Vetting the Veep (07-25-2024--Hour2)

Vice President Kamala Harris is looking for a vice president of her own. NBC reports that Democrats are looking for someone who will attract racist, sexist white dudes.

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[00:00:28] For people who may think that, Pete, you're spending a lot of time talking about Kamala Harris. And that is because she has been foisted upon us as the new presidential candidate. And normally these types of things would take months, right? Over the course of a primary season, we would cover debates. It was a debate! To quote Kamala Harris, we would go over these types of issues and history and experience and all this stuff.

[00:00:58] We would do it over the course of months. But now, thanks to the Democrat Party smoke-filled room occupants, we have to do it in a much tighter timeline, much more compressed now.

[00:01:09] So, luckily, we do have records of her performance. So we can kind of go over some of this stuff. Let me start with, and I will put Saki back here to the AP story, but let me start with a series of tweets or X's that Senator Melissa Melendez posted yesterday.

[00:01:33] She is a California State Senator. So in the state legislature in California.

[00:01:39] She says, the reasons to not support Kamala Harris have nothing to do with her gender, her race, or how she climbed the ladder.

[00:01:47] So, by the way, just as a heads up on this, I am aware of all of the stories about her, you know, paramours in California and how her proximity to powerful men, shall we say, helped to launch her career.

[00:02:06] I'm aware of that stuff. Here's the thing.

[00:02:08] That's not going to convince people not to vote for her. You know why? Because the alternative is Donald Trump.

[00:02:16] And I'm sorry if that hurts people's feelings, but, yeah, you're not, you don't get to, and I told people this, I told, I told Democrats this, I told Republicans the same thing, right?

[00:02:28] When it was their guy that had gotten caught with the pants down, I said the same thing.

[00:02:32] Like, you don't get to use these types of arguments anymore. You don't get to make the moral arguments.

[00:02:38] You don't get to say that you're the righteous and they're the bad one, whatever, at least on these types of issues.

[00:02:43] You don't get to say that that issue is gone. It's like hypocrisy.

[00:02:46] You're like, oh my gosh, he's such a hypocrite. Doesn't matter anymore. Doesn't matter.

[00:02:51] Everybody overlooks their own team's hypocrisy. So that charge carries no purchase anymore in politics.

[00:02:58] So that's not the way, I don't think, that's not the way you're going to be able to get at her and to affect her polling.

[00:03:08] Okay? Her poll numbers. Sorry. Poll numbers.

[00:03:13] Anyway, those arguments, Senator Melendez says, will get you nowhere.

[00:03:19] Consider the following.

[00:03:21] When speaking to those who may be falling victim to the media's frenzied attempt to prop her up as the savior of the country.

[00:03:28] All right? So think about who you're talking to.

[00:03:30] This is one of the things I always tell people when I go and I speak in front of groups or whatever.

[00:03:34] I always say, like, what is the purpose of this debate?

[00:03:38] Who are you talking to while arguing, while debating?

[00:03:43] Okay? Because the person in front of you that is your debate opponent may not be the person that you're talking to.

[00:03:53] Right? Because chances are, if you are in a debate with somebody about something, you're not going to be able to convince them they are wrong.

[00:03:59] Especially if there's an audience.

[00:04:02] There's too much on the line.

[00:04:03] So then they're not going to admit defeat or anything.

[00:04:08] So you're in this debate not to convince them that they are wrong.

[00:04:12] You are in the debate to convince the audience that you are right.

[00:04:17] Anybody that's persuadable in the audience.

[00:04:19] And you don't know who those people are.

[00:04:21] So you want to try to make as many different arguments in different ways as possible to persuade the people that are persuadable.

[00:04:29] And not everybody is.

[00:04:30] Okay. So, if you are in a conversation with somebody who doesn't know anything about Kamala Harris except she was the vice president.

[00:04:38] Or maybe they don't even know that.

[00:04:39] They're so disconnected, right?

[00:04:41] Maybe they don't even know who she is.

[00:04:43] But all they're seeing now is this elevation of her as the savior of the country.

[00:04:50] And she's this awesome politician.

[00:04:53] She's the vice president.

[00:04:55] She's the slay queen.

[00:04:57] She's brat.

[00:04:58] Whatever.

[00:05:00] You've got to try to break through some of that.

[00:05:02] So here is what a state senator from California recommends.

[00:05:08] She says regarding Kamala Harris.

[00:05:11] She fully supported Prop 47.

[00:05:14] What was that?

[00:05:16] That was a California initiative that decriminalized many crimes.

[00:05:20] The result of which has turned the state into a perpetual crime scene.

[00:05:24] Her own city of San Francisco now being one of the most devastated.

[00:05:28] By the way, Donald Trump hammered her last night in his appearance in Charlotte at the Bojangles Coliseum.

[00:05:35] Hammered her repeatedly about her tenure in San Francisco.

[00:05:40] Number two.

[00:05:41] She's fully committed to making America completely dependent on foreign energy.

[00:05:46] She has publicly stated so on numerous occasions by eagerly sharing her desire to destroy our fuel production capabilities by banning fracking as well as offshore drilling.

[00:05:58] Number three.

[00:06:00] She was and is Biden's, quote, borders are despite the media's recent attempts to discredit that known reality.

[00:06:09] A role she clearly did not take seriously given the historic levels of illegal immigrants that have now poured across our borders.

[00:06:16] And by the way, you tie into that what Noah Rothman went over in the last hour.

[00:06:21] The fact that they gave her that gig.

[00:06:24] Basically to kneecap her.

[00:06:26] That's what her own president, her running mate, Joe Biden.

[00:06:32] That's what they thought of her.

[00:06:34] We're going to give her this stuff to do where we know she won't be able to do it.

[00:06:39] But it sidelines her.

[00:06:41] Kneecaps her.

[00:06:42] It keeps her.

[00:06:44] Away from us as a threat.

[00:06:48] Next, she's 100 percent in support of the policy of making gender transition and the irreversible body mutilation that goes along with it more accessible to children while also supporting a policy of keeping it a secret from parents.

[00:07:03] That is a very potent issue, particularly for parents.

[00:07:09] Next, she is no friend to the Jewish community, having refused to meet Benjamin Netanyahu, but showing full support for rioters destroying black small businesses across the country.

[00:07:19] She was so supportive of the rioters cause that she provided a payment link on her social media platforms so they could get out of jail quickly to impose more damage on innocent business owners.

[00:07:34] That I have it here.

[00:07:35] Hang on.

[00:07:36] I have it here, which, by the way, it was shocking that the Black Lives Matter organization.

[00:07:44] I have it here, which is where they would select their nominee for president based on how well they could snap out tunes.

[00:07:58] You know, I'm just kidding.

[00:08:01] Just been fast.

[00:08:04] But Kamala Harris, this is, to me, this is a pretty damning thing.

[00:08:08] Um, the fact that when Minnesota was in the grips of its violence, she was promoting a fund to get murderers and rapists out of jail more quickly.

[00:08:24] She still is.

[00:08:26] Her links are still available on her social media accounts.

[00:08:30] Raising money for a bail fund that, according to the Washington Free Beacon's Andrew Kerr, busts violent criminals from jail.

[00:08:37] Um, she urged followers to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund in June of 2020.

[00:08:45] That was when Black Lives Matter rioters wreaked havoc in Minneapolis in the days following George Floyd's death.

[00:08:52] Harris's fundraising efforts helped the fund raise more than $41 million in 2020 alone.

[00:08:59] But the group only used a small fraction of that bounty to bail rioters out of jail.

[00:09:04] So out of $41 million raised, how much do you think they used for bail?

[00:09:12] $210,000 out of $41 million.

[00:09:16] The remaining funds helped post bail for violent criminals, such as, uh, that was bailing the rioters out.

[00:09:23] $210,000 for the rioters.

[00:09:25] The rest of the money went to bail out violent criminals like Christopher Boswell, twice convicted rapist who got freed from jail in 2020 pending kidnapping and sexual assault charges after the Minnesota Freedom Fund paid $350,000 for his release.

[00:09:43] By the way, um, George Howard, career criminal George Howard, shot and killed a man during a road rage incident in August 2021, just three weeks after the Minnesota Freedom Fund bailed him out.

[00:09:59] Shot and killed a guy.

[00:10:01] One of the people that benefited from this fund.

[00:10:03] In May of 2022, Sean Michael Tillman, a repeat, repeat felon, shot and killed a passenger on a St. Paul light rail platform after the Minnesota Freedom Fund posted his bail the month prior on an unrelated indecent exposure charge.

[00:10:21] Right?

[00:10:22] These are the ways that you attack Kamala Harris.

[00:10:25] All right, so the Associated Press.

[00:10:27] Just days into her new role as the Democratic Party's likely presidential nominee, Kamala Harris is already facing a wave of Republican-backed attack ads questioning her personality, her progressive record, and what she knew about President Joe Biden's decline.

[00:10:47] What?

[00:10:49] What decline?

[00:10:51] What does that mean?

[00:10:52] What are you talking about, Associated Press?

[00:10:54] Wait a minute.

[00:10:55] Is Joe Biden in decline somehow?

[00:11:00] How long has that been known?

[00:11:03] Ah, it seems kind of like a big deal.

[00:11:05] Anyway, but for now at least, Democrats have yet to engage in the summertime advertising fight.

[00:11:11] And in sharp reversal, a sharp reversal, from much of the year, Republicans are suddenly dominating the airways.

[00:11:20] Overall, Trump and his allies are outspending Harris's team 25 to 1 on television and radio advertising.

[00:11:28] More than $68 million for Republicans compared to just $2.6 million for Democrats.

[00:11:36] So, 68 to 2.5.

[00:11:40] That's in the period that began on Monday, the day after Biden stepped aside, through the end of August.

[00:11:45] This is according to an AP analysis of data compiled by the media tracking firm Ed Impact.

[00:11:51] The stunning disparity reflects actual spending for this week and reservations for subsequent weeks.

[00:12:01] So, this is the stuff that's been booked so far.

[00:12:04] And that will almost certainly change in the coming days.

[00:12:06] But for now, the numbers, this is the Associated Press.

[00:12:10] Ready?

[00:12:11] The numbers highlight a dangerous imbalance.

[00:12:16] Wait.

[00:12:17] It's dangerous.

[00:12:17] Yeah, the ad buy is dangerous.

[00:12:21] And it's a dangerous imbalance for Democrats.

[00:12:24] At the very moment that millions of voters are reshaping their opinions of the vice president,

[00:12:29] who has spent much of the last four years in Biden's shadow.

[00:12:35] Right.

[00:12:36] At the behest of Biden.

[00:12:39] That was purposeful.

[00:12:40] They kept her in the shadows.

[00:12:43] Some Harris allies are already sounding the alarm.

[00:12:47] Okay.

[00:12:48] One thing to always keep in mind about these types of stories is that these outlets, media outlets, survive on advertising money.

[00:12:59] And so, a lot of the advertising money will be coming from these campaigns.

[00:13:06] So, part of this is sort of an idea of, hey, you know, you really should start spending some money.

[00:13:11] We need to make budget.

[00:13:13] Just a heads up.

[00:13:14] Okay.

[00:13:15] They've got a quote here from Sarah Longwell.

[00:13:18] She is the co-founder of Republican Voters Against Trump.

[00:13:22] And she says,

[00:13:24] Public opinion is like cement.

[00:13:26] It's soft at first, and then it hardens.

[00:13:29] The next three weeks are definitive.

[00:13:32] She needs to define herself before Trump defines her.

[00:13:36] I mentioned part of this is because of the timing of the different conventions.

[00:13:40] Once you become the official party nominee, it frees up that money for your campaign.

[00:13:45] She hasn't gone through her convention yet, so there's a bunch of money that they can't access, but they will be able to access.

[00:13:51] So, it will balance out at some point.

[00:13:53] But there are a lot of anti-Trumpers who are very worried that this, you know, the Republicans are going to define her, and then it's going to be too late because public opinion will harden.

[00:14:05] It'll calcify.

[00:14:08] Harris only earned Biden's endorsement on Sunday, and friends and foes agree that she's benefited from a flood of so-called earned news media coverage.

[00:14:22] Much of it positive.

[00:14:25] Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio described it as Harris's honeymoon.

[00:14:30] Right.

[00:14:31] Right.

[00:14:32] They're literally counting on the media to provide her with the positive coverage to help offset $68 million.

[00:14:40] This is why, like, Barack Obama got an in-kind contribution of about $2 billion worth of coverage.

[00:14:48] So, and that's on top of the money he spent on his own.

[00:14:53] Got a mail here, an email from Jan.

[00:14:56] Pete, thank you for following the two-name solution rule that came out a couple of days ago.

[00:15:02] Oh, you're welcome.

[00:15:03] Yeah, you're not allowed to call her Kamala.

[00:15:04] You got to call her Kamala Harris or Vice President Harris.

[00:15:08] That's it.

[00:15:10] As for Kamala's chances of winning, oh, dang it.

[00:15:13] As for her chances of winning, she is a POC, POC, who identifies as a female.

[00:15:19] The identitarian worldview of the left requires they vote for her with no thought beyond, look how woke I am.

[00:15:26] They are already soiling themselves to vote for her, I shall say.

[00:15:32] Yeah.

[00:15:36] Did you just make a crack about Pam's age?

[00:15:39] You do know that she can legally kill you for that, don't you?

[00:15:44] No, I made a crack about my age.

[00:15:46] I joked that she was older than I am.

[00:15:49] And she knows that's not true.

[00:15:50] So, that was the joke.

[00:15:53] I'm older than she is.

[00:15:57] So, the Associated Press reporting that Harris' team has the money to launch a robust advertising campaign whenever it wants to.

[00:16:05] Quote, obviously, advertising is important and will pick up, but it's not the only factor, said Democratic strategist Josh Schwerin.

[00:16:14] With Harris taking over as the presumptive nominee, she's getting wall-to-wall, largely positive coverage.

[00:16:21] You always need to take in the context of the entire media ecosystem.

[00:16:25] Biden allies privately raised concerns about a new ad, however, from Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick that describes Harris as the most liberal nominee ever.

[00:16:40] And that is based on a GovTrack analysis.

[00:16:47] There is a website called GovTrack, and it tracks government officials and elected leaders, and it gives them scores.

[00:16:56] Most conservative, most liberal, and they base their scores on – it's like an annual score that they do,

[00:17:02] and it's based on the legislation that they have sponsored or opposed or whatever.

[00:17:10] And Kamala Harris' score, the year she was running for president, was the lowest.

[00:17:16] It was a zero.

[00:17:17] Zero point zero.

[00:17:19] That means you are the most liberal senator in the Senate.

[00:17:24] She was more liberal than Bernie Sanders.

[00:17:28] Zero point zero.

[00:17:30] A one is most conservative, and that's – so it's a scale of zero to one.

[00:17:38] I don't know.

[00:17:39] I guess it's a ratio of some kind, but whatever.

[00:17:42] Zero point zero.

[00:17:43] And so they highlight this in this ad in Pennsylvania and in the Senate race.

[00:17:49] McCormick is the guy's name.

[00:17:50] And it's a devastating ad.

[00:17:52] And it's already up and running, and apparently this has got Democrats worried

[00:17:56] because it's tying the Senate candidate to Kamala Harris as the most liberal.

[00:18:03] And GovTrack yesterday went back and tuned their analysis.

[00:18:15] And by tuned, I mean they changed it so she wouldn't be the most liberal.

[00:18:20] So rather than looking at a one-year window, I think they made it the congressional term

[00:18:25] or something like that.

[00:18:26] So like a two-year term or whatever it is.

[00:18:29] So rather than looking at the one year when she was running for president that made her the most liberal,

[00:18:33] they're like, let's expand it out.

[00:18:35] Let's change that window, and we're going to make it a bigger window.

[00:18:38] And then she doesn't look like the most liberal senator in the U.S. Senate.

[00:18:44] Retcon.

[00:18:46] Retroactive continuity.

[00:18:48] Right?

[00:18:49] Going back and changing things in order to make the current version make sense.

[00:18:56] Happens in TV shows, movies, books all the time.

[00:19:00] Retcon.

[00:19:00] That's what we're seeing.

[00:19:02] They did it at GovTrack.

[00:19:04] They did it yesterday with the Borders are a description of her.

[00:19:08] Right?

[00:19:09] That's still a thing.

[00:19:09] They're still doing it.

[00:19:11] That they called her Borders are.

[00:19:13] The media outlets, Axios, had all these stories calling her Borders are.

[00:19:17] And then they came out and said, you know, Republicans are attacking her as the Borders are,

[00:19:20] and she was never the Borders are.

[00:19:22] And then, of course, people point out, hey, Axios, you called her the Borders are.

[00:19:25] So rather than say, oh, OK, well, we were wrong or whatever,

[00:19:29] they went back and edited all of their old articles to change the language.

[00:19:34] And retconning.

[00:19:37] So they're so worried about these scores, so worried about these types of ads,

[00:19:41] framing her as the most liberal.

[00:19:45] Democrats halted its advertising spend for Joe Biden.

[00:19:50] They had devoted enormous amounts of money to Joe Biden.

[00:19:54] His campaign spent more than $138 million on advertising between January 1 through Sunday.

[00:20:04] So in like seven months, $138 million.

[00:20:08] Poof.

[00:20:10] Just gone.

[00:20:12] Right?

[00:20:16] Vice President Harris has looked at the vetting process from both sides now,

[00:20:21] but she doesn't have much time to spare.

[00:20:24] NBC News' Yamiche Alcindor, who's a Democrat with a byline,

[00:20:31] reporting two weeks for Democrats before their convention.

[00:20:37] So what is it?

[00:20:38] I think they've got, yeah, 25 days until the Democrat National Convention,

[00:20:43] 103 until the election.

[00:20:45] That's where we are today.

[00:20:47] Anyway, so they've got to nominate somebody and a running mate.

[00:20:51] If they're trying to beat, they've got two weeks if they're trying to beat the August 7th deadline

[00:20:55] to ensure that their ticket appears on ballots in every state.

[00:21:00] This is why, by the way, they had to do the virtual roll call thing,

[00:21:03] was because some of the states had rules about getting names on ballots.

[00:21:09] And they had this tight time frame in order to protect Joe Biden

[00:21:14] and keep Democrat challengers out of the primaries against him.

[00:21:19] And now it kind of, yeah, the hoisting of petards and such.

[00:21:23] Yeah.

[00:21:24] So now they're racing to beat this August 7th deadline.

[00:21:28] But that means Kamala has to get a vice president.

[00:21:31] She is, according to NBC, winnowing her list quickly,

[00:21:35] in part because of the compressed timeline

[00:21:37] and in part because several potential candidates,

[00:21:40] including Governor Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer,

[00:21:44] they've taken themselves out of the running.

[00:21:46] In interviews with more than a half dozen Democrat insiders,

[00:21:50] the names of a handful of hopefuls have emerged.

[00:21:52] Mark Kelly of Arizona, U.S. Senator,

[00:21:55] Governor's Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania,

[00:21:59] Roy Cooper of North Carolina,

[00:22:01] Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg,

[00:22:04] Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear,

[00:22:05] and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz all in the mix.

[00:22:09] All of them are white men.

[00:22:11] Although one source said that one name that's been floated

[00:22:14] that's not a white dude is a black dude,

[00:22:17] Cedric Richmond,

[00:22:19] who is a senior Biden advisor and former congressman from Louisiana.

[00:22:24] Wait till you hear how these Democrat strategists talk about

[00:22:29] the qualifications of the people they are looking for

[00:22:33] and who the voters are that they would be trying to attract

[00:22:37] with these VP picks.

[00:22:40] This is in NBC News of all places.

[00:22:43] NBC News reporting on what they are looking for

[00:22:47] in a vice presidential candidate over in the Kamala camp,

[00:22:51] Camp Kamala.

[00:22:54] Ashley Etienne,

[00:22:56] who formerly worked as the vice president's communications director,

[00:23:00] said, quote,

[00:23:00] You need someone who's moderate, obviously,

[00:23:04] a white male,

[00:23:05] and I would say she needs someone from a border state.

[00:23:10] I think her choosing a white male

[00:23:13] counterbalances her race and her gender

[00:23:16] in a way that could open her up to peeling off

[00:23:20] many of those Nikki Haley voters,

[00:23:22] those disaffected Republicans and independents.

[00:23:24] And I think it rounds off the ticket in a way

[00:23:27] that I think feels fresh,

[00:23:29] feels also forward,

[00:23:30] but also feels fully aware of where we are as a nation.

[00:23:35] So sort of like unburdened by the past.

[00:23:37] Okay.

[00:23:38] I think it's Mark Kelly,

[00:23:39] if I had to bet, she says.

[00:23:42] Okay.

[00:23:44] So you need a moderate white dude from a border state.

[00:23:47] That's what you're looking for.

[00:23:49] And she says it counterbalances her race and her gender.

[00:23:55] Why is that necessary?

[00:23:56] What do you mean counterbalances that?

[00:23:59] What kind of balance are you looking for?

[00:24:02] What is the ratio, by the way, there?

[00:24:04] Is it a one-to-one ratio?

[00:24:06] Like white to black?

[00:24:09] Is there like a three-fifths calculation going on here?

[00:24:12] Because like that would,

[00:24:13] that is not okay.

[00:24:16] I'm serious.

[00:24:16] Like, I don't even understand.

[00:24:18] Like who thinks in these terms,

[00:24:19] it counterbalances.

[00:24:22] Well, she's a white.

[00:24:23] So we got to have a black or a Hispanic or an Asian or what?

[00:24:29] And then she thinks though,

[00:24:30] that this is going to peel off Nikki Haley voters.

[00:24:34] So Nikki Haley voters need a white dude.

[00:24:41] Have you heard of Nikki Haley?

[00:24:44] Right.

[00:24:45] You realize she's not a white dude.

[00:24:47] What are you even talking about?

[00:24:49] This doesn't even make any sense.

[00:24:51] But just in case you are looking for clarity,

[00:24:54] we go a little bit further into the,

[00:24:56] uh,

[00:24:57] into the story.

[00:24:59] The campaign is particularly interested in somebody who will appeal to the

[00:25:02] demographics and the voters that Biden would have brought to the table.

[00:25:07] If he wasn't just,

[00:25:08] you know,

[00:25:10] sucking wind here.

[00:25:12] Right.

[00:25:13] Oh yeah.

[00:25:13] Joe Biden was totally going to bring all these voters.

[00:25:16] That's why he was down like 20 points.

[00:25:20] Oh,

[00:25:21] so close.

[00:25:22] Guys,

[00:25:23] come on.

[00:25:24] But what kinds of demographics was Joe totally going to be bringing to the table?

[00:25:30] Older white voters,

[00:25:32] suburban women.

[00:25:36] And that's it.

[00:25:37] Okay.

[00:25:38] All right.

[00:25:38] Okay.

[00:25:39] That source said Harris's team also would like the running mate to appeal

[00:25:45] specifically to white men who don't like Trump,

[00:25:48] but who may question whether they want to vote for a black and South Asian woman.

[00:25:55] Okay.

[00:25:56] So you're looking,

[00:25:58] you're looking for white dudes that don't like Trump,

[00:26:01] but are racist and sexist,

[00:26:03] which is weird because I thought all of the racists and sexists were already

[00:26:09] supporting Donald Trump.

[00:26:11] What are you talking about here?

[00:26:13] This doesn't make any sense.

[00:26:15] Quote,

[00:26:16] let's just face it.

[00:26:18] There's a lot of sexist,

[00:26:20] racist white dudes out there in America who don't like Trump,

[00:26:24] but just need a little extra validation.

[00:26:29] This is,

[00:26:32] this is who they're targeting.

[00:26:35] Like literally,

[00:26:36] you can't take the Democrat out of Democrat party.

[00:26:39] You really just can't.

[00:26:40] My gosh,

[00:26:41] you cannot get too far removed from their past,

[00:26:45] from their history.

[00:26:46] The,

[00:26:47] the party of the Klan light.

[00:26:48] They just,

[00:26:49] I mean,

[00:26:49] that's what identity politics is,

[00:26:51] right?

[00:26:51] You're reducing people down to these immutable characteristics of race and gender.

[00:26:56] If you even know what that means anymore,

[00:26:59] Democrats.

[00:26:59] But like,

[00:27:00] I,

[00:27:00] I am at a loss.

[00:27:02] How,

[00:27:03] how you can think these things,

[00:27:06] say them out loud to a reporter.

[00:27:09] And then a reporter puts them in a story that is theoretically cleared by some editor.

[00:27:18] How did so many people,

[00:27:19] I have to believe of the same sort of mindset.

[00:27:22] You've got a blind spot here.

[00:27:24] You've got a really,

[00:27:25] really big blind spot right here.

[00:27:27] If you think that your move here is to disclose to everybody that you're looking for white dudes that are racist and sexist that hate Trump.

[00:27:39] Trump,

[00:27:40] that's who you're targeting with your veep pick.

[00:27:44] I,

[00:27:46] like if you,

[00:27:49] if you're a white dude,

[00:27:51] racist and sexist,

[00:27:53] you must really,

[00:27:55] really hate Donald Trump.

[00:27:58] But even so he picked J.D.

[00:28:00] Vance,

[00:28:00] white dude.

[00:28:02] No,