The David Pakman Show - 11/9/22: Red Wave Evaporates, MAGA GOP Humiliated

Episode Date: November 9, 2022

-- On the Show: -- MAGA Trumpism is humiliated as the predicted 2022 red wave fails to materialize, and as of the time of today's show, Republicans have not yet secured control of either the House nor the Senate, with key losses including Mehmet Oz, Doug Mastriano, Tudor Dixon, Sarah Palin and many others -- Fox News hosts and guests absolutely melt down over the collapse of the expected red wave, including Brian Kilmeade and guest Marc Thiessen -- The right wing machine activated with false claims of "voter fraud" in Arizona during yesterday's election day -- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis blocked election monitors from three counties in Florida during election day -- Donald Trump has an insane meltdown over the 2022 election disaster for Democrats -- Elon Musk has quite a day, in which he shares a Nazi meme and then tells his followers on Twitter to vote Republican -- Republicans widely slam and blame Donald Trump for the 2022 results, with many saying it's time ti move on from Trump -- Failed former President Donald Trump plans to announce his 2024 Presidential candidacy at an event at Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Tuesday, November 15 -- Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene starts a campaign to be Donald Trump's Vice Presidential running mate in 2024 -- The Good Liars interview a woman who believes that Doctor Anthony Fauci, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton are all currently in jail at Guantanamo Bay -- MyPillow CEO and Founder Mike Lindell has a psychotic episode on live television -- On the Bonus Show: Midterm exit polls, DeSantis might be Republicans' new leader, abortion rights win across the country, and much more... 🥄 Use code PAKMAN for $5 off Magic Spoon at https://magicspoon.com/pakman 🪒 Henson Shaving: Use code Pakman for FREE blades at https://hensonshaving.com/pakman 🥄 Use code PAKMAN for $5 off Magic Spoon at https://magicspoon.com/pakman 🧻 Reel Paper: Use code PAKMAN for 30% OFF + free shipping at https://reelpaper.com/pakman 🌳 Established Titles: Code PAKMAN for extra 10% OFF at https://establishedtitles.com/pakman -- Become a Supporter: http://www.davidpakman.com/membership -- Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/thedavidpakmanshow -- Subscribe to Pakman Live: https://www.youtube.com/pakmanlive -- Subscribe to Pakman Finance: https://www.youtube.com/pakmanfinance -- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/davidpakmanshow -- Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davidpakmanshow -- Leave us a message at The David Pakman Show Voicemail Line (219)-2DAVIDP

Speaker 1 Speaker 1 Welcome to the program. Those of you who are watching will see I'm wearing my John Fetterman hoodie today. John Fetterman did indeed win his Senate race yesterday. That is really good news. And I want to start with results from these extraordinarily important 2022 midterms. I will not rehash all of the reasons why these midterms are so important, not the least of which, however, it should be said, is trying to maintain a democracy in which not just this year, but in two years in twenty twenty four, we can be confident that the candidates

who get the most votes are accepted as the winners and assume their offices without controversy. And we know that that almost didn't happen in 2020. Expectations increasingly were for an overwhelming red wave that would devastate Democrats. It didn't happen. It didn't happen. We still don't know. It's still unclear. Big picture. Who's going to end up controlling the House? Republicans have picked up seats. But as of right now, we don't know who will control the House. We don't know for sure who will control the Senate, but things are looking increasingly OK there for Democrats and some critical gubernatorial races. MAGA candidates failing miserably. And this result is a disaster for Republicans. Now, I know that there are people tweeting me saying, David, Republicans will probably

still take the House and then the Senate's going to be split. What do you mean it's a disaster for Republicans? Historically, Republicans should have done really well. And based on all of the polling that Republicans themselves were pointing to, they were saying this is going to be overwhelming. It's going to be open and shut. Republicans easily take the House with a nice margin. Republicans take the Senate.

Republicans win all of the critical gubernatorial races. None of that is happening. None of that is happening. Oz and Mastriano lost. Tudor Dixon lost. Herschel Walker currently losing, but probably heading towards a runoff. And we will see where that goes. Lauren Boebert might lose Boebert, an incumbent MAGA Republican. Blake Masters down. It will probably be called today for his opponent, Mark Kelly.

Sarah Palin laughed away. Carrie Lake, we don't yet know, but she very well may lose, even though it increasingly was being said, oh, Carrie Lake's going to win. And if Republicans take the House, it will be by the smallest margin. Let's get right into it, starting with the Senate. Who will control the Senate right now? We know 4848 Republicans have so far not made any pickups and Democrats have, as of right now, made one pickup. If we looked at flipped seats, that is indeed Pennsylvania, where John Fetterman has defeated

television doctor Mehmet Oz with 94 percent of the vote in it is Fetterman a little over 50 Oz, a little over 47, about three points separating them. That is a really good result. Fetterman is a really good candidate who suffered a stroke some months ago, struggled in a recent debate. Clearly not a cognitive issue. If you've seen in particular his speeches recently, if you see him right, this is an auditory processing issue. And it seems that the voters realize that. Now, what's the counterpoint? A quack TV doctor who has no business being senator almost won. Right. That you can always find pros and cons there. If we go back to the broader Senate map, a critical race is that in Georgia,

Raphael Warnock, the incumbent Democrat, trying to beat off a challenge from serial liar and completely clueless, barely able to speak. Former football player Herschel Walker. There is what's called the 50 percent rule in Georgia. If neither candidate gets 50 percent, there would be a runoff. There are three candidates and the third party candidate, Oliver, has just over two percent of the vote right now. Raphael Warnock is leading by half a point, which is 18000 votes. No matter where this shakes out, if it's Warnock by half a point or

Walker by half a point, it doesn't look as though either will get to that 50 percent mark, meaning there will be a runoff. If that's the case, we're all going to Georgia. And I don't know if I will physically be going to Georgia. I may or we may try to figure out digitally how to pour everything we can. Herschel Walker must not be allowed to become a senator in the United States. It's horrifying. Other important races in North Carolina. It briefly looked like Beasley might have a chance, the Democrat at at taking that seat from Ted Budd. Ultimately, it did go for Ted Budd. It was expected, but there was a brief glimmer of hope there in Ohio. J.D. Vance did defeat Tim Ryan. That was expected. The polling

was really pretty clear there. An extremely important race is Arizona. It has not yet been called. It is starting to look like it will be. I want to be careful because news continues to break. Blake Masters may be the worst person in the world. As an individual, Walker is less qualified, but Blake Masters seems like a genuinely worse person. Mark Kelly, the incumbent right now leading by five. There is speculation it might be called today. Only 69 percent of the vote is in there. A couple of other key races in the state of Nevada. Adam Laxalt has taken the lead against Cortez Masto. That's disappointing. And we are going to keep an eye on that. And in Wisconsin, we still don't know for sure. But with 94 percent of the vote in Ron Johnson, the incumbent is looking like he's

going to be able to stave off a challenge from Mandela Barnes, a great guy who has been a guest on this program. Six percent of the vote remains to be counted and we can maintain some amount of hope there. So in the Senate right now, completely plausible that Democrats maintain control. We will know probably within a couple of days. Looking now at gubernatorial races again. Not a disaster for Democrats. With what we know so far, Democrats have made two pickups in terms of governors and Republicans have made none pickups in terms of governors and Republicans have made none important

races there. Of course, Pennsylvania, where thankfully Josh Shapiro, a great candidate, a genuinely great candidate, has easily defeated conspiracy theorist MAGA Trump riot steal the election lunatic Doug Mastriano. This could decide the 2024 presidential election. Trump riot steal the election lunatic Doug Mastriano. This could decide the 2024 presidential election. The winner of this race, which is Josh Shapiro, will decide who is the secretary of state in Pennsylvania.

And that person will run the 2024 election, which could decide who is president of the United States of critical importance. We're also looking very strongly at Arizona. Carrie Lake, a complete cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs conspiracy theorist who wanted to secede, who wants to end all abortion, a dangerous, dangerous woman. Right now, she's down six tenths of a point. We have to wait. We are hopeful. We are hopeful. Kerry Lake will lose in Georgia. As expected, Brian Kemp did defeat Stacey Abrams. That's too bad. But it was expected based on the polling in Texas. Beto O'Rourke lost badly to incumbent Greg Abbott. Beto O'Rourke's

political future is definitely in question after yet another worse than expected loss in Michigan. Fortunately, this is another loss for MAGA. Tudor Dixon, the Trump endorsed conspiracy theorist, lost by 10 to the incumbent Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Why? Oh, Wisconsin rather was briefly in question. But Evers defeated Michaels by about three and a half points.

That's really great news. And we're still waiting for results from Oregon, which if the Republican Drazen or Drazen, I forget the pronunciation, were to win in Oregon. It would be the first Republican governor in decades. Right now, Kotek, the Democrat, is ahead by one. Only 76 percent of the vote has been counted. And lastly, we have the House of Representatives, the House of Representatives, the most likely to go to Republicans. Indeed, Republicans have currently made 10 pickups. They need 17 more seats to take control. It was apparently a foregone conclusion. It is now not a foregone conclusion. If they win, it will be a small margin. One interesting race, hard to focus on a lot of races here. But if we do go to Colorado and you go to the third district, the third district, you will see that Lauren Boebert is losing by one point to

Lauren Boebert. If she is defeated, would be the second big MAGA cartoon to lose this cycle. Madison Cawthorn losing his primary after not even a full term. It's possible Lauren Boebert will lose as well. Ninety percent of the vote is in. She's the incumbent. She's a MAGA extremist and she is currently down by one point to this. All may come down in terms of the Senate to Georgia. There is no red wave. The red wave is dead. Do not let anybody trick you. And I will even have clips of Republicans admitting this momentarily. But the red wave is dead. There may be a ripple should have been a great midterm for Republicans. It'll end up being sort of bad. OK. And of critical importance, Democratic governors won in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Those three races this year could

determine who the next president of the United States is. And we'll have time to talk about that as well. Fox News hosts and guests flipping their lids as the red wave collapsed, crumbled. It was like, you know, when you put cotton candy in water and it just disappears, that was the red wave disappearing last night. Check out some of these clips, starting with Fox News pundit Mark Thiessen saying this is a disaster for the Republican Party. Just think about this. We welcome back Marti's in the health for juniors of the panel. We talked a lot about debates and when some candidates did debates and some didn't do

them had the October 25th debate been September 30th, would this race have changed? Mark? I think it might have or maybe it wouldn't have. I mean, I think there's a broader issue here, which is that. So think about this. We have the worst inflation in four decades, the worst collapse in real wages in 40 years. The worst crime wave since the 1990s. The worst border crisis in U.S. history. We have Joe Biden, who is the least popular president since Harry Truman. Now, none of this stuff is true, and I'll prove it in a moment. Presidential polling happened and there wasn't a red wave. That is a searing indictment of the Republican Party. All right. So a lot, a lot, a lot of admitting there that this is a disaster. Brian Kilmeade

with a similar perspective, repeating many of the same lies shifted. And right now, Zeldin is probably within five points. It might be out of reach for him. There's no been concession there. You see, there's some unhappiness. But I don't know about you guys. I'm shocked there was no red wave. If you think about inflation, a 40 year high crime that were since the 1980s, the unpopular president with an agenda that's more green oriented than people oriented. Yeah. They are telling you all lies. OK, yes, they are correctly pointing out the red wave failed.

Credit to them for pointing that out. But let's fact check this. I love it. Worst inflation in four decades, they say. Credit to them for pointing that out. But let's fact check this. I love it. Worst inflation in four decades, they say. Reality, it's the worst inflation since 1989. It's 33 years. It did hit pieces of four decades. Maybe we give them a pass on that one. But check out some of these other ones. Worst collapse in real wages in 40 years. That would take us to 1982. That is very clearly not true. Median inflation adjusted. That's what they mean by real inflation adjusted wages. That is not a chart that suggests now wages are at their lowest point in 40 years. In fact, it is very much the

opposite. Very, very much the opposite. We're at a peak, not at the bottom. They are liars. They said worse crime since the 1990s or the 1980s. Even that's also not true. Here's the crime rate since the 1990s. And as you can see, it has actually declined over that period of time. It is declined. Even if you look specifically, as we will do now at murder homicide, those rates have also declined, although they have very recently ticked up a hair. But overall, it is part of a downward trend.

Worst border crisis in history, they say. Well, I don't know how you measure that. Is it the number of people you catch or that you don't catch? It is true that arrests at the border are up. But that means we're catching people. That means they're not getting in here. How is that a crisis? And importantly, nothing really has changed under Biden since Donald Trump at the border. And then lastly, they said Biden, least popular president since Truman. That's not true. Joe Biden right now is about as popular as Trump was at this point in his presidency, about as popular as Ronald Reagan was at this point in his presidency, within a point or two of Barack Obama and Clinton's popularity at this point in their presidencies. And by the way, were it not for 9-11, which buoyed George W. Bush's approval rating, Biden

would be doing better than George W. Bush as well. That the reason Bush ended up with temporarily a higher approval was 9-11. OK, every claim is a lie. They are furious. Maybe look at reality. Historically low unemployment, stock market, GDP, all the indicators we talk about. And then maybe they would be a little bit less shocked. Republicans in Arizona wasted no time claiming fraud yesterday. There is absolutely nothing to this, but they wasted no time claiming fraud. Charlie Kirk, who lives in Arizona and was very involved with the Carrie Lake campaign and Blake Masters tweeting out two hour wait minimum at most polling places in Maricopa. Democrats running elections here knew this would happen.

Traffic jam by design. Don't let them do 2020 again. Wait in line and vote. It turns out actually that Democrats don't run elections in Maricopa County. The Board of Supervisors is four Republicans and one Democrat. Same thing with the county recorder. Twenty twenty was safe and secure in Arizona, but they were starting to catch up on this Arizona stuff. Here's Brett Baier saying it's a little suspicious over there. We kind of knew that this election was going to happen. You know, I mean, right. How about we fix the machines? I mean, why is this happening? Can we get our head around?

There are going to be problems all over the country, some problems. But for it to happen here, for it to happen now in this way is kind of strange. No. Well, what you have to remember is it's not that it's happening. It's that Republicans decided we're going to say that there's fraud in Arizona. Really, there were no waits or very short waits in most places. Residents are allowed to vote at any polling place they want, not just the one nearest their home. And there's a very good NPR piece. Arizona's Maricopa County says it's identified a solution for voting equipment

issues. There was an issue with a tabulator. It was dealt with. It was not a huge deal. But rest assured, if Carrie Lake loses, she's losing right now. But we have to wait until all the votes are counted. If Carrie Lake loses, she will say it was fraud. Let's take a quick break and be right back with a very, very busy news day today. Our sponsor, Magic Spoon, is the breakfast cereal that tastes amazing, but without the sugar carbs and the crazy ingredients. Magic Spoon has taken your favorite childhood cereals and brilliantly transformed them into something you can feel good about eating because each serving has zero grams of sugar under five net carbs and is packed with 13 grams of protein. So it'll work for keto and low carb, but it's really perfect for

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be counterproductive and potentially undermine confidence in the election. Monday, the Justice Department had announced it would send monitors to 64 jurisdictions nationwide up from 44 in 2020 to evaluate how are elections being conducted amid a wave of threats to workers working at elections, politicians and allegations of voter intimidation. Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties were slated to receive Justice Department Civil Rights Division monitors. Florida federal monitors were sent to some Florida localities in 2020, but they stayed outside because of the pandemic. Brad McVeigh, the chief counsel for the Florida

Department of State, said in a letter those monitors will not be allowed inside polling places under Florida law. McVeigh said the Florida secretary of state's office overseen by DeSantis would instead send its own monitors. Right. DeSantis is on the ballot. It's totally logical to send DeSantis his own monitors to make sure everything is on the up and up. That makes sense, right? That makes a lot of sense. Now, there is a debate here as to whether DeSantis has the authority to stop the monitoring. And what The Washington Post article says is while the Justice Department is permitted to place monitors inside polling locations, the department must receive permission from local election officials.

The Justice Department has said it followed standard procedure on Tuesday, has monitors outside polling locations in Florida and Missouri where state officials said they would not be welcomed inside. This is not some big smoking gun. It's just another example of how the right is all about. We need monitors. We need observers. We need this, that the other thing we will train you to become such an individual.

Oh, the DOJ wants to send money. Oh, no, that would be counterproductive to have them inside. I thought more monitoring is good. And it's just another little data point about how their principles are worthless. Monitoring elections is good if it's their monitors, if it's their organizations. But if it's the DOJ, all of a sudden we don't need that. It would be obtrusive. It would be counterproductive. Not a surprise that as soon as it's inconvenient, they abandoned their so-called principles. Failed former President Donald Trump had a complete and total meltdown over the MAGA disaster

in the 2022 midterms, tantruming like a child over the last 24 hours. Trump has gone cuckoo. And as it increasingly became clear, there will be no red wave. There might be a ripple. We're still waiting, but there's not going to be a wave as it becomes clear that Trump's likely forthcoming presidential run announcement next Tuesday at Mar-a-Lago may not be met with open arms by Republicans. We'll get to that a little bit later. Donald Trump pulling out all the stops stops and making a complete and total fool out of himself.

Here is a real quote from Trump about last night's results on News Nation. If Republicans win, he should get all the credit. If Republicans lose, he should get no blame at all. That's not a joke. That's actually what Trump said. You've endorsed more than 330 candidates this election cycle. Tonight, win or lose the results for Republicans. How much of that will be because of Donald Trump?

Well, I think if they win, I should get all the credit. And if they lose, I should not be blamed at all. OK, but it'll probably be just the opposite. He he's saying it with a straight face, guys. He's not joking. It's just like with covid where he said, I don't take any responsibility. He's not joking. When they win, I think they're going to do very well. I'll probably be given very little credit, even though in many cases I told people to run and they ran and they turned out to be very good candidates. You know, they've turned out to be very good candidates. But usually what would happen is when they do well, I won't be given any credit. And if they do badly, they will blame everything on me. So I'm prepared for anything, but we'll defend ourselves. What a victim. What a victim. Now,

he said it again with a completely straight face as Arizona started looking shaky and people like Carrie Lake and Blake Masters and Charlie Kirk started panicking and saying, we've we got to start claiming that there is fraud here. Donald Trump took to truth social and delivered a very, very strange message. Trump looking disheveled and confused and gaunt to some degree and again suggesting that they there is some conspiracy to prevent them from voting in Arizona. There was no such conspiracy. Here's Trump delivering a panicked message to the great people of Arizona, Maricopa County

in particular. Don't leave your line. Stay where you are. They say that the machines aren't working. They say that they're running out of paper in different locations throughout different states. There's a lot of bad things going on. Stay online. Do not leave. I know you don't want to be there as long as they're going to try and force you. They want to delay you out of voting. Right. They want to delay you. Why? I don't know. And you cannot let them delay you out of voting. So

to the people of Arizona in particular, because that's the one that's come up right now. Stay online. Don't leave. Already a lot of people have left and it's very, very unfair what's going on. Maricopa County, don't leave. Stay there. All right. Again, we already sorted out the Arizona stuff at the top of the show. There was really no big deal going on there. Issue with a tabulator. They dealt with it. No evidence that anybody's votes were suppressed in any way.

And then Donald Trump posting about his endorsement record. Remember, what matters is his own endorsement record to him. Impossible to pretend they all won. Trump posting that he was 174 and nine. A great evening. And the fake news media, together with their partner in crime, the Democrats are doing everything possible to play it down. Amazing job by some really fantastic candidates. And remember, Trump mostly is endorsing incumbents and people who are obviously going to win. But do not be confused. The Republican Party is really considering whether it's time to bail on Trump because a lot of his big endorsements lost. Mastriano, that was a critical race, lost. Oz, lost. Tudor, Dixon, lost. Kerry Lake and Blake Masters may lose. We don't yet know. It's a long list. Lee Zeldin, lost. This was not a particularly good night for Trump. When you look

at endorsements for the critical races that really matter, not a particularly good night for Trump. When you look at endorsements for the critical races that really matter, not a particularly good night. Trump knows it. Republicans know it. We'll get to that a little bit later. Very briefly, I do want to have as an interlude here. It was a very weird day for Elon Musk on Election Day. Musk shared a Nazi meme to Twitter and then told his followers to vote for Republicans. Not a particularly normal day. Ellie Quinlan, Huffaling writing a good summary of this in The Daily Beast. Elon Musk posting a how times have changed meme to Twitter. This got forty three thousand retweets and one hundred and eighty000 likes in a couple hours. It's a Nazi meme. It uses a photo of a German soldier with a cage of carrier pigeons during the Nazi invasion of France. It had about 14000

retweets in the three hours after it was posted. And so. That was sort of a weird thing to do. And then Elon Musk suggested on Twitter that everybody vote Republican. Elon Musk saying to independent minded voters, shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties. Therefore, I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the presidency is Democratic. This is very, very stupid. And I will tell you why. Even if in the abstract, you believe that absolute power corrupts people, absolutely. You have to consider what we're talking about. Even when controlling the White House, House and Senate, Republicans still have extraordinarily when when Democrats control those three Republicans have shown they have extraordinary power to obstruct the things Joe

Biden wants to do. Most things require 60 votes in the Senate. Democrats have not had a super majority. And as a result, everything has been a fight for Democrats. The idea that, oh, Democrats have had basically carte blanche to do whatever they want is untrue. So the framing of this idea is untrue. Furthermore, divided power isn't good just for its own sake. If the people that would hold some of that power have no business doing so people like Herschel Walker, people like Mehmet Oz Governors like Doug Mastriano or Carrie Lake. And so this is the prototypical what I call enlightened centrist type post. Elon Musk likes to say, I'm an independent. I've mostly voted for Democrats up until this year.

Now I suggest voting Republicans because we want, you know, they're both the same and we've got to divide power and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is the prototypical, prototypical enlightened centrist type argument. It is nonsense. And fortunately, there was no red wave. that tastes amazing, but without the sugar carbs and the crazy ingredients. Magic Spoon has taken your favorite childhood cereals and brilliantly transformed them into something you can feel good about eating because each serving has zero grams of sugar under five net carbs and is packed with 13 grams of protein. So it'll work for keto and low carb, but it's really perfect for anyone who wants

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election disaster, which will at best be a red ripple. The red wave is gone. The question now becomes, does this in any way impact Donald Trump's plans to announce for 2024? There has been a dramatic shift in the betting markets in terms of who voters rather who better believe will be the eventual Republican nominee. Let's take it step by step. And we actually go to Fox News articles for this Fox News article published early this morning. Conservatives point finger at Trump after Republicans underwhelming election results. He's never been weaker. Many conservatives say Tuesday's election shows it's time to move on from Trump. All this is a quote from Michael Brendan Doherty, a senior writer at the National Review.

All the chatter on my conservative and Republican channels is rage at Trump like I've never seen. The one guy he attacked before Election Day was DeSantis, the clear winner. Meanwhile, all his guys are S-ing the bed. Real clear politics reporter Phil Wegman says Republican source tells me after tonight with Trump candidates underperforming and DeSantis winning by double digits, 2024 is a free for all. Everybody in the water. If you want to take on Trump, he's never been weaker. Anecdotal tweets, one user, Max Nordau, Carrie Lake over Karen Robson, Doug Mastriano over Lou Barletta, Mehmet Oz over Dave McCormick, J.R. Majewski. Trump's big November 15 announcement should be an endorsement of

Ron DeSantis for 2024. We can do better. The Reagan battalion. Time to move on from Trump. If DeSantis in Florida wildly overperforms all the handpicked and Trump supported Republicans and other singed swing districts, particularly if they lose. Well, then, gosh, that is going to be a fascinating new narrative that will be commented upon by positively no one. Another Fox News article, Trump blasted across media spectrum over Republicans midterms performance.

Bigger loser tonight. Remember, we spoke last week with Angelo Carusone and Angelo Carusone agreed with my perspective on Fox, Trump and Republicans 2024. They're not abandoning Trump yet. But they are setting up an escape hatch, an eject button, call it what you will, wherein they are starting to seed interviews with voters saying, I kind of like DeSantis over Trump. They are starting to publish articles about others are saying Trump's time may have come and gone. Let's look at a little bit of of this article as the midterm results rolled in and the red

wave long hoped for had not materialized. Many pundits and journalists pointed their fingers at Trump. Former Obama campaign strategist David Plouffe on MSNBC said, I think you have to say Donald Trump has now presided over two disastrous midterms. Given the history of presidents in power, Democrats controlling all of Washington inflation, this should have been a much stronger night for Republicans. A bunch of reasons for that. But at the top of them is Donald Trump. He's deeply unpopular. He supported a bunch of horrible Senate candidates who may end up coughing up the football here. MSNBC's Chris Hayes said Republicans ascribe to Trump a totemic power he does not have. He screwed his own power. He's unpopular. He screwed you today. Screwed you. It's not the full story,

but it is part of the story. And the sooner you dump him, the better it is for the Republican Party and American democracy. ABC's Jonathan Karl said it was unclear who would control Congress, but Trump is the goat. What I can and not the greatest of all time. Quote, what I can tell you is the biggest loser tonight is Donald Trump. One on CNN conservative commentator Scott Jennings offered another blunt analysis. Saying quote, There's a potential narrative out of this night that if you're a discerning Republican voter trying to figure out the future direction of the party, we once again learn Trump is not a national winner for the Republicans. But DeSantis

may be the next evolution of someone who can marry what you like about Trump, but recover some people that went away from the party during Trump. We'll link to these articles and you can read all the quotes. OK, we don't yet have all the results, but it's not looking particularly good. I'm going to show you a stunning number for months and months and months. Trump has either been leading the betting markets for twenty twenty four Republican nominee or tied with Ron DeSantis months and months and months and months. This is not a poll. OK, this is people bet. Who do you believe will be the Republican nominee? Over the last few hours, Ron DeSantis has built the biggest lead in the betting markets that he has had this election cycle. When you ask people to bet on the question, who will win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination? The leader

is now Ron DeSantis. The way this works is these are betting contracts. So with DeSantis, you have to put up 41 cents to win a dollar if it's DeSantis, whereas with Trump, you only have to put up 33 cents to win a dollar. The idea being. The more you have to put up to win a dollar, the more likely an outcome it is. This is we have not seen these numbers at any point. It is the weakest that Trump has been in years. And the next question is, does this change Trump's plan to announce his candidacy on Tuesday? OK, let's now talk about Donald Trump's plan that he has made clear is his plan to announce

his candidacy on Tuesday at Mar-a-Lago. Donald Trump talking about initially that he might announce in Ohio. He then decided that that is not what he is going to do. And then in Ohio, he actually said, we are going to make the announcement on November 15th. So let's go through this step by step, starting with what Trump first teased in Florida a few days ago about Ohio. Take a listen. I will probably have to do it again, but stay tuned.

OK, so then the crowd cheers for a while, then Trump says the following. That's pretty good. Stay tuned. We have a big we have a big rally there. OK, so then people thought he's going to announce tomorrow. He's going to announce tomorrow did not happen because tomorrow, which was Monday, Donald Trump decided the announcement will be next Tuesday. I'm going to be making a very big announcement on Tuesday, November 15 at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.

OK, so as recently as yesterday, Donald Trump was appearing on TV and still saying, I'm going to do it. This is the latest. All right. Well, we're talking about your announce. I do want to bring up something a lot of people been talking about. You've had so many rallies. This is not sped up, by the way. This is normal speed.

Last year, huge rallies that we've seen. We've covered many of them here on Newsmax. But you said that you're going to do this at Mar-a-Lago on November 15th. Why the significance of announcing at Mar-a-Lago? Well, I actually would have preferred doing it at a rally, but I didn't want to take away from J.D. I didn't want to take away from anybody else that, you know, was at the particular rally. Even Marco's rally was so great. It was unbelievable in Miami. Right. And I would have preferred it. And then I said, you know, I take away I also

take away maybe from the day, which is today, because, you know, you're talking about a big announcement. So I just felt that maybe it was better off doing it where it's by itself a little bit. And it's just a few days, actually one week, exactly one week later. And a lot of people are going to be there. But I really like the idea of doing it at a rally because, you know, when you have 40, 50000 people and you make that kind of an announcement and they're all saying, do it, do it. They're screaming last night. Do it.

But so what I did last night is that I'm going to do it. We're going to make a really, I think, statement that people are going to be very happy about. Yeah. So the question now becomes, do the results from last night change this plan? If you're Trump, I don't think they do, because Trump is the endless narcissist, as we all know. I think you can't sit Trump down and say, listen, sir, as he always claims, people say to him, you engaged, you engaged, you endorsed Tudor Dixon. She lost badly. You endorsed Dr. Oz. He lost. You endorsed Doug Mastriano. He lost. You endorsed Blake Masters and Carrie Lake.

TBD TBD. We don't know what's going on there. You endorsed Herschel Walker. As of this moment, he's losing. It will probably go to a runoff. And then who goes? What's going to happen? Who knows what's going to happen? It's not great. And sure, you endorse like 100 incumbents and they won, but incumbents tend to win. That's not really a big deal. Maybe you should consider not running. I don't know that even if you show Trump the numbers I just showed you in the last segment and show Trump what folks since the last segment, I think Ron DeSantis has potentially even gained a little bit. And you show Trump, listen, the betting markets increasingly say it is going to be Ron DeSantis, not you. If this is a contested nomination, I don't even know that in that case you necessarily can convince Trump not to do it.

It is clear that what was previously a silent feeling within some of the Republican Party that Trump is bad for the party is becoming a more publicly acknowledged feeling. Whether it actually changes Trump's plans next week, I don't know. If indeed the announcement happens, we will cover it live and make sure folks this this is the start of an insane two year period. At minimum, please make sure you're subscribed to our YouTube channel. More than three million people watch our clips and don't subscribe. We need everybody on board for what's coming over the next two years in the defense of the democracy that we must carry out. Make sure you're subscribed on YouTube. We're going

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There are increasingly Republicans who say Donald Trump shouldn't even run. And as we recently saw, the betting markets now feel that it is more likely that Ron DeSantis is the 2024 Republican nominee than it is Trump. But there are Trump sycophants, the Trump suck ups, the Trump brown nosers who are desperate to be Donald Trump's running mate. One such individual is radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been floated as a possibility for Donald Trump's running mate in twenty twenty four. We know that Donald Trump, after his falling out with Mike Pence, will not be choosing Pence to run with him in twenty four if indeed he chooses

to be a candidate. And there have also been rumblings of is it possible that Ron DeSantis would run or be Trump's VP? I don't think that's likely. Is it possible that Carrie Lake, if she becomes governor, would then try to become Trump's VP? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't like it. And Marjorie Taylor Greene is now framing this as DeSantis and Lake shouldn't abandon their states, abandon their states. This is very interesting. Marge is angling to be Trump's VP. Earlier, we also talked and we said if anyone steps into the political ring and tries to challenge President Trump as far as being the Republican nominee for 2024, we feel like it's political suicide. This is his party. This is his race to run. Do you want to share your thoughts

on that? Yesterday's results call that assessment into question, by the way. Absolutely. I think that it's clear and obvious. President Trump is the people's choice. He's the one that we elected in 2016. We reelected him in 2020 and we will elect him in 2024. What we need in this country, Brian, is we need strong Republican governors like Ron DeSantis. We need strong Republican governors like Ron DeSantis. We need strong Republican governors. We need Carrie Lake to win in Arizona. We need strong Republican governors to fight, stay in for eight years and save their states, not to abandon their states and try to run for president or any other big position.

So my- I wonder why she feels that way. This is for everyone, anyone that's considering running for president in twenty twenty four against President Trump, please support President Trump because we need him back in the White House. Yeah. And we need him to be the nominee so that he picks me to be his running mate. Only a Trump supporter would view other candidates engaging in the democratic process as an act of betrayal. Think about how backwards that is. Think about it. Marjorie Taylor Greene is saying.

If you don't simply lay down and let Trump have the nomination if he wants it, it's in some way a betrayal. If you're a governor and you say, I'm going to go run for president, you're abandoning your state. All of this stuff is completely self-serving. And by the way, Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to be VP despite the fact that she has done absolutely nothing for her constituents as a representative for the state of Georgia. They need Trump confirmed as the de facto candidate quickly because they want to put political pressure on the investigations that are taking place to try to end them. They have a lot of different reasons why they want Trump to very quickly announce and have everyone else get out of the way. If indeed Trump follows through with

announcing next Tuesday, that's part of the motivation. They want everybody to get out of the way. They want to use it to try to suppress investigations. But also they want to move on to this PR campaign for who will Trump choose as his running mate. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to be that person. All right. A couple other little things I want to check in on, and then we'll do just a brief election update based on the things that have happened while we've been filming today. Our good friends over at the Good Liars, that's Jason and Davram. They spoke to a woman recently who says that right now, Dr. Fauci is in jail in Guantanamo Bay. And it's not just Dr. Fauci. It's Obama. And it's also Clinton.

I go back to the question we've been trying to answer for a long time. When is it a cult member with a cult belief? When is it an ignorant person who simply misinformed if and if they're shown the truth, they will revise their views. And when is it mental illness? I don't know the answer. Let's see if we can figure it out here. What do you think about Anthony Fauci? Oh, my God, I can't even believe he made it this far.

No, I just the guy's gone. He's he's in Gitmo. So really, who else is in Gitmo besides Anthony Fauci? You know, you've got Hollywood there. You've got politicians. You've got elites. The Clintons are there. The Obamas are there. It goes on and on. I don't want to be the one to sit here and misquote somebody or say something. You don't want to say anything irresponsible. Exactly. or say something, but you want to say anything irresponsible. Exactly right. Like Fauci,

Clinton and Obama are currently at Guantanamo Bay. What do we do with this? What do we do? Is this we need better education? Is this we need antipsychotic medication? Like what is it that needs to be done? The most actionable takeaway at every election should be she probably voted yesterday, I guess. I mean, sometimes these people are super involved in this superficial way, but then they don't actually vote. But let's let's assume she voted yesterday. We need to be voting to counteract the vote of someone who thinks Dr. Fauci is in prison. Right. Someone emailed me and I don't know whether some of you think there's something to this. Someone wrote to me and said, you know,

David, there's a reason why it's mostly like baby boomer types who we see repeating this crazy conspiracy stuff that they get from Facebook and elsewhere. This is this is the view of one of our viewers. And what they said is baby boomers simply didn't grow up with the Internet and social media. People my age didn't grow up with it, but it's sort of cropped up when we were 10, 12, 14. And then people like my little sister's age quite literally grew up with it. And what this person said is a lot of folks just don't understand how to discern fake news and conspiracies and actual reliable information. They don't know how to discern reliable and unreliable Internet sources. A fake news website is designed just like

New York Times dot com, and they quite literally can't tell the difference. I don't know. Like, is that is that ageist? Is there something to the age thing? I mean, my mom's never calling me and falling for this stuff. So I don't know that that's really what it's about. But it was an interesting idea. Just so everybody knows, Dr. Fauci is not at Guantanamo Bay. Barack Obama is also not there. And neither Bill nor Hillary or even Chelsea Clinton are being held at Guantanamo Bay. One other. But speaking of psychosis, by the way, just one other thing. So many of you wrote to me and told me, David, something seems to have happened here with Mike Lindell, also known as Mike Pillow in related to the election, because he's been doing some really, really strange TV appearances

where he seems truly to have lost it. He claims he has all sorts of people who are here or there. I don't even know where. Yeah, it is weird. Here is a clip in which my pillow, Mike Lindell, from his airplane says he is somehow monitoring every race for fraud. Speaker 4 We're going to be watching every race. We're going to have the real time crime deaths going at Frank's Beach. Speaker 1 Is that real? Like, what could they possibly be watching? Speaker 4 You can watch me there tomorrow night. We are tracking every race by cyber.

I want all the bad guys out there to know through the Edison report we are watching and we also have another way to watch what's going on with the computers and the machines. So I'm putting them all on notice. Steve, they're all on notice that we are. By the way, you can turn in at the crime dot Frank speech dot com. Right. If you see any irregularities, you can report it to pillow. You see anything.

Turn it in there. Yeah. And people say to me, David, is that funny? Is that sad? Is it dangerous? What exactly is that? Mike Pillow appeared. Who the hell knows where it's so difficult to even understand where these

appearances are happening. This is something called victory. I don't even know what this is here. He says, you know, he's catching people red handed. This was as the election results were coming in last night. Or I want to bring in Mike Lindell. Mike, you got some interesting results you wanted to share. Go ahead. Yeah. Well, first of all, when you guys were talking before I was listening to you, who attacked our country and what is this all about? It's the CCP, the Uniparty, the Deep State, the globalists, and now the Democrat Party joining with all of us. Globalist. Here's what we have in our real time crime desk. If you have a graphic to put up, I'm going to show you just one of them.

And this is from the Democrat. So we're watching these races. Vance was one. Did you I don't even know what that was. I mean, it's that graphic he put up meant nothing. So Vance was one. I believe they early on they were taking it, taking Vance. And I think they just didn't put any injection because he totally overran the algorithm. Injection. We're watching these races and it's like real time crime. I call it a crime spike. And then you get these crime spikes and everybody. Yeah. So listen, is that psychosis? I have no idea. Not qualified to diagnose it. It certainly would be funny if it weren't sad. And more importantly, it's extremely dangerous because weren't sad. And more importantly,

it's extremely dangerous because he has followers. And in all seriousness, I don't understand how his family can't get him some help and get him out of this endless loop. It has been years now. And Pillow has said, I miss my time with my family because I'm flying around doing all this stuff. I'm pouring. I think he told me during our interview, 30 something million into this stuff between lawyers and tech and who knows what the hell else. At some point, you would think his family could get him some help, but it does not seem to be happening. We have a fantastic bonus show for you today. Oh, the bonus show where you want to make money. Everybody else that makes

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Trump didn't really endorse DeSantis. He sort of begrudgingly did on Monday. And DeSantis very much overperformed and was reelected governor. Meanwhile, many of the people Trump picked lost. So we're going to talk about that. And then we are also going to talk about where abortion was on the ballot yesterday. It mostly saw voter support. And that is not shocking if you understand the polling data, but interesting to see in a broader context, all of those stories and much more on today's bonus show, folks, this is the start. This is the start of what will be an insane two years in American politics,

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