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As I said a few minutes ago, Ethan, watching, joining us now. Ethan, welcome. How are you?
I’m great. Thank you so much for having me on.
No, we appreciate it very much. You are a contributor with Young Voices, wrote an op-ed in Real Clear Politics. Talk to us about young people and Kamala Harris and why so many of them seem destined to vote for her.
Right. Yeah, it’s really a bad look for my generation, I got to say. But so we all know Kamala started off her campaign with this like shameless pandering, right?
The twerking rappers and Megan Thee Stallion and Brad Summer, I mean, sickening, honestly. And I spotted his pandering right off the bat. But unfortunately, a lot of people in my generation didn’t.
And normally, I feel like my generation has a really finely tuned inauthenticity detector, so we can tell when someone’s having us, and we don’t really drink the Kool-Aid, right? We show up to the event for the free cookie, but we’re not there because we believe in the cause. And I was wondering, I was thinking to myself, why my generation didn’t apply the same thing to Kamala.
And I think it’s because Kamala has unfortunately provided us with more palatable political rhetoric than we’ve seen for the last eight years, right? Because on the one hand, you’ve got Kamala Harris, or just political correctness in general, where people are being hit over the head. If they have the one wrong turn of phrase, people’s lives are getting ruined.
And then on the other hand, you’ve got Donald Trump’s rhetoric, which is hilarious, but also hyperbolic. And I can understand how it can be off putting to some voters. And so Kamala has given us sort of like just an average, very whitewashed, like milk toast rhetoric for a politician that sounds like every other politician we think of.
And I think, I think my generation is just looking for a return to normalcy, and it’s unfortunate because they’re missing what Kamala’s papering over, which is a really counter radical agenda for us.
Ethan, it sounds to me like what you’re saying is the biggest advantage Kamala has is she’s hiding. I mean, she is retorting. She’s hiding with her rhetoric.
She’s hiding with her stances. She’s hiding everything about who she is. And young people, let’s face it, they want to believe in the left.
They want to believe in the Democrat Party. So they’re not going to look closely.
Right, right. And I feel like the number one thing, and I talk to people my age about politics that they want, is they want a change from the status quo. They’re always grumbling and saying, oh, no matter what party’s in power, nothing really changes for me.
And I’m like, you’re so close. You’re almost there. But then my question is, why are you not going for the bull in the China shop wrecking ball that is Donald Trump?
Why are we going for Kamala? Because, I mean, unfortunately, I feel like Democrats are still, you know, viewed as the party of change, but Kamala is the most establishment candidate you could possibly get. I mean, she was literally swapped out of the top of the ticket with like a comically large painless campaign.
That’s exactly right.
Yep, 100%. Yeah, it’s insane.
No, you’re 100% correct. And why young people can’t see that? Because they are some of the largest, you know, quote unquote, change agents that are out there, which by the way, I love.
I’m one of those as well. Even though I’m not young, I enjoy change. I like change.
I don’t like the status quo. I want to see things done differently. I guess, Ethan, you know, call me, you know, young at heart or whatever you want to say.
But at the end of the day, I don’t like that status quo. I don’t see Donald Trump, by the way. And yes, to your point earlier, he does say a lot of things that put off some.
And I get that. But you got to look at what did he do as president the last time around. And it definitely was not status quo.
Question for you is how do you get young people to look back at what he did the four years that he was president already?
I mean, whenever I’m talking to my friends about this, I always just say, just ask yourself, like, what was your family, how was your family doing, like, you know, when Donald Trump was president, right? Were they doing better off? And the answer is, I mean, yes.
The answer is yes, we were all a little bit better off when Donald Trump was president. And I think that’s always the argument that I make for young people, right? As I don’t say, look, Donald Trump’s not like a moral paragon.
I’m not even sure. I’m not sure if I wanted to date my daughter, for example. But I think if you go at it from the utilitarian standpoint of who was better for the country, who made the world a safer place.
For me, I think the choice is clear on that. And that’s what I’ve had the most luck with when I’m talking to people my own age about this subject.
I mean, really quick, too, when you add in the safety factor, given your age and the fact that we now have another draft and things along those lines, the reality is, who would you rather have protecting the country, making sure that young people, you know, in their late teens, early 20s don’t have to go to war? Who would you rather have as commander in chief, her or him?
Well, surely not the lady that the Cheneys are supporting. I’ll tell you that much.
Go to one, by the way. Go to one, Ethan.
Thank you. Thank you. So, I mean, Donald Trump, for all of the talk about him being a Russian stooge, and they actually call me a Russian stooge in my comment section now and then, but, I mean, Putin wasn’t invading Ukraine when Donald Trump was president, right?
China wasn’t moving on Taiwan. Iran wasn’t on the move with its proxy states. People were afraid of him because, yeah, he’s a little bit brash and a little bit unpredictable, and he projects strength, if nothing else.
And so I think the world was definitely a safer place when Donald Trump was president.
But Ethan doesn’t really matter, and here’s what I mean. On issue after issue after issue after issue, Trump polls much better than Kamala. Okay, and I’m talking across most age groups.
However, when you’re talking to younger Americans, it almost comes down to two things, abortion and demographics. And what I mean is this, they want somebody who is pro-choice on abortion, period, and they want somebody who is not a white man. I mean, and after a while, don’t you just get the feeling, talking to younger Americans, you can’t break through those two things.
They have formed a wall around their minds.
So, I mean, that is a disheartening thought. And I think, unfortunately, that holds true. And I would just, again, like direct people on the first point about abortion.
The pro-freedom candidate on abortion, in my eyes, is Donald Trump. Donald Trump set that issue back to the state so we could decide at a more local level how we want to take that. Donald Trump is no conservative on abortion by any means.
I mean, he had the whole fiasco over the Florida, you know, six-month or six-week ban or whatever. But he’s the pro-freedom candidate on that front. And as far as the demographic question goes, you know, I feel like there’s already a little bit of blowback among my generation, again, DEI sort of things, because it really does just sort of like, you know, make it turn everyone into the same and treat people as a number and statistic.
And I think my generation rejects that a little bit. I hope they are as they’re becoming a voting age because it really is an unfair treatment. And we saw some progress with that in the overturning of the affirmative action.
I think that’s really a huge victory on that end. But yeah, I always just tell people like, look at how they govern, nothing else matters. Only how they govern.
Yeah. And again, I think that’s, you know, a wise on your part. The key though, back to Andy’s point is getting young people to forget about all the things they may have learned in school and college and really look at, okay, as I enter into the adult world, and I’m now going to be paying, you know, my own bills and I want to buy my own house and I want to build my own family, I don’t want to rely on anybody else to make those things happen.
Who’s better to help me do that, her or him?
Right. And you know, I’m a business student, I’m a master accounting student myself, and the best luck I’ve had on the economics front is talking about that unrealized gains tax, right? That is absolutely insane.
And people say, oh, well, it’s only like asset base is over $100 million. It’s like, yeah, that’s like every major company that you buy your food and your clothes and your cell phones from. Like, are you better off if those companies are taxed into oblivion?
Because I don’t think so. And once you start explaining to people how it’s going to hit them, like in their pocketbook on a personal level, I think that has a lot of luck as well. But the fact of the matter is Kamala is a basically Joe Biden 2.0 on the economy as well.
And that’s a huge issue for people my age, right? I’m a college kid. We noticed when the slice of the late night, the price of the late night pizza slice goes up from two to three dollars.
That’s right. I heard my friends complaining about that the other day. I said, gee, I wonder what could possibly really cause for that.
But I think the pocketbook argument hits my generation really hard as well.
Yeah, Ethan, how do you break through though the, and I’m sorry to keep coming with these questions that sound a little bit skeptical, but I’m being honest here. How do you break through the emotion of it? Donald Trump, for instance, has now been shot at or almost shot at twice.
There have been two attempts on his life. And if you look at young people across America, obviously, they’re concerned about that. They oppose that.
But I don’t see them up in arms about it. Think for a moment if it were Kamala Harris, who had now had her second assassination attempt on her in the middle of this election. How would young people across America be responding?
Well, I mean, it would be totally different. That’s because they’ve been told that Donald Trump is literally Hitler, right? We’ve been told that Donald Trump is the worst person ever.
That’s my point.
And we’ve been lied to, unfortunately. And honestly, I think just having heart-to-heart, one-on-one conversations with people, that’s what I try to do with my friends, with people I know. I just say, look, I’m not coming at you.
I’m not even trying to convert you. I’m not trying to make you into a Republican tomorrow. All I’m trying to do is ask you to hear me out and not ascribe me some bad motives.
And it’s sad that I have to do that, but that’s what our education system and the media has done to people my age. And I think we’re going to see a little bit of swing back, especially if we get four more years of Kamala. I think people will definitely think, okay, this is not working.
But unfortunately, the voter base is slow to learn. I’m just calling on my generation to use that no BS detector and really sniff out what are her policies and what will it materially do for me as I settle down, start a family, buy a house, all those things.
All right, folks that are listening that have younger people in their family, how do they follow you, Ethan?
You can find me on X at erwatson13. That’s where I’m trying to grow my main following and I’ll have a lot more content coming out on there in the coming weeks and months.
Okay, erwatson13, I will put that in my notes. Ethan, man, you’re sharp, you’re welcome anytime. I appreciate guys like you.
We want to try to help young people get the message out. You guys are our future and we believe in you wholeheartedly, and I want to make sure that we can help equip you as best we can as well. So yeah, you’re welcome.
And anytime you’ve got a message you want to get out, please let me know.
Thank you so much for the opportunity.
You’re very welcome, Ethan. Keep up the good work and I appreciate all that you’re doing. Great young man.
We need more of them, by the way.
He is a champion in my eyes.
By the way, very sharp guy. So Ethan, thank you, by the way. I appreciate that very, very much.
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And we are back, Rush To Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, Klz560. Appreciate you all listening, by the way. All right, so in light of everything that we’ve talked about, Andy, and it was head down the final stretch, 49 days left.
Should the Trump campaign do another presidential debate?
Okay, my ideal would be two vice presidential debates.
That’s not what I asked.
I know, first starting with the ideal, and then best to least, best to worst, okay?
Because I think those are two separate things. I think you could do presidential or vice presidential debates, get them to do those two. I don’t see that being an issue, do you?
If Trump, yes I do. I don’t believe that the Democrats would agree to two.
They don’t want to.
I don’t think they want one. I don’t think they want Tim Walls to debate him.
Gotcha.
Okay, but I believe they’re gonna have to. I think it’s gonna look bad if he doesn’t. So I think they’re gonna get one.
In my opinion, and this keeps coming down to, is Trump absolutely 100% uncoachable? And by the way, John, if he is so uncoachable, if you’re telling me he is so uncoachable that he cannot memorize a dozen responses to these lies, okay? And by the way, it would have to be on Fox, just so you know.
But if he can’t memorize a dozen responses to those lies, at that point, you’re basically telling me he’s an imbecile. He’s a moron. He’s dumb.
I mean, really, because you gotta be more than just stubborn.
No, and I’m not saying that.
You gotta be pretty dumb at that point.
No, what I’m saying is his ego doesn’t allow him to do that.
Wow.
I mean, that’s what I’m saying.
OK, well, then your ego has rendered you dumb.
Well, I’m not going to argue that one. Politically speaking, I would say that I’m I don’t think that’s too far off of it as a statement. And I and I like Donald Trump.
I mean, I think he’s a great president. I want him to be president again. Although some of his tactics, when you look at what he does politically speaking to get the ball across the goal line and get to the end zone, I think, yeah, there’s times are very politically dumb.
Yeah. You see, here’s the thing. A lot of…
And really quick for all of you listening, by the way. One of those comments being the whole cats and dogs things. Now, true or not, doesn’t matter.
Don’t go there.
Stupid.
That’s a dumb move on his part to even go down that path. The amount of memes and jokes and things that are running around today because of that, you don’t need.
Right.
Dumb.
Here’s going to be… Let me give you my answer, okay? Number one, the greatest thing in the world would be JD Vance gets two debates.
Okay.
Okay. Number two, if the whistleblower does come forward with recordings that show that ABC colluded with the Kamala campaign, then do not debate again. You’ve already won.
True.
Okay.
Why bother at that point? You already cheated once. Why would I do this again?
Exactly.
Remember, you switch candidates on me. I debated your first candidate already. The last time around, you guys cheated.
Why would I do number three?
Right. At that point, you don’t want another debate because you don’t need it. You’re going to win.
Right.
That would, by the way, probably pretty much decide, it would sew up the election if that comes forward. If they have recordings, then this whistleblower-
So that could be the late September surprise.
Right. And by the way, this whistleblower may be a total fraud. They may be a troll that’s just trolling the right.
Okay. I don’t know for sure. Although it’s looking more and more like that is not the case, but I don’t want to say so.
Right.
Yeah.
Too early to tell.
Okay. If that is going to come out, then no, do not debate again. And maybe that’s why, maybe Trump knows something, maybe he knows it is going to come out, maybe that’s why he said, I’m not debating again, by the way.
Could be. But if that’s not going to happen, and if you are at least somewhat prepared, then yes, I would rather he debate and not let that last debate be the last time people see him debate Kamala Harris, because that was awful. She annihilated him, John.
She annihilated him. And by the way, it was three on one. I understand why she annihilated him.
Not because she’s so great. She was totally prepped. She knew all the questions.
She knew his questions. She knew everything in advance. And the ABC moderators had already agreed in advance to fact check him and not her.
I believe in that it was a totally rigged game, but the game still ended 49 to seven. You could say, well, it was rigged. The referees were against him.
Yeah, it was still 49 to seven. That’s what the fans saw.
And kind of like the interference call in the end zone last night that the Eagles had wrapped around the Atlanta receiver, where that should have been interference. I mean, they still ended up winning the game by one point. But the reality is that was an unfair call at that point in time, Andy.
Right, look, the great fail Mary that my Packers lost to Seattle, you know, widely panned as the worst call ever.
Doesn’t matter.
I don’t know if it was, but it’s one of them.
Right.
Yeah, doesn’t matter. Guess what? We were out of the playoffs.
Nobody’s looking back and saying, gee, Green Bay should have been in that Super Bowl.
Correct.
The bottom line is this, Americans saw not just the millions who watched it, but the many more millions who watched clips of it afterwards. Americans saw Kamala Harris demolish Donald Trump in a debate, and that is their last vision of those two debating. And let me tell you something, that took the entire Biden debate and wiped it clean.
Right.
And also it was such a beat down that nobody cared about the first assassination attempt either.
That point in time it got forgotten.
It wiped clean everything.
That was revived again.
Right.
Fortunately.
Yeah. And because of that, because of this second attempt on his life, is that going to move the polls back in his favor? Yeah, I do believe it is.
Will it be enough? I don’t know. You’ve got right now, you got a lot of conservatives out there who do two things.
And both of them really bothered me. Number one, they only listen to right wing pollsters.
Correct.
And so they’re believing these right wing pollsters.
They only talk internally, by the way. I mean, I’m here to tell you, there’s a lot of folks listening even to me right now. And I’ll just say it straight out.
You’re clueless as to what’s going on politically, because you never talk to the other side. You have no idea what’s even going on on that side, because you’re removed from all of that. You live in your own little inner circle bubble, and you never talk to those individuals to even know what that side even thinks.
Am I right, Andy?
Oh yeah.
Absolutely. I mean, it’s embarrassing. They only listen to theirs.
It’s all they care about, right? And it’s all they believe.
Every function you go to, every social gathering you’re at, your entire family believes a certain way. Those that don’t probably don’t hang around you. I mean, I can go down the list.
The reality is you’re being fed only one view all of the time, and it’s a warped view, unfortunately.
It is a warped view. All you listen to is Rasmussen, okay? By the way, Rasmussen has proven to not be very accurate of late.
You want to know why? Because their entire polling model assumes a greater turnout percentage amongst the right than the left.
That’s not always the case.
Well, that’s become less and less the case. Why? Because of vote harvesting.
Because now that the left is harvesting votes in all those apartment complexes, where you see these hundreds and thousands of people stacked in these big boxes, you know what? They are not harvesting all those votes. The left is now turning out votes at a much higher rate than they have in the past.
And so the Rasmussen model isn’t really holding. And so Wright Reuters comes out with the poll that was the first really responsive poll to the debate. And it put Kamala up by five, 47 to 42.
Here were the responses. I put that out online, just being honest. And I said, look guys, I don’t know the internals of this yet.
Here are the responses I got back from my fellow conservatives. And they are, I’m sorry, they’re deluded. Okay.
They’re like, well, first of all, Reuters lies. They lie. They lie.
They lie. They lie. Really?
Reuters has been right the last three times around. Okay. Pretty much dead on.
Next, they said that, well, you know, I forget what they were saying. Well, they were wrong in 2016. Doesn’t matter.
That was four cycles ago. Right. Guys, that was one time.
All right. I mean, John, do you see where I’m going with this? And then they started putting out these other ones.
What is that one pollster that the Right just loves? Not Rasmussen, even to the right of them.
No, I can’t think of it right now.
And they’re on Hannity all the time. They were. Their results, their polling results were the worst and furthest off the last couple of times around.
They’re awful. Okay. And I forget what their name is.
John, we’ve got people on our side who want to convince ourselves everything is rosy and okay and that that debate is not affecting us this much. And I’m telling you, they’re wrong.
Right.
What do you think?
No, I think you’re 100% correct. I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Now, if he could go out and put in a debate where he first of all have it on Fox, neither side is prepped and he is prepared with answers, quick answers to the lies where he can defeat them quickly, that would totally change the dynamic. And then, let Vance go out and win big and clean up. At that point, you’ve pretty much sewed up the election.
Right now, he’s in trouble. And this latest attempt in his life politically helps him. I don’t know if it’s enough.
Where do you see things?
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Andy, you asked me, what do I think of all of this?
Yeah, and really quick for you to answer. Trafalgar is the name of the right wing pollster that everybody was talking about because they got it right in 2016, right? Trafalgar was listed, 538 listed the most accurate and most inaccurate pollsters traditionally.
In other words, the ones who come closest for this. Trafalgar came in at 279th.
So way down the list.
Right. Anyway, go ahead. What do you think?
Number one, do I think Trump should do another debate? No, I didn’t think he should have done the last one. And I’ll stand by that.
I think it has hurt him. I think he would have been better off to have worked around that, explained, hey, I did it first with, you know, I did the first debate with your first candidate. You guys switched candidates.
I would not have done this last debate had I been him.
OK, and by the way, we agreed on that. I said before that I didn’t want him to debate at all. I said he should not debate.
Now that he’s done this one, and there will be a lot of things that come out on this particular whistleblower end of things. Is that accurate? Is it not?
Like Andy said, is it just a troll? You know, I don’t know. But at the end of the day, I do think there’s been enough fact checking on even what Kamala Harris has said that’s been done by all sorts of individuals out there, including some in mainstream media that have even gone in and said, yeah, you know, some of the things she said weren’t really accurate.
They really weren’t correct. I think there’s been enough of this at this point, and even been enough backlash where it was a three against one debate to where I would just rely on that and say, you know, the last time I did it, it was three against one. It’s been proven it was three against one.
I don’t need to do another debate with you. I’m done. I did one with your old candidate.
I did one with your new candidate. That didn’t go very well because it was three against one. The first one went fine.
It wasn’t three against one. The reality is I won that debate. So as far as I’m concerned, it’s a draw and no, I’m not coming back for a third.
Okay. Problem with that. He’s already come out and said he won the second debate.
Yeah, I know and he didn’t.
Right. See, when we talk about- When we talk about shitty debate again, we’re talking about in light of the comments and statements that he’s already made.
I know.
By the way, I think you make a good point. Internally, if they think that he is simply not capable of a debate, which by the way, I think that’s the case. I believe his team recognizes and believes that Donald Trump, while a great president, is incapable of debate.
He cannot do it. And by the way, notice, he never debated in the primaries. He didn’t go in once.
All he had to do was let his crowd, show up, let his supporters carry him to victory no matter what. And the left, of course, was dutifully helping by making sure that he was the candidate. He never had to debate.
Then he went in against Joe Biden, who was clearly lost and gone.
Yeah, Dementia Joe at that point.
Okay, basically, what do you what do you do with the fact though, that the polls really have moved Kamala’s way big time? They have moved. But people on the right will say, no, no, no, all the internal polls in this poll, and they’ll cite this poem that poll that says I’ve argued, Donald Trump is doing well.
I’ve argued with some of those people even on your own Facebook page and even gave them polling numbers that disprove that they were incorrect, and I was correct, basically.
So at the end of the day, no, Andy, they can’t prove that if the election were held between the debate and the last attempt on Trump’s life, she wins, she wins hands down. In fact, I would say she would win all but one or two of the swing states, all of them.
It’s different now. Things have changed in the last, even just the last couple of days, of course. And again, as we wind things down and we get down this road, 49 days, and yes, early voting will happen.
I don’t ever worry too much about early voting because typically those are hardcore lefties, hardcore righties that are voting early. So I don’t worry too much about them. You still have the opportunity to message, I think, really message that independent voter all the way up to probably the last week of October, maybe even the first week of November.
But by that point in time, they’ve probably made their mind up.
Right. Well, I think, here’s what I think, okay? Because I think what you and I are basically getting to is we don’t believe in Trump as a debater.
We believe he would lose.
No, he sucks at it.
He’s so bad.
Sorry, he’s so, it’s awful.
He is so awful at debating.
And again, I love the guy. But and this is what happens, by the way, with, and this is where, yes, he does have a very high IQ and this happens with high IQ individuals. His brain is going 100 miles an hour.
It is.
Okay, so you have to almost get him to slow his brain down enough to even answer a question correctly before moving on to the next question because in his mind he already did and he’s moving on. He didn’t, he didn’t answer the question. But in his brain, because it’s going 100 miles an hour, but the question was answered at 10 miles an hour, he’s lightening ahead and he doesn’t even realize he didn’t answer the question.
That’s how high IQ people kind of look at things because he’s already on to the next thing in his mind. He didn’t realize or doesn’t realize he didn’t even answer the last question. That’s why in my opinion, I’m not a psychoanalyst by any means, Andy, but I know enough about high functioning IQ people to know how their brains work.
And the reality is he’s he’s lightning years ahead. He’s moving even when he gives a regular speech, not a debate, but just a speech. He’s thinking of 500 things while he’s talking about this one thing.
And it’s why he’s somehow at times kind of circles around and dances around things when he just needs to say it out, be done with it and then move on. But that’s not how his brain works.
No, it isn’t. I mean, and you’re right, he’s he’s a whirlwind. He goes from being too blunt to just being off on a tangent and he’s not connecting.
Correct. He doesn’t connect those dots.
Which by the way is common for brilliant people.
High functioning people do that a lot.
Right. They don’t connect with the masses.
Because in their mind they have, but they forget that the masses didn’t.
Right.
So he has to, somebody needs to coach him on slowing down enough that, okay, Donald, you’ve got, you have this. You got this in your mind. You know exactly what’s going on with China, with Russia, with Ukraine, with all these different things even happening around the world.
I mean, you get all these things.
Yeah, he doesn’t prove any of it.
But yeah, but you’re not letting the masses know this stuff on a point by point, step by step basis.
Okay. Let me ask you this.
You gotta dumb it down for them, Donald.
Yeah. And you gotta quit and speed it up.
Correct.
This is not a rally. Okay. This is a debate.
You’ve got 30, 60 seconds.
Correct.
Come on now. You gotta hit it. You gotta hit it quick.
You gotta have things that are prepared.
You weren’t prepared at all.
And you got to.
Absolutely.
And once again, folks, I’m gonna say it. She annihilated him. Now she annihilated him because she was given every advantage in the book.
Absolutely.
I said on the Tuesday of the debate, I said right here, I said, look, I think she’s going to do great. I think she’s going to have her prepped.
Absolutely.
I think she is going to be spot on.
I think she’s going to do great. By the way, at the beginning of the debate, you wouldn’t necessarily have said that, but once she threw some zingers out, that he took the bait on and started going off on his rabbit trails, it was derailed at that point. It was done.
Right.
But unprepared people take bait. Right. Now, if you’re prepared, when she throws that zinger out, you’re ready.
You’ve been waiting for that. You’ve been saying, yes, she did it. And you nail her with that and you make her look bad.
But he was unprepared. Okay, here’s the big thing. As you know, one of the ABC moderators, I don’t have it in front of me.
I just got my computer up. Sorry about that. One of the ABC moderators has now come out and admitted in an interview with the LA Times that they specifically prepared.
They prepped to fact check Trump and not her. They admitted that to the LA Times. Maybe they’re doing that because they’re trying to get ahead of the whistleblower, possibly putting out some kind of a record.
Andy, that one would not surprise me.
That wouldn’t surprise me at all either.
Which means that that’s probably real and more will come if that in fact is the case.
Number one, if the whistleblower does come forward with a recording, I think this election will change immediately. I think Trump will win. I’m going to say it right now because that means that the one thing where everybody saw Kamala beat Trump was totally staged.
Was fake.
Right. But the fact that they have admitted this, it was the female moderator, I forget her name, of the two, okay? The female.
Okay, Lindsay. The fact that they have confessed that much, couldn’t Trump package that into an ad?
I would.
And say, yeah, and say…
I would be right now.
But once again, Team Trump didn’t prepare Trump for the debate. Why would I expect Team Trump to do anything competently at this point? Okay, look, here’s the thing.
We’re sitting here and saying, gee, if Trump did this, gee, if Trump did that, gee, if Trump did… Forget Trump for a moment. Think about his team.
They’re not doing any of this. I know.
That’s my frustration.
Yes. We’re sitting there wishing that we could tag… They would tag us, and we could jump in the ring and take care of this stuff for them.
And it’s like, look, but hypothetically, if they could simply take that admission, that confession, because it is a confession, package it into a quick ad, a 30-second ad, and put it out there everywhere. At that point, I think I’m with you. Do not debate.
You don’t need to.
No, because you can basically say, the last one was rigged. I don’t need to do this again.
It was rigged. This is three on one.
And again, I worry because, again, he’s hard to wrangle in. I mean, Donald Trump is hard to wrangle in, even in a regular speech. Now, when he does state of the union things and sort of in some of those things, he does pretty well.
He’s on teleprompter. People have written things out. He has to stay on task.
There’s a time limit there. And even then, though, sometimes he can get off teleprompter and start getting off on some tangents.
But he has a wonderful personality.
But he does very, yeah. And he does very well. I’m not saying that he doesn’t do well in front of a crowd.
He knows how to hype a crowd up. He just doesn’t debate well. Hyping a crowd up is different than a debate.
Let me ask you this.
Am I right?
Oh, yeah, hyping a crowd, that’s-
Two totally different things.
Hyping a crowd, that’s your base.
You’re reading the crowd. You’re feeding them what they want to hear. You’re continuing to pump them up.
You’re watching the expressions on their faces and so on. Which by the way, Donald Trump is the master at.
Yeah, that’s great.
But when you’ve got a person in front of you, that you’re now having to go dual back and forth on, on particular topics, he doesn’t do well in that light.
The freshest political speaker of my lifetime until now was Reagan, but now it’s Trump. There is nothing more fun than listening to a Trump rally.
Correct.
But let me ask you this, and you can answer after the break. Has he surrounded himself with yes men and are his yes men wrecking his campaign?
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And welcome back to Rush To Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, Klz560. Okay, John, is Trump surrounded by yes men and are they damaging his campaign?
My speculation, because I don’t know these people on an individual basis, my speculation is I think a lot of them are. I wouldn’t say that every single one of them are, but I think the majority are. And unfortunately, the majority probably has allowed his voice and probably gets to, you know, it gets in his ear more than probably some that are in the minority.
I don’t want to say that he’s completely surrounded himself with yes men, but Donald Trump likes people to pump him up. There’s no doubt about that. We saw that towards the end of his presidency.
I think that’s where some of the moves that he made late in the game, even when it came to the actual election and the outcome and so on, he surrounded himself even with people at that time that quite frankly, I differed with, did not agree with. I think they were very wrong in some of the advice that they were giving him. And I think some of these same people, not same people, but that type of people is still around and are feeding him things at times that quite frankly aren’t benefiting him.
Okay.
That’s my thought.
There were parts of his campaign early on, you go back six months ago, that I was actually quite impressed with. They seemed much more professional this time. He seemed much more reserved in his comments and statements.
By the way, he has been. I think he has been a better candidate.
I would agree with that. Absolutely.
So if we take the debate and set it aside, he has been a much better candidate this time.
That’s where I say that I don’t want to say that everyone around him is a yes man, but I do think a lot of them are. The one thing that I’ve been the most disappointed about in this particular campaign, and this is where I’ve seen a vast difference, and maybe it’s just me, maybe I’m the only one that’s noticing this, or it’s only me that has been affected by, but I swear, and maybe I’m wrong in this, you and Charlie’s opinion, but I swear in the run up to 2016, there was a lot more calculated social media, advertisement and campaigning than what I’ve seen this go around. Thoughts?
Charlie says, yes, I’m right. What do you think?
I would think so.
I mean, I haven’t hardly seen a single Trump ad on my social media.
Honestly, it’s been eight years, so I’m a little gray area on that. But yeah, as I remember, yeah, there was.
I mean, they hit things hard. In fact, it was one of their best weapons because the left really didn’t look at social media in that way. Big Tech kind of got caught with their pants down because of course, they didn’t want him winning, but yet they used, he used their platform to actually make that happen.
And it was some great campaign strategy that was used. And maybe they just feel like, well, we did it once, that won’t work again. But I think they’re missing the boat on a lot of the, especially the younger voter, we were talking to our guest earlier on Ethan.
I think they’re missing the boat on some of that, frankly.
I think so.
I don’t think the traditional, you know, somebody texted me last night that Kamala is hitting the airwaves hard. Well, whatever, good for her. But frankly, I see very little political ads of any kind because I don’t watch TV like most other people do anymore.
Maybe there’s a certain age group where they still do, but I’m not one of them. And Charlie said she’s on YouTube a lot. I have seen some of the YouTube videos because I do watch some of that, so I’ve seen some YouTube stuff.
But once again, why am I not seeing Donald Trump in the same way? Why am I only seeing her? And some of those advertisements aren’t that expensive.
I mean, are we just not far enough in to spend the money? But my feeling is, Andy, at some point in time, you got to pull the trigger and start spending some dough.
Yeah, because people are starting, right now people are making their minds up. They’re making their decisions. And I don’t think their decisions are finalized.
I don’t think this election is over either way yet. I do believe though, it’s going to end over the next three weeks.
Agree.
You know, and at that point, it’s going to take on a momentum of its own and then it’s over. I really don’t, I don’t think this is going up to the end.
Cannot argue that.
And here’s the thing, it’s been so up and down after the first assassination attempt, when he was still facing Biden and he had won that first debate, this election was over, but we were saying all along, if he has to face a real candidate, any real, anyone who’s not Joe Biden, he could be in trouble. He’s that bad of a candidate. And, you know, when, when they chose-
And that has happened.
Yeah. And there were people who were looking at early polling and saying, well, Kamala polls just as bad as Joe Biden. What did I say?
What did I say over and over? That’ll change overnight.
It’ll change, it’ll pick up.
They’ll change overnight. She is not nearly as bad a candidate as Joe Biden.
And the media will prop her up, which is exactly what they’ve done.
Exactly.
All of the bad things she’s ever done have gone away. They don’t exist. The only time you’re seeing any of those is when our side puts some things together, some compilation of, of, you know, gaffes and things that she’s done in the past.
That’s the only time you see any of those. You’re not going to see that in mainstream media.
Right. And even though it was a three-on-one debate, the fact is she was prepped, he wasn’t.
Right.
Okay. And it’s kind of like, Mr. Trump, do you understand this debate means everything in this election? Right now, if this election is held, she wins.
And he was just, and he just suffered his second assassination attempt. That in a normal election, that means you win by a landslide. It is over.
Normally speaking.
And for any other candidate, this is over. Two assassination attempts. The middle moves your way overwhelmingly.
The sympathy vote gets going.
The sympathy vote ramps up. And by the way, it may be starting to ramp up. I don’t know.
But any other candidate, this is over. Okay.
Correct.
It’s over.
Correct.
So here’s my question for you. Are we sitting back right now and saying, are we just waiting on recordings? If that recording comes out, is that it?
Well, if it comes out that everything that we pretty much know is probably true, and that gets verified, and there’s actual literal recordings that people can listen to that, hey, we’re only going to fact check Trump. We’re not going to fact check Kamala. We’re going to feed Kamala these answers.
In fact, her campaign has said, we can’t ask these particular questions, which, by the way, some of the other things that they’re talking about. There’s some stay away from points that we can’t go down that path at all, period, no matter what. Yeah, exactly.
There’s certain things that we just can’t be going down, you know, paths we cannot be going down. Yeah, if in fact that comes out, Andy, number one, Trump doesn’t need to debate again. And that probably sways the election.
Not a lot. But right now, all you need on either side is two or three points and you’re there. That’s all you need, because it literally is right now favoring her slightly.
But right now it’s a flip of a coin.
Right. It’s favoring her slightly. But if I’m going to say it right now, John, if that recording comes out, she’s toast.
I think she loses the election because that takes her one thing that went her way. The debate and blows it away.
Because she really, for all of you listening that are on the left, she has nothing else to stand on.
No.
She has no record. The economy sucks. She hasn’t done anything policy-wise.
She was the border czar, and it’s the worst open border we’ve ever had in the history of the United States. I mean, so many things going against her in that realm that you could just keep hammering and hammering and hammering on. The reality is she has nothing really to run on other than how well she did in the debate the other night.
I agree.
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All right, on my question of, why am I not seeing Trump ads? Somebody texted in, and I’m not gonna argue this. It could be, although I wanna counter this, I don’t think we see Trump ads because we’re not a swing state.
And that could be, although, why am I seeing Harris ads? Because the reality is, we’re not a swing state. We’re not a swing state.
She’s gonna win this thing hands down. There is no need to spend any money in Colorado whatsoever, and the type of ads that, by the way, I see, these are all targeted ads based upon either cable TV and what you’re watching on TV based upon your location, IP addresses when it comes to Google, which is YouTube. They know exactly where you’re at, what state you’re in, what city you’re in even as to whether or not we’re gonna target an ad towards you.
So, I’m not arguing with that. My question, though, would be, then why is Kamala spending money in a place she doesn’t need to?
No clue.
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