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Speaker 1: with the line from the former president Donald Trump, it's

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Speaker 1: time for the Republican Party to unify, to come together,

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't think we're seeing that from the other

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Speaker 3: When you look at the election, what are you looking

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Speaker 3: going to be a different type of presidency from everything

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Speaker 2: Well, look, I don't know. You probably have to ask

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Speaker 2: him about that. I've you know, said for a long

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Speaker 2: time now, we need to be forward thinking. We need

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Speaker 2: to tell people, you know, what we stand for, what

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Speaker 2: in the rearview mirror and lee get relitigating the twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty election and really you know, lay out for the

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Speaker 2: American people what it is we're going to do for

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Speaker 2: them to help fight through you know, forty year high

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden, inflation, disaster at the border, the weakness that

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Speaker 2: And that's what I've been urging the candidates to do,

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Speaker 2: and that would go for former President Trump as well.

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Speaker 4: But former President Trump wants to relitigate twenty twenty. He

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Speaker 4: was just talking about it last night. He continues, goes

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Speaker 4: back to your state of Georgia. As you know, he

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Speaker 4: wants Fannie Willis, the district attorney, to be removed. There's

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Speaker 4: the prosecutor. How are you going to wait in on that?

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Speaker 2: Well, I didn't say he always listened to what I said.

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Speaker 2: I was just saying what my thoughts were, and that's

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Speaker 2: for every candidate to decide. But look, there's some you know,

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Speaker 4: But do you think Willis should be removed?

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Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't be able to speak to that because

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Speaker 2: and I feel certain that the judge will rule in

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Speaker 4: So let's go back to what the timeline is going

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Speaker 4: to look like for the political space in the United States.

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Speaker 4: You say a lot of those candidates are not ready

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Speaker 4: is that a time when you're going to say, Okay,

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it depends on kind of what happens.

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Speaker 5: With whoever our nominee is.

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Speaker 2: And so we're doing things right now to make sure

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Speaker 5: In forty year high inflation.

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Speaker 2: And you look at Georgia right now, we've got a

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Speaker 2: And while we've been producting. Why are state's doing great economically?

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Speaker 1: Governor, That's what we want to talk about. I think

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Speaker 1: When you talk to American businesses. We had Mike Withethacheffron

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Speaker 2: We have been doing that, and we're competing with Texas

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Speaker 2: so that's why you're seeing major corporations from around the country,

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Speaker 2: we've been visiting with a lot of those here in Davos.

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Speaker 5: But you know, great partners like Hyundai others.

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Speaker 3: How much did the Inflation Reduction Act of Joe Biden

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Speaker 2: Well, it's really kind of hurt us in a lot

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Speaker 5: All before the IRA ever passed.

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Speaker 2: I sent a letter to our two US senators explaining

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Speaker 2: to them, Washington, DC right now is picking winners and

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Speaker 5: They're helping the union.

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Speaker 2: Backed automobile producers, and they're hurting the folks that we

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Speaker 2: And so we're just making sure that people know that

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Speaker 5: Going to do something like that.

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Speaker 2: And that's what we've seen them and we've seen like

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're becoming almost this bastion of green energy. How

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Speaker 4: is you, as a Republican governor talking about climate change

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Speaker 2: Well, because we're letting the market work in Georgia and

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Speaker 2: and said, hey, we're looking to build a plant. What

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Speaker 2: can you guys offer in the state of Georgia. And

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Speaker 2: we told them we can offer, you know.

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Speaker 5: Cheap, reliable power, a lot of it that's green.

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Speaker 2: We got a great workforce, We had one of the

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Speaker 5: Is basically saying what does.

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Speaker 2: Your company want, what do you need, and how can

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Speaker 4: You appeared recently with Governor Clann yunkin or Virginia, who

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Speaker 4: I recently interviewed as well, and you sat with him,

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Speaker 4: and everyone on Twitter was saying this should be the ticket.

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Speaker 4: I know you're sitting out twenty twenty four. What's your

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Speaker 2: Well, my future plans is to make sure that Georgia

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Speaker 2: legislators and the state of Georgia well stay the stage of.

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Speaker 5: Republicans is twenty four.

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Speaker 2: I told people, you know, like my first point, we

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Speaker 2: I get distracted. We need to stay focused on twenty four.

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Speaker 2: We can worry about twenty six, twenty eight, whatever down

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Speaker 1: Govern that was a politicians on set.

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Speaker 5: Well, it's the truth.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna offend the rest of the South. Best barbecue

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Speaker 1: in the South Georgia, without a doubt,