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Speaker 1: A high profile person is not running as an independent

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Speaker 1: in the Indiana Secretary of State rights and that just

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Speaker 1: shows how many Hoosiers are tired of party fighting. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's be real, Splitting the vote could really just hand

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Speaker 1: an advantage to one other candidate. So you have Greg Ballard,

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Speaker 1: former two term Indianapolis mayor, retired US Marine. He announced

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Speaker 1: that he's running for Indiana Secretary of State as an independent.

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Speaker 2: I ran as a Republican, but I governed for everyone.

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Speaker 2: Today things are different. Both political parties are broken, and

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Speaker 2: we're the ones paying the price. When politics becomes this toxic,

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Speaker 2: it's essential to have an independent voice overseeing our elections

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Speaker 2: in Indiana. That's the job of our Secretary of State.

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Speaker 2: But the current leadership in that office has shown an

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Speaker 2: eagerness to engage in partisan politics. I thought my career

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Speaker 2: in public service had ended. But when you see something

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Speaker 2: this broken and know you can fix it, you step forward.

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Speaker 1: Wow. That's why to get Diego Morales, get the current

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Speaker 1: secretary of state. So Greg Ballard. He made this announcement

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Speaker 1: in a campaign launch and positioned himself as the nonpartisan

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Speaker 1: professional choice focused on fair election administration. He's got to

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Speaker 1: collect thirty seven thousand petition signatures by July to qualify

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Speaker 1: for the November ballot ballot. So now he's positioning himself

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Speaker 1: against the Republican current Secretary of State Diego Morales and

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Speaker 1: the Democrat Bo bi who's running in this election. It qualifies.

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Speaker 3: This was telegraphed a couple of days ago when this

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Speaker 3: fairly recent group called Independent Indiana, and this was formed

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Speaker 3: in the last couple of years, and this is a

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Speaker 3: political action group that is trying to get independent candidates

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Speaker 3: on the ballot in Indiana. And all of a sudden,

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Speaker 3: they put out some polling results on Monday that caught

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Speaker 3: a lot of a people's attention that showed that bo

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Speaker 3: Bai was at thirty one percent and Diego Morales was

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Speaker 3: at twenty eight percent, and Greg Ballard as an independent

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Speaker 3: at twenty three percent. Now keep in mind this was

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Speaker 3: two days ago before Greg Ballard had announced this, and

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Speaker 3: so obviously this had been telegraphed, and so it's no

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Speaker 3: surprise that Greg Ballard came out this morning with this.

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Speaker 3: And look, Greg Ballard, very successful mayor of Indianapolis from

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Speaker 3: twenty eight to twenty sixteen. I mean that could be

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Speaker 3: called you know, the probably the best days that we

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Speaker 3: saw in Indianapolis, the golden years for the city of

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Speaker 3: Indianapolis when Greg Ballard was the mayor. And absolutely he

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Speaker 3: is a former Republican now running as an independent. You're

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Speaker 3: going to expect that having if Diego Morales wins the

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Speaker 3: Republican primary. So let's go under that assumption, and now

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Speaker 3: you've got this three person race. Yeah, the Republicans are

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Speaker 3: going to split their votes between Diego Morales and Greg Ballard.

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Speaker 3: And this just was a massive boost to bo By.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, except also, maybe Diego Morales isn't going to get

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Speaker 1: all those delegate votes.

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Speaker 3: Entirely possible, but look, he has the support of You've

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Speaker 3: got Dave Shelton in there as well. But Diego Morales

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Speaker 3: has the support of the Republican establishment. Despite the fact

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Speaker 3: that he's had so many problems since he's been Secretary

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Speaker 3: of State, the Republican establishment, the donor base still looks

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Speaker 3: like they are supporting Diego Morales. So I think that

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Speaker 3: he's certainly going to be the nominee. He's certainly going

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Speaker 3: to get a lot of votes because he's got that

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Speaker 3: institutional support behind him. Greg Ballard coming in is a

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Speaker 3: total wild card in this, And look, I know a

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Speaker 3: lot of people are going to be probably be upset

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Speaker 3: at Greg Ballard. I've already seen it on social media.

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Speaker 3: Oh well, you just handed bo By the secretary of

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Speaker 3: State's off his nice job. Guy, I look at it

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Speaker 3: from you. What do you mean am I supposed to

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Speaker 3: be terrified that bo By might be secretary of State?

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Speaker 1: Really?

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Speaker 3: Do you mean that he could be worse than die Morales?

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Speaker 3: Is that what we're sitting here fighting for, stomp at

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Speaker 3: our feet and saying no, we can't have this. I've

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Speaker 3: got to have Diego Morales as my secretary of State.

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Speaker 3: And there's not a whole lot of people out there

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Speaker 3: like that. I think that the concept that oh no,

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Speaker 3: this is terrible because now we're gonna have a Democrat

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Speaker 3: in there, that just stems from old school party politics. Look,

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Speaker 3: Diegra Morales has not been doing a good job. I

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Speaker 3: have no idea if Bobi is gonna do a good

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Speaker 3: job or not. But the concept of this is is

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Speaker 3: that somebody is gonna win the Secretary of States race.

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Speaker 3: At this point, we were to believe these polls, it's

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Speaker 3: not gonna be Diego Morales. You're gonna have a hard

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Speaker 3: time selling me that Bobi is gonna be so much

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Speaker 3: worse than Diegle, so much worse.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the bar is pretty low. And Greg Ballard saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: he's running as nonpartisan is a professional choice, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's a key element for him. He needs to

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Speaker 1: keep going back to that, I'm the grown up in

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Speaker 1: the room. I'm from here, and I'm an adult, I'm

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Speaker 1: a professional, and this is a about free and fair

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Speaker 1: elections and I'm the guy for the job. If he

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Speaker 1: keeps on that message, he actually may not do.

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Speaker 3: Oh look, I think there's a possibility. I still think

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Speaker 3: it's an outside chance because independence always have you know,

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Speaker 3: the odds are always stacked against him. But I think

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Speaker 3: he's not gonna have the machine. That's exactly right. He's

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Speaker 3: not gonna have the machine. But I'm I'm sure he

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Speaker 3: still has contacts. I'm sure he still has a lot

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Speaker 3: of very politically powerful friends. I'm sure that Greg Ballard

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Speaker 3: still has access to a very nice donor base that

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Speaker 3: he can tap into. I think there's a chance, that

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Speaker 3: absolutely that Greg Ballard could pull this off and win

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Speaker 3: it all.

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Speaker 1: So Aes abruptly canceled their community open house. The open

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Speaker 1: house was going to let customers come face to face

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Speaker 1: with employees of the utility company. This after their big

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Speaker 1: announcement that the parent company is going to go to

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Speaker 1: a private black Rock led thirty three billion dollar deal.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk more about that coming up. We

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Speaker 1: did hear a message from the i U r C

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Speaker 1: and also Indiana State Treasurer Daniel Elliott put out a

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Speaker 1: message about that. So we'll talk more about what's going

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Speaker 1: on with a S and just a bit. Also, the

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Speaker 1: burger war is heating up, and we'll get to that.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting thing about that is that it's online. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you remember that where's the beef? The commercial right on TV?

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Speaker 1: Of course, now it's all on social media and

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Speaker 3: It's really it's blown up on social media and so

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Speaker 3: everybody's leaning in