In this episode, Lisa and Congressman Chip Roy discuss the recent debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, highlighting media bias and the candidates' performances. Lisa criticizes the media for favoring Harris and urges Trump to be more assertive in challenging her policies. Congressman Roy agrees, emphasizing the lack of substance in Harris's proposals and the importance of voter integrity. He advocates for the SAVE Act, which requires proof of citizenship for voter registration. The episode also delves into immigration issues, with Lisa & Rep. Roy expressing concerns about the impact of current policies on American workers and communities. The Truth with Lisa Boothe is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday & Thursday.
I'm sure a lot of us are having the same thoughts after watching the debate. We know because in the Media Research Center that ABC's coverage of Kamala Harris has been one hundred percent positive while their coverage of Donald Trump has been ninety three percent negative.
Well, we saw that during the debate.
David Muhror and Lindsey Davis might as well have been wearing Kamala for President t shirts. If they incredible hold what they were wearing, I'm sure it would be under there. They kept intervening to fact check Donald Trump. They pressed Donald Trump multiple times. Guess how many times they fact checked Kamala Harris zero. Guess how many times they pressed Kamala Harris for follow ups zero. They let her get away with lying about things like Charlottesville.
We know that it's been debunked.
Donald Trump outright said that he condemned the neo Nazis and the KKK. She lied about the blood bath comment. He was talking about what she would do to the automobile industry with her push for electric vehicles.
So it was tough.
It was a three against one environment for Donald Trump. Now, I will say you could tell that she did her homework as I tweeted out, she studied her lines, she remembered her lines, but she doesn't know what any of them mean. That's a challenge with Kamala Harris. Not only would she represent a continuation of the same failed policies of Joe Biden, but we know that she's further the left. She said that her values haven't changed. Those values make her to the left of Bernie Sanders. She should be in a commune with him in Vermont, not in the White House. Bernie Sanders when I meet the press recently saying that she was a progressive, she's just trying to moderate for the general election.
She really offered no solutions last night.
It took her forever to even put up any policy positions on her website. We know that she stole a lot of those policy positions from Joe Biden. And then beyond that, some of the things that she's put forward have been slammed by her own sarrogates. You look at things like taxing unrealized gains. Well, Representative Ocanna went on CNBC slamming that, saying that's not a good idea, we don't.
Need to do that. Well, he's her arrogate.
Or her ideas to for price controls pretty much universally slammed, even by liberal outlets as well. But she studied, she did her homework. We could tell that. As much as I love Donald Trump, I want him to win this selection. He has to win this election election. I don't want to see America with another four years of what we have been put through. I don't think the Republic could survive that. But he was undisciplined, he did miss opportunities. Now it is challenging when it's three against one. No one else is going to prosecute this case against Kamala Harris. The media is not going to do it, as they pointed out earlier one hundred percent positive of coverage from ABC. They're not going to do it. The media wants her to win. It's all resting on his shoulders. He's got to be the guy taking the case against Kamala Harris. The irony and what frustrated me is her standing there and saying, look, I'm running a people powered campaign.
My campaign's all about the people. No, it's not. You were installed, lady.
You were installed in backroom dealing between billion dollar donors in party elites and even black Lives Matter Marxist group, which she should celebrate because her dad was a Marxist.
She's a Marxist.
But they even said of the process that a twenty four hour process of talking to party bosses is not democratic, nor is it a process democrats should be part of, continuing by saying, we do not live in a dictatorship. Delegates are not oligarchs. So the idea that she is running a people powered campaign is such a lie. Donald Trump should have said, you know what, I'm a billionaire. I didn't need this. I ran in twenty sixteen because I care about the direction of the country. I'm a patriot, and that's why I'm doing it again, after all the abuse that I've taken, what you put my family through, I'm still running for the people. He is the people powered candidate, not her, But.
She was allowed to lie.
The only thing that gives me hope about the takeaway from the debate is you look at some recent polling by the New York Times and finding that sixty one percent of Americans say they want the next president to bring major change, and a majority of voters believe that Donald Trump is the change candidate. Or just get down to the basic question of am I better off now under this current administration or was I better off under Donald Trump? And the answer is clearly Donald Trump. There's also a New York Times article where they talk to some undecided voters, and some of those voters said things like, well, when Trump was in office, not going to lie, I was living way better. I've never been so down as in the past four years. It's been so hard for me. Another person also said that they did not see much of a difference between Biden and Kamala Harris and that they wanted change. So all hope is not lost. You know, I'm not gonna lie and say that it was a great night for us. That was a great night for Donald Trump. Now we'll make a material impact on the election, I don't think so, but you know, onward and upward. Right, this is an important election. So we've just got to pray, we've got to get out and vote, and you know, we've got to look alive and take this very seriously, and take her seriously too, because she's clearly putting in the work and doing the homework. All right, So moving on from that, I just you know, how to get that off my chest. But Anyways, we're going to cover that debate with Congressman Ship Roy of Texas. We're also going to talk about a crucial piece of legislation that he has been fighting for. And you know, it's also another thing that's frustrating, is so much a public policy is common sense. Yet the Democrats continue to ignore common sense, which really makes you believe the whole point, the whole intention, the whole design is to destroy your country. He's been fighting for this Stave Act and literally all it does is require new voters to submit proof of United States citizenship like a passport or a birth certificate in order to register to vote. Isn't it something that we should all stand for. Wouldn't that make sense to make sure that only American citizens are voting? So why has there been so much resistance to it? What does that tell you about the intentions of importing millions of illegal aliens to the United States. But we're going to get into all of this with Congressman Shiproy, the debate and why he's fighting so hard for the Stave Act.
Stay tuned, Congressman Ship Roy, A lot has.
Gained until last time you came on the pod of the podcast. We are looking at an entirely new world since an assassination attempt, and entirely new Democrat ticket. You know, I assumed you watched the debate last night. I found myself infuriated at it. And we saw the Media Research Center recently, did you know surveys a study finding that ABC's coverage of Kamala Harris has been one hundred percent positive. Well, there were coverage of Donald Trump's been ninety three percent negative. I mean that was on display last night. What are your takeaways from the debate.
Well, I mean, I think everybody watching it could see the questions by ABC were as saltballs for Kamalan for you know, obviously they were trying to, you know, ask point of questions of prosident Trump at you know, but we knew that going in, right, I mean, that is one of those things that you know and you go to expect. There's a reason that they wanted to reject a five debate. They you know that they only accepted the terms of this one. So you know, like my takeaway is, I think we're gonna we're pretty much at the status quo ante. I think where we are is where we were heading into the debate. I don't think he moved the needle one way or the other whole lot in either direction. I don't think there was much that was gonna I think it was going to take a breakout moment of something huge to crack through the news to shift the debate. The people that want by President Harris are lockedloaded, even to want President Trump are locked and loaded. Then we're we're fighting over the stuff in the middle in a handful of states. Right, That's just the nature of this election. Anybody with a political pulse knows that. I think, Uh, I think the vice president offered no real substance. That's nothing uh new. This is what we expect out of the vice president. If you follow it, you're a conservative. I think, uh before President Trump offered substance on a lot of key issues that were important. I do think there were a couple of things that I wish you would knocked it out of the park. On the set up on the borderscore the immigration question, you know, as opposed to talking about the the rallies and stuff. I would rather come in punching and swinging on the border. But but I look, at the end of the day, there was a very clear distation here. Somebody is to actually secure the border and somebody's not. She got away with lies like I'm not going to bay your guns, but she literally put out a statement a few days before, I'm going to bang your result weapon, you know, which is you know, eighty cint of an ar and so forth. So it's just normal. It's what we would expect. We're status quo anti and we got to turn the boat out. It's going to be a ground game. Boat turn out, get your people to the polls to make sure you beat the other side. That's what this is going to boil down.
To word Trump benefits is the fact that you know, one just on the basic question, are you better off now under this administration or you have better off utter Trump? And then you know, secondly, we had the New York Times Ciena poll recently finding that six percent sixty one percent of Americans say the next president needs to bring major change, and then finding that, you know, Donald Trump, which candidate represents major change? Fifty three percent, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris twenty five percent. And I don't know if she did an off in last night's to be one to separate herself from Joe Biden or too, as you pointed out, laying out any sort of groundwork that she's the change candidate.
Right, Yeah, it is a good point. She obviously knows she used to do that because she made that statement that you know, you're not running against Joe Biden or whatever I'm paraphrasing whatever that was. And so it's clear that that was pre planned, right the way everything she said was pre planned. I mean, it was very clearly was scripted. So that that's those are tells, and I think that's actually important. I think somebody had an interesting observation that by on the race question, rather than just you know, kind of lap you know, kind of lapping it off in Kamala haristyle, she went straight to the central park, you know, five, she went to some of the other issues, which somebody observed, Hey, that I think she's concerned that President Trump is stealing some of the black mail boat and and and black boats. So I think I think there were some tells throughout the entirety of the debate. I think your observation is correct that she didn't, you know, the needle of demonstrating she's going to be some agent of change. So you've just got kind of record versus record, and I do think that inures to the to President Trump's advantage. And you know, look, there are very clear distinctions about where he would take the country versus her. Again, my concern is the people watching the debates for the most part, you know a lot of them have decided, So it's it's the it's the undecided, or more importantly, it's like, who are you turning out? It's the enthusiasm level, right, Those will drive the numbers in November, and that's we got to just make sure we amp the enthusiasm as we're.
Headed in November. Yeah.
I thought his best line to me was when he was talking about, well, I'm a different kind of president.
I fire people.
When she got bringing up the people who have worked for him saying negative things about him, and you know, he was like, well, I fire people, you know.
Yeah, don't. I thought that was actually I agree with you. I'm sorry I mean to interrupt you. I agree with you. I thought that was the best moment's strongest moment because of your perceives that war were the American people to weaponize against the people. They've fired nobody. They're they're very pro all of deuocracy and the folks that aren't doing a good job, they don't care. And frankly, it's like my orks, they stand fully behind my work list, they stand fully behind you know, all of these folks, I mean, other than the Secret Service had resigning literally after a former president was shot, and only because she resigned, they didn't fire. You know, they haven't really removed that. You know, no one's been removed, nobody's left. So I agree with you. I also thought his answer was actually pretty strong on where he landed on abortion, from the standpoint of explaining Roe versus Way and explaining the nine months reality and trying to put that back on Vice President Harris, because Vice Resident Harris is a really really radical position. Democrats have a really really radical position, And I thought the President did a pretty good job flipping that back on the bats. Different people are going to disagree on that that issue is thorny, but I thought it was important that he flip that back around on that.
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Well, so it's a really good question. And let me go back to the thing you said, which I think is really important, the lack of common sense. And you'll go back and remember that in Are found It, right, Thomas Paine wrote common sense. I think what maybe a year before or roughly the declaration in that timeframe, uh, And it was really hitting the ground in terms of publication and printing into January before the July independence I remember, correctly, in my time. And my point is it common sense is something that's important and we lack it as a country, as a society, and then certainly politically, certainly in Washington and you know, it's common sense to spend only the money that you take a right. It is common sense to secure your country as a sovereign antion. It's the first order of government. Right to secure your border, secure your country against invasion. It's common sense to you know, enforce the law, have bad guys in jail, keep your streets safe. It's common sense that only citizens should vote. I mean, it's it's actually the bare minimum you would expect a country, right, you would. Somebody made a good example yesterday in one of the areas when we were in that we had a hearing on the say back to the Judiciary Committee yesterday, somebody made a really good point that said, you wouldn't allow the board of directors of say, you know Microsoft, They wouldn't. You wouldn't allow them, you know, people that aren't stockholders to come in and run the board. Right. And yet you know, we yet as a country, we're allowing non citizens to vote. And it's happening. It's clearly happening with studies and information that we see the voter roles cleaning off. We have the Secretary of State of Florida testifying yesterday that he doesn't have the information in the data from the Better Government to do his job to check the roles, and so the bill is pretty common sense. It would just say that we would provide the tools to make sure that only American citizens can vote. It would require it, which which is important given all the jurisdictions like Oakland and San Francisco and DC New York are trying to actively register non citizen voters. And so, you know, we passed it unanimously by our Republicans in July. We had five Democrats who joined us.
Uh.
By the way, importantly, three of them or Hispanic and one of them happens to be black. Uh, it's not a racial you know issue. And so we got that passed. But the center we'll move it. So the only question now is whether we will leverage the spending fight to try to force such an obvious issue. President Trump wanted to pick a fight. President Trump put out that we should have the Save Act plus the cee R. You know, so we set out to try to make that happen. We had a area yesterday we set up the bill. Unfortunately, I don't think we've got the votes to get it there, but we'll see. It's we're figuring figuring that out as we speak.
Well, you know, and those on the left will say, you know, look, this is not a big issue. This is not happening in any sort of numbers that would change an outcome of an election. You know, YadA, YadA, YadA. But we've seen even in places like Virginia where Governor Glenn Youngkin you know, said recently that he had issued an executive order moving three hundred and three non citizens who had quote unquote accidentally or maliciously attempted to register to vote.
Well, six thousand votes.
I mean, you look, in some of these states, like you know, Wisconsin or whatever, the outcomes are determined by like twenty thousand votes. So six thousand votes makes a material difference in a lot of these states which are ultimately going to be you know, extremely close, So that does matter. So I guess, you know, why do you think they go to such lengths to say that this isn't happening when we have evidence that you know, legal immigrants or legal aliens or foreign or whatever are registered.
Non citizens are registering to.
Vote because they know they are, they want them to, and all they want is cover long enough to get it to the place where they can guarantee either will never pass laws or rules that will restrict the ability of non citizens to vote.
That's it.
They know it, they want it, and they don't want to interfere with trying to continue to build up what they believe was a voter base for them. I've never accepted the premise that, you know, oh, Hispanic voters are always necessarily going to be a Democrat or whatever. I've always believed that we can win on the things we believe it. But I will say this, it does matter people who follow the law, who are citizens who didn't just come here because someone's good, you know, promising them amnesty or promising them a handout. And I think it's really important to point out yesterday the hearing we had, we had several Hispanic female witnesses who were testifying because they lost loved ones or were working with people who had lost loved ones Hispanic who were killed at the hands of people released into the United States. We had a woman named Alexis Nunge. Her daughter, Josh was murdered. Her daughter was twelve years old. Her daughter was twelve years old, almost the exact same age as my daughter. She was murdered by two Venezuelans who targeted her and preyed on her and her mama. Alexis is a baby herself. I mean, she's twenty stink seven or eight, and she chose life by the way, when she was pregnant as a teenager. She raised this girl, and this girl got murdered by people released in the United States by this administration. Now, I know that's an issue that's separate from the point about voting, but it's not. This is all related. My Democratic colleagues do not care that Americans are in dangered and they do not care that our sovereignty is undermined because for them it's political. But meanwhile, you've got these Hispanic women testify that their parents came here and did it the right way. Their parents came here to follow the rule of wall. Their parents came here and refused handouts because they wanted to make their own way. One woman testified to that, So my dad didn't take welfare chets, he didn't take you know, whatever the government in it, because he came here at believing that he had to make your own way in this country. For those people, I would open the floodgates and open the doors, because that is the American dream. As Milton Friedman said, I'll take everybody you want, bring them here. You can't have a welfare state. I know that's a lot, at least I know that's a lot rolled into one, but it's all the same thing.
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Well, it's not ho Lisa. And one thing that I'll put out there for your websteners is my staff compiled a report that we entitled America Invaded that we put out about three days ago, four days ago, and it is a compilation of the impacts of the open borders and a lot of stuff you're referring to, But it talks about those Americans have been dead or injured, the Americans that are paying the price to the States, and all of a sudden they're having to do the mind nights to have been endangered or abused or lost by this administration. Three hundred and twenty thousand illistration can't find now again, some of them are safe, some of them aren't, and the Inspector General says that the DHS has no idea where they are. But importantly to your point, the remaking of America that whole section, and we have a lot of data in there, and I've heard people to go find it. But the remaking of America is about the fact that we have roughly fifty million foreign born people in the United States. Thirty million of them, give or take, are non citizens. So you've got over ten percent or pushing ten percent non citizen population. You have sixteen and a half pushing seventeen percent of foreign born population. That's the highest we've ever had, and it's growing with this administration dumping people in the United States. That's happening at a time where we're not teaching our kids. But we used to teach our kids that America is great, the Western civilization is strong, that God exists, the Bill of Rights are important, that free enterprise is good, that you're supposed to go out and work hard. The government's not supposed to just give you stuff and provide for me. We're not doing that anymore. So this isn't a cultural thing. Democrats want to make it about race and that kind of it is a cultural thing. At the same point, at who we are in Western civilization has nothing to do with where you're from or your background, has to do with whether you buy into the American dream of the work that it takes to do it. That's what's happening, that's what's real. These numbers are atrocious, criminals, terrorists, people being let under our streets. But it's also that it is a just massive shift in our fire population. And look, I don't like go down the road all this like rabbit trail stuff, and like with what's going on with the Haitians in Springfield, Ohio. I'm not there and I don't know what's happening with animals and all that stuff. What I know is twenty thousand Haitians descended on a town or sixty thousand people. What the hell do you think is happening? Right? The people in Springfield are the ones trying to figure out how to make it work. They have people the streets and they're parks, they's schools or hospitals, they're cops, Like, what the hell are they supposed to do? That's the real story.
Before we go on one thing.
Obviously, it's infuriating for her or to try to be on the offense on immigration and the border when Biden and you know, she's the borders are when they've led in tens of millions of people by toys, by desire, by design, in you know, completely eroding all the protections Donald Trump put in to protect the southern border. But for her to run on the border bill and say that Donald Trump railroaded that. But what was not mentioned during the debate last night is that would have set a daily minimum of thousands of illegal aliens coming to the United States on a daily basis, and that is why it was railroaded that numbers should be zero. We shouldn't be letting any legal aliens into the United States. What do you wish was conveyed last night about the current border crisis? And you know, what did you make of her trying to, you know, talk about Donald saying Donald Trump railroaded this, you know, quote unquote bipartisan bill.
Yeah, this is where I mean again, and I think that set up. We're biased. We knew that going in. I think President was very clearly distinct from Kamala Harris. He did a good job on a number of different fronts, and you picked out a cop level it. I think the area where there was a lot of you know, left on the cutting room floor, if you will that. I wish you would have punched harder. I would have punched right back on that issue about her fake bill and the Democrats fake bill. I would have hit that really hard. You the Vice President worked directly with Senate Democrats to want to codify your failed programs. That's what that was. You were trying to make permanent the failures of your administration. To make this the open borders and perpetuity. Republicans rightly opposed it long before I settle anything about it. Yeah, I posed it because the American people opposed it. That's why I run it. And I would have pounded that, and I would have talked about some of the specifics kind of buying five thousand a day, endless asylum, endless abuse parole, the same parole, and I would have pivoted, Really, are the same parole that has been used to release an individual onto our streets that killed lacoln Route, to release an individual on our streets that killed Jocelyn Nunger, to release an individual on our streets that killed Rachel Mritt, to release an individual on our streets that killed Kayla Hampleton. And I would have gone person by person. I would have talked about the proof who's wanted now for twenty three murders of prew was released found in Buffalo. I would have pounded the rock on Sentinel. I would have talked about the central bombs. I would have mentioned people by name, and I would have jammed it down her freaking throat. I wish that didn't happen.
I do too, you know, I don't know if there will be another debate, but you know, I hope Republicans continue to make the case and articulate the case that you just did heading into to November. Fifth Congressman Ship, Roy, It's always great to have you on this show. You're a busy man, so I really appreciate you making the time.
Oh it's a pleasure. Thanks for what you do. Keep up the good work and we'll do it again soon. Take care of listen.
That was congressman ship role of Texas. Appreciate him for taking the time to come on the show. Appreciate you guys at home for listening every Monday and Thursday, but you can listen throughout the week. Oh to thank John, Cassie and my producer for putting the show together.
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