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Speaker 1: On this episode of Mitual, I'm providing my first update

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Speaker 1: in the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

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Speaker 2: The fact is that this is a.

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Speaker 1: Remarkable moment on something that if I had talked to

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Speaker 1: you last Friday, I could never ever have imagined. The

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Speaker 1: first big impact to realize about this convention is that

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Speaker 1: this is a giant family reunion. Thousands and thousands of

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Speaker 1: volunteers and activists from all over the country, many of

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Speaker 1: whom have been doing this for twenty or thirty years,

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Speaker 1: come together in this great moment of reorganizing and renewing

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Speaker 1: the Republican Party, and all of a sudden on Saturday night,

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Speaker 1: they were watching their candidate, their champion, the person that

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Speaker 1: they had invested so much time and money and effort

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Speaker 1: and so much faith and help in Donald J.

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Speaker 2: Trump gets shot. I can tell you.

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Speaker 1: Personally, I was watching it live. I've known Trump for

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Speaker 1: over thirty years. I'm watching a personal friend get shot

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Speaker 1: on television live.

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Speaker 2: It was horrifying.

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Speaker 1: Even of course responded by standing straight up, by putting

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Speaker 1: his fist up in the air and then yelling fight, fight, Fight,

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Speaker 1: and then he switched to the USA USA, and that

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Speaker 1: became an iconic moment for his supporters, the emotional bond,

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Speaker 1: the sense of commitment, the thrill that he survived. I

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Speaker 1: described it as providential because I think it was go

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Speaker 1: back and look at that scene. He has turned his

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Speaker 1: face to look up to a very large screen making

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Speaker 1: a point about illegal immigration, and he turns back to

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Speaker 1: face the audience at the exact moment that the bullet arrived.

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Speaker 1: If he had turned back three seconds later, the bullet

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Speaker 1: would have hit him on the head, but because he

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Speaker 1: turned back, the bullet missed his head and hit his ear.

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Speaker 1: I'm told that he did not do too much damage.

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Speaker 1: He's even hopeful that the bandage will be off. But

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Speaker 1: there's when you look at that and you realize that

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Speaker 1: this was something which Minister Yusuf in Atlanta told my

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Speaker 1: good friend Randy Evans that this had to be providential.

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Speaker 1: To be this close to being dead and not have

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Speaker 1: it hit was astonishing. I used that term providential on

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Speaker 1: Fox News with Sean Hannity later on that evening. I'm

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Speaker 1: told that they went worldwide because it's the only way

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Speaker 1: you could explain what happened. So by Monday, you have

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Speaker 1: this deep sense across everybody who's at the convention that

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Speaker 1: we are participating in something historic, and it's something that

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Speaker 1: I could identify with both because Kyllis and I had

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Speaker 1: made movies about Ronald Reagan and John Paul the Second,

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Speaker 1: and when they met President Reagan and Pope now Saint

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Speaker 1: John Paul the Second, they actually spent time talking about

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Speaker 1: what was their mission since both of them had been

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Speaker 1: shocked and both of them had survived. And I have

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Speaker 1: a hunch that some of that's going through and affecting

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump right now. He has a sense that God

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Speaker 1: has saved him and that he has a duty to

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Speaker 1: rise to that occasion and to do what's right for America.

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Speaker 2: And you could see it Monday night when he came

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Speaker 2: into the convention hall.

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Speaker 1: He was more subdued, I think, more reflective, more willing

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Speaker 1: for other people to have the spotlight than I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: The crowd reaction was just astonishing, beyond anything I could

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Speaker 1: have dreamed of. So the first big story, of course,

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Speaker 1: this will always be the convention that occurred at the

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Speaker 1: time that President Trump survived an assassination attempt, and that's

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Speaker 1: what it was. It was an assassination attempt. It was

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Speaker 1: astonishing that CNN reported initially as Trump helped from stage

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Speaker 1: after fall, which was just such blatant dishonesty that even

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Speaker 1: by CNN's standards, it was pretty The second thing about

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Speaker 1: this convention is, of course, the very first day is

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Speaker 1: adopting the rules, recognizing the delegates adopting the platform.

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Speaker 2: The rules were adopted pro forma that nothing really changed

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Speaker 2: the platform.

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Speaker 1: I want to take just a minute to say everybody

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Speaker 1: should read this platform. It was reduced from about thirty

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Speaker 1: seven thousand words to about four thousand. Everything in this

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Speaker 1: platform was personally approved by Trump. He read through it,

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Speaker 1: he edited it, he detoed certain things, and if you

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Speaker 1: want a clear sense of what Donald Trump hopes to

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Speaker 1: achieve as president, this platform is far and away the

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Speaker 1: easiest to read, the clearest, and the most comprehensive statement

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Speaker 1: of where Trump wants to take America. It's a remarkable document,

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Speaker 1: and I think at the presidential level it is comparable

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Speaker 1: to what we did with the Contract with America. They

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Speaker 1: strongly recommend the platform, who was adopted unanimously without dissent,

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Speaker 1: which in itself was a signed a tremendous organization and

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Speaker 1: of the moral and psychological leadership to Trump now has

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Speaker 1: over the Republican Party. Then, of course it was time

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Speaker 1: for nominations. This will not come as a shock to anybody.

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Speaker 2: Donald J.

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Speaker 1: Trump was nominated unanimously supported by the convention. And then

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Speaker 1: it came time for the second nomination, which of course

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Speaker 1: as the vice president, which I'll talk about more than mint.

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Speaker 1: They put JD Events of Ohio in be nominated. He

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Speaker 1: had no opposition, He won decisive. By the end of

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Speaker 1: the morning session, they'd adopted the rules, recognized the delegates,

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Speaker 1: adopted the platform, nominated the president, and nominated the vice president.

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Speaker 1: Let me talk for a minute or few now about

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Speaker 1: the choice of JD Events, which I can tell you

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Speaker 1: was not totally.

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Speaker 2: Clear even Monday morning.

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Speaker 1: I think the president was really a way that he

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Speaker 1: regarded as the first real big decision of his next presidency.

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Speaker 1: He is deeply committed to three principles. One to have

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Speaker 1: a vice president capable of being president, because he recognizes,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's always a risk. Two to have a

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Speaker 1: vice president who shares his values and is willing to

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Speaker 1: implement the mega doctrine in the platform which I just described.

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Speaker 1: And three to nominate somebody who is young enough and

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Speaker 1: energetic enough that they would have a chance to win

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Speaker 1: in twenty eight.

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Speaker 2: And thirty two because Trump believes.

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Speaker 1: And I think he's right, it's going to take three

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Speaker 1: consecutive terms to complete the scale of change that we

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Speaker 1: have to complete in order to get America back on

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Speaker 1: the right track. He had a lot of advice for

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Speaker 1: some very very good people. Doug Berghum to the governor

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Speaker 1: of North Dakota as a superb executive, was a one

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Speaker 1: time the vice president of Microsoft. He gets along very

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Speaker 1: well with Trump and he would have been an acceptable

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Speaker 1: but not particularly exciting choice, probably end up in the

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Speaker 1: cabinet in a significant role. Marco Rubio, I think, really

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Speaker 1: was the person who came closest to becoming a nominee

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Speaker 1: of the Advanced the Rubio, of course, as a US Senator,

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Speaker 1: was a tremendous Speaker of the House in Florida. Ran

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Speaker 1: against Trump in sixteen, and I know the Trump thinks

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Speaker 1: very highly of him. I wouldn't be shocked to see

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Speaker 1: Rubio end up as Secretary of State. And literally up

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Speaker 1: until Monday morning, they were all in contention and Trump

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Speaker 1: was really trying to weigh the decision.

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Speaker 2: And the reason how simple.

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Speaker 1: There is a group in the party who very strongly

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Speaker 1: wanted JD. Evans, and one of the key people in

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Speaker 1: that group was Donald Trump Junior.

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Speaker 2: But in addition, there were.

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Speaker 1: Very smart people who represent the heart of the MAGA

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Speaker 1: movement intellectually, and they all felt that JD represented the energy,

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Speaker 1: the drive, and the knowledge that would be so important

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Speaker 1: to both implement Trump's policies in the next four years

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Speaker 1: because the vice President, as President of the Senate, I

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Speaker 1: can play a major role in trying to move things

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Speaker 2: And the second they thought Jadie Vance was.

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Speaker 1: A true innovator and leader who believed in the basics

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Speaker 1: of the Trump movement and who would be capable of

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Speaker 1: carrying that message on to the next generation. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to spend some time in the Future podcast just talking

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Speaker 1: about Advance. Until I was forced by Trump's choice, I

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Speaker 1: really hadn't paid enough attention to him, And the more

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Speaker 1: you get to see him and know about him, it's

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Speaker 1: a very interesting American story. He's going to be a

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Speaker 1: very important person. I should point out that he is

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Speaker 1: the same age thirty nine that Richard Nixon was thirty nine.

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Speaker 1: Dwight Eisenhower, who was in his seventies, picked him. Trump

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Speaker 1: who's in his seventies picked Jdevance and as I watched

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Speaker 1: them last night when they came to the floor, and

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Speaker 1: it was very telling. Trump can the floor quietly sat

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Speaker 1: and listened for well over an hour to a variety

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Speaker 1: of speakers. Sat next events, and I think a senior

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Speaker 1: He's already been through the process of one of the

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Speaker 1: greatest comebacks in American history. And this young, new, eager

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Speaker 1: and enthusiastic person who was prepared to learn from and

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Speaker 1: be mentored by the President of State. So I think

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a very interesting team in the

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Speaker 1: future podcast and we talked at considerable length about Jdvance.

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Speaker 1: I can tell you that the people I've been running into,

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Speaker 1: and I've been all over the place frankly taking pictures

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Speaker 1: and talking to folks and speaking to different delegations, there

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Speaker 1: is a really positive happy People are so grateful that

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Speaker 1: Trump survived. They're so thrilled that the assassination attempt failed.

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Speaker 1: There's a feeling here I've never seen, even in the

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Speaker 1: great nineteen eighty four Reagan renomination in Dallas, I've never

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Speaker 1: seen the enthusiasm, the intensity, the emotional energy that we

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Speaker 1: have here in Milwaukee in I think the rest of

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Speaker 1: the week is going to be fascinating and I'll be

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Speaker 1: reporting to you about it,