Policy, Personality, Political Signs & America's Divide

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know what I call it picnic table That's what
I call it table cloth. Yeah, this is my tablecloth shirt.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Okay, and you're going with the radical, very radical unbuttoned
wrists without the roll up to the elbow.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's just so, this is Is this a good or
bad look?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
It depends. I think it's fine. I think uh.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
I think just.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Letting those unbuttoned cuffs fly in the breeze, it's a look.
It's a look. But I'm more concerned about what's going
on underneath that I was hoping you wouldn't notice. No,
not not your chest hair. No, no, you're he's he
unbunted in his top button. No, no, not that I
don't have chest hair. For those keeping track at home,
it's the same. We're a chest hairless show over here.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah. What about what about the pants?

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
The pants? Ah?

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Sheesh, come on, hey, it's uh, it's agg It's nineteenth,
the year of our Lord, twenty twenty four, and I'm
wearing jorts Emery songer lights shorts, not even dark jorts.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
No, I stood up.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
That was weird.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
You wanted me to see them on all glory?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah okay, well, well, well well that's weird. That's fine.
You're gonna do what you're gonna do. I'm not gonna
change you with Tim Walls call me weird for that.
I think Tim Walls thinks you're weird anyway. Oh yeah,
you didn't even have to know, ya Wallsey. If you don't,
if you don't outright tell Tim that you're voting for
him or that you're a Democrat, you don't outright say it,

(01:23):
there's a good chance that he would call you weird.
Is Tim Walls weird? Approaching Donald Trump's You're fired as
like a hey politician, please say this to me? Ah,
you know what I mean? Like, like, do you think
that there are people there in the party that see
Tim Walls in face to face? Do you think the
people at the runs of that saw Tim Walls over

(01:44):
the weekend were like, please please call me weird?

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Probably not, now that I think about it. That's dumb.
That's just dumb. You know, whatever gets you going.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I guess, Yeah, well you can say that about a
lot of things.

Speaker 6 (01:56):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, So here we are. It's what theeenth. We're firmly
in the middle of the month of August. We're just
now getting to the Democratic National convention. Can somebody explain
to me who decides when these things happen. Most of
the ballots were due like first week of the month.
You had to have the names on it so they

(02:17):
can make them, get them out, get them out to
the people. Yeah, eh, yeahh. Donald Trump currently is talking
about his economy plans and some of his policies in York, Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is as we mentioned, the prize. I think of

(02:38):
the undecided or swing states, or the states that are
up in the air, if you will, the pulling. You know,
we talked quite a bit about that. What was it
last week? My brain's all scrammed. I think we did
a lot to be determined, man, a lot to be decided.

(03:00):
You want to know something. Two seventy to win is
that place that I go to and I like it
tells you, like what the polling is doing. And on
this the day of our you said August nineteenth, the
year of our lower twenty twenty four est. That's what
it is. We are counting down to two two months

(03:20):
and like two and a half months to the election.
Can you name pop Quiz? We've talked about him enough. Matt,
you're going to be the surrogate listener in the studio.
We know Pennsylvania is a swing state. Name the other
swing states. Hmmm, based on polling and what we expected
coming into this, like like coming into this right.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Right, Pennsylvania is it? I'll take Michigan for five hundred
that is correct and show me Ohio no, no?

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Now likely read? Okay, likely read?

Speaker 1 (03:56):
How about I asked Colorado last time and I was.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Wrong, that was wrong. Yeah, that's likely blue Hmm. I'll
go ahead and help you out. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin,
as we mentioned, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada. Okay, Now,
there are some scenarios where all of those aren't just
the swing states, but they're also kind of like you

(04:19):
have Maine, which has its separate districts that are voting right.
You have Nebraska that has the separate district that votes
Walls was here this week, and Jada Vance is supposed
to be here this week on Thursday, I believe, is
the date that he's supposed to be here. I've been
hearing that there is a likelihood that this is not
going to be a new like this is going to

(04:40):
be a common occurrence, So you're going to have people
campaigning for the election in Omaha, in the Omaha area
because they think that one specific, single electoral vote is
that important or could end up being that important, And
that's true. We talked about the scenario of how things
could go down where that could be the elect roll
vote that basically wins the election for the Democrats or

(05:03):
preserves the election for the Republicans. If Wisconsin of the
states seven states that we talked about, if Wisconsin, Michigan,
and Pennsylvania all go blue, in Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and
North Carolina all go red, that last that Omaha spot
like that, that's it, man Like that really very well
could end up being the spot that that would be

(05:26):
the two hundred and seventieth electoral vote for the Democrats
if it flips Republican, which could be a surprise to many,
If it flips republican here, then there's a good chance.
I think that it's two sixty nine, two sixty nine
in that scenario. And if that's the case, then we
got ourselves an issue because you can't have a tie.
Could you imagine Kamala and Trump co president of the

(05:49):
United States of America, I don't think that's how the
Constitution had in mind, but you know, you never know. Well,
I mentioned all this because the Democratic National Convention starts
tonight and Joe Biden is supposed to be the key
note speaker, Okay, the keynote speaker, and those that keynote speaker.
They'll have big ones throughout. But the end on Thursday,
the last day of this whole thing, is Kamala and

(06:12):
Tim Walls, and they're gonna do their whole big shebang
Barack Obama schedule. I think tomorrow night it'll be just
going to see what Joe Biden says. He's probably gonna
be thankful. He's gonna get cheered by a lot of people.
They're gonna thank him for his service and basically say
thank you for getting out of the way so we
have a chance to.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Win this year kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
He's not really talked about that scenario, and he ain't
gonna because why would he. But what he's gonna do
is talk about on the first day in office, or
the first day I knew I was a nominee, I
picked Kamala Hers to be my running mate because she
could do the job.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
We're gonna hear that a bunch all right.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
He's gonna take some credit for elevating her and resurrecting
her entire political career, which fair enough, however, I do
in my own humble, humble opinion, I do feel like
this is the kind of week that could manipulate a
lot of the voting based on those speeches and how
the Republicans on the campaign trail ahead of this, like

(07:09):
former President Trump speaking early in the afternoon here in Pennsylvania.
He's going to be talking about stuff. You're gonna see
jd Vance in different places talking about stuff. They're gonna
do that in the early afternoon to beat the keynote
speakers in the evening, and when those keynote speakers finish
up in the evening, then the next day we'll kind
of rerack the deck and try to figure out, Okay,
what were the messages that may end up moving the

(07:30):
needle in these seven swing states or potentially where those
needles could be moved in other states if one of
them starts leaning one way or the other, which could
change the way this race plays out. Definitely worth talking
about on our phone line, which is always open for
two five to five A eight eleven ten. We have
Mark on the line. Mark, you got a little bit
additional information on this for us today.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (07:53):
So two things. One is, so I did I own
a call center. So I did a nationwide whole of
my own, just for the fun of it, of twenty
five thousand people, of which sixty three percent they were
voting for Trump. But that was nationwide, couper random and
then I thought, well, you know what, I had it

(08:13):
just for the fun of it, whole. I know, there's
these counties. So for example, Philadelphia basically determines the electoral
college for the entire state of Pennsylvania. And so that county,
I can't remember what it is, it's Philadelphia, you know.
That's that's considered a swing state county or a swing county.

(08:35):
And there's actually seventeen counties within the seven states, at
least is what I show on my data swing states.
There's seventeen counties that actually are the ones that have
an impact. And you are correct, Omaha is listed as
a swing state or as a swing county district two
technical Igua. Yeah, right, and that is because last time

(08:57):
it went Bacon for Congress and and Biden for president.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Right, very unusual, and we.

Speaker 7 (09:04):
Do have those, you know, we're the one, like you
were saying, we're one of these states that we split
our electoral college based on congressional district. Yeah, but anyway,
that is really where the focuses is those seventeen counties.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
It's I'm glad you mentioned that part of it too,
because those counties, like you said, in all of the
swing states, there isn't a split in those swing states,
all seven of them. So really the urban areas, if
they get enough of a turnout, could really flip it
into a blue leaning state just by having enough people
in the right locales who have that ideology versus you know,

(09:40):
the people who might be in more rural areas, say
in Pennsylvania that isn't in Philadelphia County, which is, by
the way, the correct county. Philadelphia's in Philadelphia County.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
But yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (09:51):
Which is odd because this is the opposite of what
they founding fathers wanted. They thought having an electoral college
would avoid having, for example, New York City right control
as the president. You know, that's why we have an
electoral college. And now it's well done to No, we
don't have one city. We have you know, basically seventeen
locations that are going to control who is the president

(10:14):
of the United States.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, it's a good Uh, it's a good it's a
good conversation to have because we've talked to our friend Jim,
who's really very into the Constitution. He says exactly what
you just said. That was the whole point. The whole
point of this was, uh, to have each location kind
of have their vote count equally, no matter how populous
they may have been. And pretty quickly after the beginning

(10:37):
of the electoral College, I mean, it's just kind of
been the state and unlast year in Nebraska remain right now, Mark,
good stuff, Thanks for calling in, Thanks for listening to
us today.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
We've got some more thoughts on this.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
You can call us four h two five five eight
eleven ten. What's going to be said by Biden tonight
that could affect the way that we view the election
in November four two five five eight eleven ten. It's
news Radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 8 (11:01):
On news Radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
I don't know what makes today world photo DA, but
I'm sure I'm sure you'd find out either way. Let's
be let's be totally realistic about where we're at as
a society going into the DNC. I'm watching on one
of the screens here they have a camera on a
an organized protest that is a pro Palestinian protest or

(11:28):
what else do you want to call it?

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Anti israel I hesitate.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
I can't hear what they're saying, so it's hard for
me to know if it's anti Semitic in nature. But
either way, right that stuff is still happening, and these
people are protesting to the DNC because those are the
people that are in charge, and they still are supporting Israel.
So a lot of these people, these protesters, really angry
in Chicago, saying you shouldn't be doing that. What's the

(11:55):
strategy there? Have you thought about this? Have you thought
about this, Matt? Is there a strategy? Need to trying
to play both sides of that fence, because I feel
like if you get too far away from your like
these people want utter like like utter one percent absolutely
without a doubt, there's no resources from here going to Israel,

(12:15):
complete defunding. They are not gonna be satisfied until the
United States is no longer at all associated with Israel.
That may not even be far enough for them insinuating
any of that stuff out loud. If you're the Democrats,
to win those people back, to get those people back
on your side, you are certainly going to be alienating
a huge amount of people who are be in the
middle of saying that's not right. It's totally like you're

(12:38):
gonna be giving a ton of ammunition to the other side.
Is there any way to play both sides of this isle?
Or you just got a punt and realize you're just
not gonna win these people anymore. Because that was the
thing about the Shapiro thing, right, Like, we insinuate a
few different reasons why Josh Shapiro wasn't the choice, even
though we made all the sense in the world to
be Kamala Harris's running mate, and we probably came to
the conclusion it was probably in his interest not to

(13:00):
want it. In all reality, he doesn't need that kind
of elevation right now. He can just stay doing what
he's doing as the governor of Pennsylvania and he'll be fine.
In four years if he wants to run for president,
he'll be fifty five years old. He's going to be
in great shape to be able to do that without
risking his political career on a losing effort right now
and abandoning a state that loves him.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Right.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
But there was a piece of that that was did
they not choose him because they wanted to win the
vote of the anti Israel people because Jos Shapiro is
a public very publicly known to be Jewish. I don't
know if you can play both sides and win, because
you're going to make one side or the other very
angry and they're just not going to support you. What's
the likelihood of these people not voting at all? Would

(13:41):
be my question, because they're not going to vote Republican,
the anti Israel protesters.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
I think you have to Well, I have no idea,
but it's a tough one. The way you lay that.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Out, you wonder if there is a voice in that
room saying they're going to vote for us at the
end of the day. So if they voted all, it
will be for us, right right, And if they don't don't,
then does it count against us?

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Well?

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Can we survive without that support, especially with the Muslim
communities in Michigan specifically, because there's not a lot of
obvious roads to victory without both Pennsylvania and Michigan for
the Democrats right now.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
And those are both big swing states. They're the biggest ones.
Yeah huh.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
I mean, I guess George's technically one electoral vote bigger,
as is North Carolina than Michigan. But it's a big one.
Fifteen electoral votes. You're gonna need it. You will need
it if you're the Democrats. I think can you win
that without those people if they sit on the bench,
or you know, they vote Green Party or whatever they
decide to do.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
I mean, who's to say.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
It's tough because I look at the polls in Michigan
right now, and it's showing me that Harris has been
favored the last Oh I don't know. There was one
giant thing that they did, and Harris was ahead in
all of them. But I don't know how much I
trust that one. It was a small sample size, and
we know how difficult some of that stuff is to read,

(14:57):
knowing where it potentially came from. Earlier in August, Donald
Trump was at least even with her. It's pretty close.
If it's if it's fifty to fifty based on the
POLLI right now, my thought is that it wouldn't like
it's not it doesn't matter. You're gonna lose if it's
even right now, because the people that are there that

(15:17):
are anti Israel aren't going to vote for you, or
if they do vote for you just because they don't
want to be left out in the cold, and they're
just gonna keep protesting against you, then you have a
chance to win that state. And I think I would
bet that if I had to pick right now, I
would guess that Michigan's probably gonna vote Democrat. But that
such a wild card topic there that could mess with

(15:41):
it in some way. How far are you willing to
go to know that you can win that state, or
like you said, do you just like assume if they
do vote, they're going to vote for us. We can't
lose the people in the middle, and we can't say
screw Israel. I think we'll know a lot more after
the DNC, and of course that begins today, So that's
why they're protesting there in Chicago. These anti Israel protesters

(16:03):
are protesting outside of the Democratic National Convention, which is
going to start in Earnest tonight. Joe Biden is the
scheduled keynote speaker this evening. And we'll see what he
has to say in front of a crowd that certainly
is going to be giving him all the adulation, not
just for what they'll call decades of service, but what
they will also say is one of the most selfless

(16:24):
moves in the history of American politics by him pulling
himself out of the race in November, even though we
know there is plenty more going on behind the scenes
that pushed him in that direction. You got thoughts on this,
I'd love to hear from yet. Four h two five
five eight eleven ten. Four h two five five eight
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ten kfab.

Speaker 8 (16:45):
Emrie Sunger on news Radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
We're talking to you about.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Day one of the Democratic National Convention, which takes place
in Chicago's starting today. Lot going on up there and
going to be the first keynote speaker supposed to be
taking place tonight and Marks on our phone line to
talk about that at four two five five eight eleven ten. Mark,
Welcome to the show. What's on your mind?

Speaker 9 (17:09):
I am Marie, Thanks for taking my call. So tonight, Yeah,
Biden's going to officially pass the torch to Kamalia. And
what I'm perplexed at is, you know, before the debate,
all the Republicans were saying Biden is not capable of
serving four years. They all wanted him out or they
didn't think he was capable of being president. The debate happens,

(17:33):
He has a terrible debate, He makes a decision. Granted
there was pressure back out. If he would have backed
out before the primary, he would have supported Harris to
run as a Democratic nominee. She would have won the debate.
Arc she would have won the primary, There's no question
about it. With his support, I mean, the Democratic parties

(17:54):
behind her.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Now right, Well, Mark, I would guess a second second,
I'll let you finish there. But just on that point,
the that's like a butterfly effect thing though, right Like,
let's say he was he says last August that you know,
four more years probably isn't in the cards, and he's
going to try to push all the way through this,

(18:17):
you know term, and then after that passed the torch
and then he can absolutely endorse Harris. But there I
think are going to be people like the Gavin Newsoms
of the world that might want to throw their hat
in the ring if they do decide to open it up. Right, So,
I'm not one hundred percent sure that Kamala would be
in great, in the best shape. You're probably right that
they would all eventually coalesce behind her. But I think

(18:39):
that could have created a little bit more of a
legitimate primary and caucus season.

Speaker 9 (18:44):
It would have been more legitimate, it would have been
more along the book the way it normally is. But
I think the main problem with the Republicans right now
is their upset because Kamaia is more than likely going
to be Trump in the election and Biden would have
It would have Trump would have destroyed Biden and the election. Well,
I'm not now the whole thing is flipped. Yeah, and

(19:06):
that's why everybody's upset saying it's you know, democracy is
circumvented in all that.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
No, no, And I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
I'm with you, Mark, You're right. And this is politics.
This is the game, right You're you're trying to take
whatever's happening and frame it or angle it in a
way to where you sound like you're right. And that's
the thing about politics is everything is pretty much an
opinion at the end of the day, and you're able
to kind of make that happen without solely lying to
the face of the voters. But here's where I'm at

(19:34):
on the whole thing, right, I think that the process,
I'm not so sure that I think it's going to
be close. It's obviously going to be much closer in
November now that it would have been if it's Biden
versus Trump. But as far as you know what the
I think the the status of America and what their
opinion is on that situation. I have seen on social

(19:55):
media so many people that are probably left leaning voters,
but they don't follow they don't see like the kind
of people that follow the news cycle all the time.
When he bounced out and he said he's not going
to do this, and they replace him with Kamal and all, all
of a sudden, you have this vibrant person that's actually
able to speak on the microphone. Now all of these
people are saying, Wow, they really got him, didn't they.
They don't even care about the undemocratic nature of that.

(20:17):
It's scary that they're okay having their vote suppressed, but
at the same time, it's just part of the game. Now,
I don't think that's even a strategy you can rely on.
You can talk about how undemocratic the process was, but
at the end of the day, the people that are
leaning left, they don't care.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
They don't care.

Speaker 9 (20:32):
I say, it's more unconventional than undemocratic. I mean, I mean,
I voted for Biden in the primary. I am one
hundred percent supporting Kamalia in the presidential sure race. I mean,
I mean, and I think the vast majority of people
that voted for Biden are more than comfortable with where

(20:54):
it is right now. So I don't think.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
It's so Mark, b You don't have a problem at
all not being able to have a choice yourself in
the way that you know, you didn't get to vote
for Kamala, you had no say, and who was going
to be that person?

Speaker 3 (21:06):
You're okay with that I voted.

Speaker 9 (21:07):
I voted for Biden, and if he makes the choice
not not to run and to support her, I mean,
when I voted for Biden, I was voting for the tickets,
the Biden Harris ticket. Okay, Okay, Biden's out, Harris is in,
and we'll see what happens.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
All right, Mark, Well, this is good. I appreciate you
calling in. Thanks so much for your thoughts today.

Speaker 5 (21:25):
Thanks.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Ellen is on our phone line of four O two
five five eight eleven ten. Ellen, you're with Emery on
news radio eleven ten.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
Kfab Thank you.

Speaker 10 (21:32):
I haven't called Induka be in a long time.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Well, thanks for calling in Ellen. We appreciate that.

Speaker 10 (21:38):
Yeah, you know, well you just had a big aerospace
parade last Saturday, and we always have a big Veterans
Day parade. I'm I would, I can't help it. I
listen get George Cardinal in a lot and when you
talk about are you upset that Harris is in now
we're I'm sorry, I don't know your first name is.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Rick, It's Emory, but thanks Emory.

Speaker 10 (22:02):
I'm sorry, sorry, Emory. Do you know who George Carlin is?

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yeah, the comedian, right.

Speaker 10 (22:08):
Yeah, you know, Emory, You and I and the voters
are are pawns. We're there, the money is the game,
You're right, and we're not. We're not in the game.
So we have to do the only thing we have
is our vote. And I don't understand when everyone's talking
about Trump, Trump and and Kamala, why aren't they saying convicted?

Speaker 7 (22:31):
He's convicted?

Speaker 11 (22:32):
Ellen?

Speaker 10 (22:33):
Yeah, and he's uh and he's a rapist. Why isn't
that the head?

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Well?

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Ellen, Ellen, Ellen, just easy, you know, Ellen, Ellen, Ellen, easy, easy, Okay.
So the convict thing, like, yes, in a court of law,
he was found to be guilty of thirty four felony
counts of basically fraudulent or falsifying business documents.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yeah, no, Ellen, did you let Ellen?

Speaker 12 (22:57):
Ell?

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Ellen, let me finish. Okay. The idea of the trial, however,
I think is incredibly questionable based on how old the
information was and when it was provided, Like that information
was filed to be in court, wasn't until well after
he decided he was going to run for president. I
think there is a case that this was anticipating him

(23:19):
potentially running and getting the nomination, and they wanted to
be able to use this against him. Now, as far
as the rapist part of that, I don't like saying stuff.
He hasn't even been accused of that. He was convicted.
They said he was an adulterer. Stormy Daniels said that,
you know, they did things, but he didn't it was consensual.
In that moment, however, she felt like, but Ellen, if

(23:44):
what she's saying specifically is the truth, then it's not
just like, well, he grabbed her and then he violently
violated her. That that kind of thing, right, And I
think that's a dangerous thing for us to just start
throwing out, Like you can tell me that you don't
support him, you can tell me that there's a bunch
of stuff that you don't like about him, including the
fact that he's been in court this year. But I'm
just like, I don't want us to just be throwing

(24:07):
and slinging stuff about either side.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Really, that's not true.

Speaker 10 (24:11):
Why wasn't he called Why was he Why was he
just when he said that about McCain at the very
begin Yeah, but this whole craft started with him. Yeah,
and there's anybody else Republicans stand up and say.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Hey, hey, right, you're right, Ellen, And there are a
lot of people who are traditional Republicans who are upset
still to this day about the way that he handled
that situation. Now again, like I said, there are gonna
be people, but Ellen again, and I appreciate the call.

Speaker 5 (24:40):
Allan.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
This is I thank you so much for calling in today,
and I'm really appreciative that he called in. But just
to finish this, uh, there are things that are more
important to some people than the way that a person
like Donald Trump handles themselves, and that I think is
more a snapshot of what our nation is about. It's
not even just about the content of the character of

(25:04):
the person, or the policy or their personality or the
ability they have to look nice we're in a suit.
It's a combination of all of those things. And you
could say that you have a problem with him being technically,
as of right now, a convicted felon. You could say
you have a problem with the way that he handled
women in the past, even if a lot of it
is questionable or unfounded or he denies it. You can

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also say you have a big problem with the way
that he handled the John McCain thing, or the things
that he has said or done about veterans specifically, that
in that scenario, you could say all that there are
people in this nation that literally have more in their
brain that they care about than any of that stuff.
They would much rather vote for somebody who has a
policy or a platform or an agenda that they more

(25:48):
align with, and that's how they vote. It's not one
size fits all, and that's one of the beauties of
American politics, and that's why you have to understand that
there are people on both sides. Even if you can't
think of why one would support these people, there's so
many different reasons why anyone could garner the support of America.
We'll get to more calls when we come back. Thank
you so much for listening. Four two, five, five, eight

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Speaker 8 (26:12):
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Speaker 2 (26:19):
Thanks so much for listening to us. What's on your
mind today?

Speaker 13 (26:24):
Oh, Emory?

Speaker 12 (26:24):
It just I guess it says all you need to
say about Democrats when they don't even understand that they
literally have had their right strip when it comes to
this election. And I understand some of the people who
voted for Biden.

Speaker 13 (26:35):
They are going to easily vote for Kamala, But there needed.

Speaker 12 (26:38):
To be a primary because there's probably at least another
person that could have been on that ticket, or someone
else that was a little more qualified than her to
in order to take that, you know, in order to
take that primary. So maybe much like if Donald Trump
I voted for him in the Republican primary, if he
decided now to say, hey, I'm no longer in it,
and they just tell us here's your candidate now.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
No, yeah, no, I understand that. At the same time, though,
like you said, the lack of options that they probably
had in that moment is one thing. But Democrats in general,
like I said, like on social media and everything, they
just don't seem to care about that.

Speaker 13 (27:14):
Now.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
I get the whole like they had the right strip
and everything, but much like that color I think is mark.
Mark said that you know, he supports Kamala's because he
voted for Biden Harris as a ticket before. So I
guess there's a thing that her name was already kind
of attached to the administration, and so it's not like
they don't anticipate there being a big difference. I tend

(27:36):
to be with you, though, I tend to think that,
you know, it's I think it's dangerous that we're just
like nonchalantly saying, yeah, that primary cock is stuff.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
It doesn't really matter.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
We'll let those guys just tell us who the person
is and then we'll just fall in line. That tells
me that there is no competition. They'll just pick whoever
literally is quite is the best for for for their
platform or agenda, not the person that is picked by
the American people.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
So I are with you, Nate.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
It's just unfortunate that a lot of people on the
left you scene like that's just not a non factor
for them. Yeah, thanks buddy, thanks for the call. That's good, Brian. Brian,
thanks for the call today.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
What's on your mind?

Speaker 14 (28:10):
Well, I just wanted to say these protesters with us,
the Democrats there with you, the Republicans, easy with.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Easy with the you there, Brian. But so you're saying
there are Republicans that are the people that are actively
protesting and like getting these notable speakers that are of
these pro Palestinian or anti Israel organizations to speak to
these people.

Speaker 14 (28:37):
Come on, man, I'm saying that, Well, there might be
a few confused Democrats who show up these rallies out
of some sympathy. Leaders are hard hardcore anti Western world
and it conservative movement media. They're a great hope that
as much damage and disruption as possible so they can
play it on a continuous vieop. And yeah, these protesters
are campaigning against the Democratic Party.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Okay, But Brian, don't tell me you didn't see all
of the protests at college campuses around the nation. Those
kids are very very clearly not Republicans. I mean, I
can understand, I can understand, and there are people who
are Republicans that say there are bad actors or posers
who you know, were behind a lot of the George
Floyd protests around the country and all that stuff. I

(29:21):
understand the thought behind that, But this is such a
like this is a side thing. Like Republicans are certainly
going to highlight that this is happening, trying to make
sure people are aware that not all as well in
Democrat land. But I don't think that realistically speaking, this
is a big enough issue for the Democrats. It's an issue,

(29:42):
but like we said, they could literally just ignore this
lose all of these people from voting for them if
they are Democrats, like I think they probably are realistically,
and it's still they could They could still win Michigan,
they could still win the states they need to potentially
win in November. They could ignore all these people and
not or about messing with the middle who care about
Israel and still win the election. So I just don't

(30:05):
think it's a big enough problem for the Republicans to
try to stage this stuff.

Speaker 14 (30:08):
Oh no, I'm not saying stage at all. I'm just
saying the leaders of it are very hardcore anti Western world,
anti Democratic party and are promoting people like Pour and
oh West, and it's sort of a convergence of the
extreme right and extreme left around crazy and being anti Semitic.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Well, there's a chance, Brian, in that scenario, there's a
chance of your one hundred percent correct on that. Thanks
for the note and thanks for calling in today. Sure,
all right, we got first hour down. If you want
to be a part of the show, you can. Well's
keep talking about this as long as you want to,
because that's the kind of show we are. We're very
interactive and we want you to have your thoughts hurt.

(30:47):
Joe Biden going to be speaking in Chicago at the
Democrat National commit Convention tonight. We would love to hear
your thoughts on it and the strategies that you think
that the Democrats and the Republics are going to have
as this week permeates with speakers like Biden, Barack Obama,
and of course Kamala Harris at the end. We'll continue
this conversation next on News Radio eleven ten and kfab.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Debbie Dingle.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Or do you think it's dingall Oh, it's dingle I'm
calling her Dingle you dingle Berry.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Maybe it's yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Take it easy there, yeah, yeah, all right. It's three
oh seven.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
We're talking about the Democratic National Convention, which of course
sappening in Chicago. A lot of pro Palestindian and anti
Israel protest going on right now, and of course we're
trying to figure that out. Joe Biden's going to speak
tonight on the first night of the big event over
there in Chicago. We're taking your phone calls on everything
involved with it and what we expect to hear, not
just from Biden but throughout the week, including Kamala Harris,
who will be accepting the nomination for President of the

(31:50):
United States. James is on the phone line at four
h two five five, eight eleven ten. James, what did
you got for me today?

Speaker 5 (31:57):
I was quite interested coming out of the Demo hall
us to find out why or who are these Democrats
who are protesting Harris's nomination as the president for presidacy.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Well, who are protests? They're not protesting her as the president.
There's protesting that the Democrats are still pro Israel. They
just want the Democrats that are in town.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
No, I'm talking about her selection to run for president.
You know, the Democrats. Democrats who are opposing her being
selected in the way it was, Who are they?

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Well, I don't know if there is any, to be
honest with you. I think there should be more, but
I haven't. I haven't heard a Democrat complain about it.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
Okay, And so why is it a concern for Republicans?

Speaker 2 (32:43):
Well, I guess, James, And this is a good point
that Republicans are concerned because Republicans in general are thinking
that this is taking the voter's ability to make those
decisions themselves out of their hands.

Speaker 11 (32:56):
Now.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Of course, the Republicans are mentioning this because they want
to try to get putent Democratic voters angry at that
party for changing their candidate midstream and not having a
fair and legitimate primary and caucus season. But again, if
you ask a Democrat, they're not going to care because
what was the other option, Well, you're just going to
have to have Joe Biden for the next four years,

(33:17):
and they knew he would lose. So of course they're
not going to care right now because that helped, like
this change helps them have an opportunity to win.

Speaker 5 (33:26):
Well, you know, I just I just don't understand focusing
Republicans on how the nomination or how she was selected
would be an issue when quite frankly, I don't care
one way or the other. But you know, as far
as Elkinson, I don't want Trump in office. So you know,
I mean, yeah, you don't hear me protesting?

Speaker 2 (33:43):
No, No, But he won, James, to be fair, he
won the primary and caucuses, you know what I mean,
like he like he ran against other people, you know, like.

Speaker 5 (33:52):
I give him that, I give him that he is
good at what he does, and he did. Yeah, but
you know, I mean, where else were you going to
go this late in the game. Yeah, when she's sitting
there already, So you got to have another primary?

Speaker 3 (34:04):
Well you can't.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
And the fact that the rules state, you know, within
the campaign finance law, is that if you wanted to
be able to use the money Heed fundraise to that point,
she is the only person that can use it. And
as the funds are, you know, so they didn't have
a choice, I think, James, and again, you're right, this
shouldn't be something that the Republicans should harp on because
it's not going to change anybody's mind. Nobody really cares,

(34:28):
but nobody who would change their mind in favor of
the Republicans should would be caring because it helps the Democrats.
But in my opinion, this is why I think that
this conversation is important still to have, is because if
they if anybody with a brain and two eyes was
watching the health of Joe Biden and the way that
he was communicating toward the end of last calendar year

(34:50):
made it pretty clear. And I mean, I'm no obvious
at this stuff. I'm not going to be tellin like
I'm some expert. I'm not even old enough to run
for president legally. So if you're going to have this
guy who seems to be eighty years old at the time,
looked like he was certainly on the decline, and you're
going to talk me into the idea that he can
do another year in office, which at the time he
still in a full year, and also run for office

(35:10):
again and then do four more years with the health
the way that it was looking.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
They knew that.

Speaker 5 (35:15):
They had the discussion. I've had the discussion, but family
members and I said she he would be replaced by August.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Hell, yeah, you're good, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (35:24):
I said he'd be replaced by Kamalay if he got
re elected.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah, but how legitimate is that, James? I guess I
just have to ask. We have a system in place
so the American public has a chance to make that determination.
Why are the Democrats just so afraid of the Americans
having their own opinion? They changed the rules mid stream
in twenty sixteen to help Hillary defeat Bernie Sanders. They
did the same thing to help Biden beat Bernie in
twenty twenty. I'm just I'm confused as to why they

(35:50):
are so hands on in who's going to become their
nominee when the only reason Donald Trump became the nominee
in twenty sixteen to begin with was because the American
public went against with the publican party of the time wanted,
you know, so, I don't know. There's just something about
the American people not having that voice to say this
is our person that it irks me. And that's what
I think what anybody who wants fairness would think. At

(36:12):
the same time, you're one hundred percent right, It's not
going to affect this election one iota. Thank you, Thanks Shapes. Yeah,
and it's here's the thing. Two things the Republican shouldn't
waste their breath about. Quit talking about this not being
a democratic process. And I'm speaking of like Trump fans
and anybody who's a surrogate campaigner for them. Like James mentioned,
there's not a single Democrat that we've talked to that says,

(36:33):
you know what, this is messed up and it changes
my opinion on the politics. That's not the case. There
might be some people in the middle that you can say,
look how undemocratic they are. These are the people preaching
that Donald Trump will be the end of democracy as
we know it, and yet they have literally done an
undemocratic thing themselves, usurping our own version of the rules

(36:53):
of how we nominate our candidates and have had that
in place for over a century, and they have completely
changed that.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
We do this now.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
But it's not gonna change anybody's mind who probably is
like leaning left. They're still gonna lean left. It's not
gonna be like, you know what, Nah, that's the last
straw I am going to gonna be talking to Trump
or voting for Trump in November. The second thing is abortion.
We talked about this too, and the Democrats are going
to hear a lot of abortion talk about the freedom

(37:21):
for women to make their own decisions with their own bodies,
even though the Trump administration, the Trump campaign.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
I can't speak for JD.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Vance because JD Vance is saying a bunch of stuff
that is chasing people away from that ticket. But as
far as Donald Trump is concerned, he has made it
clear it should be a states rights issue, and if
it's a states rights issue, they shouldn't even be talking
about it. But the fact that the Democrats keep going
on the offensive and talking about it, even saying stuff
that's untrue, like, hey, the Republicans are going to restrict
your rights, are going to sign a bill into law

(37:49):
that are going to continue to have the government tell
you if or how you can have an abortion. That's
not the case, it's not true. But the global people
of America will eat that up. And almost every time
abortion is a major factor in an election, the Democrats
are usually ones that win. That's just the unfortunate nature
of the beast. If you want to talk to us,

(38:10):
you can four oh two five five eight eleven ten
is the number. Four oh two five five eight eleven ten.
Reeve is on the phone line. Reeve thanks for the
call today.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
What do you got hey, how you doing good?

Speaker 6 (38:20):
I just wanted to say it's funny that US Trump
supporters have been called sheep because we follow I want
to say, we we like Trump, so we're sheep. But
now when they have been told who there, who their
person's going to be, they just follow along like sheep.
Ba okay, bow okay, that's who I'm going to vote

(38:40):
for because that's who I was told to vote for.
It just doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Well, Reeve, That's the unfortunate thing about politics is a
lot of it just does not make sense, mostly because
number one, it's all about my side, and my side
only do you they only they'll agree one percent with
whatever their people are saying, and they will disagree with
what the other side of saying. Same thing with Republicans.
It's the same thing, but you're one hundred percent right

(39:06):
on the whole sheep thing, right, Like they accuse people
of being sheep by following Trump and not questioning things.
Yet when people are say that they should be questioning
their own political party, they don't want to say anything. This,
I think is a little bit of an interesting caveat
because they all know in the back of their mind
that Joe Biden would have gotten destroyed by Donald Trump

(39:26):
in November if he was the guy, and this was
the only way, this late in the game that they
could make a switch and have a chance to win,
And that's why none of them are complaining about it.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
If it was a.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Better candidate and they have a terrible vice president that
stuttered and didn't have a whole lot of experience at
all in front of cameras or anything, then maybe this
is a bit difference. But to have an eighty one
year old guy who could barely string sentences together in
a debate versus Kamala Harris who is not quite sixty yet,
and she's able to rile people up and actually speak

(39:57):
coherently to you know, the people at her rallies and
the people on television, that is such a stark change
that they don't even care. They're like, you know what,
please tell us who to vote for at this point,
because we were gonna lose if you didn't do this,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 6 (40:10):
Yeah, I understand, I'm just I'm just I've just gotten
so sick of them calling a sheep just throughout the past,
you know, However, many years and now they're doing it
and it's okay.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
Yeah, well that's the thing, and that's okay.

Speaker 6 (40:23):
I don't I don't care if they're told you the
vote for I'm just tired of them calling me sheep.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
Well yeah, but but Reeve, I hate to say this,
and this is politics, and this is why it's so
tough for me to like totally buy into it. Every
single person that follows politics in some way is a hypocrite,
myself included.

Speaker 6 (40:38):
I agree, Yeah, I agree with that one hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
Thanks Reeve, Thanks for calling in. Bye bye bye. What's
good for the goose is not what's good for the gander.

Speaker 12 (40:46):
Not.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
In politics does not matter your side winning, your side
having the upper hand, that's all it matters. You will
frame any argument in that way to make your side
look better, no matter what the situation is, and no
matter how much you would protest it, the other side
did the exact same thing. Hypocrisy is rampant in politics,
and it doesn't even matter which side you're on. Straight up,

(41:08):
three seventeen is the time. More on the way if
you want to call in with your thoughts on what
to expect with Biden's speech tonight. What your thoughts are
on Kamala Harris being the assumed nominee as she accepts
it here this week, and also these anti Israel protests
that continue to go on in Chicago ahead of tonight's action.
You can call in at four oh two five five
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Speaker 2 (41:37):
All sorts of stuff going on in and around it.
We're speaking to you about your thoughts. You can call
in it four oh two five five eight eleven ten.
Four oh two five five eight eleven ten. Always a
pleasure speaking with you today. Mark's on a phone line
yet it another Mark, our third mark of the day already,
Hello Mark, what's on your mind?

Speaker 6 (41:52):
Hey?

Speaker 13 (41:53):
Hey, I'll going, Thanks for having me on. I just
want to make your I'm on speakerphone. I'm driving right now.
Are you able to hear me everything?

Speaker 3 (42:00):
You're right? You sound great?

Speaker 12 (42:01):
Okay?

Speaker 13 (42:02):
So uh yeah, So I I own a treat company
uh here in Omaha, and you know, I'm out all
the time doing exquimists and stuff. And I've just seen
a lot of signs up that say Harris Walls, and
it just it just got me thinking, you know, these
these people, I just want to shake them sometimes. And
I do a lot of estimates for people that it
have these that that have these signs in the in
the window. And it's not even if they like who

(42:22):
they have to vote for us, just that they don't
like Trump. So it it just it gets me you
would rather you would rather vote for these people than
to than to vote for Trump. We don't like even
though these policies are fine. It just I don't understand.
I don't understand how how these people are delusional. And
you're talking about hypocrisy too. You know, hypocrisy is insane
when it comes to when it comes to this stuff.
So but you know there are certain neighborhoods uh in

(42:45):
Omaha that are you know that are that I see
all these signs all over the place, and you don't
see a whole lot of Trump signs. You really don't.
And it's not that they're not there, it's just that
people don't want to. I don't know if they're scared
or what. And it just yeah, I don't get it.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
No, But Mark, Okay, so what that last point I'm
going to start there, because you're one hundred percent onto something.
With that, there is an element of people being kind
of afraid of the public backlash that they could receive,
whether it's social media, whether it's in the neighborhood, whether
it's people walking into their yard or remove a Trump
sign because they're angry that somebody had, you know, and

(43:19):
obviously that's illegal, but people have done.

Speaker 13 (43:21):
That, right, Oh yeah, for sure. I rock a flag
behind my truck. I rock a flag behind my truck.
I've gotten I've had people serve at me, you know,
you know, custing at me and stuff out of the street.
But I also I have neighbors that they're an old
couple and they have the signs in the in the
yard that I know they don't agree with, but because
they're afraid that, you know, if they don't have that

(43:41):
that pausing. You know, if looters came up the street
and they saw that sign in their yard, they're probably
going to pass them on by if they have the
right sign in their yard.

Speaker 6 (43:49):
It's crazy.

Speaker 13 (43:49):
And then this is the people that these people are
voting for, and they don't even have a choice. I
was just talking to one of my guys today that
they didn't They didn't even give if you're a Democrat
or a Liberal or you know, voting for that site.
You didn't even get a choice of who you're of
who you're you did, Yeah, the APHO is Biden, but
then he dropped out, so you didn't even get a choice.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
Yeah, it's you're you're right, Mark.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
And again, this is a point that I try to
make a lot more now because no matter how like,
when you lay it all out there, anybody who is
who hasn't been into the politics scene at all over
the last year or two, it like you talk to
somebody from a foreign country and explain everything you explained,
they're gonna think there's absolutely no way anybody's voting.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
For that side. There's there's exactly there's no way.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Unfortunately, though, because of the way that our society is,
because of the way that public pressure is, especially for
the younger generations, to be a part of the cool
kids that vote with the Democrats, the in crowd, right,
you don't want to be the loser that voted for
a Republican when you're twenty four years old and all
your college friends that you just you're staying in touch
with all of a sudden, you're gonna alienate them or

(44:54):
they're gonna lose them as friends because of the way
that you know, you support somebody publicly in po politics.
And this is something I think mark is the reason
why Trump didn't poll well in sixteen and still won
the election. I think people were generally afraid to say
they were outwardly supporting him, but they still went and
voted for him anyway and ended up winning the thing.
So maybe that's still a thing that that could happen.
But there's something about us as human beings in this country.

(45:18):
We have so many different decisions and opinions to make
that they're for every one of us that we're talking
about with conservative values, there is somebody on the far
left that just cannot agree with anything that we agree with,
and we can't understand them and they don't understand us,
And it's difficult to have those conversations because nobody wants.

Speaker 13 (45:36):
To turn the bring that brings up a great point
that I've been I've been one to ask you for
a first several weeks now, I've been I've been one
to call in and ask you this. Do you think
do you think that like that is that is absolutely
agree You could you could say, you could call them
the sky is blue and they'll say it's red and
they'll go down fighting. They'll go down and swinging saying
it's red, just because of the state of illusion that
they're in. Now, do you do you think that like
the ones at the top, and I know you know

(45:57):
that the average person you know is a little more gullible,
but the people at the top, the harris Is, the Bidens,
the Clinton, all those people, do you feel like they
are just so delusional that they feel like this is
the right move, that they just are this is this
is the way it's got to be, you know, the
great for the greater good, or that they're just liars,
that they're just they know their lines that they're they

(46:19):
what do you think it's straight illusion or just got
to keep up the lie?

Speaker 2 (46:23):
Yeah, And it's a good question mark, because I, like you,
I'm not going to know the answer one hundred percent.
My feeling is that if this is a if this
was a ruse, the whole thing was a ruse and
they had this all strategized out. That's thinking so far
ahead in a situation where I really don't think they
were thinking even they weren't thinking even a couple of
weeks ahead, and a lot of times the people in

(46:44):
charge of this National Committee, and Biden was not cooperative
about it, like he really thought he was the best
person for the gig until he caught COVID and then
they forced him. Basically, we know he was forced out.
So I think it happened in a way. We could
have predic it, like you said, we could predict different
months out.

Speaker 13 (47:02):
Yeah, you talk about this six months out about what
and it's clear.

Speaker 15 (47:06):
It's clear.

Speaker 13 (47:06):
You can see anybody who is on common sense, Ali,
you know who can see it. You can see it coming,
and that's why I don't understand why so many people
fall for it, right.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
Yeah, Well it's tough, Mark, But one thing that we
do know is that our vote still counts the same
as it did a year ago, So they're going to
have to see how many people from each side make
it to the polls. Thanks for the call and thanks
for your opinion today. We really appreciate it.

Speaker 13 (47:25):
Absolutely, keep doing what you're doing.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
SPI, Thanks buddy, Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
We'll take more calls about this, whether you want to
talk about political signs, you want to talk about the
social pressures for especially young people, who are you know,
feeling like if they don't vote Blue, that they're missing
out on some big party something the Democrats have been
very good at kind of setting up for the last
couple of decades, or just what you expect Joe Biden
to say in his speech tonight at the Democratic National

(47:50):
Convention in Chicago. You can call in it four roh
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Speaker 2 (48:05):
I do know what we're talking about right now, and
that is politics and essentially the Democratic National Convention in
some of the spokes on that conversation, and Pam is
on our phone line at four two five five eight
eleven ten. Pam, thanks so much for listening to our
show today. What's on your mind?

Speaker 16 (48:20):
Well, I'm was listening to the previous caller and saying
that Republicans are afraid to put signs. I just disagree.
I think Republicans, in my opinion, have more class than that.
They don't have to put signs out or put stickers
all over their cars or anything. Politics and religions belong
in your heart and your soul. You don't have to

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go around talking about it to everybody and killing everybody
who you're going to vote for. When it's time, just
do it.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Cock is cheap, Yeah, well, Pam, I in general agree,
but I see Trump stuff in different spots and people
who are very pro Trumper Republican.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
Now.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
I see people flags, I see people with like stuff
in their windows, in the back windshield of their truck.
I see people you know wearing the shirts and the
hats that you know say aga on it, or they
have the what was it the mug shot on the
t shirt or even more recently him with his fist
up after the assassination attempt. I think there are a

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lot of people out there that do have that. But
I what do we, Pam, What does it take for
us to get back to Because anybody who sees a
Trump person wearing the Trump stuff, they just already feel
like they know that person.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
They're just like they either dislike them or like them
right away.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
Based on that same thing with the Democrats, if you're
wearing a Democratic related shirt or something that's Democratic related.

Speaker 3 (49:40):
What happens?

Speaker 2 (49:42):
What does what does society need to do for us
to go back to the point where we can be
civil with each other without politics leading the charge.

Speaker 16 (49:49):
I don't know. It's pretty sad, it really is. I
will not talk politics with anyone in my family. We
all agree, keep it to yourself. I like it, we argue,
you know, yeah, for sure Trump. I don't care if
you like Trump. He's smart and he knows how to
do the job. You don't have to like him, right,
There's a lot of people that don't like me, but

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I do my job, you know.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
Well, and Pam, what you just said is exactly what
the opposite is, Like, how can anybody so like we
had of somebody earlier, say, how can anybody support Donald
Trump because of this, this and the other thing. I'm
just like, why are you even asking that question? You know,
people support him for different reasons. I mean, like, just
acting like there's no reason for anybody to ever support
him is just not thinking outside the box. Pam, thanks
for listening, Thanks for calling in. Hope to talk to

(50:33):
you again soon. Okay, we'll take more phone calls. John, Eric,
stay on the line. We'll to get to you immediately
after this break on News Radio eleven ten Kfab and.

Speaker 8 (50:41):
Ray's songer on News Radio eleven ten Kfab.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Joe Biden speaking tonight, Kamala Harris going to be accepting
the nomination later this week. Barack Obama scheduled to speak tomorrow.
There's all sorts of stuff going on. We're talking about
a lot of different backgrounds and perspectives as we get
to this week, which is a pretty important week in
the political calendar. John is on our phone line of
four h two five five eight eleven ten. John, thanks
so much for calling in. What's on your mind?

Speaker 15 (51:09):
Yeah, Imory, I've spoke to you before. I really enjoy
your program. I'm seventy three years old, two time Vietnam VET.
If somebody asked me my opinion on politics, I usually
just say, well, you know, this is my opinion and
let it go with that and they can do it
does they want. But just getting back to this this race,
if the people would just take a look at the
economy under Trump versus Biden, immigration under Trump versus Biden, defense,

(51:35):
you know, same thame Trump versus Biden, and foreign trade.
We were you know, we were shipping oil out, natural
gas to the Chinese, and civility. If you don't have
those other four, civility is going to take a well,
I can't say it's going to take a dive anyway,
because there'll be everything's going to be higher priced, everything's
going to be hard to reach. We're not we're going
to lose our status and probably be at a war.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Well, but you know, on a per se, John, I'm
totally understanding what you're saying. Uh. I just think that
if you talk to a staunchly democratic person, they're going
to see the world incredibly differently, even though you bring
all that stuff up, and the first thing they're going
to mention is probably Trump's court record, or they're going
to talk about they their version of the economy is

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better under a guy like Biden, even though we know
the numbers make no sense to that, you talk about
the border and all that stuff. Everything was better four
years ago than it is right now. Unfortunately, people just
don't see things through the same lens. So I think John,
what's important is throughout this week the campaign trail or
for Trump and for Vance and anybody else that's a
surrogate campaigner for them, is to make sure that those

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policies are what they're talking about. That way, they're going
to have the ability to win on policy, because that's
how a Republican wins. Right now, it's not personality, it's policy.
Thanks John, Thanks for calling you too. Eric's on our
front line four h two five five, eight eleven ten.
What's going on today?

Speaker 3 (52:56):
Eric?

Speaker 4 (52:57):
Hey, how's it going, Amory? I just had a quick
stand on It goes pretty much right along with the
previous caller. So all the Democrats don't like Trump because
he's abrasive and you know, talks like a regular human being.

Speaker 13 (53:10):
Would You don't go.

Speaker 4 (53:12):
To work to make friends, You go to work to
get a job done. And that's all I had.

Speaker 15 (53:16):
Keep up the good work, he Marie.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Thank you, Thanks Eric, and I generally agree. But again,
there are people that are in the middle or on
the left, and they are going to be voting on
personality as far as they can think because they just
don't like Donald Trump and they don't want to talk
about Donald Trump being the president. Again, there are too
many headaches on social media for them when Donald Trump
was still in politics, and they think they could potentially

(53:39):
extinguish Donald Trump from the picture all together. If he
loses this time. They're not thinking about policy. That's the
unfortunate thing. But that's America is people get to vote
based on whatever is most important to them, whether it's
right or not, whether you agree with it or not.
That's just an unfortunate reality that we have here. Diane's
on our phone line of four h two, five, five,
eight to eleven ten. Diane, welcome to the show today.

(54:00):
What's going on?

Speaker 11 (54:03):
I am Marie. It's Diane Nie.

Speaker 9 (54:05):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (54:06):
I'm great? How are you?

Speaker 2 (54:07):
I'm good.

Speaker 11 (54:07):
Thanks for the opportunity to speak about people being confident
and you know, it's our right to show where our
political views are. And I finally thought, you know what,
I'm putting this bumper sticker on my car. And I
cannot tell you how many supportive honks I was at

(54:31):
an activity. The people saw me. Park came up to
me and said, you are a brave lady, and I said,
it's not bravery, it's pride for America and Americans. Yeah,
and you know, I think you know, in twenty sixteen,
I was one of those people afraid to even let

(54:52):
people know who I was going to vote for. Right
and I thought, not this year, not this year.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Yeah, and it takes courage, Diane to do that. Like
I said, though, like you're reaping the benefits at least
right now of that. There are some people that see
that as a potential negative though. If there's even one
person that wants to you know, tailgate them or throw
them the bird because of a sign or something like that,
and they're just not willing to take that risk or

(55:16):
they don't want to mess with that. They're just going
to silently support who they support. They're going to go
to the polls and they're going to vote Republican in November.
And there's a chance that there's enough of that silent
group that will vote Republican, like and they did in
twenty sixteen, that Donald Trump is going to comfortably win,
or even by a little bit, he could win and
get back into the White House. But it is just
a weird thing with our society that all you have

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to do is have that one thing, and people on
both sides already have an opinion about you as a person.

Speaker 11 (55:44):
Right, But you want to know something Emory is people
don't stand up and say, you know, let their opinion,
which we are entitled to, then they've won the other
side has won, and I just think that America and
Americans are too great to let you know, our country

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continue on the road that it has been for the
past four years.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
Diane, I really appreciate your thoughts today. Thanks so much
for calling in and call us again sometime.

Speaker 8 (56:15):
Hey, you bet cha.

Speaker 3 (56:16):
Thank you so much by now, bye bye.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
It takes strength, it does. And you could say in
a variety of different ways about the juggling that people
do mentally about trying to have an opinion while also
having the ability to maintain the relationships and their friendships.
It's hard to have that very pro Trump person in
the family right all they want to talk about is
how much they support Donald Trump. That could create a

(56:41):
situation where some people want to distance themselves from that person.
I've seen it happen. However, at the same time, you
got to do what you thinks right at the end
of the day, and that's why we have these conversations.
More of your thoughts coming up next on news Radio
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