38 posts from Wednesday, January 17, 2024

All right, and now I have to say this is a perfect follow-on given Vivek's endorsement. This is my advice to the last three, and that's the focus of tonight's angle. All right, after what we witnessed in Iowa last night, it's time for everyone to start living in the real world. Now, Donald Trump won the caucuses by historic margins. Sorry, Joe Scarborough. Now, despite being far outspent in advertising, despite the media onslaught against him, despite being indicted four times and having to split time between courtrooms and the campaign trail, he did it. And at 77 years old, he's the energizer candidate. So last night, after giving his victory speech, he left Des Moines around 11 p.m. Central Time. He flew back to New York and then was in court again today. And then he flew to New Hampshire to do the event that you just saw. Now, look, unless something unthinkable happens, Donald Trump is going to be the nominee of the Republican Party. And the party is more unified now, but behind him and his policies, than at any time since the Reagan years or maybe, maybe right after 9/11. Now, this is not spin, it's the truth. If beating Joe Biden is really their goal, then it's time for some serious soul-searching by Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis. Now, let's start with DeSantis. He outperformed last night. He beat Nikki Haley's war chest, so he has a lot to be proud of. As a candidate on the trail, he worked his butt off. And people forget how young he is. So with what, three more years as Florida's governor? He can build an even greater track record of success in that very important state. So a future in the Republican Party for him could be really bright. But he's simply not going to be president this time around. I know it's hard to hear. He worked really hard for it. It's not happening. Trump is simply too powerful and is endured too much. Voters aren't going to turn their backs on him at this point. And every day that Ron DeSantis stays on the campaign trail criticizing Trump is a day that hurts Ron DeSantis's political future. He doesn't gain anything from it, that's for sure. And Trump, he's not hurt by it at all. So it's time to step aside and endorse Trump. Waiting for South Carolina, it's a colossal waste of time. It's a waste of money. And frankly, it's a waste of your future political capital. And as for Nikki Haley, well, my advice is this. Stop listening to your high price campaign consultants who are telling you what they think you want to hear. Now I know these people, and I'm telling you, they fly around on their private planes, on the money that they make from these candidates, and they tell their clients to repeat silly lines when she said this one, it was a silly line. I can safely say tonight, Iowa made this Republican primary a two person race. Now the numbers showed Haley getting about 19% of the caucus votes. But what I wanted to say last night when I was on with Brett and Martha, and I've forgotten the excitement of the moment, was the real percentage of Republican support she received is even lower. Because at the three precinct caucuses that I attended, Democrats turned out in huge numbers to support her. One of the caucus temporary chairs told me that it was about a half of the people in the caucuses where I was were actually Democrats. So these people hate Trump, they want to stop him by any means necessary. And they know that Nikki Haley, to them at least, is the most similar to Biden in the Republican field on issues from DEI to trade and the border. Let's keep in mind these people that are wanting to come here, they want to come for a better life too. They have kids too. They have a heart too. Now I'm not sure why Nikki Haley thought that getting endorsements from people like Chris Sinuunu or Larry Hogan was going to help. Both are never Trumpers, and neither are respected by grassroots Republicans, period, end of story. So if she wants a future in the Republican Party, Haley needs to tune out the never Trumpers, not embrace them. And then she needs to go to her donors, and this will be a toughie, and say to them this, "Look, the party has moved on. It's not 2003 anymore, and we have to move on with it." The only alternative, for her at least, is to simply retreat from politics altogether. Because long after Trump retires, this is going to remain a conservative populist party. We're not going back. Look at the voter analysis survey that Fox did before the caucuses. It was amazing. Immigration remains the top issue, even here in Iowa. And on Ukraine, only 42 percent thought we should keep funding the war effort there. On foreign policy, and general respondents were leaning far more toward the MAGA agenda than the old guard interventionist agenda. That was clear. So every day Nikki Haley spends on the campaign trail beating the old establishment horse or criticizing Trump, she's just further destroying her chances of being an influential voice in Republican politics in the future. So if she dropped out today, if she came to terms with the fact that GOP is a populist party, if she started vigorously campaigning for Trump, she could perhaps rebuild some of the trust that she's lost among the GOP base. I'm not saying this is going to be easy. Maybe it won't even be possible, and it would take time. Could maybe take years, but it's the only way. Now if all she wants to do for her future is to be invited to sit on corporate boards or be a panelist at Davos every year, she can go the Liz Cheney, Adam Kinziger route. Both are useful idiots for the left, and they're hated by the right. Again, nothing personal, but Haley is going to be humiliated in her home state of South Carolina. Best to avoid that. Just ask Jeb Bush. And finally, for President Trump, my advice is simple. You've run a very smart campaign, you never back down. But now the focus should almost exclusively shift to the general election. To beat Biden, you're going to need 270 electoral votes. So I think a strategy of no state left behind should be your sole focus now. The numbers coming out of Georgia today were stunning. Very encouraging. A new Atlanta Journal Constitution poll has Trump up eight points on Biden. That is amazing. But look, we also know the Democrats are going to stop at nothing. They see this train coming down the track, and they want to derail it. And if they can, they're going to game the system, or yeah, maybe even cheat. After all, they say Trump is Hitler. So they have to stop him. They have to. So does the RNC or do outside groups have a Republican mail-in ballot strategy? Do they have a get out the vote strategy that's going to be able to compete with the Biden turnout machine? Because I can tell you this, the Jeffrey Katzenberg Zuckerberg crew, they're going to be spending huge money again in urban and suburban areas to levitate the cadaverous Biden campaign to victory. This is the real challenge Donald Trump faces, along with the constant lawfare attacks to take him off the ballot. His Republican competition will be dropping out soon enough. Now we were in the audience, some of the anglers at Trump's victory speech last night, and I couldn't help but notice, first of all, the fake media was in a bad mood behind us. We were howling, laughing. It was so funny. But he was pretty gracious about wanting to work with Democrats to clean up our great cities. We're going to rebuild our cities and we'll work with the Democrats to do it. I'd be glad to work with the people in New York. We're going to work with the people in Chicago and LA. We're going to rebuild our cities and we're going to make them safe. One way to give our police officers immunity. That's what people want to hear. Suburban women like hearing those kinds of things. So do the young people. Keep it up. In Hispanics and working class African American voters, they don't support what's happening to this country. Few people really do. So keep making overtures to those groups. It's working. Campaigns are bubbles where fantasy stories of possible success are told to candidates like Asa Hutchinson and Chris Christie neither ever had a chance, a snowball's chance in hell of winning. The consultants and the political hacks, they've made enough money over the years to give bad advice. It's time to follow the people. Their advice is a lot better. And most of the Republican voters are saying one word, Trump. And that's the angle.

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A win for voters, a loss for lawyers. That's the headline from Iowa. Democracy isn't decided in the courtroom, it's decided by you, the voter. For the first time in years, the will of the people was crystal clear. Americans delivered a message without interference from partisan judges and prosecutors. We wrestled democracy away from the courts and put it back in the hands of we the people. In a historic shellacking, Donald Trump went home the unequivocal winner. 98 out of 99 counties, beating DeSantis and Haley combined. A 30-point blowout and cracking 50%, doubling his 2016 performance. Turning out new voters and making major inroads with evangelicals and college grads. Here was Donald Trump after his big win, watch. And I really think this is time now for everybody, our country, to come together. We want to come together, whether it's Republican or Democrat or liberal or conservative. It would be so nice if we could come together and straighten out the world and straighten out the problems and straighten out all of the death and destruction that we're witnessing. That's practically never been like this. It's just so important. We're gonna rebuild our cities and we'll work with the Democrats to do it. I want to congratulate Ron and Nikki for having a good time together. That's the racist insurrectionist who's gonna seal Team Six's enemies? I don't think so. The Republican Party's nominating Donald Trump and these are the reasons why. The top issue at stake in Iowa, illegal immigration and the economy. Both issues, the border hawk businessman, dominates against Republicans and against Biden. Biden's delivered a hot, heaping plate of chaos. One-third of Republican voters want to complete and total upheaval in Washington. You want Donald Trump to return to Washington and finish the job. The job, you believe he was unfairly prevented from finishing. Did Biden legitimately win in 2020? Yeah, so yes, 30% here, no 66%. Can we just pause for a second? I want to say something about that. Two-thirds of Iowa Republican caucus goers believe that the president of the United States right now is a fake. Not fake, he was sworn in. But MSNBC needs to come to grips with the fact that they got caught. Last election, the spooks lied about the lab leak, the laptop and the letter. This changed votes. Plus a harvesting epidemic with the wanders of the world. And this year, it'll be lawyers interfering. But so far, the indictments have backfired on the Democrats because they never understood you, the voter. They actually don't want to understand you. They want to hate you from a warm Manhattan studio for threatening their power. These are white Christians. This is a state that is overrepresented by white Christians. What do they get out of supporting Donald Trump? Because he keeps losing, they see themselves as the rightful inheritors of this country. And Trump has promised to give it back to them. All the things that we think about, about electability, about what are people gaming out or none of that matters. When you believe that God has given you this country, that it is yours and that everyone who is not a white conservative Christian is a fraudulent American. - Iowa feeds Joy Reed three square meals a day. And she called them racist white Christians? Joy should read history. Iowa was admitted to the union as a free state and was the first state in the union to desegregate their schools. They're Christian in Iowa, just like you are Joy. And they don't like illegal immigration because it drives down wages and drives up government spending. It doesn't make them racist, it makes them good at math. Remember how Trump joked about caucusing before you die? Well, the media found another hoax, watch. - He voted for a guy who said, come, risk your lives for the grand wizard. Come in the snow and the sleet because I am more important than your life. - Iowa hit a nerve with the press because this morning, they woke up knowing Biden's not capable of debating Trump. And the media is calling him the grand wizard, attacking you and moving the gold posts. Mass censorship's next. Last night, CNN dumped out of Trump's victory speech when he mentioned the border, watch. - Donald Trump declaring victory with a historically strong showing in the Iowa caucuses if these numbers hold the biggest victory for a non-incomitant president in the modern era for this contest. A relatively subdued speech as these things go so far, although here he is right now under my voice, you hear him repeating his anti-immigrant rhetoric. - Immigration was the top issue in Iowa, but CNN doesn't think you should hear from the man who won campaigning on the top issue. If Trump's language is so offensive, air it and it'll turn voters off. That's what CNN wants, right? No, the real reason CNN censoring Trump is because they know he'll win votes campaigning against illegal immigration. MSNBC didn't even take the speech at all. They preemptively censored. - There is a reason that we and other news organizations have generally stopped giving an unfiltered live platform to remarks by former President Trump. It is not out of spite. It is not a decision that we relish, but there is a cost to us as a news organization of knowingly broadcasting untrue things. - Matt, since Trump's rated R and if, you know, you're not old enough, you can't watch. Now you and I have kids, we know that doesn't work. Matt is pretending like she's protecting the network when she broadcasts more hoaxes than Scooby-Doo. And what kind of business model is a news channel that doesn't take live news? Drag queens twerking in front of kids' faces is fine, but MSNBC needs to protect you from hearing Trump say build the wall. Is the media gonna censor Trump's convention speech? Are they gonna dump out of his inaugural address? You can't save democracy by censoring it. And the censorship campaign's only one leg of the stool. The deep state disinformation campaign's begun. British intelligence says Trump's a national security threat. - But I think it's important, but I'm not a politician. You have to add a political threat, which I'm worried about, which is Trump's re-election, which I think for the UK's national security is problematic. - MI6, the same crew who crooked paid to launch the collusion lie is interfering with another election. See, the Democrats like when British intel interferes in our election, it's just not Russian intel. Third leg of the stool, Obama's gonna make it rain. - We need your help to ensure Joe's leadership continues to guide us forward. We know the other side won't rest, so we can't either. Your donation will help give Joe and Kamala's campaign the resources it needs. - Let's make history again, chip in now. Let's secure a brighter future together. - Biden doesn't even remember making that video, but it doesn't matter. They just need to drag him across the finish line so he can hand Kamala the keys to the White House next year. And the only one who can stop them is you.

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You had to bet $150,000 on who's going to win in November. Who'd you bet on? I never dreamed that I would say this, but I would bet on Trump. I never-- I thought it was done. I thought it was over. You don't come back from an impeachment. You don't come back from January 6th. You don't come back from any of this, but he's come back. The guy's a survivor, and his opponent is having so much trouble that I would, at this point, give the edge to Trump.

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