Ep. 2070 - Kamala Harris’ UNSERIOUS Campaign
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miss out. All righty. So the polling continues to show Donald Trump with a small but measurable lead in most of the swing states at this point. The RealClearPolitics polling average has him up by over a point in Michigan, has him by almost a point in Pennsylvania, about 0.4 in Wisconsin, up by 1.6 in Arizona, by 0.5 in North Carolina, by 1.8 in Georgia. The polls are all within margin of error at this point. It's still a toss-up race, which means that

that it's going to come down to turnout, which of course is a truism. It's not just going to come down to turnout. It's going to be who has the better turnout operation. I'm hearing a lot of mixed reports from on the ground about the Trump turnout operation. From some, I'm hearing that it's excellent. From others, I'm hearing that it's not so excellent. The proof is going to be in the pudding. But there's no question that right now, Donald Trump has the momentum. The topic of the conversation is everything Trump wants it to be about. Does Kamala Harris care about normies?

Is Kamala Harris trustable on anything like the issues? Will she be bad for the economy or good for the economy? Trump is a known quantity. That was always the drawback of Trump is that he was never going to get to 55% in the polls. It's also the beauty of Trump, meaning no matter how often you scream that he is outrageous and terrible, he just ain't. We're all used to it. There is nothing new that you can add to the mix about Donald Trump that's going to change anyone's opinion of him. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is having to bring out the sort of

arguments of last resort. The arguments of last resorts are the ones that Joe Biden was using. So Joe Biden ran his entire campaign on. It's not that I'm a good president. It's just that you have to you can't vote for Donald Trump because he's a danger to the republic. That was his campaign of last resort.

He hadn't done a good job, but you can't vote for my opponent because there is a barrier to entry. And the barrier to entry is January 6th and Donald Trump being a dictator, et cetera, et cetera. Well, Kamala Harris had sort of avoided that. She suggested that Donald Trump was weird. He was a goofball. He was fundamentally unserious. But the reality is that now she's having to fall back on the Joe Biden argument. He seems unserious, but deep down in the cockles of his small heart, Donald Trump is Hitler.

that actually Donald Trump's facial hair is just hidden. But if you could see beneath the lip, you would see a very small mustache, perhaps, too. That is the argument that Kamala Harris is now making. She's really ratcheting up the rhetoric. So she said the other day, yesterday, she says that Donald Trump is fundamentally an unserious candidate, but the consequences of his presidency will be so serious. In many, many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man.

But the consequences of him being president of the United States are brutally serious. There are things that he says that will be the subject of skits and laughter and jokes. But words have meaning coming from someone

who aspires to stand behind the seal of the president of the United States. So in this way, Harris and Trump are most polar opposites. So Trump says a lot of stuff. I've said this for years. Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States. It will say on his epitaph, maybe 47th president of the United States. He said a lot of bleep.

Donald Trump says a lot of stuff. He makes jokes about Arnold Palmer's penis and he and he says funny things about McDonald's and he makes jokes all the time. He says things that are really out of the box and it's hard to take them fully seriously because he's not fully serious when he says them. And even when he is fully serious, does he really mean them 100 percent? Half the time, no.

But his actual policy is quite serious. That has always been the gap for Donald Trump, is that his image is sort of buffoonish and goofballish. But his actual policy is hard-nosed. Actual policy accomplishments are quite real, namely a functional economy, growing innovation, low inflation, a foreign policy record that is second to none in the annals of American history. No major foreign wars, new peace deals in the Middle East, intimidation of our enemies.

strengthening our alliances, particularly in the Middle East. And despite all of the talk about how he weakened our alliances with NATO, that's actually not true. He simply requested and succeeded in getting those countries to pay a larger share of their own GDP toward national defense. So Donald Trump is a patina of unseriousness and underneath he's a very serious policy candidate. That is why he is running the way he's running in this election. Kamala Harris is precisely the opposite. She tries to pose as serious, but underneath it is a deep unseriousness

Underneath this facade of serious politician who's talking to you about the context of the world in which we consider the issues that affect our lives in ways that we cannot yet imagine. Beneath that facade is total emptiness. She's a shell of a politician and below it is just a vacuum. So I think that she actually has a problem on her hands here.

Because every day she betrays that there ain't nothing there. There's just nothing there. Yesterday, for example, she was doing a presser. She couldn't even call on the reporters herself. Her campaign has to stage manage her the way they were stage managing Joe Biden. Here she was yesterday. You'll actually hear one of her campaign aides calling out the reporters because she can't do it herself. On some issues, we just have to all be Americans and put party aside. We're going to go to Colleen at the AP. Hi, I'm Colleen.

We have time for one more. Andrea Reuters. Why are her aides calling out the reporters? Why isn't she doing it? Because she's not capable. In fact, we are now learning that she has reduced her time on the campaign trail, according to Breitbart. Instead, she's opting to prepare for an interview with NBC and a CNN town hall. Now, these are not things you have to take time off from the campaign trail to do. They're not.

These are not things that require extra time off. It's one thing to say I'm taking two days off to prep for a debate because I have to study my opponent's moves. I need to do a sort of lightning round with somebody playing Donald Trump. Okay, understandable. I get it. But I'm sorry. An interview with NBC means you have to take time off the trail. You don't like take two days off the campaign trail in closing time to prep for an interview with NBC News, which has been overwhelmingly favorable to you because you blew it with Brett Baier on Fox News.

A CNN town hall. Why do you have to? How do you prep for that? What does that prep look like? But here's the thing about Kamala Harris. She has to prep for everything. The reason that the left is so all fired mad because Donald Trump went to a McDonald's is because when Donald Trump went to a McDonald's, he was very comfortable in his own skin.

It's not that Donald Trump was masquerading as a worker at McDonald's, it's that he was showing respect to people who work at McDonald's and people who eat at McDonald's, and he likes those people. Kamala Harris is the kind of person who literally had to be prepped by her staff to do a small donor dinner. They had to put like a fake dinner together so she could learn to speak with humans without downing an entire bottle of rosé.

underneath the facade of serious politician, there is nothing serious there. There's nothing serious there. And you can see it every time she or her running mate talk policy. So Tim Walz, for example, he was a Sarah Haynes and he was asked to name differences with Joe Biden on policy is on the view. You know, the great political interview show, the view Sarah Haynes asked him. So how are you guys different from Joe Biden? He ain't got nothing. There's nothing there.

Can you point to a policy decision over the last four years that you and the vice president would have handled differently from President Biden? Well, I think she's this expansion on Medicare is something that I wish would have been proposed sooner. But look, they're tackling the issues that they needed to. They came out of a pandemic that Donald Trump had left a mess for an economy with supply chains that were broken. Really? So is it nothing? You got nothing. You got zero zip zilch.

So what policy proposals does she have that are so astounding and wonderful? Well, apparently she wants to raise the minimum wage. You haven't heard this one before. She's going to raise the federal minimum wage. Here we go. This is her big policy proposal.

So there is a big difference between Donald Trump and me on a number of issues, including this, where I absolutely believe we must raise minimum wage and that hardworking Americans, whether they're working at McDonald's or anywhere else, should have least the ability to be able to take care of their family and take care of themselves in a way that allows them to actually be able to sustain their needs. I'm sorry, this policy for dumb people. You know, many people in the United States are paid the actual federal minimum wage, the actual federal minimum wage.

1 million workers in the United States, 1 million out of the hundreds of millions of people working in the United States, 1 million are working at or below the minimum wage in the United States. And by the way, those people are not 40 year olds who've been working for 20 years at McDonald's. Those people are generally under the age of 25. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,

Although workers under age 25 represent one fifth of hourly paid workers, they represent 45% of those paid the federal minimum wage or less. Among employed teenagers age 16 to 19 paid by the hour, about 3% earned the minimum wage or less compared with just under 1% of workers age 25 and older. So in other words, it's a starter job. So her big proposal to change the economy of the United States is to raise the federal minimum wage. By the way, there are state minimum wages on the books in nearly every state that are larger than the federal minimum wage.

This is politics for dumb people, but there are serious consequences to the policy for dumb people. So, for example, as Heather MacDonald points out, Kamala Harris is a wildly anti-police candidate. Quote, Kamala Harris has avoided talking about crime and law enforcement on the campaign trail. No surprise there. Since the George Floyd race riots, many American cities have descended into public disorder. Surveillance videos routinely document flash mobs invading businesses, assaulting employees and stealing whatever participants can carry, including cash registers.

Customers bear the brunt of stores defenses against runaway shoplifting like toothpaste locked behind a plexiglass barrier. Drive by shootings mow down innocent civilians. Urban violent crime has surged 40 percent between 2019 and 2023. In an interview last week on The Breakfast Club, Kamala Harris made clear she remains committed to her previously stated view that systemic racism, quote, seeps into every part of American life and racial injustice is rampant in policing.

Ms. Harris suggested that police murders have been going on viciously. She accepted a questioner saying exactly that. She said as a U.S. senator, she tried to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a bill that would have restricted the use of certain police tactics and eliminated qualified immunity for law enforcement officers, opening them to financial liability for contested enforcement actions. So, again, her actual policies are quite deleterious to the lifestyle of the American people.

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So this is the big story of the day over in New York City. Jury selection has begun in the criminal trial of Daniel Penny. Now, you'll remember Daniel Penny. If you watch the show, we talked about this extensively last year. Last year, Daniel Penny, former U.S. Marine Corps veteran, he's a Marine Corps veteran, and he was on a New York City train and a homeless, violent man named Jordan Neely started shouting and nearly assaulting the passengers. And Penny subdued him.

They said they put him in a chokehold. He didn't. He put him in a submission hold and Neely ended up dying. And now Daniel Penny is being charged. Penny was arrested last year. He was set free on a hundred thousand dollar bond. He is being charged for second degree manslaughter and faces up to 15 years in prison. So Daniel Penny's defense lawyers, they say, well, you know, Neely was high as a kite. He had a huge amount of synthetic cannabinoid known as K2.

Also, they're going to argue that Penny didn't actually apply enough pressure on Neely to make him unconscious, much less kill him. Neely's in the chokehold. Again, they use the terms chokehold and submission hold essentially equivalently. A chokehold, colloquially speaking, is where you're compressing the windpipe. A submission hold is where you are compressing the arterial flow to the brain. So it cuts off oxygen and then you knock somebody out. Again, we have the tape.

The fact that this man is being charged for subduing a violent, threatening homeless person on a subway train who's threatening others. And by the way, this was treated as a race issue. If you recall, Daniel Penny, because he is white, was treated as though he was a racist, despite no evidence that race played a part in this particular case. It's Kamala Harris's law enforcement stylings that make this sort of stuff possible in New York City. Here's the tape, if you don't recall. You can see he's subduing him. And by the way, he's not the only one subduing him.

There are two other New Yorkers attempting to subdue this homeless person to stop him from getting violent. This trial, by the way, could easily become a sort of microcosm of all crime issues in the United States. If that happens, Kamala Harris has a real problem on her hands because the vast majority of Americans are very sympathetic to good Samaritans who try to stop violent attacks on people on the New York City train, for example. But her problems don't just stop there. Again, her policies are a disaster.

As the New York Times reports, shuttered factories and trade deals helped turn working class Midwesterners against Democrats with a high cost of housing. Do the same in the Sunbelt. The New York Times, Jennifer Medina reporting in the final weeks of a deadlock presidential campaign. There's no better place to observe restlessness than the stuccoed neighborhood that snake into the desert around Las Vegas. The median home price is four hundred forty five thousand dollars, an increase of more than 50 percent compared with five years ago.

Many once reliable Democrats say the issue has eroded their trust in politicians, which means turning away from Kamala Harris. So in the Midwest, you have people who have bled jobs thanks to the policies of Joe Biden. In Nevada, you have inflated housing prices. These policies are bad. Again, she is empty on the she's empty underneath. And then that emptiness has real policy consequences. That's also true in the Middle East.

So yesterday she has decided apparently that she's going to reach out to the Jewish vote by going on the air with Al Sharpton. The only American in modern times who has partially incited a pogrom. So that's always an exciting thing. So she went on with Al Sharpton where she immediately pledged to push for a ceasefire. Now, if Israel had listened to Kamala Harris in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar would still be alive right now. She told them not to go into Rafah. They ignored her and they ended up killing Yahya Sinwar. Here is Al Sharpton with Kamala Harris.

How would you move toward a ceasefire? What do you think the United States should be doing? So first of all, look, it's going to be hard. It's going to be difficult. But we have got to get started.

This war over with, we got to get the hostages out. We need the war to end. In fact, we're sending Tony Blinken, Secretary of State, out next week to go and meet with the parties there. And the death of Sinwar, I believe, has removed an obstacle.

to that end. And so we've got to work at it and we've got to work at it through diplomatic means. And that's what we intend to do. But listen, the reality of it is that the difficulty of it all is not new to any administration in recent history. And it cannot be the reason that we don't work at it around the clock and be vigilant. So what exactly is happening?

What exactly is happening is that she is providing space for terrorists to hold out instead of making a deal to release hostages. She continued along these lines, by the way. She says it's unconscionable what's happening in Gaza. Unconscionable for Hamas not to surrender. Hamas is still holding hostages. Unconscionable for Hamas to subject the entire Palestinian population to the wonders of its governance. Unconscionable for the IDF to go in and target terrorists.

who are currently holding Israeli hostages and Americans, by the way. Here she was along these lines. I remember in Selma, you made very strong statements about civilians being killed on both sides. And you stood up strongly on that. And I think that's a concern in all communities. Well, I mean, listen, the number of innocent Palestinians that have been killed in Gaza, it's really unconscionable.

And we have to be honest about that. And at the same time, listen, I will always stand in terms of Israel's right to defend itself. And we need this war to end. I don't believe you that you will always stand with Israel's right to defend itself. You know who else doesn't believe you? Yahya Sinwar didn't believe you. According to the Wall Street Journal, in March, Israeli commandos seized a compound connected to Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas. They found uniforms, vests, submachine guns, binoculars and a laptop.

Sinwar messaged Hamas officials, urging them to refuse a hostage deal. Hamas had the upper hand in negotiations, Sinwar said, setting internal political divisions within Israel, cracks in Netanyahu's wartime coalition and mounting U.S. pressure to alleviate the suffering in Gaza. Yes, that's right. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden somehow achieved the signal feat of strengthening the hand of Yahya Sinwar.

Truly incredible stuff from this absolutely empty candidate. The good news is she still has campaign surrogates like Mark Cuban out there saying, you know, it's great that she's still flip-flopping. Like that's really the important thing is to recognize that flip-flops are now good.

You asked me specifically, what are the things about her that I agree with, that I support? I told you I didn't support the filibuster. I was asking what other things that she's proposed in the past would cause you to campaign against her if she went through with it. Yeah, I mean, look, what she did four years ago, just like Donald Trump and the oil thing. I mean, there's lots of things, you know.

The candidates change over a period of years. That's one of the great things about Kamala Harris. She's not an idiot. She is open minded. That's why she's changed. Donald Trump thinks he knows everything. He doesn't change. OK, so the fact that she's wildly dishonest and shifts all of her positions, but only for the press, that's a good thing, according to Mark Cuban. That's right, folks. So Kamala Harris kind of like.

A bizarre layer cake of terrible. So you have the surface politician. She pretends to be a serious politician. She really is not. And underneath you have a vacuum and underneath the vacuum, you have the effect of some really, really bad policy, a terrible layer cake. But it's her image that they're trying to burnish. The problem for Kamala Harris, that her image is starting to fall apart because it turns out that once you get past the joy of Joe Biden, not being the nominee, ain't nothing there.

So Al Sharpton is trying to reinvigorate the joy for Kamala Harris by accusing men of being sexist for not backing Kamala Harris.

Do you think some of the resistance of some men, black and white, is misogynist? And are you proud to see that most Americans, even being polled, have no problem supporting a woman at all? And I'm one that lived from Shirley to Kamala in terms of these campaigns. I have an emotional reaction to you raising the point of Shirley Chisholm because...

It is on her broad shoulders that I stand and so many of us stand. And we have come a long way to your point and on your specific point about including the fact that I have the support of countless black men who are in elected positions, including just this afternoon and two church visits today with the mayor of Atlanta.

That being said, I think that you are absolutely right that there is this narrative about what kind of support we are receiving from black men that is just not panning out. Well, I guess the pitch is that you're sexist if you don't support Harris. That's the kind of argument that I think puts people to sleep. But you know what? When it comes to your actual sleep, it might not be working out that well for you if you got a bad mattress. See?

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OK, so, again, the idea underneath there is that you're a sexist if you don't back Kamala Harris. That is something that's also being pushed by a columnist for The New York Times today named John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, who conducts polls for PACs that support Harris and Biden. He's trying to figure out why young men are turning away from Kamala Harris. And his answer is no.

because Donald Trump is a mean bad man and men are bad and mean. Quote, Mr. Trump has tapped male anxieties by weaving a hyper-masculine message of strength and defiance into his broader narrative that undermines confidence in democratic institutions.

And it's working. Aware that boasting about killing Roe versus Wade drove away young women, Mr. Trump zeroed in on campaigning on a larger shale of the young male vote. In four years, he cut what was once a 19 percentage point Democratic margin among registered young male voters, roughly in half in our poll. His playbook, a masterclass in bro whispering, championing crypto, securing the endorsement of Dave Portnoy, giving UFC president Dana White

who embodies the alpha male archetype appealing to many young men, a prime spot at the RNC. He has also cultivated relationships with simpatico comedians, pranksters, influencers, and Silicon Valley billionaires like Elon Musk. Okay, well, I mean, there is another reason why Donald Trump is appealing to young men, and it's because he doesn't hate young men. That would be the really big reason here. Turns out that Kamala Harris is not a unifying image. She is one particular type of image, and that is female-centric image.

And that's not exactly great. And bringing out Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago, to claim that she has earned his vote as a black man, it should not make the Democratic Party particularly sanguine about their hopes with men generally.

The Vice President Kamala Harris has earned my vote as a black man and she has earned the vote and support of black men across this country. One thing that I know for sure as a black man is that we always recognize our responsibility and role in this democracy, providing

preparing and protecting. And that's really what this moment is about, is about providing real opportunities for black men, but all Americans to have a right to health care, mental health care, good paying jobs, protecting our democracy, right? You know, we're talking about the former president who made it very clear if you vote for him, you don't ever have to vote ever again. As a black man, you don't have to dog whistle. I know exactly what he's saying. No, you don't, because he never said that.

That's ridiculous. But, you know, this is the pitch. And so in the end, as always, the Democratic Party is forced to fall back on its core position, which is don't vote for Kamala Harris. Just don't vote for Donald Trump because, again, he's a bad, bad orange fascist.

Al Sharpton was doing this. He suggested Trump's rhetoric makes it more dangerous to be an American. Again, this guy is responsible for making race relations in the country significantly worse, including exacerbating already ongoing race riots. And here he is explaining Donald Trump's rhetoric makes things more dangerous in the United States. People that were in his cabinet and that was in his circle are saying, don't vote for him. This is how he believes. This is how he acts, which is a real threat.

to all of us that have opposed him. You know, I was one stab leading a march, so I take that seriously. I've called Joe and said, you better watch security because you're dealing with a man who himself faced two assassination attempts. You would think he would be careful about trying to demonize and target people, public figures, that you may disagree with because when people hear that rhetoric,

Some people can say he's right. They're the enemy and they may do anything. So not only do you have to fear government, you have to fear people that will take things into their own hands, including the people that tried to assassinate him. It it raises the likelihood of a dangerous environment. And we should not belittle that in any way on either side of these political debates. I cannot believe we are listening to Al Sharpton lecture us about conflagrationist rhetoric.

Well, the Wall Street Journal points out that this is basically the last vestige of the Harris campaign. Quote, the fascist meme is all over the place, an upgrade from President Biden's description of the MAGA movement in 2022 as semi-fascist. MSNBC interviews Ernest Academics, who draws straight historical line between mid-20th century Europe and the 21st century GOP. A writer for The Atlantic takes the hyperbole prize with a headline that says Trump is talking like Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini. Why leave out Mao?

Kamala Harris is also hitting the theme. Trump is, quote, seeking unchecked power. She told a crowd this week in Pennsylvania, listen to General Mark Milley, Donald Trump's top general. He's called Trump, and I quote, a fascist to the core. The Wall Street Journal says, let's stipulate there are many reasons to be wary of handing Mr. Trump power again. Yet despite all of those, he won the GOP nomination for the third time, was headed toward victory over Biden, and is essentially tied with Harris. Are tens of millions of Americans really falling for a fascist takeover?

The answer is most Americans simply don't believe the fascist meme, and for good reason. The first is that Trump was already president. Whatever his intention, the former president was hemmed in by American checks and balances. Democrats, the press, the federal bureaucracy were relentlessly opposed to all his works, and they would be again. That, of course, is right. It also happens to be the case, as they point out, that many of the checks and balances that supposedly would be put in danger by Trump have now been changed. The Electoral Count Reform Act makes a replay of 2020 more difficult.

And Democrats are not they don't believe that Trump's a fascist. I mean, look at the tape of Chuck Schumer sitting next to Donald Trump. If they thought he was a fascist, they wouldn't be sitting next to him. They wouldn't be making jokes about him. It's all a ruse. It is all a lie. It's also, again, why they are melting down over the McDonald's visit by Trump. Like that should not be treated as something crazy and out of the box and overtly threatening. But the media have pulled out all the stops. How how much of the media pulled out the stops?

Newsweek ran an entire hit piece on the McDonald's branch Trump visited. They ran an entire piece suggesting that they had been dinged for customer conditions because people weren't washing their hands. So destroy the local small business because Donald Trump was associated with it. Or maybe you want to explore The New York Times. The New York Times is now very angry at Trump because Trump suggested that Harris is lying about having once worked at McDonald's.

Here is their fact check. Quote, Donald Trump has claimed without evidence that his hair has never worked in the fast food chain. Her campaign and a friend say she did. Since when is that this positive evidence? And that's ridiculous. It's like, you know, I say O.J. Simpson killed his ex-wife. O.J. and his friends say he did not. Like what? Shouldn't she have to show like some sort of proof before you just run with the narrative that it's a lie? But again, this is how the press are.

Newsweek's national correspondent, quote, the McDonald's restaurant where Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump briefly worked on Sunday failed its last health inspection documents show. The former president manned the fry station. The restaurant was closed to the public for Trump's visit. According to Midas Tachuan, straight to work without washing his hands, employees not washing their hands was one of the reasons the restaurant failed its most recent inspection. So they're ripping down a local franchise because Donald Trump appeared in Bucks County at this franchise.

Man, the desperate, you can smell the desperation. By the way, here's a woman who was served by Trump at the McDonald's franchise. She sounds pretty flattered that that happened. Martha, it was like meeting a friend. He looked us in the eye. The way he communicated with us, the way he greeted my children in the backseat, it was incredible. My kids were, I cannot just believe that I shook Donald Trump's hand. I'm not going to wash my hands for the next few days.

So he just communicated with them his his looks and the way he shook our hands like he was very genuine. He's a genuine man. There was no stunt over there. So the left has decided that their final their final argument about Trump and McDonald's is that it's a publicity stunt because the McDonald's was closed so that Trump could do this.

Well, what did you think was going to happen? He has secret service protection. He's going to walk into an open McDonald's and then apply for a job. People are just they're a joke at this point.

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Now, speaking of the state of play when it comes to how long it's going to take to get these results, there is, in fact, some information on the early voting. So according to The Wall Street Journal, Democrats do have a clear edge in the early voting so far. But the kind of going wisdom is the Democrats are going to have a super duper heavy edge in early voting and Republicans will really outperform day of.

And it seems that Republicans are overperforming so far in some of the early voting. Apparently, Republicans are embracing the practice of casting their ballot before Election Day more than they have in past election cycles.

And part of that is because Donald Trump has now revised his view on this. You'll recall the interview I did with President Trump last week. He explicitly called for people to vote early, get to the polls, vote early, mail in your ballot. More than 15 million Americans have already voted in person or cast mail-in ballots. That includes 5.3 million in the seven swing states. In the states where voters register by party, about 47% of the early votes have been cast by Democrats. 33% have been cast by Republicans.

Battleground states like Michigan and Georgia aren't included in the breakdown by party registrations. Democrats account for about 49% of return ballots compared with 31% for GOP voters. But that is a much smaller gap than it was last time around when Democrats were 52% of all return mail-in ballots compared with just 24% for Republicans.

So, you know, reading the early voting is a game of tea leaves. You really don't know quite what you're reading because, again, it could be that you're cannibalizing your day of vote or it could be that marginal voters are now voting early mail in. But bottom line is Republicans are lagging less in the early voting than they were the last time around. Unclear exactly how this is all going to map out. It's also unclear what the polls mean. So as The Wall Street Journal is reporting, the current polling data is an attempt to correct for the failures since 2020.

But expert opinion is mixed on whether polling is in for a repeat of 2020, which the Professional Association of Pollsters called the most inaccurate performance in 40 years. New developments like the shift of Black and Latino voters toward Trump and the proliferation of online surveys are now creating potential sources of additional error. One Stanford University political scientist named John Krosnick says, quote, we are headed for more disaster. Courtney Kennedy of the Pew Research Center has tracked the changes pollsters made in recent years to address accuracy.

She says she's hoping that they'll do a little bit better than they did. But of course, it is totally unclear sort of whether these changes are going to be in the right direction toward accuracy or in the wrong direction away from it. Post-election analysis found that in 2020, polls understated the share of white voters and older families who ultimately cast ballots and overstated Joe Biden's support in urban areas compared with the actual results. Apparently, NBC's pollsters have taken steps to address those issues.

So that may mean an over adjustment. So bottom line is you have to treat this election like it's a jump ball, like you have no idea what's going to happen, because realistically, ain't nobody got an idea of what's going to happen. This is all mysterious and it's going to take a while to find out what actually did happen. So bottom line, chaos. But in the moment, Kamala Harris seems to be lagging in the polls. She should be doing better. No question. Donald Trump seems to have the momentum.

Well, while everybody is very worried about the election threat that is Donald Trump, there is one thing that is happening that is very clearly a threat to the credibility of America's elections. I'm not talking about foreign interference here. I mean, that's certainly quite possible in terms of informational dissemination by, say, Iran or even Russia or China. That stuff isn't impossible for sure. But the idea that that's going to swivel the entire election is probably quite unlikely. The big problem for undermining the trust of the American people in this election cycle is

how long it's going to take to get the results. And so I'm just warning everybody up front, this is going to be a disaster area, like a full-scale disaster area. Here, for example, is Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. You'll remember her from such hits as, I want to keep RFK Jr. on the ballot even though he doesn't want to be on the ballot. She literally sued to keep a man who didn't want to be on the Michigan ballot on the Michigan ballot, said he would draw votes away from Donald Trump. Now she is saying that we will only have unofficial results from Michigan

The day after the election, by close of business on Wednesday, on Wednesday, that's nuts. Okay, the state of Florida, my home state, a well-governed state, can count all the votes same day. In fact, almost instantaneously, they pre-count all of the mail-in ballots, and then all of the other ballots are done electronically. And so, boom, the polls close, you have results. That is a great way to show up the credibility of your state.

Michigan is saying it's going to take them the entire the entirety of the night and then all of the next day in order to even give you preliminary results in one of the key swing states. Here's the Michigan secretary of state. Real quickly, the conversation has been, look, don't expect to know who won the election on Election Day, but you have said that your state will have everything certified, ready to go the day after November 6th. Do you still stand by that?

We are on track, based on our hardworking election officials and machines and voters, to make sure that unofficial results in our state will be ready by the close of day on Wednesday. It's the same time they were available after the 2020 election, so we predict the same could unfold again. But we'll be there to make sure accuracy and security is prioritized over efficiency. And from the minute the polls close till we have those unofficial results, we'll make sure the public knows exactly where we are in the process and why. I mean, that's nuts.

And the longer it lasts, the worse it is. If this thing takes days and drags out all the suspicions that everybody on all sides has, that's just going to exacerbate. People are going to eat each other alive over this kind of stuff. And it is inexplicable why so many states have failed to shore up their balloting processes and their ballot counting processes. So Politico has an interview with Arnon Mishkin, who's the head of the Fox News Decision Desk.

He is now suggesting that the election is likely to be called Saturday, Saturday. That's right. The election is on a Tuesday. So it means Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. He says the race seems very, very close. It is dependent on a number of states like Pennsylvania that we believe are going to be reporting in a pattern similar to the way they've reported in the past. So I'd say the over under is Saturday, which is when the call was made last time. That's when Pennsylvania is likely to come in.

He said, I think we have to accept the reality. We don't really know how close this election is going to be. I'm pretty sure it's going to be close. I see some polls that say, actually, it isn't going to be close. It's going to be one way or the other. There's some reporting that Trump is sort of gaining. Some of the polls have showed he's gaining. There's another sense I have that actually he may be declining. I think the real issue is what happens to Trump. I've always thought this about the election. It's less about who's running against him than it is about Trump.

And then he points out that Trump's vote total in 2016 was 46.1 percent. And in 2020, it was 46.7 or 46.8 percent. So he's right about all of that. But I mean, the fact that we are going to have to wait for days upon days to find out who won this election is going to be absolutely horrific for the country, truly bad for the country.

And so, again, I think it's incumbent on people like me to inform you that it's going to take a while for there to be results so that you don't jump to conclusions just because it takes a long time to get those results. Also, states that are taking this long really need to look at the voting procedures because they really, really suck. And meanwhile, 60 Minutes getting involved in some election manipulation of its own. So as you'll recall, Kamala Harris did an interview with Bill Whitaker on 60 Minutes. It was a complete mess.

They chopped her up. They took one longer clip. They chopped it into a shorter clip for 60 minutes. They still have not released the full tape or transcript of her interview with Bill Whitaker, which is pretty wild because, you know, they would have for Trump. Here was Trump the other day saying that they will subpoena 60 Minutes' records. You say CBS should lose its license. Well, I've never seen anything like it. She gave a horrible, incompetent answer.

on a news program. It's not an entertainment program. They call it news. They say it's a number one news program. And so she gives an answer that shows that she's dumb or incompetent or something wrong with her. It's so bad.

that the people at CBS say, "We're not gonna do a little editing, like the word 'the,' make it 'there' something." You understand? They take the whole ridiculous answer out, and it was a long answer, and replace it with a much shorter answer,

that she did having to do with a totally different subject, which also didn't make sense, but it wasn't as incompetent. They don't do that with me. The head of the FCC says we would never yank a license because a politician didn't like his or her coverage. Well, this isn't a politician. This is nothing. Wait a minute. She gave an answer.

They took the answer. I've been critical of it. Listen to this. They took just for your audience. You know about it. All right. They took the answer out in its entirety and they put a completely different answer in that looks that makes her look like she's normal. OK, which is about the best you're going to do. And.

I said, I think it's the worst thing she's done. Now, what we're doing is we're going to subpoena their records because we want to see how much else did she do. Okay, so realistically, is CBS going to have its license pulled? No. But you know what 60 Minutes did? They then issued a statement about all of this. They said...

Quote, former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our October 7th interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false. 60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation. They used a longer section of her answer than on 60 Minutes. Same question, same answer, but a different portion of the response. When we added any interview, whether a politician, an athlete or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and on point. The portion of her answer on 60 Minutes was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21 minute long segment.

Remember, Trump pulled out of his interview with 60 Minutes and the vice president participated. So in other words, we got to cut her out of context and move all that stuff around because Trump wouldn't do an interview with us. Wild stuff there from 60 Minutes. Truly wild stuff. Meanwhile, I spoke at UCLA last night. That, of course, is my alma mater. And yeah, it's always interesting to be back where you went to college. I have a lot of good memories from UCLA. That's, of course, where I met my wife. I also have a lot of negative memories. The truth is not a lot has changed at UCLA over the course of the last couple of decades. In 2002, I was

All the way back when I was 18 years old, I was writing for the UCLA Daily Bruin. I was actually fired from my job there because they didn't want me to write a column about the extremism of Muslim student association. So, so nothing has changed. Okay. And, and one of the things that I spoke about is the fact that on college campuses, you essentially have a coalition of losers who are all driven by the idea that they have no agency, that, that people who are failures in life, it's because they have no agency. And this is,

pathetic worldview is unfortunately really prevalent throughout the media. It's really prevalent throughout entertainment. It was even on SNL. So on weekend update on SNL over the weekend, there was an alleged comedian. His name is Emil Joaquin. And he was talking about the situation in the Gaza Strip. And he was trying to argue against the fact that there are a lot of people who make the argument, myself included, that it's ridiculous for LGBTQ minus plus people to say that

that they support Palestine when they would be murdered were they actually in Palestine and here was his ridiculous take

Like a lot of young people now that are like for like gay rights and women's rights will be like free Palestine, free Gaza. And the people on the other side are being like, oh, oh, gays for Gaza, huh? Oh, go be gay in Gaza. See how they like it over there. That's why we're going over there. Like as if that's why America goes to war because we love women and gay people so much. Also, if you want to be gay, just stop bombing them like they'll get to gay, you know, like

They're busy. They don't have time to be like, who am I in the deepest parts of my soul? Like you can't you can't watch your village get blown up and be like, I think I'm bisexual, actually. Like that's not a real team. We're spicy. OK, that's some of the dumbest crap I ever heard in my entire life. So, first of all, it's not that all of the democracies are going to war to make places gay.

It's that if you want to know the values of the Gaza Strip that you are arguing on behalf of, perhaps you should look at the values of the Gaza Strip that you are arguing on behalf of.

I mean, that's just the reality of the situation. But underlying all of this is this idea that people in the region are just things are just sort of randomly happening to them. That when it comes to the Gaza Strip, no one was involved in Hamas. No one was friendly with Hamas. Nobody actually cared what happened with Hamas. They were all just they were just experiencing their lives. And bombs started falling on them from Israel, which, of course, is ridiculous. That is not what happened.

The lack of agency is one of the most frustrating things about the characterization of nearly every conflict, domestic and foreign these days. This idea that if somebody does something wrong, it's not because they did something wrong. It's because the system wronged them in some way. This came to a head a little bit last night during my speech at UCLA. There's a kid who got up, seemed like a nice enough kid from Biola University. And this kid started asking about

the situation in Gaza and asked me if I would condone the activities of the Israeli government in the Gaza Strip, to which I said, well, yes, I mean, it's a militarily defensive action to destroy a terrorist group. Here's what it sounded like.

I want to ask you, as an American Jew, how can you continue to condone the actions of the Israeli government, condoned by the U.S. government, in the Gaza Strip, where over 40,000 people have died, including Palestinians and Israelis, and large numbers of children and civilians? How can you continue to condone those actions? Okay, so...

Okay, hold on. I want to correct you. I don't just condone the actions of the Israeli Defense Forces and the Israeli government. I celebrate and loud them. I'm not morally apathetic about what's happening. On October 7th, Hamas launched the most deadly war on Jews since the Holocaust. They killed 1,200 innocent people. They took 250 hostages. 100 of them are still being held hostage. I know members of families of hostages who are still being held, American citizens.

Hamas could end this war today by surrendering. They've chosen not to surrender. Instead, they spent billions of dollars building terror tunnels below civilian areas. It is not incumbent on the Israeli government to surrender just because terrorists are evil enough to hide behind civilians. The Israeli government has gone through such extraordinary efforts not to kill civilians that it has managed the best civilian to terrorist kill ratio in the history of urban warfare, and it is not close.

I personally know soldiers who have gone door to door in the Gaza Strip who have risked their own lives to prevent civilian death. Israel has complete and utter air superiority over the Gaza Strip. Turns out that Hamas doesn't have an air force. They just had a series of tunnels where they hid all their leadership while their people suffered after their people voted for them. And then they effectively established a dictatorship over the course of the last 20 years. Israel, with their complete air superiority, certainly would have had the ability to commit full scale human atrocities here.

had they wanted to. They have complete air superiority. They could have used F-35s and simply turned the place into a parking lot. They did not, in fact, do that. They moved vast scales of population. In fact, believe it or not, there have been more births in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of this war than there have been deaths in the Gaza Strip from the war itself. That is a very poor way to conduct a genocide.

Israel is being more meticulous in the conduct of this war than any army in human history and certainly than the United States Army and its vast role in the history of urban combat. That is uncontested. What is Israel supposed to do? Simply say that you get to play tag? You take Israeli citizens...

You kill 1,200 people. You hide behind a baby. You hide behind a civilian. And now Israel has to preemptively surrender. That is a great way to make sure that terrorists always win. What Israel has done ought to be celebrated by the Western world because they've demonstrated that if terrorists decide to launch a war they cannot win, they will be eviscerated from the face of the earth as they ought to be.

Again, the central premise for the entire left, and this is true across so many different issues, is that people don't have agency so long as they are unsuccessful. The lack of success is due to lack of agency rather than to making poor decisions. And that isn't true at all.

Because what that also suggests is that success is not due to people making good decisions. It is due to exploitation. And that isn't true either. That is an ugly, terrible perspective. And it ends with significantly more human suffering. All right, coming up, we'll jump into the Vaunted Ben Shapiro Show mailbag.

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