Exit poll shows those hurt by Bidenomics drove Trump win (11-07-2024--Hour1)

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[00:00:28] Email is Pete at thepetekalinershow.com. I am Pete Kaliner, and that's K-A-L-I-N-E-R. But you knew that. And on Twitter, at Pete Kaliner, where I pointed out this morning, maybe Ronna McDaniel was the problem all along. Is that possible? I don't know. I mean, it does kind of seem like maybe there was some sort of an impact on races.

[00:00:56] By the way, I believe, hang on a second. Let me go ahead and pull up the House results. So far, we are tracking still the U.S. House in Congress. Republicans are now at 213 seats. And Democrats are at 199 as per DecisionDeskHQ.com. That's their website.

[00:01:20] Let me see here. Republicans' chances of winning the House are now at 86.8%. It was at a high of 95% yesterday afternoon at this time, but it has dropped a little bit.

[00:01:40] But they are still predicted. The projection is that Republicans will control the U.S. House at 221 seats. You need 218 for the majority. They have, I believe now, they have secured, let me see here, I'll pull up the Senate race.

[00:01:57] They have secured the Senate at 52 seats. There is only the Pennsylvania and Arizona races to decide.

[00:02:07] McCormick, David McCormick, the Republican, he is actually leading by about 32,000 votes there.

[00:02:14] So they could pick up Pennsylvania still unless they end up with the trunk full of ballots or something that comes in.

[00:02:23] And I kid Pennsylvania. Come on now.

[00:02:28] So that could be a 53rd seat.

[00:02:32] And let's see here.

[00:02:34] Arizona, Ruben Gallego leads Cary Lake.

[00:02:39] He is up by about 100, well, less, yeah, about 50,000 votes.

[00:02:47] Yeah, about 50,000 vote lead over Cary Lake.

[00:02:51] But only 74% of the ballots are in there, are counted there.

[00:02:56] So don't know.

[00:02:58] Right now, Republican or sorry, Democrats are at 46 seats.

[00:03:01] They have lost three.

[00:03:03] Republicans have picked up those three.

[00:03:05] They have 52.

[00:03:06] So they could actually expand out if they pull in these two other seats of Pennsylvania and Arizona.

[00:03:11] They could end up with 54 seats in the U.S. Senate.

[00:03:17] And I'll well, just for kicks, let me swing back on over to the presidential race and.

[00:03:25] Trump with 312 Harris, 226.

[00:03:28] You need 270 to win the Electoral College vote.

[00:03:31] He is now approaching 73 million votes.

[00:03:35] Harris is at 68 million.

[00:03:40] And I want to say.

[00:03:43] Yeah, we still I mean, there are still like nobody is 100 percent counted yet.

[00:03:47] You still have the absentee and military ballots and provisional ballots that are still coming in.

[00:03:52] So all of these numbers here.

[00:03:53] So Trump will probably clear that 73 million.

[00:03:56] I mean, he definitely is at 72, 993.

[00:03:59] So he'll clear 73 million.

[00:04:01] It may go a couple million more than that at this point.

[00:04:04] So before you share all of the all of the memes about how, you know, the 20 million votes that were there in 2020 that aren't there now, that number is different now.

[00:04:16] It's not 20 million anymore because they're still counting.

[00:04:18] So there are still ballots that are getting added to the total.

[00:04:22] So just hold off on your memes just for a couple more days.

[00:04:26] And and then you'll be able to to undermine the confidence in the counting systems.

[00:04:35] I kid, I kid.

[00:04:37] Let's see here.

[00:04:39] Oh, the Associated Press is out with its AP vote cast, which is actually just an exit poll.

[00:04:50] Yeah.

[00:04:51] So they they interview people on the way out and they ask them all sorts of questions and then people talk about why they voted the way they voted and all of that.

[00:04:59] And so this is one of the exit polls that will now be reliable.

[00:05:03] There are others.

[00:05:04] I think Reuters does their own.

[00:05:07] So you've got the story that the AP cranks out here today.

[00:05:14] President-elect Donald Trump tapped into deep anxieties about an economy that seemed unable, despite its recent growth, to meet the needs of the middle class.

[00:05:25] Seemed unable to meet the needs of the middle class, despite its recent growth.

[00:05:29] There's a terribly written sentence, AP.

[00:05:31] But they write for the eye, not the ear, but even to the eye.

[00:05:35] This one's a terrible written sentence.

[00:05:38] The AP vote cast a sweeping survey of more than 120,000 voters nationwide.

[00:05:44] So what are they saying here in this sentence?

[00:05:47] This awkwardly, terribly written sentence.

[00:05:51] That Donald Trump tapped into deep anxieties about the economy.

[00:05:58] That seemed unable to meet the needs of the middle class.

[00:06:04] I will shorten that down and quote serpent head.

[00:06:09] It's the economy, stupid.

[00:06:12] Right?

[00:06:13] It's the economy.

[00:06:14] And I will say this also.

[00:06:15] I may have to now retire my axiom that I have been using for 12 years since the 2012 presidential race where Mitt Romney lost to Barack Obama in an economy.

[00:06:29] But no sitting president had ever been able to win re-election under economic factors that were bad.

[00:06:38] But Obama was able to win.

[00:06:41] And in the post-election analysis, it became clear that elections are about what media make them.

[00:06:50] And they have not gotten the message that nobody believes them anymore.

[00:06:57] It's like they don't believe it.

[00:07:01] And if you think about the kinds of people that get into media work, and as a former reporter and one who has spoken in front of, you know, classrooms of aspiring media people for 20 years plus,

[00:07:20] usually when you ask people in the college setting while they're in journalism school and they'll say, oh, you know, I want to, what's the old saying is comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable, you know, right the wrongs and all that.

[00:07:36] And so that's a, it's an activist mindset.

[00:07:40] And I had one, I'll freely tell you, I've told you before that my activism was geared towards holding the government in check.

[00:07:51] Because that's, that was always my biggest fear.

[00:07:53] And by the way, this came, this, this came born out of experience for me when I was the editor of the high school newspaper.

[00:08:07] I wrote a story about the school board meeting.

[00:08:12] I went to the school board, I covered it, came back, wrote up a whole piece about it, and it was censored.

[00:08:21] They, they killed the story.

[00:08:23] The, the school administration killed my story about the school board meeting.

[00:08:27] I don't even remember what it was about.

[00:08:29] We had budget fights up there in New York on Long Island.

[00:08:31] They have a lot of small districts, not like here where there's like, you know, massive countywide districts.

[00:08:37] Up there, every little town in Hamlet has its own school board, its own school district, its own superintendent, its own administrative costs and all that.

[00:08:46] And every year they put up the budget to voters to approve or reject.

[00:08:51] And about every four or five years or so, it seems the town would vote down its school budget because it was too expensive.

[00:08:59] And it would be, it was being paid for through property taxes.

[00:09:04] And then, of course, the school district would turn around and, you know, scrap all the bus service, make all the parents have to drive their kids to school, scrap after school activities and stuff.

[00:09:12] So kids, you know, suffer the most.

[00:09:14] And that was their pressure point against parents to get them to vote for the school budget.

[00:09:19] And I want to say that whatever story I wrote probably had something to do with that because it was a big deal when I was in like junior high or high school.

[00:09:26] And so, or not, it was a junior or senior year rather in high school.

[00:09:30] And I did a story on the thing, on the meeting and it got censored.

[00:09:36] They said you cannot run that.

[00:09:37] And so rather than write something else, I first wanted to run a cover with nothing on it.

[00:09:48] And then do in the back an editorial about why there's nothing on the front page.

[00:09:54] I was prevented from doing that.

[00:09:56] So I drew a political cartoon because a little known factoid about yours truly, I actually, I'm a decent artist.

[00:10:06] And so I, and not just an artist of the talk genre.

[00:10:11] And so I wrote, I drew a cartoon of, you know, a guy with the fedora hat and a little press badge sticking out of the band, you know, and being muzzled with a, you know, like a, like a hostage kind of bandana around the mouth.

[00:10:27] I still remember the cartoon and it said, you know, censorship or something like that.

[00:10:31] And that was the front page was a political cartoon.

[00:10:33] And that went to print.

[00:10:35] And then I explained what had happened.

[00:10:37] So that was always the reason why when I was in media and as a reporter doing journalism, that was always my activism was against the abuses by government officials against the people, against citizens.

[00:10:56] And I suspect there are a lot of people in media now that have a different form of activism that is attractive to them.

[00:11:09] And they also believe that they are able to influence.

[00:11:15] But we were talking with Chad Adams yesterday and he said this, they're in the media's inability to influence.

[00:11:20] And I think he hit on it right there.

[00:11:22] I think, because I've been thinking about this since he said it.

[00:11:25] And I think that's why they're really so mad right now is their kingdoms are crumbling and they still believe that they not only have the influence, but that they should, that they should have the influence, that we should do what they tell us to do.

[00:11:46] And I'm telling you, he's a threat to democracy.

[00:11:49] Why won't you listen to me?

[00:11:51] Right. That's what we're seeing right now play out in these news organizations at the national level.

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[00:13:01] I have a tweet to read to you.

[00:13:03] Because you could just look at it yourself.

[00:13:05] But I will read it to you.

[00:13:08] Brian Stelter, who is a potato.

[00:13:12] Quote,

[00:13:13] Will there be a journalistic brain drain in D.C.?

[00:13:21] I don't think he meant that as a joke, though.

[00:13:24] I think he's really concerned about it.

[00:13:26] Which, honestly, if you're a potato, I guess everything looks very brainy to you.

[00:13:30] But he says that a talent agent told him what he's heard anecdotally as well.

[00:13:40] Which is, a lot of reporters are questioning if they have it in them to report on another Trump cycle.

[00:13:54] Go.

[00:13:56] Go.

[00:13:56] Please go.

[00:13:57] Yes, please.

[00:13:58] Go someplace else.

[00:14:00] Drain the swamp.

[00:14:01] Look, when Trump said drain the swamp, I don't think this is what he meant, but I'll allow it.

[00:14:06] I will allow it.

[00:14:09] That's fine.

[00:14:10] Yes, please.

[00:14:12] Leave.

[00:14:12] Go.

[00:14:13] How can we miss you if you don't leave?

[00:14:17] A brain drain.

[00:14:18] A journalistic brain drain in D.C.

[00:14:21] I'm going to go out on a limb and say the answer to his question is no.

[00:14:26] For a couple of reasons.

[00:14:28] Number one is that you have to have the thing before you can drain it, right?

[00:14:31] So that's not going to happen.

[00:14:33] So it can't happen.

[00:14:34] But also.

[00:14:36] They will not be able to resist.

[00:14:39] even though they say they're the resistance.

[00:14:40] They will not be able to resist.

[00:14:41] They will stick around and they will feel it is their duty

[00:14:44] to hold Donald Trump accountable,

[00:14:45] which is precisely why I voted for Donald Trump,

[00:14:48] because I knew that they would not be able to help themselves.

[00:14:51] I mentioned this Brian Stelter tweet where he's very concerned

[00:14:56] there's going to be a whole bunch of journalists that leave D.C.

[00:15:00] It's a journalistic brain drain because a lot of reporters are questioning

[00:15:05] if they have it in them to report on another Trump cycle.

[00:15:08] Well, maybe not.

[00:15:09] People suffering from histrionic personality disorder

[00:15:12] probably might not be best suited to continue in the role

[00:15:17] for a long period of time.

[00:15:18] That's possible.

[00:15:20] Russ says, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess

[00:15:23] because D.C. media is so bad that every journalist leaving

[00:15:26] will actually raise the overall IQ until they're all gone

[00:15:31] and it reaches zero.

[00:15:34] So that's...

[00:15:36] Can you have a negative?

[00:15:37] I don't know.

[00:15:39] That's possible.

[00:15:41] So back to the AP exit polling data,

[00:15:44] and I want to play a clip here from Scott Jennings,

[00:15:47] who is on CNN.

[00:15:48] He's the...

[00:15:49] I think he's the only Republican allowed still on CNN for some reason,

[00:15:52] but he...

[00:15:54] Well, I'll play it in a second,

[00:15:56] but I want to sort of put a marker down here

[00:16:01] that the gaslighting by the media

[00:16:08] has been fully exposed

[00:16:10] and the fact that people went to the polls

[00:16:13] to vote for their own self-interest

[00:16:16] for the economic reasons,

[00:16:19] these economic factors,

[00:16:21] right?

[00:16:22] People went...

[00:16:22] It's because politics is transactional

[00:16:25] and it's a good thing, I believe,

[00:16:28] when people view it as such.

[00:16:30] I always say,

[00:16:31] don't fall in love with a politician, right?

[00:16:33] What is this person going to do?

[00:16:35] If I hire this guy to go up there,

[00:16:37] what's he going to do for me, right?

[00:16:40] Because that's how a lot of people view it,

[00:16:42] and I think that's probably closer to

[00:16:45] the reality of what you...

[00:16:47] It doesn't have to be like,

[00:16:48] the person's going to give me money.

[00:16:49] It could be the person's going to rein in the debt, right?

[00:16:54] But we saw inflation skyrocket

[00:16:59] in the first half of the Biden administration,

[00:17:01] and then we were told that inflation is down.

[00:17:05] Inflation is now...

[00:17:06] It's settled down.

[00:17:07] Don't worry.

[00:17:08] Don't worry.

[00:17:09] And there was this gaslighting effort by media

[00:17:13] to make us forget the first two years

[00:17:16] where we lost 15% of our purchasing power.

[00:17:21] That's what happened.

[00:17:23] That has not been absorbed yet.

[00:17:26] People are still harder...

[00:17:30] have a harder time making their bills now

[00:17:33] than they did prior to Biden

[00:17:35] because of all of the spending.

[00:17:39] And that's what led to...

[00:17:41] You have too many dollars chasing too few goods.

[00:17:44] That's what happened.

[00:17:45] And then we get the gaslighting from media saying,

[00:17:48] well, no, it's only 2%.

[00:17:49] See, it's not so bad anymore.

[00:17:50] Well, wait a minute.

[00:17:51] It's 2% now.

[00:17:53] But it's 2% on top of the 6% last year

[00:17:57] and the 12% the year before that.

[00:17:59] That's still baked into the pricing.

[00:18:04] So here is Scott Jennings on CNN.

[00:18:07] And I think...

[00:18:09] And this is sort of a montage

[00:18:11] of a couple different comments that he made,

[00:18:13] but it's all in one clip.

[00:18:14] And I think he nails it.

[00:18:18] And I think he is giving his colleagues

[00:18:22] a good inflection point.

[00:18:26] I don't know if they will take it, though.

[00:18:28] I'm interpreting the results tonight

[00:18:30] as the revenge of just

[00:18:32] the regular old working class American,

[00:18:35] the anonymous American

[00:18:36] who has been crushed,

[00:18:38] insulted, condescended to.

[00:18:40] They're not garbage.

[00:18:42] They're not Nazis.

[00:18:43] They're just regular people

[00:18:45] who get up and go to work every day

[00:18:46] and are trying to make a better life

[00:18:48] for their kids.

[00:18:48] And they feel like

[00:18:49] they have been told to just shut up

[00:18:51] when they have complained about the things

[00:18:54] that are hurting them in their own lives.

[00:18:57] I also feel like this election,

[00:18:59] as we sit here and pour over this tonight,

[00:19:02] is something of an indictment

[00:19:04] of the political information complex.

[00:19:06] I mean, we've been sitting around here

[00:19:07] for the last couple of weeks,

[00:19:09] and the story that was portrayed

[00:19:11] was not true.

[00:19:13] I mean, we were told Puerto Rico

[00:19:15] was going to change the election.

[00:19:16] Liz Cheney, Nikki Haley voters,

[00:19:18] women lying to their husbands.

[00:19:20] Before that, it was Tim Walls

[00:19:22] and the camo hats.

[00:19:23] Night after night after night,

[00:19:25] we were told all these things

[00:19:27] and gimmicks were going to

[00:19:29] somehow push Harris over the line.

[00:19:32] And we were just ignoring

[00:19:33] the fundamentals.

[00:19:35] Inflation,

[00:19:36] people feeling like

[00:19:37] that they were barely able

[00:19:38] to tread water at best.

[00:19:40] That was the fundamentals

[00:19:41] of the election.

[00:19:41] But I think for all of us

[00:19:42] who cover elections

[00:19:43] and talk about elections

[00:19:45] and do this on a day-to-day basis,

[00:19:47] we have to figure out

[00:19:49] how to understand,

[00:19:50] talk to, and listen to

[00:19:51] the half of the country

[00:19:52] that rose up tonight

[00:19:52] and said,

[00:19:54] we've had enough.

[00:19:55] I do think the way

[00:19:55] this campaign was run

[00:19:58] was basically on

[00:20:00] the Democrats thought

[00:20:01] there were enough people

[00:20:02] who hated Trump

[00:20:03] or were willing to fear him

[00:20:05] to win the race.

[00:20:06] And it turns out

[00:20:07] there's more to being president

[00:20:07] than simply not being

[00:20:09] Donald Trump

[00:20:10] in the eyes of the American people.

[00:20:11] I'm a little worried about

[00:20:13] how Democrats

[00:20:14] are going to react.

[00:20:14] They've been told

[00:20:15] Trump is a modern-day Hitler

[00:20:17] or at least he's a fascist.

[00:20:18] And now Kamala Harris,

[00:20:19] I suspect,

[00:20:20] is going to have to wake up

[00:20:20] in the morning

[00:20:21] and concede to that person.

[00:20:23] I'm a little concerned

[00:20:23] about an election

[00:20:24] in which half the country

[00:20:27] was conditioned to believe

[00:20:28] that the person

[00:20:30] who just won

[00:20:30] the national popular vote

[00:20:32] is going to be a dictator,

[00:20:34] eliminate the Constitution,

[00:20:35] and create a bloodbath,

[00:20:36] and so on and so forth.

[00:20:37] So we have to reckon

[00:20:41] with that

[00:20:41] in the aftermath

[00:20:42] of that argument.

[00:20:43] Right.

[00:20:44] So a couple things.

[00:20:45] Number one,

[00:20:46] Kamala Harris yesterday

[00:20:47] came out

[00:20:48] and gave her

[00:20:48] concession speech.

[00:20:49] And Joe Biden

[00:20:50] just appeared

[00:20:51] at the White House

[00:20:52] and he gave

[00:20:53] another speech

[00:20:54] and they both said

[00:20:55] it's going to be okay.

[00:20:57] And to assure

[00:20:58] the audience,

[00:21:00] their followers,

[00:21:01] it's going to be okay.

[00:21:03] Which is

[00:21:04] quite a thing to say

[00:21:07] when Hitler

[00:21:08] has just been elected.

[00:21:10] Right?

[00:21:12] So,

[00:21:12] was he not Hitler?

[00:21:13] Hitler?

[00:21:14] Because if you're telling me

[00:21:16] that we can't put

[00:21:17] Donald Trump

[00:21:18] back into the White House

[00:21:19] because he's an authoritarian,

[00:21:21] fascist Hitler,

[00:21:22] but don't worry,

[00:21:23] it's going to be okay.

[00:21:24] Like,

[00:21:25] that doesn't make sense.

[00:21:28] And what Scott Jennings

[00:21:30] was talking about there,

[00:21:31] now he doesn't use the word,

[00:21:33] but he is describing it,

[00:21:35] and he called it

[00:21:35] the political information complex,

[00:21:38] what they were engaged in

[00:21:40] was gaslighting.

[00:21:42] Telling us

[00:21:42] that the things

[00:21:44] that we care about

[00:21:45] and the pressures

[00:21:46] that we are facing

[00:21:47] are not real.

[00:21:49] And that more people

[00:21:50] think this other thing.

[00:21:51] And then it turns out,

[00:21:52] no, actually,

[00:21:53] the majority of voters

[00:21:55] think the same way

[00:21:57] that you do.

[00:21:58] That I do.

[00:21:59] That these are real pressures.

[00:22:01] That these are

[00:22:02] the more important issues.

[00:22:03] That Tim Walls

[00:22:05] wearing a camo hat

[00:22:05] does not matter

[00:22:07] a whit to me.

[00:22:11] Gaslighting.

[00:22:12] And I feel like

[00:22:13] that's what was rejected

[00:22:14] yesterday.

[00:22:15] Or Tuesday.

[00:22:18] Back to the Associated Press.

[00:22:20] Worries about

[00:22:21] everyday expenses

[00:22:22] helped Trump

[00:22:23] return to the White House.

[00:22:25] In key states,

[00:22:26] Trump's voters

[00:22:27] saw illegal immigration

[00:22:29] as imposing new costs

[00:22:31] on their communities.

[00:22:33] Well, gee,

[00:22:33] why would they think that?

[00:22:35] Maybe because

[00:22:36] it's true.

[00:22:37] It's true.

[00:22:39] There are costs.

[00:22:41] You can't hide it.

[00:22:44] New York City

[00:22:44] has budget deficits

[00:22:46] because of it.

[00:22:48] Many believed

[00:22:49] their own financial

[00:22:50] well-being

[00:22:51] was at risk

[00:22:52] after the burst

[00:22:53] of post-pandemic

[00:22:54] inflation.

[00:22:55] Again,

[00:22:56] why would people

[00:22:57] believe that?

[00:22:59] Because it's true.

[00:23:02] Their financial

[00:23:03] well-being

[00:23:04] is at risk

[00:23:05] after

[00:23:06] post-pandemic

[00:23:08] inflation.

[00:23:09] Most voters

[00:23:10] said they were

[00:23:11] falling behind

[00:23:12] this year

[00:23:14] more than

[00:23:15] said that

[00:23:16] in 2020.

[00:23:17] Well, yeah,

[00:23:18] because the inflation

[00:23:19] hadn't taken off

[00:23:20] at that point.

[00:23:21] Makes sense to me.

[00:23:23] Trump made

[00:23:24] inroads among

[00:23:25] lower-income voters,

[00:23:27] middle-income voters,

[00:23:28] voters, and voters

[00:23:29] without college degrees.

[00:23:31] All those groups

[00:23:32] appeared to put

[00:23:33] as a high priority

[00:23:36] on their family

[00:23:37] budgets

[00:23:38] than the worries

[00:23:39] about the future

[00:23:40] of democracy

[00:23:41] that motivated

[00:23:42] much of

[00:23:43] Harris's

[00:23:44] coalition.

[00:23:46] In other words,

[00:23:49] they didn't believe you.

[00:23:51] Right?

[00:23:52] The Trump

[00:23:52] coalition voters

[00:23:54] did not believe

[00:23:55] you,

[00:23:56] media,

[00:23:56] when you made

[00:23:58] everything about

[00:23:58] the democracy.

[00:24:00] They didn't believe it.

[00:24:03] And again,

[00:24:04] this is why I think

[00:24:05] they're having the reaction

[00:24:08] they're having in the

[00:24:08] mainstream media,

[00:24:09] the legacy outlets.

[00:24:10] I think this is why

[00:24:11] we're seeing what we're

[00:24:12] seeing,

[00:24:12] is because

[00:24:14] they're starting

[00:24:15] to realize

[00:24:16] nobody

[00:24:17] believes them.

[00:24:18] They don't

[00:24:19] have influence.

[00:24:22] here they spent

[00:24:23] all that money,

[00:24:24] well,

[00:24:24] mom and dad

[00:24:24] probably spent

[00:24:25] all the money

[00:24:25] to go to

[00:24:26] journalism school

[00:24:27] and to,

[00:24:28] you know,

[00:24:29] ensconce themselves

[00:24:30] into this position

[00:24:31] of influence

[00:24:32] only to find out

[00:24:33] you don't have

[00:24:35] any.

[00:24:37] I shouldn't say

[00:24:37] any,

[00:24:38] you've got some.

[00:24:39] Democrats still care

[00:24:39] about what you say.

[00:24:41] But to a lesser degree.

[00:24:42] So you still have

[00:24:43] a little bit,

[00:24:43] but not as much

[00:24:44] as you used to.

[00:24:45] Going over

[00:24:46] the AP

[00:24:47] exit polling

[00:24:49] information,

[00:24:51] this is AP

[00:24:52] Votecast

[00:24:53] is the name

[00:24:54] of the operation,

[00:24:55] which is a survey

[00:24:55] of the American

[00:24:56] electorate conducted

[00:24:57] by NORC

[00:24:59] at the University

[00:25:00] of Chicago

[00:25:00] for Fox News,

[00:25:01] PBS NewsHour,

[00:25:03] the Wall Street

[00:25:03] Journal,

[00:25:04] and the Associated

[00:25:05] Press.

[00:25:06] It is a survey

[00:25:07] of more than

[00:25:07] 120,000 voters

[00:25:09] conducted for

[00:25:11] eight days,

[00:25:12] concluding as

[00:25:13] polls closed.

[00:25:19] Harris's bet

[00:25:20] on rallying voters

[00:25:22] around abortion

[00:25:23] rights did not

[00:25:24] pan out as

[00:25:25] planned.

[00:25:27] She had relative

[00:25:27] strengths with

[00:25:28] college graduates

[00:25:29] and higher income

[00:25:31] voters,

[00:25:31] but Trump held

[00:25:32] onto his base

[00:25:32] and also made

[00:25:33] marginal gains

[00:25:34] with some

[00:25:35] of Democrats'

[00:25:37] core constituencies.

[00:25:39] Voters

[00:25:40] who felt more

[00:25:41] anxious about

[00:25:42] their economic

[00:25:43] circumstances

[00:25:43] supported Trump.

[00:25:45] The sliver of

[00:25:46] voters who felt

[00:25:47] more comfortable

[00:25:48] about their

[00:25:48] circumstances

[00:25:49] largely went

[00:25:50] with Harris.

[00:25:52] A realignment.

[00:25:53] Oh, I was

[00:25:54] driving in today,

[00:25:55] flipped over onto

[00:25:56] the government-funded

[00:25:58] radio station,

[00:26:00] and they had a

[00:26:02] guy from Marist

[00:26:03] polling,

[00:26:04] and he was

[00:26:04] talking about

[00:26:05] the realignment

[00:26:06] of the political

[00:26:07] parties.

[00:26:08] And man,

[00:26:09] you should have

[00:26:09] heard the hosts.

[00:26:10] When you say

[00:26:11] realignment,

[00:26:12] it makes it

[00:26:12] sound like

[00:26:12] there's something

[00:26:13] like permanent

[00:26:14] going on.

[00:26:15] Yeah,

[00:26:17] precisely.

[00:26:18] That is what's

[00:26:19] happening.

[00:26:20] Democrats are

[00:26:21] becoming the

[00:26:21] Elysium Party,

[00:26:23] and their

[00:26:26] strategy,

[00:26:27] their focus,

[00:26:27] their messaging,

[00:26:28] it is all

[00:26:29] conjured up

[00:26:30] by this,

[00:26:31] I would

[00:26:31] submit,

[00:26:32] over-educated,

[00:26:34] narcissistic,

[00:26:35] histrionic elite,

[00:26:37] and that's why

[00:26:38] it doesn't

[00:26:39] resonate with

[00:26:39] people in

[00:26:41] the real

[00:26:41] world,

[00:26:43] because they

[00:26:43] are detached.

[00:26:45] This morning,

[00:26:46] I think it was

[00:26:46] this morning,

[00:26:47] Joe Scarborough

[00:26:48] on MSNBC

[00:26:52] scoffed at

[00:26:52] this idea

[00:26:53] that butter

[00:26:54] was $3

[00:26:57] because he

[00:26:57] was talking

[00:26:57] to somebody

[00:26:58] of his

[00:26:59] who went

[00:26:59] to the

[00:26:59] grocery store,

[00:27:00] and they

[00:27:00] were talking

[00:27:01] about how

[00:27:01] the price

[00:27:02] of butter

[00:27:02] is expensive,

[00:27:03] it's like

[00:27:03] $3,

[00:27:04] and he's

[00:27:04] like,

[00:27:05] what are you

[00:27:06] talking about

[00:27:06] $3?

[00:27:06] That seems

[00:27:08] like a lot,

[00:27:08] and he was

[00:27:08] like,

[00:27:09] incredulous,

[00:27:09] and his

[00:27:10] own wife,

[00:27:11] that they

[00:27:12] both left

[00:27:12] their spouses

[00:27:13] for him to

[00:27:13] get married to.

[00:27:14] Anyway,

[00:27:14] his co-host,

[00:27:15] Mika Brzezinski,

[00:27:16] says butter

[00:27:17] is like $9.

[00:27:20] First off,

[00:27:21] they must be

[00:27:21] buying very

[00:27:21] good butter,

[00:27:22] because I

[00:27:23] don't,

[00:27:23] but I don't

[00:27:23] know,

[00:27:24] I don't know

[00:27:24] where they're

[00:27:25] shopping,

[00:27:27] but he did

[00:27:28] not know,

[00:27:28] and this is

[00:27:29] my point,

[00:27:30] is that these

[00:27:31] people,

[00:27:32] like,

[00:27:32] they don't

[00:27:32] know the

[00:27:33] price of

[00:27:33] these things,

[00:27:34] and so when

[00:27:34] the working

[00:27:35] man,

[00:27:36] to Scott

[00:27:36] Jennings'

[00:27:37] point,

[00:27:37] when the

[00:27:38] working

[00:27:38] man comes

[00:27:39] in and

[00:27:39] says,

[00:27:40] hey,

[00:27:40] I can't

[00:27:40] afford the

[00:27:41] stuff that

[00:27:41] I was,

[00:27:42] look,

[00:27:42] this is my,

[00:27:44] I have cut

[00:27:45] out everything

[00:27:45] in my

[00:27:46] grocery budget.

[00:27:47] I do the

[00:27:47] grocery shopping

[00:27:48] mainly,

[00:27:48] I mean,

[00:27:48] Christy does

[00:27:49] some of it,

[00:27:49] it's not like

[00:27:50] we've assigned

[00:27:51] the tasks,

[00:27:51] it's just,

[00:27:52] I get off air

[00:27:52] at 3 o'clock,

[00:27:53] and I can

[00:27:54] usually get to

[00:27:54] the grocery store

[00:27:55] before,

[00:27:55] you know,

[00:27:56] pandemonium breaks

[00:27:57] out,

[00:27:57] and so I will

[00:27:58] usually just go

[00:27:59] and do the

[00:27:59] grocery shopping,

[00:28:00] and I keep

[00:28:03] up with the

[00:28:03] budget.

[00:28:04] Christy does

[00:28:05] as well,

[00:28:06] but like,

[00:28:06] when building

[00:28:07] the budget,

[00:28:07] I sort of

[00:28:08] take the

[00:28:09] lead on

[00:28:09] that.

[00:28:10] We work

[00:28:10] together on

[00:28:10] it,

[00:28:11] but I

[00:28:11] probably do

[00:28:12] more of

[00:28:12] the math,

[00:28:15] and I

[00:28:16] am acutely

[00:28:16] aware of

[00:28:17] the price

[00:28:18] of groceries.

[00:28:19] It went

[00:28:19] from the

[00:28:19] normal trip

[00:28:20] would be,

[00:28:21] on average,

[00:28:22] about 200,

[00:28:22] it went

[00:28:23] to over

[00:28:24] 300,

[00:28:25] and it

[00:28:26] has not

[00:28:26] come back

[00:28:27] down.

[00:28:27] The only

[00:28:28] reason why

[00:28:29] I have

[00:28:31] been able

[00:28:31] to contain

[00:28:32] the grocery

[00:28:32] bill is

[00:28:33] because I've

[00:28:35] cut out

[00:28:35] everything

[00:28:36] extraneous.

[00:28:38] We've

[00:28:38] gone,

[00:28:39] like,

[00:28:39] anything that

[00:28:40] was a nice

[00:28:41] to have

[00:28:41] is gone

[00:28:42] from the

[00:28:43] grocery

[00:28:43] budget,

[00:28:43] and you've

[00:28:45] got people

[00:28:45] in charge

[00:28:46] that are

[00:28:46] making

[00:28:47] decisions

[00:28:47] that don't

[00:28:48] understand

[00:28:49] that.

[00:28:50] It's

[00:28:50] Nancy

[00:28:51] Pelosi

[00:28:51] standing

[00:28:52] in front

[00:28:53] of a

[00:28:53] $17,000

[00:28:54] freezer

[00:28:55] filled

[00:28:56] with,

[00:28:57] you know,

[00:28:57] $15

[00:28:58] a gallon

[00:28:59] ice

[00:28:59] creams

[00:29:00] during

[00:29:00] the

[00:29:00] pandemic.

[00:29:01] That's

[00:29:02] what is

[00:29:02] the

[00:29:02] Democrat

[00:29:03] Party

[00:29:03] now.

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