Speaker 1: There are thirty five days remaining until the American people
Speaker 1: will decide who sits behind the resolute desk in the
Speaker 1: Oval Office. This is the warning. The threat is clear,
Speaker 1: it's present, and it's dangerous. The threat is Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and his understudy jd Vance. He wasn't treated as the
Speaker 1: threat that he is. Jd Vance is an extremist who
Speaker 1: said that women who are beaten and tortured should stay
Speaker 1: with their abuser to keep the family strong. Jd Vance
Speaker 1: is a political extremist who fetishizes victor orbon who has
Speaker 1: embraced replacement theory, who stigmatizes immigrants, who scapegoats, who is
Speaker 1: involved in one of the most Unamerican projects imaginable. He
Speaker 1: seeks to take rights and liberty away and more than
Speaker 1: anything else, jd Vance was part of an effort that
Speaker 1: sought to overthrow the government of the United States in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty with a pack of lies and jd Vance
Speaker 1: is made clear that if he has the power, he
Speaker 1: would put the loser against the will of the American people,
Speaker 1: into the Oval Office to be made a dictator. What
Speaker 1: matters in the vice presidential debate was not Tim Walls
Speaker 1: being too nice or Tim walls being too soft or
Speaker 1: tim walls getting lost in the minutia of policy. What
Speaker 1: matters in this debate is what happened in the end,
Speaker 1: and what happened in the end is something that's perfectly clear.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump lost an election, and he incited violence to
Speaker 1: try to overthrow the result of that election in a
Speaker 1: vast conspiracy that culminated in an attack on the capital
Speaker 1: of the United States, where MAGA extremists defecated in the
Speaker 1: United States Senate, in the United States House of Representatives,
Speaker 1: they urinated on the walls of the rotunda. It was purposeful,
Speaker 1: it was deliberate, and JD. Vance was part of it,
Speaker 1: along with a great many of his colleagues. This election
Speaker 1: tests the cornerstone of America's society, whether the people can sustain,
Speaker 1: through free and fair elections, a government of by and
Speaker 1: for the people. What jd. Vance stands for is something
Speaker 1: grotesque and hideous if you are a patriotic American. And
Speaker 1: despite this insanity and blather from the debate by JD. Vance,
Speaker 1: the reality is he is a threat, and Trump is
Speaker 1: a threat, and the MAGA movement is a threat to freedom,
Speaker 1: to liberty, to the rule of law, to the US
Speaker 1: Constitution to which they have become domestic enemies. It's the
Speaker 1: true truth and the evidence is this.
Speaker 2: Would you again seek to challenge this year's election results,
Speaker 2: even if every governor certifies the results.
Speaker 3: I'll give you two minutes. Well, Nora, first of all,
Speaker 3: I think that we're focused on the future.
Speaker 4: We need to figure out how to solve the inflation
Speaker 4: crisis caused by Kamala Harris's policies.
Speaker 3: And this Kamala Harris wants.
Speaker 4: To treat the power to speak government and big tech
Speaker 4: to silence people from speaking their minds. That is a
Speaker 4: threat to democracy that will long outlive this present political moment.
Speaker 5: And this he is still saying he didn't lose the election.
Speaker 5: I would just ask to that, did he lose the
Speaker 5: twenty twenty election?
Speaker 3: Tim? I'm focused on the future.
Speaker 4: Did Kamala Harris censor Americans from speaking their mind and
Speaker 4: the wake of the twenty twenty COVID situation?
Speaker 5: That is a damning That is a damning non answer.
Speaker 1: They are running promising retribution and violence and imprisonment against
Speaker 1: political foes. History teaches us that Dare has no ever
Speaker 1: ever been a political leader who has promised those things,
Speaker 1: who upon taking power, did not deliver them. And that's
Speaker 1: what this debate should have been about. Donald Trump didn't
Speaker 1: build a strong economy. He wrecked the American economy while
Speaker 1: killing hundreds of thousands of Americans unnecessarily with his deranged
Speaker 1: management of the COVID pandemic, which was the worst in
Speaker 1: all the Western developed world. Because the only leader of
Speaker 1: a powerful country who was telling his citizens to inject
Speaker 1: bleach into their arm was the American president, he crashed
Speaker 1: the economy, he alienated our allies, he created instability in
Speaker 1: the world, and he set the seeds for the chaos
Speaker 1: we see. The reality is the JD Vance tonight demonstrated
Speaker 1: there was no issue that he would not invert the
Speaker 1: reality of with some type of revisionism that bordered between
Speaker 1: the ludicrous and the delusional.
Speaker 2: For instance, here, just to clarify for our viewers, Springfield,
Speaker 2: Ohio does have a large number of Haitian migrants who
Speaker 2: have legal status temporary protected.
Speaker 3: Thank you, senator. We have so much to get to, Margaret.
Speaker 3: I think it's important out of the economy.
Speaker 4: Things, Margaret, the rules were that you got to We're
Speaker 4: going to fact check it.
Speaker 3: Who are here when we bring in this additional revenue.
Speaker 4: With higher economic growth, we're going to be able to
Speaker 4: provide paid family leave childcare options that are viable and
Speaker 4: workable for a lot of American families.
Speaker 2: Can you clarify how that will solve the childcare shortage.
Speaker 4: We're here and we're not going to stop it by
Speaker 4: listening to experts. We're going to stop it by listening
Speaker 4: to common sense wisdom, which is what Donald Trump governed on.
Speaker 1: What the American people saw tonight was a smooth up
Speaker 1: and a Minnesota nice guy who's the governor and the
Speaker 1: VP nominee, who got the talking points down and delivered
Speaker 1: some good lines and no doubt titillated the focus groups
Speaker 1: and all the people in those swing states with the
Speaker 1: dials in their hands. But this election is a consequential one.
Speaker 1: This is not Obama versus Romney, This is not Bush
Speaker 1: versus Dukakis, Clinton versus Bush. This is an existential election
Speaker 1: because there is a faithless man who is running to
Speaker 1: be all powerful, to be a caesar, which is what JD.
Speaker 1: Vans has said he wants. It's not about small things,
Speaker 1: and there is no common ground to be had between
Speaker 1: patriotic Americans and the MAGA movement that seeks domination, that
Speaker 1: seeks control and seeks to take it in thirty five
Speaker 1: days each time. Tonight that Tim will All stuck his
Speaker 1: hand out, that tried to be decent, that tried to
Speaker 1: find common grounds. Within a moment or two. JD. Vance
Speaker 1: took a bite out of it because that's his nature.
Speaker 1: He's disingenuous, he's dishonest, and he's a threat. Tim Walls
Speaker 1: talked about fear at the end.
Speaker 5: He said, Donald Trump makes the people I care about afraid.
Speaker 5: A lot of America feels that way. We don't need
Speaker 5: to be afraid. Franklin Roosevelt was right.
Speaker 1: Alls.
Speaker 5: We have to fear is fear itself. Kamala Harris is
Speaker 5: bringing us a new way forward.
Speaker 1: Fear is on the ballot, But the most important thing
Speaker 1: was left un set. Tim Walls didn't say what must
Speaker 1: be said to the fearmongers, what must be said to
Speaker 1: the demagogues, what must be said to the dividers, What
Speaker 1: must be said to all of the people who hear
Speaker 1: their poisonous message, which is do not be afraid. Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris is the candidate for president, and she showed in
Speaker 1: her debate what's at stake, what's on the line, and
Speaker 1: how manifestly unfit Donald Trump is, And no matter how
Speaker 1: smooth jd Vance might have been, simple reality is he's
Speaker 1: not on the ballot. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are.
Speaker 1: That's who sits in the big chair behind the big desk,
Speaker 1: and that choice is existential and the failure of this
Speaker 1: debate was that that existential choice wasn't made existentially clear.
Speaker 1: Let me make it so. Donald Trump is an existential
Speaker 1: threat to the American way of life, along with JD. Vance,
Speaker 1: along with Ted Cruz, along with a whole legion of
Speaker 1: people who turned against their country for convenience, for money,
Speaker 1: for power. Cynicism overwhelmed their patriotism. That's just what happens.
Speaker 1: It could have been talked about more clearly tonight, but
Speaker 1: Tim Walls did good enough, because good enough means that
Speaker 1: nothing that anyone say here tonight is going to be remembered,
Speaker 1: because really, what happened here isn't about the main event,
Speaker 1: and who cares what went on in Minnesota. What matters
Speaker 1: is this, Donald Trump is a fascist and Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: is a leader who will keep this country great and
Speaker 1: protect the American spirit. The American Faith and the American
Speaker 1: Declaration of Independence, which promises that we are all created
Speaker 1: equal and dowed by a creator, with inalienable rights, including life,
Speaker 1: liberty in the pursuit of happiness. The next president will
Speaker 1: be sitting on the balcony at the White House watching
Speaker 1: the fireworks in twenty twenty six. That person must be
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, and it must be her because she is
Speaker 1: the only candidate on the ballot that believes in the people,
Speaker 1: that believes in the country, that believes in the Constitution,
Speaker 1: that believes in our story, that believes in our faith,
Speaker 1: which is liberty. This is the warning. Thirty five days
Speaker 1: to go. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and
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