Ep. 1612 - The Libs Go Full MELTDOWN Across The Country
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Kamala has finally conceded. And while many are praising her speech, I think it was downright scandalous. I think it was too little, too late from a cynical politician whose 15 minutes are up as President Trump prepares his return to the White House with a clear mandate to govern. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. ♪♪

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a free bottle of fiber and spice. Very, very simple. You get your little exercise in, you get your food in, but when you want to supplement these things, go to balanceofnature.com, promo code Knowles. Kamala conceded. And people are praising this speech. I don't really think this is a praiseworthy speech.

First of all, she should have given the speech on election night. Everyone knew she lost on election night. In fact, the campaigns knew that she lost much earlier. Let's not forget, on election night, probably by about 10 p.m., 10 or 11 p.m., the Kamala campaign was no longer fielding questions from reporters, okay? They knew. They had internals. They had internal polling, which showed that things were not looking as good as they wanted them to.

And then they just knew they knew relatively early in the night. We all knew in the public by midnight or so central time, she should have come out there and told her her supporters, hey, thanks for all your help, but it's not going to work out. She should have gone out there and told the American people, hey, I'll accept the results of this landslide election, landslide in the electoral college and even with a clear popular vote for Donald Trump.

She didn't do that. She did the same thing Hillary did, which is delay, delay, delay. I don't know, hope that five million ballots would come in in a trunk somewhere in Philadelphia. It didn't happen. And so finally, she was forced to concede at risk of looking completely absurd. And here is how she conceded. People who are watching, it is OK to feel sad and disappointed, but please know it's going to be OK. On the campaign, I would often say when we fight, we win.

But here's the thing, here's the thing. Sometimes the fight takes a while. That doesn't mean we won't win. The important thing is don't ever give up. Don't ever give up. Don't ever stop trying to make the world a better place. You have power. You have power. And don't you ever listen.

When anyone tells you something is impossible because it has never been done before. It's going to be okay. Hold on. The premise of the Kamala campaign was the premise of the Biden campaign, which is that Trump is Hitler and he poses an existential threat to democracy. So,

It's okay. Hey, everybody, thank you all for coming out here. Thank you for you. You feel sad. It's okay. But it's going to be okay that we elected Hitler. Hitler is a okay as far as I'm concerned. So says Kamala Harris. Hitler is okay.

Trump will destroy the fabric of our country. He will shred the Constitution. He poses an existential threat. We are all going to die, and that is okay. That doesn't sound okay to me. That sounds very scary. What? It's okay? Hold on. If it's okay, then I guess the premise was false. The only way it's okay is if Trump's not Hitler,

The only way it's okay is if Trump does not pose an existential threat to our Constitution and our sacred democracy and our country. The only way it's okay is if she has been lying to us the whole time. And before her, Biden lying to us the whole time. That's the only way it's okay. So I agree with her. It'll be okay. It'll actually be much better now that Donald Trump is the president-elect. And it'll certainly be much better after January 20th when he enters office, re-enters office as the president.

And one of the reasons it's going to be much better is for all the talk we hear about Trump's lies, all the many lies of Donald Trump, by which the liberal media mean there were 37,000 people at the rally instead of 36 or 38. The reason it'll be okay and it'll actually be much better when Trump is president is because he doesn't lie on the important things like this. He doesn't say that his opponents are Hitler.

He doesn't say that men can be women. He doesn't say that babies aren't babies. He doesn't say that invasions are conducive to the flourishing of the country. He doesn't say that an open border is a closed border. He doesn't lie about the important things. All the way up to the premise of the Kamala campaign, which nearly got the guy killed twice. Because the premise of that campaign, that Trump poses an existential threat, that Trump is Hitler,

is the justification to assassinate him. See you later, lady. I'm done with her. We don't, in fact, have to hand it to Kamala Harris. Up till the very last moment, this woman has behaved in a disgraceful way in this campaign, even up to trying to delay conceding. By the way, when she conceded, this will not surprise any of you who have been paying attention to this race.

It's not even as though this concession speech were some great original work. You know, the reason she had to delay it 12 hours was because she had to write this magnificent Periclean concession speech. She basically copied it from Hillary Clinton. The outcome of this election is not what we wanted, not what we fought for.

not what we voted for. This is not the outcome we wanted or we worked so hard for. Earlier today, I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory. I also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition. Last night, I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country. Over the 107 days of this campaign,

We have been intentional about building community and building coalitions, bringing people together from every walk of life and background. We've spent a year and a half

bringing together millions of people from every corner of our country to say with one voice that we believe that the American dream is big enough for everyone. To the young people who are watching, it is okay to feel sad and disappointed, but please know it's going to be okay. To the young people in particular, I hope you will hear this. On the campaign, I would often say, when we fight, we win.

But here's the thing. Here's the thing. Sometimes the fight takes a while. That doesn't mean we won't win. That doesn't mean we won't win. This loss hurts. But please never stop believing that fighting for what's right is worth it. OK, that video by way of the TikTok account, the recount I saw from writer Selmy on X, totally generic stuff.

Totally generic stuff, just like Kamala's whole campaign, which is one of the reasons, one of multiple reasons that Kamala's campaign never caught on. What were people going to vote for? Were they going to vote for Kamala because they want to end fracking?

Well, but she also said she didn't want to end fracking. Were they going to vote for Kamala because they want mass migration? Because she was the border czar and presided over an open border? Well, she also said she wanted to close the border and even suggested she wanted to build the wall. Were they going to vote for her because she's pro-Israel? Well, she also implied that she's pro-Gaza. Were they going to vote for her because what? She held every side of every issue.

There was nothing to vote for with Trump, love him or hate him. There's a lot to vote for. He tells you what he believes and he pursues it. There's one difference, though, between the Kamala concession and the Hillary concession. You could tell during the Hillary concession.

Part of what made it kind of delightful for those who have wanted Hillary to get out of politics for a long time is that you could tell she was in a murderous rage and she really didn't want to be conceding. And she knew this was the end of her political career and it was driving her nuts. With Kamala, the one thing I'll give to her is she seemed relatively at ease giving this speech. And I think it's because easy come, easy go.

I think the reason Kamala seemed relatively at ease, she wasn't sobbing or holding back fiery fury, was because she had no business being up there in the first place. And that's what the American people know, which is why Trump won in a landslide. This woman was obviously unfit to be president. She did not possess the requisite mental faculties, the requisite knowledge, the requisite preparation, the requisite anything, right?

the requisite political formation, the requisite anything to be president.

She was, as Joe Biden himself said, a DEI hire. He picked her because he was backed into a corner by charges of racism. He had to pick a black woman. The only options available to him were Karen Bass, who was a communist, Susan Rice, who was the fall man for Benghazi under Obama, and Kamala, who was unimpressive, but at least better than the other two when Joe Biden picked her.

So he picks Kamala and then they booted out Biden and Kamala became the nominee without having had to win a single vote. And so easy come, easy go. All right. Now Kamala is going to go off into the sunset. But I think conservatives, when Hillary's campaign ended, when her career ended, conservatives were so happy. We breathed a sigh of relief because this woman had been gunning for the White House for decades and she had horrible ideas and she was just terrible. So we were so happy with Kamala.

A further indictment of her candidacy is conservatives don't even really care. I'm not when I walked into a cigar shop that I would frequent after Hillary lost the one of the workers at the shop came up to me and just started singing Ding Dong. The witch is dead. OK, people were really, really happy when Hillary lost with Kamala. You just think, OK, OK.

Another empty suit that is an avatar of the Borg, the blob, the liberal establishment. She goes down. I don't even really think about Kamala Harris. She doesn't even strike me as all that much of an individual distinctive person. She's just, okay, the libs went down. We're excited that Trump is in office, that Trump is going to make America great again.

and that the generic liberal Borg has been set back at least for four years. Now, there was one little wink of providence here. This was an under-discussed aspect of the concession, but seemingly out of nowhere, as we were waiting for Kamala to concede. Do you see this? Just a little squirrel pops up. Wow. Look at that cute little squirrel. It was just a little squirrel running across the stage. Now, some are suggesting that this was

AI or CGI. I don't know. Maybe it was real. This was outside of Howard University. Maybe it was real. I don't know. Either way, was Peanut given a little...

A little ave atque vale to Kamala? I don't know. Was that a little wink of providence in the whole campaign? Could be. Why not? I choose to believe that it is. Not only did Kamala Harris sign off, Kamala's campaign signed off. And when I tell you that I don't think all that much about Kamala and I don't think I don't have any ill will toward Kamala, certainly at a personal level.

Kamala's campaign, specifically Kamala's ex-account, the Kamala HQ account, that maybe is a little bit of a different story because it was one of the most dishonest, vile, fraudulent campaigns I have ever seen in politics. We'll get to that in a moment. First, though, I want to talk to you about Pure Talk. Did you know that when you use Pure Talk, my cell phone company, you're supporting veterans across the country as a veteran-led company?

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Now, you might read it as just a generic, okay, the campaign's over for now. But the campaign wouldn't really be over if she got elected because she could run for a second term. I think this was a little bit more maybe of a recognition that things aren't looking that good right now in the campaign. So see you later. And it was this big happy picture. The Kamala HQ account has posted all sorts of clips specifically about me, about many other people in politics as well.

And despite all the many lies they've told about me, there are outlets that post clips of mine where they try to get me canceled or they try to, I don't know, take something out of context or something. And I think, all right, that's politics. That's how it goes. The Kamala HQ has lied about me multiple times, even while posting video of me. The Kamala campaign, the official Kamala campaign, has lied about things that I've said, just hoping that people won't watch the video or listen themselves. And I think that's a big part of the reason why I'm here.

So they've lied about things that I've said. They have lied about positions that I've held. They've lied about groups that I'm affiliated with. They've actually just lied, okay? And it's not just me. They've done it about a number of other conservatives as well. That's something that you ordinarily do not see from a presidential campaign, just the sheer mendacity, which is why it's really rich when the Libs accuse Trump of lying. By the standards of the Democrats, President Trump is the most honest politician in America.

by a country mile. It's why it's so rich when the libs say that Donald Trump, and even some people on the right, some people say, Trump doesn't have good character, but we'll vote for him anyway because of policy. No, actually, certainly by the standards of Democrats, Donald Trump has extraordinarily good character, is extraordinarily virtuous. Frankly, by the standards of many Republican politicians, the man has a lot of character. And

Also, just by the standards of politics, he exhibits certain virtues, virtues like courage, which is the prerequisite for all of the other virtues, virtues like prudence, a number of other virtues more than really any politician in our lifetime. But it's why it's so rich. Whatever the Democrats accuse Trump of, they themselves are guilty of probably 10 times over.

So all of that is preface to say, despite the many lies that the Kamala campaign has said about me, I want to thank them because I think the Kamala campaign did probably as much as anybody to send voters over to Donald Trump. I think they probably did about as much as Elon Musk or any of the other people who came on to the Trump campaign. Because of something Elon Musk said, Elon Musk said, hey, the Democrats, the Kamala campaign,

They're lying to me. They lied. Bill Maher said, don't lie to me, Kamala campaign. When the Kamala campaign came out and said Donald Trump wants to put Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad, Bill Maher said, hey, look, I already don't like Donald Trump. You don't need to persuade me not to like Donald Trump, but stop lying to me. That's not what he said. We know that's not what he said. It's insulting to our intelligence. It's not just insulting to the people you're lying about. It's insulting to the people you're speaking to when you lie to them.

And I think the Kamala campaign insulted people's intelligence. I think the whole premise of her candidacy was an insult to voters' intelligence, specifically to Democrats' intelligence. You're going to run a campaign saying democracy is on the ballot, Trump's a threat to democracy, and we're going to save it, and that's why we're going to ignore all of your votes in the primaries. We're going to install this woman whom none of you really like, and we're going to pretend that we're the great defenders of democratic norms. Give me a break.

voters do not like being lied to. And that is enough to push people from the center or even the center left over to the right, to the tune of millions of votes in this campaign. Now, there's one race that still has not been called, and it's really, really tight, and I'm hoping that the Republican pulls it out.

In no small part because I sat down with this Republican for a wonderful hour plus interview. Maybe it was closer to two hours. That would be American hero and Senate candidate Sam Brown. If you don't mind going back in time, what happened? We were providing security for a convoy that was delivering turbines to a dam to help power southern Afghanistan. There's not a warning when your life is about to go up in flames. I had three sensations.

My truck got blown in the air and so I felt this sinking feeling into my seat. The blast over pressure made everything go silent. And in a moment, I suddenly realized who I was. I threw my arms in the air in a moment of desperation that was true conviction that I needed God. And I screamed, Jesus save me. And I had these three final thoughts. How long is it going to take to burn to death? What's the transition from this life to the next going to be like? And I made the decision to give up the will to live.

The miracle then came. So we've been waiting on the results of this campaign. As of this morning, I think the vote was we were at

69% counted or something like that. It was far from over. And Sam was slightly leading. I'm now hearing that Sam is down, that the race might even be called, that Sam has lost. Do we have, I'm just calling to the control room now, do we have any final numbers? All right, the producers are searching for final numbers to what? 47.7 to what? 47.7 to 46.7. So you're talking about a one-point race

That obviously these numbers move a lot because they could be a tenth of a point away, but then a big batch of votes comes in. Well, it's unfortunate. We'll see how many organizations have called the race now, if it really is over. All the more reason to listen to Sam's story. This guy has an incredible personal story, an incredible political journey, an incredibly tight race. In a year where Trump's...

won in an electoral landslide, won the popular vote, won those swing states, won the Rust Belt in a total sweep. And yet, many of the Senate races, many of the down-ballot races were a lot closer and ultimately ended up going to the Democrats. We will get to some more of those races later.

Real sorry to hear that Sam is down, though, and possibly has officially lost that race. If so, the guy should run again. The guy has an incredible story. And in the meantime, you should listen to that interview. Okay, back to the presidential. How did the Kamala campaign do?

there are going to be all sorts of recriminations. We're already hearing a lot of them. This is the fault of black men. It's kind of, kind of rich to hear Democrats who constantly accuse Republicans of being racist and scapegoating people. The minute that black men even slightly break from the Democrat party, you're hearing, uh,

all sorts of invective against black men, against Hispanics. They're hitting white women too, as they often do, but they're really going out. They say, how dare you, black men and Hispanics? We own you. You're supposed to vote for us. How dare you? They just sound like they're, I don't know, Klansmen or something like that. They're totally reverting. The facade is gone. There is no more kumbaya, no more politically correct speech. But

Once you get past this demographic group or that demographic group, the excuse that the Kamala campaign is settling on, it seems, is that she just didn't have enough time.

My panel and this just run down starting with you, Audie. What are you looking for? Obviously, there's so much, but like, just give me one. I would say that 2020 was a historic turnout. I mean, the highest since the 1900s. So if it doesn't match that, who stayed home and why? And I think so many of our questions will come to that. Which group stayed home and why? Donald Trump has been running for two years.

Kamala Harris has been running for 170, 107 days. So one of my big questions is, particularly with her candidacy, is whether that was just enough time to introduce herself to the country and to candidates who weren't so dead set on running, voting for a Democrat, wasn't so sure about him, or whether she could have used a little bit more time.

If only she had more time. This is the Don Corleone excuse. He's lamenting to his son, Michael. If only there was more time. If only we had more time. Did she need more time? Kamala Harris ran for attorney general of California in 2011. And she was successful, albeit in a close race. Then she, or rather, she assumed office in 2011. She assumed office as U.S. senator from California in 2017.

She assumed office as the vice president of the United States 2021, three years ago. What more introduction do you need? She's been the sitting vice president for three and a half years. She ran for president before she was the sitting vice president. She introduced herself to voters then and voters rejected her. They rejected her before they rejected pretty much any other Democrat. Right off the bat, they said, we don't like you, lady. And she continued to introduce herself. And then the other question is, who would the campaign have introduced?

Would they have introduced tough prosecutor Kamala or would they have introduced bail the rioters out of jail Kamala? Would they have introduced open borders Kamala or build the wall Kamala? Which Kamala would they, who, the issue is not time. The issue is not time. In fact, the opposite is true. The more time Kamala had to introduce herself, the worse her poll numbers looked. When Kamala announced, that was pretty much the height of her campaign.

Then she avoided reporters as much as she could. And then finally, she sits down with reporters. And every time she'd sit down with a reporter, her numbers would go down. That isn't it. It can't be time. It can't be happenstance. It can't be Joe Biden waited too long. Joe Biden on election day was more popular than Kamala Harris. I'm not saying Joe Biden would have won, but he probably would have done better than Kamala Harris. It can't be that. Kamala lost...

Because she was a bad candidate. She refused to have an identity. She refused to stand for anything. And that repelled a lot of voters. The things that she was understood to stand for were unpopular. And voters, you can't blame one demographic group or some other demographic group. You can't, they all, to some degree, came out to vote for Trump.

Black women were still pretty much held the line for the Democrats. So you'll hear Democrats exalting black women, but a black woman also lost the race. So and and she was rejected by every other sort of group. Now, why was that? Was it because of misogyny? Was it because of racism? We'll get to those questions in a moment. First, though, some practical matters here. Donald Trump's legal problems have just ended.

They ended immediately. Jack Smith, the special prosecutor who Biden sicked on Trump to try to throw his chief political rival into prison, he has just dropped his case.

You remember, Jack Smith was pursuing two cases. There was the classified documents case that Donald Trump had some documents in Florida. And now Joe Biden, of course, had classified documents. He had even less of a right to have splayed out and multiple properties in his garage next to his Corvette available to his crackhead son who was selling secrets to the Chinese, allegedly. Trying to sell secrets to the Chinese, allegedly, and peddling American influence elsewhere in the world, including Ukraine.

That didn't matter. No prosecution of Biden, but Donald Trump kept a souvenir keychain from the White House, so you got to throw him in prison for 500 years. That case was already thrown out by the judge in the case, Eileen Cannon. But there was another case. There was the federal case being pursued by the DOJ and by Jack Smith that Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election. That case is done. Deader than disco, it's over.

Now, in principle, Jack Smith could have kept this case going until Trump took office. Trump had already promised. He said, I'm firing Jack Smith day one. I believe his phrase was, within two seconds of taking office, I'm firing Jack Smith, as he well should. But Jack Smith could continue the case up until January 20th. He's not. It's over. And this reminds us of something. Jeremy mentioned it on Backstage.

yesterday. But one of our friends here, Siaka, Black Jeremy, in the commercials, he was at the election party. And when the results came in, he said, wow, I'm not going to prison. Because Siaka was at the Capitol on January 6th, and he wasn't committing violence or anything like that. He was just at the Capitol, exercising his constitutional rights to protest in the people's house. And

He was later on raided, later on even than that arrested. It was an obvious political prosecution. And he said, well, Trump just won and now I'm not going to prison unjustly. Elections have real consequences, real tangible consequences for real people. In this case, the Democrats were trying to imprison their chief political rival and they were trying to do it for years. And they came pretty close to doing it.

And then the American people said, no, we don't want that. Poll after poll showed that the vast majority of the American people believed that the prosecutions of Donald Trump were politically motivated. This wasn't a matter of Lady Justice being blind. This was a matter of thug Democrats shredding the Constitution to wield the state to imprison their political enemies like happens in tin pot dictatorships and banana republics. It was a national disgrace.

And Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the entire Democrat apparatus should go down in infamy for their actions. And now that's over. There is a real irony. We're talking about winks of providence, a little squirrel at Kamala's speech. Little winks of providence. Democrats have been telling us democracy is on the ballot. Our Constitution's on the ballot for this whole election. And that might have ended up being true. Because Trump wins, and all of a sudden the political system

prosecutions, persecutions, they just disappear. Had Trump lost, good people would have gone to prison for disagreeing with Kamala and Joe Biden. Good people would have got, the president of the United States, former president, chief political rival to the Dems, very possibly would have gone to prison, very likely perhaps would have gone to prison. That would have represented far nearer an existential threat to our democracy than anything Donald Trump has ever said or done. Now, the question is, are we going to get pardons?

I sure hope we will. I hope for the majority of January 6thers who did very little, if anything, wrong on January 6th and who have sat in federal prison and who have had their records destroyed. I hope those people receive full pardons. For the pro-lifers.

who have been unjustly imprisoned by Democrats for violations of the FACE Act, this Bill Clinton-era law that was dishonest from the start. It said that it was going to protect access to abortion mills, but also to pregnancy centers and houses of worship.

That's how they sold it. You know, it was going to protect everybody. And it is not used to protect pro-life pregnancy centers. It is not used to protect churches. Churches can be vandalized. Pro-life pregnancy centers can be burned down. Forget about the FACE Act. The FACE Act is used to imprison Christian grandmothers who peacefully demonstrate at baby killing sites. And there are people...

It shouldn't be totally a matter of age or sex, but I think it really drives the point home. There are 75-year-old grandmas who are sitting in federal prison right now because they peacefully demonstrated and objected and prayed about babies who are being slaughtered by Democrats. As they said, please, please don't kill the babies. And I'm peaceful. They're not throwing fists. They're just

at abortion clinics saying, please don't kill the babies. They go to federal prison for that. It would be wonderful if President Trump would issue full pardons to all of those people, all of the peaceful pro-lifers who just say no thanks. And then furthermore, I know I'm very happy to say there are lawmakers who listen to this show. There are people in political power who listen to this show at the state, and in this case, the federal level. The FACE Act has to go.

The FACE Act is a disgusting law. It is a grave injustice. It does not do what it said it would do. It was sold on a lie, and it is used exclusively to persecute some of the best people in our country, peaceful Christians who just pray that we stop killing babies. It has been successfully wielded against those people. It's got to go. And I really hope, assuming we have a Republican House and a Republican Senate, we know we have the Republican White House,

It would be a wonderful thing if we finally repealed that grave injustice of the FACE Act and pardoned everyone who's been unjustly prosecuted under it. Now, we heard a little bit of the news about Sam Brown in Nevada just moments ago. We're still waiting to see what the House is going to look like because a lot of the seats that were crucial were in New York and California.

And we know the more liberal a state is, the less likely it is to conduct its elections in an efficient and transparent way. So we're still waiting on the results from the House. What about those Senate seats? We'll get to that in a moment. First, though, America elected President Trump. He's the 47th president. We're celebrating with 47% off new annual DW Plus memberships with code TRUMP. Get unfiltered ad-free daily shows from the most trusted voices in conservative media, if I do say so myself, and you are a full catalog of entertainment.

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Many such cases. You're going to hear that the election of Trump, it's just a war on women and it's because of the patriarchy and the white men and the however, a lot of women voted for Trump. A lot of women voted for Trump. A lot of non-white people voted for Trump. And that issue, that issue, which...

The geniuses of our political establishment mock. They say, oh, who cares about this social issue of trans identity? That was a big issue for a lot of people and a lot of people in the center and on the center left. And it gets down to what Bill Maher said and Elon Musk said. Don't lie to me. Don't lie to me and say that a man is a woman. Don't lie to me and say that a husky hank stripping down in my little girl's locker room at the public pool is okay. Don't lie to me.

It's very disrespectful. And the voters expressed their offense at that disrespect at the ballot box. Now, it's not all sunshine and roses, as I alluded to earlier. In those swing states, some of the Senate elections not going all that well. Alyssa Slotkin, the Democrat in Michigan, has defeated Republican Mike Rogers. That is unfortunate, but CNN projected that last night.

This is really unfortunate. What does this tell us? It tells us something that I mentioned on the backstage show yesterday. I may have mentioned it on my show. It's all kind of blurring because we've just been on air more or less all the time for about 72 hours now. It means that Trump did better than the down ballot races. It means that there were people in Michigan who came out to vote for Trump and then either didn't vote down the ballot or voted for Democrats down the ballot.

They came out, they love Trump. They don't necessarily love the Republican Party. They don't necessarily care about the other candidates, which means that for the Republicans who have said for years, oh, you know, Trump, he's an imperfect vessel as though as if they're not imperfect, you know, as if they're just so perfect to these guys. They say this Trump, he's imperfect.

This Trump, his policies are basically okay. We can tolerate it. There would be so many better Republicans. If only we picked another Republican in the 2016 primary. If only we picked another Republican in the 2024 primary. Oh, I guess we'll tolerate this Trump. He's just a weak candidate relative to the field. And oh, this Trump. When you look at what happened in the swing states and the Senate races and down ballot, what we conclude is Trump is actually a better candidate than most of those other Republicans.

Trump is not only, you know, this guy that we tolerate. Okay, he squeaked across the finish line. Trump has done better than other Republicans. He is a positively good candidate. If it were possible to have more candidates like him, that would probably be a good idea, especially now that the Republican coalition has changed because of and under Donald Trump, changed in a positive way that allowed Republicans to win even the popular vote for the first time in 20 years.

It's too bad. I really like Mike Rogers. I was really hoping he'd pull it out in Michigan. But there are people who came out, they just wanted to vote for Trump. They didn't care about the other Republicans. Maybe they prefer Democrats even to other Republicans. That means that the other Republicans need to learn from Trump. And I don't want to hear any more of these self-appointed geniuses. Say, oh, actually, you know what Trump really should do? Trump really should just behave more like the generic establishment Republicans. No, Trump does better than they do. If only Trump ran like

X primary candidate or Y primary candidate or Mitt Romney or John McCain. No, Trump did better than those guys. All those other guys should be emulating him as many of them are. Another bit of bad news. Tammy Baldwin has beated, has beated. You're going to tell I've slept so well in the last few days. I can't, how can you sleep when you're so full of joy and covfefe? Tammy Baldwin has beat out Eric Hovde.

This is in the Wisconsin race. I was really hopeful about the Wisconsin race. CNN also projected last night that the Democrat was going to win there. This is unfortunate because

We started to get really bullish. We wanted to take back the Senate, and that was basically baked in already because West Virginia was going to flip with Democrat Joe Manchin's retirement. A Republican was more or less guaranteed to win that. So, okay, that flips power. Chuck Schumer is no longer the Senate majority leader, especially now you've got a Republican in the White House. So the vice president is going to be the tie-breaking vote. If it comes down to a tie-breaking vote, things are looking good in the Senate.

but we want to build on that. We don't want a slim majority. We don't want it to be 50-50 with a tie-breaking vote or 51-49. We want 52, 53, 54. By the end of election night, we were hearing we might have 55 seats for the Republicans in the Senate. That's not going to happen anymore. So when I checked the race, the Nevada race, it was more or less tied. And Sam Brown was actually a little bit ahead with 47.3%. That's obviously changed, and now they've called the race. That's too bad. Arizona,

68% of the vote in. Kerry Lake versus Ruben Gallego. Kerry Lake has struggled in that race. Gallego, 50.2% to Kerry Lake's 47.8%. That is a bigger margin. That's going to be tougher to make up. Now, again, 68% reporting. We'll see what happens. It would be good if we got another Republican senator in there, but not looking great. Pennsylvania, hey, control room, while I've been on air, have they called Pennsylvania yet?

They're checking. Okay. At last I checked, you had 98% of the vote in. So you had basically all the ballots in and the race was 48.9 to 48.5. Four tenths of a percentage point separated this race. And the Republican Dave McCormick was in the lead over Democrat Bob Casey. This was really good news because the last time we had a Senate race in Pennsylvania, in the Republican primary, we had Dave McCormick,

who is a little more of a business Republican. He's not the most rock-ribbed far-right Republican there is. However, it's Pennsylvania, so it's tough to run a really tried-and-true right-winger.

And I thought McCormick was a more compelling candidate than, say, Dr. Oz. Dr. Oz went down in flames, unfortunately, in that race. McCormick seems to be doing pretty well for now, but this is a nail-biter. They have not called the race yet. They still have not called it. Okay, so who knows what we are over 98% now of ballots in. This is going to take a while. We're going to be waiting on these results, I suspect, for a long time. How about the House majority? House majority remains too close to call.

So we'll see. I'm still confident the Republicans are going to have the majority. It would be good for the Trump administration to have the House because then you could make the laws. You'd have unified government. You'd have the House. You'd have the Senate. You'd have the White House. You'd have the Supreme Court in a relatively reliable way. Wow, that is great. Regardless, though, of how the House goes, Trump clearly has a mandate to govern. And this is different. In 2016, Trump did not clearly have a mandate to govern.

In 2016, it was a real messy, tough race, and he won, and it was awesome. But the Democrats could still say that he lost the popular vote. Democrats could still drag up all this nonsense, the Russia hoax that they cooked up between the FBI and the Democrats. They could still drag up all of these non-traverses and scandals. Here, though, there is nothing else for them to dig up or to contrive or to invent. Every scandal that they could possibly try to throw on Trump, they've already done it.

They've thrown everything at him, prosecutions, the justification for assassination. None of it worked. Trump won by even more this time. And he won among a greater variety of voters. And he even won the popular vote. This man has a mandate to govern, which makes me think this will be better than the first term. And it very likely will be better. Okay, before we go, who else do we blame? We got to get a little bit of the tears from the libs. Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe.

He's throwing shade at the black men, at the Hispanic men. He says the black and Hispanic men, they hate women and the Hispanics generally hate black people. It must be the maturing of America. Well, I just say really quickly too, Democrats need to be mature and they need to be honest and they need to say, yes, there is, there's misogyny.

But it's not just misogyny from white men. It's misogyny from Hispanic men. Right. It's misogyny from black men. Things we've all been talking about who do not want a woman leading them might be race issues with Hispanics. They don't want a black woman as president. You know, the Democratic Party, I've always found when you're sitting around talking, they love to just sort of.

balkanize everybody into these separate groups and say, oh, white people don't like women and black people. No, it is time for the Democrats to say, okay, and you and I have talked about this before, a lot of Hispanic voters have problems with black candidates. There it is. All right, no more of this only going after the white guy. That's implausible now. So here comes Morning Joke. Gloves are off. How dare you, black men?

How dare you, Hispanics? You're supposed to be on my team. Do what I say. It's because they're misogynistic. Okay. If the Trump victory is attributable to misogyny, how do you explain that Trump did better among women this time than he did last time? Women did not support Kamala Harris. Hillary Clinton won women by 13 points in 2016. Joe Biden won women, it appears, by 15 points in 2020.

Harris got women by just 10 points. Women were less likely to support Harris than the other guys. Young women actually came out for Trump in greater numbers than they did in 2020. How do you explain that? If it's about anti-black racism or something, how do you explain the fact that Trump got significantly greater chunk of the black vote, specifically black men this time around, as even Morning Joe is admitting here?

What does this tell you? It tells you the left is more willing to change the target of their smears rather than the substance of their smears. That's a really important takeaway. Lock that one away because that's going to remain true for a long time. All the Democrats have is, you're a racist, you're a misogynist, you hate this group, you hate that group. That's all they've got. They don't have anything else. They previously have just wielded that against white people.

They're no longer just wielding it against white people. That's implausible after this race. So they say, actually, you black people, you hate black people. I don't know. Hey, you Hispanic people. Hey, you women, you hate women. That's it. All they got is the racism and misogyny. So they can't change the subject. They can't change the substance. They've only got to change the target. Okay, there's so much more that's happened, but we have to pause it here for the proper Michael Knowles show.

We are now going to continue our live coverage because everyone's just so excited and we're all just giddy and dancing. So we're going to remain live for everyone on YouTube, on the social media platforms, on X, until Mr. Shapiro comes on. I'm going to be taking some of your questions on this iPad. However, I'm not taking them from the hoi polloi. I love all of you out there who are watching YouTube Landon X. However...

If you want to ask questions, if you want to get your comments read, you have to join Daily Wire Plus. We also have Phil Labonte coming up. That's right. We have one of the great stars of the Tim Pool universe coming up. First, though, a little bit from the iPad. Woo-hoo, Michael, says Mr. Mark Rama. Woo-hoo! What's up, DW Chrissy? iPad time. Would Kamala have gone after the homeschooling family, says Tradwife4547. For sure. Yeah, are you kidding me?

The Biden-Harris administration was spying on Catholic churches, parishes that they viewed as too traditionalist and equating them with terrorists and domestic extremists. They were peddling all sorts of craziness through their educational regulations, forcing transgenderism into schools. They hate school choice. They're totally in the pocket of the teachers unions. Yeah, for sure. Especially now that homeschooling is exploding.

Hey, Michael, says Victorian Lady Esquire. Hey, what's up? How you doing, Victorian Lady Esquire? Creamy Bucket. Sexy Mike, are you excited that literal Hitler is president again? What a question. What a way to put it. That's Kamala. Hey, everyone, we're all a little bit dejected that Hitler got elected president, but it's going to be okay.

It's okay that literally Hitler is going to be governing us. It's okay. All right. Just keep fighting. That was more of a Tucker laugh than a Kamala laugh. I'll work on my Kamala laugh. What a special week, says Catherine. Ha, I am special, says Aitley. Mr. L. Trell, until the end of time. A lot of people just saying good morning.

Michael, what was for breakfast? Says Nappic Art. Okay, finally people are asking the important questions. Sweet little Elisa, my beautiful saintly wife, made me a lovely cheese omelet with some nice prosciutto with a little crisp on it. And then a homemade waffle, a couple homemade waffles with a little drizzle of syrup. Not too much. You know, we got to fit into my smoking jacket. And a nice shot of espresso. It was delicious. De-licious. Multiple people asking me about my breakfast. Wow. A lot of people talking about Hitler.

Chicken soup. Michael, Michael, Michael. I saw a friend yesterday. He said, I look happy. I've never been told I look happy. And he said he could tell. I'm just so freaking happy. I had a friend of mine tell me. I had dinner with some friends last night. And they said that they think their neighbors now know their political views because they were out walking in the morning. And they said, oh, hey, good morning. How's it going? And the neighbor said, how's it? I'm

And I think that probably gave it away. If you had a little bit too much of a smile on your face yesterday, a little too much pep in your step, people know the secret is out. Watch out. Watch out. Though the Libs seem so dispirited at this point, I don't even know that they're going to burn the cities down as they often do. Okay, I want to get to Philobonte. That's right.

the one of the stars of timcast irl an actual singer and musician you know some of us in podcasting you know pull out a ukulele every now and again or something kind of play around on the mandolin but phil is actually a musician he is a lead singer of the metalcore band all that remains and the famous figure from timcast irl phil thank you for coming on the show

Well, hello, Michael. Don't sell yourself short. I've heard you play. Don't sell yourself short. You are an absolutely phenomenal musician. Well, that's very kind of you. Do you think there's going to be any room for my soprano ukulele in any metalcore songs?

I tell you what, we can make music is a universal language, and I'm sure that we can find a place for it. That sounds good. I consider myself the Yngwie Malmsteen of the ukulele, so I can't wait to try to do all sorts of tapping and things. You're in better shape. You're much more svelte than Yngwie. Yeah, thank you. Thank you very much. So what's your take? I mean, truly, you come from music. You come from areas that are not...

full of political nerds and necessarily rock ribbed right wing Republicans. What's the vibe, man? It was a vibe election. What's the vibe 48 hours after the election?

I mean, personally, I'm excited. Yesterday, like you were mentioning, you know, you're hearing about your neighbors or your friends that were talking about their neighbors, you know, walking around looking dejected and they were walking around with a spring in their step. And I couldn't help but walk around with that same spring in my step. It has been my belief that the the Harris administration would be just like the Biden administration and use the DOJ against their political opponents. Like, I think that I was I was

I was pretty confident that there would be significant efforts to stifle speech, to continue to go after people like Tim Pool or like The Daily Wire, like Ben.

um to try to quash dissent and i feel like there has been a significant cloud lifted because that doesn't you know that's not in the cards anymore and and so personally um i'm thankful for my friends because they're not going to be fearing or that they don't have to fear the full weight of the federal government anymore but also for the american people because um the

The freedom of speech is important. And that was the fundamental fear that I had was that there was going to be, you know, the DOJ coming down on people for... On normal people for having political speech that was unpopular. That was a big issue for a lot of people. That was a big issue for Elon, Tulsi, Bobby Kennedy. And it wasn't... Look, I...

I hate that the government was going to try to throw us all into the gulags for what we say, but it wasn't even the top issue for me. You know, I mean, I just, I felt they were going to unjustly target a lot of us. But, but I think that really resonated for a lot of voters, the censorship, maybe in the same way that the transgender bathroom issue and transgenderism in schools is

resonated for a lot of people. It's not that it wasn't necessarily directly going to affect them all that frequently, but it's just, it was so offensive to them. It was so, it just really cut to the core, you know, to tell people to lie. I guess that's what unites those two issues. It was the government saying, hey, you better lie. You better shut up and not tell the truth at least. And I think that really did offend quite a lot of people. And I'm with you also. I felt a kind of

relief. Even more, I remember in 2016, I felt surprised. I voted for Trump, but I didn't, it was hard to imagine he was really going to win. Yeah, absolutely. And then I felt surprised, I felt elation, I felt joy, I felt excitement, I felt all those things. I felt a great deal of humor. But this time around, I think the primary thing I felt was

relief. I tweeted it out and I don't, I really endeavor never to take the Lord's name in vain, but I don't think I was taking the Lord's name in vain here. I just tweeted out. I said, thank God, thank God that this man was elected president. So much will get better instantly because this man was elected president. I don't mean he's going to fix the economy, though. I think he'll do that. I don't mean he's going to stop the invasion, though. I think he'll do that. I mean, I

Well, just to use the example of Jack Smith, the weaponization of the government against chief political rivals, that ended immediately. Thank God. We faced very, very serious threats. And so I felt excitement and all the rest, but I just felt a sense of relief. Absolutely. And to your point, I agree. I felt the same sense of relief, but I think

At least a part of my relief came from the reassurance by the fact that there was such a decisive victory. It reassured me that America still does care about the things that make America America.

Things like the freedom of speech. I do agree that there was there was probably parents that were terrified for their their daughters. You know, the idea of of a man going into the bathroom with their daughter and and, you know, something terrible happening, obviously terrified parents. And rightly, rightly, they should fear that. Right.

especially when it's state sanctioned. If you're a parent and your daughter goes into the bathroom and something happens, and then the state says, well, you have to deal with it. We're not going to do anything. You don't have the law to protect you, and we're not going to be able to address your grievances. I think that that scared parents. But

More than that, I think that for me, because probably because I'm not a father right now, but for me, it was the reassurance that my countrymen still believe in my country. Right. Like the fundamental principles that make America what it is for the past 15 or so years, 20 years.

A lot of people have treated them as if they're passe, as if they're not important. And you hear it like just yesterday on The View, there was someone talking about how the reason Trump won was because they weren't regulating the social media networks. And you know they were talking about X and Elon Musk. And that is just so abhorrent to me. The idea that not only...

is something as fundamental as the freedom of speech being attacked, but it's being attacked by your fellow citizens. They're saying we would want to use the power of government to shut up people that disagree with us. And so for me, I agree it was definitely a sense of relief. I'm right on the same page with you. But for me, it was a sense of relief that

thankfully we won in a decisive manner and that was a ringing endorsement of America. It was a ringing endorsement of the country that I so deeply love. Yeah, I guess on that very point, the fact that the demographic numbers were so shocking is also a good bit of relief that, okay, our fellow Americans aren't totally nuts, that there's actually hope for the American people because, you know...

When you look at 45% of Hispanics in some places voting for Trump, then you think, okay,

Hispanics can assimilate. Oh, that's actually good. We've been told from the left and parts of the right, Hispanic people cannot assimilate, or certain Hispanic groups at least cannot assimilate. I thought, oh, okay, 44, 45%, that's pretty good. If a group can assimilate to even 50-50, that, okay, it's like the Italians. You know, you get Nancy Pelosi on one hand, Antonin Scalia on another hand. You can't tell by looking at an Italian guy what his politics are. That's assimilation.

Okay, Hispanics can do it. Same thing with the black vote. The fact that maybe 20% of black men voted for Trump means great. Black voters are not totally allergic to the Republican Party in all cases, maybe to some Republican politicians, but oh, great.

It's not just a total lock. The fact that women moved more toward Trump. Oh, great. Women haven't just been totally hypnotized by Democrats. They aren't just totally enthralled to Democrats offers to let them murder babies. You know, if that were the case, that would be damning stuff about, well, just

Almost any demographic group you could name, but that's not what happened. The realignment shows us that actually the demographics are kind of dynamic, that they can be persuaded, that arguments actually still work in our republic. Okay, maybe there's a future for self-government.

Yes, yes, I completely agree. It was an unmitigated disaster for the narrative spun by the left, the narrative that America is inherently bad and that America inherently hates different groups of people based strictly on their race or on the color of their skin. There was a total rebuke of those ideas. And I'm incredibly grateful for it because it's what I believed since then.

you know, since I was a child, I'm, I'm a Gen X guy. And so we were raised to believe that the color of your skin isn't important. You know, that, that people are people. And if you make a good argument, you can convince people regardless of the color of their skin or, or, or how, where they grew up or how they were raised, that, that an argument is something, the argument is the important thing. And for a long time, the left has been making a counter argument, something that

something that I was shocked when I found, when I realized what they were doing, but they were making the argument that, you know, if you have this skin color, then you must think this. And, and, and it was something that wasn't just a subtle thing. It was, it was something overt when, when Joe Biden says you're, if you, if you don't vote for me, then you're not black. I mean, I was, I was horrified. I'm like, what do you, you know, what is this guy thinking? Like,

The key thing about Hispanic people and black people and women people is their people, not the color of their skin. They're people. They're human beings just like me and you. And they may have inclinations and they are going to come from a different – they may come from a different –

upbringing or have a different experience in life, but that doesn't make them less people. They're just people and people can be reasoned with. People can be, you can talk to people and we can find common ground with people. And I think that that's one of the things that I love the most about our country is

It is a nation of people that come together because they agree. I'm fine with excluding people that disagree. If you don't love America, stay out. You know, I love America, but if you're not, if you don't believe in the founding principles, then don't come to America.

We can boot out all the communists you want to boot out. I'm right there with you. But when it comes to people that love the ideals that our country's founded on, then I think we should welcome them with open arms. And I think that these arguments make themselves when they're approached with honesty and with charity. There are so many points you're making about human nature here that I think are

really have resonated with people that the left has made an enemy of human nature. The left has made an enemy of reality. And people know that. What distinguishes humans in their nature from other animals is that we have a reason. So we have will and intellect. That's why we can be put on trial for stealing a candy bar. A squirrel cannot be put on trial for stealing a candy bar. The state will just come in and take the squirrel and execute the squirrel, of course, naturally, especially in New York. But-

That's why. That's what distinguishes us, right? So we have a reason. So as you say, we are persuadable. We can make arguments. Now, there are distinctions within humanity.

There really are racial differences. That isn't, you know, it's not evil to say that. It's not false to say that. There are distinctions between races and there are distinctions between the sexes. Men and women really are different. But I think on this point, especially when we're talking about identity politics, this is, the distinction between race and sex is really important too because whatever differences there are between the races, you know, black people run faster than white people or whatever, those are real.

But sexual differences are much deeper than racial differences. Racial differences get a lot blurrier than the sexual differences. And I think that this is all a long way of saying, I think this is why the transgender issue has in itself resonated so much and as a symbol of other, of a political program has resonated so much is that we know in our core, men and women, we possess reason,

Sometimes we think the other one does not possess reason at all. And sometimes there are good reasons to believe that. But men and women really do both possess reason. But we are different. That distinction between the sexes is the fundamental distinction within human nature. And so if a political party comes up to me and says, yeah, actually, no, that isn't true. The most basic division in human nature, it's not real.

I'm going to know. I don't care if I've been a lifelong Democrat. I don't care if I live in New York City. I'm going to know they're lying to me. OK, and when people lie to me, I'm less inclined to vote for them. Yeah. The idea that men can become women or women, that women could become men. That's just stupid. And it's something that that.

I completely agree. The people that I interact with in LA, like last year, I spent a lot of time in Los Angeles because we were recording a record. And I'm spending a lot of time with people that are very progressive, have very progressive ideas. And when it's just you and your producer in the studio or you and an engineer in the studio or you and someone else that typically has very progressive ideas, but they're like, yo,

This stuff that they're talking about with men, that is some BS, man. That's crazy. I don't know what they're doing it. And, you know, they don't want to say it publicly and I don't blame them because the, the, the reality that they live in or the, the circumstances that they work in every day makes it, makes it dangerous for them, um, to say those kinds of things. And, you know, everyone's got a family and bills to pay and stuff. So I understand it. Um,

But at the same time, nobody believes that except for the most ideologically possessed. And it's people where these the trans ideology and stuff, it it it is not just about politics. It's about a religion for them. It's or it's it's their it's their religion. And I don't think that there's a whole lot of argument against that that fits. I mean,

When such a basic thing, you know, men and women are different and men cannot become women and women cannot become men. When those things are pushed back against the proper response is from from normal thinking people, from right thinking people. The proper response is you're crazy. Yeah. Like there's not. No, I think that issue might have have secured Ted Cruz his Senate seat.

which seems crazy, but that was the biggest ad of that race down there in Texas was an ad of Colin Allred, who was a former football player, tackling a little girl. And it was a totally fair ad. It said Colin Allred has voted to put men into girls' sports. And it really worked, not because that, it's not at the top of my list. Economics, inflation, immigration, that's what's at the top of most people's priority issues list. But it's just a good rule of thumb. When I think about

If I were hanging out in the recording studio, I got my little ukulele there and I'm talking to some of your more liberal friends. If they brought up, I don't know, democracy. Democrats made a big deal about democracy this cycle. Michael, what do you think about democracy? I probably would have given it some answer like the framers of the Constitution or maybe some quote from the Federalist Papers or maybe from St. Thomas Aquinas.

And I would have said probably the ideal regime is really a mixed regime that includes elements of all the three types of regime that Polybius recognizes as being legitimate and good forms of government, blah, blah. And their eyes would glaze over or they might just disagree with me and say like, what? I'm pro-democracy, weirdo. What are you talking about? Yeah. And we would, if they asked about free speech, I would give an argument like I made in my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. And I would have, you know, said that actually there are limits to speech and in the American tradition, blah, blah, blah. And their eyes would glaze over and they'd probably disagree with me. And, but...

We don't need to agree on all those things. If I had a conversation with Bobby Kennedy or Elon Musk about any number of issues, we would disagree about them and would disagree fundamentally maybe about some of those issues. But that one issue, it's like the key that just unlocks all the rest. It's the key that says, hey, are you...

Are you an honest person? Basically, I think that's what it is. You know, are you, we're going to be honest with each other. We're going to argue in good faith. We both want something for our country that is even plausibly similar. Okay, great. Now we're on the same team. And that's why we're all going to show up to the same Trump rally. And it's, you're going to have a Kennedy, the most prominent living Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat presidential candidate and Elon Musk and Donald Trump and a bunch of right-wing Republicans, uh,

And it's actually going to make sense that we're all together. Yeah. One of the things that I continually say on IRL with Tim, my interest in being active in this space is really about

Some of them. Yeah.

Not all of us. Some, and I understand that there is nuance, but most of the time when you're taught, if you say you're a classical liberal, people are like, okay, they want the things that the founders would want. They approve of, again, freedom of speech. The individual comes before the state. The state exists to protect the rights of the individual, to secure property rights. These things are kind of or generally thought of as universals in America.

Progressives don't believe. That is what the classical liberals believe. That's true. Not to interrupt too much. But some conservatives have a different view of things. But maybe we'll get into that later on Timcast IRL. Sorry, I interrupted you.

That's fair. But the progressives, they don't even believe in property rights. They don't believe in any fundamental rights. They believe that words are power and that's all that matters. So what they say is only so that way they can attain power. It's a postmodern worldview. They don't believe in the Enlightenment principles. They believe the Enlightenment was an error. They don't believe in...

in any of the founding principles from the US. And I think that if we can separate the progressives, the postmodernists from the liberals,

then we can at least have a conversation with the liberals because conservatives, liberals, conservatives, classical liberals and liberals can talk and at least are speaking the same language. Postmodernists and people that are, that are extremely progressive, they don't even believe that you can talk in a good faith way. They believe that words are only, only exist to exert power. And so they'll lie and won't care because if they get their way, they win. That's, and that's all they care about. It's only about power. So, um,

Whereas there are going to be differences between conservatives, liberals and classical liberals and liberals and stuff. I think at least you're in you're playing the same game, whereas the postmodernists and progressives, they're playing a totally different. Well, I like I really like your point, and I might take it even further with the real leftists.

It's not just that they can't talk to conservatives. They can't talk. If you really believe words don't convey meaning, if you really believe that we're all just kind of grunting like baboons trying to hit each other on the head with a stick, then talking doesn't even mean anything because there's no meaning that's being conveyed. That's a really, really interesting point. But perhaps we'll leave that there because I think, Phil, if I'm not mistaken, I won't let the cat out of the bag. I believe I'll be seeing you later tonight. Is that right? Yeah.

Well, I tell you what, I hope so. I've been hoping there has been rumors. And I hope that if you do, if you do end up coming, I hope you bring the smoking jacket. Well, because you look dapper and I like being in the presence of dapper looking. Stop it. Get out of here. At the very least, I could bring those cigars that I really. Well, you know, that would be wonderful as well.

Phil Labonte. Everybody needs to go watch Phil. Check out all of Phil's stuff. But watch Phil tonight on Timcast because we'll see. We'll see what happens. We'll see, you know. We're all hanging out in Nashville. We'll see, you know. We'll see what goes on. Phil, thank you for being here. Thank you very much, sir. Okay, I do want to get to a little bit from the iPad. The left is a dumpster fire, says Catholic Homeschool. So, so true.

The left is... Okay, I'm not going to say that on... It's a fine enough line, but I probably won't say it on YouTube. Because we're live on YouTube right now, because we're waiting. We're going to hang out with our friend, Ms. Shapiro, momentarily. The left is all emotion, says Jimenez Cricket. That's true. It's true in a really deep way, in that normal people...

we all have passions, but we try to bring our passions under the command of our reason. So, you know, if somebody cuts you off in traffic, you hope that you won't just fly into a rage, cut that person off, pull out your AK-47 and start blasting like Rambo, right? You know, you kind of hope you think, okay, all right, forgot my wrath is firing up a little. I'm going to, nope, we're not going to indulge them. I'm going to bring my passions under

under the control of reason, but the libs do not do that. They shriek and they scream generally. Generally, Honest Dave, is Ben going to have his show or members block after this, or are we going to get kicked off again? That's a good question. I don't know the answer to that. I don't run things over here. I do my show, and then if Ben wants to show up, he can do that as well.

The Dems took Joe off the ballot, and so the dead people did not feel represented and did not vote. That's a good point. Maybe that's why Kamala lost the dead people vote that can sometimes push the Democrats over the limit. Okay, there's also one before I get... I'll try to get to a little bit more iPad. There is one little compilation I want to get to, though, and I didn't get to it in the main show. I felt it would be a little too indulgent, but...

I would like to play it, at least for all of us here on YouTube. Just it's a little, maybe a little bit schadenfreude. There's a compilation going around of people telling Donald Trump for more than a decade now that he will not be president. Please take it away, Mr. Obama.

I believe Mr. Trump will not be president. I don't think he'll end up being president of the United States. Will he win the general election? I don't believe so, no. I don't think there's any way that Donald Trump gets elected president of the United States. Tomorrow night, I think when Hillary Clinton wins, that Donald Trump will have lost this election from the very first day he announced. Donald Trump will have been kept from the White House by a big, beautiful brown wall.

Clinton has 274 in the lean Republican or solid Republican. So something has to flip. Kentucky, where Fox News can project that Donald Trump will prevail, picking up eight electoral votes. Just taking you up through part of 2016. I don't really have the time to, it would be too indulgent for me to play the whole thing. But you got to remember, this goes back to 2011, 2012, White House Correspondents Association dinner.

Trump has been making noise about running for president. It's the other thing. When people say Trump just ran for president in 16 as a lark, as a marketing stunt, this man talked about running for president in the 1980s. He ran a major newspaper ad against Reagan about charting a new course or building on the promises of Reagan in the 80s. He then began to run for president in 2000 as a Reform Party candidate.

He then talked about running for president in 2012. There was a Comedy Central roast of Donald Trump, and he made it in no small part about running for president. And then he ultimately didn't, and Obama mocked him and said, well, Mr. Trump, you're never going to be president. The political saga of Donald Trump is not just a thing that started in 2016. He has been looking at this since the 80s. He's an intentional guy. He's an intentional guy

A pretty intelligent guy and clearly pretty politically effective because he is now one of the most significant presidents in American history. Forget about Grover Cleveland. This guy is a major historical figure, whatever happens now. Now, I am also told President Biden is going to be speaking today.

uh who knew that he still could uh president biden will be speaking from the rose garden at uh oh just about 13 minutes from now and mr ms shapiro is going to be covering that uh this is a real this is a win-win you get to see biden probably gloating and thrilled they come a little lost you're gonna see biden i know he's gonna walk out there wearing the dark maga hat and uh

Also, also then, you're not going to need to pay any attention to Shapiro's show because Ben is going to be watching the Rose Garden. He'll be giving his commentary as that happens. But first, in our remaining few moments here, I'm so pleased to be joined by my friend and colleague, Cabot Phillips. Cabot, thank you for being here. Thank you, Michael, for having me. So Cabot, one thing that ever since Trump won, I've tried not to let intrude upon my show is the fact that

that we're now starting to lose some of these races. Because I'm feeling really good, but I know you're paying attention to a lot of the constantly changing facts on the ground. Election night ends, Trump wins in a landslide, and things are looking good in the Michigan Senate race, in the Wisconsin Senate race. Actually, they weren't necessarily looking that good in the Nevada Senate race, but it started to look good in the Nevada Senate race. Arizona wasn't looking so hot, but it's tightened up a little bit. So, okay.

Where are we? Senate, House, what is the Trump administration, what is the Trump government going to look like? Yeah, well, it looks like Republicans likely will get to 53 seats. Pennsylvania, Dave McCormick holding on to a narrow lead. We're waiting for the last 5% or so of votes to come in. I don't even think it's 5%. Last I saw, it was 98% reported. So this last 2% is taking so long. When are we going to hear about Pennsylvania?

They're telling us that it should be by the end of tomorrow. But again, we just don't know. Historical president has shown it could be weeks from now. We still probably won't know in Arizona for a week, although it looks like Kerry Lake is going to lose pretty handily, but it looks like Republicans will be at 53 in the house. We're still waiting for a few dozen seats actually to be called their decision to S H Q, which the daily wire has partnered with for data. Uh,

They have Republican odds at 90% for holding the House majority there. Remember, you need 218 seats for majority Republicans right now called in 206. Democrats are at 191. There are 18 seats right now where Republicans are ahead. So if they can hold on to...

Really, even just 12 of those 18, they will have the majority. Most projections that we're seeing make it seem like Republicans will end up with around 220 seats. So a very narrow majority, which could make it more difficult. We've seen the turmoil in the House recently. They haven't really been able to get their act together. So it only takes-

four or five of these squishy Republicans to make it very difficult for Republicans in the Trump administration to get their agenda through the House. But the administration themselves, President-elect Trump and his team have been saying that they're going to hit the ground running on day one. They said they're totally confident they will have a House majority, and they're going to make sure that they get those Republicans in line in the House. The Senate should not be nearly as much of an issue, though. I do wonder if it will be easier to get the House in line. The

So trying to lead the House majority for Republicans is like herding cats a lot of the time. However, I think it might be a little bit tougher when the stakes are lower, when you have a Democrat president. I think then the infighting might be able to kick up a little bit. If you've got a strong leader in President Trump who can really apply both sticks and carrots to various members of the House, do you anticipate that the Republicans are more likely to get in line?

It does seem that way from everything we're hearing out of D.C. It seems like Johnson and other House leaderships, they're they're essentially preparing their guys saying, hey, we have the clear mandate. OK, there's no more questions. You know, when when Democrats were in office, it might have been easy for you guys to to drag your feet a little bit and show your constituents at home. Hey, you know, I'm trying to play both sides here.

There's no more room for that. Republicans have the mandate clearly from the American people. You look at the popular vote, you look at what's happening in the House, Senate presidency. So I do expect to see a lot more pressure on some of those squishier Republicans to get in line. And also Mike Johnson is coming in as the speaker in a much stronger position than we've seen in years past when McCarthy was having a lot of trouble keeping his gang in line. Okay, so-

Now tell me just a little bit about what happened in Nevada, Wisconsin, and Michigan. I really like Sam Brown. Nothing against Mike Rogers or Eric Hovde. I just don't know them really. And I had a long interview with Sam Brown. I'm really impressed with the guy. He was leading at one point in that race down there. I guess it's been called for his opponent, for Jackie Rosen. But why is it that Trump did well in these states? You know, Trump, he wins Wisconsin. He wins Michigan. Why did Trump do better than the Senate candidates?

Well, we're hearing different answers from these two parties. The Republican side, they're saying that the focus of voters was a lot more on Donald Trump and that the name ID for him was helping and that you might have a lot of low propensity voters that were only coming out to cast their ballot for Donald Trump. And they just didn't care as much about the down ballot races. And so that was impacting things. The Democrats are saying that this is actually a sign of optimism for them, that there were so many Senate races and even Montana where they lost that race to

Tester still ran 13 points ahead of Kamala Harris. We saw a number of states, Ohio as well, where these Democratic Senate candidates, obviously Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, where they were running ahead of Harris. And so the Democrats are saying, hey, this is actually proof

that the Democratic brand as a whole can still win over voters. We can still win elections in the future. This was just a Kamala Harris, Joe Biden problem. And so they are telling themselves, hey, look, don't worry, guys, the brand as a whole, that's not the issue. Once we move forward two or four years from now and the Biden administration fades into history and oblivion, we'll have a lot more success. And so

That is their general messaging, and that's what they think the running ahead shows. But what is the brand, I guess? To me, it seemed the reason they picked Kamala and the reason they picked Joe Biden, for that matter, is that neither of them really has personality.

Both of those people are just empty suits. They are avatars for the Democrat Party. So if the avatars for the Democrat Party went down in flames, or I guess Biden was thrown out in flames and then Kamala went down on the ballot, what's the brand? Are they going to run John Tester next time for president? Like, what's the lesson they're taking?

They don't have a brand. Their brand for the last eight years has been, we hate Donald Trump. We're not Donald Trump. I saw this over and over with the voters that I talked to in battleground states, talked to hundreds of battleground voters around the country.

I never heard from the vast majority of Harris supporters why they were actually voting for her beyond Donald Trump. The first and last name out of three quarters of Democrat voters was Donald Trump. It was not Kamala Harris. And so they were saying, look, I don't need to know anything about Kamala Harris or what the Democrats are running because I'm just voting against Donald Trump. And the Democrats were encouraging that. They were actively trying to not give them clear policy positions. They were actively trying to hide Harris from describing how she would legislate if elected.

And so they were relying on, hey, Trump's the boogeyman. That is our core message. But in the future now, they're left with this problem. Trump is not going to be on the ticket four years from now.

And so what is their message going to be? They do not have a coherent message right now. And one beautiful thing that I've seen in the last few days has been the blame game from Democrats where progressives are saying, well, she wasn't far left enough and she was trying to kowtow to the moderates in the party. The moderates are saying, well, it's the progressives. You guys forced her too far left on these things.

They have a clear problem looking forward in the future. They don't have a coherent message. You've got the GOP more united than ever in modern history, and you can see that with the results. The Democrats are going to have to figure that out, and I don't think there's a clear answer. So I agree. It's delightful to watch the Democrats infighting like this. But what is your answer to it? They've posed all these potential scapegoats. I'm so Italian today, I'm just knocking over microphones.

They've suggested it's the fault of black men. They've suggested it's the fault of Hispanics. They've said both groups, this was just on one cable news panel, that both groups alternately hate women and black people. They've said it's the fault of Kamala Harris.

They've said it's the fault of timing. She just didn't have enough time. They've said it's the fault of Joe Biden. He didn't get out early enough. I guess that's related to the time issue. They've said you have Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks saying it's the fault of the mods, so-called moderates, and they need to become more populist. As you say, the establishment, she's just gone too woke. It's the fault of the campus intifada. So, okay, what is it? Why'd she go down so hard?

I think the biggest reason, there's two of them, the biggest reason, she's a terrible candidate. In 2020, she lasted shorter in the Democratic primary than Marianne Williamson. Yeah. And no one wanted to vote for her. And the only reason that she even was on the top of the ticket is because of the anti-democratic coup to place her there. And also, you can't ignore just the fundamentals of the race. It's so easy for people in the media who are pontificating about, well, who could win this race before Tuesday? Them saying, well-

There's all these nuanced discussions about, you know, the Puerto Rico comments and the unrest people have about Donald Trump. No, the fundamentals of this race all along were what was going to decide things. And the fundamentals were that the economy has sucked for the last four years, that the border has been overflowing. And it turns out those two things are actually what decided this race. And I think the most important thing for Democrats to grapple with

is the fact that their prediction of states like Texas in the future moving more purple and that they were going to solidify their strong deep blue states and then they were going to expand the map. That did not come true. If you look at the deep blue states, Democrats lost major ground. So in 2020, New Jersey

Donald Trump lost that race by 16 points. This year, he lost by five points. In 2020, he lost California by 29 points. This time, it was only 17 points. New York, it was 23 points in 2020. He lost New York by 12 points this year. And Illinois-

The bluest of blue, Illinois. He only lost by eight points this year. And so the states where they are the safest are now looking like those in the future could actually be the ones that they're having to spend some money in. And their hopes of turning Texas purple, that did not come to fruition. Republicans won Texas and Florida by larger margins than Democrats won Illinois, New Jersey, and New York. Wow.

Wow. That is... Because my whole life I've heard they're going to turn Texas blue. And I, like a dummy, I fall for it sometimes. Not every time, but sometimes I fall for it. I was a little nervous that Senator Cruz was going to lose his race, at least for a while over the summer. But it hasn't happened. Really, in many ways, the opposite is happening, as you say, in their states. That's a great relief. No question about it. I just wonder...

As they move forward, as Trump is no longer an issue for them anymore, if, as you say, they've made their identity Trump for 10 years, what are they going to run on? And then, two, can they be honest with themselves? Part of the reason they're blaming all of these other factors is because, as you suggest—

They can't say the economy is bad. They can't say that immigration is a problem. They can't say that foreign affairs have gone down the tank since Biden has been in office. And so they – it occurs to me that they have this media problem, which is the media – in order to point to the real issues that drove people to the polls –

They would have to admit that they've been lying to the voters for years. They've been lying about the economy. They've been lying about immigration. They've been lying about the transgender issue, which clearly resonated for a lot of people. They've been trying to downplay it. They've been lying about how much Americans love abortion. They've been lying about everything. So they can't. That's why all of this chatter is just going to remain so fruitless. As a systemic problem, they can't get to the heart of the matter.

And Michael, they've also lied to people about who they have to support. They've told minority voters, you have to vote Democrat because the other side hates you. They did this especially with Latino voters.

Latest exit polling this morning, there was a new one from NBC. Trump won 46% of Latino voters. Let's go. If you look at the vote totals in Texas on the border counties, and you look at Donald Trump's gains since 2016. So if you look at Star County, this is a 97% Latino county. Since 2016, Donald Trump has gained 75 points in

in Starr County. He won that county by a blowout. It is the most diverse, least white county in the entire country. Maverick County, he gained 72% of the votes in 2016. Zapata County, 54% of the vote. Webb County, 52% of the vote. These are all majority Latino communities. And I can't help but wonder if you're a Latino voter in this country who's been told, hey, you got to support

Democrats. And the reason is because we're going to make sure that the border is open and we're going to make sure people aren't deported. Right. And in the last 24 hours, I've seen so many Democrats posting, hey, you know, Donald Trump, he got the votes of people that that are going to be deported by him. Right. And it's as if the left thinks that every Latino in this country. We're not deporting those. We want more of those voters. Cabot, we have to leave it there because Joe Biden is appearing in the Rose Garden. And I bet I'm not I'm not

actually putting money on this. I wouldn't be surprised if he wore a dark MAGA hat though. You know, very few people are happier in America right now than Joe Biden. Kevin Phillips, thank you so much. I turn now to my other friend and colleague, the one, the only.

man who's not here right now. I think you're back in Florida. Mr. Benjamin Shapiro. Yes, Michael Moles. I am in the best state in America. We're still doing America. We're going to do America for four years. I'm not tired of the winning. Donald Trump lied to me. He promised me I would tire of the winning. I'm not yet tired of it. In fact, I am enthused by it. I was telling friends this morning, Michael, that, you know, I have this growing desire

feeling in the pit of my stomach. It's either indigestion or optimism. I've never experienced optimism before. And so this is this is an unfamiliar sensation for me. To be safe, let's just assume it's from all the popcorn and the jelly beans backstage. It's got it has to be the indigestion. Right. It might have been that before I let you go. It definitely could be that. Do you have any predictions for this this Rose Garden press conference from Biden?

I mean, it's going to be amazing when he declares himself the first female president, just as like the last dig at Kamala. It's like, you know what? On my way out, you took me out. So I think that it's going to be the most passive aggressive press conference pretty much ever, right? I mean, he's going to come out. He's going to make some sort of statement about how we believe in the peaceful transition about like the same kind of nonsense that she was spouting the other day when she when she conceded yesterday. But I do think that there are going to be some backhanded slaps at

at Kamala Harris and her campaign because he is about it and they are dumping all of this in his lap again. Like they, they foisted him out of his nomination and now they're trying to blame him for her losing and he's ticked off as hell about it. So that's what I'm here for. I mean, I've already vowed publicly that any book that is written by a Kamala Harris campaign insider, I will read, I will devour those. That's like,

That's my junk food, right? Those are my soap operas. My wife with British romantic TV. Like, that's my jam. I mean, I'll just read that all day long. So I'm very eager for this press conference. It's supposed to happen any moment, which means it'll probably happen about two hours from now since Joe Biden has never shown up on time for a press conference at any point. But Michael-

We're going to let you go, and we're going to go ahead and start a good show now. So it's been good to see you here. Wait a second. All right. Good to see you. Good to see you, Mr. Shapiro. Good to see all of you out there in Internet land. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. We will see you tomorrow. Bye.