Posted on 07/29/2024 11:54:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week’s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
Just one week has passed since the Democratic Party ousted President Joe Biden from the 2024 ticket and essentially coronated Vice President Kamala Harris to be his successor — and while questions are still mounting about Biden’s true condition and why he ultimately agreed to step away from the campaign, there are bigger questions surrounding Harris and her qualifications and whether her own party believes she has the ability to win against former President Donald Trump.
While all of those questions are valid — and pressing, as the Democratic Party’s Chicago convention is fast-approaching — one other burning question has bubbled to the top: if Harris is at the top of the 2024 ticket, who will get second billing? In an effort to field some of those questions — and perhaps posit himself as the answer to the last one — Transportation Secretary and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg sat down with “Fox News Sunday” anchor Shannon Bream for a truly dizzying twelve-minute interview.
Bream began the interview with a question about Harris’ rapid ascension to de facto nominee, noting that some people had voiced concern with the lack of democracy taking place in the Democratic Party of late.
“A week ago, we were doing this show and President Biden was still in the race, we now have a presumptive new nominee,” Bream noted before quoting a piece from Bret Stephens at The New York Times:
The one thing the Democratic Party is not supposed to be is anti-democratic — a party in which insiders select the nominee from the top down, not the bottom up, and which expects the rank and file to fall in line and clap enthusiastically. That’s the playbook of ruling parties in autocratic states.
“You know the optics of this,” Bream went on to prompt Buttigieg to explain how he addressed voters’ concerns that the party wasn’t listening to the people.
Buttigieg sidestepped the question entirely, instead delivering a short speech on how “remarkable” it was that “in a matter of days” — and after being told by the party that they would be offered no other choice — Democrats had rallied around Harris. He then claimed that despite the obviously top-down nature of her anointment, there was “extraordinary energy” brewing “from the ground up” around Harris’ week-old campaign.
“You actually have gotten more delegates, though, than she has,” Bream pointed out, referencing Buttigieg’s failed 2020 presidential bid and noting that Harris, who also ran, never won a single delegate on her own merits and even dropped out of the race before the end of December 2019. Bream also quoted a former Harris staffer who worried about the vice president’s “coronation” and said that she had not been “tested and tried” as a candidate on her own.
The Transportation Secretary vaulted over that question as well, claiming that her experience as the vice president was all the testing that was necessary. “She is in one of the most visible leadership roles in the country,” he said, leaving out recent Democrat and media efforts to put some serious distance between Harris and the disastrous outcome of her highly “visible leadership role” as Biden’s hand-selected border czar.
Buttigieg went on to claim that “most Americans already agree with” Harris — despite her well-documented history as the “most liberal Senator” and a voting record that skewed left of even Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders.
Buttigieg then attempted to steer the interview away from Harris so that he could attack former President Trump, but Bream brought it back around to Harris and whether or not she should be held responsible either for her failure to see that Biden was flailing or for her apparent willingness to help hide it from the American people.
Once again, Buttigieg ignored the question and said, “Joe Biden is good at being President.” The results, he argued, spoke for themselves — although it’s likely that the poll numbers saying that the American people largely disapproved of his job performance and that they’d rather he be replaced on the ticket were not the “results” he meant.
Instead, Buttigieg relied on debunked claims that Biden had created more jobs than Trump or any other president when most of those jobs had not been new jobs but rather had been people returning to work in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic. He wrapped up his point by claiming that Biden had made the “selfless” choice to take himself out of the 2024 race as if high-dollar donors and powerful party bosses hadn’t strong-armed that decision out of him.
He then chalked up Biden’s obvious and rapid decline to the fact that he was a little bit older before pivoting to suggest that Trump — who just two weeks earlier stood up and raised his fist, after taking a bullet, to tell the crowd he was all right — was in no better shape than Biden.
And that was just the first five minutes.
If he’s the VP nominee, I can see the ticket nickname now...
Vote for Steer and Queer in 2024!
Mayor Buttplug is in the running?
LMAO
Everything about the democrat party is twisted, perverted and Satanically criminal . . . booty judge . . . . that’s a name
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Harris and Buttplug are both DEI hires
I hope she picks him. Black people hate queers.
Oh great a leg spreader and a butt humper. What a dynamic duo
Both represent the wrong holes.
Gunnery Sergeant Foley agrees with you.
I don’t think she/ they will. Probably Kelly from AZ. Unlike Trump the pick will strategic not Governance.
I can’t even imagine if she gets elected and with another marxist
He’d be a good match with Harris, neither one has done squat in four years.
Spin Cycle: Mayor Pete Twists Himself Into Pretzels To Defend Harris, Make Bid For Veep
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I’ve said for some time now that Butt gig is bending over backwards to get this position.
After all, he and Kamala love and enjoy the same sexual act.
Bream asked whether Harris should be held responsible for either
<><>her failure to see that a demented Biden was flailing
<><>or her efforts to help hide it from the American people.
Bombshell poll reveals what Americans REALLY think
about Kamala Harris’s role in a Biden health ‘cover-up’
American voters think VP Harris was involved in concealing Biden’s health
By KATELYN CARALLE, SR POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM, 28 July 2024
A staggering number of U.S. voters think that Vice President Kamala Harris was at least partially involved in covering-up the extent of President Joe Biden’s mental decline. Biden, 81, ended his reelection bid last weekend amid a flurry of calls for him to step aside after a disastrous debate performance and ensuing weeks of flubs and missteps from which he could not recover.
Harris immediately stepped in as his replacement and took over Biden’s campaign. Two days later, the VP earned enough delegates to become the Democrat’s presumed 2024 nominee. But a whopping 92 percent of registered voters in a new YouGov/Times of London poll say that Harris was behind the efforts to conceal Biden’s failing cognitive fitness and physical wellbeing as his staff maintained to press and the public that the president was fit for a second term.
More than half of U.S. voters think that Vice President Kamala Harris is at least partially to blame for covering-up President Joe Biden’s declining mental and physical health. The survey of 1,170 voters taken July 22 and 23 asked whether they believed there was an effort to shield Biden’s mental health from the public and who was responsible for the cover-up. Fifty-four percent of respondents said there was a cover-up and 30 percent said they don’t believe there was one. Sixteen percent aren’t sure. The switch-up in the 2024 election has left many with questions over whether there was a plot to keep Biden’s cognitive health under wraps and who plotted to keep secret his declining health.
And 30 percent of those surveyed think that Biden should step down before the end of his term and let Harris take over now. Of those who do believe there was a cover-up, a resounding 68 percent think that Biden’s No. 2 was ‘a great deal’ involved in concealing his true fitness. Seven percent said Harris was ‘a little’ to blame, while 17 percent feel she was ‘somewhat’ responsible. And only a measly four percent of respondents don’t think Harris was involved at all.
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Harris and the media both lied about Biden’s health.
Now that it’s clear that Biden’s health was lied about.....
Harris and the media continue to lie about Biden’s health.
LIES! It’s what they do!
They misspelled F’ing.................
LOL
Any democrat with hopes of greater office should steer clear of being her VP.
I hope they are dumb enough to pick that f@ggot. I really really hope they are that stupid.
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