Verdict with Ted Cruz - November 01, 2024


Garbage Fallout： Trump's Campaign of Joy, Kamala's Campaign of Rage


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00:00:05.300 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.700 And Senator, every time I think the Democrats can't get any worse at their closing argument for the American people after, you know, calling all this garbage,
00:00:18.480 they then figure out a way to insult even more people, this time women that are supporting Donald Trump.
00:00:24.620 You can't make it up.
00:00:26.440 Well, we are four days out from the election, and in the closing messages, the world is inverted.
00:00:32.200 Today, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, the Democrats, they are angry.
00:00:36.260 They are lashing out.
00:00:37.700 They are insulting everyone.
00:00:39.360 Donald Trump is Hitler.
00:00:40.900 Anyone who supports Trump is garbage.
00:00:42.980 Any woman who votes for Trump is stupid and weak.
00:00:46.260 That's their closing argument.
00:00:47.680 It really is astonishing.
00:00:48.680 And I kind of say on the flip side, the Donald Trump campaign, if I were to sum it up in one word right now,
00:00:54.800 that word would be joy.
00:00:57.640 Ironically, the word that the Kamala campaign tried to make their catchphrase, they've abandoned.
00:01:02.780 They're just bitterly insulting the voters.
00:01:05.320 But Donald Trump is having fun.
00:01:07.300 He's having the most fun I've ever seen him have on the campaign trail.
00:01:10.560 He is a joyful, happy warrior right now.
00:01:13.200 And that contrast couldn't be clearer.
00:01:14.720 Yeah, it certainly is.
00:01:17.460 And it's going to be very interesting to see how this closing argument plays with the American people.
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00:03:16.720 So, there's two things that happened since you and I sat down to do the show last time.
00:03:23.680 President Trump, I think, actually did one of the greatest modern political moves that I've seen,
00:03:32.180 and that was just play into the insanity of the left.
00:03:36.820 While they're calling Trump supporters garbage, he says, hey, let's get a garbage truck.
00:03:42.540 Let's throw Trump on the side of it.
00:03:44.000 Give me a garbage man's vest, and we're going to go out there and have a little fun with this.
00:03:48.740 That is not what most people, I think, were expecting from Donald Trump.
00:03:53.900 Yeah, look, it's a very clear contrast.
00:03:56.320 As I said, on the Democrat side, I think they're getting desperate.
00:04:00.340 I think they're looking at the poll numbers.
00:04:01.780 They feel like this is all slipping away from them, and they're lashing out.
00:04:07.620 They're in denial.
00:04:08.560 They're angry.
00:04:09.440 They're sitting there going, how could we possibly be losing to Donald Trump?
00:04:13.300 And you see them just cracking up.
00:04:15.500 You see Kamala losing it.
00:04:16.860 I mean, her whole pretense at joy has disappeared.
00:04:20.340 She's just lashing out.
00:04:21.720 Now, Joe Biden, of course, stupidly said out loud what the radicals all believe,
00:04:27.780 which is he said that if you're supporting Donald Trump, he thinks you're garbage,
00:04:33.100 a floating pile of garbage.
00:04:34.780 I'll tell you, on the campaign trail across Texas today, now, you know, it's Halloween.
00:04:39.060 I've been campaigning.
00:04:40.100 But at every event I did today, there were people that showed up wearing garbage bags.
00:04:44.240 The garbage bags are selling out at stores because that may be the most popular Halloween costume
00:04:49.700 in the country as people.
00:04:51.160 All right, you're going to laugh.
00:04:52.100 Megyn Kelly dressed in.
00:04:53.980 No, so Megyn Kelly did it.
00:04:55.620 Did you wear a garbage bag?
00:04:57.020 So this is so funny.
00:04:58.740 Tonight, we went out trick-or-treating.
00:05:00.720 I have never seen so many little kids running down the street in garbage bags.
00:05:05.680 It was hysterical.
00:05:07.340 They were wearing MAGA hats, and they were running down the streets in garbage bags.
00:05:10.720 And several of the parents that I did not know, because, you know, we're on a street.
00:05:14.260 There's hundreds of kids.
00:05:15.380 They close off the streets in the subdivision where we get to trick-or-treat to keep everybody safe.
00:05:18.640 And I just, I asked a couple of them.
00:05:21.320 I was like, I was like, this is amazing.
00:05:22.840 And they're like, yeah, our kids were going to be Altuve.
00:05:25.340 Our kid was going to be a football player, a quarterback.
00:05:27.680 And then they were talking about, they said at school, and it just went viral where all
00:05:32.100 these kids are like, let's wear garbage bags tonight.
00:05:35.500 It is an amazing testament.
00:05:38.040 I mean, what Joe Biden said really hit a nerve.
00:05:40.820 It ticked people off.
00:05:42.580 And then I think Trump handled it perfectly.
00:05:45.360 And frankly, Trump's reaction was reminiscent of how he did the McDonald's thing, where rather
00:05:51.360 than, you know, he could have gotten angry and, you know, how dare Kamala lie about working
00:05:55.280 at McDonald's and why is the press such lying SOBs?
00:05:58.960 All of that would have been pretty reasonable to say, but it was much more effective just
00:06:02.540 to go to a McDonald's and make some fries and serve in the drive-thru.
00:06:06.020 And that image, when you think of the iconic images of this election, I think Trump and
00:06:12.860 the McDonald's will certainly be one of the iconic images, and Trump in the garbage truck
00:06:16.620 and Trump giving his speech in the garbage vest will be another one.
00:06:20.640 And take a listen to President Trump describing how that came to be.
00:06:27.080 So this outfit, you know, is when they, when he called us all garbage, how stupid, what
00:06:35.180 a stupid word that blows deplorable away, don't you think?
00:06:40.020 Of course, I thought irredeemable when she said deplorable or irredeemable.
00:06:44.300 I thought irredeemable was actually worse, but deplorable seemed to catch up.
00:06:48.640 But this garbage stuff blows, blows it away.
00:06:51.360 So I'm in this beautiful plane, I'm enjoying myself, have a wonderful suit on.
00:07:03.460 And one of my people came in and said, sir, you know, the word garbage is the hottest thing
00:07:09.520 right now out there.
00:07:13.920 The hottest thing out there, sir, would you like to drive a garbage truck?
00:07:21.360 Now, we're about, you know, 30 minutes from landing.
00:07:31.220 We had to do this pretty quick.
00:07:32.320 I said, it's sort of cool, though, isn't it?
00:07:34.060 Because, you know, and I said, you know, I think that's OK, but, you know, I don't feel
00:07:38.340 comfortable wearing a suit.
00:07:40.900 And they pulled up this garbage truck.
00:07:43.500 I don't know how the hell they did it so fast.
00:07:45.460 I have very capable people.
00:07:47.240 They put a big sign under the truck.
00:07:48.880 Did you see it?
00:07:49.580 I think they showed it.
00:07:57.840 And then they said, sir, we have a vest.
00:08:01.840 I said, well, should I leave my suit on and put it over the vest?
00:08:06.140 But that doesn't look very good, right?
00:08:08.580 That doesn't look good.
00:08:09.620 So I said, all right, look, let me take it off.
00:08:11.320 And then I actually said, I climbed into the truck, but here's the, so I said, how the
00:08:15.840 hell do you get into this truck?
00:08:16.900 It's way up high.
00:08:17.860 It's a big one.
00:08:19.340 This was a beauty.
00:08:20.500 I said, you didn't have to buy it that big, right?
00:08:22.500 You have to get it that big.
00:08:23.620 They brought this brand new, gorgeous truck, wonderful driver.
00:08:27.280 He looked like Cary Grant in his prime.
00:08:29.940 You know who that is?
00:08:31.400 This beautiful driver.
00:08:33.540 And he drove that big thing up.
00:08:36.380 And I said, man, this is bad because now I have all the cameras are all watching.
00:08:40.100 Look, look at all the fake news.
00:08:41.460 Most of them, many of them were there.
00:08:53.880 And I'm saying, oh, boy, you know, one little mistake with these guys and your political career
00:08:58.480 is over.
00:08:59.060 You can't even.
00:09:00.940 So I said, man, if I don't get up there, this is going to be very embarrassing.
00:09:06.200 These stupid people, they'll say he's cognitively and physically impaired.
00:09:11.460 And I can't do that when I'm alongside of this great athlete.
00:09:17.840 I got to get up to that.
00:09:19.340 So, so look, so the stair, the first stair is like up here.
00:09:26.160 So, so I had the adrenaline going and I made it.
00:09:39.920 I made it.
00:09:41.920 And then I gave a little news conference from the front of the, you know, they ask their
00:09:45.660 wise guy questions and everything.
00:09:47.880 And then we drove about two feet.
00:09:51.200 I got out, got into the plane.
00:09:53.040 And then I got in the car and I'm driving over here and I have this still on and I come into
00:09:59.800 the arena and I say, where's my jacket?
00:10:03.320 I want to get out of this thing.
00:10:04.920 And they said, it would be unbelievable if you could wear it on stage.
00:10:10.780 And I said, no way.
00:10:22.360 I got 25,000 people standing outside.
00:10:30.400 I got all these people here.
00:10:31.780 There's no way I'm wearing it on stage.
00:10:34.120 They said, oh, okay, sir.
00:10:35.660 I said, get me my jacket.
00:10:37.480 But if you did, you know, it actually makes you look thinner.
00:10:42.080 I said, and they got me.
00:10:46.960 I said, I want to wear it on stage.
00:10:48.700 When they said, I look thinner, I said, in that case, I'll wear it on stage.
00:11:02.260 I may never wear a blue jacket again.
00:11:05.440 I may go.
00:11:07.600 I may go in this.
00:11:09.080 I said that.
00:11:09.780 That was my, that was the word.
00:11:11.840 That was the key.
00:11:12.740 So you look thinner.
00:11:13.620 So anyway, so we had a little fun about a very serious subject.
00:11:18.960 We had a little fun about a time where our country is not having a lot of fun
00:11:22.860 because we're, we're not doing well as a country,
00:11:25.480 but we're going to be doing well very shortly.
00:11:27.340 I promise you that.
00:11:31.560 I mean, Senator, this is just on so many different levels.
00:11:35.340 So interesting to see.
00:11:36.940 And I think a lot of this is after the assassination attempt.
00:11:40.500 He made fun of himself.
00:11:41.800 He laughed about maybe not being able to get up in the truck and what that would do
00:11:45.520 and they'll ruin your career.
00:11:46.920 He, he, he made fun about, you know,
00:11:49.000 not being the, maybe the fittest guy in the world.
00:11:51.380 And it makes me look thinner.
00:11:52.400 And they had me when they told me the vest made me look thinner.
00:11:55.020 I may never take it off again.
00:11:56.180 I may never wear a jacket again.
00:11:57.920 And then at the very end, he brought it back home.
00:12:00.260 We, and he said, we had a little bit of fun,
00:12:02.400 even after a very serious conversation that needs to be had about them having this
00:12:07.520 much hatred towards us.
00:12:09.060 This is a very different Donald Trump and his closing arguments to America,
00:12:13.380 which is the guy that they said you're not supposed to like is extremely likable.
00:12:18.180 That's absolutely right.
00:12:19.440 And, and I got to say, it's powerful.
00:12:21.180 It's powerful on a number of levels.
00:12:23.040 Number one, the images, the image of him driving the garbage truck,
00:12:27.820 the image of him wearing the vest was everywhere.
00:12:31.260 It dominated the news.
00:12:33.060 It drove the news.
00:12:34.440 And, and, and that means even if somebody had been living under a rock,
00:12:37.880 even if they didn't hear about Joe Biden calling every Donald Trump supporter in America,
00:12:43.480 a floating piece of garbage, they would ask, why is Trump driving a garbage truck?
00:12:48.880 Why is he wearing a vest?
00:12:49.920 And then they would find out, oh, because Joe, Joe Biden said, you're a piece of garbage.
00:12:55.600 That was really powerful and important.
00:12:58.400 It, it, it extended the story.
00:13:00.860 It drove the news.
00:13:02.000 It made sure everyone knew.
00:13:04.040 Listen, I, I, driving on the bus tour, I stopped in a little town in Texas today,
00:13:08.280 Hamilton, Texas, very small town.
00:13:10.220 It's a beautiful, quaint town.
00:13:12.160 And the kids downtown were all trick-or-treating.
00:13:14.900 They, they, they were little kids.
00:13:16.120 We're walking up and down downtown to the stores.
00:13:19.160 And I went in an old drug store that had an old time soda fountain.
00:13:23.100 And I got a root beer float and sat there with a little kid who was, who was dressed up as a, a, a Tron guy.
00:13:28.880 And it was really fun.
00:13:29.920 And I sat there, but there were kids all throughout this little bitty town, Hamilton, Texas, dressed in garbage bags.
00:13:37.220 I mean, it penetrated everywhere.
00:13:40.140 That's really powerful.
00:13:41.200 But, but also the fact that he was, was relaxed, that he was cutting jokes and, and that he was making fun of himself.
00:13:49.420 That is not something, uh, usually in, in Trump's repertoire, to put it mildly.
00:13:55.200 You remember the Al Smith's, uh, dinner that he did, which, which, you know, was the humorous dinner, uh, hosted to support Catholic charities.
00:14:02.000 Now, of course, Kamala Harris skipped the thing.
00:14:04.360 Uh, Trump's speech was really funny.
00:14:06.520 I got to say, my favorite joke that he told, he's about two-thirds of the way through the speech, and he says,
00:14:11.280 okay, now's the portion of the speech where, where I'm supposed to be self-deprecating.
00:14:17.460 I got nothing.
00:14:19.420 And, and it was, he waited just long enough.
00:14:23.760 And, I mean, even the lefty journalist cracked up laughing.
00:14:27.760 And, and listen, this is a good point.
00:14:29.680 You know, when he's talking about, oh, you mean I look thinner?
00:14:31.600 Okay.
00:14:31.920 Oh, wow.
00:14:32.440 I didn't think I could get my foot up there.
00:14:33.620 I mean, you're right.
00:14:34.500 That's the sort of joke that, that, that, that it's real, it's funny, it's, it's approachable.
00:14:41.620 And the contrast to the angry hatred, uh, coming from the other side is really striking.
00:14:50.080 It's why I said in, in, in, in the beginning of the, the pod that joy is, is coming to, you combine this and McDonald's, and this is a joyful campaign in the final four days.
00:15:00.880 It is joyful.
00:15:02.440 And he also is bringing it home.
00:15:04.500 And, and Donald Trump in New Mexico was, was really selling this point to the crowd when, when he reminded them of what this election is about.
00:15:13.880 Kamala and Joe call them, all of them also, they're in your group now.
00:15:21.100 She calls them garbage and he calls them garbage.
00:15:24.360 Oh, you can imagine their conversations, but I call you the heart and soul of America.
00:15:29.980 I call you the people that built our country.
00:15:33.180 You're the people that built our country.
00:15:35.600 I mean, that is, that is bringing home and reminding people, this is the election.
00:15:41.180 I'm here fighting for you.
00:15:42.720 I want you to succeed.
00:15:44.420 I believe in you.
00:15:45.820 You're the heart and soul of the country.
00:15:47.500 You're more than more important than government.
00:15:49.980 They don't look at you as anything but garbage.
00:15:53.340 Yes.
00:15:53.960 And, and, and there's also a double message in this.
00:15:56.800 Look, it's the, the socioeconomic inversion that we have seen in the last decade remains the single most important shift in politics for decades.
00:16:07.500 The conventional wisdom was Republicans are the party of the rich and Democrats are the party of the
00:16:12.700 poor and the working class.
00:16:14.080 I don't know if that was ever the case, but that's what everyone believed it was.
00:16:17.340 That was conventional wisdom.
00:16:19.160 That is now turned on its head.
00:16:21.600 Today, the Democrats are the party of coastal elites.
00:16:24.660 They look down on working men and women.
00:16:26.960 And our party, we are a blue collar party.
00:16:29.600 We are a party of truck drivers and steel workers and cops and firefighters and waiters and waitresses.
00:16:34.960 That's who's at a Trump rally.
00:16:36.080 You and I have been to many Trump rallies.
00:16:38.000 That's who's coming out.
00:16:39.300 Now, this is something I've championed for a long time.
00:16:41.520 Since the day I arrived in the Senate, I've been fighting for our party to be a blue collar party.
00:16:46.720 That has always been my political base is working men and women.
00:16:51.460 But one of the things I loved about his showing up in the garbage truck, not only does it highlight that Joe Biden thinks we're garbage,
00:16:59.060 but I got to tell you, Trump is also representing and getting the votes of the garbage trucks drivers,
00:17:04.540 the people that are working the basic jobs and what he says there in New Mexico.
00:17:09.000 I call you the people who built our country.
00:17:12.060 It's the blue collar workers.
00:17:13.680 It's the union guys who are the ones that are actually doing the hard work.
00:17:17.820 And the Democrats look down on them as the dirty, unwashed masses.
00:17:22.700 They think you stupid people vote for us, but keep your mouth shut and follow our orders because we know better.
00:17:29.100 And that contrast, I think, is night and day and really powerful.
00:17:34.000 Well, and J.D. Vance even hitting home on what you just said, and it went viral.
00:17:38.220 He said a mother mourning her son who died of a fentanyl overdose is not garbage.
00:17:43.020 A truck driver who can't afford rising diesel prices is not garbage.
00:17:46.300 A father who wants to afford groceries is not garbage.
00:17:50.620 Kamala Harris and Joe Biden ought to be ashamed of themselves.
00:17:53.740 He took that more serious reminding role there.
00:17:56.360 And look, Kamala Harris, she had to dodge questions when she was asked about this.
00:18:02.220 As she was getting on the airplane, she was asked about the comments by Joe Biden, and she didn't clean it up very well at all.
00:18:08.960 Do you sympathize with any voters who do feel offended by or insulted by the garbage comments?
00:18:17.140 I am running for president of the United States.
00:18:19.300 I will be traveling to three states today to do what I have been doing throughout, which is talking with the American people about the fact that, first of all, I get it in terms of the concerns they have about challenges like the price of groceries.
00:18:34.160 Second, my highest priority is to address that and to lift them up around their ambitions, their aspirations and their dreams, which is why I have a very specific and detailed plan about strengthening our economy.
00:18:48.500 Many leading economists have reviewed my plan and indicated it will strengthen the economy and that Donald Trump's plan will weaken the economy.
00:18:56.780 So I'm going to be spending full time as I've been talking with the American people, whoever they voted for last time.
00:19:02.740 And as I have said and will repeat over and over again, I am sincere in what I mean.
00:19:08.700 When elected president of the United States, I will represent all Americans, including those who don't vote for me and address their needs and their desires.
00:19:19.920 And then she does what she did so well.
00:19:22.380 She walked away.
00:19:23.760 That was a bad response in a moment where people were looking and even the mainstream media there, they were looking for a real response from her.
00:19:31.300 Like, hey, are you going to put this to bed?
00:19:33.040 Are you going to say something to let people know that you don't actually hate half of America or agree with Joe Biden?
00:19:37.760 She didn't fix it.
00:19:38.900 Well, and the shorter answer, do you sympathize with the Trump supporters who are offended that Joe Biden just called them garbage?
00:19:45.840 Her shorter answer is no.
00:19:47.020 I think the same thing.
00:19:48.280 If you vote for Biden, I, Kamala Harris, think you're garbage.
00:19:52.720 That's the real answer.
00:19:55.080 And it's but, you know, she also she can't get off her script.
00:20:01.300 I mean, think how Bill Clinton would have answered that question.
00:20:04.260 He would have understood.
00:20:05.340 He would have said, of course, he would have he would have completely pivoted and said, you know, praise the American people.
00:20:11.680 He had the instinct that you never attack the voters.
00:20:14.680 You can disagree with your political opponent, but not the voters.
00:20:18.500 The voters should not be the enemy.
00:20:20.540 And the Democrats, as they get desperate, they're lashing out at the voters.
00:20:25.540 How dare you vote for this guy we hate so much?
00:20:29.660 And I'll tell you, it was a bad, bad problem that got worse this week.
00:20:35.100 And it got worse because one of the very top surrogates for the Kamala Harris campaign is Mark Cuban.
00:20:39.940 They're putting him everywhere.
00:20:41.060 They're putting him on The View.
00:20:41.960 They're putting him everywhere.
00:20:42.960 He's like their front guy carrying the message.
00:20:45.140 And so today, Kamala Harris's top surrogate decided it's not enough to insult half of America and call him garbage.
00:20:51.900 Let's go out of the way to really insult women.
00:20:54.180 Let's go after women and say that that if you're a woman and you're backing Donald Trump, that then you are stupid and you're weak.
00:21:02.820 I mean, it really is, again, it's the same strategy of attack the voters that is spectacularly foolish.
00:21:10.160 But give a listen, and I want you to listen to Kayleigh McEnany reacting to it, because her reaction was really just, I think, exactly spot on.
00:21:21.660 Before I play that for you, I want to say thank you to so many of you that have been standing with the people in Israel with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
00:21:30.260 Last Saturday, Israel launched a targeted attack on Iran in retaliation for their massive ballistic missile strike on Israel and their support of Hezbollah terrorists in Iran as well.
00:21:42.060 This is why it's so important that you stand with the people in Israel, because day after day, they are under attack now from all sides.
00:21:50.960 And the people on the ground are desperate for basic needs and necessities.
00:21:56.320 And that is where IFCJ comes in.
00:21:58.840 And IFCJ is providing flak jackets, temporary bomb shelters, food and water for those bomb shelters.
00:22:06.300 And they are also giving armored vehicles, including armored ambulances, to help those that are in need and those that are wounded in these attacks.
00:22:17.240 And that is why it is so important that you stand with the people of Israel right now.
00:22:22.760 Standing with Israel and the Jewish people has never meant so much.
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00:23:20.400 So take a listen.
00:23:21.560 Here's Mark Cuban first.
00:23:23.440 And Kayleigh McEnany, one of these smart women that worked with Donald Trump, explaining and reminding America just how many brilliant women are actually in the conservative movement.
00:23:33.640 Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women.
00:23:37.280 Ever.
00:23:38.460 It's just that simple.
00:23:39.560 They're intimidating to him.
00:23:41.060 He doesn't like to be challenged by them.
00:23:46.340 Kayleigh.
00:23:47.600 Mark Cuban.
00:23:48.940 Okay, I had to take a breath before this.
00:23:50.860 Because this is so profoundly offensive.
00:23:54.880 I worked for Donald Trump.
00:23:56.500 I consider myself a strong woman.
00:23:58.260 I consider those around me strong women.
00:24:00.900 Kellyanne Conway, Brooke Rollins, Ivanka Trump, Hope Hicks, Sarah Sanders.
00:24:06.760 That's before we get to the women that Donald Trump elevated to very high levels, like Nikki Haley, who still supports him.
00:24:13.200 Like Amy Coney Barrett, who he put on the Supreme Court.
00:24:16.140 Or the women currently around him.
00:24:17.620 Susie Wiles comes to mind.
00:24:19.260 Caroline Levitt.
00:24:20.380 That is so offensive.
00:24:21.500 And you know why?
00:24:22.260 Because it's not just about the women who worked for him.
00:24:24.180 He said the women around Donald Trump.
00:24:26.040 This comes right after the Joe Biden garbage comment.
00:24:28.760 Okay, the women around Donald Trump.
00:24:30.060 What about the women who vote for Donald Trump?
00:24:32.040 Are they weak?
00:24:33.040 Are they dumb?
00:24:34.020 Did Mark Cuban just insult any woman who supports Donald Trump?
00:24:37.640 Because it's a little, very small step from that.
00:24:39.760 And this is an official Biden, excuse me, Harris campaign surrogate.
00:24:43.640 Mark Cuban.
00:24:44.480 That is misogynistic in my view.
00:24:46.900 Get out of here, Mark Cuban.
00:24:48.420 Kamala Harris, he's your surrogate.
00:24:50.280 I want to hear from you.
00:24:51.380 Do you agree the women are weak and ineffective?
00:24:53.660 Whatever he said, get out of here.
00:24:55.440 And I can't wait to hear from you, Kamala.
00:24:56.900 By the way, you're going to be waiting a long time to hear from her on this.
00:25:00.040 It is shocking.
00:25:01.020 But as you and I mentioned a moment ago, and Kaylee just said there, Senator,
00:25:05.000 this is their top surrogate that is a non-elected official.
00:25:08.880 And he's been flying around the country.
00:25:10.980 He's been doing the biggest interviews on her behalf.
00:25:13.400 The View is a great example of that where he said this.
00:25:16.260 And this is another moment of their closing argument.
00:25:20.660 If it wasn't bad enough to call half of Americans garbage,
00:25:23.400 now you're insulting women saying you're an idiot or stupid
00:25:26.040 if you actually vote or support Trump.
00:25:28.680 Well, I can actually predict Kamala's response when she's asked about this.
00:25:33.420 She's going to say, look, I was raised in the middle class.
00:25:37.360 That's what she's got.
00:25:39.800 I'm laughing because it's actually a legitimate chance.
00:25:42.940 Like, there should be a Vegas line on that.
00:25:44.720 Like, it's ridiculous, but it's actually not.
00:25:48.040 And by the way, once SNL started mocking her for that ridiculous line,
00:25:54.880 does she not have anyone in her campaign that says,
00:25:58.220 Madam Vice President, please never say that again.
00:26:00.540 Like, just remove it from your repertoire because it is now,
00:26:04.620 every time you say it, it's a laugh line.
00:26:06.760 Like, nobody can listen to anything else you say
00:26:08.660 because they're too busy laughing that that's your response.
00:26:11.480 Either her team won't tell her that or she is unable to resist,
00:26:16.540 but of course she's not going to back away from it.
00:26:19.200 And look, this is the attitude of, I think, Kamala Harris,
00:26:25.260 of Joe Biden, of Hillary Clinton, of Barack Obama.
00:26:29.340 Remember, there is a steady line from you're all garbage
00:26:32.360 if you vote for Donald Trump, that's Joe Biden,
00:26:35.240 to Hillary Clinton, the only people voting for Donald Trump are deplorables,
00:26:40.120 to Barack Obama, the people voting on the other side,
00:26:44.240 the people of America are bitter and angry
00:26:46.780 and clinging to their God and their guns.
00:26:49.480 There is, the modern-day left, they really do have this condescension
00:26:54.360 where they look at garbage truck drivers like they are garbage,
00:26:59.040 like they're just, but they also expect them to vote for them.
00:27:02.460 I mean, it's the most amazing thing that they insult you.
00:27:07.420 Mind you, likewise, Kamala and Biden and Hillary,
00:27:10.460 they expect every woman in America to vote for her,
00:27:14.180 even while they insult you and say,
00:27:17.220 if you're a woman and you're voting for Trump, you're stupid and you're weak.
00:27:19.940 And it's, I got to say that that is not the strategy of a winning campaign.
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00:27:55.200 Well, let me ask you another question.
00:27:59.520 And this is about people that are really concerned about the election coming up.
00:28:04.740 And we have now got a headline.
00:28:07.400 And there's two parts of this headline that will drive you insane.
00:28:11.040 Number one, a Chinese foreign exchange student has been charged with multiple crimes.
00:28:16.480 That's good news.
00:28:17.960 For illegally voting in Michigan on Sunday.
00:28:21.640 Now, again, the headline there, you would think to yourself,
00:28:25.400 well, this is great news.
00:28:26.520 We had a guy that was illegally voting.
00:28:28.480 We caught him.
00:28:30.040 It's not going to count.
00:28:31.460 The problem is Michigan can't and won't disqualify an illegal vote cast by this Chinese national
00:28:39.560 because, quote, it's already been put through a tabulator.
00:28:43.920 So Michigan says, hey, it counts.
00:28:46.920 So there is someone that's going to show up and vote in Michigan.
00:28:49.560 And their vote is going to be canceled out by a Chinese foreign exchange student
00:28:54.640 that has been charged with multiple crimes for illegally voting.
00:28:57.960 But it still gets canceled out.
00:29:00.020 And yet Democrats are still sitting there saying it's racist if you say you have to show an ID before you vote.
00:29:06.840 Well, it's infuriating.
00:29:09.260 And understand why this happens.
00:29:11.720 This happened because the Democrats in Michigan passed a law, their voter ID law,
00:29:16.740 allows people to show a current student photo ID card from an educational institution in order to vote.
00:29:24.940 Now, the only problem is you don't have to be an American citizen to get a student ID.
00:29:29.700 In this case, you had a Chinese national who was from China.
00:29:33.060 He had a student ID.
00:29:34.000 It could be a student.
00:29:36.160 That's allowed.
00:29:37.640 But Chinese nationals are not allowed to vote in American elections.
00:29:42.340 And yet this individual did so.
00:29:44.380 He voted while it was illegal.
00:29:47.300 Two charges against a 19-year-old student.
00:29:50.480 He was not identified, but he is not a U.S. citizen.
00:29:53.240 And he's being charged.
00:29:54.320 And the reason that this is happening is because Democrats don't want you actually to have to prove you're a citizen.
00:30:03.800 You know, there was legislation called the SAVE Act.
00:30:06.980 The SAVE Act, they voted on it in the House of Representatives.
00:30:10.480 And the Democrats on essentially a straight party line vote, Democrat after Democrat after Democrat voted no.
00:30:17.760 The SAVE Act was very simple.
00:30:19.020 It said you have to demonstrate, you have to prove you're a citizen in order to register to vote.
00:30:22.460 It's common sense.
00:30:24.420 And yet, part of the, one of the reasons the Democrats voted no is they claimed, oh, this is not a problem.
00:30:29.920 No non-citizens vote.
00:30:31.240 Well, tell that to the Chinese national who just voted in Michigan.
00:30:34.760 And infuriatingly enough, the Michigan officials say, oh, and by the way, his vote's going to cast.
00:30:39.900 He's illegal.
00:30:41.560 He can't vote legally.
00:30:43.000 And yet we've already tabulated his vote.
00:30:45.100 That's what the Michigan officials are saying.
00:30:46.640 And I'll tell you, I'll bet you a large sum of money, Ben, that the candidate he voted for rhymes with Hamila Karras.
00:30:55.600 And yet, magically, that's going to be included in the vote tallies for Michigan, one of the key swing states.
00:31:03.420 And that's sadly an outcome I think the Democrats want.
00:31:08.460 Well, let's go back to the SAVE Act for a moment.
00:31:12.040 And this, I've heard and had more people come up to me, and I'm assuming you have as well, but I'm interested to see where people say, man, I feel like we're going to win this one.
00:31:22.340 I feel like we're on good footing.
00:31:23.740 I feel like momentum's this way.
00:31:24.780 Unless they cheat, unless something happens where they cheat, you get a story like this, and you see that the person was caught voting illegally.
00:31:35.880 Everybody knows it's illegal, and they're like, sorry, it already went through the tabulator.
00:31:38.600 We can't take it out now, so it's going to count.
00:31:41.400 This is why so many Americans, I think now, have no confidence in our election system.
00:31:47.680 And again, this goes back to what you guys try to do in Congress with the SAVE Act.
00:31:53.480 Remind people of how simple that would have been for us to be able to protect the votes of American citizens.
00:32:02.420 It was a simple requirement that you have to demonstrate American citizenship to register to vote.
00:32:07.860 And that's basic common sense, which is why the Democrats as a party are against it.
00:32:12.640 If they don't want non-citizens to vote, why are they opposed to demonstrating you're a citizen before you register to vote?
00:32:22.160 The answer is obvious, but look, here's the good news.
00:32:25.480 The good news is historically voter fraud has only mattered at the margins.
00:32:29.460 It's only mattered when it was close, which means in states across this country, particularly swing states, in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
00:32:37.740 we got to win by a big enough margin, they can't steal it.
00:32:40.540 Will you see unscrupulous Democrats trying to steal votes?
00:32:44.680 Absolutely.
00:32:45.380 It has happened every election for as long as we've had elections.
00:32:49.200 But the best way, A, we should do what we can to fight it and prevent it.
00:32:53.420 B, we should pass laws to make it more difficult.
00:32:55.640 But we're four days out.
00:32:57.260 The real answer now is that we need to turn voters out in every state in the country and win by such a big margin that nobody can steal the result.
00:33:06.220 As Trump puts it, make it too big to rig.
00:33:09.080 That's got to be, at this point, that has got to be the number one approach.
00:33:13.480 No doubt about it.
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00:35:23.680 Senator, final question for you, and this is an election question.
00:35:28.560 There is massive early voting numbers that are coming in around the country.
00:35:35.080 There are two thoughts on this, and we see that women in swing states are outpacing men by about 10% when it comes to the votes that are coming in early voting.
00:35:47.880 Democrats say this is great.
00:35:50.160 It means that women are showing up, and they're voting on the issue of abortion, which means they're going to vote for Kamala Harris and other Democrats.
00:35:56.500 And then there's others that say, hold on a second, not so fast.
00:36:00.240 Conservatives are voting earlier now, and a lot of single mothers may be voting early, and a lot of mothers are struggling with the economy.
00:36:07.380 What is your gut on this?
00:36:09.200 Because I don't think it's a bunch of people showing up on the abortion issue.
00:36:14.360 Well, look, I think it probably varies state by state.
00:36:17.900 And so I don't know the data in the swing states.
00:36:22.700 I will say right now there is a real and meaningful gender gap in terms of the votes.
00:36:28.320 That if you look at it, Republicans right now are winning married men, Republicans are winning single men, and Republicans are winning married women.
00:36:37.900 However, Republicans are badly losing single women.
00:36:41.720 That is in terms of national polling.
00:36:45.580 So one of the questions that I would have, and this is where it's hard to generalize from data without knowing specifics,
00:36:52.340 but I would be very interested in the states where you're seeing a significantly larger number of women than men showing up early.
00:36:58.840 I would be very interested in the breakdown between married women and single women because there's a significant difference in their voting pattern.
00:37:06.940 I can tell you also, at least in the state of Texas where early voting is happening, we're not seeing a significant differential between women and men.
00:37:15.040 We're seeing about equal numbers of both voting in the state of Texas.
00:37:18.460 I don't know about the other states.
00:37:19.900 I haven't studied the numbers there, but it is difficult to generalize.
00:37:24.720 Look, it's possible if you get a bunch of single women who are voting Democrats showing up in large numbers, that is a good data point for Kamala Harris.
00:37:33.560 I don't know if that's the case or not.
00:37:35.340 It may be that you have a bunch of conservative women.
00:37:37.800 You have a bunch of married women who are coming out to vote for Donald Trump.
00:37:40.900 You are right that Republicans are voting early in significantly greater frequency than they did previously.
00:37:48.060 And I think one of the big reasons for that is that Trump asked them to.
00:37:51.880 And the Republican Party is making a very concerted effort to encourage people to vote early.
00:37:56.520 So that one data point on its own, it's hard to generalize about.
00:38:01.100 You really need to drill down more deeply into the data.
00:38:04.320 It's going to be a tight one.
00:38:05.880 It's a reminder.
00:38:06.960 Go out and vote.
00:38:08.540 It is a very important election wherever you are in the country.
00:38:13.300 Do not wait to the last moment.
00:38:15.720 Get out there and vote wherever you can.
00:38:17.780 And what's crazy is we've just got one more show between now and Election Day.
00:38:23.760 We'll be back with you on Sunday.
00:38:25.560 If you missed anything that happened this week, we'll have the Week in Review on Saturday as well.
00:38:29.940 And make sure you hit that subscribe, auto-download button, and share this podcast on X, on Facebook, on Instagram, wherever you are on social media.
00:38:39.940 And The Center and I will see you with our final show before Election Day on Monday.
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