Join John Rush and insightful guests as they break down the recent elections, looking closely at the victory against Marxism and other pressing political challenges. This episode provides a thorough analysis of the presidential race, dissects the media’s role, and critiques the political strategies that led to noticeable shifts in voter sentiment. Discover what this means for future elections and the changes necessary in both political leadership and public policy to sustain American values.
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SPEAKER 04 :
All right, hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes, and Richard Battle joining us now. Richard, we won.
SPEAKER 10 :
Good afternoon, John and Andy and Charlie also. It is a great day, and yes, the people stood up and won.
SPEAKER 04 :
We have been unburdened by what has been.
SPEAKER 10 :
I feel a lot less burdened than I was yesterday.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, Richard, I have a medical problem you might want to help me with. How do I get this permanent smile off my face?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, there you go. Well, there’s an expression we have down here where you say somebody’s grinning like a jackass eating cactus.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s good. I mean, it’s always good to win. The work is not over. As you know, we still have to keep fighting. There’s a lot of work that still has to be done. Donald Trump and his team have a lot of work to be done. Certain states, i.e. Colorado, there’s a lot of things that need to be prepped for. We’ve got a governor’s race here in Colorado in two years, a Senate race as well. The reality is, while we might be able to sit back for just a moment and enjoy the victory, the work still continues.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I think that’s right. And I heard Andy talk about the other side, beginning to work on the next elections coming up. We have to remember we’re working on the next elections. Also individually, we need to be talking to our friends and letting them know, look what just came out of the white house or the Washington. That’s good for us. We need to let them know that we need to help president Trump and his team accomplish those promises. because every day we have an opportunity to do something to reinforce this election and prepare success in the next election.
SPEAKER 07 :
Richard, you’re really right, because if we don’t tell the story, it’s not going to get told. I think we all know what the media is like.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, the media propaganda in this election was one of the stories. It’s just unbelievable how much propaganda in the PSYOPs, and even last night, I purposely I like John King on CNN. I like the way he explains the counties and the numbers directly. But CNN was substantially behind in calling states. Newsmax called Georgia at 9.43 Central Time. They didn’t call it in CNN for two hours after that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Even the New York Times, even as liberal as they are, Richard, they called it way before CNN also.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes, and so there’s ways that they’re trying to influence the people in the elections during that time, which even though I like that one part of their coverage, the other part was terrible. Newsmax called the president’s win much earlier, two or three hours earlier than CNN, for example. And that was just an illustration of some of the psyops and media operations that we faced.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right, I’ve got a few things I want to run past you and since Andy’s here as well. These are, and I showed this to Andy already, but Richard, I haven’t used. So my reasons why Harris lost. I want you guys to chime in and tell me whether I’m right or not. I’m going to run through these really quick, and you guys can come back and tell me whether I’m right, wrong, or otherwise. Number one, they shunned and turned off the mail voter, the majority of mail voters. They not only ignored them, they pushed them aside, and then last minute demanded their vote. But media messaging is not the same as it once was, something all parties should understand. People are getting their media from nontraditional sources like TikTok, podcast, radio and X. They ran the lowest IQ candidate they had, literally could not hold a press conference or interview without a word. salad answer. The campaign was not about what they would do to help America, but rather how bad Donald Trump is or was. They ignored the border and the invasion, making the Latino men mad. They ignored the economy and made people think it’s better than it actually is. They even had stats that initially supported this and then revised weeks or months later. And remember, most people don’t check the revisions when they come out on that Friday, which they always do. Bottom line is that’s not what America or Bottom line is it’s not that America won’t vote for a woman. It’s just this woman and how she was presented in her campaign to the country.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, what can we say now that you’ve said all that? What did I miss? There was truth in everything. Well, one of the things I think that you missed was we’re talking today, again, about focusing on it being a racist election. And I’m glad they were saying that because that means they missed the point because of all the other issues that you said. And as I said, four years ago, after the last election, their platform is trust me and don’t ask any questions. And we saw that all the things you said. but then they never would stand tall and answer questions for the press or the public.
SPEAKER 04 :
Nope, you’re 100% correct.
SPEAKER 07 :
I think a lot of the groundwork for their loss, John, was actually laid over the last four years. You have a terrible presidency. True. Okay, and there that goes to what you were saying earlier when you said they chose the wrong candidate. Look, not just because Kamala’s inept and word salad and so forth, but she represents this White House.
SPEAKER 04 :
That administration.
SPEAKER 07 :
So you literally took someone from the presidency you want people to forget in order to win because on virtually all the issues except abortion, Republicans are polling well ahead of Democrats. So the last thing you want to do is pick someone from that weakness.
SPEAKER 04 :
Unless, Richard, and you and I talk about this a lot during this hour when it comes to leadership and so on, unless your ego is so large that you feel you’re infallible and then it makes no difference. And am I correct in what I just said?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, absolutely. And in Harris’s concession speech today, we saw that as well. And that’s a great enemy in any leadership position is a good ego will help you attain success, but a too large ego will get in the way and cause your failure.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I think another thing that they did with her is that the death of merit really hurt them. And here’s what I mean. The reason they chose her was they had painted themselves into a demographic corner. They had to choose her because of who she was. They had to choose her for the very reason that they had her run with Biden. She’s a black woman, and she’s a woman of color, and that is why she had to be the running mate. So if at this point when he steps aside, you don’t run her… You’re going to alienate a lot of your base. They had painted themselves into a corner.
SPEAKER 04 :
So they had no choice is what you’re saying.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. No, I agree with what you said on ego. I’m just saying also death of merit.
SPEAKER 04 :
True. I can’t argue that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Go ahead, Richard. Yes.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, I can’t argue that. And, yes, I think logically that was the case. But if you’re going to talk about a change in generational leadership or turning the page and going forward – The only way they could have gotten away with that would have been to pick a candidate outside the administration who did not have any fingerprints on that. And I think they would have had to do it in a way where they could have explained it not to drive those voters off who had been Harris voters.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I think, unfortunately, Richard, that would have had to have been done even prior to having Joe run. They would have had to have that conversation a year plus ago and say, Joe, listen, hey, we kind of know things aren’t going well in your world. You’ve got some memory issues and some other things going on. We want you to retain the presidency all the way to the end. We’re not going to pull that from you. But we can’t have you run for the president of the United States because it’s going to amount to a failure for us. Now, here’s a question for you and Andy both. I’ll start with you, Richard. If they would have had that conversation, no matter what, I think Joe Biden would have said, yeah, you know, you guys can stick that in your ear because the reality is I’m going all the way through. I’m the Biden family. I’m the Biden regime. And we don’t bow out. What are your thoughts, Richard?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I think you’re exactly right. But I think that conversation would have been the smart thing and the thing I would have expected the Democrats to have. And I would have expected them to have somebody lined up. I think that the powers behind the throne were shocked because when Biden announced his resignation or his leaving the campaign and said he was endorsing her, she picked the ball up immediately and grabbed it. And I think they were expecting an opportunity for an open primary. And Biden and Harris circumvented that with their quick response. And if they would have been prepared better, I think they could have avoided that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thoughts, Andy?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I don’t think there’s any way they could have avoided it the way it is because we have to keep in mind the Bidens are a business. OK, they sell influence. That’s how they make their millions. And I mean, hundreds of millions. OK, that’s how they make enormous amounts of money. And they can only do that in so long as they are in office. And so Biden was going to want to run and try to stay in office as long as he could to keep the cash cow going. So if you say you go to him a year, year and a half ago and tell him, hey, we need you to step aside. We don’t think you’re going to win. back then, you would have had to offer him an enormous sum of money, and I mean money that would come largely from overseas, from Chinese interests.
SPEAKER 04 :
But didn’t they end up having to do that anyways?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, they did. They ended up having to do that anyway but what but at first would you do you make that big offer early on i mean you do if you’re smart but they’re not smart and so they didn’t think about that and richard i don’t think they thought ahead enough i don’t think they planned ahead enough well there you go Because they would have had to go to the Chinese. They would have had to go to the people who own the Bidens and have those people say, look, we’re going to give you an enormous payout if you give us a better candidate that we can own going forward. What do you think, Richard?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I agree with that. And yes, no, there’s no way he would have stepped aside earlier. And the big question now is, will he step aside between now and January so that there can be the first woman president?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, because I go back on that, Richard, and Charlie and I were talking about this even before coming on today at 3. My answer is a no, because that’s not the deal Jill made in having him step out in the first place.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and they don’t like Kamala.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, they hate each other.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I think that’s true, plus the way she got tarred and feathered and beaten was, that would be a sign of weakness also.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, Joe Biden doesn’t – the Biden family, let me say it that way, because Joe’s – I’m sorry, he’s dementia, Alzheimer’s, whatever. He’s not all there anyway. So the reality, Joe, though, is – or the reality, Richard, for Joe and the family is the Bidens don’t want that legacy being left. They don’t want him running all the way up until – roughly December, if you would, of 2024, two months prior to him actually, not even that maybe, leaving the White House for good. There’s no way they’re going to allow that legacy. And last but not least, there’s no way that Joe Biden gives up everything that happens at the White House for Christmas by letting Kamala enter.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, that and also, let’s face facts. If he steps down because he doesn’t feel he can finish the race, you know, finish his term, what does that say about everything they said for the last two years that he was competent and could run? Oh, what? This suddenly happened in the last couple months? Come on.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, I think you’re spot on.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, let’s just say this. It’s a great day, and I know there’s a lot of folks on the other side that don’t feel that way, although, Richard, I feel like we dodged a huge bullet when it comes to the Marxists slash communists of this country and what they wanted to do to further their agenda. We dodged a huge bullet yesterday in that fact, and I’m glad there were enough Americans out there that realized the same thing. I think there’s other factors, by the way. They may not be seeing it the exact same way I am, but I’m telling you right now, we dodged a huge bullet when it comes to Marxism.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, we did, and there’s going to be an unwinding in the federal government of DEI and a lot of these things that have been put in the last several years, which will help us retain some liberty and stave off the Marxist attack. They won’t stop, but that’s going to stave it off for a little while. That’s why we need Donald Trump to be as successful as possible in these next four years.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. RichardBattle.com is the place to go. What can they find there, Richard?
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SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and in closing, Richard, I think what you just said a moment ago is what at least over half of Americans think of this country. I was proud of that last night because there are a majority of people out there that feel like, hey, I want to be proud of my country again. Let’s vote Donald Trump in.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and the way we do that is we do things through the government for everyone. We don’t isolate students or black farmers or other groups and divide people. You do things for everyone that makes them proud of the country and appreciate the protection and safety that the government gives us through the military, etc.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive. This is John Rush.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Devers Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes. Okay, I want to add one thing to the shunned the mail voter because all of the stats last night, for those of you that maybe didn’t pick up on this, I mean, a lot of the forecasters last night were picking up on it. They were really pointing out the fact that, wow, we can’t believe that the mail vote in such and such county was 72% or 63% or 58% or that Latino mail vote in that area. It was devastating. X amount. I mean, it was just huge. I mean, the amount of male support for Donald Trump far outweighed the female support for her. And that’s a lot of why the election went the way it was. So not only did they shun and turn out the male voter, they literally ignored them and pushed them aside. And then I added a paragraph to this that basically said, and I hope a lot of you guys can relate to this. Sorry. Sorry, ladies. But this is might hit home for some families. Like the man whose opinion doesn’t matter on items that are important but then is demanded to do things like take out the trash or other menial tasks that she wants done right after he sits down to watch the big game or the MMA fight and is now comfortable. Or he has his work calendar all planned out for the day and his female boss changes it just because she can. Or the date that he goes on where the woman talks the entire time about woman’s rights but then demands he pays for the meal at the end of the event. Yeah. Those guys, Andy. Am I wrong?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I’m sure those guys would be very upset and would vote against Kamala, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
And what I’m saying is there’s a lot of those guys out there that are tired of being told constantly, you guys don’t matter. You are literally just a paycheck for your family. You don’t matter at all. And you know what, Andy? That’s what the left thinks of most men. Yeah. Literally, that’s what they think. And these guys rose up yesterday and finally said enough is enough.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I think the men of America rose up and said, my masculinity is not toxic. Right. It’s natural.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s normal. I’m here to protect my family. I’m here to protect the unborn. I’m here to protect my wife or my girlfriend or whatever else needs done. This is my job, and I take it very seriously.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and why does the left always assume that that means that the woman has to be helpless? Look, just because I would lay down my life and die to protect my wife doesn’t mean I want her to be helpless.
SPEAKER 04 :
She’s not, by the way. She’s very strong. You and I both are the type where it’s not even lay down your life for her. I would do that for most women in general if the circumstances were such.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right? Yes. And what’s wrong with that?
SPEAKER 08 :
Nothing. Nothing.
SPEAKER 04 :
Nothing. Because here’s where we’ve gotten as a country. And I think this is what happened yesterday. You can get a dirty look at times for just holding the door open for a woman.
SPEAKER 07 :
Or they do the token touch. Yeah. You’re holding the door, but they have to touch it to go through. Yeah. I don’t really look. Which is, by the way, is total nonsense. What is wrong with cherishing women? Nothing. What is wrong with putting them on that pedestal? I think that’s great. I think they’re special. I think they’re wonderful. I look at my wife and I’m like, wow. Right. Okay. What is wrong with that? Wow. Okay. Why? Look, men being masculine is normal. Women being feminine is normal. That’s right. Okay, both of them working as a team together and loving each other is normal.
SPEAKER 04 :
Let me add one thing to that. Knowing which part of that you are is normal. Yes. Right, Andy?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. Believing that you are literally trapped in the wrong body is not normal.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, it is not.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, it’s not normal. Yes. What we saw yesterday was the rise of the normals.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER 07 :
The normals rose up, and we only got a second here.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, no, take your time. We’re fine. Okay, good.
SPEAKER 07 :
Let me run with this, okay? Because those things are normal, okay? Not wanting somebody with male chromosomes to go into the boxing ring and beat up a woman, not wanting that is normal. OK, that’s right. Wanting a nation to actually have a functioning border is normal.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, because these are the same individuals that lock their doors at night. Yeah. That protect their families, Andy, at night, that run around and make sure that everything is dialed in at night. These are the same guys that voted for Donald Trump.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, but what I’m saying is everything about our side is normal. Look at Elon Musk. Wanting free speech.
SPEAKER 04 :
Is normal.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wanting speech to be free is normal.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, because that’s a God-given right that we have, Andy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I mean, look what The View came out and said today. They said if we could regulate social media, we could have done something about this.
SPEAKER 04 :
In other words, let’s shut down free speech. Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Shutting down the free speech of others is not normal, okay? Wanting men in women’s sports is not normal, okay? Wanting a wide open border when that exists almost nowhere else in the world is not normal, okay? Wanting fentanyl to pour into our streets is not normal. Letting gangs like TDA run rampant and take over whole apartment buildings is not normal. That’s not America for crying out loud. We’re going to tell them, get out!
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Because we…
SPEAKER 03 :
can and we should that’s right uh caller susan go ahead hi john hello susan how are you good how are you great day i’m i’m good it is a great day yeah i just want to make a short and sharp comment go ahead what you’re talking absolutely on what you’re talking about as a strong intelligent independent christian woman who happens to be single at the time what’s not spoken enough is that as a strong, independent Christian woman, we want an alpha male. We want that strong male who will be just what you’re talking about, but there are so many men that aren’t. And so, you know, thank you for talking about that.
SPEAKER 04 :
You’re very welcome, Susan. And you know me. I mean, I hate to say it, the way my dad raised me, I don’t know any other way to do it. That’s how I was raised.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, I don’t understand why the left, Susan, I don’t know why the left thinks they’re doing some big favor for women by producing whole generations of weak men.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I don’t either. I don’t either. Well, I do.
SPEAKER 04 :
And really quick, I do. Susan, I know how you were raised as well. But I know why that is the case. Keep in mind, folks, at the heart of all of this, it’s good versus evil. The Marxists are evil. And the way that you continue to degrade… generations of not only family individuals, families, and so on, but the way you knock the people down is the very thing that we’re talking about. You produce weak men. You produce weak women. You produce people that are dependent upon government and aren’t independent of, that can’t do things for themselves. This is by design.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, you’re right, John. You’re spot on.
SPEAKER 04 :
And it is good versus evil, because Susan, you know as well as I, because I know your background in faith. God designed us the way that we’ve been talking today. I’ve said this many, many times. He didn’t design you, the woman, out of my head as the man so that you could rule over me or that we would be equals in that particular area. He didn’t take you out of my feet so I could rule over you and stomp all over you. He took you out of my side so we could be partners in life.
SPEAKER 03 :
Exactly. Exactly.
SPEAKER 04 :
And that is by design.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, it is by design. And, you know, God’s always in charge. We know that. And he definitely had his hand in the results and very happy with the results that we got yesterday.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I appreciate your confidence in us, Susan. Thank you for that very much.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, it’s just not spoken enough that that really is the heart of what so many women want in a man. We don’t want emasculated men who are just that.
SPEAKER 04 :
You don’t want Tim Walz.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, my gosh.
SPEAKER 04 :
Putting it bluntly, yes, you’re correct, Andy. Right.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, my gosh.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right. Well, thank you, Susan. I appreciate that very much. Thanks for the vote of confidence.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. Love you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Appreciate you very much. No, I mean that sincerely. I’ve known Susan for eons, and we go back a long, long way, and I appreciate her saying that because, Andy, there are times where I think our side even, even we as men, I’ll be straight up honest, even as strong alpha Christian men, we can look at this sometimes because all the messaging from the entire world is, you guys are doing this wrong. Yeah. You’re not doing this correctly.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, they assume because you’re a strong male type, you’re a strong alpha male, that you’re abusive. Right. You’re oppressive. Right. No. That would mean I was weak. A weak person abuses and oppresses. Correct.
SPEAKER 04 :
Strong people don’t.
SPEAKER 07 :
No.
SPEAKER 04 :
Strong people in power. But my point is sometimes we can get the feeling, gosh, are we doing this the right way? Are we on the right track? Because the world, the media, everybody out there tells us that we’re not. Even the whole psychological world, if you would, of doctors and so on will tell us, Andy, you’re not doing that right.
SPEAKER 07 :
After the break, could you take a look at something? Yes. That constant messaging that has been hammering young men for decades, generations, what kind of effect do you think it’s having on them in America? I mean, young men.
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SPEAKER 04 :
All right, and thank you, by the way. I had several text messages from ladies, and then, of course, Susan called in, just really verifying and thanking us for what we just said a few minutes ago about men in general. So thank you, ladies, by the way. I mean that sincerely. You do not know how much myself, Andy, Charlie, we appreciate your vote of confidence in us because, as I said a moment ago, the world, the media, the left… does nothing but continually beat up on us and that message, making us at times feel like, are we crazy?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and they start it when we’re kids. Absolutely. We as American men have spent decades from our childhood being bathed in messages basically trying to emasculate us.
SPEAKER 04 :
And you asked me earlier, what do I think about young men and that particular message?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, how is it affecting them?
SPEAKER 04 :
I think they get resentful. I think a lot of these men, number one, they’re lost. When they start finding out things like what we just talked about or the Donald Trumps of the world and so on, and they start figuring out that, well, wait a minute, I’ve been lied to this whole time? The normal masculine feelings that I have are actually okay and they’re fine to have? I think once they start realizing that, it’s almost like, wait a minute. I’ve been lied to this entire time by one party. And by the way, Andy, those guys voted yesterday. Yes, they did. They voted yesterday.
SPEAKER 07 :
Look, there are a lot of left-wing parents who look at their son, and their son wants to play with G.I. Joe instead of the more feminine thing. And a lot of left-wing parents look at their kid and say, that’s the beginning of toxic masculinity in my kid. I have to stop that. Otherwise, they simply assume, oh, he’s going to go on to, I don’t know, beat women or something like that. No. No, he’s going to go on to be a guy. He’ll be a normal dude. Yeah, a normal guy. That’s right.
SPEAKER 04 :
He’ll be a normal guy.
SPEAKER 07 :
And guess what? That’s okay. It’s okay to be a normal guy. It’s okay to be a normal girl.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know what, John? What this election said yesterday is it’s okay to be normal. Yeah, amen. It is okay to be normal.
SPEAKER 04 :
Because the left has produced… I mean, again, Andy, they always tell us what they’re doing. They spent, keep in mind, half of their campaign, several months talking about how weird J.D. Vance and our side was. They’re the weirdos, not us.
SPEAKER 08 :
They’re the ones who put a guy in the ring to beat up girls in the Olympics. What, are you kidding me? They’re not normal. They are weird. They are nuts.
SPEAKER 04 :
They talk about what we are while looking in the mirror at themselves. Yeah. Literally. On a lot of issues, Andy.
SPEAKER 07 :
They have kids altering their bodies. Altering their bodies when they’re too young to understand what that means five years out, 10 years out, 15 years out.
SPEAKER 04 :
By the way, folks, and I’ve got another stat that I want to share with you guys. We’ll do that probably here in just a few minutes. But what Andy just said, that’s not happening in the poor communities in the country, by the way. That’s happening in upper middle class or ultra rich families. The average everyday Joe family, the average Joe family isn’t doing the things Andy just mentioned. No. It’s a vogue thing to have your kid change gender.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, it’s these pampered, entitled kids. you know, who are brought up in these families that accommodate any momentary thought you have. You know what, John? I got news for you. I was young. I had a lot of dumb thoughts. Okay? I never thought about being a girl, but I had a lot of dumb thoughts. Okay? What if I had acted on every stupid thought?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. This came from a post from Ari Flesher, who, by the way, is not a conservative. He’s moderate. Moderate. And by the way, it was very anti-Trump for the longest time. Right. I’m very correct in saying that he was anti-Trump forever. He tweeted this out not that long ago. The groups Harris did best with tell you why the Ds have big problems. By the way, this is a lot of what Andy and I have been talking about. Rich people, those making more than $100K, went from plus five for Biden to plus eight for Harris. The rich are the only groups that she improved with. Those who never go to religious services was plus 26 for Harris. Those who say they have no religion were plus 40 for Harris. College grads were plus 8 for Harris, and those with postgraduate degrees were plus 24 for Harris. The D base is college-educated, wealthy, non-religious people. No wonder they’re losing Hispanics and working people. They’re a party that’s increasingly rich, non-religious, and elitist, and are out of touch.
SPEAKER 07 :
They’re the party of snobs.
SPEAKER 04 :
By the way, Ari, I don’t agree with a lot of what you said, but he is 100% correct right there.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, they’re the party of snobs.
SPEAKER 04 :
They are out of touch with reality. And yesterday proved that. And they’re wondering today, how in the world did we lose yesterday? There it is. That’s how you lost.
SPEAKER 07 :
How couldn’t you?
SPEAKER 04 :
I was I’ll be the first to admit Andy knows this because we talked, you know, in the commercials off air and so on. I was very nervous yesterday. I was more nervous yesterday than I’d probably been all the way up to the election. I don’t know why I did a map and I showed Andy didn’t show all of you, but I did a map last Friday. where i thought the electoral college would be on the day after the election i missed one state michigan everything else i had spot on so why was i the way i was yesterday i don’t know because i think at times andy you just feel like do we have this thing handled or not and i don’t want to be you know too overconfident of something that you don’t necessarily know the outcome of and i was nervous yesterday
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, John, I don’t think either of us, I was more confident than you. You were. I was 60-40 that Trump would win. But neither of us wanted to be overconfident because of what happened in 2022.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, look, going into 2022, we thought we would have some, you know, decent gains in the House and Senate. And it was a blue wave bloodbath. Absolutely was. Right. All because of abortion. And so we didn’t know how much is that still going to play a role. As it turned out.
SPEAKER 04 :
Not much.
SPEAKER 07 :
It got swamped under by the economy and immigration.
SPEAKER 04 :
It really got swamped under by those women who, by the way, are supporting us and I’m getting text messages from and so on. So that’s a group that we’ve got to give a lot of credit to. So a lot of you ladies that voted for the conservative side, thank you. You participated in this greatly as well. And I know that our signal isn’t just Colorado. It covers a lot of states that did matter in the electoral college. So thank you. But on top of that, you guys out there, you men, I call you not even the forgotten men, but the repulsed men from the Democrat Party. You’re what won the election yesterday.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s you guys. Congratulations. You did your job very well.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, John, as I’ve been saying, our side has a candidate who watches MMA.
SPEAKER 04 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 07 :
Their side lectures you about pronouns and has a guy who put tampons in men’s rooms. Okay. I’m sorry. Yes. But that is the two parties. That’s the two products that were sold to men yesterday. And men just said, excuse me, are you kidding?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. Yep. You’re right. Okay. So question for you.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Where does Kamala go now? Away. Off in the sunset, never to be seen again?
SPEAKER 07 :
I think she goes back to California and runs for a lower office and probably wins it. Because in California, she can win anything.
SPEAKER 04 :
She doesn’t have to, though. She’s set for life now. I know. She’s a VP. She’s got a lifetime pension from now on.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, but she likes power. And she likes being out there. She likes power. She likes authority. I don’t think she wants to go away.
SPEAKER 04 :
But keep in mind, it’s only because of DEI and where they wanted her to go that got her there in the first place.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, but she’s there now.
SPEAKER 04 :
But will they still support her?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah. In California? Sure. The left?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I meant the party. Will the party support her?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. In California, they will. She has a big name. And so they will look at her and say, hey, why not? She’ll win. And we know that she is guaranteed to do the worst of the worst of the worst for us. She’ll do our bidding.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. But nationally, she’s done.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
She’s done. She’s going back to a state-level thing, and that’s it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I can’t disagree with you. I think you’re right on that. I wonder even will she do anything statewide, but you could be right. We’ll see. Doesn’t matter. I mean, it is what it is. It’s California.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, California, she is what they produce.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, before we close out this particular segment, we take a call here in a moment. Is it a wonder Gabe Evans is struggling?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, it is not.
SPEAKER 04 :
In CD8 or HD8?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, as you know, I predicted it.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s actually CD8, right? Congressional District 8.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Look, our own state party campaigned against him for a couple months. He had to overcome all that. In campaigning against him, they called him every name in the book. He was with the Koch brothers. He was one of these people. That means that there was a sizable contingent of Republicans who believed our state leadership and basically said, I’m going to vote my conscience. I will not support Gabe Evans. I will not, you know, compromise my virtues.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. Right. Okay. We can take a call real quick before we go to break. Alan, go ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, John.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, Alan.
SPEAKER 11 :
I wanted to point out one thing. Good to hear your voice. Good to hear you, Andy. Y’all are dead on.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thank you. I was very excited about the election. My wife and I stayed up and watched until he made it to 270. So we’re excited. But I wanted to point out one thing that was really, really great about this election, that none of the, you know, Fox News, nobody was covering, nobody talked about. Do you know, by my birthday, which is in February, that the war in Ukraine will be over? And, you know, for the last three years, the solution has been, oh, yeah, let’s just mail money to Ukraine. Right. You know, that’s the right thing to do. But that war will be over, and all of the suffering that’s going on there will be over. It’ll be done. And you know what? There was no other reason to vote for Donald Trump. that was the one you should have voted just for the fact the Ukraine war will be over.
SPEAKER 04 :
Can’t argue that.
SPEAKER 11 :
I guarantee you it will.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I think so. No, Alan, I’ve said that all along, too. I believe by the time he’s inaugurated, that thing will be done or at least on its way to being done.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. Good one, Alan. No, thank you. Appreciate you, man. All right, have a great night. Alan Davis, I appreciate it very much. Thank you. Let’s do this. We’ll take a break. We’ll come back. We can combine these here, Charlie, and just do it all in one shot. We’ll come back with a couple of minutes left here this hour. That way, high-five plumbing is next. Don’t forget, they do electrical as well. 877-WE-HIGH-5.
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SPEAKER 04 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. So the only thing that Andy and I, we’re pretty right on a lot of things election-wise. Not bragging, but we did pretty well on a lot of our predictions. Minus one.
SPEAKER 1 :
131.
SPEAKER 04 :
Two, actually. There’s two that I missed. 131, because I really thought it would pass. And I thought the Mountain Lion one would pass, and it didn’t. I’m glad it didn’t, but it didn’t pass. So that’s good.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that’s good.
SPEAKER 04 :
And those are two I missed. I really felt like 131 would pass, and I really felt like because of the wolf thing that happened, that the same people voting would vote for the mountain lion and hunting for mountain lions. I really felt like that would pass, and neither did I. The ranked choice, though, out of all of them, I was the most surprised at.
SPEAKER 07 :
Me too. I thought that—I mean, look— Dave Williams has done all he could to possibly make that succeed. Correct. But enough people rose up against it. It didn’t.
SPEAKER 04 :
So there you go. I’m happy. I am shocked. And evidently there must have been enough even on the left that rose up because I really felt like with all of the independents and such that we have that they would really vote for ranked choice voting. But I think the only thing that probably plays in our favor there is Alaska does that and it’s another disaster.
SPEAKER 07 :
It is a disaster. I think another thing that plays in our favor is that I think a lot of, you know, we were thinking that the unaffiliated would rise up and then all the discord that Davis sown in the GOP would put it over the top. Right. Well, the discord in the GOP did did help it. OK, but I don’t think the unaffiliated voted for it that heavily. I think they looked at it and said, I don’t care either way.
SPEAKER 04 :
So it’s just a no for me.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, they’re just not that engaged in that way. I think the unaffiliateds looked at it. The U voters looked at this and said, I don’t really care either way. This isn’t a big deal for me. They were not emotional about it.
SPEAKER 04 :
You could be right. I don’t know that I can argue that, Andy. I mean, I think you’re spot on. Okay, a lot of the… Individuals, we’ve got a couple of minutes left, so we don’t have a lot of time for this. But a lot of individuals that were even worried about Jenna Griswold, and yes, she did some stupid things with releasing the passwords, and no, I don’t like Jenna at all. She needs to go to this next go-around. We need to start working on her replacement now, today, actually. That’s what we should be doing as GOP leadership. What are we going to do to make sure that we can help that race out as much as we possibly can? But at the end of the day, there was a lot of folks worrying about how the election results would turn out. Folks, what I’m going to tell you is, given the fact that 131 didn’t pass, the mountain lion thing didn’t pass, and the other ones that we predicted would, I don’t think there’s any mistabulations. There might be a little bit here and there, but at the end of the day, Andy, it’s pretty much what we predicted.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I wouldn’t think that it was a mass fraud kind of thing. If it was, 131 passes.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. And so would the Mountain Lion one, by the way. Yeah. And neither one did.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. No, I don’t think so.
SPEAKER 04 :
And the one that we said would pass heavily is, of course, the enshrining abortion into the Colorado Constitution, which, by the way, I can’t believe people are really that stupid to not only enshrine it, but now make me as a taxpayer pay for it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, but we predicted they would go through.
SPEAKER 04 :
We did. No, that’s what I’m saying is we predicted it would. It did. Those numbers were pretty spot on to what I figured they would be. Yes, it’s embarrassing that Colorado did that, but that’s how dumb some of our voters are.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, we’re in a sick blue state.
SPEAKER 04 :
We are. It’s deep blue. I was going to comment on this and maybe do this a little bit more on Tuesday, and I’m sorry. I just have to say this. I’ve lived here my whole life. I’m 60 years old. And these people that run around saying, let’s take back Colorado and make it red again. Folks, in the 60 years I’ve lived here, it’s been light purple at best. I don’t know that it’s ever been truly red. Yes, we’ve had some red in the legislature and we’ve had a couple of red governors in my entire life living here. Yeah, a couple. That’s it. But we have not, by any stretch of the imagination, been a red state my entire life. So stop saying that. If you want to say, let’s make it red, great. But stop saying make it red again. We haven’t been in the 60 years I’ve been alive.
SPEAKER 07 :
John, I would be very happy if it was purple again.
SPEAKER 04 :
I would be, too, because at least then you’d get something done on that side, our side.
SPEAKER 07 :
But it’s deep blue.
SPEAKER 04 :
It is deep, dark, as blue as the ocean is, folks. Yeah. In fact, I said this to somebody earlier today here at the station. We are, believe it or not, we’re bluer than California. They ran a proposition yesterday that actually passed that you would have never thought would have. So the reality is, I’ll tell you right now, we’re bluer than California.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, who would have thought a law and order prop would pass?
SPEAKER 04 :
Would pass in California. I mean, California is lawless. Folks, we are bluer than California, mainly because a lot of them moved here. And the machine in Colorado for the Democrats is huge. Oh, yeah. So we’ll come back. We’ve got another full hour coming your way. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 12 :
Rich guy.
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