Ep. 1611 - HUGE TRUMP VICTORY EXPLAINED
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Trump won. We won. We won everything. The White House, the Senate, most likely the House, the Supreme Court. Ballot propositions, we won.

President Trump promised us in 2016 that we would win. He promised us that we would win so much that we would get sick and tired of winning. And I am a little tired from winning because basically no one in this building slept last night. But no one here and none of you, I am sure, is sick of winning.

Because this historic victory, the greatest political comeback in American history, has only just begun. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. The Michael Knowles Show.

Who to blame? The liberal media are all trying to figure out who to blame. Do they blame you, the garbage people, the people they consider to be absolute trash? Do they blame Biden? Some of them, some of the networks are blaming Biden. Do they blame Kamala? One of the networks is blaming Kamala. We'll get into the blame game and we'll get into exactly where things stand now. First, though,

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your savings. Text Knowles, Canada W-L-E-S to 989898 today. What happened? Where are we at? I'm having deja vu all over again because I was in this chair until about 2.30 last night.

Then I go home and I write my show. How am I going to write my show? We've all been talking for the past eight hours. Well, that was when I got to delectate on the reactions from the libs, which we'll get to momentarily.

But I'm writing the show until about, I don't know, 4 or 4.30 in the morning. Then I go to bed about 4.40, and I wake up about two hours later or something, and I come in here. Not a ton has changed, but we can't say with certainty what the final results will be because –

All sorts of ballots are going to keep coming in in certain places in the Rust Belt over the next few days. So we can't say with certainty what the total final tally is. However, the New York Times prediction, as of the wee small hours, was that Trump would get 312 electoral college votes. Kamala would get 226. So we were told going into the election, oh, it was a nail biter. It was going to be close. And in certain places, it was close within the individual states, but

All those close races broke for Trump, broke for the Republicans. So the Electoral College vote wasn't all that close. The Electoral College vote was a landslide. It was a bloodbath, actually. No question whatsoever. Now, that would still give the libs the opportunity to whine and complain, as Chris Hayes on MSNBC attempted to do in the usual liberal way when those numbers came in.

We have this very funky and terrible system called the Electoral College, which decides elections in a way that's totally different than every other election in the United States decided and the way that anything is decided anywhere else in the world. We should scrap it. So we have this really terrible, awful system called the Electoral College, and the Electoral College is evil and awful and terrible. And it's totally different from any other election in America. First of all, yeah, because you're talking about the difference between state elections and then the

the national elections that pertain to the United States of America. So obviously those are going to be conducted differently. Uh, it actually, it's really funky and weird. Yeah. Well, it's been our system for all of American history and it served us pretty well as we've become the most powerful and prosperous country in the world. So I don't know, maybe I wouldn't throw out the genius of our, of our founding fathers and the framers of our constitution for the whining and musing of Chris Hayes on MSNBC, but even put all that aside for a second, the libs can't blame the electoral college.

Because not only is Trump projected to win 312 to 226 in the Electoral College, Trump won the popular vote.

The libs are so used to reflexively knocking the electoral college and demanding purely out of opportunism, not based on anything in our constitution or in our political history of two centuries plus. They say, well, actually, the election should be decided by the popular vote. They only say that because in the past 20 years, they've won the popular vote on a number of occasions. The only time in this millennium

that the Republicans have won the popular vote was in 2004, Bush's reelection, until last night, when Trump decisively won the popular vote. New York Times projecting that Trump will win the popular vote by 1.4%.

So what is Chris Hayes whining about? We have this crazy, funky system. It's really awful and archaic. I mean, it was the system given to us by our framers of our Constitution who were much wiser statesmen than anybody on my side. But actually, we need to scrap the whole thing and have the election decided by California and New York. Well, guess what, bro? Even if you did that, even with the way the campaign was conducted, Trump still would have won.

You know, there is something called the Popular Vote Compact, and it's this experimental agreement that

that certain liberal states are signing on to to say, okay, no matter how the vote goes in our state, we will give our electors to whoever wins the national popular vote. And this agreement is of dubious constitutionality, so it's not really in effect. But man, if that were in effect now, it would have been even more of a slaughter in the Electoral College. Trump would have won basically all of the votes. So the libs can't blame it on the Electoral College.

By the way, had Trump campaigned for the popular vote, had he campaigned even more in New York, had he campaigned even more in California, say, or someplace like that, then it probably would have been even more of a landslide in the popular vote totals. This is a vindication, though. It's a vindication of Donald Trump. It's a vindication of so much.

It's a vindication of Trump's decision to campaign at MSG, for instance. I went to the MSG rally. I was very excited to go to the Madison Square Garden rally. A lot of people said, what's Trump doing campaigning in New York? And I was asking some Republican muckety-mucks about this, and the answer was,

He wants a big show. He wants a big final statement, this iconic venue, Madison Square Garden, but also he wants the popular vote. That's why he's spending time in blue places. And I thought, wow, he thinks he's got the electoral college locked up. He's playing for the popular vote. In a way, it's vanity, but no, it has a political payoff, which is the libs can't even try to delegitimize his election the way they did in 16, the way they've tried to do to Republicans. That's off the table. This is a vindication of Trump's

specific decisions to hold rallies in places like MSG. It is a vindication of Trump, the candidate. Trump put together a coalition that other Republicans could not. Mitt Romney could not do that.

John McCain could not do that. George Bush did. He did. George Bush did match Trump on the Hispanic vote, but George Bush could not put together the coalition of supporters that Trump did. That means that's a vindication of Trump, the candidate, and it is a vindication of longtime Trump supporters. I'm not even just I'm where I'm very happy for all the people who didn't vote for Trump in 16 or 20 and did vote for him in 2024. I'm thank you. Thank you to all of you people who helped deliver this election.

I am even thankful to people who didn't vote for Trump in 16 and did vote for him in 20 and 2024. Thank you to you guys. That was a crazy election, but good that you came around. Some of us, however, are longtime Trump supporters who supported him in 16, 20, and 24. Even back in 16, when we heard that Trump is a terribly flawed candidate, we would have been so much better off had we picked one of the other candidates in the primaries.

He created all these liabilities and vulnerabilities and challenges for Republicans that were needless and pointless and stupid. Oh, that dastardly Trump. He's got good policies, but he should keep his mouth shut. Oh, that Trump. He's turning off voters. Oh, that any other Republican would play better. No, I don't want to hear it. That argument's over. Trump not only crushed that woman in the Electoral College, he won the popular vote.

Donald Trump is a better candidate than the other Republicans. I don't want to hear this anymore. Oh, if only we'd run a better Republican. He's the man, guys. He's the man. You can't dispute it anymore. The popular vote win. As a technical matter or a legal matter, doesn't matter at all.

It's just a number that the libs have pointed to to delegitimize Republican electoral victories. But as a practical matter, it means a lot because it shuts up the critics on the left and it shuts up the critics on the right. Trump was an historically good candidate. He put together an historic alliance. The people who have supported him, especially the people who have supported him for a long time,

were vindicated in their support. The victory last night played on so many levels. It

augured great things internationally, nationally, domestically. But even at these deeper levels, he showed us what a winning coalition for a Republican looks like. Other Republicans, probably not picking up that Elon Musk endorsement, that Bobby Kennedy endorsement, that Tulsi Gabbard endorsement, probably not picking up those union workers, probably not picking up huge numbers of black men and Hispanics and all of the demos that we will get into momentarily.

But let's, for now at least, let's put it to rest. Oh, those populist Republicans who forced Donald Trump on us in 16 over all the better candidates. No, man. Donald Trump, he did it. He got the job done.

He did something that no other president in our lifetime, certainly not in our lifetime, no other president in American history had done, other than Grover Cleveland, which is to win a non-consecutive second term. And he did it in a more astounding way, overcoming more legal hurdles of being nearly assassinated twice and putting together an impressive coalition that bodes well for Republicans for years, potentially decades to come. Now, I want to tell you about First Liberty Institute.

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What about the demographic numbers? I just mentioned Trump put together a coalition of Hispanic voters, of black men, of union workers, of people that you just, of Arabs, of Muslims, of people that you don't associate usually, of Jews in New York, of people you don't associate with Republicans. CNN was as shocked, if not more shocked, as anybody.

We wanted to look across all three blue wall states that John was just walking us through, looking at this slice of the vote, the Latino vote in the blue wall states. Now, they only make up 6% of the electorate in each of these states. But look at the difference in the margins. So, Harris is getting in Pennsylvania 58% of the Latino vote, again, 6% of the electorate, to Donald Trump's 41%. That's a 17-point advantage. But four years ago, Biden...

beat Trump with Latinos in Pennsylvania by 42 points. So that is a huge movement for Trump in narrowing that gap. Similar story in Michigan. You see the Latino vote makes up 6% of the share.

Sorry, not a similar story. Reverse. Donald Trump is winning the Latino vote in Michigan with 60 percent of the vote. Harris, 35 percent of the vote. That's a 25 percent advantage for Trump among Latinos. That is a big change when Biden won Latinos in Michigan by 11 points four years ago. That's a 36 point swing in the margin. 36 point swing. These are huge numbers.

And you see CNN here. I mean, this analyst is he's kind of tickled by it. I think it's just so shocking in terms of Republicans with Hispanics. We have not seen these numbers since the Bush reelect in 2004 in terms of any of these other demographics, black voters, black men specifically, or Arabs or Muslims.

more prominent in more important states now than they have been in the past. Union voters, you go down the list. We are seeing a real realignment. So this is a big takeaway for the pundit class and the chattering class and the academics and the intellectuals. We've heard a lot about a political realignment in our country, certainly since Trump 16, but even before that, some calls for a political realignment. And it never quite materializes.

We're always waiting for those Hispanic voters to come over. Ronald Reagan said the Hispanics are conservative. They just don't know it yet. Well, and that was, you know, 40 years ago and it hadn't happened for a long time. We are now seeing a path to that may be happening at the very least a path to Hispanic assimilation. Obviously, many Hispanics have assimilated into America, but an electoral assimilation with this mass migration that didn't look all that likely.

One way you can tell that a group is assimilated is when you can't look at them and know exactly who they're going to vote for. The Italians, my people on my mother's side, are a good example of this. You have Scalia and you got Nancy Pelosi. They're both Italian. They're on very different ends of the political spectrum. You cannot look at an Italian in America and know who he's going to vote for. Broadly speaking, you can look at an Hispanic in America and know who he's going to vote for, at least if you know the nationality.

If you're Cuban, you say, okay, maybe Republican, Venezuelan or Mexican or Guatemalan, more likely Democrat. But now I don't know. We're gonna have to dig into some of these numbers. Obviously, some of them are still coming in.

But this is a good sign for assimilation of Hispanics, and it's just a good sign for Republicans playing well with Hispanics, playing very well with black male voters. We don't have really strong numbers yet, but we're seeing some exit polls saying 20%, 20% plus of black male voters voting for Donald Trump. That's it.

We have said for years, if the Republicans can pull 20% of the black vote, even the black male vote, that's it. The Democrats are toast. They're going to get blown away. And that's exactly what happened last night. The realignment is real. So who are they going to blame? Who are the Libs going to blame? NBC had a black man on who did not vote for Donald Trump. This was from PBS, actually, Jonathan Capehart.

this bum on PBS. We'll get to NBC and CNN in a moment. Capehart went right to the heart of the matter. He actually gave, I think, the most sincere answer on who to blame. It's a bonkers answer, but I think it actually speaks to what the libs really believe in their heart of hearts. He placed the blame not on Kamala, not on Biden, not on Trump, but on the American people.

I can't help but wonder if the American people have given up on democracy simply because of what he's told us, what he wants to do, simply because of what the Supreme Court decided in terms of immunity. I mean, he has said he wants to go after his political enemies. I am your retribution.

So, if indeed what Fox is reporting, if that ends up being true and ends up being the case, then this conversation about who we are as a country, I was going to say will pop off in earnest, but

I think we will have an answer, especially because I'm looking over your shoulder. Right now, Donald Trump has 51.2% of total votes, 51.2. 51.2 of total votes. What did he say at the top? He said, have the American people given up on democracy?

What does the word democracy mean in that analysis? It can't mean democracy. Even had Trump lost the popular vote, but won the electoral college vote, then the libs could twist themselves into pretzels to say, well, actually, this is proof that the American system is not truly democratic. Trump's victory is not democratic. But democracy just means what most people want. It's just the expression of what most people want.

And in this case, according to our actual electoral system, most people want Trump. And even just in the most literal way you can take most people, the majority of the population, most people want Trump. So it is nonsensical to say that the American people opposed democracy last night. What he means by democracy, and I'm not the first to observe this, is liberalism. And the American people did reject liberalism.

They at the very least rejected radical leftism last night. But what Capehart says here is, no, they rejected democracy because they conflate these terms, democracy and liberalism and constitutionalism and all the rest. And his evidence of that was Trump has called for retribution and most people voted for retribution. Yes, retribution can be a good thing.

There is a type of vengeance politically that is a good thing. That's actually a virtue. St. Thomas Aquinas writes about this. Vengeance or retribution in this way can be a good thing. It can be a virtue when it is a mean, when it mediates between two extremes. One extreme is cruelty. We don't want to be excessive in our punishment of bad people who have done bad things in our politics. And there are a lot of them and they've done very bad things in recent years, like lock us up and take away our rights and upend our election system.

We don't want to be cruel. We don't want to be excessively harsh on them. Likewise, we don't want to fall into the other extreme of being totally remiss in punishing them. If you just let the guilty people run amok, that's bad for everyone. There's no justice in that. It's going to incentivize them to commit more injustice. That's a bad thing to violate more people and more rights.

Most Americans voted for the retribution because we recognize that it is in our interest. It is actually a political necessity to

to punish bad people in an appropriate way for doing bad things. Because we want to have a good, stable country with the rule of law where lady justice is blind and where people can enjoy the rights that we have traditionally enjoyed. That's what people voted for. That is a vindication of real democracy. That is a vindication of the rule of law. That is a vindication of good government we saw last night. Now, folks...

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NBC was a little subtler about it. They chose to blame Joe Biden for waiting too long before dropping out.

Well, and that's what makes the timing I think of President Biden's decision to step down after the debate. Something that if she does in fact lose will be under a microscope because of course there was so much discussion even over the summer about potentially having an open primary. And having that fight play out within the Democratic Party. So I think it's one of the big questions moving forward. Did Biden just wait too long? Well, hold on, speaking of democracy and opposing democracy.

Biden ran for re-election to be the nominee of the Democratic Party. And he's the guy that all the Democrat voters voted for, that the vast majority of them voted for. So he played according to the rules. Democrats then changed the rules and booted him out and swapped out the candidates for someone that no one had voted for while she was running for president.

But they got to blame the white guy. I don't know. They got Joe Biden. I'm not defending Joe Biden here. I would never, never really like to defend Joe Biden. But how is it Biden's fault? He just ran for a second term and he gave primary voters an opportunity to oppose him. And

They chose him. And I think after Kamala got absolutely slaughtered last night, especially in the blue wall, I think a lot of Democrats have to be wondering not, as NBC is, did Biden wait too long to get out? I think they have to be wondering whether it was wise to swap him out in the first place. I think Biden also would have lost to Trump. I think in elections that are conducted in an efficient and fair way in normal circumstances, I think

voters generally understand that Trump is a much more attractive candidate than Joe Biden. But I think we can never know for certain, but I think Biden probably would have done a little bit better than Harris. There's a reason Harris never won any primary votes when she was running for president. She's not likable. Joe Biden, say what you will about him. He's obviously declined. He obviously has dementia.

A pretty good retail politician. The guy got elected before he was even constitutionally eligible to be in the U.S. Senate, and he stayed there for about half a century, and he ascended to the vice presidency and then to the presidency long after people thought he had a shot at it. He is a pretty good retail politician. Now they want to blame Biden. He waited a little too long before getting out. You guys pushed him out. He wanted to stay in, and you probably would have fared better at the polls had he stayed in. You can blame Joe Biden for a lot of things. I wouldn't blame him for that.

Meanwhile, CNN looks to be blaming Kamala.

So you asked, are there any places that the vice president is overperforming Joe Biden in 2020? So we could show you that as well. We just bring that out here. Harris overperforming 2020. Holy smokes. There you go. So let this go away and see if there's anything on the east side there. Literally nothing. Literally nothing. Literally not one county. Love that. Love that from Jake Tapper. Hold on. Wait, literally nothing. Now, in fairness, this is a state map. That was not a county map. So when you drill down into the counties, I think there might be

literally be a county or some handful of counties in which Harris did a little bit better. But broadly speaking, that map is right at the state level. She did not perform better than Biden in any state. I think a lot of people are asking themselves this morning, hold on, Kamala Harris got 20 million fewer votes than Joe Biden. Where'd those 20 million people go? Huh? I mean, sure, people are less inclined to vote for Kamala Harris.

She's a less exciting candidate. Not that Joe Biden's a particularly exciting candidate, but huh, where'd those 20 million people go? Huh, really makes you scratch your head. And it makes you wonder more about where those 20 million votes came from the first time, I guess. But all's well that ends well, I guess. So, okay, let's fine. Just blame Kamala. Kamala is such a terrible candidate that she got...

tens of millions fewer votes than Joe Biden did. Okay, fine. Well, now all the more reason to oppose what NBC is saying. Oh, Biden waited too long to get out. No, man, you should have, even if Joe Biden had wanted to get out, you should have strapped him to a gurney and forced him to remain the nominee. He obviously did much, much better than Kamala Harris. Regardless, at least in my view of politics, the buck stops at the top. And so Kamala bears the blame.

However, she wouldn't accept that last night. This election was not close. It was clear early on. Got to give props to Marsha Blackburn. We spoke to Senator Blackburn on the show yesterday. Said, Senator, are we going to be here all week? When are we going to know? And she said, you'll be at 270 by midnight.

And she was almost exactly correct. In fact, we were a little bit conservative in when we were willing to call the race last night. We probably could have called it earlier, probably exactly when she said we could have. And there is no excuse for Kamala Harris not to concede last night. She should have called Trump. She should have publicly conceded at the very least.

She should have shown up to her supporters, few though they were, to address them. That's what a leader does and she didn't do that. She trotted out her campaign co-chairman to send the people home. Thank you for believing in the promise of America. We still have votes to count. We still have states that have not been called yet. We will continue overnight to fight to make sure

that every vote is counted, that every voice has spoken. So you won't hear from the vice president tonight, but you will hear from her tomorrow. She will be back here tomorrow to address not only the H.U. family, not only to address her supporters, but to address the nation. This gives a big 2016 vibes. Much of yesterday gave big 2016 vibes.

But to send your supporters home without even showing up, you just send out a campaign flack, albeit a top campaign flack, to go out there and say, hey, thanks so much for your support for Kamala. She's not here for you. But anyway, go home. Whenever she stops crying or, I don't know, whenever she sobers up, I don't know what was going on in Kamala HQ. But whenever she is in a position to actually meet the moment,

Then she'll come out and talk to you. This is a total vindication of people who said this woman does not have the chops. She does not have the leadership qualities to be president. A leader shows up. That woman didn't show up. Same thing is true of Hillary in 16. Hillary in 16...

She wouldn't show up there. She was probably throwing lamps across the hotel room when she lost. And so she sent out John Podesta, her campaign chairman. And John Podesta, I guess this set the precedent for this new way to not concede, concede an election. And Podesta had the most ridiculous line I'd heard of Hillary's whole campaign. And we are so proud of her. An amazing job. And she has not done yet.

So thank you for being with her. She has always been with you. I have to say this tonight. Good night. Good night. Go home. Thank you for being with Hillary. She's always been with you, except for right now when it matters. And she's not with you. She refuses to show up, actually. And that's why she sent me here. Go home. Because one of the lines about Hillary in her presidential ambitions was,

Is she prepared to take that call? Three o'clock in the morning, you know, the nuclear weapons are flying. There's some international crisis. Who do you trust to take that call? It's not her. It's there it was. We small hours. Hillary's nowhere to be found at the decisive moment of her political career. She either can't be bothered or she's not in a state to talk to you. The same exact thing is true of Kamala Harris. People who said Hillary doesn't have the chops. Hillary doesn't have the leadership qualities. Kamala doesn't have the fitness for the office.

Totally vindicated. There's a lot of vindication going on right now, okay? But on those points in particular, totally vindicated. Kamala Harris proved, as Hillary Clinton did on election night 2016, proved her detractors right. The woman is not fit to be president. She can't lead. She doesn't have the courage or the stamina or the gumption to actually meet the moment. She proved it. And we were all proved right. And that feels really good, doesn't it?

Now, there's one last group that is being blamed for Kamala's loss. Last but not least, perhaps, and that is us. You might remember a few days ago on the show, I mentioned a story that was coming out that came out of the New York Times. And there was a story that popped up for me because my face was the center of it. It was about nine podcasters and streamers said election falsehoods take off on YouTube as it looks the other way.

This is the podcast election, according to outlets like the Washington Post and New York Times. And election falsehoods are flying on YouTube. And there was my face right there in the middle. And I said, well, what did I say? I've been pretty precise, I think, in my commentary on the election. What did they catch me on? What did I say that qualifies as an election falsehood? And I looked through the article and I didn't find anything. They didn't quote me as saying anything. They didn't mention me at all.

Hold on. You're not going to mention me in the article, but you make my face the center of your campaign to get these right-wing podcasters and streamers kicked off YouTube? What's that about? What it's about is the New York Times doesn't like my podcast, and they don't like Ben's podcast. They don't like all the other podcasts that are on here.

The liberal establishment broadly doesn't like that. Jeff Bezos made that clear in an op-ed he wrote in his own newspaper, Washington Post. He said, we're not going to endorse Kamala, not because we're not libs, but because we don't have credibility anymore. And the credibility is all going to the podcasters and the streamers. And we don't like that. We want to keep the credibility. So then the Washington Post launched a similar attack right at the same time to try to pressure big tech to kick the podcasters out. They called it the podcast election.

And we are being blamed for that a little bit. And I'm honored by being blamed for that. If we played any modest role in this election in allowing information to get out that ordinarily would not, in allowing information to reach audiences that it ordinarily would not reach,

Maybe people in that big, broad coalition that Trump has assembled. That Trump really deserves a lot of credit for assembling. But if we in the new media space and podcasting and streaming have helped to get that information out there, Elon Musk deserves a lot of credit for this because he actually put his $44 billion where our mouths are and bought one of the big tech platforms and allowed that information to get out there in a way that it had not before. Then I'm really gratified to hear that. That's really, really good news.

It is no surprise that the left would preemptively launch a campaign to take us all out if this were a close election or if Kamala won, or if Trump won but Republicans or Democrats had the House, say, or if Democrats somehow pulled a miracle and held the Senate. But that's not what happened. Republicans have everything right now, have a unified government.

They have the White House, they have the Senate, they have the House, looks like, they have the Supreme Court in a way. The one part of the government they don't have is the bureaucracy, the administrative state. But the Supreme Court dealt a really tough blow to the leftist progressive bureaucracy by overruling Chevron deference, which had empowered the administrative agencies in all sorts of ways. So President Trump has an historic opportunity to reshape the bureaucracy.

unified government right now, and historic opportunity. We've not seen anything like this in any of our lifetimes. Now we got to use it. We got to use it for good.

Folks, you may have heard, I've been talking about it, you know, a little bit today. History was made last night. Trump pulled off the greatest political comeback ever, becoming the 47th president of the United States. We said we'd cover the election from the start to the finish, and we did that. We thought that might take us five days, two weeks. I thought maybe I wouldn't sleep for many, many days. And no, it's start to finish was about 1 or 2 a.m. last night. More importantly, you delivered by showing up to vote.

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From Rumhee Zero, my grandparents are voting for Kamala Harris this time. I was so mad I left the cemetery. You know, I'll tell you, folks, this was such a rout of the Democrats. I don't even think the dead voted for the Democrats this time. The dead, black people are a reliable Democrat group. They started to crack for some Republicans. Hispanics had been a reliable Democrat group. They started to crack for the Republicans. Muslims, Arabs, Jews, on and on and on. But the dead,

The Democrats have had a lock on the dead for many decades. And I don't know, I don't even think the dead showed up. Boy, oh boy, what a routing.

Okay, so where are we at? We've talked a lot about the presidency. We've talked a lot about the media blaming people. Where are we at with the Senate races? The GOP won the Senate and maybe won the Senate by a lot. I mean, this information is coming in in real time. So producers, if any news breaks while I'm chatting with you, please do let me know. But the Republicans...

were close in the Senate already. They just had to pick up a seat or so. And they did that in West Virginia. That was basically guaranteed, unless the pollsters were totally wrong and underestimating Democrats. That was going to go to the Republicans. Then Ted Cruz in Texas, our friend, was a little bit on the ropes earlier in the summer. He won a decisive victory there. But then you had other states.

When we went to bed last night, the media were saying guaranteed 51 Republicans. I said, yeah, I know 51 Republicans in the Senate. I know that. I know we won, but I want to know how many. So Mr. Davey's telling me, okay, now it's guaranteed 52, but

It's looking like it could be better than that. I said Mike Rogers in Michigan was looking pretty good. I said these races at Montana was looking quite good. Wisconsin looking good. I was hoping Sam Brown in Nevada will say, I don't know if Nevada has been called yet since we've been on air. It's a little bit of a tougher race, but still had a good shot there. We just needed 51. 52 is really good. But by the middle of last night, we were starting to talk 53.

maybe 54 vote majority in the Senate, maybe 55. That's how things started to look. That is really solid stuff though. All you needed was that 51. And now with the White House going to the Republicans, the vice president becomes the tie-breaking vote if there is a needed tie-breaking vote in the US Senate. So now we're looking comfortable. Why does the Senate matter? Well, the Senate matters because the Senate has to advise and consent.

on important appointments, on judges, on Supreme Court judges. So one of the biggest wins from Trump's first term were those Supreme Court justices who overruled Roe v. Wade, who gave conservatives the biggest, most important judicial win in a half a century. There were other big wins too, by the way. Well, now you've got some Supreme Court justices who are getting a little bit long in the tooth. They're of a certain age. They're not, I wouldn't call them elderly yet, but they're in their 70s.

And they're getting up into their 70s. And at the end of this term, they'll be looking up into their 70s. People like the great Justice Thomas or the great Justice Sam Alito. Well, if you got a Republican in the White House and you have a good Republican majority in the Senate, maybe those justices at the right time, at the appropriate time, say they are going to retire and you get two young, if Trump's track record is any indication, most likely solid conservative justices in their place.

And then you're looking good. But even beyond the justices, there are 1,200 to 1,400 appointments, positions that Trump is going to have to fill that require Senate confirmation. I once heard from a longtime Washington, D.C.,

person, a careerist, that what separates the men from the boys in these positions is the Senate confirmation. There are a lot of positions that need Senate confirmation. And senators with an axe to grind or with political power can hold up those confirmations. Well, if the GOP has a clear majority, they're going to have more tools at their disposal to get those nominees through, 12 to 1,400. Trump's going to have to appoint a lot more people than that to the federal government. How about the House races?

Do we have any update? It looks as though Republicans have at the very least held on to their slim majority in the House. There were swing districts in New York and California, which is why they're going to take a little while to come in. However, it looks as though the Republicans are going to expand their majority in the House. This is really good news. Why is this good news? Because that's where the laws are supposed to originate, most of them anyway. Congress, the lower house, is supposed to have the power of the purse.

So if you got the Democrats in control of the House, all of a sudden that can really slow down a president's agenda. Here, though, we're looking good. And then we've got that strong majority in the Senate, what looks to be, what is shaping up to be a strong majority in the Senate. And then you got the White House and you've already got the Supreme Court. And the court matters.

Because you could get retirements from Thomas and Alito, which means that you could get generational wins here. Over the course of American history, the average tenure of a Supreme Court justice is 16 years. That's pretty good. But those numbers are actually skewed a little bit because it was more common to retire earlier. Maybe you retire from the Supreme Court and then you run for governor of a state. Maybe you have other political aspirations. Now it's kind of a life position. You don't really do something after you retire from the Supreme Court.

But think about what that means. That means that you get someone like Antonin Scalia. Antonin Scalia served on the court for 30 years, 30 years, almost double the average. Trump has already put Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett on the court. These are young people by the standards of Supreme Court justices. If he also gets to replace Thomas and Alito, we could be looking at

decades of a conservative majority on the court. The sort of thing the Democrats warned their voters about, we could get that. Really, really big stuff. The Libs pretty much gave it up, but they didn't give it up happily. The New York Times had a really funny bit last night.

So a lot of us were watching the New York Times numbers coming in, in part because we were thinking back to 2016 when that famous New York Times needle, it started out, Hillary Clinton is going to win, 72 billion percent certainty it's going to win. And then it goes down. It's not 99 anymore or 98. It's gone tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. And that needle was ticking into Trump's camp.

Well, a lot of us were watching that last night. And by the end, it was so clear. New York Times, here it is. I just printed out the screenshot. Chance of winning, very likely Trump, greater than 95% chance of victory. Electoral college estimate, 312 electoral college votes. Popular vote, very, very likely to go in Trump's favor. And then what's the headline? What's the update that they gave? The editorial update they gave on those numbers? He celebrates win before results are final. Hold on, I'm...

Guys, I'm reading your numbers, New York Times. You're saying greater than 95% chance of victory. Very likely Trump. Absolute bloodbath in the Electoral College. Actually going to win the popular vote for the first time in 20 years for a Republican. He celebrates his win before the results are final. Why is he doing that? Because you are admitting that he's going to win. And because NBC is admitting he's going to win. And the Associated Press is admitting he's going to win. And because it's over, guys.

I'm not really sorry, I guess. I shouldn't say that I'm sorry. I'm happy. I'm really glad. On this point about retribution, you hear a lot about retribution. And then you're going to hear some calls from the squishes. Well, we don't want retribution. We don't want vengeance. No, no, we don't want unjust vengeance.

Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, and I will repay. But likewise, this doesn't mean that we should allow the cruel to rape the earth unpunished. This doesn't mean that we should allow people who do terrible deeds to just be totally excused, to be encouraged to go commit more terrible deeds. There's nothing just about that. Civil government is also instituted for us, for our goods, given to us by God. So what do we think about retribution?

We think about it in the way that Plato talks about it in Gorgias. Okay, to bring us all the way back. I know we've been kind of granular on the particular political machinations of the past 15 hours, but let's zoom out a little bit and get a wider political perspective. In Gorgias, in this platonic dialogue, Socrates makes an important point. He says, a lot of people think that, you know, if you're a bad person, you do terrible things, that it would make you happy

not to be punished, for your bad deeds to go unpunished. That would make you happy. But actually, no, that would make you very unhappy because you would persist in vice and evil, and that would harm your soul, and it would be irrational. It would be out of accord with reason, and it would ultimately make you unhappy because happiness is rational activity done with excellence in accord with virtue. So actually, the loving thing sometimes is to punish people who do bad. That's actually the charitable thing, to correct people.

And we need to do it in charity. We don't want to do it out of cruelty or out of hatred or because we just really want to totally destroy people. But we want to do this out of charity. When people are doing bad things, when they're forcing big husky dudes to go get naked in your little girl's locker room, the charitable, loving thing to do is to correct those people.

to punish the people who are trying to do those bad things. When people are doing, when they're rigging elections, when they're trying to get unfair advantages and they're trying to undermine our Republican democratic system by say, I don't know,

trying to imprison the chief political rival, the former president, or by, I don't know, justifying his assassination, or by, I don't know, I'm just pulling things out of thin air here, but trying to prevent him from appearing on the ballot when people obviously, we now have the numbers, overwhelmingly wanted this guy to be president. He was such a popular candidate. Well, when they do that stuff, we have to punish them in a charitable way, but we need to correct the

those injustices. That's good for everybody because it's going to protect the people whose rights were being violated and it's going to instruct the guys who are doing the bad stuff. It's going to show them that bad deeds are not the answer and poisoning our system and trying to manipulate and pervert and distort our political system and violate people's rights. That's not

that's not going to bode well for them in the long run. In short, we just want to make America great again for the common good, for all of us. We all participate in that. Okay? And so that's going to be good, even for the libs who are crying today. It'll be good for them too, believe it or not. They might not want them, but it will be. It will be. And that's something wonderful, and we can all celebrate it in charity and in gratitude.

We got much more to talk about, folks. Okay, the formal part of the daily Michael Knowles show is ending here. We have a lot more election coverage for this historic moment, this world historic moment. Okay, certainly for the history of our country, but I think this will go down in the annals of Western and world history.

At least somewhere. This is significant stuff. So we will be live through Ben Shapiro's show. Ben will pick it up in a little bit. And I'm joined by some friends of mine here. I've got the great Tim Pool coming up too. I've got my iPad to speak to.

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What are we getting from Sarah36? I have no charity for my fellow libs. I will bathe in their tears. Okay, well, you know, all right, there's a little schadenfreude that begins. Okay, it's understandable at least, but it's good. And we want to punish our opponents out of love. I saw there was some great bits last night where these libs, they were tweeting out,

I'm just so sad. I don't have anything really to say. I'm just sad. And then I think it was Vishwara, the Republican consultant, who just tweeted out, he goes, we're not finished with you yet. You think you're sad now? We ain't done yet, okay? We haven't even started the deportations yet, okay? I think he was being funny about that. But there is a lot of truth to that. The liberals who...

upended our political system. I'm not saying the libs who just like voted for Kamala or Joe Biden or the libs who tried to get a little advantage within the broad tradition of American politics. I'm talking about people who did really bad stuff, who tried to imprison political rivals, who justified the assassination of Trump, who people who did really bad stuff. They have to be punished.

out of charity for all of us, for our political system, for the common good of the United States, and for their own good, because they're doing really bad things. And just as we would punish a drug dealer on the street, some guy committing petty street crime, we have to punish people who are willfully violating the law. People who encouraged a mass invasion of

Satan-worshipping gangsters from Latin America who encouraged this stuff, who promoted them, who gave them privileges that even American citizens don't have. They need to face consequences for that. People have died because of those actions, okay? Our rights have been trampled because of it. We need law and order so that everybody knows the rules and so that everybody can flourish.

You dig? You dig, man? What do you think, Mr. Poole? A man who needs no introduction whatsoever, Tim Poole, joining the program. I was on your show last night. You're on my show now. You were on The Daily Wire's show before. Other people from The Daily Wire have been on your show. I barely remember what day it is at this point. How are you feeling?

Tired. I think I got about four hours of sleep, but my exhaustion is masked by my enthusiasm. So I am here. We got work to do. This is just the beginning. What did you expect going in? I'll put my cards on the table. I did not. I did expect a Trump win. I was cautiously optimistic. I did expect. I thought there was a good chance we would find out last night.

I did not expect the popular vote. I did not expect that bloodbath in the electoral college. I did not expect the gains that it looks like Republicans are going to get in the Senate. I did not expect to hold the House. I didn't even expect to hold the House. This was, we were promised a red wave a couple years ago. We got the red tsunami last night.

It's a little early for the house, so I'm a little nervous there because I think Decision Desk is projecting 218 seats, the thinnest of majorities, but we'll see. Maybe we're going to do better than they're projecting. But man, in my gut, looking at the metrics, looking at sentiment, I was like, how does Trump lose this? But I felt similarly in 2020, and we don't know what we don't know. I had in the back of my mind the whole time,

If it was just on the polls and just on the merits, there's no way Trump, there's no way the Republicans lose, but shadow campaign. And you know what I'm thinking? We had that story out of PA where they said they caught thousands of potentially fraudulent voter registrations. And then it was confirmed that hundreds were fraudulent. Many people were saying that they may have stopped this attempt dead in its tracks. And that's ultimately what made sure this election was free and fair. But let's just put it this way.

20 million votes evaporated in four years for the Democrats. I wonder what that was about. My wife asked me about that this morning because she went to bed. You know, we got the little kids and she left the party early. So she got the news, you know, after I got home, unless she was checking Twitter or something in the middle of the night. And one of the first things she says this morning, she goes, so where those 20 million people go? And the thing is, without delving too much into retrospective history,

She is a Kamala Harris is a much worse candidate than Joe Biden, even with dementia. So I am not surprised that many fewer people would vote for Kamala Harris. You could even say you could even say that, look, the Democrats changed all the election rules in some cases unconstitutionally, as in the case of Pennsylvania in 2020. So because the rules were all different.

And now they're kind of like in the middle of the way they changed the rules, and in between that and the way things were before, that maybe the numbers would just be all sorts of skewed and all sorts of different. Okay. But it does raise your eyebrow, doesn't it, Tim? 20 million, that's a big number. Yeah.

That's big. But you know what I'm also excited about is Alan Lichtman, the Nostradamus of elections, was wrong. And you know what? Let me just say for everyone out there, Mudang was a better forecaster than Alan Lichtman this time around. For those who don't know Alan Lichtman, who are not familiar with this famous or infamous political character, who is Mr. Lichtman?

He is the he's the Nostradamus of politics. He claims that in the past, what, several past dozen or so elections, he's accurately predicted based on what he calls the keys to the White House, who will be the president. Except I think he got 2000 wrong, 2000 argued that he should 2000. He argued he should have been right. And this time around, he said Kamala Harris is going to win. But.

I, on my show, as well as our guests, kept going through his list of his keys. None of it made sense. It was as though, you know, I mean this in all sincerity. I do feel bad for him because I think he is a smart guy and I think his keys aren't bad enough.

The problem is the corporate press has been lying more and more. And here's an older guy who's getting his news from CNN and MSNBC. And when they told him the economy was good, he said yes. When they said there were no scandals, he said yes. When they said there were no military defeats, he said yes. And anyone with a brain looked at that and said, Alan, are you forgetting Afghanistan? I agree. I agree with you on this whole take. And I agree with you on those points you just made. But the one that I couldn't get over, the one key.

that Alan Lichtman had. I think the New York Times put out a whole video of him explaining the keys in his 2024 prediction. One of them was, which candidate is more charismatic? He phrased it a little more precisely. And he gave it to Kamala. He said that Trump just did not possess that adequate charisma, you know, as say Ronald Reagan did. And I thought, look, I am a huge Reagan fan. I really, really admire the Gipper. You're going to be hard pressed to find greater admirers of him than me.

But he said Trump doesn't have the charisma of a Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama. Trump has more raw political charisma than those two guys combined. OK, Trump is a generational once in a century kind of how on earth is he going to say Donald Trump doesn't have charisma and Kamala is therefore going to win?

He was watching MSNBC, and the only thing he ever saw was out-of-context clips that made Trump look silly and look bad. Those of us who listened to the man speak laughed and smiled and cheered him on. Yes. You know, I'll tell you, I had never been in person to a Trump rally. There were a couple of occasions where I was maybe going to get to interview President Trump or, you know, maybe get to one of these sorts of events and just didn't work out over the years with traveling and schedules.

I made it to MSG. I said, I got to go to this one. This is a big one. And so I go there and I was pretty close up to the president. And I'll tell you, even I've been a supporter of his for a long time since 2016. And I've been aware of Donald Trump literally my whole life. I'm a New Yorker. This guy's been a celebrity for as long as I've been alive. And I was sitting there and I didn't realize until I saw him in person. I said, oh, this guy, he's like Elvis.

The way he comes off on TV, especially the liberal channels, they make him out to be like Archie Bunker or something like that. You know, kind of goofy, but he's funny and he's engaging, but he's kind of goofy. No, man. You see that guy live? He's not Archie Bunker. He's Elvis. Okay, that guy has such raw showbiz magnetism.

When the Lichtman point, just to bring it all back to the Nostradamus of politics, I thought, oh, maybe your keys to presidential victory are correct. Maybe they hold your it's just your analysis of this race is totally off.

I mean, what's really amazing is that last night was not just a political victory. It was a cultural victory in numerous ways. With the popular vote victory, this is a rebuke of the far left woke cult. But additionally, it is a sign that the corporate press and the narrative machine is done. Yes. Every lie, every hoax, every manipulation failed, exemplified by the popular vote victory. So that means-

Well, I can't help but notice. I have this little New York Times hit piece that came out a few days ago trying to get us all booted off YouTube. It was a pressure campaign. That's right. And I noticed right next to me, there's your face right there. The Washington Post called this the podcast election. New York Times election falsehoods take off on YouTube. They take off, huh? Well, you know, they're trying to blame us. They're trying to set the stage to destroy our careers and our voice. And not really even just for us, but because conservatives are getting...

information that they weren't getting on CNN, for instance, or from the New York Times. Looks like that campaign failed too, Tim. Looks like trying to take out Mr. Poole hasn't worked out all that well for them. You know, they've done a bunch of these. This one was a bigger one. And when the story broke, I said,

I'm thinking to myself, do I have to worry? So I go to the New York Times dot com and I start scrolling down the front page to try and find the story. And I could not. It was buried in the technology section. They they tried to do this big splash hit piece, putting all of our faces and names in a story to get search engine optimization. And no one cared. Yeah.

I love it. You know, they didn't even mention me. They put me right there in the picture, but they didn't even mention me in the story. And I said, well, I guess I'm just a pretty face to them. What a pity, you know, I'm just clickbait for them. But it was so obvious and brazen what they were trying to do. This had nothing to do, this had very little to do with ideology. This was a business move for them. They said, these guys,

These podcasters, these streamers, Timcast IRL is coming in on our turf. They're taking our eyeballs and our advertising dollars, and they're reaching people with their message, which competes with our message. We're going to try to take them out. And I hate to give it to the New York Times or the Washington Post. They're probably right to view that business threat. When they call this the podcast election, Joe, forget about me, even you and me.

Joe Rogan alone might have swung a lot of votes in a lot of important states to President Trump. I think he did. And we saw Dana White at Trump's victory speech shouting out the NELC boys as well. They're full send podcasts. That's right. This is it. Aiden Ross. Aiden Ross, absolutely. It's social media personalities that...

The views, the audience, they are with a new generation and the narrative machine is done. That's what I'm mostly excited about. Let's get back to real competition where those who tell the truth succeed because the people who watch us are not stupid and they know when they're being lied to and that's why they're leaving the corporate press. Absolutely right. So Tim, are you going to go – are you going to nap today? Are you going to – or no, are you just –

We're just all on air all the time now because no one, because the thing, the reality is if you and I were not here right now speaking to people through a camera out into all of the big platforms that the libs want to kick us off of, we would just be, at least for me, I would just be sitting on my phone updating all those social media feeds anyway. So people are just, it's just one of these moments. You're like a moth to a flame. You cannot look away from history.

Man, it's a good day. Like I said, my exhaustion is masked by enthusiasm. Yeah. But it is remarkable to see that your show, my show, the rest of The Daily Wire, all of these voices made possible by people like Elon Musk. And then shout out to all of the media, but also I got to give a shout out every opportunity to Scott Pressler. Yes. This is the guy who went on the ground in PA. Killed it. Killed it.

I don't think the guy slept for years. He single-handedly registering people, flipping counties from Democrats to Republican. He's not the only one, but he probably worked the hardest and had the biggest impact. So that man is a legend and a hero. Yes, and he doesn't get enough credit for it. Another person we got to give a hand to though.

Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk. Oh, yeah. There were a lot of people when Charlie was basically given the Trump get out the vote operation. Good luck. Good luck, kid. And there were a lot of people who underestimated this guy. Charlie's been underestimated a lot of his life. He started his political career at age 18, starting TPUSA. But-

Historic victory, first Republican to win the popular vote in 20 years. Look, the credit ultimately is actually due to God. But we give a lot of credit to Donald Trump. There are a lot of people who ran the campaign, Susie Wiles, Chris Lasavita. But I think it's Scott Pressler, guys who are working on the ground to actually get those voters registered. But I think you got to give a lot of credit to Charlie Kirk here.

Absolutely. Completely agree. I mean, his videos, especially when you look at how he goes on these college campuses, it's not just that he's actually influencing young people, but that the rest of us can watch the mood change from every video he was putting out. Early on, he's getting boos and people are yelling at him. The last several videos he put out, everyone's chanting Trump and MAGA, and there's very few detractors. And that is his efforts on college campuses. I think we saw data showing Gen Z men were skewing towards Trump.

This is because of people like Charlie Kirk who have been reaching out to young people and saying, here's the reality and here's the truth. Their arguments are fake. Yep. A lot of people to thank. And we'll have a lot more of that today. Tim, I will allow you to at least go get a cup of coffee or something. Thank you, by the way, for that celebratory Pappy Van Winkle last night. That was a nice way to toast to the victory. And I guess I'll see you around these digs. You're going to be here for a couple more days. That's right. Thank you, sir. See you later. Thanks for having me.

Okay, now I want to get to a little bit in the iPad. A lot of people saying that Trump's win isn't enough, says Hemlock Fenn. What do you want, folks? You know, I actually haven't seen a lot of people saying that. It's a pretty big win. I don't know. If you're not satisfied with that in politics, get out of politics. You're not going to have a good time. The sea of red hats surrounding Charlie was amazing, says Baltimaga, so true.

So happy to help make history in Nevada, says Catherine. Nearly half of the Vegas area went to Trump. So many prayers answered. Incredible. HSF, that is terrible. Love you. Need sleep, says the cool shell heart. Is her styles fan. Did she not sleep last night? Amen. We got a lot of people going backwards here. Hold on. Let's see. Robbie Starbuck. Robbie was here last night. Megan Kelly says groovy. So true.

I really need Michael to answer my mailbag question this week. I've sent it in like three times all under 60 seconds. It's PLF Colin. I can try to do that, though. Maybe it's helpful to be a little bit more specific. Because if you just ask the question right there, then I could give you an answer. But alas, it's great to see Ben smile and be happy. LFG Trump says Kyle Rasta. It is good. It is. It's rare sometimes, but it's quite good. Yes, love Scott Pressler.

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I do have to get to a few of the TikToks. Some libs last night, we want to be gracious in our victory. And some libs last night, though, they took TikTok and they were, they allowed their passions to run away with them. And we will just, we'll just observe that. We're going to take that in and digest it a little bit, starting with a young man, a young Democrat operative,

who has been truly shameless in his hackery and irrational promotion of Democrat candidates. Harry Sisson, Harry Sisson, take it away. - So the election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris has not been called yet. We do not know who the winner is, but it is pointing in one direction. And it's not final, but I just wanted to say that America failed women tonight, primarily.

Trump has insulted women, berated them, has been found liable in court for assaulting a woman. And he took women's reproductive rights away. And instead of standing up to that, people voted for it. And we failed our daughters, our mothers, our sisters, our wives tonight. America failed them. We failed them.

It is unfortunately the reality of the situation. So I'm sorry to everybody out there who will be impacted by what may come. How about that? America failed women. A lot of women voted for Trump, didn't they? He won the popular vote. He won a lot of women. That's weird. But we failed women because Mr. Cisson says we voted for a guy who

who broadly speaking thinks it's bad for mothers to murder their children. So that's how we failed women. It says we failed our daughters. We failed our daughters by voting for a guy who doesn't think little girls should be forced to strip naked in public changing rooms in front of big husky dudes. We failed our daughters because we rejected the woman who wanted to force big dudes into little girls' bathrooms. Okay. We failed our daughters because...

We elected a guy who, broadly speaking, doesn't think your daughter should be encouraged to be sexually used by a bunch of men and exploited and then pressured into murdering her kid. You know, we failed our... Didn't we? I don't know. It seems like we protected our daughters. We protected our women. We protected America. Oh, Mr. Sisson. What is this story? It's life. It's life, my friend. Next one. When I look at her face...

And when she was talking to me, I really felt like she was very genuine. I felt like she was not playing games. And she had 100 days to do all of this. And she woke this nation up. She woke this nation up. I feel like there was a lot of things that went wrong. I feel like last year, they kept her too much in the background.

And a lot of people were asking, but what was Harris doing? What was Harris doing? And I know for a fact that she just didn't have much power last year. I feel like they kept her a lot in the background last year. And I feel like she they put in a position this year to practically save the day. And she she did a lot. Academics are the true record. Academics is crazy. And I'm proud of her and I hope that she's proud of herself.

No matter what happens tonight, this is going to always be, this is going to be, this is like one of the most unforgettable elections. And I love her. And I don't say I love a lot of people. Okay. Still more coherent than any speech Kamala has ever given.

What is the point that Ms. B is making here? She says, well, last year, the White House kept Kamala in the background. They didn't put her front and center all that much. And that is true. Cardi B is making a good point here. Is it possible that they did that for a reason? Because we now have more data points. This year, they did put Kamala front and center. And every time they did that,

she became even less popular. So every time she would do an interview, before she did the interviews in her campaign, her poll numbers were okay. Then she started doing interviews and just presenting herself to the American people, and her numbers collapsed. So in a way, it would seem that what Cardi B is complaining about, the White House hiding Kamala in the back, that was probably the smart strategy.

And actually, had they just hit her in the back forever, and probably if they just left Biden as the nominee, I'm not saying they would have beaten Trump. They probably wouldn't have, but they would have done much better. Seems to me Kamala was the problem. Next one. We may not have rights tomorrow. I'm scared I'm going to sleep. I might wake up on my way. Anyone else helping meltdown? I don't know how to do this. Right now, I'm just not.

I can't f***ing deal with this s*** right now. I am 48 years old and I have never experienced anything like this. I never thought I would in this country. Wait, I'm so stressed. I don't know how to handle this. I don't know how to get through the next couple days. I'm

Wow, this really raises a lot of serious questions for me. Like, who should we deport first, you know? No, I'm joking. I'm joking. That actually, that woman, the 48-year-old woman, actually stirs sympathy in me because she said her age. Had she said, I'm 18 and I'm screaming and I'm crying because I should have won and the mango Mussolini is going to destroy the bar. I'd say like, all right, little girl, you don't know anything. But this woman's 48 years old and she says she doesn't know how to cope

with a Republican winning political office. That is really sad. That's really sad. This woman, something's gone wrong in this woman's life. The face tattoos, generally not an indication of great things. You know, again, not...

So we love our people in the face tattoo community who vote for Republicans, but it's probably an indication that something's going a little bit wrong in life. And if you're 40 years old and you don't know how to process this and you're this fragile and broken, that's a pity. That's a pity. And something that President Trump is going to focus on is making life better for those people. Because when you look at

Actually, it looks like even single women or younger women were trending a little bit more Republican than last time here. But married women are more likely to vote Republican than single women. And so there are two ways to fix that. If you're a Republican, you can either reach out to single women and try to, I don't know, change your message to appeal to single women. Or you can encourage people to get married, not only for opportunistic political reasons, but because marriage is good.

It's good for people to get married. And the more people get married, the more conservative society is going to be. And the more you encourage normal behaviors...

And you discourage things like vice and selfishness and self-harm. And the more, if you just, you will actually just get a more conservative, the people will become more conservative. You'll get a more conservative society. And so that's what we're going to do. And some of those, some of those people who are crying, they will still cry in 2028 and 2032 and whenever else we win elections. But for some of those people, they might, they might find that their life actually improves under Trump. And they might even change the way they view politics.

Speaking of young women, I am so pleased to be joined by Alex Clark, who has been on the show before, who you all know from many venues, TPUSA, who is also the host of Culture Apothecary. I'm not sure. First of all, Alex, thank you for coming on the show.

Oh my gosh, what a day to be here, Michael. What a freaking day. What a day. It also occurs to me, I don't think you've been on the show since you have been introduced as the host of Culture Apothecary, which is a great name for a show. I think reflective of the moment that we're in,

We're talking, by the way, about medicinal things, medicinal politics, medicinal justice. People, especially women, they're having a little bit of a hard time because they've been duped into bad things by our culture. And we're going to fix that. We're going to rehabilitate all sorts of things. So, Alex, I give you the floor. I close my mouth. Just give me your unvarnished id.

I just have not been able to stop smiling since this word came down early morning, you know, or last night, however it was for you. I was telling everyone I could. When the RFK endorsement happened, I said, guys, this is the secret weapon. This is what we needed. I am on...

I am on the ground, so to speak, at least on social media, talking to women voters 25 to 35 in mass every single day. I have for six going on six years. I know them like the back of my hand. I know that these issues about corruption in food, corruption in pharma are the most important issues.

Most important things to them, obviously, border problems, economy, those. But these are huge for them. They were really torn when RFK was running separate from Trump. They were hoping that Trump was going to make him VP. There was a lot of them that were wondering if they should vote for RFK over Trump. So when this endorsement happened, I told Charlie Kirk, who is my boss, I said, this is it. This is it.

this is what's going to make or break the election. I'm telling you, I said, don't discount the crunchy moms. We are going to see a crunchy mom wave. And I think a lot of the success last night can be attributed to these mom voters. I just had Zen Honeycutt on. She is the...

of Moms Across America. This is a grassroots organization that has been trying to get moms to vote on the issue of GMOs and glyphosate in our food for decades now. And she has always been politically liberal. But her whole camp, and this is tens of

thousands of moms across America, they were all voting for Trump. And she said the most powerful grassroots group to legislators is the mother because moms are the ones who are making every little decision on a day-to-day basis about things that are going to affect their

family. And they also know that when a mom is motivated and she is passionate about something, which is how they feel about things like the vaccine childhood schedule that has exploded to over 70 shots now or chemicals that are allowed in our food that isn't allowed in other countries, they're going to vote based on that. And so this this is unprecedented. This is historic.

We are finally going to get this stuff done on the health front that moms have been complaining about for decades and nobody has been willing to listen until now. Trump and RFK are willing to listen. This is incredible. I can't express how elated I am enough. Okay, I agree with you. I know this is happening because my wife...

has become a tad crunchy and makes me buy the $12 college-educated eggs, and it has to be the special flour for the thing that's rolled in this way so that the chemicals in the water that turn the frogs gay go through a special filter that I had to install in my sink that I'm supposed to install in my shower. And I know, I've heard it all, okay? And I know that's real. There was just a major profile of you that was going around, I think it was in Drudge or LinkedIn Drudge, about this rise of the kind of crunchy mom. But to your point,

These people were all liberal until about five minutes ago. Bobby Kennedy is a liberal, and he's lived in the town that I was born in. I've been very aware of Bobby Kennedy also for most of my life, and it was always libs who supported this stuff. It switched relatively recently in terms of the political ID of these people, mostly women. Why now? Why the big switch? Why the big realignment?

Well, first of all, the pandemic is what grabbed a lot of conservative voters into being interested in food and pharma, myself included. I was the chicken nugget princess. Dr. Pepper injected into my veins until like two and a half years ago, and then I completely changed my life. So it's so ironic to my friends and family that now I'm hosting the biggest health and wellness podcast in the conservative movement. It's honestly hysterical because that was not me. But for so many conservative voters, that is the case. When we were mandated to

take that shot, that was a wake up call to a lot of people. And they started looking further into food and pharma corruption in this country. That's those voters. President Trump now has the opportunity to do something so huge for the Republican Party now that he is one and he has garnered all of these liberal political moms because of RFK. If he keeps his promises,

if he does what he says he's gonna do, if they realize, okay, I held my nose and I voted for Trump because I wanted RFK, but he's just not that bad. If he behaves himself and he does all that, he keeps up with all the Trump things that everybody knows and loves, and he stays away from kind of more of the controversial things for people that lean more middle politically, just with some of his rhetoric and stuff that he says that you and I think it's hilarious and love, but it rubs those moms the wrong way.

If he can toe the line enough to show them, look, voting for me wasn't that bad. And actually, I did what I said I was going to do. I think we could court tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of new women voters to the Republican Party if we play these next four years correctly. I think we could have them for life.

Well, there is an obvious realignment happening. That word has been used and abused in recent years, and people are always waiting. Okay, you're telling me there's a realignment. When are the black voters going to break with the Dems? When are the Hispanic voters going to break with the Dems? When is labor going to break with the Dems? And it has sort of felt like...

It's been 40 years since Reagan said Hispanics are conservatives. They don't know it yet. And maybe they just don't know it. Maybe they're not going to know it until this election. You say, okay, hold on. Wow. Trump actually does win a good chunk of the blackmail vote. Trump actually does win a huge chunk of Hispanics. Trump's winning Arabs and Jews and Muslims and I don't know, labor and everybody. So it would appear that the realignment is real. And one of the lesser discussed aspects of the realignment is

are these crunchy hippie moms, these relatively affluent, slightly eccentric white ladies, often in the suburbs, who don't want to feed their kids food that has six paragraphs of ingredients on the back of the box. And I love these women. I'm very close to these women. I know a lot of them personally. The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. You point out

that women do have a huge political role. You know, they're managing the fundamental unit of politics, the household, the family. So if you win that group, it's significant. The culture war starts at home.

And it is moms. Obviously dads lead the family. They're the head of the household. That's what you and I believe. But it is, like I said, the moms that are making those decisions, we're the ones that are taking those kids to the pediatrician's office. And we are the go-between between that pediatrician and what's going into our children. We are the ones who are at the grocery store deciding what we're feeding and nourishing our family. Imagine how people are going to vote four years from now when they haven't been, uh,

Eating poison, giving them brain fog and being medicated out the wazoo, unable to critically think. Clear headed voters. That is the future that we're looking at. What could that mean for us? I believe eyes are going to be open in ways like we've never seen and that the conservative movement, this is really the new conservative movement now with the second Trump term.

Or I guess I don't know what you would call this, but second Trump presidency. The beginning of the imperial Caesar reign of the Trump family. No, that's just that's just what I'm calling. That's just what they say. No. And Trump said it's the golden age or something last night in his speech.

It really is. Like, I think the Republican Party is going to be completely different. And I am so excited for what is to come. And especially with women. Like I said, we have such an opportunity here. I hope Trump realizes it. I know RFK does. And, you know, maybe RFK

isn't gonna say he's a full blown conservative after this, maybe he will. Maybe after working with Trump for four years, he'll be like, you know what? I think I might be conservative, which would be great. But I think a lot of people are going to be hit on the head with maybe Republicans and conservatives aren't that bad. Maybe I have a lot more in common with them value wise than I thought.

And clearly this hype for Kamala, I mean, that shows that America, the biggest picture here overall, isn't that everybody's a, everybody's crunchy and organic in America. Not yet anyway, but the biggest picture is this was a big middle finger to woke people. People understand.

unequivocally voted against woke, against men and women's sports. The trans agenda is officially dead. I think we can say that's over. So this is really, really great news. Yes. And you mentioned there, even beyond the food,

The drugs, the fact that we're drugging people, and especially women. We drug women to a shocking degree, a huge percentage of American women. That includes teenage girls. That includes middle-aged women. We just put them on really powerful psych drugs and antidepressants and all the rest. And this is...

distressed me for some time, because we talk about all the kind of insanity, the political insanity, the strange positions people hold, the strange campaigns that people will promote. I mean, notably, the transgender movement is just so obviously irrational. It's a bit odd. And so you try to come up with all of these causes for it. And I wonder, as you say, you talk about brain fog and drugging people.

How much of that is just because we are pumping people full of very powerful psych meds from a very young age and we're not letting up? And if maybe we adjust that regimen a little bit, maybe people will come back to earth.

Ask people in the LGBTQ community how many of them are on an antidepressant. One of the biggest side effects of Lexapro, which is one of the most popular and widely prescribed antidepressants, is sexual dysfunction. This is an absolutely undiscussed side effect. If you Google Lexapro FDA insert, I mean, the government admits it right there that this is one of the

biggest glaring side effects that people are exposed to. So what I'm saying is so many of these people that feel like, I don't know what I am. I don't know where I belong. I don't know what gender I'm attracted to. I think a lot of it is because of the drugs. You're also, you've also got an entire generation of women who were put on birth control as a teenager affecting their hormones. That is scary. And also,

You've got anxiety and depression rates that skyrocket up to 80% on the birth control pill. So then, of course, on top of that, they're being prescribed something like Lexapro. Teenage girls, it's popular for high school teenage girls to call themselves Lexahos because they are all on antidepressants.

This is terrifying. And so these are the people who are, yeah, growing up and making decisions and voting. So if we curb this, imagine what we can do politically. Well, a great place to get more information about all this stuff is Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark. And then now politically, we can actually do something about these problems. Alex, I have to leave it there. Wonderful to see you on this very, very happy day. And I'll look forward to celebrating in person whenever I next run into you.

Absolutely. Thank you so much, Michael. Good to see you, Alex. Okay. I want to get to at least one or two more questions before we toss to my friend, Monsieur Shapiro. The Schuckmeister, no bugs, no fake meat, no SSRIs. Probably a good idea. As a general rule, not saying there are never any exceptions, but it's probably a pretty good rule. AWSHF0574, I work in a Catholic school.

A ton of parents put their girls on birth control and tell their daughters it's for acne. These kids have little choice and are told lies. Yeah, crazy stuff, crazy. And so this is what, when, you know, Bobby Kennedy endorses Donald Trump and brings in a ton of crunchy moms, especially, who are really focused on drugs and food.

These are the stories that are motivating this. It's not that everyone's just suddenly gotten a PhD in chemistry. They just realized there's something kind of odd about putting your 12-year-old on birth control. There's something kind of odd about just drugging the population with heavy psych drugs. It comes from a real sense. We talked last night about how we didn't know what to think about the polls, and so it was largely a vibes election. Well, you know,

They get a little vindication, I think, after last night because people just feel something has been going wrong for four years. The last three and a half years have been an expression of deeper political wrongs that have set in over decades. And voters took the opportunity to try to start correcting them.

I believe we are turning now to a man who was also up with me late last night until about 2.30 in the morning, at which point we went home and wrote our shows and then came on air to talk about the very same thing that we're probably going to be talking about for days and days and days until my liberal friends and family members throw me out of a window because I'm dancing too much for joy. Mr. Shapiro, did you get any sleep?

Not much, but I do have one thing to say to you, Michael Moles. Yeah. America! Yeah, baby! Woo! I, after we were, you know, broadcasting, then we had a little party here, and then I came in. I did a quick little video. I lit up my second cigar of the evening. I went home. I'd had a couple Coca-Colas at this point. Tim Pool had Pepe Van Winkle. Went home.

I then just that was when I got to watch the liberal reaction, which gave me a whole second wind. Then I wrote my show. Then I slept for about 18 seconds. Then I came back here and I'm ready to do it again. Yeah, that's about right. I think that the schedule was pretty similar there, except for the cigars, because, you know, I know you love your cigars. It kind of wrecks my voice.

But what an amazing, amazing showing by President Trump. And let me tell you, this country is just, this country kicks ass. I mean, this is a great, great country. Seriously, because Donald Trump's the candidate. It's all of us who have to vote for him. It's everybody out there who has to work for him and knock on doors and has to pull the lever for him, has to give to him, has to go campaign. That's the American people. I did a debate with Sam Harris over Trump versus Kamala. I've forgotten her name already. That's how non-memorable she was. Remember her VP? Yeah.

She's like Tim Kaine. Yeah, exactly. And and, you know, I was I was talking with with Harris and he was like, well, this is all about character, this this election. And I said, you know, Sam, the real question is the character, not of the candidate, but of the American people. And the American people showed their character last night. They're sick of being spit upon. They're sick of being treated as second class citizens in their own country for the great crime of actually believing in founding principles and wanting the things that their parents and grandparents wanted.

They're tired of all of that. They're tired of all of that. And so I feel pretty good today. And Michael, I hear that we're going to be together again because I believe that Kamala Harris is now supposed to announce her concession at 2.30 p.m., I guess. It was going late and I was getting angry and angry at her because, I mean, what are we waiting for at this point? If this were Donald Trump and he had not yet admitted that he had lost the election and it was, you know, 11 o'clock in the morning Eastern time,

on a night when he clearly had lost the election, they'd already be losing their mind. I think they're looking for 20 million more votes somewhere, but it's hard to dig up 20 million more votes. Well, I'm very excited. I look forward to that 2.30 p.m. Maybe then we'll be able to take a nap or something like that. But even in the meantime, we can enjoy the vindication of the character of the American people. The American people proved last night, we are garbage.

The majority of Americans are garbage, beautiful, fragrant, effective garbage. And I'm so happy about it. Well, I've always known you had that garbage in you, Michael. All righty, folks. That's our show, folks. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. We'll see you next time.