Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor ***Victor Davis Hanson***. ***Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes***.
Sami Winc: [Donald] Trump had a constitution to weather all of that onslaught against him, and we’re just seeing that constitution reveal itself again as he barnstorms, is that the word? Barnstorms the states for the—
Victor Davis Hanson: And I love that. I actually counted how many times he, how many rallies he did versus Kamala Harris. It was about four times the amount. He was doing eight. He could do eight or nine states a day. He was basically getting up at 4:00 in the morning, and he was going to bed at midnight or 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning. He was getting two or three hours of sleep. I’m not sure that’s changed.
He just simply outworked them, and he got in another team. I think the Susie Wiles team was superior to the first team. He had some very good people around him. And people thought that JD Vance was a bad selection because he was a white male like Trump and who was a MAGA person like Trump from Ohio that was red and would go to Trump no matter who he made as vice president, and that [Marco] Rubio or somebody would have been a better pick.