Aug. 29, 2020 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, going across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
One hour wasn't enough, so we're going to go a full two hours with Sam Bushman.
Jack Ryan has the night off.
He'll be back with us next week.
Don't you worry about that.
But we're talking about specifically with Sam Bushman.
This week's Republican National Convention.
Also, we're performing an assessment of President Trump's work over the course of the last four years and his prospects for reelection.
But before we return to Sam, very quickly, Keith, me and you and my dad were engaged in an interesting and nostalgic conversation during the long commercial breaks that we have in between hours.
Can you fill us in on what we talked about?
We talked about the importance of Pat Buchanan in all of our lives.
Pat Buchanan, your father attended a speech that he gave during one of his presidential campaigns, I think in 92 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
He was visiting his father, James's grandfather, who was in the hospital at the time, and he mentioned it to James and put the bug in his ear about Pat Buchanan.
Here it is.
So, folks, the hand of God, truly.
If my dad wasn't in Nashville on that day where he had taken my grandfather to his cancer treatment at Vanderbilt Hospital, where Pat Buchanan just so happened to be speaking at the exact same time in 1992, I was 12 years old.
Dad comes home.
He mentions the name Buchanan, says he's going to vote for him.
That stuck in my mind for years and years and years until I was old enough as a teenager in the late 90s to remember that as I was flipping through the channels and I found Crossfire.
I was hooked.
I said, this is the guy dad was talking about.
I'm going to see what he has to say.
I joined the campaign, worked for Pat throughout the year 2000, ran my own campaign two years later, and then directly into radio.
God's hand.
This is the thing we got to remember, ladies and gentlemen.
This is still our father's world, and God is in control, and all of this stuff will fade away.
Our people will endure.
Our people are eternal.
God is eternal.
We are under his care.
And a lot of this is really just for pomp and circumstance.
It is important because our lives are important.
Our children's lives are important.
And as we are shepherding our children through their lives, we want to give them the best existence in life that they can have.
But ultimately, it's in God's hands.
That's why we can be happy warriors.
We understand that this is a temporal plane.
But going back to the point we made, I don't think my life, our lives, Keith, your life, Sam Bushman, my dad, all of it, all of it was meant to be, we were meant to be here for a reason.
I believe that with all my heart.
That's why we can endure it.
God's hand is in everything, even in little things like you were talking about.
God's hand was obviously with your father, making him attend that meeting.
Eight years before I got involved.
And then the fact that he passed it on to you, the same thing happened to me.
I was listening to Crossfire, and I said, this guy really knows what he's talking about.
This guy really is a leader.
In fact, we were talking during the break.
What is the one thing that Donald Trump could do, Sam, the one thing that you think would be the best thing he could do once he becomes reelected?
Well, what would that be?
Pat Buchanan as his chief of staff.
That's exactly what I'm saying.
Look at Buchanan.
I'll get off of this a little toss it back to say if you gave me a Pat Buchanan to vote for, I wouldn't be voting for Trump right now.
The problem is there's the thing.
But he needs to be the chief, he needs to be his chief advisor because he has a lot of experience in Republican politics.
He was in the Goldwater campaign.
The Nixon.
I mean, he was in the Nixon staff.
He was in the George Ford staff.
He was in the Ronald Reagan staff.
Here's the point.
Here's the point, though.
Trump could have no better person as his chief advisor.
All right.
But two, Pat Buchanan came on this show and was crucified for it.
Then he came back again and again.
Compare that to, say, Donald Trump Jr.'s appearance on Liberty Roundtable, where I sat in on.
And, you know, again, we're not confusing.
He has integrity.
He has intelligence.
Couldn't agree.
And he is right from the beginning as his first book.
I have every last one of his books in my library.
All right.
We're not confusing Buchanan for Trump, but what we are saying to you, ladies and gentlemen, to cut back to the chase and get back to the point.
This is an election between Biden and Trump.
We cut our teeth on third parties.
We're big third-party advocates.
I'd never voted for a Republican presidential nominee until Trump in 2016.
I love third parties, but they are not in play at all this year, even less than usual.
So back to the conversation, Sam.
That brings us back full circle to what we were discussing first.
Hour election day is about two months away, if you can believe it.
Yes, it is.
The question is: how many days do you have to think about what you're going to do?
You're going to do one of two things.
You're going to do one of four things, I guess.
You're going to vote for Trump.
You're going to vote for Biden.
You're going to sit it out.
Or you're going to vote for somebody who most of us don't even know the name of that person.
See, usually I'm a third-party guy, but usually you at least know the name or have heard of the person running or they've at least made enough waves where maybe you don't think they can win, but at least you can stand with their morals and all that kind of stuff.
I don't have a single person on the campaign stage that that fits the bill for right now.
And that's why I say that I'm for Trump out of no choices.
The only thing I can do to fix it is run myself for president, okay?
So I'm submitting to you that you've got each day between now and the election, what's that, 59 days or whatever the heck it is?
I don't know how many days it is.
I'll have to count them.
But you got to think every day.
And you got to say to yourself, what can I do to advance the sacred cause of liberty, to be true to my God, as I buy time and wait for the Savior Jesus Christ to return?
And with every good day that I get of freedom, of not just having my gun across my knees to keep my family safe, if I have every good day of peace, what can I do to prepare myself and my family and my loved ones and all those around me for when the Savior Jesus Christ comes?
Because I submit that he will.
Let me give you my thought about there are two things I will do between now and the election day.
One, donate to Liberty News Radio heavily.
No, what I'm going to do.
No, but why not?
Why not, though, is the question.
Yeah, why not?
Because God's hand would be in it now.
I think the most important thing I can do is one, vote for Trump and two, pray that he appoints Pat Buchanan as his chief advisor.
I don't think that's going to happen.
Well, it may because, quite frankly, Pat Buchanan has very assiduously towed the line.
He hasn't said anything.
Pat's bigger on the McLaughlin group.
Well, the thing is, he has never said anything negative directly about President Trump or any of his policies.
He's totally.
Even though, you know, here's what's so interesting: Trump actually flirted with running against Pat for the Republic nomination.
Now, we just talked 20 years ago in August of 2000.
I was out there with my dad once again and my mom and my family.
We were out there.
I was the delegate, but my whole family went with me.
I was 20.
We were all out there together in Long Beach, California.
Trump was trying to oppose Buchanan for that nomination.
Now they're bedfellows.
But it's just interesting how it's just interesting.
Cannon has backed Trump all, you know, all the way.
He has not said a discouragement.
Unlike Ann Coulter and other people who are pretty smart, he hasn't gone against Trump.
And I think it's because he is hoping against hope, just like you and me, James and Sam.
That's something against hope that he will place him in a position of advice.
I don't know if Pat's actually hoping that he will actually get a job in the Trump administration.
He's supposed to have influence.
I think he's hoping that Trump will do something.
And if he doesn't, we'll find, you know, four more years to stave off the inevitable.
It's going to come sooner or later.
There's nothing he can do more important than looking at his chief advisor.
Trump's been kind of Pat, too.
And I got a sound bite to prove it.
All right, when we come back, we'll play that.
We're also going to read a comment from our TPC listener, Kristen.
And we're going to give you that TPC straw poll.
You got three more minutes to vote on it.
Go to twitter.com/slash jamesedwards TPC.
Vote in the poll.
Send it in a sense.
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Why don't we say to the government, writ large, that they have to spend a little bit less?
Anybody ever had less money this year than you had last?
Anybody better have it a 1% pay cut?
You deal with it.
That's what government needs, a 1% pay cut.
If you take a 1% pay cut across the board, you have more than enough money to actually pay for the disaster relief.
But nobody's going to do that because they're fiscally irresponsible.
Who are they?
Republicans.
Who are they?
Democrats.
Who are they?
Virtually the whole body is careless and reckless with your money.
So the money will not be offset by cuts anywhere.
The money will be added to the debt, and there will be a day of reckoning.
What's the day of reckoning?
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The day of reckoning may be the collapse of the dollar.
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And now back to tonight's show.
All right, so we teased the poll.
We teased the poll, and it's at my Twitter at James Edwards TPC.
TPC straw poll.
I posted it just a little bit before the show started tonight.
Let's get right down to it.
What are you going to do on November the 3rd?
I'm about to read those results, but first a comment from our listener, Kristen.
And she writes, with a Trump win, we're going to get more acceleration in riots, et cetera.
But with Democrats, we're going to get actual laws criminalizing us.
Again, not the strongest endorsement for the re-election of Donald Trump, but the truth nonetheless.
Sam, your response to that, and then I want to get to these poll results.
I think she's spot on.
That is the point.
Okay, well, good enough.
We want that acceleration, quite frankly.
I mean, what we don't want, though, is to make laws to make us criminals and shut this radio network down.
If Keith doesn't fund us and if the Democrats shut us down, we're done.
You got me confused with Donald Trump.
Oh, come on.
I guarantee you.
Everybody's soundbite back in 2016.
I'm sorry about Pat Buchanan.
All right, back to Pat Buchanan very quickly.
Then we'll go to the straw poll.
Listen to that.
I remember what you're doing.
2016, President Trump.
Tell you what, folks, this is the last time you'll ever have a chance to save our country.
It's not going to happen anymore.
You won't be able.
The numbers will be too great.
Already, the Republican nominee has a massive, a massive disadvantage.
And especially when you have the leaders not putting their weight behind the people.
They're not putting their weight behind the people.
Instead of calling me and saying, congratulations, you did a great job.
You absolutely destroyed her in the debate, like everybody said.
You know, Pat Buchanan wrote the big article today.
You saw it.
He said, I'm not bragging.
I'm just saying, maybe a little bit, but yeah.
He said it was the single greatest debate performance in the history of presidential politics.
So there you go.
Buchanan very supportive of Trump and Trump returning the well-placed, in my opinion, appropriate comments right back.
And I agree with Keith.
If Pat Buchanan could be in the administration, just take out Kushner and put in Buchanan.
Amen.
There you go.
I'll tell you what, that'd be a good question.
There's one single thing he could do that would have the most good effect on his.
All right, I'll answer what I think the most important thing he could do coming up.
All right, let's go back to the poll very quickly.
I think you run this poll at this date, four years ago, August 29th, 2016.
It's 90% Trump.
This is the poll.
PPC straw poll.
I put it up on Twitter a couple of hours before we went on the air tonight.
What are you going to do on November 3rd?
The options are vote for Trump, vote for Biden, or stay at home.
I didn't even list a third-party option.
The results thus far are 60.8% are going to vote for Trump.
Now, this is our audience, mind you.
People who follow me on Twitter, that's a good representation of our audience and a good representation, frankly, of the Trump base.
60.8% are going to vote for Trump on Election Day.
0.9% vote for Biden.
38.2% stay at home.
And that's the interesting part of the poll.
Nearly 40% are going to stay at home.
And I got a question for those folks that are going to stay at home, James.
What do they hope to accomplish?
Well, I think they're just saying Trump hasn't earned their vote.
Doesn't matter.
What do they deserve?
They're not going to lose by sitting home.
Is it worth not voting for the leisure of two evils?
But is it worth the chance that Kamala becomes your president?
I don't think so.
Well, this is the point I would make to those people, and I'm not saying it's not that I don't share their disillusion with what we've seen the last four years.
But the point is, whatever you want to see come after Trump, it's going to come in four years at the most.
Let's live as long as we can live.
Let's live free as long as we can.
Pat Buchanan somehow merges in his administration.
Again, I don't see that happening.
But I mean, the cancel culture, cancel culture has accelerated under Trump.
America has declined under Trump by every standard of measurement.
There's no doubt about it.
But I think the alternative is ignored.
Hit me.
More people have woke up to the truth that their liberty is in jeopardy under Trump than any president in our lifetime.
Bar none.
Arguably so.
Right, James?
More people have woken up and realized that their liberty is literally in jeopardy now.
In 2016 versus now, it is a stark difference in terms of how many people understand that, you know what, we're losing our liberties.
All right, let me ask you this, though.
We're going to shut down all the way through.
Now, we can blame it on Trump or say he could have stopped it or say it's his fault or say it's not his fault.
It's just circumstantial or say that it's because they hate Trump so much, whatever you want to say.
But one measurement where there's been real positive movement is more people are awake now.
I mean, Keith might actually donate this time, and four years ago, he never would have.
Hey, we got Charles in North Carolina who writes, if they stay at home, they may as well vote for Biden.
I mean, listen, like I said, the Trump family has personally done me wrong.
I'm willing to overlook that and the disappointment from candidate Trump to President Trump and tell you right now, in no uncertain terms, I say I oscillate.
He's done a lot of good.
He's done a lot of bad.
If I'm in the polling booth, I vote for Trump.
That's me telling you flat out.
And I'm not being critical of those people staying home.
They have their choice too.
Let's be very clear.
I defend their right to choose exactly as they want to.
I'm only asking what do they hope to accomplish because I think that should be defined.
If you're going to stay home, you better have good reasons for it.
And if you do, that's fine.
Well, again, I think, I mean, I can't argue with them too much.
Trump has been a disappointment.
He has not earned necessarily their vote.
I agree.
But you've got to understand.
I'm not voting for Trump so much as I'm voting against the left and the Democrats.
Well, I am hopeful that Trump could have something happen like making Pat Buchanan his chief.
How do you make you the chief of staff?
I heard secretly.
Keith Alexander was voting for Kanye West.
Is that not true?
No, no, I wasn't doing that.
Kanye can't get on the ballot, but in any event.
Didn't he get on the ballot?
I get it all.
I see both sides.
I see Tennessee.
Well, Tennessee, you need 25.
That's why it was so easy for me to get Pat on the ballot in 2000.
You need 25 verified voters per congressional district.
So we had a really easy time.
All we had to do is go to the state mental hospital and get Kanye on the ballot.
But again, I say to you, Sam, the Democrats have elected an historically weak ticket.
Biden, we'll get into this in the next segment, whether or not there's even a title.
He has been a historically offensive ticket also.
I've never seen a group like this.
On the other hand, Trump has done nothing to stem the demographic onslaught.
They have never been more off the rails with this ticket, as Keith wisely points out.
And this is part of the reason that I'm making the points that I'm making.
There has never been such an off-the-rail, extreme radical, whacked-out, lost-their minds communist ticket than there is right now, ever in the history of our nation.
Never.
Well, sum it up, Sam, in one or two sentences.
Again, you go to where we were four years ago, to where you were four years ago, where we are now to where you are now.
What warmed you to Trump?
We've already touched on it.
You've already answered it, but again, nothing except for he's done enough things right that you gotta, if you're honest in your heart, you gotta give him credit for.
Keith pointed out one of them.
He's made the liberals extremely psychotic.
They've lost their minds.
Number two, he's pro-life.
He's put judges in.
He's decreased a lot of regulations.
He backed off some of the policies of Barack Obama.
He's exposed the deep state and exposed the media like never before.
The people are waking up like never before.
Those are just a few of his accomplishments.
Well, until you could.
Because people don't put their faith in God anymore.
They are fearful of the left.
Donald Trump, the sitting president of the United States, has done more to at least verbalize support of Confederate monuments and Confederate Army bases than even Southern mayors even Jackson's gunners.
He even referred to Jackson on Thursday night, didn't he?
Well, there was a lot wrong with that convention.
I mean, he also naturalized like this Hollywood.
I know I don't know.
I'm not going to the negatives, though.
He mentioned yes, Jackson.
Yes, he did.
Are you going to give credit or are you just going to down it now?
I'm going to give him all the credit in the world for that.
That's good.
Now, if you want to bring up a negative, you can, but don't obliterate the positive that I'm bringing up with another negative.
No, no, no.
You're right.
No, you're 100% right.
There is negatives and there are positives.
That's the thing that's so maddening about Trump.
But that's the only reason I push on that is because I want you to understand that's what's changed.
We'll be right back.
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Folks, believe me when I tell you that I understand the deficiencies that we all see in Donald Trump.
And I have highlighted them big time, I hope.
No, absolutely.
And by the way, Sam Bushman doesn't just make occasional appearances on TVC.
He is the host of the Liberty Roundtable broadcast Monday through Saturday.
He's on the air at LibertyRoundtable.com.
Also, the founder, the owner of the Liberty News Radio Network, the man without whom and without whose support we would not be here.
So Sam Bushman, be sure to check him out on your weekday mornings there at Liberty Roundtable.
Sam Jackson's in the mix, huh?
That's right.
And that's for sure.
But I will tell you this.
As we have been as honest and as open as we can be with our opinions, good, bad, and indifferent about the Trump administration, the Trump to Canada, etc., we're always honest about our opinions on this show and with our audience.
Public opinion be damned.
But I will tell you again, ladies and gentlemen, you tune in to MSNBC or CNN for five minutes at any time during the day, and you will race to the polls to re-elect the president.
That's what you'll do if you watch the commentary.
You can't make it up.
These people are crazier than you would ever imagine.
All you have to do is watch them for a while.
And let me get back to something that Sam said about Andrew Jackson.
Andrew Jackson is one of three U.S. presidents from Tennessee.
Name the others.
James K. Polk, who's probably the best president, accomplished more, including adding, basically doubling the size of the United States, or at least adding an extra third.
And Andrew Johnson, who took over after Lincoln's assassination.
I think that rather than focusing on Jackson, he should focus on Johnson.
Johnson had the courage and the intestinal fortitude to fight the radical Republicans who were the probably the best historical harbingers of what the Democrats are today.
They were radical leftists and they tried to impeach him and he had enough guts to say, give me your best shot.
And they came within one vote.
And if they had voted him out, he not only would have lost the presidency, he probably would have gone to prison.
How does this make any impact on tonight's family?
Well, that's the point.
This is what I'm saying about Andrew Johnson and Trump.
Trump is more likely to face what Johnson did.
And he's going to face it again if he wins.
They're not going to rest.
I brought up Jackson only because Trump brought up Jackson, and it's something in his favor.
I can't imagine Harris brought up.
We think Jackson is a good president and that he was, on the other hand, he did go against John C. Calhoun in the debate.
He was a historical morass.
But nonetheless, Andrew Johnson is really more appropriate role model for him in light of what he's liable to face.
He's liable to face an Andrew Johnson situation a lot more likely than an Andrew Johnson at Jackson or a James K. Polk situation.
All right, hold on a second, Sam.
I want to toss it back to you.
This is, again, debating the nuances of Trump.
Here it is.
Here it is.
He's not going to defend us from the mob.
He doesn't defend his own supporters.
We're talking about the people who were attacked outside of his rallies in 2016, Rand Paul, the people leaving the convention just this week.
He let hundreds of thousands of black criminals out of jail.
I mean, you can make a case.
I tell you this, and I said this on a show I was sitting down for a show just earlier this week.
And I said, if I was a high school debate student and you gave me an assignment to make the case for Trump or against Trump, and you gave me an hour to make that case, I could make it convincingly either way.
And I would say, I don't think so.
And I'll compare it for you this way.
He has done far from perfect, which I've already conceded.
However, what would Kamala Harris have done?
Probably about what Jared Kushner would do, and that's who advised him to let all those criminals out of the country.
I understand.
But Kamala Harris is right now applauding and rallying for the rioters right now.
Kamala Harris is on.
When does the law enforcement actually get unbridled and get to enforce the law?
Instead of advising your county under Trump's watch, as soon as you guys in your county decide that you don't want an appointed police department, you want to go back to a county sheriff.
All right, that's fair enough.
Well, let's get down to this: predictions.
Let's get down to brass tax.
You see how there's a federal law enforcement that can just do whatever they want to do.
I sure don't know.
I'll never get there.
Maybe we should have.
That's what we had back in Little Rock in 1956.
Ole Miss in 1956.
Maybe we should have called their bluff and said, you're not going to really shoot at us because that's what the rioters have done this year, and they were right.
But here's the thing: we have been talking about having this conversation with Sam Bushman, this two-hour assessment of Trump, assessment of his reelection prospects, but we wanted to wait until it was most timely.
And I think on the heels of the Republican National Convention, two months before the election, a little less than that, we are right at it now.
And so let's get down to brass tax and predictions before.
I have one more statement really quick on this.
So if you want to go to the prediction.
If you were in a debate class and you were to debate for Trump or against Trump, I agree with you.
It's almost sixes.
You could debate on the other side against Trump very easily and have some incredible points to make.
That's what Trump is saying.
That doesn't mean you're pro-Biding.
That does not mean you're pro-Biden.
That just means obviously.
But that's taking Trump on its own.
But what we're doing is we're not comparing Trump as a person or Trump as president.
What we're doing is talking about Trump versus what you get if you don't have Trump.
Okay, that's the point.
You're comparing not Trump against himself or the good Trump against the bad Trump or the duplicitous nature of Trump or the personal liking or disliking of Trump in a vacuum.
You're comparing Trump to what he'll give you versus what you'll get without him.
Isn't that what we're discussing?
Well, I guess so.
I guess that's a rhetorical question.
That's true.
And I bring that up because we're not just evaluating the pro and con of the Donald.
We're talking about if he's not president, who else will be?
And what will they do if we don't stop them?
And Keith's made that point in different language several times, and he's spot on.
And now they're speechless, ladies and gentlemen.
How do you like that?
All right, there we go.
There we go, Keith.
Go.
Okay, well.
That's our cue.
No, you're absolutely right that Donald Trump is better than the alternative.
And the alternative is not just slightly worse, it's a lot worse.
Does this really play into the lesser of two evils conversation that we had with Bush and Kerry?
I mean, it's a lot more than that.
It's more than that.
Yeah, it really is more than that.
What we're talking about is we're not talking about comparing or St. Peter versus St. Paul.
We're talking about Jesus versus the devil himself.
Almost that drastic.
That is the point.
Yes.
Jesus for president.
Or let me just say this: Joe Blow versus Satan.
You know, you can say that too.
But the Democrats have become so unhinged and shown us, they have done us a wonderful favor.
Trump derangement syndrome has caused them to show us exactly what they've got in store for us: anarchy and death and imprisonment and things like this.
Look, these people are bad news.
The longer we talk, the better it can't get our power to prevent them from gaining power.
He's right.
The longer we talk, the more Keith makes my points, James, and he's spot on.
He's right.
Yeah, I saw, I got to bring this up.
I saw, I mean, again, you can talk yourself out of going to the polls and voting for Trump, but you can't talk yourself into voting for anyone else.
I mean, I saw Eric Trump on the stage, and I was like, that's the guy that said he wanted someone to murder David Duke, you know, advocating for murder.
Look, I already say it made me sick.
Tiffany Trump with her was terrible.
Eric Trump was bad.
Nikki Haley and Tim Scott were awful.
But on the other hand, every one of them was better than anybody that spoke in the Democrats.
Would you take Christy Noam out for a date, though?
Who now?
Never mind.
Oh, no.
The governor of South Dakota.
Nah, because then she'd ask him to pay, and he'd be like, nah, money's at stake.
No, no, no.
Only if she's paying, right?
No, anyway.
No, it wasn't their best.
Look, I mean, it was the entire Trump family.
You could call it nepotism.
I actually like that.
I thought that was endearing, even though I have some odds with some of the sons there.
But I thought it was good that Trump put his son up.
Tiffany.
Well, I mean, listen, I don't like Ivanka either, but I'm just saying it was good of Trump to put his family up there.
That's what a father and a patriarch should do.
I'm all for it.
He had to put all of them up there rather than just.
And he did, and he put them all up there.
But then you had the Tim Scott and Nikki Haley.
Not a good look.
But anyway, I mean, again, the alternative.
We're going to come back with the debates, but Sam, a final point from you this segment, then we're going to come back with the debates.
Will there be debates?
Well, hey, I'm not a fan of Nikki Haley and or a fan of Tim Scott, but I will say this: as you guys already pointed out, compared to what?
Compared to Nancy Pelosi?
Compared to AOS.
Compared to Maxine Waters and Choke Schumer.
Okay, so, I mean, I get that there's the worst of our group still.
I mean, they could have tried to put Mitt Romney up there, which would have been worse than Tim Scott by a long shot.
And he would have been up there if it was any other Republican president.
But of course, another thing Trump did, he endorsed Mitt Romney, who promptly stabbed him in the back.
Hello, anybody home up there?
Mitt Romney's the only one in the world, I guess, that's been a governor or a senator from about 18 different states.
And equally bad everywhere he went.
And now they sent the nutcase to Utah.
Heaven help us.
Yeah.
How did you guys do it?
We did not elect him, by the way.
That's a misnomer.
I could explain that someday.
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As our good friend Rich, we always go to Rich because he's always texting during the show, and we're thankful for that.
Rich and more wise than one.
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Well, that's for sure.
Listen, this is a difficult conversation.
All we can do is be as honest with you as we can be.
We see the pros.
We see the cons.
We see the positives.
We see the negatives.
We see the attributes.
We see the faults.
We see that he's throwing people like Sessions under the bus.
I mean, there's a lot of reasons not to be big on Trump going into the re-election.
That's so many.
He endorses people like Mitt Romney.
And that's the reason why a lot of people have cooled on him.
I mean, it's all legitimate.
But let's get to the debates, though.
Let's get to the debates.
If there are debates, I mean, Joe Biden has obviously slipped into senility.
He's got early onsets, Alzheimer's, or something to that effect.
His cognitive faculties are not all firing.
You haven't seen him hardly at all this year.
He's in the basement.
When he comes out, it's very well scripted.
I mean, if he can read a teleprompter, he can get through it.
In a debate, though, where it's open season, I will tell you this: Donald Trump thrashes him.
Now, Nancy Pelosi has already come out this week, and I have been wondering about this for weeks and weeks.
Will they allow Biden to participate in a debate?
And Nancy Pelosi comes out this week and says, well, we can't legitimize Donald Trump by having our candidate debate against him.
This is an interesting question.
Will there be debates or not?
And if there are, the debates are scheduled suspiciously late in the calendar this year with all the mail-in voting going on and all of the other shenanigans they've got in play because of this covet hoax.
The debates are not scheduled until September 29th, October 15th, and October the 22nd.
That is very late in the calendar, Sam.
You ready for my prediction?
Go.
They will have debates, but they will not be like any debate you've ever seen.
How does Biden get through them without getting completely, completely?
Because it won't be like any other debates you've ever seen.
Well, if they allow Biden to talk, though, you just change the questions to where, you know what, Biden can answer.
Trump can answer.
They won't have crossfire or crosstalk or really challenges.
And Biden will be able to read his answers from a teleprompter and just state out his cause.
And what he'll say is, is we've got to do this because I don't want to get into the pig style with Donald.
I don't believe in the personal insults.
Let's hold the high moral ground and let the people know what we think and believe.
And that's what this is about.
And so they'll have a debate, but you've got to take the word debate out.
They'll have a form of debate like you've never seen before.
And it'll all be because of the COVID and because Donald Trump is so, oh, what do you want to call it?
So redneck, so illegitimate that we really can't have a real discussion because it'll just go into the dirt.
And so we're going to hold the moral high ground, change the game slightly, but make sure you can know the differences between the candidates, James.
That's my prediction.
Something of that nature will happen because they can't just cancel the debates completely.
And they can't let Joe Biden go with open season with Donald Trump.
As you point out, Donald will end up with a bad question.
What it's going to be, I think, is this.
It's not going to be a debate.
It's not even going to be intersecting monologues.
They're going to give their monologue, and then their response, their excuse for not responding to Trump's points is that they're taking the moral high ground.
I think that's very, very astute.
Like say you're right, it won't be a normal debate.
They'll just use that word because they'll replace the debates with a higher purpose and standard, don't you know?
Well, it could be a thing like it won't be like the traditional debates where we've seen where the candidates are about 10 feet from one another.
They can interact with one another.
They can engage with one another.
It could be a Zoom debate where they're in completely different places and they are allowed statements and An allotment of time on each given question, and then they don't actually interchange with one another at all.
Excuse me, I don't know, but that's my prediction.
Something of that nature.
Well, now, one of them is actually going to be at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
We'll expect some great coverage from Liberty Roundtable on that one out in your neck of the woods, Sam.
The vice presidential debate, by the way, is October the 7th.
Now, early voting because of COVID, the mail-in ballots, hundreds of thousands, millions of people will have already voted this year before the first presidential debate occurred.
That is key when you look at the racial-thin margins some of the states came down to in 2016.
But again, with Biden, if he wins, is he going to step aside very quickly because of his obvious declining mental ability?
I don't think so.
I agree, Keith.
Not at all.
I think what they'll do is they'll just simply let him hang out in the basement like he's done now.
They'll have scripted ways that he can quote, stand up to the podium and read for the teleprompter and make statements here and there.
And they'll hold on to that old coup as long as they can while they really run the scene.
The power of the people.
The party insiders will be the real president.
All right, well, let's get down to the one heartbeat away argument that always gets brought up.
And that takes us to Pence or Harris.
And that's one of the greatest reasons that I've decided to vote for Trump because I'm not telling you Pence is perfect.
He's been in the swamp for a long time.
But you know what?
He's Christian.
He's the guy that says, hey, I don't want to go out to dinner with women alone where there's alcohol because I want to make sure that I'm true to my wife and I want to make sure there's no scandals happening.
As far as I know, Trump is far from perfect, but at least he's a Christian with morals.
And you'll never get that out of the other side.
All right.
So again, here we go, Sam.
It's basically September.
The election is two months away, the third day of November.
Who's your president on November the 4th?
Donald Trump.
I think he'll win in a landslide unless they commit vote fraud on a grand scale.
Well, the thing is, the thing is, you know, they'll commit vote fraud, okay?
I'm saying on a grand scale, I think it'll be a landslide.
And I think their vote fraud only works if it's margins.
I don't think they can vote their way out of a landslide.
And so I think President Trump will win in a landslide.
Here's the thing I've always said, though.
The thing I've always said, though, is that Donald Trump, and we've had this whole conversation, we haven't talked about, we haven't really talked in depth about the demographic reality.
We know that politics, unfortunately, and as it is, is a racial headcount.
Okay, so by that, I mean all of the illegal aliens who have come in since Trump took office because we don't have a wall.
That's a straight-ticket Democratic voting ticket.
And also the people that Trump let out of jail with the so-called criminal justice reform.
Is that enough to tip the state of Florida?
And if it is, if it is, if it is, this election's over at 8 o'clock Eastern time on November 3rd.
If he loses Florida, he doesn't have a chance.
The game is over.
And that may have happened because he didn't do more.
Because he did the criminal justice reform that Jared Kushner forced it on and didn't do more to restrict immigration.
But our people are going to sit home.
A significant percent.
Is that the cause?
Or is the demographic reality that you mentioned?
I think the demographic reality you mentioned is here.
I don't think it's quite as soon as you think it is, but I think it's here.
In other words, there's no debating the point.
There's something else I would like to point out.
The timing is a question.
The timing is the question about.
But the sitting at home concerns me more than any other points you bring up.
If you take the demographic reality of how people vote and the sitting at home between those two storms, if it's now, look, I'm not saying the 200 people who have voted or our Twitter poll are indicative of the entire Trump electorate that 40% of those people are going to sit at home.
It is a part of the energetic side that propelled him to the office in 2016.
But between the two, it could certainly cost him the election because it's going to be a razor-thin margin.
It was razor-thin in 2016.
Okay, I'd like to make two points here.
First of all, remember, voting qualifications, even in federal elections, is totally a local matter.
If you live in California and you have a pulse and they can prop you up and cart you to the poll, you can vote.
And you can have somebody sitting there at your shoulder like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi telling you how to vote, and that's okay.
Now, the thing that saved Trump last time, he actually lost in the popular vote because of voter fraud in urban areas.
That's what the Democrats specialize in.
They're the only party that holds voter registration drives in the graveyard.
We have a saying here in Memphis, Tennessee: if you don't think there's life after death, come to Memphis on election day.
Now, that is what has happened, and he won.
Now, Hillary Clinton won by 2 million votes of the popular vote.
The electoral vote saved him, saved Trump.
Now, what James is saying is absolutely right.
If we lose Texas or if we lose Florida, it's all over.
Okay.
Now, the one thing that I'm hoping for to come from a Trump victory, which, by the way, they already have said on the Democratic side, never concede the election.
What they're going to do in the election is they're going to keep fighting it all the way to the bitter end and try to take it to the streets.
They're talking about doing things like having California secede from the Union.
Well, we would hope that would happen.
But, Sam, we got a minute left.
Listen, folks, two hours.
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Sam, last word to you, brother, and we love you and thank you.
I would say this.
I'm predicting a landslide for Trump unless they can commit vote fraud and it's razor-thin.
I think that there's a lot of people that are afraid to mention they're going to vote for Donald Trump because they're afraid of the repercussions and the hostility and the violence.
But I believe they will vote for Trump.
And I think even people who weren't Trumpers before now realize how unhinged.
I think it all comes down to Florida and Texas.
Realize how unhinged these people are, and that's why they're going to secretly vote for Trump.
What's your prediction before the end of the hour, both of you?
What do you say?
Who wins?
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Trump.
Trump is who I say, but it all depends on Florida and Texas.
If he wins Florida, he wins the election.
If he loses, he loses the election.
I think if he loses Texas, he loses the election.
But I think the Democrats have been so bad and so wildly out of control with the riots, it may be enough.