Morning Wire - Trump Rally Media Narrative & Virginia’s Voter Rolls | 10.29.24

Episode Date: October 29, 2024

Legacy media's extreme reaction to Trump's massive Madison Square Garden rally, the presidential race narrows as the election day gets closer, and Virginia asks the Supreme Court to step in in regards to their voter rolls. Get the facts first with Morning Wire.Birch Gold: Text "WIRE" to 989898 for your no-cost, no-obligation information kit.Cloaked: Get 20% off your subscription when you use promo code DAILYWIRE at checkout: https://cloaked.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The audience didn't find it funny. We break down the inflammatory rhetoric and the response from Team Trump. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley. It's Tuesday, October 29th, and this is Morning Wire. Seven days until America decides, and the race has never been closer. We look at the latest polling in the states that will determine the presidency. She was up to in August. He's up to now. In between those, we tested all the battleground states, all margin of error. But under the hood, there's some troubling signs for Kamala Harris.

And Virginia asked the Supreme Court to step in after the Biden administration blocks the removal of non-citizens from voter rolls. This is the reason why I believe that Americans and Virginians wonder what the Justice Department is up to. Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know. It's stressful knowing you can't control the elections outcome, but you can take control of protecting your savings by diversifying into gold with Birch Gold Group. Birch gold will help you convert an IRA or 401k into a physical gold IRA, safeguarding your hard-earned wealth.

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Yeah, this was sort of a full-circle moment for Trump, who was an icon in New York City before he entered the political world. Obviously, New York is a deep blue state, but Trump sold out the garden with 20,000 people in the audience and massive overflow. We don't have an exact number, but the Trump team is saying 200,000 people tried to attend the rally. Video of the event shows people of all stripes there, including black and Hispanic supporters, Jewish supporters, lots of women, so not some uniform crowd. But the legacy media painted a very different picture. Leading up to the rally, before anyone spoke, the media compared the rally to the rally to, to a pro-Hitler event hosted at Madison Square Garden in 1939.

On CNN, that narrative was pushed by Hillary Clinton. President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo-Nazis, fascists in America were lining up to pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany. Please open your eyes to the danger that this man poses to our country. Kamala Harris' VP pick, Tim Walls, echoed the same narrative. And MSNBC even went as far as to splice clips of that pro-Hitler rally with their own coverage of the Trump event. Here's some audio of that. That jamboree happening right now.

You see it there on your screen in that place is particularly chilling because in 1939, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader, Adolf Hitler packed the garden for a so-called pro-America rally. Legacy media appeared to coordinate in making that comparison again and again. For example, a Washington Post headline read, quote, how Trump's rally echoed one in 1939. The New Republic said Trump fully embraces Nazi status. And the New York Times made the connection, too, with a piece on the political history of the Garden. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter helped political events at the Garden, too, by the way.

So you could say Nazis are the new deplorables, this election cycle. Right. Aside from just being held at Madison Square Garden, is the media citing any actual evidence to make these kinds of extreme claims? Well, they were saying all of this before the event even began. There was one comedian Tony Hinchcliffe of the popular show, Killed Tony, who performed at the rally. There was one joke in particular that did not land with the audience, by the way, about Puerto Rico being a floating island of garbage. The Trump team has distanced themselves from that joke. And Hinchcliff himself has said that he loves Puerto Rico and was obviously joking. Nonetheless, this is what the media has honed in on.

MSNBC, for example, brought on Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez to claim that Trump is trying to incite violence and hatred against Latinos, black Americans, and Americans who don't have children. Here she is. This was a hate rally. This was not just a presidential rally. This was also not just a campaign rally. I think it's very important for people to understand. that these are mini January 6 rallies. Trump supporters have condemned the media for its extremist rhetoric, saying that it

amounts to the incitement of violence against Trump and his supporters. Many have also mocked the outrageous accusations. Dominican Nazi, Latina, Latina, Latina, Latina, we got, I'm the black Nazi. The biggest blackest Nazi you ever see in your back. I'm the Jewish Nazi. The Jewish Nazi. The Jewish, and I'll listen to the media. Linking the event to a Nazi rally is effectively calling everyone who attended a

a Nazi and everyone who supports Trump a Nazi. The campaign said in a statement that the Harris Walls team needs to apologize to Trump supporters for the rhetoric, and they said that this type of language has already inspired assassination attempts. We should note that a few media voices were honest on some levels about the rally, including Trump critic Jonathan Carl of ABC, who spent six hours at the event. Madison Square Garden was packed. Trump has created a movement. There is no doubt. I cannot think of another Republican figure of my lifetime who could have come into a Democratic city like New York and put together anything like that. It's been frankly stunning to watch some of the coverage from legacy outlets on this. Yeah, many people have been shocked.

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How are things looking for Trump and Harris? Yeah, good morning, Georgia. So a familiar refrain here. To say things are close would be an understatement. The latest Real Clear Politics polling average has Trump leading Harris by just 0.2%. The New York Times has Harris up by under a percentage point, but notes that this is the smallest lead she's had since August. Some major polls have the race ranked as a tie.

The New York Times recently found Trump was polling at over 20% with black voters, a far higher percentage than he hit in both 2016 and 2020. Then a new Politico Morning Consul poll found that voters are souring on Democrats, with just three and ten voters saying that the Biden-Harris administration's domestic policy achievements have meaningfully improved their lives. And the pollster Nate Silver recently outlined 24 reasons why Trump could win, including persistent inflation, rampant illegal limitations. and the fact that Trump is expected to edge Harris out in the Electoral College.

NBC News national political correspondent Steve Kornacki said on Meet the Press Sunday that polls were making a potentially meaningful shift towards Trump. Now, all of this is going to come down, though, to actually just a few swing states. What's going on in those battlegrounds? The race is pretty close in those states, too. But if you dig a little bit further, things aren't looking good for Harris. According to the New York Times, she's currently leading in four of seven swing states. Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada. But in all four of those states, she's leading by less than one percentage point.

Trump, meanwhile, is leading by two points in Arizona and one point in Georgia, in addition to leading by less than a point in North Carolina. RCP's averages show Trump with a slight edge in all seven battlegrounds by about a one-point average. Expect to hear a lot of stories out of these seven states between now and the election. Just this week, we learned that the Harris campaign is reportedly spending the waning days of the cycle trying to recruit Republicans in the suburbs of Philadelphia. And in North Carolina, around 200,000 early votes have already been cast in counties the traditionally lean Republican.

One other note, we did just get a shock poll this week showing Trump up by a razor-thin margin in New Hampshire, less than half a point. Just one poll, but again, super tight race here. So still anyone's game. Do we have any indication of how the campaigns themselves are feeling right now? It's business as usual with the Trump campaign, which is projecting confidence coming out of the weekend's massive rally at Madison Square Garden in New York. In fact, here's Trump at the rally. We're going to defeat Kamala Harris and we're going to win back the beautiful White House.

And we're going to make America great again. And it's going to happen fast. The Harris campaign, meanwhile, seems to be going into panic mode. As Amanda is highlighting, Harris, Tim Walls and their surrogates have really ramped up their criticisms of Trump, calling him a fascist and comparing his rally at the garden to a Nazi rally. The campaign's decision to double down on this message has worried the pro-Harris super PAC future forward, which recently warned Democrats that the fascist attacks are not effective. And the New York Times reported just yesterday that the Harris campaign is fighting to distance itself from Biden in the final days of the campaign, reportedly viewing the president as a liability. Well, what we've learned from 2016 and

2020 is really it's anyone's race. Tim, thanks for reporting. Thanks for having me. The governor of Virginia has asked the Supreme Court to intervene after the Biden administration secured an order blocking the Commonwealth from removing non-citizens from the voter rolls. Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Roziak joins us from Virginia. Hey, Luke. So this sequence of events has really shocked some people who can't believe it's debatable that non-citizens shouldn't be on voter rolls. What's the latest here? Hey, John. First, let me recap the background here because, as he said, it's almost hard to believe. The Biden administration sued to stop Virginia from removing self-declared non-citizens from the voting roles. Now, when people apply for driver's licenses at the DMV, they're asked whether

their citizens or not, but some people who said they were not citizens later registered to vote. In August, Governor Glenn Yonkin, a Republican, said the state would begin daily checks to find those people and send them letters, giving them 14 days to fix the problem if they were actually citizens. Otherwise, they'd be removed from the rolls, although they could still cast a provisional ballot. The Biden administration's Department of Justice sued, saying federal law mandates a 90-day quiet period barring systematic changes to the voter rolls. This is based on a law that was signed into effect in 2006 by then Democrat Governor Tim Kane. And it starts with a basic premise that when someone walks into one of our DMVs

and self-identifies as a non-citizen, and then they end up on the voter rolls, either purposely or by accident, that we go through a process individualized, not systematic, an individualized process based on that person's self-identification as a non-citizen to give them 14 days to affirm they are a citizen. And if they don't, they come off the voter rolls. All right. So the Biden administration wants these people to vote despite saying they weren't citizens. And now judges have backed the administration, correct? Right. On Friday, a federal judge appointed by Biden sided with the DOJ and ordered the voters put back on the rolls. And on Sunday, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that decision. A spokesman for Virginia

Attorney General Jason Miaras said he plans to immediately appeal to the Supreme Court. How many actual votes are at issue here? Well, Yonkin and Miaris aren't alleging that these people actually illegally voted, just that they're on the voter rolls when they shouldn't be. Every vote could make a difference in Virginia, which Yonkin won narrowly in 2021. In August, Yonkin said 6,300 people had been removed from the rolls after they self-declared that they were non-citizens, plus another 80,000 or so deceased voters. Those won't be affected by these courts. decisions, because that was before the 90-day cut-off that the DOJ says applies. What is affected is the more than 1,500 people who have been removed since, plus anyone else caught by the checks from now

until election day. Got it. And what is the Biden administration's justification for opposing this? They say that some of the people might have just forgotten to check the box saying they're a citizen or mistakenly check the wrong box, and then it's an unfair burden for them to have to respond to a letter fixing their mistake. Remember that back in September, Democrats threatened to shut down the federal government rather than pass a spending bill that included the SAVE Act, which would have required voters to prove their citizenship. The Biden-Harris administration explained then that it strongly opposed the bill because states, quote, already have effective safeguards in place to verify voters' eligibility and to maintain the accuracy of the voting rolls. But now the administration

is blocking states from doing just that. Correct. It also sued the state of Alabama for a similar effort, and a court also blocked Alabama there. So it's not just Virginia. We have a pattern here, the DOJ pushing this idea that states can't remove apparent non-citizens from their own roles, despite polls suggesting that a super majority of Americans believe you should have to prove you're a citizen to vote. Meanwhile, not a lot of time for the Supreme Court to sort this all out. Days out now. Luke, thanks so much for reporting. Anytime. Thanks for listening to Morning Wire. We created this show to bring more balance to the national conversation. If you love our show and you stand with our mission, please consider subscribing, leaving us a five-star rating, and most of

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