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Ep. 2034 - RFK ENDORSES Trump, Kamala’s Still Hiding

2024/8/26
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本集节目主要分析了2024年美国大选的最新局势,特别是针对民主党候选人卡玛拉·哈里斯的竞选策略和媒体报道。主持人认为,哈里斯的竞选活动刻意隐藏其政策立场和过往言行,试图将其塑造成一张白纸,并利用媒体的偏向性报道来掩盖其不足。同时,主持人批评了民主党操纵初选、更换候选人以及向哈里斯竞选活动投入巨额资金的行为。此外,节目还分析了特朗普的竞选策略,建议特朗普应该积极攻击哈里斯的政策,并利用其在任总统期间的经验来反驳哈里斯的言论。最后,节目还讨论了RFK Jr. 退出竞选并支持特朗普对选情的影响。

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Kamala Harris's 37-day silence on key issues raises concerns about her transparency and accountability. Her lack of engagement with the press contrasts sharply with the traditional expectations of a presidential candidate in a democratic election. This evasion strategy aims to shield her from scrutiny and maintain a carefully crafted image.
  • Harris has not answered serious questions in 37 days.
  • She became Vice President despite winning zero primary votes.
  • Her campaign received a $540 million influx of cash after Biden's exit.

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Well, folks, believe it or not, we are now in the home stretch of the 2024 election. Both the RNC and the DNC have taken place. We are still sort of awaiting word as to how much of a convention bounce Kamala Harris received after the DNC or how much of a reverse bounce Donald Trump then received after RFK Jr.'s endorsement on Friday. Suffice it to say that the race is extremely close. You've seen a little bit of national polling suggesting that Kamala Harris has jumped into a fairly solid lead, six or seven points.

But that is not durable polling at this point in time yet. We have to see how everything sort of settles out, how it shakes out. Right now, in the RealClearPolitics polling average, Kamala Harris has about a one and a half point lead in the Nate Silver expectation in terms of popular vote, which is about a four point lead. In the states, however, this thing is absolutely tight as a tick. We are talking about a dead heat in pretty much every state. The following states are all within two percentage points in the polling average, according to RealClearPolitics. Wisconsin,

Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, and Georgia. Remember, just for the sake of the map, in order for Donald Trump to win, he has to win North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and then one of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, or Michigan. That's what he has to win in order to take the presidency back from the Democrats. In order for the Democrats to win, they can lose North Carolina, Georgia,

Arizona and Nevada, as long as they hold Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. So, again, most of this comes down to the blue wall. If they pick up any of those other states, good indicator that Kamala Harris will, in fact, be the next president of the United States. But all of these polls are basically dead heats. Wisconsin is a one point game in favor of Kamala Harris. Again, that's within margin of error. Pennsylvania is a dead heat. Trump plus point.

two michigan harris plus two arizona trump plus 0.2 nevada trump plus 1.4 north carolina trump plus 0.9 and georgia trump plus one these are very very tight numbers now here's the thing we may have hit the high water mark for kamala harris this is the point that i was making last week she has now gone gotta update the timer gotta update the clock here we go you ready

37 days without answering a single serious question about, you know, defenestrating her boss and then taking over and about the fact she's been vice president for the past three and a half years. And why exactly she's not running as the incumbent? Why is she running away from her own record at this point? 37 days, which is absolutely sickening and disgraceful. What we just watched is one of the most jaw-droppingly historic moments in American history where the sitting president,

and the nominee of a major party is completely supplanted by a person who has won zero, count them, zero primary votes. And then no one asks a single thing about this person's positions. In fact, they run screaming from having to answer any questions about this person's position.

If you want to look at the definition of machine politician, Kamala Harris is a machine politician. She was literally put into place after winning zero primary votes as vice president because many of the activist members of the Democratic Party base and the Democratic Party honchos decided they were going to elevate Kamala Harris.

Kamala Harris to the position of the vice presidency because of her intersectional qualities, because she was a black woman. And it's not me that said it. It was Joe Biden that said it. Every time he talked about how historic it was that he had selected her, he was tacitly and not so tacitly saying that he had selected her because of those qualifications. It certainly wasn't because of her massively successful presidential run where she dropped out so early she didn't even make it to her home state of California.

Barack Obama, if you'll recall, in 2019 was very disappointed at Kamala Harris's performance because he wanted her to be the nominee. He was a Harris ally, not a Biden ally. And then she fell out of favor. And then Barack Obama sort of put in the final note to Joe Biden to pick Kamala Harris, which, as it turns out, was a horrible move because she then proceeded to backstab him along with Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and all the rest. And the minute, literally the minute that Kamala Harris steps into the race, all the

All the positions are shaken up. All the positions are etch-a-sketched out of existence. They don't exist anymore. She is no longer linked with the administration that bears her name. It's been the Biden-Harris administration since day one. That was a point that Joe Biden publicly made over and over.

He would not stop saying Biden-Harris, Biden-Harris, Biden-Harris. And now we are told that not only is she an amazing politician, which she is not, we are told she has no responsibility for anything that has happened under the Biden administration, despite the fact that, yes, he did in fact call her his borders are, despite the fact that

that she has been involved in supposedly every major foreign policy decision of his presidency, including the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, where she bragged she was the last person in the room. It turns out that she was also put in charge of the National Space Council. Well, weirdly enough, we now have two astronauts who are literally stuck in space. There is no way to get them back down. So everything she touches is a giant fail.

But the machine wants her because all that the machine cares about is that its positions are forwarded. This is the difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Republican Party is effectively a bunch of people who get together once every four years. And then they kind of throw crap against the wall, see what sticks. There are some primaries. There's no actual internal organization. There's no Machiavellian moves happening behind the scenes at the RNC. It's kind of a bleep show.

That's the reality of the RNC. The DNC is a smoothly oiled machine. And that machine was breaking down because its face was a dead person. The face of the machine was Joe Biden. And so they did what a machine would do. They ousted the dead body and they put in place a fresh new face. And the fresh new face, Kamala Harris, who is not fresh or a new face, she was made into a fresh new face and they promptly infused

extraordinary amounts of cash. She has now raised a war chest of $540 million in the last four weeks. $540 million. Now, that's not all small donors. That's not all people just getting enthused. That is people who are dumping vast quantities of cash into corporations

The campaign that was people who were holding back because they didn't like Joe Biden. And then they flipped the switch. They put a new face on the machine. Same policies, new face. And they infused extraordinary amounts of cash. And now they are lying to you. Now they're pretending that, number one, that Joe Biden sort of voluntarily stepped down for the good of the country, which is not true. They defenestrated him. And number two, that Kamala Harris is something new. She is not. She is not something new. She's not.

She's the same broken down machine with a new coat of paint. That's all. They didn't replace the engine. They didn't replace any of the computers on board. All they did is they gave it a fresh coat of paint. That's the whole thing. Kamala Harris is the fresh coat of paint.

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because she would serve for four and then she'd run for four more. So even if she were to lose, that means eight years where Gavin Newsom cannot be the president. And Gavin Newsom, that may be the end of his career, basically. So he's pretty bitter about this. He kind of lets that out of the bag. Well, on Pod Save America. How are you feeling about the switch?

I mean, the switch. Now we went through a very open process, a very inclusive process. I was bottom of the list. You know that. Yes, that's what I've been told to say. It was a blitz primary, I believe is what they called it. It was a very, very fast blitz. It was a blink primary, so we call that. A 30-minute convention between a tweet and another tweet. It's amazing how it happened. Yeah, it's been amazing. But what is amazing is how unified everybody is. I mean, it's next level.

Okay, they say it all in that clip. That clip is everything. They're all openly laughing. They're openly laughing. They understand what they just did. They pulled a switch because the machine must be maintained at all costs. By the way, this is why Democrats typically are very happy with their party because Democrats get most of what they want from their party. What they want from their party is a continuous move to the left.

And they always get it. Republicans are never happy with their party because the best that Republicans typically do at the federal governmental level is stop more bad stuff from happening. But they very rarely reverse course. They very rarely change the nature of American politics. Now, Donald Trump did do some of those things. Donald Trump put in place Supreme Court justices who have taken away some of the ugly precedent put in place by Democrat appointed justices. That's why the Democrats are so fighting mad at the Supreme Court and now want to stack it and destroy its power.

But typically speaking, Republicans are very unhappy with their party. And typically speaking, Democrats are very happy with their party because the Democratic Party is a machine and the Republican Party is basically a very dysfunctional social group. So they supplant Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket. They dump money. I mean, we are talking about dump trucks filled with money arriving at the doorstep of the Kamala Harris campaign that day. Big donors coming in. All these people who say that they hate billionaires, the billionaires, who do you think is paying those bills?

It's Bob in Ohio and his five dollar donation that's making up the five hundred and forty million dollar money dump. The giant money bomb, the atomic money bomb that was just exploded on the Harris campaign. You think that that is Jill, the suburban mom in Peoria? Is that what you think? That's not what's going on. The Democrats held back.

They starved out Joe Biden. And then once they had besieged Joe Biden's campaign and he was starved inside the city with no water and no food, then he surrendered. And then they flooded the place with all sorts of aid for the new queen of the May, Kamala Harris. Now, all of this relies on them having to hide what the machine does. Again, they have to pretend that Kamala Harris is something new. The problem, of course, is that Kamala Harris is nothing new. We know exactly how she will govern. The giant asymmetry in this campaign

Is that Donald Trump, he says a lot of weird things. He says a lot of things that are vague. Positionally, if you just looked at his rhetoric, you might have no idea where he is on various issues ranging from, say, abortion to tax policy. And Donald Trump has always been very vague. The thing is, we all know how he's going to govern. We all know. He was already president once. And so the safe assumption is Trump 2 will look a lot like Trump 1. Now, there's another safe assumption, which is that Kamala 1 will look very much like Biden 1. Why? Why?

Because she's the current vice president of the United States in on every major decision according to her, according to her. So whatever she says, it's what she does that matters. But we are now being told the greatest lie of all, which is that we are not to pay any attention to her statements about her positions in 2019, 2020. Those are of no matter. Those are of no consequence. She can jettison those freely. Those matter nothing. They're gone. They don't exist. Also, we cannot hold her accountable for the administration in which she is currently the vice president of the United States. We can't.

We don't know what she would do as president. I mean, sure, she's the vice president right now. Sure, she says she has been involved in every aspect of the Biden administration. Sure, she's on foreign policy calls with the president of the United States, like right now.

In the public readout. But we are supposed to believe she has nothing to do with the Biden administration. Biden, Harris, Harris, it's gone. So she wants it both ways. She wants the prestige of the VP nomination and the prestige of the VP slot without any of the actual responsibility that goes with being part of the administration. So according to this math, Kamala Harris is an absolutely blank slate.

Kamala Harris is not the machine. She's not a fresh coat of paint on the machine. She's just something brand new, and she is the party. Now, all of this relies on them hiding Kamala Harris. As we say, 37 days, no interviews.

Now she is deigning, apparently, to do an interview at the end of the week. NBC News has announced that she will do an interview sometime. We have no idea what it's going to be. We have no idea who it's going to be with. We have no idea what it's going to constitute. But sometime this week, she may do an interview. Well, shouldn't we all just be excited? We're now 40 days into the campaign. Understand how unbelievable this is and how insulting and gross it is. This is a democracy where we are supposed to be able to vote on the

on the basis of the prospective policies of the candidates. We are not supposed to be given a face and then we are supposed to sort of just guess at what the face thinks. That's not how this works. That's how dictatorships work is that it doesn't matter what the person's policies are. You worship big brother, but this is not exactly how you're supposed to do democratically run elections.

is that you're supposed to guess at their positions. But that's precisely what they've done. And understand, the whole point in delaying this is to make sure that no one knows her positions when they go to the polls. That is the entire point here. North Carolina starts mailing out its mail-in ballots in 11 days. 11. And the election isn't until November 5th. But half the votes are going to be mail-in votes. And those mail-in votes are going to start getting sent in in the next two weeks. Two weeks.

which means all they got to do is hide this crap for another month and they're good. In fact, Kamala Harris is now attempting to switch all of the terms of the debate to which she has agreed with President Trump. She wants to now change the rules. She's come out of the woodwork to explain

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So you remember back when Joe Biden was the actual nominee and then he had a debate with President Trump and then he completely fell apart during the debate. Well, one of the rules that Joe Biden wanted was that the mics would be muted. And presumably he wanted that because he was afraid that Trump was going to slip in some sort of jab or punch while he was unable to talk. So now in the second debate, those rules had already been set.

Now, the Harris campaign is trying to switch the rules again. According to Politico, with just 15 days left until the scheduled September 10th presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, negotiations between their two campaigns have hit an impasse over whether the candidates' microphones will be muted when it is not their turn to speak, according to four people familiar with the issue.

Why? Because Kamala Harris wants the mics to be hot. Why does she want the mics to be hot? Why? Well, she is betting, number one, that Trump won't be able to contain himself, that Trump will find a way to talk over her, and then she will be able to do the, I'm talking. She did that against Mike Pence, if you recall, back in 2020. They were debating. He didn't really interrupt her. She jumped in to pretend that she was being victimized because she's a woman. It was the most pathetic, ridiculous routine. She's going to try that again with, I'm talking here, Donald. I'm talking here, Mr. President. No.

She's going to do that routine to pretend she's a victim. And so she wants that if the rules are as they currently are, she can't do that. She wants that back on the table, too. She wants to be able to interrupt Trump because she wishes for her ability, along with the media, to jump in and, quote, unquote, fact check him in real time to get under his skin. That's the entire goal.

So according to Politico, Brian Fallon, the Harris's campaign senior advisor for communications, has, quote, We have told ABC and other networks seeking to host a possible October debate. We believe both candidates mics should be live throughout the full broadcast. Our understanding is that Trump's handlers prefer the muted microphone because they don't think their candidate can act presidential for 90 minutes on his own. We suspect Trump's team has not even told their boss about this dispute because it would be too embarrassing to admit they don't think he can handle himself against Vice President Harris without the benefit of a mute button.

Privately, the team believes Harris can get Trump to lose his cool and say something impolitic on the mic. But here's the reality. They are now changing the rules. Jason Miller, senior advisor for Trump, told Playbook, quote, enough with the games. We accepted the ABC debate under the exact same terms as the CNN debate. The Harris camp, after already having agreed to the CNN rules, asked for a seated debate with notes and opening statements. We said no changes to the agreed upon rules. So she wanted to be seated because Trump is taller than she is.

And they wanted notes because Kamala Harris off her notes is a disaster area. So they want to change all the rules. So again, the whole goal here is to change all the rules. And they're hoping that if the negotiations break down, there won't be any debates at all, which would be her ideal. She wants no debates. She never wants to be fact checked. She never wants to be answered, asked a simple question. The entire Trump campaign at this point should be the following six words. So why didn't you do it?

Every time she says she wants to do something, the answer from Trump should be, so why didn't you do it? You say that you want to secure the border. So why didn't you do it? You say you wanted to bring down inflation. So why didn't you do it? You say that you want to make housing cheaper. So why didn't you do it? You're the vice president of the United States. That's the point. He needs to say that over and over and over. Why didn't you do it?

Because he did. He was the president. And you can look at his record and you can look at her record. But again, the entire goal here is to obscure her record and pretend that she doesn't exist. She only exists as a concept. So the other day, this is just beautiful Kamala Harrison. So she is asked a question, what are you going to do next? Like, where are you going? And she says, I'm going to walk up these stairs and you're going to get this crap

For her entire presidency. She's going to be asked a question. And then she's going to describe the next thing she does. She's going to be at a press conference. About what's going on in Ukraine. So what are you going to do next? She's going to be like. I'm going to breathe in. And breathe out. And then breathe in. And then breathe out. And then I'm going to walk out this door. Here we go. She's going to walk up the stairs. And there's the crazy laugh. And then what? Win. We're going to win. That's the entire campaign. That's the entire campaign. And then Doug Emhoff repeats. We're going to win.

Honestly, if I have to see more of these sitcom dads as part of the Harris campaign between Doug Emhoff and Tim Walls, the sitcom dad energy, I'm a dumb male who's following around females. And it's the same energy that you got from from every sitcom of the 1990s where every father was a dullard and every mother was a genius. If we have to do this energy. Oh, my God. It's just interminable. It's awful.

And meanwhile, Harris's deputy campaign manager, Quentin Fulks, he was asked, so when is she going to sit down? He says on her on her own time, on her own schedule. Do you understand the disdain in which they hold the American public? The absolute utter disdain. She does not have to give you her positions. You can't hold her accountable for the actual things she did as vice president. You can't hold her accountable for her 2020 positions. She will tell you when she is good and ready, when she descends from the palace,

When she walks down that red carpet, then she will tell you in her own good time. How dare you question Queen Kay? How dare you? When will she sit down with the media in a one on one capacity and answer our questions? I think she'll sit down on her time. Look, as you mentioned, this was a truncated time frame. We have made sure that we were getting out talking to voters. I think people forget just how short of a time frame it has been.

Unbelievable. In their own time.

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And this is the nature of our stupid politics these days. You're better off being a cipher of a candidate who no one knows than actually stating your positions. And so they understand that. So their entire goal is to hide her. Here, by the way, are a bunch of prominent Democrats saying that openly is back at the DNC saying, no, there's no way we shouldn't release her policies before the election. Why? Why should Americans know what she's going to do? It's like the world's worst mystery meat in high school cafeteria.

I haven't heard from many voters looking for white papers and policy papers. What they want to hear is what her vision is for this country. The American people don't vote on policy prescriptions. I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the minutia of policy and more about the direction of the country, number one. And secondly, about the person, character. It does matter.

This is absolutely absurd. It's absolutely absurd. Her vision and her character. Okay, but what's her vision? Her vision, we're told, is forward,

Whoa, what a vision. Forward? Whoa, you mean not backwards, sideways? Like, whoa. You mean like in time? That's crazy. I mean, sure, we are all moving forward through time. I mean, we've been told by her about the significance of the passage of time. We've been told all of that. So yeah, we know forward. Forward. They think you're a moron. They do. They think you're a moron.

Maybe you are. I don't know. But they think you're stupid. Meanwhile, Cory Booker is out there. The Cory Booker, senator from New Jersey and Potato Head, who occasionally puts on his angry eyes. Anyway, Cory Booker, he's out there saying, I don't even know where these claims coming from that she's vague about her positions. I mean, she's not. They're trying to drive you insane. They're trying to drive you insane.

I don't understand where this so-called vagary comes from. She released a pretty specific detailed plan on a lot of her economic agenda, whether it's about trying to do specific things like with tax credits and more to create more housing and to help to create more supply and thus lower the cost of housing. She created she let out specific plans. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. By the way, it's working. It's working, by the way.

There's a brand new poll out showing is for a Redfield poll showing where Democrats are on the issues. Democrats on the issues are now at only they're only at minus two on immigration. How did that happen? They're down 20. And the answer is constantly repeating propaganda. Meanwhile, every so often they let the mask slip. So, for example, Representative Summer Lee was a full on radical from Pennsylvania. She's like, no, I think she's going to be kind of radical. I actually don't think that she's going to be a centrist.

I know you are a progressive Democrat. Do you think that this pivot to the center, particularly in issues like the border and immigration and crime, are they going to hurt support for the Harris-Walls ticket? Or is it what's required?

Yeah. So I have to say, and I like to hope that we're able to do this. I have to I have to disagree a bit. I think that we have data. We have polling. We have anecdotal evidence from American Americans all over the country, but especially in Pennsylvania in a swing state where we're not actually asking for our candidates to run away from progressive ideals. We're asking them for them to run to them.

So the dirty secret is she is going to govern as a far leftist. Of course she is. That is what she wants to do. That's what Joe Biden has done. Now, the reason they have to obscure all of that is that the policies are trash. So, for example, you recall that just in the last couple of weeks,

She had her aides and then she actually trotted out a proposal to end inflation by targeting price gouging. Price gouging does not exist in the grocery industry. This is trash. It's stupid. The actual profit margin in the grocery industry is somewhere between one and two percent. This notion that somewhere in the back room, the folks over at Ralph's and at Publix are gathering together to jack up the price of a loaf of bread to 100 bucks is absurd. It's ridiculous. It's

It's unbelievably stupid. But here are Democrats who endorsed her price gouging plans because this is the way that it works. She says something dumb. The entire Democratic Party then rushes to defend it. What do you think of the price gouging ban that you put out there? Republicans are saying they're price controls. What would be your answer? No, they're not price controls. Take a look at the profit margins in the making food cows. What would be your take? I think what Kamala's trying to say and what she has said basically is how do we deal with the issues of inflation?

and how do we keep food prices down? We've made great progress on inflation. -Yeah, it's not price controls. Actually, it was a Republican idea. Wage and price controls goes back to Richard Nixon. This is not that.

Look at them trying to spin it. They're trying to spin it. They're trying to spin the price gouging. No, well, yeah, we totally endorse what she says. I mean, it's really stupid, but we endorse what she says. I mean, they're just trying to get inflation under control. Democrats are trying to spin Kamala Harris's price gouging plans. In fact, if they were going to create a bumper sticker for her price gouging plan, well, they wouldn't do that because that would be really stupid. But if you are looking to wear your beliefs on your sleeve,

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Now, Elizabeth Warren is just an amazingly tragic story of what happens when an interesting person goes into politics. Because Elizabeth Warren, if you go all the way back to the early 2000s, she wrote a book called The Two Income Trap, which is kind of fascinating, in which she, for example, suggested there should not be universal pre-K, in which she suggested school vouchers. And then she decided to run for senator from Massachusetts and run as female Bernie Sanders. And she's been doing that ever since, while also pretending to be Native American, of course. Well, she was questioned on CNBC about...

her price gouging proposals, which of course are incredibly stupid. And here is CNBC's Joe Kernan just ripping her up. It's not good policy and it could actually do more harm than good. And I can paint you a picture of how that would work and how it's worked in the past, where we've tried to artificially hold prices down. Competition doesn't come in. People don't, like if beef is too high.

People don't move the chicken. The competitors don't come in to undercut where the beef prices are. Nothing works when you try to artificially control prices. It's just a supply and demand issue. It's a flawed idea. So did you have a question here? Yes. Why would you propose a flawed idea when the real problem, if you really want to help the middle class, if you really sincerely want to help people having trouble at the grocery store, it's not price gouging that's the issue.

Okay, this is the problem. Every time they mention a policy, every time they mention a policy, it turns out the policy is trash. She has also promoted the idea that we should hand out, for example, $25,000 per first-time house purchaser, which inflates the price of housing. Here's Chuck Schumer defending that. Senator Schumer, what's your message to Gen Z?

Gen Z, Harris understands. Walls understands your problems. Down payment for a house, $25,000. All the folks who can afford the monthly payment but can't afford the down payment, we're coming to help you. Free money. Free money. That's the campaign platform. Don't worry, it's not going to cause inflation. Free money.

Meanwhile, it turns out that if you actually hold her accountable for her own position on, say, Afghanistan, that's bad, too. She cannot be linked with her positions. The minute that you link together the machine positions of the Democratic Party with the fresh coat of paint, she's got a problem, which is why she's avoiding all of this. Here's Representative Pat Ryan, Democrat from New York. He's asked about the fact that she says she was the last person in the room when it came to the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the disastrous withdrawal. Pat Ryan had ripped into that withdrawal and he has asked, so do you hold her responsible? Watch him spin.

The vice president says she was that last person in the room on that decision. Is that failure also hers? We've gotta stop assigning partisan blame on fundamental things like national security. I said it as an American, I said it as somebody who served in combat, who had friends that served in Afghanistan. If we can't make mistakes,

and wrestle with that with a little bit of space to do better in the future. How do we expect to continue on the next 250 years as this great country that we are? It's just pathetic. Again, the minute they're called on their positions, they have to either reverse the position or they have to spin like crazy, which is why Kamala doesn't want to answer any questions whatsoever. For example, Bernie Sanders yesterday, he has asked about the fact that suddenly Kamala Harris is strong on the border. What the hell happened? What

What the hell happened? We had three and a half years of wide open borders. And you guys talking about decriminalizing border crossings. Kamala Harris, when she was a senator, voted against federal law preventing sanctuary cities and sanctuary states. Kamala Harris, while she was vice president, openly talked about decriminalizing border crossings. And here is Vice President Harris. Now she's now switched her position. Now she's a border, a border hawk. If you watch her commercials, not only is she a border hawk, she shows herself with Trump's border wall. Bernie Sanders is asked about this. Watch him spin.

We have a crisis at the border. We've got to make sure the fentanyl does not get into this country. We have to crack down on illegal immigration. But what we need is comprehensive immigration reform. I mean, you got God knows how many young people in this country as a result of DACA who deserve to gain citizenship. We need skilled workers and we need workers in this country. A lot of labor shortages all over America where immigrants can play an important role.

So keeping people from illegally entering the country obviously is the right thing to do. Well, now it's the right thing to do. Look at that. They all just flip their position. Well, the good news for the Democrats, they can always count on the media to cover for everything, for literally everything. It's amazing. So the media have been treated like dogs. I mean, literally like dogs at this point. Like they're being patted on the head by the Kamala Harris team. They're being fed treats, but not very often.

And now they will do their lapdogs. They're absolute lapdogs. It's unbelievable. So they've done, again, zero interviews, 37 days and counting. And now NBC News is excited to announce she will do an interview at some point with someone. And it will be a joint interview with Tim Walls. By the way, the whole point of a joint interview with Tim Walls is so she's never pressed on anything. That's the whole point. He's the human shield in these interviews.

By the way, Tim Walz, what a weirdo. Every picture of him looks as though he just got a Price Waters House clearing check. It's unbelievable. Here we go. Here's NBC News.

Harris and Walz are also slated to sit down for their first joint interview next week after mounting pressure on Harris to lay out more of her policy positions. And while it's still not clear who the sit down will be with and when, the interview no doubt provides an opportunity for the new standard bearer of the Democratic Party to prove her doubters wrong.

To prove her doubt is wrong. Don't worry. She's not going to prove anything. She's going to sit down with the friendly. They're all friendlies. How friendly? Let me show you this. This is amazing. So Tom Cotton, Senator from Arkansas. He's on ABC News. And he's talking with John Carl. And John Carl, Cotton says to him, you know that you wanted to ban private health insurance. You know this, right? He is correct. Let me just show you the footage before we even get to the clip. Here's the footage from 2019 of Kamala Harris saying she would ban private health insurance.

For people out there who like their insurance, they don't get to keep it? Well, listen, the idea is that everyone gets access to medical care. And you don't have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them give you approval, going through the paperwork, all of the delay that may require. Who of us has not had that situation where you've got to wait for approval and the doctor says, well, I don't know if your insurance company is going to cover this? Let's eliminate all of that. Let's move on.

That's what she said in 2019. Fast forward five years later, John Carl's supposed to know things, right? He's supposed to. He's on ABC News, the reporter. Tom Cotton points out that she wanted to be on private health insurance. Watch John Carl move in front of her like a like a Secret Service agent, much better than the Secret Service agents who protected Trump, by the way.

President Trump is going to draw a sharp contrast with Kamala Harris, who has supported things like decriminalizing illegal immigration or giving taxpayer-funded health insurance to illegal aliens or taking away health insurance on the job for 170 million Americans, banning gas cars, confiscating firearms.

What do you mean taking away health insurance? What are you talking about? She said when she ran for president that she wants to eliminate private health insurance on the job. Well, 70 million Americans, John. Yeah, I mean, I mean, that is not her position now. How do you know that's not her position? I mean, she says, you know, she has not said that. She has not said that.

And Tom Cotton is totally right. Watch John, but John Carl swiveling to the defense is the beauty of that Democrat media, human centipede. It's amazing. They don't even have to give them a position and the Democrats, the Democrats will just feed whatever they don't have to give the media position and the media will just start spinning for them. It's absolutely unbelievable. We'll get to more of that in a moment. First,

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Mentioning zero things about your body. He's actually a sacrificial old man, a self-sacrificing old man. And Kamala Harris, who they covered for years as what she was, a complete incompetent and utter dullard. They are now covering as though she is the great light bringer. It's incredible. So, for example, here is ABC News fawning over Kamala saying she's not a progressive. Did you know that? She's the most liberal senator in the United States Senate. She's backed every far left position she can find.

She's not a progressive. She's not, according to ABC News. The same network, by the way, that's supposed to broadcast the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

And when you look at Kamala Harris's speech, it really seems like it was directed at moderates, at independents, even Republicans. Yeah, it certainly was. She really was making that appeal to those key independent voters who, of course, are going to be the ones to determine this race. And it was interesting, too, to watch Harris, you know, be pretty light on the economy. She did not come out and sound like a big progressive there on that stage. When she talked about the economy, she actually really talked about things in terms of Trump saying things like she would make sure to protect the Affordable Care Act.

Amazing. Amazing. So again, the defense is there. Joe Scarborough doing the same thing. So Josh Scarborough went from Joe Biden is so with it. He's so with it. How dare you even mention that he's that he's seen now? How dare you? He's so with it, too. Maybe he has to go to Kamala Harris is the best. And not only is she the best when she says she's going to hand out free money, handing out money isn't socialism. It's just pragmatic politics. I mean, it can be both. It turns out that bribing voters is, in fact, both socialism and pragmatic politics. Here's Joe Scarborough, who is quickly turning into where's Waldo.

She wants to make it easier for younger Americans to get that first house, which they cannot get now. They are shut out of the American dream that we grew up with. And so Kamala Harris is saying, let's see what we can all do together so younger Americans can get that first home. That ain't socialism. That is pragmatic politics that a lot of Americans support.

Pragmatic politics is not socialism. It's pragmatic politics. With this sort of media coverage, is it any wonder that Kamala Harris has had a bump in the polls? That's why it's Donald Trump's job to be meticulous in his attack against her. By the way, the media have completely forgotten about Joe Biden. Joe Biden has literally zero things scheduled the entire week. The entire week. I'm looking at his schedule right now. Monday, out of town pool, 10 a.m. That's the only thing on his schedule. Nothing. Nothing.

Nothing last Friday, nothing last Thursday, nothing last Wednesday, nothing. He's just gone. He's just gone. As Tom Bevin at RealClearPolitics points out. Meanwhile, reporter Emily Gooden reported that Biden was, quote, visibly shaking as he exited Air Force One in California Tuesday morning. Zero coverage. He's still the president. That's why it's relevant. Where the hell is he? Where is he? Who's running the country? It doesn't matter. Media don't care.

Kamala Harris has nothing to do with the administration. Joe Biden isn't running the country. We have no president apparently, and no one in the White House because Kamala is not responsible for anything. Plus she has no positions.

You wonder why she's doing well? Because they're lying to you, all of them. I mean, this is the greatest gaslighting I have ever seen. Truly, it's the greatest gaslighting I've ever seen. It's not close. I mean, it's worse than BLM. It is worse than COVID. The gaslighting that you're seeing right now, this idea that Kamala Harris is a fresh-faced candidate with no positions, no responsibility for what this administration has done, and Joe Biden is not even there, and all of it is not for your perusal. Stop asking questions.

It's hard to think of a way for the media to blow itself up any more completely than it already has. And meanwhile, all this really means that Donald Trump really needs to go on the offensive. He really needs to. So today he started that. He went out to Arlington Cemetery.

to pay tribute to the 13 fallen service members who were killed during that botched Afghanistan withdrawal. The entire media pretending that Kamala Harris has nothing to do with it. But of course, she did. In fact, you'll recall that when she was asked about what had just happened in Afghanistan, she was getting off a plane and she was asked by the press, she started guffawing and laughing. Here's what that looked like. President, what's your response to reports of Americans? Hold on, hold on. Hello, everybody.

So Trump presumably is going to attack her on that. We are also being told by the Wall Street Journal that Trump's campaign is going to be stepping itself up. According to the Wall Street Journal, advisors to Trump who are bracing for Harris to enjoy a post-convention boost in polls say he will be more active on the campaign trail after setting a modest pace when Biden was still in the race. On Monday, Trump will address a National Guard conference in Detroit.

He then has events Thursday elsewhere in Michigan and Wisconsin, followed by a rally Friday in Pennsylvania. He's planning a number of interviews and after a long absence has returned to regular posting on X, formerly known as Twitter, where he nearly has 90 million followers. Over the weekend, President Trump was in fact on the Twitter machine. I'm not going to say that I think that he was at his absolute all out best on Twitter. Again, I think he's going to have to do better than the cute nicknames. I think he's going to actually have to go after her on policy. He has been tweeting out various ads.

And he is. He's doing some of this. So he tweeted out last night, Kamala Harris was the leader of banning fracking in the United States and fought especially hard for no fracking in Pennsylvania. The people of Pennsylvania are smart. She would devastate the Commonwealth and they know it. They will vote for Trump. He says, if you think things are expensive now, they will get 100 times worse if Kamala gets four years as president. Under her plan, Kamala will implement Soviet-style price controls. She'll abolish private health care.

and make California's ridiculous tax policies the law of the land, meaning every American will be taxed up to 80% of their income. If you want more cash and less tax, vote Trump. He's calling her Comrade Kamala. Again, I think that that is, it needs a little bit of work. But bottom line is that he is back on the attack. That attack was greatly facilitated over the weekend. In a story the entire media downplayed, it really is amazing. There was a third party candidate in this race who was earning anywhere from 4% to 8% in the race by the wide variety of available polls.

And if that third party candidate had come and endorsed Kamala Harris, it would have been a nationwide story. It would have led every major newspaper. However, however, because that person instead was actually endorsing Donald Trump, it all went away. Nobody paid any attention to it, despite the fact that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was in the last polling data polling somewhere between three and seven percent. That's over the course of the last month.

At the last Economist YouGov poll, had Kennedy pulling 3% in a race in which Trump was following Harris by 3%. The CBS News poll from August 16th had Kennedy drawing 2% in a race where Trump was down 2%. That same time period, ABC News Washington Post poll had Kennedy drawing 5% in a poll in which Trump was down 3%.

In other words, could RFK Jr. be the margin of victory for Donald Trump by endorsing him? Absolutely. So what are the media doing? They're absolutely downplaying RFK Jr. endorsing Trump. It was, in fact, a very big moment. Not only was it a big moment when RFK Jr. endorsed Trump, he gave a speech on Friday. We covered it live over at YouTube and on our site, Daily Wire Plus. This is why you should subscribe, by the way, so you get all the updates. We're coming at you in like real time, very often this election cycle, because there's just too much going on.

RFK Jr. gave a barn burner of a speech. The first 15 minutes was some of the most articulate and directed assault against the media and the Democrats I've ever seen, which is presumably why CNN literally cut to their own anchors. They pulled away from RFK in the middle of that historic announcement, specifically because he was assaulting them at the time. Again, RFK Jr., he gives the speech on Friday.

There's a lot there that was pretty amazing. So he started by launching into the Democratic Party, which had basically barred him from any of the primaries in an attempt to cover up Joe Biden's senility. Remember, remember, the Democratic Party rigged its primary rules to stop anyone from running seriously against Joe Biden to ensure he'd get the nomination. And then they promptly swapped him out for the fresh coat of paint. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. And here is RFK Jr. calling it out in the name of saving democracy.

The Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it, lacking confidence in its candidate, that its candidate could win in a fair election at the voting booth. The DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself. It ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden. Then, when a predictably bungled debate performance

precipitated the palace coup against President Biden, the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor, also without an election. He is right. He is totally right. Then he went after the media, and this part was just spot on again. So spot on that CNN cut away before he could get to this. Over the course of more than a year in a campaign where my poll numbers reached at times in the high 20s, the DNC allied mainstream media networks

maintain a near perfect embargo on interviews with me. During his 10 month presidential campaign in 1992, Ross Perot gave 34 interviews on mainstream networks. In contrast, during the 16 months since I declared, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN combined gave only two live interviews from me.

Those networks instead ran a continuous deluge of hit pieces with inaccurate, often vile pejoratives and defamatory smears. Some of those same networks and colluded with the DNC to keep me off the debate stage. He's right about that. He's right about that. And then he actually formally endorsed Trump in the middle of the speech. Here's what it sounded like. It's with a sense of victory.

and not defeat that I'm suspending my campaign activities. Not only did we do the impossible by collecting a million signatures, we changed the national political conversation forever. And these are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent. And now to throw my support to President Trump, the causes were free speech, war in Ukraine,

and the war on our children.

He endorses. That's a big deal. That's a big deal. I know that many people are trying to play that down. They're trying to suggest he doesn't have that many voters who are left. The reality is that the voters who left him already went to Kamala Harris. So he was just a holding position for people who were favoring Trump, but liked RFK better. And now he's fully joining in the campaign. You can hear the enthusiasm that's been injected into the Trump campaign on Friday. Trump introduced him at a speech in Arizona. And here's what that sounded like.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I will tell you, we are both in this to do what's right for the country. That's one thing I can tell you. And the crowd goes absolutely berserk. And that's a big thing. So we are now in the homestretch of this campaign. It is up to Donald Trump to actually prosecute the case against Kamala Harris.

Now, again, he's going to be fighting in the face of an overwhelming media tsunami like you've never seen. We've been watching it happen in real time. And it is mind-bogglingly crazy to watch the media simply openly be the Praetorian Guard for Kamala Harris. You're also going to be doing it in the face of institutions like the Federal Reserve. Jerome Powell, late last week on Friday, he suggested that the time had come for rate cuts.

Why just in time for the election? Who could have predicted such a thing? Here is Jerome Powell, who presided over 40-year highs in inflation, but now he's going to fix things. He's going to do it just in time for the Democrat to win an election in November. The time has come for policy to adjust. The direction of travel is clear, and the timing and pace of rate cuts will depend on incoming data, the evolving outlook, and the balance of risks.

We will do everything we can to support a strong labor market as we make further progress toward price stability. With an appropriate dialing back of policy restraint, there is good reason to think that the economy will get back to 2% inflation while maintaining a strong labor market. Wow, that's why just in time. How weird. How weird that you're doing it just right now. Again, that's what Trump is running in the face of. So understand the obstacles he has to overcome. It's also his job to overcome them. That's what this election is.

I'm optimistic that Trump will be on the attack from here all the way through the election. It's got to be meticulous. It's got to be exact. Can't be any wasted motions. Can't be any wasted time. I think Trump's up to the task. I do. I think that he was doing it today. Again, going to Arlington and paying tribute to the fallen soldiers who Kamala Harris does not believe apparently exists, who Joe Biden completely ignores. He says that no troops have died under his watch. That's a lie. It's an absolute lie.

The single biggest disgrace of the Biden administration, of all the disgraces, and there are many, is the Afghanistan withdrawal. That should be the issue this week from the Trump campaign. Watch for it. Okay, in a moment, we're going to get to an astonishing story. The founder of Telegram was arrested in France.

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