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Speaker 2: Common sense for the American people. Welcome to the Scott

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Speaker 3: Okay, it's Wednesday, January the twenty first, and the world

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Speaker 3: travels of Scott Jennings continue. We are on the road

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Speaker 3: today in Santa Baronia and we're at the Winter Meeting

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Speaker 3: take stock of the health of the Republican Party with

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Speaker 3: top Republican officials. In our second hour today, by the way,

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Speaker 3: we're going to have an exclusive interview with Michelle Tafoya,

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Speaker 3: who just launched her campaign for the United States Senate

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Speaker 3: people come in today from the Republican Party, which is great.

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Speaker 3: Always good to have in person guests. Our first guest

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Speaker 3: today took over as chairman of the r NC earlier

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Speaker 3: last year after Michael Wattley, who was the chairman of

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Speaker 3: The new chairman is a Florida State Senator and he

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Speaker 3: been elevated. His name is Joe Bruders. Joe, welcome to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, thanks so much for having me on, Scott.

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Speaker 3: Really glad you're here. News of the day, mister Chairman.

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Speaker 3: President spoke in doc this is year off at five.

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Speaker 2: In twelve months, we have removed over two hundred and

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Speaker 2: seventy thousand bureaucrats from the federal payrolls, the largest single

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Speaker 2: year reduction in government employment since the end of World

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Speaker 2: War Two. Nobody thought that was coming, but we had

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Speaker 2: no choice. To make a country great, you can't have

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Speaker 2: all federal jobs. We've cut federal spending by one hundred

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Speaker 2: down quite a bit more from them driving inflation way

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Speaker 2: down from the record highs of the Biden administration. Every

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Speaker 2: to cut ten old regulations for every single new regulation,

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Speaker 2: but instead I've cut actually till this point, one nine

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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty nine if you can believe in In July,

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Speaker 2: we passed the largest tax cuts in American history, including

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Speaker 3: You Republicans all over the country are base reporl He

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Speaker 3: voted for the president, happy with the job that he's done.

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Speaker 4: No question about it. In this the President Donald J.

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Speaker 4: Trump has done more one year the most. He's been

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Speaker 4: an absolute machine. He's doing exactly everything he said he

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Speaker 4: He's been a champion, and he's our best messenger, he's

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Speaker 3: All right, let's let a bit about you. You're the

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Speaker 3: over for Michael Wattley, who's now running for the Senate.

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Speaker 3: What's your background? Give give us a little idea of

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Speaker 4: Well, listen, I love Michael Watley, and he set a

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Speaker 4: Everybody hates the party chairman. He's do I'm paying checks,

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Speaker 4: I got the call from the President asking me if

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Speaker 4: the midterms. There's so much at stake, and I think

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Speaker 4: what happened in Butler Pennsylvania. You know, just you know,

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Speaker 4: a year and a half ago, I think God saved

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Speaker 3: So a couple of things that come up in a

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Speaker 3: lot of my conversations with Republicans right now, Ay, what's

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Speaker 4: Well, listens, Besides being a party chairman of twenty years,

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Speaker 4: we have a working relationship. Everything that we do at

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Speaker 4: we're doing exactly that we're supporting and everything he needs,

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Speaker 4: you know it. Back before twenty twenty, I would say

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Speaker 4: you know, make sure vote access workers and pool watchers

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Speaker 4: it's common sense, but seventeen states have this. This is

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Speaker 4: going to be a huge victory for election integrity. But

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Speaker 4: like I said, whether coast to coast, we're fighting every

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Speaker 4: being reactive, We're being as aggressive we as we could

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Speaker 4: you know, like I said, first and foremost, the party

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Speaker 4: exists to help the president, and we're making sure we

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Speaker 4: do everything we can, from redistricting to candidate recruitment to

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Speaker 3: About thirty seconds, mister chairman, one of your big jobs

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Speaker 3: is fundraising. Give us an idea. What is the financial

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Speaker 3: health of the Republican National Committee right now?

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Speaker 4: Listen, We're in great shape and and I say we're

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Speaker 4: successful because we have Vice President I think the first

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Speaker 4: an active role we have. I think we're going to

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Speaker 4: I think the DNC has two or three a nice.

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Speaker 3: Wait, one hundred million for the Republicans and two or

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Speaker 4: But they have a fifteen million dollar line of credit,

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Speaker 4: and listen, what's going to happen. The Supreme Court's about

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Speaker 4: give tremendous influence empowered to the party to make sure

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Speaker 4: But we can't do it without everybody helping and coming

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Speaker 4: to our cause. Go to gup dot com and join us.

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Speaker 3: As chairman Joe Gruders, he's the new leader of the

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Speaker 3: Republican National Committee, and we are broadcasting live today from

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Speaker 3: We're going to have folks in all day. In fact,

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Speaker 3: coming up next, the National Committee Man for California, Sean

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Speaker 3: Steele is here. It's common sense for the American people.

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Speaker 3: Scott Jennings, stay with us. Okay, it's Wednesday, January twenty first,

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Speaker 3: Welcome into the show.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be here. And the sunshine just came

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Speaker 3: It just came out here in Santa Barbara Ocean, and

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Speaker 3: it's a beautiful weather out here. We had a great

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Speaker 3: breakfast this morning. By the way, Sean signed a lot

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Speaker 3: and we talked a little bit about what's going on

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Speaker 3: in California. I got a few questions about Gavin Newsom,

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Speaker 3: and he is out in Davos. I saw him this morning.

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Speaker 3: He's attacking, of course President Trump and the Republicans. But interestingly,

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Speaker 3: the Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessont absolutely hammered Newsom and fired back.

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Speaker 3: Let's listen to cut tins Scott Besson answering Gavin Newsom.

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Speaker 5: I think it's very, very ironic that you know Governor Newsom,

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Speaker 5: who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle beach Ken,

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Speaker 5: maybe the only Californian who knows less about economics than

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Speaker 5: Kamala Harris. He's here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy,

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Speaker 5: Alex Soros, and the Davos is a perfect place for

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Speaker 5: a man who when everyone else is on lockdown, when

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Speaker 5: was having thousand dollars a night meals at the French laundry.

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Speaker 5: And I'm sure the California people won't forget that.

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Speaker 3: So Besstt goes after Newsom today in Davos, And you

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Speaker 3: know this governor here sean in California very well, you

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Speaker 3: see him up close. Is he going to be the

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Speaker 1: He's sleazy enough to make it. Bill Clinton set the standard.

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Speaker 1: You can do anything bad, you can embarrass your wife,

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Speaker 3: That voice you're hearing is Sean Steele. He is the

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Speaker 6: Thanks for having me, Scott, good.

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Speaker 3: To see you out here in Santa Barbara. Now we've

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Speaker 6: So my biggest job is to support the chairman and

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Speaker 3: Well, President Trump's out there today and Davos, he gave

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Speaker 6: seen that time and time again through his policies.

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Speaker 3: You and I have talked about how act of the

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Speaker 3: When you look at the president on the world stage,

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Speaker 6: Well, I think it's not one thing.

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Speaker 1: It's eight things.

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Speaker 6: He's into eight wars, you know, and I know he'd

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Speaker 6: It's been a little bit more difficult than I think

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Speaker 6: even he has said what he thought it would be,

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Speaker 6: and it's going to take time. But you certainly I

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Speaker 3: All right. That voice you're hearing is Casey Crosby. She's

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Speaker 3: the co chair of the Republican National Committee, and she

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Speaker 3: and I are both Kentuckians. We've known each other a

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Speaker 3: long time. It's a great treat to have you here.

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Speaker 3: Case I was talking to Chairman Gruder's earlier in the hour.

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Speaker 3: He said, you all are going to have like one

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Speaker 3: hundred million dollars in the bank of the RNC and

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Speaker 3: the Democratic Party is only going to have two to

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Speaker 3: three million. They do have a line of credit or

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Speaker 3: debt that they're working out of. How did you do this?

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Speaker 3: How did the RNC become such a financial juggernaut, and

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Speaker 3: how did the Democrats become so cash poor? I mean,

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Speaker 3: obviously they're working hard to try to win the mid

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Speaker 3: terms too, but it seems like you and Chairman Gruters

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Speaker 3: have put the RNC in a lot better footing when

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Speaker 3: it comes to campaign operations for twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 6: Well, listen, President Trump has a lot to do with that.

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Speaker 6: Obviously we talked about he made a lot of campaign

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Speaker 6: promises and he has kept his word and the American

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Speaker 6: people are seeing him deliver for them, and so it

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Speaker 6: makes us pretty easy when we have a president who

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Speaker 6: keeps his word and is going out and working hard

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Speaker 6: for the American people. We have Vice President Vance who

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Speaker 6: is our finance chair and is very active helping us,

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Speaker 6: and then Chairman Gruters and I split our time. We

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Speaker 6: spend a lot of time raising money because you know,

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Speaker 6: it's kind of a necessary evil. You've got to have

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Speaker 6: money to win elections, and you know, and people are

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Speaker 6: just not buying into this woke left message right now.

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Speaker 6: And we see that as we travel all across America

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Speaker 6: that people are just kind of sick of things. And

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Speaker 6: so it's been really helpful to us and our fundraising.

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Speaker 3: Efforts tell us how this money is spent. You know,

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Speaker 3: that's a lot of money for an organization to have,

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Speaker 3: and I think when we talk about campaign financing and

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Speaker 3: campaign spending, so you have what the party can do,

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Speaker 3: you have what candidates can do. You have outside groups

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Speaker 3: specific to the Republican National Committee one hundred million dollars

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Speaker 3: and more to come give us an idea of the

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Speaker 3: kinds of activities that you'll spend money on in service

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Speaker 3: to Republican candidates across the country.

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Speaker 6: Well, As the former treasurer of the Republican National Committee,

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Speaker 6: I can tell you we watch every time that goes

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Speaker 6: out and our efforts and what we spend our money

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Speaker 6: on are simply winning elections, and that is getting out

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Speaker 6: the vote and election integrity. And again it's unfortunate, but

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Speaker 6: we have to get involved in a lot of lawsuits

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Speaker 6: to protect the vote. And when you have to engage

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Speaker 6: in litiation like that, so we spend a lot of

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Speaker 6: money on protecting the vote and also getting out the vote,

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Speaker 6: and pretty much, if it's not going to help us

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Speaker 6: win elections, we're not spending money on it.

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Speaker 3: You travel all over the country, you talk to Republicans everywhere.

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Speaker 3: What are the one or two things that you hear

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Speaker 3: most often from Republicans right now? What's really you know,

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Speaker 3: what are they most excited about, what are they most

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Speaker 3: worried about, what's kind of the vibe just among the

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Speaker 6: Well, when I travel the country, people are very pleased

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Speaker 6: with President Trump and the policies that he's implementing. I

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Speaker 6: think they would like to see some of it codified

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Speaker 6: a little quicker, you know, with votes with Congress. But

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Speaker 6: I get a lot of feedback on that. But most

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Speaker 6: of the time, people are very happy, happy with President

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Speaker 6: Trump and what he's doing. You know, we get a

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Speaker 6: lot of just sort of you know, people wanting to

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Speaker 6: know more about the party and how they can help.

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Speaker 6: But people are really engaged in frankly, pretty happy right

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Speaker 6: now with us.

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Speaker 3: When you look at what's going on in individual states,

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Speaker 3: you know, obviously some states have big races some you know,

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Speaker 3: some have Senate, some have governor, some are more congressional focused.

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Speaker 3: It just, you know, depends on the cycle. What is

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Speaker 3: the health of the Republican Party right now in terms

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Speaker 3: of voter registration bringing new people in visa vi the Democrats.

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Speaker 3: Are we as Republicans seeing growth? Are Democrats seeing shrinkage

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Speaker 3: when it comes to you know, registration. What's your viewpoint?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think we're seeing huge growth across the country

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Speaker 6: with the Republican Party. I mean, again, when you have

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Speaker 6: the presidency and you have a president who's delivering, I mean,

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Speaker 6: it's going to naturally cause us to increase the person

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Speaker 6: people who have never been engaged involved before coming to

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Speaker 6: the Republican Party because again, President Trump is fighting for

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Speaker 6: the American people. All of his policies is how do

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Speaker 6: we make America better? How do we put America first?

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Speaker 6: And you know, and that's one thing I know that

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Speaker 6: we've discussed at length about people are just kind of sick.

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Speaker 6: They work hard, they work hard for their money, and

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Speaker 6: they've been kind of sick of the past four years

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Speaker 6: what they endured under President Biden. And they just want

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Speaker 6: to have a good life for their family. They want

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Speaker 6: to feel safe in their committees. They want to have

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Speaker 6: good jobs, and they want opportunities for their kids. And

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Speaker 6: it's pretty simple. And so they see President Trump delivering

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Speaker 6: on those messages and they see a safe place for

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Speaker 6: the Republican Party.

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Speaker 3: Now, we're from Kentucky, and when we started out in

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Speaker 3: politics all those years ago, it was a real Democrat state.

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Speaker 3: Democrats had voter registration, they controlled Frankfurt, the state capitol.

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Speaker 3: It's really changed and Republicans are now dominant. We're sitting

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Speaker 3: here in California, blue state. There's blue states out there,

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Speaker 3: but they have some Republicans in them. We got about

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Speaker 3: a minute to go, Casey, what is your message to

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Speaker 3: Republican grassroots and Republican organizers in blue states like California

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Speaker 3: or say Minnesota or other places. What is it that

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Speaker 3: you want to tell them from the Republican National Committee.

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Speaker 3: You know, we know you're living behind enemy lines, but

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Speaker 3: what what is the message from the RNC about keeping

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Speaker 3: the faith and trying to grow the party even in

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Speaker 3: blue areas well?

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Speaker 6: You gotta fight, fight, fight, fight, as President Trump says,

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Speaker 6: I mean, and don't give up. You and I both

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Speaker 6: we were in a blue state. We were part of

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Speaker 6: that battle together and we just never gave up. We

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Speaker 6: just got in the trenches and we tried to knock out,

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Speaker 6: you know, win elections one by one, and eventually we

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Speaker 6: caught fire and some things went our way, and now

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Speaker 6: we have super majorities in our states, so it can

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Speaker 6: be done. And the biggest thing too, I would say,

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Speaker 6: is you got to work together, and you got to

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Speaker 6: be unified and just understand that at the end of

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Speaker 6: the day, any Republican elected is better than the Democrat,

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Speaker 6: So get to work.

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Speaker 3: That's Casey Crosby. She had the right message. Politics is

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Speaker 3: a team sport. It's hard to have a cohesive team

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Speaker 3: when you're fighting amongst yourselves. That's Casey Crosby. She is

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Speaker 3: the co chair of the Republican National Committee and she

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Speaker 3: is from my home state of Kentucky, k C. Thanks

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Speaker 3: for coming by hey in a little bit, I guess

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Speaker 3: in the next segment, we're gonna have orn La Page

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Speaker 3: I got an interview today Michelle Tafoya just launched her

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Speaker 3: Meeting of the Republican National Committee. My next guest is

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Speaker 3: Lauren Lepaige. She is the RNC Committee woman for Maine.

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Speaker 3: So here's how it works. You get a committee man

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Speaker 3: and a committee woman from every state, so every state

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Speaker 3: gets to and Lauren, you represent Maine here at the RNC.

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Speaker 3: I do and this year, not only are you working

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Speaker 3: for Republicans as they seek to whole control of the

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Speaker 3: United States Senate. The last Republican in the New England

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Speaker 3: Congressional delegate, Senator Susan Collins, is up for reelection this year.

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Speaker 3: Give us a lay of the land. Is Susan Collins

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Speaker 3: in position to be re elected in Maine in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty six.

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Speaker 7: Susan Collins is absolutely going to be re elected. She

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Speaker 7: the main people. She's obviously Chair of Appropriations. That's a

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Speaker 7: she's running against, you know, a guy with a Nazi tattoo,

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Speaker 7: massive welfare fraud scandal. So Susan Senator Collins is in

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Speaker 7: great shape.

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Speaker 3: So Collins always, I mean, Democrats flush a lot of

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Speaker 3: rid of Susan Collins. She's quite a fighter. I want

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Speaker 3: to talk about these Democrats. This primary fascinates me. You

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Speaker 3: have a sitting governor, Janet Mills, that's who the establishment

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Speaker 3: Democrats and Schumer that's who they want. And then you

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Speaker 3: have this guy come along, Graham Plattner, who's kind of

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Speaker 3: he claims to be right, like, none of this is

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Speaker 3: really true. He's just kind of a manufactured narrative of

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Speaker 3: a candidate. But as you mentioned, he had like a

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Speaker 7: Polling, yes currently. I mean, if I were Governor Mills,

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Speaker 7: i'd be pretty frankly embarrassed about where my polling was.

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Speaker 7: But frankly she's moving so far to the left that

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Speaker 7: it's going to be a competition of who can out

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Speaker 7: left each other this Democrat primary.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Platner is I mean, this is the Bernie

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Speaker 3: Sanders aoc zoron mom Donnie. I mean, that's who Platner is.

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Speaker 3: And I think this is true around the country, but

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Speaker 3: it just outside looking in, it feels like the energy

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Speaker 3: with this Platner character.

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Speaker 8: For now anyway.

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Speaker 7: I mean, his fundraising numbers are quite good, but that

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Speaker 7: being said, Maine is not like that. Frankly, you know,

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Speaker 7: he's kind of a paper candidate that doesn't really reflect

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Speaker 7: what a real hardworking main family as is an especially

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Speaker 7: in rural Maine. I mean, Senator Collins is from Rustic County.

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Speaker 7: She's from as rural as it gets, and there's no

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Speaker 7: one that works harder for the state of Maine. And

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Speaker 7: I just don't see these two going anywhere at this point.

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Speaker 7: It's a competition for who's going to get beat by

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Speaker 7: Susan Collins in November.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm watching the primary because I just this idea

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Speaker 3: of which way the Democrats are going to go nationally.

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Speaker 3: Are they going to go down the Mom Donnie Sanders

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Speaker 3: AOC radical socialist route. Are they going to try to

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Speaker 3: revert to people? Even though I don't think Mills is

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Speaker 3: all that great shake, She's not as radical, I guess

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Speaker 3: is as platiner. But I'm kind of watching it just

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Speaker 3: to see where the energy flow is among Democrats because

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Speaker 3: that's probably what they're going to do in twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 3: And if they would do this in Maine, certainly they

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Speaker 3: would try to do it to the whole country. Certainly.

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Speaker 7: I mean in Maine right now, the primary comes down

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Speaker 7: to two wings of the Democratic Party, and it's basically

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Speaker 7: like the Governor Mills wing, which is frankly going to

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Speaker 7: be the Governor Tim Waltz wing YEP with a medicaid

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Speaker 7: fraud scandal. And then you've got the Mamdanni wing, which

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Speaker 7: is just completely out of touch with where real working

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Speaker 3: So you're telling me, in Maine, for the Democrats, we

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Speaker 3: have a choice between Nazi tattoo guy and Tim Walls emulator.

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Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 3: And I feel very these are not great roads.

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Speaker 1: They're not they're not winning.

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Speaker 7: Strategies in my opinion, and that's why. I'm very confident

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Speaker 7: that Senator Susan Collins is going to get re elected.

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Speaker 3: That's uh, that's amazing. This is Laura Lapage. She's the

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Speaker 3: National Committee woman from Maine for the Republican National Committee.

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Speaker 3: We got about a minute to go. Give me you look,

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Speaker 3: you're involved with the party here at the national level.

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Speaker 3: What's your view of the health of the Republican Party

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Speaker 3: right now? You talked to a lot of people in Maine,

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Speaker 3: but you you interact with folks around the country. How

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Speaker 7: I feel great about the health of the party. I mean,

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Speaker 7: I think you saw President Trump and Vice President Vance

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Speaker 7: create a coalition onlike anything we have ever seen in

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Speaker 7: the modern day Republican Party. We feel it on the

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Speaker 7: ground in Maine. I mean, main voters are ready for change,

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Speaker 7: They're ready for something different. And we're going to take

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Speaker 3: Is your dad running for that yes, oh my.

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Speaker 1: Goodness, never lost the district, so we will both.

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Speaker 7: We hope to have two Republicans from New England in

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Speaker 7: the United States House and Senate next year.

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Speaker 3: I love this battleground Maine. It is Senate Congress. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: the people of Maine leading the Republican Party back in

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Speaker 3: New England. That voice you're hearing Lauren Lepage. She is

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Speaker 3: the National Committee woman from the great state of Maine.

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Speaker 3: from the Great State of Georgia. The chairman of the

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Speaker 3: Georgia Republican Party is here, Josh mccoon sitting next to me. Josh,

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Speaker 3: welcome to the show.

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Speaker 9: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you got a big race going on in Georgia.

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Speaker 3: I want to talk about the race to beat John

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Speaker 3: ass Off in a moment, but first let's hear from

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Speaker 3: our president. He's in Davos today, gave a big speech.

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Speaker 3: Let's queue up cut number six and listen to the

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Speaker 3: President talking to the Europeans over in Davos.

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Speaker 2: In recent decades, it became conventional wisdom in Washington and

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Speaker 2: European capitals that the only way to grow a modern

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Speaker 2: affordable energy should be replaced by the green new scam,

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Speaker 2: and that countries could be propped up by importing new

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Speaker 2: and entirely different populations from far away lands. This was

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Speaker 2: the path that sleepy Joe Biden administration and many other

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Speaker 2: Western governments very foolishly followed, turning their backs on everything

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Speaker 2: that makes nations rich and powerful and strong, and there's

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Speaker 2: so much potential in so many names. Since the result

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Speaker 2: was record budget and trade deficits and a growing sovereign

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Speaker 2: deficit driven by the largest wave of mass migration in

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Speaker 2: human history, We've never seen anything like it. Quite frankly,

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Speaker 2: many parts of our world are being destroyed before our

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Speaker 2: very eyes, and the leaders don't even understand what's happening,

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Speaker 2: and the ones that do understand aren't doing anything about it.

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Speaker 2: Virtually all of the so called experts predicted my plans

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Speaker 2: to end this failed model would trigger a global recession

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Speaker 2: and runaway inflation, but we approve in them wrong.

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Speaker 3: Josh mccooon, chairman of the Georgia Republican Party. You hear

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Speaker 3: the president Is that going to resonate in Georgia?

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Speaker 9: Absolutely? I mean, it's what he has been saying for

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Speaker 9: years now. Americans want real, good paying jobs. We want

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Speaker 9: to reverse the hollowing out of our middle class. And

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Speaker 9: that's exactly what President Trump's talking about. He's on the

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Speaker 9: message he's been on and it resonates strongly Georgia voters.

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Speaker 3: Well, this is going to be a big deal in

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Speaker 3: November because you got one of the biggest Senate races

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Speaker 3: in the country going on in Georgia. John Ossoff, the Democrat,

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Speaker 3: is running for a second term. President Trump carried Georgia

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four. You've become sort of a battleground

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Speaker 3: purple state in Georgia. What's the strategy. Can Asof be

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Speaker 9: He absolutely can be beaten. And what's different about twenty

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Speaker 9: twenty six. In twenty twenty is John Asoff was a

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Speaker 9: blank slate. In twenty twenty he pretended to be a

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Speaker 9: middle of the road guy. We now know John Asof

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Speaker 9: votes more with California's US senators than anyone else in

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Speaker 9: the Senate. He's basically California's third senator. He's incredibly left wing,

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Speaker 9: he was incredibly unprepared to be in the US Senate.

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Speaker 9: And we've got some great candidates. Whoever emerges from our

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Speaker 9: primary process is going to be able to prosecute that

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Speaker 9: case against John asof We're going to be able to

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Speaker 9: flip that seat and send President Trump additional aments to

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Speaker 9: the United States Senate.

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Speaker 3: Talk to us about the Georgia Republican Party. I mean,

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Speaker 3: obviously you got a different turnout matrix for a midterm

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Speaker 3: than you do a presidential. Are you working with a

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Speaker 3: Republican National Committee on best practices, best technology, best whatever

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Speaker 3: it takes to get voter turnout where it has to

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Speaker 3: be to replicate the Trump win from twenty four to

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Speaker 9: Absolutely, we've got great partners in the Republican National Committee

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Speaker 9: and Chairman Gruiders. We seem to be having an election

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Speaker 9: almost every month. We had a special election for state

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Speaker 9: Senate last night in Georgia, five Republicans, one Democrat. A

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Speaker 9: Republican turnout overperformed from President Trump over four percent.

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Speaker 3: Okay, let me stop you right there. You had a

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Speaker 3: special election for state Senate Republican turnout. You got an

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Speaker 3: overperformance because you know, the national narrative is is that

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Speaker 3: any special elections that have been going on, Democrats have

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Speaker 3: been overperforming. You're saying in Georgia, it was the Republicans

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Speaker 3: last night who overperformed.

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Speaker 9: They showed out and showed up almost twenty thousand people

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Speaker 9: turning out in a January special election the day after

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Speaker 9: major federal holiday. Republicans in our state are fired up

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Speaker 9: and they're ready to go. And we're working closely with

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Speaker 9: the RNC to make sure that we continue to build

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Speaker 9: on that momentum so that we peak in November and

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Speaker 9: throw out John I saw.

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Speaker 3: That voice you're hearing is the chairman of the Georgia

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Speaker 3: Republican Party, Josh mccun he's out here at the Winter

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Speaker 3: Meeting of the RNC where we're broadcasting live from today

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Speaker 3: here in Santa Barbara, California. Just generally speaking, I mean,

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Speaker 3: you know, the national issues, a lot of these, all

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Speaker 3: these races are now basically nationalized. What is the issue,

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Speaker 3: What is the thing it's going to convince Georgia. You

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Speaker 3: know what, we got to stick with the Republican plan here.

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Speaker 3: We voted for Donald Trump, have the Democrats been persuasive

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Speaker 3: at all in rolling any of that back. Or do

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Speaker 3: you think voters in Georgia that went for Trump are

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Speaker 3: satisfied that he's keeping his promises that caused them to

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Speaker 9: Well, look, you said it right. Every election in Georgia

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Speaker 9: is a battleground election. We can't take anything for granted.

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Speaker 9: We've basically got to do three things. We've got to

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Speaker 9: get the true voters back out in numbers. Those base

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Speaker 9: voters are incredibly important. We've got to get voters that

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Speaker 9: broke for Governor Kemp in twenty twenty two while voting

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Speaker 9: for Rafael Warnock, a lot of white suburban women. And

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Speaker 9: we've got to continue to build on our strength in

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Speaker 9: growing our share of the Jewish vote in Georgia. If

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Speaker 9: you look at senator IOUs record on Israel, it's terrible, terrible,

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Speaker 9: and we are prosecuting that case. We're working very closely

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Speaker 9: with our partners at the Republican Jewish Coalition. So those

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Speaker 9: are the three key things that I'm focused on as

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Speaker 9: we build from now to November.

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Speaker 3: How is the economy doing in Georgia with Trump coming

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Speaker 3: back into office? I mean generally what are you seeing

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Speaker 3: I mean we heard him talking about it in Davos

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Speaker 3: Is that resonating in Georgia?

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Speaker 9: It absolutely is, Scott. We're seeing new job announcements almost

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Speaker 9: It's a great entry point for somebody with a high

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Speaker 9: So yes, people are seeing all over our state these

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Speaker 9: great opportunities. Our biggest problem in Georgia is continuing to

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Speaker 9: grow our skilled workforce to fill all the vacant available jobs.

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Speaker 9: They're a tremendous opportunity in Georgia. So if there's anybody

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Speaker 9: We've got great opportunity and people in our state are

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: Voyce, you're hearing Josh mccoon. He is the chairman of

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Speaker 3: Scott Jennings on the road in California. To stay with us. Okay,

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Speaker 3: it's Wednesday, January twenty first. We're broadcasting live from Santa Barbara, California.

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Speaker 3: We're at the Winter Meeting of the Republican National Committee

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Speaker 3: and we're talking to a number of Republican officials from

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Speaker 3: around the country today, checking in on different political situations

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Speaker 3: and a lot of different states. That tour of our

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Speaker 3: country now takes us to New York. Joining us in

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Speaker 3: the chair next to me, is Joe Cairo. He is

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Speaker 3: the New York National Committee Man, and he is also

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Speaker 3: the County Chairman of Nassau County in New York. Joe,

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Speaker 3: welcome to the show.

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Speaker 10: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we're here in California, but everywhere I go, no

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Speaker 3: matter where I go, everybody wants to talk about Mom,

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Speaker 3: Donnie and what's going on in New York City. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: he ran as a socialist, promised a lot of things.

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Speaker 3: I was told by a lot of Democrats. Oh, don't worry,

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Speaker 3: he's going to moderate himself. But his early days as

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Speaker 3: Mayor of New York City have proven it out. This

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Speaker 3: man intends to be a true well charitably socialist, not

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Speaker 3: charitably communist mayor of New York City. What are your

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Speaker 3: early reviews of Mamdani.

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Speaker 10: He's doing exactly what he said he would do. He's

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Speaker 10: not changing. He is a socialist. The Democrats socialist, the

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Speaker 10: progressives have taken over the city. We're on Long Island,

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Speaker 10: immediately adjacent to the city. We're worried. Mamdani had a

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Speaker 10: great effect on our election this past November, when Republicans

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Speaker 10: didn't fare well throughout the country, we did exceptionally well

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Speaker 10: in Nassau County, we not only held on to all

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Speaker 10: of our elected officials while our incumbents, but in the

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Speaker 10: city of Long Beach, where Jimmy Murriarty does a great

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Speaker 10: job as our leader, we swept it and it's three

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Speaker 10: to one Democrat to Republican by Enrollman. We swept the

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Speaker 10: entire city council. People in Nassau County, I live in

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Speaker 10: North Valley Stream, within two miles of the Queen's line.

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Speaker 10: We're worried. We're worried. People who live in the Five Towns,

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Speaker 10: Republican stronghold, heavy Orthodox Jewish population. They're scared because Far

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Speaker 10: Rockaway is adjacent to the Five Towns. We can allow

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Speaker 10: him to come over into Long Island, into Nassau and

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Speaker 10: Suffolk Counties. We bucked the Trent in twenty five. We're

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Speaker 10: going to continue to do it throughout the state. They're

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Speaker 10: not as aware of his policies as we are on

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Speaker 10: Long Island because we're right there. But affordability, he's not

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Speaker 10: going to do anything to help the average taxpayer. As

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Speaker 10: a matter of fact, his tenant advocate we just appointed,

959
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Speaker 10: said that owning a home is in indication of white supremacy.

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Speaker 10: People shouldn't own houses. I mean, it's the world's upside down.

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Speaker 10: New York City's crazy, it's upside down, and we cannot

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Speaker 10: this year allow it to spread throughout Long Island or

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Speaker 10: the rest of New York.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's interesting to hear the report from Nassau County.

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Speaker 3: You say there's a back to Mom Donnie there. As

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Speaker 3: you talk to Republicans from around the country, is that

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Speaker 3: your advice to them that we inject they inject Mom Donnie.

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Speaker 3: Is them into their races everywhere? Because it seems to

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Speaker 3: me Mom Donnie's not isolated. You're seeing this energy in

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Speaker 3: the Democratic Party all over the country. Is this something

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Speaker 3: Republicans should use in November to say, Hey, if you

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Speaker 3: want Mom Donnie in Maine, if you want Mom Donnie

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Speaker 3: in Florida, if you want Mom Donnie in Missouri, you know,

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Speaker 3: don't turn out. I mean, is it a turnout booster

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Speaker 3: for the Republican Party.

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Speaker 10: You're absolutely right. He's not just located in New York City,

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Speaker 10: and there's boundaries there. He wants to be widespread. They

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Speaker 10: want to Now it's New York, next it'll be the country.

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Speaker 10: Look what we've got in New York AOC AOC Democrats

980
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Speaker 10: tell me that Schumer won't run again next time because

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Speaker 10: AOC and the Progressors are taking over the party. Tom Dinapolis,

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Speaker 10: new York state Controller, very friendly with me. Nassau County guy,

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Speaker 10: a Democrat. I know him for forty years. Real nice guy,

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Speaker 10: does a good job.

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Speaker 3: You know what you know?

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Speaker 10: Where Tom Dinapolis at. He's facing three three primary opponents,

987
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Speaker 10: one of whom has a lot of money and is progressive.

988
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Speaker 10: He probably won't survive it. So New York is just

989
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Speaker 10: we're the center of it. Now it's gonna spread, and

990
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Speaker 10: you're absolutely right throughout the country. This isn't something they

991
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Speaker 10: want to keep localized in New York or in the

992
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Speaker 10: state of New York. They want to spread it out

993
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Speaker 10: of the country. They want to take over the country.

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Speaker 10: And thank god Donald Trump as the president, because if

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Speaker 10: he weren't, we'd be real deep trouble.

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Speaker 3: Let's dip into the governor's race in New York. A

997
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Speaker 3: lot of people wonder if Governor Kathy Hochel is actually vulnerable.

998
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Speaker 3: At least Defonic has taken a step away from politics.

999
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Speaker 3: This leaves Bruce Blakeman as the Republican running against Hokele.

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Speaker 3: What do you foresee for the governor's race in New

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Speaker 3: York in twenty six.

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Speaker 10: I think Bruce Blakeman can win. Hokele is unpopular John McLaughlin,

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Speaker 10: our poster did a poll last October. She was at

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Speaker 10: sixty five percent unfavorable, very unfavorable. That's in Nassau County.

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Speaker 10: I think her. But she just came out with her budget.

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Speaker 10: Her budget. All her budget does is give more money

1007
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Speaker 10: to the illegal migrants who have come into the country.

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Speaker 10: Does nothing for the taxpayers, nothing with real property taxes,

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Speaker 10: nothing with income tax to help the middle class people.

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Speaker 10: I'll tell you about Bruce Blakeman. In Nassau County, we

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Speaker 10: have more than one hundred thousand Democrats than Republicans. Democrats

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Speaker 10: outnumber us in enrollment by more than one hundred maybe

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Speaker 10: one hundred and ten thousand. Bruce Blakeman won. He won

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Speaker 10: by thirty six thousand votes. He won by eleven almost

1015
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Speaker 10: twelve percent of the vote. You know why he did

1016
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Speaker 10: it because Democrats, average normal Democrats say, Joe, we don't

1017
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Speaker 10: have a party anymore. We didn't leave our party. Our

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Speaker 10: party left us and independence overwhelmingly. Sixty percent of independent

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Speaker 10: men and fifty seven percent of independent women voted for

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Speaker 10: Bruce Blakeman.

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Speaker 3: That voice is Joe Cairo, New York National Committee Man

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Speaker 3: and the Nassau County, New York GOP chairman. When we

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Speaker 3: come back exclusive interviews. It is Wednesday, January twenty first.

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Speaker 3: The world travels of Scott Jennings continue and we are

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Speaker 3: in Santa Barbara, California today, broadcasting live from the Winter

1026
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Speaker 3: Meeting of the Republican National Committee. We've been taking a

1027
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Speaker 3: tour of the various states and talking to folks who

1028
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Speaker 3: are in battleground states or places where politics is quite

1029
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Speaker 3: interesting this year. We're grateful for the RNC for hosting

1030
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Speaker 3: us and helping us arrange some of these interesting conversations.

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Speaker 3: I want to talk a little bit about Minnesota. So

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Speaker 3: Minnesota has become an interesting state for a number of reasons.

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Speaker 3: One is they have this massive fraud scandal that has

1034
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Speaker 3: exploded on the watch of Governor Tim Walls and forced

1035
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Speaker 3: him to abandon his own reelection campaign. The other, of course,

1036
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Speaker 3: is the immigration situation going on in Minnesota. We have

1037
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Speaker 3: ice on the ground being treated like foreign invaders by

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Speaker 3: Walls and honorary Somali pirate Jacob Frye, the mayor of

1039
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Speaker 3: Minneapolis telling people we got to go fight ice in

1040
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Speaker 3: the streets, and well, guess what, that's what people are doing.

1041
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Speaker 3: We have people barging into churches in Minnesota. That's what

1042
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 3: happened on Sunday morning because walls Is warriors who'd been

1043
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Speaker 3: told to pretend they were fighting at Gettysburg went into

1044
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Speaker 3: a church to terrorize Christians at a Baptist church on

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Speaker 3: a Sunday morning. It is quite a situation in Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: It has gotten so weird in Minnesota, and specifically in Minneapolis.

1047
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Speaker 3: It's just so strange. The politics has gotten so strange.

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Speaker 3: Are there's a word that Attorney General Pam Bondi is

1049
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Speaker 3: in Minnesota right now and that a grand jury is

1050
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Speaker 3: looking at some different issues. One of those issues is

1051
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Speaker 3: did these people who barged into the church on Sunday?

1052
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Speaker 3: Did they break the law? A lot of people think

1053
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Speaker 3: they did. A lot of people. My view is this,

1054
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Speaker 3: If the people who barged into that church on Sunday

1055
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Speaker 3: are not indicted for violating the Face Act or the

1056
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Speaker 3: KKK Act, or whatever they decide is most relevant, you

1057
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Speaker 3: are going to see radical leftists all over this country

1058
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Speaker 3: barging into churches all over the country because they're going

1059
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Speaker 3: to feel emboldened and protected to do so. It is

1060
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Speaker 3: an obvious you talk to even Democrat lawyers. I was

1061
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Speaker 3: on with one on CNN the other night. She's a

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Speaker 3: total lefty, Stacy Schneider, and she was like, Yep, they're

1063
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:26,280
Speaker 3: in trouble. You cannot you cannot do this, You cannot

1064
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Speaker 3: allow this. There have to be consequences. But the grand

1065
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Speaker 3: jury may also be in the subpoenas I guess have

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Speaker 3: been delivered to Governor Walls and Mayor Fry and some

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Speaker 3: other Democrats. They want to know do you have Democrats

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Speaker 3: in Minnesota subverting federal law enforcement, using their office to

1069
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Speaker 3: subvert the execution of federal law. By the way, these

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Speaker 3: are not new laws. These laws have been on the

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Speaker 3: books for years. So again, Minnesota has become an interesting, strange,

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Speaker 3: bizarre place, and Republicans are going to try to do

1073
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Speaker 3: something about it. There is a Senate race emerging there

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Speaker 3: because Tina Smith is retiring. It's an open race and

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Speaker 3: the Republican Party may may have found an answer to

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Speaker 3: turning Minnesota red. Let's play cut one this video this

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Speaker 3: morning from Michelle to Foya, a new entrant into the race.

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Speaker 11: For too long.

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Speaker 12: Hard working people have been ripped off by criminals, corporations,

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Speaker 12: and career politicians, and the people doing everything right are

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Speaker 12: the ones paying the biggest price.

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Speaker 11: Well, I'm not going to stay on the sidelines any longer.

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Speaker 11: Starting today, I'm running for the United States Senate as

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Speaker 11: Minnesota Senator. I will clean up the system, fighting corruption,

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Speaker 11: ending the fraud, and protecting your tax dollars. I will

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Speaker 11: protect what's fair and safe, standing with our law enforcement officers,

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Speaker 11: deporting dangerous criminals, and keeping female sports for female athletes.

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Speaker 13: And I will make our lives.

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Speaker 14: Affordable again, cutting middle class taxes, strengthening American manufacturing, and

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Speaker 14: lowering the cost of groceries, prescription drugs, and mortgages and rents.

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Speaker 13: I hear the same message everywhere I travel. Minnesotans are

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Speaker 13: yearning for common sense leadership again. It's time for a

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Speaker 13: political outsider and a reformer with a real plan for

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Speaker 13: working families.

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Speaker 3: That voice you're hearing there legendary sports reporter, four time

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Speaker 3: Emmy Award winning NFL sideline reporter and now candidate for

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Speaker 3: the United States Senate, Michelle Tafoya, and she joins us

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Speaker 3: live here on the Scott Jennings show, Michelle, Welcome into

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Speaker 3: the conversation.

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Speaker 8: Oh, it's good to talk to you, Scott. How are you.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing terrific. I'm in California out here at the

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Speaker 3: meeting of the Republican National Committee, broadcasting live, and there's

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Speaker 3: a lot of talk about your candidacy. People in Minnesota

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Speaker 3: have been trying to get you to run for office

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Speaker 3: for years and you have finally decided to do it.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of excitement around it. Just tell us

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Speaker 3: what pushed you over the age. Why are you now

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Speaker 3: putting your name on a ballot, throwing your head into

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Speaker 3: the ring.

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Speaker 8: Well, we've seen a major crisis of leadership here in Minnesota.

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Speaker 8: We have discovered, maybe too late, maybe not, that the

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Speaker 8: career politicians are not coming to save us, and so

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Speaker 8: some people have to step in and clean.

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Speaker 1: Up this mess.

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Speaker 8: You know, Look, I've lived in Minnesota for over thirty years,

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Speaker 8: and yes, people have tried to recruit me for a

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Speaker 8: long time. But we have gotten to a boiling point

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Speaker 8: here and the tea kettle is whistling and we need

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Speaker 8: to do something. I've talked to a lot of people

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Speaker 8: who just say, oh my gosh, we cannot continue to

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Speaker 8: roll over and continue to elect these political elites who keep.

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Speaker 3: Doing the same thing.

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Speaker 8: It doesn't matter what the name is, if it's male

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Speaker 8: or female, whoever it is, they keep doing this same thing. So,

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Speaker 8: you know, I've talked to a lot of people, talked

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Speaker 8: to my family, and just decided, if we want to

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Speaker 8: do something about this, I've got to step up.

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Speaker 3: So there's a couple of crazy things going on in Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: The fraud scandal which was blowing up and caused Tim

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Speaker 3: Walls to not run for reelection. That was kind of

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Speaker 3: overshadowed by the immigration situation going on in Minneapolis. When

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Speaker 3: you see what Democrats in Minneapolis are doing, essentially saying

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Speaker 3: we're not going to allow the enforcement of federal immigration

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Speaker 3: laws here. Is that one of the motivating things that

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Speaker 3: got you into the Senate race.

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Speaker 8: It is, Look, we have a law enforcement crisis as well.

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Speaker 8: I mean, this was the place of defund the police

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Speaker 8: back in twenty twenty. You recall that didn't work out. Well,

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Speaker 8: this isn't working out well. You know, look, I've talked

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Speaker 8: to people in law enforcement and they have said, we

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Speaker 8: put life and limb on the line in order to

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Speaker 8: arrest these these criminals. And then they get turned back

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Speaker 8: out on the street, only to have other officers have

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Speaker 8: to come in and put life and limb on the

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Speaker 8: line to arrest these criminals. It makes no sense. There's

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Speaker 8: no cooperation because Tim Walls and Jacob Frye and the

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Speaker 8: mayor her in Saint Paul, they do not want their

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Speaker 8: police officers to cooperate. This is a recipe for disaster

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Speaker 8: that's been fanned and inflamed by the rhetoric of Jacob

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Speaker 8: fry and Tim Walls, you know, the rhetoric of resistance,

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Speaker 8: the rhetoric of get the f out, all of it.

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Speaker 8: They have just fanned the flames. They've called it racist

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Speaker 8: and fascist to enforce the law. So of course we've

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Speaker 8: got what you're seeing here, and it's a disaster. And

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Speaker 8: that is a big part of why I'm running.

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Speaker 3: Republicans have not been successful in quite some time in

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Speaker 3: statewide races in Minnesota. But with this immigration issue and

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Speaker 3: the fraud scandal going on, is this the moment where

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Speaker 3: the Republican Party can find itself with a little momentum

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Speaker 3: in Minnesota. I'm sure you talk to a lot of

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Speaker 3: voters out there. Do you feel like the electorate in

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Speaker 3: Minnesota is looking at all this and saying enough is enough.

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Speaker 3: We're going to have to change direction here. We put

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Speaker 3: our trust in the wrong party and the wrong people.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely, I'm hearing that from all kinds of people on

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Speaker 8: both sides of the and our independence here. You know, they,

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Speaker 8: like I said, this is a tipping point. They're seeing

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Speaker 8: it all. They're seeing the crisis, they're feeling it. They

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Speaker 8: are angry about the fraud. And by the way, these

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Speaker 8: police officers that I spoke with Scott, they said, you know,

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Speaker 8: I hope we don't take our eye off the ball

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Speaker 8: when it comes to this fraud because all of that fraud,

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Speaker 8: the billions and billions of dollars that were built from

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Speaker 8: Minnesota taxpayers, affect all of our budgeting for law enforcement

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Speaker 8: and all of the other programs in Minnesota that matter

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Speaker 8: to people. So I think there is probably a good

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Speaker 8: reason why Tim Wallas is trying to draw more and

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Speaker 8: more attention to ice and less attention to the fraud.

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Speaker 8: But yes, people are fed up. I'm hearing it from

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Speaker 8: Independence Democrats. We're certainly going to have to work hard

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Speaker 8: for every single vote. So I'm encouraging people if I

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Speaker 8: can do the shameless plug to go to Michelle Tafoya

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Speaker 8: dot com. Chip in where you can, We'll take any

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Speaker 8: size donation. We're gonna need all the help we can

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Speaker 8: get in this state.

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Speaker 3: So I'm looking at the Democrats that are running here.

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Speaker 3: One of them is Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan. She has

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Speaker 3: been I think one of the most inflammatory people on

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Speaker 3: this immigration issue. There's another one, Congresswoman Angie Craig. Do

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Speaker 3: you see Flannagan and Craig as just more of the

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Speaker 3: extreme radical left that Minnesota has right now? And is

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Speaker 3: that how you would position the fall campaign? Basically, if

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Speaker 3: you want more of the same, go for a Flannagan

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Speaker 3: or Craig. Is that how it's sort of shaping up

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Speaker 3: in your mind?

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Speaker 8: Absolutely? I mean, look, Flannagan fraud is what a lot

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Speaker 8: of people are calling it now because Peggy Flannagan was

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Speaker 8: attached at the hip to Tim Walls throughout his tenure,

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Speaker 8: so she is attached to this fraud as well. And

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Speaker 8: then you've got Angie Craig, who was in Washington and

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Speaker 8: supposed to be keeping her eye on things and just

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Speaker 8: let the ball drop. So neither one of them can

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Speaker 8: escape some sort of responsibility for the fraud. And now

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Speaker 8: they're just trying to out left each other in their

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Speaker 8: battle for the Democrat nomination. And they can go ahead

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Speaker 8: and do that. I'm gonna win my side. I'm going

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Speaker 8: to win the Republican nomination, and then we'll see who's

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Speaker 8: left between the two of them. And I'm just gonna

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Speaker 8: kind of sit here and watch it. But yes, they

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Speaker 8: are both really tacking to the left because that's where

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Speaker 8: the base is.

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Speaker 3: Let's listen to a comment Michelle from Donald Trump. He

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Speaker 3: said this this morning, I believe in Davos. Let's play

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Speaker 3: cut eight and get to Michelle Tafoya's reaction. Here's the president.

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Speaker 2: The situation in Minnesota remind us that the West cannot

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Speaker 2: mass import foreign cultures which have failed to ever build

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Speaker 2: a successful society of their own.

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Speaker 3: That was a president today. Do you agree with him

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Speaker 3: as Minnesota sort of an example of what happens when

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Speaker 3: you bring in unfettered immigration of people who refuse to

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Speaker 3: assimilate into our culture.

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Speaker 1: Here.

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Speaker 8: Well, we certainly saw that in the first fraud case,

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Speaker 8: the Feeding our Future, which was two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 8: million dollars worth of fraud. The vast, vast majority of

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Speaker 8: the people who have been arrested and charged and tried

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Speaker 8: and jailed are from the Somali community. I don't want

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Speaker 8: to paint Somali's with a broad brush, but that's that's

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Speaker 8: in the paperwork, Scott, So that is there. And I

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Speaker 8: think we're seeing this worldwide right. We're seeing it in France,

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Speaker 8: we're seeing it in England. So I think there's a

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Speaker 8: lot of truth to what the President said there. Look,

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Speaker 8: my dad's parents were immigrants, legal immigrants to this country.

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Speaker 8: Immigrants bring so much good to this country. But I

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Speaker 8: don't understand why we can't have legal immigration and expect

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Speaker 8: people to share our values. They can pray the way

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Speaker 8: they want, they all of those things, but share our values.

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Speaker 8: American values are unique and that's what makes this country work.

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Speaker 8: And really they're common sense values, and so I would

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Speaker 8: love to get back to that common sense that built

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Speaker 8: this country and away from the corruption and the craziness

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Speaker 8: that is really I think tearing us apart. And I

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Speaker 8: think Minnesota is exhibit a.

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Speaker 3: That voice you're hearing Michelle Tafoya, legendary sports reporter and

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Speaker 3: now candidate Republican candidate for the United States Senate in Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: Michelle tell us again, if people want to help you.

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Speaker 3: Where do they find you?

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Speaker 8: And please do We're going to need all the help

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Speaker 8: we can get here in Minnesota. Michelle Tafoya dot com.

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Speaker 8: Michelle Tafoya dot com, you can go donate, volunteer. Look,

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Speaker 8: Donald Trump had more Republican votes than any presidential candidate

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Speaker 8: in history in the last election. If all those people

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Speaker 8: turn out in November here in the midterms, we can

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Speaker 8: turn this day around.

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Speaker 3: That's Michelle Tafoya, the latest candidate to jump in in Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: Folks are excited. They think maybe maybe Minnesota's gonna turn

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Speaker 3: red because of all the problems up there. We'll see

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Speaker 3: what happens. More to come after this, We're gonna take

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Speaker 3: a break and finish up the show here in Santa Barbara.

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Speaker 3: It's Scott Jennings common sense for the American people. Stay

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Speaker 3: with us. We're glad you're with us here. And Scott

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Speaker 3: Jennings is on the road in Santa Barbara, California. We're

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Speaker 3: gonna have a wrap up conversation with my friend, the

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Speaker 3: chairman of the party in West Virginia, Republican Josh Holstein

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Speaker 3: the American people. Scott Jennings is here on Salem. Here

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Speaker 3: with me now, Josh Holstein, the West Virginia Republican Party chairman. Josh,

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Speaker 3: you are interesting guy. Not only are you the youngest

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Speaker 3: state party chairman in the country, they think maybe you're

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Speaker 3: the youngest state party chairman. Ever, how old were you

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Speaker 3: when you got elected chairman of the West Virginia Party?

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Speaker 3: You were sorry, I had I had you turned down?

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Speaker 15: Yeah, you're twenty three years old, yes, twenty twenty four now,

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Speaker 15: But I was twenty three when I got elected.

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Speaker 3: This so people think of, like, you know, political conventions

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Speaker 3: as being inhabited by, you know, charitably older people. How

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Speaker 3: did you convince all these people to make a twenty

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Speaker 3: three year old the chairman of the party.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, so.

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Speaker 15: I've been involved with the state party in West Virginia

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Speaker 15: for six years really, since I was a teenager. I

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Speaker 15: started getting involved in campaigns and got to meet a

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Speaker 15: lot of people on the committee and ran for the

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Speaker 15: state legislature in twenty beat a Democrat incumbent, and I've

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Speaker 15: been in the legislature since then as well. So, you know,

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Speaker 15: with a lot of communication with folks, I've served with

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Speaker 15: on the committee we ran and we were successful in

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Speaker 15: doing so.

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Speaker 3: Okay, here's the thing I want to know. You're the

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Speaker 3: young state chairman out there, You're you know, the next

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Speaker 3: generation of Republican leaders. Recruitment of young people into the party.

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Speaker 3: It's been my contention that young people are waking up.

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Speaker 3: They realize they've been sold a bill of goods absolutely

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Speaker 3: by the left. They don't have to hate their country.

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Speaker 3: They can love their country. We live in a great country.

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Speaker 3: Are you detecting that among people in your age cohort,

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Speaker 3: if they said, well, wait a minute, we're not buying

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Speaker 3: in any more to what the left is selling. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely.

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Speaker 15: I think two things are true. One, President Trump spoke

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Speaker 15: a lot about and all Republican candidates last cycle spoke

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Speaker 15: about affordability, being able to own a home, be able

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Speaker 15: to have a family, and afford it. That's something that

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Speaker 15: people in my generation do not have, do not have

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Speaker 15: the opportunity to age and older, are still living with

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Speaker 15: their parents, do not have a spouse, and can't have

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Speaker 15: kids because they can't afford it even if they wanted to.

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Speaker 15: So I think the message that the President and Republicans

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Speaker 15: up and down the ballot last cycle talked about affordability,

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Speaker 15: being able to own a home. I think that's very

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Speaker 15: important and that's the reason we saw an increase in

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Speaker 15: youth support for the President and Republicans across the country.

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Speaker 15: And secondly, I think there's been a backlash on liberal

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Speaker 15: social issues of young people are just tired of constantly

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Speaker 15: having to tiptoe around every single conversation that they have

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Speaker 15: or every post they make on social media. They're done

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Speaker 15: with that and they don't want to be subject to

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Speaker 15: it constantly. So I think those two things are what's

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Speaker 15: really contributing to young people leaving the left and moving

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Speaker 15: to the right.

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Speaker 3: Got about a minute to go here, Josh from West Virginia.

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Speaker 3: If you could give a piece of advice to any

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Speaker 3: of your fellow Republicans who are out running campaigns this

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Speaker 3: year in the big Senate races and the big targeted

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Speaker 3: congressional races about how to attract the youth vote, how

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Speaker 3: to get people excited. What would it be.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, you've got to talk about affordability, and you've got

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Speaker 15: to talk about things that they care about, and again,

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Speaker 15: that is their future and the future of their not

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Speaker 15: only themselves, but their potential family. And I think if

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Speaker 15: you talk about that, you'll see great success.

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Speaker 3: All right. That voice you're hearing Josh Holstein, the West

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Speaker 3: Virginia Republican Party chairman, the youngest state chairman in the

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Speaker 3: So you're in the legislature, yes, and you also run

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Speaker 3: the state party. Yes, sir, you're busy.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 15: It's a little difficult, but I'm enjoying it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you really have a jumped you know what's amazing though.

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Speaker 3: It's like a lot of people in your age, they

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Speaker 3: just sort of politics for them is a back burner issue.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: They don't think about a lot. Maybe they maybe they

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Speaker 3: don't fill aligned with either party. But you decided to

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Speaker 3: be a Republican and jump in and really participate. I mean,

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Speaker 3: has it been rewarding for you to getting everything out

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Speaker 3: of your political engagement that you thought you would as

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Speaker 3: a teenager?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 15: Yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 15: I grew up in southern West Virginia, which was a

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Speaker 15: Democrat stronghold for you know, decades, and really I found

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Speaker 15: a home very quickly in the Republican Party and I've

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Speaker 15: been happy to represent it and grow it ever since.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Politics it's a fun uh. I mean it may seem

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Speaker 3: a little messy, sometimes but necessary and can be fun

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Speaker 3: very much. All right, that's Josh Holstein. We're done in

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Speaker 3: Santa Barbara. Common Sense for the American people is on

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Speaker 3: the road tomorrow in Little Rock, Arkansas. Join us. Then,

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Speaker 3: Scott Jennings is here. Thanks for listening on Salem