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Speaker 2: We're not even going to talk about that. Trump said

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Speaker 1: The entire speech at the you in General Assembly, which

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Speaker 2: the word job owning that everybody's using like in every

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Speaker 1: which is that premiums would go up, the risk pools

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Speaker 1: would get worse, things would cost more, care would get worse,

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Speaker 1: coverage would get worse. Have to keep throwing money at it.

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Speaker 1: And that's what they're doing. And they're afraid that on

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Speaker 1: October first, when the insurance companies are required by law

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Speaker 1: by Obamacare, their original failure to send out their notices

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Speaker 1: that say your premiums are going up, right, that that's

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Speaker 1: going to be a problem for them. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: you're trying to prevent it by making us do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's getting so far away from the Obama years

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Speaker 2: that are people even going to connect it to Obamacare?

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure either, And these things can get so muddied.

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Speaker 1: And look, Ocrats are really good at just saying crisis, crisis, crisis,

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Speaker 1: They want to end everything. But I would encourage everyone

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Speaker 1: to remember that basically any Biden era program approved as

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Speaker 1: part of IRA or Save whatever Saves America Act or

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Speaker 1: whatever they were all called are mostly slush funds and

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Speaker 1: nonsense to put us on a higher spending level that

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Speaker 1: then Democrats could claim we can never come down from

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Speaker 1: and therefore get all that money for the future.

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Speaker 2: Right, all of them are named, Yeah, all of them

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Speaker 2: are named like not a slush fund, we promise bill.

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Speaker 1: So they made their own problem. They want Republicans to

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Speaker 1: solve it, and Republicans are like, pass, no, you guys

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Speaker 1: are going to have to deal with this. So in

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Speaker 1: the Senate, that's the the game board as it is.

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Speaker 1: They want to have a meeting with Schumer wants a

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Speaker 1: meeting with Trump, and Trump's like, why we gave you

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Speaker 1: a clean cr and they're like, a ha, see he

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Speaker 1: won't go with us. What dude, you got the thing?

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I hope he sticks to that. I hope

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Speaker 2: he doesn't negotiate, because it sounds like Republicans are for

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Speaker 2: the first time in forever in a winning situation where

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Speaker 2: they have done the right thing. I like that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we'll probably fight each other over the cr anyway.

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Speaker 1: I guess it's different, but that is where we stand

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Speaker 1: at the moment.

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll be right back with more on Normally,

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Speaker 2: where we preview twenty twenty eight, talk about the latest

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Speaker 2: polls and Kamala Gavin, what's going on with them? Let's

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Speaker 2: talk about it. All right. We are back on Normally

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Speaker 2: with a fun little segment where we get to enjoy

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Speaker 2: the Democrats disarray and look, we know it's not going

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Speaker 2: to last. We know it won't always be this way,

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Speaker 2: but polls have been so much fun lately. Every poll

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Speaker 2: that comes out, it's like, who even are the Democrats?

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Speaker 2: Do they even exist? The latest Reuters has which party

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Speaker 2: has a better plan on crime? Republicans are up by twenty. Immigration,

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Speaker 2: Republicans are up by eighteen, Foreign conflicts Republicans are up

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Speaker 2: by twelve. Economy Republicans are up by ten. Corruption Republicans

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Speaker 2: are up by six. Gun control, Gun control Republicans are

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Speaker 2: up by four. Political extremism Republicans are up by four.

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Speaker 2: The only things Democrats are up on for a better

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Speaker 2: plan are environment, women's rights, healthcare, and respect for democracy.

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Speaker 2: And that's fine with me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this is this is probably an indication,

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Speaker 1: by the way of why they're going after healthcare messaging

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Speaker 1: on the CR is that they're trying to submit that

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Speaker 1: for next year as they're winning issue, that they're going

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Speaker 1: to harp on this even though most of it is

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Speaker 1: made up, but it is, you know, one of the

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Speaker 1: few places that they outperform Republicans. Those numbers are tragic

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Speaker 1: if you crap right.

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Speaker 2: And even like women's rights, how are they even up

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Speaker 2: thirteen points on women's rights? When was the last time

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Speaker 2: they cared about women's rights at all? I know it's

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Speaker 2: just code for abortion, I get it, but wow, do

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Speaker 2: they not care about women's rights? And if Republicans were

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Speaker 2: better at messaging about it, and you know, maybe Erica

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Speaker 2: Kirk gives Republicans the kick that they need to become

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Speaker 2: better messengers on women's rights, I think things could even

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Speaker 2: turn around on that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, on that subject, by the way, Spanberger, who I

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Speaker 1: keep referencing, But she's important because she's running in Virginia

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Speaker 1: for governor and she is the great normy hope for Democrats.

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Speaker 1: She was once again asked about boys in women's locker

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Speaker 1: rooms or boys in women's sports and couldn't give a

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Speaker 1: straight answer because even though it's the most normal position

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Speaker 1: you can have, she can't do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, she runs away because she doesn't want to

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Speaker 2: be on the record answering, which she really thinks, and

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Speaker 2: that's sad empathetic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I think part of the problem might be

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Speaker 1: that these folks just sound like freaked out weirdos all

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Speaker 1: the time, and like, look, I concede that Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: is a weirdo, but he's an entertaining weirdo, and that

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Speaker 1: has made all the difference.

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Speaker 2: He is hilarious, and every time I hear him, he

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Speaker 2: is just He's got a very good natural sense of humor.

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Speaker 2: And I don't think Democrats can emulate that as well

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Speaker 2: as they think they can.

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Speaker 1: Andvin Newsom certainly cannot.

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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsome, he's funny without meaning to be, Like you know,

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Speaker 2: apparently Kamala asked him for an endorsement the day that

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Speaker 2: Biden stepped down and he wrote to her, I think

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Speaker 2: we talked about this last episode, but Hiking will respond later,

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Speaker 2: and then never responded. I mean, that's hilarious, but I

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Speaker 2: don't think he was trying.

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Speaker 1: To be I've definitely done that to people before, but

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Speaker 1: it wasn't over something that important. Shall we listen to

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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom's pitch about why twenty twenty eight is important.

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Speaker 2: The most important election I'm sure of our lifetime.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hear about it.

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Speaker 5: I fear that we will not have an election in

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: I really mean that.

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Speaker 2: And the core of my soul unless we wake up

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Speaker 2: to the code red what's happening in this country, and

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Speaker 2: we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is.

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Speaker 2: The core of his soul? What soul? What's sould?

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Speaker 1: Also, then why are you in South Carolina?

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Speaker 3: Dude?

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Speaker 1: Right? Well, what are you doing? You don't believe that

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Speaker 1: there won't be a twenty twenty eight election?

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Speaker 2: Right, You're just.

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Speaker 1: Full of it. And I don't understand why this apocalyptic

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Speaker 1: pitch is the only one they can do. It's crazy

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Speaker 1: one they can do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, if they're not going to lower

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Speaker 2: the temperature at ever, now would be a really good

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Speaker 2: time for that, and they're completely disinterested in doing that.

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Speaker 2: Noah Rothman tweets about that clip. That's why he staffed

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Speaker 2: out with Clinton and Harris Aids, who have little experience

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Speaker 2: in Sacramento and doing speaking tours in South Carolina, which

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Speaker 2: has almost no competitive races in twenty twenty six, because

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Speaker 2: he's sure there won't be an election. Maybe it's insurance

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Speaker 2: just in case. Yeah, he knows what will be an election.

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Speaker 2: And look Trump, you know, for better or worse, it

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Speaker 2: could have at different points in his last presidency canceled

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Speaker 2: elections or on January sixth, after January six refused to

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Speaker 2: leave the White House. He didn't do any of that.

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Speaker 2: So I'm pretty confident we're going to have a twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty eight election. Another tweet that I liked about this,

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Speaker 2: per Deep Shankar tweets, these are the kinds of unsupported,

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Speaker 2: politically charged statements that make mentally unstable wackle progressive terrorists

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Speaker 2: consider violence exactly.

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Speaker 1: It does seem like an issue. Also, are you not

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Speaker 1: doing voter suppression by telling them that there will be

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Speaker 1: no voting?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: I mean, it seems like you're on voters. Yeah, I guess,

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Speaker 1: but I don't understand this approach because there are people

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Speaker 1: on the margins who will go Why would I register

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Speaker 1: to vote? He said, there's going to be no twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty eight election. Yeah, are you doing this to yourself?

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Speaker 2: Had a moment where I was worried they were doing

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Speaker 2: this to themselves in you know, in the during the

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Speaker 2: Biden administration, and when i'd be on the road for

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Speaker 2: speeches and stuff, I'd have people come up to me

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Speaker 2: and say, I don't think there's a point in voting.

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Speaker 2: They're they're going to steal it anyway. And I'd be like, yo,

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Speaker 2: go vote. Don't don't think this because you know.

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Speaker 1: Well Trump Trump famously in the runoff with the with

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Speaker 1: the two Senate seats in Georgia.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, since I was a messenger.

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Speaker 1: And turned Georgia Senate seats blue right, so you can

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Speaker 1: tell people that their votes don't matter and they might

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Speaker 1: believe you. So you shouldn't do that.

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Speaker 2: He's tone that down, he really has. He's become like, definitely,

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Speaker 2: go vote guy.

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Speaker 1: So yes, so we've corrected that particular messaging problem. I

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Speaker 1: don't know why they're doing it to themselves. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So on our last last person we're going to talk

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Speaker 2: about in this segment, Kamala Harris. Her book is more

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Speaker 2: interesting than I thought it'd be, not a lot more interesting,

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Speaker 2: but a touch more interesting. She is taking it to Biden.

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Speaker 2: How dare he not step down? In advance? She tears

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Speaker 2: into her husband for not doing enough for her birthday.

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Speaker 2: She's she's got some grievances and you know it's festivus.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, like that part's entertaining. I guess she

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Speaker 1: has a She has an interesting quality of being simultaneously

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Speaker 1: extremely cringe and uncompelling at the same time because you're

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Speaker 1: just listening to slop of words and you don't but like,

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Speaker 1: some of this is like medium interesting. The problem for

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Speaker 1: the party is that it has no answers, right, There's

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Speaker 1: there's no answer as to why she was the person

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Speaker 1: and didn't get it done. Why none of it's her fault,

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Speaker 1: As I think Dave Weigel put it, it's all mistakes

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Speaker 1: made by other people years ago that hurt her. And

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Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, but you you were supposed to be

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Speaker 1: the one who wanted to be president, right, you didn't

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Speaker 1: say anything about those mistakes.

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Speaker 2: At all at the time about how like Biden was like,

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Speaker 2: Now you're like, oh, when I hugged him, he seemed

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Speaker 2: really feeble, Like you could have mentioned something at the time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you have seven days because of that. Yes, we

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Speaker 1: have one comal oclip of her talking about her uh,

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Speaker 1: her journey on whether she should pick Pete Budajenje for VP.

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Speaker 1: Here it is.

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Speaker 3: You know, you're the first woman elected vice president, You're

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Speaker 3: a black woman and a South Asian woman elected that

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Speaker 3: high office, very nearly elected president. To say that he

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Speaker 3: couldn't be on the ticket effectively because he was gay,

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Speaker 3: it's hard to hear.

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Speaker 4: No, No, that's not what I said that that's that

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Speaker 4: he couldn't be on the ticket because he is gay.

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Speaker 4: My point, as I write in the book, is that

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Speaker 4: I was clear that, you know, one hundred and seven

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Speaker 4: days in one of the most hotly contested elections for

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Speaker 4: president and United States against someone like Donald Trump, who

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Speaker 4: knows no floor, to be a black woman running for

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Speaker 4: president United States and as a vice presidential running mate

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Speaker 4: a gay man, with the stakes being so high, it

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Speaker 4: made me very sad, but I also realized it would

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Speaker 4: be a real risk.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't that hotly contested. Trump won every single swing state.

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Speaker 2: That's important because how much more could she lose? Like

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Speaker 2: with a gay man on the ticket, where's her bottom

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Speaker 2: on this?

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Speaker 1: Well, also she says, no, no, no, I didn't say

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Speaker 1: I didn't hire him because he was gay. I said

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Speaker 1: I didn't hire him because the stakes were too high

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Speaker 1: for him to be gay.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean?

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Speaker 1: It's like, okay, well that's the same thing. You know,

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Speaker 1: it takes a real special person to just straight up

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Speaker 1: torpedo the whole DEI thing they have going on. That

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Speaker 1: she so the liability to do the de I thing

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Speaker 1: to begin with at this point in time, and then

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Speaker 1: to continue to embrace it but also admit that you

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Speaker 1: didn't hire somebody because he was gay. You're you're the

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Speaker 1: worst of all the worlds. Yes, you're the worst of

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Speaker 1: all the world.

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Speaker 2: Right. And it was obvious also at the time that

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Speaker 2: she didn't pick jos Shapiro because her party was having

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Speaker 2: a jew problem. And so it's funny, you know, there's

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Speaker 2: lots of jokes also, like she didn't want to pick

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Speaker 2: the gay man, so she picked Tim Wong.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's I think the biggest disadvantage of this book

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Speaker 1: tour for Republicans is that it might truly convince the

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Speaker 1: Democrats that she has no past future right to the

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Speaker 1: nomination in the future, which would have, of course behoove us.

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Speaker 1: Because she is so very bad at this.

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Speaker 2: Come on, say the terrible with you.

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Speaker 1: She's so terrible, horrible, horrible, she really is, and she's

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Speaker 1: bad in the most friendly places. I watched her on

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Speaker 1: Madout and I watched her on the View, and she's

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Speaker 1: terrible in both places. She has not thought through what

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Speaker 1: these answers should be. She has no anticipation of what

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Speaker 1: the tough questions I put that in clods because they're

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Speaker 1: not tough questions are going to be. And she just

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Speaker 1: flups it once again, once again.

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Speaker 2: She doesn't work that she does not put in the work.

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Speaker 2: She thinks she is smarter than everybody and doesn't have

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Speaker 2: to do the work. And as I tell my kids

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Speaker 2: all the time, that doesn't work.

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Speaker 3: So won't work.

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Speaker 2: It won't work. Yeah, No, it doesn't matter how smart

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Speaker 2: you are. You gotta do the work, alrighty. Thanks for

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