Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, Matt Walsh, and the God King, Jeremy Boring, discuss the assassination attempt on President Trump, Joe Biden's dropping out of the 2020 Democratic primary race and the World Premiere of our first theatrical trailer.
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00:01:24.360I'm Jeremy Boring, joined by Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, Matt Walsh, and tuning in remotely because we allowed him to go on vacation for the first time in nine years, Ben Shapiro.
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00:03:08.540I mean, this is like Civil War levels of, well, maybe not Civil War levels of insanity, but I don't know if since the Civil War, this kind of insanity around an election-
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00:05:06.300She was charming in a all of Hillary's worst behaviors and laughs, but with none of her accomplishments kind of way.
00:05:13.980And we had Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee at that time of the party.
00:05:19.920And everything seemed like it was just a normal crazy election in the era of Trump.
00:05:23.400Since then, they literally put a bullet through Donald Trump.
00:05:27.220And the president of the United States lost the debate so badly that he decided he could no longer be his party's nominee for president.
00:05:35.840And he resigned by a letter, which he obviously did not personally sign, which was released on a platform that he says is the home of misinformation and disinformation.
00:05:47.540And she'd be boycotted by all the advertisers.
00:05:50.140And then we just didn't see him for days and days and days.
00:05:52.720We finally did see him today get out of a car, shuffle past the press, mumble.
00:06:01.060And then I have to say, he took the big boy stairs up to Air Force One, which the last time we saw him, they were loading him in the belly through the short stairs.
00:06:08.880So, he's apparently doing a little bit better.
00:06:10.580And we're supposed to hear from him in an Oval Office address tomorrow.
00:06:13.880So, but truly like the craziest 14 days in American politics.
00:06:45.740It doesn't mean that Donald Trump doesn't have the advantage.
00:06:47.480Donald Trump obviously does have the advantage at this point in time.
00:06:50.600If you look at the polling data, he's running somewhere between one and two points in the national polling ahead of Kamala Harris.
00:06:55.820With all of that said, obviously he's no longer running against a dead person and pretty much everybody had been expending their mental energy on the fact that Joe Biden is senile and incapable of holding his office.
00:07:05.460Now Kamala Harris is in there and this race looks kind of like the dynamic that the race had before that first debate, before Joe Biden completely fell apart.
00:07:12.760Which means that Donald Trump has an advantage, but it's less of a massive advantage than sort of a slight advantage.
00:07:18.040And you're going to see the most irritating media coverage you've ever seen over the course of the next three and a half months trying to whip everybody into a frenzy over the least charming candidate since ever.
00:07:26.660I mean, she's way less charming than Hillary Clinton.
00:07:28.800She's way less interesting than Hillary Clinton.
00:07:30.720She's way more annoying than Hillary Clinton.
00:07:44.800So, you know, do I think that she's capable of winning?
00:07:47.700Isn't anybody who's on the ticket is capable of winning?
00:07:49.880Do I think that she's going to win in the current situation?
00:07:52.460I think that it's she certainly has an uphill road.
00:07:54.960But the fact that the Democrats had to pull her last minute demonstrates just how desperate they were and just how powerful Trump's campaign has been so far.
00:08:18.140It also shows you the fact that they would pull the fact that they would pull Biden at the last minute and throw Harrison shows you not only how desperate they were, but how they will do whatever it takes.
00:08:31.580They will, in 2020, they will advocate locking the country down and change all the election rules if they think it's going to help them.
00:08:38.500They will toss this man, this man who has given the majority of his life to this party, who has always been a yes man, a company man, total empty suit, changes his views based on what they want him to do.
00:09:25.360That she is an amazing political tactician, he says.
00:09:28.380And here she is, and she has, in fact, found herself in a position, never having received a single popular vote in a Democratic primary, she finds herself, her party's nominee to be president.
00:09:38.840And as we learned in 2016, if you are the nominee, you can win.
00:10:05.160You know, it's, they basically got to the last inning of the game, realized that their opponent was far, far ahead, and then they just called a complete reset, fundamentally changed the rules of the game, fundamentally changed the competition.
00:10:17.060But that is the reality that now is before us.
00:10:19.360And Trump is going to have to, and not just Trump, everyone who wants Trump to be the next president is going to have to actually do the work to get him elected.
00:10:28.380And we can't, we can't underestimate, I think sometimes we underestimate, we don't want to underestimate the threat Kamala Harris poses.
00:10:35.460But we also want to underestimate the ability of the corporate media to set a narrative.
00:10:40.340And sometimes we like to, we like to wish cast and tell ourselves that corporate media is irrelevant, but they're not.
00:10:46.360And the corporate media, we saw what happened when they, along with the donor class and the Democrat elites, decided they want to get rid of a sitting president.
00:10:56.340So if they set out right now and they decide that, you know what, Kamala Harris is a transformational candidate, she's a once-in-a-generation political figure, she's going to be the first female president, she's all these things.
00:11:09.800None of that is, well, first female president is true, but the rest of it isn't.
00:11:12.680But if they decide they want to convince the public of that, then they have a real ability to do that for a lot of people.
00:11:18.940And I think also the, you know, the emotional blackmail tactic is, is, has proven pretty powerful.
00:11:26.880And so, you know, the, one of the messages to the American public will be, you know, this is, we had a chance at a female president in 2016 and you bigots didn't let it happen.
00:11:48.940I have to say, though, that first, there's one thing that we should actually admit up front.
00:11:54.020From the moment that bullet missed Donald Trump, from the moment he was all right, this has been the most entertaining couple of days in politics that I have ever seen.
00:12:02.460If you love politics, and it's added to by the Democrats' soulless coup of this guy, engineered, obviously, behind the scenes by Barack Obama with a fine Italian hand.
00:12:12.660And it's so much more entertaining than even Trump, because Trump fires you on a jumbotron.
00:12:17.080You know, you're in Yankee Stadium, it's like Rex Tillis and you're fired.
00:12:20.220You know, kiss the girl next to you, you're out of here.
00:12:22.040But Obama has that Chicago way of getting rid of you, which is just entertaining.
00:12:28.420That Chicago way of making sure that Jews still win, even though no one has voted for you.
00:12:32.140Yeah, I have to say, though, that Kamala does have some strengths that actually are strengths.
00:12:37.860She hates Jews, and she kills babies, and she bails out rioters.
00:12:43.660And those are things that the Democrat base not only likes, but they will make it less likely that the Democrat convention is overrun by pro-Hamas Nazi protesters.
00:13:43.820I think a lot of the enthusiasm you're seeing right now is about Biden getting out, not about Kamala Harris.
00:13:47.700So that means it's sort of an airsats enthusiasm.
00:13:49.700It's the kind of enthusiasm that you are forced to feel with a gun to your head every time Beyonce brings out an album.
00:13:54.920It doesn't mean the album's good, but it doesn't mean that you have to pretend that you're enthusiastic about it for the next five to ten minutes.
00:14:00.400And then, you know, you forget it ever happened.
00:14:02.420I think there's some of that going on with Kamala Harris right now.
00:14:04.900I think there's something else that has happened in the interim that has changed the race pretty significantly.
00:14:08.900And that is a permission structure was created by Joe Biden so that people could actually say the thing out loud that they haven't been able to say for nearly a decade, which is, I will vote for Donald Trump.
00:14:19.000There's been a major obstacle for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 was the social censure that has hatched to even the statement that you would vote for Donald Trump.
00:14:26.840And now you're seeing very prominent figures like an Elon Musk say that they'll vote for Trump, like a Mark Zuckerberg say nice things about Trump.
00:14:33.940The opening that Joe Biden created by staying in the race and by so clearly being out of his mind, by so clearly being senile, allowed many people to say the thing.
00:14:43.240And once they've said the thing, it's a little easier to say the thing again and it's harder to unsay the thing.
00:14:47.800Once Donald Trump becomes a serious candidate in your mind, well, then he's a serious candidate in your mind.
00:14:52.860And Kamala Harris coming in isn't going to reshift that.
00:14:54.780And so you've seen some of the lines that she's retailed over the course of, say, the last couple of days.
00:14:59.420And these lines are very weak. She started with the Project 2025 stuff. That ain't going nowhere.
00:15:03.760She started with the I'm going to prosecute the case against Donald Trump.
00:15:06.020I mean, you're going to do it. I mean, the DOJ is literally doing it in two separate jurisdictions.
00:15:10.940And you have Fannie Willis doing it in Georgia and you have New York doing like you're going to be the you're right.
00:15:15.940We've never heard a case against Donald Trump. We need you, the world's worst prosecutor, to come in and prosecute Donald Trump.
00:15:21.320And now she's doing the we're not going to the past. We're going to the future nonsense, which I mean, I just I have to break it to her.
00:15:28.220We're all going to the future. We have no choice.
00:15:31.080There's no way to get back to the past.
00:15:33.520I just hope that they don't find out that Donald Trump ever had a misdemeanor marijuana possession conviction, because if he did.
00:15:43.060Yeah, can I say black, it's fine. She'll never come after him. He's white. He's cool.
00:15:46.480Two things to what Ben said. First of all, Kamala Harris has never won an election, a campaign that she had to run by herself because she's not competent enough.
00:15:57.640But she's not Kamala Harris isn't running for president. She's not by herself.
00:16:01.300She's running along with the corporate media, with the donors, with the dem elites lining up behind her.
00:16:06.760She's never had that before. And when you have that, it just does change the game pretty considerably.
00:16:11.040And the second point is, I think that just just to take the pessimistic view on on outflank Ben on pessimism.
00:16:18.400I think that the line about that she had at the when she was giving a speech to the campaign workers about, you know, I was a prosecutor and I went after abusers and I went after scam artists.
00:16:29.620And I know these I know guys like Donald Trump. Yeah, the Donald Trump part of that isn't very compelling.
00:16:35.040We've heard it a million times. But if and I don't know if this is the case,
00:16:38.800but if that is an indication that she is actually going to try to run as the tough as nails prosecutor who's gone out there and found the bad guys and put them in jail,
00:16:49.180if she's going to run as that Kamala Harris, which is mostly a fantasy, but if she's going to run as that rather than the Kamala Harris that bailed rioters out of prison,
00:16:58.240that could be a problem for the Republicans. And the reason why it's a problem for Republicans is that I'm not confident that Republicans aren't dumb enough to respond to that by trying to outflank Kamala to the left on the crime issue.
00:17:13.680We've already seen some of this about how Kamala Harris, she put she put, you know, young black men in prison and that sort of thing.
00:17:21.640We're seeing that from Republicans. And so the real risk here is that Republicans give up the crime issue, which is so easy.
00:17:27.980Yeah. Such a winner that they give it up because they think it's a they think it's a vulnerability.
00:17:32.680She is really vulnerable. I'm actually on Ben's side about this.
00:17:35.280I think that I would rather see Trump run against Biden because Biden has passed away.
00:17:39.240But but I think so. This is a little it's worse than that.
00:17:42.120This is not they're not as bad. But but she's got the she's the borders are.
00:17:47.080Remember the borders are she's never been to the border.
00:17:48.960And she's never been to Europe. And and she was part of the conspiracy of lies that I think has undermined the media in a big way.
00:17:59.020She came out and said, I saw Joe Biden every day. He was great.
00:18:02.700He was nobody was sharper. He was so sharp.
00:18:05.060She was lying to the people. And there are Democrats still.
00:18:08.200Look, a lot of people are going to turn out as they did in the last election to vote against Donald Trump.
00:18:13.020There's no question about that. They always do.
00:18:14.860But still, she has been really deceptive, openly dishonest in a way that we all have the receipts.
00:18:22.540We all can see what she did. And that just to me undermines her in a very deep way.
00:18:27.240Plus, Biden is a failed president. I also is his policies have failed.
00:18:31.800I feel good about the polls. I share your concern, Matt, because right now Republicans could hit Kamala in two different ways.
00:18:39.640We have we have all the clips. The one is where she's making fun of the people who say we need to build more schools, not more jails.
00:18:45.000That's prosecutor tough on crime Kamala. That's the one that some Republicans in a misguided way are focusing on.
00:18:50.360But there's also Kamala talking to Stephen Colbert in 2020 saying the BLM riots are going to continue and they should continue.
00:18:56.580There's the Kamala who bails the rioters out of prison directly.
00:19:00.080So obviously, that's the one to focus on.
00:19:01.760That's the one to set the narrative that that is the Kamala.
00:19:03.500That's the real Kamala. Yes. But if you look right now.
00:19:06.040I mean, also, sorry, go ahead. You have to look at the state by state here.
00:19:10.480So I was going to say, look at the state by state.
00:19:11.880So one of the things that they've been doing with the political analysis is saying that the map for Joe Biden was basically win the blue wall states or he or he's done right.
00:19:18.580He's going to lose Georgia, Arizona. He was going to lose Nevada.
00:19:21.180And they're saying that, well, maybe for Kamala Harris, the idea is that she can lose some of those blue wall states and she can win back, say, Georgia or Arizona or Nevada.
00:19:28.900I don't think that's going to happen. I really don't.
00:19:31.000I think that the gains that she is going to make with black voters are going to be lost with rural white voters, because those are voters that Biden was doing better with than she was doing.
00:19:40.400So they've been saying, well, she's going to shift her strategy to the Sunbelt.
00:19:42.820She's not going to win Georgia. Stacey Abrams couldn't win Georgia.
00:19:45.400Why would Kamala Harris be able to win Georgia?
00:19:47.400She's not going to win Arizona. Kamala Harris is not wildly popular with Hispanics.
00:19:50.660There's a poll that came out that shows that she's running dead even with Donald Trump among Hispanics.
00:19:54.700Gretchen Whitmer already, I think, gave away the game.
00:19:56.980She was asked the other day whether she would take the VP slot on Kamala's ticket, and she said she would not.
00:20:02.440And when you're a VP candidate, it's possible VP candidates.
00:20:04.720I mean, again, politicians are the most ambitious people in the world, like on planet Earth.
00:20:09.120And becoming VP is obviously a launch point for the presidency, and that's true on both sides of the aisle.
00:20:13.940The gaming in order to become VP is so unbelievably strong.
00:20:17.480So when Gretchen Whitmer, who is the current governor of Michigan, when she is asked, would you take the VP slot from Kamala Harris?
00:20:23.720And she says no. I think everybody should take a minute and just wonder why that is.
00:21:59.680I think, first of all, you know, I don't think the fact that this was a coup and nobody voted for her is a big talking point.
00:22:05.080But I think it's somewhat of a talking point.
00:22:06.940Do you know why, Drew? Do you know why, actually, I have a little secret information as to how they got Biden out of the race.
00:22:14.440And the way they did it was they gave him a beautiful, cushy Helix mattress, and he never wanted to get up again.
00:22:21.980Folks, I've got to tell you about my Helix.
00:22:23.980I love it. I've had my Helix for years.
00:22:26.880And it's not just a mattress. It is a weapon in the culture war.
00:22:30.860How, you ask? Well, while the radical libs are tossing and turning, unable to sleep because they're worried about misgendering their houseplants,
00:22:40.860I'm getting the best sleep of my life.
00:22:42.560Even more important, I believe in Helix so much, I gave my little boy, right when he moved out of his crib, I gave him a Helix mattress.
00:22:48.680And he is energetic and virile as ever.
00:30:18.400And I think that's kind of the answer to your question, is that that should be the response.
00:30:21.160If she wants to go to abortion, then you go right to, okay, well, so you think it's okay for Planned Parenthood to sell the body parts of babies.
00:30:29.480And you prosecuted someone who exposed that.
00:30:33.260I mean, I'd like to see her, I don't think she's ever had to defend that specific case one time.