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Episode One Hundred Seventy Six: Truthful Counsel · The Death Of Journalism

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Speaker 1: Welcome to episode number one hundred and seventy six of
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Speaker 1: the Death of Journalism Podcasts.
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Speaker 2: My name is John Zigler. I'm your host on today's show.
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Speaker 1: The post Biden withdraw polling trends or causing a lot
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Speaker 1: of controversy and probably not nearly enough concern in the
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Speaker 1: Trump camp. The mainstream news media decides they're just gonna
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Speaker 1: play pretend about Kamala Harris's history. Biden's belated with draw
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Speaker 1: speech doesn't get the scrutiny it deserves, and the super
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Speaker 1: woke opening ceremony of the Olympics causes outrage, especially.
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Speaker 2: Among politically conservative Christians.
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Speaker 1: We begin this episode of the podcast with a couple
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Speaker 1: of programming notes. I am taping this episode a little
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Speaker 1: less than a day earlier than normal for logistical reasons,
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Speaker 1: and unfortunately this unleashed a domino effect of problems I
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Speaker 1: had intended when I normally try to do. When I
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Speaker 1: do it episode early for travel or logistical I try
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Speaker 1: to get an interview that might be unique. When we
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Speaker 1: went to Yosemite, I did an interview with my wife.
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Speaker 2: I've done an interview with my daughter, and I.
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Speaker 1: Thought that since I had talked a lot recently, about
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Speaker 1: my father, my eighty three year old father, who received
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Speaker 1: some apparently inside information about the Biden with draw and
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Speaker 1: sent me an email about it. And I've discussed it
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Speaker 1: on the podcast, and I'm still not sure whether or
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Speaker 1: not it was real, or to what extent it was real,
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Speaker 1: and what the source of it was. I thought, well,
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Speaker 1: you know what, he's not in great health. He's eighty
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Speaker 1: three years old. We've been discussing him on the podcast.
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Speaker 1: I'll ask him to do an interview on the death
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Speaker 1: of journalism, and you know, this will kill several birds
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Speaker 1: with one stone. And at first he didn't like the idea,
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Speaker 1: and I pushed him a little bit and he kind
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Speaker 1: of turned around, and so we tried to make it happen.
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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, it was a comedy of errors.
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Speaker 1: From a technical standpoint, part of it was my fault,
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Speaker 1: but mostly I think it was the fact that he
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Speaker 1: is eighty three years old and not particularly technically proficient
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Speaker 1: with a computer, and so he was not able to
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Speaker 1: figure out how to get into our recruiting studio.
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Speaker 2: It caused a bit of friction.
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Speaker 1: I don't know whether or not we're going to try
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Speaker 1: to do it again in the future. He says, he
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Speaker 1: does want to, although that was part of this equation
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Speaker 1: that bothered me was when he decided he would do
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Speaker 1: the interview, he put all sorts of restrictions on what
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Speaker 1: I could talk about, or what I could ask about,
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Speaker 1: or what he was feeling comfortable discussing, which I always hate,
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Speaker 1: especially when it's somebody that you're close to, because then
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Speaker 1: you're never sure what am I supposed to get into.
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Speaker 2: What can I talk about? What I can't talk about?
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Speaker 1: So I kind of just put the kebash on the
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Speaker 1: whole thing once it was clear that the technical aspects
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Speaker 1: were not going to be able to be overcome, and
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Speaker 1: so there will be no interview in this episode of
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Speaker 1: the podcast. And I also have a rather poorly timed
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Speaker 1: cold or flu bu that is weighing me down on this.
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Speaker 1: So I've got all sorts of excuses if this is
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Speaker 1: not one of our better episodes. So we're taping early
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Speaker 1: for the record. If anything happens Sunday evening or early Monday,
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Speaker 1: it's not going to be part of this podcast. And
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of irritated by what happened with the attempt
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Speaker 1: to interview my father, and I'm not feeling particularly well,
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Speaker 1: but that's.
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Speaker 2: That's all the excuses out of the way.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm playing a golf match and I'm
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Speaker 1: getting all my excuses out before the first tea. But
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Speaker 1: that's where we are as far as what went on
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes on this particular episode. Now, in the
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Speaker 1: last episode of the podcast, I talked a lot about
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Speaker 1: the very very preliminary polling that was done between Kamala
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Speaker 1: Harris and Donald Trump post Joe Biden withdraw and at
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Speaker 1: that time there was very very little data, but it
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Speaker 1: was my sense that where the data was heading was
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Speaker 1: not good.
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Speaker 2: If you're somebody like myself who.
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Speaker 1: Who is now openly rooting against Kamala Harris, I guess
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Speaker 1: that means I'm rooting for Donald Trump, even though I
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Speaker 1: have not decided whether or not to vote for him
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Speaker 1: at this point.
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Speaker 2: I would not vote for him.
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Speaker 1: If it was today for reasons actually I'll get into
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Speaker 1: later on in this episode of the podcast, but I
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Speaker 1: am certainly rooting against Kamala Harris because I think she's very,
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Speaker 1: very dangerous and she can serve for eight years as
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Speaker 1: opposed to four years.
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Speaker 2: For Joe Biden.
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Speaker 1: But at the time in the last episode, I said
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Speaker 1: this is not good because she is being allowed to
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Speaker 1: get out of port.
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Speaker 2: She's allowed to take flight.
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Speaker 1: The Trump team did a very poor job, especially at
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Speaker 1: their convention of closing off the escape patches for Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden and for Kamala Harris. They have not been forced
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Speaker 1: to pay any price whatsoever. And my dream, my fantasy,
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Speaker 1: that she would explode or implode immediately in the polls,
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Speaker 1: and this would be kind of a repeat of New
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Speaker 1: Coke phenomenon I already told you in the last episode
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Speaker 1: was not going to happen. Well, we now know for
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Speaker 1: sure that that's not going to happen, at least not
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Speaker 1: in the very short run, because the polling direction has
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Speaker 1: continued in exactly the same way that it.
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Speaker 2: Was in the last episode.
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Speaker 1: There's more data now, even on the swing state level,
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Speaker 1: that indicates that this is basically a tide race. Now
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Speaker 1: a lot of Trump fans are having a very difficult
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Speaker 1: time accepting that, but especially when there's still national polls
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Speaker 1: showing Trump up by one or two points. By the way,
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Speaker 1: just to be clear, when you're up by one or
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Speaker 1: two points in a national poll, that's basically a tie.
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Speaker 1: You're within the margin of error. And I get that.
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Speaker 1: And this is something that Trump fans really really are
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Speaker 1: holding on to this idea that, well, if Trump is
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Speaker 1: tied in the national polls, He's going to win because
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Speaker 1: he has an advantage in the electoral college. And we
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Speaker 1: saw that in twenty sixteen, and we almost saw that
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Speaker 1: happen in twenty twenty. And I get why there's that belief,
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Speaker 1: but I don't think that it's set in stone. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's some logic to it, but I think it is
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Speaker 1: still very plausible that Trump could end up basically tied
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Speaker 1: in the national polling and still not win the election. Now,
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Speaker 1: of course, it would be exceedingly closed, and he'd have
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Speaker 1: to lose a bunch of states by very small margins,
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Speaker 1: like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania and maybe one other. But
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Speaker 1: that in Georgia now seemingly is much more competitive in
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Speaker 1: the post Biden era than it was when Biden was
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Speaker 1: the candidate. So, you know, I get where people are
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Speaker 1: coming from on this, but I just don't understand why
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Speaker 1: there's not Well, I do understand because it's a cult,
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Speaker 1: but I don't understand logically why there's not more concern
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Speaker 1: among conservative analysts, Republican political people, trumpsters online seemingly the
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Speaker 1: Trump campaign itself. Why those who are in the fervent
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Speaker 1: belief that Kamala Harris must be stopped are not more
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Speaker 1: concerned about what we've seen in the first week of
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Speaker 1: data post Joe Biden withdraw. Now again, I want to
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Speaker 1: make clear, this is still a pretty small pool of data. Generally,
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Speaker 1: I like to wait at least two weeks after any
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Speaker 1: major event to see whether or not there's been any impact.
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Speaker 2: And of course we've.
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Speaker 1: Already had four major earthquakes in this presidential campaign, and
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Speaker 1: there's been very limited polling impact every single time, including
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Speaker 1: you know, the Biden withdraw has probably been the most
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Speaker 1: dramatic with regard to impact on polling, more dramatic certainly
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Speaker 1: than the Trump shooting, which is astonishing to me and
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Speaker 1: I think a very very bad sign for Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: because all of this, and this is my major point,
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Speaker 1: this is I guess where I'm the contrarian, where I'm
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Speaker 1: saying things and seeing things no one else, certainly on Twitter,
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Speaker 1: is willing to say from the quote unquote conservative perspective,
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Speaker 1: and that is you have to understand that all of
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Speaker 1: this polling is taking place still in the aftermath of
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump being shot and having this remarkably iconic moment,
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Speaker 1: which he was then able to and maybe you know
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Speaker 1: it was not a great idea to do this, but
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Speaker 1: was able to then magnify in four days of the
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Speaker 1: Republican National Convention with widespread television coverage. And so you
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Speaker 1: would think that having your convention just after you got
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Speaker 1: shot picking your vice presidential nominee, that all these things
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Speaker 1: would create a high water mark for Trump and that
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Speaker 1: therefore he wouldn't be so vulnerable to being caught by
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Speaker 1: a brand new candidate who has never been popular, has
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Speaker 1: never received an actual vote to be president, either in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty or in twenty twenty four. And so I
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Speaker 1: don't understand why people aren't looking at it through that prism.
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Speaker 2: And in that context.
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Speaker 1: Steve Cortez, my friend who is a subscriber to the show,
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Speaker 1: have been a guest in the show many times, were
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Speaker 1: actually going to speak to him in a couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks or maybe a little less than that to get
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Speaker 1: his update on what's going on. He's currently working for
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Speaker 1: a pro Trump super pack where he's commissioning a lot
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Speaker 1: of a lot of statewide polling, and his poll was
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Speaker 1: in the field right when Biden withdrew a week ago
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Speaker 1: as of this taping in Pennsylvania, which is obviously the
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Speaker 1: most important state, or at least one of the most
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Speaker 1: important states.
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Speaker 2: I believe it's the most important state.
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Speaker 1: It certainly was to Trump's victory in twenty sixteen, and
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Speaker 1: Biden's went in twenty twenty, but his polling came back
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Speaker 1: with Trump winning by two points in Pennsylvania immediately immediately
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Speaker 1: after the Biden withdraw. In fact, some of that poll
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Speaker 1: was actually taken before Biden withdrew. And I said to Steve,
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Speaker 1: that is a terrible poll for Donald Trump.
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Speaker 2: And Steve totally disagree with me.
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Speaker 1: We generally don't disagree on anything, at least not vehemently
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Speaker 1: in the political realm, but he thought it was going
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Speaker 1: to be worse than that, given all of the pro
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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris mania surrounding the withdraw decision by Joe Biden.
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Speaker 1: And my point was, well, first of all, you were
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Speaker 1: in the field literally as this was happening.
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Speaker 2: In the first day or two.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there was positive Harris media coverage and a lot
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Speaker 1: of excitement, and I get that it's a flipping a switch,
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Speaker 1: but in my opinion, this ridiculously pro Harris media coverage is.
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Speaker 2: Not going to have an immediate effect.
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Speaker 1: In fact that it'd likely have more of an effect
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Speaker 1: as time goes on. It takes a while for these
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Speaker 1: things to actually make an impact. And so the fact
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Speaker 1: that this happened, this polling occurred in Pennsylvania that Steve
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Speaker 1: commissioned for his pro Trump superpag to me should have
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Speaker 1: shown Trump up by more than two points. He was
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Speaker 1: just shot in the state, in the state of Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 1: and he just had his convention, and they just changed
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Speaker 1: the candidate to somebody who's never gotten a vote for
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Speaker 1: president in a way that should have caused all sorts
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Speaker 1: of problems. And I have to say I was seemingly
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Speaker 1: very wrong about my assessment. One of the reasons I
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Speaker 1: thought that it was going to be difficult to force
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Speaker 1: Biden out, especially before the assassination attempt on Trump and
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Speaker 1: Biden getting COVID, which I do think change the dynamic
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Speaker 1: rather significantly. I thought that they were going to have
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Speaker 1: to pay a price for the way in which this
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Speaker 1: went down and the way in which Harris became the
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Speaker 1: candidate just being selected, not elected. That this is the
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Speaker 1: Democracy Party, the Pro Democracy, the Saved Democracy Party, and
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Speaker 1: They're going to just do this and not pay any
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Speaker 1: price at all. I did not think that that was possible,
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Speaker 1: but it sure seems as of right now that they
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Speaker 1: have paid absolutely no price, and that my fear, my
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Speaker 1: gut instinct that somehow they were going to get out
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Speaker 1: of this trap, they were going to escape the news
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Speaker 1: has actually turned out to be more more correct than
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Speaker 1: I ever dreamed possible. Just generally does happen whenever I'm pessimistic,
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Speaker 1: it's very often that I will end up being wrong.
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Speaker 2: On the optimistic side. I'm not pessimistic enough.
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Speaker 1: And when it comes to the price the Demoocrats have
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Speaker 1: had to pay for doing this switch aaroo, I have
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Speaker 1: been completely wrong. And if anything, there's been no price whatsoever.
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Speaker 1: And that's being shown not just in Steve's pole, but
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Speaker 1: there's a Fox News poll of the northern swing states
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Speaker 1: that are all basically tied. And when you're tied right now,
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Speaker 1: granted there's a long way to go, but there's not
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Speaker 1: that long way to go. And but when you're tied
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Speaker 1: and you have all the advantages that Harris is going
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Speaker 1: to have with the media coverage and her convention and
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Speaker 1: her vice presidential pick, and I truly do believe that
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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift is going to be fully activated at some
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Speaker 1: point in these final months, and then you know, if
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Speaker 1: she's close, the media is gonna have this narrative of where,
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Speaker 1: you know, the history of the first female president. That's
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Speaker 1: going to be a huge part of this narrative. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: Trump has nothing. Trump's basically dead in the water. Trump
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Speaker 1: has nothing to theoretically change this around other than negative
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Speaker 1: ads on Kamal Harrison trying to tell the story of
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Speaker 1: who she really is. And I'm skeptical, unfortunately that that's
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Speaker 1: going to have an impact or as significant as an
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Speaker 1: impact as it should have, partly because I don't think
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Speaker 1: Trump is particularly good at this, and I think the
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Speaker 1: Republican Party in the Trump campaign waited too long. They
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Speaker 1: had her in a very vulnerable spot. And I was
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Speaker 1: screaming at the top of my lungs on this podcast
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Speaker 1: and online that they needed to triangulate Biden and Harris
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Speaker 1: and that they needed to force the Biden Harris team
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Speaker 1: to pick some lanes and to pay some price for
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Speaker 1: the lanes that they pick, and they did not do that,
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Speaker 1: and part of it I think was out of overconfidence
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Speaker 1: after the assassination attempt, and part of it was out
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Speaker 1: of narcissism of Trump during the GOP convention. But you've
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Speaker 1: got the Fox News poll basically showing the northern Swing
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Speaker 1: states tied. You have an ABC poll showing that Harris's
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Speaker 1: approval has soared in the last week while Trump's has
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Speaker 1: diminished seemingly by the way. Harris's donations have exploded, her
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Speaker 1: volunteers have exploded. She has raised a boatload of money.
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Speaker 1: There's no question that the enthusiasm on the Democratic side
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Speaker 1: has increased dramatically and understandably since Joe Biden decided to
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Speaker 1: get out of the race. But I think it's actually
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Speaker 1: even more concerning than just a lot of money and
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Speaker 1: volunteers and her personal approval gaining ground, especially in comparison
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Speaker 1: to Trump again right after Trump was shot. It's just,
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Speaker 1: how can we forget the context of this, the fact
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Speaker 1: that Trump has not benefited in his personal approval or
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Speaker 1: is standing versus Harris, you know, at least indirectly because
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Speaker 1: of the fact that he's survived rather dramatically and heroically
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Speaker 1: an assassination attempt. Is I just can't I can't say
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Speaker 1: enough about that. That cannot be overestimated as to how
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Speaker 1: stunning and potentially significant that is. But I see something
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Speaker 1: else happening with the Harris approval that might be underline
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Speaker 1: might and I realize, you know, they're gonna be Bill saying, well, Zig,
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Speaker 1: you're being too pessimistic and you're being an Eyore.
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Speaker 2: I get it. I get it.
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Speaker 1: I'm by nature a pessimist, although when people tell.
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Speaker 2: Me that that means I'm usually right.
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Speaker 1: And I think there's something to be said for what
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to articulate here, But I think there is
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Speaker 1: a potential death now in the Harris increase in her
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Speaker 1: approval ratings, because it's not just I don't think about
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Speaker 1: the fact that she's getting all this positive media coverage
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Speaker 1: and the enthusiasm among Democrats that they have a real
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Speaker 1: candidate and they don't have a vegetable running anymore.
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Speaker 2: I get it, that's part of it.
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Speaker 1: But there's a lot of Independence who are now seeing
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Speaker 1: Harris in a much more positive way. Her approval rating
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Speaker 1: among Independence and the couple of these polls has increased
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Speaker 1: rather dramatically, and I think what might be happening here,
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Speaker 1: and this is mind blowing and incredibly depressing, but so
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Speaker 1: typical of this upside down world in which we're now living.
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Speaker 1: I think that she is now somehow the anti old
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Speaker 1: white male establishment candidate, which is just bizarre because she
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Speaker 1: took part in a cover up to maintain the old
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Speaker 1: white male establishment within her party. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: Poles indicate that most people think that that's a true
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Speaker 1: statement that Harris knew that Biden was not capable of
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Speaker 1: running for reelection or serving another four years, and.
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Speaker 2: She went along with it.
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Speaker 1: So how the hell she becomes now the turn the
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Speaker 1: page candidate, the anti establishment get let's get rid of
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Speaker 1: the old white men, and let's elect Kamala Harris. And
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Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, instead of it being Biden
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Speaker 1: even older than Trump, Trump's the old guy and Harris
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Speaker 1: is the new generation. And hey, let's try a woman,
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Speaker 1: because you know, we're not happy with how men have
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Speaker 1: done this, but you know, especially the white men have done.
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Speaker 2: If you're a Democrat. And so I see that narrative.
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Speaker 1: Now starting to take hold among independent voters. And if
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Speaker 1: that is not reversed, if that is not reversed, immediately,
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Speaker 1: Trump's in big trouble. Trump is in big trouble because
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Speaker 1: him being the anti establishment candidate was a.
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Speaker 2: Huge part of his appeal.
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Speaker 1: Now all of a sudd bizarrely, the vice president of
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Speaker 1: the Unit of the States, who went along with a
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Speaker 1: cover up to maintain Joe Biden being the Democratic presidential
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Speaker 1: nominee even though he had no business being the Democratic
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Speaker 1: presidential nominee. The fact that she is now seen by
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Speaker 1: at least some is the anti establishment, anti old white
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Speaker 1: male candidate.
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Speaker 2: Wow wow. But that's where we are on this, and I.
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Speaker 1: Think there's something else going on that no one else,
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Speaker 1: or I shouldn't say no one else. I've seen a
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Speaker 1: few other people mention this on social media, so I'm
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Speaker 1: not going to take exclusive ownership of this, but I
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Speaker 1: do think that this is a fundamental miscalculation that I made,
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Speaker 1: then many many, many many others made about what was
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Speaker 1: going on in the polling before Biden withdrew, because I
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Speaker 1: was always a little skeptical of this narrative, but I
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Speaker 1: generally bought in to the idea that a huge part
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Speaker 1: of why Biden was so personally unpopular and why Trump
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Speaker 1: was generally beating him and looked like he would win
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Speaker 1: if the election were held in current time. Because I've
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Speaker 1: always said there's a chance that in the end, by November,
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Speaker 1: the cavalry comes to Joe Biden's a. This was before
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Speaker 1: the debate disaster, and he ends up winning a very
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Speaker 1: very close election.
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Speaker 2: But I bought in to the idea.
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Speaker 1: This was the conventional wisdom that a huge part of,
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Speaker 1: not the primary part of why Biden was so personally unpopular,
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Speaker 1: why his approval ratings were so terrible, and why he
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Speaker 1: was generally losing to Donald Trump, was that people were
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Speaker 1: dissatisfied with this administration, that they're unhappy with the economy,
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Speaker 1: that they're unhappy with the illegal immigration. That there are
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Speaker 1: substantive reasons as to why Biden's popularity was so poor. Well,
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Speaker 1: I am someone who fervently believes that when you get
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Speaker 1: new information, you must be willing and able to change your.
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Speaker 2: Mind about past beliefs.
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Speaker 1: And I am very close to doing that in this situation.
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Speaker 1: Because and the first clue that this was a reality,
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Speaker 1: and I did mention this on the podcast, but I
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Speaker 1: didn't put it all together. The first clue that there
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Speaker 1: was something amiss here was after the debate disaster. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this unprecedented debate disaster where the liberal media is leading
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Speaker 1: the charge to push Joe Biden out of the race.
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Speaker 2: We've never seen this before.
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Speaker 1: Now in retrospect, the liberal media was basically acting like
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Speaker 1: a campaign manager for the Democratic Party, deciding, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: this guy's not going to cut it. We need to
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Speaker 1: find somebody else, and so we're going to do the
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Speaker 1: dirty work for you to facilitate that. That's essentially what
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Speaker 1: has happened. I mean, I mean, I've never I've been
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Speaker 1: watching the news for over forty years as a media critic,
22:02
Speaker 1: and there's never been anything quite like this where they
22:04
Speaker 1: just proactively decided to take over as the Democratic Party's
22:09
Speaker 1: campaign manager. And we've seen that continuing as they ditched
22:15
Speaker 1: Biden and are now praising Harris all over the place
22:18
Speaker 1: and ignoring and pretending that all sorts of things about
22:20
Speaker 1: our past never really actually happened.
22:23
Speaker 2: But here's the fundamental miscalculation.
22:26
Speaker 1: I now believe that because we did not see Trump
22:31
Speaker 1: get a huge lead after the debate disaster, and even
22:34
Speaker 1: after there was a couple of weeks of extremely unprecedented
22:41
Speaker 1: negative media coverage by the liberal media against Joe Biden.
22:45
Speaker 1: I mean, I even went on News Nation television. I'm like,
22:48
Speaker 1: how is it possible that we have had this unprecedented
22:52
Speaker 1: media revolt against the Democratic presidential nominee and incumbent president,
22:58
Speaker 1: and Trump's only still up by a couple of points.
23:02
Speaker 2: How is that possible?
23:03
Speaker 1: And I was making the argument, then again this is
23:05
Speaker 1: pre assassination attempt COVID that Democrats were actually making a
23:10
Speaker 1: mistake because Biden was still in the ballgame here, despite
23:15
Speaker 1: the fact that he was experiencing this unprecedented negative media coverage,
23:20
Speaker 1: even from his own media, the left wing mainstream media. Well,
23:24
Speaker 1: I now believe, based upon what we have seen in
23:28
Speaker 1: the post withdraw movement, that the reason why there was
23:33
Speaker 1: no massive or even something close to a massive post
23:37
Speaker 1: debate bump for Trump or a post debate collapsed for
23:42
Speaker 1: Biden in the polling numbers is that that was already
23:46
Speaker 1: baked in that the public, even though the public is
23:50
Speaker 1: generally a bunch of morons, the public already knew, They
23:55
Speaker 1: already realized a long time ago that Joe Biden was
23:59
Speaker 1: too old to do this, because we've all had experience
24:04
Speaker 1: with people men in their eighties when they start to
24:06
Speaker 1: go downhill and there's no coming back. And so I
24:11
Speaker 1: think that the data now shows that the reason why
24:15
Speaker 1: there was no post debate collapse for Biden is that
24:19
Speaker 1: it was only a surprise wink, wink, nod, nod, a
24:22
Speaker 1: surprise to the news media with regard to the Biden
24:26
Speaker 1: that showed up at that debate, because they had to
24:29
Speaker 1: pretend that this was new information. Oh my god, Joe
24:33
Speaker 1: Biden is not capable of doing this job or certainly
24:36
Speaker 1: not serving another four years four and a half years
24:39
Speaker 1: in the White House.
24:41
Speaker 2: Now.
24:41
Speaker 1: I don't think the media really felt that was new information,
24:44
Speaker 1: but they pretended like that was new information, and they
24:47
Speaker 1: acted like that was new information. But the polling indicates
24:50
Speaker 1: that that was not new information, and that is very
24:56
Speaker 1: important in interpreting what is currently happened. Opening in the
25:00
Speaker 1: shift in the post withdraw a post assassination, post GOP
25:06
Speaker 1: convention polling, because if if the Biden disapproval numbers and
25:14
Speaker 1: the Trump lead was based primarily in Joe Biden's age
25:22
Speaker 1: and lack of mental acuity and the idea that there's
25:25
Speaker 1: no way he could possibly serve another four and a
25:27
Speaker 1: half years, if that is true, then that explains why
25:33
Speaker 1: a new, young, quote unquote, fresh candidate is going to
25:38
Speaker 1: be seen in a much more positive light and do
25:42
Speaker 1: much better even in the swing States against Donald Trump,
25:46
Speaker 1: even though she's a terrible candidate who has never received
25:50
Speaker 1: a vote for president and has, you know, no business
25:53
Speaker 1: being handed the nomination of a party that claims to
25:57
Speaker 1: be all about saving democracy.
25:59
Speaker 2: But it's it's because.
26:02
Speaker 1: The bulk, the bulk of Biden's lack of popularity was
26:07
Speaker 1: about his age. It's not because huge portions of America
26:13
Speaker 1: are extremely dissatisfied with his administration and liberal policies.
26:19
Speaker 2: I wish it was based in the substance, but I
26:23
Speaker 2: don't think it was.
26:24
Speaker 1: I think it was based largely in people being able
26:27
Speaker 1: to use their own eyes and their own brains and going,
26:31
Speaker 1: wait a minute, what's up.
26:32
Speaker 2: With this guy?
26:33
Speaker 1: He's too old to do this. That's an assessment I
26:36
Speaker 1: think that the average American could make on their own,
26:40
Speaker 1: and so when the media finally made it, it didn't
26:43
Speaker 1: have much of any impact. And now that the age
26:47
Speaker 1: issue is off the table, we are seeing the margins
26:51
Speaker 1: between Trump and Harris diminish significantly.
26:55
Speaker 2: Now. To be clear, they haven't completely evaporated.
27:00
Speaker 1: In some holes they have, but you know, you can
27:03
Speaker 1: still argue, based upon the data that Trump is leading
27:06
Speaker 1: by the skin of his teeth nationally and still maybe
27:11
Speaker 1: winning in the electoral College.
27:13
Speaker 2: But again, this is.
27:15
Speaker 1: In the aftermath of him having been shot picked his
27:18
Speaker 1: vice president and having had his GOP convention.
27:25
Speaker 2: That should not be the situation.
27:28
Speaker 1: And get I get that, there's the shiny new object phenomenon,
27:31
Speaker 1: and I think the big question is here, Okay, is
27:37
Speaker 1: this Harris bump? You know, you might call it a surge.
27:42
Speaker 1: It's not quite a surge yet, But is this Harris bump?
27:46
Speaker 1: Is this her high water mark? Or is this just
27:50
Speaker 1: the beginning? And I think you could make an argument
27:54
Speaker 1: that it may not be just the beginning, but this
27:58
Speaker 1: isn't the end. I mean, I've told talked before about
28:01
Speaker 1: how she has a lot of cards to play, She
28:04
Speaker 1: has her vice presidential nominee, her convention. The debates I
28:09
Speaker 1: think are gonna work very much in her favor should
28:12
Speaker 1: they happen. And now the Trump team is backing off
28:16
Speaker 1: of that, and the Harris team is trying to claim,
28:18
Speaker 1: bizarrely that Trump is backing off in agreement that he
28:22
Speaker 1: didn't make with her, he made with Joe Biden.
28:24
Speaker 2: But this is the bizarre world we're now living in.
28:26
Speaker 1: But if those debates happen, I think they're going to
28:30
Speaker 1: play very much in Harris's favor. She'll do much better
28:33
Speaker 1: than Biden did, and that's gonna be what she'll be
28:36
Speaker 1: compared against.
28:37
Speaker 2: And Trump is terrible at debates.
28:40
Speaker 1: So and you know, I've already mentioned the Taylor Swift
28:44
Speaker 1: thing and other elements that she will have because the
28:47
Speaker 1: media will be completely on her side. And then there's
28:50
Speaker 1: the Trump sentencing situation in September. I mean, there's all
28:53
Speaker 1: sorts of theoretical circumstances that could play to her advantage,
28:59
Speaker 1: and it's hard for me to come up with any
29:02
Speaker 1: that would do the same for Donald Trump in the
29:04
Speaker 1: final months of this campaign.
29:07
Speaker 2: But just to be.
29:07
Speaker 1: Clear, I don't know whether or not this is Harris's
29:11
Speaker 1: high water mark, or whether or not this is just
29:14
Speaker 1: an indication of where this is now heading.
29:17
Speaker 2: I don't know. No one does.
29:19
Speaker 1: Anyone that tells you they have the answer to that
29:21
Speaker 1: is not telling the truth. But I'm telling you it's
29:25
Speaker 1: possible that this is just the beginning. It's possible that
29:29
Speaker 1: and I want to underline possible, it is possible that
29:32
Speaker 1: Trump is in big trouble here, and that this whole
29:35
Speaker 1: situation has been.
29:37
Speaker 2: A remarkable In fact, there's no way a lot of.
29:40
Speaker 1: People that are now claiming conspiracy theories and that this
29:44
Speaker 1: was all part of the democratic plan.
29:45
Speaker 2: There's no way Democrats are this smart. They're just not
29:48
Speaker 2: this smart. This can only happen by luck.
29:51
Speaker 1: But this is the luckiest set of circumstances that I've
29:55
Speaker 1: ever seen in presidential politics. If it holds, and that's
29:59
Speaker 1: still a big I don't want to I'm not making
30:01
Speaker 1: any prediction yet about you know, who's going to win
30:04
Speaker 1: this race. I will say that right now, if the
30:08
Speaker 1: election were next week, this would.
30:10
Speaker 2: Be a very, very close election.
30:14
Speaker 1: We're basically in the same situation as we were after
30:18
Speaker 1: Trump's bogus thirty four felony convictions in my mind, where
30:23
Speaker 1: he might win a squeaker, but he might not, depending
30:27
Speaker 1: on which way the wind is blowing and turn out
30:29
Speaker 1: and all those sorts of things. And one of the
30:32
Speaker 1: things that is now working to Trump's disadvantage all of
30:36
Speaker 1: a sudden, and the data is now more clear than
30:40
Speaker 1: it has been to date, because this is something I've
30:43
Speaker 1: been watching for basically a year, is that the RFK
30:48
Speaker 1: Junior effect is now working against Donald Trump.
30:53
Speaker 2: That is now clear.
30:56
Speaker 1: There are I think at least four polls that have
30:58
Speaker 1: come out in the last past few days where Trump
31:02
Speaker 1: actually does better in the head to head matchup with
31:07
Speaker 1: Harris than he does when you add in RFK Junior
31:11
Speaker 1: and all of the other candidates, which has never been
31:16
Speaker 1: the case. There's been isolated polls that have indicated that,
31:19
Speaker 1: but there's never been a very clear cut series of
31:24
Speaker 1: polls that I can remember, which all showed almost exactly
31:28
Speaker 1: the same phenomenon, which is that RFK Junior is now
31:32
Speaker 1: harming Donald Trump in a multi candidate race by at
31:37
Speaker 1: least a point or two, and in the swing states
31:40
Speaker 1: that can be very, very decisive. So basically, what I
31:44
Speaker 1: think has happened is that before the Biden withdraw RFK
31:49
Speaker 1: jor provided an off ramp for a lot of liberal
31:53
Speaker 1: Democrats who just couldn't pull the trigger for Joe Biden
31:58
Speaker 1: because he was too old. Well, now that that issue
32:01
Speaker 1: is off the table, they're coming back home to Harris,
32:05
Speaker 1: and so the people that are still voting for RFK
32:08
Speaker 1: Junior are people who might be in the Trump camp
32:12
Speaker 1: if it was just Trump versus Harris.
32:15
Speaker 2: Now, there's been some talk, and.
32:17
Speaker 1: We played a clip a couple episodes ago after the
32:19
Speaker 1: assassination attempt where Trump and RFK Junior had a phone
32:23
Speaker 1: call that was awfully friendly, and it certainly seemed as
32:26
Speaker 1: if Trump was floating the idea of a job within
32:30
Speaker 1: his administration for RFK Junior. So it doesn't take a
32:33
Speaker 1: rocket scientist to figure out that there could be a
32:36
Speaker 1: situation where RFK Junior withdraws from the race and endorses
32:41
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, which would be weird, but I certainly think
32:45
Speaker 1: that is in both of their best interests because RFK
32:49
Speaker 1: Junior is now done. There was a blip of a
32:52
Speaker 1: one poll after the withdraw in New Hampshire that showed
32:56
Speaker 1: RFK Junior getting up to twenty one percent. I thought, wow,
32:58
Speaker 1: that's weird, but New Hampshire can sometimes be a weird state,
33:02
Speaker 1: and it was just a guess, a one off outlier.
33:05
Speaker 1: But now it is very clear that RFK Junior ain't
33:09
Speaker 1: going to make any sort of impact. He ain't going
33:10
Speaker 1: to make the debates, and so he's going to be
33:13
Speaker 1: looking for some way to get out of this in
33:15
Speaker 1: theory and save some face and maybe get something out
33:19
Speaker 1: of it should Trump win. And so now the self
33:22
Speaker 1: interests are aligned for Trump and RFK Junior to make
33:27
Speaker 1: a deal, whether or not that will happen, I don't know,
33:30
Speaker 1: but it certainly would make a lot of sense I
33:33
Speaker 1: want to address, and I'm sure this is not gonna
33:35
Speaker 1: be the last time I do this, the issue of
33:38
Speaker 1: how Trump fans and the Trump campaign seem to not
33:43
Speaker 1: be getting it as to how dangerous the situation Trump
33:48
Speaker 1: is in currently, it is inconceivable to the Trump fans
33:55
Speaker 1: and to I guess you would call them conservatives, right wingers, Republicans.
33:59
Speaker 1: I never even know what to call that group of
34:02
Speaker 1: people anymore because all the definitions in the Trump era
34:06
Speaker 1: have been completely bastardized. But people who would I guess
34:09
Speaker 1: vote Republican, it is inconceivable to them that Kamala Harris
34:14
Speaker 1: could survive an onslaught of negative attacks given just how
34:20
Speaker 1: incredibly liberal, how woke, how socialist she is, how clear
34:25
Speaker 1: cut she is, especially in her twenty twenty failed presidential
34:30
Speaker 1: campaign that was a disaster. People have to remember, I'm
34:34
Speaker 1: a big believer in this when it comes to politics.
34:37
Speaker 1: You know, when you have a situation where a Kamala
34:40
Speaker 1: Harris was fairly unknown, seen as a woman of color,
34:44
Speaker 1: although originally she was seen as an Indian woman. Now
34:47
Speaker 1: she's a woman of color, or maybe even a black woman,
34:49
Speaker 1: because you know, the self interests have changed. But when
34:53
Speaker 1: you're Harris trying to make a name for yourself in
34:57
Speaker 1: a crowded twenty twenty presidential field, in a Democratic primary,
35:01
Speaker 1: you're gonna take some crazy fucking positions, especially if you're
35:07
Speaker 1: already you know, a woke liberal to begin with, which
35:10
Speaker 1: I believe Harris is, But you're going to take every
35:13
Speaker 1: crazy left wing position possible. You know, defund the police,
35:17
Speaker 1: and you know illegal immigration isn't a crime, and all
35:21
Speaker 1: sorts of other things that are related to that, because
35:23
Speaker 1: you're trying to make an aim for yourself. You're trying
35:27
Speaker 1: to get an audience, you're trying to get a base
35:31
Speaker 1: of support, You're trying to light a spark within the
35:36
Speaker 1: left wing of the Democratic Party where you could become
35:39
Speaker 1: the new Obama. That's really what this was an attempt
35:42
Speaker 1: to do. And now it didn't work because she doesn't
35:44
Speaker 1: have Obama's charisma, and there were all sorts of other problems.
35:49
Speaker 1: There were too many candidates, and you know, Harris just
35:52
Speaker 1: doesn't have the Obama magic. But that's what she was
35:55
Speaker 1: trying to recreate in twenty twenty. But now, well we
36:00
Speaker 1: have a totally different situation. She's been vice president for
36:03
Speaker 1: three and a half years, She's been handed the Democratic
36:06
Speaker 1: presidential nomination without.
36:07
Speaker 2: Getting a vote. The media is giving her the Obama treatment.
36:12
Speaker 1: And maybe this is just because I devoted an enormous
36:15
Speaker 1: amount of my life in two thousand and eight two
36:18
Speaker 1: thousand and nine to creating a major documentary film called
36:22
Speaker 1: Medium Malpractice How Obama got elected and Pallin was targeted,
36:25
Speaker 1: which ended up debuting on The Today Show in an
36:29
Speaker 1: interview with Matt Lauer that was very contentious and controversial.
36:33
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just because that was a huge part of
36:36
Speaker 1: my life and career that I'm a bit baffled that
36:40
Speaker 1: Trump fans or Republicans don't recall what happened there. Yes,
36:46
Speaker 1: Barack Obama is much more talented than Kamala Harris, but
36:51
Speaker 1: we all thought, oh wait till the general election, and
36:56
Speaker 1: Obama's radicalism is going to be exposed and the American
37:01
Speaker 1: people are just not going to buy it.
37:02
Speaker 2: He's going to be too far left.
37:05
Speaker 1: Remember his radical history and Bill Ayres and Jeremiah Wright
37:10
Speaker 1: and all that. Well, you know, now, look, John McCain
37:14
Speaker 1: wimped out in the campaign. Trump's not going to win out,
37:17
Speaker 1: but McCain had a hell of a lot more credibility
37:21
Speaker 1: and trustworthiness for the least independent voters to listen to
37:25
Speaker 1: what he had to say.
37:26
Speaker 2: About his opponent.
37:27
Speaker 1: Now, he didn't take advantage of that, unfortunately. But Trump
37:30
Speaker 1: isn't believed by huge portions of the public, and therefore
37:34
Speaker 1: his commercials aren't going to be believed by huge portions
37:39
Speaker 1: of the public. And it didn't work against Barack Obama.
37:43
Speaker 1: The media totally caved, continued their hurricane wind at his
37:50
Speaker 1: back that gave him the nomination over Hillary Clinton in
37:53
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight. And while they don't have nearly
37:57
Speaker 1: as good material to do it with this time in
38:00
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, they have other advantages. We've had sixteen years pass.
38:06
Speaker 1: You know what that means, sixteen years of more conservatives
38:12
Speaker 1: than liberals dying, sixteen years, more liberals than conservatives turning
38:19
Speaker 1: eighteen and being eligible to vote. We've changed the voting
38:23
Speaker 1: system in many states to make it much more easy
38:27
Speaker 1: to vote.
38:29
Speaker 2: And so there's all sorts of not to mention.
38:33
Speaker 1: You know, Donald Trump is a convicted felon and highly unpopular,
38:37
Speaker 1: which obviously John McCain was not. He was a war
38:40
Speaker 1: hero and could appeal to moderate voters at least until
38:45
Speaker 1: they destroyed Sarah Palin, which, so I guess I wanted
38:50
Speaker 1: to ask, were you people not alive when Barack Obama
38:54
Speaker 1: was able to get away with this and was elected
38:58
Speaker 1: not once but twice? They very similar socialist radical history.
39:04
Speaker 2: That Kamala Harris has.
39:06
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, were you not alive during
39:08
Speaker 1: COVID when you saw that people weren't able to get
39:11
Speaker 1: this on their own and where the country really is
39:16
Speaker 1: on these issues that were not a conservative country anymore?
39:21
Speaker 1: Were you not alive in twenty twenty two when everybody
39:26
Speaker 1: I was not one of these people, but you know,
39:28
Speaker 1: almost every conservative analyst and commentator told you that there
39:31
Speaker 1: was going to be a red wave and that there
39:33
Speaker 1: was going to be backlash against the socialism and the
39:37
Speaker 1: wokeness and the and the COVID tyranny, And except in
39:41
Speaker 1: Florida with Rondo Sandis, that didn't happen. So I guess
39:47
Speaker 1: I'm just baffled as to what history are people.
39:51
Speaker 2: Looking at here?
39:52
Speaker 1: Yes, Barack Obama much more talented than Kamala Harris, but
39:58
Speaker 1: Harris has other advantages, including being a woman, which are
40:02
Speaker 1: being underestimated at the peril of the Trump campaign. Now
40:09
Speaker 1: will telling her history work? I would like to believe
40:14
Speaker 1: that the average independent voter, if they knew just, you know,
40:19
Speaker 1: four or five key things about Kamala Harris's real history,
40:24
Speaker 1: that it would very negatively impact their view of her.
40:28
Speaker 1: And that's I'm holding out hope that that's still the case.
40:32
Speaker 1: But when the media is actively rewriting that history and
40:39
Speaker 1: Trump has no credibility in telling.
40:41
Speaker 2: That history, I'm not sure how it happens.
40:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, You've got Elon Musk who owns
40:49
Speaker 1: Twitter and gets tens of millions of views for every
40:51
Speaker 1: tweet he puts out, and he put out a rather
40:54
Speaker 1: hilarious AI fake audio of Kamala Harrison pain d which
41:01
Speaker 1: he's getting a lot of heat for because he didn't
41:03
Speaker 1: he didn't describe it as an AI fake. I think
41:06
Speaker 1: he figured out that most people are thought that most
41:08
Speaker 1: people would understand it was an AI fake. But yeah,
41:11
Speaker 1: on Twitter, people are gonna know about Kamala Harris's true history.
41:17
Speaker 1: But the people on Twitter are not those that are
41:19
Speaker 1: going to determine who wins Wisconsin, who wins Michigan, who
41:24
Speaker 1: wins Pennsylvania, who wins Georgia that that ain't it. And
41:30
Speaker 1: in the media, well, they don't have nearly the power
41:33
Speaker 1: that they used to when they all work together, and
41:36
Speaker 1: they are clearly all working together right now, and when
41:39
Speaker 1: Trump is terrible at this, and you know, and even
41:42
Speaker 1: in his rallies, he's basically doing a stand up comedy
41:45
Speaker 1: routine and not even focused on this Harris problem. And
41:50
Speaker 1: he and you know, there's all sorts of issues with
41:53
Speaker 1: his personal credibility that no one's gonna believe him in
41:56
Speaker 1: anything that he says negatively about Harris. And he hasn't
41:59
Speaker 1: even come up with a good nickname for her yet.
42:03
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, I am very skeptical that this is
42:06
Speaker 1: gonna work. I mean, there's numerous examples already of where
42:11
Speaker 1: the news media is just flat out gaslighting and in
42:17
Speaker 1: a George Orwell fashion nineteen eighty four type fashion, just
42:20
Speaker 1: pretending that history doesn't exist. But we've got a government
42:26
Speaker 1: website scrubbing the fact that she's the most was the
42:30
Speaker 1: most liberal US senator back when she was in the
42:34
Speaker 1: US Senator.
42:34
Speaker 2: Just scrubbed it.
42:35
Speaker 1: Just eliminated it, gone, poof, doesn't exist anymore. There's the
42:41
Speaker 1: whole borders are controversy as to whether or not she
42:44
Speaker 1: was the borders are which the media widely reported, and
42:48
Speaker 1: now they're all widely reporting no, no, no, that was
42:50
Speaker 1: fake news, that was Republican propaganda.
42:53
Speaker 2: She was never the borders.
42:54
Speaker 1: Are well, she herself tweeted out, this is a quote.
43:00
Speaker 1: This is from Vice President Kamala Harris Potus asked me
43:05
Speaker 1: to lead our diplomatic work with Mexico, l Savagor, Guatemala,
43:09
Speaker 1: and Honduras.
43:10
Speaker 2: To address the situation at.
43:12
Speaker 1: The southern border. We have to address the root causes
43:15
Speaker 1: of migration. It won't be easy work, but it's necessary.
43:19
Speaker 2: What more do you need than that.
43:21
Speaker 1: This is her acknowledging that she was Maybe czar is
43:25
Speaker 1: the wrong word, she was the point person on the
43:29
Speaker 1: immigration situation at the southern border. But now in a
43:33
Speaker 1: way that's very very telling that they're very concerned about
43:36
Speaker 1: how vulnerable they are on the issue. They're say no, no, no, no, no, no,
43:40
Speaker 1: she was never. She was never that person that didn't exist.
43:44
Speaker 1: By the way, here there's a couple of different montages
43:47
Speaker 1: of the media flipping on this borders are issue that
43:51
Speaker 1: have gone viral. I wanted to play least one for
43:53
Speaker 1: you just to prove the point of the massive hypocrisy
43:57
Speaker 1: and contradiction and flip flop to the media has done
44:00
Speaker 1: on this issue. And here's one that got quite a
44:04
Speaker 1: lot of views on Twitter.
44:06
Speaker 2: Quote unquote borders are. Vice President Harris was not a
44:10
Speaker 2: borders are being.
44:11
Speaker 3: Time vice president and borders are Tamala Harris facing some
44:14
Speaker 3: backlash what he said about Harris and immigration was not true.
44:17
Speaker 2: She was never appointed borders are.
44:19
Speaker 4: And this will be her first visit to the US
44:22
Speaker 4: Mexico Border Regent since she was appointed as the borders
44:25
Speaker 4: are by President Biden.
44:26
Speaker 5: People gonna have to counter the misinformation.
44:28
Speaker 6: You already hear folks talking about the borders are.
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Speaker 2: She wasn't the borders are.
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Speaker 1: President Biden tapped Kamala Harris, Vice President Kamala Harris to
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Speaker 1: be the borders are now.
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Speaker 2: She wasn't the borders are.
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Speaker 5: That's what Republicans labeled her.
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Speaker 6: They were very critical of Kamala Harris, especially in her
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Speaker 6: role as borders are.
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Speaker 3: Now what she's up against his folks line about her
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Speaker 3: border record, calling her.
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Speaker 1: A borders are Kamala Harris, who was appointed as the
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Speaker 1: borders are.
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Speaker 3: The Biden team didn't declare her the borders are.
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Speaker 2: They wanted her to work on kind of the root
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Speaker 2: causes of immigration. There has been so much criticism against
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Speaker 2: Kamala Harris. You know, she was the borders are.
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Speaker 1: Calling her sort of the borders are, which wasn't necessarily
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Speaker 1: the case.
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Speaker 3: So the border if they weren't planning to address it
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Speaker 3: in a major way, do not make her your borders are.
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Speaker 3: She met with some of the Northern Triangle countries, but
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Speaker 3: nothing has effectively changed.
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Speaker 1: But that issue is not the only one where the
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Speaker 1: news media is just gaslighting everybody and pretending it never existed.
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Speaker 1: There's the issue of her raising money for the rioters
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Speaker 1: in Minnesota after the George Floyd whatever you want to
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Speaker 1: call it, killing, murder, death, but that Harris was out
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Speaker 1: at at the forefront of raising money for people that
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Speaker 1: were violent rioters.
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Speaker 2: These were criminals.
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Speaker 1: And now we had this incredibly bizarre Orwellian situation where
45:53
Speaker 1: the CBS affiliate in Minneapolis tweeted it out that it
45:59
Speaker 1: was not true that Harris had done this.
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Speaker 2: This was not true.
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Speaker 1: This was, I guess more right wing propaganda like Harri's
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Speaker 1: not really being the borders are the point person on
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Speaker 1: the border. Yet there is this clip, which the Republican
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Speaker 1: Party at least somewhat smartly posted, immediately condemning the CBS
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Speaker 1: affiliate in Minneapolis for not even understanding their own history.
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Speaker 1: This is very similar to the Axios reporter, very same
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Speaker 1: reporter who a couple of years ago wrote about Harris
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Speaker 1: being the borders are the point person on the border,
46:37
Speaker 1: claiming years later, when the self interests all switched once
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Speaker 1: she's the Democratic presidential nominee that no, no, no, that
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Speaker 1: never really happened, same outlet, same reporter. Well, this is
46:49
Speaker 1: a clip from years ago, same media outlet that claimed
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Speaker 1: that this never happened, literally talking Tom Harris and confronting
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Speaker 1: her a little bit about the fact that it did
47:04
Speaker 1: actually happen, and it's just been completely memory hold.
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Speaker 2: And here's what that sounded like.
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Speaker 4: I want to ask you, the Minnesota GOP is holding
47:12
Speaker 4: a press conference this afternoon to criticize you for your
47:15
Speaker 4: support a couple of years ago before you were the
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Speaker 4: vice president or something called the Minnesota Freedom Found that
47:22
Speaker 4: was really set up to help those who are arrested
47:25
Speaker 4: in the aftermath of the George Floyd riots, helped them
47:29
Speaker 4: get out. It's since been morphed into something else and
47:32
Speaker 4: has been used to help people get out who've been
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Speaker 4: accused of many other crimes. Do you have any thoughts
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Speaker 4: about this?
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Speaker 6: Well, First of all, I am a child of parents
47:42
Speaker 6: who marched for civil rights in the nineteen sixties in America,
47:47
Speaker 6: and I have always been and will always be a
47:50
Speaker 6: supporter of peaceful protests. Many peaceful protests over the history
47:57
Speaker 6: of our country have led to an expand rights and
48:02
Speaker 6: an expansion of civil rights. So that's where I stand
48:05
Speaker 6: on peaceful protest. And I think that unfortunately what we're
48:10
Speaker 6: seeing people are playing political games right now. We're eighteen
48:14
Speaker 6: days away from midterms, and we have sadly not seen
48:18
Speaker 6: a lack of misinformation and disinformation, and I think this
48:22
Speaker 6: is another one of those examples.
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Speaker 1: It just doesn't get more insane than that when the
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Speaker 1: very same media outlet, a news organization is claiming that
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Speaker 1: something didn't happen when they themselves documented that it did.
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Speaker 2: But I want to go back.
48:43
Speaker 1: To this most liberal senator situation, because GovTrack a government
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Speaker 1: website deletes the reality that Harris's record was the most
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Speaker 1: liberal in all of the US Senate. And yet there's
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Speaker 1: a CBS National CBS television interview with Harris. That references
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Speaker 1: this exact reality, which she tried to deny at first
49:07
Speaker 1: but then was basically clot in the reality of the situation.
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Speaker 2: And here's what that sounded like several years ago.
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Speaker 3: You're very different in the policies that you've supported in
49:17
Speaker 3: the past. You're considered the most liberal United States senator.
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Speaker 6: I somebody said that, and it actually was Mike Pence
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Speaker 6: on the debate stage.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, well.
49:28
Speaker 3: Actually the nonpartisan GUV track has rated you as the
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Speaker 3: most liberal senator. You supported the Green New Deal, you
49:36
Speaker 3: supported Medicare for all.
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Speaker 1: But let's be clear, this level of insanity by the
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Speaker 1: news media is not isolated. It is pervasive, It is widespread.
49:48
Speaker 1: There are so many different examples of it. Let me
49:51
Speaker 1: just show you a small one that kind of shocked me,
49:54
Speaker 1: and I tweeted about it, and it seems as if
49:57
Speaker 1: a lot of people agreed with me. But Ben Smith,
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Speaker 1: it was the former media columnist for the New York Times.
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Speaker 1: He now works for an independent website. He's a mainstream guy.
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Speaker 1: I've actually dealt with him on the Matt Lauer story
50:11
Speaker 1: and a couple of others where I had a fairly
50:13
Speaker 1: positive experience with Ben and he wrote, quote genuine question,
50:21
Speaker 1: who beyond the candidate gets credit for the Kamala Harris
50:26
Speaker 1: or Kamala rollout?
50:27
Speaker 2: But interesting that he says Kamala.
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Speaker 1: This has been controversy over whether her name is Kamala
50:32
Speaker 1: or Kamala Harris, and some people have said that calling
50:35
Speaker 1: her Kamala alone without.
50:36
Speaker 2: The Harris is I guess sexist or racist or whatever.
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Speaker 1: But he writes, who beyond the candidate gets credit for
50:43
Speaker 1: the Kamala rollout has just been incredibly well executed.
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Speaker 2: I nearly split up when I saw that.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, what ben of all people former media columnists
50:57
Speaker 1: for The New York Times ought to understand that those
51:01
Speaker 1: that are responsible for this, the glue that holds this
51:04
Speaker 1: all together, the engine that is running this show is
51:08
Speaker 1: the absurdly positive media coverage. It's amazing what a great
51:13
Speaker 1: rollout you could do when the entire media industrial complex
51:18
Speaker 1: is on your side and they've got enormous guilt over
51:21
Speaker 1: having stabbed Biden in the back, and they're invested in
51:24
Speaker 1: this gambit working because this has never been done before,
51:28
Speaker 1: and so you know, it's just been a Comma paloosa,
51:32
Speaker 1: as we called the last episode of the podcast. But
51:36
Speaker 1: for Ben Smith to not understand this is just amazing.
51:40
Speaker 1: I mean, it's clearly the media that deserves the most
51:44
Speaker 1: credit for this, and the examples of the media coverage
51:47
Speaker 1: of her being over the top and absurd are voluminous.
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Speaker 2: One of the funniest and.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes these are the most indicative of the reality comes
51:58
Speaker 1: from the washingtoni magazine. Not that the Washingtonian magazine is
52:02
Speaker 1: all that influential, but this goes to show you the
52:06
Speaker 1: lens to which the liberal media is completely invested.
52:10
Speaker 2: And delusional about Kamala Harris.
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Speaker 1: They had an article, could a Kamala Harris presidency be
52:18
Speaker 1: a boon for d C's food scene?
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Speaker 2: Yes, she's magic, just like Obama. She's magic.
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Speaker 1: If she's president, it would be a boon for DC's
52:31
Speaker 1: food scene.
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Speaker 2: It's just unbelievable.
52:36
Speaker 1: But this is the kind of stuff that's happening constantly,
52:40
Speaker 1: And you know, Trump has picked up on how dramatically
52:45
Speaker 1: they have shifted on the Kamala narrative. But I don't
52:48
Speaker 1: think he fully understands that. He blew an opportunity to
52:53
Speaker 1: stop this, or at least blunt it. At one of
52:57
Speaker 1: his rallies over this past weekend. He you know, did
53:01
Speaker 1: it basically his comedy routine where he talks about how,
53:06
Speaker 1: you know, three weeks ago she was a bum and
53:11
Speaker 1: you know, now all of a sudden, she's the greatest
53:13
Speaker 1: thing ever, which again is accurate.
53:15
Speaker 2: But he doesn't seem to understand that he.
53:18
Speaker 1: Blew it and it his campaign blew it and allowing
53:22
Speaker 1: this to happen without any price to be paid.
53:25
Speaker 2: And here is what Trump sounded like on that Biden.
53:29
Speaker 5: But you know, he didn't want to do what he did.
53:31
Speaker 5: He said, I'll never go out. I'll never ever go out.
53:33
Speaker 5: Two days later, I'm proud to go out. Because the
53:38
Speaker 5: fascists went after him. They threatened him with the twenty
53:41
Speaker 5: fifth Amendment. They said we can do it the nice way,
53:45
Speaker 5: or we can do it the hard way.
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Speaker 2: Joe, that's what happened.
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Speaker 5: I know as many people on that side as I
53:50
Speaker 5: know on our side.
53:51
Speaker 2: So to speak. But that's what happened.
53:54
Speaker 5: They said we can do it the hard way, we
53:56
Speaker 5: can do it the easy way, twenty fifth Amendment, you
54:00
Speaker 5: don't go, and he said, oh, I'll go. And now
54:04
Speaker 5: they're trying to make him into a brave hero.
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Speaker 2: He's so brave.
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Speaker 5: Last night he made her the other night he made
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Speaker 5: a speech behind the beautiful resolute desk in the Oval
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Speaker 5: office and look, I'm not looking to I want to
54:17
Speaker 5: give people credit or not credit.
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Speaker 2: It was horrible.
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Speaker 5: And then you turn onto like CNN and ms DNC
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Speaker 5: the worst. They're just horrible, and they're saying one of
54:29
Speaker 5: the finest speeches we've ever seen. I mean Churchillyan, somebody
54:34
Speaker 5: said church at Winston Church and no, Winston had it
54:37
Speaker 5: on him a little bit. It was so bad, and
54:39
Speaker 5: they pretended.
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Speaker 2: It was good. And they're doing the same thing with her.
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Speaker 2: She was a bum three weeks ago.
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Speaker 5: She was a bum, a failed vice president and a
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Speaker 5: failed administration with millions of people crossing, and she was
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Speaker 5: the borders are. Now they're trying to say she never
54:57
Speaker 5: was the borders are. She had nothing to do with
54:59
Speaker 5: the border was the borders are. They're trying to take it.
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Speaker 5: They're deleting it all over the place. They want to
55:04
Speaker 5: take it because we have the worst border in history,
55:07
Speaker 5: and three and a half years ago we had the
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Speaker 5: best border.
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Speaker 1: Now this is a big issue for me, and I'm
55:12
Speaker 1: rather pissed off about it, and I was screaming about
55:15
Speaker 1: it at the time, both publicly and privately. But it
55:20
Speaker 1: is now very clear that Trump and the Trump team,
55:24
Speaker 1: and this is where the problem comes in, that nobody
55:29
Speaker 1: has the balls to tell.
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump no.
55:32
Speaker 1: I've talked about this all the time, about one of
55:34
Speaker 1: my biggest problems with Donald Trump. In order to be
55:39
Speaker 1: a good leader, in order to be a good president,
55:41
Speaker 1: you have to be able to surround yourself with smart
55:44
Speaker 1: people who are willing and able to give you truthful counsel.
55:50
Speaker 1: And that sometimes means saying, hey, this is a mistake,
55:55
Speaker 1: we need to go in a different direction, or here's
55:57
Speaker 1: why this is not a good move. Well, it's obvious that,
56:02
Speaker 1: especially after the assassination attempt, nobody was willing to do that.
56:08
Speaker 1: And the entire GOP convention was nothing more than basically
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Speaker 1: claiming that God saved Donald Trump by keeping that bullet
56:18
Speaker 1: from blowing up, blowing off.
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Speaker 2: His the side of his face.
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Speaker 1: That's that was the main point of the GOP convention.
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Speaker 1: Wasn't the only one, but it was by far the
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Speaker 1: primary point.
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Speaker 2: And look, I.
56:31
Speaker 1: Get that the assassination attempt was a huge deal, and
56:35
Speaker 1: you know, Trump's reaction was iconic and heroic. I thought
56:39
Speaker 1: the way Trump started his convention speech was very compelling
56:42
Speaker 1: and fantastic. I had no problem with any of that,
56:45
Speaker 1: but they went way too far with it, and it
56:50
Speaker 1: caused them to not do anything anything with regard to
56:55
Speaker 1: cutting off these escape patches that Biden was and Harris
56:58
Speaker 1: were still facing the finding Harris. There's all sorts of
57:02
Speaker 1: things they could have done. There was a weakness of vulnerability.
57:07
Speaker 1: And I understand that people say, wow, when your opponent's
57:10
Speaker 1: shooting themselves in the foot, you stand back. No, that's
57:14
Speaker 1: not what was happening there. The opponent was actually regrouping
57:20
Speaker 1: and was strategizing a way to flip the script on
57:23
Speaker 1: this whole thing. And Trump got bamboozled. Trump got caught asleep.
57:29
Speaker 1: Trump did not understand that you need to define Harris
57:33
Speaker 1: before she's the nominee. You need to set up the
57:37
Speaker 1: predicate that Wait a minute, how can she be the
57:40
Speaker 1: nominee and not.
57:42
Speaker 2: Be the president?
57:43
Speaker 1: Doesn't that mean that Joe Biden doesn't really believe she
57:46
Speaker 1: can do the job. How can she not be better
57:50
Speaker 1: than a decrepit eighty one year old man in that
57:53
Speaker 1: office for the next six months. I still believe this
57:56
Speaker 1: is an issue that could resonate. It's probably a little
57:58
Speaker 1: too late, to do it perfect, but it's now obvious
58:02
Speaker 1: Biden maate resigning from office, especially after his crappy speech
58:06
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58:11
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