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July 17, 2024 - Doug Collins Podcast
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The V.P. Pick Is In
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Chip and James and myself talking about all the craziness of not only politics, but sports and everything in between.
And then a lot of great guests that you're going to be lined up to hear in the next little bit.
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But right now, after the break, we're going to come back and talk about the pick it is in.
JD Vance is now the new pick for Vice President to go on the Trump Vance ticket.
We'll talk about JD Vance, we'll talk about the implications there, and also talk about the Republican convention.
As I've sort of said, this is not going to be your old GOP convention here.
There's a lot of new things to discuss, especially from the first night.
I want to go over some of those, and we'll get right to it right after the break.
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Alright, let's just start off number one.
Pick came yesterday afternoon.
J.D. Vance is the vice presidential pick for Donald Trump.
A lot of speculation leading up to this.
Came down to the end to Marco Rubio, Doug Burgum, possibly Glenn Youngkin was in that mix a little bit.
But I think in many ways the Vance pick had been sort of settled in and was getting settled in since late last week.
Going forward, Vance is a freshman senator from Ohio.
He served two years there.
He's his first elected office.
I think that's what appealed to many in the Trump family, but also the Trump team.
Law school graduate.
He's an Ohio State Buckeye.
Eh, for this old Georgia boy down here in this SEC, we'll forgive that.
But brings a very much of a working-class mentality and overcome.
Now, he, again, as he got over into business, he made it a Very much some good decisions.
He wrote a book about his life called Hillbilly Elegy.
Many of you who before you even knew who J.D. Vance was, you may have read or watched the movie Hillbilly Elegy.
And for those who grew up in rural homes and the Appalachian communities, the Southern Appalachian Midwestern cultures, this was a very stark book.
It's very harsh.
Of reality, but it's the reality that many grew up in.
And it was the reality of J.D. Vance.
He wrote about it.
Ron Howard produced a movie about it.
Many, many people have seen now.
So he made it to Yale, made it to D.C., went through South to California, went through the venture capital side, Peter Thiel, very much of a huge backer of J.D. Vance.
And he's one of the smarter, sharper individuals on the Hill.
And I think that's gonna play well.
I think Kamala Harris, although the Vice President tried to put up a strong front yesterday, this is not the debate she wants to have.
I think she was hoping for something else because she already struggles in debate settings.
We've already watched Tulsi Gabbard eviscerate her in the presidential debates in 2020, leading up to her dropping out before Iowa.
Now you're gonna have J.D. Vance.
It's going to be interesting to watch come that debate.
It'll be probably as much watched as any anticipated vice presidential debate upcoming.
And if you just want to get a flavor of J.D. Vance, just go to the social medias.
Look at his interviews on NBC and CBS and his answers back.
Now, J.D. represents a A more populous version of the Republican Party.
He represents a more America first version of the Republican Party, things that are different than we've seen in the past.
He is very much a critic of the Ukrainian aid, and I think a lot of people are, and especially the way that has been going on.
He was out front in that.
Now, he is a Marine.
He served in Iraq.
He and I were separated by about two and a half years, I guess.
Judging by the time he was in Iraq and I was in Iraq, he's a Marine, public affairs officer, enlisted, and as he goes through that, then he comes back out and goes to Ohio State, then on the Yale Law.
Married one of his Yale Law classmates there, and the rest is history in that regard.
My understanding also is that Vivek Ramaswamy and him were classmates.
At Yale.
So again, interesting turn of events in that regard.
You'll see a much more, a little bit more isolationist perspective in the projection of power, using power when needed, but not using power when American interests are not I think that's going to be an interesting perspective from Vance coming forward, one that he has clashed with many in the Senate over.
It is sort of interesting to me that Lindsey Graham comes out yesterday very much in support of JD Vance.
I would not, frankly, have expected anything less, but it's also interesting to know that Lindsey was one of JD Vance's Main critics when it comes to Ukraine aid and foreign aid and some other, especially in dealing with what the Biden administration has done in the Ukraine.
So again, United, the one thing I'm hearing from folks at the convention and I talked to many is that there is a united Republican party.
Three or four months ago when we were on this podcast, we were dealing with the Haley crowd, the others in the race, the double nose of Biden and Trump, and is the Republican Party going to sort of eat itself away?
Will there be a staged rally by Haley voters who want to make a statement at the convention?
All that went away.
And then all of that went away even more so when The assassination attempt happened on this past Saturday.
This united front of the Republican Party is strong.
It's interesting that its breadth of not only everybody that is in public office for the most part is supporting this ticket.
Whether they support Donald Trump and J.D. Vance as a ticket, there is You know, for many is not the issue.
The issue is an incompetent presidency of Joe Biden that is showcased in his, you know, slipping and dementia issues and others that have been brought out.
I mean, so this is, it's going to be An interesting time here as we fall into the next little bit, watching this progression of the convention over the next few days, more speakers coming out, and talking about a vision forward.
Now, we're a month, over a month, away from the Democratic National Convention.
I do believe now that we're solidified in the fact that Joe Biden's going nowhere on this ticket.
Joe Biden will be the candidate for the Democrats at this time.
And so I think we're set.
And I think that's what most of us thought even after the Liberals went into panic mode after the debate.
They're still in panic mode.
The only thing that can still get him out in the next week to 10 days is the fundraising dries up completely.
Now, if you want to control a presidential campaign, Then the large donors, the ones who are stroking the 10, 15, 20 million, 30 million dollar checks, are the ones that, if they stop writing those checks, then the campaign is in trouble, because you're trying to run a national campaign with multiple states in play, and Donald Trump has now put states that they never thought they would have to spend money in, into play, such as Virginia is now, he's behind by three.
You're looking at Pennsylvania.
Trump is up by four to five, and we've not even seen the bounce coming off of polls, off of the convention and the other events that have happened since last Saturday.
Look, the Democrats have got a problem here, and I think you'll see that retreat back into trying to Save what they can in the House and play for a tie at best in the United States Senate, because that's all they can really get right now is a tie.
There's no real platform out there for them to gain the majority.
Once they lost to West Virginia, They sort of put it back into that tie mode that we're looking at.
So it's going to be interesting is where they put the money into the next few weeks.
But that would be the one thing that would get Biden out of this race, you would see.
But again, will the money come back quick enough under a Kamala Harris and whoever picked for vice president there?
That's an entirely different conversation.
So I think for all intents and purposes, the race is set.
Now the question will be is how does Biden And the team react.
This week, I'm waiting for Thursday night to hear Donald Trump in what is now a new speech compared to what he had originally written before the assassination attempt, looking at a unity speech.
We'll see how that plays.
Joe Biden stayed with unity all of about 12 hours after going on the TV Sunday night to say we all need to come together and the rhetoric needs to turn down.
Karine Jean-Pierre yesterday from the White House podium said, yes, we're going to still continue to call him a threat to democracy, which is again, remember I said this on Monday's podcast, this is code word for Donald Trump will destroy America.
Okay.
That's what that is.
Don't confuse it for anything else.
It's code to say Donald Trump will destroy all the liberal values that we love and America will not be what we want it to be.
That's the simple to say.
And that is very divisive language and very much language that, you know, Puts a tone to this campaign that should never be there.
So as we look ahead and we go forward, Biden himself did an interview on Monday night with Lester Holt.
And in that interview, he, again, said that basically tried to deny the things that he had said about putting a target on Donald Trump and in the rhetoric of, you know, going back.
And again, just fought back and forth with Lester Holt about this.
This is not I mean, it's one thing if there was a doubt in this.
There's just not a doubt.
This is what they're saying.
This is how it's being played.
And when you understand that, you know, it may it just highlights the point.
As I've said on an interview this week, look, the biggest issue is going to come earlier now than I thought it would.
If you remember me here on the podcast back in the early part of this year, and especially during the spring, I said that the real case for this race will come down into October when people have to look at Joe Biden And they have to look at Donald Trump and they say, which one do I think actually can lead for four years or lead in a way that is a statement that the U.S. is strong and the U.S. is not going anywhere?
I thought that was going to get a little bit later into the cycle.
I thought it'd be October.
It's happening now and especially after the assassination attempt on Saturday in which Donald Trump gets back to his feet.
He shouts to the crowd, puts his fist in the air and He says, fight, and the crowd breaks out into USA. I mean, there's just two.
I mean, you have one man who a Department of Justice prosecutor said is not fit to stand trial, incapable of standing trial, and the other one is standing up after getting shot and still exhorting the crowd in a moment of chaos.
I mean, this is just a very obvious kind of look.
When you just put the eye test to this candidate.
And I think a lot of people, as much as we think about policy and we think, which I would love to see, I would love for Joe Biden to get up and actually explain his policies of open border and of tearing up American energy independence and going and begging for oil from overseas and putting our regulatory system in a place that Is struggling, making businesses have to struggle and doing things that cost American jobs.
You know, just the whole lapse of many things in this administration.
But the real problem he has is nobody believes it.
Because they don't think he understands exactly what's going on in the US. So we're going to be looking at these across continually through the fall.
I am anxious to see the numbers, poll numbers next week.
I think they're going to be really telling to see how much of a bump Donald Trump gets out of the convention, along with a new pick of J.D. Vance as Vice President.
Still, my numbers that you really look at in this will come out in September.
By September, you're going to start getting hardened numbers, and then by October, those numbers are going to be You're going to start seeing if there's going to be any movement, you'll see it late.
If that lead comes out of this and the RNC convention this week for Trump and bills through August doesn't take a real hit after the Democratic National Convention, then this is a race in which Republicans need to step on the gas and get out there and register voters, get people to the polls, not take this for granted, and then we have a chance to a solid majority into the Senate, a solid majority into the House, and a president who's willing to sign the bills.
That's what it all matters.
It's a three-sided coin.
You need 218, 60, and 1. You need 218 in the House to pass a bill, 60, which is our cloture vote in the Senate, and you need a president willing to sign it.
That's how you get laws done.
No other way.
Nothing else happens.
So in understanding that, that's why I think this is very, very important as we go forward.
I do want to comment, though, before we get a little bit further into the podcast and be done for the day here on this Wednesday, is I've heard a lot of comments about the speaking segments in the convention and, of course, there's a lot of politicos that are going to be speaking, a lot of elected officials speaking, and, of course, the president and others on Thursday night and the vice president on Wednesday night will be speaking.
But on the first night, Amber Rose, who is a social media influencer, has had multiple very high-profile public affairs and liaisons with rappers and I mean, there's just a long list that you would never expect to see at a Republican convention.
But on Monday night, she actually got forward, said that she came from a never-Trumper and believed all the left's lies about Donald Trump until she actually did the research herself.
And now she has come around to being a Donald Trump supporter.
And she made it to the podium last night.
Another one that made it to the podium last night that I think probably sends fear into the Democrats more than any, and that was Sean O'Brien, the Teamsters president, who spoke last night and very frankly spoke.
He did not cut words or make it palatable, so to speak, to what he would think a Republican audience wanted to hear.
He struck right at international corporations.
He struck right at nationalist elites that have no national You know, origin or have no national allegiance, as he said, brought out Amazon in particular, others.
I mean, and then praised actually a few GOP senators for, including J.D. Vance, for, you know, the deal and working with the working class.
I think this is an interesting time for labor.
There were other labor leaders who spoke last night and said that, you know, they'll be voting for Donald Trump.
This is a voting block that the Democrats have always tried to take for granted, and it mixes.
Ronald Reagan was the first to really knock into this group and have what the old Reagan Democrats of the 1980s and 84s were.
We saw this a little in 2016. I think we'll see it even more so in this election.
And the reason that's important is you see the votes in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota even.
And these are very, you know, unionized states.
This is where that working-class voting bloc that has been so, in Pennsylvania in particular, have been so affected by the Biden policies and the 20% inflation that has accumulated over the Biden presidency.
That will be effective.
So, I mean, when you tell me that you're having, you know, social celebrities that never voted or never wanted to be part of the Republican Party and may not still be part of the Republican Party, but they're going to support Donald Trump.
You have the Teamsters presence speaking from the platform at the Republican Convention on Monday night as they talk about wealth and prosperity and getting our country forward.
You see the unity that is being exhibited among many factions of the Republican Party.
Toward getting Donald Trump re-elected, you just have to say this is not your father's Republican party.
I think this is going to be interesting.
It's going to be tough for some of the Republicans who've always said, well, this is what we do and how we do it.
Well, maybe to look at this in the future moving forward, there's going to have to be some discussion on how we actually examine issues and how we communicate with issues.
This is something that I've been talking about all over the country for years now, is we've got to get better at communicating what we believe and why we believe it.
Wednesday update.
We'll have some more updates.
If anything breaks at the convention and you need to hear it, we'll definitely break in and we'll send out a special podcast.
But right now, thanks for joining us on this Wednesday.
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