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00:00:40.000Okay, so the news of the day is that Kamala Harris, the coronation is complete.
00:00:45.000The Democrats are indeed going to try to make FETCH happen.
00:00:48.000So you'll recall that she ran one of the worst presidential races in history back in 2019-2020.
00:00:52.000In fact, she dropped out before she even received a single vote in the primaries.
00:00:57.000Then she became vice president because Joe Biden needed a black woman on the ticket.
00:01:01.000And then she was terrible and her approval rating was in the low 30s.
00:01:03.000Well now, because Democrats have no other place to turn, she's consolidated the support to become officially the Democratic nominee for president of the United States.
00:01:13.000And honest to goodness, it's probably smart of Biden to drop at this point, given the fact that he was almost certainly going to lose to Donald Trump in November.
00:01:20.000Now, he can at least wash his hands of it.
00:01:22.000He's not going to be blamed for the loss.
00:01:24.000Now, there might be some retrospective blame cast upon him if Kamala Harris ends up losing for, number one, picking her as vice president, and for, number two, not getting out of the way earlier to allow for a serious democratic process.
00:01:36.000Given the fact that there is no democratic process, given the fact that Democrats at the party elite level have decided to simply force Kamala into place, it is what it is, and Joe Biden is now out of the way.
00:01:45.000He is no longer the story other than his absence and the fact that he's still President of the United States, which we'll get to later.
00:01:52.000It turns out having a missing President of the United States who goes absent for weeks at a time is probably not a good look to the rest of the world.
00:01:58.000In terms of campaign 2024, it is all about Kamala.
00:02:03.000According to the Washington Post, a majority of Democratic delegates have now pledged to support Vice President Harris as the party's next presidential nominee, signaling she is likely to secure the nomination next month.
00:02:14.000As of Monday evening, 2,214 delegates from at least three dozen states had endorsed Harris.
00:02:18.000That is out of 4,000 delegates, which means she has a pure majority ready to go.
00:02:22.000This thing got locked up inside of essentially 48 hours of Joe Biden dropping out of the race, which really suggests that this was all pre-planned.
00:02:31.000All of these sort of heartburn and angst that you're hearing from the Democratic Party, it seems a little bit overwrought in retrospect, given the fact that not only did they have the support lined up for Kamala Harris, They were basically ready to go with these giant money bombs almost immediately.
00:02:46.000So Nancy Pelosi yesterday announced her support for Kamala Harris, which essentially was the icing on the cake.
00:02:52.000It was the significant... Nancy Pelosi really is the leader of the Democratic Party.
00:02:55.000The two leaders of the Democratic Party, it was never Joe Biden.
00:02:58.000Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi are the leaders of the Democratic Party.
00:03:02.000So much so that it turns out that Nancy Pelosi was actively intervening in meetings with Joe Biden as early as 2021.
00:03:11.000According to the Wall Street Journal, President Biden had just finished trying to persuade a group of congressional Democrats to pass a $1 trillion infrastructure bill when Nancy Pelosi, then House Speaker, took the microphone.
00:03:20.000In 30 minutes of remarks on Capitol Hill, Biden had spoken disjointedly and failed to make a concrete ask of lawmakers, according to Democrats in the room.
00:03:27.000After he left, a visibly frustrated Pelosi told the group she would articulate, What Biden had been trying to say, according to one lawmaker.
00:03:37.000That month was the last time, according to the Wall Street Journal, Biden met with the House Democratic Caucus on the Hill regarding legislation.
00:03:45.000So Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama have been the de facto leaders of the Democratic Party since, effectively, Joe Biden was elected.
00:03:53.000And with Nancy Pelosi now endorsing Kamala Harris, with her now having garnered the support of a majority of the delegates, the money bombs are dropping everywhere.
00:04:02.000Democrats are dropping money bombs on Kamala Harris.
00:04:04.000They also dropped a giant money bomb on the economy, which is how you got, you know, 40-year highs in inflation.
00:04:09.000Saudi Arabia recently ended its 50-year petrodollar deal with the United States.
00:04:13.000That does have the additional Ability to weaken the United States dollar.
00:04:16.000Since 1974, Saudi has sold oil solely in U.S.
00:04:19.000dollars, which was huge for our global economic dominance.
00:06:38.000So again, the idea that they're going to be able to run on Project 2025
00:06:44.000is absolutely ridiculous, but Those on the virtual call were ready to get organized.
00:06:49.000Joteka Eddy, who founded Win With Black Women, which again, I'm always amazed by the level of tribal racialism that you are able to express so long as it is intersectional in nature.
00:07:03.000If this were Win With White Men, that would obviously not be acceptable in America's body politic, but apparently a group called Win With Black Women is totally fine.
00:07:11.000Quote, it was just really the excitement of black women and our allies not wanting to miss this historic moment.
00:07:17.000So apparently, Letitia James, the corrupt Attorney General of New York, has been working to gather the support of Black Attorneys General for Harris.
00:07:28.000She announced Sunday that she and the five other Black State Attorneys General in the United States from Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Nevada will be part of a coalition working to back Kamala Harris.
00:07:37.000So you can tell what kind of campaign Kamala Harris is going to run pretty much right away.
00:07:42.000She is going to run an extremely intersectional campaign, a black female campaign.
00:07:47.000She's going to run the Barack Obama 2012 playbook.
00:07:49.000Now, the problem is Barack Obama's 2012 playbook came on the back of Barack Obama winning a huge election victory in 2008.
00:07:56.000You can run the intersectional playbook, but only if you win your first election by a huge margin.
00:08:02.000Democrats did not win the 2020 election by a huge margin.
00:08:05.000They actually won incredibly slim in a historically skewed election based on extraordinarily high levels of voter turnout, which again, was based on a change in the rules in COVID.
00:08:16.000So if they're going to run a campaign from 2020, it is amazing to me that Democrats, instead of looking at the 2008 Barack Obama campaign, which was a huge victory, a huge historic level Democratic victory, instead of looking at that as the model for what they should do going forward, instead, they look at 2012 as the model for what they should do going forward, despite the fact that Barack Obama lost 3 million absolute votes between 2008 and 2012.
00:08:39.000But that's the campaign that Kamala Harris is going to run.
00:08:42.000So last night, Kamala Harris did a campaign event.
00:09:17.000Well, they have to flip the narrative.
00:09:19.000If it turns out he's a crappy president and that Kamala Harris is his crappy vice president, Well, then probably she's not a very good candidate.
00:09:25.000So here is Kamala Harris at the campaign event last night, suggesting that Joe Biden has a legacy of accomplishments, which is wild since his main accomplishment is just beating Donald Trump.
00:09:33.000And then his secondary accomplishment, apparently, according to Democrats, is dying in a debate and dropping out of the race.
00:10:07.000Would you love eight years of that right there?
00:10:11.000By the way, his accomplishments are burning the Middle East to a crisp, lighting Ukraine on fire, destroying the economy via inflation, Destroying whatever possibility there was of building of social fabric through radical social policy.
00:10:25.000I mean, truly, name the magical accomplishment of Joe Biden other than elevating Kamala Harris to the nomination via proxy.
00:10:34.000Because again, she has received zero, count them, zero Democratic primary votes.
00:11:23.000In the days and weeks ahead, I, together with you, will do everything in my power to unite our Democratic Party, To unite our nation and to win this election.
00:11:35.000You know, as many of you know, before I was elected as Vice President, before I was elected as United States Senator, I was the elected Attorney General, as I've mentioned, of California.
00:11:46.000Before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor.
00:11:49.000In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds.
00:13:34.000Kamala Harris has run for president before.
00:13:36.000She was such a terrible candidate that everyone, including Politico, ran full pieces on how awful her candidacy was.
00:13:42.000Then she was such a terrible vice president that half her staff quit.
00:13:46.000She's truly bad at this, and we shouldn't remember how bad she is at this.
00:13:49.000So all this sort of desperate hope that you're seeing in Democratic circles, Reality will set in, I believe, soon enough, because Kamala Harris is not a good candidate, and she has proved that repeatedly.
00:13:58.000Remember, Kamala Harris, she's only run effectively one competitive race in the last 20 years, and that was for Attorney General of the State of California.
00:14:10.000Then she ran a completely non-competitive race in the California Senate, for the Senate seat in California, against Loretta Sanchez, a fellow Democrat.
00:14:18.000And then she ran the worst presidential campaign Since Rick Perry.
00:14:22.000Listen, Kamala Harris is a terrible candidate, but then again, she was also a terrible DA.
00:14:25.000She was a terrible attorney general of the state of California.
00:14:28.000Things got less safe under Kamala Harris.
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00:16:57.000So far, that doesn't seem to be the case.
00:16:59.000So, for example, According to BBC, Kamala Harris has overhauled her campaign's online presence by embracing a social media trend inspired by pop star Charli XCX's Brat album cover.
00:17:11.000The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has scattered references to the album across her campaign's account, renaming her profile Kamala HQ.
00:17:19.000Her rebrand comes as Charlie showed her support by treating Kamala-is-Brat shortly after President Joe Biden announced he was stepping out of the race.
00:17:26.000By Monday morning, Harris had seized on Charli XCX's backing with the account sporting a new lime green photo in the style of the Brat album cover.
00:17:35.000So, for those of you who have no idea what exactly brat means because, you know, you're over the age of 15, here's what brat means according to CharlieXCX.
00:17:44.000You're just like that girl who's a little messy and likes to party and maybe says some dumb things sometimes, who feels like herself but maybe also has a breakdown, but kind of like parties, though it is very honest, very blunt, a little bit volatile, like does dumb things, but it's brat.
00:18:10.000No one above the age of 25 in the United States knows what the F Bratt means.
00:18:15.000When we think Bratt, we think like, spoil Bratt, like some of our children.
00:18:18.000No one thinks Bratt is something good.
00:18:21.000But Kamala Harris is so terminally online, so disconnected from the general public, that she believes That Charli XCX, who again, most people above the age of 35 have never heard of Charli XCX.
00:18:33.000She thinks that embracing the branding of Charli XCX is somehow good for her.
00:18:37.000That's how disconnected and terrible her campaign is.
00:18:39.000Now for his part, Donald Trump slammed Harris as dumb as a rock on his Truth Social page.
00:18:46.000Now again, I think he's going to have to do better than this in terms of the nickname.
00:19:39.000Again, I think that's probably, and it seems like he's settling on that because he's used that multiple times this morning.
00:19:44.000He said, Lion Kamala Harris, the Biden-appointed border czar, who never visited the border and whose incompetence gave us the worst and most dangerous border anywhere in the world, has absolutely terrible poll numbers against a fine and brilliant young man named Donald J. Trump.
00:19:55.000I love that Trump calls himself a fine and brilliant young man.
00:20:04.000So, pretty solid stuff there from President Trump.
00:20:09.000Okay, now, what do the polls suggest as of right now?
00:20:12.000The polls suggest that she comes into this thing a pretty solid underdog.
00:20:16.000So, the RealClearPolitics polling average has her already down two points.
00:20:19.000That's a slight improvement from where Joe Biden was in the RealClearPolitics polling average.
00:20:24.000The RealClearPolitics polling average put him down almost four points.
00:20:28.000There are four polls that have come out.
00:20:30.000Since Joe Biden was ousted from the race.
00:20:34.000The Morning Console poll which shows Trump up 47-45.
00:20:37.000The Quinnipiac poll that shows Trump up 49-47.
00:20:39.000A Forbes-Harris X poll that shows Trump up 6, 53-47.
00:20:43.000And then just before Biden dropped out, but was really on the verge of it, a CBS News poll that showed Trump up 51-48.
00:20:50.000So Trump does have a lead against Kamala Harris.
00:20:52.000Not only does Trump have a lead against Kamala Harris, in the swing states, he also appears to have a lead.
00:20:57.000I should point out at this point, by the way, that that Harris expo for Forbes, which shows him up by a few points there, shows him up by six points.
00:21:06.000That particular Harris ex-poll shows her running dead even with him only among Hispanics.
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00:22:20.000There also is, in this Harris Expo, a wide divide between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
00:22:48.000If you don't count the undecideds, Trump is beating her by 10.
00:22:52.000However, if you count the leaners, if you count the leaners, then what you see is that Donald Trump is up 53 to 47 against Kamala Harris.
00:23:02.000If you look at the likely voters, he's up by like 10 points.
00:23:08.000So again, when it comes to registered voters, like the overall voting population, she's doing better than she does among people who have already decided to vote.
00:23:15.000Okay, whatever it is, these are bad numbers.
00:23:17.000The new Quinnipiac poll shows Trump up 45 to 41 over Kamala Harris, and the Quinnipiac poll tends to be pretty friendly.
00:23:24.000Again, that Quinnipiac poll, that is among registered voters.
00:23:28.000Independents have Trump up 14 points in that particular poll.
00:23:34.000So again, these are very bad poll numbers for Kamala Harris.
00:23:37.000Meanwhile, PPP polls, which is a Democratic fund, right?
00:23:44.000The last polls they have in the states, and again, this is before Kamala Harris was actually the nominee, so these were prospective, this would have been July 11th through 12th, showed Trump up one in Wisconsin, two in Michigan, eight in Arizona, six in Pennsylvania.
00:23:59.000So these are not amazing poll numbers for Kamala Harris.
00:24:02.000Strategically speaking, there's been a lot of talk about Kamala Harris turning away from the Rust Belt and turning toward the Sun Belt.
00:24:08.000That is not a winning strategy for Kamala Harris.
00:24:13.000Right now, Donald Trump is broadly winning Georgia, he's broadly winning Arizona, he's broadly winning Nevada.
00:24:17.000The idea that she's going to somehow close the gap in these states, I think is wishful thinking.
00:24:22.000She's going to have to win Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
00:24:35.000Now, I know that Democrats believe that because Georgia, demographically, is about one-third black, that means that she's going to outperform Joe Biden.
00:24:47.000The notion that she's going to wildly outperform with black voters, I think, again, is ersatz enthusiasm for Kamala Harris.
00:24:55.000She was such a bad candidate that she couldn't even get Black support in the 2020 Democratic primaries.
00:25:00.000She was beaten by an old white man, Joe Biden, in 2020.
00:25:05.000So again, the kind of basic idea that there will be broad, enthusiastic Black support for Kamala Harris the same way that there was for Barack Obama, I think is highly, highly unlikely.
00:25:14.000That's particularly true of Black male support.
00:25:16.000Because of course, she's a Black female, she is not Barack Obama, who was in fact a Black male.
00:25:28.000But again, she's running really poorly among Hispanics.
00:25:31.000So hard to see how she makes up the ground there.
00:25:33.000They're also talking about the possibility of Arizona.
00:25:35.000This is also why there's been some discussion about Mark Kelly as a plausible Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States.
00:25:42.000Arizona is only about 5.7% black, demographically speaking.
00:25:46.000I'm focusing in on that because Barack Obama really focused, again, on that intersectional campaign.
00:25:51.000Kamala Harris is presumably going to do the same thing.
00:25:55.000If you're just looking at the states that are in play by percentage black population, then what you see is that the states that are in play that have a relatively high percent, at least a demographically outsized percentage by state of black population, are Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia.
00:26:14.000Okay, again, she's running well behind in Michigan at this point, according to the polling data.
00:26:37.000Again, they're trying to fake the enthusiasm, but Hillary Clinton was a significantly better candidate than Kamala Harris.
00:26:42.000Kamala Harris is not only charmless and weird, she also happens to be extraordinarily radical.
00:26:47.000In fact, this is one of the reasons why Joe Biden took so long to drop out.
00:26:50.000According to Axios, President Biden hesitated to drop his real-life campaign in part because he and his senior advisors worried that Vice President Kamala Harris wasn't up to taking on Donald Trump, according to three Biden aides familiar with recent talks about his plans.
00:27:02.000By the way, this is also going to be a roiling undercurrent that is really amusing to Republicans going forward.
00:27:09.000He is rageful at Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi.
00:27:12.000So if you think that Team Biden is going to sit by in the shadows and do nothing or overtly support Kamala and just rah-rah her to the White House, it's not going to happen.
00:27:22.000Joe Biden is mad and his team is mad and they don't like Kamala Harris.
00:28:53.000But Harris's time as vice president has been occasionally rocky, defined in part by large staff turnover, retreating from politically risky responsibilities, and mocking from some Beltway insiders.
00:29:06.000According to Axios, much of Harris' staff has turned over in the past three and a half years.
00:29:09.000About half of the vice president's staff is paid by the Senate, which requires regular disclosures.
00:29:13.000Of the 47 Harris staffers listed in 2025, only five still work for her as of this spring.
00:29:37.000During Obama's first term, then-Vice President Biden had far more staff stability.
00:29:42.00017 of his 38 aides stayed with him over a similar period.
00:29:45.000Former Harris aides told Axios the high turnover is partly because of how the vice president treats her staff.
00:29:50.000Some former aides said Harris had high standards that some did not want to keep up with.
00:29:54.000Okay, this has been their line for years.
00:29:56.000Again, watch episode three of Scamalow where we talk about her massive staff problems.
00:30:01.000Where people like Simone Sanders, who used to work for Kamala Harris, they'd go out there and say, well, yeah, she's just, she's so tough on her staff, that's why, and then she dropped out.
00:30:11.000Former aides referred to it as Harris, quote, prosecuting the staff, Because Kamala Harris is not a good person or a nice person.
00:30:18.000During the 2020 campaign, Biden aides recall watching Harris interrogate her then-Chief of Staff Corinne Jean-Pierre to the point that it made others uncomfortable.
00:30:26.000After the election, Jean-Pierre left to join the White House press team.
00:30:30.000The relationship between the Vice President's office and the West Wing has often been tense.
00:30:34.000White House aides sometimes felt Harris was not a team player and stayed away from any task with risk.
00:30:39.000In fact, I have it on fairly good authority that Kamala Harris spends enormous parts of her vice presidency playing solitaire on a computer.
00:30:48.000She apparently sat in her office for hours on end and played solitaire on her computer as vice president of the United States, which is an outtake from Veep.
00:30:57.000At times, Harris aides suspected Biden's team didn't want to give Harris opportunities to shine.
00:31:00.000Well, I mean, there were no opportunities for her to shine.
00:31:17.000In 2022, apparently, the White House internally pushed Harris to be the headliner for D.C.' 's traditional gridiron dinner, but she resisted.
00:31:24.000Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo did it instead.
00:31:27.000Not only that, in April 2022, Harris was the guest for a D.C.
00:31:32.000news mogul David Bradley's home, a salon-style event Bradley hosts with Washington journalists and newsmakers.
00:31:38.000Harris's anxiety about the dinner was such that her staff held a mock dinner beforehand with staffers playing participants, according to two people familiar with the event.
00:31:47.000Harris aides even considered including wine in the mock prep so Harris could practice with a glass or two.
00:31:52.000So understand, this is a friendly dinner, and the White House staff was so nervous about how bad she would be, they held a mock dinner with mock humans.
00:32:00.000You have an important business dinner, so you actually just get a bunch of your friends, and then you have them pretend that you're having dinner together?
00:32:13.000On a presidential level, on a policy level, one of the big problems for her is she's done nothing as vice president other than be awful on the border.
00:32:21.000So you'll recall pretty famously that Joe Biden in 2021 appointed Kamala Bordasar.
00:33:02.000Only the worst migration crisis in the history of the United States.
00:33:06.000And, of course, you'll remember when she went on with Lester Holt and then explained that she'd been to the border, and then she was reminded that she had not, in fact, been to the border, and then she admitted she had not been to the border.
00:33:30.000I don't understand the point that you're making.
00:33:32.000I'm not discounting the importance of the border.
00:33:36.000I know Republicans have certainly come at you on this, but Democratic Congressman Cuellar, as a border district, has said to you and the President, come.
00:33:59.000Other policy wins for Kamala included that time that she announced her pronouns, because this is who you want as President of the United States.
00:34:32.000So what exactly are her qualifications other than she was elevated to a position she clearly did not earn?
00:34:36.000I mean, and when I say didn't earn, I mean she failed dramatically in her presidential primary.
00:34:42.000She was in the Senate for five seconds before she was granted that upcharge right there.
00:34:48.000So Chris Coons, who's an ally of the President of the United States, he was asked by Brett Baier last night, so what has she done exactly as Vice President?
00:34:56.000And Chris Coons gave this bizarre answer.
00:34:59.000What do you think has been Vice President Harris's biggest accomplishment as Vice President?
00:35:05.000Well, look, I think she's done remarkable work across several important areas.
00:35:10.000Something that I think hasn't gotten much coverage is her passion for entrepreneurship, for wealth creation, for securing and stabilizing the middle class.
00:35:19.000She's traveled around the country to meet with small businesses and to talk with them about what it takes to get back to work, to grow a small business, to sustain the wealth and opportunity for a family.
00:36:09.000The problem for Kamala Harris is she hasn't done anything, ever.
00:36:12.000Except be wildly dishonest with regard to everything from the Kavanaugh hearings To her own Vice Presidency.
00:36:19.000In just a moment we'll get to her extraordinarily liberal record as Senator.
00:36:22.000She was literally the most left-wing Senator in the United States Senate as of 2019.
00:36:26.000And we'll get to all the things she said she would do if she were made President in 2020.
00:36:30.000Which, by the way, is the best evidence of what she would do if she were made President today.
00:36:34.000Not what she did as Vice President, where she works for the President of the United States, the Vice Presidency, as John Adams once famously suggested, no better than a warm bucket of spit.
00:36:43.000What would she actually do if she were president?
00:36:44.000Well, she said all the things in 2020.
00:36:45.000The nice thing about Kamala Harris is that we know exactly what she would do because she talked about it openly in 2020.
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00:37:52.000Whether she's joking about Falling from a coconut tree or whether she's loving Venn diagrams and electric buses and laughing in that weird manner of hers.
00:38:00.000She is a weirdo, but let the American people see that for themselves.
00:38:04.000If you're the Trump campaign, don't focus in on how weird she is.
00:38:06.000Focus on how crazy she is in terms of policy.
00:38:11.000As the Wall Street Journal editorial board points out, Mark her down as endorsing the spending blowouts that cost inflation, the Green New Deal, entitlement expansions, and student loan forgiveness.
00:38:19.000Until she says otherwise, we should also assume she's in favor of Biden's $5 trillion tax increase in 2025.
00:38:25.000Because again, all of the Trump tax cuts are set to expire in 2025 if she were president, should presumably allow those tax cuts to expire.
00:38:34.000As the Wall Street Journal points out, the vice president's four years as a senator from California are another window on her worldview.
00:38:39.000She sponsored a bill to create a $6,000 guaranteed income for families making up to $100,000.
00:38:48.000Universal basic income, guaranteed income, is a work killer and a redistributionist nightmare that causes inflation.
00:38:55.000Another Harris proposal, a refundable tax credit that would effectively cap rents and utility payments at 30% of income.
00:39:01.000That, of course, would jack up the rents.
00:39:04.000Meanwhile, she co-sponsored legislation with Bernie Sanders that would pay tuition at four-year public colleges for students from families making up to $125,000, meaning that she would spend trillions of dollars paying for everybody's college.
00:39:16.000Also, she co-sponsored Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All legislation paid for by higher income taxes.
00:39:24.000She has an extraordinarily long record of being really, really radical on a wide variety of
00:39:29.000issues. And all we have to do is go back to her campaign to note her bizarre positions
00:39:32.000that are going to hurt her in this campaign. So, for example, you may recall that back in 2020,
00:39:37.000when Kamala Harris was running for the Democratic presidential nomination,
00:39:41.000that she wanted to ban fracking. This would have been in 2019.
00:39:43.000There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.
00:39:52.000and starting with what we can do on day one around public lands, right?
00:39:56.000And then there has to be legislation, but yes.
00:39:59.000And this is something I've taken on in California.
00:40:01.000I have a history of working on this issue.
00:40:02.000And to your point, we have to just acknowledge that the residual impact of fracking is enormous in terms of the impact on the health and safety of communities.
00:40:37.000In 2020, Biden lost badly to Donald Trump in portions of southwestern Pennsylvania and southeastern Ohio, at least partly due to his comments on fracking.
00:40:46.000An outright ban on fracking is something that even Joe Biden did not endorse in 2020.
00:40:52.000So how's that gonna work in places like Pennsylvania?
00:40:56.000How are her energy policies going to work in places like Michigan?
00:40:59.000How many Americans are in favor of losing their private health insurance?
00:41:01.000Is that gonna be a wildly popular take?
00:41:03.000You'll remember that during the 2020 campaign, Kamala Harris also said that she wanted to ban and abolish private health insurance.
00:41:10.000So forget about you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
00:42:21.000I want to follow up to something you just said there, because as you know, the 94 assault weapons ban, it didn't apply to weapons that were purchased before 1994.
00:42:31.000What would you do about the millions of, specifically, assault weapons that are already in circulation?
00:43:03.000What she means by that, she endorsed a mandatory gun buyback program.
00:43:05.000A mandatory gun buyback means that you have to bring in the gun and sell it back to the government or the government comes and seizes it from you.
00:43:12.000That's what a mandatory gun buyback is.
00:43:14.000Famously, she also said during that same campaign that she wanted to decriminalize border crossing.
00:43:20.000These are the most radical positions that any Democrat took during this campaign, and she is now the nominee for president for the Democratic Party.
00:43:27.000You're for decriminalizing border crossings.
00:43:29.000You're one of the people that are raising hands at the debate.
00:43:31.000Do you agree with AOC that we should get rid of DHS altogether?
00:43:53.000So, even in that one sentence, she says she's not in favor of decriminalizing border crossings, but she's in favor of decriminalizing border crossings.
00:44:00.000The end of that clip is her explicitly saying that if you cross the border illegally, we're not going to treat you as a criminal.
00:44:05.000And then they made her the borders are, and you got the worst border crisis in the history of the United States.
00:44:11.000These are all rich veins for the Trump campaign.
00:44:13.000If they stick on this, she loses because she's far too far to the left for the rest of the American population.
00:44:19.000By the way, when she says that she is a hardcore prosecutor back from her days in California, let me remind you, she is not only not a hardcore prosecutor, she let criminals survive.
00:44:29.000Kamala Harris is terrible at her job, but you need to be good at your job, which is why you need RAMP.
00:44:34.000So let's say you're a finance professional looking for a better way to maximize productivity and cut wasteful spending.
00:46:04.000In San Francisco, it is the will, I believe, of a majority of people that the most severe crimes be met with the most severe consequences, and that life without possibility of parole is a severe consequence.
00:46:27.000She's sort of a George Soros prosecutor type back in California.
00:46:30.000Then she becomes the most left-wing senator in the United States.
00:46:33.000According to GovTrack, a nonpartisan organization that compiles data on congressional legislation, they found that Kamala Harris in 2019 was quote, the most liberal senator in the United States, more liberal than Bernie Sanders in 2019.
00:46:48.000So forget all of this talk of Kamala Harris the moderate.
00:46:50.000She's not even remotely close to a moderate.
00:46:52.000It's why she's going to attempt to select somebody as a VP candidate who is likely quote-unquote moderate.
00:47:00.000She took the most left-wing positions of anyone in the Democratic primaries in 2020 and then she got her ass handed to her.
00:47:06.000As well she should during this election cycle, too.
00:47:09.000Republicans need to run on a loop all of the things that Kamala Harris has said, all of the things that she, the positions she has taken when she was an actual presidential candidate.
00:47:19.000Now, the media, for their part, they are trying again, as I've said before, to make fetch happen.
00:47:23.000They're trying to make Kamala Harris a thing.
00:47:24.000They are running this thing back and they're going to pretend that we've never met Kamala Harris, which is not true.
00:47:32.000But they're going to try to pretend that this is like your first intro to Kamala Harris, which means, wait for it, she is a black woman.
00:47:38.000A historic black woman, who will undoubtedly be the victim of sexism and racism, despite the fact the only reason that she's the vice president is because of her sex and her race.
00:47:46.000If she were a white man, she never would have even been a senator from California, let alone vice president of the United States.
00:47:51.000Everyone, including Democrats, knows this.
00:47:54.000But they're going to pretend this is some sort of electoral liability, which is amazing to me.
00:47:58.000So the New York Times has a headline today.
00:48:00.000A lot has changed for women since 2016.
00:48:02.000What does that mean for Kamala Harris?
00:48:05.000Voters eager to elect the first female president pointed to anger over a loss of abortion rights, but also acknowledged a fear that sexism would remain difficult for Ms.
00:49:10.000Meanwhile, the Washington Post's Monica Hess has a piece out Saying this, curious about what kind of candidate she'll be?
00:49:17.000Kamala Harris's dismantling of Supreme Court justice nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh six years ago is worth a rewatch.
00:49:23.000Okay, this is the same newspaper that gave her a failing grade on truth when she proclaimed that Brett Kavanaugh was suggesting that birth control methods could be considered abortion-inducing drugs.
00:49:38.000Four Pinocchios from the Washington Post.
00:49:41.000But now apparently she's amazing at this.
00:49:42.000If you want to watch the lies she told about Brett Kavanaugh, I mean true disgusting lies that she told about Brett Kavanaugh, she was the ringleader of not only the fake rape charges against Brett Kavanaugh via Christine Blasey Ford that were completely unsubstantiated, no details presented, no witnesses presented, no corroboration presented.
00:49:59.000Not only was she the ringleader on that, but even before that happened, during the Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court justice hearings, She's a deeply dishonest human being.
00:50:14.000The media are trying to push her anyway.
00:50:17.000Catherine Rampell, who's a syndicated op-ed columnist for the Washington Post and a commentator on CNN, she put out an image of Kamala Harris Walking and against a white wall and projected from Kamala Harris.
00:50:31.000Her shadow is the shadow of Ruby Bridges, who is the six-year-old girl in Louisiana, who is the first black girl to integrate a Southern school, as though Kamala Harris is similar to Ruby Bridges, which is absurd.
00:50:48.000And then as a six-year-old girl integrated A white school in Louisiana in the segregated South.
00:50:58.000Kamala Harris was born in 1964 and went to school in Berkeley, California before she moved to Canada to go to a very upper crust high school.
00:51:08.000She was the daughter of two professors.
00:51:32.000This is missing some important context.
00:51:33.000Brown was separated from his wife during the relationship, which was not a secret.
00:51:39.000I noticed that you didn't actually rebut the claim, which is that she got her start by having an affair with a married man.
00:51:44.000Also, again, I'll refer back to Scamala.
00:51:46.000In episode one, you'll learn all about Willie Brown's affair with Kamala Harris, how he gave her a couple of sweet, sweet taxpayer-funded positions, how he basically won her her San Francisco D.A.
00:51:57.000race and got her her first job in the San Francisco D.A.' 's office.
00:52:00.000You'll also learn that it was because Brown's wife objected to Kamala Harris that he didn't end up moving forward with Kamala Harris and broke off the affair.
00:52:09.000But again, the reporters gotta, they gotta do, they are trying so hard to enthusiasm themselves.
00:52:18.000Isaac, Edward Isaac Dovere of CNN, senior reporter, quote, one person familiar with the VP yesterday, Through all her calls at the Naval Observatory, Harris wore a hooded Howard University sweatshirt, workout sweats, and sneakers.
00:53:13.000Harris vows to earn this nomination for president, but many are noting that she is poised to possibly shatter that elusive glass ceiling in American politics.
00:53:23.000It's a moment that she's become familiar with since the start of her public service career.
00:53:30.000Wow, she's going to break that glass ceiling.
00:53:33.000By failing upward every step of the way.
00:55:41.000It also puts in play a Senate seat in Arizona, again, because Kelly's a pretty popular senator in a very purple state.
00:55:47.000If Kelly goes, that's going to pave the way to a possibility that Republicans win that Senate seat in the upcoming, in the next election, where he would be eligible, even if she were to win.
00:55:57.000There's been some talk about Andy Beshear.
00:56:20.000So he went missing at the end of last week.
00:56:22.000And then he announced in a letter on Twitter, not even a press conference, not a statement to the public, not a video, that he would not be running for re-election, which is kind of insane.
00:56:29.000That's one of the biggest announcements in American political history.
00:56:32.000When LBJ announced he would not be running for the presidency again in 1968, he did a full-scale televised national address about it.
00:56:40.000Joe Biden released a PDF of a letter on Twitter in order to say this.
00:57:15.000He called into a Kamala Harris campaign rally and sounded like he was on the verge of death.
00:57:20.000I know yesterday's news is surprising and hard for you to hear, but it was the right thing to do.
00:57:26.000I know it's hard because you poured your heart and soul into me to help us win this thing, help me get this nomination, help me win the nomination, and then go on to win the presidency.
00:57:41.000But you know, you're an amazing team, but we've got a great, great, I think we made the right decision.
00:57:50.000And so many of you, so many of you uprooted your lives for me and the kind of commitment few people make for anything these days, but you made it.
01:01:00.000That means everything that he does, everything he says is on her right now because she actually has something we don't, the capacity to remove him from the office.
01:01:35.000And speaking of political, Kamala Harris has now announced that she is not going to attend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress.
01:01:44.000He's scheduled to address a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday.
01:01:48.000Usually, the Vice President, as the head of the Senate, attends such events.
01:01:52.000She instead is going to stay away from the gathering.
01:01:55.000An aide to Harris, according to the New York Times, said her absence on Wednesday should not be construed as a change in her commitment to Israel's security, but was merely a conflict with a previously scheduled event in Indianapolis.
01:02:04.000Yes, but why was it previously scheduled?
01:02:29.000Typically, as the New York Times says, the Vice President, as President of the Senate, sits on the House rostrum beside the House Speaker during joint meetings to receive a foreign leader, appearing just behind the visiting dignitary in a tacit show of support and welcome.
01:02:39.000But this week, Democrats are instead turning to Senator Benjamin Cardin of Maryland, who chairs the Foreign Relations Committee, to sit beside Speaker Mike Johnson and behind Mr. Netanyahu.
01:02:54.000That is not a particular shock because Ben Cardin happens to be Jewish.
01:02:59.000His maternal grandfather operated a neighborhood grocery store and his family name was originally Kardonsky.
01:03:05.000So they found the only democratic senator who's willing to sit behind Bibi Netanyahu because the party has so radically turned against Israel.
01:03:12.000By the way, that speech is going to be pretty important, especially given the fact that literally today, remember that time that we were told there were lots of moderate Palestinians and they were so moderate and that their moderation is why they should probably have a state because they're so moderate.
01:03:25.000By the way, quick note for those who want a Palestinian state.
01:03:28.00070% of people who live in Jordan are Palestinian.
01:03:43.000And then the West Bank turns into a terror state.
01:03:46.000That is why there won't be a Palestinian state.
01:03:48.000How do we know there won't be a Palestinian state?
01:03:50.000Because today, Under the auspices of American enemy China, Hamas, Fatah, and all Palestinian faction agreed to end divisions and form a unity government.
01:04:01.000Remember that time the Palestinian Authority was supposed to be the strong moderating voice against Hamas?
01:04:06.000They just joined a unity government with Hamas the day before Netanyahu was supposed to speak before Congress.
01:04:12.000You wonder who the obstacle to peace is in the Middle East?
01:04:15.000I think it's pretty obvious who the obstacle to peace is in the Middle East.
01:04:18.000And meanwhile, Donald Trump has been on the campaign trail with J.D.
01:04:25.000Here was President Trump talking about how he thinks that God protected him from being shot, which pretty obviously is true.
01:04:32.000I mean, if you believe in God, again, it is impossible to watch the videos of that shooting where two bullets pass within centimeters of blowing Donald Trump's head off.
01:04:40.000and not think that God had something to do with it.
01:05:23.000She says it's unchristian to say that God is with you, which is, I mean, I feel like it's a little bit unchristian to not see the hand of God in everything, right?
01:05:30.000I mean, I'm not a Christian, but I do know enough about Christianity to understand that Christians do believe that God has something to do with the things that go around us.
01:05:47.000When something like this happens to you, like this assassination attempt, and you say something like, God is watching, was watching me, that is a very unchristian thing to say, because it's very narcissistic.
01:05:57.000What about, what about Cory, what's his name?