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May 7, 2024 - Doug Collins Podcast
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The Political Reality of the Campus Riots
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We'll get into the politics of the college rights.
I know we've talked about it a little bit before from the Bob mentality and other things, but some things are continually popping up about this that I want to continue to deal with a little bit, especially when it comes to the implications and the political implications of what's going on here.
Also, Google's at it again.
I'll get to that in a little bit about the Trump ad, and then the Gaza situation, the Hamas-Israel war, the actual war that's causing so much problems over here.
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All right, let's get into the...
I'm gonna start off here because this is the story that never...
It's not just going away.
This is a...
It's become multiple, multiple days of the college...
Riots in the takeovers, the other things, you can definitely begin to see probably more than any other events in the country right now, the differences in why our country is very divided right now.
And you see this in New England, you see it in California, although California is the Los Angeles County area, especially is taking down the cities and UCLA and USC, again, they have enough problems in Los Angeles that they don't need to be dealing with this.
But also you have what has been going on through the, what we'll just say is the Southern, the SEC. The riots would start and pro Israel and American saving the flag in North Carolina, which has become a thing.
I mean, of course, then you have some who, again, as you see, it takes too far on this.
And as you go, they come up and the pro-Hamas Agitators, and this is why I'm calling them agitators, because right now the mainstream media wants to portray them as college students.
Even the New York City Police and the Columbia Police admitted that more than half of those in the Columbia encampment and others were not college students.
And you're finding the same thing over and over and over again in many of these other college towns that we're going to, is that these are professional agitators.
Now there's becoming more and more evidence out there that you're having These professional agitators who are encouraging and talking and getting into the chat groups and others at different campuses after they've already started the protest and they're agitating and saying, okay, here's how you escalate.
Here's how you go to this.
And so you really have a cottage industry out there of political hacks and basically insurgents who are out there trying to disrupt our college campuses.
The tactic, and I say this with some, not trepidation, I just say it with honesty, you're looking a lot like, for the Democratic Party, this is the 68th And now you throw on top of this his own side.
Basically revolting against him.
And this is something that's a narrative you don't see as much in the mainstream media.
If you're just watching your evening news, you're probably not listening to this podcast, I'll be frank with you, but if you are, and I'm glad you are, you're not getting the story.
This is not the story that the mainstream media, the other legacy medias, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, to an extent is, but not very, Los Angeles Times, these are just not reporting.
The issues that are surrounding the internal struggles of the Democratic Party right now concerning the basically just dead revolt against Joe Biden and not going far enough left.
And now everybody else in the country is looking at this and saying, You know, they've went so far left, they've lost most of the country in determination, but yet we're sitting here seeing a group of agitators that have said, no, you've not went far enough into socialism and far enough into basically this placating terrorist attitude with open borders and everything else.
So again, this is a difficult time.
If you're the Biden administration, if you're a Biden White House, you've got to be looking at this.
Polls are starting to show up in this, and I think this is one of the things that you're seeing.
The interesting thing, though, is you look at polls and how this is going to affect, because I want to use the college riots as a political effect, is what does it mean politically?
And I think the biggest thing here is right now is it's eating away at the downed Item issues on polling.
Now, let me tell you what I mean by that.
And we've had, and we'll probably get John McLaughlin and some others back on here in the near future to talk polling on this cycle as we've had before.
But one of the things you look at in polling is you look at the top line numbers and you say, okay, what is, you know, the likely voters, all adults, you know, definite voters.
There's different ways to look at these Registered voters in looking at how you do polling.
Now, what is happening right now is if you just do everybody off the street, Trump's winning.
And I think that's something you've got to be very aware of.
What does that mean?
That means that the general move, this is why you're seeing the right direction, wrong direction.
This is why you're seeing people who are frustrated.
This is why even in these college riots, you're seeing the, you know, Blank Joe Biden chants being cited by both sides.
I mean, can you imagine being a political director in the White House or even the president himself, if he actually watches TV and understands, seeing the pro-Hamas rioters in some of the South, Alabama I think was one of them, LSU was another, in which both sides were chanting derogatory comments about the president.
Now think about that one for a second.
You've got the far left and the right both up against this president.
So when you look at it, this is what the national mood picks up.
And I think we don't talk about that enough.
We don't talk about the national mood and what the indicators of national mood.
Indicators of national mood many times don't reflect.
They do reflect all adults.
They're just a massive polling, Gallup polling, other polling.
They just reflect adults in general.
They don't get digged down to registered voters or likely voters.
Those are the kind of things that differentiate political campaigns and consultants as they go forward.
And the likely voter, registered voter kind of concept is definitely more what the campaigns are looking at.
So when you look at this, all of them are within margin of error.
I think that's the one thing to think about.
If you see a poll right now, presidential poll, they're all basically within margin of error.
Even when you throw in Robert F. Kennedy Jr., And others, it's still basically margin of error at the top.
And depending on the state, it's determined on how much it's affecting Trump or how much it's affecting Biden.
And I think that that one will soothe itself out later.
I think it will, in the end, Kennedy in particular will be affecting more Biden than Trump because I think Trump's team is already looking at that.
You're already seeing some negative or contrast pieces, however you want to put it, against Trump.
Kennedy going forward.
That is just to remind people that he's not a conservative.
He's not a libertarian even in many ways.
He is a liberal.
And that is running on some ideas that just resonate, such as vaccines and such as the government mandates and things like that.
I say this just to say, what is the political attitude?
Because when you get into the numbers, if it's all voters, it's Trump by a couple of points.
If you get into registered voters, you're looking at it as, you know, basically even, again, but it goes to Biden.
Likely voters are very similar situations, so it's one or two point different.
Either way, margin of error could go with three or four points both ways.
But then you drop down.
As I said earlier, you're dropping down into other items like direction of country.
What do you think about national security?
What do you think about immigration?
What do you think about the economy?
What do you think about these different issues?
And that is where Joe Biden's campaign has the biggest problem.
His backstop against that because he's losing 15, 20 points in some of these polls on those immigration issues, national security issues, economic issues, the direction of the country.
This is all bad.
And so the question is, how does Joe Biden win?
Well, he has to secure his liberal base who would never vote for anybody else except the Democratic candidate.
This Gaza pro-Hamas rioting and disbarking from the Democratic line is affecting Joe Biden.
As you're seeing, and we've talked about this in the race for the none of the above kind of candidates that you saw in Michigan, you saw in Maryland, you saw in several other places, Illinois, that is heavily affecting Joe Biden in areas where he can't afford to lose that many voters.
Now, you know, the other side will say, well, Trump has people who are voting for Nikki Haley in 15 to 16 percent.
I don't disagree, but I find it very hard to believe that all of those 15 or 16% will simply not vote for Trump.
They're definitely not going to vote for Biden, but they're not going to vote for Trump, especially if they feel the direction of the country is at risk.
And so I think you'll see most of those come back.
Because it's not an ideological difference, it's more of a choice, and at least it appears this way a preferential issue.
We would have rather had ex-Canada than Donald Trump.
But Donald Trump is a Republican.
I use Bill Barr, former Attorney General, in that regard as well.
I mean, he's voting for Donald Trump, although he and Donald Trump are not seeing eye to eye on almost anything these days.
He's still voting for Donald Trump because the Biden administration is a disaster.
So when you get to these who are not voting for Joe Biden and uncommitted, they're voting because especially what we're seeing here is either the liberal agenda is not going far enough or in the main reason this picked up recently is this fact of the Biden stance on Israel, which in my opinion is the right stance with Israel because of the terrorist groups, Hamas and Hezbollah and the others.
But they've seized upon this aspect of The campaign, and they're trying to make their will be felt.
The problem is, like in everything, they've attacked the very institutions of America.
I mean, when you're defaming a statue of George Washington, when you're tearing down or taking down American flags and putting Palestinian flags up on college campuses, I mean, you're losing the PR battle here, okay, among most Americans.
You know, there's that subset of 5% to 10% that you may be trying or thinking you're winning at this point.
But if the process that you're looking at, then this is going to be a problem for Joe Biden.
So the political aspects of this is they're trying, it took up until last week, at the end of last week, before Joe Biden would actually really condemn the violence on campus.
Again, this is also pitting We could go into this a lot deeper, and it's pitting two very reliable Democratic voter blocs in recent elections against each other.
That very liberal immigrant vote, the Muslim vote, others that have voted Democratic, and against the Jewish vote, which has been also heavily Democratic in many of these Northern and Northeastern states and other places.
It's pitting, you know, two of your own groups against each other, and Joe Biden's campaign is having to do is they're having to balance the two loads here between the very liberal side and then also the Jewish side that is feeling very much Left out of this because of the very anti-Semitic turn and very ugly turn on most of these college campuses that are happening right now.
So what does that mean, bigger picture?
It means right now that the campus riots are, and I think Joe Scarborough and several other liberal pundits have already talked about this.
This is giving Donald Trump just fodder.
For a fall campaign and they've already started it.
And which brings me up into one, I'm gonna touch on this briefly.
We'll probably do other episodes about the Google ban.
Donald Trump's team already came up with an ad, a very hard hitting political ad.
There was aimed more at minority voters and others, especially with the craziness that is going on.
And remember, every time Joe Biden now talks about the issue of student loans, Donald Trump can say, look, you're wanting to get rid of student loans for these people that are rioting on campuses.
You're subsidizing, basically, these colleges to train people who don't like America.
I mean, it's just an easy political pitch here.
And Google banned the ad after a lot of It's a very good ad.
If you look at it, it's out there.
You can go see it.
And it's a very hard-hitting ad.
It's the kind of ad that Biden can't answer right now.
So when he tried to answer it last week, he'd already been silent for two weeks.
And that just continues the process of the problem.
So looking at it from a political perspective, this is giving fodder for the Trump campaign to continue this sort of message that Joe Biden's leadership is leading us into division, leading us away from our traditional allies, or leading us away from the problems here in the country.
It is interesting to me that Democrats who typically try to do so much on domestic policy, this is an administration that seems to have a This to domestic policies when it comes to immigration, economics, what's happening on college campuses and things like that, and the effect that it has on average American voters who don't You know, they're not the ones protesting.
They're the ones getting them going to work every day.
They're the ones that are wondering why it's costing, you know, more and more, you know, it's 20% higher now to buy bread and buy milk and buy eggs and buy gas and pay for a house.
And now that the average payment is becoming, the average homeowner has to earn more than $100,000 a year to afford the median house range in most localities.
This is what they're feeling.
And the Biden administration just seems completely tone deaf to it.
I mean, they're talking about energy prices.
They're still talking about cutting American supply.
They're still cutting off ANWR in Alaska for drilling.
They're still going at the open border policy, which is still going to be, I believe, a major issue coming up in the elections in the fall.
So these just, you pile now on top of that, these campus riots and the political cost is coming out of the height of Joe Biden.
The one thing right now that you're starting to see, and I was one of the first to actually talk about this, I believe, at least on Podcasts or other places, is if they believe that these campus riots, this is before the campus riots, If you are concerned about 1968 being revisited,
then Joe Biden's Democratic National Convention going to Chicago this summer is going to be one of those issues that you just really are struggling to make sure it works out.
Because the historical precedent here with the Vietnam War, the protesters, 68 became the just Very much indelible print on the American psyche and also the death knell of the Democratic Party nationally for several years because of the lawlessness that was created there.
We'll see what happens.
We're in a modern era.
We'll see what happens in Chicago 24. But I think these riots are giving an outside, especially these outside agitators who have been begging for years to have something to do.
And the throwbacks to the 60s, hippie wannabes, they're making their mark right now because they're using the tools of technology.
They're using the tools of the Internet to be able to plop themselves into riots all across the country at lightning speed, real-time speed, as whereas before, if you go back to the 60s, they were having to travel between.
They were having to use old telephones.
There was just a lot more connectivity we have today that's going to allow them to plan and agitate more and more as they come.
So these college riots are becoming more and more of a political liability.
I'm going to just say, you know, look at how this is all going to ferret out as we go forward here.
And then the ultimate underlying of this all, and I want to end here today, is the Hamas-Israel war.
We just found out this past week that Israel's ammunition supply from the U.S. is being cut off for at least a short amount of time.
I'm not sure what the delay will be, but it's being reported that that is being cut off.
We'll see how that actually works going forward, especially as the Rafah and other invasions are imminent.
And Hamas is still fighting.
And if you don't believe it, just this weekend, they shelled an Israeli outpost outside of Gaza, killing 10.
They're still attacking humanitarian aid, especially.
As long as the world is begging for humanitarian aid to get to the Palestinians in Gaza, it is the Palestinians.
Who are being tortured by their own leadership in Hamas, the terrorists in Hamas, who are keeping them from it.
So again, it's the sketch 22. Hamas is the problem, the terrorists are the problem, but yet everybody else is being blamed, including Israel, to back down while the terrorists run rampant over the people in the Palestinian settlement there in Gaza.
The one last thing that I've mentioned before, it's actually coming back up again, is that finally the United States and others are putting pressure on Qatar to say, if Hamas doesn't begin to agree to some of these issues, then we're going to make sure that you kick the leadership, which should have been kicked out on October the 7th.
If they want to lead the war, then they need to go back to Gaza and lead the war.
They don't need to lead it from the high rise and penthouses of Qatar.
And that's becoming more and more of an issue now.
So a lot of things coming up.
That's where the Biden administration is putting a lot of their time trying to get a ceasefire.
They're trying to get something in there that shows that this is over because they realize this is a political dynamite in this campaign season that they We believe that they can focus on Trump and trials and everything else, but they have their own problem that is worse than anything else.
Because right now, most people view the trials of Donald Trump, especially when the cases get laid out and the trial of Donald Trump right now in this money case in D.C. and New York is a joke.
And people are beginning to realize that.
So as we look at this going forward, that's where we're at here on this Monday.
Glad you're with us here on the Doug Collins Podcast.
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