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Speaker 1: membership Today one, I think the Democrats have a huge problem.

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Speaker 1: I was just up on the hill met with all

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Speaker 1: I think the Democrats can get through a clean continue

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Speaker 1: probably not certainly, but probably get through the death Sailing

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Speaker 1: because the consequence of not passing it are so enormous

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Speaker 1: in retaliation for not getting the big government socialist bill,

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Speaker 1: the Bernie Sanders Bill. It's clear if you've been watching

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Speaker 1: when Center Mansion yesterday said any bill would have to

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Speaker 1: include the High Amendment, which is the amendment that says

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Speaker 1: no taxpayer money can go to pay for abortions. Well,

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Speaker 1: on the left, that's just a declaration of war. And

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Speaker 1: the reason is Pelosi can organize the unions and she

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Speaker 1: she can bring enormous pressure to bear on you. But

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Speaker 1: if you're a left wing Democrat, the activist are you,

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Speaker 1: easily see this blow up now. Pelosi has been a

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Speaker 1: She runs a dictatorship. Up till now, things have worked

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Speaker 1: It is a significant breakdown. We are making real progress,

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Speaker 1: I think, on communicating that big government socialism is a

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Speaker 1: all right. Question is from a Roy purchase. Roy asked,

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Speaker 1: Somebody had an event, I think yesterday of the day before,

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Speaker 1: My question was, is there among the Democrat donor class

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