Speaker 1: Line sharing.
Speaker 2: First tonight.
Speaker 3: Today mark's the end of the fake presidency. The cover
Speaker 3: up of Joe Biden's health will go down as the
Speaker 3: Democrats and left wing media's greatest ever hoax. For years,
Speaker 3: the president was described as fine, sharp, strong, mentally fit
Speaker 3: even and now the eleventh.
Speaker 2: Hours suddenly not so much.
Speaker 3: Let's be clear, the Democrats didn't portion eighty one year
Speaker 3: old mentally incompetent man out because he is sick.
Speaker 2: They pushed him out.
Speaker 3: Because on June twenty seven this year, their big fat
Speaker 3: four year cover up was exposed to the world.
Speaker 4: We have one thousand trillionaires in America, I mean billionaires
Speaker 4: in America. They'd raised five hundred million dollars billion dollars
Speaker 4: I should say, every single solitary person eligible for what
Speaker 4: will do with the with the COVID, with the total
Speaker 4: initiative relative to what we're going to do with more
Speaker 4: border patrol. President Trump, I really don't know what he
Speaker 4: said at the end of those sent I don't think
Speaker 4: he knows what he said either.
Speaker 3: What a blight on his presidency that Americans have for
Speaker 3: so long been gas lit and treated with contempt by
Speaker 3: Biden and those in his inner circle who allowed this
Speaker 3: man to be the gaff machine of the free world.
Speaker 3: And how did Joe Biden make his grand exit announcement
Speaker 3: with a letter saying, while it has been my intention.
Speaker 2: To seek reelection, I believe it is in the best.
Speaker 3: Interest of my party and the country for me to
Speaker 3: stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties
Speaker 3: as president for the remainder of my term, not even
Speaker 3: a formal televised address. Why exactly, then, is it in
Speaker 3: the country's best interest? Is it because you lied about
Speaker 3: the state of your health. Is it because you're in
Speaker 3: a circle light about the state of your health, or
Speaker 3: is it because you were exposed and your colleagues led
Speaker 3: a crue to force you out when Donus stopped coughing up.
Speaker 3: Joe Biden was selfish to stay this long. And while
Speaker 3: he thinks he can now just walk away and the
Speaker 3: party can just turn the page, the left and the
Speaker 3: Democrats must be held accountable for lying so long about
Speaker 3: a wilted president. Starting with the liberal media. Remember when
Speaker 3: they told us how fit and healthy Biden was.
Speaker 5: President Biden, who I've been around numerous times just in
Speaker 5: this last year, is sharp, he's focused, he's bright.
Speaker 6: He is sharp, intensely probing and detail oriented and focused.
Speaker 7: This is a man who is sharp, who is on
Speaker 7: top of his game, who knows what's going on.
Speaker 8: He's smart, He's on his game.
Speaker 9: I was in almost every meeting with the president, and
Speaker 9: the President was in front of and on top of
Speaker 9: it all.
Speaker 3: They actually insisted this guy was in great shape.
Speaker 4: I uh, anyway, and I don't want to. I don't
Speaker 4: want to, I mean, choose my words.
Speaker 5: I was just thinking, uh, anyway, I just look, I
Speaker 5: mean Putin's kleptocer. Yeah, it was in February, February, January,
Speaker 5: after I read elected from late januarly early February.
Speaker 3: I mean he was mumbling, fumbling, falling over, speaking to
Speaker 3: dead people, had no idea who he was or where
Speaker 3: he was, wondering off into the abyss and freezing and
Speaker 3: what did the lefty media say that Biden was a
Speaker 3: victim of agism. Time magazine described it as the weaponization.
Speaker 2: Of Biden's age.
Speaker 3: The New York Times had the panic over Joe Biden's
Speaker 3: ages manufactured. Had to use Joe Biden's age as an
Speaker 3: insult is simply agism in disguise.
Speaker 2: To them, it was all fake news.
Speaker 3: Secondly, the Democrats, including Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: Also need to be held to account for the cover up.
Speaker 9: We have a very bold and vibrant president in Joe Biden,
Speaker 9: and in Joe Biden, we have a president who is
Speaker 9: probably one of the boldest and strongest American presidents we
Speaker 9: have had in his response to the needs of the
Speaker 9: American people. But he is an extraordinary leader. And I
Speaker 9: wish that people I could see what I see because
Speaker 9: there's only one person who says behind that resolute death.
Speaker 3: And even after this moment at a fundraiser only a
Speaker 3: few weeks ago, when Joe Biden froze and had to
Speaker 3: be helped off stage by Barack Obama, the White House said, no, no,
Speaker 3: nothing to see here.
Speaker 10: Instead of talking about the president's performance in office, and
Speaker 10: what I mean by that is as legislative went, what
Speaker 10: he's been able to do for the American people across
Speaker 10: the country, we're seeing these deep figs, these manipulated videos,
Speaker 10: and on.
Speaker 2: His performance at the presidential debate.
Speaker 10: It's the jet lag and also the.
Speaker 3: Called They seriously thought they could keep up the facade.
Speaker 2: They lied.
Speaker 3: Thirdly, Jill Biden aka Doctor Jill, must be held to account.
Speaker 3: She's acted like the ultimate stage mom, orchestrating and overseeing
Speaker 3: her husband's every move, pushing him to keep going and
Speaker 3: staying the race even though the man could barely stand up.
Speaker 2: Yoh, you did such a great job.
Speaker 1: You answered every question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well done, Joe.
Speaker 3: Doctor Jill exposed herself as a fraud when, in the
Speaker 3: middle of all this chaos she posed on the front
Speaker 3: cover a Vogue magazine. It became increasingly obvious after the
Speaker 3: debate that there was only one agenda, and that was
Speaker 3: doctor Jills. And fourth, the Democrats who led a coup
Speaker 3: against a sitting president must also be held to account
Speaker 3: by staging a mutiny forcing Biden to pull out at
Speaker 3: the eleventh hour. Biden and his allies have denied voters
Speaker 3: across America an opportunity to elect a nominee in the primaries.
Speaker 2: That is not a fair electoral process. When the party
Speaker 2: is told who the nominee will be.
Speaker 3: Rather, Democratic elites will decide in one final nail in
Speaker 3: the coffin to the American people, Joe endorse someone just
Speaker 3: as inept as him, Karmala Harris. No Democrat primary voter
Speaker 3: has ever actually voted for Kamala Harris. Her twenty twenty
Speaker 3: campaign for nomination lasted five minutes. Yet America could be
Speaker 3: about to be burdened by what might be.
Speaker 9: I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
Speaker 9: what has been. You know, what can be unburdened by
Speaker 9: what has been? What can be unburdened by what has been?
Speaker 9: What can be unburdened by.
Speaker 8: What has been?
Speaker 3: Well, the burden is now on America and the free world.
Speaker 3: It is astonishing that the Democrats are still arguing that
Speaker 3: Donald Trump is the big bad threat to democracy when
Speaker 3: what the party has done here is the real threat
Speaker 3: to democracy. Joe Biden's health is the great American cover up.
Speaker 3: This will go down as the Democrats and the left
Speaker 3: wing media's greatest ever hoax, and voters are poorer for it.
Speaker 3: Coming up, we'll have all the latest from the US
Speaker 3: throughout the night, plus lots of local reaction to this
Speaker 3: historic news. Also tonight, Peter Dutton is catching up to
Speaker 3: Anthony Albanezi in the polls, but can he win the
Speaker 3: next election?
Speaker 2: A political analyst will join me.
Speaker 3: To discuss, but first let's go straight to the US.
Speaker 3: Brianna Lyman is the elections correspondent for the Federalist and
Speaker 3: she joins me. Now, Brianna, thank you for joining us. First,
Speaker 3: the Democrats and left wing media told us Biden is
Speaker 3: mentally fit, he's sharp, he's strong. Then they turned against him,
Speaker 3: wanted him out, and now he's gone. Of course, what
Speaker 3: does he say about those who covered up his mental
Speaker 3: incompetence for so long?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Well, in America, left wing media, this is part of
Speaker 11: their job. It's to run defense for the White House.
Speaker 11: And unfortunately, what we winnessed today with Biden's announcement is
Speaker 11: the culmination of a successful coup effort because Democrats realized
Speaker 11: that Biden's anility had become a political liability. And like
Speaker 11: you mentioned, you know this wasn't an overnight development. You
Speaker 11: go back to last ball. You had Dean Phillips, who
Speaker 11: challenged Biden for the nomination, warning Democratic leadership that Biden
Speaker 11: wasn't fit, and they told him go kick rocks. We
Speaker 11: don't want to hear it. Democrats ran a rigged primary
Speaker 11: in a state like Florida. They just awarded Biden the votes,
Speaker 11: didn't even let Dean Phillips have a real chance. Robert
Speaker 11: Hurr's report came out and Democrats were willing Marrick Garland
Speaker 11: to go to gel instead of releasing those tapes. Joe
Speaker 11: Biden gets walked off stage by Barack Obama and they
Speaker 11: told us it was a cheap fake, right, And so
Speaker 11: for the first time on the debate stage, Joe Biden
Speaker 11: gave the public ninety minutes of unfettered access to himself
Speaker 11: and there was no way to cover that up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was absolutely exposed to the world at that moment.
Speaker 2: I find it interesting.
Speaker 3: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tweeted, President Joe Biden is
Speaker 3: a patriotic American who has always put our country first.
Speaker 3: He's legacy of vision, values, and leadership make him one
Speaker 3: of the most consequential presidents in American history. Brianna, I
Speaker 3: find this extraordinary. She was part of that curve you
Speaker 3: mentioned to bring him down.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Biden did not put the country above himself or
Speaker 11: his party because Biden was reluctant to step down, and
Speaker 11: I don't believe he did this willingly. Look, Biden has
Speaker 11: been in office for fifty years. This is a man
Speaker 11: who has very deep connections and deep friendships with a
Speaker 11: lot of the leadership and individuals who have called on
Speaker 11: him publicly and privately to step down. You would think
Speaker 11: that they would want to give him this you know,
Speaker 11: dignified transfer right allowed Joe Biden to step down, had
Speaker 11: these talks in private, but when the private talks clearly
Speaker 11: didn't work, Democrats had to resort to publicly embarrassing him
Speaker 11: essentially and calling it and creating this mounting pressure campaign
Speaker 11: to say that there is division in the Democratic Party
Speaker 11: and Joe Biden's the reason. But if he steps down,
Speaker 11: things will be honky dory and Nancy Pelosi siven is
Speaker 11: indicative of that. Right. Once Joe Biden did what his
Speaker 11: party and what the Democratic oligarchic machine decided, then things
Speaker 11: are okay.
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, your spot on how redundant now is the
Speaker 3: primaries process because the Dems will now pick the candidate,
Speaker 3: not voters.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 11: You know what's really interesting about it is that they
Speaker 11: have been, you know, breathlessly saying for four years that
Speaker 11: Donald Trump can't win because he's a threat to our democracy.
Speaker 11: Mind you, we live in a constitutional republic, We're not
Speaker 11: a democracy. But that's what they've been saying. And now
Speaker 11: that same party is looking at fourteen million voters and saying, look,
Speaker 11: you can elect whoever you want during the primary process,
Speaker 11: but DC oligarchs, a handful of DC elites, we will
Speaker 11: select who's the actual candidate. And so for a party
Speaker 11: that prides themselves on being, you know, savers of democracy,
Speaker 11: they certainly don't actually care about democracy if it threatens
Speaker 11: their electoral prospects.
Speaker 3: Brianna, if Kamala Harris is indeed endorsed by the party,
Speaker 3: what will she I mean to quote her, is America
Speaker 3: about to be unburdened by what has been.
Speaker 11: So Kamala Harris, like, this is a woman who was
Speaker 11: chosen because she was a black woman. That's what Joe
Speaker 11: Biden said he would do. He said, I'm going to
Speaker 11: pick a black woman. Kamala Harris was that person. Mind you,
Speaker 11: she dropped out of the Democratic primary race. I think
Speaker 11: she was actually the first candidate because she had less
Speaker 11: than five percent of the support. And we know that
Speaker 11: she's not the best candidate now because Barack Obama he
Speaker 11: endorsed an open primary today, So even if he doesn't
Speaker 11: believe that Kamala Harris would be the best choice. And
Speaker 11: I think something that'll be difficult for Democrats to kind
Speaker 11: of overcome. It's going to be how will they answer
Speaker 11: for the border crisis. She was tasked as the borders
Speaker 11: are she was supposed to handle the crisis, and that
Speaker 11: crisis has balloon and it is a top three issue
Speaker 11: for every American voter, specifically independent. So that'll be a
Speaker 11: big hurdle for them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she totally failed on that front, Brianna. If the
Speaker 3: president cannot run again, why is he sticking around until November?
Speaker 2: Do you think he shouldn't?
Speaker 11: I have no idea why he's sticking around, but he
Speaker 11: shouldn't stick around. And if Democrats want to play the
Speaker 11: whole putting you know, country above party, they either have
Speaker 11: to convince Biden to resign the post of presidency or
Speaker 11: they must invoke the twenty fifth Amendment, Because if Biden
Speaker 11: is too senile to cognitively impair, too physically impaired to
Speaker 11: be the nominee so much so that he actually threatens
Speaker 11: their electoral prospects that bad, then he's clearly not fit
Speaker 11: to you know, have his finger on the nuclear button
Speaker 11: for the next six months. And so if Democrats want
Speaker 11: to really prove that they care about their country and
Speaker 11: not their party, they will now call for Biden to
Speaker 11: step down as president.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Now, look I have to show you this vision of
Speaker 3: CNN host Van Jains, who actually cried at the announcement
Speaker 3: by Biden.
Speaker 13: Here it is, I just know that I love this man.
Speaker 13: I care about this man. It was painful every day
Speaker 13: to sit up here and talk about him like he's
Speaker 13: just a you know, some problem for the party. Way
Speaker 13: till we get to the convention, You're going to see
Speaker 13: people crying, standing, screaming, and he may not get a
Speaker 13: chance to talk for ten minutes. We finally get a
Speaker 13: chance to put an arm around this guy.
Speaker 2: Brianna, it's a bit dramatic.
Speaker 11: Don't you think that's an understatement. Look, people want to
Speaker 11: talk about Trump derangement syndrome, and I think this is
Speaker 11: a very good encapsulation of that. Joe Biden, Thankfully he's
Speaker 11: not dead. He didn't die today.
Speaker 8: He just said I'm not.
Speaker 11: Going to run for reelection. So to be brought to
Speaker 11: tears is absolutely in I can't understand why someone would
Speaker 11: be brought to tears to this point. And Van Jones
Speaker 11: is someone who's also kind of echoed similar sentiments as
Speaker 11: Democrats that Biden may not be the best person to run,
Speaker 11: and Biden may have been a good candidate for Democrats
Speaker 11: twenty years ago. But Biden is not that same person,
Speaker 11: and Van Jones should not pretend to play it off
Speaker 11: any other way.
Speaker 3: Well, it certainly caps off a fascinating month in US politics.
Speaker 3: Brianna Lyman, good to speak with you.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: For today's top stories and more. Let's bring it in
Speaker 3: my panel, sky News host Liz Storra and Sky News
Speaker 3: contributor Joe Who would have Brad.
Speaker 14: Hide both happened today?
Speaker 2: Anything else just.
Speaker 7: Been a pretty quiet one.
Speaker 3: Let's start with Joe Biden's pick for the top job
Speaker 3: at Kamala Harris and imagine four years of this. Oh
Speaker 3: look there's more.
Speaker 2: I am Kamela Harris. My pounds are she and parent?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 3: We could have an exciting four years if this all
Speaker 3: goes to play. And Joe, how do you see this
Speaker 3: playing out now with the Democrats?
Speaker 14: It's really interesting the after Kamala is endorsed by Joe Biden.
Speaker 14: Joe Biden, the steady wasn't Joe Biden.
Speaker 8: We don't I've seen the guy.
Speaker 14: Kamala Harris was endorsed by artificial intelligence. No, it's interesting
Speaker 14: their polls tightened a bit, but Trump's on the aggregate,
Speaker 14: Trump actually went up, So Trump actually, like Marvelle, thought, oh,
Speaker 14: I'm going to Trump now. So Karmla obviously picked up
Speaker 14: people who weren't going to come out and vote for
Speaker 14: Joe Biden a tiny percent. I mean, I mean, Trump
Speaker 14: is still ahead, but it actually sort of solidified a
Speaker 14: couple of people, drove a couple of people towards Donald Trump.
Speaker 14: And I think that's because Kamla Harris represents everything that
Speaker 14: Donald Trump and the people who vote for Donald Trump
Speaker 14: are starting to be sort of repulsed by in the
Speaker 14: modern left, in the Democratic Party, that is sort of
Speaker 14: West Coast and East Coast elites, identity politics dominating economic
Speaker 14: need and economic concerns, and Kamala Harris is just the
Speaker 14: perfect embodiment of that, and a somewhat nauseating sort of
Speaker 14: little cartoon videos about equity versus equality and this sort
Speaker 14: of weird, sort of quasi neo Marxist stuff. The id
Speaker 14: pot is obviously there. I mean, the Democrats don't need
Speaker 14: black voters, they don't need women voters. So in terms
Speaker 14: of a sort of symbolic kind of you know, ra rah,
Speaker 14: that demographic, only forty percent of women voting for Donald
Speaker 14: Trump anyway, So they've already got sixty percent of women,
Speaker 14: So what do they achieve by this? If they had
Speaker 14: have got someone ironically like JD. Vance, they might have
Speaker 14: eaten into Trump's vote. But I just don't see. If
Speaker 14: you're voting for Donald Trump, you are going to wade
Speaker 14: through boiling hot lava to vote for you want to
Speaker 14: keep going, That's right, And they're going to vote for
Speaker 14: him and again, and then you've got RFK splitting the
Speaker 14: vote that way, which.
Speaker 3: Will be interesting to say, Liz, do you agree that
Speaker 3: if you're going to vote for Trump, you're certainly not
Speaker 3: going to vote for Kamala Harris?
Speaker 8: No, of course not.
Speaker 7: But the thing is she is very unpopular with their
Speaker 7: own party. Let's not forget in the twenty twenty primaries,
Speaker 7: this woman got less than two percent of the vote,
Speaker 7: forcing her to drop out before a single vote was cast.
Speaker 7: So she is not someone that the Democratic lay Party
Speaker 7: look up to repet one as a leader. So as
Speaker 7: much as she's got quite a few big names now
Speaker 7: falling in line saying we back her, it's a really
Speaker 7: big question mark to see what's actually going to happen?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 7: Because the Democratic Party is also given up and just
Speaker 7: gone Look at this point, no one can beat no
Speaker 7: one can beat Trump. That's my personal opinion. I'm not
Speaker 7: saying it's not doable. They managed in twenty twenty using
Speaker 7: very nefarious means, So unless they're going to rig another election,
Speaker 7: then how.
Speaker 8: Are they going to pull this off?
Speaker 7: Their own inside A polling tells them Kamala Harris cannot
Speaker 7: beat Trump. So if they genuinely want to give the
Speaker 7: twenty twenty four election a red hot go, they're not
Speaker 7: going to put her up. If they've resigned themselves to losing,
Speaker 7: and guys like Newsome aren't gonna want to burn their
Speaker 7: political capital on being oh the guy who lost the
Speaker 7: twenty twenty o Nobody who's a genuinely politically savvy person
Speaker 7: who would like to see themselves become president one day
Speaker 7: is going to put themselves up.
Speaker 8: For the twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 7: This is the poison chalice, So it might as well
Speaker 7: be Kamala Harris because she's dumb enough to think it's
Speaker 7: an honor and take it.
Speaker 14: I want to get rid of her. Perfect way, how
Speaker 14: she saves a bit of the furniture, But that's exactly right.
Speaker 14: We're talking about the most powerful position on the planet. Absolutely,
Speaker 14: no one's even going to challenge her for it.
Speaker 2: No acuarly, But I mean the Democrats waited to the
Speaker 2: eleventh hour.
Speaker 3: They've known for years about his It's ridiculous. Look, let's
Speaker 3: move on to other news now. The odds of a
Speaker 3: minority government coming into power continue to increase as news
Speaker 3: poll shows voters confidence in major parties decline. The Coalition
Speaker 3: edges two points ahead of Labor in primary support, while
Speaker 3: Labor remains ahead in the two party preferred vote at
Speaker 3: a steady fifty one percent, and Albinizi leads Peter Dutton
Speaker 3: as the choice for better PM forty six to thirty nine. Joe,
Speaker 3: why are both parties failing to resonate overall with voters?
Speaker 14: Oh, it's across a living crisis, and in bad economic times.
Speaker 14: You don't say, gee, we've got a great gun, don't we?
Speaker 14: A bit worried about paying the mortgage this month? Not
Speaker 14: sure if I'll be able to find a place to
Speaker 14: rent and put a roof over me and my family's head.
Speaker 14: But gee, the government's doing a great job. So I think.
Speaker 14: I think the fact that the opposition has not been
Speaker 14: able to get more traction out of this, I think
Speaker 14: does not bode particularly well. It looks like some of
Speaker 14: the negativity. I think Labor is right and the government's
Speaker 14: been right say no more silly, stupid memes about nuclear energy.
Speaker 14: But I think that clearly Dutton has not quite been
Speaker 14: able to capitalize on people's discontent. But that doesn't mean
Speaker 14: the discontent isn't there. Clearly, when people are struggling, they're
Speaker 14: not going to be throwing bouquets at the government, and
Speaker 14: that's what's happening here. I actually reckon all things considered,
Speaker 14: it's not a bad result, but what happened to.
Speaker 7: Never waste a crisis like seriously, this should be the
Speaker 7: time that it's easiest to shine brightest, to come out
Speaker 7: to people and say, look, this.
Speaker 8: Is the mess we're in.
Speaker 7: We're done throwing mud at each other saying why it's happened.
Speaker 8: This is the mess that we're in. Here's the vision.
Speaker 8: Here's what I'm doing to get you guys out of it.
Speaker 7: Here's what I'm doing to steady the ship while we're
Speaker 7: getting through it.
Speaker 8: Here's how we're getting to the other side.
Speaker 7: Right now, there is such a dearth of leadership in
Speaker 7: this country, like neither Dutton nor Albanese really inspires people
Speaker 7: with like we have a leader at the helm and
Speaker 7: thank god nobody nobody is getting that vibe from either
Speaker 7: of these guys. Now there are potential leaders within the
Speaker 7: two major parties, but right now is not their time.
Speaker 7: And I think people look at these two leaders and
Speaker 7: just go, honestly, much for much, I don't really care.
Speaker 7: And I think the fact that the parties are so
Speaker 7: well pretty much even steven at the moment is indicative
Speaker 7: of the fact voters are alive to the fact that
Speaker 7: no matter which party they vote for, they keep getting
Speaker 7: the same outcome.
Speaker 16: And it's been like that last few polls Wow exactly
Speaker 16: because they're just like Red team or Blue team, whichever
Speaker 16: one gets up at the end of the day, we
Speaker 16: just seem to be getting And that speaks to the
Speaker 16: very little difference that these two major parties now had.
Speaker 14: It also speaks to reality though, that's the thing. The
Speaker 14: truth is that ingistrates are not going to go down
Speaker 14: until the economy starts to slow down and there spending.
Speaker 14: Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanez, you both know that there
Speaker 14: is no.
Speaker 2: Magic one, all right, would ask you both about this.
Speaker 3: One of Sydney's biggest councils, Randwick, will ramp up security
Speaker 3: at its next meeting after its Greens mayor accused Israel
Speaker 3: and its supporters of murdering babies in an inflammatory speech.
Speaker 3: The Australian can reveal extra guards and council rangers will
Speaker 3: attend the council's Tuesday session after Mayor Philippa Vetch's fellow
Speaker 3: counselors and the wider Jewish community claim they had been
Speaker 3: intimidated about left worried about pro Palestine activists descending on
Speaker 3: the chamber. Lisa mean, we know that the eastern suburbs
Speaker 3: of Sydney in particular have higher Jewish populations. To hear
Speaker 3: a speech like that from a local councilor is awful.
Speaker 7: But why are you insinuating that there's going to be
Speaker 7: violence against someone who's spoken out with a very disgusting
Speaker 7: pro Palace spoint.
Speaker 8: That is not the side we're seeing the violence.
Speaker 14: They're worried about proviolence pro Palestinian side. They're not worried
Speaker 14: about the Jews rising up.
Speaker 7: Someone who has someone who has been really pro Palestinian
Speaker 7: gone out there.
Speaker 8: I believe it was on a university.
Speaker 2: It was a university campus.
Speaker 7: They're worried that the pro Palestinians are now going to
Speaker 7: show up and cause trouble at this hero of their
Speaker 7: movement type. I mean, it just goes it's a council meeting.
Speaker 7: Are perpetually offended. This is the council which the person
Speaker 7: who said these inflammatory things which these people who might
Speaker 7: supposedly rock up and be violent about, they support what
Speaker 7: this person has done.
Speaker 14: No, no, no, the people who are worried about violence, and
Speaker 14: other counselors who are not supporters of the mayor. So
Speaker 14: there's a Jewish counselor who's worried, who said that they
Speaker 14: felt unsafe because of what the mayor had previously said.
Speaker 14: So it's not it's not supporters of her. That is complex.
Speaker 2: It's not supporters of her. It's security there just in
Speaker 2: case it sparks.
Speaker 7: Up, so in case supporters in person raps up.
Speaker 14: Other counselors, including one Jewish counselor, have said that they
Speaker 14: no longer feel safe because she has whipped up such
Speaker 14: anti Israeli center previous by calling Israeli.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we're almost out of time.
Speaker 14: But Joan, what do you think I think she's an
Speaker 14: absolute fruitcake. She's absolutely natty. I think she's the same
Speaker 14: one who didn't like the statue of Captain QUI.
Speaker 2: Yes it was I remember that one.
Speaker 14: Yes, yeah, I reckon you could see that coming from space.
Speaker 14: You've got your finger on the pulse of.
Speaker 2: Liszt story, Joan brand We've got to leave it there.
Speaker 2: Good to have you both on, Thanks for joining me.
Speaker 3: After the break, Democrats scrambled to endorse presidential candidate Kamala
Speaker 3: Harris after being told of Biden's decision to drop out.
Speaker 3: Just one minute, would you believe for the rest of
Speaker 3: the world, welcome back.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 3: Four years ago, COVID put Joe Biden into power, so
Speaker 3: it seems almost strange that it.
Speaker 2: Was COVID that took power away from him.
Speaker 3: The President gave nothing away in his letter to the
Speaker 3: American people announcing he will drop out of the race,
Speaker 3: only that it was in the party's best interest. But
Speaker 3: the public does deserve to know the truth. Joining me
Speaker 3: now to discuss is US Republican strategist Colin Reid. Colin,
Speaker 3: good to see you, Thanks for joining me. Surely dropping
Speaker 3: out just because you know you can't win. For some
Speaker 3: Democrat elites to then pick a replacement to lead the
Speaker 3: party to the next election is not how democratic elections
Speaker 3: are supposed to be. What's your take on how the
Speaker 3: party has gone about this.
Speaker 12: It's a little bit ironic that Democratic Party would choose
Speaker 12: its next nominee this way without any sort of democratic process,
Speaker 12: especially when fourteen million Democratic primary voters have cast their
Speaker 12: ballots for Joe Biden over the last six months. It
Speaker 12: seems as though their voices are just being totally discounted,
Speaker 12: totally thrown out.
Speaker 1: But look, two questions on my mind.
Speaker 12: One, if Joe Biden is by his own admission, unfit
Speaker 12: to be president for another four years, why is he
Speaker 12: qualified right now? And what is that mean for the
Speaker 12: state of the country these next five months until his
Speaker 12: term expires. And two, all of these Democratic candidates, including
Speaker 12: Vice President Harris who's now seeking the office, have been
Speaker 12: telling us for years that he's up for the job.
Speaker 12: He's doing jumping jacks. You can't keep up with his energy.
Speaker 12: He's just this unstoppable force behind the scenes. And now
Speaker 12: they're saying he's too old to run, he's got to go.
Speaker 12: So are they lying to us?
Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 1: Are they lying to us? Now we're going to find out.
Speaker 12: And these are fair questions to be asking that I
Speaker 12: think are on the minds of all voters right now.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and the public deserved to know the truth. I
Speaker 3: spoke earlier about this so that the cover up of
Speaker 3: Joe Biden's health will go down as the Democrats and
Speaker 3: left wing media's greatest ever hoax. I mean, for years, Colin,
Speaker 3: they told us he was mentally fit, he was strong.
Speaker 3: Then suddenly, on June twenty seven, he was exposed to
Speaker 3: the world at the debate, is completely mentally incompetent.
Speaker 2: And now suddenly there was a Democrat coup.
Speaker 3: I mean, they only acted when he was exposed at
Speaker 3: the eleventh hour.
Speaker 12: They only acted when it shooted their own political interests,
Speaker 12: and when it just became this result yesterday, the inevitable
Speaker 12: reality since the events of June twenty seventh. But look,
Speaker 12: there's one hundred and some one days left. The other
Speaker 12: question to be remains is had this debate happened in
Speaker 12: September instead of June, the Democrats would really be up
Speaker 12: the creek without a paddle, because then there'd be no
Speaker 12: time for them to recover. The nomination would have officially happened,
Speaker 12: he would be the nominee. So look, you'd rather be
Speaker 12: the Republicans the Democrats right now because the party one
Speaker 12: party is united, one party is reeling. One party's got
Speaker 12: the win in its back, one party has got the
Speaker 12: wind in its face. But this does reset things, and
Speaker 12: this does give the Democrats a chance they did not
Speaker 12: have when we woke up yesterday morning. So everything is different,
Speaker 12: everything is new, but one thing remains the same. Father
Speaker 12: Time has and always will be undefeated.
Speaker 3: I want to ask you about that before, but before
Speaker 3: we get to what this means for Trump, there are
Speaker 3: reports that Joe Biden gave his team a one minute
Speaker 3: heads up before telling.
Speaker 2: The world of his decision.
Speaker 3: What does that suggest about his decision making process.
Speaker 12: It suggests that the reports about the Bunker mentality are true,
Speaker 12: that this inner circle had really shrunk. This was a defiant,
Speaker 12: angry guy who was refusing up until the last minute
Speaker 12: to recognize the political reality before him. But look, Joe
Speaker 12: Biden is someone who's been seeking the office he now
Speaker 12: holds his entire life. He's run for president before twice,
Speaker 12: nineteen eighty eight, two thousand and eight. Both times ended
Speaker 12: in spectacularly embarrassing fashion.
Speaker 1: He won in twenty twenty.
Speaker 12: And for someone to voluntarily give up the job they've
Speaker 12: been seeking their entire lives that happens to be the
Speaker 12: most powerful and important job in the free world. It's
Speaker 12: not easy, but I think it's also he didn't do
Speaker 12: this because he wanted to. He did this because he
Speaker 12: had to. And however, this ending was going to conclude.
Speaker 12: It was not going to look good for President Biden.
Speaker 12: But the more time went on, the more distance he
Speaker 12: lapsed from the debate, the more of his fellow party
Speaker 12: members who came out and said, you gotta go, Joe.
Speaker 12: It was just the situation was getting worse, not better.
Speaker 12: And there's an old saying in politics, good gets better
Speaker 12: and bad gets worse. And the Democratic forty was in
Speaker 12: a really dangerous tailspin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a really, really good quote. Let's talk now
Speaker 2: about Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3: It looks as though it will probably be her going
Speaker 3: up against Donald Trump. This is what Trump has said
Speaker 3: about her in the past.
Speaker 8: But she seems pretty senile too.
Speaker 1: She speaks in rhyme. It's weird, it's weird, but she
Speaker 1: has bad moments and in rhyme.
Speaker 2: Well, the way she talks.
Speaker 4: The bus will go here and then the bus will
Speaker 4: go there, because that's what busses do.
Speaker 1: It's weird. The whole thing is weird. This is not
Speaker 1: a president of the United States future. That all broken down.
Speaker 1: Pilot crab. Yeah, it's a bad he just quit. You know,
Speaker 1: he's quitting. The rest is that right? Yeah, I gotta
Speaker 1: matter And that means we have Karmala.
Speaker 12: She's so bad, so pathetic.
Speaker 3: It's colin, what sort of a contest will it be
Speaker 3: between these two?
Speaker 2: If she is indeed endorsed.
Speaker 12: There's no doubt she brings a number of vulnerabilities in
Speaker 12: lenges to this race. The Vice presidency has not acquitted
Speaker 12: her well. And you know, frankly, I think President Biden
Speaker 12: deserves some blame for that. He immediately upon taking office
Speaker 12: gave her some of the hardest challenges he faced for
Speaker 12: his administration, including stopping the unmitigated disaster of the southern
Speaker 12: border of situation. That's frankly, anyone would have had a
Speaker 12: hard time dealing with, let alone someone with the Vice
Speaker 12: President Harris's experience. So look, she came into the chance
Speaker 12: of the twenty twenty race as a really a stock
Speaker 12: to watch, someone who was potentially on the rise.
Speaker 1: That didn't happen.
Speaker 12: She fell out of the race before votes were even cast,
Speaker 12: and then President Biden resuscitated her political career by putting
Speaker 12: her picking her as vice president. So she's got immense challenges.
Speaker 12: But let's be honest, she's got a pulse, she's ability,
Speaker 12: she's able to time's former coherent sentence, and that's more
Speaker 12: than the president, the standard bearer of the President Biden's
Speaker 12: able to do at this point in time. So, look,
Speaker 12: they were better off with anyone than him at the
Speaker 12: top of the ticket. And Republicans or who were hoping
Speaker 12: they were going to get President Biden, they were right then,
Speaker 12: and look at anyone better than who they had, it.
Speaker 1: Was a market improvement. But she's got enormous challenges.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Look it's going to be interesting to see
Speaker 3: what happens between now and November.
Speaker 2: Colin Reid, thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 1: Thank you have a great day.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: Joe Biden's choice peak as the Democratic nominee is Kamala Harris,
Speaker 3: who current Vice president, a woman who seems more preoccupied
Speaker 3: with waffling nonsense, just like someone else in the party.
Speaker 9: To see the moment in time in which we exist.
Speaker 9: During Women's History Month, we celebrate and we honor the
Speaker 9: women who made history. The significance of the passage of
Speaker 9: time right, the significance of the passage of time. So
Speaker 9: when you think about it, there is great significance to
Speaker 9: the passage of time. It is time for us to
Speaker 9: do what we have been doing in that time as
Speaker 9: every day?
Speaker 2: Does she even know what she's saying?
Speaker 3: To discuss this and more, I am joined by Media
Speaker 3: Research Center Vice President Dan Schneider, Dan, thank you so
Speaker 3: much for joining us this evening. Kamala Harris is now
Speaker 3: vowing to win the party's nomination. Here she is rolling
Speaker 3: out one of her many cringeworthy lines.
Speaker 9: I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
Speaker 9: what has been. You know, what can be unburdened by
Speaker 9: what has been? What can be unburdened by what has been?
Speaker 9: What can be unburdened by what has been?
Speaker 3: Dan, is this seriously the woman who could possibly be
Speaker 3: the next president of the United States?
Speaker 6: Well, shockingly, it is possible she could be the next
Speaker 6: president of the United States, Tenika. But what we're also
Speaker 6: understanding here is that there is a massive burden on
Speaker 6: her shoulders that she is not unburdened by and that
Speaker 6: massive burden is named Brock Obama. We are actually still
Speaker 6: in the beginning of the civil war within the Democrat Party,
Speaker 6: the Clintons versus the Obama's, and this has this little
Speaker 6: civil war has been playing out with the nomination, the
Speaker 6: presumed nomination of Joe Biden, until Barack Obama began to
Speaker 6: push him out of the way.
Speaker 3: So do you think then others will put their hand
Speaker 3: up in the Democrats?
Speaker 6: It's I think most Democrats are sitting back trying to
Speaker 6: figure out if, in fact Barack Obama has the cloud
Speaker 6: and the ability to force Kamala Harris out.
Speaker 1: Of the way.
Speaker 6: You know, it's a tricky it's a tricky battle because
Speaker 6: the Democrat Party here in America, of course, is so
Speaker 6: wed to the DEI effort that on its face it
Speaker 6: looks like pushing her out of the way would anger
Speaker 6: the Black Democrat caucus here in our Congress. But with
Speaker 6: Barack Obama trying to undermine her, anything is possible.
Speaker 3: And with Biden's announcement it was clearly not a matter
Speaker 3: of if, But when did the Democrats push Biden out?
Speaker 3: Only because America found out about his cognitive state, do
Speaker 3: you think I mean they've been covering it up for years,
Speaker 3: then led a coup in recent weeks to push him out.
Speaker 6: Right, He's been impaired for a number of years. During
Speaker 6: the twenty twenty election, when we had our COVID election,
Speaker 6: he was, of course Biden in the basement, campaigning from
Speaker 6: the basement. The storyline was that they were letting Donald
Speaker 6: Trump hang himself, But in fact, anytime we did see
Speaker 6: Biden speak, we could tell that he was not the
Speaker 6: same order that he had been before. I would not
Speaker 6: have ever called him a gifted order, but he certainly
Speaker 6: had to give to the gap. But in twenty twenty
Speaker 6: he had lost that edge, and throughout his administration we
Speaker 6: saw that decline rapidly.
Speaker 3: Yes, you're right, it has certainly been a long time coming. Look,
Speaker 3: the Democrats have accused Trump of being a threat to democracy,
Speaker 3: yet voters won't even be given a chance to elect
Speaker 3: a nominee in the primaries. It's been a complete waste
Speaker 3: of time. Is that lack of official process a threat
Speaker 3: to democracy?
Speaker 2: Now? With itself?
Speaker 6: Well, of course, selecting the Democrats next nominee without a
Speaker 6: single US citizen actually going to the ballot box to
Speaker 6: vote for him is very undemocratic. I know that many
Speaker 6: Republicans have tried to call hypocrisy. I doubt that that
Speaker 6: argument is going to resonate with the American public. They
Speaker 6: will think that the Democrats ought to be able to
Speaker 6: have somebody running who.
Speaker 1: Put two brain cells together.
Speaker 6: But you are right, Denika, this is a very undemocratic
Speaker 6: process that the Democrats are pursuing right now. It sort
Speaker 6: of calls a lie to the name of their own party.
Speaker 6: It's an undemocratic Democrat party.
Speaker 3: What do the Democrats in media have to do to
Speaker 3: ordain themselves after years of line to Americans.
Speaker 1: Well, Americans have a short memory, Danika.
Speaker 6: It will not take long before this is this a
Speaker 6: thing in the past, our legacy media here in the
Speaker 6: United States will very aggressively push whoever the ultimate nominee
Speaker 6: is for the Democrats that they will the media here
Speaker 6: will rally behind that person to try to prevent Donald
Speaker 6: Trump from being re elected to the presidency. And then, frankly,
Speaker 6: regardless of how this next election turns out, the media
Speaker 6: will continue to push against Republicans supporting the Democrat And
Speaker 6: we're going to We're going to be back to the
Speaker 6: same situation within twelve months of this next election.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is extraordinary. What does this mean for the
Speaker 3: upcoming Democrat convention.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, that convention has already begun. It was supposed
Speaker 6: to begin about a week from now, in a virtual sense,
Speaker 6: to begin getting these pledged delegates to formally nominate Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: That time period is now in.
Speaker 6: Doubt, But whether it's formally begun or will formally begin
Speaker 6: soon is almost irrelevant. The real battle has in fact
Speaker 6: commenced Kamala Harris against all other comers who may or
Speaker 6: may not be backed by Barack Obama.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump maintains he can beat Kamala Harris. Do you
Speaker 3: agree or will she be more of a challenge for him?
Speaker 6: If it's possible to imagine a worse candidate than Joe Biden,
Speaker 6: I think that person embodies, you know, our Vice President
Speaker 6: Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: She is not liked.
Speaker 6: She's not liked by her own staff, and I know
Speaker 6: that you all have reported in the past that she
Speaker 6: cannot keep her own staff her. You know, people who
Speaker 6: are employed by her leave that office screaming they dislike her.
Speaker 6: The rest of the White House staff who has to
Speaker 6: work with her do not like her. The party's establishment
Speaker 6: does not like Kamala Harris. She's never once had a
Speaker 6: job that required her to manage or lead. She has
Speaker 6: following up her entire career. Frankly, I don't see her
Speaker 6: running any kind of a campaign, so I think Donald
Speaker 6: Trump still has a big edge over Kamala Harris. The
Speaker 6: question then is whether the Democrats' efforts essentially to undermine
Speaker 6: our own campaign laws will come into play and will
Speaker 6: Democrats be allowed essentially to manufacture millions and millions of
Speaker 6: votes outside the regular voting process.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good point, Dan Schnader, great to speak with you.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Anika after the break.
Speaker 3: What a presidency under Kamala Harris would mean for Australia
Speaker 3: and does she have what it takes to address the
Speaker 3: issues bottom wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Welcome back? Will?
Speaker 3: Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi has congratulated President Biden's decision to
Speaker 3: drop out of the US presidential race.
Speaker 15: President Biden deserves today, I think, to be recognized for
Speaker 15: once again not putting himself forward first, but giving his
Speaker 15: first consideration to being what he believes is in the
Speaker 15: interests of the United States of America as he has
Speaker 15: done his whole public life.
Speaker 3: The Opposition stressed the importance of President Biden's role in
Speaker 3: the Orcus Agreement, urging his replacement to continue to deliver
Speaker 3: on the Security Pact.
Speaker 17: He has been a great friend of our country and
Speaker 17: he's been somebody who has strengthened the relationship between our
Speaker 17: two countries.
Speaker 18: And it's crucial that whoever replaces him in the Oval
Speaker 18: Office we continue to deliver on the Orcist Partnership, all
Speaker 18: aspects of the alliance with the United.
Speaker 3: States joining me now is Headline Advisory Director Andrew Carswell, Andrew,
Speaker 3: good to see you. Does Carmala Harris have what it
Speaker 3: takes to continue to deliver on the Orchest Agreement?
Speaker 17: Well, I think, judging on her performance as Vice President,
Speaker 17: there are some serious questions around this and some concerns,
Speaker 17: and that goes to the leadership of issues, but also communication,
Speaker 17: which is vital for such agreements. In terms of the leadership,
Speaker 17: Kamala Harris was put in charge of fixing the borders
Speaker 17: in the US. It wasn't Joe Biden. It was Kamala
Speaker 17: Harris that led to what we saw happen at the
Speaker 17: US Mexico border. An explosion of immigrants crossing over and
Speaker 17: causing chaos in the US. And that is the lived
Speaker 17: experience of Americans at the moment. And if you asked
Speaker 17: Americans what they're angry about, they're angry about inflation, and
Speaker 17: they're angry about the breakdown.
Speaker 1: At the borders.
Speaker 17: And so the Democrats are taking a massive risk here
Speaker 17: putting up a candidate who was responsible for the chaos
Speaker 17: that Americans are seeing.
Speaker 14: At their own border.
Speaker 17: Why is that important for Aucus? It's important to have
Speaker 17: strong leadership to deliver on AUCUS, to see it to fruition.
Speaker 17: And in terms of communication, well, words matter, and Kamala
Speaker 17: Harris has proved to be not very good at using words.
Speaker 17: You know, there's a vast difference difference between Kamala Harris's
Speaker 17: ineffective communication and Joe Biden's ineffective communication. At the very least,
Speaker 17: Kamala Harris understands what she's saying. She might be the
Speaker 17: only one, but she understands it at least. And secondly,
Speaker 17: unlike Joe Biden, you can actually get an understanding of
Speaker 17: the words she's actually saying, and then once you hear them,
Speaker 17: you probably don't want to understand understand anymore. So why
Speaker 17: does that matter for Aucus? Well, it matters because when
Speaker 17: it comes to regional security, when it comes to national security,
Speaker 17: when it comes to these important bilateral agreements, words matter,
Speaker 17: the strength of words matter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, absolutely, the why you put that? Look, I
Speaker 3: want to ask you about some matters on the home front. Now,
Speaker 3: it's been a bruising month for labor. In the polls
Speaker 3: News Poll shows the coalition up two points in primary
Speaker 3: vote support, and even in the Financial reviews Freshwater Pole
Speaker 3: it shows the Coalition leading Albanese's government by fifty one
Speaker 3: to forty nine two party preferred.
Speaker 2: Andrew, how do you read these figures?
Speaker 17: Well, the trend isn't the friend of the Albanzi government
Speaker 17: at the moment. We're seeing a number of poles now
Speaker 17: suggest that the decline is continuing. The Albanezi government has
Speaker 17: failed to arrest the slump in its own numbers in
Speaker 17: terms of its primary which is sitting well underneath what
Speaker 17: it was when they won.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two.
Speaker 17: But of particular concern that the personal approval ratings of
Speaker 17: Anthony Alberanzi, which continue to be in the toilet now
Speaker 17: Normally at this stage of a cycle, six to ten
Speaker 17: months out from an election. Governments wouldn't be that concerned
Speaker 17: about it. You know, fifty to fifty is okay for
Speaker 17: an incumbent government government government, But when you look at
Speaker 17: the Ford Agenda of the alban Ezy government, there are
Speaker 17: some deep concerns that they can arrest this slide. There
Speaker 17: is nothing in their Ford agenda that is positive. You
Speaker 17: look at the next couple of weeks and a couple
Speaker 17: of sitting weeks here in Parliament, they have to deliver
Speaker 17: on environmental reform and I say reform pitting themselves against farmers,
Speaker 17: mine as the business community. It is going to be
Speaker 17: a mess. Is that going to win the support of
Speaker 17: Australians hardly? And then you move on to religious discrimination
Speaker 17: where they risk alienating further religious communities and people of
Speaker 17: faith in Australia. So it's hardly a positive few months
Speaker 17: ahead and we're not going to see that slide be
Speaker 17: arrested by anything the oven Ezy government does.
Speaker 14: And then the'st a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: No, especially given the big issues at stake here that
Speaker 3: you just mentioned.
Speaker 2: Andrew Carswell, good to speak with you.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for joining us this evening, for
Speaker 3: coming up after the break as Joe Biden front's reality
Speaker 3: and blows up the democratic process. Is Vice President Kamala
Speaker 3: Harris a lot to get the nomination, wouldn't be so sure?
Speaker 2: Welcome back? Well.
Speaker 3: Democrats have raised nearly fifty million US dollars in small
Speaker 3: donations since Joe Biden dropped out, making it the party's
Speaker 3: biggest day since twenty twenty. Joddy b now is Kinny's contributor. Koshagada,
Speaker 3: koshare good to see you.
Speaker 2: The money is coming in thick and fast.
Speaker 8: It sure is.
Speaker 19: I think this is the money or the monetary reflection
Speaker 19: of I think what we all can expect to transpire
Speaker 19: now that this day many people were calling and predicting
Speaker 19: has happened, which is that you're going to see sort
Speaker 19: of the narrative shaping happen. The media is going to
Speaker 19: fall back in line. They're going to give Joe Biden
Speaker 19: the hero send off with all the trappings of libraries
Speaker 19: and book deals and all the rest of it. And
Speaker 19: then came life. It's her, whoever the nominee is, if
Speaker 19: they go the open convention route, is going to be
Speaker 19: the anointed one. And so the money is just a
Speaker 19: reflection of how the base and the donor class and
Speaker 19: the Democrat Party is feeling because they've achieved, know what
Speaker 19: they've been pushing for now for three weeks.
Speaker 2: So what happens next then?
Speaker 3: Is it truly an open convention or is Kamala Harris
Speaker 3: being dem nominee a foregone conclusion?
Speaker 19: I think, you know, this is so unprecedented in US
Speaker 19: politics that nobody actually knows the answer to that. And
Speaker 19: those power factions that we've been talking about who are
Speaker 19: gunning for Biden to stay or to drop those factions
Speaker 19: and all that infighting still remains, and you see different
Speaker 19: camps of people. The Clintons have endorsed her, the Obamas
Speaker 19: have not. However, smart money seems to be that Kamala
Speaker 19: still has the advantage, and even if it's an open convention,
Speaker 19: it's sort of an open convention without being open, where
Speaker 19: it's almost like window dressing. But the foregone conclusion would
Speaker 19: be her.
Speaker 2: We don't know.
Speaker 19: But the reasons for that is because she holds the
Speaker 19: money advantage. She gets to keep this funding that you
Speaker 19: just mentioned. They've raised procedural advantages and optical advantages where
Speaker 19: she is at least on paper the vice president and
Speaker 19: in the event that Biden has pushed out before the
Speaker 19: which some factions are saying, you know, that might even happen.
Speaker 19: Then she gets to actually be president, which will elevate
Speaker 19: her even more and they'll just be really difficult for
Speaker 19: someone else to unseat her. But we shall find out
Speaker 19: in two short weeks.
Speaker 3: Why haven't the Obamas come out and endorsed her.
Speaker 2: What's the strategy there?
Speaker 19: You know, I think it is that they're trying to
Speaker 19: either actually generate momentum for an open convention, because everybody
Speaker 19: knows the biggest open secret in politics is she's a
Speaker 19: very unlikable, unpopular candidate, and all the evidence supports that
Speaker 19: when she's run previously, in terms of the number of
Speaker 19: delegates she's gotten and votes she's gotten, or if it
Speaker 19: is the latter, that they're stuck with her for lack
Speaker 19: of a better word, even though she's not the best
Speaker 19: politician or campaigner. It provides that veneer of legitimacy because
Speaker 19: Joe Biden did win all the delegates, millions of people
Speaker 19: voted for him in their primary process. They didn't open
Speaker 19: it up to competition at that time, and now they
Speaker 19: sort of have to provide that veneer that you know what,
Speaker 19: we are still a party that runs a process that
Speaker 19: allows people to.
Speaker 2: Vote who they want.
Speaker 19: They're not nominated, and I think Obama's just trying to
Speaker 19: shore up that position, even though I think we all
Speaker 19: can see that that's not likely to be what happens.
Speaker 3: And if we take a look at the polls, Kosher
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris would be starting from behind if she is
Speaker 3: selected by the Democrats to take on Donald Trump. The
Speaker 3: latest polling said forty six point three percent to Trump's
Speaker 3: forty eight percent. Trump is still ahead, but is it
Speaker 3: fair to say that the gap narrows if it is
Speaker 3: indeed Kamala, I mean, will the switch to her actually work?
Speaker 19: This is the part that's so fascinating. So she is
Speaker 19: a very unpopular candidate, behind dramatically.
Speaker 8: In all the polls.
Speaker 19: She got zero delegates in the Democrat primary the cycle,
Speaker 19: she got zero point eight percent of the vote when
Speaker 19: she was even running in California, which is a deep
Speaker 19: blue state for attorney general. So she does not have
Speaker 19: the best track record of whenever she's actually campaigning and running.
Speaker 19: That said, I would not underestimate the power of the machinery,
Speaker 19: which includes you know, the media giving her lots of
Speaker 19: glowing puff pieces, the cover girl treatment, she's going to
Speaker 19: get on various magazine everybody falling in line and giving
Speaker 19: her opportunities for photo ops and real presidential situations and
Speaker 19: meeting with foreign leaders and all of that stuff. When
Speaker 19: that happens, I would not be surprised if you see
Speaker 19: that gap shrink, and I think we can expect it.
Speaker 19: I've maintained that this is going to be a very
Speaker 19: very close election, notwithstanding all this craziness that's happening, and
Speaker 19: I think the gap will close no matter who it is.
Speaker 3: Look, I mean, it's been another fascinating day, but I've
Speaker 3: got to say, Kosher, it caps off what has been
Speaker 3: a really fascinating four weeks in US politics.
Speaker 2: And they say that a week is.
Speaker 3: A long time in politics, and well, it certainly has
Speaker 3: been a fascinating month. Kosher Garda, we're out of time.
Speaker 3: Really appreciate you joining us. Thank you so much for
Speaker 3: your company this evening, and thank you for joining me
Speaker 3: on the program. Sharry Markson will return to the program
Speaker 3: tomorrow night, but do stay with us here on Sky News.
Speaker 2: Up now, it's Paul Murray Live,