Speaker 1: Election Day twenty twenty, where I came on here because
Speaker 1: a lot of the early results looked really good for Trump,
Speaker 1: and I was, you know, loudly bellowing that, aha, Trump
Speaker 1: has won the elections. Suck it, lefties go Trump go,
Speaker 1: And in fact, Trump had not won the election. So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get too excited about anything. We're we're
Speaker 1: going to take this slow and sober. I'll be here
Speaker 1: with you from now until way late into the evening
Speaker 1: where we got John Girardi Show running six to seven,
Speaker 1: and then from seven PM until god knows when Trevor
Speaker 1: and I will be co anchoring our Power Talk election
Speaker 1: night coverage. So you're gonna want to stick with us
Speaker 1: the whole time. The polls close in California at eight o'clock,
Speaker 1: so from eight pm onward, we will start to have
Speaker 1: local stuff that's coming in all the statewide ballot initiatives,
Speaker 1: all of the local races for county races, state assembly races,
Speaker 1: state Senate races are US Senate race here in California,
Speaker 1: Adam Schiff versus Steve Garvey, all of that, all the
Speaker 1: California specific stuff will start at eight. So right now,
Speaker 1: for those who are just tuning in. As of right now,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has amassed one hundred and ninety four of
Speaker 1: the two hundred and seventy needed to win Electoral College votes.
Speaker 1: He has won Ohio's, Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska,
Speaker 1: South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming. As far as Decision Desk
Speaker 1: is concerned now. Harris meanwhile has one New York, Vermont,
Speaker 1: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Virginia, which that was for
Speaker 1: a little while looking like that was going to be
Speaker 1: closed for Trump. But it sounds like the votes coming
Speaker 1: in are gonna be pretty heavily Harris, Maryland, and Illinois.
Speaker 1: Right now, still with votes to be counted, only seventeen
Speaker 1: percent of the votes are in. Harris is leading Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: with only ten percent of the votes in. Harris is
Speaker 1: leading Michigan with forty one percent of the votes in.
Speaker 1: Trump is leading North Carolina, and that's obviously North Carolina
Speaker 1: is a very important swing state, and with sixty six
Speaker 1: percent of the vote in, Trump is leading in Georgia
Speaker 1: and leading actually by a decent amount. Looks like he's
Speaker 1: up fifty two and a half to forty six point
Speaker 1: nine percent. In Georgia, it looks like he is up
Speaker 1: fifty two to forty seven percent, more or less. In
Speaker 1: North Carolina. Pennsylvania, it looks like it's still very early.
Speaker 1: It's sixty two thirty seven in favor of Paris. But
Speaker 1: it looks like a lot of accounting has come from
Speaker 1: the two ends of the state. In Pennsylvania, it's basically
Speaker 1: I've heard Pennsylvania be referred to as Pittsburgh on one side,
Speaker 1: Philadelphia on the other side, and Alabama in the middle.
Speaker 1: So the Alabama votes in Pennsylvania don't seem to have
Speaker 1: come in a lot. My buddy at Right to Life
Speaker 1: producer Colton was telling us earlier today that it looks
Speaker 1: like there are tens of thousands of Amish who were
Speaker 1: coming out in droves, first time Amish voters coming out
Speaker 1: in droves for Trump. So god knows if the whole
Speaker 1: election rests in the horses and buggies of the Amish.
Speaker 1: We will see how it goes. Now, there have been
Speaker 1: some kind of big news stories so far, some of
Speaker 1: them have to do with election vote counting snaffoos, which
Speaker 1: of course happened on election day in states that have
Speaker 1: Democrat governors. This is my big fear, by the way,
Speaker 1: with all this, All of the swing states except for Georgia,
Speaker 1: but all the other swing states Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada,
Speaker 1: all of them have Democrat governors. That makes me really nervous.
Speaker 1: Now Georgia is a Republican governor. Georgia has actually instituted
Speaker 1: a lot of good election reform since the last time around,
Speaker 1: But all those other states have Democrat governors, and gosh,
Speaker 1: it makes me nervous about things. In Wisconsin, apparently in
Speaker 1: the city of Milwaukee, so Democrats stronghold, a Republican election
Speaker 1: observer saw that some kind of vote counting machine was
Speaker 1: not properly secured, had been kind of left unattended, and
Speaker 1: this is leading to a need to recount something like
Speaker 1: already thousand ballots which are gonna have to be recounted
Speaker 1: by hand now due to this security breach. Gosh, it
Speaker 1: seems awful suspicious. And this is, by the way, I
Speaker 1: talked about this on the show a couple days ago.
Speaker 1: All the election challenge kind of lawsuits that we've seen
Speaker 1: over the last week or so. Here's basically the format.
Speaker 1: The format is basically the American right to vote is
Speaker 1: go to your precinct and vote in person with a
Speaker 1: secret ballot. We deem that we have deemed that through
Speaker 1: statute to be the most secure way for people to vote.
Speaker 1: Everything else is sort of an extension of that basic thing.
Speaker 1: So with individual states, different individual states have different individual
Speaker 1: procedures for insurance for allowing you to vote outside of
Speaker 1: that context. Whether it's a vote by mail system or
Speaker 1: an absentee ballots system, whatever, there are different ways to
Speaker 1: set that up. And basically what's happened is you have
Speaker 1: Democrat voters who don't follow the rules, and there always
Speaker 1: seems to be Democrat voters for some reason, or Democrat
Speaker 1: leaning voters or suspiciously Democrat leaning voters. They don't follow
Speaker 1: the rules, they violate some kind of requirement for voting
Speaker 1: outside of the context of a secure, in person, secret
Speaker 1: ballot vote, and then they run to a judge and complain,
Speaker 1: how can you throw out our votes? How can you
Speaker 1: deny to the people the sacred American right to vote
Speaker 1: on the basis of this technicality. It's just one little
Speaker 1: signature on the outside envelope of their vote by mail ballot,
Speaker 1: harvested ballot. How can you deny these people the sacred
Speaker 1: right to vote?
Speaker 2: Oh just the.
Speaker 1: You know, the postmark on their mailed in ballot. It's
Speaker 1: just one day, hey late, how can you deny us
Speaker 1: the sacred right of oh, just on the basis of
Speaker 1: a technicality, And each of those cases in isolation, yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems in isolation to not be that big of
Speaker 1: a deal, and tiki taki, and then a judge gets convinced,
Speaker 1: oh okay, it's just at all. All, let's you count.
Speaker 1: But it's a denial of what the state legislature has
Speaker 1: adopted in order to protect the integrity of the vote.
Speaker 1: It's this basic, this protection that the state put in
Speaker 1: place to protect the vote that is not so I
Speaker 1: don't know. The argument that comes from left all the
Speaker 1: time is that they're in favor of voting rights by
Speaker 1: just getting rid of different kinds of election security measures
Speaker 1: outside of again, the gold standard that every English speaking
Speaker 1: country adopted after about the turn of the century, voting
Speaker 1: in person, secret ballot, that's at your locality, that's the
Speaker 1: way to do it. Everything else is an extension of that. Now,
Speaker 1: we just got news in that Ohio has been called
Speaker 1: for President Trump.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: Not a surprise, nothing so far has been I'd say
Speaker 1: a huge surprise. I think there are some signs in
Speaker 1: lots of individual places that Trump is doing better than
Speaker 1: he did in twenty twenty. And frankly, if that holds
Speaker 1: true for like two or three states, that could be
Speaker 1: enough to flip the presidency. I mean, let's remember, you know,
Speaker 1: Trump lost the election in twenty twenty by about I
Speaker 1: don't know what was it, about fifty thousand votes scattered
Speaker 1: across about three states. You flip a few things here,
Speaker 1: a few things there, you changed the whole outcome. Right now, now,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Decision Desk HQ, which does a lot
Speaker 1: of election analysis, and they're they're sort of monitoring everything,
Speaker 1: updating everything in real time. Right now, again, it looks
Speaker 1: like with forty three percent of the votes counted, Trump
Speaker 1: is winning North Carolina fifty two to forty seven. He
Speaker 1: is winning Georgia fifty two to forty seven with sixty
Speaker 1: eight percent of the vote in. That's really good. Basically,
Speaker 1: if Georgia went, If Trump wins Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: he wins the whole thing. If Kamala wins Wisconsin, Michigan,
Speaker 1: and Pennsylvania, she wins the whole thing. Those are the
Speaker 1: two competing strategies. Trump has basically his Atlantic Coast strategy
Speaker 1: and Kamala has her so called Blue Wall strategy. Although
Speaker 1: with some less than one percent of the vote in Okay,
Speaker 1: Trump's winning Wisconsin, but with less than one percent of
Speaker 1: the vote in so that is not super relevant. Also,
Speaker 1: there have been some big issues that we're gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna focus on certainly, and I might bring into the
Speaker 1: show my buddy who snuck in very shortly after we
Speaker 1: started the segment and mister Jonathan Keller from California Family Council.
Speaker 2: How's it going, Jonathan, Hey, John, It's going cautiously well,
Speaker 2: cautiously well. I saw something one of my friends posted
Speaker 2: on Facebook that they were nauseously optimistic, and that's kind
Speaker 2: of how I'm feeling. I don't know for sure if
Speaker 2: it is. Yeah, yeah, did you already talk about because
Speaker 2: I know I walked in a couple of minutes late.
Speaker 2: Did you already talk about the one bit of unalloyed
Speaker 2: good will?
Speaker 1: I was about to talk about that. That's why I
Speaker 1: was bringing you in. So the one really good bit
Speaker 1: of news. Florida is just basically Republican ground zero. Florida
Speaker 1: is like Republican Mecca at this point, I'm.
Speaker 2: Basically ready to say DeSantis twenty twenty eight at this point,
Speaker 2: I mean, regardless of what happens with this election, yeah,
Speaker 2: I am on board with eight.
Speaker 1: So among other things, it looks like Trump is going
Speaker 1: to win Florida by like thirteen percent of the vote.
Speaker 1: But also two really critical things happened. Florida had on
Speaker 1: their ballot two different state constitutional amendments. There's two different
Speaker 1: state constitutional amendments, Amendment three, which would have legalized recreational marijuana,
Speaker 1: and Amendment four, which would have completely legalized abortion throughout
Speaker 1: the state. Both of those to amend the constitution in
Speaker 1: Florida requires a sixty percent vote of the people, and
Speaker 1: it appears that they have only they have not gotten
Speaker 1: sixty percent of the vote. So both Amendment three and
Speaker 1: Amendment four in Florida were defeated. This was a big thing,
Speaker 1: I think, especially for the pro life movement, as you
Speaker 1: all know, I mean, I'm director at Right to Life
Speaker 1: Essentral California this is the things that I really care
Speaker 1: about here. For Florida to have stopped this losing streak
Speaker 1: that the pro life movement was on all these states
Speaker 1: that had ballot initiatives to legalize abortion, it was really
Speaker 1: important that Florida not become the next domino to fall.
Speaker 1: So I mean, Jonathan, I mean just the significance of this.
Speaker 1: I think it's hard to understate how significant it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, in fairness, though, fifty percent of the people
Speaker 1: wanted to pass legalized aborce and they didn't get to
Speaker 1: the sixty percent threshold. But just maybe Jonathan talking about
Speaker 1: the amount of money that got poured into this Florida race.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I need to go back and look at that.
Speaker 2: But I will tell you it was the key thing
Speaker 2: for me and the reason why I think we saw
Speaker 2: this be the one that finally went down and it
Speaker 2: broke that it broke that streak. Just to say, John,
Speaker 2: I do think it's important to say if those numbers
Speaker 2: hold and it is only fifty seven percent, yes, that
Speaker 2: is horrible that, at least according to the vote, a
Speaker 2: majority of people did vote to amend of the constitution.
Speaker 1: That is awful.
Speaker 2: But I will also say the the key thing there
Speaker 2: is look at most of the other states in the nation.
Speaker 2: Not only did any of the other states mostly fail,
Speaker 2: they got blown out of the water. Like in California,
Speaker 2: it wasn't fifty sixty six, sixty seventy three. Even in
Speaker 2: Ohio it was I think fifty nine percent. So the
Speaker 2: fact that Florida held the line here, I think is
Speaker 2: a testament. Just gotta say to Ron DeSantis number one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but also John the grassroots coalition they put together. I
Speaker 2: was chatting with some of my national colleagues. One of them,
Speaker 2: long story short, he just his personal friends with through
Speaker 2: some other avenues, with Tony Dungee, the filmer coach of
Speaker 2: the Colts, Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 1: Who is here at the Fresno Prayer breakfastory here he was.
Speaker 2: He's a he's a great guy coach. Dungee's a wonderful,
Speaker 2: you know, Christian man. And he is also John very
Speaker 2: pro life. He his wife have adopted and fostered a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of kids. And he happens to live in Florida.
Speaker 2: So he came out of woodwork. He recorded multiple television
Speaker 2: ads opposing Amendment for and.
Speaker 1: But it was George Soros and all these liberal financiers
Speaker 1: who dumped, I mean the pro abortion side outspent the
Speaker 1: pro life side. I think it was ten to one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And when you say that, John y, I just looked here.
Speaker 1: This is the most current update as of October thirty
Speaker 1: first opposition total contributions between cash and in kind contributions
Speaker 1: opposition was twelve million of twelve point one million, so
Speaker 1: twelve million total contributions in support one hundred and eighteen
Speaker 1: million dollars. Wow. So genuinely ten to one, literally ten
Speaker 1: or almost almost ten to one, yeah, almost on the dot.
Speaker 2: And that is just staggering. You just look at the
Speaker 2: fact that they and John you have to also think
Speaker 2: that is on top of the fact that the entire
Speaker 2: media apparatus, not just the actual cash spending.
Speaker 1: Oh of course the free advertising that it got the meat.
Speaker 1: As we're heading into break here, we've got our good
Speaker 1: buddy Jonathan Keller in studio. Jonathan, let everyone know about you.
Speaker 1: Jonathan is the CEO of California Family Counsel. That's me.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you in your work job so.
Speaker 2: They can go to our website which is just California
Speaker 2: Family dot oorg. Californiafamily dot org and we are a
Speaker 2: five oh one C three organization. So if you log
Speaker 2: on right now, I will tell you we are not
Speaker 2: going to have a lot of live up to the
Speaker 2: minute election results.
Speaker 1: Speaking though, of live up to the minute election results,
Speaker 1: we need like a sounder. I got to find a sounder,
Speaker 1: some sort of like Newsy sounding breaking news sounder.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: North Carolina has been called for Donald Trump with fifty
Speaker 1: two percent of the vote in. He is winning. Uh.
Speaker 1: For with fifty two percent of the vote in. Trump
Speaker 1: is up fifty to forty eight percent. Looks like he
Speaker 1: is going to win North Carolina. That is a big deal.
Speaker 1: North Carolina is one of the key swing states. And
Speaker 1: I think that's the first of kind of the canonical
Speaker 1: swing states. I mean that it's basically Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona.
Speaker 1: Those were the states that everyone said those are the
Speaker 1: swing states. So this is the first one to get called.
Speaker 2: And now who called that one?
Speaker 1: This is called by Decision Desk HQ. So they have
Speaker 1: called North Carolina for Trump. Also, it sounds like Ted Cruz,
Speaker 1: sounds like that has been called that Ted Cruz is
Speaker 1: winning re election. In Texas that had been a very
Speaker 1: much closer than expected. I think all of Ted Cruz's
Speaker 1: Senate races are closer than expected.
Speaker 2: But it looks like he's going to hold on it.
Speaker 1: Apparently it sounds like it has been called for Cruise,
Speaker 1: or it's leaning. Crew decision desk has not called it yet,
Speaker 1: but Fox News is called. Fox News is calling it
Speaker 1: for Ted Cruise, as we can see right there on, I.
Speaker 2: Have some big news for you, John, Yes, CBS exit
Speaker 2: poll in Michigan.
Speaker 1: Exit polls. All right. I know this is just everyone,
Speaker 1: remember exit polls. Take them with a big old grain
Speaker 1: of salt. This is true, all right, But this is
Speaker 1: I think why it's key. Specifically, quote younger voters age
Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty nine, John, those zoomers, this gen z
Speaker 1: kidd all those kids, those utes, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Are narrowly going for Trump in Michigan.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The deficit for Harris is a large part to younger
Speaker 2: men in Michigan who are more for Trump.
Speaker 1: Wow. Now Michigan at the moment is thirteen percent in
Speaker 1: Harris is winning fifty three to forty four as far
Speaker 1: as what's actually reported. But I have been thinking throughout that,
Speaker 1: and I've talked about this a bit on right to life.
Speaker 1: If I talk about the right selfe for right maybe
Speaker 1: I've just talked about it to Colton and Jonathan, so
Speaker 1: I have it for the podcast. A lot of Trump's
Speaker 1: media strategy during this election, in particular, seems to have
Speaker 1: been focused on podcasts and podcasts with very heavy concentrations
Speaker 1: of young male listeners. Theo, Von Joe, Rogan, Logan, Paul,
Speaker 1: all these different guys who that there their listenership is
Speaker 1: dudes under the age of thirty. Yes, And now that
Speaker 1: kind of strikes me as a risky strategy. Those are
Speaker 1: I can't think of anyone who's a lower propensity voter
Speaker 1: than a male between the ages of eighteen and twenty five.
Speaker 1: You know, they're not always super organized, they're not always
Speaker 1: got their crap together. Oh it's election to Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: he goes to go to go vote. Not exactly the
Speaker 1: most reliable voters in the world. But I mean, to
Speaker 1: have some shift in the under thirty voting pool away
Speaker 1: from you know, Biden in twenty twenty and towards Trump,
Speaker 1: I mean, that could be a really significant development. So
Speaker 1: I have thought throughout the election that that was a
Speaker 1: really smart move by Trump, wondering if that's going to
Speaker 1: be born out. I guess we will see.
Speaker 2: And I do think it's interesting John that Trump himself,
Speaker 2: in some of his interviews with Tucker Carlson and other people,
Speaker 2: he flatly admitted that, you know, he has a eighteen
Speaker 2: year old young man in his life that was giving
Speaker 2: him advice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which which smart. I mean, that's smart. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I do think it's interesting. I think it's fascinating how
Speaker 1: like going on Joe Rogan has become like a thing.
Speaker 1: You know, it's more so than traditional media sit down interviews.
Speaker 1: I mean, how many more millions of people were going
Speaker 1: to listen to the you know, Joe Rogan's podcast rather
Speaker 1: than you know, some sit down he does with George
Speaker 1: Stephanopolis or somebody like that. So it I think that's
Speaker 1: been really fascinating to see. Again, North Carolina has been
Speaker 1: called for Donald Trump. That's the first of the swing
Speaker 1: states to actually get called. And John, I feel like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but Georgia, I feel like is about
Speaker 1: to be called for Trump. I feel like it it's
Speaker 1: I can't say that definitively. I'm not some election expert
Speaker 1: or anything like that. And but with seventy two percent
Speaker 1: of the vote, and Trump is winning fifty two point
Speaker 1: four to forty seven percent in Georgia. That would be
Speaker 1: another huge domino to fall if Trump wins. And that's
Speaker 1: a big margin too. I mean that's over five percent.
Speaker 1: He's winning right now in Georgia. Maybe that's gonna narrow,
Speaker 1: but that's significant. That feels significant to me.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the key reason John, why North Carolina
Speaker 2: is is very important because I've been talking to all
Speaker 2: my liberal friends. I've got folks, my my election brain trust,
Speaker 2: all my liberal friends that I chat with online. They
Speaker 2: they really thought that Harris had a strong shot at
Speaker 2: getting North Carolina. Yeah, And I think their thought was
Speaker 2: not only because of the African American vote there, but
Speaker 2: also because there is what they call the research triangle
Speaker 2: down there, all these universities that are full of highly.
Speaker 1: Educated unc waye Forest. Yeah, John gurlready here breaking down
Speaker 1: all the live election results. California has still not closed
Speaker 1: the polls yet, so we're not going to have any
Speaker 1: local stuff until later on tonight, starting at seven, Trevor
Speaker 1: Carey and I will be here with tal Cloud and
Speaker 1: a bunch of other guests breaking down all the election
Speaker 1: results as they come in, So stick around from seven
Speaker 1: PM until the bitter end, as we will be breaking
Speaker 1: it all down. Now we're obviously the presidency is the
Speaker 1: big prize of the night, but one of the other
Speaker 1: significant things to think about is Congress. Okay, a third
Speaker 1: of the US Senators are up for reelection, and every
Speaker 1: member of the House of Representatives is up for reelection.
Speaker 1: And it looks like both Rick Scott is going to
Speaker 1: hold onto his Republican Senate seat in Florida and Ted
Speaker 1: Cruz is going to hold onto his Republican Senate seat
Speaker 1: in Texas. Coupling that with Jim Justice has been elected
Speaker 1: to replace Joe Mansion in West Virginia, so a Republican
Speaker 1: pickup there, and almost certainly there's going to be another
Speaker 1: Republican pickup in Montana where John Tester looks like he's
Speaker 1: going to lose. So again, I can't one hundred percent
Speaker 1: confirm this, but it looks like Republicans are in fact
Speaker 1: going to take the US Senate. Now, Jonathan Keller from
Speaker 1: California Family Council, what does that mean that Republicans take
Speaker 1: the Senate? So as far as the big picture of
Speaker 1: even if everything else goes to Helen a handbas Yes,
Speaker 1: I will if Kamala wins the White House, Democrats take the.
Speaker 2: House, I will say, John, I put this down on paper.
Speaker 2: I was ranking the six possible outcomes of you know,
Speaker 2: those three different chambers, and who wins the presidency, who
Speaker 2: wins the House, who wins the Senate, and obviously the best,
Speaker 2: the best outcome, speaking in my personal capacity, not as
Speaker 2: a C three executive direction.
Speaker 1: This is the John Show. No one speaking, Nobody cares
Speaker 1: about that, no one speaking in their three capacities here.
Speaker 2: Obviously, the best situation would be for Trump to win
Speaker 2: and to have both the House and the Senate. I
Speaker 2: think the second best would be for Trump to win
Speaker 2: and for him to at least have the Senate so
Speaker 2: he can confirm Supreme Court justices.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: But I would actually say, John, this this situation of
Speaker 2: Republicans picking up the Senate, it's a big deal. Even
Speaker 2: if Kamala wins, as long as the Republicans hold the Senate,
Speaker 2: I would actually say that is the third best outcome.
Speaker 2: So we are we are right now. The worst we
Speaker 2: can do is third third as far as all the outcomes.
Speaker 2: And the reason for that, John, is that if you
Speaker 2: if Kamala wins, and let's say Republicans held onto the
Speaker 2: House but Democrats held onto the Senate, Yes, it would
Speaker 2: mean that there wouldn't be any legislation that would get past.
Speaker 2: But everything that is.
Speaker 1: The most every Kamala Harris judge she wants confirmed, Every
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris appointee gets confirmed without any you push back,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, well, we'll keep getting our Javier
Speaker 1: Vassira quality people. Uh, you know, Javier gets nominated by
Speaker 1: Biden to run HHS. Oh oh, and he gets confirmed
Speaker 1: with no pushback because why well because Democrats.
Speaker 2: Had How would you like to no, no, no, you want
Speaker 2: to talk about the new National Secretary of Transgender Healthcare?
Speaker 2: How would you like to see Uh, California State Senator
Speaker 2: Scott Wiener is the new National Secretary of Transgender Medicine.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I mean would not would not be crazy?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, I mean that's and and the thing
Speaker 2: is that could absolutely happen if it is Democrats who
Speaker 2: hold the same right well, and craziest attorney generals the
Speaker 2: craziest HHS. I mean, well, and let's also this for
Speaker 2: sort of for context, what was the worst case scenario
Speaker 2: that we were afraid of. That I was afraid of that,
Speaker 2: certainly for those of us who are social conservatives who
Speaker 2: care about the pro life cause. The worst case scenario
Speaker 2: was Democrats take the House, take the Senate, even by
Speaker 2: one vote in the Senate, and Harris gets the White House.
Speaker 2: Democrats had been pledging. Harris had been pledging to support
Speaker 2: breaking the filibuster in the Senate. And the philibuster rule
Speaker 2: in the Senate is basically it's the rule that says
Speaker 2: to advance most pieces of legislation in the Senate, you
Speaker 2: actually need sixty votes, not just fifty plus a tiebreaker,
Speaker 2: You actually need sixty votes. The idea is in the Senate,
Speaker 2: debate can theoretically go on forever. You need sixty votes
Speaker 2: to end debate. So Harris had pledged to get rid
Speaker 2: of the filibuster, which is just a Senate rule. It
Speaker 2: can be changed by a simple majority in the Senate
Speaker 2: to get rid of the filibuster in order to do
Speaker 2: what to pass nationwide legal abortion, to get rid of
Speaker 2: all of the state pro life laws that have been
Speaker 2: passed in all the various states since Dobbs, basically to
Speaker 2: reinstate the legal regime of Roe versus Wade via a statute,
Speaker 2: a normal law passed by the House in the Senate
Speaker 2: and signed by the President. That would have been absolute,
Speaker 2: the absolute worst case catastrophe scenario. And there's also thought
Speaker 2: if she would have done broken the philibuster to do that.
Speaker 2: Maybe she breaks the filibuster to I don't know, Uh,
Speaker 2: she breaks the filibuster to radically reshape the Supreme Court
Speaker 2: in her own image and likeness. Ye, you pack the
Speaker 2: Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: Maybe she breaks the filibuster to make the District of
Speaker 1: Columbia into a state and give Democrats two more free
Speaker 1: Democrat senators. Make Guam a state, make Puerto Rico a state,
Speaker 1: make all these Democrat you know, strongholds. Although I did
Speaker 1: see some early reporting that Guam is the Guamanian legislature
Speaker 1: is flipping to Republicans for the first time in decades
Speaker 1: or swath, which I love.
Speaker 2: John. Someone posted on Twitter a picture of Georgia Congressman
Speaker 2: Hank John who said he warned us Gwam could flip.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So this was the Democrat congressman who was during
Speaker 1: a hearing, was questioning an admiral about whether he thought
Speaker 1: there was a risk that Guam could tip over due
Speaker 1: to a military personnel on the island, and it seemed
Speaker 1: like he was actually being dead serious and that he
Speaker 1: did not actually understand how islands work. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: bad news looks like Wisconsin. More numbers are coming in
Speaker 1: and Kamala Harris is winning winning Wisconsin seventeen percent of
Speaker 1: the vote in Harris is up fifty one percent to
Speaker 1: forty seven percent. More or less, Harris is winning in
Speaker 1: Michigan with fourteen percent of the vote in fifty three
Speaker 1: to forty four. I really don't feel like an eleven
Speaker 1: a point outcome is really feasible in Michigan. I gotta
Speaker 1: believe there's more Republican votes coming in. And Harris with
Speaker 1: a six percent lead in Pennsylvania. That's with thirty one
Speaker 1: percent of the vote in Jonathan, there's really not a
Speaker 1: lot of avenues for Trump to win if Harris wins Pennsylvania, Michigan,
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: Yes, but I will I will tell you again, John,
Speaker 2: this is the thing that's so interesting because there are
Speaker 2: so many different news sources coming in so quickly. I
Speaker 2: will use my little focus group online again. I will
Speaker 2: say for the listeners, I have this group of hardcore politicos.
Speaker 2: I thought I was a political junkie until I met
Speaker 2: some of these guys who like, literally, you go back
Speaker 2: any of the last ten elections, they can basically tell
Speaker 2: you like in each individual congressional district, Oh yeah, so
Speaker 2: and so won this district with this margin and it
Speaker 2: was mostly out of this precinct in this county. These people,
Speaker 2: I'm reading what they're saying, and they are starting to
Speaker 2: as the kids say, they are dooming. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of them is these Democrat leaning friends of your life. Yes,
Speaker 1: and they're not just Joe Schmo's. Many of them are
Speaker 1: political activists. They are either staffers that are campaign operatives.
Speaker 1: One of them just said betting markets and general markets
Speaker 1: like actual financial markets have more or less just called
Speaker 1: it for Trump. Yeah. Now, the other interesting thing I'm
Speaker 1: seeing is Virginia Decision Desk. HQ, which has been usually
Speaker 1: pretty right, has called Virginia for Harris a while ago. Right,
Speaker 1: as of five minutes ago, Trump was up. I'm seeing
Speaker 1: different news sources with different things that Trump's still winning Virginia.
Speaker 1: As far as what's been counted, with like sixty two
Speaker 1: percent of the vote in Trump is up like fifty
Speaker 1: to forty eight or something, I don't know, seems weird.
Speaker 1: I guess, let's keep monitoring that. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: h I mean, it's I don't know. I guess. Here,
Speaker 1: here's the basic thing. Pennsylvania seems to be the lynchpin
Speaker 1: for this whole thing. If Trump wins North Carolina Georgia,
Speaker 1: which looks like he's gonna win North Carolina and Georgia
Speaker 1: and Pennsylvania, he wins. If Harris wins Wisconsin, Michigan in
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania she wins pretty much simple as that you can
Speaker 1: give her to take a couple of states. But if
Speaker 1: Trump wins Virginia, that kind of throws the whole thing off.
Speaker 1: So I'm I feel like I am. I'm sitting on
Speaker 1: the edge of a knife, like with my right butt,
Speaker 1: cheek over one and cheek over the other.
Speaker 2: This is this is absolute torture. It's GotY the good
Speaker 2: it's gonna be so close. You've only probably got another
Speaker 2: sixty eight hours of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, well, And my my thought had been I
Speaker 1: tweeted this out, this was my prediction on John Girardi's show.
Speaker 1: When did I predict this? I think on Friday's show
Speaker 1: I predicted this. I predicted I thought Harris was gonna win,
Speaker 1: and I refined that guess the other day by saying,
Speaker 1: I think there's a forty six percent chance Harris wins
Speaker 1: a close one, a five percent chance she wins a blowout,
Speaker 1: and I think there's a forty four percent chance Trump
Speaker 1: wins a blowout, and a five percent chance he wins
Speaker 1: a squeaker. I thought, basically, if Trump was gonna win,
Speaker 1: he win by a blowout, that it wasn't gonna be close.
Speaker 1: And it feels like it's gonna be unbelievably cool.
Speaker 2: Corney John, this is maybe the clearest sign of danger
Speaker 2: for Harris.
Speaker 1: Yet from the Babylon Bee that Harris has already is
Speaker 1: already switching to box wine. It's a picture of Harris
Speaker 1: with a big box of Phrenzia next tour. No grand
Speaker 1: predictions from yours, truly. I remember four years ago I
Speaker 1: thought Trump was gonna win. UH and my my little
Speaker 1: show before we had our UH our full Power Talk coverage, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, starting at seven oh five, Power Talk
Speaker 1: will have our full coverage throughout the night. Here on
Speaker 1: Election Night, we'll be breaking down everything, not only the
Speaker 1: national stuff coming in, but also local races here in California.
Speaker 1: Who's gonna win David Valadeo or Rudy Sallas. Who's gonna win?
Speaker 1: John Duarte or the guy he's running against whose name
Speaker 1: is Adam Gray. That's it, Adam Gray. You know it's
Speaker 1: live radio folks. Adam Gray or John Duarte? Who's gonna
Speaker 1: win those races? David Don Jabba versus George Radnovin.
Speaker 2: The funny thing I have to say John about that
Speaker 2: John Duarte versus John Gray, Adam Adam Gray race at
Speaker 2: John's brother, the fact that neither of us knew who
Speaker 2: was running against who. I have seen a million commercials
Speaker 2: on every Saturday when I'm watching football with my kids.
Speaker 2: You see so many, but they are all Adam Gray
Speaker 2: is the worst human being ever. John Duarte the trade, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but they never mention who your opponent. No, it is
Speaker 2: just complete negative ads to the point where it's like, well, okay,
Speaker 2: I know I don't like you, but.
Speaker 1: My wife Holly, which oh, by the way, shout out
Speaker 1: to Holly for Holly took Jack and all of our
Speaker 1: kids to my son Jack's flag football game. Jack scored
Speaker 1: a ninety yard touchdown. Just want to let everyone know
Speaker 1: about that Holly the other day was asking me, are
Speaker 1: we voting for or against any of these people? Like, no,
Speaker 1: actually we're not. That's the weirdest thing is that all
Speaker 1: of these really competitive house races in the valley, well,
Speaker 1: these two competitive house races in the valley, neither one
Speaker 1: of them actually represents any portion of the city of Fresno,
Speaker 1: but all of our fred because we're the closest local
Speaker 1: media market to Duarte and Valadeo. All of our saturdays
Speaker 1: and Sundays watching football have been duck just dominated by
Speaker 1: ads for or against John Duarte four or against David Valdoe.
Speaker 1: And they are really important races, like the house. So
Speaker 1: the House of Representatives could rise or fall on the
Speaker 1: strength of Duarte and Valadeo. I mean there are two
Speaker 1: of maybe the top ten most competitive seats in the
Speaker 1: whole country. So we will have all of that. We
Speaker 1: will be breaking down all of that from seven pm
Speaker 1: until until whenever, basically until Trevor and I get so
Speaker 1: tired that we fall asleep standing at the microphone. So
Speaker 1: you'll want to stay locked in with us here on
Speaker 1: Power Talk. If you're listening in your car, just keep.
Speaker 2: Your radio on.
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Speaker 1: got you know, Fox News or CNN on All right, Jonathan,
Speaker 1: Now here's some important so let's have some fun here
Speaker 1: when Democrats are losing an election. Jonathan, Yes, yes, What
Speaker 1: is your favorite television station to watch the reactions of
Speaker 1: the supposedly neutral journalists who are all ready to commit
Speaker 1: suppuku because Donald Trump is winning?
Speaker 2: Who is who?
Speaker 1: What is your favorite? Is it CNN?
Speaker 2: I think I think CNN. The thing is, I saw
Speaker 2: someone on Twitter that I loved. They said one thing
Speaker 2: we know for certain Tomorrow night, no matter who wins,
Speaker 2: Vans Jones is gonna cry Jones, Van Jones.
Speaker 1: Cry other way.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So I actually don't. I don't mind Van
Speaker 2: Jones because I think he's probably what I don't mind
Speaker 2: him either, the most the least unlikable of the Democratic operatives,
Speaker 2: and I've heard good personal stories about him that he's
Speaker 2: a decent guy. But so I would like to hear
Speaker 2: what he's going to say. It'll be interesting. But I
Speaker 2: think the it's got to be MSNBC, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: it has to be Rachel Maddow.
Speaker 1: My mom and dad would always regale us with their
Speaker 1: favorite election night TV that they ever watched was actually
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four, when Republicans took the House to
Speaker 1: Representatives back which Democrats had controlled the House of Representatives,
Speaker 1: I think pretty much continuously for like I don't know
Speaker 1: the decades, Republicans won huge victories in the House and Senate.
Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety four, it was one of the most
Speaker 1: enormous landslide, classic off yr election. The president, the party
Speaker 1: in power just gets absolutely crushed. And my mom and
Speaker 1: dad always still to this day talk about watching CNN
Speaker 1: and watching the anchors who all looked like they had
Speaker 1: just like had diarrhea live on air, Like they were like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is a very interest. It was a significant shift
Speaker 1: in the mood of our country, like like all this
Speaker 1: like coded stuff where it's like we're trying to say
Speaker 1: that this is terrible, but we can't just say that
Speaker 1: this is terrible. Uh So it was that was their
Speaker 1: absolute favorite. But yeah, I'm I think I'd probably go
Speaker 1: with MSNBC, especially Rachel Maddow's Anywhere.
Speaker 2: Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell Joy read of my gosh, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I'll tell you you know who I'm most looking
Speaker 2: forward to, and the problem is we won't really have
Speaker 2: it until tomorrow.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be Joe and Mika Morning Morning Joe. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is gonna be worth I also getting up early.
Speaker 1: I someone I follow on Twitter was doing let's check
Speaker 1: in to see how Keith Olberman is doing. Now I
Speaker 1: know Keith Olberman isn't don MSNBC anymore. Keith Olberman has
Speaker 1: basically burned every bridge with every television producer of content
Speaker 1: known to man at this point because he's such a
Speaker 1: pain in the butt to work with, and in his
Speaker 1: his posts about Trump are just becoming more and more
Speaker 1: just completely unhinged. So i'd i'd be curious to see
Speaker 1: how old Keith has taking all this news, but we
Speaker 1: will see now. Just to let check you all in
Speaker 1: as we're wrapping up this hour and again, starting at
Speaker 1: seven oh five, me Trevor Carrey tal Cloud will be
Speaker 1: breaking down all the results nationwide locally. Tal is a
Speaker 1: absolute political whiz and has been involved in more campaigns
Speaker 1: then you can count on two finger, two hands, and
Speaker 1: two feet. Tal will be breaking down a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff with a lot of insights for local stuff we'll
Speaker 1: be breaking down state ballot initiatives, several important state ballot
Speaker 1: initiatives and local ballot initiatives, especially looking at bond measures.
Speaker 1: That's I'll just wrap up with some local stuff. The
Speaker 1: big things to look out for. You've got Proposition two,
Speaker 1: which is statewide ballot initiative to fund stuff for schools
Speaker 1: and K through twelve schools as well as community colleges.
Speaker 1: That the desire for that money for matching grants of
Speaker 1: that prop too, money prompted every local school district in
Speaker 1: the Fresno area and the Community State Center Community College
Speaker 1: district to put on the ballot various kinds of various
Speaker 1: bond measures. So you vote for it, the school district
Speaker 1: gets four hundred, five hundred six hundred million bucks and
Speaker 1: then you got to pay that in your taxes plus interest.
Speaker 1: So the five hundred million dollars in Measure H that's
Speaker 1: going to go to Presno Unified, You're going to wind
Speaker 1: up paying like a billion dollars in taxes over the
Speaker 1: course of forty years. I am going to be watching
Speaker 1: those things very carefully. I have self proclaimed myself the
Speaker 1: local crusader against all bond measures all in Sundry bond measures.
Speaker 1: I just think it's a fundamentally stupid and irresponsible way
Speaker 1: of funding government projects. Basically, get you get taxed one
Speaker 1: billion dollars for five hundred million dollars worth of benefit.
Speaker 1: So I am very very leery of bond measures. Wow,
Speaker 1: the play it has narrowed in Pennsylvania. We are now
Speaker 1: with forty percent of the vote in Harris fifty point
Speaker 1: two percent, Trump forty nine percent. Dear God, I've been
Speaker 1: saying it all. I've been saying it for two months.
Speaker 1: This whole election is gonna come down to the opinions
Speaker 1: of the ten thousand stupidest people in Pennsylvania. Holy cow,
Speaker 1: that's close. All of a sudden. That went from like
Speaker 1: Harris up by six to Harris up by like one
Speaker 1: in about a blink of an eye. Holy smokes. And
Speaker 1: let's me just reiterate, folks. A lot of some new
Speaker 1: sources have already called North Carolina for Trump. Georgia, he's
Speaker 1: up by about six percent, with seventy nine percent of
Speaker 1: the vote in