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00:01:51.000Well, I say it a lot, but it seems like the panic has to be setting in for Democrats at this point.
00:01:56.000And by the media coverage of Joe Biden, you can see that it has, because all the media coverage of Joe Biden is, hey, did you notice he's old today?
00:02:06.000I know this comes as a shock to members of the media.
00:02:09.000Some of us have been noticing this for quite a while about Joe Biden, that he is in fact a buffoon, that he was a buffoon even when he was sentient.
00:03:40.000Widespread concerns about the economy and inflation have helped turn the national mood decidedly dark, both on Biden and the trajectory of the nation.
00:03:46.000More than three quarters of registered voters see the United States moving in the wrong direction, a pervasive sense of pessimism that spans every corner of the country, every age range and racial group, cities, suburbs, rural areas, as well as both political parties.
00:03:59.000For Biden, that bleak national outlook has pushed his job approval rating to a perilously low point.
00:04:04.000Among fellow Democrats, his approval rating stands at just 70%.
00:04:06.000Okay, so to put this in perspective, if you are a president who wishes to win re-election, you need above 90% in your own party.
00:04:13.000You cannot have a 70% approval rating inside your own party, because they're in your own party, man.
00:04:17.000Those are the people who are supposed to support you.
00:04:20.000In a sign of deep vulnerability and of unease about what is supposed to be his political base, Only 26% of Democratic voters said the party should re-nominate him in 2024.
00:04:30.000So the percentage of Americans who are like thoroughly enthused about Joe Biden Is 13% because he figured that that 26% of Democratic voters who think he should be renominated, that really equates about the 13% of overall voters who think that everything is moving in the right direction.
00:04:47.00013% of voters is like Joe Biden, Joe Biden, Hunter, and all of his illegitimate children.
00:04:54.000That doesn't even include his other grandkids.
00:04:57.000Biden says he wants to run for re-election in 2024.
00:04:59.000See, in order for that to happen, he has to be able to actually walk.
00:05:02.000In order to run, you have to be able to walk.
00:05:04.000Right now, according to the New York Times, he literally shuffles place to place and his aides are worried that he's going to trip over cords.
00:06:13.000And that is split between Republicans and Democrats.
00:06:15.000So really you're talking like 7, 6% of voters actually believe that that's the top issue and are going to vote on that issue for the Democrat.
00:06:25.000About the same number say gun policies.
00:06:27.000And as for abortion, abortion is ranking in at like 5-6% in these polls.
00:06:32.000So all the Democrats' hopes to shift away from their garbage performance and toward things like gun control and abortion on January 6th, it's not going to avail them in the least.
00:06:41.000So pretty clearly from this poll, nobody actually wants Joe Biden to be president of the United States.
00:07:57.000His economic policies have led to vast inflation we have not seen in 40 years.
00:08:01.000His surrender in Afghanistan led to the subjugation of some 38 million human beings.
00:08:06.000It led to the death of tens of thousands of American allies.
00:08:09.000It led to the death of 13 American service members and Americans left behind overseas.
00:08:13.000Joe Biden's foreign policy in Ukraine Allowed for Vladimir Putin's original invasion to occur, and now a protracted war without any sort of end in sight, while Joe Biden blames that war for the economic headwinds that the United States is currently facing.
00:08:27.000Joe Biden's domestic policy is focused in on radical left-wing priorities.
00:08:32.000Thrusting equity as the central goal of each of his departmental agendas.
00:08:38.000Suggesting that it's important that we trans the kids in every state, according to Xavier Becerra over at HHS.
00:08:46.000These are the things Joe Biden has decided to do, and that's all Joe Biden's fault.
00:08:49.000But there's one big thing that is Joe Biden's fault, and that is when he came into office, what he could have done is he could have said, listen, our system is built for gridlock.
00:09:40.000One, it means that they are now beholden to the most radical members of their base who will never be satisfied with anything they do, which is what Joe Biden is learning from his progressive base.
00:09:47.000And two, it is betraying the voters who just wanted a return to normalcy.
00:09:51.000That was Joe Biden's entire campaign, was Donald Trump's crazy guy with his tweets and everything.
00:09:55.000And I'm going to sit here in the basement.
00:09:56.000And if you're like me, I'll still be in the basement.
00:10:02.000So he abandoned his own moderate voters.
00:10:04.000And there's nothing he can do that's going to satisfy his progressive base who believes that there should be a dictator who simply leverages down, brings from on high, like Moses on the mount, progressive policies and just implants them into law.
00:10:38.000Which is, Joe Biden has said before, don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative.
00:10:43.000When Democrats are forced to choose between Biden and Trump, they choose Biden, 92% of them.
00:10:49.000There are a lot of people who are upset with Biden, in other words, who are not up for a Joe Biden rematch, for example.
00:10:56.000However, the bottom line here is that when it comes to the 2022 elections, this is a disaster for Democrats because the 2022 elections ain't no Donald Trump on ballot.
00:11:05.000Which is why Politico is noting that the House GOP is marching into deeper blue terrain as Democratic prospects fail.
00:11:12.000Representative Kim Schrier called it an honor to welcome Joe Biden to suburban Seattle for a health care speech in April.
00:11:17.000Then, three months later, the Washington Democrat used a TV ad to boast about taking on the Biden administration over gas prices.
00:11:23.000This kind of pivot in a House battleground, which Biden won by seven points two years ago, isn't an anomaly.
00:11:28.000Recent GOP polling in roughly a dozen swing districts offers a bleak portrait of how Joe Biden's anemic approval ratings are threatening to doom battle-tested swing seat incumbents and nudge one safe district into the middle of the danger zone.
00:11:38.000Listen, seven points is a broad enough gap that Democrats shouldn't have to worry about that, but they do have to worry about that.
00:11:43.000Basically, anything inside of a 10-point gap is something Democrats have to worry about.
00:11:48.000With just four months until the midterms, Democrats were already on the defensive in at least 30 highly competitive districts.
00:11:53.000But Biden's toxicity has given the GOP optimism about seriously contesting a fresh crop of about a dozen more seats the president won in 2020 by nine points or more from Western Rhode Island to California's Central Valley to the suburbs of Arizona's capital.
00:12:05.000The result is a house map that has expanded to an uncomfortable place for Democrats.
00:12:10.000And there's almost no shot that Democrats do not lose the House in the upcoming election.
00:12:14.000The only question is going to be the Senate, where Republicans have run a series of weak and questionable candidates in battleground states ranging from Georgia to Pennsylvania.
00:12:22.000It's going to be a real problem for them.
00:12:24.000Survey data obtained by Politico shows the president underwater by double-digit margins in 11 districts he carried.
00:12:30.000One stark example, his approval rating was upside down by 32 points in a June poll of Representative Susan Wild's seat from the National Republican Congressional Committee.
00:13:07.000And then it turns out, as president, you actually can't hide.
00:13:09.000And this is why you end up with the bizarre specter of an adult 80 year old man who is now wearing helmets during interviews and making jokes about how he has to wear helmets because interviews are too tough for him. Some of the groups want to look like a fool here.
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00:15:01.000It's marginal changes around the edges of gun control on a federal level.
00:15:05.000Joe Biden is trying to pump that up so he can go back to his people and say that he did something useful and there were some Republicans who gave him cover for that, which is dumb politics.
00:15:10.000But Joe Biden then said that this was just the first step and that he wants to ban assault weapons.
00:15:16.000Only about 9% of Americans say that guns are a top issue for them.
00:15:20.000And that's got to be split between Republicans and Democrats, because there are a lot of Republicans who are saying that you trying to take my guns is a top issue for me.
00:15:26.000So here is Joe Biden speaking at the White House yesterday.
00:15:28.000And man, when it rains, it pours, as you will see.
00:15:30.000First of all, incoherent, discombobulated, mashed potatoes in the mouth.
00:15:35.000And then he gets protested at his own event by one of his invitees.
00:16:07.000I'm determined to ban these weapons again, and high-capacity magazines that hold 30 rounds, and to let mass shooters fire hundreds of bullets in a matter of minutes.
00:17:16.000And beyond the fact that what he's saying here is not true, that there is no evidence that his the quote unquote assault weapons ban resulted in a lower number of shootings in the United States.
00:17:25.000Gun violence did not decline as a result of the assault weapons ban.
00:17:33.000Joe Biden, he can't even please his own base because, again, he is not capable of the property of speech.
00:17:39.000Now, the fact that Joe Biden is actually not capable of the property of speech is one of the reasons why Democrats are focusing in on that.
00:17:44.000They don't want to focus in on the fact that these policies are actually really unpopular.
00:17:47.000Most Americans are not in favor of a widespread assault weapons ban, quote unquote assault weapons ban.
00:19:17.000That's how badly things are going for Joe Biden.
00:19:19.000You invite people to your celebratory event and they start protesting you at your celebratory event.
00:19:24.000Meanwhile, on the economy, things continue to tank.
00:19:26.000So, the stock market is sort of on tensorhooks waiting for all of the earnings reports right now.
00:19:32.000And those earnings reports are likely to not be particularly good.
00:19:37.000As the Wall Street Journal points out, stock futures and bond yields are falling on global growth concerns right now.
00:19:42.000We're probably going to look at another stock market correction, given the fact that when the earnings reports come in, you're going to see the prices on stocks come down.
00:19:49.000And yet Joe Biden's top economic advisors are talking about how things are great.
00:20:04.000The gas price is down more than 30 cents off of its peak.
00:20:10.000Now, some of that has to do with initiatives that this White House has taken, the President's behest, including measures to increase the supply of oil.
00:20:20.000So, I think if you actually look at what the President has done, keep your head down, that's our assignment and that's what we're trying to do.
00:20:28.000That dude is the Baghdad Bob of economics.
00:21:25.000The war in Ukraine or your energy policy, right?
00:21:28.000If something's going to change, something has to change.
00:21:30.000And if you say, our plan is to keep the war in Ukraine going without any endpoint, and also that war is responsible for our high gas prices.
00:21:37.000And also, I'm not going to pump more oil.
00:21:39.000Well, the answer is, where it leaves you is Joe Biden traveling to Saudi Arabia to beg the Saudis to pump more oil.
00:21:44.000But then this leaves Democrats in the unenviable position of having to explain why they've spent the past couple of years ripping on the Saudis for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
00:21:52.000And now you got Joe Biden going on bended knee to the Saudi monarchy.
00:21:55.000Here is Jake Sullivan, who is just a terribly corrupt human being, the national security advisor, suggesting that, you know, it's fine to visit Saudi Arabia.
00:22:05.000A reporter, meanwhile, holding him to his own standard.
00:22:08.000During the campaign, the president said Saudis should pay a price.
00:22:10.000He referred to them as making them a pariah state.
00:22:13.000When it comes right down to it, isn't this trip proof that strategic interests, including oil and gas, when it comes right down to it, are always going to override something like human rights?
00:22:22.000America's values, human rights, are a strategic interest of the United States.
00:22:29.000So is seeking peace in a place like Yemen.
00:22:32.000So we are trying to do multiple things all at once, advance along a number of different tracks.
00:22:38.000Well, unfortunately, they're doing a crappy job on nearly all of them.
00:22:40.000Meanwhile, what this leaves the Biden administration doing is promoting radical policy as a solution to their flagging hopes.
00:22:46.000And maybe if we please the progressive base, they'll get out for us, which is why they're sending out people like Xavier Becerra and Pete Buttigieg to be really militant on TV.
00:22:52.000So Xavier Becerra, the head of HHS, for no apparent reason, he was like the attorney general of California.
00:22:57.000And they're like, well, that guy's vast health experience will make him an excellent HHS secretary.
00:23:01.000Here's Xavier Becerra explaining maybe they'll declare a public health emergency over abortion.
00:23:05.000The president instructed us at HHS, and me specifically, to look for everything we could try to do.
00:23:21.000But again, it is tough to undo a Supreme Court decision that unraveled, stripped away, 50 years of protections for Americans in this country for health care.
00:23:31.000So we're going to do everything we can.
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00:25:10.000It's a new brand of marijuana called Sleepy Joe Cannabis.
00:25:17.000So here is Snoop Dogg announcing his new product line.
00:25:24.000It is a picture of Joe Biden being elevated up one of those stair machines.
00:25:31.000He's sitting on the chair and it's going up to the White House.
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00:27:54.000In fact, if you're a three-star general and you make fun of Dr. Joe Biden's degree, Then we will fire you from your position as mentor in the United States Army.
00:28:01.000That's the thing that actually happened over the course of the last week.
00:28:03.000That's how important Jill Biden is to the national.
00:28:05.000So I mean, sure, she kind of is important because she's Edith Wilson at this point and behind closed doors.
00:28:10.000She's like grabbing Joe's hand, right?
00:28:11.000He has to sign documents and Joe Biden's hand comes in and grabs his hand and like Joe Biden.
00:28:18.000She may be running the country at this point.
00:28:20.000If she is, that would explain some things.
00:28:22.000So here is Dr. Jill Biden, medical degree from a Cracker Jack box, explaining the Hispanic community.
00:28:33.000Raul helped build this organization with the understanding that the diversity of this community, as distinct as the bogadas of the Bronx, as beautiful as the blossoms of Miami, and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio, is your strength.
00:29:27.000It's like one of those cartoon characters where they're stuck out in the desert, and they're starving, and then after a while, they see another person who's standing next to them, right?
00:29:36.000They've been traveling with another person, and they're starving.
00:29:38.000So when they look over, suddenly, as a mirage, they turn into a giant hamburger.
00:30:20.000And don't even, man, she better never go to like a historically black college.
00:30:24.000Things can get super awkward, super fast if she starts going with the stereotypical foods.
00:30:28.000So it's rare that you get a statement from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
00:30:35.000Here is the statement responding to Joe Biden calling Latinos breakfast tacos.
00:30:44.000By the way, remember that time there was an entire horrible news cycle that had Donald Trump was a giant racist because on Cinco de Mayo, he's like, I love tacos.
00:30:51.000And there was like a giant tostada in front of him.
00:31:00.000Like typically, first of all, can I just say this generally?
00:31:03.000It's actually not racist when she says that.
00:31:05.000It's just stupid and ridiculous and stereotypical, but not racist because, I mean, she's not saying that breakfast tacos are bad or that Latinos are bad or that they're lesser or something.
00:31:13.000We've gotten a little too sensitive about this sort of stuff, to be honest with you.
00:31:16.000Like, it wasn't racist when Donald Trump was like, I love tostadas on Cinco de Mayo.
00:31:21.000And it's not really racist when she says that you're as unique as a breakfast taco.
00:31:24.000It's just really dumb and stereotypical.
00:31:26.000So we should make that distinction, to be fair.
00:31:29.000It does lead to hilarious situations like this.
00:31:31.000The National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
00:31:37.000Using breakfast tacos to try to demonstrate the uniqueness of Latinos in San Antonio demonstrates a lack of cultural knowledge and sensitivity to the diversity of Latinos in the region.
00:31:49.000NAHJ encourages Dr. Biden, the greatest doctor, and her speech writing team to take the time in the future to better understand the complexities of our people and communities.
00:32:34.000Meanwhile, the good news is that the smartest person Joe Biden knows, Hunter Biden, is... How many laptops can you leave behind as a crack-addled moron before people start to think you're not the smartest person that they know?
00:32:46.000Supposedly, Hunter Biden has left behind, like, three different laptops loaded with videos of him smoking crack and screwing prostitutes, like, all over the place.
00:32:56.000He leaves those laptops lying around in different places like his unclaimed children from hookers.
00:33:00.000It's an amazing thing, Joe Biden's son.
00:33:04.000So, according to Daily Dot, a user on 4chan claims to have hacked into the iCloud of Hunter Biden's latest iPhone, sending the site into a tizzy as users trawled through the data.
00:33:14.000In the post, the user said they gained access to voicemails, videos, voice recordings, pictures, etc.
00:33:20.000They also said they compromised an iPad belonging to him as well.
00:33:24.000In the thread, the user also linked to a list of passwords supposedly used by Hunter.
00:33:29.000This iPhone release is apparently different from the data on Hunter's laptop.
00:33:33.000As they scoured the data, 4chan users thought they uncovered President Biden's number, which they claim Hunter had had him listed as Pedo Pete, which would be real awkward and weird.
00:33:45.000There's no proof to back that up so far, but Biden did allegedly go by Peter Henderson in contact with his son.
00:33:52.000According to one unverified claim, 4chan users were sending the phone number allegedly belonging to President Biden memes.
00:33:57.000The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
00:34:00.000They're saying it's unclear if the data released is real, but apparently some of it's real because there's videos of Hunter Biden weighing his crack.
00:34:11.000Now, I know they call us the iPhone generation.
00:34:15.000He's not part of the iPhone generation, by the way.
00:35:45.000Documents, texts, and videos obtained by the Daily Mail show Hunter Biden spent a staggering $30,000 on escorts in a five-month period.
00:35:50.000By the way, he was at the White House literally two days ago.
00:35:53.000Hunter wrote checks to a Ukrainian woman named Ekaterina Mareva, who is named in red flag reports by banks for suspicious activity, documents reveal.
00:36:01.000JPMorgan chased flag transactions involving Mareva after she received tens of thousands of dollars from Hunter's company.
00:36:07.000Photos from Hunter's iPhone show he wrote checks disguised as medical services to prostitutes supplied by Mareva, whose website offers a girlfriend experience.
00:36:15.000And videos and pictures show Hunter helped transport those women from Boston to New York, which is crossing state lines with prostitutes, which is a federal offense.
00:36:23.000And then he took pictures with all the prostitutes and they made sex tapes of their night of fun.
00:36:33.000We don't know who the prostitutes are.
00:36:35.000We don't even know if they are over age.
00:36:37.000So just sounds like a lot of good things happening here involving Hunter Biden.
00:36:42.000That dude probably is having some financial issues, you know, picking up sacks of cash in Ukraine, spending on prostitutes and all of that.
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00:39:29.000By the way, this happens to be true on the right as well.
00:39:31.000I know there are a lot of folks out there who love Donald Trump.
00:39:33.000Let me just tell you, Donald Trump right now, he will be aged 79 if he runs for president again.
00:39:41.000Can we have non-octogenarians run for president like at any point?
00:39:44.000In the Democratic Party, the answer is no.
00:39:45.000And the reason the answer is no is because they're benched.
00:39:49.000It looks like a Little League second slate bench.
00:39:53.000I mean, it doesn't even look like the kids who have played occasionally some baseball.
00:39:56.000It looks like the kids who have never played baseball, and we got to get them in the game a little bit just so that their parents are not super unhappy with you.
00:40:01.000That looks like the Democrats' second slate here.
00:40:04.000So you've got VP Kamala Harris, the most untalented politician of her generation, bar none, an intersectional candidate par excellence, whose only criteria for being vice president of the United States is that she was a black woman, because it clearly ain't talent.
00:40:17.000Here as an example, you can pick any random clip of Kamala Harris, just like any random clip of Joe Biden now sounds as though the man has hit his head.
00:40:24.000Every clip of Kamala Harris is just a clip of her being awkward because there are no clips of her not being awkward because she's the most awkward human being.
00:40:32.000She's Michael Scott of politics without any of the charm or redeeming character qualities.
00:40:37.000Here's Kamala Harris yesterday talking about Joe Biden's vision.
00:40:40.000She says, we wouldn't be here celebrating gun control without Joe Biden's vision.
00:40:44.000Well, that's, I mean, Joe Biden can hardly see.
00:41:01.000And the product of that work will make our communities safer.
00:41:06.000But as all of us know, gathered here today, we would not be here were it not for the vision The courage, the unwavering determination of one particular individual, Joe Biden.
00:41:39.000So everybody on the left was celebrating Pete Buttigieg going on Fox News and saying it's okay to harass people at restaurants now, if you disagree with them, which I feel like is going to work out real badly for the Secretary of Transportation, who has done zero things to alleviate the massive supply chain crisis that we have seen here in the United States.
00:41:55.000He is one of the most smarmy, irritating politicians in America right now, Pete Buttigieg.
00:41:59.000And not only that, he happens to be a bureaucratic tyrant.
00:42:03.000According to the Wall Street Journal, The Federal Highway Administration, which is under the auspices of the Secretary of Transportation, wants to take abuse of authority on the road.
00:42:13.000It takes an obscure provision in federal law that authorizes it to set national performance goals for the national highway system.
00:42:18.000The law defines these goals as safety, infrastructure condition, congestion reduction, system reliability, freight movement, and economic vitality.
00:42:25.000Environmental sustainability and reduced project delivery delays.
00:42:28.000FHWA says this environmental sustainability language allows it to now regulate carbon emissions.
00:42:35.000He now wants to use federal regulations governing how the highways are built in order to regulate cars on their carbon emissions in the middle of an energy crisis.
00:42:46.000It's not clear how states would even comply with the rules being proposed by Buttigieg.
00:42:50.000The FHWA claims states will have flexibility in setting CO2 reduction targets in the same breath declares they must align with the administration's goals to reduce emissions.
00:42:58.000The proposed rule says states will be required to establish declining targets for reductions in tailpipe carbon emissions on the national highway system.
00:43:07.000Even progressives have to doubt that Buttigieg has the power he's claiming.
00:43:12.000Buttigieg is running roughshod over the Constitution separation of power.
00:43:15.000Like, what about Pete Buttigieg makes him such a wonderful, attractive candidate?
00:43:19.000Again, he got skunked by Joe Biden in these primaries.
00:43:22.000And if one of the major problems for the Democratic Party is that no one in the Democratic Party can replicate Barack Obama's numbers with black voters, you think Pete Buttigieg can do that?
00:43:36.000Gavin Newsom is a genderless, androgynous Ken doll of a human.
00:43:40.000He's done a horrible job in California.
00:43:41.000California has one of the worst unemployment rates in the country.
00:43:44.000It's had the slowest recovery in America, pretty much.
00:43:47.000It is still talking about locking down.
00:43:48.000They're still talking about new masking rules in L.A., given the B.A.5 variant of coronavirus, despite the fact that coronavirus is basically killing no one at this point in the United States.
00:43:58.000The number of Americans who died yesterday of COVID is something like 350.
00:44:02.000There was a point in this country where it was like 4,000 people a day.
00:44:06.000Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom is jet-setting off to places where no one else is supposed to travel because they're supposedly anti-gay and terrible.
00:44:13.000Governor Newsom, according to the New York Post, hates Montana's supposedly anti-LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign exclamation point ampersand laws so much, he's banned all state-funded travel there, but not so much to shun the red state himself.
00:44:27.000Of course, this particular double standard, my security detail and I can visit Montana, but other state workers can't, isn't Newsom's first.
00:44:33.000He feasted in a Michelin star restaurant during the pandemic, maskless of course, while banning indoor dining for everyone else.
00:44:39.000He enrolled his kids in private in-person school while the public schools had to remain shut.
00:45:14.000I've been urging people to leave ever since.
00:45:17.000And so this has left the media with the unenviable task of trying to figure out how to jog the Democratic base into excitement.
00:45:25.000And so they're just making things up now.
00:45:26.000So the New York Times has a piece titled, So the idea is that even though the states that have been holding up the economic growth of the United States, namely the southern states, the red states, which reopened earlier and kept people at work longer and didn't kill all of their small businesses, even though those states are the highest growth states in America, now, according to the New York Times, the states that really are going to be the economic boomtowns are the states that allow abortion on demand.
00:45:54.000The New York Times' Alexander Burns says, as a group of conservative states enacted severe abortion restrictions last year, Governor J.B.
00:46:00.000Pritzker of Illinois sent letters to a handful of corporate executives with close ties to Texas.
00:46:04.000Pritzker, a Democrat, urged executives to rethink basing their companies in a state that strips its residents of their dignity.
00:46:09.000Most workers, he wrote, did not want to live under a rigid abortion ban.
00:46:13.000There was no immediate response to his overture.
00:46:14.000Companies thriving in Texas' freewheeling business environment were not about to flee because of legally contested abortion regulations that were not certain to be enforced.
00:46:22.000Ten months later, the political and legal landscape is radically different, and a Supreme Court decision that abolished the right to abortion is now threatening to reshape the lines of economic competition between conservative and liberal states.
00:46:33.000Some of the country's biggest businesses like JPMorgan Chase, AT&T, and Walt Disney have already announced they would take steps to help employees who need abortion access but can't obtain it in their home states.
00:46:42.000There have not yet been major announcements about companies cancelling expansions or relocating offices out of jurisdictions where abortion is now banned.
00:47:11.000No matter how much you protest, you guys are in trouble because you've done a crappy job on the governance and your policies are bad and you have no candidates who are capable of speaking directly to the American people.
00:47:22.000Meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, things have gotten interesting as well.
00:47:26.000So there's some new polls out with regard to President Trump and the Republican base.
00:47:32.000So the Republicans actually do have a pretty deep bench.
00:47:37.000Right now, there's a poll out from the New York Times-Siena College Poll.
00:47:41.000And this is the same poll, by the way, that shows that Biden beats Trump 44-41.
00:47:45.000And what this poll shows is about half of the party's primary voters are seeking someone different for president in 2024.
00:47:50.000Now, as I've suggested, this has less to do with things like January 6th or Trump's presidency than it has to do with the fact that Trump seems singularly obsessed with the election of 2020, while the rest of America, including Republicans, are worried about Joe Biden wrecking the country.
00:48:04.000His focus is not on the things that Americans care about.
00:48:06.000And that means that more and more Americans, more Republicans are like, this guy has a lot of baggage and he's spending a lot of time focusing on things that we do not care about.
00:48:16.000We're not interested in running an election based on your grievances about the election.
00:48:19.000Even if we believe that the grievances about the, I mean, I think you're hearing this from people who are significantly warmer to the election stolen 2020 narrative than I am.
00:48:27.000Those people are like, even if I think that, Donald Trump's Grievance-obsessed campaign that he's running right now is not going to benefit him, and it's not going to benefit Republicans.
00:48:36.000Trump appears to have deepened fault lines among Republicans during his year-long revenge tour.
00:48:39.000A clear majority of primary voters under 35, 64%, as well as 65% of those with at least a college degree, told pollsters they would vote against Trump in a presidential primary.
00:48:49.000He's still leading in a hypothetical matchup against five other potential Republican presidential rivals.
00:48:54.00049% of primary voters said they would support him for a third nomination.
00:48:58.000But Governor Ron DeSantis is now running at 25%.
00:49:00.000He's the only other candidate with double-digit support, which means that as that support consolidates, all the other candidates, you know, the Ted Cruz's, the Marco Rubio's, the Mike Pence's, you think those people are going to shift over to Trump's camp?
00:49:12.000So if that means that Trump actually has a ceiling around half of Republican voters in a primary, that's actually going to be real bad.
00:49:19.000And remember, it is very early right now.
00:49:22.000And the reason, again, that this is happening for Trump is because instead of spending the last couple of years talking about how if he were still president, none of this stuff would be happening, and this is why Joe Biden needs to leave office.
00:49:34.000Instead, he spent the last couple of years suggesting that various political enemies of his inside the Republican Party somehow jobbed him out of the presidency in 2020.
00:49:44.000Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis is down here in Florida actually doing the things that people care about.
00:49:49.000Ron DeSantis signed an Election Integrity Act in April of 2022, which bans, for example, ballot harvesting here in the state.
00:49:59.000It is a proposal that cracks down on the possibility of voter fraud in the state.
00:50:05.000And meanwhile, he's fighting the battle against people like Gavin Newsom.
00:50:08.000Gavin Newsom is trying to run ads down here in Florida, claiming that people should go back, that California is the land of freedom, which I live there, and the answer is no, not even close.
00:50:17.000Here's Ron DeSantis talking about Gavin Newsom.
00:50:20.000I was born and raised in this state, and until the last few years, I rarely if ever saw a California license plate in the state of Florida.
00:50:39.000Again, this is not about Republican dislike of Trump.
00:50:41.000This is about people thinking that Trump is distractible and distracted.
00:50:45.000The Wall Street Journal has an entire article about this titled, Wisconsin County that heavily backed Trump has a lot of DeSantis fans.
00:50:51.000Former President Trump remains hugely popular here in Washington County, where he won his largest vote share in 2020 among Wisconsin counties that recorded at least 25,000 ballots.
00:50:59.000But interviews with more than two dozen of the county's GOP voters suggest an openness to someone other than Trump for the 2024 presidential nominee.
00:51:06.000Many are quick to mention Ron DeSantis.
00:51:09.000The former president has suggested for months that he is seriously contemplating a third White House campaign that has not stopped other Republicans like Mike Pence or Tom Cotton from laying the groundwork for their own potential 2024 bids.
00:51:20.000DeSantis hasn't said that he would forswear a campaign at this point.
00:51:26.000This is political theater, said Randy Marquandt, chair of the local Republican Party, about January 6th.
00:51:33.000The lack of interest among Washington County Republicans comes even after the committee revealed last month that the Chief of Staff to Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin tried to deliver to then-Vice President Pence a slate of fake electors backing Mr. Trump, etc, etc.
00:51:54.000Angela Boosing, a 50-year-old information tech manager who voted twice for Trump, said she'd like a GOP nominee with a quote-unquote better moral compass.
00:52:01.000A lot of people I know are against him.
00:52:02.000They can't get past his demeanor and past actions.
00:52:04.000I think there are better Republican candidates out there.
00:52:07.000A local party chairman described the Florida governor as a guy who's willing to fight the battles and maybe even stating more eloquently the reasons behind them than Trump did.
00:52:14.000Now again, this doesn't mean that people oppose Trump inside the Republican Party or if Trump is the nominee, they won't vote for him.
00:52:20.000What it does mean is that Trump's distractibility has really cost him.
00:52:23.000And again, I think there are a lot of Americans of both parties who are looking at the possibility of a Biden-Trump rematch and saying, that is a lot of old people who are running for president of the United States with a lot of baggage.
00:52:33.000And if you're a Republican, as I've said before, the question that you should be asking yourself, and this is not even telling you not to vote for Trump in the primary, the question that you ought to be asking yourself right now if you're a Republican moving forward past 2022 to 2024 is, who is most likely to win against Joe Biden?
00:53:04.000So people are going to vote based on that, which is what 2022 will be.
00:53:08.0002022 is great evidence that when the election is a referendum on Joe Biden, he gets walloped.
00:53:12.000If, however, you run a candidate who has extraordinarily high negatives, where 100% of the public already has an opinion of Trump, there's not a single human being living in America who can vote, who does not have an opinion on Trump and hasn't had an opinion on Trump for years.
00:53:25.000That means there's no room to maneuver.
00:53:30.000And how they break is anybody's guess.
00:53:32.000In 2016, it was a referendum on Hillary Clinton.
00:53:34.000That meant that people who were undecided between Hillary and Trump on the election day, they broke heavily in favor of Trump.
00:53:40.000Like two to one in favor of Trump, he won the election.
00:53:42.000In 2020, voters who decided late, late breakers voted for Biden.
00:53:47.000Something like two to one, because it was a referendum on Trump.
00:53:50.000Normally, a presidential election is a referendum on the incumbent.
00:53:54.000The only way it's not a referendum on the incumbent is if the media or the opponent is capable of putting that person in a box.
00:54:01.000This sort of happened in 2012 when the media decided that Mitt Romney was really the great threat to the nation.
00:54:05.000Even then, people tend to remember that as a blowout election.
00:54:08.000It really was not a particularly blowout election.
00:54:09.000It was in question up until the last week of the election.
00:54:12.000When it comes to 2024, the question is, is it going to be a referendum on Trump or is it going to be a referendum on... I mean, there's a reason why Joe Biden has said he might not run again, but if Trump is running again, he wants to run again.
00:54:22.000So both parties look pretty dissatisfied with their front runners at this point.
00:54:28.000And frankly, it seems like maybe they should be.
00:54:30.000Now, this does not mean that every candidate that is being discussed on the Republican side of the aisle is somebody who should be running for president.
00:54:36.000I take as my example today, Glenn Youngkin.
00:54:39.000Very happy that Glenn Youngkin is the governor of Virginia.
00:54:41.000He also happens to be the governor of a purple state, which means he's not likely to win a lot of Republican primaries, especially not when he's going on national television and talking up same-sex marriage.
00:54:50.000The court is moving right now on several different fronts.
00:54:53.000It could move on same-sex marriage in the coming years.
00:54:57.000Will you take any steps to codify same-sex marriage in Virginia?
00:55:02.000I believe that what the Supreme Court has done most recently is so consistent with what we know the Constitution stands for, which is returning the rights to states to make these decisions like Roe v. Wade.
00:55:15.000Protecting, in fact, the right of lawmakers to make laws, not an executive branch to pass rules and regulations that overstep boundaries.
00:55:24.000This is what the Supreme Court has been so focused on.
00:55:32.000And therefore, as governor of Virginia, we protect same-sex marriage.
00:55:37.000Okay, well again, if that's going to be the answer on the Republican side of the aisle, that's going to provide some real questions during primary season, because this is still very much an open debate inside the Republican Party.
00:55:48.000But bottom line is this, the Republicans have a lot of candidates who are significantly more Virile, shall we put it, than Joe Biden.
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