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July 3, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Jill Biden Predicts Debate Performance - July 2nd, Hour 2
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This is Joe Concha, the Sean Hannity Show, 800-941.
Sean, if you wish to opine, phones are blowing up.
So we're going to get to your calls in just a little bit.
But again, a little about me.
I'm sure you already know if you listen to the show.
I'm a Fox News contributor.
I'm on Sean's TV show a lot.
I'm on tonight.
As a matter of fact, Kellyanne Conway is filling in.
I don't know if I remember Kellyanne being a guest host before.
I've been on with her a thousand times as far as doing the pundit thing.
But yeah, that should be cool.
And that's at 9 o'clock Eastern on the Fox News channel.
I'm also a best-selling author of my next book.
My first book, obviously, was Come On Man, The Truth About Joe Biden's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Presidency.
And that was a national bestseller, and that like blew me away because I could barely do a thousand words for a column, like when I'm running for the New York Post, for example, to do 65,000 words.
Didn't think we'd get there, but actually it was quite easy.
The book wrote itself.
How could it not with all the material I had to work with as far as this man and his life is concerned and Joe Biden?
But now my next book comes out July 30th.
So we're talking about four weeks from now, and that is called Progressively Worse, Why Today's Democrats Ain't Your Daddy's Donkeys.
And boy, I mean, again, talk about an easy book to write.
And I go through the years as far as like, I look at JFK.
Boy, John F. Kennedy would basically be MAGA at this point, right?
I mean, this guy, he slashed taxes more than any president had ever to that point.
And the economic growth during the Kennedy years before his assassination, he inherited a recession, and they were at something like 6.8% GDP growth by 1964.
Obviously, he believed in a strong military.
He stared down the Soviets, obviously, Cuban Missile Crisis.
Didn't believe in racial quotas or affirmative action, just believed in, you know, merit-based stuff, common sense, you know.
So Kennedy was like, he would be laughed out of the room today if he were to run in this current environment.
And then I even talk about Clinton Obama.
I mean, we're not talking that long ago as far as this evolution or actually the opposite of evolution as far as the Democratic Party is concerned and where they are now.
I mean, Bill Clinton, go back and listen to any number of speeches Bill Clinton did on illegal immigration sometimes.
He almost makes Trump sound like a wallflower the way he spoke about those people taking jobs from Americans.
They're all going to deport them if they're found in this country illegally.
You're like, whoa.
So Clinton, you know, and again, I get a lot of flag from this from folks in the right.
He was a good president.
I'm sorry.
He was.
And don't give me Monica.
All right.
That's the personal stuff.
And he blew the whole thing.
Worst unforced error in history.
But all I know is we had a balanced budget amendment.
We had surpluses.
We had a roaring economy.
We were at peace.
He declared the era of big governments over, ended the welfare state.
And I could go on and on as far as him actually being smart enough, politically smart enough to say, all right, I don't have the House anymore.
I could either do what like Biden's doing now and just oppose Republicans on every turn and what Democrats like AOC do.
They just run the Twitter Eric Swalwell shift and they just bash Republicans on a very personal level.
Clinton's like, oh, well, this is the hand I'm dealt with.
I want to win reelection.
I'll work with Newt on all these things, Balance Budget Amendment particularly, was very impressive.
And they got it all done.
And then Clinton won basically a landslide over Bob Dahl.
So yeah, he was a good president.
And that was a different Democratic Party then.
No question about it.
And Obama, same thing.
They only called him the deporter-in-chief.
The left hated him for that.
But Obama and Jay Johnson was an excellent Department of Homeland Security secretary.
And they had immigration relatively under control.
Wasn't perfect.
I know that, but it wasn't what we saw in the last three and a half years.
That's certainly for sure.
So please, you can buy the book now.
You can pre-order it anyway, Amazon, wherever you buy books.
Once again, that's progressively worse.
Why today's Democrats, and I always go to a southern accent here for whatever reason, ain't your daddy's donkeys.
Let's play some clips.
Because I really want to hammer this point home about who is most responsible for the current predicament that Democrats are in.
And yeah, Joe Biden, of course, he's a big boy.
But in the end, it's the wife.
It's the first lady.
It's Jill Biden because she went on national television on ridiculous shows like The View and said this, cut whatever, go.
Built that in where they're going to turn off those mics so that somebody can't ramble or scream at somebody.
You know, not that my husband would be the one doing that.
And so that's already been negotiated.
And, you know, I think, but I think the American people deserve a debate because you need to see your choices.
You need to see Trump and you need to see the president.
And you need to see the differences.
And my husband's, and you're going to see how smart he is and the experience he has.
And then you'll see somebody who, like you're saying, I'm going to use Joy's words, can't put a sentence together.
And everything is beautiful and it's one tremendous.
So I think you deserve.
The American people deserve to see the two men who are running for this office because your choice is going to be clear.
Oh, I need like a doctor or something.
I may have to go to an urgent care like during the break here.
I broke two ribs laughing as hard as that one line.
He's going to show how smart he is, Joe Biden, uh-huh.
And Trump's the one that can't put a sentence together and those cackling hens all agreeing along with it.
Oh, I mean, that's just a whole bowl of wrong, everything we just heard.
And that's the thing.
She's lying.
She wasn't gaslit on this.
She wasn't surprised by what happened.
Oh, it's a cold.
We hear from Green Jean-Pierre on at least five occasions today.
The cold made the guy forget everything and not be able to speak.
Colds do that now.
Wow, that's one hell of a cold.
But the point is that she sees Joe Biden in private.
And she knew exactly what we're dealing with now at this point when you take him out of a teleprompter and he has to think for himself.
And she actually went on TV and said what she said.
And she's the one driving right now.
This whole narrative within the White House that Joe Biden ain't going anywhere.
And if you're a fan of Donald Trump, you say, good, please root for Jill Biden and her quest to stay in power at this point because there is no shot at all that Joe Biden can win.
Don't give me the cheat thing.
Don't give me anything else.
These margins that I'm seeing right now are truly incredible.
There's one internal poll that just went up.
And listen to these numbers.
Trump plus 11, North Carolina.
Trump plus 10, Georgia.
Trump plus 10, Arizona.
Trump plus 9, Nevada.
Trump plus 7, Pennsylvania.
Trump plus 7, Michigan.
Trump plus 4, Wisconsin.
Trump plus 3, New Hampshire.
Trump also up in Virginia and New Mexico.
Game over, folks.
Unless somebody else is installed.
And again, I don't know if that could even be legally possible, getting on all these state ballots with 125 days to go.
And oh, by the way, we kind of have to get to know this person, right?
Like Gretchen Whitmer, yeah, I guess we kind of know who she is because maybe we watch Fox and we listen to a show like this, but I don't know anything about her.
So this person would have to define themselves, defend all of Joe Biden's policies, all the things we just talked about as far as immigration and spending in the economy and the wars, and then still beat Donald Trump, who has a gale force wind at his back.
He had it even before the debate at this point.
The Democratic brand is what I'm trying to say, is broken.
And you could put in Newsome, Budejej, Whitmer, Hillary, Michelle.
I don't care.
Michelle.
I love that argument, by the way.
She hasn't worked in 20 years, any job.
And she's just going to walk in and because, well, Oprah likes her that everybody's going to vote for her.
No.
You tell me how she's going to fix the economy.
What she knows about inflation.
What she knows about trade deals.
What she knows about immigration and the border.
What she knows about being a commander in chief.
Oh, well, her husband was president.
Yeah, and eight years ago.
And by the way, if the Obama brand is so terrific, how did Donald Trump win in 2016 again?
How did that happen?
That was an indictment on Obama and people screaming for change after going through such an average D plus C minus presidency.
Bin Laden, got bin Laden.
Only accomplishment.
And quite frankly, that was an operation that was led by the military.
Obama had nothing to do with it.
But give him credit, he did say go on in and get him when Joe Biden said, I don't think we should do this mission.
Wrong again.
Anyway, let's do a little comparison, shall we?
This is Joe Biden 2019 version.
Okay, so this is just five years ago.
This is when he's running for president versus Joe Biden 2024.
This is what we call a stark contrast.
Whatever.
Go.
I continue to think we have to make fundamental changes in civil rights.
And those civil rights, by the way, include not just only African Americans, but the LGBT community.
He wants to get away with getting rid of the ability of Medicare to the ability to for the.
I did not oppose busing in America.
What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education.
That's what I oppose.
Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with.
Look.
You will determine the outcome of this election.
Vote, vote, vote.
If you're able to vote early in your state, vote early.
If you're able to vote in person, vote in person.
Vote whatever way is the best way for you because you will, he cannot stop you.
And I'm going to continue to move until we get the total ban on the total initiative relative to what we're going to do with more Border Patrol and more asylum officers.
That's for sure.
President Trump.
I really don't know what he said at the end of this, and I don't think he knows what he said either.
We focus so much on Biden, but Trump had some great zingers, and they were unrehearsed, obviously.
Anyway, meanwhile, my dad's texting me.
What's going on?
Look, Dad, I'm on the radio.
All right.
I know you're hearing me on iHeart right now, but texting during the show could be a little bit distracting, and I appreciate the support and everything.
But wait for the commercial break.
Thank you, Dad.
All the respect in the world for you, by the way.
Really appreciate the whole upbringing thing.
Think it turned out okay.
But again, no text during the show.
Thank you.
Anyway, let's go to boy.
It's like throwing darts here.
I want to hear from somebody in North Carolina because I'm shocked that's still considered a swing state.
So let's go to Marky Mark.
Mark, how are you, man?
I'm great, Joe.
Joe, it's not a 12, or would you say a 10-point lead in North Carolina?
It's an 11-point lead because, well, then make it 12 because a lot of us are transplants from New Jersey and we vote twice.
Okay.
I got to tell you, we do it in Jersey.
What's that?
Well, we do it when we can get away with it, right?
Well, if you're on the other side, this entire premise of dumping Joe Biden flies in the face of the Democrats' phony, fictitious fantasy that's the standard of democracy, right?
I mean, they are actively considering taking the votes of tens of millions of Americans and just tossing them in the trash can so that their corrupt political elite can select, and as the Democrats like to say, selected, not elected, a candidate of their choice.
It's a total farce.
It's so Soviet, isn't it?
Pulled back the curtain.
Yeah, the debate pulled back the curtain.
Joe Biden, be careful what you wish for.
You just might get it.
And she did.
The Democrats, the media has hidden them behind this curtain.
It's been pulled wide open.
And you know, it only stands to reason if he's not competent to run for re-election, he's not competent to finish his term.
Precisely.
That's what I said at the beginning of the show.
I go, why are we talking about stepping aside?
He shouldn't be president right now.
That's very clear.
I mean, again, oh, wait, look, it's past 4 o'clock.
You know what that means?
Biden is only mentally available.
This is an Axios report from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Meaning we're 18 minutes into sundowning now, where I guess if you're ISIS or Al-Qaeda or Iran, boy, you got a green light because our commander-in-chief is mentally checked out.
Mark, I appreciate the call.
Go Tar Heels.
My daughter says she wants to go to UNC now.
So that's not horrible.
I mean, I went to Maryland.
I was trying to kind of hate those guys, but that's a nice state.
I mean, I think I'd like to live there.
And New Jersey is just eating me alive.
And NC is just, it's got it going on, you know, and you got nice beaches there, too.
So anyway, let's go to one more call.
I know this is like radio suicide, but let's go to Terry in Pennsylvania.
Terry with an eye, how are you?
Hi, Joe.
I just wanted to commend President Trump on his performance at the debate.
It something struck me that his responses were measured.
He didn't poke fun or make fun of Joe, President Biden, at his expense.
Like, I really think that him sitting in trial day after day, having to be quiet, it really kind of prepared him for the next step.
I think you're exactly right, Terry.
And thanks for the call.
We're going to have to head to a break after this.
But yeah, I was writing down notes throughout that debate, and I kept going back to mature and disciplined.
Like, he just, he was apprentice Trump, right?
That's the Trump that we like, just in command.
And he very easily could have made fun of Biden.
He did the golf swing thing went back and forth.
But even he said, hey, let's stop acting like children, right?
In other words, to admonish Biden for even challenging him in that ridiculous exchange around golf.
And by the way, Joe Biden was a six?
Yeah, that's like when Joe Biden said, yeah, I shot 64 today.
Yeah, on the front nine, Joe.
That's not how it works.
All right.
Old joke.
I tell it all the time.
But Terry, thanks for the call.
And you're exactly right about that.
As far as Trump is concerned, he admits that the first debate last year, A, he had COVID.
So that's going to affect his behavior that he was too aggressive and he should have let Joe Biden be Joe Biden.
And now he did.
And that strategy, boy, that worked, didn't it?
Anyway, we'll be back with your phone calls.
I see the board's like totally stacked.
We're going to do that when we come back.
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Best cover ever.
I think Buffett, he's covering, right, for Crosby Stills National.
They were the originators with Southern Cross.
But I mean, when you talk about a remake live, it's like the greatest summer song, in my personal opinion.
You're all going to yell at me, and I don't care.
I like it.
I'm hosting today, and I get to pick the music, and it makes me very, very happy to do so.
Anyway, we could squeeze in, I think, one more quick call.
I hate to do this to you, Don, but let's go to Iowa.
You have 30 seconds, and you have the floor.
Go.
Hi, Joe.
Thank you for taking my call.
I'm a truck driver from Iowa, as you know.
And I just wanted to quickly point out that Democrats have been feeding us that all these videos we see of Joe falling on his face and mumbling and stumbling are all fake.
And then it goes on national, and here it is.
And they make a different excuse.
How do they handle it?
They can't keep doing it.
Yeah, they can't handle the truth.
And look, how do you fake Biden up on stage talking about how his uncle was eaten by cannibals?
Like, did AI, like they incorporate like a different voice into that?
How do you fake him falling off his bike or falling up upwards into Air Force One or falling at that graduation ceremony?
And for the media to say, no, those are cheap fakes.
And it wasn't just like the fringe MSNBC people, New York Times, CNN, all the mainstreamers.
They buried themselves once and for all.
Zero credibility left.
This is Joe Concha and for Sean Hannity, back with more in just a minute.
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Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
You're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen.
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And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
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And people are wondering, why am I hearing Sweet Caroline and Neil Diamond?
Great song, but it's kind of like a Red Sock thing.
So I don't know.
In Boston, I'm sure you're happy about this listening to this show.
But the reason why I chose that particular song to bump in with is because we have Caroline Levitt, President Trump's national press secretary.
She's going to share her thoughts on the presidential debate.
So Caroline, I'll give you a question that I gave to my earlier guest, Mark Bernovich.
How long into that debate did you realize that this was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad night for the president?
About 30 seconds into Joe opening his mouth.
That's all it took.
It was the voice, Joe.
It was the raspy voice.
It was unbelievable.
My jaw dropped.
And I turned and looked at the people I was watching the debate with, and I thought, holy cow, this is going to be a catastrophic night for Biden.
And it certainly was.
Yeah, I think WTF is what came out of my mouth.
And it wasn't the acronym.
I just turned to somebody.
I said, what the?
And from there, it just obviously was probably easily the worst debate performance we have seen from any sitting president or any candidate for that matter.
I mean, James Stockdale looked like more with it than Biden at this point.
But I want to get your reaction because you are the former president's national press secretary.
And for even a few minutes today, I felt sorry for Karine Jean-Pierre because I would not want to be the president's press secretary having to take all these questions on the president's clear mental decline.
So let me play for you a clip and we'll get your reaction out of it and your expert analysis.
KJP, go.
Let me just step back for a minute and I guess deal with the questions that have come in about the debate.
And honestly, this is something that the president has addressed himself multiple times since this past Thursday.
And first of all, I want to say we understand the concerns.
We get it.
The president did not have a great night.
As you all know, and many of you reached out during the debate, the president had a cold.
He had a hoarse voice.
You all heard it.
That's why you reached out.
But I will say this, and the president said this over the past couple of days, certainly right after the debate.
He knows how to do the job.
And he knows how to do the job, not because he says it, because his record proves it.
Because for three and a half years, almost four years, the president's record has been unprecedented.
So the premise, apparently, is that if Joe Biden didn't have a cold that night, and apparently now colds affect cognitive ability, memory, and the ability to articulate basic thoughts, if he didn't have a cold that night, well, then his record is sparkling.
And he would have won that debate going away.
Where did she go wrong in that answer, Caroline Levitt?
The entire thing was inaccurate.
Last time I checked, colds don't make you senile and mentally incompetent.
And as for the record, it is Joe Biden's record.
It's because of his record that Joe Biden has been trailing President Trump throughout this entire race.
People look at his record as wide open border invasion that's leading to a mass surge of migrant crime across this country.
Americans are feeling his record on the economy.
Inflation robbing them of thousands of dollars every single month.
They're struggling to get by.
They see his record on the world stage from the Afghanistan withdrawal, which Joe Biden so stupidly and ignorantly denied that there were any soldiers that died under his watch.
We know that not to be true.
We lost 13 brave souls in the Afghanistan withdrawal.
That is Joe Biden's record.
That is why he is the weakest worst commander-in-chief we've ever had.
And that's not even getting to his clear cognitive decline that KJP and the White House have been engaged in a massive cover-up, a massive scandal, lying to the American public about for the last four years.
That's correct.
And the media, most of it anyway, dutifully went along with it.
Well, yep, those are cheap fake videos.
Yeah, actually, Biden talking about inheriting 9% inflation and once driving an 18-wheeler.
Well, you know, that was really manipulated and edited.
No, those are literally his words, and he was either lying or didn't know the difference, and that is a scary thing.
And we're talking to Caroline Levitch.
She is President Trump's national press secretary.
If many Democrats, at least privately anyway, are saying that Joe Biden shouldn't run again, should he even be in the Oval Office at this point?
I don't hear any calls for resignation, but if he can't run the country for the next four and a half years, what makes anybody think he could run it for the next 200 days?
I mean, does anyone think that Joe Biden can actually survive until January of 2029 in this office?
Absolutely not.
You lost Nancy Pelosi.
Nancy Pelosi was on MSNBC today, even saying Biden should take a cognitive test, and it's a worthy question to ask if this is a condition that he has.
I mean, when you've lost Pelosi as the Democrat president, you've lost the plot.
But the unfortunate reality for the Democrat Party is they did this to themselves.
They love to talk about how they're upholders of democracy.
Well, maybe they should have had a real Democrat primary, and maybe Joe Biden wouldn't be their nominee.
He's wildly unpopular, always has been.
But now they're stuck with him, and it's too late.
It's very difficult to change the whores at this point in the race.
There's tens of millions of dollars that is for the Biden committee for president alone.
Even transferring that money to be Kamala Harris to Kamala Harris would be legally challenging.
Biden has already sworn to more than 3,700 delegates on the first ballot at the DMC, which now apparently they're talking about maybe doing it virtually.
The Democrat Party is in total disarray.
But Joe Biden should not be in office for the next 200 days because he's a walking, talking national security risk.
Our adversaries watched what happened last Thursday night, and the world is already less safe because of it.
Over the weekend, our military bases in Europe were put on high alert due to credible terrorist threats.
I just read a New York Times new report before hopping on the phone with you, Joe, that said that during debate prep, when Biden was hiding away in the woods for an entire week, his advisors had to give him afternoon nap time.
So we already know he only works from 10 to 4, but then he needed naps in addition, and all he was doing was prepping for the debate.
National security is a 24-7 job.
Joe Biden is not up for it.
The Democrat Party has literally walked us in to the gravest national security threat that we face in the modern era because the entire world knows we have an incompetent commander-in-chief.
These are very scary and dangerous times.
The Democrats are to blame for them.
Forget about the 5 a.m. call, and are you ready for that call if you're the commander-in-chief of our armed voices?
He's not even available at 5 p.m. based on that report, right?
So, yeah, that's the scary part.
I mean, we could joke about this and talk about the race.
And obviously, Trump and Biden or will Kamala jump in or will be another candidate.
But our national security is in grave danger right now because our enemies all saw that and they've been seeing it for many years, quite frankly.
And we're talking to Caroline Levitt, President Trump's national press secretary.
Is the Trump campaign preparing for another candidate to be installed?
And again, it's just hilarious that the party that wants to save democracy will now go full Soviet and just install a candidate and say, hey, primary voter, screw you.
All your votes meant nothing.
We're just going to pick somebody now with the party's power brokers.
So, are you preparing for a Gavin Newsom or a Gretchen Whitmer or even a, I mean, I'll say it, Hillary Clinton?
We are prepared for anything.
And as the CNN poll that was released today shows, President Trump is going to beat the Democrats no matter who is at the top of their ticket.
We believe that's going to be Joe Biden just because of the challenges the Democrat Party would face in order to switch the ticket over to someone else.
However, it's the Democrat Party's policies that have led us to the position we are in right now.
The Democrat Party has wholeheartedly embraced open borders in Joe Biden's invasion of criminals and terrorists all over the world.
It's the Democrat Party that supports endless wars, that has a weak foreign policy position, does not back our allies like Israel and emboldens our adversaries around the globe.
It's the Democrat Party that wants to tax us.
Joe Biden and the Democrats have signed or have pledged to sign the largest tax increase in American history if they're given more power for another four years.
That is undoubtedly going to rob hardworking families of more money.
And so the Democrat Party stands for policies that the American people do not support.
President Trump and Republicans support common sense policies like cutting taxes, like demanding law and order in our streets, a peace through strength foreign policy that deters our enemies and makes America respected again on the world stage.
So yes, we are prepared to bring our winning message to the ballot on November the 5th, no matter who the Democrats put up.
It's their mess that they have to clean up.
But we do firmly believe that they're going to do everything they can to shuffle Joe Biden over the finish line in November, and good luck to him.
But like I said, the new CNN poll out today shows President Trump leading Biden by six, leading Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris.
Doesn't matter who the Democrats put up.
Americans know it's the Democrat Party that has led our country into destruction and chaos and crime over the last three and a half years, and they should not be forgiven for that.
And that's the macro banner at this point, right, Caroline?
It's common sense versus chaos, you use the word, and confusion on the Democratic side, just like 1968 all over again.
And then Richard Nixon ended up winning that election because Democrats were seen as the party of chaos.
I met you, Caroline, in Wildwood, well, on the way to Wildwood, New Jersey, anyway, last May.
So that was almost two months ago.
And it was remarkable to see the president up close.
I'd never been to a Trump rally because, quite frankly, here in New Jersey, it's not exactly a swing state.
You know, it is now because Trump is leading in New Jersey in the last poll that I saw.
But I couldn't get over the fact that he was such a happy warrior that he really seems to be relishing this whole campaign.
And look, he's basically been campaigning since 2015, but this seems like almost a different person in the sense where he just exudes a confidence and strength and humor, quite frankly, that was always there, but it seems to be more on display privately when you're with the president.
Is that the attitude as well?
Is this just a guy who feels like he has a Gale Force Wind at his back?
Yes, absolutely.
President Trump, he is such a happy warrior, and it's remarkable considering all that he's been through, endless lies, investigations.
I mean, he's literally putting his freedom on the line to do this.
The Democrats have weaponized the courts against him.
I was with him in New York when we sat through endless hours in that dirty Manhattan courtroom, and he had to listen to lies in a sham case that we all knew was rigged with a Democrat prosecutor, a Democrat judge.
Yet he withstood that and came out stronger than ever before.
And I think he's that way because he knows truth always prevails, and he has the truth on his side.
And he loves this country so much.
He loves the people of this country, and he's energized by the support that we feel.
And it's true.
When you go to a Trump rally, as you just pointed out, Joe, it's a special and unique experience.
There really is a palpable energy on the ground with like-minded people who just want common sense, like we said, who want this country to be great and want to be proud to be Americans.
President Trump is a very optimistic, aspirational message for all people, no matter your skin color or how much money you make or what state you come from.
He wants to uplift you with good policies, put more money in your pocketbooks, keep your streets and communities safe, clean up the homelessness that we see destroying our inner cities.
Again, make America respected again on the world stage.
That's an aspirational, hopeful message.
While, again, the Democrats stand for division and chaos.
I mean, Biden gave a 10-minute teleprompter speech today on hot weather, as if that's even a concern on the top of Americans' mind right now.
And he somehow turned that into being divisive and attacking President Trump and NAGA Republicans.
I mean, enough is enough.
President Trump is clearly the optimistic and strong leader that this country needs.
More and more Americans are waking up to that every day.
It's exciting to be a part of.
And God bless him for doing it because you know what?
He doesn't have to be doing this.
He has a very nice wife.
I've been to his golf clubs.
I've been to Mar-a-Lago.
They are beautiful properties.
He could be enjoying them and golfing.
But he has purposely chosen to step into the political arena again because he loves this country so much.
And that's what fires him up to keep going.
And that's the thing, right?
We're talking to Caroline Levitt, that optimism always wins elections, right?
Ronald Reagan, Shining City on the Hill, George H.W. Bush, Thousand Points a Life, Hope and Change, Obama, and then obviously the most famous one, Make America Great Again.
I don't know what the Biden slogan is.
I remember Hillary's was, I'm with her, which, you know, doesn't exactly inspire too much optimism.
Hey, it's all about me.
Come with me.
You know, there was no message there, but that's what's working here.
And you're right about those rallies.
I had to see it up close from a professional perspective because obviously I am writing a book about the Trump campaign.
And what I wrote down in my notes was, this is like a rock concert meets the Tom Brady roast.
I mean, this has everything.
And everybody was in such a good mood.
And I kept thinking to myself, wait, these are the people that Merrick Garland calls extremists?
These are people that care about the country, and they're happy to be there.
So I want to ask you on a personal level, as far as I think you shared with me at the time that you were almost eight months pregnant, and here you are trying to keep up with this president, traveling to, obviously, the trials and the campaigns and everything.
I'll just ask a very basic question.
How do you do it at this point when you're carrying a baby in your belly and you could go at any time?
Yeah, I'm due literally any day now, which is very exciting.
It's my first child.
So I certainly did not pick a quiet year to have a baby.
They say it's never really the right time, but it's always, you know, God's timing.
So we're very excited about this.
And I'm so thankful to work for such a great team that is so supportive of working moms.
And, you know, I'm not the only one.
We have so many working mothers on this team.
Oftentimes on our conference calls, you can hear a crying baby in the background.
And working dads, too.
There's a lot of great people on our team that have young children, especially.
But we're making the sacrifice because we believe in President Trump.
And I want my son to have a country to grow up in that is free and safe and prosperous.
And if we have four more years of Joe Biden, that is not going to be the case.
So that's what really drives me and the support that we receive from the president.
And also, of course, our senior leadership on this team is just so very helpful.
It's tiring.
I will say, even for the non-pregnant people on the team, keeping up with Donald Trump is a full-time 24-7 job.
Yeah, I don't know how you do it, but well, congratulations on your son once again.
I'm sure we're going to be hearing all about Brandon Levitt.
Is that the name you're going to go with, Brandon?
I'm kidding.
No, I had a feeling that was the case.
Anyway, they tell me you're up against a heartbreak.
But Carolyn, great catching up with you.
And congratulations once again, and we'll talk soon.
Thanks so much, Joe.
Talk to you soon.
Okay, talk to you soon.
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