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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Buck Brief. RFK Junior officially.
Speaker 1: Endorses Donald Trump. So this is a big move an
Speaker 1: election that's going to be as tight as I think
Speaker 1: the Harris Trump election is likely to end up being.
Speaker 2: This makes.
Speaker 1: Me feel a little bit stronger about Trump's position. I
Speaker 1: still feel very good overall that Trump will end up winning.
Speaker 1: And here, oh well, there she is.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: We got a little ginger appearance because it's a fun
Speaker 1: time in the podcast. Eitherre she goes, She's very cute,
Speaker 1: she's a very pretty girl. Okay later, she's an Australian labradoodle.
Speaker 1: She came running into the studio as soon as I
Speaker 1: started recording. Anyway, RFK Junior's endorsement is a good thing
Speaker 1: for Trump, that's for sure. But I want to assess
Speaker 1: it a little bit. I think there's a little more
Speaker 1: to it than what we've seen so far. First of all,
Speaker 1: his speech on the Democrat media being completely dishonest and
Speaker 1: big corporations, big pharma, all of that being a huge problem.
Speaker 2: I mean, I agree.
Speaker 1: I thought that his speech laying out the problems of
Speaker 1: America right now was powerful and very accurate, very incisive.
Speaker 1: So that was the best part of it for me.
Speaker 1: I also think that when you have a lifelong Democrat
Speaker 1: who comes from a Democrat dynasty and is somebody who
Speaker 1: you would assume would carry that torch forever, when he
Speaker 1: is making a decision to switch and to support a Republican,
Speaker 1: in this case, Donald Trump, that seems noteworthy to me.
Speaker 1: It's especially noteworthy because Trump is supposed to be this
Speaker 1: unique evil, this monster, this threat to the constitution and
Speaker 1: our democracy and all this other stuff. But notice that
Speaker 1: when somebody who is a third party candidate and not
Speaker 1: a Republican party guy, and who's able to get five
Speaker 1: to ten percent of the vote depending when somebody in
Speaker 1: that situation goes for Donald Trump, doesn't it poke a
Speaker 1: pretty big hole in the Trump is the biggest threat
Speaker 1: imaginable to our republic or to our democracy or whatever
Speaker 1: they want to say. You know, it's not just somebody
Speaker 1: who comes from within the Democrat ranks or within the
Speaker 1: Republican ranks and stays on their team. The only person
Speaker 1: who can say I've had a major crossover endorsement Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: There's a major Republican crossover endorsement of the same scale
Speaker 1: as an RFK junior. People say, oh, what about in
Speaker 1: the name of some Republican.
Speaker 2: Nobody cares about.
Speaker 1: No one's thought about in twenty years, and certainly not
Speaker 1: a Republican who has ten percent of the vote that
Speaker 1: he can drop on or five percent or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: So I do think it's significant in that sense. Is
Speaker 1: it likely to change the trajectory of the election. Well,
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Speaker 1: the RFK endorsement? Will it be able to change the
Speaker 1: battlefield for Trump politically? It's certainly going to help. It
Speaker 1: was going to hurt him. And some of you might
Speaker 1: have noticed that I was a little bit hostile to
Speaker 1: RFK staying in the race up to this point, and yeah,
Speaker 1: that's because I want Trump to win and he was
Speaker 1: hurting Trump and people who disagree with me on that. Well,
Speaker 1: RFK Junior himself realized, no, I'm hurting Trump by staying in.
Speaker 1: He was not drawing more Democrat voters. The Democrats are
Speaker 1: far more likely to just be party androids. You know
Speaker 1: they're they're like a robot program. They just vote Democrat,
Speaker 1: vote Democrat. So it was not surprising at all when
Speaker 1: RFK Junior came out, not surprising to me at least
Speaker 1: and said, I realize I'm taking more votes from Trump
Speaker 1: and that's not a good idea. But I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you there's another part of this for me, and this
Speaker 1: is perhaps where people are gonna disagree with me a bit.
Speaker 1: I could I thought he could have given a much
Speaker 1: more full throated endorsement. I thought he could have seemed
Speaker 1: a little more enthusiastic about supporting Trump.
Speaker 2: It struck me as.
Speaker 1: First off, he said that he's staying in in case
Speaker 1: there's a contingent election and then maybe he could still win,
Speaker 1: like he could still be president. That just strikes me
Speaker 1: as crazy person talk. It's gonna be honest with you,
Speaker 1: it strikes me as weird. I mean, yeah, I know
Speaker 1: theoretically that's possible, but you know, you could also say,
Speaker 1: like one of these candidates has a stroke, and you
Speaker 1: know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It was a little weird.
Speaker 1: It was a weird thing to say, Okay, And I
Speaker 1: understand for the RFK Junior fans out there and there's
Speaker 1: some very big fans.
Speaker 2: They'll say, oh, well, what does it matter, he's endorsed Trump.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, he kind of endorsed him cause
Speaker 1: he's like, well Trump is he really endorsed him as
Speaker 1: the lesser of two evils. In my mind, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's maybe too strong. I think he sees some good
Speaker 1: in what Trump is trying to do and accomplish, but
Speaker 1: there was a lack of enthusiasm if you're being honest
Speaker 1: about this, and there was a sense with RFK Junior
Speaker 1: I think that he still wants to be in the
Speaker 1: mix for the big job that I think is not
Speaker 1: really all that helpful. I felt very much like it
Speaker 1: was a little the way this was structured was a
Speaker 1: little self serving. People are gonna say, oh, he's done
Speaker 1: this great thing because he's gone behind tre He has
Speaker 1: done the right thing. So I praise him in so
Speaker 1: far as he's made the right move. I also think
Speaker 1: there was nothing in it for him to stay in
Speaker 1: except possibly be a spoiler and let Kamala Harris win.
Speaker 1: And that's I mean, any sane person should know that
Speaker 1: that's a horrible, horrible thing for the country. So he
Speaker 1: did the right thing. I want to see if he
Speaker 1: goes out and really now pushes for Trump or if
Speaker 1: he just because he said this thing too. If he's
Speaker 1: staying on the ballot in Democrat and Republican states but
Speaker 1: in swing states he wants to, he'll be off the ballot,
Speaker 1: and there's this why stay on the ballot and the
Speaker 1: other ones like what's the you know, it was a
Speaker 1: little strange to me, and I'm sure people are going
Speaker 1: to say that there's all these answers to this, but
Speaker 1: I understand to run in politics at this level, you
Speaker 1: have to have a more than just a healthy ego
Speaker 1: just saying and to me, RFK Junior crossed over into
Speaker 1: this territory during the endorsement of Trump that it was
Speaker 1: still really all just about RFK Junior and not really
Speaker 1: about an endorsement of Donald Trump. He at one point
Speaker 1: everybody was writing and I watched it live. I watched
Speaker 1: the whole thing live. At one point everybody was writing, oh,
Speaker 1: he's endorsed Trump, and I was like, I mean, I know,
Speaker 1: I say I heard him say it, but there was
Speaker 1: not It wasn't like he built to some moment he
Speaker 1: was like, that's why, you know, I think Trump is
Speaker 1: the guy and I'm so enthused. You know, it was like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, Commin was horrible. So yeah, obviously I'm going
Speaker 1: to be supporting Trump, and I think people should do
Speaker 1: that too.
Speaker 2: Am I the only one who saw it this way?
Speaker 1: I don't know, And I'm telling you, I'm a Trump guy,
Speaker 1: so I'm sensitive to Hey, Okay, I'm glad that you're
Speaker 1: trying to help, but you know, you could have helped
Speaker 1: a little more. I think, and I also believe that
Speaker 1: some of rfk's followed RFK juniors followers might go Democrat.
Speaker 1: Anyway he might have got he might have picked up
Speaker 1: some Trump haters along line, so that that doesn't change,
Speaker 1: you know, his calculation about going for Trump. It just
Speaker 1: means that I don't know how much will be a
Speaker 1: bump for Trump. Look, it's a good thing. RFKA Junior
Speaker 1: made the right decision. And it seems like he's not
Speaker 1: quite a Republican but kind of Republican adjacent these days
Speaker 1: in some ways, so we'll take it. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think of someone like Tulsey Gabbart, I mean, she doesn't
Speaker 1: I don't know if she even says he's a Republican
Speaker 1: out she's basically a Republican. So if he's on that pathway, great,
Speaker 1: you know, we want converts.
Speaker 2: But is he a convert? Is he still a liberal
Speaker 2: on some things that are important? You know?
Speaker 1: I just and I'm somebody who finds COVID to be
Speaker 1: really the most important governance issue of the last really
Speaker 1: my whole life, honestly, and the failures of the government
Speaker 1: and a lie is the government told on COVID and
Speaker 1: the cowardice of whether it's the CDC or Big Farmer
Speaker 1: or the media or the Democrat Party and even a
Speaker 1: lot of the Republican Party. I'll never forgive and I'll
Speaker 1: never forget that. And RFK Junior was certainly good on
Speaker 1: that issue and understand the outrage of the forced vaccinate.
Speaker 2: So I'm with him on all of that. But what
Speaker 2: else am I with him on? Or what else does
Speaker 2: he I don't really know.
Speaker 1: And I think it's not that I don't read about
Speaker 1: everything that's being said and done in politics. It's that,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not sure RFK Junior really knows him.
Speaker 1: He wants the war in Ukraine to end, good, me too.
Speaker 1: There's some crossover. I think he realizes the wide open
Speaker 1: border is bad good I mean he's pro choice, very
Speaker 1: pro choice, a vowedly pro choice all nine months of
Speaker 1: her pregnancy.
Speaker 2: So there's that. I mean, you know, that's not good.
Speaker 1: But anyway, overall, very happy that he endorsed and it
Speaker 1: was the right move. And you know, welcome to the
Speaker 1: party or RFK Junior. Well, I guess he's not the
Speaker 1: Republican Party, but I meant that in my like John
Speaker 1: McClain die hardway like, welcome to the party. Pal switching
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