Vlad Davidiuk - Political Consultant Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Glad Vidig joins US as a political consultant. When the
race is close, especially in battleground states, it's a lot
easier to cheat, isn't it. Lad.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's always easier to cheat if the race is close,
and then it's advisable to make the race as wide
as possible to avoid that cheating. But what we've seen
historically is when you have two candidates who are so
silently entrenched with both bases of the party, it's going
to be a close, nip and tuck race except for

(00:30):
those few battleground states and those lingering independents.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
If Joe Biden was still in the race, would we
be talking about a landslide at this point, do you think?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I think it's far more likely that we'd be talking
about a pretty solid victory looming for President Trump if
not a landslide. I think President Biden had his poll
numbers and the fundamentals of his polling were slipping gradually.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
And had taken a deep dive after that debate. But
if that debate had not been so bad for him,
if he was still in the race, I think it
would still be on the decline in President Trump would
be really starting to gain ground in some of those
key states and looking towards potentially a landslide, it could
very well have happened.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Absolutely, What, if anything, do you think this second assassination
attempt does or doesn't do for Donald Trump?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I think it really crystallizes the argument that he and
his supporters and people who are working to defend democracy
have been making this whole time that the violent rhetoric
of the left, the hateful anger that is inciting some
of the more deranged and unhinged members of that political

(01:45):
ideology to really start to act out on their violent fantasies,
is not only dangerous to America, but destructive of our
democracy and then potentially could upend constitutional protections that we've
enjoyed for almost two hudred and fifty years. The crazies
that are out there and disrupting and causing chaos are

(02:05):
exactly the type of people who put fear into average
Americans and wondering whether or not we're being surrounded by
people who are potentially go off any moment, and you
need people who are going to defend a constitution, keep
us safe and that strong leadership.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Are you concerned, though, at all, that there are some
people out there maybe some independent voters who are taking
a look at this and saying, this is the way.
If Donald Trump gets elected, it's going to be like
this for the next four years, people taking potshots at him.
It won't get anything accomplished, and they're thinking that they
just don't want to put up with all that.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
I think that that certainly could be a possibility. And
if you have an independent voter who's thinking along those lines,
they probably already made up their mind one way or another.
I think it's far more likely you're going to see
independent voters thinking what is wrong with our country that
we can't have a political and discussion about ideas without
resorting to violence. And they're going to see who it

(02:59):
is who brought this on. And President Trump and his
team made very clear that the violent rhetoric being pushed
out by the left, including Biden and Harrison and a
strong army of influencers that they've mobilized across the nation,
are really pushing this violent rhetoric to target President Trump
and other Republicans.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
And I hope you're right. Thanks well, ID appreciate it.
Political consultant vlad Davidiaki. It is six twenty seven