Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) has bent the truth to his benefit on numerous occasions. While it appears that in many cases, Walz has done so out of habit, his attempt to bend the truth on "CBS Mornings" this week was clearly out of desperation.
Host Tony Dokoupil suggested at the outset of his Wednesday interview with Walz that Harris' "closing campaign message is all about unity" — a message possibly compromised by President Joe Biden's dehumanizing suggestion Tuesday that Americans who support President Donald Trump are "garbage."
"I want to get your reaction to the president's comments, but I want to put it into a larger context of your recent comment comparing the Sunday Trump rally to a Nazi rally," said Dokoupil. "I would also throw in there Obama's bitter clingers, 'gun and religion' comment from a while back, the 'deplorable' line from Hillary Clinton's campaign, and the way that Democrats are seen by some voters as disrespecting them."
'They cling to guns or religion.'
Dokoupil was referring to:
Dokoupil said, "I have to ask: Does that undercut this closing message of unity from your campaign?"
Kamala Harris' running mate fired back, "No, certainly not."
'I think Vice — uh, President Biden — was very clear.'
"I've represented rural areas. I've represented Democrats, Republicans, independents. Same thing with the vice president," said the Democratic governor, suggesting that Harris — who has demonized pro-life Americans, previously argued that traditional Catholics should be disqualified from judicial appointments, and told Christians at a recent campaign event that they were "at the wrong rally" — represented all Americans.
"Look, you saw a presidential speech last night at the Ellipse that is the best of America," said Walz. "One that's talking about unifying us. One that's talking about bringing folks to the table."
Walz quickly jettisoned the unity theme to accuse Trump of being divisive, to insinuate that the Republican president was somehow responsible for Biden's dehumanizing language, and to once again bend the truth, this time about Biden's "garbage" statement.
"I think that the frustration we've seen since January 6, the frustration with Donald Trump's rhetoric of division, it does fire passions," continued Walz. "I think Vice — uh, President Biden — was very clear that he's speaking about the rhetoric we heard, and so it doesn't undermine it. People are hungry to come back together."
Some revisionists on the left have similarly suggested that Biden's "garbage" remark was not directed at millions of Trump supporters, but instead at Trump's rhetoric.
Politico, for instance, falsely reported that "Biden, in a Zoom call with the organization Vote Latino, said 'the only garbage' was the 'hatred' of Trump supporters who said such things about American citizens."
Despite such rewrites of what happened, it is clear from the footage of Biden's remarks that he was unmistakably trashing Trump supporters.
Americans might ultimately unite, just not in the way Walz is hoping.
A recent MinnPost-Embold Research poll indicated that even in his home state, the race has tightened up, showing Harris leading Trump by only three points.
According to the latest AtlasIntel poll, Trump is up two points nationally. Averaging recent polls, Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight polling outfit alternatively has Trump trailing by 1.4 points.
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Kamala Harris suggested at her embarrassing CNN town hall last week that President Donald Trump is a fascist — her rhetorical capstone to a years-long campaign to characterize the Republican as both a threat to democracy and a suitable target for lawfare or worse. Her running mate soon joined liberal media propagandists likening Trump and his supporters, including a Holocaust survivor, to the Nazis of yesteryear. The Democratic National Committee lent a helping hand, projecting Nazi accusations outside Trump's Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden.
Democrats and their allies in the media have long employed Nazi and fascist analogies to defame, discredit, and isolate political opponents such as Barry Goldwater, President Ronald Reagan, President George W. Bush, and former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. These historically illiterate smears have not only served to spike rigorous debate, increase political polarization, and minimize the evils perpetrated by Adolf Hitler and his forces but have also proven largely ineffective.
A super PAC supporting Harris recently acknowledged as much.
Future Forward USA Action, touted earlier this month by the New York Times as "an ad-making laboratory" with a $700 million war chest, suggested in an email to Democrats regarding effective campaign messaging that playing up the Trump-as-fascist fiction in the final stretch before Election Day is a strategic blunder.
The New York Times indicated that the email noted in bold type, "Attacking Trump's Fascism Is Not That Persuasive."
Another line said, "'Trump Is Exhausted' Isn't Working."
'No wonder they're in hysterics.'
"Purely negative attacks on Trump's character are less effective than contrast messages that include positive details about Kamala Harris's plans to address the needs of everyday Americans," said the email.
According to Future Forward, Harris' suggestion that Trump is a fascist at her CNN town hall was only in "the 40th percentile on average for moving vote choice." She apparently would have been better off discussing Medicare expansion to include in-home care for geriatrics as she did previously on Howard Stern's show, which tested in the 95th percentile.
The trouble for Harris — besides the late notice about the inefficacy of her go-to smear — is that attacking Trump is easier than defending her record or her vision for America.
Even in those instances in which she has a policy to promote that she did not copy and paste from the defunct Biden campaign, such as the taxation policy she instead copied and pasted from the Trump campaign, Harris trips over her own tongue and into what Democratic strategist David Axelrod recently called "word salad city."
Facing such difficulties, ad hominem attacks might be the easier alternative, even if ineffective.
While the core sales pitch — Trump is bad — has remained the same throughout, the Times noted that Harris' team has tried some variations since the Democratic National Convention:
Ms. Harris's team had made it clear immediately after the Democratic National Convention that they planned to switch from the message that President Biden had used most, that Mr. Trump is a unique threat to the country. They argued that making Mr. Trump smaller in the minds of voters was crucial. In her convention speech, she called him an "unserious man" but warned that restoring him to power would have "extremely serious" consequences.
Judging from recent polls, the "unserious man" line of attack didn't work. This might account for why Harris went back to smearing Trump as "unhinged, unstable," and ultimately a fascist, blowing $10 million on a recent ad claiming the Republican is "too big a risk for America" — an ad that Future Forward indicated fared poorly.
Future Forward's email warned, "Focusing on Trump’s disturbing, ludicrous and outlandish behavior can be an effective lead-in to talking about substantive policy, but is not effective at moving vote choice on its own."
The weakness of Democrats' Nazi strategy is not exactly a well-kept secret.
In 2018, privacy lawyer and journalist Allan Richarz penned an op-ed for The Hill, stressing that "overwrought comparisons to the Nazis are both historically illiterate and an extreme strategic misstep."
Richarz warned that by branding Trump a Nazi, Democrats had committed to continuous escalation and a weakening of language.
"Now that Trump is 'actually Hitler,' any compromise by Democrats will be viewed as kowtowing to fascism. Conversely, sticking with the Nazism line of attack cheapens its effect and, frankly, makes its proponents come off as a little more than unhinged, something perhaps already at play given that a Gallup poll has put Trump at his highest approval rating to date," wrote Richarz.
Jay Cost, a Gerald R. Ford nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, noted, "Always a sign of struggle when the Super PAC has to yell at the campaign, but can only do it legally via the media."
David Reaboi, fellow at the Claremont Institute, responded to the Times report, tweeting, "This is insanity. Kamala spent over $10M on ads focused on 'Trump is Hitler/Fascist,' and her largest Super PAC said they barely moved the needle, if at all. No wonder they're in hysterics."
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With less than two weeks to go before Election Day, Donald Trump’s campaign just keeps looking better.
And shockingly, New York City just turned out big-time for the former president.
Not only did the mayor, Eric Adams, tell his party to tone down the divisive and harmful rhetoric regarding Trump, but a rally Trump held at Madison Square Garden completely sold out — and the crowd outside was even bigger.
“That place was packed,” Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” comments. “What does it seat, 20,000?”
The NYPD released the official count of those in attendance, with Madison Square Garden at 19,500 people and 75,000 people outside the arena rallying in support of Trump’s campaign.
“And it’s a Nazi rally, because in 1939, Nazis held a rally at Madison Square Garden,” Gray comments, poking fun at the Democrats who have compared the two.
“So what I just heard you say is Billy Joel is a Nazi,” Keith Malinak comments, as Billy Joel has also sold out Madison Square Garden many times. “If you go to Madison Square Garden and a big crowd shows up, you must be a Nazi.”
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As Election Day nears, Donald Trump continues to rise in the polls — and Democrats are in full-on meltdown mode.
“Kamala just gave a speech where she said that it’s been confirmed now that Donald Trump said when he was in office that he won’t answer to the Constitution,” Glenn Beck tells Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.”
“Just horrible. That’s going to get the man killed,” he says, adding that if you believe what Kamala’s peddling, “you’re a moron.”
The left’s rhetoric is meant to spread fear among its voters and could potentially set some of the less stable ones off — as America has already seen with two assassination attempts on the former president.
“We have to pray for this man,” Glenn says. “They kill him, anybody kills him, and it puts our country in a very dangerous place.”
While Stuckey notes that the election is “close,” Glenn disagrees.
“I could be wrong,” he tells her. “I don’t know what the cheating situation’s going to be, but I think this time, there’s a lot of hidden anti-Kamala votes of people that should have voted for the Democrat, would like to vote for the Democrat, but just can’t do it for some reason or another and won’t.”
“If it’s a landslide, and we don’t have an assassination, I think we have a chance of holding it together. They’re going to try everything. Everything that they said about January 6, on what Trump was doing, they’re already saying they’re going to do that if he’s elected,” he continues.
While the lengths the Democrats might go to keep Trump out of office are scary, Glenn relays that our side has to “stay calm” if we’re going to be OK.
“If there is struggle, these people will clamp down and the left, the far-out left, will make it much, much worse. You don’t want anything to happen,” he says. “This thing could go a million different directions. It’s going to take calm, a heart of Christ, and absolute obedience to the gospel.”
“We have to remember that these people do not have the same moral limitations that you or I do,” he adds.
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MSNBC, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and other Harris allies smeared a Holocaust survivor and tens of thousands of other Americans who attended President Donald Trump's high-energy campaign event Sunday at Madison Square Garden, characterizing them as today's equivalent of Nazis and fascists.
Despite the efforts of New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal and other radical Democrats to shut down the event and a campaign by Lincoln Project false-flaggers to empty the stands, a diverse crowd filled the Garden to hear from numerous speakers, including former first lady Melania Trump, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Hulk Hogan, and Tony Hinchcliffe — a comedian who appears to have broken leftists' thin skin with his usual cutting humor.
Trump, exuding the joy his opponent once laid claim to, spoke of the dormancy of American greatness during the Biden-Harris years and the prospect of its return and maximization if he wins a second term.
While the crowd of tens of thousands appeared receptive to the speakers' remarks, Democrats and their media allies descended into fits of hysteria, leaning hard into preplanned Nazi comparisons and more of the incendiary rhetoric that set the stage for two known assassination attempts.
MSNBC went the distance for the Harris campaign in its coverage of the event, effectively smearing the multitudes in attendance — including Trump's numerous Jewish supporters and even a Holocaust survivor — as Nazis and fascists.
In a segment captioned, "Trump's MSG rally comes 85 years after pro-Nazi rally at famed arena," MSNBC talking head Jonathan Capehart said that the event was "particularly chilling because in 1939, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, packed the Garden for a so-called pro-America rally — a rally where speakers voiced anti-Semitic rhetoric from a stage draped with Nazi banners."
MSNBC juxtaposed clips of a Nazi rally with footage from Trump's event at the Garden.
'I know more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in a thousand lifetimes.'
Capehart — who refrained from noting that the Democratic Party held its national conventions at the Garden in 1976, 1980, and 1992 — then appealed to anti-Trump historians Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Anne Applebaum for help smearing Trump and his supporters as Nazi parallels.
Steve Benen, the producer of "The Rachel Maddow Show," similarly likened the Sunday campaign event to a Nazi rally, writing, "The Republican’s Madison Square Garden event was ugly. It was offensive. It was vulgar. It was hateful. It drew obvious parallels to the 1939 event."
Time magazine, which again demonstrated its aversion to the truth last month, released an article ahead of the rally titled "How the Trump Rally at Madison Square Garden Follows a Long Tradition in Politics," emphasizing that Nazis once gathered where Trump supporters would soon rally.
Jerry Wartski, a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor who survived Auschwitz and the Nazis' death marches, was among those at the rally smeared by MSNBC and other Democratic propaganda outfits.
Wartski noted in a recent video, "Adolf Hitler invaded Poland when I was 9 years old. He murdered my parents and most of my family. I know more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in a thousand lifetimes. For her to accuse President Trump of being like Hitler is the worst thing I've ever heard in my 75 years of living in the United States."
The Holocaust survivor appears to have singled out Harris because of her suggestion at a recent CNN town hall that Trump is a fascist and previous insinuations on the same theme.
The Nazi narrative embraced Sunday by MSNBC began in earnest earlier this month when Hoylman-Sigal wrote on X, "Let's be clear. Allowing Trump to hold an event at MSG is equivalent to the infamous Nazis rally at Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939."
At the time, Blaze News senior editor and Washington correspondent Christopher Bedford noted, "A better comparison might have been Young Americans for Freedom's 1962 Madison Square Garden Rally, when those teenagers organized well over 18,000 attendees, and more outside, for a rally against global communism."
"New York liberals were shocked then how many of the kids rejected their tired ideas, but guys like Hoylman-Sigal don't actually know any history, so they just prove their own intolerant bigotries by calling for anyone who opposes their own tired ideas to be shut down," added Bedford.
Hoylman-Sigal was later aided in his narrative campaign by failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who — apparently happy to forget her husband's 1992 rally at the Garden — told CNN that Trump would be "re-enacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939."
'They are a collection of hypocritical, mentally unstable children.'
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz soon joined in, saying, "There's a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid-1930s at Madison Square Garden and don't think that he doesn't know for one second exactly what they're doing there."
The Democratic National Committee even projected Nazi accusations onto the Garden's exterior on the day, claiming, "Trump praised Hitler."
DNC spokesperson Abhi Rahman noted on X, "@TheDemocrats are reminding voters that Americans can’t afford Trump’s unstable and unwell behavior — even at his own rallies."
Critics of the apparently coordinated Nazi smear suggested that the media was not only agitating for violence but diminishing the true horror of the Holocaust and the evil of the Nazis for political gain.
Manhattan Institute fellow Ilya Shapiro noted, "Those who liken Trump to Hitler and the MSG rally to the Nazi rally aren't just smearing Trump, but minimizing Hitler/Nazis - which, given the antisemitic nature of the progressive left, may well be the point."
"INCITEMENT," wrote the popular X user @amuse. "Yesterday's Trump rally was filled with Americans from every walk of life including orthodox, conservative, reform, and secular Jews. I saw a woman in a burka. It wasn't an anything like a Nazi rally. Shame on MSNBC."
Dr. Simon Goddek tweeted to MSNBC, "You deserve to be canceled to the core."
Some users shared images of John F. Kennedy and other former presidents speaking at the Garden, while others asked whether the Knicks might be Nazi-like for playing at the venue.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk wrote, "Never mind that JFK and FDR both spoke at the same arena. Nope, those speeches were fine, because they were Democrats. Now, they're rewriting the rules so that big political rallies in a big city is 'Nazi' behavior. The left call themselves 'the adults in the room,' but they are the exact opposite. They are a collection of hypocritical, mentally unstable children. They cannot be allowed to hold power."
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Democrats' problem isn't that their leader just said the quiet part out loud. It's that they've been so loud about their disdain for Trump supporters for so long.
Clinton apologized for remarks that defined elite contempt for Trump supporters which has since become a staple of the Democrats' campaigns.
It's the same tired playbook from a political party that's been projecting its own authoritarian impulses onto Republicans for years.
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