The MeidasTouch Podcast - FED UP Dems Finally FLIP THE SCRIPT on GOP on LIVE TV

Episode Date: July 8, 2024

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So would it be better to put up a different candidate? The most important polling is Americans' opinions about Donald Trump. He's historically unpopular and for good reason, because they saw what the disaster of his first term was. And we know that there are Haley voters in the heartland who are desperate to vote for anybody besides Trump. And we have to have a message of law and order to appeal to those voters. I mean, the Republicans are trying to defund the FBI. They're nominating a convicted felon. They're trying to surge machine guns onto our streets and in our schools. This is not a party that respects the rule of law. Yeah. With respect, Congressman, I mean, I keep asking about

Joe Biden. You keep talking about Donald Trump. But there are a number of questions about Joe Biden or questions about who can beat Donald Trump, because Donald Trump is. Do you really think do you really think Joe Biden can beat Donald Trump? Or would Kamala Harris be a better person to do that? Would Gavin Newsom be a better person to do that? Do you think after that debate performance, this is the guy you want running for president? Every one of those names that you just mentioned

could beat Donald Trump. And the reason why is because Donald Trump is unpopular. He's actually probably the most unpopular national politician of modern American history because voters don't want to see their tax returns have a little partisan affiliation box they have to check next year. They don't want their social security checks to come with strings attached. They don't want forced deportations of their friends and their neighbors who are trying to become American citizens. They don't want to see him supplicating himself in front of Vladimir Putin like he did in 2018. Right, but there are a lot of Democratic and independent voters who want to see somebody

with the mental confidence to run, and increasingly they don't think that's Joe Biden. The opinion of Pennsylvanians, of Michigans, of Wisconsinites is absolutely vital. Don't disagree with you there. And that is going to be the challenge ahead of the top of the Democratic ticket, is to make a strong and sharp contrast against what Donald Trump is offering. This is not just about the past and about the record of accomplishments. This is about the future as well. And Democrats have a much more compelling vision of the future than MAGA Republicans do. We want an economy that works for everyone. We don't want this next tax.

Then Democratic Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz, when she's asked by CNN, are you frustrated? And she's like, I'm not frustrated by you. Here, play this clip. And Congresswoman, I hear you talking about Donald Trump and trying to put the focus back on him. He's been very quiet over the last several days and has just let this play out amongst the Democratic Party. I hear you focusing on the accomplishments you want to highlight from this president. And yet that's not the story that's out there right now. So are you frustrated? How damaging do you think this is, particularly as we get closer to November? I'm frustrated that the media is literally dissecting every word that comes out of Joe

Biden's mouth and is ignoring the fact that the Republicans are about to nominate, again, a convicted felon who's an adjudicated rapist, who still denies that he lost the 2020 election, who is committing to upend every single accomplishment that Joe Biden has helped make sure we can recover after COVID and the 15 million jobs that were created. Yeah, I am pushing to make sure that we can focus on what the danger lurking down the road is, is that if we don't make sure that we rally and focus on Donald Trump and the extremist good versus evil existential threat that he represents to our democracy, then we're going to end up back there again. And that's the nightmare

scenario my constituents want to avoid. Then we have the White House press secretary, Corrine Jean-Pierre, pushing back at the media when the press room, lots of the press were whining that Donald Trump was giving them more press conferences. And they said the last president came to the briefing room more. And Karine Jean-Pierre goes, yeah, you remember what he said? Here, play this clip. What they have been, what they have done, what, to be more clear, George W. Bush and also President Obama.

So we've been... The last one did let his daughters come to the briefing room to speak to us. Okay. And we know what that last president said from this briefing room. Okay. So he only did three, I think three or four paragraphs. Very different. Very different approach.

By the way, wasn't that the biggest tell from the media right there where they were saying, oh, well, Donald Trump would speak to us. What? About telling the American people to inject bleach, about saying that he was getting great ratings from his COVID press conferences while Americans were dying. See, that's what the media wants. They want to feel good about themselves. They want to feel so important that they're getting these press conferences. They love the drama. And we the people don't want that.

We don't want to be told to inject bleach in our veins. We don't want to be told that these are great ratings while family members are dying. We don't want to hear about the leader of America saying that he's not going to agree to a peaceful transition of power? Like, what are we talking about? I gotta show you Congress member Auchincloss one more time. Watch what he's gotta say. And again, giving facts, play the clip.

The Biden campaign strategy was to talk about Donald Trump and make this election all about Donald Trump. And now this election has become all about Joe Biden. Is that an election he can win? 14 million Democratic primary voters think he can win it. And the Democratic Party should walk humbly before it contravenes the will of our voters. Unlike the Republican Party, we respect free and fair elections. And what unifies us as a party is knowing that Donald Trump is an

existential threat to democracy. And my challenge to my Republican colleagues is, why aren't you having this same public and painful conversation about your nominee? Because on that debate stage, Donald Trump lied every 90 seconds. He yet again refused to say he would accept election results when the last time around police officers died in the line of duty because he tried to incite an insurrection. He's trying to politicize Social Security. He's trying to hand Ukraine back over to Russia. How much more do House Republicans need to hear before they're willing to do the right thing? You know, as I always say, it's the data, data, data. And Congressmember Auchincloss

doing an incredible job pushing back, flipping the script. Here he is one more time in that interview with Fox. Play the clip. But there are a number of your Democratic colleagues who believe this should be an open discussion, a very public best ticket. But regardless of the outcome here, it's going to be a team sport going forward. Democratic Party has a terrific bench of talent. We got Pete Buttigieg go out there talking about infrastructure and the economy. Gina Ramundo talking about domestic manufacturing and now competing China. Kamala Harris on reproductive rights and the rule of law. We have a strong story because we've got a strong record. This economy was flat on its back four years ago. Since then, it's been 15 million jobs, 18 million small business applications. The United States is

stronger relative to China for the first time in a presidential administration in the 21st century. And so we don't need any one single communicator. We need a team of communicators to actually put voice to our accomplishments over the last four years. And you can see the Fox interviewer getting frustrated there too and saying, yeah, but we're trying to attack President Biden. That's what Democrats need to do. I'd love to see Congress member Alkin Klaus going on Fox, doing much more media hits like that. He's been on the Midas Touch Network, by the way. We had him on a while ago, over a year and a half ago. He was great. Let's take a quick break to talk about our next sponsor, ZBiotics. If you're like me, you probably skipped a workout because it drinks the night before. Look, it happens. But if you're committed to your healthy routine, you need

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sponsoring this episode. Then you have President Biden calling into Morning Joe and here's what he had to say. Play this clip. Chance, number one. Number two, remember all this talk about how i don't have the black support come on give me a break come with me watch watch i'm getting so frustrated but by the elites now i'm not talking about you guys but about the elites in the party who they know so much more but any of these guys don't think i should run against me. Go ahead, announce the president. Challenge me at the convention. You know, on Europe, the polls are wrong. In France, they're also right.

You know, there's no right wave or tide here in America either. By the way, in case you're wondering whether there is one, have you ever seen Trump run away so fast from what he's for? You know he's going to do it anyway, baby. I mean, he's such a liar. This guy, it's all, everybody knows what they're planning to do. And here's President Biden wrapping up his interview with Morning Joe with some thoughts on Donald Trump. Play the clip.

And it's been more extreme. He makes George Wallace look like a patriot. President Joe Biden, let's make this a thing. Thank you for calling in. We really appreciate it. And thank you for answering our questions. If you're willing to hear from me, I'm willing to talk to you. Thank you very much. We will take it on a regular basis. All right. Thank you, Mr. President. Greatly appreciate it. President Joe Biden. Reverend Al, obviously, The York Times has called you one of the most important voices in the Democratic Party. You're obviously one of the most important voices. It's not the most important person in the civil

rights movement. You heard the president. And as all of that was going down, you had Senator Mark Warner from Virginia who was trying to stay Democrat. He was trying to set a call of Democrats to basically tell Biden to step aside or whatever they were trying to do. And then he actually, when it was clear that that just simply was a misread on where the public is as the Democratic base is rallying behind President Biden. Senator Warner canceled it. Here was the moment that took place.

Play the clip. Breaking news coming into CNN. A source familiar with Virginia Senator Mark Warner's thinking tells me that the private meeting that he was trying to organize for tomorrow with other Democratic senators to discuss a path forward as it pertains to Biden and his campaign, that's no longer happening. that he was trying to organize for tomorrow with other Democratic senators to discuss a path forward as it pertains to Biden and his campaign, that's no longer happening.

The source tells me the purpose of this private meeting with other Senate Democrats tomorrow was to get them on the same page about the future of President Joe Biden's candidacy, but after it leaked out to several media outlets, including CNN, it was scrapped. Finally, here's President Biden calling out Donald Trump in no uncertain terms, saying Donald Trump is just, this guy is a liar and a loser. Here, play the clip.

He's just a liar and he hasn't done a damn thing since the debate. He's been riding around in a golf cart for 10 days without a Mar-a-Lago talking with his wealthy friend. I'm not running because of these guys, Joe. I'm running because, and you know me well enough to know this from the very beginning, I ran because I never bought on in the trickle-down economic theory. I never bought into the notion that we have to walk away from the rest of the world in a cave to Putin or anybody else. I've never believed any of that.

And I'm confident that's what American people are. So what I did was I went out and I wanted to make sure that there wasn't any slippage at all. And with the average voter, I don't care what the millionaires think. There we go. Democrats flipping the script. By the way, President Biden will be speaking to the Democratic Congressional Black Caucus today as well. And this is what I want to see. I want to see President Biden fighting. I want to see Democrats pushing back at these media-led narratives.

And it's just so obvious as you think about just even the past three and a half years, this was such a mask-off moment where the media shows what they really care about, which is frankly the destruction of our democracy if they perceive that as temporarily being better ratings for themselves or so that they can feel self-important. But keep pushing back, pro-democracy fighters, keep pushing back. I'm Ben Micellis from the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 3 million together. Thanks for watching. Love this video? Make sure you stay up to date on the latest breaking news

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