August 26, 2024 • 9 mins
DOES RFK JR. HELP TRUMP ENOUGH? I've got the Daily Caller's Mary Rooke on to discuss whether or not it makes much of a difference along with Kamala's extended press honeymoon. She joins me at 2:30 to chat for a moment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He writes about all kinds of stuff. And initially when
we were going to set this up, we were going
to talk about the DNC, but I swore I would
not talk about it anymore after last week, and she's
got to call him today about the endorsement. I don't
know if it's today or yesterday, about the endorsement of RFK
junior of Donald Trump. And so, Mary, I wanted to
(00:21):
ask you because we kind of talked about it a
little bit when it happened, but I wanted to ask
you if if you think it's going to make that
much of a difference. And I'm kind of the jury
is out on this right, I'm not quite sure if
I'm not quite sure the impact just yet. Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
By the way, thanks for having me on, Mandy. It's
always great to be on. And in fact, I do
I think it's going to make a world of difference.
So if you're looking at these swing state pollings, the
ones that Kennedy's dropping out of, you'll see that he
is getting about five percent of the vote, and they're
saying that there's at least seventy five percent of that
five percent that is being pulled from Trump's voter roles,
(01:05):
and so I think that one it's going to give
Trump a big boost. And then also just him coming
over and telling his followers like, it's time we have
to unite around one candidate, and this is a candidate
to go through.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I think that's going to be huge.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And also I think that a lot of Americans are
forgetting that there's a swath of female voters who are
kind of independent leaning their mothers. They're worried about our
food supply, They're worried about the quality of water, They're
worried about how that's going to affect their kids. When
he talks about infertility in men, when he talks about
(01:37):
infertility and women, and then you think about it. I
have four children, and I think about it all the time.
What kind of world are they going to grow up in?
What's their fertility going to be? Like? How are they
going to be able to have children of their own?
When you have a candidate that cares so deeply about
that and is saying, I here's Donald Trump, and he
is also going to carry this torch with us, I
think that that moves a lot of these female voters
(01:59):
that Trump has been struggling to reach.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
He's great at blue collar workers.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
He's great at talking about immigration, the border of the economy,
but this is one of those aspects that he hasn't
really hit hard enough. And JFK Junior are sorry. RFK
Junior really does, and I think that that's going to
be a big push in his favor. I think that's
something that the Harris camp hasn't even talked about.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I mean, you saw several.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Democrats come out after Kennedy's speech and say, oh, we
need to start a commission, we need to start talking
about this. We need to create a federal commission on
this and really bring this about in Harris's camp.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
And it's a little too late.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I'm sorry, but you've had four years now and as
part of the Biden Harris administration to do anything about it.
You're not You're beholden to the FDA, You're beholden to
the CDC.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
These issues have.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Been long standing and parents want a resolution on it.
And I think that having someone like RFK Junior come
out and say that Trump's going to carry that torch
will be big for him.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I mean, the Democratic Party has been too worried about
ending pregnancies to worry about them actually happening in the
first place, Right, I mean, that's their focus is only
on ending pregnancies and not in making sure that we're
having babies. It's interesting to me, Mary, to your point
that when you talk about it and jd. Vance has
been very open about this, about the need to have
kids and about what having children does in terms of
(03:20):
your worldview of the future. Right, You've got four kids,
I have kids. I worry about what kind of world
I'm leaving my children. And do you think that that
demographic especially and I'm gonna call them earthy granola moms,
the earthly granola moms who are probably doing yoga, who
are maybe worried about vaccinations, who are you know, only
(03:42):
feed their children organic food and stuff like that, that
to me is traditionally a very strong Democratic voter. Do
you think this issue is going to be enough to
move them to the right.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Absolutely? I think so.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I think that that, you know, they're Democratic voter in
the sense that they kind of have always felt like
the Democratic Party cared more about this kind of stuff
than the Republican Party did. They've been, you know, the
Republicans have been the party of big business and all
of those things throughout the eighties and nineties, and so
they grew up and with their parents telling them that
(04:15):
this is the way it is. But now we're in
an economy where even if you want to feature kids organic,
even if you want to feature kids whole foods and
you know, things that are nice and healthy for them,
you can't afford to. And so when you have someone
like President Trump come in and say I want an
economy for all. I want an economy where you can
afford to do these things for your children, to make
(04:35):
sure that they're healthy, to make sure that they're safe.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I really do think that it sways a lot of voters.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I've seen a lot of mothers and who were thinking
about voting for RFK Junior just because of these types
of policies now say that they're going to vote for
Trump because he's carrying that torch for him. So I
do I really think that this is a momentum changer.
And not to bring it back to the DNC, but
we had a week of them telling us how important
it was for women's rights and how important it was
(05:02):
for them to be able to choose abortion over anything else,
and then here you have a candidate that says, no,
guess what, you can be a mother, You can care
about these things, and we're going to help you do that.
And that's kind of like the saving grace for these
women who have always been desperate to be moms and
desperate to be part of that motherhood circle and have
felt like maybe overwhelmed by all of the negativity and
(05:23):
overwhelmed by the prospective well, how do I even bring
children safely into this world?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
So yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I think it's going to be a big momentum shift
for them. And also, you know, RFK has this ability
to has you know, he has this expertise in this
area that maybe Trump doesn't, and so just knowing that
you have someone like that in your corner is helpful.
And who does Kamala Harris have in that corner? She
(05:51):
doesn't have anyone. So I think that it does it
speaks a lot to them.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So the other weird endorsement that came out today is
former Congressman Chelsea Gabbard has come out and endorsed Donald Trump.
Tell me a little bit about that, because I've been
doing the show since that happened, so I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
So she's been a Democrat for a long time.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
We saw her kind of shift more to an independent
after the twenty twenty election, and how the Democrats treated her.
You know, she was like the Lady of the Hour
and Hawaii, and you know, moving forward, she was their
veteran vote who was all of these.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Things for them.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And then because she came out against some of the
party line issues, all of a sudden, she became persona
on grata. And now we have someone again who has
been a Democrat all her life, has voted for Democrats
all her life, come out and say, no, we're not
voting for Democrats anymore just because they have a D
next to their name. We're going to vote for a
candidate who will be for all Americans.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
And she spoke in front of a lot of different veterans.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And there's been a lot of talk about, you know,
Trump calling veterans suckers and losers, and you know that
hoax that's been going around by the Democratic Party. But
who was there laying the reads today at the you know,
at the National Cemetery for the thirteen fallen soldiers under
Biden Harris administration. I mean, by the time that was
(07:11):
all said and done, it was only like two hours
ago that Biden even spoke out on Twitter about these
thirteen individuals that died. And you can't say that you
are a man for you know, or an administration for
all of these people, when in reality, you can't even
bring yourself to mention it.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
In the morning of like the moment that you know.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You should be honoring these soldiers who died, you're sitting
on a beach somewhere in Delaware. We have a political correspondent,
Henry Rogers, who said that he was on a phone
call with veterans today and with their families of the
thirteen that died, and not a single one of them
has received a phone call from Kamala Harris since the
attack happened, since their child died.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
And that's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
We're talking about, you know, people who want to be
the commander in chief of the army and they can't
even bring themselves to have human dignity or human compassion.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
For these people that laid their lives down for our country.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And that was such a chaotic withdrawal that I think
that veterans, you know, you bring Tim Walls on and
he's supposed to be the guy that helps the veteran
vote because he was supposedly a command sergeant major and
he never actually rose to that rank. He had stolen
balor accusations against him. Now and these veterans are wising
up and they're saying, Okay, our va is terrible, it's corrupt.
(08:32):
They give us pain pills instead of actual help. We
need someone in there that's going to help us. And
Trump tried to do that under his first term, and
you know, he's vowed to help them even more under
his second. And I think that that speaks, you know,
again to another large swap of voters who would have
maybe voted Democrat just because they had always been Democrat,
(08:53):
but now will look to the Republican Party for help
and leadership.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Mary Rooke, I appreciate your time today. You can read
work at the Daily Caller every single day.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Mary.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
We'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Thank you, Thanks so much. Meati
He writes about all kinds of stuff. And initially when
we were going to set this up, we were going
to talk about the DNC, but I swore I would
not talk about it anymore after last week, and she's
got to call him today about the endorsement. I don't
know if it's today or yesterday, about the endorsement of RFK
junior of Donald Trump. And so, Mary, I wanted to
(00:21):
ask you because we kind of talked about it a
little bit when it happened, but I wanted to ask
you if if you think it's going to make that
much of a difference. And I'm kind of the jury
is out on this right, I'm not quite sure if
I'm not quite sure the impact just yet. Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
By the way, thanks for having me on, Mandy. It's
always great to be on. And in fact, I do
I think it's going to make a world of difference.
So if you're looking at these swing state pollings, the
ones that Kennedy's dropping out of, you'll see that he
is getting about five percent of the vote, and they're
saying that there's at least seventy five percent of that
five percent that is being pulled from Trump's voter roles,
(01:05):
and so I think that one it's going to give
Trump a big boost. And then also just him coming
over and telling his followers like, it's time we have
to unite around one candidate, and this is a candidate
to go through.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I think that's going to be huge.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And also I think that a lot of Americans are
forgetting that there's a swath of female voters who are
kind of independent leaning their mothers. They're worried about our
food supply, They're worried about the quality of water, They're
worried about how that's going to affect their kids. When
he talks about infertility in men, when he talks about
(01:37):
infertility and women, and then you think about it. I
have four children, and I think about it all the time.
What kind of world are they going to grow up in?
What's their fertility going to be? Like? How are they
going to be able to have children of their own?
When you have a candidate that cares so deeply about
that and is saying, I here's Donald Trump, and he
is also going to carry this torch with us, I
think that that moves a lot of these female voters
(01:59):
that Trump has been struggling to reach.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
He's great at blue collar workers.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
He's great at talking about immigration, the border of the economy,
but this is one of those aspects that he hasn't
really hit hard enough. And JFK Junior are sorry. RFK
Junior really does, and I think that that's going to
be a big push in his favor. I think that's
something that the Harris camp hasn't even talked about.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I mean, you saw several.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Democrats come out after Kennedy's speech and say, oh, we
need to start a commission, we need to start talking
about this. We need to create a federal commission on
this and really bring this about in Harris's camp.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
And it's a little too late.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I'm sorry, but you've had four years now and as
part of the Biden Harris administration to do anything about it.
You're not You're beholden to the FDA, You're beholden to
the CDC.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
These issues have.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Been long standing and parents want a resolution on it.
And I think that having someone like RFK Junior come
out and say that Trump's going to carry that torch
will be big for him.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I mean, the Democratic Party has been too worried about
ending pregnancies to worry about them actually happening in the
first place, Right, I mean, that's their focus is only
on ending pregnancies and not in making sure that we're
having babies. It's interesting to me, Mary, to your point
that when you talk about it and jd. Vance has
been very open about this, about the need to have
kids and about what having children does in terms of
(03:20):
your worldview of the future. Right, You've got four kids,
I have kids. I worry about what kind of world
I'm leaving my children. And do you think that that
demographic especially and I'm gonna call them earthy granola moms,
the earthly granola moms who are probably doing yoga, who
are maybe worried about vaccinations, who are you know, only
(03:42):
feed their children organic food and stuff like that, that
to me is traditionally a very strong Democratic voter. Do
you think this issue is going to be enough to
move them to the right.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Absolutely? I think so.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I think that that, you know, they're Democratic voter in
the sense that they kind of have always felt like
the Democratic Party cared more about this kind of stuff
than the Republican Party did. They've been, you know, the
Republicans have been the party of big business and all
of those things throughout the eighties and nineties, and so
they grew up and with their parents telling them that
(04:15):
this is the way it is. But now we're in
an economy where even if you want to feature kids organic,
even if you want to feature kids whole foods and
you know, things that are nice and healthy for them,
you can't afford to. And so when you have someone
like President Trump come in and say I want an
economy for all. I want an economy where you can
afford to do these things for your children, to make
(04:35):
sure that they're healthy, to make sure that they're safe.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I really do think that it sways a lot of voters.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I've seen a lot of mothers and who were thinking
about voting for RFK Junior just because of these types
of policies now say that they're going to vote for
Trump because he's carrying that torch for him. So I
do I really think that this is a momentum changer.
And not to bring it back to the DNC, but
we had a week of them telling us how important
it was for women's rights and how important it was
(05:02):
for them to be able to choose abortion over anything else,
and then here you have a candidate that says, no,
guess what, you can be a mother, You can care
about these things, and we're going to help you do that.
And that's kind of like the saving grace for these
women who have always been desperate to be moms and
desperate to be part of that motherhood circle and have
felt like maybe overwhelmed by all of the negativity and
(05:23):
overwhelmed by the prospective well, how do I even bring
children safely into this world?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
So yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I think it's going to be a big momentum shift
for them. And also, you know, RFK has this ability
to has you know, he has this expertise in this
area that maybe Trump doesn't, and so just knowing that
you have someone like that in your corner is helpful.
And who does Kamala Harris have in that corner? She
(05:51):
doesn't have anyone. So I think that it does it
speaks a lot to them.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So the other weird endorsement that came out today is
former Congressman Chelsea Gabbard has come out and endorsed Donald Trump.
Tell me a little bit about that, because I've been
doing the show since that happened, so I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
So she's been a Democrat for a long time.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
We saw her kind of shift more to an independent
after the twenty twenty election, and how the Democrats treated her.
You know, she was like the Lady of the Hour
and Hawaii, and you know, moving forward, she was their
veteran vote who was all of these.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Things for them.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And then because she came out against some of the
party line issues, all of a sudden, she became persona
on grata. And now we have someone again who has
been a Democrat all her life, has voted for Democrats
all her life, come out and say, no, we're not
voting for Democrats anymore just because they have a D
next to their name. We're going to vote for a
candidate who will be for all Americans.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
And she spoke in front of a lot of different veterans.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And there's been a lot of talk about, you know,
Trump calling veterans suckers and losers, and you know that
hoax that's been going around by the Democratic Party. But
who was there laying the reads today at the you know,
at the National Cemetery for the thirteen fallen soldiers under
Biden Harris administration. I mean, by the time that was
(07:11):
all said and done, it was only like two hours
ago that Biden even spoke out on Twitter about these
thirteen individuals that died. And you can't say that you
are a man for you know, or an administration for
all of these people, when in reality, you can't even
bring yourself to mention it.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
In the morning of like the moment that you know.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You should be honoring these soldiers who died, you're sitting
on a beach somewhere in Delaware. We have a political correspondent,
Henry Rogers, who said that he was on a phone
call with veterans today and with their families of the
thirteen that died, and not a single one of them
has received a phone call from Kamala Harris since the
attack happened, since their child died.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
And that's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
We're talking about, you know, people who want to be
the commander in chief of the army and they can't
even bring themselves to have human dignity or human compassion.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
For these people that laid their lives down for our country.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And that was such a chaotic withdrawal that I think
that veterans, you know, you bring Tim Walls on and
he's supposed to be the guy that helps the veteran
vote because he was supposedly a command sergeant major and
he never actually rose to that rank. He had stolen
balor accusations against him. Now and these veterans are wising
up and they're saying, Okay, our va is terrible, it's corrupt.
(08:32):
They give us pain pills instead of actual help. We
need someone in there that's going to help us. And
Trump tried to do that under his first term, and
you know, he's vowed to help them even more under
his second. And I think that that speaks, you know,
again to another large swap of voters who would have
maybe voted Democrat just because they had always been Democrat,
(08:53):
but now will look to the Republican Party for help
and leadership.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Mary Rooke, I appreciate your time today. You can read
work at the Daily Caller every single day.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Mary.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
We'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Thank you, Thanks so much. Meati
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