The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump’s OWN WORDS Come Back to HAUNT HIM in Campaign

Episode Date: March 30, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how Donald Trump’s attacks on moderate Republicans and Conservatives is now backfiring in his face as President Biden’s campaign is calling him out. Thanks to HexClad! Find your forever cookware at Hexclad and get 10% off at HexClad.com/MEIDAS #hexcladpartner Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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President Biden is really reaching out to all the mainstream conservatives, the independents, the mainstream Republicans, and specifically to the Nikki Haley voters. And he's letting them know, hey, you've got a place here. We may disagree on issues, but you got a place here. And President Biden just created a new ad to that effect. He's been making multiple posts about that. But first, let me show you what Donald Trump said in his own words here. Donald Trump says that MAGA has taken over and that the Republican Party is now 95% MAGA.

Play this clip. When people are not happy with MAGA, because MAGA is taking over. MAGA is, you know, when they, you hear the fake news when they say, well, MAGA represents, MAGA represents 44% of the Republican, no, no, MAGA represents 95% of the Republican Party. Whenever you hear this stuff, and they, it's an. And then at another speech that Donald Trump recently gave in Virginia, he says that the Republican Party is 100 percent MAGA now. Play the clip. And they say always trying to demean. Well, MAGA really represents 48 percent of the Republican Party. Now it it represents 96% and maybe 100%.

We're getting rid of the Romneys of the world. We want to get Romneys and those out. And then he has his adult child, Don Jr., who does these podcasts and right-wing media from his home. And here Don Jr. says the Republican Party no longer exists. It's the Trump Party now. Play this clip. I think the RNC is going to be a little bit more of that old school establishment.

That Republican Party, frankly, no longer exists outside of the D.C. Beltway. But, you know, it takes a little while to make that transition. But again, I think, you know, the moves that happened today, I think that's the final blow. People have to understand that America first, the MAGA movement is the new Republican Party. That is conservatism today. So now President Biden has released a new ad. And here's what President Biden wrote in a post in connection with the release of this ad.

Biden writes, Nikki Haley voters, Donald Trump doesn't want your vote. I want to be clear. There is a place for you in my campaign. Let's play the new video that President Biden just released. Play this clip. Bird brain. I call a bird brain. Nikki Haley has made an unholy alliance with rhinos, never Trumpers, Americans for no prosperity. She's gone crazy. She's a very angry person. She is not presidential timber. I don't need votes. We have all the votes we need. She's gone haywire. There aren't that many never Trumpers anymore. How do you bring these Nikki Haley voters back into the tent? I'm not sure we need too many. And in connection with that video, the Biden campaign also provided a fact sheet,

and they show all of the things that Donald Trump has said about Nikki Haley. For example, Trump has said, bird brain, I call her bird brain. Donald Trump had texted, if you voted for Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley has made an unholy alliance with rhinos, never Trumpers, Americans for prosperity. Here's another text. Donald Trump doesn't want your vote. She's sitting there like, and then he mocks Haley. Trump truth social post, we don't want Haley's supporters. We will not accept them. Trump, she's gone crazy. She's a very angry person. She's not presidential timber.

Trump, I don't need votes. We have all the votes we need. Trump, Truth Social post, Haley supporters will be permanently barred from the MAGA camp. Trump said, she's gone haywire. Trump says, there aren't that many never Trumpers anymore. And the reporter then asked Trump, how do you bring Nikki Haley voters back into the tent? And Trump says, I'm not sure we need too many. And you remember also one of these speeches that Donald Trump gave after New Hampshire, where he started mocking Nikki Haley and her outfit. He started just like cursing. He went on like a cursing tirade and

started talking about Nikki Haley's dress. And remember that moment here? Let me show you this. This is Donald Trump attacking Nikki Haley in New Hampshire. Play this clip. I felt I should do this because I find in life you can't let people get away with bullshit. Okay, you can't. You just can't do that. And when I watched her in the fancy dress that probably wasn't so fancy come up, I said, what's she doing? We won. And she did the same thing last week, but he was much more angry about it than I was. I said, get up there and you let him know. Chef Brett here.

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Join our campaign and then gives a link to where you can help his campaign out. But this is the post that it shows from Donald Trump. And Trump is saying, Nikki Birdbrain Haley is very bad for the Republican Party and indeed our country. Her false statements, derogatory comments, and humiliating public loss is demeaning to true American patriots. Her anger should be aimed at her third-rate political consultants and, more importantly, crooked Joe Biden and those that are destroying our country, not the people who will save it. I knew Nikki well. She was average at best. Pause. She was the ambassador to the United Nations. But Trump's saying she was average at best, is not the one to

take on world leaders. Pause. Again, she was the ambassador to the United Nations. And she never did. That was up to me. And that is why they respected the United States. When I ran for office and won, I noticed that losing candidates, donors would immediately come to me and want to help out. This is standard in politics, but no longer with me. Anybody that makes a contribution to Birdbrain from this moment forth will be permanently barred from the MAGA camp. We don't want them and will not accept them because we put America first

and always will. So that's Trump's statements right there. And this is from the Biden-Harris communication director, Michael Tyler, who says, Donald Trump has made it crystal clear he doesn't want support from voters who cast their ballot for Nikki Haley. So let us be equally clear. There is a home for everyone on this campaign who knows Donald Trump cannot be back in the White House. And then this release goes on to talk about how the Biden-Harris campaign made a new ad, a direct appeal to Nikki Haley voters to join the Biden-Harris coalition as Donald Trump refuses their support and pushes them away from this campaign. This ad is part of Team Biden-Harris's 30 million spring ad campaign targeting voters in battleground states. It goes on to talk about how using the recent Republican primary results to determine the ad's placement,

this seven-figure video-centric ad flight will run for three weeks in eight key battleground states, targeting Nikki Haley voters in predominantly suburban, suburban zip codes where she performed well against Trump. The ad will run across a wide array of digital platforms, including meta, YouTube, connected TV, and online video. Then it just goes on to say that Donald Trump's campaign is cash-strapped and bleeding the voters needed to win this election, particularly in the suburbs. Trump has consistently underperformed with moderates and suburban voters in the primaries, losing moderate voters outright to Haley in North Carolina and underperforming in key suburban

counties, including Mecklenburg-Wake, Durham, and Orange County. And then it goes on to talk about Michigan and other states as well. You know, it should be noted, too, that we had a recent interview here on the Midas Touch Network with a former mega-Trump supporter as well. And to ask, you know, Chris Nelson is his name. And when he left Trump, I mean, this is someone who led Stop the Steal rallies in Florida, who has woken up to Donald Trump's con, still considers himself very conservative. I just want to show you the video, though, from my interview with Chris Nelson. Let's play this clip. What's your final message, though, to the kind of Trump supporters out there, to those who are still in MAGA, what do you say to them? Well, there's really not much I can say because there is a cult like thing going on here.

But all I can say is what I've already said. It's like, guys, it's OK to be on the other side of it. Look, I'm having a conversation with Ben Micellus here. I mean, it's okay to be on the other side and admit that you were conned. Listen, if grifting was an art, Trump would be Picasso. If grifting was music, Trump would be Mozart. Donald Trump is a grifting prodigy. He has superhuman abilities to pull the blinds over people's eyes. So if you were taken by him, if you were had by him,

don't feel bad about it. I was. I'm a smart guy. A lot of people were. And it's okay to admit that you were wrong. Move on. And there's freedom and joy on the other side. Guys, it's okay to admit that you were wrong, move on, and there's freedom and joy on the other side. Guys, it's okay to leave MAGA. You're gonna be okay. It doesn't make you a traitor to America. So tell me what you think, folks. Hit subscribe. We're on our way to 3 million subscribers.

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