Former Vice President Joe Biden announces he is stepping down from the 2020 Democratic presidential race. David talks with Mark Patron about why Biden decided to leave the race and what it means for the future of the Democratic Party. David also talks about the parallels between Biden's decision and that of LBJ's decision in 1968.
00:06:57.340Yeah, I can believe that for a minute.
00:06:59.120She really believes she's destined to be the greatest president in history.
00:07:03.320She really believes that about herself.
00:07:05.220I don't think anybody else of sound mind believes that.
00:07:09.380But here's a couple of clips I wanted to show our audience and you as well of the extent,
00:07:17.740how articulate Kamala Harris has demonstrated herself to be.
00:07:23.140And what can be and be unburdened by what has been, you know?
00:07:28.040What can be unburdened by what has been?
00:07:31.720What can be unburdened by what has been?
00:07:36.080What can be unburdened by what has been.
00:07:40.080What can be unburdened by what has been.
00:07:45.120What we can see, what we believe can be unburdened by what has been.
00:07:49.880What can be unburdened by what has been.
00:07:53.300What can be unburdened by what has been.
00:07:56.480What can be unburdened by what has been.
00:07:59.840Who we can be unburdened by who we have been.
00:08:03.740What can be unburdened by what has been?
00:08:07.240Where we can be unburdened by where we have been and unburdened by where we are right now.
00:08:11.500What can be unburdened by what has been?
00:08:14.860What can be unburdened by what has been?
00:08:17.640What can be unburdened by what has been?
00:08:21.020What could be unburdened by what had been?
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00:08:28.760So, that goes to show you she learned one talking point.
00:08:33.740Very well. So well, as she repeats it just about everywhere she goes.
00:08:38.400But I have listened over the years to Kamala Harris, and she presents nothing but mindless word silence in terms of her trying to enunciate any sort of policy positions.
00:08:52.040And it was pointed out to me today that she's never had to really run a campaign by herself.
00:08:58.440She has never really she's always been foisted in the position, whether it was when she was a prosecutor in California, whether she was a senator.
00:09:08.860She's always been put in this position and other people have done the work for her.
00:09:14.200And she's doing this again now. Once again, she's totally ill prepared for this.
00:09:19.300She has no she really has no preconditions to be president.
00:09:25.040And yet she's going to be put in the public face. And yes, this is your choice.
00:09:30.560I feel sorry for Democrats who think their party really is Democratic.
00:09:35.800And this is what the irony of this for me, Mark, is that the Democratic Party goes back to the 1830s with Andrew Jackson.
00:09:43.580Listen, this really was a party that was at one time Democratic, even though the vote was not exactly applicable to everybody.
00:09:52.440The Democratic Party at least has Democratic roots.
00:09:56.000It's no longer even that when when they can just throw out the results of the primaries, which came in, by the way, during the early part of the progressive era in the United States,
00:10:06.940when they can just throw those results out and say, oh, Kamala Harris is your choice. Don't you love her?
00:10:12.800I feel sorry for Democratic voters who are saying we didn't vote for this is not our choice.
00:10:19.060I mean, how do you think the average Democratic voter thinks about this?
00:10:22.560Same thing that they thought about Bernie Sanders being cheated out of his right to represent the party.
00:10:28.920I mean, they realize I think you'd have to be blind not to know that the Democrat Party decides who the leader is going to be and people can vote, you know, party members can vote whatever way they want.
00:10:42.340I mean, we know from the WikiLeaks documents that that Bernie was going to win, that Bernie was ahead.
00:10:49.980But it didn't matter at the end of the day because that primary was going to be rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton.
00:10:55.340And so now we're facing another scenario here where Kamala clearly wants it.
00:11:01.640And as I have come to believe, Hillary Clinton also really wants it and is going to try and push her aside.
00:11:08.840So you've got a civil war now happening in the Democrat Party.
00:11:12.780And to your point, if they're not going to choose a leader fairly, then there has to be some other way that these two are going to duke it out.
00:11:20.020And it's going to be decided, you know, like the old Soviet Union used to decide the next leader of their party.
00:11:26.720Right. It certainly wasn't up to any vote by the population.
00:11:34.120No, the party itself decided who was going to succeed.
00:11:38.100You know, Stalin when he died and then Khrushchev when he left.
00:11:43.240You know, there's an internal battle and somebody emerges victorious and they're the leader.
00:11:49.400And that, I think, is what the Democrat Party is.
00:11:52.560You know, it's no different than the way that the old Soviet Union used to choose their leaders.
00:11:58.480I think the Democrat Party is doing it the same way.
00:12:01.540It's all going to be done in the back room.
00:12:03.340And somehow someone is going to decide who the representative is going to be and the other person is going to just have to eat it.
00:12:09.800Well, I think I think you're dead on in that analysis, Mark.
00:12:15.480Of course, I'm sure you watch the Republican National Convention and I watched every night.
00:12:23.000In fact, I carried the last night live on my show because I thought this was going to be a very historic speech from Donald Trump.
00:12:29.880But what strikes me is the difference now between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party is the Democratic Party is splintered now in probably about three ways.
00:12:40.900Whether you want Joe Biden to stay in, you like Kamala Harris or you like the alternatives, which are what?
00:12:48.800Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Newsom from California.
00:12:56.480And what impressed me about the Republican National Convention is that you had Donald Trump not only emerging from this assassination attempt with complete victory, but you had him saying, look, you don't want to join this.
00:13:12.260You don't want to be a part of this movement.
00:13:17.380We even had Nikki Haley, which I can't stand Nikki Haley, but we had 10 minutes of Nikki Haley essentially saying, I'm for Donald Trump, too.
00:13:28.280And I'm not going to make an issue out of it.
00:13:32.920And you also had anybody else who had a problem with Donald Trump getting on board.
00:13:38.020But you also had Donald Trump not for a minute saying, I am going to compromise my principles.
00:13:45.400He was quite clear that he's still against foreign wars.
00:13:48.860He's going to stop the U.S. getting involved in every foreign war possible.
00:13:57.100He is a president who is going to fight for average Americans.
00:14:00.840I was so impressed to see union people there talking about the fact that, yeah, people who work for a living, not government unions, but real people who work for a living are saying, I think I like Donald Trump more than I do the Democratic Party, because the Democrats are inviting in 30, 40, what?
00:14:21.320We don't even know how many tens of millions have illegals.
00:14:27.060And today is a defeat for the Democrats, because they just don't know where they're going as a party.
00:14:34.100And I think I can't think of another time the Republicans have been better placed for an election, except, and I have to say it, 40 years ago, when Ronald Reagan was seeking his second term, the U.S. was hosting the Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
00:14:53.520Because Americans were excited about being American again, and they loved their president, unlike, who can't stand their president, and they want Donald Trump.
00:15:06.180So I think the Republicans are so well placed right now.
00:15:10.760This could be the biggest landslide, not just in terms of, there's two landslide votes.
00:15:18.700Lyndon Johnson won the biggest landslide in terms of popular vote, 61.1% of the vote in 1964.
00:15:27.440The biggest landslide in history in terms of electoral college votes was Richard Nixon in 72, four years later.
00:15:35.600I think Donald Trump could win over 60% of the vote and perhaps capture a larger number of electoral college votes than even Richard Nixon won in 72.
00:15:46.440I think this could be the biggest year in history for the Republicans.
00:15:50.480And I hope they don't abuse that privilege.
00:15:58.200They use it for the good of the country.
00:16:00.360But I think this could be a historic year for Republicans.
00:16:05.780I mean, I want to be as optimistic as you are.
00:16:09.040I mean, the difference, of course, between now and when Reagan won his huge landslide was the illegals that have been pouring in thanks to cooperation between the Democrat Party and, of course, the NGOs, those who are bringing in millions of people, millions of illegals into the country.
00:16:36.600And the Democrat Party can harvest those votes.
00:16:39.320What's working against them now, David, is the fact that so many black Americans, so many Hispanics are bailing on the Democratic Party.
00:16:48.500I mean, forget all the other people that regularly punch the ticket for the Republicans.
00:16:55.180Now you've got other people who are sick and tired of the Democrats, and they see these millions of people pouring in, giving free phones, health care, accommodations, food, and eventually the right to vote.
00:17:15.240And they're thinking, wait a minute, we need help here.
00:17:18.960And you're throwing billions of dollars and bringing in illegals?
00:17:23.000But that's who the Democrats are going to be relying on to be their base of support going forward.
00:17:31.000I mean, do you think that Joe Biden really got 81 million votes last time?
00:17:36.520They cheated that time, and they're going to cheat again.
00:17:40.280And so Republicans need to get to the polls to override what's coming up.
00:17:46.460It's nice to hear guys like Mark Zuckerberg talk glowingly of what a badass Donald Trump was, raising his fists the way he did after the attempted assassination last Saturday.
00:18:00.180But, you know, is he going to withdraw his support of these ballot drop boxes that were so instrumental, if you believe in that documentary by Dinesh D'Souza, in, you know, allowing the Democrats to win, despite the fact that people didn't like Joe Biden, the fact that he ran a campaign from the basement of his residence or wherever he was.
00:18:59.740But I have to look realistically at what the Democrats are prepared to do.
00:19:05.320And they are literally prepared to do anything.
00:19:07.780And I mean anything under the sun to hold on to power.
00:19:11.900Well, I heard some statistics recently that the Democrats have to be well above the 5% corruption zone, meaning they have to have at least 5% imaginary votes to win this election in terms of the electoral votes.
00:20:17.880They need to actually follow through on that promise, because if they don't, they're going to be, it's going to happen again.
00:20:26.400Just like Donald Trump underestimated the deep state when he was president.
00:20:30.300He really, I think, thought these guys were just like a bunch of criminals that he dealt with in New Jersey.
00:20:37.180They were just a bunch of mafia types that he could, he could contain, he could control.
00:20:44.100They didn't realize that they were that powerful.
00:20:47.880And when they went after him, impeachment, when they went after him with judicial examination, and then after he lost the election, as you say, the highly spurious claims, when they continued to go after him.
00:21:03.400And I think it sunk in with Donald Trump that these people are not like the contractors in New Jersey.
00:21:10.840They're not like the people he used to deal with as a construction person, as a billionaire building billions.
00:21:18.300He understood that it was no longer the same.
00:21:26.280And I think that message has sunk through.
00:21:29.160And if Assassin's Bullet hasn't done that to him, to say, hey, you know, these guys want me dead.
00:21:37.480They just don't want me out of the race.
00:22:03.540I've never seen a more humble Donald Trump who is appealing to those Democrats and those left-leaning Republicans who've always said, well, he just seems a little too arrogant to me.
00:22:14.460He just seems a little too full of himself.
00:22:16.720I think Donald Trump this year is the Donald Trump for the ages.
00:22:22.120And I was all for Donald Trump in 2016.
00:22:25.280I was writing columns at the time for the Daily Caller.
00:23:02.180I mean, if you go back to 2016, it was a slightly naive Donald Trump, wasn't it?
00:23:06.960Bringing in neocons like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo into the fold and others who were undermining his presidency while on one hand appearing to be on his side.
00:23:21.660And Trump at the time figured, well, we're all Americans.
00:23:29.700And he thought that if he strengthened the country, strengthened the economy, which he did, and stopped the endless numbers of wars coming in, that somehow all these disparate elements in the country would rally behind him.
00:23:48.800What did we see that wasn't the case, that the people who were supposed to be on his side were among the backstabbers that did everything in their power to stop him and stop his agenda?
00:24:24.440They want nothing more than to perpetuate the wars that are now going on, whether you're talking about Ukraine or Syria.
00:24:35.420And, of course, we're inching towards World War III.
00:24:38.260You know, they want nothing more than to perpetuate this on behalf of the defense contractors.
00:24:45.080I mean, there's just so much money in killing other people and destroying humanity that these people, they're psychotics.
00:24:54.900And I hope and I think that now, based on what he has been saying, Trump gets it.
00:25:01.520And so now that's why they want to stop him.
00:25:04.020And the one thing that does give me some sense of hope is that if they didn't think that Trump could win the election because they were going to cheat, then why would they try to murder him?
00:25:16.540Why would they try to assassinate him?
00:25:18.780Why have they tried to use lawfare to prevent him from running?
00:25:22.920So clearly they feel that maybe Trump will get enough support to override the cheating that we fully expect the Democrats to do.
00:25:36.040Because, again, why try to prevent him from running?
00:25:41.180You know, if you know that you can cheat to the point where you're going to win, well, who cares if it's Donald Trump or whatever candidate?
00:25:49.260The Republicans are going to end up getting beaten yet again.
00:25:52.280And so the fact that they were trying to stop him from running to the point of even having an assassin's bullet hit his ear tells me that they believe that Trump could win.
00:26:06.400So that gives me a certain element of optimism.
00:26:11.040But, yeah, it'll be a different Trump, I would hope.
00:26:13.000Although you're still seeing the same crew of never-Trumpers trying to weasel their way in.
00:26:20.340Thankfully, he picked a guy like J.D. Vance, which is pissing off the donor class and the Republicans in the establishment.
00:26:26.080So that tells me that Trump is serious.
00:26:29.740If he had picked a Marco Rubio or a Nikki Haley or someone like that, then it would have demoralized the MAGA people and maybe had people wondering whether or not Trump was going to go down the same road that he went in 2016.
00:26:51.300If he had to pick, God forbid, Nikki Haley or even Marco Rubio, I would not be supporting Trump's re-election because I would say it's the same damn thing over and over again.
00:27:05.580But I think J.D. Vance is a difference.
00:27:24.760Trudeau had a little cabinet shuffle on Friday as he got rid of Seamus or Reagan.
00:27:30.980And he put one of his most obnoxious ministers in terms of labor.
00:27:36.720I just, just can't, can't abide that, that minister.
00:27:42.440He's the most partisan piece of game in the whole trunk.
00:27:47.680But I, do you think, do you think that Justin Trudeau really thinks he can postpone his resignation and his, his oblivion by bringing Mark Carney into the cabinet, which he's surely aiming to do right now?
00:28:06.720You obviously think it's worth a shot.
00:28:39.380So, it's the Katie Telfords of the world.
00:28:42.100It's his close team, close little, tight little cabal who are undermining Chrystia Freeland.
00:28:50.040On one hand, kind of telling her, well, you know, the job is yours for now.
00:28:54.460And on the other hand, trying to convince, trying to convince Mark Carney to join them and they see him as a fixer, the guy who can come in, sell the carbon tax, which is really what this is all about.
00:29:09.400So much of the opposition to Trudeau is in opposition to this green agenda of his, which has been so economically devastating to so many Canadians.
00:29:20.820So, you bring a guy like Carney, who's another elitist, another guy who never has to worry about going to the grocery store and, you know, spending more than he has on, you know, tomatoes or, you know, fish or something else to feed his family.
00:29:38.280You know, Mark Carney doesn't have to worry about that.
00:29:41.180None of those people around Trudeau have to worry about that.
00:29:45.580But they need a guy who can put a fresh coat of paint on that government.
00:29:50.000And I guess they see him as that person.
00:29:52.520Now, whether or not he wants to do it, well, that's another matter altogether.
00:29:56.680But it tells you a lot about these people, that they're trying to blame Chrystia Freeland, who, by the way, I am no fan of.
00:30:12.780Try to bring in Carney and somehow hope that that is the magic elixir that elevates Justin Trudeau to victory once again.
00:30:21.760I don't think it'll work, but he's certainly going to give it a shot.
00:30:25.140But, you know, once again, it's Justin Trudeau, the feminist prime minister, sticking it to his senior, the senior female cabinet minister.
00:30:37.700Just like he did to his attorney general.
00:30:42.320Yes, and I felt bad for her because I thought this is a cabinet minister with some principles because she was standing up to Trudeau and saying there's something wrong here.
00:31:25.140Stalin was a lot smarter and a lot more ruthless, was Joseph Stalin.
00:31:31.860Well, I think Justin Trudeau's days are numbered here, but we will see what happens, because I think as Joe Biden goes, I've been saying this for the last four weeks now, as Joe Biden goes, I think Justin Trudeau goes, and I think his days are numbered.
00:31:48.740As liberals read the wallpaper, as they understand it's over, that they cannot continue to do this to us.
00:31:59.520So, anyway, thank you so much for joining me, Mark.
00:32:05.060And this is a very historic day in American and U.S. and world history, because this is the only time a U.S. president has ever resigned or at least dropped out of the race at the end of the primary system.