Dan and Dick Wadhams discuss whether the 90 day sprint to the finish for 2024 will be a battle of attrition between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, with the candidate making the fewest mistakes emerging as the winner.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
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and to subscribe, download and listen to the show every
single day on your favorite podcast platform. Native Americans have
the expression you can never step in the same river twice,
and that certainly applies to this campaign because it changes
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every day. The only constant is Kamala Harris and the
Left must be defeated. So what is that path to victory?
Will continue to dig deeper into that, and the great
news is there's so much sound to put a smile
on your face. I want to get to some poll
results as well. Today one polster claiming that the Harris
surge has now ended, and I'll get you that data
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and we can talk about whether that's reliable or not.
Glad you're here. Glad Dick Watams is here in the house.
If you're new to the state Owndoor planet, and it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Could be both.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Dick is one of the most successful political managers and
consultants Colorado history, won a lot of big races here
and elsewhere also, and so getting his take on how
Trump can get there, you're gonna vote for Trump?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
No, I told you that before, Dan, Really, I'm not. Oh,
you talked to that since all of this, then I'm
telling you January sixth. Then this constant lie about the
lessian ben Stolen. I'm sorry, I'm not gonna vote for
a Democrat. I'm just I'm just not going to. But
that helps Kamala Harris, then I'm not going to. But
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and he's gonna win, He's gonna and Colorado was not
in play. So from that standpoint, that doesn't help Kamala Harrison.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Have you ever seen you see that Kevin Costner movie
Swing State? Did you ever see that movie? I don't
think I haven't Costner. He was kind of down on
his long luck, maybe drinking a little too much.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I think he had lost his job.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And the entire presidential came down to New Mexico as
a swing state, and it was tied. And then they
found that Kevin Costner had voted on times something about
losing his ballot, so he got to decide the presidential election.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So say you're the next Kevin Costner, not going to
vote for him? Then okay, so you would have kamalowe
I voted him twice.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I liked.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I could run through the litany of things he'd accomplished
that I liked. But his behavior on January sixth is
a is a deal killer with me and this and
he is still claiming the election was stolen from him,
and I cannot. I cannot abide by that. I can't,
even if it meant Kamalowas, I cannot abide by that.
I can't. I'm just a man of your kay Obviously
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I disagree with that, But you are a man of
your convictions.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I am on this one.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I am unshakable. Yep. Sorry, I'm just laughing at the
ninety days ahead, right.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I know you.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I know you've devoted your entire life to the conservative
cause in defeating Democrats.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I know your core principals. I know the America you want.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
And that's exactly that ties into it as well when
you've worked I've worked for nine years for a guy
with in them, a US Senator Bill Armstrong. I ran
the campaign to replace him for Senator Hank Brown. I
ran twice. I ran the campaign twice for Senator Wayne Allard.
I ran the only goober edictorial campaign Republican to win
in fifty two years for Bill Owens. I read John
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Thune in South Dakota, Conrad Burns in Montana. When I
have been around the finest in men and an elected
officials and the candidates, I know you don't have to
act like a jerk and try to undermine the political
process by glorifying and saying you're going to pardon a
bunch of people who attack the United States capital. I
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know that I have not won every campaign, and no
one has ever None of the people I worked for
who lost ever said the election was stolen. I can't
tolerate it. And it's a large part because of my background.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
And.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I just can't well, just all of those people who
worked for so admirable.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
But in the end, when it comes to morality, and
I know you to be a profoundly moral person, Donald
Trump's public policy has been infinitely more moral than the Democrats.
I mean that the Democrats stand for I'm not saying
they're evil people, not at all, but they stand for
a lot of really evil policies, policies that have profoundly
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evil impact.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
So does how does that fact?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I'm telling you, you can throw all that at me
you want but January sixth an election stolen election conspiracies,
I can't He's he went too far on that. He
still goes too far. He still says he's going to
pardon the people who attack the capital. He still says
the election was stolen. He hasn't backed off that crap
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at all.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Right, But but Kamala Harrison, the left still say that
that they're they're going to make it legal to kill
those babies right up to the second before they're born.
And they still say, and you know what the litany
would be, you know, so when you weigh the.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Two, Dan, I am. I can tell just sitting there
with me is immovable. I am immovable.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You know what flashes through my mind. I've got this
picture in my mind. And then we'll go to our
jam lines. I wonder why they're jammed.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I don't know. I've got this picture in my mind of.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Dick Attums sitting there in a nice lawn chair a
beautiful fall afternoon. You've got that mallon ballot right in
front of you. You look around, make sure nobody can see,
there are no cameras anything else, and then you fill
in that little circle for Trump and no, maybe not
maybe that's just a fantasy of mine. Anyway, Hey, lots
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to talk about. Let me go to the phone lines.
But I did want to ask you about this. Yeah,
if you just joined us, thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
News of the day.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Lots of leaks confirming what I've been predicting that Josh
Shapiro will be Harris's VP nominee. So we've just been
kicking around. Can Trump still win Pennsylvania with Shapiro as
the VP nominee? I believe that he can, in part
because of the tight bond I think between people in
Pennsylvania and Trump, because of his heroism during the assassination attempt,
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in part because of stuff like this from Harris. And
of course she'll say, oh no, I've changed, but nobody's
going to believe it.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
No colt, just stuff like that. But the Shapiro thing is,
we go to the phone lines nationwide, Dick, is is
Shapiro going to be Swing States?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I guess that's all that matters?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Is he going to be more of a plus or
a miner? So it'll be a plus for then there
are only for the Harris campaign. There are only three
states that matter, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. And Frankly, if
he's put on the ticket, if he ever deviates those
three states, he should They would be misusing him because
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she has to carry all three of those to win
the presidency. And remember that those three states selected Trump
in twenty sixteen, they defeated Trump in twenty twenty, and
they're going to Terman the next president in twenty twenty four.
And that's just all there is to it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
And now, if the model holds, does Trump need more
than one of those?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
No, Actually, he just frank and well, that's assuming he
carries North Carolina. That's assuming he carries Arizona and Nevada.
And Georgia is a toss up as well. So yeah, yeah,
so Trump, I mean a lot of different models he
could rine with. Just Trump actually has an advantage in
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the electoral college. He does. Yeah yeah, Jay and wheat
Ridge are on the dan kapla sho welcome all.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
Right, An Briefly, this just came up in my mind.
Really wasn't where I was going. But J six most
of that has been debunked. They put together so many
edited tapes and everything else to use that as any
excuse against Trump is so weak there's not even.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
A way to express that.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
So there's that. But I do have a question, when
did Colorade turned so hard left?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Now that's a great Can you point to a tipping
point moment when that happened?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, as I walked through, it didn't happen overnight, but
starting around twenty ten twenty eleven, we had the explosion
of people moving to Colorado. That's how we got the
eighth Congression of district. And since twenty eleven, eight hundred
thousand people moved to Colorado. These the majority of these
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people are younger, they're more liberal, especially socially liberal, and
over time, they've changed the Colorado electorate over that period
of time, and we used to be reliably a third Republican,
a third Democrat, a third unaffiliated. For decades, that was
the thing. Sometimes there'd be more Republican, sometimes more in affiliated,
sometimes more Democrats, but basically we were a third, a third,
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a third. Over the last twelve years thirteen years, the
electorate has now dramatically changed. Didn't happen overnight, but it has.
Now nearly half of the Colorado electorate are unaffiliated voters
twenty seven percent are Democrats and about twenty three percent
of Republicans. And frankly, as we've seen an election result
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since twenty sixteen, and in polling, we know that those
that nearly fifty percent of the electorate that's unaffiliated, they
are more liberal. But then more importantly, they don't like
Donald Trump. And I know that's going to inflame people
who are on this station today, but the fact of
the matter is they don't like Donald Trump. Trump lost
Colorado by fourteen points five years ago. Four years ago.
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He might narrow that gap to some extent, but that's
when Colorado started changing. Now, I'm sure the premise and
the facts I just laid out will we rejected because
I do not agree with the caller around January sixth.
It has not been debunked at all. I don't know
what new sources you read, but I strongly disagree with
you on that.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
K Thank you for that great question. We do have
to hit this hard break. But Dick, before we hit
the brake, how much of that big demo shift do
you think was due to legalization marijuana? And I know
that vote happened in twelve, he kicked in in fourteen,
but remember twenty ten is when the dispensary model kicked in,
which was essentially legalized marijuana storefronts, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, no, I should mention that then, because marijuana legalization
did bring it started some of the migration into the Colorado.
That's thank you, hey a lineser jam.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
We're going to get to everybody on the phone lines
to get to a red hot text as well, and
some more Kamala harrisound. That'll put a smile on your face.
If like me, you want Trump elected, you're on the
Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Podcastes that we have to build a wall across our
southern border because there are Terrists who are trying to
invade the country.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It couldn't be farther from the truth.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Oh my lord, Trump has got to raise a billion
dollars to put all of this in spots saturate the
swing state.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
But how do you pick right?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I mean, there have been plenty of campaigns where if
you had one or two of those, you say, thank
you lord. There must be twenty or thirty of these
and we're just getting started. Dick Wadhams in studio thanks
to everybody jamming the phone lines. I do want to
get to some Texters as well.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I'll do that quick. And it's fascinating to me because
Dick's nickname.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Is Rod Lightning Rod, and so we've got textures on
both sides of this, but positive text about Dick Dan.
I have so much respect for Dick based on what
he just said in his convictions between Trump or Kamala,
I'll vote for Trump, but that's because I don't vote
on a single issue. He wins in the aggregate, aggregate,
which I believe must be taken into account. Dan, I
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really want to know who Dick thinks attacked the Capitol
when the federal police invited the men and escorted them
through the Capitol. Another Texter. I love this guy or gal?
It's a guy, Andy Dan. A man cannot step into
the same river twice. He was quoting me on that,
and I was quoting a Native American scholar. Politicians have
shown that they can step into the same pile of
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feces twice. That from a handy Dan. The only people
that give a crap about Trump is his base, and
he doesn't have anybody in the middle, and he can't
win with his base that is so provably false. I mean,
you look at virtually every poll out there, and yeah,
Harris is on a sugar high right now, but Trump
still pulls very significant percentages of unaffiliateds et cetera. I
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think Dick, because they're an awful lot of people who
they look at the positives and they say they so
far outweigh the negatives and they just really really like him.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You've got another group.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Of people who may disdain him, but they're still going
to vote for him because it's in their best interests.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, thank you for that enthusiastic
endorsement of my theory. Let's let's go to Keith in
Denver here on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 9 (12:52):
Welcome, Hey Dan, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
So I have a question for Dicks.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
We know what you would do with the other four
gentlemen who guys got into it together. Talking about numbers. So,
if we've got fifty percent that are unaffiliated and twenty
three percent that are Republican, how many of those people
are actually voting? What is our turnout?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Well, turnout it really hasn't been a problem. It's been
you could it be higher, It's always could be higher.
But one of the problems in this election is that,
as I said earlier, we have a Colorado Republican Party
that has nothing in place to try to maximize the
Republican turnout. But frankly, with mail and balloting, which was
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by the way, voters like a turnout, has not really
been that big a problem. The biggest problem is we've
got a half of the electorate that the vast majority
of that half of the electorate does not like Donald Trump.
And it's shown in election results going back to twenty sixteen.
And that's just the brutal truth, and people who want
to deny that, they're denying reality.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Right.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
But Dick, let me.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Ask you, OK, take a tremendous candidate, excuse me, like
John Kellner.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, exactly exactly. I think John did better than our
other candidate, wonderful candidate, but he still lost.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
So did John lose in Colorado because of Donald T? Yes,
he did, Dan, And that's the Trump We had an
outstanding ticket in twenty twenty two. We had the Joe O'Day.
I know you disagreed with him on abortion, but he
was a he was a solid candidate, ran a lot
of raised a lot of money, John Kellner for ag
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we had Pam Anderson for Secretary of State, we had
we had outstanding candidates up and down the ticket, but
it didn't make any difference. That's and that's the thing,
because when these voters saw Republican on the ballot, they
saw Donald Trump and they voted accordingly. And I mean,
people can be upset by that, they can try to
refute me on that, but that is the brutal truth.
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And in twenty twenty, Corey Gardner lost by nine points
when Trump was losing by fourteen, Tory actually ran five
points ahead of Trump and still lost by nine.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Now, and that's why I go back to the calendar example.
And I'm biased, right because we're friends, and I've said
on area I thought that he was one of the
great candidates we've ever had in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I agree, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
So the question then becomes, what has to change in
Colorado for great candidates like that to be able.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Well, let me tell you there is one. There is
a source of optimism that we should talk about. In
twenty twenty three, remember we had Proposition AHG on the ballot.
It went down by twenty points. Now, of course that
wasn't any there was no Trump factor, nothing. People went
in and they voted by twenty points. They killed Proposition
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eh AGE, which was essentially a property tax increase. What
that told me, Dan, is that these new people who
moved to Colorado, well, they are socially liberal, they are,
but they are still they are still kind of maybe
right of center on fundamental tax and budget questions. And
if we can ever get past their opposition to Trump,
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that we can put failed strong candidates like Calender and
we have a shot at winning elections on the issues.
Right now, we can't even get to the issues. And
that's the trouble. We're in the challenge right now. Anthony
and Longmont, you're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Hi just Anthony, Yes, Hi, very good, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Hey.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
I wanted to say that I'm very impressed with Nick
Wadham's bravery. I voted for Trump in twenty twenty I'll
vote for him in twenty twenty four. But I think
he has a pathologically narcissistic personality. I don't think he
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ran for president because she's such a great person. I
think he has good points. I think he did it
as another ego boost. It's like another trophy on the shelf.
He's been a live with his entire life, except for
you know, friends of the Clintons. If you if you
criticize the religion of our Lord and Savior, Donald Trump,
we called him Rhino. I never vote a Republican in
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my life. Of detested the Clinton she was friends with them.
He supported Hillary.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
He was on the impeached Bush bandwagon. If you're a
good Christian Conservative and praise the Lord and buy a
Trump Bible. He was at the opening night of Studio
fifty four, sixty four, Studio sixty four in New York City,
which was it was like the mecca of cocaine and sodomy,
which if you're into that beautiful natural you know. But
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he's he's a clown. He's a narcissist, and he's a
lesser of to evils. And I'm gonna vote for him.
But I actually love Dick Wabam's points and in which
people people are buying into a massively gifted salesman.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Hey, Anthony, the music means working hard. I know, thank
you for your call. I do when we come back,
I want to do a couple of things. I want
to talk about one thing that happened last night that
should really scare everybody and is likely Kamala Harris's best
chance to win. I also want to disagree with Anthony,
and I'll make a very concrete point. I think proving
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a depth of character and selflessness on the part of
Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
You're on the Dan Captash, you're listening to the Dan
Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Kamala Harris is inspiring and very capable.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
The more people get to know her, they're going to
be particularly impressed by her ability.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Nonpartisan gum Track has rated you as the most liberal senator.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
I am prepared to get rid of the filibuster.
Speaker 10 (18:43):
To pass agree the view.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
There's no question I'm in favor of banning Track.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Would you ban off Sword early?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (18:47):
What is the solution for voters in the fossil.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
Fuel emser giving the workers an ability to transition.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
We're not going to treat people who are undocumented cross
borders promos as brat.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Raise your head if you've been to be a civil effects.
Speaker 9 (19:01):
Rather than a cline across the border without documentation.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Abolish ice. Yeah, that a position you agree with, and
we need to probably think about starting from scratch outdated.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
It is wrong headed thinking to think that the only
way you're going.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
To get communities to be safe is to put more
police office to signy street, Like.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Do you support changing the dietary guidance because.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
Yes, you know the flor parent Yes, reduced red meat specifically, yes.
People who are convicted in prison, like the Boston Mayorican
bofice on.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Death Road, people who are convicted of sexual assault, they should.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Be able to vote.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I know we should have that conversation.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
We have to have a buyback program, and I support
a managatory buyback program.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So for people out there who like their insurance, they
don't get to keep it.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Let's eliminate all of that.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Let's move on.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
I'm opposed to any policy that would denying any human
being public health period.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
The more people get to know her, they're going to
be particularly impressed by her ability.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Well that's how you defeat Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, she is by far the most openly radical demnominee
we have ever seen. Tick tell me if I'm wrong,
as we go back to our gym lines, But all
of these Democrats, those who do win the presidency in
our lifetime, they've only won by pretending to be moderates.
She can't even pretend there's so much out there on her.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You're right, no, no, she is the most liberal, was
the most liberal senator, and the public record is full
of it.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah, and as we go back to the phone lines,
it's one thing to say most liberal senator, and I
think that's an important point. Well, when you start to
get into the specifics her screaming upset about people saying
Mary Christmas and all this other crazy far left stuff,
she says, let's go to Castle Rock talk to Jim.
You're on the Dan Kaplis Show. Welcome, Hello, Jim, hm.
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Jim may have taken a pause. We'll come back to that.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
How can you pass on a call from Livermore Murray?
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Hey, thanks, Yeah, I've just been listening. I'm involved just
as a fourth generation native Colorado and one in my
political responsibility, but it was a delegate two years ago.
I'm just going to say, people spend too much time
arguing over personalities instead of capturing the patriotic principles behind
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the constitution. That's what most of the show's been today.
You know, trum given to do this, and Trump did
into that. He's your candidate, and he's your candidate for
a reason. He has patriotic principles and that's why people
were going to vote for him. The other thing I
like to say real quickly is everybody says, oh, fraud, fraud,
we didn't lose the election. Well you know what was
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man Terry's name. I can't beat your name? Oh Mark Levin.
He says, you can't find fraud. What is still into
the system. So when I was a doctor, we all
agreed that the election was stolen. You need to get
the fraud out of the system. And that's all I
need to say.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Lurie, appreciate the call, Thank you, my friend. I think
Donald going to win for a number of reasons, but
in the end, keep it simple, right, strength versus weakness.
Trump equals peace, Harris equals war, Harris San Francisco radical.
I think Trump's gonna win for those core structural reasons
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in this campaign as long as he stays focused on
Kamala Harris eight five five for zero five A two
five five the number on a policy level. Let's go
to Justin in Littleton. You're on the Dan Kapla Show
with Dick Wadams.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Welcome justin.
Speaker 11 (22:33):
A couple of things. First thing, Dick was brought something
interesting about the unaffiliated. I know, the long Colority used
to be you couldn't vote a primary unless you're affiliated.
What if we brought that back and made the change
lengths longer? Would that help?
Speaker 6 (22:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I mean.
Speaker 11 (22:52):
Mix is wrong, but you know, we need some ideas
that we'll get something done right.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I'm not sure why that would help. Telling affiliates we
don't want you voting in primaries anymore. How would that help?
Speaker 11 (23:03):
Wouldn't be affiliated, it wouldn't be many affiliated.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Well, but they're unaffiliated for a reason. They don't like
either political party, and I don't know forcing them into something.
They're there the other First of all, they're not going
to be forced into doing that. They'll just vote accordingly.
Uh so, I no, I don't. I don't think that
would work.
Speaker 11 (23:26):
Okay, sekond point real quick? Oh yeah, oh no, go ahead, Yep,
it's a good point. I know it's trash on tick
one in the day. I'm from Colorido too for a
long long time. I'll just summarize what I think people
are saying. They think you might be a little more
of like a George W. Bush and they wanted you
to be modern at least in the last five or
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ten years. Not Trump, but more populous. More modern hip
is the wrong word. I think you know what I'm
talking about. There's this new trend in the Republican Party.
I mean, Trump took it over completely foreseeable future. Do
you disagree with that? I mean, that's the trajectory changed
between twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen, like a U turn almost.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, he did take it over. And look what happened.
We lost control of the the US House of Representatives
and the US Senate. And we did win this We
we did win the House of Representatives back, but we
were supposed to win it by twenty five seats and
we won it by like five. I mean, the electoral
performance of the Republican Party hasn't been all that great
since he won in twenty sixteen. We took a bath
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in eighteen, he lost in twenty. We didn't do as
well as we should have in twenty twenty two, and
and the verdict is out on twenty twenty fourth.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Well, you bet you.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
He owns the Republican Party right now. But I think
the I don't think that that has resulted in overwhelming
dominant victories.
Speaker 11 (24:47):
Not just two names. Yeah, n McCain and Sared Delecto.
I think you know who I.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Mean, No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Who are you talking about? Romney? That was his Twitter age?
Okay whatever, yeah that story you look at it. Oh yeah, yeah, no,
I do, justin you're a great caller, man, call off
and okay, appreciate that, thank you it. You know.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
But on the other side of the scale, Donald Trump
saved democracy in twenty sixteen with this way, and I
don't think there's any doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Can you imagine this US Supreme.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Court, you know, with three liberal justices instead of the
three conservative justices we have, And I mean, I don't
think we'd have our democracy. Look, I think every major
policy issue would be decided by by a liberal dominated
US Supreme Court under the guise of some created constitutional rights.
So I think you saved democracy. I think you also
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energized the GOP and brought new people to the GOP. Now,
and not all are there for the GOP obviously, and
it doesn't transfer to every other candidate out there. But
and I think he has improved the GOP in a
lot of ways. I think the GOP This is the
funny thing, Dick, to hear you come under a tech
you used to be and you still are.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Dick was the original fighter. Back in the days before
the GOP fought, Dick was known as the brawler. Go
back and look at that press.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I mean, Dick was known as the bare knuckle guy
who is out there brawling with Democrats. And you know
why you were known for that, because that's what you did.
And so Donald Trump has taught the GOP to fight now.
I understand he colors outside the lines sometimes, but you
know that's the price of boldness. But you were the
original fighter. And so I think this that the GOP
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is so much better prepared now to brawl and to fight,
which is necessary because don't and I know we're out
of time in this segment, but Dick, don't you think
the left, this secular left that has taken over the
Democratic Party is often so dirty that they just lie
from morning till night, and they are so much tougher
to defeat than old style Democrats. I think Trump has
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done a lot of good then he has. I mean,
I once again, I voted for him twice. I can
recite the litany of things I loved about.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
The immigration, judicial appointments, deregulation, the Abraham Accords. I could
go on and on about what he did. The deal
killers for me were January sixth, and that was not
a fake. And then his incessant And I do not
think that he lost the election because it was stolen
from him. I just I just reject that. But that's
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where he wants to go. That's his decision. Fine, he's
not going to have me with him, but not that
that makes any difference. And we'll come back to our
gem lines.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
But one of the questions I want to post for you,
Oh and I need to deliver on this tease. Give
me twenty seconds to do it. I had teased before
this segment. Something very disturbing happened last night and it
may give Kamala Harris ther best chance to win.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
On the tarmac after welcoming the prisoners, you saw this dick.
Joe Biden walked onto an airplane, climbed up the steps
of an airplane, clearly believing he was boarding Air Force one.
It was a pliny had just come out of There
was no reason to go on the plane. Everybody, including Harris,
stood at the bottom of the steps looking at each other.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
He's gone. He is officially gone. Here's the point.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
And when we come back, let's touch on this increasing
increasing likelihood she is going to be president before election day. Good,
when we come back, I want to hear from you
and everybody else. Will that help or hurt her chances
to win the office? You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
You haven't been reporting, and I haven't been to Europe.
I'm fifty two here on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Glad you're here on this glorious afternoon, you know, just
looking at what's likely to happen here now. And we
watched Biden last night just walk up the steps into
that plane that he had just come out of, clearly
out of it at having no idea what he was doing.
And I'm not saying that, Tamakama. I'm saying that to
be realistic about what's ahead. Just a very very good
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chance that Kamala Harris becomes president before election day. So, Dick,
does that help her in all the obvious ways or
does it hurt her? Because at that point, she can't
hide anymore because clearly right now. Their plan is to
hide her, and when they let her talk for just
twenty seconds last night, it did not go well. So
net plus or minus.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I think it probably helps her because at that point,
she becomes the first black woman president, and I think
that the sense of history would be difficult to overcome
in the general election. So I think although you raise
a good point, Dan, I mean, it could also expose her.
I mean, so with her, it could probably go either way,
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but I kind of tend to come down it would
be an asset to her.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yeah, I think probably maybe a wash, maybe a negative
for But if she becomes president and then there is
a Christ requiring military action, right and she authorizes successful
military action, then I think you've got a game.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Changer for sure.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
But my bigger point is just more and more likely
by the hour that she will become president before election day.
Amber and Denver, you're on the Dan kapla, sh'll welcome.
Speaker 10 (30:19):
Thank gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
How are you living the dream?
Speaker 10 (30:21):
Thank you wonderful. So I just wanted to throw something
out there, how mister Wattam, I've been listening to you
for years and I'm really excited to talk with you.
But something I just want to throw out there, Yes,
Kamala Harris is. She for the most part, presents pretty well.
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She would be the first black woman president if that's
going to happen.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
But I will say this, I am a.
Speaker 10 (30:50):
Black woman too, and I'm not concerned about her color
or her gender. The one color that I am worried
about is green, and that's a lack of money in
my pocket thanks to Democrats in their policies. And I
think that a lot of people are thinking like I am,
that we are sick and tired of being.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Sick and tired.
Speaker 10 (31:15):
I will not vote for her, and there's nothing that
she could say or do.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
To make me vote for her.
Speaker 10 (31:23):
And I know a lot of people in my community
as well as friends, who are thinking the same. We
could care less about her demographics. It's what are you
going to do to help things? What are you going
to do to make things better? And I'm sorry, but
the last four years have been absolutely insane. And I
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don't care what Colder Trump is. He's orange, for Christ's sakes,
or he did more for the black community and black
people than Obama?
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Did you know?
Speaker 10 (31:58):
That's the reason why. And she will get my vote,
and she absolutely will know it.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Amber, Thank you really to appreciate that call. Well, I
agree with what Amber said, Thank you Amber. The fact
is that she is a disaster and and the nation
was much better off under Trump the last those four years,
There's no doubt about it. And the the inflation was
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directly caused by Biden polices. I mean, you're you're right,
and so I can't find any thing to disagree with.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Their Texter Dan and nomally here an affiliated female voter
for Trump, Patty. I don't think that's going to be
an anomaly, Dick. One of the reasons I'm confident Trump
will win is I think, you know, I think they're
going to be an awful lot of let's say, suburban
housewives who who really don't even like him and may
never admit it to anybody, but they're going to vote
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for him because what do moms do? You know, Moms
protect their children, you know, peace through strength, strength versus weakness,
and at the end of the day vote for him
out of self interest.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I think they want many will want to Dan, but
he has every potential to drive them away. And if
he doesn't know, another round of black journalists the conferences
like he just did he will drive those.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Voters away at Patrick and Peblo. Sorry, we're up against
the end of the show, quick thought Patrick.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Well, yeah, I'm kind of disappointed in mister Wadhams. You know,
he's like a lot of these people I talked to
seem to know a lot about January sixth, but don't
know anything about January fifth, and so I suggest you
go find out what happened on January fifth.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
At Patrick, can you just bottom line it for us?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Since for me Dan, he can you bottom line it
for us since we're up against the end of the show.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
The January five stuff.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
Yeah, that's when Trump authorized troops to be at the
Capitol and it was turned down. Okay, there you go.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Patrick, appreciate the calls. Thank you my friend listening on
the Great casesj out of Pueblo.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Richard. It's the end of the show, Thoughts. Hey, it
was fun. Yeah, thanks for being Ryan. I know you've
had a very active week.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
This has been an active week, and what an exclamation
point here at the end. A lot of calls and
a lot of techs.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I cannot wait for what's to come. It is going
to be so wild.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Historic obviously, ginormously important. So what a privilege to be
alive for this, and let's enjoy every minute of it.
Every great weekend. Thank you, appreciate that, Ryan, have a
RESTful weekend for you, Kelly, thanks for everything.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Join us Monday 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. Native Americans have
the expression you can never step in the same river twice,
and that certainly applies to this campaign because it changes
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every day. The only constant is Kamala Harris and the
Left must be defeated. So what is that path to victory?
Will continue to dig deeper into that, and the great
news is there's so much sound to put a smile
on your face. I want to get to some poll
results as well. Today one polster claiming that the Harris
surge has now ended, and I'll get you that data
(00:45):
and we can talk about whether that's reliable or not.
Glad you're here. Glad Dick Watams is here in the house.
If you're new to the state Owndoor planet, and it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Could be both.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Dick is one of the most successful political managers and
consultants Colorado history, won a lot of big races here
and elsewhere also, and so getting his take on how
Trump can get there, you're gonna vote for Trump?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
No, I told you that before, Dan, Really, I'm not. Oh,
you talked to that since all of this, then I'm
telling you January sixth. Then this constant lie about the
lessian ben Stolen. I'm sorry, I'm not gonna vote for
a Democrat. I'm just I'm just not going to. But
that helps Kamala Harris, then I'm not going to. But
(01:31):
and he's gonna win, He's gonna and Colorado was not
in play. So from that standpoint, that doesn't help Kamala Harrison.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Have you ever seen you see that Kevin Costner movie
Swing State? Did you ever see that movie? I don't
think I haven't Costner. He was kind of down on
his long luck, maybe drinking a little too much.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I think he had lost his job.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And the entire presidential came down to New Mexico as
a swing state, and it was tied. And then they
found that Kevin Costner had voted on times something about
losing his ballot, so he got to decide the presidential election.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So say you're the next Kevin Costner, not going to
vote for him? Then okay, so you would have kamalowe
I voted him twice.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I liked.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I could run through the litany of things he'd accomplished
that I liked. But his behavior on January sixth is
a is a deal killer with me and this and
he is still claiming the election was stolen from him,
and I cannot. I cannot abide by that. I can't,
even if it meant Kamalowas, I cannot abide by that.
I can't. I'm just a man of your kay Obviously
(02:35):
I disagree with that, But you are a man of
your convictions.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I am on this one.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I am unshakable. Yep. Sorry, I'm just laughing at the
ninety days ahead, right.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I know you.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I know you've devoted your entire life to the conservative
cause in defeating Democrats.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I know your core principals. I know the America you want.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
And that's exactly that ties into it as well when
you've worked I've worked for nine years for a guy
with in them, a US Senator Bill Armstrong. I ran
the campaign to replace him for Senator Hank Brown. I
ran twice. I ran the campaign twice for Senator Wayne Allard.
I ran the only goober edictorial campaign Republican to win
in fifty two years for Bill Owens. I read John
(03:19):
Thune in South Dakota, Conrad Burns in Montana. When I
have been around the finest in men and an elected
officials and the candidates, I know you don't have to
act like a jerk and try to undermine the political
process by glorifying and saying you're going to pardon a
bunch of people who attack the United States capital. I
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know that I have not won every campaign, and no
one has ever None of the people I worked for
who lost ever said the election was stolen. I can't
tolerate it. And it's a large part because of my background.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
And.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I just can't well, just all of those people who
worked for so admirable.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
But in the end, when it comes to morality, and
I know you to be a profoundly moral person, Donald
Trump's public policy has been infinitely more moral than the Democrats.
I mean that the Democrats stand for I'm not saying
they're evil people, not at all, but they stand for
a lot of really evil policies, policies that have profoundly
(04:20):
evil impact.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
So does how does that fact?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I'm telling you, you can throw all that at me
you want but January sixth an election stolen election conspiracies,
I can't He's he went too far on that. He
still goes too far. He still says he's going to
pardon the people who attack the capital. He still says
the election was stolen. He hasn't backed off that crap
(04:43):
at all.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Right, But but Kamala Harrison, the left still say that
that they're they're going to make it legal to kill
those babies right up to the second before they're born.
And they still say, and you know what the litany
would be, you know, so when you weigh the.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Two, Dan, I am. I can tell just sitting there
with me is immovable. I am immovable.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You know what flashes through my mind. I've got this
picture in my mind. And then we'll go to our
jam lines. I wonder why they're jammed.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I don't know. I've got this picture in my mind of.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Dick Attums sitting there in a nice lawn chair a
beautiful fall afternoon. You've got that mallon ballot right in
front of you. You look around, make sure nobody can see,
there are no cameras anything else, and then you fill
in that little circle for Trump and no, maybe not
maybe that's just a fantasy of mine. Anyway, Hey, lots
(05:39):
to talk about. Let me go to the phone lines.
But I did want to ask you about this. Yeah,
if you just joined us, thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
News of the day.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Lots of leaks confirming what I've been predicting that Josh
Shapiro will be Harris's VP nominee. So we've just been
kicking around. Can Trump still win Pennsylvania with Shapiro as
the VP nominee? I believe that he can, in part
because of the tight bond I think between people in
Pennsylvania and Trump, because of his heroism during the assassination attempt,
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in part because of stuff like this from Harris. And
of course she'll say, oh no, I've changed, but nobody's
going to believe it.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
No colt, just stuff like that. But the Shapiro thing is,
we go to the phone lines nationwide, Dick, is is
Shapiro going to be Swing States?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I guess that's all that matters?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Is he going to be more of a plus or
a miner? So it'll be a plus for then there
are only for the Harris campaign. There are only three
states that matter, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. And Frankly, if
he's put on the ticket, if he ever deviates those
three states, he should They would be misusing him because
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she has to carry all three of those to win
the presidency. And remember that those three states selected Trump
in twenty sixteen, they defeated Trump in twenty twenty, and
they're going to Terman the next president in twenty twenty four.
And that's just all there is to it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
And now, if the model holds, does Trump need more
than one of those?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
No, Actually, he just frank and well, that's assuming he
carries North Carolina. That's assuming he carries Arizona and Nevada.
And Georgia is a toss up as well. So yeah, yeah,
so Trump, I mean a lot of different models he
could rine with. Just Trump actually has an advantage in
(07:30):
the electoral college. He does. Yeah yeah, Jay and wheat
Ridge are on the dan kapla sho welcome all.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
Right, An Briefly, this just came up in my mind.
Really wasn't where I was going. But J six most
of that has been debunked. They put together so many
edited tapes and everything else to use that as any
excuse against Trump is so weak there's not even.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
A way to express that.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
So there's that. But I do have a question, when
did Colorade turned so hard left?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Now that's a great Can you point to a tipping
point moment when that happened?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, as I walked through, it didn't happen overnight, but
starting around twenty ten twenty eleven, we had the explosion
of people moving to Colorado. That's how we got the
eighth Congression of district. And since twenty eleven, eight hundred
thousand people moved to Colorado. These the majority of these
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people are younger, they're more liberal, especially socially liberal, and
over time, they've changed the Colorado electorate over that period
of time, and we used to be reliably a third Republican,
a third Democrat, a third unaffiliated. For decades, that was
the thing. Sometimes there'd be more Republican, sometimes more in affiliated,
sometimes more Democrats, but basically we were a third, a third,
(08:50):
a third. Over the last twelve years thirteen years, the
electorate has now dramatically changed. Didn't happen overnight, but it has.
Now nearly half of the Colorado electorate are unaffiliated voters
twenty seven percent are Democrats and about twenty three percent
of Republicans. And frankly, as we've seen an election result
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since twenty sixteen, and in polling, we know that those
that nearly fifty percent of the electorate that's unaffiliated, they
are more liberal. But then more importantly, they don't like
Donald Trump. And I know that's going to inflame people
who are on this station today, but the fact of
the matter is they don't like Donald Trump. Trump lost
Colorado by fourteen points five years ago. Four years ago.
(09:35):
He might narrow that gap to some extent, but that's
when Colorado started changing. Now, I'm sure the premise and
the facts I just laid out will we rejected because
I do not agree with the caller around January sixth.
It has not been debunked at all. I don't know
what new sources you read, but I strongly disagree with
you on that.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
K Thank you for that great question. We do have
to hit this hard break. But Dick, before we hit
the brake, how much of that big demo shift do
you think was due to legalization marijuana? And I know
that vote happened in twelve, he kicked in in fourteen,
but remember twenty ten is when the dispensary model kicked in,
which was essentially legalized marijuana storefronts, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, no, I should mention that then, because marijuana legalization
did bring it started some of the migration into the Colorado.
That's thank you, hey a lineser jam.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
We're going to get to everybody on the phone lines
to get to a red hot text as well, and
some more Kamala harrisound. That'll put a smile on your face.
If like me, you want Trump elected, you're on the
Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Podcastes that we have to build a wall across our
southern border because there are Terrists who are trying to
invade the country.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It couldn't be farther from the truth.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Oh my lord, Trump has got to raise a billion
dollars to put all of this in spots saturate the
swing state.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
But how do you pick right?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I mean, there have been plenty of campaigns where if
you had one or two of those, you say, thank
you lord. There must be twenty or thirty of these
and we're just getting started. Dick Wadhams in studio thanks
to everybody jamming the phone lines. I do want to
get to some Texters as well.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I'll do that quick. And it's fascinating to me because
Dick's nickname.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Is Rod Lightning Rod, and so we've got textures on
both sides of this, but positive text about Dick Dan.
I have so much respect for Dick based on what
he just said in his convictions between Trump or Kamala,
I'll vote for Trump, but that's because I don't vote
on a single issue. He wins in the aggregate, aggregate,
which I believe must be taken into account. Dan, I
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really want to know who Dick thinks attacked the Capitol
when the federal police invited the men and escorted them
through the Capitol. Another Texter. I love this guy or gal?
It's a guy, Andy Dan. A man cannot step into
the same river twice. He was quoting me on that,
and I was quoting a Native American scholar. Politicians have
shown that they can step into the same pile of
(12:03):
feces twice. That from a handy Dan. The only people
that give a crap about Trump is his base, and
he doesn't have anybody in the middle, and he can't
win with his base that is so provably false. I mean,
you look at virtually every poll out there, and yeah,
Harris is on a sugar high right now, but Trump
still pulls very significant percentages of unaffiliateds et cetera. I
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think Dick, because they're an awful lot of people who
they look at the positives and they say they so
far outweigh the negatives and they just really really like him.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You've got another group.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Of people who may disdain him, but they're still going
to vote for him because it's in their best interests.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, thank you for that enthusiastic
endorsement of my theory. Let's let's go to Keith in
Denver here on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 9 (12:52):
Welcome, Hey Dan, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
So I have a question for Dicks.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
We know what you would do with the other four
gentlemen who guys got into it together. Talking about numbers. So,
if we've got fifty percent that are unaffiliated and twenty
three percent that are Republican, how many of those people
are actually voting? What is our turnout?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Well, turnout it really hasn't been a problem. It's been
you could it be higher, It's always could be higher.
But one of the problems in this election is that,
as I said earlier, we have a Colorado Republican Party
that has nothing in place to try to maximize the
Republican turnout. But frankly, with mail and balloting, which was
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by the way, voters like a turnout, has not really
been that big a problem. The biggest problem is we've
got a half of the electorate that the vast majority
of that half of the electorate does not like Donald Trump.
And it's shown in election results going back to twenty sixteen.
And that's just the brutal truth, and people who want
to deny that, they're denying reality.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Right.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
But Dick, let me.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Ask you, OK, take a tremendous candidate, excuse me, like
John Kellner.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, exactly exactly. I think John did better than our
other candidate, wonderful candidate, but he still lost.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
So did John lose in Colorado because of Donald T? Yes,
he did, Dan, And that's the Trump We had an
outstanding ticket in twenty twenty two. We had the Joe O'Day.
I know you disagreed with him on abortion, but he
was a he was a solid candidate, ran a lot
of raised a lot of money, John Kellner for ag
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we had Pam Anderson for Secretary of State, we had
we had outstanding candidates up and down the ticket, but
it didn't make any difference. That's and that's the thing,
because when these voters saw Republican on the ballot, they
saw Donald Trump and they voted accordingly. And I mean,
people can be upset by that, they can try to
refute me on that, but that is the brutal truth.
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And in twenty twenty, Corey Gardner lost by nine points
when Trump was losing by fourteen, Tory actually ran five
points ahead of Trump and still lost by nine.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Now, and that's why I go back to the calendar example.
And I'm biased, right because we're friends, and I've said
on area I thought that he was one of the
great candidates we've ever had in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I agree, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
So the question then becomes, what has to change in
Colorado for great candidates like that to be able.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Well, let me tell you there is one. There is
a source of optimism that we should talk about. In
twenty twenty three, remember we had Proposition AHG on the ballot.
It went down by twenty points. Now, of course that
wasn't any there was no Trump factor, nothing. People went
in and they voted by twenty points. They killed Proposition
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eh AGE, which was essentially a property tax increase. What
that told me, Dan, is that these new people who
moved to Colorado, well, they are socially liberal, they are,
but they are still they are still kind of maybe
right of center on fundamental tax and budget questions. And
if we can ever get past their opposition to Trump,
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that we can put failed strong candidates like Calender and
we have a shot at winning elections on the issues.
Right now, we can't even get to the issues. And
that's the trouble. We're in the challenge right now. Anthony
and Longmont, you're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Hi just Anthony, Yes, Hi, very good, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Hey.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
I wanted to say that I'm very impressed with Nick
Wadham's bravery. I voted for Trump in twenty twenty I'll
vote for him in twenty twenty four. But I think
he has a pathologically narcissistic personality. I don't think he
(16:50):
ran for president because she's such a great person. I
think he has good points. I think he did it
as another ego boost. It's like another trophy on the shelf.
He's been a live with his entire life, except for
you know, friends of the Clintons. If you if you
criticize the religion of our Lord and Savior, Donald Trump,
we called him Rhino. I never vote a Republican in
(17:11):
my life. Of detested the Clinton she was friends with them.
He supported Hillary.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
He was on the impeached Bush bandwagon. If you're a
good Christian Conservative and praise the Lord and buy a
Trump Bible. He was at the opening night of Studio
fifty four, sixty four, Studio sixty four in New York City,
which was it was like the mecca of cocaine and sodomy,
which if you're into that beautiful natural you know. But
(17:38):
he's he's a clown. He's a narcissist, and he's a
lesser of to evils. And I'm gonna vote for him.
But I actually love Dick Wabam's points and in which
people people are buying into a massively gifted salesman.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Hey, Anthony, the music means working hard. I know, thank
you for your call. I do when we come back,
I want to do a couple of things. I want
to talk about one thing that happened last night that
should really scare everybody and is likely Kamala Harris's best
chance to win. I also want to disagree with Anthony,
and I'll make a very concrete point. I think proving
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a depth of character and selflessness on the part of
Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
You're on the Dan Captash, you're listening to the Dan
Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Kamala Harris is inspiring and very capable.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
The more people get to know her, they're going to
be particularly impressed by her ability.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Nonpartisan gum Track has rated you as the most liberal senator.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
I am prepared to get rid of the filibuster.
Speaker 10 (18:43):
To pass agree the view.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
There's no question I'm in favor of banning Track.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Would you ban off Sword early?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (18:47):
What is the solution for voters in the fossil.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
Fuel emser giving the workers an ability to transition.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
We're not going to treat people who are undocumented cross
borders promos as brat.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Raise your head if you've been to be a civil effects.
Speaker 9 (19:01):
Rather than a cline across the border without documentation.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Abolish ice. Yeah, that a position you agree with, and
we need to probably think about starting from scratch outdated.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
It is wrong headed thinking to think that the only
way you're going.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
To get communities to be safe is to put more
police office to signy street, Like.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Do you support changing the dietary guidance because.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
Yes, you know the flor parent Yes, reduced red meat specifically, yes.
People who are convicted in prison, like the Boston Mayorican
bofice on.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Death Road, people who are convicted of sexual assault, they should.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Be able to vote.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I know we should have that conversation.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
We have to have a buyback program, and I support
a managatory buyback program.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So for people out there who like their insurance, they
don't get to keep it.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Let's eliminate all of that.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Let's move on.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
I'm opposed to any policy that would denying any human
being public health period.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
The more people get to know her, they're going to
be particularly impressed by her ability.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Well that's how you defeat Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, she is by far the most openly radical demnominee
we have ever seen. Tick tell me if I'm wrong,
as we go back to our gym lines, But all
of these Democrats, those who do win the presidency in
our lifetime, they've only won by pretending to be moderates.
She can't even pretend there's so much out there on her.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You're right, no, no, she is the most liberal, was
the most liberal senator, and the public record is full
of it.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah, and as we go back to the phone lines,
it's one thing to say most liberal senator, and I
think that's an important point. Well, when you start to
get into the specifics her screaming upset about people saying
Mary Christmas and all this other crazy far left stuff,
she says, let's go to Castle Rock talk to Jim.
You're on the Dan Kaplis Show. Welcome, Hello, Jim, hm.
(20:50):
Jim may have taken a pause. We'll come back to that.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
How can you pass on a call from Livermore Murray?
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Hey, thanks, Yeah, I've just been listening. I'm involved just
as a fourth generation native Colorado and one in my
political responsibility, but it was a delegate two years ago.
I'm just going to say, people spend too much time
arguing over personalities instead of capturing the patriotic principles behind
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the constitution. That's what most of the show's been today.
You know, trum given to do this, and Trump did
into that. He's your candidate, and he's your candidate for
a reason. He has patriotic principles and that's why people
were going to vote for him. The other thing I
like to say real quickly is everybody says, oh, fraud, fraud,
we didn't lose the election. Well you know what was
(21:42):
man Terry's name. I can't beat your name? Oh Mark Levin.
He says, you can't find fraud. What is still into
the system. So when I was a doctor, we all
agreed that the election was stolen. You need to get
the fraud out of the system. And that's all I
need to say.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Lurie, appreciate the call, Thank you, my friend. I think
Donald going to win for a number of reasons, but
in the end, keep it simple, right, strength versus weakness.
Trump equals peace, Harris equals war, Harris San Francisco radical.
I think Trump's gonna win for those core structural reasons
(22:17):
in this campaign as long as he stays focused on
Kamala Harris eight five five for zero five A two
five five the number on a policy level. Let's go
to Justin in Littleton. You're on the Dan Kapla Show
with Dick Wadams.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Welcome justin.
Speaker 11 (22:33):
A couple of things. First thing, Dick was brought something
interesting about the unaffiliated. I know, the long Colority used
to be you couldn't vote a primary unless you're affiliated.
What if we brought that back and made the change
lengths longer? Would that help?
Speaker 6 (22:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I mean.
Speaker 11 (22:52):
Mix is wrong, but you know, we need some ideas
that we'll get something done right.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I'm not sure why that would help. Telling affiliates we
don't want you voting in primaries anymore. How would that help?
Speaker 11 (23:03):
Wouldn't be affiliated, it wouldn't be many affiliated.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Well, but they're unaffiliated for a reason. They don't like
either political party, and I don't know forcing them into something.
They're there the other First of all, they're not going
to be forced into doing that. They'll just vote accordingly.
Uh so, I no, I don't. I don't think that
would work.
Speaker 11 (23:26):
Okay, sekond point real quick? Oh yeah, oh no, go ahead, Yep,
it's a good point. I know it's trash on tick
one in the day. I'm from Colorido too for a
long long time. I'll just summarize what I think people
are saying. They think you might be a little more
of like a George W. Bush and they wanted you
to be modern at least in the last five or
(23:47):
ten years. Not Trump, but more populous. More modern hip
is the wrong word. I think you know what I'm
talking about. There's this new trend in the Republican Party.
I mean, Trump took it over completely foreseeable future. Do
you disagree with that? I mean, that's the trajectory changed
between twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen, like a U turn almost.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, he did take it over. And look what happened.
We lost control of the the US House of Representatives
and the US Senate. And we did win this We
we did win the House of Representatives back, but we
were supposed to win it by twenty five seats and
we won it by like five. I mean, the electoral
performance of the Republican Party hasn't been all that great
since he won in twenty sixteen. We took a bath
(24:30):
in eighteen, he lost in twenty. We didn't do as
well as we should have in twenty twenty two, and
and the verdict is out on twenty twenty fourth.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Well, you bet you.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
He owns the Republican Party right now. But I think
the I don't think that that has resulted in overwhelming
dominant victories.
Speaker 11 (24:47):
Not just two names. Yeah, n McCain and Sared Delecto.
I think you know who I.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Mean, No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Who are you talking about? Romney? That was his Twitter age?
Okay whatever, yeah that story you look at it. Oh yeah, yeah, no,
I do, justin you're a great caller, man, call off
and okay, appreciate that, thank you it. You know.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
But on the other side of the scale, Donald Trump
saved democracy in twenty sixteen with this way, and I
don't think there's any doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Can you imagine this US Supreme.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Court, you know, with three liberal justices instead of the
three conservative justices we have, And I mean, I don't
think we'd have our democracy. Look, I think every major
policy issue would be decided by by a liberal dominated
US Supreme Court under the guise of some created constitutional rights.
So I think you saved democracy. I think you also
(25:38):
energized the GOP and brought new people to the GOP. Now,
and not all are there for the GOP obviously, and
it doesn't transfer to every other candidate out there. But
and I think he has improved the GOP in a
lot of ways. I think the GOP This is the
funny thing, Dick, to hear you come under a tech
you used to be and you still are.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Dick was the original fighter. Back in the days before
the GOP fought, Dick was known as the brawler. Go
back and look at that press.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I mean, Dick was known as the bare knuckle guy
who is out there brawling with Democrats. And you know
why you were known for that, because that's what you did.
And so Donald Trump has taught the GOP to fight now.
I understand he colors outside the lines sometimes, but you
know that's the price of boldness. But you were the
original fighter. And so I think this that the GOP
(26:29):
is so much better prepared now to brawl and to fight,
which is necessary because don't and I know we're out
of time in this segment, but Dick, don't you think
the left, this secular left that has taken over the
Democratic Party is often so dirty that they just lie
from morning till night, and they are so much tougher
to defeat than old style Democrats. I think Trump has
(26:52):
done a lot of good then he has. I mean,
I once again, I voted for him twice. I can
recite the litany of things I loved about.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
The immigration, judicial appointments, deregulation, the Abraham Accords. I could
go on and on about what he did. The deal
killers for me were January sixth, and that was not
a fake. And then his incessant And I do not
think that he lost the election because it was stolen
from him. I just I just reject that. But that's
(27:25):
where he wants to go. That's his decision. Fine, he's
not going to have me with him, but not that
that makes any difference. And we'll come back to our
gem lines.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
But one of the questions I want to post for you,
Oh and I need to deliver on this tease. Give
me twenty seconds to do it. I had teased before
this segment. Something very disturbing happened last night and it
may give Kamala Harris ther best chance to win.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
On the tarmac after welcoming the prisoners, you saw this dick.
Joe Biden walked onto an airplane, climbed up the steps
of an airplane, clearly believing he was boarding Air Force one.
It was a pliny had just come out of There
was no reason to go on the plane. Everybody, including Harris,
stood at the bottom of the steps looking at each other.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
He's gone. He is officially gone. Here's the point.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
And when we come back, let's touch on this increasing
increasing likelihood she is going to be president before election day. Good,
when we come back, I want to hear from you
and everybody else. Will that help or hurt her chances
to win the office? You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
You haven't been reporting, and I haven't been to Europe.
I'm fifty two here on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Glad you're here on this glorious afternoon, you know, just
looking at what's likely to happen here now. And we
watched Biden last night just walk up the steps into
that plane that he had just come out of, clearly
out of it at having no idea what he was doing.
And I'm not saying that, Tamakama. I'm saying that to
be realistic about what's ahead. Just a very very good
(29:04):
chance that Kamala Harris becomes president before election day. So, Dick,
does that help her in all the obvious ways or
does it hurt her? Because at that point, she can't
hide anymore because clearly right now. Their plan is to
hide her, and when they let her talk for just
twenty seconds last night, it did not go well. So
net plus or minus.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I think it probably helps her because at that point,
she becomes the first black woman president, and I think
that the sense of history would be difficult to overcome
in the general election. So I think although you raise
a good point, Dan, I mean, it could also expose her.
I mean, so with her, it could probably go either way,
(29:46):
but I kind of tend to come down it would
be an asset to her.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yeah, I think probably maybe a wash, maybe a negative
for But if she becomes president and then there is
a Christ requiring military action, right and she authorizes successful
military action, then I think you've got a game.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Changer for sure.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
But my bigger point is just more and more likely
by the hour that she will become president before election day.
Amber and Denver, you're on the Dan kapla, sh'll welcome.
Speaker 10 (30:19):
Thank gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
How are you living the dream?
Speaker 10 (30:21):
Thank you wonderful. So I just wanted to throw something
out there, how mister Wattam, I've been listening to you
for years and I'm really excited to talk with you.
But something I just want to throw out there, Yes,
Kamala Harris is. She for the most part, presents pretty well.
(30:43):
She would be the first black woman president if that's
going to happen.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
But I will say this, I am a.
Speaker 10 (30:50):
Black woman too, and I'm not concerned about her color
or her gender. The one color that I am worried
about is green, and that's a lack of money in
my pocket thanks to Democrats in their policies. And I
think that a lot of people are thinking like I am,
that we are sick and tired of being.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Sick and tired.
Speaker 10 (31:15):
I will not vote for her, and there's nothing that
she could say or do.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
To make me vote for her.
Speaker 10 (31:23):
And I know a lot of people in my community
as well as friends, who are thinking the same. We
could care less about her demographics. It's what are you
going to do to help things? What are you going
to do to make things better? And I'm sorry, but
the last four years have been absolutely insane. And I
(31:44):
don't care what Colder Trump is. He's orange, for Christ's sakes,
or he did more for the black community and black
people than Obama?
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Did you know?
Speaker 10 (31:58):
That's the reason why. And she will get my vote,
and she absolutely will know it.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Amber, Thank you really to appreciate that call. Well, I
agree with what Amber said, Thank you Amber. The fact
is that she is a disaster and and the nation
was much better off under Trump the last those four years,
There's no doubt about it. And the the inflation was
(32:25):
directly caused by Biden polices. I mean, you're you're right,
and so I can't find any thing to disagree with.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Their Texter Dan and nomally here an affiliated female voter
for Trump, Patty. I don't think that's going to be
an anomaly, Dick. One of the reasons I'm confident Trump
will win is I think, you know, I think they're
going to be an awful lot of let's say, suburban
housewives who who really don't even like him and may
never admit it to anybody, but they're going to vote
(32:54):
for him because what do moms do? You know, Moms
protect their children, you know, peace through strength, strength versus weakness,
and at the end of the day vote for him
out of self interest.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I think they want many will want to Dan, but
he has every potential to drive them away. And if
he doesn't know, another round of black journalists the conferences
like he just did he will drive those.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Voters away at Patrick and Peblo. Sorry, we're up against
the end of the show, quick thought Patrick.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Well, yeah, I'm kind of disappointed in mister Wadhams. You know,
he's like a lot of these people I talked to
seem to know a lot about January sixth, but don't
know anything about January fifth, and so I suggest you
go find out what happened on January fifth.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
At Patrick, can you just bottom line it for us?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Since for me Dan, he can you bottom line it
for us since we're up against the end of the show.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
The January five stuff.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
Yeah, that's when Trump authorized troops to be at the
Capitol and it was turned down. Okay, there you go.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Patrick, appreciate the calls. Thank you my friend listening on
the Great casesj out of Pueblo.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Richard. It's the end of the show, Thoughts. Hey, it
was fun. Yeah, thanks for being Ryan. I know you've
had a very active week.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
This has been an active week, and what an exclamation
point here at the end. A lot of calls and
a lot of techs.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I cannot wait for what's to come. It is going
to be so wild.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Historic obviously, ginormously important. So what a privilege to be
alive for this, and let's enjoy every minute of it.
Every great weekend. Thank you, appreciate that, Ryan, have a
RESTful weekend for you, Kelly, thanks for everything.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Join us Monday on The Dan Kapla Show.
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