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So this is a brand new race. I've been saying this since Joe Biden got out and Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee by widespread acclamation and or a conspiracy among the elites in the Democratic Party to shove her in there because they basically had no other choice. The bottom line is this. The race has now reverted back to where it was
Basically, before the debate. So before the debate, Donald Trump did have a solid but slim lead over Joe Biden in a wide variety of states and nationally. And now it seems, though, the race is reverting back to those fundamentals. We already had the outstanding circumstance of Joe Biden effectively winning.
enduring a mental collapse in front of the entire American public and making clear to everyone that he was effectively senile. But that is now in the rearview mirror. And now we have Kamala Harris. And so looking at the polls, what we see, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, is that Donald Trump is currently leading Kamala Harris by about 1.9 percentage points in the popular vote.
That includes a new poll from New York Times-Siena, which is a one-point race in favor of Donald Trump. Again, there is a margin of error that is effectively one or two points there. Rasmussen, which is usually fairly pro-Trump, has Trump up seven. CNN has Trump up three against Kamala Harris, 49 to 46. Morning Consult has Harris up one. Reuters Ipsos has Harris up two.
The majority of polls show Trump up, but not up huge. In the battleground states, the latest polling data shows Donald Trump still with a relatively durable lead in the battleground states,
A new set of Emerson polls shows that Harris trails Donald Trump in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and that they are tied in Wisconsin. But those margins are way down for Donald Trump from where they were, say, a week ago against Joe Biden. Right now, he is up five points in Arizona. He is up only two points in Georgia. He is up just one point in Michigan, just two points in Pennsylvania, and he is tied in Wisconsin.
In other words, much too close for comfort. This is a very, very close election. Nate Silver, poll analyst, he says, our national polling average today would have had Trump plus 1.3 against Harris, but it's been fluctuating rapidly. She was down more like two to three points post-debate pre-RNC, more like four points immediately post-RNC pre-Biden announcement.
Says to be more precise, our current numbers are Trump 44.8, Harris 43.5, Kennedy 4.9. That compares to Trump 45.2, Biden 41.2, Kennedy 8. Some further evidence here, she has less of a third party problem than Biden. What you are starting to see is the Democrats are coming home, but not in the kind of numbers they would for, say, Barack Obama, more in the kind of numbers they would have for Joe Biden if Joe Biden had been completely mentally gone.
Well, this means that Kamala Harris's campaign has now launched into full swing. And that means she has to do two things. One, avoid her record. And two, she has to just massage the media and the media has to massage her right back. It's basically a really bad porn between Kamala Harris and the media.
The love affair between the Democratic Party and the media is back in full bloom for just a little while there. There was a little bit of tension, but now that tension has been resolved in a sweet embrace. And that is what we are seeing from the media. So Kamala Harris has now put out her very first ad. Her first ad, you knew it was coming, features the music of Beyonce.
more gay pride flags than American flags and a lot of talk about freedom. Now, that's a weird word coming from Kamala Harris, as we will see, because it turns out she is not very much in favor of freedom. By freedom, she basically means abortion and your taxpayer money going to things she wants. She does not mean typically what people mean by freedom, which is being left alone by the federal government. She means something very different. But this is a very gauzy ad, again, with the Beyonce music.
Very slickly cut, filled with meaningless slogans that presumably make the vapid in the media feel really good about themselves. Here we go. In this election, we each face a question. What kind of country do we want to live in? There are some people who think we should be a country of chaos, of fear, of hate. But us, we choose something different. We choose Kamala? Are you kidding me? We choose freedom. Freedom!
People are laughing. They're smiling because in Kamala Harris's America, there's so much laughter and smiling. Many pride progress flags as well. The freedom to be safe from gun violence. The freedom to make decisions about your own body. We choose a future where no child lives in poverty. Really? No, no one has poverty anymore. Wow. And there's lots of abortion. And also where she'll put Donald Trump in jail. And we're ready to fight for it.
because when we fight, we win. So join us. Go to KamalaHarris.com and let's get to work. Okay, again, a very well-produced slick ad. Does it have anything to do with Kamala Harris? Did you learn anything about Kamala Harris in that ad? You learned nothing about Kamala Harris because the minute you learn something about Kamala Harris, you don't like her very much. I know they're trying to present her as a fresh face on the national scene. She already went through a very well-covered primary campaign
For the Democratic presidential nomination against Joe Biden, she got skunked by an empty gourd that was Joe Biden's skull. It's amazing. Now, the reality is that Kamala Harris, if you just watch that campaign ad, what you would think is that she's kind of a libertarian who's hard on crime, right? That's what you would get from that. A libertarian who's pretty hard on crime. Yeah, socially liberal, but not fiscally irresponsible. And she doesn't want you victimized by gun violence or by the criminality of one Donald J. Trump.
The biggest problem, however, is that Kamala Harris is unbelievably radical. Her inner circle is filled with people who have been by her side throughout her relatively unsuccessful political career. And I say relatively unsuccessful because, again, she has won one major national election, and that was to Senate in California against a candidate who was a fellow Democrat.
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Harris's family members have been her closest advisors. Harris's only sibling, her younger sister, Maya Harris, was chairwoman of her campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, which was seen as totally dysfunctional. So good luck with that. Her brother-in-law, Tony West, was previously an associate attorney general during the Obama administration, and he's been traveling around with her. She also has a close relationship with her niece, Mina Harris, a lawyer and author,
Since their marriage in 2014, Doug Emhoff has been her biggest public supporter. We won't talk about Doug Emhoff's insane radical Antifa daughter. We won't talk about that. Then there are her current and former aides. There's Rohini Kosuglu, who began working for Harris when she was in the Senate and has remained one of her closest advisors. This is according to the Wall Street Journal. Then there's Josh Su, who has served as Harris's chief legal advisor, worked on the transition team as national policy director for the 2020 campaign and deputy chief of staff when Harris was in the Senate.
So she's putting together her whole band, her whole 2020 band. The problem is that that was a wildly unsuccessful band. I mean, that is a bad team. It is a very, very not good team. So we'll have to see how her campaign runs. What we know more than anything else is that if the cameras are on Kamala Harris for more than 37 seconds, and if the media aren't allowed to lie about her, it will come out just how radical she is. Because when she is unleashed, Kamala Harris is one of the most charmless, radical politicians in American history.
certainly running for president. For example, Kamala Harris suggests that she really is just about freedom, about the American dream and freedom. But what she really thinks is more akin to Karl Marx. Here is a mashup of Kamala Harris talking many, many times about her actual goal in politics, which is not opportunity for everyone. It is instead equal outcome for everyone, which is just communism.
It has to be about a goal of saying everybody should end up in the same place. And since we didn't start in the same place, some folks might need more. Giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity, understanding not everyone starts out at the same place. So there's a big difference between equality and equity. Equality suggests often everybody should get the same thing.
Well, that often assumes everybody started out in the same place as opposed to equity, which is everyone should end up in the same place. People in our country are having an experience that is not equal. Hmm. Hmm. Well, I mean, it sounds as though she actually wants equal outcome because she keeps saying it over and over. The only way to do that is with massive government interventionism with subsidies by group. So does that sound particularly moderate to you?
Also, Kamala launched her campaign with an appearance on the greatest American program of all time, the kind of program that wins you blue collar voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. I'm talking, of course, about RuPaul's Drag Race. So here is Kamala Harris trying to get out to vote. Oh, my God. And whenever there's a freeze frame of her laughing, I swear to God, it is it is just a it is just an outtake from the Joker 2 trailer. I'm just waiting for her to take her lipstick and go.
And here is Kamala Harris on RuPaul's Drag Race trying to get out the vote. Now on with the show. And remember, you better vote. Don't you just want to die? Can you imagine four years of that? Can you imagine eight years of that?
Well, prepare yourself because that's what the Democrats want. This is the America Democrats want is that. Also, Democrats want, of course, an America that is run by Randy Weingarten. Randy Weingarten is the spectacularly corrupt and awful head of the American Federation of Teachers. The American Federation of Teachers, of course, is the same organization that has essentially said that students don't matter. All that matters is teachers being paid to do nothing. And also, the teachers should be able to sexually indoctrinate your kids. Well, Harris did an event yesterday.
in which she touted Randy Weingarten as an incredibly important person to her campaign and to America. First of all, this should be a positive disqualification of Kamala Harris. The minute you say that Randy Weingarten should have a heavy role in American politics, you should immediately ban from further office by constitutional amendment.
Randy Weingarten is one of the worst figures in American politics. She kept kids out of school for two full years for no reason other than to get her teachers paid for sitting at home doing nothing. And that is the least of her sins. She's truly an awful human being. Here's Kamala Harris praising her. Randy, thank you for your friendship, your longstanding friendship. As we all know, Randy is a force and she has been an incredible friend.
and an advisor to the president and me. And I want to thank you on behalf of the president and me and our country for all that you are. She also happens to be an extraordinary lawyer during the same speech. She said that she was the proud product of public education. Here we go. As you may know, I am a proud product of public education. Many of you know that my first grade teacher, Mrs. Frances Wilson, God rest her soul,
taught me and educated me and encouraged me and inspired me. A proud product of public education. When she was 12, she moved with her mother and her sister to Montreal, Canada, where she went to a private Catholic school called Notre Dame de Neige. Then she went to Westmount High School, which was a public school in Canada. I noticed that's not a public school in, say, Oakland, I noticed.
According to the New York Times, quote, eventually the family settled on the top floor of a spacious Victorian home in an affluent neighborhood bordering Westmount, one of Canada's wealthiest districts. According to one of Kamala's classmates, students were more divided, quote, about who had the latest Jordache jeans than about race. She sounds like the proud product of public education in California, or maybe not.
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And then what is she actually campaigning on? She's campaigning on the usual litany of nonsense. She says Project 2025, yada, yada, yada. Again, Project 2025, that is not going to wash. It's not. Donald Trump doesn't know what it is. You don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. It's 922 pages long. But she's got to say something, I suppose. Project 2025 is a plan to return America to a dark past.
Donald Trump and his extreme allies want to take our nation back to failed trickle-down economic policies, back to union busting, back to tax breaks for billionaires. Donald Trump and his allies want to cut Medicare and Social Security.
to stop student loan forgiveness for teachers and other public servants. This is all like half of the stuff is just plainly untrue. Trump has campaigned on not changing any of the entitlement programs, for example. She just says this kind of stuff over and over and over again. So what does Kamala Harris actually believe? The reason that you are seeing an uptick
in her voting numbers from young Americans is because she's embracing the radicalism. So the day before yesterday, we saw pro-Khmerist rioters in Washington, D.C., burning American flags and taking down American flags and replacing them with Palestinian flags and throwing feces at the cops. And Kamala Harris took fully 24 hours to condemn it. She put out the following statement, quote,
Yesterday at Union Station in Washington, D.C., we saw despicable acts by unpatriotic protesters and dangerous hate-fueled rhetoric. I condemn any individuals associating with the brutal terrorist organization Hamas, which has vowed to annihilate the state of Israel and kill Jews. Pro-Hamas graffiti and rhetoric is abhorrent, and we must not tolerate it in our nation. I condemn the burning of the American flag. That flag is a symbol of our highest ideals as a nation and represents the promise of America.
It should never be desecrated in that way. I support the right to peacefully protest, but let's be clear, anti-Semitism, hate and violence of any kind have no place in our nation. Here is the thing, I don't believe her. And the reason I don't believe her is because she has said precisely the opposite about the emotions of the protesters. She has been mollycoddling these protesters since day one.
She did an interview with The Nation in which she said, quote, they are showing exactly what the human emotion should be as a response to Gaza. There's something some of the protesters are saying that I absolutely reject. So I don't mean to wholesale endorse their points, but we have to navigate it. I understand the emotion behind it.
So just to be clear, she understands the emotion behind the people who burn American flags. She's not super in favor of burning the American flag. She understands the emotion behind the people who throw crap at the cops. She's just not in favor of like everything that they do, including like throwing the crap at the cops. But you can't separate it off that way. This is part and parcel of a broader movement. Patting them on the head incentivizes them. That's what this is.
And Kamala Harris met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after ditching his speech. They gave a speech in the Senate day before yesterday. Quite a good speech. Very bipartisan. Reached out to the Biden administration, reached out to Democrats and all the rest. Half the Democrats boycotted it, including Kamala Harris, who was too busy going to some sort of sorority event in Indianapolis or something. Then she showed up to do a meeting with Netanyahu specifically so that she could then go out into a press conference in which she ripped Israel.
So on the one hand, she doesn't like that Palestinian protesters are humiliating her publicly by saying the obvious part out loud, which is they don't just hate Israel. They hate the United States. That's embarrassing to her. On the other hand, she really kind of agrees with them. She really kind of does. So here was Kamala Harris saying she will not be silent on the situation in the Gaza Strip.
Here's the thing. The situation in the Gaza Strip has been created wholly and entirely by Hamas. It continues to be created by Hamas. Netanyahu spoke in Congress about how he would like to cut some sort of deal with UAE, with Bahrain, with Saudi Arabia.
In order to create some sort of workable arrangement in the Gaza Strip. Hamas won't allow any of that because Hamas is too busy shooting everyone. But Kamala Harris knows exactly who to blame. And the people who have to be blamed are the Israelis, of course. Of course, of course. Here she was saying, I will not be silent. She will not be silent. I mean, honestly, she's such, she's so tired. This is also tired. She's now quoting lyrics from like the live action version of Aladdin. That's Kamala Harris now. What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating.
The images of dead children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second, third or fourth time. We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering. And I will not be silent. Well, she will not be. No one's trying to silence you, lady. Keep talking seriously. See how it goes for you.
No one's trying to silence you. All we're saying is maybe at one point you might want to say who's to blame. Hamas, you might want to say that at some point.
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She says the war in Gaza isn't a binary issue. Now, I have rarely seen a binary issue quite like the war in Gaza. It is the most binary foreign policy issue of our lifetime. Incredibly binary. You had a full scale terrorist group occupying an area that Israel abandoned in 2005. They walked into Israel. They slaughtered 1200 people. They took 250 hostages. They are currently holding babies. They shoot.
people who are trying to get humanitarian aid in. They kill all of their potential political rivals in the Gaza Strip. They murder anyone who dissents. They literally place weaponry in civilian areas. But for her, you know, it's not a binary issue. It's got complexities, man. So many complexities, says Kamala Harris. This is why I don't believe her. I don't believe her. When she says that she's, you know, these people who are burning the flags, she's just embarrassed that they burned the flag, but she is very much in their corner. Here's Kamala Harris doing this routine.
And I will close with this then. It is important for the American people to remember the war in Gaza is not a binary issue. However, too often the conversation is binary when the reality is anything but. So I ask my fellow Americans to help encourage efforts to acknowledge the complexity, the nuance, and the history of the region. Let us all condemn terrorism and violence.
Let us all do what we can to prevent the suffering of innocent civilians.
And let us condemn anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and hate of any kind. What a pathetic moral relativist she is. Truly a pathetic moral relativist. There's so many nuances. 80% of Palestinians support October 7th. If an election were held in the Gaza Strip today, Hamas would win. If an election were held, by the way, in the West Bank, Hamas would win. By the way, if an election were held in Jordan today, Hamas would likely win.
It isn't a binary issue, though. Don't worry. She's not radical. She's a moderate. She's a moderate. She went out of her way also to slam Israel for what she called food insecurity. She can't say starvation because mass starvation has not occurred in the Gaza Strip, despite all of the lies from the pseudo international organizations, which are really just fronts for Hamas and its allies.
So instead, she's going to do food insecurity. The reality is that Israel has shipped in 2,000 to 3,000 calories per day, per person, into the Gaza Strip for the last several months in the middle of a war zone, something unprecedented in all of human history. But here she is finding a way to rip Israel. But yeah, we're supposed to believe her when she says that she's upset that people were tagging about Hamas on statues of Christopher Columbus. Sure, sure. My serious concern about the scale of human suffering in Gaza...
including the death of far too many innocent civilians. And I made clear my serious concern about the dire humanitarian situation there, with over 2 million people facing high levels of food insecurity.
and half a million people facing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity. I mean, she's Bernie Sanders. She's just Bernie Sanders. And any attempt to try and craft her into a magical middle-of-the-road Democrat is destined to fail if people can honestly see her. And so it is the job of the media to ensure that the people do not honestly see her. That is the most important thing the media can do for her right now.
So what's happening in the land of media? Well, first of all, TikTok, which is, of course, a Chinese algorithm that is very much having an impact on the future of this elective cycle. TikTok is all out for Kamala, which should tell you something about what China wants in this election.
TikTok, again, a Chinese algorithm. According to the Washington Post, inside the online army supercharging Kamala Harris's campaign, a grassroots network of TikTok creators energized by the new likely Democratic nominee are using their skill at playful video collages to build Harris a viral political powerhouse from scratch. Or alternatively, TikTok is a virality algorithm that is programmed by the Chinese Communist Party.
So maybe it's that you can put as much pro-Trump content as you want on TikTok. And I promise you, if the CCP decides they don't want it disseminated, it won't be disseminated. We have an entire article in The Washington Post about the magic, the magic of Kamala Harris via TikTok. Meanwhile, remember that time that Kamala Harris was the borders are not my words, the words of the media. Remember that time that Joe Biden put her in charge of immigration policy with respect to the Northern Triangle?
She was supposed to solve the root causes of migration, like gang violence and trafficking and cartels, he said, said the president of the United States when he appointed her to this, but also natural disasters, hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes. Now, you can make the case that she was never given any real power. That case is plausible, given the fact that, again, no one trusts her with power because she's terrible at her job.
Joe Biden did not trust her with power because she's bad. She's a bad candidate and she was a bad vice president. But she was, in fact, called the border czar by pretty much everybody until precisely the moment it became inconvenient to mention that she was the border czar. So you remember that time that everyone called Kamala Harris the border czar?
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So Newsbusters put out an unbelievable montage of members of the media talking about Kamala Harris as Borg-Azar before Biden dropped out. And then Kamala Harris as Borg-Azar after Biden dropped out. So the minute she became the nominee, suddenly she was no longer the Borg-Azar ever. It was wiped away, lost in the sands of time. It never happened. Poof. East Asia, we were always at war with East Asia. And here's the montage. It's amazing.
- Vice President Harris was not a border czar. - Meantime, Vice President and border czar, Kamala Harris, facing some backlash. - What he said about Harris and immigration was not true. She was never appointed border czar. - And this will be her first visit to the US-Mexico border region since she was appointed as the border czar by President Biden.
have to counter the misinformation. You already hear folks talking about the border czar. She wasn't the border czar. President Biden tapped Kamala Harris, Vice President Kamala Harris, to be the border czar. Now, she wasn't the border czar. That's what Republicans labeled her. They were very critical of
of Kamala Harris, especially in her role as border czar. Now what she's up against is folks lying about her border record, calling her a border czar. Kamala Harris, who was appointed as the border czar. The Biden team didn't declare her the border czar. They wanted her to work on kind of the root causes of immigration. So again, that's the game the media are playing. So basically, we're all crazy. They're making us all crazy because they're liars. They're unbelievable, unstoppable liars.
Now, for their part, Republicans in Congress have now passed a resolution condemning Kamala Harris's failure as borders are. The resolution was introduced by Representative Elise Stefanik. It condemns Harris's, quote, failure as borders are. They received support from all Republicans plus six of the Democrats. Those six Democrats are largely in border districts or in purple districts.
According to House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, quote, Vice President Kamala Harris is not just a failed border czar. She's an extremist on border security and immigration enforcement. It's her record as senator, presidential candidate and vice president makes abundantly clear. In March 2021, President Biden told the country Vice President Harris was the most qualified person to lead our efforts in stemming the flood of illegal aliens across our southwest border. No rational person could look at the years since and conclude anything except that she was utterly unqualified and has completely failed.
That, of course, is supremely true. But don't worry. According to the media, she was never the border czar, and it's all in your imagination. It is all just there in your imagination. By the way, if you think the media are driving you crazy about Kamala Harris, I mean, your head has to be spinning with the treatment that they've been giving Joe Biden. So as we went live about, Joe Biden gave a sort of valedictory address, and it was pretty terrible.
I mean, really quite terrible. It was terrible in terms of content. He had to answer two questions. Why did he leave the race and why is he still able to be president? And he didn't answer either of those questions. Instead, he just sort of rambled on about how democracy is a stack of glue and then you're back and then and Kamala Harris is great. And I'm going to be president for the next six months. And I think that's push down.
I feel like it's a pretty good synopsis. If you don't believe me, here was Joe Biden trying to talk about the winter of peril that occurred in 2021 and instead talking about the sale on winter apparel at Burlington Coat Factory. We've come so far since my inauguration. On that day, I told you as I stood in that winter, we're stood in a winter of peril and a winter of possibilities, peril and possibilities. So jackets half off.
Winter coats half off, winter apparel. So it was pretty bad, as everyone knows, but that's not how the media covered it. According to the Washington Post's report, quote, Biden's Oval Office speech amounts to a wistful first farewell. It had the feeling of a fond farewell, says the Washington Post. There wasn't a heavy dose of bitterness. There was more than a hint of pride. Are you kidding? There's a lot of bitterness. He literally said that he was forced out by his own party.
He said it became clear that he had to drop out for the unity of the party, not because he's a senile old man who can't hold it together anymore. But according to the Washington Post, the man who has probably given more eulogies than any other U.S. politician had a significant amount of wistfulness tucked inside his Oval Office address, a bit like he is starting to reconcile with the idea that he is soon exiting political life, something that has guided him for more than five decades. The man who entered political life as one of the youngest U.S. senators in history is coming to terms with leaving as the nation's oldest president in history.
The whole point of the address was to explain to the nation his decision to abandon his run for reelection and endorse Vice President Harris as his successor. In a way, he didn't really accomplish that. There wasn't a heavy dose of introspection in the speech. He didn't acknowledge the bitterness felt over those he considered friends, stating publicly it was time for him to go. Instead, it was the first of what will be many farewells and also the first attempt to claim credit for what he hopes will cement his legacy. Oh, the magic. Oh, the incredible, incredible magic.
Meanwhile, CBS campaign correspondent Robert Costa tweeted out a powerful photo. What was this powerful photo? It was a photo right after the address.
Of Joe and Hunter Biden, Robert Costa described, quote, a powerful photo, the hand toward his father's face, the eyes. Put aside politics and everything related for a moment and viewed simply on a human level, you see two men, father and son, still at each other's side more than a half century since the darkness of December 18th, 1972. That date, of course, is the date on which Hunter's mom and Joe Biden's first wife was killed in a car crash.
Okay, what I actually see here is Hunter Biden, a lifelong dilettante, crack addicted, terrible, awful human being who has enriched his father and been enriched by his association with his father and a terrible corrupt old man who has spent five decades using his public position in order to enrich his family and make the country worse. That's what I see in that photo. But again, we are now, it's amazing. They switched from Joe Biden has to go. He's terrible. I can't believe he's not going. What a narcissist too. He is a patriotic and magical old man. He is just incredible.
Kamala Harris did the same routine. She said last night, Joe Biden showed what leadership looks like. Apparently, leadership amounts to being really crappy at presidenting and then leaving. So last night, our president addressed the nation and he showed once again what true leadership looks like. His words were poignant. You know, I'll speak in a moment about the importance of reminding people of history, teaching America's true history.
He thinks and talks about his work and our country, understanding what it means in terms of what we do now and how that will impact the future. He thinks about our history in the context of the importance of the work we do now. Oh, the history in the context of the important work we do now. Oh, so much context. Oh, my God, we're getting more of these sentences. They're
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It's one of the wrinkles of history that this guy who was a billionaire who can be very crude and callous has a natural affinity for working people. And he's blunt and they admire his authenticity and he's genuine and he can be crude. If Donald Trump were to win 21, 22 percent of the black vote and close the border and go back to an energy first paradigm,
and then use the DOJ to stop the cartels and interstate coordination of all this crime and restore deterrence. I think he could heal the country very quickly. I really do. By success.
Don't miss this incredible episode of the Sunday special with Victor Davis Hanson. So the media, man, they had three weeks where they actually did their job and now it was uncomfortable for them. You could feel it like their skin was crawling. They had to ask Democrats tough questions. They'd actually cover the news. And now they're back to doing what they love to do, which is covering for Democrats. It is their favorite thing to do. It is their happy place.
It is the thing that makes Tinkerbell's fairy dust allow them to fly. It's their happy thought. And so the entire media are back to doing what they typically do. Here was CNN, for example, melting down over the fact that there are many Republicans last night who are speculating over the fact that Joe Biden was obviously failing in his little farewell address. Tell me how you know he's manifestly incapable. Oh, I'm sorry to say that this is a sensitive matter where there are a lot of folks who
who have been talking about this for some time. - Oh yes, I've heard them too. My doctor tells me he thinks he might have something, but he also says, "But he's not my patient." - And look, the deeper problem, the deeper question is, who is actually in charge at any given time? You know, this notion that he's only sharp for six hours of the day, this is an incredibly volatile moment in part because of his failures.
Are we having a little bit of a drama? No, there's everything you're saying, I'm sorry, is speculation. Let me tell you what is not speculation. It's not speculation. No, it is speculation. No, it is speculation because actually, unlike you, I've actually seen the guy at 9 o'clock at night. We all saw the guy. I love that from Ananavar. Unlike you, I've seen the guy. We all saw the guy. He's the president of the United States. We've seen it. In fact, if he weren't senile, if he weren't falling apart, he would still be in the race. That is perfectly obvious.
But again, the media have to somehow spin him into a statesman now. This is like their big thing. So here's Mike Barnicle on MSNBC making the case that, you know, he was just so generous in his speech the other night. There are no bitterness, no resent. Are you kidding me? That is a resentful old dude. Everyone knows it. Come on. Nowhere else on earth could a kid with a stutter from Scranton, Pennsylvania and Claymont, Delaware, from modest beginnings, sit behind the resolute desk as president of the United States.
And yet, here I am. That was Joseph R. Biden last night, the president of the United States. There was no bitterness, no resentment, no self-pity in his voice or in his presentation.
These people, these people. Joe Scarborough, who has flipped more times than Simone Biles dismounting the horse. I mean, it really is amazing. He went from Joe Biden is so with it. He's the most with it he's ever been. He's so with it. He's so with it. Then he went to, man, he really is not with it. That's really terrible. He seems really not with it. And now he's back to, he is a patriot and a scholar. My God, he's humble. I love that man. And then he talks about how
we aren't a nation of kings or dictators, that the power is in Americans' hands, not some powerful, strong man saying, "I alone can fix it," not some powerful, strong man saying, "Agree with me or I'll try you for treason," but to be humble in service, you know, that sort of servant leadership that Jesus talked about. And again, to project that out
as you're giving what in effect is your farewell speech to this campaign and country, I think is a wonderful example for politicians of all parties. He is. He is a servant leader, just like Jesus talked about. If Jesus loved same-sex marriage, transing the kids and abortion.
He would be just like also if Jesus were like a super corrupt old man who made sure his entire family was paid off so they can continue smoking crack off of hookers asses. That would be just like the kind of servant leader that Jesus was talking about, probably.
Just slow clap for the media. You guys are you're outdoing yourselves. And by the way, she's only been a candidate for like three days. Like save some save some because you need some you're gonna need some of that sauce later. It's gonna be a long campaign. Meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, Donald Trump is already unleashing. Now, the reality is, is that going to be a successful tactic for Donald Trump? I don't know. You know who the hell knows. It worked against Hillary Clinton. Is it going to work against Kamala Harris? I have doubts.
I think, again, that all Donald Trump has to do is point to her radicalism and he wins swing states. I don't think Donald Trump needs to, you know, be kind of the full Donald Trump, meaning as aggressive as he very often is with regard to his own opponents. And we've been saying this for years, that Donald Trump with one iota, one shred of containment would actually be an unstoppable political force. Nonetheless, here's Donald Trump announcing that post-assassination attempt, he is not going to be very nice. You know,
I was supposed to be nice. They say something happened to me when I got shot. I became nice. And when you're dealing with these people, they're very dangerous people. When you're dealing with them, you can't be too nice. You really can't be. So if you don't mind, I'm not going to be nice. Is that OK? Now, again, I am perfectly fine with him being extremely harsh on Kamala Harris because she's a terrible candidate and I believe not a very good person. But.
you might want to focus on our policy. So here was Trump yesterday calling Kamala Harris real garbage. This is here. Here we go. No, Donald Trump's tight. And in this campaign, I promise you, I will proudly put my record against his any day of the week. As he attack, what's the retort?
Well, I think it's disgusting. And I get a kick out of one thing. They say, sir, be nice. You just got hit with a bullet. Maybe he's changed. Be nice. And I'd love to be nice, but I'm dealing against real garbage. Again, I sympathize with him. He is. He certainly, certainly is. But this is also the game that Democrats want him to play. Let's be clear. What Democrats are really hoping for is a full Leroy Jenkins campaign.
Now, for those of you who don't know the online meme, that is a multiplayer video game in which everybody is sort of standing around trying to plan what their next move is. And one of the characters goes to the bathroom, comes back and then just runs into the room without any further plan. That's what Democrats are hoping for from President Trump. They're preparing for all of that from President Trump because their best defense, the thing they love using more than anything, is calling Republicans sexist and racist. It is their very favorite thing to do. Now, I don't think that's going to work very well.
But I think that Donald Trump should be very careful about how he addresses Kamala Harris, not because they're right, but because if you alienate the female audience,
especially an audience that Trump has been doing slightly better with than he did back in 2020, then this election is just it's too close. It's too close not to be meticulous. Meticulousness is going to pay off if Donald Trump is not meticulous. Again, the margins are too slim in these states right now. Every single major battleground state is within margin of error post Biden dropping out.
I mean, they're in margin of error territory in Georgia. That is a massive problem. If Trump loses Georgia, the election is over. They're within margin of error territory in Pennsylvania, in Michigan, in Wisconsin. And this election is so tight. So Donald Trump has to be very meticulous about what he says. The most meticulous probably he's ever been, especially given the fact that the Democratic Party and the media, I'm not sure that that coalition has ever been more enthused about taking out a Republican.
They're enthused about Barack Obama, make no mistake. And they're much more enthused about Obama than they are now about Kamala Harris. But in terms of their opportunity to pull a fast one and shove Kamala Harris into the presidency and stop Donald Trump, I'm not sure I've ever seen more enthusiasm from the elite class in the Democratic Party and the media, which means Trump has to run basically a no mistakes race. He's speaking of errors that Republicans are going to have to avoid. So
J.D. Vance is the vice presidential nominee for President Trump. Now, if he had a time machine, if you go back two weeks, would he have picked J.D. Vance again? I doubt it. I think he probably would have picked somebody like Glenn Youngkin from Virginia in an attempt to broaden out his base. Instead, he went with J.D. Vance feeling because he was right that at the time he had a very solid advantage in the race against Joe Biden. Well, again, J.D. is super smart. He also has a long history of public commentary.
So back in 2021, this is the sort of hot controversy of the day from the Democrats. Back in 2021, J.D. Vance was appearing on Tucker Carlson's show back when Tucker's show was on Fox. And he ripped into what he called the childless cat lady culture of the Democrats, including Kamala Harris.
What I was basically saying is that we're effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made. And so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too. And it's just a basic fact. You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it? Now,
I agree that our country has moved away from caring about the future because too few Americans care about having children. I totally agree with that. However, this description that J.D. Vance is using, is that politically smart or is it politically damaging? Now, again, he doesn't have a time machine. He can't go back and undo something he said now three and a half years ago.
With that said, Democrats are, of course, using this as a club with which to beat Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. They're trying to run up the gender gap. So one of the things to understand about this election cycle is that the gender gap is larger than it has ever been in the history of American politics in all likelihood. Males overwhelmingly vote for Trump. Females, particularly single females, overwhelmingly vote for Biden.
And so they're going to try to find some sort of wedge to claim that all Republicans are sexist. And this is the wedge they're using today. So here is one CNN guest going after J.D. Vance on this basis. But the reality is within the Republican Party now, there's a giggles caucus and you say these kinds of things because you get clicks and likes and hates and all that you get noticed and you go to that. So that's the DEI comment. That's the sexual comment that the
guy made. That's ultimately the cat lady comment. There's no real rationale behind it, except that you appeal to that limited part of the Adams family, part of the Republican Party that likes that. That's it. Okay, so that is, of course, a former Republican who is saying that. Meanwhile, Jennifer Aniston is signing into the chat to point out that the
that the childless cat lady remarks are very distasteful to her. She says, I truly can't believe this is coming from a potential VP of the United States. All I can say is, Mr. Vance, I pray your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day. I hope she will not need to use IVF
as a second option, because you are trying to take that away from women today. Now, again, one of the things that Vance made perfectly clear is he's talking about women who don't have children by choice. He is suggesting that there is, in fact, a difference between people who choose to have children and people who don't choose to have children. On a general moral level, again, I agree that a future-oriented society is a society built around its kids. I actually think that's inarguable because otherwise the society has no future.
With that said, there are many people who choose not to have kids, who have good policy ideas on a wide variety of subjects. Also, more importantly, it's just going to be a political baton. So this is why I say Republicans are going to have to be significantly more careful about what they say against Kamala Harris than they have been against Joe Biden. Not because Kamala is wonderful or decent or anything like that, but because the media are waiting. They're waiting. Do not play their game. Just do not play their game. Donald Trump still has the advantage in this election.
He does. He has the advantage in this election. It just requires the president of the United States, Donald Trump, former president, to be very meticulous about what he says. And the same is true for J.D. Vance. I have some faith that they will. Again, I think that both are intelligent men, particularly J.D. All righty, coming up, I'm going to jump into the latest economic reports. The media are trying to suggest that the economy is now going great guns, which is presumably a pitch for Kamala Harris. If you're not a member, become a member. Use code Shapiro. Check out for two months free on all annual plans. Click that link in the description and join us.