Ep. 1528 - 198 Dems Vote To Allow Noncitizens To Vote
Summary
As their president looks increasingly cadaverous, the Democrats are turning to the millions of foreign nationals that they have imported into the country into an electoral force. They argue that requiring proof of citizenship to vote is a basic aspect of democratic government, but plenty of states, including my own state, already require proof of birth to vote.
Transcript
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Yesterday, 198 Democrats voted against requiring proof of citizenship to vote.
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Just five Democrats joined every Republican to support the most basic election integrity
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measure imaginable. And Joe Biden, or whoever is acting as president while Biden is incapacitated,
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has already formally opposed the measure. This is not even a novel measure. This is a basic
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aspect of democratic government. Plenty of states, including my own state, already require proof of
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citizenship to vote because every illegal vote nullifies the vote of an eligible voter.
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They don't throw a hissy fit in all of those states because they know that their position is absurd
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and because they've given up on places like Tennessee, good, solid, regular conservative
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places. So the libs are going to focus their effort to smuggle in illegal votes where it might actually
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matter, the federal government. And as their president looks increasingly cadaverous,
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their best if not only shot to hold on to power is to transform the millions of foreign nationals
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that they have imported into the country into an electoral force. Virtually every Democrat voted
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against the most basic election integrity measures because as it stands today, if only citizens vote,
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they will lose. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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mild Republican suggestion that maybe we should limit voting to actual American citizens.
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To me, it seems clear as day what the game is. They've imported tens of millions of illegal aliens
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in recent years. During the Biden administration, we've seen a record number of illegals come into
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the country. They're rolling out the red carpet for them. They're releasing them into the country.
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They're flying them into the center of the country, in some cases, into crucial areas. Why are they doing
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that? They're doing that to rig the elections. At the very least, they're doing that to increase
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the population in their own states because seats in the House of Representatives are apportioned not
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by the number of citizens in a state, but just by the number of people. So at the very least,
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they're getting an electoral advantage for that. But then in addition, they are signing these people
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up to vote in large numbers. So they argue out of one side of their mouth that it's very rare that
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illegal aliens vote. But then when push comes to shove, when the Republicans say, okay, cool,
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then let's pass a law saying that they can't vote. Let's actually give those laws some teeth,
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some ability to be enforced. The Democrats, other than five of them, every other Democrat in the
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House says, no, no way. And so how do they argue with a straight face? Well, one way they argue it is
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they say, no, no, no, the votes that this bill will suppress are not the votes of illegal aliens who
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don't vote anyway. It's going to be the votes of eligible voters who are minorities, who are of
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lower socioeconomic classes. This bill limiting the vote to citizens is tantamount to a poll tax.
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So says Democrat Congress lady, Jennifer McClellan.
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This bill is essentially a poll tax because I am not aware of a single proof of citizenship document
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that does not cost an individual money to get it unless we are requiring every state to provide
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one for free. And then it's an unfunded mandate. This is the 2024 version of the Jim Crow poll tax,
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and we should vote against it. This is a poll tax. If you want people
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to prove that they're citizens before they vote, well, then you gotta, you gotta pay for their proof
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of citizenship. Okay. Okay. Other than 16 states plus the District of Columbia, every other state
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requires you to be a legal citizen in order to get a driver's license. Or rather, I'll put that more
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specifically. You can't be an illegal alien and get a driver's license in the vast majority of states
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in America. So already there, you're looking pretty good. But beyond that, in those states,
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most people are going to have a driver's license or some form of ID. If you have a real ID, that's
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going to prove that, you know, you've got citizenship. Maybe you've got a passport or you've
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got a passport card or, but let's say, let's say you don't have any of that. Some people don't have
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those things. Or some people maybe live in the states where the driver's license doesn't show that
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you're actually a citizen. And okay, okay, fine. I looked up the cost of a birth certificate.
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Birth certificate here in my great state of Tennessee is $15. And, and $15, you know, $15,
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not, not going to break the bank, especially these days with Biden inflation. I think it's about $15
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per egg when you go to the grocery store, but still $15. Okay. Then I did a little bit of math
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and I said, all right, so far we've sent about what $107 billion to Ukraine. So 107 billion divided
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by 15 means that we could buy a birth certificate for almost every single person on the face of the
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earth for the amount of money that we've sent to Ukraine just in the last few years,
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just under this president. It seems worthwhile to me. I use Ukraine because a lot of people think
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that is frivolous spending on a frivolous war, but we spend money frivolously throughout the
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government. Democrats, to my knowledge, have never had a problem spending money on any single thing
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before, except for the most basic measure to ensure the integrity of our elections. I don't think it's
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unreasonable to ask citizens to pay for their own proof of citizenship. We ask them to get a driver's
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license or to go buy a pack of cigarettes. We ask them to go, we ask them to pony up a little bit
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for all sorts of basic aspects of our country. I don't think it's so crazy to ask them to prove
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that they're citizens and therefore eligible to vote. But if the Democrats insist, no, no,
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we've got to pay for it. Okay. You can pay for it for some people, by the way, it'd be a relatively
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small number of people. You could offer assistance in getting a birth certificate or a social security
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card. But even if you've got to pay for it for everyone, everyone in the country, everyone in
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the world, everyone in the world, which I guess Democrats want everyone in the world to vote in
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our elections, but you could buy these birth certificates for so many multiples of the people
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who live in America and it would cost you basically nothing. This isn't about the cost. This isn't about
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the onus of going and getting a birth certificate or a real ID or any of that. This is about Democrats
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taking the last little trick available to them. They haven't so far succeeded in imprisoning Trump.
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They haven't so far succeeded in rigging the election as it was rigged in 2020.
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They haven't so far succeeded in persuading the voters. Of course not. So, okay, well, we do have
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these tens of millions of illegal aliens that we've been importing over the years. We got motor voter
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laws that sign up people automatically to vote, even if they're not eligible to vote. We have
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these laws where when certain states say only citizens can vote, we have provisions that allow
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them to receive a federal ballot anyway, even if they acknowledge they can't vote in state elections.
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Let's just get the illegals to vote. Let's just get them to vote. The best shot they've got. Now,
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most Democrats are smart enough to straight face this and say, no, we don't want illegals to vote.
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This is about the fairness for the poor aggrieved minorities. Some Democrats say the quiet part
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out loud. Democrat representative Summer Lee came out and said in pretty clear language, no,
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she wants non-citizens to vote. It is under attack right now, right here with this very bill.
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Republicans want to throw up barriers because when people vote, they lose. Let me be clear.
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They don't want you to vote. They don't want to hear black voices, brown voices, LGBTQIA voices,
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young voices. Our fundamental access to our democracy is being politicized. And this xenophobic
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attack that we're debating today will make it harder for Americans to vote. My Republican colleagues
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will claim that requiring IDs is a small ask, but nearly 30 million people lack a valid driver's
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license. And about 15 to 18 million adults don't have access to documents proving their birth or
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citizenship. Americans don't need more obstacles. It's already hard enough.
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Okay. So you hear her argument is, look, the Republican voters are responsible and they do have
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proof of their citizenship and they keep their affairs in order. Our voters are extremely
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irresponsible. And even if we tell them that they won't get to vote, if they can't prove that they have
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the basic eligibility, they won't do it because they're irresponsible and not civic minded. And so
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she's admitting that implicitly, but she says, doesn't matter. We want them to vote anyway. So,
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so that's terrible. This will silence brown voices, black voices, LGBT voices. Okay. Well,
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all those people could be American citizens. So where in there does she say that she wants
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non-citizens to vote? One word, xenophobic. She said this xenophobic measure, and that gave away the
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whole game. That was the unwitting admission of what this is about. Xenophobic means an irrational
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fear of foreigners. Xeno from the Greek, xenos. She's saying the measure is xenophobic. It's,
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it's fearful of foreigners. It's opposed to foreigners. And it is opposed to, it's not irrational.
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It's a very rational fear that foreigners are voting in our election and influencing our election
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unduly and violating our basic laws. I'm old enough to remember 2016 when we were told that the worst
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imaginable crisis of democracy is when foreigners want to influence our elections. Remember Russia,
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Russia, Russia? Well, here we're seeing Russia, Russia, Russia on a scale that is orders of magnitude
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greater. The Russia, Russia, Russia story was that, that the Russian Federation spent a hundred or
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$200,000 buying Facebook ads to mess around with the political activism in 2016. Here, you're talking
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about 10 million, 15 million, who knows how many million foreigners potentially voting in the
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elections? And the Democrats are admitting it. By calling the bill xenophobic, they are admitting
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that the bill would restrict the vote to citizens away from foreigners. And they, they say, this is wrong.
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This is irrational. We want the foreigners to vote. I'm sure they do. Because when it's only Americans
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Now, there was a lot of bad stuff going on in Congress, the libs trying to destroy our electoral
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system. But then there was some good stuff going on yesterday too. House Judiciary Committee, Jim
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Jordan, held a hearing with GARM. GARM, the World Federation of Advertisers. What are these names?
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You might remember GARM because I started to blow the whistle on this thing about a year ago.
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The Global Alliance for Responsible Media. It's a lib project. It's affiliated with the World Economic
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Forum. It brings together the biggest advertisers in the world and gives them guidelines on who they
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can work with, which media outlets in particular that they can support. And it's a way to silence
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conservatives. There was a report that just came out. I mentioned it yesterday on the show.
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The House Judiciary Committee showed that these organizations, GARM and its various affiliates,
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NewsGuard, and all these other left-wing groups are intentionally diverting a lot of advertising
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dollars to left-wing news outlets. And they're cutting advertising dollars off. They're cutting reach
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off. They're encouraging social media companies to reduce the reach of right-wing media outlets. So
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you had wonderful performances from the Republican congressman yesterday.
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On the docket, you had a Unilever, a major corporation, and Group M. Group M is the world's
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largest media buying agency. And so some Republican congressmen asked a really simple question.
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Mr. Patel, did Unilever ever advertise on the Daily Wire? Have you guys ever advertised there?
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Not sure if we've ever advertised. I don't know the answer to that.
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Mr. Julian, the companies you represent ever advertise on the Daily Wire?
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Not that I know of. Not that I know of, but if they wanted to, we would happily do it.
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If they wanted to. But you don't know that any of them have. Yeah. Is it like a, I mean,
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I think, what did he just say? 50 million viewers over the past 90 days, what Mr. Nadler
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say at the front end. He said like 13 million followers that they have. I mean, there's a real
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audience there. What would you say your target group is? 18 to 48-year-old women, Mr. Patel?
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Yeah. Mr. Shapiro, you got any 18 to 48-year-old women who, of those 50 million people watching your
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stuff, or those 13 million followers, any of them 18 to 48-year-old women?
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Again, according to our latest statistics, about 65% of my listeners are between ages 18 and 44,
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and about a quarter of them are women. Yeah. So that's a pretty big number. I mean,
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you guys advertise, any of the companies you represent, Mr. Joel, advertise, let's say,
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Yes. Yes. So love Jim Jordan. The Daily Wire was, I guess, basically the chief subject of this
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of this hearing yesterday, because we are one of the biggest conservative media companies in the
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world. And big tech and big left-wing activism and big censorship and all of it are trying to
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destroy our company right now. And this has been building for a while. I did blow the whistle on
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this a little bit last year. So this is nothing new. But Jim Jordan and the House Judiciary Committee
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have done a great job of actually digging into this. And you hear the absurd answers.
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No, we haven't advertised on The Daily Wire. I mean, you know, if our companies wanted to,
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we would. Well, why not? Daily Wire has got this huge reach. Why is it that you're advertising on,
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like, Huffington Post? Are you kidding me? That's Huffington Post, The View, but you're not going
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to advertise on The Daily Wire. All I'm hearing are left-wing organizations, many of which have a much
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smaller reach than The Daily Wire. Why not? Do you advertise on any conservative outlets?
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What conservative sites are considered brand safe, according to your metrics?
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I don't have the full definition of what you would consider conservative versus progressive.
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Like I said, there's 600,000 different sites that are listed in those, and the vast majority
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They're public, so I would assume that you have access to that.
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So sites like John Stossel's website, that's a mandatory exclude PragerU, the Federalist Town
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Hall, Breitbart, Daily Caller, Newsmax, Washington Examiner, One America News, TuckerCarlson.com,
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I'm not sure which sites are and are not on there, but we're happy to get back to you.
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Well, I mean, I would assume that you didn't just wake up out of bed and pop up into a
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congressional hearing today, correct? You prepared for this?
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Did you, and this was not part of your preparation for a hearing today in front of this committee,
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to defend the actions of these entities and organizations? You never thought, your team
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never thought, to look at and examine what sites were considered okay and not?
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So you can't tell me today what sites, other than Fox News, what conservative sites are
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Okay. You see what's going on here? That is Christian Jewell, the global CEO of Group
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M, world's largest media buyer. And he's saying, look, we care about capitalism. We care about
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advertising in outlets that are brand safe. And so, yeah, we don't really advertise with any
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conservatives, but it's because they're not brand safe. So the left-wing news organizations that spread
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lies constantly, that defame people, that post all sorts of obscene content, they're really brand
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safe. We're going to divert all the advertising money to them. Advertising money is the lifeblood
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of media organizations. So we're going to prop up all those media organizations, especially in an
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election year. And we're going to just, we're going to cut off all the money to the conservative
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groups, except for Fox. No, yeah, we advertise with conservatives. We advertise with Fox. Okay.
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Anyone else other than Fox? What? I don't really know what a conservative outlet is. Well,
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hold on. You just knew what a conservative outlet was when you answered and you said you advertise
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with Fox. So Fox is the token because Fox is a cable network that was built in the 1990s.
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They felt they couldn't exclude it, I think, without it looking so absurd. But that's it.
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In this guy's own words, it's pretty much, yeah, it's a Fox they'll give some money to, but
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otherwise the conservatives are out. And so they argue, well, this is just the free market.
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This is, look, this is just, we just want to protect the brands. And we're just trying to
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maximize profits for shareholders of these corporations, right? This is the same
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bogus argument that places like McKinsey made when it comes to DEI. McKinsey, the consulting firm,
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had a big study. Oh, DEI is actually good for the bottom line of corporations. It's really good
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to not hire people based on their performance and their ability, but to hire people based on
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their sexual desires and the color of their skin and their sex and all the rest of it.
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And of course, that study is now widely understood to be totally bogus.
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And the same goes here. If this were just about the free market, well, okay, then the GARM wouldn't
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need to exist. Then the World Economic Forum wouldn't need to stick its nose into where advertisers
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are sending their money. The reason that these organizations have become so prominent is because
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social media gave Trump the presidency in 2016. That's really what a lot of this is about.
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It's because if you allowed the, and even encouraged advertisers to advertise on conservative
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sites where there are a lot of eyeballs, where there's that great demographic that buys a lot
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of products, where if you allowed conservative organizations to spread their message freely on
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social media, well, it would be really popular. It is really popular. The fact that the Daily Wire
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was the centerpiece of this hearing yesterday, even with all of this persecution coming from
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the NGOs and the government and big tech shows you this is a popular message. The fact that the Libs
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feel they have to throw Donald Trump in prison to stop him from being reelected in 2024 shows you
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this stuff is popular. They feel they can't win in the free marketplace of ideas or of money. And so
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just want to show you a great clip. Actually, mentions yours truly, your favorite podcast host.
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This is from Congressman Dan Bishop, who totally deflates this bogus lib defense that no, all of
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this rigging, all of this censorship, it's really just about the free market. It's really about just
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protecting companies on the bottom lines of these corporations. Because Congressman Bishop points out,
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if that were true, then presumably the World Federation of Advertisers would not involve itself
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in politics, would not involve itself in highly controversial political issues.
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You know, if it were genuine, I would sympathize with the objective of keeping famous brands out
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of controversy, that they stick to sports and entertainment. But the World Federation of
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Advertisers and their GARM that they've created, their members, they and their members continue to seek
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to involve themselves in highly controversial issues. Your colleague, Michael Knowles, in an article
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last year pointed out that InBev is a member of WFA. And the pretext for what we're talking about today
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is they want to keep their brands out of trouble, but they rolled out the Dylan Mulvaney campaign
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and destroyed the famous Bud Light brand. But they would tell us that the purpose of this
00:25:14.660
organization, all these global conglomerates are members of, is to keep their brands out of trouble.
00:25:20.440
Disney's a member of the WFA, according to Mr. Knowles' article.
00:25:23.640
Exactly. This is exactly right. This is how you show their whole defense is BS. They say,
00:25:29.900
no, no, no, look, we just, those conservatives, they get involved in controversial political issues.
00:25:34.340
We don't want to be involved in those controversial issues. But you do. You do.
00:25:40.060
Obviously, Transheiser Bush wants to be involved in controversial issues.
00:25:43.700
And an issue where the left-wing position is deeply unpopular. And when it's put up for a vote,
00:25:49.480
when it's made into a major campaign theme, the people roundly reject it.
00:25:52.900
They come out in defense of the absurd notion that a man can become a woman.
00:25:58.960
An ideology that tells us that we ought to sterilize children, mutilate little children.
00:26:03.220
Are you insane? But no, please, tell me more about how the corporations don't want to involve
00:26:07.820
themselves in controversial political issues like, I don't know, we should secure the border
00:26:13.120
and have sound economic policy. You know, all the crazy stuff that the right-wing media outlets
00:26:17.320
talk about. Total BS. Not only are these companies getting involved in politics,
00:26:22.900
they're getting involved in extremely controversial politics. They just want to choke off the ability
00:26:28.800
of conservatives to communicate and to hear pertinent information. Now, the highlight of the
00:26:38.400
entire hearing, and then we'll move on to the new Republican national platform, which is highly
00:26:45.380
controversial among Republicans. And we'll get into that in just a moment. First, though,
00:26:51.200
Ben was there, as you might have seen. And Ben was testifying alongside all these lib hacks.
00:26:58.100
And then some lib hacks in Congress wanted to take on Ben. So Eric Swalwell of Fang Fang fame
00:27:04.240
decided he wasn't going to ask Ben really anything about GARM or advertising from the Daily Wire.
00:27:15.900
And the country has, in the last couple of weeks, talked a lot about and Googled Project 2025. It's
00:27:23.220
one of the most Googled search terms right now. And you're not going to get any censorship from me.
00:27:29.360
So I just wanted to know, from your perspective, I think it would help us understand, on just like a
00:27:36.020
scale of zero to 100 percent, how much do you support Project 2025?
00:27:41.840
I think like President Trump, I haven't looked all that deeply at Project 2025. But it seems that
00:27:47.060
Democrats on this committee, sort of like Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, if they say Project 2025 enough,
00:27:52.520
their presidential candidate becomes alive again.
00:27:54.260
And so Swalwell goes on. He takes the licks. Poor, poor Swalwell just got absolutely destroyed by Ben
00:28:05.920
during destroy Shapiro destroys Fang Fang's boyfriend with facts and logic and snark. He goes on to ask
00:28:12.820
Ben about mass deportation, about the abortion pill, about the definition of marriage, about Ben's
00:28:20.100
sexual desires, his own sexual desires. And I'm not even going to waste our time on these questions
00:28:26.140
because what matters here is what Swalwell was not talking about. This was a hearing on how the
00:28:33.520
libs are trying to choke out conservative media outlets, how the libs are trying to censor conservatives,
00:28:40.300
how libs are weaponizing corporate America and international corporations even to bleed out
00:28:48.980
the conservative organizations and suppress their reach. And how big tech is complicit in that. And
00:28:54.620
that's what this hearing was about. And Swalwell didn't want to talk about it for one second.
00:28:59.920
These libs didn't want to talk about it for one second because they know we have got them dead to
00:29:04.500
rights on this. They have no defense of it whatsoever. It is obscene. And so they're going
00:29:09.340
to distract any way they can. No, let's, can we talk about abortion more, please? Uh, no.
00:29:15.160
What do you think about project 2025? It's the new January 6th. Project 2025 is officially the new
00:29:22.460
January 6th. And Ben says, uh, I don't know. Like, I don't really know much about it. It's at the
00:29:27.260
Heritage Foundation. I don't know. Well, oh, well, yeah, sure. But did you know that just the other
00:29:34.200
day, the Biden campaign, they love posting the highlights of my show. The Biden campaign said,
00:29:39.360
Trump operative explains how project 2025 is going to turn Trump into a dictator.
00:29:48.980
And I looked at, I looked at my clip, which was really an excellent clip. They pull out good
00:29:54.060
stuff from my show, but then I read the caption and I thought, well, I'm, I'm not a political
00:29:58.280
operative. I'm a podcast host and author and lecturer. I don't work for Donald Trump. I support
00:30:03.980
the guy, but I don't work for him. I, I didn't say that about project 2025. And now, and if I had,
00:30:10.580
that wouldn't be an accurate description of project 2025. But, but other than that,
00:30:13.980
spot on good job, Biden campaign. Maybe the Biden campaign has dementia too. I know the man does.
00:30:20.720
Maybe the campaign does too. They're, they're really hyper-focused on this. Why? Because they got
00:30:28.360
nothing on Trump because they got nothing on the daily wire because they got nothing because they got
00:30:33.760
nothing. So they have to distract with all of this. And this leads us into the RNC. RNC is next
00:30:40.520
week. Very excited. It's going to be, it's going to be a big convention, especially because we don't
00:30:44.580
really know who the Democrat nominee is every day. It seems that Joe Biden's grip on the party is
00:30:48.900
slipping and slipping. Trump got in trouble among some Republicans because he appears to have altered
00:30:54.460
the party platform. And this will be fought over, including through next week into, in Milwaukee.
00:31:01.620
But it would appear that the Republican national committee has removed language about desiring a
00:31:09.520
national ban on abortion and has removed language about marriage, obviously being the union of a man
00:31:14.800
and a woman, not, you know, three dudes and a billy goat or whatever the libs want it to be now.
00:31:18.560
It's just, it's just a natural institution. Uh, so the RNC has removed this kind of language. And
00:31:24.180
some people are really up in arms about this and you know, me, okay. I'm the D O double G. No,
00:31:30.700
I'm not. I'm Michael Knowles and I'm extremely pro-life, totally pro-life. I totally defend
00:31:38.320
marriage as it actually is. I don't think we can just change the definition of marriage. I don't
00:31:43.540
think men and women are, uh, indiscernible and, uh, immutable. And I think, you know, sex is real
00:31:51.040
and permanent and marriage is a union between a man and a woman, uh, for the purpose of the
00:31:56.480
procreation and, uh, education of children and also for the mutual support of the spouses. And so
00:32:01.140
I have as rock ribbed and consistent of you on these issues as anybody. And yet I'm not huffing
00:32:07.760
and puffing and screaming at Trump about this. Why? Because I think some of the consternation over the
00:32:16.520
party platform change comes from a misunderstanding of what a party platform is. A party platform exists
00:32:23.900
to help candidates get elected. That's what the party platform is for. The candidates are not there
00:32:30.940
for the party platform. The party platform is there to help the candidates. Trump is looking pretty good.
00:32:38.100
He, if you look at really any of the polls right now, he's destroying Biden with facts and logic and
00:32:44.420
votes. The areas where the Democrats really want to focus in are areas like abortion or the LGBT
00:32:52.640
LMNOP nonsense, you know, gay marriage or something. That's where they're honing in. Ben Shapiro goes to
00:32:59.020
Capitol Hill to testify about how the libs are trying to destroy the daily wire. The Democrat congressmen
00:33:03.740
only want to talk about the abortion pill and these highly controversial issues. So it seems
00:33:09.740
politically prudent if you're Trump to distance yourself from Project 2025. I think Project 2025 is
00:33:17.040
great. What I know of it, the people who are involved, the people leading it, the purpose of it,
00:33:22.280
which is to bring great personnel into the next administration, whoever's administration that is,
00:33:28.620
to recognize the personnel as policy. I think it's absolutely terrific. And I also think it's
00:33:34.980
probably wise of President Trump to rightly say that he's not directly involved in this and he
00:33:39.140
doesn't really know much about it. I want to see abortion totally eradicated from public life
00:33:47.480
entirely worldwide. It's just not defensible to murder innocent little babies. It's child sacrifice
00:33:55.360
and it's Moloch worship. And it's as wicked and evil a thing as imaginable. And it is the worst kind
00:34:00.920
of persecution against the most innocent people in the world. And it's just a complete denial of the
00:34:06.040
fundamental right from which all the other rights come. So I certainly think that. Also, I recognize
00:34:14.000
that in a post-Dobbs world, advocating for life is going to look a little bit different. In a world where
00:34:21.260
Roe v. Wade is the law of the land and no one thinks it's really going to change,
00:34:23.840
a party platform might help candidates by looking a certain way and calling for a national abortion
00:34:29.660
ban. After the Supreme Court says the issue goes back to the states, conservatives have been calling
00:34:34.320
for it to go to the states. It's not going to be decided at the federal level. Two or three years
00:34:39.020
after that, that controversial decision comes down, it's going to look a little different.
00:34:43.940
Same with marriage. I don't think you can change the definition of marriage. I think
00:34:46.980
gay marriage is a complete joke. It's absurd. And it's harmful to society in as much as it's
00:34:55.080
absurd. And it cuts at the fundamental political unit, which is the family. So it really cuts at
00:35:03.340
the very heart of our politics. And we could go on about why marriage matters ad nauseum.
00:35:09.560
Also, it's probably politically wise to take it out of the party platform because you're not really
00:35:16.420
going to win new people over to your side with that. And now, there's a fear here. The fear is,
00:35:23.040
well, what if Donald Trump gets elected and then starts pushing abortion? It's not just that he
00:35:29.620
wants to downplay the abortion issue in the election, but what if he's really pro-abortion or
00:35:33.340
something like that? Well, I don't think he is. He's the first president to speak at the March for
00:35:36.680
life, first sitting president to do that. And he's the guy who got the judges to overrule Roe v.
00:35:41.140
Wade after almost 50 years. So I guess I'm just willing to give the guy a little bit more grace
00:35:45.620
in his language, especially when he's saying, look, I just want to get elected, guys,
00:35:49.940
because we know what he's done. He's had a term as president already, and he's the most pro-life
00:35:55.040
president we've ever had. So forgive me for just giving him a little grace on this and thinking,
00:36:00.620
okay, past might be precedent. Same with the marriage thing. If I found out, you know,
00:36:05.240
President Trump secretly wanted to abolish marriage and, you know, start hosting orgies
00:36:11.620
or something, I don't know. I guess that would be, you know, that would give me pause. But I don't
00:36:15.760
think it's that. I think he's just a normal guy, and I don't think it's a top issue for him.
00:36:20.300
But I don't think he's going to move the country in a more radical direction on marriage. I think he
00:36:27.340
just wants to downplay, and he recognizes it's kind of a dead issue right now. So as a matter of
00:36:32.120
political prudence, what he's doing is probably smart. This will all be controverted, you know,
00:36:37.420
in Milwaukee. But it just seems to me people are taking cheap shots at Trump,
00:36:42.320
and they're missing the forest for the trees here. You know, it's not like we don't know who this guy
00:36:49.880
is. He's already been president. That's why this election and this convention and this nominating
00:36:55.940
process, that's why it's going to look different. None of us has seen this in our lifetimes.
00:37:00.160
You know, yesterday, as I've mentioned, Ben went down to Washington to expose GARM and that global
00:37:06.480
cartel trying to control what you see and hear in the media, exposing how corporate titans and their
00:37:12.120
elitist organizations weaponize advertising coffers to silence conservative voices such as ours. It's a
00:37:18.960
really nasty thing. That's why the Daily Wire exists. We don't sit back and complain. We take
00:37:26.440
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fight the left and build the future. My favorite comment yesterday is from Mark McLean 33, who says,
00:37:59.820
Corrine Jean-Pierre did her best Mitch Hedberg impression with her Biden's Dockster visit line.
00:38:04.200
I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too. Yes, that is exactly what she was doing.
00:38:10.000
The president has seen a neurologist three times and for a fourth time and a fifth time and a sixth
00:38:17.000
time and a 12th time and a 27th time and a 48th time. But he's also seen him three times. That's
00:38:23.520
true. That's exactly what she was doing. Speaking of this presidential race, George Clooney is calling
00:38:30.480
on Joe Biden to step down just weeks after hosting the biggest fundraising event in the history of the
00:38:37.000
Democrat Party. George Clooney raised $28 million for Joe Biden's re-election. And now he has an op-ed
00:38:45.420
in the New York Times. He says, I love Joe Biden as a senator, as a vice president, and as president.
00:38:51.200
I consider him a friend and I believe in him. But the Joe Biden that Clooney saw at this fundraiser,
00:38:58.400
quote, was not the Joe, big effing deal Joe Biden of 2010. He says he wasn't even the Joe Biden of
00:39:06.880
2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate. Okay, I'm sure he was. Why didn't George
00:39:16.500
Clooney write this op-ed June 16th or June 17th or June 18th or June 19th or 20th? No, he waited until
00:39:26.960
the June 27th presidential debate. And then he waited another week or more than that after the
00:39:34.000
debate when it looked like Joe was weak. George Clooney knew that Joe Biden was senile. Everyone
00:39:44.400
around Joe Biden knew that Joe Biden was senile. All the staffers and the fundraisers knew that Joe
00:39:49.440
Biden was senile. Everyone who has seen a clip of Joe Biden at any point in the last four years knew
00:39:54.460
that Joe Biden was senile. The DNC knew Joe Biden was senile. That's why they tried to cover for his
00:39:59.640
obvious cognitive decline by pretending that his childhood stutter came back 50 years after he got
00:40:07.180
into politics, 75 years after he had it. Everyone knew it. They don't care that he's senile. They don't
00:40:16.360
care that we've got a man in office who might not be up to the job. They just thought they could get
00:40:22.140
away with it. And they didn't get away with it because Donald Trump agreed to the terms of the
00:40:28.980
debate. Donald Trump called Joe Biden's bluff when Biden tried to boost his poll numbers by
00:40:33.560
challenging Trump to a debate. Had Biden's poll numbers been a little bit higher, there wouldn't
00:40:36.960
have been a debate. Joe Biden wouldn't have challenged Trump to one. He wouldn't have accepted
00:40:40.100
the challenge had Trump proposed one. Joe Biden had to do it. Trump called his bluff. Everyone saw it.
00:40:47.140
Now they're running scared like rats. And there's this little clip from Joe Manchin. I haven't really
00:40:53.940
heard anyone focusing on this. I played it earlier in the week when reporters asked Senator Manchin
00:40:59.740
from West Virginia, do you still support Biden? He said, well, we'll see more after this weekend.
00:41:05.320
There are reports coming out now that Chuck Schumer is starting to go weak. Schumer publicly
00:41:08.700
was supporting Biden. Now some rumors leaking in the gossip mill that Schumer is open to
00:41:16.700
replacing Biden on the ticket. I suspect Manchin is quite right. This weekend will be
00:41:21.500
pretty consequential. But the Democrat apparatus can't wait. They've got to set up as many
00:41:29.860
backstops as they can. And so I kid you not, NBC News runs this yesterday.
00:41:38.000
Russia aims to undermine Biden in November election, Intel officials say. They're playing the hits, baby.
00:41:46.200
This is like when you get a ticket to the Rolling Stones, you know, and you hope they don't play
00:41:51.040
their whatever their new album is that you don't care about the Rolling Stones new album. No, man,
00:41:54.540
you want them to play Satisfaction or something, you know, you want to play the hits. Well, the
00:41:58.980
Democrats are playing the hits. Oh, yikes. Okay, we can't get Trump on business fraud. Really,
00:42:06.180
that's not that's not hurting him in the polls. And we can't get him on a phone call to Georgia. And we
00:42:09.660
can't get him on having some boxes of documents in his house because Biden actually had it's looked
00:42:13.780
like even more documents in more houses. And okay, what do we we can't get him on some gossip
00:42:19.340
columnist in Bergdorf Goodman. We can't. Oh, I know he colluded with Russia. And what's our proof?
00:42:25.540
The Intel agencies, the Intel agencies, which we now know for a fact lied about that in 2016,
00:42:30.940
because the Russia hoax was cooked up between crooks at the Intel agencies and the Democrat
00:42:36.360
party in the Hillary Clinton campaign. And then then in 2020, when Biden was running and we had
00:42:43.700
proof of the Biden family's crimes on Hunter Biden's laptop, we had 51 Intel officials come
00:42:50.780
out and say, this is Russian disinformation. And now we know for a fact that government is admitting
00:42:55.600
that was a lie. But what else are they going to do? They can get illegal aliens to vote and they
00:43:02.360
can say the Intel agencies, the spooks in the government can say, actually, no, it's Russia
00:43:07.740
again. Russia only you'll notice this. This is an amazing fact of political science. Russia only
00:43:14.160
interferes in American elections when Republicans are doing better in the polls. When Democrats are doing
00:43:19.640
better in the polls, the Russians, they're good. They're focused. They're making their borscht.
00:43:24.400
They're having their shots of vodka and stacking the little dolls. They don't care about American
00:43:28.360
elections. But when Republicans start doing well, that's when they're interfering.
00:43:32.140
Ask yourself this question. You're Joe Biden. Who do you want to be president? Oh, you're Joe Biden.
00:43:36.960
You're Vladimir Putin. Wow, my brain just didn't function. I think I was Joe Biden in that
00:43:41.880
circumstance. You're Vladimir Putin. Who do you want to be president? Trump or Biden?
00:43:49.080
Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, blames Joe Biden for giving Russia the
00:43:53.520
opportunity to invade Ukraine. His words. There's one president in the last 20 plus years, 24 years
00:44:01.320
now, on whose watch Vladimir Putin has not invaded a country. That would be Donald Trump.
00:44:10.820
Obviously, Putin wants Biden to remain in office. Putin is getting everything he wants with Biden in
00:44:16.040
office. Russia aims to undermine Biden in November. No, I think dementia. You've got to take out the
00:44:23.180
R-U-S-S. You put in D-E-M-E-N-T. Dementia aims to undermine Biden in the November election.
00:44:31.620
They're playing the hits. And it's not working. There is a report out. This is going to be really
00:44:37.380
shocking. Young voters are flipping to the Republican Party. I've worked in and around
00:44:46.280
Republican politics since I was about 19 years old. I know for a long time, it said the young
00:44:51.680
voters, the youths are just about to flip to the right. It's any day now, and then it never happens.
00:44:58.840
Pew's National Public Opinion Reference Survey shows it might be happening.
00:45:02.220
The NPORS found that the Republicans are ahead on leaned party ID among 18 to 29-year-olds.
00:45:15.100
Biden was up 20 among this group in 2020. Now it's flipped. Leaned party ID, even among young
00:45:24.600
voters, goes to Republicans. This is the first time that NPORS has ever given
00:45:31.800
the GOP this party edge. Very significant, also because this isn't just some random push-poll.
00:45:40.020
This is Pew Research. This is a very reputable polling firm. This was published two days ago.
00:45:47.460
Now I have so much more to say. I want to talk about flipping. Letitia Wright,
00:45:52.780
who is a producer on this movie, Sound of Hope, that we're promoting. Letitia Wright was in that
00:45:59.560
absolutely unwatchable movie, Black Panther. Letitia Wright is now attacking her own movie
00:46:07.400
because we're helping to promote it. And we'll get a little bit more into the story tomorrow,
00:46:13.720
perhaps. It just shows you the left would rather harm us than help themselves.
00:46:23.240
The movie is about helping foster kids, kids in the foster care system. So the left would rather
00:46:30.640
harm conservatives, would rather disassociate from conservatives than help foster kids.
00:46:37.240
But even take the subject of the movie out of it. The libs hate us more than they like themselves.
00:46:43.060
They would rather burn the country to the ground, literally, if you look at the 2020
00:46:50.480
summer and election cycle, they would rather burn the country to the ground
00:46:55.160
than see us flourish in it and heaven forfend, govern it. You know, it's Theology Thursday,
00:47:04.120
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