Chris Begala - Political Strategist/Commentator Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chris Pagala joins US political strategist and commentator. I guess
let's start with this, Chris, how do you think President
Trump did in the first debate against Kamala Harris.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
You know, I don't think he did all that bad.
I mean, that's just the way everybody kind of looks
at it. But I would say less talk about Haitians
eating dogs and cats, and maybe a little bit more
talk about the economy and how it was strong four
years ago and now people are struggling now. But overall,
I think he did perfectly fine. And on this debate question,

(00:31):
if you know you're asking me, in my opinion, I
think he should go out there and debate. Yes, they're
going to stack the odds against him. The ABC moderators
themselves admitted that they planned to fact check Trump but
not fact check Kamala Harris. So, and then there's also
a whistle blower.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, the whistleblower who said, yeah, they actually gave Kamala
Harris the question. So why should Donald Trump even bother
with that? Because he did a raucus rally. It was
supposed to be a town hall, going out and appealing
to the people that he knows he has and keeping
them inspired. Isn't that more important in order to get
re elected than it is to try to what when

(01:11):
over or play a losing battle against the debates that
are loaded. And I don't care who the moderator is
because media is totally in for Harris.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
No doubt, of course, the media is completely on the
same side as Harris. I would say, you know, those
rallies and all of that's share. That's good. He's talking
to his base, But during a debate, you're going to
be talking to maybe those sliver of voters out there
that are undecided, maybe a few that might vote now
after seeing the debate. It's not really that huge of

(01:47):
a deal. But I would say go ahead and do it.
You know, have some trepidation because it's going to all
the odds are stacked against you. But when you have
a chance to talk to voters that you usually don't
get a chance to talk to, I take advantage of it.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Is there a venue that he could go to where
he would actually have a fair debate and Kamala Harris
would agree to participate in it?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Good question, short answer, no, go.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Well, you see how she's campaigning. You know she association
National Association of Black Journalists. This is her second appearance
before them. She was at historically black colleges speaking to them.
She was talking to her sorority sisters, speaking to them
historically a Black sorority, National Black Sorority. She seems to

(02:36):
be making the appeals strictly for the black vote. Is
that because she's bleeding over into Trump. You're an awful
lot of blacks or showing up these Trump rallies.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
You know, of course, what she's doing is trying to
talk to her base. I mean, she has to have
a huge percentage of the African American vote to win,
and that's what she's doing. But if you listen to
her answers, they literally do not make sense. So you
know she's out there trying to talk to her base.
Of course Trump is Again I would say, do a debate.

(03:09):
You get to talk to voters that are undecided, but
you know it's going to be stacked against you.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
All right, Chris, thanks for joining us. Appreciate it. Chris Bagala,
political strategist and commentator. It's five fifty six