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00:00:00.000 Well, Kamala Harris has a major problem. 1.00

00:00:02.000 Tonight is the big debate, probably the only debate, between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in the polling data nationally.

00:00:08.000 They are dead even, which means that if the election were held today, almost certainly Donald Trump wins.

00:00:15.000 That is a huge problem for her. 1.00

00:00:16.000 We're going to talk about why this is such a big problem in a second.

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00:00:47.000 As we say, Kamala Harris is in serious trouble. 1.00

00:00:49.000 The current election polling shows that she is running about dead even with him in pretty much all of the swing states.

00:00:56.000 That's not going to be enough.

00:00:58.000 The polls tend to undersample Trump voters.

00:01:00.000 They tend not to encompass all of the so-called low-propensity voters that Trump brings in.

00:01:06.000 Kamala Harris, in order to win the election, probably has to win the popular vote by at least three points. 0.99

00:01:11.000 If 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.

00:01:21.000 And she is feeling the pressure.

00:01:23.000 Which is why, yesterday, she finally, at long last, brought out her policy page.

00:01:27.000 Now, the problem for Kamala Harris is this. 1.00

00:01:29.000 If 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.

00:01:38.000 Not just because he was senile, but also because he's a very bad president and his policies stink.

00:01:43.000 So if her policies look like his policies, she's toast.

00:01:46.000 If her policies don't look like his policies, she has to explain why.

00:01:50.000 And there's one thing Kamala Harris is awful at, and that is explaining. 1.00

00:01:54.000 She 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.

00:02:02.000 She immediately reverts to explaining not what she believes about an issue, but the importance of the issue.

00:02:08.000 So 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.

00:02:16.000 She'll explain the importance of why gun violence is so terrible in American society. 0.99

00:02:25.000 It's weird, and it doesn't answer the question.

00:02:28.000 The problem is that she's been running on vibes and the vibes have now run out.

00:02:32.000 It was bound to happen sooner or later for a couple of reasons.

00:02:35.000 One, the American people, I think, really are smarter than this.

00:02:37.000 At a certain point, they want the policy.

00:02:39.000 The thing about President Trump, everybody on the left looks at Trump and they say, well, yeah, but he's vague and he words salad.

00:02:44.000 Yes, but we know what his presidency looked like.

00:02:47.000 So the reality of this election is very simple.

00:02:51.000 Donald Trump is running for a second term because he's saying, look at my first term.

00:02:55.000 And Kamala Harris is running for Joe Biden's second term by saying, do not look at my first term.

00:02:59.000 That is the signal difference between the two campaigns.

00:03:02.000 Trump is saying, look at what I did when I was president, and then do you want that again?

00:03:06.000 And Kamala Harris is saying, don't look.

00:03:08.000 Whatever you do, don't look at the last three and a half years.

00:03:11.000 Don't look at that.

00:03:13.000 This is why Trump has an advantage in the election, because his argument is super simple.

00:03:17.000 I was already president and it was better.

00:03:19.000 And Kamala Harris's argument is a little more complex.

00:03:22.000 Her argument is, sure, I was vice president.

00:03:24.000 That's how I gained my credibility.

00:03:25.000 The only reason you know who I am is because I'm Joe Biden's vice president, but I really have nothing to do with him.

00:03:29.000 But also I'm kind of responsible for the good stuff, but not responsible for the bad stuff.

00:03:33.000 And I was deeply involved in the most important decisions, but not so involved that I can be held accountable for those decisions.

00:03:41.000 It's a pretty discombobulated campaign when you get right down to it.

00:03:43.000 Which is why the only thing that the vibes were really about was just shoving the old man off the back of the boat.

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00:05:05.000 That's really all it was about.

00:05:06.000 They 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. 0.96

00:05:22.000 So yesterday she released her policy page and it's basically empty trash. 0.69

00:05:26.000 There's another problem, by the way.

00:05:28.000 The New Republic points out, quote, the Harris campaign is only now belatedly realizing this is a problem.

00:05:33.000 On Sunday, they finally added an issues section to her website.

00:05:37.000 It includes a slew of policies the campaign has previously outlined, as well as sections on reproductive and civil rights.

00:05:42.000 Unfortunately for Harris, its release was undermined by a simple but telling error.

00:05:46.000 The page's source code revealed that parts of the platform were copied directly from Biden's campaign page.

00:05:53.000 Oh no.

00:05:54.000 So 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.

00:06:03.000 So much so that her team was too lazy to even rewrite the source code.

00:06:07.000 They just cut from one and they put it in the other, which is amazing.

00:06:12.000 Even the New Republic, and the New Republic wants her to win. 0.62

00:06:15.000 They wanted to win, and here's what they write today.

00:06:17.000 This 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.

00:06:25.000 And only a quarter felt that Harris represented that change.

00:06:28.000 That makes sense, given that she's his vice president.

00:06:30.000 But it means she should be working overtime to distinguish herself from her boss. 0.74

00:06:35.000 This is Alex Shepard, writing over at the New Republic.

00:06:37.000 And 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. 1.00

00:06:43.000 That's a direct quote from Jonathan Chait.

00:06:45.000 Jonathan Chait writes for New York Magazine.

00:06:47.000 He has an entire piece titled, Kamala Harris Should Cut Joe Biden Loose.

00:06:51.000 Quote, Kamala Harris is navigating a tricky dilemma, according to the New York Times.

00:06:55.000 She will try to promote herself as a changed candidate without criticizing President Biden.

00:06:59.000 I have no reason to doubt this accurately conveys the calculus within the Harris campaign.

00:07:03.000 My question is, why is this a struggle?

00:07:05.000 Why not directly repudiate unpopular Biden positions?

00:07:09.000 Joe Biden is literally one person.

00:07:10.000 He lives in a safe state.

00:07:12.000 Harris doesn't have to worry about forfeiting his vote.

00:07:14.000 Even 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.

00:07:23.000 Rather 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.

00:07:32.000 This ignores a simple fact, which is that the Democratic Party represents these positions.

00:07:38.000 It is not just Joe Biden.

00:07:39.000 Joe 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.

00:07:51.000 So wherever the parade moved, he was always dead center of the parade.

00:07:55.000 That was always his shtick.

00:07:56.000 Joe Biden was never a leader in terms of thought in the Democratic Party.

00:08:00.000 He was never the edgy guy like Bernie Sanders.

00:08:03.000 He was never a visionary like Barack Obama.

00:08:05.000 He wasn't any of those people.

00:08:07.000 Joe Biden was always a typical corrupt Democratic politician who simply went wherever the prevailing winds in the Democratic Party blew.

00:08:14.000 So in the 1990s, he was very anti-crime, so much so that he co-sponsored the 1994 crime bill.

00:08:20.000 And by the time we hit 2020, he was suddenly Black Lives Matter.

00:08:22.000 How does that happen?

00:08:23.000 It wasn't an evolution.

00:08:25.000 It's that he moves his flag all over the field and plants it wherever the Democratic Party is.

00:08:29.000 So attempting to repudiate Joe Biden's positions on these issues is in fact repudiating the Democratic Party position.

00:08:35.000 It'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.

00:08:44.000 Joe Biden is a weathervane of a politician.

00:08:46.000 And so if you repudiate the weathervane, what do you end up with?

00:08:49.000 Does Jonathan Chape want her to run as a moderate, or does he want her to run as a Bernie Sanders radical?

00:08:54.000 What exactly does he want her to do?

00:08:56.000 And 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.

00:09:03.000 She has sort of more radical instincts than Joe Biden.

00:09:06.000 Joe Biden's older, he's from a different generation.

00:09:08.000 She has very much AOC, San Francisco leftist instinct, politically speaking, as we'll talk about in a moment.

00:09:15.000 However, she is a politician Extremely manipulative. 1.00

00:09:19.000 And 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.

00:09:26.000 So she'll be the most left-leaning member of the United States Senate. 1.00

00:09:29.000 She'll rush in the front of that parade in 2019. 1.00

00:09:31.000 And 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. 0.99

00:09:37.000 So what exactly is it that she can repudiate?

00:09:39.000 The answer is nothing.

00:09:39.000 She can't repudiate any of this.

00:09:41.000 But Thomas Friedman is telling her to do the same thing.

00:09:44.000 Thomas 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.

00:09:52.000 He says the 23 words Harris needs to say to win.

00:09:56.000 Quote, Joe and I got a lot of things right, but we got some things wrong too.

00:10:00.000 And here is what I have learned.

00:10:02.000 For 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.

00:10:09.000 Utter them and she will hugely improve her chances to win more of the undecided voters in this tight race. 1.00

00:10:13.000 Fail 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.

00:10:24.000 Madam VP, says Thomas Friedman.

00:10:25.000 Again, Thomas Friedman wants her to win.

00:10:27.000 He hates Donald Trump with the fiery, burning passion of a thousand suns.

00:10:30.000 He says, Madam VP, if you say your positions have changed, but your values haven't, what does that even mean?

00:10:35.000 And what should we expect from your presidency?

00:10:37.000 Your values or your actions?

00:10:39.000 Our latest poll shows too many voters still don't know.

00:10:43.000 Okay, the problem is, if she says the thing he wants her to say, she loses the election.

00:10:47.000 If 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.

00:10:57.000 The minute she says that, she's toast.

00:10:59.000 So she's stuck in a box.

00:11:01.000 Realistically speaking, if the American people vote on policy and not on vibes, she's going to lose.

00:11:06.000 It is that simple.

00:11:07.000 If they vote on policy and not on vibes, she is in serious trouble.

00:11:11.000 And 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.

00:11:20.000 If you read her platform, for example, she says she wants to cut taxes for the middle class.

00:11:24.000 By what, repudiating the Trump tax cuts?

00:11:27.000 Trump's tax cuts heavily favored the middle class, but she wants that to expire.

00:11:31.000 Can she explain that?

00:11:34.000 She says she's going to bring down costs in her platform.

00:11:37.000 How is she going to do that? 1.00

00:11:39.000 By 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.

00:11:49.000 There's one problem.

00:11:50.000 That New York Times-Siena college poll that shows that she's trailing shows Americans don't like price controls.

00:11:54.000 They don't like her plans on so-called price gouging.

00:11:58.000 She touts on her campaign page the bipartisan infrastructure law, the Inflation Reduction Act, the American Rescue Plan.

00:12:06.000 All of that is the inflationary fuel that has driven us to 40-year highs in that category.

00:12:12.000 She 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.

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00:13:39.000 Beyond that, she's now claiming that she wants not a mandatory gun buyback.

00:13:44.000 She says she doesn't want that.

00:13:45.000 But she says, quote, she won't stop fighting so Americans have the freedom to live safe from gun

00:13:49.000 violence in our schools, communities and places of worship.

00:13:52.000 She'll ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. And then she says she'll continue to

00:13:56.000 invest in funding law enforcement.

00:13:58.000 But she is a person who was a defund the police person back in 2019.

00:14:03.000 She says she's gonna secure our borders and fix our broken immigration. 1.00

00:14:06.000 Does anyone believe this crap? 0.99

00:14:08.000 She's not gonna do any of this. 0.99

00:14:10.000 I think my favorite part of her newfound platform is her statement on foreign policy, which is just...

00:14:15.000 Hilarious.

00:14:16.000 Quote, One of my favorite tricks in modern politics is where politicians talk about how many countries they visited.

00:14:20.000 Congratulations!

00:14:21.000 I'm glad that you got a stamp on your passport, lady.

00:14:22.000 our national security through her travels to 21 countries and meetings with more than 150 world

00:14:27.000 leaders defended American values and democracy and advanced America's interests. One of my

00:14:31.000 favorite tricks in modern politics is where politicians talk about how many countries they

00:14:34.000 visited. Congratulations, I'm glad that you got a stamp on your passport lady, but I noticed that

00:14:39.000 there's a giant war in the middle of Europe and another giant war in the Middle East and you're

00:14:43.000 the vice president of the United States. My favorite part of this is she says she visited

00:14:48.000 the Korean demilitarized zone to affirm our unwavering commitment to South Korea in the face 0.95

00:14:52.000 of North Korean threats.

00:14:54.000 Do you remember that visit?

00:14:55.000 It was a complete botchery when she went to the DMZ, like a complete bleep show.

00:15:00.000 Then she says, five days before Russia attacked Ukraine, she met with President Zelensky to warn him about Russia's plans to invade.

00:15:06.000 Wow, she warned him?

00:15:07.000 Well, whoop-dee-frickin'-do.

00:15:09.000 Like, well done.

00:15:10.000 You warned him, and then we've had, since then, a three-year-long war, I noticed.

00:15:14.000 So, uh, yeah, that was great.

00:15:16.000 Good job on the warning.

00:15:18.000 Also, 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.

00:15:28.000 She says, quote, Vice President Harris will never hesitate to take whatever action is necessary to

00:15:32.000 protect U.S. forces and interests from Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups. That's weird,

00:15:36.000 because a bunch of American troops have died in the Middle East in recent months,

00:15:39.000 and you've done pretty much nothing, as it turns out. She and President Biden are working to end

00:15:43.000 the war in Gaza such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends,

00:15:48.000 and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom, and self-determination.

00:15:52.000 She and President Biden are working around the clock to get a hostage deal and a ceasefire deal done.

00:15:56.000 How's that working out for you, by the way? 0.99

00:15:58.000 Your stupid policy of trying to embargo weapons to our ally in the middle of a hostage situation. 1.00

00:16:04.000 How's that working out? 1.00

00:16:05.000 Is that working out great?

00:16:06.000 While Hamas sits in their tunnels?

00:16:08.000 The hostages?

00:16:09.000 Has that worked out well?

00:16:11.000 And this is the point.

00:16:12.000 She can say whatever aspirational nonsense she wants on her website. 0.62

00:16:15.000 In the end, she is responsible for the administration currently in power.

00:16:19.000 And if she's not, what is she doing there?

00:16:22.000 She didn't win a single primary vote.

00:16:24.000 The only reason that she's even the nominee is because she's the vice president of the United States. 1.00

00:16:29.000 So in the end, what is the left left with?

00:16:32.000 They're left with vibes.

00:16:33.000 So, this turned into a bit of a debate between me and Mark Cuban.

00:16:37.000 So, Mark Cuban, of course, the billionaire former owner of the Dallas Mavericks.

00:16:40.000 He's now minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks.

00:16:42.000 So, 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. 0.89

00:16:56.000 We played it on the show and I made fun of it because it's ridiculous. 0.98

00:16:59.000 It's ridiculous. 0.98

00:17:00.000 This whole vibes, momology, we need a hug from our president. 0.98

00:17:08.000 So I tweeted, if you want your presidential candidate to hug you, please seek psychological help.

00:17:14.000 Because guess what?

00:17:15.000 I have a family.

00:17:16.000 I have lots of people who hug me.

00:17:17.000 Every single day.

00:17:18.000 I have four little kids.

00:17:19.000 They hug me every single day.

00:17:20.000 And you know what?

00:17:21.000 It's great.

00:17:21.000 I have a wife.

00:17:22.000 We hug all the time.

00:17:23.000 It's wonderful.

00:17:24.000 I have parents.

00:17:25.000 We hug too.

00:17:26.000 I have sisters.

00:17:26.000 We hug.

00:17:27.000 I have nieces and nephews.

00:17:29.000 Lots of hugs all around.

00:17:30.000 You know who I don't give a **** about being hugged by?

00:17:33.000 Donald Trump, J.D.

00:17:34.000 Vance, Kamala Harris, Doug Emhoff, Tim Wall.

00:17:37.000 I don't want any of those people hugging me.

00:17:39.000 Just like I don't want my plumber hugging me.

00:17:41.000 These are people who are delegated a power to do a thing.

00:17:45.000 I don't need them to come over and hug me.

00:17:48.000 I need them to do their job.

00:17:50.000 Kamala Harris has been Vice President of the United States for the last three and a half years.

00:17:54.000 And she has presided over the complete meltdown of American foreign policy.

00:17:58.000 The cleaning out of the base of our military.

00:18:02.000 The fraying of the social fabric in the United States.

00:18:04.000 The emptying out of the American middle class. 0.83

00:18:06.000 She has presided over all of those things. 0.98

00:18:09.000 What do I give a crap if she's hugging randos at a spice shop in Pennsylvania? 0.97

00:18:14.000 But this is what they have to run on. 0.98

00:18:15.000 They have to run on the vibes.

00:18:16.000 So, Mark Cuban.

00:18:18.000 Aforementioned Kamala Harris supporter who ignores, he has a habit of ignoring everything bad that Kamala Harris says and pretending it doesn't exist. 0.99

00:18:24.000 So 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. 1.00

00:18:32.000 And then he'll just go, well, it's never going to happen. 0.99

00:18:33.000 So who cares?

00:18:34.000 Anyway, so he tweets back at me, quote, if you don't want a presidential candidate capable of hugging, please seek psychological help.

00:18:41.000 Empathy and kindness are skills that are possessed by great leaders in 2024.

00:18:47.000 Okay.

00:18:48.000 Number one.

00:18:49.000 Really, really solid straw man there.

00:18:51.000 Solid straw man.

00:18:53.000 I 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.

00:19:04.000 And or a psychologist.

00:19:06.000 So I tweeted back at him, I would imagine nearly all presidential candidates, being human, are capable of hugging. 0.95

00:19:11.000 I'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. 0.82

00:19:20.000 This is the debate.

00:19:21.000 The debate is, then I added, I hope she gives you a hug while she taxes your unearned capital gains at 25%. 0.99

00:19:26.000 Okay.

00:19:26.000 I'm just gonna put it out there that my reply is better than his original statement.

00:19:33.000 The 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.

00:19:45.000 If 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.

00:19:57.000 The founders did not see the government as a thing to hug.

00:19:59.000 The government is not your mommy, and the government is not your daddy.

00:20:02.000 You don't need a mom-a-la. 1.00

00:20:04.000 You don't need a dad-a-la. 1.00

00:20:05.000 You don't need any of these things.

00:20:06.000 What 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.

00:20:15.000 Those are the things that you need.

00:20:17.000 And 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.

00:20:27.000 Let me suggest once again, you need psychological help.

00:20:32.000 And that's true, by the way, on all sides of the aisle.

00:20:33.000 If you're sitting around, you're like, I wish I got, I need, I need a hug from Donald Trump.

00:20:36.000 That's what I'm looking for, a hug from Donald Trump.

00:20:38.000 I don't want a hug from Donald Trump.

00:20:39.000 I want Donald Trump threatening America's enemies and freeing up America's economy.

00:20:42.000 That's what I want Donald Trump doing.

00:20:43.000 I need a hug from Donald Trump. 0.99

00:20:45.000 This is ridiculous. 1.00

00:20:46.000 This whole thing is ridiculous. 0.99

00:20:47.000 And if we're a country that seeks hugs from our leaders, Joy and hugs? 0.96

00:20:52.000 You want to talk about the cult of dictatorship?

00:20:55.000 Look at the propaganda in any fascist state, any communistic state.

00:20:59.000 It is all about the joy and the hugs.

00:21:02.000 Every poster is the great leader hugging children.

00:21:06.000 I don't want these people anywhere near my kids.

00:21:09.000 That is not their job.

00:21:11.000 Kamala is just not capable of doing this job. 1.00

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00:22:18.000 I just want them to do their job.

00:22:21.000 And this is the problem.

00:22:22.000 Kamala Harris is not capable of doing this job. 1.00

00:22:24.000 She's not.

00:22:25.000 And this has been proved over and over again.

00:22:26.000 It's a terrible story before Kamala Harris yesterday emerges via CNN. 0.92

00:22:30.000 Andrew Kaczynski, who's actually an excellent reporter, he digs into the past of all candidates on all sides of the aisle.

00:22:36.000 He really is fair.

00:22:38.000 I think that Andrew Kaczynski and I disagree on politics, but that doesn't matter.

00:22:40.000 He's a good reporter over at CNN.

00:22:42.000 So 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.

00:22:56.000 So if you bring like a 13 year old kid across the border and that kid wants American taxpayers to fund surgery.

00:23:04.000 She wants taxpayers to pay for that. 1.00

00:23:06.000 Even CNN's Aaron Burnett was like, what now?

00:23:08.000 What now?

00:23:09.000 Remember, this is Kamala Harris.

00:23:10.000 She's a radical lib.

00:23:12.000 Very, very far to the left.

00:23:13.000 Here's CNN even being shocked by how far left Kamala Harris was running in 2019-2020. 1.00

00:23:20.000 She said on immigration, she made this open-ended pledge to end immigrant detention.

00:23:25.000 She said she supported taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained migrants.

00:23:30.000 She also said... Taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained migrants.

00:23:34.000 She actually said she supported that.

00:23:36.000 She wrote, both wrote and answered in the affirmative when she was asked this.

00:23:41.000 And she said she also supported it for federal prisoners.

00:23:44.000 Now, 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.

00:23:57.000 I 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.

00:24:09.000 I mean, that's a pretty amazing thing.

00:24:11.000 Even CNN is kind of stunned by that.

00:24:12.000 Why does that matter?

00:24:14.000 Because when it comes to immigration, she's now running as a hardliner on immigration, which is absurd.

00:24:20.000 It's all crazy.

00:24:21.000 Now, I know that Republicans tend to get distracted by shiny objects. 0.99

00:24:25.000 The big dumb story of yesterday was this idea that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio are like eating cats and birds from the park or whatever. 0.97

00:24:32.000 You don't have to do that, guys. 0.99

00:24:33.000 The illegal immigration problem is a massive, massive issue.

00:24:37.000 There 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.

00:24:44.000 Vance, before.

00:24:45.000 It 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.

00:24:56.000 Like these are very real things.

00:24:57.000 You don't have to go to they're killing cats and eating them or stealing neighborhood pets or whatever.

00:25:01.000 So yesterday on the internet, there was this bizarre story that got blown all out over the internet.

00:25:05.000 This is what happens about Haitian immigrants supposedly eating cats or something.

00:25:10.000 Haitian immigrants going to the park and picking geese out of the pond and eating them. 1.00

00:25:14.000 Apparently there's no evidence of that.

00:25:17.000 So the Springfield Police have said.

00:25:19.000 Yeah, that's not a thing.

00:25:20.000 We have no reports of pets being stolen, for example.

00:25:23.000 There was a social media post originally from a Springfield Facebook group that went viral in recent days, according to the Springfield News Sun.

00:25:30.000 The original poster did not cite first-hand knowledge of an incident.

00:25:33.000 Instead, 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.

00:25:40.000 The poster also claimed that rangers and police told them they have been doing it at Snyder Park, too, with ducks and geese.

00:25:46.000 The Springfield police were like, yeah, that didn't happen.

00:25:48.000 Okay, so, but you don't have to go there.

00:25:50.000 You don't have to go there. 0.98

00:25:51.000 This is the part where, again, don't get distracted by dumb, shiny objects if you are a Republican.

00:25:55.000 The 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.

00:26:18.000 bad idea. Here for example is one member of the Springfield, Ohio community

00:26:23.000 complaining to the City Commission this is in August.

00:26:27.000 It is so unsafe. I have men that cannot speak English in my front yard screaming

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00:26:39.000 I can't. I look at me I weigh 95 pounds.

00:26:43.000 I couldn't defend myself if I had to.

00:26:45.000 My husband is elderly and last night after living in this home for 45 years, he said, Noel, guess what?

00:26:52.000 It's time to pack up and move.

00:26:54.000 He said, we can't do this anymore.

00:26:56.000 He said, it's killing both of us mentally.

00:26:58.000 I don't understand what you expect of us as citizens.

00:27:03.000 And that is the question.

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00:28:17.000 So, JD Manz had been targeting this for a while.

00:28:21.000 Go back a few days.

00:28:22.000 September 3rd.

00:28:22.000 Go back one week.

00:28:23.000 The New York Times had a piece titled, quote, How an Ohio Town Landed in the Middle of an Immigration Debate.

00:28:28.000 It 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.

00:28:40.000 Soon, 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.

00:28:47.000 He was driving with a foreign license not valid in Ohio.

00:28:50.000 The stage was set for another fraught chapter in the debate over immigration in America, this one magnified because J.D.

00:28:54.000 Vance, the state's junior senator, would soon become the Republican vice presidential nominee.

00:28:59.000 Haitians were new to the region. 0.99

00:29:00.000 During 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.

00:29:10.000 But it has changed dramatically in recent years as a boom in manufacturing and warehouse jobs attracted a swelling wave of immigrants, mainly from Haiti.

00:29:16.000 City officials estimate as many as 20,000 Haitians have arrived, most of them since the pandemic.

00:29:23.000 At the first city commission meeting after the bus crash, angry residents packed the chambers and demanded answers.

00:29:27.000 How do you know we aren't getting criminals and rapists?

00:29:30.000 Said a man in a blue Harley Davidson t-shirt.

00:29:31.000 Who can stop them from coming here?

00:29:33.000 Had they been screened?

00:29:34.000 Are they going to use their driver's licenses to vote?

00:29:37.000 The 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.

00:29:48.000 But nothing could quell the outrage.

00:29:49.000 By the way, they were only in the country legally because of Kamala Harris.

00:29:53.000 Here is a flashback of Kamala Harris bragging about extending temporary protected status to over 100,000 Haitian immigrants.

00:30:02.000 That is why, also, starting with our administration, we gave TPS, Temporary Protected Status, to Haitian migrants, 55,000.

00:30:11.000 And 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.

00:30:23.000 Okay, so she is taking credit for all of this.

00:30:26.000 Now, the New York Times is trying to plant that these immigrants have revitalized the region.

00:30:29.000 The reality is that that's not true.

00:30:31.000 The 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.

00:30:38.000 It is not that you need Haitian immigrants to come take those jobs unless they're undercutting the wage base or something in Springfield, Ohio.

00:30:45.000 There are tons of people in the United States.

00:30:47.000 This is a country of 340 million people.

00:30:49.000 You 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.

00:31:06.000 And suddenly become, overnight, one quarter of the city's population.

00:31:10.000 Of course that's going to create social friction and a massive draw on social services, which is what you have seen.

00:31:15.000 According to the New York Times, the community health clinic saw a 13-fold increase in Haitian

00:31:19.000 patients between 2021 and 2023, from 115 to 1,500, overwhelming its staff and budget.

00:31:26.000 Again, there are serious downsides to all of this.

00:31:31.000 Haitians had social security numbers and work permits thanks to a federal program that offered them temporary protection in the United States.

00:31:37.000 Some have been living for years in places like Florida, where there's a thriving Haitian community.

00:31:41.000 Now again, there's nothing wrong with immigrating to the United States legally.

00:31:45.000 Not 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.

00:32:04.000 No country worth its salt does that.

00:32:06.000 That is the point.

00:32:07.000 And pretending these issues don't exist doesn't make them go away.

00:32:13.000 Apparently, 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.

00:32:23.000 We lost productivity.

00:32:24.000 We had a huge burnout of staff, says Yamimi Tigala, the chief executive officer.

00:32:29.000 This is not sustainable.

00:32:31.000 And by the way, again, it is not just a bunch of, like, hard right Republicans who are objecting to all of this.

00:32:36.000 Here is the mayor and city manager saying the city services in Springfield, Ohio are collapsing.

00:32:41.000 This is like a couple of months ago.

00:32:44.000 Well, what we've seen is just such a quick increase of our population over the last five years.

00:32:49.000 You know, like you said, up to 15,000 to 20,000 immigrants have come across and into our community.

00:32:55.000 This has overwhelmed our safety services and caused great concern for our community.

00:32:59.000 You know, when we see a 25% increase over a three-year period, we're a community.

00:33:04.000 We do not have the capacity to sustain that.

00:33:07.000 And it's taxing our infrastructure.

00:33:09.000 It's taxing public safety.

00:33:11.000 It's taxing our schools.

00:33:13.000 It's taxing health care.

00:33:14.000 We do not have the capacity to sustain it.

00:33:17.000 And without additional federal assistance or support, again, communities like Springfield will fail.

00:33:26.000 Those 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.

00:33:34.000 That is a person who is trying to assure citizens that the people who are there were not there illegally.

00:33:38.000 So these are not like rabid right-wingers who hate immigrants or anything like this.

00:33:42.000 These are real problems that have been facilitated by the Biden administration, and everyone knows it.

00:33:46.000 I 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.

00:33:56.000 Well, you know what I noticed?

00:33:56.000 I noticed you lost 300,000, apparently, immigrant minors.

00:34:00.000 What happened to those people?

00:34:03.000 How about the people who have died as a result of illegal immigrant criminals being allowed into the country? 1.00

00:34:07.000 We can name many of those people, like Lake and Riley.

00:34:10.000 Here's Alejandro Mayorkas doing his shtick.

00:34:14.000 As 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?

00:34:35.000 So I'm going to detach it from the individual, as I must, given legal constraints.

00:34:42.000 I abide scrupulously to the Hatch Act requirements.

00:34:46.000 That rhetoric that I have heard espoused by people is odious.

00:34:53.000 I don't know what to say.

00:34:54.000 People have died because of that rhetoric.

00:35:00.000 My mother's family Uh, her father's eight brothers, parents, sister, died because of that rhetoric.

00:35:11.000 Okay, give me a- give me a break.

00:35:13.000 I'm sorry, give me a break.

00:35:15.000 This is the shtick.

00:35:16.000 And then she's trying to claim she's a border hawk, Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:35:18.000 She's not a border hawk and everybody knows it.

00:35:20.000 And the same is true of Afghanistan.

00:35:22.000 Donald Trump should hold her account on Afghanistan.

00:35:24.000 So 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.

00:35:38.000 John Kirby then proceeded to suggest that the administration held itself accountable.

00:35:43.000 What, by giving yourself promotions?

00:35:45.000 Literally no one has been fired over that debacle.

00:35:47.000 No one.

00:35:48.000 That's on Kamala Harris.

00:35:49.000 She's the Vice President of the United States. 1.00

00:35:50.000 She owns that.

00:35:53.000 Was anyone ever held accountable by the President directly for what happened with the withdrawal in Afghanistan?

00:35:59.000 And if not, remind the audience why not.

00:36:01.000 We have all held ourselves accountable for the progress of the withdrawal across the administration.

00:36:08.000 And 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.

00:36:18.000 They held themselves accountable for how awesome they did.

00:36:20.000 Donald Trump needs to hold Kamala Harris accountable tonight on the stage. 1.00

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00:37:24.000 So what's gonna happen in the debate tonight?

00:37:26.000 Well, some of it's gonna matter based on the moderators.

00:37:28.000 The moderators really matter in this one.

00:37:30.000 So the moderators in this one, they're ABC News moderators.

00:37:32.000 I would not expect them to be just or fair.

00:37:34.000 However, the reality is that the demands of the job suggest there will actually be some serious questions asked of Kamala tonight.

00:37:41.000 That's my prediction.

00:37:41.000 I'm going to go against the grain.

00:37:43.000 I think that the moderators are actually going to ask Kamala Harris a couple of actually difficult questions.

00:37:47.000 Why do I think that?

00:37:48.000 Because there's no fresh meat on the Trump bones.

00:37:50.000 It's all been picked over.

00:37:51.000 There's nothing new to say about Donald Trump.

00:37:53.000 Everything you needed to know about Donald Trump, you knew.

00:37:55.000 That's what that New York Times at Siena College poll showed.

00:37:57.000 It showed that only 12% of Americans think that there's more to learn about Donald Trump.

00:38:01.000 They need more information.

00:38:03.000 One-third of Americans believe they need to know more about Kamala Harris, which means that is the rich vein to mine.

00:38:09.000 And she's been avoiding questions.

00:38:11.000 Her excuse-making, by the way, and avoiding questions remains truly astonishing.

00:38:14.000 Gina 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. 0.94

00:38:21.000 Well, she designs the schedule That's ridiculous. 1.00

00:38:26.000 She's the one who decides it's important to hug people in spice shops rather than answering any questions at all.

00:38:31.000 Here's Gina Raimondo making an absolutely unconvincing defense of Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:38:37.000 She's been impossible to pin down on anything because she hasn't given any access.

00:38:43.000 The American people deserve it.

00:38:44.000 Wouldn't you agree?

00:38:45.000 Yes, and I, you know, I don't, I hear you, but I respectfully disagree.

00:38:49.000 This is a presidential election like no other.

00:38:51.000 She only has a few weeks to do everything, and she's spending her time talking to Americans.

00:38:57.000 She's has a punishing schedule out and about everywhere, being with the people who she wants to elect her. 0.98

00:39:04.000 But I guess, look, tomorrow night it will be on display.

00:39:07.000 It'll be a robust debate.

00:39:12.000 I mean, again, we'll see what Kamala Harris does in this debate. 1.00

00:39:16.000 There are a bunch of dangers for Kamala Harris in this debate. 1.00

00:39:18.000 If 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.

00:39:33.000 It will.

00:39:34.000 And all Trump has to do is poke it.

00:39:35.000 All he has to do is say, I don't know what she's talking about.

00:39:38.000 That was a lot of jargon.

00:39:40.000 Let me cut right through this.

00:39:41.000 She has a terrible record.

00:39:42.000 Let me cut right through it.

00:39:44.000 Again, I think the muted mics are going to help Trump.

00:39:46.000 I do.

00:39:46.000 I think that it restricts him from doing the thing that she wanted, which is she wanted to interrupt him and poke him and prod him.

00:39:51.000 And she also wanted him to respond so she could then claim that she was a victim.

00:39:54.000 Oh my God, the big bad man hit me!

00:39:56.000 That's the shtick she wanted to do because she did that with Mike Pence last time.

00:39:59.000 I'm talking.

00:40:00.000 I was speaking.

00:40:03.000 She can't do that tonight.

00:40:05.000 We can hope.

00:40:05.000 I mean, she'll try probably anyway, but It's gonna be hard for her to do that.

00:40:11.000 With that said, I honestly think that she's the underdog in the debate tonight. 0.95

00:40:14.000 I'm just being honest here.

00:40:15.000 The political interest suggests that I should actually play down expectations for Trump and play up expectations for Harris.

00:40:20.000 I think the most likely scenario is that the debate actually ends with nobody making serious gains.

00:40:25.000 I 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.

00:40:34.000 But 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.

00:40:44.000 They ask her a question.

00:40:45.000 She bumbles.

00:40:45.000 She stumbles.

00:40:46.000 She doesn't know her own positions.

00:40:47.000 She gets caught in a lie.

00:40:49.000 She gives the, my values haven't changed routine, and Trump says, so why did your positions?

00:40:53.000 Right?

00:40:54.000 That's the obvious question.

00:40:55.000 If your values didn't change, why did your positions?

00:40:57.000 What changed?

00:40:58.000 And she doesn't have a good answer for that.

00:41:00.000 She apparently is cramming overtime.

00:41:02.000 And the problem for her, she actually does have to cram.

00:41:04.000 And 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.

00:41:10.000 Kamala Harris has lied so many times.

00:41:12.000 She has shifted so many of her positions.

00:41:13.000 She doesn't know her own positions.

00:41:15.000 She doesn't know what they are on any given day.

00:41:18.000 And she switches them over.

00:41:19.000 I mean, Tim Walz literally runs from cameras.

00:41:21.000 He runs from them.

00:41:23.000 He runs from them like he is a wildebeest on the savannah and the lions are chasing him.

00:41:27.000 It's amazing.

00:41:28.000 Every 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.

00:41:36.000 And then he just runs out of there because he doesn't know her positions either.

00:41:40.000 So she's been cramming, apparently, in preparation for the debate.

00:41:44.000 According 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.

00:41:51.000 Which sounds like the worst camp ever, by the way.

00:41:53.000 Her 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.

00:42:02.000 I hope they hired Shane Gillis.

00:42:03.000 I feel like that'd be amazing. 1.00

00:42:04.000 Just Shane Gillis in the room with Kamala Harris being like, and that's why you're stupid and ugly. 1.00

00:42:09.000 Okay, but that's not actually what happened. 1.00

00:42:13.000 They probably hired David Bluth or something to pretend to be Donald Trump.

00:42:17.000 According 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.

00:42:25.000 The 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.

00:42:35.000 And 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.

00:42:46.000 is stepping on the landmine of her own ignorance.

00:42:49.000 I don't know if she can do that.

00:42:50.000 I don't know if she has the capacity to avoid exposing her own vacuity here.

00:42:56.000 Harris'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.

00:43:06.000 Trump's aides were determined to keep the rules in place.

00:43:09.000 Harris' 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.

00:43:21.000 So they're trying now to figure out other ways to parry Trump's attacks.

00:43:25.000 She's already laying out the narrative.

00:43:27.000 The pre-narrative is going to be here from Kamala Harris.

00:43:29.000 Trump, he just lies so much.

00:43:31.000 He just lies so much. 1.00

00:43:31.000 He's such a liar. 1.00

00:43:32.000 I couldn't even keep up with all of his lies. 0.99

00:43:34.000 Well, 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. 0.61

00:43:42.000 The true liar, the true actual person who sits there and with malice aforethought figures out how to lie is Kamala Harris. 0.87

00:43:50.000 But here she was doing another non-adversarial interview with the Ricky Smiley Morning Show.

00:43:56.000 This, by the way, is the reason why she doesn't have time, according to Gina Raimondo, to actually answer tough questions.

00:44:01.000 She's just got a grueling, busy schedule.

00:44:03.000 Here she was trying to explain how tough it will be to debate Donald Trump.

00:44:07.000 He plays from this really old and tired playbook, right?

00:44:11.000 Where he, there's no floor for him in terms of How low he will go.

00:44:16.000 And, um, and we should be prepared for that.

00:44:19.000 We should be prepared for the fact that he is not burdened by telling the truth.

00:44:23.000 Um, and we should be prepared for the fact that he is probably going to speak a lot of untruth.

00:44:30.000 And, 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.

00:44:44.000 And I think that's going to come out during the course of the debate.

00:44:47.000 OK, if that's the best she's got, that's a problem.

00:44:50.000 Well, the New York Times is hoping for a bit of a different outcome, obviously, in the

00:44:53.000 debate tonight than what happened with Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the first debate.

00:44:57.000 By the way, this is going to be the last debate.

00:44:58.000 There's no more debates. I know everybody's talking about, well, this is the first of a

00:45:01.000 couple. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

00:45:03.000 If the debate ends with no major winner, then neither side really has an incentive to get

00:45:08.000 back in the ring.

00:45:09.000 Trump thinks he's winning, and Kamala doesn't want to be exposed.

00:45:12.000 If Kamala has a good night, she's certainly not going to want to get back in the ring with Trump and give him another shot. 1.00

00:45:16.000 And if she has a bad night, she might want it, but Trump ain't going to give it to her.

00:45:19.000 So this is the one and only debate.

00:45:21.000 It's the one and only debate, so get ready for it.

00:45:23.000 The New York Times is already trying to lay out the pre-narrative.

00:45:26.000 The pre-narrative is that Trump is mean to the ladies.

00:45:29.000 Now, here's the problem.

00:45:30.000 Kamala Harris is getting skunked, skunked with men. 1.00

00:45:33.000 Absolutely destroyed with men. 1.00

00:45:35.000 Her actual numbers of men stink. 0.97

00:45:37.000 Because she's running, once again, on the mama law, I'm here to just give hugs. 0.95

00:45:42.000 And 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

00:45:52.000 come into the runway, and also speaking about how socialism is neighborliness.

00:45:58.000 That weirdo, they got him.

00:46:00.000 And then they've got Doug Emhoff, who's the most beta of betas who has ever baited.

00:46:03.000 Doug Emhoff, who really just resembles the dog from up at this point.

00:46:08.000 Hey look, a squirrel! Got that exact affect.

00:46:12.000 It's ridiculous. He is the he's Doug. He's Doug. He's just Doug in any case 0.97

00:46:17.000 The New York Times is trying to lay out the narrative here that Donald Trump is gonna be means of ladies

00:46:20.000 Good luck with this. I mean they've been trying this forever that Donald Trump is means of ladies 0.99

00:46:23.000 All right, and then if he says something to Kamala Harris, that is spicy

00:46:28.000 It's because she's a lady as opposed to because she's the other person on the stage. 1.00

00:46:31.000 Which is ridiculous. 0.82

00:46:33.000 Donald Trump said some pretty mean things about Joe Biden because he was the other person on the stage. 0.94

00:46:38.000 This narrative that Donald Trump is only mean to ladies? 1.00

00:46:41.000 You have to be incredibly stupid to believe this. 1.00

00:46:43.000 Donald Trump is mean to everyone who's adversarial to him. 1.00

00:46:46.000 This has been true forever.

00:46:47.000 For literally ever.

00:46:49.000 There's a famous interview that he did with Larry King.

00:46:51.000 This is like back in the 90s, where Larry King is like, so show me your adversarial negotiating tactic.

00:46:57.000 And Trump goes, well, you know, I walk into a room and I look across the desk and I say, did you know your breath is just terrible?

00:47:02.000 You've been doing this for 30 years.

00:47:03.000 There's 40, 50 years.

00:47:04.000 The man's 78.

00:47:08.000 Okay, there's nothing new under the sun when it comes to Donald Trump. 0.99

00:47:11.000 The 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. 0.99

00:47:19.000 It's truly low IQ stuff. 0.97

00:47:21.000 But here's the New York Times, they say, quote, It seems a strange twist of American history.

00:47:25.000 The only man to have run against two female nominees in two presidential elections is one with a long and explicit record of denigrating women.

00:47:34.000 Why is that a strange choice of American history?

00:47:36.000 Democrats are just running a lot of women lately. 1.00

00:47:38.000 That's all.

00:47:39.000 I do you think that like Abraham Lincoln was gonna run against a lot of ladies back in like 1860 and 1864? 0.99

00:47:43.000 Hang on the New York Times.

00:47:47.000 Mr. Trump has of course treated men with intense bellicosity, launching a blizzard of interruptions against President

00:47:51.000 Biden during their first debate in 2020 and lobbing personal insults at the likes of Marco Rubio

00:47:55.000 and Ted Cruz during the primary in 2016.

00:47:57.000 But 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.

00:48:11.000 Mr. Trump has used his physical presence and body language to intimidate women, Yeah, that, yeah.

00:48:19.000 Uh-huh. 0.99

00:48:20.000 Just ridiculous. 0.82

00:48:21.000 The 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. 0.94

00:48:28.000 Trump was talking about Hillary Clinton and giving her monies.

00:48:30.000 He said, I said, be at my wedding.

00:48:32.000 She came to my wedding.

00:48:32.000 You know why?

00:48:33.000 She had no choice.

00:48:33.000 I gave.

00:48:34.000 He says the same thing about every male politician, but apparently that's sexist now.

00:48:39.000 And they are grasping at straws.

00:48:40.000 They have such problems in this election cycle.

00:48:42.000 Right now, if you had to bet, you gotta bet on Trump.

00:48:44.000 You do.

00:48:45.000 That's what the data say.

00:48:46.000 The betting markets say it too.

00:48:48.000 That's why the onus tonight is on Kamala Harris to actually do something to Trump. 1.00

00:48:52.000 And that's hard. 0.99

00:48:53.000 Trump's a mud monster. 0.97

00:48:54.000 Debating 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. 0.97

00:49:02.000 Trump has never been subject to those rules, for good or ill, going all the way back to 2015.

00:49:07.000 Trying to shift that now is likely to be unsuccessful.

00:49:13.000 And the attempt by Kamala Harris to introduce herself to the American voters, or to shift her positions, I think is going to be unavailing.

00:49:21.000 I think this debate is way more dangerous for Kamala Harris than it is for Trump, which 1.00

00:49:24.000 is probably why she's trying to get out of it in the first place. 1.00

00:49:27.000 All right, in just one second, we'll get to another giant fail by the climate scientists.

00:49:30.000 First, if you're not a member, become a member, use code Shapiro.

00:49:32.000 Check out for two months free on all annual plans.

00:49:34.000 Click that link in the description and join us. 0.97

00:49:36.000 Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 0.91

00:49:41.000 Growing up, I never thought much about race. 0.95

00:49:43.000 It never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me.

00:49:46.000 Am I racist?

00:49:47.000 I would really appreciate it if you left.

00:49:49.000 I'm trying to learn.

00:49:49.000 I'm on this journey.

00:49:50.000 I'm gonna sort this out.

00:49:52.000 I need to go deeper undercover.

00:49:56.000 Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.

00:50:00.000 Here's my certification.

00:50:01.000 What you're doing is you're stretching out of your white. 0.96

00:50:03.000 There's more for you in this field.

00:50:04.000 Is America inherently racist?

00:50:06.000 The word inherent is challenging there.

00:50:08.000 You want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument?

00:50:11.000 America is racist to its bones.

00:50:13.000 So inherently? 0.98

00:50:14.000 Yeah.

00:50:14.000 This country is a piece of...

00:50:17.000 White. 0.97

00:50:18.000 Folks.

00:50:18.000 White.

00:50:18.000 Trash.

00:50:18.000 White supremacy.

00:50:19.000 White woman. 1.00

00:50:20.000 White boy.

00:50:20.000 Is there a black person around here?

00:50:22.000 What's a black person right here? 0.86

00:50:23.000 Does he not exist?

00:50:24.000 Hi, Robin.

00:50:26.000 Hi.

00:50:27.000 What's your name?

00:50:28.000 I'm Matt.

00:50:28.000 I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.

The Ben Shapiro Show - September 10, 2024

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