11-8-25 The Weekend Hour 1: Virginia & New Jersey Don’t Spell Doom Despite Conservatives Thinking So

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The night Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA
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all the others. Two. So let's go back in history
November twentieth, November twenty twenty, I should say be precisee.
November twenty twenty, Joe Biden won Virginia by fifty four percent.

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Joe Biden that same year won New Jersey by fifty
seven percent. In fact, Donald Trump lost all six presidential
election contests in the two states combined in twenty sixteen,
in twenty twenty, and in twenty twenty four. His high
water mark in all of those states over all of

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those years was forty six percent in twenty twenty four. Now,
Joe Biden was president from January of twenty one through
November of twenty one, well technically through you know, sometime
he was a president there. I'm not surely really when
he was president. On August twenty six, twenty twenty one,

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a suicide bomber killed thirteen US Service personnel outside the
gate Abby gate to the Kabal Airport in Afghanistan. Now,
this came in the hectic final days of the chaotic
collapse of Afghanistan, following President Biden's announcement of a withdrawal
by the US by a very certain date. In fact,

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he had telescoped to the Taliban, We're going to be
out of there by such and such date. We're going
to be out of their bios twenty six, come hell
or high water. The method of withdrawal that was picked
by Biden happened to be against the advice of every
single one of his single military advisers. Every advisor to
Joe Biden said this is not the way to do it. Now.

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The aftermath of that disastrous withdrawal included coverage of Joe
Biden at Andrew's Air Force Base when the bodies of
those fallen soldiers were returned, and we know and we
remember him repeatedly checking his watch while kind of watching
the ceremony. In the moments that Biden spent with the families,

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he kept comparing their grief to the loss of his
son to cancer, equitting that with the combat deaths of
the fallen soldiers who had died in all of that
chaos at Abby Gate on August twenty six, twenty twenty one. Now,
in July of twenty one, Biden's approval rate hovered somewhere

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and I'd say the mid fifties range. It peaked at
one point in one poll at fifty eight percent. That's July.
By August, by the time that Kabble had fallen to
the Taliban, it had dropped into the high forties range,
and then in the aftermath of the bombing it fell
close to forty percent, and then continued slowly thereafter just

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to boom boom boom, boom boom. By election day in
November of twenty one, several poles had him in the
high somewhere between thirty four and thirty eight percent range.
The point is the election in November two, twenty twenty
one came only sixty eight days, less than three months,
only slightly more than two months after the Afghanistan debackle.

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And it wasn't just Afghanistan. In late twenty twenty one,
all this wild spending by Biden and the Democratic Congress
in reaction to COVID had started to show itself. And
what was it? How was it manifesting itself? We started
to see inflation beginning to increase wildly. Shelf prices for
virtually everything you were buying was starting to go up.

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And I remember it well because it was like, you
buy groceries one weekend, it costs one hundred dollars. You
can buy groceries the next week, and this one hundred
and twenty dollars, and you're looking at I got the
same basket. What did I do differently this time? By
twenty nineteen, the last four year prior to COVID, with

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a robust economy, inflation was about one one point nine percent.
In twenty twenty one, by the time you went to
the grocery store just after COVID and just as Biden
was beginning to spend all this money, inflation was at
four point seven percent, and it was just on a
trend line, just like a rocket ship went straight up. Now,

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Biden's immediate implementation of all these new policies that restricted
oil and natural gas production. At the same time that
your grocery prices are starting to go up, your energy
costs are starting to skyrocket too. The national average price
of a gallon the gas rose from about two dollars

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and sixty cents to over three dollars in the two
short years between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty one. Increased
energy costs ripple through the economy. You know this as
well as I do, because virtually everything that we do,
everything that we purchase, somehow involves energy. It takes energy

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into production. It takes energy for the people that drive
to the factory to make whatever it is, or to produce.
You know, the can of pork and beans that we buy,
It takes energy to transport those pork and beans once
they get in the can, which takes energy. It takes
energy to transport those are the grocery store. You got
to buy gas to get to the grocery store to
buy the stuff that that energy has already been consumed
to buy the can of pork and beans. The nationwide average,

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as I said, rose from two sixty to more than
three dollars. I think it was about three dollars and
five cents a gallon. And those costs ripple throughout the
economy because it's a cost of production, and it's a
cost and distribution. And I would even say, let's expand distribution,
not just from getting the raw materials to the factory

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or raw materials to the production facility. That then you
have all the energy costs to distribute it to the
retail outlet. And then you spend energy going to the
retail outlet to buy it and to go home. And
then when you go home, you're consuming energy because you
want to heat your home, unlike the stupid studio I'm
sitting in today, which is but ass cold. Those costs,

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those energy costs, ripple throughout everything that we say or do.
So the Biden victory also back in twenty twenty one,
resulted in the full implementation of all these diversity, equity
and inclusion policies, not just as the federal government either,

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but then corporate America feels pressured. In Corporate America some
because they willingly want to do it, some because they
hesitatingly want to do it, and some because they are
forced to do it. DEI policies start going all across
the country, all across corporate America and the country as
a whole. So the Biden administration had normalized you know,

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cross dressers, transsexuals, and highly visible positions, you know, using
the women's restroom and using the men's restroom and nobody
really knowing which is which. But it wasn't just that.
It wasn't just that kind of cultural shift. He was
also promoting transsexuals and highly visible positions. Remember doctor Rachel Levine.

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Remember doctor Levine from the Health Department. She was an
assistant Secretary of Health. She actually got confirmed by the
US Senate. So a man wearing the dress of a
female admiral in a civilian department gets confirmed as an
assistant secretary of heal health. Theater of the absurd, absolute

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surreal theater gets piped into every living room, or if
you were listening to the news in a car or
on your earbuds, however, you were consuming the news that
theater of the absurd, rising gas prices, inflation, transsexuals, DEI.

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Everything is getting pounded into your head by the cabal.
It was brought into your living rooms by the White
House and by the occupant of the White House and
all of those puppeteers around the White House that were
implementing Barack Obama's third term. It, indeed, was a truly

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triumphant victory expressed by a radical departure in our cultural
norms demanded by the increasingly assertive radical progressive Marxist wing
of the Democrat Party that came into power during the
Biden administration. It was a shift in norms, and that

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shifting norms was championed and driven by the forces of
the entertainment in the marketing industries, without any current concern
whatsoever about the reaction of the consumers of entertainment, of
marketing or anybody else. That was the national landscape. That
was the national landscape that started to develop throughout twenty
twenty one leading up to those off year elections in

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Virginia and New Jersey that I told you about earlier.
Remember those elections, those twenty twenty one elections are coming
up next. So we came with Michael Brown takes the
word Michael, Michael to three three one zero three, Tell
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welcome back to the Beeken with Michael Brown. Glad to
have you with me. I really do, be sure and
follow me on except Michael Brown USA. Now, why did
I give you all of that history about twenty and
twenty twenty one Because I believe that when you look
at what happened in the elections this past Tuesday, even

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conservative media appears to completely misunderstand what happened in those
two blue state elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and this
guy is falling, according to them, and I don't think
it is. I Are there some problems with this non
election year election? Sure, I mean, Mom Dominie, I can

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talk about that for the the next twenty days. Because
when you look at the voter turnout data, you find
that particularly young and I'm gonna put air quotes around
the word educated, young educated women turned out and droves
to vote for him. That shows you that they've been

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indoctrinated by our so called government run schools, and in
many cases even private schools like Columbia University. They've been
indoctrinated to not fully understand. They hear socialism and they
think about you know, everybody getting something free, and they
really it's like they're back in high school, you know,
and the student council president's running on a platform of
free pizza on Fridays, no homework over the weekends. Well,

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I think we got a little bit of the same
thing going on here. So all of this theater of
the absurd is getting fed to us. I mean, I
really want you to think about COVID and how COVID
shut everything down, how that completely screwed up the social
development of children going to school. It actually screwed up

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I think, the social development and the social abilities of
many adults. And then Biden runs in and Biden, I think,
unbeknownst to himself, but those that are manipulating Biden spend
trillions of dollars, virtually double the American budget. And so

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as we go to borrow most of that money in
order to spend that money, we decrease the value. We
throw more money into the system. So you've got all
of these dollars chasing fewer goods because COVID shut down,
manufacturing shut down and screwed up the supply chains. So
you got all of this money chasing all the fewer

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number of goods, and so inflation begins to skyrocket, and
that was the and then you had the DEI, transgenderism.
All of that just skyrockets during the Biden administration. That
was the landscape that developed throughout twenty twenty one leading
up to those off year twenty twenty one elections in

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Virginia and New Jersey. So what happened in those years? What?
Because I wanted to compare and contrast what happened in
twenty twenty one with what happened in twenty twenty five,
and then everybody can just kind of take a deep breath.
So let's go to Virginia first. In twenty twenty one,
former Virginia Governor Terry mccauliffe was trying a political oddity

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in the state. He was he was trying to get
back to the governor's mansion, where the consecutive terms in
office are not allowed, but non consecutive terms are permitted.
So it would be like you've been term limited out,
you've done your four years, you've done your eight years,
and now you've been out for four years, and now

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you want to come back and run again. He had
previously served as the governor of Virginia from twenty thirteen
to twenty seventeen. Then he gets succeeded by a name.
You probably don't remember the mention, the minute I mentioned it,
you'll remember. And I bet you, I bet I know
what you remember about him too, And that was Democrat
Ralph Northrom. Remember Ralph Northam. He was governor from twenty

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seventeen to twenty twenty one. He was the guy who
was caught wearing blackface, yet gets elected anyway, connects the
guy that ran for attorney general in Virginia this time
and claims that Park says in text messages he really
wants to kill the former Virginia Speaker of the House
and his children. And when he's offered an opportunity to
back off that, he doubles down even more so. So

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here's Terry mccaulliff, former governor in twenty twenty one, trying
to return after a non consecutive term. And who's Terry mccaullif.
Flee's a long time Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton insider.
He's a confidant of the of the Clintons. He had
won in three He had won in three way races
in twenty thirteen with only a plurality of the vote

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only forty eight percent of the vote. A libertarian candidate
that year had received almost seven percent of the vote.
That was one year after Obama's reelection and twenty twelve
where Obama had underperformed underperformed his first election in two
thousand and eight were in Virginia. He went from fifty
two percent down to fifty one percent. So you look

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at Virginia election cycles going back forty five years, there's
only one exception have zagged following the national election. That zigged.
The Virginia electorate is notoriously response even a negative way,
to the outcome of the previous presidential year's elections. I've

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got the receipts right in front of me. Nineteen eighty
Reagan wins, but in nineteen eighty one a Democrat wins
Virginia Chuck Robb nineteen eighty four, Reagan wins again, but
in nineteen eighty five a Democrat Gerald Beliveze wins. Nineteen
eighty eight, George H. W. Bush wins, but in nineteen
eighty nine Democrat Dug Wilder one. Nineteen ninety two, Clinton wins,

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but in nineteen ninety three a Republican wins. Nineteen ninety
six Clinton, but in nineteen ninety seven a Republican two thousand,
George W. Bush wins, but in two thousand and one
a Democrat, Mark Warner wins. Two thousand and four, George W.
Bush wins, buten in two thousand and five, a Democrat wins,
two thousand and eight Obama, a Democrat wins, but a nine,
a Republican bab McDonald wins. Twenty twelve, Obama wins, and

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another Democrat wins the next year. That is the only
exception going all the way back to nineteen eighty, the
only exception, so in every election except twenty thirteen, the
party that won the White House lost the Virginia governor's

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race the following year. Now, I think that's partly because
of all the counties in Virginia and Virginia itself quite
frankly as a whole that is so close to the
District of Columbia, and so many people that live in
Virginia that work either in DC and the government or
work from other big contractors are consulting firm in DC.

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I think it's their proximity to DC, and it's the
it's the absolute tumultuous state of the two parties following
a loss in the presidential election, because losses motivate the
base to action. Oh my gosh, we lost. We can't
let that happening. But we got to go do something,
whereas victories tend to cause people to go, oh, well,

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we won that everything's fine. So when Glenn Youngkin, the
current Virginia Virginia governor, beat mcauliff in twenty twenty one,
that was consistent with the well established pattern in Virginia.
The thing that kind of helped him was a local subject,

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a local issue, critical race theory in public schools. Now
at the time, there was a vigorous debate going on,
what was it that's next? Tonight, Michael Brown joins me here,
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to Virginia. So I'd say this about Virginia Virginia is
not a Republican state. When I worked in DC for
the Bush administration, I lived in northern Virginia, I lived
in Alexandria, and I can just tell you it is
not a Republican state. I might describe it as a
bellweather state, a state where the blows only one direction,

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that is away from the White House. Whoever wins the
White House the next year, they're not gonna win in Virginia.
And you ad this year, you add to the mix
that wins some sears. The lieutenant governor who was running
for governor, she was not a very good candidate. So
if her goal was to try to replicate Youngkin, which

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I think is what she was trying to do, and
replicate that victory from twenty twenty one, she just wasn't
very good at it. You know. It kind of reminded
me of of all people and how if she's listening,
hope she doesn't take this is the wrong way. But
it kind of reminded me of Gavin Newsom, governor of California,
trying to imitate and act like Donald Trump. You really

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can't do that. You have to be yourself when you
try to be somebody else, you're inevitably going to fail.
And I kind of think that's what win some Sears
was doing in Virginia. Sears is she's truly a deeply
conservative candidate uncleultural issues and she's not willing to compromise.
She's very noble, she's very principled, but she's not the

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profile of a winning candidate in a state like Virginia.
She couldn't raise much money, and she didn't see ig
nor was she offered the endorsement of President Trump. And
I think Trump rightly made the decision not to endorse
her when he could see that it would be it
would cost him political capital and it wouldn't gain him anything.
And then she lost by three and a half million votes,

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fifty seven to forty three percent, and that was a
twenty percent increase in turnout in eight years. So when
you add up all of her flaws and the first
do No Harm campaign run by her opponent, spam Burger,
it was it was an inevitable loss. The internals of

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that race I think are going to be really important
when they finally are able to be studied to the
extent that they might show some shifts in demic graphic
support between twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five. But
my personal opinion is the outcome really reflects a motivated
Democrat base as is typical in Virginia for a party

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that just lost the White House, and a largely content
and let's sit back on our Laurels Republican base that
is content with the direction that President Trump is headed.
So it doesn't really push people to the polls. So
when you look at Virginia, I'm kind of like, everybody
settled down when you really understand what took place there

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and what historically has taken place there. All of the
conservative media, all of the conservative talking heads that I
hear about, oh my god, it's the end of civilization
in sky is falling. I'm kind of like, sit down
and shut up. It's really not. It doesn't mean you
can just blow off the midterm elections. I'm not saying
that at all, but I'm simply saying, when you look

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at what really happened to Virginia, it's not as bad
as you think it is. So let's go to New Jersey.
I think there were two critical facts that had conservatives,
I think rightfully optimistic about their prospects in New Jersey
in that governor's race for this year. And here are
the two reasons. President Trump had actually improved his turnout,

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and he had improved his votes between twenty twenty and
twenty twenty four by almost five percent, from forty one
percent versus Joe Biden to forty six percent versus Kamala Harris.
But notice those are still minority numbers. Forty one and
forty six percent don't get you the election. And the

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significant factor in his improvement between twenty twenty and twenty
four was Trump's increased support among minorities. So that's the
first factor in New Jersey. There's another factor in New Jersey,
and that is the Republican candidate Jack Chittarelli was largely unknown,
he was mostly underfunded back in twenty twenty one when

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he first ran for governor, and he was running against
an incumbent Democrat governor. He lost by fifty one to
forty eight percent, which isn't bad in New Jersey, but
certainly the combination of the two could have led to
a Chitderelly victory in twenty twenty five. But refer back
to what I said about the fall of twenty twenty one,

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those circumstances provided the win at Chiterelly's back in twenty
twenty one that got him to within three percent of
a Democrat incumbent. It wasn't enough to push him over,
but everything going on in twenty twenty one was enough
to push him ahead because people were looking around at

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the economy, looking at their own grocery baskets, they were
looking at their own gas tank, they were looking at
their own heating bills, they were looking at the government submitting,
they were looking at the cultural stuff going on. So,
of course, but even with all of that, the best
that Chiarelli could do in twenty twenty one was to
come within about three percent of the incumbent. So even

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with Joe Biden in the thirties, in approval ratings, inflation
and energy costs just skyrocketing, the Democrat in Jersey still
won the contest. Chris Christy Krispy Kreme, Old Chlby Chris
Christie Christine Todd Whitman. Those are the only two Republican
governors in recent New Jersey history. And who are they?

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They are both adamant anti trumpers. That's the Republican Party
in New Jersey. The Republican Party in New Jersey is
distinctly an anti Trump party. It is not a middle
of the road. It's a decidedly Rhino Republican party. Now.
I know that if you're listening to me in New
Jersey and you're a Trump supporter, you're like, oh, Michel Rock, No, No,

(25:58):
I support Trump. Well, I know you do, but as
a whole, it is a decidedly anti Trump Republican party.
New Jersey is a Democrat state. It has long been
a Democrat state, and every time Republican hopes get up
in New Jersey, it's kind of like, you know, Charlie

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Brown and Lucy. In fact, there are long standing complaints
in Virginia Republican circles that the mirage of Hope in
New Jersey every four years actually costs Republican candidates and
w in Virginia because they see money from national contributors
flow out of Virginia into the New York and Philadelphia

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media markets because that's where you have to spend money
to reach voters in New Jersey. And so every year
voters are contributors. The big donors think, oh, I got
a chance, I got a chance, so they spend money
outrageously expensive money in the highest media market, most costly

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media markets in the country, New York and in Philadelphia,
trying to reach voters in New Jersey. So it just
never materializes. The story out of New Jersey is always
the same Democrats when being in a Democrats state. So yeah,
you know, pass the donuts. We shouldn't be surprised about

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either of these. That's what I really want you to
take away from this conversation. So when you hear because
obviously the cabal is thumping their chests about oh, this
is a bad sign for Trump, this is a bad
sign for Republicans, this is a bad sign for the midterms,
and even some conservative outlets are saying the same thing.

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And once again I'm swimming upstream saying to everybody, well,
it's not nearly as bad as what you think it is.
I'm just being again, I'm trying to be realistic. Now,
I do want you to know this. There are some
polling results that showed that some parts of the Trump
coalition that carried him to win in seven of those
swing states last year, guess what, Yeah, they've moved back

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into the Democrat column. In twenty twenty five, support by
minorities in this past election was down. Women voters played
a huge role in the victories in Virginia, New Jersey.
Now final results, I haven't seen him yet on vote
by gender, but all the pre election pollings showed that

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Cheryl was leading by nearly twenty percent among women voters.
So I think it's pretty much a given that no
candidate can lose by twenty percent with roughly half of
the electorate and win any race anywhere, let alone New Jersey.
The Democrat party, this is really important to note, is

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increasingly dominated by female voters. The Trump led Republican Party
actually skews towards male voters in equally huge numbers. But
there is a long historical record of women being more
reliable voters men between the ages of eighteen and thirty five.
Those are probably the least reliable voting demographic on election

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day for any party. Men eighteen to thirty five. I
don't know what's wrong with you, guys, but you're you're
wack adoodles. You show up some days, other days you don't.
You're not very reliable. So not only was Trump not
on the ballot to drive the turnout among those men
that traditionally turn out for him. I don't think he

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could have been a good surrogate in New Jersey, and
he did not endorse the candidacy of Winsom Seers, the
female in Virginia because she did not want it. So
think about that and take a deep breath. It's the
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I think about on the past week, well since last Tuesday,
I think some of the smartest things I've heard said
about the loss of support of minority voters really has
to do with pocket pocketbook issues in the economy, because
for the most part, think about who generally speaking. I
know I'm making a generalization here, but I think it's
a legitimate generalization that minority voters tend to be among

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the socioeconomic demographics that are most vulnerable to economic downturns.
It's not to say that Caucasians aren't also, or the
Asians aren't also, but just because of the sheer raw
numbers of minorities and sheer numbers of Caucasians, then I
think minority voters tend to be more affected by shifts

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in the economy than other groups. But I'm going to
emphasize something too. We're not in an economic down this
cause it was caused by the election of Donald Trump.
Let me repeat that, we are not in an economic
downturn caused by the election of Donald Trump. If you look,
you look at all of the all of the revelations

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of the past ten months. Among all of those was
the degree to which the Biden administration was cooking the
books on the economy. The Democrats and the dominated press,
the cabals, we'd like to call it in this program,
gleefully played along. The job's numbers were wildly inaccurate. They
were always being revised downward. Economic growth numbers were wildly inaccurate.

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The economy was already in a recession under Joe Biden,
and inflation was being misrepresented as lower than it actually was.
So the Federal Reserve kept interest rates up based on
those inaccurate numbers, which only makes the growing which only
makes growing the economy more difficult and its people less
patients to look at and understand, Oh, it's taking longer

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because we were lied to for four years. That's very
difficult to explain to people because it's still hurt your pocketbooks.
I get that, but my rule about but these voters
only know what their monthly income and their bills are.
They're not focused on how the Biden administration and the
Congressional Democrats nearly destroyed this economy between twenty twenty one

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and twenty twenty three. They're competing for resources, they're actually
trying to get food, housing, consumer products, and they're competing
with ten plus twenty plus whatever it is million million
illegal aliens that have been led into the country, who
have their their purchasing power, their ability to buy things
provided to them by taxpayers. So these what I would

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call illegal consumers are part of the calculation of more
people chasing fewer resources come like rental housing, and that
leads inevitably too higher costs for everything. So the Republicans
have got to address this through Congress. They've got to
do it, but the fixes need to understand the causes.

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One of the fixes is you've got to reduce the
number of people chasing to fix the matter of resources,
So reduction in the cost of energy. That's going to
take it a while to show up in the production
and the distribution of things that we buy. Higher costs
incurred last year have to be recaptured in prices this year.
But that is a cycle that inevitably reverses itself. For example,

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the ridiculous cost of labor brought on by the idiotic
policies like a twenty dollars plus minimum wage have got
to be brought in line with what consumers pay. Think
about it this way. Take just a hypothetical worker making
thirty five bucks an hour, let's say a union contract,

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when non union fast food workers were making ten dollars
an hour. What do you suppose happen to the union
hourly rage wage rate when the non union fast food
worker is suddenly making twenty two to fifty an hour
and that union factory worker is making thirty five dollars
an hour. Now that your big mac meal costs you,

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I don't know what, fifteen bucks, and it takes sixty
bucks on more de feed a family for at McDonald's,
how do you think that gets reflected in the rest
of the economy. So the hike in the minimum wage
was really about union prevailing wage rates, because a lot
of contracts with prevailing wage rates are pegged to the
minimum wage. So as the minimum wage increased under the Democrats.

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The union wage rate increased along with it. So now
you understand why you know I'm going to steakhouse tonight,
and so now I know why his stake's going to
cost me seventy five bucks in a really nice restaurant
rather than the thirty five dollars like it was, say,
ten or fifteen years ago. That's the economics that I
think most Americans that we don't understand. This is twenty

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seventeen all over again. Nothing that the Republicans, what the
Trump administration does, is ever going to get favorable media coverage.
If anything, the Biden years and the abject refusal to
be critical in any way while a cognitively impaired Dufus
was an office's president, that should tell you the degree

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to which the media is willing to be an instrument,
a stenographer, a bullhorn for the Democrat Party. When you
have relentless and I mean relentless negative coverage of Trump,
well that's going to influence the mood of the country
generally speaking. And the elections from Tuesday are a reflection

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of that. So nobody in New Jersey has been in
the Republican column and had and nobody has New Jersey
in the Republican Column in twenty twenty eight. Democrats are
likely to continue to do well in New Jersey, just
like they in twenty twenty six, just like they did
going all the way back to two thousand and Democrats

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they went in Virginia as the party out of the
White House. And that's been true in eleven of the
past twelve election cycles. Do you know what does matter
when it comes to a margin of victory in a
close race, It's the candidate that matters. Now, just let
me say this. Elections in New York City are meaningless

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in the United States. New York City is only nominally
part of the US right now. In fact, escape from
New York build a wall around it. It's a great
time for an experiment, and let's look at the shocking
results the weekend with Michael Brown. Text line three to
three one zero three always open keyword Michael, Michael, I'll

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be back.