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Speaker 2: Okay, let me ask you. Did you watch this speech

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Speaker 2: last night? I'm just curious and what did you make

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Speaker 2: of Trump's speech? I thought it was a very powerful

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Speaker 2: commanding speech, a speech that is resetting the narrative, especially

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Speaker 2: going into twenty twenty six. But that's me. I want

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Speaker 2: to hear from you. Okay, before I go, lines are jammed.

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Speaker 2: Before I go back to the phone lines. This is

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Speaker 2: from Robert on messenger. I'm getting a lot of texts,

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Speaker 2: a lot of emails siding with Michael who I read

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Speaker 2: his email on air. A lot of disagreement, but also

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Speaker 2: a lot of agreement. So I want to be fair

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Speaker 2: to everybody. They're all Trump supporters, they're all conservatives, they're

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Speaker 2: all maga. So to me, we're all part of one

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Speaker 2: big family. That's what the that's what Cooner Country is.

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Speaker 2: Kooner Country to me is like my extended family. And

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Speaker 2: so at the Koonerman's table, like my family, everybody gets

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Speaker 2: to say we are a free speech zone. So everybody,

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Speaker 2: you know, as my with Mike, like with my Italian

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Speaker 2: in laws. Just let it all out, don't hold it back,

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Speaker 2: just let it all out. Okay, this is from Robert

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Speaker 2: Jeff I agree with Michael one hundred percent. At seventy

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Speaker 2: four and still working part time. I'm sorry to hear that, Robert.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's great to work if you want to work.

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Speaker 2: But if you're, you know, working because you have to

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Speaker 2: help pay the bills, that's I don't like that. I mean,

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Speaker 2: that's that to me, is not that to me is

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Speaker 2: not America. But anyway, let that go. At seventy four

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Speaker 2: and still working part time. My expenses went up in

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Speaker 2: Trump's first year, especially electricity and property tax. Food is

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Speaker 2: still way too high. Big ticket items are very expensive.

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Speaker 2: Mine and my wife pay has not gone up. Costs

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Speaker 2: have to home repairs or upgrades are prohibitively expensive. The

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Speaker 2: rate of increase may have slowed down, but not significantly

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Speaker 2: so for my family, there has been no meaningful decrease

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Speaker 2: in expenses. Interesting. Interesting, So basically the same. I mean,

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Speaker 2: he was treading water eleven months ago, and Robert seventy

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Speaker 2: still treading water eleven months later. Interesting. Okay. This is

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Speaker 2: from seven eight to one Jeff. By the way, you

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Speaker 2: can text the cooner man seven zero four to seven

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Speaker 2: zero Jeff to a dress us Michael, your brother, with

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Speaker 2: all due respect to him, he does not understand the

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Speaker 2: dynamics of inflation, time and prices. The insiduous part of inflation,

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Speaker 2: and please listen to this because this is this is

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Speaker 2: one hundred one thousand percent accurate. The insiduous part of

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Speaker 2: inflation is that it's almost impossible to bring prices down

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Speaker 2: appreciably once Biden level inflation happens. Inflation is not magic.

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Speaker 2: It cannot be done and undone with the magician's tricks.

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Speaker 2: It is a certain and predictable product of borrowing and

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Speaker 2: printing money the nation does not have. And once that

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Speaker 2: quote unquote counterfeit currency is injected, like drugs into the

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Speaker 2: arm of the economy, terrible things happen. Prices rise because

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Speaker 2: more billions of dollars are chasing fewer and fewer products.

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Speaker 2: That drug like money can't get secked out of the

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Speaker 2: economy anymore than the fentanyl coursing in the veins. The

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Speaker 2: exception is energy. If the nation can export its natural

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Speaker 2: resources to international markets. That's why gas prices are coming

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Speaker 2: down relatively quickly. The only practical and time tested way

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Speaker 2: to address inflation domestically, and that was Trump's argument last night, essentially,

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Speaker 2: is to grow the economy at a rate that outraces

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Speaker 2: the rate of inflation, so over time people have more

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Speaker 2: actual wealth to spend. That's the only way it works.

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Speaker 2: Don't blame Trump. This is Obama's and Biden's mess. I mean,

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Speaker 2: the jargon is real wages. Okay, that's the jargon. But

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Speaker 2: essentially he's right. Once you have that level of inflation

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Speaker 2: we had under Biden, it stays. It's like it's like

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Speaker 2: tar it just sticks to everything in the economy. It's

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Speaker 2: very hard to wring out that kind of inflation. So

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Speaker 2: the only way to really do it is to grow

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Speaker 2: out of it, where you're making more money and more

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Speaker 2: making more than enough money to start covering the higher

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Speaker 2: cost of everything. And by the way, that's how Reagan.

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Speaker 2: Basically Reagan grew us out of the inflation of the

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Speaker 2: nineteen seventies. I mean, inflation was it was inflation was curbed,

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Speaker 2: it was crushed. You know, we had inflation, what was

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Speaker 2: what he inherited. So you crush inflation, it doesn't keep

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Speaker 2: just making more money and making more money and more

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Speaker 2: money and more take home pay, and suddenly, you know,

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Speaker 2: the cost of a bottle of coke didn't go down

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Speaker 2: under Reagan, the cost of groceries didn't go down under Reagan.

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Speaker 2: It stayed what it was under Carter. It just didn't

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Speaker 2: more affordable again. So that's why Trump is saying, We're

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Speaker 2: gonna crush inflation, and then I'm gonna make sure that

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Speaker 2: your take home pay keeps going up. I'm gonna give

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Speaker 2: you more tax cuts, You're gonna have more money in

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Speaker 2: your pocket, You're gonna keep more money in your pocket,

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Speaker 2: and eventually you're gonna be able to start affording things again.

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Speaker 2: But what Trump is saying is not the way I'm

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Speaker 2: phrasing it. But Rome wasn't built in a day, and

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Speaker 2: he's basically saying, I need eighteen months. I'm eleven months in,

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Speaker 2: give me seven more months, and by June of next year,

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Speaker 2: this economy will be roaring like no like, agree, disagree.

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Speaker 2: Eddie in Maine. Thanks for holding Eddie and welcome.

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Speaker 3: How are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm good, Eddie? How are you?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Very good? First out. I want to wish you, your

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Speaker 3: family and the staff all are very merry Christmas and

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Speaker 3: a happy new Year.

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Speaker 2: Thank you all the best to you, Eddie. Merry Christmas,

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Speaker 2: Happy New Year to you and your family.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much. I vote to the President Trump

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Speaker 3: three times. I wish him, hoping I can vote for

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Speaker 3: him a four times. You can't blame him for everything,

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Speaker 3: but I do get a little depressed when I hear

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Speaker 3: about all these these illegals making all this franking money.

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Speaker 3: And I'm my wife and I a vote in I

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Speaker 3: early seventies. We still have to work part time and survive,

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Speaker 3: which that has nothing to do with Trump. Well it

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Speaker 3: was our own financial but let that go. And then

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Speaker 3: you see these politicians. Everybody's walking out with means now

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Speaker 3: they're talking being the dollars, how much they expect President

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Speaker 3: Trump to do. He can only do so much. He

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Speaker 3: just can't. I mean he just started in the office,

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Speaker 3: really only not even a year yet when he has

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Speaker 3: done I feel secure. I don't know about everybody else.

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Speaker 3: I'll ope for him again without blinking and right, what

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Speaker 3: do you say again, Eddie?

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Speaker 2: Look, I can only speak from my experience. I feel

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Speaker 2: much more secure. I feel much more safe. He stopped

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Speaker 2: the invasion at the border. We're making He's making the

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Speaker 2: country energy dominant. He's going as aggressively as he can

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Speaker 2: on these mass deportations, the fentanyl, the drugs, he has

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Speaker 2: cut a lot of it off coming in. I could

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Speaker 2: go on and on. I think he's had incredible accomplishments.

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Speaker 2: I personally feel that my standard of living, my cost

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Speaker 2: of living, has gotten better. I'm just being honest with you,

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Speaker 2: but that's me. Everybody has a story. What I want

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Speaker 2: to ask you is this, Eddie, And I think this

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Speaker 2: is Look the reason why I'm saying this or I'm

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Speaker 2: kind of harping on it as a host of this

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Speaker 2: great show. Never, never in the last ten years have

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Speaker 2: I seen so many Trump supporters. I'm talking you know,

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Speaker 2: like you people who voted for him three times. They

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Speaker 2: were with him through thick and thin. After January sixth,

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Speaker 2: when he was in the political wilderness, he was their president.

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Speaker 2: They stood by him. I've never heard the kind of

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Speaker 2: criticism of him from MAGA and the listeners of this

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Speaker 2: show than I have, I would say, over the last

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Speaker 2: three or four months. And the argument is this, Eddie.

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Speaker 2: They feel that he's fake, focusing way too much on

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Speaker 2: foreign affairs and he hasn't focused enough on the economy

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Speaker 2: and on affordability and bread and butter issues. That's their criticism.

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Speaker 2: Do you agree or disagree? What say you.

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Speaker 3: I? I, uh, like I said, I backed President Trumpell

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Speaker 3: back from again. But I think we were respecting too much.

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Speaker 3: We were respecting him to solve everything overnight and it's

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Speaker 3: not possible. Might take him the full four years to

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Speaker 3: solve everything, but we just have to wait. We voted

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Speaker 3: for the guy, and we're gonna have faith in the

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Speaker 3: guy's a's a. That's the way I look at it.

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Speaker 3: I mean, like I said, if he runs again, he's

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Speaker 3: got my vote. I don't care what anybody.

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Speaker 2: Said, Eddie. Thank you very much for that call. Six

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Speaker 2: one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight is

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Speaker 2: the number. Okay. President Trump delivers a very very important

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Speaker 2: speech last night. Uh, even his own administration is saying

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Speaker 2: it's a landmark speech. What he the themes he outlined yesterday.

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Speaker 2: He wants the Republicans to run on and govern. In

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty

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