Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are dead even in the polls, which means that if the election were held today, Donald Trump would almost certainly win the election. We're going to talk about why this is such a big problem for Kamala, and why she's running on Vibes, which is why she needs to figure out a way to explain why she thinks Joe Biden is the worst president of the modern era, not just because he's senile, but also because his policies stink. And if her policies don't look like Joe Biden's policies, people will look at her policies and say, "Why does she have a problem with Joe Biden?" And that's why she has to get a policy page. And why she can't explain anything, because she's not smart enough to explain anything. And we'll explain why that's a problem, because Kamala's problem is that she's dumb, dumb and dumb, and can't even explain what she's got going on, let alone why she should care about what she should be doing anything about it. The Daily Wire's first ever theatrical release, "Am I Racist?" is out this weekend, and it's a must-see! Subscribe to the Daily Wire Podcast! Subscribe on iTunes and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on Podchaser! Learn more about your ad choices. Rate, review and subscribe to our new podcast, and tell us what you think about the latest viral video you're listening to! in the comments section! Thanks for listening to the podcast, rating and reviewing the podcast! The opinions expressed in this podcast are our thoughts on our podcast are those of our podcast and what you'd like to be featured in the next episode of the podcast? - tweet us on your thoughts and comments are we'd love to know more about our next episode or your thoughts on the podcast and your thoughts about what we're listening out on it? and your feedback is we'd like us to tweet us what we should be listening about it! and we'll get a shoutout in the podcast next week on the next one? or your feedback on our next podcast episode is in the latest episode of this podcast is a tweet or your answer to that's the next week's podcast is that's next episode is a star rating or a review or a tweet we're talking about that's getting a tweet about what you're reading or a screenshot of that?
00:00:16.000We're going to talk about why this is such a big problem in a second.
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00:00:58.000The polls tend to undersample Trump voters.
00:01:00.000They tend not to encompass all of the so-called low-propensity voters that Trump brings in.
00:01:06.000Kamala Harris, in order to win the election, probably has to win the popular vote by at least three points.
00:01:11.000If this election is a dead heat in the popular vote, or if she just slightly beats Trump in the popular vote, with everybody from California and New York voting, that means that in the swing states, she's probably not going to have enough votes.
00:01:23.000Which is why, yesterday, she finally, at long last, brought out her policy page.
00:01:27.000Now, the problem for Kamala Harris is this.
00:01:29.000If her policies look like Joe Biden's policies, every single person is going to look at her and say, Joe Biden is the worst president of the modern era, which is why he was losing to Donald Trump so heavily.
00:01:38.000Not just because he was senile, but also because he's a very bad president and his policies stink.
00:01:43.000So if her policies look like his policies, she's toast.
00:01:46.000If her policies don't look like his policies, she has to explain why.
00:01:50.000And there's one thing Kamala Harris is awful at, and that is explaining.
00:01:54.000She has no capacity to explain anything, which is why when asked any question at any time, she immediately starts to babble like a fifth grader who didn't read the book.
00:02:02.000She immediately reverts to explaining not what she believes about an issue, but the importance of the issue.
00:02:08.000So if you ask her, for example, why she has shifted on her mandatory gun buybacks, she won't explain her prior position, why it was wrong, and why her new position is right.
00:02:16.000She'll explain the importance of why gun violence is so terrible in American society.
00:02:25.000It's weird, and it doesn't answer the question.
00:02:28.000The problem is that she's been running on vibes and the vibes have now run out.
00:02:32.000It was bound to happen sooner or later for a couple of reasons.
00:02:35.000One, the American people, I think, really are smarter than this.
00:02:37.000At a certain point, they want the policy.
00:02:39.000The thing about President Trump, everybody on the left looks at Trump and they say, well, yeah, but he's vague and he words salad.
00:02:44.000Yes, but we know what his presidency looked like.
00:02:47.000So the reality of this election is very simple.
00:02:51.000Donald Trump is running for a second term because he's saying, look at my first term.
00:02:55.000And Kamala Harris is running for Joe Biden's second term by saying, do not look at my first term.
00:02:59.000That is the signal difference between the two campaigns.
00:03:02.000Trump is saying, look at what I did when I was president, and then do you want that again?
00:03:06.000And Kamala Harris is saying, don't look.
00:03:08.000Whatever you do, don't look at the last three and a half years.
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00:05:06.000They needed to shove that old man off the back of the boat and they needed to supplant him with somebody who is younger and fresher faced and better looking and then hope that you don't notice that she has all the same positions and in fact was the co-captain of the boat before they shoved the old man off the back of the boat.
00:05:22.000So yesterday she released her policy page and it's basically empty trash.
00:05:54.000So for the lady who has to campaign on not having anything to do with Joe Biden, it turns out that actually her entire platform is copied directly from Joe Biden.
00:06:03.000So much so that her team was too lazy to even rewrite the source code.
00:06:07.000They just cut from one and they put it in the other, which is amazing.
00:06:12.000Even the New Republic, and the New Republic wants her to win.
00:06:15.000They wanted to win, and here's what they write today.
00:06:17.000This is dangerous territory for Harris, given that the Times poll found that more than 60% of voters wanted the next president to represent a major change from Biden.
00:06:25.000And only a quarter felt that Harris represented that change.
00:06:28.000That makes sense, given that she's his vice president.
00:06:30.000But it means she should be working overtime to distinguish herself from her boss.
00:06:35.000This is Alex Shepard, writing over at the New Republic.
00:06:37.000And this has become the sort of talking point for people who want Kamala Harris to win, is that she needs to cut Joe Biden loose.
00:06:43.000That's a direct quote from Jonathan Chait.
00:06:45.000Jonathan Chait writes for New York Magazine.
00:06:47.000He has an entire piece titled, Kamala Harris Should Cut Joe Biden Loose.
00:06:51.000Quote, Kamala Harris is navigating a tricky dilemma, according to the New York Times.
00:06:55.000She will try to promote herself as a changed candidate without criticizing President Biden.
00:06:59.000I have no reason to doubt this accurately conveys the calculus within the Harris campaign.
00:07:03.000My question is, why is this a struggle?
00:07:05.000Why not directly repudiate unpopular Biden positions?
00:07:12.000Harris doesn't have to worry about forfeiting his vote.
00:07:14.000Even the universe of people who are personally loyal to Biden and might take offense at slights to his accomplishments consists entirely of partisan Democrats who will vote for the Democrat at the end of the day.
00:07:23.000Rather than trying to balance loyalty to Biden against catering to the desires of the electorate, Harris's strategy should focus entirely on catering to the public with no attention whatsoever to Biden's feelings.
00:07:32.000This ignores a simple fact, which is that the Democratic Party represents these positions.
00:07:39.000Joe Biden was, as a politician, and I use the past tense because he's no longer with us, Joe Biden was a politician who always and forever took his flag and planted it in the middle of the Democratic parade.
00:07:51.000So wherever the parade moved, he was always dead center of the parade.
00:08:25.000It's that he moves his flag all over the field and plants it wherever the Democratic Party is.
00:08:29.000So attempting to repudiate Joe Biden's positions on these issues is in fact repudiating the Democratic Party position.
00:08:35.000It's the only thing Joe Biden was ever good at, was putting his finger in the air, directing, figuring out which way the wind was blowing, and then moving in that direction.
00:08:44.000Joe Biden is a weathervane of a politician.
00:08:46.000And so if you repudiate the weathervane, what do you end up with?
00:08:49.000Does Jonathan Chape want her to run as a moderate, or does he want her to run as a Bernie Sanders radical?
00:08:56.000And the problem is, if she runs as a moderate, she is running directly against her own record, because Kamala Harris is very much like Joe Biden as a politician.
00:09:03.000She has sort of more radical instincts than Joe Biden.
00:09:06.000Joe Biden's older, he's from a different generation.
00:09:08.000She has very much AOC, San Francisco leftist instinct, politically speaking, as we'll talk about in a moment.
00:09:15.000However, she is a politician Extremely manipulative.
00:09:19.000And she moves exactly on the map where she thinks the Democratic Party needs to be at any given time or where they are at any given time.
00:09:26.000So she'll be the most left-leaning member of the United States Senate.
00:09:29.000She'll rush in the front of that parade in 2019.
00:09:31.000And then the minute that it turns out that the country doesn't like that stuff, she'll try to move over back toward the middle.
00:09:37.000So what exactly is it that she can repudiate?
00:09:41.000But Thomas Friedman is telling her to do the same thing.
00:09:44.000Thomas Friedman, the most cloddish and doltish of all foreign policy columnists, signs into chat to explain what he thinks is the plan for Kamala Harris.
00:09:52.000He says the 23 words Harris needs to say to win.
00:09:56.000Quote, Joe and I got a lot of things right, but we got some things wrong too.
00:10:02.000For my money, says Thomas Friedman, uttering those 23 words or something like them is the key for Kamala Harris to win Tuesday's debate against Donald Trump and the election.
00:10:09.000Utter them and she will hugely improve her chances to win more of the undecided voters in this tight race.
00:10:13.000Fail to utter them or continue to disguise her policy shifts with the incoherent statement she used in the CNN interview, that while her positions might have changed on fracking and immigration, quote, my values have not changed, and she will struggle.
00:10:39.000Our latest poll shows too many voters still don't know.
00:10:43.000Okay, the problem is, if she says the thing he wants her to say, she loses the election.
00:10:47.000If she says, we got a lot of things right, but we got a bunch of things wrong, and here's what I learned, Donald Trump is going to say, you got those things wrong because you are bad at the job, and you shouldn't be offered a second chance, given your record.
00:10:57.000The minute she says that, she's toast.
00:11:07.000If they vote on policy and not on vibes, she is in serious trouble.
00:11:11.000And if you look at the platform that she just released, her platform is not only at odds with her past positions, it's at odds with reality.
00:11:20.000If you read her platform, for example, she says she wants to cut taxes for the middle class.
00:11:24.000By what, repudiating the Trump tax cuts?
00:11:27.000Trump's tax cuts heavily favored the middle class, but she wants that to expire.
00:11:39.000By directing her administration to crack down on anti-competitive practices that let big corporations jack up prices and undermine the competition that allows all businesses to thrive while keeping prices low for consumers.
00:11:50.000That New York Times-Siena college poll that shows that she's trailing shows Americans don't like price controls.
00:11:54.000They don't like her plans on so-called price gouging.
00:11:58.000She touts on her campaign page the bipartisan infrastructure law, the Inflation Reduction Act, the American Rescue Plan.
00:12:06.000All of that is the inflationary fuel that has driven us to 40-year highs in that category.
00:12:12.000She also suggests that she is going to enshrine the Equality Act, which is a wildly overreaching measure designed to basically outlaw private religious practice in the United States, so long as you do it in a business setting.
00:12:24.000You know, when you see Kamala Harris's policy positions rolled out this way, you wonder, does anyone truly believe this?
00:15:18.000Also, the guy who you were serving under suggested that if Russia made a minor incursion into Ukraine without defending or defining exactly what that meant, then it would probably be fine.
00:15:28.000She says, quote, Vice President Harris will never hesitate to take whatever action is necessary to
00:15:32.000protect U.S. forces and interests from Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups. That's weird,
00:15:36.000because a bunch of American troops have died in the Middle East in recent months,
00:15:39.000and you've done pretty much nothing, as it turns out. She and President Biden are working to end
00:15:43.000the war in Gaza such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends,
00:15:48.000and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom, and self-determination.
00:15:52.000She and President Biden are working around the clock to get a hostage deal and a ceasefire deal done.
00:15:56.000How's that working out for you, by the way?
00:15:58.000Your stupid policy of trying to embargo weapons to our ally in the middle of a hostage situation.
00:16:33.000So, this turned into a bit of a debate between me and Mark Cuban.
00:16:37.000So, Mark Cuban, of course, the billionaire former owner of the Dallas Mavericks.
00:16:40.000He's now minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks.
00:16:42.000So, the other day, there was a clip that we played on the show of Kamala Harris at a really, really left-wing spices shop in Pennsylvania, going and hugging some crying lady.
00:16:56.000We played it on the show and I made fun of it because it's ridiculous.
00:18:18.000Aforementioned Kamala Harris supporter who ignores, he has a habit of ignoring everything bad that Kamala Harris says and pretending it doesn't exist.
00:18:24.000So he'll go on national TV and he will freely acknowledge that her idiotic idea to tax unrealized capital gains would destroy the American economy.
00:18:32.000And then he'll just go, well, it's never going to happen.
00:18:53.000I mean, like, first of all, capable of- I said, I don't- I said, if you are like, walking around, wanting your presidential candidate to hug you, you're a sad person and you need a family.
00:19:06.000So I tweeted back at him, I would imagine nearly all presidential candidates, being human, are capable of hugging.
00:19:11.000I'd like a presidential candidate capable of something more, like perhaps not getting 13 American soldiers murdered in Afghanistan, or creating 40-year highs in inflation, or ass-kissing Iran.
00:19:26.000I'm just gonna put it out there that my reply is better than his original statement.
00:19:33.000The fact that he believes that the signal quality he is searching for in a politician is empathy and kindness as opposed to competence is amazing.
00:19:45.000If we are a country that has now been relegated to needing a hug from the people who run for president, to seeking spiritual fulfillment from the people who run for president, it is precisely the opposite that the founders sought to establish.
00:19:57.000The founders did not see the government as a thing to hug.
00:19:59.000The government is not your mommy, and the government is not your daddy.
00:20:06.000What you need is a mom and a dad, and then you need a president very far away who does the things described in Article 2 of the Constitution of the United States.
00:20:17.000And if you are seeking spiritual solace, Emotional fulfillment in a candidate like Kamala Harris, the emptiest vessel in the history of the modern American Republic.
00:20:27.000Let me suggest once again, you need psychological help.
00:20:32.000And that's true, by the way, on all sides of the aisle.
00:20:33.000If you're sitting around, you're like, I wish I got, I need, I need a hug from Donald Trump.
00:20:36.000That's what I'm looking for, a hug from Donald Trump.
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00:22:42.000So he has dug up a fact via Kayfile which is that Kamala Harris told the ACLU in 2019 that she supports cuts to ICE funding and providing gender transition surgery to detained minors.
00:22:56.000So if you bring like a 13 year old kid across the border and that kid wants American taxpayers to fund surgery.
00:23:36.000She wrote, both wrote and answered in the affirmative when she was asked this.
00:23:41.000And she said she also supported it for federal prisoners.
00:23:44.000Now, she also pledged to slash immigration detention by 50 percent, close all family and private facilities, and decrease funding for ICE, and then end ICE detainers with local law enforcement.
00:23:57.000I mean, these are things that, you know, it would be hard to think that you would come up with taxpayer funding, gender transitions for detained migrants, and yet this, as you say, written and verbally.
00:24:09.000I mean, that's a pretty amazing thing.
00:24:33.000The illegal immigration problem is a massive, massive issue.
00:24:37.000There are, in fact, enormous issues in Springfield, Ohio that have been high-lit by the current vice presidential candidate and senator from Ohio, J.D.
00:24:45.000It turns out that when you have a town of 60,000 people and it's inundated with 20,000 Haitian immigrants, That might actually have a real impact on the social services in the city, on the culture of the city.
00:25:20.000We have no reports of pets being stolen, for example.
00:25:23.000There was a social media post originally from a Springfield Facebook group that went viral in recent days, according to the Springfield News Sun.
00:25:30.000The original poster did not cite first-hand knowledge of an incident.
00:25:33.000Instead, they claim their neighbor's daughter's friend had lost her cat and found it hanging from a branch in a Haitian neighbor's home, being carved up to be eaten.
00:25:40.000The poster also claimed that rangers and police told them they have been doing it at Snyder Park, too, with ducks and geese.
00:25:46.000The Springfield police were like, yeah, that didn't happen.
00:25:48.000Okay, so, but you don't have to go there.
00:25:51.000This is the part where, again, don't get distracted by dumb, shiny objects if you are a Republican.
00:25:55.000The reality is that the residents of Springfield, Ohio are pretty clearly frustrated with the situation over there because it turns out that simply importing hundreds of thousands of people from a nation with a culture very different from America on the basis of temporary protected status, giving them TPS status, It is so unsafe.
00:26:18.000bad idea. Here for example is one member of the Springfield, Ohio community
00:26:23.000complaining to the City Commission this is in August.
00:26:27.000It is so unsafe. I have men that cannot speak English in my front yard screaming
00:26:34.000at me, throwing mattresses in my front yard, throwing trash in my front yard and
00:26:39.000I can't. I look at me I weigh 95 pounds.
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00:28:23.000The New York Times had a piece titled, quote, How an Ohio Town Landed in the Middle of an Immigration Debate.
00:28:28.000It has been more than a year since the fateful morning last August when outside Springfield in southwestern Ohio, a minivan veered into oncoming traffic and rammed into a school bus on the first day of class, killing an 11-year-old boy and injuring 23 other children.
00:28:40.000Soon, it emerged the driver of the minivan was not a longtime resident, but one of thousands of immigrants from Haiti who had recently settled in the area.
00:28:47.000He was driving with a foreign license not valid in Ohio.
00:28:50.000The stage was set for another fraught chapter in the debate over immigration in America, this one magnified because J.D.
00:28:54.000Vance, the state's junior senator, would soon become the Republican vice presidential nominee.
00:29:00.000During the last census in 2020, a little more than 58,000 people lived in Springfield, a town at the crossroads of America that had fallen on hard times and shed population as opportunity slipped away.
00:29:10.000But it has changed dramatically in recent years as a boom in manufacturing and warehouse jobs attracted a swelling wave of immigrants, mainly from Haiti.
00:29:16.000City officials estimate as many as 20,000 Haitians have arrived, most of them since the pandemic.
00:29:23.000At the first city commission meeting after the bus crash, angry residents packed the chambers and demanded answers.
00:29:27.000How do you know we aren't getting criminals and rapists?
00:29:30.000Said a man in a blue Harley Davidson t-shirt.
00:29:34.000Are they going to use their driver's licenses to vote?
00:29:37.000The city manager, Brian Heck, explained that Haitians were lawfully in the country, and the police chief, Allison Elliott, said Haitians were not responsible for the city's years-long struggle with crimes such as retail theft.
00:29:49.000By the way, they were only in the country legally because of Kamala Harris.
00:29:53.000Here is a flashback of Kamala Harris bragging about extending temporary protected status to over 100,000 Haitian immigrants.
00:30:02.000That is why, also, starting with our administration, we gave TPS, Temporary Protected Status, to Haitian migrants, 55,000.
00:30:11.000And then more recently, we extended Temporary Protected Status to over 100,000 Haitian migrants for that very reason, that they need support, they need protection.
00:30:23.000Okay, so she is taking credit for all of this.
00:30:26.000Now, the New York Times is trying to plant that these immigrants have revitalized the region.
00:30:31.000The reality is that if you open a manufacturing plant in Springfield, Ohio, there are a lot of people who are not immigrants who will come and take those jobs.
00:30:38.000It is not that you need Haitian immigrants to come take those jobs unless they're undercutting the wage base or something in Springfield, Ohio.
00:30:45.000There are tons of people in the United States.
00:30:47.000This is a country of 340 million people.
00:30:49.000You don't need people who are given TPS, 20,000 of them, to suddenly show up in Springfield, Ohio, from a country that does not have a ton in common culturally with the United States, any country that does not share a ton in common culturally with the United States, and just inundate a town.
00:31:06.000And suddenly become, overnight, one quarter of the city's population.
00:31:10.000Of course that's going to create social friction and a massive draw on social services, which is what you have seen.
00:31:15.000According to the New York Times, the community health clinic saw a 13-fold increase in Haitian
00:31:19.000patients between 2021 and 2023, from 115 to 1,500, overwhelming its staff and budget.
00:31:26.000Again, there are serious downsides to all of this.
00:31:31.000Haitians had social security numbers and work permits thanks to a federal program that offered them temporary protection in the United States.
00:31:37.000Some have been living for years in places like Florida, where there's a thriving Haitian community.
00:31:41.000Now again, there's nothing wrong with immigrating to the United States legally.
00:31:45.000Not only that, if you're coming here to work, you're coming here to be part of the American dream, I'm all for it, but there's no way to screen people at the southern border when you just give people temporary protected status and you let them into the country without any vetting, without knowing what their educational level is, what their skill set is, are they going to be a draw on public services, what their family structure is.
00:32:07.000And pretending these issues don't exist doesn't make them go away.
00:32:13.000Apparently, at the Rocking Horse Community Health Center, a federally subsidized clinic that does not turn anyone away, a surge in Haitians has caused a consultation that normally takes 15 minutes to take as long as 45 because of the language barrier.
00:33:14.000We do not have the capacity to sustain it.
00:33:17.000And without additional federal assistance or support, again, communities like Springfield will fail.
00:33:26.000Those are the people in charge, and those are people that Brian Heck, the person I quoted a second ago, that last person is Brian Heck saying that the community resources are going to fail.
00:33:34.000That is a person who is trying to assure citizens that the people who are there were not there illegally.
00:33:38.000So these are not like rabid right-wingers who hate immigrants or anything like this.
00:33:42.000These are real problems that have been facilitated by the Biden administration, and everyone knows it.
00:33:46.000I mean, hell, Alejandro Mayorkas, literally yesterday, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, He says that you have to stop criticizing immigration in strong terms, because people will die if you do that.
00:34:03.000How about the people who have died as a result of illegal immigrant criminals being allowed into the country?
00:34:07.000We can name many of those people, like Lake and Riley.
00:34:10.000Here's Alejandro Mayorkas doing his shtick.
00:34:14.000As the son of Jewish and Cuban immigrants and of a mother who survived the Holocaust, what do you think, what goes through your mind when you hear Donald Trump, the former president, say that immigrants are poisoning the blood of the country?
00:34:35.000So I'm going to detach it from the individual, as I must, given legal constraints.
00:34:42.000I abide scrupulously to the Hatch Act requirements.
00:34:46.000That rhetoric that I have heard espoused by people is odious.
00:35:22.000Donald Trump should hold her account on Afghanistan.
00:35:24.000So yesterday, John Kirby, the national security spokesperson, he was asked about the fact that there's now a new House GOP report pointing out how deeply involved Kamala Harris was in the Afghanistan debacle and how badly the United States blew it.
00:35:38.000John Kirby then proceeded to suggest that the administration held itself accountable.
00:35:53.000Was anyone ever held accountable by the President directly for what happened with the withdrawal in Afghanistan?
00:35:59.000And if not, remind the audience why not.
00:36:01.000We have all held ourselves accountable for the progress of the withdrawal across the administration.
00:36:08.000And it was a true interagency effort to get those 120,000 people out and to make sure we removed our diplomats and our military personnel safely.
00:36:18.000They held themselves accountable for how awesome they did.
00:36:20.000Donald Trump needs to hold Kamala Harris accountable tonight on the stage.
00:36:24.000Speaking of which, tonight we are going backstage for the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
00:36:30.000That's a debate that could determine America's 47th president.
00:36:34.000We're inviting you to watch along with us live on Daily Wire Plus as we simulcast the full debate.
00:36:39.000Once Trump and Harris are done, I, Matt Walsh, Michael Mowles, Andrew Klavan, Jeremy Boren, we will all break it down for you and separate the facts from the nonsense.
00:36:46.000Now more than ever, you need to get the truth.
00:38:11.000Her excuse-making, by the way, and avoiding questions remains truly astonishing.
00:38:14.000Gina Raimondo, the Secretary of Commerce under Joe Biden, she was asked about Kamala Harris avoiding questions, and she said she's got a punishing schedule.
00:38:21.000Well, she designs the schedule That's ridiculous.
00:38:26.000She's the one who decides it's important to hug people in spice shops rather than answering any questions at all.
00:38:31.000Here's Gina Raimondo making an absolutely unconvincing defense of Kamala Harris.
00:38:37.000She's been impossible to pin down on anything because she hasn't given any access.
00:39:12.000I mean, again, we'll see what Kamala Harris does in this debate.
00:39:16.000There are a bunch of dangers for Kamala Harris in this debate.
00:39:18.000If she word salads it, if she sounds incoherent, if she does the thing that she always does when hit by a perfectly obvious question, and she just starts circling like a drunken bird in the sky around some target below, it's gonna be a major problem for her.
00:40:15.000The political interest suggests that I should actually play down expectations for Trump and play up expectations for Harris.
00:40:20.000I think the most likely scenario is that the debate actually ends with nobody making serious gains.
00:40:25.000I think the most likely scenario here is she word salads her way through this one, Trump is sort of subdued, he does what he has to do, and the race continues as it was before the debate.
00:40:34.000But if you're going to game out these sort of spectacular possibilities, The spectacular possibility for Kamala Harris is that she absolutely goes up on the stage.
00:41:02.000And the problem for her, she actually does have to cram.
00:41:04.000And one of the things they say about being an honest person is it's easier to be honest than to be a liar because you don't have to remember your lies.
00:41:28.000Every time he is asked a question, he gets up and he motors on out there, arms a wave in like one of those big blow-up things on the side of the freeway from a used car lot.
00:41:36.000And then he just runs out of there because he doesn't know her positions either.
00:41:40.000So she's been cramming, apparently, in preparation for the debate.
00:41:44.000According to the Washington Post, Harris has spent most of the past four days ensconced in Pittsburgh's Omni William Penn Hotel for intensive debate camp.
00:41:51.000Which sounds like the worst camp ever, by the way.
00:41:53.000Her aides created a mock setup to mimic the layout of the debate studio, cast a veteran Donald Trump stand-in to unleash harsh attacks and offensive comments, and put the Vice President through hours of rehearsed questions.
00:42:04.000Just Shane Gillis in the room with Kamala Harris being like, and that's why you're stupid and ugly.
00:42:09.000Okay, but that's not actually what happened.
00:42:13.000They probably hired David Bluth or something to pretend to be Donald Trump.
00:42:17.000According to 30 Miles to the East, Trump spent much of the weekend at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, opting for policy sessions with aides and allies instead of traditional practice runs.
00:42:25.000The former president has participated in about a half dozen of these sessions in recent weeks, reviewing Harris's policy record from her 2020 presidential campaign and practicing how to respond to an expected barrage of attacks on his character.
00:42:35.000And we talked last Friday, if you want to hear my entire preview of what Donald Trump needs to do, go listen to last Friday's show in which I explicitly laid out what he needs to do in this debate and what he needs to avoid, the things she needs to avoid and I'm not sure she can.
00:42:46.000is stepping on the landmine of her own ignorance.
00:42:50.000I don't know if she has the capacity to avoid exposing her own vacuity here.
00:42:56.000Harris's aides wanted ABC to change the rules according to the Washington Post, so both microphones would remain unmuted throughout the debate, hoping that would encourage Trump to go off script and let Harris issue sharp retorts.
00:43:06.000Trump's aides were determined to keep the rules in place.
00:43:09.000Harris' aides fear that Trump will unleash so many dubious statements or attacks during his uninterrupted speaking time that she will be unable to challenge them all, according to people familiar with her planning, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal strategy.
00:43:21.000So they're trying now to figure out other ways to parry Trump's attacks.
00:43:25.000She's already laying out the narrative.
00:43:27.000The pre-narrative is going to be here from Kamala Harris.
00:43:32.000I couldn't even keep up with all of his lies.
00:43:34.000Well, the truth is that Donald Trump says a lot of things where he bloviates or he over speaks or he exaggerates and that's all par for the course.
00:43:42.000The true liar, the true actual person who sits there and with malice aforethought figures out how to lie is Kamala Harris.
00:43:50.000But here she was doing another non-adversarial interview with the Ricky Smiley Morning Show.
00:43:56.000This, by the way, is the reason why she doesn't have time, according to Gina Raimondo, to actually answer tough questions.
00:44:01.000She's just got a grueling, busy schedule.
00:44:03.000Here she was trying to explain how tough it will be to debate Donald Trump.
00:44:07.000He plays from this really old and tired playbook, right?
00:44:11.000Where he, there's no floor for him in terms of How low he will go.
00:44:16.000And, um, and we should be prepared for that.
00:44:19.000We should be prepared for the fact that he is not burdened by telling the truth.
00:44:23.000Um, and we should be prepared for the fact that he is probably going to speak a lot of untruth.
00:44:30.000And, um, ultimately, you know, what I intend to point out is what we, so many people know, as certainly as I'm traveling the country in this campaign, he, he tends to fight for himself, not for the American people.
00:44:44.000And I think that's going to come out during the course of the debate.
00:44:47.000OK, if that's the best she's got, that's a problem.
00:44:50.000Well, the New York Times is hoping for a bit of a different outcome, obviously, in the
00:44:53.000debate tonight than what happened with Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the first debate.
00:44:57.000By the way, this is going to be the last debate.
00:44:58.000There's no more debates. I know everybody's talking about, well, this is the first of a
00:45:37.000Because she's running, once again, on the mama law, I'm here to just give hugs.
00:45:42.000And her male counterparts, the people in the campaign who are supposed to draw in the men, are Weird McWeirdface, Tim Walz, he of the flailing arms as though he's signaling a jet to
00:45:52.000come into the runway, and also speaking about how socialism is neighborliness.
00:47:08.000Okay, there's nothing new under the sun when it comes to Donald Trump.
00:47:11.000The attempt to pretend that there's new information emerging about the grave evil that is Donald Trump is one of the dumbest things in American politics.
00:47:21.000But here's the New York Times, they say, quote, It seems a strange twist of American history.
00:47:25.000The only man to have run against two female nominees in two presidential elections is one with a long and explicit record of denigrating women.
00:47:34.000Why is that a strange choice of American history?
00:47:36.000Democrats are just running a lot of women lately.
00:47:47.000Mr. Trump has of course treated men with intense bellicosity, launching a blizzard of interruptions against President
00:47:51.000Biden during their first debate in 2020 and lobbing personal insults at the likes of Marco Rubio
00:47:55.000and Ted Cruz during the primary in 2016.
00:47:57.000But a review of his onstage clashes with women shows how, over nine years in politics, he has honed a playbook of explicitly gendered attacks against both female candidates and journalists that he is likely to draw from on Tuesday when he debates Vice President Kamala Harris.
00:48:11.000Mr. Trump has used his physical presence and body language to intimidate women, Yeah, that, yeah.
00:48:21.000The first time he ever spoke of a female presidential candidate on a debate stage, it was to brag about the control he had over her, says the New York Times.
00:48:28.000Trump was talking about Hillary Clinton and giving her monies.
00:48:54.000Debating Trump has never been an easy task because the normal expectations in a debate are that the person will be answerable for the ideas they say on the stage.
00:49:02.000Trump has never been subject to those rules, for good or ill, going all the way back to 2015.
00:49:07.000Trying to shift that now is likely to be unsuccessful.
00:49:13.000And the attempt by Kamala Harris to introduce herself to the American voters, or to shift her positions, I think is going to be unavailing.
00:49:21.000I think this debate is way more dangerous for Kamala Harris than it is for Trump, which
00:49:24.000is probably why she's trying to get out of it in the first place.
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00:49:36.000Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people.
00:49:41.000Growing up, I never thought much about race.
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