the, the, the american political process is in a state of appeals not seen since the battle days of 1968. that year began with president lyndon johnson shocking the nation by withdrawing from the presidential race after the primary season had begun in the state of new hampshire. 2 months later, an assassin murdered martin luther king in front of his motel room in memphis, tennessee, and just 2 months after that, robert f kennedy was assassinated just minutes after winning the california primary . in august, the democrats nominated an unpopular pro war vice president, hubert humphrey, as there are not many, amid rioting in the streets of the conventions, post the city of chicago. it's 56 years later. and here we go again. i'm john kerry . ok. welcome to the whistle blowers the

the. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 a joe biden and donald trump are arguably the 2 most unpopular people ever to run for president. at the same time. trump is widely viewed as narcissistic. his niece, who happens to be a psychologist, even says that he's mentally unbalanced. he's angry. he's mean, he doesn't appear to have any core values or believes, and he's more concerned about himself and his legacy then he appears to be about the country or about individual americans. joe biden is widely viewed as a demented and doddering old man at any given time or at any given event. he doesn't know where he is. he doesn't know who he's speaking to, and he has no idea how to run the country. inflation has been at its highest level in 44 years during the biden administration, and he simply was not able to articulate why americans should given 82 year old man

another 4 years in office, and then he withdrew from the race. in the meantime, let's look at some of the parallels with 1968. you have a sitting president that is now out. you have an unpopular vice president who will now be the democratic nominee. you have a democratic convention that will take place in chicago again, that will be the site of huge demonstrations, not just about the future of the democratic party, but also in opposition to the genocide that's taking place in gaza. and you have just a few weeks ago, an attempt to assassinate donald trump. there's a lot to talk about. we're joined by to guess to are uniquely qualified to comment on these issues. garland nixon is a former senior law enforcement official from the state of maryland. after retiring, he transitioned into journalism and he makes regular appearances on fox news where he analyzes contemporary political issues. he's also the co host of the critical our which you can here monday through friday on radio. sputnik. our 2nd guest is

ondemand. coney. he is a former colorado county commissioner and a former candidate for the us senate to and the us house of representatives. gentlemen, thanks for being with us today. thank you for inviting me, john. thank you john. garland, let's begin with you. in 2020 joe biden said that he intended to be a transitional president, one that would be a bridge from an older generation to a newer generation, with no great achievements to point to it his 4 years in the white house and fully cognizant of his health issues, why do you think he decided to run for re election as president, knowing that his age and his health issues would be so important? you know, i think the number one joe biden understands the dynamics of politics in the united states and the dynamics of power. and i think he understands that his job is not so much to make decisions, to enforce decisions and to be in control of the united states,

but to preside over a system of, of, of what i consider imperialism of world domination. and he knows that his job is to make it look palatable to the american people, to try to project a, an image of power and control to the world. and i think joe biden felt that irrespective of his physical condition, that he could create that an environment where people would see him as a leader. so i think he saw himself as a leader. he saw himself as a power broker and he felt that based on what he actually needed to do, that he could do it the people around him, no doubt. so otherwise. and i personally believe that they have been planning for many, many months to um, to replace him. he wasn't necessarily in on the plan until the last minute. so yeah, joe biden understands, is, it is job is his job was to actually, you know, understand what was going on and to control the direction of foreign policy and

domestic policy. i think joe biden is probably wise enough to know that he wouldn't be up to the task, but as a hand puppet for the ruling elite and job i knew pretty well. you can handle that task on. tell us a little bit about comma harris as background. she's a former attorney general of california before that she was a prosecutor. she's a former us senator from california, but she's also widely unpopular for a variety of reasons. with that, said, democrats seem to be rallying around her as the presumptive democratic nominee without even considering anybody else us. do you think that's wise? i think it's amazing has she's come out of the box. probably one of the best branding and marketing i've seen in 50 years and in american politics. when you think of the back story that if it's accurate, joe biden made the decision on sunday, after 2 of his closest aids and assistance,

gave him internal calling on the battleground states. that was the final straw for him. he didn't let tamala yours know until minutes before he made the announcement is top kent pain? steph didn't know until just a little bit before hand, and everyone on his campaign staff found out after he sent out the tweet. i find a little hard to believe because then what? i'm all i did immediately after biden endorsed or was she started getting endorsements from top democrats. she raised over a $100000000.00, then a $150.00, and now over $200000000.00. she already went on to the campaign trail. so it's, it's, is it wise i would say not wise that they had done that, it's too late that they did it, but now that they've done it, they couldn't have done it any better for what their purposes to come out strong,

get her brand name going not have any kind of contest going then the democrats has been, we'll call it rigging the primaries since bernie versus hillary in 2016. this is sort of kind of that way. is it? is she the best candidate? i would say we, i, i wouldn't think so. i would think maybe there's a better candidate and gavin newsome perhaps, but all of these people were considered to be top contenders for replacing joe biden. are all power hungry and it's been amazing how she's done so far. so i would say, is it wise from just i've, i've run 7 times. i've worked on dozens of campaigns. and i think, given the time before the convention in chicago, a few weeks out from now or on august 19th. and given how far the distance between

now and november it, it appears to be a very smart move we'll find out later how smart it really was. but if you look at who else it would be and how they would have had to go into a i, i know some other comments that we've heard is that obama was kind of shooting for a open convention. obviously progressive is like myself, we're hoping for an open convention, but in terms of yankees versus red sacks, who's best when they've got to come out fast, hard and message and raise money. and then top of it, she's had over $50000.00 volunteers. yesterday, there were over, i want to say for 400000 people on one of her zoom calls, she said 40000 people under zoom calls. but in the battle ground stage, see it's early, but she's showing to be polling below below the trunk. garland,

i want to talk a little bit about running mates, donald trump, who now oddly enough is the oldest man in american history ever to run for president. chose 39 year old judy vance to be his vice presidential running mate vance as a billionaire and a protege of peter t o. another billionaire who has close ties to the c. i. a vance has only been in the senate for 18 months. he's more doctrinaire than trump is in politics, for example, opposing abortion. and in the past, he even compared trump to 8 of hitler. was this a good choice for trump? i think it was a brilliant choice for trump. number one, a brilliant choice for trumping, i'll tell you why. because i believe number one in order to get out to, to, to win election, you have to do 3 things. number one, turn out to base number to turn out your base over 3 turnouts or base. you have to

get your people to the poll and then you can get independence and steal somebody volts from the other, where it gets a few other. why get people that would normally vote, but you have to turn out your base right now. the base of the party sees what, what true, false, or indifferent. the base of the party sees donald trump as something else as something different as a popular. there is no one in congress. they see maybe rand, always something like that. more as more of a populace than j. d. that. so what they have done is the ruling, the lead, the traditional politicians, the people who see a politician, the politics through the lens of traditional politics in the us are freaked out. no, he's terrible. why? because he's different. is something different. these are the people who and donald trump said things like, of george bush live us into a war. they said, oh my god, that's it. trump, is that what's over done? you can't say that you can't them, that's the ruling elite. but you can very well say that amongst the working glass people because they all believe it. so i think he chose

a candidate that will be extremely unpopular amongst the media, chattering, talking head class extremely unpopular amongst the ruling elite. but uh, what not withstanding who j the vance really is whether he's a billionaire. notwithstanding all of that, the base of the republican party see him as a trap in um, uh outside or slash populist. and they will show up as opposed to the other side camel harris. i'm gonna add this. she's viewed as kind of more of the same. she is really invigorating people who are already going to vote. democrat, the, the black and white black women are the most loyal group of the democratic party and they are completely fired up. but you only get one vote so they can be fired up . they were all coming there anyway. i think the people in the democratic party that are most fired up about pamela harris, are the people that always vote democrat that would crawl through broken glass on

the election day to get to the democratic party. young black people, it don't like her record at all as a prosecutor, so they're not bringing them out that she's not bringing the youth vote out. and you've got the concept of campbell harris, which is she's a black e mail, whatever, you know, the whole all of that stuff. which sounds great. oh, looks good. but then she, you know, it's like having a pretty car with a nice paint job. you got to get into drive the car at some point to see if the engine is good and it is best or not. and her record tells me from 2020 that she starts off with good numbers. the more people see her the last day like are you are what your record says. you are. her record says when you, when she runs for president, the more she talks, the worst are numbers. get the go down to the point where she's the only candidate and they can get less black votes and people to judge i think she's, i think she, i think she'll be completely wiped out. i don't see how campbell harris. i don't.

one other thing that i got to add regarding the vice presidential candidates, so you have to bob, you have to pick someone who you overshadow. you know, you have to pick a vice presidential candidate that doesn't look better better as a candidate that isn't more, a better spoken that isn't a better or reader that is an a better uh, have a better political history. how does campbell harris pick someone who's a worst or rather than her? unless she picks job? i'm aren't as many as 9 people are being mentioned in the press as possible running mates for cala harris. but only 3 of them have told the media that they are being formally vetted as potential running mates. those are governor josh appear of pennsylvania, governor roy cooper, of north carolina and senator mark kelly of arizona. all of them have clear strength. they are all from the so called battle round states. they're all seen as

moderates. they are all very popular in their home states, but they also have negatives to shapiro is jewish, and calls himself a zionist. that could hurt with muslim democrats in the state of michigan. cooper is a democrat from a republican state and although he's popular, there's no guarantee that he can deliver in north carolina for harris and kelly, who really is a bona fide american hero. and a former astronaut. and the husband, a former congresswoman, gabby gifford, to herself, was shot in the head in an assassination attempt, is seen as strong with suburban women and hispanics, but perhaps a little too tough on immigration issues. what do you think would bring the most to a democratic ticket to out of the 3 candidates for vice president? the ones that you mentioned, john have said a lot of things that are pro sinus shapiro, the governor of, of pennsylvania. he has said that the active is good for the pro

uh that pro palestine active is are or he's liking them to the k. k takes the other day one. yeah. now who was in a congress, senator mark kelly stood and applauded. when yeah, who was talking about what the active this were doing and that i haven't heard what cooper has said on the subject. but when you distill it all down, it's who is the who does wall street trust and like who is pro zionist? those are who is in favor of the military industrial, complex oil and gas. we're not going to get anyone who's against any of these groups. big pharma, big agriculture. thank you both for the analysis. we're going to take a short break and when we come back we're going to get into some of the issues that

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the welcome back to the whistle blowers. i'm john kerry onto. 2 2 we're speaking with garland nixon, he is a former senior law enforcement official from the state of maryland. after retiring, he transitioned into journalism. many makes regular appearances on fox news, where he analyzes contemporary political issues. he's also the co host of the critical our which you can hear monday through friday on radio. sputnik and we're also speaking with armand coney. he's a former colorado county commissioner and former candidate for both the us senate and the us house of representatives on let's start with you. the republicans have made very clear the issues on which they want to run. that is the economy and the border. even though the economy is actually strong, inflation has been stubbornly high, and republicans have successfully convinced their adherents that the us mexico

border is open. something that they call an invasion of the southern united states to these issues resonate outside the republican party to the democrats. be worried . democrats have such a difficult time stain and a message with their messages going to be is we can't have donald trump become president because it's the end of the democracy. donald trump is going to take away women's rights. donald trump is a convicted felon. that seems to be their top message, and they're having a very difficult time combating on what is the solution. if you will elect us, we will go ahead and continue to try to find out why the republicans will not sign a bill that they were originally in favor of until donald trump killed that. and, and, and keep on the message, john, if it's, i mean, talk about the blackboard

a bit. okay, sure. obviously, i know not lot of people in, in the black community the, i grew up, my dad was a long short and you know, hard at wearing working class people, i still know a lot of longshore, but i still know a lot of people in the working class community in a black community working class and working for it. none of that to them. none of it's about messaging. zip river, it's irrelevant. they don't let you know. here's, here's the number one. they're concerned about the price. they're concerned about their standard of living. they can look at the numbers. so i've heard people base basically i had some friends of mine in the black community. your yes, over jo biden's speech wednesday night. and they said things like, what the hell is he talking about the economies better than ever? they felt insulted because they go to the grocery store and they paid $40.00 for a tiny bag of stuff. they used to be $19.00 and they have somebody now telling them that things are better for them. even if i make $5.00 more an hour, but it costs me another $15.00 an hour to live. you can massage the and i think

this is the problem. the democrats have their massage and the numbers as they all they say, i don't. and you might heard it in black media and all the time. figures lie and lie or secret, right. and that is based on the numbers that you're given me. okay. you know, uh if the economy is great, based on what i have to pay for on a day to day basis, the economy is horrible for me, you know, what they think of, there's an old mean where there's the king standing out, you know, on the old balcony saying to the talking to the peasants, and he says, our economy is doing great. now yours, on the other hand, not so much. that's what they hear from joe by number one i, i had a, a friend of mine who as a of a loan service, pretty big one service various crews going out. and he was, i could tell what he was really asking me as knowing that i'm a political analyst is my blessing for him to vote for trump. that's what he was saying. you know,

which slope was in. i was paying sold x amount of dollars for gas. so now i pay this. what the democrats don't understand is they can talk, they can come up with numbers, they can do all of these wonderful things when it comes down to what people are going to vote on their pocket book. and it's not looking pretty on the foot for working class and working for people. it's just terrible form and they're unhappy about it. number one, on immigration, same thing. it comes down to the same thing. what i hear in the black community, the anger of immigration sounds like this man, can you believe it? these people in new york, they're giving them. if they're giving them shelter, they're giving them all these cards with month dig, blah, blah, blah. what about the, what about my community? can you believe it? 95000000000, the ukraine, taiwan, whatever. and i'll come back to my community. they don't have enough money to put strings on the basketball court that are local recreation center. so there is a certain feeling in the black community that they have been forgotten. so that the,

the democratic under the democratic party, there's leaders, there's money for ward is money for everything, but them number and, and lastly that they're being gas with that they're feeling economic pain and their leaders are telling them everything's just wonderful and rosy. and they're being insulted. why is it that you can understand that we need to change the message? we need to tell you in a different way how wonderful your life is. even though your rent is going up by 40 percent and the, the, the cost of food has gone up by 45 percent. you've only got 3 for the if a n o people say that, what are they talking about 6 or 7 percent inflation? i used to pay $0.99, but it's now it's a $1.99. so people have to deal with material economic realities. i think there's a anger and a frustration that the democrats aren't so much about messaging in. they won't even say, okay, we'll acknowledge that you're paying. i think they're looking at donald trump to some expect a for perspective. i have never 63 years of my life seen

a time when i've seen as many black people who will either say a vote for a republican or who will get quiet when you ask them. what are your vote for? they don't have to tell you or, and done. i'm staying whole people who said to me at 2020 garland, you vote right, aren't you? you got that vote for, but you got to make this happy. now say to me, i'm done. i'm done these. the only thing they care about is where they don't care about us. all these immigrate immigrants don't give them money and it's not an anti immigrant stance. it's a jealousy saying we've been here for 400 years. they've got a don for us. they've got money for everybody else. the democrats have blown. it's so bad. unless something changes. they're going to get. what i'm a crone got, they're going to get what race you sooner got when you ignore the people that you need in your base. as they say, and as they say in the sales, the funny thing happens when you don't advertise nothing. and the funny thing

happens when you do not address the material needs of a important block of voters. they stay home, they're going to be raking leaves on, on november in november. are tell us a little bit about some of the so called down ballot races. the democrats feared for a long time that with an unpopular joe biden at the top of the ticket. that he would drag down democratic candidates around the country running for the senate and the house. he's not on the ballot now. so what does that do in these races? the republicans need to win the presidency and one senate seat to take back the senate and the democrats need to win for house seats to take the house. can you venture a prediction for the white house in november? they're going to lose the senate. there's 8 states and play, and then the republicans only need one vote in order to gain the senate. so let's just, i'm going to predict that the democrats lose, lose the senate,

but they have, i think it's about 4 states that they have to pick up in the house. i think they're going to win the house because of the energy that's going in because of how you saw the shift to republicans 2 years ago in some states and some districts that could have easily been won by democrats and, or were held by democrats. those so either get back or the wind mass, so they'll have the house, darlin, same question to you. give us your thoughts on the white house, the senate and the house. so um i think donald trump wins the white house handily. um, i think what we're looking at is something, you know, in politics it's important understand that you're looking at a snapshot in time. and that's one of the why. the reason that one of the reasons that i've been trying to use a historical context when it comes to campbell harris based on a number of things, not the least of which being, you know, her personal appeal as an individual. you know, one of the things that i think is going on right now is there is

a certain you for you, the you for is based on the concept of carol. i have to campbell harris as a full, as opposed to the person scale, the how she's an attractive woman. she's a woman of color, whatever that really means. i don't know if there are people in the black community who are now saying, you know, people say an african american wait a minute, or fathers in jamaica, or mothers from india, then you know, asking american there. but those are things that aren't decisive factor, right? because in, in the bottom line, right. if the election work today. okay. she, it'd be very, very close. campbell harris's re record from a historical context was she came out doing well. and once she, you know, uh, tulsa gabbert, exposed a history that she has as an attorney general, that's extremely unattractive to mine, already classes. the people that feel that they've been mistreated by the system of justice, that it's an injustice system that there's a, that there's a racist adjust the system, etc. so her history as

a prosecutor is not something that's gonna work well for her a month young people, animals, people of color. and she has not shown an ability to be a successful lower rate or successful speaker, etc. so you have to back out last time. so again, i'm going to guess or predict only. i could be wrong based on what happened in 2020 . that on her numbers won't go up. that they'll go down that this met snapchat. a shot and time looks good, but as people here are more and more, i think her numbers go down. therefore, us, if we get to a point going into the election, where people have come to the conclusion, democrats have come to the conclusion that donald trump will win, and i kind of feel we're going to get there. at that point, the democrats are in big trouble. thank you both gentlemen. this was great. politics is a tough business. president harry truman once said that if you want a friend in washington, send, get a dog and fame, political consultant,

james carville, famously said about the 1992 election. it's the economy, stupid. that hasn't changed, even in the face of strong personalities. sure. abortion in the border are important to a lot of americans, but when push comes to shove, just like it is every 4 years american voters will hearken back to a question. said ronald reagan asked when he was running for president in 1980. that question was this, are you better off today than you were 4 years ago? that's really the bottom line. i'd like to thank our guests car, the nixon and argument tony for being with us today. and thank you to our viewers for joining us. for another episode of who was of lowers. i'm john kerry. aku, please follow me on subsets as john kerry onto. we'll see you next time the. 2 2 2 the

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