The Ben Shapiro Show - PANIC At Kamala HQ

00:00:00.000 Well folks, the state of the race is moving away from Kamala Harris. We'll bring you all the updates momentarily.

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00:00:23.000 for 35% off your annual membership. So, panic is beginning to set in over at Kamala headquarters,

00:00:29.000 and there is a reason for that. There was some brand new polling from Quinnipiac yesterday,

00:00:33.000 and it shows that Kamala Harris is dropping like a stone in some of the swing states.

00:00:38.000 In Michigan, the last poll they had, September 16th, had her up five. Today, Donald Trump in

00:00:43.000 that same poll is up three points. That is an eight point swing in favor of Donald Trump.

00:00:48.000 Wisconsin, the last poll had Harris plus one. Today, Trump plus two, 48-46.

00:00:54.000 Pennsylvania, last poll, Harris was plus six.

00:00:57.000 Today, she is up only three.

00:00:59.000 So, even Pennsylvania, where she's spending tons of money, according to Quinnipiac, she's dropping like a stone. 0.84

00:01:04.000 And this is predictable, because the reality is that Kamala Harris was always a balloon.

00:01:10.000 And once you poked the balloon, the air was going to start coming out.

00:01:13.000 The air has been coming out of that balloon really quickly.

00:01:15.000 At this point, Mark Halperin, who's an excellent reporter and pollster, he points out she could lose all seven swing states pretty easily.

00:01:23.000 Here's how I framed it this morning in my newsletter.

00:01:26.000 The 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.

00:01:36.000 You think of the seven battleground states.

00:01:38.000 Which ones is Harris in danger of losing?

00:01:41.000 I would say Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, North Carolina, and Georgia.

00:01:47.000 I'm not saying she'll lose all six, but she's in danger.

00:01:49.000 The 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?

00:01:56.000 You guys agree with me? She could lose any of those six, right?

00:02:00.000 I mean, she could lose all seven, but Democrats will tell you they're worried about those six.

00:02:05.000 They're less worried about the seven.

00:02:06.000 Okay, well, that is bad news for her, quite obviously.

00:02:10.000 One of the things that's happening here is that it is quite possible that actually Trump's vote is being under-polled.

00:02:15.000 The reason for that is because it is extremely difficult to get low and mid-propensity voters to answer poll questions.

00:02:22.000 So 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.

00:02:28.000 But let's say that you're somebody who sometimes votes, sometimes doesn't.

00:02:32.000 Maybe you voted in 2016, but you didn't in 2020, or you voted in 2020, but not in 2012.

00:02:37.000 You're a low or mid-propensity voter.

00:02:39.000 And those voters don't like to answer poll questions.

00:02:41.000 If you get one of those people on the phone, you're a pollster, that person's going to be like, dude, I'm busy.

00:02:44.000 I don't even care that much. Here's the thing.

00:02:47.000 Donald Trump is leading among low-propensity voters and mid-propensity voters 52 to 45.

00:02:52.000 Kamala Harris is leading among high-propensity voters 51 to 47.

00:02:56.000 What 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. 1.00

00:03:05.000 The 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.

00:03:14.000 That's an actual real problem that people have been trying to model out and they're having a real problem modeling it out.

00:03:19.000 According to CNN, sources in the Kamala Harris campaign are having 2016 flashbacks.

00:03:26.000 This has been a campaign that was described by multiple Democrats, allies, aides, to the vice president as a good vibes campaign.

00:03:35.000 But what's also creeping in now is that anxiety.

00:03:39.000 The reason for that is because these polls are not really moving.

00:03:43.000 Despite 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.

00:03:57.000 In fact, I had one source describe it to me this way, quote, People are nervous.

00:04:01.000 They know the polls are tight.

00:04:03.000 And a lot of us are having these flashbacks to 2016, too.

00:04:07.000 We know when it can go the wrong way and it can still feel fresh.

00:04:12.000 So 2016 is the key here.

00:04:14.000 Okay, 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.

00:04:24.000 It's just the reality.

00:04:25.000 I'm looking at the Michigan statistics right now.

00:04:27.000 Right now, Donald Trump is up in the RealClearPolitics polling average about half a point.

00:04:31.000 In the last three polls, he has a lead, including the Quinnipiac poll, where he has a three to four point lead.

00:04:37.000 Okay, now, compare that to 2016.

00:04:39.000 At this point in time, in 2016, Hillary Clinton had a 7.3 percentage point lead on Donald Trump in Michigan. 0.98

00:04:46.000 In 2020, Joe Biden had a 6.7% lead on Donald Trump in Michigan.

00:04:52.000 Donald Trump only ended up losing the state in 2020 by about 2.7%.

00:04:56.000 In 2016, of course, he won the state.

00:04:59.000 And the same thing is happening in the rest of the swing states as well.

00:05:02.000 Take a look, for example, at Wisconsin.

00:05:05.000 Right now, Harris is leading, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, by about half a point.

00:05:10.000 But in October of 2020, Joe Biden was leading by five and a half points.

00:05:17.000 And if you look at what she was doing, Hillary Clinton in 2016, Hillary Clinton in 2016 was leading by 6.3 points.

00:05:24.000 In 2016, Trump won the state.

00:05:25.000 In 2020... Biden won the state by 0.63 percentage points.

00:05:31.000 So 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.

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00:06:53.000 The same thing is happening in Pennsylvania.

00:06:56.000 According to the latest Pennsylvania polling for RealClearPolitics, Trump is up by 0.2 percentage points.

00:07:02.000 In 2016, Hillary Clinton was leading by nine at this point. 0.81

00:07:05.000 In October of 2020, Joe Biden was leading by seven at this point.

00:07:11.000 The final results in Pennsylvania, by the way, is that Joe Biden won by 1.1 points.

00:07:17.000 So 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.

00:07:26.000 And again, virtually every poll ever taken about Trump under-polls his supporters.

00:07:31.000 Now, people say that 2022 is an exception to the rule.

00:07:33.000 In 2022, it appeared that Republicans were going to do better, and then they did worse.

00:07:37.000 Was Trump on the ballot in 2022?

00:07:39.000 He was not.

00:07:40.000 When Trump is on the ballot, a bunch of people who don't normally vote

00:07:43.000 or respond to pollsters show up.

00:07:45.000 Now, are pollsters trying to gauge for that?

00:07:47.000 Maybe, but we really have no idea at this point.

00:07:51.000 What we can tell is that we just have a lot of blinking warning signs,

00:07:55.000 a lot of lights going off for Kamala Harris.

00:07:58.000 According to the Washington Post, the steep decline in voting in Wisconsin

00:08:02.000 by one of the most loyal Democratic constituencies in recent elections, Black voters,

00:08:06.000 presents a challenge to Vice President Kamala Harris, who needs to maximize turnout among Black voters 0.98

00:08:10.000 to win this essential swing state.

00:08:12.000 Joe Biden carried the state in 2020 by about 20,000 votes less than one percentage point.

00:08:17.000 In 2012, with Barack Obama on the ballot, 78.5% of the state's Black voting age population went to the polls.

00:08:23.000 That 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.

00:08:33.000 Meanwhile, between 2012 and 2020, white Wisconsin voter turnout slightly increased from 75% to 77%, and Hispanic turnout leaped from 44% to nearly 60%.

00:08:44.000 Now, do you think that Kamala Harris is going to get 79% black turnout in 2024, like Barack Obama did in 2012?

00:08:52.000 Do you get any sense that the black community is as excited about Kamala Harris as they were about Barack Obama in 2012?

00:08:59.000 No way.

00:09:00.000 So here's where she's lagging.

00:09:02.000 She's lagging among minority voters.

00:09:03.000 Everyone can see this from every poll.

00:09:05.000 She's lagging among black voters. 0.86

00:09:06.000 She's lagging among Hispanic voters.

00:09:08.000 She's overperforming with single white women. 1.00

00:09:11.000 She's overperforming just a little bit with seniors.

00:09:15.000 With white men, blue-collar, non-college-educated white men, she's really underperforming, and she's going to underperform with men generally.

00:09:25.000 So she's got a huge problem on her hands. 1.00

00:09:28.000 Now, 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.

00:09:37.000 And remember, it's so funny to watch everybody try to pretend away what we all knew before she was swapped in.

00:09:43.000 Before she was swapped in, Joe Biden and everyone else in the Democratic Party knew she was a bad candidate. 0.98

00:09:48.000 They knew it. They were open about this.

00:09:49.000 This was not a secret. Everyone knew.

00:09:52.000 She was a crap, a terrible candidate. 1.00

00:09:54.000 She ran in 2019 and 2020, and she dropped out before getting to her home primary of California. 1.00

00:09:59.000 She 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. 0.99

00:10:06.000 That's her political career. 0.99

00:10:07.000 That's her story. She then proceeded to become the least popular vice president in modern American history. 1.00

00:10:14.000 And when they swapped her in, suddenly we were supposed to believe that she was Fetch and she was Brad.

00:10:20.000 And they were hoping that that would last the short campaign.

00:10:23.000 That 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.

00:10:34.000 The problem is the attention span in American politics is no longer one month.

00:10:38.000 It is no longer one week.

00:10:39.000 It is now about five minutes.

00:10:40.000 And that means that people demand more from the candidate.

00:10:45.000 People have already made up their mind about Donald Trump.

00:10:47.000 I've said a thousand times at this point that whoever the election is a referendum on, loses.

00:10:53.000 If this election was a referendum on Joe Biden, he was going to lose, and that's what it was.

00:10:57.000 Then when they swapped in Kamala, it suddenly became a referendum on Donald Trump because Kamala was kind of a nothing burger.

00:11:03.000 And because she was a nothing burger, it turned back into a referendum on Donald Trump. 0.98

00:11:06.000 But now, as Kamala Harris overstays her welcome, and again, she has a very short shelf life.

00:11:13.000 That lady politically is like a bottle of milk on expiration date. 1.00

00:11:16.000 You got like five minutes before that stuff starts to smell sour.

00:11:20.000 And right now you're watching her go sour with the American people. 0.68

00:11:23.000 The American people are sick of the brat. 0.99

00:11:25.000 They're sick of the vibes. They don't believe in the joy.

00:11:27.000 They don't believe any of this stuff. Even that sugar high that Democrats were experiencing is starting to dissipate.

00:11:32.000 And you can feel it when you talk to Democrats.

00:11:34.000 If I talked to a Democratic friend a month ago, like, yeah, man, she is great.

00:11:38.000 We feel the energy.

00:11:39.000 We feel the joy.

00:11:41.000 And what that was has a sugar high from having put old Joe out of his misery out back.

00:11:46.000 And not having to run them anymore.

00:11:47.000 But now the sugar high is wearing off because every time she opens her mouth, she's Julia Louis-Dreyfus from Veep.

00:11:56.000 That's who she is. And there's no way around it.

00:11:59.000 So, 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.

00:12:08.000 She's tried this a few ways.

00:12:10.000 So first, she actually actively called into CNN. Now, I wasn't aware that she was leading hurricane efforts.

00:12:16.000 In fact, she has nothing to do with hurricane efforts.

00:12:18.000 In fact, she has no authority over hurricane efforts.

00:12:21.000 She wants it both ways, of course.

00:12:23.000 She's had authority over everything and nothing at the same time.

00:12:25.000 But 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.

00:12:32.000 You know, when she's not sipping beer with Stephen Colbert.

00:12:36.000 Vice 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.

00:12:47.000 What 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?

00:12:57.000 The 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.

00:13:18.000 Well, that's, you know, with that kind of brilliant insight, I think that there's a reason she probably called in.

00:13:25.000 I mean, people are taking Kamala Harris very seriously.

00:13:27.000 Not the governor of the state of Florida, who's actually handled multiple hurricanes over his tenure.

00:13:32.000 Kamala Harris, who admitted just the other day that she started calling governors about hurricanes five minutes ago when she became a presidential candidate.

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00:14:54.000 How's she handling things? It's going well.

00:14:56.000 She 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.

00:15:15.000 She has no idea what she's talking about.

00:15:17.000 So during this live telecast, Conference call.

00:15:21.000 She's getting fed questions by her people. 1.00

00:15:23.000 They're in the room with her and they're feeding her questions in real time.

00:15:26.000 And she gets annoyed because she is having a voice in her ear.

00:15:31.000 And so she puts her hands over her mouth and says, I'm trying to handle a live call right now.

00:15:37.000 I'm on a live call right now.

00:15:39.000 I'm sorry. This is just lowbrow comedy at this point.

00:15:43.000 We really got to watch those areas and those communities.

00:15:46.000 So it takes quite a while for that water to drain.

00:15:50.000 Thank you very much. Oh, well, she's really in charge right now.

00:15:54.000 It's a live broadcast, she says, before immediately asking a question that was fed to her.

00:16:00.000 I also love that she covers her mouth while she's on a live mic. 1.00

00:16:03.000 That's not how microphones work, lady. 1.00

00:16:05.000 I'm on a mic all the time. Not how they work.

00:16:07.000 But then again, she doesn't know how earphones work either.

00:16:09.000 She takes pictures above hurricanes and hurricane damage with her earphones not connected to her phone.

00:16:15.000 In other areas of expertise, she's trying to try it out.

00:16:19.000 She's such an empty suit. My goodness, she's an empty suit. 1.00

00:16:21.000 That lady is an entire men's warehouse of empty suits, truly. 1.00

00:16:25.000 She's out there warning of price gouging and fraud. 0.99

00:16:28.000 This is such tiresome tripe.

00:16:30.000 It truly is.

00:16:33.000 Every time there's a hurricane or a natural disaster, there's a shortage of supply when it comes to gas.

00:16:37.000 And so in order to effectively ration gas, the price mechanism jumps the prices.

00:16:42.000 Because otherwise you'll run out of gas.

00:16:44.000 If you have 10 gallons of gas and you keep them at the normal price, it turns out that the gas runs out real quick.

00:16:50.000 Because I'm just going to buy up all the gas I can at that price before it jumps.

00:16:54.000 But she's warning about price gouging.

00:16:56.000 That's what everybody in Sarasota is worried about today.

00:17:01.000 They'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.

00:17:14.000 Finally, 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.

00:17:43.000 Okay, well, as long as she's reading directly from a statement about stopping price gouging, that's the kind of leadership America needs.

00:17:50.000 Now, here's the thing. She is currently at war with Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida.

00:17:54.000 Governor DeSantis has been excellent at this.

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00:18:39.000 Again, we're gonna drop all the links in the description below,

00:18:41.000 so you can make sure to do that as well.

00:18:43.000 But Ron DeSantis has been busy, you know, actually trying to help people in the state.

00:18:49.000 So here yesterday was Ron DeSantis suggesting, listen, the responsibilities with us and with FEMA, right?

00:18:54.000 It's our job to do what we need to do.

00:18:58.000 Most people are wise to this.

00:19:00.000 We live in an era where if you put out crap online, you can get a lot of people to share it and you can monetize that.

00:19:09.000 That's just the way it is. 0.92

00:19:11.000 But if you're hearing things, something that's just outrageous, just know in the state of Florida, none of that stuff would ever fly.

00:19:18.000 So you don't have to worry about that.

00:19:19.000 FEMA is not leading this show.

00:19:21.000 We are leading this show here in the state of Florida.

00:19:23.000 Okay, again, this is what leadership looks like, right?

00:19:26.000 It's taking responsibility.

00:19:27.000 It's taking accountability. It's not blaming other people.

00:19:29.000 It's not blaming price gouging.

00:19:31.000 It'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.

00:19:45.000 It's actual leadership.

00:19:46.000 Here's Governor DeSantis yesterday saying they have 50,000 linemen ready.

00:19:51.000 We 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.

00:20:02.000 We will have in Florida, by the time the storm arises, over 50,000 linemen.

00:20:08.000 And those linemen are being brought in from places as far away as California.

00:20:13.000 Again, that's what leadership actually looks like.

00:20:16.000 That's what leadership actually looks like.

00:20:18.000 And meanwhile, Kamala Harris is ripping that guy. 1.00

00:20:20.000 She's ripping that guy. It's political malpractice. 1.00

00:20:23.000 So, what is Kamala Harris left with? 0.97

00:20:25.000 The desperation campaign is setting in.

00:20:26.000 They're getting desperate now. They've tossed up.

00:20:28.000 Hundreds of millions of dollars into advertising at this point.

00:20:30.000 They have a billion dollars that they've raised.

00:20:32.000 And it's not going to matter.

00:20:33.000 Because if you keep tossing money down the toilet that is the Harris candidacy, I'm not sure it's going to reap magical benefits here.

00:20:41.000 So Kamala Harris has been forced to now make the argument that Trump, he's going to lose because he's so divisive. 0.99

00:20:46.000 Man, how many times are you going to go back to this well?

00:20:48.000 That well has been dry for a long time.

00:20:51.000 Here she is on Stephen Colbert, you know, where she cares about the people by drinking Miller High Life in the middle of a hurricane. 0.81

00:20:57.000 I'm traveling around the country.

00:20:59.000 I'm spending a lot of time talking with folks, listening to folks.

00:21:02.000 And 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.

00:21:11.000 They really are. And...

00:21:15.000 And 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.

00:21:27.000 You know, folks are ready to turn the page.

00:21:28.000 It's like, let's chart a new way forward.

00:21:31.000 And 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...

00:21:40.000 Solutions and common sense and finding common ground.

00:21:44.000 And that is what I am offering.

00:21:47.000 No, you're not offering anything like that. 1.00

00:21:49.000 You're just a liar. 1.00

00:21:50.000 Kamala is a fibber. 1.00

00:21:51.000 She's pretending she's moderate. 0.82

00:21:52.000 She's actually quite radical.

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00:23:06.000 He was asked about her position.

00:23:08.000 He was on Fox News Sunday. He was asked about her position on illegal immigration and undocumented immigrants, illegal immigrants receiving government benefits.

00:23:16.000 Now, throughout her career, she's been very much in favor of illegal immigrants receiving massive government benefits. 0.61

00:23:21.000 Here's Tim Walls walking it back.

00:23:22.000 She, of course, has never answered a question about it.

00:23:25.000 Look, the Vice President has made it clear that she has policies that make a difference. 0.96

00:23:30.000 Her border policies are the most strongest, the fairest we've seen.

00:23:34.000 Now, Governor, you know a lot of people, including your own party, would not join that statement.

00:23:39.000 There are millions of people who have come here over the last few years that, you know, they see this as an open border.

00:23:48.000 Well, simply, we have a policy.

00:23:50.000 Donald Trump sees it as a political system. 0.99

00:23:52.000 Ridiculous. Ridiculous people. 1.00

00:23:54.000 So they're shifting their positions all over the place. 1.00

00:23:56.000 She's banking on people just not liking Trump.

00:23:58.000 Good luck with that.

00:23:59.000 And then there's the actual desperation by the surrogates.

00:24:02.000 So the surrogates are really losing it.

00:24:04.000 So, for example, here is Pod Save America host Dan Pfeiffer on MSNBC who says, our big problem is that we just don't have any real...

00:24:16.000 We don't have any, you know, real media infrastructure.

00:24:19.000 That's their problem.

00:24:20.000 They're already making the excuses.

00:24:21.000 Here come the excuses. 0.98

00:24:39.000 He's old, mentally declining, and lazy.

00:24:42.000 So that's the first reason. 0.69

00:24:44.000 The second reason is, Republicans have something Democrats don't, which they have a massive media operation between Fox News, Daily Wire, all these people.

00:24:53.000 We don't have that yet, so we have to work harder to do it.

00:24:56.000 So first of all, we appreciate the shout-out.

00:24:57.000 We appreciate the shout-out from our friends over at Pod Save.

00:25:01.000 I gotta say, Dan Pfeiffer, I don't know what it is.

00:25:04.000 Maybe he's a subscriber or something.

00:25:05.000 This is like the second time he's gone on MSNBC and name-checked us.

00:25:08.000 The first time he was calling for us to be censored, of course.

00:25:10.000 But you're on MSNBC, my dude!

00:25:14.000 I thought Positive America was a fairly large podcast.

00:25:17.000 I'm also aware that there's this network called CNN. There's also one called CBS News.

00:25:22.000 There's one called ABC News and NBC News.

00:25:24.000 It's crazy. It's like you have the New York Times and the Washington Post and the non-editorial pages at the Wall Street Journal.

00:25:30.000 Why, it's pretty wet, like NPR. I mean, I can't, but we, we are, did you know how dominant we are?

00:25:37.000 First, again, thank you for the compliment, Dan.

00:25:39.000 Really appreciate it. But the excuse making, the excuse making.

00:25:43.000 She's going to lose because you guys don't have a media infrastructure?

00:25:46.000 My goodness. The levels of delusion.

00:25:50.000 Or how about Donnie Deutsch on the same network?

00:25:52.000 He's already coping.

00:25:53.000 He's drinking straight from the copium dispensary. 0.99

00:25:56.000 He says that the problem is that the souls of Donald Trump voters are corrupt. 0.99

00:26:01.000 Corrupted souls. That's the issue. 0.93

00:26:03.000 I'm going to listen to Donnie Deutsch about corruption of the soul.

00:26:09.000 What happened to us?

00:26:10.000 What is wrong with us?

00:26:11.000 I feel like I'm living in another country.

00:26:15.000 I'm going to really feel that way if the election goes in the Trump direction.

00:26:19.000 How bankrupt have so many souls become?

00:26:24.000 Oh, the desperation.

00:26:26.000 Oh, the desperation. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is getting big crowds.

00:26:29.000 Donald Trump is campaigning. He is leading in a lot of the polls right now.

00:26:32.000 And the reason for that is because the issues that America really cares about, they're on Trump's side.

00:26:37.000 When it comes to immigration, it is clear from how Kamala Harris and Tim Walls are running away from their original immigration position.

00:26:43.000 Both of them. Because Walls is also super soft on border issues.

00:26:46.000 They're running away from it because, it turns out, Americans are border hawks.

00:26:50.000 On China. It's Kamala Harris and Tim Walls.

00:26:53.000 Tim Walls used to spend every other day in China.

00:26:56.000 He's been in China 30 times.

00:26:58.000 That's crazy. I ain't been to no other country 30 times.

00:27:02.000 30 times? That's crazy.

00:27:04.000 Okay, but now he and Kamala Harris are trying to pretend that they're going to be harsh on China.

00:27:10.000 Why? Because Donald Trump is the one who really opened that up.

00:27:14.000 How about increasing domestic energy production, including fracking?

00:27:17.000 Nega, Kamala, and Tim Walls trying to pretend they're pro-fracking based on their long record of hating fracking.

00:27:24.000 All these issues are issues on which Trump wins.

00:27:28.000 How 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.

00:27:40.000 How about, for example, economic growth?

00:27:43.000 It turns out that people don't like over-regulation.

00:27:47.000 People don't like higher taxes.

00:27:49.000 So Kamala Harris is having to campaign as a middle-class tax cutter. 1.00

00:27:53.000 The bottom line here is that Americans don't like her policies, and they don't like her very much. 0.76

00:27:57.000 She's not particularly likable.

00:27:59.000 She's not particularly wondrous.

00:28:00.000 She's radically inauthentic.

00:28:02.000 And everyone knows it. We'll get to more on this in a second.

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00:28:50.000 Yep. Obviously, I know President Trump.

00:28:53.000 The thing you cannot say about Donald Trump is that he is always himself.

00:28:56.000 That even his opponents will concede to him.

00:28:58.000 He's on Andrew Schultz's podcast yesterday.

00:29:00.000 And I will say, Donald Trump is a very funny human.

00:29:04.000 Here was President Trump slamming Joe Biden for sleeping on the beach.

00:29:08.000 He has one ability I don't have.

00:29:11.000 He sleeps. He can sleep.

00:29:14.000 This guy goes on a beach...

00:29:17.000 And he lays down on one of those, you know, six ounce...

00:29:20.000 They weigh six ounces and he can't lift it.

00:29:25.000 They're meant for children, young people, and old people to lift. 1.00

00:29:33.000 Aluminum, you know, hollowed aluminum.

00:29:34.000 They weigh very little and he can't lift.

00:29:37.000 And somebody convinced him he looks great in a bathing suit.

00:29:40.000 And when you're 82, typically bathing suits aren't going to make you look great.

00:29:44.000 You're not going to be enhanced.

00:29:46.000 Okay, I'm sorry. That's just better content than anything that Kamala Harris is doing.

00:29:50.000 It 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.

00:30:02.000 I'm sorry, he's just way more interesting and entertaining than she is.

00:30:05.000 He's way more authentic than she is.

00:30:07.000 I don't know that authenticity has to be the core component of a successful politics.

00:30:11.000 I do know that inauthenticity ain't gonna win you any prizes.

00:30:15.000 And Kamala Harris is so radically inauthentic. 0.75

00:30:17.000 She cannot be off teleprompter.

00:30:18.000 She cannot. It is a disaster for her.

00:30:20.000 So she can't campaign on her character.

00:30:22.000 She can't campaign on her likability. 0.94

00:30:24.000 She certainly can't campaign on her policies. 1.00

00:30:27.000 Donald Trump skunks her on policy, particularly on foreign policy.

00:30:31.000 We have two major ongoing wars in the world.

00:30:34.000 She's been terrible on both of them.

00:30:35.000 Meanwhile, here is Donald Trump explaining his foreign policy to Andrew Schultz yesterday.

00:30:40.000 Iran has an open threat out for me, and that's bad. 1.00

00:30:43.000 And 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.

00:31:03.000 And it would stop.

00:31:05.000 He's right. He's right.

00:31:07.000 That's something that Kamala Harris will never say.

00:31:09.000 Ever. And Americans actually like being able to deter our enemies, as it turns out.

00:31:15.000 That is the thing that we typically like.

00:31:17.000 And the likability factor here is a thing I think that has gone by the wayside in a lot of the analysis of this race.

00:31:23.000 Because there's so many people who just hate Donald Trump, who really hate him.

00:31:26.000 I 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.

00:31:38.000 The reality is that she is not.

00:31:40.000 She is not. And the more you get to know her and the people around her, the less you like them.

00:31:43.000 Which presumably is why I'm never going to stop talking about this.

00:31:47.000 Why is it that the entire legacy media are ignoring allegations that her husband beat up a woman in 2012?

00:31:55.000 Why? Why are they ignoring allegations that he knocked up the nanny?

00:31:59.000 Why are they ignoring allegations that when he was at his old law firm, he was hitting on the help?

00:32:04.000 Why? They don't have the excuse of pretending that it's irrelevant because he's a spouse.

00:32:08.000 The New York Times literally put out a piece yesterday about Mark Robinson's wife.

00:32:14.000 I'm not even kidding.

00:32:16.000 Yolanda Robinson, wife of Mark Robinson, has had scandals of her own.

00:32:21.000 North Carolina's second lady helped make her husband's political foray possible, but her ventures at daycare and a non-profit also caused problems. 0.98

00:32:28.000 So I have a question. When is the last time that the New York Times reported about Doug Emhoff and assault?

00:32:35.000 The answer, never.

00:32:37.000 Literally never. They have never reported on it.

00:32:42.000 They reported one time about him schtuping the nanny, one time back in August, and that's it.

00:32:50.000 That's the only time they ever reported on it.

00:32:52.000 The active cover-up of everything about Kamala.

00:32:54.000 Everything. When we're talking about her history, you're not allowed to talk about her early beginnings with Willie Brown.

00:32:58.000 Don't talk about that. That's rude.

00:33:00.000 Don't talk about it. You're not allowed to talk about Doug Emhoff and her husband and their wonderful, lovely marriage.

00:33:06.000 You're not allowed to talk about who he is at all.

00:33:08.000 You shouldn't talk about that. You should not talk about her policies because, after all, you don't know what her policies will be.

00:33:12.000 Was she the president? You're not allowed to talk about the fact that she's a complete failure at everything she has ever touched. 1.00

00:33:19.000 Well, it turns out the American public are tired of this.

00:33:21.000 They're tired of this. And they have trust issues.

00:33:23.000 And the media's trust-me routine with Kamala Harris, it ain't going nowhere.

00:33:26.000 And 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. 0.99

00:33:35.000 And one of the biggest issues that undergirds this entire election is, of course, economics.

00:33:38.000 And we've talked a lot about immigration.

00:33:40.000 We've talked a lot about foreign policy.

00:33:41.000 The 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.

00:33:51.000 But the reality is the American public look at Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and what they see is inflation and stagnation.

00:33:57.000 That is what they see. And that's more of what she promises.

00:34:01.000 Now, this week, the federal deficit hit $1.8 trillion.

00:34:06.000 Trillion. That's the deficit, not the debt.

00:34:08.000 The debt. The national debt right now is approaching $36 trillion, which is almost $140,000 for every single person in the United States.

00:34:19.000 And that is not counting the unfunded liabilities.

00:34:21.000 That's just what's on the books right now.

00:34:24.000 And what's Kamala Harris' plan? 0.98

00:34:26.000 To spend more money. Which means future economic stagnation.

00:34:30.000 If 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.

00:34:41.000 Everyone knows that's where this is going.

00:34:43.000 Underneath 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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00:35:35.000 Go check it out right now. When it comes to Kamala Harris's economic plans, all she's pledging is more spending without end and without a way to pay for any of it. 1.00

00:35:44.000 So 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.

00:35:55.000 Now, how exactly do you pay for that?

00:35:57.000 Seriously, how do you pay for that?

00:35:59.000 Because 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.

00:36:05.000 That ought to be on the government, meaning the taxpayer, meaning you.

00:36:10.000 What 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?

00:36:20.000 Well, the answer is that she's just going to stack whatever she can on the public dime. 1.00

00:36:26.000 The 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.

00:36:35.000 She said the new benefit would help the sandwich generation of Americans who take care of children and aging parents.

00:36:40.000 She put no cost estimate on this new taxpayer obligation, but home care on average costs $288,000 a year.

00:36:48.000 Interesting, Medicare should cover an expense of $288,000 a year.

00:36:52.000 That's the new entitlement program that she's proposing. 0.95

00:36:55.000 She says that this is going to be funded with government drug price controls.

00:37:00.000 So, basically, she is going to get rid of all R&D funding.

00:37:05.000 That'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... 0.93

00:37:12.000 $300,000 a year for the elderly to pay for this out of the public coffers?

00:37:18.000 Just to do a little bit of quick back-of-the-envelope math.

00:37:21.000 Somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 12 million Americans need some form of home health care, including long-term health care.

00:37:28.000 Home health care. A nurse who comes over and helps. 0.99

00:37:31.000 You're 85, you live by yourself.

00:37:32.000 If 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.

00:37:43.000 Every year. That is her new entitlement program.

00:37:46.000 Yeah, good luck with that.

00:37:47.000 That probably won't be a burden on business at all.

00:37:50.000 And especially it won't be a burden when you combine that with her insane pro-union stance. 0.93

00:37:54.000 So unions are artificially driving up the price of goods and services in the United States, particularly dock workers unions.

00:38:00.000 So the White House recently just handed over basically all negotiations to the dock workers union.

00:38:07.000 And 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.

00:38:16.000 So 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.

00:38:25.000 Congratulations. Also that Kamala can pay off her union buddies. 1.00

00:38:29.000 According 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.

00:38:38.000 All of this, man, is all automated, he said, pointing toward acres of stacked containers stretching to the Pacific.

00:38:43.000 He marveled at the automated vehicles driving amid the containers.

00:38:46.000 No drivers in any of those machines.

00:38:47.000 They're no joke, man. From the podium, Harold Daggett, the union's pugnacious leader, was having none of it.

00:38:52.000 They say that's the future, he bellowed to the thousands of gathered workers.

00:38:56.000 Over my dead body!

00:38:59.000 Well, I mean, so we're now pushing against, you know, exactly the factors that would make life more affordable for Americans.

00:39:05.000 That's what Kamala Harris has pledged to do.

00:39:07.000 And we know precisely what this governance looks like.

00:39:10.000 It don't look particularly good.

00:39:12.000 And here's the beautiful thing about left-wing governance in America.

00:39:15.000 It gets tried and tried and tried again.

00:39:16.000 And it fails and it fails and it fails again.

00:39:18.000 And they try it again and then it fails again.

00:39:21.000 Basically, it's Portland.

00:39:23.000 The most hilarious story of the day comes courtesy of Politico.

00:39:27.000 It's titled, This Proud Liberal City is Throwing Out Its Entire Government.

00:39:31.000 Why? What happened? I thought they were doing great.

00:39:33.000 Portland was a wonderful, joyous place.

00:39:35.000 It was a weird city and everything.

00:39:37.000 Well, it turns out everyone hates living there and they're all leaving.

00:39:39.000 Because bad governance means a bad place to live.

00:39:43.000 Quote, few American cities faced as much chaos as Portland over the last four years.

00:39:47.000 This proudly liberal city has endured more than 100 days of often violent protests,

00:39:51.000 a fentanyl and homelessness crisis, a pandemic, and decriminalization of all drugs.

00:39:56.000 This November, Portland is undertaking one more chaotic act.

00:39:59.000 In 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.

00:40:09.000 A major driving factor was the passage of Measure 110 decriminalizing all drugs in 2020.

00:40:14.000 That was backed by three quarters of Multnomah County's residents.

00:40:18.000 Voters 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.

00:40:27.000 Drug use shot up, homelessness worsened, and taxpayers fled.

00:40:31.000 Well, probably, you know, perfect left-wing governance has never been tried.

00:40:35.000 We just need to try more of it.

00:40:37.000 That's the issue. There are now 19 people running for mayor and 98 people seeking seats on the city council.

00:40:43.000 They 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.

00:40:53.000 Moderate candidates are bemoaning the city's far left shift and pushing for bigger policy corrections.

00:40:58.000 Like, well done, everyone.

00:41:00.000 Well done. But this is what left-wing governance looks like and you get precisely what you deserve.

00:41:05.000 I don't think the American people are up for this.

00:41:07.000 I 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. 0.95

00:41:14.000 That is pretty obvious.

00:41:16.000 But I don't think the American people agree with her agenda.

00:41:20.000 And they don't like her very much personally either.

00:41:23.000 Kamala Harris' latest favorability ratings, she's three points underwater with The Economist, YouGov.

00:41:28.000 She's four points underwater with Yahoo News.

00:41:32.000 Now, these are not amazing numbers.

00:41:33.000 They just aren't. People don't love her in any real sense.

00:41:38.000 Meanwhile, Donald Trump running kind of similar numbers.

00:41:41.000 He's in the same ballpark.

00:41:42.000 It's like minus six, minus eight.

00:41:45.000 Both of them are riding at 47-48% in the favorability ratings.

00:41:49.000 In other words, she ain't nothing to write home about.

00:41:52.000 And the American people are showing it in the polling data.

00:41:54.000 She's got a real problem on her hands. 1.00

00:41:57.000 Meanwhile, they got another problem.

00:41:58.000 Because their strategy to tamp down conflict in the Middle East is very unlikely to be successful here.

00:42:04.000 The 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.

00:42:11.000 It'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. 0.78

00:42:19.000 Instead of doing that, which is the actual Trump-Vance position.

00:42:22.000 J.D. Vance expressed it at the VP debate.

00:42:23.000 Trump agrees with it. They are both on the same page.

00:42:26.000 Instead of that, you have Kamala Harris and Joe Biden whinging about exactly what Israel is doing.

00:42:32.000 Oh no, it's just so sad.

00:42:34.000 Why won't Israel listen to us? Maybe they won't listen to you because you keep trying to yank their chain.

00:42:39.000 Maybe 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.

00:42:46.000 I wonder why.

00:42:48.000 Could 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?

00:42:58.000 It'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.

00:43:08.000 Do you wonder why Israel kept it a secret?

00:43:11.000 The only time Israel has had true success in the field is when they are not warning 1.00

00:43:14.000 the Americans what they're going to do.

00:43:16.000 The beeper operation didn't warn the Americans.

00:43:19.000 Killing Hassan Nasrallah didn't warn the Americans.

00:43:22.000 Killing Mohammed Daif didn't warn the Americans.

00:43:24.000 Killing Ismail Haniyeh did not warn the Americans.

00:43:26.000 Why?

00:43:27.000 Why?

00:43:28.000 Well, because Joe Biden and team have decided that it is their job to play honest interlocutor

00:43:31.000 between American allies and America's enemies.

00:43:33.000 It's incredible.

00:43:34.000 According to The Wall Street Journal, Israel has so far refused to divulge to the Biden

00:43:38.000 administration details of its plans to retaliate against Tehran, even as the White House is

00:43:42.000 urging its closest Middle East ally not to hit Iran's oil facilities or nuclear sites

00:43:46.000 amid fears of a widening regional war.

00:43:49.000 I mean, what are they afraid of?

00:43:50.000 That Iran's going to start firing on Saudi Arabia or Bahrain or something?

00:43:54.000 If that happens, then the Sunni-Israeli alliance will riot again, and that will be the end of the current Iranian regime. 0.58

00:44:00.000 President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone for the first time Wednesday since August 21st.

00:44:06.000 And, of course, they brought in Kamala Harris so they can pretend she has an actual job. 1.00

00:44:10.000 Secretary of State Antony Blinken took some time off from playing saxophone in Kiev to join the call as well.

00:44:15.000 It lasted about 30 minutes.

00:44:18.000 According 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.

00:44:28.000 Or, you know, they could just get out of the way and let Israel win.

00:44:31.000 I know, it's so rough.

00:44:33.000 It's such a rough, terrible idea just to let your allies do what they need to do to achieve victory.

00:44:38.000 But that is precisely the view of the Biden administration.

00:44:42.000 Meanwhile, how successful has the Biden administration been?

00:44:45.000 Well, remember that time when they let Afghanistan completely collapse and then, unvetted, they let Afghan refugees come into the country? 1.00

00:44:52.000 One of those Afghan refugees was an Afghan national who apparently was plotting an ISIS-inspired terror attack on election day to target large crowds.

00:44:59.000 According to the FBI, he entered the United States September 9th, 2021, on a special immigrant visa.

00:45:05.000 Days after the disastrous U.S.-Afghan withdrawal, he currently has parole status.

00:45:11.000 The FBI has a photo allegedly from his iPhone, according to Bill Malugan.

00:45:14.000 They say it depicts him describing to his daughter and another child the, quote, rewards a martyr receives in the afterlife.

00:45:19.000 Amazing immigration policy.

00:45:20.000 Amazing foreign policy.

00:45:22.000 Wise and common winning. They're doing such an amazing job.

00:45:25.000 I cannot even imagine.

00:45:28.000 Again, the only times that America's allies right now are experiencing success is when they ignore everybody that the Biden administration sends for them.

00:45:37.000 The Biden administration, they are not good at anything.

00:45:39.000 They are very bad at most things. 1.00

00:45:40.000 They are very stupid at almost everything. 1.00

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00:46:43.000 Donate your car today. Joining us online is Tim Kennedy.

00:46:46.000 Tim, of course, is the leader of a charity that's on the ground in places like North Carolina and Florida, helping people out.

00:46:52.000 We dropped the link below in the description of the show.

00:46:55.000 So, Tim, let's start with North Carolina.

00:46:57.000 What's the situation like on the ground in North Carolina?

00:46:59.000 What have you guys been doing? I mean, since day one, I mean, as soon as Everybody's saying you can't get in there.

00:47:06.000 We 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.

00:47:16.000 So we're able, we are there as expeditionary search and rescue personnel immediately.

00:47:22.000 And 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.

00:47:34.000 It's still very dire. These people have been without water, real water, power, cell service.

00:47:40.000 They 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.

00:47:47.000 So, man, it's a real mess.

00:47:50.000 It's heartbreaking. And these are the poor.

00:47:52.000 You know, the people up in the mountains, they're there by choice.

00:47:56.000 Like, they want that kind of reclusive lifestyle.

00:47:59.000 And none of them, or the vast majority of them, are not, like, wealthy.

00:48:03.000 So their lives were already desperate before, and now it's just the next level of desperation.

00:48:09.000 Tim, obviously you guys have people on the ground over there with Save Our Allies.

00:48:13.000 There's been a lot of critiques of the state government, of the federal government.

00:48:17.000 What have you seen in terms of government response?

00:48:19.000 Yeah, I mean, obviously, as, um...

00:48:23.000 I-I have... I'm not kind.

00:48:25.000 I 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.

00:48:40.000 The command and control that immediately should, a disaster of this magnitude should have been handed over

00:48:47.000 when we started bringing in the 82nd Airborne and the 101st and you still have a governor that's like,

00:48:53.000 ah, you know, I'm not sure if I'm gonna hand off command and control of these gigantic US military,

00:48:59.000 you know, very talented groups of people.

00:49:03.000 It doesn't really make sense.

00:49:05.000 When I'm walking up to a hotel, and I was fact-checked on this,

00:49:08.000 people have said I was a liar about this.

00:49:10.000 On October 1st, I went to a holiday inn in Nashville after doing a health and wellness check

00:49:14.000 on a young family at one o'clock, two o'clock in the morning

00:49:18.000 and they haven't had power, they haven't had cell service, they hadn't had water, they did just wanna sleep,

00:49:23.000 but they hadn't showered in a few days.

00:49:25.000 So I go and I check a few hotels and I go to a hotel and they have an armed federal officer

00:49:30.000 at the entrance of this hotel and they said the whole entire hotel has been booked up.

00:49:36.000 And I was like, I got it.

00:49:37.000 Our approach is that we have zero impact on the local economy.

00:49:41.000 So that local economy is available for those that are experiencing the worst moments of their lives.

00:49:48.000 These larger organizations, they're not as nimble.

00:49:51.000 But I also appreciate what they bring to bear and the amount of effect that they can have on the ground.

00:49:57.000 So I'm not...

00:50:02.000 Nobody's perfect. We're not perfect.

00:50:03.000 Could 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.

00:50:11.000 But really, when you get on the ground, these are just great Americans trying to do great work and help people.

00:50:17.000 So, Tim, obviously you are prepared.

00:50:19.000 You're ready to go into Florida and help out with whatever Hurricane Milton brings.

00:50:25.000 Obviously, it's going to wipe through the state. 0.83

00:50:27.000 We have yet to kind of find out what the extent of the damage is going to be.

00:50:32.000 What kind of resources are you looking to bring to bear?

00:50:35.000 Yeah, we were expanding operations as North Carolina is pivoting.

00:50:39.000 By no means are we leaving North Carolina and be like, hey, you know, like we're there for the hard work.

00:50:44.000 Good luck rebuilding your homes.

00:50:45.000 That's not what's happening. We are keeping people on the ground.

00:50:48.000 Ground Force commanders are staying there.

00:50:50.000 The Independence Fund and Save Our Allies are still going to be distributing goods.

00:50:54.000 In Florida, Ben, you said it right.

00:50:57.000 We're not exactly sure the level of devastation.

00:50:59.000 Florida is used to hurricanes.

00:51:01.000 Governor DeSantis is so much proactive.

00:51:06.000 I already just watched a couple of National Guard activations going to other states all the way up into the Northeast and the Northwest.

00:51:14.000 So 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?

00:51:28.000 This 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.

00:51:55.000 He is way ahead of the game.

00:51:58.000 On the Save Our Allies side, from aviation to maritime to boats, we have two special forces sergeant majors.

00:52:06.000 This is all they've done their whole entire lives.

00:52:08.000 They 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.

00:52:21.000 But from aviation to Zodiacs to water rescues, we're going to have all of those capabilities.

00:52:28.000 Well, that's Tim Kennedy.

00:52:29.000 Go help them out right now at SaveOurAllies.org.

00:52:32.000 They're doing wonderful work on the ground in places like North Carolina and Florida.

00:52:35.000 Tim, really appreciate what you're doing.

00:52:36.000 Thanks so much for your work. Yeah, I appreciate you.

00:52:38.000 Thanks, Ben. All right, coming up, we'll jump into the Vaunted Ben Shapiro Show mailbag.

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