“DESPERATE KAMALA TURNS TO OBAMA TO SAVE HER”
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-Good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Ingraham. This is the Ingraham Angle from Washington tonight. As always, thank you for joining us. Obama's got nothing. That's the focus of tonight's angle. All right, his swagger doesn't have the appeal it used to have. His shout-outs. Hello, Pittsburgh. Oh, the audience. It just kind of seems juvenile, I think. And now the man who won the presidency as the great uniter is making a nakedly racial-insulting appeal to black male voters who are skeptical of Kamala Harris. -We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout as we saw when I was running. That seems to be more pronounced with the brothers. You're coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses. I've got a problem with that. Part of it makes me think that, "Well, you just aren't feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you're coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that." -Well, with Kamala's mounting challenges in battleground states, Obama jetted in, and he held court. You saw him there. But rather than addressing concerns about Harris' record on the economy and on the border, people's standards of living, he tried to shame black men into supporting her. -So now you're thinking about sitting out or even supporting somebody who has a history of denigrating you because you think that's a side of strength because that's what being a man is? -Really? That's the argument? His message to black men is clear. You're stupid sexist if you don't vote for Kamala. Is this what all that hope and change was all about all those years ago? All right, let's be very clear here. In the history books, Obama's administration will go down as a failure because when it was over in 2016, the voters rejected his chosen candidate, Hillary Clinton, and they elected someone who had never run for political office before, a businessman, Donald Trump. Americans had had enough of the Obamas, and they wanted to go in a completely different direction. And the facts show why. Remember, President Obama promised to help the middle class and urban voters, but he really never did. And he promised that he would get tough on China, and he was going to declare them a currency manipulator, but he never did. And he promised to renegotiate NAFTA, but we know he never did that either. President Trump got more done in his own one term than Obama did in two, and Trump had a pandemic to deal with. Now, look at the real median household income numbers. Wow, hit a record high under Trump. Even CNN had to report it. Well, Obama knows all this, and he knows that in every poll conducted for the past few years, voters have been very clear. They prefer Trump's economic record to Biden and Harris's. So while Obama, I think, believed he needed something new to say yesterday, and he tried to save this issue for Kamala. Now, he's had months to think about an argument, but this was the best he could come up with. - The reason some people think, wow, I don't know, I remember that economy when he first came in being pretty good. Yeah, it was pretty good, 'cause it was my economy. I spent eight years cleaning up the mess that the Republicans had left me the last time. So just in case everybody has a hazy memory, he had that, he didn't do nothing except those big tax cuts. - Not surprising from the man who famously said this. - Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we had that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. - Trump didn't help build that economy. I did. Now, almost nothing Obama said in Pittsburgh was actually true. - Donald Trump and his cronies. Freedom means that the powerful can do whatever they please. We believe in the freedom to provide for our families. We believe that true freedom gives each of us the right to make decisions about our own life. - Oh, really? Then why is Kamala sitting on a billion dollar war chest if she's not supported by the powerful, Mr. President? Now, under Trump, the powerful weren't allowed to flood our communities with migrants or to send your jobs offshore. Like Obama doesn't even sound like he believes much of what he's saying anymore, and especially about Kamala. - The good news is Kamala Harris, she doesn't have concepts for a plan. She has an actual plan to make your life better, to bring down the cost of things like groceries. She'll go after corporations that are jacking up prices. - All right, I have a question for Obama. If she has this great detailed plan, why is she unable to explain her to defend it under real questioning? Why are the voters not buying it? And why does she need you to try to do it all for her? It's all ridiculous. And you know what else is ridiculous? That the guy who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in his first year in office, which is still hilarious, is now on the same side as Dick Cheney. And the fact is, Obama's act was always phony. He was never a racial healer. He was a cynical fomentor of racial divisions. And he was never a champion of the working class. He supports and agrees with the same globalists and billionaires who support Kamala Harris today. And he was never really a peacemaker. He agrees with most of the Cheney's views on foreign policy now, and supports the Cheney's pick presidential candidate. Now, this is his real record. And this is why the voters rejected his recommendation in 2016, Hillary Clinton. And this is why voters are rejecting his advice right now. He's always been kind of the same editor of the Harvard Law Review, who learned to protect and defend the elites. He's comfortable with them. If you want to know about real estate and Martha's Vineyard, or hear about how to score floor tickets to the next game, then he's your man. But if you're trying to figure out how to build a colorblind political coalition or raise living standards for the middle class, then he's the last person you should be taking advice from. As we told you last night, the problem for these people isn't their calm strategy. The problem is all of them are wedded to the same failed policies that have eviscerated our middle class. Meanwhile, President Trump has spent nine years under relentless assault, showing us that he is committed to the multiracial, multiethnic, multi-state coalition to improve life for all Americans. So voters, vote for your own interests. You don't owe Obama anything. He's gonna be fine. He has his mansions and his movie and Netflix deals and his standing invites on private yachts in the South of France. Now, remember, he's the smartest guy they've got. He's obviously been thinking about how to defend the Biden-Harris record for months. And in the end, all he's got is, you're being mean to her because you don't like women. In other words, they got nothing, and that's the angle.
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