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Let me start with the state of the race. The state of the race is that Donald Trump is now running dead, even with Kamala Harris by most of the available polling data. He may, in fact, be running a little bit behind now. She obviously is in the middle of a massive national sugar high. We are now 12 days and counting of the Kamala Harris campaign where she has answered zero difficult questions. Zero. She has not done a press conference of any note.
She has not done a major interview of any note. No one has asked her a difficult question of any note. Instead, she's simply doing very easy rallies in which she goes out and she says things and people clap and cheer. And the media talk about what a wonderful, charismatic candidate she is. And she avoids literally all blowback for changing every single one of her positions. That's a very convenient place to be. Can it last all the way until the election? She certainly could not survive a six month election cycle.
If she had become the nominee in, say, March, she would be in real trouble because all of this stuff would come out. The problem is the election timeline is so shortened by the fact that the Democrats swapped her in at the very, very, very last minute. Then it's possible, it's plausible that she theoretically could survive unscathed without ever having to do a press conference. Somebody online asked yesterday, when will she do her first press conference? And my answer was January 1st, 2025.
January 21st, 2025, the day after the inauguration. And she is not going to answer any questions at all. None if she can help it. That is her goal. And so far, it is working according to the GOP polling from public opinion strategies. The current race, state of the race, is Kamala Harris has a three-point lead in Pennsylvania. She has a two-point lead in Wisconsin. She has a tie, a statistical tie in Michigan.
She's one point behind in Nevada, and she's five points behind in Arizona. Let's be clear. If that were the final outcome of the election, Trump would lose. If that Michigan race turned into a Kamala Harris win, the blue wall holds. Kamala Harris wins the presidency. So suffice it to say, this is not a race where you can miss opportunities. If you are the Republican candidate for president of the United States, the state of the race is no longer even what it was in February or March. I've been saying before that the race is basically reverted to the pre-
First debate, Joe Biden versus Donald Trump race. That's not quite true. The enthusiasm levels for Democrats were not all that high even before that first debate. But now they have been revivified largely by the switch in time. They are getting the artificial euphoria of suddenly receiving oxygen after having spent months being asphyxiated by the Biden campaign.
This is something CNN's Harry Enten was pointing out. He says, we have now switched from a model of a low turnout election to a model of a quite high turnout election because Democrats are now back on the we are energized bandwagon. Here is Harry Enten of CNN, he's a good poll analyst.
You look post-debate 2024, look at that. It was just 55% of registered voters. That was actually the same as it was pre-debate 55%. It was significantly lower than it was in 2020 during the summer when it was 60%. But look at where we are now. We are now at 62% after the RNC.
after Kamala Harris gets into this race. And that is actually a higher number than what we saw during the summer of 2020 when it was 60%. So at this particular point, as we look at the math right now, if we are trusting what voters are saying, it's actually possible we'll see higher turnout than what we saw in 2020, which is what you pointed out was record turnout.
That, of course, is not what the Republicans are looking for. They were hoping the Democrats were depressed and they were going to stay home. And it was that way up until Joe Biden basically died. And by the way, he's not been seen since. He's done one statement since he became the not presidential candidate. And he's been completely absent as the world is on fire, which is something that Kamala Harris should have to answer for. OK, now this gets to how this campaign is going to play out.
To understand this, I've been thinking a lot about how to sort of characterize what Team Trump needs to do versus what Team Kamala is attempting to do right now. And the best way to think about this is something called information theory. So Claude Shannon, who's a very famous mathematician, he had what he called information theory. And information theory, the very simplified version of this, because he's a mathematician, so I'm not going to pretend I understand all the math, but his very simplified version suggests that information is transmitted by change in noise.
So think of a phone line. Here's sort of a graphic to understand. Think of a phone line. You have an information source. That would be your phone operator. You have a transmitter, which is the sort of phone signal. Then you have the signal. Now, if you have a good phone line, you have a nice clear signal. You're using Pure Talk, got a nice clear signal. And then you have extraneously a noise source. The noise source is you talking. You're adding noise to the signal. And now the received signal
to the person who's picking up the phone on the other end, the received signal is your noise plus the signal. So if the signal is nice and clear, then your noise is what changes the perception of the person on the other end. So think about this in terms of candidacies. Think of every candidacy as one of these communication systems.
where you have an information source and a transmitter and the signal. And then the noise source is what really matters. What sort of noise are you putting into the line? So if you're a fresh candidate, people don't know anything about you. So it's basically a silent signal. It's like you have, think of the Trump campaign versus the Kamala campaign. Kamala is a fresh candidate for a second. Okay, and basically the metaphor is that you have two cell phones in front of you, both of which are working perfectly fine. If you're Kamala Harris,
Then when you first start listening to the Kamala Harris phone, there's nothing on it. Right. She's a fresh candidate. She has not added any noise to the signal. It's just a clear line. What this means that any small change to the candidate, any small change to the noise source can dramatically change your impression of this phone, of this call.
The goal of any candidate, therefore, is to either provide soothing noise, like nice noise to the system, or no noise to the system. Because you don't mind listening to a phone that has no signal. That's all right. I mean, like, it's not actually generating any sort of received signal. That's fine. It's not annoying you. And what you'd prefer is, like, some nice music. If you're Kamala Harris, what you want to inject into the phone is...
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The amount of noise from the Trump phone is extraordinary. And it has been before he even ran. Tons and tons of noise added to the signal consistently all the time.
Like five alarm fire types of noise coming out of that phone all the time. By the time you pick up that phone, it just sounds like a lot of static, like constant static. Now, this has to affect for Trump as a candidate. Over time, if you just have a phone that's generating lots and lots of static, over time, your brain will automatically adjust down the static. Now, you don't really want to listen to it. You don't want to focus in on it. And if the volume gets turned up, it is harder to ignore it. But
The static is not super irritating because, you know, it's static and like eventually your brain is just going to adjust to it. So right now, what you had going into this race is you have the Trump phone, which is just white static. It's white noise static. There's just tons of it. Okay, but you've spent years tuning it out. So it doesn't really bother you. And then you had the Kamala phone and the Kamala phone was just nothing. There's nothing on the Kamala phone. So if you've got the Kamala phone over here, your goal is to focus in on your own candidacy.
To minimize the amount of noise that you're injecting into the system or unpleasant noise that you're injecting into the system, which means that you say some sort of unifying things, moderate things. You play Beyonce's freedom and all the rest of this kind of stuff. That is your goal. And your other goal is to somehow get Trump to keep raising the volume on his phone and to get Trump to keep increasing the volume on
on the thing that most people have tuned out and get them to tune back into how annoying that phone is. That's Kamala Harris's goal. And Kamala Harris has help in this, of course. The media...
are radically increasing the volume on the Trump phone, and they're radically decreasing the volume on the Kamala phone. So Trump has a real challenge. Now, Trump also has a superpower. His superpower is that he can break through that media monopoly. It becomes Trump's job to break through that media monopoly in direct ways. That is his superpower. Because he's so loud, he can add noise to his opponent's signal by redirecting her entire campaign toward defense.
What he wants is all the noise that she's adding to the system to be defending all the charges that she's a flip-flopper, all the charges that she's wildly dishonest, all the charges that she's radical, right? That is the way that Trump can actually affect the campaign.
Because, again, you tend to tune out the Trump phone. Everyone tends to tune out the Trump phone. He can change that by being incredibly well directed. You saw some of this, by the way, in the aftermath of the assassination attempt. That was new information. That was new noise on the Trump phone. That was totally different from the old noise on the Trump phone. And suddenly everyone was looking at him. Was this the brand new Trump? Was this the different Trump? And then it kind of wasn't. He went back to being himself and he started to tune it out again.
But every media opportunity is an opportunity for Trump to force Kamala to inject bad noise into her system. That's his goal right now. That should be his goal right now, to add bad noise to the Kamala Harris system. And that means changing angle. It means changing topic. It means not just adding more car alarms and squeaky horns to the Trump phone. It means doing something that is so directed
Something that is so meticulous, something that forces Kamala Harris to change the noise injection into her signal. You need her to stop with the Megan Thee Stallion and the applause and the moderation. And you need her laughing awkwardly as she explains her position on the border, for example. And that requires meticulous attention. And there's plenty there because Kamala Harris keeps reversing her positions over and over and over again. She just keeps reversing her positions.
So, for example, literally yesterday, and she's not even doing it herself because she is so hell-bent on not adding noise to her signal that she's basically trying to do it under the table. She won't come out and talk about changing her positions. She won't even talk about her positions at all. She will put out a statement via a surrogate, not on her campaign Twitter, talking about doing this. So a spokesperson for Kamala Harris' campaign told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday that Kamala Harris has now changed her position
on a federal jobs guarantee. She had promoted that during the 2020 election cycle. So again, notice what she's doing. She's very quietly changing every single one of her positions, very quietly trying to keep that volume down on her campaign. That is the goal. Just keep a lid on it, right? And you can see why. Because if you are a senator in, say, a purple state or a red state, you're a blue senator in a red state, you don't want to talk about Kamala Harris's positions. You want to run away from Kamala Harris. What you're afraid of is that you're going to be pegged to her positions.
A good indicator of how Democrats are afraid of Kamala Harris's actual positions, her actual radicalism and her actual unlikability. Sherrod Brown is running a competitive race with Bernie Moreno for Senate in Ohio. Ohio is a very red state. Sherrod Brown is a very blue senator. Sherrod Brown does not want to answer why he's supporting Kamala Harris because Kamala Harris is going to get skunked in Ohio. Here he was running away from questions about supporting Kamala Harris. Hey, real quick. Do you agree with Kamala Harris's job as Biden's border czar?
Senator Brown, do you support Kamala's work as Biden's borders are? Do you support Kamala Harris' calls to defund the police and abolish ICE? We get to the question, Senator.
So he runs away. And Kamala Harris is running away too. Again, we are 12 days and counting of her answering zero questions. When you're looking for great employees, you need all your questions answered. And this is why we use ZipRecruiter. We at DailyWire, we've hired a lot of highly skilled people to be part of this growing creative powerhouse. Editors, attorneys, engineers. And we've used ZipRecruiter extensively. Whether you need to hire a civil engineer in New York or a pediatric nurse in Nebraska or an attorney in Colorado or a mascot in Michigan, you need ZipRecruiter. ZipRecruiter finds qualified candidates fast.
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Donald Trump does need to go into unfriendly spaces. And typically he throws some really good punches in unfriendly spaces. And he did some of that at the National Association of Black Journalists. Kamala Harris, by the way, is so afraid of answering any questions that she literally turned down an invitation from the National Association of Black Journalists, which is unbelievable because the NABJ is like a Kamala Harris fan club, as you'll see from the questioners.
The questioners are undoubtedly in the tank for Kamala Harris. They think she is the she is the second coming of Barack Obama, who is, of course, the second coming of Jesus. So she's the third coming of Jesus by the by the media's light. In any case, she turned that down because she's a coward and she doesn't want to answer questions, which, by the way, is why Donald Trump should today. Today, he should say, of course, I want to debate Kamala Harris. I can't wait to debate Kamala Harris. I want to put her on stage and make her defend against her positions.
I want her to answer for her performance as borders are or for being the last person in the room on Afghanistan. I want her to answer for the fact that she has switched every single one of her positions in the last five minutes by surrogate. I can't wait to do that. I want to debate her every single day. That's what Trump should be saying today. But in any case, Trump has the courage to go into unfriendly spaces. Kamala Harris obviously does not.
It's not just a matter of cowardice. It's a matter of strategy, because as we say, what she wants to do is keep the noise levels on her phone really low all the way up until she's president, at which point she can do whatever the hell she wants. That is her goal. And it's Trump's job to increase the noise levels, the bad noise coming from the Kamala Harris phone. And the way to do that is by meticulously attacking her positions, by meticulously attacking her record, by forcing her to respond to all of that.
More Trump noise doesn't change the math here. Trump has a ceiling. That ceiling is about 47, 48 percent. Occasionally he breaks through to like 50, 51 percent in some of the head to head polls. That's rare. Donald Trump has a fairly high floor and a fairly low ceiling as a candidate. So what he really needs to do, this has always been true, is true for him against Hillary Clinton. It's true for him against Biden in 2020. He needs to drag down the other candidates. That's what he needs to do.
And it's what he's had a particular skill in doing. You go back to 2016. Again, he was a very noisy candidate, incredibly noisy. But it turns out that, again, Americans just sort of tuned out the car alarm at a certain point. But he added enough noise to Hillary Clinton's signal that it really wrecked her candidacy by talking about how crooked she was in the 30,000 emails and by talking about her record going after Bill's accusers and all this kind of stuff.
In 2020, he wasn't able to do that because Joe Biden hid in the basement and there was not a great way for him to add noise to Joe Biden's signal. In 2024, there is plenty of opportunity to add noise to Kamala Harris' signal because so far there ain't no noise in that signal at all. So he can totally wreck her line, but he actually needs to do it. Okay, so he starts off
At the NABJ, and this is like classic good Trump. Is it really? So Rachel Scott asked a question and she starts off by asking him, you know, it's one of these Gish Gallop questions where she's like, here's every bad thing you've ever said in the past, according to my lights. Why are you so mean to black people? I mean, that's pretty much her first question is ABC's Rachel Scott. And Trump treats her like he would any other interviewer. He's like, this is a terrible question. I always showed up. Kamala Harris didn't even show up. He's correct about this.
You have told four congresswomen of color who were American citizens to go back to where they came from. You have used words like animal and rabbit to describe black district attorneys. You've attacked black journalists, calling them a loser, saying the questions that they ask are, quote, stupid and racist. You've had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort.
So my question, sir, now that you are asking black supporters to vote for you, why should black voters trust you after you have used language like that? Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been asked a question so, in such a horrible manner, first question. You don't even say hello. They don't laugh because they know it's true. Are you with ABC? Because I think they're a fake news network, a terrible network.
Again, the crowd is into it because, again, that's great Trump. Right. This is where Trump shows that he's willing to walk into any fire. Kamala Harris is running for the hills. Trump is willing to walk into any fire. And this is his magic ability. It's his magic ability. Now use the power for good. Use the power for good, sir. So the questioners are ridiculous. I think they overstepped and I think they made themselves look pretty foolish by being so insanely partisan and aggressive with him.
So he was asked about the fact that he had suggested that illegal immigrants are taking black jobs. And so he's asked, what is a black job? OK, that's unfortunate. It's unfortunate phraseology. When Trump said that, what he meant, obviously, is that if you look at jobs that are disproportionately held by black Americans, those are jobs that very often are vulnerable to being undercut by an illegal immigrant labor base. He doesn't mean that the job itself is black or that it can only be held by a black person.
It's an unfortunate turn of fate. But is it is it supposed to be racist or insulting in any way? Of course not. Here is his answer. Coming from the border are millions and millions of people that happen to be taking black jobs. You had the best. What exactly is a black job, sir? A black job is anybody that has a job. That's what it is. Anybody that has. All right.
And they're taking the employment away from black people. They're coming in and they're coming in. They're invading. It's an invasion of millions of people, probably 15, 16, 17 million people. I have a feeling it's much more than that. OK, so, by the way, it's worth noting here that Al Sharpton is a headline from the Queens Chronicle from March. Quote, Sharpton calls for more black jobs. OK, so like Trump is doing fine. This is all fine. Is it moving the ball forward?
Not particularly because it's not an attack on Kamala per se. You need to add noise to her signal. Again, that is the only thing that matters. Add noise to the Kamala Harris campaign signal.
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in terms of how he tends to approach these issues, is Trump thinks of politics as personalities, which is not wrong. I mean, the fact is politics is, in fact, personalities. And people tend to think of their politicians as personalities. But it does mean, instead of attacking Kamala Harris on her policies or on her flip-flopping or on her inconstancy or on her radicalism, he ends up sort of attacking her on the basis of, like, how you would attack somebody in high school. So, for example, he attacks Kamala on the basis that she didn't pass her California bar exam. Now,
All right. I mean, I took the California bar exam. I passed it. It's not all that hard. You know, I guess the year that she she failed is like a 60 percent passage rate. It goes, I suppose, to kind of general intelligence level. Maybe, maybe. OK, but if is this is this going to be a does this add noise to the campaign signal for Kamala? This radically change anyone's perception of Kamala Harris. The answer is no, this is not this is not an effective line of attack.
I said, "Joe and I will go and take a cognitive test." Now, I'd do it with her too.
I would do it with her also. You know what? She failed her law exam. She didn't pass her law exam, so maybe she wouldn't pass the cognitive test. Mr. President, are you saying she wouldn't pass? Just to be clear. I'm just giving you the facts. To be clear, you don't think she would pass her bar exam and she didn't think she would pass it and she didn't think she was going to have to pass it. And I don't know what happened. Maybe she passed it. She did pass it. There's a man over here. I think he must work. Mr. President.
Okay. Again, funny, amusing for those of us who are voting for Trump. It's funny. It is. Does it change the trajectory of the race? Does it change the trajectory? And this is something I think that everybody who is backing Trump needs to understand.
The trajectory of the race right now is that if trends continue, Trump could easily lose. This is at best a 50-50 race right now. This is not a 70-30 race like it was against Joe Biden. It's not even a 55-45 race like it was against Kamala Harris like five days ago.
Something needs to change. There needs to be an inflection point. So the big headline that was coming out of this particular NABJ event was this headline where Donald Trump questioned Kamala Harris's self-identity racially.
Now, if you want to know about Kamala Harris's self-identity racially, just go take a look at our series, Scamala, on Daily Wire+. We talk pretty extensively about her background. So she is half Jamaican, half Indian. Her mom is Indian. Her dad is Jamaican. They were both professors. They got divorced. She ended up moving with her mom
to Canada where she really experienced very little racial animosity at all, according to contemporaneous reports back from when she was running for president in 2019. People went back, dug up her high school records, and there was really nothing racially going on in Canada at the time. So this sort of idea that she's experienced wild racial animosity in the United States is just not true. With that said, she then went to Howard University, which was a historically black college and university. She is half black in the same way that Barack Obama was half black.
And so the sort of line of attack that she is not truly black, I don't know where this is going. Like, what is the point of this? I know that what Trump is trying to say here, probably, is that she engages in an awful lot of code switching. So code switching is the term that is frequently used for people who, when they go to one audience, they speak one way. When they go to another audience, they speak another way. And it's very frequently obvious in politicians. Barack Obama used to do it all the time. Barack Obama, when he'd be with like a white,
rich audience, he would speak like Demosthenes. He'd go in there and he'd be using $5 words. He never dropped a G. And then he would go and he'd speak in like historically black church. He'd talk like this. Suddenly the accent would get real strong. He wouldn't be talking. He would be talking. You'd see that sort of stuff all the time from Barack Obama. You saw it from Hillary a lot. And it was ridiculous from Hillary because she's a white lady.
And Kamala Harris does, in fact, do that. I mean, we played a clip of her yesterday at her rally in Atlanta where suddenly she was talking about 2020 foe. She has never said in her life 2020 foe in a normal conversation. That is not a thing. She shouldn't drop ours in normal conversation. That is code switching. OK, so he's saying that's inauthentic politically. All right. Is that a is that a line of attack on Kamala Harris that is going to be greatly fruitful in changing the trajectory of how people view Kamala Harris? Probably not.
Now, the media are going to make a huge deal out of this. The media is, oh, my God, I can't believe Trump would say something so awful. So now that's a failure by the media. If they think that they can raise the noise on Donald Trump's campaign, not possible. Again, this is the nice thing about Donald Trump's campaign is that if it's a constant five alarm fire going on from this phone, then adding a little bit more noise to the constant wave of noise means we'll fill specter wall of sound stuff coming out over. It doesn't change anything. That's why Trump has such a high ceiling.
He can't change the perception of the Trump phone. Ain't no way to do it. The only thing that can happen here, and this is the hope for the Trump campaign, is that it's not as though Trump is going to experience a wild popularity surge. But the only thing that could change here is Kamala Harris
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And that is a massive problem for her if, again, he can change the noise ratio to her signal on her phone. So here is here is Donald Trump saying the thing that launches a thousand think pieces. Do you believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is only on the ticket because she is a black woman? Well, I can say now I think it's maybe a little bit different. So.
I've known her a long time indirectly, not directly very much, and she was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black and now she wants to be known as black.
So I don't know. Is she Indian or is she black? She is always laughing. I respect either one, but she obviously doesn't because she was Indian all the way. And then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went. She became a black person. OK, so she became a black person is the line that they're using now. You understand that he's doing basically an analysis of code switching here.
With that said, is this like a well-stated claim? I do not think it is a well-stated claim. I do not think it's an effective claim. I think everyone knows Kamala Harris is black. I think Kamala Harris again went to Howard University. I think Kamala Harris has pretty obviously campaigned, in fact, as a black woman. She was selected for the vice president based on the fact that she was a black woman by Joe Biden, who said so at the time.
And this has been a it's not as though this is like an infrequent conversation. The reason that she's frequently referred to as Indian-American in very early headlines about her is because Barack Obama had already been the first black president. So no one cares about the second black anything. They care about the first blank something. So first Indian-American, first woman that in any case, is that going to damage Trump? So the media seem to think this is like a kill shot on Trump or something. It is not, of course. That's incredibly silly.
What it is, is a missed opportunity for Trump because he has an opportunity when he goes into a hostile environment like the NABJ to really change the topic to the media being in the tank for Kamala and Kamala not being here answering questions and her being radical and you targeting me while she's made life for black Americans significantly worse with her inflation, with her terrible foreign policy, with illegal immigration.
And you can see the Trump campaign trying to do this. So the Trump campaign, in the aftermath of this, they put out a statement from Lynn Patton, the senior advisor. Quote, President Trump has continually said that unlike Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, he's running to be president for all Americans. And if you're running to unite the entire country, you have to back it up with action like President Trump did today at the National Association of Black Journalists Conference in Chicago. Members of the media need to make a decision and answer if their goal is to unite the country or further divide us. Because based on the unhinged and unprofessional commentary directed toward President Trump today by certain members of the media, many media elites
clearly want to see us remain divided. This is unacceptable. The invasion happening on our southern border is leading to poverty, death and destruction in communities of color all across our country. Inflation and affordability of everything from groceries to rent costs is crushing black and Hispanic voters at an even higher rate than many other groups. The endless wars being pushed by career politicians like Kamala Harris and Joe Biden is leading to countless black and Latino lives being needlessly lost. That paragraph is what Trump should have said at the NABJ. That paragraph is like the whole thing.
Instead, the headline that comes out is something that doesn't really damage Kamala and doesn't really damage Trump. Again, the left is trying to play this as, oh my God, I can't believe Trump damaged himself so bad. Nah, nah, can't add noise to that noise. Can't do it, not possible. Is it a...
Did it change the trajectory with regard to the coverage of Kamala Harris? No, it provided her an opportunity to continue putting nice noises into that phone line about unity and how this is just so, it's just so negative and it's just so bad. Oh man. Here was Vice President Harris responding. Donald Trump spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists. And it was the same old show. The divisiveness and the disrespect. And let me just say...
She's such a liar and she is hostile and angry. She literally has white dudes for Kamala.
She's the, oh God, she's the worst. She's the worst. Why aren't you attacking her on this stuff? She's the worst. Her entire campaign is racially segregated. What the hell are you doing? Run on that. Go to the NABJ and say, you know what I noticed about my opponent who's not here saying, I know she's not here answering questions as to why she has a segregated group called white dudes for Kamala or white women for Kamala. Please explain why that's okay. Please, somebody.
Got to change the signal. Got to change the noise that's coming from that Kamala Harris phone. Got to do it. Very important. Again, that's why it's an overread. So back during the first Trump administration, a bunch of friends in the White House, I remember having conversations with them. And one of the things that would happen is Trump would say something kind of crazy on Twitter. And I have a conversation with somebody in the White House and they'd say, doesn't matter.
Nothing matters. And nothing matters was kind of like the bumper sticker. And that was true because, again, it turns out that you cannot change the noise coming from the Donald Trump campaign phone. You cannot. It is not possible. However, when he's not the president and he is running for the presidency, he desperately needs to change the direction of Kamala Harris's campaign. That's what he needs to do. Like right now, it is very, very important. And she is intensely vulnerable on all of this.
Really vulnerable. And I cannot believe, I mean, the media are such, they're such effing trash. They are such trash, truly. The questions that Trump were asked, those questions that Abby Phillip was celebrating from CNN, she put out a tweet saying,
Saying, quote, folks, this is why journalists ask questions. The country deserves answers. Why don't you ask Kamala Harris a question? One, one question. She's been the vice president for the last three and a half years. She has covered up her boss's senility and continues to do so today. She is complicit in every policy of the Biden administration. Every failure is on her. She's the VP.
She's shifting all of her positions in real time. And you're asking Donald Trump about that time that he said something about the Central Park Five back in 1998? Like, seriously, shut the F up. You've got to be kidding me. Really? That's some journalism. Somebody must ask Trump tough questions. Yes, you're right. No one has asked Trump anything for the past 10 years. We don't know anything about him. He's a mystery wrapped in enigma. Or alternatively, you are all abdicating your job because you're all campaign apparatchiks for Kamala Harris. You're all going shopping with her.
And do you remember the story from a few years back where Kamala Harris, she actually went shopping with journalists? It's amazing. Go back a few years and she actually went shopping with journalists during the 2019 campaign. And the journalist recommended what she should actually buy. They're like, you should buy this amazing sequined jacket. This is February 22nd, 2019. On the campaign trail, Kamala Harris tries on a sequined jacket and men go nuts.
You know who it was recommended by? One of the journalists she was traveling with. It's pathetic. The political reporters covering Harris's South Carolina visit tweeted videos and photos of her. She preened in front of a mirror wearing the coat. It was a spontaneous campaign trail moment, unexpected and a little bit playful. This is, again, the kind of coverage she received early in the 2019 campaign. And this is the great hope, of course, is that it's still just August 1st.
But the Trump team needs to get on its horse because the media are not going to do their job. They're deliberately not going to do their job. They're going to lie. They're going to cheat. They're going to hide. This is what they're going to do. They're going to let Kamala Harris go 12 full days without asking a question, without being asked any questions at all. None. Zero. She's going to get all the way through the end of next week before anyone even thinks about asking her a question. The DNC is taking place.
It begins August 19. It is currently August 1st. They're going to try to get all the way through the end of the Democratic Convention, August 22nd, asking her zero questions. And by that point, folks, this election is already getting baked in because the early voting begins in Pennsylvania at the beginning of September. And I promise you, the Democratic get out the vote machine is professional.
The Trump team has to be focused on a few key things. One, they need an amazing get out the vote effort, like an amazing get out the vote effort. I don't know who's handling it. Whoever's handling it needs to be doing an amazing job. Two, the Trump team needs to redirect toward Kamala Harris and her vulnerabilities, not toward her race and her racial identity, not toward whether she passed the bar, not even toward Willie Brown and her pathetic career beginnings.
They need to focus on Kamala Harris and what she will be as president because it's going to be absolute garbage terribleness. And the media will not do their job. In fact, they are doing their job. They're the Praetorian Guard for Kamala Harris. Okay, in just one second, we'll get to world events.
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October 7th never would have happened if Donald Trump had been president of the United States. Kamala Harris, meanwhile, is patting on the head the pro-Hamas crowd. She's patting them on the head. She's probably going to try to mitigate against that by picking Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, and then pretending that because she picked a Jew for vice president, magically she's now a Zionist and pro-Israel and she'll stand with Israel even if she makes statements about how Israel is a human rights violator and such.
But the reality is that the Biden administration's swivel from the Saudis and Israelis to the Iranians in the early days of the Biden administration, delisting the Houthis as a terrorist organization, removing sanctions on the Iranians. All of that basically led to a massive powder keg blowing up in the Middle East. That is Joe Biden's policy. Everyone in the Middle East knows this.
I know many of the leaders in the Middle East, not just the Israeli ones. Everyone universally agrees, unless they are an Iranian plant or unless they're the Iranians themselves, that Joe Biden has been awful for the Middle East. Awful, terrible in every conceivable way. Well, right now, the Middle East is once again on the verge of war. It's on the verge of a major war. And that is because the Biden administration, instead of deterring Hezbollah, has basically said to Hezbollah, which is a Lebanese based Iranian terror group,
That they can continue to hit Israel so long as they don't kill too many Israelis at a time. If they fire too many rockets, it might get awkward for the Biden administration. Israel might have to hit back and then the Biden administration might have to intervene. But if you just go low level, then it'll be fine. Which, by the way, is the way that Joe Biden does foreign policy. And Joe Biden's message, always and forever, to America's enemies and to the enemies of our allies, is just the tip. That is always Joe Biden's message. Always.
That is why he said, with regard to Russia and Ukraine, if it was just a slight incursion, we might not do anything. And Vladimir Putin was like, oh, a slight incursion? How about I just take Kiev? And then he said to the Iranians, well, you know, if it's just kind of low-level terrorism and ballistic missile development, you know, probably we'll be okay with that. And then October 7th. And then he said to Hezbollah, well, you know what? Don't cross that red line. Don't get in. They've been shooting rockets every day in northern Israel. So as we all know, last week, Hezbollah fired a rocket into northern Israel, into the Golan Heights, and they killed 12 Druze kids.
Not Jewish kids, these are Druze kids who are Israeli. And the response of the Israelis over the last 24 hours has been extraordinary. In 24 hours, they took out the number two of Hezbollah in Beirut, which is the capital of Lebanon. They took out the top, quote unquote, political leader of Hamas in Iran, in Tehran. It's still unclear exactly how that happened. Pretty amazing intelligence work. And then they proceeded to hit a top IRGC, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps leader,
In Damascus. So three foreign capitals, three dead terror leaders. So that's what Israel did. Now Iran is threatening retaliation. Of course, none of this would be necessary except for the fact that the Biden administration unleashed the Iranian proxies all over the region. So now the Iranians are threatening full scale attacks on Israel.
According to The New York Times, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who should, we can all hope, take a shorter than expected helicopter ride, has issued an order for Iran to strike Israel directly in retaliation for the killing of Ismail Khania, who is Hamas's leader. Khamenei gave the order at an emergency meeting of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Wednesday morning shortly after Iran announced that Khania had been killed.
That is according to three Iranian officials, including two members of the Revolutionary Guards. They asked their names not be published because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Okay, let's be very clear about what's happening here. The Iranians are coordinating with the Biden administration. How far can they go without the United States letting Israel off the chain? That's exactly what's happening. It's what happened the first time, by the way. What happened the first... You remember, it was like several... It was like three months ago that Iran launched...
A large scale act of war by firing 300 missiles and drones at the state of Israel. Virtually all of them either fell in Iran because they're crappy technologically or they were knocked down by the combined allied forces of Jordan, UAE, the UK, the United States and Israel, the Saudis as well.
Well, now, presumably, they're going to do the same thing. They have to pop off in order to show that they're really, really mad. Apparently, yesterday, they raised the red flag of revenge atop one of the mosques in Tehran, which made me get out my orange flag of indifference. Where does this come from? I feel like I need...
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In any case, the large scale probability is that over the next 48 to 72 hours, there will be some sort of similar attack to what happened before. Theoretically, it could spiral out of control. If the Iranians are shocked themselves and are successful and hit a tower in Tel Aviv and kill 500 Jews, then there will be a full scale war in the Middle East. The Biden administration has brought this about.
Clearly, where is Joe Biden, by the way? Remember that time that he was the president and is still the president? Karine Jean-Pierre was asked, you know, does Joe Biden want to come out and say anything about what's going on in the Middle East? Like at any point here? And here's Karine Jean-Pierre being, nope, he's napping.
Secretary Blinken, we heard from Secretary Osborne, we heard from the Vice President. It would be something that ordinarily would expect to happen. Stay tuned. Stay tuned. I just said that you're going to hear from the President later this week. And look, I think when it comes to the Middle East, when it comes to foreign policy more broadly, this is a President that has a record to stand on when it relates to making sure we're putting the national security of the American people first.
Wow. So later this week, he'll show up, he'll say a few words and then he'll mumble and stumble back into the other room and then he'll lie down again and we'll pretend that he's the president. What an unserious political system we have. Truly, like truly unserious people. We have a world that is on fire. We have a president who is fully senile and incapable of making basic statements, but we're pretending he's still the president. We have a Democratic candidate who will not be asked a single question by a completely complicit and compliant media.
And then we have a Republican candidate who seems unable right now to actually attack Kamala Harris on her positions. It's the only thing that matters. Win. The only way that you win is by defeating. There's only one way to win, and that's by winning. That's it.
It's not by complaining. It's not by yelling at the media. I'm frustrated. You're frustrated. We're all frustrated. They ain't going to do their jobs. But Donald Trump has hundreds of millions of dollars behind him and the magical superpower of being able to bring attention to things that he says. So why not attack Kamala Harris on the things that actually matter? That's what matters right now. He's in the world is on fire. Kamala Harris will make a terrible president. Awful, true garbage as a president. We all know this. She's going to.
The foreign policy team that Joe Biden has, which is terrible in and of itself, she's going to replace them with people who are even worse. She's already said this. Tony Blinken, the most incompetent secretary of state, this side of John Kerry.
He says, you know, we don't know what impact it's going to have when Israel kills terrorists in the Middle East. You know what impact it would have if Donald Trump were president? None. Because Donald Trump would have said to the Israelis, go ahead and kill the terrorists. And if Iran tries anything, we'll knock them into next week. And then you know what would happen? Iran wouldn't do anything. You know how we know this? Because we already did it with Qasem Soleimani. Here is Tony Blinken being a dullard. I'm not going to speculate on what impact any one event has.
might have on that. I've learned over many years never to really speculate about that because we simply don't know. Oh, well, I mean, that's helpful. Thank you so much. You know what we do know, by the way, Attorney General Merrick Garland, he of the contempt citation, he says that Iran is actively trying to kill former and current American officials, probably should relieve sanctions on them or something.
Our intelligence community has made clear that we believe that the Iranians are attempting to kill or injure former high government officials. This is an ongoing issue. We have ongoing investigations. You don't think we've seen the end? I don't think we've seen the end of Iranian plotting, no. Okay, so probably you should give them some more goodies. Maybe Kamala, when she's president, she'll give them some more goodies and then that will solve everything. It turns out that
Now, listen, we're very rich and very safe people. Thank God. Thank God. Thank God. But those things tend to go away with terrible political leadership being provided by Joe Biden and, God forbid, by Kamala Harris. This election matters. It matters an awful, awful lot. All righty. Coming up, we'll get to more Democrat radicalism. 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.
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