Midterm Attack Ads Flood The Airwaves | Sen. Raphael Warnock

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there's always mildish Gambiano. Look at God. It's little differs then I'm little Coming to you from the Plant, America's Favorite lou It's the Daily Shown, the worst political he aded, the secret behind freaking music, Brofa Warner, It's the Daily Shirt. Chris Traveler. What's going on, Atlanta, Georgia? How are you doing? Everybody? Welcome to the show. Welcome to the show. Welcome to at night three, we're back. If we're doing it again, take a seat. Take a seat, everybody, take a seat.

Welcome to it all. This feels good. This has been so much fun. What's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the Daily Show. Coming to you from Atlanta, Georgia, Night three. We've been having so much fun here. Every single day I learned something new about the place, you know, Like yesterday I learned that people in Georgia have a really interesting philosophy about food. You know. Yeah, yesterday I asked someone,

I said, hey, where should I eat? And they were like, oh, yeah, you gotta get the wings at JR Crickets and I was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. People were like yeah, Like so, so what should I order? And I'm like, oh, you gotta get the Lemon pepper Wet, extra crispy, extra sprinkles. And they're like, but you need like extra extra sprinkles, extra sprinkles, like extra extra sprinkles, Like it sounds like

a lot of sodium. They're like, yeah, that's why you gotta go to American Daddy Afterwers and get the peach soda. That's what you gotta do. And then she said my favorite things. She was like, yeah, because you see, you see, because when you have that much salt, you gotta cancel it out with the sugar. That's what we're do in Atlanta, like it's a balanced diet. I appreciate that it was delicious, but I slept for a week. I've also learned that people in Atlanta love sports. Wow, this is like a

big sports town. Like everyone here has everyone he excites it for the big Georgia Tennessee game on Saturday and people are hyped for that. It's a big sports town. I've really and I get it. I get it. I mean, the Braves won the World Series, right the the University of Georgia won the national championship. You know. Yeah, the the Falcons have really cool jerseys. I see you and the city. I feel like the city has extra energy

now because the midterms are a few days away. You can feel it, right, I see the CERTs, people out there getting ready to vote. Everybody's voting, breaking early voting records. That's what's happening out here. People are out there making their voices heard. Everybody standing in line for hours and hours. I stood in mine yesterday four hours. That's how long I stirred got to the front. Turns out it was

a place called Slutty Vegan. Yeah, I didn't know that was a popular restaurant in Atlanta, but it was just someone who sleeps around and likes tofu. The line would have been longer for that, but because the met trams, the mit chums are on. You know, we've talked about this a little bit. This ads everywhere in Atlanta, and and every ad, every ad that I've watched in the city as a campaign ad right now, everything you know this,

you've seen it. Like I watched TV for ten minutes last night and I saw thirty minutes worth of ads and the thing That's the thing that stuck out for me was how most of them were mean and ship Georgia would be different. With Abrams, she pushed more COVID lockdowns, wanted businesses closed and kids locked out of schools. Abram's crime plan eliminate cash bailed the same failed liberal scheme

causing crime to surge in other states. Stacy Abrams and Rotha L. Warnock support aboarding babies, not just a six weeks, not just in fifteen weeks where the baby can do an up tools, talk shows, magazine covers, television cameos, celebrity Stacy a perfect governor for liberally leeds, just not hard

working Georgians. Damn you know, you know, if you if you only knew Stacy Abrams from attack ads in Georgia, you would think she was Darth Vada combined with Fanos, combined with that asshole who cuts you off in the traffic, pure evil. Stacy Abrams does all of it. And by the way, I don't understand that lost part. What what what was that? She's bad because she gets interviewed on TV shows like look at this, what what what are they trying to say? Huh, what is this about? What? Is this?

Why is this in an attack ad? She hugs Trevor Noah, which means she wants to turn America into Africa. There's nothing wrong with hugging me. I give good hugs. I mean, on the flip side. This, this is good for me. I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, no, because now I have a great use. Anytime I don't want to hang out with anybody, you know, they'll be like, hey, hang, I'm like, I would love to, but if we're seen together, I

could be using an attack ad. You know. Yeah, if you ever choose to run for governor of Georgia, it's just gonna spoil your I can't do that to you. You know, maybe you should just gouber home from surgery. I think it would be better. And it's not just in Georgia. This is the thing. It's not just in Georgia. And it's not just mean in this moment. It's getting men. Every single day. Every campaign in America right now is

flooding the air waves with attack ads. Everyone. My opponent will raise your attack my opponent will cut your health care, my opponent. And that's always that voice, too, right, it's always that attack ad voice. I feel like you can say anything in that voice and it sounds terrible. You know, my opponent will donate his kidney to you. That's son of a bitch. Wait, what I need a kidney? You know? If you ask me, honestly, I think attack ads should be legal. Yeah, I mean it. I think attack ads

should be legal, not campaign ads. Not campaign ads, attack ads. I'll tell you why. First of all, First of all, I think it's because they only drive up polarization and hates. That's what they do, right. And secondly, politicians should be earning your vote by telling you what they're gonna do, not just by shipping on other candidates. Just tell me what you will do if you want me to vote. Don't tell me about the other person, because you realize

they're they're auditioning for the job. We don't accept the ship in any other job, right, there's no other job where you can apply for it. And then your resume isn't what you do, it's just a list of other reasons that the other people suck. You can't do that anywhere else. Yeah, you can't just be sitting there and be like, oh, what are my strengths? Well, I think you should be focusing on Anthony's weaknesses. Yeah, that guy types with these index fingers. Yeah, so when do I

start UNI. That's not campaigning, that's not winning votes, right, shouldn't be a part of democracy. It's basically the same strategy every R and B song from the nineties used you remember that, every song would just be some guy he's coming out there like a girl. You know, your man ain't treating you right. He never buys you flowers, he's never taken you to Disney World. Well, are you gonna take me to Disney? Or a girl just saying about me? Right now? This is about your man and

how he ain't doing you right. And by the way, my car's on the shop, so I might need to borrow yours like it's it's not helpful, it's not healthy. And here's the thing. Here's the thing. It would be one thing if attack ads were just highlighting policy differences between candidates. My opponent wants to raise your taxes, but I want to lower them. That's that's one thing. But that's not what attack ads do because like everything else in America, it has to be supersized. Queen politicians are

pushing sexual agendas on our children. Hex rated drag shows for kids, pornography and elementary schools. A moment Odds doesn't want you didn't know about his deadly experiments on puppies. Katy Hobbs organized a mock slave auction. Kahoks guilty of racism. No one is safe with liberal Amelia Pykes. Babies have to watch their backs because of Tina ko tech. Tinako tech too extreme for Oregon. I'm sorry what babies have to watch their backs. If you're a baby watching that,

you are crapping your pants more than usual. You are shipping yourself. I've never seen an attack ad trying to scare babies. I was like, watch out, babies. Tina Kodak is here, and now she's not, and now she's here, and now she's not, and now she's here. And by the way, I know, I know there's some people who are thinking right now, But Trevor, don't I deserve to know the bad things about someone who's running for office. Yes,

I think you do. I think you do. And ideally you would get that information from America's responsible, objective news media. That's where you should be getting it from. Doesn't need to be in an attack because here's the thing, here's the thing. In my opinion, these ads are not helping. They don't help. They don't help, right because they don't just attack policy, they portray opponents as evil, inherently evil monsters that poisons the entire country because what happens to

by polisianship? After that? Do people ever think of that? Huh? You can't be like, yes, I I said my opponent wants to drink the blood of children. But now that the election is over, that doesn't mean we can't work together on infrastructure. Get out in here, you pedophile, let's do this deal. You can't do that. Why would any want support that? And what's even worse is that many

attack ads are just straight up lives, straight up lives. Like, for instance, um, there's a there's an ad in Texas Greg Abbott put up this ad, right, a TV ad that's spliced together different quotes from Better or Rock to make it seem like he said something that he didn't say, right. Yeah, campaign flyers in North Carolina they show candidates wearing defund the police T shirts that they never actually wore. Yeah, And I'm like, go, okay, well, as long as your

photoshopping picks, why not go all the way. Just go all the way. Yeah, just be like, Look, he's not just throwing out a garbage bag, he's throwing out the new Taylor Swift album You Monster. There's drinking children's blood, and then there's evil. Oh and if you want to see just how bad the lies in these ads can get, look no further than this race in California. We want to show you perhaps the most dishonest TV campaign ad we've ever seen. Some politicians think they should control your

child's education. We're trying to indoctrinate in our students in communism. J Chen is running for Congress to represent southern Californians. Here's what Chen actually said. You know, I'm gonna be a recipient of some of these attacks. Unfortunately, they're gonna be claiming that because our school district was teaching Chinese, that meant we were trying to indoctrine in our students and communism. Literally, that will be one of the points of attack. Huh. Look at that. He even called it.

He said, these people are probably going to claim that we are teaching kids communism, and I guess his opponents so that then they were like, well, that's a great idea we should do that. Yeah, we should do that because he doesn't think it's bad enough. It's bad enough to attack someone, but to pretend they said something they didn't say and attack them for that, that's that's even worse.

You're attacking them for something they didn't say. You realize if you edited the context is out of everything, right that that cardy B song, whapp that's a song about female sexual empowerment. But if you edit out the p now it's just a song about wet ass. No one's gonna be dancing in the club to that song. Get a buttet then them up for this wet ass. Oh please do not back that thing up on me. You

can't do that. It's good for democracy. And and here's the thing that that may blow your mind at all, because a blew mine is that it's not illegal to line attack ads. Did you know this, Yeah, it is not illegal. The courts have said that the government cannot ban lying in political ads because it falls under free speech. Yeah, and look, maybe you agree, maybe one of those people who thinks, oh, the government shouldn't get involved in policing what's true or false and ads. But here's the thing.

It already does. Right, if you lie in an ad for a car, or for a for a cell phone, or for even toilet paper, the FTC will ban that ad. Yeah, which is a weird set up for parties, all right, because if you lie in an election ad, that could undermine your democracy. But if you lie about how many sheets on a roll of toilet paper, I mean, the worst that could happen is you end up with a wet ass. So, if you ask me, America has everything backwards. If there's one type of ad you're not allowed to

lie in, it should be your political ads. Right. Not only is that better for democracy, not only is it better for democracy, but it means you would be allowed to lie in commercial ads. And I think that would be funny as hell. Chef Boyard says, is b Eroni is quick and convenient. But of all people who ate b ERRONI immediately died in the other became transgender. What Chef BOYARTI hiding under his hat? Is it critical race theory?

He want to say? Chef by r d wrong for dinner, wrong for America, paid for by concern citizens for spaghettios. You see, Now that's what we need more, all right, we gotta take a quick break when we come back. Why would Jr. Is going to meet the man behind a lot of Atlanta's music? You don't want to miss it. Welcome back to the Danny Show. You know, Atlanta is known for its incredible music scene, but it wouldn't be possible without some hit makers behind in the scenes. Roy

with Jr. Sat down with one of them. You've probably heard of major Atlanta artists like Young Jeezy, Tow Chains, and Bobby Valentino, but you probably wouldn't know any of them if it weren't for this guy, Nick, the hit maker Loan, Atlanta born and raised. He's the reason Atlanta artists go from local legends to international stars. If we're going to be in the city, I had to sit

down with the man himself, Nick Loves Now. You're a humble brother, you know, but this is your chance to Brad, give me some of the songs and artists that you helped to break in Atlanta that eventually became global tour and success. Like I've touched everything that has come out of this city period. And that's not a brag, that's just kind of what it is. I established a pipeline through working with these guys. That was like there was

just a bootprint, right. So everybody said, okay, cool the thing that you did with Jess, can you do that for me? You are a hit maker? Okay, so jez Luda, whoever they give you a song, what's the next thing? You take it to a DJ ware everywhere. Like I'm hitting the strip clubs, I'm hitting the regular clubs, I'm hitting the mixtape guys. I'm trying to put it in front of everybody who has an ear that I respect, and I'm saying, what do you think? What is this?

Because I like it, you start to visualize, like I can see the girls dance into this, I can see the dudes riding they call down pe Street Street playing it outside they because I know it. So Nick Love's secret Sauce is just taking the song he likes and getting it into Atlanta hotspots. Sounds easy, but it's actually a lot of hard work. You gotta form relationships, get people to trust your taste, and apparently you have to

hit the strip clubs. Um not. Nobody want to see the Magic City every day, but in my twenties I was willing to do it. It was a hard you know I was willing to sacrifice, take one for the team and say, in the Magic City every day, what is it about being but naked that people like? I'm naked now I can feel the music, pretty girls and money. If you stick pretty girls and money in the same room, there's influence there. Right. We want to do what the

girls like, We want to impress them. And you can catch for those crimes because those are the people who are dictating what's popping in the city. I get what you're saying. Bro. All of these transients from all over the country and all over the world aren't here, and they're all going to the clubs. They all going to the strip clubs, they're all going to the lounges. So if you can play a song that pleases this demographic,

chances are this demographic it's gonna go. So this city just one thing as focus group, That's exactly what it is as it is. It's a it's a research facility at the end of the day, that's what it is. Which if this is such an effective way of getting things in front of people, why is music the only thing do the politicians come to the club? I mean, at the end of the day, politics hasn't historically been cool, right, We know how important it is, but it's rarely been cool.

We know that cool sales from the time that Puffy did uh the voter Die campaign. That was the switchover of hip hop culture being involved in politics. We do influence what happens. If we're on board, we can affect change. Wait, Nick Love makes hits. The mid terms are coming in. Georgia's a swing state. If did he can do it, so can I write? You can take any song and get it in front of the people who decide if it's a hit. Any song, don't matter what it's about.

Any song I got you people. Remember you said that, Remember you said that I got a song. I got all of my man. There has to be a way to activate Georgia voters a lot. So I borrowed some cash from my cousin's cousins, mother's aunt, and I linked up. It swayed the remix guy. You know this guy Chriez. But take us to meet us, laugh to make a hit in the studio. That's good, that's good. Eric drops time to take this heat to the street. Hey, what's

up everybody? My name? Really, I'm gonna wrap out of Birmingham. I'm forty three years old. It's never too late to chase your dreams. This nick your hit maker. I got a track I want to play for y'all and you know, and y'all let me know if y'all feeling it or not? All right, all right, it's called It's called get out and vote with your vote. Ass given the campaigns heating camp is heating Georgia. George Georgia is one of the key races. I can determine who against control Senator Rapiel

Warknock going up against personal every voter. So not a hit, I've heard worse. I mean, you know what if you play with a little bit, stop stop just stop? All right? So what did y'all think about my track? It was it was pretty it was pretty cool while you stuttering that while you study? What do you do? How many entertainment visis? I'm a club promoter that's perfect and want you want here? You want here one more time? No you or not? We're the lyrics. Don't de lyrics said

he had the truck. You gotta vote being in the book. You didn't get up in the that was then vote, be honest with you do I have a hit on my hands yesternight. I think you can get there. You could get there. That's like the nicest you ain't ship I've ever heard. Do you feel more motivated to vote having heard my song? I will say yes. I think you have a new career coming your way. How much rap? Do you listen to? More country than raps? Get love? That's the last song you listen to is Little John

get Low? Ye? What does the song mean? Why is it not a hit to you? I don't really hear you in it though? What else? Because I was sampling some other stuf up and my wrapping part I hadn't finished it, so no versus just features. So you're saying they needs a verse from me? Yeah, yeah, because that would make it you rapping and he's Atlanta fos tripping this ship. Fine. I know I can still make a hit, and I think I have just the thing the way. I want to make sure my vote is counted, and

make sure my vote is counted. He voted, We voted in Choucha, were voting. We voted, let's go a woman control. We're gonna control police control, black vote, throwing the vote in the full vote in the full toon coache and the cop coat herschel walker might be your daddy and your mom getting mass in the back of the caddy, wore ns jacket, tooth tape, what war knocks, jacket tooth tap, vot throwing trust and when they see the must vote trush and then to see the must jack that jacket

back and swap it out. Yeah, that's hard. That's the one right, that's the one right. Okay, why would junior? Everybody, all right, stay tuned because when we come back, Senator Rafael Warnock will be joining me right here on the show. You don't want to miss it. Welcome back to the Data Show. My guests, like is a senior pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church right here in Atlanta, and he currently represents the state of Georgia in the United

States Senate. Please welcome Senator Rafael warn Up m H Reverend slash Senator Raphael Warnock. Welcome to the Daily Show. Thank you so much. I'm gonna I'm gonna jump straight into it and I know so many welcome. Thank you so much. You don't know one's welcomed me back. You The first person you see this is this is why you're reverend. I like that. I like um first, first things first, this is turning into a race that is

way closer than people anticipates it. It is turning into through a race that has become a lot more national than many people anticipates it. And what's been surprising is seeing how little of the news is actually about what you're doing wrong. It's just about what the other candidate is saying, which seems crazy, and and yet it seems closer than it should be. So I'd love to start

with that. Why do you think Georgia or Georgian votes is or the polls are showing that Georgian voters are so close when it seems like most people would say the two of you are so far apart. Well, I agree with the last part of what you just said. Ah wow, the differences between the options that Georgians have right now are wide in the and um, look, the reality is we always knew this would be a close race, and I think that speaks to where the country is

and where people are. Um. But I think when you look close, and you don't have to look that close, um uh, you can see that Georgians have a clear choice. I think about who's ready and who's fit, sir h Yeah, to represent them in the United States Senate. And I believe that at the end of the day, Jordan's an't gonna get it right. Let's talk about let's talk about what many, what many Georgians may feel is going wrong.

There are many who are saying we need change. And as we've seen multiple times in American politics, it's it's all about what people's pockets feel like, it's all about what their gas tank looks like, that the terms a lot of how they vote. There are many Georgians have said I love you, Senator, I love what you're doing and what you represent. But I feel like in this moment, the Republicans are promising something that is better or different. How would you how would you respond to the people

who say that to you? Well, in my case, my opponent hasn't promised a think I mean, think about it. I mean that, and I'm not being flipping. I want you to think what what has he actually promised to do? So, look, there's no question that these are tough times and people are feeling the pain and the pinch. We've been through over two years of a pandemic and now that the economy has opened up, we're seeing these rising costs supply

chain issues related to the pandemic. We're seeing rising prices by the way, globally driven by the war in Ukraine. And on top of that, you've got bad actors in the corporate space who are literally exploiting a pandemic while we while so, while while we are paying record prices at the pump, at the pharmaceutical counter, at the grocery store, they are literally experiencing record profits and so so, so the question is who's gonna do something about it? Who

who cares about ordinary people? And I I take this job very seriously. You know, it's a real honor for your neighbors to say, we want you to represent us in in high office. And so that's the reason why I kept the cost of insulin, to know, more than thirty five dollars out of plastic cost. That's that's that's the reason I kept the costs of prescription drugs so uh, women and men like my eighty four year old mother wouldn't have to choose between buying the medicine they need

and the groceries they need. That's why I've remained folk it is not on the people. And when I talked the other night about capping the cost of insulin and the fact that corporations are gouging insulin, a one year old drug, my opponents said, people just need to eat right. So those were his words. And you know, as a pastor, I have encouraged healthy living, but that doesn't explain why the corporations are engaged in price gouging. And you can

eat right and still have diabetes. Right. So so here here's my recommendation. I think herschel Walker should be the dietitian and I'll serve in the United States Center. Let's let's talk a little bit as well about how you work as well. I I have found it particularly interesting that even in your campaign ads in Georgia, you've gone out of your way to talk about Republicans who you have worked with, which so many people would seem like suicide. You know, you say I've worked with Ted Cruz, I

worked with Marco Ruby or not. Most people don't even admit that that they know Ted Cruise. And yet here you are, here, you are saying, no, I worked with Ted Cruise, I worked with Marco Ruby. You've made an effort of talking about reaching across the aisle and working with other loanmakers to get things done. It seems like that is dwindling in American politics. As you said, people are retreating to their corners and saying this is where

I stand. I work with no one else. Do you not worry about alienating some who say, oh, how can you reach across the aisle? Or why is it that you choose to particularly include that in your own campaign? And I mean, it's your ad. Why include Ted Cruizer's name? Why put it Marco Rubio's name in it? Yeah, I'm I'm the eighteenth most bipartisan senator in the Senate based uh uh according to the Luger Center, the eighth Then that's that's a little bit of an achievement. Us out

of one hundred senators, I'm one hundred. I'm the most junior senator in the Senate, and I've been able to convince people to work with me, to pull people together, and so, yeah, I will be honest. Ted Cruise and I are both on the Commerce Committee. Most of the time when he's talking, I'm sitting there thinking to myself, really, if you like you put on a suit in the tie to come here to do that. So that's usually

what I'm thinking. But but when it came time to name our fourteen a priority corridor in Georgia, an interstate that would run through Texas and also through Georgia, would connect our military basis, would revitalize a lot of our rural areas that have been suffering all throughout Georgia. I didn't mind working with TED crews to do that. If we can build out the highway, nobody cares if you're

a Democratic or Republican, you get to use the highway. Um. So, so what I've endeavored to do is not to be a senator who used to be a pastor, but a pastor in the Senate, which is which is why I returned to my pulpit. I preach here every Sunday, and you continue to do the important work. So I hope the people of Georgia will give me six more years to keep doing this work because I want to think to go back. It's a good talk of my happen. Thank you so much for joining in somethings. Remember having

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