Billy cunning in the Great America picking up the pieces of all that's been happening
the last several days of Leland vitters on Balance and News Nation. It was
at the convention, of course, for it seems like fourteen to sixteen hours
every day, and Leland vetter, I've made many notes about what to go
over with you, but can you first give me an overview? I talked
to Mike DeWine a few days ago, to the governor of Ohio. He's
been at every convention since nineteen eighty four, which is only forty years,
and he's been at many. I talked to reporters like Bill Hammer, etc.
Who's been there for the last fifteen to twenty years, and the old
timers refer to this as the twenty oh eight convention of Barack Hussein Obama,
the excitement and things of that character and the rock star aspect. So can
you give me the overview? Then? I have lots of specific questions,
Leyland, What did you think overview? Agreed? The last convention that I've
been at with that kind of electricity was Obama eight. Certainly, the walkout
of Obama with the Greek columns at mile high Stadium in Denver versus last night.
There's a lot of similarities. What I think is different is that Obama's
speech in eight whatever you think of the policies, was extraordinarily well delivered,
just phenomenally well delivered. He knew the audience, he played to it.
He met the moment. The text met the moment in the delivery, met
the moment. I'm writing today in war Notes, which is my daily online
newsletter you can subscribe for free at warnoes dot com, I wrote that this
is the convention of missed opportunities because last night, for the first twenty five
minutes, Donald Trump met the moment. He talked about the events of Saturday.
He was emotional, he was thoughtful, meaned changed in a way.
And then rather than saying, there's ten minutes of policy, and here's what
we're gonna do to bring this country together, and here's things that most Americans
or agree on that I'm going to fight for, thank you, and good
night, he did sixty minutes of this sort of rambling, very demandering,
some off the cuffs, some off the teleprompter, some of the greatest hits
from the rallies. And I was watching the crowd okay, and this you
know, you have to think if you're gonna come to the Republican National Convention,
you are in it to win it. You're there and people were getting
bored. People were looking at their watches. We were around the back of
the floor and you could hear people talking amongst themselves because they were bored.
It. It did not he felt that he went into rally mode, which
is fine when it feels like you're in a rally at eleven thirty at night.
After four days, it did. It did not land as far as
far as the other presentation. And I've been to two or three Trump rallies.
You've probably been to a few more than I've been to, and he
went into rally mode, which is a Trump supporter and a Trump devotee and
someone who badly believes we need him to leave the to lead the country.
I was not offended at all from that. I think his audience was the
five percent that are completely undecided. I don't think either candidate can get fifty
percent of the vote, and the issue becomes what happens to that five percent
of the middle and what are the third party candidates do? And I point
out to my Republican friends. I said, guys, the Democrat has won
seven of the last eight presidential elections. When it comes to the number of
ballots cash, now that's not the critical factor, but it demonstrates that every
time a Republican wins, it's got to be threading the needle. You got
to go a little bit this way, a little bit that way. And
the Democrats have this behemoth of a machine ready to go. It's like it's
ready to go from off to on and get ready for what's going to happen.
And the parts with Jason Aldean and the minister from a Detroit Black Baptist
minister I thought was great. Kid Rock, the Hulkster lit up the night,
Hulk of Mania became trump Amania, Dana White coming back from vacation,
Lee Greenwood, proud to be an American. All that stuff played well with
me. The five percent that are going one way or another, if they
paid attention for the first thirty minutes, they came away thinking that's pretty good.
I think the Trumpster wanted to give the red meat to the devotees,
and most I spoke with said he did a pretty damn good job, and
they left energized. And excited. Now, secondly, I want to get
onto this issue. What's happening to the Democrats. I see now that AOC,
not exactly a conservative, is supporting Biden to get out. She posted
something this morning about her him getting out, But AOC also said that Kamala
Harris needs to get out. And I'm reading this and I'm thinking, am
I reading this correctly? That's the most far left winging the Democrat Party doesn't
want a ticket of Biden and Kamala Harris. Address yourself if you can,
if these rumors are true, in the next day day or so, then
Biden gets out of the election. To me, the obvious person to get
in would be Kamala Harris. But now there's a sense that she can't win
either. What do they do, well, that's the problem. They don't
know what they do. And the person in the end that it is up
to is Joe Biden, and that's it. So the AOC reporting that I
have seen is she says she doesn't want Biden to leave. The person who
is saving or the people who are saving Joe Biden is the far left.
And if Joe Manchin has said that, the reporting shows that the the elites
of the Democratic Party, and by that I mean the donor class, house
and Senate leadership. They're the ones who are telling Joe Biden to get out.
The far left is telling them to telling Biden to stay in. What
AOC is saying is is that the same people who want Biden out want Kamala
Harris out. And basically she's trying to make the point that there is this
cabal that is taking away the people's power and they should all stay. Fine.
The issue with Joe Biden is no one can make him leave. And
you're talking about a guy who won a Senate race that he was thirty points
down in in nineteen That was it was in tanteen seventy two or I say,
seventy eight, whenever you want, I can't the first time the first
time I ran seventy two, okay, seventy two, a little bit before
my time, and you weren't born yet, right ten years. I don't
anything that was a thought yet my parents who weren't even married, so it
or maybe they just got married when he went. But there's a there is
a entrenched fire inside Joe Biden that is burning, and it has always burned
and He's always had a chip on his shoulder. He's always had a chip
on his shoulder about a stutter. He's always felt like the Democratic Party didn't
give him his due. He's always felt like Barack Obama, you know,
always tried, tried, tried to him. You know that there was this
there's this feeling by a by the the elite of the Democratic Party that and
they always felt like Joe Biden sort of wasn't as refined as they want the
way he talks on and on and on. So there's this inherent tension there.
And Joe Biden is the guy who has said I want to stand by
and I'm not going to be pushed out. He felt like he was pushed
out in sixteen. Yeah, he felt like he wasn't taken seriously in twenty
and he's going to prove to everybody. So I would submit, the harder
people push on him, the more likely he is to stay. A quote
from Instagram on AOC quote. If you think there's a consensus among the people
who want Joe Biden to leave that they will support Vice President Harris, you
would be mistaken. And this is complete, utter chaos. I cannot imagine
that if Biden leaves the race with a political gun to his head that they
skip over Vice President Kamala Harris, what that will do to the base of
the Democratic Party will be complete chaos. And I would note, I tell
my I'm going to disagree with you for a second because of this. The
basic Democratic Party didn't like Kamala Harris. You know how we know that because
the basic the Democratic Party is would votes in Democratic primaries h and she didn't
make it. Not only I was she didn't make it too. Iowa US
she pulled and she barely registered in polling in South Carolina. There is no
love of Kamala Harris by the base of the Democratic Party. Now you know,
everybody from the anthic goes, oh, well, she's a black woman,
therefore they're all line up behind her. The elite of the Democratic Party
will line up behind her because she's you know, built relationships and kissed up
to them. And the intellectual liberalism or illiberalism, what doe youver you want
to call it, that is based in the DEI intersectional philosophy loves her.
But the real base of the Democratic Party is very skeptical of her, especially
black men. No in that regard. I have a little bit of historical
analysis from nineteen sixty eight. You might recall the debacle the riots in Chicago.
Sixty eight was the worst political year in American history bar none. With
the assassinations and the riots, etc. You weret h. Humphrey was a
weak, unpopular vice president who came out of Chicago thirty points behind Richard Nixon,
thirty points. By the time the election itself took place, he lost
by one percentage point. And that's what I'm told that Joe Biden is being
told that you're not thirty points behind, you might be two or three,
or four or five points behind, and that they all know that Kamala Harris
cannot be the nominee, and other than Michelle Obama coming out behind the drape
in Chicago, uniting everybody under the Obama banner. Once again, I couldn't
agree with you more. That Kamala Harris is not enjoyed or liked by the
Democrats, much less working class white men in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
I can't conceive of that being a popular choice. Now, lastly,
before we conclude, we have all the reporting since the assassination in attempt last
Saturday on Donald Trump. One third of Democrats believe it was a staged event
by Donald Trump, that somehow he staged the whole thing for political benefit,
which I think we can dispense with that quickly. That is utterly absurd.
But secondly, what does this say about the efficiency of Kimberly Cheetle, What
happens to her for the hearings on Monday, and how incompetent is the leadership
of the Secret Service? Important to separate the Secret Service agents from the Secret
Service. Donald Trump did that well last night, big applause for the Secret
Service, and I think he and his family have handled that perfectly. It
is unquestioned that the Secret Service leadership has real problems. I am not sure
that she shows up for the hearings. Maybe she will, maybe she won't.
John Brosso Marshall Blackburn went to my Wallas style and chaster through the convention.
If you haven't seen the video, you should look it up. But
it is clear that there are multiple, multiple failures. And our Brian Anton,
who I think is one of the best street reporters out there and just
dog it in his ability to get scoops and stories. He reports that one
of the one of the screw ups is that the original plan for the rally
security had the building that the shooter ended up using marked as a local police
sniper position. The local police officers were supposed to have a sniper up there,
and the agent or the counter sniper team when they were looking and seeing
someone with a gun on top of the building or rifle, they thought that
person was a police officer. And you can imagine now in Heinz it seems
obvious. Oh well, you can tell the difference. Well, at that
point, it's the decision of am I going to shoot a fellow police officer
because that's what this was supposed to be, and that was that that may
have been the reason that the Secret Service didn't take the shot before the guvernment
opened fire. So there's gonna be lots of issues. Mark Green, who
was on the show last night. They have subpoenas for the radio transmissions to
try and try and start sussing it out, and I think we're going to
figure it out. I think what we're going to also find is that the
Secret Service is way understaffed, way over extended, and you know, has
gotten to the point that they rely on a lot of local law enforcement over
and over and over again, and that clearly broke down. Now, the
problem is the only thing that's going to increase between now in November or now
in January is the demands on the Secret Service. Right, you're gonna now
you have you have a vice president and president, vice president president and vice
presidential nominees on both parties for them to take care of and look after.
You're going to have their families. Then you have rally schedules. Then you
have barnstrowming across the country, and of all of a sudden there's a new
Democratic ticket, so you're going to have them also watching the president plus two
other candidates. The distresses on that are going to only get worse. Stress
only magnifies problems. It does, and it needs to be great greatly increased,
and of course affirmative action. Slash DEI has raised as ugly head that
seemingly the director now of the Secret Service was a popular person in the detail
of Joe Biden when she was the Second Lady during the Obama administration, and
they wanted to get a woman to head up the Secret Service, and according
to some reporting, Joe Biden kind of remembered Cheatle from from the eight years
earlier, and so let's see if she's available. And she was handling security
for Pepsicola and also Quaker Oats which is a part of PepsiCo and reached back
in time, and of course she came in. She was an agent protecting
her, not in a management position, and then all of a sudden she
was promoted to the top job and she is completely overwhelmed. In her defense,
I would say they probably have to double the size of the Secret Service
with everything going on in the country right now. And I can completely I'm
not going to go at those snipers who had the murder or the coward in
their crosshairs and didn't want to pull the trigger because they thought they might be
killing a fellow, a law enforcement officer. And the pitch of the roof
was such that the highest part of the roof. He was laying on the
low side of the roof, popping up his head at the pitch to make
the shot. And the reason it happened is that the other Butler County official,
the cops, one of them fell off the roof and they pointed the
gun out. I mean, he kind of fell and hurt himself. I
found out this morning, and the Secret Service was they didn't want to take
the shot and kill a cop. And there was just complete snaffoo and a
complete disgrace for the Secret Service to allow that building to be unused. The
hearings will be interesting. But Leland Vitter, thanks for coming on the Bill
Cunningham Show. You're on of course Monday through Friday on News Nation, and
once again give my best to all the folks at News Nation, and thank
you very much. Appreciate the support, Belle. Thank you, Leland Vitter.
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