Speaker 1: It is July twelfth, twenty twenty four. One hundred and
Speaker 1: fifteen days remain until the polls close on election Day,
Speaker 1: thirty eight days until the gavel drops and the Democratic
Speaker 1: National Convention convenes in Chicago. This weekend is the preliminary
Speaker 1: to the convening of the Republican National Convention, where Donald
Speaker 1: John Trump will receive the nomination for the third consecutive
Speaker 1: election cycle, joining one of very few Americans who have
Speaker 1: ever achieved that fee. This is the warning. Two weeks
Speaker 1: have passed since the cataclysmic debate in Atlanta between President
Speaker 1: Biden and Donald Trump. The polling is continuing to come
Speaker 1: in and all of it shows Donald Trump is ahead
Speaker 1: and in the strongest position he has ever been on
Speaker 1: a July twelfth since he came down the escalator in
Speaker 1: Trump Tower, Donald Trump is on track to win. During
Speaker 1: his news conference, facing the White House Press Corps and
Speaker 1: the international media for the first time in a long time,
Speaker 1: President Biden was confronted with his poll numbers. In part,
Speaker 1: this is what he responded with. If your team came
Speaker 1: back and showed you data that she would fare better
Speaker 1: against former President Donald Trump, would you reconsider your decision
Speaker 1: to stay in the race. No, unless they came back
Speaker 1: and said there's no way you can win me, don't
Speaker 1: say that. In the immediate aftermath, President Obama's chief strategist,
Speaker 1: David Axelrod said this, making clear he believes the White
Speaker 1: House staff is not sharing with the President his perilous
Speaker 1: political condition. Let me be perfectly clear about something. In
Speaker 1: a battle of narcissism between narcissists, Joe Biden doesn't stand
Speaker 1: a chance against Donald Trump, who is the real, undiluted,
Speaker 1: pure specimen of malignant narcissism, a perfect crystalline example of it.
Speaker 1: This is not a space President Biden can compete in.
Speaker 1: In the end, this day, one hundred and fifteen days
Speaker 1: away from the election, offers us a snapshot in time.
Speaker 1: We know, as of today, President Biden does not have
Speaker 1: a path to an electoral college victory that is credible.
Speaker 1: His polling numbers, while they have not been decimated on
Speaker 1: the ballot test, meaning the head to head, Joe Biden's
Speaker 1: at forty two, Donald Trump is at forty three. But
Speaker 1: inside those numbers, do you approval levels, the confidence numbers,
Speaker 1: who's stronger on the economy, who is mentally fit to
Speaker 1: serve another four years, the President's numbers and the ground
Speaker 1: he was standing on have been liquefied. He has sunk
Speaker 1: into a quicksand, and there is no rope. What you
Speaker 1: are seeing inside the Democratic Party is silent screaming. You
Speaker 1: can hear it from behind the walls of the caucus meetings.
Speaker 1: It's spilling out a bit, but not fully yet. But
Speaker 1: there is something to consider. If President Biden's position holds,
Speaker 1: it will require a great many Democrats, starting with their leaders,
Speaker 1: to go along with it, go along and get along.
Speaker 1: And let's imagine that the precisely like I'm predicting it
Speaker 1: will What does Chuck Schumer think happens to him? What
Speaker 1: does Nancy Pelosi think happens to her? Standing, the repudiation
Speaker 1: at hand will not simply be Biden's, but the entirety
Speaker 1: of a party that allowed this to transpire, that allowed
Speaker 1: it to happen, The party will be obliterated. Who will
Speaker 1: be the first person to step forward and start screaming
Speaker 1: on MSNBC about the spoiler who claims that they're going
Speaker 1: to run an independent candidacy four years from now, which
Speaker 1: absolutely will happen, which must happen if the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: loses this race to Donald Trump, a man who is
Speaker 1: running on a platform of retribution and insanity. Now the
Speaker 1: whole country stands ready to receive the retribution in the
Speaker 1: punishment that's on offer from the Democratic Party in this moment.
Speaker 1: It will be devastating if what seems obvious to so
Speaker 1: many comes to pass in one hundred and fifteen days.
Speaker 1: The President's position on this is that so long as
Speaker 1: he does his goodest, everything is okay, and he's not
Speaker 1: worrying about his legacy. But he should, because if Donald
Speaker 1: Trump wins, his legacy is one thing, selfishness to put
Speaker 1: his ego before his country. Recollections of his presidency will
Speaker 1: be one thing. There will be no memory of the
Speaker 1: infrastructure achievements, the Chips Act, it will all be gone.
Speaker 1: In fact, an entire life lifetime of service will be
Speaker 1: reduced to a thimble of ash contained in a vial
Speaker 1: with just enough space to write the four word legacy
Speaker 1: of the president's lifetime of service. There will be a
Speaker 1: T and R, A U, A M n FP, because
Speaker 1: that is all there will be. The Biden campaign is
Speaker 1: falling apart. Anybody who says it's not is a fool,
Speaker 1: and the evidence to show that is so is the
Speaker 1: fact that for two weeks Donald Trump has disengaged completely
Speaker 1: from the campaign. It means he's winning. Donald Trump was
Speaker 1: losing in twenty and sixteen, all the way through until
Speaker 1: at the very end, James Comy, through a disc raceful
Speaker 1: act of narcissistic self indulgence, he gave the election to
Speaker 1: Donald Trump by making it inappropriately and outrageously about Secretary
Speaker 1: Clinton on a concocted fairy tale issue, inflamed by the
Speaker 1: national media for years and years and years, and it
Speaker 1: was enough to give Trump a narrow win. There was
Speaker 1: one thing the incumbent president could do to make the
Speaker 1: race about him over anything that Donald Trump did, is doing,
Speaker 1: or will do. And he did it. And in the
Speaker 1: real world, just like there are consequences from diving off
Speaker 1: of the Golden gate Bridge, there's a consequence from the
Speaker 1: cataclysm of the performance from that debate. And so the
Speaker 1: president can say at a news conference, I'm staying in,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't really matter because the price of staying
Speaker 1: in means the candidate at the top has to spend
Speaker 1: all of his time treading water to stay afloat at
Speaker 1: the expense of fighting Trump, which is necessary to win
Speaker 1: it's quite a conundrum. One thing is certainly true. A
Speaker 1: lot of Democrats are bullshitting a lot of reporters today.
Speaker 1: They're outraged. They say they had no idea about the
Speaker 1: presidents wherewithal for another battle. Nonsense. This could be seen
Speaker 1: coming for a long, long ways off, and unfortunately Democrats
Speaker 1: did what people are inclined to do. They procrastinated, and
Speaker 1: they looked away, and the fire got closer and closer
Speaker 1: and closer. And here it is. There are one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifteen days left. On Monday, there will be one
Speaker 1: hundred and twelve. There are thirty eight days left until
Speaker 1: the Democratic National Convention a Monday, only thirty five. Joe
Speaker 1: Biden will have to hold this current line for thirty
Speaker 1: five more brutal days and next week. I think Democrats
Speaker 1: underestimate the wave of ugliness and vitriol and humiliation and
Speaker 1: degradation and mockery that is coming to presidents, and they
Speaker 1: have best figure out how to respond to it with
Speaker 1: a strategy that doesn't mimic Sean Spicer and Kellyanne Conway's gaslighting.
Speaker 1: This moment, one hundred and fifteen days out is one
Speaker 1: of check me and laws, and it didn't have to be.
Speaker 1: But don't let anybody tell you they couldn't see it coming,
Speaker 1: because it was obvious. And here at the warning. We've
Speaker 1: been honest about it for a very long time. Not
Speaker 1: because I don't respect Joe Biden. Quite the contrary. I
Speaker 1: respect him a great deal, but I also respect you.
Speaker 1: And here at the warning. Respect means telling the truth,
Speaker 1: and it includes telling truth to power and somebody in
Speaker 1: that Biden White House needs to sit down with the
Speaker 1: President of the United States in an urgent manner and
Speaker 1: go through the polling with him. Stop lying to the president.
Speaker 1: It's unseemly to say the least. I'm Steve Schmidt. This
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