The Ben Shapiro Show - Kamala’s Momentum GONE, Trump Regains LEAD

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, there's a brand new poll out, and Democrats are freaking out.

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00:00:21.000 New York Times poll.

00:00:23.000 Huge sample size, and it shows Donald Trump now with a one point lead over Kamala Harris nationally, 48 to 47.

00:00:31.000 This is a disaster area poll for Kamala Harris.

00:00:35.000 I've been saying for a long time that she had hit her high watermark.

00:00:38.000 That there was only receding to the mean from there.

00:00:41.000 That she had had weeks and weeks and weeks of no serious questions asked of her.

00:00:45.000 And eventually the vibes would run out.

00:00:47.000 But, you know, I'm in this business for a long time, and even I, yeah, I doubt myself.

00:00:51.000 I wonder whether maybe I'm wrong.

00:00:52.000 Maybe she could just run on fumes all the way through the election. 1.00

00:00:56.000 It turns out the American people are like, not quite so fast there, Kamala. 0.94

00:01:00.000 You're going to have to actually explicate who you are and what you believe in order for us to make you president of the United States.

00:01:07.000 So, this brand new New York Times-Siena College poll, again, shows Donald Trump up 48-47.

00:01:11.000 That is among likely voters.

00:01:14.000 If you are looking at all voters, registered voters, which may be more reflective because it's kind of hard to tell who is a likely voter and who is a not likely voter in the Trump-Harris election because Trump brings in a lot of low propensity voters.

00:01:28.000 If you look at that number, Trump is actually up two.

00:01:30.000 He's up 46 to 44.

00:01:34.000 Terrible numbers for Kamala Harris.

00:01:35.000 Disastrous numbers for Kamala Harris.

00:01:38.000 And when you look at the crosstabs, it gets even worse for Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:01:42.000 If you look at the approval ratings, for example, for Joe Biden, only 37% of Americans strongly or somewhat approve of Joe Biden's performance.

00:01:52.000 And that is being attached to Kamala Harris.

00:01:55.000 If you look at the favorability ratings for Donald Trump, by contrast, 46% of Americans have a very favorable or somewhat favorable rating of President Trump.

00:02:06.000 52% say somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable.

00:02:10.000 If you look at Kamala Harris, her very or somewhat favorable rating is 45%, lower than that, of President Trump.

00:02:16.000 And 50% have a somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable rating of Kamala Harris.

00:02:22.000 Meanwhile, as to the question of do you feel like you still need to learn more about Donald Trump or do you pretty much know what you need to know about him?

00:02:31.000 87% of the voters say they already know what they need to know about Trump.

00:02:33.000 Only 12% say they want to learn more.

00:02:35.000 Those 12% apparently have been hiding in a cave for the last 10 years or something.

00:02:39.000 Kamala Harris, it's a different story.

00:02:41.000 67% say they already know what they need to know about Kamala Harris.

00:02:46.000 31% say they feel like they need to learn more about Kamala Harris.

00:02:49.000 So these numbers are bad for her right now.

00:02:52.000 Wait until one third of the American population hears all the rest of the stuff about Kamala Harris, how radical she is, how empty she is, all the arguments that we made on Friday about what Donald Trump needs to do in the debate.

00:03:04.000 Wait until all of the airwaves are hit with hundreds of millions of dollars in ads saying all of that, that she's shallow, that she is radical, that she is empty, That she vacillates on her positions? 1.00

00:03:16.000 That she is Machiavellian?

00:03:17.000 That she's dishonest? 0.99

00:03:19.000 Wait until they hear all of that.

00:03:20.000 Again, she may have hit a high watermark, which is why the debate tomorrow night is going to mean nearly everything, not as much for Trump, but for Kamala Harris.

00:03:30.000 As far as what people think they need to know about Kamala Harris, 63% Of that 31% say they need to know more about her policies and plans.

00:03:39.000 They don't know anything about her policies and plans, which is a problem for her because she's trying to avoid talking about all of that.

00:03:45.000 Meanwhile, as to the poll question in this poll, whether they believe Kamala Harris represents change or more of the same, 56% say more of the same, which is true.

00:03:56.000 The American public, hitting it on the mark right there, 56% say she is more of the same.

00:04:02.000 Well, in an era in which Americans don't like what they are seeing right now, more of the same is a very, very bad pitch.

00:04:09.000 56% saying more of the same of Kamala Harris?

00:04:11.000 That is not a great number.

00:04:13.000 Meanwhile, do you think Donald Trump represents change or more of the same?

00:04:18.000 61% say change.

00:04:20.000 So if this is a change election, Donald Trump is ahead.

00:04:22.000 All he has to do is not be nuts from here on out to the election.

00:04:27.000 As far as the number one issue, if you had to just pick one, 21% say the economy, 14% say abortion.

00:04:34.000 So Trump leads on the economy.

00:04:36.000 He trails on abortion, although he has taken some of those points off the table by taking a very milquetoast position on abortion.

00:04:41.000 He's not going to get involved at the national level.

00:04:43.000 He has signaled he doesn't like, for example, heartbeat bills, even at the state level.

00:04:48.000 The number three issue is immigration.

00:04:50.000 The number four issue is inflation and cost of living.

00:04:53.000 So three of the top four issues trend toward President Trump.

00:04:57.000 Again, bad numbers for Kamala Harris.

00:05:00.000 Only 43% say Harris.

00:05:01.000 you think would do a better job of handling the issue you think is most important?

00:05:04.000 50% say Trump, only 43% say Harris. Only 43% say Harris.

00:05:10.000 Trump leads by 16% on the economy.

00:05:13.000 He leads by 11% on immigration.

00:05:16.000 And again, this is before people know Kamala Harris's actual immigration position. 0.96

00:05:21.000 She's been portraying herself as a border hawk, and she's still losing by 11 on the issue and 16 on the economy. 0.82

00:05:28.000 She leads on abortion by 17 points.

00:05:30.000 She leads on democracy, however, by only 6 points.

00:05:34.000 And right now, 51% of Americans say the economy is poor.

00:05:39.000 28% say only fair.

00:05:41.000 A grand total of 21% say excellent or good and they all work for the New York Times.

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00:06:59.000 As far as the Democratic pitch, and we're examining this New York Times-Siena poll,

00:07:03.000 which is a disaster for Democrats and a disaster for Kamala Harris, and the vibes have run out.

00:07:07.000 The joy has run out.

00:07:08.000 It is time for her to actually get down to issues, and that's a real problem for her.

00:07:13.000 How many people have actually heard about Project 2025?

00:07:15.000 24% say a lot, 31% say some, and everybody else says, don't care.

00:07:22.000 Again, that is not going to be the deciding issue in this election, especially because Project 2025 has basically fallen apart.

00:07:28.000 The head of Project 2025 stepped away from Heritage Foundation, and Trump himself has dissociated from Project 2025 by name.

00:07:38.000 When it comes to issues like, for example, increasing domestic production of fossil fuels like oil and gas, 65% of Americans support.

00:07:47.000 That's a big Donald Trump win.

00:07:49.000 As far as the question, look at this one.

00:07:51.000 A federal law establishing price controls on food and groceries.

00:07:54.000 This was supposedly Kamala Harris' proposal to bring grocery prices down. 1.00

00:07:58.000 It's economically illiterate at every single level.

00:08:02.000 It's a lie. 0.75

00:08:02.000 She knows that it's, she knows it's illiterate. 0.75

00:08:04.000 She's pushing it anyway.

00:08:06.000 51% oppose.

00:08:08.000 Oppose.

00:08:11.000 And this is a, this is a disastrous poll for her.

00:08:15.000 It's actually kind of incredible how bad this poll is for Kamala Harris before the debate.

00:08:22.000 Some interesting other questions.

00:08:23.000 Has Donald Trump ever said anything you found offensive?

00:08:26.000 40% said yes, recently.

00:08:28.000 28% said yes, but not recently.

00:08:31.000 No, 30%.

00:08:32.000 That yes, but not recently category is fascinating.

00:08:35.000 Because what that means is, yeah, I remember when he said bad old stuff, but, you know, I really don't care.

00:08:40.000 Because the truth is that if you want to look for reasons to be offended by President Trump, you can find them nearly every day.

00:08:45.000 But if you've just decided it's baked into the cake, then the easy answer there is, sure, he says stuff that's offended me, but not recently, and I don't really care very much.

00:08:54.000 He's also perceived as more moderate.

00:08:56.000 I've been saying this for months.

00:08:57.000 Donald Trump is the moderate candidate in this election.

00:08:59.000 This is true when Biden is running.

00:09:01.000 This is true when Harris is running.

00:09:02.000 Donald Trump has run toward the center of the political aisle.

00:09:06.000 He has run there.

00:09:07.000 On abortion, he has run there.

00:09:08.000 On economics, he has run there.

00:09:10.000 On security, he has run there.

00:09:12.000 It's Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, they ran way to the left on everything from transing the kids and equity to tax policy, foreign policy, oil and gas.

00:09:20.000 They have run away from moderation.

00:09:22.000 They abandoned the middle.

00:09:23.000 In the weird opinion that they can somehow duplicate Barack Obama's 2012 run.

00:09:29.000 I've said before, the great unifying field theory of American politics is that everybody has been trying in the Democratic Party to duplicate Barack Obama's 2012 coalition, which was heavy minority turnout and white liberal ladies.

00:09:41.000 And that that was going to spur them to victory.

00:09:43.000 And Democrats keep trying it, and it doesn't work all that often.

00:09:46.000 Trying that again is a giant fail.

00:09:48.000 So, do you think Donald Trump is too conservative, not conservative enough, or not too far either way?

00:09:56.000 50% say not too far either way.

00:09:58.000 11% say not conservative enough.

00:10:01.000 That's 61% of the American public that says about Donald Trump that either he is moderate or he's not conservative enough, which puts them closer to his aisle.

00:10:11.000 As far as whether she is too liberal or progressive, 44% say she is too liberal or progressive, compared to only 32% who say that Donald Trump is too conservative.

00:10:23.000 42% say not too far either way.

00:10:26.000 Again, these are bad numbers for her.

00:10:27.000 They show that the American public believe that she is too far to the left.

00:10:31.000 In fact, Donald Trump is 12 points better than she is on the too conservative versus too liberal scale.

00:10:41.000 It's pretty amazing.

00:10:43.000 So again, every number here looks worse and worse for the Democratic Party and for Kamala Harris.

00:10:50.000 Now, they did do some state-level polling, and it basically shows that everything is sort of inside margin of error.

00:10:56.000 It shows that every single major swing state is within one or two points.

00:10:59.000 But if Donald Trump wins the popular vote, the chances that he actually loses the swing states vary very low.

00:11:06.000 People in the Democratic Party are, of course, freaking out.

00:11:10.000 You've seen some new adopters of the Democratic Party, like Bill Kristol, who has shifted all the way from George W. Bush supporter to Kamala Harris supporter, lamenting this poll, crying about it, distressing, depressing, alarming.

00:11:22.000 After everything, after January 6th, after clear evidence the second term would be far more authoritarian than the first, after the ever-increasing radicalization of MAGA World, Trump now has more support than he had in 2016 or 2020.

00:11:35.000 Hey, now, you know why that is.

00:11:36.000 You know why that is.

00:11:37.000 I can tell you why that is.

00:11:38.000 Because I'm one of the people who didn't vote for him in 2016.

00:11:40.000 I didn't vote for either candidate in 2016. 1.00

00:11:42.000 I said they all suck. 0.98

00:11:43.000 And then in 2020, I voted for Trump because the Democratic Party lost its ever-loving mind even more than they had in 2016. 0.99

00:11:49.000 And in 2024, I'm a donor to President Trump and I'm campaigning with Senate candidates.

00:11:53.000 That's how strongly I believe the Democratic Party cannot be in control of power.

00:11:58.000 You want to know why Trump's numbers are up?

00:11:59.000 It's because Democratic Party numbers are down.

00:12:01.000 It's because they went too far to the left.

00:12:03.000 They abandoned the middle.

00:12:05.000 It's that simple.

00:12:06.000 Aaron Ruppar, who's a stenographer for the Biden administration, he said whether he ultimately gets 48 or 45 percent of the vote, Trump having this level of support is evidence of a profoundly sick society.

00:12:16.000 So I have a question for Aaron Ruppar and company.

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00:12:20.000 Ever at any point?

00:12:21.000 And do you think to yourself, how did we get here?

00:12:24.000 Seriously, how did we get here?

00:12:27.000 What is it that drove Americans to Donald Trump? 0.64

00:12:29.000 Perhaps the answer is that you guys decided that you were going to demonize Mitt Romney, the most milquetoast presidential candidate in American history, as a puppy murderer, as a person who gave people cancer, as a person who sought to destroy companies and cut, forcibly cut the hair of gay kids or something back in the 1950s.

00:12:51.000 And then you won on that basis.

00:12:53.000 And then you got Trump.

00:12:54.000 That's how you got Trump.

00:12:55.000 And then you decided not to moderate, not to try to understand the people you scorned. 0.78

00:12:59.000 You decided to spit on those people.

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00:14:15.000 And there are a lot of indicators that Kamala Harris is in some very, very serious trouble.

00:14:19.000 According to The Hill, new polls show Vice President Harris faces a major challenge

00:14:23.000 in winning over male voters and is losing men by a bigger margin

00:14:26.000 than she is winning women in key states like Pennsylvania, Nevada, and North Carolina. 0.98

00:14:30.000 you Former President Trump's problems with female voters are well known, but new polls show Harris has just as big a problem with male voters in some states.

00:14:40.000 Now you can see why.

00:14:41.000 Because Kamala Harris has made the one issue on which she is absolutely solid abortion, abortion, abortion, abortion, abortion. 1.00

00:14:47.000 And she keeps running over and over and over as historic female vice president. 1.00

00:14:52.000 And then she surrounds herself with some of the most submissive males in American politics. 1.00

00:14:58.000 Doug Emhoff and Tim Walz are both playing dumb sitcom dads, following her around and acting like clowns. 0.99

00:15:04.000 It is incredibly off-putting to dudes. 0.99

00:15:07.000 That campaign is significantly more off-putting to dudes than even Joe Biden's campaign.

00:15:11.000 Joe Biden's campaign was bad. 0.97

00:15:12.000 Kamala Harris's campaign is about how she is joy, she is wonder, and how every dude inside her orbit has to act like a complete effing clown. 1.00

00:15:21.000 That is what that campaign is about.

00:15:24.000 Hilariously enough, the Democratic Party can't get over it.

00:15:29.000 One source said misogyny is a hell of a drug.

00:15:31.000 It was glossed over when people said everyone hated Hillary Clinton. 0.99

00:15:34.000 Maybe they hated Hillary Clinton because she's a bad politician. 1.00

00:15:36.000 Maybe they hate Kamala Harris because she's a bad politician. 1.00

00:15:39.000 But it's not only that.

00:15:41.000 It's not only that.

00:15:42.000 It's that the Democratic Party has decided that traditional manhood is bad.

00:15:47.000 The man who goes out and earns for his family and protects his children and gets married and cares for his community is now considered a borderline toxic male.

00:15:55.000 Government is supposed to be your dad.

00:15:56.000 Government is supposed to be your husband.

00:15:58.000 Government is supposed to fill in all the gaps left by the traditional protective male. 0.98

00:16:02.000 Because you see, if you believe in traditional male roles, that might mean that there is such a thing as a traditional female role and that these two roles are complementary.

00:16:13.000 You know, as has been true in virtually every culture throughout human history.

00:16:17.000 But the Democratic Party has run completely against that.

00:16:19.000 They don't believe in the complementarity of the sexes.

00:16:23.000 They don't believe that men and women belong together or that men need women and women need men.

00:16:27.000 They don't believe any of that.

00:16:29.000 So the result is men looking at the Democratic Party and saying, you don't want us here.

00:16:34.000 This is, I think, the most hilarious quote from this piece over at the Hill. 0.98

00:16:39.000 Ross K. Baker, professor of political science at Rutgers University, said, quote, about Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor, the goofball, former assistant football coach who started, like, the LGBT support club at his high school and runs around waving his arms about like a moron and then saying absolutely ridiculous things on politics. 0.63

00:17:01.000 That weirdo Baker says, quote, this is about the Kamala Harris campaign, quote, they saw him as a man's man.

00:17:09.000 I think the idea was that he is somebody who could connect with these very alienated male voters who feel that the trend of national policy in recent years has been very much tilted in favor of women.

00:17:18.000 If you think of Tim Walz as a man's man, if you look at Tim Walz and what you see is just a burly, rough and tumble dude.

00:17:25.000 Let me recommend that you get your head examined.

00:17:28.000 Only a Democratic Party so deep with its head in its own colon would think that Tim Walz represents, like, traditional American manhood.

00:17:37.000 I know that that's what his resume says, right?

00:17:40.000 Nothing but respect for his National Guard service, except for the part where he sort of fibs about what he did and didn't do.

00:17:46.000 That's a great thing.

00:17:47.000 I've said that his relationship with his son in particular seems very nice.

00:17:51.000 Also, his entire campaign has been about bowing And scraping before Kamala Harris, if your pitch to men is Tim Walz, good luck with that. 0.99

00:18:00.000 Not a lot of dudes are looking at Tim Walz and going, yeah, that's the kind of man I want to be.

00:18:04.000 That's the party that represents men. 0.99

00:18:07.000 Beyond that, on the issues, Democrats got a problem.

00:18:10.000 Inflation has really taken out of the American people.

00:18:13.000 The Democrats keep looking at the economy and they say, well, the stock market is at all time highs.

00:18:17.000 And everybody else goes, you embedded 40 year highs in inflation in the economy.

00:18:21.000 And no matter what you do in the last couple months of this election campaign, it is not going to bring down the embedded price increase you have created over the course of the last three and a half years.

00:18:30.000 You increased grocery bills 20, 25, 30%.

00:18:34.000 It didn't increase wages to keep up. 0.66

00:18:36.000 And now you expect us to all be grateful?

00:18:39.000 That the 401ks are going up based on inflationary tactics by the Federal Reserve?

00:18:45.000 According to the Washington Post, areas with greater support for Trump in 2020 have faced higher inflation since then among the 21 metropolitan areas.

00:18:53.000 The trend highlights a persistent challenge for Democratic candidates this fall.

00:18:57.000 The most drastic price growth was seen in metros along the Sun Belt.

00:19:01.000 That'd be precisely the area where Kamala Harris needs to win. 1.00

00:19:06.000 The places that have seen the highest inflation, in terms of cities, include places like Tampa, Miami, Florida, Phoenix, Arizona, Atlanta, Georgia, Detroit, Michigan.

00:19:21.000 These are places with high levels of inflation.

00:19:25.000 And then you wonder why Donald Trump is doing much better than expected on all of this.

00:19:30.000 Even Politico is acknowledging that Harris' momentum has stalled, which is a problem for her.

00:19:37.000 Nate Silver says basically what's happening here is that Kamala Harris has been exposed as the same candidate she was in 2019-2020.

00:19:47.000 Kamala Harris is not, in fact, some sort of giant vibes-filled mystery that actually the public perceives her the same way they perceived her back in 2019-2020.

00:19:55.000 He has an entire piece at his Silver Bulletin called The Mistakes of 2019 Could Cost Harris the Election.

00:20:04.000 He points out, there are a few moments from presidential debates I'll

00:20:08.000 never forget.

00:20:08.000 Joe Biden's implosion in June, Marco Rubio's implosion in 2016,

00:20:11.000 Michael Bloomberg's implosion in 2020, but an underrated memorable moment came

00:20:15.000 from the first major Democratic primary debates in 2019.

00:20:18.000 Asked for a show of hands on whether their health care plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants,

00:20:23.000 every Democrat on stage, including and more sheepishly than the others, Biden,

00:20:27.000 raised their hands.

00:20:28.000 It seemed like one of those moments when Twitter had come to life.

00:20:31.000 At the time, 60% of Americans opposed this policy, even though two-thirds of Democrats supported it.

00:20:37.000 This was a moment when it became clear that the Democratic Party had basically broken with the American consensus.

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00:21:58.000 As Nate Silver points out, the New York Times Siena poll contained a pair of questions on whether voters think Harris is too liberal or progressive and whether Trump is too conservative.

00:22:06.000 And again, Harris is doing very poorly on that question.

00:22:09.000 He says, I'm not a messaging and tactics guy.

00:22:11.000 I'm not sure how Harris is supposed to spin her way out of this perception. 0.99

00:22:15.000 Her convention speech was aggressively centrist and aimed at male voters, but there's a track record here of progressive policy advocacy on the 2019 campaign trail and in her voting record in the Senate.

00:22:26.000 There's room for her numbers to move, but they could move in either direction because, again, it will be exposed that she is not, in fact, a moderate.

00:22:32.000 And you can see that the Democratic Party itself is torn on how to address the problem of Kamala Harris's policies.

00:22:38.000 So, for example, Bernie Sanders, on national TV this weekend, and he is asked about her jettisoning half of her 2019-2020 positions.

00:22:48.000 And he's like, she's lying.

00:22:49.000 Like, don't worry, she's lying.

00:22:53.000 She has previously supported Medicare for All.

00:22:56.000 Now she does not.

00:22:57.000 She's previously supported a ban on fracking.

00:22:59.000 Now she does not.

00:23:01.000 These, Senator, are ideas that you have campaigned on.

00:23:05.000 Do you think that she is abandoning her progressive ideals?

00:23:11.000 No, I don't think she's abandoning her ideals.

00:23:13.000 I think she's trying to be pragmatic and doing what she thinks is right in order to win the election. 0.66

00:23:22.000 He's just saying the quiet part out loud.

00:23:29.000 I believe Bernie Sanders.

00:23:30.000 I agree with him.

00:23:31.000 She is lying in order to win the election.

00:23:33.000 You know who else is saying that?

00:23:34.000 Senator Raphael Warnock from Georgia.

00:23:36.000 Again, Raphael Warnock should not be a senator.

00:23:38.000 from the state of Georgia.

00:23:39.000 The only reason that he and Jon Ossoff are senators from the state of Georgia is because after election 2020, President Trump idiotically decided to tell Georgia voters not to vote in the next round of elections.

00:23:50.000 And so you ended up with two Democratic senators in the same state where Brian Kemp blew away Stacey Abrams in the gubernatorial race.

00:23:56.000 That makes a difference, by the way, because those two senators were the deciding factor in literally trillions of dollars in spending under Joe Biden.

00:24:02.000 In any case, Raphael Warnock, senator from Georgia, and here he was saying, That Kamala Harris should push, as president, mandatory gun confiscation.

00:24:12.000 Now remember, she's run away from that.

00:24:14.000 In 2019, 2020, she endorsed mandatory gun buybacks.

00:24:18.000 That is to say, gun seizures.

00:24:20.000 And then she walked it back via her campaign. 1.00

00:24:22.000 She's never said anything, but her campaign, she doesn't agree with that anymore.

00:24:25.000 So, Raphael Warnock is pushed on that by Kristen Welker over at NBC News.

00:24:30.000 And she says, like, so if you pass that bill, would she veto it?

00:24:33.000 Which is the real question.

00:24:34.000 And he's like, nope, she wouldn't veto it.

00:24:35.000 She would absolutely be in favor of mandatory gun buybacks and should be. 0.99

00:24:39.000 Should she also be, in your opinion, supporting a mandatory gun buyback program?

00:24:46.000 Listen, we're not going to be able to get where we need to go without action and Congress.

00:24:52.000 Senator, just a yes or no, though.

00:24:54.000 Should she support the mandatory buyback program?

00:24:57.000 Just a yes or no.

00:24:59.000 Listen, look, as a pastor, I've done buyback programs.

00:25:05.000 You can pick this issue or that issue, but I think that, again, there's not one single thing that will make all of this go away.

00:25:14.000 Okay, so that is him endorsing mandatory gun seizures under a Kamala Harris presidency.

00:25:19.000 So which do you believe?

00:25:20.000 Do you believe those people who say, underneath, she's still the same radical as she always was?

00:25:24.000 Or do you believe new convert Liz Cheney?

00:25:26.000 So Liz Cheney back in 2020 said, Kamala Harris is wildly left-wing, super left-wing on every single issue. 1.00

00:25:32.000 Then, of course, after the 2020 election, Liz Cheney not only turned on Trump, she turned on the entire Republican Party and has now decided to endorse Kamala Harris. 0.97

00:25:40.000 So now she's out there pretending that Ronald Reagan would vote for Kamala Harris. 0.98

00:25:45.000 Yeah, sure.

00:25:47.000 Sure.

00:25:48.000 Nailed it.

00:25:49.000 If you believe this, it's because you want to believe it. 0.99

00:25:51.000 This is true foolishness. 0.71

00:25:55.000 Who would Ronald Reagan be supporting in this race?

00:25:58.000 What do you think?

00:25:59.000 There is absolutely no chance that Ronald Reagan would be supporting Donald Trump.

00:26:03.000 Donald Trump doesn't stand for any of the things that Ronald Reagan did.

00:26:06.000 And it's another place where I would urge my Republican colleagues Both in the Congress, but across the country, to really look at Donald Trump's policies, to really look at the danger that he presents, to look at, you know, what he was willing to do to stay in power.

00:26:22.000 It's a firm rejection, not just of traditional Republican policies, but of the constitutional order on which this country depends.

00:26:32.000 Okay, give me a break.

00:26:33.000 And then, she's asked an obvious question.

00:26:35.000 Okay, well then, why did you speak badly about her in 2020?

00:26:38.000 She's changed on all the issues.

00:26:40.000 Here we go.

00:26:41.000 Liz Cheney.

00:26:42.000 Would you still have been able to endorse Kamala Harris if it was the Kamala Harris of 2019 and 2020?

00:26:49.000 Look, I think that she has changed in a number of very important ways on issues that matter.

00:26:56.000 And I would encourage independents to look at where she is on these policy issues today.

00:27:02.000 I would encourage independents to compare where she is today with where Donald Trump is on these issues.

00:27:08.000 And so I think from a policy perspective, it is very important to recognize the change, to recognize that she understands that this election is going to require a coalition of people from across the political spectrum supporting her.

00:27:25.000 Who believes that?

00:27:25.000 Kamala Harris has changed on pretty much all of the issues, and everyone can see it, which is why she's been dropping like a stone in the betting markets.

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00:28:26.000 So Kamala Harris has now put out an issues page as of like Monday morning.

00:28:29.000 So it only took her like six weeks to put out an issues page that basically says nothing.

00:28:33.000 It's a bunch of jargon.

00:28:34.000 It's a bunch of empty promises.

00:28:36.000 There's nothing very specific on the issues page, but they're all going to pretend that there are serious policy positions on that page.

00:28:43.000 It doesn't matter.

00:28:44.000 You know what she would do.

00:28:45.000 She said it in 2019, 2020, and then she did it under Joe Biden.

00:28:49.000 So you can either believe your eyes or you can believe the lies they are telling you now, which presumably is why they keep on pushing the vibes.

00:28:55.000 They gotta push the vibes.

00:28:56.000 They got nothing else.

00:28:57.000 If it goes to the issues, they got a massive problem.

00:29:00.000 So for example, the Associated Press, which should be doing, you know, actual reporting on her, her positions, all the problems with them.

00:29:06.000 The Associated Press put out a tweet, quote, Harris turns to her favorite foods in effort to show a more private side and connect with voters.

00:29:14.000 Her favorite, and it's a picture of her holding Doritos.

00:29:17.000 Wow, she's just like celebrities. 1.00

00:29:19.000 They're just like you.

00:29:21.000 She also likes Doritos and day drinking.

00:29:24.000 That is what Kamala Harris likes. 1.00

00:29:26.000 She's showing you her more private side by eating Doritos. 0.97

00:29:31.000 Good job, AP.

00:29:31.000 That is some top-notch journalisming.

00:29:34.000 High-level journalisming.

00:29:36.000 Meanwhile, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are going around giving people hugs.

00:29:39.000 So Kamala Harris, she was hugging it out with a sobbing supporter in Pennsylvania.

00:29:43.000 And this is the really important thing is that she gives Mamala hugs.

00:29:46.000 Oh my God.

00:29:47.000 Wow.

00:29:48.000 Wow.

00:29:48.000 Doesn't matter that her policies are far to the left of anything the Democratic Party has ever run, including George McGovern.

00:29:54.000 She gives hugs to people.

00:29:56.000 Wow.

00:29:59.000 I'm pretty sure you know.

00:30:01.000 Oh, it's going to be good.

00:30:03.000 We're going to be good.

00:30:04.000 We're going to be fine.

00:30:05.000 We're going to be fine.

00:30:06.000 We are all in this together.

00:30:08.000 Yes, we are.

00:30:09.000 We're going to be fine.

00:30:10.000 Yes, we are.

00:30:13.000 Yes, we are.

00:30:14.000 Did you get some spices in there?

00:30:16.000 Yes, we did.

00:30:21.000 It's all good.

00:30:22.000 It's all good.

00:30:23.000 We're standing strong.

00:30:24.000 Right?

00:30:25.000 We love our country.

00:30:26.000 Absolutely.

00:30:27.000 Everybody's crying together.

00:30:29.000 Oh.

00:30:30.000 So no.

00:30:31.000 Hugs.

00:30:32.000 Hugs!

00:30:33.000 I don't want a president who gives hugs. 1.00

00:30:35.000 I want a president who kicks ass. 1.00

00:30:37.000 That's what I want. 1.00

00:30:37.000 I want a president who kicks ass on behalf of the American people. 1.00

00:30:40.000 Who takes on America's enemies and stops them. 0.99

00:30:42.000 I want a president Who stops China and Iran and Russia and North Korea in their tracks. 0.74

00:30:47.000 I want a president of the United States who doesn't, for example, sacrifice the bodies of American soldiers and then abandon their families.

00:30:52.000 That would be great.

00:30:54.000 I would love an American president who actually knows enough about business not to destroy major businesses in the United States through asinine tax and regulatory proposals.

00:31:03.000 I would love that.

00:31:03.000 I would love a president of the United States who doesn't promise mass amnesty.

00:31:08.000 That would be awesome.

00:31:09.000 I don't need a president who hugs.

00:31:11.000 I've got parents for that.

00:31:12.000 I've got kids for that.

00:31:14.000 It's an absurdity. 0.61

00:31:14.000 If you're the kind of person who requires hugs from your presidential candidate, let me request that you quickly go get a psychological examination. 0.61

00:31:21.000 Seriously.

00:31:21.000 But this is what it's all about.

00:31:22.000 It's about the hugs.

00:31:23.000 Here's Doug Emhoff.

00:31:24.000 Remember, we were talking before about how, like, Doug Emhoff and Tim Walz, this was their male outreach program. 0.97

00:31:30.000 Doug Emhoff and Tim Walz, who are Phil Dunphy from Modern Family, except more oafish, dumber, and more annoying. 0.65

00:31:38.000 Here's Doug Emhoff talking about how he loves hugging Tim Walz. 0.75

00:31:43.000 They love hugging, which is a real masculine- Like, that's all the bros out there.

00:31:47.000 That's that- Well, we all talk about how we love hugging.

00:31:50.000 It's like our thing.

00:31:52.000 Great male outreach there, my dude.

00:31:54.000 Here we go.

00:31:56.000 We get up there, and we just do this big, bro bear hug.

00:32:01.000 And I cannot tell you how many texts I got from my actual friends and actual family members like, you never hugged me like that.

00:32:08.000 What's going on?

00:32:09.000 You literally just met this guy.

00:32:10.000 Did you hit him on the back to preserve your heteronormativity?

00:32:15.000 Did you give him the back pat?

00:32:16.000 No, if you see the video, we just did this full on.

00:32:20.000 He was like this, I was like this, and then it was just this bro hug.

00:32:27.000 Awkward hug discussions.

00:32:28.000 That's exactly what the dudes are looking for.

00:32:30.000 Nailed it!

00:32:31.000 Can't imagine why there's a massive gender gap in this particular election. 1.00

00:32:35.000 Okay, well, as we know, the big debate is coming up tomorrow night.

00:32:38.000 Right now, it is incumbent on Kamala Harris to actually show well, and it's incumbent on Donald Trump Not to blow it and to expose her, right?

00:32:45.000 Those are the things.

00:32:46.000 So, that big debate is happening tomorrow night.

00:32:48.000 We are doing a backstage with a live simulcast of the debate and reactions from the most trusted voices in conservative media.

00:32:55.000 Me, Matt Walsh, Michael Mowles, Andrew Clavin, Jeremy Boring, we'll be there for full coverage and analysis.

00:33:00.000 Watch live over at Daily Wire Plus.

00:33:03.000 So, both sides are now setting expectations with regard to the debate.

00:33:06.000 The Trump campaign is suggesting that they expect that Kamala Harris will do just fine, which is smart.

00:33:10.000 They don't want to say that she's going to completely bomb, because if you set the expectations as she's going to die on stage like her predecessor in the campaign, then if she doesn't die on stage, she's now surpassed the expectations.

00:33:21.000 Trump campaign advisor Chris Lisvita told House Republican lawmakers and senior staff they are anticipating a fine performance from Vice President Harris during Tuesday's debate.

00:33:30.000 According to Axios, Republicans are preparing for a much different dynamic than the first debate, when President Biden's disastrous performance eventually forced him to drop out of the race.

00:33:37.000 Harris has been riding a wave of enthusiasm since stepping in as the nominee.

00:33:42.000 La Civita noted Harris has less recent live interview or debate experience than Trump.

00:33:48.000 And again, they are playing up the expectations of Harris, which makes sense.

00:33:52.000 Meanwhile, Democrats are simultaneously attempting to play down the expectations of Harris. 0.96

00:33:57.000 So, Pete Buttigieg, who again, is famous for being a crappy Secretary of Transportation, and also he's gay, which is really important. 1.00

00:34:05.000 He says that she's gonna have to have superhuman focus and discipline. 0.97

00:34:08.000 Superhuman?

00:34:09.000 Is that what it's gonna take?

00:34:10.000 Superhuman?

00:34:10.000 She's gonna be like Wonder Woman?

00:34:12.000 She's gonna fly in in her invisible jet? 1.00

00:34:14.000 And then she's going to have to have laser eyes in the debate? 1.00

00:34:19.000 Talk about lowering expectations here.

00:34:21.000 All right.

00:34:23.000 It says 28% of likely voters said they still need to learn more about Harris.

00:34:27.000 Only 9% say that about Trump.

00:34:31.000 What does she need to do at the debate to fill in those blanks? 1.00

00:34:35.000 She is a very focused and disciplined leader.

00:34:39.000 But it will take almost superhuman focus and discipline to deal with Donald Trump in a debate.

00:34:44.000 It's no ordinary proposition.

00:34:46.000 Not because Donald Trump is a master of explaining policy ideas and how they're going to make people better off.

00:34:53.000 But the good news, says Pete Buttigieg, is that she is amazing at getting to the heart of the issue.

00:35:07.000 I'm not sure I've ever heard a more untrue statement than that about Kamala Harris.

00:35:10.000 That she's great at getting to the heart of the issue.

00:35:13.000 What now?

00:35:15.000 What now?

00:35:16.000 If there were an issue on the table and it had a heart, she would be operating on the kidneys. 0.99

00:35:21.000 She has never come close to the heart of an issue.

00:35:24.000 Every time she's asked about an issue, she starts rambling like a fifth grader who didn't read the book.

00:35:30.000 Great at getting to the heart of the issue.

00:35:31.000 The importance of social security is that time passes.

00:35:39.000 Good God.

00:35:41.000 Here is Pete Buttigieg trying to, trying to whip everybody into a lather over Kamala Harris's excellent rhetorical ingenuity.

00:35:51.000 You just mentioned that you were debating her and that you learned from that.

00:35:55.000 What did you learn?

00:35:56.000 What should we expect that you experienced as somebody who was jousting with her?

00:36:02.000 Well, I think about intellect and focus.

00:36:05.000 She's somebody who is extremely smart about getting to the core of an issue.

00:36:08.000 That's what made her so effective as a DA, as a prosecutor, then as Attorney General, and of course as Vice President.

00:36:16.000 And one of the things I remember from those debate preparations when I was involved supporting her team four years ago was anytime some issue area or topic came up, We were kicking around statistics, ideas, arguments.

00:36:27.000 You should always take it back to the question of, okay, how is this going to affect somebody at home?

00:36:32.000 And I think that's especially important right now with some of the issues at stake right now.

00:36:37.000 Yes, she is a person of the people who is excellent at getting to the heart of an issue if you are a small baby who's dropped on your head.

00:36:44.000 That's true.

00:36:45.000 Wow, wow, wow.

00:36:47.000 Wow.

00:36:48.000 In a moment, we're going to get to Hillary Clinton's advice for debating Donald Trump, which I'm not sure why you would take that advice since he clocked her.

00:36:54.000 She lost to him.

00:36:56.000 All right.

00:36:57.000 Get to that in just one second.

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00:37:32.000 Well, meanwhile, good news for Kamala Harris.

00:37:34.000 She has an advisor in this debate.

00:37:36.000 And it's Hillary Clinton.

00:37:37.000 Yes!

00:37:38.000 If ever you wondered about advice from a person who lost a national election to Donald Trump, now you have it.

00:37:44.000 According to Reid Epstein, reporting for the New York Times, Hillary Clinton has as much experience as any Democrat debating Donald J. Trump.

00:37:51.000 Which is like saying that the Washington generals have more experience playing the Harlem Globetrotters than any team on the earth.

00:37:57.000 That's true, but I'm not sure it's saying what you think it's saying.

00:38:01.000 Ms.

00:38:01.000 Clinton called to discuss her old debate coach, Karen Dunn, who's helping out Vice President Kamala Harris this time around.

00:38:07.000 She says the consensus was, I won all three debates and I was well prepared.

00:38:11.000 Was that the consensus, though?

00:38:12.000 Was it?

00:38:14.000 She says, it was the first debate when Trump literally ridiculed me for preparing.

00:38:17.000 This was not something we had thought about beforehand because who thought we could be ridiculed for preparing for a presidential debate in front of 85 or 90 million people?

00:38:23.000 So basically I said, yeah, I did prepare.

00:38:25.000 And you know, I'll tell you something else I prepared for.

00:38:27.000 I prepared to be president because I had the confidence.

00:38:29.000 I knew the material.

00:38:30.000 I felt comfortable.

00:38:30.000 I also knew I had to brush Trump back and not let him be the center of attention all the time.

00:38:36.000 And then Hillary says Kamala has proved to be a good debater both in her races in California and in her debate with Mike Pence.

00:38:41.000 So I think she needs to be prepared enough she feels really comfortable going on both offense and defense against Trump because there's a lot to cover with him.

00:38:48.000 Have you talked with Harris about the debate, she's asked?

00:38:50.000 Quote, he doesn't answer the questions.

00:38:51.000 He doesn't come with any specifics.

00:38:53.000 It appears from the reporting he's going to go with a scorched earth approach and will just try to tear her down, which is his usual go-to strategy.

00:38:58.000 You have to go back at him about his really terrible record as president, the kinds of things he had said he wants to do next this time around, his association with Project 2025.

00:39:05.000 Good luck with all that.

00:39:06.000 Seriously, good luck.

00:39:07.000 Because it turns out more people liked his presidency than like her vice presidency.

00:39:10.000 That is not going to work if she starts ripping on his record as president. 0.99

00:39:14.000 And she's like, yeah, you lost so many jobs when you were president.

00:39:17.000 And he's like, well, that was COVID.

00:39:20.000 And I noticed that you have the worst economic recovery in modern history, given your 40-year highs in inflation and the fact that a vast majority of the American people believe your economy is poor.

00:39:30.000 More Americans trust me on the economy by every available poll, and there's a reason for that.

00:39:34.000 This is a buzzsaw.

00:39:36.000 The buzzsaw is her record.

00:39:37.000 It's not even him.

00:39:38.000 It's her record.

00:39:39.000 If he can hold her accountable to her record, it's a major, major problem.

00:39:45.000 Hillary says, I talked with Kamala about a number of things.

00:39:48.000 She should just not be baited.

00:39:49.000 She should bait him.

00:39:50.000 He can be rattled.

00:39:51.000 He doesn't know how to respond to substantive direct attacks.

00:39:53.000 I think that from her prosecutorial background, I think that's what she will be equipped to do.

00:39:57.000 I mean, when I sat on stage, she was a Russian puppet and he just sputtered on stage. 0.92

00:40:00.000 I think that's an example of how you get out a fact about him that really unnerves him.

00:40:03.000 That wasn't even a fact.

00:40:05.000 It wasn't even a fact.

00:40:06.000 She's now saying you should just lie about him, which is typical Hillary Clinton.

00:40:09.000 You know, it was a great moment for Hillary Clinton when she lied and said that he was Vladimir Putin's puppet.

00:40:15.000 Weird, because he wasn't.

00:40:16.000 But she thinks that was a big triumph for her.

00:40:18.000 And the fact that Democrats have to go to the well by trying to treat Hillary Clinton as some sort of great voice on all of this is truly insane.

00:40:26.000 I'll tell you what Trump should smack Kamala Harris over. 1.00

00:40:29.000 He should smack Kamala Harris over the Afghanistan withdrawal, given the fact that this week marks pretty much the end of the Afghan withdrawal.

00:40:41.000 And that was, she was the last person in the room.

00:40:43.000 She was the last person in the room.

00:40:45.000 And if she tries to come back at him with, well, you broke the rules at Arlington National Cemetery, he should say, I was invited there by the families.

00:40:50.000 You didn't show up.

00:40:52.000 Those troops are dead because of you.

00:40:53.000 There'll be a disaster in the waiting for her. 1.00

00:40:57.000 According to Politico, the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Republican chair has now issued a scathing new report outlining what he views as the Biden administration's failures on Afghanistan and playing up VP Kamala Harris' role in the chaotic 2021 U.S.

00:41:09.000 withdrawal from the country.

00:41:11.000 Now, once again, this is a Republican pounce story, right?

00:41:13.000 She says that she was the last person in the room.

00:41:16.000 She was integrally involved in the Afghanistan pullout.

00:41:19.000 If you mention it, it's you pouncing. 1.00

00:41:20.000 That's how this stupidity works. 1.00

00:41:22.000 The report stresses the Biden-Harris administration prioritized the optics of the withdrawal over the security of U.S. 1.00

00:41:27.000 personnel on the ground, and that it misled, and in some instances, directly lied to the American people at every stage of the withdrawal.

00:41:33.000 That, of course, is 100% true.

00:41:34.000 That is absolutely true.

00:41:39.000 According to the report, Vice President Kamala Harris was the last person in the room when President Biden made the decision to withdraw all U.S.

00:41:45.000 forces from Afghanistan, a fact she boasted about shortly after Biden issued his go-to-zero order.

00:41:51.000 Despite warnings against withdrawing by senior leaders, Vice President Harris' aide disclosed the VP strongly supported President Biden's decision.

00:41:58.000 President Biden's former chief of staff, Ron Klain, affirmed Vice President Harris was entrenched in the president's Afghanistan policy.

00:42:05.000 The report notes, when the evacuation took place in August 2021, Harris was on a trip to Singapore and Vietnam, where she pledged the administration would continue to protect Afghan women and children.

00:42:14.000 Her promise has clearly not been fulfilled.

00:42:16.000 In fact, it is now illegal for Afghan girls to go to school beyond very, very young ages now.

00:42:21.000 And they're all being stuffed into black bags in basements, basically.

00:42:26.000 So yes, Donald Trump should hold her accountable on all that.

00:42:29.000 I would imagine that he would.

00:42:32.000 Meanwhile, President Trump was out on the campaign trail and he says, you know, she has been lying for years about the mental acuity of the president of the United States.

00:42:40.000 She should have used the 25th Amendment on him long ago, considering he's no longer capable of serving in his office.

00:42:45.000 So if she won't use the 25th Amendment, perhaps we should amend the 25th Amendment to allow for the impeachment of the vice president who allows for an incompetent president to continue on in his job. 0.97

00:42:54.000 Here was Trump over the weekend.

00:42:57.000 Finally, I will support modifying the 25th Amendment to make clear that if a vice president lies or engages in a conspiracy to cover up the incapacity of the President of the United States, if you do that with a cover-up of the President of the United States, it's grounds for impeachment immediately and removal from office, because that's what they did.

00:43:24.000 Now President Trump did get an excellent bit of news at the very end of last week.

00:43:28.000 It happened on Friday afternoon.

00:43:30.000 The judge in the New York Hush Money case, Judge Marachan, he delayed the sentencing until after the election.

00:43:35.000 It's now happening late November, which means it could be completely obviated if Trump wins the election.

00:43:40.000 If Trump wins the election, then presumably it would be a complete Inability to fulfill his presidential duties if he were in Sing Sing.

00:43:48.000 It would mean they basically could not sentence him to anything remotely like jail time.

00:43:51.000 So, that is a big win for Trump because as much as people on the right think that Trump being sentenced in the middle of the election cycle would redound to his benefit, it actually wouldn't.

00:43:59.000 If he were sentenced to jail time in the middle of the election cycle, a lot of people would refocus in on Trump's supposed criminality.

00:44:07.000 And already the Republican willingness to go out and vote for Trump is really, really high.

00:44:10.000 It's not getting any higher from here.

00:44:12.000 So that is a very good piece of news for President Trump.

00:44:15.000 Meanwhile, there are certain entrenched problems with the Republican Party that do need to be alleviated over time.

00:44:20.000 One of those is a major problem with the various state parties.

00:44:23.000 The Arizona State Republican Party has had major problems for a long time now.

00:44:27.000 Remember, Arizona used to be a state with two Republican senators and a Republican governor, and now has two Democratic senators and a Democratic governor.

00:44:32.000 The state party is not run well.

00:44:35.000 That is why Carrie Lake, the Republican nominee who lost her gubernatorial race to wet-dish rag Katie Hobbs, is now running significantly behind in her Senate race. 1.00

00:44:44.000 It's not just Arizona where the Republicans have problems.

00:44:46.000 They also have a problem in Michigan.

00:44:48.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Brian Panabaker was pumping iron in his garage late last month when he found out Donald Trump had just dropped by a nearby Macomb County campaign office to share pizza with volunteers.

00:44:58.000 He was furious no one had invited him.

00:45:00.000 Panabaker, who founded a 1,400-member group called Auto Workers for Trump and had joined the former president on stage at a recent Grand Rapids rally, already felt like some local campaign leaders were botching the ground-level operations in Detroit's outskirts by alienating allies like him.

00:45:13.000 So he tossed 100 Trump signs into his Ford Explorer, drove to Trump's campaign office in the county, and gave them back, announcing he would no longer work with the office.

00:45:20.000 And then picked up a black marker to scribble out his signature on an elephant statue in the office.

00:45:24.000 Local police, he recalled, still on hand after Trump's visit, escorted him from the premises.

00:45:29.000 The GOP effort to boost turnout in Macomb County has been slowed to gear up and be set by infighting.

00:45:34.000 Some local party leaders are refusing to follow the Trump campaign's ground strategy, which relies on an app to identify persuadable voters, pledging to instead use their own approach to decide which homes to visit.

00:45:43.000 Loyal Trump foot soldiers, the local leaders complain, couldn't even start knocking on doors in August because the campaign hadn't yet replaced printed material pegged to a rematch against President Biden.

00:45:52.000 Mark Fortin, chairman of the Macomb County Republican Party, said people should know what's going on here.

00:45:57.000 Fortin warned Trump supporters about flaws in the campaign's ground game, rousing about being allotted just 250 signs to distribute.

00:46:04.000 Michigan's Republican Party, according to the Wall Street Journal, has been torn by infighting for more than a year as Chamber of Commerce Republicans gave way to populists who are deeply skeptical of elites and institutions of power.

00:46:13.000 Republicans removed the state party's chairwoman earlier this year for mismanaging organization finances and replaced that person with somebody who's more Trumpy in affect.

00:46:22.000 Macomb is one of 20 counties in battleground states Trump has identified as vital to retaking the presidency.

00:46:28.000 And again, a lot of this, people are ignoring kind of the nuts and bolts of how to run a ground game here.

00:46:34.000 You can only hope that the Trump campaign has a really solid ground game in coordination with groups like TPUSA and other groups that they are working with, because in the end, it's gonna be about getting out the vote.

00:46:44.000 Polling doesn't mean anything, because polling in the end is relying on the people who are in the poll to actually go to the polling place and vote.

00:46:53.000 The campaign's approach is part of a new ground game, says the Wall Street Journal.

00:46:56.000 It's called Trump Force 47, which puts an emphasis on efficiency in the face of an extensive Democratic field operation.

00:47:03.000 The Trump campaign said there are more than two dozen Trump Force 47 offices in the state.

00:47:08.000 Harris has opened 52 offices in Michigan.

00:47:11.000 The campaign said those offices are working closely with the Democratic Party on the ground, and volunteers have been knocking on doors for months.

00:47:18.000 And this is a big problem.

00:47:21.000 Michigan's Republican Party has been in turmoil for more than a year.

00:47:23.000 In January, Christina Karamo was replaced as party chair by Pete Hoekstra, a longtime congressman and former Trump administration ambassador to the Netherlands.

00:47:30.000 Karamo had mismanaged the party's finances and was widely derided for saying demonic forces were controlling political opponents.

00:47:36.000 The fight left the party with less money to spend on organizing and lingering ill will among Karamo's supporters.

00:47:43.000 So again, just this sort of chaos that's been ushered in by, you know, the mismanagement at the top levels of the Republican Party continues to have downstream effects.

00:47:52.000 So keep an eye on the ground game.

00:47:54.000 All right, you guys, coming up.

00:47:55.000 Remember that time that Donald Trump's an authoritarian?

00:47:57.000 Well, the left is sounding pretty authoritarian about their attempts to, quote unquote, stop the authoritarian.

00:48:02.000 If you're not a member, become a member, use code Shapiro, check out for two months free on all annual plans.

00:48:05.000 Click that link in the description and join us. 0.92

00:48:08.000 Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 0.91

00:48:13.000 Growing up, I never thought much about race. 0.95

00:48:14.000 It never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me.

00:48:17.000 Am I racist?

00:48:18.000 I would really appreciate it if you left.

00:48:20.000 I'm trying to learn.

00:48:20.000 I'm on this journey.

00:48:22.000 I'm gonna sort this out.

00:48:23.000 I need to go deeper undercover.

00:48:26.000 You say I'm racist.

00:48:27.000 Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.

00:48:31.000 Here's my certification.

00:48:32.000 What you're doing is you're stretching out of your white. 0.96

00:48:34.000 There's more for you in this field.

00:48:36.000 Is America inherently racist?

00:48:37.000 The word inherent is challenging.

00:48:39.000 You want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument?

00:48:42.000 America is racist to its bones.

00:48:44.000 So inherently? 0.98

00:48:45.000 Yeah.

00:48:45.000 This country is a piece of...

00:48:48.000 White. 0.97

00:48:49.000 Folks.

00:48:49.000 White.

00:48:49.000 Trash.

00:48:50.000 White supremacy. 1.00

00:48:50.000 White woman. 1.00

00:48:51.000 White boy.

00:48:52.000 Is there a black person around here?

00:48:53.000 There's a black person right here.

00:48:54.000 Does he not exist?

00:48:55.000 Hi, Robin.

00:48:57.000 Hi.

00:48:58.000 What's your name?

00:48:59.000 I'm Matt.

00:48:59.000 I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.

The Ben Shapiro Show - September 09, 2024

Kamala’s Momentum GONE, Trump Regains LEAD

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