Does Harris need to lay out her policies to win? Probably not. (08-29-2024--Hour1)

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[00:00:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Does anything a presidential candidate say on the campaign trail matter anymore? Does it even matter?

[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_00]: News talk 1110 99 3 WBT welcome to the program happy Thursday Pete Kaliner here, but you knew that 704 570

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[00:00:55] [SPEAKER_00]: So

[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_00]: The question I pose is actually not conjured up by me the question

[00:01:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I pose was conjured up by Jim Garrity at the National Review and

[00:01:06] [SPEAKER_00]: He's got a very lengthy piece

[00:01:09] [SPEAKER_00]: He puts it out every I think it's every morning

[00:01:14] [SPEAKER_00]: and

[00:01:14] [SPEAKER_00]: He buried in the piece he asks a question

[00:01:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Does anything a presidential candidate say on the campaign trail matter?

[00:01:23] [SPEAKER_00]: So the headline on this piece is

[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Kamala Harris breaks the taboo

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Or as my wife calls it taboo which I don't believe that's the correct pronunciation. We argue about it every time it's game night. I

[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Say taboo

[00:01:40] [SPEAKER_00]: So what is the taboo that Kamala Harris has broken?

[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's that you don't run for president

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_00]: without a plan

[00:01:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Right without laying out policies

[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Preferences taking stands on issues right that's always been the norm

[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And I know that there are a lot of people that are very very angry at the orange man

[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Because they say he has broken all of the norms and

[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_00]: So they are in the business of protecting the norms and that means defeating the orange man

[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_00]: But Kamala Harris is in the process of blowing up some norms of her own right namely

[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_00]: running for president

[00:02:24] [SPEAKER_00]: without actually expressing

[00:02:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Opinions on policies we are left to sort of cobbled together past statements and

[00:02:34] [SPEAKER_00]: You know prior campaigns that she has run positions

[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_00]: She may have articulated in the past and

[00:02:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Assuming that they are the same now until of course an unnamed anonymous staffer comes along and says that she has flipped

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Her position on that and that's just some staffer. We don't know if she actually has or not I

[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Have talked ever since 2008. I have talked about Barack Obama as the blank slate candidate

[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_00]: This is the latest manifestation of that. I am convinced they do not include me on their

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Strategies sessions in the Harris campaign

[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Or the White House they don't they don't explain, you know, they're thinking on these things

[00:03:18] [SPEAKER_00]: But to me it has all of the hallmarks of that

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I can get a bunch of former Intel chiefs to

[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Join me in a letter that we could publish in a major news organization. Anyway Kamala Harris is

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Proving that you do not need to make promises on specific policies or have a clear agenda

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_00]: To run a presidential campaign that at the moment looks to have no worse than a 50-50 shot at reaching the

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_00]: 270 electoral votes necessary

[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Jim Garrity cites the Fox News polling that just dropped Emerson

[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_00]: polling done for the Hill publication also and

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_00]: The polls are all indicating that the swing states are

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Swingy

[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Right that they're very close all within the margin of error. They can go either way North Carolina including

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_00]: So does anything a presidential candidate say on the campaign trail actually matter or is the Harris campaign?

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_00]: ahead of the curve in a way

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Because they're behaving as if there's really no point in laying out policy proposals during a presidential campaign because once she's in office

[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_00]: She can and will do whatever she wants and

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever she has enough congressional support to pass, right and I am astonished at

[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_00]: The stories I hear I literally heard one right before the show began personal anecdotes from individuals who

[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Have conversations with friends and family about

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_00]: You know who they're gonna support and

[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I've heard I heard one last night. So over the course of the last I don't know 14 hours. I

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Which is that?

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter what Kamala Harris stands for it doesn't matter what she's going to do or not do or what she says

[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_00]: She wants to do none of that matters the only thing that matters is

[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_00]: She's not Donald Trump and she laughs

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_00]: She has joy and

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_00]: She's a cheerleader for America or something like that. It's all just the feels the vibes. She is so brat everybody

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what the kids are saying now. It's that's different as I understand it than no cap. Okay

[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Jim Garrity quotes a Washington Post column by a fella named Jason Willick and

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_00]: What Jason Willick argues is that?

[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, new presidents first termers

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Can break promises that they made on the campaign trail

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_00]: But the point of getting them to make those promises is to fence them in

[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Once they are in office and why do you do that?

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_00]: If you're the media, why are you doing that? Well first off people have a right to know what the candidates believe in

[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_00]: What they are promising what they refuse to do right in order to have an educated

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_00]: citizenry informed enough to

[00:06:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Help pick leaders of their system

[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Right, we need to know what they would like to do what they stand for

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_00]: That's part of it. But the other part of it is to create a penalty if

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_00]: You deviate from those stated positions, right?

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Like you said you are gonna do X and then you didn't do X or you did the opposite of X

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't mean Twitter there. See I just

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Just a random policy right

[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Chocolate milk and all the water fountains

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I promise to make you know all the water fountains dispense chocolate milk

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And then you come along and you put strawberry milk and nobody likes that

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Then people would say wait you promised chocolate milk not strawberry milk

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_00]: and

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_00]: That could get politically

[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Disadvantages, right

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Willick at the Washington Post says quote the mainstream media has significant power to shape the behavior of democratic presidential candidates

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_00]: As we saw

[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Right with the frenzy that expelled Joe Biden from the race

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Right, that was a mainstream media led operation

[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. It was obviously put in motion by Democrat Party Pubos

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Which is their official title, but it would not have worked without mainstream media

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Advancing the narrative here pushing the story creating

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_00]: The the pressure

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_00]: If liberal outlets could embarrass Joe Biden into stepping aside they could also embarrass harris

[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Into engaging in a modicum of policy discussion

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_00]: But

[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_00]: He says it's important to be clear-eyed about the reason such discussion is urgent and necessary which is

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_00]: To box harris in

[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Extracting commitments not only of what she would do but of what she would not

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Of course harris is not interested in having her mandate limited in this way

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_00]: But with the political guardrails eroding that's precisely the purpose of a free press

[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what you're supposed to be doing

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I hope dana bash

[00:08:50] [SPEAKER_00]: read this piece at the washington post

[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_00]: This is because she is going to be sitting down today for an interview

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_00]: To be recorded and then edited with camila harris and her emotional support governor

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_00]: at her side

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_00]: jim garity then

[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_00]: brings up a story an anecdote from

[00:09:14] [SPEAKER_00]: 2009

[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Which was the obama administration right barack obama had just won

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And he was as his campaign made very clear during the race that he was a blank slate candidate

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_00]: People projected upon him or wrote upon him and his candidacy the things that they wanted their leader to be

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And as long as he didn't

[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_00]: You know ruffle their feathers or say stuff that would get them worried they were happy to go along with that

[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_00]: But even barack obama laid out some

[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_00]: policies

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_00]: He did interviews barack obama say what you want about the guy, but you know he walked around neighborhoods ran into joe the plumber

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Right and that clip went viral

[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_00]: About taking people's stuff and spreading it spreading the wealth around right

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Even obama would do that, but harris isn't doing that

[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Does she have to

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[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Some breaking news the north carolina state board of elections

[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Has actually here we go

[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Ruled against rfk

[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_00]: They're gonna leave him on the ballot. He tried to get his name taken off the ballot in north carolina

[00:10:51] [SPEAKER_00]: So so as to not play spoiler

[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, the uh board voted three to two

[00:10:57] [SPEAKER_00]: All democrats voting to keep him on and republicans voting to remove him as he requested

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_00]: The party the we the people party presidential candidate

[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_00]: um

[00:11:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Will remain on the ballot drawing votes ostensibly from donald trump

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh because that was the that was the play here is to get joe off the ballot replace him with literally anybody

[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_00]: and

[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_00]: um

[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And then the double haters the people who hate trump and biden

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Now have somebody to vote for in one of the two major parties and as long as biden and trump were the candidates rfk jr

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Was going to stay in the race stay on the ballots

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_00]: But when biden got uh, you know overthrown with the palace coup

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Now there is somebody else for the double haters to go to so rfk jr saw his polling drop people went back to

[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_00]: uh the democrat party

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_00]: because that old joe is gone and uh, so rfk said well i'm gonna drop out and

[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Get off the ballots in these swing states and the problem is that a lot of the counties have already started printing their ballots

[00:12:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And there was a there were all sort of state laws that require the ballots to arrive and be sent out and be printed by certain dates and

[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, so that was enough for the state board of elections to say no

[00:12:21] [SPEAKER_00]: He gets to stay and look it might end up benefiting joe biden in this vital swing state

[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_00]: But we're doing it because of the rules. You see they're all about following the rules

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Which is why you'll recall they rewrote a whole bunch of rules

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_00]: in 2020

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_00]: To try to help joe biden in that election. Oh, i'm sorry in order to

[00:12:45] [SPEAKER_00]: To be safe

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_00]: from covet

[00:12:48] right

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_00]: So rfk jr stays on the ballot

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_00]: So uh, i'm asking this question that jim garity raised and i think you probably already know what my view is on this

[00:12:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I've talked about it enough over the last year

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_00]: really over the last

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_00]: few weeks

[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_00]: With kamala harris now

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_00]: The nominee for the democrat party after said two

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_00]: um that she is running

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_00]: this blank slate candidacy

[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_00]: and she doesn't have to

[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_00]: do any interviews she doesn't have to

[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Take any questions from regular voters

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I think there i saw one story last week where she actually went to some

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_00]: It went to a restaurant or something and they had this photo op where she was walking through

[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_00]: The restaurant or wherever it was and uh what you didn't see was that they apparently kicked everybody out of the restaurant first

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And brought in literally brought in people put them in the seats

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And that was who she walked amongst

[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_00]: amongst

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, that's who she hung out with

[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_00]: so

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think she has to do any of this. I would prefer she did. I think she should

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I think she is ethically compelled to answer questions. Tell us what she believes right?

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Promote policies explain her positions. I think she should

[00:14:10] [SPEAKER_00]: But she doesn't have to

[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And we are going to now test this idea of whether somebody can run a candidacy for president

[00:14:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Without telling you anything about themselves that you don't already know

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Right and by the way

[00:14:24] [SPEAKER_00]: If she is successful at this and this works for her

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't expect anybody to ever

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Have to explain their positions on anything. Why bother right?

[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Why bother if you can win all that's going to take is name id

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_00]: That's it. You just need to get your name in front of enough people

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_00]: So as to create enough support and momentum for you to get enough votes

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_00]: through a primary and then into a

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_00]: A general election

[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Which you'll recall

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_00]: She benefited from not having to go through a primary which is where you would find out

[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_00]: What they think about certain issues

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_00]: But that doesn't help the democrats and so they're not going to do it

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_00]: It's good to be a democrat must be nice

[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_00]: All right

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[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Conducting the entire program today without my own

[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Emotional support governor

[00:15:50] [SPEAKER_00]: um

[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Jim garrity at national review

[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_00]: He says

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I want to jump into the way back machine to 2009 and recall one of uh conversation that he had

[00:16:02] [SPEAKER_00]: similar to you know

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Many conversations that occur in guest green rooms

[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Of cable news networks. The green room is where you kind of hang out

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And wait with other guests before you get brought on to set

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_00]: At least uh, he says this is the to the best of my memory

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_00]: We were a few months into the new barack obama administration and most of the media was euphoric

[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Thai magazine had portrayed obama on its cover as f dr with a new new deal

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Newsweek's cover had declared quote. We're all socialists now

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Which was leading up to newsweek's eventual portrayal of obama as the hindu deity lord shiva

[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_00]: God of all things

[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_00]: But when obama unveiled his first budget it included some proposals that he had never mentioned out on the campaign trail

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Him being the blank slate candidate null

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_00]: One of the provisions in that budget

[00:17:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Was to reduce the tax break that rich people get forgiving to charity

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Needless to say

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_00]: The nonprofit community

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Which had largely fallen in love with obama during the preceding two years was shocked and horrified

[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_00]: That its favorite new president was attempting to cut it off at the knees

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_00]: You just think about i don't know if you were paying attention back in 2009 when obama made his budget proposal

[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I remember this provision. I remember the the debate about it

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And garrity's recollection as i recall is correct

[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_00]: that that the provision was to

[00:17:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Not allow the rich people to deduct their charitable donations and

[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_00]: What would inevitably arise in that scenario is that rich people would then not give as much to charities because it's not tax deductible

[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_00]: right

[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_00]: They don't get to write off a whole chunk of change on their tax returns

[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_00]: So they'll just keep the money and the nonprofit organizations were like whoa

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_00]: We love you barak. Why are you doing this to us? Okay

[00:18:10] [SPEAKER_00]: In that green room back in 2009

[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_00]: He said i recall two prominent news anchors expressing disbelief and dismay at the proposal

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_00]: one

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Said these are news anchors now one said something like

[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Where the heck was this when he was running for president? It's a terrible idea

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_00]: But either way he's got to learn that you can't just blindside people with something like this

[00:18:37] [SPEAKER_00]: The other news anchor

[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Agreed and said something like this was a sign that obama had not spent enough time in washington to realize

[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_00]: That you couldn't bait and switch people like this

[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_00]: You'll recall bill clinton took office

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_00]: and he then announced that

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, no one would get the middle class tax cut that he had spent the previous year

[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_00]: promising to deliver

[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_00]: See that's why you ask these politicians

[00:19:07] [SPEAKER_00]: What they will do what they

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Support and what they oppose

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So this way when they do the opposite of it you can say

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_00]: You said the opposite

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_00]: But if you never say

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Anything on the front end?

[00:19:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Well now they can't nail you

[00:19:28] [SPEAKER_00]: For flip-flopping right

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_00]: So is it better to

[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Take the incoming fire

[00:19:36] [SPEAKER_00]: for not doing interviews

[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Right for not taking questions from voters

[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Right, is it you know not agreeing to debates? Is it better to take

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_00]: That kind of attack than it is to be accused of flip-flopping

[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Well voters tend to look at flip-flopping as a more egregious sin apparently

[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_00]: If you say you are for something and then you turn around and do the opposite

[00:20:02] [SPEAKER_00]: People don't like that. They don't like it more

[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Than you not telling them in the first place

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Jim garrity says that there is a school of thought

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_00]: which argues that

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Without policy proposals a candidate wins election without any kind of a mandate, right?

[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_00]: If you run for office and you haven't told anybody anybody what you support what you want to do or anything like that

[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And you win then you don't have a mandate you can't

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Expend political capital on things because you have no mandate and all of the people

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_00]: That you need to bring along for their votes to get the stuff you want done

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_00]: They're not willing to go along with you because there's no mandate

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_00]: But what if the opposite is true?

[00:20:48] [SPEAKER_00]: What if you run on uh, uh, I don't know let's just make up some stuff here like uh, we're not going back

[00:20:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Like that kind of a slogan we're not going back

[00:20:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Amorphous it doesn't really tell you like how far back you're going who's gonna bring you back and back to what right?

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you run on a whole bunch of uh, coconut tree memes and joy

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And touchy feely vibes. Maybe you just run on stuff like that. It doesn't really mean anything

[00:21:17] [SPEAKER_00]: But people are like, oh my gosh, this is so amazing

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Then aren't you free to attempt to enact any policy you want if you win

[00:21:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Right because you never said you wouldn't do that

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_00]: After all it's not like harris specifically promised not to enact a certain policy

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_00]: He says in the past few weeks we have learned through statements issued by staffers

[00:21:41] [SPEAKER_00]: That she apparently no longer supports an electric vehicle mandate a fracking ban a federal jobs guarantee

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Starting from scratch with a replacement for immigration and customs enforcement, right like just

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Which is funny to me that

[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_00]: As an aside here like the republicans get trashed because they

[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Have like since ronald reagan talked about eliminating the u.s. Department of Education and that is

[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Beyond the pale. Oh my gosh, we can't educate a single child without the

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_00]: federal department of

[00:22:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Education which by the way ever since it was created education scores have gone down but um, we can't blow that up

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_00]: We can't get rid of that no no no, but harris says let's get rid of immigration customs enforcement

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, oh wow that's that's interesting. Yes. Let's let's reimagine that like we're reimagining the police departments, right?

[00:22:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Or how about her mandatory buyback of assault weapons?

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Which by the way is not a buyback because the government didn't sell it to you in the first place

[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, not a buyback that is a confiscation

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Or the elimination of private health insurance medicare for all right

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_00]: The people voting for her clearly don't want or need policy details

[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_00]: They don't they trust her judgment to figure it all out later after she's been elected

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_00]: So if she wins

[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_00]: She'll have an argument that she has a mandate to do

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever she wants right?

[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Because nobody has demanded any specifics from her and if she wins

[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Why should any presidential candidate spell out specific policy proposals ever again?

[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Why bother yeah pack it up pack it in um

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Got a message here from john who says uh, so the state board of elections

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_00]: A couple weeks ago voted to keep kennedy off the ballot because you know democracy

[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_00]: But it's now refusing to take him off the ballot because of you know democracy

[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Correct. Yes

[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_00]: See when you

[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_00]: When you

[00:23:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Swap out the word democracy for democratic party all of the the slogan airing makes a lot more sense

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_00]: When democrats say democracy they mean the democrat party

[00:23:59] [SPEAKER_00]: So, uh, let me get to a couple messages here

[00:24:01] [SPEAKER_00]: This from gary. He says I think we are seeing the slow death of the traditional media

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: They are making themselves more irrelevant by the day polling is showing the only people that believe the mainstream media now are democrats

[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a bubble

[00:24:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Trump is out doing podcast interviews and kamala is clowning them as they play along with her

[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Blind and deaf routine where she can't answer any questions

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_00]: um

[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And holly asks if joe biden is going to remain on the ballot in north carolina if rfk jr. Does as well

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_00]: No, um because the democrats swapped him out before the deadlines

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And melissa says hope and change that was obama's slogan

[00:24:47] [SPEAKER_00]: That was the biggest scam perpetrated on the american voters thus far in the 21st century

[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_00]: um

[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Now vice president harris

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_00]: veep

[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_00]: harris

[00:24:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Will end a nearly 40 day interview drought tonight?

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Well today actually, uh, it's gonna air tonight on cnn, but it's being pre-recorded

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Which will give cnn opportunity to uh

[00:25:13] [SPEAKER_00]: You know clean it up if they need to

[00:25:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Harris will be flanked by her running mate

[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Emotional support governor tim walls who is a liar for an interview. Uh, it's gonna air at 9 p.m. And

[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh to answer the question that I received here from j. Uh, yes, I will be watching it tonight. So you don't have to

[00:25:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Jay says i'm glad you will be there to watch for me. I can't stand the cackling

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_00]: What is the over-under on the cackling?

[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_00]: What do you think?

[00:25:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I think they've probably told her not to laugh as much. I think her handlers her advisors have told her

[00:25:48] [SPEAKER_00]: You know keep the cackling to a minimum. I'm thinking

[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_00]: At best we see like one

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And probably not even a full-blown cackling spasm

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, probably just like uh like a chuckle, you know, um

[00:26:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna say okay. Here's uh, this is from jeff post interview

[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Interview so after the interview i'm sure will be informed by the media that kamala checked all the boxes

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_00]: No longer any doubt about who she is and where she stands tim was only there for the show of unity

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_00]: It's all kamala

[00:26:26] [SPEAKER_00]: In a 60 minute rehearsed softball interview kamala is transformed into the super candidate

[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Chauncey gardener couldn't do it any better

[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh start churning up the mail-in ballots

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_00]: democrat strategist stefan hankin

[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Quoted in the washington examiner

[00:26:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Said this is going to be much ado about nothing unless you are dying to get your name id up

[00:26:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And get people to understand who you are. This is not the best use of your time as a

[00:26:58] [SPEAKER_00]: candidate in other words sitting for a mainstream media

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_00]: News interview. This is not the best use of your time

[00:27:06] [SPEAKER_00]: As a candidate he says

[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Unless you're trying to increase your name recognition

[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Or to get people to understand who you are

[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_00]: That's very telling don't you think?

[00:27:17] [SPEAKER_00]: First off like my immediate question was oh wait so rallies in front of

[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Your already supporters

[00:27:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Like that's a better use of your time

[00:27:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Is to just basically advertise to the people that have already bought your product

[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay more rallies I guess that's the idea here. Um

[00:27:38] [SPEAKER_00]: But the only reason to do this interview

[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Is to increase your name id and to get people to understand who you are

[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_00]: So to this democrat strategist

[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_00]: stefan hankin

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Kamala harris does not need to tell people

[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Who she is

[00:27:56] [SPEAKER_00]: She does not need people to understand who she already is

[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And she doesn't need the name recognition

[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Now I could see that she's the vice president for crying out loud

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_00]: But there's not an intention. There's not a desire to get people to understand who you are

[00:28:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Why is that ah blank slate candidate

[00:28:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Harris's most recent news interviews came on june 27th

[00:28:23] [SPEAKER_00]: The night of the debate performance that would ultimately knock president joe biden out of the race in the coup

[00:28:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Harris appeared on cnn and abc at that time

[00:28:34] [SPEAKER_00]: To defend joe biden's performance and insist he was ready for another four years

[00:28:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And if i'm the interviewer that is the first question i ask

[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_00]: That is the obvious question to ask when did you know that joe biden was in cognitive decline?

[00:28:54] [SPEAKER_00]: When did you know it not was he

[00:28:58] [SPEAKER_00]: when

[00:28:59] [SPEAKER_00]: That's my first question. But you know, what do I know

[00:29:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, actually I do I do know a little bit about this like I used to be a reporter

[00:29:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I've been in the media for a long time now like 20 something years. So yeah

[00:29:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I kind of feel like I have a little bit of expertise to say this is the first question you should ask

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