Ep. 138 - The Blue Wave That Never Came
The Matt Walsh Show
The Matt Walsh Show
4.7 • 27.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:57.5 | Not sure if you heard about this or not, it was kind of a little small sort of human |
| 1:02.7 | interest story that the news was talking about last night. There was an election they call |
| 1:06.8 | it the midterm election. Maybe you heard about it. Results, which I'm sure you also heard |
| 1:12.1 | Democrats took the House as expected. Republicans kept the Senate picked up a few seats, sort |
| 1:17.0 | of not expected on that. And Democrats gained 28 seats in the House, made no gains in the |
| 1:23.3 | Senate. As opposed to say, the 2010 midterm elections, when obviously Obama was the President |
| 1:31.9 | and Republicans gained 63 seats in the House and I think five or six in the Senate. So, |
| 1:36.2 | that was a red wave. This is not a blue wave as was advertised and as we were promised, |
| 1:43.1 | not a blue wave, not a blood bath. Wasn't a red wave either. Wasn't a blood bath in the |
| 1:47.4 | other direction. Now, the spin doctors are going to go to work and spin it one way or another |
| 1:52.3 | as they already have been doing. Obviously, but there weren't any waves. There were some |
| 1:59.8 | ripples going in either direction, which is not what we were told. Instead, I think the |
| 2:08.1 | Democrats did basically what they had to do, what they were going to do. Given the way |
| 2:14.5 | that the map was drawn up this time around, there really wasn't much chance or possibility |
| 2:19.2 | that Democrats would fail to gain the House. So, that was going to happen. It was inevitable. |
| 2:25.1 | The question was whether it would be a trouncing and whether they could seize control of the |
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