Kamala Harris is on the rise, but is it too late for her to catch up to Donald Trump in the polls? Is it possible that she's running out of time in the race? And will she be able to hold on to her lead in the Democratic primary? Or will she have to work even harder to keep up with Trump in order to win the 2020 election? Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are neck-and-neck in the latest CNN/ORC poll, but there's a lot of reason to be concerned about her chances of winning the nomination. Plus, what s going on with the rest of the Democratic candidates in the midterms, and why it's so important that she has a serious chance to win in 2020. Plus, a look at how the media is treating her campaign, and what it means for her chances in the final stretch of the campaign. All that and much, much more on this episode of Mythology and Mythology. Subscribe to Mythology to get exclusive access to all the newest episodes and listen to them wherever you get your favorite shows streaming on the airwaves. Buy your tickets now! Mythology: The Dark Side of the Universe is streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray on Amazon, and also rental on Vimeo and Vimeo worldwide. Go and watch Mythology wherever else you re listening to your favorite podcast on the internet. You can get all that and more by becoming a member of the Mythology Club. or sign up at Mythology Connected. and get 20% off your first month with the code: Mythologyconnections.org and get 15% off the entire month of the show, Mythology Unleash Your Best Fiends and 20% Offered for the month of October 2020, and get 10% off their entire month, they'll get an ad discount when you sign up for a month, too! You'll get 7 days early and get $50 off the first month, and they'll also get a discount on the second month only get 7 months only get VIP access to the entire course gets 4 months of the course, and two months get VIP discount, and you'll get VIP pricing starts starting at $99, VIP access gets $99/month gets $39/place get $24/place gets VIP access, they get VIP gets 4-choice, they also get VIP 4-place and VIP gets 3-place gets gets VIP gets $24-choice gets $4-choice and they get $19/choice gets a choice of VIP gets all-choice
00:01:00.000Well, if you just look at the polling today in the 2024 presidential race between Kamala
00:01:05.000Harris and Donald Trump, Kamala Harris now has the advantage by pretty much all of the
00:01:10.000She's had a major polling upsurge in the aftermath of defenestrating her boss, Joe Biden.
00:01:16.000The last several polls read Harris plus three, Harris plus three, one Trump plus five, that'd be Rasmussen, Harris plus two, Harris plus three, Harris plus four, Trump plus one.
00:01:25.000From Fox News, there's also a Daily Mail poll that is out that shows Trump plus two.
00:01:30.000Bottom line is, this remains a very, very close election.
00:01:33.000And if you look at the state-level polling, what you see is that pretty much all of the major swing states are within margin of error.
00:01:39.000In the RealClearPolitics polling average as of today, Kamala Harris is ahead in Wisconsin by about a point.
00:01:45.000Pennsylvania is effectively a dead heat.
00:01:47.000Michigan, Harris is up about two and a half points.
00:01:49.000Arizona, Trump is up a little bit less than a point.
00:01:53.000And in Georgia, Trump is up a little bit less than a point.
00:01:55.000So what you have is margin of error across the board.
00:01:58.000And that's actually bad news for Kamala Harris because she has had the best three and a half weeks of any candidate in American history.
00:02:05.000This is an amazing three weeks for her.
00:02:54.000And yet, and yet, she is not soaring to a 10 point lead.
00:02:57.000There are some polls that have her up maybe as much as five points.
00:03:01.000And listen, that's bad news for Donald Trump because against Joe Biden, he was up five points.
00:03:06.000And what you see is a consistent move in her direction.
00:03:09.000According to Nate Silver's Work over at Substack, and I think Silver's the best poll analyst in the country.
00:03:15.000There's been a national shift of about 7 points in favor of Harris over where Joe Biden was.
00:03:21.000When Joe Biden was in the race, Trump had a 4 point advantage.
00:03:24.000Today, Democrats have about a 3 point advantage nationally.
00:03:28.000And that is mirrored by about a seven-point shift in Pennsylvania toward the Democrats, a five-point shift toward the Democrats in Georgia, a six-point shift toward the Democrats in Wisconsin, a six-point shift in Michigan, a six-point shift in North Carolina, an eight-point shift in Arizona, a six-point shift in Nevada, even a four-point shift in Florida.
00:03:46.000So these are big shifts in favor of Kamala Harris, but they're not enough to put her so durably ahead that this election is over.
00:03:53.000And so this raises the question, will there be a Trump bounce back?
00:03:58.000Will the sugar high wear off or will the media be able to pump life into this inflatable doll of a candidate all the way up into the election?
00:04:07.000Well, Politico has a rundown on some of the numbers, and what it shows is a few reasons for serious concern for the Kamala Harris campaign.
00:04:14.000The first reason for concern, on June 27th, which was before she had defenestrated her boss, her favorability rating was 39%.
00:04:21.000Today, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, she's at 45%.
00:05:04.000That is now down to about seven points.
00:05:06.000And that is because a lot of Democrats are coming home.
00:05:08.000That's not because a bunch of people shifted into the Trump camp.
00:05:10.000That's because a bunch of people shifted into the Kamala Harris camp.
00:05:13.000Again, that five point decrease in third party share probably has redounded almost solely to the benefit of the Democratic Party.
00:05:20.000Double haters are now coming back and they're going to Kamala Harris.
00:05:24.000Because before the double haters were going to like RFK and they were just waiting for somebody to not be either Donald Trump or Joe Biden.
00:05:29.000So that's a good news piece for Kamala Harris.
00:05:32.000The double haters, the people who don't like either Biden or Trump, they are now moving into the Kamala department, which is good news for her.
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00:06:44.000Another piece of good news for Kamala Harris is that voter enthusiasm has ticked back up for Democrats.
00:06:48.000While Joe Biden was the candidate, voter enthusiasm among Democrats was really low.
00:06:53.000Only 46% of Democrats were enthusiastic about the rematch between Biden and Trump.
00:06:58.000Now it's about 62%, according to that New York Times-Siena College poll.
00:07:03.000She has also closed the gap on the economy a little bit.
00:07:06.000In June, Trump was favored on the economy by almost 10 points.
00:07:10.000Today, Trump is favored on the economy by about 3 points.
00:07:14.000In the Rust Belt States, again, he has an advantage, but it is not a massive advantage.
00:07:19.000But here is the big stat for Kamala Harris.
00:07:22.000On June 27th, 25% of Americans thought America was moving in the right direction.
00:07:27.000Today, 25% of Americans think America is moving in the right direction.
00:07:34.000That is the number that really should be dispositive for the election.
00:07:37.000If you think the country is moving in the wrong direction, presumably you don't like the leadership class, which means that Kamala Harris has to, she must, maintain the lie that she is a change in direction.
00:07:48.000She cannot say, don't change horses in the middle of the stream, because everybody wants to change horses in the middle of this particular stream.
00:07:55.000She must, must distance herself from Joe Biden.
00:07:59.000Because if only a quarter of Americans like the direction America is going, and if she's stapled to Joe Biden, well then she's the one who is not a change in direction.
00:08:09.000And that's precisely what she's hoping to do.
00:08:12.000She's making two strategic moves right now.
00:08:14.000Strategic move number one is to hide, and strategic move number two is to distance herself from Joe Biden as fast as humanly possible.
00:08:23.000On the hiding point, it is perfectly obvious at this point that they have no plans to allow this woman to talk at any point unscripted.
00:08:29.000They are not going to allow her to do it.
00:08:31.000The debate is going to be the height of it, and she is going to be protected by her Praetorian guards over at ABC News.
00:08:36.000It's the reason why she won't commit to three debates.
00:09:07.000We're going to be back here at this point next week.
00:09:09.000And it's going to be 33 days that she has not answered a single question.
00:09:13.000Because we're going to hit the Democratic National Convention on Monday.
00:09:17.000And we're going to get all the way up through August 22nd.
00:09:21.000And she still will have answered zero questions.
00:09:22.000Then we'll get all the way through the weekend and she won't have asked, been asked any questions or answered any serious questions.
00:09:28.000We're going to go more than a month where a presidential candidate who's brand spanking new, a presidential candidate who made, again, the most controversial political move in modern American history by taking her own candidate and throwing him off the back of a train.
00:09:43.000And she's been asked zero questions for a month.
00:10:35.000I mean, can you commit to a press conference before the end of the month?
00:10:40.000We will commit to directly engage with the voters that are actually going to decide this election.
00:10:44.000And that is going to be complete with rallies, with sit-down interviews, with press conferences, with all the digital assets that we have at our disposal.
00:10:52.000We are running a campaign that is built to communicate with the voters that are actually going to decide the pathway to 270 electoral votes.
00:10:59.000We are confident in the plan that we have in place and we're going to execute on that plan.
00:11:02.000Okay, what he means by we are confident in the plan is that we are not going to answer any questions from you.
00:11:18.000The big secret here is the minute you get her off the teleprompter, she is a mess of a human being.
00:11:23.000She's like every other actor in Hollywood.
00:11:25.000Great when the camera is on and the lines are being provided.
00:11:28.000And the minute it's improv time, you are in serious, serious trouble.
00:11:32.000With Kamala Harris, and they know it, which is why they're preventing her from ever seeing the light of day, absent a script in front of her.
00:11:40.000In fact, Harris campaign spokesperson Michael Tyler, same interview, he says he thinks it's funny to steal the no tax on tips policy.
00:11:47.000He's asked about, you know, what are her policies?
00:11:49.000He's like, we have brand new policies, like no tax on tips, and sure we're stealing it, but what you gonna do about it?
00:11:55.000Kamala Harris is saying she will fight to end taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.
00:12:07.000Yeah, listen, again, I would say that there's only one candidate in this race that actually has a track record of standing up and working for working people, and that's Kamala Harris.
00:12:18.000The Harris campaign is confident that they have the love, adoration, and sycophancy of the media.
00:12:23.000And so they're not particularly worried about the media putting serious pressure on them.
00:12:26.000So again, strategy number one, hide her, stow her, prevent her from ever seeing the light of day.
00:12:31.000Strategy number two, take the old man and take his corpse and riddle it with holes.
00:12:36.000That's what they're going to do with Joe Biden now.
00:12:38.000Because again, if she is linked with his very unpopular policies, if 25% of Americans like the direction of the country right now, she must draw a distance between herself and the administration that made her vice president.
00:12:51.000I mean, she, which I got to say is incredibly scummy.
00:12:56.000She was a politician who was on the trash heap of history.
00:13:01.000She ran in 2019 by calling Joe Biden a racist and maybe a And then she earned zero primary votes and dropped out and was widely perceived as one of the worst candidates in modern presidential history.
00:13:12.000And Joe Biden, for DEI reasons, picked her up off that ash heap and he made her vice president of the United States.
00:13:17.000And her first move, in gratitude, is to steal his nomination and then to trash him.
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00:14:38.000So, Axios has a full report about this.
00:14:40.000Vice President Kamala Harris, hoping to distance herself from President Biden's unpopularity on the economy, plans a new focus on middle-class worries and woes.
00:14:48.000Beginning in North Carolina later this week with her first policy speech, continuing next week with the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Harris will tell Americans who she is and how she'd govern.
00:15:56.000So they have to distance her from Joe Biden.
00:15:58.000Very, very important that they distance her from Joe Biden because, again, most people don't actually like Joe Biden's economic policies.
00:16:04.000The media are doing their best, by the way, to spin Joe Biden's economic policies into something that are actually useful or good.
00:16:12.000According to the New York Times, inflation has now cooled to 2.9%, shoring up the case for a Fed rate cut.
00:16:18.000The Consumer Price Index reading in July was the mildest year-over-year increase since 2021.
00:16:21.000Now, there's only one problem with that particular headline, which is that the 2% increase that is sought by the Federal Reserve is 2, not 2.9, which means we are still clocking in 50% above what exactly the inflation rate is supposed to be year-on-year.
00:16:39.000They're going to try and shove a Fed rate cut through as fast as humanly possible because they're hoping that that will inflate the economy back into some semblance of serious job growth before the election.
00:16:49.000And the notion of Federal Reserve independence is a complete, it's complete hogwash.
00:17:02.000The idea that politics comes into their considerations not at all is ridiculous.
00:17:06.000In any case, the Consumer Price Index cooling in July is now being used as an excuse To declare victory by Team Biden, here is Joe Biden, who again, it is kind of incredible that he's dead and he's doing more press conferences than the very much alive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, his vice president.
00:17:23.000Here is Joe Biden getting a little bit miffed at the reporters and saying, they need to report on the economy, but everything's, oh, and then he fell asleep.
00:18:20.000I mean, the White House's economic advisor, Jared Bernstein, he was trying to suggest that everybody should cover the massively decreased price of gas.
00:18:29.000It's still way more expensive than it was when Joe Biden took office.
00:18:33.000There was another study that I found pretty well, looked to me that was pretty rigorous, that suggested that the media tends to write about the gas price when it goes north of $3.50 and not when it goes south of $3.50.
00:18:45.000So the gas price as I looked this morning was, I think, $3.45.
00:18:49.000And if you haven't written about it, you know, maybe you want to.
00:18:52.000Again, the fact that he is trying to dictate to the media exactly what they should cover is absolutely nuts.
00:18:57.000We should also point out that in January of 2021, the average gallon of gas in the United States cost $2.42.
00:19:16.000She's seeking to differentiate herself from Joe Biden.
00:19:18.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Democratic nominee seeks to differentiate herself from Biden even as she amplifies many of his policy proposals.
00:19:24.000At least they're telling the truth there.
00:19:26.000She's stealing Joe Biden's policies when she's not stealing Donald Trump's policies and then she's pretending that she is distancing herself from Joe Biden.
00:19:33.000According to the Wall Street Journal, shortly after President Biden announced his decision to drop out of the race, an informal group of economic advisors began quietly discussing how to best articulate Vice President Kamala Harris's economic vision, their challenge, differentiating the candidate from her unpopular boss without abandoning his policies.
00:19:50.000Well, yes, indeed, that is quite a challenge.
00:19:52.000Don't overstate the case there, Wall Street Journal.
00:20:19.000Harris's team is now crafting a policy framework focused on making housing more affordable, lowering costs for families, taking on corporate excess, and boosting small businesses, according to people involved in the discussion.
00:20:28.000Well, I mean, if that's not specific enough for you, I don't know what will be.
00:20:31.000You mean she wants to make housing more affordable?
00:20:53.000That is a change in direction, let me tell you.
00:20:56.000The plan is intended to make her priorities clear to voters amid criticism she hasn't presented a detailed agenda during her first few weeks on the campaign trail, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:21:04.000But, aides said the exact contours of the plan are still in flux, days after Harris told reporters she plans to release a policy platform this week, a time frame that surprised some of her advisors.
00:21:14.000Harris is expected to test drive her messaging during a Friday speech in Raleigh, North Carolina.
00:21:17.000So what exactly is she going to say in Raleigh, North Carolina?
00:21:21.000Well, apparently she's going to say the reason that inflation has happened is because everyone in corporate America is greedy, don't you know?
00:21:30.000You may have heard that a thousand times before because Joe Biden has been dropping that load of crap all over the media landscape for the last three and a half years as inflation peaked.
00:21:39.000He kept saying over and over, look, look.
00:21:41.000Oh, the corporate bosses, they're charging you.
00:21:52.000He has yet to explain why it is that apparently they were not greedy during the Trump administration, but magically became greedy when he became president.
00:22:00.000Maybe the signal factor in pricing has nothing to do with the personal emotional status of the CEOs of Walmart.
00:22:07.000Maybe it has something to do with the fiscal and monetary policy pursued by the central government of the United States.
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00:23:17.000People who fall for this junk, I gotta tell you, you're a moron if you fall for this.
00:23:22.000If you fall for the idea that the reason prices are going up is because people got greedier in the last three years, not because Joe Biden and team completely blew out the spending because the interest rates were way too low for too long.
00:23:36.000If you don't, if you don't, if you think it's not that, you think that it's just Bob down at the local hardware store has been jacking up the price of hammers.
00:23:44.000I don't think you know how basic economics works.
00:23:47.000The very foolish notion that greed dictates prices suggests there is no one on the other side of the table.
00:25:07.000Because in that tiny pea brain, the workings are so complex.
00:25:11.000The workings are so unbelievably nuanced that she knows the price of all the goods and services, which is why she can impose price controls, thus fixing the inflationary economy.
00:25:20.000Quote, it's Politico, Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday will call on Congress to pass a federal ban on price gouging as part of her economic platform to lower grocery prices and everyday costs.
00:25:29.000That action to be announced during a speech in North Carolina is, among others, she will take in her first 100 days in office to lower high grocery costs, according to a campaign official.
00:25:36.000Do you understand this economic policy is the same thing as Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy in the office?
00:25:42.000She's literally saying that she's going to go into Congress and shout, no high prices!
00:25:47.000And then they'll pass a law that says no high prices, and then there will be no high prices.
00:25:56.000You can't declare bankruptcy by shouting that you've declared bankruptcy, and you can't lower high prices by passing a law saying no high prices.
00:26:02.000It's like in the 20s when the world passed an international law banning all war, and then a decade later was the bloodiest war in the history of the earth.
00:26:10.000You can't just ban reality by passing a law.
00:26:48.000They're going to rely on the Federal Reserve to cut rates in September and hopefully jack up the amount of spending in the economy just in advance of the... Who could have predicted such a thing?
00:26:57.000Who could have predicted that, you know, two months before the election, a month and a half before the election, the Federal Reserve would inject a bunch of money into the economy just in time for the re-elect?
00:27:07.000Who could have predicted such a thing?
00:27:08.000Except for everyone who has a shred of insight into how politics and the Federal Reserve cross paths.
00:27:15.000Core inflation is still 3.2%, which is 1.2% higher than 2%, which is to say more than 50% higher than it's supposed to be.
00:27:24.000And they're like, oh, time to cut the rates.
00:28:01.000By the way, her other big policy prescriptions, when she's not out there saying that we should pass a law to say high prices are bad, her other big policy prescriptions are basically universal basic income, as the Wall Street Journal points out.
00:28:11.000Universal basic income is this foolish idea that if you give everybody a check in the mail, that this will magically heal poverty, as opposed to just inflating the prices, which is actually what that does.
00:28:20.000When you helicopter money, which is what the Federal Reserve tried to do for years, what you end up doing is increasing the prices, because the market adjusts to the amount of money flowing through the economy.
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00:29:35.000In any case, Kamala Harris has endorsed a slate of policies that look like universal basic income.
00:29:40.000Despite the fact universal basic income historically means less work for people because they stay home more because they have more money for not working.
00:29:47.000According to Matt Weidinger writing for the Wall Street Journal, Kamala Harris will pay you not to work.
00:29:54.000Harris cast the deciding vote to create a temporary UBI for parents through a significantly expanded child tax credit in 2021.
00:30:00.000Tens of millions of households collected these payments, which grew to as much as $3,600 a child, even as the program's work requirement and work incentive features were suspended.
00:30:08.000A University of Chicago study calculated if the change were made permanent, it would result in 1.5 million parents exiting the labor force.
00:30:14.000As a senator, Harris proposed to even larger UBI programs that would have displaced even more work.
00:30:18.000In 2019, she introduced her signature bill proposing a UBI for lower-income adults, including childless adults.
00:30:25.000According to a Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta report, high effective marginal tax rates on modest income work already effectively lock low-income workers into poverty.
00:30:33.000The phase-out of Harris's new $3 trillion entitlement would only increase current disincentives to work in advance.
00:30:40.000In other words, everything she does would enhance inflation.
00:30:42.000Price controls, by the way, actually lead to shortages and scarcities.
00:30:48.000So they lead to black markets in which the prices are even higher than normal, which is what actually happened in the Soviet Union when they tried price controls.
00:30:55.000Price controls fail wherever they are tried.
00:30:58.000So, this is an insuperable problem for Kamala Harris.
00:31:02.000Pretending that this problem doesn't exist isn't going to make her president.
00:31:05.000The economy is not where she needs it to be.
00:31:07.000The Federal Reserve rate cut probably ain't gonna do the work she needs it to do in time for the election.
00:31:11.000Her policies are the same as her boss's, and so her attempts to distance herself from her boss on the economy That is not going to work very well.
00:31:19.000And this leads to two major problems that are going to come up for her next week at the Democratic National Convention.
00:31:24.000Now, the pre-celebration has begun for the DNC.
00:31:27.000It's the inauguration of a brand new, shiny, diverse face!
00:31:38.000America is a place where anyone can succeed regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation.
00:31:45.000Like, this is a place where You can pretty much do what you want or be who you are in virtually any way that is not massively behavioral and you can succeed in America.
00:31:57.000Can we dispense with this first blank president nonsense?
00:32:18.000Next week it will be, oh my god, you know, we have a chance.
00:32:21.000We finally have a chance to overcome the barriers of the past when women were discriminated against by electing the first woman to the presidency.
00:33:39.000If you actually want good movies like Am I Racist in the theater near you, you need to pre-buy your ticket right now.
00:33:46.000It's not just about watching an awesome movie, it's about sending a message.
00:33:49.000Our very own Matt Walsh, who has absolutely destroyed the left's gender ideology and what is a woman, went undercover as a DEI expert, and let me tell you, what he uncovered is so absurd, so intellectually bankrupt, you'll be laughing and furious at the same exact time.
00:34:32.000Joe Biden is a problem because he's still lingering around the edges.
00:34:35.000He's still hanging around, whining about the fact that he was forced to drop out of the race by his own insiders, that he was stabbed in the back by Brutus and company.
00:34:43.000The New York Times has a piece where he's complaining about this.
00:34:45.000So you're going to get this kind of whining all the way up until the election.
00:34:49.000In the end, he was alone, confined to a spare bedroom in his vacation home, fighting off
00:34:54.000President Biden was exhausted when he turned in for the night on Saturday, July 20th.
00:34:58.000Whether he slept soundly or fitfully or not at all, people close to him said he took the
00:35:01.000long hours by himself to mull over the historic decision he was about to make.
00:35:05.000He had just been through a brutal two days in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, as he huddled with his wife, Jill Biden, and his closest aides, who rotated from a screened-in porch to a sitting area off the dining room.
00:35:13.000Steve Ricchetti, the president's eyes and ears on Capitol Hill, and Mike Donilon, his chief strategist, had shared internal polling with the president that Saturday that mirrored what Americans had been seeing for weeks.
00:35:22.000Mr. Biden was falling behind nationally and in key battleground states.
00:35:25.000There was still a path to victory, they advised him, but the fight would be ugly.
00:35:28.000The president would be pitted against his donors, half his party in Congress, and Democratic voters who had concluded he was too old to win.
00:35:34.000By that Saturday evening, something had shifted.
00:35:37.000It was not just about the polls, people close to Biden say.
00:35:39.000Despite everything, Biden believes he could still claim the Democratic nomination and beat former President Donald Trump.
00:35:45.000What began to change the president's mind, people familiar with his thinking say, was the realization that if he stayed in the race, he was in for a lonely battle that would rip apart the Democratic Party, the cause he had served nearly his entire life.
00:35:55.000Now, first of all, we should point out, you shouldn't serve a party your entire life.
00:36:02.000In fact, you should serve an idea, you should serve the American people, you shouldn't serve a party.
00:36:07.000If your cause is the party, and it reeks of socialist Communist Russia, that's what that reeks of.
00:36:15.000And they drafted the statement, and then they went out and basically tweeted it out there while he was asleep, or something.
00:36:19.000war that would run counter to the fabric of who he is. That day Biden asked a key question.
00:36:23.000If we were going to do it, Biden asked his two advisors, what would we say? And they drafted
00:36:27.000the statement and then they went out and basically tweeted it out there while he was asleep or
00:36:32.000something. Okay, so one problem for Kamala Harris is that Joe Biden is still around and he's still
00:36:37.000presidenting despite the fact that he is now a zombie candidate.
00:36:41.000He is still a zombie president and he's still kind of a zombie candidate because he's out there and his policies are the ones she is running on.
00:36:47.000And he has an interest in not allowing Kamala Harris to throw him under the bus.
00:36:50.000As we said earlier, he's very unpopular.
00:36:52.000His policies are very unpopular, which means Kamala Harris has to do two things, run and hide from the press and dissociate from Biden.
00:36:59.000But if you're Biden, you don't want Harris dissociating from you.
00:37:01.000What you want is for Harris to win off your back.
00:37:04.000What you want is for Harris to win, but you want to be seen as the reason she won, not the reason she lost.
00:37:10.000You want to be seen as the person who stepped aside and then handed her the keys to the kingdom, and it was your generosity and the magic of your successful policies that allowed for the first black woman president.
00:37:22.000That's what you want if you are Joe Biden.
00:37:24.000So, yesterday at the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the fact that Kamala Harris is pretty obviously telegraphing.
00:37:29.000She wants to distance herself from Biden.
00:37:30.000And Karine Jean-Pierre, speaking on behalf of Joe Biden, was like, nope!
00:37:52.000But if the president's policies on the economy were working, or if they were popular, wouldn't he still be the candidate?
00:37:57.000You literally just had the chair of the CEA here who laid out a pretty robust point-by-point about the economy and what's had to happen under the Biden-Harris administration.
00:38:09.000And I thought it was pretty convincing.
00:38:13.000So Biden is now effectively cutting commercials on behalf of Donald Trump because Joe Biden is unpopular, but he can't admit that he's unpopular.
00:38:20.000And so he is still going to insist that Harris is his candidate.
00:38:24.000And he's particularly going to do that because he understands the rest of the Democratic Party wishes to cut him off from the party and shove him out to sea.
00:38:32.000According to Politico, Joe Biden is frustrated that Barack Obama wouldn't tell him to his face he should leave the race, which, by the way, is the most Obama thing ever.
00:38:38.000Obama deployed all of his forces to oust Joe Biden from the race, but he's too much of a coward to ever just confront Joe Biden and take the lead.
00:38:45.000Always leading from behind, that Barack Obama.
00:38:47.000He's angry with Nancy Pelosi and views her as ruthless for ushering her out the door.
00:38:51.000He's miffed at the role Chuck Schumer played too, according to Politico.
00:38:55.000Biden has told his closest aides and associates he's coming to terms with his decision to bow out, but still harbors some frustration toward the members of his own party he believes pushed him out, according to three people familiar with Biden's thinking.
00:39:04.000So this thing is just going to percolate and it's just going to, it's just going to sit there in the middle of the room at the DNC.
00:39:26.000You couldn't do it before the 2020 election because then Joe Biden might lose.
00:39:29.000And you couldn't do it for the first three years of the administration because then Joe Biden might lose.
00:39:33.000But now that he's not the candidate and they need to get him away from Kamala Harris as fast as possible, get the stank of defeat away from Kamala Harris, now they're perfectly willing to open up their guns on Hunter Biden.
00:39:42.000According to the New York Times, Hunter Biden sought assistance from the U.S.
00:39:45.000government for a potentially lucrative energy project in Italy while his father was vice president, according to newly released records and interviews.
00:39:51.000The records, which the Biden administration had withheld for years, indicate Hunter Biden wrote at least one letter to the U.S.
00:39:56.000ambassador to Italy in 2016 seeking assistance for Burisma.
00:40:13.000government should not be actively advocating with the government of Italy without the company going through the DOC advocacy center, the official wrote.
00:40:20.000Abby Lowell, a lawyer for Biden, said his client, quote, asked various people, including the U.S.
00:40:24.000ambassador to Italy at the time, whether they could arrange an introduction between Burisma and the president of the Tuscany region of Italy, where Burisma was pursuing a geothermal project.
00:40:32.000A White House spokesman said the president was unaware when he was vice president.
00:40:59.000It can't be the failures of the administration.
00:41:01.000So now you're going to see, over the next few weeks, stories about Joe Biden, corruption in the Biden family, more reasons why Joe Biden couldn't be the presidential nominee, and why Kamala Harris is so wildly different from Joe Biden.
00:41:15.000Here, for example, is a CNN reporter saying, well, this doesn't look great.
00:41:30.000Hunter Biden, everybody in the White House has known for a long time is an issue.
00:41:35.000The way that his lawyers responded to this disclosure to say, well, yeah, he sent letters but did nothing wrong.
00:41:43.000It doesn't, this feels very strange to people that the vice president's son was sending letters or making requests to other government officials.
00:42:03.000Almost as though you're doing the bidding of the Kamala Harris campaign.
00:42:05.000OK, so that is going to be a problem for Kamala Harris.
00:42:08.000She must separate off from Joe Biden, but Joe Biden doesn't want to separate off from her.
00:42:12.000So that will be an ongoing problem all the way up till the election.
00:42:14.000And every campaign ad that the Trump campaign cuts needs to have the picture of the two of them holding their hands in triumph just about a month ago.
00:43:13.000Any of those groups actually have connections with the terrorism.
00:43:16.000For example, Samidun is one of these groups.
00:43:19.000Samidun regularly advocates for armed resistance and celebrates terrorist organizations.
00:43:24.000Students for Justice in Palestine, which advocates for quote unquote, armed intifada
00:43:28.000and is constantly pushing for armed confrontation with the oppressors,
00:43:33.000been banned on multiple college campuses.
00:43:35.000They're gonna show up Jewish Voices for Peace, which is neither Jewish nor a voice for peace.
00:43:39.000They're gonna show up as well Code Pink, just the nuts who have been spending every waking moment
00:43:44.000since the Iraq war complaining that America is a military industrial power
00:43:48.000that must be defeated in every foreign conflict.
00:43:50.000There's a wide variety of some of the worst people you know We're going to show up at this convention.
00:43:54.000And meanwhile, inside the convention hall, half the Democratic Party agrees with those people.
00:43:58.000For example, Pramila Jayapal, the radical congressperson from Washington state who refuses to say that Hamas is responsible for the conflict in the Middle East.
00:44:07.000At this point, who do you believe is responsible for the ongoing conflict?
00:44:27.000She is a respected member of the Progressive Congressional Caucus.
00:44:30.000Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar recently won her primary, and she won her primary because her area is filled with people who hate America and hate Israel.
00:44:38.000She has a lot of constituents who are not pro-America and who are not pro-Israel, so they elected a person who hates America and hates Israel, and doesn't like the Jews very much either.
00:44:46.000So at her victory party, she was out there suggesting that her opponent, who is a liberal black person, is actually siding with Nazis.
00:44:56.000This campaign has been one of the ugliest, most disgusting campaign against me that I have ever, ever witnessed.
00:45:09.000We had an opponent that was willing to align with literal Nazis in order to defeat us.
00:45:18.000I mean, these are the people the Democratic Party has decided to let in.
00:45:21.000By the way, in the most ironic take of the day, Chuck Schumer has a new book coming out.
00:45:26.000Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader, who has been complicit in the rise of anti-Semites inside his own caucus, people like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
00:45:35.000Chuck Schumer, who presided over the egregiously pro-Iran Iranian nuclear deal.
00:45:41.000Chuck Schumer has been a disaster area on behalf of Jews across the country.
00:45:45.000He's now writing a book on anti-Semitism, which is the moral equivalent of OJ Simpson's If I Did It.
00:45:51.000Chuck Schumer is responsible for as much antisemitism in the country on the left as anybody in American politics.
00:45:56.000In any case, this is a major ongoing problem.
00:45:59.000It turns out people don't like burning American flags as the party candidate.
00:46:05.000The rioters that you're about to see outside the Democratic National Convention are mirrored, of course, by the rioters that Kamala Harris tried to bail out in 2020 at the BLM riots and that Tim Walz made provision for in Minneapolis during the BLM riots.
00:46:20.000So, her solution and the solution of the Biden campaign, they are desperately attempting to tamp down conflict in the Middle East, even if it means selling out Israel, actually particularly if it means selling out Israel in advance of the Democratic National Convention.
00:46:33.000So, in a radical attempt to tamp down conflict in the Middle East, on behalf of Iran, really, and on behalf of Hamas, The administration is taking a number of steps because what they're trying to do is lock this thing down before the DNC.
00:46:48.000And they don't care about the actual implications for American policy in the region.
00:46:52.000They're perfectly willing to bribe, cajole, do whatever they can to the Iranian leaders in order to tamp down the conflict.
00:46:59.000Not because that is the best policy for America.
00:47:01.000The best policy for America is for America and her allies to take a strong anti-Iran position that boxes Iran in and prevents it from spreading its terror tentacles all around the region, thus threatening vital American resources ranging from Saudi oil to Israeli democracy.
00:47:15.000These are all things that America cares about just generally in the region.
00:47:18.000And the Biden administration is willing to sacrifice them all on the altar of the pro-Hamas protesters at the DNC.
00:47:36.000Hamas is not even attending these ceasefire talks.
00:47:39.000They have said they will not actually end the holding of the hostages unless Israel completely withdraws from the Gaza Strip, which is not going to happen, and also releases, among others, Marwan Barghouti, who is a terrorist leader, extraordinary, he's been held in Israeli prison for decades for a wide variety of murders and terrorist attacks.
00:47:56.000The reason they want to let him out is because he's a political leader of Fatah, which is the military wing of the Palestinian Authority.
00:48:02.000And what they're really attempting to do is demonstrate that their assault on October 7th is able to blackmail the Israelis so strongly that they'll even let massive terrorists out of prison.
00:48:13.000Even terrorists who are basically going to take over the supposedly moderate Palestinian Authority.
00:48:18.000Hey, you don't have to understand or really know any of this.
00:48:20.000What you do have to understand is that the Biden administration will do whatever it takes to sell Israel down the river on this one in order to achieve some sort of temporary ceasefire just to get them through to the DNC.
00:48:30.000That is what they are doing right now.
00:48:31.000And so they are pursuing a multi-pronged plan.
00:48:33.000One is, apparently, this is the most shocking report, and if this report is true, again, the report first originated from a Fox News article citing a report in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida.
00:48:44.000The White House is now attempting to deny it.
00:48:47.000Okay, this needs to be investigated because this allegation is extraordinary.
00:48:53.000From the Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Jarida, suggesting that the United States provided the names of Mossad agents to the Iranians who participated in the Ismail Khania killing in Tehran.
00:49:04.000Ismail Khania was the political head of Hamas.
00:49:09.000If the United States government was passing full-on names of Israeli intelligence agents to the Iranians, that is one of the worst stories I have ever heard.
00:49:17.000I mean, certainly that, I mean, just in terms of how to treat an ally power, that is insane.
00:49:25.000National Security Council is denying those reports that a high-ranking American security delegation mediated by Oman secretly traveled to Tehran to share information in an effort to appease Iran.
00:49:36.000Fox News had reported the delegation allegedly sought to deliver messages to Tehran in order to de-escalate the tensions in the region between Iran and Israel.
00:49:43.000According to that report, the delegation was sent to convey to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
00:49:46.000that the Biden-Harris administration was, quote, kept in the dark by the Israeli attacks of Hamas's
00:49:52.000Ismail Khania and Hezbollah's Fuad Shukr. So apparently, again, those allegations have been
00:50:00.000denied by the Biden administration, but they've denied allegations before.
00:50:08.000Simultaneously, the Biden administration, while acknowledging that the Israelis are participating in the talks, is trying to ratchet up pressure on the Israelis by saying just untrue nonsense.
00:50:24.000Well, because they said that Israel had reached the end of the military line before they killed Ismail Haniyeh and Fouad Shoukar and Mohamed Daif.
00:50:30.000They suggested that Israel had reached the end of what it could do militarily before Israel conquered Rafah.
00:50:39.000And I think that you are going to the New York Times to lie in an attempt to pressure the Israelis into some sort of ridiculous deal that allows Hamas to survive as a governing power in the Gaza Strip simply to appease your pro-Hamas base.
00:50:54.000Meanwhile, in an attempt to tamp down as much of this as possible, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik has resigned.
00:51:02.000So she, of course, was embattled over at Columbia University because she made room for radically anti-Semitic protests on her campus that took over the center of campus for months at a time.
00:51:10.000Those protests are likely to begin anew during the new term.
00:51:14.000She presumably did not want to be at the head of that.
00:51:17.000And also, I have a feeling that the Democratic Party in New York probably went to her and they were like, guys, you know, she's kind of become the face of this thing.
00:51:27.000So, understand, this is a simmering wound for Democrats.
00:51:31.000The continuation of the pro-Chamas bloc of the Democratic Party is an unavoidable problem and it is, in fact, a festering wound in the body politic.
00:51:39.000Shafik did resign Wednesday as Columbia University's president.
00:51:43.000She had seen tenuous support from the faculty.
00:51:45.000The person who will replace her is Katrina Armstrong, who currently runs the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and is dean of the university's medical school.