Harris-Walz campaign slogan: Same... but different! (08-15-2024--Hour1)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, so I have an idea that I'm going to give to the Harris-Walz campaign. Because I know they're running into a bit of an issue trying to get some distance between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. But not any distance while at the same time distance. Right. So they're in a jam.

[00:00:57] [SPEAKER_00]: They're in a jam because they want to be associated with Joe Biden. And I mean, after all, he's a guy that apparently is going to get his face put up on Mount Rushmore.

[00:01:06] [SPEAKER_00]: So you want that, you know, reflected glory. You want to be attached to that and all of the successes that he has obviously delivered for the American people.

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, you don't want to be connected to him for all of the economic problems and the border crisis.

[00:01:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And the, you know, crime rates and stuff. So it's a tough, it's a tough spot.

[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_00]: So I have an idea for the campaign slogan.

[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Harris-Walz, same but different.

[00:01:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm?

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Same but different.

[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it captures the essence of what we are being asked to abide here, right?

[00:01:50] [SPEAKER_00]: That they are the same, but also different at the same time.

[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_00]: See? Very, very clear.

[00:01:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Ed Morrissey at HotAir.com had a piece yesterday titled,

[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_00]: New York Times reports Kamala to deliver economic plan on Friday.

[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Sort of.

[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a sort of, kind of a plan.

[00:02:14] [SPEAKER_00]: She's going to be in North Carolina.

[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Donald Trump was in Asheville yesterday.

[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I was also glad to hear that there were no attacks on the elderly attendees as there was last time.

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_00]: So, so that was good.

[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_00]: They've apparently figured out how to get people in and out of the,

[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_00]: the civic center in downtown Asheville without just having them run gauntlets through mobs of angry leftists.

[00:02:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Which is basically the entire demographic of Asheville proper.

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_00]: But Kamala Harris is going to be in Raleigh, Raleigh, Wisconsin, as I understand it.

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, well, I mean, that's what the article.

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Where was it?

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Politico?

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_00]: No, it wasn't Politico.

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't The Observer.

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Was it The Daily Caller?

[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_00]: It was The Daily Caller that listed that she had a rally, or she's got a rally in Raleigh, Wisconsin on Friday.

[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I was not aware.

[00:03:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought she was coming here.

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty sure she's coming here.

[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not even aware of another place called Raleigh.

[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_00]: But there might be.

[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Ed Morrissey at HotAir.com.

[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_00]: He's calling this the silence of the cams.

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Which, I guess that's...

[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I think there's only one cam, though, right?

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Silence of...

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_00]: The silence of the cam.

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And will this come to an end?

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_00]: And there's something...

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_00]: There's something...

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And I couldn't really figure it out.

[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_00]: But as I'm reading the stories, these horse race stories, that's what I call them.

[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not the only one.

[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm reading the political coverage of elections.

[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_00]: It tends to be this kind of horse race.

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, oh, the campaign in disarray.

[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, the campaign is doing well.

[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, now they're pulling ahead.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_00]: And they've got the momentum.

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, it's like just...

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like the guy calling the horse race.

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and now...

[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, Pete's pride comes to the outside.

[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And I can't say the other part.

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Because that's protected.

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, you can't say...

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_00]: You gotta say the big game.

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_00]: You can't say Olympics.

[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_00]: You gotta say the games.

[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_00]: You can't say Super Bowl.

[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_00]: You gotta say the big game.

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't think you're allowed to say the part where the horses come around.

[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_00]: That final part of the track.

[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you also can't do the let's get ready to fight thing before the boxing matches.

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Can't say that either.

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_00]: That's protected.

[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_00]: So, well, you can't use it in promotional material.

[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_00]: At any rate, a lot of the coverage is about like this horse race.

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_00]: But in the presidential race.

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's kind of odd to me, given that this is a very odd presidential race.

[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_00]: The thing...

[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_00]: The thing is only...

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, we only now have the candidate after the Democrats just kicked off the president off of their ballot after the primary.

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, they took all these votes in the primaries.

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And then they just...

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_00]: They pushed the guy out of the way.

[00:05:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And they put Kamala Harris in place.

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And now she's not doing any media.

[00:05:34] [SPEAKER_00]: She's not doing any interviews or press conferences.

[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, I don't think she will.

[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think she should if I'm her advisors.

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm saying don't do anything.

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Why should you?

[00:05:46] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to.

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_00]: She doesn't need to do a press conference.

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_00]: She doesn't need to do an interview.

[00:05:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, she did do one interview.

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_00]: It was with...

[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_00]: It was with Tim Walls.

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_00]: They put out a video of the two of them sitting in a dimly lit room together asking each other questions.

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_00]: So I guess they did an interview.

[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_00]: They just didn't do it with a media person.

[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_00]: So why bother?

[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Seriously.

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to list any accomplishments.

[00:06:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, same but different.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_00]: So if as a blank slate candidate that Kamala Harris is obviously running as,

[00:06:21] [SPEAKER_00]: like, I have no record, everybody.

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll be whatever you want me to be.

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a blank slate.

[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And so people can then just say, like we saw with the Talking Points USA,

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_00]: man on the...

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, person on the street interviews at a Harris rally

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_00]: where the people were asked what policies they liked the most.

[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And nobody had any answers.

[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the ones that made the final cut.

[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe some others did and they didn't include those.

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_00]: But she doesn't have to have policies.

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_00]: She doesn't have to articulate any positions.

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_00]: But when she does, she's either stealing a line from Donald Trump,

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_00]: like the no tax on tips, right?

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Stealing that policy from him.

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Or going full commie.

[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_00]: So probably it's not a good idea for her to...

[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, yeah, it's not a good idea for her to do interviews

[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_00]: because then she says stuff like this.

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Her campaign, they put out a story.

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I've got it here.

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_00]: It's in The Hill.

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_00]: She wants a federal ban on price gouging.

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Price gouging.

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_00]: She wants to set prices.

[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what this is.

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Price controls.

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_00]: On food.

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_00]: What could go wrong?

[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_00]: When has any kind of government price control program ever gone wrong?

[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's probably best that she doesn't define herself with policies.

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Just keep saying she's the same but different.

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And never answer any questions.

[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Harris has spent the past three years not just endorsing Joe Biden's economic initiatives,

[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Bidenomics, but defending them.

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay?

[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Not just endorsing it like I'm with Joe, but defending them.

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Doing interviews.

[00:08:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Saying silly things.

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Both the New York Times and Axios report that's precisely where Harris will start to redefine herself.

[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_00]: In Raleigh tomorrow.

[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Here's what the New York Times said.

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Quote, Vice President Kamala Harris's sudden ascent to the top of the Democratic ticket has generated a host of questions about her economic agenda,

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_00]: including how much she will stick to the details of President Biden's positions or tweak them or chart entirely new ones.

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_00]: When she begins to roll out her policy vision this week,

[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Ms. Harris is likely to answer only some of those questions.

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_00]: During an economy-focused speech on Friday in Raleigh, North Carolina.

[00:09:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so it is here in North Carolina.

[00:09:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[00:09:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Ms. Harris will outline a sort of reboot.

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_00]: A sort of a reboot.

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Sort of a reboot.

[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Sort of.

[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_00]: What?

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't even know what that means.

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_00]: A sort of a reboot.

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_00]: A reboot is, I think, it's like an all-or-nothing kind of a deal.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_00]: You're either rebooting the computer or you're not, right?

[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_00]: There's no half a boot here.

[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_00]: This is from New York Times again.

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_00]: She will lay out an approach relatively light on details.

[00:09:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, of course.

[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_00]: It will shift emphasis from Mr. Biden's focus on job creation and made-in-America manufacturing

[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_00]: and focus more towards efforts to rein in the cost of living.

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_00]: But it will rarely break from Mr. Biden on substance.

[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_00]: See?

[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Same, but different.

[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Eh?

[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_00]: You can have that, Biden-Walls.

[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_00]: You can have it.

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, sorry.

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Harris-Walls.

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_00]: That was a slip.

[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I do have audio from the Trump speech yesterday in Asheville.

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_00]: We will get to that.

[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I just want to say there is a reason why, perfectly reasonable explanation,

[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_00]: as to why it looks like Kamala Harris is running this sort of basement campaign.

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_00]: It's because she is.

[00:10:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay?

[00:10:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, that's the reason.

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay?

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_00]: It is the way it looks because it is that.

[00:10:38] [SPEAKER_00]: All right?

[00:10:39] [SPEAKER_00]: They don't feel the need to actually run a full campaign.

[00:10:42] [SPEAKER_00]: That's kind of the point of the compressed timeline here.

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if the fix was in from before the debate, and this was all part of the plan.

[00:10:51] [SPEAKER_00]: For some reason, the Democrats don't include me on that information.

[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_00]: But it wouldn't look any different.

[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_00]: It would look exactly the same as what we're seeing right now.

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And, like, the lack of interest from the media is mind-blowing.

[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's go over to the phone lines.

[00:11:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk with Ralph.

[00:11:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Hello, Ralph.

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_00]: How are you?

[00:11:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Good, Pete.

[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, you know, I agree with you.

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think she will do a press conference basically until after early voting is over

[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_03]: and just, you know, keep her in the basement.

[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, it's kind of concerning.

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_03]: I just left a government building down in Mecklenburg, and there was a black lady who was going to vote for Trump.

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_03]: And I passed her a note because she's a minority down there, you know, amongst her workers and stuff.

[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_03]: But she says she's kind of up in the air now.

[00:11:47] [SPEAKER_03]: So, I mean, I think the Republican Party, they need to start running these ads now.

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_03]: And just like your newscast where Target and Denny's is leaving, they need to have a whole list of companies that have fled California,

[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_03]: I'd say, you know, in the last three and a half, four years or that stuff.

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_03]: And we've got to do something now.

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_03]: We can't wait, you know?

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_00]: The media strategy being used by the Trump campaign is, to me, concerning.

[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Because I feel like I'm not seeing a lot, and I'm not seeing a lot of pushback.

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not seeing efforts to define her.

[00:12:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm seeing a lot of stuff from the Harris-Walls campaign.

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_00]: That's concerning to me.

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, and two, I've seen a video of her and Walls together.

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_03]: So it had to be recently in front of a Communist Party.

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, out in, I guess, Las Vegas.

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know exactly.

[00:12:45] [SPEAKER_03]: But, I mean, this was not a cheat fake or fake or whatever.

[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_03]: But, you know, they were speaking to socialists out there in front of that sign.

[00:12:55] [SPEAKER_03]: And he took a selfie in front of the sign that said, you know, Socialist Communist Party.

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_03]: It's mind-boggling, mind-boggling.

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate the call, Ralph.

[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, sir.

[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Email from Jason to Pete at thepetecalendarshow.com.

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And he suggests that the last four Democrat presidential campaigns have had versions of this same sort of basement campaign.

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Started with Obama and his limited exposure to the media.

[00:13:27] [SPEAKER_00]: He strategically only did interviews with Internet influencers and local radio shows in communities they were targeting.

[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Hillary was an idiot and assumed she could win, so she limited her campaign efforts as well.

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that would explain why she never went to Wisconsin.

[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Joe was literally in a basement.

[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_00]: That is true.

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_00]: This will only work for her if the media plays along.

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And as I was talking about yesterday, we ran clips from Eli Lake, the former national security reporter for, like, the Daily Beast and various other publications.

[00:14:17] [SPEAKER_00]: He's not a right-wing guy, okay?

[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_00]: But he pointed out here when it comes to the media world, particularly at the national level in D.C., New York, that there is a blending of catastrophization, right?

[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Where, oh, my gosh, it's the end of democracy.

[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_00]: And layer into that stigmatization among your peers.

[00:14:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And you don't want to be the reporter that jams up Donald Trump's opponent.

[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Because Donald Trump is such an existential threat that anything goes.

[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_00]: You can do whatever you need to do to keep him out of the White House.

[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And so they're not going to press too hard, I don't believe, on Kamala Harris.

[00:15:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I just saw her campaign just put out a fake advisory.

[00:15:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So these are the press releases that they push out to media that says, hey, we're going to be doing a press conference.

[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Except it's not for a press conference.

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_00]: It's mocking Trump's press conference.

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, that is a humiliation to journalists.

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_00]: But, all right, journalismers.

[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Because they're not really journalists.

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_00]: That's, they're just humiliating you.

[00:15:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And the only way that that continues is if the media plays along with it.

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_00]: So when the New York Times says that she's going to be doing this speech in Raleigh.

[00:15:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's going to be sort of a reboot.

[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's going to be relatively light on details.

[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Ed Morrissey at HotAir.com says, perhaps because Harris doesn't know what she wants to do yet.

[00:16:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe that's why there are no details.

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And maybe because all the speech will do is reflect what Harris thinks voters want to hear.

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And then wait to see how they react.

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, run it up the flagpole, see who salutes.

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Read the polls.

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Axios describes a candidacy.

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I went over this story yesterday.

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_00]: They describe a candidacy with no ideological or philosophical anchor.

[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Harris plans to just stick to popular cliches that might get her elected in a short cycle.

[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Which again, it's like, yes, it's a short cycle.

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Why is it a short cycle?

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's right.

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_00]: There was a coup that tossed out the incumbent president who had already gotten enough of the votes in the primary.

[00:16:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And then his own party removed him from the ballot.

[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they got him to go along with it, obviously.

[00:16:54] [SPEAKER_00]: But Axios reported that a big part of the Harris plan is to unapologetically change some of her more liberal positions and claim her White House experience helped her change her mind.

[00:17:05] [SPEAKER_00]: What does she really believe?

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm.

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever she says in the small three-month window of her snap campaign will be what sticks.

[00:17:14] [SPEAKER_00]: That's her bet.

[00:17:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Harris knows most people don't know anything about her.

[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_00]: So she believes she can define herself even if it includes flip-flops and co-ops.

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It's not always clear what core unbendable beliefs animate her.

[00:17:30] [SPEAKER_00]: No doubt she was a liberal in the Senate and during her failed 2019 presidential campaign.

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_00]: But her new persona and policy shifts suggest a repositioning to the center of the modern Democratic Party.

[00:17:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, like, okay.

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_00]: There is no freaking center of the Democrat Party anymore.

[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay?

[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_00]: There isn't a center.

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_00]: It's all on the left now.

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_00]: There's no centrists.

[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Ed Morrissey says, so she's a Biden Democrat except when she's not.

[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_00]: And you'll know when she's not a Biden Democrat because she'll say that except when she says she is.

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_00]: See?

[00:18:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Any attempt to pin her down on a political identity will be illegitimate unless she says it is.

[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_00]: He notes it's starting to sound like a gender identity exercise.

[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And it is.

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Could it work?

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I suppose so.

[00:18:24] [SPEAKER_00]: But only if she never takes a question about her platform and never gets into a debate with Trump.

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And that could very well happen.

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_00]: That could very well happen.

[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_00]: We need to prepare ourselves for the idea here that she's never going to do any of this stuff.

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Because why would she?

[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_00]: The only way she would do it is if she had to.

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_00]: If it's working for her and she keeps surging in the polls and everybody's so filled with the joy that she never has to change course, why would she?

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_00]: It's working.

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Peter Doocy from Fox News had an exchange with the White House Press Secretary, Corinne Jean-Pierre.

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not sure if KJP got the memo or not.

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_00]: But this is why I say that their slogan, the Harris-Walls campaign, should be the same but different.

[00:19:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Because KJP says that this is the Biden-Harris administration.

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And they're connected.

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_00]: As we all know, they have been.

[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_00]: But now we're to believe, we're being told that she doesn't believe all of these things that she has said before.

[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Which things?

[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't know.

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Some things she has mentioned.

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Some other things she hasn't.

[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And so it's all just kind of up in the air.

[00:19:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, she doesn't have to tell you because it's a compressed election cycle.

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Very convenient for her.

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Very convenient for her.

[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Let me play this audio clip from the White House press briefing.

[00:20:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Peter Doocy versus Corringe Jean-Pierre.

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_02]: When did you guys learn that Vice President Harris wants to distance herself from Bidenomics?

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Why do you think that?

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, wait.

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_00]: When did you learn?

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought this was a good question.

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_00]: When did you learn that she wanted to distance herself?

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Corringe says, why do you think that?

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And now Doocy is going to point to that Axios article that I went over in depth yesterday and I just mentioned again earlier in the hour.

[00:20:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Axios is now reporting that she is hoping to distance herself from President Biden's unpopularity on the economy.

[00:21:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Can you blame her?

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Do you know this is the Biden-Harris administration?

[00:21:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Are you aware that this is the Biden-Harris administration?

[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_01]: And she is indeed the vice president.

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_02]: But if the president's policies on the economy were working or if they were popular, wouldn't he still be the candidate?

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_01]: You literally just had the chair of the CEA here who laid out a pretty robust point by point about the economy and what has happened under the Biden-Harris administration.

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_01]: And I thought it was pretty convincing.

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, right now she's looking down, trying frantically to find the talking points in her big binder to read from.

[00:21:41] [SPEAKER_01]: The vice president wants to do or as she's talking about her policy that's campaign related, you would have to speak to her.

[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_01]: One thing that I know for sure is that this president, this vice president are fighting very hard to make sure that the middle class is stronger.

[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_01]: They wanted to make sure that we're working to cut taxes for the middle class, for working people, slashing costs for working families, as you have seen them do over and over again.

[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_01]: This is something that we believe in.

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_01]: You heard you heard Jared talk about announcements this week about lowering costs.

[00:22:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. So, again, to Ducey's point, if these policies are working, he would be the candidate.

[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. If this if these ideas were so great, why is she trying to distance herself?

[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And what Trump here is obviously saying is that she's not.

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. So Axios, I guess, was wrong.

[00:22:34] [SPEAKER_01]: And that is something that they believe in.

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And the contrast could not be more stark between, if anything, the contrast is between what Republicans want to do.

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Magonomics. You're talking about Bidenomics.

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Magonomics supercharge inflation. That's what they want to do.

[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Race taxes.

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[00:22:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Magonomics wants to supercharge inflation.

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_00]: That's weird because I just watched the former president's speech.

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, several of them over the last couple of weeks.

[00:23:02] [SPEAKER_00]: And they're always talking about he's always talking about reigning in inflation, which, by the way, just speaking from personal experience, because I ran the numbers.

[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_00]: It ate up about 14 percent of my pay.

[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I make 14 percent less now because I've lost purchasing power since the beginning of the Obama or sorry.

[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, there's another slip since the beginning of the Biden Harris presidency.

[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_00]: So KJP is saying that.

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_00]: MAGA wants inflation.

[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Kamala Harris signed the Inflation Reduction Act, which was actually the Inflation Production Act.

[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Spending more and more money that we don't have.

[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_00]: That's how you get inflation.

[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_01]: ...of dollars, send tax cuts through the roof, protect corporate price gouging, cut Social Security, cost millions their health care, and heap tax giveaways on billionaires and big corporations.

[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_01]: That's the division there.

[00:23:59] [SPEAKER_01]: That's where there's really night and day, night and day.

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_02]: But would you admit at least that if Bidenomics was more popular, President Biden would still be...

[00:24:08] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to get into polling.

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_01]: What I will tell you is Bidenomics has been something that both the president and the vice president has worked on.

[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_01]: You guys have called it Bidenomics.

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_01]: We talk about how the president is trying to put forward an economic policy, building the economy from the bottom up, middle out,

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_01]: that does not leave behind the middle class and make sure it has equity at the center of it.

[00:24:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Maganomics, which is very different, which is something that neither of them believe in, wants to do the opposite.

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_02]: That's why she took Trump's no tax on tips.

[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_01]: That's the difference.

[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Something that we've noticed over the last few days.

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you're noticing a lot over the last few days?

[00:24:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's a reporter.

[00:24:46] [SPEAKER_02]: The vice president's team is not holding any press briefings.

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_02]: You are left to answer everything for her, even though you are not the vice president's press secretary.

[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Is that getting old?

[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_01]: No.

[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_01]: No.

[00:24:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you something.

[00:25:01] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm the White House press secretary, as you all know, obviously, for the president, for this administration, for the Biden-Harris administration.

[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_01]: It is an honor and a privilege.

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_01]: You hear me say this all the time.

[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Honor and privilege to stand before you to be able to do that job.

[00:25:14] [SPEAKER_01]: And I will do it as long as I can, right to the end of this term.

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_01]: And as it relates to the vice president, she certainly has been on the road.

[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_01]: She has taken questions from some of you and doing her gaggles.

[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_01]: You have seen her.

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_01]: That is something, as anything specific about interview, you certainly would have to reach out to her campaign.

[00:25:38] [SPEAKER_01]: But I am proud to be standing here at this podium behind this lecture on behalf of the Biden-Harris administration.

[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Repeatedly referring to it as the Biden-Harris administration.

[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Same, but different.

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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