Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Gets BEATEN TO A PULP as Biden RAKES IT IN

Episode Date: October 17, 2023

13 months from a general election, the American People have one way to demonstrate who they’re voting for: fundraising and donations. And by that measure, Joe Biden is wiping up the floor with his republican adversaries, including Donald Trump. Michael Popok of Legal AF says forget the approval ratings or the polling data, Joe Biden has a commanding lead over all the Republicans, where it matters, money, lapping the field and then some. Lomi: Visit https://Lomi.com/LEGALAF and use code LEGALAF and checkout to save $50! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831 Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595 The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://pod.link/1595408601 The Influence Continuum: https://pod.link/1603773245 Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599 Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447 The Weekend Show: https://pod.link/1612691018 American Psyop: https://pod.link/1652143101 Burn the Boats: https://pod.link/1485464343 Majority 54: https://pod.link/1309354521 Political Beatdown: https://pod.link/1669634407 Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://pod.link/1676844320 Uncovered: https://pod.link/1690214260 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The election of Joe Biden is 13 months away. So how do people vote? They don't vote by talking up pollsters. They don't vote by approval ratings. They vote by Melanon checks and by that measure, Joe Biden is wiping up the floor with his Republican counterparts starting with Donald Trump. Let me repeat, it's a binary process right now. If you support somebody, you can't vote for them. And memorialize your vote with an electoral victory. You can write a check or credit card or make a donation. And that by that

measure, Joe Biden is doing just fine. He's got momentum and there's enthusiasm about his campaign despite what mainstream media and the posters have to stay have to say. Yeah, I've heard all about media and the posters have to stay, have to say, yeah, I've heard all about the sort of stubborn approval rating, which is stuck at about 40% for Joe Biden and 35% of the American people don't understand the economy at how it works and think that the economy is not doing well because they only look at gas prices. And they don't look at every other measure of a healthy economy, but having put that aside for a minute, when it comes time, the raising money from grassroots donors, not from big fat cats who are making donations, but for people who are making donations at $200 or more, the winner,

it's still champion is Joe Biden. Fortunes have been won and lost by betting against Joe Biden. Just like they voted, they bet against Barack Obama. How is this community organizer from Chicago with only been in the Senate for a short amount of time? How is he ever going to be president? And then it was how is he ever going to be reelected? And then it was Joe Biden, sure Joe Biden's been a public servant since he was 29 and elected to the Senate as the youngest Senator.

And yes, he's the oldest president, but he'll never win his time is passed. His time is passed. He should have ran against Hillary and he did. Then he won. And now everybody's saying, yeah, he won them. But can he win again? You know how clocks work? He's older.

Right. I get that. He's also more experienced having been the president during war and peace and economic prosperity and all of those other things, investment in our society and culture and infrastructure and chip production and cutting childhood poverty in half, you know,

things call this successful track record for a president in a body of work. So now voters have their chance now the only way they can. I know we're all itching to go vote, but voting is not happening now. I love the pollsters who say if the elections were held today, then Donald Trump would win by two points. Well, they're not held today. And these popular votes or these votes that are out there about how Joe Biden is going to do in November are totally ridiculous. First of all, they're not done state by state to show the electoral vote. We're an electoral vote. We learn anything from Jan 6,

the attempt to steal the election. We're an electoral college type of place. We're not a popular vote type of place. And so to hear about the popular vote, overall, the pole of polls, the combined polls, it's sort of silly. I can't tell you how many people have quote unquote come back from the dead and won an election because 13 months earlier, they were left for dead by the posters. Don't listen to the posters. Mark Twain or maybe Disraeli, the Prime Minister of Britain, once said there are three types of lies, three kind of lies. There's lies, there's damn lies, and there's statistics. And throw into that category of statistics, polling data. Okay, it's irrelevant. All I know is what is in front of me.

That is immutable, that is durable, that is true, and that is factual. And by that measure, Joe Biden had a fantastic third quarter of fundraising. He brought in 71 million dollars between him and all of his other fundraising apparatus, a $31 million in a third quarter of 2023. him and all of his other fundraising apparatus. $37,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or at least 97% of that total number is from grassroots people. And he has had already a total of almost a million people making donations to his campaign. To put that in context, because context matters, Donald Trump, even with the felony bump that his campaign likes to talk about, every time he gets indicted, we raise more money. Okay.

You got indicted and there was a munchot in August. And the most the Donald Trump was able to scratch out was a little bit more than half of Joe Biden, 45.5 million dollars, 45 million just to remind ourselves of elemental math, new math or old math, 45 million is less than 71 million. I'm not talking to the viewers on this particular network. I'm just talking out loud to people who like to say the Joe Biden is cooked as he's old, he's seen oil and can't handle the job. Really, watch this guy go, watch this guy go with two wars going on that he is assisting with and doing well with, and a domestic set of issues that have resulted

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quarterly as fast as he's bringing it in. And that total is combined with Save America Pack and the campaign 45.5 million. So all the suckers that are donating to Save America Pack for the legal fees and expenses of Donald Trump, that's part of that total. They don't even think they're donating for his presidential campaign. They think they're bailing them out for all of his seven lawsuits that are pending over nine months around the country. And so you've got all that. And that includes to respond to Stephen Chung, the spokesperson who keeps popping up for Donald Trump all the time, like a whack-a-mall. He said, of the 45.5 million, nine point four million came in because of his mug shot. Donald Trump's mug shot. And then a 20 million dollars in August because of all of his

criminal problems. So even with all of his criminal problems and all of his mug shots, he still only got to a little bit more than half of what Joe Biden brought in. What does that tell you? It's getting worse for Donald Trump and fundraising, not better. How many indictments do you need, Steven Chung? Perhaps if he was indicted and arraigned and had two mug shots in the month, you would have brought in $40 million. And then you'd still be, by that measure, you'd still be $10 million behind Joe Biden. So I don't think this strategy that the Trump campaign is using of the more indictments

the better, bring it. I don't think it's working. Not based on the money in the bank and the amount that he raised in the actual fundraising quarter. DeSantis, oh God, pardon me, he's giving me a coughing fit based on how little he raised. $15 million, $5 million left less than the quarter before. God, if that doesn't say sinking duck, sinking ship, I don't know what does. Nobody likes to say it.

There's nobody wants to dig deep into their pockets and the result is a terrible $15 million in it. It's still better than Nikki Haley. Nikki Haley, I was all excited about Nikki Haley. Oh, she took down that whoever on the stage. Oh, she had a quip during the debate that was interesting. Oh, oh, nothing. Oh, she's a small time former governor

from a little state in the South. And she brought in $11 million. And that's four million that she did the month before. Right. Maybe she should get indicted and get a mug shot. Maybe her numbers will go up. Tim Scott, everybody's all excited about South Carolina, black Republican Tim Scott. He brought in a whole 5.9 million.

The only thing he does well is he seems to know how to run a campaign because he hasn't spent all of his money. He still has 13.3 million dollars in the bank, which is the second most cash on hand of any candidate after Donald Trump and the Republican side. Some people might be thinking, where's Mike Pence? Are you like doing this in some reverse alphabetical order? No. I'm doing it in the order of the money they raised. Mike Pence brought in three million dollars. Don't adjust your knobs. Don't get your hearing checked. The former vice president of the United States, who should have been the front runner brought in three million dollars has one million dollars in cash to spend on his election. Talk about the voters making a decision in their election donations on who they want and they don't want and who they don't want is so far.

Mike Pence, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, and of course, Donald Trump, Chris Christie's front in a few million dollars. If you added all up, it barely surpasses the entire Republican field. What are sitting incumbent president has raised himself in one quarter. I know people think that people don't like Biden and Biden is too ancient for this role. And there's no other choice for democracy. And the smart money is on Joe Biden. I don't know what the Vegas odds are.

I don't know what the London bookmakers are doing about Joe Biden, but it's his race to lose, which means it's our race to lose. We got to support this guy. I don't mean to break out into an ad campaign for Joe Biden, but you got to support this guy. We got a Supreme Court up for grabs. You got a number of aging Supreme Court justices. A couple of them could, you know, not make it through the entire term of the next term of the presidency.

You want that to go to Donald Trump? It's already six to three Maga right wing. It's already difficult to get any issue that matters to you socially, politically, morally to get through this United States Supreme Court. You want to make it worse? You want to make it seven to two eight to one? How about nine zero? How about nine zero for the Mago right wing controlling one branch of the government? That could happen. What would happen if you vote for Democrats and Joe Biden and continue to continue to contribute money to their campaign and let them win this election. Joe Biden is going to have to do something different that he did

during the COVID campaign. He's going to have to get out of his basement, which he will. He's going to have to use his bully pulpit. He's going to have to fly in the big jet, right? Big Air Force One, one, which is awe-inspiring and lands on a tarmac in different battleground states. And there's nobody who has more celebrity wattage than the sitting president than Joe Biden. And Joe Biden knows that I'll use the bully pulpit. He knows that I use the megaphone and get across the policies.

And he'll become a better campaigner for himself and for his policies and his successes. As time goes on, as we get closer, right now he's got no challengers. Forget the Kennedy guy. The more you learn about him to paraphrase Nikki Haley, the dumber you will become, the dumber you will feel about where he is.

There's a reason every other Kennedy, every Kennedy in his family has renounced his candidacy and taken out a full page ad to do so. So stay, hang in there. The numbers are good. The economy is recovering. Economists are now split. They don't even think we're in a recession or that we will get in a recession. Gas prices are going to be a more of a function of the war and the impact of the Israeli response to Hamas following the tragic heinous attacks on their soil and on what's happening in Ukraine,

then anything else that Joe Biden particularly is doing. Sure, he'll open up the strategic reserves for petroleum. Yes, he'll lean on his relationships in Saudi Arabia and other OPEC oil producing countries, including in Venezuela, to get them to turn on this bigot. Yes, they'll move us faster away from oil dependency onto electric cars in vehicles, for instance. But a lot of it is out of his hands. That's to do with the market conditions and futures that are bought and sold on the market and how traders, TRA, D-E-R-S, traders respond to the volatility in the geopolitical world. It's not his fault.

And everybody, I know that the Trumpers like to say, I've missed the mean tweets and the cheap gas. Okay. I'm not quite sure what that means. I don't miss any of that. I don't miss the completely, the complete soiling of our presidential office by the then occupant, Donald Trump, and his complete breach of decorum and ripping up the social contract and dignity in the way he communicates with the American people.

So no, I don't miss the mean tweets. And the gas prices, they're going to be higher or lower during the next Biden administration. Some of it's going to have to do with his economic policy and how people feel about his stewardship of it. But most of it's going to have to do with his economic policy and how people feel about his stewardship of it. But most of it's going to have to do with outside forces. And having just returned from California where gas was peaking at $7 a gallon, I think most of the country that's in the $3 range should be reasonably happy with it. If you go to Europe, you're going to see gas prices that'll make your eyes pop out of your head and roll down the street. It's just what you got to do. If you're

going to be the leader of the free world and the moral, I mean, give moral leadership and protection to the rest of the world in favor of democracy, you might have to pay a couple more shuckles, no pun intended at the gas pump. That's the good news about Joe Biden and the money raise and what it means for people that are doing the one thing they can do right now that's tangible to affect the outcome of the election and that's to donate Joe Biden. I'm going to follow things that sit either at the intersection of law politics and justice or just on the fringe of it like I'm doing right now for the mightest touch network and only on this YouTube, exclusively on this YouTube channel, where I do my work and do my hot takes

as a practicing lawyer and political analyst for the last 30 plus years. I'm Michael Popock. If you like what I'm doing, give me a thumbs up, tune into my next hot take, and until my next hot take, this is Michael Popock of Legal AF reporting. Hey, Midas Mighty, love this report? Continue the conversation by following us on Instagram.

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