Vlad Davidiuk - Political Analyst Joins Houston Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
VLA. Davidia joins US political analyst to talk about this
American Thinker piece about the Republicans. I read the piece,
and I don't know how much of it is just
the angst of what's happened in past elections, or how
much of it is just insight into how unwilling the
Republican establishment is to change in order to be effective

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at winning races. What do you think it is?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
What we've seen historically is that Republicans tend to build
momentum slowly and then sustain it, while Democrats tend to fluctuate,
and so that translates directly to how people perceive the
election and how people perceive momentum. The media also plays
a big role in this. They're definitely complicit in how

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they relay this information to the public, and they are
incentivized and they're completely invested in trying to hype up
the Democrat candidate. And so you know, that's the perception
that's broadly felt and it can have an outsized impact
on the election.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Seems to me that a lot of these polls that
are that are skewing Democrat are really attempts to try
to build up enthusiasm for a candidate who didn't have
a whole lot of enthusiasm without the media and the
polls doing it for her. Donald Trump is trying to
build up enthusiasm face to face by holding these massive rallies.
What wins the long run?

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, I mean before before President Biden decided to quit
the race and there was speculation about who's going to
replace him, Kamala Harris was like maybe the third or
fourth possible choice that people were excited about. People acknowledge
the fact that she, you know, sitting vice president should
probably get the job, but she was not actually like
the only possible choice. And if you look back in

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history in twenty twenty, President Biden was ahead by seven
points at this at this time of the calendar, and
Hillary Clinton was ahead by two and a half points.
Kamala is ahead by maybe one and a half to
two points across the across different poles. Is that surge
in awareness from the voter. Voters are going to the polls,

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but they still have to pay their light, build they
still have to buy groceries, They still have to fill
up their tanks with gas. They still have to make
sure that their kids are safe walking out going to school,
and they have to be concerned with rather or not
there's going to be a new crime committed within their
communities every single day, and so far Kamala has not

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really offered any substantive solutions to that, and voters are
becoming more increasingly aware of that. That's really going to
have a huge impact on the choices they make.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
You know. The story also goes on to say that
typical American voters are ignorant, apathetic, gullible, maybe in some
cases even stupid. Do you think that's true the average
American voter.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I think the average American voter is really kind of
disenchanted with the entire process because they have seen for
a year after a year that they keep sending people
to Washington and things are not improving in their communities,
not improving in their neighborhoods. What they're really looking for
is change and positive improvement. They're becoming more cynical with

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each cycle, and so the candidate that's able to actually
offer solutions that are able to deliver on them is
going to really make a sharp push to maintain that momentum.
Hopefully we can see that before November.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, Well, they all make offers hopefully some of them
deliver GLAD. Thank you, as always appreciated political analyst of
GLAD Vidio