in in just two months. Take a look at this.

In other words, the next president, if it's a Democrat, will have four years to shove down your throat Medicare for All, and they mean all. They're not kidding. Oh, assuredly, there's a carve-out in the Bernie Sanders bill for free market insurance. There is not. Any insurance plan that offers similar services to the government-run health care, they're about to shove down your throat like syrup of freaking Ippocac.

Look it up. Makes you throw up. Is illegal. The quote is unlawful. It means the same thing for the liberals listening. You think they're kidding? The night they won, you know they're going to moderate a little bit. Oh, no. Oh, no. So it's important we cover kind of what happened last night. I'll call it the bad, the ugly, and the really ugly because we got to know what we got to fix. And we can't know what we're going to fix if we're unrealistic about what happened.

And again, we do the lipstick pig routine. We're not doing that. Axios had a pretty decent summary last night of the catastrophic losses at just about every level outside of Florida. They said the results speak louder than any words we can write. Democrats won Senate races in Texas, Kansas, South Carolina, Ohio, and perhaps Mississippi, maybe Alaska, en route to a 55-seat majority, which could be 57, which would be a catastrophe. Democrats won swing districts all across red America, with the average margins of victory being roughly 13 points, according to the Times.

Dems appear headed for a 250-seat majority and 18-year high. That's not great. Well, that's going to cause a lot of intra-party warfare on the Dem side. I'll get to that in a second. A lot of shutdowns and things like that. Texas is now a Democratic state. They note this is Axios top to bottom. Unthinkable merely months ago. Talarico won like it was Connecticut. Numbers by State Representative Gina Hinojosa became the first Democratic governor in 32 years. Florida Governor DeSantis predicted on X the losses were so widespread and deep that the Republicans might not have a shot at the Senate until 2032.

North Carolina, a mess last night. Looks like a true blue state after Democrats flipped the Senate seat, likely ousted Hudson, the chair of the NRCC, meaning he led the GOP drive to keep the House. He's out. He may be out too. North Carolina's congressional delegation could swing from 10 Rs, four Democrats, to five Rs and nine Democrats. Georgia was even worse for Republicans where they lost all power at the state and U.S. Senate levels. You're like, that's just the bad part?

Yeah, there's an uglier part. Folks, the ugly part is with 250-plus seats in the House of Representatives, where they only need roughly 218. An impeachment of multiple Trump administration officials is not only likely, but practically guaranteed. Justin popped his head out of the studio and said, "Give me a probability that you think there's going to be impeachments." I said, "100 percent." It reminds me of that line from Zero Dark Dirty. People don't like certainty. Whatever.

99.99 repeating decimal. But I thought the Democrats were in this for affordability. I'm sorry if you fell for that. Now, I mean it. I'm sorry if you believe that. If you're a blue-collar worker, I mean, here, look at this. There's this blue checkmark lady, Sana Ladine. On the campaign, they said affordability and gas prices. They won. Lawyer up. You think they're kidding? No, no, they're going to spend their legislative time up on the hill fixing gas prices and affordability.

The Democrats? Here's just an array of tweets from last night from prominent Democrats, senators, congresspeople. Here's Ed Markey. They're going to need to plant new forests for all the subpoenas we'll be printing. Justin, any mention of affordability in there? Surely on the next one. Congresswoman Delia C, whatever. Kristi Noem, Mark Wayne Mullen, Steve Miller, Tom Homan, Greg Bovino. What's up? Clear your schedule. You think that's about affordability? Gas prices, yeah.

Mark Wayne Mullen can talk about gas prices. Ron Wyden, another lunatic. Subpoenas. That was his tweet. Guy's a senator. Anything about affordability in there? Nothing about affordability at all. Congressman Robert Garcia. Lawyer up. All caps. He just wants to make sure you know. I thought it didn't say affordability in all caps. Congresswoman, whoever, and sorry. Thank you, Mr. President. Our thank you will come in January with subpoenas. Justin says there's surely an egg prices thing in there somewhere.

They talk about egg prices forever. They have 250 seats. Gallons of beef. You saw that, yeah. The beef is not coming in gallons. What was the lady from Nauvoo, right? Anna Navarro, right? Folks, this is kind of the ugly news, but also there is a lipstick pig moment in this. This is so ugly, and there's guaranteed impeachments and subpoenas. They are going to blow up any midterm messaging they had in this presidential where every single day there are people running for president who will start announcing or soft announcing, probably this coming week.

They're going to have to answer every day. How do you feel about the presidential impeachment going on? And they're going to have to defend this while the American people, if the problems aren't fixed, they're going to be like, "Hey, didn't we just vote you guys in on affordability?" Folks, they are going to shut down the government. They are going to push through every single crazy piece of legislation. And the contrast going forward between President Trump stopping the horde of lunatics from taking over the country is going to be profound. It is the only small sliver of lipstick on this massive pig.

Here's the very ugly part. We got some couple pieces of good news at the end, but that was more personal than anything. Here's the very ugly part. This was the DSA, the communists, on their X account, the Democrat Socialist of America, last night. Folks, actual communists are now sitting in state and local and territorial positions. Actual communists that would destroy the United States in a minute. Here's a DSA taking a victory lap. Over 50 DSA victories tonight prove socialism can win in the United States.

This is a real tweet. Workers deserve more in a reality where all of us live with dignity and hope is closer than we think. Just like the Soviet Union, guys. You know that's how that went down. Everybody lived with dignity if they weren't dead or killed or in a gulag. They note, "The job's not done, though. Tomorrow we continue organizing, fighting, and winning for the working class." I told you, these people are an army, not a political party. And you should treat them as such. Now, who's the leading candidate or one of them right now on the Democrat side for the presidency?

Hair gel out in California. Who's run his state into the ground? That's why all these Californians are moving to Texas and New York and screwing up Texas politics too because of Gavin Newsom. Here's Gavin Newsom caught on. I don't know if he knows he's being recorded or not. Hat tip town hall for this one. Here he is. You know, this guy, remember, he's going to run for president. In case you think, "Oh, this is hysterical nonsense, all this stuff." The Democrats, despite all the evidence from their post-campaign win speeches and tweets, they're really going to focus on affordability. They're not going to go full commie in the United States.

Really? Listen to Gavin Newsom at this town hall video. Again, I don't even think he knows he's being recorded. This is some lady, pretending she's a socialist and wants him to go far left. And listen to his answer. He's all for it. Check this out.

And we can't manage the decline. We have to completely reimagine it.

Socialism. I thought we voted for affordability. The Soviet Union was very affordable because everybody died from starvation. That was it. It was affordable in death. Gravesites. They throw you in the backyard. Folks, this is the very ugly part. I believe we have an actual national security threat getting ready to be sworn in in the United States Senate too. I think you know where I'm going with this.

I have more on this coming up in a second. And this fraud, Rokhana, this absolute fraud, the biggest phony fake clown in Congress, is out there now celebrating that wokeism is back. Is this what you voted for? I thought it was affordability. All they're talking about is lawyers, subpoenas, woke being back, and celebrating communism in the United States. This is what they're talking about. This isn't moderating after game day. Who's celebrating this?

Donald, look, I know. You struggled with my name. So after JD swears me in in January, you could just go on and call me Senator.

The guy is a freaking national security threat. His family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood are beyond disturbing. That is a terror group, for those of you who don't know, committed to the destruction of the infidels. I don't care what podcaster Stan told you. I told you they're not on our side, meaning us, meaning the United States. This guy is a national security threat.

You want to talk about the very ugly? I'm concerned, and you should be too. I didn't spend decades in the government trying to protect both Democrats and Republicans to have a guy like this getting classified national security briefings. Sorry. You're not teaching anyone a lesson with this guy. Or this guy too. I thought this election was about, again, affordability and gas prices. Remember the eggs or whatever? They were always complaining about eggs. This is Rokhana, the biggest fraud in the House of Representatives.

I can't stand this guy. He is one of the most dangerous members of Congress because he's so full of it's unbelievable people fall for this guy's routine. He's out there trying to pretend to be some bridge-building moderate. And I told you, he was the biggest cancel culture guy after January 6th, Rokhana. Go look it up. And he claimed to be the free speech guy. This guy is like Dave Jolly, the guy who ran for governor in Florida. He will tell you anything. He'll tell you he's a freaking Tea Party guy if he thinks it'll get him elected. He claims he goes on Fox and pretends he's like the moderate guy.

Here he is celebrating DEI is back. That was his actual tweet. Here's the video he put with it. Check this out.

No, no, no, no, no. Folks, we fought way too hard for this stuff. You want cancel culture back? It's coming. You want DEI back? It's coming. Folks, I lived through it. I was in the first dump of the Twitter files. I was banned by YouTube and Google and every single woke organization on planet Earth. I lived through this. So did my production team. No. We're not going back to that. We're not going back to that.

You want to see something even more disturbing? Because we haven't focused on a lot of state-level races. Do you remember this clip we played a while ago of a candidate in Queens, New York? Folks, that was my home. It's also where Donald Trump called home. I grew up in Queens, New York. When I was a kid there, it was an amazing place. This is a New York State Senate candidate speaking a while ago who won her race last night from Queens, New York, Aber Kawas.

Here she is talking about terror attacks and 9/11 in the United States with the couple of people did something. Yeah, they did. They murdered 3,000-plus innocent people and nearly tried to decimate the United States economy, national security situation, create a national security and public safety nightmare we're still living with. They definitely did something. Won the race last night for a New York State Senate seat in Queens. Check this out.

policy or the policies in Europe. And so I find that we can connect over that, but then also that the idea that we have to apologize for like a terror attack that like a couple of people did, and then there is no apologies or reparations for genocides and for slavery, et cetera, is something that I kind of find like reprehensible.

He had a different political opinion than you? Scott Galloway, the reason I play this clip, I mentioned him before. This guy is a mainstream figure on the left. That doesn't mean he's not crazy. The idea is he says here we're nuts. I'm telling you, like he's accepted as like a mainstream guy. Hillary Clinton and them love him. He's not like some fringe guy. Oh, avoid that guy. This guy speaks for a large swath of the Democrat Party. He said this publicly on stage. This guy comments on business and other stuff.

This is probably the craziest quote from last night. But notice the reaction from the host in the audience. It's not horror. The reaction's like, yeah, this is kind of acceptable. Listen to this.

If the Democrats, again, I say again because this is their thing, want to embrace Antifa, President Trump is still the chief law enforcement officer in this country. And I know for a fact because I was involved in the first successful Antifa prosecutions in U.S. history, you're going to start inciting violence and go to the streets again, start beating the snot out of people. You're going to jail. What the hell is he implying there? Seems pretty clear. I told you I would leave you with a little bit of good news because there actually was some last night on the ballot measures front.

There was very little good news. Even in Florida, we did lose some congressional seats, and the races were a little closer than we would have liked. However, Florida historically did perform that way before President Trump, Rick Scott, and then DeSantis, who had won big. But Florida races were always close. Again, it's not a lipstick thing. It's just true. So I hope we're not back to that. But Florida lost some seats too, but ultimately, Florida did seem to be a bulwark against insanity. I can't believe Texas fell. I'm really kind of stunned by that. I mean, especially with Talarico, who was one of the worst candidates I've ever seen.

But the ballot initiatives last night were important because, again, folks, everyone out there telling you like, oh, people voted for socialism and communism. Yes, the fringe Islamo-radicals and communists did. But there are other people out there who are not as deeply enmeshed in politics like you are. They really believe that they were voting for Democrats to change things on affordability. They're about to get it good and hard, and it ain't going to feel good. There's not going to be any you get the point. It's raw.

Raw. You're about to get it. But proving to you that the country is not crazy. In other words, don't forfeit the country. Yeah, it was a bad election night. We've been through this before. We all lived through 2020 together. We remember that whole mess with the ballot mail-ins and all that crap. Pennsylvania. We lived to fight another day. And what happened? We won. Because there's nothing else to do.

The flag over my shoulder is a promise. It's a promise, not a suggestion. Remember that? That was election night. That was Producer Jim and I smiling. That was me interviewing Congressman Nasty who was on the show last night. That was us celebrating, folks. 500,000 people watched that night. We had a good night. There's Kyle G from College of Reports and Don Julio. I remember that shot went down hard.

I'm not really used to like shooting straight tequila. Like they usually a little bit of soda and marijuana. We came back and won. Don't tell me we haven't been here before. We were here in 2020, just six years ago. And we came back and won. I'm not giving this I'm not giving the play I'm not forfeiting to the lunatics. Here's just a quick hit from Fox last night on ballot initiatives. Ballot measures last night, men and women sports, we did really well. Guys in the women's room out.

Men and women sports lost. We had some great moves in North Carolina and Ohio on voter ID. Only citizens can vote. Looks really good in Arkansas, Kansas, South Dakota, and West Virginia. Here's Fox about the men and the women's room and men and women sports issue. Folks, even in states we got annihilated like Ohio, voters still said, nah, we're not doing that. The Democrats are going to try to do it, and the voters are going to be like, wait, we just voted against that. I thought this was about affordability. Check this out.

That measure has not yet been called either. Arizona's Prop 318 has been called. The state already barred biological boys from playing in girls' sports. This approved measure will now include intramural sports, private leagues. It will also bar biological girls from playing on boys' teams. More states are also greenlighting voter ID proposals. In Arkansas, only U.S. citizens who show a form of photo ID and are 18 years old can vote. In North Carolina, a photo ID is required for mail-in ballots.

In Ohio, voters approved a measure to add voter ID requirements to the state's constitution. That will make it harder for the state government in the future to repeal them. West Virginia changed the language and now specifies that only U.S. citizens are allowed to vote in elections.

It's good to have you here. I knew people would show up because they want an explanation too. You are extremely politically informed. You're actually I say this as a compliment and not a backhanded one. You're actually the worst judge of a political environment because like, how the hell could they do that? How could the wealth tax in California, which looks like it's going to go down in flames, how does Florida pass an amendment that needed 60% of vote against property taxes and then we simultaneously do bad in candidate races?

The answer is because a lot of these Democrat candidates are just really good at messaging BS. Socialism's not gulags. It's free stuff. Who doesn't like free stuff? And you're like, that sounds dumb. It sounds dumb to you because you're really smart on the issues. There are people out there who saw a campaign commercial. They're like, government-free healthcare. That sounds great. I don't have to pay for healthcare anymore. Oh, I told you. You think that's true. You're going to get it good and hard. Raw.

Even California, the country is not crazy. We had a lot of candidate issues. The messaging was not great. Certainly, I could argue strongly the SAVE Act and now pushing harder on that. And that did not come from the White House. The president pushed as hard as he could. I mean, the only true social posted about it over 100 times. But ladies and gentlemen, we still have two years left. I got up this morning, and I bet a lot of you know I post that X post every morning, right?

I put the date outside of like solemn days and things like that. It's November 4th. Streets are safer, borders secure, reindustrializing America again. You know what I added this morning? And Donald J. Trump is still your president. We still have the ideological balance in the courts. The legislative branch of government was a wash last night. Are we going to just sit back for the next two years, let them destroy our businesses, our kids, our education system? I'm not.

I'm not doing any of that. And you're not either. You wouldn't be here this morning. It's the biggest crowd we've had in forever. You wouldn't be here this morning if you woke up this morning giving up. Folks, I'm going to tell you something, and you guys, Justin, you and G lived through this. We had some of the largest amount of interest in my show, I'm trying to say this the right way, was after really bad nights like 2020, where people were just looking for answers and how to dust off.

I love to deal with Greenland, but I'm not moving there. I'm not moving to Canada. I'm not moving to Mexico. I'm staying right here. And the sun's out today in Florida. And I'm going to tell you something too. Last night was bad news. But I just want to repeat again after showing you that picture of my neck. Many of you in the chat have been there. Some of you in this chat out of this 60-plus thousand people.

And God bless you with strength. I've lost kids, spouses, parents to diseases. Some of you have lost friends to horrific crimes. Some of you know friends who've had their homes invaded while they were home. That's bad news. Last night was political bad news. There's an open wound, but we can treat it. We have antibiotics. We have stitches. It's going to be painful.

We're going to have to stop the bleeding. Got that clot powder, whatever they have. But we have the tools to do it. Now we just have to get up, dust off, and do it. And pay very close attention to the people celebrating this today. I hope going forward that now a lot of you will see what we were warning you about. They're not on your team. They never were. All right, we still do our comment of the day. This is always some good news. So we give away once a week, which should help hopefully someone out there.

$1,776. We pick a comment of the day every day, and then we select the weekly winner from that pool. The official rules at bongino.com/1776. The comment of the day, the day after election day today, is Rich Amash. Never surrender. Never give up. It's not who we are. It's not what we do. Thank you, Rich, and thank you, Rush. We don't give up.

They don't give up. We don't give up either. Folks, thanks again for tuning in. Thanks again for tuning in last night. I really appreciate it. We were a top 20 stream. Thanks to you. We appreciate you being here. Going to be a rough couple of weeks. We'll get through it. We've been here before. Make sure you check out Sean's show at 1 o'clock today, all times Eastern. rumble.com/sean. You saw Vince this morning. Had a huge crowd at 8:00 a.m. rumble.com/vince. Haley at noon. You can download the free Rumble app, or you can watch on the web, rumble.com/bongino.