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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): Senator J.D. Vance takes the stage for the first time as VP candidate Vance and lays out his vision for the country. Mr. Chairman, I officially accept your nomination to be vice president of the United States of America. We break down the highlights from his speech. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley. It's Thursday, July 18th, and this is Morning Wire. It's bad news for Biden, as an unlikely source predicts an overwhelming victory for Donald Trump. The numbers are getting worse for the President, Wolf, and Donald Trump has an opportunity with this convention to build it even more. And is the lawfare effort against Trump officially dead? We talked to a legal expert who lays out that case.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): Two days after being tapped as Donald Trump's running mate, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance offered the keynote address to a raucous crowd at the RNC convention. John is in Milwaukee with Cabot Phillips. We're joined now in our RNC booth by a man who was in the room for that address, Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips. So Cabot, Republicans heard for the first time from a VP candidate, Vance. What did we hear?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah, millions of Americans are already familiar with his life story, having seen or read Hillbilly Elegy. But as a man who's only held elected office for two years now, this was in many ways his national coming out party, where he offered his vision for America under a Trump-Vance presidency. I was on the convention floor when he took the stage. Here's what I heard.
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--:-- Cabot Phillips: It is my great privilege to introduce my husband and the next vice president of the United States, J.D. Vance. Later on, Vance talked about what he believed are the most important issues facing America. We're done importing foreign labor. We're going to fight for American citizens and their good jobs and their good wages. We're done buying energy from countries that hate us. We're going to get it right here from American workers in Pennsylvania and Ohio and across the country. We're done sacrificing supply chains to unlimited global trade, and we're going to stamp more and more products with that beautiful label, Made in the USA.
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--:-- Cabot Phillips: And as you might expect, he took more than a few shots at President Biden and Kamala Harris. Now Joe Biden has been a politician in Washington for longer than I been alive 39 years old Kamala Harris is not much further behind For half a century he been the champion of every major policy initiative to make America weaker and poorer And in four short years Donald Trump reversed decades of betrayals inflicted by Joe Biden and the rest of the corrupt Washington insiders.
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--:-- Cabot Phillips: Now, one of the things that drew the Trump campaign to Vance in the first place beyond his policy record is his biography. Whatever anyone thinks of his political views, it's impossible to deny that Vance has embodied and lived out the American dream, overcoming extreme poverty, abuse, and family trauma to now become one of the country's most important political figures.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): Typically, when a VP choice is made, folks go to their Wikipedia to learn about their background. But in this case, again, there's already a hugely popular book and film about his life. And millions of Americans are now turning to that story to learn more about their potential next vice president. To that point, the paperback and hardcover editions of his book, Hillbilly Elegy, now hold the number one and two spots on the Amazon bestseller list, while the film starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close is now the fourth most streamed movie on Netflix. Wow. So Republican voters seemingly very enthused by the pick. What are we hearing from the other side?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah, the Biden camp has spent the last 72 hours painting Vance as an extremist Trump mini-me. To give you an idea of their messaging, here's a video posted by Vice President Harris yesterday ahead of his address. So Donald Trump has picked his new running mate, J.D. Vance. Trump looked for someone he knew would be a rubber stamp for his extreme agenda and make no mistake, J.D. Vance will be loyal only to Trump, not to our country.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): So night three is in the books. Tonight, we will hear from the man atop the ticket as Donald Trump not only accepts the nomination, but offers his first public remarks since the attempt on his life five days ago. Yeah, really a historic speech we're going to hear tonight. Cabot, thanks for reporting.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Anytime.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): The Trump campaign got some good news from an unlikely source this week, as John King, the chief national correspondent for CNN, suggested that the former president might not just win, but win in a landslide. David Marcus joins Morning Wire on location in Milwaukee. King's analysis is based on a collection of state-based polls, all of which show a decided swing towards the GOP in recent days and weeks.
--:-- David Marcus: Morning John. According to King's breakdown, Trump could possibly win with 330 electoral college votes to Biden's 208, which would certainly qualify as a landslide win. He's basing this off of swing state polls, all of which are trending towards Trump, as well as Biden's approval rating, which is dropping like a very large rock. And it isn't just the traditional swing states in question. Here's what King had to say about what had been the reliably blue Commonwealth of Virginia. Democrats are now worried. They think I not saying this is going to happen But what they saying is the president going to have to spend more time and more resources on places like Virginia because it competitive Now listen if Biden loses Virginia the fat lady is going to bust into a very loud aria because there is absolutely no path without it Meanwhile, Trump now has myriad possible combinations of states to get him over the top.
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--:-- David Marcus: How significant is it that this analysis is coming from CNN, which is typically taking a pretty dim view of the GOP nominee? Look, on the one hand, numbers are numbers, so you can't just make up good ones. But this is different from the network simply reporting out the results of a latest poll. There's a subjective nature to King's calculation. So they are actively choosing to highlight Biden's current weakness. Something that I think it's fair to say would have been rather unlikely before the debate debacle and Trump's display of courage after the assassination attempt.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): Yeah, it certainly was not. Speaking of the things that the Biden campaign does not want to see, after several days in which talk of replacing Biden on the ticket really quieted down to almost a whisper, we had a fairly important Democrat come out and call for Biden to step out of the race. Who was it? And are we likely to see more of these calls now? So it was Adam Schiff, a fairly powerful California congressman, very close to Nancy Pelosi, who in an exclusive statement to the Los Angeles Times called on Biden to drop out.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): His statement begins with the obligatory words about what a fantastic and wonderful president he thinks Biden has been, but goes on to say, quote, but our nation is at a crossroads, a second Trump presidency will undermine the very foundation of our democracy. And I have serious concerns about whether the president can defeat Donald Trump in November, end quote. Now, the reason I read that instead of playing a clip is that Schiff did not say this on video, which would have had a much bigger impact. So we'll have to wait and see if this opens the floodgates or if perhaps Schiff is simply covering his you know what in the event of the kind of thrashing that John King was warning about.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): Yeah. Thus far, Biden has been stubborn in his insistence that he is not going anywhere. Is that still his position today? Well, we actually saw a wrinkle in that in which Biden now says that if a medical professional told him he couldn't run, he would accept that. Previously, Biden had only said that he would drop out if he was told he had no chance to win. These are difficult tea leaves to read. He could be laying the foundation for a graceful exit, or this could just be a delaying tactic. And as we've pointed out on the show, there's a real question after the assassination attempt as to whether any Democrat has a shot now. So there's still a lot of balls in the air here, as Democrats are just weeks away from their virtual nominating. It really seems like a party in disarray right now.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): Absolutely. Dave, thanks for joining us.
--:-- David Marcus: Thanks for having me.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): The legal landscape for Donald Trump has altered significantly over the last few days. One of the stronger federal cases against the former president was tossed out Monday by Judge Eileen Cannon. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court's immunity ruling has already wreaked havoc on other pending cases against a former president, leading many to wonder if the lawfare effort against Trump is officially dead. Joining us now in our Morning Wire booth here at the RNC is Sarah Parshall Perry, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a fan favorite here on the show. Thank you so much for joining us.
--:-- Sarah Parshall Perry: It's great to be here. Thanks for having me.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): So let's start with the biggest legal news of the week that broke on Monday. The classified documents case against Trump was tossed out for now. So what does this ruling mean? And does it affect other cases against him? Are we seeing a domino effect of sorts?
--:-- Sarah Parshall Perry: Yeah, it's definitely going to, I think, ignite a domino effect because what happened in federal district court in Florida was that Judge Eileen Cannon said all of these indictment charges every one of them have to be tossed because the appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel was unconstitutional in the first place Now, I've heard a lot of partisan commentary about the fact that Eileen Cannon's been overturned on appeal to the 11th Circuit. But this is a very well reasoned 93 page opinion. She went through the congressional history of all of the statutes that were actually employed by Jack Smith. She went through the Constitution's history. She actually went back to the Declaration of Independence and said, listen, this was one of the complaints that the founders had against King George III, that he would appoint certain partisan rule enforcers without the people's weigh-in whatsoever.
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--:-- Sarah Parshall Perry: Biden appointed him through Garland and just said, this is the guy I want. He could have appointed a U.S. attorney to do this. That would have been constitutional. You need the advice and consent of Senate, which means the president appoints and then the Senate weighs in. That was not who Jack Smith was. And so this is going to affect at least three other cases currently pending. Another major case, obviously, from the Supreme Court, the immunity ruling. Right. Also a domino effect here. What are we seeing play out right now with the other cases against Trump, in particular as a result of that immunity ruling?
--:-- Sarah Parshall Perry: Yeah. Yeah. So there were actually two cases at the Supreme Court that are going to directly impact what happens next with President Trump. First of all, of course, in Trump versus the United States, the Supreme Court determined that a president enjoys presumptive immunity for any act sort of at the outer perimeter of his official duties. That one's going to have a significant impact because just about everything that's now been claimed by all of the individual, very partisan prosecutors in these cases is something that presumptively was an official act. That's number one. And then the other one was a case called Fisher versus United States. And remember, that was a series of January 6th defendants, and they were all charged with obstruction of justice. But the statute under which they were charged was actually related to obstruction of justice by use of things or documents. And so the Supreme Court said, we're sorry, that's a little too expansive a reading, and it's not supported by the statutory context or history here.
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--:-- Sarah Parshall Perry: So both of those will have an impact. Now, on top of that, you've determined out of the Florida Federal Circuit Court that you've got this unconstitutional appointment of Jack Smith. And it looks like just about everything now is going to fail. So let's put a finer point on that. Do you believe that the lawfare effort against Trump at this point, the cases that have been brought, are they all going to collapse?
--:-- Sarah Parshall Perry: I do. I believe that. Absolutely. In fact, the one state case that we saw coming out of New York from District Attorney Alvin Bragg, one of our many favorite rogue prosecutors at the Heritage Foundation who loves to selectively enforce the law. Those were 34 state counts and the unconstitutional jury instructions and the judge malfeasance top to bottom gives his entire defense team a whole host of issues to argue on appeal in New York state. And then on top of that, you've got these other two federally impacted cases with an unconstitutional special attorney. That one will fail in New York. Then you've got the Georgia case that's also still pending. that one will fail because the claims are the same. So every which way from Sunday, I think this man is going to, and rightly so, I would argue, walk free.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): The good news for Trump. Yeah. That ends up being the case. Sarah Parshall Perry, thank you so much for joining us. Great to see you in person.
--:-- Sarah Parshall Perry: Thank you. We'll have you on again very soon. Thank you so much.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): Thanks for waking up with us. We'll be back later this afternoon with more news you need to know. Thank you.
