Ep. 1571 - The Presidential Debate SUMMARIZED in 3 Mins!
Summary
Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, took on Donald Trump in the first Democratic primary debate on Tuesday night. But did she win the debate? Or did she lose it? To find out, Alex Blumberg and Vanessa Grigoriadis here to talk about it.
Transcript
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White, straight, cisgender, man is the top of the pile.
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Can I just propose a toast? Raise a glass if you're racist.
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Don't deny that you're racist. Try not to be racist, but don't, but also don't realize that you're...
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Until we're willing to talk about these things, healing can't really begin.
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My daughter's four years old. She's still watching Disney movies and choosing a white princess.
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What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
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Kamala started to make a comeback by distracting with irrelevant issues.
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But the moderators were not willing to leave it in her incapable hands.
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So they both intervened in the debate, uniformly taking her side and even lying on her behalf.
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The liberal media, they're furious that people are converting.
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We're going to do this very, very quickly because there was not much substance at the debate.
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What little substance there was was brought by President Trump, but he had to force that through
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because Kamala and the moderators were distracting with a lot of nonsense.
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That's the reason we're talking about it right now.
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But it was not significant because of any particular policy differences between the candidates.
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The debate was significant because of the way, the most egregious I've seen in my life,
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the way in which the media came in to bail out Kamala Harris.
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Kamala Harris, from the opening of the debate, was losing.
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Here is the very first question and a little bit of Kamala's shaky answer.
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When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?
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So I was raised as a middle-class kid, and I am actually the only person on this stage who has a plan
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that is about lifting up the middle-class and working people of America.
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I believe in the ambition, the aspirations, the dreams of the American people.
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And that is why I imagine and have actually a plan to build what I call an opportunity economy.
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Because here's the thing, we know that we have a shortage of homes and housing,
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and the cost of housing is too expensive for far too many people.
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We know that young families need support to raise their children,
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and I intend on extending a tax cut for those families of $6,000,
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which is the largest child tax credit that we have given in a long time,
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so that those young families can afford to buy a crib, buy a car seat, buy clothes for their children.
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Yeah, cool. Could you answer the question, please?
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Had there been a competent debate moderator or even just a debate moderator
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that was not actively working on behalf of Kamala Harris, the follow-up would have been.
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Actually, even if it had been a liberal, had it been Jake Tapper or Dana Bash from the CNN debate
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between Trump and Biden, they would have followed up and said,
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okay, but can you answer the question? Are Americans better off now than we were four years ago?
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You can hear in Kamala's voice, it's not just the complete evasion of the question,
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it's not just pivoting to, I have a plan for, I'm going to cut some taxes,
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I'm going to expand for the child tax credit, which is actually a policy that she stole directly
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from Trump immediately after the Trump campaign proposed it.
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But it's even just the quality of her voice. It was a little bit shaky.
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There was this little lip smacking thing going on. She was losing her words. She was nervous.
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And that did not bode well for her, at least in the first part of the debate, because
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that first question from David Muir was the most obvious question in probably the whole debate.
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If Kamala was going to have any pushback whatsoever, it would have been on
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the present state of the country. She's the vice president. She's been imbued with
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presidential authority by Joe Biden for three years now on certain issues. She's sort of running
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as the incumbent. Okay, how have you done? Is your administration successful? And she didn't
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even have an answer to that. So the Republicans were feeling really, really good in the first part.
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Kamala, Trump was seizing the advantage. He pointed out that in all that gobbledygook about
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the opportunity and the this and the that, she didn't have any concrete plans.
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Look, I went to the Wharton School of Finance and many of those professors, the top professors,
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think my plan is a brilliant plan. It's a great plan. It's a plan that's going to bring up our worth,
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our value as a country. It's going to make people want to be able to go and work and create jobs and
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create a lot of good, solid money for our country. And just to finish off, she doesn't have a plan.
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She copied Biden's plan. And it's like four sentences, like run, spot, run, four sentences
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that are just, oh, we'll try and lower taxes. She doesn't have a plan. Take a look at her plan.
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This was a good bit. And Trump had a few good jabs in here. I love that he points out that
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the parts of her plan that she did not steal from Trump's campaign, she stole from Biden.
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And we see this, Brett Baer was talking about this two nights ago, in the source code of Kamala's
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issues agenda, which she only recently had to put up on her website because we all pressured her into
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it. Yeah, it's like, I love even the way he speaks like a millennial girl because it is relatable
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and it's funny. It's like four sentences, okay? It's like run, spot, run. Okay, that was a funny
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line. At one point, he said he was elated to see that she had stolen so much of his platform and he
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was tempted to send her a MAGA hat. She was becoming so Trumpy. Those were good lines.
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Debate's still going very well for Trump at this point. The moderator's still basically just doing
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their job. Then, you know how much I hate to say I told you so, President Trump was asked about the
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2020 election. This was obviously going to come up. I predicted that this was going to come up the
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moment that President Trump said that he lost the 2020 election by a whisker. He said this recently
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on the Lex Friedman podcast. Trump has maintained for years that the 2020 election was rigged and he's
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used different terms to describe this rigging and he has focused with greater and lesser specificity
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on how it was rigged. I think most people can agree it was broadly rigged. The rules were all
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changed in the days and weeks before the election, in some cases unconstitutionally. So I pointed out
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this is going to become a big problem because Trump has maintained that he did not really lose the
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election. Now, he seemed to say, at least if you look at his verbatim words, that he did lose.
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I pointed out when he said it on the Lex Friedman podcast, it was clearly sarcastic.
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He said, look, I was winning on election night. I had all the polls set me up. I had all of these
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votes. And then, what do you know? I lost by a whisker. And he was being pilloried Trump,
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not only by the left, but even by people on the right, even by people who supposedly support him.
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And I pointed out, guys, it doesn't take a literary critic to realize he's using verbal
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irony here. He's not really believing that. He's being sarcastic. And, you know, I hate to say I
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told you so, Trump vindicated that view last night. Mr. President, for three and a half years
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after you lost the 2020 election, you repeatedly falsely claimed that you won, many times saying
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you won in a landslide. In the past couple of weeks leading up to this debate, you have said,
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quote, you lost by a whisker, that you, quote, didn't quite make it, that you came up a little bit
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short. I said that. Are you now acknowledging that you lost in 2020? No, I don't acknowledge
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that at all. I said that sarcastically. You know that. It was said, oh, we lost by a whisker.
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That was said sarcastically. Obviously, because the diction was so wild. You know, people don't
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use that phrase. It's unusual diction. Lost by a whisker. Norm Macdonald used to do this,
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the late great Norm Macdonald. I mention him because Trump is speaking comically. He's got a great sense
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of comic timing. But Norm would use all this kind of funny, old-sounding jargon, you know.
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Well, you know, on account of all this sort of, you know, there was once a fella by the name of,
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you know, he'd use that kind of talk to give his words a verbal irony. So that's what Trump was doing,
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and he holds firm, which he had to do. He had to say, no, that election was rigged. Election
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integrity is a very important issue. The Democrats are trying to get rid of voter ID. The Democrats are
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trying to take away all of our measures that can ensure the integrity and honesty of our elections.
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He has to do that. One, because it's important and because those sorts of claims are true.
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But also because if Trump doesn't do that, then he's a liar who's a grave threat to the Republic.
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Then he basically vindicates all of the nonsense Democrats have been saying about him. So did very,
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very well for the first part of the debate. Kamala Harris scored one big blow in the debate.
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Kamala's big blow that she scored was not on any issue. It was not on any historical point. It was,
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it had no substance whatsoever. And it was almost certainly based on a lie, but it succeeded because
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it off-footed him. Kamala said that people leave Trump's rallies early. That was it. It was just
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the newest iteration of saying that Trump doesn't draw big crowds. And Trump was drawn in to take
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the debate and it shifted the tone of the debate. And all of a sudden after that, she sounded less
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nervous and President Trump sounded a little bit angrier. Previously, he was just kind of calm,
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funny, and light. So that was the one area in which Kamala herself succeeded in the debate. And it was
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only tactical. It was not substantive. But Kamala, you got to remember, Kamala is good at manipulating
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men. Kamala launched her political career by manipulating a married man, Willie Brown. Willie
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Brown was happy to be manipulated, it sounds like. And I don't even mean this in a provocative way
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or to cast unnecessary aspersions on Kamala's behavior early in life. I just mean this is her
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modus operandi. This is the way that she succeeded in politics. She got her political career because of
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her adulterous relationship with Willie Brown in San Francisco. That's what launched her into politics.
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And then, fast forward some years, she got the vice presidency by manipulating Joe Biden during
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one debate. You remember in the 2020 presidential primaries when she was still running, she had the
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audacity and the cleverness to call Biden a racist and to say that she was a little girl who was being
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bussed to the white school. And because Joe Biden opposed busing, he didn't want her to get an
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education. And she made this a big, big issue for Biden. She put him into a corner that forced him
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to choose a black woman running mate. And at that point, Kamala had the vice presidency because the
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only three serious contenders for that position were Karen Bass, member of Congress at the time who was
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an actual communist. Like she worked with communist groups in her youth. There was Susan Rice. She was the
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fall man under Obama for Benghazi. It wasn't going to be her. So it had to be Kamala. That's a clever way
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to manipulate an individual man to get political power. She completely flopped with the voters, but
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she advanced her career significantly. And then last night, she was manipulative as well. But the real
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driving force of the debate was neither of the candidates. It was the moderators who, after getting a
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The moderators started to fact-check the candidates. You'll recall during the CNN debate with liberal
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Jake Tapper and liberal Dana Bash, they did not fact-check the candidates. They allowed the
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candidates to say their points, and if there was going to be any fact-checking, it would come from
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the other candidates, as it is supposed to be during a one-on-one debate. The tradition of presidential
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debate says that the moderators are not supposed to play a prominent role. It's supposed to be the
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candidates sparring. This changed in 2012 when CNN's Candy Crowley interrupted the debate to
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fact-check Mitt Romney when Mitt Romney claimed that Barack Obama waited several days to call
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the Benghazi attack a terror attack. And she said, no, Governor Romney, that's not true. He did it the
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very next day. And then it turned out her fact-check, even if it were true, would have been an egregious
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interruption of a presidential debate. But it turns out she lied. That wasn't true.
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Mitt Romney was right, Obama was wrong, and Candy Crowley was wrong. And she corrected herself
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after everyone had tuned out of the debate. But that was an egregious interruption. What happened
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last night was far, far more egregious. Both David Muir, I always pronounce his name because it's
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spelled Muir, but it's pronounced Muir. David Muir and Lindsay Davis, who is his co-host,
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interjected multiple times, I think it was five so-called fact-checks. They were all fact-checks
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of Trump, even though Kamala Harris said, by my count, more false statements than Trump. In one case,
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Kamala Harris uttered three false statements basically in one breath. She brought up the very
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fine people hoax that even Snopes.com, a left-wing or liberal-leaning website, has debunked.
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She brought up the, what is the term? It's totally escaping me. I'm having a Rick Perry moment. No,
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it was a bloodbath. This was the most egregious one. President Trump was speaking to auto workers,
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and he was describing the economic conditions if Biden slash Harris won re-election. And he said,
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yeah, it would be a bloodbath. Well, a bloodbath is an economic term. It returns to a complete
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economic disaster. And immediately afterward, the Libs, including Kamala Harris, said, well,
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he's going to kill us all. He's threatening to kill all of us. She's repeating all of these
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lies and no fact-check whatsoever. But then President Trump points out, speaking of bloodbath,
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that if Democrats win, they're going to expand abortion, that the Democrats don't just support
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abortion in the case of the first week or three weeks or even the first trimester.
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They support abortion up until the moment of birth and even after birth. And he referred to the former
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Democrat governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, who said that if a baby's born and the mom doesn't want
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it, well, you just put the baby on a table and you have a conversation about what you want to do with
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it. So Lindsey Davis intervened here and said, Mr. President, that is a lie.
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Vice President Harris says that women shouldn't trust you on the issue of abortion because you've
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changed your position so many times. Therefore, why should they trust you?
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Well, the reason I'm doing that vote is because the plan is, as you know, the vote is they have
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abortion in the ninth month. They even have, and you can look at the governor of West Virginia,
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the previous governor of West Virginia, not the current governor, is doing an excellent job.
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But the governor before, he said the baby will be born and we will decide what to do with the baby.
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In other words, we'll execute the baby. And that's why I did that, because that predominates,
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because they're radical. The Democrats are radical in that.
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There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born.
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That is a lie. So first of all, what President Trump said is true. What he said about Ralph
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Northam, the governor of Virginia, is true. Kamala's shaking her head. No, no, no. It's on video.
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I didn't even pull the clip today because everyone's seen this video so many times. That happened.
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But then furthermore, Lindsay Davis says, there is no state in this nation where it's legal to kill
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a baby after the baby's been born. Not only is that false, Kamala Harris's own running mate,
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Tim Walls, within the last couple of years, repealed the legal requirement that physicians
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provide medical care to babies who are born after surviving abortions. Previously, even in states
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where you can kill babies in the womb, when the baby survives, as sometimes happens, then the babies
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are entitled to the same medical and legal requirements and rights that all other people
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are entitled to. The babies in the doctor's office, the doctors are required to provide
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medical care. Kamala Harris's running mate, Tim Walls, repealed that legal requirement. So in the
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state of Kamala Harris's running mate, with that man as governor, a woman can go into a doctor's
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office, doctor, a murderer, an abortionist, go in. The doctor tries to kill the baby. He fails. The
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baby is born alive. The baby is crying on the table. The doctor's no longer required to provide
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any medical care. It is legal to kill that baby in Minnesota. A post-birth abortion that is 100%
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not only correct what Trump said, but demonstrable. This is something that's happened recently.
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And it's something as close to home to Kamala Harris as it's possible to be. And that woman,
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that awful woman, Lindsay Davis, lied about it during the debate, injected herself into the
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debate to lie on Kamala's behalf. It was the most egregious of the night. There were many,
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many others. I mentioned that Kamala Harris uttered three lies right in a row. She mentioned the very
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fine people hoax, the bloodbath hoax, and the proud boy hoax that Donald Trump told the proud
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boys to stand by so they could all take over the Capitol or something. Not one fact check from
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anyone. Nevertheless, there are going to be a lot of people who don't know the facts and who just see
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the theater that was put up by ABC News last night. Then, by the end of the debate, President Trump
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comes in. He lands another big punch on Kamala's fecklessness with the power that she has in the
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current administration. They sent her to negotiate peace before this war started.
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Three days later, he went in and he started the war because everything they said was weak and stupid.
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They said the wrong things. That war should have never started. She was the emissary.
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They sent her in to negotiate with Zelensky and Putin. And she did. And the war started three days
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later. And that's the kind of talent we have with her. She's worse than Biden.
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Good point. She is worse than Biden. Biden's bad too. But this woman is really, really bad.
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And she's bad because every time you try to pin her down, she makes the opposite claim. So
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is Kamala the brand new breath of fresh air? She has nothing to do with the failures of the
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Biden administration. Okay, she's not qualified to be president. No, no, she is qualified to be
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president because she's been helping to run this administration from day one. And this is an
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equal partnership. And in fact, Biden's imbued her with presidential authority on the border and on
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high speed internet, rural America. Oh, okay. She's the last person in the room on the Afghanistan
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withdrawal. Oh, good. She's really responsible for this administration. Okay. She shouldn't be
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president because this administration has completely failed. No, don't you try to pin the failures of
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this administration on her. She's not the president. So any way you try to argue it, they try to slip
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away. President Trump then really landed it, I felt, with his closing statement.
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But I just ask one simple question. Why didn't she do it? We're a failing nation. We're a nation
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that's in serious decline. We're being laughed at all over the world, all over the world. They're
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left. I know the leaders very well. They're coming to see me. They call me. We're laughed at all over
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the world. They don't understand what happened to us as a nation. We're not a leader. We don't have any
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idea what's going on. We have wars going on in the Middle East. We have wars going on with Russia and
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Ukraine. We're going to end up in a third world war and it'll be a war like no other because of
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nuclear weapons, the power of weaponry. I rebuilt our entire military. She gave a lot of it away
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to the Taliban. She gave it to Afghanistan. What these people have done to our country,
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and maybe toughest of all is allowing millions of people to come into our country. Many of them
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are criminals and they're destroying our country. The worst president, the worst vice president in the
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history of our country. Very, very strong finish. I suppose we say all's well that ends well.
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The big takeaway is from the debate. When the debate was one-on-one, Trump was winning pretty
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clearly. When the debate became three-on-one, even then, three-on-one, it basically ended a draw.
00:24:46.960
I'm not going to say that it was the greatest night for Donald Trump, but he fended off the attacks
00:24:51.820
pretty well. There were a few missed moments, but that's going to happen in any debate. It was
00:24:56.280
basically a draw. So that's not ideal. However, the silver lining to that storm cloud is now, as a
00:25:03.980
result, the Kamala team thinks she won or they think she did well enough that it merits another debate.
00:25:09.460
The Trump team thinks he did well enough that that would merit another debate. And so Kamala has
00:25:15.380
proposed another debate between the two. That was unclear before this debate. I think Trump should
00:25:19.840
take it. I think that even if it's on a liberal network like NBC or something, there's no way
00:25:25.020
they'll be more liberal and biased than ABC, which is the absolute worst of the worst and has been for
00:25:31.120
many years. The chief political anchor on ABC is the former hatchet man, head of Bill Clinton's
00:25:35.820
White House communications office. Okay. So even NBC would be better. Fox news would certainly be
00:25:40.320
better. Who knows? They should do a daily wire debate. Uh, in any case, uh, doesn't change the
00:25:46.160
fundamentals of the race. It just actually gives an another opportunity for a turning point. If the
00:25:52.080
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the perfidy of the establishment media. I saw a headline pop up yesterday that interested me in
00:26:29.360
part. It would, the headline itself would have interested me just generally, but it also concerned
00:26:34.980
me in particular. So I gave it special attention and I was confused because just reading the headline,
00:26:41.540
I wouldn't have had any guess that this story concerned me at all. This is from the Pittsburgh
00:26:47.060
Tribune, I guess, Trib Live headline. I recognize the scene here in the picture because I was present
00:26:54.120
at it. The headline is, husband, wife, plead guilty to acts that disrupted transgender rights
00:27:04.480
program at Pitt. Now, I don't, I know they may have even updated that headline there because if you
00:27:11.980
look in the URL and what I read yesterday, it previously said husband, wife, plead guilty to acts
00:27:16.880
that disrupted transgender rights protest at Pitt. But neither of those headlines are true because
00:27:24.280
what really happened is that two anarchists, two Antifa anarchists who are members of an actual
00:27:31.540
anarchist cell showed up to a campus speaking event that I had last year at the University of
00:27:37.940
Pittsburgh. And the protesters at this event were all pro-trans protesters, including the husband
00:27:47.180
and wife anarchist duo here. They, in anticipation of my appearance, lit the street on fire, then burned
00:27:56.320
me in effigy on the street, and then threw an explosive at the building right as I was about to walk on
00:28:03.080
stage. And in so doing, they injured multiple police officers. And I suspect the reason that
00:28:10.720
they were arrested is because they injured the police officers, which is fine. I'm glad they're
00:28:14.000
being arrested. Now they're facing pretty serious charges, and I guess they pled guilty.
00:28:19.280
But does that sound like husband, wife, plead guilty to acts that disrupted transgender rights
00:28:23.720
protest at Pitt? You're saying that the real crime that they committed was disrupting the other
00:28:34.340
protesters who were setting the street on fire and burning me in effigy. It wasn't that they were
00:28:40.340
trying to blow me up, that they were trying to turn my figurative immolation into a literal immolation
00:28:45.980
as I walked on stage. The real crime wasn't that they injured police officers. The real crime wasn't
00:28:52.940
that they damaged a university building. No, no, no. The real crime was that they took too much
00:29:00.940
attention away from the other pro-trans protesters who were setting other things on fire.
00:29:08.680
That's the media. Local, regional, national, Pittsburgh, Trib Live writers up to David Muir.
00:29:21.080
So thoroughly corrupt. That's how they'll frame anything. I'm glad to see they pled guilty.
00:29:31.280
I hope they didn't get some sweet plea deal. These are people who tried to injure me and many others
00:29:38.180
and did succeed at injuring at least a handful of people. All because I showed up to a university and
00:29:46.560
said men and women are different and then debated that matter with a left-wing sparring partner.
00:29:55.200
I should say classically liberal sparring partner. The full-on leftist sparring partner I was supposed
00:29:59.340
to debate, who was a professor with a Harvard pedigree, decided that he was not able to do that.
00:30:05.320
He didn't think it would go well for him. All because of that, you get an explosion in a building
00:30:11.340
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Now, speaking of the libs freaking out, forget about the debate. The funniest political moment
00:30:51.360
caught on video yesterday was when Eric Swalwell in the hallowed halls of Congress, you know,
00:30:55.800
the U.S. Capitol, that sacred temple to democracy, when he whined and screamed and very nearly cried
00:31:04.100
because Republicans were posting cat memes. What in the hell is this? The chairman tweets
00:31:12.900
protect our ducks and kittens in Ohio because he goes some down, goes down some crazy rabbit hole,
00:31:20.940
completely debunked that aliens are eating pets. My God. Are you okay, Mr. Chairman? Because last year,
00:31:33.120
for a very long time, you tweeted and promoted Kanye West as he was calling for genocide against
00:31:41.040
the Jews and you kept it up. And now when we have victims coming here, you're tweeting this nonsense.
00:31:48.480
I don't know why you would do this. I hope you're okay. I don't know if the aliens who are eating
00:31:56.380
your ducks are in the room with us right now, but Mr. Chairman, this is a serious issue. These people
00:32:04.300
have loved ones who have been lost. And you tweeted this.
00:32:09.500
And the Oscar goes to, I don't think the Oscar goes to Eric Swalwell.
00:32:14.520
Let me just try to make sense of how everything happened here.
00:32:18.140
Democrats imported hundreds of thousands of unvetted people from a cannibal failed state,
00:32:30.780
then sent them to these little small towns where the people didn't really want this invasion of
00:32:40.880
foreigners and didn't really know what to do with it. And now ducks are going missing at the public
00:32:44.680
park. The, the Democrats bring in these hundreds of thousands of unvetted people from the failed
00:32:50.020
cannibal state. Then Republicans make some cat memes. And then the Democrats scream and cry and
00:32:59.740
whine and clutch their pearls and say, this is the end of democracy. Is that, do I have that right?
00:33:04.160
Seems to me making some funny cat memes is a less grievous events and imposes a less serious threat
00:33:14.920
to our democracy than bringing in hundreds of thousands. And by the way, I'm just talking about
00:33:20.800
what the Biden Harris administration has done specifically with regard to the Haitian migrants.
00:33:27.280
But of course, Biden and Harris have also brought in millions and millions and millions of other
00:33:31.500
unvetted illegal aliens to invade our country and go to all these small towns where the people don't
00:33:37.380
like it. Republicans, independents, Democrats too, don't, don't really like it. New York city,
00:33:41.840
the Democrat mayor of New York city saying that illegal immigration is mass, not even just illegal
00:33:46.320
immigration, mass migration is destroying New York city. I, it seems to me that's the greater threat,
00:33:54.680
but no, the car, you crazy, Mr. Chairman. And now, now this is the story we're getting.
00:34:01.560
The story we're getting is J.D. Vance and Trump. Now Trump mentioned the Haitians and the dogs and
00:34:07.440
the cats and the ducks during the debate last night. And all these Republicans, Jim Jordan and
00:34:12.020
the house judiciary, they're passing off this fake news that the many, many tens of thousands,
00:34:19.240
at least, if not more Haitians who have shown up to this town are eating animals that they shouldn't be
00:34:24.280
eating. This is fake news. It's debunked. The fact checkers are just like David Muir and Lindsay
00:34:29.540
Davis, all these super duper fact checkers who lie a lot of the time, but nevermind that they've
00:34:34.440
proven that it's been debunked and well, hold on. Okay. I saw all those headlines about how thoroughly
00:34:40.240
debunked all this is. But then I, I checked in with an actual Springfield, Ohio resident. Here is
00:34:47.740
what he had to say. I think it's like kind of odd that like a guy like me has to come out from doing
00:34:52.800
what I do on a daily basis to have fun because I see what's going on in these streets. And I see
00:34:56.820
you guys just sitting up there in them comfy chairs and suits like, and I'm getting out here
00:35:00.420
every day and I'm broadcasting this and you guys are just sitting up there in suits or something.
00:35:04.500
Like I, I really challenged you guys to get out here and do something. These Haitians are running
00:35:08.880
into trash cans. They're running into buildings. They're running into, they flipping cars in the middle
00:35:16.280
of the street. And I don't know how like y'all can be comfortable with this. Like, I don't know,
00:35:21.900
like who's getting paid from this. I feel like, I honestly feel like someone's getting paid from
00:35:26.680
it in the background. They dropping that you got a bunch of people on a bus getting dropped off at
00:35:33.100
a gas station to come down here. I know a single mom that FaceTime me tonight, FaceTime me this morning
00:35:38.320
at the welfare office that really need, like that really need something. And it's nothing but immigrants
00:35:44.200
over there. And I don't even want to like seem like I'm coming down on the immigrants because
00:35:48.400
it's the people that's bringing them down here because wherever they're at, that's what they're
00:35:51.940
used to, bro. They're in the park grabbing up ducks by their neck and cutting their head off and
00:35:58.240
walking off with them and eating them like. Pretty crazy, huh? So who am I supposed to believe?
00:36:06.860
The Washington liberal journalists who have never visited Springfield, Ohio,
00:36:12.020
who would break out in hives if they ever had to walk into any normal town in America
00:36:17.740
up to and including Springfield, Ohio. Am I supposed to believe them? Or am I supposed
00:36:21.760
to believe people in Springfield, Ohio? We're just describing their lived experience. Isn't
00:36:26.680
that what the libs are all about? The lived experience? Well, this guy's telling us his lived
00:36:29.540
experience. And he's saying that the migrants who are foisted upon people in these small towns
00:36:36.680
from a failed cannibal state are doing weird stuff when it comes to laws and dietary gustatory
00:36:44.900
behaviors and preferences. Isn't that? Seems like I'm more likely to believe that guy than some
00:36:50.760
liberal hack journalist in Washington, D.C. But no, we're told if you raise any questions about the
00:36:56.020
behaviors of these people that you're a racist. Oh, is that guy a racist? If you're just listening to
00:37:01.220
the show, perhaps you could hear it in his voice. He's not the whitest guy in the world. That's a
00:37:06.660
black guy. He's supposed to be an anti-black racist? I know. Listen, I understand that the
00:37:14.880
people who are like David Muir and Lindsay Davis and who lie for a living tell us that the story
00:37:20.040
about the ducks and the other animals that the Haitians are eating is debunked and fake news and
00:37:25.900
it's a hoax and it's a conspiracy. I don't know. What about that guy? That guy said it's real.
00:37:29.640
And furthermore, what are we supposed to think about all this?
00:37:36.600
You know, I know the squishes and the establishment types and the really nice people even. Now forget
00:37:42.820
about the squishes. Even like just the really nice Republicans. They're saying, ah, why are
00:37:46.980
Republicans talking about the Haitian migrants? And why are they using all these evocative images
00:37:54.760
of dogs and cats and ducks? Why did Trump have to bring up those images last night at the debate?
00:38:02.620
Because they're evocative. Because you can talk about mass migration like some boring professor.
00:38:10.680
Ah, well, you understand there are several thousand illegal aliens every day across the way. They have
00:38:16.560
encounters with Border Patrol and then they are given a court date, but they often don't show up to the
00:38:22.180
court date and they're caught and released sometimes into the country. And this leads to
00:38:26.100
11 million, 12 million, 13 million people who commit crimes at X rate. And they also use the
00:38:31.780
welfare programs at X percent and then they blah. Give me a break. I'm half asleep and I'm the one
00:38:37.340
speaking. Or you can say, yeah, a bunch of crazy Haitians are eating ducks in Ohio and eating people's
00:38:44.420
cats and cats and stuff, maybe. That's the question. One is using the language of poetry and myth even,
00:38:52.260
and one is using the language of technocracy and models and statistics and sophistry and economics
00:38:59.780
and calculation. And the former is more politically salient. They both convey true things, which is to
00:39:08.500
say the social disorder brought about by mass migration. They're both conveying true things.
00:39:14.840
They're just doing it in different ways. And it seems to me that the language of poetry, the language
00:39:20.340
of myth, the language of pathos, the language of democratic politics, lowercase d, is the more
00:39:26.600
effective language to use. And that's the language that Donald Trump succeeds in. Folks, on Friday,
00:39:32.900
I will be taking your questions in the written mailbag and the voicemail bag. And some people don't know
00:39:37.500
how to submit the questions. You go to dailywire.com. You click on the watch page. You click
00:39:43.700
on the Michael Knowles show. You click on submit a mailbag question. That's going to open up an email
00:39:49.320
and win whatever email app you use. You can then write your question. Keep it pithy. If you don't
00:39:55.040
mind, keep it short. Or you can attach an audio file. You just record it on whatever app you use to
00:40:02.160
record your audio files. Keep it to under a minute. Some people want to give me their whole life story.
00:40:05.240
We don't have time for that. I want to get your question on the show. So submit that by Friday.
00:40:08.880
I will hear from you then. My favorite comment yesterday is from FamilyGash7500, who writes,
00:40:14.280
if Springfield's pets really are being abducted and eaten, then I just hope that they don't get
00:40:20.080
Santa's little helper or Snowball 2. So true. So true. I'm really concerned about Springfield.
00:40:25.740
We need to not only throw out Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, we need to throw out Mayor Quimby.
00:40:35.100
There's no question about it. Okay. Speaking of black guys,
00:40:40.960
Willie Brown is back in the news. I mentioned him. He was the former San Francisco mayor who
00:40:45.740
helped launch Kamala Harris's career. Let's put it that way.
00:40:49.340
This clip has resurfaced. Hat tip to my friend and colleague, Mary Margaret Olihan,
00:40:54.400
who pulled this up yesterday. This is from 1996, I believe. Primetime Live. Describing
00:41:03.580
Willie Brown's rise and giving a little mention and camera appearance to Kamala Harris. See if you can
00:41:09.660
spot her. Primetime continues. Once again, Diane Sawyer. Fasten your seatbelt. If you haven't met Willie
00:41:16.660
Brown yet, you're in for a lively ride. He is about to become the first black mayor of San Francisco.
00:41:23.180
And while so many members of Congress are fleeing politics in droves, he wants to tell you why he
00:41:28.300
still loves the game and plays it the old fashioned way. Eight out of the 10 voters I meet are absolutely
00:41:34.520
persuaded that I know what I'm doing, that I'm pretty smart, that I can get the job done and that
00:41:41.400
I may be a rogue, but I'm their kind of rogue. He's a rogue, all right. Notorious for his
00:41:47.140
flamboyant lifestyle. Flashy clothes, fancy parties, fine women.
00:41:59.040
Wait a second. I recognize that lady. Fancy clothes, party and lifestyle, fine women.
00:42:07.700
And who's that fine woman? It's Kamala Harris. And then what's the question asked, I guess
00:42:12.840
by the journalist is, are you his daughter? And she turns and she smiles. She says, no,
00:42:18.440
I'm not. No, I'm not his daughter. I'm his mistress. I don't just bring up the clip to insult
00:42:28.120
Kamala or dredge up her indiscretions and past sins. It's, look, it shows you something that
00:42:37.680
I mentioned at the top of the show, which is that this woman's pretty good at manipulating men
00:42:41.300
and working men to advance herself politically. That was the beginning of Kamala Harris's political
00:42:46.280
career. But that's why I bring it up. That's why I bring up this clip now. That clip is from 1996.
00:42:53.680
Kamala Harris has been at this for a long time. We think of Kamala Harris as this new politician,
00:43:02.280
a new crop of Democrat Paul who just pops up. Now we're going to see if she's ready for prime time.
00:43:09.000
Joe Biden introduced us to her a few years ago. No. Or we think, oh, well, she was in the U.S.
00:43:15.120
Senate, not for very long, but she was there. Okay. She's kind of new to politics. No.
00:43:19.400
Well, before that, she was the attorney general of California. Okay. She was there for a little bit.
00:43:22.940
She prosecuted some friends of mine. She prosecuted pro-lifers. And so she's,
00:43:27.840
no, it goes back way further. Willie Brown is the start of Kamala Harris's political career.
00:43:34.780
He gets her first political job in California. That was back in the 90s.
00:43:41.980
We're talking about almost 30 years ago, this clip is from. She's been working this a long time. And
00:43:47.980
it vindicates a view that I held back in 2020. I was talking to Ben and I said, watch out for Kamala
00:43:55.060
Harris. I think Kamala is the sleeper candidate in this race. I think she's got real political
00:44:00.800
chops. And then when she was one of the first people to drop out before the first primary even
00:44:05.280
took place, everyone made fun of me. Is it all so much for watch out for Kamala Harris? But then
00:44:09.480
she finagled her way into becoming the running mate. Now she's finagled her way into ousting the
00:44:15.420
president and to making herself the nominee. And she might, she might make herself president.
00:44:19.760
She's got those political chops. She doesn't have retail chops. She's not good at that.
00:44:24.820
She's not good at kissing babies and slapping back. She descends into that weird cackle and
00:44:29.040
it's off-putting. She's not good at debating other than trying to manipulate her debate opponent if
00:44:35.860
it's a man. She's not that good at debating on substance. She doesn't really know issues.
00:44:39.680
She's not a policy wonk. She's not a negotiator. She's not, but she does have behind the scenes
00:44:45.660
policy chops or behind the scenes political chops rather that have advanced her career.
00:44:50.180
She is no slouch. She's not to be underestimated. This woman has been at this game for a very long
00:44:55.460
time. Now, speaking of Kamala, there was an issue I really wish came up in the debate last night.
00:45:02.780
The moderators weren't going to bring it up. Maybe Trump can bring it up at the next debate.
00:45:07.500
The issue is the drug crisis. We have now the worst drug crisis in the history of our country.
00:45:13.600
The drugs in question here are all coming across the border from Mexico. So it has to do with
00:45:22.240
Kamala's failure as the borders are and the mass migration crisis. But when Kamala was running for
00:45:28.480
president in 2020, she had to fill out candidate questionnaires. This is how organizations and
00:45:35.080
political groups are able to vet candidates. They send them questionnaires and all the candidates
00:45:38.800
fill them out. So the ACLU sends out a questionnaire in 2019 asking her view on drugs. And Kamala Harris
00:45:46.800
said that she wanted to decriminalize drugs. And I'm not just talking about the devil's lettuce. And I'm
00:45:52.880
not just talking about even cocaine. Kamala said she wants to decriminalize fentanyl, which is just a
00:46:01.880
poison that's killing upwards of 100,000 Americans every single year. She wants to decriminalize
00:46:09.580
fentanyl. She wants to decriminalize heroin. She wants to decriminalize, quote, all drug possession
00:46:15.200
for personal use. This is the worst drug crisis in American history. If you live anywhere in the
00:46:25.860
country, we're not just talking about the middle of the country. I'm talking about the cities. I'm talking
00:46:28.640
about the coasts. I'm talking about anywhere. At this point, with this drug crisis going on for so
00:46:35.220
long, you very likely know someone who has been affected by this and who has died. I do. I bet
00:46:42.780
you actually might know multiple people. At the very least, you know someone who knows someone. This
00:46:49.400
is the worst drug crisis in American history. It amounts to a poisoning of much of a generation of
00:46:56.740
Americans. 2023, 74,702 people died from fentanyl deaths. Overall drug overdose deaths, about 108,000.
00:47:07.600
So the vast majority of those coming from this one drug that Kamala wants to decriminalize.
00:47:12.920
The year before, even more, 76,226 deaths from fentanyl. Overall overdose deaths, about 111,000.
00:47:22.100
Vast majority is still there. This has been going on for years and years and years. How many hundreds of
00:47:26.380
thousands? Over a million maybe at this point from fentanyl. She wants to decriminalize it.
00:47:34.720
You think, well, it must have been a mistake on the questionnaire, right? Okay, let's talk to
00:47:38.160
Kamala spokesman. This is just last night, ABC News. The reporters on ABC seem to be better than the
00:47:43.260
debate moderators. At the very least, they give a little pushback. Hey, Kamala spokesman, there's no
00:47:48.240
way she really believes this, right? I do want to ask you about this CNN report.
00:47:53.060
It shows Harris voiced support for cutting funding for ICE and for using taxpayer money to fund
00:47:58.260
transgender surgery for detained migrants in 2019. Does the vice president still support those
00:48:04.180
positions? And do you expect her to address them tonight? Listen, I think these old questionnaires
00:48:11.440
are a complete distraction from the task at hand right now. I think the vice president, frankly,
00:48:15.980
what the American people are actually asking about, right? What the American people are concerned
00:48:19.920
about and what they're asking about is who's going to solve for border security.
00:48:25.060
So he can't just say she doesn't believe it anymore. These old questionnaires,
00:48:30.740
the only time Kamala Harris has run in a Democrat primary, she said this is what she believes.
00:48:35.880
And that happens to have been some three years ago. So, okay, she's changed her views. Politicians
00:48:41.740
flip-flop all the time, especially the empty suit types say, listen, that does not reflect her view.
00:48:45.500
She's been very clear. She's a prosecutor. But he doesn't. He says, oh, forget about that.
00:48:50.020
Oh, the opioid crisis, that doesn't matter. Oh, the border crisis, that doesn't matter. Now,
00:48:54.800
forget about that. We got to talk about the important issues like Venn diagrams and yellow
00:48:58.280
school buses. This is a major scandal. One could reasonably conclude Kamala Harris just wants us dead.
00:49:10.220
If she's the border czar and she wants all these murderers, these criminals to cross the border and
00:49:17.400
kill people, and furthermore, she wants all of this poison to cross the border. And then once the
00:49:21.560
poison gets here, she wants to decriminalize the poison. One could reasonably conclude she just
00:49:26.740
wants to kill us. The most charitable interpretation I can imagine is she doesn't understand the law.
00:49:35.160
She doesn't understand how law works. She thinks that when you decriminalize something,
00:49:38.260
you get less of it. That's not what happens. That's a liberal and a libertarian fantasy.
00:49:42.540
But even most reasonable libertarians know that's bogus. That's at the time of the worst drug crisis
00:49:50.360
in American history. And to this day, this isn't an old issue. That spokesman made sure this is not
00:49:56.300
some old issue. This is a today issue. Sure hope that comes up at the next debate. I mentioned,
00:50:02.280
just to tie it all back into the media, I mentioned that Vanity Fair is furious that people are
00:50:06.900
converting to Catholicism. We will get into that story tomorrow, because we've run out of time. You
00:50:13.860
know that I'm such a tease, but it's a very important story, and the media are absolute garbage. So we'll
00:50:17.680
get to that tomorrow. For today, though, it's Woke Wednesday. The rest of the show continues now.
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Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people.
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Growing up, I never thought much about race. It never really seemed to matter that much. At least
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not to me. Am I racist? I would really appreciate it if you love. I'm trying to learn. I'm on this
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journey. I'm going to sort this out. I need to go deeper undercover. Joining us now is Matt,
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certified DEI expert. Here's my certification. What you're doing is you're stretching out of
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your whiteness. This is more for you than this for you. Is America inherently racist? The word
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inherent is challenging there. I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd
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Monument. America is racist to its bones. So inherently. Yeah, this country is a piece of...
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White folks. White trash. White supremacy. White woman. White boy. Is there a black person
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around? There's a black person right here. Does he not exist? They don't say I'm racist.
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Hi, Robin. Hi. What's your name? I'm Matt. I just had to ask who you are because you have
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