Joe Biden is in serious trouble in the polls, and some are calling for him to quit the race entirely. Should he leave the race? Is it time for Joe Biden to give up on running for re-election? And what s going on with Joe Biden's mental health? Is he senile, or is he just not that good at his job anymore? And is there any hope that he can still run against Donald Trump in the midterms, even if he doesn't have the same level of support that he once did? Today's After Show Was Hosted By: Alex Blumberg, Senior Political Commentator, Former Democratic Strategist, Author, Media Strategist and Consultant, and Former Senior Strategist for NBC's "Meet the Press" James Carville, Senior Campaign Strategist at CNN, joins us to discuss the possibility that Joe Biden should quit the 2020 Democratic primary race, and what it means for the future of the Democratic Party and the country. Guests: Political Strategist Nate Silver, Political Strategists at FiveThirtyEight. Senior Political Analyst at Five Thirtyeight.org. Former Democratic strategist at The New York Times. Chief Strategist John Avlon, Senior Fellow at The Civility Project, and Senior Political Consultant at New York Magazine. Director of Strategy at the Democratic Strategists Group at the New York Public Relations at The FiveThirtyeight. President Joe Biden, Jr., and his wife, Jill Biden, and his son, Joe Biden Jr., join us for a roundtable discussion about Joe Biden s troubles and the future in 2020 and beyond. And much, much more. Thanks to our sponsor, and a special thanks to our sponsors for sponsoring our new ad campaign. and our sponsor to help us raise awareness of Joe Biden and his troubles. of the Biden campaign in the podcast. Thank you for listening and supporting Joe Biden. Thank you Joe Biden for being Joe Biden! of course, and Joe Biden is not a bad guy. We are not your Joe Biden of 4 years ago, we are not a better Joe Biden than Joe Biden we are a good Joe Biden in 2020, and we are going to be better than you, Joe is not going to run for president in 2020 next year, and I hope you like Joe is a little better than this Joe in 2020 than you do that, right? and we re not here for it.
00:00:00.000Joe Biden is losing this election right now.
00:00:02.000If you look at his poll numbers, they just stink.
00:00:05.000He's running about even with Donald Trump in most of the national polling, but he's running slightly behind him in virtually all of the swing states, which is why, presumably, Nate Silver, who is sort of the pollster and poll analyst par excellence, he has now come out and suggested that maybe Joe Biden ought to drop out of the race entirely.
00:00:23.000He put out an entire thread yesterday and a sub stack post talking about how Joe Biden is in serious trouble.
00:00:29.000He said, quote, personally, I crossed the Rubicon in November, concluding that Biden should stand down if he wasn't going to be able to run a normal reelection campaign, meaning things like conduct a Super Bowl interview.
00:00:38.000And yes, Biden can still win, but he's losing now.
00:00:40.000There's no plan to fix the problems other than hoping the polls are wrong or that voters look at the race differently when they have more time to focus.
00:00:47.000Well, yesterday he put out a new thread saying Biden just hit a new all-time low in approval, 37.4% at 538 yesterday.
00:00:55.000That means that just over one-third of Americans approve of Joe Biden's job.
00:00:58.000Those are hardcore members of the Democratic Party base.
00:01:01.000Everyone else thinks he's terrible at his job.
00:01:24.000Now, again, he is not wrong about all of this.
00:01:26.000There are people who are screaming at him today, suggesting that he is totally wrong, that Joe Biden is going to win running away.
00:01:32.000It is hard to see how Joe Biden wins running away when the man can't even walk at this point.
00:01:36.000He is not the only person saying this, of course.
00:01:38.000James Carville, who was the sort of brain behind Bill Clinton's election victories in 1992 and 1996, he also said yesterday that Joe Biden should have stepped out of this race.
00:01:47.000He should not have run against Donald Trump.
00:01:50.000You know, we have a we have a choice to make in November.
00:01:54.000It isn't a choice that I was crazy about.
00:01:58.000I actually was very public that I thought that President Biden should not run for re-election.
00:02:05.000Now, underscoring all of Joe Biden's electoral troubles are a few factors.
00:02:09.000Factor number one, of course, is that the man is no longer with us.
00:02:12.000And every single day, there are more clips showing Joe Biden in the awkward position of being senile.
00:02:19.000He is not even the Joe Biden of four years ago, and the Joe Biden of four years ago is not the Joe Biden of eight years ago, and the Joe Biden of eight years ago is no great shakes.
00:02:26.000So what you have here is effectively downstream from not being a very good politician.
00:02:32.000I mean, this guy ran for president multiple times before.
00:02:34.000It was only the halo effect of being Barack Obama's vice president that allowed him to run for president again in the first place in 2020.
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00:06:13.000I have some serious problems with this particular poll, which is from the American Jewish Committee, which is a left-leaning organization in the United States.
00:06:20.000But the American Jewish Committee found 61% of respondents plan to vote for Joe Biden come November.
00:06:28.000Now the way the media are playing that is that that's the exact same 38 point spread that Biden won in 2020.
00:06:32.000The difference is that Joe Biden won 68% of the Jewish vote according to AP Votecast exit polling in the year 2020.
00:06:40.000So that's actually a seven point decline from 2020.
00:06:43.000And by the way, it's more severe than that because when it comes to actual voter turnout, every Orthodox Jew is going to vote and many secular Jews simply are not.
00:06:51.000So those polls are wildly overestimating the amount of support that Joe Biden has in the Jewish community.
00:06:57.000Beyond that, obviously he has been bleeding in a number of other areas as well.
00:07:03.000An NPR investigation that came out just a couple of days ago found that when you look at young black voters, young black voters are only supporting Joe Biden by a margin of 33 to 31 over Donald Trump.
00:07:18.00021% say someone else and 11% say Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:07:22.000Among Latino young voters, Donald Trump is actually winning 32 to 28.
00:07:28.000He's actually leading more Donald Trump among Latino voters than he is among young white voters.
00:07:32.000So, Joe Biden's coalition is bleeding, which leads to a question.
00:07:39.000Now, you've all heard my theory, my grand unifying field theory of American politics, which is that in 2012, Barack Obama broke American politics.
00:08:01.000They just decided to double down on the base over and over and over again and shout about Donald Trump.
00:08:06.000And so, led by these sort of twin chimeras of the coalition of losers vote.
00:08:11.000And when I say coalition of losers, I'm not talking about racial groups in general.
00:08:14.000I'm talking about their entire strategy is to tell certain subsections of each particular group, they're victims of American society.
00:08:21.000This is part and parcel of the Democratic campaign.
00:08:25.000So that chimera, which most Americans want to hear, that they are, in fact, victims of American society, combined with the chimera, that if you just shout Trump over and over and over, you are likely to win.
00:08:34.000That strategy, by the way, has only worked once.
00:08:39.000That once came in 2020, which was the weird, outstanding election of our lifetime.
00:08:44.000Joe Biden keeps doubling down on the Barack Obama strategy.
00:08:47.000He is going to appeal, he believes, to left-wing White single ladies as well as minority voters.
00:08:55.000That is going to be his coalition and it is leading him down an electoral primrose path here that is quite dangerous.
00:09:02.000It also happens to be that by feeding the Grievances of particular groups in the United States who don't actually have serious grievances in the United States, you end up with a major problem.
00:09:15.000It turns out that politics is not merely a reflection of the American people, it also drives people.
00:09:20.000When you lie to the American public, when you tell members of the American public they are victimized by American society, what you end up with is a more perverse version of American society.
00:09:30.000It turns out that if you want a healthy society, that healthy society is predicated upon certain norms that have to be shared in common by literally everyone.
00:09:39.000These are not norms that should be discarded or turned into dichotomous political issues.
00:09:44.000But that is exactly what, in the pursuit of this new electoral coalition Barack Obama did in 2012, and it's what Joe Biden is doing right now.
00:09:52.000And it's breaking wide open a bunch of weird notions in American life.
00:10:01.000There was a poll recently from Pew that looked at differences between Democrats and Republicans, between Biden supporters and Trump supporters, on sort of key issues of the day.
00:10:11.000And so I looked at their feelings about abortion, I looked at their feelings about foreign policy, but there was one question in particular that really goes to the heart of the future of the country, and it's really a problem.
00:10:22.000It's something that the Democrats have been promoting full-scale as a worldview, and it's making the country significantly worse.
00:10:28.000So according to this Pew Research polling, The question was, percentage of registered voters who say society is better off if people make marriage and having children a priority.
00:10:39.000Now the truth is that number should be 100%.
00:10:43.000Every single person, I don't care if you are straight, if you are gay, if you are married, if you are unmarried, the health of society rests on healthy families.
00:10:51.000The suggestion of anything otherwise is simply ridiculous.
00:10:54.000In fact, the only groups, historically speaking, who have rejected the idea that a healthy society rests on healthy families tend to be cult ideologies like Marxism and Nazism, ones that suggest that the state ought to be your family, or super libertarian ideas that suggest that the family is some sort of repressive factor in life and should be exploded entirely.
00:11:12.000But for virtually everyone else who lives in the real world, the family is, of course, the healthy family, is the basis of any society.
00:11:19.000So, should people Make marriage and having children a priority?
00:11:50.000The right wing of the country, only 60% believe that having children and making marriage a priority, that that is a good for society.
00:11:58.000Not even for you, individually, for society.
00:12:00.000So that speaks to an anti-natalist culture in the United States.
00:12:03.000It speaks to the idea that expressive individualism Which is a phrase that was coined by Robert Bella, and then has been taken up by Alistair McIntyre to describe the viewpoint we have about ourselves, which is that basically the only obligations we owe are obligations to ourselves, as opposed to family and then society at large.
00:12:19.000That that has taken real hold, that our feelings are us, and those are the people who matter the most.
00:12:23.000That's taken hold among everyone, including Trump supporters, 59% of whom say society is better off if people make marriage and having children a priority.
00:12:46.000That is the death of a civilization kind of ideology.
00:12:49.000And of course, it's become incredibly pervasive.
00:12:51.000Among all voters, only about 39% say that society is better off if people make marriage and having children a priority.
00:12:58.000Which speaks again to the decline of the society.
00:13:00.000And that has been pushed, as we can see, in heavily partisan fashion.
00:13:03.000That is, right there, a 40-point gap between Trump supporters and Biden supporters on the very basic question as to whether marriage and family ought to be top priority in a society.
00:13:17.000When you look at those gaps among, for example, college grads, you can see it even more broadly.
00:13:44.000It's been promoted by one side of the political aisle above all, obviously the Republican Party.
00:13:48.000Conservatives have been promoting the idea that family is crucial for my entire lifetime and well before.
00:13:53.000But the left in the United States has successfully made the case that marriage and family are not a priority.
00:13:57.000Which, by the way, is one of the reasons you are seeing this massive gender gap that is opening up between Trump supporters and Biden supporters.
00:14:05.000Trump supporters are increasingly male.
00:14:07.000That's what happens when you explode the institution of marriage.
00:14:10.000The institution of marriage used to put people generally on the same political page.
00:14:14.000This is why married women tend to vote like men.
00:14:17.000Not because married women have become enthralled men, but because when the common cause of a woman and a man is the family, it turns out that that family is going to need things like supportive institutions, like church.
00:14:27.000That that family is going to want to be left alone by the government more often.
00:14:31.000When you explode marriage, what you end up with is men who are unmoored from women, and women who believe that the highest form of self-exploration and self-fulfillment must exist apart from men and having kids.
00:14:44.000And again, this boggles the minds, I think, of most normies.
00:14:47.000When I say normies, I don't mean that you're abnormal if you believe the opposite.
00:14:51.000I think that most people historically, the vast majority of societies historically, have always believed that marriage and having kids was the priority.
00:14:57.000And separating yourself off from the main purpose of living is a bizarro world take.
00:15:02.000But it has become the predominant take in the West, which is why the West is collapsing and it's being exacerbated by political divides in the West.
00:15:23.000The way that most people function in society is with relation to their community, with relation to their church, with relation to their family.
00:15:29.000These are called the intermediate institutions of society.
00:15:32.000There are two other levels of society, the state and the individual.
00:15:36.000And what we have seen as the family breaks down, what we have seen as intermediate institutions like church and social groups, as those break down, what we have seen is a divide in America between the radical individualists and the radical statists.
00:15:48.000And sometimes they weirdly end up on sort of a horseshoe theory, same side of the issues.
00:15:52.000Whatever it is, it's not good for American society.
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00:17:01.000So you have the Biden coalition, which is largely composed of young single women who agree With that poll, that getting married and having kids is really not a priority and certainly is not the main priority.
00:17:13.000Combine that with Joe Biden's belief that he needs heavy minority turnout.
00:17:17.000And so that means you have to start looking at the opinions of minorities in the United States, particularly black Americans.
00:17:23.000Joe Biden is focused in laser-like on the idea that he's going to win, like Barack Obama did in 2012, a heavy share of the black vote.
00:17:44.000Especially given the fact that Joe Biden is going places like Morehouse College and saying at graduations that black people are victims.
00:17:51.000Well, you can see why Joe Biden is doing that.
00:17:53.000There is new polling data out from Pew of black Americans.
00:17:58.000And here is the share of black adults who believe in particular ideas.
00:18:02.000First, black public officials are singled out to be discredited.
00:18:06.00076% of black adults believe that black public officials are singled out to be discredited, which is an amazing statement considering that people like Kamala Harris exist.
00:18:15.000Kamala Harris is literally only vice president because she's a black woman.
00:18:19.000That is not me saying that, that is Joe Biden saying that.
00:18:23.00076% believe that police do little to stop guns and drugs in black communities, which comes into conflict with the other belief by Black Americans, which is that they are routinely victimized by the justice system.
00:18:41.000So, you want it both ways, it turns out in this poll, that police do little to stop guns and drugs in Black communities, but 74% believe that Black people are disproportionately incarcerated so prisons can make money.
00:18:53.000Those two things are in direct conflict.
00:18:54.000If you want the police to do more about drugs and guns, it turns out that many people are going to go to jail for, you know, the drugs and the guns.
00:19:02.000Now, this means that three quarters of Black Americans believe that the police are not doing anything to stop guns and drugs in Black communities, and also that Black people are disproportionately incarcerated so prisons can make money.
00:19:11.00067% of Black Americans, apparently, believe that big businesses market luxury items to Black people to keep them in debt.
00:19:19.000Not because those businesses want to make money, but because they want to keep black people in debt.
00:19:48.00055% believe the government encourages single motherhood among black women to eliminate the need for black men.
00:19:54.000Now, again, I think that the welfare state has done an extraordinary disservice to black Americans and has broken up the black family.
00:20:03.000But the notion that that's been the explicit purpose is to make black men unnecessary in the household is a stretch.
00:20:09.00051% believe that the government promotes birth control and or abortion to keep the black population small.
00:20:15.000Okay, so these are very heavily conspiratorial beliefs.
00:20:20.000Behind the scenes, according to Axios, Kiana Cox, a senior researcher on Pew Research Center's race and ethnicity team, tells Axios the study was developed by asking black participants if they'd ever heard of particular racial beliefs, later dubbed conspiracy theories in research findings.
00:20:32.000If they had, researchers asked if the participants thought the beliefs were true.
00:22:16.000And the way that you cater, if you are Joe Biden, in the end, is that what you have to do is you have to suggest that members of your voting bloc are in fact victims.
00:22:27.000This ties into the broader left-wing intersectional theory.
00:22:29.000What is their grand unifying theory of politics?
00:22:31.000It isn't quite as cynical as my grand unifying theory of politics, which is that Barack Obama decided he was going to appeal to certain specific groups, cobble them together, and win a victory in 2012.
00:22:40.000And ever since, Democrats have been trying to bind that coalition together.
00:22:43.000If you're a Democrat, the question is, what is the glue that holds that coalition together?
00:22:47.000Because, of course, a very awkward coalition.
00:22:49.000If your coalition is queers for Palestine, Or single ladies for less police.
00:22:58.000How do you keep that coalition together?
00:22:59.000And the answer, of course, is a victim mentality being inculcated by the Democratic Party and promoted.
00:23:05.000The idea is that there is, in fact, an intersectional coalition of people, all of whom are victims of white Christian males predominantly.
00:23:12.000And if they rise up together, they can smite the white Christian males.
00:23:15.000Now, it's kind of awkward to have at the top of your ticket an 81-year-old self-stated white Christian male, but you do what you can.
00:23:23.000And so this is one of the reasons why the Democratic Party has been moving in such radical directions on, for example, the Gaza War.
00:23:30.000So when you look at Gaza, it turns out that young Americans don't actually care very much about Gaza.
00:23:36.000That same poll that showed low levels of support for Joe Biden from young Americans, that same poll shows that very few young Americans actually see the war in Gaza as a serious issue for them.
00:23:50.000Only 5% of Latino voters label the war in Gaza a top issue.
00:24:03.000But the reason that the Biden administration has been focused in laser-like on the Gaza War is because I think they rightly perceive that the Gaza War has become the tip of the spear of the so-called Omni Cause.
00:24:15.000And I didn't coin the term Omni Cause, but it's a very good term.
00:24:18.000Forgive me for not mentioning your name if you did.
00:24:21.000The Omni cause idea is that everybody has to believe in the same general rubric of ideas.
00:24:27.000Again, this intersectional idea, which unifies you against the overarching structure.
00:24:33.000And Gaza is like the apex, the tip of the spear on this.
00:24:37.000Because if you can believe the absurdity that Is in fact a victim of white Christian males, or white Jews, or white people generally, or western civilization generally, and they are part of your cause despite the fact they're an evil terrorist group.
00:24:52.000Then you are willing to commit to pretty much anything.
00:24:54.000It's why Black Lives Matter, before October 7th, was talking about the so-called Palestinian cause.
00:25:01.000It's why after October 7th, Black Lives Matter put out an actual graphic depicting a silhouette of a person in a paraglider attacking the NOVA festival on October 7th.
00:25:13.000Because again, if the idea is victimhood and victim ideology, Then is there a better example of that on planet Earth than the claims made by their supporters?
00:25:22.000A claim that you start a war, you lose a war, and therefore you have been victimized by a big, bad, Zionist society?
00:25:28.000It's like the perfect example of whining until you win.
00:25:33.000Of gaining world support by being evil and then whining about it.
00:25:37.000Or shooting yourself in the foot and then complaining about the wound.
00:25:42.000So this is why the Biden administration has been coming around to this.
00:25:45.000It also explains why there is so much angst among the Democratic Party elite over the war in Gaza.
00:25:51.000When in reality, if they just treated it like they treat any other war, which is it's a war very far away that involves a Democratic ally of the United States and a terrorist group.
00:26:00.000So give them the support they need to win the war and then leave it alone.
00:26:04.000This thing would have been over in February already.
00:26:06.000But the Democratic Party couldn't allow it to be over in February.
00:26:09.000Instead, they have to keep pressing down that gas pedal on the intersectional coalition.
00:26:14.000This is why, for example, you see James Clyburn, who is one of the people who made Joe Biden president.
00:26:19.000If you go all the way back to 2020, you'll recall that Bernie Sanders won a bunch of primaries very early on in the process, and it looked like he might be on a glide path to the nomination, and James Clyburn in South Carolina, who has outsized weight, Made the appeal to the black community that Joe Biden needed to be the nominee.
00:26:32.000Well now, James Clyburn is saying that he's not going to attend a speech by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which is currently scheduled for July 24th in Congress.
00:26:43.000The answer is because the intersectional coalition has decided that Hamas is a member of the international intersectional coalition.
00:26:50.000Here is James Clyburn doing the pandering routine.
00:26:54.000Larry Russell, the Chairman of the Board of the NAACP, is a longtime friend of mine.
00:26:58.000We've been celebrating 50 years this year, knowing each other.
00:27:01.000I'm going to be communicating this week with Derek Johnson, the President and CEO of the NAACP, and I'm going to look for others to join me in developing, putting together an alternative to what Netanyahu will be saying and doing when he comes to that joint session.
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00:30:03.000So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person?
00:30:07.000Do you think somebody kills that white people?
00:30:08.000Somebody thinks that white people are better, are above and beyond dying when they would kill their own kind?
00:30:12.000That is what she said in 1992, and then Bill Clinton did a speech in which he rejected those words.
00:30:16.000Do you think Joe Biden would reject those words today?
00:30:18.000Or would he just say, that's coming from a place of truly justified anger?
00:30:22.000And she may have gone too far, but we understand why she's complaining.
00:30:26.000This is how the Democratic Party has moved.
00:30:27.000The party of Bill Clinton in 1992 tried to appeal to middle-of-the-road voters.
00:30:31.000The party of 2024 takes the radicals, tut-tuts them, pats them on the head, tries to hug them, And then at the same time tries to keep them at just enough arm's length to not alienate every moderate voter, which is why, for example, pro-Gaza, pro-Hamas hecklers keep showing up and yelling at Joe Biden, and Joe Biden and the Democrats literally don't know what to do with them.
00:30:50.000Here's a pro Hamas heckler yelling genocide Joe, Joe Biden.
00:30:54.000You better do genocide Joe, change the standards of policy.
00:31:11.000You can see this guy yelling at Joe Biden.
00:31:24.000The Democratic Party cannot alienate members of the intersectional coalition by pointing out that not everyone who claims victimhood status is, in fact, a victim.
00:31:32.000And this has bled up into the cultural sphere.
00:31:35.000Apparently, there's a person named Chapel Roan.
00:31:38.000Apparently, she is some sort of singer.
00:31:41.000And she was going to sing, I guess, for Pride Month, because it is the holiest month of the year in the United States.
00:31:48.000Rowan, in full green statue of Liberty body paint, started a set on Sunday by addressing her audience and suggesting that she would not be going to the White House.
00:31:58.000We want liberty, justice and freedom for all.
00:32:06.000We want liberty, justice, and freedom for all.
00:32:09.000When you do that, that's when I'll call.
00:32:14.000Okay, and made an overt appeal with regard to Gaza.
00:32:19.000And this is why, again, the Biden administration having such trouble with moderates, having such trouble, and they're going to continue to cobble together the coalition of people who believe that they are victims.
00:32:29.000And we're not building institutions, we're not building families, we're not building the intermediate institutions of society that make society function.
00:32:37.000That is the message of the Biden administration.
00:32:41.000Is that you're a bunch of victim groups, American society has victimized you, vote for Joe Biden.
00:32:45.000Does that sound like a winning message to you?
00:32:47.000It doesn't sound very much like a winning message to me.
00:32:51.000Which is why they're going to rely on their second message.
00:32:53.000As I say, they've had a couple of messages since 2012.
00:32:56.000Message number one is that there are a bunch of victimized groups in American society, and that bunch of victimized groups must vote for Democrats in order to overcome.
00:33:04.000And the second message is Donald Trump.
00:33:06.000We'll get to that one in just one moment.
00:33:08.000First, with all the focus on our broken justice system, And judges abusing their roles, there's one judge who will never abuse his role.
00:33:14.000Of course, I'm talking about Judge Matt Walsh.
00:33:17.000The final episode of Judged by Matt Walsh season one is now streaming exclusively at Daily Wire+.
00:33:21.000I'll be honest with you, when I first heard that they were making Matt Walsh into some sort of judge and that those judgments that he made would be legally binding, my first thought was that is a horrible idea because who exactly would give Matt Walsh that kind of decision-making authority?
00:33:35.000But then it turns out that there are a number of people who would like to be judged by Matt Walsh.
00:33:40.000So Matt had promised us the pettiest of courts.
00:34:26.000It's the finale of Judge by Matt Walsh, streaming now exclusively at Daily Wire Plus.
00:34:30.000Well, meanwhile, if message A of the Democratic Party since 2012 has been, here's our coalition of the dispossessed, and message B has been, Donald Trump is the worst person to ever walk the earth, a message that did not work in 2016 and seemed to kind of work in 2020, and in going forward into 2024, when Joe Biden is riding high at 37% in the approval ratings, where do you think they are going to go?
00:34:50.000Well, it's pretty obvious right now what the setup is for the Joe Biden-Donald Trump debate.
00:34:55.000That Biden-Trump debate is slated to take place in just a couple of weeks here.
00:35:00.000June 27th is when it's going to happen.
00:35:03.000Apparently Joe Biden is now heading up to Camp David to prepare for the June 27th debate.
00:35:07.000I assume he's just going to sleep a lot.
00:35:09.000Because what else do you do to prepare for that debate?
00:35:13.000Meanwhile, Trump Senior Advisor Jason Miller said President Trump takes on numerous tough interviews every single week and delivers lengthy rally speeches while standing demonstrating elite stamina.
00:35:23.000So, again, the idea here is going to be from Team Trump that Joe Biden is going to simply fall down on the stage.
00:35:28.000Now, again, I think that that's a bad setup for Donald Trump.
00:35:30.000I think that if he sets the bar so low as Joe Biden remains alive, then Joe Biden will probably surpass that bar.
00:35:36.000They'll take him in the back room, they'll hook him up to some 14-year-old kid, they'll pump the blood into old Joe, they'll shove him on out there with some amphetamines in his system, and he'll last for a couple of hours.
00:35:45.000However, the real message that Joe Biden is going to seek to promote is that Donald Trump is a threat to the Republic.
00:35:50.000It's a very difficult argument to make, given the fact that Joe Biden is, in fact, a threat to the Republic.
00:35:55.000Not just because he's prosecuting his political opponents, but because he's doing a terrible job on every single front.
00:36:01.000Every appeal that Joe Biden makes on policy is doomed to fail.
00:36:04.000So, for example, yesterday, senior Biden spokesperson Adrian Elrod was ripping on Trump on foreign policy.
00:36:28.000They have the right to speak their mind.
00:36:30.000He's not going to take anything for granted.
00:36:32.000And I think it's also important to really keep in mind, Jonathan, during these challenging times on the foreign policy front, on the global front.
00:36:40.000Can you imagine having Donald Trump back in the White House trying to manage all of this?
00:36:43.000I mean, President Biden is a seasoned foreign policy pro.
00:36:47.000He served, of course, as the chair on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for a long time.
00:36:50.000He has these relationships with world leaders that go very, very deep.
00:36:55.000Um, yeah, that is not going to work, because he's terrible on foreign policy.
00:37:11.000Hot, sticky journalism happening here between Abby Phillip and George Stephanopoulos.
00:37:15.000So George Stephanopoulos, another journalism-er par excellence, a person who was literally a White House press secretary for the Clintons, We've got a presidential debate coming up right here on CNN later this month.
00:37:25.000has on George Stephanopoulos and they talk about what should be the subject of the debate.
00:37:28.000And they both agree. They both agree. The only subject of the entire debate should be January 6th
00:37:34.000and Donald Trump being an election denier. Here we go. We've got a vice presidential debate coming
00:37:39.000up right here on CNN later this month. As a journalist, as an American, what do you think
00:37:46.000is the most important question that needs to be answered from both candidates? Who won the last
00:38:37.000If we're talking about dangers to democracy, if we're talking about election denial, why not look to the Democratic side of the aisle, where Hillary Clinton has been spending years denying that she lost the 2016 election?
00:38:47.000Why not look to the Democratic side of the aisle, where they literally militarize half of the deep state in order to deny that Donald Trump won the 2016 election.
00:38:54.000There are a bunch of ways in which Trump can reframe, but I think that the big temptation for Trump is to be stuck in that tar pit, because he likes talking about 2020.
00:39:03.000The American public, however, really does not like talking about 2020.
00:39:08.000It's the biggest trap of the entire debate, and the media are going to obviously be on Joe Biden's side of that debate.
00:39:15.000Meanwhile, Corine Jean-Pierre is pushing the idea that anybody who opposes the Biden administration is distributing misinformation.
00:39:23.000And there's another, I think, rich vein for Trump to mine, which is that the 2020 election probably would have gone differently if the entire media, including the moderators, I'm sure, at the debate, had not covered up the Hunter Biden story.
00:39:34.000But here's Corine Jean-Pierre going off on misinformation.
00:39:39.000We have seen the consequences of what happens when communities don't know where to turn for trusted information.
00:39:46.000There's calamity and chaos and even catastrophe.
00:39:50.000And from the fires on Maui to hurricanes across the East and Gulf Coast, we have both seen what happens when dangerous misinformation drives a wedge between communicators and the American people.
00:40:17.000Here is Alexander Ocasio-Cortez worrying that Donald Trump is going to throw her in jail.
00:40:21.000No, you're the best thing that ever happened to Donald Trump, AOC.
00:40:25.000Because you just say stupid crap all the time and make Republicans more likely to vote.
00:40:30.000Also, if we're talking about people who try to jail their political opponents, you might want to look to the guy who's the president of your party.
00:40:36.000But here is AOC worried that she's going to be thrown into jail.
00:40:38.000Do you really believe that AOC thinks she's going to be thrown into jail?
00:42:38.000And this should be disqualifying for anyone who wants to be president of the United States.
00:42:44.000Unbelievable stuff there from Kamala Harris.
00:42:46.000So again, that is going to be the Democrats' twin appeal in the face of Joe Biden's wild unpopularity.
00:42:51.000It's going to be that you are a member of a victimized subgroup in the United States, and two, that Donald Trump is a danger to the republic.
00:42:58.000The big problem is, I'm not sure people are buying it.
00:43:00.000I really don't think the American people are going to buy this because it turns out that on policy, Joe Biden has been a terrible threat to the Republic.
00:43:07.000Even members of the media are beginning to notice it.
00:43:09.000Here was an ABC reporter questioning the Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas yesterday, asking about Joe Biden's immigration policy and saying pretty openly, you keep saying it's successful.
00:44:15.000We've been misinterpreting the high prices.
00:44:16.000If only we understood Joe Biden, we would understand that high prices are good now.
00:44:20.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Fed policymakers are poised on Wednesday to leave their benchmark federal funds rate steady at the highest level in more than two decades, and inflation is the biggest reason their preferred measure of consumer prices from the Commerce Department was up 2.7% from a year earlier in April.
00:44:34.000That marks an improvement from April 2023 when it was up 4.4%, but still doesn't show the kind of progress investors were hoping for at the beginning of the year.
00:44:42.000But apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, a higher inflation rate might be good.
00:44:46.000It would allow the Fed to set interest rates higher.
00:44:48.000Then when the economy ran into trouble, the central bank would have more scope to cut rates before hitting zero.
00:44:53.000So probably we should be happy with the high inflation rates.
00:44:59.000Two economists, Jim Parrott and Mark Zandi.
00:45:01.000Zandi, of course, is chief economist of Moody's Analytics.
00:45:04.000They are now saying that Joe Biden's Federal Reserve should declare victory on inflation and cut the interest rates despite the fact that inflation is still running 50% too high.
00:45:13.000Again, trying to pull out all the stops on Joe Biden is going to lead to some pretty dire consequences between now and the election.
00:45:18.000I'm honestly, in many ways, worried about what Joe Biden is going to do between now and the election more than I am worried about the election itself.
00:45:25.000I think Donald Trump is in a fairly solid position to win if he doesn't step all over himself.
00:45:30.000But I think the damage that Joe Biden can do in a bizarre attempt to maintain his office between now and the election, that's going to be some pretty dangerous stuff.
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00:46:51.000The European parliamentary elections shifted dramatically in favor of the right, which is called the far-right in Europe.
00:46:56.000The far-right is basically anybody who's to the right of Emmanuel Macron.
00:47:00.000According to the Washington Post, in European Parliament's election Sunday night, the far-right surged in nations including Germany and Austria, but nowhere with more impact than in France.
00:47:07.000The national rally there clobbered the ruling centrist coalition so badly that President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the French National Assembly and called snap legislative elections.
00:47:15.000Voters might be angry at him, but they're not prepared to allow the pick of Marine Le Pen, the fiery doyen of French nationalist, Euro-skeptic, anti-immigration politics, to head a new French government.
00:47:25.000Already, that uncertainty was reflected on the French stock market on Monday.
00:47:28.000The mayor of Paris called the dissolution of Parliament ahead of the Olympics extremely disturbing.
00:47:33.000The person who is running to replace Emmanuel Macron is a 28-year-old young man named Jordan Bardella, who is the protege of Marine Le Pen.
00:47:43.000On Sunday, Bardella led Le Pen's far-right opposition party to its biggest victory ever in European elections, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:47:50.000Public anxiety over the possibility of far-right forces rising to power as they once had in Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, and Vichy France has been a defining feature of French elections for decades, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:48:00.000Look how they're trying to look at that.
00:48:01.000I mean, just comparing Jordan Bardella to the Nazis.
00:48:43.000You're talking about an era I didn't experience.
00:48:45.000He said I wouldn't make the comments he made about the detail, because for me the horrors of the Holocaust aren't the detail of history.
00:48:51.000So he doesn't want to separate off from the founders of his party, but he's making very clear that he is not standing with, for example, Jean-Marie Le Pen's views about Jews.
00:49:01.000And it is impressive to see the Europeans begin to reject that which ought to be rejected in the United States as well.
00:49:08.000Meanwhile, again, the Biden administration totally discombobulated on foreign policy.
00:49:13.000Antony Blinken has been deployed to the Middle East once again to slow Israel's role in Rafa.
00:49:18.000The United States has decided that it is in the interest of the United States for Hamas to remain.
00:49:22.000Some sort of governing entity in the Gaza Strip.
00:49:24.000There's no other way to explain what is being done right now.
00:49:27.000So Antony Blinken has now been deployed in order to go yell at Bibi Netanyahu.
00:49:30.000It's not going to have the same effect because there was a war cabinet in Israel until five minutes ago that was staffed by people who are much more friendly to Antony Blinken's point of view, including, of course, Gadi Eisenkot and Benny Gantz.
00:49:40.000They both stepped out of the war government just over the weekend.
00:49:43.000So that means that whatever Blinken says is now being heard by Benjamin Netanyahu, now accompanied By the rest of his normally elected government, which is a far more right-wing government than the War Cabinet was.
00:51:18.000And you can gloss over that with some diplomatic happy talk, but it ain't gonna work.
00:51:22.000So Hamas is embracing the UN Security Council resolution apparently in the belief that the Biden administration will be able to cram down a permanent ceasefire on Netanyahu's government.
00:51:32.000And the United States is pretending that Hamas is against the ceasefire because, again, they are against any sort of ceasefire that removes them from power.
00:51:45.000They said members were being told Israel accepted the proposal, but Netanyahu has repeatedly insisted the war will continue until Hamas has been defeated.
00:51:50.000So Russia abstained because Russia actually is seeing through the veil here.
00:51:53.000Russia's saying, well, I mean, there's no agreement.
00:51:55.000So what exactly is the UN Security Council proposing?
00:52:00.000So, again, this is just absolutely discombobulated policy from the Biden administration, but that is par for the course around the White House.
00:52:06.000Already, coming up, we'll get into a good comment in pop culture and a bad comment in pop culture in just one second.
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