The Young Turks - IT'S ELECTION DAY

Episode Date: November 6, 2024

Trump is already crying about fake election fraud. Joe Rogan endorses Trump on the eve of the election. Bernie Sanders says Democrats need to reflect on their direction after this election, win or lose. The View audience cheers as Whoopi suggests Liz Cheney should lead the FBI or CIA. " HOST: Ana Kasparian (@anakasparian), Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞  https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK  ☞   https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER  ☞       https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM  ☞  https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK  ☞          https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕MERCH  ☞      https:/www.shoptyt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Let's go! Election Day on the Young Turks. Jake, you granted and despair with you guys, live from Polymarket Studios. All right, guys, we've got an hour of the show ahead for you guys, and then we're going to go straight in election coverage. In fact, the election coverage has begun because polls just closed in Indiana and Kentucky. Those two states will obviously have no effect on the election, but still, still, okay, because we live in this insane electoral college.

I was just on a kind of a, on X, there's a thing called Spaces where it's like a big giant panel. It's just on with Elon Musk. I will tell you a crazy thing he said and debunk it in the first story that we're going to do in a second. I want all of you to know tonight, an election champion of the world will be crowned. Well, maybe later than tonight, because we're doing a contest on tyt.com. Oh my God, you got to be at tyt.com. Because not only are you getting the stream there all night long, but you're also going to have Jordan's blog where you're going to get all the updates, the exit polls, all the election

stories that are rolling so you don't need to go anywhere else. We're playing a fun game where you get to be election champion. If you get closest to electoral count, it's really how many swing states they win, plus House and Senate. So make sure you're checking that out. I'm going to declare the election champion on air. 20% off today. If you become a member through the site at t-y-t.com, you just go to the homepage super easy. There's so much more to tell you guys about all the things that are going on. I'm just going to give a real quick shout out to all the people who just join as we always do. The Toe 301, Dinahs, Arsito, Philippi Alves, yoga dragon, Verino

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What are you doing my home state? Let's go. Let's go Nebraska representing. So check that out of t.com slash hope where there's also a watch party. So much to get to, Anna, let's get started. Well, we have a little bit of foreshadowing in regard to what the chaos could be if this is a close election because Donald Trump is already claiming that there are issues with the electoral process. So let's get into those details. Of course.

Donald Trump is already alleging that there is voter fraud, of course, with no evidence. Now, let's go to his truth social post where he alleges that there's a lot of talk. about massive cheating in Philadelphia, law enforcement coming. Okay, so it's unclear exactly what he's referring to, but we suspect that it has to do with a glitch when it comes to some of the voting machines in Cambria County, but that has actually been dealt with in a way that I think is excellent because rather than relying on the voting machines, they're going to rely on hand counting the votes. So there was a software malfunction in the morning that caused some long lines at a few

of the voting places. And so officials said that the scanners were actually unable to read the code around the ballots and that the votes would need to be counted by hand instead. And as a result, a judge stepped in an extended voting by two hours until 10 p.m. local time. Now according to reporting from the Washington Post, counting will take place. Tuesday evening, meaning tonight, at the county courthouse in the presence of observers from both political parties, and that's according to Ron Robertson, who's the director of community development for Cambria County. And I just want to be clear that while Donald Trump is claiming

that there's like voter fraud taking place in Philadelphia, Cambria County is obviously not where Philadelphia is located, but nonetheless, there's no evidence that there's anything wrong happening in Philadelphia, besides which I would be shocked if Philly went for Trump. But I'm curious what you think, Jake. Yeah, look, so first of all, when you announced the world, we just saw this on mainstream media and it was reported by a Democratic official that this thing went wrong. Well, by definition, it's not cheating. If you're doing cheating, you Democratic officials don't turn you in.

Democratic officials do the cheating under your theory, right? And you mainstream media, you know, they certainly think is democratically controlled. If that's the case, then why would they report it? Why do we all know about it? No, every instance of so-called cheating or fraud, et cetera, is because we caught them. And some of them were about, as we reported earlier, not today, but just registering, not actually the votes themselves. All these are tiny little things that are easily explained.

Look guys, if there's actual giant problems, you think like, you know young Turks, you think we're like, oh yeah, Democrats are cheating, great. No, we'd call them out instantly and we'd be furious about it. And in fact, we'd call them out on the primaries left and right a hundred times over. That's another story that's coming up later in the show about it. So this is all nonsense. And in fact, CBS is reporting Anna, they reported it earlier today that Donald Trump is preparing to declare victory before anyone knows.

who won, which is, of course, he's always going to lie. Even his own supporters knows he's a pathological liar. They all know he's going to declare a victory, whether he won or lost or got landslided. That's obvious. The scary part is apparently a lot of Republicans in the House are saying they won't certify the election if Trump lost. Of course, if Trump wins, they'll certify the election right away. Well, that's how you know they're the cheaters.

So it's not close. It's not close. If you're talking about controlling mainstream media, yeah, that's more Democrats in different ways. If you're talking about how terrible their primaries are, yeah, that's the Democrats, right? Well, you're talking about general election, all these nonsense claims of voter fraud and cheating when it is at most a microscopic part of the vote. Yeah, so I want to be clear, absolutely no evidence of cheating, no evidence of voter fraud. But I will say, I'm happy that the judge stepped in and extended the amount of time that people in the county can cast their ballots. That means that it's going to take a little longer for us to know the results, of course.

But there is, of course, the downside of individuals who are waiting in that long line, but had to leave because they have to go to work. So hopefully those individuals go back to the polling place and cast their ballots. They will have the ability to do that because the time has been extended by an additional two hours. So two quick things about that. So look, I'm always in favor of extending because I want to let as many people vote as possible. And that doesn't matter if it's a Democratic district or a Republican district. And Republicans usually do this trick where they send in, if they control the state, they send in much fewer voting machines to Democratic areas like colleges, et cetera.

So they make the Democrats wait on gigantic lines as a way of doing voter suppression. That's almost ubiquitous in all of these elections. I want everybody to vote. Of course, the ironic thing is then the Republicans will turn around and go, oh, it's taking too long, stop to steal. Just declare Trump to win it. Just declare Trump the winner. No, that's not how it works.

You have to actually see who voted. So I'm on the side of let them all vote as much as humanly possible within the rules. The other thing I wanted to just quickly mention is the pettiness of the Trump campaign revoking media credentials for journalists who have been critical of Trump. that appears to have happened in regard to the watch party that's taking place at Trump's West Palm Beach, you know, resorts or residents. And so this report is incredible. It's from CNN. They report that journalists from Politico, Axios, Puck, Voice of America, and Mother Jones were among those denied credentials. Some like Politico had actually been

previously granted access to the Tuesday night event only to have the decision reversed. Politico's team of reporters and a photographer were initially approved to attend the event, but on Tuesday morning, we're surprised to find that they had been denied credentials. A person familiar with the matter told CNN, the person suggested the decision was made in response to an article in Politico magazine, which reported that a Trump campaign field director was fired for being a white nationalist. So, look, it doesn't surprise me. This is the kind of thing that Trump himself has threatened journalists with. And so, you know, of course he would, the campaign at least would revoke press credentials

for anyone who's been critical of him in their reporting. And this is a watch party, I mean, it's kind of ridiculous to not have different voices and a diversity of media outlets there to report on it, but this is what Trump wants, this is what the Trump campaign wants, and it doesn't surprise me whatsoever. Yeah, so Mr. Freedom of the Press, freedom of speech, it doesn't. doesn't talk much about the press, but he's always like, freedom of speech. Oh, the Democrats want to cancel you. He's like, here's the list of reporters I'm canceling.

Don't let him in the building because I hate freedom of speech. Thank you for at least accidentally acknowledging that. What I'm on to mention about the last thing that we're talking about is there was five bomb threats called in in Georgia. So now I hesitate to tell you who authorities think called it in. They think that it's people that are connected to Russian propaganda. And so because the right wing will go, no, you said the magic word rush. I just immediately closed my mind. But it doesn't really matter who called it in.

They're calling in in democratic areas so that they could prevent more Democrats from voting. Now, the media being mean to you is not election interference. Calling in bomb threats so that people can't vote is election interference. So that's just terrible and disgusting. I hope none of that ever happens in these areas. unfortunately, it has already to some degree. So Tricia Briggs, a member on YouTube, hit the join button below, be part of the show. It makes my favorite point.

God, Trump is such a whiner. Everything is wine, wine, wine, wine. I can't understand for the life of me how Maga thinks that's a strong guy and that he's their alpha leader. That's your, that crying guy in the corner is your alpha leader? Please. There is someone pretty big who sees Trump as the alpha leader, and that's Joe Rogan. He has now made an endorsement. Let's get into it. I think this was the last election.

If Trump doesn't win, this is the last election. I think you're right. Yeah. I think you're right. And I think people and a lot of people are waking up and realize that, that have been lifelong Democrats. Well, Joe Rogan has officially endorsed Donald Trump. That's a bit of the endorsement that you just heard in this episode that he hosted with Elon Musk. Now, Rogan announced the endorsement in a tweet as well, promoting his interviewer.

with Musk saying the great and powerful Elon Musk, if it wasn't for him, we'd be effed. He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you'll hear. And I agree with him every step of the way. For the record, yes, that's an endorsement of Trump. Enjoy the podcast. Now, what did Musk say exactly that Rogan might have found compelling? He said a lot of interesting things, including claiming that there will be no more elections if Kamala Harris gets elected?

Because why not? Why not? Why don't we just engage in weird hyperbolic nonsense? Saying that Kamala Harris will shut down X completely if she wins by seeking the justice department on them. And also saying that Trump got roasted too hard at the White House correspondence dinner. Now, Rogan acknowledged that Trump is not a perfect campaign. In fact, in the past, he was on the record saying he didn't even want to host Donald Trump on his podcast because he didn't want to help Donald Trump.

But eventually, obviously, he did have Trump on his podcast. That might have swayed Rogan as well. But Rogan excused all the crazy BS he spews by saying that he just doesn't have time to figure out the truth. Let's take a look at what he had to say. Look, he I don't think he has the time To go into things like very deeply Yeah

And so I think he could probably be influenced by a bunch of people Like these Marjorie Taylor green type people Come to him with some wild ass theory Sure He might be And I think there's a lot of that stuff That gets fed to people on purpose So that they'll say incorrect things

So that they're easy to dismiss And I think There's also a lot of people that just make up And, you know, they tell you the earth is flat. And then a bunch of people watch a YouTube video and they believe it. So we're going to take a trip back to the memory lane and remember some of the things that Rogan had to say about Trump previously. But, Jank, I really think this is about the fact that, you know, he had Trump on the podcast, he had Vance on the podcast, he had Elon Musk on the podcast. I watched Trump's appearance.

I watched about half of Vance's appearance. I didn't watch any of Elon Musk's. But the reason why I bring that up is they had friendly conversations. They seem to enjoy each other's presence and company, and that's going to leave an impression on Rogan. In fact, one of my critiques of Rogan has always been that he's very impressionable and tends to just agree with the last person he spoke to. So, look, am I being too critical when I say that, you know, Harris might have made a mistake by not going on the podcast? Yeah. Look, let's come back to Harris, because Harris is an interesting case, and especially in regards to Rogan. First, let me address the things that Elon and Rogan said.

So it's cuckoo for cocoa puffs. So later in the program, we're gonna tell you about how the Democrats did some cheesy moves in the primary, which is classic Democratic Party. But the idea that if the Democrats win, there won't be any more elections is just nuts. No Democrat has ever said that, no Democrats ever gone in that direction. In fact, the Democrats have the opposite problem. The Democrats usually do very little when they're in office. The idea that they would upend the entire system and really anger their donors, you don't

know the Democrats at all, at all. It's just a totally mindless, ridiculous, purposely stupid conspiracy theory, because it's Elon going, oh yeah, just because Trump says he'll end the elections, oh yeah, Kamala's going to end the elections, ha ha, I got you, now we're even. No, you're not even, and you sound like a child who knows nothing about politics. And so I was just on something called Spaces on X. Those are like the audio panels that they have, and then Elon joined in. And of course, everybody on X is like, reveres him.

And they're like, Elon, and every question started with, sir, you are the greatest. Can I please tour your facilities? And oh, thank you for existing and letting us bask in your presence. I'm like, guys, you're the tough guy populist standing up to the establishment. this is the richest man in the world and he's in my opinion obviously manipulating you for his own financial reasons we're trying to get back to anyways he comes down and goes oh yeah we're easily going to win because they're all pumping in the idea that Trump is already won it's just a matter of how is the media and the establishment going to deal with it so what is their

theory on that their theory is well since there's so many less mail-in ballots this election cycle, especially in Pennsylvania, as opposed to 2020, that must mean that Donald Trump is going to win because he wins day of voting historically. So since not a lot of Democrats mailed it in, well, that's it. The Republicans are going to win. Except in 2020, there was COVID. And that's why the Democrats who were afraid to go outside did massive mail-in voting. Of course there was going to be less mail-in voting in Pennsylvania and everywhere else in

this election by Democrats and Republicans. Like, do you not know that and you're like a rank amateur who thinks they know something about politics? Yeah. Or are you lying on purpose? It's just, it's in my opinion, irresponsible for anyone to claim like, and I get why people do it, right? Like they want to put optimism out there in regard to their preferred candidate, you know,

get their base jazzed up and make it seem as though there's no way that your preferred candidate is gonna lose. I see it happening on the Democratic side as well. The truth is, guys, guys, the truth is we don't know, okay? Like, I don't want to make any predictions because the polls are so close, looking at the average of polls. Yes, I get it. There's that Iowa poll, which is a bit of an outlier that shows Kamala Harris winning

in Iowa. And I get that that pollster has a good reputation, but it's one poll, and you can't put too much weight behind that. I have no idea who's going to win. The aggregate of polls, the average of polls, indicates that it's one. very close to the detriment of the country, honestly, because I'm worried that if the race ends up being too close, there's going to be like a lot of fighting. It's going to be contested. We'll see what happens. But I just, I can't make a prediction. What do you think?

So look, we started the program today at noon Eastern. The first thing that Michael Shore and I did, and Michael's hearing is going to give us up-to-date results from the election as we get going here. The very first thing I did was did my official prediction. And my official prediction was, I don't know, I don't know. Number one, the polls are absolutely tied. Number two, there are unlikely voters on both sides. Historically, Trump brings them out, 2016, 2020, but Democrats in 2022 and special elections in 23 brought out the unlikely voters.

Both sides have data on there, have some data to back up what they're saying. We've been over a million times. I think Anna and I seem to be the only ones. who say no idea and there's really no way of knowing, but everyone disagrees. So like Democrats and some of our own analysts and hosts say Democrats are definitely going to win. Kamala Harris is definitely going to win. Some are less sure, like likely going to win, etc. I go over to the, I'm bilingual. I speak both languages, right? So I go over to the whether it's spaces, X, other places that I interact with right wing. Oh my God, guys, you have to

understand, they are so positive that they're going to win. They think they've already won. So both sides, in their own bubbles, 100% believe they're going to win. So one side is going to get absolutely shocked tonight. They're going to fall over from like disbelief. Well, maybe not tonight because it's unlikely that we're going to know the full results of the race tonight, right? Well, I'll just say this, though, yes and no. Because you remember, Pennsylvania is going to close in about an hour and 10 minutes. No, sorry, my clock in here is wrong. In about an hour and 40 minutes, if I'm, this clock is throwing me off. Okay, sorry, it's going to close soon. Okay, so that was a great moment there. Anyways, when Pennsylvania closes, you know, I doubt that

8 p.m. Yeah, 8 p.m. local time. Yeah, and right now it's 620 local time, so an hour and 40 minutes, okay? So, so when it does, I don't know that it gets called immediately. I don't know that it gets called tonight, et cetera. But if it, if one of them has much more unlikely voters than we expect, if one side is correct about how certain they are they're going to win, that they're going to win big, Pennsylvania can get called in a couple of hours, and this thing's over, right? So Pennsylvania will not decide it on its own, but whoever wins Pennsylvania has a massive advantage, intensely likely to win, right? There's a couple of different ways we'll get into it and just a little bit about different

ways to win without Pennsylvania. So it might drag on for a week or it might be over in an hour. So you don't know. Now back to Anna's question about Conlon Harris. Conlon Harris and Tim Walls should have done infinitely more media and way more interviews. You know who would have been great on Joe Rogan? Tim Walls. Yeah, I agree.

You know? So another story we have in the run on, I hope we get to Tim Walls interacting with Trump voters, oh my God, it was gold. He was so good at it, because he's the only one out of the four that's a real human being. And you could have a real conversation with him and he could tell you he's a knucklehead, but then he'll know so much about farming and he can prove that he got things done in Minnesota. But should Kamala Harris have gone on Rogan? I don't know, Kamala Harris is a mystery to me.

I don't know that she could do a three hour interview. I don't know that she could have a real conversation and sound like a normal human being and not a fake politician. I'm being honest. She'd have to be comfortable dropping the, you know, the canned talking points and all of that and just have a conversation. Just like let loose, let go, have a good time. And look, I hear what you're saying about Tim Walls being the only real person, right? Because he comes across as a genuine, sincere, normal American. But I will also say that from what I saw, you know, J.D. Vance did a good job presenting himself as like the every man, like, you know, like a normal person himself. Like he handled that

conversation really well. You might disagree with his politics and his policies. And I hear you on that. That's not what we're talking about. Just the way he presented himself. He came across as way more likable in that conversation. Yeah. So everybody's a little bit different, guys. So J.D. Vance is by far the best actor out of the four of them. So he's got his roll down pat. Remember, he's a venture capitalist, and his main goal in winning here is corporate tax cuts and deregulation. So he's a giant, like a person who helps corporate world and corporate rule in an enormous way, right? But when he talks, he's like, oh, yeah, I'll tell you, you know, I got this mom and I got this grandma.

I got the cemetery where I buried all my family because I'm the zodiac. No, okay, that's Ted Chris. None of that came up. So he seems like he's being genuine if you're not well versed in it. Kamala Harris is the worst of them in terms of acting. Donald Trump, no, actually to be fair, Donald Trump is the worst acting. He can't act if his life depended on it because he'll just admit everything. He'd be like, you know, he's who he is.

He is, and it comes across very clearly in every media appearance that Trump does. Yeah, he's like, my advisors told me not to say this, but I'm gonna protect women even if they don't like it, okay? Yeah, well, all right, well, you're not acting, you seem like a legitimate clown and scary person. So, so they're all different, but the bottom line is media, especially interviews, are worth their weight in gold, literally. Getting a half a minute ad on Rogan or ABC or CNN can cost you a fortune, right? Going on there and talking for three hours is the equivalent of tens of millions of dollars in free media. So the Democrats turning that down is totally irresponsible.

Plus, Anna's right, Rogan is so impressionable. If Tim Walls went on last, he might have endorsed Kamala Harrison Walls, right? Instead they just let the other side take that audience. To be fair, that audience was already plus 35 Trump. how Trump took the news that Rogan decided to endorse him over Kamala Harris. Let's take a look. So somebody that's very, very respected asked me to do his show two weeks ago. And I said, why not?

And to me, it's very big because he's the biggest there is, I guess, in that world. But far, somebody said the biggest beyond anybody in a long time. And his name is Joe Rogan, and he's never done this before. And it just came over the wires that Joe Rogan just endorsed me. Is that good? Thank you, Joe. That's so nice. And he doesn't do that.

He doesn't do that. And he tends to be a little bit more liberal than some of the people in this room. We live in a topsy-turvy world, man. I remember in the last election, certainly during the primary cycle, Rogan had a conversation with Bernie Sanders. I remember Bernie Sanders getting so much hate from the left because he had the audacity to go on the largest podcast in the country. I thought that was a good idea.

I'm glad that Bernie had done that. But anyway, Rogan loved him, and Rogan supported him after that. So it's just really interesting how you can go from supporting someone like Bernie Sanders to now endorsing Donald Trump. I know that there were some Sanders supporters and voters in 2016 who ended up supporting Donald Trump because of the anti-establishment message, but obviously very different policies and politics. Yeah, but I'm not that surprised by that. So first real quick on Trump, he's like, he's never done that before. That's not true. He endorsed Bernie. He's endorsed before. But that's a usual typical thing for Trump. So now to Rogan, look, I wrote about this in a recent op-ed I did on Newsweek. There's two different political spectrums. There's the left and right one.

And on that one, Bernie and Trump couldn't be further apart. Trump's all for corporate tax cuts and deregulation and dividing us. And so Bernie's trying to bring us together, higher wages for the average man, et cetera, right? On the populist establishment spectrum, though, that's a second spectrum. Bernie and Trump are perceived to be on the populist end of that and against the establishment. And that's where Rogan is. Rogan isn't really left or right. He has a ton of right wing positions, you know, the anti-trans positions, blah, blah, blah, right?

But he's pro-choice, he's, you know, and sometimes he questions the corporate tax cuts, et cetera, et cetera. So he's not left or right, really, as much as he's populist. The problem with Rogan is not that he's populist or where he is on the left-right spectrum. The problem is he's too impressionable. So he can't see that Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump don't have the same policy. They might both sound populace, but Trump's a fake populace who says, give everything to my donors, including the guy you just had on, Elon Musk. Elon Musk is asking for giant subsidies.

He receives about $890 million already in tax credits from the government. He's asking for deregulation so he could do God knows what with cryptocurrency, et cetera. He's asking for lower taxes. That is not, none of that is within a billion miles of a populist position. So they've taken these guys who are super angry at the establishment, the right wing, populist right, and they've totally misdirected them towards corporate power again. And it's so frustrating because Rogan is not a grifter. He has so much money, he doesn't need to grift, et cetera.

He's just getting hoodwinked by both audience capture and guest capture because he has nonstop right wingers on. All right, we're out of time. But just wanted to know, you know, one of the things that Rogan was very critical toward Trump on, in the past at least. And he got a lot of backlash from Trump supporters over this was Trump's immigration policies. But who knows where he stands on that issue today? It'd be really interesting to hear how he kind of, you know, deals with that conflict where he stood on immigration before and where he is today. He could have changed

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get the real news from the online news show. All right, Anna. Well, let's hear from Bernie Sanders on who he believes the real winner of this election will be. The truth is this should not be a close election. Trump has been found guilty of 34 felonies, guilty of sexual abuse. He has been impeached twice. He had 4,000 lawsuits against them when he was a private businessman. This should not be a close election.

Senator Bernie Sanders is stating something that should be obvious to all voters in this country. Considering all of the baggage that comes along with Donald Trump, why exactly are Democrats having a difficult time beating him? I mean, according to the polls, this election is neck and neck when it should be a blowout. And you're about to hear from Sanders in regard to what the real issues are for the Democratic Party. Let's take a listen. I think the Democrats, win or lose, have got to take a very hard look at themselves and ask how it could be that a significant majority of working class people in this country are prepared to vote for Donald Trump. And the truth is what has got to happen is the Democrats have got to wake up and say, you know what? Instead of worrying about big money interests and campaign contributions for billionaires, we've got to stand with the working class of this country.

And we need an agenda that is a popular agenda that speaks to Democrats and Republicans. Caitlin, you go out there. You talk to Republicans and Democrats. And you say, you think you're living in a democracy when billionaires are spending billions of dollars on the federal election? Is that really what a democracy is about? Or are we going to get big money out of politics? Democrats or Republicans both will tell you the same thing. Ask people whether we should give tax breaks to billionaires.

They don't agree with that either. There are a lot of issues that can bring people together. Democrats are going to start happening to fight for those issues and regain the confidence of a working class which they have lost. I 100% agree with Sanders' critique of the Democratic Party and the issue of taking big money and not representing the best interests of your base and your voters. But I also want to make a point about how, you know, there's the fake unity message that we get time and time again from corporate Democrats who don't want.

really want to unify the country, you know, it's never about the actual policies or actual reforms that voters on both sides of the political aisle want. It's usually about, oh, we need to, I don't know, DEI, unity into existence, but that's not the way it works. There are agreements among the electorate, whether they vote Republican or Democrat, polling indicates that the vast majority of Americans agree on how corruption is a problem in our electoral system. But nothing's ever really done about that. No one ever talks about reforming that. And so I love that he brought that up. And I'm going to get into the numbers in regard

to the outside money that's come into this race in just a moment. Before I do, Jank, take it away. That right there is the one true populist in American politics. So look, first of all, his critique of Trump is absolutely right. Totally fake populists in favor of corporate tax cuts. That's his number one agenda in his first term. And it's his number one agenda in the second term. And on top of that, look, I'm not a guy who grew up thinking, oh my God, convictions are so important and I hate you forever if you have a felony conviction. Maybe I should have, but I didn't. So I'm not as moved by that. What I'm moved by is what Trump has actually done. And so what they adjudicated, the facts of the matter. The way that he assaulted E. Gene

Carroll is exactly what he said he does to all women in the Hollywood Access tape. And so look, Thomas Harris wins, it is going to be because a tsunami of women showed up to carry her to victory on their shoulders. And I can't sympathize enough with women who say, not that man, not that man another time. He's really a despicable guy and has been his whole life, he's a huge con man, doesn't believe a word he says, and I can go on and on, let alone terminating the Constitution, all the things he said after he lost like a cry baby, okay, so now, but when Bernie turns to the Democrats, he's also right. What, Kamala Harris sent me, her team in the different

packs who sent me about 20 texts today. Give me money, give me money, give me money, okay? You already raised a billion dollars. And so those little things, at least I'm grassroots, that's okay. Like, but when you go and you say, you're still trying to get more donor money with a week left? No, turn and go and get voters. Get voters. And how do you get voters? 76% of Americans want to raise taxes on the rich. Did you know that? Probably not because mainstream media never talks about that. Why? Because they're rich. Literally everyone on Main Street media is rich, right? And every executive is rich. And so they're like, don't mention that three quarters of Americans are huge populists who think that the rich and corporations have way

too much. The only guy saying it is Bernie, but he can't talk any sense to the Democrats. If they win tonight, they're going to just go right back to serving their donors. It's going to drive us all crazy. That's why on t.yt.com I have a populist plank to start a populace revolt, a voting block where we say, hey, you give us these things and we vote for you. That's a promise. But if you don't give us these things, we will not vote for you, and that's a promise as well. Because the Democrats love to use a boogeyman and Trump was perfect for them. Such a monster that you couldn't possibly think about voting for him.

But once you remove a monster like Trump, they're gonna have no excuses left. Really? Come on. So no, no, don't get me wrong. I'm not like hopeful about it, that's what I'm saying. If JD Vance is the Republican nominee in the future, I mean, think about, this is the thing that I'm concerned about guys, let's keep it real. At this point, every single Republican who could potentially,

run for the Republican ticket in the future, has some relationship with Trump. And so, like, this is going to be the rallying cry for the Democratic Party in perpetuity. Yeah, look, so did the two sides drive me crazy? Because the right wing, if you're actually populist, why don't you pick someone that is sane? Why do you constantly go to people that are pathological liars and con men, et cetera? And Democrats, please ask more of your party. to do better. It's a simple thing that Bernie's asking. Can you please stop serving the donors at every turn? They're going to. So look, that's one of the populist plank that we have up on

t-y-t.com is super simple things like, look, I know it's hard to execute, but at least to say that you're in favor of and to push forward in some legislation, etc. Money out of politics, no more wars. These are intensely popular positions, ban private equity from buying residential real estate. That is enormously popular, negotiate all drug prices, enormously popular. The only reason why they don't do these things is because both sides are hooked on the donor money. Last thing about Bernie being the only honest person. Again, we criticize Bernie from time to time based on policy, right? But he's at least always honest, right?

So progressives in Congress, that's supposed to be your leader. So don't go running into weirdo cul-de-sacs where you get into fights with Tucker Carlson on wedge issues. Focus on money in politics. And the reason they don't do that is, oh, our Democratic colleagues would be upset with us. Okay. I've grow a spine. You should be concerned about the electorate and your base being upset with you.

But anyway, let's get to the numbers because NBC News did an analysis in regard to outside money pouring into the campaign coffers of both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Now, the numbers are a little skewed because it includes the money that poured in to Biden's campaign as well. But here's what they found. They found that outside spending surpassed a billion dollars in this presidential race. And you're looking at a graph that shows you the difference between the various election cycles dating back to 2012.

And if you look at 2012, we're talking about $516 million. that poured in in regard to outside money into the campaigns. But by the time you get to 2024, we're talking about $1.11 billion. And if you break it down further, well, it appears that Kamala Harris has received $464 million in these outside bribes. Donald Trump has received $75 million. Yeah, so guys, there's different layers of what, you know, the mainstream media kindly calls campaign contributions and what we call legalized bribes.

By the way, when Elizabeth Warren was calling them legalized bribes, she shot up to number one in the 2020 Democratic primary. The minute her colleagues said they felt offended, she stopped saying that, and she dropped off a political cliff. A populist message from the left will definitely win. It will electrify the country. We just need to find one non-Bernie person to do it. But there's different layers of these bribes.

So there's the dark money and Elon Musk is reported to be giving $45 million a month to Trump's campaign. But that's not even the dark money. He might be giving a lot more in dark money. Mary Madelson giving $90 million to Trump, but that doesn't even include the dark money. So there's the outside groups, there's the dark money, there's the PACs we know, and then there's the direct contributions to the campaigns. So all of those combined in the last midterm that didn't even involve presidential election or Trump was 70. $19 billion and if you're wondering why mainstream media never calls these guys out, almost all of that money goes to ads in mainstream media. So just a few more numbers when it comes to the two different campaigns.

So according to NBC News, so far the Biden turned Harris and Trump campaigns have spent more than $600 million between them since the start of 2023 with the national party organizations spending hundreds of millions more. Add that to the more than $1 billion in independent expenditures and the price tag of the presidential campaign reaches $2 billion, which sounds super democratic to me. I mean, what could be more democratic than signaling to the rest of the country that if you want to run for president, you need to raise an insane, like literally billions of dollars. So there's that. Now I also want to talk about how some of this money has been used because I've been curious about the national chapter of the uncommitted campaign and what role they're playing in the

outcome of this election. For those unfamiliar, the uncommitted campaign had to do with Muslim and Arab American voters who felt justifiably aggrieved at the Biden administration and his unwillingness to use the military weaponry that we've been sending to Israel as leverage to reign in Netanyahu when it comes to the high death toll of civilians in Gaza and now in Lebanon. Biden was unwilling to do that and they wanted some sort of commitment from Kamala Harris, which they did not receive. But it turns out that the national chapter of the uncommitted campaign received quite a bit

of money from the Democrats. And they soften their message after that. So the uncommitted national movement received more than $400,000 from a Democratic-aligned pack that explicitly prevents beneficiaries from endorsing a candidate other than Kamala Harris. Obviously, that includes a third party candidate. And according to the FEC, the federal election commission filings, the uncommitted national movement received another, not another. Of that $400,000, they received $100,000 from the movement voter project, which is a Democrat

aligned organization that funnels money into grassroots campaigns, the same day the uncommitted national movement was founded on March 18th. And so look, I want to be clear, there's the national movement after they like soften their message toward Kamala Harris's campaign, there was the grassroots effort or movement. And they have continued applying pressure to Kamala. Most of them have come out to say that they're either not going to vote for either candidate or they're going to vote third party. And so I don't know how much of an impact it's going to have in the out.

outcome of the election. But you know, it's clear that Kamala Harris kind of latched on to moderate messaging, but also she decided to go for disillusioned Republican voters as opposed to appealing to progressives. But I think progressives are going to support her anyway. So maybe she made the right choice. I mean, morally, I disagree with that choice. But strategically, what do you think, Jank? Yeah, well, I've got a lot of thoughts on this.

First of all, I have personal experience with uncommitted and now things begin to make a little bit more sense because since I ran the Democratic primary and I was the first Muslim American to run and I'm 100% in favor of ceasefire, I made the argument that, hey, if you vote for me, I'm on the ballot, even if it wasn't Michigan in Minnesota, I was on the ballot and if we get delegates, we'll be able to use them to help. the Palestinian people reach a ceasefire. If you use it for uncommitted, well, they don't have a voice and they won't be able to use it at all for peace. And they said, no, they didn't want to do that. They wanted to just have uncommitted. And then I started getting canceled from events in Michigan from things like the Arab American museum there.

Well, it turns out, uncommitted was taking a giant amount of money from the Democratic Party. Right. So from day one. So even though I'm in the Democratic primary at the time, and even though I'm Muslim and in favor of peace, and I would aggressively use those delegates, which they did win in Michigan and Minnesota, they decided not to back actual human being because I criticize the Democratic Party. Well, you know what Papa Casparian says, Jank. The cash is talking. Well, apparently the cash was talking. So, I mean, there's a guy in that group who's ruined a lot of groups he's been involved in. But anyways, so look, unfortunately, well, I think what we're going to find out is after the election is that the Democrats flooded every group and every influencer online except us. Like, oh, we don't kiss their ass, right?

And so they didn't even do any ads. They didn't even send a single surrogate on here because apparently they don't want progressive votes. But if you promise to serve them loyally, I think they flooded online with money. We'll probably find out a lot about that after the election. And I don't mean in traditional ads. I mean in like here's money, you say what we want you to say. So uncommitted has a huge number of issues. And what happened?

Kamala Harris didn't move an inch on Gaza, not one inch and they bowed their heads anyway. Let's take a break. When we come back, we'll talk about how Whoopi Goldberg should be banned from commenting on politics. Come right back. All right on TYT Jankana with you guys, two huge states are about to close. One less relevant these is actually three. Anyway, in about five minutes, George is closing in five minutes and we'll start having

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heroes supporting real honest news and trying to drive a little bit of positive change in the world. Speaking of which, women A.F, thank you for gifting 10 memberships and Adam Mary. Thank you for gifting 20. You guys are the best. Anna. We live in a country that gives everybody the right to speak their minds about where they stand on politics. So even though I am very upset about what you're about to hear from Whoopi Goldberg, she has the right to say it. We also have the right to push back on it. Let's watch. Are you also a lawyer? I am.

So you could conceivably be a great AG. This was... And I say this because your moral core is magnificent. Right. And I know you probably don't want it. You don't want to think about it. But I just feel like I would feel a lot better with you leading the FBI, the CIA, the NBC. Nope.

No, no. Listen, I just need everyone to remember what neoconservatives were up to during the Bush years. The administration, by the way, in which Liz Cheney herself served in, certainly in the State Department. Because if you're worried about unconstitutional acts like, let's say, you know, suspending habeas corpus, that happened under Bush's watch. George W. Bush, according to the Washington Post at the time, attempted to fire 93 U.S. attorneys for refusing to do his bidding. And his attorney general at the time, Alberto Gonzalez, was like, 93, that's maybe

going to raise some eyebrows. Let's fire eight. They fired eight attorneys general, I'm sorry, U.S. attorneys, I should say, specifically for political purposes, which by the way, was determined through an investigation that was conducted. Like, you want to talk about undemocratic acts, guys? We're stolen election. Okay, in 2000. Was Liz Cheney doing anything about that? Yeah. Come on, man. Let's stop laundering their reputations. What are we doing? So there's two things here. First, the Partizanship just blinds them. It's amazing. So that's the same Whoopi Goldberg, who was telling us how evil the Cheney's were when they were Republicans. And so they were not on her team. So she's like, oh, neocon, conservative, right wingers, terrible. No moral core at all. She flips to the Democratic team almost identical policies. In fact, totally identical policies except for she doesn't like Trump, right?

So now I give Liz Cheney credit for the reason she doesn't like Trump is because he tried a coup against this country. So no problem with credit where credit is due, right? But her policies are the same. So by now whoopi flips and goes, greatest moral core of all time and you should be in charge of policy for. Well, then you don't care about policy. You don't care about anything. You never cared about any of the things that you talked about. All you wanted was rah, rah, rah, my team, my team, my team.

100%. But look, Rupi Goldberg is, as my brother likes to say it, Gooch. She's good, she's comfortable, she's happy. And when your financial stability and your comfort is secured, honestly, politics just becomes a sporting event, right? And you just want your team to win. And the thing that's so frustrating to me is, look, I don't know what Whoopi Goldberg is aware of and what she's unaware of, right?

I don't remember her commenting on politics back during the Bush era. So maybe she's totally unaware that Bush suspended habeas corpus for anyone who was simply suspected of being an enemy combatant, which by the way, prevented individuals from legally challenging their detention. That's what that's what that did. It was so egregious that the Supreme Court overturned the suspension of habeas corpus because it's unconstitutional two years later. And what are we talking about?

Liz Cheney's a neocan. She was 100% in favor of the Iraq. war. She has the same exact policies as Dick Cheney or her father. In favor of torture till this day refuses to say it was the wrong thing to do. In favor of warrantless wiretapping, in favor of giant corporate tax cuts, both under Bush and Donald Trump. So wait, the person in favor of torture has an incredible moral core. And that's the other thing. So look, this is what we're afraid of. Donald Trump's a monster. I don't want that guy anywhere near power again. I'm afraid that he won't leave.

So, we've got to vote for Kamala Harris. But now the establishment knows that, so the establishment is like, oh, great, let's bring in all the worst Republicans on earth and put them inside the Democratic Party and then make them attorney general, that's one of the foremost important posts in the entire government. Can I just- And giving it to a Cheney, the Democrats? You must be out of your mind, Whoopi Goldberg.

I have to tell you, one of the funniest- tweets that I've read was from a guy who's like, oh my God, George W. Bush refuses to endorse Kamala Harris. We see you for who you really are now. No, no, no. He did Kamala favor. Okay? George W. Bush, not popular. Let me just give you the numbers real quick. And then we got to wrap up. In a December 2008 Pew Research Center survey, just 11% said Bush will be remembered as an outstanding or above average president, by far the lowest positive end of term rating for any of the past four presidents. But not if you ask Whoopi Goldberg, I mean, they're doing a great job, again, laundering.

The view right now is like a laundromat for neoconservatives. Yeah, I don't want the neocons in our party. And so thank you, Liz Cheney, appreciate it. I'm sure you'll be spectacularly wealthy as a lobbyist. But put her in charge of the CIA, who did the torture? The CIA did. So this, that's the view going, yay, Democrats are Republicans now. Now we'll be doing the torture because our moral core is so magnificent.

So no, no, I hope Kamala Harris doesn't make that mistake. She'll probably get something for sure, Liz Cheney will, right? And why did you pick the Cheney's? Why don't you just pick Adam Kinsinger or a hundred other Republicans who are never Trumpers? Why did you have to go to the worst of them? So don't listen to that crap. This doesn't mean, like, just because you're against Trump, excuse me, second time I sneeze live in the last couple of days.

Anyways, you guys get it. Trump's terrible, that doesn't make Liz and Dick Cheney and George Bush wonderful. It's not a hard concept to understand unless you're on the view. All right, let's take a break, and when we come back, our election coverage continues. And results starting to come in. Thank you.