Juno News - Harris has NO plan to beat Trump in the debate

00:00:00.000 My value around what we need to do to secure our border. That value has not changed.

00:00:04.840 Kamala Harris is hiding from media ever since her disastrous interview with a friendly reporter.

00:00:11.160 The vice president has declined to answer media questions all throughout the campaign. And when

00:00:15.620 she finally sat down for an interview, she was caught totally unprepared. This doesn't bode well

00:00:21.720 for the vice president ahead of her debate with debate master Donald Trump next week.

00:00:26.600 And meanwhile, Joe Biden appears to have entirely given up the facade and plans to live out his

00:00:32.260 presidency somewhere on a beach in Delaware. We'll be discussing all that and more with

00:00:37.080 True North columnist Sue-Ann Levy. I'm Rachel Parker, and you're watching Rachel in the Republic.

00:00:50.980 Hi, Sue-Ann. Thank you for joining us again today.

00:00:54.600 Welcome.

00:00:55.120 So I wanted to take a look at Kamala Harris and her and Tim Walz's recent interview. They've been

00:01:02.960 pretty media shy, especially Kamala, because she's not very well spoken. She's not very eloquent. And 0.98

00:01:08.200 of course, most importantly, they haven't actually put forward any policies. They don't really have

00:01:13.020 anything to talk about. They're hoping the campaign against Donald Trump is going to be one of vibes

00:01:18.460 and one of optics. You know, they've made that very clear and they've essentially alluded to as much.

00:01:22.860 Let's start by just playing this clip here of Kamala Harris. She was asked a pretty straightforward

00:01:27.200 question. I think most Americans or most people who have any interest in politics would be able to

00:01:33.720 come up with an answer to this question on their feet fairly quickly. But when Kamala Harris was asked

00:01:39.360 a very basic question about how she plans to spend the first day of her presidency, she was caught pretty

00:01:45.060 flat-footed. Take a look at this. Governor Walz, thank you so much for sitting down with me and

00:01:49.560 bringing the bus. The bus store is well underway here in Georgia. You have less time to make your

00:01:57.460 case to voters than any candidate in modern American history. The voters are really eager to hear what

00:02:04.480 your plans are. If you are elected, what would you do on day one in the White House?

00:02:10.320 Well, there are a number of things. I will tell you, first and foremost, one of my highest priorities

00:02:16.860 is to do what we can to support and strengthen the middle class. When I look at the aspirations,

00:02:25.380 the goals, the ambitions of the American people, I think that people are ready for a new way forward

00:02:33.200 in a way that generations of Americans have been fueled by hope and by optimism.

00:02:41.120 I think, sadly, in the last decade, we have had in the former president someone who has really been

00:02:51.280 pushing an agenda and in an environment that is about diminishing the character and the strength

00:02:59.360 of who we are as Americans, really dividing our nation. And I think people are ready to turn the

00:03:06.420 page on that. So what would you do day one? Day one, it's going to be about, one, implementing my plan

00:03:11.320 for what I call an opportunity economy. I've already laid out a number of proposals in that regard,

00:03:17.240 which include what we're going to do to bring down the cost of everyday goods, what we're

00:03:21.240 going to do to invest in America's small businesses, what we're going to do to invest

00:03:24.960 in families, for example, extending the child tax credit to $6,000 for families for the first year

00:03:32.420 of their child's life to help them buy a car seat, to help them buy baby clothes, a crib.

00:03:38.300 There's the work that we're going to do that is about investing in the American family around

00:03:44.020 affordable housing, a big issue in our country right now. So there are a number of things on day one.

00:03:49.680 So she's asked what she would do on day one. And instead of having a list of policies that she

00:03:54.960 would put forward, she sort of lays out a vision, a vision. She's talking for supporting the middle

00:03:59.140 class, all these general things. Do you think that this is working for the Harris campaign? They've

00:04:03.980 been doing this throughout the entire campaign. Or do you think that the American people are really

00:04:07.720 starting to pick up on the lack of substance here?

00:04:10.620 I certainly hope so, Rachel. I certainly hope so.

00:04:13.400 You know, the thing that just really galls me is that they act like or she acts like she wasn't

00:04:20.960 in power for the last three and a half years. So what has she been doing for the last three and a 0.93

00:04:25.080 half years to make life easier for the middle class? In fact, their biodynamics policies made 0.78

00:04:33.180 prices go up. So how is she going to bring them down? And she talked about price gauging. She

00:04:39.320 actually got the word wrong. It's price gouging, of course. And, you know, they have been responsible

00:04:46.580 for all of these prices, grocery prices. They just don't happen in isolation. Inflation was

00:04:51.200 up. And the cost of even by oil, their decisions to cancel, for example, the Trans-Canada pipeline,

00:05:02.080 and, you know, get oil in their own neighborhood. I mean, they're dependent on Arab oil. I mean,

00:05:08.960 I don't mean to get into this whole thing about oil. But the point is that they made decisions in the

00:05:14.400 last three and a half years that impacted on the economy. And she's acting like she's just stepping

00:05:20.000 into this role on day one. So I hate that duplicity. I just absolutely hate it.

00:05:26.400 And when we talk about her acting like she is just going to be jumping into this role on day one,

00:05:30.720 I think the media has been pretty complicit in allowing her to get away with that lie. We even

00:05:34.160 hear that question there from Dana. She says, do you have less time than any candidate in history

00:05:39.760 to make your bid to the American people? Okay, sure. Technically, maybe she's been the candidate,

00:05:44.880 the Democratic presidential candidate for the least amount of time in history. But I mean,

00:05:50.080 when we're really looking at this in fair terms, she's sort of been campaigning for the last four

00:05:54.880 years. And obviously, she just doesn't have anything to show for her record. I was a little

00:05:58.960 bit surprised to hear that question framed in that way, because I think the fact that she is the vice

00:06:04.480 president really does give her such an advantage if she had, you know, been actually doing things 1.00

00:06:10.320 and passing favorable policy in her role as VP. You know, let's talk about the border for a minute.

00:06:16.960 Okay, she, she and President Biden were responsible for undoing what Donald Trump did,

00:06:24.000 the executive order that closed the border. So now they're talking about this ridiculous bill,

00:06:29.920 when in fact, all they did was undo what he had done and allowed all these illegals to come across 1.00

00:06:36.400 the border, many of whom are, well, not many, but several have, you know, you've heard of stories in

00:06:42.240 Aurora, Colorado, about how these Venezuelan gangs have taken over an apartment building,

00:06:47.200 how they're killing innocent people, they're unvetted. And, you know, she's talking about this border

00:06:53.600 bill when in fact, they had three and a half years to undo the damage they did by actually putting

00:07:00.720 the executive order back in place. Fancy that, you know, it's, it's, and the media is duplicitous

00:07:09.600 in terms of allowing this to happen, not asking the right questions. I mean, the obvious question

00:07:15.120 from Dana Bash would have been, should have been if she was an honest journalist, you know,

00:07:23.120 well, you did this in the last three and a half years, why, why can't you just step out the door

00:07:28.560 in the next six months, or five months and undo and show us that you really mean what you say.

00:07:36.560 But, you know, it looks like, as you said, there's no one running the country right now. It's actually

00:07:44.000 very, very perturbing and very sad. Sure. And even when you talk about the duplicity of the media here,

00:07:50.000 I think the fact that was specifically on the topic of the border, the fact that they are not

00:07:54.400 holding Kalma to her record as the borders are, there's more illegal aliens flooding the southern

00:07:59.360 border in the States than ever before shocking number, absolutely concerning number. And, you know,

00:08:04.320 now they're running cover for her saying that she was never actually the borders are because she never,

00:08:09.040 she never did anything on that. And it's an issue that's top of mind for any Americans that you talk to

00:08:13.440 right now. You know, Kamala, it's interesting because the media runs cover for the Democrats

00:08:19.200 time and time again, we saw that very clearly when they announced that Kamala was going to be the

00:08:24.080 candidate that Democrats were backing. She wasn't a very popular vice president, even the media didn't 0.55

00:08:28.320 really like her that much. And as soon as they said that she was going to be the presidential 0.60

00:08:31.680 candidate, we saw a huge shift in the tone of the media to support her and to, you know, to back her

00:08:37.120 run cover for her every possible opportunity. And she still is so bad at her job that she still 1.00

00:08:43.040 can't find it in herself to take questions for them. I thought this clip from this week was so

00:08:46.880 funny. Here she is. She's coming out of her car and she's walking. And she pretends to be on the

00:08:52.400 phone to avoid taking questions from reporters. But there's something incredibly funny that happens

00:08:56.720 in this clip. We'll play it. We'll play it for you now. See if you can catch it before we point it out for you.

00:09:07.120 Nothing, nothing says the call that I'm on is so important that in addition to having my headphones

00:09:31.360 in, I also have to hold my phone up to my ear just to double make sure that I can hear what everyone's

00:09:36.320 saying. Is anyone falling for this? Well, I think what the left-wing media does is they don't report it.

00:09:47.180 They pretend it didn't happen. But it, it, she is so inept, she can't even, can't even think of the call.

00:09:57.280 It's unbelievable. Yeah.

00:09:59.840 Yeah. What can I say?

00:10:09.040 Go ahead, Sue Ann. No, I'm just saying that the left-wing media just

00:10:12.240 deliberately avoids, avoids it. And I mean, even to the point where she went into Florida in the last

00:10:21.760 couple of days where I have a home and which is real, most pockets are Republican country. And she

00:10:28.720 went into Florida and they show all these people. I don't know where they got these people. I wondered if

00:10:34.400 they picked a few up from, you know, the illegals from the border, say, come, you'll make a few dollars, you know,

00:10:40.640 but everything seems so phony, so generated. The media talking about what a wonderful person she is when, you know,

00:10:48.640 a month ago she, they couldn't stand her. She was inept, Joe Biden all the way, you know, he's fit to be president. Now he looks like he's going to keel over any minute.

00:10:57.280 I mean, I don't understand how, like, I'm going to be blunt here, how stupid Americans can be to fall for all of this. The rah, rah, the joy, you know, the, the, the pretty words, the happy words, let me be clear. She has all these phrases. Have you, I mean, I've been listening to her night and day. I mean, probably too much.

00:11:24.560 Does her voice annoy you as much as it annoys me, that sort of, you know, elitist, nasally San Francisco voice?

00:11:35.420 It's both nasally and monotone at the same time. I think I should probably refrain from making fun of anyone with a monotone voice because I'm very guilty of that myself. But yes, the, the, it, it gets to you, you know, it's definitely a mind over matter thing when you're listening to that. I mean, I don't necessarily blame a lot of the American people. I think it's a shame that people still

00:11:53.800 listen to so much mainstream media because that's where they're being, you know, fed these lies. And so that's quite unfortunate. But the fact that she is already sort of not wanting to answer questions. I mean,

00:12:05.080 I think that this speaks to why the debate against Trump next week, it's so important because debates are actually one of those things that people do watch and it'll be a good opportunity for people to get a real sense of who she is.

00:12:16.780 I mean, obviously debates are important. The last debate was so disastrous for the Democrats that they lost their presidential candidate and had to replace Joe Biden. And likewise in Canada, I think we can point to a number of debates, you know, in Alberta, the recent general election last spring, well, I guess two springs ago now, technically, you know, it was, it was neck and neck between the Alberta NDP and the Conservative Party in the province.

00:12:39.700 And the Alberta and Danielle Smith, a conservative candidate and the premier, she had a stronger performance. And she was able to pull ahead in the polls after that and eventually to form government. So I think that the debate is going to be so important. But because Kamala is such a bad, you know, she's such a bad speaker, she doesn't have a lot of policies to put forward. I mean, how are we going to see her position herself against Trump in a way that might allow her to have some success in the debate?

00:13:04.960 Well, I fear, I really fear you talk about the media that ABC will give her a leg up and will do everything to try and spoon feed her, whatever they in whatever way they can, whether it be the questions, whether it be shutting Trump down, whether they make snide remarks at him.

00:13:26.440 I don't know. I don't know if you caught the footage of her when she was debating Mike Pence a couple of years ago, where she kept saying, I'm speaking, I'm speaking, I'm speaking, I'm just praying that some of those things come out and the true nature of Kamala comes out.

00:13:44.380 Because I don't think she can help herself. I really don't, it's so ingrained. But she is going to try very hard, you know, so she tried to change the debate rules, so that the mics would be open, so she could catch him into some in some sort of comment that she would, you know, rear on her hind legs and go crazy about.

00:14:05.020 You know, you know, you're sexist, you're thisist, you're whateverist, you know, I don't know if she's black or Indian, she'll, you know, she'll complain that he's racist.

00:14:14.460 But, you know, the mics, thankfully, are going to stay off. But she's going to try and get under her skin. That's the only tactic she has, because she doesn't have policy. And she's going to accuse him of everything from being sexist to a convicted felon to this, this and that. 0.99

00:14:33.120 And I think for Trump, the important thing is to stay on policy, to stay on to show how destructive her policies have been, and will be for America, because I'm truly worried, I don't know about you, but I'm truly worried about what will happen to America with her in power.

00:14:50.800 Yeah, I think that you've kind of hit the nail on the head there. There was, so first and foremost, just to explain that a little further, the Harris campaign was sort of trying to goad Trump into agreeing to turn the mics on.

00:15:03.740 So in the last debate against Joe Biden, basically, when it wasn't a candidate's turn to speak, their mic was turned off. And a lot of pundits came out later on and said that that actually really benefited Trump, because some of the off the cuff things he said, sometimes, which can be very charming, sometimes can be very unfavorable in terms of, you know, a lot of people just don't like

00:15:20.800 Trump's aggressiveness, a lot of Americans are not sure about him. And so those remarks, you know, they weren't heard. And it also allowed Joe Biden to further embarrass himself, because, you know, he was very incoherent in the debate. And so Trump wasn't heard speaking over him. And instead, you could actually hear Biden and, and the nonsense that he was rambling on about. So that sort of worked out very well. And I think the Harris campaign realized that now they're trying to goad Trump into turning the mics on. And he said, listen, I've agreed to do the debate with the exact same terms that I agree

00:15:50.720 to debate Biden again. So it seems like those mics will stay off, as you mentioned. But you're right. And there was a leak from the Harris campaign this week, I'm sure it was intentional saying that basically, they think the debate is going to be about optics. So there you see it again, they don't actually want to debate policy, they want to just talk about the vibe or the mood of the campaign. And I think you're right, she's really going to try to get under Trump's skin. And Trump was pretty good in the debate against Biden, there is a couple moments where he appeared to get a little rattled. And then you know, he seemed to kind of catch himself. So if he can

00:16:20.400 manage to remain calm, I think it'll be I think it'll be really good. But that's sort of all they have at this point. And, and to your point, you know, in the last debate with Harris against Pence, for people like you and me, we were watching it. And in those moments where she's like, I'm speaking, I'm speaking, you know, for any normal person, it was really irritating. And it was sort of, you know, abrasive to watch that. And you're just like, Oh, like, what an unlikable person. But I think those types of moments, like the raging left and the raging feminist, they love that stuff.

00:16:49.040 I'm pretty sure there was t shirts made about that moments, mugs, people lauded her for, you know, asserting her authority as a woman. And I think we're going to see that same thing happen against Trump, where we're going to see her go after Trump and, and try to just really appear as like a strong feminist, willing to go after Donald Trump. I think we're going to see a lot of that.

00:17:08.340 But you know, the thing is that they're strong, and there's assertive, and there's aggressive and mean, and she falls into the second care category, aggressive and mean, and she will use whatever she can.

00:17:23.640 And the problem is that the media and the left interpret that as strength, it's not strength, because she has nothing propping her up, other than this, this kind of behavior, and it's I think it speaks to her true character.

00:17:40.640 Now, Trump is not lovable, but he did some tremendous good for the US during his four years. And I think his, if I were advising, I would, in the debate, remind people, there were no wars, Israel wasn't at war, Ukraine wasn't at war, there was global peace, I got the Abraham Accords, nobody was, you know, huge numbers weren't crossing the border, there were no rapes, there were no murders.

00:18:07.760 Speak to people's fears of safety. And I think if he does that, he'll come off strong. Because, and I call her a mean girl. So if she exhibits that kind of behavior, the average person that is going to grate on them.

00:18:24.400 Mm hmm. Um, just the last thing I wanted to touch on here is Joe Biden. Does he even care that he's still president? I'm not sure the best of the job. Take a look at this clip. Biden is once again, just enjoying life on the beach in Delaware.

00:18:40.140 I mean, in a way, watching him, you're like, you know, I don't really blame him. That looks really nice. I wish I was there right now. He's an old man. He's lived a long life. You know, his impairment's not there. He should be relaxing on a beach.

00:19:04.240 All those things would be true if he hadn't run for the presidency in the last term. Obviously, he shouldn't have. He was too old. That became very clear. I just got to wonder who's running things over there at the White House right now. I asked this to a lot of my guests get a lot of different answers. I'm just not sure who's in charge of the most powerful nation on earth right now.

00:19:22.060 administration. The people you see who come on air, like Blinken, Secretary of State Blinken, and some of the others. He's not in charge. He said that while he was on the beach, obviously, I can't see him. He's kind of holding his phone, but I don't think he's on it. He was regularly in touch with Netanyahu, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel.

00:19:43.880 And, you know, that's not happening. And people have said, speculated that he's really deteriorated. He just gave another speech when he came off the beach, and that he's deteriorated even further, that he was slurring his words. So I think he's toast, and he should have stepped aside for the next five months. I mean, that is all hubris. That is all ego. And that's not fair to, well, what was once

00:20:13.580 the world's superpower, no longer under these people.

00:20:18.020 Bureaucrats are in charge of the American government. What a chilling thought that is. Sue Ann, thank you so much.

00:20:25.440 You're welcome.

00:20:26.780 All right, everyone. That's all we have for you today on Rachel and the Republic. We'll be back next week with coverage of the Trump versus Harris debate. I cannot wait to watch it. I'm sure that you're all very excited as well. See you next week. Have a good one. God bless.

00:20:43.580 Thank you.

Juno News - September 04, 2024

Harris has NO plan to beat Trump in the debate

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