Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election, and might even win the popular vote! So, is America back? And how should Trump supporters react? Glenn, Pat, and Stu discuss the incredible Election Night results: "We witnessed a miracle...this shouldn't have happened last night...God was gracious yesterday. He is not done with America." And Pat has to get in a bit of a gloatfest about Kamala Harris and Tim Walz' defeat.
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GLENN: So none of us had any sleep last night. And so you'll have to excuse us. It's a little -- we're a little delirious. And my apologies, and this is sincere. My apologies for not starting off the program with, thank you, Lord. Thank you to the almighty for giving us, not what we deserve, but giving us mercy. Which we do not deserve.
We witnessed a miracle, last night. With everything that was going against us, everything that -- I mean, this -- this shouldn't have happened last night.
I mean, I'm glad it did. But they have spent half a billion dollars just on abortion. Half a billion dollars, on the abortion message.
Yes. The -- the -- the direction of our country, is -- is completely in the wrong direction.
And enough people woke up, enough people saw that, and stood up, and -- and were willing to be called Nazis and everything else.
And they just didn't care. And I -- I think, that was a miracle.
And God was gracious, yesterday.
He is not -- he is not done with America, apparently. He's just not done. So thank you, Lord. Thank you.
PAT: I agree with that whole-heartedly. Whole-heartedly.
GLENN: Pat, hi. Thank you.
PAT: Welcome, good to be here. I also have just one other little message, if I may.
GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. Sure.
PAT: And it goes a little something like...
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GLENN: Okay. All right.
PAT: Now, just that. It's another --
GLENN: See, that's wrong. That is just really, really wrong. Especially physical you did it -- if you did it again. Then --
STU: Don't do it again.
PAT: I shouldn't do this again.
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GLENN: Oh, my.
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GLENN: So, you know, what the problem is, that sounded a bit gloaty.
PAT: We don't want to do that. We want to be gracious winners.
STU: I can sense that towards the end.
PAT: Because if you did that a third time. It would probably be misconstrued.
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GLENN: Wow! Wow.
STU: Beautiful --
PAT: Thank you. Thank you.
I've been working on it.
GLENN: I was going to say, that is a beautiful voice, that you have.
STU: Oh, you know what, Pat, if I may. If I may.
PAT: And you may.
STU: I love that Tim Walz gets a mention in that.
PAT: Oh, my gosh,, yes. Had to be.
STU: I love --
PAT: I don't ever want to see -- yeah. Let Minnesota deal with it. I don't want to.
STU: Good luck, Minnesota.
PAT: Oh, my gosh.
GLENN: Can I tell you something, it was almost a perfect night, when we thought for a second, they may lose Minnesota.
PAT: Yeah. Yeah.
GLENN: It was like, oh, my gosh.
STU: Yeah. They won Minnesota by four points.
PAT: Wow.
GLENN: Four!
STU: Four! That's it.
PAT: Wow.
STU: He almost got Minnesota. He almost got New Jersey too!
PAT: Are you projecting 312? That's what we've got, the countdown. Eventually, it will be 312 to 226. That's a big win.
STU: I think that's right. Yeah.
PAT: That's a big win. And he's up by, what? 5 million in the popular vote. Thank heavens.
STU: Now, that will shrink a lot. That will come down.
PAT: Do you think he's not going to win the popular vote? He's going to win it, right?
GLENN: Shut up, Stu! Shut up!
STU: Gosh. I mean -- I think so. I think so.
PAT: Please say it's so.
GLENN: Stu's about to call a Georgia. He's about to call Georgia.
STU: What are you talking about?
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STU: I legitimately -- there are so far, Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada, along with Alaska, which some places still haven't called.
PAT: Well, that's ridiculous.
STU: But assuming he sweeps all four of those states, he gets to 312. I think there's a possibility that he could lose either one of them. But I do not expect it. I do not expect it.
PAT: Even CNN has it 276. So it's over. It's over.
STU: And the celebration. And the anchor. And Glenn's 14 seconds of calm, coherent thinking, all of that came behind, before we really gave a full update on this.
I mean, Georgia. If you look at the swing states. North Carolina, Donald Trump by three. Georgia, Donald Trump by two. Pennsylvania, Donald Trump by three. Michigan, Donald Trump by two. Wisconsin, Donald Trump by one. Arizona, 63 percent of the vote in, Donald Trump by five.
Nevada, 86 percent of the vote in, Donald Trump by four. So he would swing -- if he -- he would get all seven of the states.
PAT: Wow! Wow!
GLENN: So, Stu, you would say then, that the polls were actually pretty accurate.
STU: Yeah. I think they were pretty good. Now, everybody is going to remember one poll which is the Selzer poll in Iowa, which missed by about 60 million points.
PAT: What an embarrassment for her. What -- it was literally 17 and a half points, she missed by.
GLENN: Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
She did what we were saying none of the others did. And that is, release the outliers. That were way, way, way out. That was part of polling, if you want to be honest.
Now, that's what Stu has just said. Pat, how would you respond to this?
STU: What do you think?
PAT: To the actual outcome of the election? You mean. Something like.
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PAT: Maybe something like that.
GLENN: Something like that. That would be wrong, of course, if --
PAT: Of course. Of course. Especially -- you can't. You just can't.
GLENN: And you can still speak, which is crazy.
STU: Incredible.
GLENN: The -- the -- he's got like iron or US steel vocal cord.
PAT: Uh-huh.
GLENN: The -- the -- we haven't done a gloat fest, I think since maybe John Kerry?
PAT: I'll bet it's -- I mean, there's been no reason to. So...
Yeah.
STU: I think we did them in the Tea Party wave election of 2010, I believe. A gloat fest was mixed in there. 2014, maybe, which was a good year for Republicans. But that's probably been the last time.
GLENN: It's been a while. It's been a while. And gosh, it doesn't feel good. Does it? Not at all.
I'm sure, the calls haven't come in yet. But I'm expecting the calls to come in and say, hey, stop gloating. Stop rubbing it in their face. And you're right. You're right.
STU: So do you think the Democrats will take a smart lesson from this and realize, maybe they've overstepped their -- their -- maybe they outran their coverage a little -- their coverage a little bit, when they decided to say, hey, maybe all boys can play girl's sports.
PAT: Right. Right.
STU: And we should be, let's say, taking money from taxpayers and use it to fund transition of criminals in prison? Do you think maybe they'll learn the lesson there? Or do you think it's going to be --
PAT: And what if they thought, hey. I wonder if next time we should nominate someone who at least got one vote from Democrats.
STU: Lessons. Wow, that's a good one, Pat.
We should on write a little book for them, and they can learn some lessons. Like maybe run a campaign that wins votes.
PAT: Right. Right.
GLENN: I predict a -- a historic movement of reflection on the media's part today.
STU: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
GLENN: That would be --
PAT: Really. Yeah.
GLENN: I mean, it's historic, because you get your butt kicked this badly. You destroy your credibility this much.
And I can guarantee you, there won't be any self-reflection at all.
STU: Oh, I think so.
I disagree with that. Actually, I think that stuff is true. There will be a reflection from the media. And they will decide, if only they had called him Hitler one more time. They would have won. If they could have just --
GLENN: Did we call him Hitler enough?
STU: Yeah. If they would have just said fascist, a few more times. Would have just left a few more on the field.
GLENN: I told you. I told you, we should have gone with Pol Pot.
No one is afraid of Hitler anymore.
STU: I mean, that is just.
GLENN: And Pennsylvania will be the killing fields!
STU: No. I think they needed maybe three more handmade's tale references.
If they just come up with a couple more of those.
If they just come up with the red robes, and the red hats. You more time.
This could have gone another way.
PAT: What if they brought up abortion another couple of times? What if they did that? January 6th. Maybe.
STU: Maybe they could have got another one of their donors to try to kill the president again!
Maybe that would be -- it happened twice!
GLENN: Eighth time is the charm.
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STU: Unbelievable.
GLENN: It is -- it is unbelievable.
And, you know, I -- think, well, I know, we would have been on the air today, saying, okay.
So what do we do?
What did we do wrong? How are we not connecting? We would have been crying in our soup, you know. Assuming we could afford soup.
But we would have been really depressed today. But there would be self-reflection, and then we would be going, what did we do wrong? How is this message not getting heard? And what are we doing that is -- that is making people not come to this message?
PAT: Yeah.
GLENN: They're not going to spend any of that time. None of that.
STU: I think we would have just said, you know, it's because that other side are so hateful, and they don't understand. That's what they're saying. Everybody is a racist and a sexist.
PAT: And they'll break out Russian interference or something. I mean, they will make some kind of excuse for this.
GLENN: They already are, gang. They already are.
STU: I flipped on Morning Joe. President whole thing. All they're doing is coming up excuses, in realtime. And it's every single thing you would think it would be.
PAT: Wow.
STU: There's no reflection. No moment of sanity.
GLENN: Hang on, I just have to -- I just have to play cut one, please. Cut one. MSNBC.
VOICE: Kids watching for the first time election results. They should know that we never had bomb threats, before Donald Trump became a presidential candidate.
STU: What! The Weather Underground was blowing up stuff all over the place.
PAT: My gosh.
GLENN: They didn't threaten. They actually exploded the bombs.
STU: Right.
GLENN: That's the difference.
PAT: Wow!
GLENN: And another super, super favorite. This who couldn't even CNN.
Cut two.
VOICE: Donald Trump is not running for two years.
Kamala Harris has been running for 170. 170 days.
STU: Oh, yeah.
VOICE: So one of my questions is particularly with her candidacy is whether that was just enough time to introduce herself to the country.
STU: Introduce herself. She's the vice president.
PAT: My gosh. It's unreal. It's unreal.
STU: Unreal.
VOICE: Or whether she could have used a little more time.
STU: A couple more weeks.
GLENN: Hang on one last thing I want to play.
And that is, what's coming. They're on to us, guys.
They're on to us. They know, and here they are. Ratting us out.
What our plans are. Cut six.
VOICE: The historians in the future, are allowed to write books.
Boy, that question is open.
PAT: Yeah.
VOICE: And the people who are allowed to go on television, and say what they think, in the future.
Which again, that question is open this morning.
STU: No. It's not.
VOICE: In the future, historians will look back on this day and say, this is the day that America made the choice between freedom and democracy on one side, and authoritarianism and dictatorship.
GLENN: Yes. And we voted for freedom.
STU: Yep.
GLENN: And democracy. And the republic. So congratulations, America.
And, Pat, I don't want to hear that song anymore. Not a single note. No more.
STU: Which song?
PAT: I'm just reflecting on.
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GLENN: All right. Okay. Okay. Stop it right now.
No more of that.