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We've got Steve Dace, who gives us a great breakdown of Iowa.

We talk about Kobe Bryant.

Also,

the impeachment.

It's important for, I think, conservatives to be paying attention to the impeachment.

This is the first time you've heard the president's defense, and I'm a guy who has been following it.

And on Saturday, I was amazed at how much I didn't know.

It's really, really critical that we pay attention.

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So in Calabasas, California, yesterday,

Kobe Bryant was going to the Staples Center to...

No?

No,

he's going to

his facility where he was hosting a youth basketball tournament

his kid was playing playing in

and already there what's that and already there or was that the daughter the daughter was going to be playing in the in the game yeah very talented um basketball player in her in her own right uh and uh he routinely took

um you know a helicopter to do this travel because of the traffic so bad there uh they had problems with really thick fog and circled you know for a very long time and you know there's all sorts of complications.

And obviously, as everybody knows at this point, the helicopter crashes.

Nine people total are killed in the crash.

And

outpouring of real reverence and

sadness for a guy who is really one of the all-time great players.

I mean, he is

top five to top ten player of all time.

If I was, you know, I'm not in the majority on this, but if I'm starting a team and I'm going to get their primes, I'm picking Colby Bryant over LeBron James.

Well, without a doubt.

Well, you don't like LeBron James.

But again,

if I'm starting a team, the liking aspect is not necessarily the most important thing.

I don't know if you can put your hatred for him aside.

You hate him so much.

I do hate him,

but that's not the real...

He's not.

I know, I know.

Brian was an incredible player.

And, you know, that is obviously secondary to what's actually happening here.

And everybody's heard all the, you know, it's been 24 hours now, and that's 9,000 news cycles in this world.

So, I mean, everyone's heard all of this.

It is a really sad thing.

There's an amazing sort of sidebars going on with that story, though, where

I find it fascinating to look back at,

for example, there's a reporter at the Washington Post.

Hey, before we go into that,

this was his private helicopter, right?

Who were the pilots?

You don't fly in that kind of thing.

This fog was so thick.

Yeah, they said that in Calabasas, they don't see fog like that.

A lot of people had not seen it as thick like that in Calabasas for a while.

And

you know, any helicopter pilot would know you don't fly in fog.

Well,

we'll know this, I guess, going forward.

They hit a couple really bad patches of it.

And at times, they thought they were going to be able to circle and then wait for it to clear and then make it past the fog once it cleared.

I know, like, they were saying that the police and rescue workers weren't even allowing their helicopters to go take off to go check it out because that fog was that bad.

But you know, who knows?

I mean,

I assume at some point we'll have the investigation and we'll know.

I mean, you know,

we've seen this with

people who are powerful before, where you say, like, no, we got it.

Come on.

You've been in a helicopter 10,000 times.

Nothing ever happens.

You know, it's every.

But anybody who has a respect for a helicopter, anybody who flies in a helicopter should know

you are

different than a plane.

Remember, JFK Jr.

was killed in fog in his plane because your body doesn't understand.

You can be upside down and it doesn't.

I mean, so you have no bearings at all in fog in a helicopter.

Yeah.

I mean, who knows?

But the idea that they took a chance and maybe thought they were going to be fine and probably had tried it five other times and were fine.

That stuff does happen.

You know, it's just unbelievable, though, especially because he had really kind of cleared out a lot of, you know,

people knew him as so competitive, they worried whether he'd be able to have a normal life afterwards where you're going and you're doing these other things.

How do you survive when you're that competitive and you lose the thing that you're so involved in?

And he had seemingly really figured it out.

Like, he was, yeah, seemed to be a great father by all reports.

He had won

an Oscar or what was it over a short film that he had done.

He had built

all sorts of businesses and such

relates to basketball with his camps and tournaments and all these things.

And seemed to really be doing a good job with all of this.

And then this happens.

It's just, it is unbelievable when you have someone that good

that's that well known and really treated almost like a god in L.A.

And that, okay, so so there's where I want to go to the Washington Post and to MSNBC.

This guy was not a good guy, at least at one point in his life.

I mean, the rape allegation

is brutal.

And we're going to have to suspend you for bringing that up, Glenn.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, Glenn has been suspended.

Yeah.

Because that's what happened to the Washington Post.

Can I go home now?

You're not supposed to say yes.

I'm the one that's like, okay.

Yeah, Washington Post reporter tweeted an article from, I think it was 2016,

and it was basically outlining of the actual evidence that was presented in the case against Kobe Bryant when it came to his assault in Colorado, or at least alleged assault.

And it's, you know, it goes through a lot of it.

It was not pleasant.

It was not a, not a, not a fun read.

No.

And she got suspended because she tweeted it a few hours after the crash goes down.

Everyone's in, you know, reverence mode, and you're not supposed to do that.

Which I think is probably a good piece of advice as far as timing.

Yeah.

I mean, it was on my desk this morning and I and before I read about the Washington Post reporter, I read the, I started reading the article and I was like, whoa,

I mean, who is running this today?

Yeah.

You know, it is, it's insensitive.

It's not the best thing to do on day number one, but you're suspended for it.

Yeah, I think that's very strange.

You know, again, a reporter

in the Me Too era, right?

A woman, female reporter, reporting, you know, setting this out and saying, Look, hey, let's basically, what's the point there?

Let's not remember this person only because he was a great basketball player.

There was some really dark stuff that went on, and here it is.

Look, is it the right time to do that a minute after?

No, but we're so used to that.

I mean, you know, people like Ronald Reagan die, and 10 seconds later, they're just trashing him all over the internet.

But you can't do that apparently to Kobe Bryant.

Now, look, I think Bryant, you know, it's he seemingly had turned his life around from that time.

And that was 2003.

It was quite a long time ago.

It's just what I find really fascinating about this, and tell me if you think I'm wrong on this.

He has this accusation of rape against a 19-year-old who is working at the hotel.

And he comes out, and they have all this evidence that goes on.

And it's pretty dark.

I mean, you know, at the very least, he cheated on his wife, which he admitted.

He admitted he was doing bad things.

She said it was.

It cost him a pretty penny.

Pennies actually weren't involved.

It's funny because that's exactly the story basically starts as the Kobe Bryant rape case has, in the annals of popular culture, been reduced to something of a punchline due to the aftermath,

namely the Bryant's 4 million, 8-carat purple diamond apology ring that he gifted to his wife Vanessa, who is still, you know, still

married and they have four kids, I I believe, together.

And she was not on the helicopter, thankfully.

But,

you know, they go through all this evidence, and basically, what happens in the case is it gets up to the point where the story, the criminal case is about to begin.

And right before that,

she tells the

investigators and everybody, I'm not going to testify.

So, because of that, the case gets dropped.

Now,

part of this is apparently a deal between Kobe and the accuser that says, look,

we won't,

if you don't testify in this case, which she doesn't, we will put out an apology, which he did.

Which he did.

And

we will

not abandon the civil case.

We're not going to try to, that's still going to go on as normal.

Because he was facing life in prison.

Yeah, I was saying, it was charged with sexual assault and rape, right?

Forced imprisonment, I think, as well

um

yeah i mean it was it was yeah not good it was not good so she uh eventually goes and uh gets this decides not to testify and he releases an apology and the apology in effect says uh i uh

i believe that this was consensual

however after looking at her words hearing from her going through all the evidence i truly believe that she did not believe it was consensual so not i'm not uh questioning her account.

I'm not saying she's a bad person because, I mean, that was what was going to happen in the trial, right?

They were going to come on and say she's had sex with all these people and she's a bad person and, like, she can't trust her.

And she didn't want to go through that.

And he didn't want to go through that.

So he says, yes, I thought it was consensual, but yes, I believe she did not, right?

That is me to 101.

If

this story happens in 2020, there is no 81-point game.

There is no MVP season.

There is no reverence tour.

There is no, I'm going to

retire next year.

There is no gold medal.

There is no second run of championships.

All of these things that he's being revered for today, this guy's thrown out of the league when this happens.

Because

there is no disagreement about how this could have gone down.

There is no believing him.

This basketball player is going to believe this massive basketball player and this tiny little woman.

We believe all women.

Everything they say can't be questioned.

All of these things that, I mean, if they'll believe Brett, the Brett Kavanaugh thing, I mean, Kobe Bryant would have been out of the league because of this.

And look, if he did it, good, right?

He should be out of the league and he shouldn't have this reference.

But this is a different world and they would have never given him

sort of nuance even available.

Let me give you two things.

First of all, there also would have been one other thing missing from the story today.

His 13-year-old daughter wouldn't have had his 13-year-old daughter, would have been in prison.

So she wouldn't have been lost.

But

there's another way to look at this.

And it's

controversial and highly

unpopular.

But

I think it's possible that it is true.

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I want to tell you, my job is to tell you about good people, bad people, and dumb people.

And that is today's segment in that order.

Good people,

bad people,

dumb people.

Okay?

This comes for the good people.

This actually comes from New York City, which

we have all 12 of the good people in New York City right here.

They all happen to be at Delancey and Norfolk in the Lower East Side on Saturday.

A woman named Colby Droser

posted this video over the weekend, and it's pretty amazing.

She was about a block away, and she heard impact and screams.

And when you're in New York, you run towards the screams, not away from the screams.

That's a sign of a tourist.

Run from the screams.

And what she found is she got there was this huge crowd around,

and

an SUV had hit a pedestrian and trapped her underneath the the car, okay?

And she couldn't get out, and she was wedged there.

And so what did the New Yorkers do?

Remember, this is the good people section.

The good people of New York.

They didn't wait.

About 12 of them all got together and lifted the SUV and tilted it up

and a few others then dragged her out and set her free.

That's incredible.

It's a nuts.

Because you would think that they would have, you know, for kicks, just

rolled over her with another car.

Right.

Maybe.

Because I would assume that story with that beginning ends in

the bad person

or dumb people part of the segment.

But no, good people.

No, good people.

There you go.

Now, is the good person the person who hit the pedestrian?

No.

You didn't highlight that person.

No, I'm just ignoring that person.

I'm ignoring that person.

Could have been a mistake.

Could have been a mistake.

How many of us have dragged somebody

a block and a half under our car before we realized?

Did you want to answer that for yourself?

Now we get to bad people.

Google took it off YouTube, so I contacted Facebook,

said bad person.

Bad person was referring to a heavily edited video posted on Facebook in 2019 that appears to show Nancy Pelosi slurring her words at a press conference.

Remember this?

Yes.

Bad Person said, why are you guys keeping this up?

It's blatantly false.

She was talking about the Facebook decision to keep the video on the platform while suppressing its spread.

Your competitors have taken it down.

Bad Person responded and continued saying,

Their response?

We think our users can make up their own minds.

Oh, my gosh.

The Pelosi video, which is also often called a cheap fake, was slowed down and designed to make Pelosi sound and look drunk.

YouTube removed the video, but Facebook and Twitter left it up.

Members of the media joined lawmakers shortly thereafter condemning Facebook for leaving up that video, which they said could alter the public's perception of Pelosi.

It's a huge worry.

Right, right.

Pundits cried foul after Facebook argued its adherence to free speech prevented the company from removing the video.

Bette Medler, Alyssa Milano, also bad people, but not the bad person we're talking about here, and other several celebrities complained after Facebook executive Monica Bickert told CNN in May 2019 that the company determined dinging the video was the wrong move.

Bad person said for her part,

the tech giants' endgame is much more sinister.

Facebook is not going to just re-elect Trump, but it intends to re-elect Trump, Bad Person told The Atlantic.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, Zuckerberg, huge Trump guy.

Right.

Right.

Right.

He's with me on that.

So Bad Person continued to suggest that Zuckerberg's views on Facebook's role in society and American politics is Trumpian and authoritarian.

Bad person is not the only person to express concerns about Zuckerberg's supposed intentions.

Also, equally known bad person, billionaire financier George Soros, and Elizabeth Warren also say that Facebook and Trump are in cahoots.

Clear.

Bad person said there's kind of an informal mutual assistance operation between Trump and Zuckerberg.

Yeah.

Bad person?

Hillary Clinton.

Ah, what a surprise.

What a surprise.

By the way, Glenn, I should point out, I did post a video about Nancy Pelosi myself

this past weekend.

You did.

And

it was for a Nancy Pelosi commemorative pen.

If you remember when she signed

the impeachment, she did it with all these fancy pens with her signature on the side.

Right, right, right.

So we were like, it would be great to have a replica pen so that people could celebrate that moment.

You know, it's really important.

They can remember what happened with the impeachment, this historic moment.

Now, we don't have the rights to the actual pen.

We had to slightly adjust it.

And that's why it has to be a little bit more than a moment.

Did Goop make it?

Does it smell like her?

It does not.

Thankfully, I didn't think of that detail before we made it.

All right.

We were just saying, Gwyneth Paltrow and those candles.

I just thought maybe you were just.

The worst thing I've ever thought of in my life, but thank you for

that.

So we made this commercial for the pen, and it said it just like Nancy Pelosi's signatures, it's black with the gold signatures.

It's Nancy Pelosi.

We had to adjust it a little bit, so it just says in the same font, Nancy Pelosi sucks.

No, I was worried about this exact same problem because people would say that's not even a real thing.

You're putting up some fake Nancy Pelosi video, and they might bring it down.

That's why we actually decided to make the pens and put put them actually for sale.

So if you go

to Nancy PelosiSuckspen.com,

you can buy the actual commemorative item.

I need one.

That says

the black with the gold.

It looks just like it, except it says,

if you're a noted collector,

you'll be able to tell the difference that it says Nancy Pelosi sucks instead of just Nancy Pelosi.

That's the only difference you can detect on here.

I love that.

Nancy Pelosi sucks pen.com.

Every single response is like, oh, this would be amazing if it's real.

I don't know why they allowed me to do it, but it's real.

Nancy Pelosi SucksPen.com.

Let me give you now dumb people.

A bank robber went in and was threatening the banking staff with a meat cleaver.

He actually left the branch with nearly $2,000.

He was arrested

because he, well,

he brought the meat cleaver in his disguise.

And then when he took the meat cleaver out, he put the disguise on.

And it doesn't stop there.

Not only did he walk into the bank, not wearing the disguise,

but carrying

his disguise with a meat cleaver in it.

And then, when he got to the teller, he took the meat cleaver out and then he put on the disguise.

The disguise was a pillowcase.

Okay.

Okay.

Now, here's the

additional trouble with this.

He forgot to cut any eye holes in the pillowcase.

So this is not well thought out, this process.

So he is in the bank

talking to the teller with a pillowcase.

And there's no way for him to see what's going on.

It didn't take police

long to find him

with the cash and the pillowcase with

money that was consistent with the money from the bank.

Wow.

I love the way they worded that.

The money consistent with the money from the bank.

He's got a pillowcase, a meat cleaver.

You got him on picture.

I think he's probably the guy.

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

I do have to share this with you because I just think this is very, very special and it's very limited edition.

Can we just roll this commercial, please?

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Wow,

that is

fantastic.

And it's been marked down from 1940 to 1940.

So you can get that now at Nancy Pelosi Sucks Pen.

It's beautiful.

It's a beautiful pen.

I like writing instrument.

I think that really.

It's more than a pen.

It's more than a pen.

It's a writing instrument.

So this isn't like a

cheap pen.

Exactly.

Right?

Yeah.

This is like a pen that you could buy like overnight on on TV.

This is like, if you've ever owned an Obama commemorative plate, you'll know the quality of this pen.

Wow.

Wow.

And every time you're sitting there in your office and someone comes by and you're writing something and they ask to borrow your pen, they can borrow your Nancy PelosiSuckspen.com.

I think

that's a significant thing.

I think

there's something that, especially if you're alone in the office, you know, with the feeling that you have for this great American,

I mean, just historic figure.

Yes.

And this moment in history.

And this moment in history.

If you're kind of alone,

it kind of does add just a gene sequence of

something special about that pen.

Something that says something unique about you.

Yeah.

And imagine your friends who are not really your friends, but you pretend they're your friends because you're afraid you'll be an outcast and so nobody will talk to you and you might even lose your job.

But imagine the delight of your friends as

they say, can I borrow your pen?

And you say,

You say this.

Sure.

Use this one.

You can borrow my nancypelosisuckspen.com.

By the way, I think a great thing to do with these is to you get your pen in the mail.

And then you have that one annoying friend who's always saying how how much Adam Schiff is a hero and the impeachment is obviously shabbed this into their chest yeah no it's that well

it's not a terrible

it's a terrible thing to say terrible thing to say and of course no you just put that put that in their collection of pens so that one day they take it out and they look at it and it says so you do it covertly they don't

and they're like one day they're right how the hell did this pen get in here that's and oh no i could see why you would put the limit of 5,000.

I'm worried about it because people, we're going to run out

5,000 per order.

And everyone, every single comment, oh, this would be fantastic.

One person's like, if you actually were selling these, you'd be funding the Blaze for five years.

I was like, baby, we are selling them.

We are selling them.

No one can believe that actually people printed up Nancy Pelosi sucks pens.

No, they are available.

They are available.

Yeah, Nancy Pelosi sucks pens.

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Steve Dace in Iowa.

Steve, you've lived in Iowa your whole life, right?

I was born here.

I've lived here most of my life, off and on.

Except for all over the country.

Except for

that time in prison?

Except we agreed we weren't going to discuss.

Okay, I'm sorry.

Sorry.

Didn't mean to push it too far.

And how many years have you been involved in the Iowa caucus process?

Since 1996,

when I was originally caucusing for Phil Graham.

So over 20 years.

Wow, Wow, Phil Graham, a blast from the past.

Okay, so tell me what is different this time,

because it looks very volatile.

And this week, now Sanders in one poll is leading Biden by nine points.

What's happened is there's no

establishment, whatever the Democratic establishment is.

And if you've been watching the fundraising in their party where their candidates are raising ginormous amounts, but no one is giving to the National Party after what it did in 2016, we're not really sure what the Democratic establishment is anymore.

And I think that's why you're not seeing a whole bunch of people rush out to denounce Jeremy Corbyn.

I'm sorry, Bernie Sanders,

the way they did Donald Trump on the right four years ago, because I think they're trying to figure out, hey, if we come out and denounce him, that's why we want Obama to do it.

His career is over.

If we come out and denounce him, he might be the new establishment.

This may may be a reshuffling of the deck chairs here.

And so we're going to kind of wait and see what the first couple of states tell us.

And so I think that's the issue.

There's no Mitt Romney.

There's no Hillary Clinton.

There's no established, polished candidate.

Joe Biden was weighed, measured, and found wanting.

And I think that has now left this to a grassroots kind of free-for-all.

So you do think that Joe Biden, the

shine is off in Iowa?

No, I think the shine's off everywhere.

I mean, if you look at his early state polling, except for South Carolina, I mean, the national polling, we've talked about this before, it's irrelevant.

Except for South Carolina, largely based on black voters who don't watch cable news.

I know there's so much race baiting on CNN and MSNBC, but it's almost all white, woke people watching that.

Like Don Lemon doesn't have a black audience, for example.

Okay, so

they're not even really fully engaged in South Carolina yet, and they're going to react to the sifting that's gone on here in Iowa and New Hampshire.

That's what we always see.

So I think that's still up for grabs as well.

And And so I think what you, and I think, you know, Joe Biden putting out statements about trans civil rights, and he's grasping now.

You know, I used to say when I was a professional football analyst, when your team believes the game plan has failed, they just start trying things.

You know, you're just, well, let's try a run here, a pass here, a draw there, a play action there, and see if we can get something to click because we're at a loss for why nothing we had game planned for is working.

And I think Joe Biden,

at least in terms of Iowa, New Hampshire, which is is all that matters right now, he's at the trying things stage.

So how is this going to break down?

Biden's, in a caucus, most Americans don't even understand how a caucus works.

Can you explain that and then a follow-up question?

Sure.

They're all little mini conventions.

So there's rules of order, there's orders of business, there's delegate

appointment.

It just depends on what all is on the agenda.

You know, on the Republican side, because a lot of those people are in private industry, they try to get in and out as fast as they can, and the process can still take an hour.

On the Democratic side, though, everyone's got a kvetch, so grab the Snickers.

You're going to be here for a while.

Okay.

And they're going to handle all of their business.

And this year it's different in that when they're gaveled in, when you come into the caucus and have your name checked, and yes, you do have to verify that you are you.

So apparently it's not racist when the Democrats do it to themselves.

When you do that, this year is different because of what happened in 2016, where Bernie Sanders won the popular vote, but Hillary Clinton won Iowa's Electoral College with the delegates.

They're now making it so that you have to declare who you're for when you come in.

This has never happened before.

Usually there's been like a straw poll first to kind of figure out who the candidates are.

They're going to fall by the wayside.

You're now going to declare when you come in.

That's a huge advantage to somebody like Bernie Sanders because when you declare for him, I mean,

the Soviets there are going to make sure that you follow through.

There's one candidate in this race that knows right now that he's not coming out of the room in Iowa with fewer votes than he had going in.

And the only candidate I think that can say that is Bernie Sanders.

So what we're going to decide this last week, guys, is what is his ceiling?

And you're going to see a lot of things thrown at him to try to mitigate his ceiling.

And I do believe he has a ceiling.

Because if he hadn't had such a high name ID candidate, he would have been leading this race the whole time.

He does have a ceiling.

The problem is you can't replace nothing with nothing.

Somebody has to replace that.

Somebody Somebody has to be the place where everybody that thinks this guy is another Jeremy Corbin and he can't win, where they believe they can settle on who that is.

And we're sitting here one week from Iowa after a year-long

campaign, and they still don't know who that is.

Okay.

That's why I said that it's Bernie Sanders.

So when you say Bernie Sanders has a ceiling, does that include any of the voters from Elizabeth Warren?

Because they seem to be,

you know, I wanted Warren, but she's not out here.

She's not going to make it, so I'm going to throw it to Sanders.

Does she lose

members to Sanders in the end in Iowa?

Yes, and I think you're already seeing that's reflected.

We've had, there have been symbiotic relationships, and we've talked about these lanes before.

Butigic and Biden are in a lane because that's the lane Buttigig chose.

And then you have Sanders and Warren are in a lane.

And they've had, and symbiotic, when one is up, the other's down.

When one is down, the other is up.

And now I think you have seen that the stunt that her and CNN orchestrated, I do believe they orchestrated it the last debate with the hot mics and stuff, it's blown up in her face and hasn't really helped her at all.

And so he seems to do well with calamity.

Like his numbers rose after a heart attack.

His numbers rose after getting embarrassed by Elizabeth Warren.

It's a damnably weird thing, but it's the numbers are what they are.

And so she's now in danger of.

You can have people who are just now at the point where, I just want to vote for a woman, where you could see them now say, maybe Bernie Sanders has drained all of her support that they were tethered together, he could drain.

And maybe some of that now starts to go to an Amy Klobuchar because we might get down to, I just want to be able to vote for a woman in the room.

It's the time of the woman.

And I think that's what the Des Moines Register endorsement was about, was to try to throw one more lifeline to Elizabeth Warren.

It's always a good idea to vote based on people's

gender.

That's always a great idea.

Especially when it's fluid.

Yeah, exactly.

I was interested.

I wanted to ask you about Klobuchar because here she is.

She has kind of been the fifth candidate in this race for a long time.

She has her polls are coming up.

The latest Emerson poll that came out today has her at 13% in Iowa ahead of both Budijej and Warren.

She seems to be making a late, last-minute sort of run.

We've seen these things happen in Iowa before on the Republican side with Santorum.

You know, it's happened.

What do you think her chances are?

I think it's possible she could finish in the top three and survive as viable Beyond here.

I don't believe she can get a percentage that would win.

You mentioned Santorum, and that's a good analogy.

If you remember, that campaign was the flavor of the month, and Rick never had his turn, and it got down to the end.

He never really had an impressive, galvanizing moment, but it got down to the end.

And if you were a conservative that didn't want Mitt Romney as your nominee, he was the last one left that hadn't been branded or tarnished in some some way.

She's running great ads right now.

And they're very likable.

They're very, I can get things done.

Hey, let's be adults.

At some point, you know, we have to win an election once we're done, you know, checking our woke credentials.

She should have started doing this about two months ago.

If she had started doing this in the fall and built her

name ID high enough, particularly as Warren and Sanders got,

you know, really handsy, I think she could have, and Biden began to implode with his appearances.

I think she could have really been a viable threat here.

She was too timid, waited too long to make her move

and choose her lane as the adult in the room.

But the fact that she can still get a late rise here into a respectable finish is indicative of how weak the, we just got to win the election lane has become for the Democrats.

All right.

Can you hang on for a second, Steve?

Sure.

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So, how did, with Bernie gone for the last few days, how is AOC

doing?

And did you see much of the

Soviet show that they were really putting on for Bernie?

No,

and I think that

that's great

for us from a clickbait perspective, and it's going to be very harmful in a general election.

But right now, the biggest issue is

Bernie Sanders is a defined entity, Glenn.

I mean, this idea now that we're going to get all this oppo research dump on him from the left, and it's going to hurt him with leftists,

it's desperation time.

It's fouling at the end of a basketball game when you're down by 10 to prolong it, but you've already lost.

What they've got to figure out, they've got to come up with an alternative to him.

That's the argument.

That's the debate.

They have to have an affirmative alternative to him.

And focusing on him doesn't find them that affirmative alternative.

And here's something to keep in mind.

I mean, there was a Boston Globe poll out yesterday that had him way ahead

in New Hampshire.

No one that has ever won both Iowa and New Hampshire has failed to win their party's nomination ever in either the Republican or Democratic parties.

So Bernie Sanders, you can, okay, you take him from 30 to 25.

Who's your candidate that's going to get 26?

They haven't figured that out yet.

Now, Buddha Judge, I thought, shot himself in the foot this weekend with his response to a question from a Democratic voter.

In fact, can we play this?

Woman stood up and said, look, I'm a Democrat, but I don't don't seem to belong anymore.

Listen to this.

The Democratic platform contains language that basically says that we don't belong.

We have no part in the party because it says abortion should be legal up to nine months.

The government should pay for it.

And there's nothing that says that people have a diversity of views on this issue should be included in the party.

In 1996, and several years after that, there was a language in the Democratic platform that said that we understand that people have very differing views on this issue, but we are a big tent party that includes everybody, and so therefore we welcome you, people like me, into the party so we can work on issues that we agree on.

So my question was,

would you be open to language like that in the Democratic platform that really did say that our party is diverse and inclusive and we want everybody?

Well, I support the position of my party.

that this kind of medical care needs to be available to everyone.

And I support the Roe versus Wade framework that holds that early in pregnancy there are very few restrictions and late in pregnancy there are very few exceptions.

And again, the best I can offer is that we may disagree on that very important issue and hopefully we will be able to partner on other issues.

That wasn't an answer to the question at all, and he got hammered for it.

Are there a lot of Democrats in Iowa that are in her situation?

No, there's not a lot of Democrats like this.

Well, there's not a lot of white Democrats in her situation, really, anywhere in the country.

Most of those people have either already become independents or Democrats because they got this message 10 years ago that this is the direction their party was going to go.

But where it does hurt him is his entire calculus.

Can we just be blunt?

Not that we haven't already.

He has no qualifications to be president other than how he has sex.

He's a unique special interest.

He qualifies as blunt.

Yeah, that is.

Okay, you nailed it.

It was blunt.

If a straight individual that was mayor of Cedar Rapids, a town, Ile, a town of 100,000, was running for president, would they have lasted this long?

Would they have been taken straight of any ethnicity, any color?

No, of course not.

And so that's his whole M.O.

He's really politically inexperienced.

He has no resume, no other reason to support him other than you just want to check that intersectionality box.

And he's run a very clever campaign where he doesn't highlight that really at all and tries to highlight his military service and I am am a centrist.

Well, if you're going to run as I'm a centrist, I'm going to run in Joe Biden's lane.

And then in the last debate, you get caught lying about, well, yeah, it's Medicare for all.

We can't have stragglers.

And then you turn around a national TV and say stuff or turn around in a forum and say stuff like that that goes on national social media.

It shows that

the thin, narrow road, pardon the pun, that he has tried to carve out here for himself is an untravelable pass.

And it was only going to be a matter of time before it was going to be exposed.

He's undermined

his own argument that I'm the person that can reach people we traditionally cannot get to build our coalition.

No, we can't.

Okay, so there is a new New York Times Sienna College poll of likely caucus goers, and it shows Buddha Judge beating Biden by one point.

I think it's possible Joe Biden could finish second, and I think it's possible he could finish fifth.

I think that's very fluid.

I don't think there's any scenario barring he's alive on February 3rd.

Bernie Sanders is not in the top three in Iowa.

Any scenario.

And then after that, I don't know what happens after that.

I think Joe Biden could finish second to fifth.

I think Elizabeth Warren could finish still in the top three and then finish sixth.

I think Amy Klobuchar could get in the single digits and finish third.

The rest of this is very fluid because they haven't figured out is who is the more polished candidate that can win those suburban ex-urban voters that they took away from Trump in 2018 when it was a blind taste test, and they didn't have to put a candidate opposite him, but you could just check yes or no and what you thought of Trump.

There was a 14-point swing.

That's the whole election, guys, is Trump overperformed suburban and ex-urban voters in 2016 from even the Republican Party's data and won those women by five points.

In 2018, he lost them by nine.

That 14-point swing is the whole election.

And the Democrats are struggling to figure out who is a candidate that won't scare those voters off so they'll just vote against Donald Trump and for us like they did in the 2018 midterms?

How's the impeachment working in Iowa for

the regular person?

It's irrelevant.

I mean, there's an Associated Press story out today that says people don't care.

It's funny.

A lot of these networks now are running stories about how people in these early states don't care, and then they just go back to wall-to-wall impeachment.

Nobody knows what a John Bolton is.

Nobody cares.

Nobody can spot Ukraine on a map.

All right.

No one cares.

All right.

And so it's just not relevant.

And this whole exercise has also limited their ability.

It's no coincidence, gentlemen, that when this went on the front burner, that's also when Bernie's numbers went up.

Why?

Because he's the only candidate that knows his supporters are the freaking Postal Service.

Come rain, come snow, come sleep, come shine.

They're there.

It doesn't matter.

All right.

I mean,

Jesus is going to have to open the 47th seal for Bernie Sanders voters not to show.

And he's the only candidate that has that kind of support while the rest of them are now distracted.

Steve Dace, thank you.

Great analysis coming out of Iowa from Steve Dace.

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