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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, the happiest man in America right now may actually
be Joe Biden. Joe Biden walking out having just a
grin from ear to ear just I mean ear to ear,
happy as can be, thrilled, just thrilled to address the
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country as the President of the United States of America
and clearly excited that the Democratic Party lost after they
excommunicated him.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
From the White House. From the race.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I think he truly believes there's no doubt in his
mind that he would have beaten. In his mind, he
believes Donald Trump. But when the mafia turned on him,
and that's exactly who the mafia. When I say the mafia,
I'm not kidding, I mean it. The Democratic mafia in
the Five Families had turned against him. They turned against
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him and said we're going to twenty fifth Amendment you
or you're gone. Well, now we know the end of
that story. They forced him out, They ran Harris, and
Harris ended up being a massive failure.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Joe Biden, Joe Biden, by the.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Way, who hates Kama Harris, had to be happy watching
the election results come in as vindication for them, going, Yeah,
they thought they could throw me out of here, and
they could win thiseg didn't work. Joe Biden addressing the
country in the Rose Garden. Here's part of what he
had to say.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, it's good to see you all, particularly good to
see my granddaughter sitting in the front row. Here ht Van,
Helloai honey. For over two hundred years, America's carried out
of the greatest experiment in self government and history of
the world. That's not hyperbole. That's a fact. For the people.
The people vote and choose their own leaders, and they
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do it peacefully, and we're in a democracy. The will
of the people always prevails. Yesterday I spoke with President
elect Trump to congratulate him on his victory, and I
assured him I direct my entire administration to work with
his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition. That's
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what the American people deserve. Yesterday I also spoke with
Vice President Harris. She's been a partner and a public servant.
She ran an inspiring campaign and everyone got to see
something that I learned early on to respect so much
her character. She has a backbone like a rammod. She
has great character, true character. She gave her whole heart
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and effort, and she and her entire team should be
proud of the campaign they ran. You know, the struggle
for the soul of America since our very founding has
always been an ongoing debate, still vital today. I know
for some people it's a time for victory to state
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the obvious. For others, it's a time of loss. Campaigns
the contest of competing visions. The country chooses one or
the other. We accept the choice the country made. I've
said many times, you can't love your country only when
you win. You can't love your neighbor only when you
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agree something. I hope we can do no matter who
you voted for, they see each other not as adversaries,
but as fellow Americans. Bring down the temperature. I also
hope we can later rest the question about the integrity
of the American electoral system. It is honest, it is fair,
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and it is transparent, and it can be trusted, win
or lose. I also hope we can restore the respect
for all our election workers who busted their next and
took risks at the outset. We should thank them, thank
them for staffing voting sites, counting the votes, protecting the
very integrity of the election. Many of them are volunteers
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who do it simply out of love for their country
and as they did as they did their duty as citizens.
I will do my duty as president. I'll fulfill my
oath and I wanted the constitution. On January twentieth, we'll
have a peaceful transfer of power here in America. To
all our incredible staff, supporters, captain members, all the people
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who been hanging out with me for the last four years.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
God love you.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
As my mother would say, thank you so much. You
put so much into the past four years. I know
it's a difficult time.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I know it's a difficult time.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
That is as smiley and as joyous as I have
ever seen. Joe Biden coming out to a big grin
Joe Biden saying that the result of the twenty twenty
election twenty twenty four election are what he describes as well.
We're in a democracy.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
For over two hundred years, America has carried out the
greatest experiment in self government and history of the world.
That's not hyperbole, that's a fact.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
For the people.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
The people vote and choose their own leaders, and they
do it peacefully. And we're in a democracy. The will
of the people always prevails. Yesterday I spoke with President
Elect Trump to congratulate him on his victory, and I
assured him I direct my entire administration to work with
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his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
A peaceful and orderly transition.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Now there's part of me it's like, all right, this
is impressive, right, Like this is really impressive. He is
genuinely sitting there, genuinely saying, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I'm just gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
The smile on his face was, Hey, I'm going to
hand over the White House to the guy that you
guys thought I couldn't beat. Yeah, I'm gonna hand over
the White House to the guy that you guys thought
I couldn't beat, and you threw me out of office,
And I'm gonna sit here and say, not my fault.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Much of the work we've done is already being felt
by the American people. If the vast majority of it
will not be felt, we felt over the next ten years,
we have legislation we passed. It's just only now just
really kicking in. We're going to see over trillion dollars
worth of infrastructure work done, changing people's lives and rural
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communities and communities that are in real difficulty because it
takes time to get it done, and so much more.
It's going to take time, but it's there. The road
ahead is clear, assuming we sustain it. There's so much,
so much we can get done, and we'll get done
based the way the legislation will passed. And it's truly historic.
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You know, we're leaving behind the strongest economy in the world.
I know people are still hurting, but things are changing rapidly. Together,
we've changed America for the better. Now we have seventy
four days to finish the term. Our term.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Let's make every day count seventy four days to finish
the term. As he described it, saying that much of
what they did won't be realized for decades. That's what
you call fictitious legislation, guarantees and promises. By the way,
no one votes for president nine. It's America for something
you're going to do twenty years from now. Joe, and
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I understand you're trying to build your legacy, and I
get that, I really do. I understand that you're trying
to act like you did all these amazing things, and
this is the easiest or the best way to act
like you did it right, Like this is the this
is the easiest, this is the easiest or the best way.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's pretty funny, it's laughable.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
It's hilarious that he's like, I'm gonna I pass legislation
that twenty years from now, you're gonna feel it. Right,
twenty years from now, you're gonna really feel this. It's
gonna be amazing we pass legislation. You don't even realize
it's gonna have an impact on you. Now you're like, wait, what,
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Welcome the Democratic Party. That's all I gotta say is
welcome the Democratic Party. It's like a Kamala Harris word
salad special.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You know, can't you hear going You won't.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You won't know what we've done until we've done what
we've done, and then you will know what we've done
twenty years from now.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
That's what Joe Biden just said.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Joe Biden saying this, the will of the people always prevails.
I don't know that's always true, but take a listen.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Over two hundred years, America has carried on the greatest
experiment in self government and history of the world. That's
not hyperbole.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
That's a fact. For the people.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
The people vote and choose their own leaders, and they
do it peacefully, and we're in a democracy. The will
of the people always prevails.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yesterday, you guys, by the way, did try to lock
up Donald Trump. You did, like greatest house, You did
go after him and his family. So let's die down
the crazy for a little bit here. And I appreciate
the kumbay ayism now, but I'm also not I'm not
dumb enough to not remember. Okay, Like I remember like
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the idea that that you know, you're sitting here and
you're like, oh, hey, everything's great and we respect everything.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Now, like I'm calling bs.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
You guys have tried to overthrow the other people with
the Russian collusion hoax.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Never forget that you guys.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Knew, you knew, you knew that the Russian collusion the
studealsa was created by you, the Democratic Party, because y'all
paid for it. So Hillary Clinton's campaign and used it
to try to overthrow the will of the people and
impeached Donald Trump back in twenty sixteen, and to undermine
his presidency. You guys locked up people around him, put
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him in jail, try to get people framed like General Flynn,
you abuse your power. Luckily, the American people saw it.
The American people understood what you were doing. The American
people were able to overcome all the corruption and everything
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that you have done. And I think that is the
part here that's so important for people to understand.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That is the story here.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Is that the American people, even as you guys tried
to screw the America out of electing its own president,
you guys, the American people fought back and we want
that is amazing, It's truly incredible.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Thank goodness, Thank goodness.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
This is now where we are, where we have a victory,
and we have you know, Joe Biden, who is happy right,
which makes me laugh because they try to throw them
out unceremoniously. And now there is this is this is
the revenge five three five nine seven three two five
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three five nine seven three two eight hundred number one,
eight hundred and four seven four nine seven three two.
Want to get your phone calls in here your reaction
to all of this.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Some other news this morning, and that is that it
looks like peace in the least may be coming very
soon between Israel and Hamas Hamas seems to be winding
down the war quickly because they're afraid of what's going
to happen when Donald Trump takes office.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
They are very worried about this. And if you think
that's the only thing that's changing, it's not.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Mayor Adams in New York City, knowing changes are coming
from the federal government, has announced he's inning food voucher
program for illegal immigrants in New York City.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
He is.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
The mayor just announced that the city will no longer
issue vouchers to migrants to pay for food, ending a
controversial program that had repeatedly come under attack by conservatives
and others.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
This pilot program in New York City, drenched in both
humanity and controversy, distributed debit cards to migrant family staying
in city funded hotels and allowing them to buy their
own Food's reporter Josh honyre following the breaking news for.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
US, Josh Mobill, It's a program that, as you say,
generated plenty of controversy, but now it's absence may raise
even more questions. The so called Immediate Response Cards pilot
program was designed to help feed migrant families who'd found
themselves in New York with no way to afford food.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
The one year contract.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Provided what the city described as culturally relevant food to
twenty six hundred migrant families, allowing them to basically buy
what they wanted. A family of four with under two
kids with two kids under five got about three hundred
and fifty dollars per week to cover food, in a
program the city said would actually save taxpayers millions a year,
but also reduced food waste. You may remember, the food
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the city had been providing in migrant shelters was seen
as not culturally sensitive to the needs of some migrant groups,
and it ended up just going to waste. More than
a year, the city was groaning under the weight of
more than two hundred thousand asylum seekers. Official said the
migrant population has actually reduced lately. In fact, a massive
shelter on Roosevelt Island is in the process of closing.
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In the meantime, Mayor Adams spoke on the phone yesterday
with President elect Donald Trump, who had vowed during his
campaign to mass deport migrants. Aside from congratulating him on
his window, Adams today would not say what they discussed.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Following Trump's victory, New York City mayor announcing he's ending
the food voucher for illegals, and its absence may raise
even more questions of what else is going to change
in New York. They're going to keep giving them billions
of dollars in free hotel rooms. That numbers, not exaggeration.
That's what they're spending. Why is this happening, I'll tell
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exactly why. Because they know a different administration's coming in
and the rule of laws coming back to the White House.
That's what this is. Charlemagne the God African American host
this morning saying this Trump speaks to people's grievances better
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than Democrats. I know people are going to talk about
misinformation and the dumbing down of society. I understand all
of that, but you don't have be intelligent to know
you can't pay your bills.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Didn't he say f Trump to Harris?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I mean in an interview, like, I'm pretty sure he did,
same guy.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It's amazing how fast.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And they'll change their tune when she and this is
a cautionary tale to any Democrat out there, Okay, Like
this is a very cautionary tale. If you think they
care about you, they don't if you think that they
worry about you, they don't. They don't even care about
Kama Harris. Like when they're done with her, they're done
with her, Like they don't care. They just don't care.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Folks. It's all about power. It always has been. It's
always been about power.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
How is it possible that Kamala Harris could lose to
Donald Trump? Democrats now figured it out. They are now
officially blaming Joe Biden, saying that this is somehow Joe
Biden's fault. Joe Biden getting the blame by Harris' team
for the vice president's resounding loss, including okay, and this
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just makes me laugh in including the popular vote. Remember
when they said it was all about the popular vote
and the electoral College is evil and it doesn't work
and it's racists.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Remember that. Yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Joe Biden's name wasn't on the ballot, but history will
likely remember. The Associated Press is writing this morning, uh,
but history will likely remember Kamala Harris's resounding defeat as
his loss too, they write, as Democrats quote, pick up
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the pieces this morning.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I do love the obituary. Like the obituary side of.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
This is just oh so fun, because it's just so
fun to watch them freak out and to be so angry,
to be so frustrated, picking up the pieces, right, they're frustrated,
and now they're trying to figure out what to do.
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Democrats picking up the pieces, ap says falling president like
Donald Trump's Trump's decisive victory, some of his of the
vice president's backers are expressing quote real frustration.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
The Biden's decision to seek reelection.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Until this summer, despite long standing concerns about his age
and unease about post pandemic inflation, as well as the
US Mexico border, all but sealed his party's.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Loss of the White House.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
So this is now Joe Biden's fault, not Kama Harris.
There are also many that are angry this morning and saying, well,
one of the big problems is we're mad. We're really
mad that we get to know Kama Harris, that there
wasn't enough time for her to introduce herself to the
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American people. Hold on a second, You've been the vice
president for four years and you're telling me the American
people didn't have time, as you describe it, to get
to quote know you are you kidding me. The biggest
owners of this loss is on President Biden, said Andrew Yang,
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who ran against Biden in twenty twenty for the Democratic nomination,
endors Harris unsuccessful run.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
If he had stepped.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Down in January instead of July, we may have been
in a very different place. Biden will leave office after
leading the US out of the worst pandemic in a century,
the AP rights galvanizing international support for Ukraine in the
aftermath of Russia's invasion, and passing a one trillion dollar
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infrastructure bill that will impact communities for years to come.
That's what they're saying his resume now is. But having
run four years ago against Trump to quote, restore the
soul of the country, Biden will make way after just
one term for his immediate predecessor, whoever came to impeachments,
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a felony conviction, and an insurrection launched by his supporters
the AP Rights. Trump is vowed to radically reshaped the
federal government and roll back many of Biden's priorities. Maybe
in twenty or thirty years history, the AP Rights will
remember Biden for some of these achievements. That's what Tom Riley,
co director of the Center for the Independent and Sustainable
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Democracy at Arizona State University said, but in the short term,
I don't know, he escapes the legacy of being the
president who beat Trump, only to Usher and another Donald
Trump administration four years later. The President on Wednesday stayed
out of site for the second straight day, making congrat
congratulatory calls to Democratic lawmakers who won down ballot races,
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as well as one to Trump, who he invited for
a White House meeting that the present elect accepted. Biden
is set to deliver Rose Guard address today about the election.
He issued a statement shortly after Harris delivered her concession
speech on Wednesday, praising Harris for running an historic campaign
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under extraordinary circumstances. Some high ranking Democrats, including three advisors
to the Harris campaign, expressed deep frustrations that Biden and
it was his fault for failing to recognize earlier in
the election cycle that he was not up to the challenge.
The advisor spoke on condition of eminemity because they were
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not authorized to quote comment publicly. Biden eighty one ended
his re election campaign in July, weeks after a abysmal
debate performance sent his party to a spiral and raised
questions about whether he still had the mental acuity and
stamina to serve as a credible nominee, But polling long
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before hand showed that many Americans worried about his age.
Some seventy seven percent of Americans said in August of
twenty twenty three that Biden was too old to be
effective for four more years, according to a poll.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Now that was a year ago. This article right here
just makes me laugh.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
They don't understand that the real reason why Kamala Harris
lost and Joe Biden was going to lose. They don't
understand that the real reason is because they never listened
to the American people. They never listened to the American people.
That's the problem. And if they would have listened to
the American people, we'd be having a very different conversation
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right now.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Thank goodness, they didn't.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Thank goodness, they refused to listen to the American people.
They're all fighting over a dude's age. That's what they're
fighting over. They're all fighting over the age of an
individual and fighting over well, she should have been given
more time. And if you would have given her more
runway and they didn't know her, she didn't get a
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chance to introduce herself. Are you kidding me? She had
one hundred plus days and another three and a half
years as the vice president. Everybody knew who she was.
They rejected what she said she wanted to do. It's
that simple. CNN having a meltdown over him inviting Donald
Trump to the White House as well.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Here is what CNN said when they reported the.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
News Deerson As we mentioned that the top President Biden
and President elect Trump also spoke today. We learned that
mister Biden will address the nation tomorrow. CNN's Kayle's how
she is at the White House for US First, Kayla,
what do we expect to hear from the president tomorrow?
And what did you hear about the conversation he had
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not only with Donald Trump, but of course with his
vice president.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
The conversations were very brief, they are a very high level.
A White House official said that President Biden congratulated the
vice president on what he described as a historic campaign,
and as for the conversation with now President elect Donald Trump,
President Biden talked about being a president for all people
and ushering in a peaceful transition of power, and those
are some of the things that we're expecting President Biden
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to touch on tomorrow when he delivers this address. Despite
some of the more piercing rhetoric from the campaign trail
in recent weeks. We expect the president to talk about
how he was a president for all people and he
expects Donald Trump to be the same, how he will
uphold democracy, which is of course one of the core
pillars of what he ran on protecting back in twenty
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twenty and frequently revisited throughout the course of the last
four years. Now, clearly it is not a bittersweet moment
for President Biden. It is expected to be quite bitter
as he delivers this address in a race he believed
that he could have won. That there's any tinge of
that in his remarks, we don't expect there to be.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
We expect him to.
Speaker 8 (24:05):
Be on script and speaking at a high level, but
of course we'll see when he actually delivers them.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Dana, Yeah, I mean you sort of alluded to this.
This is obviously a fraud dynamic here because President Biden,
as you said, still believed that he could have beaten
Donald Trump.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
He was.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Sort of unceremoniously removed, even though he said he did
not his own what are you hearing from his advisors
about what's going on there behind the scenes. Well, Dana,
there are three schools of thought that have sort of
emerged in the light of day after the results have
come in and not just come in, but shown a
landslide and decisive victory of sorts for Biden's predecessor that
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he really ran campaigned directly against. And those three schools
of thoughts are as follows. The first is, perhaps Biden
should have just remained the candidate. He had that strong
coalition in the blue wall of white working class voters
that helped tip the ray to his favor in twenty twenty,
and that carried Donald Trump in twenty sixteen. Perhaps he
would have been able to carry that out. Then there's
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the school of thought that perhaps blame should be placed
on former President Barack Obama for anointing Hillary Clinton in
twenty sixteen, and to Speaker and mere to Nancy Pelosi
who effectively pushed Biden out of the race this time around,
with aids saying that it was essentially the party's most
powerful that told Biden that he needed to step aside.
They said that any other Democrat could beat Donald Trump,
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and clearly they say that was not the case. And
then there's a final school of thought that is, perhaps
they just didn't fully grasp but just how unpopular President
Biden was. They believed that the data would eventually play
out in voter sentiment that President Biden's approval rating did
not accurately reflect how people actually felt on the ground. Batanna.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
As we know, voters are never wrong. They have this
opportunity to speak their mind, to cast their ballots and
show where their priorities are. And that is the source
of a lot of reckoning for the Biden team in
the light of day.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Yeah, and it's pretty clear their priority was with inflation
and the economy. Cala, thank you so much, Anderson.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
They should don't get it like they're the infighting here
is great news for us, because they don't get it.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
They don't get that.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
They didn't just they should have just shut up and
they should have listened to the voters they like, they
don't get it, folks, They do not. They refuse to
understand what is happening right now in this country.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
And then what this was actually about.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
They lied to the American people, for example, about this
last minute di je effort to say that Donald Trump
wanted to kill Liz Cheney, and everybody that heard the
quote knew that it was a lie. They lied and
said this was the last election where free speech will
take a stand, saying if Donald Trump gets elected, you're
electing a hit A guy named Hitler, a Nazi and
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his supporters are Nazis. That didn't land. Lawrence Odona went
out there on TV last night. He was angry blaming
white men for Kamla Harris, saying you're racist.
Speaker 9 (27:07):
Listen, Frederick Douglas would be so proud and admiring of
Kamala Harris. He did not just fight for the right
to vote for black men when only white men could vote.
He also fought for the right to vote for all women.
When he was editor of the newspaper The North Star,
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Frederick Douglas wrote, we hold woman to be justly entitled
to all we claim for man. That was a very
unpopular opinion among white men in this country at that time,
and it remains an unpopular opinion among some white men
in this country to this day. It may be that
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not enough people in this country yet believe in the
full equality of women to elect a woman president of
the United States.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Wow there.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
It is white men you're to blame for Kamma's crushing
defeat because they do not yet believe in full equality
of women. No, I just didn't believe in our socialists
and communist ideas like price controls at grocery stores. Call
me old fashioned, locking up, locking up, actual criminals call
me old fashion, this idea that somehow it's you know,
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oh if you and this and again, this is where
they're not paying attention. This is where they are not
paying attention. I can disagree with a candidate and it
shouldn't come down to racism, as you point the finger
at me afterwards, like that's their line every time if
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you don't do what they say, Hey, we ran a woman,
is a is a candidate, and you didn't vote for
and so you're white, so therefore you're racist and you
hate women.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
We heard it before with Hillary Clinton. We heard it
before Barack Obama. If you don't vote for Barack Obama,
you're an internal.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Racist like that that that is what I mean. I'm sorry,
Like this is now where we are and they don't
understand it. Folks, they don't understand it. Make sure you
share a podcast wherever you can with your family and
your friends, and I'll see you back here tomorrow
Well, the happiest man in America right now may actually
be Joe Biden. Joe Biden walking out having just a
grin from ear to ear just I mean ear to ear,
happy as can be, thrilled, just thrilled to address the
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country as the President of the United States of America
and clearly excited that the Democratic Party lost after they
excommunicated him.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
From the White House. From the race.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I think he truly believes there's no doubt in his
mind that he would have beaten. In his mind, he
believes Donald Trump. But when the mafia turned on him,
and that's exactly who the mafia. When I say the mafia,
I'm not kidding, I mean it. The Democratic mafia in
the Five Families had turned against him. They turned against
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him and said we're going to twenty fifth Amendment you
or you're gone. Well, now we know the end of
that story. They forced him out, They ran Harris, and
Harris ended up being a massive failure.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Joe Biden, Joe Biden, by the.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Way, who hates Kama Harris, had to be happy watching
the election results come in as vindication for them, going, Yeah,
they thought they could throw me out of here, and
they could win thiseg didn't work. Joe Biden addressing the
country in the Rose Garden. Here's part of what he
had to say.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, it's good to see you all, particularly good to
see my granddaughter sitting in the front row. Here ht Van,
Helloai honey. For over two hundred years, America's carried out
of the greatest experiment in self government and history of
the world. That's not hyperbole. That's a fact. For the people.
The people vote and choose their own leaders, and they
(01:58):
do it peacefully, and we're in a democracy. The will
of the people always prevails. Yesterday I spoke with President
elect Trump to congratulate him on his victory, and I
assured him I direct my entire administration to work with
his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition. That's
(02:21):
what the American people deserve. Yesterday I also spoke with
Vice President Harris. She's been a partner and a public servant.
She ran an inspiring campaign and everyone got to see
something that I learned early on to respect so much
her character. She has a backbone like a rammod. She
has great character, true character. She gave her whole heart
(02:44):
and effort, and she and her entire team should be
proud of the campaign they ran. You know, the struggle
for the soul of America since our very founding has
always been an ongoing debate, still vital today. I know
for some people it's a time for victory to state
(03:06):
the obvious. For others, it's a time of loss. Campaigns
the contest of competing visions. The country chooses one or
the other. We accept the choice the country made. I've
said many times, you can't love your country only when
you win. You can't love your neighbor only when you
(03:30):
agree something. I hope we can do no matter who
you voted for, they see each other not as adversaries,
but as fellow Americans. Bring down the temperature. I also
hope we can later rest the question about the integrity
of the American electoral system. It is honest, it is fair,
(03:51):
and it is transparent, and it can be trusted, win
or lose. I also hope we can restore the respect
for all our election workers who busted their next and
took risks at the outset. We should thank them, thank
them for staffing voting sites, counting the votes, protecting the
very integrity of the election. Many of them are volunteers
(04:14):
who do it simply out of love for their country
and as they did as they did their duty as citizens.
I will do my duty as president. I'll fulfill my
oath and I wanted the constitution. On January twentieth, we'll
have a peaceful transfer of power here in America. To
all our incredible staff, supporters, captain members, all the people
(04:37):
who been hanging out with me for the last four years.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
God love you.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
As my mother would say, thank you so much. You
put so much into the past four years. I know
it's a difficult time.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I know it's a difficult time.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
That is as smiley and as joyous as I have
ever seen. Joe Biden coming out to a big grin
Joe Biden saying that the result of the twenty twenty
election twenty twenty four election are what he describes as well.
We're in a democracy.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
For over two hundred years, America has carried out the
greatest experiment in self government and history of the world.
That's not hyperbole, that's a fact.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
For the people.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
The people vote and choose their own leaders, and they
do it peacefully. And we're in a democracy. The will
of the people always prevails. Yesterday I spoke with President
Elect Trump to congratulate him on his victory, and I
assured him I direct my entire administration to work with
(05:40):
his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
A peaceful and orderly transition.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Now there's part of me it's like, all right, this
is impressive, right, Like this is really impressive. He is
genuinely sitting there, genuinely saying, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I'm just gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
The smile on his face was, Hey, I'm going to
hand over the White House to the guy that you
guys thought I couldn't beat. Yeah, I'm gonna hand over
the White House to the guy that you guys thought
I couldn't beat, and you threw me out of office,
And I'm gonna sit here and say, not my fault.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Much of the work we've done is already being felt
by the American people. If the vast majority of it
will not be felt, we felt over the next ten years,
we have legislation we passed. It's just only now just
really kicking in. We're going to see over trillion dollars
worth of infrastructure work done, changing people's lives and rural
(06:40):
communities and communities that are in real difficulty because it
takes time to get it done, and so much more.
It's going to take time, but it's there. The road
ahead is clear, assuming we sustain it. There's so much,
so much we can get done, and we'll get done
based the way the legislation will passed. And it's truly historic.
(07:05):
You know, we're leaving behind the strongest economy in the world.
I know people are still hurting, but things are changing rapidly. Together,
we've changed America for the better. Now we have seventy
four days to finish the term. Our term.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Let's make every day count seventy four days to finish
the term. As he described it, saying that much of
what they did won't be realized for decades. That's what
you call fictitious legislation, guarantees and promises. By the way,
no one votes for president nine. It's America for something
you're going to do twenty years from now. Joe, and
(07:44):
I understand you're trying to build your legacy, and I
get that, I really do. I understand that you're trying
to act like you did all these amazing things, and
this is the easiest or the best way to act
like you did it right, Like this is the this
is the easiest, this is the easiest or the best way.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's pretty funny, it's laughable.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
It's hilarious that he's like, I'm gonna I pass legislation
that twenty years from now, you're gonna feel it. Right,
twenty years from now, you're gonna really feel this. It's
gonna be amazing we pass legislation. You don't even realize
it's gonna have an impact on you. Now you're like, wait, what,
(08:31):
Welcome the Democratic Party. That's all I gotta say is
welcome the Democratic Party. It's like a Kamala Harris word
salad special.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You know, can't you hear going You won't.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You won't know what we've done until we've done what
we've done, and then you will know what we've done
twenty years from now.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
That's what Joe Biden just said.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Joe Biden saying this, the will of the people always prevails.
I don't know that's always true, but take a listen.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Over two hundred years, America has carried on the greatest
experiment in self government and history of the world. That's
not hyperbole.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
That's a fact. For the people.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
The people vote and choose their own leaders, and they
do it peacefully, and we're in a democracy. The will
of the people always prevails.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yesterday, you guys, by the way, did try to lock
up Donald Trump. You did, like greatest house, You did
go after him and his family. So let's die down
the crazy for a little bit here. And I appreciate
the kumbay ayism now, but I'm also not I'm not
dumb enough to not remember. Okay, Like I remember like
(09:48):
the idea that that you know, you're sitting here and
you're like, oh, hey, everything's great and we respect everything.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Now, like I'm calling bs.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
You guys have tried to overthrow the other people with
the Russian collusion hoax.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Never forget that you guys.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Knew, you knew, you knew that the Russian collusion the
studealsa was created by you, the Democratic Party, because y'all
paid for it. So Hillary Clinton's campaign and used it
to try to overthrow the will of the people and
impeached Donald Trump back in twenty sixteen, and to undermine
his presidency. You guys locked up people around him, put
(10:26):
him in jail, try to get people framed like General Flynn,
you abuse your power. Luckily, the American people saw it.
The American people understood what you were doing. The American
people were able to overcome all the corruption and everything
(10:46):
that you have done. And I think that is the
part here that's so important for people to understand.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That is the story here.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Is that the American people, even as you guys tried
to screw the America out of electing its own president,
you guys, the American people fought back and we want
that is amazing, It's truly incredible.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Thank goodness, Thank goodness.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
This is now where we are, where we have a victory,
and we have you know, Joe Biden, who is happy right,
which makes me laugh because they try to throw them
out unceremoniously. And now there is this is this is
the revenge five three five nine seven three two five
(11:41):
three five nine seven three two eight hundred number one,
eight hundred and four seven four nine seven three two.
Want to get your phone calls in here your reaction
to all of this.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Some other news this morning, and that is that it
looks like peace in the least may be coming very
soon between Israel and Hamas Hamas seems to be winding
down the war quickly because they're afraid of what's going
to happen when Donald Trump takes office.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
They are very worried about this. And if you think
that's the only thing that's changing, it's not.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Mayor Adams in New York City, knowing changes are coming
from the federal government, has announced he's inning food voucher
program for illegal immigrants in New York City.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
He is.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
The mayor just announced that the city will no longer
issue vouchers to migrants to pay for food, ending a
controversial program that had repeatedly come under attack by conservatives
and others.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
This pilot program in New York City, drenched in both
humanity and controversy, distributed debit cards to migrant family staying
in city funded hotels and allowing them to buy their
own Food's reporter Josh honyre following the breaking news for.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
US, Josh Mobill, It's a program that, as you say,
generated plenty of controversy, but now it's absence may raise
even more questions. The so called Immediate Response Cards pilot
program was designed to help feed migrant families who'd found
themselves in New York with no way to afford food.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
The one year contract.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Provided what the city described as culturally relevant food to
twenty six hundred migrant families, allowing them to basically buy
what they wanted. A family of four with under two
kids with two kids under five got about three hundred
and fifty dollars per week to cover food, in a
program the city said would actually save taxpayers millions a year,
but also reduced food waste. You may remember, the food
(13:33):
the city had been providing in migrant shelters was seen
as not culturally sensitive to the needs of some migrant groups,
and it ended up just going to waste. More than
a year, the city was groaning under the weight of
more than two hundred thousand asylum seekers. Official said the
migrant population has actually reduced lately. In fact, a massive
shelter on Roosevelt Island is in the process of closing.
(13:54):
In the meantime, Mayor Adams spoke on the phone yesterday
with President elect Donald Trump, who had vowed during his
campaign to mass deport migrants. Aside from congratulating him on
his window, Adams today would not say what they discussed.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Following Trump's victory, New York City mayor announcing he's ending
the food voucher for illegals, and its absence may raise
even more questions of what else is going to change
in New York. They're going to keep giving them billions
of dollars in free hotel rooms. That numbers, not exaggeration.
That's what they're spending. Why is this happening, I'll tell
(14:32):
exactly why. Because they know a different administration's coming in
and the rule of laws coming back to the White House.
That's what this is. Charlemagne the God African American host
this morning saying this Trump speaks to people's grievances better
(14:53):
than Democrats. I know people are going to talk about
misinformation and the dumbing down of society. I understand all
of that, but you don't have be intelligent to know
you can't pay your bills.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Didn't he say f Trump to Harris?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I mean in an interview, like, I'm pretty sure he did,
same guy.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It's amazing how fast.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And they'll change their tune when she and this is
a cautionary tale to any Democrat out there, Okay, Like
this is a very cautionary tale. If you think they
care about you, they don't if you think that they
worry about you, they don't. They don't even care about
Kama Harris. Like when they're done with her, they're done
with her, Like they don't care. They just don't care.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Folks. It's all about power. It always has been. It's
always been about power.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
How is it possible that Kamala Harris could lose to
Donald Trump? Democrats now figured it out. They are now
officially blaming Joe Biden, saying that this is somehow Joe
Biden's fault. Joe Biden getting the blame by Harris' team
for the vice president's resounding loss, including okay, and this
(16:07):
just makes me laugh in including the popular vote. Remember
when they said it was all about the popular vote
and the electoral College is evil and it doesn't work
and it's racists.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Remember that. Yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Joe Biden's name wasn't on the ballot, but history will
likely remember. The Associated Press is writing this morning, uh,
but history will likely remember Kamala Harris's resounding defeat as
his loss too, they write, as Democrats quote, pick up
(16:43):
the pieces this morning.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I do love the obituary. Like the obituary side of.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
This is just oh so fun, because it's just so
fun to watch them freak out and to be so angry,
to be so frustrated, picking up the pieces, right, they're frustrated,
and now they're trying to figure out what to do.
(17:09):
Democrats picking up the pieces, ap says falling president like
Donald Trump's Trump's decisive victory, some of his of the
vice president's backers are expressing quote real frustration.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
The Biden's decision to seek reelection.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Until this summer, despite long standing concerns about his age
and unease about post pandemic inflation, as well as the
US Mexico border, all but sealed his party's.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Loss of the White House.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
So this is now Joe Biden's fault, not Kama Harris.
There are also many that are angry this morning and saying, well,
one of the big problems is we're mad. We're really
mad that we get to know Kama Harris, that there
wasn't enough time for her to introduce herself to the
(18:05):
American people. Hold on a second, You've been the vice
president for four years and you're telling me the American
people didn't have time, as you describe it, to get
to quote know you are you kidding me. The biggest
owners of this loss is on President Biden, said Andrew Yang,
(18:25):
who ran against Biden in twenty twenty for the Democratic nomination,
endors Harris unsuccessful run.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
If he had stepped.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Down in January instead of July, we may have been
in a very different place. Biden will leave office after
leading the US out of the worst pandemic in a century,
the AP rights galvanizing international support for Ukraine in the
aftermath of Russia's invasion, and passing a one trillion dollar
(18:53):
infrastructure bill that will impact communities for years to come.
That's what they're saying his resume now is. But having
run four years ago against Trump to quote, restore the
soul of the country, Biden will make way after just
one term for his immediate predecessor, whoever came to impeachments,
(19:15):
a felony conviction, and an insurrection launched by his supporters
the AP Rights. Trump is vowed to radically reshaped the
federal government and roll back many of Biden's priorities. Maybe
in twenty or thirty years history, the AP Rights will
remember Biden for some of these achievements. That's what Tom Riley,
co director of the Center for the Independent and Sustainable
(19:37):
Democracy at Arizona State University said, but in the short term,
I don't know, he escapes the legacy of being the
president who beat Trump, only to Usher and another Donald
Trump administration four years later. The President on Wednesday stayed
out of site for the second straight day, making congrat
congratulatory calls to Democratic lawmakers who won down ballot races,
(20:01):
as well as one to Trump, who he invited for
a White House meeting that the present elect accepted. Biden
is set to deliver Rose Guard address today about the election.
He issued a statement shortly after Harris delivered her concession
speech on Wednesday, praising Harris for running an historic campaign
(20:22):
under extraordinary circumstances. Some high ranking Democrats, including three advisors
to the Harris campaign, expressed deep frustrations that Biden and
it was his fault for failing to recognize earlier in
the election cycle that he was not up to the challenge.
The advisor spoke on condition of eminemity because they were
(20:45):
not authorized to quote comment publicly. Biden eighty one ended
his re election campaign in July, weeks after a abysmal
debate performance sent his party to a spiral and raised
questions about whether he still had the mental acuity and
stamina to serve as a credible nominee, But polling long
(21:07):
before hand showed that many Americans worried about his age.
Some seventy seven percent of Americans said in August of
twenty twenty three that Biden was too old to be
effective for four more years, according to a poll.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Now that was a year ago. This article right here
just makes me laugh.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
They don't understand that the real reason why Kamala Harris
lost and Joe Biden was going to lose. They don't
understand that the real reason is because they never listened
to the American people. They never listened to the American people.
That's the problem. And if they would have listened to
the American people, we'd be having a very different conversation
(21:47):
right now.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Thank goodness, they didn't.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Thank goodness, they refused to listen to the American people.
They're all fighting over a dude's age. That's what they're
fighting over. They're all fighting over the age of an
individual and fighting over well, she should have been given
more time. And if you would have given her more
runway and they didn't know her, she didn't get a
(22:12):
chance to introduce herself. Are you kidding me? She had
one hundred plus days and another three and a half
years as the vice president. Everybody knew who she was.
They rejected what she said she wanted to do. It's
that simple. CNN having a meltdown over him inviting Donald
Trump to the White House as well.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Here is what CNN said when they reported the.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
News Deerson As we mentioned that the top President Biden
and President elect Trump also spoke today. We learned that
mister Biden will address the nation tomorrow. CNN's Kayle's how
she is at the White House for US First, Kayla,
what do we expect to hear from the president tomorrow?
And what did you hear about the conversation he had
(22:56):
not only with Donald Trump, but of course with his
vice president.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
The conversations were very brief, they are a very high level.
A White House official said that President Biden congratulated the
vice president on what he described as a historic campaign,
and as for the conversation with now President elect Donald Trump,
President Biden talked about being a president for all people
and ushering in a peaceful transition of power, and those
are some of the things that we're expecting President Biden
(23:21):
to touch on tomorrow when he delivers this address. Despite
some of the more piercing rhetoric from the campaign trail
in recent weeks. We expect the president to talk about
how he was a president for all people and he
expects Donald Trump to be the same, how he will
uphold democracy, which is of course one of the core
pillars of what he ran on protecting back in twenty
(23:44):
twenty and frequently revisited throughout the course of the last
four years. Now, clearly it is not a bittersweet moment
for President Biden. It is expected to be quite bitter
as he delivers this address in a race he believed
that he could have won. That there's any tinge of
that in his remarks, we don't expect there to be.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
We expect him to.
Speaker 8 (24:05):
Be on script and speaking at a high level, but
of course we'll see when he actually delivers them.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Dana, Yeah, I mean you sort of alluded to this.
This is obviously a fraud dynamic here because President Biden,
as you said, still believed that he could have beaten
Donald Trump.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
He was.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Sort of unceremoniously removed, even though he said he did
not his own what are you hearing from his advisors
about what's going on there behind the scenes. Well, Dana,
there are three schools of thought that have sort of
emerged in the light of day after the results have
come in and not just come in, but shown a
landslide and decisive victory of sorts for Biden's predecessor that
(24:46):
he really ran campaigned directly against. And those three schools
of thoughts are as follows. The first is, perhaps Biden
should have just remained the candidate. He had that strong
coalition in the blue wall of white working class voters
that helped tip the ray to his favor in twenty twenty,
and that carried Donald Trump in twenty sixteen. Perhaps he
would have been able to carry that out. Then there's
(25:06):
the school of thought that perhaps blame should be placed
on former President Barack Obama for anointing Hillary Clinton in
twenty sixteen, and to Speaker and mere to Nancy Pelosi
who effectively pushed Biden out of the race this time around,
with aids saying that it was essentially the party's most
powerful that told Biden that he needed to step aside.
They said that any other Democrat could beat Donald Trump,
(25:28):
and clearly they say that was not the case. And
then there's a final school of thought that is, perhaps
they just didn't fully grasp but just how unpopular President
Biden was. They believed that the data would eventually play
out in voter sentiment that President Biden's approval rating did
not accurately reflect how people actually felt on the ground. Batanna.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
As we know, voters are never wrong. They have this
opportunity to speak their mind, to cast their ballots and
show where their priorities are. And that is the source
of a lot of reckoning for the Biden team in
the light of day.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Yeah, and it's pretty clear their priority was with inflation
and the economy. Cala, thank you so much, Anderson.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
They should don't get it like they're the infighting here
is great news for us, because they don't get it.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
They don't get that.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
They didn't just they should have just shut up and
they should have listened to the voters they like, they
don't get it, folks, They do not. They refuse to
understand what is happening right now in this country.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
And then what this was actually about.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
They lied to the American people, for example, about this
last minute di je effort to say that Donald Trump
wanted to kill Liz Cheney, and everybody that heard the
quote knew that it was a lie. They lied and
said this was the last election where free speech will
take a stand, saying if Donald Trump gets elected, you're
electing a hit A guy named Hitler, a Nazi and
(26:55):
his supporters are Nazis. That didn't land. Lawrence Odona went
out there on TV last night. He was angry blaming
white men for Kamla Harris, saying you're racist.
Speaker 9 (27:07):
Listen, Frederick Douglas would be so proud and admiring of
Kamala Harris. He did not just fight for the right
to vote for black men when only white men could vote.
He also fought for the right to vote for all women.
When he was editor of the newspaper The North Star,
(27:29):
Frederick Douglas wrote, we hold woman to be justly entitled
to all we claim for man. That was a very
unpopular opinion among white men in this country at that time,
and it remains an unpopular opinion among some white men
in this country to this day. It may be that
(27:51):
not enough people in this country yet believe in the
full equality of women to elect a woman president of
the United States.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Wow there.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
It is white men you're to blame for Kamma's crushing
defeat because they do not yet believe in full equality
of women. No, I just didn't believe in our socialists
and communist ideas like price controls at grocery stores. Call
me old fashioned, locking up, locking up, actual criminals call
me old fashion, this idea that somehow it's you know,
(28:23):
oh if you and this and again, this is where
they're not paying attention. This is where they are not
paying attention. I can disagree with a candidate and it
shouldn't come down to racism, as you point the finger
at me afterwards, like that's their line every time if
(28:43):
you don't do what they say, Hey, we ran a woman,
is a is a candidate, and you didn't vote for
and so you're white, so therefore you're racist and you
hate women.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
We heard it before with Hillary Clinton. We heard it
before Barack Obama. If you don't vote for Barack Obama,
you're an internal.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Racist like that that that is what I mean. I'm sorry,
Like this is now where we are and they don't
understand it. Folks, they don't understand it. Make sure you
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