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US ELECTION DEMOCRATS DOING OK Brian Tyler Cohen: Trump ally CRUMBLES on national TV in disastrous interview PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rorD5bTGTpQ Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess
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the person who created this massive inflation which is destroying black families white families Hispanic families it's her her failure as borders are that has left our Southern border wide open more than 10 million illegal immigrants coming into our country record fentanyl coming into our country which has killed or Americans that at any other point in the 1:02 history of our country with respect specifically to fentol and the fact that she and Joe Biden have Unleashed one of the worst foreign policies in the history of our country that has us on the verge of World War III that is kamla Harris's record president Trump talks about that frequently but yes he did mention it in Chicago in in response to a question from Rachel Scott and and you just repeated the slur again if it doesn't matter why do you all keep questioning her identity she's always identified as a black woman she is by raal she has a Jamaican father and Indian mother she's always identified as both why are you questioning that well George first of all this is something that's actually a conversation uh throughout social media right now there were a lot of people who are trying to figure this out but again that's a side issue not the main issue the main issue sir one second you just did it you just did it again of the United States why why do you why do you insist on questioning her racial identity talk you want me to talk I I want you to answer my yelling at George George now that you're done yelling at me let me answer he talked about it on 2:05 the stage yesterday in Atlanta for what 2 minutes he spent more than 3540 minutes going after her record talking about how radical of a senator that she was she was the most liberal senator in the United States uh in the United States Senate that is a fact he talked about the job uh that she did as Vice President of the United States a job I will add which has been a failure for the American people I know you guys like to glom on to that he talks about in just or or in a serious manner for about a minute or so but what you do not cover is the Litany of failures of kamla Harris that's what you're not covering George so questioning somebody's racial identity for for a couple minutes is okay George I'mma tell you again he brought it up AP is the one that wrote the headline when she first came in to the United State Senate didn't talk about her being black talked about her being the first indian-american Senator AP brought that up up I mean George we 3:00 could have this conversation for the entire segment but none of this matters to the American people what matters to 3:06 the American people is are we going to have the same policies of the Biden Harris Administration that has been 3:12 destructive of the American people or are we going to have the policies of the Trump Administration which put America 3:19 First had low inflation prosperous Americans no matter your race no matter your color no matter your Creed and a 3:26 foreign policy that kept America safe those are the facts that truly matter because this issue is going to come and 3:32 go the lives of the American people is what's going to remain and that's what matters more than anything else if it 3:38 doesn't matter I don't understand why you keep on repeating it why the president keeps on repeating it why those introducing the President 3:43 yesterday I'm not the one who keeps repeating it George you're the one that's bringing it up now that's you 3:49 understand why done you've done it three times every single answer you gave me now let me finish sir every single 3:55 answer you gave you repeated the slur me George that's why I'm pushing back on you now George you asked me the question 4:01 three times I responded but I'm and every single time you repeat the slur that is my exactly my point you simply 4:07 can't say that it's wrong George so then what you're saying so then what you and I want to get off this topic because it's not the only thing that's going on 4:14 but George now you're saying that AP is the one that slurred KLA Harris because those are the facts you can go to the 4:19 Internet and look at the clips George if you want to or we can talk about this now I prefer to talk about the future of 4:24 our country because the American people are struggling the American people do need serious policy decisions to be made 4:31 and they need serious leadership on the world stage kamla Harris has not proven that she can do that Donald J Trump has 4:38 proven that he can do that AP did not say that kamla Harris is not black she 4:43 is biracial she is Indian she is black you continue to repeat the fact that you 4:48 continue to repeat the slur I don't understand why you and the president do it but it's clear you're not going to say that it's wrong and you've now 4:55 established that for our audience uh Trump also said at the convention that he would January R everybody look for 5:02 themselves let's move on I've already said that go ahead interet everybody let's move on there we go go on and repeat the slurs again Trump also said at the okay so that was Byron Donald's claiming throughout this entire interview that again just reiterating Donald Trump's attack here is the main here's the here's the Crux of what Byron Donald's is trying to say the the Crux of what he's trying to say is that because just basically diffusing responsibil onto the AP by saying okay well the AP said that she was the first indian-american US senator and so it's not us saying the slur and by slur he means denying kamla Harris's background he's saying it's just the AP the AP wrote the headline which is true that kamla Harris is the first indian-american to get elected to the US Senate but it's not being said in the same context of how Donald Trump and Byron Donalds are saying it the AP headline merely explained that she would be the first person that has indian-american Heritage to serve in the US Senate that was the focus of that article there wouldn't be an article 6:05 describing a first if they just talked about the fact that she was black because she wouldn't be the the first 6:10 black US senator so the point of the article was look this is a barrier that's been broken we're going to talk 6:16 about the fact that she has indian-american descent the fact that she has indian-american descent does not 6:22 exclude is not mutually exclusive to the fact that she's also black so the AP article wasn't written wasn't written in 6:29 exclusion of her Blackness it was just it was just basically touting the virtues of the fact that she is also 6:37 indianamerican so again doesn't mean that she's not black it just means that the historic part uh was that someone of 6:43 indian-american descent was elected to the US Senate so this is not the same as 6:48 Donald Trump and his mouthpieces trying to erase KLA Harris's ethnicity as a way to drive a wedge between her and her 6:54 Target voters that's what they're trying to do and they're trying to conflate these two things they're trying to say 7:01 well there was an AP article that said that she was indian-american and so that must be the same thing as us saying that 7:06 she's not black that's not how it works the AP article was pointing out that half of her Heritage the fact that she 7:13 was half indian-american not black but half indian-american is the fact that 7:18 somehow somehow precludes her being black and that's not how it works but these people think that Their audience 7:25 is so dumb and that's really the irony of all of this it's the contempt that they show for Their audience because 7:30 anybody watching right now there are a lot of you watching right now you can see that if if the AP article is talking 7:36 about a biracial person and extoling the virtues of someone's Heritage that would 7:42 be historic in the US Senate and not talking about the other half of their ethnicity but just the one half we can 7:47 all recognize that that doesn't erase the other half of that Heritage it is just celebrating the half that is 7:53 historic but these people think Their audience is so dumb they treat them with so much contempt like Byron Donald's is 8:00 doing here that he thinks he can just cast off his racism by by by basically 8:06 just pointing to some AP article that we all know what it means like there's not a single person watching this right now 8:12 who would think that the AP was trying to say that KLA Harris isn't black we 8:17 all understand the concept of biracial we all live in in America this is one of the most diverse countries in the world 8:24 we can recognize when someone is both indian-american and black and extoling the virtues of one half of that does not 8:30 erase the other half and of all people who should be able to recognize uh the 8:37 the very simple concept of diversity in this country it's a black guy it's Byron 8:43 Donald's of all people he should be able to recognize that but instead the the the only important thing in the 8:50 Republican party is just listening to what Donald Trump says and then groeling at his feet by taking whatever he says 8:58 as as sacrif San and so Trump makes fun of a a black woman and denies her 9:05 background and then you have this guy who is who has so little dignity even as 9:11 a black man in America so little dignity and so much blind devotion uh to Donald Trump that 9:19 even He will carry on this exact racist attack that Donald Trump was carrying out in the first place and show up on 9:24 national television and pretend I mean that's what he's doing he's playing makeb believe pretend that kamla Harris 9:32 uh somehow isn't black and then every time he says that lean on this crutch that is an AP article that never said 9:38 she wasn't black but instead just extoled the virtues of her indian-american Heritage so it is just a 9:44 joke all around he also uses this as an opportunity when he knows he's caught because George Stephanopoulos isn't dumb 9:51 he calls out what Byron Donald is doing immediately and every time and so Byron 9:56 Donalds knows that he can't stay on the top this topic and we'll get to that in moment but what he does is he uses this 10:02 as an opportunity to Pivot to the border and I think it's so ironic that these people always use any talking point to 10:08 eventually pivot to the Border when the only reason that we don't have comprehensive border legislation right 10:14 now is because of Donald Trump himself we had a Neo a bill negotiated by Chris 10:20 Murphy Kiron Cinema and James Langford so we have a Democrat an independent and a Conservative Republican from Oklahoma 10:27 and that was going to pass the US the the the the Congress but Donald Trump decided to issue his claron call to make 10:34 sure that none of his mouthpieces and acolytes and allies in the Republican Party would pass this thing because they 10:39 didn't want to lose the Border as an issue and so it was more important for 10:45 these Republicans to come out and kill the Border bill because they wanted to be able to campaign on it then then 10:51 actually fix it and so the the audacity of this guy to show up on national TV 10:57 and complain about fentel and deaths as the result of the Border 11:02 when the only reason we don't have stronger border legislation right now is because of him and his leader and his 11:09 party so if he really believed all the that he's spewing about fentel 11:14 and about border deaths and about rapists coming over the border to to sell drugs to your kids and and rape 11:20 your wives and and whatever else they they claim uh people are doing as the result of this border Invasion that they 11:26 keep screaming about if they really believed any of that then that means that they take full responsibility for 11:31 that because the only reason we don't have stronger border legislation is because of them again you had a 11:37 Democratic party that had that would normally say okay if you want border 11:42 security you have to give us comprehensive immigration reform this time Democrats didn't even require 11:47 comprehensive immigration reform they just said we'll do border security we're game if it's that much of an issue let's 11:53 go let's you have a a a president and Joe Biden who has already worked with Republicans to pass an infrastru 11:59 structure law and a gun safety law and he's like let's go I'm game I'm I'm a will willing negotiating partner and 12:06 you're not going to get one anytime soon so let's do this thing and yet Republicans who complain on a daily Loop 12:13 about how dangerous the border is decided uhoh we can't lose this as a as an issue in the campaign to fearmonger 12:20 about to our audiences so let's just kill the bill that our side negotiated so for this guy to show up on TV and 12:26 complain about fentel um and and death says the result of the Border when it's when it's his party and his party alone 12:32 that's responsible for any border crossings that might have caused any crime uh that that's like you know 12:38 putting putting this guy's uh moral bankruptcy on on full display he also 12:45 claims somewhere in that in there that somehow Joe Biden got us involved uh on put got us to the verge of World War III 12:52 what this is like the most peaceful time in in h in in human history and the only 12:58 reason that the whole world has rallied behind Ukraine is because we recognize the dangers of emboldening Russia think 13:04 about it if we didn't let if we didn't if the rest of the world if NATO didn't rally behind Ukraine and just allowed 13:10 Russia to go in and take over parts of Ukraine uh that would immediately show 13:16 Russia's biggest Ally China that they have cart blanch to do their own imperialistic actions and they would go 13:21 into Taiwan and so now you have Russia taking over Ukraine you have China taking over Taiwan and just give that 13:26 whole that new axis of Evil C launch to create a a second wave of imperialism in 13:32 the world that would be that would be World War III then you would have more danger in the world than in the International Community what NATO is 13:39 doing by protecting Ukraine by making sure that Ukraine is well funded against Russian aggression is precisely making 13:45 sure that we don't have World War III and emboldening these forces that would cause World War III so just on on issue 13:51 after issue it is a joke from from Byron Donald's and uh and just goes to show 13:57 that if the that these people sacrificed their integrity their dignity a long time ago again 14:05 just how sad is it that you have uh you know a black guy who makes his way into 14:11 the US Senate and uh and I'm sorry not in the US Senate in the house and uses 14:17 his platform to attack to attack the first black female 14:23 nominee for president of the United States that's what he's doing with his platform after he defied whatever he had 14:29 to get into the Congress because let's be clear there are not that many uh there are not that many black people in 14:35 Congress and there's certainly not that many black people in the Republican party in Congress so for him to use his platform to just attack a black 14:43 woman just goes to show that that they're willing to sacrifice anything if it means that they can suck up to Donald 14:49 Trump give him you know five minutes of of servitude on national TV and that's exactly what they'll do um with that 14:56 said I do want to talk about the vep stakes for a moment but just just a note for everybody watching right now um if 15:01 you're not yet subscribed to this channel it would be a huge help for me if you could subscribe because we are 15:07 very close to 3 million we're less than 5,000 away and about half of the people watching right now are not yet 15:13 subscribed half of the people watching in this live stream are not yet subscribed so if everybody who's not yet subscribed just subscribed to this 15:19 Channel right now we would literally hit 3 million in real time um it would happen on this very live stream which 15:25 would be quite cool so um again for those who are watching if you appreciate this live stream or or just my channel 15:32 more broadly um please do me a favor and hit the Subscribe button I very much appreciate it okay so let's talk about 15:39 the vep stakes a little bit it does seem like it's down to just a few people it's looking like uh what we're seeing is Tim 15:48 Waltz Andy Basher Mark Kelly Josh Shapiro and 15:54 possibly Pete Budaj although I haven't heard much reporting about Pete Budaj so I'll answer some questions if you 16:01 have them about the vep stakes uh if you have some questions about the 16:07 vep stakes and uh and just make sure to to tag my name in the chat so that I can make sure to see your questions when 16:13 they uh when they come 16:24 up well let's do this actually let's take the opportunity to see uh to do a 16:29 quick poll to see where everybody's at who would you like to see as VP and I'm going to make this poll the polls have a 16:36 max four options so we'll do Tim Waltz we'll do uh Josh 16:42 Shapiro we'll do Andy Basher and we will 16:51 do Mark Kelly although there is some there is some concern about whether Mark 16:57 Kelly did or didn't get it because he deleted a tweet this morning that kind of clarified that he's there to serve 17:03 the people of Arizona um I don't know if we can look too much into that I don't want to be someone who just like takes 17:08 one random deleted tweet as as evidence of anything but just for the purposes of this poll let's go to Tim Waltz Josh 17:14 Shapiro Andy Basher and Mark Kelly so if you're watching live right now you'll be able to participate in the poll if 17:20 you're not watching live you won't be able to partake in the poll in real time but I'll make sure that you know what 17:25 the results have said 17:30 okay so let's get to these questions if Trump loses who stops the GOP from doing project 2025 the next time around uh the 17:38 next time around I mean here's the thing we can pass laws that would codify protections to prevent project 2025 from 17:45 going forward take for example schedule F which would reclassify hundreds of thousands of federal employees as as uh 17:52 political appointees Biden already put into place a rule that would prevent exactly that but a rule is only as 17:58 strong as the Govern government's willing willingness to enforce it and so in in a scenario like that really 18:05 there's nothing to prevent project 2025 from being enacted the next time around which is why it's important in every 18:11 single election to make sure that we're fighting to win I mean it's as simple as that this isn't the kind of thing where 18:17 where we just save democracy and it's saved and we're all good this is it's got to be part of our lifestyle that we 18:24 vote every election to protect democracy every election because so long as the Republican Party continues to embrace 18:29 this anti-democratic fervor that swept the party uh you know we're going to be in a situation where every election is 18:36 going to be the most important election of our 18:43 lifetimes so the poll is who we want this is who you would 18:52 prefer and we'll go a few minutes on this poll we've already got um about 18:57 3,000 votes on the poll so we'll continue going for a few minutes uh if you have questions by the way make sure 19:02 to tag my name so that I can see them uh and if you're not yet subscribed and you want to participate in the chat all you have to do is click the Subscribe button 19:09 doesn't cost you anything to subscribe but this way uh this way you'll be able to write in the chat why wasn't Jamie Rasin a candidate 19:17 uh that's a great question I I think that I mean look I if there's any human being in the world that I have reverence 19:24 for it's uh it's Jamie Rasin we have our series on this channel called class with Jamie Rasin which by the way each 19:30 episode averages like 2 million views 1 and a half million views our last episode of class got almost 3 million 19:37 views so again another reason to subscribe uh in terms of why he wasn't a candidate I'm not exactly sure um but I 19:44 do think that he enjoys his place in the house remember Jamie Raskin opted not to 19:49 run for the US Senate because now he has an important position as chair of the oversight committee or I'm sorry ranking 19:55 member of the oversight Committee in the house because Democrats lost their majority but still he's a high ranking official in the house had he ran for the 20:02 US Senate he would have lost that position and he would have been the junior senator from Maryland so I think 20:08 that he recognizes the importance of his role in the house especially when he sits on the same oversight committee as 20:13 Maru teller green and Lauren bobert and a bunch of these other clowns James comr 20:19 so someone like him being there to just rebut the the Avalanche the Deluge of 20:25 misinformation and disinformation is especially important right now and uh and and who knows maybe that 20:31 maybe that was uh not worth giving up but I I can't but I can't say for 20:36 sure I mean look you know Jamie Rasin is going to be probably the best at any job 20:42 he does so it's not to say he's not qualified because clearly he 20:50 is I saw that there are election denying officials who could refuse to certify the vote at a county level to prevent 20:56 state certification what would be the impact so I did two interviews on this channel as the result of that I'm 21:02 assuming that most of you saw the Rachel mattow segment where she discussed the prospect of county level election 21:09 officials who will refuse to certify because these people are election deniers avowed election deniers who are 21:15 right now in positions of power where they could refuse certification and if you refuse certification at the county 21:20 level you're not going to be able to do state certification and we're not going to be able to do federal certification so one person can just kind of gum up 21:28 the works and throw a kink in the in in the gears there and just stop the entire thing so I spoke with Mark Elias and I 21:34 spoke with the writer the author of the article The Rolling Stones article Justin glaw about exactly this the 21:40 takeaway especially from speaking with Mark Elias is these people can try it um 21:45 they'll get sued and what happened after the 2020 election is they tried it and they got sued more than 60 times uh a 21:53 number of these people who engaged in election denialism um at this more official level these fake electors have 21:59 now been indicted and uh and I think that you know it's the kind of thing where where it's like you know 22:07 uh maybe they can get get away with it the first time but if they try it again recognizing that you know it's already 22:14 led to an avalanche of indictments the first time around uh these people are going to have a little bit more reticence to go forward and put 22:20 themselves into um into Harm's Way and give themselves legal exposure if they know what happened the first time around 22:26 so again we fully expect there to be some county level officials but know 22:32 full well that there are people on the Democratic side who are fully prepared to sue them if they do that and uh and 22:37 that if there's no basis for what they're doing they're not going to have a case and they're going to get swatted down in the same way that it happened in 22:45 2020 okay so I'm ask I'm getting asked all the VPS have their Pros what about the cons so let's discuss the cons of 22:52 these different candidates um the first is Josh Shapiro there has been some con 22:58 nation in the media especially among progressives that he's too um that he's too bullish on Israel and I think one of 23:05 the virtues of kamla's campaign is that she's been able to distance herself from the baggage that Biden held with regard 23:11 to Israel Gaza so there is some worry among progressives that Josh Shapiro would kind of bring that baggage back 23:17 that's the con of Josh Shapiro obviously that's you know there is the the pros of Josh Shapiro is that he is right now the 23:23 governor with 61% approval of a state that Democrats absolutely Ely need to 23:29 win period full stop it's going to be a difficult route to the White House 23:34 without the state of Pennsylvania in terms of the Tipping Point States it probably goes somewhere like Michigan 23:41 Wisconsin Pennsylvania and then after Pennsylvania comes Arizona and Nevada 23:48 and Georgia if we don't win Pennsylvania it's not even enough and if we don't win 23:54 Pennsylvania but let's say we win Michigan and Wisconsin it's not enough to just win one of those three states 24:00 that I named after that Nevada Arizona and Georgia we have to win two of them so it's a heavy lift if we win 24:06 Pennsylvania then Pennsylvania Michigan Wisconsin that's the election and and 24:12 and we win without Pennsylvania we're looking at wi Wisconsin Michigan and then two out of the three of Nevada 24:19 Arizona and Georgia so or North Carolina you can throw in there as well but it's all of those are heavy lifts these are 24:25 not blue states by any means by any means like these are swing States so we 24:31 have to be you know careful about about about not taking advantage of every opportunity that we have and so the pro 24:37 for Josh Shapiro of course is that he is the very popular governor of a must-win state of Pennsylvania then we look at 24:43 someone like Tim Waltz um I think that there's probably no cons of Tim Waltz 24:49 other than the opportunity cost of not choosing somebody who might confer a d a direct electoral Advantage like Josh 24:56 Shapiro in Pennsylvania or Mark Kelly and Arizona so it's not really that there's anything wrong with him he's 25:01 been a phenomenal candidate he's an excellent surrogate he leans into progressivism and he's done a ton of 25:08 good work in Minnesota passed a ton of progressive legislation in Minnesota and really made that state a model for for 25:15 what this country could look like with Unapologetic Progressive leadership the only question is if you have somebody 25:21 right in front of you like Mark Kelly in Arizona or Josh Shapiro in PA are you giving up too much by choosing somebody 25:28 who comes from Minnesota where there might not be some huge bump I mean we've already got Minnesota in the Democratic column hopefully and so it's really the 25:35 opportunity cost that's the biggest con there andy Basher same thing there's really no con to him he's a he's a super 25:42 effective Democrat who was able to win even in a you know dark red State like Kentucky but same deal is it are we 25:49 giving up too much by virtue of not choosing somebody who may might be able to confer some direct electoral benefit 25:55 and the answer is I don't know then we look at someone like Mark Kelly for example and uh the pros I mean the pros 26:03 are clear guy's an astronaut able to win handly in a state like Arizona uh the 26:08 pros of Mark Kelly is that if you take him out of that of his seat that is a swing senate seat in a tough state for 26:16 Democrats the State of Arizona we wouldn't just have to and and he would be replaced by the Democratic governor 26:22 ktie hob so he there would be a democratic replacement but that person wouldn't just have to you know fight for 26:28 election in 2028 when Mark Kelly's term is up they would also have to sit for a special election in 2026 so we wouldn't 26:34 just have have kind of an uncertain candidate to to take Mar Kelly's place 26:40 and run for re-election in 28 we would have two elections in a swing state and all of the disadvantages that come with 26:46 that that means a lot of money spent that means that we could potentially lose the senate in 2026 depending on 26:52 what happens if we don't have a strong enough candidate in there so a lot of uh a lot of questions about you know the 26:57 danger of putting somebody in a seat where we don't necessarily know what it could look like down the road I mean 27:03 Mark Kelly is a very strong Senator uh and and our chances are very good so 27:08 long as he continues to remain in that seat so um so that's really that's really the lay of the land in terms of 27:15 in terms of all these people the good news is that there are no bad choices 27:20 here at least in my opinion there's no bad choices I think anybody who she chooses from this list and by the way 27:26 there's also Pete Budaj jedge who is an absolute assassin when it comes to uh when it comes to taking on Republicans 27:32 and going on Fox News and finding people where they are and being able to persuade them and that's really the name 27:38 of the game in in politics right now it's being able to uh uh persuade people 27:43 who might not have been on our side so I uh so I I don't know what the right 27:49 answer is here luckily I'm not the one who's going to be making this decision I actually don't even have a a strong 27:55 preference because I guess there's no point in really digging in on a strong preference right now and we're going to have the answer to this question in the 28:02 next 48 hours this this question will be answered before the 7th um and I believe 28:08 that we're going to see a rally in Pennsylvania I want to say on 28:13 August 6th and so I believe that within the next less than 48 hours now we're 28:19 going to have an answer um to this question of who the vice president is going to be she's met kamla Harris has 28:25 met with a raft of VP um candidates today uh Andy Basher drove in U Mark 28:31 Kelly um Josh Shapiro I haven't heard anything about Pete Budaj meeting with 28:36 her but it's not the same thing uh him going to meet with her is not going to get the same coverage as a governor or a 28:42 senator coming in from their state um you know they were probably a few blocks 28:48 away from each other so uh in any case we will we will see what happens uh in 28:54 in the very near future and I should just note that as soon as we do have a decision in terms of who the VP pick is 29:00 going to be I will make sure to come on immediately and live stream it so again for those who are watching right now if 29:06 you want to be able to catch that live stream please make sure to sub subscribe to this Channel and hit the notification 29:11 Bell um this way you'll get an alert as soon as I do go live okay with that said 29:16 uh if you have other questions that you want to throw in make sure to throw them into the chat and I'll do my best to answer them 29:31 what are my thoughts about Bernie and other candidates endorsing VP candidates is this a good political move for the party I think it's fine I think it's 29:37 fine for anybody to get activated and energized about certain people who they're excited about um it doesn't 29:43 surprise me that certain progressives will Nom will um uh endorse certain 29:49 candidates who have been really good on labor for example and who've passed Progressive legislation I think that's 29:54 fine the only thing that that I would caution is after somebody's chosen this doesn't have to it doesn't always have 29:59 to devolve into a okay we didn't get exactly what we wanted and so we're going to just burn the whole place down 30:06 we cannot let perfect be the enemy of good so when she chooses whoever she's 30:11 going to choose at the end of the day we have to recognize that okay that's the choice now it's a question of whether we 30:17 want to beat Donald Trump and JD Vance in November or if we want to complain about not getting every single thing 30:23 that we wanted and not everything being perfect and so we're just going to you know take our ball and go home basically 30:29 and I think that you know the bernes of the world um clearly understand the stakes I mean there's there's no 30:35 question about that so I think it's they're they are completely entitled to be able to come out and advocate for 30:40 certain candidates that they want uh without making it seem like you know without without it making it feel like 30:48 it's that person or 30:56 nothing wouldn't Mark Kelly bring Republicans against Trump into the fold of course yeah I mean a lot of these 31:01 people would look Mark Kelly won in a red State ostensibly with Republican votes Andy Basher won in the red State 31:08 ostensibly with Republican votes Josh Shapiro has 61% support in a 50 50ish 31:15 state ostensibly he did that with Republican votes Republican support uh same thing with um you know uh who else 31:23 have I forgotten uh Tim Waltz I mean these are not like these this we're not talking about California or New York or 31:29 Vermont here these are states that are relatively close that these people are winning in and have high approval ratings which means they enjoy the 31:36 approval of a good number of Republicans in those States so I think the whole point was to find people who did have 31:42 crossover appeal you'll also remember that uh today just today we had um news 31:48 break that uh the new group Republicans for Harris came out and it's composed of 31:54 a ton of really influential um at least uh a ton of influential people who 32:01 either worked in the Trump Administration or who defected away from the Republican party as the result of trumpism and now they have a formal 32:07 group Adam kinzinger Jeff Duncan Christy Whitman there are there are dozens of people that that really form this group 32:14 of Republicans for Harris and I think it's smart because the goal here isn't necessarily as far as Republicans are 32:20 concerned the goal here isn't necessarily for these people to turn into Democrats it's think about politics 32:27 today so so much of our political affiliation has been wrapped up in our identity when when you think about who 32:33 you are as a person you usually think about maybe your skin color your race your religion and for a lot of people 32:38 their political identity is right up there so for someone to say like uh you shouldn't be a republican anymore that's 32:45 like them saying that you shouldn't be some some major you shouldn't be white or black or Jewish or Christian or 32:52 whatever it is it's it's it's a it's a fundamental part of who they are and so the goal for kamla Harris and Democrats 32:58 right now shouldn't be telling Republicans that they can't be Republicans because if we just try to do 33:03 that it's just going to backfire you're not going to take away some part that is for so many people a fundamental aspect 33:08 of who they are the more important thing is to respect the fact that they are still Republicans but give them a 33:14 permission structure to know that you don't only have to vote for Donald Trump and so that's what Republicans for 33:20 Harris does it's a smart play it's it's not saying like you're a Democrat now cuz a lot of these people don't even 33:26 have don't they don't want to be Democrats and that's fine that's their prerogative but the point is to again 33:32 give them a permission structure show them that there is a community of people um who are like them who don't want to 33:38 disavow some major element of their identity and instead just say like look you can still be a Republican and 33:44 recognize that you don't have to just vote for Donald Trump there's another way and giving these people kind of the 33:50 agent the autonomy to do that um and to reach those voters and not have to have 33:55 the the the Harris campaign just do some do like take time out of its schedule 34:02 where we also have to reach our base instead it gives those people who by the way are more trusted Messengers anyway than a bunch of radical communist Marxist Democrats uh let those people talk to voters who identify with them so I think it was just a really smart move all around for this group to to to come into formation here ah here's my my favorite question do I think Trump fever will break if he loses for the second arguably third time if you count 2022 midterms here's what I've decided on that and I've used this analogy before so I apologize if you've heard this before but you know when you watch those zombie movies and um and you have like the main zombie and when you kill the main zombie all of a sudden all of the people who had been whose brains had been like taken over by zombies is M as soon as the main zombie dies those people snap out of it and they're like what happened where where was I like 35:05 what was I sleeping that that's not going to happen like these people these people in the Trump base are True 35:12 Believers of of trumpism and the people who are coming up in the Republican ranks are espousing trumpism and there 35:19 is no per there is no incentive structure in the Republican party to do moderate politics think about the 35:24 moderates in the Republican Party think about the Adam kininger where is he right now think about Mitt Romney where is he going after the next cycle all of 35:31 these people who were willing to work across the aisle or who or who were willing to acknowledge objective reality 35:38 about the 2020 election those people are gone they've been excommunicated from the party that is why we have 35:44 Republicans for Harris that's why we have that group right now because these people were these people are persona non 35:49 gratas in the GOP so I don't think there's any incentive structure whatsoever for any new Republicans to 35:55 come up and and embrace you know moderate politics it's going to be more Margie tiller greens and Lauren 36:02 bobert's and Matt Gates and Jim Jordans and James comr look what happened to Alise stonic she was an avowed moderate 36:09 and now she's turned into the most slavishly loyal Maga sycophant that you 36:14 could possibly find whose life revolves around bending the knee to her god king 36:21 that's what the GOP is today and if it's not Donald Trump himself it's some per perverse form of trumpism that's going 36:28 to succeed him I mean look who he chose as as his Heir on his on his presidential ticket it's JD Vance not 36:35 somebody who was moderate not somebody who came from some swing state not somebody who was a different race or religion or ethnicity it was a carbon 36:42 copy of him and look at how the Bas rallied around him look at who was advocating for him it was Don Jr and 36:47 Tucker Carlson the younger people in the GOP the people who have have uh 36:53 have um whose words have weight in that party and who can influence decisions in 36:58 that party so that's the future of the party the future of the party isn't going to be like Mitt Romney it's not 37:03 going to be Nikki Haley the only reason that Nikki Haley had any votes for her is because people viewed her as a 37:09 vehicle for anti-trump sentiment and she became excommunicated from the party although she thinks that by virtue of 37:15 endorsing Donald Trump at the RNC that that's going to help her at all it's not she has no future in that party unless 37:21 she can just conform to exactly what Elise stefanic has conformed into and 37:27 and Marella green and all of these other magaa fans so you know I I I don't I 37:32 don't foresee any time um in the in the near future where things are going to change and the reason for that mostly is 37:40 because usually when you win an election I'm sorry usually when you lose an election you can take that opportunity 37:45 to say okay we lost because the voters rejected us and so we're going to take this opportunity to retool and figure 37:51 out how to win because ostensibly you want power and to get power you have to be responsive to the actual vote who 37:57 vote you into power but because the Republicans have decided that they're not going to be responsive to voters they're going to make up a fairy tale 38:04 that they won the 2020 election and that they've won every election that they've lost um or that doesn't or that or if an 38:11 election doesn't go their way that they that there was just fraud now that they're lying to themselves and creating 38:17 um make-believe scenarios where they've won elections that they've lost they've given themselves permission to not 38:23 retool to not change anything to just double down on the exact same reasons why they're losing because they've 38:29 deluded themselves into thinking that they didn't lose and so the result of that is that nothing changes and you 38:35 just double triple quadruple down on the crazy on on the America First agenda on the Maga of it all and that's what keeps 38:42 losing these elections remember Donald Trump has overseen losses in the Republican party in 2018 when Democrats 38:49 had the biggest uh midterm margin in the house in modern American history in 2020 38:55 when Trump himself lost by 7 million votes in 2022 when it was supposed to be 39:00 this massive Red Wave year and not only did Republicans not get some 30 40 seat 39:06 majority in the house they have what a one two seat majority right now and they didn't even win the senate in a 39:12 miserable Senate map for Democrats and of course 2023 same deal special elections across the country Alabama 39:19 Kentucky Kansas uh Ohio um Virginia Republicans lost on the 39:26 back of of trumpism of dobs so in election after election after election 39:32 Republicans are losing and they are not they are not taking to Heart the reason that they're losing because they are so 39:38 focused on pretending playing make believe that they've won and you know 39:43 they can continue doing that it's not going to help them win because they're just lying to themselves and they know they're lying by the way they all know 39:49 the truth but it's just a matter of of basically pulling one over on the Rubes who trust them and that's what it is at 39:55 the end of the day 40:18 let's see I am being told by the way to go full screen so let's go full screen I've also been told to stop using logic so I I apologize for using logic here's a good point I feel like the trumpism will need to go away through generations not through a change of mind and I agree with that um I you know I think that so long as you have and look these are largely older folks 41:00 who've been manipulated um you know through years of indoctrination by Fox News more recently Newsmax oan right-wing media Rush limo until they get this gen until these people cycle out and we have a younger generation in who has more social media literacy digital media literacy just um ability to to discern truth from fiction uh until we have that look there are still going to be enough people in the Republican party that uh that believe this stuff that's going to cause these Republicans not to not to change uh course basically because it's working for enough of them and in the meantime they can still get their little pats on the head by the god king and that's really uh what they're focused on okay I'm G to answer a few questions I will take a quick opportunity right now before uh before we finish up here um again if you're not yet subscribed to this Channel and you want to support my work um and help me get to 3 million I'm 42:00 just a couple thousand away at this point so if you're not yet subscribed please do me a favor and subscribe to this channel it does not cost anything to do so and again it's a great way to support what I do I don't do paid paid sponsorships or ads or anything like that so uh so this right here is a great way to just support my work um this the other thing that I was going to ask for is uh if you want to support me further I do have a book coming out in uh just a couple of days now um so that book is called Shame it's available for pre-order right now um if you want to read that I basically talk about how Republicans have used their historical branding Pro Family Values uh Pro Constitution Pro states rights Pro fiscal responsibility they've used that as a cover to give themselves um a permission structure to behave antithetically to to their stated values and how the media has given them cover to also do the same thing and what and what lessons Democrats can learn from the landscape that we're living in to base basically rebalance it um so I'm really proud of this book and the forward was written by Jamie Rasin and 43:02 uh so if you'd like to pre-order it I am going to put uh a pins Link in the uh 43:07 chat right now and you can go ahead and pre-order this book and uh that is uh I promise the only book commercial that 43:14 I'll be doing today so if you're not yet uh if you haven't yet pre-ordered that would be a great way to support what I do as well I'm also going to end this 43:21 poll because it looks like Tim Walsh Josh Shapiro and Mark Kelly are the 43:27 winners Andy Basher is out so we're going to do one last poll where I do wals Shapiro Kelly and budajudge now and 43:34 uh and we're going to just make this choice so this is who you want as VP and so it's going to be wals Buddha jedge 43:43 Shapiro and Kelly and whoever wins this poll um I'll just pass the results along 43:50 to the vice president's office and we can just get this thing sorted um that's generally how it works it starts from a 43:57 YouTube poll and uh and from there um you know from from from here it'll just 44:03 uh we'll just pick the next vice president 44:09 okay uh I just got a request talk about Republicans for Harris I just spoke about Republicans Harris for a little 44:14 bit so you can just rewind this video and you'll be able to see all of 44:21 that do I think the Maga do I think the Republicans will ever regret Trump and Maga I think will uh I you know I have a 44:28 series with Tim Miller and I certainly think he regrets the way that the Republican party has turned out um in 44:34 you know in the last few years um but you know that's to our benefit the biggest Coalition in politics right now 44:40 is the anti-trump Coalition you know it's uh there are a lot of people who want to vote for Democrats but there 44:45 let's be honest there are a lot of people who just don't want to vote for Donald Trump he has been the the best thing for Democratic enthusiasm uh in a 44:53 long time and so this is our Coalition our job is to make sure that we activate our entire Coalition but yeah I think 44:58 that when Republicans lose this election in November and they recognize that they've lost every election since 45:04 2016 um you know they've lost 2018 2020 22 23 and hopefully in 24 I think that 45:11 it'll start to Dawn on them just the extent to which Donald Trump has been toxic and an albatross around their 45:23 necks what would it take to get rid of the Fox network I don't see them running out of money anytime soon could 45:28 legislative action be taken no uh the answer to that is no what we have to do is just Embrace and support Progressive 45:35 media I mean that's why I do what I do a lot of people ask me especially during these live streams um when I'm going to 45:41 run for office I'm not going to run for office I don't think I'll ever run for office because I think I think Progressive media is is really the front 45:48 lines of of this whole fight I mean think about the difference in the Republican party from 1974 when when 45:57 Nixon was forced to resign because there was too much political pressure on him after Watergate to today armed with a 46:04 huge powerful right-wing media ecosystem where Donald Trump incited an Insurrection at the US capital Not only 46:10 was he not excommunicated from the party like he should have been he was embraced to the point where he is now yet again 46:15 the Republican nominee for president that is the direct result of the effect that media has had and we go back to the 46:22 Roger als's memo which incidentally I wrote about in my upcoming book a lot of this goes back to the days of the als's 46:28 memo that led to the creation of Fox News I talk about project red map which was implemented in in in 2010 in the 46:36 aftermath of Don of Obama getting elected where they begun gerrymandering Republicans are very good at 46:42 establishing plans and setting them in motions plans that will bear fruit much later years later and we're seeing the 46:48 result of that right now Republicans have done that with Fox News and so I think it's incumbent on us to support 46:55 independent Progressive media to act as a Bull workk against the daily wires and the rush limbs of the world and fox and 47:01 oan and Newsmax and Dan Bonino and Steve Bannon there is so much right-wing media 47:07 and it is so it's so effective at manipulating people and so we need we 47:12 need someone to fight back we need a a strong ecosystem on the left to be able to fight back so our job can't be okay 47:18 how do we shut down Fox News it's just it's to bring more people into our Movement by making sure that we flood 47:24 the airwaves Flood YouTube flood the internet and podcast with with factual information that rebut that uh uh rebuts 47:33 all of the right-wing disinformation out 47:41 there I will do one more question 47:46 here do I think reminding people of January 6 with help K's campaign of course I think um you know a lot of 47:53 times the media will like poo poo the issue of democracy as a potent campaign issue because because you know the 47:59 pundit class loves to say that like nothing matters except economics and the economy and so if you're not talking 48:05 about the economy everybody else could give a what happens to our democracy protecting democracy was like 48:11 the number one issue in the last election and so and so absolutely you have to continue hammering away at this 48:17 idea of January 6 but not just what happened in the past but rather what Donald Trump wants to do moving forward 48:23 we've talked about the dangers of project 2025 about him classifying the entire career civil servant you know um 48:30 um Workforce as political appointees what that would mean if all of a sudden we have Trump acolytes that fill up the 48:38 ranks of the doj the FBI the FCC the IRS how they can start um weaponizing those 48:43 departments if they're filled up with people like Jeffrey Clark and and Steve Bannon and uh and you know all of all of 48:51 The Usual Suspects and uh how they can start to audit people who are anti-trump 48:57 how they can wield the FCC to threaten to take away um licenses for news 49:03 networks who are anti-trump um how they can threaten investigations using the doj and the FBI how they can refuse to 49:09 investigate white supremacist crime or how they can validate bogus claims of 49:15 election fraud and use that as a predicate to go in and take a take voting machines like they tried to do in 2020 thegu the limit in terms of what 49:22 they could do if they really do um pass project 2025 and enact the agenda that they're looking to enact so you know it 49:28 it's it's January 6 but also a forward-looking warning about what's to come if project 2025 is implemented as 49:35 the result of Donald Trump taking power so um so I think it has to be a 49:40 multi-pronged approach here all right and we'll end with this 49:47 who would I personally like to see nominated as VP I've said before I don't think there's any bad choice but I feel like 49:54 you know I want to be honest here so let's see I I think that I I I'm going to be I'm 50:01 going to be totally honest in terms of who I would like to see I don't have a specific favorite but I have three that 50:06 I would like to see and that I'm completely even on and then I have two that I don't really think help us too 50:14 much so the two that I don't think really help us that much are Andy Basher 50:19 because I think we would take him out of uh a a Governor's seat in Kentucky and I 50:24 don't think we would be able to win that seat again and I think like yes he's a Democrat that could win in the red state but we 50:31 have other Democrats that can win in the red State and none of these states are completely totally blue and so they 50:36 would all be able to win ostensibly in swing States they're all able to appeal to Republican voters Josh Shapiro has 50:42 61% approval in a state that's not 61% Democratic so he has Republican voters 50:47 who support him um same with with Tim Waltz and say like same with Mark Kelly 50:52 for example so I don't think J that Andy Basher really brings a ton but I think the the disadvantages outweigh the 50:59 benefits because we would just lose a Governor's seat and we can find other people who appeal to you know moderate 51:07 voters who are looking for a white guy on the ticket so Andy Basher is one who I wouldn't pick the other one is Mark 51:12 Kelly just because I I and and that's not to say that he wouldn't be a phenomenal VP and wouldn't you know help 51:19 us win but there is a lot of risk in in terms of taking somebody out of a seat 51:26 that is a swing seat in the US Senate which is especially important especially as it comes as it relates to um 51:32 appointing judges and a possible Supreme Court replacement and that's a tough seat to win in Arizona and Not only 51:38 would we have to defend that seat in 2028 but we'd also have a special election in 20126 which means two cycles 51:44 in a row we have a perhaps an unnecessarily difficult seat to uh to 51:50 protect in the state of Arizona that wouldn't otherwise be the case if Mark Kelly just stayed in the US Senate 51:57 that's that's not a knock on either one of those guys it's just the dangers of losing certain seats that would be kind 52:03 of unforced Errors the three that I would be even on Josh Shapiro Pete 52:08 budajudge and Tim Waltz here's why um Josh Shapiro of course comes from as I 52:14 mentioned before a state that we absolutely must win Pennsylvania is 52:19 non-negotiable assuming we win Michigan and Wisconsin which is by no means a sure thing if we win Pennsylvania we win 52:25 the election if we don't win Pennsylvania that means we have to win two of the following states Nevada 52:32 Arizona Georgia North Carolina what would you feel more comfortable having to do winning 52:39 Pennsylvania or winning two of those States Arizona Nevada Georgia or North Carolina because I would feel safer if 52:46 the only thing that we had to win in the event that we already took Wisconsin and Michigan is Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro 52:52 has 61% support sometimes it's as simple as looking at what the most obvious 52:57 electoral benefit that could be conferred to us is and if it's pen if if we have to win Pennsylvania and we have 53:02 a very popular governor of Pennsylvania on the ticket it might just be like you know keep it simple stupid right the 53:09 other two is Tim wallz who's been a great surrogate clearly um very uh definitely has that like moderate white 53:16 it's you know it's uh it's it's okay to vote for him if you come from a state where you're not uh necessarily super 53:22 keen on voting for uh a a a San Francisco liberal and so he offers that he has a great 53:29 Progressive record to run on in terms of what they've done in Minnesota he's been a really effective surrogate on the campaign Trail so Tim WS would be great 53:36 and he seems also to be the the Do no harm candidate in my opinion uh I I I 53:41 haven't found anybody that doesn't like Tim Waltz and then finally Pete budajudge uh you know look Pete usually 53:49 has a massive amount of support on this channel for those who are participating in the chat right now Pete of course won 53:56 the vote again 38% Shapiro has 30% wal has 20 Kelly has 12 so Buddha jedge for 54:03 like theth day in a row has won the poll in terms of who people would like to see um be the VP pick he is an assassin he 54:11 can go on any network talk to any person debate anyone and he will win um and 54:16 he's he's just that good he's so good at what he does um there is worry of course 54:22 that like oh I don't know if the country's going to be ready to elect a gay guy but was the country to elect a black president until we had the 54:28 opportunity to elect Barack Obama is the country ready to elect a woman before we have kamla Harris on the ticket right 54:34 now I'm happy to vote for her she's winning in the polling right now so clearly it shows that there is a majority of people who can vote for her 54:41 and elect her so you don't know what the country is ready for until we give the country an opportunity to actually do it 54:47 so I'm not so sold on on you know the the the worries about about Pete's uh 54:53 sexuality being some big prohibitive factor but in any case those are the three who I think are are are really 55:00 effective with that said I'd be fine with all of them so I think we have a deep bench there's nobody that scares me on that list and uh and uh ultimately at the end of the day really the VP is going to conform to whatever the policy positions of the president are so it's not going to make that much of a difference but it is fun to talk about in the moment and uh and I do think it will give some exciting bump to have not just one young person KLA Harris but two young people on the ticket in terms of whoever she picks and by Young I'm uh I'm everything is relative right I think uh relative to what we had uh with Joe Biden and also relative to the Republican ticket with Donald Trump who is 78 years old himself uh there's going to be way much more way more enthusiasm energy and youth on the Democratic ticket regardless of uh who kamla Harris ultimately chooses so I will leave it there again for those watching thank you so much uh for tuning in if you're not yet subscribed we are very close to 56:00 three million subscribers just a couple 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