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--:-- John Bickley: Kamala Harris holds a rally in D.C. to give her closing message to voters, while President Biden's comments about Trump supporters sparked severe blowback.
--:-- John Bickley: Just moments ago, Joe Biden stated that our supporters are garbage. We are patriots who love America. Thank you for running.
--:-- John Bickley: I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Wednesday, October 30th, and this is Morning Wire.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Trump promises to crack down on illegal immigrant crime, laying out his harshest punishments to date, including for cartels across the border.
--:-- Georgia Howe: We're asking for the death penalty for any migrant who comes into our country and kills an American citizen or a police or law enforcement person.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And the New York Times is accused of trying to silence conservatives on YouTube. They are overtly attempting to just shut down all conservative dissemination of information on the biggest video platform in existence one week in advance of an election.
--:-- Georgia Howe: If that's not an attempt to rig an election, I don't know what is.
--:-- John Bickley: Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know.
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--:-- John Bickley: Vice President Kamala Harris held a rally in Washington, D.C. Tuesday that drew thousands of supporters.
--:-- John Bickley: But while the Democrat candidate was making her closing pitch to voters, her former running mate was sparking intense backlash over his controversial comments about Trump supporters.
--:-- Tim Rice: I say, Tim, so we'll get to Biden's garbage remarks in a sec. But first, tell us about this D.C. rally.
--:-- Tim Rice: Well, we should first note that her big speech was just under 30 minutes long, so not quite what many were anticipating for the much-hyped event.
--:-- Tim Rice: And of course, nothing like one of Trump's standard rallies.
--:-- Tim Rice: As usual, she stayed pretty tightly on the teleprompter, but in a notable shift from her rhetoric over the past few days, Harris took a break from calling Trump a fascist long enough to appeal to the better angels of Americans' nature.
--:-- Tim Rice: Of course, she chose to deliver her speech from the site of the January 6th rally, a clear sign to her supporters that while she may not be actively smearing Trump, he was still at the top of her mind.
--:-- John Bickley: Here's Harris speaking from the ellipse.
--:-- Harris: It is time to stop pointing fingers. We have to stop pointing fingers and start locking arms.
--:-- Harris: It is time to turn the page on the drama and the conflict, the fear and division.
--:-- Harris: It is time for a new generation of leadership in America.
--:-- Harris: And I am ready to offer that leadership as the next president of the United States of America
--:-- Tim Rice: But right from the start it was clear that Harris kumbaya moment was in trouble
--:-- Tim Rice: The Daily Wire Spencer Lindquist was on the ground of the speech and what he saw from attendees was hardly what Harris was hoping for when she called on Americans to stop pointing fingers and start locking arms.
--:-- Spencer Lindquist: Anti-Israel protesters banged pots and pans and jeered killer Kamala as she took the stage, with one protester crossing a police line to wave a Palestinian flag in front of the screen playing Harris's speech.
--:-- Spencer Lindquist: One protester carried a sign with a photo of Trump in a Hitler mustache next to the words, say howdy to Hitler.
--:-- Tim Rice: Definitely not helping Harris's last minute calls for unity.
--:-- Tim Rice: And then there was Biden's comments, which went immediately viral.
--:-- Tim Rice: Yeah, that's right. You know, they say Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
--:-- Tim Rice: Well, let's just say that Harris laughed while President Biden set fire to her campaign.
--:-- Tim Rice: As Harris was holding her event, Biden held a campaign call from the White House, during which he criticized the comedian who called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage during Trump's Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden.
--:-- Gabe Gutierrez: Biden began by saying, quote, Donald Trump has no character. He doesn't give a damn about the Latino community.
--:-- Gabe Gutierrez: Then he went all in about his supporters. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.
--:-- Tim Rice: His demonization was seen as unconscionable.
--:-- Tim Rice: Biden immediately came under fire for his comments, including from Trump, who heard about the comments live on stage in Allentown, Pennsylvania, from Florida Senator Marco Rubio.
--:-- Marco Rubio: That's terrible. So you have, remember Hillary, she said deplorable.
--:-- Marco Rubio: And then she said irredeemable, right? But she said deplorable.
--:-- Marco Rubio: Oh, that didn't work out. Garbage, I think, is worse, right?
--:-- Marco Rubio: But he doesn't know. You have to please forgive him. Please forgive him, for he not knoweth what he said.
--:-- Tim Rice: Trump there referencing the infamous moment where Hillary Clinton said most of Trump's supporters fit into baskets of deplorables.
--:-- Tim Rice: That was seen as one of the mistakes that really doomed her campaign.
--:-- Tim Rice: How serious is the damage here?
--:-- Tim Rice: It probably won't help Harris. Even Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a major Harris surrogate, seemed to disavow Biden's comments on CNN.
--:-- Josh Shapiro: I'm kind of giving you my fresh reaction to it. I would never insult the good people of Pennsylvania or any Americans, even if they chose to support a candidate that I didn't support.
--:-- Tim Rice: Now, the White House has already gone into damage control mode, releasing a transcript of Biden's remarks, which it claims show the president was saying that Trump's supporters comments were garbage, not the supporters themselves.
--:-- Tim Rice: But as you can hear from the clip, Biden's emphasis was pretty clear.
--:-- Tim Rice: So it's going to be hard for the White House and the Harris campaign to walk this back.
--:-- Tim Rice: Probably not the kind of help with the closing pitch the Harris campaign was hoping to get in these crucial final days.
--:-- Tim Rice: Probably not.
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--:-- Tim Pierce: Former President Donald Trump held a presser Tuesday to announce his administration's approach to fighting organized crime south of the border.
--:-- Tim Pierce: If elected, Trump said his administration will seize the assets of drug cartels and gangs to reimburse families of victims of illegal aliens.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce is here to talk about Trump's latest rollout and the role immigration's playing in the election.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Hey, Tim. So with a week left in the presidential race, Trump announced a new policy to fight cartels.
--:-- Tim Pierce: What can you tell us about this?
--:-- Tim Pierce: Yeah Trump laid out the plan in that press conference yesterday and also rolled out a new emotional ad on illegal alien crime
--:-- Tim Pierce: First here Trump on the new policy
--:-- Trump: So today I announcing that for the first time under my administration we're seizing the assets of the criminal gangs and drug cartels.
--:-- Trump: And we will use those assets to create a compensation fund to provide restitution for the victims of migrant crime.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Now, the new ad features the case of Jocelyn Nungare.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Jocelyn was a 12-year-old girl who was raped and strangled to death in Houston in June.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The two men charged in the case are in the country illegally and are being investigated for potential ties to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Here's some of that really emotional ad.
--:-- Tim Pierce: I see yellow tape and immediately my heart drops and sinks to the bottom of my stomach.
--:-- Tim Pierce: My daughter's hands and ankles were both bound.
--:-- Tim Pierce: She was strangled to death, left with no pants.
--:-- Tim Pierce: And I know in my heart, she fought incredibly hard.
--:-- Tim Pierce: She was not going down without a fight.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Kamala Harris was in charge of immigration and our borders.
--:-- Tim Pierce: If we had better border policies and not open borders and not these catch and release policies, I truly believe this all could have been prevented.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Truly heart-wrenching testimonial there.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Have we seen any message from the Harris campaign to try to counter this?
--:-- Tim Pierce: The Harris campaign's messaging on this issue has been pretty confused in general this election.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The vice president politically is between two competing factions on the immigration issue.
--:-- Tim Pierce: On the one hand, moderates in our party and independents favor action to curb immigration at the border.
--:-- Tim Pierce: On the other, the progressive wing of her party wants to expand avenues for migrants into the country.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Throughout the campaign, she sort of walked a line between being tough on the border without repudiating her previous support for mass amnesty in 2019.
--:-- Tim Pierce: That has led to some awkward answers, such as the one she gave earlier this month at a CNN town hall, where she wouldn't commit to a border wall, but said she did want stronger border protection.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Now, we're just days away from the big decision here.
--:-- Tim Pierce: How is the issue of immigration playing out for voters at this stage?
--:-- Tim Pierce: Well, Americans have consistently said they trust Republicans or Trump on immigration more than Harris.
--:-- Tim Pierce: And that remains true.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Much of that can probably be attributed to stories like this one from Laughlin, Ohio.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Laughlin is a town of about 3,000 residents that has been forced to take in about the same number of African immigrants.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Here's how Laughlin's mayor, Mark Mason, described the situation on Fox News.
--:-- Mark Mason: Our fire repair and medic services have been stressed since they've moved into these apartment complexes.
--:-- Mark Mason: A lot of the longtime residents have moved out because of multiple fires.
--:-- Mark Mason: It's been caused by their not understanding how to cook on stoves and they use high levels of grease in their cooking, which has caused multiple fires.
--:-- Mark Mason: We have all this documented via 911 calls.
--:-- Tim Pierce: So a lot of people don't want to subject their families to unsafe conditions in these apartment complexes.
--:-- Tim Pierce: So therefore, they moved out the working residents and they have moved in.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Most don't have jobs.
--:-- Tim Pierce: They don't contribute to society.
--:-- Tim Pierce: They don't contribute to their earnings tax base.
--:-- Tim Pierce: And it's a real concern.
--:-- Tim Pierce: So with less than a week left, Trump seems to want to hammer Harris on the immigration issue that has defined him since he entered politics in 2016 and that he has a real advantage in this election cycle.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Especially after stories like Lachlan's have dominated headlines this year.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Tim, thanks for joining us.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Thanks for having me.
--:-- John Bickley: Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro and other prominent conservatives are calling out the New York Times for colluding with far-left activist group Media Matters in what they say is an attempt to silence conservative voices on YouTube just one week from the election.
--:-- John Bickley: Here to discuss is Daily Wire reporter, Amanda Prestigiacomo.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: So Amanda Shapiro late on Monday night released screenshots of text messages from a New York Times reporter named Nico Grant
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: What are the claims there?
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Hey Georgia So the messages say that the Times is writing a story about how commentators talk about the election on YouTube based on analysis conducted by Media Matters.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: That's a Democrat funded activist group that was created with the express purpose to silence conservative voices.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: The Times reporter Grant suggests Shapiro is spreading election misinformation and specifically asks about how he's monetized on YouTube.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: These messages were also sent to other prominent conservatives like Tucker Carlson, Andrew Clevin, Benny Johnson, just to name a few.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Shapiro said on X and his podcast yesterday that this is an egregious example of powerful legacy outlets trying to censor conservative voices to influence an election.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: The New York Times is overtly, clearly admitting to using Media Matters research in order to pressure YouTube to demonetize people on the right, to destroy them, because when you are demonetized, that also limits your reach, to destroy their dissemination of information one week prior to an election.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: That's what's going on here.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: YouTube in particular is a really important platform during election time.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Polling shows that one in four U.S. adults consume news from YouTube.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Now, what specific examples did they give of Ben giving election misinformation?
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: So they cited one example, and they said that Shapiro in June said that Democrats rigged many of the voting rules in advance of the 2020 election in order to ensure an extraordinary number of mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: But, you know, the rules were changed, and ballot harvesting is permitted in numerous states.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Shapiro backed that up by citing reporting from, you know, none other than The New York Times.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: So how effective do conservatives like Ben think this tactic from the Times is going to be?
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Well, it is important to note that YouTube, which would presumably be pressured in this case to censor, that's owned by Google.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: And Google is the Democrats' number one donor out of Silicon Valley.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: So the interests does align.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: And we've also seen coordinated censorship in media and tech before.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: During the 2020 election, Twitter and other platforms censored the right-leaning New York Post scoop on the Hunter Biden laptop.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Here's Shapiro on that.
--:-- Ben Shapiro: In 2020, the late breaking media interference came in the form of shutting down the Hunter Biden laptop story.
--:-- Ben Shapiro: The New York Post had the Hunter Biden laptop story, and the social media bros were pressured into taking down that story by both the press and by members of the federal intelligence agencies.
--:-- Ben Shapiro: They shut it down. They throttled it. They prevented dissemination of the story.
--:-- Ben Shapiro: Polling shows that 47% of those who were surveyed said that if they had known the laptop contents were real, they would have changed their voting decision.
--:-- Ben Shapiro: That could have changed the outcome of the election.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: It's also significant that the New York Times is relying on Media Matters of all places for their research.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Joe Concha, who comments on media behaviors, he had this to say on Fox News Airwaves.
--:-- Joe Concha: There is not a more corrupt, more radical media organization out there than Media Matters.
--:-- Joe Concha: And the New York Times, which has vast resources and personnel, instead of doing its own research, has now outsourced this to this patently dishonest activist organization whose number one mission outside of taking out this network is to squash any and all free speech through astroturf campaigns online against anyone or anything they consider to be conservative or even right of center.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Now, the team up of Media Matters does seem to expose the Times intentions here.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Last question. The Times did reach out for official comment from Shapiro and others.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: What did they say?
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Well, I probably can't directly quote Shapiro's exact answer on the show, but let's just say he told them to go pound sand.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: They're getting similar responses, too, from other conservatives they've targeted.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Well, a lot of alarm bells going off just a week before the election about this.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Amanda, thanks for reporting.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: You're welcome.
