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Speaker 1: Hi, Mikey. Great to see you. As always. This is Catherine,

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Speaker 1: my producer.

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Speaker 2: Hi there, Hi, nice seeing you.

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Speaker 1: Our guest today is someone that I have personally campaigned for.

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Speaker 1: She is a congresswoman in the state of New Jersey

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Speaker 1: and she is running for the governor of New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: The election is Tuesday, November fourth, but vote by mail

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Speaker 1: has already started and early voting is available October twenty

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Speaker 1: fifth through November two, So if you want more information,

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Speaker 1: go to Mikey Cheryl dot com. Our guest today is

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Speaker 1: a former Navy helicopter pilot, federal prosecutor, mom of four,

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Speaker 1: and Democratic nominee for the governor in New Jersey. So

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Speaker 1: please welcome you US representative for New Jersey. Mikey Cheryl. Hi,

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Speaker 1: Miikey Cheryl.

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Speaker 2: Hi, thanks so much for having me. This is great.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. I watched your episode for Potsave America too. I

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Speaker 1: loved you on that and I love those guys. They're

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Speaker 1: friends of mine.

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Speaker 3: Oh good, Yeah, that was a great, great episode. That

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Speaker 3: was a lot of fun to do.

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited for your campaign and how is everything going.

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Speaker 1: How's everything going in the state of New Jersey right now?

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Speaker 3: As always perfect, it's perfect here. That thing going on

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Speaker 3: here now it is. It's a tough fight. We are

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Speaker 3: in a knockdown, drag out fight. I don't think anybody

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Speaker 3: would be surprised to hear that, because New Jersey is,

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Speaker 3: shall I say, known for the rough and tumble politics.

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Speaker 3: We have that go on here, and I've always been

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Speaker 3: up for it. But my opponent's pretty slimy and has

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Speaker 3: broken the law in several ways and has just really

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Speaker 3: gone after my family in a way that's totally inappropriate.

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Speaker 3: So that has been a challenge. But you know what,

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Speaker 3: I think in these times, that kind of thing backfires.

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Speaker 3: I think people are kind of sick of career politicians

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Speaker 3: who are slimy and trying to act like they're just

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Speaker 3: stops to get their own way.

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Speaker 2: That's not what people want to say.

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Speaker 1: And your opponent is one hundred percent maga, correct.

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Speaker 2: Jack Chitdarelli, hundred percent maga.

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Speaker 3: She likes to say that's not me saying that, that's

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump saying that. And he's been pretty clear in

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Speaker 3: he's been in lockstep. And I think here like just

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Speaker 3: about every state in the nation. We've seen these tariffs

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Speaker 2: So we're seeing costs go up everywhere. And I have.

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Speaker 3: Always been sort of known for going against anyone who

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk a little bit about how a governor

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Speaker 1: does that and what abilities a governor has to stand

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Speaker 1: We've seen JB. Pritzker do it, We've seen Wes Moore

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Speaker 3: Well, a lot of that is the traditional ways, right,

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Speaker 3: I tell people sometimes, you know, I'm a simple girl.

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Speaker 3: I want to make sure that the decisions I make

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Speaker 2: So these these aren't to me groundbreaking ideas.

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Speaker 3: These are things that most people in New Jersey agree with,

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Speaker 3: All of these things I've just spoken about, but we're

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Speaker 2: He thinks he'll win that, but he said no. But

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Speaker 2: it just chills you to know that all of.

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Speaker 3: This personal information in other states is just being turned

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Speaker 1: And how do you view the tech of it all?

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Speaker 3: So I don't think it's a state by state plan.

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Speaker 2: And that is very contrary. It's Donald Trump.

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Speaker 3: I am going to do that by driving down costs

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Speaker 3: I also just want to touch a bit, you know what, Chelsea.

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Speaker 3: I have just been running in this race as somebody

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Speaker 2: I was named the most effective member of Congress in

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Speaker 3: And we did. By the time I graduated. I graduated

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