More media for Kamala means more cringe (10-09-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] Let's start with a phone call. 704-570-1110. Ed, welcome to the program. Hello, Ed.

[00:00:36] Hello, Pete. Great show.

[00:00:38] Thanks, sir. What's going on?

[00:00:39] I was just wondering, the Army Corps of Engineers is trained to go into war zones where things are blown out of pieces, to put in bridges that tanks can go over, to put in roads that troop carriers can go, and I've not even heard that possibility even mentioned. Have you?

[00:00:56] Yes. The Army Corps of Engineers, actually, they've been there. They've been in Western North Carolina for at least four or five days.

[00:01:08] Oh, okay.

[00:01:10] Yeah, the last I saw, let me see, it was October 5th, so four days ago, they put out a press release that the Army Corps of Engineers temporary emergency power team completed first installations of generators across Western North Carolina.

[00:01:31] Four generators installed, with two of them being installed at the wastewater treatment facility in Hendersonville.

[00:01:41] And they continue power assessments throughout the region. Assessments are inspections of existing connection points.

[00:01:48] So apparently, they're focusing on the water and wastewater treatment facilities, which makes sense.

[00:01:56] Part of the issue, I think, is just the sheer size and scope of the disaster and so many of the water systems that were just ripped apart because they are obviously located on these rivers, right?

[00:02:09] Which went, you know, 20, 30 feet high with raging floodwaters.

[00:02:16] So I think that's, you know, when you're trying to put stuff back into place, that seems to be, at least this particular team, the temporary emergency power team, you know, that's what they put out on, what, four days ago.

[00:02:32] Well, that makes total sense.

[00:03:01] And you're constructing bridges.

[00:03:03] It's just so big of an area, and there are so many water crossings, you know?

[00:03:09] And so many of the roads were built right along rivers because that was the lowest-lying part of a valley, and that's where you could build a road.

[00:03:19] So you have to follow the rivers, and then when the rivers flood, they wash out all the roads, and now you've got nothing to even build a bridge across to, you know?

[00:03:28] Right, right.

[00:03:30] I just, I don't know, and I have to slow the federal government moves, and it's just sad.

[00:03:36] Yeah, yeah.

[00:03:37] Ed, I appreciate the call, man.

[00:03:38] All right, thank you.

[00:03:39] Thank you.

[00:03:40] Have a good day.

[00:03:40] You too.

[00:03:41] No, and I think, I mean, that's why the smaller helicopters and the private pilots, they've been so critical in this.

[00:03:56] And, again, like, I'm not aware of another kind of a natural disaster in my lifetime, at least since I've been covering news, where you've had the topographical challenges that this disaster has created.

[00:04:16] I mean, I was out in Asheville.

[00:04:18] In fact, my car still smells like a campfire.

[00:04:22] The interior.

[00:04:23] Like, when I, and I've had filters replaced and cleaned and all of that stuff over the years, but remember when there were the massive wildfires in, you know, Tennessee?

[00:04:32] It blew all into Asheville, and then there was also the one that was right outside of Asheville about a year or so before or after, I forget.

[00:04:40] They were pretty close in proximity.

[00:04:44] But those were much smaller disasters, you know?

[00:04:49] You know, they were bad.

[00:04:50] They were awful.

[00:04:51] People died.

[00:04:52] But it wasn't as large of a disaster zone as what we have seen here.

[00:04:58] And you've, you know, you could have had an area that was unreachable because of the fire, but it wasn't permanently so.

[00:05:09] After the fire burned through whatever it burned through, people could then still get through.

[00:05:14] And you can't do that here.

[00:05:16] And that's why the choppers have become so critical in this effort.

[00:05:21] And the federal government doesn't have those kinds of choppers, right?

[00:05:25] They don't have an army of these smaller little helicopters that are going to be able to land in a much smaller landing zone.

[00:05:36] You know, they've got bigger helicopters.

[00:05:39] And so it just, it required what we saw.

[00:05:42] And I'm glad that I live in a place where we saw people that did that, that donated their choppers, fuel, their time, their expertise, risked their lives, right?

[00:05:53] To go and do supply drops, but also pick people up and get them off of these mountains because otherwise they wouldn't be able to get off unless they're going to hike down.

[00:06:01] And some people can't hike down the mountain several miles with, you know, drops of a thousand feet.

[00:06:09] So, the topography has been a very, very big challenge.

[00:06:16] And again, I'm not aware of another natural disaster that has faced that kind of, where the responders have faced that kind of challenge.

[00:06:25] Now, I would submit that that is more of a reason to send more resources by way of actual people, you know, to help run the chainsaws, to help move the trees out of the way, to, you know, to help with the rebuilding and the cleaning up and that sort of stuff.

[00:06:48] But right now, you know, the private sector and the nonprofit sector have been doing a lot of that work.

[00:06:54] And again, I'm glad I live in a place where we have those kinds of resources and we have enough people with the heart to do that.

[00:07:01] And by the way, you know, please, if you want to go up and help, I heard a sheriff, I forget which county he was from, but he was doing an interview yesterday.

[00:07:13] And he was saying, you know, if you're going to come and volunteer to help, they welcome you.

[00:07:20] But please do it through an organization.

[00:07:23] Don't just show up and, you know, drive around, look for something to do.

[00:07:28] Like, that's kind of a waste of time and you're kind of getting in the way.

[00:07:33] So get plugged into some organization that is going up and he recommended Samaritan's Purse.

[00:07:41] You know, volunteer and go up where they're going to know how to deploy you as a volunteer.

[00:07:52] And then you're not going to, you know, be getting in the way and you're actually going to be able to do the most amount of good and to help the most that way.

[00:08:00] So that's a good piece of advice.

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[00:09:06] Alrighty.

[00:09:06] So this appears to be a, yeah.

[00:09:13] So this is like a Hurricane Milton preparedness video conference thing.

[00:09:20] And it was a live broadcast.

[00:09:23] Okay.

[00:09:23] And they've got, it's like a Zoom call.

[00:09:25] All right.

[00:09:25] So if you're looking at it on your monitor, you got four different screens and you got Ali Mayorkas there, the head of Department of Homeland Security.

[00:09:35] Maybe a FEMA person or something.

[00:09:37] There's four different, you know, little boxes with the talking heads.

[00:09:40] And one of them in the top left corner.

[00:09:41] But of course, the very first one is Vice President Kamala Harris.

[00:09:46] All right.

[00:09:48] And I'm going to play this.

[00:09:51] I'm going to explain what you're hearing after I play it first.

[00:09:54] It's like 20 seconds.

[00:09:55] Okay.

[00:09:55] So I'm going to play this clip first.

[00:09:57] And you got to listen.

[00:09:59] Because if you're watching the video, you're going to see Harris.

[00:10:03] She's sitting there with her hands, you know, her fingers interlocked on the desk in front of her.

[00:10:09] She's going to raise her hands up and cover her mouth.

[00:10:13] So you can't see that she's going to speak.

[00:10:18] But you're going to then hear her say something while someone else is talking.

[00:10:23] And I'll explain what happens here.

[00:10:25] But so just this.

[00:10:26] So just so you have a visual of what's occurring when you hear this crosstalk.

[00:10:29] Okay.

[00:10:29] Here we go.

[00:10:30] It flood.

[00:10:31] We really got to watch those those areas and those communities.

[00:10:34] So it takes quite a while for that water to drain.

[00:10:38] Thank you very much.

[00:10:40] Hey, Ken, I have a question for you.

[00:10:42] You mentioned.

[00:10:43] Okay.

[00:10:44] That's the first part of the clip.

[00:10:47] So you hear somebody talking.

[00:10:48] They're going through whatever.

[00:10:49] Whatever.

[00:10:51] And Harris has her hands in front of her on the desk.

[00:10:54] She raises them up, covers her mouth and looks off camera.

[00:10:59] And you hear.

[00:11:02] It's a live broadcast.

[00:11:05] And her eyebrows kind of go up in like a surprised fashion, like, oh.

[00:11:10] And then she pulls her hands down.

[00:11:13] And then she.

[00:11:14] Hey, I have a question for you.

[00:11:15] She says, I have a question for you.

[00:11:17] So what's happening?

[00:11:21] She covers her mouth.

[00:11:23] To tell her staff that she is on a live broadcast.

[00:11:29] And I believe what is occurring is she's asking for the question to ask.

[00:11:37] That's why she's looking over at the staff and then says it's a live broadcast.

[00:11:43] And then she pulls her hands away from her mouth.

[00:11:46] And then she asks the question.

[00:11:51] And then she's going to read a statement.

[00:11:55] I'll play that again.

[00:11:56] I'm going to re-rack this.

[00:11:58] I'll play.

[00:11:58] You're going to hear the statement also.

[00:12:00] Let me re-rack.

[00:12:02] You're going to hear this guy Ken talking.

[00:12:04] And then you're going to hear her talking to her aides off camera.

[00:12:07] It flood.

[00:12:09] We really got to watch those areas and those communities.

[00:12:12] So it takes quite a while for that water to drain.

[00:12:16] Thank you very much.

[00:12:18] Hey, Ken, I have a question for you.

[00:12:20] You mentioned words matter.

[00:12:22] And I know there is a lot of...

[00:12:25] All right.

[00:12:26] So that misinformation, she goes down that path, right?

[00:12:28] So now she has a prepared statement.

[00:12:32] She has notes that she's reading from.

[00:12:36] As part of this, you know, super important call to show everybody that she's the acting president.

[00:12:43] Everybody...

[00:12:43] I mean, not really.

[00:12:44] That's still Joe.

[00:12:45] That's still Joe.

[00:12:46] Joe's still in charge when he's talking about she's not acting president, but she's kind of acting president.

[00:12:50] Right?

[00:12:51] Like we all know, like she's pretending to be president here.

[00:12:53] See, same, but different.

[00:12:56] Right?

[00:12:58] And I have that clip also.

[00:13:00] She literally makes the argument for the slogan that I have come up with for the campaign of.

[00:13:05] Same, but different.

[00:13:08] So here are...

[00:13:09] Here's a portion of her prepared remarks.

[00:13:13] That I think she's trying to deliver as if she's not reading from notes, but you can totally tell she's reading from notes.

[00:13:21] People of Florida, and in particular, the people of the Tampa region,

[00:13:28] we urge you to take this storm seriously.

[00:13:31] Yeah.

[00:13:33] Got the frog in the throat there.

[00:13:36] Of the Tampa region.

[00:13:39] Yeah.

[00:13:40] And she starts looking down at her as she's reading notes.

[00:13:45] So this is the problem with Kamala Harris, and it always has been the problem with Kamala Harris,

[00:13:51] is that, as I've said repeatedly, she is vapid.

[00:13:55] Right?

[00:13:57] She's just a shell.

[00:13:59] She's just in it.

[00:14:00] Like, I don't even know what she really believes on this stuff.

[00:14:03] And she doesn't do the homework.

[00:14:05] This is why she gets caught saying silly things all the time, because she's not prepared.

[00:14:10] She's never prepared for this stuff.

[00:14:12] And so they sent her around on the campaign speeches to drill these slogans into her head,

[00:14:18] because she wasn't going to memorize them otherwise.

[00:14:21] She doesn't go deep in on policy.

[00:14:23] See?

[00:14:24] So they had her doing the speeches.

[00:14:27] Now they feel like, I guess, all right, let's sit her down for a bunch of interviews.

[00:14:30] So they went and sat her in front of that sex podcaster.

[00:14:35] Talks about having all of the sex all the time.

[00:14:38] Because apparently that's anyway, whatever.

[00:14:39] That's fine.

[00:14:40] You know, it's outreach.

[00:14:41] Okay, fine.

[00:14:43] But anything that gets her off of the slogan, you can see it's like, does not compute, does

[00:14:50] not compute.

[00:14:51] And you start seeing the sparks and smoke and stuff coming from out of the processor.

[00:14:58] It's not computing for her.

[00:15:02] This is part of the problem.

[00:15:03] And she's also trying to have it both ways.

[00:15:06] That she's part of the administration.

[00:15:07] She's totally in charge.

[00:15:08] But she's a change agent.

[00:15:10] And she's going to change everything.

[00:15:11] Same, but different.

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[00:16:27] Let's go to the phones again and talk with Tom.

[00:16:30] Hello, Tom.

[00:16:30] Welcome to the program.

[00:16:32] Thank you, Pete.

[00:16:33] How are you doing today?

[00:16:34] I am well, sir.

[00:16:34] How are you?

[00:16:36] I'm well.

[00:16:36] Good.

[00:16:36] Listen, I was listening to you, you know, commentate on Kamala Harris speaking from a script.

[00:16:44] It's Kamala.

[00:16:45] It's Kamala.

[00:16:46] You're right.

[00:16:46] It's Kamala.

[00:16:47] Don't be racist.

[00:16:48] Okay.

[00:16:49] Kamala.

[00:16:49] And I really must say, you know, a lot of people, unlike you and some others, they can't

[00:16:56] just speak extemporaneously, you know, from without a script.

[00:17:02] And I'm a college graduate with more than a B.A., and I sometimes say if it ain't on the

[00:17:09] page, it ain't on the stage.

[00:17:11] You know, that's just the way even, you know, writers write if it ain't on the page.

[00:17:16] So the thing is, when people like, and I'm not criticizing Trump, but when he goes off

[00:17:24] the script, man, he really just goes out into the deep, dark parts of the woods.

[00:17:30] So not only must people stick with the script, sometimes when they're dealing with millions

[00:17:36] and millions of people, and globally, it's good to just play it safe like Kamala and others.

[00:17:42] I'm a preacher, and I'm sorry.

[00:17:44] Kamala.

[00:17:45] I like to speak extemporaneously, but sometimes I have to stay on the script.

[00:17:52] And the last thing I want to say, and then I'll listen to you, I had to open up for prayer

[00:17:56] invocation at a local city government.

[00:18:00] You know, I'm not going to name the city.

[00:18:02] Oh, yeah.

[00:18:02] Yeah, like the invocation at the beginning of the meeting?

[00:18:06] That is correct.

[00:18:06] Yeah, yeah.

[00:18:07] And what I had to do, I actually had to write down some things like the four freedoms,

[00:18:15] freedom of speech, freedom of worship, you know, freedom of this, freedom from fear.

[00:18:18] And if I hadn't written that down, I actually would have forgot that the western part of

[00:18:24] North Carolina would pray for those people, but I had to write some stuff down.

[00:18:27] So basically, I'm just trying to say I agree with you.

[00:18:30] It's not that great, but people can't do like you and others.

[00:18:35] Well, it is one of my many talents, the ability to speak extemporaneously.

[00:18:41] But I, too, use notes.

[00:18:43] Absolutely.

[00:18:44] Like you, like you just mentioned, there are key points you want to make sure that you

[00:18:48] hit, then it's always best to...

[00:18:51] Oh, Tom's gone.

[00:18:52] He gone.

[00:18:53] Tom, I appreciate the call.

[00:18:56] But no, I usually try to, you know, have conversations with people.

[00:18:58] You don't have to just listen offline.

[00:19:00] But if you're still there, I totally understand that some people are better at speaking off the

[00:19:08] cuff than others are.

[00:19:10] I do expect, though, people who are making a living in the public speaking space, I do expect

[00:19:19] them to be able to publicly speak.

[00:19:22] That's just me, right?

[00:19:25] If I could not host a radio show, I kind of feel like I probably wouldn't make that a career,

[00:19:35] you know?

[00:19:36] If I couldn't speak extemporaneously on topics that I have covered, that I have gotten briefings

[00:19:46] on and that sort of thing, then I probably, like when I was a reporter, if I'd go to a

[00:19:51] city council meeting, I would talk about Tom, you know, giving the prayer at the beginning

[00:19:55] of the meeting and stuff like that.

[00:19:57] If I could not relay that information accurately back, I think then that I probably would not

[00:20:04] be well suited for the gig.

[00:20:07] And I get the point about like, you know, you go off script, like Trump goes off script

[00:20:12] all the time.

[00:20:13] And that's he says stuff that's like, what did he just say?

[00:20:17] Right.

[00:20:18] And so does Kamala Harris.

[00:20:22] So we agree.

[00:20:24] We agree.

[00:20:24] She sounds like an idiot when she's off script.

[00:20:27] Yeah, absolutely.

[00:20:28] Here, I got another.

[00:20:29] Let's see here.

[00:20:32] Here she was.

[00:20:35] With Stephen Colbert.

[00:20:38] Late night, she's doing what she's been running around doing these friendly media interviews

[00:20:43] and stuff now.

[00:20:45] And I guess they're thinking like, oh, she's committed some of the stump speech slogans to

[00:20:50] memory.

[00:20:51] So now we can kind of like with the training wheels, kind of push her out, you know, and

[00:20:55] like, oh, look at her.

[00:20:56] She's on her own, you know.

[00:20:57] And the problem is when you go in front of the friendlies.

[00:21:01] Sometimes you don't realize the question you're being asked ends up being a trap, not

[00:21:07] intentionally.

[00:21:08] So just because it's all lovey dovey, it's all fun and games.

[00:21:12] And the next thing you say something that's cringy.

[00:21:17] You are a member of the president administration under a Harris administration.

[00:21:22] What would the major changes be and what would stay the same?

[00:21:26] Sure.

[00:21:27] Well, I mean, I'm obviously not Joe Biden.

[00:21:29] I know.

[00:21:30] And so that would be one change.

[00:21:34] But also, I think it's important to say with, you know, 28 days to go, I'm not Donald Trump.

[00:21:43] That's it.

[00:21:44] Qualification's over.

[00:21:44] That's it.

[00:21:45] That's all you need to know.

[00:21:46] I'm not Joe Biden.

[00:21:47] I'm not Donald Trump.

[00:21:48] Vote for me.

[00:21:49] That's it.

[00:21:50] That's it.

[00:21:51] That's all the crowd cared about, too.

[00:21:54] Listen to what they cheer for.

[00:21:56] I'm not Donald Trump.

[00:21:57] That's good enough for the crowd.

[00:21:59] Think about the significance of what this next generation of leadership looks like.

[00:22:04] Were I to be elected president, it is about, frankly, I love the American people.

[00:22:12] And I believe in our country.

[00:22:15] I love that it is our character and nature to be an ambitious people.

[00:22:21] Oh, my gosh.

[00:22:21] You know, we have aspirations.

[00:22:23] We have dreams.

[00:22:24] We are we have incredible work ethic.

[00:22:28] And and and I just believe that we can create and build upon the success we've achieved in a way that we continue to grow opportunity.

[00:22:38] And in that way, grow the strength of our nation.

[00:22:40] So, for example, my economic policies, I think of it and I've named it as creating an opportunity economy.

[00:22:47] All she has is slogans.

[00:22:49] All of that stuff she said after the crowd went wild for her.

[00:22:53] I'm not the orange man.

[00:22:55] Everything she said after is what she's been saying on the speed on the campaign trail in her stump speeches.

[00:23:02] Now, she.

[00:23:04] Fumbled with it much more than she does when she reads it off a teleprompter.

[00:23:07] But all of that is that just comes right from her speech.

[00:23:11] And there's nothing new.

[00:23:13] And she's not answering his question, which is what would stay the same and what would be different?

[00:23:18] And her answer is I'm not Donald Trump.

[00:23:22] And Americans are great.

[00:23:24] I like Americans.

[00:23:27] What?

[00:23:28] What are you what are you even saying?

[00:23:30] What are you talking about?

[00:23:32] It's a pretty pointed question, but don't get an answer.

[00:23:36] She did give an answer on the view, which I now understand is going to be turned into a commercial for the Trump campaign.

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[00:24:05] It's a great organization with awesome people.

[00:24:08] They've got huge hearts.

[00:24:09] I've been a supporter for like 25 years.

[00:24:11] This cause means a lot to me.

[00:24:13] I participate in the annual walk to end Alzheimer's and I am leading a Charlotte team this year.

[00:24:19] It's called Pete's Pack.

[00:24:20] You can sign up and join the team and walk with me.

[00:24:23] It's on October 19th at Truist Field in Uptown.

[00:24:27] Sign up at ALZ.org slash walk and then just look for my team, Pete's Pack.

[00:24:32] And there's also a link in the podcast description here.

[00:24:34] Also, I'm going to be emceeing the Gastonia Walk on October 5th.

[00:24:38] So make a team and join us or make a donation to help me hit my goal.

[00:24:41] I would really appreciate it.

[00:24:43] There are a bunch of other walks around the Carolinas and you can go to ALZ.org for all of the dates and locations.

[00:24:50] We are closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's and if you can help us get there, we would really appreciate it.

[00:24:58] Will you come walk with me for a different future, for families, for more time, for treatments?

[00:25:03] This is why I walk.

[00:25:05] I have one more soundbite to play.

[00:25:06] But before we do that, let me go over and chat with Matt.

[00:25:10] Hello, Matt.

[00:25:10] Welcome to the program.

[00:25:12] Hey, Pete Callener.

[00:25:13] Hey.

[00:25:13] Great show, man.

[00:25:14] Thanks.

[00:25:14] I got a kick out of a bunch of segments ago when Winston called in and you finally booted him off the air for the last time, I guess.

[00:25:24] But last year I was at work and I had this guy that worked next to me at a body shop.

[00:25:30] You know how you have your stalls and you kind of have to share a radio because you can't play two radios at the same volume.

[00:25:36] So anyway, he had one day, I had the other.

[00:25:39] He's in his 20s.

[00:25:40] He's not really interested in politics or current events, but my day, I listened to WBT.

[00:25:45] Yeah.

[00:25:45] And he's sitting there and we're listening to your show and Winston calls in.

[00:25:50] This is right after I think Israel was attacked.

[00:25:52] So of course he's going to call in with his rhetoric and argument and whatever.

[00:25:58] Well, we thought that was funny and hilarious, especially the way you handled him.

[00:26:02] But then not too many calls.

[00:26:04] It might have been the next one, but it was a couple calls later.

[00:26:06] Then Dewey calls in and he starts arguing with you and you shut him down with facts and common sense.

[00:26:14] And finally, he just resorted to Pete.

[00:26:17] You don't know everything.

[00:26:18] You don't know everything, Pete.

[00:26:20] And you're like, well, go ahead.

[00:26:21] What did I say that you don't agree with?

[00:26:23] And he says, you don't know everything.

[00:26:25] Like, you don't know what the traffic is in Saudi Arabia.

[00:26:28] And finally, you had enough of him.

[00:26:30] You shut him down and you handed it over to Pam, I think it was.

[00:26:33] And you asked her, could she please give us a traffic update for Saudi Arabia?

[00:26:39] And we all started laughing.

[00:26:40] The boss came out thinking we were goofing off.

[00:26:43] You know, he said, what are you doing?

[00:26:44] I know nothing.

[00:26:45] But then later, you know, throughout, after listening to that, that became a big joke in the body shop.

[00:26:51] It was, you know, hey, good morning, Gary.

[00:26:53] You know what the traffic's like in Saudi Arabia?

[00:26:55] Saudi Arabia.

[00:26:58] Great show, brother.

[00:26:59] Thank you.

[00:26:59] All right, Matt.

[00:27:00] I appreciate that.

[00:27:01] Thank you.

[00:27:01] That's nice to hear.

[00:27:03] You know, because I sit in here and I talk to walls.

[00:27:05] So it's good to know that I brought some laughter to a body shop.

[00:27:10] I appreciate that, Matt.

[00:27:11] Thanks for listening.

[00:27:12] And thank your coworker as well for appreciating fine humor.

[00:27:19] All right, let me get to this last soundbite, too.

[00:27:21] This is Kamala Harris on The View.

[00:27:26] On The View.

[00:27:27] She's taking a friendly interview on The View.

[00:27:31] And she gets tossed a friendly question from a friendly questioner in the name or by the name of Sunny Hostin.

[00:27:42] She's a host.

[00:27:43] So I kind of feel like it's very Dickensian.

[00:27:45] Like her name is what she does.

[00:27:47] Like she's hosting.

[00:27:48] Sunny Hostin.

[00:27:49] Would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?

[00:27:55] There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of, and I've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.

[00:28:03] No!

[00:28:05] God!

[00:28:06] What are you doing?

[00:28:08] You're running on a campaign that you're different.

[00:28:11] But the same.

[00:28:11] But different.

[00:28:13] But the same.

[00:28:13] Holy cow.

[00:28:16] So all that work for weeks and weeks and weeks.

[00:28:19] I would say months or years.

[00:28:21] But she's like, you know, she got installed in the coup only a couple of weeks ago.

[00:28:24] So weeks and weeks and weeks.

[00:28:26] You have been spending all of your time on the campaign trail trying to convince people that you are something different, but the same.

[00:28:35] And different is how we're going to change where we are now.

[00:28:41] And the price of stuff and inflation and all of that stuff.

[00:28:44] And you're going to make all of these changes.

[00:28:47] But keep it all the same.

[00:28:48] But different.

[00:28:50] And your answer to the question.

[00:28:52] Would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?

[00:28:58] There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of.

[00:29:01] And I've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.

[00:29:10] Blew up her strategy.

[00:29:13] That was the strategy.

[00:29:15] Byron York at the Washington Examiner says she was running as a candidate of change who was also the incumbent vice president.

[00:29:24] It was never clear how that would work exactly.

[00:29:29] And in one sentence on The View, she showed that she cannot actually make that work at all.

[00:29:39] The Republican National Committee tweeted this out.

[00:29:44] And I've seen reports now that they are going to be taking that clip and making it into ads.

[00:29:51] Because Joe Biden's favorable ratings are very bad.

[00:29:58] I'm not sure you're aware of this.

[00:29:59] I know Joe isn't.

[00:30:01] But Joe Biden is not viewed upon with favor by the American electorate.

[00:30:09] Like, he has some of the lowest, if not the lowest, approval ratings of any president ever.

[00:30:18] And you just tied yourself to him saying you would not do anything different.

[00:30:26] It is remarkable.

[00:30:27] It is remarkable she was not prepared to answer that question.

[00:30:31] Is there any question about this race that is more fundamental than that question?

[00:30:40] Any question more predictable than that question?

[00:30:43] Colbert asked her.

[00:30:45] And now host an answer.

[00:30:49] Right.

[00:30:50] That's not a gotcha question.

[00:30:52] Susan Page, the USA Today Washington bureau chief, said there are gotcha questions that take candidates by surprise.

[00:31:00] This would not be one of them.

[00:31:02] This is not a gotcha.

[00:31:04] This is this is like, hey, is the president cognitively impaired?

[00:31:09] That's what this is.

[00:31:10] Which, of course, Kamala Harris said the other day that, no, he's not.

[00:31:12] He's totally fine still.

[00:31:15] But there is no.

[00:31:17] Did somebody forget to tell her what the strategy is here?

[00:31:20] I think somebody may not have told.

[00:31:22] Maybe she needs to kind of put her hands behind her mouth again and, like, call off camera to an aide and get some guidance.

[00:31:28] Holy cow.

[00:31:29] This woman could be our president.

[00:31:31] All right.

[00:31:31] That'll do it for this episode.

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