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Speaker 1: One of the many things I failed to truly understand

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Speaker 1: about this election is just what it is they think

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Speaker 1: Jennifer Anderston or Harrison fall is going to do for

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Speaker 1: your vote. The celebrity endorsement has been the mainstay of

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Speaker 1: the Democrats campaign, mainly because there are very few so

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Speaker 1: called famous people in places like Hollywood that aren't liberals.

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Speaker 1: She has not been short of choice. At some point

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Speaker 1: I decided it started to look a bit desperate. Lebron

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Speaker 1: John Bond jo v over the weekend with the song

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Speaker 1: Bruce Springsteen's an old favorite Lady Gaga, And of course

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Speaker 1: if they managed to roll out Tea Squiz, it's reached

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Speaker 1: peak endorsement or peak panic. One or the other. Tea

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Speaker 1: Squiz has already endorsed, of course, but it seems it's

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Speaker 1: better if you actually show up and sing a song.

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Speaker 1: Jennifer Lopez showed up over the weekend, but she didn't sing,

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Speaker 1: but she did manage to look sensationally earnest. My suggestion

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Speaker 1: is this celebs are robust. They are not what they

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Speaker 1: used to be. I mean, I love Lebron, I love

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Speaker 1: what he's about, I love how good he is, and

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Speaker 1: he can vote anyway. He wants. I still love him,

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Speaker 1: but he's never going to tell me how to vote,

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Speaker 1: no matter which way I vote. Could he sway an

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Speaker 1: impressionable eighteen year old sports freak may maybe that's why

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Speaker 1: he's out there. But a lot of them aren't of

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Speaker 1: Lebron's weightiness. A lot of them are as shallow as

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Speaker 1: a puddle. And that is modern celebrity for you. This

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Speaker 1: isn't carry Grant, Lucille Ball or Sean Connery the days

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Speaker 1: of mystery and intrigue. These are the days of TikTok,

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Speaker 1: where these people are so omnipresent they could be our mailman. Hence,

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Speaker 1: the star powers dimmed, The influence has faded. The idea

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Speaker 1: that we can't think for ourselves is preposterous. If celebrities worked,

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Speaker 1: this would be a landslide, and yet it isn't. It's

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Speaker 1: Trump and Hulk Hogan versus Harrison, virtually the entire film

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Speaker 1: and music industry. Somehow, the Dems have missed the memo.

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Speaker 1: And if they lose, what's that say about the entire

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