1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 go to thepeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,679 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:32,560 your support. Last hour I talked about this Yasha Monk piece, 10 00:00:34,799 --> 00:00:38,240 hang on pulling the how not to resist Donald Trump. 11 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,240 He's a man of the left. He talked about how 12 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,719 you know, all of these tactics that they tried didn't 13 00:00:44,759 --> 00:00:47,640 work for basically eight years. They need something new, They 14 00:00:47,679 --> 00:00:55,399 need to figure it out. Okay, whatever, now the Associated Press, Yeah, 15 00:00:55,439 --> 00:00:59,920 this piece is from about a week ago. Democrats crisis 16 00:01:00,119 --> 00:01:06,439 of the future. The biggest states that back them are shrinking. 17 00:01:09,439 --> 00:01:14,159 Texas in Florida are growing rapidly, California, Illinois, and New 18 00:01:14,239 --> 00:01:22,879 York are shrinking. Remember the blue Wall. Remember that the 19 00:01:25,239 --> 00:01:32,000 I mean the formidability, formidableness, the state of being formidable, 20 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:36,400 the blue Wall. These were all these blue states and 21 00:01:36,439 --> 00:01:38,680 it was a wall to the point where like Democrats 22 00:01:38,719 --> 00:01:40,599 didn't even have to worry about these states, they didn't 23 00:01:40,599 --> 00:01:43,239 have to go campaign and stuff, much like you know 24 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:48,319 Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen with Wisconsin. It was like, Okay, 25 00:01:49,359 --> 00:01:52,040 by the way, just a peak behind the curtain. Here, 26 00:01:52,519 --> 00:01:54,799 they're apparently doing a whole bunch of testing on our 27 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,000 generator for the building. We have no control over it. 28 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,480 We do not own our building, and so stuff keeps 29 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:03,519 shutting off and turning back on and shutting off and 30 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,879 turning back on. And I assume that's related, but with 31 00:02:06,959 --> 00:02:10,520 the scent of the fuel from the generator pouring in 32 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:14,599 through the HVAC systems. But so they're doing a bunch 33 00:02:14,599 --> 00:02:17,120 of tests. We have no control over the timing of it. 34 00:02:17,199 --> 00:02:21,639 But so day two under siege here. So if we 35 00:02:21,759 --> 00:02:25,319 cut out or something, that's going to be the reason why. Anyway, 36 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,919 So back to this Associated Press story. You've got Texas 37 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:31,919 in Florida growing, California, Illinois, and New York are shrinking 38 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:36,439 by population, Like the state lines are not moving here people. Okay, 39 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:40,800 Although I mean, if California is interested in doing a redraw, 40 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,199 I am open to that idea. I have long I 41 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,840 have long been supportive or at the very least curious 42 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:51,879 about the idea to cut California up into like five 43 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:56,879 different states. I would be because like that, that state's 44 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:59,319 too big. It's just too long, you know, it's just 45 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:03,599 way too long. You can't, like if you can't get 46 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:07,479 to the other end of your state in like less 47 00:03:07,479 --> 00:03:10,560 than a day. Your state's too big. It's just it's 48 00:03:10,599 --> 00:03:15,360 too big. But they're gonna have that. They're gonna have 49 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:21,280 that bullet train. By the that's where all the fire 50 00:03:21,319 --> 00:03:27,120 fighting money went. Anyway, With America's population shifting to where, 51 00:03:27,479 --> 00:03:31,840 where do you think the population is shifting to correct 52 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:34,919 It is the South, it is, yes, the shift is 53 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:39,039 going to the South. Thank you air conditioning and sweet tea. 54 00:03:39,439 --> 00:03:44,080 Political influence is seeping from reliably democratic states to areas 55 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:48,960 controlled by Republicans. Coming out of the presidential election where 56 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,960 Democrats lost all seven swing states, Democrats are facing a 57 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:58,080 demographic challenge that could reduce their path to winning the 58 00:03:58,199 --> 00:04:02,680 US House of Representatives or the White House for the 59 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:10,879 long term. So wait a minute, maybe demographics actually is destiny. No, 60 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,599 it's not. But right, when you reduce people to only 61 00:04:14,639 --> 00:04:18,439 like immutable characteristics, it's not a healthy thing for the society. 62 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:23,560 But also that's not a strategy for winning people over right. 63 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,279 You can't just go to people and say, hey, like 64 00:04:28,639 --> 00:04:33,079 you're white, vote for me. It's just not people don't 65 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:33,879 respond very well. 66 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 2: I did. 67 00:04:34,199 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: Hang on, let me go back because this obviously, this 68 00:04:36,639 --> 00:04:39,000 piece here at the AP connects to the piece I 69 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,759 did in the first hour. I have some messages regarding 70 00:04:42,759 --> 00:04:45,759 that this is from Chris. He says, based on what 71 00:04:45,879 --> 00:04:48,759 you were stating from the piece you were referring to, 72 00:04:49,079 --> 00:04:52,000 I conclude that the average American voter is far more 73 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:56,480 intelligent than the leftists think they are. That is correct. 74 00:04:57,079 --> 00:05:02,279 This is the wisdom of the crowd. Right. You can 75 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:07,519 only tell people alive for so long. Eventually the truth 76 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:14,839 comes out and people recognized and like the biggest example 77 00:05:14,879 --> 00:05:19,639 of this was Joe Biden's mental acuity. People could see 78 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:25,360 with their own eyes. COVID another one. People could see 79 00:05:25,399 --> 00:05:27,839 with their own eyes what was going on around them. 80 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,040 The economy another one. And it didn't matter how much 81 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:36,879 messaging you try to fire hose into people's faces. They 82 00:05:37,399 --> 00:05:41,120 have their own real life experiences. They can see stuff, 83 00:05:41,399 --> 00:05:45,079 and they understand the DEI stuff. That's another one. Right. 84 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:50,560 The left never really truly understood what the quote normis 85 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:56,680 thought of these policy overreaches that were like these these 86 00:05:56,759 --> 00:06:00,959 training seminars and stuff where you know, you say something, 87 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,160 if someone's offended, that means that you have transgressed them. 88 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,199 Whether your intent was to do so or not, your 89 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:12,920 intent doesn't matter. I was literally told that intent doesn't matter. 90 00:06:14,199 --> 00:06:17,399 The only thing that matters is how somebody receives it. 91 00:06:17,399 --> 00:06:20,560 It's like, why am I hired to do this job? 92 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 2: Right? 93 00:06:23,639 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 1: Are you aware of this is a political talk show? 94 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:32,639 Talk show? Like people had to live with this. People 95 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:36,120 lost jobs, people got canceled, people got tossed out of 96 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,000 the military because they didn't want to take a shot. 97 00:06:38,319 --> 00:06:44,360 People suffered actual harms, and no amount of messaging that 98 00:06:44,399 --> 00:06:46,279 you could do during and day after the fact to 99 00:06:46,319 --> 00:06:49,600 try to retcon this, nothing you could do is going 100 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:51,680 to change their opinion. And it's why they went back 101 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:56,079 to Donald Trump. All right, back to the ap story here. 102 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:02,120 If the current trend continues, okay, and we get to 103 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:04,600 twenty thirty, which is only five years away now, right, 104 00:07:04,639 --> 00:07:09,319 we are halfway to the next census, which, by the way, 105 00:07:09,399 --> 00:07:12,639 we definitely need to clean that up again. Trump tried 106 00:07:12,639 --> 00:07:15,560 the last time for the twenty twenty census, and you know, 107 00:07:15,759 --> 00:07:19,839 lawsuits all over the place, but we have to clean 108 00:07:19,879 --> 00:07:23,360 up the census because in twenty twenty. I'm sure this 109 00:07:23,439 --> 00:07:27,160 is completely coincidental, but they overcounted blue state populations and 110 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,720 undercounted red state populations, and they have all sorts of 111 00:07:30,759 --> 00:07:34,480 reasons for it, excuses for it, you know. Well, you 112 00:07:34,519 --> 00:07:37,800 know those Republican Republican voters, they just you know, they 113 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,160 they just want to hang out with their bibles and guns, 114 00:07:41,199 --> 00:07:43,079 you know, cling to their bibles and guns off in 115 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:45,360 the hinter lands. They didn't they didn't return our calls. 116 00:07:45,399 --> 00:07:47,759 They didn't tell us how many people were living them. Well, 117 00:07:47,839 --> 00:07:49,639 if you're just see, here's the thing. If you just 118 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:53,800 want to do account that's easy enough to do. But 119 00:07:53,839 --> 00:07:56,319 if you're going to ask all sorts of invasive questions 120 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,800 and threaten people if they don't answer your surveys, then 121 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:01,680 they're just not ever going to take your phone calls. 122 00:08:01,759 --> 00:08:04,519 And maybe that's the point, right, Maybe that was the point. 123 00:08:05,319 --> 00:08:10,920 But they also counted illegal immigrants, they counted population, and 124 00:08:10,959 --> 00:08:14,639 their argument was, well, they are still living in these communities. 125 00:08:14,639 --> 00:08:18,560 So if you're distributing money based on population, then you 126 00:08:18,639 --> 00:08:22,560 count them because they are people living in that state, right, 127 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,040 but they're not supposed to be here that they cannot vote. 128 00:08:26,319 --> 00:08:29,240 And so when you are apportioning the votes, which is 129 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,879 what we're talking about here, you're doing apportionment with the redistricting. 130 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:39,440 You're allocating House of Representative members, right, congressmen, congresswomen. And 131 00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:43,799 so when you're doing that, why are you counting people 132 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,000 who can't vote because they're not in the country. They're 133 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:52,360 not in the country lawfully. That issue, as far as 134 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:57,279 I know, has still not been settled. So anyway, fast 135 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:00,279 forward to twenty thirty. We're five years away and if 136 00:09:00,279 --> 00:09:03,519 the current trends continue, this is just people moving, okay, 137 00:09:03,919 --> 00:09:08,320 moving out of California, New York, Illinois moving into states 138 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:12,840 like ours. If that continues what we've seen so far, 139 00:09:12,919 --> 00:09:15,879 by twenty thirty, states that voted for Vice President Harris 140 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:22,039 will lose a dozen House seats. Democrats will be down 141 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:28,080 a dozen seats in the House just by demographics electoral 142 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:34,399 college votes as well. The Democrat path to two hundred 143 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:36,879 and seventy electoral college votes, the minimum needed to win 144 00:09:36,919 --> 00:09:44,240 the presidency, becomes much much narrower because it's not just 145 00:09:44,279 --> 00:09:49,000 for your congressional apportionment, right, it's how many electoral votes 146 00:09:49,039 --> 00:09:52,039 you get in the presidency. And so if the big 147 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:56,200 Democrat states are shrinking, they get fewer electoral votes. Now, 148 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:58,720 maybe they can pick some up, like Arizona for example. 149 00:09:58,759 --> 00:10:01,360 Maybe they pick up some of the states Colorado went blue, right, 150 00:10:01,799 --> 00:10:03,480 Maybe they pick up some other states and they can 151 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:07,480 cobble that together. But if you keep packing more and 152 00:10:07,519 --> 00:10:10,279 more Republicans that are fleeing these blue states into states 153 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,080 like Texas in Florida. North Carolina is another one. Like 154 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:15,840 you keep packing them in here, we get more seats 155 00:10:15,919 --> 00:10:18,799 and we get more electoral votes. Here's a great idea. 156 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:21,679 How about making an escape to a really special and 157 00:10:21,759 --> 00:10:24,919 secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 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Is he the guy 184 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:07,480 that testified on the redistricting stuff against the North Carolina legislature. 185 00:12:07,519 --> 00:12:11,799 I think he is senior counsel for the Democracy Program 186 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:15,679 at the New York University School of Laws. Brennan Justice Center. 187 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,600 Quote at the end of the day, Ah, I hate 188 00:12:20,639 --> 00:12:25,960 that saying such a crutch. Democrats have to be able 189 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,879 to win in the South or compete in the South. 190 00:12:32,039 --> 00:12:36,639 That's a very low bar, right, They just have to compete. 191 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:40,480 You just you got to put up a fight. I'm 192 00:12:40,519 --> 00:12:44,639 thinking of them, like of the meme of the guy 193 00:12:44,799 --> 00:12:48,879 with a stick poking something on the floor, like move, move, 194 00:12:50,039 --> 00:12:54,399 just do something. Democrats just he says, Otherwise it's a 195 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:58,279 really uphill battle every single time. The Brennan Center, which 196 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:03,279 is left leaning, that's how the AP describes left wing, 197 00:13:04,279 --> 00:13:08,960 leftist liberal whatever. It's always left leaning, see because. 198 00:13:08,759 --> 00:13:11,559 Speaker 3: It's it's it's it's in the middle of just leans 199 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:13,720 just in the wee bit, just a little bit. I mean, 200 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:17,559 the Brennan Center leans so far left, you know, it's 201 00:13:17,639 --> 00:13:21,200 like it's leaning it you'd you'd be more accurate to 202 00:13:21,279 --> 00:13:24,399 call it a leftist organization that leans a little right 203 00:13:24,919 --> 00:13:28,399 because the lean is so far that way. Anyway, the 204 00:13:28,399 --> 00:13:32,919 Brennan Center projects Democratic states in twenty twenty four would 205 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:37,000 lose twelve seats in the next census. The right leaning 206 00:13:37,399 --> 00:13:42,000 American Redistricting Project forecasts a similar blue to red shift, 207 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:45,120 but that pegged the loss at eleven seats, not twelve. 208 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,360 So either way, you're looking at eleven or twelve seats, 209 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:55,080 and that's just because people are fleeing these states, that's it. 210 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,039 It would be the continuation of a decades long trend 211 00:13:58,039 --> 00:14:00,919 of the population shifting from the northeat east and Midwest 212 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:07,440 to the south and the inland West. So from Midwest 213 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,279 to inland West. So would that be like Central America. No, 214 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:16,399 that's not Central America. They're all coming here. No, Middle America. 215 00:14:17,919 --> 00:14:22,120 Inland West. I've never heard that term before. Have you 216 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:24,320 ever heard that term before? The inland West. 217 00:14:25,919 --> 00:14:31,039 Speaker 1: Anyway, Americans and immigrants are gravitating towards warmer climates, cheaper housing, 218 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:36,120 lower taxes, and plentiful jobs. Look in the Northeast, I 219 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,879 get the warmer climate comparison. I will say the one 220 00:14:39,879 --> 00:14:42,759 thing I do miss about the Northeast is that they 221 00:14:42,799 --> 00:14:45,679 do actually have I mean not like not like it, 222 00:14:45,759 --> 00:14:49,799 not like Canada, right, anything north of the Bronx is 223 00:14:49,919 --> 00:14:54,559 Canada to this long island kid, but anything like they 224 00:14:54,559 --> 00:14:59,639 have longer winters, but lower you know, the lower Northeast, 225 00:14:59,679 --> 00:15:05,960 you know, mid Atlantic get four actual seasons, which was nice. 226 00:15:06,639 --> 00:15:10,720 You get four seasons of you know, about three months, 227 00:15:10,759 --> 00:15:13,799 and the weather actually comports with what the season is 228 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:18,720 versus in the South, where I think it's basically two 229 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:22,279 two and a half seasons. You know, it just goes 230 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:25,559 right to screaming hot and then just stays there for 231 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,480 a really long time. I'm not saying you don't get 232 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:29,279 a couple of days here and there. You may get 233 00:15:29,279 --> 00:15:31,759 like a week of spring, you know, that's about it. 234 00:15:32,279 --> 00:15:35,799 You get like two weeks of fall, two weeks of 235 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:39,639 winter or something like that. But anyway, I digress. But 236 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:43,120 think about the other things listed Cheaper housing, lower taxes, 237 00:15:43,159 --> 00:15:48,480 plentiful jobs, all of those things. All of those things 238 00:15:50,159 --> 00:15:56,240 are within the control of the governing parties. Right if 239 00:15:56,279 --> 00:16:00,200 you are in charge of your state policies, and then 240 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:05,120 you can actually do something about housing, taxes and jobs. 241 00:16:07,159 --> 00:16:09,840 This is a direct result of decisions that are made 242 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:14,480 the AP talks about the states that are losing the 243 00:16:14,519 --> 00:16:22,279 seats aka population New York they lost Yeah, sorry, California 244 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:29,919 will lose four seats. New York will lose two. Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, 245 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:35,919 Rhode Island, and Wisconsin would lose one seat each. Pennsylvania, 246 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:38,320 Wisconsin or Swing states. All of those states, though, have 247 00:16:38,399 --> 00:16:42,039 consistently backed Democrats for president and sent Democrat majorities to 248 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:44,600 the House, except for the Swing states. But all those 249 00:16:44,639 --> 00:16:47,960 other ones are blue states, the red states. The ones 250 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,519 that are going to pick up seats. Florida and Texas 251 00:16:50,559 --> 00:16:54,720 are both projected to pick up four seats apiece. Arizona, Idaho, 252 00:16:54,879 --> 00:16:58,960 North Carolina, and Utah all pick up one, and all 253 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,759 of them backed Trump president last year, although Arizona and 254 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:07,359 North Carolina were competitive and all have Republican majorities in 255 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:11,119 their US House delegations. Okay, so there's the plus minus 256 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:15,279 I mentioned earlier, the blue wall. All right, I hope 257 00:17:15,319 --> 00:17:17,880 you had a happy holiday season. But tell me if 258 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:20,599 something like this happened at your house. 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Ever since 279 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:31,400 Trump came down that escalator back in twenty fifteen, those 280 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:34,000 that have chose to try to demolish him have failed 281 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,319 at every attempt. Having grown up watching the Looney Tunes cartoons, 282 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:39,759 it didn't take long for me to associate that group 283 00:18:39,759 --> 00:18:45,119 of individuals as the Wiley coyote avatar right, and Trump 284 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:47,640 as the Roadrunner. No matter what they have thrown at 285 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:50,839 him has resulted in a boomerang of failure. Long live 286 00:18:51,039 --> 00:18:53,839 the Roadrunner, and they do. I think they do have 287 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:58,160 the same hair the road Runner, right, Doesn't he have 288 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:03,839 a plume or something on this head? So okay? So 289 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,319 from the Associated Press, Harris could have won last year 290 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:10,720 by keeping the blue Wall right. All she had to 291 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:15,160 do was maintain the blue Wall, which was Wisconsin, Michigan, 292 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:20,480 and Pennsylvania, along with one congressional district in Nebraska because 293 00:19:20,519 --> 00:19:24,359 that state splits up its electoral votes in the next 294 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:28,319 decade so after the twenty thirty census. Though, that's not 295 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,119 going to be enough the Blue Wall, even if it 296 00:19:31,279 --> 00:19:34,160 is maintained by Democrats, it's not going to be enough 297 00:19:34,279 --> 00:19:37,240 because they're not going to have enough seats the blue 298 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:39,839 in not just some of the Blue Wall states, but 299 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,880 in these other states because as I mentioned before, the 300 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:50,160 states that are going to lose include Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, 301 00:19:50,319 --> 00:19:53,279 that's part of the quote blue wall Rhode Island and Wisconsin. 302 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:59,119 Another state in the quote blue wall California, New York 303 00:19:59,559 --> 00:20:06,160 hemorrhage population. And so there aren't enough votes in the 304 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,559 electoral college for the Democrat. It's not the blue wall 305 00:20:09,599 --> 00:20:12,319 will not be enough. The blue wall strategy combined with 306 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:17,359 safely Democrat states would give them two hundred and fifty 307 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:21,519 eight electoral votes, but you need to seventy to win. 308 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,640 So you've got to find some other states. And this 309 00:20:25,839 --> 00:20:28,640 is a problem for Democrats because they don't know how 310 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:32,880 to get voters in those other states to support their 311 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,759 candidates because of the messaging. Yeah. Probably it's like, oh, 312 00:20:36,759 --> 00:20:40,920 they're just not they're just not hearing us. Yeah, that's it. 313 00:20:41,519 --> 00:20:44,880 So how the next part of the story says, how 314 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,960 do Democrats remain relevant? I would submit, And you can 315 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,160 take this advice or leave it, it doesn't matter to me. 316 00:20:50,599 --> 00:20:54,480 I would submit. The way to remain relevant is to 317 00:20:54,839 --> 00:21:00,240 basically change all of the planks in your platform, to 318 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:04,119 just just do the opposite of what you're doing right now. 319 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:09,440 To control the White House, the House, or Senate, Democrats 320 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:13,079 will likely need to do better in the three southern 321 00:21:13,279 --> 00:21:20,720 swing states namely Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina. These three 322 00:21:20,759 --> 00:21:26,359 states lean conservative but have elected Democrats at a statewide level. Okay, 323 00:21:26,519 --> 00:21:29,480 so they're like, oh okay, so like in North Carolina, Oh, 324 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:33,799 look they put Josh Stein in the governor's mansion, right, 325 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:36,680 And now there are reasons for this, and this is 326 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,000 you know, the old axiom all politics is local. I 327 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,359 think that was Tip O'Neil that said that all politics 328 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:45,000 is local and there are reasons for it. I've gone 329 00:21:45,039 --> 00:21:47,640 over this right after the election, and people could not 330 00:21:47,759 --> 00:21:52,039 figure out, like, why are North Carolina voters you know 331 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:57,279 so so split? Why do they split their tickets? Well, 332 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:02,279 North Carolina has split tickets between president and governor for decades. 333 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:04,599 This is not a new phenomenon. This has been occurring 334 00:22:04,599 --> 00:22:07,079 now that those ticket splitters are growing smaller and smaller, 335 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:13,039 like that population is shrinking. But it has a lot 336 00:22:13,079 --> 00:22:17,559 to do with just the history of the Democrat Party 337 00:22:17,559 --> 00:22:21,000 in this state, the machine, and it is still running. 338 00:22:21,799 --> 00:22:25,960 It was defeated at the legislative level, but at the 339 00:22:26,039 --> 00:22:30,119 state level, the Democrat machine does a very good job 340 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:37,200 of elevating a certain kind of candidate right over others 341 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:43,000 inside its own primary system. Roy Cooper and Josh Stein 342 00:22:43,519 --> 00:22:49,920 followed the exact same path. Right Senate, attorney General, governor. 343 00:22:50,839 --> 00:22:53,640 They have a pipeline, they have a system, and the 344 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:58,599 Republicans famously beat the crap out of each other in 345 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:03,200 their primaries. And the Demoocrats generally do not remember Jeff 346 00:23:03,279 --> 00:23:07,200 Jackson aka Baby Jesus now the Attorney general. Remember he 347 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,960 was going to run for US Senate. Remember that and 348 00:23:10,039 --> 00:23:13,480 what happened. He bailed the first time. That's how cal 349 00:23:13,559 --> 00:23:16,240 Cunningham got it right. He said, oh, I want to 350 00:23:16,279 --> 00:23:20,079 do one hundred county tour, and Chuck Schumer was like, no, 351 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,359 You're going to go into a windowless basement and dial 352 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:27,680 for dollars. They take the orders from the National Party. 353 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:29,759 When they're running for these national seats. They get all 354 00:23:29,839 --> 00:23:33,599 this outside money that pours in from these interest groups, 355 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,880 these Democrat and progressive interest groups. And Roy Cooper really 356 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:43,720 solidified that when he ran against McCrory and just swamped 357 00:23:43,799 --> 00:23:47,240 McCrory with the fundraising from out of state. And Josh 358 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,559 Stein continued with that, and Mark Robinson did not help 359 00:23:50,599 --> 00:23:53,480 himself in that regard. He could have probably gotten a 360 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,200 lot more money from out of state had he not 361 00:23:55,279 --> 00:23:57,839 had all of the other personal issues attached to him, right, 362 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,960 So Jeff Jackson and then remember he was going to 363 00:24:01,039 --> 00:24:03,480 run again for US Senate. And then what did he do? 364 00:24:03,559 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 2: He bailed? 365 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,599 Speaker 1: Why it wasn't his turn, right, So he I mean, 366 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,720 now for the record, okay, for the record. He said, 367 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,559 you know, Sherry Beasley is qualified. She should run against 368 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,480 Ted budd right, like she should run. She should do it. 369 00:24:19,599 --> 00:24:24,880 Black female started, it's her turn as a white male. 370 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,960 I recognize my privilege, and he steps aside. Do you 371 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,640 think that's really the reason he stepped aside? Or was 372 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,720 it because that's where the party wanted to devote its energy. 373 00:24:34,759 --> 00:24:36,759 They thought this was going to be the play. But 374 00:24:36,799 --> 00:24:39,400 when it comes to the state governor's race and stuff 375 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:44,359 like that, the state party they're controlling that, the machine 376 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,160 in the North Carolina Democrat Party like they and the 377 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,400 big money donors. They know what kind of Democrat wins 378 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:56,079 pro business, right, keep the social issues to a minimum, 379 00:24:58,559 --> 00:25:03,160 where the sweater vests, right. There's a certain kind of 380 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,279 candidate that does better in a state wide race as 381 00:25:06,279 --> 00:25:09,720 a Democrat. It and it hearkens back to the days 382 00:25:10,039 --> 00:25:13,680 when the Democrat machine ran this state for a century 383 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,920 and a half, and so that's why North Carolina voters, 384 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,240 especially the older ones, will split their tickets. That's again, 385 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:25,359 it's becoming way smaller of a population. I think it's 386 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,680 down now. It's somewhere around four percent of all the 387 00:25:28,759 --> 00:25:32,960 voters now will split their tickets. So what do Democrats 388 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,400 do to remain relevant? According to the AP not my advice, 389 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,160 which was to just do the opposite of whatever you're 390 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:42,480 doing right now. But they offer some tips because you know, 391 00:25:42,519 --> 00:25:44,559 the AP wants what's best for the Democrats, so they're 392 00:25:44,559 --> 00:25:46,759 going to give them some helpful advice. All right, If 393 00:25:46,799 --> 00:25:48,559 you're listening to this show, you know I try to 394 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,400 keep up with all sorts of current events, and I 395 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,640 know you do too, And you've probably heard me say 396 00:25:52,759 --> 00:25:56,839 get your news from multiple sources. Why. Well, because it's 397 00:25:56,839 --> 00:25:59,480 how you detect media bias, which is why I've been 398 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:03,160 so impressed with ground News. 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Check dot Ground dot news slash Pete. 409 00:26:36,279 --> 00:26:38,960 Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen percent off 410 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,279 any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited 411 00:26:42,279 --> 00:26:45,599 access to every feature. Your subscription then not only helps 412 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,400 my podcast, but it also supports Ground News as they 413 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,880 make the media landscape more transparent. Let's head over and 414 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,680 get a comment from Ray. Hello, Ray, welcome to the show. 415 00:26:55,799 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 3: Hey Pete, Hey, I'm good. 416 00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:57,799 Speaker 1: What's up. 417 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,039 Speaker 2: I'll just have a question. I was a little confused 418 00:27:01,079 --> 00:27:06,920 fall ago made me realize I didn't understand. But is 419 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:11,160 it the same number of electoral votes as it is 420 00:27:11,799 --> 00:27:14,359 house seats or how does that work? 421 00:27:14,799 --> 00:27:18,680 Speaker 1: So the yeah, so the number of house seats is 422 00:27:18,799 --> 00:27:22,640 based on so you take without going, well, you take 423 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,279 the total population of America, you divide it up by 424 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,319 four hundred and thirty five. That's the house seat number, right, 425 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,359 So you divide that and that gives you a population 426 00:27:31,559 --> 00:27:35,079 for each district okay, and so I think right now 427 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,960 it's somewhere around eight hundred and fifty eight hundred thousand, 428 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,640 something like that. And so then that tells you, based 429 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,880 on the state's population, how many congressional seats you get. 430 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,319 So in North Carolina we have now fourteen congressional seats. 431 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,519 So yes, each one of those seats is an electoral 432 00:27:51,559 --> 00:27:54,240 college vote, so we have fourteen votes there. But you 433 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,519 also add in the Senate seats, which every state has 434 00:27:58,839 --> 00:28:03,559 two of those, So every state has two US Senate 435 00:28:03,599 --> 00:28:07,440 seats plus a minimum of one House seat. And then 436 00:28:07,599 --> 00:28:10,000 after that is that that's the difference. So North Carolina 437 00:28:10,039 --> 00:28:13,000 has sixteen electoral college votes if my math is correct on. 438 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,519 Speaker 2: That, Yeah, I'll look you up while I go. I 439 00:28:16,559 --> 00:28:20,160 think there's five hundred and thirty eight electoral votes if 440 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,720 I'm correct. Is that correct? 441 00:28:23,079 --> 00:28:25,400 Speaker 1: There may be well, so four hundred and thirty five 442 00:28:25,559 --> 00:28:28,079 plus one hundred senators gets you to five thirty five 443 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:33,079 And the other three may be for maybe like Puerto 444 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:37,000 Rico and Guam if it hasn't capsized yet, maybe district 445 00:28:37,039 --> 00:28:40,160 of Columbia. I forget what the other Yeah, where the 446 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:41,160 other ones come from? 447 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 2: So the bottom line is the number of Senate seats 448 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:50,279 and House seats combined pretty much equals the number of 449 00:28:50,359 --> 00:28:52,599 electoral votes right now. 450 00:28:52,759 --> 00:28:55,759 Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, yeah, I just wanted to clear that up. Yes, sir, 451 00:28:55,799 --> 00:28:58,519 I appreciate it, Yes, sir, all right. Of course I 452 00:28:58,519 --> 00:29:02,759 could be completely wrong on No, I'm kidding now, the 453 00:29:02,799 --> 00:29:04,400 math is correct on that. I don't know what the 454 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,599 five thirty eight. I thought the five thirty. 455 00:29:06,359 --> 00:29:10,839 Speaker 1: Eight because that was the name of Nate Silver's political 456 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,799 data firm. The five thirty eight I think includes president 457 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:20,759 and vice president, and I think the Grand Marshal of 458 00:29:20,799 --> 00:29:28,599 the US Supreme Court. I think that anyway. So what 459 00:29:28,599 --> 00:29:31,160 did Democrats have to do? According to the Associated Press, 460 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,319 they will likely need to do better in the three 461 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,039 southern swing states, as I mentioned. Alternatively, they could try 462 00:29:37,079 --> 00:29:41,400 to achieve their long elusive goal of turning Texas blue 463 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:56,119 or reverse or reverse the recent trend towards Republicans in Florida. Yeah, yeah, 464 00:29:56,160 --> 00:30:02,079 that could happen. Sure, why not? I guess that could happen. 465 00:30:02,359 --> 00:30:05,160 To be sure, Republican dominance in the twenty thirties is 466 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,200 not a foregone conclusion, so let's not rest on our laurels. 467 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,079 Not long ago, Democrats thought they were building an insurmountable 468 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:13,960 majority due to their strength with voters of color and 469 00:30:14,079 --> 00:30:17,119 of growing Latino population across the country. But that fell 470 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,160 apart when Trump and the GOP began making inroads with 471 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:25,200 the democrats traditional working class base. In other words, demographics 472 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:33,920 is not destiny, right. Ideas matter, Candidates matter. Let's take 473 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,279 a look at North Carolina. Our friend Andy Jackson at 474 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,519 the John Locke Foundation. He does these regular updates. He 475 00:30:40,599 --> 00:30:45,000 monitors the voter registration changes when they do the list 476 00:30:45,079 --> 00:30:47,799 maintenance and all of that stuff. And so the other 477 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:53,039 day he published the updated list voter registration changes. Most 478 00:30:53,119 --> 00:30:57,799 counties did their biennial list maintenance this week. The Democratic 479 00:30:57,839 --> 00:31:04,480 advantage shrank from eighty six thousand, so Democrats have an 480 00:31:04,559 --> 00:31:09,200 eighty six thousand vote advantage and now it's down to 481 00:31:09,279 --> 00:31:18,799 a forty one thousand vote advantage. Eight counties, including bunkhom County, 482 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,200 have not done their list maintenance yet. Depending on what 483 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,359 happens with them, he says, I expect Republicans to overtake 484 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:30,759 Democrats in North Carolina politics late this year or early 485 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:35,480 twenty twenty six. He has been monitoring this trend for 486 00:31:35,759 --> 00:31:41,240 years and it has been steady steady Republican registration growth 487 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:49,480 and steady Democrat registration decline. You'll recall years ago, I 488 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,440 want to say, maybe it may even have been a 489 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:58,519 decade ago, unaffiliateds surpassed Republicans by registration. In North Carolina. 490 00:31:58,559 --> 00:32:03,400 You can register Democrat, republic unaffiliated, Libertarian, Green Party, Constitution Party, 491 00:32:04,759 --> 00:32:10,200 and unaffiliated surpassed the Republicans by registration and now and 492 00:32:10,319 --> 00:32:14,920 then I think a year ago maybe unaffiliated surpassed Democrats. 493 00:32:15,079 --> 00:32:18,319 So the number one party registration is not a party 494 00:32:18,359 --> 00:32:21,440 at all. It is unaffiliated in this state. And that 495 00:32:21,519 --> 00:32:24,799 means you get to vote in either Democrat or Republican primary. 496 00:32:25,759 --> 00:32:27,680 When you go in for the primaries, you can pick 497 00:32:27,759 --> 00:32:30,240 if you're unaffiliated. I've been doing this for twenty years. 498 00:32:32,839 --> 00:32:35,599 But what he's talking about now is that the difference 499 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:39,200 between the Democrats and the Republicans for that number two slot, 500 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:44,920 the Democrats are losing tens of thousands of registration and 501 00:32:45,039 --> 00:32:50,279 the Republicans are gaining, and so Republicans are soon to 502 00:32:50,359 --> 00:32:55,279 overtake Democrats as the second largest registration group in the state, 503 00:32:55,519 --> 00:32:57,440 probably by the end of the year. All right, that'll 504 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,000 do it for this episode. 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