Posted on 11/06/2024 5:48:00 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Transcript from ChatGPT:
Q: What do you expect the next couple of months to be like once he's in?
A: Well, look, he has an opportunity here to try to unite the country after a huge victory. This is a mandate. He's won the national popular vote for the first time for a Republican since 2004. This is a big deal. He isn’t just backing into office; this is a mandate to do what he said he would do: get the economy working again for regular working-class Americans, fix immigration, try to get crime under control, and reduce chaos in the world. This is a mandate from the American people to do that.
I'm interpreting the results tonight as the revenge of the regular, old, working-class American—the anonymous American who has been crushed, insulted, and condescended to. They’re not garbage, they’re not Nazis; they’re just regular people who get up and go to work every day, trying to make a better life for their kids. They feel like they’ve been told to just shut up whenever they complain about what’s hurting them in their own lives.
I also feel like this election, as we sit here and pour over this tonight, is something of an indictment of the political information complex. For weeks now, we’ve been hearing stories that just weren't true. We were told things like Puerto Rico would change the election, or that Liz Cheney, Nikki Haley, or women voters lying to their husbands would be decisive factors. Before that, it was Tim Walls and the camo hats. Night after night, we heard these gimmicks would somehow push Harris over the line. We were ignoring the fundamentals: inflation, and people feeling like they were barely able to tread water at best. Those were the fundamentals of the election.
Both parties should always look at election results to figure out what went right and what went wrong. But for those of us who cover elections and talk about them daily, we need to figure out how to understand, talk to, and listen to the half of the country that rose up tonight and said, “We’ve had enough.” I think we need to listen to everybody, actually.
The polls, too, didn’t get it right. Some of these battleground states had larger spreads than expected—not as close as we thought they’d be. While it hasn’t been called yet, the likelihood that he gets to 270 is high. The people who voted for Harris are struggling, too. They feel ignored as well. A Republican’s pain is no greater or less than a Democrat’s pain.
We now have a moment. I’m not saying you’re doing this, but we can point fingers and say, “Haha, you lost, I told you so,” or we can do what Trump said—although I’m skeptical—that he wants to unify the country. Actions speak louder than words.
For Van, for you, and for Axe, I’ve been on the losing side of tough nights like this in my professional life. It’s not easy to lose a race like this. One of my most crushing nights was in 2012, while it was one of your best. So, I understand. I do think that the new president has a responsibility to make the whole country feel they can be part of a more optimistic future.
This campaign was run as though Democrats thought there were enough people who hated Trump or were willing to fear him to win the race. It turns out there’s more to being president than simply not being Donald Trump in the eyes of the American people. I’m a little worried about how Democrats will react. They’ve been told Trump is a modern-day Hitler or, at least, a fascist. Now, Kamala Harris may have to wake up in the morning, concede to him, and then go to the Senate to certify the election, which she’ll do.
I’m concerned about the consequences of conditioning half the country to believe that the person who just won the popular vote is going to be a dictator. We need to reckon with the aftermath of that argument. The people who said Trump was a Hitler-like figure weren't Democrats; they were Republicans. Those who said he was a fascist weren’t Democrats either; they were Republicans who worked for him.
It’s not just elite Democrats poisoning the well. There was a broad consensus—from Chomsky to the Cheneys—that was very, very concerned and remains so. It’s not just up to us to stop calling names; it’s up to him to show, with deeds, that he won’t be listening only to elites.
Q: Are you just dismissing all criticism of Trump as elitism?
A: No, I’m not dismissing it. But looking at these results, you have to conclude that the non-elite portion of this country basically said, “We’ve had enough”—whether that’s on the economy, immigration, how we were treated during COVID, or other issues. That’s always been Trump’s appeal: the sense that elites, experts, and institutions are misleading everyone else. He’s never going to get along with the elites, and he didn’t in this election either.
Hereafter to be referred to as the, “Deplorable Garbage Mandate”.
He nails it.
Big moment in the election - which was a CHANGE election - vast majority of voters wanted change - was Kamala asked what she’d do different than Biden and she said NOTHING.
Nothing?
Can’t come up with one nuanced response to separate yourself from the economy, Iraqi withdrawal, anything?
She tried to run as an outsider to fix the problems but she was already in office. Was bizarre.
One guy on CNN gets it. He summed it up perfectly.
And thr dems will ignore him.
The Dems are the stupid party, they hitched their wagons to a stupid DEI candidate and embraced the politics of the squad - it’s a losing formula.
They need to stop the hate and stop the lawfare.
Here we go again. I don’t want to hear that back-stabbing word “unite” out of these stupid mouths one more time. Right out of the gate with the “unity” bullshit. Yeah hug your enemy, right? If you are Donald Trump you do not unite with this level of hate and absolutely demonic opposition. GTMO needs to be jammed to the rafters with these treasonous SOB’s. That’s the only kind of unity we need.
Biden and Harris and Shumer have a couple of more months to wreck the United States. Got to keep a close eye on them.
Interesting
Question for legal eagles:
Trump is President and it appears that we have a Republican Senate coming up, and we should continue to have a Republican house.
Can the federal Congress pass federal laws concerning **Federal elections** that state that anyone voting in a federal election must have an ID regardless of their state laws?
Pass laws regarding the use of drop boxes and absentee ballots in **federal elections?**
Maybe they can rein in the methods that the Democrats have been using if only in federal elections where it’s important?
>> Can the federal Congress pass federal laws concerning **Federal elections** that state that anyone voting in a federal election must have an ID regardless of their state laws?
I believe they can — there are other laws on the books that apply to Federal elections — and congress SHOULD do as you suggest. At #1 priority. I am certain that President Trump understands this — probably even better than you and I!
“Time to take out the garbage starting with the GOP-e”
The rot Dems have with working class voters has expanded in other racial lines. That has to be a big warning sign to someone, somewhere behind the scenes. The Biden WH went way too left and the Dems paid for it.
To me, this is more proof the 2020 election was stolen by the democrats. Had they not stolen it and TRUMP made President in 2020, he would be out of their hair by now. Instead we have FOUR MORE YEARS OF TRUMP!
I love the taste of democrat tears in the morning. Tastes like VICTORY!
“this is more proof the 2020 election was stolen by the democrats”
Probably Gods plan all along, look what the dems did in 4 years and WAKE UP AMERICA!
Thanks, let us hope that gets action in the next session!
That’s a good point.
I also think that the Biden Admin. lying about inflation hurt Harris badly. When the numbers the government releases just don’t correlate with what the average person is seeing, that average person is likely to distrust the Administration. Add that to the pinch that person is feeling, and they are not going to approve of that Administration.
“It’s the economy, stupid.”
The interesting thing is, the Administration could probably deflect a lot of the criticism by publishing more “real” numbers, and then deflect blame onto, well, anyone and anything but itself. Never admit it’s your literal vote buying that is most of the problem. This can devolve into all sorts of arguments about whether or not the purported causes are really the problem(s) and how much each is to blame, but most voters won’t follow that deeply.
I’d be very interested: Was one single pollster ballsy enough to ask the question “Do you trust the government?”
The economy and inflation did the Dems in and the open borders, money printing causing the inflation.
Dems with an open primary in 2028 if they can get through the ‘far left’ that controls their party and go for a Bill Clinton fake moderate type would be difficult to beat.
They’ve got 70 million votes for Kamala? She’s terrible and they still voted for her. So we have a win here but the Swamp is still there - resisting.
It’s not just up to us to stop calling names; it’s up to him to show, with deeds, that he won’t be listening only to elites.
Never mind how Trump ACTUALLY governed in his 1st term, or that you (Jennings) just made the point about Trump's appeal to average Americans.
Point taken.
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