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00:00:59.000So, even Pennsylvania, where she's spending tons of money, according to Quinnipiac, she's dropping like a stone.
00:01:04.000And this is predictable, because the reality is that Kamala Harris was always a balloon.
00:01:10.000And once you poked the balloon, the air was going to start coming out.
00:01:13.000The air has been coming out of that balloon really quickly.
00:01:15.000At this point, Mark Halperin, who's an excellent reporter and pollster, he points out she could lose all seven swing states pretty easily.
00:01:23.000Here's how I framed it this morning in my newsletter.
00:01:26.000The conversation I'm having with Trump people and Democrats with data are extremely bullish on Trump's chances in the last 48 hours, extremely bullish.
00:01:36.000You think of the seven battleground states.
00:01:38.000Which ones is Harris in danger of losing?
00:01:41.000I would say Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, North Carolina, and Georgia.
00:01:47.000I'm not saying she'll lose all six, but she's in danger.
00:01:49.000The only one that the Democrats say she's not in danger of losing is the one I never say the name of because I can't pronounce it, but it's where Las Vegas is, right?
00:01:56.000You guys agree with me? She could lose any of those six, right?
00:02:00.000I mean, she could lose all seven, but Democrats will tell you they're worried about those six.
00:02:06.000Okay, well, that is bad news for her, quite obviously.
00:02:10.000One of the things that's happening here is that it is quite possible that actually Trump's vote is being under-polled.
00:02:15.000The reason for that is because it is extremely difficult to get low and mid-propensity voters to answer poll questions.
00:02:22.000So when a pollster calls somebody up, if you're a person who's definitely going to vote, you want to talk to the pollster, you want to show your support for the candidate.
00:02:28.000But let's say that you're somebody who sometimes votes, sometimes doesn't.
00:02:32.000Maybe you voted in 2016, but you didn't in 2020, or you voted in 2020, but not in 2012.
00:02:39.000And those voters don't like to answer poll questions.
00:02:41.000If you get one of those people on the phone, you're a pollster, that person's going to be like, dude, I'm busy.
00:02:44.000I don't even care that much. Here's the thing.
00:02:47.000Donald Trump is leading among low-propensity voters and mid-propensity voters 52 to 45.
00:02:52.000Kamala Harris is leading among high-propensity voters 51 to 47.
00:02:56.000What does that mean? Well, normally, that's a pretty good bet for Kamala Harris because, obviously, you'd rather have high-propensity voters, people who vote all the time, rather than low-propensity voters.
00:03:05.000The problem is that in the polling data, it is difficult to even tell Who is voting for Trump and who is not because they're not responding to phone calls.
00:03:14.000That's an actual real problem that people have been trying to model out and they're having a real problem modeling it out.
00:03:19.000According to CNN, sources in the Kamala Harris campaign are having 2016 flashbacks.
00:03:26.000This has been a campaign that was described by multiple Democrats, allies, aides, to the vice president as a good vibes campaign.
00:03:35.000But what's also creeping in now is that anxiety.
00:03:39.000The reason for that is because these polls are not really moving.
00:03:43.000Despite multiple battleground blitzes, despite the opportunities she has had across media outlets, There is still not a lot of movement from voters who are moving more towards her versus former President Donald Trump.
00:03:57.000In fact, I had one source describe it to me this way, quote, People are nervous.
00:04:14.000Okay, and if you compare what's happening now to 2016, Donald Trump is in a better poll position than he has been at any point in any race he has ever run.
00:05:25.000In 2020... Biden won the state by 0.63 percentage points.
00:05:31.000So that is a gap of like 5% from what people thought was going to happen by polling data this date in 2020 and what actually ended up happening in 2020.
00:05:42.000Well, Kamala Harris' campaign is at huge risk.
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00:06:53.000The same thing is happening in Pennsylvania.
00:06:56.000According to the latest Pennsylvania polling for RealClearPolitics, Trump is up by 0.2 percentage points.
00:07:02.000In 2016, Hillary Clinton was leading by nine at this point.
00:07:05.000In October of 2020, Joe Biden was leading by seven at this point.
00:07:11.000The final results in Pennsylvania, by the way, is that Joe Biden won by 1.1 points.
00:07:17.000So if you're looking at these polling stats, what you are figuring right now is that Donald Trump is in a pretty solid position if he is getting under-polled at all.
00:07:26.000And again, virtually every poll ever taken about Trump under-polls his supporters.
00:07:31.000Now, people say that 2022 is an exception to the rule.
00:07:33.000In 2022, it appeared that Republicans were going to do better, and then they did worse.
00:08:12.000Joe Biden carried the state in 2020 by about 20,000 votes less than one percentage point.
00:08:17.000In 2012, with Barack Obama on the ballot, 78.5% of the state's Black voting age population went to the polls.
00:08:23.000That rate plummeted in 2016, when 46.8% of the state's Black voting age residents cast a ballot, and that then fell again to 43.5% in 2020.
00:08:33.000Meanwhile, between 2012 and 2020, white Wisconsin voter turnout slightly increased from 75% to 77%, and Hispanic turnout leaped from 44% to nearly 60%.
00:08:44.000Now, do you think that Kamala Harris is going to get 79% black turnout in 2024, like Barack Obama did in 2012?
00:08:52.000Do you get any sense that the black community is as excited about Kamala Harris as they were about Barack Obama in 2012?
00:09:08.000She's overperforming with single white women.
00:09:11.000She's overperforming just a little bit with seniors.
00:09:15.000With white men, blue-collar, non-college-educated white men, she's really underperforming, and she's going to underperform with men generally.
00:09:25.000So she's got a huge problem on her hands.
00:09:28.000Now, the biggest problem, of course, is that the Democrats were hoping that by swapping out Joe Biden, a terrible candidate who's going to lose, for Kamala Harris, another terrible candidate.
00:09:37.000And remember, it's so funny to watch everybody try to pretend away what we all knew before she was swapped in.
00:09:43.000Before she was swapped in, Joe Biden and everyone else in the Democratic Party knew she was a bad candidate.
00:09:48.000They knew it. They were open about this.
00:09:54.000She ran in 2019 and 2020, and she dropped out before getting to her home primary of California.
00:09:59.000She ran one of the worst presidential campaigns in modern memory, and then she was picked up off the scrap heap by Joe Biden to be his vice president.
00:10:07.000That's her story. She then proceeded to become the least popular vice president in modern American history.
00:10:14.000And when they swapped her in, suddenly we were supposed to believe that she was Fetch and she was Brad.
00:10:20.000And they were hoping that that would last the short campaign.
00:10:23.000That if they could somehow get from mid-July to November, if they could do it over the course of four months or so, then they could make her president without anyone asking a second question.
00:10:34.000The problem is the attention span in American politics is no longer one month.
00:11:47.000But now the sugar high is wearing off because every time she opens her mouth, she's Julia Louis-Dreyfus from Veep.
00:11:56.000That's who she is. And there's no way around it.
00:11:59.000So, for example, she is trying to edge her way into the hurricane coverage that's happening over Hurricane Milton in Florida, which is pummeling the state.
00:12:23.000She's had authority over everything and nothing at the same time.
00:12:25.000But she decided she needed to call into CNN in order to do a little electioneering to demonstrate just how much she cares about the hurricane.
00:12:32.000You know, when she's not sipping beer with Stephen Colbert.
00:12:36.000Vice President Harris, I believe that you are now on the telephone fresh off of that briefing that we all saw here on CNN. Thank you so much for being here.
00:12:47.000What is the most important thing that you learned that you want to amplify for Americans who are in the path of this dangerous storm right now?
00:12:57.000The briefing was very helpful on a number of fronts but most importantly in getting the word out to folks in Florida in particular to please heed the advice and direction of your local officials because this storm is unlike anything we have seen before and that's the point of emphasis.
00:13:18.000Well, that's, you know, with that kind of brilliant insight, I think that there's a reason she probably called in.
00:13:25.000I mean, people are taking Kamala Harris very seriously.
00:13:27.000Not the governor of the state of Florida, who's actually handled multiple hurricanes over his tenure.
00:13:32.000Kamala Harris, who admitted just the other day that she started calling governors about hurricanes five minutes ago when she became a presidential candidate.
00:13:40.000Well, Kamala Harris, you know, she's a fake.
00:14:54.000How's she handling things? It's going well.
00:14:56.000She did a conference call, actually, with people ranging from Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of the Department of Homeland Security to Administrator Deanne Criswell, who's the head of FEMA, to Admiral Linda Fagan, who's a commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, as well as the director of the National Weather Service, Ken Graham, and Kamala Harris was leading this thing.
00:15:15.000She has no idea what she's talking about.
00:15:17.000So during this live telecast, Conference call.
00:15:21.000She's getting fed questions by her people.
00:15:23.000They're in the room with her and they're feeding her questions in real time.
00:15:26.000And she gets annoyed because she is having a voice in her ear.
00:15:31.000And so she puts her hands over her mouth and says, I'm trying to handle a live call right now.
00:16:33.000Every time there's a hurricane or a natural disaster, there's a shortage of supply when it comes to gas.
00:16:37.000And so in order to effectively ration gas, the price mechanism jumps the prices.
00:16:42.000Because otherwise you'll run out of gas.
00:16:44.000If you have 10 gallons of gas and you keep them at the normal price, it turns out that the gas runs out real quick.
00:16:50.000Because I'm just going to buy up all the gas I can at that price before it jumps.
00:16:54.000But she's warning about price gouging.
00:16:56.000That's what everybody in Sarasota is worried about today.
00:17:01.000They're deeply worried about price gouging, that she's going to be the person in control of the price gouging, because she's done such an amazing job after initiating a 40-year inflationary spiral.
00:17:14.000Finally, as the President mentioned, to any company or individual that might use this crisis to exploit people who are desperate for help through illegal fraud or price gouging, whether it be at the gas pump, the airport, or the hotel counter, know that we are monitoring these behaviors and the situation on the ground very closely and anyone taking advantage of consumers will be held accountable.
00:17:43.000Okay, well, as long as she's reading directly from a statement about stopping price gouging, that's the kind of leadership America needs.
00:17:50.000Now, here's the thing. She is currently at war with Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida.
00:17:54.000Governor DeSantis has been excellent at this.
00:17:56.000This is one of the untold stories about Governor DeSantis when he was running for president.
00:17:59.000It's not just that he passed a bunch of policies that are very conservative.
00:18:03.000In terms of the nuts and bolts of actually administering the state, he's excellent at this.
00:19:31.000It's not blaming the governor of Florida for not calling you back and giving you the sads because you're the center of the universe, as you have in your entire political career, coddled and preened by everyone around you.
00:19:46.000Here's Governor DeSantis yesterday saying they have 50,000 linemen ready.
00:19:51.000We have also worked with the utilities to have the largest staging of utility workers and linemen in advance of the storm any time in American history.
00:20:02.000We will have in Florida, by the time the storm arises, over 50,000 linemen.
00:20:08.000And those linemen are being brought in from places as far away as California.
00:20:13.000Again, that's what leadership actually looks like.
00:20:16.000That's what leadership actually looks like.
00:20:18.000And meanwhile, Kamala Harris is ripping that guy.
00:20:20.000She's ripping that guy. It's political malpractice.
00:20:59.000I'm spending a lot of time talking with folks, listening to folks.
00:21:02.000And the one thing I can report back from the field, if you will, is that people are exhausted by that old, tired playbook of Donald Trump's.
00:21:15.000And even if they voted for him in the past, there are a lot of folks who are just saying, you know, enough of the rhetoric that's about trying to divide the country and have Americans point their fingers at each other.
00:21:27.000You know, folks are ready to turn the page.
00:21:28.000It's like, let's chart a new way forward.
00:21:31.000And what I'm seeing is that a lot of Americans, regardless of their party, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, they're ready for a new generation of leadership that is about...
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00:23:08.000He was on Fox News Sunday. He was asked about her position on illegal immigration and undocumented immigrants, illegal immigrants receiving government benefits.
00:23:16.000Now, throughout her career, she's been very much in favor of illegal immigrants receiving massive government benefits.
00:24:44.000The second reason is, Republicans have something Democrats don't, which they have a massive media operation between Fox News, Daily Wire, all these people.
00:24:53.000We don't have that yet, so we have to work harder to do it.
00:24:56.000So first of all, we appreciate the shout-out.
00:24:57.000We appreciate the shout-out from our friends over at Pod Save.
00:25:01.000I gotta say, Dan Pfeiffer, I don't know what it is.
00:27:04.000Okay, but now he and Kamala Harris are trying to pretend that they're going to be harsh on China.
00:27:10.000Why? Because Donald Trump is the one who really opened that up.
00:27:14.000How about increasing domestic energy production, including fracking?
00:27:17.000Nega, Kamala, and Tim Walls trying to pretend they're pro-fracking based on their long record of hating fracking.
00:27:24.000All these issues are issues on which Trump wins.
00:27:28.000How about Israel? Notice that Kamala Harris and Tim Walls have been trying to have the baby there because it turns out that actually most Americans are very much in favor of Israel kicking the living hell out of Hamas and Hezbollah.
00:27:40.000How about, for example, economic growth?
00:27:43.000It turns out that people don't like over-regulation.
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00:29:46.000Okay, I'm sorry. That's just better content than anything that Kamala Harris is doing.
00:29:50.000It just is. She goes on, call her daddy, a soft show, and she's talking about abortion laws, and Donald Trump is going on Andrew Shultz and telling jokes about Joe Biden in a bathing suit.
00:30:02.000I'm sorry, he's just way more interesting and entertaining than she is.
00:30:35.000Meanwhile, here is Donald Trump explaining his foreign policy to Andrew Schultz yesterday.
00:30:40.000Iran has an open threat out for me, and that's bad.
00:30:43.000And Biden, if he were a real president, if he were the kind of guy he should be, should say, if anybody shoots a former president who's now the leading candidate, even though he's leading against Democrats, we will bomb that country into oblivion.
00:31:07.000That's something that Kamala Harris will never say.
00:31:09.000Ever. And Americans actually like being able to deter our enemies, as it turns out.
00:31:15.000That is the thing that we typically like.
00:31:17.000And the likability factor here is a thing I think that has gone by the wayside in a lot of the analysis of this race.
00:31:23.000Because there's so many people who just hate Donald Trump, who really hate him.
00:31:26.000I think that they spun themselves into a lather thinking that Kamala Harris was actually somewhat of a wonderful, joyous person you'd want to have, if not a beer, then a wine with.
00:32:16.000Yolanda Robinson, wife of Mark Robinson, has had scandals of her own.
00:32:21.000North Carolina's second lady helped make her husband's political foray possible, but her ventures at daycare and a non-profit also caused problems.
00:32:28.000So I have a question. When is the last time that the New York Times reported about Doug Emhoff and assault?
00:33:00.000Don't talk about it. You're not allowed to talk about Doug Emhoff and her husband and their wonderful, lovely marriage.
00:33:06.000You're not allowed to talk about who he is at all.
00:33:08.000You shouldn't talk about that. You should not talk about her policies because, after all, you don't know what her policies will be.
00:33:12.000Was she the president? You're not allowed to talk about the fact that she's a complete failure at everything she has ever touched.
00:33:19.000Well, it turns out the American public are tired of this.
00:33:21.000They're tired of this. And they have trust issues.
00:33:23.000And the media's trust-me routine with Kamala Harris, it ain't going nowhere.
00:33:26.000And one of the reasons it's not going anywhere is because she's already the vice president of the United States, and she's doing a terrible job.
00:33:35.000And one of the biggest issues that undergirds this entire election is, of course, economics.
00:33:38.000And we've talked a lot about immigration.
00:33:40.000We've talked a lot about foreign policy.
00:33:41.000The economy has sort of flown under the radar as an issue because as inflation has started to wane in terms of year-on-year growth in inflation, because of that, the media have stopped covering it so much.
00:33:51.000But the reality is the American public look at Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and what they see is inflation and stagnation.
00:33:57.000That is what they see. And that's more of what she promises.
00:34:01.000Now, this week, the federal deficit hit $1.8 trillion.
00:34:06.000Trillion. That's the deficit, not the debt.
00:34:08.000The debt. The national debt right now is approaching $36 trillion, which is almost $140,000 for every single person in the United States.
00:34:19.000And that is not counting the unfunded liabilities.
00:34:21.000That's just what's on the books right now.
00:34:26.000To spend more money. Which means future economic stagnation.
00:34:30.000If you keep spending without actually growing the economy through deregulation and innovation, what you end up with is economic stagnation, austerity programs, tax increases, regulatory confiscation.
00:34:41.000Everyone knows that's where this is going.
00:34:43.000Underneath all of the happy-dappy-do nonsense that she is touting, We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:35:44.000So her big proposal this week, for example, again, in the face of news that we have a $1.8 trillion deficit this year alone, her big proposal is that Medicare ought to cover long-term care at home.
00:35:59.000Because basically, what you're just saying now is that the taxpayers ought to pay for a nurse to go to elderly people's homes and take care of them.
00:36:05.000That ought to be on the government, meaning the taxpayer, meaning you.
00:36:10.000What does that have to do with Medicare, per se, as opposed to paying for it through a private insurance program or paying for it yourself?
00:36:20.000Well, the answer is that she's just going to stack whatever she can on the public dime.
00:36:26.000The Wall Street Journal points out that the Veep used a friendly interview on The View to lay out her plan to require Medicare to cover long-term home care for all seniors who can't live independently.
00:36:35.000She said the new benefit would help the sandwich generation of Americans who take care of children and aging parents.
00:36:40.000She put no cost estimate on this new taxpayer obligation, but home care on average costs $288,000 a year.
00:36:48.000Interesting, Medicare should cover an expense of $288,000 a year.
00:36:52.000That's the new entitlement program that she's proposing.
00:36:55.000She says that this is going to be funded with government drug price controls.
00:37:00.000So, basically, she is going to get rid of all R&D funding.
00:37:05.000That's what that does. She's going to get rid of all R&D funding for new drugs, and then somehow we're going to fund...
00:37:12.000$300,000 a year for the elderly to pay for this out of the public coffers?
00:37:18.000Just to do a little bit of quick back-of-the-envelope math.
00:37:21.000Somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 12 million Americans need some form of home health care, including long-term health care.
00:37:28.000Home health care. A nurse who comes over and helps.
00:37:32.000If the cost of that is like $288,000 per year, and you're talking about 12 million people in the United States, we'll give an up-round estimate, that's only, let's see, $3.3 trillion a year.
00:37:43.000Every year. That is her new entitlement program.
00:37:47.000That probably won't be a burden on business at all.
00:37:50.000And especially it won't be a burden when you combine that with her insane pro-union stance.
00:37:54.000So unions are artificially driving up the price of goods and services in the United States, particularly dock workers unions.
00:38:00.000So the White House recently just handed over basically all negotiations to the dock workers union.
00:38:07.000And the dock workers unions, which already have made our ports some of the least efficient in the developed world, they are now trying to fight back against automation.
00:38:16.000So that way the docks can't work 24 hours a day, they don't work nearly as efficiently, which means you get to pay more, because somebody has to pay for that, and that person is you.
00:38:25.000Congratulations. Also that Kamala can pay off her union buddies.
00:38:29.000According to the Wall Street Journal, at the annual convention of the International Longshoremen's Association last year, two large screens played a TikTok video from a crane operator over the docks of Los Angeles.
00:38:38.000All of this, man, is all automated, he said, pointing toward acres of stacked containers stretching to the Pacific.
00:38:43.000He marveled at the automated vehicles driving amid the containers.
00:39:37.000Well, it turns out everyone hates living there and they're all leaving.
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00:39:43.000Quote, few American cities faced as much chaos as Portland over the last four years.
00:39:47.000This proudly liberal city has endured more than 100 days of often violent protests,
00:39:51.000a fentanyl and homelessness crisis, a pandemic, and decriminalization of all drugs.
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00:39:59.000In a sign of either hope or desperation, Rose City voters decided to throw out their entire government structure and replace it with a weaker mayor, expanding city council, and ranked choice voting.
00:40:09.000A major driving factor was the passage of Measure 110 decriminalizing all drugs in 2020.
00:40:14.000That was backed by three quarters of Multnomah County's residents.
00:40:18.000Voters couldn't, or at least didn't, anticipate how this policy change would reshape a city already strapped for money, dealing with a public health crisis, and confronting rising rates of homelessness and fentanyl abuse.
00:40:27.000Drug use shot up, homelessness worsened, and taxpayers fled.
00:40:31.000Well, probably, you know, perfect left-wing governance has never been tried.
00:40:37.000That's the issue. There are now 19 people running for mayor and 98 people seeking seats on the city council.
00:40:43.000They are all campaigning on left of center platforms, but progressives often put blame for the policy failures on unexpected circumstances like the fentanyl crisis and on problems with implementation.
00:40:53.000Moderate candidates are bemoaning the city's far left shift and pushing for bigger policy corrections.
00:41:00.000Well done. But this is what left-wing governance looks like and you get precisely what you deserve.
00:41:05.000I don't think the American people are up for this.
00:41:07.000I think they know that Kamala Harris sympathizes more with the governance of Portland and San Francisco than she does with the governance of, say, states like Florida.
00:41:58.000Because their strategy to tamp down conflict in the Middle East is very unlikely to be successful here.
00:42:04.000The United States seems to have a strategy of leaking all of Israel's wartime strategies in an attempt to get Israel to stop fighting its war.
00:42:11.000It's not going to happen. Instead of just saying to Israel's enemies, hey guys, you better come to the table or Israel's gonna wreck you and we're gonna help them wreck you by just giving them what they need.
00:42:19.000Instead of doing that, which is the actual Trump-Vance position.
00:42:22.000J.D. Vance expressed it at the VP debate.
00:42:23.000Trump agrees with it. They are both on the same page.
00:42:26.000Instead of that, you have Kamala Harris and Joe Biden whinging about exactly what Israel is doing.
00:42:34.000Why won't Israel listen to us? Maybe they won't listen to you because you keep trying to yank their chain.
00:42:39.000Maybe it's that. The Wall Street Journal has a front-page piece today titled, U.S. Frustrated by Israel's Reluctance to Share Iran Retaliation Plans.
00:42:48.000Could it be that every time Israel shares its plans militarily, you yell about it publicly, you run over to Barak Ravid, your stenographer over at Axios, and then promptly leak it to the public?
00:42:58.000It's like every four days, the Biden administration runs to Barak Ravid to explain what the Israelis are going to do, thereby attempting to thwart Israel's actual military operations.
00:43:08.000Do you wonder why Israel kept it a secret?
00:43:11.000The only time Israel has had true success in the field is when they are not warning
00:43:14.000the Americans what they're going to do.
00:43:16.000The beeper operation didn't warn the Americans.
00:43:19.000Killing Hassan Nasrallah didn't warn the Americans.
00:43:22.000Killing Mohammed Daif didn't warn the Americans.
00:43:24.000Killing Ismail Haniyeh did not warn the Americans.
00:44:18.000According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. officials are frustrated they have been repeatedly caught off guard by Israel's military actions in Gaza and Lebanon and are seeking to head off further escalation.
00:44:28.000Or, you know, they could just get out of the way and let Israel win.
00:44:33.000It's such a rough, terrible idea just to let your allies do what they need to do to achieve victory.
00:44:38.000But that is precisely the view of the Biden administration.
00:44:42.000Meanwhile, how successful has the Biden administration been?
00:44:45.000Well, remember that time when they let Afghanistan completely collapse and then, unvetted, they let Afghan refugees come into the country?
00:44:52.000One of those Afghan refugees was an Afghan national who apparently was plotting an ISIS-inspired terror attack on election day to target large crowds.
00:44:59.000According to the FBI, he entered the United States September 9th, 2021, on a special immigrant visa.
00:45:05.000Days after the disastrous U.S.-Afghan withdrawal, he currently has parole status.
00:45:11.000The FBI has a photo allegedly from his iPhone, according to Bill Malugan.
00:45:14.000They say it depicts him describing to his daughter and another child the, quote, rewards a martyr receives in the afterlife.
00:45:28.000Again, the only times that America's allies right now are experiencing success is when they ignore everybody that the Biden administration sends for them.
00:45:37.000The Biden administration, they are not good at anything.
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00:46:43.000Donate your car today. Joining us online is Tim Kennedy.
00:46:46.000Tim, of course, is the leader of a charity that's on the ground in places like North Carolina and Florida, helping people out.
00:46:52.000We dropped the link below in the description of the show.
00:46:55.000So, Tim, let's start with North Carolina.
00:46:57.000What's the situation like on the ground in North Carolina?
00:46:59.000What have you guys been doing? I mean, since day one, I mean, as soon as Everybody's saying you can't get in there.
00:47:06.000We are already in there. Save Our Allies is definitely, you know, it's comprised of mostly special operations, operatives, these commandos that are good in austere environments.
00:47:16.000So we're able, we are there as expeditionary search and rescue personnel immediately.
00:47:22.000And now that we're, you know, pushing two weeks separated from the hurricane's arrival, It's moved from the cities of Asheville, which are starting to do well, up in the mountains.
00:47:34.000It's still very dire. These people have been without water, real water, power, cell service.
00:47:40.000They have to rebuild cell towers that were completely destroyed and there was only one cell tower that would connect one valley to the next valley.
00:48:25.000I think I can be grateful for organizations like FEMA that are on the ground and the men and women that are on the ground doing hard work, doing the hard job of sifting through rubble to try to find bodies, but also being critical about the way that things happen.
00:48:40.000The command and control that immediately should, a disaster of this magnitude should have been handed over
00:48:47.000when we started bringing in the 82nd Airborne and the 101st and you still have a governor that's like,
00:48:53.000ah, you know, I'm not sure if I'm gonna hand off command and control of these gigantic US military,
00:48:59.000you know, very talented groups of people.
00:50:03.000Could they have done better? Sure. Are there elements that if we back Monday morning quarterback, we could be like, hey, these are some things that they should change.
00:50:11.000But really, when you get on the ground, these are just great Americans trying to do great work and help people.
00:51:01.000Governor DeSantis is so much proactive.
00:51:06.000I already just watched a couple of National Guard activations going to other states all the way up into the Northeast and the Northwest.
00:51:14.000So states, you know, the opposite ends of the country are receiving requests from the Florida government saying, hey, if you have people with these specific skill sets, can they be activated and immediately put on orders and brought down to Florida for a couple of weeks?
00:51:28.000This is happening all over the United States, and that is the preemptive, proactive approach of a governor that's used to working in crisis, and he's already set up a proper ICS. The incident command system, which was the biggest failure of the North Carolina, specifically Western North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Hurricane Helene, this has already been rehearsed, this has already been executed, and Governor DeSantis knows how to do it.
00:51:58.000On the Save Our Allies side, from aviation to maritime to boats, we have two special forces sergeant majors.
00:52:06.000This is all they've done their whole entire lives.
00:52:08.000They are the ones that are going to be like the ground team, ground force commanders, and they're going to be using enablers to force multiply and be able to get, once we know where we need to be, it's kind of premature to say what we're going to be doing.
00:52:21.000But from aviation to Zodiacs to water rescues, we're going to have all of those capabilities.
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