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Speaker 1: Can we say it now? It might be a bit early,

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Speaker 1: but let's just start saying it. Karmala Harris was a mistake.

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Speaker 1: The Democrats should never have picked her to run against Trump.

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, never say never, But it is obviously

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Speaker 1: becoming more and more likely, isn't it that Trump's going

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Speaker 1: to win in a couple of weeks time I said

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Speaker 1: this to you last week. He is too close behind

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Speaker 1: her in the swing states. He will overperform like he

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Speaker 1: usually does in those swing states on the night, and

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Speaker 1: then he's going to take them, and that gives them

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Speaker 1: the numbers he needs to win. But you don't have

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Speaker 1: to take my word for it, because what do I know?

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Speaker 1: What about Nate Silva, a US selection wizard today saying

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Speaker 1: his gut says Trump wins. What about the economist saying

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Speaker 1: Trump wins with a fifty four percent likelihood compared to

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Speaker 1: krmla's likelihood at forty five percent. What about Wall Street

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Speaker 1: Journal poll out today giving Trump a narrow lead with

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Speaker 1: voters here they have a more positive view of him

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Speaker 1: and a more negative view of Karmla. And then you've

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Speaker 1: got reports that the Democrats are panicking over the fact

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Speaker 1: that they think he's going to win. Now. This was actually,

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Speaker 1: if you cast your mind back, predictable, because when there

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Speaker 1: was all that talk of Biden's stepping down, loads of

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Speaker 1: people said, whatever you do, Democrats, don't p Carmela. She

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Speaker 1: won't win. She hasn't got what it takes, public don't

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Speaker 1: like her, doesn't know how to campaign. And there was

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Speaker 1: that flurry she got picked anyway, and then there was

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Speaker 1: that flurry of excitement and she got all this momentum.

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Speaker 1: But if you took a step back at the time,

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Speaker 1: which we did, which we did do at the time,

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Speaker 1: and we did say that excitement was about the thought

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Speaker 1: of her, the thought that she was going to be

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Speaker 1: the first black woman to become the president, and that

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Speaker 1: was really exciting, but the actual her remained the same boring, uncharismatic,

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Speaker 1: annoying voice, word salads, couldn't campaign, and that excitement was

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Speaker 1: always going to fade when people actually got to know her.

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Speaker 1: And people have got to know her, and the excitement

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Speaker 1: has predictably faded. As I say, totally predictable. If he

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Speaker 1: wins in a couple of weeks, which it looks like

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Speaker 1: he's going to, then we can say Carmela was a mistake.

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