Speaker 1: The mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, who is running for the 2024 Republican presidential
nomination.
Currently polling 0.0 has made what could be a critical, critical error, which is when
he was asked about the weaker people.
This is the Muslim ethnic minority in China that is very much discriminated against that
we've talked about before.
He had no idea what it was and actually joked what is it called a Weibo?
And it is cringe.
But the upshot of all of this is I don't think it'll really hurt his campaign in the sense
that he's already polling zero.
This was during an interview with Hugh Hewitt.
Here is Francis Suarez making the argument that he has what it takes.
So, listen, if you're the mayor of Miami.
Ostensibly, you don't need to know much about the weaker people.
You could say, Well, you still should, because there might be refugees in Miami.
Okay.
All right.
But it's a bit of a stretch.
Okay.
You don't need to know about the weaker people to be a good administrator of the city of
Miami.
If you're making the case that you're ready to be president of the United States, you
at least have to be aware of what Hugh Hewitt is talking about.
If you're averse to cringe, you probably want to skip the following 12 seconds of audio
and video.
Speaker 4: Will you be talking about the Wiggers in your campaign?
Speaker 3: Wonder what?
Speaker 4: The wieners.
What's a winner?
Okay, we'll come back to that.
Speaker 2: I love Hugh Hewitt going.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll come back to that later.
Yeah, he might be.
Someone might be able to pass him a note during the remainder of the interview.
Dear God.
And then here at the end of the interview, Suarez acting like he's going to take it very
seriously and look into it.
But he said, what was it?
Is that the weevils?
Speaker 3: You gave me homework.
You.
I'll look at what it was.
It was you call it a weevil.
Speaker 4: The weavers.
You really need to know about the Weavers.
Mayor, You got to talk about it every day.
Speaker 3: Okay, I will.
I will talk about.
I will.
So I will switch weavers.
I'm a good learner.
A fast learner.
Yeah.
Speaker 1: This is really bad.
And, you know, the truth is, you know, when I look at the list of people who are running
and by the way, as I as I told you, I have a new poll from morning consult, Suarez is
polling zero, but it's like a super strong zero.
It's probably close to one.
I mean, when I say he's polling 0.0, it's probably more like 0.9 or something like that.
He's already polling zero.
So what of these candidates who would have something substantive to say about the weaker
people?
Trump Probably not.
DeSantis.
Maybe Pence would know something about them.
Ramaswamy He could probably talk about the weaker people, but it would make no sense.
Nikki Haley, I think, would be the person who could most coherently talk about the weaker
people.
Chris Christie could.
I don't know about Tim Scott.
The point here is I think Suarez may be alone in not even having heard of the weaker people.
But.
Most of these candidates would have very little that is substantive to actually say now.
As a reminder, the Wiggers are a muslim ethnic group native to and I know my pronunciation
is not good.
Xinjiang, China.
And they have their own culture and language.
They face significant repression by the Chinese government.
Persecution.
I've recommended a couple of books about this.
We've done at least one interview about it.
And China is accused of committing crimes against humanity and even genocide against
the weaker people in Xinjiang.
And it is a major geopolitical issue.
This is another example of how these right wingers who say, I guess I'll run for president,
they really aren't ready for this.
It reminds me of the Gary Johnson moment where he was asked, What would you do about Aleppo?
And he goes, Aleppo.
Speaker 4: What's Aleppo in that category?
What would you do if you were elected about Aleppo?
About Aleppo.
And what is Aleppo?
You're kidding.
No.
Aleppo is in Syria.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Now, fortunately for Gary Johnson, his campaign was also dead on arrival.
So the damage done by that moment was was limited, to say the least.
Very, very bad.
And, you know, for all the criticisms of the people running against Joe Biden that I've
had, I think if you ask Bobby Kennedy Jr about the weaker people, he's going to have something
for you.
And if you ask Marianne Williamson about the weaker people, she is also going to have something
for you.
It might be, well, we need love.
We need love for the weaker I don't know what it would be, but she would have something
that would make more sense than francis Suarez.
So polling zero and probably not going to go much higher after yesterday's disastrous
interview with Hugh Hewitt.
And by the way, good for Hugh Hewitt for saying you're kidding, right?
You got to know about this.
This is something you have to know about.
We'll come back to that.
Maybe the funniest line ever uttered by Hugh Hewitt
on
the radio.