There's No Easy Way Out: Donald Trump returns to X with barrage of imaging ads and anti-Harris spots
August 12, 2024 • 34 mins
Dan channels his inner Rocky Balboa and hopes Donald Trump can do the same, as the heat has been turned up in the 2024 Presidential campaign with momentum in the polls by Vice-President Kamala Harris. He has officially rejoined X (formerly known as Twitter) and will conduct an interview on the platform with Elon Musk moderating. What is the best way for Trump to fight in the days and weeks ahead?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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and to subscribe, download, and listen to the show every
single day on your favorite podcast platform. Steaks couldn't be
a whole lot higher. Yeah, they could be higher, like
the American Revolution and the Civil War things like that,
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but stakes are very very very high. Very little time left,
but good to see the president, Rocky. You know what
I thought, Rocky, See, I'm telling you Ryan, what I
thought that the second I saw these developments unfold over
the last say, sixteen seventeen hours, was what was that
one song from Rocky where all of the sudden the
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bell rang, right, the bell rang, And I think it's
when when she said beat him? Remember that line? Oh yeah,
And then all of a sudden Rocky awakened and I
got focused, and he went out and he became Rocky again.
And I feel like that's happening in the last six
hours or so.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I love the texture of your knowledge of the Rocky canon.
It's very important.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Good.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Everybody has that, how.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Kind of I don't know. I think you might be
way ahead of the curve on that one.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna look it up. Rocky one through four?
Did you follow after? Did you see the updated a
little bit?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Oh, the Creed stuff? I like, yeah, I saw a
little bit here and there. But but what is that song?
It starts with the bell.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, I think I know the one. Yeah, We're going
to come back. It's that kind of day right now,
now what I'm hoping. And of course you know the
developments by now, right, you know that that Donald Trump
has awakened and he's focused, and he's back on Twitter,
and he's doing the big thing with Elon Musk tonight.
But they are unleashing these spots in swing states, and
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there is this report. No obviously a key question here
is is this new money or is this money that
they were planning on spending later. But CNN story, a
superpack aligned with former President Donald Trump's campaign, says it
will spend one hundred million on ads between now and
(02:10):
Labor Day. Do the math? There aren't that many days
between now and Labor Day. And then the CNN story
puts it fairly as Trump seems to looks to recapture momentum.
So one hundred million bucks between now and Labor Day,
that's what you want to see. Now, you're hoping it's
additional money, right, You're hoping this isn't money that they
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had planned on spending right after Labor Day. But even
if it is, Even if it is, you can make
an argument that it makes sense to spend that money
now and then assuming as I do, that Harris is
going to cap out at some point after the convention
and Trump's going to start to turn it around, then
you can hopefully raise the money you need afterward to
do whatever you need to do. Because we all know this, right,
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and we've talked about it on this show for a
long time. Americans, if they remember and or are reminded
about the fact she is a San Francisco radical, are
not going to elect her president unless Donald Trump makes
himself simply unacceptable and there's just too much out there
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on her that's straight from her mouth, and any one
of these played as we've been talking about, right on
a loop in the swing states. So take that hundred
million between now and Labor Day. You're applying that to
six states. You're applying that to six six states. That's
a fair amount of money in each of those six
states it's going to go. And they're not going to
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equally divide it, right, because it costs you a lot
more to reach across Pennsylvania or Michigan than it does Wisconsin,
for example, they're not going to equally apply it. But
per capita, that's a lot of money to spend over
let's say the next nineteen days in six states, but
any one of these on a loop, and.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
When we all sing happy tunes of sing Merry Christmas
and wish each other merry Christmas, these children are not
going to have a merry Christmas.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
How dare we speak merry Christmas?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
How dare we I'm sorry, nobody has to be a
political expert to understand. You take the last four point
eight seconds of that and you run it. You run
it in Wisconsin, you run it in Michigan, you run
it in Pennsylvania on a loop with that bitterness, and
you've got to see the video with that bitterness and
that anger, a bitterness and anger. We have never seen
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anything on that level from her directed toward Hamas right,
that anger, how dare you say Merry Christmas? How darey
I'm sorry. You just run that on a loop. You
make sure every voter in the blue wall has seen that,
has seen that until they see it in the middle
of the night, until they run screaming from their homes
in the middle of the night because they can't get
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it out of their head. And you will win. You
may not win every blue state, but you don't have
to to. That's the sort of thing, you know. It's
it's what Ronald Reagan used to talk about. His biographer
told me this. He said a Katy Reagan's success was.
Reagan was absolutely obsessed with avoiding the quote danger of diffusion.
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You've got this great stuff to work with, and I
understand every time these ad agencies put spots together, every
you know, they they want to throw three or four
different things in and then have some deep serious voice
say this to that, I'm sorry, simplify it, keep it simple,
think kiss, keep it simple, and then stupid. But you
don't want to say that, and just run this. Just
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run this. I mean, what more do you need? And
there are different versions of this, but don't cloud up
the spot with a bunch of other stuff. You have
a little intro and you have a little finish, but
run this on a loop or how about this.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
You know, we have to say woke, like everybody needs
to be woe and you can talk about if you're
the wokest or woker, just stay more woke than less woke.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I'm sorry, sell Trump Force one if you have to.
But this spot has to reach everybody and not all
clouded up because all these ad agency people, because they
make so much money, they've got to prove that they're
earning their worths. No, just the heart of this kind
of unadulterated right, just like clapped an acoustic right, Just
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just the beauty of that, beauty of that. And then
if that doesn't do it for you, this next one,
I'm going to play. This next one, I'm going to play.
I had a young person who really detests Trump tell
me they they just strongly dislike Kamala Harris over this, over.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
This, and it's a specific phase of life. Remember, age
is more than a chronological fact. What else do we
know about this population eighteenth through twenty four? They are stupid,
That is why we put them in dormitories and they
have a resident assistant. They make really bad decisions.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Oh my lord, come on now. It is political malpractice
if that isn't running everywhere all the time between now
and election day. Listen, I understand, I've talked about it
on the show. You want to keep things fresh, You
want to keep it fresh, ruined, ballots dropping, you want
to make sure that people are still paying attention to it. Then,
But as long as you have the money, as long
as you have the money, above all, you have to
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make sure that every eighteen to twenty four year old
sees that. And here's that between now and election day,
because everybody knows at this point what the media is doing, right,
I mean, and the media has to be embarrassed for itself,
but that isn't going to change its behavior. Speaking of which,
speaking of which, so many good signs today JD. Vance
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and we talked about a little bit last week how
JD Vance is because of what I've called the biggest
political mistake in modern American history. And each and every
day there's more evidence supporting that that take on this,
and that of course is Kamala Harris's selection of Tim
Walls as her VP. And so one of the many
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great things that has done for the Trump campaign is
it's allowed JD. Vance to really find his footing and
to really get sharp and really get his A game.
So he just kicked tail this weekend in these one
on one interviews, which had the added benefit right of
making the point that Trump and Vance are willing to
sit for these interviews and the other sides hiding, and eventually,
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you know, that's that may not smoke Kamala Harris out.
It's the old peap oils line. If you knew or
you were going to die, you wouldn't go there. But
it is going to start to sync in with some voters.
And I just saw, you know, I just saw kind
of the obligatory headline on CNN, Harris coming under more
pressure to explain her positions, things like that Advance man,
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he was sharp as a knife.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Pretends to be one thing in front of one audience,
she pretends to be something different in front of another audience.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Look, dann it.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
She's not running a political campaign. She's running a movie.
She only speaks to voters behind a teleprompter. Everything is scripted.
She doesn't have her policy positions out there. She hasn't
answered why she wanted to banfracking, but now she doesn't.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
She wanted to fund police, but now she does it.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
She wanted to open the border, but now she doesn't.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
She should say, well, I'm more of that. But he
was sharp as attack. And the contrast right that the
contrast with her in the contrast with Walls, who still
hasn't sat down for an interview. And we all need
to be, you know, praying in whatever way you choose to.
I know how I do, but we need to be
literally praying that the Democrats keep Walls on that ticket.
He is the gift that keeps on given. Speaking which
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when we come back more good news for the Trump
campaign to date, we'll get into some polling. And on
the surface of it, the left claims the polling is
good for Harris, and if you just looked at simple numbers,
you'd say, boy, yeah, that's good for Harris. But when
you look deeper, actually pretends well for Trump. Assuming we
get the aid Trump and indications are today that's who's coming.
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You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
And now back to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
I am capala here. I'm kind of as you're considered
the most liberally United States senator. Well, actually, the Nonpartisan
Gov Track has rated you as the most liberal.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Senator, you have any plans to visit the border.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
We are going to the border.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
We've been to the border.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
You haven't been to the border, and I haven't been
to Europe. I am in favor of saying that we're
not going to treat people who are undocumented across the
borders from That's.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Correct, That is correct.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
A lot of the signs that the rawy you just
held were people standing there saying abolish ice. Damn that
the position.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
That you agree with.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
We need to probably think about starting from scratch.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
So do support giving universal healthcare medicare for all this
country illegally.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
I am opposed to any policy that would be denied
in our country any human being, public health period.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Thank you for defunding the police.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
How are you defining to fund the police. It's actually
wrong and backward to think that more police officers will
create more safety.
Speaker 8 (11:20):
Be dif friend of Honeydail.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
I'm convicted in prison like the Boston Marathon bomber on
death row.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
People who are convicted of sexual assaulvation be able to vote.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I think we should have that conversation.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I am prepared to get rid of the filibuster to
pass a green deal. I have always supported Medicare for all.
I was very happy to sign on to Bernie's Ville,
and I give Bernie Frankly a lot of credit. There's
no question. I'm in a favorite of banning prep.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Do you ban fostic straws? I think we should, Yeah,
and that spots some minute forty Listen, you're gonna have
a bunch of thirty some sixties, et cetera. But you
pick swing state by swing state, right, what's going to
have the most impact there? Like obviously in Pennsylvania, you know, yes, absolutely,
I'm going to ban fracking. You know, you just have
(12:07):
a very tight spot built around that. But the news
of the day if you just joined US, is Trump
campaign is going up right now, earlier than planned. But
they're going up with these spots. They have a super
PAC says it's going to spend one hundred million between
now and Labor Day and focused in those six states.
That's certainly enough to make a difference. So talking about
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that and so much more. Six eight five five four
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early and often today, I did want to mention as
we go to the phone lines, I talked about poll
results and a few interesting things going on in the polls.
(12:49):
You had New York Times Ciena, which is a highly
rated polster but has proven historically to be way off
when it comes to Trump. You had them a post
what appears to be a set of very bad pulls
for Trump, but when you look at it historically, it's
actually pretty encouraging, where they had him down from two
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to five points in every swing steak. But the key
to New York Times Siena is that they are way
off when it comes to Trump. For example, if I
remember correctly, and I'm pretty sure I do, I think
they had him down seven on election Day in Pennsylvania,
which he lost by one I think they had him
down six or seven in Wisconsin, which he lost by
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far less than one percent, etc. So they tend to
be way off when it comes to Trump. So, and
the cool thing was, and I understand why he did
it tactically, but David Axelrod came out, you know, Obama's guy,
and he came out afterwards and said, wait a second,
this is not what the Harris internals are showing and
this is not what Axelrod believes is going on. He
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thinks it's a draw at this point. Maybe Harris up
a point in these states, et cetera. So so often
as you know that the polls are published not to
measure public opinion, but to influence public opinions, such as
you know, suppress Republican votes, such as when ABC Washington
Post had Trump down I think it was thirteen fifteen
in Wisconsin in twenty twenty and he lost by hair.
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So now that's part of what the left does. But
to me, it's encouraging that when you think about something
we've never seen in American political history before. Right, you
see the democratically elected Democrat nominee deposed, deposed in a
backroom deal, overthrown, and then you have another candidate installed
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without receiving a single vote, and then you have ninety
eight percent of the media line up behind that candidate
and serve as a propaganda arm of that candidate and
also serve as a shield for the candidate, protecting the
candidate from any tough questions. We've never seen that in
American political history. Yet those three weeks of raw beatification
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later at this point the race appears to be where
it was roughly where it was before the disastrous debate
for Biden, which is about a draw. And historically, and
please keep this in perspective, don't let them discourage you
in the left, and with these polls they published from
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the left, and that is historically, at about this point
of the race, normally, you know, the GOP candidate is
way down. If I remember correctly, I think at about
this point Hillary Clinton was probably up seven to ten.
Biden was up seven to ten. So after three weeks
of glorification unadulterated of Kamala Harris and vilification of Trump
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and a couple of Trump mistakes of his own thrown
in but are really tough three weeks for our side.
After three weeks of that, the race is about even.
I mean, it's what I call the politics of gravity.
Imagine what's going to happen when this does start to
turn around, and when the numbers do start to drop
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for Harris, which they will inevitably do. The higher she
goes right now, and much of it being an illusion. Listen,
she's got momentum right now, She's gaining right now, but
not to a point where she's at all unreachable. The
higher she goes, the harder and faster she falls, and
the more panic there's going to be on the left,
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Jack and Cheyenne. You're on the Dan Kapla show.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Welcome and yeah, Danny, I'm still an hour shire of Cheyenne.
What Ryan was talking about earlier about how Vance so
skillfully pointed out about Harris talking to whatever crowd she
was in front of, saying what they wanted to hear.
There's nothing new about that. When Robert Kennedy Senior was
trying to get the nomination to run for president, I
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think it was in sixty it was in the sixties.
I can't remember when, but I lived in New York
then and six o'clock at least five stations had news.
And while he was campaign all around the various neighborhoods
in New York, he would tell the Jewish people that
we're going to provide you with these with these fighter jets.
And then he'd be in another area the same day
and the different channel, and the reporter picked him up
staying exactly the opposite to the places where they had
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the errors. And he was so older, and they think
people are that stupid and I know I'm not campaigning
for an award for the Master of the obvious. But
every single thing a Democrat says is a lie. You
can count on it ninety nine percent of the time.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
But what about no tax on tips? Yeah, she's lying
about that. It's it's a good Trump idea that she's
lying about. Right. And oh, by the way, White House
announced today that if they send a bill up for
no tax on tips, the President will sign it. So
hopefully the GOP will go ahead and do that because
Trump can stand up and say this is because of me,
and I haven't even worn Yeah, so I hope they
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go ahead and do that. Hey, when we come back,
so much to talk about, so much good news out
there and so much a bit fresh. But one thing
to keep an eye on and Iran tonight when President
Trump's so wise to be back on AX. Remember I
kept saying, listen, hey, he's got to get back on Twitter.
That's when we'll know he's he's really completely dialed. And
(18:14):
he is back on Twitter. But tonight, will will we
get a Trump? I think we will. I think the
bell is rung. I think he's back. You're on the
Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
He says, So a.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
Man is how much he will bear for a cause
which he knows to be right. How long will he
stand in the depths of despair? How much will he
suffer and fight? There are many to serve when the
victory is near, and few other hurt to be born.
But it calls for a leader of courage to cheer
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the men in a battle for long. It is the
way you hold out against odds that are great that
proves what your courage is worth. It is the way
that you stand the bruises of fate that shows up
your stature and girth. And victory is nothing but proof
of your skill veneered with a glorious thing, unless it
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is a proof of unfaltering will, and unless.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
You have suffered to win, and a lot of powerful
Trump images over that. So he is back. The bell
has wrong. It's rocky what eighteen now Ryan? But he's
back on ex Twitter, which is critical, right, I mean
true social You're reaching seven million of post Twitter, you
might be reaching one hundred million. You know. He's back
on Twitter and super Pack is committed to spending one
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hundred million on his behalf between now and Labor Day
in these six swing states. Key is and I saw
some great video of President Trump today. We'd play the sound,
but it doesn't translate without the video, just out there
in a meet and greet with people in so sharp
and so on it. And obviously that's what we need
between now and election Day, and the reason they're spending
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some of this money, not all of this money, is
going to be spent on spots exposing Kamala Harris in
her own words and in her own voice, you know,
for the crazy far left radical she is from San Francisco.
But they're going to be spending some real money on
redefining Donald Trump for those people who have such a
horrible image of him. And I know, listen on this show.
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So many of us understand the great things Trump has done,
et cetera. But they're an awful lot of people out
there who don't have that depth of understanding. So reminding
them of a lot of the good stuff he's done
is almost as important as exposing Harris as the San
Francisco radical she is. Despite three weeks of unrelenting beatification
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from the left and the left's media arm, which is
pretty much all the media got a lot to cover.
Glad you're here eight five to five for zero five
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five seven seven three nine. Before I go back to
the lines, I want to get to some of the tech.
Dan heard Hannity's show two Polsters super depressed me, saying
if he didn't use Kamala's words against her hard and fast,
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he would lose because people are only listening to the
mainstream media. I'm glad to hear he's coming out with
those ads as well. I am too. And listen, there's
some downside, right because you want all this stuff fresh
for the stretch run. But but I think at this
point she's gaining enough it's important to hit. And then
Kevin McCarthy had great advice for the President today which
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has dropped this crowd sized stuff. I mean, the President
coming out over the weekend and saying commerce crowd size
was AI generated whatever. First of all, I haven't seen
any evidence of that. Even if it was true, why
go there, Because listen, we know from experience right that
the crowd size doesn't matter. I mean, you look at
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what's happened before, and I'll give you a great example. Okay,
it was. It was Obama versus McCain. Here's a great example.
And I had the privilege of hosting McCain and Palin
right out of the convention. They may have stopped somewhere first,
but they came to Denver right after the convention, and
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it was held down in Colorado Springs and Aircraft Hanger.
And if you look at the photo of the Harris
Waltz plane at the airport and this enormous crowd that
they had there that President Trump claims as AI generated,
there was a scene virtually identical to that in Colorado
Springs for McCain Palin. I know, I was MC. I
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had the privilege of mceing that event, so I had
the unique perspective of standing on the stage. And it
was set up the same way. You've got the stage
inside the hangar. Then you've got all that big space
in the hangar for people, and there aren't so many
people as many as it could hold. I don't know,
fifteen seventeen thousand, I can't remember the number, whatever it was.
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And then you park the plane at the back, just
like they did in that hair picture that you see
out there, and you can get a ton of people.
It's not like fifteen thousand people gathered because they heard
they were gassing up there and wanted to say, hello,
there's a rally planned in a hangar at the airport.
And I don't know if that was the scenario there,
but I have seen that at McCain Palin and I
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had been covering. I'd covered the Obama rally over at
du and I'd been there in person for that and
it was come on, lots of enthusiasm everything else. But
as I said at the time, the Obama rally did
not have the level of enthusiasm and intensity that was
there that day in Colorado Springs. For McCain Palin, it
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was off the scale. So you talk about crowd size
and enthusiasm and intensity, yeah, yeah, they had some huge crowds,
but obviously it didn't translate on election day.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Similarly for President Trump and listen, I think he should
generate big crowds everywhere he can go, and I think
he needs to be out there doing it more often.
But the crowds size doesn't equal victory or defeat. So
I hope the President does not stay focused on that.
And the other thing is listen, so what that she's
pull in these big crowds. You know, you can get
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enormous crowds, but by having just a certain number of
people in a certain subset of support show up. But
ninety nine point nine percent of these folks we're going
to vote for Biden anyway. Ninety nine point nine percent
of these folks are voting for the Democrat no matter what.
So don't focus on that. It just CAUs more attention
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to it, and it does not translate automatically or even
close to automatically into victory. And again President Trump pulls
arch large crowds himself. Ryan Trivia, you would know this
because you know all this stuff. But but what was
the state of the polls on that day when I
had the privilege of m seeing the McCain Palin rally
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down in Colorado Springs right after the GOP convention. What
was the state of the polls?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
They got a pretty big bump, as I remember, from
her presence on the ticket alone. I think that they
gave the campaign a lot of energy. As I remember,
it was kind of a bold pick for McCain outside
of his comfort zone. Now it would turn at some point,
and I think she struggled with navigating a lot of
the media. But let me get into that. If I
make that instant, I think they were in pretty good
shape or there had.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Been a big swing, and at that point they were
probably three, four or five up, depending on the polls.
And then it was about two weeks later and I'm
on stage with her at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, if
I remember right, I was seeing another event with her
two weeks later, and as we stood there waiting to
go on stage, she and McCain were up. I'd have
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to go back and double check, but they were still
up five six, seven points in mid September. And then
we're waiting to go on stage and somebody says to her, Hey,
it's it's you know, Senator McCain. So she picks up
the phone and I couldn't hear the call, but I
was standing there, and she got off the phone as
a Lehman Brothers. Lehman Brothers is crashed And so that
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was the morning. Remember Lehman Brothers folded up right, So
they had they had a very substantial lead. As I
stood with her on that stage. As I remembered, it
was around mid September and whatever that Monday was when
Lehman Brothers went down. That's when the campaign started to
go down, right, because then the focus changed to the economy.
McCain botched it and suspended the campaign so everybody could
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focus on this, and he looked in doing that, and
that's when the campaign turned around. Wow.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Yeah, were there for that moment? Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah, you know I was standing there. Yeah, she and
I were standing there waiting to go on. And we
had met when I had seed the deal in the spring.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
What was the look on her face when she got
Oh she was cool.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
She's a pro. Yeah, No, she was. She was cool,
she was a pro. She handled it smoothly. I don't
think any of us understood the full impact as it
was happening, and she had this huge adoring crowd waiting
for her there, which he handled beautifully. Eight five five
five two five five the numbers. So I want to
come back and talk about a number of different things
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going on right now locally and nationally. But there's so
much reason to be optimistic in this presidential race, including
when we come back. Something you do not here discuss
two things, double barreled. You don't hear discussed both. I
think will be very important in Trump's favor. Down the stretch,
You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast. Donald
Trump didn't serve in the military.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
He received a medical draft deferment for bone spurs to
avoid serving in the Vietnam War, reportedly as a favor
to his father.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Do you find that shameful too?
Speaker 7 (27:45):
I think that Donald Trump didn't serve in the military,
but he didn't lie about it.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Dan, I've known Donald.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Trump for a long time. For my service.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
Donald Trump didn't lie about serving in the military. He
didn't say that he went to Vietnam when he didn't.
This is the problem. I don't criticize anybody whether they
served our country or not. I think it's honorable to serve,
but obviously a lot of people have reasons for not serving.
I criticized somebody for embellishing the record for lying saying
I went to war. Do you think that it's a
problem that he said I went to war but he didn't.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Actually, that seems to be a problem. I'm telling you, man,
that is a plus plus. That's some of the best
work I've seen in a long long time. Because you
think about that okay, obviously you're in a hostile environment
on CNN, But within that there were two or three
different breakpoints, including Dana Bash skillfully on behalf of the
left coming back to, well, you don't think Trump lied
(28:36):
about bone spurs, and he and fans immediately brought it
back to he didn't lie about serving in the military.
He didn't lie about his military service. That was brilliant work.
And you know that's I haven't followed jd. Vance that much,
but that's what I'd always heard about him, is that
super sharp, super smart, great verbal skills, et cetera. And
(28:58):
I think that this miss by the Lake, this gigantic
error of the cabal and bringing in Wallace's Harris's VP,
has really sharpened Vance. And in fact, it's so ironic
because Drudge, which is garbage now, but Drudge Report, which
is so anti Trump a week ago, was running the headlines,
you know, which is the left talking point about getting
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rid of JD. Vance.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
That went away in a hurry right after the mistake
by the Lake, But now they've switched it to a
headline today Republicans wish Vance was the nominee, right, so Jayson.
But the point is jd Vance is really emerging and
that was brilliant stuff over the weekend, which obviously puts
more and more pressure on the Harris campaign because it
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embarrasses her further for not being out there. Will this
sink in with the American people that she's hiding, And
obviously the reason she's hiding is because she's not capable
of the job. She's not capable of an interview like this.
She's not capable of the job. And I think it
eventually sinks in, but I think it's going to be
a month or two down the road. But it's good
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to be laying the groundwork now. Eight five five or
zero five eight two five five the number of text
d A N five seven seven three nine. Let me
work in some calls and text is. I make some
other points that just had me really excited about this race. Roziel,
you're on the Dan Caplis show. Welcome.
Speaker 10 (30:22):
Thank you then for having me on again. When it
comes to the phone numbers, this is like the election
of twenty sixteen all over again, where they inflated the
numbers and her favor because people were afraid to admit
(30:43):
that they were going to vote for Trump. They were
going to because they did you know, they knew that
runs was going to come if they admitted to it.
This is the same game all over again, and you
know it. Between Kamala and Tim Webbs, they lie about
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the record of whatever they did for the government. She
got her way up to the top without any real fight,
and Tim Waltz he led about his record. And I
apologize for all those who actually served and were in
combat Uncle and Vietnam who had agentis induced cancer almost
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twenty years later.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I really appreciate your uncle service and your fine points.
We've got to get two more things in before the break,
but I think you hit on a number of very
important things there. And this brings us back to the
point about walls. Right. There is a grave danger that
the Democrats replace him, and let's just hope they don't.
(31:59):
I mean, we can't control that obviously. It's not as
if we could say, oh, the GOP needs to back
off their attacks on walls. That just gets too cute.
But we know with this fully complicit media, if they
do what they really should and they change walls out
and they stick Shapiro in, the media is going to
give them total cover on that. Now are they vulnerable,
(32:20):
you know, with voters. I'm looking like a clown car. Yeah,
and maybe in the end I'll be proven wrong. Right now,
I think the benefits of keeping walls are infinitely greater
than the clown car effect if they dump them. But
if they dump them, we'll get a chance to test that.
Hopefully I'll be proven wrong and it will just be
another brick in the wall on her incompetence. But I'd
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much rather have walls stay around. I think that gift
is giving so much right now, and there's still so
much more to come. But Ryan, a quick note. You know,
we saw this pole. I'm not sure it's at all reliable,
but this one poll that said Harris is starting to
get close to Trump's numbers on the economy. And first,
(33:05):
I don't really believe that, and I think we you know, overall,
the polls show that Trump still has a good ten
to fifteen point lead on that. But here's the point
I want you to put in the back of your mind, please,
and that is, if you start to see that happening
in the polls, you know, then then consider this. If
that is true, and if we do have a shift
and we have more people who think that they like
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Harris on the economy. Then there's one reason for it,
and that is you've got a group of people who
want this nation to be socialist. You've got a I mean,
just look at the polls. You've got a group of
people who openly they'll tell a polster that, yeah, I
want America to be socialists. You've got a group of
people and it's pretty significant number. I'll find the latest
numbers on it. But a group of people who tell
(33:50):
pollsters openly that they want America to redistribute income. And
at this point, I think Harrison Walls, you know, in channel,
but certainly clearly to those channels, have made it clear
that's what they want. A quality of outcomes, she flats
outset it not opportunity, a quality of outcome. She talked
last week about the collective. We need to be devoted
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to the collective. So and the pick of Walls itself
clearly signaling to the far left and to those who
want America to be a socialist nation that they want
that vote for them, so that would be reflected and yeah,
if you want America to be socialist, you're gonna tell Upholster. Yeah,
(34:32):
I like Carris's views on the economy because you want
the nation to be socialist. I'm not saying everybody who
gives her favorable and the economy wants socialism, but a
significant chunk do hey want to come back? More reason
to be optimistic. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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single day on your favorite podcast platform. Steaks couldn't be
a whole lot higher. Yeah, they could be higher, like
the American Revolution and the Civil War things like that,
(00:20):
but stakes are very very very high. Very little time left,
but good to see the president, Rocky. You know what
I thought, Rocky, See, I'm telling you Ryan, what I
thought that the second I saw these developments unfold over
the last say, sixteen seventeen hours, was what was that
one song from Rocky where all of the sudden the
(00:42):
bell rang, right, the bell rang, And I think it's
when when she said beat him? Remember that line? Oh yeah,
And then all of a sudden Rocky awakened and I
got focused, and he went out and he became Rocky again.
And I feel like that's happening in the last six
hours or so.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I love the texture of your knowledge of the Rocky canon.
It's very important.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Good.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Everybody has that, how.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Kind of I don't know. I think you might be
way ahead of the curve on that one.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna look it up. Rocky one through four?
Did you follow after? Did you see the updated a
little bit?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Oh, the Creed stuff? I like, yeah, I saw a
little bit here and there. But but what is that song?
It starts with the bell.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, I think I know the one. Yeah, We're going
to come back. It's that kind of day right now,
now what I'm hoping. And of course you know the
developments by now, right, you know that that Donald Trump
has awakened and he's focused, and he's back on Twitter,
and he's doing the big thing with Elon Musk tonight.
But they are unleashing these spots in swing states, and
(01:49):
there is this report. No obviously a key question here
is is this new money or is this money that
they were planning on spending later. But CNN story, a
superpack aligned with former President Donald Trump's campaign, says it
will spend one hundred million on ads between now and
(02:10):
Labor Day. Do the math? There aren't that many days
between now and Labor Day. And then the CNN story
puts it fairly as Trump seems to looks to recapture momentum.
So one hundred million bucks between now and Labor Day,
that's what you want to see. Now, you're hoping it's
additional money, right, You're hoping this isn't money that they
(02:31):
had planned on spending right after Labor Day. But even
if it is, Even if it is, you can make
an argument that it makes sense to spend that money
now and then assuming as I do, that Harris is
going to cap out at some point after the convention
and Trump's going to start to turn it around, then
you can hopefully raise the money you need afterward to
do whatever you need to do. Because we all know this, right,
(02:54):
and we've talked about it on this show for a
long time. Americans, if they remember and or are reminded
about the fact she is a San Francisco radical, are
not going to elect her president unless Donald Trump makes
himself simply unacceptable and there's just too much out there
(03:20):
on her that's straight from her mouth, and any one
of these played as we've been talking about, right on
a loop in the swing states. So take that hundred
million between now and Labor Day. You're applying that to
six states. You're applying that to six six states. That's
a fair amount of money in each of those six
states it's going to go. And they're not going to
(03:40):
equally divide it, right, because it costs you a lot
more to reach across Pennsylvania or Michigan than it does Wisconsin,
for example, they're not going to equally apply it. But
per capita, that's a lot of money to spend over
let's say the next nineteen days in six states, but
any one of these on a loop, and.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
When we all sing happy tunes of sing Merry Christmas
and wish each other merry Christmas, these children are not
going to have a merry Christmas.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
How dare we speak merry Christmas?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
How dare we I'm sorry, nobody has to be a
political expert to understand. You take the last four point
eight seconds of that and you run it. You run
it in Wisconsin, you run it in Michigan, you run
it in Pennsylvania on a loop with that bitterness, and
you've got to see the video with that bitterness and
that anger, a bitterness and anger. We have never seen
(04:34):
anything on that level from her directed toward Hamas right,
that anger, how dare you say Merry Christmas? How darey
I'm sorry. You just run that on a loop. You
make sure every voter in the blue wall has seen that,
has seen that until they see it in the middle
of the night, until they run screaming from their homes
in the middle of the night because they can't get
(04:55):
it out of their head. And you will win. You
may not win every blue state, but you don't have
to to. That's the sort of thing, you know. It's
it's what Ronald Reagan used to talk about. His biographer
told me this. He said a Katy Reagan's success was.
Reagan was absolutely obsessed with avoiding the quote danger of diffusion.
(05:16):
You've got this great stuff to work with, and I
understand every time these ad agencies put spots together, every
you know, they they want to throw three or four
different things in and then have some deep serious voice
say this to that, I'm sorry, simplify it, keep it simple,
think kiss, keep it simple, and then stupid. But you
don't want to say that, and just run this. Just
(05:41):
run this. I mean, what more do you need? And
there are different versions of this, but don't cloud up
the spot with a bunch of other stuff. You have
a little intro and you have a little finish, but
run this on a loop or how about this.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
You know, we have to say woke, like everybody needs
to be woe and you can talk about if you're
the wokest or woker, just stay more woke than less woke.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I'm sorry, sell Trump Force one if you have to.
But this spot has to reach everybody and not all
clouded up because all these ad agency people, because they
make so much money, they've got to prove that they're
earning their worths. No, just the heart of this kind
of unadulterated right, just like clapped an acoustic right, Just
(06:31):
just the beauty of that, beauty of that. And then
if that doesn't do it for you, this next one,
I'm going to play. This next one, I'm going to play.
I had a young person who really detests Trump tell
me they they just strongly dislike Kamala Harris over this, over.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
This, and it's a specific phase of life. Remember, age
is more than a chronological fact. What else do we
know about this population eighteenth through twenty four? They are stupid,
That is why we put them in dormitories and they
have a resident assistant. They make really bad decisions.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Oh my lord, come on now. It is political malpractice
if that isn't running everywhere all the time between now
and election day. Listen, I understand, I've talked about it
on the show. You want to keep things fresh, You
want to keep it fresh, ruined, ballots dropping, you want
to make sure that people are still paying attention to it. Then,
But as long as you have the money, as long
as you have the money, above all, you have to
(07:33):
make sure that every eighteen to twenty four year old
sees that. And here's that between now and election day,
because everybody knows at this point what the media is doing, right,
I mean, and the media has to be embarrassed for itself,
but that isn't going to change its behavior. Speaking of which,
speaking of which, so many good signs today JD. Vance
(07:54):
and we talked about a little bit last week how
JD Vance is because of what I've called the biggest
political mistake in modern American history. And each and every
day there's more evidence supporting that that take on this,
and that of course is Kamala Harris's selection of Tim
Walls as her VP. And so one of the many
(08:18):
great things that has done for the Trump campaign is
it's allowed JD. Vance to really find his footing and
to really get sharp and really get his A game.
So he just kicked tail this weekend in these one
on one interviews, which had the added benefit right of
making the point that Trump and Vance are willing to
sit for these interviews and the other sides hiding, and eventually,
(08:40):
you know, that's that may not smoke Kamala Harris out.
It's the old peap oils line. If you knew or
you were going to die, you wouldn't go there. But
it is going to start to sync in with some voters.
And I just saw, you know, I just saw kind
of the obligatory headline on CNN, Harris coming under more
pressure to explain her positions, things like that Advance man,
(09:00):
he was sharp as a knife.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Pretends to be one thing in front of one audience,
she pretends to be something different in front of another audience.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Look, dann it.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
She's not running a political campaign. She's running a movie.
She only speaks to voters behind a teleprompter. Everything is scripted.
She doesn't have her policy positions out there. She hasn't
answered why she wanted to banfracking, but now she doesn't.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
She wanted to fund police, but now she does it.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
She wanted to open the border, but now she doesn't.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
She should say, well, I'm more of that. But he
was sharp as attack. And the contrast right that the
contrast with her in the contrast with Walls, who still
hasn't sat down for an interview. And we all need
to be, you know, praying in whatever way you choose to.
I know how I do, but we need to be
literally praying that the Democrats keep Walls on that ticket.
He is the gift that keeps on given. Speaking which
(09:48):
when we come back more good news for the Trump
campaign to date, we'll get into some polling. And on
the surface of it, the left claims the polling is
good for Harris, and if you just looked at simple numbers,
you'd say, boy, yeah, that's good for Harris. But when
you look deeper, actually pretends well for Trump. Assuming we
get the aid Trump and indications are today that's who's coming.
(10:08):
You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
And now back to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
I am capala here. I'm kind of as you're considered
the most liberally United States senator. Well, actually, the Nonpartisan
Gov Track has rated you as the most liberal.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Senator, you have any plans to visit the border.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
We are going to the border.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
We've been to the border.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
You haven't been to the border, and I haven't been
to Europe. I am in favor of saying that we're
not going to treat people who are undocumented across the
borders from That's.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Correct, That is correct.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
A lot of the signs that the rawy you just
held were people standing there saying abolish ice. Damn that
the position.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
That you agree with.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
We need to probably think about starting from scratch.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
So do support giving universal healthcare medicare for all this
country illegally.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
I am opposed to any policy that would be denied
in our country any human being, public health period.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Thank you for defunding the police.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
How are you defining to fund the police. It's actually
wrong and backward to think that more police officers will
create more safety.
Speaker 8 (11:20):
Be dif friend of Honeydail.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
I'm convicted in prison like the Boston Marathon bomber on
death row.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
People who are convicted of sexual assaulvation be able to vote.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I think we should have that conversation.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I am prepared to get rid of the filibuster to
pass a green deal. I have always supported Medicare for all.
I was very happy to sign on to Bernie's Ville,
and I give Bernie Frankly a lot of credit. There's
no question. I'm in a favorite of banning prep.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Do you ban fostic straws? I think we should, Yeah,
and that spots some minute forty Listen, you're gonna have
a bunch of thirty some sixties, et cetera. But you
pick swing state by swing state, right, what's going to
have the most impact there? Like obviously in Pennsylvania, you know, yes, absolutely,
I'm going to ban fracking. You know, you just have
(12:07):
a very tight spot built around that. But the news
of the day if you just joined US, is Trump
campaign is going up right now, earlier than planned. But
they're going up with these spots. They have a super
PAC says it's going to spend one hundred million between
now and Labor Day and focused in those six states.
That's certainly enough to make a difference. So talking about
(12:28):
that and so much more. Six eight five five four
zero five eight two five five The number eight five
five four zero five eight two five five text d
an five seven seven three nine will work text in
early and often today, I did want to mention as
we go to the phone lines, I talked about poll
results and a few interesting things going on in the polls.
(12:49):
You had New York Times Ciena, which is a highly
rated polster but has proven historically to be way off
when it comes to Trump. You had them a post
what appears to be a set of very bad pulls
for Trump, but when you look at it historically, it's
actually pretty encouraging, where they had him down from two
(13:10):
to five points in every swing steak. But the key
to New York Times Siena is that they are way
off when it comes to Trump. For example, if I
remember correctly, and I'm pretty sure I do, I think
they had him down seven on election Day in Pennsylvania,
which he lost by one I think they had him
down six or seven in Wisconsin, which he lost by
(13:33):
far less than one percent, etc. So they tend to
be way off when it comes to Trump. So, and
the cool thing was, and I understand why he did
it tactically, but David Axelrod came out, you know, Obama's guy,
and he came out afterwards and said, wait a second,
this is not what the Harris internals are showing and
this is not what Axelrod believes is going on. He
(13:55):
thinks it's a draw at this point. Maybe Harris up
a point in these states, et cetera. So so often
as you know that the polls are published not to
measure public opinion, but to influence public opinions, such as
you know, suppress Republican votes, such as when ABC Washington
Post had Trump down I think it was thirteen fifteen
in Wisconsin in twenty twenty and he lost by hair.
(14:18):
So now that's part of what the left does. But
to me, it's encouraging that when you think about something
we've never seen in American political history before. Right, you
see the democratically elected Democrat nominee deposed, deposed in a
backroom deal, overthrown, and then you have another candidate installed
(14:39):
without receiving a single vote, and then you have ninety
eight percent of the media line up behind that candidate
and serve as a propaganda arm of that candidate and
also serve as a shield for the candidate, protecting the
candidate from any tough questions. We've never seen that in
American political history. Yet those three weeks of raw beatification
(15:02):
later at this point the race appears to be where
it was roughly where it was before the disastrous debate
for Biden, which is about a draw. And historically, and
please keep this in perspective, don't let them discourage you
in the left, and with these polls they published from
(15:23):
the left, and that is historically, at about this point
of the race, normally, you know, the GOP candidate is
way down. If I remember correctly, I think at about
this point Hillary Clinton was probably up seven to ten.
Biden was up seven to ten. So after three weeks
of glorification unadulterated of Kamala Harris and vilification of Trump
(15:47):
and a couple of Trump mistakes of his own thrown
in but are really tough three weeks for our side.
After three weeks of that, the race is about even.
I mean, it's what I call the politics of gravity.
Imagine what's going to happen when this does start to
turn around, and when the numbers do start to drop
(16:07):
for Harris, which they will inevitably do. The higher she
goes right now, and much of it being an illusion. Listen,
she's got momentum right now, She's gaining right now, but
not to a point where she's at all unreachable. The
higher she goes, the harder and faster she falls, and
the more panic there's going to be on the left,
(16:28):
Jack and Cheyenne. You're on the Dan Kapla show.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Welcome and yeah, Danny, I'm still an hour shire of Cheyenne.
What Ryan was talking about earlier about how Vance so
skillfully pointed out about Harris talking to whatever crowd she
was in front of, saying what they wanted to hear.
There's nothing new about that. When Robert Kennedy Senior was
trying to get the nomination to run for president, I
(16:51):
think it was in sixty it was in the sixties.
I can't remember when, but I lived in New York
then and six o'clock at least five stations had news.
And while he was campaign all around the various neighborhoods
in New York, he would tell the Jewish people that
we're going to provide you with these with these fighter jets.
And then he'd be in another area the same day
and the different channel, and the reporter picked him up
staying exactly the opposite to the places where they had
(17:13):
the errors. And he was so older, and they think
people are that stupid and I know I'm not campaigning
for an award for the Master of the obvious. But
every single thing a Democrat says is a lie. You
can count on it ninety nine percent of the time.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
But what about no tax on tips? Yeah, she's lying
about that. It's it's a good Trump idea that she's
lying about. Right. And oh, by the way, White House
announced today that if they send a bill up for
no tax on tips, the President will sign it. So
hopefully the GOP will go ahead and do that because
Trump can stand up and say this is because of me,
and I haven't even worn Yeah, so I hope they
(17:52):
go ahead and do that. Hey, when we come back,
so much to talk about, so much good news out
there and so much a bit fresh. But one thing
to keep an eye on and Iran tonight when President
Trump's so wise to be back on AX. Remember I
kept saying, listen, hey, he's got to get back on Twitter.
That's when we'll know he's he's really completely dialed. And
(18:14):
he is back on Twitter. But tonight, will will we
get a Trump? I think we will. I think the
bell is rung. I think he's back. You're on the
Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
He says, So a.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
Man is how much he will bear for a cause
which he knows to be right. How long will he
stand in the depths of despair? How much will he
suffer and fight? There are many to serve when the
victory is near, and few other hurt to be born.
But it calls for a leader of courage to cheer
(18:50):
the men in a battle for long. It is the
way you hold out against odds that are great that
proves what your courage is worth. It is the way
that you stand the bruises of fate that shows up
your stature and girth. And victory is nothing but proof
of your skill veneered with a glorious thing, unless it
(19:14):
is a proof of unfaltering will, and unless.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
You have suffered to win, and a lot of powerful
Trump images over that. So he is back. The bell
has wrong. It's rocky what eighteen now Ryan? But he's
back on ex Twitter, which is critical, right, I mean
true social You're reaching seven million of post Twitter, you
might be reaching one hundred million. You know. He's back
on Twitter and super Pack is committed to spending one
(19:41):
hundred million on his behalf between now and Labor Day
in these six swing states. Key is and I saw
some great video of President Trump today. We'd play the sound,
but it doesn't translate without the video, just out there
in a meet and greet with people in so sharp
and so on it. And obviously that's what we need
between now and election Day, and the reason they're spending
(20:01):
some of this money, not all of this money, is
going to be spent on spots exposing Kamala Harris in
her own words and in her own voice, you know,
for the crazy far left radical she is from San Francisco.
But they're going to be spending some real money on
redefining Donald Trump for those people who have such a
horrible image of him. And I know, listen on this show.
(20:23):
So many of us understand the great things Trump has done,
et cetera. But they're an awful lot of people out
there who don't have that depth of understanding. So reminding
them of a lot of the good stuff he's done
is almost as important as exposing Harris as the San
Francisco radical she is. Despite three weeks of unrelenting beatification
(20:45):
from the left and the left's media arm, which is
pretty much all the media got a lot to cover.
Glad you're here eight five to five for zero five
A two five to five the number text d An
five seven seven three nine. Before I go back to
the lines, I want to get to some of the tech.
Dan heard Hannity's show two Polsters super depressed me, saying
if he didn't use Kamala's words against her hard and fast,
(21:07):
he would lose because people are only listening to the
mainstream media. I'm glad to hear he's coming out with
those ads as well. I am too. And listen, there's
some downside, right because you want all this stuff fresh
for the stretch run. But but I think at this
point she's gaining enough it's important to hit. And then
Kevin McCarthy had great advice for the President today which
(21:28):
has dropped this crowd sized stuff. I mean, the President
coming out over the weekend and saying commerce crowd size
was AI generated whatever. First of all, I haven't seen
any evidence of that. Even if it was true, why
go there, Because listen, we know from experience right that
the crowd size doesn't matter. I mean, you look at
(21:50):
what's happened before, and I'll give you a great example. Okay,
it was. It was Obama versus McCain. Here's a great example.
And I had the privilege of hosting McCain and Palin
right out of the convention. They may have stopped somewhere first,
but they came to Denver right after the convention, and
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it was held down in Colorado Springs and Aircraft Hanger.
And if you look at the photo of the Harris
Waltz plane at the airport and this enormous crowd that
they had there that President Trump claims as AI generated,
there was a scene virtually identical to that in Colorado
Springs for McCain Palin. I know, I was MC. I
(22:34):
had the privilege of mceing that event, so I had
the unique perspective of standing on the stage. And it
was set up the same way. You've got the stage
inside the hangar. Then you've got all that big space
in the hangar for people, and there aren't so many
people as many as it could hold. I don't know,
fifteen seventeen thousand, I can't remember the number, whatever it was.
(22:55):
And then you park the plane at the back, just
like they did in that hair picture that you see
out there, and you can get a ton of people.
It's not like fifteen thousand people gathered because they heard
they were gassing up there and wanted to say, hello,
there's a rally planned in a hangar at the airport.
And I don't know if that was the scenario there,
but I have seen that at McCain Palin and I
(23:17):
had been covering. I'd covered the Obama rally over at
du and I'd been there in person for that and
it was come on, lots of enthusiasm everything else. But
as I said at the time, the Obama rally did
not have the level of enthusiasm and intensity that was
there that day in Colorado Springs. For McCain Palin, it
(23:39):
was off the scale. So you talk about crowd size
and enthusiasm and intensity, yeah, yeah, they had some huge crowds,
but obviously it didn't translate on election day.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Similarly for President Trump and listen, I think he should
generate big crowds everywhere he can go, and I think
he needs to be out there doing it more often.
But the crowds size doesn't equal victory or defeat. So
I hope the President does not stay focused on that.
And the other thing is listen, so what that she's
pull in these big crowds. You know, you can get
(24:13):
enormous crowds, but by having just a certain number of
people in a certain subset of support show up. But
ninety nine point nine percent of these folks we're going
to vote for Biden anyway. Ninety nine point nine percent
of these folks are voting for the Democrat no matter what.
So don't focus on that. It just CAUs more attention
(24:33):
to it, and it does not translate automatically or even
close to automatically into victory. And again President Trump pulls
arch large crowds himself. Ryan Trivia, you would know this
because you know all this stuff. But but what was
the state of the polls on that day when I
had the privilege of m seeing the McCain Palin rally
(24:57):
down in Colorado Springs right after the GOP convention. What
was the state of the polls?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
They got a pretty big bump, as I remember, from
her presence on the ticket alone. I think that they
gave the campaign a lot of energy. As I remember,
it was kind of a bold pick for McCain outside
of his comfort zone. Now it would turn at some point,
and I think she struggled with navigating a lot of
the media. But let me get into that. If I
make that instant, I think they were in pretty good
shape or there had.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Been a big swing, and at that point they were
probably three, four or five up, depending on the polls.
And then it was about two weeks later and I'm
on stage with her at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, if
I remember right, I was seeing another event with her
two weeks later, and as we stood there waiting to
go on stage, she and McCain were up. I'd have
(25:46):
to go back and double check, but they were still
up five six, seven points in mid September. And then
we're waiting to go on stage and somebody says to her, Hey,
it's it's you know, Senator McCain. So she picks up
the phone and I couldn't hear the call, but I
was standing there, and she got off the phone as
a Lehman Brothers. Lehman Brothers is crashed And so that
(26:08):
was the morning. Remember Lehman Brothers folded up right, So
they had they had a very substantial lead. As I
stood with her on that stage. As I remembered, it
was around mid September and whatever that Monday was when
Lehman Brothers went down. That's when the campaign started to
go down, right, because then the focus changed to the economy.
McCain botched it and suspended the campaign so everybody could
(26:31):
focus on this, and he looked in doing that, and
that's when the campaign turned around. Wow.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Yeah, were there for that moment? Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah, you know I was standing there. Yeah, she and
I were standing there waiting to go on. And we
had met when I had seed the deal in the spring.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
What was the look on her face when she got
Oh she was cool.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
She's a pro. Yeah, No, she was. She was cool,
she was a pro. She handled it smoothly. I don't
think any of us understood the full impact as it
was happening, and she had this huge adoring crowd waiting
for her there, which he handled beautifully. Eight five five
five two five five the numbers. So I want to
come back and talk about a number of different things
(27:09):
going on right now locally and nationally. But there's so
much reason to be optimistic in this presidential race, including
when we come back. Something you do not here discuss
two things, double barreled. You don't hear discussed both. I
think will be very important in Trump's favor. Down the stretch,
You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast. Donald
Trump didn't serve in the military.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
He received a medical draft deferment for bone spurs to
avoid serving in the Vietnam War, reportedly as a favor
to his father.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Do you find that shameful too?
Speaker 7 (27:45):
I think that Donald Trump didn't serve in the military,
but he didn't lie about it.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Dan, I've known Donald.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Trump for a long time. For my service.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
Donald Trump didn't lie about serving in the military. He
didn't say that he went to Vietnam when he didn't.
This is the problem. I don't criticize anybody whether they
served our country or not. I think it's honorable to serve,
but obviously a lot of people have reasons for not serving.
I criticized somebody for embellishing the record for lying saying
I went to war. Do you think that it's a
problem that he said I went to war but he didn't.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Actually, that seems to be a problem. I'm telling you, man,
that is a plus plus. That's some of the best
work I've seen in a long long time. Because you
think about that okay, obviously you're in a hostile environment
on CNN, But within that there were two or three
different breakpoints, including Dana Bash skillfully on behalf of the
left coming back to, well, you don't think Trump lied
(28:36):
about bone spurs, and he and fans immediately brought it
back to he didn't lie about serving in the military.
He didn't lie about his military service. That was brilliant work.
And you know that's I haven't followed jd. Vance that much,
but that's what I'd always heard about him, is that
super sharp, super smart, great verbal skills, et cetera. And
(28:58):
I think that this miss by the Lake, this gigantic
error of the cabal and bringing in Wallace's Harris's VP,
has really sharpened Vance. And in fact, it's so ironic
because Drudge, which is garbage now, but Drudge Report, which
is so anti Trump a week ago, was running the headlines,
you know, which is the left talking point about getting
(29:20):
rid of JD. Vance.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
That went away in a hurry right after the mistake
by the Lake, But now they've switched it to a
headline today Republicans wish Vance was the nominee, right, so Jayson.
But the point is jd Vance is really emerging and
that was brilliant stuff over the weekend, which obviously puts
more and more pressure on the Harris campaign because it
(29:42):
embarrasses her further for not being out there. Will this
sink in with the American people that she's hiding, And
obviously the reason she's hiding is because she's not capable
of the job. She's not capable of an interview like this.
She's not capable of the job. And I think it
eventually sinks in, but I think it's going to be
a month or two down the road. But it's good
(30:04):
to be laying the groundwork now. Eight five five or
zero five eight two five five the number of text
d A N five seven seven three nine. Let me
work in some calls and text is. I make some
other points that just had me really excited about this race. Roziel,
you're on the Dan Caplis show. Welcome.
Speaker 10 (30:22):
Thank you then for having me on again. When it
comes to the phone numbers, this is like the election
of twenty sixteen all over again, where they inflated the
numbers and her favor because people were afraid to admit
(30:43):
that they were going to vote for Trump. They were
going to because they did you know, they knew that
runs was going to come if they admitted to it.
This is the same game all over again, and you
know it. Between Kamala and Tim Webbs, they lie about
(31:06):
the record of whatever they did for the government. She
got her way up to the top without any real fight,
and Tim Waltz he led about his record. And I
apologize for all those who actually served and were in
combat Uncle and Vietnam who had agentis induced cancer almost
(31:36):
twenty years later.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I really appreciate your uncle service and your fine points.
We've got to get two more things in before the break,
but I think you hit on a number of very
important things there. And this brings us back to the
point about walls. Right. There is a grave danger that
the Democrats replace him, and let's just hope they don't.
(31:59):
I mean, we can't control that obviously. It's not as
if we could say, oh, the GOP needs to back
off their attacks on walls. That just gets too cute.
But we know with this fully complicit media, if they
do what they really should and they change walls out
and they stick Shapiro in, the media is going to
give them total cover on that. Now are they vulnerable,
(32:20):
you know, with voters. I'm looking like a clown car. Yeah,
and maybe in the end I'll be proven wrong. Right now,
I think the benefits of keeping walls are infinitely greater
than the clown car effect if they dump them. But
if they dump them, we'll get a chance to test that.
Hopefully I'll be proven wrong and it will just be
another brick in the wall on her incompetence. But I'd
(32:43):
much rather have walls stay around. I think that gift
is giving so much right now, and there's still so
much more to come. But Ryan, a quick note. You know,
we saw this pole. I'm not sure it's at all reliable,
but this one poll that said Harris is starting to
get close to Trump's numbers on the economy. And first,
(33:05):
I don't really believe that, and I think we you know, overall,
the polls show that Trump still has a good ten
to fifteen point lead on that. But here's the point
I want you to put in the back of your mind, please,
and that is, if you start to see that happening
in the polls, you know, then then consider this. If
that is true, and if we do have a shift
and we have more people who think that they like
(33:27):
Harris on the economy. Then there's one reason for it,
and that is you've got a group of people who
want this nation to be socialist. You've got a I mean,
just look at the polls. You've got a group of
people who openly they'll tell a polster that, yeah, I
want America to be socialists. You've got a group of
people and it's pretty significant number. I'll find the latest
numbers on it. But a group of people who tell
(33:50):
pollsters openly that they want America to redistribute income. And
at this point, I think Harrison Walls, you know, in channel,
but certainly clearly to those channels, have made it clear
that's what they want. A quality of outcomes, she flats
outset it not opportunity, a quality of outcome. She talked
last week about the collective. We need to be devoted
(34:12):
to the collective. So and the pick of Walls itself
clearly signaling to the far left and to those who
want America to be a socialist nation that they want
that vote for them, so that would be reflected and yeah,
if you want America to be socialist, you're gonna tell Upholster. Yeah,
(34:32):
I like Carris's views on the economy because you want
the nation to be socialist. I'm not saying everybody who
gives her favorable and the economy wants socialism, but a
significant chunk do hey want to come back? More reason
to be optimistic. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
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