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Alrighty, folks, there is a lot happening. Joe Biden is giving a major address from the Oval Office today. It's proof of life, and we are going to be covering it in a live version of the Ben Shapiro show tonight. Plus, Bibi Netanyahu is on the Hill today. Plus, Kamala Harris. Oh, man, they're revving up the enthusiasm machine. First, today is the final day to get 47% off a DailyWire Plus annual membership with Code Fight. As a DailyWire Plus member, you get uncensored, unfiltered, ad-free content, the latest breaking news, and more.
Join the fight now and get 47% off with code fight at dailywire.com. Well, the Democrats are hoping that you totally forgot about Joe Biden, that it's been like four days and you forgot that Joe Biden is president of the United States. And it seems to be working. The fact is the media are covering
Kamala Harris, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and they are covering her with all the syrup they can find because she is an amazing delight. She is just a special person. She is the fun aunt. She is, as the kids say, brat. That is the take that you get from the media these days. With that said, Joe Biden is still the president of the United States.
And Joe Biden is supposed to give a big address tonight from the Oval Office in which he explains what the hell is going on. So according to President Biden, tomorrow evening, 8 p.m. Eastern, I will address the nation from the Oval Office on what lies ahead and how I will finish the job for the American people. Now, I don't know what the hell that's supposed to mean.
I mean, by finishing the job, does he mean like his candidacy was finished? Like he can put a pillow over the face of the American people and smother us to death because that is effectively what his policies have been. Remember, there is still a war raging in the Middle East. There's still a war raging in Ukraine. China is casting its lonely eyes upon Taiwan. The world's a much less safe place than when Joe Biden took office. We still have an inflationary spiral that has put us behind the eight ball.
by 20% on many of the prices that we've been experiencing at the grocery store. We still have a stagnating economy with the jobs numbers coming in low now.
All of that happens to be true. Our social fabric has been rent by Joe Biden's radicalism. He has violated pretty much all the prescriptions that were put on the president of the United States by the Constitution. But all of that is supposedly going to be put aside by Kamala Harris. Now, in the dark, while Kamala Harris is doing her thing, Joe Biden will continue being a very, very bad president. That is perfectly obvious. However, I don't think we should forget that Kamala Harris and the entire Democratic Party and the entire media were responsible for the biggest cover up of our life.
It truly was the biggest cover-up of our life. You could say that BLM was a big cover-up, but that was in plain sight and we all knew. The riots were happening in our streets. All you had to do is drive your car to the wrong part of town, or in the case of Los Angeles, to just Melrose Boulevard, and you'd be able to see what the hell was going on. You could say that maybe COVID was the biggest cover-up of our lifetime, except for the fact that there was some conflicting evidence when it came to COVID. At least the media could try to hang their hat on many of the lies that were being told by Dr. Anthony Fauci and the NIH.
When it came to Joe Biden's health, his mental status, everyone in the know knew. Everyone, Kamala Harris knew, Democratic senators knew, Nancy Pelosi knew, and the entire media knew because they were dealing with President Biden on a day-by-day, hour-by-hour basis. And yet we're all supposed to pretend that all that goes away. The media's, their credibility has now been magically restored now that Joe Biden has stepped down and got three weeks of honest media coverage.
Kamala Harris, she's stepped in and that means that she's honest now, even though she actively participated in the cover up. The Democratic line here is it doesn't matter what we knew and when we knew it about Joe Biden's health. It really doesn't matter. Here is Senator Chris Coons, a longtime ally of the president of the United States, saying just that last night.
Republicans are going to say that Kamala Harris knew that President Biden wasn't up to four more years. I mean, they would say that about you, I think, as well. And they're going to allege a cover up. They're going to say she knew she covered it up. How do you answer that charge, considering what we have seen transpire over the last month?
First, I think it's BS. Second, I don't think it's particularly relevant because what the American people are going to be looking at in November is Donald Trump versus Kamala Harris. And that is a fundamentally different race going forward and a different electoral challenge and a different direction for the American people than we were looking at before. I don't think that there is a huge cover-up underway here. And I frankly don't think that matters to the discussion and the debate going forward.
Now, notice, notice what he's saying there. He's saying, number one, there's no huge cover up. Well, I mean, there is. The president of the United States tonight is going to retain the presidency. This is the person who's going to retain the presidency, by the way. This is a video of Joe Biden being seen alive for the first time in days. Yesterday, he stepped off of the Air Force One and he looks like, frankly, he is half dead at the least, maybe 75 percent dead. Here's the president of the United States. He can barely walk. He looks like he's going to be taken down by a stiff wind here.
He's wobbling. He's asked by a reporter about why he's dropping out. And he goes, oh, and then he just keeps walking. That's your president of the United States. Is that a scandal? It should be a scandal. But I will say this. I think that Chris Coons is right. I think when he says that the media have turned their eyes away from Joe Biden, we're going to pretend like none of this ever happened. It never happened. Joe Biden was never the nominee. Like Ellen Page is going completely missing at this point. Never existed.
And if you remember a president named Joe Biden who was unhealthy and who was, in fact, a Democratic nominee, it's all in your imagination. You're not supposed to remember that any of this ever happened because that would implicate the current Democrats. That would not be about Joe Biden any longer. It would be about who knew what when. With that said, are the American people going to be focused on the cover up by the time we hit November? I really, really doubt it. And that is precisely why they made this change. They made this change for two reasons. One, they knew that Joe Biden was going to lose. Joe Biden was down heavily in the polls. They did not make this change because Joe Biden is senile.
If they made the change because Biden was senile, they would oust him with the 25th Amendment, which, by the way, is a question that Kamala Harris should be forced to answer. If she doesn't like his policies, if she thinks he's senile, why doesn't she move for his ouster right now? She should be stapled to his pant leg in terms of her actual policy prescriptions. She is the one who chooses to keep the senile old man in office. But is that going to be the story? Absolutely not. Democrats are shoving the entire Biden presidency into the closet.
And then they are pretending that Kamala Harris just sort of sprang from the earth, fully formed. They're pretending that she was the popular pick. Well, the Democrats decided that they no longer wanted Joe Biden. So they shoved Kamala Harris right into place. They did what you might call a job replacement, an upgrade. Well, if you need to do that for your business, but you want somebody better than either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, you need ZipRecruiter. ZipRecruiter can be tried right now for free.
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enthusiasm this thing into existence. Again, you are seeing enthusiasm on the Democratic side of the aisle. You're seeing enthusiasm because number one, Joe Biden is gone. And I think there's a natural enthusiasm that happens when you know you're going to lose and suddenly there is a ray of hope. And then you are seeing a sort of fake enthusiasm for Kamala Harris.
And that fake enthusiasm is being generated in outsized amounts by the media. Chuck Schumer tried to enthusiasm this thing yesterday. It was actually quite pathetic. He was in front of the press and he was waiting for the press to literally clap for him. I'm not even kidding. That's a thing that happened. Here is the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announcing that he was throwing his support behind Vice President Harris. Now that the process has played out from the grassroots bottom up,
We are here today to throw our support behind Vice President Kamala Harris.
I'm clapping. You don't have to. What's your case to the American people and to the Democratic voters who voted for Joe Biden that this isn't a coronation? The bottom line, it was a bottom-up process. People just rallied right to her side. The enthusiasm in this big, diverse, representative party was amazing. It was palpable. You could cut it with a knife.
Okay, this is a lie. This is a lie. In what way was this grassroots? They literally had primaries. Primaries are a grassroots process. Now, you may not like that Joe Biden won the primaries. You may think the Democratic Party should have unlocked the primaries so more candidates could run against Joe Biden. But to pretend that this is grassroots is insane. Nancy Pelosi was in the back room with a stiletto, jabbing it over and over into Joe Biden's neck. Barack Obama was standing behind Joe Biden with a garret. This
This insane, bizarre notion that this was a grassroots operation to get rid of Joe Biden. It is totally crazy. Now, the grassroots may go along with it. The grassroots may be very happy about it. But to pretend that this was not the Democratic Party elites offing Joe Biden is, of course, a total lie. They also have to say that because then they have to suggest that there was wild enthusiasm for Harris, not just wild enthusiasm for getting rid of Biden.
Because two things actually happened here. There was wild Democratic base enthusiasm for getting rid of Joe Biden. People did want Biden out, but there was no grassroots enthusiasm for Kamala, who has a 38% approval rating and is wildly charmless. And millions of Americans didn't come together because they desperately wanted Kamala Harris. That's being foisted upon them by the party system, for sure. But Hakeem Jeffries is trying the same thing. Here's the House minority leader saying the same sort of stuff. Vice President Harris has earned the nomination from the grassroots of-
and not the top down. She is ready. She is willing. She is able to energetically and emphatically lead America into the future. Earned what? Earned what? How did she earn this? Precisely how? Please explain. Did she spend one iota of one day campaigning for the presidency? I mean, there were primaries. Did she primary her boss? She's done that before, by the way. When she was the San Francisco DA candidate, she literally ran against her own boss.
Is that what she did here? Now, is any of this going to matter? The answer is it's incredibly frustrating to watch as a political observer when you are lied to. It's really, really annoying. And these people are lying. It all happened right in front of us. And now we are being gaslit about the very process by which Joe Biden was ousted.
It's a total gaslighting. Kamala Harris was appointed by the Democratic Party elite to replace Joe Biden because they wanted to keep his $100 million war chest intact. They went to the donors. They got the donors to drop a money bomb on her inside the first three days of the campaign so they could pretend that they had $200 million of grassroots support or some such nonsense.
This is all created. It is all fake. It is all airsets. With that said, is the race changed? Yes. And if Republicans get stuck in the mode of talking about Joe Biden from here to the election, Democrats are going to win because the case is very simple here. It always was. Whoever this election is a referendum on is going to lose.
For a while, it was Joe Biden. For nearly the entirety of the race, it was Joe Biden because he's the current president of the United States. And Democrats pulled a fast one. They got rid of him in favor of her. Now, I know a lot of Republicans are sitting around thinking, yes, but she's wildly unpopular. People hate her. No one knows who she is. If you ask the everyday American the name of the vice president, many do not know. Very few know anything about her. Certainly almost nobody knows her record because vice presidents generally get picked from quasi-obscurity.
Vice presidents are mostly only famous for being a vice president, not for what they did before they were the vice president. And that's certainly true for Kamala Harris, who was in the United States Senate for all of 27 seconds and then ran a wildly and terribly unsuccessful presidential campaign, which means Republicans are going to have to introduce this fresh character to the American people.
That is their job. This means that this is a fresh race and it means there can be no errors by the Republican team. None. It means whatever get out the vote effort they've got going needs to be top notch. This is not the time for testing new theories about get out the vote. This is the time for winning. This is not the time for testing new theories about how to go after Kamala Harris. This is time to go after Kamala Harris on her record. Can Republicans act with that kind of discipline?
Because the reality is that for the past several weeks, Donald Trump has been a more disciplined candidate. With that said, there's a lot of buyer's remorse in sort of political circles these days about J.D. Vance as his VP candidate, not because anybody dislikes J.D. Vance, because J.D. Vance doesn't necessarily add to the appeal that you're looking for against a candidate like Kamala Harris. If you're running against Joe Biden, you can pick somebody for legacy. But if you're running against a competitive candidate who is not Joe Biden, who is not fully dead, maybe it wouldn't better to pick a Glenn Youngkin from Virginia.
But it's too late for that. So the bottom line here is that the Donald Trump campaign cannot afford any mistakes at this point.
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from the MSN. The coverage will be largely positive and will certainly energize Democrats and some other parts of their coalition, at least in the short term. And that's the key. Is it in the short term or not? I have a feeling that it is in the short term because again, once people take a look at Kamala Harris, she's an extraordinarily charmless and annoying candidate. She is cloying. She's nasal. She's pretty terrible just as a quality of a candidate.
And it turns out that people who look fairly good on paper very often implode on the national stage. That was certainly true of Kamala the first time around when she ran for president in 2019, 2020.
So is the enthusiasm likely to fall away? Well, again, this goes to the Harris campaign. Can Kamala Harris stay out of the public eye? She actually needs to run the basement strategy. She needs to go out and do rallies where she'll be very comfortable and she needs to avoid anything remotely like a tough interview. Now, the media may help her out. The media have swiveled into her camp. They see a new opportunity to get rid of the most hated man in America, Donald Trump. And they are presumably going to ask her only questions about her favorite dance music and why she is such a nice woman.
We can expect that sort of media treatment. But is the bump going to be long-term or short-term? The problem is this is a short-term election now. It is currently the end of July. We have August, September, October, and that's it. Short-term better be real short-term.
Tony Fabrizio says we'll start to see public polling, particularly national public polls, where Harris is gaining on or even leading President Trump. Obviously, the situation we find ourselves in today is totally uncharted territory and has no modern historical parallel. But there are some things that haven't changed due to the events of the past two weeks, including our highly successful convention. President Trump has seen a bump in his numbers in a number of recent public polls. Not surprising, given the most candidates historically receive some type of bump.
Given what has happened over the past couple of days and her impending VP choice, there's no question Harris will get her bump earlier than the Democrat convention. That bump is likely starting to show itself over the next few days and will last a while until the race settles back down.
The Democrats and the MSM will try and tout these polls as proof the race has changed. The fundamentals, however, of the race stay the same. Again, this is Donald Trump's pollster. This is Tony Fabrizio. The Democrats deposing one nominee for another does not change voters' discontent over the economy, inflation, crime, the open border, housing costs, not to mention concern over two foreign wars. Before long, Harris's honeymoon will end and voters will refocus on her role as Biden's partner and co-pilot. As importantly, voters will also learn about Harris's dangerously liberal record before becoming Biden's partner in creating historic inflation. She cast the deciding vote
on the Inflation Reduction Act, flood of illegal immigrants at the southern border, she's Biden's border czar, and migrant crime that is threatening our families and communities. She said illegals free went on to commit violent crime as DA. So while the public polls may change in the short run and she may consolidate a bit more of the Democrat base, Harris can't change who she is or what she's done. Stay tuned. I think that that is an excellent analysis by Tony Fabrizio. And as Harry Enten points out, before Democrats get too high on their own supply, Democrats do face an uphill battle because even if Kamala Harris is running competitive nationally, the Democrats
State polling, state by state, still favors Donald Trump. And the Electoral College is an uphill battle for Kamala Harris. Here's Harry Enten, CNN's pollster, analyzing the state of play.
Let's take a look here just first at the favorable views of Donald Trump. We know that Donald Trump has historically been unpopular. But take a look now. After the Republican National Convention, in the ABC News Ipsos poll, he recorded his highest ever favorable rating at 40%. That's not a one-off. Take a look at the Quinnipiac University poll. 46%. That's the highest ever in that pollster.
The fact is, Donald Trump is more popular now than he ever has been before. So yes, Democrats can make this switcheroo, but they're still going to have to beat Donald Trump, a Donald Trump who is stronger, Sarah, than he has ever been before.
Now, again, it's still a jump ball because on the other side of the coin, the two national polls that have come out in the last couple of days show Trump either tied with Harris or behind. Marist has Trump and Harris tied at 42. Ipsos has Harris winning 42 to 38 over Trump. But of course, that's not going to be the final result because 42 and 38 is only 80% of the vote with Kennedy earning eight, whereas the other 12% of the vote. Nate Silver has some thoughts on the current state of play. He says, on the one hand, it's plausible Harris is getting or will get some sort of bounce from the news.
This could reflect partisan non-response bias, for instance, meaning Democrats are now sounding off on polls that they weren't likely to sound off on before. He also says, ordinarily, you'd expect this to be a pretty good period for Trump, but obviously Kamala has now stolen his thunder.
He says, also, if our Democratic readers are detecting a shade of optimism in this post, I need to be a Debbie Downer for a moment. In a race that's likely to be close, Trump's edge in the Electoral College is a huge advantage for him. While there haven't been many swing state polls yet, I'd expect the Electoral College popular vote gap to still favor him as it did in 2016 and 2020. So if the national polls draw a tie, like the Marist poll did today, that still implies a Trump lead in the Electoral College. However, there are certain states that are likely to tighten up.
Hey, Georgia, for example, is already tightening up in terms of the polling. There's a poll today that shows Kamala down only one in Georgia. Now, do I think that Kamala Harris is going to win Georgia? I do not. I do not think that if Stacey Abrams lost Georgia handily to Brian Kemp, Kamala Harris would like to win Georgia over Donald Trump. I don't think that that's probably right. With that said, is this race significantly more competitive than when Joe Biden was in the race? Absolutely. So either Donald Trump has to play a flawless game or you have to wait for Kamala Harris to make a mistake.
Either of those things could happen. I think it's pretty likely that Kamala Harris will make a bunch of big mistakes because it is very rare for a candidate to run a flawless campaign. Hillary Rodham Clinton is now sounding off in support of Kamala Harris in The New York Times. She says history has its eye on us. President Biden's decision to end his campaign was as pure an act of patriotism as I have seen in my lifetime. It should be a call to action to the rest of us to continue his fight for the soul of the nation.
Okay, that's nonsense. Obviously, the only reason he dropped out is because he was losing. If he thought he could win, he would have stayed in. That's not patriotism. That is pure self-interest. However, Hillary is now talking up Kamala, which is like the kiss of death, by the way. Well, Hillary Clinton has some bad memories of that 2016 race, but you have good memories in your life that you wish to preserve, and that's why you need Legacy Box. Legacy Box is the simple and safe solution for digitizing all of your memories. Founded over a decade ago, Legacy Box has one mission, to bring your memories into the 21st century.
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She says elections are about the future. That's why I'm excited about Vice President Kamala Harris. She represents a fresh start for American politics. She can offer a hopeful, unifying vision. She is talented, experienced and ready to be president. And I know she can defeat Donald Trump. Ms. Harris's record and character will be distorted and disparaged by a flood of disinformation and the kind of ugly prejudice we've already heard from MAGA mouthpieces. She and the campaign will have to cut through the noise. And then she suggests that it's going to be all about sexism and it's going to be about racism and all of the rest.
Now, the reality, of course, is that whatever her unpopularity is going to be about, it's going to be largely about her policies. Her policies are extremely radical. As we have mentioned on the program, she is anti-fracking. She is anti-gun. She is anti-cop. Despite her new attempts to paint herself as a tough prosecutor back when she was in California, she absolutely 100% was not. You can check out our series, Scamala, over at Daily Wire Plus, 47% off with Code Fight, in order to find out everything you need to know about Kamala Harris's history.
She's also making some pretty big mistakes. So she has now apparently picked Jen O'Malley Dillon, who served as chair of the Biden-Harris campaign before Biden announced he would leave the race. That is not a particularly good pick. O'Malley Dillon ran Biden's 2020 presidential campaign and she was running Biden's failing 2024 campaign. The truth is, if she were smart, then she would presumably be picking people from the Obama team.
Nate Silver says it's not good news for Democrats to put the people who ran the Biden campaign into the ground in charge. So strange pick by Kamala Harris. But again, she's run a bunch of bad campaigns. Her Senate campaign in 2016, the one she won, was so bad that Politico had an entire article talking about how she was wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars on perks and alienating her entire staff.
With that said, we are now in the honeymoon Harris period, as Tony Fabrizio said. So she had a big rally yesterday. It was her first rally yesterday in Wisconsin. She's not going to make the mistake that Hillary Clinton did and not visit the swing states at the very least. According to The Washington Post, to a roaring crowd of thousands in the Milwaukee suburb, Harris moved to redefine the November election as a choice between the future and the past, a prosecutor and a felon. Now, again, this tough on crime prosecutor stuff from Kamala Harris is just a lie.
And Kamala Harris's version of the future is pretty bad. Honestly, this reads so much like the...
sort of the race between Kang and Kodos at this point from the Simpsons. She's like, we're going to the future, not the past. That is legitimately what she is saying now. I have news for her. We're all going to the future because we have no choice. Ain't none of us got a time machine. Here, however, is Kamala Harris saying that Donald Trump is focused on the past while she is focused on the future. To the future, Kodos. They intend to end the Affordable Care Act.
And take us back then to a time when insurance companies had the power to deny people with pre-existing conditions. Remember what that was like? Children with asthma. This is so highly choreographed. Women who survived breast cancer. Grandparents with diabetes. America has tried these failed economic policies before. But we are not going back. No!
And she's so irritating and she's trying to keep it in check right now, but it'll come out over the course of the campaign because it always does. When the cameras are on you, you become exactly what you are in the public eye. She also is trying to suggest that Donald Trump represents chaos, fear, and hate, which again, this is an administration that has literally tried to jail its political opponent. At this very rally, the crowd was chanting, lock him up about Donald Trump to the vice president of administration, which has activated its DOJ to actively lock him up.
She says that it's about hate. Her own boss suggested that half the country hates democracy. She's talking about chaos. The world is a more chaotic place than any time in my lifetime because of Joe Biden. So if this is her campaign, you know, I got some questions. Do we want to live in a country of freedom, compassion and rule of law or a country of chaos, fear and hate? No.
And here's the beauty of this moment. We each have the power to answer that question.
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And definitely and definitely will put you in jail unless you happen to be a person who she believes should not be in jail for political purposes. And then she'll let you out. She certainly won't seek the death penalty for people who kill cops or anything. There's a lot on Kamala Harris. All of it will come to light again. These are the early days, folks. So if you are rooting for Donald Trump and just understand it's going to be a rough three weeks here and the race has not yet even begun. It has not. Here is Kamala Harris suggesting that she knows Donald Trump's type.
Before I was elected vice president, before I was elected United States senator, I was elected attorney general of the state of California and I was a courtroom prosecutor before then. And in those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain.
So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump's type. This prosecution line, we'll see how that plays broadly writ over the course of the campaign. However, there is no question that Kamala Harris is in fact a far leftist and what she is planning.
or should become president is far to the left of Joe Biden. If you've liked what you've gotten from Joe Biden thus far, triple it. If you get Kamala Harris as president, you are talking more inflationary policies, more spending, more siding with America's enemies on the foreign stage. In fact, article
Article from The Wall Street Journal today talking about what exactly she would do in terms of foreign policy. And I worry a lot about foreign policy from the president, the reason being that that's where the president has plenary power. When it comes to domestic policy, the president has to compete with Congress, has to contend with other interests in the legislature. When it comes to foreign policy, the president has outsized impact, which is why Joe Biden has set the world on fire like a child playing with matches in a kerosene covered room.
According to The Wall Street Journal, quote, as the administration's most ardent senior level advocate of securing a ceasefire in Gaza, Vice President Kamala Harris's elevation to the Democratic Party's standard bearer now puts her in a stronger position to advocate for a shift in U.S. policy toward Israel and to carry out those changes should she win in November.
Ivo Daldar, who served as NATO ambassador during the Obama administration and is well connected with Biden, said, quote, I think she'll be more inclined to find other ways to put pressure on Israel if the situation in Gaza does not dramatically improve. Now, again, Hamas is still the governing power in the Gaza Strip. Hamas just signed on to a unity agreement with the Palestinian Authority to create a unity Palestinian government. And Harris is focused like a laser on Israel. Apparently, she's supposed to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu this week, but not she's not going to a speech, by the way.
He is supposed to give a speech in Congress today. And Kamala Harris is saying she won't attend. Now, it's kind of normal for the president not to attend.
But the vice president is the presiding officer in the Senate. So when you have a joint session of Congress, the vice president typically attends. When Vladimir Zelensky spoke before Congress, for example, Kamala Harris was there. However, she's not showing up for this one. And we all know why, because she's trying to please the pro-Hamas base in the Democratic Party. Just another reason why she's not going to pick someone like Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, because if she were to do that, it would piss off the pro-Hamas base in her own party. What is she doing? She's going to a sorority conference in Indiana.
Huge news. Meanwhile, the Senate president pro tempore is Democrat Senator Patty Murray of Washington. But she also says she's not going to attend because, again, there are too many members of the Hamas caucus in the Democratic Party. In fact, there are 50 plus Democratic House members and Senate members who will not be attending Netanyahu's speech today. Whatever you think of Netanyahu, he is the head of an allied power in a time of war after the biggest terror attack on Jews since World War Two.
And 50 House members and Democratic senators are not showing up, including the vice president of the United States, as well as the Senate president pro tem. Amazing stuff here from the Democratic Party. So that's what you're going to get. She is apparently also going to get rid of everyone in the Biden team and replace them with even people who are even further to the left on a wide variety of issues.
According to the Wall Street Journal, key Biden appointees, including National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, wouldn't likely be extended in their current roles, according to current and former officials. What does that mean? They'll be replaced by people who are even more unlikely to defend America's interests. That's where Kamala Harris is.
Apparently, Harris hasn't had an opportunity to define her own brand of foreign policy, but observers say she might ultimately align herself more closely with the progressive elements of the Democratic Party. So if you like the Hamas caucus in power, then get ready for President Kamala Harris. That is the direction that she is moving. And on domestic policy, you know exactly what she's going to do. She is going to reorder all of American government in order to racially discriminate.
on the basis of group identity. How do we know this? Because she literally put out a tweet saying so in November of 2020, when largely ignored except in right-wing circles. But this is Kamala Harris's governing philosophy in one video. This is a video she put out November 1st, 2020, explaining the differences between equality and equity.
Equality would be, for example, the same rules apply to everyone. Equity would be an attempt to achieve the same result, i.e. communism. I mean, there's really not another great descriptor of this particular ideology, except that it's sort of racial communism. Here is Kamala Harris's video, a video put out at least by Kamala Harris, November 1st, 2020. And this will be her domestic policy governing strategy. So there's a big difference between equality and equity. Equality suggests, oh, everyone should get the same amount.
The problem with that, not everybody's starting out from the same place. So if we're all getting the same amount, but you started out back there and I started out over here, we could get the same amount, but you're still going to be that far back behind me. It's about giving people the resources and the support they need so that everyone can be on equal footing and then compete on equal footing. Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.
And there's just be a picture of Karl Marx and the stars there. I mean, that is an amazing video. Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place, not that we all have similar opportunities or that the rules equally apply to us, but that we all end up at the same place. That's Kamala Harris's governing philosophy.
So get ready. If you don't like Joe Biden's administration, if you're a moderate and you're looking at Kamala Harris and you think she's moderate, she's lying to you. Do not believe it for one heartbeat. It is not true at all. She's a deeply radical politician. She's a California progressive. She's to the left of Gavin Newsom. Anybody who's telling you differently is selling you something. And Kamala Harris is certainly attempting to sell you something. So what are Democrats doing to
misdirect away from her policies. They are suggesting, of course, of course, of course, that if you oppose Kamala Harris's radicalism, it's because you're, wait for it, wait for it, sexist and racist. Playing the you're a racist game is all they've got. This is why we are excited to bring to theaters September 13th, Matt Walsh's brand new film. It's something we've never done anything like.
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I'm going to sort this out. I need to go deeper undercover. If I want to be an ally, I need to look like one. What is racism? Martin Luther King said not to judge people by their... Martin Luther King said a lot of stuff. Is America inherently racist? What the hell is that? The word inherent is challenging there. America is racist to its bones. All of the... So inherently. Yeah. The entire system has to burn. And I'm not going to even use save this country. This country is not worth saving. This country is a piece of shit. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
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a lot to support it at this point, but it is the Democrats' favorite line of defense. You attack somebody because of their policies and they claim that you're doing it because of their identity.
Here, for example, is the Morning Joe team suggesting that it's racist to call Kamala Harris a DEI hire. Now, again, it's this dumb game that Democrats are constantly playing where a Democrat will say, I want a black woman for this job. And then she's appointed. And then we point out, hey, you wanted a black woman for the job. I'm like, hey, that's racist. We're like, what's racist? Like, well, it's racist to point out that you that she's a black woman. But you literally said you wanted a black woman for the job. As I've said before, this is the world's dumbest version of who's on first.
Here we go. They are now accusing you of being a racist for noticing that Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris because of her race and her sex. Republican Congressman Tim Burchette of Tennessee complaining about Vice President Kamala Harris being. Is it 1951? It's 1951. I'm so about to go into like a country club in like rural Tennessee there like in 1951. Is he serious?
If you are a black woman, then you're a DEI hire. Unbelievable. I mean, I guess they tired of lying about the president's health condition. And now they're just going to lie that people only oppose Kamala Harris, not because she's a terrible candidate who is wildly radical, but because she's a black woman. Representative Steve Horsford,
of Nevada. He also says it's so offensive. It's so offensive to point out, you know, that Joe Biden picked her because of her race. He literally said it. I didn't say it. He said it. I don't know what you want. Everyone knows that the last finalist for the VP position in 2020 were a black woman, Susan Rice, a black woman, Karen Bass, a black woman, Val Demings, and a black woman, Kamala Harris. Everyone knew this. This was not like a giant secret. Politico reported it. But now if you read old headlines, suddenly you're racist. That's the way this works.
It's the most offensive thing that I have heard someone say. She is the vice president of the United States. She is the most qualified person to be our nominee. She will beat Donald Trump. Okay. All right. So this is going to be the shtick. Okay. I mean, good luck with that, I suppose. For his part, Donald Trump
is saying that he really, really wants to debate Kamala Harris and that there will be multiple debates with Kamala Harris. We'll discuss the optics of how that goes in a moment. Here's President Trump. If Kamala Harris does end up being the Democrat nominee, will you commit to debating her at least one time?
Oh, yes, absolutely. I'd want to. I think it's important. I'm not thrilled about ABC because they're truly fake news. I watched last night. They're actually trying to make a hero out of Joe Biden when he was the worst president in history.
OK, again, I think that Trump is obviously going to have to debate her. How does that debate go? Well, I think people are underestimating how well Kamala Harris could do in a debate. If you recall the early debates, she did pretty well in those. And really, all she has to do is not fall over. Again, what's weird about this particular scenario is that the expectation bar has been set so low for a Democrat.
that all she has to do is not be Joe Biden. That's basically the Democrats' proposition. The proposition is if we run anyone who is not a dead person named Joe Biden, that person will win. The question is in the public mind, in the lead up to a debate between Harris and Trump, is there going to be an expectation that Harris will clock Trump? Or is there going to be an expectation that all Harris has to do is basically survive Trump? If the expectation is that Harris is going to clock Trump,
And it's possible that she could underperform those expectations. And really, all it takes is one Kamala Harris word salad for Trump to finish her. As I've said before, I think Trump needs to repurpose the line that he used against Joe Biden. And when she says some sort of and there's real significance to the passage of time, I think he needs at that point to hit her with. I have no idea what she just said at the end of that sentence. And frankly, neither does she.
And he needs to just repurpose what he said about Biden and use it for her because she's just as incoherent but doesn't have the brain damage.
So how could that debate could go like that? The thing that Trump has to do more than anything else, as I said earlier, discipline, discipline, discipline. And that means Democrats are waiting. They are waiting for him to make some sort of comment about her being female or about her being black. That is what they are waiting for. Not that he's going to say anything sexist or racist, but if he even mentions that Joe Biden picked her because she was a black woman, which again is true. If he says that they're going to hit him with the Donald Trump is as racist as they how could he? It's just so terrible.
He's going to have to stay away from the kind of storyline that Donald Trump typically likes to talk about, which is the fact that she got her start in politics by having sex with Willie Brown, which is true. Again, that is clearly the case. There's not even a denial of it in any real sort of sense. But if Donald Trump mentions that, it's going to be, well, you're a sexist and you treat women terribly. And how could you possibly...
So Donald Trump is going to have to stay away from that. House GOP leaders are also directing their members not to go after Kamala Harris on that basis. According to Politico, House Republican leaders told lawmakers to focus on criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris's record without reference to race and gender, following caustic remarks from some Republicans attacking her on the basis of identity. Now, again,
It's all a sucker's game because the Democrats literally named her identity as one of the driving rationales for making her vice president. But you're not allowed to mention it. OK, fine. Well, if those are the rules, then I suppose that it would be smart to play by the rules sufficient to win.
In the 48 hours since President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, Republican leaders have tried to train their criticism of the presumptive Democratic nominee on her handling of the border and her plan to skip Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before Congress. By the way, it would be a smart look for Senator J.D. Vance to come off the campaign trail for a day and go to that speech in Congress. Not because, I mean, right now he's a senator like everybody else, but Kamala Harris has a literal obligation by the sort of decorum of the chamber to be there and she's not. So J.D. Vance showing up would in fact show
signs of solidarity with an American ally that Kamala Harris is clearly undercutting. So Republicans are going to have to play this one smart, as I've said over and over and over again. Now, who exactly is she going to pick for VP? There's been a lot of talk about Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.
However, I think that it is unlikely that she picks him. And I think it's unlikely because, again, she wants to project a left wing viewpoint to her supporters. Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona has been trotted out a lot. Former Navy combat pilot and NASA astronaut. He ran for the Senate in 2020 after being appointed senator. He won again in 2022.
The case for Kelly is that he is, again, from a swing state. The basic idea here would be that she makes Arizona more competitive. There's talk about North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper if she wants to make a play for North Carolina. I've heard some inside information that North Carolina is running surprisingly weak for President Trump, so that wouldn't be a big surprise. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has also been discussed because, again, he's a red state governor who is a very, very blue governor. But Beshear's debut on the national stage was not particularly incontrovertible.
encouraging. There's been some talk about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. I think that's highly unlikely. Tim Walz has presided over a state that has burst into flame multiple times on his watch. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. Pritzker is also Jewish. I think that that is probably going to prevent him from being the nominee. And there's been talk about Gretchen Whitmer, who's already said that she doesn't want it. And an all-female ticket probably hurts her. So if you have to put money on it right now, you probably say Mark Kelly from Arizona is the frontrunner for the VP nod from Vice President Kamala Harris.
Meanwhile, as we mentioned a bunch of times already, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is going to Congress today. He's giving a speech to a joint session of Congress. The Biden administration didn't meet him at the airport because, again, the Democrats just do not like Israel for some odd reason. And I think I know the reason. They apply their theory of intersectional politics, of victim victimizer narratives.
to the Middle East as well. And as it turns out in the Middle East, anybody who's successful is apparently an oppressor. Anybody who's unsuccessful is the oppressed. And they're applying that matrix to the Israelis and the Palestinians, despite the fact that it is in fact the Palestinians who have been engaged in a deep and abiding belief in terrorism as the method of extirpating Israel and wiping it off the map.
Joe Biden is supposed to meet with Bibi Netanyahu on Thursday. Kamala Harris is supposed to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday night, I believe. And then he's flying down to Florida to meet with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
So what exactly is he expected to do today? According to sources close to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Jerusalem Post reporting, the speech will certainly address Israel's aspiration for regional peace, emphasizing the desire to reach a historic agreement with Saudi Arabia and thereby expand the Abraham Accords. Additionally, Netanyahu plans to highlight Iran's involvement in Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7th, as well as the hostile activities of various regional actors who are effectively Iran's proxies threatening the state of Israel. Apparently, Democrats
were very worried that he was going to come in and be critical of the Biden administration in slow walking aid, for example, or that he'd say something super controversial. It is yet to be seen what the final draft of the speech looks like. However, as we say, it is very clear at this point that Democrats, because so much of their base hates merit, like truly hates the meritocracy and then applies that model to the Middle East. Because of that, they're avoiding Netanyahu
According to Politico, Netanyahu has had very little to do in Washington during his visit so far. Some aides on both sides of the aisle needed to be reminded the leader was even in town. Because of the mind-boggling news cycle, Netanyahu, quote, hasn't really been able to get the traction and airtime they would have expected.
Outside the Watergate Hotel, a political reporter noticed two rings of fences put up, drones buzzing overhead, a mass redirection of traffic, multiple security checkpoints and closed roads. According to posts on X, a spattering of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the Watergate complex on Tuesday, calling for Netanyahu's arrest. Again, Biden is going to meet Netanyahu on Thursday.
unclear exactly when Kamala Harris is going to meet with him, but he's going to meet with Donald Trump on Friday as well. Republicans are brainstorming how they would show support for Netanyahu. Senator Chris Van Hollen said he won't attend the address either. So Patty Murray won't, Chris Van Hollen won't. A bunch of top level Democrats are going to boycott the speech
Because, again, they hate Netanyahu and they are pretending that Netanyahu rather than Hamas is the obstacle to peace, despite the fact that even the Biden administration has acknowledged at this point that Hamas has not accepted a hostage deal acceptable to Israel. By the way, Hamas is a terror group currently holding hostages.
nonetheless you had the radical pro-khamas crowd that somehow got into the capitol building i mean that's weird isn't it i was informed that takeovers like this illegal protests like this i thought that that was you know a threat to the republic a dire and abiding threat to the republic but apparently security just lets everybody in with their red shirts and their and their protesting and trespass and then they were briefly arrested and then released on like a 50 bail or something here is uh here's the scene inside the capitol yesterday pathetic these pathetic people
And of course, it is a bunch of liberal quasi-Jews. I say quasi-Jews because they have nothing to do with Judaism. They don't practice Judaism. They don't care about Judaism. They don't care about the Bible. They don't care about Israel. They are the typical hashtag as a Jew, where they pull out the Jew card only so that they can yell at other Jews, and particularly at Israel. That is their favorite thing to do. On the part of the Speaker, the Speaker has now made clear that there will be increased police presence around the Capitol complex and the House chamber.
He also said all members should kindly inform their guests. Any disruption of the proceedings of the House is a violation of the rules and may subject the offenders to prosecution. Meanwhile, Rashida Tlaib, of course, was a I mean, you want to talk about like the leader of the Hamas squad. She tweeted out Netanyahu is a war criminal committing genocide against the Palestinian people. This is just the biggest stupid lie. So stupid. Jen.
Israel has complete air superiority. If Israel wanted to kill hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, it certainly has the raw power to do so. Not only is it not doing so, it is sending Israeli soldiers into harm's way, going door by door in one of the most heavily populated urban areas on planet Earth. All Hamas has to do is surrender. Rashida Tlaib doesn't want them to surrender because she likes Hamas. She says it is utterly disgraceful. Leaders from both parties have invited him to address Congress. He should be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court, another joke of an organization to which the United States is
is not even party. So we'll keep you updated on the speech from Benjamin Netanyahu as it goes forward. Before we get into the members only portion of the show, gotta let you know, we will be going live tonight, 8 p.m. Eastern, covering Joe Biden's first appearance since dropping out of the race. Supposedly, it's supposed to be a big speech. Alrighty, coming up, we'll be getting into the resignation
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