Speaker 1: Twenty seven days to go until the American people will
Speaker 1: decide who controls America's nuclear arsenal. This is the warning
Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris had a wonderful July and even
Speaker 1: better August in a magical September. October is not off
Speaker 1: to a good start. The Tim Walls debate was a
Speaker 1: debacle Strategically. Walls had exactly one job to do, which
Speaker 1: was to confront jd Vance, who is a fascist, a fraud,
Speaker 1: and a vicious racist demagogue. Instead, Tim Walls made him
Speaker 1: seem like barbecue dad next door, as opposed to the
Speaker 1: guy who looked into the camera and said Patians are
Speaker 1: eating cats and dogs. Here is the thing about this
Speaker 1: race strategically that I've said many many times, whoever this
Speaker 1: election is about, is the person who is losing the election.
Speaker 1: October is not off to a good start. Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: is twenty seven days out and on the night before
Speaker 1: what is being built as the most catastrophic storm, not
Speaker 1: in Florida history, not in American history, but in North
Speaker 1: American history. She's cracking beers with Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 2: Elections I think are one on vibes because one of
Speaker 2: the old saws is. They just want somebody that they
Speaker 2: can have a beer with.
Speaker 3: So would you like to have a beer with me?
Speaker 2: So I can tell people what that's like. Okay, this
Speaker 2: was now we asked ahead of time, because I can't
Speaker 2: just be given a drink to the vice president, I'd says,
Speaker 2: ask me, you asked for Miller fil l I I'm
Speaker 2: just curious.
Speaker 4: Okay, the last time I had beer was at a
Speaker 4: baseball game with Dougs cheers.
Speaker 2: There you go, ooh, that is like a beautiful city
Speaker 2: of Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: There you go?
Speaker 1: Is that appropriate? Does that demonstrate good judgment? Step back
Speaker 1: for a second and imagine you are Kamala Harris's advisor.
Speaker 1: What is the very first question that you would prepare
Speaker 1: her for?
Speaker 2: Would you have done something differently than President Biden during
Speaker 2: the past four years?
Speaker 4: There is not a thing that comes to mind in
Speaker 4: terms of and I've been a part of.
Speaker 5: Most of the decisions that have had impact.
Speaker 1: Now, I appreciate that many of you right now are
Speaker 1: very upset, very very upset that you're hearing criticism of
Speaker 1: the campaign twenty seven days out. But here's the deal.
Speaker 1: Very very soon, every single voter in every swing state
Speaker 1: will hear precisely what the Vice President said on the
Speaker 1: view with images of Afghanistan and images of the border
Speaker 1: next to it and image of gas prices. Why is
Speaker 1: the Vice president, twenty seven days before an election, on
Speaker 1: a media tour making her the target as opposed to
Speaker 1: prosecuting the case against the fascist Donald Trump who was
Speaker 1: threatening retribution against the American people, threatening to lock up
Speaker 1: his political opponents, and threatening to create a police state,
Speaker 1: deploying the military for a mass deportation of fifteen million people.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris made a strategic decision that she was not
Speaker 1: going to engage with the American media in the way
Speaker 1: that John McCain did, That she was going to control
Speaker 1: the message, that it was going to be a disciplined campaign.
Speaker 1: And now at the end, when the American people, in
Speaker 1: poll after poll after poll for months, have been saying
Speaker 1: they want a need to know a little bit more
Speaker 1: about Kamala Harris, the way the campaign has decided to
Speaker 1: do that is by making her a target, as opposed
Speaker 1: to delivering a handful of speeches that articulate her philosophy,
Speaker 1: her philosophy about the country, about the moment in time,
Speaker 1: and about the people who live in the country. Twenty
Speaker 1: seven days from now, the polls will close in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: By that time, it will be eleven PM in California.
Speaker 1: In two am in the East, the last American will
Speaker 1: have voted, and we will likely know by that hour
Speaker 1: the results of the election. Everything is on the line.
Speaker 1: I am someone who Donald Trump has made clear he
Speaker 1: intends to prosecute, along with thousands of other Americans who
Speaker 1: have dared to speak up, assert our First Amendment rights
Speaker 1: and oppose him. The Vice President ran a perfect campaign
Speaker 1: in July. She ran a better campaign in August. September
Speaker 1: was magical. We are a few days into October and
Speaker 1: it's not going well. The campaign needs to keep the
Speaker 1: race focused on what the race is about. The race
Speaker 1: is about Donald Trump and his insanity, his threats of violence,
Speaker 1: his dogma of taking his quest for control over the
Speaker 1: lives of millions of American women who lose their rights.
Speaker 1: This movement of Trump's is dangerous and it's deranged. The
Speaker 1: election is very close. Let me close today by showing
Speaker 1: you the man who could be the next Attorney General
Speaker 1: of the United States.
Speaker 5: I'll think give advice to any young man that's out there.
Speaker 5: I'm married now, I have children, but I wasn't married
Speaker 5: that long ago.
Speaker 3: I was single.
Speaker 5: I was in the market. If you're a young man,
Speaker 5: it's very important an election season. Who's looking to impress ladies,
Speaker 5: to be the alpha, to be attractive. The best thing
Speaker 5: you can do is to wear your Trump support on
Speaker 5: your sleeve. Show that you are a real man, Show
Speaker 5: that you are not a better right be at and
Speaker 5: loud Trump supporter, and your dating life will be fantastic.
Speaker 1: This man, in this cause will wreck America. It's Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris's job to stop it. It's her campaign's job to
Speaker 1: make sure she doesn't lose the election. They seem to
Speaker 1: understand that over July, August, and September it would be
Speaker 1: best if they get back on track, let's say by
Speaker 1: October fifteenth. For all of you out there and raged
Speaker 1: and upset because you've been exposed to reality, let me
Speaker 1: just say that I'm going to double down. I want
Speaker 1: you to pay attention to what Harry Enton of CNN
Speaker 1: is talking about. Because no political party has gotten elected
Speaker 1: to the office of President of the United States when
Speaker 1: the presidency is held by a member of that party
Speaker 1: with an approval level where Biden's.
Speaker 4: Is I think that this sort of gets at a
Speaker 4: problem for Kamala Harris's campaign. Just twenty eight percent of
Speaker 4: Americans think the US is on the right track. And
Speaker 4: I want you to put that in a perspective. Right,
Speaker 4: when does the average when the end party loses the election?
Speaker 4: Look at that it's just twenty five percent. That looks
Speaker 4: a heck of a lot like that twenty eight percent
Speaker 4: right that currently think the country is on the right track.
Speaker 4: When the White House Party wins, ie Kamala Harris's party,
Speaker 4: the Democrats, forty two percent on average think that the
Speaker 4: country is on the right track. This twenty five percent
Speaker 4: looks a lot more like this twenty eight percent.
Speaker 3: It doesn't look anything like this forty two percent.
Speaker 4: This to me is a bad sign for Kamala Harris's campaign.
Speaker 4: The bottom line is it looks a lot more like
Speaker 4: a loser than it does like a winner when it
Speaker 4: comes to the country being on the right track. Can
Speaker 4: an incumbent party win with numbers like this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So if we look historically speaking, right and we say, okay,
Speaker 4: say the US is on the right track.
Speaker 3: The incumbent party when they win.
Speaker 4: Today, again, it's just twenty eight percent. Look throughout history
Speaker 4: right ninety six, eighty eighth.
Speaker 3: Four to twelve eighty four. In all of these instances.
Speaker 4: In all these instances, far more than twenty eight percent
Speaker 4: thought that the country was on the right track.
Speaker 3: Thirty nine was the lowest. Back in nineteen hundred and.
Speaker 4: Ninety six, we got upwards of forty seven percent eighty four.
Speaker 4: Of course, that was a blowout right for Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 4: So there is no historical precedent for the White House
Speaker 4: Party winning another term in the White House when the
Speaker 4: country when just twenty eight percent of the country thinks
Speaker 4: that were on the right track. John simply put, it
Speaker 4: would be historically unprecedent.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is the gravest threat to the United States
Speaker 1: of America since the Civil War. The way we get
Speaker 1: him back into the Oval office is by drinking beers
Speaker 1: with Stephen Colbert on the edge of catastrophe and going
Speaker 1: on the view and being unable to answer a question
Speaker 1: about anything you might do differently. October is the month
Speaker 1: that decides elections, not July, not August, and not September.
Speaker 1: There are some quotes that have defined presidential campaigns in
Speaker 1: recent years. John Kerries, I voted for it before I
Speaker 1: voted against it. Mitt Romney's quote about the forty seven
Speaker 1: percent of the country that were freely voters, John McCain saying,
Speaker 1: on the edge of financial collapse, the fundamentals of the
Speaker 1: economy were strong. I can't think of anything could be
Speaker 1: such a line. Let's hope that it doesn't turn out
Speaker 1: to be aligned. That costs the Harris team the campaign,
Speaker 1: but the magnitude of the mistake made on the view
Speaker 1: was enormous. It's the type of mistake that loses campaigns,
Speaker 1: and the way you avoid that mistake is stop making
Speaker 1: the candidate a target. She's not running for the Democratic
Speaker 1: nomination in the early primary states. This is October of
Speaker 1: a general election in a near even race. Keep the
Speaker 1: other guy the target. Make yourself a small one strategy
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