Speaker 1: Seventy seven days until the day of decision, when the
Speaker 1: American people decide whether this man who descended an escalator
Speaker 1: in his gaudy building a decade ago will become the
Speaker 1: commander in chief again.
Speaker 2: This is the warning.
Speaker 1: This weekend, Donald Trump continued his spiral.
Speaker 2: Let's watch. It has to be seen to be believed.
Speaker 1: I'm a better looking person than Kamala.
Speaker 2: They used to call a TiVo dow.
Speaker 1: They have TiVo all the I think it's the single
Speaker 1: greatest invention.
Speaker 2: I think they should reimburse me for one hundred million.
Speaker 2: I don't ramble. A really smart guy, you know, really smart.
Speaker 1: I don't ramble. It isn't just a Donald who's melting down.
Speaker 1: It's his fan base, his supporters. At the Republican National Convention,
Speaker 1: we saw some MAGA delegates, really cult members, tape bandages
Speaker 1: to their uninjured ears in solidarity with Donald Trump. It's strange,
Speaker 1: it's not normal behavior at a political convention, and it's
Speaker 1: important to talk about it. This guy, let's look at him.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about him, but this is a
Speaker 1: weird guy. And I can tell he's a weird guy
Speaker 1: from the key shirt and from the cuppies holding look
Speaker 1: at it. This movement has gone off the rails. At
Speaker 1: some level. There's weirdos like this guy, this strange couple,
Speaker 1: that are probably harmless. But then there are people like
Speaker 1: Stephen Miller and Stephen Chung who are certified grade A
Speaker 1: little likemans Howard in their hands becomes very dangerous. Stephen
Speaker 1: Miller was in the Oval Office and he was rebuked
Speaker 1: by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when
Speaker 1: he asked if the military could open fire on migrant
Speaker 1: boats filled with defenseless women and children off the coast
Speaker 1: of San Diego. Again, power in the hands of a
Speaker 1: great many of the people around Donald Trump is existentially
Speaker 1: dangerous for me, for you, for everyone you love and
Speaker 1: care about, for your children. Donald Trump is running for
Speaker 1: the most powerful and important office in the world, and
Speaker 1: he's incoherent. He is delusional, and he is spiraling live
Speaker 1: on the stage in front of three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: million people. He has dominated America's culture for ten years,
Speaker 1: and now this gathering in Chicago should be the beginning
Speaker 1: of his end. Because what ends Trump and trump Ism
Speaker 1: is better, and the Democrats this week must offer a
Speaker 1: vision of the future that is better, that breaks.
Speaker 2: Out of the Donald Trump era.
Speaker 1: That doesn't just signal a plan to defeat it in
Speaker 1: the election, but to end it for all time, to
Speaker 1: move on from this. There was a great consensus in
Speaker 1: America about how we share power. It's why there was
Speaker 1: a peaceful transition of power for over two hundred years.
Speaker 1: But that's all done now because of Donald Trump. And
Speaker 1: so we live in this fraud space wondering if our
Speaker 1: democracy will survive, Can it survive, can it overcome the
Speaker 1: cancer that has attacked it?
Speaker 2: And this is the cancer. The cancer is Trump.
Speaker 1: And so now at this Democratic Convention, we will see
Speaker 1: figures of the past. We will see President Clinton and
Speaker 1: Secretary Clinton, and Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. But this
Speaker 1: election is not about the first decade of this century.
Speaker 1: It's not about the second. It must be about the third, fourth, fifth,
Speaker 1: at sixth. It must be about the creation and sustainment
Speaker 1: of peace in the world of another American century. We
Speaker 1: are a nation that has gone through a long season
Speaker 1: of political crisis, and it must end for the sake
Speaker 1: of our children. The consequences of a complete collapse of
Speaker 1: trust in every institution that I can think to name
Speaker 1: in the country is the election of someone like Trump.
Speaker 1: When a people believe in nothing, when they think everything
Speaker 1: is rotten, this guy becomes possible. And there is something
Speaker 1: that must be said on this the first day of
Speaker 1: the Democratic now National Convention, when President Biden speaks and
Speaker 1: delivers a valedictory. Had he remained in the race, defeat
Speaker 1: would have been certain, and the defeat would have been
Speaker 1: for American democracy caused by Joe Biden at the hands
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump. Democrats came very close. They have evaded
Speaker 1: an avoided disaster through an act of surrender and submission
Speaker 1: by pretending that a candidate who is failing and could
Speaker 1: not win was winning.
Speaker 2: Thankfully, that's all over.
Speaker 1: Now. The Vice President has performed lawlessly, in fact, more
Speaker 1: flawlessly than any presidential candidate ever for a sustained period
Speaker 1: of time while introducing herself. It has been an extraordinary
Speaker 1: season leading into this Democratic Convention.
Speaker 2: But now the tough part begins.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris will leave the convention with momentum, She will
Speaker 1: leave the convention with energy, and she will lead the
Speaker 1: convention ahead. But those poll numbers in the week ahead
Speaker 1: will stop stretching out and after Labor Day they'll start
Speaker 1: to fall back. Gravity will adjust the race, it will
Speaker 1: tighten it, and when it does, there will be a
Speaker 1: lot of panic in a time where steadiness is called for.
Speaker 1: Don't get too up, don't get too down. Maintain and
Speaker 1: even keel is the best advice I can give to
Speaker 1: everybody who feels passionately about this race and is rooting
Speaker 1: hard for Kamala Harris to be the president, though she
Speaker 1: has not had her first one yet. There will be
Speaker 1: tough days. There will be days where it seems that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has gotten his magic and his luck back,
Speaker 1: But those days are not going to determine the outcome.
Speaker 1: The American people are, and the American people have a serious,
Speaker 1: monumentally important choice, this qualified woman versus this adjudicated rapist,
Speaker 1: this abuser of women, this convicted felon, this insider of insurrection,
Speaker 1: this demagogic loser.
Speaker 2: We should not have.
Speaker 1: Malice in our heart for any weirdo, even the ones
Speaker 1: carrying JD Vance's sperm cups. We just don't want them
Speaker 1: to have any control over any of our lives. I
Speaker 1: don't want my daughters to have to sit in the
Speaker 1: ob GYN office with these people, with Lindsey Graham looking
Speaker 1: over their shoulder. What does election is about is the
Speaker 1: American people. What the cause the election is about is
Speaker 1: American freedom. We saw a lot of weirdness at the
Speaker 1: Republican Convention. We're going to get to see a lot
Speaker 1: of America at the Democratic Convention, the full beautiful mosaic
Speaker 1: of the country, our extraordinary nation. It will look different
Speaker 1: at the Democratic Convention and than it did at the
Speaker 1: Republican Convention. Because the Democratic Party is America's party. It
Speaker 1: is a party that reflects what the country looks like.
Speaker 1: And our country is made up of all the world's people.
Speaker 1: They've come from every corner of the earth. In our nation,
Speaker 1: every language is spoken commonly every day. Every religion known
Speaker 1: to mankind is practiced somewhere every day. Our country, made
Speaker 1: up of all the people from the world, has fed
Speaker 1: more people, liberated more people, clothed more people, and cured
Speaker 1: more people that all of the other nations put together
Speaker 1: since the beginning of time. And we are a young country,
Speaker 1: not yet two hundred and fifty years old, just getting started.
Speaker 1: What are these days about? When the American Revolution was won,
Speaker 1: in the moment of victory, the Marquis de Lafayette, Gilbert
Speaker 1: du Montier a young Frenchman who had come to America
Speaker 1: to help fight for freedom, said, humanity has its victory,
Speaker 1: liberty has its country. And he went on to predict
Speaker 1: this country of freedom and liberty would abolish slavery and
Speaker 1: would save the world. The Marquis de Lafayette was right.
Speaker 1: America is not a perfect nation. But this week in Chicago,
Speaker 1: a perfect idea and ideal will be celebrated, and an
Speaker 1: American woman will be tapped on the shoulder by destiny
Speaker 1: and become the nominee, the standard bearer of the oldest
Speaker 1: organized political party in the world, the Great Democratic Party
Speaker 1: of the United States of America, the Party of John Kennedy,
Speaker 1: the Party of Franklin Roosevelt, the Party of Harry Truman.
Speaker 1: This party, Democratic Party, has been called forward by destiny
Speaker 1: many many times at hours of grave crisis for the
Speaker 1: United States, and it has put forward the leaders that
Speaker 1: have saved freedom time and time and time again. And
Speaker 1: now the party has chosen another. Kamala Harris and Tim
Speaker 1: Walls are the candidates who will stop these two this rotten, rancid,
Speaker 1: maliced maga. Cause the Democratic National Convention is open. Democracy
Speaker 1: is being practiced. This is the warning seventy seven days
Speaker 1: to go. Get involved. You're an American.
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