Former Vice President Joe Biden announces he will not be running for re-election to President of the United States in 2020. This is historic, shocking news, really unprecedented in American history. Ben Shapiro breaks it all down and explains why Joe Biden is stepping away from the 2020 Democratic presidential race. He also points out that if Joe Biden were running for president, he'd have a much better chance of winning the election than he has now, and why he should have been able to run for another term. Ben also points to the fact that Joe Biden may not even be capable of running for President in 2020 if he s a lame duck, which is exactly what the left has been warning us about for a very long time. Ben also notes that if you are in a state of senility, Joe Biden s not going to be able to get re-elected because he's not in control of his faculties at this point in his life, and when he wakes up, he's no longer capable of standing up and running for a second term because he has no idea what to do with his time in the White House, and no one else is going to step up to the plate to fill the void left by his incompetence and incompetence? This breaking news is brought to you by our friends at Policy Genius and Dailywire, and the Daily Wire. The Daily Wire gives you the uncensored truth every single moment you need it. Go to Dailywire.co/fightfor47% and get 47% off your annual membership. Use code FRIENDS for 47% OFF your Annual Membership. You need the truth now more than ever and the truth you need to be with the truth. Get a FREE life insurance quote to save you could save! See how much you could saved! - Ben Shapiro on the Ben Shapiro Show coming up today on The Ben Shapiro show on The Dailywire Show on The Five? - Subscribe to the Dailywire: Subscribe to The DailyWire: Subscribe To Fight For 47% Off Your Day Off Your Weekday with Ben Shapiro: Watch Ben Shapiro s Free Life Insurance Quote: Get A FREE Life Insurance quote: See How Much You Could Save Meals On The Same Day? Subscribe & Subscribe to Ben Shapiro's Free Life insurance quote: Get a Life Insurance Quotes: Get A Life Insurance Plan? Click Here to Save $5,000 Off Your Daily Wire: Get 5% Off The Best Deal?
00:00:57.000Eastern time, he announced it via Twitter, which I guess Elon wins since that's the way he decided to do it.
00:01:03.000I thought that if Joe Biden was going to do this, he would have announced that he had a presser or some sort of big statement that he was going to give from the Oval Office or from the White House somewhere.
00:01:12.000And then he was going to do that at a preset time later in the evening.
00:01:21.000Again, just a screenshot released via Twitter, quote, My fellow Americans, over the past three and a half years, we have made great progress as a nation.
00:01:28.000Today, America has the strongest economy in the world.
00:01:31.000We've made historic investments in rebuilding our nation, in lowering prescription drug costs for seniors, and in expanding affordable health care to a record number of Americans.
00:01:38.000We've provided critically needed care to a million veterans exposed to toxic substances.
00:01:42.000Passed the first gun safety law in 30 years.
00:01:44.000Appointed the first African-American woman to the Supreme Court.
00:01:47.000By the way, only he's allowed to mention that.
00:02:14.000We protected and preserved our democracy and we've revitalized and strengthened our alliances
00:02:18.000Like, every element of this, of course, is untrue, which is the real reason he is dropping out, as we'll get to in a moment.
00:02:22.000It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president, and while it has been my intention to seek re-election, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term.
00:02:33.000I'll speak to the nation later this week in more detail about my decision.
00:02:36.000For now, let me express my deepest gratitude to all those who have worked so hard to see me re-elected.
00:02:40.000I want to thank Vice President Kamala Harris for being an extraordinary partner in all this work, and let me express my heartfelt appreciation to the American people for the faith and trust you have placed in me.
00:02:49.000I believe today what I always have, there's nothing America can't do when we do it together.
00:02:52.000We just have to remember we are the United States of America and a bully band.
00:02:56.000Okay, now, there are many things about this message that are rather shocking.
00:03:00.000Number one, he says that he is stepping away from his candidacy but not from the presidency.
00:03:08.000If you are in a state of senility, you need to step away from the presidency because we're about to launch into one of the most dangerous periods in American history.
00:03:16.000The rest of the world knows that Joe Biden is a lame duck president.
00:03:19.000They know that at very best, his successor might be able to take over for another term.
00:03:25.000But they also know that he's totally senile and not in control of his faculties at this point.
00:03:29.000I mean, when Joe Biden wakes up and someone tells him he's no longer running for president, he's going to be quite shocked about that, I would assume.
00:03:36.000I mean, by the way, he could wake up tomorrow and undo this, I would assume also, since he's been vacillating on this, as we now know, for weeks.
00:03:43.000But this means a couple of big things, obviously.
00:03:46.000It means that Kamala Harris, as we'll see in a moment, is likely to be the Democratic presidential nominee for president.
00:03:51.000It also means that the primary system just doesn't exist anymore.
00:03:53.000That if you decide The party decides that a candidate is running so weak against the opposition that they can't possibly win, that if they can put the screws to that person sufficiently, that person will step aside.
00:04:05.000Joe Biden in this letter never makes mention of why he's dropping out.
00:04:09.000He doesn't say he's doing it because he's senile, even though that's clearly the case.
00:04:13.000Instead, all he says is that it's in the best interest of his party and the country for him to stand down and focus on fulfilling his duties as president.
00:04:21.000So he's saying the quiet part out loud.
00:04:22.000The real reason he's dropping out is because he's losing to Donald Trump.
00:04:26.000That basically Donald Trump clocked him so hard in the debate, and frankly, he fell down on the job so poorly in the debate, that that ended his presidential candidacy.
00:04:33.000So he's not dropping out because he won't be able to fulfill a second term.
00:04:38.000He in his own mind believes that he absolutely would be able to fulfill a second term.
00:04:42.000He's dropping out because he is losing and losing really, really badly.
00:04:46.000So Joe Biden is dropping out because he's losing really, really badly, but all of his friends are saying that he's a hero for dropping out, which is unbelievably stupid.
00:04:52.000It doesn't make you a hero to drop out of a race that you are losing when everyone forces you out of the race.
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00:05:54.000So the initial speculation, the minute that this came out, was that there was something weird about the letter in that Joe Biden actually had not endorsed Kamala Harris for the presidency.
00:06:04.000Then, just a few minutes later, he tweeted that he, in fact, would endorse her for the presidency.
00:06:31.000It's pretty humiliating for him because he has to admit that Kamala Harris, who's wildly unpopular and terrible at her job, actually has a better shot at beating Trump than he does.
00:06:40.000It also must be sort of humiliating because we know that Jill really does not like Kamala Harris at all.
00:06:45.000For her part, Kamala Harris put out a statement Her statement reads, quote, On behalf of the American people, I thank Joe Biden for his extraordinary leadership as President of the United States and for his decades of service to our country.
00:06:55.000His remarkable legacy of accomplishment is unmatched in modern American history, surpassing the legacy of many presidents who have served two terms in office.
00:07:02.000So now we're going to get the kiss story of Joe Biden.
00:07:18.000And presumably, there'll be a very, very well apportioned presidential library in Rehoboth Beach or something.
00:07:23.000Kamala Harris continues, it is a profound honor to serve as his vice president.
00:07:26.000I am deeply grateful to the president, Dr. Biden, and the entire Biden family.
00:07:29.000I first came to know President Biden through his son, Beau.
00:07:32.000We were friends from our days working together as attorneys general of our home states.
00:07:35.000As we worked together, Beau would tell me stories about his dad, the kind of father and the kind of man he was, and the qualities Beau revered in his father are the same qualities, the same values I've seen every single day in Joe's leadership as president.
00:07:46.000His honesty and integrity, his big heart and commitment to his faith and his family, his love of our country and the American people.
00:07:54.000Joe Biden is a self-interested politician.
00:07:56.000He has been since he was 29 years old and when he won his first Senate race and immediately started using his senatorial power in Delaware to direct corrupt activities to the benefit of his family.
00:08:06.000Again, as far as the idea that he is honest and filled with integrity, this is going to be a serious question for Kamala Harris.
00:08:12.000We'll get to many of the attack lines on Kamala Harris in a little bit, but one of the big ones is going to be Kamala knew that he was senile for literally two years and just weeks ago was talking about how the man was reciting Virgil in Latin backwards upside down behind closed doors.
00:08:28.000So she was complicit in lying to the American people.
00:08:32.000By the way, today, she could 25th Amendment him.
00:08:35.000Today, she could lead the way to get the cabinet to get rid of Joe Biden as president because, again, he is senile.
00:08:41.000She is not doing this, which means it is all political for these people.
00:08:45.000She says, with the Selfless and Patriotic Act, President Biden is doing what he has done throughout his life, putting the American people and our country above everything else.
00:08:52.000Again, that is a really weird way to read.
00:08:54.000He's losing a race, and so now he's dropping out.
00:08:57.000That's a very strange way to read that.
00:08:59.000He's running a crappy race, He's really bad at this, and he's senile.
00:09:03.000He's not dropping—we can't say that he should drop from the race because he's senile, because then he'd also have to drop from the presidency.
00:09:08.000So instead, we're going to say that he's undergoing a massive sacrifice by stepping out of the race.
00:09:12.000The real question should be, why is he incapable of defending his record?
00:09:16.000If the problem is not the senility, why isn't he capable of defending his record?
00:09:47.000There was a poll that came out in the hours before Joe Biden decided to step out showing that Joe Biden was getting clobbered in Michigan by fully seven points.
00:09:57.000According to Politico, Joe Biden was far outspending Donald Trump even before the debate, and it was having no impact at all.
00:10:03.000So the real reason, again, he's getting out is because he's losing.
00:10:06.000And so they've decided they're going to pull their starting pitcher and they're going to put in a reliever.
00:10:10.000And the reliever is apparently Kamala Harris.
00:10:12.000She says, I'm honored to have the president's endorsement.
00:10:15.000My intention is to earn and win this nomination.
00:10:16.000No, wait a second, you're not going to earn anything.
00:11:54.000So Bill Clinton put out a statement on behalf of both himself and Hillary Clinton.
00:11:58.000And this was presumably to take Hillary Clinton off the table as a possible kind of last minute dark horse candidate who would jump into some sort of open convention scenario.
00:12:07.000They put out a statement supportive of Biden and also of Kamala Harris.
00:12:10.000He said, President Biden has capped his extraordinary career of service with a presidency that has
00:12:14.000lifted America out of an unprecedented pandemic, created millions of new jobs, blah, blah,
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00:13:43.000Meanwhile, Barack Obama put out a statement, and the entire statement is about the magic of Joe Biden.
00:14:20.000Barack Obama sees himself as the creator of Joe Biden and he's embarrassed by that because Joe Biden is an embarrassing person.
00:14:27.000So Barack Obama puts out a statement, quote, 16 years ago, when I began my search for vice president, I know about Joe's remarkable career on the public surface.
00:14:35.000What I came to admire even more was his character, his deep empathy, his hard-earned resilience, his fundamental decency and belief that everyone counts.
00:14:43.000And he goes on and on and on along these lines, paragraph after paragraph.
00:14:47.000And then he gets to the part that's really interesting.
00:14:48.000He says, we will be navigating uncharted waters in the day ahead.
00:14:51.000But I have extraordinary confidence the leaders of our party will be able to create a process from which an outstanding nominee emerges.
00:14:57.000So you notice what they're not doing right there.
00:15:00.000The thing they are not doing is endorsing Kamala Harris.
00:15:02.000Now, that doesn't mean that they're not behind the scenes endorsing Kamala Harris.
00:15:07.000There are a lot of people who are speculating out there that the reason they're not endorsing Kamala is because they think they're going to jet set in Michelle at the last minute and Michelle will be the candidate.
00:15:14.000That would be a smart move for Democrats.
00:15:16.000I really don't think that's going to happen.
00:15:17.000Michelle has very little interest in running for higher office again.
00:15:20.000She had enough of it when Barack was president.
00:15:22.000Beyond that, Barack and Kamala are very close.
00:15:25.000Years ago, Barack Obama said she was the hottest AG in the country.
00:15:29.000And then he had to apologize for that.
00:15:31.000And then he made one of the final calls to Joe Biden to convince Joe Biden to take Kamala Harris as the vice president.
00:15:35.000So again, I think it's possible to overread what Obama is doing here, to read it as a sort of initiation of a battle against Kamala Harris.
00:15:43.000I don't think that's what's going to happen here.
00:17:10.000It's a totally new race because, again, the entire Trump campaign, as you would, was directed against Joe Biden.
00:17:15.000And that meant that the campaign had Joe Biden on the ropes on the basis of policy.
00:17:20.000And then after the debate, Joe Biden started to physically fall apart and mentally fall apart in front of everybody.
00:17:25.000And so the entire campaign swiveled to focus on the fact that Joe Biden was not capable of fulfilling the job.
00:17:30.000Now that Joe Biden is out, that means that the Trump campaign is going to have to come up with a bunch of other angles They're gonna need a totally new playbook.
00:17:37.000What are the best lines of attack on Kamala Harris?
00:17:41.000Also, the entire dynamic of the race shifts.
00:17:43.000Because, as I've said this entire election cycle, if this race is a referendum on Donald Trump, he is going to lose.
00:17:49.000If the race is a referendum on the Democratic candidate, the Democratic candidate, who was Joe Biden, was going to lose.
00:17:54.000It very clearly became a referendum on Joe Biden as soon as he went up there on the debate stage and made a mess of himself.
00:18:01.000As soon as he pooped his pants on the debate stage, it was basically over for Joe Biden.
00:18:05.000Because all you could think about when you thought about the presidential race was Joe Biden.
00:18:09.000Well, in the last week, obviously, a lot of focus has shifted back to Donald Trump because of the assassination attempt, because of the RNC.
00:18:23.000The polls that do exist between Harris and Trump demonstrate that Trump still has the advantage.
00:18:31.000Those polls have high levels of variability.
00:18:33.000There's some polls showing Trump up as much as 11 points on Kamala Harris, and then there are other polls that show them basically dead even.
00:18:40.000Kamala is a very unpopular vice president.
00:18:43.000Her approval rating is somewhere in the low 30s.
00:18:48.000Nate Silver has a pretty good rundown.
00:18:50.000The case against Kamala Harris and the case for Kamala Harris.
00:18:54.000The case against her is that she has a really bad track record.
00:18:57.000She's run a bunch of bad campaigns, going all the way back to her original senatorial campaign.
00:19:20.000Nate Silver also makes the point that there's been a lot of talk about Kamala Harris driving out higher numbers of black voters.
00:19:25.000But, as he says, Kamala Harris might have a larger Electoral College popular vote gap than Biden if she does worse among white voters but better among voters of color.
00:19:34.000In other words, if she ends up freighting a bunch of voters who are black and Hispanic For white people in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, then she could actually lose worse than Biden in those particular areas.
00:19:47.000She also inherits all the policies of the administration.
00:19:51.000She has been the representative of many of those policies.
00:19:55.000The fact that there has been this massive cover-up of Joe Biden's health, and that she's been complicit in that, is going to be a line of attack against her.
00:20:02.000Most people do not like her very much.
00:20:04.000She's going to inherit Joe Biden's campaign staff, presumably.
00:20:08.000The upside is that she's alive, right?
00:20:10.000That's the big upside for the Democrats.
00:20:29.000However, that is going to be the case they make, is that we dumped our old, unpopular candidate.
00:20:33.000You guys are still running your old, unpopular candidate.
00:20:36.000That is why she will do better than Joe Biden would.
00:20:40.000Also worth noting, all the Democratic Senate candidates in this race, up until very recently, were doing much, much better than Joe Biden, which sort of suggests that the problem might be Biden, not necessarily that the problem is Kamala Harris.
00:20:50.000Her disapproval rating is approximately 50%.
00:21:04.000All the money will start flowing once again.
00:21:06.000And again, the Republicans are going to have to come up with some sort of actual attack line against Kamala Harris, which is harder than it is with Joe Biden, because while she's the vice president, she's not actually the president.
00:21:17.000You can see that the sort of depressed voter turnout that Republicans were counting on for Democrats, that may start to dissipate as well.
00:21:23.000Now, again, does Donald Trump still have the advantage?
00:21:31.000Kamala hasn't been formally even named the nominee at this point.
00:21:35.000With that said, it's a very different race.
00:21:36.000And what this means, if you're a Republican, is whatever you thought was going to happen, you need to go out and work three to four times as hard to make sure that it actually does, in fact, happen.
00:21:57.000The donors immediately came out off the bench and started throwing money at Kamala Harris' campaign.
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00:25:30.000Most prominently, for example, the border policy.
00:25:33.000Joe Biden put her in charge of the border.
00:25:34.000And then she proceeded to go down to the Northern Triangle and declare that unless the economy of the Northern Triangle was healed, there was nothing they could do.
00:25:41.000And then she did an interview with Lester Holt in which she lied and said that she'd been down to the border and then was called out on it in real time.
00:28:01.000But I have before and I'm sure I will again.
00:28:05.000All of this is going to come to the fore.
00:28:06.000If you go back to her presidential campaign, she said she wanted to get rid of private health care insurance, for example.
00:28:12.000On the Middle East, she's a complete mess.
00:28:14.000When it comes to domestic policy, she has made many, many radical statements.
00:28:19.000She literally attempted to bail out rioters in 2020.
00:28:22.000All of these things are going to come back.
00:28:24.000So an attempt to paint her as some sort of moderate is going to be difficult, which is precisely why she's going to attempt to pick somebody who's perceived as a moderate as her vice presidential pick.
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00:29:36.000Remember, now that she's the nominee, she's going to get to pick the person she wants to run with, presumably around the Democratic convention.
00:29:42.000Some of the people who have been mentioned, Andy Beshear, who's the governor of Kentucky.
00:29:46.000I think that'd be an interesting pick, especially because he will almost certainly then be replaced by a Republican in the state of Kentucky.
00:29:54.000The lieutenant governor of Kentucky right now, Jacqueline Coleman.
00:30:00.000She's a Democrat, but that's not for long, right?
00:30:03.000Andy Beshear is kind of one-on-one in Kentucky, and so that means the next election cycle, that state turns entirely red.
00:30:13.000A double California ticket makes no sense.
00:30:15.000And Gavin Newsom is really, really radical.
00:30:17.000Just last week, he signed into law a law that said that school districts are not allowed to force teachers to report to parents if kids are questioning their gender in the classroom, which is totally insane.
00:30:28.000I mean, that is a form of child abuse, and Gavin Newsom signed that into law.
00:30:31.000So I don't think it'll be Gavin Newsom.
00:30:34.000The name that's been mentioned most often is Josh Shapiro, again, the governor of Pennsylvania.
00:30:37.000That makes a lot of sense politically because, of course, he is a very moderate Democrat governor from Pennsylvania, first term, extremely popular.
00:30:44.000The idea would be to take Pennsylvania off the table for President Trump.
00:30:48.000But, as many people are noting, Democratic Party's got a serious anti-Semitism problem.
00:30:53.000They are not going to nominate a Jew for the number two.
00:31:14.000The upside on a Gretchen Whitmer selection is that Gretchen Whitmer is, of course, a pretty popular governor of Michigan.
00:31:19.000Presumably, Michigan then starts to fall back into the Democratic column.
00:31:24.000It also exacerbates the gender divide.
00:31:26.000So one of the big fascinating stats about this election is that the Democrats are running well with single women and Republicans are running really well with men both single and married.
00:31:34.000And so you could see Kamala Harris try to double down on abortion and all-female ticket by going with Gretchen Whitmer.
00:32:05.000You might see her pick One of the senators who has not been mentioned so far, kind of go off the board there.
00:32:12.000I don't think it's going to matter all that much.
00:32:15.000In the end, it's going to be Kamala Harris and it's going to be up to Republicans to try to define Kamala Harris.
00:32:19.000Now, the left-wing response to all of this has been absolutely fascinating.
00:32:22.000So it is absolutely amazing that apparently Democrats were completely blindsided inside the Biden administration by Joe Biden dropping out.
00:32:31.000Like, that's kind of an amazing thing.
00:32:33.000We'll get to more than that in just one second.
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00:33:11.000Okay, meanwhile, one of the things that's so astonishing about the way that Joe Biden dropped out here is that apparently his staff had no idea he was going to drop out.
00:33:18.000They spent the weekend saying he absolutely 100% was not going to drop out.
00:33:22.000In fact, Politico says, quote, Biden's announcement stunned White House and campaign aides, who up until this afternoon were insisting he'd stay in the race.
00:33:29.000We're all finding out by tweet, said one Dem.
00:33:31.000None of us understand what's happening.
00:33:33.000That's definitely a great way to run an administration.
00:33:36.000And again, the reality is that everybody knew that he had to go, but at the same time, nobody was willing to bet on the idea that he was going to go.
00:33:43.000I mean, as of this weekend, Tara Palmieri, right?
00:33:46.000This reporter writes for a variety of publications.
00:33:48.000She said that Hunter Biden was the one making the call and he was totally dug in.
00:33:52.000It shook a lot of Dems to see, because most people don't get a lot of access to Joe Biden, and seeing him speak that way, they were like, whoa.
00:34:07.000And yes, to your point, every single meeting he has now, I mean, this is the argument for Joe Biden is just not going to be able to survive this because every single meeting he has, it is going to be every single person that wants to get him out of the race is going to like either record it or like leak it.
00:36:00.000And now it's time to focus on the threat that Donald Trump poses.
00:36:04.000What the extreme agenda is on the other side.
00:36:06.000I mean, it is quite fascinating that this White House is so inconsistent and so crazy that they had let no one know that they were going to drop out until Joe Biden put it out via Twitter.
00:36:17.000He still has not made a public statement with his face on it, announcing something as monumental as, I am the nominee and I am not going to take the nomination.
00:36:26.000The reaction inside the Democratic Party has been almost entirely positive, but of course there are some very bitter clingers, you might say, in the Biden team.
00:36:33.000Ron Klain, who is Biden's Chief of Staff said, quote, Now that the donors and electeds have pushed out the only candidate who has ever beaten Trump, it's time to end the political fancy games and unite behind the only veteran of a national campaign, our outstanding VP, Kamala Harris.
00:36:44.000Let's get real and win in November again.
00:36:48.000And frankly, I'm looking forward to them trying this with Kamala Harris.
00:36:52.000Like if you had to pick as a Republican, who would you want to replace Joe Biden on the ticket if Joe Biden had to be replaced as a Republican?
00:37:00.000Certainly wouldn't be, you know, a Josh Shapiro or Gretchen Whitmer.
00:37:03.000Senator John Fetterman, he said people pushed out an honorable man, loving father and great president before an absolute sleazeball like Bob Menendez.
00:37:26.000And it really shows very little respect to Democratic primary voters.
00:37:29.000There were 14 million Democratic primary voters who voted for Joe Biden.
00:37:33.000Now, to be fair, there was no real rival to him in the primaries, but that, again, was the fault of the Democratic Party, which lied to you for years.
00:37:41.000For years, saying that he was perfectly sentient, perfectly with it, perfectly well.
00:37:45.000That is the reason they crowded everyone out of the primaries.
00:37:47.000They literally rigged the primaries in order to prevent anyone from presenting opposition to Biden, and only when Joe Biden made the single-handedly idiotic move of accelerating the debate to June, and then insisting on doing it in the first place, only at that point did everybody suddenly come out of the woodwork and say, this guy's got to go.
00:38:05.000Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader, he put out a statement saying, Joe Biden has not only been a great president, Nope.
00:38:29.000It just shows you know how to read a poll occasionally, is what it actually shows.
00:38:33.000Nancy Pelosi, who, I mean, the fingerprints on the dagger between Joe Biden's shoulder blades, the fingerprints belong to one Nancy Pelosi.
00:38:42.000She put out a statement also saying, quote, President Joe Biden is a patriotic American who has always put our country first.
00:38:47.000His legacy of vision, values, and leadership make him one of the most consequential presidents in American history.
00:38:51.000With love and gratitude to President Biden for always believing in the promise of America and giving people the opportunity to reach their fulfillment, God bless America with Joe Biden's greatness and goodness, which is why I stabbed him directly in the back and tossed his prone body over a cliff.
00:39:04.000You know, all of the lefties who are currently celebrating him are all people who wanted him to go, which is hilarious.
00:39:10.000They're all people who were instrumental in his downfall.
00:39:12.000And they're like, oh my God, I'm so glad that now that Julius Caesar is lying on the floor in a puddle of his own blood, and you know, I'm one of the people who's shoved a knife in him.
00:39:20.000I mean, now I'm really, what a hero he was, truly.
00:39:22.000You know, really taking one for the team over there.
00:39:24.000Ezra Klein of the New York Times doing the same routine.
00:39:26.000This is what America first looks like when it's a lived ethos rather than a mask for narcissism and ambition.
00:39:32.000Joe Biden is not narcissistic or ambitious.
00:41:14.000It also happens to be pretty rich, coming from the, we love democracy, democracy must never be disobeyed, for the party elite to oust Joe Biden.
00:41:26.000They're constantly talking about coups, the overthrowing of the will of the people.
00:41:30.000Well, maybe the people, by polling, don't like Joe Biden at this point, but they certainly liked him enough when they were voting for him in the primaries, and I was under the impression that there was in fact a primary process.
00:42:01.000And he is going to be in charge of the country until at least January, unless Kamala Harris does something about that.
00:42:06.000So serious pressure should be put on Kamala Harris.
00:42:08.000She should be asked, do you think that Joe Biden is mentally well?
00:42:13.000Do you think Joe Biden is mentally well?
00:42:14.000That's a live question, not because Joe Biden's the nominee, but because Joe Biden's the president.
00:42:18.000And the person responsible for invoking the 25th Amendment would be, wait for it, Kamala Harris.
00:42:23.000The number one question she should be asked over and over and over again, aside from obviously all of her policies and her failures at the border, the number one question is, is your boss fit to be president today?
00:42:35.000She should be forced to answer that because if the answer is no, she actually does have the capacity to stop this entire charade.
00:42:41.000And if the answer is yes, Then she's lying.
00:42:47.000That is going to be a very telling point with regard to Nancy Pelosi.
00:42:51.000Again, on the other side of the aisle, the system has changed a little bit with regard to Donald Trump.
00:42:56.000I think that what Democrats are thinking with this election is, we get rid of Biden and everybody will come back to us.
00:43:01.000We get rid of Biden and now we are not going to really need to run anything.
00:43:05.000We'll just shout Trump from the rooftops and that will have the desired effect.
00:43:09.000I don't think that that's true for a couple of reasons.
00:43:12.000Reason number one is that Donald Trump is actually now presenting an incredibly moderate face in the middle of this race.
00:43:17.000And number two, the permission structure for normies, for normal people to say they are voting for Donald Trump, has already been created, and you can't undo that.
00:43:24.000So again, the going theory, as I've said many, many times, of this campaign, whoever this campaign is a referendum on is going to lose.
00:43:31.000So, for a while it was Biden, and now the Democratic theory is we get rid of Biden and it'll go back to being Trump.
00:43:36.000It's not quite that simple, and it's not quite that simple for two specific reasons.
00:43:40.000Donald Trump is now acting like a moderate.
00:43:42.000He's acting like a pretty sane moderate, actually.
00:43:47.000But in general, his campaign is acting very, very sane and very moderate right now.
00:43:52.000And two, a permission structure, thanks to the last several months, has been set up where normies can now say a thing they never said out loud in 2016 or in 2020.
00:44:03.000And you're seeing this particularly in tech land.
00:44:05.000You already saw Elon Musk come out and say that he is going to drop $45 million a month into the Trump campaign.
00:44:11.000Over the weekend, Mark Zuckerberg, who's the head of Meta, and who certainly is not known for being particularly Trump-friendly, he was doing an interview and he talked about how Trump's response to his shooting was, in his words, badass.
00:44:25.000I've done some stuff personally in the past.
00:44:27.000I'm not planning on doing that this time.
00:44:28.000Um, and that includes, you know, not endorsing either of the candidates.
00:44:34.000Um, now look, I mean, there's obviously a lot of crazy stuff going on in the world.
00:44:36.000I mean, the historic events over the last, like, over the weekend.
00:44:39.000And, I mean, on a personal note, it's, you know, I mean, seeing Donald Trump get, get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is, One of the most badass things I've ever seen in my life.
00:44:56.000But, um, but look, I mean, it's, um, you know, as... And I think, look, at some level, as an American, it's, like, hard to not get kind of emotional about that spirit, um, and that fight, and I think that that's why a lot of people like the guy.
00:45:11.000Okay, that is something that Mark Zuckerberg never would have said publicly before.
00:45:15.000It's something that tech bros wouldn't say publicly before.
00:45:17.000A permission structure has been created over the past several months in which normal Americans are now allowed to say they like Trump.
00:46:23.000I think self-effacing Trump is a new one and much more likable.
00:46:26.000Hey, Trump also was asked about Project 2025.
00:46:28.000He was actually on the campaign trail talking about Project 2025.
00:46:32.000Remember that Kamala Harris's first comment upon getting the Veep call, the Selina Meyer call, that she was going to be the new candidate, she started yelling about Project 2025.
00:46:41.000And this has become the Democrats' bugaboo as I testified before Congress.
00:46:44.000Eric Swalwell asked me about Project 2025 and I kept saying, you know, Project 2025 for Democrats like Peter Pan and Tinkerbell,
00:46:50.000but you just say it over and over and over and magically your candidate is alive again
00:46:53.000Well, Kamala Harris is also trying to do project 2025 Well Trump took it head-on in the middle of one of his of
00:46:59.000his rallies over the weekend here. He was on project 2025 some on the right
00:47:04.000severe right came up with this project 25 and And I don't even know — I mean, some of them, I know who they are.
00:47:12.000But they're very, very conservative, just like you have — they're sort of the opposite of the radical left, okay?
00:47:18.000You have the radical left and you have the radical right.
00:47:21.000And they come up with this — I don't know what the hell it is.
00:48:27.000And all of the great citizens of Butler, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding area and everyone else for the job they did and the love that they showed us all.
00:49:03.000They couldn't believe what they were saying either, so.
00:49:06.000Again, it's the first time he's ever said anything nice about the press right there.
00:49:09.000And then, over the weekend, Donald Trump took a call from Vladimir Zelensky, right, who is the president of Ukraine, and Zelensky, you know, talked to him about the assassination attempt, and Trump then released a statement talking about their very good phone call.
00:49:21.000Quote, I appreciate President Zelensky for reaching out because I, as your next president of the United States, will bring peace to the world and end the war that has cost so many lives and devastated countless innocent families.