This podcast episode features a post-election special with Pastor Bob Thibodeau and Scott Wright, where they delve into the significant implications of the recent election results. They analyze the voting demographics, highlighting how key groups, particularly women, shifted their support in unexpected ways, contributing to the election's outcome. The discussion emphasizes the critical role the economy played in influencing voters' decisions, drawing parallels to past elections in 1980 and 2008. As they reflect on the political landscape, they encourage listeners to remain engaged and active in the democratic process, especially regarding issues like abortion, which are now under state control. The episode concludes with a heartfelt prayer for guidance and wisdom for the newly elected officials, underscoring the importance of faith in navigating political challenges.

Takeaways:

• The recent election revealed significant challenges for the Democrats, particularly among key demographics.
• Scott Wright emphasized the importance of the economy as a pivotal factor influencing voters' decisions.
• Analysis of election results showed surprising shifts in urban voting patterns towards Republican candidates.
• The discussion highlighted the necessity for evangelical Christians to engage actively in political matters.
• Historical parallels were drawn between the current election and significant past elections, such as 1980 and 2008.
• Pastor Bob and Scott Wright stressed the importance of prayer in the political process and for future governance.

Hello, everyone, everywhere.

Pastor Bob Thibodeau here.

Welcome to the Kingdom Crossroads podcast.

Today we're so blessed.

You're joining us for our post election special with our good friend Scott Wright.

And we're going to be talking about the implications of this election that we just are now seeing the results of.

And Scott, thanks for joining us here.

I know you probably had a late night last night and I know I stayed up late and got up early and was surprised to see they'd already called it, but so, yeah, welcome back to the program.

Hey, it's great to be on, Bob.

And you know what, I don't even mind that I don't have a lot of sleep.

I, I actually didn't go to bed till after 2:00, so.

Ah, you waited till they actually called it then, huh?

Yeah, I made sure it's called and saw the acceptance, the celebration speech and all, all the different pieces to it.

So.

Amen.

They walked off the stage in, the commentators came back on, said, hey, we are going off the air.

They had a long day.

Yeah, exactly.

This morning I got up and I was pleasantly surprised and I watched a little bit of the Fox News one.

But then I decided to go over to MSNBC and see what they were talking about because I figure if they're conceding, then it's official.

And yeah, they're, you know, immediately doing, you know, the post analysis and, you know, what the Harris administration did wrong, what it means and you know, and they were definitely not happy campers, let's put it like that.

And, you know, they were definitely blaming the Democrats for, you know, dumping Biden and just dumping Harrison when nobody knew who she was.

That's what they kept talking about.

That's, that was their big mistake.

You know, nobody knew who she was.

So, you know, with three months to go to the election, she had to introduce herself to America and that didn't work.

And, and then they started analyzing all the demographics, the Hispanics and the black men, you know, the male vote that they lost and, and said Democrats got a lot of work to do.

And that's, that's basically where they were leaving it at.

But what's, let's take a look at your analysis.

Tell us what we got.

Well, can you see the other screen here?

Can you see my screen here?

All right, so as I was funneling through this last night, and I've got, not to be crazy, but I've actually got a lot of sheets of paper here.

I've got analysis on every potential swing state, how Their counties break down and those things.

And if you just want a political breakdown, the demographics, she, she really struggled to get that urban boat that she normally would get.

And what was interesting is a little bit of that urban boat went to Trump.

Donald Trump actually won a little bit of that.

The.

Oh yeah, in, in men of every demographic, young, old, ethnic groups, everything broke hard for Donald Trump, more so than they even thought it would.

And then the female vote, this was the big one, the female vote, even though she was winning, it wasn't at the numbers that they really thought it was going to happen.

That may have been the big one here, is that females rejected not only some of these really far left policies, and I know a few of those policies that especially suburban moms were against that went against Harris, but also I think the economy became a bigger issue in this than people wanted, you know, really thought.

I think at the end of the day, I really don't think it would have mattered if it had been Biden.

Yeah, I don't.

And even if he was, if he would have been, you know, obviously mentally, he's, you know, deteriorating in those years.

But, and you can tell that, I mean, that's, I don't think that's hard for people to see, but the economy itself is what I think drove the election.

Yep, yep.

That's how Obama won, was the economy.

Yep.

And I think that was the big thing for most people was, you know, that question that Ronald Reagan first posted.

Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

If not, give me a shot.

And they did.

Yeah, they did.

And he turned it around.

And that is basically the same, same motivation, I think, with this election, you know, that.

I mean, I, because I was watching some interviews with, you know, the urban areas and they were all saying the same thing, you know, that I can't, I gotta work three jobs now where before I just had my one job and we were better off.

And that's where we're at.

And it's gotten to the point where it's almost impossible to raise a family.

Yeah, it's, you know, you get more than a, you start getting kids in a high school, then all of a sudden you've got, I mean, their bills go up, they just do naturally get more expensive.

Middle school, high school, all their activities, everything, groceries.

It's the family part just gets more and more expensive, you know, vehicles and, you know, all that all the different stuff.

And yeah it, the American dream is becoming the American nightmare.

It really is.

You know, I'm looking at like I'm looking in Nevada.

I think that no tax on tips may actually win him Nevada and you know, Arizona, the immigration issue, which immigration is also a big deal in Nevada.

He's, he's up right now by almost 60,000 votes in Nevada with 84% reporting in Arizona's got a lot to count and he's up by over a hundred thousand.

So Maricopa county is, which is the big county in Arizona is actually breaking his way.

Wow.

Which is pretty unusual.

I'm looking at the county breakdown.

For instance, Clark County.

He's almost winning in Clark County.

You know, she needs, she needs to win that county by at least about 9 to 10% to win Nevada.

It's not even, she's not even up by 1%.

Right.

Amen.

And they've got a lot of, that's reporting but some of these like there's a, there's some heavy Republican areas.

They've still got a lot to count.

Yep.

In that state.

And Brown is up in the Senate race so he's going to have a shot at winning that race.

Let me just break over here to the center race which you know, for, for people watching, if you know anything about politics.

The, it's very important to have a mandate and that mandate also includes your Congress.

Senate is going to be controlled by Republicans and by.

How much is going to matter if you have a, like you have a 52 lead.

You gotta make sure every Republican comes with you on every vote, you know, or you're fighting.

Your vice president may have to step in on a 50, 50 vote.

But if you've got a 55, 56 person majority, they still have a shot at getting that many.

You can, you maybe can see that happening.

So like in Nevada, Brown's up, you know, it looks like by almost a thousand votes.

So they're, it's pretty close.

A thousand votes.

Yeah.

A lot to be counted.

There's still 16 of that Ricky Lake or Carrie Lake, excuse me.

She's down but she's not down by that much.

When you, when you consider it.

It's like 60.

She's down by about 61,000 votes.

But there's some heavy Republican areas that haven't been counted yet.

And so there's, she's got a shot at winning Arizona.

Wisconsin's within 27,000 votes.

I think it's hoped.

He's, he's barely down to Baldwin and then Michigan, same thing.

Rogers is barely down to Slotkin by 4,500 votes.

McCormick is beating Casey in Pennsylvania, and then in Montana, she is beating Tester.

So there's, there's, there is a good potential here to pick up about three, four, maybe as many as six more seats.

Amen.

Give them a really good mandate for governing.

And Republicans are projected to take the House, and they certainly have control of the Supreme Court.

So it, you know, what does that mean for us here?

I think the ideals.

And I know, I know a lot of evangelicals didn't vote in this election because of the abortion issue.

You know, to me, freedom of religion and the expression of it without being hindered by law was the big issue if.

And that is a Christian issue.

And I don't think people saw that.

You know, they just.

The problem is sometimes as evangelicals, as Christians, we, We get too caught up in one issue.

Yeah.

You can see the whole picture.

And the thing is, again, I would say this to Christians, your states now have the option on abortion.

It's not the federal government.

Exactly.

Because Florida turned down the abortion issue yesterday.

Yep.

That was a big deal.

So they're getting out to vote.

They put Trump in office because that was a.

He ran away with Florida.

I mean, my gosh, he's winning by almost 14%, and he's winning by almost 10% in Texas.

So that when we, when we look at this, we get.

We are.

Excuse me.

I think he is one.

About 14%.

I don't know.

Senate race.

But when you look at that, your vote matters.

And it's in, in what I would encourage Christians is even on the abortion issue, if your state starts to vote on that, your vote's going to matter even more because it's going to be a smaller number of people.

Yep.

That are going to do this.

And so we need to be.

We need to be locked in.

God has given us.

And I've, I posted this on Twitter.

God has given us the right and the privilege of voting.

It's a gift, and we need to be good stewards of that.

Yep, we did.

Now, you talk about every vote matters.

I ran for city council when I lived in Louisiana.

Oh, wow.

And I lost by seven votes.

If four people would have voted the other way.

I don't mean to laugh, but that's, like, really close.

Yeah.

If I, if four people would have voted the other way out of one.

Wow.

And so every vote matters.

Living example.

That's like Dixville Notch in New Hampshire.

You know, those are the first six votes that got counted.

Yeah.

And it was a tie.

Three.

Three.

I mean, somebody's got.

Coming and break the tie, Right?

I mean, Myrtle, I told you you should have gone to the polls.

Actually, he.

I'm on the right screen now.

He actually did win Texas by almost 14.

I thought he did, and I realized I was looking wrong screen.

And then he won almost 14% in Florida, too.

I mean, everybody was saying it was going to be close in Texas.

It's not close in Texas.

And I mean, I'm looking at New Jersey.

There's a big backlash here because if you look at this, he's only losing New Jersey by like a little under 5%.

Who would have thought that?

New Jersey.

Yeah.

And then New York, he's only losing by a little under 11%.

Yeah, that's unheard of.

Go to Maryland.

See, that's how it usually is in the, in the liberal states.

Yes.

67.

Yeah.

Well, go.

I'll tell you what, go to Illinois.

Yeah, she.

She didn't.

She only won by 8%.

That's usually like 18%.

You know, add 10 to that.

Or, I mean, another one was Virginia.

Yeah.

No, he, he's cleared the 2 million votes in Virginia.

That was, I mean, boy, when they had about 60 of the vote counted in, he was still.

I think he was winning at that point.

It was close, but, I mean, even Virginia, he's going to.

It's going to be probably roughly around 5%.

Yeah, that was a very competitive race.

I honestly, I'll be honest with you, I think, and the Virginian Republicans, I know, we're screaming this.

I think he would have won Virginia had he, like, campaigned there like he did in Pennsylvania.

I just, I think what they did is they strategized certain states and they said, okay, we're going to make these states our plan and any other outliers we might, you know, give a little attention to.

They didn't give enough attention to win Virginia.

Republicans, I know, did a really good job of getting out the early vote and mobilizing their people more so than they had.

And Governor Youngkin, President Trump still needs to thank him because just like Governor Kemp in Georgia, they really did.

Governor Youngkin did him a lot of favors in there.

Excuse me.

During that campaign, so the, that vote would be increased.

I do believe, had they campaigned there more and they didn't, you know, they, they spent their money wisely.

I get it.

They made sure they won.

And, and that's what you want to do.

New Hampshire could have been even closer.

I mean, he's only down what, 23,000 votes.

So again, have they campaigned harder?

The problem with doing ads in, in New Hampshire, and I don't wait too much about this stuff, but is the expense of those ads.

Those ad one of the most expensive, expensive media ad buy.

And I know Harris had to run ads in there to try to win that.

I mean, look at her.

I mean, she only is winning by 23,000 votes with 90% reporting in.

So it's, yeah, there's, I, I mean, I'm looking at certain states like New Jersey, Illinois, some of those that are closer that you're like, whoa, you know, like Minnesota, she's only at 4% and.

That was her vice president state.

Huh?

That was Walt's state, Minnesota.

So you think that would have been a blowout.

Yeah, exactly.

So, but, you know, we're sitting, I'm sitting here looking at all of this and yeah, and Tim Walsh is probably the reason it's even that big of a spread in Minnesota.

But had, had they campaigned harder in some of those, those areas where it's really close, he probably would have won.

Yeah, but they just, they didn't spend the advertising dollars and they, you know, the real focus was Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan.

Well, in the few minutes we got left, let's talk about what this holds for the future now.

Well, I think the first thing that this is going to do is projecting that Republicans win the House, which that's what it looks like is going to happen.

And, and they're in, most media outlets are projecting that and experts are with the Senate and obviously the Supreme Court, you know, and he could end up replacing a couple of Supreme Court justices the next couple years.

And that's why keeping that Senate mandate for both, both these two years and next two years.

That's why I want him to run up the score and the Senate.

That's why he needs, he needs to do that.

I think what the projection for America is not only economic situation, but calming the waters around the world down.

I mean, the world's on the brink of being on fire.

It is.

And President Trump will, the one thing that he will do is he will really work hard to get and I'm guessing he'll start working here on the ground in the next couple of weeks to start getting people to the table and getting the situations over in Ukraine, in Middle east and other places to calm down.

And, you know, hopefully that'll also, I'm sure, I know China's been posturing.

I would guess this is going to calm them down when he starts to threaten 5 and 600% tariffs on them if they don't.

So we'll.

He'll just run their military completely out of money is what he'll do.

And the, the important thing is here, he doesn't have to run again.

We can't run again.

So now he doesn't have to worry about, well, if I do this, it's going to hurt me in my next election.

You know, he just gets to do it.

Yeah.

He could just govern and, you know, much like what Reagan was able to do in the late 80s.

Yeah.

Last couple of years.

To do the things, you know, especially against what the Soviet Union and negotiating with Gorbachev, Gorchev, however you want to pronounce the name.

As he was negotiating, he didn't have to worry about rerunning and, you know, the campaigning part of it and setting himself up to campaign wasn't something he had to worry about.

So like you said, you have to be careful with your legislation, how you do things.

Gotta be a little more cognizant of it when you're gonna have to run again.

Yeah.

I think the House is close.

If we, if they take the House and it's close.

He got.

You still got another election coming up in two years.

Yes.

So he does have to worry about that.

Yeah.

So he'll really have a strong.

He'll really have 18 months to govern and then there'll be six months of campaigning for all those seats.

Yeah.

I will say this.

I think he has a really good chance of running the table with a lot of legislation that he wants to get done.

And I know immigration's a big deal, but also I'm hoping this will calm the waters of a lot of these really out there social policies.

Yeah.

It's time.

And I think America spoke to that here.

I know the abortion issue is a big deal, and I agree.

I believe that it is.

But the states now have the decision on that.

And so evangelicals, I'm going to encourage you, contact your state legislatures.

They're the ones that control this.

You know, some places have a.

Where you can get enough signatures, you can do things to get an amendment or you can outright vote on it.

You know, need to put pressure on your legislatures.

I think, I think evangelicals just want to sit back and rely on everybody to do everything right.

Just say, hey, they're going to do it.

Right.

And that's what we expect, but not do anything about it.

That is not our calling.

Our calling is to be active.

Yeah.

And we're going to have to rise up and be active.

If all the evangelicals in America rise up and be active in politics, what you've been watching since 08, since President Obama took office in 09.

Yeah.

From that point forward, that's just.

This stuff has been pushed.

We could rewrite a lot of that.

There could be some pushback.

You're not gonna be able to get rid of all of it, unfortunately.

But we.

We can put our foot down.

There is enough evangelical Christians that if all of us would get out and be active and vote and do what we had to do and stand up for what is right, it would.

The politicians are right now in a position to listen.

Amen.

And we're in a position to make them listen.

You know, one of the big things was he said day one, he's gonna, you know, shut down the border.

Yep.

What I would love to see.

Oh, man, it would just be like fingernails on a chalkboard for all the liberals and stuff.

I know.

But at the inauguration, raises his hands as I do, and they bring out executive order number one, and he signs it in the inauguration.

That would be awesome.

Right there.

And so.

So how.

You know how that'll happen?

They'll do their speech.

He'll take his little ride down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Yeah.

And then he'll.

He'll walk into the White House, and then they put all those executive orders in front of him and they take pictures while he signs them all.

Yeah.

But imagine doing it at inauguration, you know, as a gift of work.

Up to the camera so they can all.

Exactly.

I think that would be a photo op.

That would be.

You know, you talk about rile.

Riling up feathers.

Oh, I mean that.

You know.

I mean, think about it.

Is it, you know, 10 seconds after he is sworn in, you know, he's giving his speech because.

Bring that.

Bring it.

I told you I'd do this on day one.

I'm gonna do it in the first 10 minutes.

Hold it up.

You know, it's a border patrol.

Shut it down.

I mean, that would be awesome.

That would be awesome.

Well, you saw what he's gonna do, though.

He's.

He's negotiating already with the Mexican government.

He's already told them they're gonna.

Their tariffs are coming if they do not on all products.

If they don't.

If they don't start help monitoring this board.

Well, you see that big mass of people coming up, you know, because they were afraid this was going to happen.

They're trying to get here before he.

Takes office, you know, they get their freebies.

But a couple of weeks before he takes office, they'll leave.

Yeah.

Because the freebies aren't going to be there anymore.

Yep.

And that's got to be good for the one or two ways, you know, the major metropolitan areas that have been complaining the government's not helping them take care of these people.

And there has been money flowing to them that gets shut off.

You know, that's gonna put even more pressure on the metropolitan areas now, you know, because they don't have any money coming in to help at that point.

There's a big.

There's a big.

I've watched this.

There's been a lot of.

A lot of touting that what's probably going to happen is a lot of them will leave.

Yeah.

On their own.

Yep.

Because the freebies are gone.

The freebies are going to go away.

And they may want to, you know, if they're going to walk that.

Which.

Man, I hate that for those.

A lot of those people, they're gonna be walking this in the winter.

Well, hopefully all I gotta do is get down to Mexico and.

Yeah.

So then the weather's a lot better.

I.

But, yeah, I'm kind of wondering if there won't already be a negotiated.

Something negotiated with the.

With the Mexican government by the time he even gets in office.

Like, they're gonna go, yeah, we can't have these tariffs.

I'm wondering if they'll go ahead and do something, if they'll start doing their part.

Yeah.

And really what the Mexican government's got to do is they've got to go shut off their southern border.

That's their first step.

If they do that, then that's going to slow down immigration into the country because a lot of people are funneling up from those other countries through Mexico.

Yep.

Yep.

Amen.

Amen.

Well, Scott, I appreciate you taking the time today to get up early.

You stayed up late, got up early.

Come back on and talk about the results that we've seen.

And I say all we can do is pray now.

Pray that, you know, God's will has been done.

That's been my prayer all along.

Amen.

That's been mine as well.

Each of these pieces and praying.

He praying over it and praying over all the different elections.

If Kamala would have won, I'd have been satisfied with that, too.

Because my prayer was only your will be done.

Amen.

And so I turn it all over to him.

And when I got up this morning, I was pleasantly surprised.

But like I said, if it had gone the other way.

We'd still been having this conversation and about what it looks like for the next few years anyway here in the United States.

But I said, I know you stayed up late, got up early, so I do appreciate you coming on and sharing your insights with us.

And all we can do is pray.

That's all we can do.

Amen.

And you know what was interesting?

And.

Wow.

Well, 47.

He became the 47th president.

Wow.

Called it.

So I kind of found that ironic.

Yep.

Amen.

Amen.

And that's what they were all talking about was, you know, he had a whole North Carolina, and then either Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Wisconsin, he'd have to take.

And he took two out of the three instead of just one out of the three.

Yep.

So that was.

That was enough.

And he'll take Alaska, which will put him at 280.

Yeah, he's probably going to win Nevada and Arizona and Michigan, too.

So put him over 300.

He'll be at 312.

Yeah.

Amen.

I've already done the math like a hundred times.

Yeah.

Amen.

And he's all right, brother.

And he's winning the popular vote by over 5 million votes.

There you go.

Which I think that's a big deal, too.

Yep.

Amen.

All right.

Well, folks, that's all time we have for today.

Like I said, pray.

That's all we do.

Lord, your will be done.

Give him wisdom.

Let's pray right now.

Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you and praise you that we see your hand at work.

And we praise you, Father, that it was always in your hand for this to be the outcome.

Amen.

Our prayer was, your will be done.

And it looks like this is in place.

And Lord, we thank you now that you continue to lead, guide, and direct the new 47th President of the United States and his administration.

Lord, we pray for Congress.

We pray, Lord, that your will be done in their house, in the individual houses.

And, Lord, we just praise you that.

That at all times this nation needs to lift up your name in this nation, that your will be done in this land just as it is in heaven.

And to you, Father, we give all honor, glory and praise in Jesus name.

Amen folks.

That's all the time we have for today for Scott Wright, myself, Pastor Bob, reminding you to be blessed in all that you do.