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Fox News host Greg Gutfeld has devised a strategy for former President Donald Trump to “shame” President Joe Biden into debating him.
The host of “The Five” said that the former president should highlight rising prices, homelessness and other issues by visiting the places where they are seen and shaming Biden into a debate.
“Obviously this has been Trump’s signature issue and Joe is there because of Trump. He is always playing catch-up. He is always plagiarizing. He is like a coworker who tries to take credit for someone else’s work because he didn’t do the job,” the host said.
“I think the contrast is very stark here between the capable and the incapable. It is the key difference between these two guys. You can hate Trump all you want but you can’t say he is incapable, and you can like Joe all you want and realize he’s incapable. He’s a nice guy but he can’t get the job done. Trump was on this turf years before he was running and it was because it was patriotic and not political, took the rest of these lemmings to catch up,” he said.
“So the only political animal here is Joe, who required a heinous murder to get him on a plane to El Paso [Brownsville], or else he wouldn’t have been there! So Trump has been right on the big issues, whether you like him or not, especially immigration, so this is what he has home-field advantage,” the host said.
“I think the Dems and the media at large are just deeply offended that they even have to address this, right? To them, Trump’s inelegant and honest phrasing on the issue is more offensive than the crimes that are caused by illegal immigration,” he said.
“And this is, you know, this isn’t an exaggeration, the amount of attention that is paid to Trump’s words, far larger than the intention paid to the rapes and murders. It’s like Hamas. They are more outraged by the Israeli response than the initial October 7th massacre,” the host said.
“What’s interesting here to me is this provides kind of a loose model for a debate. Joe doesn’t want to debate Trump on the issues and the media will protect him so why doesn’t Trump just go places that force Joe to debate him? Next time go to a supermarket chain. Show that the prices are 20% up and pressure Joe to show up at a supermarket. Maybe he will. Or go to a street where all of the stores are closed down and the homeless are living on the street. Maybe Joe will acknowledge that. Shame him into actually addressing the issues since he was too scared to debate,” he said.
Another Fox News host, Jesse Watters said he wanted “vengeance” if Trump were elected again when he spoke to former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
The host said that it was imperative for the Party to unite and see that the former president becomes president again in November, and then he wants some “vengeance.”
“Which party, the Republican or Democratic Party, is more united right now?” the host said.
“Undoubtedly, it is the Republican Party. Even beyond that, we have a country that is united even outside the traditional Republican Party. America first includes all Americans. I have traveled to inner cities, I was just in Michigan. From autoworkers to the inner city, people in rural communities to suburban, if you ever think Americans have their heads stuck in the sand,” Ramaswamy said.
“If they don’t notice you have a southern border right now, that we have a way to wave of crime, that interest rates have gone up but wages remain flat. I think a lot of this left-wing media has themselves in a delusion to think that black Americans or Americans of any skin color haven’t noticed what has actually happened in their life right now,” he said.
“So I think we could be on track, Jesse, for a unifying landslide Reagan 1980, 1984-style election. If we make this as a party about what we actually stand for, restore the rule of law, seal the southern border, Mr. Merritt to economic growth in this country, success is unifying, and I think that is our message and I think we are going to be very successful, and the Democrats are going to be licking their wounds if we stay on message,” he said.
Watters went on to question Ramaswamy about a straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference in which he was tied for first place among those who voted to be the former president’s pick for vice president.
He said that he was not focused on that and that he would support whatever decision the former president made before emphasizing the need to get back the White House in November.
“I think one of the things President Trump has said that I have really appreciated, you know what our vengeance is? Success is our vengeance. That’s the American way. I think we live in a 1776 moment right now where our founding fathers would say, pursue excellence, do it as one nation, and if we do that we will be successful,” he said.
But Watters had vengeance on his mind.
“A little bit of vengeance. Just a little bit. Just for dessert,” he said.
