May 12, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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| Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance. | |
| So, how did Donald Trump do in the debate? | |
| First, let's hear from his worst enemies. | |
| According to the New York Times, and I quote, Donald J. Trump overwhelmed the first Republican presidential debate. | |
| The Times goes on to say, Mr. Trump repeatedly made the most of his center stage position And ensured he would star in weeks of video clips. | |
| What about CNN? | |
| They headlined their print article,"No One Eclipses Donald Trump at GOP Debate." They went on to say,"Trump navigated the debate stage with ease, even when faced with unexpectedly sharp questions." Unexpectedly sharp? | |
| I expected them. | |
| I'm sure Mr. Trump did too. | |
| The Washington Post concluded its article, and I quote, "No question, this was Trump's | |
| The Post pointed out that of the ten candidates, Mr. Trump had more speaking time than anyone else and added that he"earned every moment of his time in the spotlight." The Tampa Bay Times gave its story in the debate a two-word headline: Trump Dominant. | |
| The Time Magazine website had a reader's poll on who won the debate. | |
| Mr. Trump was way out in front with 47%. | |
| The next best were Ben Carson and Marco Rubio with a measly 11% each. | |
| And Time Magazine is one of the most sniveling, spineless publications in the country. | |
| What's going on here? | |
| What's going on is that even Mr. Trump's harshest critics have to admit That he stuck to his guns, was never flustered, got off some great lines, and isn't afraid to insult and offend people he doesn't like. | |
| Even the libs can't help admiring him for that. | |
| And, yes, Mr. Trump stole the show. | |
| Here is a table that shows the speaking time for every candidate. | |
| As you can see, the Donald took the lead, followed by Jeb Bush, with Rand Paul coming in last. | |
| Is it a coincidence that Dr. Paul was the candidate that tried the hardest to attack Mr. Trump? | |
| Entirely aside from what the candidates said, Mr. Trump simply came across as a genuine person. | |
| The others wore their painted-on TV faces and dipped into their set of canned answers. | |
| Mr. Trump gestured, was expressive, talked back to the questioners when he thought they were out of line. | |
| And he never fell into one of those boring numbers and policy and details type of answers politicians love. | |
| Someday, he may have to have policies, but for now, he's doing well simply by saying, whatever's wrong with the country, trust me, I can fix it. | |
| One of the most important points Mr. Trump made was his defense of his own outspokenness. | |
| He put it this way. | |
| I think the big problem this country has is... | |
| I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. | |
| And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either. | |
| This country is in big trouble. | |
| We don't win anymore. | |
| We lose to China. | |
| We lose to Mexico, both in trade and at the border. | |
| We lose to everybody. | |
| And frankly, what I say, and oftentimes it's fun, it's kidding, we have a good time, what I say is what I say. | |
| The country is in big trouble. | |
| And plenty of people are afraid to talk honestly about how to solve problems because they'll be accused of being insensitive. | |
| Here is Mr. Trump on immigration. | |
| So, if it weren't for me... | |
| You wouldn't even be talking about illegal immigration, Chris. | |
| You wouldn't even be talking about it. | |
| This was not a subject that was on anybody's mind until I brought it up at my announcement. | |
| So far, so good. | |
| But then there was this. | |
| And I said, we need to build a wall. | |
| And it has to be built quickly. | |
| And I don't mind having a big, beautiful door in that wall so that people can come into this country legally. | |
| But we need, Jeb, to build a wall. | |
| We need to keep illegals out. | |
| Mr. Trump doesn't yet seem to realize that the people coming here legally aren't that different from the ones coming illegally. | |
| In the past, he has talked about letting in immigrants who benefit America, and he even once suggested making it easier for Europeans to come. | |
| But last night, there was nothing about any of that, and not one word on birthright citizenship. | |
| The fact that when a pregnant Mexican sneaks across the border and gives birth, the baby is an automatic U.S. citizen. | |
| If anything, Ted Cruz took a stronger position on immigration. | |
| He said President Obama wants fundamentally to transform the country and that amnesty will do exactly that. | |
| He said other candidates have supported amnesty, but he never has and never will. | |
| He said anyone who fights for the Islamic State should lose his passport. | |
| Last night, Mr. Trump's position on immigration was almost mainstream. | |
| When the debate moderators invited John Kasich and Marco Rubio to distance themselves from him, they wouldn't do it. | |
| Mr. Kasich said that anyone trying to tune out Mr. Trump was making a mistake. | |
| As he put it, immigration touches a nerve. | |
| Marco Rubio also refused to attack Mr. Trump. | |
| Pointing out that Americans think immigrants are taking advantage of us. | |
| He wants to build a wall, too. | |
| Of course, Mr. Rubio is a squish on what really matters. | |
| He bragged that as a senator from Florida, he represents the most diverse state, adding, If I'm our nominee, we will be the party of the future. | |
| Ugh. If anything, Rand Paul is an even worse squish. | |
| Twice in his closing statement, he said, I'm a different kind of Republican. | |
| Here's what makes him different. | |
| But I've also gone to Chicago. | |
| I've gone to Detroit. | |
| I've been to Ferguson. | |
| I've been to Baltimore. | |
| Because I want our party to be bigger, better, and bolder. | |
| And here he is in a campaign ad, wearing the very t-shirt that's going to make the Republican Party bigger, better, and bolder. | |
| Ugh. But to return to Mr. Trump, one of his refrains was, our country is in serious trouble. | |
| He's right about that. | |
| This country owes $19 trillion, he said, and they need somebody like me to straighten out that mess. | |
| But when it comes to solutions, he doesn't get much further than, we have to make our country great again and I will do that. | |
| If he ever makes it to the White House, he'll find it's mighty hard to make a great country out of third world people. | |
| Will he ever be president? | |
| It no longer looks impossible. | |
| The audience for this debate was a record-breaking 24 million viewers. | |
| That's more than three times the number that watched even the most popular debate in the last presidential election. | |
| It may well have been the biggest non-sports cable broadcast in history, and that's because it starred Donald Trump. | |
| He has already confounded the political analysts. | |
| A commentator at the Washington Post wrote an article called Boy Was I Wrong About Donald Trump. | |
| He pointed out that Mr. Trump has improved his ratings at a miraculous rate. | |
| In May, only 23% of GOP voters viewed him favorably and 65% were against him. | |
| Just two months later, 57% were favorable and only 40% were unfavorable. | |
| You just don't do that in politics. | |
| And believe it or not, In an August 4 poll, Mr. Trump scored better with Hispanics than any other Republican candidate. | |
| 34% liked him. | |
| That's more than the 31% who liked Jeb Bush, who's married to a Mexican. | |
| Even Mexicans like a straight shooter better than a squish. | |
| Donald Trump moving into the White House would be one of the most astonishing things ever to happen in American politics. | |
| If he ever got there, He wouldn't be everything that white advocates would want in a president. | |
| But he's in nobody's pocket. | |
| He is the one candidate who could actually do things that could help the white majority. |
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