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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the schmid Storm. You have questions,

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Speaker 1: I have answers. Is it time to look for a

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Speaker 1: third party, one with common sense, goodwill, centrist policies. Look,

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Speaker 1: I would love to be a member of that party,

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Speaker 1: and I do think that if someone wants to start

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Speaker 1: that party, it would not be a bad thing. But

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Speaker 1: this is a country with two major parties. And the

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Speaker 1: way that the two party system can be disrupted is

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Speaker 1: with an independent candidacy, which would cost an excess of

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Speaker 1: a billion dollars and would be able to navigate the

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Speaker 1: ballot access issues that they would have to deal with

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Speaker 1: in all fifty states. Look, if more Cuban ran for president,

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Speaker 1: I think he would get a lot of support. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if he has any interest. I think that

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Speaker 1: there are some exceptional Americans who have the ability to

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Speaker 1: speak English, to communicate in words, to inspire with those words,

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Speaker 1: to ain't a picture about a horizon that lies over

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Speaker 1: tomorrow's edge with words. And so if the Democratic Party

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Speaker 1: can't beat Maga, then they lose the claim to say

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Speaker 1: that an independent candidate is the automatic spoiler in this race.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's the Democratic candidate that would be the spoiler

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Speaker 1: in this race. Given the results in this race, so

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Speaker 1: I think that the majority of Americans were forced into

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Speaker 1: a choice here that the overwhelming majority of them said

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Speaker 1: from the very beginning they didn't want. They did not

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Speaker 1: want the choice they had until one hundred days out,

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Speaker 1: which was Biden versus Trump. And the result is predictable.

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Speaker 1: So in the end, there will not be a third

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Speaker 1: party that is competitive with the first oldest and third

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Speaker 1: oldest political party in the world in four years. But

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Speaker 1: could some exceptional American come forward on a platform of decency,

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Speaker 1: common sense, and goodness and capture the public's imagination in

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Speaker 1: a time where every institution has broken trust that you

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Speaker 1: can think to name one hundred percent, one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: American politics is right for disruption. The question is who

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Speaker 1: are the top candidates to take the lead at the

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Speaker 1: Democratic Party. You know, look, I think Gavin Knew some

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Speaker 1: thinks he's one of them. He's already called an emergency

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Speaker 1: crisis meeting in California. That seems quite performative to me.

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Speaker 1: I think the governor of California should be reflective about

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Speaker 1: his role in the great national gas lighting and also

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Speaker 1: the reality that California governance was on the ballot in

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Speaker 1: this election, and the country doesn't want it. Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 1: wants to do something to help. What he ought to

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Speaker 1: do is get his cities under control because the image

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Speaker 1: of Los Angeles and San Francisco and out of his

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Speaker 1: stateland in Seattle. The reality is that a lot of

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Speaker 1: American people look at that and they say, no way,

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Speaker 1: don't want it, and it helped Trump immensely. The opposition

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Speaker 1: to Trump is going to form and emerge out there

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Speaker 1: amongst the governors, in civil society groups, and amongst outstanding Americans,

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Speaker 1: all of whom retain their First Amendment rights to speak

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Speaker 1: out for the good, to cause good trouble, and we

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Speaker 1: will see in this era of testing, who can talk,

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Speaker 1: who can lead, who can do the things that are

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Speaker 1: necessary to build the coalition of optimism of renewal that

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Speaker 1: is going to be required to take back political power.

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Speaker 1: Question is what would you have done differently with Kamala

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Speaker 1: Harris's campaign. There's a lot of answers to that question,

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Speaker 1: but the first thing I would have done is walk

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Speaker 1: in and every single person that was siated with the

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Speaker 1: Biden campaign up to that moment in a strategic capacity

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Speaker 1: would have been gone done. Second, thing is as I

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Speaker 1: would have gone and seen the president or his wife,

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Speaker 1: and I would have said, you're going to be very unhappy,

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Speaker 1: but we're running against you as well. We're going to

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Speaker 1: be very critical of Afghanistan, the withdrawal, the inability to communicate,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to chart a clear, dramatic break with

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Speaker 1: the past through a series of speeches that outline the future.

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Speaker 1: And it would have been a gold Watch campaign. It

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Speaker 1: would have been unmistakably a change campaign. I would have

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Speaker 1: given a speech that was an approximation of Franklin Roosevelt's

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Speaker 1: nineteen forty convention speech, and in that speech he talks

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Speaker 1: about the new monarchs, the new monarchy forming, and I

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Speaker 1: would have applied it like he did to the Elon Musks. Right,

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Speaker 1: he didn't apply to Elon Musk, but the application would

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Speaker 1: have been towards the Elon Musks in the billionaire class today.

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Speaker 1: What great cause did Kamala Harris articulate? What great horizon

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Speaker 1: did she point towards and say we're going there because

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Speaker 1: there we find the shining city on the hill. There

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Speaker 1: was none of it. So the Democratic polster goes into

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Speaker 1: the field, they come back with the list the candidate

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Speaker 1: gets the list, and they repeat finalities over and over

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Speaker 1: and over and over again. And this is an era

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Speaker 1: where all of that has been punctured and pierced and obliterated.

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Speaker 1: And though I think that Kamala Harris did the best

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Speaker 1: job that she could do and performed very, very very well,

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Speaker 1: it was not good enough, and it was not good

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Speaker 1: enough to overcome the giant crater that she started out

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Speaker 1: the campaign in. And so David Pluff was forced to

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Speaker 1: apparently because of the abuse, to lete his Twitter account

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Speaker 1: for mentioning that hole. She had to dig out of,

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Speaker 1: an immense hole caused by selfishness and cynicism. Everyone in

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Speaker 1: the media and everyone in the Democratic Caucus saw the incapacity.

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Speaker 1: One guy, Dean Phillips, tried to do something about it,

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Speaker 1: to send a message to start a primary process, and

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Speaker 1: even shouted down. This is the result. Donald Trump will

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Speaker 1: have four years. It's a terrible thing, but it's a

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Speaker 1: predictable price. The question is is how can we as

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Speaker 1: Americans work to blunk the impact of Trump's presidency over

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Speaker 1: the next four years. Get involved organized. This won't get

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Speaker 1: fixed overnight. We're going to have to retreat. We're not

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Speaker 1: going to be in a position to fight and push

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Speaker 1: back effectively until Donald Trump gets stuck in the mud.

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Speaker 1: The most important thing right now is to face honestly

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Speaker 1: the question of why. Failure to face that question lays

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Speaker 1: the foundation for the next disaster. The Democratic Party lost

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Speaker 1: honesty as an issue on the border and Biden's health.

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Speaker 1: The Democratic Party lost trust on an economy they called

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Speaker 1: Biden nomics and then shouted down the voters who said

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Speaker 1: inflation is hurting me. What happened in this election was

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Speaker 1: an abomination, an obscenity. Selfishness ruled the day, and selfishness

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Speaker 1: elected Donald Trump. Better would have defeated Donald Trump, but

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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris couldn't get to better because she couldn't break

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Speaker 1: through the selfishness in one hundred days. Truth is, the

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Speaker 1: Democratic Party needed to have a primary, It needed to

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Speaker 1: have a choice. Instead, it got taken hostage by the Bidens.

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Speaker 1: And the result is now Trump gets to take the

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Speaker 1: whole country hostage. It was despicable, predictable, and now the

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Speaker 1: tragedy begins. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning and

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