I love how American politics is like a beauty pageant for narcissists instead of, you know, politics.

People will say things like, “Kamala is super unpopular” and then Biden is just standing there with a negative approval rating

What exactly needs exposing, the moral arc or republicans has been in bad faith for more than a decade😒

Again? How is the GOP's underbelly not exposed?

I don’t think the GOP needs any help exposing their worst parts…

"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat." ~ Will Rogers

Go with Kamala Harris and have her pick a charismatic Vice President with good policies that they can both work off of. Ideally the 2024 Primaries should've been upheld as Biden would've crumpled in any of the debates.

I could be trippin' but also something about Kamala makes me feel like she might actually *DO* something about court reform and protecting our rights instead of saying "Too bad Jack; unconstitutional senate traditions are parliamentary tricks are much more important than your freedom and bodily autonomy, JACK!".....

What do you mean? GOP itself is exposing ALL of their parts openly and loudly every single day. It doesn't require any debates or different candidates. They're doing it themselves.

“She’s decent at hand to hand combat “… I was like wait what lmao 😂😂 then I was like ooooh

im latino. kamala wouldnt be my ideal choice but i would definitely vote for her to keep trump out

I think I've said it before, but I am a bit fascinated by the amount of times the idea of a female president is outright dismissed as electorally unviable, given that we have a sample size of literally one to go off, and she only lost by ~80,000 votes in the electoral college and won the popular vote by ~3 million. Considering the number of other issues that Hillary had as a candidate, it doesn't really look like there's any statistical basis for the assertion.

The caller is right. Harris would expose some unsavory parts of Democratic voters as well.

The cynicism of “we should pander to racist voters” of this caller was not in my bingo card today

This caller needs to interact with more young voters. Her perspective is based in fear of what people her age will do.

If anyone wants to see the fun side of Kamala Harris I suggest watching the podcast I've Had It. They had her as a guest a couple of months ago. I didn't care to see her, what I saw and heard in the past I didn't like and she gave a lot of fodder to the right wing talkies. Since I didn't pay attention to her the past couple of years I was curious to see if she would be the same. She wasn't! It's one of best shows they've had, my opinion, and I probably laughed harder than ever. I just felt good. The hosts Jen and Angie are great and they just loved her! It was fun!!

He’s not going to step down, and they’re not going to replace him. They’re just not.

Ranked ✅ choice ✅ now ✅

why is the only other option Kamala ......the delegates can pick literally anyone else

It makes sense people are concerned about Biden’s deterioration. I just wish they were equally concerned about project 2025, what the Supreme Court has done, ect

I think Emma is the only FAN Kamala has....

Racists will vote for someone like Tim Scott because Tim Scott doesn't challenge the racism of the voter.

The polling is *SO* clear. Harris is no one's first choice. And she is no one's last choice. She garners little enthusiasm but little animosity either. She is literally Generic Democrat-- which is ALL we need right now, for the love of God! GENERIC DEMOCRAT 2024!!!

I remember in 2008 when Hillary supporters told us Obama couldn't win. Now we have Biden's supporters telling us Kamala can't win. Kamala for president!!

I think Beto O’Rourke would be great, he speaks well, and southern enough to feel like a safe option for independents.

I blame bill Maher for everything! Jokes aside- the dems never fight.

2004 was bad, but we elected Obama just 4 years later! It's never been close to this bad.

Emma's continued grasp on Harris is constant and she gets so angry at Kamala critique, propped up by Matt who is straight up already sure Trump will become our king, awesome

Young people need to start voting and stop threatening to vote

I think you overestimate how much voters care about Trump and the republicans being nasty and racist. Trump saying awful things to Hillary and women in general are. Trump being nasty to Kamala wouldn’t change anything really

"Joe Biden will not be the nobbly knee. Camel O'Harris will be the nobbly knee." That's what it said in the subtitles, yessir.

I think i'll go w the concensus. Kamala isn't great, but not too bad & better than biden. I think her prosecutor history will do well for her in a debate. Imagine her owning trump in a debate. It's possible.

I would literally vote for Harris just to see MAGA melt. I just can't bring myself to vote for Genocide Joe.

Kamala's record in the senate, in spite of what most of the left thinks, was also pretty progressive. I think the only people who voted left of her were Warren and Bernie.

JFC, how can you guys of all people still be talking about polls/data? Because it's convenient now? The most disappointing thing in this election cycle has been the attitude of people I had grown to admire.

I really do appreciate the relentless optimism about Kamala’s chances. I hope it comes to pass.

"IT WAS A DEBATE! 😅 IT WAS A DEBATE!! 🤣 IT WAS A DEBATE!!! 😂"

Lets put it this way...I'm a millennial. I'd vote down the democratic ticket, but was going to write someone in this November. I WOULD vote for Kamala Harris. I don't love her, but she's better on Gaza and is palatable enough. In fact, the only reason I voted for Biden was because I HOPED he'd have the decency to step down when it came time. That being said, its said that as poorly as I've always felt about Joe Biden, it its impressive that he still finds new and innovative ways to disappoint me.

WHAT CAN BE, UNBURDENED BY WHAT HAS BEEN

And they know that. Especially Trump knows that, which is why he's dodging a debate with her.

"and a woman who is not Hillary Clinton" Emma with fantastic insight on that point.

One question, from a foreigner : Kamala Harris is 1/4 black 1/4 white (from the Jamaican side) and 2/4 south asian. How does it add up to make her just black? Her features are prominently south asian as well.

Why haven't I really heard anyone attacking Republicans on their economic policies? Who's going to get a 60% pay raise to compensate for tariffs? Who's going to be able to afford to keep their elderly parents or grandparents alive when Social Security and Medicare get slashed?

It can always get worse

I merely mentioned Harris might be given the chance for the Presidency and my Reagan-Republican mom said "Oh I'd vote for her in a heartbeat". People are SO hungry for youth and competence right now.

EVERYTHING is at risk right now, caller. Riding is every bit as risky. It just is, you have to accept that.

Great caller

turns out she was Obama after all

I disagree with the caller. None of what she said seems correct. Of course it is just an opinion like mine. I also don’t agree with the narrative about Biden and his abilities cognitive or otherwise. When I hear him speak he sounds sane, not lying and not trying to do things like ending democracy or take away rights.

It's too late to choose another candidate. It would be whiplash if the nominees choose someone else because it would be up to them not voters. In a normal race the nominees would have been debating each other and voters would know the platform they have. Now they get blindsided if Biden drops out.

She looked really good the other night in her first speech. Solid!

Emma, you're always right. such good points

Well the Republicans frothed at the mouth at the convention so revisit this particular conversation now that we know .

Perfect caller. 👌

We need someone like a black Obama

What happened to having an open convention?

The naysayers. Tired of you. Kamala Harris is going to be magical. We are about to live in our finest hour.

Harris - Franken ticket

When VP Harris speaks, she reminds me of watching and listening to Hillary Clinton.

Gotta appreciate Emmas ability to constantly repeat "data data data" while ignoring the "data" that shows very clearly how reporting like Emmas about Bidens age has done infinitely more damage than the debate

Bring back Bernie

Brendan, please let Emma speak.

She's got that Selina Meyer fun

Left is best.

If i was an american i would vote for Harris even if i'mpretty far left of her and most democratesin the US.. She is very qualified in my opinion. She has almost 4 years under her belt as VP,, former Senator, and attorney general of Califorbir.she comes from a very intellectuel family. How can anyone see what she did and think oh Harris is not capabele?!

interesting is hardly how I would label these times

I hear the caller completely. It’s a risky gambit either way. You will have racists & sexists (or both) who don’t want to vote for Kamala which is dangerous. Unless we have a huge youth turnout to compensate for disenfranchised republicans/right leaning independents I’m worried we’d lose them if Harris was the nominee. At the same time I think she could mop the floor with Trump & Vance on her own.

I buy a lot of the arguments but the hard sell is off-putting. I wonder how it plays with people marginally paying attention.

As to the headline of this video, it would, however Trump would win nonetheless. And to those who claim they had no idea that Biden was struggling, and that somehow being ‘transparent’ about is now a problem, is either ignorant or disingenuous. I agree ‘this conversation’ should have happened a year ago. Also youth turnout has never been great. Also to say that folks won’t vote for a black candidate because of racism, flies in the the face of Obama’s election regardless of his oratory skills. Harris’s skills as a prosecutor are exactly why she got backlash from the black community at the time she was selected for VP. If she runs, the Republicans will hit her on the border, which Biden announced publicly was her project. If it is true that she was ‘sidelined’ then the messaging will be, ‘if President Biden didn’t trust you, why should the rest of the country?

10:00 Harris is always Xan'd out of her mind when we see her on a large stage. That needs to be addressed if she gets the nod. Other than that it sounds like the football fan who's starting QB got hurt and they know the backup is not good but they hype him up all week. "Listen, he just hasn't been in the right system his entire career. The dude...he has a cannon arm!" The reality is that I'm 98% sure Biden loses and I'm about 75% sure Harris loses. If it HAS TO BE one of them you go with Harris.

You all are wrong about there only being two options. There could be an open convention, and no I do not buy the chaos or money arguments. Yes Harris could use the money more efficiently than another candidate, but another candidate could still benefit from the money if it is funneled to the DNC. I do not think the money advantage Harris has is worth anointing her rather than doing an open and transparent process to choose a new candidate. She may very well still win from such a process but she would come out a lot stronger than had she been anointed without any input from anyone but Biden. If an open convention process revealed Kamala to be a terrible candidate for president, then I do not think the money would be worth having a much less popular candidate than someone like Gretchen Whitmer or Josh Shapiro etc... The money probably wouldn't even be an issue because such a widely televised event would generate a ton of free media coverage and donations to the Democrats and whoever emerges as the nominee.

Can anyone remind me what Sam's and Emma's thoughts were on someone challenging Biden in a primary was?

There's a reason why Stu and The Blaze *want* Harris as the front runner. It's to ensure the racist base gets out and votes.

This video is newly relevant.

Emma has such a struggle making her points it's frustrating

What could you possibly expose about the Republikkkans that we don't already know or would be surprised to find out?

I think Newsom would win. Harris maybe not. He has the ability to turn independents and has the gift of the gab that modern politics requires

This caller is out of touch!! Majority of voters are concerned over ECONOMIC ISSUES! They don't care about identity politics and are desperate for anything different from the status quo.

Anna sounds extremely naive in her support of the VP.

Obama sweet? That’s nuts.

The fact the y’all are still here arguing in July over who should be running is the best data on Trump definitely winning this election. I don’t have much hope for the future.

Classic no. 2 take

I think it's interesting that the right haven't really focused much on Harris over the last 4 years (probably in part because she hasn't been let out much), I think switching to her would really put them on the backfoot and like Sam and Emma have said they'd probably scramble towards racism and sexism which is off-putting even to somewhat racist and sexist people.

Sam, I love your show and greatly appreciate what you do. However, the belief that some folks want to "prove to themselves that they're not racist" is just very naive

7:48 the problem is voting for a black person the problem is voting for a person who has the same "strategy ideology" of the person you want out of office .... It's the same president but different skin tone... & the idea of only choosing between democratic and republican is sad, cause there's a lot of 3red party options that don't have the ($) media coverage, and sadly rather than getting getting half of your couch & working for a better future... People "say we only have 2 options"

2004 was significant to me. I worked hard for Kerry that year, not because he was so great but because Bush was so horrible. When Kerry lost I registered as Independent (since back to D to vote in primaries). The dems didn't have it together back then any more than they do today. Obama was an amazing candidate and politician, and an okay president, but dems still haven't gotten it together after him. Still beholden to the money, that's all there is to it. Our election cycle sucks. and this comment was a journey lol.

I'd vote for her

It's makes me laugh, Emma is soo sure Kamala would win!!! She will get Landslided!! She's unlikeable as DeSantis.....

Great exchange

I'm hoping that the defeatist backward attitude of the caller isn't prevalent among decision makers with power and influence because it's exactly what gives us the uninspiring beatable candidates we've been getting.

14:47 Who’s voice?

Which is why I would much prefer that as the race

The argument is, Kamala has to be better. Have you not been watching dementia Joe.

I'm a progressive. Kamala isn't my ideal candidate but I would certainly prefer her. I wouldn't mind her as Biden's VP because i think Joe has a high chance of getting out of the presidency for medical reasons (and a small chance of death). My concern with Joe getting into office, which is better than Trump, is that i think he'll hang on way past when he should and his team will enable it. I think he'll have a highly competent team to run the place as he fades, but we still need a highly functioning president. Joe could be just fine if he was working at a low level job, but the presidency requires a level of functioning higher than a lot of folks could do at their best.

Its bizarre how this show has lost its ability to analyze, at least as far as Joe Biden. Why would we need to make Kamala the nominee to highlight the GOP's worst ideas & behavior? They literally broadcast their bigotry, sexism, homophobia, etc, every single day. And we could look at just how the conservatives voters treated Vivek for a recent example of that. Or, why isn't Nikki Haley's endorsement not one of the biggest examples of their behavior? I get that y'all want to be honest about the Dem problems instead of just blind support, or trying to avoid their flaws & bad choices, & I really appreciated that about the show, but you've all just slid into bashing the whole idea of him being the nominee, you're choosing to focus on his mental issues, as though Trump doesn't have them, & they are worse, & of course, ALL the rest of the horrors about him. You've slid so far into this hole now, that you're very focused on Biden dropping out, even though you are all fully aware that even the fans of your show are often less capable of analyzing things & navigating the complexities of things, & that means that you are using your platform, in your own on view I suppose, to be critical of both sides & beyond, but the consequences of those choices will lead voters to not vote, or vote for RFK. You are contributing to the dissolution of the public with the Dems, as if Biden mixing up names, or getting words wrong, or other aspects of being an old man, is somehow all the evidence we need to want him to drop out, at the very last min, as if we don't have 4 YEARS of great work & huge successes. And playing around with this ONLY increases the chances of Trump winning, & then what? The EVERYTHING that we all agree is MOST important, will be in danger, perhaps for decades to come. This show has already had a long habit of a kind of activism elitism, with insignificant examples like the guy who continues to believe that normal adults wouldn't enjoy comics, comic movies, etc, as if all comics are superhero comics, & as if all comics are inherently childish, while sci fi movies, fantasy movies, all somehow acceptable. If y'all knew more about comics, you'd know that they have always included activism & support for progressive ideals, I'm 50 now & grew up reading them & was introduced to a more intimate lesson about drug addiction & racism. And further, while comic creators have always included various forms of activism & the natural response to the world around them in their stories, since the rise of Trump, they are flooded with activism, from dozens of perspectives. But the bigger examples of what I'm calling elitism, for lack of a better term, though perhaps virtue signalling could work as well, is that you're all very educated in politics, in analysis, in philosophy, in political movements & a lot of the history of various examples of Communism, Socialism, etc. You all speak the same language, you use all the "code" words, from talking about Capitalism, to Zionism, but rarely explain them in any detail. It has the same effect we see in other spaces, from religion, to cults, to gangs, etc. Watch the show, hear the terms, get a loose idea of what they mean, & then repeat & use them as a way to identify with the show, the group, the social media, etc. And I understand why those topics are so important, but I've long believed that if you don't try to educate people by translating those big, layered, historical, concepts, most people won't do the labor of learning, or may not be capable, or may have a mental health issue that makes it more difficult for them, etc. Its so disappointing to see the show jump on the anti Biden train, when you're all educated, knowledgable, & experienced to understand why doing that, at this point would be so drastic, so complicated, even just the mechanics of changing ads, new messaging, changing all the election offices, teaching the volunteers & staff why they are all suddenly pivoting - in a country where we all know most Americans aren't tuned into politics - that it makes very little sense, & most of the polls have shown no profound change in people's opinions.

Why is it not 'Donald Vs Kamala' or 'Trump Vs Harris?' The show can't control what the caller says, but the show DOES control the headline. Perhaps a little implicit bias/misogyny?✌️💜🏳️‍🌈🧑‍🦳

It's so easy to denigrate Kamala, but she's one of the only viable options outside of the incumbent, and compared to Trump, she's still infinitely better. I think a lot more people will be motivated to come out and vote for her over Biden, and as far as the people that don't want a black woman president, those people were already voting for Trump and their vote doesn't count more just because they're bigoted against the Dem candidate.

I want Harris to run on Biden's current platform and only bring out her true prosecutor self when debating Trump. That would make me excited. I dont want to live through another "tough on crime" bill. But the idea of Harris doing Biden level progressive stuff as the first woman president is actually exciting to think about.

I dont see Harris as much better. She is younger but still goofy. Is the goal to not lose by as much?

Why are y'all still doing this🤷🏾 STOP! BIDEN 2024💙