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Hey, everybody. Welcome to Vince on a Wednesday, the day after election day. Democrats, yeah, they won the headline races yesterday. We're gonna get into the details of what exactly happened and where we go from here. We've got a lot to discuss. It's all ahead on this edition of Vince. Thank you for being here with me. We've got a country to save, don't we? We've got a lot to get through today. Look, let me tell you something right off the top, though. Beam is a great sponsor of this program. They have been an enduring wonderful sponsor of this program. They've got a wonderful product. And Beam cybersecurity sale right now is open actually for you. Early access for you. It's their best offer of the year. Right now, my listeners get up to 50% off. And with my Code Vince show, no spaces Vince show, you can grab dream for just $32.50. That breaks down to only $1.08 per night. For the best sleep of your life, go to shopbeam.com vinceshow use my code vincehow and don't miss out. 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Yeah, kind of. I am, sort of. As a result, at least as I was getting dressed this morning, what do I put on? A black shirt? I don't like the outcome of yesterday's election at all. I'm not in any way enjoying the fact that in the headline races in places like Virginia, New Jersey, New York City, California, Democrats pulled off a not a clean sweep A dirty sweep of these elections, no question about it. But let me pull the lens back for a moment and let's just think about the context of all of this. One, it is true that in any political election, regardless of the moment, the party that's in power, as in the party that's controlling the White House and the Senate and the House, they do have the most difficult task when it comes to these midterm and off year elections. The party that's out of power has all the pent up frustration and energy and desire to use what little chances they have at the polls to try and claw back their way towards power. That is the case here. Democrats got their asses handed to them in 2024 by President Trump and the coalition that he built. The coalition that includes you great American voters who want to fix our country. Remember, every county in the country moved in Trump's direction. There were New York Times maps showing red arrows dramatically headed towards President Trump and his coalition. It was a massive, massive victory. So with that success comes an off year election, 2025. And so, yes, you will see energy for Democrats. Additionally, something else to remember. Again, all in context, but there's some serious lessons here that we need to take from this as we chart a path forward. You have blue states. These are all blue states we're talking about these headline elections. California is as blue as it gets. Prop 50 losing the Prop 50 fight there. This is the election rigging ballot initiative that Gavin Newsom was pushing in order to redraw the maps to try and make it so that there are fewer Republican congressmen. Yeah, he succeeded in that election rigging scheme yesterday because the state is deeply blue. They just had enough Democrat voters to rig the election. That's as straightforward as it gets. Were there Republicans, conservatives, decent people who are trying to stop that from happening? Absolutely. And they continue to live in California and they've been long suffering. Long gone are the days of Ronald Reagan and Pete Wilson. No, things have changed quite a bit in California and for the worse. So California will continue its descent in light of all of that Democrat corruption and governance. But then of course, look at the other states that we're talking about yesterday. New Jersey, Virginia, New York City. In each of these elections, you are talking about very blue areas. And yes, that includes Virginia. Virginia, like it or not, thanks to the massive, massive population growth of Northern Virginia, desperately intertwined with the federal government, Virginia is a blue state. In fact, Glenn Youngkin and company, Glenn Youngkin, the Republican governor of Virginia right now, soon to leave the Reason he got the job at all is because Democrats face planted so substantially four years ago that it was Glenn Youngkin's ability to ride in on their failures. Terry McAuliffe, his Democrat opponent, should probably have won that election. But McAuliffe made a massive mistake in the final closing days of the election where he stepped up and he said that parents have no right to be a part of their children's education. Well, because of Glenn Youngkin's talented use of that moment, he was able to come into office riding a wave of parental anger against the Democrats. That's just how it worked. And this time, a less talented candidate existed in Virginia. Lt. Governor Winston Sears is a good woman. She's a United States Marine, and I'll forever be grateful for her service in that way. But she's not as talented as a politician as Glenn Youngkin. Ask anybody in Virginia. They'll tell you that. Also, what was her coalition? Not exactly clear. She spoke out against Donald Trump. She really treated him like crap early in the 2024 election. She eventually comes around. But lots of Trump supporters remember this. Her campaign was basically forgettable. This campaign. There weren't a lot of strong agenda items that she had to offer, not any that were memorable. It was kind of that, hey, if you like the Youngkin administration, let's continue with her. That's kind of it. And as I've said, I think that she didn't make herself available to the people who she needed to in order to get their support. She should have appeared on my show again. I've talked about this at some length. I don't say this as a matter of bitterness or resentment. I say this as a matter of political activism. We've got a huge audience, not only here on this podcast, but on the national radio show and specifically in the Virginia area by virtue of the great radio station WMAL on which I broadcast every single day. She should have been there. And it's not just my show. There are other shows that she should have probably done just to make herself more available. Clearly, you know, in the waning days of the Virginia campaign, there were real opportunities available to her to be more present for parents to be more aggressive against the sins of Democrats, against people like Jay Jones, the guy with the murderous fantasies, the Attorney General nominee for Democrats who just won the race, who just won the race to become the next Attorney General of Virginia. There were some failures of the candidacy here in Virginia, that's true. New Jersey, also a blue state. Blue state. Jack Cittarelli, he didn't come Close. There was hope he would. The polls certainly indicated there was energy for him. But in the end, he didn't come close to that victory. A double digit loss for Jack Cittarelli to Mikey Sherrill. And before I get to New York City, I want to dwell on Virginia and New Jersey for a moment and the lessons that are contained within those states. As I mentioned, they are blue states. But when President Trump ran last year in both of those states, he came very close to winning them. President Trump's margins behind Kamala Harris in both Virginia and in New Jersey were a lot closer than anyone expected. The Trump coalition is real and it's powerful. And in fact, long gone are the days that you had some sort of notion that, well, maybe you gotta run away from Trump, distance yourself from him, not actually embrace his agenda. No, in fact, the only agenda that has demonstrated signs of both electoral success and coalition building and the ability to get low propensity voters out is Donald Trump's agenda. In fact, if you're going to win in America today and defeat these Democrats, you have to follow the campaign strategy and agenda of the man who keeps winning Donald Trump. It's clear Winsome Sears should have fully embraced the Trump agenda, not run away from it, embraced it wholeheartedly. Jack Cittarelli, by the way, tried in New Jersey. He did establish a kind of warm embrace for Trump, but in the end it wasn't enough. So what kind of difference maker could we have had? Well, one, I do think, and again, we're just in the early hours after the election, but I do think it's worth thinking about. Could President Trump himself have played a role in these elections in a bigger way? Well, certainly he could have opted to. Now President Trump has, he's had a lot to do. He's got a busy presidential agenda. He's trying to establish world peace. After all, peace deal after peace deal. He's been busy battling out on all these trade deals. He's been busy trying to secure our borders and eject illegal foreign nationals from our country. He's been busy trying to bring fuel prices down to restore our economy. He's definitely been busy as the President of the United States. But insofar as he can play a role in these elections, in places like Virginia and New Jersey, he came in kind of in the last minute. He definitely posted on Truth Social a lot, but he came in sort of at the last minute to do teletown halls to kind of assist these candidates from a distance phone call in and tell people that they should support Them. He said over the course of the last week, especially on Truth Social, that people should be supporting Republicans because it'll help them get their energy prices down. And the Democrats would be a nightmare if they continue to or if they establish control. He was, of course, right about those things. But if I'm the White House today, one thing I might consider is it would be a good idea for President Trump to hit the campaign trail in support of candidates in tough races. The President's got a massive, massive coalition who support him, but they don't support every Republican, not reflexively. They need to be convinced that those Republicans are on Trump's team, support his agenda, are fighting for our country. And so this is an area where I do think that President Trump may have been able to play a very positive difference in increasing the odds that these guys would get across the finish line. Again, I'm not pretending like it wasn't a tough situation. Of course, it's an off year election. Republicans are controlling Washington, and these are blue states we're talking about. So we shouldn't play a game of pretend like this was some guarantee that Republicans were gonna have victories. But it is worth thinking about what you do in terms of agenda items. And another thing, in Virginia, here's something to remember. The government shutdown continues to this very day. Northern Virginia, the area that I was just talking about, the area that made Virginia as blue as it is now, is populated very heavily, very heavily by federal government workers and companies whose very existence depends on taking federal taxpayer dollars. It is a swampy region of Virginia, no question. And in fact, in Virginia, among federal workers, 61% of federal workers supported the Democrats. Abigail Spanberger, now let me just place that in context for you. These are federal workers who are not receiving paychecks right now because of Democrats. Democrats have shut the government down, but the exit polling shows that 61% of them decided to support their abusers. What is that? Take a look. CNN last night, Jake Tapper marveling at the fact that federal workers were too stupid to realize who was hurting them. Watch.
