Cenk Uygur

In the middle of my video, they put out a second one. Okay, fine, Kamala Harris, right? Because that's too much for the president not to endorse.

I don't know. I wasn't there, but probably. Right. Or they plan. I don't know. But the bottom line is it was glaring that he didn't put her in the first letter. Okay. So he had to put her in the second one. Fine. No problem. But Obama, Pelosi and Schumer did not endorse Kamala Harris. That's huge. Normally the Democrats would all endorse her and would all say, she's anointed, shut up everybody.

And then MSNBC would scream, shut up, shut up, she's anointed, right? But they didn't do that. So then Kamala Harris had to win over the delegates. And I thought she would win them over in the convention, but she locked them up in two days. And I know because I know delegates because I ran. And the delegates are calling me saying, she's getting on a Zoom right now with us, right?

She went to all the states and worked her ass off and locked up enough delegates to get the nomination in two days.

There's what should happen and what is likely to happen. So should Biden not have endorsed? Yeah, of course. I think Biden should have done the same thing as Obama and Pelosi and sit not endorsed and say, Hey, we'd love to have a process where we figure out who the right nominee is. And at that point, I'm really worried about Kamala Harris because she's doing word salads nonstop. Right.

So I'm like, don't make the same mistake we did before and just pick someone out of a hat. Test them, test them. You get stronger candidates when you test them. The authoritarian nature of the DNC drives me crazy. They don't believe in testing candidates. They don't believe in letting their own voters decide. And look, when we were in the primary, they canceled the Florida election.

And they took me, Dean, and Marianne off the ballot in North Carolina and Tennessee. I'm like, guys, if you're going to make a case for democracy in the general election and you cancel elections in the primaries, Do you not get how ridiculous you look, how hypocritical you look, right?

So I didn't want Biden to endorse anyone, but I'm shocked that they didn't all endorse her because normally what happens is they all endorse. So bottom line, Lex, is did she earn it in a perfect system? Not even close, right? But did she earn it enough in this imperfect way where at least she showed some degree of competence that assuaged my concerns? Yes.

So, because a normal Democrat would bungle that they wouldn't go talk like Hillary Clinton, wouldn't have talked to the delegates. She would assume that she's the queen and that they would all bow their heads. She would, you know, so the fact that she did elementary politics, correct. For Democrats, it's like a big win.

So you don't often give your opinions, but when you give the opinions, I actually agree 90, like a huge percentage of the time in this conversation. So I fought for Shapiro in the primary and when she was trying to pick for a VP, because I thought there's no way she's going to pick Walls. He's way too not just progressive, but more importantly, populist, right?

So I didn't think she'd go in that direction. And Shapiro actually did a bunch of populist things in Pennsylvania. That's part of the reason why he's so popular in Pennsylvania. He looks like a smooth talking politician, but his actions are pretty good. And so Shapiro was great. Walls was great. The Obamas are legendary.

Even Clinton at his advanced age makes terrific points in his speech where you go, well, That one's hard to argue with, right? And so they all, I'm shocked at the competence of the DNC, shocked at it. But of all those likes, so you can give a good speech and the Obamas give a mean speech. But I saw Obama as president. you know, he didn't deliver on that.

So, but the one guy that stood out is waltz. And the reason is because he's a real person. Yeah. Real person populist. We all got to work towards picking the most genuine candidates. So here, uh, on the right wing side, for example, uh, I would prefer a Marjorie Taylor Greene to a Mitch McConnell any day. Marjorie Taylor Greene is genuine. She might be genuinely not, so I don't agree with her.

She might be even more right-wing than others, but I believe that she means it. And I'll take that any day over a fraud corporatist like Mitch McConnell, who's just going to do what a donor's command of him, etc.,

Yeah. So... I love Bernie for the same reason you're saying it, because he's a real person, he's a populist, he means it, and that is so rare in politics. I feel like I'm Diogenes and I went looking for the one honest man and found it in Bernie. And so I did a video in 2013 saying Bernie Sanders can beat Hillary Clinton in a primary. In 2013, that video exists. Because why did I think that?

I didn't say it of any of the corporate politicians and the guys who were supposed to challenge her and stuff because populist and honest, right? And the country's dying for an honest populist, dying for it, right? So love the brother. Now that doesn't mean that he's right on strategy and he drives me crazy on strategy. So two elements of that.

Number one in 2016 and in 2020, for God's sake, attack your opponent. You said something about Trump that I disagree with, uh, where I'm defending Trump. Okay. You don't like what he did to the public discourse. No, I don't mind it. I would. And I'll tell you why. Yeah. Because at least he got a little bit past the fakeness.

Like he's a con man and he's a fraud overall and he does everything for his own interest, but at least he doesn't speak like a bullshitting politician. Right. And he's not wrong that you have to bully your own party to amass enough power to get things done. And he showed that that's possible. So the problem with the Democrats is civility, right?

So my whole life, they're like, oh, no, no, no, don't say anything. Let's lose with civility, right? So, for example, in debates, whether it's on TV, online, or whatever, Democrats or people on the left are always saying, I'm offended. I never get offended. No, after I'm done, you're going to be offended. Okay. Fight back, fighting back wins. And we couldn't get Bernie to fight back in 2020.

He, he was one state away. He won the first three States. He crushed in Nevada. All we needed was South Carolina, but in order to get South Carolina, we all knew everybody on his campaign, everyone who's in progressive media, we all knew you've got to attack Biden. If you don't,