On today's show, Ben Harnwell and Mike Davis discuss the impact of Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance and what it means for the future of the Democratic Party, the Supreme Court, and the country as a whole.
00:00:00.000worry about President Joe Biden in the wake of his debate performance last week. They are left
00:00:04.020with, I think, basically three scenarios. The first is that Biden remains a presumptive nominee.
00:00:08.820He's formally nominated by the party at the Democratic National Convention next month,
00:00:12.080and he runs on what has been the best domestic policy presidency of my lifetime,
00:00:17.160and the fact he beat Trump before, and the fact that Trump is essentially explicitly
00:00:21.680promising to end the American constitutional republic as we know it. That's number one.
00:00:27.660The second is that Biden affirmatively decides to step aside, and as he does,
00:00:33.180he endorses his vice president, Kamala Harris, as the top of the ticket at the convention in 48 days.
00:00:40.340The third is that Biden steps aside, and then there's no clear frontrunner or anointed one.
00:00:47.440There's an open battle at the convention in August for the nomination in what's known as an open
00:00:52.420convention, something I haven't seen in 40 or 50 years. So those are the three options
00:00:57.360Democrats have before them as November draw closer. Obviously, which one they choose or
00:01:02.900happens is going to have enormous implications, not just for this election, as we said, but also
00:01:07.440all of our future, the party, the country, the whole thing.
00:01:12.060And so the reality for us now is what do we do here, Joy? What do we as citizens do?
00:01:17.820This is our 1776 moment in ways that I don't think a lot of us realize.
00:01:22.960We have to reaffirm those principles that the founders left England over, that they felt were
00:01:30.340important enough to give up their families and their livelihoods to seek out a new land.
00:01:35.880And we cannot allow this imperialist court decide that one person is above all the laws of this land,
00:01:46.460that all he has to do is sit anywhere, anywhere, anywhere in the world and said, this is an official act.
00:01:54.440I deem this as an official moment and execute a policy or a whim that harms others, that impinges our freedoms,
00:02:05.960that takes away the privileges that we have under the Constitution.
00:02:09.740And there's not a damn thing we can do about it.
00:02:12.860And it's going to go to that court who will then decide, well, you know what, actually, yeah, he can.
00:02:18.780And there's nothing you can do about it.
00:02:22.720Interesting. Ben Harnwell, live from Rome here, sitting in for Steve Bannon,
00:02:30.720War Room host, who is presently rotting away in one of Joe Biden's federal prisons.
00:02:35.800We're up now with Mike Davis. Folks, if you didn't catch the show yesterday, I'll just bring it to speed.
00:02:41.640As a consequence of the Supreme Court's ruling on immunity, Judge Mershon has pushed forward the sentencing
00:02:49.480that was due for July the 11th to September the 18th.
00:02:55.200Mike, what's going on in D.C. right now in the continuing fallout after this epoch-changing Supreme Court ruling?
00:03:07.720Yeah, well, first you see, according to the New York Times, that President Biden is, for the first time,
00:03:15.160contemplating that he may not be able to stay on as the Democrat nominee
00:03:20.540if he does not perform strongly over the next several events, over the next several days,
00:03:27.240including the George Stephanopoulos interview on ABC.
00:03:32.740They had to bring in a former top Clinton advisor for a pre-taped interview
00:03:38.440that they'll no doubt slice and dice to make Biden look more lucid than he actually is.
00:03:44.700So you have that political problem. The problem, though, is it is going to be very difficult
00:03:49.840to get rid of Joe Biden, A, unless he voluntarily steps down,
00:03:55.800because if he doesn't voluntarily step down, you're going to have some serious legal, political,
00:04:03.120and financial obstacles. The legal obstacles are we're past the deadlines
00:04:09.060for putting people on the ballot in states, and the upcoming deadlines are approaching very
00:04:16.400quickly. Financially, Joe Biden has $200 million or close to $200 million cash on hand. He can't just
00:04:25.160hand that to any candidate he wants. I think he can give it to Kamala under the federal election laws,
00:04:31.020but that's about it. And that leads to the third problem. Politically,
00:04:34.260Kamala Harris is a disaster. As a vice president, she actually kind of makes Joe Biden look
00:04:41.360relatively not horrible as president compared to her as vice president. That tells you how bad she
00:04:47.780is. I got the pleasure of working with her on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and she's just as
00:04:52.680incompetent off camera as she is on camera. And so what are they going to do? Are they going to pass
00:04:58.960over the first black and first female vice president and bring in Gavin Newsom, a white dude from
00:05:04.700California? It's just these aren't good options. But I would say to the war room posse, don't get
00:05:09.520complacent, right? We have to make sure that we're registering people to vote, that we're getting
00:05:14.680people to get them out to vote, to vote as early as possible. Bank your vote, because if you thought
00:05:21.440the BLM and Antifa riots were bad in 2020, wait for the Hamas riots in 2024, where they make it where
00:05:31.700people are scared to death to vote on election day. So vote as early as you can and bank your vote and
00:05:38.120do the same thing with your like-minded friends, family, and neighbors. And on to the legal issue
00:05:42.480that you brought up on Judge Mershon. He moves the sentencing date back to September 18th. I think
00:05:48.120even Judge Mershon knows that this Democrat lawfare and election interference, this Biden-Democrat
00:05:55.100house of cards is crumbling and crumbling fast. That Supreme Court decision between the Fisher case,
00:06:02.920which knocked out two of, largely knocked out two of four of Jack Smith's charges against President
00:06:09.100Trump in D.C. for January 6th, along with this presidential immunity case, there's not going to
00:06:14.480be much left of these cases when that's done. And I think Judge Mershon understands that. One of the
00:06:20.680key errors that Judge Mershon and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg and former Obama and Biden political
00:06:27.160operative Matthew Colangelo made in this case is that they made many reversible errors. There's no doubt
00:06:33.020this case will get reversed on appeal. Trump will not be a convicted felon when this is all done. He's
00:06:37.980not a convicted felon right now. The jury's found him guilty. The judge is not convicted and sentenced.
00:06:43.120I don't know if this judge will ever convict him and sentence him now. He may have to declare a
00:06:48.420mistrial because he allowed in evidence in that case conversations between President Trump and his
00:06:55.300senior White House officials, including his deputy chief of staff for operations, along with Hope Hicks,
00:07:01.600one of his senior communications aides, that this judge and these prosecutors let in conversations that
00:07:08.360were subject to presidential immunity. They're not allowed in as evidence. And the Supreme Court
00:07:13.920just made that very clear in the presidential immunity case. So I think Judge Mershon knows
00:07:18.800he's going to have to declare a mistrial. And so that whole case is going to go out. They may have to
00:07:24.140start the proceedings from scratch with a grand jury in a trial. They're not going to be able to get
00:07:28.620Trump tried and convicted in New York before the election. So this lawfare is, I think it's toast.
00:07:37.340Mike, I want to ask you a question now that I'll ask Matt Boyle when he comes on straight after you.
00:07:42.580Steve Bannon, I think one of his last public pronouncements before being carted off into
00:07:49.100one of Joe Biden's federal prisons, was that he said is now basically incumbent on the Republican
00:07:54.620Party to make this transfer as difficult as possible for the Democrats when they throw Joe
00:08:03.280Biden under the bus and put in someone else, that the Republicans have to make that process as
00:08:08.260difficult as possible for them. Now, you're there in D.C. talking to people, soundings.
00:08:15.460Do you see any evidence that the GOP is even gearing up to make that process difficult for
00:08:21.540the Democrats? Well, in fairness to the GOP, I would say when you have a civil war amongst your
00:08:31.140enemy neighbors, just sit back and let them kill each other. Don't give them an excuse to blame you
00:08:37.080instead of each other. So I think right now, let's just watch the Democrat civil war. Let's just watch
00:08:43.080watch these Democrat cannibals eat each other. Let's let's let them contort themselves into
00:08:49.060how they're going to try to skip over the first black and first female vice president because
00:08:54.720she's such a disaster. Their DEI equity affirmative action pick. You know, this this is this is
00:09:00.760exhibit a why you should not pick someone simply because of their skin pigment or their genitals or
00:09:08.760their attraction to genitals or their perception of genitals. Those aren't qualifications or
00:09:14.740dis or disqualifications. And that's why the Democrats are in a crisis right now because they
00:09:22.620know that Joe Biden, he's always been incompetent, but now he's mentally incompetent. And it's very
00:09:28.640obvious that he's mentally incompetent. The problem is, is that Kamala Harris is incompetent and many
00:09:35.480mentally incompetent and other ways. She doesn't have dementia. She's just a moron. Right. So
00:09:41.240that's that's those are the Democrats options right now. I don't see how they can bring in
00:09:46.620anyone other than Kamala Harris as the as the nominee of Joe Biden decides to step aside or if he
00:09:55.140doesn't make it between now and the election. So it's it's Joe versus Kamala, guys. That's those
00:10:01.880are your two options. I'm coming back one moment to the Supreme Court. It's a novel to see the
00:10:09.840the commentariat class and the Democrats melting down at the idea of King Donald is now losing the
00:10:21.420presidency and having basically a monarch, a crowned monarch in their place. Because I didn't think
00:10:27.080these three years I've been following American politics. I didn't think any of these guys guys cared
00:10:31.620about limited powers or or or defining what exactly it is the the the the the constitutional
00:10:41.580government can do. They seem to be going after one paragraph after another. Is it possible? Is it
00:10:47.940possible? I have somewhat naively that after this Supreme Court ruling, there might be somewhat of a sea
00:10:53.860change amongst the U.S. political class to rein in the constant expansion of federal power back to
00:11:03.340something towards its constitutionally defined limits. Or is it was that naive of me? Is this simply an
00:11:10.880objection to the prospect of four more years of Donald Trump? Yeah, that what's amazing to me is
00:11:17.080President Trump appointed Justice Gorsuch, my former boss, along with Justice Kavanaugh and Justice Barrett
00:11:24.640and transformed the left of center court to the constitutionalist, the Trump constitutionalist
00:11:31.680Supreme Court. And this Supreme Court is telling the federal government, particularly the executive
00:11:38.440branch, that they don't have the power to do what they think they they've had the power to do over the
00:11:43.360last 90 years since FDR threatened to stack the Supreme Court. So not only are you seeing the court
00:11:49.380saying that, you know, over time, over the next 20 years, the court's going to say that the federal
00:11:54.660government does not have the powers there that are not explicitly mentioned or enumerated in the United
00:12:01.980States Constitution, a loan agreement between we the people and our governments, which is completely
00:12:07.540different from from from from Britain, from which we escaped. We their power goes from God to the sovereign king and is lent to its
00:12:20.540subjects. Right. In America, it's it's totally opposite. God power goes from God to we the people. We are the sovereign
00:12:27.940citizens and we lend power to our governments, our federal, state and local governments and tribal governments and what whatever power
00:12:36.560we don't lend to the federal government belongs to the states and the people. And that got reversed 90 years ago, where
00:12:43.680essentially they they they turn the Commerce Clause on its head and said now the federal government essentially has all powers
00:12:50.460unless it's explicitly excluded instead of enumerated in the Constitution. And then what they've done is the federal government
00:12:58.220has grabbed all this power and then they've they've consolidated all of this power in the executive branch. Congress is lawmaking power.
00:13:05.440The judges judicial power and the president's executive power has been consolidated in the executive branch through
00:13:13.860Chevron, deference and non delegation, just some some crazy doctrines that the left has come up with to take all three
00:13:21.920powers and all powers that don't belong to the federal government and then put it put it in these executive branch
00:13:27.980agencies and then say that you can't remove these people and they're all powerful. I mean, that sounds like a monarchy to me.
00:13:34.620And that's what Joe Biden and the Democrat Party wants. President Trump and the Republican Party, particularly his Republican
00:13:41.040judges, are trying to decentralize that power and return it to the constitutional republic that our founders intended.
00:13:48.040And one final note, let's talk about let's talk about a fascist dictator or a king. Joe Biden is has politicized and weaponized his Justice
00:13:56.040Department. He's trying to bankrupt in prison for life, take off the ballots, his political enemy, because Joe Biden fears he can't beat Trump on November 5th, 2024. He's he's Biden's also put in prison. Trump's top advisers, Peter Devaro and Steve Bannon. He's sick.
00:14:15.040Biden's sick to his FBI after parents outraged by gender chaos in schools. Joe Biden has sick to his Justice Department to go after Christians praying at abortion clinics.
00:14:26.300He put in prison a 75 year old Christian praying at abortion clinics while Joe Biden gives amnesty to his own family, to his attorney general, to his BLM Antifa Hamas supporters.
00:14:37.440Mike, would you do me the very great favor of just holding on over the break?
00:14:44.400I mean, in a couple of minutes time, there's another point I want to ask you. Everyone has their favorite imaginary fantasy constitutional amendment. I want to run mine past you to see what you think after the break.
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00:16:28.820So if people want to check that out, we really did our best to distill it in a clear, easy, factual explanation.
00:16:34.960Because if you look at Project 2025, it is a lot to go through.
00:16:38.860So let's look about where this intersects.
00:16:41.100Get really focused on the ways that our democracy will be threatened.
00:16:44.660Because that's the quickest way we can get to some solutions in terms of maybe putting some more guardrails in place when it comes to Congress.
00:16:51.480Because, Nicole, I think we've learned from this process we can't keep baking everything on the next election and the next presidency.
00:16:58.540People have to get to work and get creative now.
00:17:02.260Well, what is the solution other than making sure that Trump is never president again and can't put this into action, Amanda?
00:17:09.020Well, for starters, I think we've seen the slide of SCOTUS supersizing the presidency for quite some time.
00:17:15.200And obviously, this immunity ruling is a wake-up call.
00:17:18.600I think this is going to be a time for Democrats and Congress to really get smart and savvy about reining in executive power before it's too late.
00:17:28.520I understand that legislation probably can't be passed right now.
00:17:32.140But this is a good time to start building the case for it.
00:17:34.920Instead of breaking out about what's going to happen to the presidency, use the power that you have now to build that message, to talk to people, to get solutions.
00:17:43.820Because I don't want to come off as lecturing as like a Republican that's on here saying Democrats need to do more.
00:17:49.820But it is my feeling now that MAGA is on the rise just simply because they're outworking everybody on a lot of fronts.
00:18:02.380And so I think we need a lot less panicking and a lot more working.
00:18:06.240He has also said, Mika, and President Biden reminds us of this all the time, that Donald Trump has said, in his own words, that he would lead as a dictator on day one in this country.
00:18:18.980We saw, of course, the Supreme Court's incredibly toxic ruling that they made earlier this week on presidential immunity.
00:18:25.500You heard President Biden being presidential, speaking from the White House about what's at stake and how dangerous the Supreme Court ruling is.
00:18:33.580We have a Supreme Court that is constantly ruling 6-3, largely against the American people.
00:19:02.600He's going to continue to reassure the American people that he's up for the job.
00:19:06.320He's speaking to George Stephanopoulos, doing an interview on Friday that will air this Sunday.
00:19:10.880He is out there doing what he needs to do to reassure the American people.
00:19:14.100But, Mika, he's also going out and talking to voters directly.
00:19:17.120And voters in this election will ultimately decide.
00:19:19.840We have seen from our internal polling that there has not been much of a shift.
00:19:23.280We have seen in eight public polls that this race remains within the margin of error and that this debate did not shift really at all in these polls.
00:19:31.360So I think it's important for everyone to take a step back, take a beat, realize President Biden is the only person in this country who has defeated Donald Trump, and he will also defeat him again in November.
00:20:12.020I went to bed the other day, and the Democrats and the punditry, they were all big government totalitarians.
00:20:23.660And I woke up the next day after the Supreme Court ruling, and they were all basically limited government, Jeffersonian, libertarian, Rothbardians.
00:20:35.560Anyone would think, you know, someone more cynical than I would suggest that this is really just a problem that they have because they can't control Donald Trump.
00:20:45.300They can't control the agenda behind the people who are wanting to elect him.
00:20:49.060And so they're resorting ever more to the unelected bench, the unelected judicial class.
00:20:58.420But it is very rewarding to watch because a lot of people have put in a lot of time and effort over years to get to this point.
00:21:07.560And it's nice to see that the Democrats realize that they simply can't control the agenda anymore.
00:21:14.240I think that as Republicans and conservatives and Trump supporters and right-thinking independents and even right-thinking Democrats who aren't insane,
00:21:23.480I would say this, that we should just sit back for the next couple days and eat our popcorn and watch the Democrats eat each other.
00:21:33.660And so – and I would – Andrew Bates from the Biden White House just put out a tweet on this New York Times story.
00:21:40.560And I call Andrew Bates Baghdad Bob because he tries to put a rosy spin on anything.
00:21:47.580It could be the presidential palace is being bombed and Baghdad Bob would go out there and say that everything's fine and, you know, Saddam Hussein is fine.
00:21:58.460Quote, this claim is absolutely false.
00:22:01.440And if we had been given more than seven minutes, we could have communicated this before it was publicized.
00:22:09.080And so the Biden White House is denying this New York Times reporting.
00:22:14.100But think about – I mean, think about – you have all these Democrat politicians, including Kamala, plotting behind the scenes, a vulture behind the scenes.
00:22:22.680You have Nancy Pelosi, you have Barack Obama, you have the Democrat leadership plotting against Biden right now, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, every top Democrat leader.
00:22:40.000And Biden is so desperate and isolated.
00:22:43.240He can't even – he doesn't even trust his own White House advisors anymore because they're all Obama plants.
00:22:48.560He's finally waking up to that, that it's Obama's third term and he's just a, you know, imbecile puppet.
00:23:12.200I have to say, if I were Joe Biden, I wouldn't trust any of my advisors either.
00:23:16.460Look, I just want to run one thing past you.
00:23:18.840I think it was FDR, wasn't it, who promised court packing back when the Supreme Court had originally ruled his National Recovery Act unconstitutional.
00:23:29.680Listen, so as I said before the break, everyone's got their own fantasy constitutional amendment they'd like to see.
00:23:36.280Why not fix the number of justices in the Supreme Court by constitutional amendments?
00:23:43.040And then you wouldn't have the threat constantly hanging over the head that – but like has been circling over the last couple of years of just packing in more justices in accordance with the combined White House-Senate majority.
00:24:04.140Sure. I mean, we've had nine justices for more than 150 years going back to just after the Civil War.
00:24:11.260We used to have a different number of justices that would fluctuate between, I think, like six and ten before we settled on nine because they used to be circuit justices.
00:24:20.380They used to write circuit around the country.
00:24:22.080And so they'd get on their horse and go around the country.
00:24:28.300And I would say this to the Democrats, keep threatening to pack the Supreme Court because there's nothing that unifies Republicans, conservatives, Trump supporters, right-thinking Democrats and independents than the Democrats' threat to pack the Supreme Court.
00:24:42.040I mean, I'll tell you, as the leader of the Article III project, as a former chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee that handled Supreme Court nominations,
00:24:50.240I've worked on five of the six last Republican appointees to the Supreme Court.
00:24:56.340I wasn't old enough for Clarence Thomas, but he's my favorite.
00:25:00.240Keep doing this because there's nothing that unites the party and guarantees that we're going to have Republican senators elected and Republican presidents elected,
00:25:09.780and then the Democrats derange calls to pack the Supreme Court, right?
00:25:13.380They want to pack the Supreme Court, Democrats want to pack the Supreme Court, and take away our God-given rights to speak, to worship, to associate, and to protect ourselves.
00:25:24.500And we saw that very clearly during COVID and COVID lockdowns, the Marxist revolution of COVID lockdowns and BLM riots.
00:25:32.380And the Supreme Court is our last line of defense, and people should remember that on November 5th.
00:25:37.880Do you want President Trump or President Biden or President Kamala, maybe, replacing Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court?
00:25:44.600Because if you replace Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court with Tanya Shutkin, we're going to lose a lot of our God-given rights.
00:25:52.520Mike Davis, thanks very much for coming on the show this morning.
00:25:55.040Where can folks stay in touch with all of your analysis and output on social media?
00:26:30.820First off, the big thing that's happening inside the Democrat Party right now is that they're coming to terms with the likelihood that they're not going to hold the White House, right?
00:26:41.280So the biggest thing that's happened since the debate is a leak that came out yesterday to Peter Hamby at Puck News.
00:26:48.420And this was from Biden's own super PAC, this internal polling data that showed that even before the debate, Donald Trump was headed for a landslide victory, according to Democrats' own internal numbers.
00:27:02.920He was winning in Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, before the debate.
00:27:12.120And then after the debate, he's blown that wide open, right?
00:27:15.840Like, so we were headed for a landslide Donald Trump victory, according to Democrats' own numbers, against Joe Biden, before the debate.
00:27:25.000After the debate, it's looking more like less of a landslide, more of a mandate, right?
00:27:31.540Like, so states like New Mexico, New Hampshire, Colorado, Maine statewide, not just the 2nd District, et cetera, are all in play.
00:27:43.620If you look at the Democrats' own internal numbers post-debate, again, this is from Biden's super PAC, not from us.
00:27:52.640Donald Trump is currently leading in enough states to have more than 330 electoral votes.
00:27:59.660So what the calculation that they're making right now is when you look at the Senate map and the House map, et cetera, is which party is going to have the majority in the House of Representatives, right?
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00:28:48.720In fact, some of the guests I've had on The War Room believe that the government will soon expand their powers to track our every move.
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00:30:05.440Yeah, look, we see that story out there.
00:30:07.560We see the White House pushing back on it.
00:30:09.280But what's happening right now is there's a massive fight inside the Democrat Party over who, between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, would be the best candidate for them to stem losses in the U.S. Senate.
00:30:22.560They are going to lose the U.S. Senate majority, right?
00:30:24.860Republicans will take the U.S. Senate.
00:30:26.920The question is, is how many seats, right?
00:30:51.620But those are all competitive U.S. Senate races.
00:30:55.060But, you know, beyond that, New Mexico, New Jersey are possibilities.
00:30:58.900So the calculation that Democrats have to make is that with Republicans set to, given the map this year, retake the United States Senate, which presidential candidate causes them less losses in the down ticket races, right?
00:31:16.480So does Joe Biden or does Kamala Harris?
00:31:18.840And that's what they're going through right now.
00:31:21.660It's a lot easier for Democrats to retake the U.S. Senate in two years or four years or six years if the Republicans only have 52, 53, 54 seats versus 57, 58, 59, maybe even 60, right?
00:31:36.820Like, and given the map the way it is right now and the way that the Democrats' own internal polling numbers are showing things, things are looking terrible for the Democrats' chances of stemming losses in that regard.
00:31:50.900So a move to Kamala Harris, meanwhile, the House, obviously the House majority is what we were talking about right before the break.
00:31:57.420The House majority for the Republicans is hanging by a thread, right?
00:32:00.900There's only a handful of seats that Republicans have right now on that side of things.
00:32:05.420And before the debate, Democrats have really thought they were going to take the House majority.
00:32:10.020That's why in the immediate aftermath you saw Hakeem Jeffries the morning after come out and say, well, we're still going to take the House, right?
00:32:16.680Like, and that's what they're focused on, they're less focused on, they're coming to terms with the reality that holding the White House for the Democrats with either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris would be an extremely difficult proposition.
00:32:29.380All this talk of switching to another candidate beyond those two is pretty hard to believe because of the fact that the Biden-Harris campaign is currently sitting on more than $200 million in cash on hand.
00:32:46.340If they go to somebody different than Kamala, like let's say they go to Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer or, you know, Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, they lose access to those funds in the traditional sense of a campaign.
00:33:01.060And they would have to restart from scratch, if you will, and that wouldn't cause the—that would set them back in the efforts to protect the down ticket, if you will, right?
00:33:12.400Like, so everything right now is about the down ticket, and it's all about grinding down a Trump presidency in the second term.
00:33:21.580Regular War Room listeners and viewers will remember there was an interview I did with Steve a few months ago.
00:33:27.780I think it was at CPAC, where we had uncovered a document at Breitbart that showed that the climate groups in Washington, D.C., these are the official, you know, institutional left, the lobbying firms, et cetera, for green energy companies, et cetera.
00:33:43.940They were preparing for a Trump presidency.
00:33:47.040So what's happening is official Washington has been preparing for Trump's return for some time.
00:33:53.780But what the debate did was it almost threw it into stark contrast and forced the Democrats to face this moment where they themselves are now starting to realize the writing on the wall and that Trump is likely to come back to the White House.
00:34:09.840And so what they're trying to do is prepare to grind his agenda to a halt and be able to retake power shortly thereafter.
00:34:18.720So they want to be able to ride out and minimize the impact of a Trump presidency, assuming that Donald Trump comes back to the White House.
00:34:26.780That's why things like who Trump picks as his running mate, who he surrounds himself with over the course of the rest of this campaign and next year, assuming he is the president during a transition at the end of the year if he wins the election, are extremely important.
00:34:42.600But also what the Democrats do and where they shift resources to.
00:34:47.380Several of the things that have happened recently.
00:34:49.640So one of the things you're noticing from Democrats who are criticizing Biden is that they are talking about the down ticket, right?
00:34:57.200So the members of Congress, et cetera.
00:34:59.700So you've got the congressman there from Maine, Jared Golden, or Mary Glucin-Clan Perez from Washington State.
00:35:07.100What they're talking about is they're saying they're coming to terms with that Trump's going to win, right?
00:35:11.800They're saying Trump's going to win the election and we need to be ready as a party to deal with that.
00:35:16.780And in addition to that, what you're seeing is many smarter Democrat donors are already moving their money into the down ticket races.
00:35:31.720Like they're shifting their money to the Democrat senatorial campaign committee or to the House campaign committees away from the presidential race, right?
00:35:40.880And so if a move to Kamala would 100% be an effort to protect their down ticket races, they'd probably still lose the White House.
00:35:51.900They'd probably still lose the Senate, but they might be able to lose the Senate by less, right?
00:35:57.540And that means that they come back and they crawl back to a Democrat majority in the Senate sooner rather than later, right?
00:36:07.360Like if Republicans can get into the high 50s or even 60 Senate seats, which is a monumental test, but not impossible given the numbers that we're seeing out there right now,
00:36:17.840then it makes it a lot harder for the Democrats to bounce back later, right?
00:36:22.840So this is all about the long game for power and control in Washington, D.C.
00:36:27.580And Democrats are starting to face the hard reality that they are going to have a very tough time of holding the White House.
00:36:33.180Yeah, I mean, there are certainly some strange undercurrents taking place right now in both political parties.
00:36:40.060And we're talking about the fact, the prospect of quite a substantial majority for the Republican Senate.
00:36:47.660You know, things like the prospect of Senator Larry Hogan doesn't fill me with any great enthusiasm.
00:36:54.340And on the other hand, you mentioned Jared Golden down in Maine, who said that, you know, Trump's going to, as you said, which you alluded to, right?
00:37:02.360He said that he publishes this op-edit.
00:37:04.900He said Trump's going to beat Biden and democracy will be just fine.
00:37:09.720See, it's a bit odd and counterintuitive in a certain sense.
00:37:13.360But you laid out the reasons for this, that you're having, there will be some Congress, some congressmen who are less afflicted by Trump derangement syndrome than certain GOP senators.
00:37:31.540Which is, I think, it's always creating an interesting dynamic, no?
00:37:40.320Yeah, well, look, this is the big question is, is what is the Trump administration going to look like?
00:37:46.820This is why I think any move by the Democrats here raises the stakes for Trump's running mate selection, right?
00:37:53.320Like, you've got the globalists out there, Rupert Murdoch, et cetera.
00:37:56.380We've done stories about this at Breitbart over the last couple of weeks.
00:37:59.320Rupert Murdoch's various media properties are pushing people like Doug Burgum.
00:38:03.040They're pushing people like Glenn Youngkin because they've come to terms with, the Wall Street Journal has come to terms with, that Nikki Haley won't be the running mate.
00:38:10.600But if Trump went with a more America first type selection like a J.D. Vance, then that would protect Trump's agenda, right?
00:38:18.220And so that's why who Trump picks in this next week or so here is going to be a super important decision.
00:38:26.820Also, what happens on the Democrat side is, do the Democrats formally make such a switch?
00:38:35.120I mean, I would have said no, even in the immediate aftermath of the debate.
00:38:39.560But you're now starting to see Nancy Pelosi, Jim Clyburn, Jamie Raskin the other night on MSNBC.
00:38:49.520These folks are now starting to almost turn.
00:38:52.940And the reason why, I think, is not because they have any hopes of holding the White House.
00:39:00.160Like, I think they're getting to the point where they're coming to terms on the Democrat side with, again, like I said, reality.
00:39:05.660The question is, who is going to give them a better chance at, A, possibly retaking the House of Representatives, and B, limiting losses in the Senate?
00:39:17.560So that's what everything is about right now.
00:39:19.260It's all about the down ticket, and it's all about power.
00:40:01.940But the big question here is, is this movement ready for prime time and ready to go truly combat the left and execute an America first agenda upon Trump's return to office?
00:40:16.060And that's what the next two weeks, over the course of what happens on the Democrat side and what happens on the Republican side, are going to demonstrate.
00:40:25.160So this is an incredibly important moment for our country and the future of it.
00:40:31.240The question is, are we just buying time and slowing down the decline, or are we going to actually turn things around?
00:40:37.460And all of those things are going to determine that.
00:40:40.640Matt, I think a year or so ago, Donald Trump said that Glenn Youngkin had a Chinese-sounding name.
00:40:49.440And from that moment onwards, I've always pronounced it Glenn Youngkin, just to make it, just to underline Trump's intuition on that.
00:40:57.420No, I don't think, you know, I think you're far more magnanimous with some of the names that you're mentioning than I would be.
00:41:04.220Look, we've got about two minutes left, right?
00:41:08.160There's been some speculation that bringing forward the debate to such an unprecedented early time for the Democrats was really an opportunity for certain figures operating in the shadows to sabotage Biden's eventual candidature by bringing out into the open just how decrepit and senile he actually is.
00:41:34.160Look, in two minutes, what are you hearing on who those individuals might be?
00:41:39.760Do you think it could be someone basically as—because you're going to need to be pretty close to the power, like to the DNC, to try and affect that kind of maneuver?
00:41:51.180Do you think it could be someone really sort of like Kamala or someone like that?
00:41:55.780I don't think that's what happened here.
00:41:57.820I think they've actually deluded themselves into believing after Joe Biden's State of the Union performance, which, by the way, I mean, he was awake and alert.
00:42:16.800Like, and so I don't think that there was some secret coup here and, you know, or some secret plan.
00:42:23.020I think they actually believed that this was going to turn things around for them.
00:42:27.240Like I said, look at the internal—the most important leak over the last week has been the internal polling numbers from the Biden super PAC.
00:42:34.300Even before the debate, Donald Trump was headed for a landslide victory, according to their own numbers.
00:42:40.020And they thought this was going to turn it around.
00:42:42.400They thought Biden was going to get up there and knock the orange man around.
00:45:27.500And to your point about, you know, gumshoe reporting and talking to sources, just this past weekend on our Saturday show, we had on Joe Biden's old spokesperson.
00:45:38.680Like, so Michael LaRosa, who was the first lady spokesperson for years in the White House, came on and said that this all comes down to what happens to Senate candidates.
00:45:51.180In particular, he pointed to watch Bob Casey from Pennsylvania.
00:45:55.060And Casey, for now, has stuck with Biden's.
00:45:57.520So the question is, do they continue to do so, or do they keep breaking?
00:47:02.920And anyone who hears this, I think, they're going to go to bed late at night and stay awake, not being able to fall asleep, just wondering what might happen to their title deeds.
00:47:16.140So why don't you break down first what has happened down in Texas?
00:47:19.900Because I think it's quite informative.
00:47:25.120Yeah, we were actually asked to do an interview on Fox News last week on title theft after they covered a story about a woman in Houston who bought her property 13 years ago, had planned to gift it to her son one day, and is now fighting to get it back because it was fraudulently transferred into someone else's name.
00:47:41.800And the paper trail is the craziest part.
00:47:48.660The thief created fake documents, listed the legitimate owner's mailing address as an address in Austria, had created a fake ID and a fake passport with the homeowner's name in the same Austrian address.
00:48:01.540They even had it notarized and went through a title company.
00:48:04.960And even though this all sounds weird to us out loud, clerks really are just looking to make sure that it's all filled out properly and they're not actually verifying this information.
00:48:13.560So the investigation uncovered things that honestly should have been a red flag, but again, because it was filled out properly, they had to approve it.
00:48:22.860So first, the fake ID and passport had a male's face on it, even though the homeowner's a woman.
00:48:28.260Second, they also found out that the passport and fake ID didn't even match.
00:48:31.980They had photos of two different men on them.
00:48:33.820Third, the alleged notary who stamped the document in the first place was supposedly a notary from Vienna that worked through the U.S. Embassy, and we still don't even know if this notary is even real or not.
00:48:45.200And then lastly, the transfer recipient, the thief, listed on the document had a Houston address that led to an office building, and when the investigators tried to call the number, it wasn't in service.
00:48:55.160So Texas lawmakers are trying to put preventative measures in place, like requiring ID for these types of filings, but even in the county where this happened, they stated they already require ID.
00:49:06.840So you can see from this case that criminals are going to find a way to commit the crimes, even if it just means adding one extra step, like creating a fake ID, you know?
00:49:38.080I think the biggest thing about this case is that it's been a year since the homeowner found out she's trying to take legal action against both the thief as well as the title company.
00:49:46.620But the Harris County District Attorney also came out on Fox News and talked about what we talk about all the time.
00:49:53.820These crimes are more prevalent than people realize, and they target vacant houses, vacant lots, and the elderly, basically places that aren't being watched and people that aren't being watchful.