The question was President Biden, what were you thinking, ever running for reelection? Let's be clear. If Biden had stayed in the race, as some are saying, maybe he should have stayed there. He almost certainly would have done worse than Harris. [00:00:15] So for anyone suggesting that the Democrats lost because Biden dropped out, that is a fantasy. The issue is that Biden probably never should have run in the first place. While many in the Democratic Party and even members of Kamala Harris's [00:00:34] own team lay a lot of blame on Joe Biden for the electoral loss that Democrats experienced this week, it turns out that the president's own team is actually pointing fingers right back at them. So according to Biden's biographer, Franklin Foer, some of his closest [00:00:54] confidants are still under the impression that if Biden had just stayed in the race, Democrats would have been victorious. He would have been elected for a second term. And in a piece for The Atlantic titled Why Biden's Team Thinks Harris Lost For, [00:01:11] writes that members of Biden's clan continue to stoke the delusion that Biden would have won the election, and some of his advisers feared that he might publicly voice that deeply misguided view. Now for says that Biden's advisers were reluctant [00:01:28] to say anything negative about Harris. But Biden advisers did level critiques at her campaign based on the months they'd spent, strategizing in anticipation of the election. Embedded in their autopsies was their own unstated faith [00:01:46] that they could have done better. Now they look, I think some of the critiques are on the note, like they're right. Kamala Harris was doing okay in the beginning of her campaign. Yes. Part of it had to do with the excitement, but part of it also had to do [00:02:02] with her message. And then she changed her message to a pro-business, more moderate message in regard to economic policies. So let's just show that Trump was clearly ahead in the polls when when Biden was in the race. So before I get to, you know, some of this other stuff and go to you, [00:02:20] Jake, like, let's take a look at this. The New York Times poll on the day that Biden dropped out, had him losing by three points nationally and getting wrecked in the battleground states. Let's take a look at the other wrecked. Absolutely. A New York Times Siena College poll found Trump was ahead of Biden by six percentage [00:02:38] points among likely voters, and eight points ahead among registered voters. And then, on top of which, let's look at the other graph here. In a July Gallup poll, Biden received a 36% job approval rating from the American [00:02:54] people, and that was his lowest ever. The majority of Americans, 58%, Disapproved of the job that Biden was doing, so it remains to be seen how Biden or his staffers could think that he would have won this election right now. His popularity has ticked back up slightly to an underwhelming 41%. [00:03:14] - So, Jake. - Yeah, so fair show in America. So I'm actually going to give a tiny bit of credit to the Biden staffers in a minute. Okay. But first, a lot of discredit. So they I want you to notice in the first thing that I read, you guys, the Biden advisers are split. [00:03:30] Half of them are saying, oh, please don't say it out loud, that we would have won. That's really embarrassing. Don't don't do that. It'll just make it worse for your legacy because they're trying to look out for him. Right. So I don't know which ones are which. So I don't know who to give credit to on that side. But the other half are the deluded ones who are like, oh, we would have won. [00:03:46] Remember the garbage comment that Biden made, you know, 4 or 5 days before the election? If you watch that whole clip, it's not just that he called Trump supporters garbage, I think by accident. But he's like, and then what? Rally Puerto Rico. It was a disaster. [00:04:02] Garbage. He can't speak anymore. He's. He would have fallen apart at the seams. He might have lost. I think he would have lost about 40 states. He might have lost them all because he couldn't speak at the end. You can't vote for a guy who, you know with absolute certainty is senile. [00:04:18] Right. So. And losing by eight nationally. Come on. Come on. Losing by seven points. And it would have only gotten worse, not better. Because every time he came out to speak, imagine they would have done another debate. No, but come on. That delusion is what kept him in the race. [00:04:36] First of all, that delusion led him to run for reelection in the first place, which he should not have done. Okay. That delusion led him to remain in the race as long as he did, thus depriving Democratic voters of an opportunity to engage in a robust primary process and pick a candidate that they wanted, [00:04:55] rather than a candidate who was anointed. And look, who knows, it might have ended up being Kamala Harris. I doubt it, but there's a possibility. But if it had happened the right way, she would at least have the opportunity to run a full campaign as opposed to a last minute. [00:05:12] There's only a few months left campaign. That was a disaster. Okay, there were a few highlights, a few good moments from Kamala's campaign, but honestly, I can count them on one hand. In reality, she pivoted and she pivoted real hard to an unpopular message, [00:05:29] and she wouldn't get off of it. So that was the critique that, you know, some of these Biden staffers had. And I want to get to that. Are you ready for that? - Yeah. - No. One more thing here. So notice that the Biden staffers said they could have done better. [00:05:45] So that's their ego talking. They're like, oh, it doesn't matter who the candidate is anyway. We always use these corporate robots. Hey, will you do everything the donors say? Yes, sir. Absolutely. Okay. You're good enough. Just bring out the widget in the assembly line. Biden, Harris, whatever they're called, whatever their race is, who cares, right? Because the advisors think that they're in charge. [00:06:02] And so they. Well, we would have run a better race and we would have won. Yeah, but, brother, the candidate matters. And besides which, how are you doing that so far? I mean, you were doing disastrously. It's not like you were up by eight when Kamala Harris took over. You're the rocket scientist who were down by eight. [00:06:18] Yeah, right. So now, nevertheless, to be fair to whoever it is, on whichever side, some of the Biden advisers apparently knew exactly what Kamala Harris was doing wrong. And they're right about that. So in the beginning, you know, not only did she have a more economic populist message, she would go after corporate greed, which [00:06:37] did play well with Democratic voters. But as the critics are now saying, she made a mistake by getting off of that message. Harris began the campaign portraying Trump as a stooge of corporate interests, and touted herself as a relentless scourge of big business. [00:06:55] While Harris was stuck defending the Biden economy and hobbled by lingering anger over inflation. Attacking big business allowed her to go on the offense. So the fact that they recognize that going populist and attacking big business [00:07:10] was the right strategy is shocking. So apparently there's like maybe 1 or 2 smart Democrats on on earth, or at least in leadership. What's shocking about it, what's shocking about it, is that they know that that messaging works and they they don't deliver on it once like that. [00:07:29] That bothers me, right? 100%. But not only that, and maybe Biden prevented them. Maybe he's the source of the problem. But it's not like Biden while he was in the race. He was in the race for a long time. It's not like he ran an anti-big business campaign at all. So apparently those advisers, whoever they are, did not win the argument [00:07:46] internally in the Biden team anyway. Now then they talk about the pivot, right? Then quite suddenly, it's not really that sudden when you think about the billionaire money flowing into her campaign coffers. But then, quite suddenly, the strain of populism disappeared. [00:08:01] One Biden aide told me that Harris steered away from such hard edged messaging at the urging of her brother in law, Tony West, Uber's chief legal officer, to win the support of CEOs. Harris jettisoned a strong argument that deflected attention [00:08:21] from one of her weakest issues. Instead, the campaign elevated Mark Cuban as one of its chief surrogates, the very sort of rich guy she had recently attacked. And at the end of October, The New York Times reported that Harris had campaigned [00:08:38] four times, with Liz Cheney stumping with her more than with any other ally. She appeared more in October with the billionaire Mark Cuban than with Sinn Fein. Obviously, that's the president of the United Auto Workers and one of [00:08:54] the nation's most visible labor leaders. Because f labor, right? Like. Yeah, you guys nailed it. So that analysis by whoever the Biden advisers were were exactly correct. It's amazing. Yet no Democrat actually does it. So now more on that. [00:09:11] Her sister ran her 2020 campaign, which turned into a disaster. So here she is again. Oh, I'm going to go to family. Oh, in this case, it's a guy who's basically a glorified lobbyist. His her brother in law. [00:09:26] Oh, you think that big business should get everything? Oh, well, okay, I will listen to you. Family member who's a lobbyist, and and I will funnel and I will run my campaign saying big business is great. I love corporate CEOs. She bragged so much about that letter. [00:09:43] Of the 90 corporate CEOs who backed her. And in every appearance, they're like, all the CEOs are on our side. What happened to me Anti-big business when she was Anti-big business? Guys, we showed you this on the show day to day. Her numbers went up, up, up, up. She was up five points nationally. She had it. [00:09:59] At one point, she got a poll that had her up seven points. Nationally, that was comfortable enough to win the Electoral College. And I said, oh my God, if we had to. I said, do you remember? I said, I wish the election were today because then she would win. From that point, she listened to her dumb ass, corrupt brother in law, [00:10:16] and she turned around and went into Pro-corporate pro donor direction. And it cost us everything. So who's fault is it that we lost the election, Biden or Kamala Harris? Both of them. Exactly. It's a trick question, guys. It's both. [00:10:31] Biden handed her a devastating deficit in terms of the polling. She climbed out of it by running a populist campaign, a gigantic, miraculous comeback. And then, like a moron. Oh, no, you can't say that about a Democratic leader. [00:10:47] We all have to cry for Kamala Harris. No. Why don't you. Why doesn't she take personal responsibility? Why is it the voters fault and not the candidate's Candidates fault. Democrats expect better from your candidates. And the same goes for Joe Biden, who again, I want to repeat, [00:11:03] should not have run for a second term. And Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about this. Of course, that's the white House press secretary about this whole situation. You know who should take responsibility? Who gets the blame? Let's let's listen to what she has to say. [00:11:18] A lot of criticism in the last couple of days directly addressed at President Biden for some of the questions that have already been asked running in the first place. We're not stepping aside faster. Some of that criticism has also been directed at his team and the advisers around him for advising him to do what he did. [00:11:37] - Can you address that criticism. - To to do what he did? Meaning, again. Not stepping aside faster and showing what some people say, holding folks here in arrogance of believing he was the only one who could beat Donald Trump. [00:11:52] I mean, well, You said something at the end that I do want to just kind of reiterate and remind, remind folks, and it was a good reminder to me, which is like, look, the president, this is the president who has been the only person who has been able to beat Donald Trump. [00:12:10] I mean, that is true in 2020. He was able to do that. There were more than 20 candidates who tried to beat him, and they he was the one that has been able to do that. There was a there was a cover up in regard to Joe Biden's mental decline. [00:12:26] Yes. Okay, let's let's stop. The election is over. So let's stop. Like, you know, walking on eggshells because people are going to get upset. I don't care how upset people get. Okay. There was a cover up by the Democratic Party in regard to Joe Biden's mental decline. Okay. As a result of that, I mean, they just sat around [00:12:42] and allowed this guy to run for reelection knowing what a freaking risk that was. I mean, they're running around talking about what a threat Donald Trump is as they are carrying out an egregious cover up. And we're anyway, I just the Democratic Party is super lost right now. [00:13:00] Okay. They are. And they're going to keep losing elections if they keep, you know, engaging in this ridiculous hive mind and not taking personal responsibility for the cover up itself. The failure of the Harris campaign, the corruption that has completely [00:13:15] taken over the Democratic Party. If none of that changes, there's no reason to support Democrats. What have they been offering us? Junk. I know, so listen, I don't want people thinking we're Monday morning quarterbacking because right now that's what everybody's doing. Everyone who said Biden was going to win now is blaming Biden. [00:13:31] Everyone who said Kamala Harris was going to win is now playing the blame game. We told you this about a year ago. Now I'm going to show you this tape. And and, you know, we started this because right now, what all these people who are yelling at us are saying is, oh, you know what? Biden should have stepped down from the race over a year ago [00:13:49] so that we could have a real primary so we could pick the best candidate. Gee, I wonder who's been saying that for the last year. So let's show you the tape. See you. I'm tired of these guys. We're doing a petition. And so, look, the petition is get out. [00:14:05] I put it a lot more politely than that because a lot of people love Joe Biden for whatever reason. They just think he's too old and he's going to lose. I 100% agree that he's going to lose. So we're doing a petition. President Biden, please drop out. You're going to send in a hobbled candidate who's 80 and looks [00:14:23] like a wounded antelope, who's 67% of Democratic voters say, we don't want him. We don't want him. The guy's got to go. That was in September of 2023. September of 2023. Okay. I just and I remember people being real upset with us. [00:14:41] So angry. Oh, you're hurting the Democratic Party because God forbid a political pundits do their job. Right? Like I get it. I get that people expect you to actually be an operative for one party or the other. Okay? That's not what we do here. We give our analysis and the fact that that's what you were saying on air [00:15:00] in September of 2023, and it would take him nearly a year to finally drop out of the race, is infuriating. The cover up was happening the whole time. But we were the bad guys, right? It's just it's so ridiculous. So I'm sure, though, all those pundits that are saying he should have dropped out [00:15:17] in September of 2023 are going to come apologize to us for yelling at us at the time and for a whole nother year. Right? And by the way, because of I couldn't believe he wasn't dropping out in an act of desperation. As you all know, I ran in the presidential primary against him. A couple of the Earls that I bought were Biden is going to lose [00:15:35] comm wounded antelope.com. Okay, so this was so obvious as every liar on TV and every liar in the Democratic Party was lying to you guys about how great a shape Joe Biden was in. [00:15:51] So last thing I'll read you guys is so they, you know, we talked about Liz Cheney and they decided to go with the corporate CEOs and the Liz Cheney strategy because it was such a genius move, because they were going to get the Republicans in the suburbs, remember? Oh, yeah, they were going to get the moderate Republicans. It always works. So let's see how that turned out. [00:16:07] Let's go to Andrew Perez, writing in rolling Stone. Harris only received 5% of Republican votes, less than 6% Joe Biden won in 2020 when he beat Trump, as well as the 7% won by Hillary Clinton in 2016 when she lost to him. [00:16:23] Nailed it. Oh, we're going to get all those Republicans. They love the Cheneys, and we're going to get so many Republicans. We don't need progressive votes. We don't need to do the right thing. We can still kiss our donors ass and win because the Republicans love us. [00:16:38] How'd that turn out for you? Remember, the next time they lie to you how much they lied to you this time? Thanks for watching. If you become a member, you get to watch all this ad free. Except for, of course, this ad still hit the join button below.