Primary Topic
This episode centers on the unexpected announcement of Joe Biden's withdrawal from the presidential race and its implications.
Episode Summary
Main Takeaways
- Joe Biden's decision to drop out was influenced by poor polling in key states like Michigan.
- The Democratic party faces significant challenges and potential upheaval following Biden's withdrawal.
- Speculation about who will now lead the Democratic ticket, with Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton mentioned as possibilities.
- Concerns about internal Democratic party dynamics and potential racial tensions within the party.
- The need for transparency and investigation into any deals made concerning the Biden family, particularly Hunter Biden.
Episode Chapters
1: Breaking News Reaction
Bongino reacts to the news of Biden's dropout, speculating on the reasons and implications. He discusses the potential impact on the Democratic party and the upcoming election. Dan Bongino: "Joe Biden has stepped aside, folks."
2: Political Analysis
Detailed analysis of the political fallout, including potential Democratic nominees and the strategic errors by Biden's campaign. Dan Bongino: "The Michigan poll was the killer."
3: Future Predictions
Speculation about future Democratic strategies and potential nominees, including discussions on Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton. Dan Bongino: "Kamala Harris is going to start a DEI war."
Actionable Advice
- Stay informed on political developments and understand their broader implications.
- Scrutinize polling data and its influence on political decisions.
- Watch for strategic moves by political parties, especially during election seasons.
- Consider the impact of media and public perceptions on political outcomes.
- Engage in discussions about political accountability and transparency.
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Transcript
Dan Bongino
Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino.
You know, you ever see the movie die hard? You know, one of the great Christmas movies of all time. Come out to LA, we'll have a few laughs.
Come back from the RNC, you worked all week. Double, triple shows.
Take a break, relax, have a nice night.
Nope, we can't get anybody out of Milwaukee. Everybody's stranded all over the country. Keys in like a foreign land. Giza might be on Mars for all I know. Justin, try to drive back in an emergency to get back tonight. He's got some fungus going on. I'm like, don't give me the fungus. I can't get sick this week. Michael and Evita are stuck in the BfE somewhere. We don't even know how to get back. This is like.
And then I'm sitting downstairs, I'm like, okay, maybe I'm going to get like a little workout in on a Sunday and chill. I'm out back, get out of the sauna, sweating, pools of sweat because I can't cool down because in Florida, it was actually cooler in the sauna than it was sitting outside.
And I get a text from my Secret Service buddy. So what's next? And I'm like, what do you mean? He's like, dude, Biden just dropped out. I'm like, what the, what is going on?
News cycle.
I may. Listen, man, I'm going to say this to you, proving to you again, I love money. I'm a capitalist. I am not in this for the money. This is. You can make a bunch of coin having a news show when news breaks, right?
Slow down, slow down.
We had President Trump nearly shot a vp. Pick the secret service director's testimony. Tomorrow, Biden drops out. I mean, this is 1968 all over again, folks. Obviously tomorrow I have a stack show. I've got some breaking news for you about the Secret Service scandal going on. I've got a ton of things. This emergency broadcast, however, we did tonight. Thank you, Justin. By the way, showing up the kid, poor guy, in like rush. Kid, man, he came running over here and we want to get on the air for you. Let's, let's obviously talk about what happened. So Joe Biden has stepped aside, folks. One question I would not easily dismiss was brought about by Cernovich on, on X. And listen, in the days, you know, 1015 years ago, before Spygate and collusion, this is the kind of thing lot of people would have gaffed off. But you know, I got to wonder, was it even Joe Biden's decision?
I mean, you have to assume it was, but. Oh, Dan, you can't say that without receipts. I do have receipts. And we'll talk about it again in tomorrow in detail. But apparently a lot of staffers and folks learned about it from a tweet posted on X.
Most likely scenario. Yeah, of course Joe Biden made the call, but that's just kind of weird that the last people to find out were his staff and they found out on X.
Let's go through some takeaways because there's a real issue right now. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to play for you tomorrow. A warning I gave about the debate. It's on my ex feed if you want to see it, folks, in the chat, did I call it or did I call it? I don't really give a shit about self praise because it stinks, as Aunt Jane used to say. However, this was my biggest fear about the debate. I said to you, we needed a push, we need Trump to have a moment and we needed Biden to have a moment. And what did we get? We got utter, complete, total annihilation by, by Donald Trump on Joe Biden. I mean, Trump wasn't going to let him win, of course. I'm not suggesting maybe he should have, I'm just saying I warned you the debate was early. Go back and watch the shows. We did. Justin, you were here for them where we said the Democrats are setting Biden up. They're scheduling the debate early because it's the only mechanism and vehicle to get him out when he blows it in the debate. And look what happened. Our batting average, Justin, is perfect.
We have nailed it.
I told you he wasn't going to be the nominee.
There was just no way.
Doctor Jill was holding out, but they can't hold out now. Many of you are probably asking right now, well, what changed? This is a story you're probably not going to get anywhere else. Or you may, I don't know, check it out on x right now or whatever. You're watching your stuff. But the Michigan poll that came out that had Biden down by seven in a state with a rather large black population and population centers like Detroit, the Grand Rapids area, they did a rally this weekend, Trump the Michigan poll showing him down seven. The Democrats were afraid of an electoral landslide down ballot where they could lose upwards of 55. They could be down 55, 45 in the Senate and maybe lose 20 more House seats. They know the presidency, they're in trouble. No red wave talk, as always. However, they know they're in real trouble. The Michigan poll indicated to them they could even lose the Michigan Senate seat to Rogers.
They are in a world of trouble. It is the Michigan poll that did them in.
The debate started it. It was tactically scheduled early by anti Biden people to make sure that if Biden flubbed it, which they were sure he was going to do, they had time to move on. The Michigan poll was sent out to probably every prominent Democrat donor and everyone told him, hey, bro, it's time for you to leave. If you're down seven in Michigan, you're probably down 15. In Arizona, there was, folks, polls suck. Take polls, crumple them up and throw them in the garbage. The problem the Democrats have is polls always underestimate Donald Trump's support.
If that poll said Donald Trump was up seven, he was probably up eight to ten.
The Michigan poll was the killer.
That was the arrow right in the chest like that Sebastian Matiskalco skit. Remember that walk in, the guy hits you with an arrow like you don't know what happened. That's what happened.
Let's talk about some palace intrigue here in your home. For breaking news, this show here, this is an exclusive to me, of course. And the Michigan polls out there, I don't want to sound like a jerk, like it was. I'm the first person to think of it. I'm not. But I haven't heard much of it on, on, on any broadcast so far.
Palace intrigue, ladies and gentlemen. Kamala Harris is going to start a Dei war. If they bypass her, I absolutely guarantee it.
Kamala Harris is, there is going to be a Dei war. I'm going to walk through tomorrow in detail the mechanics of the convention and what it's going to look like if they don't pick a nominee before, they may virtually nominate Kamala Harris before they're going forward with this early August virtual thing. Remember what happened with the state of Ohio. They had a virtually nominate Biden so he can get him on the ballot in Ohio. As of now, this broadcast Sunday evening at 05:07. As of now, they are still going ahead with that. That's important.
That's important because it doesn't give them a lot of time. Kamala Harris right now is putting out the message I am hearing from well placed people.
Kamala, see, here's Harris here. She's honored to have the president's endorsement. She's, thank you, Justin, for getting on a look at Justin by himself. She's like all arrogant now.
Cracking. I'm kidding. Cracking. Chill, bro, chill. It's Sunday night. Working all week, bro.
Kamala Harris's people I'm hearing from well placed sources are telling anyone who will listen, media, donors, activists, bureaucrats, congressmen, senators, governors, you come out against me, we're going to call you a racist.
Take it to the bank, kids.
Take it to the bank.
All these stories you're hearing out there, they're coming from Garrison camp. You come out against her, you're going to be called a racist. However, I stand by my reporting from a couple of weeks ago. It's on my x feed. And truth feed actually sent it out again today. Ladies and gentlemen, there's no question Hillary's in the mix. Zero.
Hillary Clinton wants this. She is in the mix. They would have to, however, convince Kamala Harris and the Biden delegates. Remember, this is an important part here.
Joe Biden's pledged delegates. He has enough delegates to be the nominee. He doesn't want to be the nominee. But they handpicked these people as delegates. They are loyal to the Biden Harris ticket. They are probably not going to turn on Kamala. The only thing that can happen right here is where Kamala would voluntarily take a backseat to Hillary Clinton under the guise that the Democrats, remember, still believe she won in 2016 and got ripped off.
I don't see that happening right now based on the current trajectory of events and the charges of racism already being bandied about and Kamala Harris's team playing ruthless politics. However, don't discount the fact Hillary Clinton could be the running mate in an all female ticket. The vice president.
I'm just throwing that out there. Some other names you need to strongly consider.
Josh Shapiro out of Pennsylvania. If they lose Pennsylvania, it's over. Shapiro is very popular. I still can't figure out why. And another one I wouldn't discount either is Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona. When I'm speculating, I tell you I'm speculating. Obviously I'm speculating. I'm not Kamala Harris. I don't know what her political team is telling her, but I'm hearing from people who are pretty well placed on that side of the aisle but are relatively honest brokers. They know that side of the aisle. Well, Shapiro's got to be in the mix, Kelly, because they need Arizona and Hillary. Hillary's going to insert herself in there.
Yeah, the Clintons. So Hillary, that may be tactical. The Clintons may be working an angle right now to get her on the ticket. Hillary in this power ticket. Remember, they think they won.
There is a dei war that's about to break out right now, folks. I kind of just hinted at it with Kamala Harris. If you come out and take a shot at the king right now or the queen Kamala Harris, she's it, then you damn well better not miss because they will ruin your career.
Joe Biden created a really, really devastating classical dilemma here. Joe Biden said he was going to pick a black female for his nominee before he even won the thing. So what he said to the american people, that being a black female nominee was going to bring these outstanding characteristics to the vice president's office and that it was so important he had to pick on those criteria, not merit.
So he. Excuse me. So he selected Kamala Harris.
Now what's he going to do? What are the Democrats going to do?
Say that everything Joe Biden and they believe in that skin color and sexual organs should dictate the national conversations is bullshit and we should throw it all out right when the first black female, soon. What they believe soon to be president, hopefully not, is about to take power. In other words, she's good enough for Dei criteria, but not good enough to actually take power when it matters.
Good luck, man. Good luck with that one. Brothers and sisters, how the hell are you going to make that work?
Here's another takeaway from this, folks. I want to know right now, and I want to see. The FOIA should start right now. Judicial watch, heritage, whatever, all these people who investigate out there, the FoIAs should start getting banged out right now. I want all White House communications about a possible deal for Hunter Biden. I want him today.
You think Joe Biden stepping aside without a deal set up for him and his family?
Then you don't know Joe Biden.
Joe Biden has made a career out of being full of shit and being a mercenary. You really believe who in the chat? Quick poll, boccino. Are you even here? I know Anita is here in the McGraw. I had a text her. I'm like, Anita, emergency meeting with the McGraw crew and Bongino army today. Hey, by the way, that totally broke it. But we got these bonjito army things we're gonna. I'll show you. I didn't want to do it last week. So much going on, you know, Trump being shot, but I did it for you guys. But the bongino army got on it right away. I forgot what I was going to say. Was I taking a polar. What's that? I don't even remember anyone in the chat want to write, but yeah. Folks, this is not happening. He said, oh, the hunter Biden deal. Oh, that's it. Does anybody in the chat actually believe Biden exited without a sweetheart deal for his family?
If you say no, you don't believe that, you're crazy. Of course he had a deal. I want it now. I don't want it tomorrow. I don't want it the next day. I want the freaking emails now.
Now, here's a little bit of breaking news I told you in the tweet. Look at this. Look at this. Yes, everyone in the chat agrees. Look. Hey, as you can tell, I'm a little loopy.
That week, man, worked at RNC, man. That was a lot of. What? I have a fake job. Granted, I get it, but that was a lot of fake job. Yeah, even for a fake job, it was a lot. There's a deal for Hunter. I want to know what the freaking deal is right now.
Right now.
Breaking news you're not going to hear anywhere else. I put it out of my true social and ex account.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Secret Service is really bad. Month is about to get a whole lot worse.
What happened now, Dan?
Justin, do you know what happened?
No, he doesn't. He has no idea because we didn't do a show rundown. He's like, do you need elements? I'm like, just put me on the air, kids. Put me on the air, folks. The secret Service has a division called cnos, candidate nominee operations section dedicated to candidates and the nominee, I'm sorry, but there are some liberals listening. They're quite dumb, so I have to speak slowly.
We call it seen us.
The senos details have been disbanded.
Nikki Haley and others, they've been disbanded. The agents have been sent home and scattered away.
Now, we're gonna. But. Oh, well, that was kind of a weird, but I think I may have phrased the question room. Boccino, as always. Oh, on the case. Thank you. Boccino. We love you.
Is boccino even real? Or is it like an AI matrix, like neo type program?
The Senos agents are not on details anymore.
They're all gone.
I expect as of tomorrow, you are going to see at least one or two people jump in. Other than Kamala Harris, it could be Whitmer is saying she's out.
I'm going to withhold judgment on this because the Democrats probably want to avoid a total shit show.
But I would not be surprised if at least one or two other credible people start putting out. Start putting out traffic that they wanted. Now, here's the kicker. And we'll go through this, the formalities tomorrow. They need 300 delegates to get their name in an open convention if it happens, and 50 can't be from the same state. Ladies and gentlemen, what's the biggest blue state?
California.
Newsom's obviously got an edge there.
What does Gavin Newsom do? We may know by the end of this broadcast. May know, but it may have happened already. I mean, we're live on the air, but I expect the Secret Service now is scrambling. It's not their fault. I mean, what happened last week was. But the CNAs thing, he can't keep a bunch of agents in Washington, DC with no protectees.
What's the point?
They have to take instructions from the Biden White House. The Biden White House told them Biden's running.
So we don't need any candidate, nominee, operation, sections because the president has his own detail.
All the senos guys have been scattered. The Secret Service is very, very, very bad. Month is about to get worse. What happened last week was their fault. This one isn't. The Biden White House told them, we're not leaving the race. Send the guys home. Basically, now you got to get them all back.
Another point. This is going to be the most critical point in the days coming if Joe Biden is unqualified, ladies and gentlemen, to serve as a candidate for president. How the hell is Joe Biden the president now, folks? I want him to resign now.
Timeout to let me explain myself.
I did not want Joe Biden to leave the race.
Receipts coming tomorrow.
I always bring receipts.
Justin, you know, we said we not say that with the debate. We can't smoke this guy. We want to run against him. He's the worst candidate.
We can't change that now.
Boo hoo. Don't cry for me, Argentino. We got to deal what we got, not what we think we got.
You ever see Pacino and heat? Give me what you got. Give me what you got. You ever see it? This is what we got right now. We got likely Kamala Harris at a minimum as VP, probably the presidential candidate, possibly Harris, Hillary.
That's what we got to deal with.
So why the hell would you want Biden to resign now?
Because, ladies and gentlemen, Kamala Harris is incompetent.
She is still an unknown to a lot of Democrats. No, she's not, Dan. Yes, she is.
You think everyone in America on the Democrat side knows who Kamala Harris is? Let me tell you a quick story. A friend of mine ran for a governor a long time ago in Maryland. He owns a baking. Smith island baking.
He was asking this guy on the island one day about what he thought about the governor. The guy didn't even know that the governor wasn't Bob Ehrlich anymore. You're assuming I'm talking about democrats here. You're talking about a group of people who pride themselves on being stupid liberals.
They're not going to associate Kamala Harris with every bad thing Biden did.
So in other words, what I'm getting at is Biden, Harris. Harris is so incompetent. If Harris takes over today and we can get Biden out, we have a couple of months to watch the disaster, because either way is going to be a disaster. You either got oatmeal brains or you got the incompetent one. It's, the Democrats voted for these people. I didn't create this problem. I don't want to see the United States in danger. But this is what, this is the deck of cards we've been dealt, and it's stacked.
I want Kamala Harris in charge now.
She is a cackling buffoon and an idiot.
At least it'll give time for the american voter, the independence we want, and even moderate Democrats to say, oh, my gosh, this woman's worse than Biden right now. She's an open book. The Democrats are going to come out with these flowery ads. Kamala Harris was raised, and everyone's gonna be like, oh, wow, that seems like an attractive candidate.
Stick her in the Oval office, watch the cackling, and then you'll see what happens. We, as a Bongino army out there, have to push to get Biden out of office ASAP. Get Kamala Harris in there, stat.
Stadowski, because she will show. It'll be like the best campaign commercial you've ever seen for Donald Trump.
The woman is, how the hell do we have 240,000 people? We didn't even tell anybody we were doing anything.
I love you guys. Listen, when you're in New York, when I grew up, right. The term savage is a term of endearment. You know what I'm saying?
Should we, can we get a shirt like the bonjino savages. We're all like, savages, you know? Love it. Love you guys.
We're probably the largest stream in the world right now just because we, it's because we just kick ass and take names you, because you're the best folks, we got to get. Seriously, we got to get this guy out.
Put the pressure right now on your, well, they don't even need it. A lot of the congressmen and senators already on this, they know what I'm telling you. Biden must resign. It is a national security nightmare right now to have a guy in the White House who is now acknowledged implicitly that he's not cognitively prepared to be a candidate and he's not cognitively prepared to be the president.
Couple of dates to keep in mind now, early August. If they stick with this virtual convention, this virtual nomination process, folks, they have no more than a couple of weeks to coalesce behind a candidate. I'm going to tell you this. You're probably going to know. I'll make a prediction. They're like a holes. Everybody's got one. Who cares. But I'm pretty confident you'll know by Wednesday of this week you'll have a pretty decent idea about who the nominee is going to be. If you see, here's, here's what to look for so I can give you the signals. Okay, Winky, Winky, nod, nod. If you start seeing Newsom, Pritzker and everyone else by tonight, tomorrow coming out praising Kamala Harris and her work, it's over. You're not going to get a Dean Phillips like candidate who's going to get 300 delegates. To get them on the nomination floor. They need 300 delegates in an open convention. You're not. He doesn't have that kind of whack and pull. Everybody's horse trading now. Everybody wants something for their support. Joe Biden wants a deal for Hunter and his family to get out of the race. Kamala Harris is probably promising cabinet positions to people. There's all kinds of horse trading going on. Kamala Harris has the biggest horse of all, though. She's got the potentially the White House because she's got front door access. Gavin Newsom doesn't have that.
So you're going to see, I would guess by Wednesday you're going to see a coalescing and you'll know if this is going to be a dogfight.
Justin, smart man. I told him, because he's got the fungus and I'm like, whatever the fungus you have, I said, please, if you cough, can you cough like outside and crack in? Crack it. I'm not sure if this is an HR violation or whatever. Justin will file a formal report afterwards, but everybody came back from the RNC with some like, crud or something. He's called the CPAC crud. That was the RNC. I'm going to get into that tomorrow to the RNC. I got so much to talk about tomorrow. Folks, it's. You want to see a preview?
I know. Poor guy. Justin's like, I'm on my own tomorrow. So this is the preview. I don't even know if you can read that. It's probably best you can. I remember that time I put up the call to Trump and accidentally almost smell. That's a whole other. I was just an emotional mood. But tomorrow, we're going to go through this. We're going to go through the exact mechanics of how this is going to work.
Also, let me break this news tonight because I hate bullshit teases. You all, what do we got? Well, where are you going?
I think everybody thought the show was over. I'd like to say like 200. Here's breaking news for those of you two or 24 that stayed. We lost like 10,000 people. I think. I thought it was ending the show. Now you got to all come back. You ready for this?
This is a gift for you guys because you hung around. But I'll go into detail tomorrow.
I'm hearing from very well placed sources that the secret service director, by the way, I think they did this today to take the heat off the secret service director testifying in front of Congress tomorrow.
The secret service director, Kim Cheadle, may have been using signal to communicate official business with people from the Biden White House. And one of those people is Anthony Bernal, a well placed Biden insider. The other one is, I heard, Annie Tomasini. These are allegations from a well placed source, however, that she has been doing that to, I don't know, bypass discovery. But if so, ladies and gentlemen, it's a really, really big deal.
All right, I'm going to wrap this thing tomorrow. We'll go into all of that. I'll go into some theories that are out there. Some have some merit, some don't. And can I just say one more thing? Some people are mad at me on the secret service story for sharing too much. Some people for not enough. I'm just going to tell you this. The truth has no agenda. I'm sticking to the facts. My Bongino rule is sacred. I don't put out shit I can't back up if I can't back it up, I wait for some facts to back it up. And if no facts emerge, then I let it go.
I will never steer you wrong. Every single part of this story, from the drone to the ladder, the other stuff have been absolutely spot on. We've been home for breaking news. We have been at least, at least a week ahead of the news cycle on just about every single thing on this secret service story.
Thanks for tuning in, folks. You all are the best. Love you all. See you back here tomorrow. Download the Rumble app, please. It's free, and you can watch on desktop 11:00 a.m. eastern time every single day. Rumble.com, bangino. Oh, can I mention one last thing? I'm sorry, guys. Listen, don't go anywhere, please, for the two, just one more.
I promise you. I'm not trying to sell you a freaking book. I don't give a shit. Get it from the library, steal it from your friend. I don't care.
I'm just saying. I wrote a book called the fight years ago. This is a cover of it. A secret service agents inside account of security failings on the political machine.
I wrote another book six months after it called protecting the president.
I don't even know if they're available where you get books anymore. Your library may have them.
You want to read about the problems the Secret Service had that I wrote back in 2015, almost ten years ago.
Pick up these two books. They're super easy reads. Protecting the president's, like 28,000 words super quick.
You'll be like, holy shit.
Dan was right.
See you guys tomorrow. Thanks for tuning in.
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