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Speaker 1: These are a summary of the latest national polls. What

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Speaker 1: they show is former president Donald Trump defeating President Biden

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Speaker 1: in a proposed matchup. The other day, Donald Trump took

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Speaker 1: his show on the road to Iowa. There he appeared

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Speaker 1: with Sean Hannity and it carefully choreographed town hall. It

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Speaker 1: should be watched by every person who is fearful of

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Speaker 1: Trump's return to office. It should be seen by every

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Speaker 1: person who does not believe that those polls are real.

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Speaker 1: When you watch the town hall, there are a couple

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Speaker 1: of things that stand out. The first is that is

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Speaker 1: a crowd that is energized. That is a crowd that

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Speaker 1: feels like it is on the winning team. They are laughing,

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Speaker 1: they are having fun, they are being entertained, and they

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Speaker 1: are exuberant. When Donald Trump says certain things out loud

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Speaker 1: that he's going to do, what are those things that

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Speaker 1: unite that audience into almost a level of ecstasy, a fervor. Well.

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Speaker 1: When Donald Trump attacks China and does so without any

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Speaker 1: regard for political niceties or political correctness or the bound

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Speaker 1: lines of woke dialogue, he calls COVID nineteen the China virus.

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Speaker 1: The wu han flew millions of Americans believe that's exactly

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Speaker 1: what COVID nineteen was. They saw their children's educations profoundly disrupted.

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Speaker 1: They saw their educations and their mental health severely eroded.

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Speaker 1: Millions of parents blamed China for that. Certainly the crowd

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Speaker 1: in Iowa does. Donald Trump savaged President Biden, and the

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Speaker 1: crowd laughed. Trump diminished President Biden, he emasculated him. There

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Speaker 1: was one vivid scene when Donald try Trump imagines responding

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Speaker 1: to President Biden's provocation and going out behind the proverbial

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Speaker 1: barn for the old fistfight. This is how Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: talked about the president of the United States from a stage.

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Speaker 1: He suggested he could be blown over. They savaged the

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Speaker 1: president's cognitive abilities. It was brutal, it was merciless, and

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Speaker 1: the crowd's reaction to it was cruel. It was malicious,

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Speaker 1: and there's more of it to come. The campaign ahead

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Speaker 1: will be unrestrained. And there is a question at hand

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Speaker 1: that deserves to be talked about out loud, because the

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Speaker 1: verity of the crisis demands it, and it is the

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Speaker 1: wrong thing to do to keep quiet about it. There

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Speaker 1: is a deep, impervasive fear in Washington, DC, in the

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Speaker 1: Green rooms, in the newsrooms about the capacity to stand

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Speaker 1: up successfully against Donald Trump by the president. The answer

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Speaker 1: to the question is for President Biden to show the

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Speaker 1: American people that he is ready for the fight. What

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Speaker 1: that means is he must travel the country. It is

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Speaker 1: time for him to stand up in the arena, in

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Speaker 1: the center of the town hall, to engage with the

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Speaker 1: American people and to talk about the brilliance of Americanism

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Speaker 1: as an idea, as a principle. It's time for the

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Speaker 1: President to lead the charge in defense of the Constitution,

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Speaker 1: the peaceful transition of power. Religious tolerance. There are millions

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Speaker 1: of American Jews who are fearful, fearful in the United

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Speaker 1: States because of their last name, because of their religious faith,

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Speaker 1: because of the outburst of hate that only takes place

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Speaker 1: for Jews in a week in democracy. Because Jews are

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Speaker 1: safe when democracy is healthy, to grow unsafe when it

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Speaker 1: is not. It is time for the president to lead,

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Speaker 1: to face down the candidate who is defeating him. Let's

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Speaker 1: be clear about a great delusion, the so called momentum

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Speaker 1: of Nicky Haley. It's not real. Take Dean Phillips out

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Speaker 1: of the equation. Marion Williamson is performing better against Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden than Nicky Haley is against Donald Trump. You can

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Speaker 1: read all about it in the Nation in a brilliant

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Speaker 1: article of John Nichols. Who won't buy into the conventional wisdom,

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Speaker 1: who won't buy in to the dangerous group think. Trump

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Speaker 1: is going to be the nominee of the Republican Party,

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Speaker 1: and there is no candidate on the Republican debate stage

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Speaker 1: who will be able to disrupt that, who will be

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Speaker 1: able to stop him. Every one of those candidates will

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Speaker 1: get in line behind Donald Trump. Every one of them

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Speaker 1: except Chris Christy, will seek to be Donald Trump's vice

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Speaker 1: presidential candidate. Now, there is something else that must be said.

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Speaker 1: President Biden has said that he would not be running

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Speaker 1: but for the fact that Donald Trump is running again.

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Speaker 1: Let us understand something. That statement is untrue. In fact,

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Speaker 1: it's a delusional statement. It now appears that President Biden's

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Speaker 1: intention was to always run for a second term, that

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Speaker 1: the promise to pass the torch to a new generation

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Speaker 1: of American leaders were empty words. Now the truth of

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Speaker 1: the matter is, in twenty twenty, President Biden very very

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Speaker 1: narrowly defeated Donald Trump, the worst president in American history,

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Speaker 1: and it is almost certainly true that he was the

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Speaker 1: only Democrat of national stature that was in a position

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Speaker 1: to do so. But it is also certainly true, and

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Speaker 1: it is evidenced by the scores in scores of anonymous

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Speaker 1: quotes from anonymous White House staffers or anonymous DNC staffers,

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Speaker 1: or anonymous Biden campaign staffers that for years they have

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Speaker 1: cheered Donald Trump on what they have wanted is what

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Speaker 1: they have said that they wanted out loud, in writing

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Speaker 1: and in word, that they wanted Donald Trump to be

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Speaker 1: the Republican nominee because he was the easiest candidate for

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Speaker 1: President Biden to defeat. But as it turns out, according

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Speaker 1: to the polling, in this moment, President Biden has gone

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Speaker 1: from the only Democrat who could have beaten Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty to perhaps the only mainstream Democrat who

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Speaker 1: could lose to him in twenty twenty four. And yet

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Speaker 1: the President says that he is in the race because

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Speaker 1: Trump is in the race, even though his presence in

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Speaker 1: the race may be the most expeditious route through which

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is able to achieve political power. Again, so

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Speaker 1: there is a test at hand for the president, who

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Speaker 1: must demonstrate a readiness of purpose and intent and fortitude

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Speaker 1: to take on Donald Trump. Donald Trump's campaign will be

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Speaker 1: based on a smear that President Biden is suffering from

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Speaker 1: dementia and a cognitive decline that has left him so

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Speaker 1: impaired that he is not fit for the duties of

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Speaker 1: the office. That is the Trump message, and the White

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Speaker 1: House must respond to it. They must respond to it

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Speaker 1: with force, not by telling the world that what Trump

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Speaker 1: has said is cruel or unfair, but by demonstrating the

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Speaker 1: President's capacity to campaign and to lay waste to the

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Speaker 1: worst idea birth on American soil since the Confederacy, which

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Speaker 1: is trumpsm It is an amalgam of fascist principles, self

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Speaker 1: interest cynicism, religious fanaticism, in business cynicism, a conspiracy of

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Speaker 1: the self interested to make a buck at the expense

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Speaker 1: of our future, at the expense of our liberty. This

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Speaker 1: deserves fierce, defiant opposition. Americans have struggled, have suffered, have marched,

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Speaker 1: have fought, have fled, have died, and have resisted every

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Speaker 1: attempt of subjugation for over two hundred years. Americans have

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Speaker 1: fought and died so that all Americans may live in freedom.

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Speaker 1: Americans are not a role over push over people who

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Speaker 1: get in line and lay on their backs when government,

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Speaker 1: through the form of a tyrannical movement, the Trump movement

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Speaker 1: comes to control them, to take away from them, to

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Speaker 1: steal from them their birthright of freedom. Americanism is founded

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Speaker 1: on concepts that include tolerance, freedom of conscience, speech, faith, worship,

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Speaker 1: the right to live in peace and security, and freedom.

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Speaker 1: That is what the coming election is about. It must

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Speaker 1: be articulated. We must find the north star to guide

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Speaker 1: us through the dark. And the north star is Americanism,

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Speaker 1: the idea that we are all created, equal and dowed

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Speaker 1: by a creator with inalienable rights, and among them are life, liberty,

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Speaker 1: and the pursuit of happiness. These words must be made

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Speaker 1: real again. The Constitution of the United States must be

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Speaker 1: brought to life, to change, to reform, to renew, to

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Speaker 1: rekindle faith in the country. But more than anything else,

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Speaker 1: the American people must find their way to defiance at

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Speaker 1: a time time of absolute testing on the proposition of

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Speaker 1: whether ordinary people will be able to continue to govern

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Speaker 1: their affairs, to write their own history, or whether it

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Speaker 1: will be taken by a cabal of ambitious men and

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Speaker 1: women who do not care about freedom, only power. Only control.

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Speaker 1: The ability to make the argument in defense of Americanism

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Speaker 1: is the singular issue at hand. The Republic must be defended,

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Speaker 1: and it will take all of us to do it,