Rubin Report - Dave Rubin - Dave Rubin on the 2016 Election | DIRECT MESSAGE | Rubin Report Aired: 2015-12-30 Duration: 05:01 === People's Perception of Trump & Hillary (04:19) === [00:00:02] Okay, so as you guys know, I'm always sitting down with guests, hearing what they hear about things. [00:00:07] But a lot of times you guys are asking me, what do I think about things? [00:00:09] I get some of it across in the show, a lot of it across on Twitter. [00:00:14] But we thought we'd do some quick videos on what I think about some of the hot issues of the day. [00:00:18] And you guys are always asking me about the 2016 election. [00:00:22] Believe it or not, we have 11 more months of this thing. [00:00:24] I feel like we've been doing this for five years already. [00:00:26] and some of these guys have been running their whole lives. [00:00:29] But yes, the election is coming. [00:00:31] Let's talk about the Democrats first, 'cause there's really only two of them, right? [00:00:34] Sorry, Martin O'Malley, it's not gonna happen this time. [00:00:37] You've got Bernie and you've got Hillary. [00:00:38] So Bernie quick, as I've said many times before, I really like Bernie. [00:00:42] I think he's talking about the right things. [00:00:44] I think money in politics may be the biggest problem we have in America, [00:00:48] because everything stems from that, right? [00:00:51] Because we have our warped system. [00:00:53] I think talking about the 99% and the 1% is big. [00:00:56] I have mentioned many times before that really, when they talk about the 1%, in a lot of polls it looks like the 1% is around $400,000 a year. [00:01:04] At $400,000 a year, yeah, you're doing well, you're doing better than me, but you know what? [00:01:09] You're not pulling strings, right, at 400 grand a year. [00:01:11] You're not even pulling strings at five million a year. [00:01:13] When we talk about the 1%, what we really should be talking about is the 0.1%. [00:01:16] People with hundreds of millions of dollars and billions of dollars that are just pouring money into the system, right? [00:01:21] And the horrible Supreme Court decision that allowed them to do this. [00:01:25] So I think Bernie basically is talking about the right things, you know, free college and stuff like that. [00:01:29] I hope we can pay for it. [00:01:31] But within what I can understand about a candidate, I do like him. [00:01:34] I do fear that a socialist from North, from New Hampshire. [00:01:39] A lot of people are not gonna get on board with that, especially people in the middle of the country. [00:01:44] And there's only a couple states that really matter because we know the way the map works out. [00:01:48] So it always, at this point, basically comes down to Florida, Ohio, [00:01:52] Colorado, Pennsylvania. [00:01:54] And I'm not sure that he can pull all those. [00:01:57] Of course, he'd have to beat Hillary in a primary to get there, so we shall see. [00:02:01] Hillary, yeah, this has been a pretty uninspiring campaign. [00:02:04] As a general rule, I like her better than the Republicans. [00:02:07] I think she's at her best when she's being attacked. [00:02:10] So like in the Benghazi hearing, I think she was good. [00:02:12] I think she's been pretty good in the debates. [00:02:15] But you know, her husband was president, and George W. Bush's dad was president, and now his brother wants to be president. [00:02:20] We left England so that we wouldn't have to have families that ruled over us for forever. [00:02:25] That's a big strike against her in my book. [00:02:27] I do think, you know, breaking that glass ceiling would be nice, and I basically think she's a decent person. [00:02:32] So I really do hate it when people on the left, on the far left especially, are framing that she's a neocon and she's exactly like the Republicans. [00:02:40] It's just silly. [00:02:41] I do have a sense that she understands the way government works [00:02:44] and is trying to make things better, but I don't love her by any stretch. [00:02:47] I know people are gonna be angry at me on that one. [00:02:50] As for the Republicans, they're all pretty terrible, right? [00:02:53] They just all are pretty terrible. [00:02:56] I've watched the debates, they're ridiculous. [00:02:57] You know, Trump, look, Trump has this thing so mixed up, has everyone so defensive and so crazed [00:03:04] that we can't really get a sense of who the real candidates are, right? [00:03:08] Bush has been terrible. [00:03:10] I mean, absolutely terrible. [00:03:11] I feel like they've got like a gun behind him and they're like, you're running for president whether you like it or not. [00:03:15] And he does not like it. [00:03:18] I think he's pretty uninspiring, right? [00:03:20] Trump is just, it's over the top and ridiculous. [00:03:23] Who the hell knows, right? [00:03:24] Nobody knows what to do about that. [00:03:27] Kasich, yeah, you know, he's basically okay. [00:03:29] Is he gonna be president? [00:03:30] Probably not. [00:03:32] Carly Fiorina, is she going to be president? [00:03:34] Probably not. [00:03:35] I think it would be interesting just to watch her debate with Hillary, two really strong women, but that wouldn't make me vote for anyone, certainly. [00:03:44] Who else you got? [00:03:45] I think Marco Rubio, even though I strongly disagree with him on some of the religious stuff and when he talks about abortion, I think at least he's in the right line of work. [00:03:52] I think he has a compelling story, his growing up and children of immigrants and all that stuff. [00:04:00] But yeah, he's a little too rehearsed and all that, and I hate to make it about the theatrics of television, but I think he's at least somebody that should be a politician, I suppose. === Debates Need Better Ideas (00:54) === [00:04:10] Who else? [00:04:11] Ben Carson? [00:04:12] I mean, Ben Carson's not going to be president. [00:04:13] He should be a neurosurgeon. [00:04:16] That's a specific job, and that's a pretty good job, and he should probably stick to that. [00:04:20] So I don't know who to support at any of these guys. [00:04:23] What I would like to see in general is that if we could talk about the ideas more instead of just the day-to-day, ah, this person said that thing, and this person, and gotcha this. [00:04:33] And, you know, the debates have been pretty bad. [00:04:34] I think the moderators have been pretty bad. [00:04:38] So I would like to see more big idea stuff. [00:04:40] Let's really talk about what role government should have. [00:04:43] Let's talk about, really, what are the ways that we can make the economy work better? [00:04:49] What are the ways that the tax system can be fairer? [00:04:52] You know, all of this stuff. [00:04:53] But unfortunately, we get caught in all this nonsense. [00:04:55] So, look, I love talking about it. [00:04:57] I love thinking about it. [00:04:59] And we're gonna keep going and we'll see how ridiculous it gets.