Back to episode — Episode 2514 CWSA 06/23/24
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dge, as we know from the Supreme Court, is about 80% predictive in terms of how things are going to go. So it does expose the system quite a bit. All right. Trump had a big rally in Philadelphia. The big story is there's no big story. The big story is, and I will compliment the Trump campaign again, people who went there described it as flawless. In other words, the organization of it, the attend…
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I agree with that with the caveat that nobody can really advise Trump. So he still is the one who's going to decide and a lot of it will be spontaneous. I don't think he's really not preparing. You know, he's kind of playing it off like he's not preparing because it'll be more impressive if he does well, but I assume he's preparing. He's just doing it his own way.
Anyway, so and I would agree if he just plays it straight, he's going to win. I had some actual suggestions here. I had an actual suggestion.
All right. Here's my debate advice. Besides don't be too aggressive, we're very close to the point, I don't know if we're there yet, where Trump could say what I call the Bob Dole strategy. Now it's a strategy used against Bob Dole by the Clinton campaign when they were running for reelection, but the Bill Clinton campaign, which was to treat Bob Dole with respect because he was elderly and a vet. So once you get a lead, you know, it looks like you're going to win anyway, you stop being an and you start showing empathy and respect.
And I think that Trump, of course he's going to keep going hard at Biden all the way to the finish line. But could you imagine him saying that we need to respect the elderly and that Biden had a good run. Imagine Trump saying, you know, we have to give respect to the elderly. Now people would laugh at that because Trump is almost the same age, but it would be funny and you couldn't ignore it. You know, we should have respect for the elderly. Joe had a good run, but we can all see that his time has come to an end.
Just imagine that coming out of Trump's mouth or some version of it. We should respect the elderly. And I'm going to go hard this election. If you go hard, I'm going to go hard. But honestly, Joe, you had a good run. You made it all the way to president. But now, I think a due respect to people who have reached your situation in life is that we should allow you to make a graceful exit. And it looks like the voters are going to do that for you. And if you go hard at me, I'm going to go hard at you. That's our system. But I think at this point we can all see that maybe empathy is the way to go here. It would be devastating. It would be devastating if Trump said we should maybe go a little easy on you because everybody can see what's going on at this point. But then don't go easy. You know, don't be a bully, but definitely don't go easy. Just point it out as something we should now consider that since we can all see he's gone that maybe we should take a different approach to this. It would be a killer.
Well, also Trump said we should stop giving attention to Bill Maher because Bill Maher's got a failing show and he's unimportant blah blah blah blah blah. Well I'd like to talk about Bill Maher because I don't take that advice whatsoever. I think Mike Cernovich is saying the same thing. Stop giving oxygen to Bill Maher. I'll stop giving him oxygen when it doesn't work to my advantage. Like if that starts happening, I'll stop doing it. But at the moment with the story I'm going to tell you right now, it's very much working to my advantage as a communicator.
Here's what Bill Maher said. See if this sounds familiar to you. See if it's something that maybe you heard me say once or twice or 10 times. All right, here's what Bill Maher said on his show. He was talking about all the polls about Biden losing support among various things. He says
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he's losing 14 points among Hispanics, 43 points among black voters. I don't, I'll just give you the big line. I think these details are misleading, but he's basically saying that every category from Hispanics to blacks to under 50, student debt holders, even the people on student debt were more for Trump. And something about even losing support from women. So Bill Maher says, how can they be tie…
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