Kamala Harris has vaulted into a national lead over Donald Trump in the polls. She has been the de facto Democratic nominee for months, but now she s the first woman to be nominated for the party s presidential nomination. Is this a good or bad thing? And what will happen when she finally has to answer a serious question from the voters? Today's After Show Was Hosted By: Alex Castellanos, Senior Political Commentator, Former Democratic Strategist, Author, Media Strategist and Consultant, and Former Senior Political Strategist for The Daily Wire, Alex Blumberg. Our theme song is How We Do by Suneaters, courtesy of Lotuspool Records. Our ad music is by Build Buildings Records, recorded live at WFMU in Duluth, MN. Subscribe to our new podcast, PollCast, wherever you get your podcasts, and make sure to leave us a five star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe, Like, and Share the Daily Wire with your fellow Podulters! Thank you so much for all your support, stay tuned to Daily Wire for breaking news and politics! Stay tuned for more stories like this and more! - Your continued support is so important to our democracy! See you next Tuesday morning with all the breaking news, coming up on Daily Wire. - Tomahawk! Tomahawks! Timestamps: 5:00 7:00 - What's up? 8: 9:30 - What are you waiting for Tuesday? 11:00 | What do you want to vote for? 12:30 | Is she running for VP? 13:30 15: Is she serious? 16:00 -- Is she's running for President? 17:00 Is she really running for president? 18:00 Should she have a chance to win it? 19:00 Does she really have a shot at the nomination? 22:30 -- What does she have the best chance of winning the nomination in 2020? 26: What s she have an actual chance? 27: Should she run for president in 2020 or not? 30:00 Do you think she should run for President in the 2020 election? 33:30 Is she have any chance of running for the White House? 35:00 Can she be a serious candidate? 36:40 - Is she a serious contender?
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00:00:27.000So Kamala Harris has now vaulted into a national polling lead according to Nate Silver.
00:00:32.000Nate Silver, I think, is the best pollster and poll analyst in the country.
00:00:36.000According to his poll average, Kamala Harris is now ahead in the national polling about 45.5% to Donald Trump's 44.1%.
00:00:44.000There's been significant change in every single swing state in favor of Kamala Harris.
00:00:50.000Right now, according to the Nate Silver rundown of where we stand State by state, Kamala Harris has vaulted into a small lead in Pennsylvania, a small lead in Wisconsin, a relatively significant lead, a couple percentage points in Michigan.
00:01:03.000She has even jumped into competitive status in Georgia, in North Carolina.
00:01:09.000She's still at a point and a half behind in Arizona.
00:01:14.000Bottom line is that this election now looks like a true toss-up according to Nate Silver.
00:01:20.000And of course, Team Harris has reset the electoral map and the momentum since she replaced Joe Biden at the top of the ticket.
00:01:26.000The question right now is how much of this is a sugar high and how much of this is going to be a sugar high that lasts until post the election.
00:01:34.000There will come a point where Kamala Harris has to answer some sort of serious question.
00:01:39.000They're just hoping that that doesn't happen until after the election.
00:01:42.000After all, there are only 90 odd days until the election, and early voting begins in about a month.
00:01:48.000Early September, you start to get early voting in some of the swing states, like Pennsylvania.
00:01:52.000And right now, you look at that calendar, it is August 5th today.
00:01:55.000All Kamala Harris has to do is avoid serious questions for the next couple of weeks, and then she is at the Democratic National Convention.
00:02:03.000So it's likely to be a solid two and a half, three weeks more of the Kamala Harris honeymoon happening right now.
00:02:09.000In fact, I was just checking my calendar.
00:02:10.000This is a calendar of how many days Kamala Harris has been the de facto Democratic nominee without being asked a single difficult question or answering one.
00:02:31.000That is an incredible showing by the press.
00:02:33.000I mean, really, hats off to a press that is such a Praetorian guard for Kamala Harris that we are now two and a half weeks into her presumptive nomination after the single most shocking political coup of the last century in which the presumptive nominee and current sitting president of the United States was ousted in favor of his own vice president by a group of people at the elite levels of the Democratic Party led That is an unbelievable performance.
00:02:56.000of the United States, Barack Obama, the former House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi,
00:03:00.000the current Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, and the current House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries,
00:03:25.000That is what a professional party does.
00:03:27.000A professional party, sort of like a mafia, they popped Joe Biden in the back of the head, in the car, and then they took the cannoli and left the gun.
00:03:37.000The other question, though, is what's going to happen when eventually she does have to answer questions?
00:03:42.000And this is why, as we'll get to in a little while, Donald Trump should not just be eager to debate Kamala Harris.
00:03:47.000He should be saying, I want to debate her every week from now until the election, because no one else is going to ask her a tough question.
00:03:54.000And so he shouldn't just respond to her, quote unquote, debate challenge.
00:03:57.000She's being completely dishonest about the debate challenge.
00:03:59.000Donald Trump accepted a debate under certain circumstances with Joe Biden and then they slotted in, they tag-teamed in Kamala Harris and like, why won't he keep that same debate calendar?
00:04:08.000Well, because that's a different human.
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00:06:14.000So, most people have no idea who she is.
00:06:15.000Most people don't remember her from the primaries because she had a flash in the pan in 2019 and then fell completely apart.
00:06:21.000Those of us who watch very closely, we're in danger of having a political disconnect where we all know what there is to know about Kamala Harris.
00:06:27.000Some of us have even made a three-part documentary series called Scamala, available over at Daily Wire Plus.
00:06:32.000And you can watch that, and many of you have.
00:06:33.000But, the vast majority of Americans have no idea who the sitting Vice President of the United States is right now.
00:06:40.000They have no idea what Kamala Harris even does for a living.
00:06:42.000I mean, she doesn't do much, but they have no idea what she was doing for a living before she became the presumptive Democratic nominee, which is why CNN's David Axelrod, he's saying there's a little bit of a rational exuberance going on around Kamala Harris.
00:06:54.000It's a little early to be calling this election over.
00:06:58.000There's a lot of irrational exuberance on the Democratic side of the aisle right now because there was despair for some period of time about what November was going to look like.
00:07:09.000Now people feel like there's a chance.
00:07:26.000I mean, you'll remember the entire press did act as a cover agent for the Biden administration, Biden campaign, in the 2020 race when they literally all worked to cover up stories about Hunter Biden.
00:07:37.000So maybe they'd try this again for the next three months.
00:07:41.000But as the world situation grows more dire, and it really is, the world situation is quite dire right now.
00:07:46.000Kamala Harris, who is maybe the de facto president of the United States right now, Joe Biden certainly is not.
00:07:52.000She should be forced to answer questions since her administration is sitting at the top of American governance right now as things are happening.
00:08:00.000Things that are happening in the real world are the fault of the Biden-Harris administration.
00:08:07.000That's what they kept saying over and over and over.
00:08:09.000Even while Joe Biden was attempting to shuttle her off somewhere so that she didn't have any part in governance, she kept glomming onto him and claiming that she was part of all the decision-making.
00:08:18.000If you were, and if you are, then why don't you have to answer for the fact that we're in the middle of a massive stock market sell-off, for example?
00:08:26.000According to the Wall Street Journal, a global stock market sell-off intensified Monday, led by a more than 12% drop in Japan's Nikkei 225.
00:08:33.000Tech-focused Nasdaq 100 futures were down more than 4%, pairing some earlier losses.
00:08:37.000Dow and S&P 500 futures fell at least 2%.
00:08:40.000The declines extended what has been a dizzying few days on Wall Street, during which the year's most popular trades have been aggressively unwound.
00:08:47.000A sell-off in tech shares continued pre-market on Monday, with Nvidia, Meta, and Apple each losing 6% or more.
00:08:53.000Apple took an extra hit from news that Berkshire Hathaway, that's Warren Buffett, had slashed its Apple stake.
00:08:59.000Because people are beginning to realize that as the job market is coming in really, really soft, we may be, in fact, as was predicted, entering a recession.
00:09:08.000Because it turns out that when you jack the inflation rates up to 10-12%, even when you jack them back down all the way to, say, 2.5%, What you end up doing in that process is siphoning off all the loose money, and that will lead to less investment, which will lead to job losses, which is what we are about to start seeing.
00:09:28.000As the Wall Street Journal reports, concerns about a slowing US economy are front and center for investors after job growth slowed sharply in July.
00:09:34.000Investors are worried the Federal Reserve has moved too slowly and will need to play catch-up in cutting rates.
00:09:40.000Now, again, one of the things that's so amazing about how our global economy works at this point is how much of it is run by the central banks.
00:09:46.000Your job should not be reliant on whether Jerome Powell is good at his.
00:09:51.000Your job should not be reliant on whether central bankers in London are good at predicting the future and determining exactly what the inflation rate should be.
00:09:58.000This is why the very idea of a Federal Reserve, for example, in the United States, that jacks up and down the supply of money in order to manipulate job markets is ridiculous.
00:10:08.000What you really want is a perfectly predictable regime In monetary and fiscal terms, so that you can make good decisions about whether or not to invest or not invest.
00:10:18.000But that's not the way this stuff works anymore.
00:10:43.000It seems to me that if she gets to take credit for all of these supposed Biden administration accomplishments, when the stock market starts to tank, well, she gets to take credit for that one as well.
00:10:52.000And Warren Buffett is looking at the markets and he is saying, I don't like what I'm seeing here.
00:10:59.000According to the Wall Street Journal, shares of the iPhone maker dropped as much as 8% in pre-market trading after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway disclosed over the weekend that it sold nearly half of its Apple stock in the second quarter.
00:11:10.000Buffett's reputation as one of the all-time greatest stock pickers means his decisions can significantly sway the market.
00:11:15.000Apple is also facing pressure from an aggressive rotation out of tech stocks.
00:11:18.000In addition to Apple shares of Nvidia, Tesla and Alphabet also fell sharply in pre-market trading Monday as investors unloaded riskier assets.
00:11:26.000And one of the things that is also happening is that a huge amount of spending has gone into, for example, AI.
00:11:34.000However, the amount of money that's going into AI, and you're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars has gone into AI technologies.
00:11:40.000The output from that has not matched the input thus far.
00:11:43.000And so what you have is a bit of an AI bubble in terms of spending that is likely to burst, and you are likely to then have some sort of consolidation and then growth in the AI market.
00:11:53.000But right now is not an amazing time to invest in those particular assets.
00:11:59.000Meanwhile, Wall Street's fear gauge has been soaring.
00:12:01.000The CBOE volatility index rose to 51, which would mark the highest close since April 2020 if the increase holds throughout the day.
00:12:09.000Right now, analysts are suggesting that there is a greater than 25% shot at a serious recession.
00:12:17.000According to Charles Gasparino, he says an economic black swan recession is on the horizon.
00:12:23.000Even before Friday's shockingly worrisome jobs report, unemployment ticking up to 4.3%, a slowdown in hiring followed by a 610-point drop in the Dow, that's what some savvy market analysts and economists told me could be happening, said Gasparino.
00:12:35.000They see some weird stuff in the economic data that hasn't been factored into the recent Dow and Nasdaq run-ups to record territory.
00:12:40.000Given the supreme importance of the economy to voters, it could turn a neck in a race between Trump and Kamala Harris strongly in favor of Trump.
00:12:47.000The reason economists and analysts believe our session will be a black swan is because it's not expected based on many readings of the economic data, and because if it happened, it would take an already volatile race for the White House to new levels of confusion.
00:12:59.000Now, again, one of the reasons that this is happening is because the debt has been run up, the amount of money that has been poured into the markets under Joe Biden And under the late term of Donald Trump, because, again, that happened in the middle of the COVID recession.
00:13:13.000The big problem, of course, is that Joe Biden kept that going even after the lockdowns were over.
00:13:17.000He just kept spending oodles and oodles and oodles of money and keeping the money loose.
00:13:22.000Apparently, signs of lower consumer spending are cropping up.
00:13:25.000Then there's the inverted yield curve, where longer-dated bonds have a lower yield than the short-term Fed funds rate, which usually signals recession.
00:13:33.000Where is Kamala Harris in all of this?
00:13:36.000Zero questions to Kamala Harris in any of this as the economy melts down.
00:13:41.000Meanwhile, we have the very serious possibility of a war in the Middle East.
00:13:45.000Well, things are falling apart in the Middle East.
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00:14:54.000Iran has been rebuffing calls for restraint.
00:14:57.000So, the United States, because it is run by fools and simpletons, because Joe Biden is a fool, he's been wrong about every foreign policy issue his entire career, without exception, including the... He didn't want to kill Osama Bin Laden, for example.
00:15:11.000Joe Biden has been wrong about everything it's possible to be wrong about, and Kamala Harris is similarly wrong, but more so.
00:15:16.000Remember, she says she was the last person in the room on the Afghanistan pullout, one of the great disasters in American foreign policy history.
00:15:23.000Well now everybody is sort of sitting on pins and needles waiting to see what Iran will do.
00:15:27.000Whether Iran will fire a massive missile barrage at Israel, whether they will activate their terror group Hezbollah in the north of Israel to perform some sort of spectacular gigantic war assault on the north and center of Israel.
00:15:48.000Apparently, the United States has been basically going on bended knee to the Iranians and begging them, please don't go too hard, please don't go too hard.
00:15:53.000And the reason they keep saying that to the Iranians is because they are afraid that if Iran goes too hard, Israel will then respond and clock them into next week.
00:16:01.000And they don't want a war in the Middle East.
00:16:03.000But it turns out the best way to prevent a war in the Middle East is by deterrence.
00:16:06.000It turns out when Donald Trump was president, he had an excellent Iran policy.
00:16:13.000Prevent them from lending support both in terms of weaponry and materiel and in terms of economic support to terror groups all over the region.
00:16:21.000Create a burgeoning Sunni-Israeli alliance.
00:16:25.000Do all those things and you will turn Iran from a terror regional power into A non-functional terror state with a lot of oil supply that can't go anywhere.
00:16:36.000That is what the Trump administration successfully did.
00:16:38.000And then Joe Biden came into office and he immediately reversed everything.
00:16:43.000He delisted the Houthis as a terrorist organization.
00:16:46.000He went to Iran on bended knee and begged them to get back into an Iranian nuclear deal they were already violating.
00:16:52.000He went to the Israelis and he said, you need to make concessions to Iran's terror proxy groups.
00:16:57.000And it turns out that that resulted in October 7th and in Hezbollah launching thousands of rockets into Israel and in the Houthis attacking shipping in the Red Sea and in terror groups run by Iran using Iraq as a terror base from which to fire ordnance at Israel.
00:17:16.000This is all the Biden-Harris administration.
00:17:19.000They're truly the worst foreign policy administration of my lifetime, without a doubt, bar none, no competitors.
00:17:26.000They're far worse than Barack Obama, which is saying an awful lot since Barack Obama basically handed over the Middle East to Iran and Russia.
00:17:32.000So Iran is now being asked by the United States to please show restraint.
00:17:36.000And Iran is saying, we don't want to show restraint.
00:17:38.000And the reason they don't feel like they have to show restraint is because they are perfectly aware that the Biden administration is putting all of its pressure, not on Iran, but on Israel.
00:18:04.000According to Barak Ravid and Axios, late last week, President Biden privately demanded in a tough call Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stop escalating tensions in the region and move immediately toward a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, according to two U.S.
00:18:38.000Israel also killed the number two in Hezbollah in Lebanon.
00:18:41.000Also very good for the world, considering the United States had a $5 million bounty on that terrorist's head because he was largely responsible for the murder of 241 American service people in the 1980s in the Lebanon barracks bombing.
00:18:54.000Joe Biden's response to this is, I can't believe Israel's so mean.
00:19:07.000That is the math the Biden administration applies to all of this.
00:19:09.000And Iran knows it, which is why they are perfectly willing to quote-unquote retaliate with overwhelming force, according to the Iranian government.
00:19:16.000According to Axios, Biden and his top aides are deeply frustrated by the fallout from Israel's assassinations in Beirut and Tehran, which took place less than a week after Netanyahu's first visit to the Oval Office in four years.
00:19:47.000The Obama administration every so often would just leak Israeli national security information in an attempt to please the Iranians.
00:19:54.000Hell, half the foreign policy establishment under Joe Biden actively works with or for the Iranians.
00:20:00.000There have been multiple members of the Biden foreign policy team who are now under direct suspicion of having taken payments from the Iranians.
00:20:11.000officials told Axios that Biden called Netanyahu to discuss U.S.-Israeli joint military preparations for retaliations by Iran and Hezbollah, but also to make clear he was not pleased with the direction the Israeli prime minister has taken in the last week.
00:20:22.000official said Biden complained to Netanyahu that he had just spoken last week in the Oval Office about securing a hostage deal.
00:20:27.000But instead, Netanyahu went ahead with the assassination in Tehran.
00:20:30.000You see, because the best policy, as always, as I mentioned last week, is to negotiate with terrorists and lose more slowly.
00:20:36.000Just as the Biden administration treats as a victory the release of American hostages in favor of terrorists and spies and murderers back to the Kremlin.
00:20:47.000will help Israel defeat an Iranian attack, but after that he expects no more escalation from the Israeli side and immediate movement toward a hostage deal.
00:20:53.000So he's trying to blackmail the Israelis into making concessions to a terror group that is currently holding Americans hostage.
00:20:59.000Behind the scenes, according to Barak Ravid, and this is again coming directly from Team Biden, Biden raised his voice and said that he wants a deal reached within a week or two weeks.
00:21:11.000What's happening in like a week or two weeks?
00:21:13.000Oh, you mean the Democratic National Convention!
00:21:15.000So in order to please Kamala Harris' domestic pro-Hamas constituency, the Israelis are supposed to preemptively surrender to Hamas, according to Biden-Harris.
00:21:23.000Biden told Netanyahu a hostage and ceasefire deal is the most important thing right now.
00:21:28.000Apparently he then suggested he's apparently he yelled at Netanyahu on this call.
00:21:35.000That was the report is that he actually was shouting at Netanyahu because Netanyahu had the temerity to kill terrorists.
00:21:41.000Well, folks, Joe Biden is just running around yelling at American allies.
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00:22:50.000Meanwhile, he apparently threatened Israel that he said, you know, we'll help you defend yourselves this time, but if you escalate, maybe not next time.
00:23:13.000And they're sending out their entire foreign policy team over the weekend, not to tell the Iranians to stop, but to tell Israel that it ought to cut a deal with Hamas, no matter the circumstances, by the way.
00:23:25.000Here, for example, is John Finer saying that a ceasefire deal has to take place literally as soon as possible.
00:23:33.000Israel also targeted a Hezbollah commander this week.
00:23:35.000Has that set back the ceasefire negotiations?
00:23:38.000Well look, we've been quite clear both publicly and President Biden has been on the record about this a number of times and also privately to the Israelis and to other partners in the region that we think this ceasefire and hostage deal has to take place as soon as possible.
00:23:52.000This would be the best outcome we believe for Israel's security.
00:23:55.000Certainly for the hostages themselves who have been through an unimaginable ordeal, but also certainly for the Palestinians living in Gaza and for the wider region to just turn the temperature down on this entire situation and create the possibility for a more peaceful future and improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
00:24:22.000What is happening in the Middle East is solely the fault of the United States drawing a gap between itself and its actual allies in the region, Saudi Arabia and Israel, along with the UAE, along with Bahrain, and instead attempting to curry favor with the Mullahs in Iran.
00:24:37.000This has always been the master plan of Barack Obama, the actual president of the United States, who actually did have his third term via the dead old man in the White House, and now his fourth term, presumably, under Kamala Harris.
00:24:48.000Obama was always the driving force behind the foreign policy of this administration.
00:24:53.000Meanwhile, John Finer says, we're doing everything we can to keep this from boiling over.
00:24:56.000I noticed you're not doing everything you can because you know what you could say to Iran.
00:24:59.000What you could say to Iran is, listen, if you activate Hezbollah, Hezbollah just won't exist tomorrow morning.
00:25:03.000Not because the United States wants to go to war, but because a great way to dissuade people from going to war, as Donald Trump knew better than literally anyone, a great way to dissuade people from going to war is to threaten to clock them so hard in the face they will not be able to see ever again.
00:25:19.000It's a great, it turns out credible use of threat of force is an excellent deterrent.
00:25:24.000Why people refuse to understand that basic foreign policy logic is absolutely beyond me.
00:25:28.000It's the story of literally all foreign policy for every country ever.
00:25:32.000Credible threat of the use of force, particularly when you're the most overwhelming military power in the history of the planet, is really good.
00:25:40.000Again, this is something Donald Trump inherently understood.
00:25:42.000It's something he inherently understood.
00:25:45.000I did a fundraiser for President Trump a couple of months ago.
00:25:47.000In the back room, we were all talking.
00:25:49.000And President Trump started talking about why Vladimir Putin had not invaded Ukraine while he was President of the United States.
00:25:55.000And Donald Trump said, I had a conversation with Vladimir Putin and I told him, Vlad, Vlad, if you invade Ukraine, I will bomb the s*** out of you.
00:26:03.000And Vlad, Vlad said, no you won't, Mr. President.
00:26:08.000And then Trump said, because he's right.
00:26:10.000And if there's a 5% chance that that's true, you're not going to do it.
00:26:15.000That is how foreign policy is actually conducted in the real world, as opposed to the morons in the State Department who believe that you can talk your way and massage your way into friendship with the ayatollahs in Iran.
00:26:26.000But here is John Finer suggesting we're doing everything we can to keep this from boiling over by putting pressure on America's allies.
00:26:35.000Seriously, when has it ever worked to preserve peace beyond, you know, the next week and a half?
00:26:40.000To draw a massive gap between you and a Democratic ally fighting actual honest-to-God terror groups as designated by the American State Department.
00:26:49.000Here's Jon Finer, Deputy National Security Advisor, being a dullard.
00:26:52.000In the current moment, as you just said, the Pentagon is moving significant assets to the region to prepare for what may be another need to defend Israel from an attack.
00:27:04.000While simultaneously, we are working very hard to de-escalate this situation diplomatically, because we do not believe that a regional war is in anyone's interest in the current moment.
00:27:12.000And that is something that we've been trying to avoid since October 7th.
00:27:45.000They own 4% of all T-bills issued to the public.
00:27:49.000That's how much they were betting against the stock market growing under Biden-Harris.
00:27:54.000And then meanwhile, you got Biden-Harris facilitating war in the Middle East by demonstrating that they are yellow-bellied when it comes to the Iranians.
00:28:02.000And still no questions are being asked again.
00:28:05.000Day 16, 16 of no questions being asked to Kamala Harris.
00:28:09.000She's the current vice president of the United States.
00:29:30.000Meanwhile, it turns out even the moral suasion of the Kamala Harris campaign is a bunch of horse crap.
00:29:35.000So Doug Emhoff, who we have been told is the kindest, gentlest, he's the second gentleman, he's such a gentleman, Douglas Emhoff.
00:29:42.000Oh my gosh, Douglas, what a class act.
00:29:44.000And, of course, we know that he's Jewish.
00:29:46.000That's the part that's really important.
00:29:47.000Because we know that Kamala Harris would never be radically anti-Israel because Doug Emhoff is so Jewish.
00:29:52.000He's so Jewish he has no idea what the hell Hanukkah's about, or Purim, just makes up weird stories about what those Jewish holidays are about, and his daughter has raised millions of dollars for Terror proxies in the Gaza Strip, but he's so Jewish.
00:30:04.000That dude is so... That's how we know.
00:30:26.000It's masculine toxicity out there, and we've kind of confused what it means to be a man, what it means to be masculine, where you've got this trope out there that you've got to be tough and, you know, angry and lash out to be strong.
00:31:08.000So according to the New York Post, Vice President Kamala Harris' husband, Dung Emhoff, on Sunday admitted that he was banging the nanny, which apparently is a habit inside the Biden administration.
00:31:17.000The second gentleman reportedly strayed from then-wife Kirsten over a decade and a half ago with a blonde nanny named Najin Naylor, who taught at a private school attended by their two kids.
00:31:30.000But good news, Doug Emhoff is pro-choice.
00:31:32.000And so abortion is an amazing solution to that time when you can't help schtuping the nanny.
00:31:40.000Gotta love the upper-class coastal elites in California.
00:31:43.000The ones who are bragging about their moral level, about toxic masculinity, and about tolerance for all lifestyles while they bang the nanny.
00:32:31.000These very, very upper-class people Who live in coastal enclaves with very blue politics, who are cheating on their spouses with the nanny, impregnating them, getting abortions, divorcing that spouse, going on to marry senators in the United States Senate, and then they get to be second gentlemen.
00:32:48.000But don't worry, that is what love looks like.
00:34:19.000Pre-sale tickets are available very shortly.
00:34:21.000So make sure that you're awake for that because it's going to be awesome.
00:34:24.000And meanwhile, Kamala Harris is narrowing down her VP selection.
00:34:28.000So apparently she's down to a few choices.
00:34:31.000She's been interviewing finalists, including Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Sunday.
00:34:38.000She's expected to announce her choice ahead of a first joint appearance scheduled for Tuesday in Philadelphia.
00:34:43.000The fact that it was pretty obviously going to be Josh Shapiro broke on Friday when the mayor of Philadelphia put out like a full video touting Josh Shapiro as the VP candidate.
00:34:51.000Probably it was scheduled for Tuesday and instead it went out early.
00:34:55.000So everybody was sort of assuming that it would be Josh Shapiro.
00:34:59.000Apparently, Barack Obama is a big Josh Shapiro fan, which makes perfect sense because Josh Shapiro does a pretty good Barack Obama impersonation, actually.
00:35:06.000He has all of his mannerisms down in the same way that people on the right suggested that, say, Ron DeSantis or even J.D.
00:35:12.000Vance, they started to imitate the mannerisms of President Trump.
00:35:15.000Josh Shapiro does a pretty solid Barack Obama impersonation.
00:35:23.000I am not related to that Pennsylvania governor.
00:35:26.000But in any case, He apparently is sort of a creation of Barack Obama, but there's one problem for Josh Shapiro, and that is that he is a Juden.
00:35:35.000And there are a lot of members of the Democratic Party who are not so happy with the Juden right now.
00:35:38.000They think that they are too pro-Israel, that they are warmongers, and there are a lot of people inside the Democratic Party who really, really like Hamas and really, really hate Israel.
00:35:47.000The Rashida Tlaib Ilhan Omar AOC wing of the Democratic Party.
00:35:50.000And so basically everybody has sort of been stabbing each other in the back In Democratic circles over who will be the vice presidential candidate.
00:35:58.000The big hit on Josh Shapiro, who of course is the obvious pick, he is a swing state governor with a 61% approval rating.
00:36:07.000The big hit on him has been that he is pro-Israel.
00:36:10.000And that when he was 20, he wrote an op-ed in which he said the eminently true thing, which is there will not be a Palestinian state any time in the near future because the Palestinian population is radicalized, which is 100% true.
00:36:20.000Well, good news, as a Democrat, he has absolutely no principles whatsoever, so he immediately apologized for that over the weekend.
00:36:26.000And he said he doesn't believe anymore what he believed when he was 20.
00:36:28.000He didn't explain why he was wrong, but he's going to mirror the anti-Israel bona fides of the presidential candidate he seeks to serve.
00:36:39.000He also does happen to be not nearly as moderate as he's made out to be.
00:36:42.000So he made some early sounds in Pennsylvania about how he was pro-school vouchers.
00:36:46.000Then he tended to kind of walk away from that.
00:36:48.000He has suggested that the pro-Hamas protesters on college campuses, they're equivalent to the KKK ideologically, he will walk away from that too.
00:36:55.000Because again, all of these politicians are so unbelievably ambitious that they are willing to set all of their beliefs aflame, just pour gasoline on them and set them on fire in order to get ahead by like one step.
00:37:07.000Willing to sell out anything to be vice president of the United States.
00:37:10.000But he was never that moderate, Josh Shapiro.
00:37:13.000He just happened to be running in Pennsylvania against Doug Mastriano, an actual crazy person.
00:37:17.000It turns out that running bad candidates in swing states is a very bad strategy for Republicans.
00:38:01.000Okay, meanwhile, he lies about Donald Trump's abortion position.
00:38:09.000He is basically a rote Democratic politician with a couple of sort of more attractive features.
00:38:16.000Mainly, he comes off as moderate even when he's saying very radical things.
00:38:19.000Here he was just last week suggesting that Donald Trump wants to pass a national abortion ban, which is obviously untrue since Trump has disowned that entire position.
00:38:27.000Trump brings chaos to everything he does.
00:38:30.000He ripped away the rights of millions of women to be able to make decisions over their own body.
00:38:35.000And by the way, if he's returned to the White House, I'm sure he and Vance will try and pass a national ban.
00:38:57.000But again, Josh Shapiro is just a down the line Democrat who happens to be popular in Pennsylvania because he appears moderate from time to time.
00:39:03.000But again, his big drawback as a candidate for the Democrats is that a lot of the radical parts of the Democratic Party do not like that he is Jewish and they demand fealty.
00:39:11.000They demand that Kamala Harris disown him.
00:39:13.000And they suggest that if you want us to lose the enthusiasm we have recently regained, then you cannot pick Josh Shapiro.
00:39:19.000So that's been the big push against Josh Shapiro.
00:39:20.000Meanwhile, there's Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona.
00:39:22.000He is another candidate who's been widely discussed.
00:39:26.000And the problem for Mark Kelly is that he's absolutely milquetoast.
00:39:30.000There's nothing about Mark Kelly that screams interesting.
00:39:33.000Not only that, Mark Kelly has some pretty dicey connections with Chinese firms in which he has invested in the past.
00:39:40.000He actually had investments with one of the firms, apparently, that helped develop the Chinese spy balloon.
00:39:45.000So all of that would come up, presumably.
00:39:47.000Here is Senator Kelly suggesting that Kamala is solving the problems on the border.
00:40:04.000Vance is down here, I think he's in Arizona today, probably getting a photo op at the southern border.
00:40:10.000Kamala Harris is about solving problems.
00:40:12.000Donald Trump wants to take us, drag us back a decade.
00:40:19.000This is not particularly enriching stuff, but he is from a swing state, he's from a border state, and for some reason he's perceived as moderate.
00:40:33.000I'm old enough to remember when there were two Republican senators and a Republican governor from Arizona, so slow clap for the Arizona GOP, which has managed to completely destroy itself over the course of the last ten years in the state of Arizona.
00:40:43.000Same thing to members of the upper echelons of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania, which has somehow managed to take a purple state and elect two Democratic senators and a Democratic governor.
00:40:59.000Meanwhile, Andy Beshear, who is the Democratic governor of a very red state in Kentucky, he was discussed a little bit as a possible VP candidate.
00:41:07.000He seems to have fallen off a little bit, mainly because he's not very good at this.
00:41:11.000One hilarious story involving Andy Beshear, governor of Kentucky, happened when he was ripping on unemployment fraud in Kentucky, and he suggested that Tupac Shakur had received unemployment in Kentucky, and it turns out that he had, but not that Tupac Shakur, so that was awkward.
00:41:28.000Unfortunately, it's going to take a little bit of time in these because a couple of bad apples can make this challenge that much more difficult.
00:41:38.000For instance, we had somebody apply for unemployment for Tupac Shakur here in Kentucky.
00:41:44.000And that person probably thought they were being funny.
00:42:00.000Well, he's not the brightest bulb in the basket.
00:42:02.000Meanwhile, another candidate who's up for this thing, I have no idea why, Tim Walz, not from a swing state, realistically speaking, also happens to be wildly radical.
00:42:10.000You remember just last week, he was on the White Dudes for Harris committee, also known as the Low Tea Party.
00:42:17.000And he suggested that socialism is just another word for neighborliness, like when you turn in your neighbor so he gets shot and you can take his small farm in Ukraine.
00:42:28.000For one thing, don't ever shy away from our progressive values.
00:42:33.000One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness.
00:42:38.000One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness.
00:42:41.000Like when you report your friend for having crossed the Soviet Communist Party and then they drag him off to a gulag and give you his apartment.
00:42:51.000Meanwhile, Gretchen Whitmer, who has been considered, she's kind of fallen off the board a little bit.
00:42:55.000Not as much talk about Gretchen Whitmer, but she is the somewhat popular governor of Michigan for no reason I can discern.
00:43:01.000You'll remember that back in July, she was out there lying about how Joe Biden could easily serve a second term, which is hilarious because he can barely finish out his first term, if at all.
00:43:10.000I think that the debate rattled a lot of people, right?
00:44:10.000So Pete Buttigieg is, of course, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, which qualified him for zero things ever, but he is gay.
00:44:18.000And that's very important, because being gay makes you a possible VP pick these days.
00:44:22.000Here he was, not all that long ago, suggesting that religious institutions should overtly be punished if they don't hire LGBTQ people.
00:44:28.000Here he was, this is again, not all that long ago.
00:44:33.000Mayor, just to be clear, do you believe that other religious and non-profit institutions like colleges and homeless charities should lose their federal funding if they refuse to hire or serve LGBTQ people?
00:44:43.000Yes, if they are discriminating, then they should not be doing it with federal dollars.
00:44:49.000Amazing stuff there from a possible VP pick.
00:44:51.000So, all of these are not particularly good VP picks.
00:44:54.000The big question for the Democratic Party, the most interesting one, is will they overthrow the Josh Shapiro VP pick as a sop to the pro-Hamas crowd, which would be a pretty excellent indicator of exactly what the future of the Democratic Party would be.
00:45:06.000If a bunch of radicals inside the Democratic Party can take the most obvious frontrunner for VP and toss him out the window because he happens to be pro-Israel, even after he's out there denouncing all of his former views, I think you can tell the direction of the Democratic Party.
00:45:19.000Now remember, according to the Democratic Party, all that we are watching right now, the possibility of a massive war in the Middle East, a crashing stock market without extraneous rationale, cost of living up dramatically over the last three years.
00:45:30.000According to the Democratic Party, this is all good.
00:45:33.000See, they have to play this weird trick.
00:45:35.000And the weird trick is that Kamala Harris is both directly responsible for everything Joe Biden did, and also Joe Biden is very good at this.
00:45:41.000Joe Biden is like an amazing president, and Kamala Harris was part of that amazing presidency.
00:45:45.000So Nancy Pelosi, over the weekend, was out there suggesting that Joe Biden is such an amazing president, he should be on Mount Rushmore.
00:45:50.000Which is weird, since he had kicked his ass off a cliff.
00:46:44.000Like the one from the debate, you're just gonna have a big, giant, chiseled head of Joe Biden falling asleep, drool falling out of his mouth.
00:47:11.000Like, at some point, she's gonna have to answer a question, and it turns out they have no answers to these questions.
00:47:15.000So, Senator LaFonza Butler, whose name I barely even knew because she was appointed to the California Senate recently.
00:47:23.000And apparently, she was asked about Kamala Harris' flip-flopping positions.
00:47:27.000Her answer here is just a classic of the genre.
00:47:29.000This is some solid stuff here from LaFonza Butler.
00:47:33.000What do you think that voters should think when she's reversed herself on several issues just in the last four years?
00:47:40.000I think that voters should think that she's a human being who learns new things every single day and has the ability to take the time and effort to hear the concerns of all people.
00:47:56.000So she shifted all of her opinions because she's human.
00:47:59.000She's a human being, get this, who learns new things.
00:48:02.000So apparently, Kamala's word salad-itis is actually contagious, and everyone around her also has to become some sort of word salad, bizarro world rhetorical idiot every time they talk about Kamala Harris.
00:48:17.000Why is she shifting all of her positions?
00:48:19.000Well, she's a human, and what we mean by humanity is that she has a capacity to change, and the significance of the importance of the change of the humanity Is the reason why.
00:48:54.000And he, just every time they ask him about Kamala Harris, he starts shrieking and runs through a wall, leaving a Sherrod Brown shaped hole in the wall.
00:49:01.000So here he was on CNN, running directly away from Kamala Harris.
00:49:06.000Would you campaign with Kamala Harris if she comes here?
00:49:38.000Democrats are trying to present the argument that Donald Trump is afraid of Kamala Harris.
00:49:42.000The chief argument they are making right now is that Donald Trump has said that he doesn't want to debate Kamala Harris on ABC.
00:49:47.000And you can sort of see why, given the fact that ABC News is staffed by people like George Stephanopoulos.
00:49:52.000George Stephanopoulos spent the weekend basically cutting off Republicans who disagree with him, as is his want, the Keebler elf of morning television.
00:49:59.000He suggests that Byron Donalds, for example, shouldn't be able to give This was Rachel Scott's question.
00:50:04.000My question is on those rioters who assaulted officers.
00:53:30.000But you need to see more of Kamala Harris' face.
00:53:32.000More of her laughing as the world burns.
00:53:35.000More of her guffawing and dancing with RuPaul's Drag Race while the Middle East turns into flame.
00:53:43.000And Donald Trump did a rally over the weekend.
00:53:45.000Again, Trump, he needs to be meticulous in his attacks because most of his rallies will be about very well-calibrated attacks on Kamala Harris and her campaign.
00:54:49.000Kamala Harris has delivered an open border and skyrocketing inflation.
00:54:52.000It's really just not a hard argument to make, but we're going to make it as aggressively and persuasively as we can to the American people for about the next 95 or so days.
00:55:00.000Okay, and that has to be the campaign.
00:55:04.000What doesn't help is when you just randomly attack the governor of Georgia.
00:55:07.000So, over the weekend, that same rally, Donald Trump just launches into a diatribe about Brian Kemp.
00:55:12.000I'm sorry, a presidential campaign is not festivus.
00:55:15.000It is not time for the airing of grievances.
00:55:19.000The governor who has already endorsed him for the presidency and who defeated Stacey Abrams in a very competitive battleground state, Georgia.
00:56:10.000If President Trump wants to win, and I want him to win, so please don't do this sort of stuff, then he probably should focus in on, you know, the person he is running against, who he has to redefine, as opposed to allowing the press off the hook.