11-06-24 YMS HR2

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Welcome to the Morning After. Wednesday, November sixth, twenty twenty four.
America has spoken and the forty fifth President of the
United States is now the forty seventh President elect of
the United States.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Right.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
I want to thank you all very much. This is great.
These are our friends. We have thousands of friends on
this That sounds incredible.

Speaker 5 (01:06):
Movement.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
This was a movement like nobody's ever seen before.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
He had a very special thanks for our FK Junior.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
I think you better add Elon, I think you better
add Joe Rogan.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
But yeah, he had his special thanks for RFK.

Speaker 6 (01:22):
He's going to healthy, make America healthy again.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
All right, it's behind us the election in the end,
a couple of significant points. Donald Trump appears as though
he will easily win the popular vote. Not even I
saw that coming. He's up five million, so he'll win
the popular vote. We talked about close races in some
of these swing states, but it wouldn't be a close result.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
That's the case.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
The first turtle we looked at was North Carolina and Georgia,
both secured by Donald Trump. Then we moved on to
the Blue Wall and he took Pennsylvania. We felt very strongly,
if he took Pennsylvania, you would take Michigan. They haven't
called Michigan yet, but it's going to fall. Wisconsin that
I felt the strongest about, and it was all he
really needed to win has been called. And Arizona looks spectacular,

(02:18):
but there's only sixty percent of the vote and so
they're not going to call that Nevada. For the life
of me, I got to tell you, I think the
only reason they're not calling it is they're waiting for
more people to wake up and make television out of it.
In the end, Donald Trump is going to probably end
up with three hundred and twelve electoral College votes a
five million popular vote victory. As for the Senate, it's
going to be at least three, more likely four. The

(02:39):
two that we knew and felt confident about happened. Sheihi
and Montana Justice in West Virginia, David Sanati about to
join us from the American Policy Roundtable, and I voters
shock waves with the Marino victory over Brown, and I
got news for you. It's just a matter of time.
But Casey is going to fall. The House looks really

(02:59):
good for the Republicans. I caution everybody on one thing.
John Podesta is not hopeless waking up this morning, and
Noras George Soros and Norris Barack Obama. I'm one of
the only people in the country who have said this,
and I'll never be able to prove it, and I'll
stand by it to my deathbed. They did not want
Kamala Harris to win, so enjoy the victory, hold them accountable,

(03:22):
to do everything they promised to do, and then brace
yourself because in four years they got a candidate. It's
going to make you think Barack Obama was an opening act.
There's still a future for the Democrats, but they've got
a lot to fix. When we start looking at and
anybody can make fun of the des moin Pole, I
think it is probably one of the big losers. But

(03:43):
in the end, the lawfare certainly didn't work. The bait
and switch and allowing them and not allowing their voters
to have a say certainly backfired. Choosing knucklehead over Shapiro
will be greatly second guest. They couldn't sell the boogeyman.
Abortion wasn't enough to save the day. In fact, it
even fell in Florida. We can talk more about that

(04:03):
with David. Hiding in plain sight didn't work and avoiding
where people are now, which is not network television. It's
Joe Rogan, it's Megan Kelly, it's Tucker Carlson. Proved to
be all too much. David, You're gonna love these statistics.
As for voting turnout, it's going to be lower. In fact,

(04:24):
Donald Trump is not going to miss his number by
much from twenty twenty, but Kamala Harris will underperform by
fifteen million votes. Joe Biden, I could just say goodnight,
try the veal I'll see in the morning. On that note,
there's no question from lawfair to bait and switch, to

(04:45):
hiding in plain sight to choosing knucklehead.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
This is a significant loss. All right. Your initial reactions.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Well, good morning, Michael, and I guess we really have
been saying good morning for the last seven hours because
there wasn't really an evening last night. It was difficult
to stop watching because it's hard to sleep while history
is happening. Yeah, and there's no question of what we
saw was a genuine historic moment in the way that

(05:17):
the president presidency works. It will take I'm guessing an
honest month to process all the data that comes out
of this, longer than that, really, but to be able
to get to where you've got some solid ground right now,
I think the key points are the questions. You'll notice
that the reason that the polls are unreliable is because

(05:39):
they don't have a button that says project this on
a nineteen million voter decline in participation they don't have
that number.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
But you get low turnout like that when you have
lack of energy. So they were playing nobody felt good
about Kanla Harris. You were playing boogeyman. All they had
was the anti Trump vote and it wasn't an But if.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
I understand it, donald Trump was five million below his
twenty twenty four number as well twenty two, sorry, twenty
twenty numbers.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Well, so that's significant.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Now, yeah, but there's going to be there's some there's
some outstanding vote. He's gonna come up about three million
short though.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Okay, so it's but it's still less, and that's significant.
Three million is less when you look at the number
that Donald Trump lost the election in twenty twenty one.
That number is a total combined in three states of
thirty thousand votes.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
That's how close that race was.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
And so to see Trump decline three million says there
was a number of questions. Now, one question has not
been raised yet is we've talked about was this sixteen?
Was this twenty one? Now we know it's twenty four,
and it's not like either of the other two.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's closer to sixteen, but yeah, it's different.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
But what we don't know is is this what happens
when voting turnout moves from mail in and free ballots
out there to all those people, Well.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
You're real show up. Yeah, you're you're being kind. I'm
going to say it a little more raw. There are
going to be a lot of people and I hope not,
but there's going to be a lot of people are
going to look at this and see this as validation.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
They cheated in twenty twenty.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Now they will tell you in Time magazine they cheated,
far and square. It was a shadow campaign and they
had to do it to save democracy. But yeah, they're
going to point to that being the big difference. So
I mean, and I'm not saying that that's a conclusion.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
I'm saying it's a question that genuinely has to be
vetted and it's got to be investigated and from a
forensic possession on position on these votes and in these
neighborhoods and precincts and other things. Was I mean, look,
there's no Stacy Abrams in Georgia this time around. So
that's the key is that it climbed up the way
that we anticipated.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, everything went like rite to script. There were no
real surprises I thought, well, I knew Marino had a shot.
But do you want to put in a perspective how
big that defeat is?

Speaker 3 (07:59):
If well, it's huge because Sharon Brown has been in
public office in the state about how for fifty years,
I mean, since he was very young, and and and
so for a Brown to get bounced out in Ohio,
other than to tagging him, it's very difficult to do.
So the fact that Marino did it, he did it
clearly on Trump's coattails.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
There's no question whatsoever that that happen.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
I think the same can be said for McCormick because
Casey's going to fall, and that's going to clearly be
a well.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Casey is every bit as big as you've noted. Casey's
dad was a was a stalwart. Casey's dad was one of.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
The last Massachusetts It really is both of them really.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
To some degree.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
But the Casey's dad was a conservative Democrat, pro life
guy who came out of there. I mean, these folks
have been in Pennsylvania a long long time. For Casey
to lose is extraordinary.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
I do want to throw out one thing. Those are
big losses because it's a big question. I think the
biggest question mark is what's the future. Is this a
Donald Trump phenomenon or Republican victory? And I'll put that
caution out there for great question. What Donald Trump did
is extraordinary and I don't know anybody else that can
pull that off. The rally, not just the rallies, not

(09:15):
just turning your head at the right time to avoid
being assassinated. Can you imagine if we could go back
in history and just tell JFK hey look down real quick,
so a bullet misses. But no, when you think of
the lawfair, this will take your breath away. He's tied
up in court in three states, gets bogged down for

(09:36):
an entire primary with a gag order, and they get
the convictions all while he's tied up in court, not
even campaigning. He wins a primary against a really formidable
governor and some really formidable senators. He never debates in
a single Republican primary debate. He can't even campaign, and

(09:58):
their lawfair fails. He gets the nomination. By the way
I think he you know you could I might have
gone well, no, I know I would have. I'd have
gone Marco Rubio. He seemingly made a really good choice
in jd Vance, and you may have an Ohio Senate
seat to thank for that, among other things. A terrible

(10:21):
debate performance, a debate performance that could have been a
real problem, but he overcame that and then he seized
every moment he had tireless energy. This is really a
Donald Trump victory. A good luck doing that in four
years when you don't have Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
I don't know. I don't see any evidence. Four years
will be a very different picture.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
And because this is the last turn of the Trump presidency,
it will be largely What happened in this period of
time will be largely irrelevant because the slate will be
completely erased and clean, and you'll have an open.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
Seat for the election.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
There's so many things we're going to discover about what
happened yesterday.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
If you're John Pedestin, you're Barack Obama, you're George Soros,
you don't care at all about Kamala losing. You're gonna
check me on that and say, oh, they care, but
not as much. They're gonna they don't care about losing
the Senate, they care about losing the House. I think
their plan was, if we win the House, we block everything.
We recavoc and we come and we beat them with

(11:25):
more in Shapiro in four years. Uh, the House is
probably bothering them the most this morning. But you, I
would assume you're going to disagree with me.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
No, No, I think that if very few presidents have
the opportunity to walk into office with the trifecta with
the House, the Senate, and the White House.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
So that's a very difficult thing to attain.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
And if it's attained, for it two years, and it
won't be more than two years, because if that is
what happens, then most likely the House will go back
to the Democrats in two years, because that's the predictable
reality of how.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Americans try to protect themselves.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Now, if they maintain that balance for four years, there's
a whole lot of people on the progressive left that
are going to be very, very nervous.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
And if they add to that majority, that's a big deal.
This is Your Morning Show with Michael Del Trono.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Donald Trump, the forty fifth President of the United States,
is the forty seventh president elect of the United States.
It appears as though he's not only going to win
the popular vote, but Donald Trump is going to come
in somewhere around three hundred and six or three hundred
and twelve electoral votes. He is overwhelmingly going to be
elected president of the United States. It looks like the
Republicans are going to be up three or four, and

(12:32):
that doesn't even count advance. They will control the club
of one hundred the United States Senate, the House. The
magic number is eleven. The Republicans have one hundred and
ninety seven seats secured, the Democrats one hundred and seventy seven.
They trail by twenty and with eleven more, Republicans will
ensure they control all three chambers, the Administrative and the

(12:54):
House and the Senate. David, let's turn our attention to abortion.
You have often you wrote the fact book on abortion,
but you've been following this. We had the off off
election that was really the pro life and Republicans dropping
to Paul in Ohio. But we've never seen abortion on
the ballot in a presidential election cycle until last night.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Now we have your takeaways. Well, it is important.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
It's the first presidential after Dobbs and the Just like
we asked the question earlier, what's the gross vote count
compared to other years? And we're already now discovering it's
nineteen million less, so you don't have apples and apples.
You've got another question on abortion ballot measures, they've never
been run through to the ballot on a major presidential election.

(13:45):
Here it was certainly one of this size. So the
question becomes is it an effective wedge issue? Is an
effective wedge issue across the country? Is it an effective
wedge issue only in some states, like for example, New
York's been working on their ballot issue in regards to
the civil rights question in human sexuality because it's abortions
including in this amendment. But it is a massive amendment

(14:06):
that goes beyond that that's been going on for two
or three years. So coming into this process, it's a
very different situation than in Florida, where a measure was
rushed to the ballots. In this situation, so it's it
depends on how the issues got there. The point is
Florida was able to defeat it. One or two other

(14:28):
states did as well. I think four states right now
as it stands, have passed their abortion measures.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
In Florida.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
The Hispanic vote will be talked about will people connect
the dots? Hispanic people are very Catholic and very family.
That's a tough sell. There's a lot of older people
living in Florida. It's a tough cell. But in the end,
the one to two punch, I mean, care to share
with them, would have come at about one hundred and
twelve million to ten million dollars spent on this that

(15:01):
it was huge, one hundred million dollar failure.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, one hundred.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Now people will quickly discern that Florida has a sixty
percent supermajority. So I think the last number I checked
was fifty seven percent of the voters approved the measure,
and of course that brought the abortion supporters to tears
talking about how unfair of the process was that it
requires a sixty percent supermajority. Well, they may feel that way,

(15:25):
but there's a flip side to that coin as well.
How bad would it have been at a state like Florida?
What would have said a state like Florida that was passing,
that was voting for Donald Trump at the levels of
the Enrich Scott and so many other things led by
such a conservative governor As to Santus, what would Florida
what have said about Florida sixty one percent of the

(15:46):
people said yes to a very loose knit, dangerous.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Abortion proposal for their constitution.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
So it's a very difficult scenario of Florida because of
the tixty percent super majority. Without a doubt, a pro
life side had the advantage. Getting beat one hundred million
to ten kind of takes that advantage away. I'm Joe
Big in Tampa and my morning show is Your Morning

(16:16):
Show with Michael del Jono.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
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Speaker 4 (16:46):
In the end, Harris underperforms Biden by fifteen million nationally.
I for the life of me, I would have called Nevada.
I think they might be waiting for everybody to wake
up and make some good television out of it, or
it would have been called by now. I think I
get why they haven't called Arizona yet. Wisconsin and pennsylvania've
been called for Trump Michigan has not been called yet.

(17:07):
Roory O'Neil is here. Why we're just going through some
of the results, and Rory's already here with the big
names for twenty twenty eight. Yes, let the next campaign begin.
Good morning, Rory, Hey, good morning.

Speaker 7 (17:17):
Hey. Look, Donald Trump's only got about two years before
the campaign for his replacement really starts, right, so it's
a pretty short window of course.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
On the GOP side.

Speaker 7 (17:26):
Now, jd Vance would certainly get the edge as the
sitting vice president. Perhaps he'll be the next one to
get the GOP nomination. But look, there's Ron DeSantis, Glenn Youngkin,
Sarah Huckabee, Sanders, Christy Noam, it's a long list. A Lambert,
Mark You, Rubio, Tulsey Gabbert, Tim Scott, Ted Cruz. Yeah,

(17:46):
and we'll see which members of the who I just
listed are perhaps become members of the Trump administration again.

Speaker 4 (17:53):
So clearly yeah, jd Vance And depending on how they
govern two as well, and how it's positioned, Jade Vance
should be in the dra A seat.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
So there's two ways to look at this.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
Names in general, and then if it is jd Vance's
running mates, I think I put Marco on the top
of the list, but I think Telsea probably second and
Desanti's third. But as David Zanatti would be often quoted saying,
let's see where the millionaires go, because they may go
the DeSantis way.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
So it's going to be interesting. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (18:24):
No.

Speaker 7 (18:25):
And then on the Democratics, I had a lot of
governors Michigan's Gretchen Whitmer, Maryland's Wes Moore, Pennsylvania's Josh Shapiro,
California's Gavin Newsom, Illinois's JB. Pritzker, and let's throw in
the Transportation Secretary Pete for good measure.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
Out of all those names, to me, this one's the
easiest to predict, I think, and I'm not sure which
they'll put on top. I think it's gonna be Wesso. No,
I think I think wes Moore. I think Wes Moore.
I think Wes Moore Shapiro ticket is very formidable, very winnable.

(19:02):
So I think that one's kind of before your conclusion.
And then the question is will it be more open
for the Republicans or will JD secure it? And we
start looking at who does he run with? Marco Rubio, Telsea,
Gabbert or Ron DeSantis.

Speaker 7 (19:14):
I don't think. I don't think Senator Rubio is going
to be a number two. I got him at two.
We'll see, you know, I'm open.

Speaker 4 (19:21):
We'll see. But there's a lot of time to expire.
But as you mentioned, not that much, because they'll beget
in this conversation rather quickly. Unfortunately, anything surprised you last night, well.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Just the speed.

Speaker 7 (19:35):
I thought everything went pretty well and no real surprises.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
I think when the vote totals came in.

Speaker 7 (19:40):
Now, yes, the fact that Latino, especially Latino then went
strong for Donald Trump, and the very narrow margins of
victory Democrats had in places like Illinois, New Jersey, New York. Yeah,
all pretty weak, and the margin of victory in some states.
In the end, though Rory, she will underperform Joe Biden

(20:00):
by about fifteen million, that's three quarters of what drove
a lower turnout than twenty twenty, and then maybe three
to five million might go the Trump way. In the end,
we're gonna have about nineteen million less voters this time around,
but it will be known as the early vote election too, right,
But it was not a big netsum. It was a
net sum game, all right. We're he's gonna be back

(20:21):
next hour.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
We're gonna talk a little bit about the latest presidential results.
And I think we know who's going to control the
White House. We know he's going to control the Senate.
We don't know who's going to control the House yet,
although things look a little bit more favorable than I expected.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
More with worry next.

Speaker 4 (20:36):
Hour, David, just in general, the notion that Kamala has
yet it appears clearly she's not going to be the
next president of the United States. Why is she not
conceded yet? Those are really good questions. And you know, Michael,
I think I failed to get something out.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
I don't know how long I have a chance to
talk today, but you know, I think it has to
be said out loud by some You're being very guarded today,
and I admire that. But you remind me of something
a coach used to tell me. When you win, say little,
When you lose, say less. And I can tell how
guarded you are in the responsibility of your comments. So

(21:15):
I'm supposed to be the guarded one because I'm the independent,
the public policy guy from a think tank and a
research organization and a media organization. But there's no way
to get past this. Donald Trump kicked their butts last night. Okay,
you can't get past that. The numbers weren't small. The

(21:35):
numbers were really big, and that's shut.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Shocking.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
I mean, when he lost last time around, he lost
by thirty thousand votes in three states. That's a tiny
set of margins. He came back and roared and in
this situation, and I think that while there might be
holes in the bucket questions like hmm, that makes me
wonder about all those mail in ballots back in twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
I'm not saying they were illegal.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
I'm just saying, you take that strange mechanism out of
the game, and what does that do to voting? Those
are fair technical, tactical questions. But the bottom line was
people wanted him to win. I mean, he's winning my
margins of one hundred thousand, two hundred thousand votes.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Well, that's why.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
I mean, if we're going to do the laundry list
the way they attacked him, we talked about death of
journalism going into now decomposition and it's starting to stink
and look, really nobody really wants to watch it.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Rod.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
But the lawfair too far, the wokeness too far. The
bait and switch with Joe because A, you can't have
it both ways. One you hit him and how long
did you hit him? They didn't want to respond. How
long did you know? They didn't want to respond. How
are you going to be different? They didn't want to respond.
I mean she's a former attorney general. I mean for
two months he's bragging him. I have prosecuted gangs, and

(22:58):
yet she wouldn't comment on a opposition vote in California
for law enforcement. The boogeyman was just too over the top,
especially with Oprah. If he wins, we will never get
to vote again. I mean, they just went too far.
Where As our Italian grandmothers say too much, too much.
All they had was abortion and in the end it
wasn't enough. America has a much more sensible view. That

(23:20):
whole scare tactic didn't work. The hiding her and plain
sight didn't work. The bait and switch without asking voters
didn't work. What Donald Trump overcame from lawfair to the
media to everything else is extraordinary. But to quote the Beatles,
in the end he got by with a little help
from his friends. They didn't have Twitter this time. It's

(23:42):
x and owned by Elon Musk, he proved to be
a real key ally. Rfk Junior was not a spoiler vote.
He was a real key ally. Telsey Gabbard was a
real key ally. In the end, Joe Rogan and Elon
Musk at game balls. There's a lot to learn from
this pread. Yeah, he kicked butt. He was outnumbered. It's extraordinary.

(24:06):
It's kind of like if you walk up on a
buddy that's getting, you know, fighting five guys at once,
and he's hanging on. But then his friends arrived and
pardon my French, I know it's at my commandment that
a butt whoopen ensued.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
You could not have said it any better.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
So I agree with you that once Sorrows and Podesta
saw what they had gotten themselves into, they started on
to Plan B relatively quickly.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
So I think they knew they were going to lose.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
I don't think they wanted to lose this bad nor
this way. Because what happened was these were conversion moments
for people and for voting blocks and for leaders of industry.
People said, you know what, we're done with patronizing these folks.
We're done with It's time for the grown ups to show.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Up and they did.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
Yeah, and I would say it would be a twelve
to two potentially. I mean, think about that. Because Donald
Trump's four years, then you could have eight years of vance.
Let's say eight years whoever he chooses after that. I mean,
that's an extraordinary amount of time. You're looking at a
twenty year run here, and it's going to be hard
for them to sell change, especially if they follow through

(25:11):
and everything works the way it will work unless you
have a real game changer, and unfortunately only makes me nervous,
as Wes Moore is a game changer.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
Sure, so you asked me the original question, and I'm
sorry I ducked and went my own way, and I
apologize why it took her so long or why she
hasn't still hasn't. Yeah, well here's the other question, you know,
think about this one. We got a minute to develop
this before breaking again. Think about the Associated Press has
held the role of being the news organization that announces

(25:40):
the winner for decades.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
They went to bed last night, they were dead silent.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
They only announced that Trump had won I think a
six oh nine Central time this morning.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
I don't know that that's true because I went to
AP and they had him you know he had they
had him.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
I know they had him winning at.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Well, but they Okay, I was watching it pretty closely.
But they have always been the organization that had the
first announcement that they were the lead dog until they
said it wasn't there.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
They seated that ground of Fox last night, everybody.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
And NBC and CNN wasn't far behind. They kind of
all felt, I mean, she could have. All I can
think of is they're choosing to do it in the morning.
I don't think it's a Shenanigan. But you know, now
it's time for them to live their words too, because
will they accept defeat and will they unite America an
the acceptance of this?

Speaker 3 (26:36):
Look at the hypocrisy of that, right, the ones who
are condemning the other side for insurrection.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
I can see, Well, they lost and they all went
to bed. We'll talk about it in the mornings. Yeah,
and you know what their biggest problem is, It's morning.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
From Phoenix to Tampa with Nashville Akron and you in between,
it's your morning show with Michael del Chuno.

Speaker 4 (26:59):
Emails have been holing in at Michael d at iHeartMedia
dot Com. I haven't been very good about sharing emails,
Vincent said, so grateful. It was a pleasure going through
my first election cycle as a listener.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Well, I hope, I mean, we did the best.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
I try to be objective throughout and keep your eye
on the real ball. In the end, Donald Trump is
going to win the popular vote and an overwhelming victory
in the electoral college. I said it would be uh
three oh six or three twelve with Nevada, three twelve,
three oh six without Nevada. That's exactly where he's headed.
Some of these are getting insulting. Pennsylvania, and of course
Wisconsin had been called Michigan. Ninety nine percent of the

(27:35):
vote is, ninety seven percent of the vote is in,
and Donald Trump is up by roughly one hundred thousand.
You could ask why that hasn't been called Arizona. There's
right now sixty three percent of the vote, and I
get that. But for Nevada, eighty eight percent of the
vote is in and Donald Trump is up by fifty
nine thousand. Makes you wonder if they're waiting till the morning.

(27:58):
But in the end, Donald Trump is going to win
the popular vote by five million.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
He's going to win the electoral college.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
I believe easily by over three one hundred electoral votes,
and it looks like the Senate is going to.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Be three or four.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
Some shocking results, the Marino being the biggest in Ohio,
I think cases yet to fall. Not shocking was Justice
in West Virginia and she he Overtester in Montana. And
then don't forget the tiebreaker the House, the magic number
is at eleven. Republicans lead by twenty. They need to
oh eight. And John Decker, a White House correspondent, has
a new subject and it's an old subject. Forty five

(28:31):
is forty seven?

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Elect Good morning, John.

Speaker 4 (28:34):
Any other surprises of note as you looked over the
horizon of last night.

Speaker 6 (28:40):
Well, I think the margin that Donald Trump won you
just talked about it in the popular vote, not that
that wins you the White House. But that's pretty remarkable,
quite a turnaround from what happened four years ago, bettered
his performance from twenty sixteen minutes.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
Well, it looks like in.

Speaker 6 (28:57):
The electoral college, and he goes into the White House
in January.

Speaker 5 (29:01):
Of next year with the control.

Speaker 6 (29:05):
Of the US Senate, which means he can name anybody
that he wants to his cabinet, and he is almost
certain to get Senate confirmation for that individual.

Speaker 4 (29:14):
House too close to call. But my concern and my
prediction was just to show you where I was wrong.
I thought he would narrowly lose the popular vote. He's
going to win it by millions. I didn't anticipate her
to underperform. And this is where it's pretty much solidly headed.
She is going to underperform Joe Biden by fifteen million,
and he's going to underperform himself Donald Trump by about

(29:38):
three million. I think when it's all said and done,
so we're looking at eighteen million less voters.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
I don't know what that tells you about.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
Look, the Republicans were very smart not to gripe, but
engage in mail in voting, not gripe, but engage and
battle and compete in early voting. They didn't start with
a huge deficit, and they kept the pressure up on
the get out to vote. So all three phases of
the ground game they really performed very well and it
panned out. But in the am, we're gonna have less votes.
Why has Kamala Harris not conceded yet?

Speaker 1 (30:05):
You think I don't know?

Speaker 6 (30:08):
You know I was there last night. You know we
spoke about it. I was at Howard University. It's difficult,
obviously for anybody to concede an election, particularly a presidential election.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
I've been there for that.

Speaker 5 (30:19):
It is tough.

Speaker 6 (30:21):
Having said that, it's a great opportunity, you know, to
be a part of history and make a speech that's memorable,
like John McCain did in two thousand and eight. He
did that on election night.

Speaker 5 (30:32):
So she will make a speech today.

Speaker 6 (30:34):
It will be at Howard once again. It just will
not have the same feel as it would if she
made it last night. And you know, maybe she was
just waiting for all of those states outstanding their votes
to be counted. But I think the writing was on
the wall last night for her to do that kind
of speech.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
I said, you know, as Pennsylvania goes, Michigan will follow
in Pennsylvania, and Michigan followed Wisconsin. I always felt the
best about of the of the Wall states. In the end,
as in twenty sixteen, he will sweep Pennsylvania, Michigan, in Wisconsin.
I think Arizona is more than safe. And I think
he's gonna get in a bad at too. So I'm

(31:13):
going to hit my number of three twelve. You had
said in your defense that it's going to be a
very close race and a not close outcome, meaning whether
it was Harris or whether it was Trump, it'd be
a big electoral college number in the end.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
I win.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
I'm not gloating, But what are we going to do?
Do I have to come to Washington? Why can't you
come here? We go to a Preds game, get to
know each other. I want to collect my bet. But
I've been to Washington, I've been to the White House.

Speaker 5 (31:41):
Well, listen, I think I think.

Speaker 6 (31:43):
This is just me putting myself in your shoes.

Speaker 5 (31:45):
I think your listeners this is.

Speaker 6 (31:47):
Just an idea of putting your head. I think your
listeners would love to hear about your experience attending a
White House press briefing and at Trump White House.

Speaker 5 (31:55):
Maybe it would be a day in which easy even
all leaving.

Speaker 6 (31:58):
The White House. That's a really strung on Marine one.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
You can't sneak me on I mean, I'll even go
in baggage. You can't sneak me on Air Force one?
What about you gotta have that?

Speaker 6 (32:09):
Not even a tour, a tour of Air Force one? TI,
I can't even get that.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
Come on, that's do you know what that's the one
place I want to go. I want to see Air
Force one. All Right, you sold me. I'm coming to
visit you. And can we go to Georgetown maybe have
some chili.

Speaker 5 (32:23):
Absolutely, we can do whatever you want. You come to
dc UH and I'll throw out the red carpet for you.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Absolutely, we're all in this together. This is your Morning
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