Friday's Final Word

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Everybody's closing tabbies for the weekend ...

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We are in danger of losing our way as a country if we do not require all our political candidates to engage in the essential activities that inform voters. Those actions include the basics of debates, press scrutiny and explaining their policy positions to the public.

The president of the United States is going to be called upon to make decisions on $6 trillion dollars of expenditures and taxes, settle issues of war and peace around the world and manage a workforce of millions of employees across 20 or more different departments and agencies. Most people, no matter how well-intentioned, could not do this job.

One interview. One debate. Some rah rah stump speech read over and over again is not a campaign that informs voters adequately to make a real choice. It’s a good gig if you can get it, but a real campaign has three debates, two years of primaries, time spent building coalitions, detailed policy papers carefully worked over and almost daily press briefings

Ed: That's from Mark Penn, formerly Hillary Clinton's pollster. And he's not just criticizing Kamala Harris here, but also the media who have let her get away with this. 

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HUNT: But she's been part of the Biden administration. I mean she has been part of the Democratic - Democrats have been in control of the country for the last three going on four years, and you are still seeing this in the polling. I mean these working class voters are telling us right now that more of them are with Donald Trump than Kamala Harris.

Why - what is it about what you guys have been doing for the last three plus years that explains that?

SAMS: Well, I think, again, we're trying to talk to the voters and explain this message. We've got 60 days until the election. You know, we don't have time to sit around and think about why, over the last few years, certain things may have happened or may not have happened. We've got to go win an election

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During his trip, Walz partook of milkshakes, cheese curds, and more milkshakes. But the only interview he did in Pennsylvania, during his photo ops in Lancaster, Moon Township, Fayette County, Pittsburgh, and Erie, was with a Michigan, not Pennsylvania, public radio station. It was an interview that revealed more about the Democratic vice presidential nominee’s worldview than anything he has to date — aside, perhaps, from his interview with CNN in which the former schoolteacher blamed “poor grammar” for his false claim that he carried weapons of war during his Army National Guard service.

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Walz was stationed in Italy, nowhere near a war zone.

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Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz told a local Michigan outlet that he believes anti-Israel protesters are "speaking out for all the right reasons," echoing similar rhetoric from his boss, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

"I think those folks who are speaking out loudly in Michigan are speaking out for all the right reasons. It's a humanitarian crisis. It can't stand the way it is, and we need to find a way that people can live together in this," Walz told WCMU, an NPR affiliate radio station.

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John Stossel 8:30 AM | October 12, 2024
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