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Speaker 1: Now it is a week, as I said at the

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Speaker 1: start of the show, to the US election, and it

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Speaker 1: is ramping up over there. Trump's just spoken at a

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Speaker 1: rally in Georgia.

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Speaker 2: This election is a choice between whether we will have

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Speaker 2: four more years of inconfidence and vailue, or whether or

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Speaker 2: not we will begin the four greatest years in the

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Speaker 2: history of our country.

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Speaker 1: You know. Michelle Jack's aim host of Q and a

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Speaker 1: host of a Newstalks W'DB Saturday Mornings, is over in

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Speaker 1: the States and was actually at the rally. Hey Jack, Hey,

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Speaker 1: you on a scale of one to ten, how much

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Speaker 1: did you love being there?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I'm fifteen. Like, I just absolutely frothed on US politics,

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Speaker 2: always have. This is my fourth US election that I covered,

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Speaker 2: so yeah, real joy to be there. I mean, it's funny.

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Speaker 2: I was interested today to compare Trump's rally today in Atlanta,

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Speaker 2: where sitting in the bleachers there with the first Trump

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Speaker 2: rallies that I went to in Texas like nine years ago,

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Speaker 2: And honestly, not a whole lot has changed. It's quite funny.

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Speaker 2: Like the crowd who turns up, a lot of them

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Speaker 2: have been to heaps of Trump rallies before I saw

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Speaker 2: one guy who said to me it was his ninth

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Speaker 2: Trump rally, And a lot of the like scripting points

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Speaker 2: get repeated day after day after day, and the crowd's

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Speaker 2: actually hanging out to hear them. So, for example, when

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Speaker 2: Trump's his Kamela, the whole audience yells you're fired. The

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Speaker 2: whole thing follows a pretty neat script even when even

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Speaker 2: when you know Trump goes off on his little you know,

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Speaker 2: on his little off pieced spiels from time to time.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, you know, I think my sense is that

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Speaker 2: he is that he has a little bit of momentum

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Speaker 2: coming off the Medicine Square gardens rarely yesterday, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's obviously going to look to continue that over the

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Speaker 2: next week. I remember being.

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Speaker 1: Over there in twenty sixteen and it was like a

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Speaker 1: few months, it was quite a few months before the

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Speaker 1: election campaign, and I came back and I said to

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Speaker 1: the guy's back here, Trump's going to win and nobody

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Speaker 1: would believe it. But on the ground, it's a different

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Speaker 1: feeling to what people can see. You know, if you're

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Speaker 1: sitting in a foreign land, So what's your feeling on

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Speaker 1: the ground, Is he going to win it?

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Speaker 2: Well? Okay, My thing is that it's always very hard

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Speaker 2: to get it a nationwide perspective in the US. So

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Speaker 2: I was in Arizona yesterday and the vibe in Arizona

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Speaker 2: is very different to where I am in Atlanta today,

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Speaker 2: and I would suggest it's going to be very different

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Speaker 2: to where I am in Pennsylvania in two days time.

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Speaker 2: That being said, I reckon, over the last couple of

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Speaker 2: weeks there has been a subtle momentum shift, nothing like

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Speaker 2: the momentum shift we saw earlier on when Trump had

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Speaker 2: survived that attemptive assassination and then when Joe Biden pulled

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Speaker 2: out Carmala, Harris Scott dropped into the candidate spot and

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Speaker 2: had that massive surge. Nothing like that, But I reckon

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Speaker 2: there has been a noticeable little shift in momentum. And

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Speaker 2: you know, obviously Harris is going to try and turn

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Speaker 2: that round to the next couple of days. But if

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Speaker 2: momentum tells us anything about turnout at the polls, it

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Speaker 2: would suggest I think that at the very least, the

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Speaker 2: Trump campaign are feeling quite pleased with where they're at.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Jack, thanks very much.

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Speaker 2: Jack.

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