thanks very much. Thank you. State Attorney General Josh Kaul
held a press conference today stating the Department of
Justice will protect the rights of Wisconsinites from the newly
elected Trump administration. >> And let me say that if the
new administration infringes upon the freedoms of
Wisconsinites or attempts to use our system of justice as a tool
for vengeance, we will act. We will act to protect the best
interests of the people of the state of Wisconsin, will act to
uphold equal justice under the law, and we will act to defend
Wisconsinites freedoms. >> The Attorney General also
addressed targeted racist texts being sent to people across the
country and here in Wisconsin. >> Anybody making racist
statements or bigoted statements in text messages is something we
cannot tolerate. I encourage anybody who has information
about those texts to contact local law enforcement. I think
it's important that there's an appropriate law enforcement
response. >> A stunning win for Donald
Trump, with Republicans also taking the U.S. Senate and
probably the House. Our political panel is Republican
Bill McCoshen and Democrat Scot Ross weigh in. And hello.
>> Good to be back. >> So, Bill, what is Donald
Trump's appeal to a wide swath of voters in Wisconsin and
elsewhere? >> So he grew his base with
women, with men on college campuses, with Hispanics, with
Blacks, with young voters. I think the appeal really revolves
around the top issues that he discussed and that's the economy
and immigration. Those are the primary issues for all walks of
life here in the state of Wisconsin and frankly, across
the country. And I think that's why he improved in 49 out of 50
states in the state of Wisconsin. He now has the
highest turnout ever at 1, roughly 1.7 million. And
frankly, to her credit, Kamala Harris has the third highest
total ever. The only one who Democrat who did better than her
was Barack Obama in 2008. And there's only 10,000 votes that
separate them. So while overall turnout in the country was down
considerably, it was up in the state of Wisconsin.
>> So, Scott, what do you make of Donald Trump's appeal in
Wisconsin and elsewhere? >> Well, I think it's
unfortunate that America would rather put a racist rapist who's
been convicted of 34 felonies in the white House than a woman.
And I think it came down to two things. I think it came down to
sexism. And I think it came down to hundreds of millions of
dollars in transphobic ads that were that were appealing to
people's worst natures. You kno, if you want to talk about the
economy, we lost 3 million jobs under Donald Trump. We gained 15
million jobs under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. So it's very
clear that the economy was not at play here. As much as I
appreciate what Bill is saying, it was very much a divisive,
hate filled campaign by Donald Trump. Kamala Harris tried to
tried to parry that with joy. It did not work in the end. And
people are going to suffer. And all across Wisconsin, all across
the United States for that. And our economy is certainly going
to suffer. I don't think Democrats planned out the full
switch after Joe Biden was displaced on July 23rd.
>> I don't think they had the next several steps figured out
and there were some misses. The first miss was potentially
having a competitive primary, albeit short, prior to the DNC.
The second miss was there should have been some distance created
between Harris and Biden, and they should have worked that out
before this thing really got rolling and that ultimately
really hurt her. Her interview on The View three weeks out is
when I knew this thing was over, when she said she can't think of
anything that she would have done differently than Joe Biden.
Well, this was a change election. So if you're the same
thing, you're not going to win. >> How do you respond to what
Scott said about Donald Trump? >> People have factored that in.
This is I call him the Terminator. This guy has been
whether it's impeachment, indictments, they tried to
bankrupt him. There were two assassination attempts on him
every time one of those major events happened, he got
stronger, not weaker. He got 72 million votes. This time. He had
74 million. Last time. The big drop off actually came on the
Democratic side. So the energy was with Donald Trump.
>> And I don't understand. I mean, I think that the Harris
campaign, I thought they ran a really, really good campaign,
but where it seemed to end, where the where the momentum
seemed to end and, you know, is looking back is honest to God.
When Tim Walz stopped calling J.D. Vance weird, when Kamala
Harris stopped saying they're out of their minds. I mean,
these were manifestly, you know, in some, you could argue,
deranged position, but places that the Republicans wanted to
put us in and not and going after the Charlie Sykes Liz
Cheney voters, I loved it. I just I mean, I that one was that
one that baffled me. You know, I get you know, it's trying to
bring everybody in, get enough people to get to 50%. But
turning down the what the alarm at what actually is going to
happen the next you know, four years, you know, things like the
national abortion ban, $4 trillion in more tax cuts, mass
deportations of human beings out of the United States of America.
And this is going to be a disaster. We saw on Friday
Donald Trump had Elon Musk, the world's richest man, sitting on
a call with, with, with, with Zelensky, for God's sakes. I
mean, this is scary stuff. You know, it's going to be it's
going to be a test. You know, we have failed this test of the
American character. Now it's time. We're going to have to
like try and get back back to back to places and liberals and
right minded people are going to have to stand up to this guy.
And the power that he now has, as you say, the US Senate and
possibly the House of Representatives.
the liberal elites when they called Trump supporters
That was fuel for Trump supporters to get to the polls
and bring low propensity voters to the polls, in some cases, for
the very first time, including in the state of Wisconsin.
>> And maybe that was unique for Trump because, again, we saw,
you know, Senator Baldwin was returned to the US Senate. We
talked about the giant gains in the legislature here in the
state of Wisconsin. We didn't do well with the House, that's for
sure. And there's a lot of improvement there. I don't know,
in the D, triple C is going to target Wisconsin again because
of the performance of the two main candidates. But, you know,
I think the one bright side, if you're you know, if you're
looking at Tammy Baldwin, the other bright side you're looking
at is you probably with this have guaranteed that Democrats
in the state are going to control government sometime
within the next four years, and we're going to have a lock on
the on the Supreme Court because 2025, 2026 and 2027 are going to
be massive backlashes against the insanity of project 25 and
what Donald Trump is going to do to destroy this country and play
to people like Elon Musk, while people are suffering.
points. This was a Trump wave, not a red wave. And Republicans
should be very careful how they interpret the results of this.
The only way that this becomes durable going forward is if they
actually enact the agenda that he ran on. So they have the
House, they have the Senate, they have the tools and the
levers to make this stuff happen. If they do not deliver.
The Republicans who abandoned him will get primaried. There's
no doubt about it. >> What do you think the Trump
administration bill is going to do on day one? I think they're
so much further ahead. >> I know they are than they
were in 2016. They've been working on the transition since
literally the day after the convention in Milwaukee. They
they will have those 5000 appointees ready to go on day
one, and they will have a different caliber of cabinet
than they had last time. There might be some similarities.
We'll see. But these are people that have very, very successful
careers who are willing to leave those careers for a one term
president to try and put this country on the right track. So I
think the key criteria for the cabinet members is, are you here
for the right reasons? Are you here to enact the agenda? If so,
you make it to the next level. If you're for here yourself,
you're out. >> The guardrails are gone. I
mean, just thinking about things like Aileen Cannon being made,
the attorney general, things like that, this is going to be a
punitive. He's promised it. If promises, he's promised to
punish his opponents and using the full force of the government
to do that, including law enforcement. He's going to do
that. It's going to be disastrous. It's going to be
corrupt. It's going to be un-American. You know, if I'm.
But but again, if I'm a citizen out there and I'm thinking, wel,
what do I do? Use your voice, run for office and demand that
your Democrats stand up to this guy and do communications every
single day, because I think that's one place where the
Democrats fail. They don't work. The press like they should.
They're not out there fighting because people sit and watch
television. You need to make sure that television news is
talking about what you want them >> Bill, he's expressing fear of
what's to come. think people are going to be
excited about the changes that are coming. It's common sense.
It's things that will benefit Democrats, independents and
Republicans to get the government out of the way. Let's
not have Big Brother in Washington DC. Let's have the
government that our founders intended. And I think that's the
government Donald Trump's going to try and enact. We'll see.