Your campaign brief for August 30, 2024

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Last week, I went on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher to give my perspective on the upcoming presidential election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. I was on a panel with Bill Clinton’s former campaign manager James Carville, and we debated everything from illegal immigration to economic policy. There are clips included below, but the full interview is worth your time.
 
I do these interviews because it’s critically important for conservatives to speak to audiences who do not usually hear our message. We will never grow our movement if we only speak to our own side, which is why I always jump at opportunities to go on shows like Real Time, CNN, or any other mainstream outlet that leans left. If you agree that we must continue to engage with a combative press to push our conservative message, I would appreciate any donation you can make to my campaign. Your contributions help me win the messaging war against the left, which is ultimately how we will win the upcoming election and persuade more Americans to join our conservative movement. You can donate at the following link:
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WHICH PARTY HAS GOTTEN MORE EXTREME?
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A constant refrain from Democrats is that it is the Republican party that has strayed from its original positions to more extreme policy stances. But is that actually true?
 
I debunked that myth on Bill Maher’s show with a simple experiment. Which party platform do you think the below quotes came from on the issues of immigration and the role of government?
 
On immigration: “We must remain a nation of laws. We cannot tolerate illegal immigration and we must stop it. For years, Washington talked tough but failed to act. Our borders might as well not have existed. Illegal immigration was rampant. Criminal immigrants, deported after committing crimes in America, returned the very next day to commit crimes again.”
 
On the role of government: “This is what our party stands for - the end of the era of big government. We need a smaller, more effective, more efficient, less bureaucratic government that reflects our time-honored values. The American people do not want big government solutions and they do not want empty promises.They want a government that gives a moderate, achievable, common-sense agenda that will improve people's daily lives and not increase the size of government.”
 
That is actually from Bill Clinton’s party platform in 1996. You can read the full Democrat platform here.
 
Can you imagine any Democrat saying that in 2024? Of course not, because the party has strayed so far from those commonsense positions. They now believe that illegal immigration must be encouraged out of a misplaced sense of compassion, with Kamala Harris promising not to put illegal immigrants in jail and rather give illegal immigrants free health care. Democrats now believe that there are no limits to the size and role of government in our lives, which is why they constantly seek to expand the influence of the federal government. 
 
Meanwhile, you cannot find much daylight between Republican platforms of the past and Donald Trump’s platform today. Why? Because conservatives operate within a governing framework that is largely unchangeable. The shifts in our party’s policy positions are around the edges and minimal compared to the wholesale rewrite of the Democrat Party platform we’ve witnessed over the past decades. 
 
When your liberal friends try to tell you that Republicans have shifted to more extreme positions, show them this video.

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DID BIDEN INHERIT A "CRAPPY ECONOMY"?
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Another massive leftwing myth that I debunked on Bill Maher’s show is one that Democrats use repeatedly: “Joe Biden inherited a crappy economy from Donald Trump, and that is the real reason inflation and the cost of living are so high.”
 
Nothing could be further from the truth. 
 
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris inherited an economy that was largely recovering from the pandemic. Biden-Harris inherited low inflation, and then skyrocketed inflation to 9%. Biden-Harris inherited an economy that had GDP growth not only returning to pre-pandemic levels but actually exceeding them by the time they took office. Even unemployment was largely returning to pre-pandemic levels by the time Biden-Harris took office. 
 
So, what happened? It’s very simple. Biden-Harris injected trillions of dollars of welfare (i.e. demand) into the economy while screwing up supply - specifically by restricting energy production and imposing regulations that suffocated economic growth. That is precisely what causes inflation: too much demand chasing too few goods. That’s why Joe Biden and Kamala Harris created the worst inflation America has seen since Jimmy Carter. 
 
Biden-Harris inherited a relatively strong economy from Donald Trump and destroyed it. 

WHO DOES ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION HURT THE MOST?
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Another debate that James Carville and I got into was on the issue of illegal immigration, especially when I pointed out the Democrat stance on illegal immigration in 1996 which differs drastically from where his party stands now. 
 
Outside of the obvious harms of illegal immigration - a border crisis, a fentanyl crisis, a national security crisis, illegal immigrants killing innocent Americans - illegal immigration hurts legal immigrants the most. 
 
My stepmom is a legal immigrant. It is not fair to her and millions like her who are trying to immigrant to America legally to be cut in front of by illegal immigrants. But that is exactly what Democrat policies promote, putting millions of illegal immigrants to the front of the line at the expense of countless legal immigrants who wait for years to become American citizens. 
 
This is a recurring theme with the left’s policies, in that policies they claim are “compassionate” often result in the most uncompassionate outcomes. That is especially true on the issue of immigration.

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NEWS
WSJ: Harris Gets an Interview Crutch

NATIONAL REVIEW: Questions for Kamala

FOX NEWS:​'Deliberate abuse of power': Republicans erupt after bombshell Zuckerberg letter on COVID-19 censorship
That's it for this week's campaign brief. Thank you for reading.
 
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Dan Crenshaw
 
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