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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Denver and the rest of Colorado. Is Heidi
Speaker 2: ganal In for Dan Caplis. Dan maybe joining us, depending
Speaker 2: on how his workload is going.
Speaker 3: I think he's deposing somebody. Isn't that exciting. I'd like
Speaker 3: to know more about it.
Speaker 4: Well, I would want to be on the other end
Speaker 4: of that.
Speaker 3: No, me, neither me, neither Ryan and Ryan. It's great
Speaker 3: to be here with you.
Speaker 2: I love bantering back and forth with you, and boy
Speaker 2: do we have a lot to talk about today.
Speaker 3: I think I want to lead with some pretty exciting news.
Speaker 2: If you want Donald Trump to be elected president, and
Speaker 2: that is rumor is Robert Kennedy Junior is going to
Speaker 2: drop out of the race on Friday and endorse Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: Is that what you're hearing?
Speaker 4: It's what I'm hearing. It's what's being reported.
Speaker 5: And I got an email notification, Heidi from the Kennedy
Speaker 5: campaign announcing that press conference will be held in Phoenix,
Speaker 5: Arizona on Friday, and there's an interesting coincidence along those lines.
Speaker 5: Here's Fox News a little bit more. They were able
Speaker 5: to catch up with former President Trump in Ashborough, North
Speaker 5: Carolina while you.
Speaker 6: Were out on stage. There's reporting that RFK Junior is
Speaker 6: going to drop out of the race by the end
Speaker 6: of this week. Have you spoken to him in the
Speaker 6: last twenty four hours.
Speaker 3: I haven't, but I respect him.
Speaker 7: I've respected him for a long time. I mean, I
Speaker 7: know where he's coming from and it's a little different philosophy.
Speaker 7: Very smart guy, however, and I had heard who was
Speaker 7: thinking about it for a period of time. But no,
Speaker 7: I have not heard this. What you're telling me.
Speaker 6: He's going to be in Arizona on Friday. Would you
Speaker 6: have him on stage with you at your rally?
Speaker 7: Well, I think I'm going to be there on Friday.
Speaker 4: We have a big crowd.
Speaker 7: I would always be honored to I mean, if he
Speaker 7: endorsed me, would I be honored by that?
Speaker 8: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Wow, that's great news if you are interested in seeing
Speaker 2: Donald Trump as the next president. Ryan actually got to
Speaker 2: know Robert Kennedy Junior a bit when I was a
Speaker 2: regent at the Universe if Colorado, we held a debate
Speaker 2: on the moral case for fossil fuels between Bobby Kennedy
Speaker 2: Junior and Alex Epstein.
Speaker 3: Oh, it was awesome.
Speaker 2: We had a packed house, probably a thousand people showed
Speaker 2: up for it. It was part of a project called
Speaker 2: the Free to Be Coalition, where we were trying to
Speaker 2: model for young people how to debate in a productive
Speaker 2: and collaborative way, a feisty way, but still be civil
Speaker 2: to each other.
Speaker 3: And he was such a gentleman. We had such a
Speaker 3: good time.
Speaker 2: We got to spend a couple of days talking and
Speaker 2: chatting and getting to know each other a bit. Our
Speaker 2: team and him, and I was really impressed, and the
Speaker 2: conversation did veer off into vaccinations and our healthcare system
Speaker 2: and all of.
Speaker 3: Those other things.
Speaker 2: It's on YouTube still it's pretty fun to watch. But
Speaker 2: I think it would be wonderful to hear me out
Speaker 2: here to put him in charge of the CIA, who
Speaker 2: he thinks killed his father.
Speaker 4: Interesting.
Speaker 5: Yes, there's definitely a cabinet post I think to be negotiated.
Speaker 5: And for Nicole Shanahan, I'm not sure she might have
Speaker 5: a role. You know, Trump administration as well, But this
Speaker 5: is all the Democrats own doing Heidi. They have made
Speaker 5: this mess for themselves, first by shutting him out. RFK
Speaker 5: a lifelong Democrat, his name is synonymous with the modern
Speaker 5: Democratic Party, with his uncle and his father of course,
Speaker 5: and his other uncle ted. But then also the treatment
Speaker 5: of both Kennedy and Shanahan by the DNC has been atrocious.
Speaker 4: They've been underhanded.
Speaker 5: Shanahan mentioned that they've been the driving force behind trying
Speaker 5: to get RFK removed from the New York ballot, and
Speaker 5: there's a lot of animates there. Whereas the RNC and
Speaker 5: Donald Trump, they have not waited into those waters. They
Speaker 5: have been respectful of the Kennedy Shanahan campaign and that
Speaker 5: might bear fruit on Friday.
Speaker 2: And I believe it's probably a two to three point
Speaker 2: offering that comes along with that. What do you think
Speaker 2: how much of a bump does he get if RFK
Speaker 2: Junior comes on board.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's a zero sum.
Speaker 5: In other words, rfk's voters they might have been RFK
Speaker 5: or nobody at all, or RFK, but I was between
Speaker 5: RFK and Biden, or between RFK and Harris. There's no
Speaker 5: way I would ever vote for Trump. So RFK might
Speaker 5: have been their off ramp. However, especially in the upper
Speaker 5: Midwest states of Wisconsin and Michigan, what we've seen in
Speaker 5: the polling is that when it goes from head to
Speaker 5: head two candidates to the five and the other two
Speaker 5: being Cornell Wes jill Stein, we've seen Kennedy take slightly
Speaker 5: more away from Trump than from Harris in those two
Speaker 5: very important states Wisconsin Michigan. So to your point, I
Speaker 5: think I Kennedy drops out endorses Trump, it can only
Speaker 5: help Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: It will only galvanize that coalition.
Speaker 5: And I don't think there will be more that would
Speaker 5: defect over to Harris if they know the candidate they support,
Speaker 5: Robert F. Kennedy Junior is locksteup with Donald Trump and
Speaker 5: the rest of this race.
Speaker 2: Well, And another point, Ryan, does this help offset the
Speaker 2: bump that Kamala is going to get from the DNC
Speaker 2: and Obama's cheering.
Speaker 3: For I mean, that was a terrible I did not
Speaker 3: like that speech last night. I know a lot of
Speaker 3: people did, but I.
Speaker 2: Thought Michelle and Barack we're very disrespectful, very mean spirited,
Speaker 2: and did not did not at all want to bring
Speaker 2: people together or you know, bring unity among Americans with
Speaker 2: that speech, to those speeches.
Speaker 4: When they go low, we go hi.
Speaker 5: Michellez told us right now, I was telling Kelly, I
Speaker 5: thought Barack had lost his fastball a little bit. He
Speaker 5: wasn't kind of pitch perfect the way we were accustomed.
Speaker 4: To him being.
Speaker 5: You're right, I think he was petty in a way.
Speaker 5: I think there was that petty feel and notion to
Speaker 5: how they referenced Donald Trump. There was much more bashing
Speaker 5: of him than supporting or trying to define which needs
Speaker 5: to be done Kamala Harris and why she's the preferential alternative.
Speaker 5: I don't think you can run on Orange Man bad
Speaker 5: this time around. Maybe in twenty twenty that worked to
Speaker 5: a large extent because of the George Floyd thing and
Speaker 5: because of COVID. I don't think that's going to work
Speaker 5: this time around, not to the degree that they're going
Speaker 5: to need it to to push Kamala Harris across the
Speaker 5: finish line.
Speaker 2: Well, where was Kamala Harris last night? Why wasn't she there?
Speaker 2: I don't think Tim Waltz was there either, was he No?
Speaker 5: And the reporting from Jackie Heinrich of Fox News is
Speaker 5: there is a fissure, and it's sizable between Team Biden
Speaker 5: and Team Obama, with Kamala Harris kind of caught in between.
Speaker 5: So she figured as a sign of respect to Joe Biden,
Speaker 5: who was furious at the Obama still, and that's been
Speaker 5: reported by multiple sources. They did a little pit stop
Speaker 5: in I think Milwaukee. They were in Wisconsin, both Harris
Speaker 5: and Walls during the Obama speech. Is the reason given
Speaker 5: was that they did not want to disrespect Joe Biden
Speaker 5: and inflame those tensions by being present for the speeches
Speaker 5: by the Obama So, yeah, that's a party that's really
Speaker 5: unified right now.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I'm sure Harris is really worried about offending
Speaker 2: Joe Biden at this point. It doesn't seem like she
Speaker 2: gives a hoot.
Speaker 5: Well, it might be just for appearances, Heidi, You might
Speaker 5: be right on that front, that she's just trying to
Speaker 5: kind of hold this coalition together. I believe it is,
Speaker 5: you know, kind of borrowing from her phrase, you know, democracy.
Speaker 3: Is so strong and yet so fragile.
Speaker 5: I think the Democratic Party fragile right now, no matter
Speaker 5: what show they're putting on. And John Legend's going to
Speaker 5: sing tonight, and Bill Clinton's gonna be back and he's
Speaker 5: gonna speak tonight, and we know you can do that
Speaker 5: impression so well. But they're they're they're giving this show.
Speaker 5: But Heidi to me and maybe you agree, that's all
Speaker 5: it is. To me, it's a show. We know what's
Speaker 5: going on behind the scenes. This is not what you
Speaker 5: saw what you experienced at the RNC and Milwaukee. It's
Speaker 5: not even close.
Speaker 2: Oh, that was such an incredible experience. And I want
Speaker 2: to I want to talk about one more comment that
Speaker 2: Michelle makes before we go to break and it's clip
Speaker 2: number eight.
Speaker 3: If you can tee that up. Oh, this is vicious.
Speaker 2: And she has how many multimillion dollar homes? I think
Speaker 2: they have four crazy expensive homes around the country, one
Speaker 2: in Hawaii, one in Hampton's.
Speaker 3: I can't remember where the others are, but check this
Speaker 3: clip out.
Speaker 9: My mom, in her steady, quiet way, lived out that
Speaker 9: striving sense of hope every single day of her life.
Speaker 9: She believed that all children, all all people, have value,
Speaker 9: that anyone can succeed have given the opportunity. She and
Speaker 9: my father didn't aspire to be wealthy. In fact, they
Speaker 9: were suspicious of folks who took more than they needed.
Speaker 9: They understood that it wasn't enough for their kids to
Speaker 9: thrive if everyone else around us was drowning.
Speaker 2: I have to say, you know, I think capitalism and
Speaker 2: free markets are the number one way to turn around poverty.
Speaker 3: In the history of man. Is that correct?
Speaker 2: I mean, don't you don't bad mouth the way that
Speaker 2: we lift people up in America and that people want
Speaker 2: to strive for better. They want to do big things,
Speaker 2: they want to have nice houses.
Speaker 3: And I don't think it's all about money. I'm an entrepreneur.
Speaker 2: It was about creating something really cool and giving people
Speaker 2: jobs and creating a business that solved a problem. That's
Speaker 2: what I think the American dream is. And she's really
Speaker 2: disrespecting it there.
Speaker 4: Well, it just amuses me. You know.
Speaker 5: We saw it last night too, with the juxtaposition of
Speaker 5: Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 4: Reeling against billionaires.
Speaker 5: But he doesn't say millionaires anymore because he is a millionaire,
Speaker 5: because he made money through capitalism, through books that he wrote,
Speaker 5: through the grift that he was able to execute in
Speaker 5: the twenty sixteen to twenty twenty campaigns.
Speaker 4: These people are fraudulent, Heidi.
Speaker 5: I mean, to a large degree, they have made money
Speaker 5: off this system. By railing against that very system, and
Speaker 5: I don't know how they fool people, but they do.
Speaker 3: They do.
Speaker 2: And when we come back, we're going to go to
Speaker 2: a break. We're going to have Manny Connell like from
Speaker 2: the DNC. How exciting is that going to be? And
Speaker 2: we're going to talk to Britta Horne later on with
Speaker 2: the call about the Colorader GOP situation. But we've got
Speaker 2: seventy five days to go to the election. So this
Speaker 2: is Heidi Ganal filling in for Dan Kaplis. We'll see
Speaker 2: after the break.
Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 10: Some breaking news into SCENEI writer, now, the job growth
Speaker 10: has been far weaker in the US and originally reported.
Speaker 10: That is according to new data just coming in this morning.
Speaker 10: Let's get right to see. That's Matt Egan. What's the headline,
Speaker 10: Matt Jim.
Speaker 11: Eight hundred and eighteen thousand fewer jobs were added during
Speaker 11: the period between April twenty twenty three and March of
Speaker 11: this year. We were bracing for these revisions to come
Speaker 11: out and show that job growth was weaker, and.
Speaker 4: That is what we got. This is probably on the high.
Speaker 11: End of the expectations. Some of the forecasters had been
Speaker 11: saying probably around a few hundred thousand jobs. Goldmen Sex
Speaker 11: had said maybe up to a million, So this is
Speaker 11: on the higher end. We're seeing some of the biggest
Speaker 11: revisions downward in sectors that include manufacturing, leisure and hospitality,
Speaker 11: professional and business services.
Speaker 2: Ryan, that is unbelievable, like that is a huge, huge issue.
Speaker 3: For the economy.
Speaker 2: Eight hundred and eighteen thousand jobs all in the private sector,
Speaker 2: and the worst part of it is that most of
Speaker 2: the jobs that have increased are government jobs in the
Speaker 2: past year or more, and that it's just a dead
Speaker 2: weight on the American economy.
Speaker 3: It's bad news. It's more government bureaucracy running our lives.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 5: And eight hundred and eighteen thousand, I mean, that's no
Speaker 5: drop on the bucket that totally changes the narrative or
Speaker 5: the perception of what this Biden economy has done or
Speaker 5: pretended to do, or they've tried to champion that it does.
Speaker 5: At the DNC this week, adding on to your point
Speaker 5: about them being government jobs the ones that have grown,
Speaker 5: that is true, but there's also talk that jobs for
Speaker 5: illegals are a big part of any number that Joe
Speaker 5: Biden might put out there, because they're coming across the border,
Speaker 5: they're not being vetted, they're not being paid as much
Speaker 5: as an American citizen would have to be paid, and
Speaker 5: that is kind of the path at least resistance now
Speaker 5: for a lot of people that might be hiring out there.
Speaker 2: And speaking of illegals, I saw that our least favorite governor,
Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom, Well maybe poll Us is up there, but
Speaker 2: in California, the State Senate Committee has approved illegal immigrants
Speaker 2: having zero down payment and zero interest on new homes,
Speaker 2: and it looks like it's going to fly through and
Speaker 2: get signed by Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you were trying to ruin California, what
Speaker 5: would you be doing differently than Gavin Newsom right now?
Speaker 3: Not a darn thing. And unfortunately Polus.
Speaker 2: Is following his lead and doing most of it here
Speaker 2: in Colorado. Talk about bureaucracy, one of the things that
Speaker 2: I talked a lot about on the governors in the
Speaker 2: governor's race was the growth of bureaucracy here in Colorado
Speaker 2: and the size of government. And for pretending to be
Speaker 2: a libertarian, freedom loving guy, I think he's done exactly
Speaker 2: the opposite. Back a couple of years ago, he'd grown
Speaker 2: the government by a third or fourth, I guess it was.
Speaker 2: It's probably a third by now, but nothing good comes
Speaker 2: of growing our government bureaucracy by that much and just
Speaker 2: letting the free market do its thing and let private jobs,
Speaker 2: the private sector take care of a lot of what
Speaker 2: the government can do very inefficiently.
Speaker 5: I think one of the greatest ruses I've seen in
Speaker 5: America politics, Heidi was in your race and for Jared
Speaker 5: Polis to be presented as what you just described a
Speaker 5: libertarian and name only, he's a Lino. I mean, this
Speaker 5: guy is not in any way shape manner form libertarian.
Speaker 5: Like you said, bigger government, that's not libertarian principles. And
Speaker 5: then during COVID, if you had libertarian principles, you're not
Speaker 5: telling people to wear a damn mask, or calling them
Speaker 5: selfish bastards, or trying to shut down churches while pot
Speaker 5: shops stay open.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's so many things you can point to.
Speaker 5: Jared Paulus tries to pull off this charade, and he
Speaker 5: goes on Fox News, He'll be speaking tonight at the DNC,
Speaker 5: and I'll be curious to see what he says. But
Speaker 5: what he says in what he does are two very
Speaker 5: different things. And we've seen that play out here in Colorado,
Speaker 5: and boy has it changed our state. I'm just I
Speaker 5: get so heartsick when I see what's happening with crime
Speaker 5: and fentanyl.
Speaker 2: We're sponsoring as showing up in Fort Morgan of Devastated,
Speaker 2: the movie about fentanyl right this weekend. And it's a
Speaker 2: really important issue to keep on the front lines of
Speaker 2: our conversations about our state and what's happening. And it
Speaker 2: ties directly to the border and what's happening with illegal immigration.
Speaker 3: In the city of Denver.
Speaker 2: We've talked about the Venezuelan gang problem here that Kyle
Speaker 2: Clark and his buddies.
Speaker 3: Don't want to admit.
Speaker 2: But our lovely Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Zirinsky is keeping
Speaker 2: everyone on their toes and keeping the truth out there
Speaker 2: about what's happening with that.
Speaker 3: Brian. We've got seventy five.
Speaker 2: Days to go until the election, the really, really and
Speaker 2: I'm not going to say the most important election ever,
Speaker 2: but I'm going to say it's a really important election
Speaker 2: for this country and for the future of America. And
Speaker 2: we've got two really congressional races here in Colorado. You
Speaker 2: know CD four, Lauren's gonna knock it out of the park.
Speaker 3: Sh'll win that.
Speaker 2: Jeff crank down in CD five, he's he's pretty much
Speaker 2: a lock.
Speaker 3: He's a good guy. He'll do a really good job
Speaker 3: and represent us well.
Speaker 2: But we've got CD eight, which gave Evans is running
Speaker 2: against Yadire Caraveo, and she didn't even bother to go
Speaker 2: to the DNC.
Speaker 5: Oh No, she's stayed far far away from Chicago. Like
Speaker 5: three senators are also doing. Senator John Tester from Montana,
Speaker 5: who's probably going to lose, Senator Jackie Rosen Nevada, isn't
Speaker 5: about self? And Senator Shared Brown, Ohio. None of them
Speaker 5: going to the DNC. Why not, Heidi? Why not?
Speaker 2: It's such a it's such a good representation of the
Speaker 2: party and their principles.
Speaker 3: Why wouldn't they want to be a.
Speaker 4: Part of it? Think, yeah, be proud right well?
Speaker 2: And Ya Darro also voted with Republicans to condemn what's
Speaker 2: happening at the border.
Speaker 3: What was that a month ago?
Speaker 4: This is sheer desperation.
Speaker 5: I'm glad you brought that up, Heidi, because I had
Speaker 5: that conversation with Gabe Evans.
Speaker 4: I think he senses.
Speaker 5: Politically now, I want to make sure we're always figurative
Speaker 5: that there's blood in the water, that there's a reason
Speaker 5: why she is panicking. She's not going to the DNC.
Speaker 5: She voted Republicans, like you said, on that issue. She
Speaker 5: knows she's in trouble in CD eight. And Gabe Evans
Speaker 5: is a spectacular young candidate, up and coming Republican here
Speaker 5: in Colorado.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what, Ryan, he needs money to
Speaker 2: get the job done. I mean, we're up against millions
Speaker 2: and millions of dollars that are going to They're going
Speaker 2: to drop ads attacking Gabe the minute the balance drop.
Speaker 3: So I know Gabe.
Speaker 2: Knows that's coming, but he needs all the help he
Speaker 2: can get, and I just I strongly suggests people get
Speaker 2: behind Gabe.
Speaker 3: Also, also, we've got to help.
Speaker 2: Jeff Hurd in Congressional District three, which is Pueblo, the
Speaker 2: western slope up to Grand Junction.
Speaker 3: Could not be more important to protect that seat.
Speaker 2: Especially if Donald Trump gets elected and he doesn't have
Speaker 2: the House with him, it's going to be bad times.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a bad four years.
Speaker 5: That'd be a bad two years for sure, because we
Speaker 5: know the first thing that the House is going to
Speaker 5: do under a speaker a keen Jefferies, which that's what
Speaker 5: we'd be looking at, is probably going to be trying
Speaker 5: to in some way impeach Donald Trump or try to
Speaker 5: remove him from office, try to obstruct him and his agenda.
Speaker 5: There's only one clear path I think here, heiding. I
Speaker 5: believe it's an achievable one, and that is Donald Trump
Speaker 5: wins the Republicans take the Senate, which I think is
Speaker 5: very likely because West Virginia is going to flip and
Speaker 5: Montana looks like Tim Sheety's going to win that. Right,
Speaker 5: there is the ballgame in the Senate. The House is
Speaker 5: a murcier deal. It's harder to predict. Like you said,
Speaker 5: you know, the eighth district here in Colorado is a
Speaker 5: literal coin flip, and the third is tough Adam Frish,
Speaker 5: He's got a lot of money behind him. He nearly
Speaker 5: upset Lauren Bobert in the last election time around. So
Speaker 5: you're right, these are very important congressional races here in
Speaker 5: our state.
Speaker 3: Well, one thing we could talk to Britta Horn about.
Speaker 2: She lives in Route County, so she understands kind of
Speaker 2: the western slope the attitude of the voters there. And
Speaker 2: one thing I'm hearing from the groups that we help
Speaker 2: out on the Road to Red Project is that there's
Speaker 2: a big split with the Ron Hanks and Stephen Varilla
Speaker 2: folks that supported them in the primary and Jeff Herds folks.
Speaker 2: And I'm really really concerned that we're not going to
Speaker 2: show up to vote.
Speaker 3: Republicans aren't going to show up to vote because.
Speaker 2: They didn't get their candidate, and it's going to be
Speaker 2: bad news.
Speaker 3: We need ninety nine to.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent of Republicans to show up in that
Speaker 2: district to vote, to donate to work for Jeff Heard's campaign,
Speaker 2: to help him go up against the Hollywood money. This
Speaker 2: is Heidigan All. I'm filling in for Dan Kaplis. Hopefully
Speaker 2: Dan's going to be able to join us by the
Speaker 2: end of the show. Looking forward to having Andy Connell
Speaker 2: on the show right after this to hear about what's
Speaker 2: up at the Crazy DNC.
Speaker 4: You're listening to the Dan Capless Show podcast.
Speaker 2: This is Heidi Gall filling in for Dan Capless, and
Speaker 2: I'm really excited to get some inside scoop from our
Speaker 2: friend Mandy Connall. Ryan, are you excited to hear the
Speaker 2: infamous Mandy Connall tell us about the DNC scupamous.
Speaker 4: She's at an infamous site, that's for sure, Mandy.
Speaker 3: It's so good to talk to you.
Speaker 12: I am here in the middle of the madness. Today
Speaker 12: is the first day that it has just like the
Speaker 12: media area where I am right now has.
Speaker 8: Exploded with people.
Speaker 12: And behind me, I've got Stacy Abram's doing an interview,
Speaker 12: and then behind her we have Charlemagne the Gods Show
Speaker 12: getting ready to tape an episode or a podcast. He's
Speaker 12: getting ready to tape the podcast and people are milling about.
Speaker 8: It is insanity in here today.
Speaker 12: And honestly, this is the first day that it's been
Speaker 12: this busy, and it's crazy in here.
Speaker 3: Today, Mandy. Why do you think are people just getting there?
Speaker 9: Is?
Speaker 3: I mean, they didn't show up for the Obamas last night, so.
Speaker 8: That's kind of what I was thinking to Heidi.
Speaker 12: I'm not gonna lie, but I think a lot of
Speaker 12: people made their plans before the speaker schedule was announced,
Speaker 12: and I don't think anybody really thought that they would
Speaker 12: put Bill Clinton tonight and not the Obama's you know
Speaker 12: what I mean, I don't, I don't. I don't think
Speaker 12: anybody really thought that was gonna happen.
Speaker 8: But that's what we have.
Speaker 12: Tonight is kind of a night from what I've seen
Speaker 12: so far, and they've not released the final speaker schedule,
Speaker 12: but it has Nancy Pelosi, it has Pete boodhage Edge,
Speaker 12: it has Bill Clinton, it has uh, you know, kind
Speaker 12: of the old guard and some of the rising stars
Speaker 12: coming up tonight. So it's gonna be very interesting to
Speaker 12: see what kind of message they bring to the table,
Speaker 12: because last night the message was all about painting a
Speaker 12: vision of the future, but only if Donald Trump was
Speaker 12: elected president.
Speaker 8: It was going to be a horrible, horrible and tonight
Speaker 8: it's supposed to be about freedom.
Speaker 12: So in irony of ironies, they seem to be just
Speaker 12: taking all the Republican talking points and adopting them as
Speaker 12: their own.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, freedom, give me a break. Maybe we
Speaker 2: had a great time at the RNC convention. You were there,
Speaker 2: I was there, my dad was there. You had us
Speaker 2: on the show. Is such such a great time. What
Speaker 2: is the difference, Like, what's the difference in the vibe
Speaker 2: and the speakers, in the in the setup, the.
Speaker 8: Setup is actually I kind of like it.
Speaker 12: Better and worse. And hear me out inside the United Center.
Speaker 12: The setup is pretty spectacular. This is a much bigger
Speaker 12: venue than the one that we had in Milwaukee, so
Speaker 12: there's a lot more space and we didn't have to
Speaker 12: be in a separate building like we did in Milwaukee.
Speaker 12: But I'm keeping score of what you know, and contrasting
Speaker 12: the two conventions and whereas the RNC, I think, in
Speaker 12: my opinion, and maybe they were singing my song, so
Speaker 12: that's why I like them better. I loved the everyday
Speaker 12: people that were mixed into the conversation and the speeches.
Speaker 12: Here it's politicians, it's union leaders, it's people that are
Speaker 12: in charge rather than kind of normal people. And I
Speaker 12: thought that was really effective at the RNC, and I
Speaker 12: kind of thought that the DNC would adopt that, right, like,
Speaker 12: bring a little more of that into this, But so
Speaker 12: far it is like heavy hitter politician, heavy hitter politician,
Speaker 12: union leader, you know, maybe a random influencer here or there.
Speaker 8: So the speaker wise, I have not.
Speaker 12: Been that impressed with kind of the filler speakers, but
Speaker 12: the main speakers. I mean, come on, you've got three
Speaker 12: former presidents speaking at this event. Well, okay, one's not
Speaker 12: a former, but he feels like a former he's still
Speaker 12: in office. I mean, those are some heavy hitters. Like,
Speaker 12: regardless of your party, you're like, dang, they got three.
Speaker 12: But overall, I feel like the speakers at the RNC
Speaker 12: did a better job of communicating division of the Republican
Speaker 12: Party to a normal person. Right, We're hearing a lot
Speaker 12: about normal people here, but we're not necessarily seeing a
Speaker 12: lot of normal people on stage.
Speaker 8: But boy, there's a lot of normal people here in
Speaker 8: the crowd for sure.
Speaker 2: Okay, Manny, how many people are taking up their offer
Speaker 2: to do abortions and vasectomies out in that trailer out front.
Speaker 3: That is just bizarre.
Speaker 12: I think that is the most morbid and gross and
Speaker 12: discussing thing I've ever heard. I thought it was a
Speaker 12: joke when it was mentioned, but as of yesterday, I
Speaker 12: guess there'd been like thirty people to take them up
Speaker 12: on an offer of either a medical abortion or.
Speaker 8: Of a sectimy.
Speaker 12: And I'm thinking to myself, like, this is like getting
Speaker 12: a tattoo on spring break, you know, except you can
Speaker 12: remove a tattoo. And I think this is just like
Speaker 12: incredibly bad decision making all the way across the board.
Speaker 8: This is just gross.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's terrific.
Speaker 2: Maybe what about RFK Junior dropping out and potentially endorsing Trump.
Speaker 3: Is anybody talking about that today? Is there a buzz.
Speaker 12: Yeah, among the media, among the media. You know, we
Speaker 12: were in the media Gaggo earlier and a lot of
Speaker 12: people in the media were talking about it, kind of
Speaker 12: starting to analyze whether that is a positive that they
Speaker 12: need to worry about for Trump. I'm not sure, and
Speaker 12: I don't know if you talked about this earlier, but
Speaker 12: I'm not sure how much of a positive it is
Speaker 12: because I think a lot of RFK Junior's people went
Speaker 12: to him because they did not like either choice. So
Speaker 12: I'm not sure how much of that, If there is
Speaker 12: an endorsement, how much of an impact that has. But
Speaker 12: if we're talking about small margins in swing states, they
Speaker 12: could have a big effec where We're gonna have to
Speaker 12: wait and see what happens on Friday, I guess is
Speaker 12: when this announcement was happening, and see what that means
Speaker 12: going forward.
Speaker 2: So maybe you've had a chance to talk to some
Speaker 2: of the Colorado delegation, Hick and Looper Polis. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure who else you spoke which I think you spoke
Speaker 2: to Bennett, But how's that going.
Speaker 3: What's their role there?
Speaker 8: Well, I'm just going to be honest.
Speaker 12: I think that Governor Jared Poulis, it was like the
Speaker 12: pain on his face having to talk.
Speaker 8: To me was obvious.
Speaker 12: But he's going to He's speaking tonight and he said,
Speaker 12: I said, well, what are you going to talk about it?
Speaker 12: He said, well, I'm gonna endorse Harris and Walls and
Speaker 12: I was like, okay, we all know you're going to
Speaker 12: do that. He was very tight lipped about what he's
Speaker 12: actually going to talk about. But word on the street
Speaker 12: is that immigration is going to be a topic of
Speaker 12: conversation tonight and that they're going to be talking about
Speaker 12: voter security. And that's a little frustrating for me because
Speaker 12: I think that Mitch McConnell trying to kind of background
Speaker 12: deal that was never going to get passed has really
Speaker 12: given the Democrats a strong talking point for maybe less
Speaker 12: educated voters who don't know about HR two and god knows,
Speaker 12: the media won't cover HR two and the fact that
Speaker 12: it was passed well before anything else and the Senate
Speaker 12: just refused to take it up. So I think that's
Speaker 12: an attack point that's going to work. I'm interested to
Speaker 12: see how they kind of co opt that argument tonight
Speaker 12: during these speeches.
Speaker 2: What about our two senators Hickenlooper and Bennett, what's their
Speaker 2: role there.
Speaker 12: I actually had a lovely chat with both of them,
Speaker 12: surprisingly good. John Hickenlooper is out there talking about working
Speaker 12: across the aisle and saying, look, we've all got to
Speaker 12: recognize that to make good policy, we may not get that,
Speaker 12: we all may not get what we want right. But
Speaker 12: he was genuine. This is something he's been talking about
Speaker 12: for a long time. I don't know how much poll
Speaker 12: he has in the US Senate to make it happen,
Speaker 12: but it was kind of a refreshing conversation.
Speaker 8: I did point out that, you know, maybe the issue is.
Speaker 12: That it seems like democrats solution is always more government.
Speaker 12: And then Michael Bennett said we need a new agency
Speaker 12: to manage technology.
Speaker 8: I'm like, no, no more agencies.
Speaker 12: He then asked me what agency we could get rid
Speaker 12: of in exchange it. I immediately said the IRS, and
Speaker 12: he did not take me up on it.
Speaker 3: Oh, that would be fine, or the Department of Education.
Speaker 3: I think we can do better.
Speaker 12: Yeah exactly, but yeah, they're just glad handing right now.
Speaker 12: They're just here supporting the team. Neither of them is speaking. Obviously,
Speaker 12: we are no longer a swing state, so their role
Speaker 12: at the conventions is greatly reduced as people who are
Speaker 12: either rising stars in the party or from swing states
Speaker 12: are really getting the bulk of the time. Right now,
Speaker 12: Corey Booker is speaking from New Jersey, often considered to
Speaker 12: be a rising star, so he just finished up his comments.
Speaker 12: Hopefully they can stay on track tonight and be on time.
Speaker 2: Well, I have a really important question. How's the food?
Speaker 12: Oh my god, Heidi Aaron Knight are having a culinary
Speaker 12: adventure around Chicago.
Speaker 8: So it's gone like this, Okay.
Speaker 12: We started the first night we found a place Carsons,
Speaker 12: ribs and stakes and went there and it was incredible.
Speaker 12: And then the night after that we went and got
Speaker 12: thin crushed Chicago pizza because Aaron and I like the
Speaker 12: thin crest better than the deep dish. I realized that's
Speaker 12: blasphemy for some people, but Chicago thin crust people is magic.
Speaker 12: And I had a pizza I'm gonna dream about. I'm
Speaker 12: going to have dreams about it. It's gonna haunt me.
Speaker 12: And then last night we had Italian beef, the big sandwiches.
Speaker 12: We just had a Chicago dog to hold us over,
Speaker 12: and tonight we're going to a steakhouse.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. Okay, what do you think for a dessert?
Speaker 3: What's topping all this up?
Speaker 8: You know what?
Speaker 12: I skipped dessert because you know, I'm trying to watch
Speaker 12: my girlish figure. But Aaron had a delicious brownie Sunday
Speaker 12: the other night that I then commandeered.
Speaker 8: A couple bites of.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 8: So we're thoroughly enjoying Chicago.
Speaker 12: And tomorrow we've got a shorter show because baseball cramps
Speaker 12: is So we're going to go see the Bean and
Speaker 12: the Navy Pier and do a little sight seeing while
Speaker 12: we can before we come home on Thursday night.
Speaker 2: Well, we're so glad you're there representing and giving us
Speaker 2: a different perspective than CNN and all of the liberal media,
Speaker 2: and just have an incredible time.
Speaker 5: Eat.
Speaker 3: I don't know what i'd like. A hot dog. I
Speaker 3: guess it's Chicago hot dog would be my favorite.
Speaker 8: Gir Well, I just had one that was like a
Speaker 8: magic It was magic in my mouth. It was so delicious.
Speaker 3: Thanks Mandy.
Speaker 2: Will you have a great time and we will catch
Speaker 2: it later and look forward to hearing lots of great
Speaker 2: stories when you get back in town.
Speaker 8: All right, Thanks, Hi, you talked to you soon.
Speaker 2: All right, This is Heidigan All filling in for Dan Kaplis.
Speaker 2: Hopefully Dan can join us before the end of the show.
Speaker 2: But lots more to talk about, including having my friend
Speaker 2: Britta Horn on to talk about the drama here in
Speaker 2: Colorado with the GOP.
Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 10: Miss Harris pitches are twenty eight percent rate is merely
Speaker 10: punishing big companies.
Speaker 4: But economists of all.
Speaker 10: Strikes agree that US workers pay for higher corporate taxes
Speaker 10: in lower wages, and I would argue also in higher
Speaker 10: prices because it's passed on to them.
Speaker 4: Past commed.
Speaker 13: Well, again, I disagree with the frame of she's not
Speaker 13: trying to punish big companies. I think Democrats and Kamala
Speaker 13: Harris we love big, small, you name it. I mean
Speaker 13: companies are providing valuable services to the American people should
Speaker 13: be able to succeed. Look, originally, Kamala Harris's position before
Speaker 13: had been let the Trump tax cuts expire. She's coming
Speaker 13: to the center and moderations.
Speaker 4: She's now saying, let's keep some of.
Speaker 13: Those tax cuts and actually double down and expand them
Speaker 13: for the middle class. If the tax cuts expired for corporations,
Speaker 13: we would go to thirty four percent. Years ago, she
Speaker 13: had said she's for that. She's now really come to
Speaker 13: the center pro growth. She said, you know what, We're
Speaker 13: going to keep some of those tax cuts and we're
Speaker 13: going to double down and do more.
Speaker 2: Jared, communism is not moderate. Communism is not the center.
Speaker 2: I know you like to make people think it is.
Speaker 2: And that's how you govern by growing government here in
Speaker 2: Colorado and driving up property taxes and making us a
Speaker 2: sanctuary state, and mandating vaccines and destroying the oil and
Speaker 2: gas industry and agriculture and hunting in our Second Amendment rights.
Speaker 3: That is nothing about that is moderate.
Speaker 2: And I can see why you like Kamala's communism approach
Speaker 2: because you do it just with a smile on your
Speaker 2: face and by faking out the voters here. So that
Speaker 2: just peeves me, peeves me.
Speaker 3: Ryan to hear that.
Speaker 5: Clip, well, it confuses me too, because here's the rest
Speaker 5: of it. And the Fox News crew were just as
Speaker 5: confused as I was, Like, where is he getting this
Speaker 5: information about Kamala Harris's policy plans.
Speaker 2: It's given us more detail than she has.
Speaker 4: Well, that's why I got it from her website.
Speaker 13: So that's those are those are her points and we're
Speaker 13: talking about them here absolutely the plan from last week.
Speaker 4: So checking it this morning, you couldn't find it last week.
Speaker 4: Thank you here to see good to see it. So
Speaker 4: first he says that he got it from her website.
Speaker 5: There's nothing on her website other than meet Tim Walls
Speaker 5: and meet Kamala Harris and give us money.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 5: There's two biographies and there's a donation button.
Speaker 4: That's it. I've been to the website many times. There's
Speaker 4: no policies.
Speaker 5: So then he referred to it, Oh, I meant her
Speaker 5: policy statement last friday, So which one is it's Heidi?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. Okay.
Speaker 2: We're so sure that there's not anything on her website
Speaker 2: that Trump's campaign actually launched a website for her today.
Speaker 3: Did you see this? That's amazing a policy website.
Speaker 2: It details all of her policies since she wouldn't do
Speaker 2: it go it's called it's Kamala twenty twenty four policies
Speaker 2: dot com. Kamala twenty twenty four policies dot com. We're
Speaker 2: gonna have to check it out on a break and
Speaker 2: come up with some real well it's good stuff on there.
Speaker 5: This fits in you've run campaign's Heidi, And if Jared
Speaker 5: Poulis had decided to run and hide, which he did
Speaker 5: a little bit, but let's say entirely didn't have any
Speaker 5: policies for whatever reason, then I think it would be
Speaker 5: incumbent upon you as his challenging Go okay, then I'm
Speaker 5: going to define your policies based on things that you've said,
Speaker 5: things that are on video, things that we know that
Speaker 5: you've stood for, and go ahead and define her for
Speaker 5: her and beat her to the punch.
Speaker 4: I think that's genius what you just referenced there.
Speaker 2: Well, and I like to call Jared Poulis our gaslight governor,
Speaker 2: and he's trying to teach Kamala.
Speaker 3: His wiie ways. Oh ah, that's terrible. I mean, it
Speaker 3: could have been worse.
Speaker 2: He could have been the vice president candidate, but then
Speaker 2: he wouldn't be in Colorado, which is I guess better
Speaker 2: in a way.
Speaker 3: But good lord, oh, the world has gone mad.
Speaker 2: But it is a lot of fun to hear me
Speaker 2: talk about the DNC after we were there together at
Speaker 2: the RNC and see the shifts, and I agree with her.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite things was all the everyday Americans
Speaker 2: said they called them that were on stage, and the
Speaker 2: stories and the tears, the laughs. I mean, it was
Speaker 2: just incredible to hear from these Americans.
Speaker 3: My favorite one was the World War Two veteran. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think he was ninety eight.
Speaker 4: Right up there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you remember when.
Speaker 2: He said if Donald Trump gets elected, I will reenlist.
Speaker 4: That was right, and I believe him.
Speaker 3: That was amazing.
Speaker 4: Well, and there's two now.
Speaker 5: Mandy's been to both, and I talked to her earlier
Speaker 5: about this, but there's such a lack in my view, Heidi,
Speaker 5: and I know I'm biased, I'll readily admit that, but truthfully,
Speaker 5: in genuine authenticity and enthusiasm, I think there's the sugar
Speaker 5: high continues into the convention. They're not really that excited
Speaker 5: about Kamala other than she's not Joe Biden. You've got
Speaker 5: all these speakers coming in getting out. Biden's no longer there.
Speaker 5: The Obamas have left, you know, they haven't coalesced the
Speaker 5: way that you saw a first hand at the Republican
Speaker 5: Convention right after Donald Trump had been shot.
Speaker 4: The unity on that floor was real.
Speaker 5: Everybody stayed for every speaker in all four days. You
Speaker 5: mentioned that the common men and women who spoke, and
Speaker 5: they were so powerful.
Speaker 4: Just a totally different feel of that convention in my view.
Speaker 3: Well, it says it all, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: I mean Trump is the candidate for the everyday people
Speaker 2: of America, and I think we're going.
Speaker 3: To see that at the ballot box.
Speaker 2: I mean, Dan has been very optimistic about Trump's chances,
Speaker 2: and he's gotten me turned around a little bit. I
Speaker 2: was a little sad, feel a little down, but I'm
Speaker 2: feeling better. I think the RFK Junior thing. I know,
Speaker 2: Manny wasn't sure how it's going to play out. I
Speaker 2: think it's going to be a good two to three
Speaker 2: point bump for him in these swing states. Did you
Speaker 2: happen to see I don't know if you watched Tucker
Speaker 2: Carlson's podcast, but he did an interview with two with
Speaker 2: a doctor from a Stanford educated doctor and her brother
Speaker 2: who was a lobbyist for FIRMA.
Speaker 3: I think it was last week. Do you know what
Speaker 3: I'm talking about?
Speaker 4: I know what you're about. I didn't see it.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, best two and a half hours I've
Speaker 2: spent listening to anything in a long time about the
Speaker 2: food industry, the pharmaceutical industry. She basically bailed on her
Speaker 2: Stanford education as a surgeon and went to bat for
Speaker 2: everyday Americans and what's happening in our food supply. And
Speaker 2: the reason I bring this up is because it's one
Speaker 2: I think it's one of the most watched podcast Tucker's
Speaker 2: ever had, and it's exactly what RFK Junior talks about,
Speaker 2: and that's his connection to suburban women.
Speaker 3: To moms.
Speaker 2: I'm really excited to see how this plays out. I
Speaker 2: think it's going to be a huge bump. This is Heidiganal.
Speaker 2: I'm filling in for Dan Kaplis. We'll be back after
Speaker 2: the break to talk about the Colorado GOP drama