The 2024 Election: Chaos, Comebacks, and Campaign Shifts

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Taib everyone, welcome to the first episode of Plus One Media. My name is Jean Tawil and in this episode, we're gonna dive into the presidential campaign that happened between Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Joe Biden and their handlers. Now why I wanna talk about this campaign. I want to set a context and a base for that podcast and for everybody out there listening or watching to help you understand why Donald Trump became president, how he became president because

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For the next four years, all the news that we will be talking about in that podcast will be based on those events that happened in 2024. Look, this campaign is a for everybody, by the way, who's watching or listening, you might hear some noise. I have shit on a notes in front of me. So bear with me. So to help you understand a little bit about that campaign that is very unusual and why is it unusual? Because

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We have witnessed two assassination attempts, a sitting president dropping out late July, which was very late in the race, and a vice president being swapped in as the official nominee for the Democratic Party without going through primaries. And I think this campaign will help you understand how really politics work. But before we start talking about the 2024 presidential campaign,

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I believe we have to go back to November 5th, 2020. November 5th, 2020, this is when Donald Trump lost the elections to Joe Biden. Now Donald Trump does not believe that he lost the elections to Joe Biden because he believes that Joe Biden stole those elections. Now we do not have a lot of evidence to back up these claims, but we do have some numbers that raises some questions. And I have the numbers in front of me and I'll tell you about it.

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So usually when a presidential campaign happens in the United States, there's something called the voter turnout. The voter turnout is the number of people that go out and vote. Usually that number is between 130 to 135 million people. And the numbers that I have in front of me are that in 2008, when Obama, is the most famous president in the United States, 131 million people voted.

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2012 which was his re-election 129 million voted 2016 which was Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton 137 million voters 2020 153 million voters now that number exponentially got bigger but this is not the only reason that you might be skeptical of the results why because I have another number for you

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So 58 % of Joe Biden's votes in 2020, 58 % which is more than a half, were mail-in ballots. Now what's mail-in ballots? You have to remember that those elections happened during COVID times. So a lot of states allowed their citizens to vote through mail-in ballots. Mail-in ballots meaning you can be in your comfort of your home and vote through mail. And 58%, which is more than a half of Joe Biden's votes,

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were mail-in ballots and only 32 % of Donald Trump's votes were mail-in ballots. Now this is a little bit weird. There's a very big gap in here because the COVID regulations or rules or fear was implemented on everybody. It wasn't implemented just on Joe Biden's voters or Trump's voters. Now why is there a very big discrepancy over here? I'm not really sure. But let's forget

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Let's forget if Joe Biden stole the elections or not. Let's just set aside a happened Donald Trump lost. And I want to help you understand what happened after Donald Trump's loss because what actually happened set the whole tone for the 2024 presidential election. After November 5th, 2020, after every election, Congress, Senate and everybody in Washington, D.C., they take their vacation

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for the holidays and they come back on January 6th next year. So Congress and Senate and everybody in Washington DC comes back on January 6th 2021 to certify the results of the elections to certify that Joe Biden became the new president of the United States. Now Donald Trump on the same day held a rally in Washington DC contesting these results. He was still the president. Donald Trump

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sorry Joe Biden would not be a new president before January 20th. So anything that happened before January 20th Donald Trump was a president. So Donald Trump held a rally in Washington DC with his supporters contesting those results and that rally turned into a riot. Some of his protesters stormed the Capitol to stop the Senate and the Congress to stop them certifying those results.

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Now that riot led to the killing of one of the protesters by a Capitol police. And that day turned a very dark day for the American people or American history. And the mainstream media always uses it against Donald Trump because they claim that Donald Trump was inciting violence and was encouraging his protesters to use violence. Even though in his tweets he said protest peacefully and respectfully.

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After January 6th, happened is that Twitter banned Donald Trump's account or suspended Donald Trump's account on Twitter and that was a huge violation of freedom of speech, especially for a sitting president. And you have to understand the Americans, their top one priority is freedom of speech. It's their first amendment. So I think that event sparked a lot of anger in the American people.

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If you want to move on from jet, I'm gonna give you all the dates and everything that happened through that election and I'm gonna go in I'm gonna put them in a timeline so Let me give you this. Okay, so after January 8th Donald Trump's account got suspended after that comes January 30th 13th, sorry January 13th This is when the impeachment happened. So a lot of you hear that Donald Trump got impeached. I got impeached, but you don't really know what's impeachment

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So impeachment is when the Congress brings in front of the Senate enough evidence against the United States president. It's not just the United States president, it's any president. It happened in South Korea a week ago when the South Korean president implemented martial law. He got impeached after that. And it's not the first time that it happens in American history also. It happened during Clinton's term.

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Bill Clinton and Donald Trump are what I'm not sure if they are the only or few of the president or they are just part of few of the presidents that got impeached but and but Donald Trump got impeached and it's for the Senate to decide if Donald Trump is guilty or not so the Congress just bring brings evidence in front of the Senate and the Senate decides and in both cases in Clinton's case or in and in Donald Trump's case

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Both of them were found not guilty. So after January 20th, comes January, sorry, after January 13th, come January 20th. January 20th is the inauguration day. This is when Joe Biden comes to Joe Biden and his party. They come to Washington DC to receive a peaceful transfer of power. So Donald Trump is expected to transfer his power. This is a ritual in the American presidency history.

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every time it happens but that time Donald Trump did not show up he did not come to the presidential inauguration hence there was no peaceful transfer of power Mike Pence his vice president was there George Bush who was the previous Republican president was there but Donald Trump was not so after January 20th Joe Biden becomes the president and we start seeing

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decline in foreign policy or foreign status of the United States and also the economy. A lot of events happened but I'm gonna state a few ones that happened that sparked I believe Donald Trump's decision to rerun for the 2024 presidential election. So the first event I believe that happened we have to go to August 2021 so seven months after the inauguration day.

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On August 2021, is when the United States Army withdrew from their Afghanistan bases. So it was a disgrace. Why? Not because they withdrew, but because the way that the withdrawal happened, it was very badly managed. The United States Army left $7.2 billion worth of military equipment and Afghani assets for the Taliban to take control of.

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So that was a very big disgrace for the United States Army and a lot of people died. And after this event, of course, we have to go to February 2022 when the inevitable happened. marches towards Ukraine. So Putin invades Ukraine under Biden administration. Look, there's a lot of reasons why this happened. I don't think there's only one reason. And we're going to talk about it in, I think, my third or fourth episode.

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I'm trying to get someone who understands a little bit more geopolitics and international conflicts and he'll explain it to us. So these two major events happened under the Biden administration and of course the harsh COVID rules that were implemented on the United States. after that, during that COVID era, a huge inflation happened right after it. Why?

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because there was an initiative by the Biden administration called the stimulus check initiative. So this is where the Biden administration dispersed $1.9 trillion for the American people to help them go through these hard COVID times and also for anybody who lost their jobs to be able to have a stable income. But in parallel also, we had the federal reserves or what we call them the feds led by Jerome Powell dropping the rates

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near 0 % and made it basically free for people or businesses to borrow money. So when these two initiatives happened, the valuation of the American dollar went down. And also we had the incident that happened in the Suez Canal when you remember the boat that got stuck. We also had the pirates in Somalia stopping any cargoes going by. So it was hard for Americans to receive products.

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So I believe all these events that happened, led up later on after the end of 2020, 2021 when COVID started being diluted, let's say, and businesses were opening back again, Jerome Powell and the government did not, I believe, did not communicate because Jerome Powell and the feds started rising the rates, rising back up the rates, but at the same time,

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the businesses when they start opening back up they had to increase their prices because the rates are higher and what they didn't do is that increase the salaries or the minimum wage of the people because people would come back to work prices are way higher yes they do have some money but it's not a stable income so I believe if both parties were in communication where the government increased maybe the minimum salary and

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the FEDs increasing the rates, they could have maybe prevented an inflation.

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and I believe this is where the people started to feel socially not satisfied or not content because there was an inflation. Look what happened in Ukraine. We're sending a lot of money to Ukraine. Look what happened in Afghanistan. So people started to boil up a little bit through from 2020 to 2022. In 2022, the midterms, midterms elections

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means the elections of the Senate and the Congress. So every four years there's an election for the president, every two years there's an election for Congress and Senate. And Donald Trump, November 15th, 2022, decides to go back as a presidential candidate for the 2024 election and he announces that in his West Palm Beach residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.

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So

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after Trump announced that he's running for the presidential elections in 2024, he faced the all might of the DOJ. DOJ is Department of Justice. This is where you guys remember that we saw Donald Trump going in and out of courts. I mean, it was crazy. We didn't even know what were the lawsuits that were hitting him. Some of them stick, some of them did not stick. So I have a list of all the lawsuits that are currently being investigated.

Plusonemedia (14:16.116)
In total there are five. Okay, so the first one started in May 2023 when he was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation against a life-style journalist Her name was E. Jean Carroll. She claimed that Donald Trump assaulted her in the 90s The first claim was made in 2019 roughly 30 years later How convenient that is right 30 years later in 2019. 2019 was the presidential election

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or the presidential campaign for the 2020 election. And the case is not closed yet, so there's not a verdict yet. The next case was also launched in 2019 by the Attorney General of New York, Letitia James. So she was claiming that Trump organization, meaning Donald Trump, his kids, they inflated their assets worth to get bigger loans.

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So I'm going to give you an example. Let's say you have a building. The building is worth $60 million. You go to the bank. are a very, you are a reliable person. You go to the bank. You tell them, well, my building is worth $100 million. You inflate your assets to get better loans. Every businessman does it. Every businessman or businesswoman does it. And this is what Kevin O'Leary had to say about it.

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So the current appeal, the current status of that lawsuit is under appeal. So we still do not have a verdict. The third case is the hush money case. So that started in March 2023 when he was found guilty of paying off a porn star for silence to avoid a scandal in 2016 election. Something I'm sure that no Democrat have done before. Right Bill Clinton?

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And after that, we got to move on to two cases. So these two cases are related. Why they're related? Because it's the same lawyer, or we call him the special counsel, that was leading those cases. One case was the federal classified documents. This is where Donald Trump was found that he had federal files and classified files in his residency in Mar-a-Lago. Now have to understand, every president, after they leave the White House,

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they're allowed to take federal classified folders or files. And in June 2023, Jack Smith and the DOJ sued Donald Trump for these files. But after Trump's win in 2024, the case got dropped on November 25th, 2024. It got dropped by Jack Smith. The second case that was dropped by Jack Smith was the federal election interference case.

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aka January 6th. So also, January 6th that day, Donald Trump got sued over what happened on that day by two parties. The first one is the state of Georgia and the second one was federally, so the government sued him. And who was leading the government or the federal case was also Jack Smith and they also dropped that case after Donald Trump won. And the last case which is the Georgia case

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It's not dropped yet, but I believe it will be dropped because Donald Trump now has presidential immunity. But I'm not sure. Last week, I believe the state of Georgia gave a comment saying that they're not sure if they want to drop or not. So that we should keep an eye on. So moving on from all the cases and everything that happened, and this is where we realized that all these cases that rained down on him, they were very well structured and maneuvered in a timely matter.

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disrupt his flow, his campaign flow or his presidency or his presidential campaign or presidential election flow or momentum. I want to fast forward to forget. So this is everything to give you context. This is everything to tell you that, okay, this is what Donald Trump faced. This is what the American people faced.

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So I want to fast forward to June 27th when the debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden take place in the CNN studios. Now you have to understand something. Usually debates, presidential debates, happen in September or October. June 27th is a very early date. That's one. Two, there's something or a small organization or NGO called Commission on Presidential Debate.

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I talked about it on my Instagram account. You could go and check the video. That NGO, they organize usually those debates, the location, the date, the questions, all that. In that year, in 2024 presidential election, both parties agreed that they didn't want to use the commission on presidential debate. They didn't want them to schedule those debates. CNN, ABC News,

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and all these mainstream media they were scheduling and managing those debates. So that's two red flags very early and it's not the commission on presidential debates that was managing those debates. So okay that debate happens and we see how bad it went for Joe Biden.

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So after the end of that debate, we had two different conclusions. It's either it was a genuine move from the Democratic Party to prove to the American people that Joe Biden is able to debate and Joe Biden is still sharp and he has a sharp mind and he can lead the country because that's what they were claiming all the time on mainstream media.

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but it failed or it was a ruse from the Democratic Party to get rid of Joe Biden and swap Kamala Harris in and why they want to do that and they just because they couldn't just go on an X post because Joe Biden actually dropped the race through an X post they couldn't just go through an X post and say that Joe Biden is going to drop the presidential debate

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without giving explanations, right? They need to give a reason or an explanation to the American people because they were pushing him and they were saying that Joe Biden is smart. He has a sharp mind. He's a leader. We all remember Kamala Harris said that this is the first time I see Joe Biden as sharp as this, something along those lines. So I believe that debate was just put there as a ruse from the Democratic Party to give the American people

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reason on why Joe Biden will drop the race. That's on June 27th. So after June 27th, we have to move forward to July 13th. July 13th, it's the first assassination attempt on the current president Donald Trump. It happened in Pennsylvania, Butler, Pennsylvania during a rally. And the shooter's is Thomas Crooks.

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He got shot and killed by the Secret Service Sniper team after he shot eight rounds and one of those rounds or one of those bullets grazed Donald Trump's ear But the others injured and killed one civilian in the crowd. So after that event the Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle resigned from her position and by the way, we know more about the

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shooter that the shooter from the United Health Care CEO in New York then about the shooter in Donald Trump's case which is a little bit weird.

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So moving on two days later, July 15th, when Donald Trump accepts the nomination for the Republican Party from the Republican Party as their presidential candidate, the whole RNC happens after the RNC six days later. And after the huge support for Donald Trump after the assassination attempt and also after the fight, fight, fight scene and all that, Biden drops out on July 21st. On July 21st, Biden drops out through an X post.

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Look, after that debate that Joe Biden did in June 27th, everybody knew that he was going to drop out. We didn't know when. And it was, I don't know how I say it in English, but it was the final when the assassination attempt happened. So it was the, it was a blow or the straw that broke the camel's back when the assassination happened, because this is where Joe Biden and his team realized that, okay, we do not have any chance anymore because

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Look, look what happened. A huge support went to Donald Trump or leaned into Donald Trump's side. So after July 21st, when Joe Biden jumps through an X post which is very, very weird, usually any presidential candidate, if they want to drop out, they drop out on television or through they come out, they say a couple of words, some political stuff, and then they recommend or embrace another candidate.

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Then who comes in? Kamala Harris comes in. She gets swapped in without primaries. You have to understand what's primaries. Primaries is a debate that happens between, not one debate, couple of debates, that happen between all the, it happens within the same party. So it happens between the Democrats or between the Republicans. And whoever wins those debates, they become the official nominee. But Kamala Harris did not go through all these debates.

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And also Donald Trump did not go through these debates because he didn't go through because the Republican Party already wanted him, but debates happened. Primaries actually happened. This is where we met Vivek Ramaswamy, Ron DeSantis. So these debates happened, but then Vivek, who was most likely to win, he dropped out, RFK dropped out. we're going to talk about RFK by the way. Vivek dropped out and then he's working now with Donald Trump. So he dropped out.

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willingly on the democratic side. Nobody, nobody had a chance to do anything. There was no, there was no primaries, I believe. And I believe it was a very big mistakes, a very big mistake from the, democratic party. Why? Because they had a lot of good candidates. Well, they're not good, good, but I believe they're way better than her. had Gavin Newsom was a governor of California, even though California went to shit under his administration, but

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He's a very nice man. He's a very well polished guy. has very nice hair too. I mean, I think he would have been a better candidate than her. There's Shapiro from New York. There's Bernie Sanders also. So they didn't give these guys a chance. But sometimes I wonder if they did it on purpose to throw her under the bus, honestly. So I spoke with someone about it last time.

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and they were telling me I believe they put her as a candidate to throw her under the bus and turn the page that's what she always says and turn the page on the Biden administration because they knew that they didn't have any chance in front or they didn't have any chance to win against Donald Trump.

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Okay I think I dove a lot into every detail or every event I'm gonna move forward just a little bit

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So after she gets into the presidency or the candidacy seat, we see how bad she is in front of the cameras, right? She gave, she started using different accents in front of different crowds. She said a lot of stuff that you shouldn't say in front of the cameras. And I don't think she was trained enough. Like she, I don't think she was media trained enough.

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because she was an attorney general in California and I don't believe that she was in front of the cameras all the time so she wasn't very comfortable, wasn't genuine. felt that she was just acting. Well Donald Trump, he didn't need to act one because he loved cameras, two because he knew how to handle the press, three he's a billionaire, he's used to conflicts, he's not afraid of conflicts. So after she got in,

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We see her saying a lot of stuff like on the view, it's a program. She said they asked her, what do you think you would change? You would do something different than the Biden's administration or when Joe Biden was president. And she said, well, I don't think I'll change anything. You can't say that when you have open borders, you have a huge inflation. Everybody in the country hate Joe Biden.

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You can't just say that. Anyway, she says it. moving forward, we have August 19th. This is when the DNC happened, the Democratic National Convention. It costed $145 million. The RNC cost $135 million. And a fun fact, by the way, the federal government give to every national convention $50 million for security. Imagine $50 million for every convention for security.

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The DNC was great. Honestly, I believe it was a very nice DNC. Obamas came in, the Bidens came in, the Clintons came in, they all gave very, very great speeches. Everybody was saying that the Democrats have their shit together. We all believe in Kamala Harris. This is where she accepts the nomination, by the way. She's great. All that. There's bright future. and also Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz as vice president. And Tim Walz being chosen as vice president.

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I mean it wasn't the smartest idea. Why? Because you have Tim Walz being called by Donald Trump and JD Vance on his lies. So he lied couple of times. He said that he went through war but in his records it doesn't say that he's been through war. He said that he was in the 1989 Hong Kong massacre. He wasn't there. He was there after six or seven months.

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So he was caught lying several times and the Democratic Party also they

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and also the Democratic Party, they admitted to that. So after the DNC happens, so you have to understand something and this is where it gets interesting. So Donald Trump, we all know that he's a deal maker, right? He's not a politician. So what he saw, he saw that, okay, the DNC is gonna cost $145 million. It looks like they have a lot of good speakers. That's before the DNC, before the DNC. There's a lot of good speakers. It's happening in Chicago.

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and it will take over it will take over the press everybody will be will start talking about the DNC so what what he decides to do i'm not sure if everybody sees it the way i see it but how i saw it is that on august 12th so a week before the presidential before the DNC he holds an interview with Elon Musk on X for three hours that blew the internet it blew blew up the internet

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They got around one second. They got around 100 million views. Imagine they got around 100 million views. So everybody was talking about that interview because it was the first time you were able to sit down with a presidential candidate for three hours and talk about everything, literally everything. It's not like it wasn't a Elon Musk was asking a question and Donald Trump answering question answering. It wasn't an interview. It was a discussion for three hours. So that blew the internet.

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DNC happens after what everybody was talking about X, X space that happened between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. DNC happens. The DNC happens between August 19th to August 22nd. And then on August 23rd, I believe this is one of the smartest moves that happened during that campaign. Donald Trump announces that RFK is dropping out of the race and joining him.

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that honestly discounted everything that happened at the DNC. Everybody in the press and everybody on social media and the general feeling was that okay finally the Democratic Party have their shit together, we're happy, she seems okay, blah blah blah. And then this happens when you have a Kennedy, so for whoever is listening and doesn't know what's a Kennedy. Kennedy, so RFK, Robert Kennedy, he's the, I believe,

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He is a nephew of JFK. JFK is the president that everybody loved. He was a democratic president. I believe he was loved more than Obama. And he got shot in 1963. So for a Kennedy, for a democratic household name, to leave the Democratic Party, join a Republican Party, the Republican Party, and endorse specifically Donald Trump, that was a huge blowout for the Democratic Party.

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everybody started talking about it in the press, hence everybody discounted the DNC, which I believe was a very smart move from Donald Trump and also from RFK.

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So I want to keep the ball rolling a little bit. We're going to jump to September 10th. This is where the first debate happens between Trump and Harris. So fun fact, it was the first time they meet in person. That's one. Two, it was the first time Harris had a official debate. So Donald Trump, you have to understand, he was, by the way, it's not her first time. She did an official debate when she was a vice president through COVID times with Mike Pence.

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Sorry about that. But moving on. Maybe she had one, which is with Mike Pence. But Donald Trump, that's his third time running as president. First time in 2016, second time in 2020, and now the third time. So he's done a lot of presidential debates. So what the Democratic Party or what her campaign or what her handlers decide to do is to lock her up in a hotel for a week or two, I believe, with a Trump impersonator. Trump impersonator is

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someone who looks like Trump speaks like Trump and of course they're acting and they train her to deal with Trump. Okay? And I believe they did a very very very good job very good job they they they sorry a very good job because they trained her very well okay they trained her to hit his ego so she actually did it worked she hit his ego

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This is where the eating cats and dogs moment happened. Yes, it was very smart from the Democratic party, but I want to say something. If you trained her to hit his ego, what are you trying to do? Are you trying just to show that Donald Trump is bad just to convince the people that Donald Trump is a bad guy? instead of putting all that effort into that strategy or that theory, why didn't you put all that effort in her being

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media trained in front of the cameras and saying what she wants to say and what the Democratic Party want to do forget Donald Trump does not do that Donald Trump will say that we will build the biggest we will do the better we have the better economy blah blah blah be why didn't you decide to be the bigger man in that situation and give actual answers actual plans actual concepts

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that the Democratic Party wanted to implement. Instead of doing that, what they did is that they trained her to hit his ego so he can look bad, so we can convince the people that he is not fit to be a president. Hence why you have to vote for Harris. It worked. It didn't look very good for him in the presidential debate on September 10th.

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This is why also we saw him in the spin room, right? When he went into the spin room, usually the presidential candidates don't go to the spin room. The spin room is where, I also had a video on Instagram if you want to watch it. Spin room is where after the debate, all the political analysts or the journalists and everybody else, they try to spin the debate towards their candidate, turn the table towards their candidate saying that their candidate did a very good job. And usually the candidates do not go.

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But Donald Trump went there because he's not afraid of the press. And he tried to spin it his way. This is where we know that he acknowledges that his debate wasn't a great debate.

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So guys, I think we're already 40, around 40 minutes in. So I'll wrap this up and I'll tell you what are other events that happened in that campaign that were noticeable and also very well executed by campaigns, by both teams. So after that debate on September 10th in ABC, by the way, in the ABC studios, we had on October 1st, the vice presidential debate that's between JD Vance and

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Tim Walz it was a very nice debate. It was very nice exchange. So I believe that debate brought the temperature a little bit down. People started to understand a little bit what's going on. After that debate we had a lot of events that I couldn't keep up with. The McDonald's one, the Puerto Rico, the garbage one. So gonna give you a quick background story on that because these were the last few days of the election.

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So it all started when Donald Trump decides to hold a rally in Madison Square Garden. So Madison Square Garden for whoever doesn't know it's a huge arena in New York City and he decides to hold a rally over there. Now the left media started saying that he was a Nazi, it was a Nazi rally, it was a fascist rally.

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He looks like a dictator because because Nazis have actually done a rally there in Madison Square I believe I don't know which way which here actually but they they've actually done it before But they discounted the fact also that Bill Clinton held a rally in my Madison Square But hey, we all know how mainstream media works, right? So in that rally Tony Hinchcliffe who is a comedian? He's a very good friends with Joe Rogan. He opened that rallies

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You have to go watch go on YouTube I suggested go on YouTube and watch his video Tony Hinchcliffe what he said in the rally and also he did a stand-up About 20 to 25 minutes talking about this whole experience. It's very funny He's a comedian and he said something along the lines that Puerto Rico is garbage Island is an island full of garbage because it actually is because they have a garbage problem But he was trying to be funny. It didn't work out

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The left media used it saying that a speaker in Trump's rally saying that Puerto Rico is an island full of garbage. So it went all out on mainstream media, but I don't think it was effective because at the end of the day, we saw that the Latino community or Latino voters in Donald Trump numbers got way higher than 2020. So a lot of Latinos voted for him.

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more than in 2020. So after that garbage incident from Tony Hinchcliffe comes Joe Biden. You have to understand, Joe Biden during that campaign did not help the Democratic Party. have to understand that. We had the first incident when he put the MAGA hat. can't, you're a Democratic president, you can't put the MAGA hat. And he put it in the MAGA hat.

Plusonemedia (41:13.88)
and everybody took pictures of it, everybody took videos of it. So that didn't have the Democratic Party. That's one. Two, was giving after that incident, after the rally, he gave an interview with I don't know who, saying that Puerto Rico is not garbage. The people there are not garbage. His people are garbage. And that went all crazy. mean, you're a US president saying that the US people that vote for him, which is more than half of the country, is garbage.

Plusonemedia (41:42.95)
that went very bad for the Democrats. This is where Donald Trump did that stunt. He's a troller, right? And he's entertainer. This is where he did the stunt of bringing in a garbage truck, putting the Trump sign on it, saying, do you like my garbage truck? All that. So it was a troll. It was a troll. It didn't amount to anything, but it's something that we've never seen in a presidential campaign before. We have also the McDonald's stunt.

Plusonemedia (42:11.43)
McDonald's stunt for whoever doesn't know is that Kamala Harris, what she did, she said that she always say that she was raised in a middle class family and she worked at McDonald's. Well, the Trump team, have to understand when you reach that level of politics, when you reach a level of presidency, whatever you say or not presidency, candidacy, whatever you say, people are going to check it.

Plusonemedia (42:38.677)
People are gonna check it and if you're lying, they're gonna call you on it because it's beneficial for them So she was saying that she worked at McDonald's They didn't find any records that she she worked at McDonald's That's why Donald Trump went to a McDonald's work there He worked the fries that he worked or whatever he did there just to prove to her that we know you're lying and it's also another stunt and that's what I believe that's what

Plusonemedia (43:08.284)
That's how he gained votes. mean, the people, me, everybody else, we like entertainment. I mean, it's not politics anymore, right? It's politics maybe behind closed doors, but in front of the people on social media. You can't just, you can't not entertain, right? You can't implement the same strategies that were implemented in, let's say, in 2000's campaign.

Plusonemedia (43:34.812)
The same thing, you can't implement those strategies in the 2024 campaign because there's social media people, there's TikTok people are used to scroll up. And also people are tired of whatever politicians are saying because they're saying the same thing all over again. So Donald Trump, he wanted to entertain them. So that's also an event that happened. So these are the main events that happened, I believe that actually shaped the whole campaign.

Plusonemedia (44:03.337)
I'm not sure if I missed something. I missed something, say it in the comments. By the way, you're open to say whatever you want to say in my comments, YouTube, Instagram, whatever you want to say, say it. I'll answer you for sure. But before I wrap up this and before I close this whole discussion, I want to reflect a little bit on what are the missteps that the Democratic Party did and what are the missteps that the Trump Party did. I call it Trump Party and not the Republican Party because

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A lot of people in the Republican party do not really agree with Donald Trump, but that's a different discussion. And I believe that party is centered around Donald Trump. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, it's different. So I want to reflect on those events and on those strategies. So the strategy that the campaign or the Trump team did,

Plusonemedia (45:00.218)
One of those strategies that is very noticeable is the podcast strategy. So since mainstream media was against him, right? And all the interviews that they were giving him weren't interviews that gave him fair timing or fair questions or fair point of views, let's say he wanted to use a different medium.

Plusonemedia (45:29.18)
And that different medium was podcasts. And we saw what happened two days ago on December 14th, I believe. We saw what happened. ABC News accepts to pay Donald Trump $15 million. Why did they accept to pay $15 million? Because Donald Trump did an interview with George Stephanopoulos. He's the host of One Week. I believe his program is called One Week on ABC News. And he said that Donald Trump, you're found guilty of sexually assaulting.

Plusonemedia (45:58.98)
E. Jean Carroll and the verdict is not out yet so he's not actually found guilty. That's where Donald Trump sued him for defamation. Defamation means that you're saying something about me that's not true and it's not proven that it's true. I could sue you for defamation. ABC decides to pay him $15 million and I believe that specific case or that specific event or example

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could be used as an example for other mainstream media companies like CNN, MSNBC and others because they've had they they always use defamation against him or other people or anybody that supports him. And also Fox News does it. So it's a warning sign, I believe, to all the mainstream media. So the strategy that the Trump campaign and Trump team use is a podcast because they saw that, OK,

Plusonemedia (46:52.338)
Donald Trump could go out there and speak as many hours as he wanted. That's one. Two, say whatever he wanted. Three, not a lot of pushback was coming his way during those interviews. A little bit of hard questions, but not a lot of pushback. But we didn't really care about pushback. We really cared about him sitting down for three hours and talking with Joe Rogan, Patrick Badd-David, Theo Von all these guys.

Plusonemedia (47:18.64)
And also he had a very very good VP. believe JD Vance is a very good VP and I believe he might be the next president or the next candidate for the presidency. The misstep that the Democratic Party did is that they didn't use podcast. I don't know why. I have no idea. Maybe because they felt that Kamala Harris isn't cut for it. She couldn't sit down for two to three hours and speak because Elon Musk said it best. You can bullshit anybody the first hour but

Plusonemedia (47:48.71)
hour two and hour three this is where you start knowing the person. So I don't think they felt confident putting Kamala Harris in front of Joe Rogan or Theo Von even though they invited her several times a lot of people a lot of those podcasters invited her she didn't want to show up I believe it was a very big mistake because she would have leveled the playing field between her and Donald Trump but I have no idea why she didn't do it. A big mistake also that the Democratic Party did is that they did not

Plusonemedia (48:18.972)
disowned or they did not separate themselves from the Biden administration because they couldn't. That's the problem. She was the VP and if she was the VP she can't just say, that administration even though they Democrats I don't agree with them I want to do something else. She couldn't do it and also she was the borders czar and one of the biggest problem for the American people was the borders and you're telling them

Plusonemedia (48:48.262)
The person that was supposed to take care of the borders or responsible or the person who's responsible of these borders is the new candidate for the presidency. Of course they're not gonna vote for her. It's because everybody hates what's going on during hates what's going on in the borders. So I don't really understand why the Democratic Party chose her. It was the worst choice ever.

Plusonemedia (49:18.098)
That's why I believe this is the biggest misstep. I believe they just wanted to double down on DEI Say that, okay, we want a black woman running for presidency and people will follow her. People will vote for her because she is a black woman. But she's no one's going to vote for someone just because they're black and she's a woman. People will vote for someone who's qualified, right? She wasn't qualified. I mean, if she was a little bit qualified and she had some good qualities, maybe they would would stand a chance. But

Plusonemedia (49:47.994)
I don't believe she had, she had a chance.

Plusonemedia (49:49.683)
And also the last thing that I want to say is the marketing behind all of it. have to have, you have to go back and watch all the videos. The marketing is, was insane. One of the greatest lines in that presidential campaign was that Kamala Harris is for they, them. Donald Trump is for you. mean, that's a genius marketing. Forget if you agree with him or not. That's a genius marketing and that hit the democratic party. It was, it was like a, like a hook.

Plusonemedia (50:18.357)
on their face because it was something true.

Plusonemedia (50:23.437)
And also last thing I want to say is that the 2028 election will be very, different. I believe there will be a new form of campaigning because in that election, the 2024 elections, we only had one official debate between Trump and Harris. And it's very scary because the American system is a democratic system. And the whole concept of a democratic system is to have two people that disagree with each other, debate each other, push back on their ideas and let the people decide who deserves to be the next president.

Plusonemedia (50:53.689)
But you're one debate. Sorry. But you're doing one debate. How could the people decide? Then how did the people decide? by what what means did you use? Well, they use social media, they use podcasts, they used mainstream media. But I believe the best way for the people to vote or the best option for the people to watch and decide who they want to vote for is the debates.

Plusonemedia (51:22.511)
And only one debate in 2024 is scary. I believe in 2028, there will be way more debates. I believe it will be at least four debates. And those debates, don't think that it will have, I don't think those debates will take place in mainstream media studios. I really believe podcasts will take a very important role, will have a very important role in the 2028 elections. I believe two candidates will start doing debates. If not the presidential candidates,

Plusonemedia (51:52.292)
for sure the vice presidential candidates, they will do debates through a podcast form.

Plusonemedia (51:59.409)
So thank you all for watching. that episode, spoke about, remember, everything that happened in 2020 that set the base and context for the 2024 presidential campaign. We spoke about the 2024 presidential campaign and these are all the events that led up to Donald Trump becoming the new president of the United States. And in that podcast, we're gonna talk about everything that will happen later, everything that will happen in the next four years. What could we expect?

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what are the events that we're looking for, what are the decisions that we're looking for. Stay tuned. Thank you all for listening and see you on the next one.