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Jan. 29, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
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David Bahnsen on Elizabeth Warren
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So, just out of curiosity, if it's not her ideas that are sinking her, what is?
Ironically, I think she did it to herself, and this is what I mean.
I think I have this little theory I've developed recently in politics that a really bad thing you go through may very well be...
What solidifies your political future.
I think that Jeremiah Wright helped Barack Obama for the simple reason that he survived it.
Access Hollywood ended up helping Trump.
He survived it.
The Indian Native American nonsense from Elizabeth Warren, where she was caught in such an embarrassing lie, well, back in October when I wrote the book, it seemed to me she had survived that escapade and therefore had really become a strengthened and more robust candidate.
But she refused to tell the American people what Bernie was willing to tell them, which is that she was going to have to raise taxes to pay for the $15 trillion public spending program.
And ironically, of all people, it was Mayor Pete who called her out on it, and she has not recovered from that moment.
Oh, that's fascinating.
That's what did it.
If people sense you're not leveling with them, you're doomed in politics.
Exactly.
I agree.
I think that there's a sense that Trump has been a really interesting learning experience for a lot of people at what brute honesty at times in terms of just saying hard things, whether people like hearing it or not.
It doesn't necessarily turn people off.
And I think that with Elizabeth Warren...
She particularly was vulnerable here, Dennis.
Yeah, all right, hold on there, and I want to hear why.
That's the point we'll leave.
Why was she particularly vulnerable?
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