Douglas Murray: Kamala Harris was hideously rejected

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This is the Brian Kilmeade Show. In our nation we owe loyalty not to a president or a party but to the Constitution of the United States. And loyalty to our conscience and to our God. My allegiance to all three is why I am here to say while I concede this election I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign. What did fuel your campaign? Almost nothing because you got totally blown out but I got to give Kamala Harris finally the credit and she had she had a right to take a shot at President Trump. Trump did not concede the last election did not you know did not stay around for the inauguration. I don't know if she will and Joe Biden will but my sense is they're going to try to show him up and do that and it is the right thing to do but the rest of the speech seemed like a campaign speech and why did she wait until four o'clock in the afternoon to do it probably 4 30. Now Joe Biden made a call congratulated President Trump that's a good sign he said come to the White House that's another good sign they should do all those things it makes the American people and the rest of the world a little less anxiety filled but I think this is the first time in a mandate since really 2008 when Barack Obama got it.

I think that there's and this is the biggest one for a Republican maybe in my lifetime maybe Reagan. With me right now is Douglas Murray from the National Review Institute fellow best-selling author. You got a new book coming out don't you didn't you tell me you had a book coming out? I do it's not been announced yet Brian. Can't announce it. So did I give did I just give up top secret information? You gave up wildly top secret information I can never trust you again. Well just know that I will fully back it. That's ready.

The secret book comes out in the spring. So tell me about this concession tell me your view of our election. Well I was down in Mar-a-Lago for the night and uh. Tuesday. Yes and uh it was obviously historic extraordinary extraordinary evening um and the. When did you go by the way were you there before it was decided did you see the anxiety level dip? Yes yes very much so I thought that the moment when things started to really become clear was actually when Republicans managed to flip those senate seats because that suggested that this was a the wave that. Bernie Moreno. That was that was the the wave the Trump team had been hoping for um at Madison Square Gardens I was there a couple weeks earlier and some of the Trump team then said you know what we're focusing on is is you know we also need to get the popular vote and I thought at the time I thought maybe that's you know that's a bit of a reach and so it turns out not to be so I thought that on the night itself uh the there were a couple of moments when it became clear uh I spoke to the president just after the the senate seats flipped and that was really a very clear indicator that that maybe the whole thing was gonna gonna come the Republicans way and uh by the I I was like a lot of us I was unsure whether we're gonna get a result on the night and then it became clear we would and everyone headed to the convention center and and the the the cleanness of the win is something as you know and your listeners know is absolutely crucial and I think some of the relatively diminished howling on the other side is simply because of the um the their just inability to deny that this they lost everything they lost everything and if it had been remotely closer or if they could have done their whining about the electoral college again they would have done but they can't so it was a it was a historic uh night and I thought that the president's president-elect speech was very very important to a highly energized room did he did he write it um did he have it written down or he had lived there seemed to have it he seemed to have their prompters out there he seemed to have the skeleton of it written down okay he carried on stage and I thought it was a very very good speech I thought that um what was then on everyone's minds was why has there been no word from the Harris campaign other than sending her supporters home and I did think that by the next morning and you know I mean I had contact with some of the democrats I said why is your candidate not not saying anything this really looks very bitter and unpleasant my guess is she was uh drinking a bottle of wine um but uh you know did you hear anything did you hear anybody say that or is that you know it was my my my guess uh but she the fact she didn't come out all gone for uh the day after I do think as you say I mean Trump's had his own issues first it was supposed to be the morning at 10 o'clock you know that and then they pushed it to that's why I say maybe maybe there was some uh but anyway I think that I think that the the it showed it it showed that she was unable she does not have it in her and this is one of the things that made her fundamentally unfit for office anyway she does not have it in her to have any self-examination uh she could have on the night said what what I mean one of my favorite examples is in is Nixon in 1960 you know he had a lot of pressure to concede and he ended up going in front of the press and a room full of his supporters at the hotel in Los Angeles and said at 2 30 in the morning you know I know you don't want to hear this but we've lost this and um and conceded and congratulated his opponent JFK uh she didn't have that in her and I think it's the final final demonstration of the American public this was somebody who's fundamentally unfit for office that she she couldn't and she didn't even in her speech yesterday afternoon late yesterday afternoon she didn't even have it in her there to have any self-examination of why she was why her campaign was so so hideously rejected by the American billion dollars 107 days one billion dollars and she wouldn't do an interview wouldn't give a position you know what did it for me when that crime bill that crime reform in California Prop 34 was out there she had an opportunity to say yeah you know what uh we got to crack down on crime it's time for the criminals to stay behind bars smash and grab was something I didn't anticipate and contrasted to 2014 when she basically wrote it but she says I will not endorse instinctively Douglas Murray I mean what are you kidding me this is an opportunity it would have been too too little too late anyway it's extremely hard for people to concede the problem when the problem is them but you know at some point the democrats should recognize that they put up a fantastically awful candidate and why did they pick her even as the running mate well we all know because he said a woman a woman of color it would knock it down to three people I mean you would hope that after this the democrats would would do some of the self-examination they did not do after 2016 you know I always say that the the importance of clear results in elections is not just that the winner knows they've won but that the loser knows they've lost if if if if if if they don't recognize they lost this is this was Hillary Clinton's problem and the democrat problem for the last eight years it was this you know we had Russia Russia Russia we had the impeachment attempts we had the all the false claims about the win in 2016 um the democrats had a chance to actually pivot on the issues why were they losing the working class why were they losing the ability to even speak to American workers and they didn't do that switch they couldn't do it can they do it now we'll see but of course it's it's not the the the the problems of the democrats are a secondary issue at the moment so they say sex is racist and I can play a whole bunch of clips but I'd rather listen to you well sex is racist are you kidding me that they maybe maybe uh they can grow up after this and realize that one of the problems was that doesn't work anymore they've tried to insult the American public for long enough and the American public turns out not to like being insulted all the time um what were you meant to think if you were a white working-class guy in America looking at the candidates in this election on the one hand was Donald Trump and the republicans saying they're not just speaking for you but they're going to do things to improve your lot in life on the other hand there's the democrats simply saying well white working-class guys you better prove you're not a racist misogynist and vote for us that's not a that's not a very appealing brand but they've they've tried this they've been some of the usual asylum uh lunatics of the left who spent the last 24 hours trying to do this again my suspicion is on the left-wing networks and even the party they the the wiser voices will realize this is not how you speak to them aren't we watching it doesn't this good we're a self-correcting country I think more than anyone I know very much and so all of a sudden business is going yeah we're not doing the dei thing we're not getting good people we can't live under this criteria we don't really think we're sexist and racist people pushing back fundamental feel for patriotism I'm relieved we're coming up on our 250th birthday it's a big deal so president trump will be there say what you want about it does anyone think he's not patriotic does anyone think he doesn't want to celebrate 250 years I was worried that we're going to do the 1619 project and have someone say we're built on the backs of slaves on stolen land and that's what we were getting we're not comfortable with that no americans don't want that of course not but this is what the left has been trying to push on all of us for years now I'd hope that the result this week is in part a rejection of that anti-american narrative anti-western narrative but look what what Kamala Harris said in her speech yesterday afternoon struck me that there was one thing in particular uh in it that was worth noting which was the fact that she was still trying to warm up this completely hollow narrative what we just heard in that excerpt where she said you know I will concede the election but will not concede the the the the fight that has is behind our campaign there was no real fight this was all empty hollow rhetoric and she she tried it for months and it didn't work and it was soundly rejected and it's because the american public could tell that she was a hollow person she said all she could say was that she was a hollow person she said all these things like we need to go forward into the future not back into the past sorry what are you going to do about grocery bills we need to be the change of the people who are the people we're waiting for after we've come back from the past in none of this meant anything I know what about the work we're not afraid of work hard work is good work what are you talking about you don't have to tell us about yeah who's who's the campaigner who who'd say uh I like uh drifting around kind of and uh prefer the public to kind of drift and uh meander meander let's meander into the future no I mean this was she she she was such a hideous candidate because she it was like watching in the old days a xerox of a xerox of a xerox until you can't really see on the page anymore she was a copy of a copy of a copy and uh by the time it got to her none of it really meant you realize how much healthier it would be for the country to have like a harold ford run for president center left all right I understand there's certain positions you want to do more social spending other positions you want to spend on defense those are healthy debates but when you say we have to get rid of oil and gas and gas cars by 2040 and then you make dealerships fill up their cars with electric cars they can't sell and everyone keep your mouth shut you're a racist or you don't like the environment the militants who gave you this environmental movement I want you to hear what Joe Manchin said somebody's now out of congress cut six Donald Trump didn't win just with the MAGA he won with the centrist the common sense the independents in the middle he was able to have a program that basically more people bought in than what Kamala did that's the middle the power of the middle is unbelievable I just hope when they get to Washington they remember how they got there they got there by appealing to reasonable responsible sensible people that are in the middle I'm in the middle a lot of people Democrats have become homeless and a lot of Republicans became homeless and we weren't Washington Democrats we weren't Republican Democrats but we wanted to get things done you get things done from the middle he said he didn't vote for her but people have told me to conservatives like you uh Roger Ailes famously said uh you're in the middle of the road you're roadkill so how do you feel about that what he said knowing you're you're conservative right so how do you feel about that Josh is he naive well I think Manchin said he's a fine man and uh it's sad he's out but he um he's going to be in my show on Saturday so good yeah so he's not out at all yeah he's right at the center of things uh he he is he's a he's he's a he's one of the old-school Democrats that you could recognize and that the Republicans could do business with in any normal season um he's a fine man he's a patriot and uh and he really knows his issues uh he would never if he'd have been the candidate uh the Democrats he would not have waffled on about issue after issue and he knows his he knows his brief Kamala Harris never knew her brief you and uh uh uh you know one time she was being asked about inflation I came away with a very strong view that she did not know what inflation is I'm pretty confident she doesn't know Douglas Murray I know you do and in a moment uh we're going to take a short time out and come back don't move listen to the all-new Bret Baier podcast featuring Common Ground in-depth talks with lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle along with all your Bret Baier favorites like his all-star panel and much more available now at foxnewspodcasts.com or wherever you get your podcasts breaking news unique opinions hear it all on the Brian Kilmeade show obviously there is going to be a lot of soul searching and asking a lot of questions in the coming hours and days about what if anything could Democrats and the Harris campaign have done differently one thing that we are clearly already starting to see take place is finger pointing and the blame game and a lot of that is going to be directed at President Biden and this is even coming from some folks inside of the Harris campaign one senior official I just talked to said Biden will hold a lot of blame for it and frankly they said he should yeah so no doubt about he wants 300 million dollars for his library this is going to hurt him Douglas Murray I'm deeply sorry for him for that obviously he was looking forward to having a nap in that library and now we're looking forward for your field trip I'd love to go to the library because normally I have to go to his garage to get top secret documents so I think it'll be good to go to one central location I gotta ask you about Iran how does Iran feel today you spend so much time in the Middle East in Israel what do you think the reality is they blew up their missile defense already they took out the radar but we know in Syria and Iraq to help them guide their missiles what do you think they're thinking with Trump I think that if there was any country in which there could have been a landslide for Trump equivalent to or superior to the one that was given by the American public this week anywhere in the world it would have been the Israeli public they are so pro-Trump because they they know that the region they're in is the most dangerous region in the world they don't have the benefit the Israelis of having Canadians to their north and it's it's a rough neighborhood and it's a neighborhood in which only strength is respected and the Harris Biden administration was a very wobbly ally actually to Israel it was a very wobbly more wobbly than we know more wobbly than the public I mean there was there was just one thing that was made public the other week of course was the intelligence leak from the administration a minor minor figure in the administration but leaked the sites that the Israelis hoping to strike inside Iran an ally does not do that an ally cannot be a leaky ship and um that was all deliberate that the the I've said many times but if the if the democrats had spent as much time trying to get regime change in Iran as they tried doing regime change in Israel the mullahs would have fallen by now the aim of the Biden Harris administration for the last year has been to get Benjamin Netanyahu out of power in Jerusalem because they see him as being the principal object obstacle to peace which is nuts it's nuts they they say that he's intransigent like no it's Hamas that's intransigent and Hezbollah and fundamental and Hezbollah and their backer Iran it is it is I mean everything about that conflict has been has been from the United Nations and others they are weak they have allowed Hezbollah and Hamas to do what they do and only President Trump back in the only President Trump back in the White House can reassert the proper balance of power which is not Hezbollah peacefully being allowed to continue firing missiles at Israel but making sure among other things that the hostages have got back home and Iran is on the line right away before he takes office he wants those hostages home Douglas Murray thanks so much thank you from the Fox News Podcasts Network subscribe and listen to the Trey Gowdy podcast former federal prosecutor and four-term U.S. Congressman from South Carolina brings you a one-of-a-kind podcast subscribe and listen now by going to foxnewspodcasts.com listen to the show at free on Fox News Podcast Plus on Apple Podcast Amazon Music with your prime membership or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.