Bill O'Reilly joins Clay Travis and Buck Sexton to discuss the latest regarding Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
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SEXTON: Uncle Bill. Bill O'Reilly, the one and only. He is with us now. Bill O'Reilly..com is where you can find a lot of his fantastic content. No Spin News. Also got a new book out, Confronting the President's No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden. Bill, I know you wrote a column. Welcome, Welcome, as always. You wrote a column on your site and, and going out to everybody about normal voters, I believe. What what are normal voters see at these voters?
O'REILLY: Thanks for having me back, guys. I appreciate it. Responsible, normal voters are looking out for the country. It's as simple as that. And my hypothesis, word of the day, is that many, perhaps most Americans are not doing that. They're voting personality. They're voting emotion. They're voting demeanor. So, Confronting the Presidents broke number one on the New York Times bestseller list. That's the 19th time that happened. And I'm sure it brings that newspaper great joy to see my name at the top of their bestseller list. You guys think that's true, right?
TRAVIS: Mmhmm.
O'REILLY: Okay.
TRAVIS: They won't put me on the New York Times bestseller list, by the way, Bill. And my last two books, both, were top five bestsellers in the nation, including bestselling nonfiction book in America. They wouldn't put it on The New York Times top 15.
O'REILLY: And The Economist actually exposed them? Yes, I think largely because of what happened to you. But anyway, the reason I'm even mentioning that in a braggadocio way is that if you read the book, you see throughout history, when Americans vote emotion, we always get hosed, always 100% of the time. So I wrote the book. That's why I put the book out in this campaign season. So in 2020, Joe Biden was not elected because of anything other than he wasn't Donald Trump. You guys would agree with that, right?
TRAVIS & SEXTON: Yeah. Yeah.
O'REILLY: They voted against Trump. It was a plebiscite on Trump. And what have we got for four years? Chaos, inefficiency, punishing inflation, an open border that is catastrophic and will hurt the country for decades to come. That's what we got because people didn't analyze the Trump four years in office when casting their ballots four years ago. They analyzed his presentation, which is dubious at times. Even the Trump supporters know that. All you have to do is watch the rally on Sunday at Madison Square Garden and you go, Whoa. Some of that should not have been there. However, if you are going to allow demeanor to drive your vote, this is what you're going to get. You guys already got pen and paper there. I got it. Okay. Because I'm your uncle and I'm looking out for you.
TRAVIS & SEXTON: Yeah. Yeah.
O'REILLY: They voted against Trump. It was a plebiscite on Trump. And what have we got for four years? Chaos, inefficiency, punishing inflation, an open border that is catastrophic and will hurt the country for decades to come. That's what we got because people didn't analyze the Trump four years in office when casting their ballots four years ago. They analyzed his presentation, which is dubious at times. Even the Trump supporters know that. All you have to do is watch the rally on Sunday at Madison Square Garden and you go, Whoa. Some of that should not have been there. However, if you are going to allow demeanor to drive your vote, this is what you're going to get. You guys already got pen and paper there. I got it. Okay. Because I'm your uncle and I'm looking out for you.
TRAVIS & SEXTON: That's right. Right.
O'REILLY: Okay. Now, this is indisputable. This is not opinion. This is indisputable. If Kamala Harris wins one week from today, here is what will happen to the country. Number one, amnesty for undocumented migrants. Number two, reparations for slavery. Number three, allowing government to undermine parental authority in abortion and gender matters involving minor children. Number four, severe restrictions on firearms. Number five, onerous taxation on the affluent and corporations, which will then go down to working Americans as the companies and corporations pass increased costs on to the consumer. Number six, a reimagining of criminal punishment at the federal level. Fewer prison sentences. Number seven imposed equity where the federal government provides tax dollars to selected groups, which is grossly unconstitutional. Number eight, strict limits on speech. We've already seen that in Scandinavia, Sweden and Norway. They have. They punish freedom of speech expression there. You can go to prison if you criticize a minority group. That's what the progressives want here. And the last one is a weaponization of the Justice Department and IRS against political opponents. All of that will happen. The only bulwark is if the Republicans keep the House and win the Senate. But even then, executive orders, as we saw with Biden on the border, can create massive chaos. Now, do you guys disagree with any of that analysis?
TRAVIS: No. It's why we've already voted early for Donald Trump and why we've been encouraging everybody to go vote early.
O'REILLY: Right. And look, we understand, you guys and what your view of life is. And there's nothing wrong with that. You are Americans. You have a perfect right to put forth your opinion on who should be president. But I'm in business to prove to Americans that there is gross danger ahead. If they don't understand what they're voting for...
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SEXTON: Bill, can I ask you about this? Actually, just because because here's the thing, Bill. It seems to me I mean, I agree with your assessment about all these things that Kamala wants to do or would pursue to the degree she can if she were to become president. It seems, though, that to me, at least based on the early voting, and I know that that's not definitive, but that there is a sense among the American people, not just the MAGA faithful, but the American people more broadly, including independent and swing voters, that she's just lying about everything and hiding everything that you just laid out. Does that do you see that, too, or is that wishful thinking?
O'REILLY: No, it's there, but it's not the primary motivator. Now, I have access to internal polling on both parties. Very few journalists have it. I have it. And it's because I've been in a business for 50 years. You know, I started when I was ten, but I know everybody. The prevailing winds are against Kamala Harris today. The main reason is that voters who are not ideological, they're not conservative or liberal, they're not party apparatchiks. They're just regular people who vote, but they're not zeroed in on policy. They don't believe that she is competent enough to run the country. They don't reallyunderstand what I gave you. All right? The tenants, they couldn't rattle them off. But her presentation to them through the media has been so weak. When a guy like Bret Baier asks ten direct questions and a presidential candidate doesn't answer one of them directly, not one. Even the dimmest American gets that sees that. And that's the impression form. That's why Trump is slightly ahead and has some momentum. But on Sunday, Trump hurt himself at Madison Square Garden with that Puerto Rican situation, because in Pennsylvania, there is a substantial Puerto Rican bloc vote.
TRAVIS: They're built, do you think? Yeah. On on the rally. The Sunday rally. Right. Right. I'm curious. You're a history guy like Bork and I both are. Nixon lost in '60, said famously, You'll never have Richard Nixon to kick around again. Came back and won in '68 and '72. That's probably the best political comeback in living memory for most people. Obviously, Truman beating Dewey with the famous headline. If Trump Comes back and wins. Where will it rank? Have you thought at all about where that ranks in one of the greatest comeback stories in American political history? Because because, Bill, I don't just think personally that Trump is going to win if people keep voting like they are right now. I think he may win the popular vote, which would have been a staggering thing to say in January or February of 2021 when Biden was coming into office. If you had predicted on Biden's inauguration Day, Trump's going to win the popular vote in 2025. People would have said, You're crazy. He may well do it.
O'REILLY: Yes, I agree with that assessment. I believe at this point that Trump is going to win both the popular and the electoral. Popular, I'm not as firm on I that's not a prediction. I'll make my prediction on Halloween and scare all the kids that come with my prediction. But my belief today, based upon the numbers, is that Trump will win. Come back. I'm not so sure this is more like Grover Cleveland, the infamous Grover Cleveland who won than Benjamin Harrison beat him. And Harrison was such a disaster that they said, we want Grover back because look at Ben. That's what's happening here. Biden is so bad, the second worst president ever, that even the people who don't like Trump are going, 'I don't want to live through four more years of this.' And when Harris gets on television and says, I didn't see anything wrong, we did. Everything's okay with me. You know how much that hurt her with the folks? That was the defining moment if she loses.
SEXTON: No doubt, Bill. As we sit here. You said you're in agreement. You think less. Less confident in popular vote. More confident in the Electoral College. What do you think a second Trump presidency would look like compared to a first? How much did he learn? How much different do you think it might be? You've known Trump well for some time. What do you think a second Trump presidency would look like compared to a first?
O'REILLY: Well, number one, he has to seal the border, which he can do fairly easily. He just employs the same tactics with the Mexican government that he did last time. If you don't put your army on the northern and southern border with Guatemala, we're going to designate the cartels as terrorists and blow them up. And you're going to be humiliated throughout the world. That's how we got the remain in Mexico policy done. And he can do that. That's not hard. Mexico City can't stand up to that. All right. They'd have to redeploy the troops back. And that's what stems the migration. And then number two, he's going to run into trouble with the mass deportations because once you're on American soil, you're entitled to due process in the Constitution. So every case, unless they were apprehended and then they could be sent immediately back. But if they had established a residency in the United States and they had an apartment, they were living and working, you're not going to be able to kick them out unless you go through the court system, the federal court system, which would take years and years and years. So Trump will do the dramatic part and stop the migration. That'll be number one. Number two, he'll open up the drilling everywhere, and that will stimulate the economy because once fuel prices drop, food prices have to drop because that's the rationale for raising food prices. Getting the food into the markets in the restaurants is now costing me twice as much under Biden. So I got to raise it. If it comes down, they got to lower it. Those are the first two that will drop and then he'll get some deal with Putin on Ukraine. You can count on that. I don't think he's going to be able to calm down the Middle East because the mullahs are insane, literally insane, and they're not going to cooperate with the USA.
TRAVIS: Bill O'Reilly, everybody go to BillOReilly.com to get the No Spin News Also, go pick up a copy of Confronting the Presidents. Bill. Do you want to make a prediction before we let you go? Or are you just going to ride it out until the day...
O'REILLY: I'll wait until Halloween cause everybody's, that's the big day for us... This is a warning to the Trump campaign. It's a warning to them. I'll issue it on your program. You have to stop the nonsense. Now, with seven days left. You can't have people in your entourage saying that Puerto Rico is a floating pile of garbage. You can't. Stop it.
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SEXTON: Some of them listen to the show, some of the Trump campaign, I can tell you that. So they've definitely heard it. Bill O'Reilly, everybody, Uncle Bill, good to have you on, sir. Thank you.
O'REILLY: Thanks, guys. Appreciate it very much.