The Ben Shapiro Show - BREAKING: Kamala Picks WALZ For VP

00:00:00.000 Kamala Harris' pick is in, and it is Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

00:00:05.000 I could not be more excited.

00:00:06.000 I'm gonna bring you all the details in just a moment.

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00:00:22.000 So, it is Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and you can see that I'm a little pleased about this.

00:00:27.000 And there are many reasons that I am pleased about this.

00:00:29.000 The biggest reason that I am pleased about this is because the mask is off.

00:00:33.000 Kamala Harris has been attempting to present herself as a moderate.

00:00:36.000 She keeps switching all of her positions. 1.00

00:00:38.000 She'll send out her surrogates to pretend that she doesn't hold the thing now that she held four years ago. 0.95

00:00:42.000 And now it has been proved it is all a lie.

00:00:44.000 She wants to please her radical base. 1.00

00:00:47.000 That is all.

00:00:48.000 She is running a base election. 0.83

00:00:49.000 And this is so online.

00:00:51.000 It is so brat, as the kids say.

00:00:53.000 It is so...

00:00:55.000 Weirdly, clique.

00:00:56.000 I mean, she is absolutely ignoring the moderate votes she needs to win in order to please a base of people who are radical. 0.96

00:01:04.000 She has opened herself up wide to every attack on her radicalism by picking Tim Walz.

00:01:08.000 See, there was another pick that was available, and everyone sort of expected that person to be picked.

00:01:13.000 That person, of course, was the Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro.

00:01:15.000 Pennsylvania has 18 electoral votes.

00:01:19.000 Josh Shapiro has a 61% approval rating in Pennsylvania.

00:01:22.000 Very easy pick.

00:01:24.000 Super, super simple pick for Kamala Harris.

00:01:27.000 And we know why she didn't pick Josh Shapiro.

00:01:29.000 And the reason is because he's a Jew. 0.99

00:01:31.000 It's that simple.

00:01:32.000 Everyone knows this.

00:01:33.000 Democrats know this.

00:01:35.000 Republicans know this.

00:01:36.000 Before we even get to the insanity of picking Tim Walz, you have to understand the insanity of not picking Josh Shapiro, which is why I'm so pleased today.

00:01:42.000 Because Josh Shapiro is a very talented politician.

00:01:45.000 Josh Shapiro has portrayed himself successfully in Pennsylvania, a purple state, As a moderate, which is again why he has the approval of 6 in 10 voters in a swing state, and Kamala Harris overlooked him because she didn't want to piss off her pro-Kamala's base.

00:01:56.000 It is that simple.

00:01:57.000 She has too many radicals in her base who don't want the Jew. 0.98

00:02:00.000 Now, Tim Walz, positionally, is actually not very different from Josh Shapiro on Israel, but that's not the question.

00:02:06.000 The question is, Josh Shapiro is a semi-observant Jew, He is somebody who's expressed Zionist bona fides, and this was very bad. 0.91

00:02:15.000 This could not be accepted.

00:02:17.000 In fact, Josh Shapiro, in expectation of possibly being picked by Kamala Harris, had already started to moderate his positions on Israel in an attempt to please the Democrats' pro-Hamas base.

00:02:27.000 Back when he was 20, he'd written a piece that was perfectly obvious in which he said there would be no Palestinian state because the Palestinians are far too radicalized and want the destruction of the state of Israel. 0.62

00:02:36.000 Well, over the course of the last three days, he tried to walk that back.

00:02:39.000 He tried to say, well, I don't believe that anymore.

00:02:41.000 I believe in a two-state solution.

00:02:42.000 Here is Josh Shapiro sacrificing his actual beliefs in favor of a not-vice-presidential slot, as it turns out.

00:02:48.000 Again, this is the person she should have picked, and she didn't, and we all know why, and the answer rhymes with Jew. 0.94

00:02:55.000 Here is Josh Shapiro.

00:02:57.000 Philadelphia Enquirer is writing about a 1993 college article you wrote where you expressed skepticism about a two-state solution.

00:03:04.000 I understand you do support a two-state solution now.

00:03:07.000 Can you kind of just talk about that evolution?

00:03:09.000 Something I wrote when I was 20?

00:03:10.000 Is that what you're talking about?

00:03:13.000 I was 20.

00:03:13.000 Look, I have said for years, years, long before October 7th, that I favor a two-state solution.

00:03:24.000 Israelis and Palestinians living peacefully side by side.

00:03:28.000 Being able to determine their own futures and their own destinies.

00:03:32.000 Being able to work as they want and worship as they want and understand the power of living peacefully side by side and how that will lift up both parties in this or both sides of this conversation.

00:03:47.000 Again, this is Josh Shapiro trying to moderate his own positions on Israel in order to please the pro-Hamas base.

00:03:52.000 It turns out, the thing they object to is not really his position on Israel.

00:03:55.000 The thing they object to is that Josh Shapiro was a Jew.

00:03:59.000 And that's not me saying that.

00:04:00.000 That is Democrats saying that.

00:04:01.000 That is Jared Moskowitz from Florida, quote, Josh's position on Israel is almost identical to everybody else, but he's being held to a different standard.

00:04:07.000 So you have to ask yourself why.

00:04:10.000 Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida.

00:04:12.000 It's been noticeable that of all the people that she is carefully considering, the only Jewish candidate is getting excruciating, very specific scrutiny, particularly around his position on Israel.

00:04:21.000 House Democrat Jake Auchincloss from Massachusetts.

00:04:23.000 He said that it's pretty obvious that Democrats were attacking Josh Shapiro based on the fact that he was a Jew.

00:04:29.000 Here was Jake Auchincloss saying precisely that just yesterday.

00:04:34.000 Those in the overly online left who are attacking Josh Shapiro's pro-Israel positions in a different way than they are attacking non-Jewish Veep contenders' positions, they're just telling on themselves.

00:04:47.000 There is a strong undercurrent of anti-Semitism to that.

00:04:50.000 It's unacceptable.

00:04:51.000 Every contender's positions On all policy issues, their track records in elective office, all of that is fair game.

00:04:58.000 That is totally open to be subjected to interrogation and to questioning by the Harris team, by observers.

00:05:05.000 But holding him to a different standard because of his religion just simply isn't who we are as a democratic party.

00:05:12.000 Again, this is great, and the reason it's great is because clarity.

00:05:16.000 Clarity is a good thing.

00:05:17.000 I am very pleased by the fact that the Democratic Party has been very clear on this.

00:05:21.000 They can have somebody who is at least titularly pro-Israel in Tim Walz, so long as he's not a Jew. 1.00

00:05:26.000 It's the Jew From the swing state that Kamala Harris needs to win and is currently running in a dead heat with Donald Trump who could not be picked for one simple reason. 1.00

00:05:34.000 There are too many members of the Democratic Party base who don't like Jews.

00:05:37.000 And that is particularly true, unfortunately, in minority communities among the Democrat base.

00:05:41.000 That is true by poll data.

00:05:42.000 It's unfortunate, but it is a reality.

00:05:44.000 So, there are many things that are betrayed by the Tim Walz pick.

00:05:47.000 But thing number one, can't have a Jew. 1.00

00:05:49.000 That is the number one thing betrayed by the Tim Walz pick by Kamala Harris.

00:05:53.000 Thing number two, of course, is that she is full-scale radical. 1.00

00:05:56.000 She is full-scale radical. 0.99

00:05:57.000 Remember, Tim Walz is Bernie Sanders from Minnesota.

00:06:01.000 He's Bernie Sanders with a Fargo accent.

00:06:04.000 That's all he is.

00:06:05.000 He is a radical leftist.

00:06:07.000 We're gonna get to everything Tim Walz related in just one second. 1.00

00:06:10.000 It's so mind-bogglingly stupid and that's why I'm so excited about it. 1.00

00:06:13.000 Mind-bogglingly stupid. 1.00

00:06:15.000 The first rule of a vice presidential pick is first, do no harm. 1.00

00:06:19.000 And she just harmed herself.

00:06:20.000 Why?

00:06:20.000 Well, because she forewent the opportunity to pick, you know, a popular swing state governor.

00:06:24.000 She didn't pick Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan. 1.00

00:06:26.000 She picked somebody from a state Republicans haven't won for like several decades.

00:06:31.000 And then she proceeded to pick somebody who underscores her own radicalism.

00:06:34.000 Her entire campaign thus far has been lying about everything she believes. 0.54

00:06:38.000 Everything.

00:06:39.000 She's no longer in favor of a fracking ban.

00:06:41.000 She's no longer in favor of gun seizures.

00:06:43.000 She's no longer in favor of radically increasing taxes.

00:06:47.000 She's a moderate, you see.

00:06:48.000 But then she picked somebody who is the most radical person who is on the short list.

00:06:53.000 Thus opening herself up wide to every charge that she is a radical.

00:06:57.000 It's absolute incompetence.

00:06:58.000 She is too online. 0.98

00:06:59.000 She's just too online. 0.74

00:07:00.000 She was hearing too much from the online crowd.

00:07:02.000 And what this truly betrays, and this is the reason I'm the most excited, what it truly betrays as somebody who wants Donald Trump to win, is that Kamala Harris is still politically incompetent. 1.00

00:07:10.000 She was politically incompetent in 2019 when she ran for president because she was too online. 1.00

00:07:14.000 She had audience capture.

00:07:15.000 From her radical base.

00:07:17.000 And she kept trying to please them.

00:07:18.000 And then she would kind of back away from it, moderate a little bit.

00:07:20.000 And then she would try to please them and then back away.

00:07:22.000 She has not changed one iota.

00:07:23.000 No, there is no new Kamala.

00:07:25.000 On the right, there's always this, this is the moment Donald Trump changed and became president.

00:07:29.000 And it never is that Donald Trump.

00:07:31.000 It turns out it's always Donald Trump.

00:07:32.000 And Kamala Harris is always Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:07:34.000 Obnoxious, arrogant, radical, stupid, Because this is a stupid campaign move. 1.00

00:07:41.000 A full-scale, full-stop, stupid campaign move by Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:07:45.000 We'll get to who Tim Walz is, because you've never heard of him, and nobody had until a week ago, until he came out of left field because Democrats needed somebody who was titularly from the Midwest, even in a non-swing state, just so they could pick the person who wasn't a Jew. 0.99

00:07:57.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:09:00.000 So, you may be reading in my expression, excitement.

00:09:03.000 Excitement.

00:09:04.000 Again, and you might be saying to yourself, wait a second, isn't anti-Semitism bad? 0.91

00:09:08.000 And the answer is yes.

00:09:09.000 But you know what is worse to me?

00:09:10.000 Lies. 0.99

00:09:11.000 Lies. 0.99

00:09:12.000 And it is a lie that the Democratic Party is not full-scale comfortable with anti-Semitism.

00:09:17.000 And they are willing to pick a radical who undermines Kamala Harris's entire message, which is supposed to be moderation, which is supposed to be stability.

00:09:25.000 And instead, they picked a man who lives in a van down by the river.

00:09:28.000 Because that's what Tim Walz looks like.

00:09:29.000 He's going to be played by Ed Asner in the movie.

00:09:33.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, who is Tim Walz?

00:09:36.000 Well, after graduating in 1989 with a social science degree from Chadron State College in Nebraska.

00:09:40.000 That's some auspicious stuff.

00:09:42.000 He spent a year teaching in China before returning to full-time status at the National Guard

00:09:46.000 and then a teaching career.

00:09:47.000 He eventually landed about 80 miles southwest of Minneapolis

00:09:50.000 in Mankato, Minnesota, where he taught social studies, coached high school football,

00:09:53.000 and raised two children with his wife, Gwen.

00:09:55.000 He also continued in the National Guard where he specialized in field artillery

00:09:57.000 and did a tour overseas, but he never saw combat.

00:09:59.000 After 24 years in the National Guard, he retired as a command sergeant major

00:10:02.000 before he first ran for Congress in 2006.

00:10:05.000 He was then in his early 40s.

00:10:07.000 He entered politics and managed to unseat a sixth term Republican congressman

00:10:09.000 in a mostly rural Southern Minnesota district, running as a moderate.

00:10:13.000 And it turns out he was lying.

00:10:15.000 He spent 12 years in Congress.

00:10:16.000 Then he ran for governor as someone willing to compromise with Republicans.

00:10:19.000 He won by 11 percentage points in 2018.

00:10:22.000 Which was almost four points higher than his 2022 re-elect victory, where he only won by seven.

00:10:28.000 Well, why would that be?

00:10:29.000 It's because he's a radical.

00:10:30.000 He's a radical.

00:10:31.000 Yes, indeed he do.

00:10:33.000 So let's go through his record as the governor of Minnesota, because it's quite terrible, actually.

00:10:39.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Minnesota became something of a laboratory in 2023 for many of the Democratic Party's goals, once Walz had a legislature fully controlled by Democrats.

00:10:47.000 So this is what Kamala Harris's administration would look like. 1.00

00:10:50.000 This is what Tim Walz wants America to look like.

00:10:53.000 Besides establishing the goal of a carbon-free electrical grid by 2040, by the way, great idea.

00:10:57.000 Carbon-free electrical grid means a non-working electrical grid.

00:11:00.000 Just get ready for it.

00:11:01.000 And that is particularly smart in a place like Minnesota that gets incredibly cold and where intermittent energy being provided to people's homes actually ends up really, really badly, as Texas learned when it relied too heavily on wind and solar in the middle of a giant snap, cold snap.

00:11:16.000 The state also paid past paid family and medical leave, sick leave, transgender rights protections, which we'll get to, A tax credit aimed at low-income parents and $1 billion in investment in affordable housing.

00:11:27.000 Barack Obama was super pleased by Tim Walz at the time.

00:11:30.000 He tweeted, If you need a reminder, elections have consequences.

00:11:33.000 Check out what's happening in Minnesota.

00:11:36.000 And Walz moved dramatically to the left.

00:11:39.000 Republican Paul Gazelka was an insurance agent, former state senate majority leader.

00:11:43.000 He said Walz was more of a moderate when he elected.

00:11:45.000 But then, quote, he morphed into an extreme liberal who matches Kamala Harris.

00:11:48.000 So, here's what you got on the ticket.

00:11:49.000 A lady who tried to bribe out Black Lives Matter rioters, and the governor who let those Black Lives Matter rioters completely wreck Minneapolis. 1.00

00:11:58.000 In fact, for just a short version of what Governor Walz's term has looked like his first term.

00:12:04.000 Mike Murphy, who ran against him for governor in 2022, cut the following ad.

00:12:08.000 And here is just a short version of Tim Walz's stellar record in Minnesota, which is why Kamala Harris picked him, of course.

00:12:16.000 I've just signed Executive Order 20-01 declaring a peacetime state of emergency for the state of Minnesota.

00:12:22.000 We need to stop congregating.

00:12:24.000 We're going to close the bars.

00:12:26.000 We're going to close the restaurants.

00:12:28.000 We're gonna close the places where we gather.

00:12:30.000 Several hundred thousand of your neighbors were just laid off.

00:12:34.000 An entire industry has been shut down in the face of this, all for the greater good.

00:12:40.000 The governor, with the power of the state constitution behind him, has issued 104 executive orders affecting everything from schools, to restaurants and bars, to churches, to basically every facet of everyday life.

00:12:54.000 Democrats who control the house are moving in the opposite direction.

00:12:57.000 Some are pushing to put a mask mandate in state law.

00:13:01.000 Hi ho the derry-o, I wear a mask to school.

00:13:07.000 It helps to keep me safe.

00:13:09.000 Explosive testimony from a Minneapolis police union official who says that the governor ordered cops to abandon that third precinct during the spring's rioting.

00:13:18.000 I was in the command post, I heard it.

00:13:20.000 I heard the governor say, give it up.

00:13:23.000 At 9.32, Chief Arradondo calls the mayor to tell him they've lost control, can no longer maintain order in the city.

00:13:30.000 And then at 10.13, Chief Arradondo, who's monitoring the scene from a couple blocks away, gets on the radio to announce defeat.

00:13:38.000 We get a citywide tone right now in our loss of the 3rd precinct.

00:13:44.000 The third precinct has been compromised.

00:13:47.000 Mayor said I requested National Guard.

00:13:48.000 This is great.

00:13:49.000 We're going to have massively trained troops.

00:13:51.000 No, you're going to have 19-year-olds who are cooks.

00:13:54.000 Okay, so what exactly did Governor Tim Walz do?

00:13:56.000 We'll get to more on that in a moment because he is the most radical candidate she could have picked.

00:14:00.000 I'm very excited about this.

00:14:01.000 Again, it betrays that she has no political instincts, none.

00:14:05.000 She's a completely manufactured creation.

00:14:08.000 Her pick of Tim Walz shows it.

00:14:09.000 She's a completely manufactured creation, controlled by the media and controlled by her base. 0.99

00:14:13.000 It's that simple. 1.00

00:14:14.000 Remember, the breaking news is that Tim Walz, not Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, again, it's so stupid, it boggles the mind, but good for her for being an idiot. 1.00

00:14:23.000 She has picked, Kamala Harris has picked Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, for her vice presidential candidate. 0.99

00:14:29.000 We'll get to more on Tim Walz's record in just one moment.

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00:15:17.000 Okay, so let's begin with Governor Walz's action during the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020, which of course were the biggest news during his term as the Minnesota governor.

00:15:29.000 So first of all, he acknowledged his quote, abject failure of his response to the violent protests that happened in Minneapolis that basically burned down the city.

00:15:37.000 You may remember this footage from Minneapolis streets under the gentle reign of Governor Tim Walz.

00:15:48.000 Looks like a war zone.

00:15:49.000 And of course it would look like a war zone because Tim Walz, among other Democratic politicians in the state of Minnesota, decided that it was absolutely necessary to allow rioters to burn down streets, to loot stores, to tear apart the city, to shoot people in the name of racial justice.

00:16:05.000 To take over police stations.

00:16:06.000 That was Governor Tim Walz who presided over all of this.

00:16:10.000 Walz said, quote, Minneapolis and St.

00:16:11.000 Paul are on fire.

00:16:12.000 The fire is still smoldering on our streets.

00:16:14.000 The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish unheard.

00:16:18.000 Oh wow, poetic language about people burning down, you know, the biggest city in his state.

00:16:23.000 Well done, Tim Walz.

00:16:25.000 Here, in fact, was Tim Walz talking about the George Floyd riot, saying, this has been brewing for 400 years, for 400 years, which is why people are burning down entire cities in his state, and he wasn't calling out the National Guard.

00:16:37.000 These are things that have been brewing in this country for 400 years.

00:16:44.000 And then, you know, reluctantly, he said, you know, we can't have, like, the looting and the recklessness, but he didn't send the National Guard until too late, until the city had basically been taken over and destroyed.

00:16:54.000 We cannot have the looting and the recklessness that went on.

00:17:00.000 We cannot have it because we can't function as a society.

00:17:03.000 And I refuse to have it take away the attention of the stain that we need to be working on. 0.89

00:17:12.000 Absolutely ridiculous.

00:17:13.000 So while Kamala Harris was bailing out the rioters, she's now the presidential candidate, her vice presidential candidate was presiding over the burning down of the city and claiming that the real problem with the burning down of the city, it was like a Norm Macdonald joke, the real problem isn't the burning down of the city and the hurting of people and the destruction of businesses and the full-scale criminality.

00:17:29.000 The real problem, of course, is that it undermined the cause, according to Tim Walz.

00:17:34.000 He says, now generations of pain is manifesting itself in front of the world and the world is watching.

00:17:39.000 He cited a call he received from a state senator who described her district, quote, on fire.

00:17:43.000 No police, no firefighters, no social control.

00:17:45.000 Constituents locked in houses, wondering what they were going to do.

00:17:48.000 That is an abject failure that cannot happen.

00:17:50.000 Abject failure would make a great ad against Tim Walz and against Kamala Harris. 0.79

00:17:55.000 And just amazing job here by Kamala Harris in picking the person who presided over the rioters. 1.00

00:18:00.000 She attempted to bail out of prison.

00:18:01.000 Really, really solid stuff there from Tim Walz.

00:18:05.000 But don't worry, his radicalism wasn't just restricted to the BLM riots.

00:18:10.000 So he had this lengthy wish list that got passed in 2023.

00:18:13.000 And Walls said, our wish list is a to-do list and we're checking it off.

00:18:17.000 So what exactly is in that to-do list?

00:18:19.000 According to the Minneapolis Post, With the help of a $17.5 billion surplus that would have been $19 billion had the DFL, which is the Democratic Farmer Labor Party, not changed the way inflation was included mid-session, the 2023-2025 budget will be 40% higher than the current budget.

00:18:35.000 So this dude loved his spending.

00:18:37.000 He increased the budget by 40%.

00:18:39.000 Democrats then codified abortion rights, paid family and medical leave, transgender rights protections, which we'll get to in a moment, driver's licenses, free legal immigrants, So, this new administration, this Kamala Harris-Walls administration, they're going to be tough on the border.

00:18:51.000 So tough that the new VP candidate wants driver's licenses for illegal immigrants in the state of Minnesota.

00:18:57.000 Restoration of voting rights for felons. 0.59

00:19:00.000 Oh, isn't that nice?

00:19:02.000 Wider voting access.

00:19:03.000 A $1 billion investment in affordable housing, including for rental assistance.

00:19:07.000 So, you could not find a person who is more radical than Tim Walz.

00:19:11.000 Also adopted under Tim Walz's governorship.

00:19:15.000 Background checks for private gun transfer.

00:19:17.000 Which, of course, means, effectively, a gun registry.

00:19:21.000 DFL lawmakers also banned supposed conversion therapy for LGBTQ people, which is much more controversial than it sounds like.

00:19:27.000 When they're talking about conversion therapy, they're no longer talking about the horrible old practice of taking teenagers who were gay and electroding them or something.

00:19:35.000 They're talking about, you know, actual therapy for people struggling with their sexual identity, for example.

00:19:40.000 He legalized recreational marijuana.

00:19:42.000 He required a carbon-free electric grid by 2040.

00:19:44.000 Again, that is such insanity.

00:19:46.000 That is not going to happen.

00:19:47.000 That is not going to happen because the alternative sources of electricity, like wind and solar, are simply not up to the task of supplying electricity to an entire state in the middle of some of the coldest areas of the United States.

00:20:02.000 Adopted a new reading curricula based on phonics and passed a massive $2.58 billion capital construction package.

00:20:10.000 So that is tax hikes, that is spending, that is Tim Walz, in a nutshell.

00:20:16.000 And of course it is Tim Walz, in a nutshell.

00:20:18.000 Remember, Tim Walz is effectively a socialist.

00:20:21.000 And he literally said it.

00:20:22.000 This is one week ago.

00:20:23.000 He was saying that one person's socialism is another person's neighborliness, which comes as a shock to everybody who used to live in Cuba, where socialism was another word for your neighbor comes and shoots you in the face.

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00:20:39.000 One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness.

00:20:43.000 I mean, this is insane.

00:20:44.000 The fact that you picked him and now Josh Shapiro is such a gift to Trump.

00:20:47.000 It's such a gift.

00:20:48.000 Just run ads with Harris, Waltz all day long.

00:20:51.000 All day long.

00:20:52.000 That's all.

00:20:52.000 Just their record.

00:20:53.000 They're the most radical ticket in American history by far.

00:20:55.000 They make Barack Obama look like a moderate.

00:20:57.000 That's how radical this ticket is.

00:20:59.000 They're insanely radical.

00:21:01.000 So, she didn't pick a swing state guy.

00:21:03.000 She didn't pick somebody who was moderate.

00:21:04.000 She picked somebody from a non-swing state who is not moderate and also is not particularly charismatic.

00:21:09.000 But, we all know the one thing that he was that we really, really needed was Gentile. 0.99

00:21:14.000 That was like the biggest thing.

00:21:15.000 Couldn't be a Jew. 1.00

00:21:16.000 That was the biggest thing because the pro-Hamas base won't riot, presumably, in Chicago if she had picked a Jew they might have. 0.58

00:21:23.000 But now that it's Tim Walz, you know, a white guy from Minnesota who's not Jewish, And who presumably supported the JCPOA, the Iran deal under Barack Obama.

00:21:32.000 Well, that means that the rioters won't show up because they are the captain now.

00:21:38.000 The radical left is the captain now.

00:21:40.000 If the Trump campaign does not take advantage, that is political malpractice all of its own.

00:21:44.000 There's a brand new opportunity to reshift the narrative for the Republicans.

00:21:47.000 And there's a moral and political obligation for the Trump campaign to do just that.

00:21:51.000 We'll get to more of Tim Walz in just one second.

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00:22:51.000 So back to the radical that Kamala Harris idiotically picked for her vice president. 1.00

00:22:55.000 Again, I'm feeling a little pep in my step this morning, given the fact that she didn't just betray that she's a radical, she betrayed that she's an incompetent. 1.00

00:23:03.000 She's an incompetent. 1.00

00:23:04.000 This is a move of political malpractice by Kamala Harris, and I couldn't be more here for it. 0.98

00:23:09.000 I'm pretty here for it.

00:23:10.000 Here is Tim Walz defending the Afghanistan withdrawal in July 2024.

00:23:15.000 Good luck with this particular point of order, given the fact that it was precisely the Afghanistan withdrawal that sank Joe Biden's political hopes all the way back in 2021.

00:23:25.000 Exiting a conflict is never going to be good.

00:23:29.000 That situation was horrific.

00:23:30.000 There were Minnesotans on the ground that were providing aid to that.

00:23:34.000 I think the biggest thing was is an understanding that the way that that was prosecuted, the way that we tried to beat stability, was simply going to be incredibly difficult.

00:23:43.000 So yes, I served with With Senator Cotton, I also know that a lot of his positions have been overly aggressive in terms of how the United States prosecutes a peaceful resolution.

00:23:55.000 So look, the Afghan withdrawal was tragic, but it was a long-standing situation that rolled over many, many months and over both terms of presidents.

00:24:07.000 Absolutely amazing stuff.

00:24:08.000 Great job, Tim Walz.

00:24:10.000 Please, keep defending the Afghanistan withdrawal.

00:24:12.000 Let's see how that goes for you.

00:24:13.000 Meanwhile, it was Walz who was just back in August talking about how Joe Biden was a highly effective president.

00:24:18.000 Part of that Democratic cover-up of the fact that the President of the United States has been mentally gone for years at this point.

00:24:25.000 First of all, he's been one of the most highly effective presidents we've ever seen.

00:24:28.000 I sat in Congress for 12 years waiting for infrastructure week.

00:24:31.000 He actually delivered on this.

00:24:32.000 And look, Dean is a friend of mine.

00:24:33.000 I love him.

00:24:34.000 But I spent last weekend on Mackinac Island with Tony Evers and Gretchen Whitmer talking about how we're going to make sure that we win this for Joe Biden.

00:24:40.000 Because this is not a debate about Joe Biden's age or experience.

00:24:44.000 It's about a debate about protecting the democracy.

00:24:49.000 Amazing stuff there.

00:24:50.000 Amazing stuff there from Tim Walz.

00:24:51.000 He's a highly effective president.

00:24:53.000 Highly effective.

00:24:54.000 Tim Walz, again, is on pretty much every radical bandwagon, up to and including abolishing the Electoral College, which he says is undemocratic.

00:25:01.000 Again, could she have picked anybody who more resembles Bernie Sanders than Tim Walz?

00:25:05.000 Hard to think of one.

00:25:07.000 I do believe the Constitution is a living document.

00:25:10.000 I think Jefferson's quote about as mankind progressed and as technology progressed, the document was to progress with it as how you deal with these things.

00:25:19.000 But I do think you have to be very careful about some of those core principles.

00:25:23.000 It always seems to me, going back to the Senate and the filibuster, the Electoral College seems very undemocratic to me.

00:25:30.000 I mean, I think at first blush.

00:25:34.000 Man, they are simping for the radicals.

00:25:37.000 They are simping for them.

00:25:38.000 And then, of course, one of his signal accomplishments in the state of Minnesota is that he signed into law an order protecting access to, quote, gender-affirming care for youth.

00:25:49.000 Which we all know what that means at this point.

00:25:52.000 And then he called conservative states bullies for banning transgender surgeries and hormone treatments for minors.

00:25:58.000 He also suggested that Minnesota agencies should not try to assist other states who are trying to penalize people receiving gender-affirming care.

00:26:08.000 Again, gender-affirming care is a euphemism.

00:26:11.000 He also suggested that the state, schools for example, should not notify parents if their children show up to school and claim they're of another gender.

00:26:20.000 That is who Tim Walz is.

00:26:21.000 Here is Tim Walz signing this into law alongside Hilde Edwards, a 12-year-old who advocates for the rights of trans children with her parents, Hannah and Dave.

00:26:34.000 Here is Tim Walz.

00:26:38.000 We know this urgency is real, thus the need of an executive order today.

00:26:43.000 Now I want to be clear.

00:26:44.000 I can't pretend to understand what goes through people's minds.

00:26:48.000 I cannot imagine the stress that families and individuals go through.

00:26:52.000 But here in Minnesota, we're going to be a place of refuge to make sure that they feel safe and welcome.

00:26:57.000 And I don't know what a group of people in Pierre who decide to make life miserable and more dangerous for people are thinking, but it's not going to happen in Minnesota.

00:27:07.000 Amazing stuff there from Tim Walz on every single issue.

00:27:10.000 He is wide open to modern Americans.

00:27:13.000 Wide open.

00:27:14.000 By the way, dude also has a bunch of scandals under his name.

00:27:16.000 It's pretty much the worst pick of all- I'm elated.

00:27:19.000 I'm elated.

00:27:20.000 It's the worst pick she could have made.

00:27:21.000 Of all the people, worse than Whitmer, who at least is a popular governor of a swing state, certainly worse than Shapiro.

00:27:27.000 Worse than Mark Kelly, who's a fairly popular senator from a swing state?

00:27:31.000 Like, what's the upside here?

00:27:33.000 Presumably the upside is trying to get a bunch of upper-class suburban liberals in Philadelphia or in Wisconsin to think that this is a dude with blue-collar appeal.

00:27:42.000 Sure, sure.

00:27:43.000 So, what exactly happened?

00:27:46.000 Well, so, Jim Garrity.

00:27:48.000 Who writes for National Review, he says this, the dirty not so little secret about Walls

00:27:52.000 is he's not a good manager.

00:27:53.000 On his watch, the Minnesota government has endured one embarrassing scandal after another

00:27:56.000 entailing mismanagement, fraud, waste and abuse.

00:27:59.000 Let's start with the state's handling of hundreds of millions of dollars

00:28:01.000 of Minnesota's Feeding Our Future, the largest COVID aid fraud scheme in the country.

00:28:06.000 Announcing a federal fraud indictment against the Feeding Our Future nonprofit,

00:28:08.000 FBI director Chris Wray called it quote, an egregious plot to steal public funds

00:28:12.000 meant to care for children in need.

00:28:14.000 And what amounts to the largest pandemic relief fraud scheme yet.

00:28:16.000 The defendants went to great lengths to exploit a program designed to feed underserved children in Minnesota amid the COVID-19 pandemic, fraudulently diverting millions of dollars designated for the program for their own personal gain.

00:28:28.000 This nonprofit used a quarter of a billion dollars in federal funds in Minnesota to purchase luxury cars, houses, jewelry, and coastal resort property abroad.

00:28:36.000 So what exactly is the problem?

00:28:37.000 Well, Tim Walz was the governor, and a state legislative audit concluded the Minnesota Department of Education was asleep at the wheel for years and had ignored red flags concerning the nonprofit.

00:28:47.000 Local CBS News affiliate, quote, the report from the legislative auditor found the Minnesota Department of Education's last review of Feeding Our Future was in 2018.

00:28:56.000 It found serious issues with the nonprofit's operations, and it failed to follow up.

00:29:01.000 The report said that by 2019, the nonprofit managed more than six times the number of sites than the average multi-state sponsor participating in the program.

00:29:08.000 So in other words, the state kept shoveling money to a fraud outfit, and Tim Walz was the governor.

00:29:13.000 How about 2022?

00:29:14.000 Walls, according to Garrity, signed into law a plan to pay Minnesota's frontline workers hero pay for their hard work during the pandemic.

00:29:21.000 The state's initial estimate was roughly 667,000 people were eligible for hero pay, meaning they'd receive $750 each.

00:29:27.000 Within a few months, the state announced that more than a million Minnesotans had qualified, reducing that payment to a little less than $500.

00:29:35.000 If an estimate that's off by roughly 333,000 people raises your eyebrow, you have good instincts.

00:29:40.000 Not only were a significant portion of the recipients for HeroPay ineligible, some of them were dead.

00:29:45.000 Full-scale dead.

00:29:47.000 The same thing was true in the Minnesota state government's handling of grants for arts and behavioral health.

00:29:53.000 Minnesota Department of Health and Human Services Behavioral Health Division did not comply with certain grant management policies matching similar findings of a 2021 audit.

00:30:03.000 Again, that is according to the Minnesota Reformer.

00:30:06.000 And the list goes on and on and on.

00:30:07.000 He's a bad manager.

00:30:08.000 He's a bad governor. 0.82

00:30:09.000 He's unbelievably radical.

00:30:10.000 He's from a non-swing state.

00:30:12.000 And there's only one reason she picked him.

00:30:14.000 And we all know what that reason is.

00:30:15.000 And it has a lot of parentheses around it for those who are aware of online nomenclature.

00:30:21.000 And here's the thing.

00:30:22.000 People don't vote based on the vice president.

00:30:25.000 They do vote based on the perception of the ticket.

00:30:29.000 In 2008, John McCain, to use again a Republican example, John McCain was perceived as a maverick.

00:30:35.000 He was perceived as a moderate.

00:30:36.000 And then he selected Sarah Palin as his vice presidential candidate.

00:30:39.000 And that opened him up to lots of attacks that he was actually just super right-wing, secretly.

00:30:43.000 He was a crypto super right-winger.

00:30:46.000 He would have been better off picking somebody like Senator Joe Lieberman, who had shifted from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party just for John McCain.

00:30:52.000 That would have been a smarter pick for him because then the ticket would have been quote-unquote moderate.

00:30:56.000 Okay, here Kamala Harris is a radical. 1.00

00:30:58.000 Everyone who knows her knows she's a radical.

00:31:00.000 Every policy that she has ever voted for is radical.

00:31:02.000 Every policy she's ever stumped for is radical.

00:31:05.000 And yet she is attempting right now to avoid media scrutiny and pretend that she's actually secretly a moderate.

00:31:11.000 But there is no moderate Kamala Harris.

00:31:13.000 There is only radical Kamala Harris.

00:31:15.000 And by picking somebody who is clearly and openly politically radical, like Tim Walz, she has merely underscored what she is.

00:31:22.000 A double radical candidacy.

00:31:24.000 This is a double radical candidacy in the same way that Donald Trump, picking J.D.

00:31:27.000 Vance, said that this was a MAGA-only ticket.

00:31:29.000 This is a radical left-only ticket.

00:31:31.000 That is what this is.

00:31:33.000 Which is gonna make it a lot harder for her to shake off stuff like 2017 Kamala, who, again, there's lots of 2017 Kamala.

00:31:39.000 Here's 2017 Kamala saying, we all need to stay woke.

00:31:43.000 This is the Kamala Harris that we know and love and who will be your president if you don't stop her now. 1.00

00:31:50.000 We have to stay woke.

00:31:52.000 Like, everybody needs to be woke.

00:31:56.000 And you can talk about if you're the wokest or woker, but just stay more woke than less woke.

00:32:02.000 Yeah.

00:32:05.000 Amazing, amazing stuff.

00:32:06.000 And that, of course, is who is running.

00:32:08.000 Politico ran an entire piece yesterday about how she's being pushed to her left by her base.

00:32:12.000 And she will fall for it every single time.

00:32:14.000 Because again, Democrats have become audience-captured.

00:32:18.000 They are audience-captured by their radical base.

00:32:20.000 And that is going to hurt them so badly if Trump can prosecute the case.

00:32:24.000 And if the media ever decide, you know, to ask her a question at some point.

00:32:26.000 We are now on, by our counter, day 17 of her not being asked a serious question.

00:32:31.000 Day 17!

00:32:31.000 She's been the presumptive Democratic nominee since Joe Biden dropped out of the race.

00:32:35.000 That is well over two weeks ago.

00:32:36.000 She now has a VP candidate.

00:32:38.000 We are in the middle of an economic meltdown.

00:32:39.000 We're in the middle of a possible war in the Middle East.

00:32:41.000 She just chose the most radical candidate she could for Vice President of the United States. 1.00

00:32:47.000 Now might be a good time to ask her a question, you jackass in the media. 0.51

00:32:50.000 Now might be a great time for you to actually, you know, get her to sit down for an interview with, say, Tim Walz and ask them about bailing out rioters in Minnesota.

00:32:58.000 And as for Donald Trump, Trump should be running hundreds of millions of dollars in ads defining this candidate, defining his opponent.

00:33:04.000 And he should say to Kamala Harris, I want to debate you now until the election every single day, every single week.

00:33:10.000 The more the merrier, more exposure of Kamala Harris, more of the American people getting to know

00:33:15.000 just how radical and insane she is. 1.00

00:33:17.000 And they let the mask slip, they let it slip. 0.78

00:33:20.000 They couldn't even hold it for three weeks.

00:33:21.000 The mask was, she's moderate, Democrats are moderate.

00:33:24.000 They can stave off their radical base, the Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, AOC,

00:33:29.000 they can stave them off.

00:33:30.000 Those are people that are just patting on their head, you know, for a little bit of enthusiasm.

00:33:33.000 But, or alternatively, beneath the mask, they are Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and AOC

00:33:40.000 and Bernie Sanders, and that's what you are seeing right now.

00:33:43.000 That's what that Tim Walz pic means.

00:33:45.000 In just a second, we're going to get to the economic meltdown to come.

00:33:50.000 Kamala Harris is the Vice President of the United States.

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00:35:36.000 Okay, meanwhile, while all of this is happening, Kamala Harris has not been asked a single serious question, like zero serious questions.

00:35:44.000 Meanwhile, yesterday, the Dow plummeted over 1,000 points, 1,000.

00:35:49.000 And the reason that the Dow plummeted 1,000 points is because people are very much afraid of a recession that is coming.

00:35:55.000 It is unclear exactly how the giant sell-off in the Japanese stock market is going to infect other financial institutions.

00:36:03.000 If you over-leverage on a bad bet, then very often that can sink you.

00:36:07.000 We have seen that with a bunch of different financial institutions over the years, ranging from, say, Bear Stearns, all the way back to 1997, 1998, when you saw financial firms that were falling apart having bet on the dot-com bubble.

00:36:19.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the unwinding of some Wall Street's most popular trades intensified on Monday, sending Japanese stocks to their worst day since the 1987 market crash, walloping U.S.

00:36:28.000 technology shares.

00:36:29.000 U.S.

00:36:29.000 stock indices opened sharply lower, tracing declines in international markets before recovering somewhat after a survey of purchasing managers showed the services sector expanding last month at a slightly higher rate than expected.

00:36:41.000 So what exactly is happening?

00:36:43.000 Well, I mean, part of this is sort of the natural exuberance that was created by easy money for years.

00:36:49.000 Neil Ferguson, who is a historian and also a financial historian, he says,

00:36:53.000 the first half of the delusional year was characterized by an AI bubble propelled by

00:36:58.000 investors' belief in tall tales about what large language models could do for everyone's business,

00:37:02.000 thereby guaranteeing NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, Meta vast profits as far as the eye could see.

00:37:06.000 Stronger than expected economic growth in the United States, which was the result of unrelenting fiscal stimulus.

00:37:12.000 Expectations of Fed interest rate cuts this year, though with uncertainty about the precise timing, because of all of those bubbles and because of the stronger-than-expected growth.

00:37:21.000 A rising probability of Donald Trump being re-elected, which investors were quietly content with in a, quote, don't-tell-my-wife kind of way.

00:37:27.000 Neil's point here is that there are a lot of investors who pretend to be on the left, but secretly they want Trump re-elected because it's better for their pocketbook, as everybody knows.

00:37:33.000 Also, lack of fear about a U.S.-China-Taiwan crisis.

00:37:37.000 And lack of fatalities in Ukraine and the Middle East.

00:37:40.000 Okay, now all of those things are going wrong.

00:37:42.000 So as Neil points out, we have now reached the end of the AI bubble, with the crucial blows to sentiment being delivered by the venture capital giants Sequoia and Elliott.

00:37:50.000 It's equivalent among activist hedge funds.

00:37:52.000 Berkshire Hathaway's decision to slash their Apple position came later and didn't help either.

00:37:55.000 So basically, whenever you have a brand new technology, there's over-investment in that sector.

00:37:59.000 It gets really hot, and everybody decides to pour money into that sector, and then it sort of fades away.

00:38:04.000 And what's left are the jewels.

00:38:06.000 A lot of money got poured into the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s, and then it fell apart.

00:38:10.000 What was left was not the end of the internet.

00:38:12.000 What was left was kind of the best companies.

00:38:13.000 And you're starting to see that in terms of AI right now.

00:38:17.000 Also, we are seeing the signs of a slowdown in the U.S.

00:38:19.000 labor market, as Neil points out.

00:38:21.000 Also, the possibility the Federal Reserve waited too long to cut interest rates and should have already done so.

00:38:25.000 But the reality is, it's not about the Federal Reserve.

00:38:27.000 As I said yesterday on the program, whenever you have a centralized bank controlling the flow of the economy, That is not a healthy economy.

00:38:34.000 It should not be the centralized bank.

00:38:36.000 It shouldn't be the Federal Reserve controlling whether the economy goes up or down.

00:38:40.000 They are in the job of providing stability and solidity, not in the job of injecting cash into the economy or sucking cash out of the economy as though they are the great money managers in the sky.

00:38:52.000 Beyond that, obviously, the international situation grows worse and worse.

00:38:56.000 Everybody can see that, and people are becoming a little bit disquieted by it.

00:39:00.000 And Kamala owns all of this.

00:39:01.000 Remember, the theme of this campaign, if you are a Republican, if you are a Trump fan, if you want Kamala to lose, is very easy.

00:39:07.000 Kamala owns all of it.

00:39:09.000 Now again, the media have been trying to run desperately away from this implication.

00:39:12.000 They want it both ways.

00:39:13.000 On the one hand, Kamala Harris is a wonderful moderate who is in no way involved with any of the insanely radical policies of the Biden administration.

00:39:20.000 She's not responsible for the borders.

00:39:21.000 She wasn't.

00:39:22.000 The borders are?

00:39:23.000 Are you kidding?

00:39:24.000 She's not responsible for Bidenomics.

00:39:25.000 It's Bidenomics, not Harrisnomics.

00:39:29.000 We all know.

00:39:30.000 I mean, she wasn't involved in any serious decision like that.

00:39:32.000 That's on the one hand.

00:39:33.000 So she's not responsible for anything, but she's brand new and shiny.

00:39:36.000 On the other hand, she is responsible for everything because she is the most important vice president in our history.

00:39:42.000 She was the last person in the room.

00:39:43.000 Bread costs more than gas costs more.

00:39:44.000 in every single major decision that Joe Biden made.

00:39:46.000 You can't have it both ways.

00:39:47.000 The media are trying to, and they are trying to by never asking her a question

00:39:51.000 ever again.

00:39:52.000 But remember, it was Kamala Harris who's celebrating Joe Biden's Bidenomics in 2021.

00:39:57.000 Here she was just a few years ago talking about the magic of Bidenomics.

00:40:01.000 Bread costs more than gas costs more.

00:40:04.000 And we have to understand what that means.

00:40:08.000 That's about the cost of living going up.

00:40:11.000 That's about having to stress and stretch limited resources.

00:40:17.000 That's about a source of stress for families that is not only economic, but is on a daily level, something that is a heavy weight to carry.

00:40:28.000 Amazing.

00:40:29.000 And then in 2023, she was celebrating Bidenomics with laughter and joy, right?

00:40:33.000 Because she's a real person.

00:40:35.000 That's what we know.

00:40:36.000 Laughter, laughter.

00:40:39.000 All that, ladies and gentlemen, and everyone else, that is called Bidinomics.

00:40:48.000 That is called Bidinomics, and we are very proud of Bidinomics.

00:40:54.000 Unbelievable.

00:40:56.000 Truly amazing stuff there from Kamala Harris.

00:40:58.000 Well, she should be linked to all of it.

00:41:01.000 She should be linked to all of it.

00:41:02.000 I mean, she is responsible for all of it.

00:41:04.000 I mean, it was just a couple of months ago that Corinne Jean-Pierre was out there saying, we have the record stock market.

00:41:08.000 Well, folks, live by the stock market, die by the stock market.

00:41:11.000 Here is the world's least talented press secretary.

00:41:14.000 President Biden's economic plan is working.

00:41:17.000 It's growing the middle class, as you hear us talk about all the time.

00:41:20.000 Spurgeon's investment in manufacturing created almost 800,000 jobs in this administration alone, and infrastructure, and outperformed other countries.

00:41:28.000 That's what the President has been very focused on.

00:41:30.000 Record stock market highs under President Biden are good for retirement accounts and household wealth.

00:41:36.000 And that is just a fact.

00:41:38.000 And so, which we, which, you know, we would never root for a start market crash or for Americans to lose their jobs.

00:41:46.000 It's something that we would never root for from here.

00:41:49.000 But obviously, you know, the start market, again, it's not the economy, but we believe that the President's economic, President Biden's economic plan is working.

00:42:00.000 Oh, they believe it.

00:42:00.000 They do.

00:42:01.000 In fact, just one week ago, Joe Biden, who is a dead president, which means we should probably put him on some sort of dollar bill.

00:42:07.000 He's, like, actually no longer alive.

00:42:08.000 But last week, he said he cured the economy, which he cured in the same way that he cured stage four dementia.

00:42:13.000 Mr. President, what do you want your White House officials here to speak to you?

00:42:24.000 Right.

00:42:24.000 Cure the economy.

00:42:24.000 What are you talking about?

00:42:26.000 And a few other small things.

00:42:29.000 Okay, Kamala Harris owns this. 0.99

00:42:31.000 She owns it.

00:42:31.000 She's the vice president.

00:42:32.000 She's part of the administration.

00:42:34.000 Anytime she wants, she can 25th Amendment that old dude. 1.00

00:42:36.000 And she ain't doing it.

00:42:37.000 President Trump was even noting this yesterday.

00:42:40.000 He said, Stock markets are crashing.

00:42:41.000 Jobs numbers are terrible.

00:42:42.000 We're heading to World War III.

00:42:43.000 We have two of the most incompetent leaders in history.

00:42:45.000 This is not good.

00:42:47.000 Fact check true.

00:42:47.000 He said, of course there's a massive market downturn.

00:42:50.000 Kamala's even worse than Crooked Joe. 0.92

00:42:52.000 Markets will never accept the radical left lunatic that destroyed San Francisco and California as a whole.

00:42:56.000 Next move, the Great Depression of 2024.

00:42:57.000 It can't play games with markets.

00:43:00.000 Kamala crash.

00:43:02.000 And then later, Trump cash versus Kamala crash.

00:43:06.000 You know?

00:43:07.000 That's right.

00:43:08.000 How about lots of that?

00:43:09.000 That would be good.

00:43:10.000 And in the meantime, this is what's amazing.

00:43:12.000 This is what's amazing.

00:43:13.000 She just selected a socialist.

00:43:15.000 A self-proclaimed socialism isn't that bad.

00:43:16.000 It's just neighborliness.

00:43:17.000 She selected that guy for vice president in the middle of an economic downturn where you spent too much money.

00:43:23.000 She was the deciding vote on the Inflation Reduction Act.

00:43:25.000 That was a 50-50 vote.

00:43:26.000 She was the presiding officer in the Senate with the 51st vote.

00:43:29.000 And she voted that into law.

00:43:30.000 So this is all hers. 0.55

00:43:32.000 We did it, Joe.

00:43:34.000 We did it, Joe.

00:43:37.000 Really well done.

00:43:39.000 And in the middle of all of this, they decided, it's amazing.

00:43:42.000 There is a burgeoning war in the Middle East. 0.99

00:43:44.000 That war in the Middle East is being caused by the Biden administration's absolute, pathetic, cowardly weakness. 1.00

00:43:50.000 Absolutely pathetic, this administration in the Middle East. 0.99

00:43:52.000 They distanced themselves from our ally, Saudi Arabia. 0.99

00:43:54.000 They distanced themselves from our ally, Israel.

00:43:56.000 They tried to draw closer to Iran, and Iran promptly launched a seven-front war against Israel and has been attacking American troops.

00:44:04.000 And Kamala Harris's response to all of that was to chide Israel for being too mean to terrorists.

00:44:09.000 And Joe Biden is doing the same thing.

00:44:10.000 And then, just to cap it off, make sure she didn't pick the Zionist Jew in Pennsylvania who might've won her the election. 0.72

00:44:16.000 She instead picked the socialist from Minnesota to please, what, the Somali base in Minnesota?

00:44:23.000 Amazing.

00:44:24.000 High-level thinking here from the Biden administration and a betrayal of exactly what it is they stand for.

00:44:28.000 I mean, it shows exactly what they stand for.

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00:45:36.000 Okay, so speaking of Kamala Harris's vice presidential pick. 0.99

00:45:39.000 So Tim Walz voted in favor of the JCPOA, which was the Obama-era horrifying deal that relieved sanctions on Iran.

00:45:48.000 This is back when he was in Congress.

00:45:50.000 Kamala Harris, of course, was a big supporter of the JCPOA.

00:45:54.000 She and this administration have bent over backwards to try and make room for the Iranians. 0.98

00:45:59.000 They put extraordinary pressure on the Israelis, even as the Iranians are literally firing ordnance at Americans in the Middle East. 0.95

00:46:06.000 According to the New York Post, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were briefed in the White House Situation Room on Monday after a suspected rocket attack against a military base in Iraq left a number of U.S.

00:46:14.000 personnel injured.

00:46:16.000 Biden, 81, said he discussed developments in the Middle East with his national security team, according to a post on his ex-account.

00:46:21.000 Again, he's been totally missing.

00:46:23.000 Joe Biden may, in fact, be dead.

00:46:24.000 We don't know.

00:46:24.000 There's no proof of life.

00:46:25.000 He shows up once every so often, and then his mouth moves in some sort of way, and sound kind of comes out, and then they wheel him backstage, and then they take a picture with his body propped up like Elson on a horse.

00:46:36.000 The president said, we received updates on threats posed by Iran and its proxies, diplomatic efforts to de-escalate regional tensions, and preparations to support Israel should it be attacked again.

00:46:44.000 We also discussed the steps we are taking to defend our forces and respond to any attack against our personnel in a manner and place of our choosing.

00:46:49.000 By the way, manner and place of our choosing means never, and the manner is zero.

00:46:53.000 That is probably the way that Joe Biden sees this sort of thing. 0.60

00:46:56.000 Because when it comes to the Middle East, Joe Biden and his entire fool State Department are of the opinion The more nicely you treat terrorists, the better they treat you. 0.80

00:47:05.000 It's all just a nice game of diplomacy. 0.74

00:47:08.000 Meanwhile, Biden has been briefed that the possibility of a major Iranian or Hezbollah attack on Israel in the aftermath of a year of Hezbollah firing rockets into Israel, in the aftermath of Iran activating terrorist groups from seven different countries to attack Israel, and then Israel retaliating by killing Ismail Khania, who is the leader of Hamas, the political leader in Tehran, and also killing the number two in Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Biden administration, they're saying they don't know where or when this is going to happen.

00:47:33.000 Apparently, Antony Blinken told his G7 counterpart on Sunday Iran and Hezbollah could attack Israel as soon as the next 24 to 48 hours, but...

00:47:41.000 In the meeting that Biden and Harris had with the National Security Council in the White House Situation Room on Monday, the assessment was more nuanced, according to U.S.

00:47:47.000 officials.

00:47:47.000 The officials said Biden and Harris were both told U.S.

00:47:49.000 intelligence expects a scenario involving two waves of attacks, one from Hezbollah, one from Iran, and several of its other proxies.

00:47:55.000 And it's unclear who is going to go first. 0.98

00:47:57.000 Now, notice that Harris is included in all of this, which means she is responsible for this crap policy. 0.99

00:48:03.000 And it is, in fact, a crap policy. 0.99

00:48:04.000 Yesterday, the Biden administration trotted out their useless Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, to suggest that all parties must stop escalating. 0.99

00:48:11.000 You know, the people who are killing the terrorists and also the terrorists, they have to stop escalating. 0.97

00:48:14.000 It's real bad when Israel kills terrorists.

00:48:17.000 And it's equally bad when Hezbollah launches rockets into civilian areas and kills Druze children on purpose.

00:48:23.000 And when Iran prepares a massive missile strike on a Democratic ally of the United States.

00:48:27.000 Basically the same.

00:48:28.000 Same, same. 0.92

00:48:29.000 Here's Tony Blinken, incompetent Secretary of State.

00:48:32.000 All parties must refrain from escalation.

00:48:37.000 All parties must take steps to ease tensions.

00:48:42.000 Escalation is not in anyone's interest.

00:48:44.000 It will only lead to more conflict, more violence, more insecurity.

00:48:54.000 It's going to lead to more violence and more... Well, I mean, if you lecture people, that'll probably... This is all Kamala Harris's policy. 1.00

00:48:59.000 This is all Kamala Harris's policy. 0.89

00:49:01.000 Joe Biden was asked about Iran and what they're going to do, and he said, I hope Iran stands down.

00:49:07.000 Well, and I hope for a bunny rabbit.

00:49:09.000 Like, seriously, dude.

00:49:11.000 Seriously, go eat ice cream and go to sleep. 1.00

00:49:12.000 You are the most useless president in American history. 1.00

00:49:15.000 I wish you were only useless. 1.00

00:49:16.000 He's actually the opposite of useful, which is not useless. 0.99

00:49:19.000 It is malevolent. 0.99

00:49:20.000 Here is the non-alive president of the United States and his absolute crap foreign policy. 0.99

00:49:28.000 Do you think Iran will stand down? 0.98

00:49:30.000 Do you think Iran will stand down, sir?

00:49:42.000 I hope so.

00:49:43.000 I don't know.

00:49:44.000 I don't know.

00:49:46.000 Yeah, we know you don't know. 1.00

00:49:47.000 Because you're useless. 1.00

00:49:48.000 You are a completely useless president of the United States. 1.00

00:49:50.000 And guess what? 1.00

00:49:51.000 You and your VP are presiding over all of this.

00:49:53.000 All of it.

00:49:54.000 And it's Kamala Harris who's sitting in on all those meetings. 0.53

00:49:57.000 So when does she get asked a question?

00:49:58.000 Again, day 17 of no questions.

00:50:01.000 Where are you, media?

00:50:02.000 What exactly do you do for a living?

00:50:04.000 What is it that you would say you do around here?

00:50:07.000 I mean, I understand that you think that you're the Praetorian Guard for the Kamala Harris run for office, but at this point you might want to ask some questions.

00:50:14.000 Got an economic catastrophe in the making.

00:50:16.000 We have a full-scale World War III possibility in the Middle East. 0.52

00:50:19.000 She just picked the most radical candidate she could find, and you got no questions?

00:50:23.000 Like, you can't get to her at all?

00:50:25.000 You're just gonna take the crumbs that are handed out by her press secretary's office? 0.98

00:50:30.000 That's how we do campaigns now?

00:50:32.000 And this is the reason why the Trump campaign must make hay while the sun shines.

00:50:37.000 I go on YouTube.

00:50:38.000 Obviously, we all go on YouTube.

00:50:40.000 YouTube is chock full of Kamala Harris ads.

00:50:42.000 You cannot watch a video on YouTube from children to adults.

00:50:45.000 You cannot watch anything that does not have a Kamala Harris ad on the front.

00:50:48.000 The Trump campaign needs to be pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into defining their opposition.

00:50:53.000 There is no substitute for victory in this election because, let's be clear, while I am optimistic about this election based on the fact that Kamala Harris has just shown how incompetent she is, while I think that the Tim Walz pick is about the worst pick she could have made here, And while I think that it's pretty obvious she forewent Josh Shapiro because her party, they don't like the Jews all that much. 0.98

00:51:13.000 The Jews are unclean. 1.00

00:51:15.000 I think that you still need to keep her from being president of the United States. 0.97

00:51:19.000 The thing I fear is that she might win anyway.

00:51:21.000 Now, there is some good news.

00:51:23.000 If you look at the polling data right now, Kamala Harris has had just a sweet couple of weeks, right?

00:51:28.000 She went from not on the map to the presidential candidate like that. 1.00

00:51:33.000 The Democratic Party, a professional party, decided to shoot The presidential hopes of Joe Biden down.

00:51:39.000 They decided to basically smother the old man's presidential hopes with a pillow.

00:51:44.000 Godfather 2 style.

00:51:46.000 And then they put Kamala Harris in place. 1.00

00:51:48.000 She's been asked not a single question.

00:51:50.000 She's gotten nothing but glowing media coverage and TikTok videos of her dancing and all the youngsters dancing with Kamala and pretending that you fell out of a coconut tree.

00:52:00.000 That all of that is wildly charming.

00:52:03.000 And lovely, she's run a series of campaign ads that include Beyonce's freedom, which of course is the mark of a phenomenal president, is that you are friends with Beyonce.

00:52:11.000 That's the most important thing, as we all know.

00:52:13.000 Despite all of that, she's not blowing Trump away in the polls.

00:52:16.000 It's not as though she came from behind and now she's leading by 10.

00:52:19.000 Kamala Harris still can't break 50. 0.76

00:52:21.000 She is stuck at 47-48%.

00:52:24.000 Now, that's the good news.

00:52:25.000 The bad news is the last four polls all show her up nationally.

00:52:28.000 SurveyUSA has her up 3 on Trump 48-45.

00:52:31.000 Morning Consult has her up 4 on Trump 48-44.

00:52:33.000 CBS News has her up 1 on Trump 50-49.

00:52:36.000 INI-TIPP has her up 46-45. 0.92

00:52:39.000 The RealClearPolitics polling average right now.

00:52:43.000 Shows that she is up in the average by like a bare .2 of a point.

00:52:50.000 So it's still incredibly close.

00:52:52.000 Which again, is reason for optimism.

00:52:53.000 Because the question is, how does she go up from here?

00:52:56.000 How does she go up from here?

00:52:57.000 And it's hard to see how she goes up from here.

00:52:59.000 Now, she could have had a big uptick from the Josh Shapiro pick.

00:53:02.000 Because again, pose yourself as a moderate, come off as a moderate, lie about it.

00:53:07.000 But this is...

00:53:09.000 Pretty amazing.

00:53:10.000 Pretty amazing that she decided to blow the opportunity. 1.00

00:53:14.000 Pretty incredible that she decided to introduce Tim Walz in Philadelphia by not selecting the Pennsylvania governor.

00:53:24.000 That is an opening.

00:53:25.000 And if Republicans don't take advantage, that's their fault.

00:53:28.000 I mean, honestly.

00:53:29.000 I know the media are stacked against them.

00:53:31.000 I know that the rules in some states are stacked against them.

00:53:34.000 There is no excuse for not winning.

00:53:38.000 In the words of General Patton, Americans like a winner and will not tolerate a loser.

00:53:43.000 No more losing to these people.

00:53:44.000 She has given the opening.

00:53:45.000 The opening is widely available.

00:53:47.000 The Trump campaign needs to reorient.

00:53:49.000 They need to focus, laser beam-like, on the fact that this is the most radical Democratic Party ticket in history.

00:53:56.000 In history.

00:53:57.000 This Democratic Party is more radical than George McGovern's Democratic Party of 1972.

00:54:01.000 This Democratic Party has decided to oust the moderates to just no longer Take advantage, no longer even apply for them.

00:54:12.000 It's truly an amazing thing.

00:54:14.000 Now this afternoon, Kamala Harris is going to introduce Tim Walz before the nation.

00:54:20.000 And we will get to know Bernie Sanders, but younger.

00:54:24.000 With a Minnesota accent.

00:54:26.000 And that'll be, that'll be really fascinating.

00:54:28.000 I mean, I'm sure that we're going to, I'm sure that we're going to love it.

00:54:30.000 But this is, what a blown opportunity by her.

00:54:32.000 What a truly blown opportunity.

00:54:33.000 And this is a dangerous world.

00:54:35.000 It's a dangerous world.

00:54:36.000 It truly is. 0.68

00:54:36.000 And the people in this dangerous world that you are choosing to lead you are Kamala Harris, a wild incompetent radical from California. 0.68

00:54:43.000 And Tim Walz, a wild incompetent radical from Minnesota.

00:54:47.000 So I have a going theory when it comes to Republicans in presidential elections.

00:54:50.000 It's a theory I've been developing over time, and that is that right now, America kind of feels like New York circa early 90s, 90, 91.

00:54:59.000 Things are kind of falling apart.

00:55:00.000 It's getting dirty out there. 0.99

00:55:01.000 Times Square looks like crap. 1.00

00:55:02.000 A lot of crime. 0.99

00:55:05.000 Just a bad situation.

00:55:06.000 And so they need someone to clean up the show. 0.74

00:55:08.000 They're looking for a new sheriff in town, someone to clean it up.

00:55:11.000 Do you want the progressive prosecutor from San Francisco along with the person who is helping her poo-poo the BLM riots of 2020? 0.71

00:55:18.000 Or would you like Donald Trump to come in and clean this thing up?

00:55:22.000 It turns out that Americans tend to vote Republican when they are concerned about safety, when they are concerned about fear of foreign policy, and Trump happens to be winning on the economy.

00:55:31.000 All the systemic factors are in favor of Donald Trump at this point.

00:55:35.000 He needs to run a meticulous campaign now.

00:55:38.000 I understand that's asking a lot, but it means no more spending time ranting about Brian Kemp.

00:55:43.000 That's not useful. 0.91

00:55:45.000 No more spending time on rabbit holes like whether she's black enough.

00:55:50.000 Let the media cover that sort of stuff.

00:55:52.000 Instead, why not spend your time making the very obvious point, America was better between 2017 and 2019, pre-pandemic, than it has been from 2021 to 2024, and it will get so much worse under Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

00:56:09.000 You might say that Trump should try to build the walls.

00:56:12.000 He should try to build up Tim Walz.

00:56:13.000 He should try to point out that this campaign is, again, radical, radical, and radical.

00:56:19.000 J.D.

00:56:19.000 Vance, just a few moments ago, he pointed out exactly this.

00:56:23.000 J.D.

00:56:24.000 has been a weapon on this sort of stuff.

00:56:26.000 Again, he has drawbacks as a candidate, but he is an attack dog.

00:56:28.000 Here's what he said, quote, We continue to pray for the American service members hurt in Al-Asad, Iraq. 0.62

00:56:33.000 I hope the news doesn't get worse.

00:56:34.000 I served in Al-Asad.

00:56:36.000 Kamala Harris has invited chaos to reign all over the world and our troops suffer because of it.

00:56:40.000 Meanwhile, the Harris campaign sent out its first text making the announcement that Tim Walz is her running mate.

00:56:45.000 Quote, Tim is a battle-tested leader who has an incredible track record of getting things done for Minnesota families.

00:56:50.000 I know he will bring that same principled leadership to our campaign.

00:56:54.000 Wow, wow, wow.

00:56:56.000 This is...

00:56:58.000 This is a move.

00:56:59.000 This is a move.

00:57:01.000 And again, it's now been confirmed, AP, CNN, Katie Rogers, who is a reporter for the New York Times, Tim Walz has been notified he's the pick and has accepted Kamala Harris's offer to be her running mate.

00:57:10.000 Two people directly familiar with the decision, tell me.

00:57:13.000 And you know what?

00:57:15.000 Condolences to Josh Shapiro, who tried to sell out his values at the last moment for that VP pick and it didn't work.

00:57:21.000 And frankly, I'm delighted.

00:57:23.000 Frankly, I think that that's a very, very good thing.

00:57:27.000 Again, Pennsylvania is where the state, that's, it's such a catastrophic mistake.

00:57:32.000 Like 538, 538 suggests that the, or Nate Silver rather, suggests that Pennsylvania is the state that if it is won by either side, decides the election.

00:57:44.000 It's like a 95% shot that whoever wins Pennsylvania wins the election.

00:57:47.000 And she just forewent that because the governor was a Jew. 0.88

00:57:50.000 It's that simple.

00:57:51.000 Absolute political malpractice. 0.72

00:57:52.000 Joining us on the line is the excrable Michael Knowles and his cigars. 0.73

00:57:57.000 Michael, I am excited.

00:57:59.000 I gotta tell you, I'm excited for the first time since Joe Biden dropped out of the race, and we've had a couple of weeks of the media not asking Kamala Harris any questions at all.

00:58:07.000 We are now, as I've pointed out multiple times on the show, on day 17 of zero questions being asked to Kamala Harris.

00:58:13.000 But now she has made her vice presidential pick, and contrary to all common sense, contrary to all intelligence, she has picked A radical Democrat from a non-swing state who has very little appeal other than that he's like a white guy, I suppose, kind of.

00:58:29.000 What do you make of the pic?

00:58:31.000 It seems like a big unforced error.

00:58:33.000 I was pulling for Shapiro just so that we would have an in.

00:58:36.000 I assume, you know, at the family reunion, you could have gotten us some access to the White House.

00:58:40.000 Not related.

00:58:41.000 Oh, got it.

00:58:42.000 Got it.

00:58:42.000 Okay.

00:58:43.000 I assumed that she would probably not pick Shapiro because, as you just said, the Democrats hate Jews right now.

00:58:51.000 And the pro-Palestine people are going to show up to the DNC and Kamala.

00:58:55.000 Kamala is this weird Democrat figure because she is, on the one hand, extremely radical to the left of Bernie Sanders in the Senate, and on the other hand, the consummate establishment empty suit. 1.00

00:59:07.000 And she is weirdly both of those things, and the way she can be both of those things is that the Democrat establishment has moved extremely far left.

00:59:14.000 The Democratic establishment is pushing gender ideology on kids.

00:59:17.000 The Democrat establishment is pro-abortion up until the moment of birth.

00:59:20.000 So that's how she could skirt that line.

00:59:23.000 But the question was going to be, which way is she going to lean? 0.99

00:59:26.000 Is she going to lean into the Democrat establishment and go with Shapiro?

00:59:30.000 Or is she going to embrace her radical leftism and go with Waltz?

00:59:33.000 I thought maybe Mark Kelly, you know, astronaut, senator, seems a little bit more moderate.

00:59:40.000 Maybe he could have been a choice.

00:59:41.000 No, she said forget about all of that.

00:59:43.000 She is going to lean into the leftism.

00:59:45.000 She's going to lean into the Democrat intifada. 0.98

00:59:48.000 She's going to lean into where she thinks the base is. 0.96

00:59:53.000 All I can say about it is, at least she's being true to her roots.

00:59:57.000 At least she's giving a clear ideological vision for the campaign, and she's sending a clear message to swing state voters, voters in the Rust Belt, the centrists and the moderates and the people who just don't really like Trump that much.

01:00:10.000 She's saying, hey, vote for me.

01:00:12.000 I'm going all the way left.

01:00:16.000 Yeah, by the way, speaking of going all the way left, the pro-Hamas caucus is ecstatic today. 0.97

01:00:20.000 I mean, it's very obvious why she didn't pick Josh Shapiro.

01:00:23.000 And as you say, it's because he's a Jew. 0.99

01:00:24.000 I mean, it's that simple. 0.70

01:00:25.000 He's a Jew. 1.00

01:00:26.000 It's not even that he's pro-Israel because his position is mirrored by a bunch of the candidates who are actually in the Democratic Party.

01:00:31.000 He might be more Zionist than some of them, or at least he was 20 years ago.

01:00:34.000 Now, of course, he's attempted to shift and move in an attempt to win over the pro-Hamas base of the Democratic Party.

01:00:40.000 But I'm just going to read you some of the responses from the actual Hamas fans in the Democratic Party. Ilhan Omar quote, congratulations to our next vice 0.96

01:00:48.000 president Tim Walz.

01:00:48.000 Our North Star State Governor has signed universal school meals, paid family and sick leave, marijuana

01:00:53.000 legalization, and protections for reproductive rights into law. Bring Minnesota nice to the ticket. Jamal Bowman. It's

01:00:58.000 Walz, baby. Let's go. 0.63

01:01:00.000 I doubt that he would have been nearly as enthusiastic if there had been a triple parentheses guy there. 1.00

01:01:06.000 Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.

01:01:13.000 Bernie Sanders says that he hopes Kamala Harris will select a running mate who will speak up and take on powerful corporate interests. 0.98

01:01:24.000 I think Tim Walz is somebody who could do that.

01:01:26.000 So, the radical left is celebrating.

01:01:28.000 All the attempts in the world to try and pretend that Walz is a moderate or that Kamala is a moderate just fell apart. 1.00

01:01:33.000 I mean, true idiocy. 1.00

01:01:35.000 True, full-scale idiocy. 1.00

01:01:36.000 I don't understand it. 1.00

01:01:37.000 It makes no sense to me.

01:01:39.000 Again, it's right there.

01:01:40.000 It's kind of amazing.

01:01:42.000 My question is, what does this mean Kamala is thinking?

01:01:46.000 Because we recall Minnesota is the one state that the Democrats managed to win in 1984.

01:01:52.000 Reagan takes 49 states.

01:01:54.000 The one state the Democrats win is Minnesota.

01:01:56.000 This is not a swing state.

01:01:58.000 So does this mean that Kamala is on the defensive here?

01:02:03.000 She's trying to shore up her Democrat support. 0.97

01:02:07.000 Or is this Kamala being cocky?

01:02:09.000 Is this her saying, look, we're going to win, and I want to have a leftist to be behind me, to be the legacy, to be the next person in line?

01:02:19.000 So I think that it's both those things.

01:02:21.000 So I think that she is afraid of her left.

01:02:23.000 I think the Democrats are deeply scared that they were going to get to the DNC in Chicago and that Josh Shapiro would be on the ticket.

01:02:28.000 And you get a bunch of people with Hamas flags out front waving and shouting and burning things that would make Democrats look super bad.

01:02:34.000 And so instead she's tried to appease that group. 0.61

01:02:37.000 And she's basically taking Jewish voters for granted and assuming that Jewish voters are just going to go right along with this. 0.99

01:02:41.000 I actually don't think that's going to work this time.

01:02:42.000 There's some polling data that is now showing a shocking uptick in the amount of Jewish support for Trump.

01:02:47.000 And there are a lot of Jewish voters in the suburbs of Philadelphia, actually.

01:02:50.000 And so it'll be interesting to also in the suburbs of Detroit, we should point out.

01:02:54.000 It'll be interesting to see what the impact is there, because it's not just that Kamala

01:02:57.000 didn't pick Tim Walz.

01:03:01.000 It's that she specifically kind of face planted Josh Shapiro.

01:03:03.000 Everyone thought that it was going to be the quasi-moderate.

01:03:06.000 He really isn't that moderate, but the quasi-moderate, semi-observant Jew who likes Israel. 0.84

01:03:11.000 And she flirted and flirted and flirted. 0.98

01:03:12.000 And then she absolutely face planted him in favor of Tim Walz, which is a real slap in the face.

01:03:17.000 So, I think, on the one hand, she's afraid of her base, she's afraid of that radical base.

01:03:21.000 On the other hand, she is doubling down on the idea that she can get enough of her base out that she is going to win the election. 0.99

01:03:26.000 And this, to me, has been the most chimerical, Democratic vision since 2012.

01:03:31.000 In 2012, Barack Obama shifted the way the Democrats did elections.

01:03:34.000 In 2008, he said, I'm going to run toward the middle.

01:03:36.000 I'm going to obscure all of my views.

01:03:38.000 And then I'm going to win a broad majority of the American people.

01:03:39.000 And he did in 2008.

01:03:41.000 And then he had three years of being president. 0.99

01:03:42.000 He sucked at it. 0.98

01:03:43.000 He had moved way to the left. 0.99

01:03:44.000 He pushed Obamacare.

01:03:45.000 And now he said, the only way I can win is by cobbling together my base and disaffected white ladies. 1.00

01:03:51.000 And that will be the new base of the Democratic Party.

01:03:54.000 And Hillary tried to duplicate that coalition in 2016. 1.00

01:03:56.000 It failed.

01:03:57.000 Biden was only able to quote-unquote duplicate the coalition through changing all of the voting rules and because we had the weirdest presidential election year of all time in 2020.

01:04:05.000 And now, Kamala had an opportunity to theoretically run to the middle. 1.00

01:04:09.000 And instead, she just surrendered the middle to Trump, which is an amazing move.

01:04:13.000 I mean, that is her basically so confident that she is going to be able to beat Trump just on the merits that he's Donald Trump, that she can pick whoever she wants for Vice President of the United States.

01:04:23.000 And so I think the confluence of both factors is the answer, I think.

01:04:27.000 My last question, Ben, for you is, why not pick Mark Kelly?

01:04:32.000 I mean, why did it come down to these two?

01:04:35.000 Why not sidestep the issue of the Israel-Gaza war?

01:04:38.000 Why not sidestep the issue of the radicalism or the establishment's seemingly moderation?

01:04:47.000 Why not go with someone totally different?

01:04:49.000 I don't know, I thought Kelly looked pretty good.

01:04:53.000 So I think there are a couple of problems with Mark Kelly.

01:04:55.000 One was that there were some stories about him investing in Chinese companies,

01:04:58.000 which were going to come out.

01:04:59.000 Two, there were some rumors that he's been a little loose with the zipper,

01:05:01.000 shall we say, in the state of Arizona.

01:05:04.000 And three is that she's running fairly well behind in Arizona.

01:05:09.000 Like Trump's numbers in Arizona are pretty solid at this point.

01:05:12.000 And so despite all of the Democratic loose talk about how she's going to open up

01:05:14.000 the Sun Belt to electoral prospects, I really don't think that's going to happen.

01:05:17.000 She understands that she still has to shore up that blue wall.

01:05:20.000 There's still a better than average shot.

01:05:21.000 She loses Arizona and Georgia.

01:05:23.000 North Carolina actually is weirdly kind of in play.

01:05:26.000 But I think that what she was trying to go for here was that Midwestern play.

01:05:29.000 But again, it's just I'm amazed.

01:05:32.000 It's political malpractice.

01:05:33.000 And again, it teaches you two things.

01:05:34.000 One, she's a radical. 0.97

01:05:35.000 But two, she's not good at this. 0.99

01:05:37.000 Like, we keep pretending that she's good at this. 1.00

01:05:39.000 Kamala Harris sucks at this. 1.00

01:05:41.000 She's terrible at this. 1.00

01:05:43.000 Like, everyone is forgetting that her 2019 presidential race was a cataclysm of failure.

01:05:47.000 Everyone is forgetting that that thing was like, Apocalyptically bad.

01:05:51.000 That it was so bad that she started off with a lead and 20,000 people at her rally.

01:05:55.000 And by the end, she couldn't even get her immediate family in the room to get a resignation from the race. 0.97

01:05:59.000 She quit before they even got to California.

01:06:01.000 And then she was picked off the pile of obscurity by Joe Biden because he needed a black woman in the middle of BLM summer. 1.00

01:06:07.000 And that's the only reason she's there.

01:06:08.000 And so there was this sort of weird hope that she was going to rejuvenate herself.

01:06:13.000 And there's always this hope in politics.

01:06:15.000 I mean, how many times have we seen this with Donald Trump or Dustin Sands,

01:06:17.000 literally every politician.

01:06:19.000 It's like, maybe we'll see a new version of them.

01:06:21.000 There'll be a new makeover.

01:06:23.000 Really the only politician I can think of in modern history who's had like a full-scale makeover comeback

01:06:29.000 really is Nixon, right?

01:06:30.000 From 60 to 68.

01:06:31.000 That's the only one.

01:06:33.000 No other politician does this.

01:06:34.000 Every other politician is who the politician is all the way until the end.

01:06:38.000 Kamala Harris is not competent.

01:06:39.000 She's not competent. 0.80

01:06:40.000 This is an incompetent political malpractice pick, which is why I'm excited.

01:06:43.000 I think what it actually demonstrates is that she's going to run a pretty weak election campaign. 0.99

01:06:47.000 I think once you get past the TikTok memes, I think once you get past the Beyonce freedom mashups and montages, I don't think there's anything there.

01:06:55.000 I think there is, I think she's, I've been saying this for a while, an eggshell skull candidate.

01:06:59.000 I think that she looks like she's kind of normal, and then you tap the eggshell skull and it caves in.

01:07:03.000 And I think that this is the Trump campaign's obligation.

01:07:05.000 They cannot waste time.

01:07:07.000 They cannot waste effort.

01:07:08.000 This can't become Festivus, where Donald Trump just wanders around the landscape.

01:07:12.000 Airing his grievances about Brian Kemp.

01:07:14.000 He has one target and one target only.

01:07:16.000 The Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign.

01:07:18.000 And that campaign is the most radical ticket in American history.

01:07:21.000 It's literally the person who presided over the burning down of Minneapolis combined with the person who's bailing out the rioters in 2020.

01:07:29.000 In Minneapolis, exactly.

01:07:33.000 With the market collapsing, with a looming war in the Middle East, it is nice to get a little bit of good news. 1.00

01:07:40.000 If you're a Republican today, I think you've got to be smiling at the pic.

01:07:46.000 I agree.

01:07:46.000 Kamala Harris, by the way, has just tweeted a quick update.

01:07:49.000 I am proud to announce that I've asked Tim Walz, my running mate, as a governor, a coach, a teacher, and a veteran.

01:07:53.000 He's delivered for working families like his.

01:07:55.000 It's great to have him on the team.

01:07:56.000 So she's going to try to run an economic campaign. 1.00

01:07:59.000 Yeah, good luck to you, lady. 1.00

01:08:02.000 That's going to work out well.

01:08:03.000 Donald Trump is trusted on the economy by double digits, so she's going to run right into the teeth of that.

01:08:07.000 Again, I'm much more optimistic today, this morning, than I was last night when I thought it was going to be Josh Shapiro, which would have been a much smarter pick.

01:08:13.000 Michael, good to see you, or at least mediocre to see you.

01:08:16.000 Good to see you.

01:08:16.000 I might light up a Mayflower cigar to celebrate.

01:08:20.000 I think so.

01:08:21.000 I think so.

01:08:22.000 Again, it is an amazing, blown opportunity.

01:08:25.000 Michael, I appreciate the time.

01:08:26.000 It's an amazing, blown opportunity here by the Harris campaign.

01:08:31.000 It's incompetence. 0.99

01:08:34.000 It is foolishness. 0.97

01:08:36.000 It is not good. 0.75

01:08:38.000 It is not good.

01:08:40.000 Again, the sort of idea that Tim Walz is going to be the savior of the campaign is pretty wild.

01:08:45.000 He's a deep blue progressive.

01:08:48.000 Often called the Prairie Progressive.

01:08:50.000 Apparently, this was Nancy Pelosi's pick.

01:08:51.000 That's according to Selena Zito. 1.00

01:08:53.000 She says that it was pretty obvious it was a Nancy Pelosi pick.

01:08:55.000 It's a progressive pick.

01:08:57.000 All of the lines of attack are now open, and the Trump campaign would be committing a sin, a full-scale sin, not to pursue those lines of attack.

01:09:05.000 Alrighty, folks, we've reached the end of the show.

01:09:06.000 We'll be back here tomorrow with much more.

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01:09:20.000 Growing up, I never thought much about race. 0.95

01:09:22.000 It never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me.

01:09:25.000 Am I racist?

01:09:26.000 I would really appreciate it if you left.

01:09:27.000 I'm trying to learn.

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01:09:39.000 And what you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.

01:09:42.000 This is more for you and less for you.

01:09:43.000 Is America inherently racist?

01:09:45.000 The word inherent is challenging that.

01:09:47.000 You want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument?

01:09:50.000 America is racist to its bones.

01:09:52.000 So inherently? 0.98

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01:09:53.000 This country is a piece of s***. 1.00

01:09:56.000 White. 1.00

01:09:56.000 Folks. 1.00

01:09:57.000 Trash. 1.00

01:09:57.000 White supremacy. 1.00

01:09:58.000 White woman. 1.00

01:09:59.000 White boy.

01:09:59.000 Is there a black person around here?

01:10:01.000 What's a black person right here? 0.86

01:10:02.000 Does he not exist?

01:10:05.000 Hi, Robin.

01:10:05.000 Hi.

01:10:06.000 What's your name?

01:10:06.000 I'm Matt.

01:10:07.000 I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.

The Ben Shapiro Show - August 06, 2024

BREAKING: Kamala Picks WALZ For VP

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