Neil Chattergy - Former Trump Administration official Joins Houston Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Neil Cheberg joined US former Trump administration official. I expect
you suspect, like we do, that these folks are probably
paid or have some sort of payoff to be there.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I mean, she's entertaining them, She's bringing out, you know,
celebrities to do concerts to get them warmed up. But
I don't also want to totally discount that, you know,
Democrats were despondent about Joe Biden being their nominee. Some
of this is just relief amongst base Democrats who quite frankly,

(00:33):
we're going to vote for Joe Biden anyway because they
have such you know, antipathy for for former President Trump.
I think this is just Democrats coming home, and the
media is hyping it to try and further boost Vice
President Harris.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
What are they going to do when finally, I don't know.
I think Republicans have been kind of standing back. They
pretty much thought that they were coasting after their convention.
It was so good and then all this stuff happened
and the media. What happens when finally Republicans actually go
on specific attack instead of just standing back and watching

(01:09):
the vibe change.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah. Look, I think it's pretty well acknowledged This is
a bit of a sugar high. This is the honeymoon
phase for the vice president.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Look, this was a race that had been relatively stable
with former President Trump, you know, close but slightly ahead
for the better part of a year until the debate
in June, which was such a disaster for President Biden
that he had to leave the race. Now suddenly, despondent
Democrats are coming home, the vice president is getting ridiculous

(01:46):
media coverage, and there's all of this excitement that's purportedly
being reflected in the polls. I don't buy it. You
are correct, Republicans are going to start to define the
ticket as being you know, too far to the left
for the American people, that are going to point out
policy specifics that will likely turn off swing voters in

(02:07):
the key pivotal swing states. And I think once those
efforts start to take hold, let's let this thing, you know,
settle back post the Democratic Convention, post Labor Day, when
people start to pay attention. I suspect the race will
go back to where it was quite frankly before that

(02:28):
debate in June, with the former president you know, ahead
in a very close race.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Well, and things might not be quite so honeymooniche over
there at places like CNN. I noticed that they were
questioning her surrogates quite actively yesterday about when she's going
to give a press conference, and we need to hear
from the candidate, and so they seem to be running
out of patients. I don't know about MSNBC or the
other mainstream bed but Lee CNN is running out of patients. Neil,
thanks for joining us. Good to have you on, so

(02:55):
appreciate it. Farbard Trump Administration officials, Neil Chatterjee