The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1528 - 198 Dems Vote To Allow Noncitizens To Vote

00:00:00.000 Yesterday, 198 Democrats voted against requiring proof of citizenship to vote.

00:00:07.360 Just five Democrats joined every Republican to support the most basic election integrity

00:00:14.800 measure imaginable. And Joe Biden, or whoever is acting as president while Biden is incapacitated,

00:00:20.820 has already formally opposed the measure. This is not even a novel measure. This is a basic

00:00:29.280 aspect of democratic government. Plenty of states, including my own state, already require proof of

00:00:35.500 citizenship to vote because every illegal vote nullifies the vote of an eligible voter.

00:00:43.020 They don't throw a hissy fit in all of those states because they know that their position is absurd

00:00:47.900 and because they've given up on places like Tennessee, good, solid, regular conservative

00:00:52.500 places. So the libs are going to focus their effort to smuggle in illegal votes where it might actually 1.00

00:00:58.780 matter, the federal government. And as their president looks increasingly cadaverous,

00:01:05.240 their best if not only shot to hold on to power is to transform the millions of foreign nationals

00:01:10.880 that they have imported into the country into an electoral force. Virtually every Democrat voted

00:01:18.200 against the most basic election integrity measures because as it stands today, if only citizens vote,

00:01:24.440 they will lose. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:35.400 mild Republican suggestion that maybe we should limit voting to actual American citizens.

00:03:42.620 To me, it seems clear as day what the game is. They've imported tens of millions of illegal aliens 1.00

00:03:49.140 in recent years. During the Biden administration, we've seen a record number of illegals come into

00:03:52.600 the country. They're rolling out the red carpet for them. They're releasing them into the country. 0.99

00:03:56.700 They're flying them into the center of the country, in some cases, into crucial areas. Why are they doing

00:04:01.440 that? They're doing that to rig the elections. At the very least, they're doing that to increase

00:04:06.560 the population in their own states because seats in the House of Representatives are apportioned not

00:04:13.340 by the number of citizens in a state, but just by the number of people. So at the very least,

00:04:17.740 they're getting an electoral advantage for that. But then in addition, they are signing these people

00:04:23.600 up to vote in large numbers. So they argue out of one side of their mouth that it's very rare that

00:04:29.800 illegal aliens vote. But then when push comes to shove, when the Republicans say, okay, cool,

00:04:34.480 then let's pass a law saying that they can't vote. Let's actually give those laws some teeth,

00:04:40.140 some ability to be enforced. The Democrats, other than five of them, every other Democrat in the

00:04:45.420 House says, no, no way. And so how do they argue with a straight face? Well, one way they argue it is

00:04:51.200 they say, no, no, no, the votes that this bill will suppress are not the votes of illegal aliens who

00:04:56.540 don't vote anyway. It's going to be the votes of eligible voters who are minorities, who are of

00:05:03.680 lower socioeconomic classes. This bill limiting the vote to citizens is tantamount to a poll tax.

00:05:10.500 So says Democrat Congress lady, Jennifer McClellan. 1.00

00:05:15.220 This bill is essentially a poll tax because I am not aware of a single proof of citizenship document

00:05:21.940 that does not cost an individual money to get it unless we are requiring every state to provide

00:05:27.460 one for free. And then it's an unfunded mandate. This is the 2024 version of the Jim Crow poll tax, 0.65

00:05:35.440 and we should vote against it. This is a poll tax. If you want people 0.99

00:05:38.760 to prove that they're citizens before they vote, well, then you gotta, you gotta pay for their proof

00:05:45.520 of citizenship. Okay. Okay. Other than 16 states plus the District of Columbia, every other state

00:05:55.460 requires you to be a legal citizen in order to get a driver's license. Or rather, I'll put that more

00:06:05.060 specifically. You can't be an illegal alien and get a driver's license in the vast majority of states

00:06:10.880 in America. So already there, you're looking pretty good. But beyond that, in those states,

00:06:20.140 most people are going to have a driver's license or some form of ID. If you have a real ID, that's

00:06:23.560 going to prove that, you know, you've got citizenship. Maybe you've got a passport or you've

00:06:26.920 got a passport card or, but let's say, let's say you don't have any of that. Some people don't have

00:06:31.880 those things. Or some people maybe live in the states where the driver's license doesn't show that

00:06:35.860 you're actually a citizen. And okay, okay, fine. I looked up the cost of a birth certificate.

00:06:42.100 Birth certificate here in my great state of Tennessee is $15. And, and $15, you know, $15,

00:06:50.220 not, not going to break the bank, especially these days with Biden inflation. I think it's about $15

00:06:54.060 per egg when you go to the grocery store, but still $15. Okay. Then I did a little bit of math

00:06:58.860 and I said, all right, so far we've sent about what $107 billion to Ukraine. So 107 billion divided

00:07:06.860 by 15 means that we could buy a birth certificate for almost every single person on the face of the

00:07:15.960 earth for the amount of money that we've sent to Ukraine just in the last few years,

00:07:20.860 just under this president. It seems worthwhile to me. I use Ukraine because a lot of people think

00:07:28.620 that is frivolous spending on a frivolous war, but we spend money frivolously throughout the

00:07:33.160 government. Democrats, to my knowledge, have never had a problem spending money on any single thing

00:07:39.040 before, except for the most basic measure to ensure the integrity of our elections. I don't think it's

00:07:45.640 unreasonable to ask citizens to pay for their own proof of citizenship. We ask them to get a driver's

00:07:54.060 license or to go buy a pack of cigarettes. We ask them to go, we ask them to pony up a little bit

00:08:00.440 for all sorts of basic aspects of our country. I don't think it's so crazy to ask them to prove

00:08:05.600 that they're citizens and therefore eligible to vote. But if the Democrats insist, no, no,

00:08:10.400 we've got to pay for it. Okay. You can pay for it for some people, by the way, it'd be a relatively

00:08:13.740 small number of people. You could offer assistance in getting a birth certificate or a social security

00:08:19.500 card. But even if you've got to pay for it for everyone, everyone in the country, everyone in

00:08:23.700 the world, everyone in the world, which I guess Democrats want everyone in the world to vote in

00:08:29.160 our elections, but you could buy these birth certificates for so many multiples of the people

00:08:35.640 who live in America and it would cost you basically nothing. This isn't about the cost. This isn't about

00:08:42.840 the onus of going and getting a birth certificate or a real ID or any of that. This is about Democrats

00:08:51.220 taking the last little trick available to them. They haven't so far succeeded in imprisoning Trump.

00:08:58.080 They haven't so far succeeded in rigging the election as it was rigged in 2020.

00:09:03.300 They haven't so far succeeded in persuading the voters. Of course not. So, okay, well, we do have

00:09:08.000 these tens of millions of illegal aliens that we've been importing over the years. We got motor voter 0.98

00:09:13.260 laws that sign up people automatically to vote, even if they're not eligible to vote. We have

00:09:19.000 these laws where when certain states say only citizens can vote, we have provisions that allow

00:09:22.880 them to receive a federal ballot anyway, even if they acknowledge they can't vote in state elections.

00:09:28.360 Let's just get the illegals to vote. Let's just get them to vote. The best shot they've got. Now,

00:09:33.840 most Democrats are smart enough to straight face this and say, no, we don't want illegals to vote. 1.00

00:09:37.720 This is about the fairness for the poor aggrieved minorities. Some Democrats say the quiet part

00:09:43.640 out loud. Democrat representative Summer Lee came out and said in pretty clear language, no,

00:09:51.380 she wants non-citizens to vote. It is under attack right now, right here with this very bill.

00:09:58.520 Republicans want to throw up barriers because when people vote, they lose. Let me be clear.

00:10:03.160 They don't want you to vote. They don't want to hear black voices, brown voices, LGBTQIA voices, 1.00

00:10:09.780 young voices. Our fundamental access to our democracy is being politicized. And this xenophobic

00:10:15.220 attack that we're debating today will make it harder for Americans to vote. My Republican colleagues

00:10:20.400 will claim that requiring IDs is a small ask, but nearly 30 million people lack a valid driver's

00:10:26.360 license. And about 15 to 18 million adults don't have access to documents proving their birth or

00:10:31.640 citizenship. Americans don't need more obstacles. It's already hard enough.

00:10:36.720 Okay. So you hear her argument is, look, the Republican voters are responsible and they do have

00:10:41.940 proof of their citizenship and they keep their affairs in order. Our voters are extremely

00:10:45.460 irresponsible. And even if we tell them that they won't get to vote, if they can't prove that they have

00:10:51.840 the basic eligibility, they won't do it because they're irresponsible and not civic minded. And so

00:10:57.340 she's admitting that implicitly, but she says, doesn't matter. We want them to vote anyway. So,

00:11:02.280 so that's terrible. This will silence brown voices, black voices, LGBT voices. Okay. Well, 1.00

00:11:09.640 all those people could be American citizens. So where in there does she say that she wants

00:11:16.220 non-citizens to vote? One word, xenophobic. She said this xenophobic measure, and that gave away the

00:11:23.960 whole game. That was the unwitting admission of what this is about. Xenophobic means an irrational

00:11:30.380 fear of foreigners. Xeno from the Greek, xenos. She's saying the measure is xenophobic. It's,

00:11:38.360 it's fearful of foreigners. It's opposed to foreigners. And it is opposed to, it's not irrational. 0.97

00:11:45.580 It's a very rational fear that foreigners are voting in our election and influencing our election 1.00

00:11:50.860 unduly and violating our basic laws. I'm old enough to remember 2016 when we were told that the worst

00:11:56.040 imaginable crisis of democracy is when foreigners want to influence our elections. Remember Russia, 0.99

00:12:02.140 Russia, Russia? Well, here we're seeing Russia, Russia, Russia on a scale that is orders of magnitude 0.80

00:12:08.340 greater. The Russia, Russia, Russia story was that, that the Russian Federation spent a hundred or

00:12:13.540 $200,000 buying Facebook ads to mess around with the political activism in 2016. Here, you're talking

00:12:21.500 about 10 million, 15 million, who knows how many million foreigners potentially voting in the

00:12:25.140 elections? And the Democrats are admitting it. By calling the bill xenophobic, they are admitting

00:12:29.980 that the bill would restrict the vote to citizens away from foreigners. And they, they say, this is wrong.

00:12:38.300 This is irrational. We want the foreigners to vote. I'm sure they do. Because when it's only Americans 1.00

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00:13:54.180 Now, there was a lot of bad stuff going on in Congress, the libs trying to destroy our electoral 1.00

00:14:00.660 system. But then there was some good stuff going on yesterday too. House Judiciary Committee, Jim

00:14:05.640 Jordan, held a hearing with GARM. GARM, the World Federation of Advertisers. What are these names?

00:14:15.820 You might remember GARM because I started to blow the whistle on this thing about a year ago.

00:14:20.040 The Global Alliance for Responsible Media. It's a lib project. It's affiliated with the World Economic

00:14:29.100 Forum. It brings together the biggest advertisers in the world and gives them guidelines on who they

00:14:34.820 can work with, which media outlets in particular that they can support. And it's a way to silence

00:14:41.380 conservatives. There was a report that just came out. I mentioned it yesterday on the show.

00:14:45.620 The House Judiciary Committee showed that these organizations, GARM and its various affiliates,

00:14:54.000 NewsGuard, and all these other left-wing groups are intentionally diverting a lot of advertising

00:15:02.080 dollars to left-wing news outlets. And they're cutting advertising dollars off. They're cutting reach

00:15:07.860 off. They're encouraging social media companies to reduce the reach of right-wing media outlets. So

00:15:16.260 you had wonderful performances from the Republican congressman yesterday.

00:15:24.040 On the docket, you had a Unilever, a major corporation, and Group M. Group M is the world's

00:15:30.260 largest media buying agency. And so some Republican congressmen asked a really simple question.

00:15:37.860 Where are the advertising dollars going?

00:15:41.920 Mr. Patel, did Unilever ever advertise on the Daily Wire? Have you guys ever advertised there?

00:15:49.760 Not sure if we've ever advertised. I don't know the answer to that.

00:15:54.700 Mr. Julian, the companies you represent ever advertise on the Daily Wire?

00:15:58.480 Not that I know of. Not that I know of, but if they wanted to, we would happily do it.

00:16:02.900 If they wanted to. But you don't know that any of them have. Yeah. Is it like a, I mean,

00:16:08.560 I think, what did he just say? 50 million viewers over the past 90 days, what Mr. Nadler

00:16:12.440 say at the front end. He said like 13 million followers that they have. I mean, there's a real

00:16:17.340 audience there. What would you say your target group is? 18 to 48-year-old women, Mr. Patel?

00:16:21.580 Yes, sir.

00:16:22.180 Yeah. Mr. Shapiro, you got any 18 to 48-year-old women who, of those 50 million people watching your

00:16:27.740 stuff, or those 13 million followers, any of them 18 to 48-year-old women?

00:16:30.960 Again, according to our latest statistics, about 65% of my listeners are between ages 18 and 44,

00:16:35.880 and about a quarter of them are women. Yeah. So that's a pretty big number. I mean,

00:16:39.020 you guys advertise, any of the companies you represent, Mr. Joel, advertise, let's say,

00:16:42.560 the Washington Post. Yes.

00:16:45.540 Do you advertise on The View? Yes.

00:16:48.940 Yes. Yes. So love Jim Jordan. The Daily Wire was, I guess, basically the chief subject of this

00:16:56.480 of this hearing yesterday, because we are one of the biggest conservative media companies in the

00:17:02.800 world. And big tech and big left-wing activism and big censorship and all of it are trying to

00:17:11.200 destroy our company right now. And this has been building for a while. I did blow the whistle on

00:17:16.620 this a little bit last year. So this is nothing new. But Jim Jordan and the House Judiciary Committee

00:17:22.360 have done a great job of actually digging into this. And you hear the absurd answers.

00:17:26.760 No, we haven't advertised on The Daily Wire. I mean, you know, if our companies wanted to,

00:17:31.220 we would. Well, why not? Daily Wire has got this huge reach. Why is it that you're advertising on,

00:17:36.120 like, Huffington Post? Are you kidding me? That's Huffington Post, The View, but you're not going

00:17:41.040 to advertise on The Daily Wire. All I'm hearing are left-wing organizations, many of which have a much

00:17:45.440 smaller reach than The Daily Wire. Why not? Do you advertise on any conservative outlets?

00:17:53.200 What conservative sites are considered brand safe, according to your metrics?

00:17:58.320 Name me, like, one, two, five. Fox?

00:18:02.080 Fox News.

00:18:03.120 Sure.

00:18:03.620 Fox News Online or TV?

00:18:05.480 Both.

00:18:06.120 Okay. What are any other sites?

00:18:07.880 I don't have the full definition of what you would consider conservative versus progressive.

00:18:14.680 Like I said, there's 600,000 different sites that are listed in those, and the vast majority

00:18:18.740 of those are illegal.

00:18:19.640 Right.

00:18:19.980 They're public, so I would assume that you have access to that.

00:18:22.020 Now he forgets what conservative means.

00:18:23.840 Sure.

00:18:24.340 So sites like John Stossel's website, that's a mandatory exclude PragerU, the Federalist Town

00:18:30.460 Hall, Breitbart, Daily Caller, Newsmax, Washington Examiner, One America News, TuckerCarlson.com,

00:18:36.160 those are all on the mandatory exclusion list.

00:18:40.540 I'm not sure which sites are and are not on there, but we're happy to get back to you.

00:18:44.360 Well, I mean, I would assume that you didn't just wake up out of bed and pop up into a

00:18:48.520 congressional hearing today, correct? You prepared for this?

00:18:51.240 Yes, sir.

00:18:51.900 Did you, and this was not part of your preparation for a hearing today in front of this committee,

00:18:57.720 to defend the actions of these entities and organizations? You never thought, your team

00:19:03.220 never thought, to look at and examine what sites were considered okay and not?

00:19:08.240 We've looked at that, yes.

00:19:09.600 So you can't tell me today what sites, other than Fox News, what conservative sites are

00:19:13.800 considered brand safe?

00:19:16.040 Not at this point, no.

00:19:17.540 Okay. You see what's going on here? That is Christian Jewell, the global CEO of Group

00:19:24.920 M, world's largest media buyer. And he's saying, look, we care about capitalism. We care about

00:19:34.080 advertising in outlets that are brand safe. And so, yeah, we don't really advertise with any

00:19:41.040 conservatives, but it's because they're not brand safe. So the left-wing news organizations that spread

00:19:48.340 lies constantly, that defame people, that post all sorts of obscene content, they're really brand

00:19:54.300 safe. We're going to divert all the advertising money to them. Advertising money is the lifeblood

00:19:59.040 of media organizations. So we're going to prop up all those media organizations, especially in an

00:20:02.760 election year. And we're going to just, we're going to cut off all the money to the conservative

00:20:05.920 groups, except for Fox. No, yeah, we advertise with conservatives. We advertise with Fox. Okay.

00:20:10.940 Anyone else other than Fox? What? I don't really know what a conservative outlet is. Well,

00:20:16.120 hold on. You just knew what a conservative outlet was when you answered and you said you advertise

00:20:19.240 with Fox. So Fox is the token because Fox is a cable network that was built in the 1990s.

00:20:25.600 They felt they couldn't exclude it, I think, without it looking so absurd. But that's it.

00:20:29.620 In this guy's own words, it's pretty much, yeah, it's a Fox they'll give some money to, but

00:20:33.040 otherwise the conservatives are out. And so they argue, well, this is just the free market.

00:20:38.300 This is, look, this is just, we just want to protect the brands. And we're just trying to

00:20:41.820 maximize profits for shareholders of these corporations, right? This is the same

00:20:45.740 bogus argument that places like McKinsey made when it comes to DEI. McKinsey, the consulting firm,

00:20:52.540 had a big study. Oh, DEI is actually good for the bottom line of corporations. It's really good

00:20:59.120 to not hire people based on their performance and their ability, but to hire people based on

00:21:04.520 their sexual desires and the color of their skin and their sex and all the rest of it. 0.88

00:21:08.940 And of course, that study is now widely understood to be totally bogus.

00:21:14.740 And the same goes here. If this were just about the free market, well, okay, then the GARM wouldn't

00:21:19.600 need to exist. Then the World Economic Forum wouldn't need to stick its nose into where advertisers 0.96

00:21:23.620 are sending their money. The reason that these organizations have become so prominent is because

00:21:29.500 social media gave Trump the presidency in 2016. That's really what a lot of this is about.

00:21:35.980 It's because if you allowed the, and even encouraged advertisers to advertise on conservative

00:21:42.860 sites where there are a lot of eyeballs, where there's that great demographic that buys a lot

00:21:46.740 of products, where if you allowed conservative organizations to spread their message freely on

00:21:52.460 social media, well, it would be really popular. It is really popular. The fact that the Daily Wire

00:21:58.040 was the centerpiece of this hearing yesterday, even with all of this persecution coming from

00:22:04.520 the NGOs and the government and big tech shows you this is a popular message. The fact that the Libs

00:22:12.660 feel they have to throw Donald Trump in prison to stop him from being reelected in 2024 shows you

00:22:17.240 this stuff is popular. They feel they can't win in the free marketplace of ideas or of money. And so

00:22:23.060 they're going to try to rig the system. There's so much more to say. First though,

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00:23:44.360 just want to show you a great clip. Actually, mentions yours truly, your favorite podcast host.

00:23:51.460 This is from Congressman Dan Bishop, who totally deflates this bogus lib defense that no, all of

00:23:59.400 this rigging, all of this censorship, it's really just about the free market. It's really about just

00:24:03.480 protecting companies on the bottom lines of these corporations. Because Congressman Bishop points out,

00:24:09.380 if that were true, then presumably the World Federation of Advertisers would not involve itself

00:24:16.680 in politics, would not involve itself in highly controversial political issues.

00:24:21.540 You know, if it were genuine, I would sympathize with the objective of keeping famous brands out

00:24:28.820 of controversy, that they stick to sports and entertainment. But the World Federation of

00:24:36.560 Advertisers and their GARM that they've created, their members, they and their members continue to seek

00:24:44.780 to involve themselves in highly controversial issues. Your colleague, Michael Knowles, in an article

00:24:52.240 last year pointed out that InBev is a member of WFA. And the pretext for what we're talking about today

00:25:01.080 is they want to keep their brands out of trouble, but they rolled out the Dylan Mulvaney campaign

00:25:05.580 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. 1.00

00:26:03.220 Are you insane? But no, please, tell me more about how the corporations don't want to involve 0.88

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.

00:27:11.080 He was going to talk about Project 2025.

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, 0.52

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. 0.99

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, 0.54

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 0.86

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 0.99

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 0.91

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 0.99

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 1.00

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, 0.96

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 1.00

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

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00:37:30.880 endeavor. Your unwavering support empowers us to confront the radical left when others cower in

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00:37:54.040 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. 0.68

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 0.86

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 0.98

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. 1.00

00:43:24.400 They're having their shots of vodka and stacking the little dolls. They don't care about American 0.95

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, 0.98

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 0.99

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 baby. The rest of the show continues now. You don't want to miss it. Become a member. Use

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 11, 2024

Ep. 1528 - 198 Dems Vote To Allow Noncitizens To Vote

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