The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Dana's Unfiltered Iowa Recap

Episode Date: January 16, 2024

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Tell them that Dana sent you. And I'm also making the decision that this, has to be an America first candidate in that White House. As I've said since the beginning, there are two America first candidates in this race. And earlier tonight, I called Donald Trump to tell him that I congratulate him on his victory. And now going forward, he will have my full endorsement for the presidency. And I think we're going to do the right thing for this country. I said last night, and I meant it, the stalking horse made an obvious endorsement.

I mean, that's not a shocking thing. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. Oh, and I, and I'm not going to hear the weeping and ashing of teeth from anybody who's like, you talk tough during the primary. I think he can handle it. It's fine. A couple people need to calm down.

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, bottom of this first hour. But it is true. I mean, don't sit here and, and I mean, I'm not going to sit here and act otherwise. I mean, that's not shocking. Good heavens. There were people who got mad at me because I said stalking horse makes obvious endorsement. and they were from Trump's banning him from the MAGAverse for forever and saying he's not MAGA.

Stop. We're not playing this game. I'm not doing it. I just think, I mean, the original insult was thinking that voters were too dumb to know this in the first place. That was the original insult. He didn't perform. And nothing against him personally. I mean, clearly he's made some good decisions in his life because he's been successful in business.

But that's one thing. To be successful in business is one thing to be successful in policy. with this is something else entirely different. And I mean, he's, you know, maybe he can get in the trenches and fight a little bit before, you know, he tries, as Thomas Massey said, he tries to be the general of a movement that he actually hasn't been a part of until very recently and literally was donating to Democrats. And you can see that on my substock because I have posted receipts. So that being said, I want to get back to a couple of other things. Haley, last night, I think that she wasn't, she didn't, Desantis overperformed ever. so slightly, Trump underperformed, Nikki Haley was kind of flat. And that kind of goes along with,

it was just, it was almost right with the polling. And this is going to get into something else we're going to talk about here coming up with polling. But one of the things that I noticed with her, and if you, I was, I was updating live over at Substack is that she pulled a lot from the left. And remember, I always got same day registration. I have a sneaking suspicion that there were a lot of Democrats who actually registered and voted for her. I mean, in fact, I'm not a betting person, I don't gamble, but I totally would gamble on this. Absolutely. I'd put a stack down on that. They absolutely did. She pulled from some of the leftiest. They didn't do exits there, but they did it. They do entrance. Entrance polls. And a lot of the people that were voted, she got a lot of collegiates. She just got a lot of people that identified that did that self-identified is like being lefty, that were very, that were very moderate and away from a lot of traditional Republican positions. and she's still, I mean, technically she was just like barely like a point under.

But so I don't want to say that she underperformed. I think, you know, it's within the margin of error. So I think she was pretty neutral. But I do think that that you can interpret this one or two ways. She pulled a lot of people on the left. I don't think that she is pulling the so-called not Trump vote. I really don't because that is a, I think a false generalization of people who don't think that Trump is conservative enough? And that is a true thing. I mean, you have to realize there were a lot of

people that were really upset over immigration. Back in 2018, Trump was pushing Bob Goodlatz bill, which was an amnesty bill. Trump was arguing to give amnesty to a hell of a lot of illegal immigrants. That was a part of Bob Goodlott's bill. He faced off against a lot of the other Republicans in Congress over that. That's God's honest truth. Strike me with lightning if it's not, because that's exactly what happened. You can be mad at it. Be mad at me for mentioning it, but he was pushing amnesty in 2018. He lost a lot of people who were, that was their wedge issue. And I remember in 2016 and even in 2018, immigration was the top issue in 2016. It even beat the economy. And it was again going into 2018. And 2018, that really, it hurt down ticket races. It really hurt Republicans in the

midterm because of that. I think people forget a lot about that. association. It really hurt. So keep that in mind because immigration was one of the top issues going into Iowa for turnout. Now, the reason I bring up the Haley aspect of it is because she's not getting those conservative voters. She's pulling from the left. She's not pulled enough from the right demographics to be able to successfully say that she is the alternative. And I'm like, alternative to what, though? I mean, I think that, like, what is the alternative. I will say the one thing about Trump that he's that he I think would have had a better reaction in Iowa and I'm going to talk about that here next is I what is he for? Because all of his

speeches have been about legal problems and opponents. In 2016 he was about issues and that worked for him. He's not hitting that near as hard. And you know that's true. I think that his people need to kind of retune some of that. Now let me get into some of this other stuff that I just mentioned. So the voting in Iowa, and I mean, he won. I mean, he and we all, we expected that was going to happen. And the goal was that DeSantis, if he was going to, if he was going to last, he had to come in second, which he did. And he had to take out Haley. He's got to take out Haley more now.

He's got to destroyer. You have 752,200 registered Republicans. There was in 2016, 187,000 people that turned out. Trump did not win the Iowa caucus in 2016. Now, if you go back, this. is why winning doesn't necessarily mean, winning the caucus doesn't necessarily mean anything. That's why it's like, well, even if DeSantis were to want it, so, Cruz won it in 2016. I mean, you've had some, Mike Huckabee has won this thing before.

Do you have a president Huckabee or President Cruz? No. So, I mean, I think you kind of also need to keep it in a little bit in mind. Everyone wants to be a prognosticator. They all want to be, they all want to look at this like, okay, let's see what we can, what we can deduce from this. But that doesn't necessarily mean that, you know, they're going to go on. I mean, it's kind of like 50-50 who wins Iowa and goes forward.

So keep, you know, got to keep all this stuff in mind. You, I think Dole, the last big record that they had was in 88 when Dole was almost plus 13 with that. Now, the turnout this time was lower. 115,000 people. So you're at about 20% of the registered Republicans that turned out, and Trump won just half of those. Just keep that in mind. Now, some say, and you could, and I get people put the weather out, but this is Iowa, they are, used to snow and cold, folks. I mean, I'm not going to, I'm not going to plant a die on this hill of arguing whether or not it is a measure of enthusiasm or engagement within the

Republican base. I have some friends who are in analysis that say it absolutely is. Eh, I'm not as hardcore as they are on it. I don't know. I think we need to see a couple of other things. They say that there's a waning appeal of the party. You have more independence, though. More people are leaving the Democrat Party, but they're registering as independence. They're not registering as Republicans. But it was the lowest turnout since 2000, and you have had big snowstorms since then, where you've had turnouts that have been higher. So like I said, I'm putting that on the table, but that's not one of the things. I'm like, well, look at this. I don't know if I want to say that that's a reliable enough measure yet. The Republicans in Iowa, and here's something else to note,

they were more inclined towards candidates that they thought would champion values. They were not concerned with national electability. Now, I'm going to get into the problem that DeSantis is going to face, and he's going to have. Let's talk about the one that Trump has and is going to face right now. So the primary voting is not the general, which you know this, but I'm saying it for a very specific reason. When Iowa and Republicans, particularly in entrance polls, when they were going into this, they were looking at values and who champions specific issues, they were not prioritizing national electability. Broad appeal is absolutely crucial. It is tantamount in national elections. primary less so. You need to keep that in mind because that's exactly what happened in 2018,

2020 and 2022. Now set aside a lot of the discussion about fraud in certain states, etc. The states that allowed split ticket voting, those are the states that Trump struggled in. I went back and I was looking at all of this data. Now, this is why I say, I'll, I, I, also don't know if that's going to improve even with a DeSantis on the ticket because the Republicans, what the hell are they doing? Seriously, what is R&C leadership doing? That is going to be, that in mail and ballots are going to be the biggest threat to any kind of Republican victory and they have zero plans, folks. So there was a waning of appeal. And I'm saying this not to slam a candidate. I'm telling you, if you want to fix it and you want your candidate, because I like to have a

plan A and a plan B going into a general election. I don't know about you. I want to win. Like I that I will steamroll your grandmother if it means winning in 2024. I don't care. I'm not going to apologize for it. I want a A and a B, right? Because I think this is the last exit off the highway. If you want your candidate to be strong, he's got to work on his broader appeal. It hurt in 2018.

It hurt in 2020 and it hurt in 2022. He lost more than he won with a lot of endorsements and a lot of the endorsements were last minute and get mad at me if you want. But I'm telling you this because if you want the first. facts and you want a real friend who cares about winning to tell you this, then you're going to take it at that meaning. A lot of the people that he endorsed, some of them were last minute endorsements after they were already going to clinch. But the ones that weren't they lost, and they lost in dramatic fashion. Blake Masters, Carrie Lake, Dr. Oz, I could go on. There were a lot.

They weren't necessarily the best candidates. And the state parties had to help. You have state Republican parties that are bankrupt right now. The Republican Party state by state is broke as hell. I have a whole story on that that we're going to get to coming up later on in the show. Trump's folks have got to work on his broader appeal. And I'm going to tell you something, you don't do that by hiring campaign bots to overtake Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and call people who didn't support your guy in a primary traitors. You don't do that by being nasty with people who think like you and are your allies, but because they have a different position in the primary,

you want to name call them and be nasty to them. You either want to win in 2024 and you don't. And by God, let me tell you something. You're going to need every one of those damn votes if you want to do it and that's your guy. That has to happen and you're not going to do it like that. If you want people to unify, then you have to be unity.

But don't expect people to come around when you're throwing vinegar at them. And this goes to everybody. I don't have time for the petty ego fallation. I don't. This is the last exit off the highway. And we're going to sit here and play around with owns on social media. It's one of the most beta things I've ever seen in my life.

Some people need to go to their doctor and get their testosterone shots because the deficit's showing on social media. Some of the chicks need to go get some progesterone because the deficit's showing on social media. Everybody. take a giant ass collective breath and chill because there's a lot going on here. Everybody's got to work on tone. The left does it. The only time you see them not doing it is with RFK's people. But even then, it's a little more nuanced.

And I've been watching it. They do it under the table and subtly. And why do they do it like that? Because they don't want to run off any of his potential voters if they can lure him over. everybody's got to be smart like that no matter who your guy is now my point in telling you this about trump is his problem is broader appeal he barely won in 2016 it wasn't a landslide guys i'm not being ignorant i'm telling you this because do you want to win or not you got to fix your your problems if you don't want to be sunsune you don't want to win and you just want to have a cult of personality

and get mad at the people who are telling you stuff even if they're trying to help because they may have a different primary choice. That's your, I'm not going to tell you what to believe. But I do have a, I don't know, an 18 year record of being straightforward with you. Now with this, he's got to work on broader appeal. And he needs to, he should be straight focused on issues. I don't care if he's in a courtroom today. And I'm going to tell you, most voters don't care right now because this is going to become less about his legal problems and more about people's bills as we get closer to November. People want to a fighter, they don't want to feel like they're bailing somebody out.

That's just being honest. He's got to focus on serving voters instead of the other way around. That will help broader appeal. DeSantis needs to step up. He's got to be way more aggressive because dodging is not the way to do it. He needs to utterly destroy Haley and he needs to take Trump on. And being nice, all that anymore. Now time is of the essence. Now, I think that his campaign, he's had people involved

with his campaign. They're all amazing, super smart people. But some of the people are a little bit more cautious than others. And the ones who are a little bit more cautious, they need to step aside. Now, Nikki Haley has the exact opposite problem with Trump, with the independence and that. She has a deficit with the base. She plays better with the independence. She may try to parlay that. into momentum coming up. She's not out yet. Hi, I'm Adriana, a politics major at Hillsdale College. Here's Hillsdale President, Dr. Larry Arne, with a Constitution Minute. America's founders recognized an obvious fact of life.

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It's time for Dana's Quick 5. So one in five hospital deaths in the United States are the result of doctor errors. That's crazy. It's like my grandpa's like from the gravy's going. I told you. Researchers say that medical blunders are an urgent public health problem. One in five hospital deaths. that is crazy. And you know, it's very, very difficult to litigate those things.

Deadly Arctic Blast has brought travel chaos over, this is insane. Over 7,000 flights are canceled or delayed. Cars are stranded. 150 million people face a windshield warning. They got windchell warnings. This is, that's wild. I mean, there's still ice, ice on the ground in Texas. It's 18 degrees. That's why I'm, it's Turtle Neck City for Dana until, uh, You know, we got, we got, like, decent actual Texas weather back because this is nuts. I don't like this. Ten vehicles were buried in a snow slide in Colorado alone. This was wild.

Oh, that's terrifying. When you drive through, like, mountain passes, and there's just gigantic mounds of snow piled up on either side of you. Oh, man, that's kind of freaky, you know. But they said it's the birthed pass that's going to remain closed because avalanche danger. Ten vehicles were caught in a snow slide. that's that has to be scary Americans can no longer afford their cars thanks by dynamics

car ownership has always been kind of like a trademark of the American get up and go lifestyle and so now I mean they've been viewed as what freedom independence and rebellion sidebar I have a deep I have a psychological deep dive on this because the younger generations don't prize cars as much and I think it has to do

with chipping away at this American ideal just saying anyway they said that the automobile has reached a crucial point because people cannot afford their cars anymore, which goes into, you will own nothing and be happy, right? Annie Bugs. They said new and use car prices rose to record highs during the pandemic. And so, I mean, yeah, you had chip shortages and supply chain disruptions, et cetera. But new car prices have risen by 30 percent, according to co-pilot and Newsweek.

And they said that when inflation slowed to the point that the feds decided to stop hiking rates, new car prices rose by 1% to an average of $50,000. used car prices fell, only 2% average is 31,000. That's insane. That is crazy. All right. So a study revealed that a potential hot spring could be the birthplace of early life. So it's people soup.

There you go. Ms. Colorado made history because she became the first U.S. serving U.S. soldier ever to be crowned Miss America. She's training to be a top gun, which is actually super cool. She won it over the weekend, 22-year-old Madison Marsh. And she's a United States Air Force pilot. she was crowned Miss America on Sunday. That's pretty cool. I just, I don't watch it.

I didn't watch it. Her dress is like pretty awesome. Please tell me that her talent was flying a jet. Because I would be like, all you broads go home, she wins. Everybody off the sit. She wins. She just flew a jet. That's her talent.

You know, it's interesting for the call, Britt. Obviously it happens very early. We're going to go ahead and interrupt this. We're going to go ahead and call it. We're going to go ahead and call this audio right now. That's Brett Bear. saying that he's making the call. We're going to call, early call his call on the caucuses.

Kane, welcome back. The program Dana Lashire, bottom of this. Probably should we hear the rest of what Brett had to say? No, we got the, we got the raw data. We can make the call. You don't want to see it through to the end there? No, we can make the call. Feel confident in that.

Make the call right there. They don't need to hear it. Okay. It's making the call. So, interesting. Did you guys hear about the, uh, hold up. I wanted to touch on this before we moved to the McConnell Amnesty 2018 part D plan.

The pro-Hamas protesters swarming in New York City Cancer Hospital, nothing persuades people more than yelling for terrorists at sick kids in a cancer hospital. I mean, you know, that's really going to persuade people. I don't know if you guys just say, they've been ongoing. They've been doing this. They've had literally like kids standing in the window. It's the Sloan Kettering and the

pro Hamas butt kissers group I just don't even want to say their names because I can't say anything nice in association with it they were trying to explain their rhetoric because they were screaming that they were screaming at these people at these patients. They had

thousands that marched during for yesterday. It was their Gaza MLK Day march for health care at the hell kind of cluster blank as that. It's going to throw all the things in here. And they went to the Memorial Sloan Caterine Cancer Center and they shouted shame. Like shame because they had cancer?

Like what? That's the pro-homasfalators. The, yeah, terrorist. You're terrorist apologist. They're all terrorists. And this is after, you know, anti-Semitism attacks, anti-Semitic attacks. anti-Semitic attacks in the United States has spiked 360 percent since Hamas's terrorist attack. So they literally walked past a cancer center screaming shame at the kids in the window getting cancer treatment.

What is wrong with these people? Oh my gosh. You can tell that Hamas has a backwards culture because all their supporters sound like they're the product of incest. I mean, for real. Like where does this come from? I mean, is it, do they just want attention? because it doesn't sound like they're trying to persuade anyone. So when they were asked, why did you literally target a cancer?

I mean, maybe they thought there was a Hamas headquarters there too. Like there's one in the Gaza one. I don't know. But they said, no, it's because the hospital accepted a donation from a billionaire Zionist. That was their excuse. What? What? I don't know, man.

I don't even understand. This is so stupid. This is so dumb. So they, yeah, that's like, that's, and they're like literally people in the windows that are receiving treatment looking down on them. Like, what is in the, what's happening here? Why are you doing this? So they said that it was Zionist Ken Griffin. And this is after he threatened pro-Hamas student activists at Harvard with revoked job offers.

Yeah, because they're terrorist buckhissers. cry hard or terrorist. I just have zero sympathy, courtesy, kindness, tolerance for this nonsense. I don't want to ceasefire. I want more fire. I want hellfire and brimstone. I don't want ceasefire. I mean, that's just, it's sickening. There's no excuse for that. There's no excuse for it. No, heaven forbid they won't tell Hamas the government that they all voted for ceasefire. No, no, no. You can't defend yourself. How dare you? Well, if you didn't want the fight. you shouldn't have picked it. Not everybody else's fault.

These are the rules of war. This is why people say war is hell. Don't pick the fight. Pretty simple. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth Podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to hit that subscribe button

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