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Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, after a great week weekend in the Northeast

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Speaker 2: in Rhode Island and Connecticut. I am back. Listen. We

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Speaker 2: got about six more weeks until football truly begins in Earnest.

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Speaker 2: The camps are now games just down the road. You know,

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Speaker 2: I thought I'm going to have at least ten to

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Speaker 2: fifteen minutes here on what we've watched with our politics

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Speaker 2: over the course of the weekend. I said this on

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Speaker 2: Instagram about three weeks ago. I said, a month is

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Speaker 2: a long time. Trump has a very high disapproval rating.

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Speaker 2: He's not a terribly strong candidate, either was Biden, obviously,

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Speaker 2: but I think Trump has a history of stepping in it.

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Speaker 2: Jd vance to a lot of moderates, myself included, can

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Speaker 2: be a little extreme. So I think there's a lot

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Speaker 2: the next three months. Kamala Harris, I have no idea.

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Speaker 2: Here's what I've watched, though, that's fascinating. A lot of

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Speaker 2: the smartest opinions I've watched over the last month are

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Speaker 2: people not involved on a daily basis with politics. I

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Speaker 2: mean Fox News predictable, MSNBC predictable. CNN actually has been

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Speaker 2: willing to go after both sides, which is refreshing, and

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Speaker 2: that drives by the way Liberals tend to believe that

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Speaker 2: CNN is theirs, They're on their team, and CNN has

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Speaker 2: York Times has been willing to be highly critical of

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden. Again, Democrats tend to think the New York

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Speaker 2: both sides, Republicans and Democrats, have shown an ability to

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Speaker 2: bulldoze democracy. I saw Bernie Sanders get pushed down a

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Speaker 2: with the result. I mean, think about this. This will

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Speaker 2: be the first time since nineteen seventy six. This is remarkable.

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Speaker 2: This will be the first time since nineteen seventy six.

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Speaker 2: Many of you watching not born that will have a

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Speaker 2: presidential match without a Bush junior senior, a Clinton, Bill

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Speaker 2: shit's crazy. You got to go back to nineteen seventy

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Speaker 2: six to not have a Bush, a Clinton, or Joe

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Speaker 2: I'm all for fresh faces, new blood, I'm all for it.

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Speaker 2: get into their camps. You got to be kidding me.

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Speaker 2: Politics is it's business. In sports, It's all about money

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Speaker 2: and power. That's all this stuff is about. Democrats wanted

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Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders to hit the road. He hit the road.

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Speaker 2: Democrats wanted Joe out. You know, the donors dried up.

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Speaker 2: Now they come flush with money. In for Kamala Harris.

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Speaker 2: I get it. I'm fine. I'm just, I just I

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Speaker 2: don't have to like jd Vance. I don't. I don't

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Speaker 2: know much about Kamala Harris. I'm just looking for fresh faces,

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Speaker 2: whatever reason, people just don't like her too much. Word

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Speaker 2: You know, Gavin Newsom is considered too slick. I'm not

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Speaker 2: I don't think he has a great deal of electability.

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Speaker 2: I think there's this stigma he's just a little too pretty,

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Speaker 2: Pete Poodu Judge. I think Pete Poodoo Judge is awesome.

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Speaker 2: The guy speaks like six languages, seven languages. He's a

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Speaker 2: are we ready for that? It's remarkable to me that

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Speaker 2: Gretchen Whitmer gets a lot done in Michigan. I think

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Speaker 2: the bullpen's fine. Josh Shapiro governor, really popular governor of Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 2: is WHOA, he's really woke if you live in California.

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Speaker 2: He pushes back on the wokeism regularly out of Sacramento.

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Speaker 2: This is a very difficult state. I mean, we're bigger

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Speaker 2: I've lived here eight years. I feel safe, I feel fortunate,

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Speaker 2: I feel grateful. We have a homeless issue. We have

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Speaker 2: the perfect weather in America. It's not overly humid in

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Speaker 2: lot of interesting candidates. And I think if Democrats would

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Speaker 2: have seen Joe Biden as a one term president from

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Speaker 2: generally where I'm voting. I don't want extremism, and I

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Speaker 2: don't want old politics. It's interesting because I'm paid to

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Speaker 2: But in July and August I got nothing to do.

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Speaker 2: liberals watch MSNBC. My guess is that Trump will step

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Speaker 2: The Bills have won four straight titles. They'll make it five.

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