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00:12:18.000See Well, hey, thanks, love you too, but sorry, I believe in a religion that makes sense, so... Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Donald Trump were all cut from the same cloth, and that cloth is very, very large.
00:17:10.000But I would call myself something like a Christian futurist instead, because Jesus Christ was our past before any of us were born or conceived.
00:17:20.000Jesus Christ is our present now and Jesus Christ is our future after we die on earth.
00:17:27.000We want this century to be the most Christian century in the history of planet earth.
00:17:42.000And we want people that can grow, really, more than anybody.
00:17:46.000But this country can no longer be held hostage by a small minority that doesn't believe in the real value of life.
00:17:56.000The mission of our movement is to make this country a Christian country.
00:18:01.000The mission is to create a Christian, The only way we're going to do it is not by infiltrating, not by subverting, not by lying, which is what a lot of people do.
00:18:14.000The only way that we're going to make this happen is with the boldness of a real Christian.
00:31:06.00069 now it's time for new believable people and we must do it if we don't control insiders this will be over and over to lead it by and any big fat love find common ground to halt the spread of lies and we must do it big fat love find common ground to halt the spread of lies and any America first.
00:32:26.000At least I will go down as a president.
00:32:29.000Now America is once again Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people.
00:32:43.000Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new
00:32:50.000government controlled by you, the American people.
00:56:18.000Let's take a quick poll, and we're going to tune into some of the pre-game talk, and we'll talk a little bit about what we're going to see tonight.
00:56:27.000But I want to take a quick poll while it's fresh, at the beginning.
00:56:32.000Who do you guys think is going to win?
01:00:22.000There was not any, at least publicly, squabbling about who would be the nominee.
01:00:29.000Because initially there were a lot of questions about who would take Joe Biden's place and if it was even possible and what that would look like.
01:00:38.000And there were questions about the money and the ballot access and the legality.
01:00:43.000And so although it was clear from the first debate that Joe Biden could not and probably would not be the candidate, it seemed like there was literally no other option.
01:01:42.000And what followed was virtually a month of total media domination.
01:01:50.000And whereas Trump was at 75% in the odds, He was running away with it in the national and swing state polling.
01:01:59.000What followed at the end of July and throughout the month of August is that Kamala completely flipped all of it.
01:02:05.000She took the lead in the national and swing state polls.
01:02:09.000She became the odds-on favorite in the betting markets.
01:02:13.000There was so much media attention about her selection, and then the selection of the vice president, and then the convention.
01:02:23.000And it looked like the Trump campaign was in serious trouble.
01:02:29.000It appeared, I would say, by mid-August, just about a month after Biden withdrew, two months after the first debate, that it was her race to lose.
01:02:40.000And all of the cope and rationalization about a honeymoon phase or about built-in advantages Seemed not to explain Kamala's meteoric rise.
01:04:59.000Pennsylvania is a dead heat in the polling as well.
01:05:03.000So this is the state of the race, and there'll probably be, I would say, 20 to 30 million people watching.
01:05:11.000I know that's a huge... Well, I think it could be 20 or 30 million, but I think realistically we're looking at maybe 25 million live viewers tonight.
01:05:21.000It's going to be a massive, massive Platform for both of them.
01:05:28.000And this is where Kamala maybe gets to make her introduction.
01:05:31.000At the conventions, it was roughly tied.
01:05:34.000Trump's speech at the final night of his convention in July got roughly 27 million viewers.
01:05:42.000Kamala's speech on the final night of her convention last month got about 28 million viewers.
01:05:49.000So roughly tied in convention viewership on average and on the final night during the speeches from the candidates.
01:06:20.000They talked about Trump's criminality and personality.
01:06:25.000But what it really did for the Democrats in this very unusual cycle where their incumbent nominee withdrew and they did not actually hold the primary contest, instead having to nominate The vice president.
01:06:58.000You get three general election presidential debates, and you get a vice presidential debate.
01:07:05.000And Trump has already debated Biden once.
01:07:09.000There's been a lot of back and forth between the two campaigns about this debate, which network would host it and what the rules would be and the date.
01:07:17.000Trump initially said that he would not commit to the previously agreed upon date and host, which is ABC Tonight on September the 10th.
01:07:28.000And after a strange one-sided negotiation, Trump finally came around and said that he would do this debate.
01:07:35.000There was some discussion about the rules and whether microphones would be muted and about podiums, lifts, notes, things like that, but they ironed all of that out.
01:07:46.000They are going to do it tonight, obviously.
01:07:49.000Trump said at one point he was trying to get Kamala to do a Fox News debate on the 3rd.
01:08:59.000But all of the movement in the race began when the primary ended on the Republican side, and when the debate happened between Trump and Biden.
01:09:08.000Trump surged, and his apogee was the failed assassination attempt.
01:09:14.000That was probably the climax, high-water mark, ultimate moment.
01:09:20.000And then I think Trump lost all momentum, all initiative, the following day.
01:09:27.000Or you could say two days later at the start of the convention.
01:09:30.000I think they blundered the convention.
01:11:27.000Microphones muted during the other candidates' turn.
01:11:30.000No audience, no interaction with staff during the breaks.
01:11:35.000The rules are a little bit gay, in my opinion.
01:11:40.000And the reason why I say that is because I feel like Trump's greatest moments was when he was interrupting in the GOP primary debate in 2016.
01:11:55.000I feel like those were his best debates, when he would interrupt and there was a back and forth.
01:12:06.000And here's the other thing which is interesting.
01:12:09.000The Harris campaign insisted that the microphones not be muted.
01:12:15.000It was the Trump campaign that wanted the microphones to be muted.
01:12:21.000And I think that reflects the strategy.
01:12:24.000So to get into the dynamics of the debate, let's talk about the first presidential debate back in June.
01:12:31.000If you compare the first presidential debate between Trump and Biden this year with the first presidential debate between Trump and Biden in 2020, the difference is striking.
01:12:43.000And if you were there in 2020, you know what I'm talking about.
01:12:48.000That was maybe the most aggressive That I have ever seen the president in a primary or general election debate, maybe in any kind of exchange.
01:12:59.000It was extremely hostile, extremely aggressive.
01:13:02.000Trump was very overbearing to the point where it turned a lot of people off.
01:15:18.000And then, a month later during the convention, remember, the campaign leadership said that the message of the Republican convention would be unity.
01:15:28.000They said they're not going to lean in.
01:15:30.000They're not going to divide the country.
01:15:32.000They said they're pushing unity and they're going to bring the country together.
01:15:36.000They're going to use the opportunity to unite everybody.
01:15:40.000And Trump said during his convention speech, he said, I'm not going to say my opponent's name.
01:15:47.000He said, I'm going to say it just this once, but that's it.
01:15:50.000And they insisted there would be no personal attacks.
01:16:51.000And you could say that Trump didn't even win that debate so much as Biden lost it.
01:16:56.000I don't think Trump and go and think back other than what I just said, and maybe the golf back and forth. There were no memorable moments from that
01:17:07.000first debate. There was no grand slam by Trump. There wasn't even a home run. I don't even think
01:17:51.000They're trying to present a mild, low-key Trump who is not radical, right down the middle, like he said, common sense.
01:18:00.000And you can be the judge whether you think that's a good approach or not.
01:18:04.000But a tone shift occurred in the spring, and that affected the debate performance and that affected the convention.
01:18:10.000Now let's talk about the debate tonight.
01:18:13.000I don't think that will serve him well tonight.
01:18:17.000So establishing all of this, Trump's typical instincts in 16, in 2020, and I would say even during this primary, even during this Republican primary for the 2024 cycle, Trump's instinct is to be aggressive.
01:18:33.000His instinct is to be overbearing, over the top, personal attacks, throw everything in the kitchen sink.
01:18:41.000A tone shift occurred, and now they're going laid back.
01:18:46.000That is probably going to be the approach tonight.
01:18:49.000I'm sure that just like they advised him in the first debate and just like they've advised him at the convention and even at the rallies when Trump Trump polls the audience at the rally and says, should I do personal attacks?
01:20:44.000People like Lex Fridman, Fox News, rarely, other than the National Association for Black Journalists and maybe one or two other notable exceptions, he rarely does hostile interviews anymore.
01:20:58.000What's more, he rarely stays on script anymore.
01:21:02.000His RNC speech, the speech he gave at the convention, was sloppy.
01:21:07.000He went off the teleprompter and it was a disaster.
01:23:20.000And I think he knows he's got a problem there and he's making an effort.
01:23:24.000But he's been struggling a little bit.
01:23:27.000And so I think that in this debate tonight, What is going to be make or break for him is if he prepared.
01:23:37.000Because if he goes into this without preparation, like I think he will, like he did in the first debate, like he did at the RNC, I think he is going to get shlonged.
01:23:51.000I think he is going to be woefully unable to counter what Kamala has to say.
01:24:14.000He's lucky that Biden didn't show up that night, because Biden was somewhat competent at the State of the Union, and Biden was somewhat competent at the DNC.
01:24:24.000I mean, he was competent enough, it was passable.
01:24:26.000For some reason, maybe it's a conspiracy, he really didn't show up at that debate, and Trump got lucky.
01:24:33.000Because if Biden showed up, he'd still be in the race.
01:27:21.000That's because women are turning out and they're voting for it.
01:27:24.000So it has become, ever since June 2022, a very thorny issue.
01:27:31.000And it is clear, based on Trump's flip-flop last week on the Florida referendum, on the amendment in their state constitution, it is clear by what Vance said on the Sunday shows a couple weeks ago, they still have not engineered a good answer.
01:27:51.000Vance was asked on one of the Sunday shows, what if a federal abortion ban comes across your desk?
01:28:46.000At the same time, if he doesn't appease the left a little bit, he's going to activate women, and all these women voters are going to turn out, and it's going to be a problem for him.
01:30:17.000It's going to be about You know, but I talked to the women like so-and-so in something Ohio, in Ohio.
01:30:24.000I talked to so-and-so in Ohio who, you know, her life was at risk because of a pregnancy, but the doctor said they couldn't perform it because the radicals on the court overturned Roe.
01:31:18.000The moderators the last time were decent.
01:31:21.000I thought CNN the last time, I never thought I'd say it, they did a great job in June.
01:31:26.000Maybe they'll be fair, but ABC's pretty biased.
01:31:29.000If the moderators are fair, maybe they'll be able to make it stick on Kamala.
01:31:34.000But I'm reminded of the 2012 debate with Obama and Romney.
01:31:40.000The Obama-Romney debate in 2012, it's exactly like this, in the sense that you have an incumbent, the economy sucks, we're basically in a recession, just like we were then.
01:31:54.000In 2012, we were still in a recession.
01:32:20.000You talk about inflation, and they go, uh, yeah, well, technically that number's not right, and blah blah blah.
01:32:30.000They talk about eating the rich, they talk about the rich paying their fair share, they talk about the middle class, And look at what Kamala's doing.
01:32:37.000She's shamelessly ripping all the Trump policies.
01:32:40.000Trump said, I'm going to cut the tax on tips.
01:32:42.000Kamala said, I'm going to cut the tax on tips.
01:32:45.000Trump said, I'm going to cut the corporate tax rate.
01:32:47.000Well, I mean, Kamala said she's going to raise taxes, but not as much as Biden.
01:32:52.000She's going to raise it to 33% on capital gains, and she's going to raise taxes, what is it, 25% on unrealized capital gains for people of $100 million or more, and all this kind of stuff.
01:33:09.000But she is ripping a lot of the policies.
01:33:11.000She's going to talk about price gouging.
01:33:13.000She's going to talk about the Paul Ryan tax cut and how it's for corporations and for the rich, your rich friends, blah, blah.
01:34:28.000But I don't think it's going to be a home run.
01:34:30.000The real opportunity, the one that I know he won't take, is on Gaza.
01:34:35.000Because that is where you can really exploit the cleavage in the Democratic Party.
01:34:40.000Between the radicals, the Muslims who are in Michigan, the progressives, the far left, and the establishment and the Jewish money and Wall Street and Silicon Valley who she's been trying to court.
01:36:07.000So you know that ever since, probably for years, she's been preparing for this, and she did a pretty good job against Mike Pence four years ago.
01:36:46.000He's going to go in running this playbook about no personal attacks and focus on the record and keep it straight down the middle and this and that.
01:42:32.0007777 post on poll 7 sevens God's perfect number God's complete number seven
01:42:42.000sevens and it said Trump will win and you know you could say that's like a
01:42:47.000coincidence you know maybe it was But it was pretty, it was pretty crazy.
01:42:53.000And so anyway, so back in 2016, everybody said it's this guy has some supernatural ability.
01:43:00.000And I, on some level still do believe that like Trump is still able to pull things out, even like the assassination attempt, turning his head.
01:43:11.000And getting grazed by... He bled, so he got hit.
01:43:16.000It's weird that there's no scar, but whatever.
01:43:19.000He got grazed by a bullet, literally because he turned his head like this.
01:43:24.000It was an inch away from blowing up his fucking head on TV.
01:43:28.000Sorry for the language, but what happened?
01:43:32.000Showing a chart with illegal immigration, and then he gets up with the fist out.
01:47:53.000So I would say that I'm going to hedge a little bit and I'm going to say I think it's not going to go well, but I'm going to hedge and say there's always the chance that he could really pull it out and surprise.
01:48:05.000So I wouldn't be totally shocked if that happened, but I think it's not likely.
01:48:10.000That's my—so I'm going to give it—I'm going to say Kamala has like a 70% chance of winning the debate.
01:48:16.000But I want to talk a little bit about some of the betting market stuff.
01:50:47.000If they have not improved, if they haven't written and rehearsed a response on abortion, and if they haven't gamed it out, if they haven't done leveling, and said, you know, if she says this, I say this, and then she'll say this, then I say this, if they haven't done that, He's going to struggle, and it's going to hurt him.
01:51:07.000And it's going to be difficult to win on that one, because you really got to thread the needle to not piss off the Christians, but also not activate the screeching harpies on the left.
02:03:59.000Their first face-to-face meeting in this presidential election.
02:04:02.000Their first face-to-face meeting ever.
02:04:04.000A historic race for president upended just weeks ago.
02:04:07.000President Biden withdrawing after his last debate.
02:04:10.000Donald Trump now up against a new opponent.
02:04:13.000The candidates, separated by the smallest of margins, essentially tied in the polls nationally and in the key battlegrounds, including right here in Pennsylvania, all still very much in play.
02:04:54.000Good evening, I'm David Muir, and thank you for joining us for tonight's ABC News presidential debate.
02:04:58.000We want to welcome viewers watching on ABC and around the world tonight.
02:05:02.000Vice President Kamala Harris and President Donald Trump are just moments away from taking the stage in this unprecedented race for president.
02:06:32.000I want to begin tonight with the issue that voters repeatedly say is their number one issue, and that is the economy and the cost of living in this country.
02:06:39.000Vice President Harris, you and President Trump were elected four years ago, and your opponent on the stage here tonight often asks his supporters, are you better off than you were four years ago?
02:06:49.000When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?
02:06:54.000So, I was raised as a middle class kid.
02:06:58.000And I am actually the only person on this stage who has a plan that is about lifting up the middle class and working people of America.
02:07:06.000I believe in the ambition, the aspirations, the dreams of the American people.
02:07:11.000And that is why I imagine and have actually a plan to build what I call an opportunity economy.
02:07:18.000We know that we have a shortage of homes and housing, and the cost of housing is too expensive for far too many people.
02:07:26.000We know that young families need support to raise their children, and I intend on extending a tax cut for those families of $6,000, which is the largest child tax credit that we have given in a long time, so that those young families can afford to buy a crib, buy a car seat, buy clothes for their children.
02:07:46.000My passion, one of them, is small businesses.
02:07:50.000I was actually, my mother raised my sister and me, but there was a woman who helped raise us.
02:08:00.000My plan is to give a $50,000 tax deduction to startup small businesses, knowing they are part of the backbone of America's economy.
02:08:10.000My opponent, on the other hand, his plan is to do what he has done before.
02:08:14.000Which is to provide a tax cut for billionaires and big corporations, which will result in $5 trillion to America's deficit.
02:08:23.000My opponent has a plan that I call the Trump's sales tax, which would be a 20% tax on everyday goods that you rely on to get through the month.
02:08:33.000Economists have said that that Trump sales tax would actually result for middle class families in about $4,000 more a year because of his policies and his ideas about what should be the backs of middle class people paying for tax cuts for billionaires.
02:08:53.000President Trump, she's nervous. First of all, I have no sales tax. That's an incorrect statement. She knows that
02:08:58.000We're doing tariffs on other countries. Other countries are going to finally after
02:09:03.00075 years pay us back for all that we've done for the world and
02:09:07.000The tariff will be substantial in some cases. I took in billions and billions of dollars as you know from China
02:09:14.000In fact, they never took the tariff off because it was so much money
02:09:17.000They can't it would totally destroy everything that they've set out to do
02:09:21.000They're taking in billions of dollars from China and other places
02:09:24.000They've left the tariffs on when I had it I had tariffs and yet I had no inflation
02:09:28.000look, we've had a Terrible economy because inflation has, which is really known as a country buster.
02:09:37.000We have inflation like very few people have ever seen before.
02:09:40.000Probably the worst in our nation's history.
02:09:43.000We were at 21%, but that's being generous because many things are 50, 60, 70, and 80% higher than they were just a few years ago.
02:09:51.000This has been a disaster for people, for the middle class, but for every class.
02:09:55.000On top of that, we have millions of people pouring into our country from Prisons and jails from mental institutions and insane asylums, and they're coming in and they're taking jobs that are occupied right now by African Americans and Hispanics and also unions.
02:10:13.000Unions are going to be affected very soon.
02:11:23.000What we have done and what I intend to do is build on what we know are the aspirations and the hopes of the American people.
02:11:30.000But I'm going to tell you on this debate tonight, you're going to hear from the same old tired playbook.
02:11:36.000A bunch of lies, grievances, and name-calling.
02:11:39.000What you're going to hear tonight is a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025 that the former president intends on implementing if he were elected to get it.
02:11:51.000I believe very strongly that the American people want a president who understands the importance of bringing us together, knowing we have so much more in common than what separates us, and I pledge to you to be a president for all Americans.
02:12:05.000President Trump will give you a minute here to respond.
02:12:07.000Number one, I have nothing to do, as you know, and as she knows better than anyone, I have
02:13:26.000And when you look at his economic plan, it's all about tax breaks for the richest people.
02:13:31.000I am offering what I describe as an opportunity economy, and the best economists in our country, if not the world, have reviewed our relative plans for the future of America.
02:13:43.000What Goldman Sachs has said is that Donald Trump's plan would make the economy worse, mine would strengthen the economy.
02:13:51.000What the Wharton School has said is Donald Trump's plan would actually explode the deficit.
02:13:58.00016 Nobel laureates have described his economic plan as something that would increase inflation and by the middle of next year would invite a recession.
02:14:09.000You just have to look at where we are and where we stand on the issues.
02:14:13.000And I'd invite you to know that Donald Trump actually has no plan for you because he is more interested in defending himself than he is in looking out for you.
02:14:25.000I went to the Wharton School of Finance and many of those professors, the top professors, think my plan is a brilliant plan.
02:15:07.000The Vice President brought up your tariffs.
02:15:09.000You responded, and let's drill down on this, because your plan is what she calls is essentially a national sales tax.
02:15:16.000Your proposal calls for tariffs, as you pointed out here, on foreign imports across the board.
02:15:19.000You recently said that you might double your plan, imposing tariffs up to 20 percent on goods coming into this country.
02:15:26.000As you know, many economists say that with tariffs at that level, costs are then passed on to the consumer.
02:15:31.000Vice President Harris has argued it'll mean higher prices on gas, food, clothing, medication, arguing it costs the typical family nearly $4,000 a year.
02:15:40.000Do you believe Americans can afford higher prices because of tariffs?
02:15:43.000They're not going to have higher prices.
02:15:45.000What's going to happen, who's going to have higher prices, is China and all of the countries that have been ripping us off for years.
02:15:52.000I charge, I was the only president ever China was paying us hundreds of billions of dollars and so were other countries and you know if she doesn't like them they should have gone out and they should have immediately cut the tariffs but those tariffs are there three and a half years now under their administration.
02:16:08.000We are going to take in billions Billions of dollars.
02:16:52.000Well, let's be clear that the Trump administration resulted in a trade deficit, one of the highest we've ever seen in the history of America.
02:17:02.000You want to talk about his deal with China, what he ended up doing is under Donald Trump's presidency, he ended up selling American chips to China.
02:17:13.000To help them improve and modernize their military, basically sold us out, when a policy about China should be in making sure the United States of America wins the competition for the 21st century.
02:17:27.000Which means focusing on the details of what that requires.
02:17:31.000Focusing on relationships with our allies.
02:17:33.000Focusing on investing in American-based technology, so that we win the race on AI, on quantum computing.
02:17:40.000Focusing on what we need to do to support America's workforce so that we don't end up having, on the short end of the stick, in terms of workers' rights.
02:17:51.000But what Donald Trump did, let's talk about this, with COVID, is he actually thanked President Xi.
02:18:44.000Her father's a Marxist professor in economics, and he taught her well.
02:18:48.000But when you look at what she's done to our country, and when you look at these millions and millions of people that are pouring into our country monthly, where it's, I believe, 21 million people, not the 15 that people say.
02:19:01.000I think it's a lot higher than the 21.
02:19:03.000That's bigger than New York State pouring in.
02:19:05.000And just look at what they're doing to our country.
02:20:23.000They even have, and you can look at the governor of West Virginia, the previous governor of West Virginia, not the current governor who's doing an excellent job, but the governor before.
02:20:32.000He said the baby will be born and we will decide what to do with the baby.
02:20:36.000In other words, we'll execute the baby.
02:20:38.000And that's why I did that, because that predominates.
02:21:36.000But we were able to get it, and now states are voting on it.
02:21:40.000And for the first time, you're going to see.
02:21:42.000Look, this is an issue that's torn our country apart for 52 years.
02:21:48.000Every legal scholar, every Democrat, every Republican, liberal, conservative, they all wanted this issue to be brought back to the states where the people could vote.
02:22:38.000Donald Trump hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they would undo the protections of Roe v. Wade.
02:23:20.000And one does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree.
02:23:26.000The government and Donald Trump certainly should not be telling a woman what to do with her body.
02:23:33.000I have talked with women around our country.
02:23:36.000You want to talk about this is what people wanted?
02:23:39.000Pregnant women who want to carry a pregnancy to term, suffering from a miscarriage, being denied care in an emergency room because the healthcare providers are afraid they might go to jail, and she's bleeding out in a car in the parking lot?
02:24:06.000And I pledge to you, when Congress passes a bill to put back in place the protections of Roe v. Wade as President of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law.
02:24:18.000But understand, if Donald Trump were to be re-elected, he will sign a national abortion ban.
02:24:25.000Understand, in his Project 2025, there would be a national abortion monitor that would be monitoring your pregnancies, your miscarriages.
02:24:33.000I think the American people believe that certain freedoms, in particular the freedom to make
02:24:39.000decisions about one's own body, should not be made by the government.
02:25:21.000And as far as the abortion ban, no, I'm not in favor of abortion ban, but it doesn't matter because this issue has now been taken over by the states.
02:25:29.000Would you veto a national abortion ban if it came to your desk?
02:25:31.000Well, I won't have to because, again, two things.
02:25:34.000Number one, she said she'll go back to Congress.
02:27:05.000But the fact is that for years they wanted to get it out of Congress and out of the federal government.
02:27:10.000And we did something that everybody said couldn't be done.
02:27:13.000And now you have a vote of the people on abortion.
02:27:16.000Vice President Harris, I want to give you your time to respond, but I do want to ask, would you support any restrictions on women's rights?
02:27:22.000You need to be prepared for that question.
02:27:24.000I absolutely support reinstating the protections of Roe v. Wade and as you rightly mentioned, nowhere in America Is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion.
02:27:57.000Working people, working women, who are working one or two jobs, who can barely afford child care as it is, have to travel to another state to get on a plane sitting next to strangers to go and get the health care she needs.
02:28:15.000You barely can afford to do it, and what you are putting her through is unconscionable.
02:28:22.000And the people of America have not—the majority of Americans believe in a woman's right to make decisions about her own body, and that is why, in every state where this issue has been on the ballot, in red and blue states both, the people of America have voted for freedom.
02:28:50.000In fact, when they got a very negative decision on IVF from the Alabama courts, I saw the people of Alabama and the legislature two days later voted it in.
02:29:40.000We're going to turn now to immigration and border security.
02:29:42.000We know it's an issue that's important to Republicans, Democrats, voters across the board in this country.
02:29:48.000Vice President Harris, you were tasked by President Biden with getting to the root causes of migration from Central America.
02:29:54.000We know that illegal border crossings reached a record high in the Biden administration.
02:29:58.000This past June, President Biden imposed tough new asylum restrictions.
02:30:02.000We know the numbers since then have dropped significantly.
02:30:05.000But my question to you tonight is, why did the administration wait until six months before the election to act?
02:30:11.000And would you have done anything differently from President Biden on this?
02:30:14.000So I'm the only person on this stage who has prosecuted transnational criminal organizations for the trafficking of guns, drugs, and human beings.
02:30:23.000And let me say that the United States Congress, including some of the most conservative members of the United States Senate, came up with a border security bill, which I supported.
02:30:35.000And that bill would have put 1,500 more border agents on the border to help those folks who are working there right now, over time, trying to do their job.
02:30:44.000It would have allowed us to stem the flow of fentanyl coming into the United States.
02:30:50.000I know there are so many families watching tonight who have been personally affected by the surge of fentanyl in our country.
02:30:56.000That bill would have put more resources to allow us to prosecute transnational criminal organizations for trafficking in guns, drugs, and human beings.
02:31:05.000But you know what happened to that bill?
02:31:07.000Donald Trump got on the phone, called up some folks in Congress, and said, kill the bill.
02:31:14.000Because he'd prefer to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem.
02:31:19.000And understand, this comes at a time where the people of our country actually need a leader who engages in solutions, who actually addresses the problems at hand.
02:31:32.000But what we have in the former president is someone who would prefer to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem.
02:31:38.000And I'll tell you something, he's going to talk about immigration a lot tonight, even when it's not the subject that is being raised.
02:31:44.000And I'm going to actually do something really unusual, and I'm going to invite you to attend one of Donald Trump's rallies, because it's a really interesting thing to watch.
02:31:52.000You will see during the course of his rallies, he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter.
02:31:58.000He will talk about when mills cause cancer.
02:32:01.000And what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom.
02:32:07.000And I will tell you the one thing you will not hear him talk about is you.
02:32:11.000You will not hear him talk about your needs, your dreams, and your desires.
02:32:16.000And I'll tell you, I believe you deserve a president who actually puts you first.
02:32:26.000Let me just ask, though, why did you try to kill that bill, and successfully so, that would have put thousands of additional agents and officers on the border?
02:32:33.000First, let me respond as to the rallies.
02:34:44.000You know, this is, I think, one of the reasons why in this election I actually have the endorsement of 200 Republicans who have formally worked with President Bush, Mitt Romney, and John McCain, including the endorsement of former Vice President Dick Cheney and Congress member Liz Cheney.
02:35:07.000And if you want to really know the inside track on who the former president is, if he didn't make it clear already, just ask people who have worked with him.
02:35:17.000His former chief of staff, a four-star general, has said he has contempt for the Constitution of the United States.
02:35:23.000His former national security advisor has said he is dangerous and unfit.
02:35:28.000His former Secretary of Defense has said the nation, the republic, would never survive another Trump term.
02:35:37.000And when we listen to this kind of rhetoric, when the issues that affect the American people are not being addressed, I think the choice is clear in this election.
02:35:48.000President Trump, I'll give you a quick minute to respond.
02:36:04.000They didn't fire anybody having to do with Afghanistan and the Taliban and the 13 people who were just killed, viciously and violently killed.
02:36:13.000And I got to know the parents and the family.
02:36:16.000They should have fired all those generals, all those top people, because that was one of the most incompetently handled situations anybody has ever seen.
02:36:25.000So when somebody does a bad job, I'd fire him.
02:37:16.000operation in the history of our country. You say you would use the National Guard, you say if
02:37:20.000things get out of control you'd have no problem using the US military. You also
02:37:24.000said you would use local police. How would you deport 11 million undocumented
02:37:30.000immigrants? I know you you believe that number is much higher. Take us through this.
02:37:33.000Undocumented immigrants. What does this look like? Will authorities be going door-to-door in this country?
02:37:37.000Yeah. It is much higher because of them.
02:37:40.000They allowed criminals, many many millions of criminals, they allowed terrorists, they allowed common street criminals, they allowed people to come in, drug dealers to come into our country and they're now in the United States and told by their countries like Venezuela Don't ever come back or we're going to kill you.
02:37:59.000Do you know that crime in Venezuela and crime in countries all over the world is way down?
02:38:06.000Because they've taken their criminals off the street and they've given them to her to put into our country.
02:38:12.000And this will be one of the greatest mistakes in history for them to allow, and I think they probably did it because they think they're going to get votes, but it's not worth it.
02:38:22.000Because they're destroying the fabric of our country by what they've done.
02:38:26.000There's never been anything done like this at all.
02:38:29.000They've destroyed the fabric of our country.
02:39:30.000And his next big court appearance is in November at his own criminal sentencing.
02:39:35.000And let's be clear where each person stands on the issue of what is important about respect
02:39:42.000for the rule of law and respect for law enforcement.
02:39:45.000The former vice president called for defunding federal law enforcement, 45,000 agents, get this, on the day after he was arraigned on 34 felony counts.
02:39:58.000So let's talk about what is important in this race.
02:41:33.000A really quick response here, Vice President Harris, on this notion of weaponization of the Justice Department.
02:41:37.000Well, let's talk about extreme and understand the context in which this election in 2024 is taking place.
02:41:43.000The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that the former president would essentially be immune from any misconduct if he were to enter the White House again.
02:41:54.000Understand this is someone who has openly said he would terminate, I'm quoting, terminate
02:42:00.000the Constitution of the United States.
02:42:02.000That he would weaponize the Department of Justice against his political enemies.
02:42:08.000Someone who has openly expressed disdain for members of our military.
02:42:14.000Understand what it would mean if Donald Trump were back in the White House with no guardrails.
02:42:20.000Because certainly we know now the court won't stop him.
02:43:08.000I know you say that your values have not changed.
02:43:11.000So then why have so many of your policy positions changed?
02:43:14.000So my values have not changed and I'm going to discuss every one of the at least every point that you've made but in particular let's talk about fracking because we're here in Pennsylvania.
02:43:27.000I have not banned fracking as Vice President of the United States and in fact I was the tie-breaking vote on the Inflation Reduction Act which opened new leases for fracking.
02:43:38.000My position is that we have got to invest in diverse sources of energy so we reduce our reliance on foreign oil.
02:43:47.000We have had the largest increase in domestic oil production in history because of an approach that recognizes that we cannot over-rely on foreign oil.
02:44:00.000As it relates to my values, let me tell you, I grew up a middle-class kid raised by a hard-working mother.
02:44:06.000Who worked and saved and was able to buy our first home when I was a teenager.
02:44:11.000The values I bring to the importance of home ownership knowing not everybody got handed 400 million dollars on a silver platter and then filed bankruptcy six times.
02:44:21.000Is a value that I bring to my work to say we are going to work with the private sector and home builders to increase three million homes, increased by three million homes by the end of my first term.
02:44:33.000My work that is related to having a friend when I was in high school who was sexually assaulted by her stepfather.
02:44:40.000And my focus then on protecting women and children from violent crime is based on a value that is deeply grounded in the importance of standing up for those who are most vulnerable.
02:44:51.000My work that is about protecting Social Security and Medicare is based on long-standing work that I have done protecting seniors from scams.
02:45:03.000And what is important is that there is a president who actually brings values and a perspective that is about lifting people up and not beating people down and name-calling.
02:45:16.000The true measure of the leader is the leader who actually understands the strength is not
02:45:23.000in beating people down, it's in lifting people up.
02:48:00.000And I want to talk about the peaceful transfer of power, which of course we all know is a cornerstone of our democracy and the role of a president in a moment of crisis.
02:48:08.000Mr. President, on January 6th, you told your supporters to march to the Capitol.
02:48:12.000You said you would be right there with them.
02:48:14.000The country and the world saw what played out at the Capitol that day.
02:51:17.000On that day, 140 law enforcement officers were injured, and some died.
02:51:23.000And understand, the former president has been indicted and impeached for exactly that reason.
02:51:30.000But this is not an isolated situation.
02:51:33.000Let's remember Charlottesville, where there was a mob of people carrying tiki torches, spewing anti-Semitic hate And what did the president then at the time say?
02:52:15.000And if that was a bridge too far for you, well, there is a place in our campaign for you to stand for country, to stand for our democracy, to stand for rule of law, and to end the chaos And to end the approach that is about attacking the foundations of our democracy because you don't like the outcome.
02:52:42.000Donald Trump, the candidate, has said in this election there will be a bloodbath if this and the outcome of this election is not to his liking.
02:53:42.000And I'll tell you what I would do, and I would be very proud to do it.
02:53:45.000I would say we would both leave this debate right now.
02:53:49.000I'd like to see her go down To Washington, D.C., during this debate, because we're wasting a lot of time, go down to- because she's been so bad, it's so ridiculous- go down to Washington, D.C., and let her sign a bill to close up the border.
02:54:06.000The President of the United States- you'll get him out of bed, you'll wake him up at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, you'll say, come on, come on down to the office, let's sign a bill.
02:54:15.000If he signs a bill that the border is closed, all he has to do is say it to the border patrol, who are phenomenal.
02:54:21.000If they do that, the border is closed.
02:54:24.000Those people are killing many people, unlike J6.
02:54:28.000I do want to focus on this next issue to both of you, because it really brings us this into focus.
02:54:33.000Truth in these times that we're living in.
02:54:36.000Mr. President, for three and a half years after you lost the 2020 election, you repeatedly falsely claimed that you won, many times saying you won in a landslide.
02:54:44.000In the past couple of weeks leading up to this debate, you have said, quote, you lost by a whisker, that you, quote, didn't quite make it, that you came up a little bit short.
02:55:52.000And we should just point out here as clarification, and you know this, you and your allies, 60 cases in front of many judges, many of them Republican.
02:56:15.000If you look at the facts, and I'd love to have you do a special on it, I'll show you Georgia, and I'll show you Wisconsin, and I'll show you Pennsylvania, and I'll show you... We have so many facts and statistics, but you know what?
02:56:52.000That was won by President Biden and yourself.
02:56:55.000But I do want to ask you about something that's come up in the last couple of days.
02:56:58.000This was a post from President Trump about this upcoming election just weeks away.
02:57:03.000He said, when I win, those people who cheated, and then he lists donors, voters, election officials, he says will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, which will include long-term prison sentences.
02:57:14.000One of your campaign's top lawyers responded saying, we won't let Donald Trump intimidate us, we won't let him suppress the vote.
02:57:21.000Is that what you believe he's trying to do here?
02:57:24.000Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people.
02:57:28.000So let's be clear about that and clearly he is having a very difficult time processing that.
02:57:33.000But we cannot afford to have a President of the United States who attempts, as he did in the past, to upend the will of the voters in a free and fair election.
02:57:46.000And I'm going to tell you that I have traveled the world as Vice President of the United States, and world leaders are laughing at Donald Trump.
02:57:56.000I have talked with military leaders, some of whom worked with you, and they say you're a disgrace.
02:58:02.000And when you then talk in this way in a presidential debate and deny what over and over again are court cases you have lost because you did in fact lose that election, it leads one to believe that perhaps we do not have in the candidate to my right the temperament Or the ability to not be confused about fact.
02:58:29.000That's deeply troubling, and the American people deserve better.
02:58:33.000I'll give you one minute to respond, Mr. President.
02:58:34.000Let me just tell you about world leaders.
02:58:36.000Viktor Orban, one of the most respected men.
02:59:28.000He said the most respected, most feared person is Donald Trump.
02:59:33.000We had no problems when Trump was president, but when this weak, pathetic man that you saw at a debate just a few months ago, that if he weren't in that debate, he'd be running instead of her.
03:01:32.000And the way it will end is we need a ceasefire deal and we need the hostages out.
03:01:38.000And so we will continue to work around the clock on that.
03:01:42.000Work around the clock, also understanding that we must chart a course for a two-state solution.
03:01:48.000And in that solution, there must be security for the Israeli people and Israel, and an equal measure for the Palestinians.
03:01:57.000But the one thing I will assure you always, I will always give Israel the ability to defend itself, in particular as it relates to Iran, and any threat that Iran and its proxies pose to Israel.
03:02:11.000But we must have a two-state solution where we can rebuild Gaza, where the Palestinians have security, self-determination, and the dignity they so rightly deserve.
03:02:22.000President Trump, how would you negotiate with Netanyahu and also Hamas in order to get the hostages out and prevent the killing of more innocent civilians in Gaza?
03:02:32.000If I were president, it would have never started.
03:02:35.000If I were president, Russia would have never, ever, I know Putin very well, he would have never, and there was no threat of it either, by the way, for four years, have gone into Ukraine and killed millions of people when you added up.
03:02:48.000Far worse than people understand what's going on over there.
03:02:51.000But when she mentions about Israel, all of a sudden she hates Israel.
03:02:56.000She wouldn't even meet with Netanyahu when he went to Congress to make a very important speech.
03:03:02.000She refused to be there because she was at a sorority party of hers.
03:03:05.000She wanted to go to the sorority party.
03:05:41.000That is why we understand that we have to have a president who is not consistently weak and wrong on national security, including the importance of upholding and respecting in highest regard our military.
03:06:30.000Why does Biden go in and kill the Keystone Pipeline and approve the single biggest deal that Russia's ever made, Nord Stream 2, the biggest pipeline anywhere in the world going to Germany and all over Europe?
03:06:42.000Because they're weak and they're ineffective.
03:06:45.000And Biden, by the way, gets paid a lot of money.
03:06:49.000We'll be right back with much more of this historic ABC News presidential debate from the National Constitution Center right here in Philadelphia.
03:12:36.000It's so much worse than the numbers that you're getting, which are fake numbers.
03:12:41.000Look, We're in for 250 billion or more because they don't ask Europe, which is a much bigger beneficiary to getting this thing done than we are.
03:12:52.000They're in for 150 billion dollars less because Biden and you don't have the courage to ask Europe like I did with NATO.
03:13:01.000They paid billions and billions, hundreds of billions of dollars when I said Either you pay up or we're not going to protect you anymore.
03:13:08.000So that's maybe one of the reasons they don't like me as much as they like weak people.
03:13:13.000But you take a look at what's happening.
03:15:36.000I actually met with Zelensky a few days before Russia invaded, tried through force to change territorial boundaries, to defy one of the most important international rules and norms, which is the importance of sovereignty and territorial integrity.
03:15:53.000the rules-based order. And I met with President Zelensky. I shared with him American intelligence
03:15:58.000about how he could defend himself. Days later, I went to NATO's eastern flank,
03:16:02.000to Poland and Romania. And through the work that I and others did, we brought 50 countries together
03:16:09.000to support Ukraine in its righteous defense. And because of our support, because of the air
03:16:17.000defense, the ammunition, the artillery, the Javelins, the Abrams tanks that we have provided,
03:16:23.000Ukraine stands as an independent and free country.
03:16:27.000If Donald Trump were president, Putin would be sitting in Kiev right now.
03:16:31.000And understand what that would mean, because Putin's agenda is not just about Ukraine.
03:16:37.000Understand why the European allies and our NATO allies are so thankful that you are no longer president and that we understand the importance of the greatest military alliance the world has ever known, which is NATO.
03:16:52.000And what we have done to preserve the ability of Zelensky and the Ukrainians to fight for their independence.
03:16:59.000Otherwise, Putin would be sitting in Kiev with his eyes on the rest of Europe, starting with Poland.
03:17:06.000And why don't you tell the 800,000 Polish-Americans right here in Pennsylvania how quickly you would give up for the sake of favor and what you think is a friendship with what is known to be a dictator who would eat you for lunch.
03:20:49.000It came up in the first hour of the debate and we witnessed a poignant moment today on Capitol Hill honoring the soldiers who died in the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
03:20:57.000I do want to ask the Vice President, do you believe you bear any responsibility in the way that withdrawal played out?
03:21:04.000Well, I will tell you, I agreed with President Biden's decision to pull out of Afghanistan.
03:21:09.000Four presidents said they would, and Joe Biden did.
03:21:13.000And as a result, America's taxpayers are not paying the $300 million a day we were paying for that endless war.
03:21:21.000And as of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world the first time this century.
03:21:33.000But let's understand how we got to where we are.
03:21:37.000Donald Trump, when he was president, negotiated one of the weakest deals you can imagine.
03:22:07.000And the president at the time invited the Taliban to Camp David.
03:22:13.000a place of storied significance for us as Americans.
03:22:17.000A place where we honor the importance of American diplomacy, where we invite and receive respected world leaders.
03:22:26.000And this former president, as president, invited them to Camp David
03:22:35.000because he does not again appreciate the role and responsibility
03:22:41.000of the President of the United States to be Commander-in-Chief with a level of respect.
03:22:48.000And this gets back to the point of how he has consistently disparaged and demeaned members of our military, fallen soldiers, And the work that we must do to uphold the strength and the respect of the United States of America around the world.
03:24:21.000Determinated by us because they didn't do what they were supposed to do
03:24:26.000I want to move and these people did the worst Withdrawal and in my opinion the most embarrassing moment
03:24:32.000in the history of our country and by the way That's why Russia attacked Ukraine because they saw how
03:24:37.000incompetent she and her boss are President Trump. Thank you I want to move on now to race and politics in this country
03:24:45.000Mr. President, you recently said of Vice President Harris, quote, I didn't know she was black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn black, and now she wants to be known as black.
03:25:32.000I think it's a tragedy that we have someone who wants to be president who has consistently, over the course of his career, attempted to use race to divide the American people.
03:25:48.000You know, I do believe that the vast majority of us know that we have so much more in common than what separates us, and we don't want this kind of approach that is just constantly trying to divide us, and especially by race.
03:25:59.000And let's remember how Donald Trump started.
03:26:02.000He was a land, he owned land, he owned buildings, and he was investigated because he refused to rent.
03:27:03.000We don't want a leader who is constantly trying to have Americans point their fingers at each other.
03:27:10.000I meet with people all the time who tell me, can we please just have discourse about how we're going to invest in the aspirations and the ambitions and the dreams of the American people?
03:27:24.000Knowing that regardless of people's color or the language their grandmother speaks, we all have the same dreams and aspirations and want a president who invests in those, not in hate and division.
03:27:38.000President Trump, this is now your third time.
03:27:41.000This is the most divisive presidency In the history of our country, there's never been anything like it.
03:27:48.000They're destroying our country, and they come up with things like what she just said.
03:27:55.000Going back many, many years, when a lot of people, including Mayor Bloomberg, agreed with me on the Central Park Five, they admitted, they said, they pled guilty.
03:28:04.000And I said, well, if they pled guilty, they'd badly hurt a person, killed a person, ultimately.
03:28:09.000And if they pled guilty, then they pled.
03:29:55.000That is about allowing people to be able to pursue what has been fleeting in terms of the American dream by offering a help with down payment of $25,000 down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers.
03:30:09.000That's the kind of conversation, I believe, David, that people really want tonight as opposed to a conversation that is constantly about belittling and name-calling.
03:32:18.000But it's still never going to be great, and it's too expensive for people.
03:32:23.000And what we will do is we're looking at different plans.
03:32:27.000If we can come up with a plan that's going to cost our people, our population, less money and be better healthcare than Obamacare, then I would absolutely do it.
03:32:37.000But until then, I'd run it as good as it can be run.
03:32:40.000So, just a yes or no, you still do not have a plan?
03:32:47.000But if we come up with something, I would only change it if we come up with something that's better and less expensive.
03:32:54.000And there are concepts and options we have to do that.
03:32:58.000And you'll be hearing about it in the not-too-distant future.
03:33:01.000Vice President Harris, in 2017, you supported Bernie Sanders' proposal to do away with private insurance and create a government-run healthcare system.
03:33:09.000Two years later, you proposed a plan that included a private insurance option.
03:33:54.000I was a senator at the time when, I will never forget the early morning hours when it was up for a vote in the United States Senate, and the late, great John McCain, who you have disparaged, as being a you don't like him you said at the time because
03:34:14.000he got caught he was an American hero the late great John McCain I will never
03:34:18.000forget that John McCain walked onto the Senate floor and said no you don't
03:34:24.000no you don't No, you don't get rid of the Affordable Care Act.
03:34:29.000And what the Affordable Care Act has done is eliminate the ability of insurance companies to deny people with pre-existing conditions.
03:34:37.000I don't have to tell the people watching tonight, you remember what that was like?
03:34:41.000Remember when an insurance company could deny If a child had asthma, if someone was a breast cancer survivor, if a grandparent had diabetes, and thankfully, as I've been vice president and we over the last four years have strengthened the Affordable Care Act, we have allowed for the first time Medicare to negotiate drug prices on behalf of you, the American people.
03:35:04.000Donald Trump said he was going to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices.
03:36:20.000We have another issue that we'd like to get to that's important for a number of Americans, in particular younger voters, and that's climate change.
03:36:26.000President Trump, with regard to the environment, you say that we have to have clean air and clean water.
03:36:31.000Vice President Harris, you call climate change an existential threat.
03:36:36.000The question to you both tonight is what would you do to fight climate change?
03:36:40.000And Vice President Harris, we'll start with you.
03:36:43.000Well, the former president had said that climate change is a hoax.
03:36:48.000And what we know is that it is very real.
03:36:50.000You ask anyone who lives in a state who has experienced these extreme weather occurrences, who now is either being denied home insurance or is being jacked up, you ask anybody who has been the victim of what that means in terms of losing their home,
03:37:42.000And I'm also proud to have the endorsement of the United Auto Workers and Sean Fain, who also know that part of building a clean energy economy includes investing in American-made products, American automobiles, it includes growing what we can do around American manufacturing and
03:38:02.000opening up auto plants, not closing them like happened under Donald Trump.
03:38:16.000They're building big auto plants in Mexico, in many cases owned by China.
03:38:22.000They're building these massive plants and they think they're going to sell their cars
03:38:25.000into the United States because of these people.
03:38:29.000What they have given to China is unbelievable, but we're not going to let that.
03:38:33.000We'll put tariffs on those cars so they can't come into our country because they will kill the United Auto Workers and any auto worker, whether it's in Detroit or South Carolina or any other place.
03:38:44.000What they've done to business and manufacturing in this country is Horrible.
03:40:32.000They said, what's your plan to replace Obamacare?
03:40:36.000Because all the Republicans just said repeal.
03:40:39.000Trump said, we're going to repeal it and replace it with something better.
03:40:43.000And I forget which one it was, but they said, what will you replace it with?
03:40:47.000And Trump said, well, we'll get rid of the lines around the states, meaning they'll open it up so insurance companies can compete in different states.
03:40:55.000And they said, well, that's not a plan.
03:44:58.000And a vision of that includes having a plan, understanding the aspirations, the dreams, the hopes, the ambition of the American people, which is why I intend to create An opportunity economy, investing in small businesses, in new families, in what we can do around protecting seniors, what we can do that is about giving hard-working folks a break and bringing down the cost of living.
03:45:26.000I believe in what we can do together that is about sustaining America's standing in the world and ensuring that we have the respect that we so rightly deserve, including respecting our military and ensuring we have the most lethal fighting force in the world.
03:45:44.000I will be a president that will protect our fundamental rights and freedoms, including the right of a woman to make decisions about her own body and not have her government tell her what to do.
03:45:54.000I'll tell you, I started my career as a prosecutor.
03:45:57.000I was a DA, I was an Attorney General, a United States Senator, and now Vice President.
03:46:05.000And I'll tell you, as a prosecutor, I never asked a victim or a witness, are you a Republican or a Democrat?
03:46:12.000The only thing I ever asked them, are you okay?
03:46:16.000And that's the kind of president we need right now.
03:46:19.000Someone who cares about you and is not putting themselves first.
03:46:24.000I intend to be a president for all Americans and focus on what we can do over the next 10 and 20 years to build back up our country by investing right now in you, the American people.
03:47:02.000She should leave right now, go down to that beautiful White House, go to the Capitol, get everyone together and do the things you want to do, but you haven't done it and you won't do it.
03:47:12.000Because you believe in things that the American people don't believe in.
03:47:16.000You believe in things like we're not going to frack.
03:53:47.000And she's the opposite, too much estrogen.
03:53:50.000Too much school marm, too much, you know, it's giving grade school principal, it's giving like, you know, cat lady, it's giving nagging bitch, okay?
03:54:02.000So, you know, I think it's sort of unfortunate because Trump did good.
03:54:07.000If I were to give him a grade, I would give him like a, I'd probably give him like a B minus or a C plus, but there's no reason it shouldn't have been a grand slam.
03:54:18.000And the only reason it's not a grand slam is because he just refuses to do anything technical.
03:54:46.000And I really believe that if he were to really lock in and write some of this stuff out, rehearse an answer, get some new talking points, get a little script going, I think it could do a lot for him.
03:55:01.000But it's like I said at the beginning, that's just not him.
03:55:08.000It makes him vulnerable on things like health care when he had no response, on things like abortion when he, you know, he trudged through it and he...
03:55:17.000He said his thing about late-term abortions.
03:55:20.000I don't think anyone's convinced by that.
03:55:25.000He got mired in kind of a difficult thing in the middle there, where they asked him would he veto a ban, and he's contradicting Vance and says, well, we didn't talk about it.
03:55:35.000And then he got out sort of at the end by asking her if she would allow a late-term abortion.
03:59:32.000And what he lacks always is taking the bait.
03:59:36.000They cut him and then he's just then it's off to the races and there he goes and sometimes it's good and when it's good it's really good but I fear that about half the time and it seems like more now a lot of the time It's just kind of confusing and meandering and sloppy and you're kind of scratching your head thinking, what is he saying?
03:59:58.000And he's leaving so much on the table, a lot of missed opportunities to really land some serious blows.
04:02:00.000And sometimes it's a little too much, and it's a little overbearing, because there's no discipline.
04:02:06.000And like I said, sometimes he's overheating, he feels himself too much, and he walks right into traps.
04:02:11.000He takes the bait, and he's undisciplined, and like I said, sometimes he can't get out of his own way with the ego trip, and it's very flawed, it's imperfect.
04:02:22.000The question is, does it, is it gonna work?
04:04:18.000If it's Trump being muted and being gay and being lame versus him being too big and too over the top, I prefer too big and over the top because we can always sculpt that.
04:05:25.000And so that's just kind of what we have to work with.
04:05:31.000And so if you could pick, is he gonna do no personal attacks and talk only about the economy, and he's gonna be very laid back, or is he gonna be big and loud and, you know, very messy and very sloppy and take some hits but also deal a lot of damage?
04:08:10.000So, you know, my critiques, I could be picky and I could be, you know, I could give a very technical critique of every little thing and missed opportunity because I hear it all and I see it all.
04:08:23.000But this is the guy that's going to win.
04:10:10.000In terms of the bad, sloppy, unprepared, disorganized, leaving a lot of stuff on the table, in terms of the stuff on Ukraine, could have really had a far better technical attack.
04:10:27.000You know, he's relying on these kind of quips and funny shit.
04:10:31.000He really needs to turn on and build a monologue.
04:10:38.000He needs to write a truly masterful script on these issues.
04:10:43.000Something like, because he's got it on inflation, on the border, on Ukraine.
04:10:48.000There's really so much untapped potential there.
04:10:52.000If he were just to sit down and write out a monologue that crescendos and hits all the right notes with flair.
04:11:00.000and with the facts, he could do like the knockout punch heard around the world, I swear to you.
04:11:07.000If he had the kind of discipline to rehearse and write a script with his flair and with
04:11:13.000his boldness and outrage, it would be the knockout punch heard around the world.
04:11:18.000If he could just write something and crescendo and take advantage of the time, you know,
04:13:22.000It's everything we hate about the Democrats.
04:13:26.000You know, and the thing is, it's so funny, Joe Biden would probably be, I know this is like, a lot of people don't believe me, but Joe Biden probably would have been their best bet.
04:14:54.000The only people that don't know it are like racial minorities, women, and stupid kids.
04:15:02.000Those are the only people buying in with the Democrats anymore.
04:15:06.000Those are the only people that are throwing in with the Democrats.
04:15:10.000It's minorities voting based on their race because they think Republicans are white racists.
04:15:16.000It's stupid ass kids who are, they're either, you know, psycho women because all the Gen Z women are insufferable bitches and the pussified men.
04:15:27.000And then it's all the like over-educated, professional, managerial class that are, you know, oh, Trump is so uncouth.
04:15:41.000Those are like the only people that are buying in.
04:15:44.000It's like, talk about a basket of deplorables.
04:15:47.000It's like the most insufferable people that are ruining America.
04:15:51.000Those are the ones throwing in with Kamala.
04:15:54.000It's the people that just hate whites, they hate our country, they're super gay, you know, they want Kamala because she's like a boss bitch, she's campy, whatever, you know, she's brat.
04:16:06.000That's all she, because, mark my words, you show that performance to any white guy, any white guy with balls just like can't listen to that for five seconds.
04:16:16.000So, that's how I feel, but you know what?
04:16:27.000Women are really screwed up right now.
04:16:30.000They're screwed up, they're unpleasant, they're annoying, and a lot of women, they do look at Trump as like a predator, because they're all obsessed with sexual abuse.
04:16:41.000S.A., he S.A'd a woman, he graped a woman, And she unalived herself.
04:17:03.000A lot of women say, well, I don't hate men.
04:17:07.000It's like, yeah, maybe you don't hate men, but you hate everything about a man that makes him a man.
04:17:15.000All your favorite guys, your funny uncle, your grandfather who's rough around the edges, who's a little racist, guys like Trump, guys like Alex Jones, guys like Elon Musk, those are guys.
04:17:29.000And the things That women hate about them are what make them guys.
04:17:35.000So, you know, every woman in America today is like, I don't hate, I'm not a, I'm not a man hating bitch, but you know, Trump is just creepy and weird and he's a bully and he's this and it's like, okay, so you hate everything that makes him a guy.
04:20:23.000If I were to compare it to any of the debates of the past 10 years, I would compare it to The first debate between Trump and Hillary, which focus groups said Trump won.
04:20:35.000And they actually did an experiment at a university where they had a guy stand in as Hillary Clinton and a woman stand in as Trump.
04:20:46.000This was an experiment they did back in 16 to see if gender played a role.
04:20:52.000And a focus group said, just based on, and the actors imitated, a woman imitated Trump and a man imitated Clinton, they went with the woman.
04:21:03.000Just pound for pound, based on what was said.
04:21:05.000And even the approach, because the actors acted like the candidates.
04:21:10.000And so if I were to compare it to any performance out of the three Trump-Hillary debates, or the three Trump-Biden debates spread across 2020 and 2024, I think it was most similar to the first presidential debate in 16 where Trump was very aggressive, hit her on her record.
04:21:30.000She was kind of caught off guard, a little bit rattled because she's a woman.
04:21:34.000And, you know, I think Kamala is not really a national figure quite.
04:25:41.000Now, but eventually, you know, he's got a thing that other people lost 300,000 men and women, but he would have been sitting in my scout quiet place.
04:29:31.000You don't get, you know, Keith hates Trump, so he doesn't get to enjoy, you know, Keith hates America, and Keith hates Trump, so there's something a little off when he's like celebrating these moments.
04:29:41.000They're not, you know, they really shouldn't be his, because he hates America secretly, and he hates Trump.
04:29:48.000Because he's all about the third world and, you know, these smaller countries.
04:33:00.000None of these kind of whoppers that the vice president was saying, and none of her failure to really explain that, answer that first question, that very, very critical first question.
04:33:12.000They simply sat there on the sidelines and allowed that to pass.
04:33:18.000Fortunately, we had- Okay, he didn't evis- The street said he eviscerated that.
04:36:36.000I thought that was my best debate ever since it was three on one.
04:36:40.000It was, I don't think it was as good as the second one with Hillary, but I would agree it was definitely up there.
04:36:47.000I would say it's probably like Hillary 2.
04:36:54.000I would say it's probably Hillary 2, maybe Hillary 1, and then this one.
04:37:01.000I think this one is definitely in the top three of all time out of general election, not primary.
04:37:07.000I don't think those count because it's too complicated.
04:37:09.000But out of the three debates with Clinton, the three debates with Biden, the one with Kamala, I think it's either number two or number three.
04:40:44.000I think I would rather be subject—well, I don't want to, you know, knock on wood, because, like, someone would, but, like, torture would be preferable to the RNC and the DNC combined.
04:52:45.000Like many of you, I watched the debate tonight.
04:52:47.000If you haven't already, now is a great time to do your research on the issues at hand and the stances these candidates take on the topics that matter the most.
04:52:56.000As a voter, I make sure to watch and read everything I can.
04:52:59.000Recently, I was made aware of that AI of me falsely endorsing Trump, and it was posted to a site.
04:53:05.000It really conjured up fears around AI and the dangers of misinformation.
04:53:10.000It brought me to the conclusion that I need to be transparent about my actual plans.
04:53:14.000I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris.
04:53:16.000I'm voting for Kamala Harris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.
04:53:24.000I was so heartened and impressed by her selection of a running mate who has been standing up for LGBTQ plus rights, IVF, and a women's right to her own body for decades.
04:54:37.000However the debate goes, she's going to come in at the end of it and say, oh, I endorsed Kamala and that's all anyone's going to talk about.
04:55:01.000The biggest pop star in the world with the highest grossing tour ever comes in with all the impressionable women and young people and says, I'm a childless cat lady.
04:55:11.000I'm going to endorse Kamala because of abortion.
04:55:15.000Vote early, and now they're all going to vote early.
04:55:18.000It's like I said, that's why it's a turnout game.
04:55:20.000Because Trump is never going to beat the stupid bitches with abortion and with IVF.
04:55:45.000All those idiot girls that went to this concert and dragged their stupid boyfriends and they put on this dreadful makeup and did their stupid hair and dressed with their slutty outfit.
04:55:57.000They all go to the Taylor Swift thing, boyfriend in tow.
04:56:24.000Country's being, like, raped by immigrants, and, you know, the Jews bought the politicians, and the fix is in because of, like, the most insufferable women you've ever met who hate men, who hate their fathers.
05:11:12.000Because it was kind of okay, you know, he was talking about retribution, and it was, you know, it was kind of a mixed bag, but it really just started to blow for the past four or five months.
05:11:24.000And tonight, I feel like this is the guy, you know, this is how it should be.
05:12:01.000Oh, it needs to be like this every time.
05:12:04.000So I just want, I want to clear that up because, man, people say a lot of stuff about me and Trump and, you know, how I feel about all that.
05:12:13.000But I hope, you know, I have a big audience tonight.
05:12:58.000to see a lot of the same I'm sure Lassa Vita and Wiles were shaking their heads tonight, and I'm sure they're going to want to go on damage control.
05:13:25.000I'm sure they think he overdid it, took the bait, got personal, was too angry.
05:16:23.000And I think they kind of blew it last time.
05:16:26.000And I don't want them to blow it this time.
05:16:27.000I don't want them to blow the election.
05:16:29.000And if they win, what would be worse, I don't want them to blow a second term.
05:16:34.000So out of an abundance of care, but also frustration, we have really tried to stir up some negativity So that Trump will hear us and listen to our concerns and get back to that message and those issues.
05:18:21.000I think it's still worth keeping this conversation going and being a part of the legitimate political process, engaging with Trump and the campaign and in politics, in the swing states.
05:18:33.000You know, maybe there's still a chance.
05:18:39.000But tonight, when he made it all about immigration, it's like, you know, and then again, he always, I'll be, you know, I'm going to be honest, I'll be a little more critical tomorrow.
05:18:49.000But what I feel more than anything is a lot of relief.
05:18:53.000It's like, okay, I'm glad to hear at the minimum, this is good that this is being talked about, you know, but what we need is more than just talk.