WEBVTT - Kamala vs. Trump: The Homestretch Begins 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:05.280 It is September third, twenty twenty four. Earlier this morning, 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:10.080 dawn broke over the coast of Maine on Cadillac Mountain. 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:15.120 There are sixty three days remaining until the last American 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:20.880 will cast the last vote into twenty twenty four presidential election. 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:25.680 One week remains to the first debate between the disgraced 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:31.200 President Donald Trump and the Democratic nominee and the Freedom candidate, 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:36.760 Kamala Harris. This is the warning. At first glance, it 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:41.919 may seem as if nothing has changed between yesterday and today, 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:46.040 but for many tens of millions of Americans, they will 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:52.000 notice the imperceptible shifts. Everybody's back at school now. There's 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.960 a little bit of a chill in the air in 0:00:56.040 --> 0:01:00.880 most of the country. The days are perceptibly sure will 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:05.160 have warm summer days. But we remember now in this 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:09.600 time of the year, the awful attack on September eleventh, 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:14.039 two thousand and one, a quarter century behind us, almost 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:19.399 but an event that defined a generation and set America 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.839 on a path to great failure in it overseas wars. 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.600 We have an opportunity now as a country to move 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:34.280 beyond that era. And what followed. What followed was Donald 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:39.240 Trump a reaction to the failed wars in Iraq and 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:45.800 Afghanistan and the incoherence of American foreign policy, the idea 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:51.560 that we should spend trillions building democracies abroad when hours 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:56.000 was collapsing in decaying at home. You see, when forty 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:00.880 percent of the population doesn't have four hundred dollars, when 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:06.200 they're an emergency away from being financially wiped out. The 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:12.519 words of a demagogue promising greatness like this man's ring 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:17.440 in their ears. People want community, and what Donald Trump 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:22.240 has built over ten years is a maga community. He's 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.799 created a home for the angry and for the aggrieved. 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:30.040 The price of admission is pretty easy. All it takes 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:34.639 is an act of capitulation or surrender. All you have 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.480 to do to be a good maga is ring the bell. 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.120 If you ring the bell and you let Donald Trump 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:46.240 do the worrying for you, you're in. If you let Donald 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:51.400 Trump decide for you what's real and what's not. If 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.960 you let Donald Trump tell you what's truth and what's not, 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.800 you get to be a member of the community and 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:03.760 you get something great for it. Immunization. Nothing is your fault. 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:09.679 Every grievance you have is heroic and justified. Every failure 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.960 you have is not a sign of losing, but evidence 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:21.760 of conspiracy. And together, this great moving, glatinous blob called 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:26.280 MAGA has laid out a proposition for the whole country 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:31.839 from a minority perspective, because there will never be more 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:36.320 Magas than there are Americans. But what they've said is, 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:41.400 we want one man who we believe can fix everything. 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.600 We want one man. Never Mind he's a fraud and 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:49.839 a con man. Never mind that he is nothing at 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.320 all like he says he is. Never mind that he's 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:58.240 lied forty thousand times in documented public records, never mind 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:05.080 that he's an adjudicated rapists, never mind that he's decomposing mentally. 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:10.320 We insist that the man who gave us absolution rules 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.960 your life. That's the proposition on the table. Listen to 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:18.600 Donald Trump talk about women at the Magharavs, thanking their 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:23.679 men as if we're in Saudi Arabia for allowing them 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:24.760 to come alone. 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.640 Somebody said women don't like Donald Trump. I said, I 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:35.400 think that's wrong. I think they loved me. I love them. 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:40.080 I love them. They're wealthy as hell. Look at them, 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:46.680 They've got nothing but cash. Their husbands are great, but 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.080 they allow them to go all over the country. They 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:50.599 follow me all over the country. 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:56.280 Let's reverse it. Imagine if he said this to the ladies. Ladies, 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:01.400 thank you for letting your men come alone to the Magarelli. 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:06.720 Can you imagine what you're hearing is something sinister and weird, 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:11.040 but mostly sinister. It's the language of control. And what 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.720 doesn't Trump get about the charter of the country, which 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:19.960 is that liberty and freedom combined create the opportunity for 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:24.400 the pursuit of happiness, and the pursuit of happiness for 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.800 so many leads to the pursuit of excellence. And that's 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.640 what Trump doesn't understand because everything has been handed to 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.200 him in life, and he thinks he has an entitlement 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.440 to take, and so does JD. Vance thinks he has 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.400 an entitlement if you're a woman in the country, to 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.440 tell you what to do, to take your freedom away. 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:50.520 The most important thing to understand is that politics matters. 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:55.680 It can shape everything around you and change it in 0:05:55.720 --> 0:06:00.720 an instant. Donald Trump and JD. Vance want to take 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:05.320 something from America's women, and they want to make themselves 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.760 partners in every decision. All of it is an assault 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:13.120 on the American way of life, and the whole world 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:17.680 is watching, The whole world is waiting. Will we recommit 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:23.599 to our creed to freedom, to the idea that what 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:27.360 your neighbors doing in their bedroom is none of your 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:33.080 fucking business. Will we recommit to the idea of tolerance, 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:38.080 of minding your own business, of treating everybody with dignity 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:44.520 and respect, appreciating that freedom for me means freedom for everyone, 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:50.080 and if anyone of the everyone isn't free, it's an 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:54.400 impingement on my freedom as well. This is what it 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:59.039 means to be an American, to be tolerant, to appreciate 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:04.560 that we have freedoms of speech and religion, and we 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:10.160 should be free to be free from fear from our 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:15.640 politicians like Trumpet jd Vance, who promise to come and 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:20.760 get you for revenge and retribution because you're an enemy. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:24.360 If you're not for them, it is an evil. And 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:29.160 what they have come to create in America in the 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:34.760 third decade of the twenty first century is a fascist movement. 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:39.600 It is incoherent, it is dishonest, and it is filled 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:47.920 with fringe weirdos, political extremists, hangers on and many criminals 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:52.920 who have been attracted to the idea that in politics, 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.320 if we win, we can take as much as we 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:00.560 want and do what we want to our enemy. And 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:05.119 because of our broken media, because of the corporate profiteers, 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:10.400 because of faithless men who are in each and every 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:14.600 way their own version of Trump, and some women also, 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:19.120 we have arrived at a most desperate place where, in 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.960 slightly more than sixty days, a great choice will be 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.600 made at the end of a great contest a campaign. 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:31.840 Kamala Harris is the Democratic nominee for president, but more 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:35.600 than that, she is the American candidate. If that word 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.880 has any meaning. She would be supported in this election. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.720 If they were here by Ronald Reagan and by George 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.520 Herbert Walker Bush and Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford and 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.920 Richard Nixon, the Republican Party that was faithful to the 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:56.720 flag and to the Constitution would stand with Kamala Harris, 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:02.240 who stands beneath the American flag, not a Magabanner, which 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:07.439 is its antithesis. Kamala Harris has made clear she wishes 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:11.079 to be president of even the Americans. You disagree with her, 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:15.040 she will fight for all of us because she's an 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:20.400 American leader, not a factional leader, not a thug leading 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:25.600 a tribe which seeks to subordinate all of us under 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:29.840 all of them, because they have the power and we don't. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:34.040 Donald Trump is not on your side. Donald Trump doesn't 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:39.040 care about you, your children, your grandchildren, your homes, your careers, 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:43.400 your dreams, your aspirations. Donald Trump is a con man, 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.000 and he's always been one, and he's going to try 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:51.920 to sell the greatest con maybe that there's ever been 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.200 the idea that you were better off four years ago, 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:59.360 the idea that he fits in in a mainstream, that 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:03.440 he wants to to protect women's reproductive rights, that he 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:08.440 wants to stand fast against America's enemies, that he wants 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:12.079 to fight for the little guy. He is a desecrator 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:16.840 of sacred things, of our flag, of our armed forces. 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:21.360 Maybe it's because he has dementia and he's lost all 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.920 ability to control himself. And I mean this seriously. There 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.200 were many people who worried about Joe Biden's age, and 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.439 I was one of them. But President Biden has never 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:36.560 displayed the type of venomous incoherence that Donald Trump has. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:37.800 Let's take a watch. 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:42.000 She destroyed the city of San Francisco. It's and I 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.600 own a big building there. It's no I shouldn't talk 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.760 about this, but that's okay. I don't give a damn 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:52.120 because this is what I'm doing. I should say it's 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.199 the finest city in the world selling get the hell 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.040 out of there, right, But I can't do that. I 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.560 don't care. You know, I lost billions of dollar. You know. 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:02.720 Somebody said, what do you think he lost? I said, 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.160 probably too the rebellion. That's okay, I don't care. They said, 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:07.920 do you think you do it again? And that's the 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:12.800 least of it. Nobody they always say that. I don't know. 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:18.720 If you know, Lincoln was horribly treated, Jefferson was pretty 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.680 horribly Andrew Jackson they say was the worst of all. 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:25.040 That he was treated worse than any other president. And 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.520 I said, do that study again, because I think there's 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.720 nobody close to Trump. 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:35.240 I even got shot. The stakes of this election are 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:40.480 beyond enormous. They are existential. They're existential because there is 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:45.920 a man with a plan to assert maximum power under 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:50.040 the umbrella of a radical and corrupt Supreme Court that 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:54.080 says that's the right of the president. We stand in 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:58.440 a dangerous moment, in a dangerous hour. The storm that 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.640 is common, will eat, consume us or break in front 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:08.000 of us, and whether whatever happens happens is entirely up 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:11.000 to the will of a free people. What a moment 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:14.880 this is to be alive in America, which is why 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.360 it's time to do something. The summer has passed, The 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:22.960 days will get short quickly. These two months will rocket by. 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.320 Great events will take place in the world. There will 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.040 be traumas in the country. We will get to see 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.839 the character of both of these candidates. Some out there 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.000 will say, well, we don't know enough about Kamala Harris, 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.360 or I wish she got to do more interviews or nothing, 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.640 Because the truth is it's her or Trump, and he's 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:46.720 the most unfit, vile man who's ever held political power 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.439 in the United States, and his return to it will 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:54.679 be a monumental disaster for America. Today's the first day 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.520 of the fall campaign. It will go quickly. You have 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.440 a duty as a citizen to be involved in this one. 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.800 This is the warning. Join our community. We'll tell you 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:08.320 the truth straight every day, each day for all the 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:13.200 ones left of this campaign that will decide our country's future. 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.720 I'm Steve Schmidt. 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