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Speaker 1: Right, So i'd Mitch McCann's with us. How are you mate,

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Speaker 1: I'm good, Mike, how are you very well? Indeed, so

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Speaker 1: they seem to Obama came to the party eventually over

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Speaker 1: the weekend, of course, and they got a couple of

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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars. So so far, so good for Harris.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's looking very good for Kamala Harris. Mike, It's

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Speaker 2: hard to believe it was only seven days ago that

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden dropped out of the race. Her campaign seed

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Speaker 2: this morning. They've now raised two hundred million US dollars.

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Speaker 2: Two thirds of that money is from first time donors,

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Speaker 2: and one hundred and seventy thousand new volunteers have signed

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Speaker 2: up to assist the campaign. The focus for Kamala Harris

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Speaker 2: now is who is she going to pick as her

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Speaker 2: vice presidential candidate.

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Speaker 1: Does it matter? I mean in the sense will people go,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, I wasn't going to vote for Harris,

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Speaker 1: but no, I am because I've got Whitmer or in

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Speaker 1: any of the others.

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Speaker 2: I think where it matters, Mike, is it might be

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Speaker 2: someone from one of these swing states that might about

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Speaker 2: to put the Democrats over the top somewhere like Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 2: One of the people looked at there is the governor

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Speaker 2: Josh Shapiro. He is incredibly popular, he's a former lawyer,

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Speaker 2: and he's one of the sort of top three people

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Speaker 2: talked about. So if they can win Pennsylvania, that will

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Speaker 2: help the Democrat Democrats.

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Speaker 1: Out A lot have we put to bed, and this

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Speaker 1: is where Obama comes in. The people who wanted some

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Speaker 1: sort of open contest, is that now gone. That's no

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Speaker 1: longer going to be or will be a problem at

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Speaker 1: the convention.

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Speaker 2: I think what we first saw when Kamala Harris came

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Speaker 2: out last weekend was a couple of people who were

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Speaker 2: rumored to be wanting to take her on, so to

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Speaker 2: bide their time to see if there was an opening.

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Speaker 2: I think that opening has closed now. The Obamas, the Pelosis,

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Speaker 2: the Shumers of the world, Joe Biden, they are all

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Speaker 2: behind Harris. So I think if anyone trying to take

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Speaker 2: her on it would be seen as a spoiler. And

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Speaker 2: the Democrats are also trying to get this done before

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Speaker 2: the convention. They're going to have a virtual role call

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Speaker 2: in the coming weeks where they're going to try and

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Speaker 2: lock this in before the convention.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and then you come to Trump and the business

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Speaker 1: and demon needing to vote again. I think he's explained himself,

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Speaker 1: doesn't I mean he didn't literally mean you're never going

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Speaker 1: to vote again, did he?

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Speaker 2: No, this is what he said. Well, Trump said on

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Speaker 2: Friday at a rally, you've got to get out and vote.

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Speaker 2: In four you don't have to vote again. We'll have

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Speaker 2: it fixed so good, you're not going to have to

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Speaker 2: vote now. Democrats have been flapping their arms, claiming that

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Speaker 2: this means that Donald Trump, you know, wants to take

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Speaker 2: over like a dictator. He's not going to allow future elections.

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Speaker 2: But Republicans have come out and see that's ridiculous. When

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Speaker 2: he said he wants it fixed, he means the country

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Speaker 2: being repaired, not fixed for a Cudin outcome, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Give us quick update on the wildfire in California. How big,

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Speaker 1: how bad? This is massive.

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Speaker 2: It's a fire in the city of Chico, northern California,

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Speaker 2: seven hours drive north of Los Angeles. It's burnt three

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand hectares. It's growing at a size

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Speaker 2: of twenty square kilometers every hour. The largest fire in

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Speaker 2: California this year, the seventh largest in history. Earlier this week,

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Speaker 2: a forty two year old man was arrested suspected of

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Speaker 2: starting the fire by rolling a burning car into a gully.

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Speaker 1: Jeez, is it a burning hot summer there in general?

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Speaker 1: I mean, is that the vibe in America at the moment.

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Speaker 2: It is. It's about thirty to thirty two degrees here

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Speaker 2: in New York today, but we've been getting up to eight,

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Speaker 2: so I mean, it is a concrete jungle. It is

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Speaker 2: bloody hot, but we are expecting it to probably be

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Speaker 2: a bit hotter in the coming weeks as well.

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Speaker 1: All right, mate, go well, we'll catch up Wednesday. Apreciate

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Speaker 1: it very much, Mitch mccawda. Reason I'm asking you that is,

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Speaker 1: of course, in most of Europe at the moment, it's not.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't seem that I was watching the Belgian Grand

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Speaker 1: Prix over the weekend, spent most of the week in

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Speaker 1: reigning polling quickly are states in the so called swing

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Speaker 1: states that Mitch was talking about, and this is this

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Speaker 1: is post the high drama of the last week or so.

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Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Fox put a pole out on Saturday, Our Time,

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Speaker 1: Trump forty nine, Harris forty nine. Interesting immersion college poll

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Speaker 1: taking two days after Biden quit. Trump forty eight, Harris

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Speaker 1: forty six. So that's Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. Fox did it fifty

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Speaker 1: to forty nine to Trump. The Emmerson College pole forty

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Speaker 1: seven apiece, five percent undecided, Michigan forty nine apiece, Georgia

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Speaker 1: forty eight, forty six Trump, Arizona. We've got an Imerson

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Speaker 1: College polling since Biden qupped forty nine, forty four Trump.

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Speaker 1: That'll be his North Carolina forty six, forty three Trump.

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Speaker 1: And then I can give you the national polse, but

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Speaker 1: I don't really believe in the national poles. So it

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Speaker 1: gives you some sort of indication things haven't moved, and

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Speaker 1: where they have moved, it is still super tight.

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