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Speaker 1: But his overall message, whether it's the tariffs, whether it's

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Speaker 1: over the last eleven months, how would you grade Trump?

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Speaker 1: What grade would you give him? Is your life better

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Speaker 1: The same? Six one seven two, six, six, sixty eight

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Speaker 1: You know, hold your horses, take a breath. Give this

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Speaker 2: I mean, jesf, you couldn't have said it better in

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Speaker 2: In my opinion, that's what needs to happen. I'm not

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Speaker 2: and I'm going to give him that year and a half.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Mary very well said, and thank you very much

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Speaker 1: Trump supporters, they're all Conservatives, they're all maga. So to me,

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Speaker 1: my with Mike, like with my Italian in laws, just

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Speaker 4: all are very merry Christmas and a happy new Year.

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Speaker 1: Thank you all the best to you, Eddie. Merry Christmas,

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Speaker 4: I voted with President Trump three times. I wish him

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Speaker 4: You can't blame him for everything, but I do get

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Speaker 4: has nothing to do with Trump. Well it was our

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Speaker 1: Janet in the great state of North Carolina. Thanks for

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Speaker 5: Welcome Hi, Jeff, Thank you so much for what you do.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Merry Christmas, Janet, and all the best to

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Speaker 1: So you know, look, I said this to my wife

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Speaker 1: over and over, and she can testify to this. When

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Speaker 1: Trump won on election night, I cried. I got the news.

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Speaker 1: I was sleeping in bed. It was about maybe what

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Speaker 1: But when they called it for him officially over, Kamala

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Speaker 1: let's pray to God. I want to thank him because

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Speaker 1: I believe he saved our country and I'm never going

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Speaker 1: to forget that. We were staring down the barrel of communism.

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Speaker 1: We were staring down the barrel I believe of the

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Speaker 1: end of the United States of America. We would never

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Speaker 1: have survived a fourth by sorry, a fourth Obama term.

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Speaker 1: I can tell you what Kamala wanted to do, if

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Speaker 1: you want, I can go through it step by step.

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Speaker 1: This woman is crazy. There would be no coming back.

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Speaker 1: Let's not forget that, and then the other thing, and

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Speaker 1: she can testify to this. I said, it's going to

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Speaker 1: take a generation to undo the damage of the Biden presidency.

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Speaker 1: If we're lucky a generation, that's ten years. I'm not

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Speaker 1: making that up. You know how heart it is to

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Speaker 1: deport twenty twenty five million illegals, Like, do you understand

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Speaker 1: how hard that is? Do you know how heart it

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Speaker 1: is to undo the kind of inflation that we had

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Speaker 1: under Biden? The kind of massive economic damage? Do you

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Speaker 1: know how heart it is to undo all of the

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Speaker 1: Islamic terrorists that he allowed to pour into our country?

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Speaker 1: This just to use let's say, Somalia, Look what you're

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Speaker 1: doing in Minnesota, all brought in by Biden, Maine, all

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Speaker 1: brought in by Biden. Now they're in North Dakota, for

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Speaker 1: God's sake, during Fargo. North Dakota they have a Somali

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Speaker 1: Heritage Day. And I'm not picking on the Somalis. I

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Speaker 1: can go community after community after community, eighty to ninety

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Speaker 1: percent welfare rates, leeches, parasites, mooching off the system. Many

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Speaker 1: of them Islamists, Muslim fundamentalists like you know, Elon, some

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Speaker 1: people did something Omar, who hate our country to its

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Speaker 1: very core. These are fifth columnists that Biden deliberately allowed

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Speaker 1: to come in. You know, just snap your fingers and

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Speaker 1: it all goes away. So I'm not making excuses for Trump.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, look, i don't want to repeat myself.

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Speaker 1: It took Reagan two and a half years. Only by

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Speaker 1: the middle of nineteen eighty three did the economy really

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Speaker 1: begin to turn around under Reagan. Reagan got slaughtered in

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Speaker 1: the eighty two midterms, and he passed his program very

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Speaker 1: quickly first one hundred days, but it took about two

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Speaker 1: Carter years. So what I'm saying is it takes time.

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Speaker 1: Now if we're, you know, in June of next year, July, August, September,

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Speaker 1: and it's still not working well, then we have to

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Speaker 1: do an assessment because something didn't go right. But you look,

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Speaker 1: all I can tell you is this is inflation going down. Yes,

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Speaker 1: our gas price is going down. Yes. Are the costs

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Speaker 1: of many things going down? Yes? Are is employment and jobs?

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Speaker 1: Are they going up, especially for Native born Americans? Yes,

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Speaker 1: our real wages rising. Yes. Is investment pouring in. Yes.

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Speaker 1: So I'm like, well, the trend lines are good. None

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Speaker 1: of the trend lines are bad. In fact, even the

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Speaker 1: deficit six hundred billion dollars lower under Trump six hundred billion.

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Speaker 1: Now that's a two trillion dollar deficit that he got

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Speaker 1: from Biden. But still that's in other words, are deficits

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Speaker 1: coming down? Yes, now it's a trend. I want it

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Speaker 1: to be a wave, but the trend lines are good,

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Speaker 1: so let's just keep going. So that's why, if you

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Speaker 1: want my honest opinion, I'm like, no, I'm optimistic. I

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Speaker 1: think he's got the secret sauce. And Mama is cooking

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Speaker 1: in the kitchen, you know, or grandma's cooking in the kitchen.

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Speaker 1: And the next year, we're gonna eat six one seven two, six, six,

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Speaker 1: sixty eight sixty eight, and we're gonna eat a good

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Speaker 1: CJ in Boston. Thanks for holding CJ, and welcome CJ.

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Speaker 1: Did we lose you? CJ? Are you there going? Once?

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Speaker 1: Going twice? Brian and Bill Rick, Thanks for holding Brian,

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Speaker 1: and welcome.

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Speaker 2: Jeff.

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Speaker 6: Good morning and Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 1: My friend, Merry Christmas, Brian, all the best to you

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Speaker 1: and your family.

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Speaker 7: Thank you, thanks for taking the call.

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Speaker 6: Look, yeah, Rome was not built in a day, for sure, right,

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Speaker 6: but Jeff, I voted for a guy who told me

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Speaker 6: he could build Rome in a day.

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Speaker 8: And now I'm here.

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Speaker 7: In give me eighteen months, give me two years. Things

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Speaker 7: have not gotten any better for me. They've gotten slightly worse.

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Speaker 7: I would say, only because this past year is the

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Speaker 7: first time my boss only they could not afford a

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Speaker 7: pay raise. I also have an adult son that is

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Speaker 7: self employed, so he gets his health insurance through the exchange.

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Speaker 6: He takes the monthly tax credit. He's looking at a.

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Speaker 7: Pay cut of about five to six hundred dollars a

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Speaker 7: month if he loses that tax credit. And because he's

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Speaker 7: a single parent, I'm going to have to step in

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Speaker 7: and help him out, which is gonna hurt me even more.

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Speaker 7: My biggest problem with President Trump is not that prices

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Speaker 7: aren't coming down as quickly, is that he made us

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Speaker 7: a promise, and he made us a lot of other

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Speaker 7: promises too that he hasn't been able to keep.

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Speaker 4: So it makes me.

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Speaker 8: Doubt anything that he says right now.

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Speaker 7: It makes me doubt if things are really going to

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Speaker 7: get better in eighteen months for me, or two years,

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Speaker 7: or if ever.

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Speaker 1: Again, Brian, if you don't mind me asking, and again

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Speaker 1: if I'm getting too personal, please tell me I won't

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Speaker 1: get offended. You said there were certain promises that he

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Speaker 1: made that he hasn't delivered on. Can you just do

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Speaker 1: you mind expounding on that? What specific promises do you

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Speaker 1: feel he betrayed and that has impacted or bothered you.

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Speaker 8: Please go ahead, Ryan, voting prices on day one. If

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Speaker 8: I heard that once, I heard it a thousand times.

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Speaker 8: On other stuff is not as significant to me.

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Speaker 6: But you know, the Epstein file, he made a promise

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Speaker 6: to do it and then he ran away from it,

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Speaker 6: which makes me doubt his motivations on that. The war

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Speaker 6: in Ukraine, that was another.

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Speaker 4: One allusion for it.

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Speaker 6: I just it's it's again those issues on it is

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Speaker 6: important to me, is the economic issues.

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Speaker 4: But it's it's getting to a.

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Speaker 6: Point now where I just doubt anything that the guy says.

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Speaker 1: Brian, you kind of broke up on us just a

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Speaker 1: little bit, so I just want to recap it. I

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Speaker 1: understand you're saying economics is number one for you. Of course,

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Speaker 1: it's your mean, it's your livelihood, it's your you know,

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Speaker 1: how you feed your family. But you're saying, look, he

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Speaker 1: said he was going to cut us loose from the

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Speaker 1: Ukraine War. He hasn't. He was going to stop all aid,

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Speaker 1: he hasn't. That he was going to release the Epstein files,

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Speaker 1: and he fought it tooth and nail, So you feel

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Speaker 1: that he's light on those two fronts,