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Well, folks, the contrast between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party has never been starker in terms of the consolidation of the parties, the unity of the parties going forward than it is on Friday. Because here's the reality. The Republican Party is unified behind President Trump in unique and extraordinary ways. And the Democratic Party might not have a candidate for the presidency come Sunday.
That is the huge news over the weekend. Joe Biden may very well drop out this weekend. We're going to get to all of this. First, one thing is clear in the 2024 election. The fight for America's core values is now more important than ever. The Daily Wire, as you know, is on the front lines of the fight. We can't win without you. Join us right now while we're offering 47% off the annual memberships. Go to dailywire.com. Use promo code FIGHT at checkout. All right. So we'll begin with the triumphant
presentation of Donald Trump as his party's nominee for the third consecutive time, which is an extraordinary feat. It really is. I mean, just on a pure political level, the fact that Donald Trump won in 2016 was astonishing. The fact that he was then the nominee the next time around is natural. The fact that after losing in 2020, he's back in 2024 and the front runner, not only for the nomination, now he's the nominee, but also for the presidency itself is an astonishing political feat. It truly is. And the RNC has been about building out the Trump coalition.
It's been about providing permission structures for people who historically have not voted Republican and who would not be spotted dead in a red hat to actually vote Republican and wear the red hat.
It is an amazing thing. I mean, truly. And you can feel it. You can feel there is a vibe shift in the United States. Tons of people who never would have in a million years said that they're even thinking about voting for Donald Trump are now coming out and saying that they are voting for Donald Trump and supporting Donald Trump. Just take, for example, the tech bros in San Francisco. There are a ton of tech bros in San Francisco who sotto voce are
are very anti the Democrats because they don't like the wokeness. They don't like the regulation. They think that their economic interests are undermined by Democrats, which they are. And they believe that the meritocracy, which they rely upon, is being destroyed from the inside by the Democratic Party. But for years, they would never out loud say something like, and that's why I'm going to vote for Donald Trump. And now you're starting to see a lot of them say, and that's why I'm going to vote for Donald Trump. You're starting to see this from people pretty much everywhere across the country. Like the dam has now broken.
There was such an intimidation about voting for Trump or saying he supported Trump for years and years in social settings, particularly, again, a lot of our audience is in red states, in red areas. But if you are in a red state, in a blue area or in a blue state or in a purple state, there is this social opprobrium visited upon you. If you said that you would even consider voting for Donald Trump and that seems to be gone at this point.
And that is a testament to both the Democrats incompetence in office and it's a testament to Donald Trump's campaign thus far, which has been markedly more disciplined than it has ever been. Trump, again, in the last four weeks, basically disappeared from the public scene. And as a consequence, I will say he has had the best four week period of any presidential candidate I've ever seen. He had his debate with Biden and then he had the brains to stay out of the spotlight while Biden took all incoming because Biden's performance was so incredibly terrible.
He's had a few rallies here and there, but he mainly let the media focus in on his opponent. And now his opponent is so much on the ropes that he may be gone by this weekend.
And of course, there was the assassination attempt against President Trump in which he did display remarkable physical bravery. Getting up while the shooter was presumably still out there. He didn't know the shooter was dead already. Getting up and waving his fist and shouting fight was an amazing scene. So amazing, by the way, that the media are now attempting to blot out the spectacular photo of Donald Trump blood on his face, holding up his fist beneath an American flag because they think that it helps Trump too much.
So the Republican National Convention has been a unity convention, and it's featured a wide variety of people from left to right,
As I mentioned on the show a little bit earlier this week, for people who historically have looked at the Republican National Convention as sort of an exposition of conservative values, it's a little disquieting because there's almost nothing that Republicans agree on other than maybe immigration. On foreign policy, wide variety of opinions. On economics, wide variety of opinions. On social policy, wide variety of opinions. So what brings all these people together? Two things. One,
in absolute discontent with the left wing. I believe that the left wing is a threat to the country. And two, Donald Trump, who provides in his sort of singular figure, the ability to unite all of these factions. And of course, it's had a little bit of razzle dazzle. So the RNC's final night concluded with Hulk Hogan making a surprise appearance at the RNC. And here is Hulk Hogan introducing Donald Trump. But what happened last week?
when they took a shot at my hero and they tried to kill the next president of the United States. Enough was enough! And I said, let Trumpamania run wild, brother! Let Trumpamania rule again! Let Trumpamania make America great again!
Okay, so listen, that's great showmanship. I mean, it's hilarious. And honestly, like it's a little silly, but it's also just kind of amazing. A lot of people are making the idiocracy reference yesterday because I mean, it looks like something out of idiocracy, but here's how I view it. Here's how I view it. America is so powerful and so strong. Like we're such an amazing country that we can have two presidential nominees or nearly 80 debate about golf for like fully a 90 minute debate about golf.
And then we can have one of the presidential nominees be introduced by a wrestler who rips off his shirt and then speak for 93 minutes. And he's the front runner. And let me explain something to you. We don't even care. We don't even care, rest of the world. That's right, because we're America. We're America.
So that was the humorous moment of the evening. But of course, the entire evening was not built around Hulk Hogan, though that was obviously the highlight for people like me. I mean, again, like very, very fun. Well, you heard Hulk Hogan. I have a question for you. What are you going to do when the cell phone companies decide to take it out on you? This is why you need Pure Talk. Pure Talk is
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I mean, it was a moment. It was a moment. Again, Donald Trump, there's one thing Donald Trump knows more than anything else, and that is how to put on a show. He's been doing it for his entire career. So here is Donald Trump walking out on stage. And again, this is what political momentum and political unity looks like. From Detroit to Houston and New York to L.A.
There's pride in every American. I understand and say that I'm proud to be American. So for those who can't see, he came out in front of a giant screen. It says Trump in the background. He walks out. He's got the bandage on his ear, obviously. And it's a real moment. It's a real moment. So then he gets to his address and the address accomplishes some things and it fails at others to be perfectly objective about this. The first 15 to 20 minutes is some of the best Trump you will ever see. The first 15 or 20 minutes
And we're going to play nearly all of it because it really was an incredible, incredible display. Is Trump for the first time talking openly about nearly being murdered live on national television when he was shot in the ear?
in the assassination attempt last Saturday. And it was amazing. I mean, it was Trump subdued. It was all the things that you would want from Trump in this speech. Again, the kind of lead up to this was this was a unity convention, not just for Republicans, but for the American people more broadly, that it was going to be a moment where Trump said, listen, we all have to come together for all of America because we're all brothers and sisters and we all have to come together. And he had the impetus to do that.
Now, I had suggested earlier in the week that the best thing that Trump could do is that he could come out and he could say, listen, being nearly shot in the head changes a man. And it makes you think about the important things in life. It makes you think about the fact that we're all Americans. And as much as we may disagree on politics, at the end of the day, we're brothers and we're sisters and we all have to be together. And for the first 20 minutes, that's what it was. Unfortunately, the speech was 93 minutes. It's the longest single Republican acceptance speech in history, the longest single Democratic acceptance speech in history.
He went off teleprompter an awful lot. So the first 20 minutes, again, great. And then it turned into sort of Donald Trump's campaign presentations. If you've ever been to a Trump campaign event, he gets up there and he basically does a comedy routine and he rambles and he moves around. And that's what it turned into for the last 73 minutes. And so you could see in real time sort of the reaction, even in the room. Listen, everybody loves him in the room. Everyone wants to be president in the room.
But 93 minutes is a long time. You can Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory is shorter than 93 minutes. Now, you can watch a solid movie in 93 minutes with like act one, two and three. And because it was so long, it started to lose momentum. Now, again, maybe that doesn't matter very much because the purpose of the speech is just to unify the party. And if that's the case, then the speech is irrelevant. And it really doesn't matter what he said. What I what I do believe is that it was a missed opportunity from the perspective of what it could have accomplished.
which was to, I think, put the race basically out of reach for the Democrats. I think if he had come out and the speech had been the first 20 minutes and a five minute capper, I think this race is over. And it wasn't not because of anything nefarious or anything terrible, but because President Trump, when he gets in front of a crowd, speaks to the crowd and then he starts responding to the crowd. And he really likes talking with his constituents. He really likes talking with his fans. OK, but we need to begin with the part that was most effective.
So he started off with exactly this unity message. We were told before the speech, by the way, he was not going to mention President Biden at all. And in the teleprompter, he didn't. And then he got off the teleprompter. And again, just as a matter of optics, as a matter of President Trump at his best, every great moment he had during his presidency, sort of these giant unity moments, was a State of the Union where he stayed on the teleprompter. Teleprompter Trump is much more effective in these scenarios than off teleprompter Trump. So the beginning, he was on the teleprompter, and then he was off teleprompter talking about his personal experience.
And again, that part was just phenomenal, just great. For the first 20, 25 minutes, there was fairly universal agreement right, left and center that what Trump was doing was something unprecedented and kind of magnificent. So here was the beginning of his speech. The discord and division in our society must be healed. We must heal it quickly. As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. We rise together or we fall apart.
I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America. And that's a great message. It's a great message. Well, there
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And then he gets into, you know, kind of the experience of nearly being assassinated. And this is just, I mean, it's high drama. It's high drama. It's the first time he's spoken about it publicly. He's got the bandage on his ear. So here he was beginning to speak about it. As you already know, the assassin's bullet came within a quarter of an inch of taking my life. So many people have asked me what happened. Tell us what happened, please. And therefore, I will tell you exactly what happened.
And you'll never hear it from me a second time because it's actually too painful to tell. Again, I'm not sure I've ever heard a better opening of a presidential speech than that. And then Trump told the story. And I'm just going to let this play in its entirety, basically, because I think it was really effective. And frankly, I think it's fascinating to anybody who follows politics or doesn't follow politics. Like, what's the experience like of nearly being shot in the head?
Here's President Trump beginning to tell the story. It was a warm, beautiful day in the early evening in Butler Township in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Music was loudly playing and the campaign was doing really well. I went to the stage and the crowd was cheering wildly. Everybody was happy. I began speaking English.
very strongly, powerfully, and happily, because I was discussing the great job my administration did on immigration at the southern border. We were very proud of it. Behind me and to the right was a large screen that was displaying a chart of border crossings under my leadership. The numbers were absolutely amazing. In order to see the chart,
I started to, like this, turn to my right and was ready to begin a little bit further turn, which I'm very lucky I didn't do. When I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really, really hard on my right ear, I said to myself, "Wow, what was that? It can only be a bullet."
and moved my right hand to my ear, brought it down. My hand was covered with blood, just absolutely blood all over the place. I immediately knew it was very serious, that we were under attack. And in one movement proceeded to drop to the ground. Bullets were continuing to fly as very brave Secret Service agents rushed to the stage. And they really did. They rushed to the stage.
These are great people at great risk, I will tell you. And pounced on top of me so that I would be protected. There was blood pouring everywhere, and yet, in a certain way, I felt very safe because I had God on my side. I felt that. The amazing thing is that prior to the shot, if I had not moved my head at that very last instant,
the assassin's bullet would have perfectly hit its mark, and I would not be here tonight. We would not be together. The most incredible aspect of what took place on that terrible evening in the fading sun was actually seen later. In almost all cases, as you probably know, and when even a single bullet is fired, just a single bullet, and we had many bullets that were being fired,
Crowds run for the exits or stampede, but not in this case. It was very unusual. This massive crowd of tens of thousands of people stood by and didn't move an inch. In fact, many of them bravely but automatically stood up, looking for where the sniper would be. They knew immediately it was a sniper. And then began pointing at him. You can see that if you look at the group behind me. That was just a small group.
compared to what was in front. Nobody ran, and by not stampeding, many lives were saved. But that isn't the reason that they didn't move. The reason is that they knew I was in very serious trouble. They saw it. They saw me go down. They saw the blood and thought, actually, most did, that I was dead. They knew it was a shot to the head. They saw the blood. And there's an interesting statistic. The ears...
are the bloodiest part. If something happens with the ears, they bleed more than any other part of the body. For whatever reason, the doctors told me that, and I said, "Why is there so much blood?" He said, "It's the ears. They bleed more." So we learned something, but they just -- they just -- this beautiful crowd, they didn't want to leave me. They knew I was in trouble. They didn't want to leave me. And you can see that love written all over their faces. Incredible people.
They're incredible people. Bullets were flying over us, yet I felt serene. But now the Secret Service agents were putting themselves in peril. They were in very dangerous territory. Bullets were flying right over them, missing them by a very small amount of inches. And then it all stopped. Our Secret Service sniper, from a much greater distance and with only one bullet used,
took the assassin's life, took him out. I'm not supposed to be here tonight. Not supposed to be here. Thank you. But I'm not. And I'll tell you, I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of almighty God. Okay, so obviously the emotion is deeply effective. People can see written across Trump's face
exactly what he is feeling. And you can see that, I mean, it has to be for any human being, a disturbing experience to have a bullet whiz by you so closely that it hits you in the ear.
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The crowd was confused because they thought I was dead. And there was great, great sorrow. I could see that on their faces as I looked out. They didn't know I was looking out. They thought it was over. But I could see it. I wanted to do something to let them know I was okay. I raised my right arm, looked at the thousands and thousands of people that were breathlessly waiting, and started shouting, fight, fight, fight. Thank you.
Once my clenched fist went up, and it was high into the air. You've all seen that. The crowd realized I was okay and roared with pride for our country like no crowd I have ever heard before. Never heard anything like it. For the rest of my life, I will be grateful for the love shown by that giant audience of patriots.
that stood bravely on that fateful evening in Pennsylvania. Tragically, the shooter claimed the life of one of our fellow Americans, Cory Comperatore. Unbelievable person, everybody tells me. Unbelievable. And seriously wounded. Two other great warriors. Spoke to them today. David Dutch and James Copenhaver. Two great people.
I also spoke to all three families of these tremendous people. Our love and prayers are with them and always will be. We're never going to forget them. They came for a great rally. They were serious Trumpsters, I want to tell you. They were serious Trumpsters and still are. But Corey, unfortunately, we have to use the past tense. He was incredible. He was a highly respected former fire chief, respected by everybody, was accompanied by his
Wife, Helen, incredible woman. I spoke to her today, devastated and two precious daughters. He lost his life selflessly acting as a human shield to protect them from flying bullets. He went right over the top of them and was hit. What a fine man he was. All of this culminated in Donald Trump after having paid homage to the man who was, in fact, killed by a bullet that was meant for Donald Trump.
paying homage to Corey Comparatore and walking over to his firefighting helmet and jacket and giving it a kiss. Now, some of the media were very angry at this. Some of the media were like, oh my gosh, it's maudlin and it's terrible. It wasn't. It was great. It was great. Because again, Comparatore was a Trump supporter. Comparatore also happened to be a person who heroically saved his family from an assassin's bullet by shielding them with his body. And Trump expressing his appreciation for
in what will be his most watched speech of the campaign was a truly great moment. I want to thank the fire department and the family for sending his helmet, his outfit. And it was just something and they're going to do something very special when they get it. But we did something which cannot match what happened. Not even close. But I am very proud to say that over the past few days, we've raised six point three million dollars.
For the families of David, James, and Corey, including from a friend of mine just called up. He sent me a check right here. I just got it. One million dollars from Dan Newland. Thank you, Dan. And again, when speaking to the family, I told them, I said, well, I'm going to be sending you a lot of money, but I can't compensate. They all said the same thing. You're right, sir. We appreciate so much what you're doing, but nothing can take
the place in the case of Corey and the other two, by the way, they were very, very seriously injured, but now they're doing very well. They're going to be okay. They're going to be doing very well. And then he continued. And again, this is like top notch Trump. This is like as good as it gets. He observed a moment of silence and he talked about how the spirit of bravery is the spirit of achievement. That's the spirit of America. And this is really, really good stuff, like really great stuff here from President Trump. So now...
I ask that we observe a moment of silence in honor of our friend Corey. And then he, you know, he's standing there for those who can't see it and observing a moment of silence. It's very somber in the hall. There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for others. This is the spirit that forged America in her darkest hours.
And this is the love that will lead America back to the summit of human achievement and greatness. This is what we need. Despite such a heinous attack, we unite this evening more determined than ever. I am more determined than ever. And so are you. So is everybody. I mean, that's a great moment. It's great. Just politically speaking, it's great for the mood of the nation. It's great. He's paraphrasing, obviously, the book of John 1513 there.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man laid down his life for his friends. That's what he's paraphrasing there. And it's great. I mean, it's just great. And then he continues and he says, our resolve is unbroken. Our resolve is unbroken and our purpose is unchanged to deliver a government that serves the American people better than ever before. Nothing will stop me in this mission because our vision is righteous and our cause is pure.
No matter what obstacle comes our way, we will not break. We will not bend. We will not back down. And I will never stop fighting for you, your family, and our magnificent country. Never. Okay, thus concluded the excellent portion of the speech. Again, that was like the first 20 minutes. And he should have gone for maybe 10 more minutes talking about how my opponent's policies are wrong. Let me explain all the things that my opponent's policies have done. You should have done that. Then he should have said, and here's where I left the country.
When I left office, here's where the country was and here is what our plans will be, right? And that takes like 10, 15 minutes and then he's done. And at that point, you know, that's one of the great campaign speeches in history. Instead, it took a turn. And the reason I feel that this is necessary to point out
is because a missed opportunity... So if you feel like a campaign is sort of like a baseball game, I'm a huge baseball fan. So it's like a baseball game. And if you've ever been to a baseball game where your team is up three runs, and it's like the sixth inning, and your team has bases loaded, one out, and somehow...
The other team brings in a reliever. They induce a pop-up, and then they induce a strikeout. And you end up getting no runs out of that situation. You have a bases loaded, one-out situation. You're already up three runs, and you have the opportunity to break the game wide open. One hit breaks the game wide open. Taking a walk, a sack fly, something breaks that game open, and you miss the opportunity. You start to have the feeling in the pit of your stomach like this game is not over yet, and there are still a lot of moves left on this particular chessboard.
And this is the flaw with what President Trump did last night. Because again, first 20 minutes are like amazing, amazingly good Trump, like the best Trump. And then things take a turn. And then things take a turn. We're going to get to where things took a turn here for President Trump. And then we're going to get into the actual big story of the day, which is not Trump's speech. That's going to be obliterated by all the news over the weekend because...
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Over this week, obviously, we witnessed history. We are in the middle of living history. After a failed assassination attempt, Donald Trump rose defiantly with his fist in the air. Last night, he ascended the stage to accept the Republican nomination to become the 47th president of the United States. Listen, we are excited. We are motivated. But we can't forget, this election is not nearly over. There is a long way to go. We here at The Daily Wire, we're in the fight every day, ensuring you get the uncensored, unfiltered truth you need and deserve. You want all the updates. You don't want to miss a minute of this. And you want it honest. You want
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They take a turn precisely when he moves away from his unifying message and towards sort of the festivus portion of the speech where it's time for the airing of the annual airing of grievances. So here we go. In an age when our politics too often divide us, now is the time to remember that we are all fellow citizens. We are one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
And we must not criminalize dissent or demonize political disagreement, which is what's been happening in our country lately at a level that nobody has ever seen before. In that spirit, the Democrat Party should immediately stop weaponizing the justice system and labeling their political opponent as an enemy of democracy.
Especially since that is not true. In fact, I am the one saving democracy for the people of our country.
Right. And this, I think, is sort of the problem with where the speech went. And by the way, we're only a minute 30. This thing's this sucker went on like another hour.
Which means that like only the true diehard stuck around for the whole thing. So just in terms of, you know, the viewership and the optics, my guess is most people had probably tuned out by this point because it was a very, very, very long speech. But again, once he got into it, he almost couldn't get out. So he started talking about the documents case. And again, this is not something that like when you sit down at your kitchen table, I don't think you're talking about Donald Trump's documents case. And he's got the bandage on his ear to prove that people hate him, that some people hate him so much they want to kill him.
And he's got all the battle scars, like the physical battle scars who showed the thing. And so, again, kind of providing the most divisive vision of himself here provides an opening. This is this is leaving the bases loaded with one out with no runs in the sixth. That's that's what this is right here. And very big news, as you probably just read on Monday, a major ruling was handed down from a highly respected federal judge in Florida, Eileen Cannon.
Finding that the prosecutor and the fake documents case against me were totally unconstitutional and the entire case was thrown out of court with all of that publicity thrown out of court. OK, again, we're only like minute 35 now. And the reality is this went on for like another hour.
So he was we were told in the in the run up that he was going to not say Joe Biden's name. He ended up saying Joe Biden's name twice. He went off teleprompter. Now, does any of this have a major impact? The answer, of course, is no. It's just a missed opportunity. So again, the speech was there to do two things. One was to unify the Republican Party. Republican Party is totally unified. So it certainly accomplished that. And you don't even need the speech to do that because the Republican Party was clearly unified throughout the entire convention. And the first 20 minutes of the speech unified it even further.
So in terms of like the dual goals, one was to solidify the base. That one totally fulfilled. Goal number two, which is to reach out to people who might be kind of like Trump curious. I'll say that this was a missed opportunity. But the left's response to all of this is absolute sheer panic. Sheer panic. And you can see it over on MSNBC. It's wild. So I will say my friend Van Jones, and again, I'm friends with Van Jones. We disagree on a lot of things politically, but Van is an honest broker. Van will actually say the thing that everybody is thinking.
He said, and he's correct on CNN, that he hasn't seen people excited like this since Obama 2008.
The last time I was in a convention that felt like this was Obama 2008. There's something happening. You just wrote a headline, by the way. You just wrote a headline. Just like Obama, Trump is showing in this convention he has the capacity to alter the composition of the electorate. The difference between 2008 and now is that Obama was actually popular outside of his own party. And that's not the case. I don't think we should overstate it.
That's what Axelrod is saying. David Axelrod trying to make the argument differently. But the reality is, again, the enthusiasm for Trump is extraordinarily high. Meanwhile, Democrats are in a state of sheer panic. All of MSNBC was in a state of sheer panic. And they're going back to all their playbooks and they're not really finding a great narrative. Joy Reid is now slandering, as you would imagine she would, the entire Trump coalition, suggesting that basically they're white supremacists and closeted black and brown white supremacists, which is a weird take.
You've seen this kind of election before. You see the same thing in Hungary. Like the Orbanism of the party is it's rooted in returning white Christian men, but also white men and white adjacent men, you know, black men, brown men who are like white adjacent in terms of trying to also be in that dominant position in society. And then you have women who are willing to go along with that. Right. There are a certain number of women who are also willing to trad wife sort of thing.
I mean, just she's sympathetic. I mean, like if that's your attack is going to be on the Trump supporters, that black and brown Trump supporters who, by the way, Trump might win Hispanics this year. I mean, it's that bad for the Democrats that they are white adjacent. I can't imagine why you guys have lost popularity. Joy Reid is the reason for Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Rachel Maddow doing her thing. So she is pointing out that vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance is a Lord of the Rings fan and named one of his companies after her.
in Lord of the Rings. And she now claims that this is white supremacy. Okay, Lord of the Rings is white supremacy. Go with that one, guys. It'll be great. Lord of the Rings is a sort of favorite cosmos for naming things and cultural references for a lot of far right and alt right figures, both in Europe and the United States. Peter Thiel names all these things after Tolkien figures and places, like his company Palantir, for example. Like his mentor, like Peter Thiel, who had given him all his jobs in the
world. Mr. Vance also, when he founded his own venture capital firm with help from Peter Thiel, named it after a Lord of the Rings thing. He called it Naria.
Oh, no. Oh, no. Lord of the Rings, that coded white supremacist text. But everything is white supremacy, according to MSNBC. MSNBC actually said the other night after J.D. Vance spoke and talked about how there are seven generations of Vances who are buried in the family plot. And one day he'll be buried there. They said that that is effectively a form of white male privilege or some such nonsense.
I sort of understand the idea of sharing the burial plot, but it also is it reveals someone who believes that the history that the family should inherit and indeed the history that should be determinative in the in the story of the Vance family is the history of the eastern Kentucky Vances and not the Vances from San Diego, which is where his wife is from and where her Indian parents are from. But in America, it doesn't always have to be the white male lineage that trumps
that defines the family history, that that branch of the tree supersedes all else. And I just think the construction of this notion reveals a lot about someone who fundamentally believes in the supremacy of whiteness and masculinity.
Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Well, you wonder why Elon Musk has joined the Republican Party for this election cycle? It's because he tweeted, true, the Democratic Party has moved so far left, the Republican Party is now closest to the center. MSNBC is a giant part of that. The left move, the left breakdown is the big untold story of the election. It was being told, but now, of course, it's the RNC. There's a lot of talk about the Republican side. But what's happening on the Democratic side is, frankly, significantly more interesting because it's something...
We have never really seen a man pursue the nomination, win the nomination, and then be forced by his own party to step out. So in 1968, Lyndon Baines Johnson was president. He decided very early on that he actually did not want to run for reelection. He actually decided that before the New Hampshire primary, where Eugene McGovern did surprisingly well. LBJ actually won that primary anyway, but he had decided he wanted out. He dropped out like before he had secured all the primary delegates.
We have not seen this happen ever where a candidate wins the nomination. And then after winning the nomination is like, you know what? Maybe I'll give it up. And that's where we're at with Joe Biden. Maybe right now.
That is happening, of course, because everybody has seen over the course of the last couple of years, the massive decline. And so the only question right now, it's the clash. Should he stay or should he go? And no one really knows the answer at this point. Like a lot of rumors out there that he's going to go. And then you'll see occasional pushback, desperate pushback from Andrew Bates over at the White House. No, no, no, no, no, no. He's going to stay. There'll be more stories about how he's going to go. No, no, no, no. He's going to stay. Honestly, the most the best take last night came courtesy of CNN's Jake Tapper.
It is a very, very solid cultural reference take. So all credit to Jake on this one.
Meanwhile, events no less momentous are playing out in Delaware, where President Biden is self-isolating after testing positive for COVID, we're told. To hear top Democrats tell it, President Biden is like Bruce Willis' character in the movie The Sixth Sense. He is the only one who seems unaware of his grim fate. Former President Obama has told allies recently that Biden's chances of winning have greatly diminished. Interesting choice of words. And that Biden needs to seriously consider the path forward.
That is where things stand inside the Democratic Party. So again, the big story this weekend, will Joe Biden stay or will Joe Biden go? Democrats are preparing for the coup, according to the Wall Street Journal editorial page. One thing we've learned over the years is that Washington Democrats are ruthless when threatened by a loss of power. You almost have to admire their cold-blooded calculation. President Biden is now learning this harsh lesson as the Democratic media complex organizes to persuade him to withdraw from the presidential race.
So the backstage coup accelerates. First, the press learns somehow Hakeem Jeffries, how
House Democratic leader and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer visited Biden to deliver the news. He could cost Democrats control of Congress. Neither man denied it when asked. The press also learned that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a master of political martial arts, delivered the same message to Biden. On Thursday, word came out, again leaked to the press, that Barack Obama is likewise concerned about Biden's ability to defeat Donald Trump.
Biden might continue to hold out. He still commands the delegates to win the nomination at the August convention or before that is mooted in a virtual vote. And again, that's happening like August 1. They've accelerated this thing. So there's like 10, 11 days that Democrats have to get their act together by getting rid of him. But the party message to the president is you're on a path to lose. You'll take down the House. You'll take down the Senate. Your legacy will be ruined and we will never forgive you. And so it's very difficult to tell right now whether all the pressure tactics are
on Biden and all the reporting that he's going to leave, whether that is wish casting by Democrats in the media or whether it's true. You're hearing super mixed messages coming out of the White House via the media. And some of that is because the media desperately wanted to drop out. I mean, it would be the biggest story in several generations, politically speaking. And so, again, you're getting all the Democratic leadership leaking like sieves to the press that they want Biden gone, that they believe that the best possibility for defeating Donald Trump
is in fact getting rid of him and putting someone else in. Senator John Tester, who's in the middle of a very rough reelect race in Montana, probably will lose that. He is the second Democratic senator to call for President Biden to drop out of the race. Again, he's the most vulnerable Democratic senator who's up for reelection this cycle. Jamie Raskin, who is a hardcore Democrat to the point that he actually challenged electoral votes against Donald Trump in favor of Donald Trump in 2016. Raskin is now calling for Democrats
Biden to step aside as well, comparing him to an exhausted Pedro Martinez in the 2003 ALCS. For those who have a baseball memory, that, of course, was the famous game where Grady Little did not actually pull Pedro Martinez and the Red Sox ended up blowing a lead to the New York Yankees and then losing a series they never should have lost. So, again, there's heavy pressure coming from inside the Democratic circles.
According to CNN Politics, the next 72 hours are big. One Democratic governor in close touch with party officials relayed to aides, this can't go on much longer. In interviews with CNN, more than two dozen sources familiar with the dynamics inside the West Wing campaign said there is now widespread acceptance that Biden remaining in the 2024 race is wholly untenable. Everyone is saying it privately, said one senior Democrat. People see and feel the walls closing in. Another top Democrat close to the White House described Biden as having become exceptionally insulated and isolated since the debate June 27th.
Apparently, multiple sources close to Biden say that all of his advisers are taking the brunt from Hunter and Jill, that council of geniuses. That has had only the effect of making Biden's inner circle of advisers with free access to the president even tighter. Deputy White House Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini, longtime aides to the Bidens, joins Tom Donilon and Steve Ruschetti in forming a protective bubble around the president. Again, a lot of speculation about what exactly happens.
Joe Biden is thinking at this point, but the media just keep reporting he's going to go. And I think that they they keep hoping that if they say it often enough, that magically it will happen. Here is an NBC reporter, Ali Vitale, saying the ground has shifted beneath Joe Biden's feet. Lawmakers coming out and asking the president to step aside now leaks about leadership conversations last night. Can we expect more of this? What are you hearing?
What it really feels like, Jose, is that the drips and leaks might be the thing to finally break the dam, that this is not going to be some kind of massive watershed moment publicly, but instead that it might come through blind reports that we're seeing overnight about conversations that the president had with top members of Congress. So Obama tried to stick the final life into Biden over the last 24 hours. He leaked to The Washington Post
that he has told the allies in recent days that President Biden's path to victory has greatly diminished and he thinks the president needs to seriously consider the viability of his candidacy. So none of these people have gone public yet. That would be the next stage here is if Biden does not drop out over the weekend, then presumably all these Democrats would start going extremely public with their worries. The sort of most trafficked report yesterday was one from the reporter Mark Halperin. Mark Halperin,
said that multiple sources outlining the apparent state of play on Biden plans to announce withdrawal from nomination as early as this weekend with Sunday most likely. John Meacham polishing up remarks. Biden will not resign the presidency. And most importantly, Biden will not endorse Kamala Harris, which is like the final knife in the back for Kamala Harris. My goodness. So he elevates her to the vice presidency over the advice of his wife, Jill.
And then on his way out, he's like, and by the way, no, nope, not going to do it. Don't think you can do it. Don't like you. Don't think you can do it. And then throw the convention wide open. It would turn into an open convention with Harris and about three others. Now, here's the problem. You can't restrict it. Once it's an open convention, anybody can get in. I'm going to put out a dark horse name and nobody is nobody's talking about right now. They're all talking about Josh Shapiro or Andy Beshear or a bunch of other candidates. Why not Bernie? Seriously, he has the hardest consolidated base inside the Democratic Party.
Why wouldn't Bernie make a play for the top spot? Yes, he's really old, but so what? So what? He's still alive. He's significantly livelier than Joe Biden is at this point, and everyone can see it.
Now, superdelegates would not be allowed to vote on the first ballot. So some of the politicking behind the scenes would have to be saved for the second ballot. But again, the first ballot is unlikely to result in an actual nominee unless Harris basically consolidates support right now. Harris is already she's getting ahead of herself. She's vetting at least four possible running mates, including Andy Beshear and possibly Josh Shapiro, the pretty popular governor of Pennsylvania. The hope would be that that wins them the swing state of Pennsylvania. And it would be it would be a good move, obviously.
Now, again, all of this is a little early because Joe Biden's team apparently has not been informed. Joe Biden, according to NBC News, is feeling angry and betrayed by top Democratic leaders who are wavering on his campaign. Again, sources say Biden feels angry at how the party has tried to push him out. A source close to Biden criticized senior Democratic leaders for giving us Donald Trump.
Quote, can we all just remember for a minute these same people who are trying to push Joe Biden out are the same people who literally gave us Trump? In 2015, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer pushed Biden aside in favor of Hillary. They're wrong then, they're wrong now, according to the source.
That source pointed to polling in the 2016 election that found Hillary Clinton leading by as much as nine. How did all this work out for everyone in 2016? Perhaps we should learn a few lessons from 2016. One of them is polls are BS, just ask Secretary Clinton. And two, maybe, just maybe, Joe Biden is more in touch with actual Americans than Obama, Pelosi, Schumer. The source added an unusually blunt language that represents the views of those closest to Biden.
First of all, that sounds like some solid Hunter Biden political analysis right there. If your lesson from 2016 is that polls are bunk and therefore a Democrat who is losing in the polls can win. That ain't the lesson in 2016. Lesson in 2016 on the polls is polls are bunk when they overly favor Democrats. Reached for comment, the campaign referred NBC News to Deputy Campaign Manager Quentin Fulks' remarks Thursday, vowing that Biden is staying in the race. But again, no one knows because he's staying in until he is not staying in.
Meanwhile, Reuters is reporting differently. They say that Joe Biden is soul searching right now. One of the sources who requested anonymity said, quote, his soul searching is actually happening. I know that for a fact. He's thinking about this very seriously. Another source, a Democratic congressional aide, said the writing appeared to be on the wall. Quote, it feels like a matter of when, not if. Democratic Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, who's close to Biden, told CNN Biden will be, quote, resting and reflecting this weekend as he recovers from COVID-19. But the Biden campaign, again, keeps saying over and over,
that they're going to continue. But then another source inside the Biden campaign said, quote, yes, it's over just a matter of time. It's hard to see how this maintains. I mean, frankly, it's just it's very, very hard to see how this maintains at current status. According to Jake Sherman over at Punchbowl News, The New York Times reporting Biden has begun to accept the idea he may not be able to win in November and may have to drop out of the race. And there's a a
It's developing sense that if Biden does not exit the race by next week, says Punchbowl, Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will be forced to go public with their misgivings about Biden's candidacy. Pelosi is at wit's end, too. The DNC's virtual roll call to formally re-nominate Biden could come as soon as August 1st, which does not leave much time to get Biden out. But that's what a huge number of House and Senate Democrats want. Presumably, Trump will get a bit of a conventional bump. You get a bump coming out of the convention, the polls are going to start looking real bad for Joe Biden over the weekend.
Needless to say, Biden has put Schumer and Jeffries in an incredibly difficult position, says Punchbowl News. Biden has done nothing to improve his standing since the debate. So what happens if Biden steps aside? That is the big question. Now, he has delegates. Those delegates are pledged to him. If he frees his delegates, they do not have to go to Kamala Harris, even if he recommends.
Even if he says, you know, I'm leaving, but my vice president, we picked her for a reason. They don't have to vote for Kamala Harris. So theoretically, somebody could make a strong move to consolidate an anti-Harris vote inside the Democratic Party. And there's a strong case for that because, again, Kamala Harris is a terrible, terrible candidate. And she spent like the last 24 hours out campaigning. And I don't know why Democratic candidates do this. Hillary Clinton used to do the same thing. Here is Kamala Harris randomly dropping into dialect for no reason.
We're too busy watching what you're doing to hear what you're saying. I don't even, what, what now? Oh, she's so terrible. Can you imagine three and a half months of this? Can you imagine? Oh, no. With that said, CNN's Harry Entenpolster, he says that Kamala Harris would have a better shot at the presidency than Joe Biden does because every day is worse for Joe Biden.
Okay.
That said, the polling shows that she is highly vulnerable. There is some data from public policy polling, which is a Democratic polling firm, and it finds that Harris, with the right running mate, according to Politico, likely can defeat the Republican ticket in two of the three blue wall states the Biden campaign now sees as critical, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Public policy polling, it is a bit of a dicey polling firm because, again, it's a Democratic polling firm. It has a 1.4 star rating out of three in 538's pollster rankings. But
The poll shows Trump leading Biden by a point in Michigan and four points in Pennsylvania. Harris replacing Biden makes the Democrats chance worse in Michigan, with Trump leading her by five points, 46-41, and better in Pennsylvania, where she cuts Trump's lead in half. Now, if she picks Gretchen Whitmer, you have an all-female ticket, which, you know, is politically interesting for sure. Then maybe Michigan, it moves out of the R column and into the D column.
But does that win her Pennsylvania? I don't know. If she picks Josh Shapiro, maybe it wins her Pennsylvania. But does it win her Michigan? I don't know. The thing that is very clear is that generic Democrat does better than any of these people. Generic Democrat is not Kamala Harris, which means that actually the best thing Democrats can do at this point, politically speaking, would be to dump Biden in favor of a no-name. Somebody who has high levels of political name recognition with donors, but none with the general public, like a Josh Shapiro or like an Andy Beshear in Kentucky.
But Harris is not going to step out of the way. According to Axios, there are five reasons why a mission to bypass Kamala Harris is unlikely to succeed. First, the $91 million campaign war chest for Joe Biden can be transferred to Harris, but not to any other candidate. Second, it's hard to pass over the first black female VP for the presidency. Third, a bunch of endorsements have already come from people like Jim Clyburn. The Obamas and Clintons would probably throw their weight behind Kamala Harris, too,
especially if Biden jumps in first. Fourth, senior Democrats are very worried about a fragmented party going into the election. And fifth, legitimacy because she's been on the national ballot, even though obviously she had nothing to do with Joe Biden's victory in 2024. And already Kamala Harris behind the scenes, her team is preparing the Kamala Harris defense.
The informal campaign, according to Politico, is complicated because of how urgently Harris would need to build a political operation as well as craft a biography that makes it clear she has more to offer than her high-profile defense of abortion to include other foreign and domestic issues. The plan is to create a set of talking points around her accomplishments to paint a more fulsome picture of a candidate. This, of course, is likely to fail because she has no accomplishments and she is, in fact, a terrible vice president who ran a horrible presidential campaign and was basically gifted into the Senate on the basis that she was running in an all-Democrat state.
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as Joe Biden has been. I mean, here's Kamala Harris just the other day bragging about defying the Supreme Court. It is we who have canceled debt, including student loan debt. In fact, testify if you have received it. God, she's awful. Again, I still think that Donald Trump is the front runner against Kamala Harris, even if they replace Joe Biden with Kamala. But let's not pretend. It's a whole new ballgame. And so here is my message from the RNC and from what the Democrats are doing for this weekend. Do not get sanguine. If you're a conservative, if
If you want to see Trump elected, do not get sanguine. Do not pretend that this race is over. It is not. It is July. Do not pretend that Joe Biden is likely to be the nominee. At this point, it's very likely he will not be the nominee. It's going to be about voter turnout. It's going to be about on the ground movement. It's going to be about making sure that everyone you know votes early. It's going to be about making sure that you do all the work you need to do. This is not a foregone conclusion by any stretch of the imagination. Again, I look at the
polling data. And here's what I see. I see Donald Trump has just had the best month of any presidential candidate in recent memory. And the real clear politics polling average is at forty seven point seven percent. He's not a fifty five percent. He's not a fifty four percent. He's at forty seven point seven. And even though in the swing states, again, he's doing really, really well in the swing states.
By the RealCorp Politics polling average, he's finally pulled ahead in Virginia slightly over Joe Biden. If Biden is not on the ticket anymore, Virginia probably ticks back into the blue column, at least initially. And with all the systemic variables out there, we all know about them, the media, certain voting rules in certain states, Republicans are going to have to fight this fight all the way down to the wire. Do not get complacent. You cannot afford to be complacent at this point in time.
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