Speaker 1: There are forty five days until the Democratic National Convention
Speaker 1: convenes in Chicago. It is July fifth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: This is the warning. During the next couple of days,
Speaker 1: the full impact of the catastrophic debate will be known.
Speaker 1: The full extent of the polling debacle will be fully felt.
Speaker 1: The impact so far as it is known as catastrophic.
Speaker 1: New Mexico, Virginia, New Hampshire, and Minnesota, all states that
Speaker 1: were safely in the Biden column are now in play.
Speaker 1: New Hampshire was a state that Joe Biden won by
Speaker 1: ten points. He is now losing to Donald Trump by two.
Speaker 1: The president is in a great deal of trouble and
Speaker 1: during the next few days it is highly likely that
Speaker 1: he will withdraw from the race, and when he does so,
Speaker 1: the Democratic Convention will open up. Who are the people
Speaker 1: that could be part of a national ticket that could
Speaker 1: beat Donald Trump. The person that is the best known
Speaker 1: is the incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris, but after her
Speaker 1: there are a number of other well known and lesser
Speaker 1: known candidates. There is, of course, California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1: Nate Silver points out though, that if Gavin Newsom is
Speaker 1: the nominee. There will be a four month debate about
Speaker 1: San Francisco, and it's not a winning proposition for the Democrats.
Speaker 1: There is Wes Moore, the young Maryland governor, combat veteran
Speaker 1: eighty second Airborne. Wes Moore is a superstar, a rising
Speaker 1: talent in the Democratic Party. There's Kentucky Governor Andy Burshier.
Speaker 1: This is a Republican state. He's a very popular Democratic governor.
Speaker 1: There's the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer Big Gretch. Their
Speaker 1: senator Cory Booker. There's Governor JB. Pritzker of Illinois. There's
Speaker 1: Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, their secretary and former governor
Speaker 1: Jinny Romando. There are a great many Democrats who could
Speaker 1: serve at the top of the ticket or in the
Speaker 1: vice presidential slot. The only thing that matters is winning.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at some of them. Let's see
Speaker 1: how they answer questions. What do they look like giving
Speaker 1: a speech? Can they light up a room like Barack
Speaker 1: Obama did? Can they take the fight to Donald Trump?
Speaker 1: Can they prosecute him minute by minute, hour by hour,
Speaker 1: day by day. For the balance of the campaign. One
Speaker 1: thing is for certain the position the President Biden now
Speaker 1: finds himself in is not one that he can recover from.
Speaker 1: What is the moment that he will pass Donald Trump?
Speaker 1: How will he make up six points with a great
Speaker 1: convention speech the September One out of three Democrats wants
Speaker 1: him replaced. Seventy two percent of the country believes he
Speaker 1: is mentally incompetent. So the Democratic Party now must pay
Speaker 1: the price for its gaslighting, its denialism, and its delusion.
Speaker 1: And the good news is is that out of these
Speaker 1: candidates is a winning ticket. There are some great Democratic
Speaker 1: candidates in this mix, the type of Democratic candidates that
Speaker 1: bring with them a Democratic House and a Democratic US
Speaker 1: Senate and completely change the entire dynamic of the election,
Speaker 1: that instill it with energy, that bring young people back
Speaker 1: into politics. The delusion is at a tent. The President
Speaker 1: is a fine man who has served well, but his
Speaker 1: time it's up and he must step aside because if
Speaker 1: he does not, then his only legacy will be a
Speaker 1: supreme selfishness that elected Donald Trump. So whether it's Vice President, Harris,
Speaker 1: governor Moore, Governor, Pursher, Governor, k Newsome, Secretary Romando, governor, Shapiro,
Speaker 1: governor Pritzker, Governor Murphy. The Democratic Party has plenty of
Speaker 1: candidates that can beat Donald Trump, and it's time to
Speaker 1: stop the gas lighting about the fact that the only
Speaker 1: one who definitely can't is the only one who can.
Speaker 1: It's always been absurd and now it's just pathetic and reckless,
Speaker 1: and yes it is a corrupt act. There's nothing more
Speaker 1: important than the country. Country first, Country above the Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: country above Trump, country above Biden. We must think about
Speaker 1: the country and it must have an able president. What
Speaker 1: is the proposition that President Biden can serve at age
Speaker 1: eighty five? If this is his condition at eighty one
Speaker 1: eighty two, the cinisen from the media, cynicism of Democrats
Speaker 1: and allowing this forest to go forward has all been unspooled.
Speaker 1: And let me ask a question, who is it that
Speaker 1: cynicism helps. It helps the king of the cynics, it
Speaker 1: helps Trump, It helps Maga. Where there is distrust, Maga flourishes.
Speaker 1: But now all the light has shined in, and now
Speaker 1: we know President is not up for this fight, but
Speaker 1: these folks are, and they're all about to get a
Speaker 1: lot more famous in the next few weeks. Forty five
Speaker 1: days to go until the most exciting political convention of
Speaker 1: our lifetimes, Democratic Convention in Chicago. This is an election
Speaker 1: that cannot be lost to MAGA and Donald Trump. And
Speaker 1: because this debate took place early enough, it will not
Speaker 1: be lost. It will be saved, and it will be
Speaker 1: saved by a mix of these people, the future of
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt.
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