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Speaker 1: I love it when we get to have a joint

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Speaker 1: address to Congress, to stay of the Union and Senator

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Speaker 1: Cruise and I get to do a combined podcast. Welcome

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Speaker 1: it is Verdict with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you,

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Speaker 1: and for my audience, you're gonna hear the same show

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 2: Senator you just I'm curious for a joint address. Do

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Speaker 2: you call your show Ben Ferguson with Ted Cruz.

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Speaker 1: That's all right, Ben Ferguson with Ted Cruz. That's a

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Speaker 1: great audible. I'm digging that right.

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Speaker 2: There you go. I'm just trying to help you out.

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Speaker 2: I like that.

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Speaker 1: And Ben Ferguson Podcasts with Ted Cruz. We'll get a

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Speaker 1: sign made, get a logo done.

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Speaker 3: I'm sold. I'm sold.

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Speaker 1: You just left the Joint Session Center and it was

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Speaker 1: one hell of a night. If there's anything you can say,

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Speaker 1: Democrats pretty much stood for.

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Speaker 3: Nothing like it at all.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, this is where doing the podcast is fun.

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Speaker 2: It is twelve twenty eight in the morning. I just

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Speaker 2: the State of the Union. I got to say it

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Speaker 2: was I think a spectacular State of the Union addressed

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Speaker 2: think it was triumphant. I think it was positive. I

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Speaker 2: think it was forward looking. I think it emphasized exactly

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Speaker 2: what you and I predicted in Monday's pod that he

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Speaker 2: was going to emphasize. It emphasized promises, made promises, kept

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Speaker 2: the victories we've seen in the first month and a

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Speaker 2: half of the presidency. But I got to say all

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Speaker 2: of that was overshadowed in many ways by the utterly

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Speaker 2: disgraceful behavior of the Democrats. It was something I've never

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Speaker 2: seen before. It was shocking, it was disrespectful, it was defiant,

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Speaker 2: it was delusional. We're gonna break it all down. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna break down the best parts of the speech, the

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Speaker 2: best things President Trump had to say, and we're going

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Speaker 2: to talk about what it indicates that today's Democrat party

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Speaker 2: stands for nothing, applat for nothing, does not cheer on America.

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Speaker 2: It is something never before seen at a State of

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Speaker 2: what it means.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was truly an incredible night, and like you said,

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Speaker 1: I think it's probably the best speech the presents ever given.

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Speaker 3: I want to start with what stole the show?

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Speaker 1: You mentioned in a second ago, and and you, I know,

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Speaker 1: probably had a mental list in your in your head.

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Speaker 1: the things that democratic lawmakers couldn't stand up to honor.

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Speaker 3: It's a long list.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but look, let's start with the very beginning of

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Speaker 2: I've been to thirteen State of the Union addresses. I've

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Speaker 2: There's a pageantry to it, there's something amazing. It's more

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Speaker 2: Their agendas were disgraceful and disastrous, but because I respect

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Speaker 2: because they've they've stolen my favorite game to play at

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Speaker 1: So, by the way, I know this game, and that's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we've talked about it in the pod before.

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Speaker 2: So the State of the Union address. Look, if your

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Speaker 1: But I want to see the stats, by the way,

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Speaker 2: So I so, I don't know. I could look at

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Speaker 1: Still, it was an emotional in there because I was

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Speaker 2: So I will say it was emotional, but it was true.

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Speaker 2: When you were in the chamber, we couldn't see the

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Speaker 2: the close up of his facial expressions was was really powerful.

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Speaker 2: They didn't stand for cutting taxes. They didn't stand for

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Speaker 2: What was that they stood and clapped for giving hundreds

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Speaker 2: of billions of dollars to Ukraine. There you go.

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Speaker 1: I knew there was a moment there and but the

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Speaker 2: So not everyone stood, but a number of them stood.

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Speaker 1: You go back to what you said about those emotional moments.

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Speaker 1: There was also moments in there that were good for

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Speaker 1: the American people.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and just policies.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can't clap for tax cuts, you can't

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Speaker 2: And yet that's what al Green was screaming about. And

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Speaker 1: I want to go back to one other point that

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Speaker 1: I guess you could just say, is in a sense

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Speaker 1: just completely lost. You had not a single Democrat applaud

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Speaker 1: Peyton McNabb who suffered brain damage after a volleyball spiked

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Speaker 1: That's how significant the injury was, and it made her

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Speaker 3: And they couldn't even clap for her.

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Speaker 2: No, not a Democrat clap for not one. And by

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Speaker 2: the way, just this past week, every single Democrat in

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Speaker 2: the Senate voted against protecting girls from boys competing in sports,

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Speaker 2: every one of them. And you know in the campaign listen,

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Speaker 2: in my reelection campaign, Colin all Red claims I don't

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Speaker 2: support boys playing in girls sports. Well, every Senate and

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Speaker 2: except the fact that he voted for it over and

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Speaker 2: over and over again, every single Senate Democrat when they're

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Speaker 2: on reelection campaigns they tell the voters, I don't support

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Speaker 2: boys and girls sports, and yet every single one of

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Speaker 2: them just voted for it, and not a one of

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Speaker 2: them applauded. I mean, it's the simple reality of how

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Speaker 2: extreme their party is.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: I will tell you one thing that that was particularly

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Speaker 2: meaningful to me was all the Texans whom President Trump

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Speaker 2: honored a night, including Alexis Nungary, the mom of Joscelyn. Now,

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Speaker 2: Alexis was going to be my guest tonight. Every senator

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Speaker 2: gets one guest, and I had invited Alexis. She was

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Speaker 2: coming up as my guest, and then the President invited her.

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Speaker 2: So she went and she was sitting with Milania Trump.

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Speaker 2: I was really grateful for the the for her being

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Speaker 2: invited by the President to come there. And then right

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Speaker 2: next to Milania Trump was Elliston Barry. And Elliston Berry

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Speaker 2: is someone also another Texan who was the inspiration for

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Speaker 2: the Take It Down Act. So, Elliston Barry's a fifteen

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Speaker 2: year old girl from North Texas from Aledo who, when

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Speaker 2: she was fourteen and a freshman in high school, a boy,

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Speaker 2: a classmate of hers, took an innocent social media picture

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Speaker 2: of her and used artificial intelligence to create a deep

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Speaker 2: fake naked image of her that appeared to be real

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Speaker 2: but it was fake, and then sent it to her classmates.

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Speaker 2: And she was the inspiration for my legislation to Take

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Speaker 2: It Down Act, which passed the Senate unanimously.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, how many times have you been

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Speaker 1: involved in legislation that was passed unanimously in your career

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Speaker 1: in the Senate.

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Speaker 2: A lot of times. I've passed one hundred and one

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Speaker 2: different pieces of legislation into law. A number of them

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Speaker 2: were unanimous, the Senate off And if you do the work,

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Speaker 2: you can bring people together and pass something. And actually,

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Speaker 2: just yesterday, the first Lady, Milanie Trump came to the Capitol,

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Speaker 2: first time she has this first lady the second term,

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Speaker 2: supporting the Take It Down Act, and we did a

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Speaker 2: round table, which we're gonna we're gonna talk about significantly

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Speaker 2: more on Friday's pod. But we did a round table

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Speaker 2: where Milania Trump heard from Elliston Berry, heard from other

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Speaker 2: victims of non consensual intimate images and called on the

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Speaker 2: House to pass the Take It Down Act. And President

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Speaker 2: Trump tonight called in the House to pass the date

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Speaker 2: Take It Down Act. So I was really glad the

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Speaker 2: two people directly next to to Malania Trump to her left,

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Speaker 2: where two Texans Elliston Berry and Alexis Nungary and and

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Speaker 2: and that made me very happy.

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Speaker 1: It was that that may have been one of the

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Speaker 1: best parts of the night. Let's talk about what this

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Speaker 1: looks like moving forward. I think the President's speech is

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Speaker 1: going to play very well with the American people. I

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Speaker 1: think it's going to help with momentum moving forward.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I also do think that the American people, in the

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Speaker 1: way they were watching this on TV saw the the

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Speaker 1: the shocking moments when they wouldn't stand for children that were,

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Speaker 1: you know, murdered by illegal immigrants, their families, police officers

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Speaker 1: die in the lie of dooy duty.

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Speaker 3: It was on the list.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you look at all of this, bringing an

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Speaker 1: American hostage home from Russia, by the way, they wouldn't

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Speaker 1: stand for that. That was another moment we left at earlier.

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Speaker 1: Were you shocked by that as well?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 2: And you and I covered Mark Fogel coming back, We

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Speaker 2: covered that on the podcast when had happened. That was

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Speaker 2: one of the multiple times I turned to the folks

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Speaker 2: around me and I'm like, what the hell is wrong

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Speaker 2: with these people? Like, like, how do you not. This

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Speaker 2: is not partisan. This is not I get that they

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Speaker 2: don't cheer for, you know, conservative ideas because they're all

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Speaker 2: wacko lefties, But how do you not cheer for things

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Speaker 2: that are just unambiguously good. And it's today's Democrat party,

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Speaker 2: it's accommodation. They become the party of hate and rage

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Speaker 2: and they're in denial. They don't know how to respond

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Speaker 2: to this election other than to fume and glare. And

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Speaker 2: I got to say, if you're an elected Democrat, how

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Speaker 2: do you think this is a good message to the

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Speaker 2: American people. We hate everyone and everything that's the Democrats like.

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Speaker 2: I don't get that.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't either. So what happens now? This is

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Speaker 1: my prediction. I think the presence proval rating is going

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Speaker 1: to stay solid and in certain categories, support on certain

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Speaker 1: issues will actually rise coming out of this State of

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Speaker 1: the Union. I think this is going to continue the

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Speaker 1: momentum on on things like DOGE and even in some

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Speaker 1: of the issues that we're talking about that are in

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Speaker 1: tough ones, whether it's dealing with Mexico and cartels, or

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Speaker 1: tariffs or Canada and fetanol. The list goes on and on.

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Speaker 1: I think same thing on Ukraine funding. I think this

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Speaker 1: could catapult him to even greater near term success. That's

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Speaker 1: a lot of political capital that obviously you want your

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Speaker 1: your prediction.

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Speaker 2: Look, I agree with you. I think the American people

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Speaker 2: are going to be happy with this speech. They're going

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Speaker 2: to be happy with the results. The American people are

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Speaker 2: happy with successes for America. And we're getting on the border,

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Speaker 2: seeing illegal immigrations and illegal boarding crossings drop over ninety percent.

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Speaker 2: That's an unambiguous victory. On energy, Seeing energy production going up,

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Speaker 2: seeing regulations being repealed, seeing wasteful spending being eliminated, those

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Speaker 2: are unambiguous victories. In terms of jobs, he went through

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Speaker 2: the investments, the investments on new investments, whether from Oracle

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Speaker 2: or Apple, or car companies bringing new factories here. Those

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Speaker 2: are big wins. Those are the sorts of things. Those

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Speaker 2: are the sorts of things. Frankly, when Joe Biden talked

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Speaker 2: about if you know, he had Democrats and their speeches

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Speaker 2: would talk about a new factory, and you know what,

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Speaker 2: the Republicans would all stand and chair, because, hey, a

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Speaker 2: new factory in America is a good thing. And we

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Speaker 2: even if we don't support many, if not most, of

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Speaker 2: Biden and Obama's policies. We cheer for the American people.

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Speaker 2: I think that the president's message was really strong, but

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Speaker 2: I also think the contrast with the Democrats made it

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Speaker 2: even stronger.

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Speaker 4: And so.

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Speaker 2: I think this was a good night for America, but

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Speaker 2: not a good night for today's Democrat party.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Great point. It's always fun to get to do a

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Speaker 1: We got to get a logo made for that one.

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