The Ben Shapiro Show - Kamala Harris’ UNSERIOUS Campaign

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, the campaign continues to be incredibly tight.

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00:00:22.000 Alrighty, so the polling continues to show Donald Trump with a small but measurable lead.

00:00:26.000 In most of the swing states at this point, the real politics polling average has him up by over a point in Michigan, has him up by almost a point in Pennsylvania, about 0.4 in Wisconsin, up by 1.6 in Arizona, by 0.5 in North Carolina, by 1.8 in Georgia.

00:00:41.000 The polls are all within margin of error at this point.

00:00:43.000 It's still a toss-up race, which means that it's going to come down to turnout, which, of course, is a truism.

00:00:48.000 It's not just going to come down to turnout.

00:00:49.000 It's going to be who has the better turnout operation.

00:00:52.000 I'm hearing a lot of mixed reports from on the ground about the Trump turnout operation.

00:00:55.000 From some, I'm hearing that it's excellent.

00:00:56.000 From others, I'm hearing that it's not so excellent.

00:00:58.000 The proof is going to be in the pudding.

00:01:00.000 But there's no question that right now Donald Trump has the momentum.

00:01:03.000 The topic of conversation is everything Trump wants it to be about.

00:01:06.000 Does Kamala Harris care about normies? 1.00

00:01:09.000 Is Kamala Harris trustable on anything like the issues?

00:01:13.000 Will she be bad for the economy or good for the economy? 1.00

00:01:16.000 Trump is a known quantity.

00:01:17.000 That was always the drawback of Trump, is that he was never going to get 55% in the polls.

00:01:21.000 It's also the beauty of Trump, meaning no matter how often you scream that he is outrageous and terrible, He just ain't.

00:01:27.000 We're all used to it.

00:01:28.000 There is nothing new that you can add to the mix about Donald Trump that's going to change anyone's opinion of him.

00:01:33.000 Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is having to bring out these sort of arguments of last resort. 1.00

00:01:38.000 The arguments of last resort are the ones that Joe Biden was using.

00:01:41.000 So Joe Biden ran his entire campaign on, it's not that I'm a good president.

00:01:46.000 It's just that you have to, you can't vote for Donald Trump because he's a danger to the republic.

00:01:51.000 That was his campaign of last resort.

00:01:54.000 He hadn't done a good job, but you can't vote for my opponent because there is a barrier to entry, and the barrier to entry is January 6th, and Donald Trump being a dictator, etc., etc.

00:02:03.000 Well, Kamala Harris had sort of avoided that. 0.99

00:02:05.000 She suggested that Donald Trump was weird. 1.00

00:02:07.000 He was a goofball. 1.00

00:02:08.000 He was fundamentally unserious. 0.98

00:02:11.000 But the reality is that now she's having to fall back on the Joe Biden argument. 0.95

00:02:16.000 He seems unserious, but deep down, in the cockles of his small heart, Donald Trump is Hitler!

00:02:23.000 That actually, Donald Trump's facial hair is just hidden.

00:02:28.000 But if you could see beneath the lip, you would see a very small mustache, perhaps too.

00:02:33.000 That is the argument that Kamala Harris is now making.

00:02:36.000 She's really ratcheting up the rhetoric. 0.98

00:02:38.000 So, she said the other day, yesterday, she says that Donald Trump is fundamentally an unserious candidate, but the consequences of his presidency will be so serious.

00:02:47.000 In many, many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man.

00:02:52.000 But the consequences of him being President of the United States are brutally serious.

00:02:59.000 There are things that he says that will be the subject of skits and laughter and jokes.

00:03:07.000 But words have meaning coming from someone Who aspires to stand behind the seal of the President of the United States.

00:03:18.000 So, in this way, Harris and Trump are most polar opposites.

00:03:21.000 So Trump says a lot of stuff.

00:03:23.000 I've said this for years.

00:03:24.000 Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States.

00:03:26.000 We'll say on his epitaph, maybe 47th President of the United States.

00:03:28.000 He said a lot of bleep.

00:03:30.000 Donald Trump says a lot of stuff.

00:03:31.000 He makes jokes about Arnold Palmer.

00:03:33.000 And he says funny things about McDonald's.

00:03:36.000 And he makes jokes all the time.

00:03:37.000 He says things that are really out of the box.

00:03:39.000 And it's hard to take them fully seriously.

00:03:41.000 Because he's not fully serious when he says them.

00:03:43.000 And even when he is fully serious, does he really mean them 100%?

00:03:46.000 Half the time, no.

00:03:48.000 But his actual policy is quite serious.

00:03:50.000 That has always been the gap for Donald Trump, is that his image is sort of buffoonish and goofballish, but his actual policy, his hard-nosed actual policy accomplishments are quite real, namely a functional economy, growing innovation, low inflation,

00:04:06.000 a foreign policy record that is second to none in the annals of American history, no major foreign wars, new peace deals in the Middle East, intimidation of our enemies, So Donald Trump is a patina of unseriousness and underneath he's a very serious policy candidate.

00:04:37.000 That is why he is running the way he's running in this election.

00:04:40.000 Kamala Harris is precisely the opposite.

00:04:41.000 She tries to pose as serious, but underneath it is a deep unseriousness.

00:04:47.000 Underneath this facade of serious politician who's talking to you about the context of the world in which we consider the issues that affect our lives in ways that we cannot yet imagine.

00:05:01.000 Beneath that facade is total emptiness.

00:05:04.000 She's a shell of a politician and below it is just a vacuum. 1.00

00:05:09.000 So I think that she actually has a problem on her hands here because every day she betrays that there ain't nothing there.

00:05:16.000 There's just nothing there.

00:05:18.000 Yesterday, for example, she was doing a presser.

00:05:21.000 She couldn't even call on the reporters herself.

00:05:24.000 Her campaign has to stage manage her the way they were stage managing Joe Biden. 1.00

00:05:28.000 Here she was yesterday. 0.99

00:05:29.000 you'll actually hear one of her campaign aides calling out the reporters because she can't do it herself. 1.00

00:05:34.000 - On some issues, we just have to all be Americans and put party aside.

00:05:39.000 - We're gonna go to Colleen at the AP.

00:05:41.000 - Hi.

00:05:42.000 - We have time for one more.

00:05:44.000 Andrea at Reuters. - Why are her aides calling out the reporters?

00:05:48.000 Why isn't she doing it? 0.98

00:05:49.000 Because she's not capable.

00:05:50.000 In fact, we are now learning that she has reduced her time on the campaign trail, according to Breitbart.

00:05:56.000 Instead, she's opting to prepare for an interview with NBC and a CNN town hall.

00:06:00.000 Now, these are not things you have to take time off from the campaign trail to do.

00:06:03.000 They're not.

00:06:05.000 These are not things that require extra time off.

00:06:07.000 It's one thing to say I'm taking two days off to prep for a debate because I have to study my opponent's moves.

00:06:11.000 I need to do a sort of lightning round with somebody playing Donald Trump.

00:06:16.000 Okay, understandable.

00:06:17.000 I get it.

00:06:18.000 But I'm sorry.

00:06:19.000 An interview with NBC means you have to take time off the trail.

00:06:22.000 You don't like take two days off the campaign trail in closing time to prep for an interview with NBC News, which has been overwhelmingly favorable to you.

00:06:31.000 Because you blew it with Brett Baier on Fox News.

00:06:34.000 A CNN town hall.

00:06:35.000 How do you prep for that?

00:06:36.000 What does that prep look like?

00:06:37.000 But here's the thing about Kamala Harris. 0.96

00:06:39.000 She has to prep for everything.

00:06:42.000 The reason that the left is so all fired mad because Donald Trump went to a McDonald's is because when Donald Trump went to a McDonald's, he was very comfortable in his own skin.

00:06:53.000 It's not that Donald Trump was masquerading as a worker at McDonald's.

00:06:56.000 It's that he was showing respect to people who work at McDonald's and people who eat at McDonald's, and he likes those people.

00:07:01.000 Kamala Harris is the kind of person who literally had to be prepped by her staff to do a small donor dinner. 1.00

00:07:08.000 They had to put like a fake dinner together so she could learn to speak with humans without downing an entire bottle of rosé. 0.99

00:07:15.000 Underneath the facade of serious politician, there is nothing serious there.

00:07:19.000 There's nothing serious there.

00:07:21.000 And you can see it every time she or her running mate talk policy.

00:07:25.000 So Tim Walls, for example, he's a Sarah Haynes, and he was asked to name differences with Joe Biden on policy, is on The View.

00:07:33.000 You know, the great political interview show, The View.

00:07:35.000 Sarah Haynes asked him, so how are you guys different from Joe Biden?

00:07:38.000 He ain't got nothing.

00:07:39.000 There's nothing there.

00:07:41.000 Can you point to a policy decision over the last four years that you and the vice president would have handled differently from President Biden?

00:07:49.000 Well, I think this expansion on Medicare is something that I wish would have been proposed sooner.

00:07:53.000 But look, they're tackling the issues that they needed to.

00:07:56.000 They came out of a pandemic that Donald Trump had left a mess for.

00:07:59.000 An economy with supply chains that were broken.

00:08:02.000 Really?

00:08:03.000 So it said nothing.

00:08:04.000 You got nothing.

00:08:05.000 You got zero.

00:08:05.000 Zip zilch.

00:08:07.000 So what policy proposals does she have that are so astounding and wonderful?

00:08:11.000 Well, apparently she wants to raise the minimum wage. 1.00

00:08:12.000 You haven't heard this one before.

00:08:13.000 She's going to raise the federal minimum wage. 1.00

00:08:16.000 Here we go.

00:08:16.000 This is her big policy proposal.

00:08:19.000 So there is a big difference between Donald Trump and me on a number of issues, including this, where I absolutely believe we must raise minimum wage and that hardworking Americans, whether they're working at McDonald's or anywhere else, should have at least the ability to be able to take care of their family and take care of themselves in a way that allows them to actually be able to sustain their needs. 0.98

00:08:40.000 I'm sorry, this is policy for dumb people.

00:08:43.000 You know how many people in the United States are paid the actual federal minimum wage? 0.98

00:08:46.000 The actual federal minimum wage?

00:08:49.000 One million workers in the United States.

00:08:51.000 One million.

00:08:53.000 Out of the hundreds of millions of people working in the United States, one million are working at or below the minimum wage in the United States.

00:09:00.000 And by the way, those people are not 40-year-olds who've been working for 20 years at McDonald's.

00:09:05.000 Those people are generally under the age of 25, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

00:09:11.000 Although workers under age 25 represent one-fifth of hourly paid workers, they represent 45% of those paid the federal minimum wage or less.

00:09:20.000 Among employed teenagers aged 16 to 19 paid by the hour, about 3% earned the minimum wage or less, compared with just under 1% of workers aged 25 and older.

00:09:29.000 So in other words, it's a starter job.

00:09:30.000 So her big proposal to change the economy of the United States is to raise the federal minimum wage. 1.00

00:09:34.000 By the way, there are state minimum wages on the books in nearly every state that are larger than the federal minimum wage. 0.99

00:09:40.000 This is politics for dumb people. 0.99

00:09:43.000 But there are serious consequences to the policy for dumb people. 0.99

00:09:48.000 So, for example, as Heather McDonald points out, Kamala Harris is a wildly anti-police candidate. 0.97

00:09:54.000 Quote, Kamala Harris has avoided talking about crime and law enforcement on the campaign trail.

00:09:57.000 No surprise there.

00:09:58.000 Since the George Floyd race riots, many American cities have descended into public disorder.

00:10:02.000 Surveillance videos routinely document flash mobs invading businesses, assaulting employees, and stealing whatever participants can carry, including cash registers.

00:10:10.000 Customers bear the brunt of stores' defenses against runaway shoplifting, like toothpaste locked behind a plexiglass barrier.

00:10:15.000 Drive-by shootings mow down innocent civilians.

00:10:18.000 Urban violent crime has surged 40% between 2019 and 2023.

00:10:23.000 In an interview last week on The Breakfast Club, Kamala Harris made clear she remains committed to her previously stated view that systemic racism, quote, seeps into every part of American life and racial injustice is rampant in policing.

00:10:38.000 Ms.

00:10:38.000 Harris suggested that police murders have been going on viciously.

00:10:41.000 She accepted a questioner saying exactly that.

00:10:43.000 She said as a U.S. senator, she tried to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a bill that would have restricted the use of certain police tactics and eliminated qualified immunity for law enforcement officers, opening them to financial liability for contested enforcement actions.

00:10:57.000 So, again, her actual policies are quite deleterious to the lifestyle of the American people.

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00:13:12.000 Kamala Harris and people of her ilk have generated, for example, the Daniel Penny trial.

00:13:17.000 So this is the big story of the day over in New York City.

00:13:20.000 Jury selection has begun in the criminal trial of Daniel Penny.

00:13:23.000 Now, you'll remember Daniel Penny.

00:13:24.000 If you watched the show, we talked about this extensively last year.

00:13:29.000 Last year, Daniel Penny, former U.S. Marine Corps veteran.

00:13:33.000 He's a Marine Corps veteran.

00:13:34.000 And he was on a New York City train.

00:13:37.000 And a homeless, violent man named Jordan Neely...

00:13:43.000 Started shouting and nearly assaulting the passengers.

00:13:46.000 And Penny subdued him.

00:13:49.000 They said they put him in a chokehold.

00:13:50.000 He didn't.

00:13:50.000 He put him in a submission hold.

00:13:53.000 And Neely ended up dying.

00:13:56.000 And now Daniel Penny is being charged.

00:14:02.000 Penny was arrested last year.

00:14:03.000 He was set free on a $100,000 bond.

00:14:05.000 He is being charged for second-degree manslaughter and faces up to 15 years in prison.

00:14:12.000 So Daniel Penney's defense lawyers, they say, well, you know, Neely was high as a kite.

00:14:17.000 He had a huge amount of synthetic cannabinoid known as K2. Also, they're going to argue that Penney didn't actually apply enough pressure on Neely to make him unconscious, must less kill him.

00:14:27.000 Neely's in the chokehold.

00:14:29.000 Again, they use the terms chokehold and submission hold, essentially equivalently.

00:14:33.000 A chokehold, colloquially speaking, is where you're compressing the windpipe.

00:14:37.000 A submission hold is where you are compressing the arterial flow to the brain.

00:14:41.000 So it cuts off oxygen, and then you knock somebody out.

00:14:47.000 Again, we have the tape.

00:14:50.000 The fact that this man is being charged for subduing a violent, threatening homeless person on a subway train who's threatening others, And by the way, this was treated as a race issue, if you recall.

00:15:02.000 Daniel Penney, because he is white, was treated as though he was a racist despite no evidence that race played a part in this particular case.

00:15:09.000 It's Kamala Harris's law enforcement stylings that make this sort of stuff possible in New York City. 1.00

00:15:14.000 Here's the tape, if you don't recall.

00:15:18.000 You can see he's subduing him.

00:15:19.000 And by the way, he's not the only one subduing him.

00:15:23.000 There are two other New Yorkers attempting to subdue this homeless person to stop him from getting violent.

00:15:27.000 This trial, by the way, could easily become a sort of microcosm of all crime issues in the United States.

00:15:38.000 If that happens, Kamala Harris has a real problem on her hands because the vast majority of Americans are very sympathetic to good Samaritans who try to stop violent attacks on people on the New York City train, for example.

00:15:50.000 But her problems don't just stop there.

00:15:51.000 Again, her policies are a disaster. 0.52

00:15:53.000 As the New York Times reports, shuttered factories and trade deals help turn working-class Midwesterners against Democrats, while the high cost of housing do the same in the Sun Belt.

00:16:03.000 The New York Times, Jennifer Medina reporting, in the final weeks of a deadlocked presidential campaign, there's no better place to observe restlessness than the stuccoed neighborhood that snake into the desert around Las Vegas.

00:16:14.000 The median home price is $445,000, an increase of more than 50% compared with five years ago.

00:16:21.000 Many once reliable Democrats say the issue has eroded their trust in politicians, which means turning away from Kamala Harris.

00:16:28.000 So in the Midwest, you have people who have bled jobs thanks to the policies of Joe Biden.

00:16:34.000 In Nevada, you have inflated housing prices.

00:16:37.000 These policies are bad.

00:16:39.000 Again, she's empty underneath, and then that emptiness has real policy consequences.

00:16:45.000 That's also true in the Middle East.

00:16:48.000 So, yesterday, she has decided, apparently, that she's going to reach out to the Jewish vote by going on the air with Al Sharpton, the only American in modern times who has partially incited a pogrom. 0.82

00:16:58.000 So, that's always an exciting thing.

00:17:00.000 So, she went on with Al Sharpton, where she immediately pledged to push for a ceasefire.

00:17:04.000 Now, if Israel had listened to Kamala Harris in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar would still be alive right now. 0.75

00:17:10.000 She told them not to go into Rafa.

00:17:11.000 They ignored her, and they ended up killing Yahya Sinwar.

00:17:13.000 Here is Al Sharpton with Kamala Harris.

00:17:16.000 How would you move toward a ceasefire?

00:17:18.000 What do you think the United States should be doing?

00:17:22.000 So first of all, look, it's going to be hard.

00:17:27.000 It's going to be difficult.

00:17:28.000 But we have got to get this war over with.

00:17:32.000 We've got to get the hostages out.

00:17:34.000 We need the war to end. 0.80

00:17:35.000 In fact, we're sending Tony Blinken, Secretary of State, out next week to go and meet with the parties there.

00:17:42.000 And the death of Senwar, I believe, has removed an obstacle. 0.96

00:17:46.000 To that end.

00:17:48.000 And so we've got to work at it, and we've got to work at it through diplomatic means, and that's what we intend to do.

00:17:53.000 But listen, the reality of it is that the difficulty of it all is not new to any administration in recent history, and it cannot be the reason that we don't work at it around the clock and be vigilant.

00:18:08.000 So what exactly is happening?

00:18:11.000 What exactly is happening is that she is providing space for terrorists to hold out instead of making a deal to release hostages. 0.85

00:18:19.000 She continued along these lines, by the way.

00:18:20.000 She's unconscionable what's happening in Gaza.

00:18:23.000 Unconscionable for Hamas not to surrender.

00:18:26.000 Hamas is still holding hostages.

00:18:28.000 Unconscionable for Hamas to subject the entire Palestinian population to the wonders of its governance. 0.99

00:18:35.000 Unconscionable for the IDF to go in and target terrorists.

00:18:39.000 Who are currently holding Israeli hostages and Americans, by the way?

00:18:43.000 Here she was along these lines.

00:18:45.000 I remember in Selma, you made very strong statements about civilians being killed on both sides.

00:18:51.000 And you stood up strongly on that.

00:18:54.000 And I think that's a concern in all communities.

00:18:58.000 Well, I mean, listen, the number of innocent Palestinians that have been killed in Gaza, it's really unconscionable.

00:19:06.000 And we have to be honest about that.

00:19:08.000 And at the same time, listen, I will always stand in terms of Israel's right to defend itself.

00:19:15.000 And we need this war to end.

00:19:19.000 I don't believe you that you will always stand with Israel's right to defend itself.

00:19:23.000 You know who else doesn't believe you?

00:19:24.000 Yahya Sinwar didn't believe you.

00:19:26.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, in March, Israeli commandos seized a compound connected to Yahya Sinwar.

00:19:31.000 This is the leader of Hamas.

00:19:32.000 They found uniforms, vests, submachine guns, binoculars and a laptop.

00:19:36.000 Sinwar messaged Hamas officials, urging them to refuse a hostage deal.

00:19:40.000 Hamas had the upper hand in negotiations, Sinwar said, setting internal political divisions within Israel, cracks in Netanyahu's wartime coalition and mounting U.S. pressure to alleviate the suffering in Gaza.

00:19:51.000 Yes, that's right.

00:19:52.000 Kamala Harris and Joe Biden somehow achieved the signal feat of strengthening the hand of Yahya Sinwar.

00:19:59.000 Truly incredible stuff from this absolutely empty candidate.

00:20:02.000 The good news is she still has campaign surrogates like Mark Cuban out there saying, you know, it's great that she's still flip-flopping. 0.53

00:20:07.000 Like, that's really the important thing is to recognize that flip-flops are now good.

00:20:12.000 You asked me specifically, what are the things about her that I agree with, that I support?

00:20:16.000 I told you I didn't support the filibuster.

00:20:18.000 I was asking what other things that she's proposed in the past would cause you to campaign against her if she went through with it.

00:20:25.000 Yeah, I mean, look, what she did four years ago, just like Donald Trump and the oil thing.

00:20:29.000 I mean, there's lots of things, you know.

00:20:30.000 The candidates change over a period of years.

00:20:33.000 That's one of the great things about Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:20:35.000 She's not an idiot. 0.98

00:20:37.000 She is open-minded. 0.98

00:20:38.000 That's why she's changed.

00:20:40.000 Donald Trump thinks he knows everything.

00:20:41.000 He doesn't change.

00:20:43.000 Okay, so the fact that she's wildly dishonest and shifts all of her positions, but only for the press, that's a good thing, according to Mark Cuban.

00:20:50.000 That's right, folks.

00:20:51.000 So Kamala Harris, kind of like... 0.96

00:20:54.000 A bizarre layer cake of terrible.

00:20:56.000 So you have the surface politician.

00:20:58.000 She pretends to be a serious politician. 0.98

00:21:00.000 She really is not.

00:21:01.000 And underneath, you have a vacuum.

00:21:02.000 And underneath the vacuum, you have the effect of some really, really bad policy.

00:21:05.000 A terrible layer cake.

00:21:07.000 But it's her image that they're trying to burnish.

00:21:09.000 The problem for Kamala Harris is that her image is starting to fall apart.

00:21:13.000 Because it turns out that once you get past the joy of Joe Biden not being the nominee, ain't nothing there.

00:21:18.000 So Al Sharpton is trying to reinvigorate the joy for Kamala Harris by accusing men of being sexist for not backing Kamala Harris.

00:21:25.000 Do you think some of the resistance of some men, black and white, is misogynist?

00:21:31.000 And are you proud to see that most Americans, even being polled, have no problem supporting a woman at all?

00:21:40.000 And I'm one that lived from Shirley to Kamala in terms of these campaigns.

00:21:45.000 I have an emotional reaction to you raising the point of Shirley Chisholm because It is on her broad shoulders that I stand, and so many of us stand.

00:21:56.000 And we have come a long way, to your point, and on your specific point about including the fact that I have the support of countless black men who are in elected positions, including just this afternoon in two church visits today with the mayor of Atlanta.

00:22:15.000 That being said, I think that you are absolutely right.

00:22:21.000 that there is this narrative about what kind of support we are receiving from black men that is just not panning out.

00:22:28.000 Well, I guess the pitch is that you're sexist if you don't support Harris.

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00:24:37.000 Okay, so again, the idea underneath there is that you're a sexist if you don't back Kamala Harris. 0.61

00:24:42.000 That is something that's also being pushed by a columnist for the New York Times today named John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, who conducts polls for PACs that support Harris and Biden.

00:24:54.000 He's trying to figure out why young men are turning away from Kamala Harris, and his answer is... 0.97

00:24:59.000 Because Donald Trump is a mean bad man and men are bad and mean. 0.99

00:25:03.000 Quote, Mr. 0.99

00:25:03.000 Trump has tapped male anxieties by weaving a hyper-masculine message of strength and defiance into his broader narrative that undermines confidence in democratic institutions. 0.99

00:25:11.000 And it's working.

00:25:12.000 Aware that boasting about killing Roe vs.

00:25:14.000 Wade drove away young women, Mr.

00:25:15.000 Trump zeroed in on campaigning on a larger shale of the young male vote.

00:25:18.000 In four years, he cut what was once a 19 percentage point democratic margin among registered young male voters roughly in half in our poll.

00:25:25.000 His playbook, a master class in bro whispering.

00:25:31.000 Okay, well, I mean, there is another reason why Donald Trump is appealing to young men, and it's because he doesn't hate young men.

00:25:51.000 That would be the really big reason here.

00:25:54.000 Turns out that Kamala Harris is not a unifying image.

00:25:57.000 She is one particular type of image, and that is female-centric. 1.00

00:26:01.000 And bringing out Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago, to claim that she has earned his vote as a black man should not make the Democratic Party particularly sanguine about their hopes with men generally.

00:26:14.000 The Vice President Kamala Harris has earned my vote as a black man and she has earned the vote and support of black men across this country.

00:26:23.000 One thing that I know for sure as a black man is that we always recognize our responsibility and role in this democracy, providing Preparing and protecting.

00:26:35.000 And that's really what this moment is about.

00:26:37.000 It's about providing real opportunities for black men, but all Americans, to have a right to health care, mental health care, good paying jobs, protecting our democracy, right?

00:26:48.000 You know, we're talking about the former president who made it very clear if you vote for him, you don't ever have to vote ever again.

00:26:55.000 As a black man, you don't have to dog whistle.

00:26:57.000 I know exactly what he's saying. 0.98

00:26:59.000 No, you don't.

00:27:00.000 Because he never said that. 0.98

00:27:02.000 That's ridiculous. 0.79

00:27:03.000 But, you know, this is the pitch.

00:27:05.000 And so, in the end, as always, the Democratic Party is forced to fall back on its core position, which is, don't vote for Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:27:12.000 Just don't vote for Donald Trump because, again, he's a bad, bad orange fascist. 0.97

00:27:18.000 Al Sharpton was doing this. 0.98

00:27:19.000 He suggested Trump's rhetoric makes it more dangerous to be an American.

00:27:22.000 Again, this guy is responsible for making race relations in the country significantly worse, including exacerbating already ongoing race riots.

00:27:30.000 And here he is explaining Donald Trump's rhetoric makes things more dangerous in the United States.

00:27:34.000 People that were in his cabinet and that was in his circle are saying, don't vote for him.

00:27:40.000 This is how he believes.

00:27:42.000 This is how he acts, which is a real threat to all of us that have opposed him.

00:27:48.000 You know, I was once stabbed leading a march, so I take that seriously.

00:27:53.000 I've called Joe and said, you better watch security because you're dealing with a man who himself faced two assassination attempts.

00:28:01.000 You would think he would be careful About trying to demonize and target people, public figures, that you may disagree with.

00:28:11.000 Because when people hear that rhetoric, some people can say, he's right, they're the enemy, and they may do anything.

00:28:18.000 So not only do you have to fear government, you have to fear people that will take things into their own hands, including the people that tried to assassinate him.

00:28:27.000 It raises the likelihood of a dangerous environment, and we should not belittle that in any way on either side of these political debates.

00:28:37.000 Yeah, I cannot believe we are listening to Al Sharpton lecture us about conflagrationist rhetoric.

00:28:42.000 The Wall Street Journal points out that this is basically the last vestige of the Harris campaign.

00:28:47.000 The fascist meme is all over the place, an upgrade from President Biden's description of the MAGA movement in 2022 as semi-fascist.

00:28:53.000 MSNBC interviews earnest academics who draw a straight historical line between mid-20th century Europe and the 21st century GOP. A writer for The Atlantic takes the hyperbole prize with a headline that says Trump is talking like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini.

00:29:06.000 Why leave out Mao?

00:29:07.000 Kamala Harris is also hitting the theme.

00:29:08.000 Trump is, quote, seeking unchecked power, she told a crowd this week in Pennsylvania.

00:29:12.000 Listen to General Mark Milley, Donald Trump's top general. 0.78

00:29:14.000 He has called Trump, and I quote, a fascist to the core.

00:29:17.000 The Wall Street Journal says, Let's stipulate there are many reasons to be wary of handing Mr.

00:29:21.000 Trump power again.

00:29:23.000 Yet despite all of those, he won the GOP nomination for the third time, was headed toward victory over Biden, and is essentially tied with Harris.

00:29:29.000 Are tens of millions of Americans really falling for a fascist takeover?

00:29:34.000 The answer is most Americans simply don't believe the fascist meme and for good reason.

00:29:37.000 The first is that Trump was already president.

00:29:40.000 Whatever his intention, the former president was hemmed in by American checks and balances.

00:29:44.000 Democrats, the press, the federal bureaucracy were relentlessly opposed to all his works and they would be again.

00:29:50.000 That, of course, is right.

00:29:52.000 It also happens to be the case, as they point out, that many of the checks and balances that supposedly would be put in danger by Trump have now been changed.

00:30:00.000 The Electoral Account Reform Act makes a replay of 2020 more difficult.

00:30:05.000 Democrats don't believe that Trump's a fascist.

00:30:08.000 I mean, look at the tape of Chuck Schumer sitting next to Donald Trump.

00:30:10.000 If they thought he was a fascist, they wouldn't be sitting next to him.

00:30:12.000 They wouldn't be making jokes about him.

00:30:15.000 It's all a ruse.

00:30:16.000 It is all a lie.

00:30:19.000 It's also, again, why they are melting down over the McDonald's visit by Trump.

00:30:23.000 Like, that should not be treated as something crazy and out of the box and overtly threatening.

00:30:28.000 But the media have pulled out all the stops.

00:30:31.000 How much of the media pulled out the stops?

00:30:34.000 Newsweek ran an entire hit piece on the McDonald's branch Trump visited.

00:30:39.000 They ran an entire piece suggesting that they had been dinged for customer conditions because people weren't washing their hands.

00:30:46.000 So destroy the local small business because Donald Trump was associated with it.

00:30:50.000 Or maybe you want to explore the New York Times.

00:30:52.000 The New York Times is now very angry at Trump because Trump suggested that Harris is lying about having once worked at McDonald's.

00:30:58.000 Here is their fact check.

00:30:59.000 Quote, Donald Trump has claimed without evidence that Ms.

00:31:01.000 Harris never worked at the fast food chain.

00:31:03.000 Her campaign and a friend say she did.

00:31:07.000 Since when is that dispositive evidence? 0.93

00:31:10.000 And that's ridiculous.

00:31:11.000 It's like, you know, I say O.J. Simpson killed his ex-wife. 0.99

00:31:15.000 O.J. and his friends say he did not.

00:31:18.000 Like, what?

00:31:20.000 Shouldn't she have to show, like, some sort of proof before you just run with the narrative that it's a lie?

00:31:26.000 But again, this is how the press are.

00:31:29.000 Newsweek's national correspondent, quote, So they're ripping down a local franchise because Donald Trump appeared in Bucks County at this franchise.

00:31:57.000 Man, you can smell the desperation.

00:32:01.000 By the way, here's a woman who was served by Trump at the McDonald's franchise. 0.99

00:32:04.000 She sounds pretty flattered that that happened.

00:32:08.000 Martha, it was like meeting a friend.

00:32:11.000 He looked us in the eye.

00:32:13.000 The way he communicated with us, the way he greeted my children in the backseat, it was incredible.

00:32:19.000 My kids were...

00:32:20.000 I cannot just believe that I shook Donald Trump's hand.

00:32:24.000 I'm not going to wash my hands for the next few days.

00:32:27.000 So he just communicated with them.

00:32:29.000 His looks and the way he shook our hands, like he was very genuine.

00:32:36.000 He's a genuine man.

00:32:38.000 There was no stunt over there.

00:32:40.000 So the left has decided that their final argument about Trump and McDonald's is that it's a publicity stunt because the McDonald's was closed so that Trump could do this.

00:32:51.000 Well, what did you think was going to happen?

00:32:52.000 He has Secret Service protection.

00:32:54.000 You think he's going to walk into an open McDonald's and then apply for a job?

00:32:58.000 People are just, they're a joke at this point.

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00:35:41.000 So according to the Wall Street Journal, Democrats do have a clear edge in the early voting so far, but the kind of going wisdom is the Democrats are going to have a super-duper heavy edge in early voting, and Republicans will really outperform day of.

00:35:53.000 And it seems that Republicans are overperforming so far in some of the early voting.

00:35:57.000 Apparently, Republicans are embracing the practice of casting their ballot before Election Day more than they have in past election cycles.

00:36:04.000 And part of that is because Donald Trump has now revised his view on this.

00:36:07.000 You'll recall the interview I did with President Trump last week.

00:36:09.000 He explicitly called for people to vote early.

00:36:13.000 Get to the polls, vote early, mail in your ballot.

00:36:16.000 More than 15 million Americans have already voted in person or cast mail-in ballots.

00:36:20.000 That includes 5.3 million in the seven swing states.

00:36:23.000 In the states where voters register by party, about 47% of the early votes have been cast by Democrats.

00:36:29.000 33% have been cast by Republicans.

00:36:31.000 Battleground states like Michigan and Georgia aren't included in the breakdown by party registrations.

00:36:36.000 Democrats account for about 49% of returned ballots, compared with 31% for GOP voters, but that is a much smaller gap than it was last time around, when Democrats were 52% of all returned mail-in ballots, compared with just 24% for Republicans.

00:36:53.000 So, you know, reading the early voting is a game of tea leaves.

00:36:56.000 You really don't know quite what you're reading because, again, it could be that you're cannibalizing your day of vote, or it could be that marginal voters are now voting early mail-in.

00:37:04.000 But, bottom line is, Republicans are lagging less in the early voting than they were the last time around.

00:37:11.000 Unclear exactly how this is all going to map out.

00:37:13.000 It's also unclear what the polls mean.

00:37:16.000 So, as the Wall Street Journal is reporting, The current polling data is an attempt to correct for the failures since 2020.

00:37:24.000 But expert opinion is mixed on whether polling is in for a repeat of 2020, which the Professional Association of Pollsters called the most inaccurate performance in 40 years.

00:37:32.000 New developments like the shift of Black and Latino voters toward Trump and the proliferation of online surveys are now creating potential sources of additional error.

00:37:40.000 One Stanford University political scientist named John Krosnick says, quote, Courtney Kennedy of the Pew Research Center has tracked the changes pollsters made in recent years to address accuracy.

00:37:51.000 She says she's hoping that they'll do a little bit better than they did.

00:37:57.000 But of course, it is totally unclear whether these changes are going to be in the right direction toward accuracy or in the wrong direction away from it.

00:38:05.000 Post-election analysis found that in 2020, polls understated the share of white voters and older families to ultimately cast ballots and overstated Joe Biden's support in urban areas compared with the actual results.

00:38:17.000 Apparently, NBC's pollsters have taken steps to address those issues.

00:38:21.000 So, that may mean an over-adjustment.

00:38:24.000 So, bottom line is, you have to treat this election like it's a jump ball, like you have no idea what's going to happen because, realistically, ain't nobody got any idea of what's going to happen.

00:38:31.000 This is all mysterious, and it's going to take a while to find out what actually did happen.

00:38:36.000 So, bottom line, chaos.

00:38:39.000 But, in the moment, Kamala Harris seems to be lagging in the polls. 0.99

00:38:44.000 She should be doing better, no question.

00:38:46.000 Donald Trump seems to have the momentum.

00:38:49.000 Well, while everybody is very worried about the election threat that is Donald Trump, there is one thing that is happening that is very clearly a threat to the credibility of America's elections.

00:38:59.000 I'm not talking about foreign interference here.

00:39:01.000 I mean, that's certainly quite possible in terms of informational dissemination by, say, Iran or even Russia or China.

00:39:08.000 That stuff isn't impossible for sure.

00:39:09.000 But the idea that that's going to swivel the entire election is probably quite unlikely.

00:39:14.000 The big problem for undermining the trust Of the American people in this election cycle, how long it's going to take to get the results.

00:39:21.000 And so I'm just warning everybody up front, this is going to be a disaster area, like a full-scale disaster area.

00:39:26.000 Here, for example, is Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.

00:39:30.000 You'll remember her from such hits as, I want to keep RFK Jr.

00:39:33.000 on the ballot even though he doesn't want to be on the ballot.

00:39:35.000 She literally sued to keep a man who didn't want to be on the Michigan ballot, on the Michigan ballot, said he would draw votes away from Donald Trump. 0.89

00:39:40.000 Now she is saying that we will only have unofficial results from Michigan The day after the election, by close of business on Wednesday.

00:39:49.000 On Wednesday.

00:39:51.000 That's nuts.

00:39:52.000 Okay, the state of Florida, my home state, a well-governed state, can count all the votes same day.

00:39:56.000 In fact, almost instantaneously, they pre-count all of the mail-in ballots, and then all of the other ballots are done electronically.

00:40:04.000 And so, boom, the poll is closed.

00:40:05.000 You have results.

00:40:06.000 That is a great way to shore up the credibility of your state.

00:40:10.000 Michigan is saying it's going to take them the entirety of the night and then all of the next day in order to even give you preliminary results in one of the key swing states.

00:40:18.000 Here's the Michigan Secretary of State.

00:40:21.000 Real quickly, the conversation has been, look, don't expect to know who won the election on Election Day, but you have said that your state will have everything certified, ready to go the day after November 6th.

00:40:31.000 Do you still stand by that?

00:40:32.000 We are on track based on our hardworking election officials and machines and voters to make sure that Unofficial results in our state will be ready by the close of day on Wednesday.

00:40:44.000 It's the same time they were available after the 2020 election, so we predict the same could unfold again.

00:40:49.000 But we'll be there to make sure accuracy and security is prioritized over efficiency, and from the minute the polls close until we have those unofficial results, we'll make sure the public knows exactly where we are in the process and why.

00:41:00.000 I mean, that's nuts.

00:41:01.000 And the longer it lasts, the worse it is.

00:41:05.000 If this thing takes days and drags out all the suspicions that everybody on all sides has, that's just going to exacerbate.

00:41:12.000 People are going to eat each other alive over this kind of stuff.

00:41:15.000 And it is inexplicable why so many states have failed to shore up their balloting processes and their ballot counting processes.

00:41:23.000 So Politico has an interview with Arnon Mishkin, who's the head of the Fox News Decision Desk.

00:41:29.000 He is now suggesting that the election is likely to be called Saturday.

00:41:36.000 Saturday.

00:41:37.000 That's right.

00:41:38.000 The election is on a Tuesday.

00:41:39.000 So it means Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

00:41:43.000 He says the race seems very, very close.

00:41:45.000 It is dependent on a number of states, like Pennsylvania, that we believe are going to be reporting in a pattern similar to the way they've reported in the past.

00:41:51.000 So I'd say the over-under is Saturday, which is when the call was made last time.

00:41:55.000 That's when Pennsylvania is likely to come in.

00:41:58.000 He said, I think we have to accept the reality.

00:41:59.000 We don't really know how close this election is going to be.

00:42:02.000 I'm pretty sure it's going to be close.

00:42:03.000 I see some polls that say, actually, it isn't going to be close.

00:42:06.000 It's going to be one way or the other.

00:42:07.000 There's some reporting that Trump is sort of gaining.

00:42:09.000 Some of the polls have showed he's gaining.

00:42:10.000 There's another sense I have that actually he may be declining.

00:42:13.000 I think the real issue is what happens to Trump.

00:42:15.000 I've always thought this about the election.

00:42:16.000 It's less about who's running against him than it is about Trump.

00:42:20.000 And then he points out that Trump's vote total in 2016 was 46.1%.

00:42:24.000 And in 2020, it was 46.7 or 46.8%.

00:42:29.000 So, you know, he's right about all of that.

00:42:31.000 But, I mean, the fact that we are going to have to wait for days upon days to find out who won this election is going to be absolutely horrific for the country.

00:42:40.000 Truly bad for the country.

00:42:43.000 And so, again, I think it's incumbent on people like me to inform you that it's going to take a while for there to be results so that you don't jump to conclusions just because it takes a long time to get those results.

00:42:53.000 Also, states that are taking this long really need to look at the voting procedures because they really, really suck.

00:42:59.000 And meanwhile, 60 Minutes, getting involved in some election manipulation of its own.

00:43:05.000 So as you'll recall, Kamala Harris did an interview with Bill Whitaker on 60 Minutes.

00:43:08.000 It was a complete mess.

00:43:09.000 They chopped her up.

00:43:10.000 They took one longer clip.

00:43:12.000 They chopped it into a shorter clip for 60 Minutes.

00:43:14.000 They still have not released the full tape or transcript of her interview with Bill Whitaker, which is pretty wild because you know they would have for Trump.

00:43:20.000 Here was Trump the other day saying that they will subpoena 60 Minutes' records.

00:43:25.000 You say CBS should lose its license.

00:43:27.000 Why?

00:43:28.000 Sure.

00:43:28.000 Well, I've never seen anything like it.

00:43:30.000 She gave a horrible incompetent answer on a news program. 1.00

00:43:35.000 It's not an entertainment program.

00:43:36.000 They call it news.

00:43:37.000 They say it's a number one news program. 1.00

00:43:40.000 And so she gives an answer that shows that she's dumb or incompetent or something wrong with her. 0.99

00:43:46.000 It's so bad. 0.97

00:43:48.000 That the people at CBS say, we're not going to do a little editing, like the word the, make it there, something.

00:43:56.000 You understand?

00:43:57.000 They take the whole ridiculous answer out, and it was a long answer, and replace it with a much shorter answer. 0.87

00:44:07.000 That she did having to do with a totally different subject, which also didn't make sense, but it wasn't as incompetent. 0.67

00:44:14.000 They don't do that with me.

00:44:15.000 The head of the FCC says we would never yank a license because the politician didn't like his or her coverage.

00:44:23.000 Well, this isn't a politician.

00:44:24.000 This is nothing.

00:44:25.000 Wait a minute.

00:44:26.000 She gave an answer.

00:44:29.000 As I said, I've been critical of it.

00:44:30.000 Listen to this.

00:44:31.000 They took, just for your audience, you know about it.

00:44:34.000 They took the answer out in its entirety, and they put a completely different answer in.

00:44:42.000 Okay, so, realistically, is CBS going to have its license pulled?

00:44:58.000 No.

00:44:59.000 But, you know what 60 Minutes did?

00:45:00.000 They then issued a statement about all of this.

00:45:04.000 They said...

00:45:06.000 Quote, Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our October 7th interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

00:45:12.000 That is false.

00:45:13.000 60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation.

00:45:16.000 They used a longer section of her answer than on 60 Minutes.

00:45:18.000 Same question, same answer, but a different portion of the response.

00:45:21.000 When we edit any interview, whether a politician, an athlete, or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate, and on point.

00:45:26.000 The portion of her answer on 60 Minutes was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide-ranging 21-minute long segment.

00:45:33.000 Remember, Trump pulled out of his interview with 60 Minutes and the Vice President participated.

00:45:36.000 So in other words, we got to cut her out of context and move all that stuff around because Trump wouldn't do an interview with us.

00:45:42.000 Wild stuff there from 60 Minutes.

00:45:44.000 Truly wild stuff.

00:45:46.000 Meanwhile, I spoke at UCLA last night.

00:45:47.000 That, of course, is my alma mater.

00:45:49.000 And, you know, it's always interesting to be back where he went to college.

00:45:52.000 I have a lot of good memories from UCLA. That's, of course, where I met my wife.

00:45:55.000 I also have a lot of kind of negative memories.

00:45:57.000 The truth is not a lot has changed at UCLA over the course of the last couple of decades.

00:46:00.000 In 2002...

00:46:02.000 All the way back when.

00:46:03.000 I was 18 years old.

00:46:05.000 I was writing for the UCLA Daily Bruin.

00:46:07.000 I was actually fired from my job there because they didn't want me to write a column about the extremism of the Muslim Student Association.

00:46:13.000 So nothing has changed.

00:46:15.000 And one of the things that I spoke about is the fact that on college campuses, you essentially have a coalition of losers who are all driven by the idea that they have no agency.

00:46:25.000 That people who are failures in life, it's because they have no agency. 0.94

00:46:29.000 And this Pathetic worldview is unfortunately really prevalent throughout the media.

00:46:34.000 It's really prevalent throughout entertainment. 0.97

00:46:37.000 It was even on SNL. So on weekend update on SNL over the weekend, there was an alleged comedian.

00:46:43.000 His name is Emil Joaquim.

00:46:46.000 And he was talking about the situation in the Gaza Strip.

00:46:50.000 And he was trying to argue against the fact that there are a lot of people who make the argument, myself included, that it's ridiculous for LGBTQ plus people to say that they support Palestine when they would be murdered.

00:47:03.000 Were they actually in Palestine? 0.97

00:47:04.000 And here was his ridiculous take. 0.74

00:47:07.000 Like, a lot of young people now that are, like, for, like, gay rights and women's rights will be like, free Palestine, free Gaza. 0.96

00:47:13.000 And the people on the other side are being like, oh, oh, gays for Gaza, huh? 0.88

00:47:17.000 Oh, go be gay in Gaza. 1.00

00:47:18.000 See how they like it over there. 1.00

00:47:20.000 That's why we're going over there.

00:47:21.000 Like, as if that's why America goes to war.

00:47:24.000 Because we love women and gay people so much. 1.00

00:47:28.000 Also, if you want to be gay, just stop bombing them. 1.00

00:47:30.000 Like, they'll get to gay, you know? 1.00

00:47:32.000 Like... 0.97

00:47:33.000 They're busy.

00:47:34.000 They don't have time to be like, who am I in the deepest parts of my soul?

00:47:38.000 Like, you can't...

00:47:39.000 You can't watch your village get blown up and be like, I think I'm bisexual, actually.

00:47:45.000 Like, that's not... 1.00

00:47:49.000 Okay, that's some of the dumbest crap I ever heard in my entire life. 0.99

00:47:52.000 So, first of all, it's not that all of the democracies are going to war to make places gay. 0.99

00:47:58.000 It's that if you want to know the values of the Gaza Strip that you are arguing on behalf of, perhaps you should look at the values of the Gaza Strip that you are arguing on behalf of.

00:48:08.000 I mean, that's just the reality of the situation.

00:48:10.000 But underlying all of this is this idea that people in the region, things are just sort of randomly happening to them.

00:48:17.000 That when it comes to the Gaza Strip, no one was involved in Hamas.

00:48:20.000 No one was friendly with Hamas.

00:48:21.000 Nobody actually cared what happened with Hamas.

00:48:23.000 They were all just experiencing their lives, and then bombs started falling on them from Israel. 0.95

00:48:27.000 Which, of course, is ridiculous. 0.57

00:48:28.000 That is not what happened.

00:48:30.000 The lack of agency is one of the most frustrating things about the characterization of nearly every conflict domestic and foreign these days.

00:48:37.000 This idea that if somebody does something wrong, it's not because they did something wrong, it's because the system wronged them in some way.

00:48:43.000 This came to I had a little bit last night during my speech at UCLA. There's a kid who got up, seemed like a nice enough kid from Biola University, and this kid started asking about The situation in Gaza and asked me if I would condone the activities of the Israeli government in the Gaza Strip, to which I said, well, yes, I mean, it's a militarily defensive action to destroy a terrorist group.

00:49:04.000 Here's what it sounded like.

00:49:05.000 I want to ask you, as an American Jew, how can you continue to condone the actions of the Israeli government, condoned by the U.S. government, in the Gaza Strip, where over 40,000 people have died, including Palestinians and Israelis, and large numbers of children and civilians?

00:49:26.000 How can you continue to condone those actions?

00:49:28.000 Okay, so, okay, hold on.

00:49:30.000 I want to correct you.

00:49:31.000 I don't just condone the actions of the Israeli Defense Forces and the Israeli government.

00:49:34.000 I celebrate and loud them.

00:49:36.000 I'm not morally apathetic about what's happening.

00:49:45.000 Thank you.

00:49:49.000 On October 7th, Hamas launched the most deadly war on Jews since the Holocaust.

00:49:53.000 They killed 1,200 innocent people.

00:49:55.000 They took 250 hostages.

00:49:56.000 100 of them are still being held hostage.

00:49:57.000 I know members of families of hostages who are still being held American citizens.

00:50:01.000 Hamas could end this war today by surrendering.

00:50:04.000 They've chosen not to surrender.

00:50:05.000 Instead, they spend billions of dollars building terror tunnels below civilian areas.

00:50:08.000 It is not incumbent on the Israeli government to surrender just because terrorists are evil enough to hide behind civilians.

00:50:15.000 The Israeli government has gone through such extraordinary efforts not to kill civilians that it has managed the best civilian to terrorist kill ratio in the history of urban warfare, and it is not close.

00:50:28.000 I personally know soldiers who have gone door to door in the Gaza Strip, who have risked their own lives to prevent civilian death.

00:50:34.000 Israel has complete and utter air superiority over the Gaza Strip.

00:50:37.000 Turns out that Hamas doesn't have an air force.

00:50:39.000 They just had a series of tunnels where they hid all their leadership while their people suffered after their people voted for them.

00:50:44.000 And then they effectively established a dictatorship over the course of the last 20 years.

00:50:48.000 Israel, with their complete air superiority, certainly would have had the ability to commit full scale human atrocities had they wanted to. 0.79

00:50:55.000 They have complete air superiority.

00:50:56.000 They could have used F-35s and simply turned the place into a parking lot.

00:50:59.000 They did not, in fact, do that.

00:51:00.000 They moved vast scales of population.

00:51:01.000 In fact, believe it or not, there have been more births in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of this war than there have been deaths in the Gaza Strip from the war itself.

00:51:09.000 That is a very poor way to conduct a genocide.

00:51:11.000 Israel is being more meticulous in the conduct of this war than any army in human history and certainly than the United States Army in its vast role in the history of urban combat.

00:51:23.000 That is uncontested.

00:51:24.000 What is Israel supposed to do? 0.88

00:51:26.000 Simply say that you get to play tag, you take Israeli citizens, you kill 1,200 people, you hide behind a baby, you hide behind a civilian, and now Israel has to preemptively surrender? 0.60

00:51:34.000 That is a great way to make sure that terrorists always win.

00:51:37.000 What Israel has done ought to be celebrated by the Western world, because they've demonstrated that if terrorists decide...

00:51:41.000 To launch a war they cannot win.

00:51:43.000 They will be eviscerated from the face of the earth as they are today.

00:51:47.000 Again, the central premise for the entire left, and this is true across so many different issues, is that people don't have agency so long as they are unsuccessful.

00:51:56.000 The lack of success is due to lack of agency rather than to making poor decisions.

00:52:00.000 And that isn't true at all.

00:52:03.000 Because what that also suggests is that success is not due to people making good decisions.

00:52:07.000 It is due to exploitation.

00:52:09.000 And that isn't true either.

00:52:10.000 That is an ugly, terrible perspective, and it ends with significantly more human suffering.

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00:53:35.000 I don't think you necessarily can.

00:53:38.000 They get past all the talk about racism.

00:53:40.000 We have to love each other.

00:53:42.000 It can't be that simple.

00:53:43.000 How do we get to a point of racial harmony? 0.60

00:53:46.000 It's good to talk to you.

00:53:49.000 We're still on a journey, all of us together.

00:53:51.000 I think you've got some journeying to do.

00:53:52.000 Just talk to me about the statistics.

00:53:54.000 We have an epidemic.

00:53:54.000 20 million crimes a year.

00:53:57.000 6,000, 7,000 hate crimes.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - October 22, 2024

Kamala Harris’ UNSERIOUS Campaign

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