The Bongino Brief: It Is All About Snapshots And Sound Bites Folks
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Welcome to the Bongino Brief. I'm Dan Bongino.

Vote early and in person. The fact that people know that I'm trying to not just talk but get people to do matters. The snapshots and the soundbites don't matter if we don't show up. They got to motivate you to do. You've got to go out and vote. Early voting is still going on. You have an opportunity in many states to get out there in person. Folks, you don't vote. I'm sorry. This show is not for you. So what happened yesterday? I'm sitting home.

The show is done. I had put it all together. And I'm sitting up in this little, like, office area. I like to kind of chill in at night because it's dark. But who really gives a shit about what I'm doing at night? I like, you know, I got to fall asleep and stuff like that, get those melatonin levels up. And a friend of mine texts me and says, you're never going to believe it.

He says, Donald Trump took all of our advice and showed up in Wisconsin with a garbage truck with a Trump sign on the side. I said, yes, yes, there it is. There it is. Why does this matter? Because for the umpteenth time, what wins political campaigns? Snapshots and soundbites. How many times are we going to say this? Over and over. Who gets snapshots and soundbites? The Trump team.

Who doesn't get it? The Kamala Harris team. Folks, this is just brilliant. This is just what they do. They have now, what's that? No, no, no, no.

The left can't meme. He says the left, they can't meme. They don't know how to make something punch optically, seeing it or the auditory. They don't know how to do it. This kind of stuff is how you win a news cycle. You can laugh at it all you want on the dumb ass communist media left. Laugh all you want. If you lose this thing, you will be crying on election day specifically because of things like this. And again,

You've got your snapshots. You've got your sound bites. Rule number one of politics, right? I've given you all the rules. You have the Dan Bongino handbook. I promise you will analyze the political situation better than anyone. It's how I called the 2016 election before it happened. Go back and listen. The other thing you need to understand why I feel good, good, but not great about the election. Good is because of contrasts. This is a one versus two and a versus B.

You can be an okay candidate running against an awful candidate and you look like an amazing candidate. If it's good versus good candidate, you may have a problem. The contrast in styles between the absolutely hapless, not funny, socially inept Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, who just never seems to get caught in an awkward moment. And even when he does, he makes it funny and not awkward is just night and day.

Fox ran a compilation yesterday, I think it was on the five, of awkward Kamala Harris moments. She is just freaking cringe, folks. She is cringey bad.

Here's Donald Trump telling a story about how backstage he thought he should take the vest off, the sanitation vest, the orange vest, because he thought it may be awkward. And then he turns it into a Donald Trump moment. Guy, I was going to cut this a little shorter. Guy made a call. He's like, Dan, I think you should leave the minute and 20. I was going to cut it about 59. He said, the whole thing is funny. Folks, you need to see this. This is why Donald Trump is coasting into election day. I believe today.

I don't know what you say. I feel like we're in really good shape. Here's why. Watch this. And then I got in the car and I'm driving over here and I have this still on and I come into the arena and I say, where's my jacket? I want to get out of this thing. And they said it would be unbelievable if you could wear it on stage. And I said, no way. I got twenty five thousand people standing outside. I got all these people here. There's no way I'm wearing it on stage.

They said, "Oh, okay, sir." I said, "Get me my jacket." But if you did, "You know, it actually makes you look thinner." I said -- And they got me. I said, "I want to wear it on stage." When they said I looked thinner, I said, "In that case, I'll wear it on stage." I may never wear a blue jacket again. I may go -- I may go in the -- I said that. That was my -- that was the word. That was the key. "Sir, you look thinner."

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He has the ability to turn a situation that would make someone with a low social IQ feel out of place and awkward. What do I do in the vest? What do I do at McDonald's? And he's just funny. I don't know how to describe it.

People have been trying to describe market and bottle charisma for centuries. How many times I got to say it? The French have a word for it. The Genesee qua, which basically means, I don't know. Nobody knows what it is. You just know it when you see it. The old line about porn, right? What is porn? I don't know, but I know when I see it. Oh, you know, charisma is the same way. He's just funny. He's just funny.

You have to be likable. Kamala is just really, really bad at this. She has no ability to make people comfortable with her at all. This is why I don't buy a lot of this. Oh, Trumpy, you know, the mean tweets and all that stuff. It's kind of offset by Trump at the rallies where he's just funny. Now, OK, I'm trying to make a solid case to you.

The chagrin of some on Twitter is that we are in good but not great shape. I always give you the good and the bad. The good news, folks, the early voting numbers I'm going to get to in a minute are only getting uglier for the Democrats. The bad news, they could still surprise us a little bit on Election Day. They could. The chances of that are getting smaller as we start racking up the votes, kids. Remember, polls, who gives a shit about polls anymore?

It doesn't matter. The only polls I care about are early voting. Polls don't mean squat. I'll give you an example. You want a 500 person poll out of Pennsylvania or a 300,000 person sample size of who shows up. Oh, okay. I'll take the poll. Thank you. Me too. The numbers are savagely brutal for the Democrats, but make no mistake. They could still surprise it. It's not Doomer's stuff.

It's meant to motivate you to get out there by telling you the truth. But here's a really, really good piece of good news to dispute the whole Doomer narrative, which is nonsense. But, you know, I get it. Produce your work. Show your work, right? Here's Harry Enten at CNN. I play this guy a lot. I think he's been an honest voice over there.

Here he is with some really, really bad news for Kamala Harris. Folks, this is the number that should stick in your craw most of all. No incumbent, no incumbent has won a presidential election with a sense of malaise, right direction, wrong direction for the country like we have now with this number. It's never happened. It's never happened. Don't listen to me. This is on CNN. Check this out. Just 28%.

of Americans, voters, think the country is going in the right direction, is on the right track. And I want you to put that into a historical perspective for you. Okay, what's the average percentage of the public that thinks that the country is on the right track when the incumbent party loses? It's 25%. That 25% looks an awful bit like that 28% up there. It doesn't look anything

Anything like this 42% doesn't look anything like this 28%. So the bottom line is, very few Americans think the country is on the right track at this particular point. It tracks much more with when the incumbent party loses than with it wins. In fact, I went back through history. There isn't a single time in which 28% of the American public thinks the country is going on the right track in which the incumbent party actually won. They always lose when just 28% of the country believes that the country is on the right track.

Again, folks, produce your work, right? Anyone with a show and a Twitter platform can open their yapper, their freaking soup cooler, and say whatever. Oh, we're going to win. Oh, we're going to lose. We're going to win big. We're going to lose big. It's a red wave. It's not a red wave. It's a blue wave. Abortion. Women are voting. Men are voting. Show your work. I'm going to show you numbers coming up here in a second, but the right track, wrong track poll, those numbers are accurate.

There is not a single incumbent or vice president who has ever won with a wrong track number like that. Wrong track, right track number. Ever.

You can't have this many people dissatisfied. Now, the problem Kamala Harris is having is she has been unable to detach herself from the trappings of the Biden and Harris administration. She's been unable to say, Hey, Joe Biden did this, but I didn't agree with it. She keeps going on TV saying, well,

well, there's nothing comes to mind, nothing comes to mind that I would change from Joe Biden. Well, Kamala, 60, 70% of America thinks that sucks. You really believe on election day you're going to get a mass break of Democrats? It still means you got to show up, folks. And you got to bring 10 people. I'm just afraid. I am deathly afraid of a lack of enthusiasm. Please tell me I'm wrong. Folks, this show's for you in the chat. Please, what was I saying? I said, okay.

I'm just trying to read the chat. Please tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm panicking. I'd love to hear it. Because I always say panic kills. Because in my last line of work, if you panic, you probably die. That's why we always say don't shit the bed, right? That was our line in the Secret Service. Don't ever shit the bed. They obviously didn't mean it physically. It meant don't panic.

I just want to seal the deal. And I am deathly afraid that if people hear this, hey, man, look, we're so ahead. We're way ahead that they may vote, but they're not going to bring their 10 friends. And one more thing, folks, I don't only want to win.

I want to. I'm correct. Thank you. I'm not. Who just said that? You're not wrong. OK, black rifle to a. Oh, there you go. That sounds like my kind of dude right there. Well, maybe a woman. Yes, I'm not. I just I want this to be a landslide. I want this to be a statement. I want us to win the popular vote. I want us to win one swing state they didn't expect.

I want us to compete in New Jersey and Virginia. I want the Democrats on November 6th, I want this thing called by midnight by sane people, and I want the Democrats the next day to say, what the f*** just happened? Listen, I want to get off track. I don't want to get off track, but listen to me. One of the greatest days of my life, politically, you know, outside of wedding, childbirth, and personal stuff, one of the greatest days of my life

I was working at CRTV, election night 2016. No one thought Trump was going to win. Nobody. I got into this verbal back and forth with Dan Horowitz, who's a very good friend of mine, smart guy. He insisted to me Trump was going to lose.

He'll tell you the story himself. I said, Dave, I'm telling you, I've been knocking on doors. I was running for Congress myself. I lost the primary. I said, Trump is going to win this thing. You're making a big mistake. I was on the air that night for probably four hours and see our TV when live streaming was a new thing with Michelle Malkin. Folks walk in out of that studio. We were in Washington, D.C. and looking at the despondent faces on Hillary Clinton supporters.

who made the golden rule mistake. What's the best punch in the world? The one you never see coming? They didn't see it coming. Folks, they were walking around D.C. And you know what the moment was for me? Sorry, stupid. You tell me to shut up. I go back to the hotel in D.C. It was full of Hillary Clinton supporters. When I left the hotel that night to do the coverage, they had CNN on in the lobby.

They had seen it on this big, massive screen. All the Hillary people were in the lobby. And I remember seeing Pete Hegseth from Fox. We were all kind of looking at each other like, we'll see what happens. I come back that night. The lobby's full of Trump supporters screaming, they've got Fox News on. And it was not a single Hillary Clinton supporter anywhere. Ladies and gentlemen, I want that feeling again. I don't know how long I have on this earth. I'm fine. I don't want to sound, but I don't. You don't either.

I'd like to enjoy it a thousand more times, but I want to enjoy it once more. I need that. I know you need it too. We have been through a lot in the last four years. Scamming, cheating, censorship, accounts canceled, people wiping Parler off the map, wiping Twitter accounts off the map, canceling our YouTube stations. We have been through a bad three and a half years. We all need this.

We need this. If that alone isn't reason for you to get out and vote and bring 10 people, we just need this. I don't know what is.