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United Democrat Camouflage at the DNC, Did 'Playing The Hits' Impact Voters & Can We Trust Harris? DNC '24 In Review · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Ted Cruz week in Review. Ben
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  Speaker 2: Ferguson with you in Mayomi. Was it a big week
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  Speaker 2: at the Democratic Convention and we covered a lot. Optics
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  Speaker 2: seem to be the number one thing Democrats were obsessed with,
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  Speaker 2: and it was showing a unified front. But they may
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  Speaker 2: be lying to you about just how unified the Democratic
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  Speaker 2: Party is. We're gonna explain exactly what Democrats are saying
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  Speaker 2: behind closed doors about Kamala Harris's campaign.
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  Speaker 1: Also playing the hits right.
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  Speaker 2: It's a smart strategy if you're the Democrats, but can
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  Speaker 2: it work with Kamala Apparently many of the Democrats don't
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  Speaker 2: think that's a strategy that can get her all the
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  Speaker 2: way to the White House. And finally, can America actually
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  Speaker 2: trust Kamala Harris after lying about Biden's cognitive decline and
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  Speaker 2: covering it up for so long. We're gonna deal with
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  Speaker 2: all of that. It is the weekend Review and it
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  Speaker 2: starts right now. You also have the optics of the
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  Speaker 2: party right now, and the Democratic Party is very much
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  Speaker 2: acting like they are united. But there was some reporting
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  Speaker 2: that came out night two and it said VP. Kamala
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  Speaker 2: Harris held an event ninety miles away from the DNC
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  Speaker 2: on the night the party's two most popular figures, Barack
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  Speaker 2: and Michelle Obama, campaign on her behalf, and a source
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  Speaker 2: familiar with the DNC planning tells Fox that the choice
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  Speaker 2: was made out of sensitivity and respect for quote Joe
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  Speaker 2: Biden Obamas are still not on the White House good
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  Speaker 2: side quote unquote Why because well, they were part of
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  Speaker 2: the coup. A source familiar with the situation said, quote
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  Speaker 2: it would not be helpful, helpful to their relationships quote unquote.
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  Speaker 2: Fox has told this plan came together to avoid the
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  Speaker 2: optics of Harris still serving as Biden's VP, appearing alongside
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  Speaker 2: one of the figures he views as responsible for driving
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  Speaker 2: him out of office, driving the end of his reelection
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  Speaker 2: bid at the very convention which was suppose to be
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  Speaker 2: his only weeks ago. Quote, we are in tricky territory,
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  Speaker 2: the source said to Fox. Now, I find a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of hope in this because you mentioned the media.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned everything's supposed to be kumbaya, but there's still
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  Speaker 2: a lot going on behind the scenes. There are still people,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, and I tweeted this out when I
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  Speaker 2: was watching Michelle Obama and she came out. I said,
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  Speaker 2: go and compare the crowd noise and the excitement when
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  Speaker 2: Michelle Obama walked out to when Kamwa Harris walked out.
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  Speaker 2: And they love Michelle more than they love their president
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  Speaker 2: for their candidate for the White House.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look that's clearly true.
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  Speaker 4: And you and I eleven months ago predicted number one,
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  Speaker 4: that Joe Biden the Democrats would throw them off the ticket.
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  Speaker 3: We were right on that.
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  Speaker 4: But number two, I predicted that they would replace him
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  Speaker 4: with Michelle Obama. Now I gotta say, if they had,
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  Speaker 4: I think their odds of winning would be very, very high.
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  Speaker 4: If I were a Democrat, I would have been all
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  Speaker 4: in on the team Michelle, because Michelle would have been
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  Speaker 4: an incredibly formidable candidate. I think they tried to convince
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  Speaker 4: Michelle to do it. I think she said no. And
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  Speaker 4: you and I talked about at the time what would
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  Speaker 4: prevent that, and I said two things would prevent that.
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  Speaker 4: One if Joe refused to go, and I think he
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  Speaker 4: did refuse to go for a month after month after
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  Speaker 4: month until they finally forced him out by threatening the
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  Speaker 4: twenty fifth Amendment. And then I said, number two, maybe,
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  Speaker 4: just maybe Michelle would say no. Why because she likes
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  Speaker 4: to take more than she needs. Why because she likes
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  Speaker 4: to fly on a G five. Why because she likes
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  Speaker 4: Martha's vineyard. Why because she likes to party with Oprah
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  Speaker 4: Winfrey and George Clooney. Why because she lives the life
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  Speaker 4: of a movie star and so decided not to do that.
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  Speaker 4: Now I'm grateful for America that she did, because, as
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  Speaker 4: I said, she would have been an incredibly dangerous candidate.
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  Speaker 4: But I got to say, listening last night to Michelle
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  Speaker 4: Obama and listening to Barack Obama, those two may be
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  Speaker 4: the two most dangerous demagogues our country has seen in
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  Speaker 4: a generation. Barack Obama, listening to him talk, that man
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  Speaker 4: is a talented communicator. I disagree with him on virtually
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  Speaker 4: every issue. I think Barack Obama is the progenitor of
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  Speaker 4: the Marxist takeover of the Democrat Party.
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  Speaker 3: I think that is his ideology.
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  Speaker 4: It is born of the radical extremism in our universities.
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  Speaker 4: But he can dress it up in a way that
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't sound extreme. It is dangerous. And I'll say
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  Speaker 4: one thing I thought about last night during the convention.
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  Speaker 4: Thank God for the twenty second Amendment. Thank God for
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  Speaker 4: the limitation of two terms as a president, because if
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  Speaker 4: Barack Obama were still running, he might be president for
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  Speaker 4: another decade. And so I'm grateful that he can't formally
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  Speaker 4: have the job. But he remains incredibly potent and incredibly
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  Speaker 4: dangerous because he masks up extreme ras in a way
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  Speaker 4: that seems innocuous, that seems non threatening, and it seems
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  Speaker 4: very hip and very cool.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I stop watching it.
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  Speaker 2: He literally demonized Republicans for thirty one minutes and then
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  Speaker 2: called for unity. I mean, who can do that unless
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  Speaker 2: you're an incredibly talented politician where you trash the other side.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, I'm still waiting for somebody in
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  Speaker 2: prime time to say they're glad that Donald Trump is
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  Speaker 2: alive and wasn't and wasn't assassinated. That's not ever, that
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  Speaker 2: hasn't come out of anybody's mouth.
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  Speaker 4: Now they're trying to gas gas like that and and
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  Speaker 4: just completely erase it from public consciousness that it even happened.
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  Speaker 2: And and here we are two other questions I want
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  Speaker 2: to dive into real quick. I haven't seen a lot
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  Speaker 2: of American flags of the Democratic Convention, except if they're
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  Speaker 2: being burnt outside of the DNC. Democratic supporters are there
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  Speaker 2: burning the American flag. We are seeing a I would
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  Speaker 2: argue a fair amount of arrests. We've had a second
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  Speaker 2: perimeter wall that's had to be put up because of
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  Speaker 2: the pro Hamas pro terrorist protesters were able to break
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  Speaker 2: through the first wall yesterday and the Chicago police. You know,
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  Speaker 2: for Democrats, they're all about defund the police until they
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  Speaker 2: needed to protect their convention. And many of the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: are being protected by these police are the same ones
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  Speaker 2: that have been demonizing and attacking the police. One of them,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, is Kamway Harris. Let's not let her
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  Speaker 2: off the hook for that. And we also found out
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  Speaker 2: from the people in charge they said, don't worry if
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  Speaker 2: it's a misdemeanor, no one's going to be charged of
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  Speaker 2: any crime.
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  Speaker 1: So go out there and do what you want during
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  Speaker 1: the convention.
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  Speaker 4: So I think it's worth asking yourself why is it
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  Speaker 4: that anti Israel pro Hamas protesters burn the American flag?
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  Speaker 4: And the reason is simple, those who hate Israel hate America.
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  Speaker 4: And when you unders stand that simple reality, it tells
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  Speaker 4: you an enormous part amount about the delegates that are
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  Speaker 4: in that convention hall. Why is Josh Shapiro, not Kamala
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  Speaker 4: Harris's VP nominee answer, because he's Jewish, and Kamala Harris
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  Speaker 4: and the Democrat Party did not want to piss off
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  Speaker 4: the angry protesters outside who are burning American flags. That
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  Speaker 4: is more and more the base of the Democrat Party.
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  Speaker 4: And understand, they don't just hate Israel, they hate America
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  Speaker 4: as well.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so let's look ahead into the political crystal ball. Senator,
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  Speaker 2: you still have a candidate that the Democratic Party isn't
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  Speaker 2: that excited about that. Behind the scenes, they're worried and
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  Speaker 2: nervous that the coronation is now coming back down to
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  Speaker 2: the reality, which is she was not liked as a
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  Speaker 2: vice president for the last three and a half years.
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  Speaker 2: She was not liked as a presidential candidate either, and
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  Speaker 2: was like one of the first ones out of the race.
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  Speaker 2: And now she's back in prime time. What does she
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  Speaker 2: have to do to sell herself to the American people?
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  Speaker 2: Can she overcome all of that? Or are they just
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  Speaker 2: screwed because Harris is at the end of the day
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  Speaker 2: still Harris.
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  Speaker 4: Well, look, they're motivated by two things. Number one, a
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  Speaker 4: lust for power, and Democrats are united in a lust
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  Speaker 4: for power. They are willing to do just about anything
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  Speaker 4: to stay in power. They were perfectly willing to be
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  Speaker 4: behind a president who is all but comatose. They knew that,
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  Speaker 4: everybody knew that, and yet it kept them in power.
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  Speaker 4: So it was just fine with them to have a
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  Speaker 4: commander in chief who was not capable of defending this nation.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, it's also why they're willing to embrace
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  Speaker 4: policies like open borders and the invasion of this country
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  Speaker 4: because they look at eleven and a half million million
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  Speaker 4: illegal immigrants as future Democrat voters, and so power justifies everything.
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  Speaker 4: And this is a Democrat party that they follow orders.
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  Speaker 4: They they are collectivists, they are authoritarians, so they all
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  Speaker 4: follow orders. So everyone is on team Kamala. By the way,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think you're going to hear much complaining, even
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  Speaker 4: from the Biden circles about him being forced out, because
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  Speaker 4: when they crack the whip, this is a party that
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  Speaker 4: everybody gets on board, even Joe Biden after he's been
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  Speaker 4: put out to pasture. But secondly, what is going to
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  Speaker 4: motivate Democrats in this election hatred for Donald J.
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  Speaker 3: Trump.
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  Speaker 4: It's why the word Trump is the most frequent word
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  Speaker 4: uttered at the convention, because that's what they're all unified.
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  Speaker 4: They might disagree on other things, but they all agree
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  Speaker 4: we hate Trump. Those two things are going to motivate
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  Speaker 4: a lot of Democrats, and we got to make sure
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  Speaker 4: that the American people are focused on the issues, focused
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  Speaker 4: on the policy, focused on the substance, focused on the
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  Speaker 4: utter failures of Kamala Harris and Joe biden I's policies
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  Speaker 4: and how they've hurt the American people.
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  Speaker 3: If we can focus on the issues, we win.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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  Speaker 2: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
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  Speaker 2: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when you have a convention, it's always about play the hits, right,
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  Speaker 2: And they're gonna have a lot of people that come
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  Speaker 2: in and a lot of people that quote unquote play
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  Speaker 2: the hits. It's gonna be Barack Obama, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: Michelle Obama, it's going to be every famous person that
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  Speaker 2: they want to throw up there. It's going to be
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  Speaker 2: the Clintons. They're gonna clearly, I think play the hits.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a smart strategy, even if it kind of
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  Speaker 2: takes her off stage a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Is that actually a better idea because.
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  Speaker 2: Then it's not all about her, it's more about the
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  Speaker 2: kumbaiism of the Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Look, they don't want to actually talk about Joe Biden's record,
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  Speaker 4: and so playing the hits, playing Barack, playing Michelle. You
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  Speaker 4: know they're going to have Bill Clinton and have some
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  Speaker 4: nostalgia that they're going to talk about, Hey, things were
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  Speaker 4: great when we were in charge. Bizarrely enough, they're trying
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  Speaker 4: to run as the change campaign despite the fact that
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  Speaker 4: the Democrats are the incumbent party. What is so bizarre,
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  Speaker 4: But every time Kamala proposes something is okay, if she
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  Speaker 4: could magically lower prices in grocery stores, why isn't she
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  Speaker 4: doing so right now? Like she's in office, Like there's
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  Speaker 4: nothing preventing her. If there is this magic wand is
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  Speaker 4: she just mean does she just like high grocery prices? No,
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  Speaker 4: it's complete nonsense. But no one in the press is asking,
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  Speaker 4: wait a second, you are in office. You don't get
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  Speaker 4: to say, here's my great idea. You know, we're watching
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  Speaker 4: her emulate Trump's policies, things like copying no taxes on tips.
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  Speaker 3: Well, she's been.
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  Speaker 4: In office for four years, Why haven't they proposed it?
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  Speaker 4: I filed legislation to do that. Where's the White House?
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  Speaker 4: That that they are simply trying to ignore the fact
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  Speaker 4: that they are the incumbent administration. You're you're going to
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  Speaker 4: see a lot of that. There's there's something else that
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  Speaker 4: I think it's important for us to point out. We've
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  Speaker 4: talked a lot about how Democrats engage in Freudian projection.
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  Speaker 4: I think Sigmund freud is is is rolling over in
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  Speaker 4: his grave that every single thing the Democrats accuse their
• 12:34
  Speaker 4: opponents of doing, every single thing, is in fact what
• 12:38
  Speaker 4: the Democrats are doing. Now, Ben, what was the adjective
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  Speaker 4: that that Tim Waltz famously used for Republicans, especially jd
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  Speaker 4: Vance weird, weird and by the way, like joy he
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: said weird, And suddenly every every corporate meet outlet weird, weird, weird, weird,
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  Speaker 4: We're weird, weird, We're weird. That became the you know,
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  Speaker 4: weird is the word. I'm gonna can we just you
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  Speaker 4: just mentioned weird. Doug Enhoff today said something that was
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  Speaker 4: weird referring to Harrison Waltter.
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  Speaker 1: You were sitting behind him.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, and again, we really bonded.
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  Speaker 5: You saw me get up on that stage and we
• 13:15
  Speaker 5: just hugged it out. A few of my friends texted me,
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  Speaker 5: It's like, what's the deal. Like, I've known you for
• 13:20
  Speaker 5: twenty or thirty years, You've never hugged me like that. Well,
• 13:24
  Speaker 5: you've never been a vice presidential candidate before on stage.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, that's weird. That is just something weird
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  Speaker 2: to say. If you want to talk weird. And that's
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  Speaker 2: the Harris campaign.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, and I got that beat. I'm going to give
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  Speaker 4: you something really bizarre. This is a headline from this week.
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  Speaker 4: DNC attendees will have opportunities for free vasectoms abortions.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the news article.
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  Speaker 4: Attendees at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, we'll have
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  Speaker 4: the opportunity to receive free vissectomies in a just blocks
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  Speaker 4: away from the proceedings at the United Center. Planned parenthooded
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  Speaker 4: Great Rivers, which operates in parts of Missouri and Illinois,
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  Speaker 4: will park its mobile health clinic near the DNC on
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  Speaker 4: October nineteenth and August nineteenth and August twentieth. According to
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  Speaker 4: The New York Times, medication abortions are reportedly available on
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  Speaker 4: both days, with vasectoms exclusively being offered on Monday. We
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  Speaker 4: clip them Monday's and in fact, here's the tweet. Here
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  Speaker 4: we come Chicago, our mobile health clinic will be in
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  Speaker 4: the West Loop providing free vasectoms and medication abortion. Okay, Ben,
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  Speaker 4: that is weird a political convention. We're going to nominate
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  Speaker 4: our presidential nominee. You go to Chicago, what for you
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  Speaker 4: want a free vasectomy and free abortion?
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  Speaker 3: Like these people are zealots.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not just weird, it's also, I would argue,
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  Speaker 2: creepy on a whole other level, because they're actually celebrating
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  Speaker 2: the fact that you can come to the Democratic convintion
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  Speaker 2: with child and leave without a child. And that is
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  Speaker 2: now the Democratic Party Planned Parenthood actually put it out.
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  Speaker 2: Not only are they offering free abortions and the sectomies
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  Speaker 2: of the DNC, but they said they've like maxed out
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  Speaker 2: of appointments apparently for the vaseectomies, and they said we've
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: got unlimited however, medical abortions, medication abortion. So just keep
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  Speaker 2: on coming, ladies with your babies. The DNC come with
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  Speaker 2: a child and leave without one. That's sick, all right,
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: all right, it is certainly sick. And you think about
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: how far the Democrat Party has come. Bill Clinton stood
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: up in the State of the Union and he said,
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: as a Democrat, he wanted abortion to be safe, legal,
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: and rare. There was a time when Democrats would acknowledge
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: that abortion was the taking of a life, and they
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  Speaker 2: defended it. But but, but but they didn't celebrate it.
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  Speaker 2: Now this Democrat Party is all about abortion all the time.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's it's it's a reason to dance in the streets.
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  Speaker 2: That is just how extreme the Democrat Party has gone.
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  Speaker 2: But but I am going to say something. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: go out on a limb. There's actually a portion of
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  Speaker 2: this I support.
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  Speaker 4: I support every delegate at the DNC getting of a sectomy.
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  Speaker 4: I think that I think the world will be better
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  Speaker 4: off if these people don't reproduce. Now, look, half of
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: them are not actually gonna have conjugal relations with someone
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  Speaker 4: of the opposite sex, and so they probably won't reproduce anyway.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm for let's just let's just stop it now.
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  Speaker 4: I'm really grateful. I would encourage you're a bad Democrat
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  Speaker 4: delegate if you don't get snipped center.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you two final questions.
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  Speaker 2: One what do you expect from the PEE candidate this week?
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  Speaker 2: Is that part of the campaign kind of gonna disappear?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we saw the excitement of the DNC and
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  Speaker 2: all the Democrats had over at walls.
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  Speaker 1: Now is he just kind of okay? Next? Number one?
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  Speaker 2: Will that be an issue? And number two Harris is speech?
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  Speaker 2: How important is this speech to her future?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 4: Look, I think Tim Waltz. Tim Waltz will have a
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  Speaker 4: major primetime speech and they're gonna do a lot to
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  Speaker 4: tell the narrative of him as nice old grandpa, your
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: favorite teacher.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna call him coach a lot.
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  Speaker 4: He's gonna be coach, coach, coach, and it's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: I mean, think mister Hollins opus. It is gonna be
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  Speaker 4: telling the narrative of a nice, you know, genial, affable
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  Speaker 4: teacher who just mentored young people and he coached them
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  Speaker 4: on the football team and and he's just They're gonna
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  Speaker 4: do everything they can to make it sunshine and light
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  Speaker 4: and joy. They will not, I predict, have him play
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  Speaker 4: the typical role of attack dog that VP candidates often do.
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  Speaker 4: They'll do a little bit of that, and it'll mostly
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  Speaker 4: be attacking Trump and Trump and and Dvance. I think
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: you'll get some of He'll use his line that they're
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  Speaker 4: weird because that kind of made his name. But I
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  Speaker 4: think they will try to just pitch him as utterly harmless,
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  Speaker 4: and they will talk nothing about the radical policies. You
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: will not hear about the snitch line he's set up
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  Speaker 4: to report on your neighbors if they violated his draconian
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  Speaker 4: stay at home order. You will not hear about his
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: order to put tampons in the boy's bathroom at school
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: because you know, boys really do need tampons. You won't
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  Speaker 4: hear any of that. You will not hear when they
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  Speaker 4: tell his life about the romantic honeymoon he enjoyed in
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  Speaker 4: communist China. None of those extreme positions, none of the
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  Speaker 4: weird aspects of his life will be highlighted. As for
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  Speaker 4: her speech, Look, this speech is a big deal, and
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  Speaker 4: I think she will give a good speech. I think
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  Speaker 4: Republicans that are all eger o. She's going to fall
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  Speaker 4: on her face. Listen at the convention. She's done a
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  Speaker 4: pretty good job at at the rally. She reads from
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: the teleprompter just fine, and they'll write her a good speech.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: They've got some amazing storytellers in the Democrat Party, and
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: it is going to be all None of it is
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  Speaker 4: going to take responsibility for the disastrous and failed record
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: of the last four years. But it is all going
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: to be hope and change and joy. And you know,
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: I think she will deliver it just fine. She's at
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: much much greater risk when she's ad libbing, when she's
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: answering questions and being pressed. That will not happened this week,
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  Speaker 4: So she'll read the speech just fine as before.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: If you want to hear the rest of this conversation
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: on this topic, you can go back and down the
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  Speaker 2: podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I want to get back to the big story number
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: three of the week you may have missed. It's interesting
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: that you said they need to lay at these facts
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: and the rapid response from the Trump campaign. I think
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: did a pretty damn good job during the Democratic Convention
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  Speaker 2: laying some of this out, because right at the end
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: of her speech, they sent out a picture with Kamala
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Harris next to Joe Biden and it said Biden Harris accomplishments,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: and here it was the bullet points allowed fifteen million
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  Speaker 2: unveted legals into the country, historic inflation crisis, record high
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  Speaker 2: gas prices in all fifty states, record high consumer debt,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: released terrorists into the country, Ukraine, Russia War, Israel, Humaswar disaster,
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  Speaker 2: to withdrawal from Afghanistan, violent crime, skyrocketing, right to jail,
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  Speaker 2: political rival in the name of democracy, lied to the
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: American public about Joe's decline, and I think we should
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  Speaker 2: talk about that. In a second, center declared war on
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  Speaker 2: American energy. Record low test scores in this country right
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: now for Kate through twelve students. And she was also
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: the most unpopular vice president in US history. Now there's
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: a trust factor here, and I'm not so sure that
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: the Trump campaign has done a good enough job of
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: talking about this issue, and I think they should actually
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: talk about it more, especially at the debate coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Is how can we trust you when you clearly covered
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: up the cognitive decline of the president of the United
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: States of America. I think that would resonate with American voters.
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  Speaker 2: Can I trust a woman that clearly lied to me
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  Speaker 2: for three years?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess I don't see it the same way
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: you do. I think most voters are cynical to politicians
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: across the board think they think all politicians are liars,
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: and so did Kamala Harris lie to the American people
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  Speaker 4: for four years? Absolutely? Did she cover up Joe Biden's
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: mental decline? Absolutely, I'm not sure that changes a vote, though.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: I think that's a little bit baked into the cake.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: What I would like to see the conversation on. I
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: think every election turns on the most basic question, are
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: you better off.
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  Speaker 3: Than you were four years ago?
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  Speaker 1: A man?
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  Speaker 4: And when the Trump campaign gets distracted by issues that
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: are not about how the American people's lives are worse
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: off today than they were when Trump was president. If
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: the campaign gets distracted, it's not making progress. I think
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: it needs to focus every day. And by the way,
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: look that set of bullet points that the campaign put
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: out last night. That was a good set of bullet points.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: That needs to be very much what Donald Trump is
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: saying on the stump, what he's saying and interviews, what
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: their ads are saying. And one of the points in
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: there that has not gotten enough attention is the plummeting
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: test scores for kids, and especially African American kids and
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Hispanic kids.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, it was striking tonight at the convention.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Earlier in the convention, before Kamala spoke, they had Randy Weiningarten,
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: the leader of one of the big teachers unions, who
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: advocated for shutting down schools for over a year. Tens
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: of millions of school kids had their schools shut down
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: for over a year because of COVID. Kamala was a
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: vocal and vigorous advocate of that, and it will go
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: down I believe in history as one of the most
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: catastrophic policies ever implemented that hurt tens of millions of
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: children across this country. I think we need to make
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: that case that kids have been hurt by her radical policies.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: And you overlay that by her radical immigration policies that
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: are releasing violent criminals that are threatening kids. You overlay
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: that with their radical policies supporting defunding the police that
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: are releasing violent criminals that are threatening our kids. Look,
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: much of this election is going to come down to
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: suburban voters and suburban women who historically have voted Republican
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: and in recent years have moved left. And suburban women
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: in recent elections have not been fans of Trump personally
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: of his style. However, you look at the number one
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: issue with suburban women. It is illegal immigration and it
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: is crime. Those two together and it goes fundamentally to
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: the safety of their families, the safety of their kids.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: And I think litigating that case, making the case that
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Kamala Harris has endangered your family and your children, is
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: really important. I also mention on the disconnected from reality.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: You know, Kamala went through this whole litany that Trump
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: is going to lock up his opponents and wage war
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: on you and send American troops against the American people,
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: and it really was a dystopian Mad Max picture of
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: Trump as a deranged dictator. And listen, that's the kind
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: of rhetoric that sells well with left wing Democrats, but
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: it ignores the fact that we had four years with
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Donald Trump as president. He didn't do any of that.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: For that matter, the party that has done much of
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: that has been Joe Biden and Kamala Harris that have
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: used the Department of Justice and the FBI to attack
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: their political opponents over and over and over again, especially
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Donald Trump, but also pro life activists, also individual conservatives
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: engaged in free speech. That they've engaged in the most
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: massive effort of censorship in bed with big tech and
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: making that case that, look, we know what a Trump
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: presidency is like, We've been through it, and in almost
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: every circumstance, the lives of Americans were better when Trump
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: was president than they are now. That contrast, every day
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: between now an election day needs to be front.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: And center center. I got two questions I want to
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: ask you. One of them goes back to are the
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: American people dumb enough? Or are they going to be
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: offended by one of the things that Kamala Harris said.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: She said she accepted.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: The Democrats nomination on behalf of the people. No one
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: voted for this woman, No one.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: Be clear. My entire career, I've only had one client,
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: the people, and so on.
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  Speaker 3: Behalf of the people.
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  Speaker 2: On.
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: Behalf of every American, regardless of party, race, gender, or
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: the language of grandmother speaks.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: On.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: Behalf of my mother and everyone who has ever set
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: out on their own unlikely journey.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: On.
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: Behalf of Americans, like the people I grew up with,
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: people who work hard, chase their dreams, and look out
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: for one another. On. Behalf of everyone whose story could
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: only be written in the greatest nation on Earth. I
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: accept your nomination to be president in the United States.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Senator.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Great story, great words, great speech writing, thoes this one problem,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: no one voted for her.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: You know, I got to say again, I don't think
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: that's an issue that actually is going to move a
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: single vote today.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: So the people that.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Would be mad that no one voted for are the
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Democrats who voted for Joe Biden and other than Joseph
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Robinette Biden Jr. Jill Biden, and Hunter Biden. I don't
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: know that there is a fourth Democrat in America that
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: is mad right now. Every one of them is thrilled
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: and relieved that they don't have what they perceived as
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: the millstone around their neck that was Joe Biden bringing
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: them to a certain loss, and they all believe they
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: now have a real chance at victory in November. So
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: there's not a single voter on the Democrats side of
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: the aisle who is angry that they are disenfranchised, and
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: I think anybody else, frankly doesn't care. So that riff,
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: To be honest, I thought that riff was pretty effective.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: I thought it was well written. She did a good
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: job of leaning into to her record as Attorney general.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: You notice, by the way, there was essentially not a
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: word about her time as senator. I served with her
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: in the US Senate for man.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, there was nothing there was I was going
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: to ask you about that.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: She was the most liberal senator in the entire US Senate.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: She voted to the left of Bernie Sanders and to
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: the left of Elizabeth Warren. That is hard to do.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: I served with Bernie and Elizabeth. They're both really whacked
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: out on the far left, and Kamala was further left.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: Remember Kamala as a senator. In one hearing, she compared
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: ice are our immigration agents with to the KKK, which
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: was grotesque and offensive, and all of that she just erased. Instead,
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: she leaned into her time and by the way, she
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: she largely erased her time as DA as well, because
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: her time as DA was a train wreck. She basically
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: leaned into her time as Attorney general. And I got
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: to tell you, state attorneys general, it is a great
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: job because a state ag le you bring cases that
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: are really politically popular that you could lean in on.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: So she could say I fought on behalf of the elderly,
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: on behalf of veterans. Anyone who's been an AG could
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: give that same litany, but it's a pretty effective litany
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: and saying you know, she described going to court and saying,
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Kamala Harris for the people. I got to say, having
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: spent five and a half years as Solicitor General of Texas,
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: any time I was in court and and and and
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: and say ted Cruz for the state of Texas. Look,
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: that would send send a chill down your spine. I
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: understood what she was saying when she was saying that,
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: and I thought rhetorically that was effective. Now the response
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: goes back to what we said before. The response is, well,
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: what have her policies done for the people? And they
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: have hurt the people over and over and over again.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Her record as Senator and her record as as Vice
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: President has been Kamala harre Us for the criminals, Kamala
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Harris for the drug cartels, Kamala Harris for the human traffickers,
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: Kamala Harris for the Ayatola, Kamala Harris for Hamas and Hesbela.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Because the money she sent to the Ayatola went to
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Amas and Hesbela. Kamala Harris for communist China. There was
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: virtually not a word about China. And this entire speech
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: because this administration's been in bed with China from day one.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: Her record has consistently been siding with everybody except the
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: American people. But in order for that point to be made,
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: its incumbent on the Trump campaign to make that point
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: because the media, sure as heck isn't as always.
• 31:43
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