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So, Victor, the big thing this week was,

I guess you would say, Kamala went into enemy territory and was interviewed by Brett Baer.

And I thought we'd start with your reflections on that interview.

Yeah, I mean, he was the first journalist to actually ask her to be specific.

And she used the same technique that she did in the Trump debate.

In other words, she never answered the question, how many people have crossed the border illegal?

Let me tell you about immigration now.

When we came into how many people crossed the

let me finish, let me finish.

I'm a woman, i.e., that was the subtext.

And then when he asked her, well, if you were the change move forward candidate, you had three and a half.

Let me, let me finish, let me finish.

And it was just stalling.

And she came, the debate was supposed to start start our time here in

the Pacific time zone at three o'clock and she came about 10 minutes late, deliberately so.

And then it was supposed to be, I think, a half hour and she cut it down to maybe 20 minutes.

It was over like 3.30 or something.

And so the point was that she looked very nervous.

She blinked her eyes, all that stuff.

And he just,

you know, if

he really wanted to destroy her, he would have had to be come across as a lot meaner than he was.

And I don't think he

wanted to do that, or maybe it wouldn't be wise to do that.

But he did follow up on questions on transgender surgeries.

You supported these.

Do you still support these?

You let people in that killed the children.

Do you want to apologize?

And it was always, we had this border bill.

She doesn't understand.

that people don't buy it when she they ask her why didn't you why did you let all these people come into the country?

Well, we had a border bill, and he said, yes, but the border bill was going to give massive amnesties.

Well, yes, we had it.

And then we had another one with leading Republicans.

Well, that was going to let in 4,000 or 5,000.

She won't answer the question.

So essentially, I think

I watched the Fox panel, and they were.

Harold Ford and all those people were, but, you know, basically Martha McCallan

was pretty good.

Dana Farino were pretty good.

This was a disaster.

She didn't answer the question.

She tried to act like she was a victim.

Let me finish, let me finish.

Because he didn't want her just to stall.

So she came in there like, it's a microcosm of the campaign.

Run out the clock, stall,

talk about Donald Trump.

And what are you doing?

You say you're the change candidate.

Are you different than Joe Biden?

Well, Joe, I'm a new generation.

I'm a new generation.

Well, she's not going to answer any.

She'll never answer any questions because she can't.

Because she is a hardcore leftist socialist on every issue, crime, the border, Afghanistan, the economy, energy.

She's left of, by her own voting record, she's left of Bernie Sanders.

So what are you going to do?

She doesn't have the integrity to lose nobly and say, you know what, I'm a socialist.

And I think we don't need a border.

And you know what?

I think we should have transgendered surgeries at government expense.

Anybody who wants them.

And you know what?

I voted to defund the police.

And you know what?

I said no deportations, no deportation.

I protested that.

And you know what?

That George Floyd stuff was good.

I said that these riots will not stop.

Protests will not stop.

I wanted to bail out people.

I'm proud of them.

You're not going to get that.

No.

It's like all these cynic candidates that Allred that was debating

Ted Cruz.

He's very far left.

It's a deer in the headlights.

It's Tester in Montana.

It's Sherrod Brown in Ohio.

Jackie Wilson, Nevada.

It's like, uh-oh,

we're now having to be accountable for the people.

75% of the people do not like the crazy stuff we're doing by trying to force a third sex down your throat or 20 million illegal aliens down your throat or

defund the police down your throat or DEI down your throat.

So we better lie and act like we're moderate because we understand nobody likes who we are.

So we're just going to, you know, for, you know, 90 days, try to act as if we're the people that we despise.

And that's what they're, I think it's falling apart.

You know, I heard Tyrus last night at West Gutfield, and he,

you may have watched it, where he just said it's going to be a blowout.

And then he was on, I was driving over to work today, three hours.

And

he was on again, and he kind of startled the people that were interviewing him.

He said, it's not even close.

The polls are wrong.

It's going to be a blowout.

I was looking at the betting.

She has lost about 14 points in the betting in just two weeks.

And

all the,

it's amazing that it's like the whole country has just collectively shrugged and said, I had enough of this.

And

I really do think that she's down in the real polls, four or five points everywhere.

And

it's bad.

And she's going to ⁇ so now the talking point is election interference and their denialist and Donald Trump, Donald Trump.

Nobody knows what she wants.

And the pandering backfired, too, of the reparation stuff.

I mean, why would she, in the last three weeks of the campaign, offer something up that's unconstitutional?

You can't just take $20 billion of federal money and say it's only going to go to these people based on their racial appearance, right?

Yeah.

Can't do that.

And that's what she's doing.

And then

the reparations and all that.

So

that's going to backfire because the black male knows what she's doing.

Because if she was sincere, they're going to say, well, why didn't you do it

two years ago?

Why didn't you do it when

you first ran for president 90 days ago?

You're only doing it now because you're behind.

Everything she's doing is because she's behind.

You're only going on Brett Baer because you're behind.

You're only going on a few interviews because you're behind.

And why are you behind?

Because you don't tell the truth about who you are.

You don't know who you are.

You're just an

there's no substance to you.

You're a woman with no essence.

You don't know who you are.

You don't know what you're for.

And that's that message now.

It's kind of like, as I said before, like Jimmy Carter.

People said, you know what?

I'm tired of

the Malays and we've got to, you know,

we've done some bad things and can't get the hostages back.

We can't rescue them.

We shouldn't have any inordinate fear of communism.

They just said, you know, get this guy out.

He's a downer.

She's like Debbie Downer.

You know what I mean?

It's just, it's

the elections becoming the ones who lecture

on the left.

and who are pessimistic and say you should be ashamed like that that you know that quote that popped up on her Columbus Day speech in 2021 when she said, shame.

And then the other people who are tired of being lectured, and they're not going to be lectured to anymore.

They're not shame.

We're better than the alternative.

You don't have to be perfect to be good.

The best years are ahead.

We can do it.

Look at Leon Musk.

Anybody, any country, any civilization that can catch a rocket mid-air with an electronic mechanical arm that carries a multi-hundred-ton

stage on a rocket knows what they're doing.

And so

I think the I was watching the Fox panel and they were trying to, I think, kind of lighten the load for her, but it was a disaster.

It was an utter disaster.

Yeah, because she is just clearly playing a cat and mouse game.

And I think people, like you say, are tired of that cat and mouse game.

And she thinks she's playing them.

And I don't think the middle voter, the marginal voter, is that stupid.

And I think she's counting on

people.

Male and female, although it's associated with a female trait, it's not, where they, they go a long way with their kind of looks and they flirt or they bat their eyes or they pose.

You know, it's kind of, you see these guys on movies, they make fun, they're really slick, like anchormen, you know, and they said, let me just tell you what I'm going to do and we'll get to the essence of the question.

And it's just that they're always able to BS people because of their looks or because of, in her case, her minority and gender status.

And finally, people say, you know what?

I guess it worked for you for 59 years, but you're an idiot.

You really are.

You don't know anything.

When he asks you how many, just ask a simple question.

How many people cross the border?

Well, Brett, let me just tell you now about Donald Trump.

Please tell me specifically how you differ from Joe Biden that would justify turning the page.

Well, it's about Donald Trump.

You know, and it's just pathetic.

It sure is.

But staying on this topic, because Roger Kimball had a great column in American Greatness where he was looking at Kamala Harris's quote-unquote town hall, which didn't...

end up being a town hall.

She had a teleprompter.

Town halls are supposed to be impromptu discussions with the people and the so-called the people were hired on crowd.

And Roger Kimball's article points that out.

And I was wondering your thoughts on her staging.

Not only is she calculating.

I've never seen that happen.

I never, and I saw the teleprompter.

They inadvertently or deliberately showed it.

How can you even have a teleprompter to count?

And that almost begs the question, maybe the questions were given to her in advance.

Because why would you have a script that she was reading from?

Unless they have somebody that has an earpiece and they're listening to the questions, and then they automatically plug in, you know, the answers into the teleprompter.

Yeah.

I don't know how it would work.

But I saw it.

I saw it.

You could see it.

And,

you know, and you juxtapose that with Donald Trump going into the bastion of...

kind of conservative free market Chicago Economic Forum

experienced journalist.

And he's just, he may not have answered the question, but he was all ad hoc

about tariffs and everything.

And he kind of destroyed that very sophisticated economic journalist.

But the point is, whether you agreed with him or not, and I wish he had said,

he is for targeted tariffs.

I mean symmetrical tariffs.

He doesn't want to put 20% on everybody.

He wants to put tariffs on people who put tariffs on us.

Yes.

And he should accentuate that and emphasize it.

But nevertheless, contrasts that with her univision.

And I think the time has run out now.

Maybe she could have done this 90 days and had all these, and then she would have had some experience.

But

she's tried every type of gymnastics now.

She's tried to, let me tell you, I'm in the middle class.

I grew up in the middle class.

And then she cut, let me finish, let me finish.

And then, you know, the stall, and then there was the middle class thing, and then there's the Donald Donald Trump, and this is Donald Trump.

Would you please explain why you stopped catching and releasing Donald Trump?

And are you still for transit?

Donald Trump.

Donald Trump.

And that doesn't work.

None of that works.

It takes a while, though.

I mean, people are very busy.

They're at work or they have their other interests.

So they can't watch TV.

They can't read the news.

But they get enough clips over 90 days.

Here and there, they're driving to work.

They hear a little bit.

They turn on the TV and they channels her if they see a little bit.

They, you know, go online, and a little news flash comes across the screen, and it adds up.

And I think it's now got to that summation that people understand

that there's no there or there.

She's just an empty pantsuit.

She really is.

And I think she's going to lose.

I really do.

And

you're not going to be able to do that.

I don't want to predict.

I'm not a good predictor, but it could be

what they call a close landslide

where she loses by 40 or 50,000 votes,

but in all seven swing states.

Yeah.

But you're not quite on the Tyrus

landslide.

It's going to be over at 10.30 in the evening.

He has a lot of confidence for Trump.

I like that.

Well, you know, a lot of it's the mail-in balloting.

200,000 ballots were mailed in in Georgia.

And it's not the independence poll today, they were what, seven points up for Trump.

That's what I don't quite understand the polls.

You can't have the independents going up for Trump

and you can't have blacks going up for Trump and the Latino profile going up and women staying the same.

Considerable lead for her, but then have the Marius poll

go down for Trump so he's down by five.

It just doesn't make sense.

So it tells me that

the pollsters, many of them feel that they would rather sacrifice their integrity and reputation and get her elected than claim that they really didn't mean it or like in 2016, it was just an inadvertent error, but they're using the polls to gin up

support for, and I don't think it's working.

And it suggests that they might be really shocked.

We might have Rachel Maudow in tears again on Election Eve.

Oh, I feel certain that she will be in tears one way or the other.

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And I think I would like to start with CBS's interview of Mike Johnson by Margaret Brennan.

I think it was on Face the Nation.

And she really tried to give him hell about

voter fraud.

And

she said at one point, well, voters, it's illegal to vote if you're not an American citizen.

He said, we all know that, but states are not putting up enough preventative things to stop that from happening.

And she just couldn't quite get it.

She was trying, I don't know what point she was trying to make, but it was very silly.

Well, they won't.

They don't want to talk about it.

And it's the same thing as the Harris interview.

They cut that one.

So

he was asked a question and he answered it.

But the key points that made his answer convincing, they cut out

and they did that deliberately.

And then that comes on the heels of the disastrous Harris interview, in which her answer was so poor that they juxtapose it into another question because they thought that it might be better.

In other words, they're engineering these interviews in the case of CBS, and they won't not release the full transcripts.

And remember in 2020, Donald Trump gave an interview, and I think it was three days before

the final debate.

And this was in the process of the Hunter laptop had been exposed.

It was pretty clear the FBI had that.

There were leaks that was authentic, and they were rounding up the 51 intelligence authorities.

And they had this interview.

And Leslie Stahl was very combative, and she lied.

She said that there's no evidence that the laptop was authentic, and she said it was dreamed up by

Rudy Giuliani and Steve Banna and some repairman somewhere.

And that was not true.

The repairman, on his own volition, tried to notify the FBI.

But the point I'm making is that Donald Trump released the transcript.

He had the transcript taped before

CBS did, because he knew they were going to doctor it.

And they did.

They didn't have the complete transcript.

And so you start to see a pattern here.

I mean, this is much worse than Dan Rather and

the entire National Guard transcript that was a forgery, fake but accurate.

Remember that scandal?

Or

there was one with

CBS really went after William Westmoreland.

He sued for libel against

CBS News.

And

this is

60 Minutes, I I think, has been in existence 57 years, 57 years, and it is blowing up at its audience because the whole network is going down the tubes.

So you have the Face the Nation, their Marquis Sunday news show,

and they are actually editing and juxtaposing questions post facto to make dismal performances of Camilla Harris or stellar performance of Mike Johnson not what they were.

In other words, to deprecate him and to enhance her and just flagrant, flagrant.

They're not even shy about it.

Then you would think, well, they really don't want to do that because ABC had that debate when

Miss Davis and Mr.

Muir were just so partisan and they only asked follow-ups of Trump.

They had these particular social economic you know, climate change, abortion type of questions.

They didn't want to get into foreign policy to a great extent or defund the police or any of that fracking.

And then they

fact-checked Trump all the time and they fact-checked him wrong.

So you think that when the vice presidential

debate came up a few weeks later with Vance, that CBS would not do that, but they did.

They said, we're not going to fact-check.

And then

they went right in.

O'Donnell

went right in and started fact-checking.

And so did Brennan.

They started fact-checking.

And they fact-checked wrong again.

So that's CBS.

And then, you know,

Leslie Stahl had ruined them four years ago with a Trump interview.

He didn't, he wisely didn't want to do it again.

He said, I'll do it when you apologize.

Of course, she never apologized.

So she's on record with the lying Leon Panetta, John Brennan, James Clapper, Michael Hayden, that they all lied about that.

that 100 laptops.

So there is no media today as we knew it.

And

just think of it.

Then you turn to the, well, maybe the print, what is the most prestigious print venue?

It's the New York Times.

So what do we read today and this week about the New York Times?

So they have

an op-ed where they have, it's kind of like the 51 intelligence authorities.

They always go to the experts that are always bought and paid for.

And these experts were healthcare officials in Gaza, and they said that they had evidence of the Israelis executing children by shooting a, I guess it's 55.556 NATO round into the heads of children, and they had the x-rays.

But it didn't take a nanosecond when all of these forensic radiologists and people went into social media and said when you shoot somebody in the head with a high-velocity round, the exit wound is

traumatic.

It leaves a huge hole.

Even the entry wound is traumatized, and the bullet is not pristine.

It takes damage that goes through both sides of the skull.

So here they had, it's obvious they just took a round

and they detached it from, you know, the gunpowder, the firing portion of the bullet, of the round, and they put the bullet end and they put it under an x-ray.

And it's a pristine on-touch bullet, and it's all coming from the same trajectory in the three photographs.

It was all doctored.

This is New York Times.

And then you, and then when they had,

you know, they don't like Christopher Ruffo, but he's meticulous when he makes these charges about plagiarizing.

So he finds that an Austrian scholar has found out that Kamala Harris plagiarizes a co-author, a book about crime, by the way.

It's very ironic.

And there were numerous passages.

So they, New York Times said, we're going to get our experts.

So they get this Jonathan Bailey who has a website about plagiarism.

And

they quote him as saying, well, there was 200 and we mentioned it with Jack.

There were so many pages and there were just a few.

And then people start looking at it.

And it's, as we said, it's every type of dishonesty, intellectual dishonesty.

It's quoting things with a footnote, but no quotation marks.

It's stealing from Wikipedia.

It's stealing from ads.

And then the guy today says,

well,

wait a minute.

I never said that I read it.

I was just saying it wasn't that big because they called me on the phone and they kind of apprised me but i haven't read that read anything yet so in other words

what he was telling the american people is i'm a left-wing hack that passes myself off as the nation's expert on plagiarism and i wanted i was in a dilemma because the new york times called me up and wanted to know what i thought i.e would you please dismiss this charge against Harris.

So I had to do it probably, or I wouldn't get business or I'd be ostracized by the left.

But I was in an impossible position because if I'd actually said, No, I have to read it.

And then if I had read it and I found it was played, then they wouldn't like me and I'd be ostracized.

That's basically the subtext of everything he said.

Yeah.

This is the New York Times.

We have, everybody should realize it's a very strange time.

We're in a new frontier.

We have no network news.

You can't trust any of them.

NBC, CBS, ABC.

We should really do something if we ever get in control about PBS and NPR because we pay for that.

That's our station.

And it's, it's, they just,

Sam, may you remember, they just apologized to Rich Lowry.

They accused him of using the N-word.

We talked about that.

And now

the NPR said, you know what?

You were right all along, you guys.

He didn't say it.

We're sorry.

But

why did they rush to judgment in Jussie Smollett's style?

They always rushed to judgment with Trayvon Martin or Jesse Smullet or the La Crosse Duke players, but never to to exonerate somebody or to convict somebody of racism, but never

they,

excuse me, they rush to judgment to condemn somebody of racism, but never do they rush to judgment to exonerate somebody who's innocent.

They never do.

They never give anybody the doubt who's conservative.

So we don't have a media, and I think it's really a scary time.

And what are we going to expect in the next three weeks in this election?

We're going to hear election denialism, election denialism, voter fraud.

The Republicans are trying to suppress the vote.

They're fraudulently claiming illegal aliens are going to vote.

They're going to vote.

And that's all a deterrent and a pretext so that nobody actually asks, Are you mailing ballots to illegal alien?

And that's how they operate.

They want you to be so scared to say that that's possible or even likely that you'll be called a racist, so you won't bring up the topic, and then they'll do it.

Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then come back and talk a little bit more about

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I just had a small thing on CBS.

I heard that, or I saw that, Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, might buy CBS and maybe do an Elon Musk, what Elon Musk did to X, to CBS.

That might be a positive and good turn.

Well, he's got to get the

Federal Communications Commission to approve it, right?

And they're all

what they're all stalked by left-wing people.

But I guess he's the founder.

He was the founder of Skydance and, you know, Oracle, and he's, and he's got, I don't know, $70 or $80 billion.

So I guess it would be the bookend of Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post.

If he took over CBS, he would try to...

I mean, Jeff Bezos just let them run wild and lost a lot of money.

And now he's paranoid.

But I have a feeling his interests are a little different.

I mean, it's the same analogous idea that he wants, a big billionaire wants to, you know, take over a media start

you know a star like cbs but i think his

his point is that he he wants to straighten it up and make it more like it used to be in the edward r miro days yeah

um let's turn to the senatorial races i've been wanting to ask you and maybe for an update or what your thoughts were on the ones that are really dicey and that is the ted cruise race in texas Carrie Lake in Arizona, and Rick Scott in Florida.

Do you have any update on those races?

I think the Texas raid is very analogous to six years ago with the Beto phenomenon, that this all-red,

he's a very handsome guy.

He's black.

He was a football player.

I think he was a linebacker.

And he, you know, he acts very straight.

And he's doing the DNC script for all of these races.

These people have been radical transgender promoters,

biological men and female sports, open borders, mass amnesties, defund all of that.

And then they run in moderate or purple or even red states as if they're charismatic and they're young or they're dynamic and they're moderate.

And it takes a long time to get breakthrough because they all have twice the money that the Republicans do.

Everybody should remember that.

That's the key that we don't appreciate, that the the corporate boardroom in Silicon Valley are hard left now.

And that's where the multi-billion dollars are.

If you look at the Fortune 400 and where that money is made, it's made in insurance, corporate hedge funds, investment, media.

It's not agriculture.

It's not construction.

It's not assembly.

It's not even oil and gas.

So they have all the money, but I watched parts of that debate with Ted Cruz.

And, you know,

I know people think he's off-putting, but he destroyed all red.

He's a much better debater.

And I think he's going to win by four points, four or five.

And he's the kind of guy that when you go to, I've been to Texas a lot.

I've spoken to a lot of different venues in Texas.

And when you talk about Ted Cruz, it's kind of like he's an SOB, but he's our SOB.

Conservatives, they'll vote for him.

They don't find, they find him off-putting, but they'll vote for him.

They know he's smart and he represents their interests very effectively.

So I think he's going to win.

Rick Scott in Florida, that's not even close.

They tried to make that into it's a swing state again, and people are mad at DeSantis.

And Scott was at one poll, I think, had him only ahead by three, but he's going to win that pretty easily.

The ones that we don't also have to talk about are

Sheehi in Montana,

whom we had on this podcast very early.

And he was really good.

And he's very well-spoken.

He's a self-made man.

He and his wife are combat veterans.

They're like a picture book family.

And they have exposed Tester to be a radical left-wing neo-socialist masquerading as a good old boy farmer in Montana.

And finally,

he has so much more money than

he's down by seven or eight.

So I think that's going to be a pickup.

And then we get to a really key race that they said was lost.

for the Republicans, but I don't think it is.

Bernie Moreno in Ohio, he's a very good candidate.

He's very well-spoken.

He's very dynamic.

Sherrod Brown is doing the same thing as Tester.

You know, he goes into Washington, he votes hard left, and he comes back and says, I'm a good old Ohio boy.

And I think the game might be up for him, which means with the mansion seat that will continue to be

Republican, I mean, I shouldn't say continue, it's gone.

There's not going to be a Democrat senator from West Virginia, not after Hillary and Obama and Biden, you know,

caricatured that state and the people that live in it.

They're done with the Democrats.

So you could see

2.2 seat pickup.

So it's 50-50.

They could go

52-48.

And Carrie Lake is problematic.

There's a lot of issues there.

They're really hitting her.

She's vastly outspent.

And,

you know, they're calling her an election denialist.

And she said a a lot of tough things that they're playing, that he has the money to keep playing and playing and playing.

But who knows?

Because I think Trump will win Arizona.

Yeah.

And so

she said her running mate had some really horrible stuff in his background.

I think his

divorced his wife at nine months.

Yeah.

And then he kind of lied about it too.

And

it's,

and she, she's, I think she was the mayor of what, Tucson?

And she's supporting him.

But

anyway,

they've successfully charactered Carrie Lake as a conspiracy theorist and that's out there and as an ultra mega semi-fashion, all of that stuff.

And she's having trouble raising money from the billionaire class in the American Southwest.

Do you think Dan Osborne in Nebraska has any chance of unseating

his opponent, the GOP holder?

I think it's 50-50.

I think the Republican incumbent will win.

I still see it as 52, 48.

The Republicans are going to take the Senate.

And

I like Sam Brown, and he hasn't taken off, though.

He was the veteran in Nevada.

And I met him in California and had a great talk with him.

I thought he was a great candidate.

We've talked about him running for Senate and against Jackie Rosen.

I don't think he's going to win, but I hope he does.

He's within striking distance.

The one that's really interesting that's really coming up is he's a very good candidate, and I wish he had won the primary against Oz in Pennsylvania, McCormick,

because he's in striking difference of Bob Casey.

And if Pennsylvania's,

what you really want to look for in the last three weeks of a campaign is when the campaigns start pulling out of the state.

You You know what I mean?

Because they have internal polls and they say to themselves, there's no way we can win this state in the time that we have left, and we can better use these resources in other states.

And so

that tells you two things: that when they pull out of a state, it's lost, or they're depressed, or it's either that or they've won by, it's just a no-brainer, they've won.

And then where they put the money is where it swings.

So they're starting to take people out of wisconsin now for the first time it's been it's patrol it's uh

polling for trump and i think part of the problem is i know this sounds crazy but they've been doing these massive voter registrations of blacks and latinos in places like milwaukee and madison and they're starting to get afraid that

the the the level of of majority they need in those constituencies is like 80, 20, you know.

But if if you register a lot of young black and Hispanic voters and it's, and you're only getting 55 and they're getting 45,

it's not going to help you that much.

And maybe you're not even going to get that.

So I think they're stopping their voting drives and a lot of their money and they're shifting it to Pennsylvania because they think they're in trouble in Pennsylvania.

But unlike Wisconsin, they think they can win it.

And I think, and I know that's counterintuitive because Wisconsin's supposed to be more liberal than Pennsylvania, but I think they're in trouble.

The polls look good in Wisconsin for Trump.

They look really good.

They have been looking.

They're terrified because of the infamous, some of the infamous polls in 2020 in Wisconsin that had

Joe Biden on the eve of the election, the final polls, they had him up 10, 12.

I think even one of them had him, was it 17?

And he only won the state by a point or something.

And so they were that that state had the worst record of polling, which suggests that the Democrats think now that you can't predict what the Wisconsin voters are going to do.

But there is a pattern, and that is

if it's close, Donald Trump is underrepresented.

And so,

you know, it's basically even in the polls right now in Wisconsin.

And that would mean, given the record of how bad the polls have been in Wisconsin,

that Trump is actually ahead.

Yeah.

Victor, let's go ahead and take another break and then come back and talk a little bit about Harris and her pressure on Donald Trump to release his medical records.

Stay with us.

We'll be back.

Welcome back to the Victor Davis-Hanson Show.

So, Victor, yeah, Kamala Harris all of a sudden seems to be coming cognizant of the problem of dementia in older people.

And she is asking for Donald Trump's medical records to be released.

Do you think he'll do it?

No.

Because,

I mean, he's 78 years old.

And if it was accurate, he might have, I think he's probably on just speculation that you see on the internet.

He's probably on a

statin, right?

Lipitor derivative, something like that, second generation lipitor.

He's probably got something like Flomax for prostitis or something.

He's overweight, probably has high cholesterol.

But these are things that, given his exercise and his stamina,

I don't think there's an issue there like there was with Biden because he's, I watched him very carefully in Chicago in that forum, and he was very cognizant.

And they say he's crazy because he started dancing.

Well, he's done about, he's doing 16-hour days.

She puts a lid on it four or five hours before he does.

She's 59.

He's 78.

You know, he's 20 years older, and he's out campaigning her.

So it's not going to be an effective thing to say that he's a physical wreck.

And then more importantly, all he's got to do, and I think he's already done it, is that I will release my medical records when you tell me at what point you were lying about Joe Biden when you said he was sharp as a tack, fit in a fiddle, sharpest guy in the room, and look at him now.

And why were you, and that was question was addressed to her by Brett Baer today

in the interview.

What point did you see that he oh, you know, he's Donald Trump is the problem.

He's

but she was assuring everybody that he was fit in the fiddle.

What she should have just said, what would, see, the truth is always the most expedient and the most honest way to do something.

She should have just said, I'm vice president, Brett.

I didn't lie to the American people.

I looked at the bright side.

I saw him in moments of clarity, and sometimes he wasn't, but I didn't want to go stab the vice president of the United States.

And she could have even said, I didn't think it reached a level that was serious for the American people.

But that,

you know, she's not going to do that.

She's just going to.

Stall, stall, stall, run out the clock, run out the clock.

And she could have done a lot of things that I think the honesty would have helped her.

Yes, we had a problem on the border.

We kind of got angry at what Donald Trump did.

So we reversed everything.

There were executive orders and we got a lot more people than we thought.

Then we tried to take action and we were not successful, but we're doing it now.

I can guarantee that would have been better.

Yeah.

But she's not going to do that.

And she thinks,

she thinks two things, Sammy.

She thinks, I've never had to do this in my life.

Willie Brown just put me on a board.

He put me on a better board.

He got me elected city attorney, county attorney.

I almost lost the attorney general, but I had the Getty money and I had all the Bay Area tech people and they got me elected.

And then I got into the Senate.

And I was kind of a

dulliard.

I didn't do much.

I got angry and I kind of showboated at the Kavanaugh here.

And that was my moment of glory, infamy, you'd say.

And I've never really had to do anything.

Kind of like Obama, but the difference between her and Obama is that he actually had rhetorical skills and he he was sharp on his feet and he was a demagogue of successful, and she's not.

So she's never had to do that, never.

And now she's, when you looked at her with Rhett Bear, it was almost like, why are you doing this to me with a follow-up question?

Are you trying to embarrass me?

I'm not saying she said this, but you could see it in her face and how she evaded him.

I've never had people talk to me this way.

That's not the rules.

You're supposed to let me go and stall and run out the clock, and you're supposed to smile when I bat my eyes and cackle.

You're not supposed to do this.

So I'm going to say to you, let me finish.

Let me finish.

So I can take up time rather than talk about it.

If you say you're going to do a 30 or 45 minute interview and you show up 10 or 12 minutes late and then you cut it to 20 minutes.

Yeah.

And then you think everybody's going to tune in from 3

Eastern 6 to 9, it's not going to happen.

And they knew that she's behind, and their attitude is, everybody knows what her handlers are telling it.

Okay, Kamala, we have no choice now.

We are down in our internal polls, three to four points.

You've got to get out there.

You've got to get as much exposure as you can.

However, the more exposure you get, you're going to run into some problems.

So, what we're going to do is we're going to make

these interviews with A, a lot of African-American interviews, Charlemagne the God, the Association of Black Journalists, a couple of NBA people, Oprah.

They're going to be softball interviews to the extent we can control them and we want them short.

And then every once in a while to show you that we're honest, we're going to put you on a Fox thing.

But we're going to come late, startle Brett so he doesn't know when you're coming.

And then right the moment before you start, we're going to say, oh, by the way, it's not 30 minutes.

It's only 20.

And then that'll give you time to run out the clock and say, let me finish and switch topic.

And then we can say we all went into the heart of darkness and we went into Fox News.

That's what they're doing.

Yeah.

She sat with Charlemagne for an hour and I realize it was a softball interview.

But did you have any thoughts on that?

I'll just, what I was thinking was I was watching it and I was thinking, but this is a population of people she should already have under her wing.

And yet here she is out.

She's got to convince black males to vote for her.

And it's very strange to watch that.

So she's a whole hour with with them.

What we're watching is the substitution of class for race.

In other words, black males

have been hurt more so than the general population because they are in inordinate numbers in the inner city.

And that's where they're bussing these 10 to 20 million people.

that undercut their wages, they get free, they're taxing social services, they're cramming the emergency room, and and then coupled with the elite

action to defund the police and cut back on police departments.

And those were elite black mayors and black city councilmen that were working in cahoots with white liberals.

And the victims of that were young black men that were being inordinately killed by gangbangers.

And so

they have legitimate grievances against this administration.

And

when you don't address those grievances and you tell them that they're

you use Marxist doxology, you say, oh, you're suffering from false consciousness.

You don't really know who is on your side.

It's me, Barack.

It's me, Biden.

It's me, Bill Clinton.

And notice what they've all said.

Joe Biden has said, you ain't black before.

You ain't black.

That means you're not really black because you don't listen to my directives.

And

Barack Obama can't open his mouth without talking about him.

But you know, hey, brothers, I don't know.

I'm confused why you're not helping a black woman, but you don't understand.

He's a racist.

You don't understand.

And then Bill Clinton basically said the same thing.

And they don't want when you're suffering, you never insult your voter and they're insulting their constituency.

And Trump is out there saying, hey, man,

you think I was racist?

I tried to do as much for everybody and I cut the taxes and I deregulated and I jaw-boned our enemies abroad.

I didn't get in foreign wars and the result was you had record low black unemployment,

economic expansion, 1.3

inflation,

2.9 interest rates and 30-year mortgages finally.

Just look at all that and then go in and try to buy Romex or plywood or a steak and see what the price is now.

And then they're telling you that you're stupid because you don't want to vote for that.

That's what's happening.

And

I think they can, you know, it's one of these things.

I keep, I know people get tired of me telling you, but I was 25 and I watched that Carter and he was just like Kamala Harris.

He talked down to the voter.

He gave that Malaise speech.

He didn't use the word malaise, but it was, you know, we're just kind of soft and we need, you got to turn down the thermostat, you know, it's, and then Jerry Brown was kind of, this is spaceship Earth, the era of limitation.

And, you know, it's very complex, the hostages.

And here was Reagan.

There will be no hostages when I'm president.

There will be no, what do you mean?

There will be no hostages.

And our best days are ahead of us.

And it's very simple what we're going to do with the Soviets.

It's not that complex.

We win, they lose.

And that was, it just finally said, yep, that's my guy.

I don't want this anymore.

And that's what happened.

I think that's what we're getting to right now.

I expect two things to happen, that Trump will start to widen his lead even more the next four or five days, especially after that interview.

And I expect the polls will try to hide that even more than they have in the past.

Yeah.

So the discrepancy from the real election day totals and the final polls will be about like 2020.

Yeah.

And to add to that is a recent Gallup poll that found that more people identify as Republican than they do as Democrat.

Like that has been, that's turned upside down.

It hasn't been.

I've never had that happen in my life.

I saw that.

And that, you know what that, the real essence of that message is?

The entire

never Trump movement is totally discredited.

Because they told us that Donald Trump was going to destroy the Republican Party.

They told us that Donald Trump could never win the independence.

They told us that Donald Trump was a racist.

And

ostensibly, they were comparing Donald Trump to past Republican nominees: Mitt Romney in 2012, John McCain, 2008, George W.

Bush, 2004 and 2000,

and George.

And then, of course,

in 1988 and

1988, 1992, we had

George H.W.

Bush, and then we had, of course, Bob Dole in 96.

And

what's the result of that?

Donald Trump is not the racist that he's getting a higher black vote than Romney, than McCain, than Bush, than Dole, than Bush.

He's getting a higher Latino vote than all of them, with maybe exception of 2004, when Bush had people just didn't like Kerry.

He's got a higher independent ranking than.

So then what is going on?

How can this racist loser crudity do better than prior Republicans who have lost seven out of the last eight popular votes?

I'm counting Trump's two, too.

And the answer is that he's substituting class for race, and he's dispelling for good the stereotype caricature that the Republican Party is a bunch of guys that are in the Chamber of Commerce.

They play golf.

All they do is play golf.

Trump plays golf, but he doesn't play golf like they do.

You know what I mean?

He doesn't look like a golfer.

He tries to put on that stuff, but he's just weird.

And

Queen's accent and the whole get up.

He's democratizing the Republican Party, making it a populist nationalist workers' party.

And that means that it's got a better chance to win than it ever has.

And that's why the Republican Never Trumpers are, they don't know what to do.

So they're all out campaigning.

Liz Cheney, Adam Kissinger.

Kissinger, it's not like,

oh, just let him be.

Dick Cheney's out there.

They're so obsessed with him.

And we have to show you what he did to the Republican Party.

Well, Liz,

he's remaking it.

He's going to win.

He's got blacks.

He's got Latinos.

He's got working class poor whites.

He's got them all on the same page for their shared class interests.

There's been no war.

And that's what they can't stand because there's no place for them if he's successful.

They're not the firemen that come in and put out the flames and say, we're here to take back the party.

It's not going to happen.

So it's really remarkable what he's doing.

The more Jory Reed calls him a racist, the more she says in the the same breath that too many blacks are voting for him.

Now, what disconnect is that?

He's a racist, and we've got to stop black people voting for a racist because they are stupid.

Oh, you're calling your own constituency stupid or what?

False consciousness as if you're of Karl Marx.

It doesn't work.

No, it sure doesn't.

I recently saw a review.

Apparently, Anthony Fauci has a new book out called On Call, and and Jay Bhattachario reviewed it.

I'm sorry, I forgot, or I didn't write down which publication, but he just tore it apart.

He said that

he demonized scientists when he was younger.

He tried to create or he did create dependencies on him with

contracting from his government position.

And he, of course,

made an argument in defense of gain of function research.

And then he says in the book, he left out all the problems that were caused by the government in the SARS and COVID lies and all of that culpability.

Yeah, he's really tore it apart.

Everything's happening to him.

And he retired.

And once he retired, you see what's happening.

He had his hands on $50 billion in grants.

And he was the godfather of the federal pharmaceutical nexus.

So if you were a researcher, if you were a professor of epidemiology or immunology and you wanted to get tenure, then you applied for a grant from the National Institute of Allergies, Infectious Diseases, or NIH, National Institute of Health, or whatever, he was everywhere.

And you never screwed around with Anthony Fauci because he had a bad temper and he had a long memory.

But once he gave up that jackpot, then people said, he can't do anything to me now.

So now people people are coming out and

they're revealing his texts.

And then the Peter Dasick,

and there was another study that's come out that it's almost,

it's almost beyond controversy that the

Wuhan virus, the COVID-19 virus, originated in the laboratory.

And we all know that now.

And Peter Dasick has had communications revealed where he was kind of boasting that although gain of function research was illegal in the United States, that he was getting money from Anthony Fauci to partner with the Wuhan lab.

And he said one of the enticements was that it wasn't a level three lab security.

In other words, it was cheaper because they were doing it on the fly at level two.

So it was kind of, in his words, kind of like a win-win situation.

We can do something that's illegal here, and it's a lot cheaper.

And that led to 50 million deaths.

And they tried to cover it up, both of them.

Peter Dossick got that phony group of scientists to run a

Lancet quote-unquote investigation where they went over to China and were lied to and came back and then lied in turn to us and destroyed their reputation of the most prestigious medical journal probably in the English-speaking world.

It's lost its reputation because of Peter Dosick.

And then Fauci

is now clearly from the communications.

knew exactly on day one of the knowledge of this outbreak.

He was very worried that the money that he had routed through Dasik to Wuhan had prompted this man-made virus to end it escape.

So

he has no ability to lie anymore.

He's retired.

People don't like him.

He made a lot of enemies.

He has no leverage over anybody.

The truth is coming out.

Dasik is persona non grata.

I don't know why Peter Dasik, people do not look at a criminal indictment of him, because it seems to me that if gain of function research was outlawed in the United States and he deliberately took U.S.

dollars from the government and routed it to a Chinese communist control lab by the PLA

on the pretext that they didn't have enough security, which he thought was a good thing because it was cheaper to do.

Then he's responsible in some ways.

I mean, we've talked about this before, but if you look at, if you don't get passionate and you get disinterested and just clinical about it, think about it.

50 million people died.

Over a million Americans are dead.

A lot of people had long COVID.

I was thinking about when I was reading about that this week, you know, I had a long COVID for 12 months.

And I got eye problems, hearing problems, dizziness,

rashes, suddenly allergy to bee stings of all things.

And then I got over it.

And then I got COVID again.

I was sick for three months.

I got over it.

But

the way that people look at that now is you attribute that as unnecessary, right?

It came from Peter Dasik.

Yeah.

So all these families of the million people who died and millions of people who

were ill and some people had long COVID from it and had a lot of damage.

He did it in a way.

He did it.

They created this lab and they would not have been able to do it without American help.

It wasn't just the money.

It was the expertise that was transferred over there.

The

scientific documents, the machinery, the instrumentation, all of that helped them.

And I think he's going to go down in history.

Dasik and Fauci is some of the

most despised people in American history.

I really do.

I don't say that with any animus or anger.

I'm just dispassionate.

I think what he did, and Jay Bacharia and Scott Atlas, who were on the receiving end of his invective and smears, are going to be the real heroes.

Here at Stanford, they had a health conference last weekend where the president, can I repeat that?

The president of Stanford University, ground zero in the woke DEI, home to Claudine Gay at one time, home to the Stanford Internet Observatory fraud, the home to the law school hijacking where they shut down a federal judge, home to

four months of Hamas camping, basically.

The new president spoke at that conference that Jay and Scott organized, and he was very

explicit that

he supports free speech and he condemns the harassment or the effort to curtail people's expression.

So they won.

They won that finally.

I know that they tried to take Scott's license away.

I know that the faculty senate has not lifted the censure, but he won.

So did Jay.

But a lot of people got hurt by it.

Fauci was a bully, too.

I don't like bullying.

Nobody likes a bully.

He had all that government power and he really undermined Trump.

That was the whole thing.

They just jawboned for that total lockdown, lockdown.

The left loved it because it destroyed the economy and it made sure that Trump would not be re-elected.

Well, Victor, thank you.

I would like to invite your listeners to listen to your Saturday episode.

It will have a discussion in the middle on the period between the Battle of Britain and the invasion of Russia, which sounds like it should have been a period of relative peace, but there were a lot of wars going on at that time.

I have to make an announcement, Sammy.

You don't know this, but go ahead.

Our latest Victor Davis Hanson show,

and I think you used the term

Stockdale moment, where you characterized it.

Did I get in trouble for that?

Yes, you did.

Well, we all, who are the leftist politicians and why are they due?

I'm reading from it.

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Uh-oh.

Really?

Yes.

I just

sent.

I just heard my phone zinc as we were talking, blink, make a noise.

I looked at it.

So anyway.

Wow.

Wow.

It has nothing to do with the content.

It's

I guess maybe the Stockdale moment, it was making fun of stockdale is that it you weren't making fun of him we weren't making fun of him no we're referring to that uh ross barot debate where he walked out and he looked at all these politicians and you know he'd had injuries from the vietnam war he didn't want to stand around but they made him stand up and he was at the you know he was getting up there in years and he said, who am I and what am I doing here?

But it wasn't necessarily,

it became a famous line like, this is a theater of the absurd and I'm the outsider who can see it.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

And I think that's what you were trying to do when we named that.

So, YouTube doesn't know any of that stuff.

They just look at it and say, we don't want it.

Yeah.

I don't know why Donald Trump, I know why Donald Trump went easy on YouTube because of the youth vote.

But that's a vehicle of the Communist Party of China, and it has a very pernicious influence on young people.

Yeah.

Well, Victor, my apologies for thinking up that title.

I'll be

careful next.

You communicated it to me before you did.

I said, go ahead, go for it.

It doesn't matter.

Okay.

Well, thank you very much.

And thanks for that.

That's very mild, Sammy, compared to, I mean, I've been censored by the, I tried to be by, they failed, the Stanford faculty.

I've been under attack so many times.

My angry reader file is overflowing.

Yeah.

Well, they can go to our website and get that podcast edition.

Yeah, that's why I mentioned it.

I mentioned it because you're not going to be able to see it on YouTube.

So go to the victorhanson.com

and see if you think that it should have been banned.

I don't think so.

I don't think so either.

Who are the left politicians and why are they here?

Yeah.

All right.

Victor, thank you.

And thanks to the audience again.

Okay.

Thanks everybody for listening.

This is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis Hansen and we're signing off.