Donald Trump picks J.D. Vance to be his Vice Presidential Nominee. Former Vice President Joe Biden was introduced on the floor of the Republican National Convention yesterday afternoon, and a moment later, he came down to the strains of the Merle Haggard strain of "America First" that was used to rebuke the Bush administration's isolationist foreign policy in the early days of the George H.W. Bush administration, and later used to describe it as "a sort of ballad that was written in isolationist to the fact that was actually a rebuke to the isolationist ballad." This is an audacious, bold, confident pick from the former president of the United States, and it is a pick that is both designed to shore up the blue wall in favor of red in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania, and more importantly, it is designed to enshrine his policy legacy as a shift away from traditional conservatism. And we'll get to that in a moment with J. D. Vance's statement, which says, "After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talent of many others, I've decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the U.S. is Senator J.Ds Vance of the great state of Ohio." And it's a bold move by a president who believes he is winning, and he's making that pick because he believes he's winning. It's that simple, folks. And again, there's a reason that Trump doesn't need a VP pick to win in swing states, it's really not about that he needs a bulldog to win those swing states...it's about that...and that's why he thinks he's going to be a good VP pick, and why he's not going to win them. And that's not about winning in those states anyway. - it's about winning, is that simple? and that's what this pick is about? And why he doesn't even care about winning there, and what he needs to be about? And that he doesn t need a good bulldog, and that he wants a good, smart, high IQ bulldog who can help him make America great again? and he wants to make America Great Again? -- and that s what he's here to do, right there, right in Ohio, right on the edge of the red states, right next to the blue states, and in the middle.
00:00:50.000Trump's statement, the one that he put out on Truth Social, says, quote, after lengthy deliberation and thought and considering the tremendous talent of many others, I've decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D.
00:01:03.000honorably served our country in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State University in two years summa cum laude, and is a Yale Law School graduate, where he was editor of the Yale Law School and president of the Yale Law Veterans Association.
00:01:13.000J.D.' 's book, Hillbilly Elegy, became a major bestseller and movie as it championed the hardworking men and women of our country.
00:01:18.000has had a very successful business career in technology and finance, and now, during the campaign, will be strongly focused on the people he fought so brilliantly for, the American workers and farmers.
00:01:26.000In Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, and far beyond.
00:01:29.000Again, that last sentence is the one that matters the most there.
00:02:33.000Vance, his wife Usha, who also graduated from Yale Law School, and their three beautiful children, MAGA 2024.
00:02:40.000And again, it's a fascinating move, and it is a bold move by a president who believes that he is winning.
00:02:47.000And again, there's a reason that Trump believes he's winning right now.
00:02:49.000The swing state polling from YouGov finds that Trump is currently up nine in Arizona, five in Wisconsin, six in Georgia, three in Pennsylvania, two in Michigan, five in Nevada, and four in North Carolina.
00:02:59.000That is an extraordinary set of polls for Donald Trump.
00:03:03.000And the only one of those polls that seems to even be within spitting distance is maybe Michigan.
00:03:07.000Wisconsin plus five is a big number for Donald Trump.
00:03:11.000How much of that is about Trump and how much of that is about Joe Biden?
00:04:59.000Now, in 2016, when he wrote Hillbilly Elegy, it was seen as sort of the Trumpian book.
00:05:03.000It was the book that explained the rise of Donald Trump.
00:05:05.000The central thesis of the book was effectively that there were a lot of people who had been forgotten in the middle of the country.
00:05:11.000People had been left behind in the middle of the country.
00:05:15.000And what he wrote, here's some of the quotes from Hillbilly Elegy, which tells you sort of where his head is at with regard to how he believes people ought to think about work and work ethic.
00:05:26.000Now, as we'll talk about in a moment, that contrasts somewhat with his sort of industrial policy.
00:05:31.000He's very much on the interventionist economic side of the Republican aisle.
00:05:36.000He favors government interventionism in terms of subsidies and regulations, very much like President Trump supposedly did back in 2016.
00:05:44.000Trump didn't actually end up implementing a whole hell of a lot of that.
00:05:49.000Here's what he wrote in Hillbillyology, quote, He also says, Similarly, when people do fail, this mindset allows them to look outward.
00:05:52.000I once ran into an old acquaintance at a Middletown bar who told me that he had recently quit his job because he was sick of waking up early.
00:05:57.000you're a loser, it's the government's fault.
00:06:00.000He also says if you believe that hard work pays off, then you work hard.
00:06:02.000If you think it's hard to get ahead, even when you try, why try at all?
00:06:05.000Similarly, when people do fail, this mindset allows them to look outward.
00:06:08.000I once ran into an old acquaintance at a Middletown bar who told me that he had recently quit
00:06:12.000his job because he was sick of waking up early.
00:06:14.000I later saw him complaining on Facebook about the Obama economy and how it had affected
00:06:18.000I don't doubt the Obama economy has affected many, but this man is assuredly not among
00:06:22.000His status in life is directly attributable to the choices he's made, and his life will improve only through better decisions.
00:06:27.000But for him to make better choices, he needs to live in an environment that forces him to ask tough questions about himself.
00:06:31.000There's a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherence by the day.
00:06:38.000Now again, Hillbilly Elegy originally came out in 2016.
00:06:43.000At the time, Vance was quite anti-Trump.
00:06:47.000The Democrats are, of course, already noting this as though this is some sort of great revelation.
00:06:50.000It turns out that many of us, actually, were not huge fans of Trump in 2016.
00:07:30.000It's time to start supporting companies who share your values, like creating American jobs and supporting our veterans.
00:07:34.000It's time to switch your cell phone service to PureTalk.
00:07:37.000Plus, with no contract and a 30-day money-back guarantee, you have nothing to lose.
00:07:40.000Visit PureTalk.com slash Shapiro to upgrade your cell phone service to America's most dependable 5G network and save an extra 50% off your very first month of coverage.
00:08:01.000Vance actually wrote about Donald Trump in a text in 2016.
00:08:04.000He said, I'm not surprised by Trump's rise.
00:08:05.000I think the entire party has only itself to blame.
00:08:07.000We are, whether we like it or not, the party of lower-income, lower-education white people, and I've been saying for a long time, we need to offer those people something, and hell, maybe even expand our appeal to working-class black people in the process, or a demagogue would.
00:08:19.000Trump is the fruit of the party's collective neglect.
00:08:21.000I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a-hole like Nixon, who wouldn't be that bad, and might even prove useful, or that he's America's Hitler.
00:08:28.000Now, people are focusing on the last part there, but you can see hints, even in the first part, that what he wants to do is offer something to the white working class, particularly in the Rust Belt state.
00:08:38.000And that has grown into a sort of full-blown interest in industrial economic policy.
00:08:43.000This is one of the areas where he has wide differentiation from traditional sort of economic free market conservatism.
00:08:51.000First of all, we should point out that he's been asked directly about those comments about Trump.
00:08:55.000His answer is very much the same as mine, which is Trump surprised him and he was wrong.
00:09:12.000When you're wrong about something, you should change your mind and be honest with people about that fact.
00:09:17.000Okay, so, again, that seems like a pretty good excuse.
00:09:19.000Not only that, it's a good move by President Trump because, again, it's embracing the fact that he has brought more people into the tent, certainly.
00:09:26.000Now, on economics, again, he is quite heterodox on economics from sort of traditional free market republicanism.
00:09:33.000So, on trade, for example, he has been very much in favor of tariffs.
00:09:40.000He suggested a much more aggressive approach to protecting domestic manufacturers if Trump wins a second term.
00:09:44.000Now, Trump was aggressive on tariff policy with regard to China, largely for national security reasons.
00:09:50.000But Vance is much more aggressive in terms of actual domestic protection for manufacturers.
00:10:07.000Well, look, I'm not going to speak for Donald Trump, but I certainly agree that we need to apply some broad-based tariffs, especially on goods coming in from China, and not just solar panels and EV stuff.
00:10:17.000We need to protect American industries from all of the competition.
00:10:23.000The reason China beats us, it's not because they have better workers.
00:10:26.000It's because they're willing to use slaves to make things there.
00:10:29.000We want American workers to make this stuff at good wages.
00:10:33.000Okay, now again, the case that he is making right there is true about China, but it can also be extended out in principle to pretty much anything that protects certain sectors of American domestic manufacture.
00:10:45.000That's a point that he made to me in 2021.
00:10:55.000Vance, beardless at the time, had to say about industrial policy at that point.
00:10:59.000I do think the economic piece of it is important, especially if we understand that the economy is not just the way that people provide for themselves materially, but they also sort of need that community that comes along with a stable job and good work.
00:11:13.000And I also think at a fundamental level, we have to meet people where they are, right?
00:11:16.000So it's one thing to say, to people, well, you've got to go get a U-Haul, you've got
00:11:21.000to move to where the economic opportunities are.
00:11:24.000That's fine for some subcategory of people.
00:11:26.000I think some people are going to want to move.
00:11:29.000But if in reality a lot of people don't want to leave the homes that made them where they
00:11:32.000are, maybe they're willing to move a few hours away, maybe they're willing to move 45 miles
00:11:36.000up the road, but they're not willing to sort of drop everything and move from West Virginia
00:11:41.000I think we just have to accept that's how people are.
00:11:44.000Even if Kevin Williamson may not like that that's how people are, that is a fact of life.
00:11:48.000And so we also have to, if we care about people, I think all of us do, we have to accept that we have to try to rebuild some sort of real economic and manufacturing base all over the country.
00:11:59.000But we also have this very discreet idea that while the government shouldn't be controlling the American economy, we should have as a policy consensus a view about what we want the economy to be, what we want the market to be able to produce, and to put a little bit of a thumb on the scale to make that possible.
00:12:19.000So on a generalized level, I obviously disagree with that, as I made clear in that interview, where actually both of us were beardless at the time.
00:12:26.000is, but he's an excellent and intelligent expositor of his position on these issues.
00:12:31.000On economics, he's made common cause from time to time with Senator Elizabeth Warren.
00:12:35.000He's cheered on Federal Trade Commissioner Chair Lena Kahn.
00:12:38.000These are all sort of, for free marketers, notes of caution, but they are also significations that Donald Trump believes that his industrial policy The kind of policy that he's espoused for his entire career, actually, is backed by J.D.
00:12:51.000Vance is much more of an ideological pick than a sort of clever political pick.
00:12:54.000If Mike Pence is a way for Donald Trump to shore up his support with evangelical communities, there's no sort of political similarity there with J.D.
00:13:09.000Now, I will say, politically speaking, this does raise the possibility of Donald Trump being able to break into more private union-based communities.
00:13:19.000And this has been something that a lot of Republicans in blue-collar states have wanted to do for a long time.
00:13:25.000They want to say there shouldn't be a stranglehold on union politics by Democrats.
00:13:30.000So, for example, the head of the Teamsters actually came out, his name is Sean O'Brien, and praised J.D.
00:14:32.000Getting life insurance will give you peace of mind knowing if something were to happen to you, your family could cover their expenses while getting back on their feet.
00:14:38.000PolicyGenius is the country's leading online insurance marketplace.
00:14:41.000It makes choosing the right policy for a family easy and quick.
00:14:44.000With PolicyGenius, you can find life insurance policies starting at just $292 per year for a million dollars in coverage.
00:14:49.000Some options are 100% online and let you avoid unnecessary medical exams.
00:14:53.000PolicyGenius has licensed award-winning agents and technology that make it easy to compare life insurance quotes from America's top insurers and find that lowest price.
00:15:00.000Their team of licensed experts is on hand to help you through the process.
00:15:03.000Even if you already have a life insurance policy through work, it might not offer enough protection for your family's needs.
00:15:07.000It might not follow you if you leave your job.
00:15:08.000PolicyGenius works for you, not the insurance companies.
00:15:11.000That means they don't have the incentive to recommend one insurer over another.
00:15:45.000I'm using the word heterodox advisedly here because again, Trumpism has never really been fleshed out as a full-scale philosophy.
00:15:51.000Vance comes the closest of any of the candidates to actually doing that.
00:15:55.000When it comes to foreign policy, I think you can best describe Vance not as an isolationist, but more as a realist.
00:16:00.000I think that's probably how he would describe himself.
00:16:02.000Now, that takes a rather interesting turn when it comes to the two major hot conflicts in the world right now.
00:16:07.000One in Israel, obviously, and one in Ukraine.
00:16:09.000He looks at those two conflicts and he sees heavy American interest in Israel.
00:16:13.000He does not see heavy American interest in Ukraine.
00:16:15.000So when it comes to Ukraine, he is famously anti-Ukraine aid.
00:16:19.000He wrote a piece back in April titled, The Math on Ukraine Does Not Add Up.
00:16:22.000This is for the New York Times, in which he suggests that there are three reasons why there shouldn't be any more aid to Ukraine.
00:16:28.000The first reason, Is that Ukraine will not be able to do with the aid what they need to do.
00:16:35.000Second is lack of American military capacity and the notion that we are going to be overdoing it.
00:16:42.000That essentially, if we ship them more military aid, then we are emptying our own stockpiles.
00:16:48.000And finally, the basic idea, which is that we should be spending money at home and not spending money abroad.
00:16:52.000Now, again, I think that last idea there is the most flimsy because that's always true for any conflict, literally any conflict.
00:16:59.000It's not an excuse for not having a foreign policy.
00:17:02.000I also think it ignores the actual American interests in, say, preventing Russia from taking over the world's breadbasket and then putting itself on the borders of a multiplicity of NATO states.
00:17:12.000If you don't want an arms race in Europe, then presumably a level of aid sufficient to allow Ukraine to repel Russia from a full-scale win would be the thing you're looking for.
00:17:22.000has made clear in interviews before that he actually doesn't care what happens in Ukraine, which is a very strong statement, and one that I would love to see J.D.
00:17:32.000I think it's ridiculous that we're focused on this border in Ukraine.
00:17:36.000I gotta be honest with you, I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.
00:17:41.000He doesn't care what happens to Ukraine one way or another is a very strong statement.
00:17:45.000Now, again, what he actually ends up with at the end of his New York Times piece is something that looks very much like what I would say or what Trump would say, which is, you support Ukraine up to the point a peace can be reached with an eye on the off-ramp.
00:17:56.000He finishes by saying, the White House has said time and time again it can't negotiate with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
00:18:02.000The Biden administration has no viable plan for the Ukrainians to win this war.
00:18:05.000The sooner Americans confront this truth, the sooner we can fix this mess and broker for peace.
00:18:09.000I would agree with that so long as there's any flexibility in negotiation shown by Putin.
00:18:15.000In fact, I've been agreeing with that since Henry Kissinger said it like two months into the Ukraine war.
00:18:19.000The call for a full scale withdrawal of aid in the face of continued Russian aggression, however, is not likely to lead to a negotiated end in Ukraine.
00:18:26.000It is likely to lead to a further continuation of the conflict.
00:18:29.000And when it comes to Israel, however, he does see strong American interest in Israel.
00:18:32.000He spoke at the Quincy Institute, which is a sort of paleocon institute, meaning isolationist. And he spoke there about
00:18:40.000Ukraine, but he also spoke about Israel. And there he differentiated between the two. And he
00:18:43.000spelled out what he thinks are America's interests in maintaining enough aid for
00:18:46.000Israel to be able to destroy Hamas, and then to broker a peace deal with the Saudis that would
00:18:51.000I think we have a real opportunity to ensure that Israel is an ally in the true sense,
00:18:58.000that it's going to pursue their interests. And sometimes those interests won't totally
00:19:02.000overlap with the United States, and that's totally reasonable,
00:19:04.000but they are fundamentally self-sufficient.
00:19:06.000And I think the way that we get there in Israel is actually by combining the Abraham Accords approach with the defeat of Hamas.
00:19:15.000that gets us to a place where Israel and the Sunni nations can play a regional counterweight to Iran.
00:19:21.000Again, we don't want a broader regional war.
00:19:23.000We don't want to get involved in a broader regional war.
00:19:26.000The best way to do that is to ensure that Israel with the Sunni nations can actually police their own region of the world.
00:19:34.000And that allows us to spend less time and less resources on the Middle East and focus more on East Asia.
00:19:40.000And again, that is a very solid realist case.
00:19:43.000And the realist logic that Vance is bringing is actually not full-scale isolationism, as he makes clear right there.
00:19:48.000I, too, would like to see pretty much everybody off American aid.
00:19:51.000The point of American aid is to foment American interests.
00:19:53.000And as Vance puts forward there, there are, in fact, American interests in a stable Middle East that aren't going to require us to intervene every five seconds or so.
00:20:02.000And meanwhile, on immigration, he very much mirrors Donald Trump's feelings on immigration.
00:20:07.000Just last week, he was slamming Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, on illegal immigration and talking about its impact on the economy.
00:20:14.000When you hear sort of your colleagues and other economists outside of the Fed talk about the influx of immigration and the fact that it, I think admittedly, has put downward pressure on wages.
00:20:29.000Okay, so there, obviously, that has put some downward pressure on inflation, but it also puts downward pressure on the wages that people earn.
00:20:42.000Maybe the premise is fundamentally incorrect.
00:20:43.000But why do so many economists treat an influx of new labor as a good thing if labor is constrained, labor supply is constrained?
00:20:55.000Doesn't that lead to rising wages for American workers?
00:20:58.000I'm certainly not trying to put a value judgment on it.
00:21:01.000I will say that this is all happening over the last couple of years in a context of an extremely tight labor market.
00:21:07.000Okay, so again, he's pointing out there that if you want increasing wages, then you can't undercut the labor base.
00:21:12.000Now, again, I don't think that's a particularly great argument against immigration.
00:21:16.000I think that there's a very strong cultural argument that you actually have to screen people so that you don't have a massive influx of people who aren't engaged in American taxpaying, who aren't engaged in American culture or the thoughts of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, for example.
00:21:31.000But that perspective obviously matches up incredibly well with the perspective of President Trump.
00:21:36.000Vance's perspectives on immigration, they match Donald Trump's, and Donald Trump has been very concerned about the social unrest connected with illegal immigration.
00:21:43.000Speaking of social unrest, you know, as crime rates climb, securing the safety of our family is more crucial than ever.
00:21:49.000I'm about as pro-Second Amendment as it gets, but the thought of using lethal force, well, it's not ideal for everybody.
00:21:53.000This is why you need to check out Burna.
00:21:56.000And the reality is, you want to protect your family?
00:21:59.000Introducing the Burna Ungun, the non-lethal self-defense platform.
00:23:29.000When you see him in these clips talking with anchors on television, he's not going to get bested, he's not going to freeze up, he's not somebody who tends to bank on sort of peculiar Ticks or anything like that.
00:23:43.000J.D.' 's a very talented guy, and there's a reason that Trump picked him.
00:24:04.000Vance is a bold and audacious pick specifically because he is not a conventional pick and also because he doesn't actually open the map any wider than it otherwise would have been.
00:24:13.000Picking, say, Glenn Youngkin would have provided very few places for Democrats to grab onto.
00:24:27.000For J.D., because he's thought a lot of these things through, and because he has said so many of these things out loud, that is going to allow Democrats to attack him with more alacrity than they would another candidate.
00:24:38.000So again, politically speaking, he is not the best pick.
00:24:40.000He may be the best pick in terms of, again, providing a future for Donald Trump's philosophy beyond Donald Trump.
00:24:46.000He will certainly be the best attack dog that Trump could have picked.
00:24:49.000As far as opening the map or providing less vulnerabilities for a Democratic opponent, that's not what he is there for.
00:24:55.000So Van Jones over on CNN, he did a good job, I think, of retailing what the Democratic line of attack against J.D.
00:25:50.000He talks a big game about working people, but now he and Trump want to raise taxes on middle class families while pushing more tax cuts for the rich.
00:25:59.000That is a super weak T. General Mally Dillon.
00:26:02.000Put out a Biden campaign statement saying Donald Trump picked J.D.
00:26:04.000Vance as his running mate because Vance will do what Mike Pence wouldn't do on January 6th, bend over backwards to enable Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda, even if it means breaking the law no matter the harm to the American people.
00:26:14.000As Trump's running mate, Vance will make it his mission to enact Trump's Project 2025 agenda at the expense of American families.
00:26:19.000This is someone who supports banning abortion nationwide while criticizing exceptions for rape and incest survivors, railed against the Affordable Care Act, including its protections for millions with preexisting conditions, and has admitted he would not have certified the free and fair election in 2020.
00:26:31.000Billionaires and corporations are literally rooting for JD Vance.
00:26:34.000They know he and Trump will cut their taxes and send prices skyrocketing for everyone else over the next three and a half months.
00:26:38.000We'll spend every single day making the case between the two starkly contrasting visions Americans will choose between at the ballot box this November, the Biden-Harris ticket, who's focused on uniting the country, creating opportunity for everyone and lowering costs, or Trump-Vance, whose harmful agenda will take away Americans' rights, hurt the middle class, and make life more expensive, all while benefiting the ultra-rich and greedy corporations.
00:26:57.000So, again, That is gonna be the line of attack.
00:27:00.000And Biden-Harris HQ put out a very scary picture.
00:29:12.000There's no actual economic benefit to this.
00:29:16.000You can't just cap increases in rents nationwide without drastically reducing the supply.
00:29:22.000Rent control has failed literally everywhere it has ever been tried.
00:29:25.000There are entire swaths of New York that were burned during the 1970s because of rent control, because it turns out that when you can't increase rent to keep up with costs, people just abandon the upkeep on their apartments or burn them down for the insurance money.
00:29:38.000But Joe Biden is now proposing that nationwide.
00:29:39.000So he's already tried paying off college students and ex-college students by alleviating their student loan debt illegally.
00:29:46.000Now, according to the Washington Post, Biden's plan, which would need to be approved by Congress, calls for stripping a tax benefit from landlords who increase their tenants' rent more than 5% per year.
00:29:56.000The measure would only apply to landlords who own more than 50 units, which represents roughly half of all rental properties.
00:30:01.000It would not cover units that have not yet been built in an attempt to ensure the policy does not discourage construction of new rental housing.
00:30:25.000I mean, it's certainly a violation of the Takings Clause to simply say that people are not allowed to increase the rents consummate with the market.
00:30:33.000He's trying to do this in Nevada because rents have been rising relatively steeply in Nevada.
00:30:39.000But if he believes that he's going to tamp down inflation in housing costs by essentially destroying the new supply of housing with rent control, he is out of his mind.
00:30:47.000But again, there's not much mind left there from President Biden.
00:30:50.000So that is prong number one, try to pay people off.
00:30:54.000Prong number two was, declare Donald Trump a scourged democracy.
00:30:58.000The problem, of course, is that after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday, that line of attack should be off the table for him.
00:31:06.000Because after all, when you keep saying over and over, as we've been saying, When you keep saying that somebody is Hitler, that that person is going to end democracy, that the election of that person is going to literally end the country, there will be no more democracy, no more elections, then people might take that the wrong way and go and try and shoot the president in the head, for example.
00:31:26.000And Joe Biden himself supposedly recognized this.
00:31:29.000You'll recall just yesterday on this program, when we discussed President Biden going to the Oval Office and giving a six-minute speech that he barely was able to read from a teleprompter that was misaligned with his eyeline, in which he declared that it was time to cool it down.
00:33:44.000It was going to be the most Looked forward to thing of the week, and then, of course, all hell broke loose on Saturday, and now you have a vice presidential pick on the Republican side, and it's the RNC.
00:33:52.000But, if you remember, all the way back to the middle of next week, the thing that everybody was waiting for was this latest interview with Lester Holt, because we were going to find out, yet again, whether the President of the United States is senile.
00:34:15.000These are the principles that will propel Trump back into the White House this November.
00:34:19.000And we definitely need President Trump in the White House, of course.
00:34:22.000At The Daily Wire, we're not just talking about conservative values.
00:34:24.000We fight for them every single day, but we need your help to do that.
00:34:27.000If you love our collection coverage, if you've been following it, if you need the updates, if you need every twist and turn covered, and if you need us fighting for you, For a very limited time, we are offering 47% off your annual membership with our special presidential deal, because he's the 47th president, we hope.
00:34:42.000You heard that right, 47% off annual memberships.
00:34:44.000With that membership, you get access to everything, uncensored shows, ad-free content, podcasts that actually make you smarter, news that isn't filtered through the left's propaganda machine.
00:34:52.000This is your chance to fight the left and build the future and join us.
00:34:55.000Those aren't just words, that is our mission and we need you on board.
00:34:57.000Go to dailywire.com slash subscribe, join the fight right now for 47% off.
00:35:02.000As we were saying, President Biden, he was supposed to do an interview with Lester Holt over the weekend and then was going to air this week.
00:35:08.000Well, finally the interview has come out and it was going to be another referendum on whether he can continue to maintain his run.
00:35:16.000As of last Friday, there was a lot of discussion about whether he was going to be forced from the race yet again, because every Democrat looked at him and they said he is senile, he is losing, he is down in all the swing states.
00:35:24.000By one poll from the Wall Street Journal, he's down six nationally to Donald Trump, which is a disaster area poll for him.
00:35:31.000Right now, in the RealClearPolitics polling average, he is down nationally to Donald Trump in the five-way by 4.1 points.
00:35:39.000That is the poll, the five-way, that includes RFK Jr., for example.
00:35:43.000did, in fact, stop by the RNC yesterday to meet with Trump.
00:35:46.000We are not sure what that is about at this time.
00:35:48.000Maybe it is Trump brokering with RFK to drop out of the race and throw him his support in return for, say, EPA administrator or something, which is really what I assume RFK Jr.
00:36:25.000Well, let's talk about the conversation this has started, and it's really about language, what we say out loud, and the consequences of those.
00:36:32.000You called your opponent an existential threat on a call a week ago.
00:36:36.000You said it's time to put Trump in the bullseye.
00:36:39.000There's some dispute about the context, but I think you appreciate that word better.
00:36:46.000Look, the truth of the matter was, what I guess I was talking about at the time was, there's very little focus on Trump's Yeah, the term was bullseye.
00:37:03.000Okay, so this is actually, this criticism of Biden is the least, is the least useful one.
00:37:09.000I mentioned this in the aftermath of all the focus on the bullseye comment.
00:37:11.000It was really stupid when they applied it to Sarah Palin.
00:37:14.000The reason he is making a differentiation here, you should know, between bullseye and crosshairs is because Democrats tried to blame Sarah Palin for the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords
00:37:23.000by a complete nut-whack job in Arizona.
00:37:26.000They blamed a Sarah Palin map that put a crosshairs on Gabby Giffords' district as a swing district
00:37:41.000But the main thrust of this particular interview from Joe Biden is going to be what I said it was, which is everyone else's rhetoric is responsible, not mine, which is kind of amazing, given the fact that his entire campaign has been run on the basis that Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy.
00:37:57.000So dire, so deep, so threatening that you must elect a non-sentient 81-year-old man to the presidency so that he cannot fill out his second term.
00:38:07.000He continues with Lester Holt, and again, he sounds just awful.
00:40:07.000But again, the shtick here is that Donald Trump is effectively responsible for his own assassination.
00:40:12.000The only person whose rhetoric has been over the top is Donald Trump.
00:40:15.000Meanwhile, Democrats have been fully above board.
00:40:16.000Joe Biden, in his own person, has been nothing.
00:40:19.000But the apotheosis of kindliness and gentility, that is in Joe Biden's mind.
00:40:24.000That's why I don't believe him when he says he wants to take down the temperature.
00:40:28.000And I've been saying for years that people should stop saying on both sides that if the opponent gets elected, it's the last election because it's total crap.
00:40:35.000But Joe Biden says that he says it like every single day.
00:40:37.000And then when asked by Lester Holt after the assassination attempt, if he's going to stop saying it, he's like, nope, I'm going to keep saying it because he is a threat to democracy.
00:40:45.000So, pardon me if I take, with a giant iceberg-sized block of salt, your contention that it's time to lower the temperature.
00:40:55.000I think you just mean that Republicans should shut up, and you should be able to keep saying that Mitt Romney's gonna put black people back in chains, Tea Partiers are terrorists, and Donald Trump is Hitler.
00:41:02.000That's what I think that you mean, Mr. President.
00:41:10.000He's gonna forgive all those, actually, I guess, suspend the sentences of all those who were arrested and sentenced to go to jail because of what happened in the Capitol.
00:41:22.000I'm not out there making fun of, like, remember the picture of Donald Trump when Nancy Pelosi's husband was hit with a hammer, talking about, joking about it?
00:41:34.000Yeah, this is just pathetic stuff from him.
00:41:37.000And you can make the case that Donald Trump ought to lower the temperature.
00:41:39.000I think Donald Trump might make that case actually this Thursday night.
00:41:42.000But Joe Biden refuses to lower the temperature because the minute he does, this election is over and he knows it.
00:41:46.000The only way that he can somehow jigger himself into office is by pretending that the threat on the other side is so unbelievably dire that if you don't elect him a warm corpse to the office, that it will be filled by a person who is likely to unleash CLCM6 to kill his political opponents.
00:42:04.000And meanwhile, by the way, they never stopped marching.
00:42:06.000So outside the RNC, there were marchers outside the RNC.
00:42:10.000Were they lowering the temperature, Mr. President?
00:42:12.000I didn't hear that because they were chanting outside the RNC in Milwaukee about how the Republican National Convention was filled with KKK members.
00:42:20.000You know, members of the absolute party of evil.
00:42:23.000Here are some of those marchers outside the RNC.
00:42:26.000They're chanting, no Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA, while carrying Palestinian flags,
00:43:20.000I don't understand why you would avoid the question, except that you know that your answer is not that you actually condemn an assassination attempt.
00:43:33.000That he attempted to commit suicide with his own rhetoric.
00:43:36.000Or that his rhetoric got so out of control that he incited somebody on his own side to kill him, or somebody on the other side to kill him.
00:43:41.000But it could only have been Trump, because left-wingers are allowed to say whatever the hell they want, and right-wingers are the only ones who are unhinged.
00:43:46.000Here was Charlemagne Tha God, who does his own show, hammering Trump after somebody tried to shoot Trump in the head.
00:43:57.000We can condemn political violence and what happened to Trump on Saturday night, and also talk about the dangerous rhetoric that Donald Trump has spewed that got us here.
00:44:07.000Okay, so again, they're gonna try and blame it on Trump.