The Megyn Kelly Show - Left Smears Kamala Critics as Racist and Sexist, and False Narratives Emerge, with Tulsi Gabbard, Michael Knowles, and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 846
Episode Date: July 24, 2024Megyn Kelly is joined by Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Andrew Walworth, hosts of the RealClearPolitics Podcast, to discuss whether VP Kamala Harris could perform better than President Biden against Trum...p in November, how much money her campaign has raised, whether Harris' record will hurt her with swing voters, the undemocratic way Kamala Harris was anointed as the next Democratic nominee, how the left is spinning the reality of the situation, the spin from Chuck Schumer and others about the "grassroots," J.D. Vance's first week as VP nominee, the latest alarming details about security lapses regarding the assassination attempt, and more. Then Tulsi Gabbard, author of "For Love of Country,” joins to discuss the Democratic elite lying about the process that anointed Kamala Harris as the nominee, their attempt to spin the truth about the consequences of her policy, her experience why Harris failed as a 2020 Democratic candidate, Harris’ extreme policies, the false narratives being created around Harris' record and push toward lawlessness, how she pushed for less police on the streets, her viral debate moment with Harris, and more. Then Michael Knowles of The Daily Wire joins to discuss the left and media attempting to make Kamala Harris seem cool and "brat," CNN trying to explain what "brat" even is, whether she's actually just awkward and vapid, how the the smears of the right as racist and sexist after Harris became the presumptive nominee, the false narrative that Fox host Brian Kilmeade said "colored" and insane reaction to it, using an old J.D. Vance clip about "cat ladies" to smear him, an incredibly emotional Elon Musk moment about radical transgender ideology and his son, and more.Bevan, Walworth, & Cannon- https://www.realclearpolitics.com/Gabbard- https://www.tulsigabbard.com/Knowles- https://www.dailywire.com/Birch Gold: Text MEGYN to 989898 & get your free info kit on goldElectronic Payments Coalition: https://ElectronicPaymentsCoalition.orgPrager U: Make a 100% tax-deductible donation at https://PragerU.com/Socks & get your socks todayNative Path: Visit https://nativepath.sale/MK now to claim your exclusive up to 45% OFF discount.
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east.
Hey, everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. President Biden expected to
address the nation tonight, a farewell address of sorts for what some are calling his zombie
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Guys, welcome to the show.
Great to be with you, Megan.
Thanks for having us.
Oh, it's nice to see you all.
I listen to you often, but I never get to see you.
And of course, I know only Tom.
I've really been enjoying the show.
Welcome to SiriusXM.
It's great to have you guys here. I think really been enjoying the show. Welcome to Sirius XM. It's great to have
you guys here. I think you're doing a wonderful job. I especially like it when Carl and Tom fight.
Whatever you're doing, it's working. So let's talk about, since it is called Real Clear Politics,
some real clear polling, which is also a section on the website.
When we came on the air yesterday, there was a poll showing that
she was struggling when it came to younger voters, which is one of the areas in which
she's supposed to be helping right the ship, but she hadn't. In fact, Trump had had some 19 point
swing from being underwater with younger voters in 2020 to being above Joe Biden by two points
in younger voters, and then was above Kamala Harris, according to the latest polling,
which only included one day post her announcer post his withdrawal.
But still, he Trump was over her 17 points. Now we get the Reuters Ipsos poll.
This is registered voters, and it was conducted Monday through Tuesday. So all post his dropout and endorsement of her head to head.
It shows Harris ahead of Trump by two points.
The last poll they did was mid-July showed Harris and a hypothetical at that point.
44 to 40 to Trump's 44.
So it was a tie.
She's gone up two.
And in a three-way race, currently it's showing Harris up four points. She's at 42,
Trump's at 38, RFK Jr.'s at eight. So Tom, we'll start with you. What do you make of the
Harris favorability numbers here? It released polling numbers here in this Reuters Ipsos poll.
Yeah, there was another poll out this morning, the NPR Marist poll,
which had Trump up one point. Look, I think it's clear that she has energized Democrats and
numbers have gone up among African-Americans, particularly women, Hispanic voters as well
in the early going. But to your point, not among young voters. She has in the
Quinnipiac poll that was released a couple of days ago, she was underwater 14 points among
independents, which is exactly where Joe Biden was. And we're also seeing that Harris is not
doing as well among white voters. And so I think, look, it's going to take some time for this to kind of settle in and sort itself out.
But and some of this may be just a temporary bump for her enthusiasm wise.
She does seem to be when Biden dropped out, he was trailing Trump in our real clear politics, national average two way race by three points.
And right now she's at one point. She's trailing Trump by one point six.
So a little bit of an upgrade there, but we'll see how long
that lasts and where things settle. And we're still waiting for data in these key battleground
states. Okay. But the thing is, Carl, even Trump's longtime pollster, Tony Fabrizio,
they've leaked, obviously, an internal campaign memo saying, expect the Harris honeymoon that they expect to see in the coming
days as the mainstream media goes wall to wall, coronating her, as I said in the intro,
redefining her, lifting her, celebrating her. And they see it coming, too. They know it's
going to come. And then they say, but the honeymoon will end as soon as her record comes out. What do
you make of that?
Well, I think that's right. You know, the Democrats almost had like a little convention in terms of the press coverage they were getting right after the Republican convention before we
could measure whether there was a bounce out of Milwaukee for the Republicans. Joe Biden's,
you know, announced he's not running. Kamala Harris is coronated and then you as you said megan all this
this loving coverage it wasn't the first time you know when she announced when she ran um four years
ago she got i i'd never seen coverage news coverage like that and the campaign was mismanaged and as
you know she didn't even make it to the you know starting gate in iowa let alone the finish line
at the convention.
But this has started again.
But the other thing is, if you think about it, despite this revisionist history that Joe Biden is the greatest president since George Washington or Lincoln, you know, that the Democrats are saying, there were four groups of people.
This guy, Biden, very low numbers for reelection, swing voters, mostly independents.
Joe Biden campaigned to be a unifying figure.
And instead, he was very hyper-partisan, very divisive as president.
And a third group of people are swing voters and independents who just thought their record
on issues like immigration and inflation was abysmal.
But there's a fourth group.
And that group was, and those three groups are all going to still be critical of Kamala Harris. But there's a fourth group of voters who just thought Joe Biden was too old. And that's the that's the answer. Harris is the answer to that question. And so I think a bump up on that issue alone. You've got this guy out. He was too old to run. He's out. People were looking for who wanted to vote Democrat but couldn't support this guy. They can now go to Kamala Harris. You know, Andrew, the numbers in terms of fundraising
that they've pulled in over the past couple of days are pretty staggering. It was as of yesterday,
something like 81 million in donations to Harris. Now I saw the latest figure was up over 126 million and just saw a report online that
some 896,000 of those are from donors who had not donated anything yet this cycle.
All of that is very good news for what had been a limping Democratic Party, but it doesn't
change the fundamentals of the race, the policies that
the Biden-Harris administration put in place versus the policies that the Trump administration
put in place. And let's face it, while the Republicans now are falling more in love with
Trump, his problematic behavior in the eyes of the Democrats is never going to change,
nor are these Republicans ever going to warm up to her. She's not been some, you know, stallion in the wings that the Republicans were looking at is
like, you know, I could I could meander over. No. So what do you make of the influx of money
and how much should we be gleaning from that given those dynamics?
Well, I always think the money, especially from small donors, is important. Would point out I'm
waiting for Elon Musk to put up the matching grant on his side. I mean,
you know, Carl always points out money is the mother's milk of politics. There's a lot of
money this time around. So I don't put too much in the donation numbers that are reported because
they seem to go up no matter what happens on both sides.
I think that the memo from the Trump campaign, Tony's memo that you mentioned, and as a matter of fact, you can read that. That's on the site this morning. It's on RealClearPolitics.
It's kind of revealing as to how they are going to approach it.
I'll just read you a part of it. They said, the Democrats deposing one nominee for another
does not change voters' discontent over the economy, inflation, crime, the open border,
housing costs, not to mention concern over two foreign wars. Before long, Harris's honeymoon
will end and voters will refocus on her role as Biden's partner and co-pilot. I think that's how they're going to run the race.
That's how I would run it if I were them. You know, just tie her to the Biden record and,
you know, because we know a lot of those policies, according to our polling, the polling we see,
are so unpopular. Immigration, inflation, even lawfare, I think, all a problem for her. And I don't see how she runs
away from her role in the Biden administration, especially in this sort of foreshortened campaign.
You guys have seen she's doing it with the media's help. What borders are? Tom, you've seen this.
What borders are? She wasn't the border. She didn't have anything to do with the border.
It's actually pretty remarkable when you look at like Axios this morning saying critics,
Trump supporters are trying to say she was the borders are she was never any such thing.
And then, of course, Axios, his own former reporting calling her the borders are not to
mention Joe Biden's statements on the record, assigning her responsibility for the southern
border, have come back to bite Axios and other, you know, Politico and other mainstream.
The AP reported she was the border czar.
Only now, Tom, is she magically no longer the border czar
since she's become the Democratic presumptive nominee.
Yes, everything, every position that she took in her 2020 race,
which were was pretty far to the left on issues like defunding the police, defunding ICE, giving health care to illegal immigrants, et cetera, et cetera.
All that stuff is now, you know, in the memory hole. And, you know, she's portraying herself.
And I'm sure there's going to be when when they get to convention in a few weeks, it's going to be all about, you know, Kamala Harris, the tough on crime prosecutor from the Bay Area.
And, you know. She's a real
fighter and she can prosecute the case against Trump. I mean, this is what the race is on right
now over the next couple of weeks to define her and frame her. And obviously, Republicans
are putting together ads. We saw when Phil Wegman, our White House reporter, tweeted one out that he
got from a political operative, this Dave McCormick ad that's running in Pennsylvania. It's amazing.
It is amazing. And so those ads are going to be running all over the place.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is going to be running her own ads. But to your point, Megan,
she's getting a pretty good assist from the media who are playing along with this idea that,
you know, she was never a Porter czar. That was never her, you know, part of her, uh, her brief, uh, you know, it's going to be,
it's going to be interesting to see if any of the, uh, any of the critical coverage of
her actually breaks through.
It's crazy.
And we're living in this mind meld moment where three days ago, Axios and Politico and
all these other, uh, mainstream publications were doing their jobs as objective reporters or at least pretending to.
They were doing honest reporting on Joe Biden's mental acuity and his physical failings.
And they were more interested than ever in being tough on both sides.
And now she wasn't.
The borders are.
She's cool.
They turned her from whatever it's i mean
we all know what the media does so it's just kind of amusing and somewhat irritating um meantime
carl what we're seeing yeah go ahead sorry well this thing it's the crime it's the prosecutor
the tough prosecutor that is really an example of collective amnesia. You know, she was in California. I'm from, I'm kept from California when she was attorney general that,
that passed, you know, there's a proposition passed proposition 1447 that
basically said shoplifting under $950 is no longer a felony.
It's a misdemeanor. And, but you could do it at different stores.
You could do six stores in a day. It's $950.
That didn't count.
And coupled with they stopped requiring bail for misdemeanors, then the police stopped
responding to calls, people stopped prosecuting, prosecutors stopped prosecuting.
Eventually, the stores stopped even calling the police.
And it led to stores all over the state closing in Oakland and San Francisco and these liberal
places. Well, one of the reasons that law passed is because it was named the Safe Neighborhood
and Schools Act, which is Thomas Buckley, a columnist, wrote that it might as well have
been called the Everyone Gets a Puppy Act for all it had to do with crime.
Well, guess who wrote that name and endorsed it?
Kamala Harris, attorney general. So this tough
on crime thing doesn't really, it doesn't to me comport with the record all that well.
Well, she's going to have to figure out where she's landing on that because, you know, when she
was attorney general, she did go after marijuana users. She did favor a three strikes and you're out law so there were no oh yeah but this
this was this was the antidote to that though this was prop for this was to clean her record of that
and to get rid of that proposition 47 through california veered it had the three strikes law
and it veered under gavin newsom's administration and Kamala Harris and last last term of Jerry Brown
away from that and became more liberal on crime again. And she veered with it. She veered, too,
because now, you know, in modern day, we've seen her, you know, bailing out BLM rioters and calling
Jacob Blake and saying how proud she is of him and calling for defunding the police. I mean,
she's like, so I do wonder to
your point, Tom, what message will we get at the Democrat convention? Is she going to lean into,
you know, the early days of Kamala Harris as a real prosecutor version of herself?
Is she going to lean into what we've seen more recently, which is more aligned with the Democrat
party? Although we'll see, because even some moderate Democrats now are seeing the folly
of their ways as crime rises and, you know, criminals return to the streets. I do want to get to this,
Andrew, the one of the mind melds we're having at the moment is you've got a nominee presumptive,
I guess I think it's fair to call her at this point of the Democrat party who not a single
soul has voted for to be the presidential nominee. Not one person in the Democrat party
has voted for Kamala Harris to be their, their Republican or sorry, their, their presidential
nominee. And now you're starting to see a little blowback from groups like BLM, which spoke out
about it. And some others quietly reportedly behind the scenes are saying, why did we do this?
The whole thing was obviously very coordinated. Was it not? Because they're trying to say, and I'll get to this in a second, they're actually trying
to say this was grassroots.
This was bottom up.
Chuck Schumer's on camera saying this.
But very obviously, it was all coordinated by party elites in the 24, 48 or longer hours
prior to her being endorsed by Biden.
Yeah, and race is a lot of interesting questions
about the role of political parties now,
because a lot of people have said,
gee, political parties have become so weakened
over the last couple of cycles.
You've got all this outside money.
What do the parties do?
What are they good for?
Tom doesn't even want them to hold conventions anymore.
He thinks that's a waste of time.
Megan, you don't know this, but Tom also dislikes the State of the Union.
He's a pretty curmudgeonly guy.
He's right.
Let's go back to the written statements.
Thank you, Megan.
Thank you.
He wants a letter sort of delivered by carrier pigeon.
That's right.
But you raise a really interesting question, which is that was this all baked and did the party step up in a way?
And when you ask that question, then you have to ask what is the party?
It certainly seems to me that all this work in advance of Biden resigning from the campaign, that all of this was worked out and that Kamala Harris was,
at the end of the day, the bet that they're making. Because, you know, you have to see it
two ways. One is if they don't put her in the chair immediately, do you end up with chaos
or do you end up with what I think the BLM folks are talking about, you know, a sort of process
that, you know, strengthens her because
she's a trial by fire. It's a small d democracy, right? So I think what we're going to have,
I think the problem she's going to have is, as you say, no one actually voted for her,
although the Democrats will say that, look, you know, all these people voted for Biden-Harris,
she was on the ticket. So they were really voting for her.
I think that's a tough argument to make.
But I think that-
Yeah, there's a difference between the top role
and the second, you know, the lady in waiting.
Keep going.
Yeah, yeah.
But without going through the sort of cauldron of a primary,
she's really sort of stepping into,
you know, it's going from zero to 100 miles an hour.
Very few people, I think, have the political skills to pull this off.
And I just think given her performance the last time around, you'd really have to wonder whether she's the one who's going to be able to sort of step into a general election and appeal to, you know, independent voters and, you know, disgruntled Republicans, all the people she has to win in order to win those swing states where the whole thing will be decided.
You know, Tom, Andrew accurately says that they were thinking in the elite circles of the
Democratic Party, you know, it could be chaos if we open this up. Another word for that is just
democracy, just allowing people to vote. And, you know, yes, we understand Biden had to go.
I was a big supporter of it. I think you guys were, too, listening to your show.
That was obvious. But then there should be the chance to vote. Then it's up to the Democrats
to replace him and decide who they want to be their nominee. That just did not happen.
And the Republicans are exploiting it. Team Trump is out there every day calling this
a coup. You know, what about democracy that you guys cared about democracy? This isn't
democracy. And then you get this from Chuck Schumer. Would you look at this?
That is so mockable on so many levels. Just watch and enjoy.
President Biden's selfless decision has given the Democratic Party the
opportunity to unite behind a new nominee. And boy, oh boy, are we enthusiastic. When I spoke
with her Sunday, she said she wanted the opportunity to win the nomination on her own
and to do so from the grassroots up, not top down. She would work to earn the
support of our party. And boy, has she done so in quick order. So now that the process
has played out from the grassroots bottom up, we are here today to throw our support
behind Vice President Kamala Harris. I'm clapping. You
don't have to. It's a happy day. What can I say? Oh, boy. Is that or William?
Where do we begin? This is his selfless decision. That's one. Boy, oh boy, are we enthusiastic with the fist pumping everything. Then she wants to win it on her own from the grassroots up. And then in quick order, she's done it. Now the process is played out. So this is such a bunch of nonsense. It's a
grassroots bottom up. The process played out when you were asleep on Sunday night.
The process played out, Tom. Right behind closed doors with Nancy Pelosi and Barack
Obama sort of calling the shots. But let's remember, Megan, how the Democrats got here.
They rigged the primary calendar. They circled the wagons
around Joe Biden early, early on. They did everything they could to marginalize RFK Jr.
and dissuade anybody from running against Joe Biden. If Joe Biden had actually managed to
have a legitimate challenge, he might not have won this primary on his own. And I would dare to
guess that if Kamala Harris had been running in that primary as well, she wouldn't have won either.
I mean, the Democrats, the data was clear. Plenty of folks, including plenty of Democrats,
had concerns about Joe Biden's age and his mental acuity all throughout this process,
even before it started. But the Democrats would have nothing of that, would hear nothing of that,
and really set up the process.
So he was their only choice.
I mean, Dean Phillips wasn't really a viable option.
And so that's how the Democrats ended up with this mess
that they're trying to clean up now.
And they're doing it by,
I mean, some people are calling it a coup,
but you can certainly call it,
it happened in a, maybe not a smoke smoke filled room, but certainly behind closed doors as they made this decision and basically told Biden that he's, you know, he's got to be out.
Given the age of our leaders on both sides, but in particular, the group you just mentioned, it was probably an oxygen filled room.
Right. Complete with tanks.
Yeah. Yeah. I would be remiss if I did not
take a walk over to the Republican side and see how they're doing. We talked about the polling,
but we should spend a minute on J.D. Vance, who had a bit of a stumble on his first week out of
the gate when he was speaking in front of a rally crowd in Ohio. I got to be
honest. I still don't understand the joke. I heard it yesterday. I think I might've heard it the day
before. I don't get the joke. He was making some sort of a joke about diet Mountain Dew.
I know from his book that Mountain Dew mouth is a thing that is prevalent in the area that he grew up because they give it to kids in their baby bottles.
They give it to toddlers.
It's very high in sugar.
It's very, very bad for you.
And this is one of the things he raised.
He had Pepsi in his own baby bottle.
He's talked about that as well. as just like sort of an example of how there's sort of a class of people that's been forgotten
and overlooked. And some of their lifestyle habits are really not that healthy for children,
but no one gives a damn about them. Okay. So I don't know whether that is being tied to here.
I'll let you hear him trying to make the joke. It did not go over well,
and he's getting panned for it by the left. It is the weirdest thing to me. Democrats say that it is racist to believe. Well,
they say it's racist to do anything. I had a diet Mountain Dew yesterday
and one today. I'm sure they're going to call that racist too, but it's good.
I love you guys.
It was fine.
It was like a smattering of applause.
It wasn't like a huge applause line,
but what's happening there?
Because I have seen this covered on every show
over on CNN and MSNBC.
Megan, you're overthinking it.
It's not nothing to do with Diet Mountain Dew or whatever.
He's just saying anything he does, they'll call racist.
And on Morning Joe today, he criticized Kamala Harris.
And the commentators would say he's not only racist, but misogynist.
And so basically what they're saying is you can't criticize her at all without being called these names.
I think he was trying to nip that in the bud.
He didn't it didn't work.
But I have to tell you, I'm still trying to understand Donald Trump's Hannibal Lecter joke from the convention.
So I'm one step behind.
I mean, he I got the joke.
He wants to have you for dinner.
I got that.
Well, that's what I understand what he was doing in the speech.
Exactly.
Yeah.
We took a
weird turn. All right. So they're going to try to paint J.D. Vance as, you know, Trump Jr.
and just as racist and sexist and terrible as Trump. And the Republicans are sticking with
the version of Kamala Harris that, you know, she's made of herself and that we saw represented even
in The New York Times as prone to gaffes and mean, you know, a bully
when it comes to her staff. Virtually everybody who's ever worked for her has quit.
So does any of this matter, right? Or is it going to wind up being immigration, inflation versus
Trump and his colorful personality that viewers or that voters came to get a little sick of by the end of his first term.
What do you guys make of that?
Well, I mean, people don't remember this, but I always think about triangulation,
which was what Dick Morris was talking about with the Clinton administration or Clinton campaign. I think it's going to come down
to who can appeal to those voters in the middle who are still on the fence. There are only a few
of them, but they're very important in the swing states. And I don't see right now any evidence on
either side that either team is sort of thinking in those terms and willing to go after that. I think that the choice of J.D. Vance for vice president shows that Trump is going to stay in his lane.
I think that Kamala Harris is going to have very, a lot of trouble trying to sort of move to the
center, given not only who she is and her experience, but who she owes right now within the
Democratic Party. So to answer your question,
it probably will come down to those issues, but it really comes down to who will appeal to those
voters in the center. Those few voters are left in those critical states.
Now, wait, before you guys go, I would be remiss if I didn't ask you about Susan Crabtree,
who's been just owning the reporting
around the Secret Service failures and with respect to the Trump assassination attempt.
And she was in a very public battle with the Secret Service spokesperson who was out there
arguing with her on behalf of his now soon resigned boss, Kim Cheadle, saying you're wrong.
She was reporting that her sources in the Secret Service
were saying Trump had asked for more security. It was denied. They said you're wrong on the record.
Absolutely false. Mayorkas said it. Crabtree was receiving this from him, from Cheadle and the
spokesperson. Now we know she was right. Now they've been forced to admit it. And I heard her on your show yesterday saying something even
more remarkable, which I didn't hear anywhere else. I have been saying on this show that the
biggest thing I want to know, I'm open to the DEI criticisms of the secret service. I get how the
five foot six woman didn't, did not look like the best choice to guard the six foot three man,
even though she was brave
and she put herself in front of him,
there's a height differential.
It's probably not the best choice.
But what I've been saying on this show all along is
what's most important is figure out
who put that building outside the Secret Service perimeter.
Who made the decision that that building
the shooter was on did not deserve,
you know, frontline coverage by the Secret Service.
Was that a man?
Was that a woman?
Was that an experience?
Who was that?
And Susan knows. she has the answer. Here's a clip from her on your podcast and Sirius XM show yesterday, SOT16. The perimeter is a huge glaring mistake.
And from what I'm told is a very young, a female Secret Service agent new to the Pittsburgh office
with not that much experience
is the person who is the site manager who is determining the perimeter of that event.
That was a glaring mistake as well as not putting somebody on that building in any way.
That's amazing. So it was a young, not just a female, that female's fine. We can do planning just as well as a man can, but young and inexperienced who made the call.
And yet Kim Cheadle wouldn't reveal her name.
Guys, that's a big report.
Well, you know, I woke up Sunday morning, the Washington Post had this lead story in
their paper.
Trump team asked for more security is first reported here at the washington post and
i thought god that's odd susan had that five days ago i know this because i edited the story
so they're so annoying yeah but i guess this is their way of saying and and yeah and you pointed
out megan they denied it on the record her reporting so this wasn't a big secret but i'm
glad you give credit to her because she's she's worked hard this week and broken all these stories. And this cascading series of security lapses at the Secret Service,
it cost Kim Cheadle her job. My guess is that she won't be the last person to have to leave
that agency. So is Susan, I guess she's got just deep sources within the Secret Service.
But do you think at some point we're going to be hearing actual names i realize there will be a public pile on i have some sympathy for that but not much because you know a man is dead
and a presidential candidate was almost shot dead in front of our very eyes so i do think we need
names and there needs to be accountability and it sounds like we're going to need to rely on susan
and maybe dan pangino to get us there well when you say the buck stops with me, as this, you know,
Cheetle, Director Cheetle said, what does that mean? If you don't willing to take means you have
to resign. What it means, there should be more resignations, there will be some firings. And
you know, Megan, it, it heartened me a little bit. At that hearing on Monday, Jamie Raskin was just
as tough on the Secret Service as Chairman Comer. I mean,
the Democrats actually realized this is a problem for the whole country, not just one,
not just one party. OK, I'm going to let you go, but I'm ask you just quickly before you go.
They do this over on our pals, the editors podcast. What would you put it out right now?
Just quick round the clock. The odds of president Trump beating Kamala Harris.
How do you like it at a, you know, one through 10, what are the odds, Tom? Uh, 60, 40. Megan,
I'm stuck. Cause I, I I'm stuck. Cause I said in a meeting with me and Andy and Tom that Kamala
Harris is the next president of the United States. So that's my story. And I guess I'm sticking with
it. I go by, I go by the RCP betting, uh, odds betting odds, which we average on the site every day.
And I think as of now, I think it's about a thirty three percent chance for Kamala Harris and fifty seven, fifty eight percent chance for Trump.
And I don't know who makes up those other couple of points, but I think that sounds about right to me.
All right. A hundred days to go. And then some
great to see you all come back again. Thank you. Thanks. All the best. And when we return,
Tulsi Gabbard is back with me. She was the one who effectively took Kamala Harris out of the
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President Biden's selfless decision has given the Democratic Party the opportunity
to unite behind a new nominee. And boy, oh boy, are we enthusiastic. When I spoke with her Sunday,
she said she wanted the opportunity to win the nomination on her own
and to do so from the grassroots up, not top down.
She would work to earn the support of our party, and boy, has she done so in quick order.
So now that the process has played out from the grassroots bottom up, we are here today
to throw our support behind Vice President Kamala Harris. I'm clapping. You don't have to.
It's a happy day. What can I say? And they didn't clap. And for the listening audience, while he's doing this bit,
he's pumping his fist like, yay, we can do it. Both fists together, swing swaying,
bottom up grassroots, just in case you didn't hear. Welcome back to the Megyn Kelly show.
Who better to talk about all of this with than my next guest, Tulsi Gabbard. She was a 2020
presidential candidate on the Dem side,
and she is author of the book For Love of Country, Leave the Democrat Party Behind.
So you know how things went over there. Tulsi, great to have you back, especially so soon. But
why shouldn't we, given the monumental developments since you were last on? This was a
grassroots, bottom-up, quote, process that was really given to the voters.
Just in case you weren't aware, definitely not top down. True.
Yeah, sure. If you buy what Chuck Schumer is selling, which I don't for a second,
I was laughing as you play that clip, Megan, because, gosh, it's just so telling in so many ways, ending with him being the only guy
clapping. It really said it all. Like loyal Democrats and campaign operatives, nonetheless.
Exactly. Exactly. It really said it all about who's actually made the decision here. And it's
not the rank and file Democrats. And we got to go all the way back to when the Democratic presidential primaries were supposed to occur.
Start contrast to when I ran in 2020 in that presidential primary where you actually had primaries and there were a lot of different choices from voters to select from. How that pre-curation and pre-selection process occurred between the
Democratic Party and the mainstream propaganda media back then is another topic for another
conversation. But at least there were many names on the ballot and voters had the opportunity to go
and cast their vote for the candidate of their choosing. In this election now in 2024, many states didn't even have primaries.
We actually had a few people who stepped up to run against Joe Biden in the primary election,
and their names are not allowed to be on some ballots in these states. So to say that,
first of all, there was even a democratic process to select Joe Biden to be the nominee
is a pure lie. And that lie is continuing on now
as they try to create this new narrative
and this facade of how the Democratic Party
is going to the grassroots from the bottom on up
to select Kamala Harris as the nominee.
None of that has happened.
What are we at?
It's Wednesday now.
This announcement was just made
that President Biden was not going to run on Sunday.
Where was the bottom up grassroots voices being heard and votes being cast now for Kamala Harris to be the new Democratic nominee?
It's a lie. It hasn't happened. They have decided that she will be the nominee. They're trying to pretend as though that this is a decision being made by the American people or certainly Democratic primary voters to try to bolster her position rather than seeing it for what it actually is, which is a coronation by the Democrat elite who've been calling the shots for Joe Biden, who's been a figurehead for the Democrat elite for the last three and a half years.
And now they see in Kamala Harris someone who will continue to be a figurehead and who will,
who will do whatever they tell her to do. That's exactly right. She's going to owe them.
She's going to owe them big. It's right on brand though, Tulsi for the Democrat party.
And what we've seen recently where we've just been through years of them telling us not to
believe our lion eyes when it came to Joe Biden's decline. And then when it was no longer, you know, they
were no longer capable of hiding it. And Kamala subs in, don't believe your lion eyes that this
looked like a top down effort. You know, she was made the nominee by Fiat. You guys really actually
voted for it. This came from you, the grassroots. And I have to say of all the ones who object,
finally, you see BLM coming out and saying, this is not OK.
She's been placed in there. We object to this. We do not support her. And shouldn't there be
at least the semblance of democracy here? I mean, this might be the first time I've agreed
with the messaging coming out of that group. It is very telling again, and it's a continuation of two things. Number one is across the entire Biden-Harris administration, they have consistently shown that they believe if they say something, that it is somehow true. And number two, that we, the American people, are stupid enough to buy what they're saying and not pay attention to what they're doing.
We've seen this dramatically with their open border policies. Over and over again for the
last three years, President Biden, Kamala Harris, Secretary Mayorkas, over and over again telling
the American people, the border is secure. The border is secure. There is no crisis at the
border. Don't worry about this. There's nothing to see here, folks. And then all of a sudden, because they see voters are looking at what's actually happening,
they're not buying their lie. President Biden does this last minute political election year
executive order to try to crack down on the border and actually acknowledge, well, actually,
no, it wasn't secure, but it's the Republicans' fault and it's Trump's fault. It doesn't make
sense in any way, shape or form. They did the
same thing with our economy. Bidenomics is working great. It's one of our greatest success stories.
The economy is going to be great. The recession is not going to last very long. It's just a
temporary thing. Don't worry about it. Nothing to see here. Meanwhile, everyday Americans are
noticing that they can afford less and less every time you go to the grocery store, recognizing that our economy is not doing very well. Everything costs more now. And when are
these prices going to fall? When is inflation going to go down in enough of a way that makes
it so that people can not have to be so concerned about how to cover the basic expenses of everyday
life? We're seeing the same thing happen here. I think this statement from Black Lives Matter is very telling because they're speaking the truth, first of all, but second of all, also that it shows that they expect Black voters to fall in behind Kamala Harris lockstep, once again, playing the identity politics game, rather than actually looking at what are the issues, what are the issues that are of concern to African-American
voters, to different demographics and constituencies across our country. They're not
actually focused on solutions to the real challenges we face. Once again, focused on
what they say and hoping we fall for the lie and the optics of what they're presenting that are not
reflective of the truth of the world and country that we live in today. So on the subject of what they're presenting that are not reflective of the truth of the world and
country that we live in today. So on the subject of the economy, I believe that this is one of
the reasons Democrats are struggling so mightily. And I think it's so far we've seen Harris as well.
It's only been days. So take it with a grain of salt with young people because they're being
directly affected. They can't get into the economy. They can't get anything close to a running start. They're dragging. They can't find jobs.
I also happen to believe the over-the-top DEI messaging that these young people have grown up
with and been immersed in in high school and college has turned a lot of them on these
Democrats. They don't want their skin color and their gender and their whatever shoved down their
throats. But look at this report from CNN. I've got two soundbites here from this guy, Harry Enten,
who watches the polls carefully for them. They're very interesting, Tulsi. We'll play the first one
and then we'll go to the second watch. Joe Biden won voters under the age of 35 by 21 points.
What do we see with Kamala Harris? Well, she's still ahead, but the margin here is significantly less than what we saw with Joe Biden back in 2020.
She's up by just nine points.
You may make the argument that was better than Biden was doing before he got out.
But compared to that Democratic baseline, where Democrats have historically in presidential elections, at least this century, been carrying that young vote by 20 or more percentage points.
She is way down from that.
Democrats say they're more motivated to turn out after Biden left the race.
Well, we do see a significant portion of Democrats who say yes, 39%.
The thing I was interested in was it disproportionately younger voters
who said that they were more likely to turn out or more motivated to turn out.
And what we see here is it's 42 percent, not a big difference between 42 and 39 percent.
So this idea, again, that the vice president has unique potential to dig in and get young voters to turn out.
John, it's just not there in the numbers, despite all the Internet memes that are going around.
They've only gotten a three point bump with young voters on enthusiasm since they announced her.
Let me play the second one,
because this speaks more to party identification. And you and I both know you used to be a Democrat.
I did, too. When you're young, that's when the Democrat Party is kind of usually most appealing,
not necessarily right now. Look at this. I want to look at party identification again,
voters under the age of 35. Go back to 2020 at party identification again. Voters under the age of 35
go back to 2020. This is the Pew Research study. This is one of the best studies that we have.
And look at that. Fifty six percent of young voters said that, in fact, they were Democrats.
They identified as Democrat or lean Democratic. You look down at twenty twenty four. It's forty
nine percent. Look at the Republican jump from thirty nine to forty nine percent. So when we say that Harris is doing worse than Biden, it's not that she's uniquely bad.
It's rather she's fighting uphill. She's trying to fight against a wave that is going against the Democrats among young voters.
And Harris may be unique in some ways. Maybe she does slightly better than the generic Democrat, but not all that much.
So for the listening audience, it shows that the the Republicans used to be at a significant disadvantage in getting young people to vote and register Republican.
And it's been completely erased. And Democrats have gone from having 49 percent of the young voters registered as Democrat to just 30.
They've lost 10 percentage points off their share. So you explain that one to me, Tulsi, because that's a problem for them.
You know, what I think is encouraging
of what we're seeing here
is that you have young people who are questioning.
They're not just accepting whatever they're being fed.
Again, we can't cast a broad brush
and say all young people, this or that,
but it's encouraging to see that there are more young people
who are not just accepting at face value
what the Democratic leader is saying when they say,
hey, a boy can become a girl simply by declaring that it is so,
and that boys should be allowed to compete in girls' sports.
I think people are actually, and this is young people,
but I think across the board,
are recognizing the literal and
pure insanity of these woke, radical ideologies of the Democrat elite are not only advocating for,
but pushing and mandating in our schools. The fact that in some schools now, for example,
a track team in my home state of Hawaii, a girls track team now has half of the team, half of the
entire team are biological males competing on a girls team, taking away those opportunities from
our young women and girls. I think every rational, open-minded person would look at this kind of
example and just say, this is insanity. It's crazy. And so this,
you mentioned some examples with regard to the economy. You look at examples related to
our open borders and how it's not just the border states now that are feeling the effects and
impacts of the almost four years of open border policies under the Biden-Harris administration.
It's small towns. It's rural communities. I was in Montana recently and was talking to some folks there.
This is Montana.
You couldn't get farther away from the border on any coast or the Southwest than Montana.
And even there, they are being impacted by the illegal immigration crisis and an increasing
presence of criminal activity by the cartels who have taken a stronghold there. It is harder for everyday Americans, young people who are usually not attached to an
affiliation of one party or another from a generational standpoint.
So it's encouraging to see how people are using their common sense, being critical thinkers,
being independent-minded thinkers about, okay, well, which party and which
candidate is more accurately representing common sense and what is actually in the best interest
of themselves, their families, their communities in our country? I was just talking to a couple
young people, young and in college, and they were, each one of them, three guys all telling me they had had furries in their high school and seen them at college that the kids regularly showing up wearing cat ears and tails and outfits and pretending that they were an animal during school hours.
And all three of these young men happen to be white.
They have zero question that this is a disadvantage for them in seeking job
opportunities that in interview after interview, we're going in another direction, going in another
direction. And invariably they hire somebody who's got some sort of identity that the box that can
be checked. I really think this is having electoral consequences for the Democrats and it's showing up
in some of these polls. And I think even they are going to realize this. I don't know whether they'll actually do anything about it though. So
mind meld, mind melded into this ideology. Um, I'm going to take a break and I'm going to come
back because there's a lot more to get to. I want to get to Kamala Harris and who she is on there
on the crime issue. Because as I was pointing out, she, she supposedly has this tough history
from California, but when she was elevated to vice
president, her messaging changed dramatically. And now even her party is starting to change on
the issue of crime because it's gotten so bad. And even Democrats are realizing defund police
is not a good message. So what the hell is she going to do? What's she going to say? Which one's
going to emerge? I'll leave that as a tease.
Quick break. Back to Tulsi Gabbard when we come back. Don't go away.
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socks today. Senator Harris says she's proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she'll be a
prosecutor president.
But I'm deeply concerned about this record.
There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations
and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
She blocked evidence.
She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so.
She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.
And she fought to keep cash bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way. As the elected Attorney General of California, I did the work of significantly reforming the criminal justice system of a state of 40 million people, which became a national model for the work that needs to be done.
And I am proud of that work.
The bottom line is, Senator Harris, when you were in a position to make a difference and an impact in these people's lives, you did not. And worse yet, in the case of those who were on death row, innocent people,
you actually blocked evidence from being revealed that would have freed them until you were forced
to do so. There is no excuse for that. And the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor,
you owe them an apology. So that was the July 2019 debate in one of the most memorable exchanges in recent history between
now presumptive Democrat nominee Kamala Harris and our guest today, Tulsi Gabbard,
former U.S. representative as a Democrat and author of For Love of Country. Tulsi's had a
just very negative experience with these Democrats who are now pulling the strings
around Kamala Harris, too. But, you know, we went back even though we're friends and we fact checked everything you said
100% accurate. There isn't one word of that that was off. And it was pretty telling that she didn't
deny it. She just tried to pivot to I'm proud of my record. And so now she really is at a crossroads
here because she's got to figure
out whether she wants to be the no cash bail is a good thing. Kamala Harris or the no, we don't
like cash bail because it hurts minorities. Kamala Harris and whether she's going to be the we want
to prosecute marijuana users, Kamala Harris or the one who admitted to smoking marijuana for recreation purposes on a show,
right? Like she's tried to reinvent herself so many times. And now the cultural winds have
shifted such that I think she's going to be a little twisted on which way to land.
What do you think? Uh, you know, first, first, I think it's important to look at how,
how was it possible? You said that was July 2019. Kamala Harris,
I think, announced her candidacy in January of 2019. How was it possible that I was the first
person, the first candidate running for president at that time, and really the first person,
even when you count the mainstream media, to actually call her out and question her?
Very simply, as you pointed out, question her on
her record that she said she was proud of as attorney general. This is important to point
out because it's a sign of what we should expect here for the next three and a half months in this
election, that the media is going to continue to push out fluff stories about her. They are not
going to seriously and honestly
examine her record. They're going to treat her with kid gloves and even worse yet, create this
new false narrative about who Kamala Harris is and to try to reshape her record. So we should
be very clear eyed about that because as you said, what I found there, as you and your researchers probably found,
it wasn't very hard to look at her record and what she's claiming to be proud of.
Second of all, there's far more to look at than I had in the 60 seconds on that debate stage
to bring up. Just a few. Defunding the police. I have no doubt she will say with a straight face,
she did not support defunding the police. But the fact is that she did. She may have called it reimagining law enforcement,
but in reality, what she was advocating for, even as vice president, was to take funding away from
our law enforcement and divert it elsewhere. And this is coming, you know, we've seen in cities
that have actually implemented this policy and what a failure it has been and how it has made our communities in this country
far less safe and increased crimes, violent crimes and so forth, literally because they have defunded
the police. You look back during her time as attorney general, She promoted charging parents with a misdemeanor for if their kids missed
more than 10% of days in school. And she passed this into law, and it negatively impacted so many
families who, for one reason or another, maybe they had pulled their kids out and were homeschooling
them, or maybe a family member got sick and they weren't able to take their kids to school for a whole number of reasons. She turned parents into criminals, charging them with misdemeanors that could result in up to a year in jail,
hauling single moms out of their homes in handcuffs.
This is the kind of top cop prosecutor that Kamala Harris is proud of being.
We look at her time as a member of the Judiciary Committee
in the U.S. Senate, where she was dismissing Article 6 of the Constitution that says there
shall be no religious test. When she questioned Boucher, who was nominated by President Trump to
become a judge, accusing him of being unqualified to be a judge simply because of his Catholic faith. And he was a member of the
Knights of Columbus, accusing him of being part of some nefarious group, and in fact, implementing
a religious test in defiance of the Constitution. There are a lot of other examples that we can
give, but again, this is why it's so important that we point out her actual record. And when
you have someone who doesn't believe in the rule of law,
as we've seen with the Biden-Harris administration's lawfare
that's been taking place, politicizing our public institutions,
the Department of Justice and Judiciary and law enforcement
to go after their political opponents, foremost of which is Donald Trump,
but also including peaceful pro-life protesters and others who dare to challenge their agenda and their position.
She wants to be the top cop and the prosecutor president, as she has claimed.
We should be very concerned about that because she doesn't respect the Constitution.
She is not willing to uphold the oath that she took to support and defend the Constitution. She is not willing to uphold the oath that she took to support and defend the
Constitution. And so the lawfare that we've seen under the Biden-Harris administration, we can only
assume, would only get worse as she seeks to exercise her muscle in that respect. There has
to be a reckoning with her record as Attorney General, as U.S. Senator, and as Vice President.
And I believe that most Americans, when presented
with the truth, as you pointed out in that moment in the debate, will realize how dangerous she
would be if she is to be given these levers of power to abuse. I mean, this is in addition to
wanting Medicare for all and to eliminate our private insurance plans, wanting to eliminate the
filibuster so that she can pass the Green New Deal and take away airplanes and cars and cows.
This is actually stuff she's on the record with, not to mention her abortion policies.
But here she is back in June of 2020, wanting to appease a riled up Democratic base in the wake of the George Floyd situation, being pretty clear about how she felt about cops on the street.
Look at this. It is outdated and is actually wrong and backward to think that more police officers will create more safety. A big part of this conversation
really is about reimagining how we do public safety in America, which I support, which is this.
We have confused the idea that to achieve safety, you put more cops on the street.
You know, for far too long, the status quo
thinking has been to believe that by putting more police on the street, you're going to have more
safety. And that's just wrong. It's just that's not how it works. So that's that's the new Kamala
Harris, right? Not not the old one who is a D.A. and a prosecutor. The new one is we don't need
more cops. Fewer cops is the way. And now
here we are four years later, we've seen what a disaster that's been in particular for communities
of color. Tulsi, those are the ones who got hurt the worst by that insane policy that she helped
push. You know, those clips, that string of clips you just played really once again, exposes her
lack of knowledge and understanding and
intelligence. To be so simplistic as to say, well, more cops doesn't lead to safer streets.
Well, it's a much bigger challenge than this. My sister served in law enforcement. I have a lot of
friends who are serving in local, state, county, federal law enforcement. It's about investing in our fellow Americans who make this
very selfless choice to go and put their lives and well-being and safety on the line every single day
to make our communities safe. It's not a matter of just mere numbers. It's about investing in them,
their training, and their capabilities to be able to face the kinds of extreme challenges that they
do on a daily basis. It's about making sure that we have systems in place to be able to support them
as they deal with these very traumatic situations and make it so that they are in a position to be
most successful, building those relationships with our communities, investing in local police
officers who are serving their local communities and making it so that they and their families
have that safety and security of knowing that they're cared for. It's taking this holistic
approach to this challenge that we've been dealing with, with law enforcement and increasingly more
dangerous streets, equipping them with what they need in order to accomplish
the reason why so many people become law enforcement in the first place, which is to
serve and to protect. That is what we should be focusing on. She's got a record time and time
again of demonizing the cops. No matter the situation, she's against the police. When Jussie
Smollett came up with his nonsense story and said
he was attacked and that anybody saying he wasn't was a liar. She sided with him. She came out and
said this about him. One of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I'm praying for his
quick recovery. This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their
life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate again, not directly involving the police, but there was a
race thing and that's underlying these attacks on cops. Then came Jacob Blake who attacked cops.
He went after cops with a knife and rather than waiting for the facts. And by the way,
you could see the cops were under threat in the videos that first came out. If you were just open-minded, um, she piled on the cops there. And here's what she said in
August of 2020, sought 29. We also see pain, hurt, and destruction in the aftermath of yet another black man shot by police. Jacob Blake shot seven times in the back
in broad daylight in front of his three young sons. It's sickening to watch.
It's all too familiar and it must end. But he is fighting for his life and he shouldn't have to be.
My heart goes out to the Blake family as they endure an ordeal that is tragically common in our country.
Tragically common with those terrible cops.
And just to put a point on it, this is the same woman who is bailing out BLM protesters, raising money to bail them out.
Rioters.
Here was Jacob Blake, the person she was. She said specifically not in that clip.
She was proud of him. She's out there condemning the cops. It's all too common, you know, for these racist cops to shoot a black man who's unarmed and not a threat.
Here was Jacob Blake after the fact, giving an interview on Good Morning America.
I realized I had dropped my knife, that little pocket knife. So I picked it up after I got off
of him because they tased me and I fell on top of him. With an open knife in hand that Blake says
fell out of his pocket, he walks around the front of the vehicle towards the driver's side door.
What are you thinking at that point?
I'm not really worried.
I'm walking away from them.
So it's not like they're going to shoot me.
I shouldn't have picked it up.
Right.
She never apologized to the cops involved in the Jacob Blake situation.
She never owned up to her lies about Jussie Smollett.
She's anti-cop now because that's what serves her best politically.
We shouldn't be surprised to hear how that story changes here in the next few months
as she recognizes how much of our country truly values all that our law enforcement do every day. I think this is going to be one issue of many
where like what happened on the 2020 campaign, she will come up with whatever she feels she
needs to say in order to try to win this election in November. I think even back in 2020, it got to
a point where her changing message and narrative really occurred from
Monday to Tuesday.
You're not talking about a years-long shift in her belief and position on a specific issue.
Her positions on many of the issues that we've talked about today flip-flopped so many times
within the course of a week.
Even the New York Times and the Washington Post were forced to call her out for this,
saying that, well, we don't actually even know what Kamala Harris is advocating for.
This is very likely going to continue to happen here.
And we need to call her out for it every time because her record speaks for itself.
Meanwhile, you know, the underlying left wing, obviously, you know, far left progressive California native is going to take a beating on
actual policies. I made reference to outside of law enforcement, some of the far left things
she's pushed. This is coming up already. And this ad, our first panel mentioned it. We have it. It's
out of Pennsylvania where the Senate candidate McCormick is running this against Bob Casey,
who is the Democrat. Democrat is the is Casey. Dave McCormick is the Republican.
Casey is a three term incumbent and it's a Senate race there. Casey's ahead by six points out there.
You know, it's easier when you're the incumbent, but he just endorsed Kamala Harris.
And Pennsylvania, of course, is ground zero in this presidential contest as well. So we're
watching the Senate or watching the presidential contest and take a look at this ad, which is already generating a lot of attention online.
Kamala Harris is inspiring and very capable.
The more people get to know her, they're going to be particularly impressed by her ability.
Nonpartisan GovTrack has rated you as the most liberal senator.
I am prepared to get rid of the filibuster to pass a Green New Deal.
There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.
Would you ban offshore drilling?
Yes.
What is the solution for voters in the fossil fuel industry?
Giving the workers an ability to transition.
We're not gonna treat people who are undocumented across the border as criminals.
That's correct.
Raise your hand if you think it should be a civil offense rather than a crime across the border
without documentation. Abolish ICE. Is that a position you agree with? We need to probably
think about starting from scratch. Outdated. It is wrongheaded thinking to think that the
only way you're going to get communities to be safe is to put more police officers on the street.
What do you support changing the dietary guidelines?
Yes.
You know, the food pair.
Yes.
To reduce red meat specifically.
Yes.
People who are convicted in prison, like the Boston Marathon bomber,
on death row, people who are convicted of sexual assault,
they should be able to vote?
I think we should have that conversation.
We have to have a buyback program, and I support a mandatory buyback program.
So for people out there who like their insurance, they don't get to keep it? Let's eliminate all of that. Let's move on. I mean, that is just devastating.
Those are her actual positions. Those are her actual positions.
Those are her actual words.
That's a very compelling montage of Kamala exactly what we've seen, quite frankly, reflected
in the Biden-Harris administration of the last three and a half years. As hard as she tries to
perhaps run away from some of these positions that she has very clearly taken for years in the past
and that have been shown through and reflected in the Biden-Harris administration, the most important
thing is for voters to not fall for it. I think that's a very powerful ad that represents who
Kamala Harris is, and frankly, represents the positions of the Democrat elite, the power elite,
who have been pulling the strings and calling the shots throughout this administration and what their goals and objectives are.
Those who she will follow their orders and be beholden to as she becomes the Democratic
nominee and if she is allowed to become president of the United States.
It's really crazy to hear her say she wants to ban fossil fuels.
She wants to ban fracking.
We know she also wants to ban nuclear power.
She wants to do it all with windmills and solar power. Meanwhile, there was just a disaster
with the windmills in Nantucket, where one of these windmills came down and all of its toxicity
is pumping into the ocean to the point where on the nearby beaches, they're having to wear hazmat suits now to clean up some of the shards of this thing. And that's their answer to everything.
There's absolutely no care for the environmental consequences of, you know, these new toxic
fangled things like the windmills, like the solar panels and how much digging they have to do.
Not to mention the electric car batteries, right? It's all just something that makes them feel better about green
energy and the consequences to the actual earth be damned. That's just one of the many things that
I hope to hear more on in the coming days. And we will actually be reporting more on that windmill
disaster. On this, Megan, I was on a long flight yesterday and was talking with one of the flight attendants.
And she brought up politics and what's going on and the breaking news.
And really for her, one of the main takeaways I have from the conversation was she said, look, I care about having clean air to breathe and clean water to drink.
I just don't want to drive an electric vehicle.
I want to be able to drive the car or truck that I choose to.
And I thought it was such an important statement that she made because it really cuts to the heart of the dichotomy and the huge contrast between what we're seeing coming from today's Democrat Party and the Democrat elite versus what we're seeing coming from President Trump and largely the Republican Party of today, the Democrat elite wanting to take away our right to individual liberty,
our freedom to make these choices for ourselves.
If you want to drive an electric vehicle, you should be able to do so.
If you don't want to drive an electric vehicle, you want to drive a Ford F-150, you should
be able to do so.
And that really is the thing here that I think most Americans will recognize is we don't want the government to force us to eat what they tell us to eat or to drive whatever they tell us to drive.
When it comes down to the choices that we make for ourselves and our families, we should have the freedom to make those choices.
And that, to me, it comes down to freedom.
It comes down to freedom. It comes down to
liberty and one of very limited government going back to what our founders envisioned for us at a
federal level, decentralization, valuing our individual liberty and freedom of choice versus
the Democrats who believe in big brother, big government. They know what is better for us than we do for ourselves.
And so they will take away our right to make those individual choices. And that is what is
most dangerous about what today's Democrat party and Kamala Harris represent and what their goals
and objectives are. That poor flight attendant is not only going to lose her car of choice,
she's going to lose her job if Kamala Harris has her way, because that Green New Deal will be the end of the airline industry. Tulsi, thank you so much. It's always great to see you.
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Who is more desperate to coronate Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat elite or the sycophantic
media? So many examples to choose from. And I'm so happy to be joined by
my friend, Michael Knowles, host of the Daily Wire's Michael Knowles Show. I don't even know
where to begin. I'm so annoyed by this whole discussion. My team keeps saying, MK, you've
got to go there. It's everywhere. So I am going to appease my team because I love them.
They're trying to rebrand all of our awkwardness. We touched on it yesterday as something called
brat. No one really understands what that is. Here is the most awkward discussion on CNN,
where Jamie Gengel tries to explain it. Part of the fun is just watching her do that. Watch. Kamala Harris appears to be leaning
into this. The singer, Charli XCX, tweeted last night, Kamala is brats. And this is in reference
to her album. It's called Brat. Kamala has branded her Kamala HQ Twitter page with the same aesthetics.
And for those who don't, are not in the know the way I am am that is a cool thing. It has a color chartreuse is the color and
Kamala Harris has adopted that for whatever social media page
that is but I brought some notes because I knew you would
want a definition.
Okay, here we go Charlie X XCX, who I do know, quote,
Brat, you're just that girl who is a little messy and likes to party
and maybe says some dumb things sometimes, end quote.
So it's the idea that we're all kind of Brat and Vice President Harris is Brat?
I don't know if you're Brat.
I think you aspire to be Brat. You don't know if you're a brat. I think you aspire
to be brat. You don't just become brat. You have to try. You can't work at it. I will aspire to be
brat. Michael Knowles, my head hurts. I don't get it. I don't like it. I don't believe in it.
Megan, I can clear it up for you. Kamala is not brat, though I understand why
some people think that she is. I had not heard the term used in this way until about five minutes
ago. I also had never heard of Charlie XCX until about five minutes ago. No one has. No one had,
except for the man that I knew I had to call to resolve this mystery, and that is my homosexual
former video editor. I said, if anyone's going to know about this, and that is my homosexual former video editor.
I said, if anyone's going to know about this, he will. So I called him as I was waiting to
come on your show, and I said, you need to tell me everything about Charlie XCX and Brat.
And he gave me a beautiful explanation. He's quite a fan of this singer.
But he said emphatically that Kamala is not Brat. And here's why. Brat seems as though she is vapid and vacuous and just a kind of
fun, frilly party girl. But deep inside has a roiling inner life. She is plagued by self-doubt,
anxiety, and deep introspection. The reason some people think that Kamala is brat is that she appears to be vacuous. The reason that she is not brat is that she is in fact vacuous. So I don't think anyone would accuse Kamala Harris of having a roiling inner life or, you know, constantly thinking about her place in the world and what that means in any kind of cosmic order. So she has all of the vapidity of brat, but but none of the redeeming
qualities. Hmm. I I guess this is what they have to do because her moments of awkwardness are just,
you know, they're everywhere. We've had years of exposure to them. It's like the new gaslighting
as they did with Joe Biden's infirmity. Don't believe your lying eyes.
All of those awkward moments are actually cool. Her inability to say anything stirring or moving
is actually just part of her fun personality, even though she's trying over and over with the
same exact phrases to bring us to our feet and cheers or tears, whatever it is.
This leads me to my favorite thing that's been in the news over the past few days. I confess,
I didn't know this woman prior to discovering this the other day, and now I can't get enough
of a stay, Patey. Forgiveness, please stay, because I don't know if that's how I pronounce your name. Is it Palty? P-A-L-T-Y.
She's amazing. She goes by at mommy RN 88 on X and her imitation of Kamala is spot on,
but she's about had it with the repetitive choice of words. Watch.
Are many more who are able to see what can be unburdened by what has been?
Kamala, I need some new material.
OK, you've said you've said that quote many times.
OK, let's move on a little. Let's galvanize new words, new phrases.
Let's look into Aristotle, Socrates.
I mean, if you're going to plagiarize, make it good. This is, you know, this is borderline ridiculous. It's spot on. She's so good. That's an accurate portrayal of the actual Kamala Harris,
not brat. This is the problem is it's fun when serious people get a little goofy every so often.
But when goofy people just continue to act goofy all the time, it's not fun. It's just sort of sad.
And it's especially sad when there's goofy people.
Yeah, that's alarming when they're running for president of the United States,
even to the comedian's point that she needs some new material here.
Kamala's vapidity is actually one note. So she just has that phrase that we have to imagine
what can be unburdened by what has been. And then she'll just look at things. She'll say,
look, a school bus. I like school buses, school buses, huh? Spaceship go, you know, and there's nothing
really underneath that. So it's, uh, it, I think it helps to explain why the Kamala Harris campaign
is trying desperately to make her seem hip and cool and Mimi, and they're glomming onto this
new album that just came out brat. Uh, but. But if you want to see the real enthusiasm, look at the Chuck Schumer press conference.
When Schumer came out and endorsed Kamala Harris, he said, we're so excited. We're so excited. And
he clapped. This was the second Jeb Bush moment in two days of her campaign. He said, okay, well,
you don't have to clap. You don't have to be excited, but I'll clap. Please clap.
And then Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader in the House,
he came out and with a straight face managed to say that Kamala has earned this nomination.
This is not a coronation from the elites. This was a grassroots movement, which is, I don't even,
what would the propaganda justification for that be? I don't know. So in many ways, I think that some of the Democrat elites have settled on Kamala because they just think that the election is over and
they want to save the more powerful candidates until 2028 when maybe they have a better shot.
It's such a lie. And what we're going to get for the next three months is everything is racist
and everything is sexist.
If you criticize Kamala Harris, they're already starting to do it.
The temperature on those issues is going to reach fever pitch levels because that's their favorite tool in their toolbox on the left.
Already, they're saying it's sexist to talk about the fact that she slept her way into San Francisco politics with Willie Brown.
That's not sexist.
We'd be saying that if a man did it as well.
I guess that's a little brat.
She's a woman.
In fairness, yeah.
Maybe that's brat.
No, I mean, so that's a sexist attack on her.
No, it isn't.
If you wouldn't do it for a man, let's go back and look at all of the attacks on Trump's sexual past and behaviors, they were all there too. Not just the
alleged sexual harassment and assault that he got accused of, but his sexual background was discussed
a lot when he was heard funny. In any event, there's that. Then there's the race. And what
I've noticed in my time as a political journalist is when this gets into the ecosphere, it raises
the attacks on everyone. It's not just going to be somebody who takes direct aim at Kamala Harris.
It's going to be anybody in right wing media or just fair media.
Any American out there who has an opinion of Kamala Harris that's not favorable, it's
going to get attributed to her race.
And there was a small example of this just this morning on Fox and Friends, where Brian Kilmeade was doing a totally
appropriate segment on the fact that she's skipping Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress
today, where she's expected to be, to go meet with her college sorority. Okay, this is not a
serious person, but it's actually part of her,
the soft boycott that's going on of Netanyahu in Congress in any event.
So he was talking about that. And here we have the soundbite. Here's what he said. It's not 48.
She will not show up for the prime minister's joint session of Congress today. She'd rather
address in the summer, a sorority, a college sorority, like she can't get out of that.
So that's her decision. And that's her decision to back.
Now, his detractors and her supporters are accusing him of calling her colored.
A colored sorority. What he said was a college sorority. That's clearly what he said. Brian
Kilmeade's been on the air for 20 plus years. If he were going to refer to black politicians as colored, it would have happened prior to now.
We had a black president for eight years. He didn't store it up for this moment in 2024,
when he could unleash it on Kamala Harris, absolutely no benefit of the doubt for him.
And even more nasty are people like Claire McCaskill, who decided to look at Lawrence Jones, who's on the set.
He's a black man with Brian and shame him.
This man said nothing after she was called colored.
And to his credit, Lawrence got out there saying to her and others like who are making the same point.
I'm the black man.
You're so damn dishonest. He said college, but that's all you have. You know, the bullshit that
you advocate for only brings death, poverty, and destruction to our black communities.
You're welcome on the show. Anytime you debate it, me and you, that wasn't a response to Claire.
That was in response to another person. But you know what? Here's the thing. Like Claire McCaskill, a white woman shaming a black man for not getting offended
at her mishearing intentional, I would submit of what Brian Kilmeade actually said.
It's so gross and dishonest. And here's Jamel Hill to just for kicks. Nobody on the panel
flinched when he said it. Fox News doesn't reach new lows because remaining in the gutter is their standard. And then there was Eugene Daniels, who reports for
is political, who also piled on what political yet. But to his credit, sort of followed up with
I spoke to Fox and plan on speaking to Brian when he's off air. They've made clear to me.
He said college, not colored. The audio is garbled, but I'm going to take Brian and his team at their word.
Eugene, that's what you should have done at first. What history has Brian Kilmeade had
of saying something like that, right? That's disgusting. And they all do it for political
purposes and ideological too. This is what they think of white men, Fox News, and right-leaners in America
in general. Of course. And it seems intentional to me because the words college and colored
don't even have the same vowel sound. It's call and cull. Those are different sounds.
And you can clearly hear, even though the audio is a little garbled from Brian on Fox, he clearly says cull, as in college, not cull, as in colored.
But I'll go further. Why would it be such a huge deal if Brian said that? Brian would not say that.
Brian has not said anything like that. But if I just listen to the way that the left talks about
race, I am told that we must refer to people of color.
We have to refer to Kamala Harris as a woman of color. In fact, we were told by Joe Biden that
she was selected for her job because she is a woman of color. So we're told by the left,
we have to use this phrase of color. But if we say the phrase colored, which is semantically
identical, you're basically the grand cyclops of the Ku Klux
Klan. The whole thing, beginning to end, is so deeply disingenuous that I think we just
laugh at them and ignore them. And I think that's what most Americans are doing.
It's ridiculous. He didn't say it. He hasn't said it. And they need to really get a grip.
It's just offensive. Okay, the media, while I'm on it, the pile on
and JD Vance is also underway as they coronate Kamala, the pile on and JD is underway.
They're very, very upset about an interview he had with Tucker Carlson years ago when Tucker
was on Fox, very upset about this reference he made and I'll play it. I'm going to play a CNN sod anchored by this moron, Casey Hunt,
who's a repeat violator of being a moron. Uh, she's just on, she's the one who was like,
you will not criticize Jake Tapper on my air, my colleagues. You cannot say anything bad about
them before the, she was just, she's lost. She's in hysteric. So here she is in act two
and she'll toss to the JD sodD. Sot. So it's
embedded in what I'm about to play you. Listen. This recently resurfaced video of Republican
vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance. It has restarted an uproar and is raising questions
about how sexism will play into the campaign now that Kamala Harris is leading the Democratic ticket. This was Vance speaking to Fox News in 2021.
We're effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs,
by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices
that they've made. And so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too. And it's just a basic fact.
You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC,
the entire future of the Democrats
is controlled by people without children.
Childless cat ladies.
Remind everyone, who else is a very powerful
childless cat lady, quote unquote,
because the internet really likes Taylor Swift
in this particular moment. Oh my God. And then one of the panelists called JD vile. Let me, here's a pro tip.
If you are a news anchor, do not deliver all of your takedowns in a sing-songy fashion with weird
faces that look uncomfortable on you because it is off-putting to the very audience you mean
to persuade. So Michael Knowles, what do you make of childless cat lady
and the larger point that J.D. was making that childless politicians
may not have the same investment in America's future that people who have kids do?
Well, you'll notice as those liberal journalists clutch their pearls,
they never say he's wrong.
They never really make an argument
against him or anything like that. So did J.D. use provocative language on a news show? Sure.
Isn't that that's just kind of what one does on a news show. But his broader point is one that
has been made, you know, in in the academy, in politics and in the media for some years now,
and not even just pertaining to America.
It is a little weird that the nations of the West, you see this especially pronounced in Europe,
are run by people who don't have kids. Obviously, not everyone gets to have kids. A lot of people
suffer from infertility. Children are a blessing, and this is a fallen world, so people have to
suffer with a lot of things. But it is kind of odd when the leaders of our nations don't want to have kids.
They're not even interested in the future.
The family is the basic building block of politics.
So if the family falls into disrepair, if the next generation is neglected or put off,
that tells you something political.
And so the point he made is absolutely right.
It's why the liberal journalists don't actually refute it.
You know, I guarantee you that if J.D. Vance actually encounters a childless cat lady out
on the campaign trail, he will have as much empathy for her and understanding of her life
as he would for anybody. It is obviously, it's like a, I don't know what to say if it's a joke,
but it's loose language to describe a category of person who is constantly harping on us all
about our SUVs and our gas stoves and all the other decisions we make in our life.
While she tries to tell us, you know, all of those are terrible choices because her choices
to save the world are the right ones. And we need to have the full fulfilling life she has, as opposed to ours that we've chosen through children and so on.
This is a caricature of some leftists that's based on fact. We've seen some of these people.
That's what he's trying to say. Of course, everything is going to be filtered through the,
he's a sexist, but kill me is a racist. JD is a sexist. All the right is bad. And it's I guarantee you it's going to get turned up to a 10 now because she's a black woman running for president.
I just don't know if it works. I mean, to your point, Megan, yes, of course, J.D. is talking about a type here, just as you might talk about the type of the crazy conservative uncle at Thanksgiving, which actually happens to be me. I am both the figure of that person and that literal person. There are all sorts of types, you know, that's what a stereotype is. And there's
always some truth to a stereotype, though it doesn't necessarily apply to every individual.
That's how they became stereotypes in the first place. So he's speaking in this way,
and obviously it resonates. That's why they're talking about it. But as you point out, yes,
they're going to use race and sex sex and they're going to harp on race
and sex because kamala harris doesn't personally have very many accomplishments behind her in fact
the one thing that she seemed to do somewhat well is prosecute people and she actually prosecuted
a lot of people she shouldn't have including my friend david dalyden whom she prosecuted for
revealing the truth about planned parenthood and exposing that the abortion industry sells baby parts for money.
But she was a prosecutor. She did actually bring people up on charges. She did put people in jail.
And other than that, though, that obviously isn't going to play very well among the Democrats.
Democrats want to abolish prisons in many quarters.
So she doesn't really have anything. The administration that she's been a part of has been a complete disaster. So she can't run on the economy. She can't run on migration.
She can't run on foreign policy. She can't run on the border as she's supposedly the borders are.
So the the only card that she has to play is race and sex. And perhaps that'll work with some of the
Democrat base. I don't think that really persuades the swing voters in the swing states
that she needs to win to beat Trump. I think it's a turnoff. Yeah, I agree. It's a turnoff to them.
And it's like the left for years now has been demonizing white women as Karens and laughing at
white tears and so on. No problem. That's fine. That's a leftist thing. They've never met a
conservative woman who they would tolerate, like or defend.
And yet they're supposed to be our champions. They're the ones who are going to have the moral high ground when it comes to how we speak about women.
F you. You ceded that moral high ground long ago. And we all know it. Some of us have lived it. Okay. I've got to get to Elon Musk.
Extraordinary interview with your colleague over the daily wire, Jordan Peterson and revealing.
We knew that Elon had a child who said that they were trans and that the relationship there had
broken down because the child had spoken out about it saying Elon was no longer this, this kid's
father that had made the news. I've never heard Elon talk about it.
And boy, did he with Jordan.
Here's a clip.
It happened to one of my older boys
where I was...
I was essentially tricked
into signing documents
for one of my older boys, Xavier.
This was before I had really any understanding of what was going on.
We had COVID going on, so there was a lot of confusion.
And, you know, I was told, you know, Xavier might commit suicide.
That was a lie right from the outset?
Incredibly evil.
And I agree with you that people that have been promoting this should go to prison.
You know, it wasn't explained to me that puberty blockers are actually just sterilization drugs.
So, anyway.
And so, I lost my son, essentially.
So, you know, they call it dead naming for a reason.
Yeah.
All right.
So the reason it's called dead naming is because your son is dead.
So my son Xavier is dead.
Killed by the woke mind virus.
I'm sorry to hear that.
So I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that.
It's dark, Michael, but it's exactly right.
And I hate to be flip about it, but one wonders, like, is there a reason that happened to the richest man in the world or one of them so that he could help save other children
in in providence you know if you're a religious person you believe that all of history is turned
ultimately toward god's ends even as we try to screw them up as best we can so you know that
that's a bit of a consolation but you know it's a small consolation to elon your heart just breaks
for him listening to the story and he's hit on something which I think is really important to the transgender ideology.
I've mentioned it for some years now, but it's eluded a lot of people, which is that the transgender transition is a religious ritual, an irreligious ritual, I guess.
And it's a kind of ritual suicide.
This is why you refer to your old self as dead, as a dead name. It's a kind of a
ceremony of rebirth into some new Gnostic identity. And it's terribly harmful because it's not in
accord with reality, you know, and it brings with it all sorts of false theories about the relation
of the body and the soul and who the person is and our role in creation. And, you know, it smuggles all of that in.
But the way that the radical left has smuggled it in is under the guise of following the
science or, you know, following the best advice of medical professionals.
Well, you hear Elon say there, they lied to me.
They lied.
They gave my kid these drugs that are essentially sterilization drugs.
And to use the kid's own words, they killed my son.
And so then he uses another phrase there,
the woke mind virus.
And it's a popular phrase.
I think it was coined by my friend Gad Saad.
And it's got a bit of, yeah, I love the guy.
It's got a great bit of currency, this phrase.
But sometimes it's a little hard to define.
Well, to me, it's simple enough to define,
which is the woke mind virus is just the logical conclusion of liberalism. If you make your
politics all about the individual will, the self, maximizing individual autonomy, I can be whatever
I want to be, even if biology says otherwise, even if everyone says otherwise, well, then the final
conclusion of that is I, a man,
can really become a woman. I can kill myself. I can kill my true identity and become some new thing. That's the logical conclusion of political liberalism. And so a lot of people who might have
called themselves liberals, I think Elon would have called himself a liberal. A lot of people
would say I'm a classical liberal or a libertarian or a center liberal or something like that.
They're now seeing the logical conclusion of these premises of this ideology. And so some people want to walk it back
three years or five years. Let's just go back to 2014 before we were sterilizing kids and sending
them down this awful path, which is involved with anxiety and depression and often suicidality.
Well, you can't really just unwind it back that
far. Something has led us to this point where otherwise intelligent, sensible people are saying
it's okay to sterilize a kid and pretend that a little boy is a little girl. We've got to address
the root cause of what that is. It's that ideology goes a lot deeper. We've got to reconsider
so much that has led us to this moment of heartbreak,
not just for Elon, but for many, many families around the country.
I really think, you know, I recently read Maureen Callahan's book, Ask Not, which I love.
Very good, very good summer read about the Kennedys and their long sordid history with
women in particular. And it talks about how they had one of their children lobotomized. She was
slow and they didn't like it and they had children lobotomized. She was slow and they
didn't like it and they had her lobotomized. And I think that era of medicine is akin to what we're
seeing right now with children, where we are chopping up healthy body parts like they did
when they lobotomized people, otherwise healthy people, in the name of what now today, politics, political correctness,
and Kamala Harris is in favor of it. Kamala Harris wants it to continue. Your kid, my kids,
all of our kids, that if they decide, you know, in the midst of a depression that they want to
chop off a body part, that should be their decision and we shouldn't interfere. This,
I don't, that's it.
That's, that's, I'm going to steal the last word on it, but that's among this woman's many problems.
Michael Knowles, got to go. Thank you. Great to be with you. Thank you, Megan.
We're back tomorrow with James Woods, the actor. Can't wait to talk to him.
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