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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 662 - The Florida Project

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Florida’s recount continues to befuddle, the West hits a sex recession, and we check the mailbag. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Florida's recount continues to be final.

0:02.0

Jim Acosta wins a great victory for Jim Acosta, and we check the mailbag.

0:06.0

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

0:12.0

Well, Jim Acosta wins a big victory against the Trump administration,

0:16.0

which means he is going to bust into that next press conference,

0:19.0

like the Kool-Aid man right through the wall. He's going to be like, oh, yeah. So we will discuss Jim Acosta's big win in the courts against the Trump administration. Truth is, truth is, he was kind of right, but I know, I know. Stop yourself. Don't hurl yourself from the nearest building. I'll explain legally in just a second. But first, but first, let me talk to you about your imminent demise. So all this week, I've been thinking about death. Why have I been thinking about death? Well, because I've been hacking up a lung. That made me think, well, I'm sure glad that I have health insurance and life insurance, more importantly, because life insurance means that if I should plot, if I should die, then my family will be taken care of. And that will certainly be a good thing. Right now, you can get life insurance pretty easily at policy genius. You know, it's kind of tough to get life insurance, really like you have to go by word of mouth or you don't know that much about it, but policy genius is the easiest way to get life insurance online. In just two minutes, you can compare quotes from the top insurers to find the best policy for you. And when you compare quotes, you save money. It is indeed that simple.

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1:46.0

the plan is to just recount this election result forever. And then Florida won't be a problem for us

1:51.5

anymore. We won't have any new elections. We'll just keep recounting this sucker for like the next

1:54.7

25 years. And by that point, all the candidates may have died. And it won't matter because the recount

2:00.4

will continue out

2:01.0

and Florida will just be taken off the board as an actual electoral entity in the United States.

2:05.9

The current status is that Florida has now ordered the first ever statewide hand recount

2:10.3

as the legal fights continue according to the Tampa Bay Times. Now let's be straight about this.

2:14.9

Ron DeSantis will be the governor of Florida. Rick Scott will be the senator from Florida. The margins are too big to be made up in a recount. Typically, the only time a recount has been reversed in a statewide race is when the margins are less than 500 votes. In this particular case, Rick Scott is up by several thousand votes, and the same thing is true for Ron DeSantis. That is not stopping Democrats, however, from claiming that the election

2:34.6

has been stolen from them. So you remember just a couple of days ago, we were hearing about

2:37.8

President Trump, that guy undermining electoral integrity. Well, right now, Democrats know they've

2:43.4

lost in Florida, and they still won't acknowledge they've lost in Florida because they want to

2:47.0

pretend that voter suppression is happening. According to Tampa Bay.com, an unprecedented

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