There are thirty five days remaining until the American people will decide who sits behind the resolute desk in the Oval Office. This is the warning. The threat is clear, it's present, and it's dangerous. The threat is Donald Trump and his understudy jd Vance. He wasn't treated as the threat that he is. Jd Vance is an extremist who said that women who are beaten and tortured should stay
with their abuser to keep the family strong. Jd Vance is a political extremist who fetishizes victor orbon who has embraced replacement theory, who stigmatizes immigrants, who scapegoats, who is
involved in one of the most Unamerican projects imaginable. He seeks to take rights and liberty away and more than anything else, jd Vance was part of an effort that sought to overthrow the government of the United States in twenty twenty with a pack of lies and jd Vance is made clear that if he has the power, he would put the loser against the will of the American people,
into the Oval Office to be made a dictator. What matters in the vice presidential debate was not Tim Walls being too nice or Tim walls being too soft or tim walls getting lost in the minutia of policy. What matters in this debate is what happened in the end, and what happened in the end is something that's perfectly clear.
Donald Trump lost an election, and he incited violence to try to overthrow the result of that election in a vast conspiracy that culminated in an attack on the capital of the United States, where MAGA extremists defecated in the United States Senate, in the United States House of Representatives, they urinated on the walls of the rotunda. It was purposeful, it was deliberate, and JD. Vance was part of it,
along with a great many of his colleagues. This election tests the cornerstone of America's society, whether the people can sustain, through free and fair elections, a government of by and for the people. What jd. Vance stands for is something grotesque and hideous if you are a patriotic American. And
despite this insanity and blather from the debate by JD. Vance, the reality is he is a threat, and Trump is a threat, and the MAGA movement is a threat to freedom, to liberty, to the rule of law, to the US Constitution to which they have become domestic enemies. It's the true truth and the evidence is this.
Would you again seek to challenge this year's election results, even if every governor certifies the results.
I'll give you two minutes. Well, Nora, first of all, I think that we're focused on the future.
We need to figure out how to solve the inflation crisis caused by Kamala Harris's policies.
And this Kamala Harris wants.
To treat the power to speak government and big tech to silence people from speaking their minds. That is a threat to democracy that will long outlive this present political moment.
And this he is still saying he didn't lose the election. I would just ask to that, did he lose the twenty twenty election?
Tim? I'm focused on the future.
Did Kamala Harris censor Americans from speaking their mind and the wake of the twenty twenty COVID situation?
That is a damning That is a damning non answer.
They are running promising retribution and violence and imprisonment against political foes. History teaches us that Dare has no ever ever been a political leader who has promised those things, who upon taking power, did not deliver them. And that's what this debate should have been about. Donald Trump didn't
build a strong economy. He wrecked the American economy while killing hundreds of thousands of Americans unnecessarily with his deranged management of the COVID pandemic, which was the worst in all the Western developed world. Because the only leader of a powerful country who was telling his citizens to inject bleach into their arm was the American president, he crashed the economy, he alienated our allies, he created instability in the world, and he set the seeds for the chaos
we see. The reality is the JD Vance tonight demonstrated there was no issue that he would not invert the reality of with some type of revisionism that bordered between the ludicrous and the delusional.
For instance, here, just to clarify for our viewers, Springfield, Ohio does have a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status temporary protected.
Thank you, senator. We have so much to get to, Margaret. I think it's important out of the economy.
Things, Margaret, the rules were that you got to We're going to fact check it.
Who are here when we bring in this additional revenue.
With higher economic growth, we're going to be able to provide paid family leave childcare options that are viable and workable for a lot of American families.
Can you clarify how that will solve the childcare shortage.
We're here and we're not going to stop it by listening to experts. We're going to stop it by listening to common sense wisdom, which is what Donald Trump governed on.
What the American people saw tonight was a smooth up and a Minnesota nice guy who's the governor and the VP nominee, who got the talking points down and delivered some good lines and no doubt titillated the focus groups and all the people in those swing states with the dials in their hands. But this election is a consequential one. This is not Obama versus Romney, This is not Bush
versus Dukakis, Clinton versus Bush. This is an existential election because there is a faithless man who is running to be all powerful, to be a caesar, which is what JD. Vans has said he wants. It's not about small things, and there is no common ground to be had between patriotic Americans and the MAGA movement that seeks domination, that seeks control and seeks to take it in thirty five days each time. Tonight that Tim will All stuck his hand out, that tried to be decent, that tried to
find common grounds. Within a moment or two. JD. Vance took a bite out of it because that's his nature. He's disingenuous, he's dishonest, and he's a threat. Tim Walls talked about fear at the end.
He said, Donald Trump makes the people I care about afraid. A lot of America feels that way. We don't need to be afraid. Franklin Roosevelt was right.
Alls.
We have to fear is fear itself. Kamala Harris is bringing us a new way forward.
Fear is on the ballot, But the most important thing was left un set. Tim Walls didn't say what must be said to the fearmongers, what must be said to the demagogues, what must be said to the dividers, What must be said to all of the people who hear
their poisonous message, which is do not be afraid. Kamala Harris is the candidate for president, and she showed in her debate what's at stake, what's on the line, and how manifestly unfit Donald Trump is, And no matter how smooth jd Vance might have been, simple reality is he's not on the ballot. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are.
That's who sits in the big chair behind the big desk, and that choice is existential and the failure of this debate was that that existential choice wasn't made existentially clear. Let me make it so. Donald Trump is an existential threat to the American way of life, along with JD. Vance, along with Ted Cruz, along with a whole legion of people who turned against their country for convenience, for money, for power. Cynicism overwhelmed their patriotism. That's just what happens.
It could have been talked about more clearly tonight, but Tim Walls did good enough, because good enough means that nothing that anyone say here tonight is going to be remembered, because really, what happened here isn't about the main event, and who cares what went on in Minnesota. What matters is this, Donald Trump is a fascist and Kamala Harris is a leader who will keep this country great and
protect the American spirit. The American Faith and the American Declaration of Independence, which promises that we are all created equal and dowed by a creator, with inalienable rights, including life, liberty in the pursuit of happiness. The next president will be sitting on the balcony at the White House watching
the fireworks in twenty twenty six. That person must be Kamala Harris, and it must be her because she is the only candidate on the ballot that believes in the people, that believes in the country, that believes in the Constitution, that believes in our story, that believes in our faith, which is liberty. This is the warning. Thirty five days to go. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, on
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