e I had the chance to attend the debate in Philadelphia last night the spin room at least around the debate and it was an interesting experience it was even quite a bit different than the CNN debate that was the one in Atlanta the environment was different it was a lot more organized it was a lot more structured just even the way the Press was run the way the entire city was being run around it the environment around the debate it had a sense of organization to it in the way that the last debate didn't have and I share that it's a small detail but to take people a little bit behind the curtain for what I do think is going on here because I think there are some parallels between the last debate and this one in a deeper sense I think there's a deeper project at work in the narrative that the media is trying to sell the public now what was interesting to me was heading into this debate the expectations were set low and I believe purposefully low for kamla Harris I believe in calling a spade a spade did she exceed the purposefully low expectations that were set for her I think that she did but I think that this is part of an interesting pattern and I think a concerning pattern dating back to how the media hand L the last debate you can't view the last night's debate with kamla Harris without actually understanding it against the context of the first debate that Trump had with Biden and I was at that one as well in Atlanta here's the truth that last debate did something unique for the media that they really needed in order to bank their credibility with voters and it was this they set the earliest ever presidential debate in US history in the history of televised presidential debates that was the earliest one in history and that wasn't some accident it was a negotiating condition for the B for that point the Biden Harris campaign they said they would not have debates but these are the terms on which they were going to agree to have a debate they were only going to have a debate they said if this was the schedule of debates they had this one scheduled with ABC for September on the date that exactly we had it last night September 10th but they would only agree to that if there was also an earlier debate in the month of June before either the Democrats or even the Republicans had formally nominated their candidate that was the first time that's happened in the history of televised presidential debates in a general election now at that debate in the leadup to the debate you had no expectations one or another that was set for Biden because it was a trial balloon the reason they negotiated that was it was what in the world of Finance or business you would call a free call option that means that you have the option to exercise it say you're a candidate but you don't have to that's exactly what Democrats bought themselves it was a bit of a trap that was laid for Trump and for the Republicans to say that if Trump beat Biden so badly that he was going to win the election versus Biden they would still have enough time to swap him out but if Biden somehow surpassed and exceeded expectations that would have reset the otherwise failing race well they succeeded in getting that debate Trump wiped the floor with Joe Biden the whole country saw it and that started the call to actually get Biden off the top of the ticket now that did two things not only did that result in a free call option for Democrats where they were able to figure out that their current C then current candidate wasn't going to be a winner they got to swap him out for free but it also did something really important for the media and that's the link to last night's debate what it did is it created a shock to the American audience to the American voters that even many previously left leaning networks cable networks print digital media media Publications all decided to be critical of Biden in a way that they hadn't been critical of a Democrat for a really long time they were more critical of Joe Biden during the early part of that summer than they were of Donald Trump or of Republicans and what that did was that banked a certain amount of credibility that the media gained with the public and I think that that was the second Untold benefit of what happened after that first debate so the first is the Democrats got a free option says you know what if the trial balloon Works will ride the horse that we're on if not we'll switch to a different horse that was strictly value creating getting a free call option call options have value and they got something that had value that they previously didn't have was the option to swap out their candidate but it wasn't just the Democrats that had helped I think it gave the media and restored and rebuilt and rehabilitated credibility that a lot of the political media had lost to the public by saying that you know what now we criticize Democrats we're going to talk about Biden's cognitive deficits we're going to talk about his for performance of the debate we're going to talk about how he has ducked questions even as the sitting US president pontificating about the threats to our democracy failing to partake in the most basic Norm of a US president to communicate exactly what he's doing and why he's doing it and to answer even modest if not tough questions from the Press we saw the New York Times you saw CNN you saw Every Which hosted the debate you saw the Washington Post you see every major mainstream media Outlet then not only turning on Joe Biden Biden but treating him with the same harsh inquiry and treatment that they've treated Donald Trump for years now that allowed them to sweep under the rug the fact that for three years they actually covered for Biden and his cognitive deficits they covered for Biden and his policy failures they covered even for some of his most disastrous policy failures like the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in the way that that was executed they completely swept that under the rug for three years but in three short weeks they were able to re Bank some of that credibility by saying no no no we're not biased media they'll say that the media leans Democrat no here's our best proof that we don't lean Democrat we're most critical of the Democratic president of the United States and the Democratic nominee for US president in a race versus Donald Trump where at least for those three short weeks in June and into early July they could say that no no no we actually are treating Joe Biden even more critically than we are Donald Trump based on his performance and like it or not I just think it's a hard fact that much of the public especially those who aren't dialed into American politics every day or the political Media or weren't paying particular election paying particular attention to the primary process said that you know what maybe maybe these people are more balanced than conservatives or others may claim this is not a biased media I could see them right before my eyes criticizing Joe Biden criticizing the sitting Democratic president of the United States criticizing the Democratic nominee even in his race against Donald Trump so those are the two objectives accomplished by that prior debate and that's what really laid the groundwork for yesterday's debate which remember was not scheduled after or anything else it was scheduled as part of the exact same plan right the negotiated conditions for these presidential debates locked in both of those debates at the same time ABC on September 10th CNN in June and that was all part of this is not some sort of some sort of speculative conspiracy theory it's just a statement of fact that that was a negotiated plan that the Democrats agreed to as the condition for allowing Joe Biden to debate was there were going to be two debates one in September 10th one in June why wasn't there going to be one in July or August why wasn't there going to be ones scheduled at the usual time they have presidential debates in September and October no it was going to be June and it was going to be September and it was going to be under those pre-specified conditions they're linked there's a deep link between the conditions that created it gave the Democrats enough time between June and September to swap out their nominee if Biden performed poorly which he did but it also allowed the media to shore up their credibility such that whatever they were going to do in potentially tilting the scales of how this election was going to be portrayed in the fall they had to shore up a deficit of credibility they had with the American public that's what was accomplished with that first debate in June so then we get to to what exactly happened they won back that credibility and you bank that Capital that political capital and Social Capital with the public only to then deploy it last night and I think that what we see both last night and others have said it I said it I'll say it again again what was effectively a three-on-one debate that would have been one thing if people went into that without having seen the media criticized Joe Biden but now they have this artificial illusion that hey the media is balanced we trust the way the mainstream media is running this they were critical of Biden they were excoriating him they were harsher on him than Trump to now through that slate of hand to say okay we're actually gonna have a three-on-one versus Donald Trump and we're going to allegedly fact check one candidate without stopping K haris said a single one of the many lies the many deceptive facts or deceptive statements that she made last night on the debate stage with still the aura of objectivity and credibility I think that that is actually in some ways more devious and more dangerous and more deceptive than if they had just stopped the charade around the Joe Biden bit around the month of June that's exactly what ended up playing out last night so they stopped Donald Trump to fact check him for things that he didn't even say I thought it was remarkable that one of the two moderators stepped in for the first time in the evening just to make an assertion so this during the topic of abortion Donald Trump spoke about the fact that many Democrats have favored radical policies that would permit abortion all the way up to the time of birth he cited that there are democratic politicians in certain states that have advanced certain measures that's what he said now one of the two moderators last night stepped into fact check Donald Trump when she was contradicting something that he didn't even actually say she said that just to be clear there are no States today that allow abortion after or at the time of birth that's not what he said but to somebody who isn't watching this very carefully at home was just tuning in disconnected God bless them thank probably better for them from American politics but checking in on this presidential debate it allows them to say okay okay Donald Trump said something I don't remember exactly what he said but this objective moderator from media networks that I know I get a sense of objective because they were objective they were hitting Biden just as hard as they were hitting Trump now comes out and says no no no Donald Trump has just been put in his place through a lie that he told when he actually didn't tell a lie at all but that's the appearance they cultivate to then do that systematically over the course of last night that was the beginning of a pattern that you saw yesterday in Philadelphia without actually doing the same for what were a much wider range and a in a deeper and more concerning set of Liv Li that kamris told with a straight face yesterday talk about the number of times she brought up project 2025 you might like some of the things the project 2025 has to say you might not but whether or not you like it and and some conservatives haven't loved Donald Trump's position distancing himself from that but doesn't matter you have people on both sides have their own views on the substance of IT project 2025 is a different set of policy objectives than that have been embraced by Donald Trump he has distanced himself from it publicly he says that he's had nothing to do with it he doesn't even know what's in there KL Harris knows this and yet purposefully used that in a way that if the debate moderators were using the same standard they used to quote unquote fact check Donald Trump to say that okay because you said that some Democrats are in favor of abortion and permitting abortion all the way up to the time of birth that somehow we're going to fact check you by pretending that you said that some states actually allow it and we're going to come in and make sure that audience our audience is informed of that assertion if you're applying that same standard to the other side if Kam Harris is saying that Donald Trump is going to implement project 2025 you would expect that same debate moderator to say In fairness as a fact check to the audience who whose perceptions they care so much to protect you might predict that moderator would say but yes Donald Trump has disavowed that several times over vice president Harris so we would appreciate your clarification on that didn't hear a word of it same thing with respect to the federal abortion B she said Point Blank the Donald Trump would sign a federal abortion ban when in fact he has been clear to the point of even getting critic from some on the right forehead that he would not sign a federal abortion ban into law same thing with respect to her insinuations that Donald Trump is insulted the military there hasn't been a shred of evidence that Donald Trump said what the many in the then media alleged that he did it's now been debunked that Donald Trump ever said something disparaging about military members it was a hoax that was perpetuated by the political opposition KL Harris asserted it last night as though it was fact without going challenged by the moderators same thing with the respect to her false claim that Donald Trump somehow claimed that it was just fine people on both sides of what happened in Charlottesville if you look at the entire context of what he said it was a clear quote it's been debunked even by left of cental publication since she said it with a straight face though and the problem is many voters at home many people watching this debate at home have really no ability to tell that difference it's a good thing I don't blame Americans they shouldn't have most Americans should not have their lives consumed with following partisan politic jousting I I don't think it's good for the country I don't think it's good for most people but I also think it's good for most people still to be engaged in being able to know what each candidate has said what they haven't said what they stand what they don't stand for and yet the media that claimed this artifice of of being objective in the way they went after Joe Biden after his CNN performance and the way they went after Donald Trump last night completely failing to apply that same standard to kamla Harris when they know that this myth about what Donald Trump said after the Charlottesville incident was actually dishonest they did not call her out on it once straight down the list project 2025 Federal abortion ban insinuations about what he said in the military the Charlottesville fine people hoax the fact that she claimed that cops died effectively she directly implied that say what you will about what happened on January 6 there were no people who were killed no cops who were killed and Donald Trump factually said it the only person who was actually killed at the capital that day was Ashley Babin think about her statements about xiin ping in covid-19 this is particularly rich last night the moment where she said Donald Trump said that xiin ping was my friend or something to that effect when she was now concerned that xiin ping was not being transparent about the origin and the causes of covid-19 whoa just wait a minute go back to the actual facts of this debate back in the year 2020 they were calling Donald Trump a racist for calling this a Chinese virus you could have called it a Brazilian strain or the South African strain or the indiaan strain that's totally fine but if you called it the Chinese strain then somehow that was racist that's what they were saying about Donald Trump back then but she's banking on the fact that voters don't remember exactly what the truth was back then to create and invent a new reality that Donald Trump somehow was the one who was cozying up to xiin ping when he proposed a travel ban from China that many in the Democratic party opposed when he proposed greater transparency and labeled it even the China virus the Wuhan virus they called him a racist for saying it now four years later k Harris is saying that Donald Trump was claiming xiin ping was my friend when xiin ping was not transparent about the causes about the origin of covid-19 it was many even in the Biden Administration afterwards that were trying to cover up for the origin of that pandemic now one of the things I thought was most remarkable about last night this list of inconsistencies and lies continued throughout the moderators could have called her out at any point on any of these questions if they were applying the same standard they did to Trump but one of the most remarkable Parts about this is her ability to present herself as some some sort of transcendent unifying figure saying we don't want to go back to the name calling and the personal insults and the attacks where when you actually look just objectively at who was leveling personal insults and attacks and engaging in name calling last night it was actually Kam Harris the number of times that she called Donald Trump a criminal the number of times that she called use the word disgraceful in reference to Donald Trump she was the person actually using those types of adjectives and using that type of mudslinging and name calling while at the same time decrying the practice of dirty name calling in American politics now should Donald Trump have been able to callado if this was a debate where you had microphones that were on in all directions and you didn't have moderators of course I think the public would have been able to see that but because of the way that this is orchestrated so I go back to the first thing that I said it was a far more orchestrated Affair just look and feel of it being on the ground in Philadelphia yesterday's debate far more organized far more set far more professional than the setting that was set up at that first debate in in Georgia in Atlanta was almost a concrete poem and a symbol of a deeper plan is what it was for two debates that were set up each to accomplish their own objectives the first to test Biden and discard him as the nominee if necessary while shorting up credibility for the media political Capital that they would then expend and take to the bank and cash in on this debate when it came to applying egregiously differential standards in the way they treated those two candidates so the real question right now for the not only the future of this election but I think the future direction of our country is whether voters are actually going to buy what they are trying to sell I'm hopeful that most people in this country now have been burned by the news media enough times that they're going to seek out answers on their own we saw this in some of the polling and focus groups that were done afterwards was really interesting one of the things I wanted to do people ask me my opinion on how the debate went immediately after it was over I didn't particularly want to offer that because I wanted to check my own bias I'm in a I'm in a bubble environment everybody's in a bubble environment right there in the media spin room surrounded by in my case I was watching the debate with a lot of prominent Republican politicians and leaders across the country but all of whom have similar views I want to be careful I'm not trapped in an echo chamber of perspectives that are disconnected with what most Americans at home think but I think what you saw was a lot of people at home which is what I saw in several of the the focus groups of undecided voters immediately afterwards after that debate to hear what their perspectives were and I even talked to some of my own liberal friends and family members liberal friends and then family members were were more either outside of politics May lean conservative but outside of the world of the daily Daily Grind of partisan politics just to get their diverse range of opinions and you know what they said was okay did K Harris my liberal friends did she perform better yes she did that's what they say but it was a performance right it was in the in the context of Performing you perform in the context of a performance but does that convince somebody on her ability to actually Implement policies and execute action that lifts up the quality of life and the well-being of everyday Americans I think that's where a lot of people even on the center left were unconvinced because the core question both heading into during and after yesterday's debate is that why isn't she actually doing the very things that she was talking about last night the moment where Donald Trump hit that nail on the head I thought was where he said we could end this debate right now you could just go back to Washington DC you're talking about the Border you could either sign a bill or sign an executive action that closes the border right now and yet you're unwilling to do it I thought that was powerful because it got to the essence of the difference between talk and action actions speak louder than words and I think that this is one of the areas where again the media has failed to scrutinize kamala's shift on a lot of the policy positions she did get one question to that effect last night it was as though they checked the box to say they asked her about it but completely Let Her Off The Hook and actually answering it we did not hold her to task I think the media did not hold her to task for her own flip-flops on these policy positions they're not flip-flops flipflop is you say one thing and you switch to another and politicians have been doing that for time in Memorial but but in this particular case k Harris has actually taken actions in certain in certain key areas that affect Americans she co-sponsored a bill she didn't just say she supported as a presidential candidate she did that too in 2020 but as a US senator she took active steps she co-sponsored a bill with Bernie Sanders to create effectively a single-payer healthcare system Medicare for all in the United States of America she now says she's against that those are words compared to her action she now says she is against a ban on fracking she when she was AG of California sued the Obama Administration over granting fracking permits same thing goes for offshore drilling she said she wanted to end the filibuster to Ram through the green New Deal which would end the coal industry and end a number of other Industries energy Industries in the United States well guess what she's those are actions compared to the fact that she's now disavowing that with her words so so I do think actions speak louder than words but that disconnect was not at all prosecuted by the moderators last night and again it comes back to that banked credibility the artifice the sanctimony at one point you got Donald Trump getting a question about K Harris's racial identity going to Donald Trump but then you had that moderator David M last night who then tossed the question to KLA Harris afterwards a really hard-hitting question what is your perspective on this issue as though it were an issue in the first place that I think was the ultimate deceit here it wasn't the fact that it was a biased debate it's a if it's a biased debate then it's a biased debate and people can make their own judgments but it was the Slate of hand of creating the optical illusion of balance by the going after Joe Biden the way they did which actually accomplished their objective but which then also gave them the veneer of a temporary credibility that allowed them to bring that special air of sanctimony around their supposed objectivity that was Dripping last night in the face of what was I think actually far more egregious bias than we've probably seen in any modern presidential debate in history that certainly I can recall and all of this reveals the heart of what's at issue in this election you hear a lot of fellow Republicans you know will refer to KL Harris as a far-left ideologue or a Marxist or a communist you won't generally hear me leveling that critique against her because I think it gives her too much credit gives her the credit of being an ideologue you know a guy like Bernie Sanders he's an ideologue I disagree with his ideology but I can respect anybody who at least has a clear set of principles who guides them and their actions and their beliefs even if I disag agree with most of the content of those beliefs Kam Harris isn't ideological particularly I think last night demonstrated this too we're not even up against a candidate we're up against a machine it's a perverted upside down version hellish version of the San Antonio Spurs under Greg papovich or something like that in the sphere of American politics you could replace the individual person who's playing in the position but it's the machine that ultimately achieves its objective and that's what's really going on in this race this isn't about Republicans versus Democrats not quite it's not about black versus white it's not about man versus woman the media the powers that be will try to train you divide and conquer pit groups against one another identity politics vote Bank politics don't fall for that trick this isn't about Republicans Or democrats even it is about the managerial class the bureaucratic class and the everyday citizen that's the real divide in this country you see in recent days not only Liz Cheney but Dick Cheney you know people watch my race last year know that I've been no fan of him and his recent endorsement of KL Harris has nothing to do with it but Dick Cheney came out and publicly endorsed KL Harris I considered this one of the less surprising things to have happened in American politics this year and at the same time you've seen many former Democrats even iconic clastic Democrats that have criticized candidates like Kam Harris or Joe Biden even from a progressive vantage point now shifting over to support Donald Trump so what's going on there I think it is evidence of the fact that the real divide is not really between the traditional Republican and the Democrat but between this managerial class the people who are never elected to exercise political power be they in the media be they in certain parts of the corporate capture machine or especially be they in the administrative State the unelected bureaucrats who are writing more laws and setting more policies than even Congress which was elected to actually carry out that function that's who's actually running the country it's not Joe Biden it's not even really kamla Harris it's not their ideology because I don't think they have one it is the permanent State the fourth branch of government the Leviathan The Swamp the managerial class the committee class the bureaucrats that's who's running the show today and that's what we're really up against we're not just running to defeat a candidate we are running to dismantle a system that's what Donald Trump meant the first time around when he said he wanted to go in there and drain the swamp and I think this time more than ever he has the toolkit to actually do it the US Supreme Court has finally laid a foundation that we haven't had in modern American history with West Virginia versus EPA the major questions doctrine that says that if Congress didn't actually pass the law then a regulator can't just for major questions write it into existence by The Stroke of a pen with a regulation the overturning of Chevron difference in the recent ler ruling this paves the way for Donald Trump to be able to do what he was n even under the legal constraints that applied then able to do in the first term with shutting down that regulatory State taming it and lifting our economy in the process it's a historic opportunity it's a Once in a generation opportunity but we're not doing it by running against Kamala Harris we got to understand that we're actually running against that system that's what we're going in to defeat now with that media bias with the Democrats playing the tricks that they're playing with that managerial machine even beyond the Democratic Party in a way that pervades the dick chaines of the world and the Republican party to behave the same way how are we going to do it here's my view I've said this and I'm GNA say it again it's the subject of my new book it's coming out in a in a couple of weeks for those of you followed my campaign it's based exactly on a lot of those themes the book is called truths the future of America First the reality is we're not going to win this just by criticizing individuals on the other side we actually made that mistake for the better part of the last year and a half by going after joee Biden and his cognitive deficits when Joe Biden isn't even the nominee and K Harris even used that to her apparent tried to strike an apparent Advantage by saying you're not running against Biden well it's interesting because you were the very people who said that we were going to be running against Biden that Biden was the nominee it was a conspiracy theory to suggest otherwise until as recently as just a few weeks ago I think it was the distance between kamla Harris being the nominee at the debate last night for when Joe Biden was last the nominee is about the distance that we have still between now and the election on November 5th but the real question is we're not running against that individual candidate we made that mistake in the past they made us even when I ran for US president signed the so-called beat Biden pledge I said at the time that this is silly we're not actually running against Joe Biden why are we training our fire on one man and his particular background when in fact the criticisms need to be leveled Against the Machine that we're up against I think we risk making that same mistake now against KL Harris and the more we obsess over her individual failures I think the more we're falling further into the Trap that they've laid for us we're running against that machine and the way we're going to defeat that machine is actually by offering our own Vision to this country I think Donald Trump did a good job of that on policy last night if that last night's debate was decided on policy and it was the policy portions of the debate I think it's hands down in my opinion clear that Donald Trump won and I think it's going to be very clear to undecided voters who don't want verbiage and Flowery F flowery language what they want is actual action you saw that in many of the postp pole interviews and many of the postp pole panels they were not convinced by The Soaring rhetoric at times that were forced by kamla Harris and whatever handlers gave her what they want to see as actual action of what's going to grow this economy and that border crisis at the southern border and the mass influx of illegal Mass migration in this country and I think the way we're going to ultimately win this election is to reach those people people with our own alternative vision of who we are and what we actually stand for and if we're being honest I think for the last 20 years the Republican Party hasn't done as good of a job as we possibly can that's what's going to be required between now and the finished line I know Donald Trump's up to the task I think the way in which he laid out a lot of his clear positions last night in the way that Kam Harris didn't I think is a good first step but even Beyond policy share with the people of this country it's what we've got to do at every step not just Donald Trump but the Senate races in this country where we're behind in many of the states where we should be ahead Donald Trump's ahead in many of the states shows actually what good he is doing in for the Republican party in this race many of those Senate candidates are still behind my advice to them would be the same thing Focus this final Sprint to November 5th on who we are and what we actually stand for answer what it means to be a conservative what it means to be a republican what it means to be an American in the year 2024 the reason they're trying to lay the traps for us get us talking about the things they want us to be talking about in the manner that the mainstream media set last night or in in in other forums between now and the election forget that we're going to offer our own vision for why we believe in meritocracy and free speech and open debate in the United States of America why we believe that even if you disagree with us you get to speak your mind openly as long as I get to in return that that's the American bargain that the best person gets the job regardless of their race or their gender or their sexual orientation that you get ahead in this country not in the color of your skin but on the content of your character and your contributions that we believe in the rule of law and people who we elect to run the government ought to be the ones who actually run the government not the unelected bureaucrats in the Deep state that we believe in that model of self-governance that set our country into de motion the first time around that's who we are and that's how we're going to win this election not just by criticizing the other side I think that we would do well to actually take sober serious warning it's like in the in the context of a sports competition you don't Midway through just decide that you've won the thing and Coast to the end no the person who ultimately wins is the one who actually competes all the way through the very end and in this final Sprint the work we have cut out ahead of us is not just criticizing Biden he's done criticizing Harris the media is going to give her air cover we got it pierced through that and call that out when we see it that's a that's a must it's necessary but it's not sufficient the way we're actually going to do this is now level up and say this is who we are as conservatives they will feed you race gender sexuality climate well you know what we'll offer our alternative Vision grounded in the value of the individual the family the nation and God that beats race gender sexuality and climate if we have the courage to actually stand for our own Vision yes it's controversial yes God has become a three letter word that they treat like a four-letter word well you know what most people in this country do believe in a higher power and I don't think it should be taboo to talk about it most people in this country do believe in the power of the individual don't believe in apologizing for success or Excellence even through free market capitalism as KL har tried to do to to Donald Trump last night to embarrass him for his success no we're not a country that makes you apologize for your success we're proud of it that's who we are as Americans the nuclear family isn't some vestage of oppressive of capitalism as the BLM view of an old world left-wing Progressive Fuko derived world view they try to sell you for years no the nuclear family is the greatest form of governance and the greatest institution known to mankind for prosperity and we're not going to apologize for that the idea that I'm a citizen of this nation not some nebulous Global citizen fighting the existential threat of climate change that you heard kis spouting off about last night no I don't believe in that I'm a citizen of this nation the United unit States of America the greatest nation known to the history of mankind and I'm proud of it and proud to serve this country in my own way closing that Gap at the 25% recruitment deficit we have in our own US military that's how we're going to do it revive a sense of Pride and identity that we long for that's what we I think have as our work cut out for us in this final Sprint to the finish line now is the other side going to continue to lay traps I think they will if you just trace the history of this election just for a you know sobering Moment of Truth here we've seen unprecedented steps taken that we've never seen in the course of American history in any presidential election major prosecutions against one of the two major candidates by the party in power and by the candidate who's in power Biden and then Harris in the middle of an election that used to be the stuff of third world banana republics you saw civil lawsuits against that same candidate when those started to flail the civil lawsuits and the criminal prosecutions they tried extrajudicially outside of the judicial system without going through the courts at all I'll remind you to literally remove Donald Trump's name from the ballot so this same election we're having this debate don't forget this was the very same election where it was The Proposal of the very people who are debating Donald Trump now to say that they didn't even want to give voters the choice by offering his name to be printed on the ballot in States like Maine it didn't go through courts it didn't go through anywhere else it was just one individual a democrat in an elected office that said that I don't want the people of my state and eventually of this country to be able to vote for one man that's unprecedented never seen it in American history and you see things get even darker over the course of months you see them go after him extrajudicially through the removal from the ballots through the civil lawsuits through the prosecutions and I think the reality is the heated environment that we've created in this country created the backdrop conditions for what I hope and prey was the worst thing that we see in this presidential cycle was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump that didn't come up once from the moderators one of the most significant events in modern American history in the 21st century I don't believe we've seen an assassination attempt in in a generation on a US president and yet that happened in this cycle this summer in the leadup to this Final Phase of the presidential race you didn't hear a peep about it last night and yet against that backdrop do we think that that is really going to be the final set of tricks that from the ballot removals to the uh to removal attempts to the prosecutions no I do think that we're going to see some interesting things happen between now and the time of the election I think we've seen that at every step of the way I think we're going to continue to see some of the most aggressive steps we've seen in American history that have defied historical convention I think we're going to continue to see that pattern continue all the way through election day that's what we're up against but then we have to step back and acknowledge okay we we can't just complain about the playing field that we're playing on not being even you know what the best advice I give to my kids I preach it to the left we got to acknowledge it for ourselves the person who's most responsible for whether or not you achieve your goal not to say it's the only factor that matters but the the number one factor in determining whether or not you succeed in achieving your goal is actually you I tell that to my kids I preach to the left got to preach it to myself and to our own side as well is the playing field even no it's not but it's the one we have winning in this election by a razor thin margin I don't think is an option not for this country it's not we're so led by the media deeply divided to this point of believing that the national division runs deeper than it actually does but this election needs to be decided by a decisive margin and you know what a landslide minus whatever Shenanigans emerg in this race is still going to be a victory that's what we require and so in order to achieve that we're not going to get there by playing just the usual partisan tug of war it's not going to work it's not going to work for electoral success for Republicans it's not going to work for the success and Revival of our country if we want to get serious about this we have to for the first time I think in a really long time offer our own alternative vision of who we are and what we stand for some of those policies the other side May label as extreme do I think that many of those Federal bureaucrats need to be fired absolutely do I think many of those unconstitutional Federal Regulations need to be rescinded on day one your darn right I do but that is how actually you revive an economy not only through lower tax burden not only through the laws that are going to be passed but through rolling back the effect of that managerial class that's what Kam Harris represents the use of the regulatory State the use of backdor Regulation to achieve through the back door what otherwise could not be achieved through the front door under the Constitution they've been threatening tech companies through the back door to censor speech they couldn't through the front door they've been effectively using administrative agencies to pass laws that limit small business owners and individuals from being able to live their lives in ways that Congress never actually authorized that's what we're up against we're up against a corrupt system where many of those same bureaucrats and politicians end up with lucrative careers in the private sector I don't mind people making money I think there's no apology for that but using their private Connections in government to do it is wrong why do we still not have have a ban on lobbying for at least 10 years until after you've left the government well the reality is probably what Joe Biden's going to be doing and his family's going to be doing directly or indirectly after they leave the White House the fact that they've been selling off the influence of our own foreign policy well Hunter Biden's collecting money from Ukraine not an issue that came up once last night either these I do think are the issues that whether you're on the left or the right we should be able to unite around as Americans that we're a country where we want public service to be back again about serving the public rather than lining your pocket and I think it's for that reason that we require leaders in this pro-american movement in this not just conservative movement but pro-american movement who come from outside of the traditional treadmill of partisan Politics the fact that Donald Trump was not a professional politician was a guy who's actually signed the front of a paycheck not just the back of one is part of why his economic policies make a lot more sense than K Harris this is probably a big part of why and this came out in the debate as well he's got a different approach he cites all these people who he has fired who now don't like him well guess what it turns out most people who been in the private sector know this if you fire somebody for underperformance they tend not to like you very much in return that's what happened with a lot of the people Donald Trump fired he was very plain spoken about it last night and the truth is he said I'm a different kind of person referring to versus kamla Harris and that I do fire people when they fail to do a good job we need more of that not less of that in the government the fact that the very people who are responsible for the bot watched withdrawal in Afghanistan the very people who were responsible for the failed economic policies that created the highest rate of inflation we've seen in the 21st century while wages remained flat for much of that period the fact that every one of those people to an individual to a person to a tea still holds the job that they do is a damning indictment of the managerial class that actually runs the show that all they care about is preserving their own position of authority that's unamerican I I do think that I'd love to see the Republican party as it has become continue to remain the party for governor roles for us for the US presidency in the future be the party that puts an outsider rather than a groomed political Insider in that role that's what we have in Donald Trump that's what many independent voters are interested in they're interested in authenticity they're interested in action over the verbiage that we heard on stage from kamla Harris last night but that's the work we have cut out ahead of us it's within reach and it pains me to see this election at least as close as it looks right now when I know that 80% plus of people in this country share these views I've traveled this country over the last year if there's one thing I learned from traveling this country over the course of the presidential campaign it's that we're not really as divided as the media would have you believe actually you turn on cable news you turn on algorithmically Amplified social media and political social media you'd believe that our country actually at the heart of individ idual people in the country is on the precipice of a breaking point I don't quite think so actually I think to the contrary being in room fulls of people not without a camera between but room fulls of real people by the by the tens or the hundreds or the thousands across this country I've been in all of those I don't think that we're nearly as divided as the media would have you believe 80 plus percent of people in this country agree on those basic values the rule of law self self governance economic growth meritocracy Free Speech open debate 80% of Americans agree on that and half the 20% are frankly people younger than me who never learned those ideals in the first place who I believe we can bring along too but it's up to us to call that bluff for what it is and to do that we're not going to end up doing it by obsessing over one candidate at a time she is a cog in a wheel Biden was a cog in a wheel Biden's cognitive deficits they were not a bug they were a feature to the people who manage him and control him KL haris policy deficits they are not a bug but a feature to the people who do and will control her the reality is that's a trap that we risk falling into we've been led into a trap time and again this is the biggest trap of all is that the shenanigans of the other side and the inconsistencies of the other side and the ever wavering policy commitments of candidates like Kamala Harris that they forget they cause us to forget to tell the country Who We Are are and what we stand for we're not just running from something anymore guys now is our moment more than ever to actually start running to something back to our vision of what it means to be a citizen of this nation what does it mean to be a citizen of the United States of America means I pledge allegiance to this nation not another one means the people I elect to run the government that we elect to run the government better darn well run the government rather than the unelected bureaucrats who we can never fire means that we're going to shut down agencies like the US Department of Education and countless other three-letter agencies that have really aggregated power at the expense of the American electorate I think in some ways that requires not being more moderate but what more of what some in the media will call Extreme well you know what the American founding was extreme at its origin right the idea that we the people create a government that's accountable to us rather than the other way around or the idea that you get to speak your mind openly as long as I get to in return on open platforms that aren't shut down in free country in a free country like the United States that was a radical idea at the American founding for most of human history it was done the other way people were skeptical that voters could self-govern and decide for themselves how to sort out their differences that was the whole point of having back room Kings and and Nobles in the back of Palace halls in Old World England and for most of human history that made those decisions for the people that couldn't be trusted to make those decisions for themselves that's what you're seeing reemerge in the modern American aristocracy as well a skepticism that voters without having tilted the scales of what information they can and can't be exposed to the voters themselves will make a wrong choice for themselves unless you actually have the heavy hand of elite government interference or Elite bureaucratic interference getting in their way but that's what's on the table in this election I do think that this is one of those elections that's not about the traditional Republican versus Democrat talking points it's a 1776 kind of election do we actually believe in those yes extreme ideals on which the United States of America was founded I do and I'm proud of it do I think those ideals still exist in this country I do I think most Americans still believe in them I think they still unite most Americans even in a moment where it feels like we're skating on thin eyes the common commitment to those ideals runs far deeper than the media would have you believe but it is up to us to now step up and stand for those ideals without apologizing for it to offer our own Vision to say that this is where we are running to it's not make America great again is not just about some nostalgic vision for a past that we grew up in that's a that's a trap we sometimes fall into even when I speak sometimes I often say I I want to pass on to my kids the same country that I grew up in but that's a mistake we got to do better than that we don't want to just return to some nostalgic satisfaction of the past when we say we want to make America great again what we actually mean is we want to make America greater than it has ever been that's who we are that's the ambition the pursuit of American exceptionalism is about that a Pursuit acknowledging that you know we're not perfect as a country we never have been but we're about the pursuit of perfection we're going to keep pursuing that that's who we are that ambition of making America greater that's what you hear from Donald Trump this time that I think is even different than what you heard in 2016 I think that second Trump term I do believe has an opportunity to be even more successful than that first term was but we're going to get there by focusing on that actual vision for our country even in very practical terms not just lofty theoretical philosophical terms seal the Border go the economy stay out of World War III restore Law and Order in the United States of America that's something that Americans across the political Spectrum I I know we going to get behind but focus on that actual Vision rather than falling into the Trap of you know and the in the traps that not only the Democratic party and their puppet of a nominee come Harris and the media industrial complex working with them will lay no we we immunize ourselves against that risk by actually offering our own vision and the more we stick to that the more I still think we have an opportunity to win this election not by a little bit but by a lot I'm going to be traveling the swing states in the coming weeks ahead a lot of my schedule I've ended up clearing to focus on yes I'm doing a lot through the private sector and I'm enjoying that returning to My Life as a businessman for for part of part of the way I've spent this year but we have an important enough six weeks ahead that I'm clearing a lot of my schedule I'm going to be traveling to places like Michigan and Georgia and North Carolina to be able to show up in the places where Republicans aren't traditionally going to show up universities even in Pennsylvania going to be traveling everywhere I can to swing States between now and the election to show up not just in the usual you know usual Echo Chambers sometimes we're politicians and and those who or running for office may end up but to show up in the places where we're not going to usually show up I'm going to go to college campuses I want to reach the next generation of Young Americans so many of whom have been betrayed and feel betrayed by the political class that have left them hanging out to dry with the version of the American dream that really is just that anymore a dream the idea that you get a four-year college degree and load yourself up with a bunch of college debt only to realize that that gender Studies major from some School in California doesn't really get you that head start on making it in our economy that's not an 18-year- old's fault that's the fault of a system that sold him a false bill of goods I think we got to show up at these at the places where traditional Republicans historically at least haven't shown up Donald Trump better than any candidate I've seen in a general election has done a great job of that but I think we need that up and down the ballot to win not just the presidency but I think hopefully lasting and decisive majorities in the Senate and the house as well that's how I'm planning to spend my time in the in the coming days and weeks ahead head and if you all do your part speak your mind openly do it without fear I promise you Donald Trump's going to do his and I'm going to do mind to make sure that we do make America not just great again but greater than it has ever been that we get in there in early 2025 and once and for all take that Federal bureaucracy and no longer just reform it but get in there to do what's needed to actually shut it down that's how we save a country that's how we save this republ public that's how we restore self-governance and grow our economy and restore what this country was founded on which is the idea that you get to achieve the maximum of your god-given potential without any government or system or bureaucracy standing in your way we're within Striking Distance of it we got seven eight weeks left the debate was one Milestone yesterday but what's going to determine whether or not we succeed is do we actually articulate to voters and prove to voters that we have an alternative vision and if we do I continue to like where we stand thanks a lot guys I'll see you when we'll take we'll take uh you know all of you with us on the road as much as we can digitally as I'm on those college campuses traveling those swing States and you know what I think we're actually just going to manage to get this job done thanks e