From the Kitchen Table: The Duffys - Q & A With The Duffys: Will The Republican National Convention Buy Biden Extra Time In The Race?

Episode Date: July 13, 2024

The Duffys' beloved Wisconsin is gearing up to host the Republican National Convention next week -- which could hold extra weight this year as many predict Former President Trump will likely announce his Vice-Presidential pick. While Democrats continue spiraling into chaos over concerns about President Biden's competency, what will take center stage this week: the RNC or President Biden’s mental decline?   Sean and Rachel discuss how they believe the current panic surrounding President Biden will ultimately impact the 2024 Election and what they're looking forward to most about being on the ground in Milwaukee for the RNC.   Follow Sean & Rachel on X: @SeanDuffyWI & @RCamposDuffy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey everybody, welcome to From the Kitchen Table. I'm Sean Duffy along with my co-host for the podcast, my partner in life, and my wife, Rachel Campos Duffy. It's great to be back, Sean. It's Q&A. You and I both love Q&A, and our viewers love Q&A. They're our highest-rated shows, so here we go. I want to start this one off with a little bit of the feedback

we've been getting from our episode last week about the effects of divorce on children, which I think was a fascinating topic. You should go back if you are interested in that subject matter. The impact of a divorce, not on adults, but on children. And it was an article that went absolutely viral that we break down that talked about basically the lifelong effects, how the divorce actually never ends for the kids who experience

that at that formative age. Well, we got letters back. And a couple of them were saying, hey, I think you're maybe not being fair, that a lot of people have to get a divorce because of lots of reasons. And basically, we're not doing this cavalierly. We know because it's alcoholism or, you know, chronic serial infidelity that we just can't remain in that marriage. We know what's going to happen to our kids. We regret what's going to happen to our kids. We never wanted this to happen. But this isn't our fault. We, I went back and re-listened to it. I thought we made that caveat. But if we didn't make that clear enough, that there are reasons for people to do that, we certainly don't want to, you know, leave the impression, I guess, that, you know, it's never a good idea to get divorced, when in fact, there are absolutely extreme cases where that's the case.

And I think, Sean, you and I talked about this after we got some of those letters. And it's like we just wanted to put out, one, what is the perspective of a child? Because so many people were told, you know, the kids will be OK. They're resilient. Guess what? They're resilient. Guess what? They're not. But also just so that everyone thinks about that and the seriousness and the long term impact for kids.

Yeah. And you look at marriages, whether it's emotional or physical abuse that happens within marriages. So, again, I want to reiterate that, too. So it's we understand that divorce happens. again, I want to reiterate that too. So it's, we understand that divorce happens, but the purpose of the podcast was to talk about, again, what is the impact of the child, of the divorce? And you might, as a parent go, I don't have, I, there's no, I don't really have a choice here. I have to move forward with this divorce, but it's important not to buy the lie that society puts out that kids are resilient, right? It does have an impact as well.

And full knowledge matters when you make these really big decisions in your life and in the life of your child. And to undermine or dismiss the impact on the family would, I think, again, is a disservice. And that's why I wanted to do the podcast. And again, I think people make decisions that are best for them and their to do the podcast. And again, I think people make decisions that are best for

them and their families all the time. But again, knowing full well what that decision is, I think matters. And I think also Rachel, what I see happening too is that's a really hard topic to touch on because if you're in that situation where you're like, this marriage is over and I can't save it because these things are happening. You want to feel better about it. And you want to buy the idea that everything's going to be OK with my kids because it makes it emotionally easier. But again, I think as an adult. But what the letter said, Sean, just to be fair.

So first of all, we had people who wrote in and said, thank you for telling that story. This was my story, too. I was a kid. I went through this. I don't feel like the adults were fully, you know, cognizant of what I was going through. I don't think I was the priority in that situation. So there's that. But the people who wrote were a few people who said, listen, I did not do this without, you know, so much prayer, so much thought, because I knew this was going to be horrible for my kids. I went into this knowing that that's how bad my situation was.

And so, of course, I wrote those people and I was like, listen, of course, I understand your situation. And so I wanted to put that out there. But this is also, Sean, in the context of lots of articles coming out right now. I just read one in the Daily Mail last week about, you know, women in their 50s who are just like, you know what, you know, it's me time. I'm sick of being a housewife. I mean, there are all these other messages out there in the culture that are saying, you know, it's time to focus on you. And, you know, the kids will be okay. And, you know, you're, you know, just do you. And I think that was sort of what

we were talking about, which, by the way, Sean, the kids are going to be okay, and kids are resilient. That's a message that came out 70s, 80s, as you said, to make people feel a little bit better about this terrible situation they're in. So no doubt. And I think that's clarification. Again, a lot of people do understand the consequences of the family. Some do not, which is why we wanted to put that on the table at the kitchen table and fully discuss it.

So we appreciate everyone. But no regrets about doing that. By the way, no regrets about doing that topic. The kids often don't have advocates. And so I just love that article and the fact that it went viral and the comment section of people just pouring out, people in their 40s, you know, and 50s and 30s pouring out their hearts of what they went through and how they felt really left behind in the situation. This there's a reason it went viral. I'm glad we touched on it. That's what the kitchen table is for. another topic, Sean, which, of course, everyone's talking about the dilemma inside of the Democrat Party and who's pulling the strings and who's going to win out in this battle between the Bidens who don't want to leave and the Obama Hollywood led by George Clooney team who's trying to push Joe Biden out. Yesterday, there was, this past week, there was a really interesting interview with Chris Matthews on MSNBC. And Matthews, who's sort

of an old school Democrat and sort of represents the kind of politician we remembered Joe Biden as maybe 15 years ago, said, listen, I know Joe Biden. He said what you said, Sean, frankly. He said Joe Biden is not going to step down. He is not built to do that. He's been through too many races that people said he couldn't run, that he did. He feels very, still very much upset about the fact that he was pushed out in 2016 he wanted to run and obama chose hillary to to take on donald trump and that didn't end well and he believes he could have beat donald trump in 2016 so he's kind of like really i'm going to take advice from Barack Obama, who, you know, made the wrong call in 2016. And then, of course, you know, Sean, we've talked a lot about the role of Jill Biden, who seems to be loving being first lady. And between the both of them, they're not leaving. I think I think you're turning out to be prescient on this, Sean.

So I do think I was right on that. It is playing out the way I thought it would. But let's talk about a couple of things that happened yesterday. So we have, I believe, it's 13 members of Congress, one senator who have now called for Joe Biden to resign. No governors yet. Nancy Pelosi has been basically saying, in essence, she said a morning Joe, which is what basically, in essence, she said a morning Joe, which is what Joe Biden watches. It's it's a way for Joe to make his decision when he's already made his decision. He's going to stay. So last night, which was Thursday night, Joe Biden was ending the NATO summit. And he did a press conference with Zelensky from from Ukraine. And as he was introduced in Ukraine, introducing Zelensky, he actually called him Putin,

right? And then quickly thereafter, he corrected himself, but he called Zelensky Putin. So that was the first mistake. And then the second mistake during the press conference, which, by the way, I'm going to be fair. The bar was really low for me and for Americans after the debate performance and after what we've seen for three and a half years of Joe Biden. I thought he got over that very low bar when he put sentences together. He put thoughts together. But a couple a couple of points. He called his vice.

They're asking about Kamala Harris. And he said, well, he wouldn't have picked his vice president, Trump, but for the fact that, you know, she's qualified to serve as president. But he actually said Trump's name instead of Kamala's name in the press conference. He had a number of moments where you can see he's going to go down and try to tell a story, but he loses his train of thought. He can't bring the thoughts into the forefront of his mind. tell a story, but he loses his train of thought. He can't bring the thoughts into the forefront of his mind. And he, in essence, says, oh, that's, you know, forget it. I'll, you know, I'm gonna move on. Right. He stops his train of thought because he loses his train of thought. There's a bunch of lies that he told about the economy and bottom out and middle up or whatever the hell he

says. But this is what I found the most interesting, Rachel, was the media. So Joe Biden came out with a note card that his staff had given him on who to call on. And there was like NPR and maybe a Reuters was called on. But beyond that, everyone else I had never heard of, kind of foreign press. It wasn't Fox, Peter Doocy wasn't called on, ABC, NBC, CBS, none of the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal. They weren't called on. It was people that we really hadn't heard of before. And it was interesting to watch what happened. It was it was questions on foreign policy with a secondary question that was really light on whether Joe Biden should stay in the race. And what it did for him, and again, this was all planned and the media was complicit, those who were called on, was when you start to lose your cognitive ability,

it's the more recent thoughts you lose, but you're really good at history, right? You're really good at those old memories. He served in the Foreign Affairs Committee. He chaired the committee. He was able to pull a lot of facts on foreign policy that he knew. And he just got prepped and done these several days meetings with NATO. So he was able to answer those questions on foreign policy. But he did stumble and mumble his way through issues around whether he should stay in the race. But the takeaway is, yes,'t this was not all mainstream media, but the media that was there and called on, they were all in to support Joe Biden and to help him get through this press conference and send a message to the American people that Joe Biden's cognitive abilities are still

there. And by the way, that is shameful. Yeah. the way, that is shameful. Yeah. You know, I hadn't thought about that as a strategy of overcoming his cognitive deterioration, but it makes perfect sense. You know, there's something else at play. And, you know, for the Bidens, and we've talked about this a little bit in the past before on the show, it's very personal um in that same interview with chris matthew sean chris matthew said you know he referred to barack obama and and the clunies as these elitists and he still sees joe biden as sort of that scrappy guy from you

know that blue collar um irish working class kind of persona that he's built. OK, we can argue whether that's authentic or not. But it's really clear he's not as smooth and sophisticated as, say, Barack Obama. And that Joe Biden isn't as beloved by the cultural, you know, big, big wigs like George Clooney, as Barack Obama is. He also talked about how Joe Biden and Jill Biden were never once invited upstairs to the residence in the White House when Barack Obama was president. the White House when Barack Obama was president. And you've seen this kind of behavior from the Obamas in the past, where they kind of seem to enjoy humiliating people, even people around them that they work with, even people who have been their donors. They kind of relish that one of the one of the ways everyone publicly saw it was remember when Barack Obama was at the White

House Correspondents Dinner and Donald Trump was in the audience and he made some comment. Let's put this clip in here. I'll leave it to you to speculate on how this whole race is going to go. I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be president. And the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people. And I think they recognize that being president is a serious job.

So you see, that was a very public humiliation that actually spurred Donald Trump to go, I'll show you, and then Donald Trump, when it was regarding the birth certificate and whatnot, and Donald Trump went on to be the president. I think that kind of mean girl stuff that Barack Obama does, that is also those humiliations experienced by public, humiliations experienced by the Bidens, by the Obamas, I think is another really personal reason why they can't let go. I really believe that in my heart. Remember when Barack Obama came to the White House and Joe Biden was like nobody wanted to talk to him

and he was kind of off walking towards the curtains in the East Room. These are the kinds of things that Barack Obama loves to do. And some people think that even the hand that he put on Joe Biden's back to kind of walk him off the stage at the famous George Clooney fundraiser two weeks ago, that that was done on purpose and to make him look frail and to make Barack Obama appear more full of vigor. And that it was a knife in the back to Joe Biden, who was struggling at that moment with people trying to see him as fit for office. So I don't know how you feel

about that, Sean, but it also feels really personal to me. I think I think it is personal for for the Bidens. And again, if you had some deep friendship where the two men served together for eight years and a trust between the men, Barack Obama could go to Joe Biden, go, listen, Joe, if you have advanced our policy that we started under my administration, that you have grown and, you know, you've been such a great radical Marxist communist for us. But your time is done. I think it's time to put someone else in. If they had that friendship, that conversation could happen. But I agree with you, Rachel. I think anything that that that Barack Obama is saying about Joe Biden getting out is only going to harden Joe Biden more and Jill Biden to stay in.

only going to harden Joe Biden more and Jill Biden to stay in. They're going to do the exact opposite. And which is which is, again, which I don't know. I don't know how it's going to play out, but they do have a mess on their hands. And it comes back to another point that we've talked about this numerous times, but being honest and truthful with people about what's happening, whether it's vaccines and in COVID or with the state of your candidate, you're usually better off leveling with people, letting them make decisions for themselves instead of trying to control them and their decisions by controlling the narrative, by putting out fake and false information. by putting out fake and false information, because eventually the liar gets exposed. And that's what's happening here. And it's put the party in really dire straits and they have no really good way around it. Last night's press conference, Rachel, it was it was, again, the bar for me and I think for a lot of Americans was really low. Did he get over it? Yes, he did, I think. However, when because you and I would look at a speech like that and go, oh, my God, he can't keep his train of thought. He's, you know, calling people by the wrong names.

We would have seen it because we know what was happening. I think a lot of Democrats and a lot of members of Congress, they've been blinded to the mental condition of Joe Biden. They've been blinded to the mental condition of Joe Biden. But since their eyes have been opened and then they now to watch the press conference last night, I think they're they're picking up some of the the gaffes and mistakes in the in the slurring and the drifting off that that happened at the press conference last night. And it doesn't make them feel any better because they know that Joe Biden is not going to improve in the next months or years. He's actually going to get worse. Of course. We'll have more of this conversation after this. Jason in the House, the Jason Chaffetz podcast. Dive deeper than the headlines and the party lines

as I take on American life, politics entertainment subscribe now on foxnewspodcast.com or wherever you download podcasts and this brings us to the republicans because we're coming we're on the verge of you know the rnc convention which is next week you and i are going to be there we're going to be doing our podcast live from there i'll be doing some stuff for Fox and Friends. You'll be doing stuff for the bottom line. And the question is, what will happen there? And I want to mention two things. One, I think one of the things that the Republicans will need to do is not be too obsessed with Joe Biden's condition, because ultimately, even if they replace him, the policies are going to be the same for the American people. Gavin Newsom is not going to do anything different.

Gretchen Whitmer, name the person. They're not going to do anything different policy-wise. So that won't change for you. So I think it's important to get back to policy because if not, the conversation is like, all right, can we switch them out? And just switching them out, solve the problem. So I think that's one thing. The other thing is, you know, at the convention, I've heard some people say that, you know, high level people on Trump's team saying the timing's not great for Republicans for this

convention, because what Republicans really need right now is for the media spotlight, which is for the first time ever, on the Democrats, on their lives, and on this massive, you know, infighting, that is going, that is the best thing for the Republicans politically. And the RNC convention is going to take the spotlight off of the food fight that's going on in the Democrat party. I don't know how you feel about that, Sean. Well, I think a couple of things, Rachel, you made an interesting point. So this election is not about Joe Biden and Joe Biden's failing health. Right. That's not what it's about. Now, we're talking a lot about it because the media finally decided to cover it because we all saw it during the debate. But this election is about ideas and whose ideas are going to work for the American people.

What's going to make us stronger and more prosperous with more opportunity, more safe and secure? That's the conversation that Americans want to have because they want their lives to improve. And so if Republicans make the mistake at the convention of focusing on Joe Biden, right, you're not focusing on what the American people want you to focus on, which is them and their lives and their families and their finances. And so it's OK to talk about the policies and the crazy ideas of the Democrat Party, which Joe Biden embodies. But always bring it back to people and how you're going to fight to make their lives better. And if they do that, it'll be a successful convention.

And by the way, I don't I don't I don, I don't mind that the RNC convention is next week. What's going to happen is it's going to give Joe Biden a break because this news cycle has been. That's an interesting take. I get you. It's been two weeks of a horrible news cycle for Joe Biden. Give him a break. Right. And when we come out of the RNC convention, there's going to be more focus on Joe Biden, give him a break, right? And when we come out of the RNC convention, there's going to be more focus on Joe Biden. More people are probably going to come out and say he should leave. But buying Joe Biden more time means that the organization at the DNC can't

organize well enough to take him out. And frankly, I think Joe should stay. I think Trump and many Republicans would love him to stay. He's a known quantity and entity with a known record and known failings. That's what they want to run against. And this is going to help Joe, because it's going to take some of the media pressure off him and his cognitive ability. Sean, Donald Trump is going to be announcing his vice presidential pick at the convention next week. Do you have any predictions? So I've come out very clearly and said, reading the tea leaves, I think it's going to be Doug

Burgum. I don't know. I don't think that. Reading now the new tea leaves, because there's been more tea leaves that have been put in the in the tea uh so i think he's going to announce that uh the the vp will speak on on wednesday night uh there is a number of speakers that are on the schedule for wednesday night and they're from a certain state they're not from from Florida and they're not from North Dakota. You have some speakers coming in on the docket from Ohio. So I read in the tea leaves, it looks like it very well could be JD Vance who's been selected. You're looking at the list of speakers on Wednesday

night on the night that we're supposed to hear. And you're seeing a lot of Ohio speakers, which makes you think it is JD.D. Vance. That's correct. That's fascinating. Well, we shall see. I still stand by I think Vivek would have been the boldest, bravest choice for President Trump. But next to all the other people, I'm not opposed to J.D. Vance. You know, I wasn't totally opposed to Marco Rubio.

I just think Marco Rubio would be a better Secretary of State. And I kind of can see him in that role a little better. But it's going to be exciting. I mean, there's going to be a lot of people there. By the way, our daughter, Davida, is going to be there. She's premiering her new show as well. Um, that she has, um, the Bongino report with Davida Duffy, um, early edition. And so we're going to be seeing her down there. Hopefully we can steal her to come on our podcast. Um, Sean, I haven't even told you this

yet, but I was talking with Callie Means, author of the blockbuster book Good Energy, and somebody who's really doing a lot of great work in terms of trying to change our policy and the way we view food policy. I'm going to try and get him on our podcast as well, because it's interesting that he's at the convention. He is a Republican. He's on the record as a Republican. At the convention, he is a Republican. He's on the record as a Republican. And he's trying to help the Trump team with their policy so we can do a better, more holistic approach to chronic diseases, which we know are caused by our bad food, ultra-processed foods and all the GMOs and crazy stuff we put in our food supply. processed foods and all the GMOs and crazy stuff we put in our food supply. So we're and trying to get people off of off of pharmaceuticals and into healthy living.

So that's all good stuff as well. We're going to try and track him down and put him on the podcast to talk a little bit about that as well, because, as you know, food policy is so important in America right now. Well, again, you have a government that promotes and supports and subsidizes really bad processed food that makes people sick. And then we subsidize and pay for the health care of those people who get sick. It would be a lot smarter if we said, let's focus on good, healthy foods that keep people away from the hospital and doctors and keep them healthy and happy. So there's that.

Just I want to make a point of personal privilege, as we would say in the Congress. This convention is happening in Wisconsin. If you don't know, I am from Wisconsin. Rachel spent 20. Rachel's from Wisconsin, too. I'm just going to you're going to own that. I'm here right now and you're not. I know. So I love the state of Wisconsin. I couldn't

be more honored that the RNC picked Milwaukee to do the convention. Now, Milwaukee is a liberal town, but it is a 50-50 state, one of the most hotly contested states in the country in this presidential election. And people who have been going in from even Fox and setting up for the convention, I continually hear back two things. One, how nice the people are in Wisconsin, number one. Do you really? And number two. It's like, oh, I love you.

It's so true. And I hear about, this is a really beautiful state. Like, they're shocked that people are nice and the state's beautiful. It is a beautiful state. And people are really nice. And what I'm excited about, and hopefully you're going to do some of this, is we're going to showcase some of the great things that we do in Wisconsin. And we're on the bottom line, my Fox Business Show, and hopefully on Fox and Friends, we can showcase some of the great businesses and products that a lot of you have and eat or the things that we make during the convention.

we make during the convention. And I think that's really wonderful for Wisconsin to get that kind of attention and the businesses and the people who work so hard in those businesses that make these great products. I have a really strong feeling that beer and cheese curd sales are going to go way up next week. I'm very confident about that. By the way, I'm going to be hosting breakfast with friends on Friday morning at Miss Katie's Diner in Milwaukee.

And that's from at 5 a.m. Central Time. So if you are in the Milwaukee area and you want to come to the diner, please come. It's Miss Katie's Diner, Friday, July 19th. That's the right after the night after the morning after Donald Trump gives his big speech. So we're going to be breaking it down and seeing how people feel, getting all your thoughts at the diner. I actually have a contingency of friends from Wausau who are going to come down and have breakfast at Katie's, Miss Katie's diner as well. And have breakfast at Katie's, Miss Katie's Diner as well. And just hoping all of you are listening to us in the Milwaukee area, in the Wisconsin area.

Come on down. Love to have you. So I didn't know that, what you're doing this Friday morning. But you know what I think about now when you tell me I do breakfast with friends on Friday morning after Trump's big speech on Thursday night? Is that you have to go to bed early. You and I can't go hit the town of Milwaukee together and live it up as. I can already say what's going to happen. First of all, I can pull all nighters and still go to work.

I can't do it for many days in a row, but I can do it. Sean cannot do it. So Sean will have to make a decision. If he wants to come to the diner, he is going to have to go to bed early. My prediction is that Sean is going to be throwing back some beers with friends. And that I won't be seeing him at the diner. Maybe we'll see him in the final hour of the diner. Maybe in the final hour, I'll drag myself down to see you. I'll call the hotel room over and over and over again.

But yeah, that's that. that well anyway um great we're excited about next week excited to come live um with all of you from the convention we'll be filling you in hopefully getting some on-the-fly interviews with people that we think are interesting that we are meeting um at the at the convention uh sean any last thoughts? Yeah, so Rachel is moments away from jumping on a plane and flying back to New Jersey, working this weekend on Fox and Friends. And after my show tonight, I get to fly

to Wisconsin and get a couple days up north. And then on Sunday, I'm driving down to Milwaukee, where I'm going to make you fly in and meet me on Sunday. So we're looking forward to a great week. Tune in, watch it. And again, I do hope that I couldn't be more thrilled that I don't have to travel somewhere else for the RNC.

I get to be in my great home state and showcase it. So we hope you all tune in. We are going to do the podcast from the convention. We'll get you some great guests to join us on the podcast as well. And if we don't have much cachet, which who knows, we might not have great guests. We might have. Oh, we sure will. You know I can work it. I know you can.

So listen, thank you all for joining us on our Friday edition of Q&A. I want to thank those who wrote in to us about last week's podcast on the effect of divorce on marriage. We do appreciate it. And I, you know what, it was a lot of it was, was honest and heartfelt. And we appreciate when people listen and give us the feedback. So thank you for that, all of you who did write in. And again, we look forward to next week being in Wisconsin at the RNC. And thank you all for listening to the podcast. One ask, if you like our podcast, please tell people to check it out.

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