The Federalist publisher Ben Domenech reacts to the first night of the RNC.
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ive seen ideas like this
before- and I am here to tell
you you cannot let them take
over our country-
spread the wealth, free
education, free health care,
defund, the police. I hear echos
of the former life. I never
wanted to hear again.
President Trump knows the
american story was written by
people just like you and I who
love our country and build
future for our families and
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Steve Florida businessman,
Maximo Lvarez
joining us right now. Special
place is Ben Domenech, publisher
of the Federalist Ben Good
Morning to you
Ben Good Morning, good to be
with you
Steve. Some of the take aways
are that some of the, in
addition to fantastic speakers
last night, like Nikki, Haley and
Senator Scott, you had these
ordinary Americans like Andrew
Pollack and Maximo Lvarez, and
they really stole the show
Ben yeah. They absolutely did.
I think their speeches were
better than trained politicians,
which was pretty impressive in
Lvarez. I hear echos of my
grandfather Puerto Rican and
reminds me of him a lot and
attitude toward radicalism that
he sees rising on the left.
I think Steve. We may look back
at democratic convention and if
Donald Trump goes onto win
reelection and Joe Bidens
decision and the decision of the
Democratic Party, not to speak
about violence and riots that we
see in major cities as
equivalent to major political
mistake of twenty. Sixteen of Hillary
Clinton never going to
Wisconsin.
I think that their choice not to
address this, not to say that
they condemn it and not to say
that, no matter what we need to
do when it comes to police
reform, it does not justify the
burning in Kenosha Wisconsin of
auto dealerships that that does
not bring anyone back, that that
does not end any of our problems
and that it represents degree of
radical leftism and people are
concerned about taking over the
country in serious ways
that should be condemned by
Democrats and Republicans alike,
and I think the choice of the
Dnc not to address it at all is
a real mistake,
Steve! Well, you can see that
the Republicans and Donald Trump
are trying to take advantage of
the absence of comment from the
left during their convention.
One of the other things that the
that you guys at the
Federalist observed about the
Rnc last night was last week
during the Dnc. They continually
hammered Donald Trump as a
racist, but you say last night
what they started to do was they
started to tackle Democrat
race baiting head on? Can you
explain that for our viewers
Ben well, I think that people
dont want to see the kind of
conversations that weve had
degrade in this country.
I mean no offense because
shes not here to push back
against me, but when Donna
Brazile reacts like that, she
represents the kind of thing
that worries a lot of Americans,
which is that, if you disagree
with what you see happening in
the streets, if you say this is
not justified that in some way
that means that youre, a racist
denying four hundred years of slavery,
erasing black Americans or their
experience, thats absurd and
frankly, its Un American.
It doesnt look at us as being
individuals to make individual
choices. It connects us based on
ethnicity to past sins.
I think the choice of
Republicans to take this
race baiting stuff face on is a
good one and they shouldnt
ignore it and call it for what
it is
Steve. One of the things last
week. The Democrats did their
best to portray Joe Biden as a
good guy and last night. What I
heard Republicans essentially
say was Joe Biden is a good guy,
but a good guy does not allow
the anticop chaos in the
Streetsover, raise your taxes or
turn America into a socialist
country, your response,
Ben to their point, to their
credit, they didnt had character
assassination of Joe Biden.
They focused on issues what
choices would they make?
You talk about the concerns of a
lot of conservatives that are
out there. They include the fact
that Kamala Harris historically
has been engaged in anticatholic
action.
If youre, a member of the
Knights of Columbus, an
organization J Dot, fk belonged to
that, you shouldnt, belong in a
court
thats the thing that concerns
people and good for Republicans
to bring it out.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-25.