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Thanks Fred well, I am back once again end of the week Bill McCosh and Scott Ross. Thanks again for all this weekend for today
Let's start with the big speech last night Bill. What did you think? Was this Trump's unity moment? Did he sail it through?
I think he did what he needed to do as it related to unity CNN had
Focus group of females afterwards and they thought they heard a different tone from him and they liked it they responded to it
Personally, I think the speech was too long. It should have been 45 50 minutes not 90 minutes
I think he got into rally mode there and that's a different beast altogether
But I think as far as the unity message the different tone
I think he was a different man last night whatever whatever happened last Saturday night with the assassination attempt had a pretty profound
Impact on him Scott. Did you hear two speeches at once one with the prompter and one without I what I heard was
You know, I don't want to say dislike the speech because the Abraham Lincoln, you know
Adage, which is I never heard a short speech
I didn't like because it went on a long time
But what I heard from the from the speech was you know his delivery wasn't great
But it just you know it culminated the most divisive the most extreme the most alarming
National political convention
I think we've seen and again embodied by the fact that for the first time in American history a major political party has nominated a
Convicted felon to be its presidential nominee. That really says something being in the arena last night. We were all there
Listening to it. What was your reaction of the people listening to it as it went on?
Was he losing the audience? Was he losing the crowd as it kind of got into the old old hits?
It came and went right there were certain lines bringing back the American dream that got huge applause
Eliminating the EV mandate got huge applause
There are a lot of those throughout the night
And I think that may have caused him to go off script a few times when he thought that the crowd was a little subdued
I would have preferred he just go with the speech that was in the prompter
And I think that would have been just fine the good news for us is it was a great convention
I've been to five national conventions my former boss Tommy Thompson has been to 12
We both think it's the best we've ever seen Milwaukee look great. They showed great
That's gonna lead to more business for Milwaukee and Milwaukee County going forward
I would definitely agree with that Milwaukee did a terrific job
The facilities were fabulous. Yeah, you know, they everybody was courteous
You know, I know there was some incidents and stuff outside of the water. We could we could do this at this day exactly exactly
And you know, so I so so what was going on sort of outside of what was being talked about in five servers good
But what was being talked about in five server?
I think was alarming some of the biggest lines I heard that got applause was, you know, the attack on Nancy Pelosi
You know, which is you know, read me read me to the base. It's not under it's not
unexpected but towards the end he got into a
Ranta against trans people and that got so much applause and that was really disturbing
I think, you know, I sent the message that I think they wanted to say which is again
This is gonna be a very divisive person if we put him back in the White House
I think we need to do in terms of performance. I'll say this, you know
I think that he kind of yawned through it
It was a you know, it was stumbling and long and I think in the end, you know, he performed the
Announcement speech version of Joe Biden's debate poor performance
Yeah, I think one of the most notable things is he only mentioned Joe Biden by name one time
It was an accident in 90 minutes. It was an accident. Well, he sort of walked into it
So he had to name him and said I won't name him again tonight
And I think that was smart. You know, well, I'm sorry one mention of Joe Biden zero mentions of abortion
Which I think was the most telling thing about the night the thing that he bragged about getting rid of the the right to choose
and making women second-class citizens
And he doesn't say anything about it as in the biggest audience. He's gonna get well
Now the attention will shift to Biden earlier today
Congressman Mark Pokan a Democrat from Madison announced he can no longer support Biden on the ticket as from the step-down
Scott, is this is this all unraveling here in front of us?
I don't know the word I would use as unraveling
What it is is a challenging campaign because when it's not when it when when you're when the focus becomes a referendum on your weaknesses
That is a problem. It happened in 2016
It was a referendum on on whether or not Clinton should be around still in 2020
It was a referendum on Trump because of his performance now that it's a referendum on Joe Biden's age
That's problematic because it is not gonna get younger
You know the thing is is that if the Democrats, you know, if Joe Biden decides
He doesn't want to he doesn't want to be the nominee and steps down
This goes back to focusing on Donald Trump
Which I think is great for the Democrats because they know what they get with Trump
They got three million lost jobs. They got, you know, COVID being bungled, you know
And again, Joe Biden's gonna put country first. He always has. I think we can agree with that
He always has put country first. On the other hand, you got Trump, you know, you got Trump Ivanka had 18 new pat
I'm sorry if you need anything. Yeah, I'm ready to go. I'm ready to go on that
Dems aren't disarray for the next month leading into Chicago
We're totally good with that
The fact that this guy has he earned 14 million votes in the primary
Dems cleared the field for him so that he didn't have a primary with Robert Kennedy Jr
And now they're trying to push him off. I mean so much for democracy
So we're gonna have a big test coming up because Kamala Harris the vice president's coming to Milwaukee on Tuesday
What does that look like? What are you expecting to hear?
I think she'll promote the Biden agenda as she has in the past and if she ends up being the nominee
We'll see if if there's an open convention if she can actually win it
I think the Biden agenda is what's dragging them down. Yeah, Joe Biden's age is a big negative for them
No question about that. Yes, his debate performance has lingered on for three weeks after and we've never seen that in our lifetime
But I think she's gonna have to answer for those same policies
Will she be announcing she's a candidate that time or she's still the VP?
I'm still waiting for my call, but I don't know what's going to happen with that
I have to say I you know again. There's lots of talk
I mean, you know, it was there was a buzz, you know
It's you know amongst media last night about what is going to happen here, you know, and I have to disagree with Bill
I think it's gonna come back
I do think it's gonna come back to policy
But I think Biden went Biden and Democrats went on that
16 million jobs created 21 million more people put on health care
And again, you go back to the Republicans anti-democracy
Anti-abortion and anti-worker given five trillion dollars in tax breaks to the party trying to push their guy out with a
Backroom he gets to do by the influence peddlers the the president gets to make his own decisions
He will make the decision and I believe he will put country first
Alright, just a couple seconds for each of you absolute chaos in Chicago or orderly convention. Oh, I'm gonna have fun
In Chicago. Yes. Well as Nietzsche says out of chaos comes order. All right, Bill McCoshan Scott Ross
Thank you so much. We will be all together in Chicago for the whole week. Can't wait. Thanks again
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Joke about that actually like what was that wait? I thought we got 30 minutes every day now
Well, that would've been we could have covered it. There's definitely enough there, but
The it was interesting we'll see in the story that I'm airing tonight at the beginning of this
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