Ep. 1528 - 198 Dems Vote To Allow Noncitizens To Vote

Michael Knowles
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Just five Democrats joined every Republican to support the most basic election integrity measure imaginable. And Joe Biden, or whoever is acting as president while Biden is incapacitated, has already formally opposed the measure.

This is not even a novel measure. This is a basic aspect of democratic government.

Plenty of states, including my own state, already require proof of citizenship to vote because every illegal vote nullifies the vote of an eligible voter.

They dont draw a hissy fit in all of those states because they know that their position is absurd and because theyve given up on places like Tennessee, good, solid, regular, conservative places. So the libs are going to focus their effort to smuggle in illegal votes where it might actually matter the federal government.

And as their president looks increasingly cadaverous, their best, if not only shot to hold onto power is to transform the millions of foreign nationals that they have imported into the country into an electoral force.

Virtually every Democrat voted against the most basic election integrity measures because as it stands today, if only citizens vote, they will lose. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show.

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To me, it seems clear as day what the game is. They've imported tens of millions of illegal aliens in recent years. During the Biden administration, we've seen record number of illegals come into the country. They're rolling out the red carpet for them. They're releasing them into the country. They're flying them into the center of the country, in some cases into crucial areas.

Doing that. They're doing that to rig the elections. At the very least, they're doing that to increase the population in their own states because seats in the House of Representatives are apportioned not by the number of citizens in a state, but just by the number of people.

So at the very least, they're getting an electoral advantage for that.

But then, in addition, they are signing these people up to vote in large numbers.

They argue out of one side of their mouth that it's very rare that illegal aliens vote. But then when push comes to shove, when the Republicans say, okay, cool, then let's pass a law saying that they can't vote, let's actually give those laws some teeth, some ability to be enforced. The Democrats, other than five of them, every other Democrat in the House says, no, no way.

And so how do they argue it with a straight face? Well, one way they argue it is they say, no, no, no. The votes that this bill will suppress are not the votes of illegal aliens who don't vote anyway. It's gonna be the votes of eligible voters who are minorities, who are of lower socioeconomic classes. This bill limiting the vote to citizens is tantamount to a poll tax. So says Democrat Congress lady Jennifer McClellan.

Jennifer McClellan
This bill is essentially a poll tax because I am not aware of a single proof of citizenship document that does not cost an individual money to get it. Unless we are requiring every state to provide one for free, and then it's an unfunded mandate. This is the 2024 version of the Jim Crow poll tax, and we should vote against it.

Michael Knowles
This is a poll tax. If you want people to prove that they're citizens before they vote, well, then you gotta, you gotta pay for their proof of citizenship. Okay? Okay.

Other than 16 states plus the District of Columbia, every other state requires you to be a legal citizen in order to get a driver's license.

Or rather, I'll put that more specifically, you can't be an illegal alien and get a driver's license in the vast majority of states in America. So already there, you're looking pretty good.

But beyond that, in those states, most people are going to have a driver's license or some form of id. If you have a real id, that's going to prove that you've got citizenship. Maybe you've got a passport or you've got a passport card, but let's say you don't have any of that. Some people don't have those things. Or some people maybe live in the states where the driver's license doesn't show that you're actually a citizen. And. Okay, okay, fine.

I looked up the cost of a birth certificate.

Birth certificate here in my great state of Tennessee is $15 and $15. It's $15 not going to break the bank, especially these days with Biden inflation. I think it's about $15 per egg when you go to the grocery store. But still dollar 15. Ok. Then I did a little bit of math and I said, all right, so far we've sent about, what, $107 billion to Ukraine.

So 107 billion divided by 15 means that we could buy a birth certificate for almost every single person on the face of the earth for the amount of money that weve sent to Ukraine just in the last few years, just under this president.

It seems worthwhile to me.

I use Ukraine because a lot of people think that is frivolous spending on a frivolous war. But we spend money frivolously throughout the government.

Democrats, to my knowledge, have never had a problem spending money on any single thing before except for the most basic measure to ensure the integrity of our elections. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask citizens to pay for their own proof of citizenship.

We ask them to get a driver's license or to go buy a pack of cigarettes. We ask them to go. We ask them to pony up a little bit for all sorts of basic aspects of our country. I don't think it's so crazy to ask them to prove that they're citizens and therefore eligible to vote.

But if the Democrats insist, no, no, we've got to pay for it. Okay. You can pay for it. For some people, by the way, it'd be a relatively small number of people. You could offer assistance in getting a birth certificate or a Social Security card. But even if you got to pay for it for everyone, everyone in the country, everyone in the world. Everyone in the world, which I guess Democrats want everyone in the world to vote in our elections. But you could buy these birth certificates for so many multiples of the people who live in America and it would cost you basically nothing. This isn't about the cost. This isn't about the onus of going and getting a birth certificate or a real id or any of that.

This is about Democrats taking the last little trick available to them.

They haven't so far succeeded in imprisoning Trump. They haven't, so far succeeded in rigging the election as it was rigged in 2020.

They haven't, so far succeeded in persuading the voters. Of course not. So, okay, well, we do have these tens of millions of illegal aliens that we've been importing over the years.

We got motor voter laws that sign up people automatically to vote, even if they're not eligible to vote. We have these laws where when certain states say only citizens can vote, we have provisions that allow them to receive a federal ballot anyway, even if they acknowledge they can't vote in state elections. Let's just get the illegals to vote. Let's just get them to vote the best shot they've got. Now, most Democrats are smart enough to straight face this and say, no, we don't want illegals to vote. This is about the fairness for the poor, aggrieved minorities. Some Democrats say the quiet part out loud. Democrat Representative Summer Lee came out and said in pretty clear language, no, she wants non citizens to vote.

Summer Lee
It is under attack right now, right here with this very bill. Republicans want to throw up barriers because when people vote, they lose. Let me be clear. They don't want you to vote. They don't want to hear black voices, brown voices, LGBTQIa voices, young voices. Our fundamental access to our democracy is being politicized. And this xenophobic attack that we're debating today will make it harder for Americans to vote. My republican colleagues will claim that requiring ids is a small ask. But nearly 30 million people lack a valid driver's license, and about 15 to 18 million adults don't have access to documents proving their birth or citizenship. Americans don't need more obstacles. It's already hard enough.

Michael Knowles
Okay, so you hear her argument is, look, the republican voters are responsible, and they do have proof of their citizenship, and they keep their affairs in order. Our voters are extremely irresponsible. And even if we tell them that they won't get to vote, if they can't prove that they have the basic eligibility, they won't do it because they're irresponsible and not civic minded. And so she's admitting that implicitly, but she says, doesn't matter. We want them to vote anyway. So that's terrible. This will silence brown voices, black voices, lgbt voices.

Okay, well, all those people could be american citizens.

So where in there does she say that she wants non citizens to vote? One word, xenophobic.

She said this xenophobic measure, and that gave away the whole game. That was the unwitting admission of what this is about. Xenophobic means an irrational fear of foreigners. Zeno from the Greek Xenos shes saying the measure is xenophobic. Its fearful of foreigners, it's opposed to foreigners and it is opposed to. It's not irrational. It's a very rational fear that foreigners are voting in our election and influencing our election unduly and violating our basic laws. I'm old enough to remember 2016 when we were told that the worst imaginable crisis of democracy is when foreigners want to influence our elections. Remember Russia, Russia, Russia.

Well, here we're seeing Russia, Russia, Russia on a scale that is orders of magnitude greater. The Russia, Russia, Russia story was that the russian federation spent $100 or $200,000 buying Facebook ads to mess around with the political activism in 2016.

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Now, there was a lot of bad stuff going on in Congress, the libs trying to destroy our electoral system. But then there was some good stuff going on yesterday, too.

House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan held a hearing with Garm. Garm, the World Federation of Advertisers. What are these names? You might remember Garm, because I started to blow the whistle on this thing about a year ago.

The Global alliance for Responsible Media.

It's a lib project. It's affiliated with the World Economic Forum, brings together the biggest advertisers in the world and gives them guidelines on who they can work with, which media outlets in particular that they can support, and it's a way to silence conservatives.

There was a report that just came out. I mentioned it yesterday on the show. The House Judiciary Committee showed that these organizations, Garm and its various affiliates, news guard and all these other left wing groups, are intentionally diverting a lot of advertising dollars to left wing news outlets. And they are cutting advertising dollars off. They're cutting reach off. They're encouraging social media companies to reduce the reach of right wing media outlets. So you had wonderful performances from the republican congressman yesterday on the docket. You had a Unilever major corporation and group M. Group M is the world's largest media buying agency. And so some republican congressmen asked a really simple question.

Where are the advertising dollars going?

Jim Jordan
Mister Patel, do you believe ever advertised on the daily Wire?

Have you guys ever advertised there?

Michael Knowles
Not sure if we've ever advertised and don't know the answer to that.

Jim Jordan
Mister Julie, any companies you represent ever advertise on the daily wire?

Jennifer McClellan
Not that I know.

Not that I know of. But if they wanted to, we would happily do it.

Jim Jordan
If they wanted to. But you don't know that any of them have. Yeah. Is it, is it like a particular, I mean, I think. What did he just say? 50 million viewers over the past 90 days. What did Mister Nadler say at the front end? He said like 13 million followers that they have. I mean, there's a real audience there. What would you say your target group is? 18 to 48 year old women. Mister Patel? Yes, sir. Yeah. Mister Shapiro, you got any 18 to 48 year old women? Who, of those 50 million people watching your stuff, or those 13 million followers? Any of them 18 to 48 year old women? Again, according to our latest statistics, about 65% of my listeners are between ages 18 and 44. And about a quarter of them are women.

Michael Knowles
Yeah.

Jim Jordan
So that's a pretty big number. I mean, you guys advertise. Do any companies you represent, Mister Jewell, advertise, let's say, the Washington Post?

Jennifer McClellan
Yes.

Jim Jordan
Do you advertise on the View?

Jennifer McClellan
Yes.

Michael Knowles
Yes. Yes. So love Jim Jordan.

The Ellie wire was, I guess, basically the chief subject of this hearing yesterday because we are one of the biggest conservative media companies in the world, and big tech and big left wing activism and big censorship and all of it are trying to destroy our company right now. And this has been building for a while. I did blow the whistle on this a little bit last year, so this is nothing new.

But Jim Jordan and the house judiciary committee have done a great job of actually digging into this. And you hear the absurd answers. No, we haven't advertised on the daily wire.

I mean, you know, if our companies wanted to, we would. Well, why not? Daily wires got this huge reach. Why is it that you're advertising? I'm like Huffington Post. Are you kidding me? That's Huffington Post, the view. But you're not going to advertise on the Daily Wire? All I'm hearing are left wing organizations, many of which have a much smaller reach than the daily wire.

Why not?

Do you advertise on any conservative outlets?

Dan Bishop
What conservative sites are considered brand safe according to your metrics?

Name me. Like one, two, five.

Jennifer McClellan
Fox.

Dan Bishop
Fox News.

Jennifer McClellan
Sure.

Dan Bishop
Fox News. Online or tv?

Jennifer McClellan
Both.

Dan Bishop
Okay. Are any of their sites.

Jennifer McClellan
I don't have the full definition of what you would consider conservative versus progressive. Like I said, there's 600,000 different sites that are listed in those, and the vast majority of those are illegal.

Eric Swalwell
Right.

Michael Knowles
There's public conservatives.

Dan Bishop
I would assume that you have access to that.

Michael Knowles
Now he forgets what conservative means.

Jennifer McClellan
Sure.

Dan Bishop
So sites like John Stossel's website, that's mandatory. Exclude Prageru, the federalist, town hall, Breitbart, Daily Caller, Newsmax, Washington examiner, one American News, Tuckercarlson.com, comma, those are all on the mandatory exclusion list.

Jennifer McClellan
I'm not sure which sites are and are not on there, but we're happy to get back to you.

Dan Bishop
Well, I mean, I would assume that you didn't just wake up out of bed and pop up into a congressional hearing today.

Michael Knowles
Correct?

Dan Bishop
I prepared for this.

Jennifer McClellan
Yes, sir.

Dan Bishop
Did you? And this was not part of your preparation for a hearing today in front of this committee to defend the actions of these entities and organizations you never thought and your team never thought to look at and examine what sites were considered. Okay. And not.

Jennifer McClellan
We've looked at that, yes.

Dan Bishop
So you can't tell me today what sites, other than Fox News, what conservative sites are considered brand safe?

Jennifer McClellan
Not at this point, no.

Michael Knowles
Okay. You see, you see what's going on here? That is Christian Jewell, the global CEO of Group M, world's largest media buyer.

And he's saying, look, we care about capitalism. We care about advertising in outlets that are brand safe. And so, yeah, we don't really advertise with any conservatives, but it's cause they're not brand safe. So the left wing news organizations that spread lies constantly, that defame people, that post all sorts of obscene content, they're really brand safe. We're gonna divert all the advertising money to them.

Advertising money is the lifeblood of media organizations. So we're gonna prop up all those media organizations, especially in an election year, and we're gonna just, we're gonna cut off all the money to the conservative groups. Except for Fox.

No. Yeah, we advertise with conservatives. We advertise with Fox. Okay. Anyone else other than Fox?

I don't really know what a conservative outlet is. Well, hold on. You just knew what a conservative outlet was when you answered and you said you advertise with Fox.

So Fox is the token, because Fox is a cable network that was built in the 1990s.

They felt they couldn't exclude it, I think, without it looking so absurd. But that's it. In this guy's own words, it's pretty much it. The fox, they'll give some money to.

Otherwise the conservatives are out. And so they argue, well, this is just the free market.

Look, this is just, we just want to protect the brands, and we're just trying to maximize profits for shareholders of these corporations. Right. This is the same bogus argument that places like McKinsey made when it comes to Dei. McKinsey, the consulting firm, had a big study. Oh, Dei is actually good for the bottom line of corporations.

It's really good to not hire people based on their performance and their ability, but to hire people based on their sexual desires and the color of their skin and their sex and all the rest of it. And, of course, that study is now widely understood to be totally bogus.

And the same goes here. If this were just about the free market, well, okay, then the garm wouldn't need to exist. Then the World Economic Forum wouldn't need to stick its nose into where advertisers are sending their money.

Reason that these organizations have become so prominent is because social media gave Trump the presidency in 2016. That's really what a lot of this is about.

It's because if you allowed the, and even encouraged advertisers to advertise on conservative sites where there are a lot of eyeballs, where there's that great demographic that buys a lot of products, where if you allowed conservative organizations to spread their message freely on social media? Well, it would be really popular. It is really popular. The fact that the daily Wire was the centerpiece of this hearing yesterday, even with all of this persecution coming from the NGO's and the government and big tech, shows you this is a popular message. The fact that the libs feel they have to throw Donald Trump in prison to stop him from being reelected in 2024 shows you this stuff is popular. They feel they can't win in the free marketplace of ideas or I of money, and so they're going to try to rig the system. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to preborn.com knowles it's been two years since the overtuning of Roe v. Wade. Tragically, the number of abortions has increased since then. New estimates show that more than 1 million babies were killed by abortion in 2023, the highest number of abortions since 2012. The overturning of Roe v. Wade has unfortunately made the abortion pill more readily available. Now, accounting for up to 64% of all abortions, Preborn continues to stand strong. Preborn is the largest pro life organization in the country. They provide free ultrasounds to mothers with unplanned pregnancies to introduce them to the precious life growing inside them.

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Because, Congressman Bishop points out, if that were true, then presumably the World Federation of Advertisers would not involve itself in politics, would not involve itself in highly controversial political issues.

Eric Swalwell
You know, if it were genuine, I would sympathize with the objective of keeping famous brands out of controversy, that they stick to sports and entertainment.

But the World Federation of Advertisers and their garm that they've created, their members, they and their members continue to seek to involve themselves in highly controversial issues.

Your colleague Michael Knowles, in an article last year, pointed out that Embev is a member of WFA.

And the pretext for what we're talking about today is they want to keep their brands out of trouble. But they rolled out the Dylan Moles Mulvaney campaign and destroyed the famous Bud light brand.

But they would tell us that the purpose of this organization, all these global conglomerates, are members of, is to keep their brands out of trouble. Disney is a member of the WFA, according to Mister Knowles article.

Michael Knowles
Exactly. This is exactly right. This is how you show their whole defense is B's. They say, no, no, no. Look, we just. Those conservatives, they get involved in controversial political issues. We don't want to be involved in those controversial issues.

But you do. You do. Obviously, Transizer Bush wants to be involved in controversial issues and an issue where the left wing position is deeply unpopular. And when it's put up for a vote, when it's made into a major campaign theme, the people roundly reject it. They come out in defensive of the absurd notion that a man can become a woman.

An ideology that tells us that we ought to sterilize children, mutilate little children. Are you insane? But no, please tell me more about how the corporations don't want to involve themselves in controversial political issues like, I don't know, we should secure the border and have sound economic policy. All the crazy stuff that the right wing media outlets talk about, total B's.

Not only are these companies getting involved in politics, they're getting involved in extremely controversial politics. They just want to choke off the ability of conservatives to communicate and to hear pertinent information.

Now the highlight of the entire hearing. And then we'll move on to the new republican national platform, which is highly controversial among Republicans.

And we'll get into that in just a moment. First, though, Ben was there, as you might have seen, and Ben was testifying alongside all these lib hacks. And then some lib hacks in Congress wanted to take on Ben. So Eric Swalwell of Fang Fang fame decided he wasn't going to ask Ben really anything about Garm or advertising from the daily wire.

He was going to talk about project 2025.

Jennifer McClellan
And the country has, in the last couple weeks, talked a lot about and googled Project 2025. It's one of the most googled search terms right now.

You're not going to get any censorship from me. So I just wanted to know, from your perspective, I think it would help us understand, on just like, a scale of zero to 100%, how much do you support Project 2025?

Jim Jordan
I think like President Trump, I haven't looked all that deeply at project 2025, but it seems that Democrats on this committee, sort of like Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, if they say Project 2025 enough, their presidential candidate becomes.

Michael Knowles
Swalwell goes on, he takes the licks. Poor Swalwell just got absolutely destroyed by Ben during destroy. Shapiro destroys Fang, Fang's boyfriend, with facts and logic and snark. He goes on to ask Ben about mass deportation, about the abortion pill, about the definition of marriage, about Ben's sexual desires, his own sexual desires. And I'm not even going to waste our time on these questions, because what matters here is what Swalwell was not talking about.

This was a hearing on how the libs are trying to choke out conservative media outlets, how the libs are trying to censor conservatives, how libs are weaponizing corporate, corporate America, and international corporations, even to bleed out the conservative organizations and suppress their reach, and how big tech is complicit in that, and how that's what this hearing was about. And Swalwell didn't want to talk about it for 1 second. These libs didn't want to talk about it for 1 second because they know we have got them dead to rights on this. They have no defense of it whatsoever. It is obscene. And so they're going to distract any way they can. No, let's, can we talk about abortion more, please?

No. What do you think about Project 2025? It's the new January 6. Project 2025 is officially the new January 6. And Ben says, I don't know. I don't really know much about it. It's at the Heritage Foundation. I don't know.

Well, yeah, sure, but did you know that just the other day, the Biden campaign, they love posting the highlights of my show. The Biden campaign said, trump operative explains how Project 2025 is gonna turn Trump into a dictator.

And I looked at my clip, which was really an excellent clip.

They pull out good stuff from my show. But then I read the caption and I thought, well, I'm not a political operative. I'm a podcast host, an author and lecturer. I don't work for Donald Trump. I support the guy, but I don't work for him.

I didn't say that about Project 2025. And if I had, that wouldn't be an accurate description of Project 2025. But other than that, spot on, good job, Biden campaign. Maybe the Biden campaign has dementia, too. I know the man does. Maybe the campaign does, too.

They're really hyper focused on this. Why?

Because they got nothing on Trump.

Because they got nothing on the daily wire. Because they got nothing.

So they have to distract with all of this. And this leads us into the RNC.

RNC is next week very excited.

It's going to be a big convention, especially because we don't really know who the Democrat nominee is. Every day it seems that Joe Biden's grip on the party is slipping and slipping. Trump got in trouble among some Republicans because he appears to have altered the party platform.

And this will be fought over, including through next week in Milwaukee. But it would appear that the Republican National Committee has removed language about desiring a national ban on abortion and has removed language about marriage, obviously being the union of a man and a woman, not three dudes in a billy goat or whatever the libs want it to be. Now it's just a natural institution.

So the RNC has removed this kind of language. And some people are really up in arms about this.

And you know me, okay?

I'm the d ogg. No, I'm not. I'm Michael Knowles. And I'm extremely pro life, totally pro life. I totally defend marriage as it actually is. I don't think we can just change the definition of marriage. I don't think men and women are indiscernible and immutable. And I think, you know, sex is real and permanent, and marriage is a union between a man and a woman for the purpose of the procreation and I education of children and also for the mutual support of the spouses. And so I have as rock ribbed and consistent a view on these issues as anybody. And yet I'm not huffing and puffing and screaming at Trump about this. Why?

Because I think some of the consternation over the party platform change comes from a misunderstanding of what a party platform is. A party platform exists to help candidates get elected.

Thats what the party platform is for. The candidates are not there for the party platform. The party platform is there to help the candidates.

Trump is looking pretty good.

If you look at really any of the polls right now. He is destroying Biden with facts and logic and votes.

The areas where the Democrats really want to focus in are areas like abortion or the LGBT LMNOP nonsense, you know, gay marriage or something.

That's where they're honing in. Ben Shapiro goes to Capitol Hill to testify about how the libs are trying to destroy the daily wire. The Democrat congressmen only want to talk about the abortion pill and these highly controversial issues.

So it seems politically prudent if you're Trump, to distance yourself from Project 2025. I think Project 2025 is great. What I know of it, the people who are involved, the people leading it, the purpose of it, which is to bring great personnel into the next administration, whoever whose administration that is, to recognize the personnel as policy.

I think it's absolutely terrific. And I also think it's probably wise of President Trump to rightly say that he's not directly involved in this and he doesn't really know much about it.

Want to see abortion totally eradicated from public life, entirely worldwide. It's just not defensible to murder innocent little babies.

It's child sacrifice, and it's Moloch worship, and it's as wicked and evil a thing as imaginable. And it is the worst kind of persecution against the most innocent people in the world. And it's just a complete denial of the fundamental right from which all the other rights.

So I certainly think that also, I recognize that in a post DOBBS world, advocating for life is going to look a little bit different. In a world where Roe v. Wade is the law of the land and no one thinks it's really going to change.

A party platform might help candidates by looking a certain way and calling for a national abortion ban.

After the Supreme Court says the issue goes back to the states, conservatives have been calling for it to go to the states. It's not going to be decided at the federal level.

Two or three years after that, that controversial decision comes down, it's gonna look a little different. Same with marriage. I don't think you can change the definition of marriage. I think gay marriage is a complete joke. It's absurd and it's harmful to society inasmuch as it's absurd. And when you try and it cuts at the fundamental political unit, which is the family. So it really cuts at the very heart of our politics. And we could go on about why marriage matters ad nauseam.

Also, it's probably politically wise to take it out of the party platform because you're not really going to win new people over to your side with that. And now there's a fear here.

The fear is, well, what if Donald Trump gets elected and then starts pushing abortion. What if he, it's not just that he wants to downplay the abortion issue in the election, but what if he's really pro abortion or something like that? Well, I don't think he is. He's the first president to speak at the March for life, first sitting president to do that. And he's the guy who got the judges to overrule Roe v. Wade after almost 50 years.

So I guess I'm just willing to give the guy a little bit more grace in his language, especially when he's saying, look, I just want to get elected, guys, because we know what he's done. He's had a term as president already, and he's the most pro life president we've ever had. So forgive me for just giving him a little grace on this and thinking, okay, past might be precedent. Same with the marriage thing. If I found out I, you know, President Trump secretly wanted to abolish marriage and start hosting orgies or something, I don't know. I guess that would be, that would give me pause. But I don't think it's that. I think he's just a normal guy, and I don't think it's a top issue for him, but I don't think he's going to move the country in a more radical direction on marriage. I think he just wants to downplay it, and he recognizes it's kind of a dead issue right now.

So as a matter of political prudence, what hes doing is probably smart. This will all be controverted in Milwaukee, but it just seems to me people are taking cheap shots at Trump and theyre missing the forest for the trees here.

Its not like we dont know who this guy is. Hes already been president. Thats why this election and this convention and this nominating process, that's why it's going to look different. None of us has seen this in our lifetimes.

Ben Shapiro
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Michael Knowles
You know, yesterday, as I mentioned, Ben went down to Washington to expose garm and that global cartel trying to control what you see in here in the media, exposing how corporate titans and their elitist organizations weaponize advertising coffers to silence conservative voices such as ours. It's a really nasty thing. That's why the daily wire exists. We don't sit back and complain. We take action and we fight. Make no mistake, every daily wire plus member has played a pivotal role in this endeavor. Your unwavering support empowers us to confront the radical left when others cower in silence. If you're not a member yet, ask yourself, do you want the truth? Do you want to join the fight? If so, go to Dailywire.com subscribe right now and use code fight at checkout for 25% off. We can only do this with your support. Go to Dailywire.com subscribenow join us as we fight the left and build the future. My favorite comment yesterday is from Mark McLean, 33, who says, Karine Jean Pierre did her best Mitch Hedberg impression with her Biden's dockster visit line I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too. Yes, that is exactly what she was doing.

The president has seen a neurologist three times and for a fourth time and a fifth time, and a 6th time, and a 12th time and a 27th time and a 48th time. But he's also seen him three times. That's true. That's exactly what she was doing.

Speaking of this presidential race, George Clooney is calling on Joe Biden to step down. Just weeks after hosting the biggest fundraising event in the history of the Democrat party, George Clooney raised $28 million for Joe Biden's reelection.

And now he has an op ed in the New York Times. He says, I love Joe Biden as a senator, as vice president. And as president, I consider him a friend and I believe in him.

But the Joe Biden that Clooney saw at this fundraiser, quote, was not the Joe Big effin deal Joe Biden of 2010.

He says he wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.

Okay. I'm sure he was.

Why didn't George Clooney write this op ed June 16 or June 17 or June 18, June 19 or 20th? No, he waited until the June 27 presidential debate, and then he waited another week or more than that after the debate when it looked like Joe was weak.

George Clooney knew that Joe Biden was senile.

Everyone around Joe Biden knew that Joe Biden was senile. All the staffers and the fundraisers knew that Joe Biden was senile. Everyone who has seen a clip of Joe Biden at any point in the last four years knew that Joe Biden was senile. The DNC knew Joe Biden was senile. That's why they tried to cover for his obvious cognitive decline by pretending that his childhood stutter came back 50 years after he got into politics, 75 years after he had it.

Everyone knew it.

They dont care that hes senile.

They dont care that weve got a man in office who might not be up to the job. They just thought they could get away with it.

And they didnt get away with it because Donald Trump agreed to the terms of the debate. Donald Trump called Joe Biden's bluff when Biden tried to boost his poll numbers by challenging Trump to a debate. Had Biden's poll numbers been a little bit higher, there wouldn't have been a debate. Joe Biden wouldn't have challenged Trump to one. He wouldn't have accepted the challenge. Had Trump proposed one, Joe Biden had to do it. Trump called his bluff. Everyone saw it. Now they're running scared like rats.

And there's this little clip from Joe Manchin. I haven't really heard anyone focusing on this. I played it earlier in the week when reporters asked Senator Manchin from West Virginia, do you still support Biden? He said, well, we'll see more after this weekend.

There are reports coming out now that Chuck Schumer is starting to go weak. Schumer publicly was supporting Biden. Now some rumors leaking in the gossip mill that Schumer is open to replacing Biden on the ticket. I suspect Manchin is quite right. This weekend will be pretty consequential.

But the Democrat apparatus can't wait. They've got to set up as many backstops as they can.

And so. I kid you not, NBC News runs this yesterday.

Russia aims to undermine Biden in November. Election intel officials say they're playing the hits, baby. This is like when you get a ticket to the Rolling Stones and you hope they don't play their, whatever their new album is that you don't care about the Rolling Stones new album. No, man. You want them to play satisfaction or something? You want to play the hits? Well, the Democrats are playing the hits.

Yikes. Okay. We can't get Trump on business fraud. Really? That's not hurting him in the polls. And we can't get him on a phone call to Georgia, and we can't get him on having some boxes of documents in his house because Biden actually had, it looked like, even more documents and more houses and, okay, what do we, we can't get him on some gossip columnist and Bergdorf Goodman. We can't. Oh, I know he colluded with Russia. And what's our proof? The intel agencies. The intel agencies, which we now know for a fact, lied about that in 2016 because the Russia hoax was cooked up between crooks at the intel agencies and the Democrat party in the Hillary Clinton campaign.

And then in 2020, when Biden was running and we had proof of the Biden family's crimes on Hunter Biden's laptop, we had 51 intel officials come out and say, this is russian disinformation. And now we know for a fact that government is admitting that was a lie.

But what else are they going to do? They can get illegal aliens to vote and they can say, the intel agencies, the spooks in the government can say, actually, no, it's Russia again, Russia only. You'll notice this. This is an amazing fact of political science. Russia only interferes in american elections when Republicans are doing better in the polls, when Democrats are doing better in the polls. The Russians, they're good. They're focused. They're making their borscht. They're having their shots of vodka and stacking the little dolls. They don't care about american elections. But when Republicans start doing well, that's when they're interfering. Ask yourself this question. You're Joe Biden.

Who do you want to be president? You're Joe Biden. You're Vladimir Putin. Wow. My brain just didnt function. I think I was Joe Biden in that circumstance. Youre Vladimir Putin. Who do you want to be president, Trump or Biden?

VoLodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, blames Joe Biden for giving Russia the opportunity to invade Ukraine. His words, theres one president in the last 20 plus years, 24 years now, on whose watch Vladimir Putin has not invaded a country that would be Donald Trump.

Obviously, Putin wants Biden to remain in office. Putin is getting everything he wants with Biden in office.

Russia aims to undermine Biden in November. No, I think dementia, you got to take out the r uss you put in D e M e n t. Dementia aims to undermine Biden in the November election.

They're playing the hits they're going to and it's not working.

There is a report out. This is going to be really shocking.

Young voters are flipping to the republican party. I've worked in and around republican politics since I was about 19 years old. I know for a long time and said the young voters, the youths are just about to flip to the right. It's any day now and then it never happens.

Pews National Public Opinion reference survey shows it might be happening.

The NPORs found that the Republicans are ahead on leaned party id among 18 to 29 year olds.

Biden was up 20 among this group in 2020. Now its flipped lien party id even among young voters goes to Republicans. This is the first time that NPORs has ever given the GOP this party edge.

Very significant. Also, because this isn't just some random push poll. This is Pew research. This is a very reputable polling firm. This was published two days ago.

Now I have so much more to say. I want to talk about flipping Letitia Wright, who is a producer on this movie sound of hope that we're promoting.

Letitia Wright was in that absolutely unwatchable movie Black Panther.

Letitia Wright is now attacking her own movie because we're helping to promote it.

And it shows. We'll get a little bit more into the story tomorrow. Perhaps it just shows you the left would rather harm us than help themselves.

The movie is about helping foster kids, kids in the foster care system.

So the left would rather harm conservatives, would rather disassociate from conservatives than help foster kids, but even take the subject of the movie out of it. The libs hate us more than they like themselves.

They would rather burn the country to the ground, literally. If you look at the 2020 summer and election cycle, they would rather burn the country to the ground than see us flourish in it. And heaven forfend, govern it.

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