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It is Verdict with Ted Cruz week in Review. Ben Ferguson with you in Mayomi. Was it a big week at the Democratic Convention and we covered a lot. Optics seem to be the number one thing Democrats were obsessed with, and it was showing a unified front. But they may be lying to you about just how unified the Democratic Party is. We're gonna explain exactly what Democrats are saying behind closed doors about Kamala Harris's campaign.
Also playing the hits right.
It's a smart strategy if you're the Democrats, but can it work with Kamala Apparently many of the Democrats don't think that's a strategy that can get her all the way to the White House. And finally, can America actually trust Kamala Harris after lying about Biden's cognitive decline and covering it up for so long. We're gonna deal with all of that. It is the weekend Review and it starts right now. You also have the optics of the party right now, and the Democratic Party is very much
acting like they are united. But there was some reporting that came out night two and it said VP. Kamala Harris held an event ninety miles away from the DNC on the night the party's two most popular figures, Barack and Michelle Obama, campaign on her behalf, and a source familiar with the DNC planning tells Fox that the choice was made out of sensitivity and respect for quote Joe Biden Obamas are still not on the White House good side quote unquote Why because well, they were part of
the coup. A source familiar with the situation said, quote it would not be helpful, helpful to their relationships quote unquote. Fox has told this plan came together to avoid the optics of Harris still serving as Biden's VP, appearing alongside one of the figures he views as responsible for driving him out of office, driving the end of his reelection bid at the very convention which was suppose to be his only weeks ago. Quote, we are in tricky territory,
the source said to Fox. Now, I find a little bit of hope in this because you mentioned the media. You mentioned everything's supposed to be kumbaya, but there's still a lot going on behind the scenes. There are still people, by the way, and I tweeted this out when I was watching Michelle Obama and she came out. I said, go and compare the crowd noise and the excitement when Michelle Obama walked out to when Kamwa Harris walked out.
And they love Michelle more than they love their president for their candidate for the White House.
Well, look that's clearly true.
And you and I eleven months ago predicted number one, that Joe Biden the Democrats would throw them off the ticket.
We were right on that.
But number two, I predicted that they would replace him with Michelle Obama. Now I gotta say, if they had, I think their odds of winning would be very, very high. If I were a Democrat, I would have been all in on the team Michelle, because Michelle would have been an incredibly formidable candidate. I think they tried to convince Michelle to do it. I think she said no. And you and I talked about at the time what would prevent that, and I said two things would prevent that.
One if Joe refused to go, and I think he did refuse to go for a month after month after month until they finally forced him out by threatening the twenty fifth Amendment. And then I said, number two, maybe, just maybe Michelle would say no. Why because she likes to take more than she needs. Why because she likes to fly on a G five. Why because she likes Martha's vineyard. Why because she likes to party with Oprah
Winfrey and George Clooney. Why because she lives the life of a movie star and so decided not to do that. Now I'm grateful for America that she did, because, as I said, she would have been an incredibly dangerous candidate. But I got to say, listening last night to Michelle Obama and listening to Barack Obama, those two may be the two most dangerous demagogues our country has seen in a generation. Barack Obama, listening to him talk, that man
is a talented communicator. I disagree with him on virtually every issue. I think Barack Obama is the progenitor of the Marxist takeover of the Democrat Party.
I think that is his ideology.
It is born of the radical extremism in our universities. But he can dress it up in a way that it doesn't sound extreme. It is dangerous. And I'll say one thing I thought about last night during the convention. Thank God for the twenty second Amendment. Thank God for the limitation of two terms as a president, because if Barack Obama were still running, he might be president for another decade. And so I'm grateful that he can't formally
have the job. But he remains incredibly potent and incredibly dangerous because he masks up extreme ras in a way that seems innocuous, that seems non threatening, and it seems very hip and very cool.
Well, I stop watching it.
He literally demonized Republicans for thirty one minutes and then called for unity. I mean, who can do that unless you're an incredibly talented politician where you trash the other side. And by the way, I'm still waiting for somebody in prime time to say they're glad that Donald Trump is alive and wasn't and wasn't assassinated. That's not ever, that hasn't come out of anybody's mouth.
Now they're trying to gas gas like that and and just completely erase it from public consciousness that it even happened.
And and here we are two other questions I want to dive into real quick. I haven't seen a lot of American flags of the Democratic Convention, except if they're being burnt outside of the DNC. Democratic supporters are there burning the American flag. We are seeing a I would argue a fair amount of arrests. We've had a second perimeter wall that's had to be put up because of the pro Hamas pro terrorist protesters were able to break
through the first wall yesterday and the Chicago police. You know, for Democrats, they're all about defund the police until they needed to protect their convention. And many of the Democrats are being protected by these police are the same ones that have been demonizing and attacking the police. One of them, by the way, is Kamway Harris. Let's not let her
off the hook for that. And we also found out from the people in charge they said, don't worry if it's a misdemeanor, no one's going to be charged of any crime.
So go out there and do what you want during the convention.
So I think it's worth asking yourself why is it that anti Israel pro Hamas protesters burn the American flag? And the reason is simple, those who hate Israel hate America. And when you unders stand that simple reality, it tells you an enormous part amount about the delegates that are in that convention hall. Why is Josh Shapiro, not Kamala Harris's VP nominee answer, because he's Jewish, and Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party did not want to piss off
the angry protesters outside who are burning American flags. That is more and more the base of the Democrat Party. And understand, they don't just hate Israel, they hate America as well.
All right, so let's look ahead into the political crystal ball. Senator, you still have a candidate that the Democratic Party isn't that excited about that. Behind the scenes, they're worried and nervous that the coronation is now coming back down to the reality, which is she was not liked as a vice president for the last three and a half years. She was not liked as a presidential candidate either, and was like one of the first ones out of the race.
And now she's back in prime time. What does she have to do to sell herself to the American people? Can she overcome all of that? Or are they just screwed because Harris is at the end of the day still Harris.
Well, look, they're motivated by two things. Number one, a lust for power, and Democrats are united in a lust for power. They are willing to do just about anything to stay in power. They were perfectly willing to be behind a president who is all but comatose. They knew that, everybody knew that, and yet it kept them in power. So it was just fine with them to have a commander in chief who was not capable of defending this nation.
By the way, it's also why they're willing to embrace policies like open borders and the invasion of this country because they look at eleven and a half million million illegal immigrants as future Democrat voters, and so power justifies everything. And this is a Democrat party that they follow orders. They they are collectivists, they are authoritarians, so they all
follow orders. So everyone is on team Kamala. By the way, I don't think you're going to hear much complaining, even from the Biden circles about him being forced out, because when they crack the whip, this is a party that everybody gets on board, even Joe Biden after he's been put out to pasture. But secondly, what is going to motivate Democrats in this election hatred for Donald J.
Trump.
It's why the word Trump is the most frequent word uttered at the convention, because that's what they're all unified. They might disagree on other things, but they all agree we hate Trump. Those two things are going to motivate a lot of Democrats, and we got to make sure that the American people are focused on the issues, focused on the policy, focused on the substance, focused on the utter failures of Kamala Harris and Joe biden I's policies and how they've hurt the American people.
If we can focus on the issues, we win.
Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. You know, when you have a convention, it's always about play the hits, right, And they're gonna have a lot of people that come in and a lot of people that quote unquote play the hits. It's gonna be Barack Obama, it's gonna be Michelle Obama, it's going to be every famous person that they want to throw up there. It's going to be
the Clintons. They're gonna clearly, I think play the hits. Is that a smart strategy, even if it kind of takes her off stage a little bit.
Is that actually a better idea because.
Then it's not all about her, it's more about the kumbaiism of the Democrats.
Absolutely.
Look, they don't want to actually talk about Joe Biden's record, and so playing the hits, playing Barack, playing Michelle. You know they're going to have Bill Clinton and have some nostalgia that they're going to talk about, Hey, things were great when we were in charge. Bizarrely enough, they're trying to run as the change campaign despite the fact that
the Democrats are the incumbent party. What is so bizarre, But every time Kamala proposes something is okay, if she could magically lower prices in grocery stores, why isn't she doing so right now? Like she's in office, Like there's nothing preventing her. If there is this magic wand is she just mean does she just like high grocery prices? No, it's complete nonsense. But no one in the press is asking, wait a second, you are in office. You don't get
to say, here's my great idea. You know, we're watching her emulate Trump's policies, things like copying no taxes on tips.
Well, she's been.
In office for four years, Why haven't they proposed it? I filed legislation to do that. Where's the White House? That that they are simply trying to ignore the fact that they are the incumbent administration. You're you're going to see a lot of that. There's there's something else that I think it's important for us to point out. We've talked a lot about how Democrats engage in Freudian projection.
I think Sigmund freud is is is rolling over in his grave that every single thing the Democrats accuse their opponents of doing, every single thing, is in fact what the Democrats are doing. Now, Ben, what was the adjective that that Tim Waltz famously used for Republicans, especially jd Vance weird, weird and by the way, like joy he said weird, And suddenly every every corporate meet outlet weird, weird, weird, weird, We're weird, weird, We're weird. That became the you know,
weird is the word. I'm gonna can we just you just mentioned weird. Doug Enhoff today said something that was weird referring to Harrison Waltter.
You were sitting behind him.
Listen, and again, we really bonded.
You saw me get up on that stage and we just hugged it out. A few of my friends texted me, It's like, what's the deal. Like, I've known you for twenty or thirty years, You've never hugged me like that. Well, you've never been a vice presidential candidate before on stage.
By the way, that's weird. That is just something weird to say. If you want to talk weird. And that's the Harris campaign.
Okay, and I got that beat. I'm going to give you something really bizarre. This is a headline from this week. DNC attendees will have opportunities for free vasectoms abortions.
Here's the news article.
Attendees at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, we'll have the opportunity to receive free vissectomies in a just blocks away from the proceedings at the United Center. Planned parenthooded Great Rivers, which operates in parts of Missouri and Illinois, will park its mobile health clinic near the DNC on October nineteenth and August nineteenth and August twentieth. According to The New York Times, medication abortions are reportedly available on
both days, with vasectoms exclusively being offered on Monday. We clip them Monday's and in fact, here's the tweet. Here we come Chicago, our mobile health clinic will be in the West Loop providing free vasectoms and medication abortion. Okay, Ben, that is weird a political convention. We're going to nominate our presidential nominee. You go to Chicago, what for you want a free vasectomy and free abortion?
Like these people are zealots.
Yeah, it's not just weird, it's also, I would argue, creepy on a whole other level, because they're actually celebrating the fact that you can come to the Democratic convintion with child and leave without a child. And that is now the Democratic Party Planned Parenthood actually put it out. Not only are they offering free abortions and the sectomies of the DNC, but they said they've like maxed out of appointments apparently for the vaseectomies, and they said we've
got unlimited however, medical abortions, medication abortion. So just keep on coming, ladies with your babies. The DNC come with a child and leave without one. That's sick, all right, all right, it is certainly sick. And you think about how far the Democrat Party has come. Bill Clinton stood up in the State of the Union and he said, as a Democrat, he wanted abortion to be safe, legal, and rare. There was a time when Democrats would acknowledge that abortion was the taking of a life, and they
defended it. But but, but but they didn't celebrate it. Now this Democrat Party is all about abortion all the time. It's it's it's it's a reason to dance in the streets. That is just how extreme the Democrat Party has gone. But but I am going to say something. I'm gonna go out on a limb. There's actually a portion of this I support.
I support every delegate at the DNC getting of a sectomy. I think that I think the world will be better off if these people don't reproduce. Now, look, half of them are not actually gonna have conjugal relations with someone of the opposite sex, and so they probably won't reproduce anyway. But I'm for let's just let's just stop it now. I'm really grateful. I would encourage you're a bad Democrat delegate if you don't get snipped center.
Let me ask you two final questions.
One what do you expect from the PEE candidate this week? Is that part of the campaign kind of gonna disappear? I mean, we saw the excitement of the DNC and all the Democrats had over at walls.
Now is he just kind of okay? Next? Number one?
Will that be an issue? And number two Harris is speech? How important is this speech to her future?
Well?
Look, I think Tim Waltz. Tim Waltz will have a major primetime speech and they're gonna do a lot to tell the narrative of him as nice old grandpa, your favorite teacher.
They're gonna call him coach a lot.
He's gonna be coach, coach, coach, and it's gonna be I mean, think mister Hollins opus. It is gonna be telling the narrative of a nice, you know, genial, affable teacher who just mentored young people and he coached them on the football team and and he's just They're gonna do everything they can to make it sunshine and light and joy. They will not, I predict, have him play the typical role of attack dog that VP candidates often do. They'll do a little bit of that, and it'll mostly
be attacking Trump and Trump and and Dvance. I think you'll get some of He'll use his line that they're weird because that kind of made his name. But I think they will try to just pitch him as utterly harmless, and they will talk nothing about the radical policies. You will not hear about the snitch line he's set up to report on your neighbors if they violated his draconian stay at home order. You will not hear about his order to put tampons in the boy's bathroom at school
because you know, boys really do need tampons. You won't hear any of that. You will not hear when they tell his life about the romantic honeymoon he enjoyed in communist China. None of those extreme positions, none of the weird aspects of his life will be highlighted. As for her speech, Look, this speech is a big deal, and I think she will give a good speech. I think Republicans that are all eger o. She's going to fall on her face. Listen at the convention. She's done a
pretty good job at at the rally. She reads from the teleprompter just fine, and they'll write her a good speech. They've got some amazing storytellers in the Democrat Party, and it is going to be all None of it is going to take responsibility for the disastrous and failed record of the last four years. But it is all going to be hope and change and joy. And you know, I think she will deliver it just fine. She's at much much greater risk when she's ad libbing, when she's
answering questions and being pressed. That will not happened this week, So she'll read the speech just fine as before.
If you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go back and down the podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing. I want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed. It's interesting that you said they need to lay at these facts
and the rapid response from the Trump campaign. I think did a pretty damn good job during the Democratic Convention laying some of this out, because right at the end of her speech, they sent out a picture with Kamala Harris next to Joe Biden and it said Biden Harris accomplishments, and here it was the bullet points allowed fifteen million unveted legals into the country, historic inflation crisis, record high gas prices in all fifty states, record high consumer debt,
released terrorists into the country, Ukraine, Russia War, Israel, Humaswar disaster, to withdrawal from Afghanistan, violent crime, skyrocketing, right to jail, political rival in the name of democracy, lied to the American public about Joe's decline, and I think we should talk about that. In a second, center declared war on American energy. Record low test scores in this country right now for Kate through twelve students. And she was also
the most unpopular vice president in US history. Now there's a trust factor here, and I'm not so sure that the Trump campaign has done a good enough job of talking about this issue, and I think they should actually talk about it more, especially at the debate coming up. Is how can we trust you when you clearly covered up the cognitive decline of the president of the United States of America. I think that would resonate with American voters.
Can I trust a woman that clearly lied to me for three years?
Yeah, I guess I don't see it the same way you do. I think most voters are cynical to politicians across the board think they think all politicians are liars, and so did Kamala Harris lie to the American people for four years? Absolutely? Did she cover up Joe Biden's mental decline? Absolutely, I'm not sure that changes a vote, though. I think that's a little bit baked into the cake.
What I would like to see the conversation on. I think every election turns on the most basic question, are you better off.
Than you were four years ago?
A man?
And when the Trump campaign gets distracted by issues that are not about how the American people's lives are worse off today than they were when Trump was president. If the campaign gets distracted, it's not making progress. I think it needs to focus every day. And by the way, look that set of bullet points that the campaign put out last night. That was a good set of bullet points. That needs to be very much what Donald Trump is saying on the stump, what he's saying and interviews, what
their ads are saying. And one of the points in there that has not gotten enough attention is the plummeting test scores for kids, and especially African American kids and Hispanic kids.
And you know, it was striking tonight at the convention.
Earlier in the convention, before Kamala spoke, they had Randy Weiningarten, the leader of one of the big teachers unions, who advocated for shutting down schools for over a year. Tens of millions of school kids had their schools shut down for over a year because of COVID. Kamala was a vocal and vigorous advocate of that, and it will go down I believe in history as one of the most catastrophic policies ever implemented that hurt tens of millions of
children across this country. I think we need to make that case that kids have been hurt by her radical policies. And you overlay that by her radical immigration policies that are releasing violent criminals that are threatening kids. You overlay that with their radical policies supporting defunding the police that
are releasing violent criminals that are threatening our kids. Look, much of this election is going to come down to suburban voters and suburban women who historically have voted Republican and in recent years have moved left. And suburban women in recent elections have not been fans of Trump personally of his style. However, you look at the number one issue with suburban women. It is illegal immigration and it
is crime. Those two together and it goes fundamentally to the safety of their families, the safety of their kids. And I think litigating that case, making the case that Kamala Harris has endangered your family and your children, is really important. I also mention on the disconnected from reality.
You know, Kamala went through this whole litany that Trump is going to lock up his opponents and wage war on you and send American troops against the American people, and it really was a dystopian Mad Max picture of Trump as a deranged dictator. And listen, that's the kind of rhetoric that sells well with left wing Democrats, but it ignores the fact that we had four years with Donald Trump as president. He didn't do any of that.
For that matter, the party that has done much of that has been Joe Biden and Kamala Harris that have used the Department of Justice and the FBI to attack their political opponents over and over and over again, especially Donald Trump, but also pro life activists, also individual conservatives
engaged in free speech. That they've engaged in the most massive effort of censorship in bed with big tech and making that case that, look, we know what a Trump presidency is like, We've been through it, and in almost every circumstance, the lives of Americans were better when Trump was president than they are now. That contrast, every day between now an election day needs to be front.
And center center. I got two questions I want to ask you. One of them goes back to are the American people dumb enough? Or are they going to be offended by one of the things that Kamala Harris said.
She said she accepted.
The Democrats nomination on behalf of the people. No one voted for this woman, No one.
Be clear. My entire career, I've only had one client, the people, and so on.
Behalf of the people.
On.
Behalf of every American, regardless of party, race, gender, or the language of grandmother speaks.
On.
Behalf of my mother and everyone who has ever set out on their own unlikely journey.
On.
Behalf of Americans, like the people I grew up with, people who work hard, chase their dreams, and look out for one another. On. Behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on Earth. I accept your nomination to be president in the United States.
Senator.
Great story, great words, great speech writing, thoes this one problem, no one voted for her.
You know, I got to say again, I don't think that's an issue that actually is going to move a single vote today.
So the people that.
Would be mad that no one voted for are the Democrats who voted for Joe Biden and other than Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. Jill Biden, and Hunter Biden. I don't know that there is a fourth Democrat in America that is mad right now. Every one of them is thrilled and relieved that they don't have what they perceived as the millstone around their neck that was Joe Biden bringing them to a certain loss, and they all believe they
now have a real chance at victory in November. So there's not a single voter on the Democrats side of the aisle who is angry that they are disenfranchised, and I think anybody else, frankly doesn't care. So that riff, To be honest, I thought that riff was pretty effective. I thought it was well written. She did a good job of leaning into to her record as Attorney general. You notice, by the way, there was essentially not a
word about her time as senator. I served with her in the US Senate for man.
I mean, there was nothing there was I was going to ask you about that.
She was the most liberal senator in the entire US Senate. She voted to the left of Bernie Sanders and to the left of Elizabeth Warren. That is hard to do. I served with Bernie and Elizabeth. They're both really whacked out on the far left, and Kamala was further left. Remember Kamala as a senator. In one hearing, she compared ice are our immigration agents with to the KKK, which
was grotesque and offensive, and all of that she just erased. Instead, she leaned into her time and by the way, she she largely erased her time as DA as well, because her time as DA was a train wreck. She basically leaned into her time as Attorney general. And I got to tell you, state attorneys general, it is a great job because a state ag le you bring cases that are really politically popular that you could lean in on. So she could say I fought on behalf of the elderly,
on behalf of veterans. Anyone who's been an AG could give that same litany, but it's a pretty effective litany and saying you know, she described going to court and saying, Kamala Harris for the people. I got to say, having spent five and a half years as Solicitor General of Texas, any time I was in court and and and and and say ted Cruz for the state of Texas. Look, that would send send a chill down your spine. I understood what she was saying when she was saying that,
and I thought rhetorically that was effective. Now the response goes back to what we said before. The response is, well, what have her policies done for the people? And they have hurt the people over and over and over again. Her record as Senator and her record as as Vice President has been Kamala harre Us for the criminals, Kamala Harris for the drug cartels, Kamala Harris for the human traffickers, Kamala Harris for the Ayatola, Kamala Harris for Hamas and Hesbela.
Because the money she sent to the Ayatola went to Amas and Hesbela. Kamala Harris for communist China. There was virtually not a word about China. And this entire speech because this administration's been in bed with China from day one. Her record has consistently been siding with everybody except the American people. But in order for that point to be made, its incumbent on the Trump campaign to make that point because the media, sure as heck isn't as always.
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