And now, America's number one show on pop culture and politics. This is the Michael Medved

show.

And another great day in this greatest nation on God's Green Earth, a great day as the

tickets are completed, meaning we have a Republican ticket of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance and a Democratic

ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walls. And it's interesting, the intense news coverage of Tim Walz has kind of made him feel more familiar

than he was before.

But does his selection represent what Noah Rothman calls Kamala Harris's greatest mistake?

Is Tim Walls a mistake and a mistake that could hand the presidency to Donald Trump and to J.D. Vance?

Concerning J.D. Vance, there is a new controversy involving his endorsement of a book

that really does endorse ultimate conspiracy theories and puts him in some very peculiar

company. It's a book that is written in profound admiration

of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and the Chilean dictator who actually was known for pushing

political opponents out of helicopters, Augusto Pinochet, if you remember him.

Basically, it suggests that today's communists and liberals are not human. And he endorsed that

book enthusiastically. There's a question about whether he actually read it. This is a controversy.

We will also be talking about a change in American demographics, which is very profound, and may

have some impact on this presidential race if it is as close as everyone expects. Meanwhile, Walls and Harris are in the

midst of a campaign feverish series of rallies. They had a huge rally last night in Philadelphia.

We'll play you some of that. It's interesting that it was Philadelphia because, of course,

the also ran the selection for vice presidential running mate that a lot of people thought

that Kamala Harris would make, the selection of Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania.

She didn't do that. Did she surrender to the progressives in the Democratic Party,

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