thank you for spending part of your sunday with us, good night from south carolina. "life, liberty and levin" is next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ mark: hello america, i am mark levin, this is "life, liberty and levin." so what do we make of last tuesday? sometime a little time to digest these things is better than on the spot analysis, i noticed that many of statement people who were wrong about a red wave now telling us what to think about a nonred wave.

we need to think for ourselves. i said before the election, and i say here and on radio, forget about the red wave, forget about a red tsunami. and vote. i said it on radio. over and over. why? who cares who people predict. you have to go out there and bring home the bacon. that is what you have to do. i want to take a look at this with you and walk through it. it will be different from what you are used to hearing, i have given this a lot of thought, senate in 2022, we had 34 seats up. 20 of them were republican. 14 of them democrat. that meant that republicans had to defend 20 seats. if they were getting makety

majority they had to tap to 14. that was a tall hill to climb. the next election cycle 33 seats are up, 2/3 of democrat seats, the democrats have to defend 23 senate seats, and republicans 10. so the math in 2022 never really lead to a red wave possibility. the ma math in 2024 does, does that mean there will be one in, of course, not, i am just explaining simple math. we have about 60% of seats up they had 70%. in the next round. democrats needed to have

some serious gains in senate last week to stave off a disaster in 2024. they failed. i'm not being a polly anna, i am just laying it out. there is a lot there of opposite view point. what about the red wave or a g.o.p. pick up, maybe 6 senate seats, heard that too. that neff going to happen. -- never going to happen, one seat or two. at the outskirts maybe 3. possible. we would have to hold all 20 republican senate seats and flip a few of the 14 democrat seat, they have a lot of resources to defend their seats, a lot more of the map to take decisions about how they would go on offense. what happened? arizona a democrat incumbent. nevada, a democrat incumbent.

new hampshire a democrat incumbent, and georgia a kembdemocrat incumbent. focus on arizona and new hampshire, candidates running against the democrat incumbent and senate leadership fund made a fateful decision. it decide that it would provide not one pen of support to blake masters in arizona. it decided to pull about 6 million dollars of support in last week to general bolduc in new hampshire. who? charge of the senate leadership fund? mitch mcconnell, this fund raised well over 100 million dollars, he controls it. so not one penny to arizona. he pulled 6 million out of new hampshire in final week. it was most needed then, what else? they poured million to colorado, colorado race. to support a rino who got

crushed that election was called soon after polls closed. there was an effort by dcgcg.o.p. establishment to say that kind of candidate is the kind of candidate we want, he go the blown out, and millions of wasted. and the fund spent nearly 9 million that could have been usedded in arizona and new hampshire, and other states where they were needing money. 9 million spearings candidate in las lax mcconnell wanted lisa murkowski to win. almost 9 million dollars wasted. alaska was going to settle republican no matter what, they interfered in the

decision making process. and blew 9 million that could have been used in arizona, new hampshire, nevada, georgia. and other places, i notice a number of republicans, on television, coming to defense of all this. that tells me they have a stockholm syndrome, they don't understand what is taking place in the nation. they made very poor decisions to this senate leadership fund under mitch mcconnell. they did same thing in 2010 in ac tea party. attacked the tea party. it was so-called experts and consultants and g.o.p. operatives and politicians that washington who did this

. after the results, republican dc establishment went on the attack, they make responsibility for nothing, candidates who you voted for in republican primary, whatever state, who you voted for. the primary voter. you chose flawed candidates. it is your fault. your fault. in new hampshire. it is your fault in pennsylvania, it is your fault -- that is their response of the republican establishment. some of these candidates who lost cost us the election, they say because donald trump supported them. and if the voters and trump had left it up to the experts in washington, the g.o.p. establishment their consultants, many of whom you know they're to choose candidates rather than people, we would have won more seats.

who says? based on what? based on nothing. they said the same thing in 2010 during the tea party revolution, they take responsibility for nothing, they had the money, they decided where it went. there was never going to be this wave, period. math made it impossible. but if senate leadership fund spent its money more prudently we might have picked up a couple more seats. what the house? a different story, several more million republicans that voted than democrat bus we don't have a good fraction of how "the independents" -- grask on grasp on how independents voted, 25 or so house race that were decide by less than 5% of the vote. less than 5% of the vote. several closer. up -- there almost was a

so-called red wave in the house, but they fell short. they fell short. all this seats involved dem ddemocrat incumbent. it is likely the republicans will take the house by a smaller number. they will a appoint speaker, control the committee, lead up to election, pollsters, and republican operatives in dc . were talking about a red wave as if it occurred. what are they based it on, it was flawed. i said over and over. ignore them. they are always flawed and inaccurate. all right. the democrat and media are celebrates, what? >> red wave never happened. it wasn't going to happen. not in the senate for sure.

but they are diluting themselves, democrats made no progress in senate, they needed. at best one seat. when math was 100% with them, 100%. in 2024, they are in in -- o horrendous situation 2/3 of senate seats coming up are democrat seats, they celebrate they lost house by a relative few votes, but they lost the house, g.o.p. can now block the radical kook programs thatted by sense pushing. -- that biden is pushing and they damn well better, but if republican allow same dc establishment. if they allow them to control the agenda and

money, the future is bleak. ronald reagan won 2 massive landslides, he was not part of the establishment. donald trump was not part of the establishment. he was a conservatives, conservatives delivered house in 2020, and conservatives out there are those who held democrats this election cycle. don't forget it. the message is listen to the washington experts, the washington establishment, the long in tooth the ppart and get smeared. don't listen to them. and hated trump. and who are now attacking the base again.

primary voters. the democrats don't do this to their base or supporters. so two scenarios, from my perspective, it is possible that red wave could be here but in 2024. that florida was tip of the spear, a blowout under the great governor of -- america's governor ron desantis. that might be something that be spread if people govern like conservatives. the senate will be math positioned for governments to get big gains. we have two more years of biden disasters, not getting better, it will get worse. or on the dark side, it is conceivable, culture rock is

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mark: welcome back america. we're here with ben domenech fox news contributor, editor at large. ben, these elections, it amazes me how people know everything that happened. like 14 seconds after the election is over. i find that basically they are projecting their own biased. their own politics. you have consultants and politicians, it is what they want to read into it rather than what they read into it . >> what do you read into this? >> i will give you something that is dissatisfying. because i think it is something that we should not have to deal with as a republic. i think that republicans need to have an early vote strategy. regardless of different story lines that i think you can draw about this election and went on narratives, i

think as we have to agree with it at-this-point, these covid-based policies of early voting that create months long periods where people are voting in pennsylvania for 50 days. they are things we can gripe and complain about and know it wrong, but they are not go away. up fortunately republicans have to have strategies where they target early voting, they deal with the process. as the rules are written, they contend in same way that democrats are in this ballot harvest approach, it is icky and terrible, i hate it i wish we had an election day. until those rules are changed we have to deal with the problem, unfortunately, this time, if a lot of candidates had that kind of approach we might see different results in a number of different scenarios. that is an unfortunate

reality, greg abbott in texas had an early vote sphrestrategy, that paid off. others did as well. we have to understand this is the nature of the way that our elections mark: >> i, agree 100%, they are voting for 50 days we vote for one. they are able to a all that time if the thesure leisure to get their vote on. we are hoping an army of huinhns will come over the hill and vote, our candidates need to talk about that vote early. they hesitate to say it. >> senate, you know a look at the senate situation, right away republican

establishment in washington is looking for people to blame they did the same thing in 2010. it was not set up well for the republicans anyway. you had 20 republican seats up, 14 democrats, i never saw a gr plow out that could a-- a great bl blowout that could occur. so a blame the voters, you picked wrong people, they are taking the wrong message away. >> it is temptation of people who or losing side to dissolve the electorate and choose ther another, in this case, the candidates chosen were outsiders. in a moment when there is partisan son frustration with washington, and who would like to see change.

that is a good thing, but it say bad thing when it comes to being prepared for the statewide runs in competitive states. we talk a lot about influence of former president trump and the impact he had on the republican party, one thing he has done that is a negative is he taught a lot of people who are famous that politics it easy. politics is not easy. you can be lucky, or fortunate. we all are not elect lucky enough to run against hillary clinton. it is hard, you can't just jump from an outside pound pundit and to run statewide. i l look at -- tutor dixon. in illinois, i like her, but to run from a purple state

like michigan against an incumbent governor is a hard thing to do. i think that unfortunately, there are a lot of people, including dr. oz who said, i can do that too. i think that this cycle proved it is not the case. politics is hard, it takes time and lessons learned from previous campaigning and it lead to a lot of mistakes on the way to election day. mark: other hand you look at democrat candidates, they were not rail top tier in wisconsin, ron johnson running against a marxist, and georgia walker is running against a marxist. and fetterman in pennsylvania. you know. enough said about him over the course of last several months. i can go on about the very poor extreme democrat candidates. you think they will learn anything from that. >> yeng i don't think they are, i think they are set in their ways, in wake

of this election, they are likely to double down in every respect, i said before the returning polled in i was of opinion joe biden would be like barack obama than bill clinton after this double down on what he believes and not actually look to cross any partisan line or cut deals with a republican majority in the house in particular and you know perhaps senate. one reason i think that, that is only path that is there for him to continue to have the aproval of the radical marxist progressives we see takeover the conversation on the left. and you know you mentioned fetterman, he and i think you know, as extreme as bernie sanders. he will be someone who adds an additional vote to sanders wing. but other thing about fetterman, he was elected statewide. he was the lieutenant governor with the cape birl capability to sort of

reach voters, they viewed him as authentic, but he is a trust fund baby, there is a situation where, we have a democratic party where only less an they will take away is we can be as radical as we want and not bear a price for it. mark: i think fetterman case, practical matter to have debateo late and one of longest early voting periods. that was really hurt oz. >> i think that dr. oz, you know was not worse candidate but slammed early on not from the state. mark: he had more connection to pennsylvania where he was raised than hillary clinton about with new york, that didn't hurt her. >> we'll be right back. could progress to dialysis is important. b is for belief that there may be more you can do.

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jon: welcome to fox news live, i am jon scott, president biden getting ready for his first in-person meeting with chinese leader xi jinping since taking office, they will get together tomorrow morning in indonesia, expectations are low. with u.s. and china disagreeing on many major issues. >> national transportation safety board investigator on scene of yesterday's tragic midair crash at a dallas air

show, trying to determine the why two historic military planes collided killing all 6 aboard, they are urge anyone with video of the crash to contact them. it be yield important information. >> i am jon scott, now back to "life, liberty and levin ." ♪ ♪ mark: welcome back amendment, ben domenech, here is the situation, i think. the republicans are making inroads with jewish vote, the hispanic vote, the black vote. in this last election. they were making inroads. my concern is they not throw that away going back to their gerald ford republicanism that has appealed to no one, do you think that republicans have learned their lesson. >> they have a couple

different take aways, this is y generalizing, i think that republicans have been successfully convinced that a conservative populism is what americans' with an agenda, they have been learning over last 10 years or more. and it is something that you know, requires them to be more counter punchers in the culture war, but another thing after this election, voters crave calm and normalcy confidence in leadership. confidence in the competence of the people they election and i think that is something that this time, republican candidates did a poor job of convincing voters that was the case. this election you will end up with millions more votes for republicans in the house than for

democrats, that is very impressive. but there is still not coming out with a g great custom in terms of total, they did not win independents the way they would have liked. and even wh -- with the fundamentals at play here, unpopular president and right track and wrong track, leaning toward wrong, republicans were not as successful as they would like. yes some has to to with candidating selected and way that the primaries played out. but i think a bigger issue they have to grapple with is the lack of confidence in republicans, to be competent leaders look at who won running away, ron desantis, brian kemp, greg abbott, mike dewine, the people who voters had confidence in they would be competence governors, executives in doing their work. that is no sm no

small thing, voters are tired of the side show, and chaos, politics come across as people who are unserious individuals and n narcissists that are just in it for themselves. >> what was the legislative agenda that republican leadership in senate put out for republicans to run on? can you think of anything? i can't. >> other than investigation hunter biden ex and impeaching mayorkas there is not much that was put out there. they complained a lot about the decisions that joe biden was making. they complained about energy policy. and about inflation and other things. they complained boo about the border, but i don't think they offered a tangible understandable list

of things. you and i are in politics media we are paid to pay attention, i don't think either one of us could mention what the first week of a republican congress would do in terms of solving the kitchen table issues. mark: thing when republican leadership in senate trash the candidates, 6 weeks before the election. >> they did the democrat's job for them. >> they had no legislative agenda to run on, other than we want bipartisanship and to work with president biden. you are not getting people to go out and vote for something is a affirmative. you know, reagan won by the landslides he was not just attacking carter but he talked about cutting taxes across board, building up u.s. military, he went into all of these issues, i don't see it, it was like every man for himself in the senate races. >> you said a word that is important.

landslide. landslides are something that i think we don't aim for in politics any more, it is about turning nobs or pulling leavers to get to 50 plus 1. i think that is small ball. i don't like it. i would like to back to where we're swinging for fences trying to win in 40 us therplus states, stop with threading needle stuff. and look maybe we end up being you know still a divide country, you get 50 plus one to get things, but i don't think it should be the aim, we shouldn't start from that assumption, we should aim for low outs for landslides and asking ourselves the question, what are the 80-20, 70-30 issues that we need to get behind. because those are people who drive coalition now, they do

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mark: welcome back america we have joe concha with us. a great book, "come on man," media coverage, somehow they know what took place in ever corner of united states every they got it wrong right before the election with the red wave, and brered tsunami, then we turn to them to tell us what took place, they are excited. >> they are giddy. >> they are celebrating. >> you look at it, they lost

the house, nancy pelosi will be retired that bad for democrat, but because they didn't lose by 3 touchdowns, but they won it, joe biden is not polling well. inflation is still here, education system is going sideways and our border is open, and all fentanyl across the border 300 americans dying a day from overdoses, there is not much to celebrate. but, i look at post coverage, it is remarkable when i hear on other cable news networks, an anchor said that she thinks that john fetterman is presidential material. i mean, i don't have a punch line for that at this point. i think s he more vice

president biden fetterman ticket. it bumper sticker could be it's i no brainer, or if fetterman is president who is his chief of staff, homer simpson? other examples, stacey abrams compared to moses, also says that stacey abrams and liz cheney would be a great ticket to run in 2024 as independents, this unhiunhinged stuff, there is the 31 flavors of stupe study stupid. >> let me ask you do you think that republicans didn 't do as well as prognosticated beforehand because the pollsters were wrong and phony experts were wrong? or because the culture rot is so deep and so broad that

people vote against their own best interest? >> under promise, over deliver, and yes to second question as far that they vote against their own interests, we go to pennsylvania. philadelphia had highest murder rate in history in 2021. except that record was broken in 2022. we're barely into november. you would think that people would say, we need a change here, and not elect a man forget health issues who says he want too release one-third of the prison population or their wages and their 401(k) and they look at every time they get a bill on credit card, they go to a grocery store, or pay their electric or heating bill, they say this is higher than we have ever experienced. we're choosing between eating and heating in and cases, yet we'll vote just to own whic which of conservatives because i want to elect someone like a john fetterman in pennsylvania, i

think we're programmed, it is more about rooting against the other side than pushing or pulling for a i have the bet k -- a better country. when we look at election in past, under democratic presidents bill clinton lost 54 seats and he was more popular than joe biden and economy is not where it was like now and crime not now. and border was not wide open. and he lost p 54 seats, barack obama lost 63/8, he was polling more popular and everything in terms of country was not very good shape but not as bad as now. when you say, he lost 54, and he lost 63, what is joe ajoe biden, who at 80 years old is not doing a good job running the nation, what will he lose. it seemed like a logical

thing, but, to your point, people just voted against another party instead of what is best for the country. mark: i note that the democrats. clinton, obama, they sent out people to campaign for all kinds of candidates. i also note, george w. bush did not take to campaign trail. chris christie was not there, and larry hogan. all this talk about uniting the country. we can't seem to unite the republican party. these people are dug in against conservatives, against maga. we needed a you know, we wanted a big victory this time, they didn't lift a finger. >> who is most powerful republican in terms of title right now that is mitch mcconnell. senate minority leader.

he controlled purse springs as far as where money goeses to what states, he ignored arizona. and left blake masters out so dry, and, kari lake as well. and nevada, you go through states, where mitch mcconnell said, you know what i'm not going to bother here, this is a lost cause, now you see the very close elections, in places like that, that can control perhaps the senate. yeah, i think everyone has to take a hard look at mitch mcconnell and by the way, can we stop, second people or putting people in position of power that are 80 years old or older, no offense to anyone out there, my dad just turned 80, he does consulling work on side, he exercises and it is a nice life. but she not one of most powerful people in the world that has to have serious decisions and serious workdays in front of him. between biden, pelosi,

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mark: welcome back america. joe concha, i am perplexed. the number was tight, republicans took the house, they can investigate and control the legislation. whatever happens in senate. the spending and the democrat party media are celebrating. what is that about? >> they are not celebrating when you have hearing to hunter biden for example that laptop and contends that no one disputes now at-this-point. new york times and w "washington post" who dismissed this earlier. that is all real. and now we have where we don't know, forget hunter biden for a moment, if sitting president of united states is compromised by places and countries like china, russia and ukraine. the hearings will be

interesting our meadial dismiss them as a partisan exercise, even though they embraced january 6 hearings. that will be a real problem. also hearings into the border we talked about before. 5 million people coming over into the this country illegally under this president when you talk about those who are documented and who are got aways 5 million is the same as population pott total of ireland, people will say that is not secure and mayorkas will there be. and try to impeach him, i would imagine. on those two fronts, it will be very bad news for d democrat has we move forward with next congress. mark: and media attacks freedom caucus, sort of conservative wing of the republican party, but they never attack the i don't know what you call them. >> the squad. mark: gerald ford caucus. and. >> a number of those people

who will make life difficult for the speaker, they talk about the conservatives, the base is the conservatives, not the gadflies? >> correct, we saw this in florida, a great interview with ben domenech, he talked about how he need to aim for -- republican party needs to aim there are landslides not threading a needle. and hoping of getting one or two/8, wsay the seats -- one orer two seats. and in ron desantis beginning by 20 points in that state, a state year ago had more democrats registered than republicans, not talking alabama. high winds in miami-dade -- he winds in miami-dade and palm beach, deep blue, if you are fearless and

unapologetic and you execute on your policies like ron desantis did. parents said i don't want my kids taught about sexual ortation. let's make our kids competitive we're 25 in the world in education in china is number one. desantis rather opening state before anyone else did letting businesses 35 -- and exodus to florida. and he ran without backing down to media and giving a positive message that life can be good, we can have a strong state we is 64% aofficapproval. >> judg why is that not

a lesson learned in dc ? senate seems so out of touch, it is not only right thing to do to govern like a conservative, but this is littpolitically smart thing. >> reagan said you want bold colors. say what you mean, mean what you say, don't worry about appeasing media you will never get a fair shake, it is not about journalism it is activism. we see it in daylight as far as the one way party is covered and other is covered, and the president is covered on a daily basis, he does a press conference it is not softball it is it tee ball with a beach

ball on the pitch. >> i think romney follows suzanne collins model, joe thank you, i appreciate it very good. >> thank you, mark. mark: we'll be right back.

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mark: welcome back america. well, we have a big president at election coming up soon, i know, you, say, oh, my god, it's the cycle. i want to give friendly advice, i have a number of friends who want to be president. you need to runed on the issues. -- you need to u.n run on the issues, they need to be conservative, we can't afford to lose this country, if we lose the next presidential election iz fear we will, the way to win is run on the issues tell the american people what you are going to do, expose what the democrats have done.

not the to trash each other that does not fly. not flying with neither, no i'm not aiming this at any one individual. we have to win this election. the country is bigger than any candidate. the conservative way is the way to go. i'll see you next time on "life, liberty and levin." ♪. steve: anti- policy says she is staying on and backing biden 2024. by then she will be 84 and he will be 81 and we will be ready for a change. good evening welcome to "the next revolution" we are live in new york talking about the tv questions what happened in the midterms and what happens next? we will try to answer those questions thoughtfully and honestly with our lineup of gas.