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One Leg Up 6-28-24 - Trump White House Deputy Strategic Comms. Director Roma Daravi Reacts to Debate Night · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Deren. Well, pretty much staying in the White
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  House here on the Alex Scare podcast Network. I'm joined now by someone who
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  I've become friends with over the years. Yes, the Deputy Trump Communications director
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  at the White House, Roma de Rabbi, joining me now. Roma.
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  Since the White House days, you've kind of been doing a lot of things
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  on your website and work with other clients and guests, And thanks for joining
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  my podcast. Absolutely, it's nice to be on with you today. There's
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  a lot to talk about coming off the heels of that debate. Well,
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  the first thing I want to cover is, and I think you and I
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  can agree here, the Dems keep saying Trump lied and maybe that's a way
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  to cover or Biden's really bumbling and stumbling. Would you start there, let's
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  start there. Would you agree with that? You know, absolutely not?
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  And I would actually credit CNN for once by their segment last night debunking Biden's
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  lies. So you know, you're always going to have that narrative from the
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  mainstream media that President Trump is, you know, exaggerating that he's saying outlandish
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  things. But the reality is last night showed the American people that Joe Biden
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  not only can't get through a sentence, but he doesn't know the facts.
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  He lied multiple times. And CNN actually put up a great segment within the
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  first thirty minutes after that debate ended, debunking a number of lies that he
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  said during that hour and a half special. Oh yeah, I think Trump
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  was actually pretty truthful the whole way. And you know it's disgusting. Roma
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  is those who say Trump's lying is basically saying, no, an illegal immigrant
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  didn't kill a twelve year old in Texas. No legal immigrant didn't, you
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  know, rape a thirteen year old. They're basically saying all that didn't happen.
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  Isn't that disgusting? Oh, it truly is. And you know,
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  they had just an election a couple days ago in New York where a sitting
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  congressman was voted out because of his lies, his lie that women in Israel
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  were not brutally raped on October seventh. I mean, the things that the
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  left are saying just cannot be overlooked anymore. And someone, I will just
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  say this, someone on the Democrat Party gave them all the green light to
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  go after Biden during this debate. He has not changed Joe Biden's nature has
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  not changed. He has been weak for three and a half years. He
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  has had terrible policies, he's been falling up the stairs, and all of
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  a sudden, they're allowed to say it. All of a sudden, they're
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  allowed to tell the truth that he's not fit for office. I mean,
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  we really have to hone in on that and to hammer them and ask why
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  now? Because the last three and a half years, when you ask the
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  White House what is wrong with Joe Biden and his cognitive state, they would
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  pivot and they would lie. And now all of a sudden they're telling you
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  the truth. Let me ask you this roma because obviously you were in the
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  Trump White House when he was running in twenty twenty. How did you,
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  guys balance the White House work and the campaign? Did you? Guys?
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  You weren't able to work hand in hand, But were you involved with the
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  debate prip back then as well? Where was there sort of hand in hand
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  involvement there? Yes? So President Trump had a lot of advisors around him.
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  He is definitely a great leader for many reasons, but one of which
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  is that he likes diverse opinion in the room because he wants to hear every
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  perspective in order to make the best decision on behalf of the American people.
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  He mentioned some of those things last night. When asked about abortion, he
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  said, you know, my view is that there are exceptions for rape,
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  incest, and life of the mother, but of course you have to follow
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  your heart. He understands that, and he sympathizes with that on issues like
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  abortion when it comes to the voter and what they need to do at the
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  voting booth in November. So when he's prepping for debates, it's all in.
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  But as you saw this last week, President Trump prepped for this debate
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  by getting on the ground and talking to the American people. What did Joe
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  Biden do? He slept for five days, and you know, I'm of
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  the mind that he was still in that rem cycle last night because he just
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  couldn't seem to get his words out. I mean, the man was half
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  asleep on that stage. It really is hard to watch as an American.
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  It's hard to watch as a human. He's just unfit to be governing and
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  it's time for him to step down. Really well, I'm wondering if they're
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  going to somehow invote twenty fifth Amendment because remember during the Trump years, that's
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  all they talked about. So I'm talking about on my podcast, why not
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  invoke the twenty fifth Amendment while we're at it. Well, you know,
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  they might, there might be rumors of that, but the reality is that
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  the Democrats are stuck with their poor decisions, and their poor decision is Joe
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  Biden. It is very late in the game for them to change things up
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  now. Logistically it would be nearly impossible. So if they want to spend
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  their time and their money teetering on this idea of switching him out in the
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  ninth hour, I am all for it. I would love for them to
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  waste their time doing that. Because President Trump is focused. He is not
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  missing a beat here. He is very, very disciplined, boots on the
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  ground talking to the American people. He has already spoken with a number of
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  people today, and he's not going to let these rumors of Joe Biden stepping
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  down and newsom or whoever it is coming in distract him from the goal.
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  And the goal is to truly save America. That's the name of one of
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  his old packs, save America, and it rings true. His initial of
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  America first is not just a slogan, It is a mindset and a goal.
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  We need to be America first because right now this socialism communism mindset that
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  Biden's administration is governing by. And I say Biden's administration because Biden, who
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  knows if he's actually governing. They're not operating on behalf of the American people.
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  They're putting us in a position of weakness. And it's no surprise because
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  Biden is the ultimate weakness. All Right, I gotta ask you this because
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  I feel like one of the weak spots that Trump has to really convince the
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  Americans. And do you think he did enough of this? Yesterday is January
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  sixth. He was there, and you know it was prior to what happened
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  at the Capitol, But do you think he did enough to convince the American
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  people? Hey? No, I was distancing myself as much as I could
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  from that. What was your take on that whole thing? And I asked
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  that on the older of the Supreme Court making a big ruling on January sixth?
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  Today, absolutely, I mean, let's talk about that Supreme Court decision.
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  Like I said, someone gave the Democrats the green light they are now
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  seeing common sense as the guiding light to move forward. But honestly, it's
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  too late. I think President Trump was very disciplined last night, and he
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  spoke from the heart. He really means what he said when he was excited
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  to talk to the largest crowd he's ever spoken to, and that you know,
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  there was a small number of people that went to the Capitol. It
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  really was not this outlandish experience that the media tries to make it out to
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  be. And Nancy Pelosi doing absolutely nothing to protect the capital when that was
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  her responsibility. So you know, I think the Democrats will look back as
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  much as they can. They will look back to try to pull America down.
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  But President Trump is looking forward. He is focused on the future,
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  and he's focused on bringing this country back into a place of safety, a
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  place of prosperity, and a place of freedom. I mean, the reality
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  is that we are of, you know, a really difficult spot today where
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  in many cities across the country you can't even walk down the street by yourself
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  because it's become so crime written, it's so dangerous, and we have a
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  number of illegal immigrants potentially from isis. I mean, the fact that that
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  alone is happening is terrifying and reason that we need President Trump back. You
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  know, Biden said last night, Oh no, there aren't four hundred immigrants
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  here illegally that are part of ISIS networks. Why do you think people are
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  actually buying that. I don't buy that because I read the reports. There
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  are people here, there are terrorists here from across the border. Well,
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  you read the reports, and I read the reports. But the administration has
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  tried very hard from the beginning to hide these numbs. If you look back
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  to year one of the Biden administration, DHS did not put out their border
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  numbers for eight months straight. They hid those numbers from the American people as
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  they continued to rise and rise and rise. And now we are in the
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  thousands and thousands of border crossers a day that we know about who knows how
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  many god aways, who knows how many we don't know about. And these
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  are people coming from all over the world. They're coming from countries that we
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  do not have relationships with. They are coming here for one goal, and
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  that is to cause discourse and cause pain for the American people. And it's
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  working because Joe Biden is all talk and no action. On day one,
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  he removed almost one hundred orders that Trump had put in place to keep our
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  border secure. Why for purely political purposes. He doesn't care about your safety.
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  He cares about his donors. He cares about the lobbyists that are in
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  their pockets. He doesn't care about keeping our border secure. And you cannot
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  have a secured nation without a secure border. I think of the UH.
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  I think of that donor in New York City, right radio City. Meanwhile,
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  Trump, President Trump went out to massive people. There's the difference right
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  there. As far as I'm concerned. When it comes to this campaign season,
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  Oh, absolutely, absolutely. Money He President Trump from the beginning has
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  told has told everybody, I don't want your money. He even said last
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  night on stage, I don't need to be doing this, but I have
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  to because of everything that Joe Biden has done. I have to come back
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  and help save this great nation. Does he confide in you often? Because
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  I know you and him were close in the White House. Do you still
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  talk with him even during this campaign season? What's your connection with President Trump?
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  Now? So my role in the campaign is external, you know,
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  speak king as an external surrogate. I'm not specifically on the paid staff of
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  the campaign. He has a great team around him right now, people like
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  Jason Miller, you know, Stephen Chung, really strong communication advisors that are
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  in his ear constantly. And those are the people I talk to day in
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  and day out, because you know, right now, President Trump, every
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  second that he has he's talking to the American people. Every second that he's
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  not at an event, he's on the phone, he's doing radio calls.
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  You know, his focus is making sure that the American people have the truth.
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  Because the Democrats, as you know, and as we've already talked about
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  today, they love to lie. And just last night, you know,
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  I was at a small event watching this and play out. I spoke with
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  the number of people who were shocked to learn the lies that Biden had been
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  telling them. I mean, we eat, breathe, and sleep this political
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  stuff, right, but the average American does not. So if we do
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  not make sure that they get the truth, they're going to believe the lies.
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  That It's a really difficult process nowadays, especially with the media on Biden's
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  side. So the one good part about you know, last night and the
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  aftermath of it, is that they can no longer hide Joe Biden's cognitive disability.
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  Frankly, I believe it's elder abuse, and Jill Biden needs to be
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  giving him a very firm talking to because this is this is not safe,
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  this is not safe for America. He needs to step down. I'd agree
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  with you there. And apparently they honored Elder Abuse Awareness Day a few weeks
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  ago, and I just think that's kind of ironic, I guess. So
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  let me ask you this roma. I thought, seeing and gave Trump a
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  lot, a lot of airtime. I thought when they cut off the mics,
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  they cut him off a lot more. But they let him talk,
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  which was a credit to them. I mean, I know it was in
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  the two minute window, and I guess that's because he made the best of
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  each minute. But they also gave him some leeway there. I was good
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  to see. I was happy to see that. You know, I have
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  to credit the campaign and you know, our external surrogates with really holding CNN
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  to the fire beforehand. We have to be proactive, and this week we
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  really were. We were very proactive in making sure that CNN knew and that
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  everybody knew they had to be fair tonight. And I think that they were,
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  you know, really under the spotlight there and they did not have a
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  choice but to allow President Trump to speak their own rules really were a negative
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  point for Joe Biden because he cannot, like I said, get through a
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  sentence. So if no one is interrupting him, he's going to struggle and
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  it's going to be on full display for everyone to see. I was also
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  I'm pretty happy they didn't bring up the convicted Fellon situation because that would have
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  made things get ugly. I think it would have gotten Trump off track a
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  little bit. But you know, by not bringing that up, he was
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  able to just focus on the issues, which is what was yesterday should have
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  been all about. Right he did. He was very disciplined. President Trump
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  was presidential. You know, this might have been the first time in years
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  that CNN actually referred to Donald J. Trump as the forty fifth president of
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  the United States. They love calling him mister Trump. They love, you
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  know, dipping down on his authority and trying to make it seem like he's
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  something of the past. Last night, he was referred to as President Trump
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  multiple times, and I think the media is going to have to get quite
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  used to that phrase because he will be back in the White House. If
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  last night was any inclination on what the future holds when they cut off your
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  colleague earlier this week on Cenna, do that were you at all? Because
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  I know the Morning Show cut off one of your colleagues and actually took her
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  off the air. I found surprising, and everybody's like, well, there's
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  going to be the debate. So were you a little and nervous when that
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  happened that this could be that was a foreshadow or what were your thoughts on
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  that? You know, I have to say, it's difficult to predict what,
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  you know, a manipulative network like CNN would do. It's not surprising
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  that they would cut off Caroline's mic. She didn't say anything that they hadn't
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  already said themselves. So you know, there's an old saying, if you
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  don't like what you're doing, you don't want people to talk about it,
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  do something different. CNN. I think they knew they had to do something
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  different. They could not repeat what they did to her to President Trump.
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  So I'm not actually surprised that they didn't cut them off. I do think
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  that they were kind of shoved into that position by themselves. Had they not
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  done that, they maybe could have gotten away with cutting off his mic a
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  time or two. But like I said, we were very proactive. We
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  made sure to hold CNN to the fire ahead of time. We really have
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  to do that to the Democrats because otherwise their lies get so far down the
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  road and we're trying to play clean up duty. We have to be on
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  the offense. We cannot always try to do defense after the fact. It's
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  a losing position. And so I would say that's one of the reasons we
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  were so strong as a party last night, really being able to correct the
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  record ahead of time. A couple more questions for you, Roma, if
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  you don't mind. Firstly, you know he brought up Charlotteville. Biden did,
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  and in my thought, I said, but you're kind of a hypocrite
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  because I feel like they've let antisemitism run around in this country on our college
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  campuses and not done anything. Maybe one statement here or there, but they're
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  not doing enough to come back. So why you bring up Charlottesville because you're
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  saying you're not for antisemitism, yet you're kind of allowing it on our college
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  campuses, wouldn't you agree? Well, he brought it up because he can't
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  remember what's currently happening. I mean, he really is struggling, So of
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  course they're going to revert to issues of the past. It's like muscle memory
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  for him to talk about issues of the past. He may not remember what
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  happened ten minutes prior, but if you ask him about something that happened ten
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  years ago, that's in his muscle memory. You know, it's disappointing that,
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  you know, they did not press Joe Biden on the issues of today,
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  of his son, Hunter Biden, of their family's business dealings. You
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  know, it's not surprising that they didn't. He loved referencing, you know,
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  his hometown. He has the same stories that he tells over and over
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  again, which is what he did last night, And it's a sign of
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  cognitive decline. He cannot think forward, he cannot talk about the future because
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  he does not have the ability to do so. So I mean, it's
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  really it's quite difficult to watch. Like I said, But the polls that
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  came out of the race last night, we're nearly identical to the poll from
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  Nate Silver from a few days ago that had Biden in the thirties and Trump
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  in the high sixties percentage wise on who is winning and who is going to
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  win in November. So the Democrats are surely panicking right now because there is
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  no margin of error when you are up thirty plus points from someone. Do
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  you think the Democrats did this on specifically before the convention? I think that's
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  been scrolling around that they did this to basically gauge where they're at when it
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  comes to the convention. Is that. Do you believe that they made this
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  on purpose before the convention to just make a decision based off of this,
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  Well, I think the Democrats have a bad strategy, if any, So
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  I hate to give them the credit and say that they were so manipulative that
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  they planned that it could be. But I truly believe they're just spiraling.
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  I mean, the Democrats do not have a plan. They do not have
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  a strategy to get Biden back into the White House for a second term.
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  Maybe it's on purpose. I'm going to keep my tin boil hat off for
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  that one. But it's not going to be good for them, and they
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  really have waited far too late to do anything about it. So people like
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  to say October surprise, we got one a little bit early this year in
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  the summertime. Well, I can't let you go without asking this burning question.
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  Was the VP nominee pick for Trump in the building last night and I
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  don't feel like that announcement was made, was it are? When will that
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  announcement be made? As much as I would love to break news on your
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  show, I'm not going to get ahead of President Trump. But he is
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  very excited to announce his candid when he chooses to do so, and we
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  have a lot of really great options. I'll say that you saw a number
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  of surrogates speaking on his behalf following the debate last night, really strong voices
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  of the future, and America is going be better for it. He is
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  truly choosing the person that will have one job to support him, support us.
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  Well, there you go, Roma Durrabi. I know you're in transit
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  today, but thanks so much for joining me on your busy Friday after the
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  debate. Absolutely what a mess it. Well, we'll come back to you
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  as the convention rolls around. I'd love to have you back on definitely.
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  I will be on site all week at the convention, so there'll be a
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  lot to talk about that week as well. Awesome. Roma de Rabi,
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  the former Deputy Communication Director of the Trump White House and now part of the
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  external portion of the Trump campaign, joins me today. Thanks so much,
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  Roma, thank you