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00:02:12.000You get taxpayer-funded security, you get Air Force One, you can sign executive orders.
00:02:16.000You can literally give out free money to bureaucracies.
00:02:18.000It's a high standard to not want to run an incumbent.
00:02:22.000Incumbents are very, very hard to beat, easier to raise money.
00:02:26.000I mean, Joe Biden could raise hundreds of millions of dollars from crony corporate donors just based on executive orders and favors he can do.
00:02:35.000They could set up conference calls for the next two weeks, not even with him, just as the chief of staff, with Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna.
00:02:41.000Hey, you know, make sure you fund this pack and fund this thing.
00:04:14.000Including a majority of Americans, 69% of Democrats want a different candidate.
00:04:18.000But we must remember that overemphasizing on candidates, that's our job in the media.
00:04:26.000You have to be a very, very, very bad candidate to receive this sort of treatment from David Ignatius because candidate selection has been de-emphasized in recent years.
00:04:42.000Emphasizing candidate and candidate quality is too risky for the party of the oligarchy.
00:04:48.000Understand, in 1992, the Democrats nominated Bill Clinton to run against Herbert Walker Bush.
00:04:55.000And of course, Ross Perot is a third party.
00:04:57.000Bill Clinton was the more interesting candidate in 1992.
00:05:04.000He's a heathen, Epstein, all that stuff.
00:05:06.000But he was a better candidate in 1992.
00:05:09.000Interestingly, it was Republicans in the 2000 election and the 2004 election that were far more interested in the boring work, far more interested in what would be considered the clipboard and tennis shoes and ballot chasing.
00:05:24.000Karl Rove, of whom I'm not a fan of, built an amazing political machine in 2004.
00:05:33.000The Democrats thought that they could run John Kerry in 2004 and be more interesting than George W. Bush.
00:09:05.000So Donald Trump comes on the scene and he blows everything up.
00:09:10.000Live by the sword, he die by the sword.
00:09:11.000And then they re-nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton, the person who couldn't beat Barack Obama in the 2008 primary.
00:09:16.000And the Democrats, who built their coalition and built their power based on the Hollywoodification of American politics, all of a sudden they suffered from that in 2016.
00:09:27.000Trump said, Well, two could play this game.
00:09:42.000And then at that moment, when Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 and they start freaking out and they said, oh my goodness, you're trying to tell me that we're not going to be in power.
00:09:52.000We're going to suspend indefinitely this idea that candidates matter.
00:09:57.000And they created what's called the oligarchy of elections.
00:10:01.000They call it democracy, mass mail and balloting, signature verification, standards relaxed, all this stuff across the board where they want to say candidates are too risky, meaning we can run the boring guy, John Fetterman, because we control the plumbing of the elections.
00:10:18.000Doesn't matter how good your candidate is.
00:10:20.000And here comes Joe Biden, which I will complete this story because it all comes in the 2024 election.
00:10:27.000They're trying to change the way elections operate.
00:10:30.000They never want the quality of the candidate to matter again.
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00:11:13.000Okay, so I know that was a little bit of history and maybe a little bit more than you would have liked, but I think it's important to understand.
00:11:19.000So here's where Joe Biden comes into place: where the Democrat oligarchs look at this as a businessman would.
00:11:25.000A businessman, everything a major business tries to do, a major corporation, is try to limit risk, create replaceable parts, cogs in a wheel.
00:11:37.000Candidate quality and candidate selection, far too, there's far too many questions involved in that.
00:11:46.000So therefore, they create a machine where even if John Fetterman has a stroke and he can't speak, they're still able to get him quote unquote elected because they chase pieces of paper, they micro-target it.
00:11:56.000This goes to show how many different organizing tools, volunteer deployment, voter contact, research, data analytics and modeling, voter engagement, volunteer and activist mobilization, fundraising, movement-wide messaging and media companies and nonprofits that exist on the left.
00:12:17.000And it is political technology industry landscape on the left.
00:13:40.000They have to make a choice soon, largely because there's a Democrat convention and nomination and superdelegates, all this different sort of stuff.
00:13:50.000This combination of Joe Biden at the top of the ticket and the polls show people feel uneasy about somebody who's 82 serving another four-year term.
00:14:04.000The combination of that and people's uneasiness is reflected in polls about the vice president succeeding him.
00:14:12.000In another month, it's going to be too late to have this conversation.
00:14:17.000So I thought before it was locked in stone, it was worth at least raising.
00:14:23.000I know many of you in the audience are who's David Ignatius.
00:14:25.000Here's the best way that I could describe it.
00:14:28.000Imagine if one of the top intellectuals on the conservative side, who's someone that would be comparable in previous years when he was like a George Will, if he was, if the conservative, if he was still 10 years ago, George Will.
00:14:39.000That would be a good way to kind of compare it.
00:14:41.000So it would have received a fair amount of attention.
00:14:58.000Ignatius did not just write this and he's getting calls from people angry.
00:15:01.000No, no, David Ignatius did this and shot across the bow as a leading pincer movement against Joe Biden because they are now questioning everything in life has limits.
00:15:12.000Everything in life has limits, including the Democrat political machine, including that thing I put up on screen.
00:15:18.000Even that machine is beatable with a candidate that weighs you down so, so, so, so much.
00:15:26.000Ignatius writes, politicians who know Biden will say that if he were convinced that Trump were truly vanquished, he would feel he had accomplished his political mission.
00:15:36.000He would run again if he believes in his gut that Trump will be the GOP nominee and that he has the best chance to defeat Trump and save the country from the nightmare of a revenge presidency.
00:15:43.000Biden has a chance to say no to himself this time by withdrawing from the 2024 race.
00:15:48.000It might not be character for Biden, but it would be wise choice for the country, Ignatius wrote.
00:15:53.000Their machine can definitely get them an extra three points in Georgia, an extra four points in Pennsylvania.
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00:17:28.000So can we put that flowchart up there again, really quick?
00:18:04.000This machine can probably get them an extra 3% to 4%, but not an extra 5% to 10%.
00:18:11.000In 2016, when Donald Trump won the presidency, the Green Party was on the ballot in all the major states.
00:18:18.000In fact, Democrats got so angry that Jill Stein ran as the Green Party because she received enough votes that if Hillary Clinton would have received all those votes, Hillary Clinton would have defeated Donald Trump.
00:18:28.000So they blamed the Green Party for one of the reasons why Donald Trump became president.
00:18:33.000In 2020, the Green Party was not on the ballot.
00:18:37.000It was hard to collect signatures, and the Democrat regime went hard after the Green Party.
00:18:43.000They sued and they kicked them off the ballot in the states that mattered.
00:18:46.000It makes you think if the Green Party would have been on the ballot in Arizona, in Wisconsin, and in Georgia, would Donald Trump have been able to win?
00:18:54.000There was no Green Party in Pennsylvania either.
00:19:42.000Plus all the mass mail and balloting, the death counts of COVID every single day on CNN, constantly, constantly going after Trump's legitimacy, constantly going after the region, you know, the administration every single day.
00:19:56.000And then on top of it, widespread chaos and rioting in the summer of 2020, making it feel as if make it stop, make it stop, make it stop, make it stop.
00:20:05.000So Joe Biden was the make it stop option.
00:20:09.000And they did it not just through that, but they micro-targeting and just voluminous amounts of political advertising.
00:20:16.000We remember in 2020, it was overwhelming.
00:20:18.000And every major institution, including Donald Trump's own government, was against him.
00:20:36.000He framed himself as a reprieve to the chaos and cooler heads prevail and we're going to get back to greener pastures and times we all agree.
00:20:44.000We knew and we warned and unfortunately our message wasn't consumed by enough people.
00:20:56.000It's just too bad that that ended up happening.
00:20:59.000And then of course all the other election nonsense that happened on top of it, zucker boxes and mass mail and voting and the relaxing of signature verification standards and all that stuff.
00:21:08.000But 2024, as it is right now, is developing into a much different race.
00:21:13.000Number one, will they be able to replicate the panic and the cause for changing elections like they did with COVID in 2020?
00:21:23.000Whether it be climate change, environmental crisis or COVID type crisis, it's going to be hard for them to do it again because there's been such a massive preemptive, we will not comply PR campaign, great, to the great credit of our movement.
00:21:39.000But also, if there's more than one candidate on the ballot, including Green Party candidates, all of a sudden, this kind of vote of no confidence is hard.
00:21:47.000And if they try to run that playbook again with Joe Biden v. Trump, Joe Biden's the incumbent.
00:21:53.000So what they're going to try to do, and I don't know if it will work, they'll try to frame the race as vote for Joe Biden to refute Trump.
00:22:03.000That's not easy to do when you're the incumbent because it's more of a referendum on your actions than a referendum on the other guy's actions.
00:22:14.000And you could make the argument that Donald Trump is a far better candidate when he is out of office than when Donald Trump is in office.
00:22:24.000He has far more flexibility, far more movement, ability to critique and criticize.
00:22:29.000And quite honestly, to contrast, Donald Trump is not just a random person then running for the presidency in 2024.
00:22:35.000He was a terrific president with far better economic metrics, far better with the border.
00:22:41.000Donald Trump, because of the indictments in a paradoxical way, is actually more nimble and far more unshackled than he would be if he was kind of in a traditional political box.
00:22:53.000Okay, so Cornell West looks like he's going for it.
00:22:58.000Last week, Cornell West, black Marxist, been around for a while.
00:23:05.000CornellWest24.org writes, Cornell West for president announces the hiring of political activist author and advisor Peter Dow as campaign manager.
00:23:19.000So Peter Dow is a former member of the Democrat Party.
00:23:24.000He's not exactly a blue chip hire, but Peter Dow's a smart person.
00:23:29.000And Peter Dow has been around for a while in left-wing politics.
00:23:33.000Peter Dow, again, it's not exactly the top-level person that you would hire, but he had some affiliation with the Bernie Sanders campaign.
00:23:41.000He was involved and was a communications advisor to John Kerry in 2004 presidential race.
00:23:47.0002006, he was hired by Hillary Clinton.
00:23:48.000So he's been around for quite some time.
00:23:50.000This guy, Peter Dow, and now he's the campaign manager for Cornell West.
00:23:55.000And you have these two simultaneous freakouts that are happening.
00:23:58.000By the way, here's just some prediction.
00:24:00.000You're about to see Democrats absolutely go nuts and bananas in the next three to five months.
00:24:04.000I'm just telling you right now, we are going to have the most fun MSNBC clips we've ever seen because their plan is not working the way they thought it would.
00:24:11.000They still might, quote unquote, capture the White House in 2024.
00:24:14.000So I'm not trying to get your hopes up, but it's going to be deliciously hilarious the next five or six months because they thought this thing, this goose would be cooked by now.
00:24:21.000They thought Trump would be down in the polls.
00:24:23.000They thought Trump would be within like a five-point Republican primary, super competitive.
00:25:39.000And it was this thing where they thought at halftime, why are we even close?
00:25:44.000And there was almost this anger and this resentment and this bitterness that forced Michigan to not play their best game in the second half of this game.
00:25:51.000And you see this in sports all the time where you have this massive expectation that we're going to blow this team out by 40 points.
00:25:57.000And then the game becomes closer than you want.
00:26:14.000So we have these massive power centers that we have to continue to fight and fight and fight and fight.
00:26:19.000But this, if you were to take a temperature check, if you were to try to take a grade, if you were to try to get within the inner Democrat circles, their text messages, hey, how are things going?
00:26:28.000This is not going nearly as well as they thought it would.
00:26:32.000And you're going to see a Democrat panic attack on television.
00:26:35.000David Ignatius writing this is not exactly rolling hills and roses of the Democrat Party.
00:26:41.000This is not ideal to have one of the leading members of the Democrat intelligentsia come out and say, oh, by the way, you know, Joe Biden shouldn't run for the presidency.
00:27:36.000Said differently, the Democrats have tried to micromanage everything.
00:27:41.000And instead, they might have over-planned this thing.
00:27:46.000Instead, they've been focusing politics as way too much of a science and less as an art.
00:27:53.000Republicans, we are all art when it comes to politics.
00:27:56.000Rallies, messaging, vibes, attitudes, and like zero science.
00:28:02.000Democrats are all science and they become zero art.
00:28:05.000And it turns out it's really hard to centrally plan anything, let alone political systems.
00:28:12.000Very hard, especially in a country that's divided 50-50.
00:28:17.000They've tried to make it so they couldn't lose rather than they try to deserve to win.
00:28:22.000Imagine if they tried to have a good presidency, but they couldn't do that.
00:28:27.000And if we were to take an honest temperature check right now of Democrats grading Democrats, they are not happy where they're standing right now.
00:28:40.000Robert Reich, who is a quasi-socialist Marxist left-winger, third-party candidates will help Trump win, says Robert Reich, the party of democracy.
00:31:08.000Number four, they're all of a sudden looking around and Republicans are starting to get a little bit smarter about the early voting thing.
00:31:15.000They're seeing what Turning Point Action is doing.
00:31:16.000We're hiring up like crazy to do the early vote stuff.
00:31:19.000They're seeing a very focused, very focused media campaign on just a couple states because the mockingbird media is like, oh, no, no, focus on Pennsylvania.
00:31:27.000We're like, it's actually more about Maricopa, Pima, Pinal, Yabapai, Gwinnett, Cobb, Fulton, Dane, Kenosha, Milwaukee.
00:31:38.000And then, of course, the other thing that's really important is they did not expect this third-party thing, this third-party thing that is now popping up.
00:31:50.000And it wouldn't it just be poetically beautiful, just from the divine, that the party that brags about being the political movement of experts that try to centrally plan everything from the masks you wear in the car to the vaccines you take also can't actually plan the 2024 election.
00:32:27.000That does not mean we're going to win, but we are in a far healthier position right now on September 13, 2023, than anyone in the oligarchs thought.
00:32:37.000Ready, set match football was launched in early January this year.
00:32:41.000They thought, this is what they thought.
00:32:42.000They thought Trump would be in a five-point race with Ron DeSantis.
00:32:45.000They thought Trump would be demoralized and completely erratic because of the indictments.
00:32:49.000They thought Joe Biden would be up five to 10 points in all the polls.
00:32:52.000They thought Republicans would be focused on the primary, not focused on the general election.
00:32:56.000And they thought all these third-party candidates would just take the knee and basically come in to the machinery of the Democrat Party.
00:33:22.000You're living through, take a step back, everybody, you are living through an implosion of a 2024 centralized plan that is not going well for them.