1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: It is July the nineteenth, one hundred and eight days 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: until the last polls close on election Day, and it 3 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:10,039 Speaker 1: is thirty one days away from the convening of the 4 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It is the day after 5 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, which 6 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 1: broke all records for duration, for inanity, for nonsensicalness, and 7 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 1: for cult like devotion from the audience. This is the warning. 8 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's ninety three minute ramble deeply impressed CNN commentator 9 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:45,840 Speaker 1: Van Jones. Now, I don't know about that. I seem 10 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: to recall Barack Obama speaking in a completely filled NFL 11 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: stadium and he talked about hope and change. It wasn't 12 00:00:54,480 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: a dishonest, messianic, insane ramble. It wasn't a Fidel Castro's speech. 13 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:06,919 Speaker 1: But whatever the energy, Van Jones thinks that he felt 14 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: in the room. My god, he should have been at Nuremberg. 15 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: At any rate. The Republican Convention has come to an 16 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,320 Speaker 1: end and Donald Trump is leading in the race for president. 17 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: He is ahead. He is winning every swing state, and 18 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: now states like New Mexico, Minnesota, Virginia, and New Hampshire 19 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: are in play. The news of the hour is not 20 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's convention speech or the aftermath of his zany convention. 21 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: It is the implosion of President Biden's re election campaign. 22 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: It is ending, and it will end in the next 23 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: couple of days. The Democrats don't yet have a candidate 24 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: for president. Now, a lot of people are having a 25 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: hard time orienting around what is happening in the Democratic Party. 26 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: It's important to understand it's not a top down event. 27 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: It's not a rainstorm or a hailstorm. What you're seeing 28 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: is the ground giving out, giving way underneath the feet 29 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: of the Democratic establishment who foisted this charade on the 30 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: American people. It is interesting that the architects of the 31 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four rigged democratic process that brought the party 32 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:33,119 Speaker 1: to this disaster are now the first to speak when 33 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 1: it comes time to figuring out what to do next. 34 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 1: James Clyburn is one of the architects of this moment 35 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: of disaster with his divisiveness. What James Clyburn and Joe 36 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: Biden engineered was this result because they denied the opportunity 37 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 1: for competition to kick the wheels to see if Joe 38 00:02:56,919 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: Biden was ready to make the race, and he was, 39 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: and now the very same people, the very same architects 40 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: of the President debacle, are again trying to control events, 41 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: trying to grip the wheel tighter and tighter and tighter. 42 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: It's not working. Kamala Harris is the front run to 43 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: be the Democratic nominee for president. What Vice President Harris 44 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,920 Speaker 1: has to say is I want to earn it. I 45 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: want to earn the support of the delegates. The best 46 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: thing that could happen is that Vice President Harris would 47 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: have some competition at the convention that she could defeat 48 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 1: with a powerful and compelling message. The Democrats need to 49 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: think larger, more expansively about what is the ticket that 50 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: can win. The bottom line is this, The convention process 51 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: must be open. There must be a competition. There must 52 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 1: be more voices than the vice presidents in the firmament 53 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 1: for the delegates to hear as they make the most 54 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: important political choice of the twenty first century, which is 55 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: who is going up against the fascist cause. Donald Trump's 56 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: speech was long, He was boring, contradictory, and incoherent, but 57 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: mostly within ten minutes, it exposed the nonsense that Donald 58 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 1: Trump has somehow been transformed. He is a man running 59 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 1: on a platform of revenge and retribution against the American 60 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 1: people who will not genuflect, who will not accept his 61 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: assertion that he should have unlimited power to save the 62 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 1: country that he alone can fix. There are millions of 63 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: Americans who left out loud when people look earnestly from 64 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 1: a stage and tell us that God saved Donald Trump, 65 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 1: God anointed Donald Trump to lead. There are millions of 66 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: us who are shocked that somebody who beat his wife 67 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:10,840 Speaker 1: on video was the person Donald Trump picked to introduce him. J. D. 68 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 1: Vance's speech was interesting when he talked about the seven 69 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 1: generations of Hillbillies buried on the mountain. It was a 70 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: primer of sorts, a sweet introduction to blood and soil nationalism, 71 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: which is antithetical to Americanism, contrary to patriotism. This is 72 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: a big part of the MAGA movement, lost and lonely, 73 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: people staring at their screens, tweeting with their thumbs, lost alone, 74 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 1: who found community in this rancid cause. But this is 75 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: a community that is not patriotic, though they wave the flag. 76 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: This is a community that harbinger's real malice, real animus 77 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,160 Speaker 1: towards a lot of people in the country. So when 78 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: Donald Trump begins his speech with a solemn reckoning, it 79 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: was a dark and stormy night. There are millions of 80 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: us who laugh out loud because the preposterous idea that 81 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:18,799 Speaker 1: somehow the mist assassin's bullet has wiped away nine years 82 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: of malice and threats and corruption and criminal conduct isn't 83 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: just insane, it's absurd. We are in an unchartered moment 84 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: in American politics. This Republican Convention provided the American people 85 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: a spectacle of weirdness and unfitness. Look at mac Gates's face. 86 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: One hundred and eight days from now, the American people 87 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: will make a choice. It will not be between Donald 88 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:51,160 Speaker 1: Trump and Joe Biden. Donald Trump will be on the ballot, 89 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:56,039 Speaker 1: Joe Biden won't, and the choice will be America or Trump. 90 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,280 Speaker 1: This race is about one thing. It's about the orange 91 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: tinted fact at the top of the Republican ticket who 92 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 1: denied an election result and incited violence against the Constitution 93 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: of the United States while leading an insurrection. He's a 94 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 1: bad man, he's a rapist, he's a man of violence 95 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: in mayhem and chaos, and he was the worst president 96 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: in American history. And the Democratic Party has an immense 97 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: duty their duty is to win and to defeat this 98 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 1: and the architects of the present situation should take a 99 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: very deep breath and be still for a moment and 100 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 1: do nothing, practice humility for at least a minute before 101 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: telling us once again who it must be that will 102 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: take on Donald Trump. And if we disagree, we're spoilers 103 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: who are helping Trump. Because the fact of the matter 104 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: is the architects of this debacle have given more sucar 105 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump. Because the architects of this disaster have 106 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: given and more to Donald Trump than all but a 107 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: very few. This is the warning. Join our community to 108 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: be informed. You'll know the truth here because I'll tell 109 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: it to you straight without any bs. I'm Steve Schmidt. 110 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: This is the warning, and I invite you to join. 111 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 1: Subscribe on our substack on our YouTube channel, follow us. 112 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: Welcome to the community.