October 16, 2024 • 34 mins
Dan gives the post-mortem on the Kamala Harris interview with Bret Baier and what it means for the final 20 days of the 2024 campaign.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind,
and to subscribe, download, and listen to the show every
single day on your favorite podcast platform. She saw something
really extraordinary, and I'm blessed to be on air about
thirty years now, been a trialer about forty years. That
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was by far the single best interview I've ever seen conducted.
Brett Baer was masterful under very difficult circumstances. When you have,
excuse me, a sitting vice president, so you can only
be so firm, right, it's a sitting vice president, but
clearly intending to avoid and evade and not answer direct questions.
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And when Bear appropriately interrupts, she actually and CNN describes
it as getting heated. She got heated with him, so
in addition to talking over him, she did so in
an angry kind of way, which leads to the question
where did the joy go? But in avoiding these fair
tough questions, I think she did herself tremendous damage. A
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couple of quick notes before we go to our firing
lines and text as well on this some of the
questions she did respond to. I think she really hurt
herself and a couple in particular. I won't get to
all of them here. I want to get to callers,
but the beauty and I hope Trump turns this into
a spot instantly is Bear came back. When she was filibustering,
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she wouldn't answer direct questions on immigrations, such as, Okay,
how many ilegals have come in on your watch? Why
did you reverse so many of Trump's border policies that
allowed this to happen? And then she filibusters blaming Republicans,
you know, the drill. But then Bear was ready and
he came back and he said, well, why did the
border patrol then endorse Trump? And her response to that
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an instant classic. I get it, I get it. And
then she went on to say they're frustrated, etc. But
when you say you get the border patrol endorsing Trump,
that's an instant spot. And then Bear again it did
a brilliant job of pinning her down. He played the
spot that we've been talking about on our air. It
was the first of all of her wacko statements we
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played on air when she was installed as the nominee
taxpayer funding for sex change operations for prisoners. He played
the spot and she wouldn't back off it. She wouldn't
change her position on that. Fascinating, and we'll talk about
why why you think she didn't take advantage as this
the opportunity to say, oh no, that's another one of
my positions I've changed. She wouldn't do that, and I
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think that does her great harm because you know, she
was complaining about how much money Trump has spent on
the spot. Yeah, she knows that amount, and she's complaining
about it because the spot is devastating. And I think
that's showing up in the polling, including the Fox polling,
which had a four point flip. And Fox is a
left leaning pole, had Trump down to in the last poll,
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now has him up to. Let's go to what You
Talk Kansas. We'll start with Mack here on the Dan
Kaplis Show. Welcome Mack, Hey, Dan and Ryan.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I really enjoy your show. Been listening since twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Nice, thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I've got just basically one comment. I think Brett Bair
did a really good job, and I think that he
was channeling the great Jim Russers because if you recall
Tim Russell, when he interviewed people from either side of
the aisle, would take a clip that someone had said before,
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sometimes years before, any would put them right there and
they have to answer their own words.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, no, you're right. I have beautiful observation, Matt. That
is a great observation, my friend. Thank you and appreciate
the call. I hope you become a frequent caller. So nice, Matt.
Going back to twenty ten with the show in Denver,
it's Eric. You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Welcome, Hey you great America.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Eric.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
How you doing, my friend?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Okay, my brother, you stole.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
My word because you did a masterful job breaking down
the interview. Thank you with Kamala Harris. But I have
to I have to stress to you because I heard
a lot of smacking in this, a lot of slurring.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I think Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
As high as heck, and she gets bold and brave,
and she used you know, our great President Trump that
I love as an OUTCRD for not answering rich questions. Uh, Dan,
you think that's going to work for oh my god,
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no no, And then you know what, it's not going
to work for her? Is that? And you had.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Told us all along, Kamala Harris, she started, she's starting
from the from the end, you know, of the race.
What she's doing now, she should have did at the beginning,
so to speak.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
And why do you know that she was going to fail?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, that's why they put her in the basement, right
because they knew it would hurt the campaign.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, she was just.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Wondering to how much jan or vodka or whatever that
she can consume to.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Be brave enough to go on with Brent Baer.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
And before I let you go, I love Jeff Hunt. Okay,
I've been I've been.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
To a lot of his state.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
He loves he loves you like a brother too. I mean,
I am grateful for and he wants you the one
for governor.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
He keeps saying that that boy coming from Jeff, that
means a lot to me. Eric, Thank you, man. I
really appreciate that call every day. Thank you.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I really love hearing from Eric. Uh listen personally, Do
I think she was under the influence of anything today? No,
I don't. I understand why a lot of people out
there have raised the question on other occasions as to
you know, whether there might be some added exuberance.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
What about Kelly's theory that maybe they gave her his NX, see,
I that's for anxiety.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I did not see that in today's interview. I mean
I've seen him. We've all played a lot of tape
where there's a fair question as to Okay, did she
start the weekend earlier not? Or is this you know,
is this some other issue that she has, right? I mean, personally,
I don't think we can ever know the answer to that.
For me, it's just proof that she doesn't have the
kind of intellect you need in a president. Today, I
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think their mo was clear. They were going to stall,
they were going to run out the clock, and the
whole point of her coming on was to do two things.
One is be able to say she came on Fox,
but but also to be tough and angry and hope
that was interpreted as strength. I think that was the
mo for today, right, because, as I've been talking about
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forever on this show, she is properly perceived, properly perceived
I think in every quarter, and it's hurting her, particularly
with men, properly perceived as weak because she is. It
has nothing to do with gender, has nothing to do
with anything other than her. She is the epitome of weakness.
Trump is the epitome of strength. And so I think
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her plan was go on Fox and be angry and
interrupt and heated and yell and hope that's taken his strength.
I don't think that's going to work for her with
the people who get to decide the election. I compare
it as we go to our text and back to
the phones, very much to the debate, because the debate,
everybody said, oh, Kamala Hurst one, you know, stylistically she
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was better than Trump, this or that. I came out
of the debate and said, wait, she lost. If your
measure of success is doing what you have to do
to win the presidency, she did not do in the
debate what she had to do to win the presidency,
and that's why she finds herself in a desperate situation. Now.
So she comes on this Fox News interview and yeah,
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she stalled, and yeah she was angry and you know,
interrupts Brett Barrett c But she refused to answer fair
direct question. So if the goal of this interview was
to win the election by convincing the persuadables, I think
that backfired on her, because if you don't answer fair
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direct questions, what reaction do you think truly undecided people
are going to have. It's not going to be a
good one. It's going to be that's just flat disrespectful.
They have questions they want answered. Brett Beaar was asking them,
and she was refusing answer. Not a formula for success, Dan,
will the Dems try to sub Biden back in after
this Kamala disaster? That from Alexa? No, I think that
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ship has sailed. It is an interesting question we'll kicking
around at some point whether they would be in better
shape right now with Biden than Harris. Do you think
Joe watched this today? Oh yeah, Oh yeah, I think
he absolutely noticed her quote, my presidency will not be
a continuation of the Biden presidency. Yeah, I think he
noticed that. Alexa says, I think Kamala was trying to
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be tough and him Trump and vance that did not
come across. Well, you know, I would certainly agree with that, Dan.
What is the world record for least questions answered in
an interview? I think we saw that tied today because
the world record has to be zero, right, but probably
lots of people tie for that record, and Kamala Harris
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did today. Dan, I don't think the Brettbear interview moved
the needle either way. The media and or supporters will
be saying she was great and the undecided's are only
going to see favorable soundbites from social media. Interesting perspective.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I think the.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Big unanswerable is is how many persuadables. I don't like
the term undecided right because we're human. It's fluid. For
people who are persuadable, they may already be in one
camp or the other, but they're persuadable, so they're not
truly an undecided. So I use persuadable for truly persuadables
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who were watching. I think it's a big negative for
her because they're persuadable because they have unanswered questions. And
I just think it's the way we're wired as humans.
If somebody won't answer a direct question, we don't trust them,
right in a situation like this where they're asking for
something from you, they're asking for your vote, and they
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won't answer a direct question that pertains to to voting
and why somebody would vote for somebody. Yeah, I think
that really hurt her with persuadables, And to the Texter's point, yeah,
people who love her already are going to see what
they want, and the people who don't like already are
going to see what they want. But the persuadables, you
better answer their questions. You're going to lose eight five
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five or zero five eight two five five. Ye're on
the Dan Capla.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 9 (10:44):
If it's all on the wrong track, that track follows
three and a half years of you being vice president
and President Biden being president. That is what they're saying,
seventy nine percent of them. Why are they saying that
if you're turning the page, you've been in office for
three and a.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Half years and Donald Trump has been running for office.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
The person you know, that's the same as remember Lester
Holt said, you know, when are you going to go
to the border, and she said, I've been to the border.
And he said, no, you haven't been to the border
in paraphrase, and she said, well, I haven't been to
Europe either. I mean, that was wrecked up there with that, right,
And I think it's that sort of thing that, among
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other things, really hurt her today. I think some other
things hurt her worse than that. Will continue to mix
in sound from the interview. If you're just joining us,
thank you. We carried in its entirety the interview between
Brett Behar and Kamala Harris. Ten second summary, Bear was masterful.
She came in intending clearly not to answer direct questions,
and came in intending to be heated, intending to be
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at times angry, and hope that came across as strength.
I don't think personally it worked for I think certain
things she said were particularly damaged to her, but abobble,
I think what hurt her most was the refusal to
answer the direct questions. Because with persuadables, I think that's death.
They want answers to direct questions. And when a candidate
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won't do that, why in the world should the persuadable
vote for that person. We'll get into more detail as
we take calls and texts. Let me get to some
texts before I go back to the callers in no
particular order. Dan, I think you're mistaken if you think
Trump has been answering all the direct questions asked of him. No,
I don't think that at all. But here's the point.
People know Trump, whether they like him or not, they
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know him. He was president. That's why I just sit
back and laugh at I'd send the limo for all
these attacks. Oh he's deranged, he's a fascist, he's this,
he's that. Give me. Americans saw him as president. They
know what he did, and then they can decide whether
they want him or not. People have a lot of
questions about Kamala Harris, and so when she refuses to
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answer the those questions, I think it hurts her a lot. Plus,
everybody knows Trump has been doing interviews with all sorts
of hostile interviewers for years, and everybody knows that Harris
has been largely hiding in the basement and then eventually
forced out to go on with for the most part,
the Howard Stearns of the world. And then when she
did go on with CBS and the interviewer did a
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good job, CBS had to falsify the interview. They had
to doctor the interview to try to make her sound coherent.
Dan going over Twitter right now, the left is saying
that she nailed the interview despite all of his interruptions.
There's no winning. Wait a second, winning doesn't mean getting
the left to be honest. The left is never going
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to be honest. What winning means is getting enough people
in the middle to see the truth. And I have
no doubt that's happening. Just look at the polls. And
winning means getting those inclined to vote for Trump so
revved up that they would crawl over glass to vote
for him. And I think this interview today helped him
accomplish that. Also, let's go to beautiful for Collins. Great
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win for the Rams last weekend. Tim, you're on the
Dan Kapalas show.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Welcome then, Yeah, I think Bredair did a good job.
And uh, every time I hear Kamala Harris say, let
me be clear, a bit red flag goes up because
that's the last thing you do. And also you may
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it laugh. It's uh if you're change the movie the
Ghost get mister Chickens with don knots. You have to
get this speech in the first Yeah, I had to, well,
let me clarify this, and it's just resonated with me.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
This is just such a joke.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
She's afraid to answer the questions. Yeah, that's okay. She's
gonna follow the law when it comes to uh sex
change in prison? What law was there enforced that allowed
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her to do it on the guy who killed the
two the man and woman in Florida.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Beautiful point, Tim, Thank you for that, because this may
be where she hurt herself worse today. And the reason
I say that is because Trump has been wisely and
is pack supporters saturating the airwaves with the spot I'm
sure you've seen by now, which is Kamala Harris in
her own words on video bragging about leading the way
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to use taxpayer dollars to guarantee sex change operations for prisoners.
That has been the most devastating ad of our political lifetime,
the most devastating ad since the Daisy ad that was
run against Goldwater in sixty four.
Speaker 10 (15:51):
And so.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I think she really hurt herself today when Bear handed
her the chance to back off it and she wouldn't
take it instead of saying no, I don't believe that anymore,
because she's saying that about all the stuff she really believes, right,
why wouldn't she say that about this? I'd love your
take on that. It would have been so easy for
her to say no. Listen, this is another one of
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my positions you know that, Hey, I've gathered more information
seeking consensus. No, I wouldn't do that. But by refusing
to say that, refusing to say this is one of
those areas where she's changed, she has dumbled down on it,
and that I think just confirms my point that she knows.
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I believe she knows she has likely lost this race.
Nothing is certain right until election day in the days after,
but I think she believes she has likely lost this race,
and what she's looking ahead to now is the next
part of her life and whether she's envisioning having a
talk show, you know, writing a book. She gets a
lot of money for whatever. I think that's why she
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wouldn't back off this position today. She knows its political death,
but she's looking beyond this race. Eight five five for
zero five eight two five five the number some more
texts Dan she did interrupt him or did he interrupt her?
I think it was a little of both. It was
but as people watching it all the way through could see,
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he only interrupted her when she was refusing to answer
a question, and so she interrupted him in order to
throw off the questioning. So her interruptions of him were
all part of this evasion and I think she also
really hurt herself when she got angry interrupting him. Now,
maybe she thought that would convey strength, but I think
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that really undermines kind of this persona she's been trying
to project. So I think any fair minded person watching
could see her point was to evade. Her point was
to evade fair direct questions, and that including interrupting Bear
to run out the clock and avoid those questions. A
Texter says, Dan, what candidate says, I'm going to come
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in and do the exact same thing as my predecessor.
I think she answered that question, Well, here's the problem
she asked just a few days ago. She said she
couldn't think of a single thing she would do differently,
and and that's what's out in America's consciousness. So when
she comes in today and says something different than that,
I don't think that helps her. You're on the Dan
Capla Show.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
You're listening to the Dan Caplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
You called Donald.
Speaker 9 (18:27):
Trump, called Donald Trump he's misguided. You say, now he's
he's not well, you say he's mentally not stable.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Let me ask you this, And to interviewers that.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
Joe Biden was on his game that ran around circles
on his staff. When did you first notice that President
Biden's mental faculties appeared diminished?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Joe Biden.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
I have watched from the Oval office to the situation room,
and he has the judgment and the experiment and experience
to do exactly what he has done and making very
important decisions on behalf of the American people. Joe Bibra
will concerns Ruth Joe Biden is not on ballot.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I understand. Yeah, she really hurt herself with that, because
if she's seen that Joe Biden was not incognitive decline,
well then she's proven to either be a liar or
fatally clueless. So in deciding to go with that answer,
I think she really really hurt herself eight five five
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for zero five A two five five text, d A
N five seven seven three nine tremendous text and calls
coming in and want to get to all of those Dan.
If Winnie means not answering questions and speaking over the host,
yes she won. She can't shut her mouth long enough
for him to even get a word in edgewise, which
was her plan, because that way she doesn't have to
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answer the question, which makes you wonder why she went on,
because she hurt herself. I believe, in the individual ways
we've discussed, and most dramatically by refusing to answer fair,
direct questions persuadable, that's going to offend them, not going
to gain her support, it's going to lose her support.
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But then you step back and you look at the
way she did this, You look at the tone, You
look at the anger. The CNN disguised describes it as
heatedness of her interruptions of bear. That's inconsistent with this
image that she's been trying to project, I believe, a
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false image, but inconsistent with the image that her campaign
has really been based on. So I don't know how
that's likely to help her. I believe that this was
calculated to address what they must be seen in their
polling is the single most obvious, glaring, fatal weakness, which
is weakness. And She's correctly perceived as being weak, and
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Trump's correctly persued as being strong. That doesn't mean that's
the end of the analysis for each and every voter,
but it's a powerful shaping factor for many. So maybe
this new tone and this this anger and this hot
you know, kind of angry approach they believe is going
to convey strength. I don't think it's going to do that.
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A five five vers five eight two five five the number,
Rosiel in Denver, You're on the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Welcome, Hello Dan. That was an utter waste of arid time,
completely because we already knew she was not going to
answer any of bers questions. He's a fair journalist, and
realistically it just only returned to all Americans that she
is not suitable to be president. So I want people
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to know just because they think, well, Trump has this
in the basket right now. No go out and vote anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Oh amen to that, Rosiel, great point, and listen, I
respectfully disagree on one point, and that is yeah, Brett
Baron again, I think it's a single best interview performance
I've ever seen on TV under the circumstances, because remember,
you have a sitting vice president, so you can only
be so firm because of the office. And I think
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he was as firm as you could be under those circumstances.
I think he was so tremendously prepared. It reminded me
of trial prep right where he was clearly anticipating the evasion,
the lies, etc. And then he had mapped out how
he would respond to that, and then how he would
respond to the next effort to evade, etc. I thought
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he handled it brilliantly. But here's where I would disagree
with their friend Raziel, and that is, it's not a
waste of time when you have a Democrat nominee for
president come onto a show and obviously avoid answering the
questions because just as in a trial, when I'm cross
examining a witness, it is better for me and my client.
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It's devastating to the other side when a witness refuses
to answer direct questions. That hurts the witness more than
any answer they could have given because it concedes my
point implicitly and makes the witness look dishonest. And I
think that's how Kamala Harris looked today, So I think
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it was a double net negative for her. Text Alexis
says Dan, the joy is long gone for Kamala. I
think that was certainly on display today. That was not
the tone they've built this campaign around Dan to present
the other side. Would you please also run the thirty
minutes of Trump avoiding even more questions and having music
played instead. Texture. I wish you would call the show
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because your premise is fatally flawed and I don't know
if you're the innocent victim of the lying media or
if you're just deciding to misrepresent, But please call the
show so we can discuss that. Dan, She's spun in
circles so fast and so hard. Listening to her made
me sick. You know this goes to another really critical dynamic, right,
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It's pretty simple maths in winning this race. You know,
she of course both sides fighting for the persuadables, but
so much of it is about whether your voters turn out.
We all know that. But I think an interview like
this does more to ensure that Trump voters will crawl
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over glass to vote for him than almost anything else
could now, certainly the way he handled being shot in Butler, Pennsylvania,
I think that already has a level of intensity of
support and dedication. But a performance like this by her
today and just many other things she's done but today,
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I think so energizes and intensifies the commitment of those
inclined toward Trump that that's probably the single best thing
to come for him out of that interview. Dan says
a Texter. Oh, my lord, why isn't Brett saying If
Joe Biden is so fit, why isn't he the one
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running for reelection? Why did they put you in as
a substitute candidate. You know, I think he didn't go
there because I think that would have been too easy
for I mean, at that point, she just said, Oh,
he's so noble and it was such a personal sacrifice
because he is able to continue, but he knows that
two years from now he might start to fade. Yeah,
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So I think that's why he didn't go there. Here's
some more Brett Bear with Kamala Harris today. By the way,
fascinating report Brett Bear saying on Fox that Kamala's staff
was urgently trying to end the Fox interview, and as
we played it, you could hear him refer to that
I'm getting a hard rap. I'm getting a hard rep,
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he would say to the VP. But here's what Bear
just added. Quote, I'm talking like four people waving their
hands like it's got stop. Reminds you of was it
Rocky four? Right where the father is throwing the throwing
the towel into the ring to save his son from
being literally killed by Rocky. Sorry if you haven't seen
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that one yet, but it's been out maybe ten years
or so. So yeah, anytime you get the staff of
of the Democrat nominee and you know Brett Bear is
not going to exaggerate four people waving their hands like
it's got to stop. You just know they knew how
bad it was for her, and they had to be
most concerned not with the substance of any one response,
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though I think there were a few the rare occasions
when she did respond to a question directly where it
hurt her, but to the tone and to her anger
and her overall approach toward him, because nobody is going
to mistake Brett Bear for our friend Jesse or somebody
like that. Brett Bear is as down the middle as
they come. And so yeah, I don't think that angry
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approach to Brett bhar that the kind of raised voice,
even yelling at him, I don't think that helped her
cause it all, I don't think Americans. There are a
lot of Americans who aren't going to want, you know,
four years of that kind of approach, particularly when you
don't get the great things that come with it. I
mean Donald Trump. He can have a strong personality, right,
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he can color outside the lines sometime on the personal stuff,
but he's delivered. Americans have seen him in office, They've
seen all the great things he accomplished. They know their
lives were better under Trump, so they can put up
with some of that personality stuff. They don't like, Harris.
All they've seen is awfulness out of this Biden administration.
And on top of that, they're going to get that
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kind of approach to things. No, not an attractive, attractive
policy slash personality combo. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
Why if he's as bad as you say that half
of this country is now supporting this person who could
be the forty seventh president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Why is that happening?
Speaker 10 (28:10):
This is a little election for president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
It's not supposed to be.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
Easy, I know, but it's not supposed to be It
is not supposed to be a king Misgott. I would
never say that about the images.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Beautiful beautiful point by Brett bhar And you'd have to
get the full flow, right, I mean, if you haven't
heard the full interview yet. And my guess is you've
been at work have not had the chance to you
got to see the whole thing, because Bear, I'm just
telling you, he was masterful, obviously very well prepared. Everybody
knows her. Am Oh, she's going to come in and
try to stall and run the clock out and duck
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the tough questions. And he did the best he possibly
could under the circumstances. And she wouldn't answer these tough
direct questions, which I think hurt her the most. But
then her tone and the way she started getting openly angry,
which is so contrary to this contrived brand they've been
trying to float as the Vibes campaign. Yeah, that's why.
According to Brett Bhair and he can be believed, there
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were four of her staff members waving their arms that
the interview had to stop immediately, and they only got
thirty minutes to begin with. So I think Brettbaar the
big winner today, right because I had said, and I
hope others said said, no, he's going to do a
real good job for a lot of reasons, including the
fact that hey, he's a smart guy, he's self interested,
(29:33):
he knows his careers on the line right now in
terms of how he's perceived by the Fox News audience
and others. And I think he did himself a tremendous
service today. More importantly, he did the country a tremendous
service because he was firm but fair. He allowed the
truth to be seen and experienced by all, and the
truth went far beyond her answer to any particular question.
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That's a public service, makes it less likely she's going
to be president. Whereas the political operators who posed as
moderators for both ABC and CBS in the presidential and
VP debate, they did a great disservice to America because
they protected one of the candidates from one of the
parties while trying to attack the other party. That's a
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grave disservice to America that ironically and poetically ended up
backfiring on them and helping the Republican and hurting the Democrat.
Eight five for five eight two five to five. The
number will take some more calls and text, and this
really remarkable afternoon. I think one thing that one hundred
percent of honest people should be able to agree on
(30:38):
is that she only went on Fox because she's desperate.
She only went on Fox because she knows she's losing,
So we'll just start with that heartwarming thought. And in fact,
Fox's own poll today kind of bore that out. And
I think you already know that Fox's poll tends to
lean left. It tends to be trending a bit left
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of where many of the other polls are a bit
more in Harris's favor. In this one, she'd lost four
points in a short period of time. She went from
up to to down two in the Fox polling, which
I think is consistent with what we have seen from
her in terms of performance. As she comes out and
people start to see more of her in these interviews,
they don't like it. And then on top of that,
(31:23):
President Trump has been you know, he's a great closer.
He hasn't been perfect, but what human ever has been.
But he's a very good closer. He's been everywhere at once,
and he's been doing a lot of things well. Dan
Harris going on Fox News with Bear was a complete
active desperation. Their internal polling much beeit. It must be
much worse than we believed previously. You know, you can
(31:46):
find polls all over the map right now, but the
trend line, the consensus trend line, yeah, I think is
that this thing is now moving slowly but steadily toward Trump,
including in the swing States. And as we go micro
tomorrow into some more really interesting detail, it's going to
circle back to one thing I promised you in the beginning,
(32:06):
which was that Harris would lose the Catholic vote big.
I mean, she must, right. I mean, first of all,
she's been blatantly hostile to Catholics. I mean, what else
can you call it when you've got a judicial nominee
who's eminently qualified, and she's going after the nominee on
their membership and the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic service society,
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which is as good as it gets, Yeah, I mean,
And so there's every reason to believe she would lose
the Catholic vote big. And normally, whoever wins the Catholic
vote is going to win. Now, Joe Biden was able
to hold onto just enough of the Catholic vote because
he marketed himself as Catholic. She can't do that, and
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so there's every reason to believe she's going to run
well behind Biden in the Catholic vote. And if the
Catholic vote had been a bit different, than twenty Biden
loses by lot. So the simple fact. And remember the
Catholic vote is particularly prevalent in the Blue Wall as
well as some other swing states, and so we'll get
into some of those numbers tomorrow. And she's in big
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trouble there, and I think it's just getting worse for her.
Dear Kamala, you keep saying turn the page. You've been
holding the book for three and a half years. Yeah,
Brett did make that point today, as you would expect,
and she did not respond to that. Well, Dan, I
wish I could see Kamala leaving that interview. I bet
you was pod and blaming her staff. Yeah, you would
not want to be your staff tonight. And now that
(33:36):
Fox is reporting four of her staff members, they are
waving their arms to stop the interview. I think that's
as clear as it gets. So Wow, what a moment
to be alive. What a moment we're living through right now.
And we'll continue to follow up on all of this
tomorrow and much more. Ran deep thoughts as we wrap
this one up.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
I think that one as well as it could for
Donald Trump, that interview for Kamala Harris, and I don't
think she'll recover from it.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yeah, Yeah, it's And I do think there was such
a telling moment today when Brett Bhar played that spot
that's been devastating her, which is why it's playing everywhere
every week. Of her saying that she's leading the way
to use taxpayer funds for sex change operations for prisoners,
Brett Behar gave her a chance to step back from
(34:25):
that to say she's changed her position on that, just
as she's changed your position on many other things. She
would not do that. She would not change her position
on that, And I think that just confirms my belief
that she knows she's likely to lose, and she's looking
ahead to a life after this presidential race, and she's
trying to preserve that constituency. Zach, great job. Thank you,
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my friend Ryan, you as well, Kelly. Thank you. Join
us tomorrow please,
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind,
and to subscribe, download, and listen to the show every
single day on your favorite podcast platform. She saw something
really extraordinary, and I'm blessed to be on air about
thirty years now, been a trialer about forty years. That
(00:21):
was by far the single best interview I've ever seen conducted.
Brett Baer was masterful under very difficult circumstances. When you have,
excuse me, a sitting vice president, so you can only
be so firm, right, it's a sitting vice president, but
clearly intending to avoid and evade and not answer direct questions.
(00:41):
And when Bear appropriately interrupts, she actually and CNN describes
it as getting heated. She got heated with him, so
in addition to talking over him, she did so in
an angry kind of way, which leads to the question
where did the joy go? But in avoiding these fair
tough questions, I think she did herself tremendous damage. A
(01:02):
couple of quick notes before we go to our firing
lines and text as well on this some of the
questions she did respond to. I think she really hurt
herself and a couple in particular. I won't get to
all of them here. I want to get to callers,
but the beauty and I hope Trump turns this into
a spot instantly is Bear came back. When she was filibustering,
(01:24):
she wouldn't answer direct questions on immigrations, such as, Okay,
how many ilegals have come in on your watch? Why
did you reverse so many of Trump's border policies that
allowed this to happen? And then she filibusters blaming Republicans,
you know, the drill. But then Bear was ready and
he came back and he said, well, why did the
border patrol then endorse Trump? And her response to that
(01:46):
an instant classic. I get it, I get it. And
then she went on to say they're frustrated, etc. But
when you say you get the border patrol endorsing Trump,
that's an instant spot. And then Bear again it did
a brilliant job of pinning her down. He played the
spot that we've been talking about on our air. It
was the first of all of her wacko statements we
(02:07):
played on air when she was installed as the nominee
taxpayer funding for sex change operations for prisoners. He played
the spot and she wouldn't back off it. She wouldn't
change her position on that. Fascinating, and we'll talk about
why why you think she didn't take advantage as this
the opportunity to say, oh no, that's another one of
my positions I've changed. She wouldn't do that, and I
(02:29):
think that does her great harm because you know, she
was complaining about how much money Trump has spent on
the spot. Yeah, she knows that amount, and she's complaining
about it because the spot is devastating. And I think
that's showing up in the polling, including the Fox polling,
which had a four point flip. And Fox is a
left leaning pole, had Trump down to in the last poll,
(02:50):
now has him up to. Let's go to what You
Talk Kansas. We'll start with Mack here on the Dan
Kaplis Show. Welcome Mack, Hey, Dan and Ryan.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I really enjoy your show. Been listening since twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Nice, thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I've got just basically one comment. I think Brett Bair
did a really good job, and I think that he
was channeling the great Jim Russers because if you recall
Tim Russell, when he interviewed people from either side of
the aisle, would take a clip that someone had said before,
(03:25):
sometimes years before, any would put them right there and
they have to answer their own words.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, no, you're right. I have beautiful observation, Matt. That
is a great observation, my friend. Thank you and appreciate
the call. I hope you become a frequent caller. So nice, Matt.
Going back to twenty ten with the show in Denver,
it's Eric. You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Welcome, Hey you great America.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Eric.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
How you doing, my friend?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Okay, my brother, you stole.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
My word because you did a masterful job breaking down
the interview. Thank you with Kamala Harris. But I have
to I have to stress to you because I heard
a lot of smacking in this, a lot of slurring.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I think Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
As high as heck, and she gets bold and brave,
and she used you know, our great President Trump that
I love as an OUTCRD for not answering rich questions. Uh, Dan,
you think that's going to work for oh my god,
(04:29):
no no, And then you know what, it's not going
to work for her? Is that? And you had.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Told us all along, Kamala Harris, she started, she's starting
from the from the end, you know, of the race.
What she's doing now, she should have did at the beginning,
so to speak.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
And why do you know that she was going to fail?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, that's why they put her in the basement, right
because they knew it would hurt the campaign.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, she was just.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Wondering to how much jan or vodka or whatever that
she can consume to.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Be brave enough to go on with Brent Baer.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
And before I let you go, I love Jeff Hunt. Okay,
I've been I've been.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
To a lot of his state.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
He loves he loves you like a brother too. I mean,
I am grateful for and he wants you the one
for governor.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
He keeps saying that that boy coming from Jeff, that
means a lot to me. Eric, Thank you, man. I
really appreciate that call every day. Thank you.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I really love hearing from Eric. Uh listen personally, Do
I think she was under the influence of anything today? No,
I don't. I understand why a lot of people out
there have raised the question on other occasions as to
you know, whether there might be some added exuberance.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
What about Kelly's theory that maybe they gave her his NX, see,
I that's for anxiety.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I did not see that in today's interview. I mean
I've seen him. We've all played a lot of tape
where there's a fair question as to Okay, did she
start the weekend earlier not? Or is this you know,
is this some other issue that she has, right? I mean, personally,
I don't think we can ever know the answer to that.
For me, it's just proof that she doesn't have the
kind of intellect you need in a president. Today, I
(06:25):
think their mo was clear. They were going to stall,
they were going to run out the clock, and the
whole point of her coming on was to do two things.
One is be able to say she came on Fox,
but but also to be tough and angry and hope
that was interpreted as strength. I think that was the
mo for today, right, because, as I've been talking about
(06:46):
forever on this show, she is properly perceived, properly perceived
I think in every quarter, and it's hurting her, particularly
with men, properly perceived as weak because she is. It
has nothing to do with gender, has nothing to do
with anything other than her. She is the epitome of weakness.
Trump is the epitome of strength. And so I think
(07:08):
her plan was go on Fox and be angry and
interrupt and heated and yell and hope that's taken his strength.
I don't think that's going to work for her with
the people who get to decide the election. I compare
it as we go to our text and back to
the phones, very much to the debate, because the debate,
everybody said, oh, Kamala Hurst one, you know, stylistically she
(07:29):
was better than Trump, this or that. I came out
of the debate and said, wait, she lost. If your
measure of success is doing what you have to do
to win the presidency, she did not do in the
debate what she had to do to win the presidency,
and that's why she finds herself in a desperate situation. Now.
So she comes on this Fox News interview and yeah,
(07:49):
she stalled, and yeah she was angry and you know,
interrupts Brett Barrett c But she refused to answer fair
direct question. So if the goal of this interview was
to win the election by convincing the persuadables, I think
that backfired on her, because if you don't answer fair
(08:11):
direct questions, what reaction do you think truly undecided people
are going to have. It's not going to be a
good one. It's going to be that's just flat disrespectful.
They have questions they want answered. Brett Beaar was asking them,
and she was refusing answer. Not a formula for success, Dan,
will the Dems try to sub Biden back in after
this Kamala disaster? That from Alexa? No, I think that
(08:36):
ship has sailed. It is an interesting question we'll kicking
around at some point whether they would be in better
shape right now with Biden than Harris. Do you think
Joe watched this today? Oh yeah, Oh yeah, I think
he absolutely noticed her quote, my presidency will not be
a continuation of the Biden presidency. Yeah, I think he
noticed that. Alexa says, I think Kamala was trying to
(08:59):
be tough and him Trump and vance that did not
come across. Well, you know, I would certainly agree with that, Dan.
What is the world record for least questions answered in
an interview? I think we saw that tied today because
the world record has to be zero, right, but probably
lots of people tie for that record, and Kamala Harris
(09:19):
did today. Dan, I don't think the Brettbear interview moved
the needle either way. The media and or supporters will
be saying she was great and the undecided's are only
going to see favorable soundbites from social media. Interesting perspective.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I think the.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Big unanswerable is is how many persuadables. I don't like
the term undecided right because we're human. It's fluid. For
people who are persuadable, they may already be in one
camp or the other, but they're persuadable, so they're not
truly an undecided. So I use persuadable for truly persuadables
(09:52):
who were watching. I think it's a big negative for
her because they're persuadable because they have unanswered questions. And
I just think it's the way we're wired as humans.
If somebody won't answer a direct question, we don't trust them,
right in a situation like this where they're asking for
something from you, they're asking for your vote, and they
(10:13):
won't answer a direct question that pertains to to voting
and why somebody would vote for somebody. Yeah, I think
that really hurt her with persuadables, And to the Texter's point, yeah,
people who love her already are going to see what
they want, and the people who don't like already are
going to see what they want. But the persuadables, you
better answer their questions. You're going to lose eight five
(10:36):
five or zero five eight two five five. Ye're on
the Dan Capla.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 9 (10:44):
If it's all on the wrong track, that track follows
three and a half years of you being vice president
and President Biden being president. That is what they're saying,
seventy nine percent of them. Why are they saying that
if you're turning the page, you've been in office for
three and a.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Half years and Donald Trump has been running for office.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
The person you know, that's the same as remember Lester
Holt said, you know, when are you going to go
to the border, and she said, I've been to the border.
And he said, no, you haven't been to the border
in paraphrase, and she said, well, I haven't been to
Europe either. I mean, that was wrecked up there with that, right,
And I think it's that sort of thing that, among
(11:26):
other things, really hurt her today. I think some other
things hurt her worse than that. Will continue to mix
in sound from the interview. If you're just joining us,
thank you. We carried in its entirety the interview between
Brett Behar and Kamala Harris. Ten second summary, Bear was masterful.
She came in intending clearly not to answer direct questions,
and came in intending to be heated, intending to be
(11:51):
at times angry, and hope that came across as strength.
I don't think personally it worked for I think certain
things she said were particularly damaged to her, but abobble,
I think what hurt her most was the refusal to
answer the direct questions. Because with persuadables, I think that's death.
They want answers to direct questions. And when a candidate
(12:12):
won't do that, why in the world should the persuadable
vote for that person. We'll get into more detail as
we take calls and texts. Let me get to some
texts before I go back to the callers in no
particular order. Dan, I think you're mistaken if you think
Trump has been answering all the direct questions asked of him. No,
I don't think that at all. But here's the point.
People know Trump, whether they like him or not, they
(12:35):
know him. He was president. That's why I just sit
back and laugh at I'd send the limo for all
these attacks. Oh he's deranged, he's a fascist, he's this,
he's that. Give me. Americans saw him as president. They
know what he did, and then they can decide whether
they want him or not. People have a lot of
questions about Kamala Harris, and so when she refuses to
(12:59):
answer the those questions, I think it hurts her a lot. Plus,
everybody knows Trump has been doing interviews with all sorts
of hostile interviewers for years, and everybody knows that Harris
has been largely hiding in the basement and then eventually
forced out to go on with for the most part,
the Howard Stearns of the world. And then when she
did go on with CBS and the interviewer did a
(13:21):
good job, CBS had to falsify the interview. They had
to doctor the interview to try to make her sound coherent.
Dan going over Twitter right now, the left is saying
that she nailed the interview despite all of his interruptions.
There's no winning. Wait a second, winning doesn't mean getting
the left to be honest. The left is never going
(13:42):
to be honest. What winning means is getting enough people
in the middle to see the truth. And I have
no doubt that's happening. Just look at the polls. And
winning means getting those inclined to vote for Trump so
revved up that they would crawl over glass to vote
for him. And I think this interview today helped him
accomplish that. Also, let's go to beautiful for Collins. Great
(14:05):
win for the Rams last weekend. Tim, you're on the
Dan Kapalas show.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Welcome then, Yeah, I think Bredair did a good job.
And uh, every time I hear Kamala Harris say, let
me be clear, a bit red flag goes up because
that's the last thing you do. And also you may
(14:28):
it laugh. It's uh if you're change the movie the
Ghost get mister Chickens with don knots. You have to
get this speech in the first Yeah, I had to, well,
let me clarify this, and it's just resonated with me.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
This is just such a joke.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
She's afraid to answer the questions. Yeah, that's okay. She's
gonna follow the law when it comes to uh sex
change in prison? What law was there enforced that allowed
(15:07):
her to do it on the guy who killed the
two the man and woman in Florida.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Beautiful point, Tim, Thank you for that, because this may
be where she hurt herself worse today. And the reason
I say that is because Trump has been wisely and
is pack supporters saturating the airwaves with the spot I'm
sure you've seen by now, which is Kamala Harris in
her own words on video bragging about leading the way
(15:36):
to use taxpayer dollars to guarantee sex change operations for prisoners.
That has been the most devastating ad of our political lifetime,
the most devastating ad since the Daisy ad that was
run against Goldwater in sixty four.
Speaker 10 (15:51):
And so.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I think she really hurt herself today when Bear handed
her the chance to back off it and she wouldn't
take it instead of saying no, I don't believe that anymore,
because she's saying that about all the stuff she really believes, right,
why wouldn't she say that about this? I'd love your
take on that. It would have been so easy for
her to say no. Listen, this is another one of
(16:13):
my positions you know that, Hey, I've gathered more information
seeking consensus. No, I wouldn't do that. But by refusing
to say that, refusing to say this is one of
those areas where she's changed, she has dumbled down on it,
and that I think just confirms my point that she knows.
(16:34):
I believe she knows she has likely lost this race.
Nothing is certain right until election day in the days after,
but I think she believes she has likely lost this race,
and what she's looking ahead to now is the next
part of her life and whether she's envisioning having a
talk show, you know, writing a book. She gets a
lot of money for whatever. I think that's why she
(16:57):
wouldn't back off this position today. She knows its political death,
but she's looking beyond this race. Eight five five for
zero five eight two five five the number some more
texts Dan she did interrupt him or did he interrupt her?
I think it was a little of both. It was
but as people watching it all the way through could see,
(17:17):
he only interrupted her when she was refusing to answer
a question, and so she interrupted him in order to
throw off the questioning. So her interruptions of him were
all part of this evasion and I think she also
really hurt herself when she got angry interrupting him. Now,
maybe she thought that would convey strength, but I think
(17:40):
that really undermines kind of this persona she's been trying
to project. So I think any fair minded person watching
could see her point was to evade. Her point was
to evade fair direct questions, and that including interrupting Bear
to run out the clock and avoid those questions. A
Texter says, Dan, what candidate says, I'm going to come
(18:01):
in and do the exact same thing as my predecessor.
I think she answered that question, Well, here's the problem
she asked just a few days ago. She said she
couldn't think of a single thing she would do differently,
and and that's what's out in America's consciousness. So when
she comes in today and says something different than that,
I don't think that helps her. You're on the Dan
Capla Show.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
You're listening to the Dan Caplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
You called Donald.
Speaker 9 (18:27):
Trump, called Donald Trump he's misguided. You say, now he's
he's not well, you say he's mentally not stable.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Let me ask you this, And to interviewers that.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
Joe Biden was on his game that ran around circles
on his staff. When did you first notice that President
Biden's mental faculties appeared diminished?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Joe Biden.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
I have watched from the Oval office to the situation room,
and he has the judgment and the experiment and experience
to do exactly what he has done and making very
important decisions on behalf of the American people. Joe Bibra
will concerns Ruth Joe Biden is not on ballot.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I understand. Yeah, she really hurt herself with that, because
if she's seen that Joe Biden was not incognitive decline,
well then she's proven to either be a liar or
fatally clueless. So in deciding to go with that answer,
I think she really really hurt herself eight five five
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for zero five A two five five text, d A
N five seven seven three nine tremendous text and calls
coming in and want to get to all of those Dan.
If Winnie means not answering questions and speaking over the host,
yes she won. She can't shut her mouth long enough
for him to even get a word in edgewise, which
was her plan, because that way she doesn't have to
(19:56):
answer the question, which makes you wonder why she went on,
because she hurt herself. I believe, in the individual ways
we've discussed, and most dramatically by refusing to answer fair,
direct questions persuadable, that's going to offend them, not going
to gain her support, it's going to lose her support.
(20:16):
But then you step back and you look at the
way she did this, You look at the tone, You
look at the anger. The CNN disguised describes it as
heatedness of her interruptions of bear. That's inconsistent with this
image that she's been trying to project, I believe, a
(20:38):
false image, but inconsistent with the image that her campaign
has really been based on. So I don't know how
that's likely to help her. I believe that this was
calculated to address what they must be seen in their
polling is the single most obvious, glaring, fatal weakness, which
is weakness. And She's correctly perceived as being weak, and
(20:58):
Trump's correctly persued as being strong. That doesn't mean that's
the end of the analysis for each and every voter,
but it's a powerful shaping factor for many. So maybe
this new tone and this this anger and this hot
you know, kind of angry approach they believe is going
to convey strength. I don't think it's going to do that.
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A five five vers five eight two five five the number,
Rosiel in Denver, You're on the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Welcome, Hello Dan. That was an utter waste of arid time,
completely because we already knew she was not going to
answer any of bers questions. He's a fair journalist, and
realistically it just only returned to all Americans that she
is not suitable to be president. So I want people
(21:50):
to know just because they think, well, Trump has this
in the basket right now. No go out and vote anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Oh amen to that, Rosiel, great point, and listen, I
respectfully disagree on one point, and that is yeah, Brett
Baron again, I think it's a single best interview performance
I've ever seen on TV under the circumstances, because remember,
you have a sitting vice president, so you can only
be so firm because of the office. And I think
(22:19):
he was as firm as you could be under those circumstances.
I think he was so tremendously prepared. It reminded me
of trial prep right where he was clearly anticipating the evasion,
the lies, etc. And then he had mapped out how
he would respond to that, and then how he would
respond to the next effort to evade, etc. I thought
(22:40):
he handled it brilliantly. But here's where I would disagree
with their friend Raziel, and that is, it's not a
waste of time when you have a Democrat nominee for
president come onto a show and obviously avoid answering the
questions because just as in a trial, when I'm cross
examining a witness, it is better for me and my client.
(23:03):
It's devastating to the other side when a witness refuses
to answer direct questions. That hurts the witness more than
any answer they could have given because it concedes my
point implicitly and makes the witness look dishonest. And I
think that's how Kamala Harris looked today, So I think
(23:24):
it was a double net negative for her. Text Alexis
says Dan, the joy is long gone for Kamala. I
think that was certainly on display today. That was not
the tone they've built this campaign around Dan to present
the other side. Would you please also run the thirty
minutes of Trump avoiding even more questions and having music
played instead. Texture. I wish you would call the show
(23:47):
because your premise is fatally flawed and I don't know
if you're the innocent victim of the lying media or
if you're just deciding to misrepresent, But please call the
show so we can discuss that. Dan, She's spun in
circles so fast and so hard. Listening to her made
me sick. You know this goes to another really critical dynamic, right,
(24:10):
It's pretty simple maths in winning this race. You know,
she of course both sides fighting for the persuadables, but
so much of it is about whether your voters turn out.
We all know that. But I think an interview like
this does more to ensure that Trump voters will crawl
(24:30):
over glass to vote for him than almost anything else
could now, certainly the way he handled being shot in Butler, Pennsylvania,
I think that already has a level of intensity of
support and dedication. But a performance like this by her
today and just many other things she's done but today,
(24:50):
I think so energizes and intensifies the commitment of those
inclined toward Trump that that's probably the single best thing
to come for him out of that interview. Dan says
a Texter. Oh, my lord, why isn't Brett saying If
Joe Biden is so fit, why isn't he the one
(25:10):
running for reelection? Why did they put you in as
a substitute candidate. You know, I think he didn't go
there because I think that would have been too easy
for I mean, at that point, she just said, Oh,
he's so noble and it was such a personal sacrifice
because he is able to continue, but he knows that
two years from now he might start to fade. Yeah,
(25:32):
So I think that's why he didn't go there. Here's
some more Brett Bear with Kamala Harris today. By the way,
fascinating report Brett Bear saying on Fox that Kamala's staff
was urgently trying to end the Fox interview, and as
we played it, you could hear him refer to that
I'm getting a hard rap. I'm getting a hard rep,
(25:52):
he would say to the VP. But here's what Bear
just added. Quote, I'm talking like four people waving their
hands like it's got stop. Reminds you of was it
Rocky four? Right where the father is throwing the throwing
the towel into the ring to save his son from
being literally killed by Rocky. Sorry if you haven't seen
(26:15):
that one yet, but it's been out maybe ten years
or so. So yeah, anytime you get the staff of
of the Democrat nominee and you know Brett Bear is
not going to exaggerate four people waving their hands like
it's got to stop. You just know they knew how
bad it was for her, and they had to be
most concerned not with the substance of any one response,
(26:38):
though I think there were a few the rare occasions
when she did respond to a question directly where it
hurt her, but to the tone and to her anger
and her overall approach toward him, because nobody is going
to mistake Brett Bear for our friend Jesse or somebody
like that. Brett Bear is as down the middle as
they come. And so yeah, I don't think that angry
(27:03):
approach to Brett bhar that the kind of raised voice,
even yelling at him, I don't think that helped her
cause it all, I don't think Americans. There are a
lot of Americans who aren't going to want, you know,
four years of that kind of approach, particularly when you
don't get the great things that come with it. I
mean Donald Trump. He can have a strong personality, right,
(27:25):
he can color outside the lines sometime on the personal stuff,
but he's delivered. Americans have seen him in office, They've
seen all the great things he accomplished. They know their
lives were better under Trump, so they can put up
with some of that personality stuff. They don't like, Harris.
All they've seen is awfulness out of this Biden administration.
And on top of that, they're going to get that
(27:45):
kind of approach to things. No, not an attractive, attractive
policy slash personality combo. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
Why if he's as bad as you say that half
of this country is now supporting this person who could
be the forty seventh president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Why is that happening?
Speaker 10 (28:10):
This is a little election for president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
It's not supposed to be.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
Easy, I know, but it's not supposed to be It
is not supposed to be a king Misgott. I would
never say that about the images.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Beautiful beautiful point by Brett bhar And you'd have to
get the full flow, right, I mean, if you haven't
heard the full interview yet. And my guess is you've
been at work have not had the chance to you
got to see the whole thing, because Bear, I'm just
telling you, he was masterful, obviously very well prepared. Everybody
knows her. Am Oh, she's going to come in and
try to stall and run the clock out and duck
(28:48):
the tough questions. And he did the best he possibly
could under the circumstances. And she wouldn't answer these tough
direct questions, which I think hurt her the most. But
then her tone and the way she started getting openly angry,
which is so contrary to this contrived brand they've been
trying to float as the Vibes campaign. Yeah, that's why.
According to Brett Bhair and he can be believed, there
(29:10):
were four of her staff members waving their arms that
the interview had to stop immediately, and they only got
thirty minutes to begin with. So I think Brettbaar the
big winner today, right because I had said, and I
hope others said said, no, he's going to do a
real good job for a lot of reasons, including the
fact that hey, he's a smart guy, he's self interested,
(29:33):
he knows his careers on the line right now in
terms of how he's perceived by the Fox News audience
and others. And I think he did himself a tremendous
service today. More importantly, he did the country a tremendous
service because he was firm but fair. He allowed the
truth to be seen and experienced by all, and the
truth went far beyond her answer to any particular question.
(29:56):
That's a public service, makes it less likely she's going
to be president. Whereas the political operators who posed as
moderators for both ABC and CBS in the presidential and
VP debate, they did a great disservice to America because
they protected one of the candidates from one of the
parties while trying to attack the other party. That's a
(30:17):
grave disservice to America that ironically and poetically ended up
backfiring on them and helping the Republican and hurting the Democrat.
Eight five for five eight two five to five. The
number will take some more calls and text, and this
really remarkable afternoon. I think one thing that one hundred
percent of honest people should be able to agree on
(30:38):
is that she only went on Fox because she's desperate.
She only went on Fox because she knows she's losing,
So we'll just start with that heartwarming thought. And in fact,
Fox's own poll today kind of bore that out. And
I think you already know that Fox's poll tends to
lean left. It tends to be trending a bit left
(30:59):
of where many of the other polls are a bit
more in Harris's favor. In this one, she'd lost four
points in a short period of time. She went from
up to to down two in the Fox polling, which
I think is consistent with what we have seen from
her in terms of performance. As she comes out and
people start to see more of her in these interviews,
they don't like it. And then on top of that,
(31:23):
President Trump has been you know, he's a great closer.
He hasn't been perfect, but what human ever has been.
But he's a very good closer. He's been everywhere at once,
and he's been doing a lot of things well. Dan
Harris going on Fox News with Bear was a complete
active desperation. Their internal polling much beeit. It must be
much worse than we believed previously. You know, you can
(31:46):
find polls all over the map right now, but the
trend line, the consensus trend line, yeah, I think is
that this thing is now moving slowly but steadily toward Trump,
including in the swing States. And as we go micro
tomorrow into some more really interesting detail, it's going to
circle back to one thing I promised you in the beginning,
(32:06):
which was that Harris would lose the Catholic vote big.
I mean, she must, right. I mean, first of all,
she's been blatantly hostile to Catholics. I mean, what else
can you call it when you've got a judicial nominee
who's eminently qualified, and she's going after the nominee on
their membership and the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic service society,
(32:29):
which is as good as it gets, Yeah, I mean,
And so there's every reason to believe she would lose
the Catholic vote big. And normally, whoever wins the Catholic
vote is going to win. Now, Joe Biden was able
to hold onto just enough of the Catholic vote because
he marketed himself as Catholic. She can't do that, and
(32:51):
so there's every reason to believe she's going to run
well behind Biden in the Catholic vote. And if the
Catholic vote had been a bit different, than twenty Biden
loses by lot. So the simple fact. And remember the
Catholic vote is particularly prevalent in the Blue Wall as
well as some other swing states, and so we'll get
into some of those numbers tomorrow. And she's in big
(33:14):
trouble there, and I think it's just getting worse for her.
Dear Kamala, you keep saying turn the page. You've been
holding the book for three and a half years. Yeah,
Brett did make that point today, as you would expect,
and she did not respond to that. Well, Dan, I
wish I could see Kamala leaving that interview. I bet
you was pod and blaming her staff. Yeah, you would
not want to be your staff tonight. And now that
(33:36):
Fox is reporting four of her staff members, they are
waving their arms to stop the interview. I think that's
as clear as it gets. So Wow, what a moment
to be alive. What a moment we're living through right now.
And we'll continue to follow up on all of this
tomorrow and much more. Ran deep thoughts as we wrap
this one up.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
I think that one as well as it could for
Donald Trump, that interview for Kamala Harris, and I don't
think she'll recover from it.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yeah, Yeah, it's And I do think there was such
a telling moment today when Brett Bhar played that spot
that's been devastating her, which is why it's playing everywhere
every week. Of her saying that she's leading the way
to use taxpayer funds for sex change operations for prisoners,
Brett Behar gave her a chance to step back from
(34:25):
that to say she's changed her position on that, just
as she's changed your position on many other things. She
would not do that. She would not change her position
on that, And I think that just confirms my belief
that she knows she's likely to lose, and she's looking
ahead to a life after this presidential race, and she's
trying to preserve that constituency. Zach, great job. Thank you,
(34:46):
my friend Ryan, you as well, Kelly. Thank you. Join
us tomorrow please,
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