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July 29, 2024 34 mins
Of all weeks, Joe Biden chose Dan's 30th anniversary excursion with wife Aimee to Switzerland as the time to drop out of his bid for re-election in 2024. But that didn't stop Dan from celebrating sweet victory when he called it long before any other media pundit, over a year ago.

Republicans should be thanking their lucky stars that mediocre talent Vice President Kamala Harris has been installed as Biden's replacement, rather than a heavier hitter from higher up in the Democrat depth chart.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
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and to subscribe, download, and listen to the show every
single day on your favorite podcast platform. I apologize for
taking the suspense out of the presidential race. I'm going
to do it again today, So spoiler alert on that

(00:23):
and everything I've told you what happen in this race
has happened. Biden is not the nominee. The race has
gotten tougher for Trump because Biden's not the nominee. Trump
is still highly likely to win, and it goes on
from there. But I cannot wait to talk to you
about this today because you know, timing's everything right, and

(00:45):
Amy and I thirty years of incredible bliss. And so
we get to that thirty year point, we plan this
big trip. We planned to go right at the end
of the GOP convention, and then, of course what happens
is that's when the political coup reached its climax and
they overthrow Biden as the democratically elected nominee, and all

(01:06):
of this kicks in. So I've got a whole week
of stored up thoughts and observations and questions, et cetera
for you today. So looking forward to it eight five
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I know there are other things going on in the world,
and we're going to talk about those, how do we

(01:26):
not talk about even more proof of the undeniable war
on Christianity. It's going on on so many different levels
across the world, starting with mass slaughter of Christians in
certain countries that at this point just seems to be
a big yawner for most of the world. But we

(01:46):
see this persecution of Christians in so many other ways
as well, and obviously on full display at the Olympics.
And that's what we're going to talk about in part today.
Though you know, the question I guess on that one,
and we'll get to it later in the show, is
what do you do about it? Right? I mean, it
confirms the reality of what's going on out there that

(02:08):
we talk about on the show and so many other
context and it's certainly the secular left in America, which
owns and operates the Democratic Party is is overtly hostile
to Christianity in so many different ways, and then to
other certain religions as well. But Christianity, you know, receives
that the brunt of their abuse. Because Jared Polus acknowledged it,

(02:31):
Barack Obama acknowledged it. The left knows they have to
separate people from their christian faith and from certain other faces. Well,
they have to separate people from their faith in order
for the left to get its way, because so much
of the Left wants to do is directly contrary to
the fundamental teachings of Christianity and some other religions also

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eight five to five for zero five eight two five
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at reaching the point where in the opening ceremonies there
would be the worst form of mocking of the Last Supper. Yeah,
just confirms everything we've been talking about in that front.
But you know that brings us back to the presidential race, right,

(03:14):
because in so many different ways, this presidential race is
about what kind of America we're going to have for
decades to come, including on the religious freedom front. So
let's let's take into his political coup, the deposing of
democratically elected dem nominee Joe Biden. But where it leaves

(03:36):
the race, and I particularly like to hear from you.
If you disagree, we'll open up those phone lines for you.
Eight five to five four zero five eight two five
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thirty nine. But when it comes to the race, I'd
been talking about for a long time on this show,
and it's proven to write when it comes to the race,
of course, you know, when Biden eventually was removed as

(04:00):
the nominee, it was going to get tougher for Trump
because Trump was absolutely, without question going to beat Biden.
Biden was politically dead man walking. Can't get much easier
than that. But that raises the interesting question in the end,
will Kamala Harris actually be easier to beat than Joe Biden.
Obviously they're getting this sugar high right now, but that's

(04:22):
before people start to really learn a lot more about
Kamala Harris and what she really believes and what a
presidency would look like, and her capabilities or much more
importantly lack thereof, to be president of the United States.
So the way I see this thing right now is
that is that it shapes up so well for Trump

(04:47):
and the GOP because think about this. I'm sure you
have think about this. This is the worst possible scenario
for the Democrats after or the deposing of Joe Biden,
because if after the inevitable removal of Biden is the nominee,

(05:09):
if after that the Dems had gone with any combination
of their other options, they would be in a much
much stronger place than they are with Kamala Harris as
the nominee, no matter who she picks his VP, they'd
be in a much stronger place. But this comes back
to another thing that I've been respectfully submitting to you

(05:29):
for a long time, and I think people have to
acknowledge it is true because I don't think anybody can
credibly argue against it, and that is Joe Biden wants
He wants the Democrats to lose. He don't want Trump
to win. He despises Trump, he hates Trump. But he's
willing to have Trump win in order to accomplish his goal,

(05:51):
which is having the people who overthrew him lose, having
the people who ousted him lose, having the people who
humiliated him lose, all of the above being within his
own party. So of course he wants them to lose.
Of course, he with his worldview and all centered around

(06:11):
Joe Biden. Of course he wants to be the only
candidate to have beaten Trump. Hillary Clinton couldn't do it, right,
And remember Obama ran him out of the race in
favor of Hillary in sixteen. Hillary Clinton couldn't do it.
You think, I think for a second Biden wants Kamala
Harris to beat Trump. Now not a chance. So that's

(06:33):
the beautiful thing is is the Biden camp was able
to outmaneuver Obama and they were able to rig all
of this so that once it was clear he was
going to be overthrown as a democratically elected nominee, they
got Harris inserted, They got Harris ensconced, they got Harris

(06:53):
off to a fast start. So at that point the
party stuck with Harris. And that is so very good
in ways I want to talk with you about during
the course of the show. But that is so very
good for Trumpet and the gop down ticket, and so
much better than any of these other combinations would have been.
And how rich to see Obama and that whole pack

(07:17):
that deposed Biden. How beautiful to see them out maneuvered
here and they're stuck with Harris. I mean, it's not subtle, right.
Barack Obama did not endorse her. I know, yes now
because he had to, But Michelle Obama did not endorse her.
They know what's coming, they know how weak she's going

(07:37):
to be. And I ask you this as we head
into a break, I'd ask you if you're disagreeing with
me at this point, without closing your eyes, if you're driving,
just stop and think about it. Can you really picture
can you really picture the United States of America electing

(07:57):
a San Francisco left d president of the United States?
And that's before we get to a whole bunch of
other stuff. But can you actually picture this nation doing that?
And think back on wait a second. The Dems who
have won, you know, they won by pretending to be moderate.

(08:20):
She can't do that. She came out of California, she
came out of that that lefty incubator. She ran as Harden,
as far to the left as she could for a
very long time. And she has done that as VP
as well. I mean, so go back and ask yourself.

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I mean, would Barack Obama have won in oh eight
if he had been an openly far left San Francisco liberal.
Would Barack Obama have won in two thousand and eight,
even with all of those wins in his favor wi
DS in his favor, what would he have won in

(09:04):
two thousand and eight? You know, Biden very very narrowly
won by pretending to be a moderate. And keep in mind,
the reason that the Democratic Party launched on to Biden
and propped him up as their nominee in twenty was
that the Democratic Party was convinced America would not vote
for Bernie Sanders, would not vote for any open lefty.

(09:24):
He wouldn't even vote for Buddha Judge or any Klobachar.
And so they America, the Democratic Party, so convinced America
would only elect what they perceived to be a moderate Democrat.
That's how they ran Biden. So, yeah, just step back
and look at it and say, can you really picture
America electing a far left San Francisco liberal as President

(09:49):
of the United States? Eight five four zero five eight
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Speaker 2 (09:57):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
I'm stupid, you're smart, I was wrong, you were right,
You're the best.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
I'm the worst. You're very good looking.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
I'm not attractive, all right, as long as you're willing
to admit that.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
Now, are you ready to get down to business and
do exactly what I tell you to do? Good?

Speaker 1 (10:23):
One?

Speaker 5 (10:23):
Right?

Speaker 6 (10:24):
That was good?

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Watch that movie every day?

Speaker 4 (10:26):
Well it was almost the exchange you and I had
about the prediction that ended with a Tomahawk's steak in
your favor.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Well, thank you, my friend, and I'm very much looking
forward to schedule that getting together with you for a tomawk.
But I am buying my own tomak. No, it's a
moral victory. I would just feel guilty. I'd feel terrible.
All right, Well, you got watch it because we're buddies.
That's just because we're buddies.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
I still think of bets about You deserve it, you
earned it.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
I appreciate it. The sound you just played is more
important to me than any piece of me that might be. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Hey,
if you just joined us, thank you, and thanks so
much to Heidi Ganal and John Calterera for manning the
show last week while Amy and I were off celebrating
our thirtieth anniversary together. Since the times she was a

(11:13):
little kid, you know, Sound of Music whenever it came
out was her favorite movie, and so we just it
was just great to go over there and wander around
some of those parts and it was fantastic. And thanks
to Heidi for letting me co host the show last
Monday night. But given the time change it because it's
about what twelve thirty am on my body clock right now,

(11:33):
so this will be a particularly good show today eight
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text d an five seven seven three nine. But I'm
back in the studio now, so happy to be here.
And it's not just so like, hey, I was right
about this, right about that. The point is in that
it isn't a personal thing. It isn't an ego thing.
It's say, hey, you know, I hope I have some
credibility with you because of that thing, because I think

(11:56):
I have a clear view of what's coming next. I
want you to give that some serious consideration. Eight five
to five four zero five eight two five to five.
So we'll get to the phone lines Prano. But I
opened the show by talking about some of this. There's
so much more to talk about, but so many upsides
to Trump and the GOP of having Kamala Harris as

(12:17):
the nominee, and no more danger of complacency, right because
Trump had won. Trump had won this race against the
democratically nominated Democratic Party nominee. Trump had won the race,
and now it's going to be tougher no matter who
they put in there, but it's going to be easier
against Kamala than it would have been against anybody else

(12:38):
in their top tier that they could have run. So
now no more danger of complacency. And Trump was building
up such a big lead that there was starting to
be a danger of complacency that you heard some listeners
properly referring to Kamala the worst possible candidate of all
the realistically possible DEM candidates, the worst possible candidate in

(13:00):
the blue Wall states. And will break that down a
little bit more as we go through it, but let's
start with this one. As I start to mix in
calls and texts, Democrats, right, they have to win all
three of the blue Wall states by most realistic calculations.
Catholic voters a major presence, a major factor in the
Blue Wall states of Ohio's already in the GOP camp.

(13:22):
But you talk about Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Catholic voters loom
very large. Whoever wins the Catholic vote normally wins the presidency.
Joe Biden was able to hold on to a significant
chunk of the Catholic vote through his quote unquote devout
Catholic pitch and the fact that he was he self
identified as a Catholic. So, Kamala Harris, as you look

(13:45):
at the entire Democrat field, can anybody suggest to me
any major Democrat player who would be worse when it
comes to the Catholic vote. Kamala Harris is going to
lose the Catholic vote, gonna lose the Catholic vote big.
The Catholic vote may collapse the Catholic vote for the

(14:07):
Democratic nominee. I'm not saying she won't get any but
but it may. It may collapse with Kamala Harris leading
the ticket. And we'll get into the particular wise and
if you disagree with me, I'd love to have that
conversation as well. Let's start with Eerie Mike here on
the Dan Kaplo Show. How you doing, Arie.

Speaker 5 (14:27):
Hey doing just great?

Speaker 6 (14:28):
Denver Hey, I just you asked for a different point
of view and so I'm gonna offer that up to you.
So I think miss Harris Well, first of all, by
the way, she's not a San Francisco.

Speaker 5 (14:42):
And those are two very different cities.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
She's not a San Francisco liberal.

Speaker 5 (14:48):
No, she's an Oakland liberal.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
How did how did well? My brother? Please educate me,
my friend, because you know I've just come back from vacation.
I may have vacation brain. How did she get elected
that the San Francisco.

Speaker 6 (15:01):
DA She's from Oakland. I'm sure she worked.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
No, no, no, no, worked in San Francisco. She was elected the
district attorney in San Francisco. And you call this show
to say she's not a San Francisco liberal.

Speaker 6 (15:20):
I'm just trying to put San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
And do you think in the minds of the voters
in the blue Wall states? And by the way, if
you're new to the show, we love Mike for this.
This is what he does. Once you prove him wrong
on a point, he just keeps talking. Uh so go ahead,
my friend. So yes, And and you think then in
the blue Wall States, those voters are going to make
a distinction. Oh no, she's not a San Francisco liberal.

(15:46):
Even though she was San Francisco DA. She's an Oakland Liberal,
and that's going to make a difference.

Speaker 6 (15:53):
No, I'm just trying to correct you, that's all You'll
You failed.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
You fail, Mike.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
I'm trying to find how her being from Oakland, which
she's not. But let's go with that. Mike, how is
that relevant?

Speaker 5 (16:04):
What does that mean?

Speaker 2 (16:04):
What does that mean?

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Well?

Speaker 6 (16:06):
Here, well, here's the more relevant point I was getting to.
I was just trying to I was just trying to
let you know that you were incorrect.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
But wait a second, Wait, wait a second, Mike, I
got to put you on pause because We've reached a
point where I wonder whether I'm still in a flight
somewhere into deep sleep having a bad dream. Mike. You
called to say, Dan, you're wrong. She's not a San
Francisco liberal. I said, Mike, as a matter of fact,
she was the elected DA from San Francisco. And you
still insist I was wrong. She's not a San Francisco liberal. Mike,

(16:36):
will will you admit that? No, you were wrong, And
in fact, she was the elected DA of San Francisco.

Speaker 6 (16:44):
She was definitely the prosecutor, and she's going to be
running against a criminal and I think that is the
single point that she can make and me a much
better Canada than Biden's. Okay, I wanted to.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Make Okay, well let's let's let's ask you.

Speaker 6 (16:58):
Wrong about her place of birth?

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Okay, that this is just goofy wasted time. Okay, So
you think she's going to win on the I'm a
prosecutor and he's a criminal thing. If you're right about that,
then why has he been expanding his lead after that
bogus criminal conviction? No, no, no, no, no, you got

(17:23):
you got to answer that, or this just becomes a
waste of time. One more chance, Mike, one more chance.
If you're right about that, why has Trump been expanding
his lead after the bogus criminal conviction?

Speaker 6 (17:36):
He is, he has.

Speaker 5 (17:37):
Not expanded lead that she joined us.

Speaker 6 (17:40):
As a matter of fact, it's squeezed by five points,
you know.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Mike, why don't Why don't you hang on? And there's
no doubt as I predicted, it would tighten after Biden,
as I predicted, left the race in this case, was deposed,
forced out of the race. Welcome back to Mike and
others who will try to explain how America is going
to vote for Kamala Harris can't.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Picture you're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.

Speaker 6 (18:10):
The k File.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
Overnight, Andrew Kazinski and his team found an interview that
the Vice President, who was then a senator, did in
twenty twenty, and this was during everything going on around
George Floyd and the protests there where she talked about
the defund the police movement, and what she said is
that the movement was about rightly saying, look at budgets

(18:31):
and priorities, and I want to play a little bit more.

Speaker 6 (18:33):
What she said, part of what we have to do
here is also look at the militarization of police departments and.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
The kind of money that is going to that, and
we need to demilitarize police departments. It is outdated and is.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
Actually wrong and backward to think that more police officers
will create more safety.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
So this is the type I'm sorry you win the
election by just playing that on a loop. Take every
dollar Trump can raise and play that loop over and over.
How idiotic More police officers equal more safety. No, a
defund the police Democrat is not going to win in America.
So it's exactly what I've been telling you for a

(19:13):
long time. And I know you know this. This is
all about Donald Trump. It is Donald Trump's to lose.
It was before the political coup against Biden, and it
is after. It is Donald Trump's to lose. America is
not going to vote for Kamala Harris. Now it's up
to Donald Trump as to whether America votes against Donald Trump.

(19:38):
It is his to lose. The race is tougher now
than it was against Biden because Biden was dead politician walking.
But it is Trump's to lose in so many ways,
just like back in twenty twenty, As I've said before,
there were probably maybe ten people in all of America
who voted for Joe Biden. Unfortunately, there were a few

(20:00):
too many who voted against Donald Trump. And that's the
price you pay when you're going to do historically important
things which can then have the effect of polarizing. And
I know there was a polarizing aspect on the personality
as well at points. But when you're gonna do a
lot of the great tough things that Trump did and

(20:21):
you're going to have virtually the entire media amassed against you,
well then yeah, you're going to have a significant portion
of the voters who are voting against you. But that's
what happened in twenty Nobody voted for Biden, and you know,
very few people in the end are going to vote
for Kamala Harris. Here it would be like it if
Mike hadn't run off during the break, I'd asked him

(20:42):
this question. I mean, could you picture America electing dan
Quayle president? It was never going to happen that. Dan
Quayle quite obviously seems like a nice guy. I'm sure
I'd love having a beer with him, but quite obviously
didn't have the gravitas to be president of the United States.
Kamala Harris falls into the same category. Didn't Quail Michelle Obama?

Speaker 4 (21:01):
Didn't Quail try to run for like ten minutes in
nineteen ninety six.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
I'm sure that he did, and you got more votes
in him be Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama would have been
the odds on favorite if she got in the race.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Why do you think she didn't?

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Well, listen, remember Obama, both Obamas, Barack and Michelle did
not endorse Kamala Harris. They were forced into it later.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Do you think they were talking about it for about
four or five days there?

Speaker 6 (21:25):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (21:25):
I think for a lot more than that. But listen,
whether they didn't endorse Kamala Harris because Michelle intended to run.
I'm not at all sure she intended to run. I mean, particularly,
as I said at the time, after President Trump so
courageously and calmly handled the assassination attempt and showed such
great leadership at that point, if Michelle Obama had been

(21:47):
seriously considering running, I think at that point she's out
because there's no way she wants her legacy being losing
to Donald Trump. And so the other reason that they
were not endorsing or right, Ryan, let's assume Michelle Obama
had no interest in running, then clearly the reasons the
Obamas were not going to endorse her were that they know,

(22:09):
they know how all this works, they know the truth
about Kamala Harris, they know the things she said and done,
they know her abilities and lack thereof, and they know
she is not a winning candidate. I've got to believe
that's why they didn't endorse her. And I understand they
were left in a position because, as a Texter says
to me, kind of challenging me, Dan, you really think

(22:32):
that Biden was able to outsmart Obama. Well, as I said,
I think when I opened the show, I think Biden's
team was able to outsmart and out maneuver the Obamas
because they clearly and quickly got behind Kamala Harris, and
they were able to do certain things obviously internally, to

(22:55):
muster such support for her so quickly that even the
Obamas had to fold. And that is a gift to us.
Can you can you imagine if we're sitting here right
now talking about their new candidate being Michelle Obama or
their new candidate being a Shapiro Whitmer combination, still winnable

(23:16):
for Trump, but much much much tougher than beating Kamala Harris.
For zero five A two five five the number as
we go to the phone lines to those with us
in the last segment, when when Color Mike ended the
second segment, I'd asked him to hold on because I
wanted to respond to his claim that the wait a second.

(23:37):
The reason Kamala Harris has gained in the polls is
that she, as a former prosecutor, is now focusing on
Trump's New York conviction, and that's going to have great traction.
And that's how she wins, and respectfully, I think that's
completely ludicrous. I mean, Trump gained consistently in the polls
after that bogus conviction, and what happened. What happened is

(24:02):
to be expected. And as I predicted, when Joe Biden
was no longer the nominee, there was going to be
a surge of support for whoever the Democratic nominee. Was
an initial surge of support because they had a pulse,
because they could put a sentence together, because they weren't
Joe Biden. Of course there was going to be this searge.

(24:24):
It has nothing to do with the fact that she's
taking this line of attack. I hope she takes that
line of attack every day from now through election Day.
I'm a prosecutor. I know Trump's cut. I'm a prosecutor.
He's a felon. I hope she talks about that all
the time, because you know what Americans are by nature
fair people, and Americans know we sought reflecting the pulse.

(24:45):
This is a bogus conviction, and I hope she takes that,
eh and every day I hope she ties herself as
closely as possible to that gross abuse and misuse of
the legal system. In New York to wrongfully ca vic
Donald Trump. I hope she gets as close to that
as possible. You could text d A N five seven

(25:06):
seven three nine. I'll get back to a lot of those.
Jack in Cheyenne, you're on the dan Kaplas show. Welcome.

Speaker 5 (25:12):
Yeah, agreed? Jack?

Speaker 1 (25:17):
You okay? Should we send help?

Speaker 6 (25:20):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yes? Jack, I can hear you now. Yes.

Speaker 7 (25:24):
Isn't the reason they couldn't run Michelle Obama because the
two hundred and fifty million more chests that they have
is only accessible by Biden and Harris and Obama and
Michelle Obama couldn't act us. That isn't that the reason
why they had to run her?

Speaker 1 (25:39):
No, I respectfully would disagree on that, Jack. And here's why,
As I had said before Biden was deposed, money will
not be an issue. They can snap their fingers and
come up with two or three hundred million, and that's
exactly what they did within relatively a few hours a
couple of days after after Biden was deposed. Right, So No,
that kind of I don't think is ever an issue

(26:01):
for the left, And there is there's a meaningful challenge
right now to whether Harris is going to be able
to access that money. In the end, she probably will be,
but there appears to be a very legitimate challenge to it. No,
my friend, don't you think the Obamas just looked at
Kamala Harris and said, America is not going to elect
her president. She's a San Francisco lefty with very few,

(26:27):
if any accomplishments, and she's closely tied to all of
Biden's failures, starting with the biggest issue for voters across
the board, which is the southern border. The Obamas are
smart people. They want to win her and they see
she is not.

Speaker 5 (26:42):
Well. Nay, let me go onto the next thing.

Speaker 8 (26:45):
This whole business was Biden's trying to redirect everything that
the Supreme Court's doing. The Supreme Court two months ago
did the Chevron Jeff, and that's huge impact of the
federal agencies to come out and beat up bully everybody.
And it's probably the most important thing the Supremes have
done that I can remember in the last twenty or
thirty years.

Speaker 5 (27:06):
But there's no mention of that.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, and you're off the top of that, Joe, Oh, yeah, absolutely,
and Jack appreciate the call on that. Sorry, we have
to hit this hard break. Listen this big Supreme Court
thing today. I think it's a yawner for the American people.
And when we come back, though, I want to tell
you why I think the fact as insidious as what
Biden was saying today was why it is so good

(27:30):
for Trump that Biden was out there making this public appearance.
You're on the Dan Capla Show.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
How many of you know a black man who has
expressed to you that they're committee to voting for Donald Trumps.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
A lot of handsco up here for.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
The brothers who have told you that or said that
to you. He has the emergence of Kamala Harris changed
that photos thats wow.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
See that is bombshell And I understand it. It's one
focus group, right, but it's on ms NBC and it
features a panel of African Americans and you have all
these African Americans saying that, no, infect Kamala's in the race,
isn't changing the support of black people for Donald Trump.

(28:25):
So big questions. First of all, why did MSNBC choose
to run that? And I think that goes to this
very interesting text that we received Dan, any chance Kamala
polls poorly in the next few weeks and they try
to replace her at the DNC that from Alexa. So
does MSNBC run that. Does ms NBC run that because

(28:52):
they have concerns about whether Kamala Harris can win, because
again that there there is very substanti reason to believe
that after this sugar high, it's going to be not
all because she'll get a little bump with the VP,
maybe she'll get a bump out of the convention, but
that the overarching trend is going to be downhill for her.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
You could very well be right, Dan, But don't you
think they're absolutely locked in at this point. It already
kind of looks like a clown car. If they go
to a third nominee, that's clown car center.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
You're right, and I'm not predicting that, and I don't
think that's likely. I just don't think you can completely
rule it out because look, what's already happened. I mean,
what's already happened, Ryan is beyond clown car. It's like
clown semi right, because what's already happened is you just
had a coup, you just had a political coup. You
had the democratically elected nominee of a major party forced out,

(29:50):
forced out in favor of somebody who didn't receive a
single vote, and the ultimate Chicago smoke filled back room deal.
And so at that point, when they've crossed those lines,
what lines wouldn't they cross? Yes, So, because their bet

(30:11):
right now, their bet right now is that if they
can prop anybody up, anybody up who has any any
meaningful appeal and any lasting credibility, even though the credibility
is built on a lie, as Biden's was, any lasting credibility,
that they will win because you have a significant number

(30:33):
of people who don't like Donald Trump. That's their bet, right.
So if it turns out that Kamala Harris collapses, then
at that point, I don't think there's any doubt they've
replaced her. I'm not predicting a replacement. I predicted correctly
Joe Biden would be deposed. Not predicting a replacement, but
that scenario is not out of the question, because you know,

(30:53):
after this, after this honeymoon period, there is so much
out there.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
But they've I mean, they've already made fools of themselves
talking about the mainstream media Dan that was the New
York magazine with Kamala is sitting on a coconut and
they're trying to make coconut cool or something like that.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Is I had coconut much fun to watch. And then
I want to play this as well, this David Hog
guy who had this interesting comment.

Speaker 9 (31:16):
I think it's important to show that we aren't just
white dudes for COMMLA, but also that were younger white dudes,
were older white dudes or people of all ages for Kamala.
And I also have to note too that this would
not have been possible. This was inspired by you know,
following in the footsteps of black women for Kamala, which
was one of the first calls that was set up.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah, so, so white dudes for Kamala. The point here
is is keep an eye on the young vote. Okay,
because I was I was talking too. I was talking
to a late teens early twenty something yesterday about the
raising and this this young lady raised the point that

(31:53):
and this young lady, no supporter of Donald Trump whatsoever,
quite the opposite, raise the point that there's a lot
a blowback against Kamala Harris on TikTok And I was
so surprised to hear that. So and then you see
these parallel stories running that the Harris campaign is paying
a lot of influencers to to try to get her

(32:13):
favorables on ticktak. But yeah, this at TikTok, right. You
can tell I'm not on it because I called it ticktack.
I know what it is, and I know the controversy
around it, but I was just so surprised to hear
that from somebody who is not a Trump fan and
is on TikTok all the time, and probably tiktacs as well.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Maybe, But going back to how you started this segment then,
and again, we don't put everybody in one silo, but
there are trends within a particular demographic, and the one
I've got my eyes on right now is.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
What you touched on black men.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
I don't think black men are going to be running
out to vote for Kamala Harris in large part. I
think there's a large cross section of them now that
likes Donald Trump, that is sick of how the economy's going,
that maybe they're in a job where they're doing a
lot worse under By and then they did under Trump,
and they're going to vote for Trump for a lot
of reasons that everybody else is and no Kamala Harris

(33:05):
is going to come in and change that.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
You know, I would love to hear from some of
our Black listeners about your take on this. My view
of this is that the much much, much much much
more powerful dynamics in this race than race, you know,
are going to be strength versus weakness. I think that's

(33:34):
going to be the most powerful dynamic in the race
because you have polar opposites. Right, you have Donald Trump,
like him or not, and I obviously happened to you know,
he's a pillar of strength and he epitomizes strength, and
that was long before the phenomenal strength and poison couraged
he showed after he got shot on the stage. So

(33:56):
he is the epitome of strength, and Kamala Harris connotes
just total weakness weakness through her policies. You know, she's
so tied to Biden, who is the epitome of weakness.
So I think that dynamic of strength versus weakness Ryan,
and I think you know, that will play out across
a lot of different lines. It's like when people say, hey,

(34:17):
Trump's making these big gains among blacks, and latinos. I
think that's part of a bigger trend of making big
gains among working people because the Democrats have become the
party of the coastal elites. And who epitomizes that better
very bad for Democrats than Kamala Harris. You're on the
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