Donald Trump’s closing statement at the presidential debate has struck a chord with TikTokers all over the world. The video, posted by ABC News’ official TikTok, received over 1 million likes and a staggering 17 million views, and that number continues to climb. Trump’s remarks raise a question that voters will likely be thinking about before they cast their ballots.
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“So she just started by saying she’s going to do this, she’s going to do that, she’s going to do all these wonderful things. Why hasn’t she done it? She’s been there for three and a half years. They’ve had three and a half years to fix the border, they’ve had three and a half years to create jobs, and all the things we talked about. Why hasn’t she done it? She should leave right now, go down to that beautiful White House, go to the Capitol, get everyone together, and do the things you want to do. But you haven’t done it, and you won’t do it because you believe in things that the American people don’t believe in. You believe in things like, ‘We’re not going to frack,’ ‘We’re not going to take fossil fuel,’ ‘We’re not going to do things that are going to make this country strong.’ Whether you like it or not, Germany tried that, and within one year, they were back to building normal energy plants. We’re not ready for it. We can’t sacrifice our country for the sake of bad vision. But I just ask one simple question: why didn’t she do it?”
Charles: That’s what’s known as nailing the dismount.
Yes, well, because Vice President Harris has tried—with the help of the media, of course, and everyone else, including the image-making folks out there—to act like she wasn’t in the White House. I feel like the Democrats are running against two Democratic legacies here: the current one, and the one in the past—the one that started the Ku Klux Klan, the one that was against the Black population. And because they keep saying, ‘We’re not going to go back to the past,’ I hope we don’t, especially when Democrats had the upper hand. But, you know, how does she separate or try to separate herself from what she could be doing right now? This administration cut holes in the border wall. They weren’t building the border wall—they cut holes in it. Everyone knows what they did. We know what she believes in, and I think that’s the scariest part.
I was so happy former President Trump brought up Germany. I want to do a special on that probably in the next week or so. I don’t think the American public understands that the road we’re on has already been paved. Germany just had a historic election—they just elected a far-right government for the first time since 1945, after emerging from Nazi Germany. They needed to change everything because they went down the wrong path. We don’t need to go down there because they destroyed the greatest industrial nation in Europe—they’ve destroyed it.
Kay, talk to me about the impact of these numbers. So we’ve got 17 million likes on a platform that the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris’ campaign have been trying to widely utilize and harness. Is it simply that the facts speak for themselves, and the question is heard around the world? It went viral because Donald Trump hit on a key truth, and that key truth is this: Kamala Harris is the establishment. Kamala Harris is the ultimate DC insider. Kamala Harris is the swamp. The polling is extraordinarily clear—New York Times/Siena shows that more than 60% want a major change from Biden. Only a quarter think Kamala Harris represents that, while a majority, 53%, think Donald Trump is the change. So if we look back, and if Kamala Harris loses this election, I think we’ll see that her failure to represent herself as a change agent played a big role. She should have stood on that stage and said, ‘Here are my new policies, and here’s what’s holding me back. Here are the times I disagreed with Biden in The Situation Room, in the Oval Office, in policy meetings.’ But she couldn’t say that, because she has not disagreed with him. To your point, she has emphasized that it’s the ‘Biden-Harris Administration.’ She cannot untether herself, and she cannot win the election if she doesn’t.
The argument for Harris is that the debate was won over the media, and they were expecting this, so they were just sailing along, crowing about it. But the reality for Americans, and now global viewers watching this, is that they saw through that polished veneer and asked, ‘Why haven’t you done it?’
I hope I have Charles Payne’s optimism about what the American people know. I argue they don’t know that much about her in terms of what the realities are, because they’re watching their own reality. Well, they know their own reality, but when it comes to using that to discern what she’s telling them—it’s not exactly transparent or, in some cases, true. They’re watching networks that would not quantify or qualify any part of what they suspect about her.
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