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[00:03:17] abortion, trans policy and a variety of others. And of course one of the other issues that has been raised and was raised even yesterday was during the time in which you had the various

[00:03:29] riots. Many people refer to them as the BLM riots or the other kinds of unrest in 2020. You can certainly say that he actually was not involved in significant ways. I'll talk more

[00:03:44] about that in just a minute. And also actually said that the reason we had those riots is because the government had not adopted enough DEI initiatives. That would be of course this idea of trying to reach out through diversity, equity and inclusion. So that's our first article and

[00:04:06] you can read more about that. But I already sort of alluded to the fact that you would have expected that there would have been you know almost universal celebration on the part of Democrats

[00:04:19] because up until now it was not looking very good. I'm going to give you some of those numbers a little bit later on how it looked like Donald Trump was going to sweep all of the swing

[00:04:30] states and now because you have some people call it a sugar high or a natural bounce, that this looks a little better for Kamala Harris. But if you go to some of the other news outlets and I will

[00:04:43] primarily focus on CNN and MSNBC, you're hearing some things of real concern. For example CNN's Van Jones, I've posted this as the third article so you can read it in its entirety. I won't spend

[00:04:56] all my time dealing with all the things that he said but Van Jones suggested that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris caved into what he said the darker parts of the Democratic Party. Now this is Van Jones who was obviously Democrat, obviously very supportive of

[00:05:15] Kamala Jones, obviously wants her to win but at the same time said that that was a real concern and actually then made the case that Republicans were chewing their fingernails down to the knuckle at the thought of Kamala Harris picking Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro who is Jewish

[00:05:35] as her potential vice presidential nominee and yet what we see is she announced of course yesterday that the Democratic governor of Minnesota Tim Walz will join her on the ticket. Van Jones went on to

[00:05:49] say to the CNN anchor Jim Acosta that he's concerned that anti-Semitism has become marbled in the Democratic Party. If you think about like marble and fat marbled in meat that's kind of what

[00:06:02] he's talking about. He says on the one hand you have a lot of people who are concerned about Gaza, you have a lot of Muslims and Arabs and others that have not felt seen by the Biden administration

[00:06:13] and you started hearing things about genocide Joe and he said that was building and so he recognizes as he said that folks needed to have a candidate that they could feel comfortable with

[00:06:26] and this in some respects he says helps in that regard but you also and this is what he's saying have anti-Semitism that's gotten marbled into the party. You can be for the Palestinians without being an anti-Jewish bigot but there are some anti-Jewish bigots out there again.

[00:06:45] Van Jones, I don't always quote him in a positive way but that's what he was saying and it's interesting that also on CNN another commentator was talking about the fact that well

[00:06:58] in some respects I'm kind of divided. On the one hand I think it was good that Kamala Harris picked a Midwestern governor but unfortunately he picked the most liberal Midwestern governor you could

[00:07:11] possibly come up with and as a matter of fact quite possibly an individual that if anything will push Kamala Harris further to the left at a time when we need to attract some kinds of swing

[00:07:24] voters, moderate voters and independents. So that's what was said on MSNBC. It's interesting that if you go to, that was in CNN, if you go to MSNBC Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House went on to say

[00:07:39] again this is an individual that is a governor of the state of Minnesota, Tim Walz and he's a Midwesterner and he's middle of the road. I don't think she really believes that unless she

[00:07:51] does believe it because she lived in San Francisco so long that anybody that isn't really extreme left looks like a moderate. But we also hear and again I have no connections to insiders but I listen to

[00:08:04] talk shows of people that do have connections that the staff of Joe Biden are furious. They are livid because they think that this is going to cause the ticket to go down and for the Republicans

[00:08:20] not only to win the White House but the Senate and the House and fear also that Joe Biden will then ultimately be blamed because he didn't resign early enough. So they were hoping as many people

[00:08:31] were expecting that you would have actually had the selection of Josh Shapiro but instead you have the selection of Tim Walz. We come back got some other very important insights but already

[00:08:45] you've heard from National Review, CNN and MSNBC. We'll be right back. This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson. You've probably heard the phrase history does not repeat itself but it rhymes. You know that observation is true especially in economics. Investor Ray Dalio learned that lesson at a young

[00:09:12] age. Back in 1971 he was clerking the floor of the New York Stock Exchange when President Nixon announced that paper currency could no longer be turned in for gold. He expected pandemonium on the

[00:09:23] floor as stocks took a dive. Instead the stock market jumped four percent as the dollar plummeted. He was surprised because he hadn't experienced a currency devaluation but would have known if he studied history. This isn't the first time the U.S. has had to deal with significant inflation.

[00:09:38] In fact the current chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell vows that he won't make the mistake of Arthur Burns who was the Fed chairman back in 1970s. I recently read an article from an

[00:09:48] economics professor who was at the Federal Reserve back in those days. He said that Arthur Burns wanted to remove energy related products from the consumer price index because of the Yom Kippur War and the subsequent oil embargo. Blaming oil prices on a war. Does that sound familiar? Then

[00:10:05] came surging food prices. Arthur Burns argued that this was traceable to unusual weather especially an El Nino event that affected such things as fertilizers and feedstock prices. He therefore wanted to remove food prices from the CPI. Again does that sound familiar? By the time he was done

[00:10:21] only about 35 percent of the CPI was left. If you've been listening to my commentary for any length of time you know that we no longer measure CPI the way we did decades ago. So this isn't the

[00:10:32] first time America's had to deal with significant inflation and we can learn some lessons from economic history about what we should do. I'm Kirby Anderson and that's my point of view. For a free booklet on a biblical view of Israel go to viewpoints.info

[00:10:53] Israel viewpoints.info Israel. You're listening to Point of View your listener supported source for truth. Because again this is we can get a little better perspective on this individual that may be the next vice president of the United States. Certainly the individual that will be introduced

[00:11:13] to the democratic delegates at the Democratic National Convention about a week and a half from now and certainly there are different takes that have come down but it has been interesting to see on both the left and the right both Republican and Democrat some individuals bringing up some

[00:11:29] issues of concern. And we'll see where that takes us because in just a few minutes we'll talk about some other issues besides that. But I thought we'd quote from Noah Rothman. Noah Rothman oftentimes

[00:11:42] looks at issues especially in Israel. I don't think he's Jewish but with that name maybe he's got some Jewish background but he certainly has a great interest there. If you're not familiar

[00:11:51] with him he was actually an actor for quite some time and did repertory theater. Actually was on a performing arts scholarship but eventually got a graduate degree international relations. But anyway

[00:12:02] he refers to this as Kamala Harris's first mistake. And of course a lot of people have said that you can tell a lot about a presidential candidate by who he or she picks as the vice presidential

[00:12:17] running mate. And that's the first pick. And don't forget as we'll point out a little bit later that the President of the United States has a responsibility to fill an enormous we're talking

[00:12:29] about thousands of jobs and so it is not only important to know about the individual that is running for the presidency but also to know about how that individual would select other people for

[00:12:44] his or her cabinet. Well in pointing this out Noah Rothman puts it this way he says in selecting Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to join her on the presidential ticket Harris has declined to make

[00:12:55] the most of an impossibly rare chance to skip over the fractious and embittering dynamic that typifies primary elections. Actually it is very difficult as I pointed out before. The standard mindset is

[00:13:10] that if you are running as a Democrat you run to the left and then once you get the nomination you run to the center. And if you're a Republican usually you run to the right and then you run

[00:13:21] to the center. That's not always the case but here would have been a great opportunity for what you might call triangulation. And instead she says by selecting Tim Walz over Josh Shapiro the Harris

[00:13:34] campaign has signaled that the lady is not into triangulating rather than appealing to the middle of the electorate. This has been an election in which both parties try to maximize their turnout among respective partisans. I'll come back to that a little bit later when we talk about

[00:13:50] Donald Trump and J.D. Vance but let's leave it still on the issue of Harris and Walt for the moment. And what you have here is that partisan Democrats insist that Harris's pick was the path

[00:14:02] of least resistance. Probably was inoffensive to every faction of the Democratic Party, progressives, youth voters, minority voters, moderates, low information voters and the rest. But as Nate Silver, have you heard me mention him before? Yes he is an individual that has accurately predicted

[00:14:20] so many of the presidential campaigns. I have one of his books on my shelf. Think highly of may disagree with him politically but think very highly of his ability to analyze data and analyze statistics.

[00:14:33] And he basically said that the value of Tim Walz is not in helping deliver these voters but maybe just a way to pacify what he called the loathsome malcontents in orbit around the Democratic

[00:14:49] Party. He says the Walz choice quote was designed to maintain the social fabric of the Democratic Party and avoid news cycles about a disappointed left and Democrats internal squabbling over the

[00:15:00] war in Gaza and maybe even an attempt to have prevented a protest in Chicago in a week and a half. And then you have the quotes from Van Jones which I've already read to you about how anti-Semitism

[00:15:13] has gotten marbled into the party. So more than a few people are quoting that statement by Van Jones and then he goes on to say that as Noel Rothman now goes on to say when an honest Democrat is

[00:15:26] willing to describe anti-Jewish bigotry indelibly woven into the fabric of the party he supports there's a much deeper rot spreading within the Democratic firmament to the extent that Walz's elevation represents a sop to some of the more odious elements of American society.

[00:15:45] His selection is indicative not of the Harris campaign's confidence but it's cowardice. And so again he does hold out for the possibility that in doing some kind of research they may have dug up

[00:15:59] some kind of possible scandal in the closet that would prevent them from actually taking on Josh Shapiro. But he's saying it's probably much more having to do with what they call a vaguely anti-Semitic whisper campaign deployed against the governor. So that is an issue which for sure

[00:16:24] is going to have to be addressed sometime soon and we'll see how that plays itself out at the Democratic convention especially if there is any potential floor fight over a platform maybe having

[00:16:40] to do with Israel or Gaza or the Palestinians. We'll see where that takes us and we'll be watching that for sure. As we've mentioned already there are all sorts of fact sheets coming out yesterday

[00:16:52] I shared with you one that came in before the first hour was even up about the fact that Tim Waltz is an individual that has been fairly weak on the board as a matter of fact he supports

[00:17:04] sanctuary cities and sanctuary states. He has of course called for universal health care like Bernie Sanders has called for, believes in abortion on demand up until the moment of birth. There are

[00:17:15] no limitations on abortion in the state of Minnesota which has caused a lot of people to point out that we've actually had more abortions now after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. He also of course was

[00:17:28] unwilling to commit the Minnesota National Guard for a period of time. Of course talked about working with China, teaching actually a course approved by the Chinese Communist Party actually saying that when he was in China I've never been treated better in my life

[00:17:44] and of course then you have Gary Bauer pointing out many other things as well as we pointed out signed a piece of legislation where there are no limits on abortion also supports the transgender

[00:17:57] agenda and actually had a signing ceremony with young children who were transitioned and issued an executive order making Minnesota a trans refuge state and as well signed legislation requiring all schools to stock period products that's what they call it in the bathrooms and even changed the

[00:18:20] Minnesota state flag and if you remember the new design it looked a lot more like the Somalian flag by the way there's quite a large immigration population from Somalia in Minnesota and as a

[00:18:36] result there was a backlash so they've changed the final version a little bit of course I pointed out praises socialism as nothing more than neighborliness and also has given taxpayer-funded benefits to undocumented persons or people that are here illegally and so there's quite a number

[00:18:57] of issues that I believe will surface in the campaign but sometimes people can't keep track of all those issues but they certainly can remember one of the slogans and I do want to at least give

[00:19:11] some props to JD Vance because there have been some that haven't been convinced that the rollout of his vice presidential campaign has gone as well as it might have gone but he came up with a line

[00:19:23] and whether you like JD Vance or Donald Trump or Tim Walz or Kamala Harris you gotta believe it's a pretty good line because here he's on the airplane in which he says you know this interesting tag team

[00:19:36] if you will between Tim Walz and Kamala Harris he says they make an interesting tag team because Tim Walz allowed rioters to burn down Minneapolis in the summer of 2020 and the few who got caught

[00:19:50] Kamala Harris helped bail them out of jail so one actually allowed them to burn it down and those who got caught they were bailed out of jail of course we talked yesterday about some of the fact

[00:20:02] checkers saying oh that's not true but you can again go back and find some of the articles that I think illustrate only so well that is exactly what she was calling for so we're going

[00:20:12] to take a break and when we come back a couple things first of all another very good article this one comes from the Wall Street Journal on what this particular decision means and tells

[00:20:24] us about Kamala Harris and then a piece by our friend Cal Thomas which has the interesting title The Secret Service Makes Me Nervous which actually is a play on a particular musical that came out

[00:20:38] but nevertheless we'll get into that in just a minute if you'd like to know a little bit more about some of the things we're talking about you might say okay you've given me some facts you've

[00:20:47] given me some figures or some information I'd like to know first of all some of those articles are available on the website at pointofview.net we also are just today adding another article and

[00:20:58] we added one yesterday to our box that says election central we're getting to the point where there's so many articles there you might want to start reading now because we've posted so many

[00:21:10] that you might might take you a while to get through all of the articles and other resources that we're posting there every single day and one of the reasons we post those is so that you can

[00:21:21] read them maybe pass them on to your friends if you're trying to encourage them to think about what they might want to do in this coming election let's take a break we'll be back right

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[00:23:13] back once again let me point you to the website for a couple of minutes first of all i just mentioned election central and today we are posting a piece by our good friend john stone street which

[00:23:24] is entitled voting lesser of two evils versus lessening evil and i know that sometimes people lament about their choices but i think it is important as he points out later in his piece

[00:23:37] apart from first of all looking at it from a biblical point of view just the practical aspect that the office of the president actually is a bureaucratic entity in which it brings anywhere from 3 000 to 5 000 personnel the range there depends on how many of those are kept from a

[00:23:58] previous administration how many are changed some of those individuals serve at the whim of the president others are individuals that have a certain amount of term and then they're changed

[00:24:11] and you know the fbi director and uh the head of the just a variety of different agencies fit into that category so over time you probably have changed out as many as 5 000 and as few as 3 000

[00:24:28] so it is important to pay attention not only to the individual but also to what that individual would do in terms of who he or she would put into positions of authority and this is going to be i

[00:24:44] think a real challenge for kamala harris because let's go back a couple decades and when george herbert walker bush was running for the presidency he had been the vice president under ronald reagan

[00:24:57] for eight years so he couldn't really run away from the record in that case it was a pretty good record but still it was something that was viable in the campaign and it was a series of questions

[00:25:09] that the media could ask how is your administration going to be any different than ronald reagan's is that just going to be then instead of eight years 12 years of the reagan bush administration

[00:25:23] i think that was a legitimate question it's a question now because a lot of people felt like there was eight years of barack obama and then the four years of joe biden pretty much run by

[00:25:33] barack obama what's this going to look like and kamala harris won't be able to really i think run away from that in terms of you have to own everything from the border whether you consider

[00:25:45] yourself the border czar or not to the issue of inflation and of course there's all sorts of video showing right now about this is bydonomics and her laughing and feeling happy about it but it's hard

[00:25:57] to think that you'd be very happy about it right now in front of the american voters and to contrast that whereas george herbert walker bush in a sense had to certainly explain how his administration

[00:26:11] would be any different than the previous eight years when he had been vice president you can think of let's go to 2008 john mccain at one point was being asked questions about bush and said i'm

[00:26:22] not bush and i wasn't in the bush white house and so he could be free from that but that is not something that kamala harris has at her disposal so let me just mention that and so again you might

[00:26:35] want to find that article and many others viewpoint commentaries voter guides and the rest and we're going to be continuing loading up the election central box every single day beneath it

[00:26:48] is the pray for america and just as we went to a break we had a statement by our announcer about pray for america if you happen to be watching online we have a graphic up there and if you've

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[00:27:12] are in the midst of kind of a back to school mindset here in august it does seem a little bit wrong for me most of us that are older remember we didn't go back to school until after labor day but

[00:27:23] that's not the same world that we live in today but nevertheless the back to school um outlook magazine is coming to your box and the back to school prayer material again i want to thank liberty

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[00:27:47] spotify and all the other links to the podcast as well let's get back to this second article here and this comes from the editors of the wall street journal and that is what the choice of tim waltz

[00:27:58] says about kamala harris and i think you've already heard a little bit here the decision was made to reinforce the base and the editors don't necessarily like donald trump said donald trump did democrats a favor by choosing a running mate who reinforced his base rather than reaching

[00:28:14] out to swing voters kamal harris has now returned the favor in selecting minnesota governor tim waltz and of the one individual that may have scared republicans that was governor josh shapiro pennsylvania did not happen maybe because he was too pro-israel it also upset some of the

[00:28:34] teachers unions by showing at least verbal or rhetorical support for school vouchers no problem with tim waltz in that regard and so we'll see where that goes and they again make the case that she may have wilted under the pressure fearing protests at the democratic convention

[00:28:52] in chicago this month and so went with something that would be a little bit safer and there goes donald trump's hope of flipping the decisive swing state of minnesota that's a joke because they said in the land of 10 000 liberals has voted democratic in every presidential election since

[00:29:12] 1976 i love that line though but it was and matter of fact as i pointed out before 40 years ago again i know some of you aren't even 40 years of age but 40 years ago that is the only state

[00:29:26] that voted democratic when walter mondale a senator from minnesota won just minnesota and ronald reagan won 49 other states and that is the case they go in a little bit more about uh again tim waltz army national guard a high school teacher football coach and the rest

[00:29:44] but really since gaining control of the legislature and becoming governor now increasing taxes minnesota now has the fifth highest top income tax rate among states making an estimated 81 000 illegal immigrants eligible for a driver's license and if they have a driver's license

[00:30:03] wouldn't it make it pretty easy for them to vote you know what that means funding what's called the north star program which would give free college to students with a family under income of 80 000 maintaining that public utilities generate 80 of their electricity carbon free passing as we

[00:30:21] pointed out before one of the most permissive abortion statutes no limitations no age considerations for minors and then of course we've already mentioned declaring minnesota to be a trans refuge state with a law saying that the state will ignore ignore a court order for the removal

[00:30:41] of a child issued in another state because the child's parent or guardian assisted the child in receiving gender affirming care in that state so again if you think about this as they conclude

[00:30:53] this article and again we post these so you can read them and pass them on to others you will be in conversations with people say well i really don't know what to think about this governor

[00:31:03] from minnesota okay well we've given you four pages here that go in and i've only read a couple of the key points but you can get the idea where we're going on this and they then conclude by

[00:31:12] saying look despite four years as vice president kamal harris is largely unknown to most voters democrats want to keep it that way hoping she can dodge media interviews which she's done pretty

[00:31:22] successfully and just talk about the future but her choice of a running mate is her first presidential level decision and it confirms the views that she expressed in 2019 when she ran for the white house

[00:31:35] as a left-wing democrat choosing tim wall suggests that the real kamal harris is the one who wants medicare for all and wants to eliminate cash bail voters who don't like mr trump might decide he's

[00:31:48] better than signing up for that so that is certainly the case and one other point i thought i'd make before we take the break and that is if you go right now to try to find the platform

[00:32:00] for kamala harris it's not there now we're about a week and a half from the democratic convention but if you go to the harris for president official website check it out see what you see there it

[00:32:14] allows visitors to learn how to take action you can go to the store and meet vice president kamala harris uh there is a bio description of her and that's about it and so you get in the sense that

[00:32:30] this is a campaign that's sort of making it up as it goes along have we had that in recent memory yes we have and that is ross perot some of you are old enough to remember that when ross perot

[00:32:43] ran for the presidency that's when bill clinton and george rubber walker bush were running 1992 he was sort of making it up as he went along and the very good reason for that was because he'd

[00:32:55] never run a presidential campaign well kamala harris maybe knew that there was a possibility that she could be running a presidential campaign but in some respects this got thrown to her

[00:33:08] and you're still kind of um seeing a campaign in process and for people that say well i want to vote for kamala harris a good question would be well what does she stand for

[00:33:21] and you'll get a pause well i'll look at her website it's not going to help you very much and besides she changes her mind on some of the things based on where the political winds are

[00:33:31] blowing so it will be an interesting set of circumstances to see how a week and a half from now all that unfolds as she is presenting herself and tim waltz to the people at the democratic

[00:33:45] convention we'll be right back you're listening to point of view your listener supported source for truth once again let's we can get to the piece by cal thomas that secret service makes me nervous

[00:34:07] and again i apologize for covering so much time on the vice presidential nominee but that is relevant and even by the time we get to our friday weekend edition that might be old news

[00:34:17] we'll pick it up again obviously when we get into the democratic convention but cal thomas i love the way he turns this phrase he says in 1962 composer irving berlin debuted a final musical mr president

[00:34:31] the show had a silly little song that contains the lyric the secret service makes me nervous well that's just uh actually a play on words and just a little bit alliteration and rhyming but

[00:34:42] nevertheless he said i thought that the song um and thought of the song after the real secret service failed to protect former president donald trump at a rally three weeks ago in butler pennsylvania the bureaucracy seems to be putting more effort into protecting the agency management

[00:35:00] than it did in protecting donald trump if you have not heard and if you're watching the mainstream media i'm sure you have not heard there was another assassination attempt that was foiled

[00:35:13] i think the only places you hear that right now are on fox news maybe some of the other outlets but just thought i'd mention that in passing but anyway cal thomas reminds us that

[00:35:23] of course we have the director of secret service that's kimberly cheadle who resigned after a poor performance before the house oversight committee and then of course had then uh the situation which you have the acting director that's ronald roe and the fbi deputy director paul abate

[00:35:43] testified last week before a joint hearing of the senate judiciary and homeland security committees and in this case roe who again is kind of the acting director of the secret service

[00:35:55] uh said he would they were not aware and he was not aware and his agents were not aware of the presence of a man on the roof of the building before he began firing his weapon

[00:36:05] and also admitted responsibility for this security breakdown that took place of course in butler pennsylvania so then asked by senator josh holly whether anyone at the agency had been fired you got your kind of typical response from ronald roe basically saying well we have this kind of

[00:36:26] bureaucratic shuffle and the investigation is ongoing and we didn't want to take any action that might cause harm to an innocent person and at this point you had senators if you did not hear

[00:36:37] the interviewer here about it on both parties that were outraged his response as they should have been and also expressed shock that an individual a 20 year old could fly a drone over

[00:36:49] the area on the day of the shooting and no one thought that was unusual um i i think there are some very significant things then goes on to point out some things we've heard before we have video

[00:37:01] for example shot by some of the attendees who were actually seeing a man crawling across the roof could have a clear shot um there were rally golders uh goers that were saying somebody's on

[00:37:14] the roof apparently we've heard one story and again after i don't even know which ones to believe supposedly one officer started to climb up on the roof and uh individual pointed his weapon at him

[00:37:26] and he retreated and yet they let the president come on i mean they're just all sorts of what ifs so cal thomas kind of ends this way and he says some in congress and conservative media are

[00:37:39] suggesting the biden administration's emphasis on diversity equity and inclusion that's called dei may have lowered the standards for applicants for secret service so then cal thomas says look don't trust me just look at it yourself a look at the agency's website might give credence he says

[00:37:59] to that argument for example it lists various categories for recruitment and includes outreach to african-american pacific islander hispanic indigenous nations federal women's program lgbtq persons with disabilities disabled veteran office of the ombudsman inclusion and engagement

[00:38:22] council that list but mentions nothing about merit and again he reminds us that three years ago the washington post reported quote mr washington post saying this three years ago quote the morale of uniform division officers who guard the white house is so bad that a new study

[00:38:43] by the national academy of public administration panel said that job satisfaction and employee engagement are a concerning level of risk related to a crisis in the u-day which would be an uniform division work-life balance unquote you also had the nbc report that said former secret

[00:39:06] service officials say it can be difficult to get experienced agencies to remain on the job so the title of cal thomas's piece the secret service makes me nervous he says it's all to

[00:39:18] make us all nervous so i wanted to post that and recognize that there have been some people like dan bongino and others that have really taken on this issue of the secret service we'll see what

[00:39:29] else we can learn but i did want to add that to our mix today as we talked about so many different issues next hour we're going to be talking with benny tate about his book unlimited we'll hopefully

[00:39:40] be able to catch up with senator ted cruz talking about his take it down legislation and some other very important issues but as we get closer to the democratic convention let me give you some of the

[00:39:52] numbers because it has been interesting that uh so far the presumptive presidential nominee has really been hiding from serious interviews and tough questions gary bauer points out that she's really avoided the media as of at least yesterday um except for i guess there's one

[00:40:14] paul's drag show she was on that but i don't think that qualifies as msnbc cnn abc nbc cbs or fox news for sure and it almost is starting to look like she's going to follow the joe biden

[00:40:31] 2020 basement strategy so we'll see how that unfolds how has this decision to put her as the presidential nominee and now tim waltz as the vice presidential nominee well we have the numbers

[00:40:45] before tim waltz was picked and that is when we still thought that there was going to be a battle between either joe biden or even early with the idea of kamala harris you had trump leading harris

[00:41:01] in arizona three points a lead in georgia for a few as well but it's a little bit tighter because when joe biden was there donald trump was ahead in arizona by six points georgia by four points

[00:41:15] north carolina by five points now arizona three points georgia one point and north carolina two points so first of all those three states we talk about the swing states are important arizona georgia north carolina and gary bauer points out that if donald trump loses any of those three

[00:41:33] states it's difficult to come up with a plausible way for him to win the white house if trump sweeps those three states which he must do the race then comes down to one of these states michigan

[00:41:45] pennsylvania or wisconsin and trump just has to lease at least win one of those so we will see where that goes but for a time in which you are actually refocus focusing on as we focused on

[00:41:58] two individuals on the democratic side that are about as liberal as anything we've ever seen some people making the statement that they're most liberal candidates we've ever had for at least

[00:42:11] a main party we will see if these numbers continue and i suspect that as we get into the democratic national convention there will be a bounce but the election will not be held at the end of august

[00:42:25] it won't even be held in september it won't be held in october it will be held in that first monday or tuesday i should say in november and that's going to be i think the real decision

[00:42:38] making that a lot of people will have to make once again let me mention that we are now posting this piece by our good friend john stone street of course you can go to breakpoint and see what he's

[00:42:48] written about voting quote colon lesser of two evils or lessening evil very good piece and it talks about not only just the biblical ideas but some of the practical considerations you need to

[00:43:00] think about before you go and vote in november let's take a break we'll come back with more right after this in 19th century london two towering historical figures did battle not with guns and bombs but words and ideas london was home to karl marx the father of communism

[00:43:24] and legendary baptist preacher charles spurgeon london was in many ways the center of the world economically militarily and intellectually marx sought to destroy religion the family and everything the bible supports spurgeon stood against him warning of socialism's dangers

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