WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:12.800 Well, whiskey coming, pain, oh don't. From power Line blog 2 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:17.719 dot com and produced by Ricochet dot Com. This is 3 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:22.679 the three Whiskey Happy Hour with your bartenders Steve Hayward, 4 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:28.879 John You, and power Lines International Woman of Mystery Lucretia. 5 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:33.439 Cat Gott a given let that whiskey bloon where you're 6 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:35.359 been in loud down and low. 7 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:39.280 Well, Hi everybody, and welcome to a special election night 8 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:44.039 edition of the three four or five Whiskey Happy Hour, 9 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:47.600 because we're gonna have Scott Johnson and hopefully John Hinderocker 10 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:50.719 joining us. Scott is here, John, if he's not jet 11 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:53.719 lag from flying back from Paris last night, we'll join us. John. 12 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:56.759 You will be at half an hour late, but here 13 00:00:56.759 --> 00:00:59.920 we are. Election night, and uh, I'm sorry we're coming. 14 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:02.840 I'm so late for those of you in the Midwest 15 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:06.079 and East. But you know, we thought it was going 16 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:08.280 to be a close knight, but it's shaping up as 17 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:13.359 a pretty good night for Trump. So even Scott is happy. 18 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:15.359 What just say, Scott? 19 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:15.519 You? 20 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:18.040 Well, you know the New York Times right now has 21 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:22.120 Trump at an eighty three percent chance of winning the lesson. 22 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:24.840 I've been watching Fox News all night and I have 23 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:29.319 to say, I haven't understood what's happening, but I thought 24 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:32.359 to check the New York Times homepage, and I see 25 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:34.480 like Trump is a probable winner. 26 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:37.840 No one, no one seems to have the nerve to 27 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:40.959 say that over on Fox News. 28 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:45.599 Or anywhere else. Yeah, right, I don't know. Oh I 29 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:47.840 think they are. I mean, you know I have been so. 30 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:50.400 First of all, I'll just make this observation. I did 31 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:55.959 look around at some of the network and discussion panels CNN, ABC, NBC, 32 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.879 and they were all stupid. It was all the usual cliches, 33 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:02.840 but the usual washed up politicians. I saw Claire mccaskell 34 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.200 on NBC, she doesn't know anything. And then I watched 35 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:11.759 Henry Olsen, who's doing this monologue for hours on Twitter. 36 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:15.479 And you know, Henry follows the numbers and he's very cautious, 37 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:18.520 and he's saying it just bad news for Harris. Everywhere 38 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:21.840 he looks good news for Trump. Marino's gonna win the 39 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:25.520 Senate race for Republicans in Ohio, and he'll he does 40 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:28.319 it very granularly, of course, And so you know when 41 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:30.919 Henry is talking like that, now he doesn't call things, 42 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:32.919 but he just says, look, it looks bad for Harris, 43 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:37.159 and when Henry talks like that, that's when you want 44 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:40.319 to smile and cheer up. And the contrast between someone 45 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:45.000 like Henry and his other people a few anyway, the 46 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:48.240 contrast between that and the low quality of the high 47 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:51.479 production value networks is really jarring. 48 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:55.120 I'll just say that, wait, Steve Maya really quickly, just 49 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:59.360 because people are asking the in the chat that I'm 50 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:02.000 looking at right now. At the New York Times needle page, 51 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:05.080 Trump is an eighty three percent chance of victory. Some 52 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:08.680 of their interesting things though, two hundred and ninety six 53 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:12.000 to two hundred and forty two Electoral College estimate, popular 54 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:17.000 vote estimate, Trump up by point eight, Trump up by 55 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:20.039 point eight. And let's see every single one of the 56 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:26.599 seven battleground states. Sixty percent r for Nevada, sixty one 57 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:31.000 percent for Pennsylvania, sixty one percent for Wisconsin, sixty five 58 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:36.080 percent for Michigan, seventy six percent for Arizona, eighty eight 59 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:40.520 percent for North Carolina, and ninety five percent for Georgia. 60 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:45.840 Chances of Republican winning the state or Trump depending. 61 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:49.439 Yeah, I haven't heard that anywhere else. 62 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:51.599 Well, I'm just time for that. 63 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:55.159 Yeah, New York Times needle I actually put it's in 64 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:58.560 the chat. The actual link to it is in the chat. 65 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:04.840 Well, and it all depends on how heavily California and 66 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:08.319 the West Coast comes in for Harris, which doesn't I 67 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:10.560 mean it counts, but it doesn't count in a larger 68 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:15.000 sense of you know, there's isolated states. Let me make 69 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:17.519 three or four observations, which you guys can grab hold 70 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:21.720 of and pick anyone you want. First. One of the 71 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:25.000 interesting signs early in the evening was a report from 72 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:28.279 Harry's Bar and American Grill over in Paris, you famous 73 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:33.720 old expat spot. They do a straw pole of Americans. 74 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:35.839 It's funny. You have to have an id topprove you're 75 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:38.279 an American, which means they have stricter voting rules at 76 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:41.720 a Paris bar than in many American states. Okay, so 77 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:43.720 they do a straw pole. It's apparently they've done this 78 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:47.600 for you know, twenty two elections, so that's a long time, 79 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:52.959 sixty years whatever it turns out to. And the result 80 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:55.920 was Trump won by about fifty votes, which shocked all 81 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:59.560 the Parisians and many of the Americans. And by the way, 82 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:02.399 they've something like you know, twenty out of twenty two 83 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:06.839 previous races, right, So that's kind of a funny little thing. Second, 84 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:09.680 the women's vote, which was supposed to be so big 85 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:11.759 for Harris. There is a big gender gap, but it's 86 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:15.680 not coming in big enough for Harris. That's an interesting point. 87 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:17.560 Can I stop before you go any further? 88 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:17.959 Really quick? 89 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:18.199 Stay? 90 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:23.439 My favorite thing on Twitter today was someone pointing out 91 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:27.560 that Harris is after the women's vote, Obama's going after 92 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:31.480 the men's vote on behalf of Kamala, ding Dong, Gamala 93 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:34.399 and ding Dong. However, none of them, none of them 94 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:37.519 seem to think that there's any problem with there only 95 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:39.759 being two genders in this case, and none of them 96 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:45.120 are actually appealing quite strongly to the other non binary, 97 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:46.680 non women, non men. 98 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:48.040 What's a woman vote? 99 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:50.439 Well, one of my favorite tweets of the day, and 100 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:52.759 I didn't save it, unfortunately, was the person who said, 101 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:55.759 people say they're voting for abortion rights for their daughters, 102 00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:57.120 what about their sons? 103 00:05:57.160 --> 00:05:58.399 What about their sons? 104 00:05:58.560 --> 00:05:59.199 Exactly? 105 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:01.079 I think I sent that to you, Steve. 106 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:05.879 You might have been a busy days. The one thing 107 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:09.959 is the Florida Abortion Initiative will win the majority, but 108 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:13.439 not the sixty percent required for it to be enacted. 109 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:16.199 But the important thing there is not the actual numbers 110 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:18.600 that it failed under their standard, but that there's a 111 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:24.639 decoupling between abortion sentiment and the votes for other offices. Right, 112 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:27.680 So maybe just in the ordinary political sense, and you know, 113 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:30.199 our friends like have the orchist are mad at us 114 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:34.240 for not at you more than me, maybe for Lucreatieff 115 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:38.839 were saying, gosh, Trump was shrewd and politically prude about 116 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:44.600 the way he approached this issue. Okay, right, exactly, I 117 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:48.439 mean to be continued. I will mention that this morning 118 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:52.199 I watched maybe you did too, Scott. I watched Mark 119 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:55.120 Halpern's Two Way, which is what a great thing. And 120 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:57.600 if you watched it today, Scott, maybe you saw those 121 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:01.079 two young women he had on who said they've been 122 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:04.040 lifelong Democrats. Were life long or thirty right or twenty 123 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:08.360 eight New York and La women right, and one was 124 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:10.800 a law student. They both said, I've always been a Democrat, 125 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:13.759 I've voted for Democrats. I'm voting for Trump. They're both 126 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:15.959 very pro choice, by the way, and that's the point, 127 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:18.839 is right, but that's not the main issue for them, 128 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:22.439 And so that decoupling I think is something emerging. In 129 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:25.600 other words, the abortion issue has not worked for Democrats. 130 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:30.839 From Lauren's yes, yes that was her name, right, Yeah, 131 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:31.279 I was. 132 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:34.319 Very moved by her. Yes, she really touched me. 133 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:38.800 She was a non Jewish supporter of Israel and Jewish 134 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:40.600 people who was revolted. 135 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:45.839 By the Democrats silence about the Jews. 136 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:49.639 That was the next, right, sorry, son, Yeah, no, that's everything. 137 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:51.800 Yeah, no, I just wondered if if that was this morning. 138 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:54.560 I've been trying to keep up with Alfred. 139 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:57.319 Right that was that struck me a lot too, says 140 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:00.160 I'm not even Jewish, but Kamela is unacceptably weak on 141 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:02.800 the Israel question. And I thought that was very interesting. 142 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:05.800 Now you did have Scott, you probably saw them. A 143 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:08.160 couple of people came on and said, you know, I 144 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:11.120 voted for Trump before were considered Trump, but January sixth 145 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:15.759 bothers me. And I'm curious as to how many people 146 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:20.639 that actually applied to I don't know. And that gets 147 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:23.639 me to the exit polls. So the exit polls started 148 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:27.279 coming out at one o'clock Pacific, four o'clock Eastern, and 149 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:31.079 what they said was, oh, the leading issue for people 150 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:35.399 was threats to democracy. And number two is the economy. 151 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:37.679 And my first thought was, if you know what exit 152 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:39.960 polls are done. They present you with a list of 153 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:43.919 questions and in other words, they pre select the issues 154 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:48.279 you're supposed to select from from what determines your vote. 155 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:51.440 So threats to democracy is something the media invented, by 156 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:53.320 the way, I don't think that cuts one hundred percent 157 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:55.960 for Democrats. I think a lot of voters would say, 158 00:08:56.440 --> 00:08:58.840 you know, threats to democracy could be Democrats. That's what 159 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:02.080 someone on the Chatterred just pointed out. I think that's right, 160 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:06.080 But they're not asking what I think is the sleeper 161 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:10.600 issue is wokery, you know, the trans issues. Did they 162 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:14.360 ask any voters about that? I bet not? And we're 163 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:16.960 gonna have to rely on the sort of wider with 164 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:19.399 the voter survey panel that goes on for the next 165 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:21.720 three weeks, which actually does get into some of the 166 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:23.919 tertiary issues, and I'll bet we're going to find out 167 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:26.519 that that was a bigger issue that all the networks 168 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:28.000 tonight are not going to mention. 169 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:35.600 Of course, Steve, where was that list of issues obtain from? 170 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:37.720 Is that a Fox News dealer or something else? 171 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:40.840 Well, that's a good question. Scott. I tried to find 172 00:09:40.840 --> 00:09:43.039 out that, by the way, there are now two different 173 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:46.440 exopole consortiums. There used to be just one that CBS 174 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:49.879 started what fifty years ago, and now Fox does it 175 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:53.840 with US. I forget who else? And the network AP 176 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:59.279 is that right, could be AP and then yeah, so 177 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:01.720 Fox doesn't with AP, and then the other networks still 178 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:03.840 go with somebody else and then all the rest. I 179 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:07.039 try to find out today what are the options they 180 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:08.919 present voters coming out of the polls? And I couldn't 181 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:11.440 find it on lie Now. I didn't spend more than 182 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:12.519 about ten minutes. 183 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:14.519 Looking for it, and I just I'm asking because i'd 184 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:17.120 heard that thing about democracy being the preeminent issue that 185 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:18.440 I did no where it came from. 186 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:23.039 Yeah, yeah, okay, Lucretia. Somebody says in the comment, and 187 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:25.639 they're right that I'm talking too much, so say something. 188 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:34.120 I said, So what else is new? I did? Actually, 189 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:36.360 I'm having fun talking to the people in the chat. 190 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:40.519 So these you know, they're all friends, most of them, 191 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:42.559 most of them actually know who they are. I can't 192 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:46.919 keep up, so that's wonderful. I'm actually a little bit 193 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:50.480 confused about a few things that so while the New 194 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:53.759 York Times is being very very bullish on Trump in 195 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:57.039 some respects. They've got Virginia at a ninety five percent 196 00:10:57.480 --> 00:10:59.200 probability for Harris. 197 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:02.039 Yeah, which he wins all the other The Blue Wall 198 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:05.879 states they've got him up in Michigan in Wisconsin. 199 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:09.399 But is that actually accurate about Virginia. I thought it 200 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:12.080 was closer than that. I could be wrong, I mean 201 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:13.320 I'm wrong. 202 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:17.720 Often, but I think the AP called the Hill called Virginia. No, 203 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:22.519 the Hill reports that the AP called Virginia for hair. 204 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:24.720 Okay, well, that that would give her a better than 205 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:25.919 ninety five percent chance. 206 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:26.519 I suppose. 207 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:29.879 Don't mention that either. 208 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:34.159 You know, they're still suffering from their really bad calls 209 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:37.279 last time, so I imagine they're being a little bit more careful, 210 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:43.519 and they are almost at the point of being boring. Fortunately, 211 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:45.879 I have a house full of people that are making 212 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:48.679 all drinking and making a lot of fun of what's 213 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:51.720 happening on Fox, including the you know, the Fox blondes 214 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:56.360 and yeah who, by the way, all have exactly the 215 00:11:56.399 --> 00:12:00.759 same haircut now, every single one of them. That was 216 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:03.960 pointed out to me, which is not my haircut, because 217 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:06.080 as you know, I don't have a haircut. But anyway, 218 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:08.960 I'm happy. 219 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:09.559 I'm happy. 220 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:12.000 I'm still concerned about Arizona because there are some pretty 221 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:17.879 important things. There's a there's an abortion of constitutional amendment 222 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:22.879 on the ballot in Arizona, and I'm told, I read 223 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:25.039 I think we talked about this on the podcast last time, 224 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:28.240 that sixty eight percent of Arizona's are likely to vote 225 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:31.759 for it. I don't think it's that, but it is 226 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:34.799 one of those things. How did you put it, decoupling, Steve, 227 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:37.879 between what you vote for in terms of that one 228 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:41.960 single policy and what you vote for otherwise, And I 229 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:45.120 do I will say that, you know, I don't watch TV, 230 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:48.799 but when i'm places that have television on, I see 231 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:51.639 that the carry Lake ads are the anti carry Lake 232 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:54.600 ads are just they're just horrific. I mean, they act 233 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:58.039 like she's They really do practically call her hitler, and 234 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:01.480 they call her in one ad, demon and satanic for 235 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:07.120 her belief that abortion should be curtailed at fifteen weeks. 236 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:10.360 And you know, it's just so I'm really hoping that 237 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:15.039 that goes down, that the proposition goes down. But I 238 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:17.840 believe in Arizona just takes fifty one percent of the vote, 239 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:18.960 So it probably won't. 240 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:22.440 Yeah, yeah, Florida's sixty percent required, which is what it. 241 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:25.639 Should be for a constitutional amendment, although you know, in 242 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:28.960 these progressive states, constitutional amendments end up working just about 243 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:31.799 like statutory amendments anyway. They just the only difference is 244 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:34.720 they take more signatures to get them on the ballot, 245 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:41.120 or more a larger percentage of the legislature to get 246 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:43.080 them on the ballot. But then they're fifty one percent, 247 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:46.720 which I think is stupid very much puts them in 248 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:51.519 the category of electoral manipulation and Demagoguay, shall we say? 249 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:55.399 Yeah? All right, So a couple more things about tonight, 250 00:13:57.559 --> 00:13:59.679 which you know, my default position was it could be 251 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:01.519 raised thing, then we'd be up all night or something 252 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:03.519 like that, or fight it for weeks. It looks like 253 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:07.519 that's not gonna happen. But of Scott, I was watching 254 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:09.960 the Free Press gaggle and by the way, they were drinking, 255 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.240 and we haven't talked about what we're drinking yet, Lucretia, 256 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:15.279 but we'll wait for John Yu and maybe John Hinderocker, 257 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:17.679 who I don't know, he's asleep, i'll bet, But Scott 258 00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:20.919 I on the on the Free Press gaggle, they had 259 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.919 your cousin, Dean phillips On, and he said, you know, 260 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:27.840 I mean, mostly talked kind of like you'd expect as 261 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:29.840 a public figure who ran against Biden. But he didn 262 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:33.559 say a couple of interesting things. One was I thought revealing. 263 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:37.120 He said he put in nicer than this, but the 264 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:40.120 sentence was pretty close to saying, Kamala Harris spent a 265 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:45.000 billion dollars to lose market share between her anointing and now. 266 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:47.320 And he said it very nicely, but I thought that 267 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:50.039 was kind of a little dig at all the people who, 268 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:52.120 as you put it to us before he went on, 269 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:55.039 stabbed him in the front. And then of course he 270 00:14:55.039 --> 00:14:57.200 made a point of saying he was for Harris because 271 00:14:57.200 --> 00:15:00.960 he's a loyal Democrat. But he said I agree with 272 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:03.720 Trump on a lot of stuff, like the border. He 273 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:05.879 mentioned the border, and they mentioned one other issue. I 274 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:08.639 forget what it was now, but anyway, he was pretty good. 275 00:15:08.679 --> 00:15:10.039 But I don't know if you've talked to him, or 276 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:12.080 if you want to comment on that or not talk 277 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:12.519 to him. 278 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:19.919 I'm close with Dean and his family, and he was 279 00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:22.080 over to break the fast on you and keep work. 280 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:26.960 You know, it's fun to talk to him. He is candid. 281 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:29.360 I don't agree with him about any political issues, but 282 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:33.480 I admired his stepping forward to challenge Biden, and he 283 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:38.759 did it in the most diplomatic way. But nevertheless they 284 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:45.200 couldn't abide him, and I expressed my respect for him, 285 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:48.399 and he did suffer, you know, politically as a result. 286 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:52.279 He ended up the Democrats ginned up this heat, I 287 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:54.399 would say, for him, and he ended up giving his 288 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:54.960 giving out. 289 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:56.240 He's not running for reelection. 290 00:15:57.159 --> 00:15:59.799 His congressional seat is going to be filled by an 291 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:03.799 Yn named Kelly Morris. And I think in the election 292 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:07.639 tonight in a suburban district that used to be Republican 293 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:13.480 until the first Trump midterm and his his one Democrat 294 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:17.039 and not returned, and that's Dean was the first Democrat 295 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:21.399 to hold that seat quite a while. But I can't 296 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:23.639 help but be proud of him for saying the things 297 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:27.240 that Democrats wouldn't say in public. And at one point 298 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:29.799 Dean said to me, you know, I still I still 299 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:30.879 have my self respect. 300 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:32.360 I'm not sure about my colleagues. 301 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:37.159 And he was referring, I would say, you know, in 302 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:39.639 that manner to his Democratic colleagues. 303 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:43.840 Yeah, well, I mean, he well, let's let's put it 304 00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:48.519 this way, he got more primary votes than Kamala Harris did. Right. 305 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:51.799 And then second, you know, Barry Weiss was, uh, she's 306 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:53.720 very nice to him, but she was also pointed and 307 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:56.279 she said, look, you know they lied to us about 308 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:59.399 Joe Biden's condition for months, you know, years and months. 309 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:02.519 The only person who stood up to it. And what 310 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:05.319 he said was as well, look all politicians lie, trumplized 311 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:07.440 to you. Kind of expect him to say that. I thought, 312 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:13.440 you know, so he's being diplomatic back. But still I wonder, well, 313 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:16.359 I'm actually this is a setup for what happened starting tomorrow, 314 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:20.119 which is they're gonna blame Kambla Harris for being bad. 315 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:24.000 They're gonna blame uh Joe Biden for not getting out 316 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:27.440 a year ago as he should have. And I'm sitting 317 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:30.279 here thinking, is anybody can then say Dean Phillips was right? 318 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:30.839 After all? 319 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:34.160 Pretty sure or not? 320 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:36.200 Yeah, you're probably right? 321 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:40.759 How about RFK though, Well. 322 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:48.960 Okay, I don't know. Let's see what other news we got. 323 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:50.759 I was waiting for John to get here before he 324 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:52.279 went through our drinking rounds. 325 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:58.200 But yeah, anyways, put in the in the uh, I 326 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:01.240 have to give it to Jimmy Faala those not mine original. 327 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:03.559 I'm not this clever. By the end of the night, 328 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:06.200 Trump will have beaten more women than Doug Mhoff. 329 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:11.400 Oh God, that's bad. 330 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:16.799 Nobody's not alive in this place. 331 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:17.440 Up a little. 332 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:21.359 Yeah, Well, you know, I thought we'd be coming on tonight, 333 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:24.160 you know, late in the evening with things race or close. 334 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:28.200 I haven't seen. I haven't seen only five percent of 335 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:29.720 the voters in Minnesota. 336 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:34.000 Yeah, and I'm looking at the Times its Wisconsin has 337 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:38.799 fifty seven percent and pathetic. 338 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:41.759 Don't you think it'd be so great though, if Minnesota 339 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:45.359 actually didn't vote for Kamalama Ding Dong and Tim Walls. 340 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:47.519 Don't you think it'd be like the greatest thing ever. 341 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:54.839 Well, when Walls one election for governor, I think the 342 00:18:54.920 --> 00:19:01.400 margin was eleven percent over eight a relatively weak Republican candidate, 343 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:05.799 And when he won re election two years ago, it 344 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:10.519 was down to seven percent against a much weaker Republican candidate. 345 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:14.200 And I'm hoping that they carry Minnesota by less than 346 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:18.920 seven percent. I mean, Walls was less than zero on 347 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:23.480 the Democrat side, and what a what a terrible governor 348 00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:28.119 he's been. And uh, there's the expression in Spanish at 349 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:30.240 zero to the left. I think that's what he's been 350 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:32.960 at As a vice presidential. 351 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:35.599 Candidate for Kamala. 352 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:39.279 Yea Go Ahead. 353 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:44.160 Her first big decision was, was Tim Walls unbelievable? 354 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:45.000 No? 355 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:50.640 I wrote theous facetious column for the Freebeacon, Take my Governor. 356 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:55.200 I wasn't thinking at the time the lieutenant governor with 357 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:56.799 you know, it was facetious. 358 00:19:56.799 --> 00:19:59.200 But the lieutenant governor is even bettier than he is. 359 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.839 And it's been so interesting to see him exposed as 360 00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:05.839 a compulsive liar, you know, within a month or two 361 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:10.039 on the national stage, whereas you know, the hometown paper 362 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:15.279 has not ceased the cheerleading for the past eight years 363 00:20:16.039 --> 00:20:18.039 he's been for him. 364 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:20.799 Well the I mean, I don't know that. The weird 365 00:20:20.839 --> 00:20:24.440 thing about Minnesota is has not voted Republican now since 366 00:20:24.559 --> 00:20:28.680 Richard Nixon in nineteen seventy two. You might have been there, 367 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:32.400 Scott today. It's twenty years ago nowur more. Gosh, Moore, 368 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:34.960 I'm getting old. I remember coming to the Hubert Humphrey 369 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:38.480 Institute at the University of Minnesota and saying, this is 370 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:41.160 a strange place to be for a California Conservative act 371 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:44.319 the only state that never voted for Ronald Reagan even once, 372 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:50.599 and the audience erupted an applause. Right, it's typical. But 373 00:20:50.759 --> 00:20:55.160 you know, in twenty sixteen, Trump only lost Minnesota what 374 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:57.559 two and a half points? I mean, it was really closed. 375 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:00.720 That should have been a huge so many times George W. 376 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:04.200 Bush only lost it by what half a percent or 377 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:09.880 something like that, and Trump replicated that, but we've come close, 378 00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:10.680 but no cigar. 379 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:15.000 Yeah, yeah, Well. 380 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:17.599 I like George Spencer's question. Guys, I got to liven 381 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:18.519 you two up a little. 382 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:20.359 It's late. You got to get some energy. 383 00:21:20.680 --> 00:21:23.960 Any chance Biden resigns and creates the first female potus 384 00:21:24.039 --> 00:21:27.480 or is he just too bitter clinger? I mean, after all, 385 00:21:27.799 --> 00:21:32.519 Joe Biden also wore red today, just like Lucretia. I 386 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:35.160 wonder if she worked for the same reason. And boy, 387 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:36.559 am I wearing red tomorrow? 388 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:42.279 You know, I've speculated about that. And on the one hand, 389 00:21:42.359 --> 00:21:44.680 it would be the magnanimous thing for Biden to do. 390 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:50.279 And that's why it won't happen, because he's a mean, heady, 391 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:55.160 narcissistic hack and he would like to be the person 392 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:57.720 reputation is. See I told you so, I'm the only 393 00:21:57.759 --> 00:22:00.920 person who could be Trump, and you know, the historic 394 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:04.200 opportunity to have the first one president, even for two months, 395 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:07.839 I think will be beyond his capacity for magnanimity, if 396 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:11.079 even chalk it up to magnanimity. So I don't think so. 397 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:17.720 Although he could say that he prevented Trump from from 398 00:22:17.960 --> 00:22:22.000 printing out all those president for forty seventh president had 399 00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:22.839 some T shirts. 400 00:22:24.400 --> 00:22:26.680 Well, I mean, look, there's a whole bunch of ways 401 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:28.680