Speaker 1: It is the third of July twenty twenty four. There
Speaker 1: are one hundred and twenty four days to go until
Speaker 1: the last votes are cast in the US presidential election
Speaker 1: in November. Forty seven days remain until the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 1: This is the warning. The crisis that is facing the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party is unprecedented in the modern history of American politics.
Speaker 1: What we are seeing is something that is a worst
Speaker 1: case scenario playing out. But thankfully for Democrats, there is
Speaker 1: still time to fix it. In the end, the only
Speaker 1: thing that matters is defeating Donald Trump. And the reality
Speaker 1: is that President Biden sometime within the next week is
Speaker 1: highly likely to withdraw from the race. Because his position
Speaker 1: is cracking. More and more Democrats are getting ready to
Speaker 1: call for him to step aside, to announce his political
Speaker 1: retirement to open up the Democratic National Convention. If that happens,
Speaker 1: it will be one of the most fascinating, incandescently exciting
Speaker 1: things that any of us have ever seen in American politics.
Speaker 1: What it means is the delegates at the Democratic National
Speaker 1: Convention will choose the nominee. They will be released from
Speaker 1: their obligation on the first ballot to vote for President Biden.
Speaker 1: Now there are some people like Jim Clyburn, who is
Speaker 1: one of the architects of the delusion and the denialism
Speaker 1: around President Biden, who has made clear that if it's
Speaker 1: not his guy Biden, then it will be Vice President
Speaker 1: Harris nonsense. The reality is that we don't live in
Speaker 1: a monarchy and between the two parts, if one of
Speaker 1: them were to be a monarchist party, it's not the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party. So this idea that there will be an anointment,
Speaker 1: a laying of hands on that Joe Biden picks that
Speaker 1: James Clyburn picks wrong. They may have influence, they may
Speaker 1: be power brokers, but in the end it is the
Speaker 1: delegates who will choose, and they will choose from among
Speaker 1: a small group of candidates. Governors who are next generation
Speaker 1: Democrats who will have an opportunity to stand before the
Speaker 1: delegates and speak lay a vision out. Gretchen Whitmer, Wes Moore,
Speaker 1: Governor Andy Bursheer. All of these people should be considered.
Speaker 1: The only thing that matters is constructing a ticket that
Speaker 1: can win. Understand something else, and this is important strategically
Speaker 1: to grasp politics. The goal is to be a small target,
Speaker 1: somebody who is not famous yet very accomplished, incredibly able, smart,
Speaker 1: a combat veteran like Governor Wes Moore. That person who
Speaker 1: is not known does not carry a lot of baggage.
Speaker 1: They will be able to take the fight to Trump.
Speaker 1: I've said something over and over and over again on
Speaker 1: the warning about the nature of the twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: race that was true about the twenty sixteen race when
Speaker 1: Donald Trump narrowly beat Secretary Clinton. Whoever the election is about,
Speaker 1: is the person who is going to lose. The election
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen was about Donald Trump until the very
Speaker 1: end when James Comey made it about Secretary Clinton and
Speaker 1: she lost very narrowly. The election is now fully and
Speaker 1: squarely about one thing. It's about the president's facility. It's
Speaker 1: about the president's competency. It's about Joe Biden, not about
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, which is a remarkable political achievement for Team Biden.
Speaker 1: It's important to understand something cynicism helped get us to
Speaker 1: where we are today. Team Biden wanted Donald Trump to
Speaker 1: linger around. There are quotes glore to this point in
Speaker 1: all of the big newspapers. They wanted him because he
Speaker 1: justified President Biden's breaking the promise that he made implicitly
Speaker 1: about being a one term president. Now they wanted Trump
Speaker 1: under the theory that Biden beats Trump, and then under
Speaker 1: the ludicrous serie that Biden is the only Democrat that
Speaker 1: can be Trump, when in fact the evidence was showing
Speaker 1: that the president was the weakest Democrat against Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: The gas lighting never stops. The media gas lighting on
Speaker 1: this question has never stopped. So it has brought us
Speaker 1: to the edge of this unpredictable moment where the center
Speaker 1: cannot hold and things will fall apart. The idea that
Speaker 1: it was the staff's fault, and now Hunter Biden is
Speaker 1: at his father's side in the West Wing. Please, this
Speaker 1: has gone badly and tragically off of the rails, and
Speaker 1: it could be seen coming for a very long time.
Speaker 1: It is the price of humorous, stubbornness, of greed, wanting more.
Speaker 1: And so the great gas lighting has come to an
Speaker 1: abrupt end, smashed into the rocks. And so a great
Speaker 1: period now of uncertainty, but in the possibility and most
Speaker 1: importantly possibility for electoral victory is upon the country. This
Speaker 1: race was something the American people tried to communicate over
Speaker 1: and over again they didn't want and the answer from
Speaker 1: both of the two parties who supposedly don't agree on anything,
Speaker 1: was this. This is your choice. The American people didn't
Speaker 1: want the choice, and the American people are going to
Speaker 1: get their wish. There will be a different choice, and
Speaker 1: defeating Trump is the only thing that matters. His magic
Speaker 1: of cause is a fascist cause. It's dangerous, it's an
Speaker 1: American and it deserves vigorous, constant, articulate, aggressive opposition, and
Speaker 1: thusfore it has not gotten it. This is the warning.
Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite
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