Rick Green [00:00:07] Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture as The WallBuilders Show. And we're taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical and constitutional perspective. It's Friday, so it's good news Friday around here at WallBuilders, which means David and Tim Barton have been piling up their stacks of good news. This week has felt like good news variety all week long, so many good appointments are nominations. I keep saying appointments, but nominations from President Trump and even a sense, guys, that it's a foregone conclusion that they will be approved. Like I noticed in all the all the, you know, announcements that he makes, he says, I'm excited that so and so will be serving as not that I've nominated so-and-so but that they will be serving as. Anyway, I'm Rick Greene here with David and Tim Barton. Let's jump into some of that good news for our good news Friday. David. What are we starting with? 

David Barton [00:00:54] Well, it started on a postmortem of the election. We had we talked before the election that we had two polls that we asked Barna to do. And he looked ahead to say what what would cause people to vote, What would cause them not to vote? Which groups are going to vote Christians? What would you say to get them, vote and etc.? And it's understandable that we do that looking forward. But it's also nice to look back and say, okay, how did that turnout, how did that polling look? Was it accurate? Did it go the way we thought it would? And the Democrats are now having that same kind of self-analysis because they got clobbered in this election. There's no question about it. They got clobbered. All the polling, I mean, going into the election, FiveThirtyEight had camera up like I think it was 0.09, and that was a collection of all the national polls. So overall, all the national polls had her up a good way. It didn't have the margin of victory that clearly came out or the margin of the Electoral College. So they missed it. And so Democrat polling firms have been doing exit polling, not exit polling necessarily, but analysis polling after the election. And what what they found and they were asking, why did you not vote for Kamala? What was what were the issues that caused you not to vote for her? You had a choice between her and Trump. Why did you not choose her? And the top three reasons were, number one, inflation, which that has always tended to be pocketbook is tended to be number one, which, you know, obviously that's not a good biblical position or historical position. Righteousness exalts a nation, not pocketbook. If you seek first the kingdom of God, his righteousness, all the other stuff gets added. So if you go after the righteousness issues first, the economics always tends to do well, but we get it back or we usually go after economics first and hope righteousness comes along behind. And that's just not the way it works. But in this case, number one issue for Democrat voter are for Americans who didn't vote for the Democrat was inflation is too high and number two was immigration. You get way too many people come across the border. This is not a good deal. And number three, it was transgender issues. So that was interesting that that rose all the way to number three, which is not where it was in anybody's polling. Nobody nobody in any poll that I saw ever had that as one of the top three issues. And the election is where is Trump? But see, Trump must have had that because as you see how many ads he ran against Kamala on the transitioning issue and she wants she wants men to play in women's sports. And I mean, the clips that they used were compelling clips. So Trump's polling must have showed that that was one of the top issues because he really went after that. And for Kamala, that was one of the three reasons that they chose not to support her. And then the next three factors I thought were interesting as well. 

Rick Green [00:03:43] And I think just to drill down on that one real quick before you go to those other ones that yeah. 

David Barton [00:03:47] That's. 

Rick Green [00:03:47] Really good news because, you know, you used to do sometimes on good news Friday, you would break down even polling data of kind of where the culture is. And good news of it was moving in the right direction. And I think sometimes we felt like on the transgender issue that we were, you know, that we were just little. It was like we were, you know, in Star Trek and we had beamed down to some strange planet somewhere where everybody suddenly thought this stuff was okay. And so it felt like the culture was going that direction. Thank you, Matt Walsh, for What is a Woman, which really kind of helped to start to bring some sanity back. But what you just said to me sounds like if it became that big of an issue and it moved that many voters from the middle over to President Trump, the tide is turning on that issue that that that that's really good news. 

David Barton [00:04:29] This, to me was the Bud Light the Bud Light commercial that, you know, nobody saw that coming because the way the polling looked was the nation was really accepting that. And when Bud Light took that step too far and paid a price and then here came Target and here came Disney and here came all these others, Suddenly you saw that man. What what Reagan used to call the silent majority was out there and they just kept their mouth shut. But given a choice on where to spend their dollars or where to put their vote, it went that way. The other thing, Rick, about this being a top three issue is think about what that means for school boards. Think about I mean, if. If you're thinking press, are the United States on that issue, what do you think is going to do when you're throwing pronouns around for my third grader or, you know, it's just not going to go well. And so it's interesting. And by the way, I have to say that that within the Democrat Party itself, in looking at these things, there were a couple of reactions. Number of member of Congress said, yeah, we've gone too far. This is not a good place to go. As a matter of fact, one of the articles I have here is in the state of Texas. Now, Texas, it was supposed to be a close race in Texas with with Ted Cruz running us calling all red Ted Cruz for for U.S. Senate that that had showed to be within 2 to 3 points for most of the time. Well ended up the Cruz won by nine points and ended up that Trump took Texas by 14 points. So it wasn't even close. And so here that the chairman of the Democratic Party of Texas came out and said, look, it's really clear that we've gone too far on the transgender issues. This is not where Texans are. This is not where Americans are. And when he did that, he got attacked by his own party base and they came after him so vigorously that he ended up having to resign. He's been chairman of the Democrat Party in Texas for ten years. That was a period of time when they were trying to turn Texas blue. And they made they made vast gains in Texas. They knocked out we went from 106 House members down to about 80 House members. They knocked out about 26 Republican House members. But they have thrown him out because he dared to say that that transgender issue was an issue. And we can't keep going that far. We have to back away from that. And here the activists are going crazy. And the same thing happened in the Congress. There were members of the US Congress that said, yeah, we've got to back away from that issue, and other members of Congress simply doubled down on it and said, No, no, we're right on this issue and we're not going to move away from it. So it's really kind of interesting to see. It doesn't look like the Democrat Party is going to learn from his mistakes, quite frankly. They certainly happen at the state level there. They're making the noise at the federal level that they tend to double down. So we'll see. So, yeah, that that is you know, it's a fairly interesting thing that that was one of the top three issues. The other three issues that I also saw a lot of good news in. And again, this is Democrat pollsters asking why you didn't vote for Kamala. Then the number four issue behind all that. The number four issue was that debt is too high. Now, I don't know when last I've heard the American public talk about the debt being too high because they just keep spending and taking all the programs that come their way and they participate in the programs. But this the debt was too high meant. And of course, we saw it explode under Biden and Harris. But I just don't recall the last time that was a high issue. 

Tim Barton [00:07:55] Well, that it certainly would just worth pointing out that's not a high issue if you listen to mainstream media outlets. However, if you listen to conservative podcasters, if you listen to libertarian podcasters and sometimes even more liberal podcasters, everybody from what we've been saying, I mean, the guys on the Daily Wire say this. Glenn Beck says this over with The Blaze. I mean, even Joe Rogan, what it what's interesting is that this is not something that is not talked about. It's something that's not reported by the mainstream media. And therefore, we don't see it in articles and headlines. But from some of the podcasts that I listened to, some of the shows that I listen to, this is certainly an issue people talk about. So it's interesting to see, again, the the lack of awareness that so much of the mainstream media has that they think they're the voice everybody listens to when the reality is that so much of America is more moved and swayed by individuals like us behind a microphone that have a show, a podcast. And this is being far more impactful. One of the things it's not a good news list, although I'm sure I'll find an article about it soon. The talk about it is some of the layoffs that are happening and expected at CNN and MSNBC because of how much their viewership is down after the election. I think it's fascinating because most Americans are recognizing these guys aren't honest. Well, what they're saying doesn't make sense. It's it's not being backed up by the reality of my life. What they're saying is what's happening in America. That's that's not what I see is not what I feel or experience is not. But when I'm buying groceries and filling up with gas, that's not my world. They're so out of touch. And so, Dad, even though the mainstream media is not reporting on it, it is being far more talked about by the American people, which I think is kind of what you're pointing out. The American people are there, even though the mainstream outlets and many big time politicians don't want to talk about it. 

David Barton [00:10:01] Yeah, it's it is fascinating, but I really see that as healthiness down in the roots. Holderness and the Tree. So the six issues, you know, the first was inflation's too high. 

Rick Green [00:10:12] And to be fair, David, that's where we thought we were writing the most, right? Like it? Yeah, it was. All right. We've had this big concern for the last few years that, you know, the people themselves have become so ignorant about the principles. And and we know that that is true across the board, generally speaking. But what this shows is that, frankly, that the work we've all been doing for these last, you know, decade, this last decade is paying off, that we're getting enough of the people educated on these things that they're pushing against. 

David Barton [00:10:38] That's right. 

Rick Green [00:10:38] These very things that anyway it just. 

David Barton [00:10:40] And that it will. 

Rick Green [00:10:41] Do it healthy What you're talking about healthy down deep is so important. It's so much more important than just one election. 

David Barton [00:10:46] That's right. That's right. So top six issues was number is kind of interesting because we covered four of these six. So let me go through real quick. Inflation's too high, too many immigrants coming in, too much trend gender stuff. Number four was the debt is too high. Number five is there's no difference between her and Biden, which tells you what they thought of Biden. So if Biden had run, even though he apparently had a seven point lead, it would not have been a good deal for him because they said that's the fifth reason we don't want you. You're just Biden again. But the sixth reason was really, really interesting to me. The sixth reason was immigration. So that's the number two issue and that's the number six. Issue number two was you let too many immigrants in. The number six was and you're going to keep led in the man if we reelect you. So the fact they doubled down on immigration mentioned it twice and the top six issues, that's pretty significant stuff. And that is not at all what mainstream media was was purporting or trying to show America. So that exit poll from Democrat poll poorly group, I thought was very good news in a healthy sense of what America starting to do down deep. 

Rick Green [00:11:57] Yeah. Good stuff. Good stuff. Hey, Tim, you wanna do a quick one before we go to break? 

Tim Barton [00:12:00] Absolutely. Want to jump in? In West Virginia, this article says 87 out of 100 members of the West Virginia State House will be pro-life. And this is from life Newsweek.com. It has a breakdown of many things that happened in West Virginia, not the least of which West Virginia becomes the first state in the United States of America to proactively protect all its citizens and health care institutions from the dangerous trend of assisted suicide. So they just banned assisted suicide by a state constitutional amendment. So just pass a law. This is now part of their state constitution that doctors can't go and do things like gracefully taking a life early. It's called assisted suicide. Euthanasia or mercy killing is how some people try to describe it. On the political front, out of 113 races in which the West Virginians for Life PACs or the pro-life PAC endorse candidates. The endorsed candidates prevailed and 95% of those contests. They have a breakdown of even things like Jim Justice, who won the U.S. Senate seat that was vacant from Joe Manchin, or even people like our friend Riley Moore, who won his congressional seat. Second District, they are filled, it says, a complete or completed pro-life sweep of the entire slate of federal candidates. So all the federal candidates are pro-life and they mentioned some others as well. Of the 16 state Senate races in which endorsements were made, 15 were winners. Of 15 of the 16 people they thought were the most pro-life won those races. 33 of 34 senators will be supporting pro-life policies. Guys, just already let me pass. 33 of the 34 senators in West Virginia are pro-life. And the reason and I can go on with even more details in this article, but the reason this is so encouraging to me and I'm trying to say this quickly before we go to break, is we saw in many states the deep breakdown of the basic recognition in America, the American value system that we believe what's outlined in the declaration, there's a God. God gave us rights. Government's role is protect our God given rights. And the first of the inalienable God given rights is a right to life, the right to be born, the right to live your life without someone coming and taking that from you. That's a God given right. And we saw and a lot of states there were there were Christians who did not defend the unborn, who didn't want to protect the right to life. And so it's really encouraging that in the midst of recognizing we get some major challenges, we need to do some discipleship, better job inside the church of helping believers know what the word of God says. What's also really great is that in places like West Virginia, they went the opposite direction and became incredibly even stronger pro-life than they were. So overall, really good news. 

Rick Green [00:14:59] You know, it's interesting, as we go to break, the West Virginia that that you bring that up because they've also got I think they're going to have an outstanding governor in Patrick Moore say, you know, big, big improvement over over Jim Justice who I guess is headed to the Senate but still a governor that will be like a Ron DeSantis in terms of really leading the state and well and being very conservative. And then, of course, our our our Pat Page Academy grad and great friend of WallBuilders, Elias Koop Gonzales reelected to the legislature there had that number one conservative voting record in both of his sessions already won with 55%. So just outstanding. 

Tim Barton [00:15:35] And it's worth telling him high because he listens all the time. So, you know, I do have a friend. You're listening right now, most likely. 

Rick Green [00:15:43] And doing a great job, man. We're proud of you, Liz. All right. Quick break. We'll be right back. We've got a lot more good news for you folks. Stay with us. You're listening to The WallBuilders Show. 

Rick Green [00:16:57] Welcome back to The WallBuilders Show. It's good news Friday diving right back into our good news. David, what's next? 

David Barton [00:17:02] Well, this is some more exit polling type information. It's exit analysis after the election, which I always think is really, really helpful to see what actually went on, not what just was predicted, but what went on. And as you look at the voting blocs that were out there, there's 19 major demographic groups that they break out. You have the 18 to 29 year olds, which were kind of the gen-z. You had the Gen-Y, which are 30 to 44. So you go through all the things the millennials, the seniors, the the Boomers, the busters. You had those with a college degree, those with no college degree. You had white and black and Hispanic and other races. You had the urban, suburban, rural, and you had men and women and older men and older women, the suburban men in suburbia, all the typical groups that they had there. Out of all of those groups, which groups do you think showed the greatest growth in support for Trump? In other words, when looking at them last election and looking at them this election, among all the support that grew for Trump, this is where the greatest amount of growth came from. That mean that they supplied the most amount of votes, but the percentage turnout of that group for Trump compared to four years ago was significantly difference in any any guess on I'm looking here one, two, three, four. There's seven really big jumps. And just curious, what would you guys think are the big jumps where Trump really picked up a lot of support and one of those 19 demographic groups. 

Rick Green [00:18:34] I remember on election night you saying something to the effect of the 18 to 29 group I came off was just guys for 18 to 29 guys and girls that the exit polling was already showing them with a significant turnout for Trump. So that's that's the one that stands out to me. But it may be a different group, but I know it was surprising how much the college kids turned out or even, you know, just in in that age range turned out for Trump. 

Tim Barton [00:19:00] I would also guess in the minority category, I think Hispanics. 

Rick Green [00:19:05] Would be right. Yes. Yeah, huge out there. 

Tim Barton [00:19:08] There was a much better turnout for Trump. And so I think actually I would almost expect there was an increase in those categories. I in fairness, in fact, I think there actually were more Bidens that voted for Trump this election last election. And, you know, if that's possible or correct. But I would say probably if I had to pick one of those categories, I would say the Hispanic category would be my guess for the one that showed the most the most I gain swaying that didn't vote for Trump last time. They voted for Trump this time. 

David Barton [00:19:43] Yeah, the highest percentage actually is in that 18 through 29 category that that younger age group now they still just. 

Rick Green [00:19:52] Does this mean Tim has to buy me a steak? Do do I get like a dinner or anything out of this Was was there a prize or. 

Tim Barton [00:19:56] No no, no. Because the growth of the 18 to 29 year olds was the Hispanics in that group. So. Okay. 

Rick Green [00:20:05] Fair enough. All right. You buy me a steak, I'll buy you the baked potato. That's it. That's. That's John. Good. Yeah. All right. 

David Barton [00:20:11] So the 18th or 29 is is the biggest growth that the biggest next biggest percentage would be a black individuals in America. More so than Hispanics. Hispanics grew at a significant rate as well. But the the you had more than double and the black support for Trump also men 18 to 44 and women 18 to 44 was another big category. And women typically vote Democrat at a high level. And that changed somewhat here. They're still everybody slightly Democrat, but there was a big change. And overall, here's what's kind of amazing. All these 19 different groups, Do you think there's any group that fell in a support for Trump? And if so, which group? What do you think fell in Trump support? 

Rick Green [00:21:00] Command. I don't have a guess on that. 

Tim Barton [00:21:03] The fact that you asked that makes me think there might have been a group that fell the way you're asking it. 

David Barton [00:21:10] Yeah, there was. 

Rick Green [00:21:11] We don't know. I know it was. 

Tim Barton [00:21:14] I mean, is it single ladies with that? 

Rick Green [00:21:16] Yeah. I was going to say, left handed lesbians with with only one leg and no hair and they have the alopecia, whatever thing it is that you know. So, yeah, that group, it's only, you know, small demographic I could think of. 

David Barton [00:21:31] We have a winner. Well, actually, not quite. Now, it's actually quite a surprising to me because this goes against all previous elections. But the the only group that fell in the support of Trump were those 65 years and older. Generally, the older age is more traditional, more conservative, more America, right? That's right. The only group that fell as support for Trump every other. 

Rick Green [00:21:57] And he's all right. There's not only that, just the fact that he's older, you know. I mean, she was 60. He was, you know, 78 or whatever. So. But also interesting that, yeah, the older demographic actually drop. 

Tim Barton [00:22:09] So into I, I do wonder that the older demographic is also the one that has probably the most absentee and mail in ballots. They're also the ones that probably are watching the most daytime TV. And so I'm a little I would be curious about this too, because we know that George Barna told us that some of the exit polling there was a reason to maybe be a little skeptical of some of it because so much voting happened in early voting and they didn't have that. The people that did the exit polling, traditionally, they didn't have stuff set up expecting that so much voting was coming from early voting. So, again, I would be I would be a little curious and a little skeptical maybe of some of those numbers. But also then knowing that if you're talking about adults, they're often the ones that are using the most mail in ballots, the most absentee ballots. Those are the ones that are the most susceptible to fraudulent activity happening. But also on the flip side, usually that generation are the ones that are watching the most daytime TV where there's the most news. And so they could be the most swayed. But I would be very interesting in finding out what the rest of that story is. Are there more components to that information? So that that that to me is really interesting because certainly they they're smart enough to look and go, okay, if we got a choice between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, I don't want Jimmy Carter again. My life is not better now when 72% of Americans identify that America is not going the right direction, our life is not better now than it was, It would seem odd that any demographic would grow in supporting the continuation of the policies we've had for the last four years. 

David Barton [00:23:41] Well, the one thing I can say about that demographic is it grew only by about 1%. So it was almost the same. And that's the only that's the only demographic that showed a loss of support for Trump was that over 65? And that was only dropping about 1%. So overall, the whole nation up and down, the demographic core, the chief demographic core, was definitely leaning in a positive direction. 

Rick Green [00:24:10] Martin Final piece of good. Well, I'm going to do a fast one. Then you get to do the final one. But jury awards $12 million to a woman that had been fired for refusing the Covid 19 shot that was against Blue Cross Blue Shield who fired a ton of people. And our friend Matt Staver over at Liberty Counsel. Let us know about that one. So great to see that some of this stuff is finally, finally we're getting some justice. Okay. Final piece of good news, Jim. 

Tim Barton [00:24:34] Well, and Rick, even in that I remember reading that article maybe was email from Matt. I read something about it, but 1.7 million was in pay that she had lost, but then 10 million of it. Yeah. Was just what she had gone through. And man, what a what a reward for having the courage to stand by your convictions. Yeah. And you're not doing it for the money. That's not why she's doing it. She's doing it so that anybody else who works there, their rights as Christians are protected. They don't have to compromise on their religious values. That's why that's why these people are standing up for this fight. But to see them rewarded is just so encouraging, and especially aligning now with other things we've talked about. All right. So real quick. 

Rick Green [00:25:18] And by the way, it was three foot 315,000 and back pay, 1.3 million in foregone future wages, a million in noneconomic and then 10 million in punitive. And guess what? 180 other wrongful termination lawsuits against Blue Cross are set to begin next year. So go get them and pay for what they do. Sorry, Tim, Go ahead. 

Tim Barton [00:25:36] I love it. Although I think I my insurance is Blue Cross Blue Shield, so I might look for increasing deductibles going forward. Right. We're going to. 

Rick Green [00:25:43] Switch you over to Samaritan's Ministries with us. 

Tim Barton [00:25:46] Absolutely. Okay. So real quick, we have 30s left. This is something that made major headlines. This is the Hamas calling for immediate end to war. After Trump wins the election within like 12 hours, their spokesman comes out and says that even though the election of Trump as the 40th president of the United States is a private matter for Americans, he said, Palestinians look forward to immediate cessation of the aggression against our people, blah, blah, blah. But they call for a cease fire. So we're already seeing Trump have an impact on the international stage, and he's not even the president yet. So really encouraging that Hamas has called for a cease fire. 

Rick Green [00:26:24] Yes, almost as if suddenly the adults have come back into the room and now the children are going to have to behave. Great news today, guys. We'll have more good news for you folks there at our website. Even now, if you go to WallBuilders Dot show, you can go to some previous weeks of good news Friday's. And then, of course, next week we'll have some more for you So make sure you tune in. Thanks for listening to The WallBuilders Show.