Political analyst Chris Begala Joins Houston Morning News, July 19th, 2024

Episode Transcript

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We talked to Chris Bogala about theRepublican National Commission, and we no doubt

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will in Trump's space. Well,sure, but before we do that,
I find what's going on on theleft even more interesting for the moment because
there's a coup underway. Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, they're all behind it.
Right now, You've got Joe Biden'sinner circle has shrunk down to maybe
Jill and Hunter, and that's aboutit. And it would appear that they

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are trying to talk him into peacefullygiving up his run for president. Joining
us to talk about Chris Bogala,Chris, I think you foresaw this coming.
I think we all kind of foresawit coming. But now it's really
happening. You know, Yeah,it is, and I think it's inevitable.
I just thought when we talked,I don't know, a year and

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a half ago or two years agoor so, I thought it would be
around March of this year that theycould usher President Biden out, give the
then president. He would step aside, and somebody else would come in,
whether it'd be Kamala or maybe MichelleObama, they'd be president and run as
president. Now that still could happen. It's possible that President Biden will not

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just step aside on the ticket.He could step aside and resign, and
that way, Kamala Harris or somebodyelse could then step in and run as
the president of the United States againstthe former president of the United States,
Donald Trump. But you know,it's just unbelievable. The party that says

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Donald Trump will take away democracy.They have engaged in somebody who's not even
president being the president who's calling theshots, I think is the question everybody
should be asking. But whatever,it's gonna happen, and I think it's
it's you know what, I don'tknow ninety eight percent chance President Biden will

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step aside in a few days.Fourteen million Democrats, fourteen million Democrats voted
for him, and their votes don'tmatter, do they No, they don't,
and it doesn't matter. And that'snot right. And you know,
look, it was what three threeand a half weeks ago that everything was

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great, all quiet up the WesternFront, no problem. We got a
great president. He's sharp and focusedand oh my gosh, you can't believe
how active he is, and allthe cabinet meetings and whatnot. Of course,
none of that's true, and nowall of a sudden they're going to
have to move him out what wethought all along. But you know,

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it's staggering when you take a stepback and you think about that they're going
to remove the president because they gotcaught and everybody else even though they knew
it, but the media and theDemocrats were still trying to tell America and
the rest of the world that PresidentBiden was fine, when of course he
was done. Chris, I've gotto ask you this, because we don't
have a lot of time. Thechaos that has ensued in the Democrat Party

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visible now vera when you see iswhat Americans have felt under this entire regime,
and even before while Donald Trump waspresident, the chaos of the Democrats
brought after watching that convention and howwell managed it was in this sense of
this is a man who was almostassassinated, and yet that convention went off

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and it was it was controlled,and yet it was spontaneous at the same
time, it was amazing. Itgave us a feel for the way America
should be and could be. Howare the Democrats ever going to overcome that?
You know, that's a great questionand obviously very perceptive. I thought
the same thing. I thought that. You know, of course, a

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lot of it's theater and what thosepeople were real. That African American ladier
spoke about her son getting stabbed inNew York City after fighting in Iraq,
and she said that was not right. The Hispanic woman who said, I
came here legally and we want todo what's right, she was real.
Eric Trump, Laura Trump. Ofcourse, I mean it goes on and

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on. Yes, it was anincredible week, and it stands juxtaposed to
the Democrats. And I don't thinkthis fighting is over either. Jimmy and
Sherry. You know, they're notjust going to get into a room and
say, oh yeah, it's fine. They are going to go hammer and
tong and it is going to takea while. And of course by the

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time their party comes around for theirconvention, they'll act like everybody's together.
But that's just not possible. TheRepublicans did a great job. My hat's
off to Lara Trump and everyone else. It was emotional. I had tears
in my eyes listening to those goldStar families. President Trump last night was
moving. It was very very welldone, and I think you saw a

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party and a candidate one hundred percentin lockstep and telling America we can get
back to where we were. Yep. It's amazing. The party that was
in disarray or they thought was indisarrays, the no that is united.
It's the other party that doesn't disarray. Chris Bagala, always good to talk
to you, sir. Thank you