Trump 2020 campaign manager Bill Stepien contrasts Trump and Biden’s law enforcement agenda on ‘Fox & Friends.’
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Emily welcome back to Fox AMP,
Emily welcome back to Fox AMP
friends,
the latest Fox NEWS poll finding
Joe Biden ahead in key swing-
States
Steve the former vice president,
leading by nine points, among likely
voters likely voters in Arizona
four points in North Carolina and eight
points in Wisconsin, Brian
Brian, but it shows a consistent
gain, especially in a place like
Pennsylvania. According to the
Monmouth Poll, he was trailing
53 40 now its 49 45
bill Stepien.
How different are these polls
from what you look like
very different, and I love
Fox.
I love Fox NEWS. I love you
guys.
I dont love your polls.
I look at
Steve wont, do dont you like
about it.
Twenty eight percent of those who voted in
two thousand and sixteen were Democrats. Arizona poll
that you are citing includes forty eight percent
democrats.
The methodology is alittle
askew.
Look here is the fact if Joe
Biden is actually winning by nine
points in Arizona he wouldnt be
visiting Arizona later next week
week,
Steve Emily
Emily all right,
we have an ad. We would like to
show a bit for you
its airing in Wisconsin, its
called lawless, listen,
Cory. Booker Joe Biden takes a
knee
Biden and the radicals left
weak response has led to chaos
and violence.
Your thoughts on that Trump
campaign ad
look its scary times in
Democrat, controlled states and
cities.
You know Vice President Biden,
own Party, Ayanna, Pressley,
encouraging unrest in cities,
Democrat mayors, refusing federal
support and help that the
president has offered
with Joe Biden visiting Kenosha
today. You know the president
was there earlier in the week as
president of the United States.
Vice President Biden is there
today as a candidate as a
political candidate.
This is not the time to inject
politics into a situation that
the president helped solve.
I think the ad very clearly
points out the contrast between
the President wants leadership
and the people in Vice President
Bidens Party, who are
encouraging violence on the
streets.
You dont see many supporters of
the president throwing bricks
through windows or setting
buildings on fire
Steve. You know bill its
become very clear that the two
campaigns have different things
they would like to talk about.
You would like to talk about law
and order and spiraling into
chaos.
He would like to talk about the
federal response to coronavirus
and in fact how the
administration has you know,
did a terrible job and all the
things like that.
So essentially, when you look
at the polls, people do rank
coronavirus as a more important
and pressing topic facing them
than law and order
at this point until they feel
like it could actually come to
their neighborhood.
You are exactly right.
I mean when you, I think, most
Americans, when they looked at
violence in Portland
when they looked at violence in
Chicago
that was, that seemed quite
far removed from their own
backyards.
When they saw violence in
Kenosha Wisconsin, it was a
different story.
I think it showed that violence
can happen anywhere if Democrat
leadership is left untethered.
So you know, Democrats may want
to talk about coronavirus,
but the fact of the matter is
you know. Violence is out of
hand in these Democrat Governed
cities and states.
You know we are forced to talk
about it
because you know its an issue
on the top of voters, minds
Steve sure bill to the points
about the Democrats would like
to talk about the failed
response. They say by the federal
government, but then, when you
hear Joe Biden talk about what
he would have done differently,
essentially he is saying things
that the administration has
already done
and in the beginning, certainly
there was a learning curve, but
yesterday the very hostile
Peter Doocy thats, how he was
accused by Joe Biden, asked him.
The simple question,
Mr Vice President, if you were
telling the administration back
in January that the
coronavirus out the pandemic was
going to be really bad,
why did you keep having in
person rallies big rallies,
exposing lots of people to the
virus right up through March,
and he didnt really answer that
that
he didnt
listener? Joe Biden doesnt like
to answer a lot of questions.
I think you see the peril when
his staff puts him out there to
try to do so.
You see a lot of revisionist
history from Mr Biden
he stalked about not you know,
going back onto the campaign
trail, you know keeping his
supporters and all Americans
safe because of his perceived
concerns about coronavirus
and then the polls tightened,
and then he announced a trip
know ten days. You know down
the road to States like Arizona,
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and
Minnesota
all four places the president
visited himself two weeks ago,
so its very convenient for the
vice president and his
revisionist history.
We know, pure politics, are really
whats at play here.
Brian some stats show that forty five percent
of Biden voters are very
comfortable mailing in votes
mail. It in
sixty six percent of Trump voters are going to
show up in person
which led this Bloomberg funded
group. To conclude that Trump may
win on election day, but Joe
Biden as the ballots come in
and some allow ballots to arrive
after election day and too many
battle. Ground states things
could switch
here is Josh Medalson.
We are sounding the alarm and
saying this is a very real
possibility that the data is
going to show on election night.
An incredible victory for Donald
Trump.
That is likely to be what we see
when every legitimate vote is
taled and we get to that final
day, which will be Sunday after
election day. It will in fact
show that what happened on
election night was exactly that
a mirage
it looked like Donald Trump was
in the lead.
He fundamentally was not
when every ballot gets counted
Brian. How likely is that
scenario?
How often do you think about
that
guys? This is why the
president is so right to talk
about his concerns regarding
Democrat States, governors and
legislatures ramming through
last minute changes mere weeks
and days before voting starts
and election Deo cures.
I think that democratic
operative made a big mistake in
talking about what a lot of
Democrats think.
Are you telling me that if
Democrats in Nevada show a
super super close election,
remember the election in New
Hampshire came down to one thousand seven hundred
votes?
Are you telling me that Democrat
operatives in Nevada wont be
able to find one thousand seven hundred and one ballots on the
strip among casino workers in
the three days after election
day?
It is scary, scary, stuff.
The president is right,
Brian, the attorney general
brought it up yesterday and not
as an election issue, but as a
sanctity issue. Are we going to
believe the vote
here? We are in the first week of
September.
If you know this is a scenario
and for the country to not know
a winner because of maybe five six,
seven, eight states.
What do you now
well, the attorney general is
exactly right.
I will would also say its a
threat to national security,
its a threat to continuance of
governance for our country, not
to know who our president is
not for days, but weeks,
potentially months,
its a real concern.
I know our campaign is very
aggressive on the legal fronts
challenging these sham bills
that are being passed by
Democrat governors and
legislatures.
We are very aggressive on this
front because our democracy and
national security is at stake.
Steve. You know I get the
argument, but at the same time
bill its because these
different states have different
rules where sure we will count
your vote three days later after
election day
a week, if its coming in from
overseas,
every state has got its a
patchwork of crazy laws.
Not everybody has to report by
midnight on election night.
It is
its one of the you know,
beauty in my eyes, flaws of our
american democracy.
You know each state has
different rules,
different laws,
different methods, different
ways to count.
You know. New Hampshire starts
their voting at midnight on
election day up in dixville
notch.
Every state is different and
quangt in some ways dangerous in
others,
Brian read, Karl roves Wall
Street Journal column spells
out the real challenges.
If we have this much time before
the election day, can we avoid
this crisis ahead of time?
Well, look the absentee
ballots start being sent N North
Carolina September. Fourth,
just later this week,
so ballots are being sent as we
speak.
This is the system in which we
are operating.
We are fighting any of these
last minute. Changes democrat
governors and legislatures are
trying to ram through, like we
saw in Nevada.
This is more than just about
the this president or this
elections.
This is about the future of our
country,
Emily Bill, Stepien, Trump, two thousand and twenty
campaign manager. Thank you so.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-08.