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Speaker 1: It was a resounding victory. Obviously, still water to go

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Speaker 1: under the bridge, but most US networks now calling this

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Speaker 1: for Donald Trump. And it's not just the White House,

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Speaker 1: it's flipping the Senate. It's likely keeping the House as well,

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Speaker 1: and the popular vote and almighty comeback the first time

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Speaker 1: since the eighteen hundreds of presidents made a non consecutive

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Speaker 1: return to the Oval office. And Matt Terrell is Marco

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Speaker 1: Rubio's former chief of staff and managing partner at Firehouse Strategies.

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Speaker 1: He's with US Live this morning. Matt, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 2: Hey, good to be with you, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being here. How are you feeling. Did

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Speaker 1: you expect it? Did you expect so much from this election?

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Speaker 2: Well, certainly, I, like many people, saw some of the

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Speaker 2: trend lines go in his direction for brosent Trump's direction,

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Speaker 2: whether it was the pulling the beatty markets, and furthermore,

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Speaker 2: you're seeing him pulling better on the key issues that

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Speaker 2: voters cared about, namely the economy, inflation, and Borio security.

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Speaker 2: He's pulling better than Vice President here are some of

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Speaker 2: those issues. This election was about those issues by and large,

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Speaker 2: and it's the reason why he won this.

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Speaker 1: Race, what about what is he going to do with

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Speaker 1: this power? What does the Republican potty do with this power?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think he's been very clear throughout the campaign

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Speaker 2: what he intends to do, and I think you know,

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Speaker 2: with control of the Senate and likely control maintaining the

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Speaker 2: House Representatives, do you have an ability to go in

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Speaker 2: and have a mandate, a political mandate to go in

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Speaker 2: and implement the policies he campaigned on, whether that's on

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Speaker 2: taxes and tax reform, you know, whether that's on other

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Speaker 2: key policies that relate to the border and border security,

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Speaker 2: among other policies that he campaigned on. But look, the

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Speaker 2: reality is it's not just control of Congress that he

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Speaker 2: will likely get you to have with the House of

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Speaker 2: Representatives and control of the Senate, but also winning the

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Speaker 2: popular vote. And you know, it's one thing to win

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Speaker 2: the electoral college when you win the popular vote, and

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Speaker 2: likely here have both chambers of Congress. For certain he's

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Speaker 2: won the Senate, but likely we'll maintain control of the

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Speaker 2: Here it appears with Republican control there. The bottom line

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Speaker 2: is that's an ndate and that's going to allow him

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Speaker 2: to go in and implement the policies that he campaigned on,

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Speaker 2: and that appears the majority of Americans.

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Speaker 1: Behind, and the fact that he's managed to shift some

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Speaker 1: black voters, some Latino voters just shows you that the

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Speaker 1: pocket book politics rules the RoCE really doesn't. It's the economy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this was a big win for for President Trump. Look,

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Speaker 2: he did better across the board with respect to how

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Speaker 2: he performed in twenty twenty. You look at young voters,

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Speaker 2: black voters, Hispanic voters, non college educacated voters. He did

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Speaker 2: very well, particularly for the Republican nominee for president, among

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Speaker 2: those key voting blocks. And the reality is that helped

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Speaker 2: him in the key battleground states that he needed to

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Speaker 2: win in order to win this race. I think this

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Speaker 2: is a big win for President Trump certainly, like I said,

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Speaker 2: he's got a political mandate here to go in and

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Speaker 2: and inmplent the policies that he campaigned on. But this

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Speaker 2: was a very big victory and it was frankly big

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Speaker 2: to see just how well he did in comparison to

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Speaker 2: how he performed just four years ago, and where Vice

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Speaker 2: President Here's underperformed with respect made these key voting blocks

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Speaker 2: and in comparison with President Biden performed in twenty.

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Speaker 1: Twenty, speaking all what happens to who Now?

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Speaker 2: Well, look they have between now and you know, January

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Speaker 2: to go in and continue to policies. You know, they'll

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Speaker 2: be government here until President Trump is sworn in in January.

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Speaker 2: But look, the bottom line here is the big thing

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Speaker 2: here is control of Congress as well, like I said,

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Speaker 2: and as you see that come into play here, you

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Speaker 2: know you're gonna have certainly a link duck session here

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Speaker 2: with the current Congress and emotion and in place. But

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Speaker 2: you know, the reality is January will be the key month.

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Speaker 2: That's when you have a new Congress sworn in. Like

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Speaker 2: I said, control of the Senate is with Republicans. The

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Speaker 2: Republicans are now controlled the White House. The real questions

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Speaker 2: about the House representative, but that appears to be going

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Speaker 2: in the Republican's direction right now, and then from there,

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Speaker 2: I suspect what you'll see this is just my sense

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Speaker 2: is that President Trump recognizes that he has kind of

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Speaker 2: a second chance here. You know, you will second chances

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Speaker 2: in life, of course, but this is a big second

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Speaker 2: suspect he's not going to waste any time. And then furthermore,

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Speaker 2: the transition. You know, the presidential transition is already underway.

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Speaker 2: There are gonna be cabinet positions that he's gonna get

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Speaker 2: have to get confirmed, putting in key staff members. That's

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Speaker 2: a big transition, but that's already underway for the Trump

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Speaker 1: Matt can gradulations for your party, and thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for your analysis this morning. I appreciate it. That's

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Speaker 1: Matt Matt Terrell, who's Maco Rubio's former chief of staff.

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