Daily Wire host: “If this were a free and fair and honest election, does anybody believe that Trump would lose?”
Michael Knowles: “If this were an honest and fair election like we basically used to have in America until 2020, if this were an honest and fair election, I would bet a significant chunk of money that this would be a red tidal wave.”
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Citation From the October 9, 2024, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show
MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): Is it possible that we're gonna see a red tidal wave in November? I'm not betting on it. I'm not betting on it. Don't you clip this out, and then if the election doesn't go well, you say Michael was totally wrong. I'm not saying I would put money on a red tidal wave. The reason I wouldn't put money on it, by the way, is because I think there are gonna be a lot of shenanigans. I think you're already seeing a lot of those shenanigans like when Pennsylvania shut down its voter registration website during President Trump's triumphant return to Butler during that rally in Pennsylvania. I'm — I think there are gonna be shenanigans like swing states illegally registering foreign nationals to vote as we've seen lots and lots of evidence of. I think there are gonna be shenanigans like turning election day into election season and all sorts of mail-in ballots and drop boxes and all the rest.
So that's why I think -- I wouldn't bet on a red tidal wave. But if this were an honest and fair election like we basically used to have in America until 2020, if this were an honest and fair election, I would bet a significant chunk of money that this would be a red tidal wave.
You have a candidate, Kamala Harris, that no one voted for. That's a disadvantage. And who really doesn't seem ready for prime time. You've got a running mate — not that the running mates matter all that much — who is super weird and a liar and who let his chief city and his state that he governs burn to the ground while violent criminals marauded and looted. You have an absolutely disastrous record that the Democrat nominee is in part inheriting because she is the incumbent vice president. You've got war abroad. You've got social issues that are about 50/50 because the trans issue cuts for Republicans and the abortion issue right now is cutting for Democrats. So those are sort of off the table. You've got Trump who was a good president and things were doing well and people trust him on the economy, which is the top issue. You've got this woman who nobody voted for who when she shows up and actually does speak is completely embarrassing.
If this were a free and fair and honest election, does anybody believe that Trump would lose? If the — if we were a different country and Trump lost this election, the U.S. State Department would start an investigation and say, this is a clear case of fraud, and they'd be calling us a failed state. And even so, even with all the shenanigans, I don't know. It just seems to me like Trump's got a real shot.