WEBVTT - Only One Thing Can Stop Donald Trump

0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.560
<v Speaker 1>Thirty nine days remain until the Democratic National Convention convenes

0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:09.399
<v Speaker 1>in Chicago. It is July the eleventh, twenty twenty four.

0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:16.840
<v Speaker 1>This is the warning. Today, Tim Alberta published a long

0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:21.840
<v Speaker 1>profile of the Trump campaign chieftains Susie Wiles and Chris

0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:25.599
<v Speaker 1>la Sevita. The story is yet in another epic profile

0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:30.560
<v Speaker 1>by Tim Alberta, and it captures perfectly this moment. I'm

0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.560
<v Speaker 1>going to read some parts from it. Only one thing

0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.920
<v Speaker 1>could disrupt that plan, a change of candidates atop the

0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:41.680
<v Speaker 1>Democratic ticket. There was always a certain danger inherent to

0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:46.479
<v Speaker 1>this assault on Biden's faculties. If Wiles and las Aveta

0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:52.440
<v Speaker 1>were too successful, if too many Democrats decided too quickly

0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:56.560
<v Speaker 1>that Biden was no longer capable of defeating Trump, much

0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:01.120
<v Speaker 1>less serving another four years thereafter, than they just losing

0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:05.640
<v Speaker 1>an ideal opponent against whom they're Every tactical maneuver had

0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:11.440
<v Speaker 1>already been deliberated, pull tested, and prepared. Campaigns are usually

0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:16.760
<v Speaker 1>on guard against peaking too soon. In this case, the

0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:22.200
<v Speaker 1>risk for Trump's team was Biden bottoming out to early.

0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:27.640
<v Speaker 1>Let's flash up what the election result was in twenty twenty.

0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:33.720
<v Speaker 1>These are the states that voted for Donald Trump. These

0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:39.280
<v Speaker 1>are the states that voted for President Biden. And this

0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:46.080
<v Speaker 1>was the final result, Joe Biden winning by forty four

0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:53.800
<v Speaker 1>thousand votes across these three states. That's it a raisers

0:01:53.960 --> 0:02:00.480
<v Speaker 1>edge game of very very small numbers. Now, let's look

0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:05.360
<v Speaker 1>at the race in twenty twenty four. Let's project all

0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:10.040
<v Speaker 1>of the states that Donald Trump is certain to win,

0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:15.720
<v Speaker 1>and let's accumulate and add up those electoral votes. Now,

0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:20.480
<v Speaker 1>let's add up the states that Joe Biden is absolutely

0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:24.919
<v Speaker 1>going to win. Now, let's add up the electoral votes. Now,

0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:28.560
<v Speaker 1>let's take those states off of the map and let's

0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.480
<v Speaker 1>just look at the states that are in play that

0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:36.360
<v Speaker 1>decide the outcome. This is how the race looks. This

0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:40.960
<v Speaker 1>is where Donald Trump stands in twenty twenty four. This

0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:45.320
<v Speaker 1>is how the map would look on election night. If

0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:49.600
<v Speaker 1>the election were tonight, Trump would win, and he would

0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:53.880
<v Speaker 1>win decisively. And so here we sit, thirty nine days

0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:58.480
<v Speaker 1>from the Democratic Convention. The storyline and the narrative change

0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:02.440
<v Speaker 1>is minute by minute. Here the President has called in

0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.800
<v Speaker 1>to mourning Joe. He may have spoken with Mika. The

0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:10.840
<v Speaker 1>President is up, Oh, he's down, It seems Senator Schumer

0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.680
<v Speaker 1>desperate to be majority leader is ready to throw his

0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:20.000
<v Speaker 1>old colleague over the rail if necessary. We see Nancy

0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:25.000
<v Speaker 1>Pelosi trying to make a vision statement of sorts, a

0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:31.240
<v Speaker 1>guidance statement, giving the president room space to avoid the

0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:37.839
<v Speaker 1>humiliation of history, recalling the time that Democratic leaders had

0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.880
<v Speaker 1>to march down to the White House or be flown

0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:46.320
<v Speaker 1>into Camp David to speak to the restraints necessary on

0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:51.200
<v Speaker 1>an ego so vast as to be comparable to only

0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:55.520
<v Speaker 1>one person's, which is exactly what John Stewart did. There

0:03:55.680 --> 0:04:01.240
<v Speaker 1>is a moral case for Biden's can to see in

0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:07.320
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty that is gone, evaporated forever, that cannot be

0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:13.960
<v Speaker 1>recaptured because of what fifty one million people witnessed. And

0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:19.719
<v Speaker 1>it is holding the Biden campaign's head under proverbial water,

0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:24.240
<v Speaker 1>drowning it. And so now Senator Peter Welch has come

0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:27.920
<v Speaker 1>out and said that Biden should retire from the field,

0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:31.080
<v Speaker 1>that he should put the country first. In so moment

0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.560
<v Speaker 1>by moment, up and down and down and up again

0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:39.440
<v Speaker 1>and again. But one thing is certain. Trump is on top,

0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:44.479
<v Speaker 1>and he's pointing forward, he's advancing, he's in command, he's

0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:50.240
<v Speaker 1>in control, he's winning. Only one thing, one thing interrupts

0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:56.200
<v Speaker 1>that now, And it's the ability to understand that there's

0:04:56.240 --> 0:05:00.799
<v Speaker 1>a red button for a reason, that lifting the glass

0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:05.120
<v Speaker 1>case above it has been envisioned and banging down on

0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:09.520
<v Speaker 1>it is the right thing to do in the right circumstance.

0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.840
<v Speaker 1>Hitting that button, and only Joe Biden can hit it,

0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:19.680
<v Speaker 1>scuttles all of Trump's best laid plans. What matters here

0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:24.760
<v Speaker 1>is America. People who take to the television cameras to

0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:29.760
<v Speaker 1>say things like I'm with Joe no matter what, blindly

0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:34.599
<v Speaker 1>like the Republicans who lined up with Trump, are no

0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:40.000
<v Speaker 1>different whatsoever. There are thirty nine days, and so long

0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:45.320
<v Speaker 1>as the president does not face reality, and so long

0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:52.040
<v Speaker 1>as this situation hangs, American democracy simply twists in the wind.

0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:57.480
<v Speaker 1>When a presidential race comes down to moment by moment

0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.000
<v Speaker 1>survival tests, can the as it then make it through

0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.919
<v Speaker 1>the five o'clock NATO news conference. It is difficult to

0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:13.280
<v Speaker 1>overstate the magnitude of the political crisis. Put aside who, what, why?

0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:17.440
<v Speaker 1>How did this happen? Except that it has, and an

0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:22.120
<v Speaker 1>accepting realize that a campaign that has held hostage to

0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:27.080
<v Speaker 1>events as trivial as a NATO news conference is in big,

0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:31.120
<v Speaker 1>big trouble. There are thirty nine days for Democrats to

0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:35.240
<v Speaker 1>do something. It's a lot of time and politics. The

0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:39.880
<v Speaker 1>Trump convention is at hand, and soon it will consume

0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.880
<v Speaker 1>the show and give the president a bit of breathing room,

0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.599
<v Speaker 1>a reprieve. But then he will be called upon to

0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.640
<v Speaker 1>answer the insanity and the madness, and there will still

0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.919
<v Speaker 1>be a lot of time on the clock. And the

0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:58.640
<v Speaker 1>simple truth is that Joe Biden, since the debate, has

0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.640
<v Speaker 1>not moved an inch four and the campaign has not

0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:07.040
<v Speaker 1>thrown a punch. And that's no way to hold the presidency,

0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:11.920
<v Speaker 1>though it's a perfect path to losing it. This is

0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:16.720
<v Speaker 1>the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and

0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:20.560
<v Speaker 1>I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substock, on

0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:25.160
<v Speaker 1>our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.