The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 844 It’s On!

Episode Date: November 6, 2018

Summary: In this episode I address the biggest surprises in this critical Election Day period. I also address the ramifications of a divided government and the importance of gubernatorial races to you. Finally, I address some criticisms of my George Papadopoulos interview.    News Picks: Which Senate seats could flip?   A host of reasons to vote for Republicans.   The ten key races to watch.   It all comes down to Florida.    More people died from drug overdoses than from car accidents in 2017.   Here’s a detailed transcript of my interview with George Papadopoulos.   Police unions and police officers often clash when it comes to politics.   Socialists want to limit your ability to escape their high-tax dreams.   Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Dan Bongino Show. Get ready to hear the truth about America with your host, Dan Bongino. Yes, the day has finally arrived, ladies and gentlemen. Yep. Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show. I am extra stoked to be on the air. I mean that. That's not like some goofy radio thing. Producer Joe, how are you on this fine day? It's the day. Where are you going after the show to do what vote baby darn right he is in the in the blue state of maryland that has a republican governor and hopefully gets re-elected folks a lot going on before i get into the show i just

want to tell you just this quick story so you understand how important my 10 10 and 10 rule is today it is not good enough for you to vote yourself. You need to get 10 of your friends to the polls. I don't care how you do it. Facebook, social media, email, phone call, drive them, carry them. I don't care what you need to do. You can't drag them. That would be against the law, but you can get them there voluntarily if they can't get a ride. Find 10 friends. This is important. This is critical. I have done my duty. I have contacted my 10, well, maybe eight because Joe technically doesn't count, but I got to get two more. I have been in the gym. Folks, if you know me and you

know me from the gym, that's the only place I go. I never leave my house anymore, right? How many people in the gym who listen to me, you're winking and nodding, have I told you, did you vote? Did you vote? Did you vote? They like me from fox news joe and even they don't want to talk to me anymore because they're afraid i'm going to ask them if they voted again you gotta vote it is election day now just a quick story to show you how you i know you listen to the show right and you all know oh it's election day everybody knows that no they don't. Joe, remember Brian Murphy from Maryland ran against Bob Ehrlich? You remember Brian, right?

Yeah, sure did. He was like the sub-star. I knew Brian well. He was my campaign chairman. He told me a fascinating story once about a midterm election I never, ever forgot. He said he owns a Smith Island bakery. They make these really cool Smith Island, you know, Smith Island cakes, right? They're delicious. So he owns this bakery

and he was talking about a midterm gubernatorial election in Maryland when Larry Hogan was running for the first time, the Republican against Democrat Anthony Brown. And one of his employees in the bakery, it was like the biggest thing in Maryland. Or so we thought. Because he says to one

of his employees, he's like, hey, you voting today? The guy's like, for who? He's like, the governor. And the guy goes, who is the governor? Bob Ehrlich? Folks, Bob Ehrlich hadn't been the governor for eight years. The guy who worked for him had no idea. I'm not knocking the guy.

I'm not. People work for a living. They do stuff. Politics is my job. The point I'm trying to make to you is don't assume because you are an informed active uh you know political person who stays involved with the issues in the elections that your neighbor knows too don't assume that people have lives they work they have problems they have jobs they have kids some people may have no idea that's why I'm telling you call your friends hey do you vote um

I don't think I'm registered. Well, a lot of them have game day registration. Go take them to the polls. Get them voting, please. Here's one more story. I was at a campaign rally a long time ago up in Maryland. I think it was for Kathy's leg. I don't even remember.

And there was a member of the NRA there who gave a number. And forgive me, I don't have the exact number. But the speech was staggering. He said something like there are, you know, I don't know, X number of gun owners in the United States. I don't know, whatever, 30, 40 million. I don't know. I'm not going to give you the exact number. But he said, shockingly, something like 10% of them aren't even registered to vote. That's 3 million people or something like that. Even if the number was 5 million or 1 million, a million people who

are gun owners are not voting against people who are trying to take away their firearm rights, like Stacey Abrams, the gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, who can't even say on CNN if she'll disavow gun confiscation. Folks, please do not assume everybody in your neighborhood knows go find 10 people and get to the polls this is a critical election all right sorry about that Ehrlich story but I never forgot that the guy goes isn't Bob Ehrlich the governor Bob Ehrlich had been the governor of Maryland for eight years eight years the guy had no idea there was even an election all right folks today's show brought to you by buddies at my patriot supply wely. We're in a season of change, and sometimes that's not good. Markets swing hundreds of points, weather disasters are weekly events in our new headlines,

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All right, let's get right into it. So folks, a couple of things that have changed since early voting began. There's a great article at the Washington Examiner that the gist of it being, listen, the political chaos and the insanity went right up to the last minute. Some of you early voted may have missed this, but some of you who haven't voted yet are listening to this show and are on the fence about voting Republican or not, I want to point out to you a few stories that have changed in just the last few days that hopefully will influence your opinion in the direction of the GOP candidates. My recommendation is straight GOP, not because the GOP is the answer to all of your problems, but the cause of all your problems is most certainly the Democrats. I don't know any other easier way to sum that up on a T-shirt or a mug than that.

The GOP is not the answer to all of your problems. The Democrats and liberalism is most assuredly the cause of it. Straight red. The GOP is the club for me. That was so cheesy, brother. That was like captain cheese that was my my daughter watched the avengers like the second avengers movie when they're like jumping to fight the other guys and they all leap together in slow-mo and she's like that's the cheesiest scene ever that's up

there that line is the cheesiest one up there with the avengers thing it was intentional cheese though i know what you were doing i know the army so don't email me Joe was being, I know it, I get it. I can see him. All right. A couple things that have changed. Number one, the Kavanaugh accusers. Remember Joe? He was a gang rapist, the train rapist, the car rapist.

I mean, every kind of rapist. He raped me in a car. There were all these people out there. I had warned you that there was very little, if any, evidence and that everyone has the right to be taken seriously, but you do not have the right to be believed. We have a court system for that. Then any accusation could put someone in jail for any reason. And I had said over and over, if everyone has the right to be believed, then I ask you the question, are there any circumstances

where people should not be believed? And liberals look at you. I asked that at the Politicon event that was at Joe. The lady looked at me and was like perplexed. Like she didn't have an answer to the question. If everyone has the right to be believed, is there any circumstance where that right to be believed should be challenged? And she looked at me really puzzled like she hadn't thought of that. Everyone has the right to be taken seriously as they should and their accusations. That's why we have a judicial process. What's the Everyone has the right to be taken seriously as they should in their accusations. That's why we have a judicial process.

What's the problem with the right to be believed? Some people couldn't produce any evidence that their stories were in fact true. And now two of the accusers of Brett Kavanaugh, Joe, have now since retracted their stories after, by the way, trying to ruin the man's life, putting these stories out in public that his kids are going to read forever.

They have now since retracted and are looking at FBI investigations for perjury. That has broken since early voting started. So for those of you who object to the Democrats' atrocious disgust, and the media, by the way, they get no pass. NBC News putting Julie Swetnick on, CNN putting Avianti on all the time, CPL, creepy porn lawyer putting him on. They are not absolved of any responsibility here either. I suspect you're going to see more people retract these stories as well as the threat of an FBI investigation for perjury presents itself.

The Kavanaugh accusers. Now, this is a Washington Examiner piece in the show notes today about these revelations since early voting started. I encourage you to read it if you're in any way on the fence. Secondly, the economy. We had a booming, booming jobs report that even Jared Bernstein, one of Obama's key economic advisors, has come out and conclusively said was overwhelmingly positive. I didn't say that wrong. It was an Obama economic advisor under the Obama administration, worked for the vice

president, Biden and others. 250,000 jobs produced, wages, real wages going up. I told you what the liberal, wages aren't going up. Yeah, they went up 3%. Well, real wages aren't going up indexed against inflation. Actually, they are. Real wages went up 1%. You're just making all this up, liberals. I told you how it was going to go down. A guy emailed me and said the liberal used that exact argument against him and he was fully prepared. That's what I do. That's what I do. I prepare you for liberal nonsense. The liberal's new argument,

well, the last 20 months of the obama administration produced more jobs yeah not full-time jobs who produced more full-time fte full-time equivalent jobs donald trump by 1 million over obama and then you say oh well don't the jobs matter not the full-time jobs well not according to the democrats because when you read donna brazil's emails the former head of the democrat party jo Joe, during the campaign, she emailed people on the Hillary campaign complaining about what? How the Obama administration was creating jobs, but they were crap jobs. They were part time jobs that couldn't be supported because of the crap economy. That's the Democrats talking.

So when your liberal friends say, well, Obama created more jobs during the last year than Trump, you fire right back. Really? Because we're talking about full-time equivalent jobs, good jobs, quality jobs that can support people, families, support a home mortgage payment, a new car, a nice Christmas, some holidays. When you're talking about real jobs, Donald Trump smokes Obama by a million. Oh, but jobs, Matt, it's not just full-time just full time okay maybe you should tell that to the dnc who clearly in their own emails understood that the obama jobs were not were not full-time equivalent jobs they were part-time jobs i made bad choices you sure did that was perfect you i didn't even have to signal that usually i give them a look like i'm ready for nice. That was really. Thank you. Full-time equivalent jobs matter. And one more thing.

If you really believe that, well, Obama created more jobs in the last 20 months, and that's your theory on it, then why at the end of the Obama administration were 60 to 70% of Americans saying we were headed in the wrong direction as a country because they were working twice as hard for less money in jobs that they couldn't get ahead. That's now changed with the Trump administration where the numbers right direction, wrong direction are 60% in the right direction. Folks, I prepare you on this show for liberal arguments. Be prepared with the data and you cannot lose. Full-time equivalent jobs,

Trump smokes Obama. Right direction, wrong direction, smokes Obama. And the Democrats themselves acknowledge that a lot of the Obama jobs created were not good quality jobs that could support families. In their own emails.

That's changed. The economic report. A DHS report's come out in the last week and a half since early voting started. That upwards of 270 people in this caravan, not an insignificant number now that it's shrunk, are hardened criminals trying to enter the country. There's also been some allegations that they are preparing some kind of Molotov cocktails. This is in the Washington Examiner piece. You don't have to take my word for it.

Just read the piece. And that there's some talk of putting women and children at the front of the line, the caravan, in case there's a conflict. Wait, what? So you want to provoke a conflict between women and children, using them as human shields? As you're trying to claim asylum against violence you're fleeing is that what we're is that what we're doing is that where we're going with this

now read that report if that doesn't sway you i don't know what will another thing that's happened facebook at it again i know this always stirs some controversy on my show. I told you there's fertile ground for actual government regulation here. That is not big government. That is fair. Is the FEC. Why the hell is Facebook censoring political ads again? Facebook knocking down pro-life ads by the Susan B. Anthony list.

Knocking down pro-life ads by Marsha Blackburn. Folks, I told you, sell your stock in this company. I can't stand it. I cancel your account. I'm trying to find a way out of this, but it's tough to keep my audience without it at this point. It's tough. In the content creation business, it's tough to get off.

It's not as easy as it sounds. There are contracts and things. It's not as easy for me to do it because it's tough to get off. It's not as easy as it sounds. There are contracts and things. It's not as easy for me to do it because it's bound up in contract. I can't explain too much, but I assure you it's not hypocrisy on my part. It's just not that simple. Facebook, censoring ads again. You put the Democrats in power, you think Facebook is catering to conservatives? They can't stand conservatives.

They get the liberals in power, they're going to love it. Finally, we've seen epidemic, grotesque, disgusting, level 10 attacks by the media again on the identity politics stuff. I could go on all day with it. I'm just going to use one example, the hapless Don Lemon at CNN just a few days ago, suggesting that the real problem in this country is white men, white men doubling down right before election on hatred, pure racial hatred and division. This is what you can expect two to four years of if the Democrats win. This will not stop. Send a message.

Get out there. Take 10 of your friends. Absolutely no excuses. Okay. Joe, you have that voicemail queued up? Yeah, man. Folks, this is on a little bit of a lighter note. This is the funniest thing.

I usually don't play lighthearted stuff. I don't want to waste your time, but this is worth it. Because, again, it speaks to how my experiences, I'm not going to get into them again, but my experiences running for office with the media are different than a lot of people's. When you run incredible races and the Baltimore Sun

and the Washington Post reach out to you, you get a really deep flavor for how pathetic and frankly, how stupid a lot of reporters are. I'm sorry, folks. I mean, they're just ignorant. When I say stupid, it's probably a harsh word. Ignorance probably, but they just don't know anything. They've never had real jobs. They talk about things like they know them. Yesterday's show touched a lot of people. Paula and I,

she wanted me to relay this to you. She comes in, I'll put her on the mic herself. She can say it, but she wanted you to know how much your emails mean to her, especially from former addicts. We love you, man. You listen to yesterday's show, you'll know what I mean. We love you. I'm not kidding. Big Al love you, man. You're fighting a fight.

I know it. Thank you. Those emails are so touching. Paula wanted me to tell you she deeply apologized. We can't answer every one, but I assure you, we read them. Also, the emails about people, we read them. Also, the emails about people getting out and voting. Thank you. Thank you so much. That saying I inspired you to vote, thank you. I don't need the credit, but thank you for doing that. Thank you.

God bless you. Big G, God bless you. But on this issue with the media, folks, the media bias is at epidemic levels. I was relaying some stories yesterday. I don't want to get into too many of my personal ones. That's how that started. But again, my experience with the media was atrocious, complete ignoramuses. They were not addicts. They were not manual laborers, a lot of them. They have been journalism students since they're 18 and have no experience in the real world. And I'm telling you, many of them quietly revile you. They cannot stand you. I'm sorry. Now, one of these loons in the media called a superstar candidate for the United States Senate in Michigan who get out and vote John James today.

Also, I don't believe Missouri has early voting for, so make sure you vote Josh Hawley in Missouri. Superstar candidate in John James, who happens to be black, which means less than zero to me or Joe, but to the left, apparently black skin means everything. Joe, unless you're a Republican, right? That's right, Dan.

Right? Now that he's a black Republican, let's focus on Beto. Beto, who's not even Hispanic in Texas. Let's focus on Beto and the interest of diversity. His name is Robert Francis O'Rourke. But let's ignore in our identity politics thing, a black American superstar in John James, West Point grad, running for Senate, who's going to pull off an upset, I hope. So what happens?

This woman from the media I hope. So what happens? This woman from the media calls him. It's so great. It's the greatest story ever. She leaves a voicemail trying to set up an interview for Wednesday after election day, right? She tries to set up an interview. She thinks she hangs up, But listen to what happens at the end. Play the cut. Hi, my name is Brenda Battle. I'm a reporter with the Huron Daily Tribune in Bad Axe, Michigan. Looking to set up an appointment with Mr. James for some time on Wednesday for a phone interview regarding the election results.

on Wednesday for a phone interview regarding the election results. I'm probably going to send an email over to the info at johnjamesforsenate.com with some details. If you'd like to call me back, my number is 989. Thank you. Man, if he beats her. Jesus. Jesus. F***ing John James. Man, if he beats her Jesus F***ing John James That would suck

Ladies and gentlemen How is this not the greatest email In the history of humankind This is the greatest Voicemail, I'm sorry This is the greatest email in the history of humankind? This is the greatest, voicemail, I'm sorry. This is the greatest thing I have ever heard. This is so funny. She calls it Brenda Battle, whatever her name is. She forgets to hang up.

This is the meat. Ladies and gentlemen, I wouldn't play it again and waste your time. I know we're trying to be lighthearted, but I'm telling you, this is my experience with media people. They are totally unserious, hardcore liberals who don't understand economics, our military, law enforcement, health care. And yet they write about it as if they're authorities. You hear what she said to Joe, by the way? There was a redaction for her phone number.

Obviously, we don't want people calling her. But the reason that sounded joke was nice enough to cut out the redaction and the actual video was long because she must like spell it out twice. Yeah, we tighten it up. Yeah. Yeah. Joe tightened it up for you. But at the end, she goes, she uses the Lord's name. And Jesus, she goes, F and John James.

That would suck if you want. I mean, this is the media. Folks, this is what you're running against. This is what you're running. That's why I played it at the end of those reasons you need to get out and vote if you didn't early vote and you're on the fence. This is the media. We have a West Point grad,

an educated, hardworking, I mean, like, the epitome of the American dream, John James, who the love affair with identity politics apparently doesn't carry over if you're a Republican like John. And what does the media lady say? That would suck.

That would suck. You hear how she said? Rewind that. Listen to it. You'll get a kick out of it. That would suck. There's your media, folks. That's what you're running against.

All right. I got a couple other things to address. I want to talk about some key races, some implications. If we lose, you know, I want to give you both sides. Also,

I want to talk about some analysis out there. My Papadopoulos interview where I think people, there's, there's a couple who are analyzing this thing. And I, I think they're nuts. I mean, nothing personal, but they're like, Oh, Papadopoulos was a plant for the for the government and wait

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All right. Couple more things before we get to key races. Got a lot of stuff, Joe. We may go a little over today. I got a little about to pack in. If we lose, I don't think we will. I've already given you my prediction. I think we hold the house by a slim margin. I also believe we significantly pad in the Senate three to five potential seats. I'm going to predict we

win in Florida. I'm going to predict we win in Florida in the gubernatorial. I'm going to predict we win in the Senate based on my experience out there and talking to people, activists listening to people's emails. I think Florida, we are in good shape. Get out and vote. No excuses. Having said that, if we lose, it is a possibility. Again, I am not a magician. I wish I was sometimes. Divided government by a slim margin is not the disaster people are making it out to be. Of course, we want to win. I say divided government because I'm absolutely confident we're going to keep the Senate and pad our lead there. There is a chance we lose the House. I think if we lose it, we lose it by a very slim margin. Now, I just want you to remember not to take the edge off it.

Get out and vote. Please, get out and vote. But remember, the Reagan administration was dealing with the Democrat House the entire time and got some major stuff pushed through. Trump is such a powerful figure there's a chance we can still push push push through some reforms i'm just telling you don't like you know don't tomorrow if we lose by one or two see oh it's oh it's not over it's not the apocalypse okay nothing's ever over nothing's over till you're dead what did i tell you that

that that quote um that uh an enemy is not vanquished until he believes himself to be. All right. You're not vanquished and done until you believe you're vanquished and done. I'm never done. There's no done. There are new rules. We win, you lose. We lose today, we win tomorrow.

That's the new rules. I'm not done. You're not done. We're never done. There's no done. There is no done. There's only the fight. That's all you have.

That's why I named my second book that. I meant it. The fight. That's all you have. That's why I named my second book that. I meant it. The fight. That's all you have. Finish the race. Keep the faith. Love, Paul. Secondly, even Bill Clinton under divided government. Yes, Bill Clinton, folks. Sometimes we have to acknowledge policy successes. Granted, they were largely pushed by Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress, but a divided government with a Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress, but a divided government with a Newt Gingrich Congress and Bill Clinton presidency. We got welfare reform,

and we had the percentage of government spending in our lives cut back dramatically. So don't, I'm just trying to tell you, regardless of what happens, there's no done. There is no done. All you have is the fight. What defines you is the fight. The sacrifices you're willing to make. Remember's no done. There is no done. All you have is the fight. What defines you is the fight. The sacrifices you're willing to make. Remember Malibu. I hate quotes because they're

for lazy people, but this quote matters. We all live two lives. The one we learn from and the one we live after that. The path to true happiness is only through suffering. What life are you in? Are you still learning or did you learn in 2016 and then you're in the life after that now you don't understand now 2016 the fight started if you thought 2016 the day after election day we won it's over oh boy are you wrong you're still learning for those of you in life number two who now live the life you learn from and are living the one after that as malamud said and have embraced the suffering it takes to enact long lasting change and fight for liberty. You understand this never ends. It doesn't end today.

It doesn't end tomorrow. Get your 10 friends. Get to the polls today. No excuses. Tomorrow we win. Great. You know when the fight starts, Joe? Tomorrow, even if we hold the house.

Have a glass of wine tonight then. Then get up tomorrow morning, drink that morning recovery stuff we have. It's great stuff, right? They didn't even pay for today, but it's true. And get back in the fight tomorrow. I'm not kidding. There's no done. There's no doneness. Put the doneness in the done bin. There's no done. There is only the fight. You to sacrifice man you know that you know that another reason to get out and vote the democrats are talking about changing the rules again joe they lost the presidential they didn't like the popular vote tally uh well they liked it but they didn't like how it worked out they didn't like the electoral college trump was a russian traitor i've had enough of this ladies and gentlemen now ezra klein a famous vox looney tune who just constantly attacks the constitutional republic put out a tweet yesterday

this folks it's it it's almost so it's sad it really is i don't mean to let it's tragically said these are the these are anti-democratic loons who write for far left sides whenever they lose they want to change the system right ezra klein put out a tweet suggesting joe that if they lose the quote house popular vote in other words for the house of representatives i say that because i've never heard of the house i don't even know what that is if they lose the house popular vote and they don't win or if they win the house excuse me if they win the house popular vote and they don't win a house majority that like something's got to change after that ladies and gentlemen i don't even know what ezra klein is talking about there is no joe let me ask you

something when you go to vote for your congressman in your district, does your race matter to the congressional race in Nebraska? Uh, no. No, no, no. Let me just be clear on this.

You are not a civics teacher, correct? I am not a civics teacher. You are not a constitutional lawyer. I am not a constitutional lawyer. But you know this, right? You are aware of this, that Joe's vote

in Maryland Congressional District, whatever district he's in, whatever it may be, has no impact whatsoever. Forget that joe's joe doesn't joe doesn't vote maryland district district six i know he does because i know where he lives but that area is split so i he doesn't his vote matters in his did is this is this hard for ezra klein to figure out man these guys so now they're talking about in other words the national house popular vote which is Is this hard for Ezra Klein to figure out? Man. These guys. So now they're talking about, in other words, the national house popular vote, which is not a thing.

It's like fetch from Mean Girls, folks. It's not a thing. You can't make it a thing. There is no house popular vote. The reason, oh, this is so dumb. This is so dumb. The dumbness of this is so dumb that I'm dumber telling you this. The whole purpose, ladies and gentlemen,

to the legislative branch of government, having two senators and a house of representatives was federalism. State interests were protected in the Senate. Local interests were protected in a house of representatives dependent on population. What the hell is this guy talking about the house popular vote? There is no national house popular vote. None. The reason he's doing this is because the left is obsessed with the idea

of a direct democracy. You may say, oh, that sounds great. Does it really? You want people in California voting away your farm rights in Wisconsin? Oh no, I don't want that. Okay, that's why we have a constitutional republic, folks, and not a direct democracy. We have a representative democracy, not a direct one. And that representative democracy protects local interests

against a federal government absolutely determined to take away your money, your freedom, your healthcare, and everything else because the people in California, some of them, and a lot of people in New York believe in big government. This is what you're voting against. The tyranny of the majority. That Ezra Klein wants to change it. He wants a House popular.

I've never heard of an idea so stupid in my life. The House of Representatives is already population-based. Does he not know that? Oh my gosh, these liberal writers are, so the ignorance there is, it's epic. It's like, it's exponential. All right, some races to watch, House races,. I'm not going to go too deep. I just want to tell you why they're important. And some of them are going to close early. So they're important because they speak to larger issues. important because Democrats have a significant voter advantage in that race over the GOP. Yet Andy Barr has done a very good job staying in that seat as a Republican. It matters because Rand Paul actually lost that congressional district. Rand Paul in the Senate race.

But Donald Trump won it. Andy Barr has aligned himself with Trump in the conservative agenda. Folks, you got to get out and vote for him. If he loses, this race matters, Kentucky 6, because it will be used by the Democrats as what, Joe? A repudiation of Trump. Look, look, look, he aligned himself with Trump and he lost.

I'm just saying. Virginia 10, Barbara Comstock, Jennifer Wexton. Why does this matter? Barbara Comstock, you know, again, are we talking about the most diehard conservatives here? No. Are we talking about far better alternatives? Hell yeah. Why does this race matter?

It's Virginia suburbs. We've having some trouble in the suburbs. Why we're having trouble in the suburbs is largely due, I believe, to the media's nonstop focus on false allegations of racism, phobophobic, istaphobism, and everything else, and Trump being a potential Russian traitor. Nonsense media stories, for some reason, are taking holds in the suburbs. This is a suburb race. Virginia 10. Comstock needs to pull it out.

She's trailing in the polls. Get out and vote. California 48. Rohrabacher harley ruda why does this matter roerbacher's been in that seat a while the gop outnumbered dems outnumbered democrats in the district but hillary won the district meaning we are going to need massive turnout. Get out there, California. Iowa won. Rod Blum. Abby Finkenauer. Trump's the first person to win. Iowa won.

It's a Democrat-leaning district. Held by a Republican now. Rod Blum. Good guy, by the way. Trump's the first person to win that congressional district, Joe, since Eisenhower. Again, it's going to speak to the power of Trump. If you support the president, the conservative agenda, you're in Iowa. Get out and vote.

Rod Blum's your guy. Again, if he loses, it'll be considered a repudiation of Trump. Not saying that's accurate. I'm just saying the media hates Trump. They're not interested in the truth. They're only interested in taking down Trump. Florida 26, Carlos Cabello and Marcus L.

Powell. Why does this district matter? It is dominated by Hispanic voters. Hillary won there overwhelmingly by double digits. Cabello's ahead in the polls, the Republican. Again, are we talking diehard conservatives? No. Is he a far better fit for that

district and a pretty gifted politician for his district? Yes. What, are you going to vote for the other one? You can't vote for the for the Mercosur Powell. It's dominated by Hispanic voters. Carbello's up in the polls. We need to hold this seat. why is it important because if we've been told that hispanic voters vote like automatons like the liberals want you to believe which is dumb and frankly stereotypical and racist in and of itself but you know liberals can't be racist because they're liberals yeah right it's not possible the media would have you believe they believe hispanic voters vote like robots clearly they do not this corbello race is important. Florida 26. All right. A couple other things. Let's just get to this final one again.

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critical races oregon's turned into a oregon excuse me it's turned into a really tight race uh the republican has a chance there folks please please get out and vote now you may say oh well you know what i'm not i'm not saying i'm not just i don't mean this is an insult but sometimes i do get this from people who are looking for a reason bizarrely not to vote to vote. I don't know why that would be, but they are. They go, well, those governor's races, you know, they're no big deal. They don't really affect us nationally, so why should we worry about them? No, you should. Because it's going to be the governors and the state legislatures in 2020 that do what?

Oh, carve up the map nationally for the House of Representatives, otherwise known as redistricting. You think this doesn't affect you? Ladies and gentlemen, if Democrat governors take the majority of governorships, they are going to carve up their states into overwhelmingly Democratic congressional districts at the federal level. The states do that. You know that, right? Most of you do, I'm sure.

The states carve up even the federal map. Why is this a sensitive topic to me? Because, folks, in the deep blue state of Maryland, as Joe well remembers, that has eight congressional representatives, four of them used to be Republicans. Yes, I said that right. Used to be Republicans. Yes, I said that right. Four members of the House of Representatives at the federal level in the deep blue state of Maryland used to be Republicans. Yep.

What happened? The 2010 census came around. Redistricting came around. And what did Martin O'Malley do, Joe? Martin O'Malley came in and carved up the state using a computer program and knocked out every single one of them but one. Now, some of them were out before that, to be fair, but Roscoe Bartlett was the last man standing. I was just going there.

Yep, Roscoe. And Bartlett was cut right out of that seat. The delegation in Maryland is now 7-1. Seven Democrats and one. Oh, you don't think that affects you? You think three congressional seats is no big deal? Imagine it happening everywhere across the country. The Republicans would never have a majority again.

Now, the self-selection of Democrats living in cities and the massive overvote does kind of keep Republicans at least competitive. But the Democrats, you give them control of gerrymandering and redistricting. Oh boy, is it going to be ugly? They carved that seat down to the district. Roscoe Bartlett in the old seat, the Republican, before they gerrymandered, it used to win that seat by 10, 20 points. They gerrymandered him out. He lost by 20. to win that seat by 10, 20 points. They gerrymandered him out. He lost by 20.

Now, I almost won that seat. I lost by one point. We actually won on election day. But believe me, it took a lot of work. And being candid, folks, even if we would have pulled it out on that absentee count, we probably would have lost in re-election. I'm sad to say it,

but that's how uncompetitive they made that district. Folks, if you don't get the governors in, if you lose Republican governorships, these states are going to be carved up into a Democrat cornucopia of liberalism. We will be dealing with it at the federal level. Oregon, Maryland, their congressional seats are going to be voting against your federal interests. Don't mess around. We got to get out and vote.

Get those governors in there. Get them in there. Okay. A couple more stories, but I want to get to this because I don't want to forget. There's been a lot of, I really sincerely appreciate all your feedback on the Papadopoulos interview. We, gosh, the feedback has been incredible. The episode has just exploded. I'm seeing it everywhere on Reddit and all other kinds of places, and people are tweeting about it and sending it to liberal outlets. You need to listen to this. Thank you. I've never considered myself. Joe knows this is a good interview. I just don't. I mean, you're my audience. I never lie to you. That's why we don't do guests, because Joe and I have chemistry, but I don't really have chemistry with a lot of people. I just don't. George is a nice guy. I don't know George personally. I've spoken with him a couple of times. Joe has, but we're not friends. I don't mean that in a bad way. I'm

just being candid. I like him. I think he was framed, but my interest in George's story is his story. I'm not looking for anything else from George, but shockingly, I've seen a couple of people out there who have analyzed the interview and some of them have bizarrely come to the conclusion i'm not knocking listen you're free to your opinions obviously the interview was put out there not just for a fawning audience but for people who are critics too that's fine but it doesn't it doesn't take away from the fact that your analysis of the interview is bizarre the analysis goes like this there are a couple folks out there saying hey i listened to the interview and now it's become pretty pretty clear to me me that George Papadopoulos himself was a plant within the Trump team.

What? What? How the hell did you come to that analysis? Now, I'm just saying a lot of this analysis comes from people without experience in the law. Again, I'm not trying to sound like the media people, but I don't think they understand the law enforcement intelligence gathering process. That's my only conclusion.

Let me point to five specific things here to refute the theory. So we're clear. Let me not bury the lead. To refute this bizarre theory that George Papadopoulos was a plant within the Trump team. Number one, if George Papadopoulos was working against the trump team as a plan why the hell was he targeted by the muller team the muller team has shown absolutely no evidence whatsoever this muller is a white hat in other words a good guy is the i'm sorry the dumbest theory I have ever heard in my life. There is zero, zero evidence of that at all.

Zero. None. Michael Cohen, Mike Flynn, Stone, Papadopoulos. There is no evidence at all of that. This theory out there that Mueller, who is unquestionably working against Trump, not against collusion, he has no evidence of that, but against Trump. Why would he target Papadopoulos if Papadopoulos was somehow relaying information to people

in the IC or the law enforcement community to attack Trump? Folks, does that make any sense? Do you understand how like tinfoil cap you have to beat him? No, no, Joe. It's triple, quadruple reverse psychology. They arrested Papadopoulos to provide cover for, oh my gosh. Ladies and gentlemen, I worked for the federal government. I developed sources. I use sources. I worked with the IC on many foreign trips overseas. Do you really believe the federal government is this smart?

Oh man, it's the craziest theory I've ever... And then what? Papadopoulos enters a false plea? So Papadopoulos enters a false plea to the 1001 charges, which are perfectly explainable. I'm not saying it was right. He shouldn't have done it.

Don't lie to the FBI, right? I'm not suggesting that. I'm saying it's explainable. He gets confronted by the FBI about meeting with this professor he has no idea who the professor is he thinks he's in trouble the professor could be anybody so he lies about when he met him to you know to cover for the trump team thinking i don't know who this guy is right no wrong unquestionably but explainable easily folks occam's razor when in doubt accept the explanation that requires the least not the most amount of explanations and you'll almost never be wrong also known as keep it simple stupid kiss you really believe that layered absurd explanation no no he was a plant

and he was arrested to cover for the folks that's just i'm sorry that's just dumb it is it's just dumb and he enters a false plea in court ah no no no. I just big fat no on that. Okay, here's number two. Why George Papadopoulos was not a plant in the Trump team. Why the hell would the IC and the FBI target their own assets? Does that make any sense? I plant Joe in the Trump team to get information and oppo. I then sick Bob Mueller and the Department of Justice special investigators,

the special counsel on Papadopoulos to target my own asset. Does that make any sense? Folks, Occam's razor. Keep it simple. Does that make any sense to you? No, no, no, no, no. This is why they did that. This is all a...

No, it's not. They targeted Papadopoulos because they needed to shut this guy up because he was part of a rather obvious scheme at this point. If they're targeting their own assets to cover for them somehow, which is the dumbest theory I've ever heard,

why is Stefan Halpern not making media appearances too? Why is a known intelligence asset in Stefan Halpern, Joe, why isn't he in jail? Why didn't they interview him? No, no, no. They only interviewed Papadopoulos as an asset because fill in the blank with another dumb reason. Why is Halpern not in jail. Why is Halper not in jail?

Why is Halper not being investigated? Well, you don't know that, Dan. He could be being investigated. Really? So we've got leaks about everything, including what Donald Trump wears when he watches Fox and Friends, but we haven't had any leaks about that. That makes sense to you. Oh, folks, please.

I'm not, listen, this is a small portion of it, but I can't believe the analysis. It's absurd, the analysis. Number three. Joe, you're an intelligence asset, George Papadopoulos, now, according to this bizarre theory. All right. Working against the Trump team planted in the campaign. Okay.

You then get arrested by the people you're working with at the DOJ or the IC, which again makes no sense. And then you decide later on to become a public figure on Twitter speaking out against the investigation that you were involved in. Yeah. Folks, again, is this make if you're rational, does this make any sense? So Papadopoulos, who supposedly some kind of IC, is now out there, unlike everyone else involved in the case. Everyone else, like Halper and others.

Halper, you haven't heard a word from. Mifsud has disappeared. You haven't heard a lot from Deripaska since that op-ed. All of these people have gone quiet, except for Papadopoulos, and yet he's the asset. Oh, my gosh, folks. This is like that movie with Colin Farrell and Al Pacino, The Recruit. The movie was so ridiculous. I mean, number four.

So Papadopoulos was a plant in the tree. You believe he was a plant in the Trump team. Joe, where was Papadopoulos when a lot of this went down? London or the United States? He was in London. You're darn right he was, brother. Where was Donald Trump most of the time campaigning? London or the United States?

In the good old USA, Dan. Joe, now clear. Let's be clear on this because I have to set this up for the Occam's Razor people who don't get it. You were not a member of the Trump team, correct? No, I'm not, Dan. Now, you're a supporter of Trump, but you were not a paid campaign member. But you are well aware of the fact that Donald Trump was campaigning in the United States for the United States election, right? Yes, I can say that with some surety, Dan.

The guy's a genius, Joe. He always pulls it. I'm telling you, this guy pulls an answer every time because he's always right. Now, Joe, if Donald Trump is in the United States campaigning for the presidency of the United States, do you think it's possible that a lot of the campaign members within the United States were within the United States as well? Just throwing it out there. I think that's the most likely scenario, Dan. Thank you, Joe.

Again, so let me just ask you one more question. He's not a law enforcement officer, Joe Armacost, or an IC member in the intelligence community. I develop an asset like Papadopoulos who secretes himself inside uh the trump campaign do you want that asset where trump and his campaign team members are or do you want that asset overseas in london i'm just asking let me just throw that out there i'd like him to be where the action is baby folks i get it your response could be well he could email them oh gosh guys please yes he could he could also have personal interactions with the president himself where it's more than likely outside of that one meeting he had papadopoulos never even met the president outside of the meeting you think this guy guy was the knock from the recruit, the non-official capacity

guy? Who's the knock? Who's the knock? It's not Papadopoulos. This is dumb. He was overseas most of the time. I have a note next to this one. He's the plant overseas with a question mark right next to it. I swear, Joe, it says stupid. This is the dumbest theory of all.

My gosh. Finally, number five. And the last one. Isn't it? If Papadopoulos is this plant inside the Trump team, why is it that in the text, in the text, in the text, he's not referred to at all between Stroke and Lisa Page in any kind of capacity like that? Why?

Why in the Bruce Orr notes does he not appear? Now, you could say on the text, maybe he's the Oconus lore, the outside of the continental United States. But we don't know that. And the chances of that seem pretty slim, given the role of Steele, given the role of Mifsud, and given the continental United States. But we don't know that. And the chances of that seem pretty slim given the role of Steele, given the role of Mifsud, and given the role of others. Downer and the meetings in London.

But folks, he doesn't take a prominent role in anything other than the New York Times piece in December. Guys, ladies, I don't want you to waste your time. That doesn't make sense. I'm sorry. It just doesn't make sense. Keep your attention on the Mifsud meeting. That's the meeting that starts everything.

If Mifsud is a Western intelligence asset, the whole collusion story is dead. It's dead now, but it's formally dead. Not only is it dead, the fact that Trump's team was set up is now the story. That's where the attention should be. Again, I don't know this guy, folks. I have no skin in that game at all. None. I don't know him.

I don't talk to him on a regular basis. My interest in him is purely in this case. Keep your attention on what matters. Okay, a couple more stories I wanted to get to on election day here. I want to pack this all in. Story I came across before. It's not in the show notes, but it's just interesting. I want to put out there for those of you voting, especially those in California.

I just want to put out something I address often, having left the Northeast, high tax Northeast states for Florida for different reasons. But it didn't hurt that I got my tax bill cut largely moving to Florida. Story out today, 130,000 more residents left California that came to the state. And since 2001, 410,000 more people have left California than arrived from Texas, have left California for Texas than have arrived from Texas to California, 4 hundred ten thousand more. What does that tell you, folks? That tells you if liberals are right and you're voting liberalism to send a message to Donald Trump, then why are you voting

with your feet and saying otherwise? Why be a hypocrite? If you love these states so much that are dominated by liberal policies, then why is it that significant swaths here, folks? We're not talking about small chunks of people. We're talking about hundreds of thousands of people decamping liberal states to move to Florida and Texas. Why are you voting those same garbage policies or trying to vote those same garbage policies in states you fled? I'm just asking. I'm just putting that out for you on election day. Can you just look in the mirror and answer that question honestly? If California and New York were such utopian havens of liberal utopia, why the hell do you keep leaving? Why is Virginia the main beneficiary of Marylanders? Because they leave to get away from the high taxes. The numbers speak for themselves. I just gave you them.

The numbers speak for themselves. I just gave you them. Think about that on election day. If what you're saying is true, how come the numbers don't reflect that? Because like everything liberals say, it's not true. It's garbage. It's BS. You're making it up.

It is simply not true. Liberalism is so great, I can't escape it quick enough. Oh, erroneous. Erroneous on all counts. It's like Snake Plissken. You can't escape from New it quick enough. Oh, erroneous. Erroneous on all counts. It's like Snake Plissken. You can't escape from New York quick enough. And yet they swear that liberalism works. So why'd you leave it?

Because like everything else, it works in theory, just not in the real world. In the real world where it punches you in the face. With Antifa in some cases literally. Oh yeah, one more story I want to get to. This is important. We may actually, gosh I may actually tie this up on time. Which is, I never thought I'd get to all this.

Expect a couple things after election day. I'm not really big on predictions. But I don't want you to be surprised by anything. Regardless of the outcome of today. There are I don't want you to be surprised by anything, regardless of the outcome of today. There are two things I want you to be ready for because I need you to be prepared. Number one, expect pretty massive staff shakeups in the White House. I fully expect Jeff Sessions' time to be up. You may see other cabinet officials gone as well. You may see the DHS

secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, leave. I fully expect significant shakeups in the White House. I want you to be prepared because if it was the Obama White House, what would they say, Joe? They're re-strategizing because Obama's a genius. They're doing a SWAT analysis. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. They're strategizing because Obama is so strategic. Joe, what will be the story for Trump after Election Day when people leave? Oh, the place is going to hell in a handbag, Dan. I wasn't going to leave that to you. But yes, chaos.

Chaos. They can't control it. Call the National Garden to the White House. Everybody's resigning. Meanwhile, it'd be like five people. Everybody's out. It's over. Trump's by himself.

Trump is in the White House by himself. The White House, WACA left. The White House communication, the White House chef is gone. Trump's microwaving oscar meyer wieners in the oven to eat for dinner no there's not even a landscaper trump's outside with the hedge clipper mowing the mowing the lawn on the south lawn trump's cleaning the windows in the white there's nobody left folks you laugh you know you listen the media are hacks these people are ignorant zeros, complete zeros.

They have no interest in the truth. If it was Obama, he's re-strategizing because he's a genius, because he's Obama. Trump, I'm telling you the story is going to be complete, utter chaos. Trump is all alone in white. Watch the headline. Listen to me. Listen to me because I love you to death. Take snapshots of the headlines and tweet them

to me you will see them after election day when people start to leave chaos trump here's one you will see this guaranteed folks please tape this to joe this is one i guarantee send it to me when you find it here it is right now trump increasingly isolated in the White House. I guaranteed, guaranteed, brothers and sisters. Find it. Send it to me after election day. Trump increasingly alone. Trump isolated. Oh, he's a sick man.

Send it to me. You will see it. Joe, if you see it first, send it to me. I will it joe if you see it first send it to me i will put it out on my email list chaos staff shake-up trump increasingly isolated guaranteed second up second thing get ready for it you will see a muller report how quickly after election day i'm not sure folks there is no the collusion thing is complete nonsense it's ridiculous it's an absurdity i expect to see a Mueller report. I think they're focusing heavily on Roger Stone. I believe that portion of the case will fall apart as well.

I'm simply suggesting to you that expect a Mueller report, expect the Democrats to use it for grounds for impeachment. If they pick up a majority in the House, they will lose in embarrassing and humiliating fashion in the Senate. But expect a Mueller report, expect itating fashion in the Senate, but expect a Mueller report, expect it to be a nothing burger, and expect the Democrats to run with the various nothing burgers in there, just like they ran with the taxicab confessions case for Michael Cohen and George Papadopoulos a fibbing about a date, as if that was Russian collusion. It will happen.

Expect it. See it. I don't know how soon. Maybe they'll give it a couple days, maybe a couple weeks, but you will see a Mueller report come out soon. And it's not going to look good for them. Although the media will paint it as the biggest thing ever. Wow. Amazing. I got through all of it. I didn't expect that. Well, folks, thanks a lot for all your support. Today's the day. I just want to finally say, and I mean it, action matters. Talk does not change the world. Talk motivates action. We need you to vote. Your country needs you. Your kids need you. Your future needs you. We need you. Your economic liberty, your healthcare liberty, school choice, it is all on the ballot somewhere. Energy, freedom. We have medical marijuana things

on the ballot. No matter how you feel about it, folks, get out and vote. Please, God, I'm not using his name in vain. I am humbly imploring you and begging you. If not for you, please do it for your kids. Get out and vote. Shock the world. And I'll see you all tomorrow where we'll talk about it. God bless you.

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