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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast Saturday edition. I have

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Speaker 1: Kyle Olsen here with me. He's the founder of The Midwesterner,

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Speaker 1: and that is a news site in Michigan that's finally

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Speaker 1: providing truth in reporting. That's something our state desperately needed.

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Speaker 1: But it's not like a new thing for Kyle. He's

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Speaker 1: been in the political game since he was in high school,

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Speaker 1: which was decades and decades and decades ago. I say

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Speaker 1: that because he always makes fun of me for being old,

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Speaker 1: so I'm picking on him a little bit. But it was.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you've been doing this for a while, so

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Speaker 1: I think you would be the first to say the

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Speaker 1: past few weeks have not been typical in politics.

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Speaker 2: I have been doing this for a while. Yes, thank you,

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Speaker 2: it's it has been this. The last couple of weeks

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Speaker 2: has been completely unprecedented. And in a day when you think, oh,

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Speaker 2: this is a major news story, suddenly the next day

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Speaker 2: is a major news story. And they are I mean

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Speaker 2: major news stories, from the attempt at assassination to charges

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Speaker 2: being you know, the case being dropped, to what's happening

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Speaker 2: with Biden, and all of a sudden, Harris is in

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Speaker 2: the mix. It's what we're seeing is unprecedented.

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Speaker 1: And I think we have to remember that as you're

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Speaker 1: planning a campaign, when you have all of these changes

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Speaker 1: to the opposing team, you have to kind of be

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Speaker 1: able to change your strategy up overnight. And it's not fair.

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Speaker 1: And I know fair is like one of those statements

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Speaker 1: people are like, oh, you sound like a baby. It's

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Speaker 1: not fair. But it's not the right system. This is

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Speaker 1: not how it's meant to go because you should know

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Speaker 1: your opponent, you should be able to plan ahead. The

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Speaker 1: idea that they're pulling someone out at the last minute

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Speaker 1: putting a new candidate in, it's very wrong. So we

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Speaker 1: have this situation where Donald Trump said, hey, I'll debate

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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris anytime. I want a debater, multiple times, and

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Speaker 1: then the Trump team came out and said, but we

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Speaker 1: won't do it until she's actually the candidate. And now

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Speaker 1: Harris has come out and she's going, oh gosh, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's backtracking. He said he'd debate me, he won't. Well,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, why would you debate her? After the

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Speaker 1: first time we gave them this, we said, oh, you

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Speaker 1: want to do an early debate, Yeah, okay, we'll do

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Speaker 1: an early debate. It was a test for them. It

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Speaker 1: was a test for their candidate to see how they

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Speaker 1: pull after the debate, when the polls tanked, they pulled

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Speaker 1: their candidate. And now they're saying we want Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: to test her. No way, We're not going to give

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Speaker 2: For some reason, because their side is in chaos and

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Speaker 2: out of control and all of those things. Somehow that's

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump's fault, or that's the Republican's fault, because look

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Speaker 2: at what has happened. Joe Biden had that disastrous debate.

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Speaker 2: Republicans were predicting that was going to happen. All you

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Speaker 2: had to do was look at Twitter and see there

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Speaker 2: was video after video of those unwell. Yes, exactly that

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Speaker 2: turned out to be true, but it was example after

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Speaker 2: example of this guy is not well, and so Republicans

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Speaker 2: were anticipating this, the Democrats, the people on CNN, all

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Speaker 2: of those people suddenly were just blown away that Joe

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Speaker 2: Biden is in a terrible state.

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Speaker 1: Why wouldn't this be the same thing. And that's what

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Speaker 1: I think people need to understand. It's you've watched Kamala

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Speaker 1: Harris for years. She gives these word salad speeches. She

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Speaker 1: She isn't able to talk about big issues like the border,

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Speaker 1: she's not able to talk about foreign policy, she gets

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Speaker 1: caught up between Israel and Palestine. All of these things

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Speaker 1: are very challenging for her. So why would we say, yes,

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Speaker 1: we're going to sit down and you can test her

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Speaker 1: out and before your convention, so you haven't actually named

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Speaker 1: and if she flubs, if what she does on the

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Speaker 1: the same way she performs in a debate, then we'll

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Speaker 1: go to that convention and we'll put someone else in.

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Speaker 1: There's no way I would never give them that chance again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and so, but it's also it's also amazing to

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Speaker 2: that Joe Biden has got to go. And then suddenly

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Speaker 2: I think one of the things, and I say this

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Speaker 1: I think you're right, But I think that it's easier

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Speaker 1: when they run up against anybody other than Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: They don't understand how to get around his organic support,

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Speaker 1: and that's something that they've never been able to garner.

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Speaker 1: They do have a machine, they have a turnout machine,

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Speaker 1: and they have to push these people to come out

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Speaker 1: or potentially even do other things. Who knows what they're

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Speaker 1: exactly doing, but they have a machine. He doesn't have

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Speaker 1: a machine. He has this support that they have never

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Speaker 1: figured out how they could possibly get And so you've

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Speaker 1: seen this, you said everybody instantly comes out and supports Harris. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's been it's been kind of measured support over time

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Speaker 1: And as you've seen, you see Pelosi come out, you

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Speaker 1: they have the celebrity and they're doing this RuPaul drag

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Speaker 1: show and she's announcing on this drag show. I see you,

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Speaker 1: I hear you. All of these different celebrity endorsements. Well,

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Speaker 1: And I think this is all a show, Like I

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Speaker 1: do this. The first day it's we don't think the

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Speaker 1: He doesn't think that she's capable. He's questioning it is

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Speaker 1: It's like that suspense your your the shark is coming

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Speaker 1: hilarious part about it is that Kamala Harris is not

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Speaker 1: She is not Donald Trump. She is not good at

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Speaker 1: which is clearly staged, you have to see her reaction. Here.

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Speaker 3: to hear you both.

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Speaker 1: I can't have this phone call without saying to my girl, Kamala,

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Speaker 1: I am proud of you. This is going to be historic.

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Speaker 1: We call to say Michelle and I couldn't be prouder

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, Michelle, Bractice means so much to me.

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Speaker 3: I am looking forward to doing this with the two

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Speaker 3: being on the road. But most of all, I just

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Speaker 3: want to tell you that the words you have spoken

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Speaker 1: It means so much.

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Speaker 3: And we're gonna have some fun with this too, aren't.

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Speaker 1: There. It is you can actually feel it in that

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Speaker 1: doing this? You know, you see Gretchen and Whitmer do this,

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Speaker 1: And to me, the stark contrast between Barack Obama and

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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris on the same call was painful for her.

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Speaker 3: Painful.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but I generally, if I

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Speaker 1: Because it's not real. That's all recorded ahead of time.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the most bizarre part. It's like, are

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Speaker 1: Was there's no one that close to her. It's all stage.

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Speaker 1: She wasn't talking on that phone at that moment right.

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Speaker 2: Well, and clearly clearly they were, you know, reading off

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Speaker 2: Some of the reporting this week was that the Obamas

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Speaker 2: So I don't know if that was Michelle or who knows.

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Speaker 2: And I think a lot of people see through that

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Speaker 2: be learned. You have to you have to have that

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Speaker 1: You make a great point, and I think that it

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Speaker 1: is a problem with career politicians. And you know, you

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Speaker 1: saw Barack Obama was a senator for a very short

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump left a lucrative career to serve the people.

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Speaker 1: You know. And I think when you see people come

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Speaker 1: But let me point out she doesn't ever say Hamas

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