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00:01:56.000Well, according to the brand new NBC News poll, Men are breaking 56-40 for Donald Trump.
00:02:01.000I think that's an underestimate, by the way.
00:02:02.000Women are breaking 55-41 for Kamala Harris, which, by the way, is not nearly as much of a gender gap as Democrats, I think, are expecting from women.
00:02:11.000They are hoping for a 60-40 break, not a 55-41 break.
00:02:14.000That looks very much in line with what Joe Biden did in 2020, or what Hillary Clinton, for that matter, did in 2016.
00:02:21.000These poll numbers are quite bad for Kamala Harris, and you can see that the panic is beginning to set in.
00:02:26.000Harry Enten at CNN, he says there are a lot of warning signs.
00:02:33.000The GOP leads by a point in party identification right now.
00:02:37.000The average one the Republican Party loses is the Democrats ahead by eight.
00:02:41.000When the Republican Party wins, the average party ID advantage for Democrats is three.
00:02:44.000Republicans right now, Manu, are doing even better than the average when they win.
00:02:49.000If there's one little nugget that I think Republicans are really hopeful for, it's this party ID and this party registration data.
00:02:54.000It really points in a good direction for them and for Donald Trump.
00:02:58.000Meanwhile, Martha Raddatz over at NBC News, she says that the polling shows that Americans actually believe the economy is getting worse.
00:03:05.000Now, this is bewildering to the media.
00:03:07.000They do not understand how this could possibly be.
00:03:09.000They don't understand how people can believe the economy is getting worse when obviously inflation is down from what it was, when unemployment...
00:03:18.000It's not radically increasing at this point.
00:03:20.000The answer, of course, is because of the embedded costs of the Biden administration.
00:03:24.000You cannot go to the grocery store now and not compare it to what it was four years ago.
00:03:29.000There's no way to do it. It is so much more expensive just to do the daily things in life than it was four years ago.
00:03:35.000And people do not believe that the mild wage increases that they have seen over the course of the Biden administration finally starting to break even with regard to some aspects of inflation, that doesn't make up for four years of complete stagnation.
00:03:48.000Here's Martha Ratat at ABC News lamenting this fact.
00:03:53.000One likely drag on the Harris-Waltz ticket, despite many positive economic signs, some 59% of Americans say they believe the economy is getting worse, compared to just 23% who say it's getting better, with more Americans trusting Trump to handle the economy if he wins a second term.
00:04:15.000So as it turns out, Americans trust Trump on the economy.
00:04:18.000They don't just trust Trump on the economy.
00:04:22.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump leads Harris among swing state voters 50-39 on who is best able to handle Russia's war in Ukraine and has a wider advantage, 48-33, on who is best suited to handle the Israel-Hamas war.
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00:05:48.000The Trump administration was the most peaceful foreign policy period of our lifetime.
00:05:52.000The Biden administration has been a complete bleep show, as everyone knows at this point.
00:05:57.000That is the polling in the swing states.
00:05:59.000Now, remember, the national polling showing them even, that's including places like California and New York.
00:06:04.000Which means that the swing states are probably trending pretty strongly for Donald Trump at this point.
00:06:09.000In fact, if you look at the latest polling data, of the last seven polls taken in the state of Michigan, Donald Trump is either in the lead or tied in six of them.
00:06:18.000The only poll that has Kamala Harris ahead is the Wall Street Journal poll.
00:06:23.000And that poll only shows her up by two.
00:06:25.000The margin of error in that poll is four.
00:06:27.000Insider Advantage has Trump up by two.
00:06:29.000The Hill has them tied. Quinnipiac has Trump up all the way by four in Michigan.
00:06:33.000Meanwhile, over in Pennsylvania, of the last five polls that have been taken, Trump is in the lead in three of them.
00:06:39.000If you go back a little further than that, if you go back to the last seven polls taken, he's ahead in five of them.
00:06:45.000In fact, the only recent poll that shows Kamala Harris up at all is a New York Times Siena College poll that has Harris up three in Pennsylvania.
00:06:58.000The Hill has Trump up one. If you move on over to Wisconsin, every single poll for the last three has them tied.
00:07:05.000And the two before that, Trump is winning.
00:07:07.000So what you're looking at right there is a dead heat in Wisconsin and the momentum is not with Kamala Harris.
00:07:13.000There's a reason that Eric Hovde, the Wisconsin Senate candidate, is now running dead even with Tammy Baldwin.
00:07:18.000He was down six to eight points just a few weeks ago.
00:07:21.000Over in Nevada, which had largely been considered moving away from Trump and toward Kamala Harris, the latest Wall Street Journal poll has Donald Trump up six points in Nevada.
00:07:30.000That is outside the four-point margin of error in Nevada.
00:07:33.000These are awful numbers for Kamala Harris.
00:07:36.000She has a world of hurt coming to her.
00:07:40.000And part of this is being exacerbated by the most delicious storyline in all of American politics if you happen to be a person who is not of the left.
00:07:48.000And that is the pretty obvious fight that's happening between Team Biden and Team Harris.
00:08:24.000Maybe she'll win. Well, Joe Biden might not have been all that off the mark.
00:08:29.000As it turns out, Kamala Harris is a very, very bad candidate.
00:08:32.000And so, Joe Biden has a very strong interest in watching Kamala Harris lose.
00:08:36.000Think of it this way. If Kamala Harris wins, then Joe Biden is just the transitional figure who moved out of the way to allow her to become president.
00:08:44.000His entire presidency is he was too senile to run for a second term.
00:08:49.000They threw him off the back of the boat.
00:08:53.000That is not a legacy that Joe Biden wants.
00:08:55.000However, if Kamala Harris loses, then Joe Biden's legacy is he was unfairly persecuted by his own party for being too old, despite his transformative accomplishments.
00:09:04.000And then they substituted in a vice president they had basically foisted upon him last minute in 2020.
00:09:56.000By the way, again, Team Biden does not want her to win.
00:09:58.000They don't. Team Biden wants her to lose.
00:10:00.000Some on the Harris team say the top White House aides are not sufficiently coordinating Biden's messaging and schedule to align with what's best for the vice president's campaign.
00:10:09.000In order for Kamala Harris to win, Kamala Harris needs to separate off from Joe Biden, not just by throwing him off the back of the vote, but also by carving up his policy.
00:10:17.000She has to say, listen, I was VP. I was in the room.
00:10:19.000I did my best. We got some of the things I wanted, but some of the things I wanted didn't happen because I'm just the VP, which means here are certain aspects of Joe Biden's policy I really don't like.
00:10:27.000A, B, and C. And if they listened to me, that never would have happened.
00:10:31.000That's the campaign she actually has to run.
00:10:33.000But that's not a campaign that Joe Biden wants her to run.
00:10:35.000This is actually quite reminiscent of the 1968 presidential race.
00:10:38.000In the 1968 presidential race, LBJ decided that he did not want to run for a second term.
00:10:43.000It was kind of his third term since he had inherited JFK in 1963.
00:10:48.000So he decided he didn't want to run in 1968.
00:10:52.000And his vice president, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, was the person who won the primaries.
00:10:58.000That was a very fraught primary season.
00:11:00.000Obviously, RFK ran for the nomination in that year.
00:11:05.000It was unlikely he was going to win the nomination anyway just by the electoral vote count at that point.
00:11:09.000But Hubert Humphrey wanted to run a very different campaign from LBJ in 1968.
00:11:15.000There's an excellent book about this that's out right now, highly worth the read.
00:11:18.000That book is called The Year That Broke Politics, Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 by Luke Nictor.
00:11:25.000Terrific book. LBJ wanted his legacy upheld.
00:11:29.000And in order for Hubert Humphrey to earn his neutrality in the race, LBJ... was going to have to get Hubert Humphrey to essentially signal to everyone that he was on board with LBJ's program.
00:11:43.000So, Humphrey, who was much more to the left than LBJ, really wanted to attack LBJ's program.
00:11:49.000And there was the worry by Hubert Humphrey's team that LBJ would then undercut Hubert Humphrey and his run for the presidency, which in fact did happen.
00:11:56.000LBJ was pretty openly coordinating with Richard Nixon, the Republican in that race, who he saw as a better representative of his Vietnam War policy than Hubert Humphrey in 1968.
00:12:06.000That is very similar to what's happening right now.
00:12:08.000Not that Joe Biden is calling up Donald Trump in there, getting together in the back room and figuring out a strategy, which is something that actually kind of happened between Richard Nixon and LBJ. But the animus between LBJ and Hubert Humphrey was very real.
00:12:20.000They had very different policy differences.
00:12:24.0001968 was, you know, kind of a fraught time.
00:12:27.000Well, if you're losing sleep like it's 1968, there is no reason for you to do that.
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00:13:31.000And now, the same thing is sort of true of Biden-Harris.
00:13:34.000Not that Harris has wild policy differences from Biden, but she's more progressive than Biden, for sure.
00:13:40.000And she has to campaign as more moderate than Biden in some way.
00:13:43.000But if she separates off too far from him, then he's going to just grab her and he's going to wrap her up in a bear hug.
00:13:49.000And there's nothing she can do about it.
00:13:50.000And that's what he's been doing. And that's why Team Harris is so frustrated.
00:13:53.000Every time she goes out and she wants to separate off from Biden, he grabs her and smothers her and starts smelling her hair.
00:13:59.000And it's a real problem for the campaign.
00:14:01.000Quote, Biden gave an impromptu press conference in the White House briefing room Friday, just as Harris was about to do an event in Michigan, ensuring her event would get less TV coverage than it otherwise would have.
00:14:09.000Earlier in the week, Harris criticized Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for not taking her call about recent hurricanes, only for Biden to praise DeSantis soon after for being gracious and cooperative.
00:14:18.000Biden has been eager to boast about a robust jobs report, helping to end the strike by the Longshoremen's Union and other perceived victories recently.
00:14:24.000Harris has been trying to focus on voters' pocketbook concerns, including inflation.
00:14:29.000One person involved with Harris' campaign told Axios, quote, the White House is lacking someone in the room, thinking first and foremost about how things would affect the campaign.
00:14:51.000By the way, Joe Biden hates Kamala Harris.
00:14:55.000A fact worth noting, Joe Biden despises Kamala Harris ever since the 2020 race, in which Kamala Harris basically labeled Joe Biden both a racist and a racist.
00:15:04.000According to Axios, the tensions have been playing out on the staff level too.
00:15:07.000Harris's team has been trying to add staff to the VP's office to handle the bigger workload.
00:15:12.000It's been frustrated at the White House's pace in getting people detailed for that, according to two people familiar with the matter.
00:15:17.000The White House has been working to help Harris's team Again, the White House is like, well, you didn't do anything as vice president before.
00:15:26.000Why are we detailing additional staff to you so you can campaign?
00:15:30.000Several Biden aides have joined Harris' campaign, but some feel like they've been labeled as disloyal by Biden's team for leaving or even considering it.
00:15:36.000A White House official told Axios, everyone from the president on down knows how important the election is.
00:15:40.000We always anticipated a number of staff would want to transition from the administration to the campaign for the final stretch.
00:15:45.000On Harris' campaign, there's also awkwardness between some who are on Biden's original campaign staff and Harris allies who've been installed in recent weeks.
00:15:53.000In the weeks after Harris became the Democratic nominee, there were squabbles about whether Biden's main surrogates on TV would continue in those roles or if new faces would emerge.
00:16:02.000Some on Harris's team are wary of the Biden campaign crew they are now working with.
00:16:06.000After all, Biden's team publicly argued Harris was less electable than Biden in the weeks after the president's disastrous debate in June.
00:16:13.000It was deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty, who wrote in a letter, quote, at the end of the day, we'd switch to candidates who would, according to the polls, be less likely to win than Joe Biden, the only person ever to defeat Donald Trump.
00:16:24.000Meanwhile, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told Axios President Biden endorsed Vice President Harris immediately after leaving the race, rejecting other approaches that would divide the party.
00:16:34.000But again, the tensions are quite real.
00:16:59.000He's united the Republican Party with all of its disparate factions, with all of its multitudinous errors.
00:17:04.000It is a united party behind Donald Trump because he is, in fact, a strong figure.
00:17:09.000Kamala Harris is a weak horse, and it is dividing the Democratic Party, and independents are quite alienated from Kamala Harris, whom they correctly see as a totally empty vessel.
00:17:19.000The latest example of Kamala Harris' word salading over the weekend, she was speaking in Greenville, and here's how it went.
00:17:28.000It is easy in these moments of crisis to question our faith, to sometimes lose our faith for a moment, because what we see is so hard to see that we lose faith or a vision of those things we cannot see but must know.
00:17:46.000What in the world is she talking about?
00:17:49.000She speaks like Ta-Nehisi Coates writes.
00:17:52.000Just these long sentences that lead nowhere, mixed metaphors, and don't even make use of proper antecedents.
00:17:58.000It's wild. In fact, there's a full report out that Kamala Harris is now getting help to clean up her style in interviews after she can't explain how she differs from Joe Biden.
00:18:09.000Apparently, this report out from Mediaite suggests that That Vice President Harris's team has been discussing ways to clean up her responses to questions this week about how she would differentiate herself from President Joe Biden, according to four people familiar with the discussions.
00:18:24.000It's NBC News reporting. Harris's answers, including one where she said she couldn't think of anything she'd do differently than Biden, quickly became fodder for her Republican opponent.
00:18:32.000The NBC News report further noted Democrats are working with Harris on several additional areas in which she could contrast her, quote, overall leadership style.
00:18:39.000The discussions within Harris's team have included how she should put more distance between her and Biden, the people familiar with the discussion said, as well as what that would entail in the final weeks of the 2024 race.
00:18:49.000Yeah, man. If at this point in the race, you're having to explain to the candidate why her answers suck, she's done.
00:18:59.000And the problem is this. Her default—if people actually default to her pre-2024 settings— It's like resetting an iPad or something.
00:19:08.000When you go back to factory settings on Kamala Harris, the factory settings on Kamala Harris are wild left crazy person.
00:19:14.000Those are the factory settings. And then you have a bunch of programming that was added by the Biden administration that was pseudo-moderation.
00:19:21.000And now when she tries to campaign as a moderate, everybody's like, well, you're not more moderate than Joe Biden.
00:19:25.000What are your actual principles? And then she says, my principles never change.
00:19:28.000Okay, so are we supposed to look at your factory settings?
00:19:30.000What exactly are we supposed to do here?
00:19:31.000Remember, her factory settings are crazed leftists.
00:19:34.000So today is Columbus Day. It is a celebration of Christopher Columbus, who essentially opened the Americas to European exploration, which, by the way, was a net positive for planet Earth.
00:19:53.000That North America and South America had Western influence in them and the tribes that predated them on the continent were, in general, quite barbaric.
00:20:04.000Many of them were engaged in precisely the same kinds of tribal warfare that people all over the planet are engaged in.
00:20:10.000This sort of attempt to whitewash everybody who's living on these relatively unpopulated continents.
00:20:15.000I say relatively because of course there was a population, but it was certainly not all that large.
00:20:19.000If you look at a person per space in the United States, for example, on the North American continent.
00:20:24.000It's a fairly sparsely populated continent.
00:20:26.000But the kind of attempt to paint the European West as uniquely evil, Kamala Harris does that kind of stuff.
00:20:33.000She has said she wants to get rid of Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples Day.
00:20:36.000Now, listen, that is an amazing statement.
00:20:38.000It really is. Are we truly to believe that Kamala Harris, the greatest beneficiary in American life of the existence of European colonization?
00:20:47.000Truly. I mean, she's the vice president of the United States, which began as a European colony.
00:20:55.000Her up there saying that we shouldn't celebrate Christopher Columbus, it's like the beneficiary of a penicillin vaccine saying that we should not celebrate the inventors of penicillin.
00:21:07.000It's a bizarre, bizarre notion that she is pushing here.
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00:22:25.000No one's arguing that. But to say that instead you want to celebrate the people who were there before, who you would not even have known about, and many of whom were participating in, shall we say, inhumane practices well before Columbus ever discovered the new world.
00:23:38.000It is an honor, of course, to be with you this week as we celebrate Indigenous People's Day, as we speak truth about our nation's history.
00:23:50.000Since 1934, every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas.
00:24:41.000So the same as a candidate, same as vice president, and same today.
00:24:45.000She's not a moderate. She was never a moderate.
00:24:48.000And again, it seems weird to me that the Vice President of the United States feels that way about the civilization that has allowed her to be the Vice President of the United States.
00:24:57.000The biggest problem for Kamala Harris is that Kamala Harris exists as a human.
00:25:03.000And there's no way to get around that, which is why she's hiding from the press.
00:25:06.000So Time Magazine, which was desperately attempting to spin her into something amazing.
00:25:11.000She was on the cover of Time Magazine just a couple of months ago as sort of the future of Well, they have an entire 17-minute piece titled, What Kind of President Would Kamala Harris Be?
00:25:22.000Kamala Harris refused to do the interview.
00:25:24.000Quote, When she does do interviews, she mostly favors local media, culture podcasts, or friendly talk shows.
00:25:30.000Harris declined repeated requests for an interview for this story.
00:25:33.000In contrast, Trump talked about his policy vision with a Time reporter for 90 minutes across two interviews.
00:25:38.000Biden spoke to Time at similar length before dropping out of the race.
00:25:43.000So I guess their strategy is to basement her.
00:25:46.000They're going to run the Joe Biden 2020 basement strategy, not in the middle of COVID, and with a person who's supposedly young and virile.
00:25:54.000That is the case. Listen, even her surrogates can't defend her at this point.
00:25:57.000Andy Beshear, who was once considered a vice presidential candidate.
00:26:01.000He was asked, how will Kamala Harris be different from Joe Biden?
00:26:04.000He can't answer that question because ain't nobody can answer that question.
00:26:07.000She cannot answer the most simple question in this campaign.
00:28:27.000She keeps failing up. She was originally given a job because she was dating Willie Brown, who was then one of the big political movers and shakers in the state of California.
00:28:36.000While she was appointed to state-based commissions that paid her a very, very nice salary in the state of California, she never showed up.
00:28:44.000She didn't go to the meetings. Then, when she became a DA, she tried to challenge her own boss, Terrence Hallinan, for his job.
00:28:53.000And then when that failed, she moved over to a different segment of the Child Services Union for the city attorneys.
00:29:00.000And then she had a performance review, according to Daily Mail, over the weekend.
00:29:44.000Meanwhile, her surrogates are failing as well.
00:29:47.000So as we mentioned last week, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer made a big boo-boo because she did a viral video, this bizarre sort of lesbian communion scene, with a popular influencer named Liz Plank, where Plank was on her knees, and Gretchen Whitmer is feeding her a Dorito in a manner that is extraordinarily reminiscent of communion.
00:30:09.000And all the Catholics got very upset, as well they should, because it was pretty obviously meant to mock that.
00:30:15.000Now she came out and she apologized for that.
00:30:19.000The stunt, according to Mediaite, was apparently done to promote the 2022 CHIPS Act, which was signed by President Joe Biden to allow for $280 billion in spending on domestic research for STEM fields and semiconductors.
00:30:30.000Multiple Catholic organizations issued statements condemning the video because it appeared to mock the communion sacrament.
00:30:35.000Michigan's Catholic Conference issued a statement claiming Whitmer was mocking Catholicism.
00:30:40.000Paul Long, the organization's president and CEO, said, Whitmer then gave a statement.
00:30:57.000She said, my team has spoken to the Michigan Catholic Conference.
00:31:00.000What was supposed to be a video about the importance of the Chips Act to Michigan jobs has been construed as something it was never intended to be, and I apologize for that.
00:31:06.000So, her surrogates are failing as well.
00:31:08.000That includes, of course, the bizarro world governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, who is, I'm sorry, he just gets weirder and weirder, Tim Walz.
00:31:17.000The attempt to turn Tim Walz into the apotheosis of masculinity to reach out to men, let's just say that that's not going very well.
00:31:25.000He's like a theater major playing a man.
00:31:27.000Here he was over the weekend going shooting.
00:31:30.000The way he is loading his shotgun, so I do own a Mossberg 500.
00:31:36.000I will say I have never loaded a shotgun this way.
00:31:38.000This is a bizarre way to load a shotgun.
00:31:40.000He was supposed to be out grouse hunting or something.
00:31:42.000He did not actually achieve any actual game.
00:31:47.000But he went out there and awkwardly attempted to load his shotgun.
00:32:04.000This is a Beretta A400. I bought it when I was shooting a lot of trap because it has a kind of their patented thing, a kickoff, so when you get old, it doesn't hurt your shoulder as much.
00:32:20.000So, Captain Masculinity over here is loading his shotgun while propping it against his crotch, for those who can't see, and then bragging about how the kick of the shotgun hurt his shoulder.
00:32:54.000So, she released a medical report that shows that she is in excellent health.
00:32:59.000A senior aide to the Democratic presidential nominee said the two-page statement, which includes details from a physical exam in April, is meant to underscore a point of contrast with Donald Trump, who at age 78 would be the oldest person to serve as president if elected this year.
00:33:10.000The statement from Colonel Joshua Simmons noted Harris exercises daily and is up-to-date on preventative screenings including a colonoscopy, an annual mammogram, and has undergone allergen immunotherapy for the past three years.
00:33:21.000She apparently uses Allegra to manage allergy symptoms.
00:33:57.000Captain walks into walls over here and drools into his oatmeal.
00:34:00.000She's watching that dude be president and doing nothing.
00:34:03.000So don't make me the case that she cares deeply about the health status of Donald Trump when the person she's leaving in office, a person she defenestrated from his own nomination.
00:34:18.000It's crazy. This is what they're left with.
00:34:20.000And so, all of her surrogates have also entered complete panic mode.
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00:35:31.000Kamala Harris has raised over $1 billion since she entered the race in late July.
00:35:35.000She is the theranos of political candidates.
00:35:37.000Even seasoned experts are saying Harris' fundraising is unlike anything we've ever seen.
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00:36:10.000So, the Democratic Party is, in fact, in freak-out mode.
00:36:14.000This is why James Carville is relegated to calling Donald Trump a Nazi.
00:36:16.000This is always the last resort of Democratic freak-out, is that you have to vote against Donald Trump because he's Hitler with seven mustaches.
00:36:26.000James Carville, and this guy used to be the practical Democrat.
00:36:30.000When he is relegated to saying that Kamala Harris basically needs to call Donald Trump a Nazi, they're done.
00:36:34.000They gotta... Honest to God, like, if I had to put money on the election today, I'd put it on Donald Trump.
00:36:38.000Fairly heavy. When I said that, I didn't know that he was going to schedule a rally at Madison Square Garden to mimic the Nazi rally of 10 February 1939.
00:36:53.000So we have, they're telling you, and by the way, if they win, they're going to correctly say, we told you in the election what we're going to do, and you voted for us, you have green-lighted the whole thing.
00:37:07.000Again, this is wild rhetoric, and of course they have to do this.
00:37:10.000Of course they do. Meanwhile, Tim Walls has been relegated to saying that free speech is bad.
00:37:15.000Now, this has been his argument for quite a while, that free speech is somehow a problem.
00:37:19.000If people say things he doesn't like, Tim Walls ought to be able to outlaw it.
00:37:21.000Don't worry, the real fascist is Donald Trump.
00:37:23.000Here was Tim Walls over the weekend claiming there is no free speech guarantee for misinformation or hate speech, which is a lie.
00:37:34.000Who gets to decide on the issue of what misinformation is?
00:37:40.000Look, the First Amendment is foundational.
00:37:42.000It's something I spent my whole life, the Vice President, and I think most Americans are clear on this.
00:37:46.000The point being on this, we're seeing censorship coming in the form of book bannings in different places.
00:37:50.000We're seeing it in attempts in schools.
00:37:52.000The issue on this was is the hate speech and the protected hate speech.
00:37:56.000Speech that's aimed at creating violence.
00:37:58.000Speech that's aimed at threats to individuals.
00:38:00.000And that's what we're talking about in this.
00:38:02.000And the decision on that, society decides on a lot of this.
00:38:05.000The idea of someone going on and threatening someone's life or a child's life online, I don't think any of your viewers think that that is something that should be acceptable.
00:38:15.000Oh my goodness. Man, they have troubles.
00:38:18.000Meanwhile, Donald Trump is winning, according to the polls, an outsized share of the black male vote.
00:38:23.000The polls right now are showing him winning about 15% of the black vote.
00:38:26.000If that happens in this election, this election is over, he wins.
00:38:30.000And you're starting to see a freakout on the part of, again, the Harris surrogates over this.
00:38:35.000James Clyburn, who's the person who elevated Joe Biden to the presidency over, for example, Bernie Sanders, he appeared on CNN over the weekend trying to convince young black men to vote for Kamala Harris by saying that Donald Trump is Jim Crow 2.0.
00:39:24.000Meanwhile, Jonathan Capehart, over at the Washington Post and MSNBC, he was trying to explain why Barack Obama, last week we talked about it on the show, went out campaigning and then said that young black men aren't voting for Kamala Harris because she's a woman and they're sexist.
00:39:39.000He's trying to explain that Barack Obama wasn't trying to talk down to black men.
00:39:49.000In the entirety of these 15-minute remarks, he talks about how, you know, the change that folks want doesn't come quickly because that's not how things work.
00:40:00.000And he walks through what happened during his presidency, what happened during other presidencies.
00:40:06.000And so, you know, folks who feel like the former president was lecturing them or talking down to them or singling them out— I understand where that's coming from, but that's not what he's doing.
00:40:19.000Remember, President Obama is somebody who rarely speaks out, but when he does, it is with intention, and he means what he says, and he's trying to get across a message.
00:40:30.000And the fact that it's rare when he speaks, people listen to what he says.
00:40:36.000And do they, though? We will find out in very short order.
00:40:39.000Now, really, what is this election about in the end?
00:40:42.000I think what this election is about in the end is a theme that I've talked about a lot here, lions versus scavengers.
00:40:46.000There are people who wish to achieve in America, who wish to see in America where you can achieve, where achievement is actually treasured and prized.
00:40:53.000There are much premises to that basic worldview, but lions generally have an approach toward the world, and that is, it's my job to do my duty, to support my family, to take care of my family, to go out and innovate, to explore the world and make it a better place.
00:41:08.000The scavenger mentality is, every failing I have is the fault of the system, and the system needs to be torn down.
00:41:14.000And if you wanted to telescope this into sort of one incredibly colorful example, it happened over the course of this weekend with SpaceX.
00:41:21.000So, Elon Musk, when he is not running Twitter and tweeting controversial things, Elon Musk happens to be the signal entrepreneur of our time.
00:41:29.000He's a person who's been successful in a wide variety of enterprises, all of which have made the world a significantly better place.
00:41:35.000Tesla has made the world a better place with its electric vehicles.
00:41:38.000They're awesome. SpaceX is doing unbelievable work in getting us to other planets and also, obviously, launching things like Starlink, which is a transformative technology that allows the entire world to be wired up.
00:41:49.000To the extent that, basically, Ukraine probably would have lost the war against Russia in the first couple of weeks if it had not been for Starlink.
00:41:57.000And Elon Musk is also, obviously, the person who bought X, which has opened up free speech spaces.
00:42:02.000So, over the weekend, SpaceX did something truly unbelievable.
00:42:07.000I'm sorry, if you believe in humanity, if you believe that human beings are an incredibly cool species, and when we put our minds to things in innovative and entrepreneurial ways, we can do unbelievable stuff, you just gotta be impressed by this.
00:42:31.000The goal was, and this is something that Elon's been working on for a while, is to be able to use the first stage boosters again.
00:42:38.000So typically speaking, after you launch a rocket, there's a separation between some of the boosters that are on the back end of the rocket.
00:42:44.000And then it's really only the tip of the rocket that makes it, which is the payload that makes it into space.
00:42:48.000And that's where you release all the satellites, for example.
00:42:53.000But the early stage boosters, which are the things that are filled with the fuel that gets the thing to space, those drop off and they fall back down to earth.
00:42:59.000And for decades, they fell back down into the ocean.
00:43:01.000Maybe they were salvaged. Maybe they weren't.
00:43:03.000Very, very expensive because it meant you basically had to build de novo every single time you wanted to make a rocket.
00:43:08.000So Elon and SpaceX decided they were going to try to make it so that these first stage boosters were able to return to their site of origin And then to be reused, which is incredibly cost-effective, way more cost-effective than what was happening making these things fresh.
00:43:24.000So, over the weekend, they launched this Falcon Super Heavy booster.
00:43:36.000It is a very, very, very large rocket.
00:43:41.000And this 250-ton rocket goes up in the air, and then it is brought back down into what is called the Mechazilla.
00:43:49.000You know, one of the things that's fun about Elon is that he names all of his stuff cool things that kids would like.
00:43:53.000So my son is super into this. My 8-year-old, he loved this.
00:43:55.000He watched this like 10 times yesterday.
00:43:57.000So the idea is that the Super Heavy Booster is going to come down, and it's going to be caught by the Mechazilla, which is essentially a tower that has horizontal chopsticks attached to it, and they catch the Super Heavy Booster.
00:44:10.000Okay, so they have to take this thing that is dropping at half the speed of sound.
00:44:16.000They have to slow it down. They have to bring it in at an angle sufficient so that these two—the problem with just having it land is that it's so heavy it'll fall over.
00:44:24.000So instead, they construct this tower that has chopsticks attached to it.
00:44:27.000The chopsticks are going to catch it directly out of the air.
00:44:30.000And here's what this looks like You can see it's burning and it's hovering They make the rocket hover.
00:45:55.000Tear down SpaceX because they didn't hire enough people with temporary protected status.
00:46:00.000Illegal immigrants claiming asylum, some of them.
00:46:03.000That is the Biden DOJ. Absolute scavengers.
00:46:07.000Take the successful and tear them down.
00:46:08.000Make the world an actively worse place because you just don't like Elon Musk.
00:46:12.000And if you don't believe me, they're doing the same thing in California.
00:46:15.000According to Politico, California officials cite Elon Musk's politics in rejecting SpaceX launches.
00:46:23.000State officials cited Musk's antics in rejecting SpaceX's plan to launch more rockets off the central California coast.
00:46:29.000Elon Musk's tweet about the presidential election and spreading falsehoods about Hurricane Helene are endangering his ability to launch rockets off California's central coast.
00:46:37.000The California Coastal Commission on Thursday rejected the Air Force's plan to give SpaceX permission to launch up to 50 rockets a year from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County.
00:46:46.000Commissioner Gretchen Newsom, no relationship to either Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer, which means that Tom Wolfe wrote this person's name.
00:46:54.000Elon Musk is hopping about the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods and attacking FEMA while claiming his desire to help the hurricane victims with free Starlink access to the internet.
00:47:03.000The agency's commissioners, appointed by the governor and legislative leaders, voted 6-4 to reject the Air Force's plan over concerns that all SpaceX launches would be considered military activity, shielding the company from having to acquire its own permits even if military payloads aren't being carried.
00:47:17.000And again, they're relying on the fact that he did the mean tweets.
00:47:30.000And so they're rejecting permits for him.
00:47:32.000This dude is radically redesigning incredible large swaths of American life, including, by the way, auto driving.
00:47:38.000If you've tried the new auto drive on Tesla, you basically don't have to drive anymore.
00:47:41.000You type in your location. I have it on my Tesla.
00:47:44.000You type in the location and it drives you to where you're going.
00:47:46.000Why does that matter? It doesn't matter necessarily in terms of personal commuting, but you want to bring down costs.
00:47:52.000You know, it's an amazing way to do that.
00:47:53.000Automated giant trucks driving the road, which are much safer than human driving.
00:47:59.000Like, all this is amazing, but he's got the wrong politics.
00:48:01.000Got to tear him down. Meanwhile, again, you have Donald Trump who's out there saying, you know what?
00:48:05.000We're going to make Elon the secretary of cost cutting.
00:48:09.000You tell me, which party is for entrepreneurship and innovation and which party is trying to tear it down in the name of social justice equity nonsense?
00:48:19.000He's a great business guy and he's a great cost cutter.
00:48:22.000You've seen that. And he said, I could cut costs without affecting anybody.
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00:50:01.000She is, of course, the co-chair of the Republican National Committee, has been since March 2024, overseeing all the major races for Republicans in the country.
00:50:09.000Laura, thanks so much for joining the show. I really appreciate it.
00:51:01.000That sort of stuff is organic, and you cannot manufacture that.
00:51:05.000And I think the thing with Kamala Harris is that her entire run as the Democrats nominee for the short-lived time that it's been happening has all been just that.
00:51:15.000It's been manufactured. There has not been anything authentic about her.
00:51:18.000They came right out of the gate, tried to prop her up, put all the money behind her, get the mainstream media behind her.
00:51:24.000And people initially were like, oh, let me take a look at this.
00:51:27.000And then when they realized there's absolutely nothing there, She cannot explain or articulate a single policy point at all.
00:51:33.000She just talks in circles in the word salads.
00:51:36.000They have all come back and said, well, wait a minute.
00:51:39.000I remember how great my life was with Donald Trump in the White House.
00:51:47.000I remember that jobs were actually plentiful and people had jobs in this country.
00:51:52.000There were no new wars around the world with Donald Trump in the White House.
00:51:55.000In fact, we had peace agreements In the Middle East, and they have hearkened back to that time and they said, all right, I can't afford my life with Kamala Harris in the White House.
00:52:03.000And I obviously can see what that has led to because everything is a disaster in America.
00:52:08.000They want to get back to the days of Donald Trump in the White House.
00:52:11.000And when you look at the polling specifically, Ben, what it tells us The fact that it is within one point or two points between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
00:52:21.000You go back and look at polling in 2016, this week right now between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
00:52:27.000Hillary Clinton was up on Donald Trump by about six or seven points right now.
00:52:31.000And remember how that race turned out.
00:52:33.000You go back to 2020 and they would have had you believe that Joe Biden was almost 10 points up on Donald Trump this week.
00:52:40.000And yet we remember that race came down to tens of thousands of votes really across this country.
00:52:44.000The fact that the polls have Donald Trump and Kamala Harris dead even tells me with what I know about Donald Trump in polling, he is actually well above that.
00:52:53.000He is outperforming everything that anyone ever expected.
00:52:56.000I believe we're poised to see a blowout election, a red map on November 5th.
00:53:00.000But we're going to continue to play things like we're behind up until this game is over.
00:53:04.000That is how you're going to win this game.
00:53:07.000So Laura, I think the thing that many people are worried about, including me, is not President Trump's performance on the campaign trail or where he is with the American people.
00:53:14.000He has unique capacity to draw in mid and low propensity voters that no other candidate of our lifetime has really been able to do.
00:53:19.000The thing that a lot of us are worried about is the Democrats' ground game.
00:53:22.000So the Democrats are very famous for having an excellent ground game.
00:53:25.000They obviously do things like ballot harvesting en masse.
00:53:27.000They get a huge percentage of their voting base to actually vote early, something like 51 percent of all ballots in this election cycle might be cast before Election Day.
00:53:35.000And that's supposed to break heavily for Democrats.
00:53:38.000How confident are you in the Republican ground game?
00:53:39.000Can you describe what that ground game looks like, particularly in the swing states?
00:53:45.000We have played the game probably the wrong way on the Republican side for a long time.
00:53:49.000And the reality is if they're going to be playing chess and we're playing checkers over here, we're never going to catch up to them.
00:53:55.000So when Michael Watley and I took over the RNC in March of this year, we said, look, we have two jobs at the RNC. We have to get out the vote and we have to protect the ballot.
00:54:04.000And those two things really do go hand in hand.
00:54:06.000Obviously, Donald Trump inspires people, as you just said, probably unlike any presidential candidate we've ever seen.
00:54:36.000Well, how do we do that? We engage with people then who are voters who we know lean Republican, conservative, But maybe they haven't come out the past two, three, four election cycles.
00:54:46.000We are training our group on the ground, our folks on the ground in these 300 different offices, exactly how to go out and talk to these people, exactly who they are, where they live, how to call them, how to knock on their doors, and what to say to them to make sure they turn out in this election.
00:55:01.000That is something we've had a huge push from the RNC on.
00:55:05.000From day one that, again, Michael Watley and I took over as chair and co-chair of the RNC. And you've also heard Donald Trump say, whether you mail in your vote, whether you vote early in person or vote on election day, those are all great ways to vote.
00:55:17.000We want you to go vote early in this election.
00:55:20.000Again, go vote early in this election and then come be part of our team.
00:55:28.000If you want to be part of this team, we'll give you those low propensity voters.
00:55:32.000The beauty of people voting early, Ben, is that then we are not focused on getting you to turn out to vote.
00:55:38.000If you go vote early, we take you off our list.
00:55:40.000Then we focus our resources on getting those people to turn out who are really going to make the difference in this election.
00:55:46.000And if I can just couple this with election integrity as well.
00:55:50.000Because I think that's also got to be something that we address right now.
00:55:53.000We can never go back and repeat the 2020 election.
00:55:56.000Everybody had major questions coming out of that.
00:55:58.000Millions of Americans said, I don't know if I can trust our electoral process.
00:56:02.000And it truly is foundational to who we are as a country to be able to trust in this process.
00:56:06.000We pledged 100,000 people that we were going to train to be poll watchers, poll workers, and legal experts on the ground starting in March.
00:56:14.000And we said that's a lofty goal, 100,000 people to train.
00:56:17.000I'm so happy to report, Ben, we have trained over 200,000 people to do these jobs.
00:56:22.000Volunteers who are going to be everywhere a vote is cast and counted.
00:56:26.000In this country, because that is how we're going to ensure election integrity.
00:56:30.000We want to send a message loud and clear out there that if anyone is nefarious and has, you know, ill intentions in this election cycle and you cheat in our elections, we'll track you down and we'll prosecute you to the full extent of the law.
00:56:41.000That means you're going to jail or if you're an You're going to leave this country.
00:56:45.000We want to make sure people are not cheating, but we also have to make sure our people know your vote matters, your vote counts.
00:57:20.000night. We're going to call it early for Donald Trump on election night.
00:57:25.000So, Laura, obviously the RNC is also involved in a bunch of key Senate races across the country.
00:57:29.000I've personally been going out and campaigning with a bunch of these Senate candidates, Sam Brown in Nevada, last week with Bernie Moreno in Ohio, with Eric Hovde in Wisconsin.
00:57:36.000When you look at the Senate map, there are a couple of seats that look like are easy Republican pickups.
00:57:40.000That would be West Virginia with Jim Justice as well as Tim Sheehy in Montana is looking very, very solid.
00:57:44.000And then there are a bunch of seats that are very much in contention.
00:57:47.000That ranges from Bernie Moreno in Ohio, who's probably up a little bit, but he's certainly in a very tight battle there.
00:57:52.000Eric Hovde in Wisconsin in a very tight battle.
00:57:55.000What do you make of the Senate map right now?
00:57:58.000Yeah, look, I think we're in a really good position for that Senate map.
00:58:01.000We feel really confident that we're going to take the majority in the Senate this election.
00:58:05.000And I think the good news for all of these down-ballot races, whether it's the Senate or whether we're talking about the House races, which are also very important in this election, because look, it's one thing to get Donald Trump in there as the 47th president, but we all know if he doesn't have a Congress that's going to work alongside of him.
00:58:20.000It's going to be hard for him to get a lot of things done except via executive order.
00:58:24.000And so we want to make sure that we have all of these covered.
00:58:26.000The great news is if you look at the polling between Donald Trump and any of these candidates, he's always pulling higher than they are in their respective races.
00:58:35.000And we believe that that is going to be very impactful for all the down-ballot races.
00:58:39.000He truly will help lift all of these people up, get some of these people over the finish line.
00:58:44.000And obviously he's going out and campaigning and every time he's in One of these very important states, you see these people on stage talking to their constituents or who they want to be, their constituents, out there and delivering that message to people.
00:58:56.000And when you have Donald Trump at the top of the ticket, it helps all of those down-ballot races.
00:59:01.000And so we're feeling very, very good, especially looking at this Senate map right now.
00:59:05.000So stay tuned, but I believe we're going to take back the Senate this election.
00:59:11.000Well, Laura Trump, head of the RNC, really appreciate your time.
00:59:14.000Thanks for your hard work. I know you're busy, so we'll let you go, but thank you for taking the time.
00:59:19.000Thanks a lot. All right, you guys, coming up, we're going to get to probably the most shocking national security story in the last 10 years.
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