November 1, 2024 • 10 mins
Forget the Blue Dot Congressional race, this Fischer-Osborn race could decide the balance of power in the Senate. I talk about that and more with NewsNation's Leland Vitter.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordi now welcoming onto the program someone too attractive
for radio. He is the chief Washington anchor on News Nation,
formerly a Fox News. Leland Vitter joins us here on
eleven to ten kfab Good morning, Leland.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Great to be with you. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Did you ever consider a career in radio and then
look in the mirror and just laugh, going, I can't
hide this from the people.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well, Scott, I will tell you. I started my career
the summer of twenty of two thousand. I keep saying
twenty of two thousand KMOX Radio in Saint Louis, Hey, Louis,
And that was the first campaign I ever covered. I'm
sitting here talking to you in my Jim shorts and
a sweatshirt, and it's feeling pretty good.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah. I can't believe the guy who's been voted several
times best hair in television is sitting there in jim
shorts in a sweatshirt. Did you work was McGraw Milhaven
with KMOX when you were there?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I did? I work with Charlie Brennan. I was their
intern the summer of twenty twenty, the summer two thousand
with the bushby.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Gore election, yeah, well we've come twenty four years since then.
Mcgrad by the way, as a former KFAB guy, we
like him very much. Let's look here at how the
surrogates are doing for these candidates this week, from Puerto
Rico to Biden's garbage to Mark Cuban strong intelligent woman comments.
Been a lot of focus on people who are speaking
(01:28):
on behalf of those running for president, and they're blowing it.
What do you make of the messes made this week
by the surrogates and whether or not it's having an
impact on voters.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I think Scott, it's fair to say that when you're
a Surrogan and you're the news, you somehow screwed up. Yeah,
without questions. And the problem for we'll start with for
the Democrats first is that when you play into a narrative,
(01:58):
it's a really dan jurious political move. And the narrative, rightea,
is that Democrats have scorn disdain for Trump voters and
for Trump supporters, and what Mark Cubans said about strong
and intelligent women, what Joe Biden said about garbage plays
(02:20):
into that narrative, and that's why it's so dangerous.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, there have been certainly some people trying to walk
it back on No, they don't think that half the
country is garbage. Well, I don't know how Kamala Harris,
for example, can say I want to be a president
for all the people. I don't think your garbage if
you vote for that guy over there, who is you know,
a threat to democracy and you know he is is
misogynistic and racist and takes on a lot of the
(02:47):
similarities of people like Adolf Hitler. I mean, that doesn't
exactly match up. I think that they do think that
Trump's supporters are garbage.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Absolutely. I think that's the state. They certainly think they're
the plorable Nazis who cling to their guns in religions
unquestionably and frankly, you know, Scott, I think Donald Trump
has the same problem. You know, you know, does does
Donald Trump really want to kill his chaming? Probably not?
But his comments last night about guns trained on her, Yes,
(03:19):
when put in perfect context, was he talking about whether
people would be sort of warmongers in his words or
Tuck Across? And sure, but it plays into this narrative
that Donald Trump is going to act in ways that
are un Americans, and that is a danger for him.
You know, Rule number one in politics when you're winning,
shut up. And you know, if you just think about
(03:40):
the arc of this campaign. Before Tuesday, Donald Trump was
about to have a really good day to day because
it came out that Joe Biden, thanks to AP reporting
Joe Biden's White House put pressure to inappropriately change the
transcript of what Biden said about garbage. It was. It
was a stupid political mistake. But that's that's what we're
(04:00):
talking about right now. That's not what's leading all the
shows right now to Donald Trump gave the median excuse
not to and that's the fact that's the hold my
beer nature of the last week of presidential politics.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Talking here with Leland Vidderd of News Nation, have you
had a chance to look real closely at the balance
of power in the Senate and what role Nebraska's race
between Republican incumbent deb Fisher and an independent challenger named
Dan Osborne, who, of course, Fisher says, is a Democrat
in independence clothing that could play a real big role
(04:32):
in the tipping point for the US Senate this election.
Have you had a chance to take a look at this.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I have, and I think the balance of power in
the Senate is the real, untold story just because Harris
and Trump are taking so much of the oxygen. If
Harris becomes president, the check for Republicans would be a
Republican controlled Senate, especially if they have a couple of
extra feats over the majority. And you bring up a
(04:58):
great point that the Dead Fisher race that was it
wasn't even on Republicans radar even wasn't even a political
junkies radar is now a real race. And Scott Tranner,
our head of data science, and I were just talking
about this a couple of days ago in terms of
whether or not there's gonna be you know, ticket splinters
(05:19):
who vote for Osbourne, Deat Recketts and Donald Trump. We
know Trump's gonna win Nebraska by a couple of touchdowns.
I'm not sure how the Cornhusks are doing this year,
but I figured i'd use the reference.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yes, and you use it better than Tim Wallace used
as football references.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Well, that's not hard. He did put on Twitter today
that this was the final quarter of the ball game.
I think we call it the fourth quarter for those
of us who follow sports. But anyway, I digress. I
think it's a fascinating fascinating, fascinating race, and I think
it speaks to how Americans are fed up with the
(05:58):
establishment of both parts. And Donald Trump says he's gonna
tear down the establishment, which gives him a little bit
of protection from this movement. But what we've seen in
the Prebraka, what I weren't been able to pick up on,
I think is something that is the beginning, not the
end of the political realignment we're.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Seeing, Yeah, a lot of By the way, the fact
that you haven't you don't really know how the Huskers
are doing this year shows that the Huskers are not
doing as well as we'd like them to do. But
we'll deal with that here with a Husker Buzz extra
with Sean Callahan in just a few minutes. We got
a couple more minutes with Leland Vidett. The attention paid
on Nebraska politically this year has often been about our
(06:39):
Blue dot because Nebraska and Maine apportioned their electoral College
votes differently than our forty eight other counterparts. But the
argument is is that we're doing it right here in
Nebraska or Maine, and the other states are doing it wrong.
If you looked at twenty twenty, Biden still wins, but
it's a lot lot closer. So how should the states vote?
(07:00):
Should they vote like Nebraska? Should they vote like everyone
else does?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Boy, maybe a little early in the morning for me
to dive so deep. But what I would say to
you is I think that anything that returns America, returns
sort of the power to the American people is probably
a good idea. Yes, And it's interesting. I think how
(07:29):
it would change the election if, to your point, you
had to you had to campaign for individual electoral votes
in swing states, and more importantly, whether or not the
congressional districts were actually twing congressional districts right, because in
(07:49):
so many states none of the congressional districts have any
swing to them because of Jerry Mannering. So it's a
it's a complicated question. The one thing I like about
mwsdation and being a journal is that I get to
have all of the questions and none of the answers,
which is an important which is an important role to
know and to stay true to.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
You did fine, I got to Cutch to Loise Leland,
thanks a lot for the time today. Thanks Scott from
News Nation. That is Leland Viddert here on news radio
eleven ten kfab Liz Cheney was brought up at this event.
Last night, President Trump was up on stage with Tucker
Carlson and they were doing a rally in wherever he was?
(08:29):
Where was he Arizona? And Tucker Carlson brought up the
former congressman, daughter of Dick Cheney, who's an alleged Republican
who's now a Democrat out there campaigning with Kamala Harrison
Trump Tump. Trump starts talking about Congresswoman Liz Cheney.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
But the reason she couldn't send me is that she
always wanted to go to war with people. I don't
want to go to war. She wanted to go. She
wanted to stay in Syria. I took him out. She
wanted to stay in Iraq. Took him out. I mean,
if we're up to her, we'd be in fifty different countries.
She's a radical warhawk. Let's put her with a rifle,
(09:10):
standing there with nine barrel shooting at her. Okay, let's
see how she feels about it. You know, when the
guns are trained in her face. You know, there are
all warhawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building,
saying oh, gee, will let's send let's send ten thousand
troops right into the mouth of the enemy. But she's
a stupid person. And I used to have I have
(09:33):
meetings with a lot of people, and she always wanted
to go to war with people.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I don't know. I think it's kind of funny. Liz
Cheney is sitting there going boom back to the stone Age,
but people are like, wow, So you know, the man
who's had two assassination attempts on him, was that we
need to tone down the rhetoric is now suggesting we
start pointing rifles at Liz Cheney. Well, this is where
everyone's got to look at what one of these candidates
(10:00):
or the president says and says, Well, what he meant
was what he meant was what he said. He said
that these people in Washington are all real brave about
sending other people into war when it's not them in
a war situation. Would she feel differently if she was
in that situation. Did he say it elegantly? Of course not.
(10:22):
He's Donald Trump. He doesn't do anything elegantly. But that's
that's what he said, That's what he meant, That's what
he said. That's what he meant, I think it's probably
a mistake to be spending so much time talking about
Liz Cheney. No one cares about Liz Janey
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Scott Voy's Mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven
ten KFAB
Scott Vordi now welcoming onto the program someone too attractive
for radio. He is the chief Washington anchor on News Nation,
formerly a Fox News. Leland Vitter joins us here on
eleven to ten kfab Good morning, Leland.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Great to be with you. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Did you ever consider a career in radio and then
look in the mirror and just laugh, going, I can't
hide this from the people.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well, Scott, I will tell you. I started my career
the summer of twenty of two thousand. I keep saying
twenty of two thousand KMOX Radio in Saint Louis, Hey, Louis,
And that was the first campaign I ever covered. I'm
sitting here talking to you in my Jim shorts and
a sweatshirt, and it's feeling pretty good.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah. I can't believe the guy who's been voted several
times best hair in television is sitting there in jim
shorts in a sweatshirt. Did you work was McGraw Milhaven
with KMOX when you were there?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I did? I work with Charlie Brennan. I was their
intern the summer of twenty twenty, the summer two thousand
with the bushby.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Gore election, yeah, well we've come twenty four years since then.
Mcgrad by the way, as a former KFAB guy, we
like him very much. Let's look here at how the
surrogates are doing for these candidates this week, from Puerto
Rico to Biden's garbage to Mark Cuban strong intelligent woman comments.
Been a lot of focus on people who are speaking
(01:28):
on behalf of those running for president, and they're blowing it.
What do you make of the messes made this week
by the surrogates and whether or not it's having an
impact on voters.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I think Scott, it's fair to say that when you're
a Surrogan and you're the news, you somehow screwed up. Yeah,
without questions. And the problem for we'll start with for
the Democrats first is that when you play into a narrative,
(01:58):
it's a really dan jurious political move. And the narrative, rightea,
is that Democrats have scorn disdain for Trump voters and
for Trump supporters, and what Mark Cubans said about strong
and intelligent women, what Joe Biden said about garbage plays
(02:20):
into that narrative, and that's why it's so dangerous.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, there have been certainly some people trying to walk
it back on No, they don't think that half the
country is garbage. Well, I don't know how Kamala Harris,
for example, can say I want to be a president
for all the people. I don't think your garbage if
you vote for that guy over there, who is you know,
a threat to democracy and you know he is is
misogynistic and racist and takes on a lot of the
(02:47):
similarities of people like Adolf Hitler. I mean, that doesn't
exactly match up. I think that they do think that
Trump's supporters are garbage.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Absolutely. I think that's the state. They certainly think they're
the plorable Nazis who cling to their guns in religions
unquestionably and frankly, you know, Scott, I think Donald Trump
has the same problem. You know, you know, does does
Donald Trump really want to kill his chaming? Probably not?
But his comments last night about guns trained on her, Yes,
(03:19):
when put in perfect context, was he talking about whether
people would be sort of warmongers in his words or
Tuck Across? And sure, but it plays into this narrative
that Donald Trump is going to act in ways that
are un Americans, and that is a danger for him.
You know, Rule number one in politics when you're winning,
shut up. And you know, if you just think about
(03:40):
the arc of this campaign. Before Tuesday, Donald Trump was
about to have a really good day to day because
it came out that Joe Biden, thanks to AP reporting
Joe Biden's White House put pressure to inappropriately change the
transcript of what Biden said about garbage. It was. It
was a stupid political mistake. But that's that's what we're
(04:00):
talking about right now. That's not what's leading all the
shows right now to Donald Trump gave the median excuse
not to and that's the fact that's the hold my
beer nature of the last week of presidential politics.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Talking here with Leland Vidderd of News Nation, have you
had a chance to look real closely at the balance
of power in the Senate and what role Nebraska's race
between Republican incumbent deb Fisher and an independent challenger named
Dan Osborne, who, of course, Fisher says, is a Democrat
in independence clothing that could play a real big role
(04:32):
in the tipping point for the US Senate this election.
Have you had a chance to take a look at this.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I have, and I think the balance of power in
the Senate is the real, untold story just because Harris
and Trump are taking so much of the oxygen. If
Harris becomes president, the check for Republicans would be a
Republican controlled Senate, especially if they have a couple of
extra feats over the majority. And you bring up a
(04:58):
great point that the Dead Fisher race that was it
wasn't even on Republicans radar even wasn't even a political
junkies radar is now a real race. And Scott Tranner,
our head of data science, and I were just talking
about this a couple of days ago in terms of
whether or not there's gonna be you know, ticket splinters
(05:19):
who vote for Osbourne, Deat Recketts and Donald Trump. We
know Trump's gonna win Nebraska by a couple of touchdowns.
I'm not sure how the Cornhusks are doing this year,
but I figured i'd use the reference.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yes, and you use it better than Tim Wallace used
as football references.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Well, that's not hard. He did put on Twitter today
that this was the final quarter of the ball game.
I think we call it the fourth quarter for those
of us who follow sports. But anyway, I digress. I
think it's a fascinating fascinating, fascinating race, and I think
it speaks to how Americans are fed up with the
(05:58):
establishment of both parts. And Donald Trump says he's gonna
tear down the establishment, which gives him a little bit
of protection from this movement. But what we've seen in
the Prebraka, what I weren't been able to pick up on,
I think is something that is the beginning, not the
end of the political realignment we're.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Seeing, Yeah, a lot of By the way, the fact
that you haven't you don't really know how the Huskers
are doing this year shows that the Huskers are not
doing as well as we'd like them to do. But
we'll deal with that here with a Husker Buzz extra
with Sean Callahan in just a few minutes. We got
a couple more minutes with Leland Vidett. The attention paid
on Nebraska politically this year has often been about our
(06:39):
Blue dot because Nebraska and Maine apportioned their electoral College
votes differently than our forty eight other counterparts. But the
argument is is that we're doing it right here in
Nebraska or Maine, and the other states are doing it wrong.
If you looked at twenty twenty, Biden still wins, but
it's a lot lot closer. So how should the states vote?
(07:00):
Should they vote like Nebraska? Should they vote like everyone
else does?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Boy, maybe a little early in the morning for me
to dive so deep. But what I would say to
you is I think that anything that returns America, returns
sort of the power to the American people is probably
a good idea. Yes, And it's interesting. I think how
(07:29):
it would change the election if, to your point, you
had to you had to campaign for individual electoral votes
in swing states, and more importantly, whether or not the
congressional districts were actually twing congressional districts right, because in
(07:49):
so many states none of the congressional districts have any
swing to them because of Jerry Mannering. So it's a
it's a complicated question. The one thing I like about
mwsdation and being a journal is that I get to
have all of the questions and none of the answers,
which is an important which is an important role to
know and to stay true to.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
You did fine, I got to Cutch to Loise Leland,
thanks a lot for the time today. Thanks Scott from
News Nation. That is Leland Viddert here on news radio
eleven ten kfab Liz Cheney was brought up at this event.
Last night, President Trump was up on stage with Tucker
Carlson and they were doing a rally in wherever he was?
(08:29):
Where was he Arizona? And Tucker Carlson brought up the
former congressman, daughter of Dick Cheney, who's an alleged Republican
who's now a Democrat out there campaigning with Kamala Harrison
Trump Tump. Trump starts talking about Congresswoman Liz Cheney.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
But the reason she couldn't send me is that she
always wanted to go to war with people. I don't
want to go to war. She wanted to go. She
wanted to stay in Syria. I took him out. She
wanted to stay in Iraq. Took him out. I mean,
if we're up to her, we'd be in fifty different countries.
She's a radical warhawk. Let's put her with a rifle,
(09:10):
standing there with nine barrel shooting at her. Okay, let's
see how she feels about it. You know, when the
guns are trained in her face. You know, there are
all warhawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building,
saying oh, gee, will let's send let's send ten thousand
troops right into the mouth of the enemy. But she's
a stupid person. And I used to have I have
(09:33):
meetings with a lot of people, and she always wanted
to go to war with people.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I don't know. I think it's kind of funny. Liz
Cheney is sitting there going boom back to the stone Age,
but people are like, wow, So you know, the man
who's had two assassination attempts on him, was that we
need to tone down the rhetoric is now suggesting we
start pointing rifles at Liz Cheney. Well, this is where
everyone's got to look at what one of these candidates
(10:00):
or the president says and says, Well, what he meant
was what he meant was what he said. He said
that these people in Washington are all real brave about
sending other people into war when it's not them in
a war situation. Would she feel differently if she was
in that situation. Did he say it elegantly? Of course not.
(10:22):
He's Donald Trump. He doesn't do anything elegantly. But that's
that's what he said, That's what he meant, That's what
he said. That's what he meant, I think it's probably
a mistake to be spending so much time talking about
Liz Cheney. No one cares about Liz Janey
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Scott Voy's Mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven
ten KFAB
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