Point of View October 28, 2024 – Hour 1 : An Update from Today’s News

[00:00:04] Across America, live, this is Point of View Anderson.

[00:00:20] Thank you for joining me. It is the Monday edition of Point of View and we are broadcasting live today from Augusta, Georgia on the Good News Network.

[00:00:28] And I think you will certainly appreciate some of the things that we will be talking about, not only today but throughout the week.

[00:00:34] Tomorrow will be in South Carolina and then we will be back in studio on Wednesday.

[00:00:37] But I did want you to first of all know that this is a time in which as we have been in Georgia,

[00:00:42] we have seen a lot of trees that have come down because of the storm as well as we will probably see some more tomorrow as we go to South Carolina.

[00:00:51] So in many cases we certainly want to encourage you to pray for people in the southeastern part of the United States that have been hit by these various storms.

[00:00:59] But it has been great to meet some of the individuals here to have lunch or dinner with some of them.

[00:01:04] And we look forward to meeting more of you as time goes on.

[00:01:08] But today we are going to spend the first hour pretty much as you would imagine, talking about the campaign.

[00:01:13] We will look a little bit at what is happening certainly in the Kamala Harris campaign and some of the various races for Democratic senators.

[00:01:22] We will then look at the Trump campaign and the Trump rally that took place in Madison Square Garden.

[00:01:28] And what is happening for some of those various Republican candidates as well.

[00:01:31] And we will get into some other issues related to the campaign in some respects.

[00:01:36] They are running for various positions because they want to address some very important topics.

[00:01:42] We will get into some of that today and even more of it tomorrow.

[00:01:46] But in the second hour, I just wanted to also as a program note mention that we will have Charles Dyer with us.

[00:01:51] Charlie Dyer is a good friend.

[00:01:52] Charlie Dyer has been at Dallas Theological Seminary, Moody Institute, but also now is the co-author of a book called Who Owns the Land.

[00:02:02] It was written many years ago by Dr. Stanley Ellison.

[00:02:05] No longer with us, but he has taken a book and updated it in light of all the things happening in the Middle East.

[00:02:10] And of course, if you have been paying attention to the news at all, you know that Israel launched three waves of attacks on Iran over the weekend in retaliation for the Iranian attack on them in October 1st.

[00:02:22] So we will get to that in due course.

[00:02:24] But for those of you that would like to know a little bit more about the Middle East, know a little bit more about the whole question of who owns the land, which is the title of this book that came out many years ago but has been substantially updated.

[00:02:37] And we will get into that.

[00:02:38] That is the second hour.

[00:02:40] Let me also mention that there has been a lot of interest in voting.

[00:02:44] As a matter of fact, lines around many of the voting booths and various polling places.

[00:02:51] And one of the things that we have posted is something I talked about on Friday with our good friend Kelly Shackelford, which is a study of why individuals don't vote.

[00:03:02] Now, I recognize that if you're a listener to Point of View, you probably vote.

[00:03:06] You probably already have voted if you want to take advantage of early voting.

[00:03:10] But you may know some people that aren't.

[00:03:12] And so one of the things that we have posted here is a link to the video and then other information that was put together by our friends at First Liberty working with George Barna.

[00:03:23] And they found, for example, that if you wanted to talk to people that were non-voters, they found that 17% of the people who are actually motivated not to vote said that if 17% of the churches taught that voting is a biblical responsibility, 17% of them said, well, then I might vote.

[00:03:44] So that is an admonition to those of you listening who are pastors or elders or deacons or Sunday school teachers.

[00:03:51] They also found that 14% said if family or family members or friends were convincing them about the importance of voting, which is you, you may know somebody who is not thinking about voting.

[00:04:02] Again, we see a significant number of those individuals.

[00:04:06] And also 14% said they would vote if they thought the race was close enough for their vote to make a difference.

[00:04:13] I don't see how you could look at any of the numbers we've been talking about over the last couple of weeks and not believe that we are going to deal with a fairly close election.

[00:04:23] And we have talked on numerous occasions about how close some of these votes really have been.

[00:04:29] So, first of all, that is our first article.

[00:04:32] And if you'd like to watch the video or look at some of the material, certainly we encourage you to pray about this election.

[00:04:38] We encourage you to ask candidates out of their positions.

[00:04:42] You should certainly ask your friends, neighbors, and coworkers if they voted, if they planned on voting, and even share some of the material we have on our Election Central.

[00:04:51] But let me get to some of the articles today, which I think illustrate what is going on.

[00:04:55] And our first article comes from the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal.

[00:04:59] It's entitled, The Supreme Court's Future is on the Ballot.

[00:05:03] I came across this and passed it on to Kelly and said, it sounds to me like Kelly was writing the article, although it was written by the editors,

[00:05:10] in which they said, would Kamala Harris support packing the Supreme Court by adding, say, three justices?

[00:05:16] And basically the editors of the editorial board said, well, she was asked that at a CNN town meeting and seemed to indicate that indeed that might be the case.

[00:05:27] Her direct quote was this.

[00:05:29] Number one, the American people increasingly are losing confidence in the Supreme Court, in large part because of the behavior of certain members of that court

[00:05:38] and because of certain rulings, including the Dobbs decision, which of course is the decision on abortion, and then taking away the precedent been in place for 50 years.

[00:05:47] So she says, I do believe that there should be some kind of reform of the court and we can study what that actually looks like.

[00:05:53] In case you think, well, that's just hypothetical, let's again remind you of the fact that we have had pieces of legislation already introduced.

[00:06:02] Let me talk about two.

[00:06:03] One of those is by Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, introduced a bill last month to expand the court to 15 justices from nine over three presidential terms.

[00:06:15] And this would actually change the nature of the court.

[00:06:18] And you've heard Kelly Shackelford talk about that for some time.

[00:06:22] This would also require, interestingly enough, an IRS audit of the tax returns of the justices.

[00:06:28] Just in case you're not familiar, this is not required of members of Congress or the president.

[00:06:32] So we would actually require even more what they call transparency, but I think intrusion into those individuals.

[00:06:40] It also would allow litigants to file recusal motions.

[00:06:45] In other words, that they should be recused from that particular issue.

[00:06:48] So all of this is wrapped up in this kind of big piece of legislation that Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon put forward.

[00:06:55] But lest he be outdone, you also have another bill that actually was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee last year.

[00:07:03] And that came from the senator from Rhode Island, Senator Sheldon Whitehorse House, I should say.

[00:07:09] And indeed, that was one that goes on to deal with the ways in which you could have this idea of recusal.

[00:07:16] And a variety of other issues in which a panel could even take sworn testimony, issue subpoenas, and all sorts of other issues.

[00:07:24] Of course, there's the argument for term limits that are being proposed and saying that if an individual had actually been serving for that time,

[00:07:33] they might have a new office created of a senior justice, which is a nice way to say, well, we'll let you actually still sit there, but your vote will not mean anything.

[00:07:43] And given the fact that the two oldest justices on the court right now are conservatives, that would be Justice Clarence Thomas, 76 years of age, and Justice Samuel Alito, 74 years of age,

[00:07:56] you can kind of get a pretty good idea of what they're trying to do.

[00:07:59] So nevertheless, just wanted you to realize that when we talk about this particular election,

[00:08:05] we are talking about the fact that there are a lot of things on the table,

[00:08:09] but one of those is the future of the Supreme Court.

[00:08:13] And if you'd like to know a little bit more about the possible danger that that could actually create,

[00:08:19] and how in some cases some of the particular perspectives being proposed are actually, I would have to say, unconstitutional,

[00:08:28] that is our first article today right under the article that has Kelly Shackelford,

[00:08:33] so I guess we'll call it the second article on the Supreme Court's future is on the ballot.

[00:08:39] We're going to take a break. Be back with more right after this.

[00:08:58] This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson.

[00:09:04] The acronym DEI is found in business and the academy.

[00:09:07] It's now being used in medical schools.

[00:09:10] DEI stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

[00:09:13] A new report of top medical schools documents that DEI is being used to weed out applicants

[00:09:17] who aren't firmly within the latest woke metric.

[00:09:20] The nonprofit Do No Harm conducted an analysis of medical school application processes

[00:09:25] and concluded that these schools were raising an additional entry barrier on top of the grade requirements and testing.

[00:09:32] The report argues that these medical schools are asking these questions to turn ideological support for health,

[00:09:38] equity, and social justice initiatives into a credential that increases an applicant's chance of acceptance.

[00:09:44] As you might expect, the questions on the applications ranged widely.

[00:09:48] One application asked prospective students how you have committed yourself to understanding

[00:09:53] and aiding in the pursuit of equity and inclusion in your academic, professional, or personal life.

[00:09:58] Another was more direct.

[00:09:59] The school asked applicants to share their thoughts on opposing systemic racism,

[00:10:04] anti-LGBTQ discrimination, and misogyny.

[00:10:07] The application then asked, how will you contribute?

[00:10:09] You know, this latest medical school trend parallels what has been happening on university campuses for years.

[00:10:15] Heather McDonald documents how these woke ideas have spread from the university to the workplace

[00:10:20] in her book, The Diversity Delusion.

[00:10:22] And medical schools certainly have the right to ask questions of prospective students

[00:10:26] that help faculty determine whether they will make good doctors.

[00:10:29] But you could simply ask an open-ended question like, why do you want to become a physician?

[00:10:33] But these applications are using DEI to weed out certain applicants.

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[00:11:04] Back once again, talking from today, Augusta, Georgia with the Good News Network,

[00:11:09] and if you'd like to join us a little bit later, 1-800-351-1212.

[00:11:13] As I mentioned, we'll have Charles Dyer, Dr. Charlie Jyer, with us in the second hour

[00:11:17] talking about this newly revised book, Who Owns the Land?

[00:11:20] We'll get into some of the things having to do with foreign policy and especially the Middle East.

[00:11:25] I think you'll appreciate that conversation as well,

[00:11:27] and if you'd like to ask him a question or make a comment, that would be appropriate.

[00:11:31] And just as a minute ago, I mentioned the fact that the Supreme Court's future is on the ballot.

[00:11:35] Of course, Kamala Harris wants to say that abortion is on the ballot,

[00:11:39] and we'll talk a little bit about her campaign in just a minute,

[00:11:41] and then we'll talk about Donald Trump's campaign and this very significant rally at Madison Square Garden.

[00:11:47] But just as we are talking about the fact that some people say,

[00:11:51] well, I don't necessarily like the two candidates.

[00:11:53] That's one of the things that have shown up in that survey as well,

[00:11:57] that I don't like either of the candidates,

[00:11:59] and that's sometimes true when people look at senatorial candidates, congressional candidates,

[00:12:04] or even all the way up to the presidential candidates, all the way down to the school board.

[00:12:08] But I've said before that especially when you're looking at the governor or the president,

[00:12:15] you have to understand that in many cases you have to look at the people that they will appoint.

[00:12:21] Let me just focus on the president for just a minute.

[00:12:23] I mentioned this the other day, but I wanted to go into it in a little bit more detail

[00:12:27] because he or she, whoever is elected next week,

[00:12:31] will be able to make at least 4,000 or 5,000 appointments.

[00:12:36] Some of these others are starting to come due as well,

[00:12:40] so eventually it could be closer to 10,000 appointments,

[00:12:43] but we'll just use the 4,000 to 5,000 appointment number,

[00:12:47] and you might say, well, what are those individuals?

[00:12:49] First of all, a good number of those presidential appointments require Senate confirmation.

[00:12:55] If you go to your constitution, it talks about the Senate giving advice and consent,

[00:13:00] and that has always been interpreted, at least in the modern world,

[00:13:03] as having to approve those individuals.

[00:13:06] And so all of the individuals that serve at the cabinet level for whatever it might be,

[00:13:12] it might be President Kamala Harris, it might be President Donald Trump,

[00:13:16] all of those individuals are appointed by the president,

[00:13:19] and have to be confirmed by the Senate.

[00:13:21] Hence, this is why we've spent some time talking about some of these Senate races as well.

[00:13:26] Number two, of course, you might imagine that we're talking about the federal judiciary.

[00:13:31] Just so that you can put this in perspective,

[00:13:34] Donald Trump was able to make 235 judicial appointments.

[00:13:39] That's very significant.

[00:13:41] Of course, you're more familiar with the three that are Supreme Court justices.

[00:13:45] That would be Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.

[00:13:50] But in addition to those three, 232 others serve either in the appeals court all the way down to district court.

[00:13:58] And Kelly Shackelford has told us many times, and I think you can understand,

[00:14:02] that he wouldn't have, at First Liberty, won nine different cases before the Supreme Court

[00:14:08] if it weren't for some of the justices on that court.

[00:14:12] You know, he's won some of those where they haven't had all of the Trump justices,

[00:14:16] but certainly you can see what that has done.

[00:14:18] And, of course, as we will be talking about tomorrow,

[00:14:21] we have one individual that has been in the courts for some time, is a Colorado baker.

[00:14:26] We're going to be talking with our good friend, Michael Ferris,

[00:14:28] who actually has been part of that defense of him through Alliance Defending Freedom.

[00:14:33] And you can recognize that even at the lower court level,

[00:14:36] having the right kind of justices, the right kind of judges,

[00:14:41] wherever you look, justices to the Supreme Court, judges at the lower courts,

[00:14:45] that actually want to interpret the Constitution from its original meaning

[00:14:50] and not try to write new law, that's going to be very important.

[00:14:55] Also, there are presidential appointments that require Senate confirmation for U.S. attorneys

[00:15:00] and for U.S. marshals.

[00:15:02] And then a very significant area that hardly ever gets mentioned but needs to be mentioned,

[00:15:07] and that is all the various appointments that are made by the president of federal boards and commissions.

[00:15:14] This would be like many of those would be the three-letter commissions,

[00:15:18] SEC, Security and Exchange Commission, FCC, Federal Communications Commission,

[00:15:23] FEC, Federal Elections Commission, and on and on and on, labor relations.

[00:15:28] The list is a very long list indeed.

[00:15:30] And, of course, those are individuals that also, of course, are going to influence you very significantly.

[00:15:37] And if, for example, the FCC is much more hostile, for example, to Christian radio,

[00:15:44] because the individuals there have been appointed by a president that is less sympathetic to Christian radio,

[00:15:51] you can see the kind of difficulties there.

[00:15:53] If, indeed, the Federal Elections Commission ruling right now on one we'll talk about a little bit later, Elon Musk,

[00:15:59] you can see why, again, each one of these particular appointments is key.

[00:16:04] So you're not just electing a president.

[00:16:06] You're electing, basically, an individual who puts into office in very powerful ways in the executive branch

[00:16:14] about 4,000 to 5,000 appointments.

[00:16:17] In addition to that, then we have many presidential appointments that do not require confirmation.

[00:16:23] That would be, of course, all the senior White House aides, the advisors, the deputies, the key assistants.

[00:16:30] The list goes on and on.

[00:16:32] And I've said before that if you say, well, I don't know how these would be actually put in office,

[00:16:39] you do have a track record for both of these individuals.

[00:16:43] First of all, Donald Trump, actually, we know who he put on the Supreme Court.

[00:16:48] And it is quite clear that Joe Biden, having one appointment, which I'm sure Kamala Harris went along with,

[00:16:55] was Ketanji Brown Jackson.

[00:16:57] You also can choose a little bit of what you think about the individual by the first appointment they make.

[00:17:03] And that is, who did they pick as vice president?

[00:17:06] As you well know, Donald Trump has picked J.D. Vance,

[00:17:09] who I've become very impressed with as I've begun to see how he handles himself in many of these talk shows.

[00:17:16] And Kamala Harris picked Tim Walsh.

[00:17:18] And so you can get a little bit of a handle on the kind of person they would put in those other positions.

[00:17:24] And when a person says, well, I don't think it makes any difference who I vote for,

[00:17:29] first of all, just again go to our Election Central and look at the difference in the platforms,

[00:17:34] different some of the statements that have been made by these two candidates,

[00:17:37] and more importantly by the individuals that have been placed in those positions of authority

[00:17:43] by either the Trump administration or the Biden-Harris administration.

[00:17:47] With that, let's see if we can get into our next article.

[00:17:50] And this is by Michael Barone.

[00:17:53] He's been on the program with us before and very astute political advisor,

[00:17:56] in which he points out that for Kamala Harris and the Democrats,

[00:18:01] October has proved to be a little bit of what he calls a cruel month.

[00:18:07] He puts it another way.

[00:18:08] It says it really hasn't been a good month for her or the party.

[00:18:12] He says it hasn't been an entirely bad one.

[00:18:15] Nate Silver, who we quote oftentimes who does some of these polls,

[00:18:18] gives her still a 47% chance of winning,

[00:18:21] which is much higher than the 29% chance he gave Donald Trump in 2016.

[00:18:27] But we know how that turned out.

[00:18:29] But also it shows that she is much further down than she was before.

[00:18:33] And so as he puts, Nate Silver, again, who is a left of center pollster,

[00:18:39] but an individual I quote.

[00:18:40] I have some of his books on my shelf because I think he is very good at really trying to find a signal in the midst of noise,

[00:18:48] trying to understand trends when many people miss it.

[00:18:52] And he's been fairly accurate in the past.

[00:18:54] His argument is that really since the September 10th debate,

[00:18:58] she has had the race really slipping away from her.

[00:19:02] But also in some of the other areas began to look at some of the raw averages of some of the polls,

[00:19:10] once again showing that if you look not only at the popular vote,

[00:19:15] but then you start looking at the swing states,

[00:19:18] you can see some significant changes as well.

[00:19:21] So the article that I've posted for you goes into it in some detail.

[00:19:27] As you know, I don't like to talk too much about polls.

[00:19:30] The only poll that really matters happens next week.

[00:19:33] But real quickly, I thought I'd also summarize the fact that he's seen a similar shift in the House of Representatives,

[00:19:39] whereas before the lead that Democrats thought they had in some of these House races has slipped as well since September 30th.

[00:19:47] And then, of course, in the Senate races that we've been talking about,

[00:19:51] really pretty much concluding that a good number of seats were held by Democrats are going to be held by Republicans.

[00:19:59] And some of the ones we've mentioned in the past certainly are places like West Virginia and Montana,

[00:20:05] but also showing how, for example, in Ohio and other places, those races might be competitive as well.

[00:20:12] And so he goes a little bit more into some of the reasons why that is taking place.

[00:20:18] And so I'll briefly, when we come back from the break,

[00:20:21] spend a little bit of time talking about his explanation for why this shift has taken place.

[00:20:26] And then we're going to get into another issue,

[00:20:29] and that is to start looking at what is happening in the Trump campaign,

[00:20:33] because after all, we had an enormous number of people showing up at Madison Square Garden.

[00:20:39] And also, not only was Donald Trump speaking, but Robert Kennedy Jr., Tucker Carlson, J.D. Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, and some of the others.

[00:20:48] And we'll talk about what that might mean for the particular campaigns as well.

[00:20:53] So looking at the moment at the Harris campaign and the Democratic campaign,

[00:20:57] and then we'll look at the Trump campaign, the Republican campaign,

[00:21:00] and then just a couple of other very important issues that we haven't covered as well in the past.

[00:21:06] And certainly we'll do our best to try to give you some of the facts and figures and numbers.

[00:21:11] But if you find yourself saying, I'd like to look at this in a little bit more detail,

[00:21:15] let me commend to you, even as we go to the break,

[00:21:18] find this particular article by our good friend Michael Barone,

[00:21:21] and we'll be back right after these important messages.

[00:21:30] It almost seems like we live in a different world from many people in positions of authority.

[00:21:35] They say men can be women and women men.

[00:21:39] People are prosecuted differently or not at all, depending on their politics.

[00:21:44] Criminals are more valued and rewarded than law-abiding citizens.

[00:21:49] It's so overwhelming, so demoralizing.

[00:21:52] You feel like giving up.

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[00:21:55] We shouldn't.

[00:21:56] We must not.

[00:21:57] As Winston Churchill said to Britain in the darkest days of World War II,

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[00:23:09] And now, here again, is Kirby Anderson.

[00:23:13] Back once again, if you'd like to join us, 1-800-351-1212.

[00:23:17] If not, just sit back.

[00:23:18] And I suspect there will be some of you that will ask some questions as we talk about Israel next hour with Dr. Charles Dyer.

[00:23:25] But let me, if I can, just before we move on to the Trump campaign, finish off this very good article by Michael Barone,

[00:23:31] who really, I think, is one of the better political analysts and individual that we have quoted from before.

[00:23:37] He's been on the program.

[00:23:38] It's been a while since we've had him on the program.

[00:23:40] And, as a matter of fact, if you read my booklet on the realignment of America,

[00:23:45] you will see that I quote him quite often and even recommend some of his books.

[00:23:49] We're going to talk about realignment in just a minute.

[00:23:51] But in this particular article, I pulled this one from the New York Sun,

[00:23:55] but I'm sure you can find it other places where his column has appeared.

[00:23:58] And, of course, it's our article that we've posted today on our website, pointofview.net.

[00:24:03] He has at least three possible explanations for why Kamala Harris seems to be fading the polls.

[00:24:10] Because sometimes the polls aren't accurate, but the trends help you see some things.

[00:24:14] And there is certainly, definitely a shift, both for the presidential campaign of Kamala Harris

[00:24:19] and for Democratic campaigns in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

[00:24:24] Now, again, I'll look mostly at what he says about her, but there are other issues related to that.

[00:24:30] And the first of his hypothesis is that these vibes, if you will,

[00:24:34] the joy campaign that was developed after many Democrats were convinced

[00:24:40] that Joe Biden was going to go down to defeat and decided at the 11th hour to switch out

[00:24:46] and have Kamala Harris become the presidential nominee, the vibes only last so long.

[00:24:51] And the other part of that is, is even if she, as he points out, has fairly careful discipline,

[00:24:57] maybe even more so in terms of message discipline,

[00:25:01] at the same time, it hasn't really established personal connections with the voters.

[00:25:07] That is not just something that Republicans have been saying.

[00:25:10] If you watch some of the talk shows, and I watch them so you don't have to,

[00:25:13] you will see that even many of the Democrats are saying the same thing.

[00:25:17] Which leads to what he says is his second hypothesis,

[00:25:20] and that is the various attacks and ads on her radical positions

[00:25:27] oftentimes have exceeded her particular persona.

[00:25:32] And, of course, a lot of that has to do with, if you look at the Trump campaign,

[00:25:36] running ads on, for example, Kamala Harris' opposition to fracking,

[00:25:40] how that can hurt you in places like Pennsylvania,

[00:25:43] her support of phasing out non-electric cars and wanting to have more electric cars,

[00:25:50] well, that can hurt you in Michigan.

[00:25:51] By the way, those are all swing states.

[00:25:53] Her endorsement of transgender surgery for prisoners,

[00:25:57] her support of biological boys in girls' sports is certainly one of those issues.

[00:26:05] And there is a tagline that is used in some of these ads,

[00:26:08] which now that I'm actually traveling in some of these swing states,

[00:26:12] I'm seeing those ads more than other places.

[00:26:14] One of the taglines is,

[00:26:15] Kamala's agenda is they, them, not you.

[00:26:18] And, of course, you can begin to see how that might have had an issue.

[00:26:22] So, of course, the first real issue there is maybe the fading of just kind of a joy campaign.

[00:26:29] Number two, of course, the radical positions.

[00:26:32] And then number three, how that would necessarily not affect her,

[00:26:37] but would affect the perception people have about Donald Trump.

[00:26:40] And that is his argument, Michael Barone's is,

[00:26:44] is that after the October 1st vice presidential debate,

[00:26:48] certainly the performance by Senator J.D. Vance was a way to maybe reassure people

[00:26:55] that felt that Donald Trump was maybe too erratic or maybe too radical or maybe a little bit,

[00:27:01] while at the same time Governor Tim Walsh, what he called flustered response,

[00:27:06] might have affected that as well.

[00:27:08] We usually always have assumptions.

[00:27:12] Kind of the received wisdom of most politics is that vice presidential debates

[00:27:17] don't mean much.

[00:27:18] Michael Barone says maybe it meant a little bit.

[00:27:21] It kind of tamped down some of the hesitation people had about a Trump-Vance ticket

[00:27:26] and at the same time sort of maybe raised more questions about a Harris-Walsh ticket.

[00:27:32] And so I think it's kind of interesting to see how he looks at that.

[00:27:35] And, of course, it ends with the obvious disclaimer.

[00:27:37] Of course, the polls once again could be wrong.

[00:27:39] They show fewer undecided this year,

[00:27:41] leaving less room for Trump to outperform his poll percentages.

[00:27:44] It's possible, as New York Times analyst Nate Cohen suggests,

[00:27:48] the polls waiting responses by voters recollected 2020 votes may understate Kamala Harris' current strength.

[00:27:54] So we recognize that.

[00:27:56] But at the same time, we're seeing a very significant shift, if the tolls mean anything,

[00:28:01] from Hispanic men and black men from Kamala Harris to Donald Trump.

[00:28:07] And so we'll see where that goes.

[00:28:08] But nevertheless, just a piece that will help you understand a little bit more

[00:28:13] on what seems to be a very significant shift and slide that is taking place in the Harris campaign.

[00:28:20] What about Donald Trump?

[00:28:22] I think just in the interest of time, I'll focus on one,

[00:28:25] and that is the Madison Square Garden event,

[00:28:27] which now, quoting another political analyst who I think very highly of, Byron York,

[00:28:33] said, you know, the question that was in his mind is,

[00:28:36] why New York City?

[00:28:37] Why go to Madison Square Garden?

[00:28:40] I mean, after all, Donald Trump lost Manhattan to Joe Biden 14% to 84%,

[00:28:46] so he's not going to win a New York City.

[00:28:49] He probably isn't even going to win the state of New York,

[00:28:52] although there's some that are suggesting that.

[00:28:54] But you really need to go back to May 23rd,

[00:28:56] in which, while in the midst of all these various lawsuits,

[00:29:01] he decided to hold a rally in South Bronx,

[00:29:04] in which there were probably 10,000 people there.

[00:29:08] Donald Trump said there was 25,000.

[00:29:10] I don't think it was that many, but okay.

[00:29:11] It was a lot of people in the Bronx.

[00:29:14] And at the time, he said,

[00:29:15] the crowd was incredible, and I'm going to Madison Square Garden, too.

[00:29:19] And so it was sort of one of the promises.

[00:29:20] And interestingly enough, Byron York also talked to John McLaughlin,

[00:29:25] another very astute political observer,

[00:29:27] and said, look, the reason behind the rally is simply this.

[00:29:30] And that is, although Trump is speaking in New York at Madison Square Garden,

[00:29:35] and it is a very significant venue for any kind of speech,

[00:29:40] he will speak not only to people in New York,

[00:29:42] but on, as he called it, the biggest stage in the world,

[00:29:46] people in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, and others

[00:29:52] will also get a chance to hear what he had to say.

[00:29:54] And if you had a chance to watch it,

[00:29:56] and of course you don't even have to watch all of it,

[00:29:58] I've watched a number of clips where they've actually shown various comments

[00:30:03] by Tulsi Gabbard and by Tucker Carlson,

[00:30:06] of course J.D. Vance, and even Robert F. Kennedy.

[00:30:10] I thought the Tucker Carlson statement was interesting.

[00:30:13] And that is, who would have guessed, on the one hand, as he said,

[00:30:17] just even a few years ago, that you would have Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney

[00:30:21] actually going out and stumping with Kamala Harris?

[00:30:25] And who would have guessed, on the other hand,

[00:30:27] that you'd have Robert F. Kennedy from the Kennedy family, who are Democrats,

[00:30:32] Tulsi Gabbard, who is a Democrat from Hawaii as a member of Congress

[00:30:36] and ran for the presidency as a Democrat, actually going and stumping for Donald Trump.

[00:30:44] And so, in some respects, we're seeing that kind of political realignment

[00:30:48] we've been talking about for some time.

[00:30:50] And I think it really is a striking statement,

[00:30:53] because Vivek Ramachwamy, Tulsi Gabbard, even Robert F. Kennedy, and others,

[00:31:00] and certainly Tucker Carlson, were very enthusiastic about Donald Trump,

[00:31:04] and that, I suspect, probably helped him a great deal.

[00:31:07] But I think it is also intriguing, perhaps for some people,

[00:31:11] to say, how is it that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who's been a Democrat

[00:31:15] and finally became an Independent, is now actually stumping for Donald Trump?

[00:31:21] And during his speech, he made a number of statements about, again,

[00:31:25] he wants to support an individual that's not going to be part of the military-industrial complex,

[00:31:30] get us into more wars,

[00:31:32] but also really hopes that he will be able to serve in the Cabinet

[00:31:36] to address the issue of chronic disease.

[00:31:39] And one of the statistics he cited, I wanted to give you some facts for,

[00:31:43] because one of the most alarming statistics you hear from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

[00:31:48] is that 60% of Americans have a chronic disease.

[00:31:52] Now, think about that for a minute.

[00:31:54] Matter of fact, you can go out on the Internet right now and see posts that will say

[00:31:57] about 60% of American adults have at least one chronic disease,

[00:32:01] and 40% have two or more.

[00:32:03] They define chronic disease as conditions that last at least one year

[00:32:06] and require ongoing medical attention or limit daily activities.

[00:32:11] And you might hear that and go,

[00:32:12] I don't hear my doctor saying that.

[00:32:15] I don't even hear other politicians saying that.

[00:32:17] Where does that number come from?

[00:32:19] Well, it doesn't take long.

[00:32:21] You know I like to research some of these things.

[00:32:23] And it turns out from a RAND study,

[00:32:25] the 60% figure comes from a study done by RAND

[00:32:29] called Chronic Conditions in America, Price and Prevalence.

[00:32:33] So I think it's a valid statistic.

[00:32:36] Are there people that have different numbers?

[00:32:39] The only other one I could find is there's a study done by the NIH,

[00:32:43] the National Institutes of Health.

[00:32:45] That's one called the Empirical Study of Chronic Diseases in the United States,

[00:32:49] a Visual Analytics Approach to Public Health.

[00:32:52] They cite a lower percentage of 45%.

[00:32:56] But again, that one is still fairly significant.

[00:33:00] It's less than a majority.

[00:33:01] And that is because they define a chronic condition

[00:33:04] as something like a physical or mental health condition

[00:33:07] that lasts more than a year,

[00:33:08] but causes functional restrictions

[00:33:10] and requires ongoing monitoring or treatment.

[00:33:13] So maybe a little more precise or a little more narrow,

[00:33:17] but this is, I think, a reality that one of the things

[00:33:21] that Robert F. Kennedy wants to do

[00:33:22] if he can actually have any kind of authority over the bureaucracy

[00:33:27] is to address this issue of chronic disease.

[00:33:29] And that is something that has caused an unlikely coalition

[00:33:34] between Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Donald Trump.

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[00:34:02] Let me just mention real quickly that next hour we're going to be talking about this book,

[00:34:05] Who Owns the Land?

[00:34:06] And we'll be talking with our good friend Charles Dyer.

[00:34:08] But let me just point you to the website.

[00:34:11] First of all, many of the articles I'm quoting from,

[00:34:13] in case you want some of those facts and figures or to use those,

[00:34:16] maybe you'd like to post them on a Facebook page or on X

[00:34:19] or maybe send them on to other individuals.

[00:34:22] Certainly that is available at the website, pointofview.net.

[00:34:25] Don't forget we have our election central there,

[00:34:27] and I've had more and more people go in there to pull out some of the voter guides.

[00:34:32] My book on the importance of voting,

[00:34:34] which we sent the other day to a friend of ours who said,

[00:34:37] maybe I shouldn't vote.

[00:34:38] And we said, well, can I just send you a booklet here

[00:34:40] and let you look at that for a minute?

[00:34:41] We, of course, have everything from the Democratic Party platform,

[00:34:44] the Republican Party platform.

[00:34:46] A very good piece on voting, your biblical duty,

[00:34:49] comes from our good friends at Coral Ridge Ministries.

[00:34:51] We have a link to First Liberty.

[00:34:52] And, of course, I just mentioned a minute ago the piece we posted here

[00:34:55] by our good friend Kelly Shackelford on voting.

[00:34:58] And, of course, we also have that voting issue on the front page there on video.

[00:35:04] We also have my Viewpoints commentary today,

[00:35:06] which is entitled Medical School and DEI,

[00:35:10] which stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

[00:35:13] And so just lots of material that we want to make available to you,

[00:35:17] things you probably will not hear anywhere else.

[00:35:20] And, again, we'll get into some other issues related to foreign policy

[00:35:24] in the Middle East next hour.

[00:35:25] But just before we wind down, I wanted to post at least one piece

[00:35:30] that is, I think, having some impact

[00:35:32] and has caused people to say, is Donald Trump a fascist?

[00:35:37] Now, I asked that question the other day on Friday,

[00:35:39] and Kelly and Dr. Merrill Matthews made a few comments.

[00:35:42] But I did post a piece by Beckett Adams.

[00:35:45] And then I want to also quote from some others

[00:35:48] that come from the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal

[00:35:51] and one other writer as well

[00:35:54] that have all talked about the fact that

[00:35:56] when you get to the last few days before a campaign,

[00:36:01] there has been always an attempt to try to say

[00:36:05] that the Republican, whoever that might be,

[00:36:07] is a fascist or a Nazi.

[00:36:10] And in some respects, that's why I wanted to post this one

[00:36:13] by Beckett Adams,

[00:36:14] because he calls it the party that cried fascist.

[00:36:17] Now, you've got to get an idea here.

[00:36:19] It's the kid that cried wolf,

[00:36:21] and that is certainly the case.

[00:36:23] But he points out that you had the retired general

[00:36:27] and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly,

[00:36:29] who has actually said that Donald Trump

[00:36:32] had some admiration for the various generals

[00:36:39] around Adolf Hitler.

[00:36:41] And Beckett Adams said, well, did he say it?

[00:36:43] Well, I don't know.

[00:36:43] Maybe, maybe not.

[00:36:44] I don't really know.

[00:36:45] But the point is that this is destined to slink into the background.

[00:36:50] And he says, don't be angry at voters for their collective shrug,

[00:36:54] even when they hear something.

[00:36:56] Because he reminds us,

[00:36:57] and if you've ever gone through this list,

[00:36:59] I think this is a fairly short one,

[00:37:01] but I can mention some others,

[00:37:03] that all the way back in 1964,

[00:37:06] Senator Barry Goldwater,

[00:37:08] when he was actually giving the acceptance speech

[00:37:12] at the Republican National Convention,

[00:37:14] which, by the way, in 1964,

[00:37:16] even though I was a young child,

[00:37:19] my father brought me to that at the Cow Palace there.

[00:37:22] And at the time,

[00:37:23] the governor of the state of California,

[00:37:26] Pat Brown,

[00:37:26] said that it had a stench of fascism,

[00:37:29] and all we needed to hear was the phrase,

[00:37:32] Heil Hitler.

[00:37:32] So that's back in 1964.

[00:37:34] Then you go to the 1980s,

[00:37:37] and you give some quotes here from one representative,

[00:37:40] saying that Ronald Reagan wanted to replace the Bill of Rights

[00:37:44] with fascist precepts that were taken from Mein Kampf.

[00:37:48] You have, of course,

[00:37:50] Al Gore in 2000,

[00:37:52] accusing George W. Bush of unleashing a squadron

[00:37:55] of digital brown shirts to harass,

[00:37:58] and Hector, any journalist who was critical of the president.

[00:38:00] And you'll see the phrase has been used time and time again.

[00:38:04] And the editors of the Wall Street Journal

[00:38:07] actually shrug their shoulders and say,

[00:38:09] no doubt it was inevitable.

[00:38:10] As Election Day nears,

[00:38:12] the progressive panic over Donald Trump escalates.

[00:38:15] Democrats are closing their campaign

[00:38:16] with a favorite theme,

[00:38:18] and that is,

[00:38:19] Donald Trump is a threat to the Constitution,

[00:38:21] he's a threat to democracy,

[00:38:23] even he's a fascist.

[00:38:24] And talked about how these phrases

[00:38:26] have been used so much

[00:38:27] that what actually happens

[00:38:29] is they almost are like background noise.

[00:38:33] And Stephen Sokup,

[00:38:34] in an article that just came out recently,

[00:38:37] actually talks about why the Nazi slur has no power.

[00:38:41] And he, again, says,

[00:38:43] for starters,

[00:38:43] of course,

[00:38:44] it's the boy who cried wolf.

[00:38:45] We all know the story there.

[00:38:47] You cry wolf enough,

[00:38:48] or you say whatever it is,

[00:38:51] fascism,

[00:38:53] white supremacy,

[00:38:55] Hitler,

[00:38:55] whatever,

[00:38:56] it just sort of becomes almost background noise.

[00:38:58] And he gives you a different list here.

[00:39:01] Martin Luther King, Jr.,

[00:39:03] we see the dangerous signs of Hitlerism

[00:39:06] in the Goldwater campaign.

[00:39:08] Civil rights activist Roy Wilkins,

[00:39:10] Goldwater's election would bring about a police state.

[00:39:13] Of course,

[00:39:13] we mentioned the one of Pat Brown

[00:39:15] talking about Ronald Reagan,

[00:39:17] at that time with,

[00:39:18] first of all,

[00:39:19] Barry Goldwater,

[00:39:20] but then Ronald Reagan,

[00:39:21] who also gave that very famous speech there.

[00:39:23] Then even San Francisco Mayor John Shelley,

[00:39:26] the Republicans,

[00:39:27] have Mein Kampf as their political Bible.

[00:39:29] And so he says,

[00:39:30] first of all,

[00:39:30] it doesn't work very well,

[00:39:32] simply because it is the classic boy who cried wolf.

[00:39:37] You have people claim time and time again

[00:39:40] that these people are going to issue a police state.

[00:39:43] And then a decade later,

[00:39:46] two decades later,

[00:39:47] three decades later,

[00:39:48] you don't see a police state.

[00:39:50] The same problem,

[00:39:51] which we've talked about before,

[00:39:52] with Social Security.

[00:39:53] They just claim,

[00:39:54] once again,

[00:39:55] that they're going to end Social Security.

[00:39:57] Those claims go all the way back to,

[00:39:59] basically,

[00:40:00] the 1970s.

[00:40:03] And again,

[00:40:04] you have to say that since that time,

[00:40:07] again,

[00:40:08] we are dealing with almost four decades of claims

[00:40:11] that the Republicans,

[00:40:13] when they're elected,

[00:40:14] are going to end Social Security.

[00:40:16] Has that happened?

[00:40:17] Of course not.

[00:40:17] And so you have,

[00:40:19] first of all,

[00:40:19] what is called the boy who cried wolf problem.

[00:40:22] But he says there's a second problem as well,

[00:40:25] which predates,

[00:40:26] he says,

[00:40:26] even the second,

[00:40:28] six decade old wolf matter,

[00:40:29] and that is the abuse of language.

[00:40:32] And that is,

[00:40:33] we have seen time and time again,

[00:40:34] how many times,

[00:40:36] words have been completely redefined.

[00:40:39] And this campaign,

[00:40:40] in some respects,

[00:40:41] has seen that,

[00:40:42] when you've seen so many of these Democratic leaders,

[00:40:45] who have chosen to actually vote against any kind of ban on men,

[00:40:52] participating in women's sports.

[00:40:54] And as we pointed out on Friday,

[00:40:57] many people say this has become kind of a sleeper issue.

[00:41:01] Most people would not have predicted,

[00:41:03] just a few months ago,

[00:41:05] that you would have such competitive races in places like Michigan,

[00:41:10] and Wisconsin,

[00:41:12] and Ohio.

[00:41:13] But when you have individuals that are willing to vote against,

[00:41:18] and decided to vote against,

[00:41:20] any attempt to prevent men from participating in women's sports,

[00:41:23] or in some cases supporting the whole transgender agenda,

[00:41:28] what happens is,

[00:41:29] is the American people,

[00:41:31] who have a sense of fairness,

[00:41:33] aren't really as thrilled about that as you might imagine.

[00:41:37] So whether it is a Senator Brown in Ohio,

[00:41:40] or Senator Baldwin in Wisconsin,

[00:41:42] or even in the state of Texas,

[00:41:44] where we broadcast oftentimes,

[00:41:46] the member of Congress running against Ted Cruz,

[00:41:50] these are individuals who,

[00:41:52] because of their vote,

[00:41:53] have in a sense left themselves open

[00:41:56] for some of these kinds of ads that have come out,

[00:41:59] which have also,

[00:41:59] of course,

[00:42:00] been used against Kamala Harris.

[00:42:01] So,

[00:42:02] once again,

[00:42:03] we can see that you can see that these phrases,

[00:42:06] Hitler,

[00:42:07] fascist,

[00:42:08] racist,

[00:42:09] after a while,

[00:42:10] they get used so much,

[00:42:11] that they really don't have a meaning.

[00:42:13] Part of the problem is,

[00:42:15] of course,

[00:42:16] the boy who cried wolf issue,

[00:42:18] but also just the fact that we've so devalued some of those words,

[00:42:22] they don't have an impact,

[00:42:23] and that's not exactly what some of these candidates,

[00:42:26] we're hoping,

[00:42:27] would happen when they would use them in their ads,

[00:42:29] and in all their stump speeches.

[00:42:31] But that's the world we find ourselves in as well.

[00:42:34] If you'd like some more information about some of these articles,

[00:42:36] and which we are quoting from today,

[00:42:38] in this first hour,

[00:42:39] all available at the website,

[00:42:41] pointofview.net.

[00:42:42] If you'd like to get some more material from our election central,

[00:42:45] I suspect that you have voted,

[00:42:47] or will vote,

[00:42:48] but you probably know some people that need some encouragement,

[00:42:50] and as we pointed out by Kelly Shackelford,

[00:42:53] 14% of the people saying they weren't planning to vote,

[00:42:56] might vote,

[00:42:57] if a friend encouraged them to do so.

[00:42:59] So be that friend.

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