The Bongino Brief - Debate or Debacle?

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Consult with your tax attorney or financial professional before making an investment decision. Message and data rates apply. Dan Bongino Welcome to the Bongino brief. I'm Dan Bongino.

Listen, here's the thing about the debate. There were three components to a debate. There are the candidate, there's the candidate component, there's the network component, and then there's the moderator component. Folks, this is one of those rare things where I think the moderators, or one of them at least, looked really bad, which made the network look even worse.

The viewership apparently was not great. And then I don't think any of the candidates did what they needed to do to change the narrative. I think there are a couple that didn't necessarily hurt themselves last night. But I guess my point is, when you're in a race and folks, I'm just giving you the math, listen, you know where my heart is in the race. I've already said it I, you wrote an opinion and I gave it to you.

However, I I, I like a lot of the candidates up there genuinely because of what they stand for and have done. I do so I feel like I can really be objective on this. I don't think anybody did what they needed to do to close what in some states is a 30 to 40 point gap between them and Donald Trump.

I just don't, um. It looked like a race for number two now. Listen, Bob Costa is a left leaning guy, but I've met with this guy before of all the left leaning guys, like he's not as crazy as most of them.

I got a bunch of texts this morning saying this exact thing. You may say, Oh, this is some lefty. All right, fine, but I'm Tom just telling you, I got almost the exact same text, some of the words verbatim out of this.

This is Costa, he says. Listen, lots of angst tonight about my top GOP sources about the debate. Donors are concerned. Flurry of texts, questions about where the waste race goes from here.

They wonder, is anyone going to have a breakout moment? Meanwhile, Trump all but ignores the scene and shrugs off the indictments. Folks, they're not wrong. You have to ask yourself, if you're a candidate, what do I have to do to make a difference?

Right, and when you're up on the stage with seven people, honestly, three or four of them who have no business being up there at all. They just this should be three people on stage right now. Right now, it should be Desantis, it should be Vivek and Nikki Haley, maybe Tim Scott.

Mike Pence has no business being up there. I'm sorry the guy is not polling significantly in any of the states. It is a waste of assets and time. You may think he's a nice guy.

You may think he's a mean guy, he doesn't belong on the stage. Chris Christie is just up there to be an asshole. That's all Chris Christie's doing. Chris Christie was given marching orders by his donors.

Go, be an asshole, that's all he does. He goes up there and says, dumb stuff. I'll show you what I mean. And do we have the Donald Duck thing?

Did I send that? that clip? I didn't send it? Well, good, I probably ignored it because it was so stupid.

He's like, We're going to call you Donald Duck. It's just dumb, it's just stupid. And then Doug Burgum, Doug Burgum was the governor of North Dakota. Isn't even a conservative. He barely, if ever, supported anything conservative outside of a tax cut.

What is he doing? No one even knows who he is. It's a waste of time. Maybe if you had a debate between Desantis Vivek, Nikki Haley and maybe Tim Scott, you could spend some time with these guys. And people who don't like Trump and listen, there are people out there, folks, I'm a Trump supporter, but there are people out there who aren't.

Let's not be naive about it. No, everybody, no, everybody doesn't love them. There are people who don't love them, and some of them are conservatives, and they like Desantis or they like someone else. If they're trying to make a choice right now, it's not helping.

Last night was a mess. What are the political narratives that make a difference? Come on you guys already, you and you know this man say, come on, if I can say I'm so insulting, I'm sorry, you know what I'm talking to.

Like, the people, maybe, you know, who do, aren't get. This isn't breaking through. The only political narratives that make the difference are ones that change your preexisting notion of who a candidate is, for the better or for the worse, change the political narrative. You get what I'm saying. If you love someone and they say something that makes you think better of them in a race, then you're really going to love them if they. You love someone in a race. And they say something that changes the political narrative because you changes your perception of who they are and you hate them.

Then it's going to change momentum in the other direction. When you're static, like a sitting pile of water, it just breeds mosquitoes and stuff. It's no good. Here's what I mean. First, the moderator on the moderator front. see Moderator network.

Why did Fox pick this lady? I am so confused why this Univision lady was there, she seemed to. She was asking questions that weren't questions at all, they were statements. Here, she is blaming the United States somehow for gun violence, ignoring the plague of gun violence in South American countries and some European.

I mean, this isn't even a. It's not even serious. Nobody should have even answered this question. They should have said, Ma'am, that's not a question. It's a ridiculous statement claiming the United States somehow has a monopoly on gun violence. It's so silly.

I absolutely refuse to answer it. The hell was this lady in the debate? For check this out. We're going to stay in the topic of crime because it affects all of us. GOVERNOR Burgum For the first time ever. A Univision poll found that mass shootings and gun safety are one of the most important issue for Latino voters. Mental health concerns are not unique.

What is that? What kind of stupid question is that it was just vetted by Fox? How did you let that question get out there? She has no evidence to back that up at all.

That is not unique to the United States at all. It's not even close. Has she traveled to South America? Does she have any idea what she's talking about? Is she factoring in suicides?

I mean, what is she even talking about? Here? It got worse. Here's the second question, this again, this is not a question, this is a statement here.

Check this out. According to Customs and Border Protection, about 90 of fentanyl is seized at official border crossings, and 57 of the smugglers are U.S. citizens. How would you stop fentanyl brought into the country, mostly by U.S. citizens through ports of entry? There's two sides to this and we have to be very honest. Why again did they answer this question?

Are you seriously blaming the fentanyl crisis on U.S. citizens on an American network, knowing there's a border crisis? Even if her data was correct, which I don't believe at all. Because how do you know how much fentanyl is coming into the country when you don't catch a lot of it? Uh, I don't know, fellas Joe. Just throwing a statistical question out there. If a bunch of fentanyl got into the country you didn't caught, how do you know what got into the country?

Cause you didn't catch it, you don't know, because you didn't catch it, because it's on the street. But again, nobody quite. What I'm stunned about is that these candidates even answered the question.

They should have been like, Again, Ma'am, with due respect, time out. Where'd you get your ridiculous statistics? 53 is smuggled by Americans. Where did you get the how would you know? A lot of the fentanyl in the country isn't caught in the smuggling process.

So how would you know the smugglers are if you don't catch them? I don't know, I'm just asking questions.

Holy Moses, this is the moderator. This is like a Republican Democrat debate. The kind of bullshit was that? More in a minute, but first.

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I'm sorry it made a lot of the candidates uncomfortable. Uh, this question did not go over well with anyone. Desantis shut it down. I think he did the right thing.

Uh, this really just did not reflect well on the night, but check this out on stage tonight. Should be voted off the island.

I mean, I don't think she was trying to make anybody look stupid. It was probably, by the way, something that somebody behind the scenes drew up. You know, you're not sitting there writing all these things yourself. But it just didn't go over well and I thought DeSantis did a good job saying we're not going to. It turns out, by the way. Chris Christie, did you guys catch it?

Christie wrote a name down, and then Christie was like, Oh, I'm not playing this either. Did you see it? Did you? Did you see it? Did you, Joe? You caught it? Chris? Christie writes a name that he's like, Oh, I'm not playing, man.

Although you just did, but you just did. you just. you just wrote a name. They should. You know what happened, dude, tell me if I'm, if I'm not crazy. Someone should have walked up on stage like a bouncer and grabbed it.

But like, you see, he played, he played the game. Everybody's going to ask, now, who is the name? Is it? You know? It just didn't go over well, but again, yeah, you see it.

There you go, you know, that's the first thing I caught. Thank you, good call. Gee, you saw that folks in the chat?

I didn't play it at all. Cool, I'm not playing the game. This guy is, he's the designated asshole. You ever see that?

Show Designated survivor that that you know in the event of an emergency, you get a designated survivor in the government. Christie's the designated asshole. That's what he's got to do, he's the jerk on stage, he's got to beat a jerk.

The Cold Donald Duck. I get it. Trump uses nicknames, too. It's just not funny. I mean, some of it. I'm not saying everyone at. Trump's nicknames was a huge hit, but some of them were just funny.

The little Marco, low energy Jeff Donald Duck was just kind of just dumb. This is stupid. All right. Here's where it, just like I said, doesn't look good for the network. It wasn't really a the debate was not. It was not a great night for it, really for anyone.

It was like a trifecta. And it's going to happen. I mean, listen, the debate was on rumble, too. It's a platform I own a good chunk of, so don't think I'm like throwing someone under the bar.

Oh, those Fox guys screwed up and we were on rumble too. I don't think it was a great night for us either. Candidly, I don't think that many people were interested.

So again, I'm not. I don't tell me, like, Oh, you're just bitter, I'm not bitter at all. I've already told you, I still got friends here, good people, and I'm, I'm. I'm just giving you my honest opinion about what happened.

It just wasn't a good night. Sometimes we have shitty shows and we tell you yesterday's show was no good, today's show is fiery man, I'm loving today's show. Here. This is, I mean, this doesn't help at all.

So this is, they've started screaming over each other. I got two cuts of this, I want you to tell me again. Viewing this as an open-minded Republican voter who hasn't selected a candidate yet, that's who they're talking to. Does any of this change your mind?

Take a listen. We're not a perfect nation. We're founded on the pursuit of perfection. That is what makes America great, and that is why we will end it.

Once we win this election, I have to jump, I have to jump in here. I'm sorry, I have one, there's one person on this.

This is infuriating because tick-tock is one of the most dangerous social.

Just keep that hold that thought for a second, cause I was going to go into this anyway. The problem I find with that one, I'm a little bit out of order now, but whatever, we'll go back to that in a second is. Haley and Vivek are clearly playing for the number two spot. In my humble opinion, and I'm not saying this based on any inside information there.

I'm telling you what I think, their candidates thinking, not what I want. So if you're a desantis guy, don't come screaming down my throat, I'm just going to block you or mute you for stupid, cause I'm what I'm saying.

You should drop out or anything like that. I'm simply suggesting I think Nikki, Haley and Vivek's campaigns think DESantis has done, that's what I think they think. You got me.

I think they think his campaign is done. The reason Vivek and Nikki Haley are going out of it after over Tik Tok and it doesn't matter should they'll make up. Anything to fight each other right now is they're fighting for the number two spot. Right now. They think DeSantis is going to drop out, I don't think he's going to do that, but they think he's gonna.

I think he's got enough support to stay in at least till South Carolina, and if he shows a competitive second in a couple of these states, a lot longer. But I think that's exactly what they think, and I'm trying to explain to you what I think. Went on with that, too. Now back to this, I got two cuts of this.

None of this helps any of the candidates. Again. How does this change your mind about a candidate on the stage? It doesn't take a look.

We want to get rid of the money. Where's what? Here's how we get it done in Washington, we must, finally.

Can we please respect the time?

Every candidate has an incentive to try to get their point in, and the longer they talk, they figure someone's going to shut up first. So and this is what happened. So this is not so much on the moderators, just on the candidates. Like this doesn't help anyone.

Vivek at one point said this too, and the New York Times, This is how, you know, Vivek was causing some trouble because the New York Times jumped all over New York Times. Transgenderism, especially in kids, is a mental health disorder. Vivek Ramaswamy, New York Times. This is false.

Being transgender is not a mental health disorder. Many transgender people experience gender dysphoria or psychological distress as a result of the incongruence between their sex and their gender identity. Gender dysphoria is a diagnosis in the Psychiatric, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and can be given to children, adolescents or adults. How the hell is that? A fact check? How is it false?

You just said the same thing twice.