Verdict with Ted Cruz - August 21, 2024


DNC Gaslighting： Biden Put Out to Pasture & Obamas Demagogue for Kamala


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Ted Cruz and Ben Fergusons break down day two of the Democratic National Convention. They discuss the extreme policies that define the Democratic Party, and the gaslighting tactics being used to delegitimize the sitting President of the United States.

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00:00:00.960 Welcome. It is a verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:05.000 This is also a joint show because we're doing the convention coverage.
00:00:09.100 So many of you listening to my podcast, the Ben Ferguson podcast,
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00:00:15.320 which is always kind of fun. We get to do these.
00:00:17.520 Senator, day two Democratic convention.
00:00:21.120 It has been brutal towards Joe Biden, to say the least,
00:00:25.140 and they have moved on and kicked that guy to the curb.
00:00:27.760 Joe who?
00:00:31.300 Who?
00:00:33.300 Right?
00:00:34.300 This is day two.
00:00:35.400 Some guy that's the president, right? Some random.
00:00:37.820 This is day two of the Democrat convention.
00:00:41.140 We have seen angry protesters, viciously anti-Semitic,
00:00:48.340 Israel-hating, pro-Hamas, Marxist, anti-American, violent protesters.
00:00:54.980 And that's just inside the arena, the actual delegates. 0.58
00:00:59.440 Never mind the people being arrested outside.
00:01:03.120 This has been day two of the propaganda effort from the Democrat Party
00:01:10.420 to erase Joe Biden, to kick him to the curb.
00:01:14.360 Joe who?
00:01:14.880 As I said a minute ago, that is the message of this convention.
00:01:19.840 This is day two of the canonization of Kamala Harris,
00:01:23.280 trying to turn her into something she is not.
00:01:26.900 And this is day two of the extreme policies that define the Democrat Party.
00:01:34.220 We're going to break all of that down on today's pod.
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00:03:28.720 Senator, let's start with the end of day one, which really was part of day two.
00:03:34.580 If you looked at your watch and you were in the Eastern Time Zone,
00:03:37.960 they threw Joe Biden, I mean, to the curb and made sure they buried him.
00:03:44.260 It was like watching him do his own eulogy.
00:03:48.560 They wanted him late at night.
00:03:50.060 They didn't want the American people to see it.
00:03:52.220 They wanted to move on past him.
00:03:54.180 And they threw him at 11 o'clock Eastern Time, a little after 11.
00:03:58.240 He went after midnight Eastern Time.
00:04:00.840 And this is the sitting President of the United States of America.
00:04:03.860 I said this earlier.
00:04:05.360 If they'll do this to Joe Biden, 0.95
00:04:07.740 you really think the Democratic Party or Kamala Harris gives a crap about you, 0.71
00:04:12.940 your family, your struggles, what you're making, inflation, interest rates, or anything else? 0.97
00:04:17.800 They don't care about you.
00:04:19.560 They don't even care about the sitting President.
00:04:21.960 So the Democrat Party allowed Joe Biden to take the stage at 11.37 p.m. Eastern Time.
00:04:29.340 He finished, as you noted, after midnight.
00:04:33.460 The vast majority of viewers had already turned off the TV.
00:04:37.160 The vast majority of viewers may well have gone to bed.
00:04:40.300 That was not an accident.
00:04:42.060 That was by design.
00:04:44.760 So understand, the Democrat Party is engaged in a massive gaslighting effort.
00:04:51.840 It is a gaslighting effort that is driven by the media.
00:04:55.440 They are trying to erase the fact that Joe Biden is the sitting President of the United States.
00:05:02.060 Right now today, he may not know it, but he is.
00:05:05.540 Right now today, if, God forbid, one of our enemies launches an attack on the United States,
00:05:11.380 Joe Biden is still technically the Commander-in-Chief.
00:05:14.080 Now, every Democrat in that convention knows Joe Biden is not mentally competent
00:05:18.440 to make decisions about protecting this nation.
00:05:21.460 He's certainly not mentally competent to make decisions about sending our sons and daughters into harm's way.
00:05:26.980 He's barely mentally competent to operate the TV remote control.
00:05:30.440 They all know that.
00:05:32.820 They also know that if Joe Biden were still the nominee, they would be losing.
00:05:37.320 So, they unceremoniously treated him like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.
00:05:42.420 They invited him to the bar to be a made man, and he walks into the bar, and the bar is empty.
00:05:47.700 And his sentiment is, oh, no, man, oh, no, oh, no.
00:05:50.540 And then you have Robert De Niro banging the phone, the pay phone, into the receiver,
00:05:55.460 so upset that Joe Biden Pesci is gone.
00:05:59.220 And that's what we saw.
00:06:02.360 Now, they did have some moments of poignancy, as we predicted in Monday's pod.
00:06:06.800 They had some moments of, oh, Biden is a great patriot.
00:06:10.700 He put his country in front of himself.
00:06:13.640 To be clear, Biden stepped down, I believe, not because he suddenly had this epiphany
00:06:19.760 that Kamala was the right nominee.
00:06:22.020 I think Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Barack Obama all teamed up together to give him an ultimatum.
00:06:33.620 Joe, you either step down or we will invoke the 25th Amendment and throw you out of office.
00:06:40.340 I don't think there was any – they tried persuasion.
00:06:43.440 They tried it for a couple of months.
00:06:44.500 It didn't work.
00:06:44.980 He didn't want to do it.
00:06:45.880 And I think they utilized brute force and forced him out of office.
00:06:51.720 And then I got to say, to bury him after midnight, Joe Biden was literally competing with QVC and the Shopping Channel
00:07:00.540 with 80-year-olds with blue hair selling fake diamond earrings.
00:07:08.760 That was his competition when he was on air.
00:07:13.320 That says something about the Democrat Party, and their interest is simply memory-holding him.
00:07:20.000 And part of the reason – look, the whole pitch for Kamala is things really suck now, but elect Kamala and they'll be better. 0.79
00:07:29.760 Now, a really inconvenient problem with that is the Democrats are in power.
00:07:35.880 It's their administration if things are terrible.
00:07:39.640 Well, who's put in place the policies that have made them terrible?
00:07:43.660 And by the way, if Kamala has this magic bag of solutions, she's going to wave her wand and suddenly grocery prices are going to plummet. 1.00
00:07:53.860 Well, why isn't she waving her wand right now? 1.00
00:07:56.900 Well, it is entirely smoke-and-mirrors deception, and that's why they wanted Joe Biden after midnight,
00:08:06.900 because they wanted nobody in America to listen to a word the man had to say.
00:08:11.760 And you move into day two, and it was interesting because no one was talking about him until Barack Obama went up on stage.
00:08:20.060 He did a nice, hey, there's a reason why I picked Joe Biden to be my vice president X number of years ago,
00:08:26.560 and the place started doing their chant, we love Joe.
00:08:30.260 And I'm sitting there, and I'm laughing, because I'm like, dude, you were just a part of the coup.
00:08:35.700 Like, Michelle Obama was on right before you, she was a part of the coup.
00:08:39.720 You were in the Godfather families, right?
00:08:42.160 The big five that got together, the Pelosi's and the Schumers and the Obamas and the Clintons
00:08:47.720 and the new Jeffries in the House that said, we're done with you, we're going to force you out.
00:08:56.160 And I'm laughing, because he's like, but he goes up there and says, like, let me tell you why Joe was so great and why I picked him.
00:09:02.180 Now let me move immediately on to Kamala Harris after we screwed him and we kicked him out of the building last night. 1.00
00:09:08.380 And remember, it was done entirely for one reason, because they realized he'd lose.
00:09:13.480 Barack Obama was fine having a barely conscious octogenarian as president, because he was a perfectly acceptable puppet.
00:09:26.300 I believe Barack Obama has been the one pulling the strings the entire time.
00:09:30.120 He was fine with that.
00:09:31.220 He would have been fine for another four years with Joe Biden going to Luby's at 4 p.m. for the Jell-O and being asleep at 6.
00:09:40.120 That fit his needs until it became clear Biden was going to going to leave.
00:09:47.340 This is about power and this is about airbrushing history, about gaslighting the American people to claim Kamala Harris was never the border czar.
00:09:57.840 Nope, these are not the droids you're looking for.
00:10:00.240 Nope, Kamala Harris never said she'd ban fracking. 1.00
00:10:02.640 Never mind the videos that do not believe your lying eyes. 0.84
00:10:06.780 Everything they're saying.
00:10:08.440 No taxes on tips.
00:10:09.580 Great idea.
00:10:10.340 Came from Donald Trump.
00:10:11.260 Nope, nope.
00:10:11.780 This was always Kamala's idea, despite the fact that they've never seen a tax on planet Earth they wanted to cut.
00:10:17.200 That every time Kamala's ever talked about taxes, it's been raise them, raise them, raise them.
00:10:22.100 This is all about a deliberate effort to erase current reality and replace with a Truman Show artificial Potemkin village.
00:10:34.480 Yeah, and then you move into the theme.
00:10:37.140 The theme of the night, night two, as I was sitting there watching this, was very clear.
00:10:43.980 It's going back to play the hits.
00:10:46.440 So hold on.
00:10:47.540 What was the theme?
00:10:48.640 We hate billionaires and we love billionaires.
00:10:50.300 I want you to play these two segments.
00:10:52.520 I want you to play Bernie Sanders and then I want you to play the very next speaker, J.B. Pritzker, because I want you to listen to these two side by side, because it really is priceless, the hypocrisy of today's Democrat Party.
00:11:04.320 Give a listen.
00:11:04.740 We need an economy that works for all of us, not just the billionaire class.
00:11:17.660 My fellow Americans, when 60 percent of our people live paycheck to paycheck, the top one percent have never, ever had it so good.
00:11:32.560 Now, they all clapped, Senator, which was quite funny, because literally the next speaker is a billionaire that they invited to come up on the stage.
00:11:41.800 So the very next speaker is the sitting Democrat governor of Illinois.
00:11:48.360 And he's rich.
00:11:50.800 He's not just a little rich.
00:11:53.140 He's a lot rich.
00:11:54.620 He's a lot rich in the classic way that Democrats are a lot rich, which is he didn't make it himself.
00:12:00.200 He inherited it, and now he wants to tax the hell out of everyone else and stop everyone else from becoming rich.
00:12:06.420 But have a listen to literally the very next speaker.
00:12:10.040 So Bernie Sanders, if I could sum him up in one sentence, billionaires are bad.
00:12:15.840 Next speaker, play it.
00:12:17.280 Thinks that we should trust him on the economy because he claims to be very rich.
00:12:22.960 But take it from an actual billionaire.
00:12:30.740 I mean, take it from an actual billionaire.
00:12:33.620 He's saying Donald Trump's no billionaire.
00:12:35.220 I'm a billionaire.
00:12:36.460 One speaker apart, this is the Democratic Convention.
00:12:39.840 And then you add in this class warfare.
00:12:42.440 Michelle Obama went on stage.
00:12:43.740 But let me make another point about that.
00:12:46.100 Yeah.
00:12:46.280 Bernie says 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
00:12:50.900 The top 1% have never had it so good.
00:12:54.560 Help me on this, Ben.
00:12:55.840 Who's the current president?
00:12:57.400 That would be a guy by the name of Joe Biden, I think.
00:13:01.400 Who's the current vice president?
00:13:03.280 Yeah, Kamala Harris, who's the acting president. 0.86
00:13:04.700 Who's the current majority leader of the Senate?
00:13:07.340 Yeah, that would be a Democrat, Schumer.
00:13:08.980 So, Bernie is saying, when we, the Democrats, are in power, the top 1%, the billionaires, have never had it so good.
00:13:21.960 And then Pritzker goes, I'm a billionaire.
00:13:24.680 And the crowd goes nuts.
00:13:26.340 Yeah.
00:13:26.960 And then Michelle Obama, and it was clearly they went for class warfare is the theme of the night.
00:13:31.360 She came out and said her parents were, quote, suspicious of folks who took more than they needed.
00:13:39.500 Now, I have...
00:13:40.560 Now, hold on.
00:13:41.340 That can't be right.
00:13:42.280 I can't believe that.
00:13:43.840 Play the clip, because she couldn't have said that.
00:13:45.680 No one can be that unselfaware.
00:13:49.440 How is that possible?
00:13:50.420 Let's hear what she said.
00:13:51.200 You see, my mom, in her steady, quiet way, lived out that striving sense of hope every single day of her life.
00:14:07.220 She believed that all children, all people have value, that anyone can succeed if given the opportunity.
00:14:17.180 She and my father didn't aspire to be wealthy.
00:14:22.120 In fact, they were suspicious of folks who took more than they needed.
00:14:27.480 I love it, because, and again, I want to be clear, I want my kids to be successful.
00:14:33.100 That doesn't mean they have to be rich to be successful, but I don't fault anyone for being successful.
00:14:38.220 But when you come out and you say it the way she did, it sounds like communism 101.
00:14:43.000 And can I just remind everybody, they have at least three houses that we know of.
00:14:46.620 They got a net worth of $160 million?
00:14:49.100 I mean, come on!
00:14:51.840 So, she says they didn't trust anyone who took more than they needed.
00:14:56.880 And the entire stadium erupted in applause.
00:15:00.440 Look, this is a stadium full of Marxists. 1.00
00:15:04.140 But like all Marxists, they're hypocrites. 0.99
00:15:07.740 Michelle Obama stood there. 0.98
00:15:09.040 As you noted, she owns three houses. 0.98
00:15:10.660 Let me ask you, Ben, how many houses do you own?
00:15:13.660 I've got one.
00:15:14.620 I'm just a commenter like that.
00:15:16.620 So, let me ask you also, Ben.
00:15:19.480 They have a multi-million dollar estate in Martha's Vineyard.
00:15:22.980 How big is your estate in Martha's Vineyard?
00:15:25.200 Yeah, I don't have one of those.
00:15:27.260 They fly private jets everywhere they go.
00:15:30.320 Do you have a private jet?
00:15:31.840 I do not have one.
00:15:32.760 I would love to have one, but I do not have one.
00:15:34.720 I'm still a commenter.
00:15:35.460 So, my question, look, I don't fault.
00:15:38.540 And by the way, Michelle Obama and Barack Obama get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for giving paid speeches.
00:15:47.380 Do you get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to give paid speeches?
00:15:50.060 In fact, she got $750,000 that was reported for a one-hour speech earlier this year, apparently.
00:15:55.940 You know, let me just ask.
00:15:58.080 Is $750,000 more than she needed? 0.69
00:16:01.920 Because she just said that her mom didn't trust people who took more than she needed.
00:16:05.480 And by the way, you're a published author.
00:16:11.340 Have you gotten paid tens of millions of dollars for your books?
00:16:14.520 No.
00:16:14.980 No, I did not.
00:16:16.760 Okay.
00:16:17.240 I actually, I was trying to make a point about Michelle.
00:16:19.460 I'm just feeling bad about you now, man.
00:16:22.460 Look, you're a capitalist.
00:16:23.920 You're a conservative. 0.98
00:16:24.820 I was actually trying to call her a hypocrite, but I'm now just thinking, Ben, you need to work harder. 0.97
00:16:29.920 I need to work harder. 0.99
00:16:31.000 I need to sell this class warfare crap, right? 0.99
00:16:34.160 Just sign up and sell it and just say, hey, I'm a Democrat. 1.00
00:16:38.080 Everybody else, be poor.
00:16:39.660 I'll get rich off of a party that you can convince, apparently, of anything,
00:16:44.240 including that you shouldn't take more than your fair share when you're sitting there going to,
00:16:48.340 which house are we going back to tonight, honey, right?
00:16:50.160 Like, are we going to D.C.?
00:16:51.200 Are we going to the vineyard?
00:16:52.000 Are we going to California?
00:16:52.880 Are we going to Hawaii?
00:16:54.180 What plane are we going to take tonight?
00:16:56.240 That is the Democratic Party.
00:16:57.400 And listen, to be clear, I don't fault Barack and Michelle Obama for their financial success. 0.98
00:17:04.160 What I do fault them for is utter and complete hypocrisy.
00:17:08.460 What I fault them for is pushing the notion that anyone who is successful is wrong and evil unless, unless, unless they bow to the knee of to the leftist Democrat Party.
00:17:23.100 You can be celebrated as a billionaire if you're a communist, if you want to tax people oppressively, control them oppressively, if you support leftist policies, it's okay.
00:17:37.600 If not, they will demonize you. 0.95
00:17:39.640 And it's that utter hypocrisy that is just galling.
00:17:42.100 You know, it's interesting because you mentioned that, and I wasn't planning on playing this, but I'm going to now.
00:17:47.760 This party has been a party of endless hateful rhetoric.
00:17:51.560 This is a party that even on TV over the last 24 hours had implied that maybe J.D. Vance, somebody should be raped in their family and have to go through what a rape victim goes through and have a child. 0.97
00:18:03.000 And then doubled down on it, refused to apologize for that. 1.00
00:18:07.340 This is the party that's out there getting arrested and fighting and saying that it should be death to Israel, death to Jews.
00:18:12.140 It's the party that went after Donald Trump in every capacity they could, whether it was trying to lock him up, take his, take all of his property, frame him for crimes he didn't commit. 0.93
00:18:21.500 And then tried a coup attempt on him by a document that they knew they paid for in the Steele dossier.
00:18:26.640 But Michelle Obama got up there on stage and she said this again, the same party of endless hateful rhetoric of a brighter day, the chance to vanquish the demons of fear, division and hate that have consumed us.
00:18:45.980 And continue pursuing the unfinished promise of this great nation.
00:18:51.940 What world are we living in, Alternative Universe, where you get to go up on stage and say that while you're the party?
00:18:59.900 She also said, by the way, quote unquote, a moment later, we don't get to change the rules so we always win.
00:19:05.940 I'm sorry, did you guys not just have a coup against the sitting president, thrown after midnight and hand somebody because you wanted a chance to, quote, always win?
00:19:14.920 All the delegates that no one voted for her?
00:19:19.300 Did that not just happen in the last four weeks?
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00:19:25.600 For the first time in modern history, a major political party has nominated as president a human being for whom not one single person on planet Earth in this year voted for as president.
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00:19:43.440 And yet there's no acknowledgement of it.
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00:21:47.160 Senator, let me also ask you about the fact that the theme is to promote, you know, Harris.
00:21:54.420 And they're doing a pretty good job of that.
00:21:56.740 They're saying her name over and over and over and over again.
00:22:01.340 They're trying to prop her up.
00:22:04.040 However, D.C. insiders are saying there's, quote, deep fear inside the Democratic Party that Kamala Harris is Walter Mondale 2.0, who lost in a landslide to Reagan after campaigning on tax hikes, which they have now put out there.
00:22:20.020 And they worry that actually Kamala may be worse because you're dealing with tax hikes plus record inflation plus government price controls, communism that she said we need.
00:22:32.500 And not even Mondale campaigned on that.
00:22:36.580 That is still the fear behind the scenes.
00:22:39.160 Just to put it in perspective, by the way, Mondale, when he campaigned, inflation was 18% back then in the early 1980s.
00:22:49.900 Using the government's previous formula, factoring in rising rates and more, it is likely now higher than it was then when it comes to the actual consumer going to the store.
00:23:02.060 So, listen, those concerns of Democrats are well-founded.
00:23:08.320 You know, if you look at, number one, this election, this election next year in 2025, most of the 2017 tax cuts are expiring.
00:23:20.340 Donald Trump has said if he's president, he will extend those tax cuts and we will need a Republican House and Senate.
00:23:27.120 If we have a Republican House and Senate and Donald Trump in the White House, we will extend the 2017 tax cuts.
00:23:33.280 And I hope and believe we'll make them even bigger and bolder.
00:23:36.000 That's what I'm arguing for is not just extend them, but have even bigger and bolder tax cuts that will help working families, help job creators, help turn the economy around.
00:23:45.620 That is multiple trillions of dollars.
00:23:50.140 On the flip side, Kamala Harris has said if she is president, she will allow the tax cuts to expire. 0.96
00:23:58.000 That will result in a multiple trillions of dollar tax increase.
00:24:04.060 The Wall Street Journal has dubbed this election the six trillion dollar election because that's the delta in taxes.
00:24:12.380 Six trillion dollars between Trump cutting taxes and Kamala raising taxes.
00:24:17.520 That is a massive amount.
00:24:19.780 This is also the first time in your and my lifetime since Walter Mondale that a major party presidential nominee has campaigned on massive tax increases.
00:24:32.840 And Mondale ran in 1984.
00:24:36.080 Now, I don't know.
00:24:37.740 You may not have been old enough to remember that election.
00:24:39.800 I remember it well.
00:24:41.720 I was three.
00:24:43.260 I'm going to age myself down right now and just make you feel a little bit older, sir.
00:24:47.480 I'm going to enjoy this moment.
00:24:50.060 Listen, Reagan had a way of making you feel young and youthful and optimistic.
00:24:57.260 And so you knew at age three it was morning in America.
00:25:00.680 There you go.
00:25:01.360 So in the debate in 1984, Walter Mondale, who, like Tim Waltz, was from Minnesota, Walter Mondale turned to Reagan and he said in the debate, he said, both of the candidates in the on this stage are going to raise your taxes.
00:25:22.560 And he points at Reagan and says, he won't tell you that I just did.
00:25:28.620 Walter Mondale lost forty nine states.
00:25:32.760 The only state he won was his home state of Minnesota, and he almost lost that one.
00:25:38.380 Kamala is now trying to to retread that path. 1.00
00:25:43.700 Now, we're living in a different world.
00:25:46.500 In 1984, you actually had a functioning media.
00:25:49.240 You had journalists who reported on facts.
00:25:51.820 We now have a media who are engaged in nonstop, relentless propaganda.
00:25:57.640 And what is dangerous about this election, part of the reason Kamala is enjoying a surge right now, the media intends to spend billions of dollars between now and Election Day trying to canonize her, trying to lionize her, trying to turn her into St. Kamala. 0.92
00:26:13.120 And so we'll see if explicitly saying she's going to jack up everyone's taxes, if that hurts her. 0.99
00:26:22.400 We'll also see if being the border czar and presiding over the worst illegal immigration in our nation's history, if that hurts her. 1.00
00:26:29.260 We'll see if bailing out violent criminals rioting in Minneapolis, if that hurts her. 0.82
00:26:35.880 And in my view, and you and I have talked about this on this pod multiple times, if this election is about the issues, we win.
00:26:44.080 Kamala and the Democrats and the media all desperately, desperately, desperately want to make it not about the issues, make it about fuzzy personality and feel-good sentiments.
00:26:56.560 And if they do that, they believe they can win.
00:26:59.360 Yeah, and the Democrats, look, yeah, they dropped Biden.
00:27:01.640 That's a fact.
00:27:02.380 But make no mistake about it, Kamala Harris is even more radical. 0.88
00:27:05.640 Who's that guy?
00:27:06.020 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:27:06.800 Who's that random guy?
00:27:07.720 Some guy that is playing President of the United States of America right now.
00:27:11.020 I saw an old guy kind of yelling at the TV.
00:27:14.360 Who was he?
00:27:16.580 That's called Jack that Joe.
00:27:18.540 One hell of a drug.
00:27:19.680 I didn't because I'd gone to sleep by then, but I'm told there was someone.
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00:27:55.780 All right, let's geek out for a second on policy because this is when I love doing this show.
00:28:01.440 And I love comparing the history of what was happening and go back to Mondale.
00:28:09.060 Mondale was an old school Democrat, right?
00:28:12.880 It was the old school tax, spend, and regulate Democrat.
00:28:17.260 That was what he was.
00:28:19.420 That was the lane.
00:28:20.900 You look at Harris and Walsh now.
00:28:23.240 They're just to eliminate all that.
00:28:25.180 When it comes to market-driven economy, we don't believe in that, right?
00:28:30.100 Like, we replace that with an authoritarian socialist state with new programs and crazy ideas like DEI,
00:28:40.000 where we pick our best people and jobs by the color of their skin, not by their qualifications.
00:28:44.840 We put in price controls.
00:28:46.740 And if you don't believe this is what Harris believes, let me remind you of what Harris said back in 2020.
00:28:53.200 I will snatch their patent so that we will take over. 0.78
00:29:00.660 And yes, we can do that.
00:29:02.980 Yes.
00:29:03.660 Yes, we can do that.
00:29:05.680 Yes, we can do that.
00:29:07.240 It's the question is, do you have the will to do it?
00:29:10.280 I have the will to do it.
00:29:12.020 I mean, she was talking there about ideas and a patent.
00:29:15.800 That was in Iowa.
00:29:17.120 And it was played a little bit back then.
00:29:19.820 But it's a reminder.
00:29:21.040 She doesn't believe that anything that anyone creates and or does is theirs.
00:29:24.840 I can snatch up any idea I want to.
00:29:26.940 I can snatch up any business I want to.
00:29:29.060 I can snatch up any industry that I want to.
00:29:32.720 This is what they are now.
00:29:34.460 This is not what Mondale was and the old school Democrat of, hey, you know, high taxes, spend a lot of money and regulate.
00:29:40.780 This is completely different.
00:29:43.740 So Bernie Sanders is openly a socialist.
00:29:47.340 He's not actually a member of the Democrat Party.
00:29:49.220 He runs as a socialist in Vermont.
00:29:52.060 Elizabeth Warren is at least a hardcore socialist. 0.97
00:29:58.800 Kamala's voting record is to the left of both of them.
00:30:03.700 I served with her in the Senate.
00:30:05.460 I know Kamala well.
00:30:06.380 One hundred percent of the time she voted hard, hard left.
00:30:11.300 This is a party I believe that today is a Marxist party.
00:30:15.920 Now, Marxist is not just an empty pejorative.
00:30:19.160 This is a party that is born of academic elites.
00:30:21.960 This is a party that is born of of the same Marxists that have taken over our universities that have corrupted our universities.
00:30:30.220 There's a reason that that you don't see people at this Democrat Party talking about October 7th because their sympathies are with the Hamas terrorists, because like any good Marxist, they divide the world into victims and oppressors. 0.59
00:30:45.600 And they view Jews as as oppressors and Palestinians as victims when it comes to the clip you just played, when she's saying we can snatch your patent, we can seize your property.
00:30:58.880 Understand patent is intellectual property.
00:31:01.540 It is something you've invented.
00:31:02.940 You own.
00:31:03.520 It is your property rights.
00:31:04.760 And she's saying we, the government, can take whatever you have if we want it.
00:31:10.200 That's a sentiment that Marxists have always expressed.
00:31:14.000 Yes, there is no private property.
00:31:16.000 We are in charge.
00:31:18.540 And that is the view, sadly, that is becoming more and more commonplace in this Democrat Party.
00:31:24.920 Now, Kamala and the media will do everything they can to hide those views for the next 80 days.
00:31:30.440 They don't want the voters to know that.
00:31:32.180 They're going to paint her as nice and simple and normal and happy days are here again
00:31:38.340 because they are trying to obfuscate how radically out of touch her record is.
00:31:46.620 You also have the optics of the party right now, and the Democratic Party is very much acting like they are united.
00:31:52.960 But there was some reporting that came out night, too, and it said VP Kamala Harris held an event 90 miles away from the DNC on the night the party's two most popular figures, Barack and Michelle Obama, campaigned on her behalf.
00:32:07.360 And a source familiar with the DNC planning tells Fox that the choice was made out of sensitivity and respect for, quote, Joe Biden.
00:32:16.240 Obama's are still not on the White House good side, quote, unquote.
00:32:20.840 Why?
00:32:21.120 Because, well, they were part of the coup.
00:32:22.980 A source familiar with the situation said, quote, it would not be helpful to their relationships, quote, unquote.
00:32:29.840 Fox is told this plan came together to avoid the optics of Harris still serving as Biden's VP,
00:32:35.880 appearing alongside one of the figures he views as responsible for driving him out of office, driving the end of his reelection bid.
00:32:44.000 At the very convention, which was supposed to be his his only weeks ago, quote, we are in tricky territory, the source said to Fox.
00:32:54.140 Now, I find a little bit of hope in this because you mentioned the media.
00:32:58.720 You mentioned everything's supposed to be kumbaya, but there's still a lot going on behind the scenes.
00:33:05.340 There are still people, by the way, and I tweeted this out when I was watching Michelle Obama and she came out.
00:33:10.340 I said, go and compare the crowd noise and the excitement when Michelle Obama walked out to when Kamala Harris walked out.
00:33:19.300 And they love Michelle more than they love their president for their candidate for the White House.
00:33:24.680 Well, look, that's clearly true.
00:33:26.600 And you and I 11 months ago predicted, number one, that Joe Biden, the Democrats would throw him off the ticket.
00:33:31.580 We were right on that.
00:33:32.540 But number two, I predicted that they would replace him with Michelle Obama.
00:33:37.440 Now, I got to say, if they had, I think their odds of winning would be very, very high.
00:33:44.680 If I were a Democrat, I would have been all in on the team Michelle because Michelle would have been a incredibly formidable candidate. 1.00
00:33:53.580 I think they tried to convince Michelle to do it.
00:33:56.080 I think she said no.
00:33:57.000 And you and I talked about at the time what would prevent that.
00:34:00.380 And I said two things would prevent that.
00:34:01.900 One, if Joe refused to go, and I think he did refuse to go for month after month after month until they finally forced him out by threatening the 25th Amendment.
00:34:10.600 And then I said, number two, maybe just maybe Michelle would say no.
00:34:14.340 Why?
00:34:15.300 Because she likes to take more than she needs. 1.00
00:34:17.620 Why?
00:34:17.940 Because she likes to fly on a G5.
00:34:20.440 Why?
00:34:20.980 Because she likes Martha's Vineyard. 0.90
00:34:22.500 Why?
00:34:22.800 Because she likes to party with Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney.
00:34:25.340 Why?
00:34:26.120 Because she lives the life of a movie star and so decided not to do that.
00:34:31.060 Now, I'm grateful for America that she did because, as I said, she would have been an incredibly dangerous candidate.
00:34:37.760 But I got to say, listening last night to Michelle Obama and listening to Barack Obama,
00:34:43.560 those two may be the two most dangerous demagogues our country has seen in a generation. 0.98
00:34:50.740 Barack Obama, listening to him talk, that man is a talented communicator.
00:34:57.160 I disagree with him on virtually every issue.
00:35:00.260 I think Barack Obama is the progenitor of the Marxist takeover of the Democrat Party.
00:35:06.840 I think that is his ideology.
00:35:09.300 It is born of the radical extremism in our universities.
00:35:13.140 And but but he can dress it up in a way that it doesn't sound extreme.
00:35:19.820 It is dangerous.
00:35:21.000 And I'll say one thing I thought about last night during the convention.
00:35:24.540 Thank God for the 22nd Amendment. 1.00
00:35:27.760 Thank God for the limitation of two terms as a president, because if Barack Obama was still running, he might be president for another decade.
00:35:36.800 And so I'm grateful that he can't formally have the job, but he remains incredibly potent and incredibly dangerous because he masks up extreme radicalism in a way that seems innocuous, that seems nonthreatening.
00:35:52.360 And it seems very hip and very cool.
00:35:54.720 Well, I stopwatched it.
00:35:56.240 He literally demonized Republicans for 31 minutes and then called for unity.
00:36:02.900 I mean, who can do that unless you're an incredibly talented politician where you trash the other side?
00:36:10.280 And by the way, I'm still waiting for somebody in prime time to say they're glad that Donald Trump is alive and wasn't and wasn't assassinated.
00:36:16.900 That's not ever that hasn't come out of anybody's mouth.
00:36:19.640 No, they're trying to completely erase that gas, gaslight that and just completely erase it from public consciousness that it even happened.
00:36:28.760 And here we are.
00:36:30.360 Two other questions I want to dive into real quick.
00:36:33.960 I haven't seen a lot of American flags of the Democratic Convention, except if they're being burnt outside of the DNC.
00:36:41.880 Democratic supporters are there burning the American flag.
00:36:45.340 We are seeing, I would argue, a fair amount of arrests.
00:36:49.560 We've had a second perimeter wall that's had to be put up because of the pro-Hamas, pro-terrorist protesters.
00:36:54.740 We're able to break through the first wall yesterday and the Chicago police, you know, for Democrats, they're all about defund the police until they need to protect their convention.
00:37:06.060 And many of the Democrats are being protected by these police are the same ones that have been demonizing and attacking the police.
00:37:13.020 One of them, by the way, is Kamala Harris.
00:37:14.560 Let's not let her off the hook for that.
00:37:16.500 And we also found out from that from the people in charge.
00:37:20.380 They said, don't worry if it's a misdemeanor.
00:37:22.120 No one's going to be charged with any crime.
00:37:23.760 So go out there and do what you want during the convention.
00:37:26.980 So I think it's worth asking yourself, why is it that anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protesters burn the American flag?
00:37:37.500 And the reason is simple.
00:37:39.860 Those who hate Israel hate America.
00:37:43.360 And when you understand that simple reality, it tells you an enormous part amount about the delegates that are in that convention hall.
00:37:55.760 Why is Josh Shapiro not Kamala Harris's VP nominee?
00:38:00.360 Answer, because he's Jewish.
00:38:02.480 And Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party did not want to piss off the angry protesters outside who are burning American flags.
00:38:11.200 That is more and more the base of the Democrat Party.
00:38:14.620 And understand, they don't just hate Israel.
00:38:17.320 They hate America as well.
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00:40:07.220 So let's look ahead into the political crystal ball, Senator.
00:40:13.300 You still have a candidate that the Democratic Party isn't that excited about.
00:40:19.340 That behind the scenes, they're worried and nervous that the coronation is now coming back down to the reality,
00:40:27.020 which is she was not liked as a vice president for the last three and a half years.
00:40:31.640 She was not liked as a presidential candidate either. 0.96
00:40:34.700 And was like one of the first ones out of the race. 0.91
00:40:39.140 And now she's back in prime time.
00:40:42.040 What does she have to do to sell herself to the American people? 1.00
00:40:45.320 Can she overcome all of that?
00:40:47.180 Or are they just screwed because Harris is, at the end of the day, still Harris?
00:40:51.640 Well, look, they're motivated by two things. 0.64
00:40:55.100 Number one, a lust for power.
00:40:58.080 And Democrats are united in a lust for power.
00:41:01.060 They are willing to do just about anything to stay in power.
00:41:04.940 They were perfectly willing to be behind a president who is all but comatose.
00:41:11.280 They knew that.
00:41:12.320 Everybody knew that.
00:41:13.460 And yet it kept them in power.
00:41:16.120 So it was just fine with them to have a commander in chief who was not capable of defending this nation.
00:41:21.740 By the way, it's also why they're willing to embrace policies like open borders and the invasion of this country because they look at 11 and a half million million illegal immigrants as future Democrat voters.
00:41:33.320 And so power justifies everything.
00:41:36.320 And this is a Democrat party that they follow orders.
00:41:41.780 They are collectivists.
00:41:43.540 They are authoritarian.
00:41:44.760 So they all follow orders.
00:41:46.180 So everyone is on Team Kamala.
00:41:48.240 By the way, I don't think you're going to hear much complaining, even from the Biden circles, about him being forced out because when they crack the whip, this is a party that everybody gets on board, even Joe Biden, after he's been put out to pasture.
00:42:01.600 But secondly, what is going to motivate Democrats in this election?
00:42:05.660 Hatred for Donald J. Trump.
00:42:07.560 It's why the word Trump is the most frequent word uttered at the convention, because that's what they're all unified.
00:42:14.940 They might disagree on other things, but they all agree we hate Trump.
00:42:19.640 Those two things are going to motivate a lot of Democrats. 0.56
00:42:22.380 And we got to make sure that the American people are focused on the issues, focused on the policy, focused on the substance, focused on the utter failures of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden's policies and how they've hurt the American people.
00:42:36.880 If we can focus on the issues, we win.
00:42:39.340 It's always fun.
00:42:40.420 We get to do a joint pod, Senator.
00:42:42.220 And so for everybody listening to Verdict with Ted Cruz, thank you.
00:42:45.540 If you're listening on my podcast, the Ben Ferguson podcast, thank you as well.
00:42:49.040 Hit that subscribe auto download button and we're going to be back with you more this week as we get to give you an analysis on what Kamala Harris actually says.
00:43:00.540 Don't forget, don't forget, share this on social media wherever you are.
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