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Your prediction was interesting.

I'll say that.

Probably right, more than yours.

Oh, 50-50.

Ah, please give it a rest.

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you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program welcome to the glenbeck program it is election day if you haven't voted if somebody in your family hasn't voted get them out to vote uh as long as they're you know they've done their homework don't send a moron in there i don't know I don't know if you pay attention.

No, don't.

You know what?

You shouldn't vote.

Now, there's, according to the Daily Caller, five key bellwethers to watch on election day.

And I want to go over them with Stu because Stu is the guy who watches all of these numbers.

And yesterday, you predicted a Trump victory.

Yeah.

Yeah.

A very hesitant Trump victory.

I'm very undecided.

You didn't do that last in 2020.

You said we weren't going to win, right?

In fact, 2020 got the electoral count exactly right.

306 electoral votes for Joe Biden.

And everyone hates you when you say that.

I know, I know.

But, you know,

that's what I thought was going to happen.

It wound up coming true.

But this time, I'm not nearly as sure.

I don't have a really strong opinion.

I got to the, we did our show last night on Studios America, our final predictions, and I got to those swing states.

And, you know, a couple of them I have a vibe on.

You know, a couple of them I'm kind of just guessing.

I mean, really, that's, I hate to say it that way, but it's kind of where you are.

You're taking your vibes.

You're kind of encapsulating 18 months of campaigning into a feeling.

And I think a lot of people are going to do that today.

I would not bet money on who's going to win.

She can win this election.

But also, there's a good chance that one of these two candidates sweeps all seven of these swing states and winds up with

what feels like an easy victory.

It won't be.

You know, I don't think it will be an easy victory.

If you start seeing someone taking out states, those fringe swing states, you know, New Hampshire, Virginia for Trump,

you know,

going the other way, Texas for Kamala,

Florida for Kamala,

Iowa for Kamala.

If that stuff starts happening, that's a blowout.

It's a blowout.

But like, you know, these seven swing states, if they all go to one of the two candidates, I don't think it's going to be too much of a blowout.

It's going to be very, very, it's very, I'm very, very undecided on it.

I came up, my final count was 291 electoral votes for Trump.

But as I was putting it together as a final prediction yesterday for the show, I reversed myself on two or three states multiple times.

And that is not, when you're doing that, you know.

I've been watching this obsessively for 18 months.

And an hour before I go to the air, I'm reversing states.

That tells you that we don't know.

So here are the things, and I'd like to hear your point of view on this.

These are the things you should watch for.

Early returns in Pennsylvania.

It is probably one of the most important states, likely a tipping point.

You lose this one.

I mean, you can gain.

You can do it.

You can do it, but it's very hard.

Especially for Trump.

I mean, Kamala needs it, you'd think.

If Trump can get it, he's probably winning this election.

This is why, you know, Kamala was out knocking doors last night, quote-unquote, knocking doors.

Somebody else was knocking the door.

Kamala's reporter.

Or like the part where they were like, hey, Kamala, Kamala goes up to the people, hey, they want to film you coming out.

Will you go back in and I could knock on the door again?

The fact that that sort of stuff is happening just

what a perfect last-minute encapsulation of the Kamala Harris campaign.

Yeah, just fake.

Perfect.

All of it.

Fake.

So Pennsylvania, 80,000 votes in Pennsylvania decided 2020.

90,000 Amish in Pennsylvania.

Also, 80,000 truckers in Pennsylvania that didn't really turn out last time because a lot of them were on the road.

The GOP has been all over that, make sure that they have

ballots, mail-in ballots.

Also, just this weekend, on the other side, the Harris campaign knocked on almost a million doors.

807,000 doors were knocked.

In 2020 in Pennsylvania, Democrats had the advantage of more than 1.1 million mail-in ballots.

They knew a couple of weeks before

we are going to win.

Today, the Democrats only have an advantage of 400,000.

That's a 700,000 vote swing,

that they're down and that is good if people show up today to vote.

Virginia is also another one.

Harris is probably going to win Virginia, but if Donald Trump picks up Virginia,

that's a big deal.

If he loses Virginia under five points, that's also a big deal.

Yeah, if he can keep it within five points, I think he's probably going to win the election.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And we should know that pretty early, shouldn't we?

Yeah, the polls close

relatively early.

It's not one of of those states that takes a month to count typically.

That's not going to be instant.

It's not like, you know, again, Florida is the gold standard here.

Florida, which is shocking after 2000, but they actually fixed their system.

They're the ones that are going to give you the first results.

But Florida also isn't always the best bellwether.

You know, we've seen this before where, you know, in 2022, it was a big situation, if you remember correctly, because DeSantis won by so much.

that everyone was like, oh my gosh, this is a Republican wave election because they were one of the first results.

And it did not wind up panning out in other states.

So sometimes Florida's a little bit different.

And since they're the first kind of like big state we hear about, it often gives you the wrong impression.

I mean, if it goes poorly in Florida for Donald Trump, it will be a bad night.

Well, the polling is interesting there, Glenn, because, you know, we've kind of thought now that because of what DeSantis has done in Florida, that this is just a bright red state.

Look, Rick Scott is up by three points in Florida in a lot of these polls.

Donald Trump is up by four or five points in some polls in Florida.

I think he's going to win, but it's going to be a heck of a lot closer than DeSantis when he won by, what was it, 19?

Yeah, and I have to tell you, the other thing that's disturbing is the Cruz campaign called us to get him on the air today.

They are concerned about Texas, and you should be concerned about Texas.

It is very close.

They have spent millions and millions and millions of dollars, and Ted Cruz has done it all on him, his supporters and himself.

They've been outspent like crazy because of Mitch McConnell.

Yeah, and George Soros.

And George Soros.

You know, like, I mean, McConnell not giving money to Cruz is a factor, but the Democrats are targeting this with hundreds of millions of dollars.

So another thing to watch for is the Muslims in Michigan.

If they don't show up or they're voting third party or they're voting for Trump, which I find that hard to believe, but you've had, you know, the mayor of the biggest Muslim community in Michigan come out and endorse, along with a lot of the Imams, endorse Donald Trump.

I I find it hard to believe.

If Trump is going to be like, hey, you know, we're going to win this election if we get a lot of the Muslim vote, I think he's, you know, probably that's not the position you want to be in.

No.

No.

But if he can take it.

He'll take him.

10%.

Take it.

Yeah, for sure.

For sure.

The pitch to suburban women.

Now, this goes down to Iowa.

I think if he loses Iowa,

it could be a rough night.

He's not counted out, but it.

He's not mathematically eliminated, but if he loses Iowa, there's no way he's winning this election.

You don't think so?

I don't think so.

I mean,

that doesn't mean mathematically he's eliminated.

It doesn't mean like he can't win.

He definitely could theoretically win.

But in an environment where he loses this state, which again, this makes no sense to me.

You know,

Kim Reynolds won the state by 19 points two years ago in a bad year for Republicans.

I know.

We've seen increases all over the place in Republican registration.

That's not early.

As I mentioned to you off the air, air, I'm super skeptical of trying to take anything out of early vote, particularly this year.

When you're comparing early vote to the COVID year, God only knows what you're getting.

I'm not surprised that all the Democrats' early vote numbers are down.

They were all terrified.

They wouldn't go outdoors at the time this election was taking place.

But you are,

people are motivated.

I agree.

I agree.

Right now,

I don't think, I think where the

hidden number is in these polls is the lack of motivation for Harris.

People will talk a good game.

I'm for Harris.

And some will go to the house.

Some polls even show her enthusiasm higher than Trump's, which doesn't make any sense.

It doesn't make sense.

But

that's even shown in some polls.

No way.

I mean, look, we all know it's not Kamala enthusiasm.

The correct way to look at it is anti-Trump enthusiasm.

And that

sort of does connect with me.

I do see Democrats feeling that way.

Not that I feel that way, but I'm saying as far as they do.

Oh, yeah.

Like, oh, they're

they hate him.

We got it.

Yeah, they're right.

They're really wanting to keep Hitler out of office.

We got it.

They're hypnotized.

So I think there is that.

When it comes to early vote, though, like the numbers coming up for Republicans, I think can be partially explained by the fact that Trump discouraged early vote in 2020, and now he's encouraging it.

So I'm not surprised to see those numbers come up.

And I'm not surprised to see them come down for Democrats because in 2020, there was COVID and they were all afraid to go to restaurants, let alone go go out to vote.

So I'm not at all surprised by that.

I'm not saying that that means bad things.

Obviously, I predicted Trump to win.

But

here's what

the Republicans are counting on.

In the polls for people who are planning on voting today, he is up by 16 points.

If that would hold,

it would be hard for the Democrats to pull this off.

You disagree with that?

You may be right.

I just just don't, I don't have a spreadsheet out to make a prediction like that.

I have not,

I don't know.

It's possible you're right.

I don't know, though.

You know, there's so many factors that go into this.

And the other part of it that we don't know at all from early vote, one important thing, we have no idea who any independents voted for.

I mean, we don't have any idea.

who anyone voted for, but we assume the Republicans vote for the Republican, Democrats vote for Democrats.

Independents, we have no indication whatsoever, right?

We have no indication from early vote what independents did.

So, in an election that is this close,

kind of an important nugget of information.

But then I go,

you're basing it all on numbers and facts and figures.

I'm basing mine all on gut.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I, you know, we've lost the ability to predict the American people long ago.

But, you know, I'll explain it at the top of next hour.

Why I feel as strongly as I do, with the one caveat,

I don't know if I can predict the American people anymore.

I don't know.

I mean, our education system has turned out morons and idiots that don't even know what it means to be a republic versus a democracy.

So nobody knows our institutions.

Nobody knows why this was founded this way.

So maybe they don't get it.

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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Yes, Bridget Fettesy.

Welcome to the program.

Thank you for having me.

Wow.

From California to a Texan suburban mom voting for Trump.

Would you ever guess?

No.

No.

Well, actually, yes.

After I had my first conversation with you, I thought, I think I told you it's only a matter of time.

You didn't tell me.

When I checked that little bug for Trump, I was like, Glenn Betty laughed.

So

you made a great case on why you voted for Donald Trump, something that I think you would have sworn even three, four years ago, I'll never do, right?

Yeah, I mean, it's really interesting.

It is fascinating to me to think about how the,

you know, I voted against Trump in California in 2016.

In 2020, I voted for nobody.

I just couldn't bear either one of those people.

And I was actually at the time very much in limbo about

what I wanted to do.

Did I want to stay in California?

Did I want to go to Texas?

I wanted to get out, but I had family there.

And many people saw me through that indecision and

then decision.

And now I'm in Texas voting for Trump.

And

it kind of does show me that if the left goes too far, and of course I'm only anecdotal, and I've heard from many women like me, they do lose their bread and butter, which is white women.

You know,

they have gone quite far to be pushing someone like me out of the party completely.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The thing that was the turning point for you, what was it?

Was it one thing?

There were so many million.

You know, I was thinking about this, Glenn, the other day.

It's actually more death by a million cuts.

I think it was.

really trying to engage with them and then just being pushed out and being told, you know, in the early days of coming on your show, nobody on the left wanted to, no panel wanted to hear why I was,

what issues I had with my own party.

They would say, oh, you're, you know, racist and xenophobic and transphobic for even going on any of these other shows that you've gone on.

And then there is,

I think COVID really broke a lot of brains, particularly those of us who were in states that were heavily locked down.

And we saw the government overreach and felt completely powerless to do anything about it.

And then there were just

the looting, the rioting, the

turning the other cheek with the smashing grabs, the degeneration,

like the just decay everywhere in the cities.

And

how much of a role did the

transgender stuff for kids play a role with you as a mom?

That's big, too.

I mean, becoming, then as I was getting to that, 2022, I have a child.

I'm radicalized in a different way.

I'm sitting in, you know, birthing classes and they're calling us birthing persons, which sounds way more handmade tale than anything that's coming

that they accuse the right of.

And

people act, you know, the thing, then there's the frustration of people acting like this isn't happening so

people will say this isn't a big deal this isn't really happening you don't see this in schools it's like every parent i know is talking about this you obviously don't have children if you don't think that this stuff is happening and parents are discussing it and they're making decisions about where they live where they send their kids to school based on

if there's pronouns in the bio of the people who are emailing them or not.

And so that was another one.

And then October 7th was a big one for me.

When I saw people tearing down posters of kidnapped children and siding with literal terrorists, I was like, okay,

okay,

I'm sorry.

There's something wrong with this ideology that is

deeply destructive and toxic to Western civilization in general.

You know, I can see people that

disagree on abortion and have honest disagreements, but when it comes to having an abortion van outside of your convention,

it just goes way out of the mainstream.

And you start to think, wow, that, I mean, huh, is Satan running on this ticket?

You know, you know what I mean?

I think though, I think we all are in bubbles.

Here's the, other thing that's happened since 2020 even is that everyone's kind of gone into their little media silos.

Everything's stratified even more.

And I was burned in 2022 by thinking there would be a red wave as punishment for a lot of the draconian stuff we saw and mistakes around COVID.

And I underestimated how much...

abortion would play into that decision-making and I will not make that mistake again.

I think people

on our side, I can't believe I'm saying that, need to be

very prepared for what could be a decisive Harris win tonight.

It would be somewhat surprising, but I'm in a bubble.

You know, I'm surrounded by people who are people,

it's preference bias, it's confirmation bias, it's all of these things that are telling me that led me to believe that

there would be a red wave, and I was very wrong about that.

Yeah, I wasn't confident in 2020.

I mean, I couldn't believe it when it happened, but I wasn't confident that we were going to win.

This time, there's just too many things that,

you know,

they're just historic, you know, I tweeted something.

Let me see if I can pull this up.

Tweeted something yesterday, a prediction on this, and I could very well be wrong.

But, you know, in looking at it last,

yesterday and saying, okay, where do I really stand?

What do I think is going to happen?

This is what I wrote.

Every piece of historic information on elections tell you this should be a blowout.

Right track, wrong track, the number is at 28.

No incumbent has ever won with a number that low.

Economy, war, immigration, all favor Trump.

Crime in our communities.

The same doctors behind the vaccines are now behind the child mutilation.

Momentum is all for Trump.

One campaign is against something.

The other is promoting a positive vision.

The positive visionary is a hero that they've tried to kill two times.

He's still standing and happy, not vengeful.

The same campaign has a huge crossover appeal with RFK and Tulsi Gabbard.

That's the same campaign that has the biggest inspirational visionary of the last 120 years and Elon Musk.

The press is actually the only and biggest advocate for Harris and totally discredited themselves.

The race, the Nazi, the,

you know, feminist stuff is so 2010 at this point.

She has no answers on what her vision is, except I'm not the Nazi or the old guy now.

With the exception of cheating, historically, everything is real Donald Trump.

He ran a great campaign, right man for the right time.

I pray I'm not wrong, but everything points to a big win for Donald J.

Trump.

Do you disagree with any of that?

I think

I don't disagree with it.

I actually think there's been a massive political realignment.

So no matter what happens tonight, that momentum is not going away.

Correct.

No matter, you know, there is a huge realignment.

People who didn't need to endorse came out and endorsed, like myself.

I felt like I could have, I could have just been quiet and I could have not voted.

I'm in Texas.

Or I could have just been quiet about my vote because my brand is political homelessness.

Even though I would argue it's actually, my thing is actually just being honest.

And I think when people ask me, well, you, yes, you're voting against the left.

You're not voting for Donald Trump, but you didn't really need to vote for him.

But I would argue you do.

You have to be accounted for in the popular vote.

A nothing vote is not a vote against the left.

It is a nothing vote.

And I wanted to be accounted for as someone who's saying no to all of that.

And you can't do that sitting out.

That is.

That has been my message

to my friends and family.

This time, it's spiritually for me.

This time it counts.

It may not count in the state of Texas, although we're close here in Texas.

It may not count in the state of Texas if you're going to vote for, you know, Donald Trump, but it will count eternally.

This, you must take a stand on this, on this election.

You have to be.

Choose a side, or you've already chosen a side.

You know what I mean?

I hope that the men, you know, I really do understand being disaffected more than

I think being in this space kind of caught in the crossfire and coming from one place and really having good faith discussions with the remaining people on the left who aren't completely out of their minds and good faith

just debates about things.

I do

believe that

people care deeply about this country and that does inspire me.

One of the things that makes this country great is that we are

this tension where we can work things out and hash things out.

And I really, I do have faith.

The sun just broke through the clouds as I'm talking about this in a very poetic moment.

But I do, I, you know, I don't like all this discussion of like, this could be the last, it was funny because Oprah and Elon were both trending because they both said this could be our last election.

And I'm like, well, if they both are saying it, can we just, can it like cancel each other out?

Well, I think it is.

I think it is that stark.

We choose

today, we choose one direction or another, and they are both very, very

different

Americas in the end.

You know, I prefer to look at it.

And Donald Trump, I thought, in the last few weeks, has really done a great job at this.

And with the help of RFK and Elon Musk and Tulsi Gabbard, this is a new America.

There could be a golden era around the corner if we vote the right way, pay attention, and he can do the things with this coalition of different minds that he wants to put around himself.

I think there could be a new golden age of America.

So

it's

either the death of the Republic or the rebirth of the Republic.

Maybe.

I mean,

like I said, that political realignment, no matter what happens,

we're all like that, that occurred.

You know, something happened.

No matter what happened, something happened.

And that momentum and energy is not going away.

One last question for you.

Do you think the endorsement of Elon Musk and yesterday, Joe Rogan, do you think that makes any difference at all?

I think even mine, people have,

not that I'm some huge star, but I think people need permission in this moment.

And it was part of the reason that I wanted to come out.

And I've heard from so many women in particular that they were on the fence or they were because people alone feel crazy.

They don't feel this.

They haven't heard somebody like me or it's like they might be like, why do I want to vote for this guy?

And they don't know why.

And they feel crazy because they've never voted a Republican in their life.

And you just need a little push.

just a little bit of somebody saying like, hey, I didn't want to do this, but here's why, I think, and lay it out.

And I think people like Elon Musk and Joe, they give people permission to

do that thing that they might not want.

They might not be comfortable doing, or they might feel like, you know, if your brain, it's like you're, if you're a liberal, you're just, it's hard to make that leap to get it.

Yeah.

Bridget, thank you so much.

God bless you.

That's Bridget Fetisy.

Thank you.

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Senator Ted Cruz has been campaigning and fighting an uphill battle here in Texas because several, I think it's, is it $200 or $300 million

have been spent by George Soros and the likes of George Soros to stop Ted Cruz from being a senator.

And his competitor is, I mean, you watch TV and it is just

one after another after another.

And he hasn't had any help from the GOP in Washington, which really pisses me off.

Thank you so much, McConnell.

But Ted Cruz joins us now.

Ted, how are you feeling today?

Glenn, my friend.

Great to be with you.

I'm feeling terrific.

I think we're going to have a good day in Texas today.

Okay, good.

If you're in Texas and you haven't voted, please, please, please come out and vote.

I know it's raining in much of the state, but come out anyway.

Go through the rain and spend some time today.

Pull out your phone and make a dozen phone calls.

Call your sister, call your son, call your next-door neighbor, call your coworker.

Get them to come out and vote.

What Glenn said, Glenn, you're exactly right.

Chuck Schumer has been explicit.

I'm his number one target in the country.

And Schumer and George Soros have spent over $100 million trying to defeat me.

It is nonstop attack ads.

Oh, it's crazy.

They're coming after us with everything we got.

Now, if we show up and vote, we're going to be fine.

And so it's all about turnout now.

It is about people showing up in the polls.

And by the way, for everyone listening who's not in Texas, show up and vote in your states, too.

We got a presidential election that's the most consequential one of our lifetime.

So wherever you are, show up and vote and bring your friends and family.

And vote for the Republican candidate

for the Senate, wherever you are.

We have to win the Senate and the House.

The whole country can turn on a dime if we have House, Senate, and White House.

And this time, I think

that actually means something.

Usually it's like, we've got to get all three before we can do anything.

And then they do nothing.

I think with the people that are running that would join you, Ted, in the Senate, I think things would actually get done.

Well, and I'll tell you, let me say something in particular.

There are voters in a number of states, in states like Ohio and Arizona, that are right now saying they're going to vote for Donald Trump and for the Democrat Senate candidate.

Can't do it.

And let me say, please, for love of all that is good in America, do not do that.

Because

every Democrat Senate candidate running will fight to oppose Donald Trump on every step of the way.

And if that vote gives Chuck Schumer the majority, it could stop the entirety of everything that President Trump will accomplish.

That if we want President Trump to be able to secure the border, to get our economy moving, to bring inflation down, to end the wars, then the only way to do it is to have a Republican Senate that's going to back him up and support his nominees and support his policies.

And we've got to stop with this executive order stuff.

This has to be done the right way.

Otherwise, we're just going to keep flipping back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

You know, and the ones that they're running, I mean, all red against you, Ted, this guy is,

he is, he is trying to position himself as a moderate.

He's not a moderate.

None of them that they're running now, that they're running as moderates, are moderate at all.

The candidates on the ballot for the Democrats are hard-left radicals.

And one of the really sad consequences of the age of Trump is that Trump broke the Democrat Party.

You know, when I was first elected 12 years ago to the Senate, there was such a thing as moderate Democrats.

They existed.

You could work with them.

You could find middle ground.

Well, they don't exist anymore.

The only two who were even arguable moderates in the Senate are Kirsten

Sinema and Joe Manchin, and they're both leaving.

Neither one of them will be there next year.

And what has happened is every single Senate Democrat has gone hard left on everything.

And it really is,

you look at the policies they support, open borders.

That didn't didn't used to be the Democrat Party policy, all of them support it now.

Defunding and abolishing the police, all of them have voted in favor of that now.

You look at Israel and Hamas, every Democrat supports sending money to Iran that funds Hezbollah and Hamas and undermining Israel.

It is tragic.

And if you want to turn that nonsense around,

You've got to have a Republican Senate that can stand unified with Trump.

And also, you're exactly right, Glenn, that can make changes that are actually passed into law, not just through executive order, so they can be durable and last.

And

we've got to, I mean, we have got to make sure that Cornyn, who is a disgrace to Texas, is not the guy who is replacing McConnell.

We need an actual group of Republicans that are at the top of the leadership that represent what the Republicans are today, not what they were in 1985.

Well, look, my issues with Republican leadership, as you know, have been longstanding.

You noted at the outset of this segment that this entire race, Mitch McConnell has not spent a penny in my race.

What does he say to that?

What does he say to that?

He lies to me.

He looks me in the eyes and says, Ted, if you need me, I'll be there.

He said that in 18, too.

He says that over and over again.

So Mitch controls the the largest Republican super packet in the country, $400 million.

He spent zero in Texas to defend me, even while Schumer and Soros are unloading tens of millions of dollars, over $100 million total, on me.

McConnell would not spend a penny.

He did the exact same thing in 2018.

2018, my last re-elect was at the time the most expensive Senate race in U.S.

history.

I was outspent three to one.

I ended up barely winning.

I won by less than three points, 2.6%.

Again, Mitch spent zero.

Now, the whole time, Glenn, he would pull me aside every week and he'd be like, Ted, if you need me, I'm going to be there.

And after a while, I just got tired of him lying to me.

It's like, no, you're not.

So why are you lying to me and saying that?

And

the only way I've survived is millions of patriots in Texas and across the country who go to tedcruise.org and who make contributions.

And so, you know, I'm getting contributions of 10, 25, 50 bucks from people all across the country at Tedcruz.org, and that fills the gap

where Republican leadership should be.

But they don't want strong conservatives in the Senate.

They want people who will follow orders and sit down and shut up.

And that's not something I'm interested in doing.

We can't lose you, Ted.

We cannot lose you.

If you're in Texas, do it.

He says, if you haven't gone out and vote, what the hell are you waiting for?

Go out and vote.

Sarah, go out and vote.

And

tell Sarah to vote.

I'm going to stay out of that one.

Okay.

And

if you're not entirely a fool.

And

if you

have voted, get somebody else to go to the polls.

This is close.

We cannot lose Texas.

We can't.

Can you imagine Texas being

represented by a Democrat and Cornyn?

Texas, what the hell is wrong with you?

If that's even a possibility, what's wrong with you?

All right.

We're not going to let it happen.

Good.

Thank you very much, Ted.

I appreciate it.

Thank you, guys.

Appreciate you.

God bless.

We'll talk to you tomorrow, hopefully, and celebrate with you.

All right.

I mean, they are dumping money into this.

Oh, my gosh.

Well, I was watching the game with my son last night.

That's shocking.

You were watching the game.

I didn't even watch it.

This is what is going on in our country right now.

That's how upside down we are.

That's how upside down.

Anyway, my gosh, it was like, I didn't know if I was watching a Colin Allred commercial or show

with highlights from a game or if I was watching a game.

He's basically paying for

every primetime broadcast in the state right now.

Yeah.

Colin Allred.

And every single ad is the same thing.

You know, he played football.

Do you know Colin Allred played football?

He played football.

Hey, do you know he played football?

Look, I really like football.

I really like it.

It's one of my favorite things in the world.

It does not mean I'm going to vote for a senator because he played football.

That is the same thing.

But did you know he played football?

I do.

You know, I remember back in, I think it was 2016 watching Ted Cruz, pretty good foosball player.

Not a great reason to vote for him, though.

You should vote for him because of his policies.

It's just absolutely insane.

You didn't tell me about the foosball.

I would have gotten more people.

He played against your son.

I remember.

You don't remember this?

We were back behind one of his speeches.

That's right.

And it was Ted Cruz versus Rafe

playing foosball.

I'll never forget that.

It was a really cool moment.

But look, the bottom line is Ted Cruz is not only a good senator for Texas, he's a good senator for the country, and he helps push policies in the right direction.

There's not a lot of people in Washington who do it, and Ted does it routinely.

There's no reason, Texas.

There's what the hell is wrong with you?

The hell is wrong with you?

I don't know that berating Texas is necessarily the answer.

Sometimes, Texas, you need a little hard love.

You're doing the Barack Obama approach?

Yes.

Just yelling at black people.

You just don't like strong men.

Is that what it is?

All right.

Okay.

Stu, you have done

your pulse cast

and spent a lot of time.

Yeah.

A lot of time.

Dozens and dozens of hours building it and updating it.

If i may just uh tell the audience what you've come up with is

it's a coin toss

so you actually will be surprised to hear glenn it is worse than a coin toss it is worse the final update of the pulse cast has donald trump i kid you not

this i can't even tell you how many numbers go into this thing how many calculations a 50 point two four percent chance to win the election.

You're dead to me.

It's not me.

I'm just putting the data in.

No, it's not me.

But they say a coin toss is a 50.5% chance.

So it's actually less sure than a

coin toss.

So, you know,

here's the thing:

you did make a prediction.

I did.

I did a show last night on Studios America where

we do this every single election, the night, the day before the election.

I'll take everything out of the tossed-up columns and push them in one one direction or the other.

Even if I'm not sure, I'll take my best guess.

And, you know, in 2020, we got the count exactly right, 306 to 232.

This time, I have much, much less confidence in the results.

We got to

the seven swing states.

There's a couple that I kind of feel relatively, I mean, relatively,

I at least have a vibe on.

Like Arizona, for example.

I think Donald Trump is ahead in Arizona.

I think he'll win Arizona.

I wound up getting to 291 electoral votes for Donald Trump.

The swing states went, if I'm remembering right, I had Donald Trump winning Georgia, North Carolina, and Arizona.

I had Harris winning Nevada, which I went back and forth on about five times.

I also had Trump winning Wisconsin, which I went back and forth on about five times.

I had Harris winning Michigan, and I had Trump winning Pennsylvania.

That gets you to 291.

And honestly, like, at the end of the day, Wisconsin, not all that important because, and Nevada, I guess, not all that important in this particular thing because you'd still be above 270.

Pennsylvania, obviously, the big ticket there.

So I did my electoral college.

I have Trump pretty close to you.

671.

Electoral votes.

Electoral votes.

Wow.

Yeah.

That's more.

Because there's only 538 of votes.

Weird.

It's weird.

I know.

But

I'm sticking.

I think I'd be more confident

648 for Harris because they'd find a way to just add someone to the table.

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This was funded mainly by George Soros and foreign money.

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Foreign money cannot be involved in federal elections, but apparently foreign money is fine in state elections.

I don't know why.

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