The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guests: Salena Zito & Jason Whitlock | 10/27/20

Episode Date: October 27, 2020

Early voter turnout has already surpassed 2016’s totals, but the youth still aren’t turning out. Some Democrats are requesting to change their vote after hearing the Hunter Biden leaks. Kamala Harris laughed off notions that she’s the most liberal senator. Did Joe Biden mean to say George W. Bush or George Lopez? Reporter Salena Zito discusses the violence in Philadelphia and reveals the Pennsylvania and Ohio counties she’ll be watching on election night. Outkick sports writer Jason Whitlock argues why he believes many black men are leaning toward Trump and how many mainstream media viewers have no idea that Trump can actually be kind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, America. It's a podcast time and a good one today. We talk about the polls. We actually, we actually also, I mean, I'm, well, I was going to say I'm not a doctor, but I am a doctor. Right, Stu? Oh, yeah, that's right. Humanities. Yeah, so I can diagnose anything with the human condition at all. I'm going to be doing podiatry later this week, just stop by my office if you need some foot things. Anyway. What things? Kamala Harris, there's something deeply disturbing about her. There is something. She's got a nervous tick that we need to address, and we did in today's podcast. We also went over the polls six ways to Sunday. Selina Zito is with us. Selena is really focused on Ohio and Pennsylvania, and I thought she had some really good news for us.

All this and so much more on today's podcast. Don't forget to go to blazTV.com slash Glenn. Use the promo code Glenn. You get $30 off your subscription that lasts only until Election Day. So $30 off. The promo code is Glenn. PleaseTV.com slash Glenn. You're listening to.

We'll give you some good news. With 1,294,660 ballots cast, the GOP leads the early vote in Wisconsin. 42% GOP to 36% Democrat. About 46% of the estimated total votes of 2020 have been cast. In Wisconsin, you can register and vote the same day. Still a close race. Over the last few days, Republicans have stormed the polls and are beginning to take the lead in early voting in several states.

This data is derived from actual ballots cast. The sample size larger than any poll. They say it's very accurate in determining the voter preference. The data does not account for specific demographics or segments of the electorate that still have to vote. So that is good. They say what's worrisome for Democrats is the absence of youth voters. This is something that they always get wrong in the polls. Democrats are always expecting the youth to show up, the 18 to 29 year olds.

They don't usually show up. The only time it's ever happened is with Barack Obama. Voting is now up 309% from this time in 2016, then 2016. the raw numbers show the youth vote up in 2020 as a percentage of the electorate 18 to 29 year olds cast only 5% of the total vote in 2016 they were 17% of the vote the data suggests young people are not showing up at the same rate as they have in even 2016 good so yes this is a this is a good what happened in was it north carolina or south carolina there's the republicans are 10 points behind. Pat, I think you were saying that. What was that number? Yeah, he's, yeah, the Republicans are 10% behind.

And at the same stage in the 2016 election, Hillary was up by 13.5%. And who eight was that? And Trump still won. And it was that South Carolina? North Carolina. North Carolina. Yeah. It's, it's bizarre. I mean, it's like, you know, we mentioned this off the air, but in Pennsylvania, it's 64 to 25 Bighton.

Now, again, when we say Biden, we're summarizing here, it's just party registration. All these Democrats could be voting for Donald Trump. We don't know. But when it comes to party registration, it's 64, 25. And voting as compared to 2016 is up 955%. Wow. Now, this is what's so weird about this election. It's like, COVID changes all these rules.

Like, I don't know what you can take out of this. Honestly, I really don't know what to read into it. States right next to each other with the same demographic breakdowns. have completely different results. Like, I don't know what quirky thing is going on with the data or if it's just everyone is very indecisive. Well, who knows? But it's hard to read things out of early vote. If you go crazy with it, you'll get really excited or really depressed and you may, may very well be for no reason.

But so far, we are seeing massive numbers. I mean, way beyond anything we've ever seen. Over 60 million people have already voted. I mean, you're talking about, you know, they experience. expect about 155, 155 million here for the total? Might be the biggest turnout percentage-wise since 1908. Did you hear... Feels right.

Yeah. Did you hear that some Democrats now are asking for their ballots back? Yeah. After the Hunter Biden. Especially. They're allowing those people to go back in and get their ballots. It's legal in seven states. And Pennsylvania is one of them.

Michigan's another. So there are some swing states that you can. But you've got to consult your local, you know, voting authority and find out how you do that because it's different in every state. I find that amazing. Yeah. You know, for somebody who had voted early for Biden and then they see the news for them to say, that's enough for me to change my ballot, that doesn't bode well, I think, for Joe Biden if this news would have gotten out, which is why the press didn't do anything. I want to play something that I find really telling. Let's play from Kamala Harris, the two cuts.

Here's cut one of Kamala Harris on 60 Minutes. You're very different in the policies that you've supported in the past. You're considered the most liberal United States senator. Somebody said that. Actually, was Mike Pence on the debate stage. Well, actually, that nonpartisan, track has rated you as the most liberal senator. You supported the Green New Deal. You supported Medicare for all. You've supported legalizing marijuana. Joe Biden doesn't support those things.

So are you going to bring the policies, those progressive policies that you supported as senator, into a Biden administration? What I will do, and I promise you this, and this is what Joe wants me to do, this was part of our deal. I will always share with him my lived experience. as it relates to any issue that we confront. And I promised Joe, that I will give him that perspective and always be honest with him. Okay, stop.

So she is, so she is, I'm going to bring my lived experience, but here's the problem. You're the most liberal. Oh, my, my. Why is she laughing? Every time she is asked a tough question, she laughs.

Yeah. Listen to the next one. And is that a socialist or progressive perspective? No. It is the perspective of a woman who grew up a black child in America, who was also a prosecutor who also has a mother who arrived here at the age of 19 from India. Hardly anybody has that. Who also, you know, likes hip hop.

What do you want to know? Well, I want to give you the opportunity to address it. It's unsubes. Seriously, it's un-stop. It's unsettling. It's unsettling. She's going to be, make no mistake, she's going to be the president of the United States. If Biden wins. If Biden wins, she will be the president. I'm not saying that Biden's not going to be the president for a while, but he's not going to last for four years. We all know that. We all know that. This is the next president of the United States. And, you know, I'm really glad because when I said, the president was a socialist, I was called a racist. I'm glad to see now it's not racist. It's funny to be called a socialist. Oh, man.

Golly, no. I can't answer that, so I'm just going to laugh hysterically. Yeah. Well, everything you believe in is right from Marx. I mean, can you answer the question? I mean, you're belittling the honest question here. And there wasn't an additional thing said to joke or anything. He just started laughing hysterically in the middle of silence.

Oh, my sides. Stop. I can't take it. So some would say that you got in, cut a deal with Biden, that you would actually be the president. At some point, he would just step aside.

Oh! Right. Oh. So you're, are you at least a progressive? No. I don't know. I just, I just, I think maybe we should pay attention to that just a little bit.

By the way, the media has excused Joe Biden's apparent Bush Trump mix up. Did you hear about this? Yeah, I think he's talking about George Lopez. Yeah. No, I want to, I want to, I just want to play this from yesterday if we still have it. Could we play when Joe Biden. starts talking about we're going to have another four years of of Bush

George listen this is the most consequent not because I'm running because who I'm running against this is most consequential election in a long long long time and the character of the country in my view is literally on the ballot what kind of country are going to be

four more years of George Georgia he's going to find ourselves in a position where if Trump gets elected, we're going to be in a different world. Four more years of Georgia, George, George Lopez.

Yeah. That's what he's thinking. This is not being said by a nobody. This is the Washington Post. My gosh. The Washington Post is saying George Lopez makes more sense than,

you know, than George W. Bush does. Well, yes. Yes. that's true. But so does George the Curious Monkey. I mean, that's read every night. And we're going to have another four years of George the Curious Monkey. I mean, that doesn't make any sense at all. Not at all.

He was talking about George Clooney. He really likes George Clooney. And he was thinking about another four years of Clooney movies. What a ridiculous explanation for that. I'm going to have four years of George Jetson, walking the dog on that automatic treadmill. Holy cow, the press is just doing everything they can. Everything they can. Kamala, that's, uh, there wasn't anything.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Selina Zito is with us. She is the national political reporter for the Washington Examiner. a columnist for the Evil, New York Post and the co-author of The Great Revolt. Hi, Selena. How are you? Good morning, Sunshine. How are you? I'm really good. I'm really good. How are you feeling about what the New York Post is done with that Hunter Biden and those lies?

You know, I applaud, you know, our job as journalist is not to take a team over the finish line, but to come uncover the uncomfortable facts. And that is what the New York Post has done. And I think that it is incredibly telling that our cultural curators, all of them, this time it is social media, big tech, are punishing them for doing, essentially doing their job. And I think that when you meddle in things like that and you silence things like that, that you are doing not only a disservice to your consumers or your audience or whatever, but you are also stifling the ability for people to read about it. But, you know, people find ways to read about it. Yeah, I think they've made this story even bigger. Right.

Selina, let me talk to you now about Pennsylvania, a state you know very well. You've been traveling back and forth. You've been talking to people. There's a couple of things that we need to address. First of all, the riots in Philadelphia yesterday caused when police shot a black man who was not unarmed. It's coming at them with a knife. It was all on tape. Is this going to help or hurt in the election?

Well, I think that the challenge for Democrats in this instance, black vote has little trust in either party to have their back. And they're going to, I don't think that they're necessarily going to say this is Donald Trump's fault because it happened in Philadelphia and it happened in the city of Philadelphia. and the people that have sort of the control of the city of Philadelphia are Democrats. Yeah. Wildly corrupt city. It's much, much more local than national.

But what I'm asking you about is the, let's say, the suburban voters and the voters that look at Philadelphia and see riots on the streets, is this going to be good for Democrats? or bad for Democrats? Well, so here's what I think. I think suburban Democrats or suburban Republicans who could find no reason to come to vote for Trump are going to do one of two things. They're going to vote for Biden

because they think this, what happened is an extension of Donald Trump. I don't know why. But also Trump voters who are afraid of Biden's policies but face the peer pressure of living in the suburbs to vote not for themselves, but for their communities. And a lot of people don't vote ideology. They vote for the person who has their communities back. I think in that way that Trump benefits.

They either vote for him or they don't show up. So let's talk about Washington County, because you have an examiner article where Trump's 2020 coalition must come from in Pennsylvania. Talk to me about Washington County. This is the largest producer of natural gas among all of the counties and the second largest producer nationwide. It is sort of a boilerplate of what needs to happen in counties outside of Allegheny where Pittsburgh is located and outside of the Philadelphia Coler counties. Now, in town, there were 10 of them who were not convinced that Mitt Romney was a good businessman, who were convinced he was the guy who was going to actually come to their desk with a box rather than build a new company,

and Trump that he would be the guy that restarted things. And so they took a gamble and they voted for him. If there were 10 counties that just needed to turn out 2,000 more votes over what Romney did, and they did. Now up to, and he won't counties like Washington County, who have been dominant Democrats' registered parties for years, forever, since like the 1930s. Wow.

That's FDR and the New Deal Coalition came in. Now, Trump needs not only those 10 counties, which is also Erie, Luzerne, Westmoreland, Butler, and Beaver, but they need the additional counties that run across the top of the, state who are conservative counties, but they were up in the high number for Trump and gas workers who are like a liberal New York Democrat and a conservative. Now he has delivered needs is about 50,000 votes total of what I call heat counties. And no matter what happens in Philadelphia or in Allegheny County, that the Democrats have, not by

much, it's going to be close, but back of those voters plus the voters who put him in office in 2020. So those are the counties I'm watching election night. If they have a high turnout, or that is telling me that he is on the road to victory. So what do you, what does your gut tell you? Because he not only needs at least what he got last time, he needs an additional 3% of the vote to offset the numbers that have have changed since 2016. And I think if the president wins 5%, that's enough to offset any of the shenanigans or anything else. Does he have a – are you seeing signs that that's happening? Oh, gosh.

In 2016, I thought the signs were over the top. You know, I saw House and was one jump on the side, painted on the side. I saw Barnes, they saw a horse with Trump painted on the sign. This time, people don't have one sign. They have nine. They also have two flags and a four by eight in their front porch, awkwardly covering the front window. The enthusiasm is there.

And I want to be clear, he doesn't need three, Trump doesn't need three percent more of all throughout the state, just in those rural counties. So that's about two to three thousand more votes in some of these more rural counties. And if people go to selenazio.com, I lay it out completely like every county to watch. I wouldn't watch Philadelphia.

First of all, I don't even think they'll have their numbers in until at least Friday. What was the enthusiasm in the rural counties, which we are going to be able to see faster than Philadelphia and the Collar counties? Celina, I don't know what you're doing and who you're with, but I'd love to have you on our coverage for the election, if you wouldn't mind dropping in and telling us all about Pennsylvania and what you're seeing on election day. I would absolutely love to.

All right, Selena, thank you so much. She's the national political reporter for the Washington Examiner, columnist of the New York Post. She does dispatches from Ohio and Pennsylvania. By the way, do you have any information on Ohio, Selena? Oh, yeah. I wrote also at salinasita.com. It's about the third story down. I say if Ohio is about three to four percentage for Trump on election, the polls going into election day, the Democratic wave that people in D.C. and New York have them writing

about. And was honestly very possible. That means it's gone. and that means that Trump standing a better chance in Pennsylvania and Michigan and North Carolina states that are a little more democratic than Ohio. But if Ohio's coming in at like a 3 to 4 to 5 percent win for Trump, all things are even going into election night. What did he win last time in Ohio? I think it was. I actually think that it's going to be maybe 6% in Ohio.

And I did a good layout of Ohio as well a couple days ago for the examiner. If y'all just go to my website and check it out. Selena Zito Z-I-T-O.com. Selena, the polls are showing the exact opposite. Are you meeting very many people that voted for Trump last time and are not voting? voting this time for him? I've never met that person. You've never met that person.

I've never met that person. It doesn't mean they don't exist. I'm sure there is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's all kinds of social pressure, in particular, the suburbs. But what I tend to meet are people that, I mean, there is a story I have of the line of people in Cambria County,

home of Jack Murtha. You remember Jack Murtha. Yeah. This county has always been Democratic. registered county line of people who voted for Clinton and were changing their party registration to Republican. That is now a Republican county. It blows my mind. The Korea County, Johnstown, Pennsylvania is now a Republican county. Selina, thank you so much. God bless. She is, she's an amazing reporter and she is the one that said right after the election.

The problem is, is that the media took his words literally and didn't take him seriously, where the voters took him seriously, but didn't take his words literally. I thought that was a great understanding of Donald Trump right after the election. The best of the Glenn Beck program. Jason Whitlock, the host of Fearless with Jason Whitlock. He's a sports writer. He can be found at Outkick.com now. and Jason joins me now.

Jason, welcome to the program. I want to start with something you just wrote for Outkick, President Trump's Dragon Energy, in Tice's Ice Cube, Kanye West, 50 Cent, and other black men. Twelve years ago, when I trashed Sarah Palin in a Huffington Post column and across social media on a daily basis, no one cared. No one told me to stick to sports. Although a non-voter, my preference for Barack Obama and Joe Biden was quite clear. I'm still a non-voter.

but my preference for Donald Trump and Mike Pence now is quite clear. My critics passionately want me to stick to sports. My presidential preference is now offensive. I've sold out. I've changed. I'm a hypocrite. This Wednesday I visited the White House to interview President Trump. I wanted to probe him on why black voters, particularly black men, seem to be breaking from the facade that he is the grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. What's happening, Jason?

What's happening in the black community? African Americans speaks for itself. The record to stand, he had much of a record to stand on in terms of deliver for African Americans. As things he stands, he can stand on. And beyond that, I think black people understand when he starts talking about black unemployment rate and America's unemployment rate. And then when you just add in for black men,

the facade we've been putting on as a relationship. to President Trump is, is embarrassing to be quite honest with you. Yeah. To Jesse Jack, African American celebrities. It just, and people are having to deal with that. Black men, it's just his masculinity. You know, Jason, I got a lot of heat for saying, I don't know, about six or maybe, maybe as long as a year ago. I said that Donald Trump is the alpha male.

and that he is one of the only examples in public life outside of sports, perhaps, that is an alpha that doesn't mind saying, yeah, I'm a man, I'm all man. And you may not like the way he manifests that in some ways, but he's not ashamed of it. And we're living in a culture where we are told to be women. Men are told to be women or damn near. And he's not. he's not and I think that plays a role in the psyche of a lot of men population i think a pretty large segment we just don't buy that we we understand that way to be responsibly masculine yes

and there's a way to be irresponsibly masculine we need to be responsible but to paint all masculinity as toxic and evil and a detriment to the country is just wrong the black lives matters rioting looting, clasp matters, and all what we've seen all summer, based values. American values. Anti-American center. Because, listen, I love my mother. I lost me over a bridge for Barack Obama. But I'm constantly questioning her, like, hey, how do these policies coincide with our

religious faith? This is what's been at the foundation of our family. This is why you took me to church every Sunday as a kid. This is why I was baptized. things that you're supporting politically, it's so crystal clear now, they don't coincide with our religious base. What does she say? She just gets frustrated, and she thinks that to diminish race. Stand in biblicality. Sin entered the world, unfairness entered the world. Human. That just means they're a sinner like you. I've heard you say the wrong word.

But does that really drive your actions on a daily basis? And so can define almost anything as racist. Anything can be a dog whistle. So, but how do you, have you said to your mom what you said last week about Antifa being, you know, the modern day clan? You buy MSNBC and CNN? Yeah. Antifa, you know, maybe I heard something about it. Joe Biden said it was an idea. She hasn't seen, she doesn't know what's going on in Portland and Seattle every day. She doesn't know. Yeah. She doesn't know. Because her. that doesn't get into her bubble into her, and I've spoken at the church I grew up in, and I've actually support the church I grew up in, but I'm like,

we can't let politics become our religion. Amen. And I've asked my mother all the time, and I finally got her to quit, but I was like, you can't talk about Trump and Obama more than you talk about God. That's not, we can't be that. Some of it is starting to get through a present to give to my mother. and I told my mother this when I came back from, I said he gave you a key to the White House.

It's very nice. I'm going to send it to you. And she thought, I was like, no, my mom's serious. The reaction was like, she didn't. Or of an act of kindness. That's how much. And so, you know, she's at home. She's like a lot of old people watching a lot of TV.

And it kind of shook her up a little bit. Like, oh, my God, this guy is a human being. It's, you know, but Jason, it's weird because you, get, I get that reaction. I get that reaction from people who meet me. I mean, I had a guy that was so, that hated me so much that came into a meeting with me. His hands were shaking. He called me the devil when we first sat down. Forty-five minutes into it, he said, wow, I mean, you are nice. You're a nice guy. And he felt bad. He told everybody after I left the meeting. How badly he felt about saying those things. People just don't believe that conservatives, for one, and in some ways, you know,

Democrats are decent people. We just make them into these monsters. If you're on that side, you're a monster. That is, yes. And why does the political aisle? I know. And it's like we've legalized all of that. I know. And we used to live in a time where people could disagree politically, still see the humanity, each other, still love each other enough to get married. And now it's like, oh,

if we disagree politically, you're the worst human being on the world. That is how much social media and find each other on different sides of the political stripe as evil. And take someone like me, Glenn,

I'm not political. I've never voted. It drives my parents crazy. Well, drives me crazy, too. I wanted to ask you that. Why have you never voted? person of my word. And so if I say, hey, I'm going to do something. I'm really going to do it. And I'm going to hold you to that expectation. Politicians don't stick to their word.

To realize, take me three and a half years to realize it, like, the reason why I kind of halfway like Trump, he's not a politician. And it's like, oh my God, the stuff that he actually said he was going to do, he's actually tried to do it and has done a registered to vote here in Tennessee. if I hadn't, I think I'm to the point I would have voted this election. Oh man, the stuff he says, I'm going to do. I have to tell you, he called me, oh, I don't know, a year ago when I first started saying maybe a year and a half ago, when I first started saying I was wrong about him. And I was wrong about him because I didn't think he'd keep any of his promises because he was a, you know, he's a businessman in New York and there's no way he's going to keep his promises.

and I started saying on the air, he kept his promises and I think he's actually doing a good job. And he called me and he, you know, thanked me for that. And I said, no, you don't have to thank me. It's my responsibility as a decent human being to call, you know, call him as I see him. And I didn't like you at the beginning. And I didn't think that you were going to do anything. But you did. And so I've got to admit that.

And I said, but it doesn't mean I like everything. I said, your trade policy. He talked to me for probably 25 or 30 minutes about trade policy. He asked me really intelligent questions. He went back and forth with me. And in the end, he said, yeah, I still, I just like trade policies. So I'm still going to do them. He didn't say to my face what every other politician has ever said.

Well, you know what? I'm going to look at. I'm going to think about that. He didn't. He just said, I don't agree with you. And I loved that. I love that.

If he gets the second term, me of the people and fake news, I agree with it. I'd just like to seem to be a bit more kinder and gentler in his second term, where it has just be easier for people to focus on what he's actually done. Yeah. And what he's actually done, particularly for me as an African-American,

the support of HBCUs, the opportunity zones, his platinum plan. There's a sincere commitment. And again, the America first thing, as I told him in our interview, that's the number one thing for me. It was a factory worker. My dad was who then started a bar business in the inner city for factory workers. I want to do something about getting manufacturing jobs back here in the United States so that people like my parents can uplift their children.

Educations or some kind of white-collar job. Me and my brother, and I got a step-sister. very close to. All of us college grads, the backs of factory workers and manufacturing jobs, I love the American First Agenda. Innauguration speech, speeches I've ever heard, and he's speaking directly to you. Jason, I have to run, but I thank you very much for standing for what you believe in, whether we agree or disagree. Fearless with Jason Whitlock is exactly the right name for anything that you do. Thank you, Jason. Appreciate it. Thank you, Gila.

You bet. Bye-bye. Jason Whitlock, sportswriter, outkick.com is where you can find him. No, no, no.