Joe Biden lays out his quest to save the soul of the nation. Other Democrats tear into Trump voters. And Michael Moore won t be riding an exercise bike anytime soon. On this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, Ben explains why the 2020 election is not about whether Trump can change his stripes, but about whether he s just what Trump is. And when it comes to winning suburban women in swing states, the polls show that, contrary to the popular opinion on the right, his personality is a real detriment to him in the election. And so this is why the question as to whether President Trump is re-elected is largely not about Trump, it s about Trump s personality. And as we ll see, that ain t changing for both good and ill. And then, we can be hopeful about how he chooses his person. He s going to hit some targets that offend a lot of people. And the rest of us will cheer, and the left will be fully crazy. Are we going to let Trump drive us nuts? Are we ever going to vote for Trump as bad as we ve ve ever voted for a bad guy? Or are we gonna cast him as evil? That s a problem for him, and we'll see him as a terrible candidate? If you like it, let me know what you think of it in the comments section below. I ll be checking out your thoughts on it! Tweet me if you have a question or would like to debate it in a future episode of the show. Ben Shapiro on or your thoughts about it and I ll talk about it on the next episode of in the next show on this episode on . on the podcast on his podcast is a tweet me or a tweet away on or or any other thing that you re getting a chance to respond to it or what you re listening to or something like that s a tweet about it or a piece of that s not getting it on that s getting a good thing on it? or you ll get it on it, or you re gonna know that s gonna be more of that or that s more of it, right he s gonna get it like that on it or he s getting it on it , etc. or they ll be more than that, right they say it s more like that , right they s gonna do it on , or they re gonna be it, he s not going to be that s really getting it, I ll say it, they ll do it, right they ll say that s just like that, they re just that see it s not that s , they s not gonna do that sotta it, yeeeeeeeeee ...
00:02:05.000And as we'll see, that ain't changing for both good and ill.
00:02:09.000And when it comes to winning suburban women, when it comes to winning the swing states, the polls show that President Trump's personality, contrary to the popular opinion on the right, his personality is not going to help him win the election.
00:02:20.000His personality is a real detriment to him in the 2020 election.
00:02:23.000There's a new poll out from Pennsylvania.
00:02:26.000This is a state that he actually needs to win.
00:02:29.000And contrary to popular opinion, he is just getting blown up in Pennsylvania.
00:02:33.000His Pennsylvania poll numbers are awful.
00:02:36.000The current Pennsylvania poll numbers have him underwater by nearly 20 points.
00:02:40.000In terms of favorable and unfavorable.
00:02:59.000And so this is why I say the 2020 election is not going to be really about whether Trump can change his stripes because he ain't changing.
00:03:06.000I think that everybody knows this at this point.
00:03:07.000We can be very hopeful about his character and how he chooses to feature it in the campaign.
00:03:12.000And then we can be realistic, which is that he's going to tweet out dumb stuff.
00:03:15.000He's going to say things that offend a lot of people.
00:03:18.000He's going to hit some of the right targets and the right will cheer, but he's not going to win over anybody new unless he is able to downplay the aspects of his personality that so many people find off-putting.
00:03:28.000And right now, that's a problem for him.
00:03:30.000It's a serious problem for him, as we'll see.
00:03:32.000So the Democrats then are left with a choice.
00:03:34.000And the choice is, are we going to be fully crazy?
00:03:36.000Are we going to let Trump drive us nuts?
00:03:38.000Are we going to castigate anybody who ever voted for Trump as evil and terrible?
00:03:43.000Are we going to castigate current day Trump voters, people who are thinking about voting for Trump in 2020?
00:03:47.000Are we going to castigate those people as racists and white supremacists who don't care about racism, as people who don't care about shootings at El Paso Walmarts, or are we going to restrict our fire just to the candidate on the other side?
00:03:59.000And this is largely the divide between Joe Biden and the rest of the left.
00:04:02.000It's why Joe Biden in all of the national polls does pretty well against President Trump, and it's why Trump is basically running even with every other Democrat.
00:04:09.000Because Biden apparently is the only Democrat in the race who seems to have any sort of understanding that you can't just alienate half of the American population by calling them white supremacists and then hope to win the presidency.
00:04:21.000You can't just call everybody deplorable and then hope to win.
00:04:23.000Now, do I think that Biden will be able to maintain that stance?
00:04:38.000His best hope lies in the Democrats revealing that what they actually believe is the same sort of stuff as the radical left and that really the two are tied at the hip.
00:04:47.000That's why Trump has worked so hard to try and make the squad the face of the Democratic Party as opposed to, for example, Joe Biden.
00:04:53.000It's why every time the Democrats decide to go crazy and do a crazy thing, Trump features it.
00:04:59.000Because the more radical Democrats appear, the more people may be willing to overlook Trump's personal foibles and personality quirks, to say the least, and character flaws, and vote for him just because the Democrats are so alienating.
00:05:12.000So we bring you the most alienating Democratic talking point of the day.
00:05:15.000So this started a couple of days ago when Joaquin Castro decided that it would be a wonderful idea to simply post the names and addresses, not addresses, the names and workplaces and careers of people in his district who had donated to President Trump.
00:05:32.000And then he said, oh, it wasn't meant to intimidate.
00:05:33.000It wasn't meant to intimidate all of these people.
00:05:36.000It was just meant to shame them, really.
00:05:37.000Okay, obviously it was meant as an intimidation tactic.
00:06:12.000According to the Examiner, in attempting to embarrass constituents who donated to President Trump, Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro appears to have overlooked the fact that six of those he named also gave cash to him and his twin brother, 2020 Democrat Julian Castro.
00:06:30.000And then, Joe Scarborough came out and said, this is a great idea.
00:06:33.000We need to shame everyone who ever gave to Trump.
00:06:36.000If you gave to Trump at any point in the recent past, any time, then this means that you are a white supremacist who doesn't care if people get shot in an El Paso Walmart for being Latino.
00:07:12.000According to Fox News, Stephen Ross, owner of the NFL's Miami Dolphins, fired back Wednesday at critics of President Trump defending his plans to host a fundraiser for Trump on Friday at his Hamptons home on New York's Long Island.
00:07:24.000Trump himself is expected to attend the event, at which donors can have their photo taken with the president for $100,000 or attend a private roundtable discussion with him for $250,000.
00:07:35.000Well, it turns out that he is also the chief investor in Equinox and SoulCycle.
00:07:40.000Which are two fitness brands that are sort of upper end and very trendy among, I'd say, the coastal set.
00:07:46.000It's funny, there's sort of a hierarchy in Los Angeles in terms of the gyms that are out here, and everybody knows that the gyms are not really ordered by the niceness of their facility, but by the attractiveness of their people.
00:07:57.000Meaning Equinox and SoulCycle, people who go to Equinox and SoulCycle are the people who bike every day, they do spin classes, they're the people who are the most attractive.
00:08:04.000A lot of Hollywood stars use Equinox and SoulCycle.
00:08:07.000Very socially conscious company, meaning an SJW company that likes to virtue signal about LGBT issues, for example.
00:08:14.000Very, very social justice-oriented, left-leaning company in terms of its corporate practices, Equinox and SoulCycle.
00:08:22.000And then if you go all the way down on the scale, like Gold's Gym out here, that's for people who are sort of meatheads, who lift a lot and sometimes do steroids.
00:08:28.000And then you've got like the YMCA, which is for the people who really don't have any other place to work out.
00:08:32.000And you got like the 24-Hour Fitness, which is like everybody, kind of a broad spectrum, but mainly people who barely have time after work and buy a fitness regimen and then don't actually go and show up.
00:08:42.000So Equinox and SoulCycle is at the top of the food chain for gyms in Los Angeles.
00:08:47.000Now, the left has now called for a boycott of Equinox and SoulCycle.
00:08:52.000So they're not going to go to their spin classes to harm the cons or something.
00:08:58.000So we're gonna hurt the cons by not going to SoulCycle.
00:09:01.000Fine, don't go to your spin class, see if I care.
00:09:03.000Why would I possibly care whether you go to your spin class?
00:09:05.000And by the way, if you actually think that Steven Ross, who owns the Miami Dolphins, and is worth probably a billion dollars or more, that he deeply cares whether you go to his spin class, that he doesn't associate with, he doesn't.
00:09:22.000But this became a thing yesterday, when a bunch of celebrities started tweeting out that they were canceling their SoulCycle and Equinox memberships, not because SoulCycle and Equinox support Trump, but because one of the lead investors in SoulCycle and Equinox supports Trump.
00:09:37.000Well, if we're going to do this routine, then we're going to have to do corporate name checks on every single major corporation in the United States determined there are no Trump supporters on the board before the left is allowed to shop there.
00:09:48.000And I can't imagine anything that's better for the country than having a gym just for the left and a gym for the right.
00:09:53.000And having coffee shops just for the left and coffee shops just for the right.
00:09:57.000The political segregation of our society is not a good thing.
00:10:00.000Common space, where we actually see each other and hang out with each other, where we tolerate the fact that they're opposing political views.
00:10:07.000If we can't do that, it's going to be very difficult for us to live in a republic together.
00:10:35.000People who support Trump aren't Nazis.
00:10:37.000If you think they are, then honestly, you should be the one picking up a gun, presumably, because if Nazis are running rampant across your country and are actually in power, shouldn't you do something more than boycott SoulCycle over it?
00:10:48.000But apparently, boycotting SoulCycle is the way to virtue- What this is really about is virtue signaling to your lefty friends, your SJW friends, your woke friends, that you're not gonna stand up.
00:11:11.000And one of the folks who works here, I was talking with her earlier, she used to work at Equinox, and she happens to be an immigrant of Mexican origin.
00:11:20.000And she was tweeting about this last night with some folks, and they immediately ascribed to her white supremacist motivations, which is absurd.
00:11:29.000What she pointed out to people is that when you boycott Equinox, the people who are the first to get hit are not going to be people like Stephen Ross.
00:11:36.000The people who are the first to get hit are the people who are the janitors, who are cleaning up the gym afterward, who disproportionately are going to be of more impoverished backgrounds and probably disproportionately maybe of immigrant backgrounds.
00:11:48.000But people on the left don't care about any of this.
00:11:50.000They only care about the virtue signaling.
00:11:51.000So you got Billy Eichner, The actor, he tweeted out, Hey Equinox, what's your policy for canceling memberships?
00:11:59.000Once a member finds out your own owner is enabling racism and mass murder.
00:12:04.000Because Trump is enabling racism and mass murder.
00:12:07.000And thus, anybody who funds Trump is enabling racism and mass murder.
00:12:21.000Sorry, my awareness of bubble-headed Hollywood celebrities is a little bit out of date.
00:12:26.000Chrissy Teigen tweeted out, the gym is my personal hell, but if you're a member of Equinox, perhaps it is time to say peace out, Inox A, I'm still sick.
00:12:57.000But not only is it absurd, it's actually very dangerous for the country on a broader level.
00:13:01.000Now, there's a difference between you cancel your subscription to the New York Times because you don't like the content of the New York Times, or you cancel your association with an organization because the organization's policies Are against your principles.
00:13:15.000There's a difference between that and an investor in the organization holds political principles you don't like.
00:13:22.000I shop with advertisers all the time where I am sure that there are members of the board and chief investors in that board who disagree with me politically.
00:13:28.000That's good for the country because commerce is about the best product being available to the most people for the cheapest possible price.
00:13:35.000It is not about me pre-screening the politics of people Who will make money when I go to their store, so long as the store itself is not pursuing evil policies.
00:13:45.000Like, take that Volkswagen example from the 1930s.
00:13:48.000Volkswagen was working in concert with the Hitler regime.
00:13:55.000Even if you think Donald Trump is Hitler, he didn't design the SoulCycle guys.
00:13:59.000But the goal here is, of course, to segregate the population and then to say that if you associate with any member of the other side of the political aisle, that you are in effect very, very bad.
00:14:25.000If you haven't noticed, this is Trump's favorite sort of stuff.
00:14:28.000Like, if Trump really wants to troll today, he should say that he is joining SoulCycle.
00:14:32.000I mean, we all know he's not gonna go there and start bicycling, right?
00:14:34.000He has a very interesting perspective on exercise as our president.
00:14:37.000I'm gonna go there, I'm gonna sit on the cycle, just show us apart.
00:14:41.000But my life energy, I'm not gonna deplete it by moving my legs around like a crazy person.
00:14:46.000In any case, turning our businesses into battlegrounds over politics when the business itself is not involved in politics is a recipe for divisions in the country and disintegration of the social fabric.
00:17:52.000If you think that Donald Trump wants to establish white nationhood and expel all the black and brown people, expel all the Jews, you're in, I mean, this is an insane contention.
00:18:18.000He's dehumanized or sought to dehumanize those who do not look like or pray like the majority here in this country.
00:18:25.000He said, I wish we had Okay, that is such an overplay.
00:18:28.000Nobody in the United States, by poll numbers, there's a percentage, but they're all Democrats, and most people in the middle don't believe that Trump is an actual, honest-to-God white supremacist.
00:18:34.000to be in this country and who he literally wants to keep out with walls and cages and militarization and torture and cruelty.
00:18:45.000Nobody in the United States by poll numbers there, there's a percentage, but they're all Democrats.
00:18:49.000And most people in the middle don't believe that Trump is an actual honest to God, white supremacist.
00:18:54.000And that is not something that most people actually believe.
00:18:57.000The fact that, that folks like Beto are pushing that, that that's an insane contention.
00:19:01.000And then Beto goes even further and he says that El Paso is going to happen again if Trump is elected.
00:19:05.000So I guess that Trump is now in control of all the white supremacists and he's deploying them one by one to Walmarts around the country.
00:19:12.000And if Trump is reelected, then he's going to really have a field day by unleashing them on Hispanic people across the country, according to crazy Beto.
00:19:20.000How worried are you that with Donald Trump still in the Oval Office, something like this will inevitably happen again?
00:19:27.000It will happen again because what happened in El Paso is not an isolated incident.
00:19:31.000After the president warned of caravans, you had somebody go into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh warning of caravans.
00:19:40.000You had the mosque in Victoria, Texas burned to the ground on the day that Trump signed his executive order seeking to ban Muslim travel to the United States.
00:19:48.000So there are very real consequences to his words, to his tweets, to the racism that he fans.
00:19:56.000Okay, just, I'm sorry, this is ridiculous.
00:19:59.000You can't predict when evil people are going to do evil stuff.
00:20:02.000There was a white supremacist during the administration of Barack Obama who walked into a Holocaust memorial in Washington D.C.
00:20:09.000There were riots in Ferguson and Baltimore.
00:20:11.000If Beto can predict events with this sort of accuracy, dude should get in on the stock market and really blow up that fortune of his that he inherited.
00:20:28.000Again, we should, I've been saying all week, well, I've been saying for years, we should all be able to unify on the notion that white supremacism is evil and that mass shootings are evil.
00:20:36.000But there are many Democrats like Beto who don't want to do that for political purposes.
00:20:39.000Cory Booker did this in a softer way yesterday as well.
00:20:42.000And he drew this binary between agree with me and be a white supremacist supporter.
00:20:47.000So he's speaking at a historically, I believe it's a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
00:20:52.000In any case, here is Booker trying to draw a binary between everybody who agrees with Cory Booker and white supremacists.
00:21:00.000The real question isn't who is or isn't a racist, but who is and isn't doing something about it.
00:21:07.000This is a question that has a deep moral resonance.
00:22:26.000And I hate white supremacists so much that they hate me right back, which is why we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year here at this company to defend us from death threats from white racists.
00:22:36.000But, I would be, according to people like Booker and people like presumably AOC, a white supremacist because I've expressed support for many of Donald Trump's policies and because I don't think that Trump is a white supremacist.
00:22:49.000So what the left likes to do is throw out terms like white supremacists without actually defining them.
00:22:53.000Just like they wouldn't define alt-right back in 2015-2016.
00:22:55.000The alt-right was a threat in 2015 and 2016.
00:23:00.000But there's an actual definition as to what alt-right means.
00:23:03.000It's the ideology of folks like Richard Spencer.
00:23:05.000It's the ideology of folks like Vox Dei.
00:23:07.000People who have suggested that there is innate biological difference between the races such that some races are inferior and some races are superior.
00:23:31.000They want a broad sense of what white supremacy is without having to define it so they can label you a white supremacist if you disagree with them on anything.
00:24:01.000But according to members of the left, it would be quote-unquote white supremacy, presumably, to oppose affirmative action.
00:24:07.000If you support Trump in 2020 because you like his policies and you don't think that Trump is a racist, you just think that he is a muddleheaded dolt who says doltish things and cloddish things on a regular basis in the racial realm.
00:24:22.000If you're one of those people, the left will declare you a white supremacist, even if you speak out forcefully every time you think Trump crosses the line.
00:24:30.000So the point here is that for the left, the construction of a debate between white supremacy and everything else is all about obfuscating the line between white supremacy and everything else.
00:24:42.000If we don't know where the line is, then I can put you on the other side of the line anytime I want.
00:24:45.000So you have a perfect example of that yesterday.
00:24:47.000So Alexander Ocasio-Cortez puts out this long tweet thread about white supremacy.
00:24:53.000And she is deliberately defining white supremacy down, right?
00:24:57.000Defining things down is a phrase once used by Daniel Patrick Moynihan with regard to deviancy.
00:25:01.000What he suggested is that as a society, what we're constantly doing in order to excuse our own sin is we define sin down, meaning things that used to be considered sinful and deviant are no longer sinful and deviant.
00:25:12.000He used the example of single motherhood.
00:25:13.000He said that when you define single motherhood as quote-unquote the new normal, it's no longer deviant, it's now normalized, and you get more of it.
00:25:20.000Well, the left is defining white supremacy down in a different way.
00:25:24.000What they're doing is they're saying everything is white supremacy.
00:25:34.000So, AOC tweets this out yesterday, quote, There is a difference between white supremacists and white supremacy.
00:25:41.000First of all, when she says this, what she's actually attempting to do now is take the definition of white supremacy and broaden it out to include a bunch of people who are not members of the alt-right, who don't write manifestos about Hitler, who don't go and shoot up El Paso Walmart, who are Out there, right?
00:25:58.000As you'll see, wait until she broadens this definition because it's so broad that it encompasses, it can encompass, it can be shaped to encompass nearly anything.
00:26:05.000So she says, there's a difference between white supremacists and white supremacy.
00:26:16.000Maybe you suffer from white supremacy and you just don't know it.
00:26:18.000She says, white supremacy is like a virus.
00:26:20.000There's still no definition, but it's like a virus, meaning that it infects people.
00:26:24.000It jumps from person to person without them knowing it, because you don't know if you're sick.
00:26:28.000She says, supremacists are those who have been completely overcome by the disease, but supremacy, the virus, exists on a larger scale beyond just the infected.
00:26:38.000So, just to be clear, the virus exists on a larger scale beyond white supremacists, and also can lie dormant, so you can never have exhibited any symptom of white supremacy, but still you can suffer from white supremacy.
00:26:56.000You can be a carrier of white supremacy.
00:26:59.000So now, you don't have to be an overt racist, a covert racist, a person who knows they're racist, a person who has ever evidenced any symptom of white supremacy, and still you can be an agent of white supremacy because it's lying dormant in you.
00:27:11.000Look how this is blown up from small group of white supremacists and alt-righters who are dangerous, to anyone at any time who could suffer from this thing that's a virus called white supremacy.
00:27:50.000You don't have to know that you're a member of the white supremacist class?
00:27:54.000It's subconscious and it's dormant, but you can still suffer from it.
00:27:57.000She says, clearly our nation has not been inoculated.
00:28:00.000White supremacy is our nation's original sin, the driving logic of slavery, of native genocide, of Jim Crow, of segregation, of mass incarceration, of send her back.
00:28:07.000Okay, now she's conflating a lot of stuff.
00:28:12.000Yes, white supremacy is the driving logic of slavery and of Native genocide.
00:28:16.000And again, the question of Native genocide is slightly more complicated.
00:28:20.000The mistreatment of Native Americans in the United States is horrific and well-known.
00:28:25.000To call it a full-on genocide, I think, is an overstatement because usually people are talking about lots of Native Americans dying of disease.
00:28:32.000Ethnic cleansing, you know, as far as forcibly moving Native Americans out of areas they were legally entitled to and into reservations, I think would be a probably a bit more accurate term.
00:28:42.000Of segregation, fair, and then she has a mass incarceration, and this is where she brings slavery all the way up to date, and she says that if you are in favor of harsh policing of crime, and lots of people who commit crime go to jail, and they are disproportionately of color, then you are a white supremacist.
00:30:00.000It will be hard because it requires us to confront ourselves.
00:30:02.000We wish it was as simple as denouncing a white hood, a burnt cross, vile language.
00:30:06.000But we need to address where supremacy begins, not just where it ends.
00:30:10.000And this is the sort of language that the left loves because she's never defining where it begins.
00:30:15.000And she's saying that if you stand up and you say the KKK is evil and you say that vile language is bad and you say that some of the president's comments cross the line.
00:30:26.000And if you say white supremacists are garbage, if you say all that stuff, that still doesn't mean you're not a white supremacist because you haven't addressed where white supremacy began.
00:30:35.000Now, does she define where white supremacy begins?
00:30:37.000Again, she keeps begging the question, where does this begin?
00:30:43.000Again, if you're going to diagnose the transmission of a virus and you're going to explain how to prevent the virus, shouldn't you do that at some point?
00:30:54.000She says, perhaps more than the obvious last steps of the supremacist, we must examine the nuance of their first steps.
00:31:00.000Again, she's not actually explaining what the first steps are.
00:31:03.000She's not explaining what the first steps are, because what she wants to say is that being the first step means being conservative or Republican.
00:31:11.000In the end, the place that she doesn't actually say out loud, but where she wants to go, is that if you are against affirmative action, if you believe in, if you're against criminal justice reform, for example, if you believe that police forces across the nation are not systemically racist, if you believe that America's legal institutions are not institutionally racist, that the legacy of racism and slavery obviously has after effects, because history always has after effects into the present, but that America
00:31:37.000is, under its current legal regime, the fairest nation in the history of the world with regard to race.
00:31:42.000And if you believe all of that, those are the first steps, right?
00:31:45.000Because she never labels what the first steps are.
00:31:47.000She just says what the last steps are.
00:31:49.000Which means that you could, right now, without knowing it, be on the slippery slope to white supremacy.
00:32:27.000White supremacism is, in fact, a problem.
00:32:29.000But what AOC is doing here By suggesting that white supremacy is everywhere is just as much of a problem because instead of underplaying it, she's now suggesting that, what, 60, 70, 80, 300 million Americans are secret white supremacists and don't even know it?
00:32:46.000She says, recognizing white supremacy in ourselves, our institution, our subconscious, our own past remarks or acts, no matter how consciously unintentional, I don't know what consciously unintentional means, is what makes the healing work ahead challenging, but it is not impossible, and confronting it is the only way to move forward.
00:33:02.000Again, what she is doing is now setting herself up as the arbiter of what white supremacy is without defining it, which is the mark of arbitrary judgment.
00:33:10.000It is the mark of a bad politician and, frankly, the mark of a bad person morally.
00:33:14.000If a person says, I have a moral standard, I'm not going to tell you what it is, but I'll tell you when you violated it.
00:33:20.000That person should not be your moral standard, obviously, because they are not trustworthy.
00:33:24.000And this is what is undermining trust in the moral standard.
00:33:26.000It's why the right looks at the left and says, OK, you guys are ripping on racism all the time.
00:33:32.000But how about that Al Sharpton guy that you were praising like a week ago?
00:33:36.000You were talking about bigotry and how bigotry is bad.
00:33:40.000And AOC is taking magazine covers with Ilhan Omar and sponsoring legislation with her.
00:33:46.000No, you don't get to be the arbiter because your standard is not only unclear, it is cynically defined in order to put people who you don't like outside the box and keep yourself in.
00:33:55.000AOC concludes with this clever and yet dangerous tweet thread.
00:33:59.000She says, what this moment is asking of us is to discuss white supremacy and racism as much or possibly more than white supremacists and racists.
00:34:06.000When we do that, I believe we'll start to make progress.
00:34:09.000Well, actually, if we do it in the way that she's talking about, it will be the opposite of progress because this is just excuse making for her calling everybody she doesn't like a racist.
00:35:08.000I'm sure that this is not about pillorying people.
00:35:10.000I'm sure that you will never act in bad faith and simply call your political opponents like Nancy Pelosi racists just because it serves your political ends.
00:35:19.000I'm sure that you will engage in deep self-reflection today about your own bigotry and helping out Ilhan Omar, I'm sure.
00:35:27.000This is what's going to again, condemning white supremacy is fully not only inbounds praiseworthy, but you got to define the term and the left is deliberately undefining the term so they can then apply it to everybody on a broad scale.
00:37:01.000Last time there was a CNN Town Hall on guns, it was the Parkland Town Hall.
00:37:05.000Dana Lash was brought forth so that people could shower her in rotten tomatoes, and Marco Rubio was brought forth so that members of the audience could suggest that he had committed a mass shooting.
00:37:13.000Well, Chris Cuomo, the stupider of the Cuomo brothers, he decided that he was gonna host this thing.
00:37:19.000And Chris Cuomo knows less than nothing about guns.
00:38:14.000The actual wording of the Second Amendment, a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
00:38:25.000Okay, that last part is what we call the Operative Clause.
00:38:30.000The right of the people, not the right of the state, not the right of the militia, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
00:38:50.000You didn't have to be a member of the militia in order to own a gun.
00:38:53.000But because a militia was important, you needed to have people who own guns.
00:38:56.000So from that population, you could call a militia.
00:38:59.000The Second Amendment was written specifically at the behest of the anti-federalists who oppose the Constitution and who are guaranteed, they were pushing for a guarantee, that the federal government would not regulate the ownership of guns.
00:39:10.000Anyone who has spent five minutes studying this topic knows that.
00:39:13.000Except for John Paul Stevens, who wished to reach a different conclusion because he was driven by his outcome, which was that he wanted gun regulation.
00:39:22.000Anyway, Chris Cuomo hosts this dumb CNN town hall.
00:39:25.000The NRA doesn't show up, and then Chris Cuomo rips them for not showing up.
00:39:28.000So if you don't show up to his party where he's going to poop on your head, then you're a very bad and stupid person, according to Chris Cuomo.
00:39:34.000We also invited the National Rifle Association, the NRA, to be part of tonight's conversation.
00:40:12.000I love that he goes, they wouldn't show up calling this a spectacle.
00:40:15.000Well, that's fine, because they're just a bunch of paid lobbyists anyway, and they're starting to obstruct the issue.
00:40:21.000Okay, so you just, you moron, you just proved their point.
00:40:25.000Their whole point is that you were going to be a politically driven actor, and you were going to go after anyone who was pro-Second Amendment.
00:40:31.000And then, when you read their statement, you proceed to do just that.
00:40:35.000I can't imagine why the NRA didn't show up to hear the dumber Cuomo brother, the Fredo of the Cuomo family.
00:40:51.000Okay, so, as I say, it's this sort of crazy, polarizing extremism, the attacks on people who like the Second Amendment, the deliberate obfuscation of the issues, all this kind of stuff.
00:41:04.000That leads Trump to get elected in 2016.
00:41:05.000So Trump has to hope that that's what Democrats do in 2020.
00:41:10.000Or alternatively, he could change his behavior.
00:41:12.000Well, this is the part where I say Trump is not going to change his behavior because Trump isn't going to change his behavior.
00:41:16.000So he visited Dayton and El Paso yesterday, and that was fine.
00:41:20.000And he kept it pretty much on the down low, which is how it should be.
00:41:35.000Obama never used to do this, and I used to criticize Obama for it.
00:41:37.000Then, Dan Scavino, the press, the comms leader over at the White House, he tweeted out, President Trump, with the incredible medical staff at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio today.
00:41:48.000Some extremely powerful moments throughout the entire visit, with so much enthusiasm and love.
00:41:53.000Contrary to what the Trump-hating Dems would ever share or say.
00:41:57.000And then he followed that one up by calling the president a rock star.
00:42:01.000He said the President Trump is a rock star for going here and was treated like a rock star.
00:42:09.000Like you went to a place where people just got shot in a mass shooting and they all loved seeing their great president because he's like a rock star?
00:42:15.000I'm sorry, the appeals to Trump's ego are not going to help him.
00:42:19.000They're not going to help him win reelection.
00:42:21.000It's also not going to help him win reelection when the president heading out to El Paso and Dayton decides to tweet out about how Beto has a phony name and Beto is the worst and tweets out about Sherrod Brown, talks about how his hospital visit was totally misrepresented.
00:42:37.000It underscores a feeling that a lot of Americans have, which is that the president is actually a petty man and that the president lacks moral fiber.
00:42:44.000This is why I say that if the Democrats could just act sane, they'd be in pretty good shape for 2020.
00:42:49.000If, however, they decide that they are the party of boycotting Equinox and leading CNN town halls where they rip into gun rights, and that everybody who opposes them is a white supremacist, then Trump will win re-election.
00:43:01.000Now, Joe Biden gave a speech yesterday.
00:43:03.000Joe Biden is seen by most Democrats as the most electable Democrat.
00:43:06.000The reason is because of the speech he gave yesterday.
00:43:08.000Now, the speech deliberately misrepresented a lot of the comments that Trump has made on a variety of topics.
00:43:13.000So, for example, Biden said in his speech yesterday that Trump hadn't condemned the KKK.
00:43:17.000Now, back in 2016, Trump did appear on CNN and pretended he didn't know what the KKK was.
00:44:16.000In any case, Biden is launching an attack on Trump's character.
00:44:19.000And that is sort of, it's sort of the same campaign that George W. Bush ran against Bill Clinton in 2000.
00:44:25.000So in 2000, George W. Bush was running on the back of a policy successful presidency with a president who was deeply unpopular on the basis of character.
00:44:34.000So he's popular overall, but on character questions, people thought that Clinton was a bleep show because he was a bleep show.
00:44:41.000He said he's going to bring honor back to the Oval Office.
00:44:43.000It was such a damaging attack that Al Gore had to forcibly move himself away from Bill Clinton.
00:44:47.000He refused to campaign even with Bill Clinton and then he proceeds to lose a very narrow election.
00:44:52.000He wins the popular vote but loses the Electoral College.
00:44:55.000So now Joe Biden is trying to run 2000 in reverse.
00:44:58.000He's trying to say that sure, President Trump, maybe there's some good policies, although he'll never admit it.
00:45:02.000Maybe there are some good policies, but his character is the real problem.
00:45:06.000And Joe Biden has some veins to mine here, right?
00:45:09.000I mean, the fact is the president does have a lot of character shortcomings.
00:45:12.000The president cannot control himself on Twitter.
00:45:15.000The president says bad things on a fairly regular basis.
00:45:18.000And so while it is true that Joe Biden is deliberately misconstruing a lot of the stuff that Trump has said and doing so in dishonest fashion, it is also true that politically speaking what he's doing here is a lot smarter than the other Democrats.
00:45:29.000The other Democrats are suggesting that Joe Biden was a racist for signing on to the criminal justice bill in 1994 and that mass incarceration is inherently racist and all of this kind of stuff, ripping on Barack Obama, suggesting that everybody who disagrees with them is a white supremacist, and Biden is focusing in just on Trump.
00:45:47.000Right, regardless of whether you think that he's lying about Trump, and I think some of what he says here is a lie about Trump, regardless of whether you think that, the pitch that he is making is the strongest political pitch.
00:45:57.000So this is clip eight, talking about how this is a battle for the soul of our nation.
00:46:00.000This is him making the George W. Bush circa 2000 appeal about how we need to restore some sense of honor and dignity to the, like the fact that Joe Biden is the person the Democrats have chosen for this is fairly insane.
00:46:12.000I mean, Uncle Joe has a lot in his closet.
00:46:16.000He said some pretty borderline stuff himself, but it is the strongest pitch the Democrats are making.
00:46:21.000When he said after Charlottesville, there were, and I quote, very fine people on both sides.
00:46:31.000I said at the time, we're in a battle for the soul of this nation.
00:46:37.000I said it again when I announced my candidacy.
00:46:42.000And I say it here today, we are in a battle for the soul of this nation.
00:46:48.000Okay, but what Biden didn't do, right?
00:46:51.000Okay, so what Biden didn't do there, and this is the part about what he's doing smart, is he didn't rip everybody on the right side of the aisle as complicit in what he termed to be Trump's attacks on the soul of the nation.
00:47:02.000And that's where he's going to have to stay.
00:47:04.000Because if he moves into Cory Booker territory, where you're either voting for Joe Biden or you're evil, people will say, go take a hike.
00:47:12.000If he moves into the AOC realm of everybody is a vaguely defined white supremacist, except for me.
00:47:18.000Then he's going to be in serious trouble.
00:47:20.000And this is why Joe Biden, I think Democrats innately understand this.
00:47:23.000Unfortunately for Trump and for Republicans, I think Democrats understand that he is the most electable Democrat.
00:47:29.000This is why the new Iowa Democratic Caucus poll shows 28% for Joe Biden, 19% for Elizabeth Warren, 11% for Kamala Harris, 9% for Bernie Sanders.
00:47:38.000So again, is he being honest about everything that Trump has said?
00:47:42.000He's not being honest about everything that Trump has said.
00:47:45.000The very fine people on both sides' comment was specifically referring to the Friday night rally.
00:47:49.000Trump explicitly said in that same speech that he condemned neo-Nazism and that he condemned white supremacists.
00:47:55.000And then he made up in his head some weird group of people who were marching with the marchers who, for some reason, were good people but they were there at the Unite the Right rally, which was absurd and gross and ridiculous and morally reprehensible.
00:48:07.000But carrying that to the extent that Trump was saying white supremacists are good people is, of course, not true, right?
00:48:14.000With that said, the character attack that Biden is making on Trump is the attack that is most likely to work on Trump, which is why he is the most successful Democrat at the moment, and why, if Democrats continue to move down the radical path, Trump will be reelected.
00:48:26.000If they nominate Joe Biden, much better shot that Joe Biden ends up president than any of the other Democrats who are on that stage right now.
00:48:33.000Okay, time for some things I like, and then perhaps we will do a thing I hate.
00:48:53.000They say that there's a study surveyed over 3,000 U.S.
00:48:56.000teens and adults, including approximately 1,000 Generation Z, 1,000 young millennials, and 1,000 parents.
00:49:02.000About one in five Generation Z and young millennials say they may choose not to go to college.
00:49:06.000Many others see a less conventional path through education as a good idea.
00:49:09.000Over 30% of Generation Z and 18% of young millennials said they've considered taking a gap year between high school and college.
00:49:16.000What's more, 89% of Generation Z, along with nearly 79% of young millennials, have considered an education path that looks different from a four-year degree directly out of high school.
00:49:26.000Well, I certainly hope that's the case because there is no greater scam in America today than a liberal arts education at $100,000 a year college.
00:49:37.000It is one thing to go to college, as I've said before, in order to learn a skill set.
00:49:41.000But if you're going to college just so that you can be indoctrinated in gender studies, and you're going to pay a couple hundred thousand dollars for the privilege, you're making a big mistake.
00:49:48.000You can get those same online courses at an extension school for 50 bucks a credit.
00:49:58.000I think young people are beginning to see the scam for what it is.
00:50:01.000Hopefully employers start to see the scam for what it is.
00:50:03.000Here at The Daily Wire, we actually do not look at educational background when assessing whether or not somebody should be hired.
00:50:09.000That's because my business partner, Jeremy Boring, didn't go to college.
00:50:13.000He went to like a music school for a year and a half and then dropped out.
00:50:16.000And so when people have brought him job descriptions to be put in the classifieds, He has taken out, like, literally crossed out the educational requirements because he says, listen, I'm the COO of the company and I didn't go to college, so how can I require anybody who wants to work here to go to college?
00:50:32.000How about they show a skill set and then they can work here?
00:50:35.000This seems to be much more reasonable.
00:50:36.000I think most employers should imitate that.
00:50:38.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:50:43.000So, President Trump, for some god-awful reason, says he is now going to consider commutation for Rod Blagojevich.
00:52:10.000By the way, the clips of Trump chiding Rod Blagojevich on The Apprentice about not doing his proper research on Harry Potter are pretty golden.
00:52:19.000They're really quite amazing, and I'm glad that our country is now being run in such a way that if you were once a contestant on The Apprentice, or if you cut a really hot R&B album, Or if you are a rapper who is fond of Kim Kardashian, then we will work our asses off to make sure that you get out of prison in Sweden.