Ben Shapiro critiques Kamala Harris as a narcissistic "black hole" whose female-written ads fail to resonate with white men, despite her massive spending advantage over Trump. He highlights the Teamsters' refusal to endorse her, New York Jewish voters shifting toward Trump, and Janet Yellen's opposition to deportations and tax cuts. Additionally, Shapiro promotes the film "Am I Racist?" while discussing rising forced child labor in the U.S., concluding that Harris's campaign strategy fundamentally misunderstands the electorate. [Automatically generated summary]
Well, folks, Kamala Harris is pouring money into this race.
She is brat and she is joy and she is campaigning with Oprah Winfrey and she's got a heap load of problems.
I will explain in a moment.
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So, Kamala Harris, she's out there campaigning.
She's brat.
She's got all the energy.
She's got all the joy.
And she's got a bunch of problems.
So she's been going around campaigning.
She is a word salad queen, as we all know.
She's been campaigning with Oprah Winfrey.
But she's got a major, major problem.
Remember, one of the pieces of math that Joe Biden had suggested as to why he would not drop out is he was afraid that whatever Kamala Harris picked up in terms of minority support, she would drop among blue collar white workers.
And that's true.
That's true because she's terrible.
at this.
Truly terrible at this.
I want to begin today by pointing out an ad that Kamala Harris' super PACs have put out.
She is lagging among men.
Particularly white men.
Really, really lagging.
You know why?
She doesn't know how to talk to them.
In the same way that people in the media say that Trump fans, they don't know how to talk to ladies or whatever.
Okay.
But the Harris campaign has no idea how to talk to men.
So first of all, I love the, also the stereotype that they will never ever say out loud, that is embedded in this ad, is that unlike females, men will do their own research and think about policy.
Yeah, the Beige Rainbow Pack, where all the men go to.
Beige Rainbow.
Which sounds like the world's whitest gay bar.
Beige Rainbow.
Seriously, wow.
These people understand men at a root gut level.
They really understand men.
You can do your own research, but I'm telling you, before you come at me and shove it down my throat, I'm voting for that.
Also, I do love the assumption.
The core assumption of the ad is men hate her.
That is the core assumption of the ad, right?
It's like, you know, if we can't vote for that douchebag Trump, then will I vote for Kamala?
Listen, before you sock me directly in the nuts, let me tell you, These... She's gonna lose men by a thousand points.
There are men not yet born who will vote against Kamala Harris.
White dudes for Harris.
White dudes for Harris.
Both they and Hezbollah are missing their tits today.
Kamala Harris is a disaster on many fronts, including the economic front.
We are looking at a proposed top income tax rate of nearly 40% under Kamala Harris, 7% hike in corporate taxes, and a capital gains tax on unrealized gains.
Unrealized gains, unconstitutional, totally crazy, destroys American business.
But wait, there's more.
They want to add almost $2 trillion to our already staggering $2 trillion deficit.
It's like the end of Thelma and Louise with these folks.
It's right over the cliff.
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to men, because she is dragging with men, and she really is.
Because of that, she is out there trying to reach out and touch people with Oprah, which
means she's out on the campaign trail just vomiting 360 head spinning Linda Blair and the Exorcist
style word vomit.
Just word vomit everywhere.
The narcissism on the Democratic side of the aisle is insane.
Kamala Harris, who is... She was literally put in place by an upper-level coterie of the Democrats without ever having won a single primary vote and is the emptiest candidate in American history.
Totally empty.
It would be an understatement to call her an empty vessel.
Because there's still a vessel when there's an empty vessel.
Because the people before us understood that one of the greatest expressions for the love of our country, one of the greatest expressions of patriotism is to fight for the ideals of who we are,
If that appeals to you, then you deserve precisely what you get.
I don't know how you listen to that person and don't want to hang yourself.
I don't understand.
I really don't.
That is the most vacuous bulls**t I have ever heard in my entire life and it went on for two minutes.
I made it about 30 seconds before I started contemplating thoughts of self-harm.
Like, that is... This class, these are the people.
These are the people.
And is it any wonder that their extraordinary narcissism and emptiness just applies to every area of their life?
And it's true, again, so much throughout American politics, across party lines.
Like an empty class of people who don't actually have ideas, have impulses, and have a narcissistic desire for glory.
It is so amazing.
It is so amazing.
That word salad right there, in which basically, by the way, her conclusion is, if you actually tried to analyze what she's saying there, that America was founded on abortion, gun control, and trans rights.
That's what she actually said.
That was what characterized the people who made this country, is freedom.
What a clown show we have created in this country that Kamala Harris is considered
an upper-level presidential candidate.
In fact, even Oprah had to step in to save Kamala, which is amazing.
Because, again, Oprah is the essence of vacuity, and she had to step in as the more substantive counterpart here from Kamala.
Kamala was asked a question, and we know that anytime there's a question mark at the end of a sentence, Kamala Harris just starts to frizz out like a character from that movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
First of all, presidents don't introduce bills, Congress introduces bills.
Second of all, his original question was about a specific bill being introduced, and she launches into this absolutely empty garbage about how she's there to solve problems because of all the problems that she solved.
She could not solve a Sudoku.
She is both stupid and vacuous.
And she's also, I love when she says, you know, leadership is about serving the people.
When have you served the people?
As Attorney General of the state of California, we should recall, she literally refused to serve the people.
The people in California voted for a proposition called Prop 8.
I know, I was a Californian.
I voted in favor of Prop 8.
Prop 8 enshrined a traditional marriage.
As the law of the land in the state of California in the Constitution didn't outlaw gay weddings or something, didn't outlaw people living as they wish to live.
All it did is say that the only version of marriage that would be actually recognized by the state of California was male-female.
She was Attorney General right after that.
She came in.
This was appealed to the United Circuit Court of Appeals.
She refused to defend it.
When she says that she's there to stand on behalf of the people, no one believes that she can't even win a vote.
She can't win a vote.
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But she does try to project.
Inauthentic toughness.
So suddenly, Kamala Harris, the same person who said that America was founded on gun control, she says that she'll shoot a bad guy if a bad guy comes into her house.
By the way, that is not true.
I'm sorry, that is not true.
In the state of California, you have to seriously consider whether to defend yourself if someone actually breaks into your house.
You might go to J-Hill.
I used to live there.
I know.
She doesn't have to worry about that anyway, since she lives in the Naval Observatory.
And when it comes to President Trump, the thing I like about President Trump is the things he did when he was the President of the United States, for the most part.
That is the thing that I care about.
Because again, I don't view politicians as people I want to hang out with.
I know too many of them for that.
I don't view politicians as people who I think are the world's most interesting human beings who I can't wait to watch on TV.
Because they're not.
What I view them as, as plumbers, will they do the job or will they not?
When Donald Trump was president, he did the job.
He and his team did the job.
Kamala Harris is part of the worst presidential team in American history.
So that is the thing I care about.
And I think deep down, Americans know that, but we have to get out of the mindset of simply putting people... And again, I think it's a minority mindset.
I really do.
I think that is why you so often see polls in general elections where they're like, I can't believe this is the race.
Primary voters are the most engaged.
Primary voters are the ones who want to fall in love.
Most voters just want to fall in, leave me alone and do your job.
Which is why Kamala Harris actually has a bit of a problem on her hands.
Kamala Harris has been wildly outspending Donald Trump online.
Like wildly so.
According to the New York Times, Harris outspent Donald Trump 20 to one on Facebook and Instagram in the week surrounding their debate.
20 to one.
$12.2 million to $611,000 on Meta's platforms, according to company records.
Since Harris entered the race, according to the New York Times, her campaign has overwhelmed the Trump operation with an avalanche of digital advertising, outspending his by tens of millions of dollars and setting off alarm among some Republicans.
Four years ago, Trump drastically outspent Democrats online early in the election cycle.
Now Trump is making a very different bet that emphasizes the unique appeal of his online brand, the durability of a donor list built over nearly a decade, and his belief in the power of television.
So, in Pennsylvania, for example, after the debate, Harris spent $1.3 million geotargeting Pennsylvania.
Trump spent $22,000.
In Michigan, she laid out $1.5 million.
In Michigan, she laid out $1.5 million.
He spends $35,000.
Trump's campaign has spent a lot more heavily on Google, but even on Google, Harris's PACs
are doubling the spending, like $26 million to $13 million since she joined the race.
Suffice to say, Trump needs to get a lot more active online, but with all of those systemic advantages, with the pouring in of the money, with the media sucking up her every nonsense, she is still running dead even with Donald Trump.
According to the brand new Emerson College poll, Trump and Vice President Harris Our neck and neck.
In Georgia, Trump is winning 50-47.
In Arizona and Wisconsin, he is slightly ahead 49-48.
They're dead heats.
In Pennsylvania, he is slightly ahead 48-47.
In Nevada, they're tied at 48.
In North Carolina, Harris is up 1, 49-48.
In Michigan, 49-47.
So, bottom line is, this is a dead heat.
She's poured the money in, and people aren't changing their opinion about her.
That is a major problem for her, and there are a bunch of troubles that are underneath the surface for Harris.
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All the troubles for Trump are right there out on the surface.
You can see them.
You can see when he makes a dumb comment at a rally.
You can see because the media will highlight everything he says, whether it's true or not.
With her, it's all roiling under the surface.
Which means that if the polls are biased, I would say that they're biased against Trump.
Because people are saying things to pollsters I'm not sure that they totally believe.
Again, Kamala Harris, she's been pouring money into the campaign.
She's gotten all the brat and the joy that she can out of this thing.
It's like squeezing blood from a stone at this point.
She's got troubles.
She's got real, real troubles.
So, for example, yesterday we mentioned The Teamsters Union did not endorse her.
Now, they wouldn't endorse Trump because, of course, they're the Teamsters.
Why would they possibly do that, despite the fact that 60% of their base actually is going to vote for Donald Trump?
But they didn't endorse Kamala.
This makes media big mad.
So, Dana Bash over at CNN, she was grilling the Teamsters president, Sean O'Brien, saying, well, why aren't you just endorsing Kamala, despite the fact that your members hate her guts?
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She should maybe get into her district where it voted far Republican, far-right Republican, and maybe find out what the problem is.
When I have a problem in a work site and there is criticism, I get right in there and find out what the problem is.
What do you mean vote as far-right Republican?
She's a Democrat.
Oh, you mean among teamsters?
In our polling, New York, her district, voted overwhelmingly Republican to support former President Trump.
So she may want to focus on her job instead of mine.
I'm very disappointed in Sean O'Brien's leadership.
I have found it increasingly alarming all year, his campaigning with Republicans, coming out in favor of anti-choice Senate candidates, coming out and campaigning increasingly with Republicans.
It is confusing when, you know, the Teamsters don't love the socialistic candidate who will destroy the American middle class.
That is confusing to former bartender and noted genius, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
Even Politico at this point is noting that Kamala Harris is having real trouble in the Rust Belt.
Quote, as Vice President, Kamala Harris has been part of an administration that's poured more than $50 billion into Rust Belt industry and infrastructure.
As Democrats' nominee for president, she is hardly mentioning the massive spending as she woos voters in the crucial region.
Instead, Harris and her surrogates are focusing their economic pitch on the care economy, policies to expand childcare, make housing more affordable, and help small businesses, the focus of her first economic speech in August, as well as a new TV ad.
It's a major pivot from her current boss, President Biden, who made rebuilding domestic manufacturing a core part of his message to voters.
What's the difference between the message of, we're giving money to childcare, and we are going to pour money into subsidies for manufacturing?
The sex of the recipients.
That is the reason why Kamala Harris has shifted her focus.
It's also why she's bleeding support among white, blue-collar men.
It's a major problem.
By the way, it's about to get a lot worse.
Because next week, there's going to be a major strike, a port strike, on the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico by October 1st.
And Joe Biden is not going to invoke a federal law to prevent it.
He's not going to do that because he's afraid of pissing off the unions in advance of the election.
But it's going to be a big reminder to the American people that a Kamala Harris presidency Would mean that the unions run the government.
She also has been bleeding Jewish support.
A new Siena College poll shows Jewish New York voters actually favoring Donald Trump overall, which is an astonishing statistic.
That is a crazy statistic.
Understand that Jews generally in the United States are not a religious group.
Many people who perceive themselves to be Jewish don't in any way have a connection to Judaism or the state of Israel or Jewish practice or anything like that.
They just say they're Jewish because they were born Jewish or because it means that they can say in intersectional circles that they're not one of those terrible white people or whatever.
But Jews traditionally have voted very, very democratic.
Donald Trump, the most pro-Israel president in American history, last time around he won about 30% of the Jewish vote.
Well, in this new Siena College poll, Jewish New York voters favor Donald Trump over Kamala Harris, 54 to 46.
She's bleeding Jewish votes because she's spending all of her time trying to pander to terrorist supporters in Michigan.
That, by the way, isn't even helping her.
Apparently, yesterday, a national pro-Palestinian group announced it will not endorse Vice President Harris.
So despite the fact that they have basically captured her incoming administration, It doesn't matter, they're still not going to endorse her.
Because the minute they do, they're afraid that she is going to draw some sort of middle line between the terrorists and the Israelis.
That is the problem for Kamala Harris.
By the way, that problem is also going to exacerbate before the election because Israel is upping its action, as it should, in Lebanon.
Israel has made it an explicit war goal, supported by literally everyone in the Israeli government, right to left, to return the residents of Israel to the north.
The entire north of Israel has been depopulated by Hezbollah rocket fire.
Earlier today, Israel dropped a bomb in Beirut and likely killed the number two in Hezbollah.
The possibility of a very serious escalatory military action in Lebanon, meaning Israel actually goes and takes out Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, that's a very real possibility and it's likely going to happen inside the next few weeks.
So that is a full-scale problem for her because it gets her caught between her pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah supporters and Jews who actually think that, you know, people have a right to defend themselves against terror groups.
There are a lot of embedded problems for Kamala Harris.
And those embedded problems for Kamala Harris don't stop there.
You know, we mentioned the upcoming looming port strike, which is not going to be good for her.
One of the other problems is that the American people still do not perceive her as having a good economic plan.
And that is because the Democratic economic plan in general is not good.
Take, for example, Janet Yellen.
Janet Yellen, the Secretary of the Treasury.
Yesterday, she laid out what her economic plan is, which presumably mirrors Kamala Harris's.
She says it would be very bad to deport illegal immigrants and also bad to cut taxes, which means higher taxes, more illegals.
That's the Secretary of the Treasury.
That is a person allied with Kamala Harris.
Here she was yesterday saying it would be devastating to the U.S.
If the entire tax cut is just extended and nothing is allowed to expire, I believe the Congressional Budget Office Is estimated that over 10 years, that would be almost a $5 trillion blow to the overall budget deficit.
And honestly, I really believe that's something the United States can't afford.
Right, so we can't afford tax cuts, we can't afford massive new federal spending.
By the way, one of the reasons why they want more illegal immigrants?
According to a new study from JustFacts, a non-profit research institute, 10 to 27% of non-citizens adults in the United States are now illegally registered to vote.
The U.S.
Census recorded more than 19 million adult non-citizens living in the United States during 2022.
Given their voter registration rate, this means about 2 to 5 million of them are illegally registered to vote.
How many of them will actually vote?
We don't know.
That is not good.
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Also, it's been pretty obvious for a while that Democrats would love to mass amnesty these folks and turn them into voters immediately.
So, do you see what the plans are?
Do the plans sound indicative of something good for you?
Or are we still gonna do the brat, and the vibes, and the energy, and all the rest of this nonsense?
Speaking of illegal immigration, yesterday retired Border Patrol Sector Chief Heitke, he came out and he testified, Aaron Heitke, he testified before Congress that he was told by the Biden-Harris administration not to release information on illegal immigrants with ties to terrorism.
That's how bad the illegal immigration problem is in this country.
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In San Diego, we had an exponential increase in significant interest aliens.
These are aliens with significant ties to terrorism.
Prior to this administration, the San Diego sector averaged 10 to 15 SIA arrests per year.
Once word was out the border was far easier to cross.
San Diego went to over 100 SIAs in 2022, well over that in 2023, and even more than that registered this year.
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These are only the ones we caught.
At the time, I was told I could not release any information on this increase in SIAs or mention any of the arrests.
The administration was trying to convince the public there was no threat at the border.
By the way, speaking of non-normies, I do love that in American politics we've now reached the point where Hillary Clinton is considered a relative normie.
She is not.
Here's Hillary Clinton opening up about her marriage to Bill and what they do in the mornings.
These are the people we've been nominating in this country for far, far, far, far too long.
That's a lady who tried to cover up her husband's allegations.
That's who that is.
That Hillary Clinton.
By the way, if you believe that they share a bed, Unless Bill Clinton's prostate gave out, that is not true in any way, shape, or form.
Again, when I say return to normies, I'm not talking about Joe Schmoe on the street or something.
You want people who actually know how to do policy and who actually study policy.
What I mean is normal people who know how to do a thing.
Just as I think that you should hire normie accountants, normal people who are not in their off hours going to parties underneath the towers of New York City.
So you know, do your accounting.
Normal people who aren't spending their off hours going to weird sites and posting about how they love to do your plumbing.
I don't know.
Is it just me?
I don't know.
I feel like we've gone a little bit off the rails here.
I think the idea that we, the people, actually can be trusted to govern ourselves, for better or for worse, which acknowledges that we're going to be trade-offs, sometimes we'll get it wrong.
The idea that you get to speak your mind openly and express any opinion, no matter what that opinion is, no matter how heinous it is to me.
The fact that you get to express that opinion as long as I get to in return.
The fact that you get to practice your religion, whatever that religion is, as long as you're not hurting somebody else in the process.
Yeah, look, one of the things I've realized, Ben, is that after a year of running for president, the change we're going to drive in this country is not just going to be through politics.
And for me, it's been refreshing this year to take on a number of projects in the private sector where I hope we're driving positive change to address a lot of the issues that I spoke about in the campaign, but in ways that are far outside of partisan politics, and in some cases, Hopefully in many cases, even bringing along people who aren't just in the Republican or conservative echo chamber.
And that was one of my goals with this movie, is one of the issues I talked about, many of us have talked about over the last year, is the border crisis.
But one of the underbellies of that border crisis is forced child labor right here in the United States.
And I'm not being histrionic, this is not a hyperbole.
We claim that slavery ended in the United States in 1860, but there's a different form of forced labor that's unconscionable directly as a consequence of children and even adults, but particularly children, being trafficked in what is a profitable business for cartels across the southern border.
So this is a pretty cool movie.
It tells the story of one young man, his name is Jesus.
It's inspired by his true story of being lured into the United States on false pretenses, ends up in a sweatshop in L.A., forced to work under conditions that are unconscionable.
And, you know, no matter how libertarian you are about adults choosing to work in certain conditions, forcing a kid, a minor, to work in those conditions is something we all disagree is wrong.
But this is a story of one boy who fights back.
And so we hear a lot of statistics often.
There's 12 million people living in slavery or conditions of forced labor.
Statistics I don't think reach people and they become quickly politicized.
But this is a story, a story of just one young man who actually fought back against that system.
I don't want to give too much away, but it is a thriller.
It's not some sort of hit-you-over-the-head documentary that's preaching at you.
As important as some of those fact-exposing films might be, I don't think they end up reaching a lot of people.
Most people, by their nature, want to be entertained, so it was important to me that it's an entertaining movie and one that's actually a thriller that keeps people engaged.
But through that, I think it exposes an issue that, for too long, I think we have swept under the rug.
And the director's story in particular, he's an Indian immigrant in the United States, but his story is equally interesting to me is he's somebody who was born to a father who himself grew up in conditions of forced child labor.
So it's very personal to him.
I think that authenticity comes through in this movie about this boy from Mexico who is trafficked into the United States.
And one of my goals with this movie is, I hope, we're able to reach people who otherwise would dismiss in the context of a debate like the one that we had last night, or in the context of forums where you and I would usually appear, being on the defensive, pushing back against what Kamala Harris and Joe Biden actually have done at the border, and then we're at an impasse with at least 40 or 30 percent of the country.
I hope for even that 30 or 40 percent of the country, they're able to watch this movie.
I think most people We find it difficult to get through this movie without being in tears by the end of it in a way that allows us to have a consensus that I think is natural in the country, but in a hyper-partisan environment, we're not able to reach in adopting basic policies that would put an end to this type of child trafficking.
And so I hope that the movie has an impact.
I think it already has.
And I think it's going to take off at a scale that is a steady build.
And by this time next year, I think this is going to be one of the great award-winning movies looking back on 2024.
It's probably most theaters across the country, at least in most cities that are near you, and I think it's going to grow in the number of people that are able to reach it.
CityofDreamsMovie.com, that's where you can check it out.
It was my honor to work with There's not a conservative cadre behind this.
We, I think, have a wide range of folks from Tony Robbins to Sylvester Stallone to others who have gotten behind this movie in a big way, and I hope people are able to at least open their eyes to the problem.
I have to say, even if I may admit this myself, Yes, I talked a lot about the importance of fixing the trafficking issue at the southern border when I started my campaign last year.
But I have to admit, even I did not have a full grasp of the scale of this problem in the United States.
It's one of those things when you hear it first, you might wonder, is this actually real?
Is this some sort of hyperbole?
This can't be possibly happening in the United States.
But it turns out, once you open your eyes, it's actually ubiquitous at a scale that we are reluctant to admit.
And this shouldn't be an issue of left versus right.
Sadly, it has become politicized.
I think in some ways, even this movie, the fact that it touches this uncomfortable truth, I think has made it hard for a lot of people on the left to even publicly get behind this film, even though they would privately acknowledge that this is a major issue that they care about.
So I hope we're able to cut through that and both through this and You know, other things that I've tried to do in the private sector.
I've got a book coming out later this month.
Ben, you and I have talked about some of my past books, and maybe we can talk about the next one when it comes out.
I'm trying to drive change as much through our culture as through American politics.
And when we have a country to save, I think it's going to take all of those fronts to hopefully revive who we are.