The truth is, this should not be a close election. Trump has been found guilty of 34 felonies guilty of sexual abuse. He has been impeached twice. He had 4000 lawsuits against him when he was a private businessman. [00:00:18] This should not be a close election. Senator Bernie Sanders is stating something that should be obvious to all voters in this country, considering all of the baggage that comes along with Donald Trump, why exactly are Democrats having a difficult time beating him? [00:00:35] I mean, according to the polls, this election is neck and neck when it should be a blowout. And you're about to hear from Sanders in regard to what the real issues are for the Democratic Party. - Let's take a listen. - I think the Democrats, win or lose, [00:00:50] have got to take a very hard look at themselves and ask how it could be that a significant majority of working class people in this country are prepared to vote for Donald Trump. And the truth is, what has got to happen is the Democrats have got to wake up and say, you know what? Instead of worrying about big money interests and campaign [00:01:09] contributions from billionaires, we've got to stand with the working class of this country, and we need an agenda that is a popular agenda that speaks to Democrats and Republicans. Caitlyn, you go out there, you talk to Republicans and Democrats, and you say, do you think you're living in a democracy where billionaires are spending billions [00:01:27] of dollars on the federal election? Is that really what a democracy is about, or are we going to get big money out of politics? Democrats and Republicans both will tell you the same thing. Ask people whether we should give tax breaks to billionaires. They don't agree with that either. There are a lot of issues that can bring people together, and the Democrats are [00:01:44] going to start having to fight for those issues and regain the confidence of a working class, which they have lost. I 100% agree with Sanders's critique of the Democratic Party and the issue of taking big money and not representing the best interests [00:02:02] of your base and your voters. But I also want to make a point about how, you know, there's the fake unity message that we get time and time again from corporate Democrats who don't really want to unify the country. You know, it's never about the actual policies or actual reforms [00:02:20] that voters on both sides of the political political aisle want. It's usually about, oh, we need to, I don't know, die unity into existence. But that's not the way it works. There are agreements among the electorate, whether they vote Republican or Democrat. [00:02:35] Polling indicates that the vast majority of Americans agree on how corruption is a problem in our electoral system, but nothing's ever really done about that. No one ever talks about reforming that. And so I love that he brought that up. And I'm going to get into the numbers in regard to the outside money [00:02:51] that's come into this race in just a moment before I do. Jake, take it away. That right there is the one true populist in American politics. So look, first of all, his critique of Trump is absolutely right, totally fake populist in favor of corporate tax cuts. [00:03:07] That's his number one agenda in his first term. And it's his number one agenda in the second term. And on top of that, look, I'm not a guy who grew up thinking, oh my God, convictions are so important and I hate you forever. If you have a felony conviction, maybe I should have, but I didn't I? So I'm not as moved by that. [00:03:24] What I'm moved by is what Trump has actually done. And so what they adjudicated the facts of the matter, the way that he assaulted E Jean Carroll is exactly what he said he does to all women in the Hollywood access tape. And so, look, if Kamala Harris wins, it is going to be because a tsunami [00:03:45] of women showed up to carry her to victory on their shoulders. And I can't sympathize enough with women who say, not that man, not that man. Another time. He's really a despicable guy and has been his whole life. [00:04:01] He's a huge con man. Doesn't believe a word he says and I can go on and on, let alone terminating the Constitution and all the things he said after he lost like a crybaby. Okay, so now. But when Bernie turns to the Democrats, he's also right. What Kamala Harris sent me, her team and the different PACs [00:04:20] have sent me about 20 texts today. Give me money, give me money, give me money. Okay, you already raised $1 billion. And so those little things, at least I'm grassroots. That's okay. Like, but when you go and you say you're still trying to get more donor money [00:04:36] with a week left, no turn and go and get voters. Get voters. And how do you get voters? 76% of Americans want to raise taxes on the rich. Did you know that? Probably not, because mainstream media never talks about that. [00:04:52] Why? Because literally everyone on mainstream media is rich, right? And every executive is rich. And so they're like, don't mention that three quarters of Americans are huge populists who think that the rich and corporations have way too much. The only guy saying it is Bernie, but he can't talk any sense into the Democrats. [00:05:11] If they win tonight, they're going to just go right back to serving their donors. It's going to drive us all crazy. That's why on Titcomb, I have a populist plank to start a populist revolt, a voting block where we say, hey, you give us these things and we vote for you. [00:05:26] That's a promise. But if you don't give us these things, we will not vote for you. And that's a promise as well, because the Democrats love to use the boogeyman and Trump was perfect for them. Such a monster that you couldn't possibly think about voting for him. [00:05:42] But once you remove a monster like Trump, they're going to have no excuses left. - Really? - Come on. So no, no, don't get me wrong, I'm not, like, hopeful about it. That's what I'm saying. If JD Vance is the Republican nominee in the future, I mean, think about this is the thing that I'm concerned about, guys, let's keep it real. [00:05:58] At this point, every single Republican who could potentially run for the Republican ticket in the future has some relationship with Trump. And so, like, this is going to be the rallying cry for the Democratic Party in perpetuity. Like, yeah, look. [00:06:14] So the two sides drive me crazy because the right wing, if you're actually populist, why don't you pick someone that is sane? Why do you constantly go to people that are pathological liars and con men, etc. And Democrats? Please ask more and more of your party. [00:06:32] Ask them to do better. It's a simple thing that Bernie's asking, can you please stop serving the donors at every turn they're going to? So look, that's why the populist plank that we have up on twitter.com is super simple. Things like, look, I know it's hard to execute, but at least to to say [00:06:50] that you're in favor of and to push forward in some legislation, etc., money out of politics. No more wars. These are intensely popular positions banned private equity from buying residential real estate that is enormously popular. Negotiated all drug prices. Enormously popular. [00:07:09] The only reason why they don't do these things is because both sides are hooked on the donor money. Last thing about Bernie being the only honest person. Again, we criticize Bernie from time to time based on policy. Right. But he's at least always honest, right? So progressives in Congress, that's supposed to be your leader. [00:07:27] So don't go running into weirdo cul de sacs where you get into fights with Tucker Carlson on wedge issues. Go focus on money and politics. And the reason they don't do that is, oh, our Democratic colleagues would be upset with us. [00:07:42] Okay. I grow up. - Grow a spine. - Let's go. Concerned about the electorate and your base being upset with you. But anyway, let's get to the numbers, because NBC news did an analysis in regard to outside money pouring into the campaign coffers [00:07:58] of both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Now, the numbers are a little skewed because it includes the money that poured in to Biden's campaign as well. But here's what they found. They found that outside spending surpassed $1 billion in this presidential race. And you're looking at a graph that shows you the difference between the various [00:08:17] election cycles dating back to 2012. And if you look at 2012, we're talking about $516 million that poured in in regard to outside money into the campaigns. But by the time you get to 2024, we're talking about $1.11 billion. [00:08:35] And if you break it down further, well, it appears that Kamala Harris has received $464 million in these outside bribes. Donald Trump has received $75 million. Yeah. So, guys, there's different layers of what, you know, the mainstream media. [00:08:54] Kindly calls campaign contributions and what we call legalized bribes. By the way, when Elizabeth Warren was calling them legalized bribes, she shot up to number one in the 2020 Democratic primary. The minute her colleagues said they felt offended, she stopped saying that and she dropped off a political cliff. [00:09:11] It a populist message from the left will definitely win. It will electrify the country. We just need to find one non Bernie person to do it. But there's different layers of these bribes. So there's the dark money. And Elon Musk is reported to be giving $45 million a month to Trump's campaign. [00:09:31] But that's not even the dark money. He might be giving a lot more in dark money. Miriam Adelson giving $90 million to Trump. But that doesn't even include the dark money. So there's the outside groups. There's the dark money, there's the PACs we know, and then there's the direct contributions to the campaigns. So all of those combined in the last midterm that didn't [00:09:48] even involve a presidential election or Trump was $17 billion. And if you're wondering why mainstream media never calls these guys out, almost all of that money goes to ads in mainstream media. So just a few more numbers when it comes to the two different campaigns. [00:10:05] So according to NBC news, so far, the Biden turned Harris and Trump campaigns have spent more than $600 million between them since the start of 2023, with the national party organizations spending hundreds of millions more. [00:10:21] Add that to the more than $1 billion in independent expenditures, and the price tag of the presidential campaign reaches $2 billion, which sounds super democratic to me. You know, I mean, what could be more democratic than signaling to the rest [00:10:37] of the country that if you want to run for president, you need to raise an insane. Like literally billions of dollars. So there's that. Now, I also want to talk about how some of this money has been used, because I've been curious about the national chapter of the uncommitted campaign and what role they're playing in the outcome of this election. [00:10:56] For those unfamiliar, the uncommitted campaign had to do with Muslim and Arab American voters who felt justifiably aggrieved at the Biden administration and his unwillingness to use the military weaponry that we've been sending to Israel as leverage to rein in Netanyahu [00:11:14] when it comes to the high death toll of civilians in Gaza and now in Lebanon. Biden was unwilling to do that, and they wanted some sort of commitment from Kamala Harris, which they did not receive. But it turns out that, the national chapter of the uncommitted [00:11:30] campaign received quite a bit of money from the Democrats, and they softened their message after that. So the uncommitted national movement received more than $400,000 from a Democratic aligned PAC that explicitly prevents beneficiaries from endorsing [00:11:46] a candidate other than Kamala Harris. Obviously, that includes a third party candidate and according to the FEC, the Federal Election Commission filings, the uncommitted national movement received another, not another, of that $400,000. [00:12:03] They received $100,000 from the Movement Voter Project, which is a Democrat aligned organization that funnels money into grassroots campaigns. The same day, the Uncommitted National Movement was founded on March 18th. And so, look, I want to be clear, there's the national movement [00:12:20] after they, like, soften their message toward Kamala Harris's campaign. There was the grassroots, effort or movement, and they have continued applying pressure to Kamala. Most of them have come out to say that they're either not going to vote [00:12:37] for either candidate or they're going to vote third party. And so I don't know how much of an impact it's going to have in the outcome of the election. But, you know, it's clear that Kamala Harris kind of latched on to moderate [00:12:53] messaging, but also she decided to go for disillusioned Republican voters as opposed to appealing to progressives. But I think progressives are going to support her anyway, so maybe she made the right choice. I mean, morally, I disagree with that choice. [00:13:09] But strategically, what do you think, Jake? Yeah. Well, I've got a lot of thoughts on this. First of all, I have personal experience with uncommitted. And now things begin to make a little bit more sense because since I ran in the Democratic primary and I was the first Muslim American to run, [00:13:26] and I'm 100% in favor of a ceasefire, I made the argument that, hey, if you vote for me, I'm on the ballot, even if it wasn't Michigan and Minnesota. I was on the ballot. And if if we get a delegates, we'll be able to use them to help [00:13:43] the Palestinian people reach a cease fire if you use it for uncommitted. Well, they don't have a voice and they won't be able to use it at all for peace. And they said no, they didn't want to do that. They wanted to just have uncommitted. And then I started getting canceled from events in Michigan from like things [00:14:03] like the Arab American Museum there. Well, it turns out uncommitted was taking a giant amount of money from the Democratic Party, right? So from day one. So even though I'm in the Democratic primary at the time, and even though I'm Muslim and in favor of peace, and I would aggressively use those delegates, [00:14:21] which they did win in Michigan and Minnesota, they decided not to back an actual human being because I criticized the Democratic Party. Well, you know. What Papa Kasparian says, Jake, the cash is talking. Well, apparently the cash was talking. So, I mean, there's a guy in that group who's ruined a lot of groups [00:14:37] he's been involved in. But anyways, so, look, unfortunately, what I think what we're going to find out is after the election is that the Democrats flooded every group and every influencer online except accept us all. [00:14:53] We don't kiss their ass, right? And so they didn't even do any ads. They didn't even send a single surrogate on here because apparently they don't want progressive votes. But if you promise to serve them loyally, I think they flooded online with money. So we'll probably find out a lot about that after the election. [00:15:10] And I don't mean in traditional ads. I mean in like, here's money. You say what we want you to say. So uncommitted has a huge number of issues. And what happened? Kamala Harris didn't move an inch on Gaza, not one inch. And they bowed their heads. Anyway, thanks for watching The Young Turks really appreciate it. [00:15:28] Another way to show support is through YouTube memberships. You'll get to interact with us more. There's live chat emojis, badges. You've got emojis of me Anna John Jr. So those are super fun. But you also get playback of our exclusive member only shows [00:15:45] and specials right after they air. So all of that, all you got to do is click that join button right underneath the video. Thank you.