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00:00:00.000Well, folks, the contrast between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party has never been starker in terms of the consolidation of the parties, the unity of the parties going forward, than it is on Friday.
00:00:12.000The Republican Party is unified behind President Trump in unique and extraordinary ways, and the Democratic Party might not have a candidate for the presidency come Sunday.
00:00:21.000That is the huge news over the weekend.
00:00:23.000Joe Biden may very well drop out this weekend.
00:00:42.000Alrighty, so we'll begin with the triumphant Presentation of Donald Trump as his party's nominee for the third consecutive time, which is an extraordinary feat.
00:00:51.000I mean, just on a pure political level, the fact that Donald Trump won in 2016 was astonishing.
00:00:55.000The fact that he was then the nominee the next time around is natural.
00:00:59.000The fact that after losing in 2020, he's back in 2024 and the frontrunner not only For the nomination, now he's the nominee, but also for the presidency itself is an astonishing political feat.
00:01:09.000And the RNC has been about building out the Trump coalition.
00:01:12.000It's been about providing permission structures for people who historically have not voted Republican and who would not be spotted dead in a red hat to actually vote Republican and wear the red hat.
00:01:24.000You can feel there is a vibe shift in the United States.
00:01:27.000Tons of people who never would have in a million years said that they're even thinking about voting for Donald Trump are now coming out and saying that they are voting for Donald Trump and supporting Donald Trump.
00:01:36.000Just take, for example, the tech bros in San Francisco.
00:01:38.000There are a ton of tech bros in San Francisco who satovoce.
00:01:42.000Are very anti the Democrats because they don't like the wokeness.
00:02:07.000There was such an intimidation about voting for Trump, or saying you supported Trump for years and years.
00:02:12.000In social settings, particularly, again, a lot of our audience is in red states, in red areas.
00:02:16.000But if you are in a red state, in a blue area, or in a blue state, or in a purple state, There is this social opprobrium visited upon you if you said that you would even consider voting for Donald Trump, and that seems to be gone at this point.
00:02:29.000And that is a testament to both the Democrats' incompetence in office, and it's a testament to Donald Trump's campaign thus far, which has been markedly more disciplined than it has ever been.
00:02:41.000Trump, again, in the last four weeks basically disappeared from the public scene.
00:02:45.000And as a consequence, I will say, he has had the best four-week period of any presidential candidate I've ever seen.
00:02:50.000He had his debate with Biden, and then he had the brains to stay out of the spotlight while Biden took all incoming because Biden's performance was so incredibly terrible.
00:02:58.000He's had a few rallies here and there, but he mainly let the media focus in on his opponent.
00:03:02.000And now his opponent is so much on the ropes that he may be gone by this weekend.
00:03:06.000And of course, there was the assassination attempt against President Trump, in which he did display remarkable physical bravery, getting up while the shooter was presumably still out there.
00:03:15.000He didn't know the shooter was dead already.
00:03:17.000Getting up and waving his fist and shouting fight was an amazing scene.
00:03:20.000So amazing, by the way, that the media are now attempting to blot out the spectacular photo of Donald Trump, blood on his face, holding up his fist beneath an American flag because they think that it helps Trump too much.
00:03:31.000So the Republican National Convention has been a unity convention and it's featured a wide variety of people from left to right.
00:03:39.000As I mentioned on the show a little bit earlier this week, you know, for people who historically have looked at the Republican National Convention as sort of an exposition of conservative values, it's a little disquieting because there's almost nothing that Republicans agree on other than maybe immigration.
00:03:53.000On foreign policy, wide variety of opinions.
00:03:55.000On economics, wide variety of opinions.
00:03:57.000On social policy, wide variety of opinions.
00:03:59.000So what brings all these people together?
00:05:21.000America is so powerful and so strong, like, we're such an amazing country, that we can have two presidential nominees, or nearly 80, debate about golf, For like fully 90 minute debate about golf.
00:05:34.000And then we can have one of the presidential nominees be introduced by a wrestler who rips off his shirt and then speak for 93 minutes.
00:07:24.000Again, Donald Trump, there's one thing Donald Trump knows more than anything else, and that is how to put on a show.
00:07:27.000He's been doing it for his entire career.
00:07:30.000So here was Donald Trump walking out on stage.
00:07:31.000And again, this is what political momentum and political unity looks like.
00:07:36.000♪ From the lakes of Minnesota ♪ ♪ To the hills of Tennessee ♪ ♪ Across the plains of Texas ♪ ♪ From sea to shining sea ♪ So for those who can't see, he came out in front of a giant screen that says Trump in the background.
00:08:14.000He walks out, he's got the bandage on his ear, obviously.
00:08:21.000And the address accomplishes some things and it fails at others, to be perfectly objective about this.
00:08:28.000The first 15 to 20 minutes is some of the best Trump you will ever see.
00:08:31.000The first 15 or 20 minutes, and we're going to play nearly all of it because it really was an incredible, incredible display, is Trump for the first time talking openly about nearly being murdered live on national television when he was shot in the ear.
00:08:45.000In the assassination attempt last Saturday.
00:08:49.000It was all the things that you would want from Trump in this speech.
00:08:52.000Again, the kind of lead up to this was this was a unity convention, not just for Republicans, but for the American people more broadly, that it was going to be a moment where Trump said, listen, we all have to come together for all of America because we're all brothers and sisters and we all have to come together.
00:09:06.000I had suggested earlier in the week that the best thing that Trump could do is that, that he could come out and he could say, listen, being nearly shot in the head changes a man.
00:09:14.000And it makes you think about the important things in life.
00:09:16.000It makes you think about the fact that we're all Americans.
00:09:19.000And as much as we may disagree on politics, at the end of the day, we're brothers and we're sisters and we all have to be together.
00:09:24.000And for the first 20 minutes, that's what it was.
00:09:27.000Unfortunately, the speech was 93 minutes.
00:09:29.000It's the longest single Republican acceptance speech in history, the longest single Democratic acceptance speech in history.
00:09:35.000He went off teleprompter an awful lot.
00:09:36.000So the first 20 minutes, again, great.
00:09:39.000And then it turned into sort of Donald Trump's campaign presentations.
00:09:42.000If you've ever been to a Trump campaign event, he gets up there and he basically does a comedy routine and he rambles and he moves around.
00:09:48.000And that's what it turned into for the last 73 minutes.
00:09:52.000And so you could see in real time sort of the reaction, even in the room, Listen, everybody loves him in the room.
00:09:57.000Everybody wants him to be president in the room.
00:10:10.000And because it was so long, it started to lose momentum.
00:10:12.000Now again, maybe that doesn't matter very much because the purpose of the speech is just to unify the party.
00:10:16.000And if that's the case, then the speech is irrelevant and it really doesn't matter what he said.
00:10:21.000What I do believe is that it was a missed opportunity from the perspective of what it could have accomplished, which was to, I think, put the race basically out of reach for the Democrats.
00:10:31.000I think if he had come out and this speech had been the first 20 minutes and a five-minute capper, I think this race is over.
00:10:36.000And it wasn't not because of anything nefarious or anything terrible, but because President Trump, when he gets in front of a crowd, speaks to the crowd.
00:10:44.000And then he starts responding to the crowd.
00:10:47.000And he really likes talking with his constituents.
00:10:49.000He really likes talking with his fans.
00:10:51.000But we need to begin with the part that was most effective.
00:10:53.000So he started off with exactly this unity message.
00:10:55.000We were told before the speech, by the way, he was not going to mention President Biden at all.
00:11:02.000And again, just as a matter of optics, as a matter of President Trump at his best, every great moment he had during his presidency, sort of these giant unity moments, was a State of the Union where he stayed on the teleprompter.
00:11:12.000Teleprompter Trump is much more effective in these scenarios than off-teleprompter Trump.
00:11:17.000So the beginning, he was on the teleprompter, and then he was off-teleprompter talking about his personal experience.
00:11:22.000And again, that part was just phenomenal, just great.
00:11:25.000For the first 20, 25 minutes, there was fairly universal agreement, right, left, and center, that what Trump was doing was something unprecedented and kind of magnificent.
00:11:34.000So here was the beginning of his speech.
00:11:37.000The discord and division in our society must be healed.
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00:14:38.000I began speaking very strongly, powerfully, and happily because I was discussing the great job my administration did on immigration at the southern border.
00:15:17.000In order to see the chart, I started to, like this, turn to my right and was ready to begin A little bit further turn, which I'm very lucky I didn't do, when I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really, really hard on my right ear.
00:17:32.000The most incredible aspect of what took place on that terrible evening in the fading sun was actually seen later.
00:17:42.000In almost all cases, as you probably know, and when even a single bullet is fired, just a single bullet, and we had many bullets that were being fired, crowds run for the exits or stampede, but not in this case.
00:20:56.000I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of almighty God.
00:21:02.000Okay, so, obviously, the emotion is deeply effective.
00:21:10.000People can see, written across Trump's face, exactly what he is feeling.
00:21:14.000They can see that, I mean, it has to be for any human being, a disturbing experience to have a bullet whiz by you so closely that it hits you in the ear.
00:21:23.000Well, Trump's story is really a fascinating and shocking one.
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00:23:06.000I wanted to do something to let them know I was okay.
00:23:11.000I raised my right arm, looked at the thousands and thousands of people that were — breathlessly waiting and started shouting, fight, fight,
00:24:01.000For the rest of my life, I will be grateful for the love shown by that giant audience of patriots that stood bravely on that fateful evening in Pennsylvania.
00:24:14.000Tragically, the shooter claimed the life of one of our fellow Americans.
00:24:20.000Cory, compare it to our unbelievable person, everybody tells me.
00:25:37.000All of this culminated in Donald Trump, after having paid homage to the man who was in fact killed by a bullet that was meant for Donald Trump.
00:25:47.000Paying homage to Cory Comparatory and walking over to his firefighting helmet and jacket and giving it a kiss.
00:25:57.000Now, some of the media were very angry at this.
00:25:58.000Some of the media were like, oh my gosh, it's maudlin and it's terrible.
00:28:30.000And this is really, really good stuff.
00:28:32.000Like really great stuff here from President Trump.
00:28:35.000So now I ask that we observe a moment of silence in honor of our friend Corey.
00:28:44.000And then he, you know, he's standing there for those who can't see it
00:28:56.000and observing a moment of silence. It's very somber in the hall.
00:29:01.000There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for others.
00:29:06.000This is the spirit that forged America in her darkest hours, and this is the love that will lead America back to the summit of human achievement and greatness.
00:29:52.000And then he continues and he says, our resolve is unbroken.
00:29:56.000Our resolve is unbroken and our purpose is unchanged to deliver a government that serves the American people better than ever before.
00:30:06.000Nothing will stop me in this mission because our vision is righteous and our cause is pure.
00:30:13.000No matter what obstacle comes our way, we will not break, we will not bend, we will not back down, and I will never stop fighting for you, your family, and our magnificent country.
00:30:58.000And the reason I feel that this is necessary to point out is because a missed opportunity... So if you feel like a campaign is sort of like a baseball game, and I'm a huge baseball fan, so if you... It's like a baseball game.
00:31:10.000And if you've ever been to a baseball game where your team is up three runs, and it's like the sixth inning, and your team has bases loaded one out, and somehow, The other team brings in a reliever, they induce a pop-up, and then they induce a strikeout.
00:31:23.000And you end up getting no runs out of that situation.
00:31:25.000You have a bases loaded, one-out situation, you're already up three runs, and you have the opportunity to break the game wide open.
00:31:33.000Taking a walk, a sack fly, something breaks that game open, and you miss the opportunity.
00:31:39.000You start to have the feeling in the pit of your stomach like this game is not over yet, and there are still a lot of moves left on this particular chessboard.
00:31:46.000And this is the flaw with what President Trump did last night.
00:31:50.000Because again, first 20 minutes are like amazing.
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00:33:59.000So again, Donald Trump's speech, the first part of his speech, just amazing.
00:34:02.000Just great stuff, unifying, excellent.
00:34:05.000A different Trump than you've seen just in terms of tone and tenor.
00:34:08.000He looks more subdued because, again, a bullet should change a man.
00:34:11.000And then, about half an hour into the speech, things take a turn.
00:34:15.000They take a turn precisely when he moves away from his unifying message and towards sort of the festivus portion of the speech, where it's time for the annual airing of grievances.
00:35:23.000In fact, I am the one saving democracy for the people of our country.
00:35:31.000Now, I agree with what he's saying, but the question is whether it's politically astute for him to be the one saying it.
00:35:36.000If this is a unifying speech, then immediately going into sort of his grievances against the Democratic Party and the justices, and there are plenty of people on the stage yesterday who did this for him, he didn't have to do this.
00:35:46.000And this, I think, is sort of the problem with where the speech went.
00:35:49.000And by the way, we're only at minute 30.
00:35:50.000This sucker went on like another hour.
00:35:54.000Which means that, like, only the true diehard stuck around for the whole thing.
00:35:56.000So just in terms of, you know, the viewership and the optics, my guess is most people had probably tuned out by this point because it was a very, very, very long speech.
00:36:04.000But again, once he got into it, he almost couldn't get out.
00:36:06.000So he started talking about the documents case.
00:36:08.000And again, this is not something that, like, when you sit down at your kitchen table, I don't think you're talking about Donald Trump's documents case.
00:36:15.000And he's got the bandage on his ear to prove that people hate him.
00:36:18.000That some people hate him so much they want to kill him.
00:36:21.000And he's got all the battle scars, like the physical battle scars who showed the thing.
00:36:24.000And so again, kind of providing the most divisive vision of himself here,
00:36:30.000provides an opening. This is leaving the bases loaded with one out with no runs in the sixth.
00:38:05.000And you can see it over on MSNBC, it's wild.
00:38:07.000So I will say, my friend Van Jones, and again, I'm friends with Van Jones, we disagree on a lot of things politically, but Van is an honest broker.
00:38:14.000Van will actually say the thing that everybody is thinking.
00:38:17.000He said, and he's correct, on CNN, that he hasn't seen people excited like this since Obama 2008.
00:38:23.000The last time I was in a convention that felt like this was Obama 2008.
00:38:55.000David Axelrod trying to make the argument differently.
00:38:57.000But the reality is, again, the enthusiasm for Trump is extraordinarily high.
00:39:01.000Meanwhile, Democrats are in a state of sheer panic.
00:39:03.000All of MSNBC was in a state of sheer panic.
00:39:05.000And they're going back to all their playbooks and they're not really finding a great narrative.
00:39:10.000Joy Reid is now slandering, as you would imagine she would, the entire Trump coalition, suggesting that basically they're white supremacists and closeted black and brown white supremacists, which is a weird take.
00:39:23.000You've seen this kind of election before.
00:39:26.000Like the Orbanism of the party is, it's rooted in returning white Christian men, but also white men, white adjacent men, you know, black men, brown men who are like white adjacent in terms of trying to also be in that dominant position in society.
00:39:43.000And then you have women who are willing to go along with that, right?
00:39:46.000There are a certain number of women who are also willing, the trad wife sort of thing.
00:39:51.000I mean, just, she's, she's so pathetic.
00:39:53.000I mean, like, if that's your attack is going to be on the Trump supporters, that black and brown Trump supporters who, by the way, Trump might win Hispanics this year.
00:40:00.000I mean, it's, it's that bad for the Democrats that they are white adjacent.
00:40:05.000I can't imagine why you guys have lost popularity.
00:40:07.000Joy Reid is the reason for Donald Trump.
00:40:10.000Meanwhile, Rachel Maddow doing her thing.
00:40:12.000So, she is pointing out that vice presidential nominee J.D.
00:40:15.000Vance is a Lord of the Rings fan and named one of his companies after a place in Lord of the Rings.
00:40:22.000And she now claims that this is white supremacy.
00:40:30.000Lord of the Rings is a sort of favorite cosmos for naming things and cultural references for a lot of far-right and alt-right figures, both in Europe and the United States.
00:40:40.000Peter Thiel names all of his things after Tolkien figures and places, like his company Palantir, for example, like his mentor, like Peter Thiel, who had given him all his jobs in the world.
00:40:51.000Mr. Vance also, when he founded his own venture capital firm with help from Peter Thiel, named it after a Lord of the Rings thing.
00:41:07.000But everything is white supremacy according to MSNBC.
00:41:09.000MSNBC actually said the other night after J.D.
00:41:11.000Vance spoke and talked about how there are seven generations of Vances who are buried in the family plot and one day he'll be buried there.
00:41:18.000They said that that is effectively a form of white male privilege or some such nonsense.
00:41:25.000I sort of understand the idea of sharing the burial plot, but it also reveals someone who believes that the history that the family should inherit, and indeed the history that should be determinative in the story of the Vance family, is the history of the Eastern Kentucky Vances, and not the Vances from San Diego, which is where his wife is from and where her Indian parents are from.
00:41:47.000But in America, it doesn't always have to be the white male lineage that trumps That defines the family history, that that branch of the tree supersedes all else.
00:41:57.000And I just think the construction of this notion reveals a lot about someone who fundamentally believes in the supremacy of whiteness and masculinity.
00:43:26.000And no one really knows the answer at this point.
00:43:29.000Like a lot of rumors out there that he's gonna go.
00:43:31.000And then you'll see occasional pushback, desperate pushback from Andrew Bates over at the White House going, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, he's gonna stay.
00:43:36.000And there'll be more stories about how he's gonna go.
00:43:38.000And like, no, no, no, no, he's gonna stay.
00:43:40.000Honestly, the best take last night came courtesy of CNN's Jake Tapper.
00:43:45.000It is a very, very solid cultural reference take.
00:43:51.000Meanwhile, events no less momentous are playing out in Delaware, where President Biden is self-isolating after testing positive for COVID, we're told.
00:44:00.000To hear top Democrats tell it, President Biden is like Bruce Willis' character in the movie The Sixth Sense.
00:44:05.000He is the only one who seems unaware of his grim fate.
00:44:09.000Former President Obama has told allies recently that Biden's chances of winning have greatly diminished.
00:44:26.000Will Joe Biden stay or will Joe Biden go?
00:44:29.000Democrats are preparing for the coup, according to the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
00:44:34.000One thing we've learned over the years is that Washington Democrats are ruthless when threatened by a loss of power.
00:44:38.000You almost have to admire their cold-blooded calculation.
00:44:40.000President Biden is now learning this harsh lesson as the Democratic media complex organizes to persuade him to withdraw from the presidential race.
00:44:47.000That effort, which began after Biden's failed debate on June 27th, is now in full orchestrated gale.
00:44:52.000The president has not taken the hint to drop out from the withdrawal calls by the media and Congress's backbenchers.
00:44:56.000So now the big names are letting it known they, too, want Joe to go.
00:45:01.000First, the press learns somehow Hakeem Jeffries, House Democratic leader and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, visited Biden to deliver the news he could cost Democrats control of Congress.
00:45:10.000The press also alerted that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a master of political martial arts, delivered the same message to Biden.
00:45:16.000On Thursday, word came out, again leaked to the press, that Barack Obama is likewise concerned about Biden's ability to defeat Donald Trump.
00:45:23.000He still commands the delegates to win the nomination at the August convention or before that is mooted in a virtual vote.
00:45:28.000And again, that's happening like August 1.
00:45:30.000They've accelerated this thing so there's like 10, 11 days that Democrats have to get their act together by getting rid of him.
00:45:35.000But the party message to the president is you're on a path to lose, you'll take down the House, you'll take down the Senate, your legacy will be ruined and we will never forgive you.
00:45:43.000And so it's very difficult to tell right now whether all the pressure tactics on Biden and all the reporting that he's going to leave, whether that is wish-casting by Democrats in the media or whether it's true.
00:45:53.000You're hearing super mixed messages coming out of the White House via the media.
00:45:58.000And some of that is because the media desperately wanted to drop out.
00:46:00.000I mean, it would be the biggest story in several generations, politically speaking.
00:46:04.000And so, again, you're getting all the Democratic leadership leaking like sieves to the press that they want Biden gone, that they believe that the best possibility for defeating Donald Trump is, in fact, getting rid of him and putting someone else in.
00:46:17.000Senator Jon Tester, who's in the middle of a very rough re-elect race in Montana, probably will lose that.
00:46:23.000He's the second Democratic senator to call for President Biden to drop out of the race.
00:46:28.000Again, he's the most vulnerable Democratic senator who's up for re-election this cycle.
00:46:32.000Jamie Raskin, Who is a hardcore Democrat to the point that he actually challenged electoral votes in favor of Donald Trump in 2016.
00:46:41.000Raskin is now calling for Biden to step aside as well, comparing him to an exhausted Pedro Martinez in the 2003 ALCS, for those who have a baseball memory.
00:46:52.000That, of course, was the famous game where Grady Little did not actually pull Pedro Martinez and the Red Sox ended up blowing a lead to the New York Yankees and then losing a series they never should have lost.
00:47:03.000So, Again, there's heavy pressure coming from inside the democratic circles.
00:47:09.000According to CNN politics, the next 72 hours are big.
00:47:11.000One Democratic governor in close touch with party officials relayed to aides, this can't go on much longer.
00:47:16.000In interviews with CNN, more than two dozen sources familiar with the dynamics inside the West Wing campaign said there is now widespread acceptance that Biden remaining in the 2024 race is wholly untenable.
00:47:25.000Everyone is saying it privately, said one senior Democrat.
00:47:28.000People see and feel the walls closing in.
00:47:30.000Another Democrat close to the White House described Biden as having become exceptionally insulated and isolated since the debate June 27th.
00:47:38.000Apparently multiple sources close to Biden say that all of his advisors are taking the brunt from Hunter and Jill, that council of geniuses.
00:47:47.000That has had only the effect of making Biden's inner circle of advisors with free access to the president even tighter.
00:47:53.000Deputy White House Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini, longtime aide to the Bidens, joins Tom Donilon and Steve Ruscetti in forming a protective bubble around the president.
00:48:02.000Again, a lot of speculation about what exactly Lawmakers coming out and asking the president to step aside.
00:48:08.000Now, leaks about leadership conversations last night.
00:48:31.000What it really feels like, Jose, is that the drips and leaks might be the thing to finally
00:48:35.000That this is not going to be some kind of massive watershed moment publicly, but instead that it might come through blind reports that we're seeing overnight about conversations that the president had with top members of Congress.
00:48:49.000Okay, so Obama tried to stick the final knife into Biden over the last 24 hours.
00:48:57.000He leaked to the Washington Post That he has told the allies in recent days that President Biden's path to victory has greatly diminished, and he thinks the president needs to seriously consider the viability of his candidacy.
00:49:10.000So, none of these people have gone public yet.
00:49:12.000That would be the next stage here, is if Biden does not drop out over the weekend, then presumably, all these Democrats would start going extremely public with their worries.
00:49:22.000The sort of most trafficked report yesterday was one from the reporter Mark Halperin.
00:49:28.000Mark Halperin, said that multiple sources outline the apparent state of play on Biden, plans to announce withdrawal from nomination as early as this weekend with Sunday most likely, John Meacham polishing up remarks, Biden will not resign the presidency, and most importantly Biden will not endorse Kamala Harris, which is like the final knife in the back for Kamala Harris.
00:50:29.000He's significantly livelier than Joe Biden is at this point, and everyone can see it.
00:50:34.000Now, superdelegates would not be allowed to vote on the first ballot, so some of the politicking behind the scenes would have to be saved for the second ballot.
00:50:40.000But, again, the first ballot is unlikely to result in an actual nominee unless Harris basically consolidates support right now.
00:50:47.000Harris is already—she's getting ahead of herself.
00:50:48.000She's vetting at least four possible running mates, including Andy Beshear and possibly Josh Shapiro, the pretty popular governor of Pennsylvania.
00:50:55.000The hope would be that that wins them the swing state of Pennsylvania.
00:51:01.000Now again, all of this is a little early because Joe Biden's team apparently has not been informed.
00:51:08.000Joe Biden, according to NBC News, is feeling angry and betrayed by top Democratic leaders who are wavering on his campaign.
00:51:17.000Again, sources say Biden feels angry at how the party has tried to push him out.
00:51:20.000A source close to Biden criticized senior Democratic leaders for giving us Donald Trump.
00:51:24.000Quote, can we all just remember for a minute these same people who are trying to push Joe Biden out are the same people who literally gave us Trump?
00:51:30.000In 2015, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer pushed Biden aside in favor of Hillary.
00:51:33.000They were wrong then, they're wrong now, according to this source.
00:51:36.000That source pointed to polling in the 2016 election that found Hillary Clinton leading by as much as nine.
00:51:41.000How'd all this work out for everyone in 2016?
00:51:42.000Perhaps we should learn a few lessons from 2016.
00:51:45.000One of them is polls RBS just asked Secretary Clinton.
00:51:47.000And two, maybe, just maybe, Joe Biden is more in touch with actual Americans than Obama, Pelosi, Schumer.
00:51:52.000The source added an unusually blunt language that represents the views of those closest to Biden.
00:51:57.000Hey, first of all, that sounds like some solid Hunter Biden political analysis right there.
00:52:02.000If your lesson from 2016 is that polls are bunk, and therefore a Democrat who is losing in the polls can win, that ain't the lesson in 2016.
00:52:09.000Lesson in 2016 on the polls is, polls are bunk when they overly favor Democrats.
00:52:16.000Reached for comment, the campaign referred NBC News to Deputy Campaign Manager Quentin Foulkes' remarks Thursday, vowing that Biden is staying in the race.
00:52:21.000But again, no one knows, because he's staying in until he is not staying in.
00:52:26.000Meanwhile, Reuters is reporting differently.
00:52:28.000They say that Joe Biden is soul-searching right now.
00:52:32.000One of the sources, who requested anonymity, said, quote, his soul searching is actually happening.
00:53:06.000I mean, frankly, it's just it's very, very hard to see how this maintains at current status.
00:53:13.000According to Jake Sherman over at Punchbowl News, the New York Times reporting Biden has begun to accept the idea he may not be able to win in November and may have to drop out of the race.
00:53:25.000Developing sense that if Biden does not exit the race by next week, says Punchbowl, Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will be forced to go public with their misgivings about Biden's candidacy.
00:53:36.000The DNC's virtual roll call to formally re-nominate Biden could come as soon as August 1st, which does not leave much time to get Biden out.
00:53:42.000But that's what a huge number of House and Senate Democrats want.
00:53:47.000Presumably, Trump will get a bit of a conventional bump.
00:53:49.000You get a bump coming out of the convention, the polls are going to start looking real bad for Joe Biden over the weekend.
00:53:55.000Needless to say, Biden has put Schumer and Jeffries in an incredibly difficult position, says Punchbowl News.
00:54:00.000Biden has done nothing to improve his standing since the debate.
00:54:04.000So, what happens if Biden steps aside?
00:55:02.000With that said, CNN's Harry Entenpolster, he says that Kamala Harris would have a better shot at the presidency than Joe Biden does because every day is worse for Joe Biden.
00:55:10.000I don't only believe she could win, I believe she stands a better chance of winning than the current President Joe Biden, and we can see that in two important states, right?
00:55:18.000Virginia, which is of course just north of North Carolina, and then the pivotal Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which, if Joe Biden doesn't win, that map is cooked for him.
00:55:32.000That said, the polling shows that she is highly vulnerable.
00:55:35.000There is some data from Public Policy Polling, which is a Democratic polling firm, and it finds that Harris, with the right running mate, according to Politico, likely can defeat the Republican ticket in two of the three blue wall states the Biden campaign now sees as critical, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
00:55:49.000Public Policy Polling, it is a bit of a dicey polling firm, because again, it's a Democratic polling firm.
00:55:55.000It has a 1.4 star rating out of three in FiveThirtyEight's pollster rankings, but The poll shows Trump leading Biden by a point in Michigan and four points in Pennsylvania.
00:56:05.000Harris replacing Biden makes the Democrats' chance worse in Michigan, with Trump leading her by five points, 46-41, and better in Pennsylvania, where she cuts Trump's lead in half.
00:56:14.000Now, if she picks Gretchen Whitmer, you have an all-female ticket, which, you know, is politically interesting for sure.
00:56:21.000Then maybe Michigan, it moves out of the R column and into the D column.
00:56:35.000The thing that is very clear is that generic Democrats is better than any of these people.
00:56:40.000Generic Democrat is not Kamala Harris, which means that actually the best thing Democrats can do at this point, politically speaking, would be to dump Biden in favor of a no-name.
00:56:48.000Somebody who has high levels of political name recognition with donors, but none with the general public, like a Josh Shapiro or like an Andy Beshear in Kentucky.
00:56:56.000But Harris is not going to step out of the way.
00:56:58.000According to Axios, there are five reasons why a mission to bypass Kamala Harris is unlikely to succeed.
00:57:03.000First, the $91 million campaign war chest for Joe Biden can be transferred to Harris, but not to any other candidate.
00:57:10.000Second, it's hard to pass over the first black female VP for the presidency.
00:57:17.000Third, a bunch of endorsements have already come from people like Jim Clyburn.
00:57:21.000The Obamas and Clintons would probably throw their weight behind Kamala Harris too, especially if Biden jumps in first.
00:57:26.000Fourth, senior Democrats are very worried about a fragmented party going into the election.
00:57:30.000And fifth, legitimacy because she's been on the national ballot even though obviously she had nothing to do with Joe Biden's victory in 2024.
00:57:38.000And already Kamala Harris behind the scenes, her team is preparing the Kamala Harris defense.
00:57:43.000The informal campaign, according to Politico, is complicated because of how urgently Harris would need to build a political operation as well as craft a biography that makes it clear she has more to offer than her high-profile defense of abortion to include other foreign and domestic issues.
00:57:55.000The plan is to create a set of talking points around her accomplishments to paint a more fulsome picture of a candidate.
00:57:59.000This, of course, is likely to fail because she has no accomplishments and she is, in fact, a terrible vice president who ran a horrible presidential campaign and was basically gifted into the Senate on the basis that she was running in an all-Democrat state.
00:58:12.000If you want to know about the very likely next Democrat nominee, you need to check out.
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00:58:32.000With that said, if Biden is out, she is very likely in, and she will be just as much Of a perversity, constitutionally speaking, as Joe Biden has been.
00:58:43.000I mean, here's Kamala Harris just the other day, bragging about defying the Supreme Court.
00:58:50.000It is we who have canceled debt, including student loan debt.
00:58:55.000In fact, testify if you have received it.
00:59:30.000It's going to be about on-the-ground movement.
00:59:32.000It's going to be about making sure that everyone you know votes early.
00:59:36.000It's going to be about making sure that you do all the work you need to do.
00:59:39.000This is not a foregone conclusion by any stretch of the imagination.
00:59:42.000Again, I look at the polling data and here is what I see.
00:59:44.000I see Donald Trump has just had the best month of any presidential candidate in recent memory, and the RealClearPolitics polling average, he's at 47.7%.
00:59:51.000He's not at 55%, he's not at 54%, he's at 47.7.
00:59:55.000And even though, in the swing states, again, he's doing really, really well in the swing states.
01:00:03.000By the RealClearPolitics polling average, he's finally pulled ahead in Virginia, slightly, over Joe Biden.
01:00:08.000If Biden is not on the ticket anymore, Virginia probably ticks back into the blue column, at least initially.
01:00:15.000And with all the systemic variables out there, we all know about them, the media, certain voting rules in certain states, Republicans are going to have to fight this fight all the way down to the wire.