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Speaker 1: Look at this net favorability party ahead at this point

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Speaker 1: midterm of years with the GOP president. In twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: demsra up by twelve. In two thousand and six on

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Speaker 1: net favorability, which part you like more? Demsra head by eighteen.

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Speaker 1: Republicans are actually ahead on net favorability at this point

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Speaker 1: by five points. So Democrats are just simply put running

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Speaker 1: behind their previous benchmarks, and they'd be running well ahead

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Speaker 1: of them if they want to take back the United

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Speaker 2: Given that map can be clear, both parties are wildly

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Speaker 2: unfavorable right now. However, Democrats are even more unpopular.

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Speaker 3: CNN reporting Republicans are leading in net favorability by plus

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Speaker 3: five points ahead of the twenty six midterms keeps us.

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Speaker 3: So all of that talk you're hearing about, Oh, it's

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Speaker 3: just it's going to be a slaughter in the midterms.

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Speaker 3: Democrats are coming back, Republicans are going to lose the House.

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Speaker 3: They're not. According to CNN. This is really huge, especially

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Speaker 3: given back in twenty eighteen at this point Democrats were

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Speaker 3: at plus twelve and now Republicans are plus five. This

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Speaker 3: is a huge realignment of what's going on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so keep in mind. This is what usually happens

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Speaker 2: historically is that when one party comes into power wins

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Speaker 2: the presidency like Trump did in twenty twenty four, what

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Speaker 2: almost always happens in the following midterms two years later

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Speaker 2: is the party out of power usually makes some gains.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's really big gains, but that's the historic precedence.

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Speaker 2: So it is likely that Democrats will get some gains

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Speaker 2: in this midterm election this year. But for all of

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Speaker 2: the whining and moaning out there about like you said,

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Speaker 2: Republicans are just going to get killed in the midterms,

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Speaker 2: this poll shows that, at least from a national perspective,

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Speaker 2: the Democrats are viewed even worse than the Republicans are

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Speaker 2: viewed right now. Now, the the devil in the details

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Speaker 2: always comes down to each individual race in each you know,

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Speaker 2: for each district in the House, and each race you know,

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Speaker 2: for the states in the Senate. Because as traditionally has

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Speaker 2: always been the case, the American people are like Congress stinks,

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Speaker 2: I hate Congress. Throw all the bums out. What about

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Speaker 2: your congressman? Oh no, I like my congressman. My guy,

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Speaker 2: not my guy. My guy's one of the good. My guys,

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Speaker 2: the only good guy, I had a five hundred and

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Speaker 2: thirty five of my guys the only good guy. So so,

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Speaker 2: you know, the American people tend to be a little

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Speaker 2: a little schizophrenic when it comes to things like this.

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Speaker 3: But the other thing you need to point out, it's

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Speaker 3: only plus five, which really says that both parties are underwater,

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Speaker 3: and with the midterms coming, they're shaping up to be

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Speaker 3: very interesting, especially with the war going on and the

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Speaker 3: moon launch. That kind of tends to frame things a

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Speaker 3: little differently for people. However, see an unpublished their poll,

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Speaker 3: and it does say that there is a widespread voter

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Speaker 3: frustration with Washington overall, just one side, and voters are

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Speaker 3: And it doesn't look good really for either party. Well,

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Speaker 3: it's kind of like I like you, guys, you're the

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Speaker 3: lesser of the two evils.

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Speaker 2: Well, whichever party is in power, and keep in mind,

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Speaker 2: Republicans are in power across the board White House, House, Senate.

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Speaker 2: We got it all for the Republicans right now. But

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Speaker 2: judged by the way the American voters feel at that

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Speaker 2: moment in time. When it comes to the election. So

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Speaker 2: look at things in this country right now, and good

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Speaker 2: or bad, the Republicans will end up getting credit for it,

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Speaker 2: whether they deserve it or not. But you sit here

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Speaker 2: and say, okay, what's good? Okay Trump? You know he

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Speaker 2: did close the border. We are deporting a lot of

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Speaker 2: illegal aliens. And before this, you know, war with Iran.

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Speaker 2: Foreign policy was great. We were getting what we wanted

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Speaker 2: on tariffs as far as negotiating with other countries. We

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Speaker 2: got what we wanted out of Greenland. We you know,

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Speaker 2: snatched Maduro from Venice Zuela and put them in a

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Speaker 2: incredible military operations ever. Okay, those are the good things. Now,

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Speaker 2: let's go to the bad things. Life is pretty unaffordable

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Speaker 2: for a lot of Americans in this country. And as

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Speaker 2: James Carvell, you know, advisor to Bill Clinton, famously said

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Speaker 2: in the nineties, it's the economy stupid, And that may

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Speaker 2: other poll that we've seen about what's most important to

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Speaker 2: Americans the number one thing and sometimes the number one,

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Speaker 2: number two, number three, a number four things in some

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Speaker 2: shape or form have to do with the economy. Prices

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Speaker 2: are out of control, whether it's you know, housing prices

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Speaker 2: still unaffordable for too many. Taxes, especially property taxes are

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Speaker 2: out of control. Electricity bills are out of control right now.

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Speaker 2: Gas prices are way up in costing Americans a lot

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Speaker 2: health insurance or what you pay do you have surgery

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Speaker 2: or go to a doctor's appointment, or for your prescription drugs,

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Speaker 2: it is the cost of living in this country. So

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Speaker 2: whether you want to call that jobs or the economy,

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Speaker 2: or healthcare or inflation, it all is in this huge

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Speaker 2: umbrella of cost of living. And that is the big problem.

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Speaker 2: That is the single challenge that Republicans have right now.

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Speaker 2: And if they can't make some sort of real concrete

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