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Speaker 1: President again will speak in prime time. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: I'm not assuming that a lot of networks are going

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Speaker 1: to be carrying this some primetime. It's really a kind

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Speaker 1: of a campaign event, even though he's speaking as the president.

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Speaker 1: Uh on Thursday night, Is this gonna be ultra maga

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Speaker 1: equals semi fascist or what's going to be the address?

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Speaker 1: Was today the dress rehearsal. I mean, I think President

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Speaker 1: Biden is going to try to pick up on the

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Speaker 1: momentum that Democrats have right now. I mean they are

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Speaker 1: just coming off the heels of the student loan program. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, Democrats and Republicans are neck and neck engineer

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Speaker 1: ballot polling. UM. Just earlier this month, abortion rights activists

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Speaker 1: were able to turn back Kansas's state constitutional amendment. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think they have a lot of a good chance

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Speaker 1: um in the mid terms, come see us again. Christian Hall,

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Speaker 1: National politics reporter, in Washington at Bloomberg will reassemble the

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Speaker 1: panel next for their take on this. It did sound

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Speaker 1: a bit like a dress rehearsal to me. Even raised

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Speaker 1: his voice a few times. Joe Biden back in Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: This is sound on on Bloomberg. You're listening to Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: sound on on Bloomberg Radio. President Biden testing his political muscle.

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Speaker 1: As I read on the terminalist mid term travel Blitz begins,

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Speaker 1: I guess travel Blitz of Pennsylvania to be exact. He's

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Speaker 1: in wilkes Bury today, He'll be back Thursday in Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: for the prime time address, and then marching with a

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Speaker 1: guy named John Fetterman on Monday. Yeah, there were a

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Speaker 1: lot of stink was made about the fact that Fetterman,

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Speaker 1: of course, the Democratic nominee for Senate, was not going

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Speaker 1: to be with Joe Biden today well or on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: That's a little bit of a different matter. I was

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Speaker 1: gonna be marching in the parade with him on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully that's gonna make it all right here one out

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Speaker 1: of three, I don't know the president today. Tried to

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Speaker 1: pappoll writ here he is and by the way, he

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Speaker 1: couldn't be here today, we spoke Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman.

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Speaker 1: He's when I say he's a powerful voice, that's the

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Speaker 1: guy I used to be in the old day. Is

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Speaker 1: a pretty good athlete. If someone was really big and tough,

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Speaker 1: you said I wouldn't screw with him about a sledgehammer. Well,

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Speaker 1: I tell you what. Fetterman is a hell of a guy,

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Speaker 1: a powerful voice for working people, and he's gonna make

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Speaker 1: your great United States senator. You're gonna make your great

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Speaker 1: United States senator. Sort of a glancing reference to the

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Speaker 1: health of the candidate. Yeah, he's a big dude. And

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Speaker 1: Dr ros has been spending a lot of time talking

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Speaker 1: about the fact that he had a stroke. Uh and

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Speaker 1: according to Dr Roz doesn't eat enough vegetables. But this

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Speaker 1: is the state of politics in Pennsylvania. Let's reassemble the panel.

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Speaker 1: Genie's back with us. Jennie Chanzano, Bloomberg Politics contributor and

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Speaker 1: Democratic analyst with Bill McGinley today, former White House Cabinet

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Speaker 1: Secretary in the Trump administration, now principal with the Vogel Group, Bill,

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Speaker 1: when you start talking about the fight for the soul

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Speaker 1: of the nation, that's gonna be a primetime address for

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden on Thursday night. Uh, it sounded today like

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Speaker 1: that was his dress rehearsal, like he was given the test,

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Speaker 1: the script a bit of a test here. Uh where's

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Speaker 1: he going with this and who's the audience? Well, I

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Speaker 1: think he's trying to do a reset pre Labor Day

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Speaker 1: because post labor dates when the election really begins. And

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Speaker 1: unfortunately for the Biden ministry ration, name calling of Democrats

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Speaker 1: are Republicans and independence isn't going to change the economic

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Speaker 1: reality that Americans are dealing with. I mean, real hourly

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Speaker 1: wages have fallen by three point six percent this year

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Speaker 1: when compared to inflation. Inflation still at historic highs, and

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Speaker 1: according to Bloomberg, one in six households are behind other

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Speaker 1: utility payments, which is about twenty million Americans. These are

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Speaker 1: the economic realities that the American voters, especially those voters

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Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania, that we're reliant on the fossil fuel industry,

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Speaker 1: including fracking, that the President has and through his policies,

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Speaker 1: has really attacked and we can't forget that. The wrong

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Speaker 1: track number for the United States has been above seventy

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Speaker 1: for almost a year, and gravitational they've only gone up

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Speaker 1: a couple of points. It's only gone up a couple

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Speaker 1: of points, even as gas prices have fallen Genie by

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Speaker 1: something like seventy six straight days. Is that? Is that

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Speaker 1: what he should mention? You know that we're fighting for

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Speaker 1: the soul of America and the gas pump. Well, you

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Speaker 1: know what Republicans want to talk about and should be

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Speaker 1: talking about is exactly what Bill is just talking about.

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Speaker 1: The problem is what you described earlier, which is that

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Speaker 1: you have a current president and this is not a

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Speaker 1: referendum on him. It's going to be a choice between

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Speaker 1: Biden and what many moderates and independence will decide these

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Speaker 1: districts see as the sort of extremists and craziness of

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Speaker 1: a Donald Trump, because look at what's happening. President Biden

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Speaker 1: there today, Donald Trump there on Saturday, President Biden back

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Speaker 1: there on Monday. And this is what the Democrats are doing.

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Speaker 1: This is why he is talking about these issues because

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Speaker 1: he wants to make this a referendum on the Trump administration.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't want to talk about inflation. He may want

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Speaker 1: to mention gas the price is going lower. What he

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Speaker 1: wants to say is we are we have returned some

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Speaker 1: sense of normalcy we got things done. I want to

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Speaker 1: appeal to the centrist, to the pragmatists. I want to

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Speaker 1: appeal to Americans with common sense, and he's slipping the strip,

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Speaker 1: as you mentioned, on this issue, police safety and all

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Speaker 1: these other things. If they're talking about the economic things,

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Speaker 1: Bill is right, Republicans win hand down. But that's not

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Speaker 1: what they're being able to talk about. And that's the

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Speaker 1: problem for Republicans. This one out of three not bad

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Speaker 1: for John Federman. Jennie, Well, you know, we always make

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Speaker 1: a big deal out of this stuff, but I don't

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Speaker 1: know why he didn't want to greet him today. There

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Speaker 1: was nothing worth showing up for the photo op. You

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Speaker 1: don't want to overdo it. Yeah, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: he's he's the lieutenant governor, he's on the campaign trail.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be there Monday. Pennsylvania is a fairly friendly

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Speaker 1: state to Joe Biden. It's his birth state. He's got

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Speaker 1: a lot of history there. But you look at some

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Speaker 1: other states and they're not as friendly. And you do

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Speaker 1: have senatorial candidates in other states who are a little

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Speaker 1: bit less maybe a little bit less welcoming, and that's

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Speaker 1: what the Biden administration is trying to showcase to those

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Speaker 1: like the Maggie Hassan's of the world, we can come

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Speaker 1: there and help you. Pennsylvania though he is there, and

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Speaker 1: don't forget they're in the eighth district. That's a district

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Speaker 1: that Trump won in sixteen and twenty. They really want

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Speaker 1: to show that Democrats can do what they did, what

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Speaker 1: we're I am in New York in the nineteenth and

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Speaker 1: they can overperform what Trump was doing and what Republicans

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Speaker 1: were able to do. Let they do that with an

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Speaker 1: argument about abortion rights bill that seemed to be the

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Speaker 1: differentiator in New York. Well, let's also understand what happened

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Speaker 1: in the New York nineteenth district. It was held on

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Speaker 1: primary election day where independents were not allowed to vote

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Speaker 1: in the special election. So you don't see that. I

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Speaker 1: do not see that as a bell whether it was

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Speaker 1: a pre Labor Day doldrums of August uh independence couldn't

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Speaker 1: vote in the primaries, and I think it depressed the

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Speaker 1: independent turnout. Um independents are breaking hard to Republicans. Hispanics

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Speaker 1: are breaking toward Republicans. African American males are breaking toward Republicans,

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Speaker 1: not only on the economic issues, but also the crime issue.

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Speaker 1: I think the bill tell me that across the country.

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Speaker 1: Is this a false narrative? Is it a false narrative?

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Speaker 1: Sorry for interrupting. That we're hearing that that that the

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Speaker 1: ground is shifting, that Republicans are suddenly on their heels

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Speaker 1: going into November, they'll barely take the house, is what

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Speaker 1: I hear. Bill. I well, I I gotta say this,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I, for one, have been saying this,

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Speaker 1: to has been saying this. Way of elections and election

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Speaker 1: victories aren't something that you sit back and watch come

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Speaker 1: up on the shore. There's something that you have to earn.

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Speaker 1: You've got to get out there and engage the voters.

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Speaker 1: You've got to be visible and put out your agenda.

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Speaker 1: And that's what every Republican candidate is going to be doing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, nobody is satisfied with the economy right now

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Speaker 1: and what's happening in terms of middle income and lower

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Speaker 1: income and working class budgets compared to the soaring prices

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Speaker 1: that they're dealing with. Nobody is happy with the high

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Speaker 1: crime rates, whether you're in suburbia, urban or rural areas.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you the Democrats and you know, want

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Speaker 1: to try to own the crime message, I think every

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Speaker 1: Republican in America is going to say, let's have that

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Speaker 1: debate because Democrats own the crime issue because of d

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Speaker 1: a's like gascon out in Los Angeles, the one in Manhattan,

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Speaker 1: and the others who are doing no cash bail where

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Speaker 1: every night you're seeing something where a violent offender is

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Speaker 1: arrested and brought into jail and then immediately released and

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Speaker 1: goes out and does it again. Well, listen, crime rates

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Speaker 1: are soaring. If you ask miss McConnell, though, he'll tell

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Speaker 1: you that that Republicans may not be able to take

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Speaker 1: the Senate because not even of issues, because of candidate quality.

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Speaker 1: That was the phrase that that he chose. Bill. Are

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Speaker 1: you worried about states like Pennsylvania, Georgia, Ohio, Arizona that

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Speaker 1: seemed to keep coming up here? I think every state

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Speaker 1: that you just mentioned is always going to be very close.

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Speaker 1: Um kind of war of attrition politically, type of election

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Speaker 1: where you're gonna have to scratch and claw for every boat.

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Speaker 1: And I think both parties have known that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: and Emerson Pole just came out and Georgia's showing uh

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Speaker 1: Walker up two points on Warrnoff, um, whereas a lot

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Speaker 1: of people were saying Warrnoff was running away with that.

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Speaker 1: If you look at the polling out of Pennsylvania, that

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Speaker 1: is tightening, the same thing with Ohio. But you also

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Speaker 1: have places like Nevada where Adam Assault is doing really well. Um.

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Speaker 1: You look at some of the polling that comes out

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Speaker 1: of Washington State and Patty Murray's got a fight on

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Speaker 1: her hand the first time in a long time. So

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Speaker 1: you're saying, do you see Republicans taking the Senate bill

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Speaker 1: before I bring Genie back in? I think. I think

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Speaker 1: Republicans have a real shot to take a narrow majority

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Speaker 1: in the Senate. I think they're going to take the House.

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Speaker 1: The question is going to be the margin. But I

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Speaker 1: do think when people start paying attention post Labor Day,

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Speaker 1: because remember all American families right now are finishing up

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Speaker 1: the summer vacations and kids are getting back to school,

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Speaker 1: They're starting to get into the routine. If you talk

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Speaker 1: to an American family sitting around the kitchen table, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, politics is not top of mine. It's what

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Speaker 1: are we doing to get the kids ready, not only

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Speaker 1: for school, but the extracurriculars and everything else. Yeah, we've

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Speaker 1: been back to school for two weeks here in Virginia.

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Speaker 1: But who's counting Jennie. Look, So here's the Here's the

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Speaker 1: threat or the risk I guess I should say for

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Speaker 1: Democrats is complacency. Right, you start hearing all of the

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Speaker 1: stories about well, listen, it's the Democrats Senate to lose

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the House may not be that bad.

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Speaker 1: Gosh will come back and maybe do another reconciliation bill

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Speaker 1: next year. Uh do you worry about Democrats letting their

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Speaker 1: foot off the gas right now? The reality is there

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Speaker 1: is probably over a seven or eight out of ten

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Speaker 1: chants that Republicans take the House. The question is going

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Speaker 1: to be by how much. Historically this should be an

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Speaker 1: enormous victory for Republicans, but you've seen Cook and others,

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Speaker 1: they've sort of downgraded some of those forecasts. Still with

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Speaker 1: the GOP taking the House, the Senate has always been

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Speaker 1: more up for grabs. And what Democrats are responding to is,

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Speaker 1: of course, these signs, which is all we can look at.

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Speaker 1: And the signs are things like Republicans did incredibly well

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Speaker 1: before the overturning of Row in the specials and in

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Speaker 1: the Virginia New Jersey gubernatorial elections, they were over performing

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Speaker 1: in the double digits in Texas, California, Virginia, New Jersey

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Speaker 1: post the Dobs decision that has turned around, and you

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Speaker 1: also have Kansas. You you have Kansas, you have Minnesota

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Speaker 1: of Nebraska, and you have the two in New York.

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Speaker 1: Now does that dictate what's going to happen. Absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: We've still got ten weeks to go on this thing.

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Speaker 1: But those are the kinds of signs that, you know.

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Speaker 1: The other thing I would just say to watch for

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Speaker 1: is the gender gap amongst new voter registrants post Dobs

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Speaker 1: enormous number of women, particularly young women registering. That's something

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Speaker 1: to watch. So it is going to be a battle

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Speaker 1: of our turnout. This is incredibly tight. I would still

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Speaker 1: say Republicans take the House and the Senate is up

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Speaker 1: for grabs because we've only had a couple of elections

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Speaker 1: in the modern era when the White House, the party

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Speaker 1: in the White House has actually managed to you know,

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Speaker 1: hold hold their own in the Congress. So that would

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Speaker 1: be an exception, very unusual if Democrats did that. But

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Speaker 1: the problem for Republicans is they haven't really been able

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Speaker 1: to sort of move in the way they thought we

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Speaker 1: thought they would six months ago. Well, let's remind ourselves

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Speaker 1: of where we are, and you both did, and in

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Speaker 1: each of your last answer, which was still August, we

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Speaker 1: still have a ways to go, and the desire to

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Speaker 1: write the narrative as we speak here in real time

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Speaker 1: is always great. Genie, thank you so much for being

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Speaker 1: with us and being part of our panel here today. Bill. Thanks,

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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg