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What The American Voters Think

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What is it that drives American voters? What are the key things voters look for in a presidential candidate? Why do citizens vote the way they do? Pollster David Paleologos, the Director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center joined Gary to share what he finds when conducting statewide and national political polls.

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It's nice eyes. I'm going easy Boston's News Radio. In those roles I took, as many of you know, before I was elected as Vice president, before I was elected as United States Senator, I was the elected attorney general, as I've mentioned at California, and before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds, Predators who abused women, rodsters who ripped off consumers, cheeters who broke the

rules for their own game. So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump's type, and in this campaign, I will proudly I will proudly put my record against his. But does it matter? Welcome back Nightside, Gary tag William for Dan Ray Dave, all your logos choices a day from Suffolk University. He is the leader of Political Research Center over there. Okay, So the reason I played that, Dave is it's the cop against the crook. That's what I'm going with. That's what we started. But does it

matter? Does it matter? It would? It would matter more if she were prosecuting him, But it the the content in that speech is formulated to make him the incumbent, and the known quantity if if if the the basis canst up a different minute, that's that was pretty good. I gotta I gotta patch on a it. So the strategy there is to make her look the like the outsider when she isn't. That's right, Huh, that's right. If if she can shift the focus to Trump and make this about Trump,

then she takes the out she postures as the outsider. And his goal is to make Biden Harris you know, in the last three and a half years, the focus of his campaign. So they're both going to be shining the spotlight on each other. Usually, Textbook says, usually the campaigns are about the incumbency. But I've seen some great strategies change that, you know, and shift it to something different. So it's less about, you know, the criminal issues, because she can't get too deep into that because you

know what Trump's gonna do. He's gonna say, yeah, this was all rigged against me, you and Joe, Biden and Loft there and so on. And it looks like those are all going away, right, I mean it seems that way. I mean yeah, I mean I don't think they're going to have an impact. I mean, there'll be a sentencing in September. I doubt jail time is going to happen in that New York DA's case. But I'm not a legal expert, so I just I agree with you.

I don't think they're gonna matter. I don't look they're serious. Please do not misunderstand me here. But I just don't see it being a fact. I don't think anybody that is voting for him now is going to change their mind because of that. That's my point. And then if you're a Republican, you could say, well, look at the Clintons and Whitewater, right, I mean, so it goes back and forth. You can toss

bombs all day long from one party to the other. But isn't she the outsider though, because let's face it, when you're vice president, at least the way I saw it on the West Wing, that's what Joe kinda. The vice president doesn't do anything. I mean, I know she's associated with him, but it's not her policy. She was just doing she was just being a good team player. Can't you make that argument when you know what Trump's policy is? Sure, but you know, if you play out the

chess pieces, Trump has two options. Either he in debate either he makes her an extension of Joe Biden and point blank says well, what did you do as vice president? That forces her into saying, well, I worked arm in arm and hand in hand with this policy and that initiative and this legislative of you know, and then he makes her the incumbent, or he forces her to say, well, I disagree with the president on this,

but I didn't say anything. I would have done things differently with the president on this issue, but because I was vice president, I didn't say anything. And that potentially is risky because it potentially alienate Biden voters and you know, who are going to see that as being disloyal or he didn't he didn't

listen to her, or she didn't have any credibility. But I mean, what, yeah, I get that, you know, I really think the way she would win And it goes back to the way we opened up this interview, this discussion is you know, he would say, you know, crooked Joe Biden, or Joe's too old or whatever, and then I think it comes down to, look, it's it's Kamala Harris, who doesn't have any experience and who ran a terrible campaign. Briefly, in twenty nineteen against

a misogynistic pig. I mean, like that's what she should do. That's I mean to me. She comes out and says, Donald Trump, do you want a misogynist to pick for your president? That's where we are, Dave, you know what I mean. I mean, am I nuts? But that's the way I see it, And that's sad. No, But we have to figure out does a voter accept misogyny if the quality of their

individual lives is better? Or does the or does the voter say I'm struggling, I'm hurting, but I don't want a misogynist, So I'm going to continue to struggle in her for the next four years. Have the perception that life will be better with him. He believes that, right, But do you feel And I mean, I'm putting you on the spot here because I don't know if you have any numbers, but you know, I guess you know, because it's all perception. Like you just said to me, Trump

has fifteen percent black voters, which blows my mind. That blows my mind because when you look at the Republican Convention, I mean, there's I think Tim Scott and it's all I just saw a see a white I mean, I didn't see any diversity at that convention. But black voters still feel Trump will help their wallet. Not necessarily, they're voting for him, not necessarily because they they like him. They're voting for him because their situation is so

dire, their economic situation is so dire. And by the way, other polls had Trump higher than Dean. Okay, so we had him, you know, we had him in the mid teens, both in Michigan. We interviewed five hundred black voters Michigan and five hundred Pennsylvania. Was the best data available that's out there to this day. Other polls, national polls had him in the twenties. That's just that's you know again, you know, it's all, it's all the perception. Were things that better when he was president

or things just this bad now under Biden. You know what's funny is in the favorability Biden and Trump were both like unfavorable fifty seven percent, almost identical. And then when you look at and then when you ask the same people job approval for Trump when he was president versus job approval for Biden, that's where the rubber hit the road and more people said life four years ago was better. Whether it's true or not, it's debatable than it is now.

Well, yeah, because and I'm not you don't have to comment on this, but I'll comment. I mean, look, COVID the pandemic hit, and he screwed it up. I mean, and I don't I don't know how anybody would have handled it, but I want to I want to believe that a more sane person would have listened to Fauci a little bit more and

would have recognized it. There was a greater sense of urgency as opposed to being worried about corporate America and saying, there's no problem here, there's no problem here, just you know, maybe we'll get some bleach and we'll fix

it. You know. That's the type of stuff where I go, oh my god, and then not to mention January sixth, and I go, oh my god, because I will tell you this right now, Dave, I was with I was on vacation with my cousin the first time when Trump was running against Hillary, and he was I think he was in Alabama.

And I've told this story before, but it's true. He was originally supposed to speak inside a small gymneys and three four thousand people, I think, And then he ended up in a football stadium of thirty five thousand, and I was listening on CNN and I said, this guy's going to win. It doesn't matter what he says. I've never seen anything like it, or maybe I just haven't recognized it, but I mean, he the fact I mean, you must be sick. I don't think you do fact checking.

You must be sick of the fact checking, because now after he does a speech or the fact checking is off the charts, does that show up in the polls at all? Again, I'll take you back to the emotional response. What's true or what is and true? People don't have time to do their own research, and they don't want to because they hate politics and they hate the political parties. So it's about what hits them emotionally. You know, Trump did a speech today. I didn't see the whole thing. I

saw some excerpts, but it struck me. You know, he said repeatedly how Kamala Harris is a radical and extreme left and all this, And it struck me because in the exit polls four years ago, Trump lost moderates by thirty points. Thirty points sixty four to thirty four. Wow. And it was clear to me it was you know, I don't you know, I'm cynical. I think everything that's done is pole driven, right, But it was clear to me that he was trying to position himself. He wanted the

middle and the right, and he's willing to give her the left. And that's that's I think what he was testing today. He's trying to take that middle ground because if he loses by thirty points among moderates to Kamala Harris, he's going to lose again. Yeah, he's going to lose. Yeah. Dave Pellio Logos is with some Suffolk University of the Suffolk University Political Research Center. I want to if you get hang on one more time, Dave,

I really appreciate your time. I'm going to get into polling just in general and the nuts and bolts and the impact on it and what if fact it does have on a race. That's all coming up next here on wbz's Nightside. Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio. Okay, welcome back, every tank away for Dan Ray tonight here on Nightside. Joining us in one more segment. Dave Pally, logos

pollster also at Suffolk University University Political Research Center. So when it comes to what you do, obviously you're very passionate about it. And then when I watch the polls, I will tell you that sometimes I'm just a little bit numb to it. You know, I gotta be honest with you. It's like, you know, my friends who are meteorologists, It's like they've done the weather five times ago. What's it going to be like again tomorrow? You know, why do you love it so much? I'm addicted to it,

you know. It's the thing I love about it is the uncertainty and the unpredictability that you can puse something and in an instant everything changes. And that's exactly what's happened this year, from the assassination attempt, from the debate to the assassination attempt, to Biden getting out, And there's a certain attractiveness, there's a certain lure to the unknown, to to the uncertainty, and to be able to measure it from data point to data point, from one

week to the next week is really cool. And to see what what's moved, what demographics have moved, what factors and circumstances are driving those emotions, and so I like it. You know, when nobody's perfect, we you know, we've gotten some right, we've gotten some wrong, but we work hard to try and do our best. And there are a lot of good posters out there. And I think, you know, if people look at all the polls and look at the polling averages, they they pretty much will

have a decent idea of what's going on most of the time. So when Biden was talking about the polls, I'm looking at H'm not getting killed? Was he delusional? I think he might have had some internal polling that was very selective, Okay, that he could point to if he was ever called out on it. Right, But this is what George Stephanopoulis kind of said to him in that interview, kind of said, you know, I've never seen a person with thirty six percent approval win an election, mister President.

And he was, you know, trying to joggle him a little bit and get him to think about that, but he was right, yeah, sure, well, yeah, of course I mean it with the writing. Look, the writing was on the wall at the debate. To me, I watched the debate and I said it's over. They got to make a move. I mean, it was just writing. I mean, it was just on the wall. It wasn't going to get any better. God bless the man. I mean, you know, so, do polls reflect America or

did they drive America? Both? They reflect America in the in the moment. And then I wrote an article a long, long time ago, back in the nineteen nineties in an academic journal that nobody probably ever read except for maybe me and my family. But it's right, and it was very short, and what I basically said back then was that there's a weird circle.

The media demands alla polling numbers, and we conduct polls. Then we give them the poll numbers, and then they put the poll numbers out, and then the poll numbers impact behavior, and then a week later we go back in the field and then we met that behavior, and it's this vicious circle that goes round and round and round. And it was kind of a critical article of polling, but I was writing in as more of a citizen than as a polster. But the answer to your question is both, we do

measure points in time, but they should not be construed as predictive. Even if you're polling two weeks before an election. As you just said in your intro, it's a twenty four to seven world, and anything can happen in a two week. The last two weeks. Oh my god, that's what drives me crazy about this. I don't know if you agree. I disagree. But when they're saying, we have to make a decision, we have to you know, who's going to be here, We have to get the

money. I wasn't sure what was going to happen because I thought we were going to have a convention, and I was praying for it because it would have been entertaining as hell. Where we go to the convention, where the Democrats go to the convention, and okay, let's everybody put their best foot forward and let's pick somebody as opposed to anoint Kamala Harris right away, because

oh my god, there's only one hundred days left. There's plenty of time the twenty four to seven news cycle people, there's there's plenty of time. Quite frankly, I think it's better for her because and I'm not saying she's going to but there's less of a chance for her to screw up. If there's a showt amount of time to the to the election, because as we've seen, all it takes is one mess up and you're done. Yeah, you know, and the scrutiny is so very high right now on both sides.

And then you've got the third party candidates and a lot of people haven't really talked about that, but you know, I'm looking at Trump continuing to pull at forty six, and I know to lose, he's she's going to get to forty nine or more. Yeah, that only leaves five percent for third party candidates. Right now, third party candidates are getting like twelve percent. God, that should tell people something. So that's something's going to give.

If if if third party candidates combined and there were four of them, if they get six or seven percent, forty seven wins. So you know, and Trump's right there at forty seven. So either this is why the Democratic Committee is working aggressively to knock off these third party candidates and the ballot challenged them everywhere. They have lawsuits going everywhere because they know that the third party candidates potentially come off of the Democrat And that's why Trump was budding up

to Kennedy. I think, So, I mean I'm looking at the third party kid. The only third party candidate that hurts Trump has chased all over the libertarian, and the libertarian hurt Trump. In twenty twenty. We know in Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia where the margin of victory of Biden in

those three states was much much less than what the Libertarian got. So we know that, But we also know that the other three candidates who are third party candidates come off of Biden, Cornell west Stein, the Green Party candidate, and RFK is taking the young voters, Hispanic voters, and some Independence. So that's well, that hurts Harris. Yeah, it does. It does because Biden won Independence by fifteen I think in twenty twenty, and right

now she's not winning Independent. So if Kennedy is siphoning off Independence and Hispanic voters and some young voters, that does come off of Harris. And that's why they're ballot challenging RFK everywhere in Nevada. There's a lawsuit in Nevada, there's a bunch of other things going on, and he's i mean, look, God bless them, God bless him, but he's a little out of his mind. I mean, you got to say, you know you're sitting there, you're saying, then you're really not looking at the issues, but

in closing and I really appreciate your time, David. I have found this very educational and interesting. It seems to me as we speak right now. Trump has to screw up. Yeah, I think so. I think so can he veryly, Yes he can, Yes he can. And Harris needs to collect these micro demographics one by one. She's starting to with young voters, black voters. She's got to work her way to independent women, she's got to work her way to independent men, moderates. And if she pieces

it together, it could be a really close race. I mean could be. It could be a fifty one to forty eight race, or it could come down to those swings days. You know. You know, you've got two states that are very close to JD. Vance's home state, and he could have an impact. And how his numbers are not good, His numbers are less than most vps coming out of a party convention, but his proximity

to let's start with Michigan. Ohio touches Michigan in one area of the southeast part of Michigan, the Ann Arbor and south and east he could have an impact in those counties. Similarly, he could have an impact in Pennsylvania on

the western front of Pennsylvania, like Alleghany County. If Vance went into Allegheny County for three months and just did town halls and Trump were to break even in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania can't go to the Democrats because there's not enough Democrats in Philadelphia and Delaware counties to offset the rest, which may lead them to go with the Arizona selection. That's right, man, I go with Kelly from Arizona. Do you think that this would have been any different if Biden

had bowed out a year ago? Hm, I think it would have been worse because the economy was was we hold the economy, We pulled the economy with the Sawyer School last year, and the economy numbers were real bad. I mean, the inflation has just started coming down over the last three or four months. So if that happened, Trump could more successfully tie the economy bad economy around Harris. So I think this is a better scenario for Harris

and the Democrats. It's going to be interesting. She definitely has her work cut out for but maybe the brats will rule who knows to brats TikTok the TikTok president. Here we go, Dave, you've been fascinating. Thanks a lot, Dave, pa Hey, I appreciate it. Have a good night, Dave, you too. Poster from the Suffolk University Political Research Center. Often Dan will talk to him. I just find the reason why people vote for somebody fascinating. I just find it fascinating. Like they like the color

of their hair. They don't like it because she's a woman. They like her because she's a woman. They don't like Trump because of this. But it's never the issues. It's just it's never the issues. It is they say it is the issues. Fill time on the twenty four to seven cable networks. That's what they do. That's what they do. Coming up at ten o'clock right here in WBZ, Talmage Boston talk show hosts presidential historian is

going to join us. He has a Texan folks, and the last time I spoke with him, he was not not a fan of the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. I don't think he's changed his mind. He's coming up with ten. Do a few calls, give you some more thoughts. Coming up next right here on wbz's Night Side. You're on Night Side with Dan Ray

on WBZ Boston's news radio, Gary Tangway for Dan. Todight, President Biden saying, so long took a victory lap, good for him, and now we move Now we move on as we look ahead to the presidential presidential election

with Donald Trump, and it seems Kamala Harris unless something crazy happens. And I was thinking it wasn't automatically going to be her, even though Biden endorsed her, and as soon as the money went her way, she raised one hundred million like that on Sunday night, I go, yeah, it's over. Because I wanted a race. I wanted a good old fashioned convention.

I wanted to see some speeches, some passion, some gabbls. And I still think there would have been time for whoever came out of the Democratic Convention is the nominee. It's a campaign against Donald Trump. The news cycle is like fifteen seconds. Don't give me that. They just wanted to get her in because they wanted to take care of Biden, you know. So it seems that her running mate will be the Kelly out of Arizona, Gabby Gifford's

husband, astronaut combat pilot Shapiro out of Pennsylvania. I mean it's Jewish, But is that really? Is somebody not going to vote for the guy because of his religion? Oh my word, what are we coming to beyond that? Nuts? Six one, four, ten thirty. A couple of people want to chime in on what's happening tonight. It's going to Tom on the cave. Hey, Tom, you're up on night side. Hi Tom, you're on Hawaii. What's up, budd Hawaii? I'm good. Question Tooya,

did you did you infer that Donald Trump is insane? Yeah? Yeah, so you. I just really appreciate your impatiality, you know what I mean? It's I mean really, I mean, it's the guy behind a microphone. I'm not a doctor. Did you see what happened on January sixth? Did you see what happened on January where he's six He did not stand in the way of his supporters attempting to overthrow the government. He didn't. People forget about that. Look the assassination attempt terrible, awful. There's no

look. I don't want to vote for anybody. I don't like anybody who's running. I don't. I don't think she has the experience. She didn't do a very good job in twenty nineteen. She was a very good prosecutor from what I understand. An attorney general, she's very good on the facts, but you have to do more than that. I don't know how she's

going to handle international policy. But at the same time, do I want a guy who wants to tell NATO to go screw or if he doesn't get his own way, say that the voting is rigged and try to overth and have his constituency overthrow the government. Do I want that? I mean, does Donald Trump at president that that doesn't scare the hell out of you? If Biden was still running, it would scare the hell out of me. She's a great unknown. I don't know. I can only bring up and

talk about different issues. But if I had to pick, it's the less of two evils. I'll pick her because am I a Harris fan? No? She seems like a very nice person. But Trump scares the hell out of me. If there was another, If Mitt Romney was running, I'd vote for him. Would that make you feel better? There was pretty much any other Republican running. I could possibly vote for them. But this guy doesn't. He doesn't put the country first. He puts himself first. It's

a TV show for him. Why can't anybody see that this is a guy that called dead soldiers losers. He did that Arlington Cemetery, he did that. Come on, Oh my god, let's get a Susan and Worcester. Susan, you're up on WBC's night set, said, I don't. But anyways, getting back to her, you know, all she's doing is talking about Trump's character. What about her? How do you think? I'm sorry? People sleep around? Okay, I mean we've heard all the stories about

JFK. Clinton. We've learned all those stories about him. Hey, the deficit, we didn't we didn't have any debt. But Clinton, I mean, it's a bit of a it's kind of horn, Doug, you know. I mean, we all know the thing about Lewinsky and the cigar and the dress and all that stuff. But the economy was great, balance the budget. Politicians sleep around. People sleep around. Are we gonna start?

Are we gonna have a moral clause now? In we have a moral clause in you can't if you've slept around, you can't be a government, it'd be nobody running the country. Frank and Boston. Frank, you're up on WBZ. Hi, Frank, Hell, I'm sorry. My problem is with these posters and this m there's thirty six percent. If you had a lead, a weeper polling at this time, you wouldn't win. But yet presidents had a higher polling and they lost. Yeah, I mean, polls are

in a sample. I mean, I just find I think Dave is very interesting. I want to know what drives polls and what drives the way people think. I mean, look, Hillary was winning in the polls and she lost. Yeah, I mean, it's there's no doubt this is I appreciate Dave's passion, and I think he's a very interesting guy to talk to.

I don't really care about poles. I really don't. And and quite honestly, I think poles have become much more valuable to the news media because of the twenty four to seven, because of the twenty four to seven news cycle, because it gives CNN and MSNBC and Fox and you know in Bloomberg and WBZ radio and gets us all something to talk about. But the poles really

have no effect on me. But they're valuable, you know, they're they're valuable, because this is where I do think poles can make a difference. I think poles can make a difference when somebody thinks that their candidate is going to win, whether they vote or not. And that's what I think could happen with Kamala Harris, with the gen zers, the kids eighteen to twenty one, who nobody really knows what they think about. They're on TikTok.

You know, she's the brat for them. They could show up because they see the polls and they go, oh my god, our brat is losing. Just put a poll on a TikTok the brat is losing, and then they'll all rush to the polls. I'm not joking. I'm not joking. Kids eighteen to twenty two, they get their information on TikTok. They get their information, not so much Twitter, they get their information on the ig, Instagram. It's a factor, and I think it's going to be a

factor here. And I think they're gonna look and they're gonna say, do I like Harris or do I like the grumpy old white guy. You know, though, as Dave pointed out, Trump does well with black voters because they're worried about the economy and worried about jobs, and they think Trump can solve that problem. For I don't know. Uh, let's go to Bill Bill in Lexington, you're up on WBC's Night said Hey, Bill, Oh my guy, I have to say the best you're opening monologue or however you

want to call it the best. I mean, you're definitely spot on. I'm not Trump fan. I'm not a bite fan. I don't even vote anymore because I saw how I mean that I hear you, Bill me, you mean the Oh my god. Yes, And it's like two old you know, America. I was always told by my grandparents, my mother and stuff, when you had a couple of bad relationships, didn't they say, you know, set down, you know, spend some time with yourself,

learn yourself. I think that's what American Why do we need president anyway? Because don't Congress and the Senators run everything anyway? Well that's true, I mean, and that's why democracy works because you have the system of checks and balances, which is in jeopardy because of what's going on with the Supreme Court. But Bill, you're not wrong. But I'll tell you why we need

a president. This is why we need a president. You need a president who is a great communicator, who establishes a sense of confidence in the people, to let everybody know when they're going to bed at night that everything's going to be okay tomorrow morning, regardless of whether you're an African American, or regardless of you if you're an Asian American, or if you're Mexican American, or if you're Anglo Saxon American, that we're all trying to work and get

to the same place. But the problem is, and I think a lot of it is because of the television networks, we have a division. We have a division of so many people so far to the right that hate everybody who's far to the left. And then there's the eighty percent of us in the middle who just kind of all want to get along, go to work, and kiss our kids when we get home. But the nutjobs on the

right and the nut jobs on the left are screwing it up. And that's who That's who the president and that's who the politicians appeal to, and and that's what they want because they don't want love, they don't want unity, They want to divide that we want to divide it absolutely. And what happens, Bill, is that moderates like myself or you just said, you go, I'm not going to vote because people are crazy and that and that. Actually I get it, I get the apathy. But I'll tell you right

now, what is going to take this country down. It's it's not terrorism, it's not Putin, it's not a foreign entity, it's not North Korea. It's gonna be our own apathy. And one day we're going to wake up. We're gonna wake up and we're not going to be the power we once were because we're going to be too damn lazy and too apathetic about trying to do the right thing, Mark my words. We will be our own

worst enemy. One more question I just want to bring up, and I don't ever hear any of the Trump supporters talking about it, and of course the Biden. So if January sixth was okay and Biden said he's going to finish that, you know, his his six months, what if all of a sudden he saw killing better and he pulled a January sixth. If it was okay for Trump, it's not okay for Biden to do that. Of course, it's not okay for Biden to do that. It's not okay for

anybody to do that. But Biden's going to be too tired. Did you hear him tonight? Yeah? I heard him. Oh Man, Bill, Bill, the poor guy needs a nap. I mean, God bless him. He's old. I mean he's still He needs to go. He needed to go finish out the rest of his life with his family, with being loved around him. Yes, he's done good. He take the victory lap, but go sit down somewhere. Yeah, I agree. I agree, Bill. Everyone who is young need to do the same thing. I hear.

Thanks for the phone call. We appreciate it, Bill. Ten o'clock, Talmadge, Boston. You gotta stick around for this guy. This guy does not like Kamala Harris strapping when he comes on at ten right here on WBZ, Gary Tangley for Dan Ray. This is night Side Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World night Sights to you on WBZ Radio. Come at ten o'clock, Talmrich, Boston does not like Kamala Harris. Stick

around for this guy. This should be pretty good. Sam Metler charges from the West Coast producer comedian, writer, Emmy Award winning producer, it's that of comic Sam By other changes for his take on what's going on in the world politically, we need to laugh a little bit people, at least I do need to laugh a little bit. It's good for the soul, you know, it's good for the heart. It's good for the soul. Earlier tonight, President Biden took a victory lap said so long, job well done.

Lord. Do you disagree or agree? You have to give him credit serve the public for over fifty years in his life. I always point to politicians like this and I say, look, you may not agree, you may not disagree. Well, you may not agree, you may disagree. I should have said originally, but they could have made more money in private sector, and for whatever reason they wanted to say their ego, they did it. Politicians don't make a ton of money. I mean they do some.

They usually make it after they'd retire, and they go on private tours like Obama and book tours and so forth, and get twenty million dollars a speech or whatever he's getting. I made that number up. I don't know if it's that high, but it's in the millions. I mean, if Michelle or Barack Obama speaks somewhere, they're making millions of dollars for a couple hours, I would think. So, you know, God bless you,

Joe. You made the right call. You had to go. There was no way, there was no way he was going to have the energy to serve a second term the way I feel. But he did say this, and I do want to play this segment from what he said tonight. I'd give him my heart and my soul to our nation. Like so many others, I've been blessed a million times in return with the love and support of the American people. I hope you have some idea how grateful I am to

all of you. The great thing about America here kings and dictators do not rule. The people do well. And that's the key. Look, when Donald Trump first went in the race against Hilary and I told you at the beginning of the show or during the show that when I first heard him speak in Alabama, I said, this guy's got something going. People are enamored with this guy. He is speaking to people, he is relating to people. I mean, you got to give Trump credit. He has connected.

He has connected with a portion of America that got him elected to the presidency and may do it again, and may do it again. Even though he makes things up. He's never right. I mean, it's amazing. He's teflon. You can't you can't knock him out. I mean, if you're a Trump person, you are all in January sixth or not. And yes, the assassination attempt, oh my god, tragic. Thank god he made that. He turned his head to the right. I mean, you just

don't you don't want that at all. But I think that also made him stronger, that picked up momentum. I think that that gave them, gave him some favorability. You know. But when Trump started out, I said, I don't know, maybe he can do this, Maybe he can. But then with the way he had, you know, to me, he just he just went off the rails. And he wants to be king. He wants to be king. He wants to be a dictator. It is not government for the people by the people. It is government by Trump for

Trump. January sixth would tell you that. And he still thinks the election was rigged. God, that's the thing. I can vote Republican, I can if I think that that person is for me, or for us, or for the most part, has the United States in mind. I just don't. I just don't think he does. I have voted Republican before. I would happily vote Republican because I don't know if how is Harris going to do? I don't know how she's gonna do. She smiles, she looks

charming, she seems nice. But I'll tell you, man, the gen Z is. If she connects with the gen Z is TikTok. TikTok could win the White House. TikTok wins the White House for Kamala Harris. You think I'm kidding, I'm not. Paul in Boston, Paul, you're up on WBC. Hello, sir, how are you. I'm good now. I've listened to you before when you filled in for Dan. Thanks, okay. And I know that you don't like Trump, and Dan would always want

me to be respectful when I call his show. Sure, okay. Now, I heard you earlier say I'd rather vote for Kamila Harris of the two evils. That's what you said here in the show. So you would want open borders and let the whole world come here. I don't want that. And I'm a registered Democrat and I'm going to vote for Trump and king and dictator. That talking point just it's worn out. He does don't want to be a king of a dictata and change the constitution. Well, you don't

do you don't do. You know what Donald Trump does. He gets up in the morning, he watches he watches the news station. See what they're saying about him. That's about it. Are you kidding me? You don't think he wants to be king? No? Oh, come on, And by the way, by the way, why do you think Kamala Harris is going to open up the borders and make it worse than it areg Oh my god, you're more progressive than Biding would ever be. Yeah, it's not

going to happen. It's not going to happen. Is not going to allow it. Furthermore, we had a bipartisan pack in Congress, and Trump next stick he got to his cronies and he said, don't do that. I need to use it as a political playing We would have had a bipartisan agreement on the border. The border has been a mess forever forever, whether you're taking families and separating them and putting kids along in one cage and parents are

in another cage, are separating families. The boy, it doesn't matter. The borders have never been great, never been great. I don't believe that. I don't believe Kamala Harris would make the borders worse. I don't think they can be worse. We don't need another Democrat difc cycle in the White House this time. Absolutely not to continue on the Biden policy. It's absolutely appalling. All right, Paul, Well, I appreciate the phone call,

Thank you, all right, take care of it, good one. All right, So coming up next to Paul, used to stick around because talmuch is going to agree with you on this while everything has been raw raw, I think unless you're watching Fox News for Kamala Harris so far, that is about to change. So we will discuss that coming up here on WBZ and if you're just joining us right now, if you have a chance online tomorrow

WBZ dot Com and the iHeartRadio app. Dave Peli, your logos poster from Suffolk joined us and I great conversation about how the polls work, why they work, why we need them. Because I just admitted to him, like I polls. I'm numbed to poles. They're like white noise to me. They really are, because there's so many of them. But that's me. They are important, they have a purpose, and Dave's very passionate about it.

So check that out online. At eleven o'clock. Sam Metler, comedian from California, and he will join us so we can laugh a little bit right here on WBC. Okay, we got news coming up, and we're gonna get back with Tambwich Boston right here. All right, Brokes, we're gonna take a break right now. Can we do that? All right, Let's do a kid. We'll be back on the other side.

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