The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 595 - Strange Things Are Happening

Episode Date: November 4, 2020

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the election is not determined yet, but the result, whatever it is ultimately, is already far from what the media and the polls predicted. How did they get it so wrong? And do we have to be worried about voter fraud? What else can we determine based on what we know so far? If you like The Matt Walsh Show, become a member TODAY with promo code: WALSH and enjoy the exclusive benefits for 10% off at https://www.dailywire.com/walsh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today on the Matt Wall Show, the election is not determined yet, but the result, whatever it is ultimately, is already far from what the media and the polls predicted. How did they get it so wrong again? And do we have to be worried about voter fraud? What else can be determined based on what we know so far? All these questions and many more we'll talk about today. But first, a word from our friends at Rock Auto. I tell you about Rockado.com all the time. And there's good reason for that. They're just a great company, a great service. It's really as simple as that. I use them all the time myself because Rockotto.com is so much easier than walking into a store and someone demanding quick answers to things like, is your Odyssey an LX or an EX? And then they usually just have to order it online anyway because there are so many types of cards, it's impossible to keep them all stocked. You have access to rockauto.com at your desk, in your pocket, rock auto.com always offers the lowest prices possible, rather than changing prices based on what the market will bear like airlines do in other industries. Why spend up to twice as much for the same parts? It really is simple as that. Like, say you happen to need a Delphi FG 1456 fuel pump assembly, you know, like I need that kind of thing all the time for a 2005, 2010 Honda Odyssey, and it costs like $354 at a big chain store.

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All I can do is tell you my own thoughts. And I'm desperately hoping that as I speak these words, they will not be made irrelevant by events developing in real time. Of course, it's better for the country if we get legitimate clarity and closure, but it would be bad for the reach of this episode of my podcast. And really, what's more important? The country or my podcast. It's a toss-up at least.

I think we can all agree on that. So in any case, let's talk about what we know. We know that there was no Democrat blue wave landslide. There was no overwhelming repudiation of the evil orange man. The American people did not run smiling and weeping with open arms towards Marxism. There was also no Republican landslide, though no credible person was forecasting or expecting that. No credible person was forecasting a Democrat landslide either, though lots of people were forecasting and just no credible people were. The problem is that most of the people who do the forecasting in politics, just like most of the people who do the forecasting of our weather, are not credible and not reliable and are wrong more often than they're not.

In this case, as you've probably heard, the polls were absurdly wrong, especially in states like Florida and also elsewhere in the country. As I said on the election special last night, if you watch that on DailyWire.com, at this point, we have to view pollsters the same way we view like hotline psychics. A person who identifies themselves as a pollster ought to be greeted with all of the same respect and deference as Ms. Cleo. I'll put it this way. If pollsters still have a job after this election, then I want to be one. I am leaving the Daily Wire to work to be a pollster. Or maybe I could be the Daily Wires official pollster. It would mean that I can say whatever I want.

I can be wrong nearly 100% of the time and still get paid. Which on second thought already pretty much describes what I do. So I guess I don't need to change. But either way, the polls are a laughing stock, and you will be a laughing stock yourself from henceforth, should you quote them. Why are the polls wrong? Well, maybe the methodology behind drawing sweeping conclusions about hundreds of millions of people based on phone conversations

with 900 registered voters is fundamentally flawed. And maybe there are only certain kinds of people who will even talk to a pollster in the first place and that selection bias makes the conclusion useless. Maybe it has something to do with all that. I don't know. What else do we know? We know that President Trump, win or lose,

actually made gains with minority voters, especially Hispanics. We know that the Democrats massively underperformed in important Senate races. Republicans seem poised to keep the Senate. Again, even if Biden wins, these are major defeats for the Democrats. Why did it happen this way? Well, there are a number of easy answers. They ran a guy who has dementia for one thing. That's a problem. That has to factor in. The Democrat Party also, over the last several years, rather than expanding their coalition to bring more people under the tent, has done the opposite and narrowed their message and appeal. At this point, seemingly trying to target a coalition of media pundits, college professors, 19-year-old white girls who have nose rings and dye their hair on natural colors,

and BLM activists. Of course, there's a lot of crossover in those groups. I mean, some people are all of those things. But that's been their focus. Critical race theory, gender theory, screaming incessantly about America's evil past, systemic racism, transgender eight-year-olds. These are the kinds of issues and arguments and ideas

and concepts that the Democrat Party has presented. It doesn't have a wide appeal, it turns out. the appeal is certainly wider than I'd like for it to be because I think it should have an appeal that extends to zero people. But it's not as wide as the Democrats thought and hoped. When it comes to the minority vote specifically, we know that the left ever since the formation of Black Lives Matter has decided that Black Lives Matter, the organization, is the same as black people. The two are interchangeable in the minds of the left, which is why if you criticize Black Lives Matter, as I'm sure you've noticed, you're also criticizing Black People, according to them. It's racist to attack BLM, they told us, because they draw no distinction between BLM, the organization, and the demographic group it supposedly represents. But there is a distinction. Just look at what BLM stands for. Defeating the nuclear family, trans rights, that sort of thing, these aren't the priorities of average black voters and black families. These aren't the priorities of average voters and families of any race.

But Democrats put all black people into that box, operating as if to be black, to be black, is to be a radical leftist. This is a failing strategy, and they're losing their grip on the minority vote because of it. And that, again, is the case, no matter how this election shakes out. But, of course, all signs point to leftists learning exactly the opposite sorts of lessons here.

Like, here's a tweet from a Democrat operative on Twitter, David Adkins. He says, progressives will recriminate against centrist and vice versa, but all dem factions have to contend with this. Turnout was high. The Prague base, showed up like Prague's want. There was huge cross-partisan outreach, like moderates won.

But Trump activated a massive racist-sex-sex vote. I hate to admit it, but this election is less about what anyone on the left-center left-slash-center-left did wrong, but rather than the extraordinary challenge we have in defeating this fascist movement. Sure, there are things we can do better immediately, most especially dealing with what went wrong with the Hispanic-slash-Latino vote, figuring out how to close the gap between our candidates and support for progressive issues, but there frankly aren't a lot of great options. Because what it looks like right now is that Dems were soft with POC men who like Trump's toxic masculinity. Do we really want to cater to that?

Pander more to the anti-chevistas. Dial back our effort on police reform and submit to the blue line flag folks? No easy answers. If your answer is to go farther to the center, you have to deal with the reality that neither the Biden nor Clinton's strategies really worked. The cross-partisan alliance of decency didn't materialize. If your answer is to go farther left, well, look at Florida or the rest of the bright side. The country is clearly trending away from them. The Senate and electoral college are saving them, but it's not trending away fast enough to overcome an enormous backlash from people who simply refused to give up

white supremacy, toxic masculinity, and hardcore evangelical Bible thumping, who are literally happy to suffer hypothermia and die with tubes in their throats for it. Did you get that? The problem is that a lot of minorities are sexist. America is racist. Everyone's a bigot. And the solution, presumably, is to be even louder and more obnoxious hectoring scolds. And to work harder to get men, especially black men, to hate themselves and their masculinity. Yes, that's the key. That's the ticket. Glad to see they've learned something.

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offered for this. Why would you stop counting? Why would you stop updating in the middle of the election? The best I've heard is that the counters were tired and needed some sleep. I'm sorry, that doesn't cut it. Tired? You got sleepy? This is a presidential election. Nobody cares if you're tired. You can't leave the country in limbo so you can grab some shut-eye. Have you never heard of working in shifts? There are many businesses, many types of operations that remain open 24 hours a day. Walmart does it? Your local 7-Eleven finds a way to do it. Does that mean that none of their workers ever sleep? No, it means they work in shifts. So you might think about that. just doesn't wash. And then we start reading reports like this, this here, about large chunks of ballots, in this case, over 100,000 ballots in Michigan being counted and breaking 100% for Biden. This was a 100,000 vote chunk, apparently reportedly, with not one single Trump vote, not one. How is that possible? How is that statistically possible? And there have been other possible signs of shenanigans too. And here's the problem.

This is why I'm concerned. And you know, if you listen to this show, you know, I'm not someone who runs around screaming about voter fraud all the time. That's not my thing, normally. But I am worried here, and I'll tell you why, aside from what I've already mentioned, Democrats already subscribe to a Machiavellian morally relativistic, ends justify the means worldview. Ends justify the means, of course, means that you can do anything you want.

Anything is morally permissible, as long as the result. is favorable. On top of that, Democrats have also convinced themselves that they're running against literally Hitler. They believe they are opposing Satan incarnate, the very manifestation of evil. So put all this together. Ends justify the means. And the end is to rid ourselves of a fascist dictator who's killed 200,000 Americans and seeks to turn us into a handmaid's tailed dystopia. Well, in that case, why wouldn't they cheat? If I had that worldview, that philosophy, and I thought I was going up against Hitler, I'd cheat too. Hell, even as a person who believes in objective morality, I'd still cheat to defeat Hitler, anybody would. Which means the only thing

stopping Democrats from cheating is not any moral compunction or any ethical discipline on their part, but the system itself. The system must stop them from cheating. It comes down then to how much faith do you have in the system. And your mileage on that score may vary quite a bit. I should mention I tweeted about the 100,000 votes in Michigan. I said it was concerning. And Trump retweeted it. And here's what that looks like now. You can see it here.

They censored my tweet. They called it misinformation. How could it be misinformation? I'm giving my opinion. I'm informing people. Am I misinforming people about my opinion? Is that the accusation here? So this is nonsense from Twitter.

A mere expression of opinion about the election now is misinterpreted. No, that's not misinformation. That's an opinion that our big tech overlords don't agree with and don't want you to see. By the way, I wonder if they'd censor me for expressing my concern over this, as Sean Davis of the Federalist shows, Pennsylvania will count ballots without postmarks received days after the election. It says right here, ballots received in the mail by November 6th without postmarks will count. Now, call me crazy, but I think voting should end to one. once voting ends. I think the conclusion of Election Day should be the conclusion of voting.

In fact, get this. Here's how crazy I really am. I think the beginning of Election Day should be the beginning of voting. The end is the end. The beginning is the beginning. I think all votes should be cast on Election Day in person. We can make exceptions for the military, but nobody else. Everybody else, if you're not on active duty in the military, should be at the polls in person with your bright smiling face on Election Day, or your vote doesn't count. That's the only way to protect the integrity of the system. That's the only way to ensure fast and honest results. That's the only way to have fair elections with minimal chaos. If you can't make the time to vote on the day of voting, then it wasn't that important to you. I mean, you got four years to plan for it.

If you got something that comes up that day and you can't make it to the polls, well, sorry, there's always next time. It's not going to kill you. You don't vote this year. No big deal. It's madness to have people voting for president weeks or months before the actual election and then continue voting after the election. It's just madness. I can tell you this. My opinion on this issue has been consistent and would remain the same, even if Republicans mostly voted by, you know, early or by mail. This has nothing to do with helping Republicans for me. This has to do with establishing a sane, fair, safe, honest system for voting. But what we all know is that if Republicans were the ones doing the early voting and mail voting,

Democrats would certainly oppose it. Remember, ends justify the means. It's all about the end's the result. That's all that matters. And that's what we're up against right now. Now, I kind of blew through our headlines, but I do have a daily cancellation, an election-themed daily cancellation to get to. First, before we do that, though, you know what we could all use right now? I think some rest, some sleep. I'm going on about two hours of it. The ballot counters, though, got a cool eight hours. Okay. And hopefully they rested well on a Helix sleep mattress. Listen, Helix sleep has a quiz. that takes just two minutes to complete. It matches your body type and sleep preferences

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semi-coherently and semi-awake about the election for 30 minutes. But I've decided to throw this in here briefly because there is a great candidate for cancellation. Not someone that just I am canceling, but that the voters of Texas have canceled yet again. And that is Wendy Davis. otherwise known as abortion Barbie, major political office. She's already done the House, the governorship, perhaps next to the Senate, the presidency. She plans to become one of the great losers of modern American politics.

And I hope she achieves that goal. I really do. Now, you may remember Wendy Davis. She's the woman who did that 13-hour-long filibuster in the Texas State Senate in 2013, trying to prevent a law that would restrict abortion in the state. She valiantly stood for 13 hours to defend the rights of abortionists to dismember infants. She failed in that too, ultimately, as she fails in everything, as Texas did end up passing abortion restrictions. But for that 13-hour period, and through most of the rest of her pitiful public career,

she established herself as a thoroughly bad person who would, if she could only manage it, climb atop the mass grave of thousands of dead babies in order to achieve esteem and political success. Wendy Davis is one of those aging, bitter feminist boomers, dissatisfied with her life, having never achieved success to match her ambition, and now set on trying to make the world a more violent, bitter, and selfish place, hoping to shape it to more closely resemble herself.

She represents basically everything that's wrong with modern feminism. In fact, everything that has always been wrong with feminism on some level, even from beginning. It is self-centered, anti-family, anti-child, has always been that way. It has no warmth, no love. It calls itself feminism, but ironically has no femininity. There is something so perverse and sad and just hideous

about watching a woman fight desperately to defend and promote violence against children. Now, maybe I recoil from it even more because I'm so used to seeing the opposite of my own life with my mother, my four sisters, now my wife. All of the women closest to me, love children, would die to protect children, would die for their own children, especially.

feminist talking points simply have no effect on them. They laugh. They laugh at feminism. It's an absurdity to them. They have the kind of grace and dignity and love that someone like Wendy Davis can't even understand. She can't comprehend it because she has such a hollow, shallow, empty person, as are all pro-abortion radical feminists. Hollow, empty, ridiculous. And so Wendy Davis, whose one great career triumph is to, what is the, what is the way,

to temporarily delay measures that would protect children is canceled. She has been canceled again by the voters. And I think few people in public life deserve it more than she does. Okay, this is normally where I would end it, but like I said, I'm all, you know, I'm all out of sorts as everybody is and I'm not really following the normal format. And I did, I just saw this. It just popped up on my screen as I was speaking. And, okay, this is from, this goes back to something. we talked about earlier, but I didn't know

it was quite to this extent. This is from the National Review. Here's the headline written by Zachary Evans. It says, Trump won the highest share of the non-white vote of any Republican since 1960, according to exit polls. And then it says, President Trump has won the highest share of non-white voters of any Republican presidential candidates since 1960. Roughly one quarter of non-white voters cast their ballots for Trump,

according to an Edison exit poll. If the poll is an accurate reflection of final results, Trump will have won over more non-white voters than any Republican since Richard Nixon, who won 32 percent of the non-white vote in 1960, but lost to John Kennedy. Trump will also have improved on his performance in the 2016 election when he won 21 percent of the non-white vote. That's over 10 percent that he's increased. It says Democrats have attacked Trump as racist, including during the 2016-2020 elections. Okay, we know about that.

However, the Edison poll showed that support for Trump rose among African-Americans, Asian, and Latinos, a particular 18% of black men voted for Trump in 2020 compared with 13% in 2016, and black women increased support for Trump from 4% to 8%. Trump also roughly doubled his share of gay voters. It appears that support among Latinos also helped Trump's victories in several key counties in the Sunbelt. Trump was able to score a win in Zapata, Zepeda, Texas. By 52 to 47% over Joe Biden, the county's population is 94% Hispanic. and elected Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016 by 65 to 32%.

All right, well, that is just incredible. That really is. You're talking about, now, you might say these numbers are still small. 8% of the black woman vote. It doesn't give the percentage of the gay vote, but we assume it's comparatively low when you compare it to the Democrats. But you're talking about a doubling of support.

And this is not happening in a vacuum. This is happening after four years. One of the primary attacks on Trump was that he's a racist. He's Hitler, like we talked about. He's a Nazi. If you're not a white male, he wants to throw you into the gulags or something. That's been the attack. We had BLM, we've got the riots and everything.

All of this is based on this. This has been their primary mode of attack. Their primary argument about Donald Trump is that he's a racist. And it hasn't worked. we could look at this and say it straight up did not work at all. It didn't convince anybody. The only people that were convinced by it were already convinced. You know, we can't, and even if they were, I mean, the black voters that voted for Democrats in the last cycle and voted for Democrats again, maybe they were convinced, maybe they weren't, maybe they already believed that Republicans are racist, whatever the case may be. But Democrats actually lost voters from that. You know, we already talked about why that is. But, you know, we already talked about why that is. But,

I really think this is worth of all the... Again, no matter what happens with the election, no matter if Trump wins or loses, and that right now seems to be very much up in the air. I'm not going to predict. I gave my projection yesterday that Kanye West would win the presidency.

That doesn't seem to have happened. In fact, I should mention that he did concede the race, I believe. I don't want to give misinformation and get punished by Twitter, but I think I saw that headline that he conceded the race. And we have to admit

that his path to victory probably at this point is very narrow. conceded. But anyway, so I'm still not going to give my prediction on that, but no matter what happens, this is, you want to talk about it, if there was any kind of massive repudiation or backlash or anything like that, it was here with the minority voters seeming to reject what the Democrats were selling. And why is that? Well, like we already discussed. I think one thing is probably for certain here.

Democrats taking this attitude, having this attitude, that if you're in this democratic, this demographic category, we own you. You are ours. You owe us your vote. What was it that Joe Biden said? If you vote, if you don't vote Democrat, you ain't black. Okay.

Unsurprisingly, that's not a convincing message. It's not just not convincing. In fact, it is maybe convincing. It's convincing in the other way. Nobody, whether you're black, white, or otherwise, nobody wants to feel like they have, they belong to a certain political party or they owe their allegiance to a party. Nobody wants to feel taken for granted, patronized, too.

I think the key with Trump is, um, Among other things, one thing that Trump does, and yeah, he's accused of being a racist and a sexist. But in fact, people that follow Trump and that have paid attention to him, you don't even have to pay that close attention to this. He talks to everybody the same. And yeah, he could be abrasive and vulgar and profane sometimes, but he's that way to everybody. He just, he approaches everyone exactly the same. this is not someone who panders. And so if you're a black voter, if you're a Hispanic voter,

he's going to give you the same pitch he gives everybody else. Yeah, he does a little bit of his pandering by saying, I'm the best president for black people since Abraham Lincoln and that sort of thing. But for the most part, his message to everybody is the same. Like the message, hate the message. It's the same to everyone. Whereas with Democrats, they're going to break you down into little categories

and this is their message for this group, and here's their message for that group. We talked about this on the show, and I think you can probably still go to Joe Biden's website and find it. But you go to Joe Biden's website, and you go to his plan for America, his agenda. And he's got a specific plan for every subcategory of people. He's got a plan for black voters.

He's got a plan for gay voters, Jewish voters, Catholic voters, older people, younger people, Hispanic, LGBT. He's breaking them all down. And here's Joe's plan for all these different groups. You got to segregate them in different categories, acting as though we don't all at the end of the day want basically the same things. I think that that, I hope, I pray, I think that maybe that is, there's finally some backlash to that. And finally, that method is breaking down. the intersectional House of Cards maybe is collapsing. If there is one big sort of wave,

one big thing to come out of this election, it's maybe that. I would hope and pray for that anyway. And you know, the other thing I would also say in closing is there are two things that most normal people actually value, despite what Democrats may tell you, and despite what they want.

family and country. People value other things aside from those, but those are things that people value. They care about their families, and also they do love their country, and they don't want to hate their country. It doesn't mean they think their country's right about everything. It doesn't mean they can't stomach any criticism of their country,

but feeling proud of your country. That's something that most people want and enjoy. You see the flag, you know, during the national anthem. Most people want to stand for the national anthem. And that's, it doesn't matter what your race is. And the Democrats, what do they tell you? Black Lives Matter. We're going to break down the nuclear family.

What kind of, you have to be far left crazy radical for that to be a priority in your life. Not only do you not value the family, but you actually see it as a negative. You want to destroy it. That's not how most people operate. And most people, I think, don't want to. want to hate their country. The thing that Trump does where he sees an American flag and he'll hug the American flag cradle in his arms, it's a little bit weird and corny, but at the same time, that's much more what people want to see from their president, especially, and how they feel

about the country. That's much closer to it than, you know, the athletes who are taking a knee and protesting the anthem. So maybe there's a, maybe there's something significant happening there, too, as I said, we're still getting the results and we'll find out. So who knows what the situation will be tomorrow when I talk to you again, but we will all continue praying and being vigilant in the meantime. Talk tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe. And if you want to help spread the word, please give us a five-star review.

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