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Speaker 1: Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton Show.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate all of.

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Speaker 1: You hanging out with us as we are rolling into

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Speaker 1: yet another week with lots of good news pouring in.

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Speaker 1: There now seems to be expectation that, guess what, Trump

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Speaker 1: was right, they are going to cut interest rates in September.

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Speaker 1: Stock market is soaring on those expectations today, moving back

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Speaker 1: towards record high levels. So that is the big economic news.

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Speaker 1: As we move closer and closer to a terraff resolution

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Speaker 1: with many different countries around the world, also a bunch

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Speaker 1: of other things going on. We have got Texas redistricting

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Speaker 1: turning into a monster battle which I am going to

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Speaker 1: dive into here with you guys.

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Speaker 2: Shortly. Machetes have been banned in.

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Speaker 1: Australia, which is just aridiculously funny story we'll have some

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Speaker 1: fun with. And President Trump has weighed in on Sidney

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Speaker 1: Sweeney and the impact of that ad continues to echo

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Speaker 1: as also for those of you out there that get

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Speaker 1: fired up about culture and.

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Speaker 2: Don't care and you're like Sidney Sweeney.

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Speaker 1: Is registered as a Republican in Bucks state of Florida.

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Speaker 1: I challenge anybody out there, Buck We'll get into this

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Speaker 1: a little bit, but I can't think of anybody in

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Speaker 1: his or her twenties that is as famous in Hollywood

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Speaker 1: as Sidney Sweeney is that has ever been publicly identified

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Speaker 1: as a Republican. Now, there are lots of people, because

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Speaker 1: I've spent a lot of time in LA and what

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Speaker 1: you always hear in LA is if they never talk

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Speaker 1: about politics, they're a Republican. And there are lots of

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Speaker 1: those people out there, many of whom you would be

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Speaker 1: fans of if you enjoy going to movies, television shows,

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Speaker 1: streaming service is all those things. So there are lots

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Speaker 1: of them, they just don't speak out Sidney Sweeney being

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Speaker 1: a registered Republican in her twenties. Look, there are guys

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Speaker 1: like Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzeneger Mel Gibson, a lot of

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Speaker 1: the stars of nineteen eighties film are Republicans and are

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Speaker 1: out there publicly, but they're all in their seventies or older.

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Speaker 1: To have a twenty seven year old Hollywood starlet near

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Speaker 1: the top of her game being out and out Republican,

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Speaker 1: I think is significant culturally. We'll get into that, but

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Speaker 1: in the meantime, and this is actually very significant, I think,

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Speaker 1: and we talked about this a little bit last week.

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Speaker 1: There is a panic setting in inside of the Democrat

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Speaker 1: Party over the fact that Texas is potentially going to

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Speaker 1: be redistricting as part of its midterm sort of process.

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Speaker 1: This is normal in Texas because the legislature, I believe,

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Speaker 1: only comes in like every other year. They do not

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Speaker 1: have a supremely active legislature, and so they're a little

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Speaker 1: bit behind on some of these things. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: we'll also update you on the latest. I know many

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Speaker 1: of you fired up about that attack in Cincinnati, which

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Speaker 1: has received a great deal of discussion at Peers guy

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Speaker 1: and a gal, both innocent of doing basically anything wrong,

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Speaker 1: getting beaten up in Cincinnati, and the reaction to it.

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Speaker 1: We talked about that with Bernie Marino last week. But

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Speaker 1: I want to start with this. Democrats buck are saying

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Speaker 1: that they are going to flee the state to stop

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Speaker 1: this redistricting from taking place. This is something that I

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Speaker 1: think they have done before, and it's turned into a

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Speaker 1: controversy and Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, is having none

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Speaker 1: of it. He says they will face felony charges if

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Speaker 1: they refuse to return to the Capitol.

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Speaker 2: Here's cut ten.

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Speaker 3: So very simply, it would be bribery if any lawmaker

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Speaker 3: took money to perform or to refuse to perform and

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Speaker 3: act in the lets and the reports are these legislators

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Speaker 3: have been both. They sought money and they offered money

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Speaker 3: to skip the vote, to leave the legislature to take

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Speaker 3: a legislative act. That would be bribery. And so the

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Speaker 3: facts will have to come out. But I think based

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Speaker 3: upon comments made by legislators themselves, they face a possibility

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Speaker 3: facing bribery charges, which is a second degree felony in

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Speaker 3: the state of Texas.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I believe the reports are buck that they are

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Speaker 1: fleeing to Illinois. This has turned into a big deal,

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Speaker 1: not only in Texas, but other states now saying well,

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Speaker 1: maybe we'll have to redistrict your.

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Speaker 4: Thoughts Illinois also known as Midwest California.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, to Illinois, one of the most

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Speaker 1: to Illinois. Actually just points out that blue states do

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Speaker 4: This is just childish whining from Democrats on this issue.

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Speaker 4: There's no argument to be made. It is actually not

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Speaker 4: possible to raise a good faith argument that Democrats don't

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Speaker 4: do exactly this, which is jerry mander to their political

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Speaker 4: liking in states where that is lawful and they have control.

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Speaker 4: So let's not pretend like this is all of us.

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Speaker 4: It would be like saying, oh, my gosh, do you

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Speaker 4: see all these people the president is appointing who agree

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Speaker 4: with the president on policy. Yeah, that's the point. It's

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Speaker 4: our turn. Now we're in charge in Texas. Deal with it, Libs.

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Speaker 4: But instead they try to raise really alynskiite sabotage in

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Speaker 4: the system that they try to find ways to pretend

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Speaker 4: like they're in the bathroom the whole time, so they

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Speaker 4: can't actually let the business of the state House go forward,

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Speaker 4: or in this case, they're fleeing the state entirely. I'll

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Speaker 4: also point this out Clay Governor Abbitt when he says

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Speaker 4: that people are accepting money to do a thing in

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Speaker 4: the legislature, that sounds like, you know, this isn't this

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Speaker 4: isn't like someone explaining a complicated Rico case. And no, no, no.

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Speaker 4: If someone's giving you money and you're doing something or

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Speaker 4: not doing something in the legislature because of it, that

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Speaker 4: is pretty much textbook bribery. So if that is now

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Speaker 4: he says, we have to see and look at the facts.

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Speaker 4: But I don't think he would raise that unless there's

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Speaker 4: some reason to believe that this is what has been

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Speaker 4: going on with some Democrats in that state. I think

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Speaker 4: that they maybe have forgotten themselves and forgotten statutory definitions a.

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Speaker 2: Bit here, but this is it's absurd.

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Speaker 4: So they're going to try to prevent the business of

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Speaker 4: the state from occurring as representatives of the state by

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Speaker 4: just calling in sick to work. I mean, I think

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Speaker 4: imagine if the Republicans in when we had a minority

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Speaker 4: in the House of the Senate to this, we'd be

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Speaker 4: told that this is the end of the of the

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Speaker 4: Republic as we know it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's just frankly an embarrassment. And so again

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Speaker 1: I did a lot of deep dive on this because

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Speaker 1: I'm a little bit of a nerd when it comes

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Speaker 1: to districting and effectively this question is just a function

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Speaker 1: of when you start it.

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Speaker 2: And let me explain what I mean by that.

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Speaker 1: Everybody does this to your point, and so acting like

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Speaker 1: what Texas is doing is somehow beyond the pale. What

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Speaker 1: has got democrats nervous is, Look, there's a three seat

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Speaker 1: majority right now in the House, and if five Republican

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Speaker 1: seats in theory were added in Texas, that takes it

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Speaker 1: to eight. It makes it harder for them to take

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Speaker 1: back the House, and they don't like Usually the redistricting

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Speaker 1: mid decade redistricting is somewhat rare, not necessarily for Texas here,

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Speaker 1: so there's actually a little bit of a slant towards

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Speaker 1: Democrats right now in the House because they did better

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Speaker 1: in the House than they should have based on how

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Speaker 1: the national popular vote went. Right in theory, if we

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Speaker 1: assigned congressional seats based on that, then Republicans would have

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Speaker 1: done a better job in the House in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four than they did one a narrow majority of the

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Speaker 1: Republicans did by three. Because Democrats have successfully jerrymandered so

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Speaker 1: many different states and now they're fired up about Texas.

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Speaker 1: Let me also point this out. Almost no one talks

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Speaker 1: about it. We screwed up as a country the census,

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Speaker 1: and as a result, the electoral votes are all screwed

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Speaker 1: up in favor of Democrats right now, and almost no

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Speaker 1: one will talk about it in twenty thirty when the

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Speaker 1: new census is done and you also then are able

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Speaker 1: to take into account all of the relocations to red states.

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Speaker 1: Democrats are in a tremendous amount of trouble in the

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Speaker 1: electoral college starting in twenty thirty two, because, for instance,

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Speaker 1: Kamala's path she would have won the election two seventy

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Speaker 1: two sixty eight if she had won Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: that would have narrowly gotten her to the two seventy

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Speaker 1: majority that she needed to get to. That pathway is

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Speaker 1: not going to exist because red states are going to

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Speaker 1: be picking up a lot of additional electoral votes, and

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Speaker 1: so you can't win the presidency really without being able

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Speaker 1: to win some of the South, And so we're headed

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Speaker 1: for No One is talking about it because it's like

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Speaker 1: nobody can look more than one year in the future

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Speaker 1: when it comes to politics. But I think part of

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Speaker 1: this is a little bit of a panic setting in

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Speaker 1: on the Democrat side that the population bases of places

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Speaker 1: like Tennessee, Texas, and Florida are skyrocketing and they're taking

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Speaker 1: away the electoral votes of much of the Democrat base,

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Speaker 1: and so this is kind of an early preview of

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a panic that's setting in where

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Speaker 1: you're going to have more seats being reassigned to red

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Speaker 1: states and fewer in blue states. And again, the other

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Speaker 1: part of this that gets almost no attention is the

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Speaker 1: skewing for a legal immigration and that is a big

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Speaker 1: part of the taking people out of the country that

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Speaker 1: is hurting overall Democrats. So this story, I think is

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Speaker 1: a significant one, not only for what Texas does, but

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Speaker 1: for the mobilization that's going to be able to occur

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Speaker 1: in response to Texas. And that is why you are

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Speaker 1: already hearing people like Corey Booker and Kathy Hokel Let's

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Speaker 1: play Kathy Hokel more on New Yorker saying, Hey, maybe

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Speaker 1: we're going to have to do this too, cut twelve.

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Speaker 5: But Texas and Republican states are doing it the direction

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Speaker 5: of Donald Trump, I say, is nothing short of a

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Speaker 5: legal insurrection against our capital. Legal meaning they're using the

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Speaker 5: legal process, does not mean it's legal, and it must

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Speaker 5: be stuffed. The Republicans are willing to rewrite these rules

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Speaker 5: to give themselves an advantage that they're leaving us no

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Speaker 5: choice we must do the same. There's a phrase, you

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Speaker 5: have to fight fire with fire. That is a true

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Speaker 5: statement of how we're feeling right now. And as I said,

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Speaker 5: another overused but applicable phrase, all's fair in love and war.

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Speaker 5: That's why I'm exploring with our leaders every option to

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Speaker 5: redraw our state congressional lines as soon as possible.

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Speaker 4: What a morenes he is, buck Well, it's but it's

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Speaker 4: a widespread thing among Democrats now right. She's not the

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Speaker 4: only one, you know what, Clay, Let's have some fun

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Speaker 4: with this. Corey Booker, another prominent in this case, New

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Speaker 4: Jersey Democratic is having too much fun trashing these Northeastern

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Speaker 4: lives today. But here is Corey Booker of New Jersey

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Speaker 4: on the mid terms and jerry mandering, Play eleven.

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Speaker 6: I'm sick of the jerrymandering. But if Donald Trump is

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Speaker 6: going to push to jerry nander Texas, he's going to

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Speaker 6: break the rules in order to win. He can't win

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Speaker 6: by the rules they are right now, so he thinks

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Speaker 6: you should break the rules for Democrats to sit back

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Speaker 6: and just say, Okay, we're going to play by the

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Speaker 6: Queen's rules. No, I'm telling you right now, we need

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Speaker 6: to win in the midterm. We need to stop him

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Speaker 6: from cheating, from lying, and from stealing the election. And

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Speaker 6: if they're doing something to add their congressional seats, we

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Speaker 6: need to look at our ways of doing that right now.

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Speaker 4: Can I just tell you, Clay, if anyone's fun, maybe

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Speaker 4: you should put this up on clayanbuck dot com. Take

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Speaker 4: a look at Illinois congressional districts. Everybody a state where unfortunately,

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Speaker 4: you know, I've been to Springfield, Illinois years ago to

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Speaker 4: give a speech. There's actually a fair amount of Republicans

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Speaker 4: And Trump is not happy with something. And I'm going

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Speaker 4: There's a lot that went on last week with respect

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in clay Buck Sexton show a lot of

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Speaker 1: And Kamala Harris won New Mexico by about five points.

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Speaker 4: Just looking at the strategy here what they've got going on.

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Speaker 4: But that's really what this goes to, Clay. They're hoping

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Speaker 4: So I think whatever tools Texas Republicans have it on

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Speaker 4: and they should put on the political brass knuckles for

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Speaker 4: this one.

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Speaker 2: It's time.

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Speaker 1: Illinois fourteen Democrats, three Republicans, and I just told you

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Speaker 1: that Republicans got almost forty five percent of the overall

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Speaker 1: Illinois is among the most egregious of all of the

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Speaker 1: redrawn states. We just mentioned New Mexico, which forty six

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Speaker 1: percent of people voted Republican in that state, not one

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Speaker 1: single congressional representative. And by the way, I would think

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Speaker 1: as you look towards twenty twenty eight that New Mexico

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Speaker 1: is one of the states that Republicans would say it

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Speaker 1: may well be moving towards us because Nevada and Arizona,

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Speaker 1: we're both very successful twenty twenty four cycles.

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Speaker 4: Well, also, what tools are at their disposal? Just to

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Speaker 4: clarify that, Governor Abbott has said that this is a

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Speaker 4: quote abandonment or forfeiture of an elected state office, and

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Speaker 4: so they don't show up. The Texas AG says that

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Speaker 4: they can take steps to quote remove the missing Democrats

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Speaker 4: into the courts, but let's let's be very clear about this.

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Speaker 4: If they're able to do this, I mean, just just

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Speaker 4: that I'm an expert in the Texas State Constitution, right,

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Speaker 4: and I'm sure it's a robust and very interesting document. Uh,

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Speaker 4: but if you just look at this logically, Clay, then

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Speaker 4: anybody who's in the minority party could completely block all

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Speaker 4: business in the in the Texas or in the state

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Speaker 4: legislature that they don't like by refusing to show up

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Speaker 4: for work.

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Speaker 2: That's it. I mean, think about what a what a

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Speaker 2: you know, VW that is on the business of the state.

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Speaker 4: You can just say, oh, until we have a majority

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Speaker 2: That's insane. Well, of course that's insane.

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Speaker 1: Not only that, how about the decision to flee to Illinois,

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Speaker 1: which is I think probably the most jerry manndered state

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Speaker 1: in the entire country. Texas Democrats will still have a

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Speaker 1: much higher percentage of seats in the state of Texas

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Speaker 1: understand sometimes how moronic the calculus is. And it's not

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Speaker 1: always on the Democrat side, also on the Republican side

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Speaker 1: sometimes this happens. But if you were just calling up

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Speaker 1: for advice and you said, hey, we're going to leave

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Speaker 1: the state and refuse to do our job, I would say, well,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a bad look point one. And then

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Speaker 1: in point two, if you were saying, and we're going

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Speaker 1: to flee and we're gonna go to Illinois, I would say, well,

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Speaker 1: have you looked at the map of Illinois? Because you're

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Speaker 1: actually arguing against a jerrymander by fleeing to the most

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Speaker 4: But you are getting several layers deep into this analysis,

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Speaker 4: and they are assuming they're Democrats, they assume their voters

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Speaker 4: don't know anything to begin with, so they're definitely not

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Speaker 4: going to understand or care to understand what's going on here.

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Speaker 2: Right You're you're approaching this like if you were.

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Speaker 4: Sitting across from somebody who's a you know, a Democrat

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Speaker 4: political strategist, and we're having this argument or you're having

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Speaker 4: this debate, right, which it's important for all of you

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Speaker 4: to hear this, But what Clay is doing doesn't even

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Speaker 4: I don't think this the Democrats believe that's even relevant.

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Speaker 2: You know, the argument is irrelevant. It's the emotion, it's

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Speaker 2: the feeling.

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Speaker 1: It's yeah, resist, But even if you're there, even if

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Speaker 1: you're a moron and you're like, hey, first of all,

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Speaker 1: to start now and act like when every state has

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Speaker 1: basically jerrymandered from a whole decade that is either red

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Speaker 1: I can't believe Texas. I love to, you know, grab

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Speaker 1: your pearls and fall on your fainting couch here is ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: But if you're going to protest, I would just suggest

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Speaker 1: going to a blue state that is one of the

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Speaker 1: least jerry mandered states and trying to argue, hey, this

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Speaker 1: is the way that real politicians do it.

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Speaker 2: JB.

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Speaker 4: Pritzker, the trust fund billionaires, said, he's providing them with

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Speaker 4: office space and he's hooking them up, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: And also he isn't that hard to do that in Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: or to do that. I mean, I'm just saying even

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Speaker 1: by moron status to go to drop you got to

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Speaker 1: drop the IQ fifteen points here, Clay. You got to

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Speaker 1: stop thinking, you know, you got to start thinking about this,

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Speaker 1: like the the average MSNBC viewer who's.

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Speaker 2: Just like, Eh, Republicans are bad. I don't like them,

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Speaker 2: you know, that's it. What they're doing. Jerry Mandering is racist.

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Speaker 2: How is Jared? What does it even mean? It's just

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Speaker 2: about getting votes for your song? It's racist, I mean anything.

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Speaker 2: This is actually interesting.

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Speaker 1: Do you know why, calif why Texas is able to

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Speaker 1: change the congressional districts as they are. Hispanic support, Yes,

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Speaker 1: the Hispanic support for opposity racist.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And by the way, the biggest wings when it.

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Speaker 4: Comes to congressional districts of Hispanic support towards the Republicans

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Speaker 4: are in the areas most directly affected by the open border,

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Speaker 4: free for all policies of the Biden administration, meaning border adjacent.

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Speaker 4: They've had people literally running through their backyards for years

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Speaker 4: and they've had enough. They actually don't like that, And

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Speaker 4: I understand why.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I just think it's super fascinating because the reason this,

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Speaker 1: it is is because Democrats have hemorrhaged Hispanic support and

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Speaker 1: as a result, Republicans can now draw majority Hispanic districts

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Speaker 1: which are going to elect Republicans, which, by the way,

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Speaker 1: you talked earlier about Trump being right, they said that

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Speaker 1: Trump would make Hispanics forever not willing to vote for Republicans. Instead,

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Speaker 2: And this is a racist hugely the historic advantage. This

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Speaker 4: Why the pendulum has swung so clearly on the issue

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Speaker 4: of deportations and immigration enforcement.

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Speaker 2: It used to be, oh, you're racist, you want a

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Speaker 4: Sixty percent of Latinos who want a secure border because

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Speaker 9: What's up, dan, Oh, beautiful day two guys.

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Speaker 10: Listen.

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Speaker 9: I'm driving on the Southern State Parkway listening to Kathy

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Speaker 9: Hochel speak about the redistioning, and I was tempted to

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Speaker 9: all because so while I was on hold, I googled

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Speaker 9: this entire process.

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Speaker 10: It's goes something like. In twenty ten, New York voters

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Speaker 10: district when he won, was quickly redistrict again. And now

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Speaker 10: the very tight elections, and they're trying desperately to redistrict again,

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Speaker 10: to push those districts further into New York City to

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Speaker 10: get more Democratic voters. And for Kathy Hochel to say

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Speaker 10: it's comical, but I don't know whether I should laugh

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Speaker 10: for cry. And we're stuck in New York here where

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Speaker 10: we lose the we lose theguvatory in elections. We have

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Speaker 10: forty two to forty five percent of the vote, but

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Speaker 10: Gerry Mantew went into their life, the state Senate and

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Speaker 10: look like. Kathy Hockel and California and Illinois hold might

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Speaker 10: be it. I live in New York. We do it

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Speaker 10: better than anybody.

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Speaker 4: Dan and Long Island representing the Strong Island well with

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Speaker 4: the call Dan, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: New York Times has a had a big deep dive

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Speaker 1: on this, and they said, again, I think the easiest

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Speaker 1: way to look at this is by the overall national

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Speaker 1: popular vote in who the votes are going to. Democrats

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Speaker 1: have benefited in twenty four Republicans should have had a

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Speaker 1: bigger majority than we did, and so it slants a

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Speaker 1: little bit left according to the New York Times, which

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Speaker 1: if they're saying, I feel like it's probably a little

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Speaker 1: bit left slanted right and maybe a little bit more

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Speaker 1: than a little bit more on this.

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Speaker 2: We come back appreciate y'all one day.

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Speaker 6: Dis