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Speaker 2: Welcome back in to the show. So it is heating

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Speaker 2: up as the count continues in the US selection. So

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Speaker 2: Fox prediction. At this point Trump has one hundred and

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Speaker 2: seventy eight electoral votes to Harris's one hundred and thirteen.

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Speaker 2: Remember it's the first to two seventy those crucial swing states.

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Speaker 2: Too early to call. But Matt Heath has just run

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Speaker 2: down to the Empire bar in Auckland where the Auckland

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Speaker 2: American Rather Chamber of Communist Watch Party is underway.

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Speaker 3: Matt, how you doing good? Thank you?

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Speaker 4: Tyler AmCham election celebration at the Empire. I'm looking around.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of American flags, there's a few fries

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Speaker 4: on tables, there's a bit of champagne. There's an atmosphere

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Speaker 4: of nervous excitements. And I'm with Consul General at the

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Speaker 4: US Consulate in Auckland, Melissa Sweeney. Melissa, are you surprised

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Speaker 4: how much New Zealanders care about the American election?

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Speaker 5: There has been something that's been pretty impressive to find,

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Speaker 5: To find so much analysis and interest in.

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Speaker 3: What's happening in the US.

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Speaker 5: I know it's been a pretty exciting and maybe unusual

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Speaker 5: campaign season for the United States, so we're happy to

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Speaker 5: provide your entertainment.

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Speaker 3: It is very entertaining.

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Speaker 4: How important is this election globally?

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Speaker 5: I think this is an important election, just as any

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Speaker 5: of our presidential elections are. It's really important to also

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Speaker 5: remember that this election is not just about presidents.

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Speaker 3: It's also about many many other.

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Speaker 5: Officials that the US citizens will be going to vote for.

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Speaker 5: We've got members of Congress and the House representatives. Senate

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Speaker 5: is also up for some seats, and we also, of

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Speaker 5: course have a lot of elections at the municipal and

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Speaker 5: state who level. So it's a big, big exciting thing

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Speaker 5: for an American citizen and it should have some possibly

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Speaker 5: some ramifications for the world too.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I think a lot of New Zealanders don't understand

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Speaker 4: that we just focus on the president, but as the

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Speaker 4: president and sous the position and important. Sorry is it

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Speaker 4: the president and the down ballot is at fifty to

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Speaker 4: fifties or is the president eighty ninety? You've seen important.

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Speaker 5: Because it depends on each individual voter, honestly, because there

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Speaker 5: are certain issues that resonate more and local politics is

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Speaker 5: very important to folks as well.

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Speaker 3: So the president is incredibly important as far us.

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Speaker 5: Setting the tone, but we also it's really incritical, like

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Speaker 5: who controls Congress. We've got two co equal branches of

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Speaker 5: government in addition to our judiciary, so what happens in

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Speaker 5: Congress will have a big impact on people's lives as well.

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Speaker 3: How's it for you personally?

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Speaker 4: Obviously it's a huge event and you don't know what's

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Speaker 4: going to happen back home. Obviously I've got family back there.

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Speaker 4: How's it for you personally to be following your home

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Speaker 4: election from the Empire Tavern and Central Auckland.

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Speaker 3: It's actually pretty.

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Speaker 5: Cool to have so much connectivity in this day and

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Speaker 5: a in the world, to be able to watch American

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Speaker 5: newsreels coming in live and getting those immediate results the

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Speaker 5: same that my family's experiencing in the US.

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Speaker 3: So it's a pretty exciting.

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Speaker 5: Way to sort of share the experience, even though I

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Speaker 5: feel like I'm, well, I more than halfway around the

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Speaker 5: world here in New Zealand.

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Speaker 3: But it's pretty cool.

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Speaker 4: Do you enjoy it as a food and and socializing?

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Speaker 4: Is it like a sporting event for you or you have.

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Speaker 4: You got too much, too much at stake for you

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Speaker 4: to have a good time.

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Speaker 3: It's a little bit more at stake than a sporting events.

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Speaker 5: It's kind of entering in the sense that as an

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Speaker 5: American citizen, I have an opportunity to vote, so I

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Speaker 5: get to actually vote.

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Speaker 3: For who I would like to be in my bus.

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Speaker 5: So of course we have a lot of little bit

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Speaker 5: more interest writing on the outcome of this type of

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Speaker 5: election than mebe once, Thank.

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Speaker 3: You so much.

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Speaker 4: That was console General at the US Consulate and Auckland,

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Speaker 4: Melissa Sweeney. Fanay, this event is really kicking off, and

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Speaker 4: I guess the question I've got a few, Tyler, is

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Speaker 4: so I stay down here and have a few drinks

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Speaker 4: and a bite, or do I come back to the

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Speaker 4: studio up the road.

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Speaker 2: The buzz there sounds amazing, and I can almost hear

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Speaker 2: that you've got a bud light in your hand right now, Matt,

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Speaker 2: So I can't take that away from you. Just bring

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Speaker 2: me a couple of buds with you when you come

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Speaker 2: back up here, and maybe a hot time. So what's

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Speaker 2: the spread light there?

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm looking at a table, a huge table of nacho's.

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Speaker 4: You've got fried chicken here, fries. As I said before

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Speaker 4: we got we've got some sort of corn things with

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Speaker 4: some prawns on it. There's some meat balls here. So look, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I probably won't come back to the studio and I'll

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Speaker 4: see you on the show tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Can you just grab as much as you can, put

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Speaker 2: it in your pockets and then just bring it back.

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Speaker 2: That's the Kiwi thing, isn't it?

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Speaker 3: Just Okay, we're.

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Speaker 2: Breaking that, you can.

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Speaker 4: We're actually breaking up, Tyler.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I'll see you tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 3: Then I'm just getting myself a beer.

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