After the Democratic National Convention, a new poll shows Donald Trump gaining ground on Joe Biden in the 2020 Democratic primary race. Biden responds to the mounting criticism of his performance in the CNN primary debate, and says he's not considering stepping down from the presidential race.
00:00:00.000I had a bad night. I had a bad night. And the fact of the matter is that, you know, it was I screwed up. I made a mistake. And but I learned from my father when you get knocked down, just get back up, get back up.
00:00:17.060And, you know, we're going to do we're going to win this election. We're going to just beat Donald Trump like we did in 2020. We're going to beat him again. But we but we need all of you to get this done. All of you. Look, I came back from I was in a situation where why I didn't have a good debate to show the president losing support since his unsettling debate performance.
00:00:41.140It's not surprising, but still showing up in the data. According to a New York Times Siena poll today, Donald Trump now leads Biden by six percent among likely voters nationally, a three point swing to Trump from just a week earlier before the debate.
00:00:54.660That is, by the way, the largest lead Donald Trump has ever recorded in that Times poll going back to 2015. Not great.
00:01:03.940Even more disturbingly, 74 percent of registered voters agree with the statement Joe Biden is just too old to be an effective president.
00:01:11.560Including nearly two thirds of Democrats would have been nice if they pulled how other names might perform the presidential race. They didn't. Right now, President Biden's a story.
00:01:20.860The nomination is his to accept. He won the delegates. He ran in the primary. He won it or to decline.
00:01:27.320And while the flood of skeptics is rising with yet another major newspaper, this time the Boston Globe, calling on Biden about the election, the White House press secretary trumpeted Biden's upcoming schedule of interviews and meeting with party leaders and said he was unmoved by the
00:01:42.840Is President Biden considering stepping down? Absolutely. Absolutely not.
00:01:49.440What steps would the president be taking or would you as a team plan to try to prevent another episode in public that would be deemed worrisome?
00:01:59.160I would not call it an episode. I would call it we had a bad night. Right. It was not his best night.
00:02:08.000He had a cold. He was jet lagged. You heard directly from the president about this.
00:02:13.480And when we get back, when we get knocked down, when he gets knocked down, he gets right back up.
00:02:18.440And that's what I would I that's what I would focus on.
00:02:23.320Biden also participated in a campaign call today where he reportedly told staffers I'm running.
00:02:28.340No one's pushing me out. I'm not leaving. I'm in this race. The end. And we're going to win.
00:02:32.240This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going to the evil on these people.
00:02:45.280I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it.
00:02:51.560I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
00:02:55.580It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big line?
00:02:59.580MAGA Media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:03:07.060Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:03:10.800If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:03:17.220War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance.
00:03:25.620Welcome to the War Room. Dave Brat sitting in for Stephen K.
00:03:29.580Bannon. I said I'd start every show in honor of Steve. He's got the sign of the cross behind him
00:03:34.820on the War Room in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We're going after the truth
00:03:39.540on this show, the truth that will save this republic.
00:03:44.480And I just want to open this show with a reminder. Stephen K.
00:03:48.660Bannon said, don't send me mail. Don't send me heartfelt letters.
00:03:52.840There's no time for crying in the War Room. That's Steve himself.
00:03:57.020What he wants us to do is redouble our efforts and to keep this War Room churning out powerful
00:04:04.260information that motivates us all to take action. And so that's what we have lined up today.
00:04:09.660That's what we're going to do every day.
00:04:12.480Let me start off, though, just with a couple of preliminary remarks.
00:04:15.800We need you to spread this platform, right? With Steve out, you all know, when Steve goes
00:04:20.160on a rant, no one else can do that. I can't do that. I'm not Steve. No one can pull off
00:04:26.400what he does on a daily basis. I'm reading 20 papers and scanning everything the way he does
00:04:31.060to do our best. We've got a great team here with Grace and Mo and Cameron and the Denver crew
00:04:37.520all doing great work to keep this show going full speed ahead. We need you. You have to share this
00:04:43.560platform with everybody so we make the numbers increase, right? Stephen K. Bannon right now,
00:04:50.260as a reminder, on July 4, on Independence Day, is in jail. So everyone says they love Steve. What
00:04:58.660does it mean to love someone, right? In the Judeo-Christian West, when God loved us, he gave
00:05:05.980his own son. It was a sacrifice of extraordinary grace. And so for Steve, on a human level, let us
00:05:16.560all pitch in here, right? What were the founders doing in 1776? They were battling it out against
00:05:23.140the greatest empire on this earth, right? So July 4, right, as Steve would say, go grab your hot dog,
00:05:28.820enjoy the family, celebrate, but get back to work. We got work to do.
00:05:34.220Just want to go over a brief review of what we covered. Last week, we had Kevin Roberts on.
00:05:40.820We went through a highly rational discussion of what it means to save the republic.
00:05:46.240And the left went hyperbolic on that messaging. The basic message was a republic differs from a
00:05:52.880democracy. We believe in the Judeo-Christian tradition enshrined minority rights into the
00:06:00.260Bill of Rights, minority rights. Every individual. We're a nation of individuals under the law.
00:06:05.560And it was that law came straight from Exodus, Deuteronomy, et cetera, right? I think Deuteronomy
00:06:10.760is the most cited book by the founders. So we have a continuous tradition of caring for the rest of the
00:06:17.860world. We follow that Judeo-Christian tradition. It made us the most powerful country, the wealthiest
00:06:26.120country. We've been blessed beyond all comprehension. And then the Christians got a little
00:06:31.820Minnesota nice and got stupid, right? We gave our universities away to the secular crew that don't
00:06:38.920have a worldview, right? The word secular, there is no such thing as a secular worldview. You need to
00:06:43.360define that. And there's open society folks, right? The Karl Poppers and the Soroses and the open
00:06:50.000societies and the foundations. It sounds nice, open, open, open. But it turns out the open society
00:06:57.880people are closed to Russia, Russian culture, China culture, India culture, Christianity, Judaism,
00:07:06.600Islam. So seven of the eight billion people on this world live out a religious worldview. And that's what
00:07:14.520this fight is about. And it's a fight, right? These things are not reconcilable. The Marxist worldview is
00:07:20.900not reconcilable with a Judeo-Christian. We tried. We were accommodative. We gave away the shop in order
00:07:30.880that we could have a peaceful society. But now the minority rights folks are sexualizing our kids
00:07:38.180in kindergarten, through the third grade, at young, young ages in ways that no one could imagine.
00:07:46.800The trajectory of our language has changed. No one had a hard time envisioning what it meant to fight
00:07:51.980for this country and maintain liberty. There was no debate back at the revolutionary period, the Civil
00:07:56.800War period, World War II against Hitler. And so all of this, it's just making us double down,
00:08:02.360right? And get our first principles back in mind. On the Hitler piece, right, that always comes out as
00:08:09.880the ultimate moral arbiter, right? Whoever can throw Hitler in effectively. Hitler, just as a reminder,
00:08:16.000was a communist in 1919, and then joined up with a German nationalist party. And he's the one that
00:08:24.840injected the term socialism in, right? National socialism. So he wasn't a Marxist socialist. He went,
00:08:31.000he flipped it to the racist socialism. It is anti-Semitism, no bounds, right? The US Republic
00:08:39.700is set up precisely to combat that. So that can never happen again. But that does not mean we give
00:08:46.040up our ideals. Our ideals are always up. And the war room knows that. And so that's the fight before us.
00:08:53.280We've got some great guests. We got Mark Mitchell coming right up. We got Patty Lyman,
00:08:57.220the Republican chair to the convention. We got Mike Davis. Everybody's going to kind of give us a
00:09:03.040week in review. There was so much news coming out of the courts. It's hard to keep track of it. And
00:09:08.400then all the politics. And then, of course, the debate. And then the Democratic Party is in absolute
00:09:14.040turmoil. So Stephen K. Bannon likes telling the truth. And part of the truth is gathering the receipts.
00:09:21.200Just what do the numbers say? Where do we stand? And time to take a good hard look. Where do we stand?
00:09:27.920What do we have to do going forward? And so for that, there's no better person to step in. Mark
00:09:32.000Mitchell, why don't you give us the biggest bullet points you're watching right now in the polling
00:09:37.060for Rasmussen doing a great job? And then we'll chime in a little bit and we'll probably go through
00:09:43.420the break for sure. So Mark, tee us up. We just be basking in the utter chaos caused by this debate
00:09:51.980last week. It's just, I mean, it has to be one of the biggest things that possibly could have been
00:09:55.760happened in this cycle. And it's going to upset the horse cart in a way that I don't think anybody
00:10:00.660has really been able to wrestle with. Now I would, I would caution the viewers about looking at really
00:10:07.480early, you know, new 2024 matchup numbers. Our new numbers are coming out next week. I think it's,
00:10:13.520it's really too early to understand what happened, you know, from a pre and post debate perspective,
00:10:18.900but I'll tell you, American voters gave us a report card of the debate and it was absolutely
00:10:24.760horrible. And as you listen to these numbers, forget about Democrat voters. The Democrats decided
00:10:30.000the Democrat voters shouldn't have a say in who their presidential candidate was going to be this time
00:10:34.660around. But imagine being a billionaire donor that gives to Democrats or imagine being a Democrat
00:10:41.560congressman or Republican, somebody that's running with a presidential candidate right on top of their
00:10:47.200name on the ballot. Keep those people in mind as you listen to some of these numbers. So American
00:10:52.900likely voters told us that Donald Trump won the debate by an astounding 57% to 22%. That is a 35 point
00:11:03.380margin. When pre debate, it was only a 10 point margin. So in one week, American swung 25 points.
00:11:11.780It's just absolutely incredible. And the worst thing for the Democrats is who are the people that
00:11:17.580changed their minds the most? Now I will say 88% of the electorate told us that they watched at least
00:11:24.240some of that debate. People were watching 53% said they watched all of it. Men pre debate 12% more said
00:11:33.280Trump would win. Post debate 44%. That's a 32 point swing. Black voters, pre debate,
00:11:41.260pre debate, black voters said that Biden was going to win by 34 points. Post debate,
00:11:47.560they say Trump won by nine. That's a 43 point swing. And Democrats was the big one from Trump down 52 to
00:11:55.200Trump down 20, a 32 point swing. So post debate, only 45% of Democrats say Joe Biden won. 25% say
00:12:04.940Donald Trump won. Of course, there's a whole lot of not sure because they can't just bring themselves
00:12:09.160to say it. But here's the big one. After the debate, many commentators said that Joe Biden should step
00:12:15.120aside as this year's presidential candidate and let the Democratic Party choose another candidate
00:12:19.900instead. Agree or disagree. 55% of voters agree with that statement. 38% strongly. Only 36% disagree.
00:12:28.940Now in the matchups, Biden's getting 40, 41%. But now only 36% of voters say he shouldn't step aside.
00:12:37.820And the Democrat numbers are 48% agree. Now 48% of Democrats that Joe Biden should step aside,
00:12:45.340the party should pick somebody else. Only 45% disagree. Black voters, 57% agree to only 36% disagree.
00:12:55.10018 to 39 year olds, 74% agree. Only 20% of 18 to 39 year olds don't think the Democrats should pick
00:13:04.500another candidate. And the last one out of this set, if Joe Biden were to step aside, would the Democrats
00:13:10.380be better off making Vice President Kamala Harris their candidate or should they choose someone else?
00:13:15.980And this is the beauty of the situation the Democrats found themselves in. 50% of voters say
00:13:21.900they should choose someone else. Only 33% say Kamala Harris. So fewer people want Kamala Harris to be the
00:13:28.700replacement as say should disagree that Joe Biden step aside. So she's basically doing worse than Biden is.
00:13:36.140And then Democrat voters, only 45% of Democrats want Kamala. 39% want somebody else. So it's a slight
00:13:43.340plurality in her favor. Of course, independence, it's 25% want Kamala. 55% don't, even black voters. 49% of black
00:13:53.820voters want Kamala. That's really low considering she is ostensibly the diversity candidate. But 39% of black
00:14:01.180voters say the Democrats should choose someone else. Women, only 34% for Kamala, 50% someone else.
00:14:08.620So this is just, I mean, just a resounding and utter horrifying defeat for Joe Biden. They're not
00:14:15.260going to be able to, listen, if it was a cold, if it was jet lag, you know, Americans going into this
00:14:19.660debate, they had concerns about Joe Biden's age. I mean, this just seals the deal.
00:14:23.980Yeah. Mark Mitchell, we're going to pull you back right after the break as well. Thanks for that
00:14:30.780baseline. And then maybe we'll dig into a little bit. It's probably too early to tell, right? But
00:14:36.540it, you know, my neck was hurting from whiplash following the gyrations of the mainstream media
00:14:42.540and who they were for. And I'd be interested in your take on how powerful that mainstream media
00:14:48.460penetration into the voters' minds is. So think on that over the break and stay with the war room.
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00:16:18.360War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:16:26.560Back in the War Room with Dave Brat sitting in with Stephen K. Bannon and just honored to have
00:16:32.460Patty Lyman in the house with us at the War Room. Patty's a Major League Republican champion,
00:16:39.840going to be representing our country at the National Convention. All political views of my own.
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00:16:57.200And today, we really want to get her into, for a little political prognostication, a week in review.
00:17:03.220It's been a week. No, I don't think anybody's got it all in their head and what it all means.
00:17:08.320You just heard Mark Mitchell covering, you know, just the basics. And it takes, you know,
00:17:13.50010 to 15 minutes just to cover the basics. So Patty, Herculean, live for you. But give us
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