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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Buck Brief. Our friend Ned Ryan in

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Speaker 2: the mix right now. He's the founder and CEO of

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Speaker 2: American Majority.

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Speaker 1: Ned.

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Speaker 2: Always good to see you, man, Thanks for being here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely good to be with you. Buck.

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Speaker 2: So I know you amidst all of the oh my gosh,

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Speaker 2: what's going to happen? And Trump is facing all these trials,

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Speaker 2: you seem to be pretty confident that not only will

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Speaker 2: they fail to derail Trump legally, but that also the

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Speaker 2: public reaction to this might be more favorable to Trump

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Speaker 2: than the Democrats realize. Tell me more.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it really started dawning on me. I'll share

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Speaker 1: a little bit of an incident that took place. I

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Speaker 1: was golfing with my father in law, who not really political,

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Speaker 1: I would argue, not really a big fan of Trump's.

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Speaker 1: As we were golfing, he said, do you know, it's

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Speaker 1: really started to dawn on me? So I would consider

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Speaker 1: him Buck a normy, right, a normy. He doesn't really

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Speaker 1: follow politics. He votes, He's a pretty frequent voter. Not

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Speaker 1: the biggest fan of Trump, but all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: it's dawning on him that what's taking place with all

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Speaker 1: of these different lawsuits and charges being brought against Trump,

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Speaker 1: there's no real basis to this. This is political lawfare.

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Speaker 1: The basis of this is politics, trying to take out

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Speaker 1: Biden's chief political opponent. And so he was sharing with

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Speaker 1: me this conversation and more and more, I've been proposing

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Speaker 1: a theory. There are a lot of fatalists out there

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Speaker 1: that say one of these cases going to bring down Trump, right,

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Speaker 1: that it's going to take him down, take him off

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Speaker 1: the ballot, he will not be the nominee. I have

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Speaker 1: proposed a theory that people need to look at the

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Speaker 1: flip side of the coin and realize there might be

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Speaker 1: a real benefit for Trump here when it breaks on

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Speaker 1: the other normies out there that areld be voting in

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Speaker 1: the fall elections. This is political lawfare. And I'm starting

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Speaker 1: to see my theory play out pretty well. I think

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Speaker 1: the Color out of case from the Supreme Court last week,

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Speaker 1: I think it might go down nine to nothing.

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Speaker 3: Buck.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that it will. Obviously it's not gonna win,

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Speaker 1: but I think it will be a definitive rebuke of Colorado.

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Speaker 1: So there's one case gone, the Fanny Willis case in Georgia.

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Speaker 1: I think that's imploding in front of our eyes in

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Speaker 1: real time as we watch all this start to collapse.

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Speaker 2: I think I think Fannie Willis thinks to Fannie Willis

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Speaker 2: case is falling apart. I mean, I don't think that

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Speaker 2: that's much up for debate.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and now we're starting to see reports coming out

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Speaker 1: of from Breitbart that Bragg, Willis, and Smith we're all

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Speaker 1: meeting with the White House to coordinate their lawsuits against Trump.

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Speaker 1: As that starts to break into the public conscience, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna it's going to be more and more people realizing, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there was no basis for this. I mean, this is

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Speaker 1: literally a campaign tactic of the Biden White House to

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Speaker 1: take out their chief political opponent, but legal basis to it.

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Speaker 1: There really is no legal basis to anything that is

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Speaker 1: taking place. And I think we're going to see more

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Speaker 1: and more of these cases to fall apart as more

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Speaker 1: pressure is put on them as we move into the

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Speaker 1: spring and summer, and again during the summer, people going

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Speaker 1: to go they're trying to take out chief political opponent

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Speaker 1: with an abuse of the legal system. We're going to

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Speaker 1: be voting for Trump, and I think you're going to

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Speaker 2: I like how you're thinking on this one. Do you

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Speaker 2: see any any alarms going off for the people who

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Speaker 2: pay attention to races and know what's happening in swing

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Speaker 2: you know, swing district, Swing States. This third congressional in

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Speaker 2: Long Island that we lost, I think there's a case

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Speaker 2: you made that it just wasn't a strong candidate for

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Speaker 2: the Santos seat. I know there'll be another election soon

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Speaker 2: on this one, but you know, they they ran Trump,

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Speaker 2: democracy stuff, abortion stuff, and a candidate who was, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, on the abortion issue. I mean I saw a

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Speaker 1: But you can't fight something with nothing, and I think

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Speaker 1: Republicans have better start figuring out how they're going to

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Speaker 1: rape and incest. And it was actually, in what I

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Speaker 1: So any Republicans that were running for the state legislature

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Speaker 1: lot of them lost. But my takeaway from this special

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Speaker 1: some of the functional aspects of the elections in which

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Speaker 1: days the day after this to me is another lesson

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Speaker 1: for Republicans that they better learn coming into the fall elections.

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Speaker 3: Vote early.

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Speaker 1: If you don't want to vote by mail, go vote

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Speaker 1: in person early before election day. Again, there's so many

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Speaker 1: unforeseen things happen like a snowstorm on election day. Let's

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Speaker 1: get our votes in. And that's one of the things

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Speaker 1: I'm really really working out. But that gotten some good news.

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Speaker 1: We're going to get some good funding for American Majority Action.

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Speaker 1: We are going to be doing absentee ballot generation, absentee

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Speaker 1: ballot chase, and some key presidential battleground states to really

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Speaker 1: get Republicans to understand we've got to get eighty plus

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Speaker 1: percent of those absentee ballots in. Vote early, get your

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Speaker 1: vote in, thank it, do not wait until election day.

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Speaker 1: Let's start really getting that into our mindset. And if

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Speaker 1: we can do that, if we can get to eighty

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Speaker 1: But I will point out one thing that's a concern

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Speaker 1: to me. I know there's some lawsuits that are fighting this.

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Speaker 1: We have to look at Arizona. There's an issue in

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Speaker 1: Left's not going to sit there and go, oh gosh,

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Speaker 1: you know, we've got a Grand Paul dementia in the

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Speaker 1: White House. You know, we're all these different things. Trump's

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Speaker 1: going to win. Oh well, now, They're going to be

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Speaker 2: I totally agree. So I'm glad that someone's watching this

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Speaker 2: Trump's orbit, including Trump himself, because I believe, very strongly

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Speaker 2: ned this is going to be a tight battle no

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Speaker 2: matter what who is. People argue with me about, oh,

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Speaker 2: but Biden. So I'm like, I don't care how old

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Speaker 2: they show up on election day with you know, ninety

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is the problem.

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Speaker 1: But but I would say this book, it's because it's

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Speaker 1: not really about persuading voters anymore. It's how many ballots

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Speaker 1: actually collect. It has nothing to do with persuasion. It

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Speaker 1: has how many ballots are you going are you going

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 2: The vote machinery basically right, it's it's understanding exactly.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean you can put up a vegetable

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Speaker 1: And I keep on reminding people, Yeah, some of these

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Speaker 2: for the Senate?

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Speaker 3: I'm optimistic, I am.

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Speaker 1: I mean you look at the pickup opportunities in Montana,

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Speaker 1: even think Hogan in Maryland, Governor Hogan, who I'm not

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Speaker 2: Can I ask you this? And I'm not trying to

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Speaker 2: get your new troubles and Tho's a little controversy about

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Speaker 2: this in some other places recently, with some folks saying things,

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Speaker 2: is Hogan the best we can hope for in Maryland?

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Speaker 3: Though?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like Maryland is a communist state.

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Speaker 2: So are we going to do better than the weakest

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'll share a little bit of a story.

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Speaker 1: When my dad was in the House, one of his

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Speaker 1: nice gentleman. I would say we probably got sixty maybe

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Speaker 1: And guess what, I was great with that because that

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Speaker 1: the same is true with Larry Hogan. Larry Hogan gives

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Speaker 3: So how are you.

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Speaker 2: Feeling about Do you know Kerry Lake? Do you know

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Speaker 3: I do. I do very well, But I've mattered, We've talked.

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Speaker 3: If Cinema runs.

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Speaker 3: But if it's a three way race.

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Speaker 1: In which Cinema decides I'm running, I've raised enough money

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Speaker 3: She could do that.

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Speaker 1: But I have to tell you, Buck, of all the

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Speaker 2: And what about Montana against Tester the Democrat incumbent there,

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Speaker 2: They get a Chuck Schumer Democrat in Montana. You know,

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Speaker 1: I believe power of incumbency is very hard to beat

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Speaker 1: So there's some dynamics that still need to play out,

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Speaker 2: Let's talk Pennsylvania here in a second. But first up,

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Speaker 2: are you wondering where everyone's talking about Belize these days?

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Speaker 2: and God go to belizeesfun dot com. That's Belize is

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Speaker 2: fun dot com. Ned Pennsylvania, tell tell me that McCormick

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Speaker 3: Sure, is that what you want to hear?

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Speaker 2: Many I'm worried too, because the people I know who

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Speaker 1: I joked that Pennsylvania is you know, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: Sure can he win on a good night?

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Speaker 3: Maybe?

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Speaker 1: I have not looked at Pennsylvania. I've done electoral maps,

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Speaker 3: But who knows?

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Speaker 2: What's what are the flips from twenty twenty that you

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Speaker 3: I mean, listen, Arizona.

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Speaker 1: Despite my concerns about the non citizens getting federal ballots,

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Speaker 1: We've been doing some data work. There's one hundred and

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Speaker 3: As they should be.

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Speaker 1: And again it's a state that Trump only lost by

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Speaker 1: I have to tell you Georgia to me, I do

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Speaker 2: Who's Trump's VP going to be?

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Speaker 3: I have no idea. I really don't.

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Speaker 2: I I was honesteak.

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Speaker 1: I was a big fan of Kim Reynolds, governor of Byowa.

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Speaker 2: Do you have any crazy prediction that you feel confident

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Speaker 2: This is the good news. Ned are you going to

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Speaker 2: replay this if you're right? So you can just it

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Speaker 1: Ah, gosh, Okay, here we go. I'll make a prediction.

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Speaker 1: Republicans keep and add to their majority in the House,

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Speaker 1: we take back the Senate more convincingly than people think

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Speaker 1: we will, and Trump wins the White House to give

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Speaker 3: Coming into January of twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: All right, I like it. I like where your head

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Speaker 2: is on this one. My friend Ned Ryan, future White

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Speaker 2: House Chief of Staff, you heard it here first, Ned Ryan, everybody,

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Speaker 2: thank you for hanging out. Thanks for work you do

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Speaker 2: an American majority. We'll see you soon, buddy.

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