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Steve Schmidt Explains Why Mark Cuban Would Never Vote For Donald Trump

Mar 05, 202413 minEp. 180
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Billionaire entrepreneur and “Shark Tank” investor Mark Cuban said he’d vote for Joe Biden even if “he was being given last rites” before he voted for Donald Trump. Cuban has been critical of Trump and told Bloomberg that he planned on voting for his Republican opponent Nikki Haley in the Texas Primary on Super Tuesday. But is Cuban emblematic of a larger trend of anti-Trump Republicans? Will they follow his stance and jump parties come Election Day? Or will they stay home and protest Trump by casting no ballot at all? Steve explains what this trend could mean for Donald Trump in 2024.
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Here's what Mark Cuban said, he would rather vote for Joe Biden on his deathbed than he would for Donald Trump. It's Tuesday, March the fifth. There are two hundred and forty five days remaining until America picks its next commander in chief. Here is today's warning and a quick reminder this morning, remember subscribe to the Warning YouTube channel. What

is the mood of the American electorate? All of these questions will play out during the months ahead, but we start out at a place where it's important to recognize how discontented the American electorate is. Overwhelming percentages of the American people do not like, do not want, and incredibly do not yet fully believe that the choice is going to be President Biden versus former President Donald Trump. Tonight,

the Super Tuesday results will make that fact clear. Both men are winning their party's nominations in his historic fashion. Donald Trump is undefeated in any state. He will win all fifty states, probably every territory except for the two thousand Republicans who voted in the federal District of Washington DC. Within this deep dissatisfaction are great concerns and worries about Joe Biden's age, and those worries fall into two buckets. Primarily, the first is can President Biden win? Can he do

the job as a candidate? And then two will he make it through a second term as president competently? Can he be president? Can he lead the world's most powerful nation? And of course the implication behind that is President Kamala Harris now billionaire more Cuban, an ardent foe of trump Ism, somebody who is articulately, indecisively called out the maga extremist leader over and over again, has made clear his preferences in the electorate and in the way that more Cuban

uniquely has. He has stripped away all of the underlying brush and got to the heart of the matter. He laid out the choice as it is, as clear as day, and has drawn a bright line at the point of decision. Here's what Mark Cuban said. He would rather vote for Joe Biden on his deathbed than he would for Donald Trump.

That is the Cuban position, and he's not alone. One of the findings inside the New York Times poll is that the people who are deeply worried and have the greatest level of concern about both candidates are Biden voters. They will either turn out for Biden or they will

stay home, which is in action for Trump. The choice in the electorate, the choice for the country's future at the edge of its two hundred and fiftieth birthday, is whether to install into power a man who seeks to unwind unwind the accomplishments, the achievements of the American Revolution and everything that came after that spread freedom and liberty and equality to all people, regardless of race and creed,

and religion or sexual orientation. What Donald Trump proposes is a multi headed monstrosity, a police state that will round up millions and assign them to vast camps from which they'll be deported without much do process. Apparently. What it means is the retribution against political speech and political opposition and dissent and protest. What it means is the tolerance for violence. What it means is a license for corruption. What it means is a subjugation of human rights below

a dogma of political power. Political power that asserts that the leader, that the movement, that the party, and ultimately the state, which is a blend of all of the above, is more powerful, more important, and above the human being. There's a name for this philosophy. It's called fascism, and it's what Donald Trump believes in. He is a fascist.

The tension that is playing out in the Republican Party is the tension that always plays out at the tectonic place where a fascist faction meets the vestigal conservative faction. This party is irreconcilable because the two factions cannot be squared if on the one side, truly there are devotees to the ideas that founded the Republic, the notion that all men and today all of us are created equal,

endowed by a creator with inalienable rights. The doctrine and dogmas of power that strong makes right do not fit within that system and can never be made to fit. So within this division that will play out in the Republican Party where Nikki Haley will get somewhere across the sixteen states between twenty five to forty percent. There is a faction, But what is it that they support? Will in the end these people come around and support Donald Trump,

believing the greater threat is the opposing political tribe. Even know that tribe, that party, the Democratic Party, the oldest in the world, is the only political institution in the country left standing despite all of its flaws, that believes in the central tenets and ideas of the country, which are that the people are sovereign, the people decide who rules in an election. This is what's at stake. This is the cornerstone of the American way of life. This

is the foundation. Everything that exists has grown from this space, from this soil, from this place. This is what is being poisoned by a national malevolence that holds I want power and I'll take it or regardless of any restraints, any restrictions, because in the end, all that matters is me, and that is the foundation, the cornerstone of trump Ism,

of American fascism, of the revengist American First Movement. This must be opposed, and it must be defeated by a vast coalition that unites not around Joe Biden's brilliance or excellence, or around a belief in the man, but about something much bigger, much more important. At the edge of the country's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of independence, a belief and an idea, and an ideal that has lit the world, a rekindling of it. It must be asserted and proclaimed

broadly and loudly and proudly. We are Americans, and Americans should never ever hollering the disrespect to the ideas and the ideals and the sacrifices that have been made to bequeath the Republic to us in freedom and liberty, that are daily made by a miscrant like Donald Trump, a low man of low standing, accused criminally convicted of sexual assault, the insider of insurrection, the purveyor of lies against the outcome of an election that have poisoned faith, idealism, and

belief in the greatest experiment in the history of human civilization. That man tonight will take a giant leap forward as the leader of the third oldest political party in the world that has metastasized into something profoundly different from what its founders believed it would be and was for a

very long time. It isn't a great choice, but should the choice become the defense of an idea against a deep threat through a vote or a man that somebody feels may be diminished, it is the obvious and only choice, because in the end, the other choice threatens the cornerstones the foundations of the American way of life. This isn't an election about tax codes. This is an election about liberty and about power, and about whether in America a

president is an emperor, king or a caesar. And the answer to that, and forevermore, must always be no. Thank you for listening to my political commentary. If you like what you heard today, please also consider subscribing to The Warning Daily newsletter on substack.

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