Kamala Harris has chosen her running mate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, and it s a Jewish man named Tim Walz. What does that say about the direction of the Democratic Party? And what does it mean for the future of the country?
00:01:49.520It was a somewhat surprising move, as many did suspect, that she would do the practical thing and go for the swing state governor, which Minnesota is not, of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro.
00:05:45.920We have here Karen Atiyah of the Washington Post, who has been one of the nastiest commentators on the Israel-Hamas war.
00:05:58.040She was celebrating in the streets once Israel was attacked, long before they really began their retaliation campaign.
00:06:04.480She was one of the people who liked, this is what decolonization looks like, like within a day or two of the attack.
00:06:12.580Columnist for the Washington Post, she's thrilled about Governor Walz.
00:06:17.500She tweeted out, looking forward to Walz donkey-stomping Vance in a VP debate, Walz is full of persona, charisma, experience, and authenticity.
00:06:26.280Vance is a shape-shifting, woman-hating, weirdo sellout.
00:06:29.720He's going to tap out in 46 seconds like that weepy Italian boxer.
00:07:00.580I don't think picking Shapiro would have delivered Pennsylvania, but it potentially could have helped 10,000, 20,000, whatever, in a narrow race that could be decisive for the entire election.
00:07:10.360So that she didn't pick him, he's popular there.
00:07:33.500He was very defensive over this college op-ed he wrote 20 or 30 years ago saying the Palestinians are the problem and the reasons why we can't have peace.
00:07:40.260Which is obviously true, but that's considered oppo now in the Democratic Party.
00:07:45.320So instead she went with this guy who seems to me to be an MSNBC anchor's idea of what being folksy and having appeal to the middle of the country is.
00:08:00.440And another factor here with Shapiro may have been, he's quite good, and she may have felt there's a potential that he would outperform her, that people would comment on that he was, the fact that he's better at this.
00:08:11.560And she felt threatened by him, also might have been an element of it here.
00:08:15.060But clearly, you know, it's a left-wing choice.
00:08:17.300This isn't a moderate choice whatsoever.
00:08:19.200However, she's doubling down on the left.
00:08:22.260There's some support for that second theory, Rich, coming from Fox News' Jackie Henrich, tweeting out,
00:08:27.300Two sources confirm on background, the deciding factor in the VP choice was what Senator Fetterman of Pennsylvania said publicly.
00:08:34.060Concerns that Mr. Shapiro's own personal ambitions would cause him to upstage or override Harris.
00:08:40.300The video produced by the Philly mayor team solidified this sentiment on Friday.
00:08:46.800The implication being that Shapiro had something to do with that sort of pre-release, making it look like he was the choice.
00:08:53.340But Shapiro's team saying they had no idea that the mayor's office was doing that or releasing that.
00:08:59.920But the point is, you know, they're trying to say, OK, he was he was getting ahead of himself.
00:09:04.840Bacha, I read that and I think that's her people trying to say it's not the fact that he is an observant Jew.
00:09:11.540It's that he got too big for his britches.
00:09:14.060Yeah, I totally agree with you. And I think, you know, that you pointed out that Pelosi and Obama were behind walls,
00:09:21.200whereas actually President Biden was behind was backing Shapiro. Right.
00:09:25.860So, again, we see this big, you know, power exchange happening, the center of gravity in the party.
00:09:32.800And of course, that is the most important thing about Kamala Harris. Right.
00:09:36.200She is sort of, you know, Democratic factory settings. Right.
00:09:40.420She has no independent convictions of her own.
00:09:44.300She reflects where she thinks the center of gravity of the party is.
00:09:49.020And so looking ahead to this last week, I was saying I really hope she picks Shapiro because it will signal to Jewish American voters.
00:09:56.280Look, of course, there is this anti-Semitic campaign against Shapiro, but the leadership is not listening to that.
00:10:03.000The leadership would never fall for something this disgusting.
00:10:06.760The leadership knows that in order to win the presidency, we need to win Pennsylvania.
00:10:11.360And so we're going to go with the guy who has 61 percent approval in Pennsylvania.
00:10:14.660And instead, what did Kamala Harris do?
00:10:17.080She signaled to the country that the center of gravity of the Democratic Party right now is with the pro-Hamas protesters.
00:10:24.700And anybody who said anti-Semitism will not be tolerated is going to get the boot.
00:10:29.440And I think Jewish Americans are paying very close attention to that.
00:10:32.460The signal that was given to them is you need to tell your children now that you cannot be the vice president of the of the United States if you are a Jew.
00:10:41.220That cannot happen for you because the center of gravity of the party is on its knees begging to be recognized by anti-Semitic young people.
00:10:51.520Apparently, that was the message of this choice.
00:10:54.160Yeah, you can't if you're not if you want to run as a Democrat.
00:11:25.160They're all for inclusion when it's men and women's sports like this Karen Attia laughing at the pain of that Italian boxer.
00:11:31.680But when the inclusion looks like a man who happens to be Jewish, it's a.
00:11:35.980Yeah, and this this is not like this wouldn't have been a history making choice.
00:11:41.640Right. It's been done before, most recently with Joe Lieberman.
00:11:44.960So we've actually seen backsliding among Democrats and on the left where this would be actually a big deal.
00:11:51.400Having a Jewish running mate who's somewhat favorable to Israel, it's not like Shapiro's one of us.
00:11:57.120Right. He's just relatively moderate compared to the rest of the party.
00:12:00.360And the choice of waltz does show where the center of gravity of the party is.
00:12:05.680And it's not where Joe Biden is. Right.
00:12:07.940Joe Biden has, even though he's kowtowed to the left in all sorts of appalling ways, he is a preacher of another time and has certain instincts on being pro-Israel and favor of our allies, kind of patriotism that Kamala Harris does not have.
00:12:22.320She is a woke progressive. She had all those positions in 19 and 20 that she's now disavowed that Joe Biden never would have adopted or only adopted them under extreme pressure.
00:12:33.140She did it of her own free will because she thought that's where the party was going.
00:12:37.320And now now she's trying to moderate. But this choice just does not make sense on that level unless she's trying to pick someone to her left to show, well, I'm moderate compared to that guy.
00:12:48.460No, it's terrifying. I agree with you. Joe Biden wouldn't. I mean, God rest him.
00:12:52.320No, just kidding. He's not actually dead. Forgive me. Forgive me. A little joke, a little humor for you.
00:12:58.680But I do want to talk about Tim Walz because, my God, my very first story at Fox News, very young cub reporter, was Swift Boat Veterans for Truth coming after John Kerry and his misrepresentations about his military service.
00:13:14.320Tim Walz has a Swift Boat problem of his own.
00:13:17.180So if you look back at Alpha News, and this is a great news organization, we had them on when they did the documentary about the trial of Derek Chauvin and the smear job by so many against him.
00:13:26.780I'm not defending, you know, the tape. I'm just saying if you actually watch this documentary, you'll be horrified at what was done to Chauvin by the officials in charge in Minnesota.
00:13:35.060Anyway, Alpha News vetted Tim Walz hard back in 2018 when he was trying to elevate from congressman to governor, and he did it successfully.
00:13:44.400And here's the headline. Former National Guardsman, Colin, Tim Walz is misleading the public about his time in service.
00:13:52.940Walz often refers to his military service as he campaigns for governor.
00:13:55.960However, former members of the Minnesota National Guard are raising concerns over the discrepancies in his story, saying he's misleading the public about it.
00:14:03.020Tim Walz has embellished, this is a quote, and selectively omitted facts and circumstances of his military career for years, said Thomas Behrens, a retired command sergeant major for the Minnesota National Guard.
00:14:16.020Walz, 54, this is back in 18, joined the Army National Guard when he was 17, completing 20 years of service.
00:14:23.880And then in 2001, just days after 9-11, Walz reenlisted in the Minnesota Army National Guard.
00:14:29.880He then retired four years later in 2005, ostensibly to run for Congress.
00:14:36.200OK, so far, we're wondering what's wrong with any of this.
00:14:39.920Behrens says Walz did serve a long and honorable career, but it is his story surrounding his service post 9-11 that raises red flags.
00:14:49.660The discrepancies start with how long he reenlisted for.
00:14:53.380They say, OK, in 2006, as Walz was amid his first campaign for Congress, questions were raised about the timing of his retirement.
00:15:01.860You see, Walz's sudden retirement after learning that his unit would be deployed to Iraq is what is under scrutiny.
00:15:11.200He allegedly reenlisted for another six years, which would have taken him well past the time of being his his.
00:15:20.820They were trying to deploy him. He would have had to stay.
00:15:23.220He would have had to go and be deployed. And suddenly he got out of it a couple of years early.
00:15:27.720And what they say is that he quickly retired after learning that his unit, Southern Minnesota's 1-125 F.A. battalion would be sent to Iraq for Tim Walz to abandon his fellow soldiers and quit when they needed experience.
00:15:41.360Leadership most is disheartening and it dishonors those brave American men and women who did answer the nation's call and continue to serve, fight and unfortunately die in harm's way.
00:15:51.720Way. The governor or the then congressman came out and defended this report at the time, saying after completing my 20 years in 2001, I reenlisted to serve for an additional four.
00:16:04.240Right. Which would have taken him to 2005. And I retired the year before my battalion was deployed in order to run for Congress.
00:16:11.280Then alpha news goes on. However, official documents from the National Guard contradict that story.
00:16:17.480According to his report of separation of military service, Walz reenlisted for six years, six years, not four, as he claimed.
00:16:26.800And his service obligation was not complete until September 2007, which was after his unit was deployed and went.
00:16:35.760The allegation is that he got out of military service. He did not want to go to Iraq.
00:16:40.900And then he lied about the circumstances around it.
00:16:44.460Here is Tom Behrens, who I mentioned just a moment ago, speaking about this to alpha news.
00:16:51.720He abandoned us. You know, I mean, what the hell kind of leader does that?
00:16:54.980I mean, he just as soon as the shots were fired in Iraq, he turned and ran the other way and hung his hat up and quit.
00:17:04.040And if I say I'm not going to do it, I mean, what the hell kind of leadership is that?
00:17:07.160If a company would say that we're going to deploy to Iraq or somewhere and you're going to be gone for whatever amount of time and then a foreman just says, no, I'm not going.
00:17:18.220I mean, what does that say to the 500 people that are working that factory there?
00:17:21.480You know, when he was a congressman, you know, he bragged that he was he was a command sergeant, retired command sergeant major.
00:17:27.200I'm the highest ranking person ever in the in the house.
00:17:30.700And, you know, all this lie that he was telling the state of Minnesota came out after 2018, after this was exposed.
00:17:37.340And they said, well, he can say that he served as a command sergeant major, but he can't say he's a retired one because he's not.
00:17:45.620And he was saying that. And there was lots of public, you know, lots of cards coming in the mail, you know, for him to be elected.
00:17:52.060They said right on there he's a retired command sergeant major, just tooting his own horn,
00:17:55.960just hanging on the coattails of people that actually are command sergeant majors that went through all the process and put all the time in.
00:18:03.880It's stolen valor is really what it is.
00:18:06.220I don't know of anybody else that's done what he's done, but we call it the truth about Tim Walz.
00:18:13.240Rich, this is potentially bad, especially when you consider his he's going up in a debate and otherwise against a former Marine who did deploy.
00:18:25.300He's not trying to dodge who did go to Iraq.
00:18:29.040Yeah. So I have not looked at this personally myself yet.
00:19:59.720We're outside of Minnesota and there will be plenty of military families who will be determined to get to the bottom of whether Tim Walz might be in a position to send their sons to fight in combat
00:20:12.580when he was allegedly to chicken to do it himself.
00:20:16.000Yeah, you know, I reached out to a number of very close friends who are veterans when I was looking into this story because, you know, I'm bringing humility to this.
00:20:27.280I haven't served and Tim Walz did serve 24 years quite honorably right in the National Guard.
00:20:38.380And my friend said, this is really unacceptable.
00:20:41.280Both the lying about it, saying that he, you know, retired as a command sergeant major when he hadn't actually completed that service, but also abandoning his men.
00:20:51.140And, you know, again, as somebody who didn't serve, who didn't go to Iraq, who didn't deploy, you know, I don't know that I would have had the courage to do it.
00:20:59.680It's the covering up the fact that he did withdraw in order to avoid that deployment while his men were sent overseas to fight that fight.
00:21:12.580Misrepresenting that suggests that he does have a guilty conscience about it, that he does understand that there was something ignoble about that that voters don't want to see.
00:21:25.620He received a warning order to prepare to be mobilized, according to Alpha News, for active duty for a deployment to Iraq in early 2005.
00:21:35.740And on May 16th, 2005, he retired, leaving his battalion and its soldiers without a key leader as they prepared to go to war.
00:21:46.840He had no answers when he was served and asked about the papers confirming these allegations.
00:21:52.160And that's not going to hold, not not in this election.
00:21:56.040You know, it it's interesting to me, in part because, Rich, recently you had the Kamala Harris team attacking him as he won't be loyal to the country.
00:24:17.060If they can't smoke her out, at least if they can really punch through with the argument, what is she hiding?
00:24:23.000Is she really up for this if she can't go off script?
00:24:27.080I think that J.D. has a really, the campaign has come up with a really effective way to do that using J.D.
00:24:31.740You know, Bhatia, I'm thinking about the imagery, right?
00:24:34.920You've got, you know, a former Marine and he did deploy.
00:24:39.200Young guy, you know, Semperfe, you heard the whole thing.
00:24:42.700And on the other hand, you have Tim Waltz, who did serve for 20 years as a National Guardsman, but has this significant black mark at the end of it.
00:24:51.060And who's, you know, effectively running to be stand-in for Commander-in-Chief.
00:24:55.260And as we're seeing right now in real time, being in the VP role actually can foist you into that role, whether officially or unofficially, sooner than expected.
00:25:05.780Meanwhile, and the reason I think it's interesting in addition is because I mentioned in the intro, Tim Waltz changed the Minnesota flag to look almost exactly like the Somali flag.
00:25:16.260I mean, it's a dead ringer for the flag of Somalia.
00:25:19.600It's got the highest population of Somalis than any other state in America.
00:25:24.300And you look at Kamala Harris's website.
00:25:55.320They talk about America and their love of country at every turn.
00:25:59.200And so I do see this dividing pretty quickly into the pair that loves America and what it stands for and the pair that doesn't.
00:26:08.440Yeah, on the policy front, it really is amazing.
00:26:12.660Of course, which policies should she put on her website?
00:26:15.440The ones that she held a year ago or five years ago or 20 years ago or five minutes ago, right?
00:26:19.900She's such a flip flopper that it would be very hard to pin her down.
00:26:23.140The split screen is very, very significant here.
00:26:26.760You have Kamala Harris reportedly choosing the less charismatic, less challenging of the potential mates, whereas Donald Trump went for a man who is clearly going to be the standard bearer for the future of the MAGA movement.
00:26:42.660You have the Harris agenda, which amounts to basically a yossification campaign, right?
00:26:49.380A yoss queening, right, to the top with no actual policy.
00:26:53.360And then you have Donald Trump's record on the economic front that really made working class Americans feel like they had a shot at the American dream again.
00:27:03.220You have the Democrats caving to the elites in their party.
00:27:07.660You know, President Obama, George Clooney, Nancy Pelosi effectively choosing the next president on their ticket as opposed to the voters.
00:27:16.400And then you have Donald Trump again and again sidelining the elites in his party, whether it's Project 2025 or whether it's the donor class who picked Nikki Haley, right?
00:27:27.300There are really two visions for the future of America at stake here.
00:27:32.080One of them says, I'm going to be a perfect reflection of my voter base.
00:27:37.040I'm going to represent the multi-ethnic, multi-racial working class.
00:27:40.820And they're shot at the American dream.
00:27:42.980And the other side says, no, I'm going to reflect no policy.
00:27:46.820I'm simply going to be a reflection of, you know, elite energy, right?
00:29:17.780He signed an executive order that says the state can take your child away from you, away from you if you don't, quote, affirm their gender identity, meaning they say they're a girl when they're really a boy.
00:29:33.920And make sure they can get access to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, chopping off their healthy body parts.
00:29:43.140If your 13 or 14-year-old comes home and says, I want to be castrated, and you say no, Tim Waltz wants the state to take your kid away from you.
00:29:53.740So that's as radical as we have anywhere in the world on this issue, Rich.
00:30:02.080And to the 2019 point, Tim Waltz would have been totally comfortable in that primary, right?
00:30:07.680He wouldn't have had to change any of the positions he has now, right?
00:30:10.380Kamala became more left, and now she's telling she isn't anymore.
00:30:14.280Waltz is still with all those 2019 positions.
00:30:17.720And ultimately, you know, it's Kamala's positions that matter more, but the case you can make against her is that this reflects her values, this reflects where she really is.
00:30:26.680And the idea that the state is going to be weaponized against parents who want their disturbed or ill children who have gender dysphoria to be treated in a rational way where you try to wait it out and hope it's a phase that passes rather than introducing these radical measures that, you know, Western Europe, UK are now rejecting because there's no science behind them whatsoever.
00:30:51.420And we still have it in America and in the heartland.
00:31:26.240He really has that perfect back story.
00:31:28.220He's the one, George, remember, who labeled J.D. Vance and his Republican allies as, quote, weird, which gained a lot of steam with the Harris campaign.
00:31:35.960He has this folksy, personal, informal vibe that has really appealed to a lot of Democrats.
00:31:41.240And they believe that his rural back story, the fact that he was a former member of the NRA, as you say, he is this high school, former high school teacher.
00:31:49.200That this can help appeal to those independent swing state voters.
00:31:55.160Independent swing state voters, Batya.
00:31:57.620They're going to love him because he's folksy and was once a member of the NRA.
00:32:02.620The media thinks that because they don't care about policy, because they are rich and elites and don't have to worry about pocketbook issues or issues like, you know, what's going on with their kids in public schools because their kids are on private school.
00:32:22.000Right. Therefore, the only thing that matters is, does somebody give off a folksy vibe?
00:32:37.660Right. They only care about the story because they are not facing the kinds of struggles that average Americans are struggling with every single day.
00:32:47.060Now, Walls did do some things that are pretty good for working class Americans.
00:32:52.680You know, he established a standard for nursing homes.
00:32:58.380Very important for working class Americans.
00:33:00.020And he also required a certain level of transparency in warehousing, which is really important for Amazon workers.
00:33:07.120This is all stuff that really matters and stuff that, you know, Republicans really need to be paying attention to because that is the only threat that he actually represents.
00:33:15.300And honestly, it's clear that that is not what they are putting.
00:33:19.400That is not the basket they're putting their eggs in.
00:33:21.600Right. He's not being trotted out as somebody who's good for workers.
00:33:24.760He's not being trotted out at someone who can restore the American dream for the struggling working class.
00:33:30.220He's being trotted out as someone who can support, you know, the Yoss Queen-ification of Kamala Harris.
00:33:36.900And on that front, obviously, that split screen we've been talking about.
00:33:41.500I mean, how could he possibly compare to someone like J.D. Vance, one of the only people in the elites who cares about the forgotten American?
00:33:48.700He officially brings this race to a presidential contest in which the candidates will have not just one, but two candidates with a mugshot.
00:33:59.940We'll get into that, his role in the BLM riots and the over-the-top COVID reaction that he unleashed in Minnesota right after this.
00:34:09.940More with Bhatia and Rich right after this quick break.
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00:35:03.440People like J.D. Vance know nothing about small-town America.
00:35:06.780It's not about hate. It's not about collapsing in.
00:35:09.180The golden rule there is mind your own damn business.
00:35:12.080Their policies are what destroyed, rule America.
00:35:15.560This is the first ad that the Harris campaign has released in favor of the Minnesota governor, Tim Wallace, as her running mate.
00:35:34.840Back with me now, Bhatia Unger, Sargon, opinion editor at Newsweek and author of Second Class, and Rich Lowry, editor-in-chief of National Review.
00:35:56.940It's like his whole appeal is supposed to be that he's like a normie, that he's folksy, and now they're trying to, like, impose this, you know, brat campaign on top of that.
00:36:05.840It sort of, like, cancels out the very thing that they're supposed to be going for.
00:36:12.680It's not to say that he's never going to resonate, because I do think the far-left progressives are going to love this guy.
00:36:17.160And maybe normies will love him if the media does what we saw in that Stephanopoulos clip, Rich, which is just go along with couldn't be more normie, heartland.
00:36:25.480They're celebrating him and his backstory in a way they did to J.D. Vance when he wrote Hillbilly Elegy, but not this time around.
00:36:32.700And even in that clip, Kamala's team says, oh, he—Waltz says he knows nothing about small-town America.
00:36:51.420It's very—that clip is very weirdly defensive and focused on J.D. Vance, right?
00:36:57.180The election is not going to be won and lost in an argument over J.D., but it seems as though this pick is partly in response to J.D.
00:37:04.920And what the Democrats and the media, the mistake they're making, although the media will do everything they can to make it work, they love these kind of frost belt socialists.
00:37:13.740Because if you're from Minnesota, the chances are you actually are a nice guy, right?
00:37:18.820Paul Wellstone, late senator from Minnesota, as left as you can get.
00:37:23.420But everyone who is around him, right, left, and center, just love the guy.
00:37:26.700I've never been around Waltz, but maybe that's true of him as well.
00:37:29.040But that doesn't detract from the socialism.
00:37:52.920So it's incumbent on the Trump campaign to make the case.
00:37:56.320It means the guy at the top of the ticket needs to be more disciplined than he has been recently, obviously.
00:38:01.600And bring all this back to Kamala, right?
00:38:04.420If he lied about his military record and he gets nailed over that, ultimately it's not Tim Waltz that matters, right?
00:38:10.380You say, oh, that shows her poor judgment and her incompetence.
00:38:13.680The position—radical position on the trans stuff shows she really supports that stuff, whatever she says now, and bring it all back to her.
00:38:21.220But they're obviously operating in a difficult information environment.
00:38:24.760She hasn't had one bad news cycle since she ascended, in effect, to the nomination, and the media's intent on her not having any bad news cycles.
00:38:34.980You mentioned him with the—you know, a super nice guy, but a socialist.
00:38:38.960Here he is on that white dudes for Kamala Zoom call where he copped to that.
00:39:33.180And maybe that is one of the reasons why he was so empathetic toward the BLM protesters who ruined one of Minnesota's greatest, biggest cities, Minneapolis, post the death of George Floyd.
00:39:47.880When he sat for days and let it burn, notwithstanding urgent pleas from the mayor of Minneapolis, who was also a hot mess.
00:39:57.580But this, too, will come back to haunt him, Batya, because what happened in Minneapolis was dark.
00:40:03.200We actually do have some of the video queued up, just to bring people back to what was happening while Tim Waltz sat there, apparently musing about how wonderful socialism is.
00:41:27.660This is a guy who's proposed shipping more manufacturing jobs to China, who wants to make the American people more reliant on garbage energy instead of good American energy, and has proposed defunding the police just as Kamala Harris does.
00:41:42.740I think it's interesting, actually, they make an interesting tag team because, of course, Tim Waltz allowed rioters to burn down Minneapolis in the summer of 2020, and then the few who got caught, Kamala Harris, helped bail them out of jail.
00:41:54.080So it is more instructive for what it says about Kamala Harris, that she doesn't care about the border.
00:42:08.100This stuff looks like it's far left, right?
00:42:13.500The Green New Deal scam, as Trump calls it, the allowing of the burning down of working class neighborhoods, the ratification of children being taken away from parents because they want to amputate parts of their bodies.
00:42:36.580But the salient factor here is that it is class warfare on hardworking, normal Americans who just want to be left alone to live their lives.
00:42:49.800They just want enough money to support their families and raise their children in beautiful, nice communities.
00:42:55.980And this is what is taken away from them by these radical far left policies.
00:43:01.640Because, Megan, the truth is, is that being progressive is a class proposition.
00:43:08.540It is about having an elite university degree that then gives you somehow the right to lecture people who are struggling to make it and impose upon them laws that make them poorer, that make them less safe and make it impossible for them to raise children and retire in dignity.
00:43:30.440And that is really what this ticket represents.
00:43:32.440I mean, the BLM riots coming back up and his sitting there, Rich, is it's great fodder.
00:43:42.680I mean, to be honest, Trump was president when that happened, which could also come back to haunt.
00:43:50.940Yeah, but he's not the governor of the state.
00:43:53.860And the basic rule is you don't let your police stations get run over and burned to the ground, right?
00:43:58.420The very basic, everyone understands that he failed by that metric.
00:44:04.540His statements about this are the worst sort of progressive excuses for lawlessness, saying if we don't put diversity and inclusion at the center of what we do, this is what happens.
00:44:14.640No, this is what happens when people run out of control and they're not stopped by the authorities.
00:44:20.920And that was, by the way, another A-plus statement you played there from J.D. Vance.
00:44:24.580Again, it's not just that Waltz failed, linking it to the radicalism of Kamala Harris, who was, in effect, on the side of these rioters by supporting a bail fund that was getting them out of jail.
00:44:37.640That 2020 period was a time in our life when the left went crazy.
00:44:42.960And both Waltz and Kamala have a lot on their record from that period.
00:44:47.500Yes. Not only did she absolutely tweet out a link to the fund that was bailing out these protests, these rioters, these rioters, but she's on camera saying it's not going to stop. Watch.
00:44:58.220I know that there are protests still happening in major cities across the United States.
00:45:02.260I'm just not seeing the reporting on it that I had for the first few weeks.
00:45:06.320That's right. But they're not going to stop. They're not going to stop.
00:45:09.000And that's they're not. This is a movement.
00:45:11.100I'm telling you, they're not going to stop. And everyone beware, because they're not going to stop.
00:45:17.060It is going to they're not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they're not going to stop after Election Day.
00:45:22.580And that should be everyone should take note of that on both levels, that this isn't they're not going to let up and they should not.
00:45:30.020Rich, is anyone else getting a little nervous?
00:45:35.480Like, I know it's a good thing that she selected such a radical person because I think it probably increases the Trump that, you know, Trump's chances.
00:45:43.680But I'm getting a little scared at the thought of that pair in the White House.
00:45:49.220Yeah, it's the most left wing ticket that we've ever experienced.
00:45:52.220And she'd be the most left wing president we've ever had, I think, easily outpacing Barack Obama.
00:45:58.500And, you know, what she's doing there, it's kind of the Al Sharpton play for years and years whenever he wanted something, wasn't getting a political agenda.
00:46:06.260It was going to be a long, hot summer.
00:46:07.820But it's like, watch out. Riots are coming. Right.
00:46:09.760It's a way to use riots as as as as a threat.
00:46:12.860And that's basically what she was doing.
00:46:14.880And it's not just that, you know, that many parts of Minneapolis burned down in those several nights of disorder.
00:46:21.200There was elevated crime and gunplay and murder, maybe still to this day.
00:46:26.580I haven't looked at the exact figures, but for a long time.
00:46:29.920And to Bachi's point, ordinary, hardworking minority, largely folks lived in those neighborhoods.
00:46:37.320And they're the ones who paid the price.
00:46:40.440So this this these progressive shibboleths and an inability to insist on what we want from our authorities, above all safety and order for them most.
00:46:52.760And that's among among the reasons that is so shameful.
00:46:56.920He also loved the covid lockdowns, Bhatia.
00:47:27.680And except Josh Shapiro, who was very good on covid and opposed the vaccine mandates at a time when every other Democrat was pushing them at a time now when everybody knows they were a mistake.
00:47:44.660I mean, how are you feeling about it, Bhatia?
00:47:46.260Yeah. I think that this is going to be a big galvanizing moment for the American Jewish community.
00:47:52.900I mean, how can you keep voting for a party that's telling your kids that they can't be at the top of the ticket because they are proud Jews?
00:48:01.880And the funny thing is, is liberal American Jews would never tolerate this for another minority.
00:48:06.040And I'm hoping that this is a moment when they wake up and find a little self-respect and a little dignity and walk away from this this mess.
00:48:12.940Hope springs eternal. But I'm going to go ahead and say, don't bet on it.
00:48:23.020I'll give you the last word on it, because I feel like we've got the rest of August to get through.
00:48:26.460And then this thing's really going to kick off in earnest.
00:48:28.240I mean, it's going to get very fierce in September.
00:48:30.360She's going to be ahead after the convention in two weeks, you know, maybe two, three, who knows, you know, four or five points.
00:48:37.720And we'll have to see where it settles, settles down.
00:48:39.640And then you've got more of a UK type general election, just a two month sprint.
00:48:44.680So, again, Trump has not had a great five or seven days or so, but he's in the past gone through these phases where he seems kind of wrong footed and like he's experimenting and nothing's working, he's hurting himself.
00:48:57.580Then he usually settles on on some stuff that works.
00:49:00.240It just doesn't seem complicated here. Right.
00:49:02.240She's trying to run a future versus past campaign.
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