Rashida Tlaib is a cry bully. She supports the most egregious atrocities known to man, but hides behind her religion to claim victimhood and then weeps about her supposed "victimhood." Here she was yesterday, claiming that she was being silenced, and then, of course, crying about it. And this is precisely why she is now being treated as a victim by legacy media: because she is a member of the oppressed class, and this means she can spout blood-libels. And then, when called on her lies and her Jew hatred, she can shed crocodile tears. That is precisely what happened yesterday when a resolution sponsored by Rep. Rich McCormick (D-GA) called for her censure for "promoting false narratives regarding the October 7th, 2323 Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the State of Israel." The resolution passed, with 22 Democrats voting in favor, but only 22 of them were actually in favor of censuring her. It's okay, it's okay. We are strong, we are human beings. We deserve a chance to be a victim, and we are stronger than we think we are, but we are strong enough to fight for ourselves, and to speak truth to power even if it means we have to go through hell and high water. and that means we are more than strong enough, and that we are not weak, but that we can be brave enough to stand up for ourselves and speak truth and stand up to the truth and speak our truths and stand for what s good and speak out against lies and speak the truth. And we believe in the truth, even when it s not good enough, no matter what the media say. And that s okay, because it s okay? It s not okay, we re not a victim. We re human beings, it s just like anyone else, and no one else can be a bully, right or wrong, but it s okay or not to say what s right or bad, right, and it s OKAY? or not to do what s wrong? and it s ok, right? And it s fine, right and okay, let s right, right ? in fact, it is not okay and she s not a bad or , right, ? in the words of her own words that s
00:00:00.000On Sunday, an elderly Jewish man attending a pro-Israel rally in Thousand Oaks, California was killed after being allegedly hit in the head with a megaphone wielded by a pro-Hamas protester.
00:00:09.000That attack represents only the latest and most damaging anti-Semitic attack in the West.
00:00:13.000In Sydney, Australia, journalist Sherry Markson reports that a Jewish man was nearly beaten to death by a pro-Hamas mob and ended up in the hospital for four days with a concussion and four spinal fractures.
00:00:23.000In France, a Jewish woman was stabbed twice in the stomach and a swastika daubed on her door.
00:00:27.000In Indiana, a A pro-Hamas woman tried to drive a car into what she thought was a Jewish school.
00:00:31.000Normally, such events might spur nationwide conversations about anti-Semitism and the cost of radical rhetoric.
00:00:37.000After all, according to the White House, a national conversation regarding Islamophobia has been made necessary by the murder of a six-year-old Palestinian Arab child in Michigan.
00:00:46.000But no, there's been no such conversation about any climate of hate.
00:00:50.000That's for one reason and one reason alone.
00:00:52.000The people doing the hating and the people hated.
00:00:55.000Those doing the hating are fans of Hamas, both radical Muslims and fellow travelers on the left.
00:01:02.000And, as everyone of sophisticated moral bent knows, Muslims, being disproportionately brown and disproportionately poor, and the majority in dozens of materially underperforming countries globally, are victims.
00:01:12.000And Jews, being highly educated and high earning, and the majority in precisely one materially successful state, are victimizers.
00:01:24.000Being a member of the oppressed means you are a victim, no matter how evil you are.
00:01:29.000That is precisely why Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, a raging Jew-hater, is now being treated as a victim by many in the legacy media.
00:01:36.000Tlaib is a sitting Congresswoman, which means that by any standard, she is successful.
00:01:39.000But she is also brown and also hates the West, which means that she is a member of the oppressed class.
00:01:44.000And this means she can spout blood libels.
00:01:46.000She still maintains that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza, despite all evidence to the contrary.
00:01:50.000It means she can call for the utter destruction of the state of Israel, pushing the slogan from the river to the sea and the genocide that inevitably entails.
00:01:58.000It means she can blame Israel for Hamas' attack on Israeli civilians while claiming moral equivalence between a group that burns babies alive and a group that attempts to avoid civilian casualties.
00:02:07.000It means she can spend her career hobnobbing with open terror supporters, and it means she can claim falsely that Israel is engaged in genocide and threaten President Biden over that false claim.
00:02:17.000And then, when called on her lies and her Jew hatred, she can shed crocodile tears.
00:02:22.000That's precisely what happened yesterday when a resolution sponsored by Representative Rich McCormick of Georgia called for her censure.
00:02:28.000McCormick's resolution censured Tlaib for, quote, promoting false narratives regarding the October 7th, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, and for calling for the destruction of the State of Israel.
00:02:37.000The resolution passed 234 to 188, with 22 Democrats voting in favor.
00:02:42.000This resolution, according to Tlaib and her allies, is oppression.
00:02:49.000To be more specific, she is a cry hamasnik.
00:02:52.000She supports the most egregious atrocities known to man, but hides behind her religion to claim immunity, and then weeps about her supposed victimhood.
00:02:59.000Here she was yesterday, claiming that she was being silenced, and then, of course, crying about it.
00:03:04.000I will not be silenced, and I will not let you distort my words.
00:03:09.000Folks forget I'm from the city of Detroit, the most beautiful blackest city in the country, where I learned to speak truth to power even if my voice shakes.
00:03:17.000Trying to bully or censor me won't work, because this movement for a ceasefire is much bigger than one person.
00:03:25.000Mr. Chair, do you know what it's like to fear rising hate crimes, to know how Islamophobia and anti-Semitism makes us all less safe, and worry that your own child might suffer the horrors that six-year-old Wadiyat did in Illinois?
00:03:38.000I can't believe I have to say this, but Palestinian people are not disposable.
00:04:08.000No one said that Palestinians are not human beings just like anyone else.
00:04:12.000They just said that Hamas is evil and should be destroyed, and she disagrees with that and believes that Israel is evil and ought to be destroyed.
00:04:18.000The take that she is a victim is weird, given that pretty much every major member of the Democratic Party rushed to her defense.
00:04:24.000Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic minority leader, blamed extreme MAGA pushback for blowback against the terrorists supporting Tlaib.
00:04:32.000Are you concerned about her abuse of that phrase from a Republican speech?
00:04:36.000I've expressed concern about that and will continue to.
00:04:39.000The Kremlin Republican agenda has nothing to do with the American people.
00:04:45.000They want to default on our debt, shut down the government, crash the economy, censure Democrats, and avoid holding their own members accountable.
00:04:59.000It's extreme MAGA agenda to say that, you know, from the river to the sea is bad.
00:05:03.000Representative Debbie Dingell of Michigan tried to claim that from the river to the sea is actually just open to interpretation, like a piece of abstract poetry, a piece of genocidal abstract poetry, but abstract poetry nonetheless.
00:05:15.000Who knows what from the river to the sea means, despite the reference to, you know, an actual river and an actual sea.
00:05:21.000I spent all weekend in Michigan this last week and talking to all the communities about the meaning of this phrase.
00:05:28.000And there are very strong feelings on all sides.
00:05:32.000And it's very clear that people interpret words in different ways.
00:05:37.000Personally, I choose not to use a phrase that is offensive to some, and that many perceive as a threat.
00:05:43.000But I also take seriously living in a country that does not restrict, forbid, or censor free speech.
00:05:55.000It's just, it's so vague from the river to the sea.
00:05:57.000And she spent so much time exploring it that she still doesn't know.
00:06:00.000Tlaib's anti-Semitic fellow Hamas squad members joined in on the fun and games, claiming victimhood on Tlaib's behalf.
00:06:05.000Fellow Jew hater Ilhan Omar screamed about the unfairness supposedly suffered by Tlaib.
00:06:12.000What is true here is that every single one of them has not acknowledged the fact that Palestinians are dying in the tens of thousands, but will continue to say it is us who are not acknowledging humanity.
00:06:27.000Rashida will stand strong and the Palestinian movement will continue for liberation until every single Palestinian has the right to live in liberty.
00:06:42.000If you really think that Ilhan Omar cares about Palestinians living in liberty, then why exactly is she standing up for Hamas, which keeps them under the thumb of a terrorist tyranny?
00:06:50.000Also, imagine having to wake up to that at 4 o'clock in the morning if you're her brother.
00:06:53.000Cori Bush, the BLM congresswoman from Missouri, joined the club too, ranting in typically unhinged fashion about the horrors of supposed Islamophobia against Tlaib.
00:07:04.000It's outrageous that my colleagues are blatantly, blatantly attempting to silence the only Palestinian-American representative right here.
00:07:12.000It's outrageous, but it's not surprising.
00:07:14.000And let me tell you, it's not surprising because this place is where 1,700 members of Congress, this elected body, enslaved black people.
00:07:22.000It's not surprising because they thought it was right.
00:07:25.000It's not surprising because this is a place where members continue to claim that the insurrection on the Capitol just appeared to look Like a normal tourist visit.
00:07:33.000It's not surprising, because this is the place where our black and brown staff members repeatedly speak of experiencing racism and sexism, Islamophobia, get pushed off of elevators, xenophobia, and more, right here in this workplace.
00:09:12.000So for these reasons, Israel says we can't have a ceasefire.
00:09:20.000When even Jake Tapper is noticing, that means that it's pretty obvious.
00:09:23.000By the way, Hamas just says this stuff out loud.
00:09:25.000There's an article in the New York Times today quoting a top member of Hamas saying, quote, Hamas' goal is not to run Gaza and to bring it water and electricity and such.
00:09:34.000Hamas, the Qasem, and the resistance woke the world up from its deep sleep and showed that this issue must remain on the table.
00:09:39.000This battle was not because we wanted fuel or laborers.
00:09:41.000It did not seek to improve the situation in Gaza.
00:09:43.000This battle is to completely overthrow the situation.
00:09:47.000So, Hamas commits a terrorist atrocity, not caring about its own civilians, and then hides its own civilians in front of rockets.
00:09:53.000But when Israel inevitably has to kill civilians in the process of targeting terrorists, Hamas then sheds the falsest of tears.
00:10:00.000They put out tape showing people mourning their dead, caused by Hamas.
00:10:18.000So, there will be no conversations about tone, or hate speech, or the obvious Jew-hatred evident on the streets of America's major cities, at least not with regard to Tlaib.
00:10:27.000There will be serious-minded conversations about how the evil MAGA movement is spreading Islamophobia for criticizing Tlaib.
00:10:33.000And stepping out of line will not be tolerated.
00:10:35.000That presumably is why after Senator Elizabeth Warren issued a tweet decrying anti-Semitism, she was then forced to rush out another tweet decrying Islamophobia.
00:10:43.000That is why the media are so studiously avoiding any language that might blame the killing of that Jewish man in Los Angeles, on Hamasniks, who allegedly slammed elderly men in the head with a bullhorn.
00:10:52.000Here was the headline from the New York Times, quote, Jewish man dies after altercation at dueling protests in California.
00:11:12.000Jewish man dies after dispute at dueling Israel-Palestinian protests.
00:11:16.000These are all the same outlets that claim that January 6th rioters had killed a police officer by slamming him in the head with a fire extinguisher.
00:11:24.000The narrative must be protected at all costs.
00:11:31.000And as we all know, the victims and the oppressed must be excused for all of their myriad evils.
00:11:36.000In just one second, we'll get to the latest from the Middle East.
00:11:39.000Where there are now arguments between the Biden administration and the Israeli government over what happens with Gaza when all of this is done.
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00:13:55.000So John Kirby, the spokesperson for the National Security Advisor, he says that a ceasefire at this time is not appropriate, which of course is true.
00:14:02.000The Prime Minister has also said definitively no ceasefire unless there is a return of all hostages.
00:14:12.000Is that a reasonable position that he's taken?
00:14:14.000You'll have to talk to the Prime Minister again.
00:14:16.000We're not going to characterize or Armchair quarterback, everything he's saying.
00:14:20.000We still believe that a general ceasefire is not appropriate at this time.
00:14:24.000And by general ceasefire, we're talking about everybody laying down their arms for an indefinite period of time in the anticipation of peace talks and some sort of negotiated settlement.
00:14:34.000And we just don't believe that it's the right time for that right now.
00:14:36.000We do think it is the time to continue to pursue pauses in the fighting of a temporary nature for specific purposes.
00:14:44.000Okay, so he is right about that, although when he says temporary pauses for humanitarian- Israel is already doing that.
00:14:49.000They've opened humanitarian corridors that Hamas then attempts to close by shooting people who are guarding the humanitarian corridors.
00:14:55.000John Kirby also was having none of the Israel is genocidal nonsense yesterday.
00:14:58.000Again, this is good stuff from the Biden administration, a rarity to hear from people like me.
00:15:14.000So that's what's at stake here and we're going to keep making sure that Israel has that ability to do that.
00:15:19.000As for the voices, of course we respect all different voices and perspectives on this and we know that there's a lot of high emotion here when it comes to what's going on.
00:15:29.000We have never shied away from criticizing our friends and partners when we believe it's warranted, and we'll continue to do that.
00:15:34.000We also believe that the best diplomacy, the best progress in diplomatic pursuits, is to do it privately and outside the public eye, and we'll continue to do that as well.
00:15:48.000And meanwhile, an Al Arabiya reporter went after John Kirby and Kirby shut them down.
00:15:53.000So again, there's a lot of positive stuff here from John Kirby.
00:15:57.000And criticize Israel when actually it is in violation of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Convention.
00:16:05.000With due respect, John, some people think that you repeat what the Israeli army spokesman is saying.
00:16:11.000It's exactly what they're saying you're repeating here.
00:16:14.000So how can you, why not, these distinct voices, not just understanding them and we have a channel because we're a democracy, why not What's wrong with them?
00:16:22.000What's wrong with standing here and saying, when Israel does something wrong, because you're the best friend, you have leverage on them, why not criticizing them?
00:16:29.000Your question presupposes that we've made some determination that the law of armed conflict has been violated, and I don't think we're not at that point.
00:17:08.000Now, the problem is that the Biden administration then goes completely unrealistic on what comes next.
00:17:13.000And they're unrealistic about, again, what is happening in the streets of the United States.
00:17:16.000So yesterday, Corine Jean-Pierre was asked from that same podium about people ripping down posters of kidnap victims, the hostages that are currently being held in Gaza.
00:17:25.000And apparently she had nothing to say about it.
00:17:27.000She's just awful at her job, as always.
00:17:30.000A lot of videos of individuals who have been tearing down signs, many of these taking place in New York City, of Israelis presently being held hostage in Gaza.
00:17:41.000There have been some tense confrontations that have taken place there.
00:17:45.000Is the White House's view that these actions should be condemned, the pulling down of them, or that that's a form of peaceful protest?
00:17:56.000I've sort of kind of seen the reporting here and there.
00:18:35.000Now, the problem is that if you do what the Biden administration seems to want to do, which is pretend that Hamas is like a tiny little group that no one likes in the Gaza Strip or in Judea and Samaria, the West Bank, when you pretend that, you end up at the wrong solution.
00:18:50.000Again, you're pretending away the central problem here.
00:18:52.000The central problem here, at root, is not just that Hamas is a genocidal terrorist group.
00:18:56.000It's that a huge swath of Palestinians agree with Hamas.
00:19:00.000By polling data, by electoral data, that is the reality.
00:19:03.000That doesn't mean they should be treated as military targets.
00:19:06.000Israel wasn't treating them as military targets anywhere during this conflict.
00:19:09.000It is members of Hamas who are being treated as military targets, and it is many civilians who agree with Hamas, who Israel is attempting to now usher down to the south of the Gaza Strip.
00:19:18.000The problem is if you fail to recognize that there's a broader ideological problem within the Palestinian population, the minute that this is over, the next reconstituted government in Gaza will look exactly like the last reconstituted government in Gaza, which will look exactly like the current Palestinian Authority, which, by the way, is so unpopular because the Palestinian Authority literally pays people to kill Jews.
00:19:39.000They have a stipend that they pay to the families of terrorists who kill Jews.
00:19:43.000The Hamas terrorists who killed Jews, their families will get money from the Palestinian Authority.
00:19:47.000Those are the people the Biden administration wants to put in charge of the Gaza Strip.
00:19:50.000But the Palestinian Authority is too moderate for a huge number of people living in both Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip, which presumably is why there was an assassination attempt on Mahmoud Abbas.
00:20:01.000According to TheExpress.com, there's horrifying footage capturing what appears to be an attempted assassination against the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
00:20:09.000His convoy came under a hail of gunfire after he disregarded a menacing ultimatum from renegade Palestinian security forces urging him to declare war on Israel.
00:20:18.000Again, the biggest problem is that the Palestinian Authority, which is already extreme and hates Israel and Abbas is a genocide... I mean, he actively says the Holocaust didn't happen.
00:20:26.000Abbas is too moderate for a huge percentage of the Palestinian population.
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00:21:41.000Okay, so again, the bottom line is that what happens next in the Gaza Strip, which has become an area of contention between the Israelis and the Americans, That relies on what you think the Gaza Strip is.
00:21:55.000Meaning, who do you think is going to pick up the pieces over there?
00:21:59.000Now, Israel has tried to hand it to Egypt.
00:22:15.000The answer is, you have two million people living there who are so radicalized that Egypt is deeply afraid that if it takes in that group of people, That they're going to have a terror threat on their northern border since ISIS is already occupying large portions of the Sinai Desert, which is Egyptian territory.
00:22:30.000It's the same reason why Israel has tried to hand over control of Palestinian Arab territories, of Palestinian Arab populated areas in Judea and Samaria to Jordan.
00:22:41.000We have no interest in three million Palestinian Arabs living in this area because they're afraid that it's going to overthrow the Hashemite dynasty.
00:22:48.000That's the irony of watching Queen Rania of Jordan, who is Palestinian-Arab by extraction, talking about how much solidarity she has with Palestinians.
00:22:57.000If you did, you would resign your position and the Hashemite dynasty would be overthrown.
00:23:01.000But you're enjoying your five-star hotels and your extremely luxurious lifestyle while people in your country are living on $4,100 a year.
00:23:08.000And the reason you're not leaving is because your population in Jordan is a pretty extreme population.
00:23:13.000And it'll get more extreme if you were to take in, even including territory, 3 million Palestinian Arabs who hate Jews with a burning passion.
00:23:21.000By polling data, that's what the polls suggest.
00:23:24.000There's no evidence, I'm still awaiting the evidence, that Palestinian Arabs in Judea and Samaria, Palestinian Arabs in the Gaza Strip, overwhelmingly, in the absence of their current leadership, are Jew-loving, peace-loving people.
00:23:37.000That doesn't mean, again, that there are legitimate military targets.
00:24:00.000Hamas then proceeded to kill everybody in the Palestinian Authority.
00:24:02.000But if there were an election held today, the reason Mahmoud Abbas has not held an election in Judea and Samaria is that he's afraid.
00:24:08.000He hasn't held an election since 2008, by the way.
00:24:10.000He's afraid that if an election were held today, the Palestinian Authority would lose.
00:24:14.000They don't actually have all that much power.
00:24:17.000That's how extreme the population is in these areas, which is why the problem is supremely intractable.
00:24:22.000With that said, this is why Israel is saying that they're going to have a continuing security role in Gaza after Hamas is ousted.
00:24:30.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Israel said it intends to retain security control of Gaza for an indefinite period once the war with Hamas ends, prompting U.S.
00:24:36.000officials to stress their opposition to a reoccupation of the enclave.
00:24:40.000Now again, Israel did not want to reoccupy at all.
00:25:24.000It's the equivalent of you have the highest crime area in a city and then you say defund the police.
00:25:28.000So you defund the police and the murder rate goes up and then the murders spread outside that area and the police say, well, now we got to go back in.
00:25:34.000Is that because the police are desperate to be in that area?
00:25:36.000Or is it because the crime needs to go away, and the only way that the crime goes away is if you put law enforcement in the area?
00:25:45.000Here is Benjamin Netanyahu talking about an indefinite period of control over Gaza.
00:25:48.000Again, if there's any thought that Israelis are, like, desperate to spend blood and treasure to maintain security control over the Gaza Strip, you're out of your mind.
00:25:58.000Remember, in Israel, everyone is eligible for the draft.
00:26:01.000Every 18-year-old kid, they turn 18, they gotta go to the military.
00:26:03.000You think moms and dads in Israel are desperate to send their kids into the Gaza Strip?
00:26:08.000They were so desperate not to send their kids into the Gaza Strip, they handed the damn place over to Hamas.
00:26:14.000So that's not what Netanyahu's saying.
00:26:16.000But the Biden administration is like, well, maybe it's a land grab.
00:26:27.000In any case, here is Netanyahu talking about what's gonna have to come next.
00:26:31.000President Biden has said that it would be a mistake for Israel to occupy Gaza.
00:26:36.000Who should govern Gaza when this is over?
00:26:39.000Those who don't want to continue the way of Hamas.
00:26:42.000It certainly is not... I think Israel will...
00:26:47.000An indefinite period will have the overall security responsibility because we've seen what happens when we don't have it.
00:26:54.000When we don't have that security responsibility what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn't imagine.
00:27:01.000Do you have a warning to Iran, to Hezbollah?
00:27:06.000I think they've understood that if they enter the war in a significant way, the response will be very, very powerful, and I hope they don't make that mistake.
00:27:17.000Okay, so again, the fact that the United States is taking that as we have to warn the Jews off of reoccupying Gaza, again, no one, except for a very select few people, actually want to have a complete Civilian control of the Gaza Strip, including pretty much everybody who is in Israeli government at this point in time.
00:27:37.000Because again, the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria are honeycombed with people who hate Jews.
00:27:42.000And by the way, half of them work for the UN, the UN Refugee Agency, which was set up solely for the Palestinians.
00:27:48.000It's the only agency of the United Nations that's been set up for one group of people and one group of people alone.
00:27:53.000It's the bizarre reason why cities that have been built in the Gaza Strip and have been there for 75 years are still being called refugee camps, despite the fact, like Jabalia, that they are complete and full cities.
00:28:03.000Some of the UNRWA employees, by the way, again, these are people who literally work for the United Nations.
00:28:12.000These people work for the UN, celebrate the Hamas massacre.
00:28:15.000For example, UNRWA teacher, Asma Rafiq Kuhail, he celebrated the Hamas attack with exclamation marks and a heart emoji.
00:28:24.000UNRWA employee, Mohammed Alsheikh Ali, on October 10th, he posted, quote, anyone who tries to flee to the south should be treated the way we ought to treat traitors.
00:28:33.000And the only acceptable direction to move is east or north, which would be, by the way, into Israel.
00:28:49.000So again, the idea that Israel is going to give up control of the Gaza Strip in security terms to the United Nations is absolutely absurd.
00:28:57.000So, what exactly is going to come next?
00:29:00.000Again, I think in the end, what's going to come is an Israeli military control of the Gaza Strip while they search for some local leader who will do the work of actually attempting to administer the Gaza Strip.
00:29:11.000Finding that person is not going to be easy.
00:29:13.000Again, I'm not sure the Palestinian Authority wants it.
00:29:15.000They can barely control Judea and Samaria.
00:30:03.000No one can answer that question because the question doesn't have an answer, unfortunately.
00:30:08.000Israel wishes it did, considering that they have now offered very generous peace deals in 1993, 2000, 2001, and 2008, and gave the entire Gaza Strip over to the Palestinians in 2005.
00:30:19.000Okay, coming up, we're going to get to a series of disastrous elections for Republicans.
00:30:25.000In Ohio, in Kentucky, in Virginia, what the hell is going on?
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00:32:03.000So, in a moment of benevolent mercy, I figured it might be worthwhile for us to start a new brand that can actually use the only gift Michael has been given.
00:32:10.000Michael tells me that each premium handmade cigar is blended to perfection, aged to perfection.
00:32:15.000You can try the Mayflower Dawn, a mild to medium bodied cigar, or try the Mayflower Dusk for a fuller bodied smoke.
00:32:20.000You can enjoy them in three different sizes.
00:32:22.000I can't tell the difference between these, but Michael can, and he says they're good.
00:32:25.000If you can't decide, order a sampler pack that includes one of each blend in a variety of sizes.
00:33:14.000Now, Here is the thing about political issues and messaging.
00:33:20.000There is no such thing as a winning issue.
00:33:22.000There is only such a thing as a winning message.
00:33:24.000This is something that Republicans and Democrats should keep in mind as they run for office in the future.
00:33:28.000When it comes to running, it's not that an issue just defaults to you.
00:33:32.000So if there's a poll that says, Joe Biden, really unpopular on the economy, that's not a Republican issue.
00:33:38.000You have to then craft that into a message that wins.
00:33:42.000This is true for virtually every issue.
00:33:43.000Any issue could theoretically be a winning issue so long as it is messaged properly.
00:33:47.000So, for example, when Glenn Youngkin became governor of Virginia and upset Terry McAuliffe, the former governor of Virginia, when that happened, one of the reasons he won is because there was a parents' rights movement that really sprang up around a case that was reported by our own Luke Grosiak here at Daily Wire in Loudoun County.
00:34:03.000Were schools a winning issue in Virginia, or was it a winning message that parents ought to have control over their own kids and their education?
00:35:03.000Well, one of the things that happened in Virginia is, again, there's a lot of talk about abortion by Democrats.
00:35:08.000So, according to the Washington Post, Democrats flipped control of the Virginia House of Delegates, securing victories in at least 51 seats, giving them a majority in both chambers of the General Assembly.
00:35:17.000Republicans were defending a slim 52-48 majority, but Democrats saw an opportunity to make gains under newly drawn maps following a court-ordered redistricting process.
00:35:25.000So Democrats definitely got a hand from the local courts in drawing districts that benefited them.
00:35:31.000Shortly after 11pm, before any independent news organizations called the race, Virginia House Minority Leader Delegate Don L. Scott declared Democrats would assume control of the House and the Senate following Tuesday's election.
00:35:43.000So again, this was a race that was largely run on the basis of abortion.
00:35:48.000Glenn Youngkin was running around the state attempting to drum up support for his own side.
00:35:52.000The problem is that right now, again, things are not going like... Youngkin is personally very popular in Virginia.
00:35:57.000That doesn't necessarily translate over into Republican control if Republicans have a bad image across the country.
00:36:02.000And right now Republicans have a bad image across the country.
00:36:11.000They are seen as extreme by brand, and that is largely tied to January 6th and Donald Trump in particular, as we will see in discussing some of these other elections.
00:36:20.000And when it comes to the abortion issue, Republicans have not yet gotten their heads around an actual winning message on the issue.
00:36:27.000Now, the truth is that winning message on abortion is not the same across the country.
00:36:31.000Politics is a pragmatic business, and the full pro-life message in Virginia is not going to go the same way as the full pro-life message in, say, Georgia or Florida.
00:36:41.000In Florida, you can pass a six-week abortion ban because Republicans are very popular here.
00:36:48.000Glenn Youngkin was not running on that.
00:36:50.000He was running on a 15-week abortion ban.
00:36:53.000The problem was that Democrats were saying that's the first step toward Republicans going for the full abortion ban in Virginia and local ladies got very upset and they all came out and they voted in favor of the Democrats.
00:37:04.000And the same thing happened in Ohio as well.
00:37:06.000In the wake of Roe vs. Wade, Republicans have not come up with a state-by-state strategy or a messaging strategy.
00:37:13.000And here is what the actual strategy needs to be on a state-by-state basis.
00:37:18.000Where there is consensus, you pass a thing.
00:37:20.000Where there is not consensus, you don't pass a thing.
00:37:23.000Now, there is no one in America as pro-life as I am.
00:37:27.000I don't even, in my own personal idea of what good legislation would look like, I would not tolerate abortion, even in cases that are very controversial, like rape or incest.
00:37:36.000I am as pro-life as it is possible to be.
00:38:31.000It establishes, quote, an individual right to one's own reproductive medical treatment, including, but not limited to, abortion.
00:38:37.000And it creates legal protections for anyone who assists a person with receiving reproductive medical treatment according to the Washington Post.
00:38:43.000The amendment grants the treating physician the authority to determine on a case-by-case basis whether an unborn child is viable and grants exceptions for abortions at any stage of pregnancy to protect the health or life of the mother.
00:38:56.000Well, the reason this happened is because there was another election that was held in August.
00:39:00.000That was a referendum that would have made it more difficult to amend the state constitution through future ballot initiatives.
00:39:07.000The reason for that is because there was a snapback law in place in Ohio that had effectively banned abortion almost across the board in Ohio in the aftermath of Roe vs. Wade being overturned.
00:39:21.000So they tried to pass a law, the Republicans, that basically enshrined in the Constitution what that law was.
00:39:26.000It's going to be very difficult for you to overturn that.
00:39:30.000And then a right to abortion was enshrined in the state constitution.
00:39:33.000Now let's say that the Republicans, instead of allowing that snapback law to go into place, let's say that they said, listen, we know that in Ohio, that the law before this was 22 weeks.
00:39:43.000But we need to incrementally introduce the people of Ohio to what good abortion law looks like.
00:39:48.000They're not going to go to six weeks and stay there.
00:39:50.000And if you want to preserve lives in the long term, you're gonna have to do this incrementally, because that's how politics often works.
00:39:54.000The message is, lives must be preserved, but we also have to go a little slower than even we would want, for sure than we would want, because people have to get used to ideas, they have to be unindoctrinated about what life is and what abortion is.
00:40:17.000And so instead, you get the snapback in Ohio, which now has enshrined basically Roe vs. Wade.
00:40:24.000Again, that's the same thing that happened in Virginia.
00:40:26.000Republicans, a lot of Republicans are saying abortion is not a winning issue.
00:40:30.000It's not about it being a winning issue.
00:40:31.000It's about do you have a winning message and can you wrong-foot your opponents?
00:40:34.000The nice thing about arguing for an incremental approach is that Democrats are then forced to argue in favor of 20-week abortions and 22-week abortions.
00:40:42.000And that's not something that they like arguing over.
00:40:44.000They like arguing over rape and incest exceptions because those are the most outlying and least common forms of abortion.
00:40:55.000Both sides like arguing at the extremes of this particular argument.
00:40:58.000The right is very comfortable arguing partial birth abortion for obvious reasons.
00:41:01.000The left is very comfortable arguing rape and incest.
00:41:03.000The question is, where is that line where the median voter tips over from one side to the other?
00:41:08.000And again, winning elections is the precondition to changing the law.
00:41:44.000So that means the Republicans messaged it wrong.
00:41:46.000I mean, that's clearly the message here.
00:41:47.000That doesn't mean you got to run away from the abortion issue.
00:41:49.000You can make a very strong and excellent abortion argument.
00:41:52.000But what is happening right now is that all this is getting hashed out at the state level, which is why Roe v. Wade, by the way, this is what should have happened.
00:41:59.000Roe v. Wade being overturned kicked it back to the state level.
00:42:00.000States now get to decide on their own, legally speaking, how to approach the issue of abortion.
00:42:05.000Republicans in each state have to take stock of exactly how they wish to run on those particular issues.
00:42:11.000And until Republicans start to realize that a nationalized strategy across all issues is not going to work, they're going to continue to lose state elections.
00:42:18.000Over in Kentucky, meanwhile, Andy Beshear won his re-elect effort, which is amazing because, again, that state won 22 points in favor of Donald Trump.
00:42:26.000Now, he did outspend his opponent, Daniel Cameron, by a very large margin.
00:42:32.000Beshear and his Democratic allies apparently swamped Republicans, spending $47 million on ads after the May primary.
00:42:37.000Republicans were only able to spend $29 million.
00:42:40.000Beshear's campaign spent around $24 million on ads.
00:42:43.000That's more than five times what Cameron's campaign actually spent on all this.
00:42:47.000And again, Kentucky was run on abortion.
00:42:51.000Bashir's campaign featured a young woman whose stepfather raped her when she was 12 and suggested that she needed to be able to have an abortion.
00:42:56.000So again, Democrats are going to run on abortion on the state level across the country.
00:42:59.000Republicans are going to have to figure out on a state-by-state level how to address this issue because that is the realm of practical politics.
00:43:05.000Overturning Roe vs. Wade, you can make a full pro-life case for overturning Roe vs. Wade.
00:43:09.000You can certainly make an easy legal case that Roe vs. Wade should be overturned.
00:43:12.000But to pretend this is not a thorny issue for Republicans is to ignore the realities of the facts on the ground on the state level.
00:43:19.000To pretend that the same message works in Georgia as works in Ohio, as works in Kentucky, as works anywhere else, is a mistake.
00:43:26.000And Republicans had better get their heads around that, or they're going to continue losing.
00:43:30.000It also doesn't help when, again, you're running candidates who add to the pile things like January 6th, or can be labeled quote-unquote MAGA.
00:43:39.000People on the right are annoyed that the left keeps saying MAGA over and over.
00:43:42.000Obviously the left finds this fruitful, otherwise they wouldn't do it.
00:43:45.000As an electoral strategy, it has borne fruit for them, which means they'll continue to do it until Republicans come up with a better counter than nanny nanny boo boo.
00:43:53.000In just one second, we'll talk about the vulnerabilities of Joe Biden because there's a big Republican debate tonight.
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00:44:47.000As much as we talk in 2020 about Joe Biden hiding in the basement, and that's true, the winning message for Joe Biden was, Trump is crazy, he shouldn't be president.
00:45:39.000Even many Democrats and popular Hollywood entertainers are starting to figure out that Joe Biden is a very, very bad candidate.
00:45:46.000Now, again, Republicans could take that for granted and just assume he's going to lose.
00:45:49.000That would be a huge, widespread mistake.
00:45:51.000But here was Sarah Silverman last night, and this is pretty biting stuff against Joe Biden.
00:45:57.000To kick things off with the reason most of the people in this audience could not sleep well last night, a new poll shows Joe Biden getting trounced by Donald Trump in almost every single swing state.
00:46:07.000Don't panic, it's still too early to say Biden will definitely lose, he could absolutely die in his sleep instead.
00:46:15.000I'm just saying, this is really scary for liberals, and I mean actually scary, not like they took Hamilton off Disney Plus scary.
00:46:24.000Well, yes, Democrats are in a state of full-scale panic over Joe Biden.
00:46:28.000And again, they should be, because there's going to be more that drops about him and Hunter.
00:46:31.000There's going to be more that drops in terms of the economy before the election.
00:46:34.000Now, tonight is a big Republican debate.
00:46:36.000Now, when I say big, I mean kind of big.
00:46:38.000The reason I say kind of big is because Donald Trump is running away in the polling data right now, just running away.
00:46:44.000The national GOP polling data has Donald Trump up near 60%.
00:46:47.000That's as high as he has been this entire election cycle.
00:46:50.000He is up in the RealClearPolitics average at 58%.
00:46:53.000Ron DeSantis is at 14, Nikki Haley is at 9, Vivek Ramaswamy is at 4, Christie is at 3, and everybody else is an also-ran.
00:47:01.000I do love that in the RealClearPolitics polling average, Tim Scott is running below Mike Pence, who's no longer in the race.
00:47:05.000Doug Burgum, for some reason, is still in the race.
00:47:35.000We need to make sure that we choose wisely, that we make the right decision, that we elect somebody who can actually win and beat Joe Biden.
00:47:45.000And we need a president who has the skills and the resolve.
00:47:50.000To reverse the madness that we see on a daily basis.
00:47:55.000We need a president that is focused on the future and not the past.
00:48:01.000And we need a president who puts Americans and America first.
00:48:07.000And I'm here to tell you that that man is Ron DeSantis!
00:50:08.000As I've said before, Ron DeSantis, if he bows out of the race right now, half his support will go to the non-Trump candidates and half his support will go to the Trump candidate, meaning Trump.
00:50:17.000That means that if he's got 20% in these polls, 10% of that goes to Trump.
00:51:03.000He's doing nothing that Mike Pence didn't already try.
00:51:06.000This is a two-person race for the second-place finish.
00:51:09.000And until that part of the field consolidates, there's certainly no shot at defeating Donald Trump.
00:51:13.000Even if they consolidate, Donald Trump has, just by the numbers, a wild advantage.
00:51:18.000And Republicans are going to have to decide before the election cycle if they believe that Donald Trump is the best person to take on Joe Biden, just assuming that Biden himself is the winning issue and there doesn't need to be a winning message.
00:51:29.000Alrighty guys, the rest of the show continues right now.