WEBVTT - DEBATE NIGHT! 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:01.680 Welcome. 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:06.320 It is a special post debate Verdict with Ted Cruz 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:09.040 and Ben ferguson podcast. We get to do these on 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.760 big nights jointly like this. Depending on where you're listening 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.600 to us right now, you get us both. Senator your 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:20.640 initial reaction, we're doing this right now midnight Eastern. You 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:23.320 watch the debate. I watched the debate. What were your 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.840 big takeaways? Well, tonight was a big and consequential debate. 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.760 But I have to say it before we get into it. 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:32.440 Then this entire podcast we're going to analyze the debate 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:37.240 in depth and say what it showed about about where 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.600 the race is, where President Trump is, where Kamala Harris is. 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.680 But I do want to point out it is exactly 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.280 midnight as you and I are recording, which means that 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:50.839 it has just become September eleventh, and for our listeners 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.880 who are downloading this, you'll be downloading this today during 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.320 September eleventh. 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That's Patriotmobile dot com slash verdict or 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:50.520 nine seven to Patriot for your free month of service 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:56.360 Today Center. This was a obviously important debate for Kamala Harris. 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.480 It was really a rollout and a sens where she 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:05.000 could be challenged. What we quickly saw though, was a 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:09.000 three on one debate against Donald Trump and ABC News. 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:10.960 What an end kind donation they gave. 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.560 Yeah, the ABC moderators did not do a good job 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:19.039 that They clearly were biased towards Kamala Harris. We saw 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.920 that from their live quote fact checking, where repeatedly they'd 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.240 follow up what Trump said by contradicting him, by disputing him. 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.800 Many instances their fact checks were wrong and they never 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:31.919 never could be bothered a fact check a word that 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.640 came out of Kamala Harris's mouth. It was very one 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:38.640 sided on that front. But look, ABC News was the 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:43.840 least consequential part of tonight. What Tonight illustrated is that 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:48.839 Kamala Harris is utterly incapable of defending her own record. 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:55.240 And what we saw tonight, this was her stump speech, 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.600 and this was her DNC convention speech, cut into sound 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:04.400 bite and repeated. She memorized a series of vignettes, a 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:08.760 series of little segments, and just repeated those talking points 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:12.480 at nauseum. And it really became clear with the very 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.800 first question of the night, and the first question of 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.120 the night that David Muir asked her, is the question 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.000 that you and I and Monday's podcast said is the 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.440 single most important question of the debate and really of 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.599 every election, which is are you better off than you 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:32.000 were four years ago? And to Mere's credit, he started 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.080 with that question, are people off today than they were 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:39.120 four years ago? Under Trump? Now? Interestingly enough, Kamala refused 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.680 to answer it at all. She didn't say yes, she 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.960 didn't say people's lives are better, she said nothing at all. Instead, 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.480 she had a little memorized set peace about how I 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.480 was raised in a middle class family. I was raised 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.599 with a mom who loved me and struggled. And she 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:59.040 just talked about her bio and gave just just empty 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:05.240 platitudes that continued for the entire night. And so look, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:11.239 we saw this evening. Why it is that Kamala's campaign 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:15.360 team keeps her hidden in Joe Biden's basement. Why they 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.520 just bring her out, have a read from a teleprompter, 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:19.960 and then they tackle her and throw her back in 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.040 the basement. Because all right, let's take the very simple question. 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.200 She didn't say, yes, you're better off than you were 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.840 four years ago. Why, well, you really can't, Like it's 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.839 impossible to defend on every front. Inflation. All let's just 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:36.520 take inflation in the economy. Her policies and Joe Biden's 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:42.040 policies have been disastrous America. The working people of America 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.520 have seen the price of just about everything go up, 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:49.240 from food to electricity, to rent, to lumber, to healthcare, 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:55.440 to gasoline, to mortgages, everything go up. And critically, this 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:59.560 is where her record matters. Kamala Harris was the tie 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.440 breaking vote multiple times on the floor of the Senate 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.640 on trillions of dollars of the out of control spending 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:12.160 from this administration that has caused this inflation. She was 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.800 literally without her vote the trillions of dollars that we 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.600 borrowed and the trillions of dollars that Joe Biden and 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.280 Kamala Harris ran the printing presses on that drove this 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.920 inflation that doesn't happen, and she can't defend that. She 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.679 doesn't have a good answer. When it comes to energy 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.520 and gas prices. People are hurting because of gas price 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.800 as well. It is her policies, in Joe Biden's policies 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:40.640 that has waged war systematically on oil and gas production 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:44.440 and American energy, and she can't defend that either, and 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.600 so instead she simply says, well, we're going to lower 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.480 energy prices, We're going to lower gas prices, and with 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.080 no acknowledgment that Wait a second, she is, in fact 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.880 the sitting vice president, and who knows where the heck 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.720 the actual president is besides pass out to sleep on 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:01.119 a beach. 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.080 When you see, I think the strategy and and now 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.920 it actually I think makes more sense, right like just 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:12.200 hide her buy ads, get the media to cover for 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:16.040 you and protect you at all costs. And maybe that 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.000 is a winning strategy, which comes to the obviously the 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.040 next big question, should there be another debate? 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:23.320 Do you believe there will be? 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.320 In the other debate, they were obviously in the Harris 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.360 camp implying that there was a big victory tonight, saying 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.880 that was fun, Let's do it again, and threw out 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:36.400 another date. Uh, signaling from her campaign they want to 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.920 tee it up again and go toe to toe with 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.640 Donald Trump again. Is that the right move for her? 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.199 Well, listen, I think Trump should absolutely accept that offer 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.559 for another debate. They should jump on it and say 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:52.360 let's go. I think the debate is a valuable opportunity 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:58.240 to calmly litigate her actual record. And let me say 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:03.080 this though, even if Trump does follow that advice and 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.319 does accept the debate, I think there's very little chance 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.920 it happens. I think Kamala's team will back out on it. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.679 I think they're mostly just puffing out their chest and 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.640 boasting right now with the offer of another debate, I 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.280 think there is no world in which they let her 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.400 do a second debate. I think it's back to the basement. 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:22.480 And if I were to predict, we're not going to 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:27.040 see Kamala emerge from the basement until election day. It's 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.360 like the groundhog until she sees her shadow on election day, 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.760 she doesn't get to come out of the basement other 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.280 than to show up at a rally here and there 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.000 and read from the teleprompter the same speech. But they 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:44.199 want to keep her absolutely controlled and repeating and listen, 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:48.640 I will say, the Democrat Party has very good message masters. 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:50.720 They have very good This is the party of Hollywood, 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:54.560 this is the party of storytellers. Her memorized set pieces, 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.319 some of them are pretty effective. They're disconnected from reality. 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.440 They don't acknowledge any facts on earth. But if you 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:07.800 just listen to them, they are calmly, reassuring, they sound nice. 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.680 And it's why. Look, this is the same reaction I 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:14.079 had with her convention speech. It's dangerous as hell, because 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.600 if you're not paying close attention, what she says sounds 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:23.720 nice unless she is forced to confront her actual own record. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:27.520 And in the entire debate, the ABC moderators never once 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.200 pointed out that her record is exactly the opposite of 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.800 what she said on the debate stage over and over again. 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.840 So when I watched the debate, the question I always 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.400 ask myself is okay, if I was going in a 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.199 night voting for Donald Trump, was I convinced by Kamala 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.240 Harris that I should switch my vote? 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:45.400 The answer honestly is no. 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.760 And if I'm a Kamala Harris voter and was going 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.079 into the night watching Kamala Harris saying I'm going to 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.440 vote for her. Am I going to switch my vote 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.880 to Donald Trump tonight? Honestly? Probably not? Does that mean 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.920 that this is a draw? And since where Hey, Donald 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.480 Trump's team they walk out of this going okay, maybe 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.080 we could have done a little better on this that 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:08.920 or the other. Maybe we'll work on that for the 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.000 next subbay, but we didn't do any harm and we 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.400 got out. Are some good points. Kama's team probably says, hey, 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.599 we had it. We survived the night we had you 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.320 in hiding in the basement. Is this one of those 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.160 debates that we both said was one of the most 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.240 important ever? But could in theory be a draw? Because really, 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:28.200 you're if the if the barometer is I'm trying to 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:32.320 change hearts and minds. Did anyone's mind change tonight? 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.440 Well, Kamala's team and all of our cheerleaders in the 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.400 corporate media are going to relentlessly hype that she won, 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.280 that she won, that she won. And by the way, 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.160 they were going to say that whatever happened, she could 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.800 literally fall to the ground and start screaming and wailing 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:46.160 and kicking her feet in the air, and they would 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.040 say she won, so that that was going to be 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:52.800 the narrative regardless. I will say, what we learned is 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.120 she doesn't have a good answer to her own record. 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.400 The Trump campaign needs to continue to prosecute the case. 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.560 So let's let's take, for example, there was a hole 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:06.600 back and forth on abortion, and Trump said accurately that 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:10.640 she supports late term abortions into the eighth and ninth 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.840 months of pregnancy, and she just said, over and over again, no, 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.280 I don't know, I don't that's false, that's false, and 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.840 the moderators sat there like potted plants. Well, it so 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:24.679 happens that Kamala actually has a record, and in particular, 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.400 she has voted for legislation on the floor of the 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:31.679 Senate to strike down every single restriction on abortion in 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:35.640 the country and to legalize abortion in the eighth and 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.600 ninth months up to the moment of birth. That is 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.480 her actual voting record, what she has voted for. There 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.560 was another exchange where Trump points out that the governor 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.720 of Virginia, the former governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, had 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:54.160 advocated for post birth abortion, and she flat out lied 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:55.280 and said no, no, he didn't know. 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.680 He didn't any play that because we have that clip. 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.320 And this is why I love doing this show, is 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.880 we get to play it. This is Northam on the 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:09.440 radio on WTP saying what she said, and the media said, 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:10.280 never happened. 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.640 If a mother is in labor, I can tell you 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:18.280 exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered, the 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:22.280 infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.720 if that's what the mother and the family desired, and 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:29.640 then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mothers. 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.400 I mean, where's the fact check for ABC News on that? Senator? 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:38.439 Yeah, and understand Ralph Northam, he was a Democrat governor 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.920 of Virginia. He was also someone whose medical school yearbook 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.480 featured a picture of a klansman. That's another part of 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.559 Ralph Northm's background. But he was also an obg y n. 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.000 So he was actually talking about as a doctor who 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.679 presumably has done that. He was describing the approach, and 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:00.320 that is delivering a baby. The baby is alive, is eathing, 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.840 is outside the mother's womb, and he's talking about just 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.840 letting the baby die. And again, this is where records matter. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.000 Kamala has a record on this. So when she says 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.439 that's ridiculous, that's no, no, no, no, no, that's not true. Well, 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:18.000 Kamala Harris voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.600 and that was a bill that we voted on the 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.880 floor of the Senate that said if during the course 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.360 of an attempted abortion, the child is delivered, the child 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:31.280 is born, and this happens, and the child is alive 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:35.240 and breathing and outside the womb, that the doctor cannot 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:40.560 just let the baby die. And she voted no. Now, 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:42.880 as you noted, ABC did in fact check her on that, 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.880 her voting record is very clear, and this was a 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:51.720 pattern over and over and over again on energy. So 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.840 her big trick now on energy is she's run away 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.800 from her long held position opposing fracking. Okay, fine, so 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:01.440 she he's like, yeah, I just flip flopped on that. 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.400 What ABC didn't point out is, well, wait a second, 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.520 your repeated statements about banning fracking. That's not the only 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.520 thing you've done on energy. First week in office, you 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:16.040 and Joe Biden shut down the Keystone pipeline. Joe Biden, 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.200 when he was campaigning for president, promised to shut down 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.600 drilling on shore, on federal lands and offshore. You put 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:26.040 in over ninety different regulations and executive orders attacking oil 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.680 and gas production in the United States that has had 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:34.880 a very direct effect driving up cost. Your administration banned 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:39.720 new permits exporting liquid natural gas. Like her record on 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:44.000 energy is terrible, and she has no answer to that. 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:45.920 And by the way, Trump did a good job on 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:49.720 this point of saying, listen, you banned the Keystone pipeline 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:54.920 and gave a giant gift of Vladimir Putin by allowing 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.880 him to complete the Nordstream two pipeline, which caused the 0:15:57.880 --> 0:15:59.480 war in Ukraine. And that's something you and I have 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.000 talked about on this podcast a lot. It was my 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:06.040 legislation in the Senate that sanctioned Nordstream two and shut 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:10.360 it down. Trump signed my legislation and Putin literally stopped 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.320 building the nord Stream two pipeline the day that Trump 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:17.960 signed my sanctions legislation in the law. Nordstream two was 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:19.760 a dead hunk of metal at the bottom of the 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.400 ocean until Joe Biden and Kamala Harris came into office. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:26.320 And and they demonstrated weakness, and and and they waived 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.080 the sanctions on nord Stream two. And it was a 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:33.760 multi billion dollar gift to to Russia, and it caused 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:37.200 the war in Ukraine. None of that does she have 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:37.880 an answer for. 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:43.240 We just got in the official number. ABC News fact 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:48.240 check Donald Trump seven times, not one time the debate. 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.680 Did they fact check Kamala Harris? 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:51.560 Not once? 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.960 So that's the official caw tally now is seven times 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.640 on Trump. That's three on one, And I do think 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.720 that's going to have a turn off, I would hope 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:06.440 to some of those voters, maybe in the middle, the undecideds, 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:10.280 which very much can be the deciding factor in this election. 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.200 Will that play with undecideds? Do you think did they 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:14.760 see the bias that you and I saw? 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.480 They saw that some, but I think they also go 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:20.720 in expecting the media to be biased. So I don't 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:25.200 think anyone is surprised that ABC is a left wing 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.000 mouthpiece for the Democrats. That's been the case sadly for 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:31.879 a long time for ABCNBCCBSC and AN, MSNBC, all of 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.160 them have been mouthpieces for the Democrats. So yes, they 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:40.040 saw it, but again they're not surprised. Look, the critical 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.760 thing that we saw tonight is is she doesn't have 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.359 a good answer on the chaos at our southern border. 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:51.359 Kamala Harris was the borders are. She is directly responsible 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:55.439 for the worst level of illegal immigration in our nation's history. 0:17:56.040 --> 0:18:01.359 She is directly responsible for the people who have died. 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.119 Eight hundred and fifty three migrants died last year crossing 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.879 Allelian in this country. She is responsible for the people, 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:12.199 the women who have been brutally raped. She's responsible for 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.480 the children who have been brutalized. She's responsible for the 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.320 little boys and little girls who've been horribly assaulted by 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.280 human traffickers. She's responsible for the one hundred and ten 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.800 thousand Americans who died last year of drug overdoses. She 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:30.680 is responsible for the murderers that she and Joe Biden 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:34.280 had in their custody. Murderers like the illegal alien murderer 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.159 of Lake and Riley that she and Joe Biden had 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:39.800 in custody, and they released murderers like the illegal alien 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:44.280 murderer of Rachel Morin that illegal alien was in her custody. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:49.800 She released them. Murderers like the illegal alien murderers of 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.480 Joscelyn Nungary. Both of them were in her custody and 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:55.800 she and Joe Biden released them, and so that record. 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.439 She was not forced tonight to answer for any of 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:04.920 that record and that but it demonstrated that she does 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:10.639 not have a good response. And and that's what I 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:14.159 think the next two months the Trump campaign has to 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:19.400 prosecute systematically based on the facts. 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You mentioned Donald Trump's got 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:07.320 to bring up some more of this stuff, and I 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:09.800 think you and I've talked about this, but let's just 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:13.439 remind people since kamayers took off, as total prices are 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:16.280 up over twenty percent, car insurance up fifty four percent, 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:19.440 hotels are up. Say when you rent a hotel fifty 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:22.520 one point two percent, Gases up fifty point fifty percent, 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:26.479 fuel oil is up forty nine point one, transportation up 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:30.040 thirty two point nine Electricity is up thirty one point 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:30.760 seven percent. 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:32.880 Baby food's up over thirty fIF. 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:36.040 Percent, eating out of up twenty five percent, airfare up 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:39.920 twenty three percent, rent up twenty two percent, and groceries 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:43.840 are up about twenty two percent as well. That's what 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:46.600 they've got to focus on, every single one of a 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:50.639 surrogate's not all this other in the weed stuff. I 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:54.159 really do believe they've got to keep it simple for 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:57.920 the American voter, especially if you're trying to go after undecided. 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:01.240 Sure, and that's what we talk talked about in Monday's pod, 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:05.400 that that the focus needs to be on harms, harms, harms. 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:10.600 How are people's lives worthought? Worse off because of the 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:15.320 horrible policies that Kamala Harris is directly responsible for. And 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:18.000 and that's true on inflation, she was literally the tie 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:22.600 breaking vote behind the trillions of spending that that unleash 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:26.280 this inflation. It's true on energy, she and Joe Biden, 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:29.600 it has been their executive orders and their regulations that 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:33.240 have driven up energy prices. And and it's true on 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:35.199 the border, and and and let me play there that 0:22:35.280 --> 0:22:38.000 there was one of the best exchanges with something Trump 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:40.400 said on the border where he made the point that 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:43.560 that that that listen, she she could secure the border today, 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:46.360 and and and and and listen listen to this what 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:47.520 what what he said to her? Right now? 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:51.159 I would say we would both leave this debate right now. 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:54.879 I'd like to see her go down to Washington, D C. 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:57.440 During this debate because we're wasting a lot of time. 0:22:57.800 --> 0:23:01.240