Speaker 1: You've been listening to the acceptance speech Vice President Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris at United Center in Chicago, And now what we're
Speaker 1: going to do is I'll give you a quick little recap,
Speaker 1: but I'm more interested in knowing what you think about
Speaker 1: that speech. I have some views on it. It was
Speaker 1: a great speech. It was well written, it was well delivered,
Speaker 1: and it was great rhetoric. But I don't think it
Speaker 1: was necessarily the clearest explanation of what a President Harris
Speaker 1: would do and where a President Harris would take the country.
Speaker 1: It was long on rhetoric, short on specifics, a lot
Speaker 1: of attack on Donald Trump, which you would expect. She
Speaker 1: began by thanking her husband, Doug, Joe Biden, Tim Wall's delegates,
Speaker 1: missus and Mom told stories about her childhood, which is
Speaker 1: a which is a great, a great presentation about how
Speaker 1: that unfortunately her parents were divorced at an early age.
Speaker 1: She relied a lot upon her mom. She she talked
Speaker 1: about again, one of the phrases you're gonna hear more
Speaker 1: of is starting a new way forward. She pledged to
Speaker 1: trust her to put country above party or self. She
Speaker 1: will be president who unites us, who leads and listens
Speaker 1: that is a promise that is more difficult to keep
Speaker 1: than to make. She talked about what she did as
Speaker 1: a prosecutor, standing up for students who had been scammed,
Speaker 1: and she fought against the cartels. The future is always
Speaker 1: worth fighting for. Again, a lot of rhetoric here. Our
Speaker 1: fight is for the American future, for America's future. She
Speaker 1: had some great lines. Donald Trump, in her opinion, is
Speaker 1: an unseerious man. She did not want to go back
Speaker 1: to the chaos and lamony that existed while he was
Speaker 1: in office. She brought up December sixth very effectively, I thought,
Speaker 1: very effective speech. She talked, referred to Project twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five and said we are not going back. She basically
Speaker 1: accused Trump that he would cut so Security and cut Medicare.
Speaker 1: Now Trump has said the opposite. He has said he
Speaker 1: would not cut so Security, he would not cut Medicare,
Speaker 1: but that's okay. She said that he will try to
Speaker 1: get rid of the Affordable Care Act, that he would
Speaker 1: eliminate the Department of Education. However, the Vice President said,
Speaker 1: we're trying a new way forward. A strong middle class,
Speaker 1: an opportunity economy should bring labor and workers together, lower
Speaker 1: cost of housing, groceries and healthcare. She compared that to
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Again, going back to attack upon Trump, she
Speaker 1: spoke for it was about just a little short of
Speaker 1: a little more than forty minutes. I would say about
Speaker 1: forty two minutes. She talked about he would give a
Speaker 1: tax break to billionaires, including national sales tax, which would
Speaker 1: cost the average American four thousand dollars a year. She
Speaker 1: then touched upon the abortion issue and referenced that very
Speaker 1: eloquently as a decision on matters of heart and home.
Speaker 1: Accused Trump of his decision to take away reproductive freedom
Speaker 1: and said that he would enact a national abortion ban.
Speaker 1: I don't know how he would do that, but that's
Speaker 1: what she claims. She talked about the freedom to live
Speaker 1: safe from gun violence, the freedom to love who you want,
Speaker 1: the freedom to drink clean and clean water and breathe
Speaker 1: fresh air, and the freedom to vote. She talked accused
Speaker 1: Trump of putting the strongest border bill inades. On ice,
Speaker 1: she talked about earning a path to citizenship and securing
Speaker 1: our borders. We have about twelve to fifteen million people
Speaker 1: in the country who potentially could earn a path to citizenship.
Speaker 1: He did get into the middle East. She said she
Speaker 1: would strands stand strong with Ukraine and NATO. She accused
Speaker 1: Trump of encouraging Putin to invade our allies. I suspect
Speaker 1: we'll hear from Donald Trump on that. At some point
Speaker 1: she talked about Gaza. Now is the time to get
Speaker 1: a hostage deal and a ceasefire. She committed to always
Speaker 1: defending Israel, but she also said that the Palestinian people
Speaker 1: have a right to self determination, and then she accused
Speaker 1: former President Trump of coasing up to dictators such as
Speaker 1: Kim Jong Um. Again my summary, great speech, great rhetoric,
Speaker 1: well written, well delivered, and she emphasized the privilege in
Speaker 1: priv of being an American. I haven't followed her career
Speaker 1: that closely as an Attorney General and as a senator,
Speaker 1: but this was a speech that Ronald Reagan could have
Speaker 1: given if you took out the criticisms of her opponent.
Speaker 1: It was a very patriotic speech. Now what we're going
Speaker 1: to do is we got to catch up on a
Speaker 1: couple of commercials, rob and so when we take a
Speaker 1: break here, we can fill some of the commercials we
Speaker 1: may have missed. And I want to hear from you.
Speaker 1: Do you believe her? Do you believe. The speech seems
Speaker 1: to me that she talked on a number of issues,
Speaker 1: number of issues. It was flawlessly delivered and well received.
Speaker 1: As you would expect. She could have got up in
Speaker 1: that audience tonight and recited the alphabet. But it was
Speaker 1: a really well written, well received speech, and I suspect
Speaker 1: is going to play well not only in the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party but amongst independent voters. It is now, I think
Speaker 1: up to the Republicans to realize they are in a
Speaker 1: real fight. Bottom line, Kamala Harris is no Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: and they had an opportunity to run against Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: They now have an opportunity again to run against a
Speaker 1: much better position and a much stronger candidate. So we'll
Speaker 1: open up the phone line six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 1: four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't know if she wrote the speech alone. We
Speaker 1: will find out in the next few days, but it
Speaker 1: was a it was a great, great performance tonight, and
Speaker 1: I'd love to get your response.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: If you agree or disagree, feel free. We're opening these
Speaker 1: phone lines up tomorrow. Of course, we anticipate that they
Speaker 1: will be a bit of a rejoinder from the Trump administrator,
Speaker 1: the former president, I should say, and also from Robert F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior. So this campaign now is underway, it is joined,
Speaker 1: joined the conversation six one, seven, ten thirty. Those are
Speaker 1: the only lines that are open right now. Back on
Speaker 1: Nightside after this.
Speaker 3: Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 3: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 1: All right, well, I hope you heard the speech. It
Speaker 1: was really a good speech. Now again, there are there
Speaker 1: are plenty of quipples that can be taken with it,
Speaker 1: and I suspect that many of the diehard Trump supporters
Speaker 1: are not going to see it. I will just say this.
Speaker 1: I will just say this. Uh, she is a formidable candidate.
Speaker 1: She is a very formidable candidate. And if the Republicans
Speaker 1: and the Trump supporters underestimate Kamala Harris, they do it
Speaker 1: at their own jeopardy. Let's start it off. We'll get
Speaker 1: to phone calls and love to get as many of
Speaker 1: you as possible. I got some lines at six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 1: ten thirty. Let's light him up and let's go right
Speaker 1: as right away, Tom and Dorchester. Tom, you were next
Speaker 1: on night first this hour, Night Side go ahead.
Speaker 4: Tom, Bye bye, Dan, How are you I'm doing just
Speaker 4: fuck when Donald Trump should win easily?
Speaker 1: Now, let me ask you this, and I want to
Speaker 1: have a conversation speech. Hold on a second, just let's
Speaker 1: have a conversation.
Speaker 4: Tom.
Speaker 1: First again, you think that this speech hurt her tonight? Yes?
Speaker 4: Why she lied about the incursion? It was Joe Biden
Speaker 4: that said a small incursion into Ukraine. He could do
Speaker 4: that was not Donald Trump. And there was so many
Speaker 4: other lies, Dan, Trump would chair this upont It was
Speaker 4: so many lies in that speech. I'm not kidding. I'm
Speaker 4: saying there was one of the big, huge lie I
Speaker 4: was thinking of, and it just it went out of
Speaker 4: my mind.
Speaker 1: Well, what I don't think. I don't believe she might.
Speaker 1: She could say that Donald Trump wants to cut Social
Speaker 1: Security and Medicare, but I've heard Donald Trump say just
Speaker 1: the opposite now exact. But I'm saying she may believe
Speaker 1: that in her heart of hearts, and she can say
Speaker 1: whatever she wants in a campaign of this nature, but
Speaker 1: I think that that is going to be I think
Speaker 1: that's a mistake. I also think that on the Middle East,
Speaker 1: if there, if I had to find a weakness in
Speaker 1: the speech. I think she's trying to split the difference
Speaker 1: in the Middle East, and I'm not sure she's going
Speaker 1: to make everyone happy. I think she may make everyone unhappy.
Speaker 1: On that she talked about, you know, the right of
Speaker 1: the Palestinian people, the self determination. That is an issue
Speaker 1: that in light of the October seventh attack, a lot
Speaker 1: of Jewish Americans and a lot of Israeli is going
Speaker 1: to say, how is that possible? How is that possible
Speaker 1: that they can live with neighbors like that. So, I
Speaker 1: mean it's look, I hope you would agree with me
Speaker 1: that it was a well written and well delivered speech.
Speaker 1: Despite the fact that that I know you're a big
Speaker 1: Donald Trump supporter. Joe Biden could not have given that
Speaker 1: speech tonight as effectively as she gave that speech.
Speaker 4: Dan speak was full of lies, full of lives. It
Speaker 4: was incredible. They gave Iran billions of dolls. That's why
Speaker 4: this war is going on in the Middle East. Joe
Speaker 4: Biden and Kama Harris gave them billions of dollars, billions
Speaker 4: and billions of dogs.
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think Biden Harris gave them
Speaker 1: billions of dollars. Tom I got to disagree with you.
Speaker 1: I think that the Obama administration did give money to Iran,
Speaker 1: and I do think that you can argue that there
Speaker 1: could have been pressure applied by the Biden and Harris
Speaker 1: administration that was not applied. But I don't know that
Speaker 1: money was sent by Biden, by the Biden Harris administration
Speaker 1: to Iran. I think you're talking about what happened when
Speaker 1: President Obama was when they sent those palettes of cash.
Speaker 4: Uh no, I'm not you know why. I'll tell you why.
Speaker 4: Donald Trump had sanctions on Iran and all of a sudden, yes.
Speaker 1: He did right, and the sanctions were removed. But that's
Speaker 1: not giving Iran money. That's maybe allowing them to improve
Speaker 1: their economy, but it's not You said that they gave
Speaker 1: that Biden Harris gave around billions of doll I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to I'm just trying to call it as fairly
Speaker 1: as I can. I really mean that, So you you're
Speaker 1: not concerned. You are not concerned at this point you
Speaker 1: think that Donald Trump is going.
Speaker 4: To walk in, You should do a lot better. There's
Speaker 4: so many jan I'm telling you they gave billions of
Speaker 4: dollars to Iran because Trump said sanctions on Iran. All
Speaker 4: of a sudden, Iran is a washing money.
Speaker 1: Lift sanctions, Tom, Lifting sanctions is different than giving money.
Speaker 4: Dan, Honest to god, they gave Bill.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll see. I'll fact check you on that one. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Tom, thanks very very much you call. Let
Speaker 1: me go to Sandra in Boston. Sandra, your reaction to
Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris's speech tonight go right to hit Sander.
Speaker 2: Well, Dan, I think she is a forceful speaker, and
Speaker 2: somebody did some good writing. But I agree with Tom.
Speaker 2: There were so many lies in it that you just
Speaker 2: had to you know, it was just mind boggs.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let me ask what lies would you identify again?
Speaker 1: I I identified when she said that, you know, Trump
Speaker 1: wants to cut off so screwy. I don't think he.
Speaker 1: I don't. I think he said just the opposite. Go ahead.
Speaker 2: An armed mob did not storm the capitol there.
Speaker 1: What was it? It was? It was a mob.
Speaker 2: They were not armed.
Speaker 1: The mistakes she made. She said he sent the mob.
Speaker 2: To send an armed mob to the capitol.
Speaker 1: But it was an armed mob that went to the capitol.
Speaker 1: They had they had sticks.
Speaker 2: The people who had guns were the Capitol police, and
Speaker 2: they were the people who shot people. And and there
Speaker 2: was one person.
Speaker 1: There was one person shot. Okay, what are the other lines.
Speaker 2: Michael Bird? So other problems the Ukraine business? Uh? Tom
Speaker 2: is right? Biden said, Oh, to putin a slight incursion
Speaker 2: won't matter. And then even more importantly, they moved the embassy,
Speaker 2: the American embassy, which is committed is American soil. They
Speaker 2: moved it out of Keys to the western part.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: In other words, if they had kept the embassy and
Speaker 2: put up some sort of front against Putin, perhaps he
Speaker 2: wouldn't have gone as far as he did.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: So she was wrong on that, and if she had
Speaker 2: anything to do with it, she should be held responsible.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, You might be correct on that.
Speaker 1: I do not remember the American Embassy being moved.
Speaker 2: I remember calling your show about it because you had
Speaker 2: someone from the Fletcher School on, and I asked the
Speaker 2: person why they moved the embassy to the western part
Speaker 2: of the of Ukraine. They moved out of Keys.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I'm going to double during the break coming
Speaker 1: up here, I'm going to try to fact check that,
Speaker 1: and if you're right, I will I will report.
Speaker 2: It and then in terms of the border, two million
Speaker 2: people are what they call goutaways. They don't know who
Speaker 2: they are, they don't know where they are, and they
Speaker 2: quite potentially could be terrorists. Some people are saying there
Speaker 2: as many fifty thousand communist Chinese that have come in.
Speaker 2: The border has been a disaster, and for her to
Speaker 2: say anything about it where she was given the responsibility
Speaker 2: to take care of it is just inauthentic to be
Speaker 2: kind and generous.
Speaker 1: Okay a phrase okay.
Speaker 2: Do you want more?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm listening to you.
Speaker 2: I am pro choice and I'm an independent, so I
Speaker 2: do feel that, you know, it's a very difficult decision
Speaker 2: for a lot of us to to to make. But
Speaker 2: I would just say, look at the way she treated
Speaker 2: Jeff Sessions when Jeff when Attorney General Jeff Sessions reached
Speaker 2: for an a dirve on that at the same time
Speaker 2: that the ambassador of the Soviet Union was in some
Speaker 2: sort of cocktail party or whatever, he was accused of
Speaker 2: being all kinds of things, And there's a clip where
Speaker 2: she is, uh, just harassing him, and it's just there's
Speaker 2: I don't know, people better look at that clip because
Speaker 2: I think you'll forget the real person that from me looking.
Speaker 1: At me, let me let me to a piece that
Speaker 1: is about the US embassy. March eight, two thousand and four,
Speaker 1: the US State Departments plenty to send several dozen diplomats
Speaker 1: this is last March to the overstretched US embassy in
Speaker 1: Ukraine's in Ukraine's capital of Kiev, and to give officials
Speaker 1: more flexibility to travel around the surrounding reason for People
Speaker 1: familiar with the decision told Foreign Policy the move comes
Speaker 1: despite fears within the Bide administration to the presence of
Speaker 1: any more US diplomats or military personnel in Ukraine would
Speaker 1: increase the risk of Washington getting entangled in a shooting
Speaker 1: war with Russia. If someone can confirm for me that
Speaker 1: right now, it's said there are roughly one hundred to
Speaker 1: two hundred US diplomats and military personnel at the US
Speaker 1: Embassy in Kiev. This is as of March. Current and
Speaker 1: former officials said, though the exact come.
Speaker 2: Back the move happens during the first part of the battles,
Speaker 2: when the when Russia actually was bombing.
Speaker 5: Rane resisted.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: There may be in the embassy now, but.
Speaker 1: If I find something, I do not believe it. Sandra,
Speaker 1: please listen to me, if you'd be so kind. Okay,
Speaker 1: I will try to find out. But I have been
Speaker 1: able to find nothing that that would that would support
Speaker 1: that that we move people or we move the embassy out. Okay.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the picture of the US Embassy in Kiev,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to look. People can decide that
Speaker 1: for themselves, Okay. I don't want to squabble with you here.
Speaker 1: You're a good caller. I just had never heard of that.
Speaker 1: You may recall it better than I do. Uh, other
Speaker 1: listeners might check check it out. I do not see
Speaker 1: that we moved the US embassy, is what I'm reacting to.
Speaker 2: They tried to close it up and move it to
Speaker 2: the west, and Biden offered Zelenski a ride out of
Speaker 2: the Puny.
Speaker 1: I believe that, yes, but I believe that Zelensky said,
Speaker 1: uh no, I'm staying. Okay. So therefore, if as a
Speaker 1: matter of again, whatever, let me get we'll get back
Speaker 1: to the speech. Sandra, thank you much for your call.
Speaker 4: Uh okay, Okay, thank thank you much.
Speaker 1: We will talk to you great.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: If anybody can confirm what Sandra said, what Sandra asserted,
Speaker 1: I would I tried to find it it does not
Speaker 1: appear to me to be true. But we have We
Speaker 1: got a newscast coming up. I got one line at
Speaker 1: six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty. Got a
Speaker 1: couple of lines at six one seven, nine, nine thirty.
Speaker 1: Your reaction to the speech, okay. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: thought it was a great speech, great, If you thought
Speaker 1: it was short on details, we don't need to quibble
Speaker 1: over everything. But I would love to hear from you.
Speaker 1: I there was some things that I thought were factually untrue,
Speaker 1: and there were some things that she expressed her opinion on. Okay,
Speaker 1: and you got to make that distinction, and let's just
Speaker 1: have at it. Okay, you got the phone numbers, we
Speaker 1: got the lines, we got a newscast. Be right back
Speaker 1: on Night Side.
Speaker 3: With Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Dan Watkins. It'll be interesting to see what
Speaker 1: the poll numbers show in the next week or so.
Speaker 1: And I think that the vice president we'll get a
Speaker 1: bump from this speech. And again I'm asking you, if
Speaker 1: you know, if you're a Trump supporter, you can tell
Speaker 1: me whatever you want, but let's try to keep it accurate.
Speaker 1: And again, if you're a Harris supporter and you feel
Speaker 1: I thought it was an excellent speech. I thought she
Speaker 1: did a great job. I think she had a better
Speaker 1: speech tonight than Donald Trump did at his convention. I
Speaker 1: thought that Trump's speech was meandering. Hers was crisp. She
Speaker 1: hit all the issues that she wanted to hit. Uh,
Speaker 1: she stayed away from issues that would be embarrassing. She
Speaker 1: did not talk about her position unfracking, on which of
Speaker 1: course is a big issue in Pennsylvania. She did not
Speaker 1: talk about her support for the Minnesota bail fund in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty before she was the vice president of the
Speaker 1: United States. I'm sure that the Trump campaign will be
Speaker 1: hitting upon those, but you would not expect her to
Speaker 1: talk about things that were potentially negative issues. She she
Speaker 1: delivered a great speech tonight, and you need to understand that,
Speaker 1: and you need to understand that a lot of people
Speaker 1: who are not paying attention are going to take it
Speaker 1: as a great speech. But I'm more than willing to
Speaker 1: hear from you if you disagree. I've got some open lines,
Speaker 1: which I think is very interesting, and it sounds to
Speaker 1: me like maybe a lot of the Trump people are
Speaker 1: to have little to say. Six one, seven, nine, three,
Speaker 1: one ten thirty six one seven, two five ten thirty
Speaker 1: William in Hyde Park, William, Welcome back on Welcome to
Speaker 1: Night Side.
Speaker 6: How are you, sir, Hi Dan, Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 6: I thought it was an outstanding speech. I've been following
Speaker 6: politics since sixty eight, pretty much all my voting life, yep,
Speaker 6: and I haven't really don't remember a Democratic convention that
Speaker 6: was as energized fight up as that one. Even compared
Speaker 6: it to an Obama was run for president.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 6: I thought I thought her comments on gun violence were
Speaker 6: on point. I thought her point about women's rights and
Speaker 6: abortion's rights is huge. I think their reference to Project
Speaker 6: twenty twenty five is going to be an anchor that's
Speaker 6: going to drag down Trump's campaign. I thought she did
Speaker 6: an outstanding job. The energy was off the charts. I
Speaker 6: don't ever remember a convention where I saw so much
Speaker 6: people were just ecstatic. I mean, it was unbelievable. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I understand, you know, you go ahead.
Speaker 4: IM sorry.
Speaker 1: I think part of that is that these delegates were
Speaker 1: in six weeks ago to go to Chicago and renominate
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, and obviously the decision to force Biden out, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it was Warren Dawd who called
Speaker 1: it a coup. This has turned out well for the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party. I think they were in much better positioned
Speaker 1: to stay in the White House tonight than they were
Speaker 1: six weeks ago. And I think I agree.
Speaker 6: What's amazing to me was, I don't know, do you
Speaker 6: ever remember Republicans speaking of them? Congrat you mention? I
Speaker 6: don't think what was the question?
Speaker 1: I missed?
Speaker 6: You ever remember? Do you ever remember Republicans coming to
Speaker 6: a democratic inventing and talking about the country and America
Speaker 6: and democracy and keeping it safe and what's right and
Speaker 6: what's wrong and being principled.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no, let me tell you you're
Speaker 1: absolutely running that. Obviously, I saw Kinsinger up there tonight.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Liz if Liz Cheney made an appearance,
Speaker 1: but I did see Adam Kinsinger. And I'm not sure
Speaker 1: what other Republicans might have been up there, because I
Speaker 1: was trying to, you know, do my show. But this
Speaker 1: is a different situation. Donald Trump has made in rows
Speaker 1: in the Democratic base that other Republicans did make. You
Speaker 1: got to remember Mitt Romney ran and lost badly to
Speaker 1: President Obama in the twenty twelve race. I remember, Okay,
Speaker 1: so Mitt Romney was a quintessential gentleman. Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: a different sort of candidate, and it worked for him
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, didn't work quite as well for him
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. We'll have to see what happens in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. But it's fascinating.
Speaker 6: I mean, it really is. And at the point that
Speaker 6: Kimsinger made about Donald Trump basically changed the whole kind
Speaker 6: of ethos of the Republican Party was very accurate. Republicans, however,
Speaker 6: read Donald Punt was not It's basically it's Donald Trump's
Speaker 6: these of that body.
Speaker 1: No, he is, of course, he's but the nominee for
Speaker 1: the three for the three last presidential cycles. However, correct. However,
Speaker 1: I think the polls show that of registered Republicans that
Speaker 1: don't I can't quote the number, but like ninety three
Speaker 1: ninety four percent of the Republicans are sticking with Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: Adam Kinsinger has no support within the Republican Party there
Speaker 1: is correct. I mean, you can't assume that Adam Kinsinger
Speaker 1: is going to bring half the Republicans party over to
Speaker 1: Kamla Harris. This is going to be a fascinating election,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be a tight election. I think
Speaker 1: tonight Kamala Harris helped herself a lot, and I would
Speaker 1: think that that's good and.
Speaker 6: Ill on this are there are INDs they're going to
Speaker 6: kind of stick with where they are right, but really
Speaker 6: it's the independent voter is it's the vote is on defense.
Speaker 6: I think Harris's performance tonight is going to swing a
Speaker 6: number of those people to her aside. I really do.
Speaker 6: And when they attacked Trump's character, his decisions, the impact
Speaker 6: that he's had in this country, when they brought people
Speaker 6: up to talk about the impact of the stories around
Speaker 6: what happened at the DNC, and I'm sure what happened
Speaker 6: at the Capitol, I mean it was, it was powerful,
Speaker 6: It really was. So I understand I listened to you
Speaker 6: all the time. It's pretty much, I would say, a
Speaker 6: conservative base that listens to your show. And that's fine,
Speaker 6: but that is.
Speaker 1: Not necessarily true William and me. There are people like
Speaker 1: you who call all the time, and I encourage people
Speaker 1: to call from all points of view, So no.
Speaker 6: You do, and I agree, that's what I like about you.
Speaker 6: I think you are fear in balance and I don't
Speaker 6: want to take up the time, but I mean, she
Speaker 6: hit she knocked it out of the park tonight, Dan,
Speaker 6: she really did.
Speaker 1: Oh, I agree with you. I mean, look, I don't
Speaker 1: think she could have. I thought it was a flawless performance.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that everything that she said was factually true.
Speaker 1: I don't know that Donald Trump has ever said I'm
Speaker 1: going to cut so Security. That would be political suicide.
Speaker 1: Find me any candidate who would say, I want to
Speaker 1: cut Medicare, I want to cut social Security.
Speaker 6: But yeah, the other thing she did strategically was pretty
Speaker 6: sharp was the areas where she was vulnerable and around immigration.
Speaker 6: I think she kind of showed up. She made some
Speaker 6: key points there on and I think to kind of
Speaker 6: dissuade or marginalize those comments. So it is going to
Speaker 6: be a fascinating election. I think a lot of the
Speaker 6: young people get out to vote for her for her
Speaker 6: whole strategy around using social influences is clearly very new.
Speaker 6: So it's going to be it's gonna be a fascinating
Speaker 6: Just remember this.
Speaker 1: Just remember this. She is going to be in a
Speaker 1: position where she has to defend the last three and
Speaker 1: a half years, and that is going to be a
Speaker 1: challenge because it's tough to talk and she talked about
Speaker 1: she's going to lower housing prices, she's going to lower
Speaker 1: grocery prices, going to lower healthcare prices. Those prices have
Speaker 1: all risen during the Biden Harris administration, so that's part
Speaker 1: of her. She can make a pledge what she's going
Speaker 1: to do, but the Republicans are going to say, what
Speaker 1: have you done? So I think I don't know that
Speaker 1: this this election is going to be anything but close.
Speaker 6: And yeah, and I'll close on this. I didn't really
Speaker 6: know a lot about Kamala Harris into this convention, and
Speaker 6: now I'm like, wow, oh my god, it was really impressive.
Speaker 6: So I'll end on that note. Dan, I appreciate you
Speaker 6: and your show, and you thought, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: And I thank you for calling in. I want more
Speaker 1: voices like yours to balance to balance off. Simple as that.
Speaker 1: Thanks than take you care. But all right, let's keep
Speaker 1: rolling here. We got one line at six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 1: four ten thirty and gotta line open at six one seven,
Speaker 1: nine three one ten thirty. I'm going to try to
Speaker 1: move people a little bit more quickly. Frank and Northbridge.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Frank, You're next on nightside.
Speaker 5: Hey, yeah, I thought it was a fantastic speech, well
Speaker 5: a fantastic speech, but one of many, many fantastic speeches
Speaker 5: throughout this convention from start to finish. The thing was
Speaker 5: the guy that just spoke ahead of me. He's absolutely
Speaker 5: right there. The atmosphere was electric this convention, unlike the
Speaker 5: previous Democratic convention, where there was division between you know,
Speaker 5: with some conflict between the Bernie Sanders group and Hillary
Speaker 5: Clinton's group, none of that. Ernie Sanders was a was
Speaker 5: a huge united at this convention. They are united and again, uh,
Speaker 5: things about the conventions I've never seen before. I mean,
Speaker 5: all the Republicans that spoke, and it's who.
Speaker 1: Was who was the most significant?
Speaker 5: There was a lieutenant governor from uh from Georgia, Georgia.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so hold on, gim me all the hold on, Frank,
Speaker 1: I want to give you a chance. All the Republicans
Speaker 1: Adam Kinzuger, who was a member of the January sixth
Speaker 1: committee and is obviously anti Trump, Duncan, who's a lieutenant
Speaker 1: governor in a formal lieutenant governor I believe in Georgia.
Speaker 5: Yea.
Speaker 1: So who are the other Republicans who spoke? I know
Speaker 1: that there was like a press secretary of Uh, Melania
Speaker 1: Trump who spoke, grishom who else?
Speaker 5: I can't remember her name? A Republican An, Hispanic name,
Speaker 5: what what was her name?
Speaker 1: An elected official or someone who's No, No.
Speaker 5: She was. I think she was. Uh, I think she was.
Speaker 5: I think she might have even been like a PR
Speaker 5: person previously.
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is the Republicans had Democrats who spoke.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, the Democrats will line up and
Speaker 1: behind Vice President Harris, the Republicans will line up against
Speaker 1: with with Donald Trump, and then you got that twenty
Speaker 1: percent or whatever it is in the middle. Uh, and
Speaker 1: you've got some debates. Let's see how the debate goes.
Speaker 1: She she she delivered a terrific speech tonight. I'm not
Speaker 1: I I acknowledged that totally. Yeah, But no, it must
Speaker 1: have Adam Kinsinger. I don't know how big of following.
Speaker 5: Actually I didn't hear it. I didn't see I didn't
Speaker 5: see him speak. I mean, I've spoke to interviews with him.
Speaker 5: I've seen interviews with him. In the fact, I didn't.
Speaker 1: He was the one spoke, and Duncan spoke, and that's
Speaker 1: about it. I don't think Liz Cheney spoke to the
Speaker 1: best of my knowledge.
Speaker 5: No, although you know, I'm also watching this on I'm
Speaker 5: also watching your interviews on Google. So well, I'm back
Speaker 5: and fair enough.
Speaker 1: All right, Look, as always, I appreciate.
Speaker 5: It, but I did want to I did want to mention.
Speaker 5: I did want to mention that, you know, when she
Speaker 5: made that remark about uh, social security and Medicare, that
Speaker 5: is that's one of the things that's reviewed in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five, which Donald Trump at this point is trying
Speaker 5: to distance himself from. But when you say that, no
Speaker 5: Republican that you know of has ever said anything like that,
Speaker 5: people should google Mike Lee and a series of videos
Speaker 5: will come up. Several of them say SSI, and he
Speaker 5: specifically in great detail, talks about zeroing out Medicare and
Speaker 5: social security.
Speaker 1: Well, first of first of all, Mike Lee's a Republican
Speaker 1: senator from Utah. Okay, Yeah, and maybe that would fly
Speaker 1: in Utah, but you point find me a national Republican.
Speaker 1: Did Run Reagan cut social security? No? Did George Bush
Speaker 1: cut so security? No? Did George Bush the former government
Speaker 1: Bush forty three cut so security? No? When Donald Trump
Speaker 1: was president, was so security cut? No? So again, any
Speaker 1: it would be like saying Uh, it would be like
Speaker 1: me saying that Democrat has pledged they want to eliminate
Speaker 1: the military. It just it would be untrue. Quote a
Speaker 1: Democratic presidential candidate say, hey, there's some there's some fat
Speaker 1: in the military. We can cut the defense budget here,
Speaker 1: we can cut the defense budget there. Absolutely, but no
Speaker 1: one is going to run for office in this country,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, for anyone and say I'm going to cut
Speaker 1: so security because all that's going to do is cost
Speaker 1: that person votes. It would be political suicide.
Speaker 5: Frank, you would think you would think that's why I said.
Speaker 4: Quote, find me the quote for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Research, Frank, find me the quote from Donald Trump. You
Speaker 1: can have all day tomorrow, call me tomorrow night, call
Speaker 1: me monday. Find me there.
Speaker 5: You can. You can google interviews that's having the past
Speaker 5: with him about this twenty twenty five where he's endorsing it. Now,
Speaker 5: well he's no.
Speaker 1: Look, here's what twenty twenty five is. And again I'm
Speaker 1: trying to be fair here.
Speaker 5: Believe it or not, Well, wait a minute, hold on
Speaker 5: a minute. Twenty twenty five, his running mate wrote the
Speaker 5: forward to it. It's nine hundred and twenty two pages
Speaker 5: that covers everything from soup to nuts of all the
Speaker 5: changes they.
Speaker 1: Want to make right right, right right, and Trump has
Speaker 1: said he does he has no idea of what's in there.
Speaker 1: It was written by a group of conservatives, primarily from
Speaker 1: the Heritage Foundation. I'm sure that if the Brookies Institute
Speaker 1: put together a plan for a Democratic presidential nominee, it
Speaker 1: would be on the other side. I'm not all I'm
Speaker 1: saying to you, Frank, is this. Find me a quote
Speaker 1: from Donald Trump, an audio quote. Find me him saying
Speaker 1: if elected president, I will cut Social Security and or
Speaker 1: I will cut Medicare Medicare, and I will have you
Speaker 1: on the show and we will play it for the audience.
Speaker 1: There's your there's your homework assignment.
Speaker 5: Fair enough, Well, I mean, I've asked you about the
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five and you've made no attempt to explain
Speaker 5: it to people.
Speaker 1: Four to tell you what it is, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: right now. It is is a blueprint put together by
Speaker 1: conservatives in the Heritage Foundation, which would be a plan
Speaker 1: that if Donald Trump or any Republican was elected, it
Speaker 1: would be ideas that they would present.
Speaker 5: It's it's not change to change the structure of our government.
Speaker 5: No more checks and balances.
Speaker 1: That's not true. That's not r Yeah, that's true. That's
Speaker 1: not true, frank and I just got to challenge you
Speaker 1: on that. I just had a conversation with William and
Speaker 1: he didn't try to throw in how are you going
Speaker 1: to change the checks and balances of the couple want water?
Speaker 5: They want to water. Right now, it's three, three equal
Speaker 5: sections of governments, and what they want to do is
Speaker 5: water down the authority of the legislative branch and the
Speaker 5: judicial branch and give most authority to the executive branch.
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, that you'd have to send it
Speaker 1: to me, will read it together. I can only tell
Speaker 1: you this when the Democrats are in the White House.
Speaker 1: Franklin Roosevelt was the strongest president in the history of
Speaker 1: the country and is considered to be the greatest president
Speaker 1: in the first half of the twentieth century because he
Speaker 1: did so many things as president. It was a very
Speaker 1: strong He had to actually be pulled in by the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. As you know, there were a number of
Speaker 1: things they did with the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional. Same
Speaker 1: way with Republican presidents. There's a balance. You can't change
Speaker 1: the structure of the constitution by some sort of a
Speaker 1: plan that's written by a bunch of people from some
Speaker 1: advocacy group. Trust me, If you want to panic over
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, go ahead, but please don't lose.
Speaker 5: A lot of sleep offer Okay, No, well, I just
Speaker 5: want people to become more familiar with what they're talking about.
Speaker 1: Right. It's it's there for everybody to read. Thanks, Frank,
Speaker 1: I gotta go. Okay, here comes to commercials. We got
Speaker 1: Mike and Beverly on the other side. I got room
Speaker 1: for you if you like, join the conversation.
Speaker 3: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 3: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 1: Or we got two of two left he We're going
Speaker 1: to try to get them both in within about three minutes,
Speaker 1: about minute and a half a piece. Mike and Beverly,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Mike your quick take on the speech from
Speaker 1: Vice President Harris tonight.
Speaker 7: Hey, Da and Mike and bellyh I have most of it.
Speaker 7: You know, it was nice. I understand that half of
Speaker 7: it was like what she shocks all this stuff? FYI,
Speaker 7: you can do it today. So what have you been
Speaker 7: doing with three and a half years? She talks all
Speaker 7: a big game with Shad's walking the walk so what
Speaker 7: are you doing?
Speaker 1: Okay, I think that's a legitimate.
Speaker 7: I guess it. You know, that's legitimate comment.
Speaker 1: And when you're the incumbent, whether you're an incumbent president
Speaker 1: incumbent vice president, that's going to become a big issue obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, like.
Speaker 7: Really now she wants to did you hear and they
Speaker 7: gotta go? She wants to attack you for one k annually.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, that one I have not I'll be looking
Speaker 1: forward to that one because I gotta ferrol one k. Mike.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the tip. Okay, I'm gonna I'll check that
Speaker 1: out tomorrow. Thank you much appreciated getting in here. Let
Speaker 1: me go last for the hour to David Norwell, Dave,
Speaker 1: you gotta be really quick. You've called late and we're
Speaker 1: running out of time. Go ahead, Dave.
Speaker 8: I I thought, uh Kamala gay Trump supporters very very
Speaker 8: upset stomach tonight, and I think that you know Joe Biden,
Speaker 8: you know, I knew the.
Speaker 6: Guy would give up if he needed to, and he did.
Speaker 6: He's a good person, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Dave, thank you very much. You had the final comment.
Speaker 1: If you called earlier, I gave you much more time.
Speaker 4: But thanks you always do and I love you man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, have a great night. Good night. Okay, so we're
Speaker 1: done for the night, Rob Brooks, interesting night we had.
Speaker 1: I think we pulled it off, Rob. I think we
Speaker 1: got into the speech and get out of the speech
Speaker 1: on time. Thank you for your help there. Thanks to Marita.
Speaker 1: I will be back tomorrow night at eight o'clock. Marita
Speaker 1: will be here tomorrow at four point thirty. I'm going
Speaker 1: to do a quick night side post game. So get ready.
Speaker 1: I'm coming at you quick on this one. I'll give
Speaker 1: you a little bit more insight on the situation. I'll
Speaker 1: end as always, all dogs, all cats, all pets go
Speaker 1: to heaven. That's my pell. Charlie ray Is, who passed
Speaker 1: fourteen years ago in February. That's all your pets are
Speaker 1: who passed. They loved you and you love them. I
Speaker 1: do believe you'll see them again. Hope see again tomorrow night. Everyone.
Speaker 1: Thanks to the listeners and thanks to the callers. Have
Speaker 1: a great Friday.