Speaker 1: One hundred and one days remain until the US presidential
Speaker 1: election in twenty four until the gavel drops and opens
Speaker 1: the Democratic National Convention. That convention is reborn, remade. It
Speaker 1: is fueled by excitement, by energy. The fact of the
Speaker 1: matter is Democrats have momentum, they have possession of the ball,
Speaker 1: and they are on the move. But this is a
Speaker 1: moment that must also be tempered by realism and reality.
Speaker 1: James Carville has tried to make this point over and
Speaker 1: over again. We have seen wild swings of emotion in
Speaker 1: the electorate among the bases of both parties, from great
Speaker 1: enthusiasm to despair, and back and forth it goes. It
Speaker 1: seems like there is no middle ground. But politics, particularly
Speaker 1: at the presidential level, is a business. We're maintaining an
Speaker 1: evil and strain. Maintaining an even keel is an important
Speaker 1: thing to do. Jd Vance is something very special. I
Speaker 1: never thought that I would live to say this. I
Speaker 1: always knew it was theoretically possible that there would one
Speaker 1: day be a vice presidential pick more morally deficient than
Speaker 1: Sarah Panllin, more dishonest, more weird, more unfit. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I just didn't think I would live to see it.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was possible that it could happen
Speaker 1: in such short proximity in years to two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1: But here we go. How did the disaster happen? The
Speaker 1: professional team on the Trump campaign Susie Wiles, Chris Losovita
Speaker 1: wanted Marco Rubio. It would have been a fantastic pick
Speaker 1: for Trump. Not saying he's a fantastic guy, He's a
Speaker 1: total fraud, but politically it was the pick that made sense.
Speaker 1: Trump wanted North Dakota Governor Doug Bergham and founding father
Speaker 1: look alike, but nobody else did. It was his boys
Speaker 1: Eric and Don Junior, Ude and Cuse that convinced him
Speaker 1: to make the dumbest and worst vice presidential pick ever,
Speaker 1: the bearded palen j the dvance.
Speaker 2: We're effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via
Speaker 2: our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies
Speaker 2: who are miserable at their own lives and the choices
Speaker 2: that they've made. They're obsessed with their jobs, they're obsessed
Speaker 2: with their wealth and with their fortunes, and they look
Speaker 2: at Middle America, people who are actually pretty happy with
Speaker 2: their lives and the choices that they've made, and they
Speaker 2: hate normal Americans for choosing family over these ridiculous DC
Speaker 2: in New York status games.
Speaker 1: What JD Vance is when he talks about cat ladies
Speaker 1: is a type of hero to the in cel. He's
Speaker 1: a funny, tough guy, a pseudo masculinity masked by deep insecurities.
Speaker 1: Something important to understand about Jdvans. People that know him
Speaker 1: best are the people from the region that he has
Speaker 1: disparaged the most Appalachian. This is not a pick that
Speaker 1: swells the heart with pride, as is the case in
Speaker 1: the South Asian community or among African Americans. The people
Speaker 1: that JD Vance demeaned are not rooting for JD. Vans
Speaker 1: to become president of the United States. Oh and by
Speaker 1: the way, let me make my position on this perfectly clear.
Speaker 1: Seventy eight years old is also too old to be
Speaker 1: president of the United States. Donald Trump is completely incoherent,
Speaker 1: obviously addled, deeply disordered, and no crazy old man should
Speaker 1: have their finger on the nuclear button, and certainly a
Speaker 1: proto fascist shouldn't be his successor underneath at all. Wait
Speaker 1: till the American people finds how to bet Jdevans's fake
Speaker 1: opioid charity. It is astonishing. He's a weak, weak candidate.
Speaker 1: I was deeply involved in a Tim Bryant campaign. Frankly,
Speaker 1: it's one of the best campaigns I've ever been involved in.
Speaker 1: Campaign manager Dave Chase, Democratic strategist Brandon Hall ran a
Speaker 1: remarkable effort the top of the ticket. The Democratic candidate
Speaker 1: lost by twenty six points, but jd Vance only one
Speaker 1: by five, and that was after fifty seven million dollars
Speaker 1: in spending by Mitch McConnell. Chuck Schumber didn't give Tim
Speaker 1: Ryan a dime. He almost did it. He had jd
Speaker 1: Vance down and out in August of twenty two. He
Speaker 1: shouldn't be the vice presidential nominee, but he is because
Speaker 1: of Trump's craziness and cynicism and a lack of foresight
Speaker 1: by Democrats ied to throw away a US Senate seat.
Speaker 1: But that's a story for a different day. The story
Speaker 1: for today is this man's abject weirdness and his weakness
Speaker 1: and his creepiness. Like I've said before, I say this seriously.
Speaker 1: Imagine somebody my side throwing a punch at a five
Speaker 1: foot four inch woman. Think about that video the whole
Speaker 1: country saw with p ditty beating a woman. Or think
Speaker 1: about Gaina Weight of the UFC slapping his wife repeatedly
Speaker 1: on New Year's Eve, the man that Trump picked to
Speaker 1: introduce him. Think about that, and think about Jay Keith
Speaker 1: Vance's advice that the beaten woman should stay married, should
Speaker 1: not leave, should not protect yourself and her children. He
Speaker 1: is an extremist nut job of the highest highest conceivable magnitude,
Speaker 1: unfit to be in the Senate, unfit to be in
Speaker 1: the national command authority. And God help us all of
Speaker 1: this bearded victor orbon loving lick shpittle ever becomes the
Speaker 1: commander in chief. He is an appalling, appalling human being,
Speaker 1: a fraud, a con and the worst VP pick ever,
Speaker 1: even worse than Sarah Palin. And like I said, I
Speaker 1: never ever thought that I would be alive to say
Speaker 1: that that could be possible. But it shows again that
Speaker 1: John McCain was right about something deep down. Anything is
Speaker 1: possible in America. Gratulations to JD. Vance, new king of
Speaker 1: the worst VP picks of all time. Long live JD. Sarah,
Speaker 1: you were tough to displace. I mean it from the
Speaker 1: bottom of my heart. You are as nutty as they come, dishonest,
Speaker 1: as the day is long, ignorant at a level has
Speaker 1: simply mind boggling. But even with all of that, and
Speaker 1: everything you've done over the last fifteen years, even the
Speaker 1: whole costume thing on the mass singer song, Today's to day,
Speaker 1: you get to give up the crown. It goes to J.
Speaker 1: D Vance, the California Yale billy, who with a glass
Speaker 1: of Chortenay in his hands, said he wasn't comfortable back
Speaker 1: in Ohio living with those Hillbillies anymore. A fraud picked
Speaker 1: for his protoge and air apparent another fraud, and now
Speaker 1: they're sinking. It seems that at the moment the Democrats
Speaker 1: were preparing to ram the Iceberg, they changed course, and
Speaker 1: behind them the s S. Mara Lago is full steam
Speaker 1: ahead into the ice And that's a good thing for
Speaker 1: America and all the generations of Americans yet born, because
Speaker 1: there's now a chance to defeat this incipient rowing American
Speaker 1: fascism that calls itself MAGA. This is the warning and
Speaker 1: tomorrow one hundred days to go. I'm Steve Schmidt. This
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