The Young Turks - Weekend At Biden's

Episode Date: July 3, 2024

Journalist Carl Bernstein says sources suggest concerns about Biden have been growing for a year. A bunch of Democratic Govs secretly got together to discuss Biden. Former Congressman Tim Ryan calls for Kamala Harris to replace Biden. Democratic Rep argues Trump is going to win the election, but it's not that big of a deal. SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ https://www.youtube.com/user/theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER: ☞ https://www.twitter.com/theyoungturks INSTAGRAM: ☞ https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK: ☞ https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕 Merch: https://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Watchlist https://www.youtube.com/watchlisttyt Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey https://www.youtube.com/indisputabletyt The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. We finally beat Medicare. I'm so upset. Oh my God. Begha! From the Polymarker studio in L.A., the Young Turks, Jank Ugra, Anna Kasparan with you guys. Guys, these are really amazing times.

So right now, we're four months away from an election, and we are having a heated conversation about whether one of the major candidates should drop out because their brain might not be working. That is literally what's going on right now. I think Fukuyama finally got his answer. It is not the end of history. Well, but that's a giant conversation. I've got a lot of thoughts on that. But all right, tons of developments.

So don't go anywhere, sharing is caring, share the story. stream, like the stream, and let's give you the news. Well, we begin with some damning new reporting by legendary journalist Carl Bernstein. They are adamant that what we saw the other night, the Joe Biden we saw, is not a one-off. In the last six months particularly, there has been a marked incidence of cognitive decline. How anybody involved in that debate prep, I mean, didn't anybody see something? Well, the debate prep was supervised by Ron Clayne. There was a fundraiser which he started at the podium, and then he became very stiff,

according to the people there, as if it were almost a kind of rigor mortise. Journalist Carl Bernstein spoke to sources who are incredibly close to President Joe Biden and found that there have actually been serious concerns about Biden's mental and physical health for over a year now. Now, he even highlights a troubling incident Biden was involved in while giving a speech. And we're going to get to the details of that incident in just a moment. You don't want to miss it. And it just further reinforces something that we hear at TYT have been concerned about for not just a year. We've been concerned about when Biden was running in 2020.

Obviously, his help has declined further since then. But before we get to the heart of this interview with Bernstein, Jank, why don't you jump in and tell me what you think about the overall revelations here? Yeah. So first of all, I'm going to say that I think that sociologists and anthropologists are going to have a field day with right now. And that it is going to be a bigger topic for them in their studies than in politics. The reason is Carl Bernstein is reporting something that was enormously obvious that anyone with eyes and ears up to a year ago. And we've proven that because we did a petition with you guys nine months ago saying he's got to get out.

He's falling apart at the seams. We can see it with our eyes that every time he does an event, right? Handshakes with invisible people, et cetera, et cetera. Now a full year later, now people are like, did you know that he might be having? mental difficulties? Of course we knew. Of course. But what's amazing about him, that's why I bring in the social psychologists, et cetera. They didn't though. In a sense, Anna Biden has the Democratic party. He's taken us as hostages. And like I would say 95% of the party until the debate had Stockholm syndrome. Now we're down to 50% that have Stockholm syndrome. And 50% still hanging

I don't go, no, I don't see it. I think he's great. I think we're going to win. I mean, even the people with Stockholm syndrome are now beginning to go, and this is what I find most studying, I'm beginning to think he might not win. Oh my God. Of course, of course he's not going to win. Okay. We've got that later in the program. He's now down in three non-swing states and about lose three more, right? So this is an epic. We're talking about landslide now. We're not talking about victory. In terms of these things, have they been hiding yet? Of course they've been hiding him. And so not only are they hiding him from the public, but they're hiding the public from Joe Biden. And I think the number one person responsible, without a doubt, is Jill Biden.

Now more facts. Yeah, I mean, look, if you want to make an argument that maybe rank and file Democrats were unaware of the extent to which Biden's mental capacity has declined, I'm not sure I'm even going to buy that argument, but I'm at least somewhat receptive to it. What I am not receptive to is the notion that those closest to Biden were in the dark about what's been going on. In fact, that's what Bernstein is very clearly laying out in this interview on CNN. He spoke to those who aren't, they're not haters of Bidens. They're close Biden allies. They're people who love Biden and they're now feeling that it's necessary to spill the tea,

which honestly enrages me even more because if they've been having concerns about Biden for over a year, maybe you make those concerns a little more public, a little more vocal. So voters have more of a say over who the overall Democratic nominee is. Now with that in mind, let's see what Biden sources have been saying about his condition over the past six months. According to people you've been talking to, what are you hearing? Well, these are people, several of them who are very close to President Biden, who love him, have supported them, have been among them or some people who have raised a lot of money for him.

And they are adamant that what we saw the other night, the Joe Biden we saw, is not a one-off. That there have been 15, 20 occasions in the last year and a half when the president has appeared somewhat as he did in that horror show. These people who have supported him, loved him, campaigned for him, see him often say that in the last six months, particularly, there has been a marked incidence of cognitive decline and physical informant. 15 to 20 occasions over the last six months alone, where those closest to Biden, Biden allies, individuals who have been campaigning on his behalf, Notice that he was displaying signs of significant cognitive decline. Yeah, of course it's not a one-off. So this absurd, see like this is now, now I'm debating with Blue Maga, just like Red Maga. Like of course if you lose 60 election, court cases in a row that you didn't win the election, right, with your Red Maga.

Now with Blue Maga, everybody has off nights. We saw Obama have an off-9 in a debate, et cetera, right? In 2012, against Mitt Romney. But no one thought after that debate, I covered that debate, nobody thought, oh, Obama's brain is gone. Obama couldn't finish a sentence. Obama freezes for no reason. What kind of insane conversation are we having? The guy's 81, and we all see his mental decline right in front of our eyes.

And that's the thing, guys, they barely let us see it. But those insiders, they've been seeing it for over a year. Correct. And they've been hiding it from you. Remember the people who lied to you. Democratic leadership 100% lied to you. Tons of mainstream media totally lied to you. Remember what Mika said the morning after the debate?

She said, fine, we're not going to spin this one, but I mean, what an admission that they spin everything. Right? So now to the people who did this and who think that they're helping Joe Biden, do you think this is helping his legacy? Yeah, to create a situation in which ultimately the president of the United States would be publicly humiliated in the way that he's been publicly humiliated. So why don't we hear more from Bernstein on those who have provided cover for Biden's mental decline, thus lying to the American people about his true condition? The debate prep was supervised by Ron Klan, who has been with President Biden for many years. And the people I've talked to have all been to Ron Klan in the last year to say, we have a problem.

We have a problem such as we saw the other night, that there have been, numerous instances where the president has lost his train of thought, can't pick it up again. I think that what these folks are saying and have been saying for a while is, yes, he's great when we see him as we have tonight. But he also has these inexplicable moments that we are very concerned about. And you, Ron Clayne, and the first family, we need to talk about this. And they've been pushed back repeatedly whenever, whenever it's been brought up. So Ron Clayne's name comes up quite often in regard to, you know, who should be blamed for

lying to the American people about Biden's true mental decline. And look, it is true that Ron Clayne was the individual prepping Biden for the debate. So he has firsthand knowledge about the current state of Joe Biden. But at the same time, I also want to remind you all that Axios published that piece. basically disclosing what the Biden defender's game plan is. And one of the one portion of that game plan is to put all the blame on Ron Clayne, Anita Dunn, you know, those close aides to Biden. Yeah. Like, you know what I mean?

Like passing the blame onto them, but honestly, I do blame them. I mean, you think Ron Clayne didn't know that Biden was experiencing significant mental decline? Yeah, no, no, no. So I want to be clear about this. And I have strong opinions about it. Number one, one of the reasons that Ron Clayne gets blamed is because he's the only one willing to listen to other voices. So like the other people inside Biden's circle won't listen to anybody, right? So since Ron Clayne has an open door, people can talk to him and they think, well, Ron Clay's not taking action.

So it must be his fault. No, he's the one that's actually listening to you, whereas the rest of them couldn't care less. So when I see Ron Klan being thrown under the bus like this, I think it's exactly wrong. It's the opposite of what's happening. But you don't think Ron Klan is aware. No, no, I think everyone's responsible. Ron Klan's in his inner circle. There's reports saying, oh, it's tough to talk to Biden.

He won't listen to anyone and he's very surly, et cetera. Well, put your big boy pants on and go do your job. This is insane. It really is. Like the level of cowardice demonstrated by the Democratic advisor, surrounding Biden is just mind-numbing. It is so depressing. And I'll tell you the second thing that is clear.

Axios, political, New York Times, NBC News all talked about it this weekend. And I knew that there would be a wave to try to quell that and then get past it and pretend it never happened. No, the person making the decisions is Dr. Jill Biden. There is no question about it. And when you see other names in the press, that's partly her team. Her advisor is now the number one advisor to Biden. There's two top advisors and one of them is the first lady's top assistant, right? And they say those two got basically have Biden in a headlock.

So there's a couple of problems with that number one. They're now leaking against the other advisors, right? And they're saying, oh yeah, Ron Clayton, I don't know, this guy, that guy. But definitely not Jill Biden, don't look at the first lady who's obviously in charge. By the way, it was reported today, also Hunter Biden, who sometimes would visit, you know, his father in the White House, but now is joining all the White House meetings, including the meeting with Biden that preceded the speech he gave in response to the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.

Yeah, and so, in fact, some Democrats now saying, wait, what's Hunter Biden doing in the meetings? Right. I mean, that's what I said from the first day, like, why is the modern artist involved in the most important political decision of our lifetimes, right? So now people are starting to get mad about that. But even that's a distraction, it's definitely the first lady that's making the decisions. But think about this, and a couple of members made some really good place.

First of all, just on this illness, and then I'm going to get to the great political point. Kyoko 506, who's a YouTube member for Young Turk, said, my mom has been battling Alzheimer's for years. I know mental decline when I see it, and sorry, but Biden is done, at least for the job he's applying for. Look, and then Ben Mag was texted this, I don't know if I'm supposed to out him or not, but he said, would you trust Biden to drive your car? No, I mean, come on. I mean, imagine your kids are inside. Imagine they don't have seat belts. You would never trust Biden, right?

He's the president right now. And he's the president of the United States, the most important job. There's no question about it. And by the way, thank you for participating in the show. Hit the join button below to become a young tourist member. I want to show you an old clip that I keep referring to. Then I'm going to go to the great political point by another member. So this is from a long time ago, this is when we were like, what the hell's going on?

And everybody's like, oh, it's no big deal. Now, you see this thing that Biden did after giving a speech. And you tell me if you thought it was a big deal or not. God bless you all. Yeah. He's totally lost. Oh my God. That was like a year ago.

Yep. And they're pretending that they didn't know, please. So now let's go to one of our members on t.com. Sloss are my spirit animal funny title says, says at what point do we get a call, do we get to call a wellness check? Just yesterday, Biden said we're not a country of kings. Well, we also can't be a country of emperors without clothes either. And the reason why I like that is that we literally need a wellness check on the president

because the first lady and the other advisors, they're not just keeping the public from the Biden from the public. But like I said earlier, Biden might not have any idea what's going on. He's so tightly coistered in that little group. Remember, he's not seeing all the things that we're seeing. He's only seeing very carefully manufactured facts that are brought in front of him. In fact, they're bringing in polls where he's winning. He has no idea.

He has no idea what's going on. So he can't, he doesn't have any interactions with the outside world. And so he might think that he knows that things are bad, obviously, right? But he might not have any idea how bad they are. He's down to 36% approval. He's lost 12 points in New Hampshire, on and on. and on. He's being used, exploited, and misled by individuals who insist on him continuing to run for re-election, not because they think it's the best option for the country or the best outcome

for the election, but because their own personal benefits are on the line. Either their jobs as advisors to the president, or in the case of Hunter Biden and Jill Biden, I mean, I'm sure Jill Biden really enjoyed being on the cover of glossy magazines. Oh, no question. I don't care if you're in the business of trying to protect the feelings of the powerful. I am not in that business. Jill Biden is loving the power that she has. It's super obvious, and she doesn't want to let go of the power. Because look, the reason I read that comment from our member, and I've said it in the past,

and we've gotten so many comments saying the same thing, if you've had a loved one going through this, you would never subject them to this. You have to be some sort of power-hungry gullum to go, no, we're going to stay in power. I don't care if he's humiliated. March him back out there, right? Come on, that was a humiliation. So everybody warned Ron Clayne and everyone else about, not everybody, but a lot of people did a long time ago saying,

guys, if you love Joe Biden, you're going to destroy his legacy and his reputation. He had beaten Trump. He had a decent economy, lowest unemployment. He had gotten bills passed. They would have built statues of him. Now he's going to be driven from the party with pitchforks, or he's going to capsize the entire party with him. They're now running ads with Biden attached to congressional Democrats.

It's disastrous. Bye bye, there goes Congress. And by the way, repeating the line that Biden is the best Democratic candidate to beat Trump trashes the entirety of the Democratic Party. That does not look good for other Democratic politicians. And it is shocking to me that more Democratic politicians haven't come forward to push back against these ridiculous narratives. Now finally, I want to go to what we promised with Bernstein highlighting a particular episode involving Joe Biden that is concerning to say the

least. Let's take a look. There was a fundraiser at which he started at the podium and then he became very stiff according to people there as if it were almost a kind of rigor mortis. This was reported allegedly in June of 2020. This was June of this was a year ago almost exactly at the old Four Seasons restaurant on Park Avenue. And he became very stiff. And a chair had to be brought for him to do the latter part of the event. Yeah, that is insane. And that happened a year ago.

But despite all of this, despite all of this new information that Americans are reading about watching, you have Biden's campaign chair, Jen O'Malley, Jen O'Malley, telling members of the campaign's national finance committee, the donors, there's as many as 500 donors attending this virtual meeting. And she's essentially saying, you guys have nothing to worry about, okay? Biden's totally healthy, okay? He has absolutely no intention of dropping out of the race. I'm going to quote her right now, he's probably in better health than most of us, she said. Come on.

Yeah. You look ridiculous. She should never be hired again in Democratic politics on that statement alone. So guys, this is the other important part. I can't believe this is what's happened. We have a topsy-turvy world now where the only people that might be able to rescue us are the donors. Oh my God, we're in such a sorry state. Because the donors don't like to waste money, they like return on investment.

And so now they all see the handwriting on the wall, they're gonna lose. So there's some dead enders who are still trying to raise money for them. But you're raising money for this guy is gonna get super difficult. And remember who the worst of the worst are, everybody on his campaign, because they all have an incentive to make sure that he keeps going. Because the minute they have a new candidate, they're all fired. The new candidate will pick an entirely different campaign team. So everybody on Biden's campaign is desperately holding on lying to you 24-7. He's fine, he's fine.

No, I want this job. It pays really well. It makes, I get a lot of status and power in Washington. He's fine, he's fine. serious, pathological liars. And last thing, they took a giant risk on our behalf, on all of our behalf. Of course, yeah, who cares about us? They knew, they knew, they deal with them every day.

Remember the story about how he can only function between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. They've seen him before 10 a.m. They've seen him after 4 p.m. They've seen it for a year. And they said, yes, so what? It's going to help me, my political career. Put the guy back out there. Who cares if he gets humiliated?

Put the old man back out there. man back out there. We're going to keep power and we're going to keep our salaries, right? And they betrayed us all and took this giant risk on our behalf. And now Trump is on the precipice of winning Congress and a landslide victory that would give him a mandate to destroy this government. And that's now Joe Biden's legacy. When we come back from the break, we're going to talk about the Democrats who have been courageous enough to speak out about Biden and how he shouldn't continue running for re-election. So we've got that story and more. The rebellion has become, do not miss it.

All right, back on T.YT. Jankana and all these beautiful people, S. Barkat 25 and Xcelrae, Thank you for becoming members and donating through t-y-t.com slash team. We love it when you do through their t-y-t.com slash team. Now on YouTube, Mega-62 and Beth, thank you for becoming new members by hitting the join button below. And B.H. and Chaplain Fred gifted five memberships and chef rock star was a rock star and gifted 10. You guys are the best, Anna. Well, it appears that the Democratic rebellion against Joe Biden's reelection attempts, at least, has begun. And so let's get into the details on that.

He has to be honest with himself. His decision not only impacts who's going to serve in the White House the next four years, but who's going to serve in the Senate, who's going to serve in the House, and it will have implications for decades to come. It sounds like you're actually open to the idea that it might be the right decision for him to step aside. Well, it would be the right decision for Biden to step aside, who you just heard from is actually a Democratic congressman named Mike Quigley, who's clearly implying that Biden should drop out of the race following his terrible debate performance.

It looks like this rebellion by Democrats against Joe Biden remaining in the presidential race has begun and with good reason. So for instance, CNN has a new poll out and they find that most voters believe the Democrats have a better chance at keeping the White House if someone other than Biden runs in the general election. Most Democrats and Democratic-leaning registered voters, 56%, say the party has a better shot at the presidency with someone other than Biden, while 43% say the party stands a better chance with him. So 43% of the Democratic voters are still delusional enough to think that a guy with dementia

is the best possible candidate to beat Donald Trump. Best wishes to you, I don't know how you live in that kind of delusional lack of reality. I do because we've been talking about it now for the last year or so. These bubbles are super hard to penetrate. Tons of brainwashing goes in to create these bubbles. In this case, this is created by mainstream media, MSNBC and CNN. So for people watching those, they don't know they're being brainwashed. They don't know that that's not reality.

And since you don't watch that, you have to remember what their perspective is. 24-7, they're getting a message until the debate that Biden's in green. great shape. He's the only one who could beat Trump. Picking someone else would be a disaster. It would be disloyal to the Democratic Party. It would be helping Trump. Now, if you didn't know any better and your job is not politics, you're a plumber dentist accountant, whatever it is, and you're hearing nonstop that Biden is the best possible candidate we have, and he's the only one who could beat Trump. Well, you'd be for Biden too because you just didn't know the reality. And the reality is that these people, all of them together, have been

keeping the truth from you. And now you see the matrix for what it is. And you know, the same poll, by the way, finds that Biden's approval rating has dipped even lower, record lows. It has now fallen to 36% of Americans approving of the job he's doing with 45% now saying they strongly disapprove of his performance. And so this has, I guess, emboldened some of the Democrats to maybe consider doing the right thing for once, including Democratic governors who held a secret meeting earlier this week on Monday. They didn't even allow any members of their staffs to be involved in that meeting. It was literally just Democratic governors. And what they were doing is essentially strategizing in order to demand that Biden meet with them and show

that he is not experiencing cognitive decline. They're actually shocked that Biden didn't reach out to them. They were expecting Biden to give them a call after that terrible debate performance. and they were shocked that they didn't get that call. The meeting, by the way, was organized by Minnesota Governor Tim Wall. So already you get an inkling of the prominent Democrats in the country, in this case, governors, you know, thinking about what their next steps are going to be because they do see Biden continuing on with this reelection campaign as a threat in the general and a threat for the future of the country. There are other Democrats who have been publicly speaking out, so I want to give you a few examples.

One of them is Rhode Island U.S. Senator Sheldon White House, who told a local news outlet. I think like a lot of people, I was pretty horrified by Biden's debate performance. I think people want to make sure this is a campaign that's ready to go and win, that the president and his team are being candid with us about his condition, that this was a real anomaly and not just the way he is these days. But it does appear that this is the way he is these days. Peter Welsh, who's another Democratic senator from Vermont, had a similar concern. Let's go to his quotes.

I really do criticize the campaign for a dismissive attitude towards people who are raising concerns for, or raising questions for discussion. That's just facing the reality that we're in. That's hardly, I won't repeat their term. And what he's referring to is the Democrats referring to anyone concerned about Biden as bedwetters. Yeah, look, two things. If you hear anyone who are using the word bedwetters or pearl clutching, understand that they're gaslighting you.

Yeah, they're gaslighting you. They're doing propaganda and they're honestly quite pathetic, right? Now look, I know that real people fall into that trap because they heard it from other people, but the people pushing that talking point. So what? The president's down to 36, no president has, no incumbent has ever won at 36, are you just being a bedwetter? What if he was down to 14%? Would we still be bedwetters? Can I mean, at 36% you're guaranteed a loss anyway.

So what difference doesn't make if it's 36 or 8%. These guys are the worst serial pathological liars you've ever seen. So after that horrible debate performance, the Pod Save guys do a podcast episode and they, you know, they express their honest concerns. And guess what the Biden camp did after that? Let me guess, they froze them out. Well, I don't know if they froze them out.

I don't know if they froze them out, but they put out some sort of message. And in that message, they do this passive aggressive line about self-important podcasters. Of course, yeah, that's their, it's too late, they're past a tipping point and they don't realize it. That's the kind of stuff that works 98% of the time where they're like, oh, the White House is slightly upset with you. And usually, I'm sorry, but it's true, Pod Save America, or any of those kind of mainstream or mainstream adjacent, And people are like, oh, no, the White House is upset with us. Okay, get back in line. Get back on.

Biden's fine. Biden's fine. That's kind of what happened. That's kind of what happened. Really? Oh, come on. Don't embarrass yourself. The next podcast episode following the one where they express their concerns,

they listed how much respect and love they have for Biden, how much you sacrificed for the country. They soften the message, basically. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But honestly, I mean, look, if you want your viewers or listeners to respect, you and find you credible, you can't lie to them. The truth always comes out, which is why, look, I know we've been tooting our own horn, but I can't help it because we've gotten so much backlash for simply telling the truth.

But guys, the reason why we tell the truth, knowing that in the short term, it's going to lead to backlash, it's going to lead to loss of viewership and anger by our audience, is because we respect our audience, and we know that eventually the truth comes out and everyone's going to be on the same page. Look, honestly, I respected positive America more than that. That's embarrassing. If you're a dead ender out there, look, you know like the usual lackeys, like, you know, Hal Sparks, Bob Cheska, whatever. Those guys, you know, they're running around on positive.

I just saw some note about Hal. I'm sure that they're all like, oh, don't listen to the young Turks. Biden's fine. Biden's fine. Don't listen to your eyes. Don't listen to your ears. Don't listen to anything. Only listen to me.

I do great propaganda on behalf of Biden. Biden, Biden, Biden. Okay, loser. Total, other embarrassing losers, right? I didn't know they were Trump supporters. Yeah, and so they are. They're MAGA, they're total MAGA, right? So they're, and they want Trump to win.

Because Trump, Biden has a 0% chance of winning. And so they're like, who cares? Protect the powerful, protect authority. We, so we worship you, we service you, Joe Biden. Trump wins, who cares? Democracy is not on the line. You're lying the entire time and you never cared about this election. We cared, we tried to make a difference.

Anyway, back to the Congress people who are relevant. people who are relevant. Representative Quigley and the governors are different. Quigley is now worried about what every Democrat in Congress is worried about. And that's why Jamie Raskin yesterday said, we're talking about it, which was like a big risk. He was the first person to say we're talking about it, right? Because now they're making ads with putting Biden's debate performance next to Democratic congressmen, and they're going to run it in every district. And they're going to say, these losers are lying to you, and back in this guy who doesn't even, you know, have a brain left.

We have an example of that. And he's going to slaughter the Democrats. No, you make a great point, Jank, and that has already begun. So you're about to watch an example. So this is a Republican ad targeting Pennsylvania Democratic Senator Bob Casey, who had previously defended Joe Biden's cognitive abilities. Take a look. Every year we have to do with...

What would you have Joe Biden do to make the case? the case that he's not an elderly well-meaning gentleman. People are going to see it in the campaign. No question he's prepared to do this job today and it would be where he reelected. I have a lot of confidence in his leadership. I have a lot of confidence in his leadership. No question he's prepared to do this job today. Oof.

Gone. There goes Congress. Gone. If Biden's a candidate, it is going to be an epic landslide. I mean, look, I don't know how bad it's the Democratic Party is going to bleed out politically. But now I'm starting for the first time worry about filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, which would eviscerate this country. So, I mean, there's no chance they hold the Senate and Congress at this point if Biden's

the candidate. None, okay? Biden's going to, Trump's going to have a mandate, et cetera. But now, guys, the good news is that's not going to happen, okay, because these ads, thank you Republicans. I mean, I almost don't want to say it because these ads will rescue the Democratic Party. I mean, yeah, it's a really good point, actually. Yeah, because whether you're Bob Casey or Quigley or any of these guys,

you can only take two or three weeks of these ads and have your poll numbers go down five, six points. All the purple districts are gone. All the purple states are gone before your hair is on fire and go, no, no, you're bringing all of us down with you. Yeah. Whether we have nothing left to lose. So, I mean, look, Jill Biden might love the power, but so do the Democratic lawmakers who are going to be

hurt by Biden insisting on running for reelection. At this point, it's like basically the first lady versus the rest of the party. That's true. Look, guys, it's an inescapable fact that the number one decision maker, as reported by every major media outlet, is Jill Biden. And she's keeping Biden in the race when almost everyone else thinks that he should be gone, whether they're saying it on TV or not. The governors are different.

The governors are starting to angle for the slot themselves. They're less of a down ballot issue. Of course, the epic collapse affects all of them, but they're basically going, come on, man, what do you, this is crazy. You've got to at least talk to us and tell us with the strategies, but they don't have a strategy. That's why they're not talking to them. And then finally, when you go to the senators like White House and, well, so look, they're two of the better ones.

And so, and they're the ones at least going out there and having a tiny bit of courage now to say things. So I appreciate it. So I'll address the rest of the senators. Look at these profiles and courage. I mean, do say nothing? doing nothing as this whole thing is melting in front of your eyes? I hate to say it.

I know, I know. Bernie's a senator, okay? But no, no, guys, no, I actually don't think Bernie should come out now. Now you might be wondering why. I was saying Bernie should come out for months now and unendorse him on Gaza, let alone the fact that Biden's definitely going to lose, right? So why am I saying now that Bernie should hold back? Because if Bernie is one of the first ones to come out,

they'll blame the whole election on Bernie. But he's not one of the first ones. There are other Democrats in elected office right now. Bernie has to be almost the last one to come out. If he's the 37th congressperson to come out, they'll blame the whole election on Bernie. Okay, so you know they're dying to do it. So hey, how about the rest of you guys? Do any of you have a conscience?

Do any of you have a pulse? So that we got all these Democratic senators hiding. I hate that I, look, this is going to sound catty. I don't mean it to be catty. And honestly, I held my fire. I held my fire when this first was reported, but I'm going to say something now. Maybe AOC should have considered keeping her powder dry before like immediately endorsing Joe Biden for reelection. She was just cutting ads for him like last week. It's so embarrassing.

Look, we said use your leverage. It's not, we're not venting guys. This is strategy. Yeah, I get it. We look emotional on air from time to time. But whether you're passionate about something doesn't mean what does not indicate whether you're logical or not logical about it. We have been incredibly logical and correct throughout this entire thing. When you're doing normal strategy of politics, you hold leverage. Look at Joe Manchin, whether you like it or not. Unfortunately, he was a master at it in the first two years of the Biden administration. Holds, holds, holds his leverage, and then uses all of it when he needs it. The progress is coming and go,

here's our leverage, take it all. They literally, this was the name of their strategy during the negotiations. Trust Biden. I know, I know. That's just, why don't you just tell me you don't understand how politics works? I know. That's not a strategy. That's a surrender. I want to go to graphic eight here because this is the first Democrat in elected office who just came out and set it.

And I got to give him credit for this. Longtime Texas representative Lloyd Doggett becomes the first Democratic lawmaker on Capitol Hill to call on President Biden to drop out of the race. Quote, I represent the heart of a congressional district once represented by Lyndon Johnson. Under very different circumstances, he made the painful decision to withdraw. President Biden should do the same. And so, you know, there are former Democrats in elected office who have also spoken out. You have former HUD secretary, Julian Castro, for instance, also calling a spade of spade. So let's take a quick look at that.

Donald Trump is the most faulty, vulnerable, corrupt opponent that you can have in 2024. We should be talking about his 34 felony counts that he has unprecedented levels of corruption. And instead, Democrats are on their heels having to defend Joe Biden and the baggage that he brings with him. So yes, I believe that there are stronger options out there for Democrats. We have a stable of folks that I think could do a better job, including Vice President Harris. You believe Joe Biden should drop out of the race. I believe that another Democrat would have a better shot at beating Trump. And because, as Congressman Doggett said in his statement, that it's too risky to let Donald Trump walk into this in November.

Yeah, I think that Democrats would do well to find a different candidate. So I agree with almost everything Julian Castro said in that clip, with the exception of promoting Kamala Harris. And when we come back from the break, I actually want to have a conversation about the calls to have Kamala Harris replace Biden in this general election. It's not just Julian Castro. You also have former Congressman Tim Ryan making the case in an outrageous way. So I want to read some excerpts from his op-ed. So if you are watching a clip right now rather than the live show. Just know that we have a live show Monday through Friday beginning at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. Pacific. And so let's take that

break. When we come back, we'll go ahead and cover the Kamala Harris angle of the story and more. Don't miss it. All right, back on TYT, Jank and Anna with you guys, Edwin Silver Blade. Thank you for the donation on YouTube. And then all these wonderful people who just joined through hitting the join button below on YouTube. Emily Gray, Claudia Black, Iro still woke, Antonio Morales, Ney Davis, Eversky, PWA, and AWAW 23. And all these beautiful people, no, I read their names already. You guys are the best.

Thank you for keeping us in business. And thank you for allowing us to something, be your passionate voice from time to time. We appreciate you, Anna. We gotta talk about Kamala Harris again, mostly because her name is being floated by some prominent Democrats, some who were formally in elected office.

So let's discuss. Former Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan recently penned an op-ed and made a strong And I think over the top case that Kamala Harris, Biden's VP, should be the one running for president in the general election. So he is very clear about his feelings about Biden's performance during the debate and how he is actually incredibly vulnerable to losing to Donald Trump in the general election, which is why he's making this case. He writes witnessing Joe Biden's struggle was heartbreaking and we must forge a new path forward. After deep reflection over these past few days, I strongly believe that our best path forward is Kamala Harris. And when I say over the top, this is what I'm talking about.

Kamala was the highlight of a historically dreadful night, meaning the night of the debate. Across cable news stations, the vice president's performance was stellar, a ray of light in the darkness. Those who questioned her chops over the past several years were rebuked by a polished, confident leader, communicating clearly in the throes of a political meltdown of epic proportions. I loved watching it. Our vice president was masterful. I might have missed those videos. I don't know.

We didn't miss anything. Look, Tim Ryan's an enigma. I appreciate him coming out and saying that Biden should step down. That's good. That's very positive. And we know Tim from a long, long time ago when he was a young congressman I first came into Congress, used to come on the young tricks all the time. And he was a progressive, that he was a centrist, that he's kind of a populist, but he's kind

of a corporatist. He's a fascinating dude, and hence this, where you say Biden should step down, but I think that Kamala Harris should take over, who is a lot of people have tons of questions about and is not necessarily the best step forward. Well, I mean, one of the, look, we all know that in the end, the real decision makers when it comes to the general election are the independent voters, especially those in swing states. And one of the vulnerabilities of Biden is that, you know, Kamala Harris doesn't poll well in terms of approval rating. And so when you think about the possibility of Biden not living out his next

term, should he miraculously get reelected, well, that means the person who will be in charge of the country would be Kamala Harris. And people, again, see that as a vulnerability for this ticket. And by the way, there is now some polling in regard to Kamala Harris running in the general as opposed to Biden. And this is by CNN. So they put this polling out recently. And they found that vice president Kamala Harris is within striking distance of Trump in a hypothetical matchup. 47% of registered voters support Trump. 45% support Harris. So this is national polling. It's not focusing specifically on the swing states. And, you know, that was about two points better than Biden in this polling, but she's still trailing Trump. But the argument is, well, she's got name recognition, which other Biden replacements might not necessarily have.

I don't know if I'm buying that argument because the second the Democrat who replaces Biden is out there campaigning, boom, they get, they get way more name recognition. Yeah, guys, this drives me nuts. Name recognition is everything. in a primary, because in a primary, you know, if you have a bigger name, the other guys are gonna have an incredibly difficult time building up their name in enough time to be able to overcome you, especially if they're not in politics. And if they're not celebrities, it's almost no chance, right? And so that's why it took Bernie a year to chip away at Hillary Clinton's lead because back then a lot of people didn't know Bernie Sanders was, right? But in a general election, it is nearly irrelevant at the presidential level. Again, it is

At a state level, if it's Montana, nobody knows, big deal. In Congress, those are small races, the incumbents have a huge advantage because of name recognition. But at the presidential level, you're gonna vote Democrat or Republican. Everybody's gonna know the candidates by the time the election comes around. It's gonna be the biggest news you've ever seen in your life if there's a new Democratic candidate. You think people are going to miss it? Then you think they're not gonna know, oh golly, gee, I don't know that guy, I might as well vote for Trump. That's not a thing, they have to stop saying absurd things.

And then another thing you should know that's super important and the bad faith actors are trying to deceive you with. They'll put out polls like, oh look, Gretchen Whitmer or Josh Shapiro, would lose to Trump really badly? No, in a poll now, the fact that they don't have name recognition kills them. Yeah, they haven't been. That's not what they're elect, that's not gonna be on election day. On election day, they're going to have been the Democratic candidate for at least three months.

will literally get billions of dollars in free media coverage, let alone their ads. Yeah, that's exactly right. The other thing I wanted to just point out in regard to the CNN poll, they looked at where the hearts and minds of independent voters are. Trump has a whopping 10 point lead among independent voters. And there's also a share of independents who decided to choose neither candidate. No Trump, no Biden, they don't like either one. And those are the voters who are likely either gonna stay at home, which would hurt Democrats down ballot, or they might show up to vote, but not for president. They might write in a candidate or something like that, but they'll show up to vote specifically

for Democrats or Republicans down ballot. Yeah, so now I wanna show you the devastating poll results, and then we'll show you a video from the past. This is a leaked internal poll from the Democratic Party. Yeah, so the fact that it's leaked is also interesting, I wonder who leaked it. So let's take a look at this poll. So you remember we're all looking for the six swing states. Well, those six swing states are already gone, okay?

So on that alone, Biden's already gonna lose the election. But let's show you one that includes non-swing states at this point, New Hampshire, Virginia, New Mexico. And you'll see that he's now losing three non-swing states. And he's on the verge of losing three more. So epic landslide disaster territory. Now I wonder if anyone said that this would happen. Well, Jank, I think somebody did say that this would happen on this program, on this show.

Let's take a look. You can't lose 30 points among the young if you're a Democrat and hope to win. You can't lose Latinos. Trump is getting more Latino votes than Biden is and hope to win. It's not even close. Do you know that Biden's lead in New York? is down to nine. That's insane.

You're talking about the swing states. I told you this again, almost a year ago. He's going to lose all the swing states. He's going to lose non-swing states. It's an absolute epic disaster. So that was a month before the debate. Hashtag Jank was right? Thank you.

I appreciate it. But guys, the important part is what are we going to do going forward? The people who said he was perfectly fine and that he would win the election, we're saying it at a time that if you read the polls, and of course I was the only one, Nate Silver, whatever little hair he has been on fire the entire time. Okay, smart analysts like Ezra Klein, James Carville, David Axtrod, they've all been saying, even guys I don't like here, I'll give credit to Bill Maher, he's been saying it, right? All the people who can read numbers and understand politics can see, this is a disaster.

And everybody's like, oh, you're crazy, you're outrageous, you're all, you don't know what you're talking about. We're going to win easy because they've been lying to by mainstream media. They didn't know any better. But the reality is now the non-swing states are going. We're in landslide territory, guys, unfortunately as predicted. To succeed in the future of work, forward thinkers use AI to deliver measurable results. Workday is the AI platform for HR and finance that frees you from the mundane so you can focus on more meaningful work. Workday, moving business forever forward.

Well, not everyone thinks that we're headed for disaster. In fact, there are Democrats who think that a Trump win may be not that big of a deal. So why don't we talk about that? Because this piece was shocking to me. Well, maybe it shouldn't be shocking, but let's get to the details. One Democratic congressman not only believes that Biden is likely going to lose to Donald Trump in the general election, but he also thinks that it'll be totally fine if Trump wins another term. So this was published in the Bangor Daily News, and it's an opinion piece titled,

Donald Trump is going to win the election and democracy will be just fine. Congressman Jared Golden from the state of Maine is the individual who's making this case. And I'm going to read a few excerpts from the piece to you. Yeah, we'll discuss. And before you read, I'm shocked this isn't making bigger news. Like Lloyd Doggart came out and said Biden should step down. And he was the first Democratic congressman to say he should step down. I made giant news.

This brother is saying, forget Biden stepping down. I'm happy to lose the election and I think Trump's definitely going to win and I don't even mind that much. Why is this not the leading the news coverage? It's amazing. And later we'll talk about imagine if a progressive had wrote this. Oh my gosh, I know. I know that's such a good point. Okay, so let's get to the excerpts because first of all, we'll include a link to this piece in the description box because you should read the entirety of it. I had to just highlight a few of the excerpts, but the whole thing is ludicrous. With that in mind, he writes, Biden's poor performance in the debate was It was not a surprise.

Really? Yeah, it also didn't rattle me as it has others because the outcome of this election has been clear to me for months. While I don't plan to vote for him, Donald Trump is going to win, and I'm okay with that. So, okay, we're ripping our hair out here at TYT, telling you that Biden's gonna lose, we're worried about it, we need a new candidate. All the congressmen are yelling at us, everybody in media is yelling at us, oh, don't tell This guy says, oh yeah, I didn't know all this entire time, but I didn't say anything.

Like, oh, that debate that surprised everybody didn't surprise me. I knew Biden was a mess, but I didn't say anything. And now that everybody knows, I'll come out and tell you. And not only will I tell you, go Trump? My God, if a Democrat, if a progressive instead of a corporate Democrat like him had said it, right now, they'd be marching that person through the streets of D.C. going, shame, shame, shame. I'm okay with it. Imagine if AOC or Bernie had said that. Oh, it gets better. He writes that Democrats post-debate hand-wringing is based on the idea

that a Trump victory is not just a political loss, but a unique threat to our democracy. I reject that premise. Unlike Biden and many others, I refuse to participate in a campaign to scare voters with the idea that Trump will end our democratic system. So look, I want to kind of draw a distinction between this guy who very clearly does not mind Trump winning at all, he's a Democrat, and those who are a little bit concerned with the endless fear mongering that you hear from the Democratic Party, I actually don't find that hyperbole helpful. So again, I want to separate those people who are just trying to like bring the temperature down a little bit and stop engaging in hyperbole from this guy who, kind of seems to be rooting for Trump in this case, right? He never raised any alarms about how Biden is likely going to lose to Trump, not because he had been successfully gaslit by the Democratic Party.

He totally believed that Biden was going to lose to Trump for months now. He was just okay with it, and he's admitting as such in this piece. That's right. Look, there's a giant difference between, hey, I'm worried that we're doing this fearmongering that's not going to be effective. Maybe we should be talking about economic issues that actually affect people's lives. I think that's a better strategy. And we're in danger of being the party who cried wolf too many times, et cetera.

Now, in my cases, I've told you a million times, in this case, I don't think they're crying wolf. They did a fake elector scheme that I thought was basically a coup attempt, et cetera. But the Democratic Party does have a history of doing that. So it's different when somebody says, hey, I'm worried about that on behalf of Democratic Party. most importantly, the voters, right? And a guy like this who's like, yay, Trump winning's awesome. Who cares? I think it's going to be great.

Like, it's kind of a mask off moment for some corporate Democrats who are like, corporate Democrat, corporate Republican Trump, who cares? We're all giving the rich whatever they want. As long as it's not a progressive. Okay, so this is my favorite excerpt from the piece, right? Because he's showing us his whole ass here. Okay, he writes, some of Congress's best work in recent. years has happened in spite of the president, not because of him.

Okay, I'm listening or I'm reading. What's the argument here? A handful of responsible Democrats, including myself and West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin rejected Biden's bloated build back better bill and instead passed a law that supercharged American energy production, so help the fossil fuel companies, saved Medicare billions of dollars and reduced the deficit. Yeah, they don't call them Golden for nothing. A lot of oil money went into that statement. You didn't save Medicare billions of dollars. You had an opportunity to do that by allowing

Medicare to simply negotiate pharmaceutical drug prices. But it was specifically politicians like Joe Manchin that whittled that provision down to only allowing Medicare to negotiate the prices of 10 pharmaceutical drugs. How does that exactly save Medicare money? I want to know. No, no, Jared Golden is a classic lying corporate Democrat. It was guys just like him who said, no, not for all drugs, not for all drugs. My donors don't want that at all. Oh, I got to get that sweet big pharma money flowing to me, okay? So what they said was let's do a trick.

Let's pretend we're negotiating drug prices. Let's do it for 10 over the course of like four years. Let's do one now. And then let's keep talking about that one and pretending we did it for all. of them. So now he's going around saying, you see that, we negotiated drug prices. He's not mentioning it was for one fricking drug. And he did it on behalf of his corporate donors. So, but I appreciate this, in a sense, over the top honesty on the first half of the editorial, basically saying uniparty, who cares? We're just going to do corporate tax cuts and

deregulation anyway. So I'm perfectly happy to have Trump do that instead of Biden. I mean, we've always suspected that this was the case with corporate Democrats. Now we have evidence. Now we have someone raising his hand and saying, no, no, totally. I'm definitely engaging in, you know, as long as it's a corporate Republican, I'm cool with it, deregulation, tax cuts for the rich, yada, yada, you get the point. And so last two things on that is one is apparently he thinks Trump's a corporate Republican. We're going to be able to play ball with him. Totally. All that populous stick is nonsense. What's the thing he did the first time? Giant corporate tax cuts. This guy knows how to play ball. ball and be a team player. He's just another part of the unit party. He's just tricked the Republicans to thinking he's not. Yeah, I mean, he says it. In 2025, I believe Trump is going to be in the White House. Maine's representatives will need to work with him when it benefits Mainers, hold him accountable when it does not, and work independently across the aisle no matter what.

Yeah. And finally, when Bernie was winning against Trump by wide margins, polling way better than Hillary Clinton in 2016, these type of guys said, no, it can't be Bernie. And they didn't mind losing to Trump. Remember, Bernie had a 12 point lead on election day in 2016, and Hillary Clinton lost. So you say, okay, you run a campaign against them, But at least 12 points is a giant cushion. There was an excellent chance he was going to win. But guys like Jared Golden would rather have Trump than Bernie. Bernie would have never passed a corporate tax cut that was valued at trillions of dollars.

That transferred money from the middle class to the richest people in the country. Bernie wouldn't have done that, but Trump did. So corporate Democrats don't mind Trump at all. That's part of why they put up Biden against them. They're like, what difference does it make if we lose? We're gonna get everything the donors want either way. When we come back for the second hour of the show, we'll talk a little bit about senior Biden staffers who are now speaking to the press about what he's really like

behind the scenes. That and more coming up, don't miss it.