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Speaker 2: Ashley Brassfield of The Daily Caller joins us to talk

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Speaker 2: about the elections this week. About the shutdown, she covers

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Speaker 2: a lot of Capitol Hill in DC lives in our

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Speaker 2: nation's capital. Let's start with this, governments still shut down.

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Speaker 2: What are the people on the Hill saying? Like? We

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Speaker 2: got air traffic controllers that are now going to get

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Speaker 2: cut down to like ten percent of them or something,

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Speaker 2: aren't going to be showing up because they're not getting paid.

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Speaker 2: We got chaos at the airports DC. What's happening?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what I'm hearing just from today.

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Speaker 3: I was just at lunch and then with a bunch

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Speaker 3: of staffers and honestly, they don't even know, they don't

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Speaker 3: know when it's opening, is what I'm hearing. And so

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Speaker 3: I don't know what type of I guess energy that expects.

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Speaker 3: But you know, a bunch of Democrat senators are actually

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Speaker 3: expecting to meet tonight, so maybe there's a plan there

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Speaker 3: to come. Of course, we saw the Rose Garden meeting

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Speaker 3: President Trump. We're talking about filibuster and nuking that. So

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Speaker 3: that's part of the conversation happening right now, But it

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Speaker 3: doesn't sound like as of you know, three o'clock to day,

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of movement currently.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of wild because I think the belief on

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Speaker 2: from a lot of places was that as soon as

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Speaker 2: the election's over, like this was all a game to

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Speaker 2: get people upset, do more turnout. For Northern Virginia, a

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Speaker 2: lot of government bureaucrats and contractors and such live there.

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Speaker 2: They'll be ticked off, they'll show up and vote. But

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Speaker 2: now we can all stop, right, But it sounds like

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Speaker 2: there isn't some imminent go back to the government as

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Speaker 2: usual strategy, Like where where is this? Where does this

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Speaker 2: send up?

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Speaker 3: You think, well, remember the first marker was these no

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Speaker 3: Kings protests that were happening back in October with Chuck Schumer.

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Speaker 3: We were guessing maybe that was going to be the

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Speaker 3: thing that you know, set it in motion to where

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Speaker 3: they'd start coming to the table with Democrats to negotiate.

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Speaker 1: And now we had the elections.

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Speaker 3: That's the second marker, right, And now here we have

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Speaker 3: Thanksgiving coming up, and nothing seemed to be happening right now.

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Speaker 3: So I wonder a lot of the time how much

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Speaker 3: the American people I actually believe who's winning the pr

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Speaker 3: stalemate that's going on right now between Republicans and Democrats.

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Speaker 3: It seems like Democrats are starting to be able to

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Speaker 3: hold out. You're starting to wonder, Okay, well, are these

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Speaker 3: Senate staffers going to be paid or the congressional staffer

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Speaker 3: is going to be paid, And that's going to be

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Speaker 3: the thing that really, you know, twists their arm to

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Speaker 3: open the government here. But I mean, I've always thought

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Speaker 3: in my mind, when it starts affecting the American people,

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Speaker 3: say Thanksgiving, travel, when you're missing flights, when you're not

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Speaker 3: able to you know, do things and widespread That's my

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Speaker 3: thought is when it starts affecting the American people, which

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Speaker 3: I still think right now. Honestly, a lot of American people,

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Speaker 3: I think they're no, that's starting to have an effect

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Speaker 3: that they do know there is a shutdown occurring a

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Speaker 3: little bit, but it's now just starting when it comes

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Speaker 3: to what they believe is happening.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of DC, you know, I was down there. Gosh,

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Speaker 2: I can't remember. I got back from Taiwan and I

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Speaker 2: went right to DC. And it was Depentagon and it was,

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Speaker 2: but I just remember it in that order because the

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Speaker 2: streets were the shutdown was going on, and it had

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Speaker 2: I could get anywhere in DC in five minutes. And

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Speaker 2: it also did feel safer to me. And I don't

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Speaker 2: know if that's just because Trump is saying it and

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Speaker 2: I believe Big Papa Trump or I don't know, but

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Speaker 2: how is that going, Like the safety component of DC

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Speaker 2: with that whole National Guard and all the Trump stuff,

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Speaker 2: has that borne fruit?

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Speaker 3: I do think so. I think crime has definitely gone down.

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Speaker 3: I mean the presence. I live in Navy Yard in DC,

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Speaker 3: and that's been one of the higher youth crime rate

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Speaker 1: Specifically, I always.

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Speaker 3: See National Guard when I'm getting off the subway in

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Speaker 3: safe that the National Guard's there.

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Speaker 1: Their presence is definitely a deterrence.

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Speaker 3: I would say on Halloween you might have seen videos

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Speaker 3: go viral there was kind of a brawl taking place

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Speaker 3: in Navy Yard, but guess what National Guard was there

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Speaker 3: to handle it? Police presence is very heavy there. So

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Speaker 3: I think it shows that there is this is a

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Speaker 3: You know, we have Janine Piro in charge, but there's

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Speaker 3: it has to be a violent crime in order for

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Speaker 3: them to be prosecuted in any way, or you know,

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Speaker 3: there's no parents involved, So what's the consequence here for

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Speaker 1: So there is a there.

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Speaker 2: Is It's okay, have you met Judge Janin yet?

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Speaker 1: I have not, but I'd love to.

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Speaker 2: I was going to say, you have you interviewed her?

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Speaker 2: She's she's great. She's a sassy lady. Let me tell

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Speaker 2: you yeah, yeah, yeah, she's she's got some spunk. For sure,

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Speaker 2: you would not you would not want to be a

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Speaker 2: criminal on the wrong side of prosecutor Judge Janine. I

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I think she's also is she's shown frustration.

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Speaker 3: I can tell this in interviews of not being able

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Speaker 3: to prosecut all these people. I mean, you saw, you know,

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Speaker 3: the Doje guy big Balls, has all these you know,

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Speaker 3: They're getting let off still, so there is still that

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Speaker 3: aspect that's being battled back against. But like the National

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Speaker 3: Guard things, it has been a huge deterrence in my opinion,

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Speaker 3: especially where I live, and this is a it's a

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Speaker 3: major Republican area, and you still have this issue in

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Speaker 3: the city that a lot of Republicans live in the

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Speaker 2: right across the river actually from Virginia. I know you

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Speaker 2: know that, but just a situation, Just a situation. So

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Speaker 2: just in case you're unaware, you live very close to Virginia. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you can actually take the metro to Virginia if you

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Speaker 2: want to. And the Virginia race was I think the

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Speaker 2: one that we weren't expecting that Republicans were at least

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Speaker 2: I wasn't expecting that Republicans were going to win it,

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Speaker 2: but I did think it would be closer, and particularly

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Speaker 2: the AG side be closer. What is your what's kind

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Speaker 2: of your after action report on what went wrong for

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Speaker 2: the GOP ticket in Virginia.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So, I think when it comes down to the arguments

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Speaker 3: being made right now, they talk a lot about the

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Speaker 3: cultural issues. It was too much a shift on the

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Speaker 3: cultural issues with you know, transgenderism being playing that major factor.

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Speaker 3: We saw this in twenty twenty one, the debate moment

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Speaker 3: with Terry mccauliffe against Glenn Younkin. You got to remember it.

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Speaker 3: During that time period, we were coming out of COVID.

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Speaker 3: A lot of parents were angry at these school board meetings.

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Speaker 3: So I think just setting that up alone kind of

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Speaker 3: shows the difference culturally what was going on in the moment.

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Speaker 3: I think there was a lot of focus still there,

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Speaker 3: and I think people do care about it. But also

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Speaker 3: I think this government shut down probably played a factor.

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Speaker 3: There was multiple things, but I think you're right about

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Speaker 3: the ag race. I think we were all very shocked

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Speaker 3: guess I had concern about how many.

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Speaker 1: Voters were actually aware of what was going on.

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Speaker 3: And there was a scene an exit poll that I

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Speaker 3: found very fascinating. It was a fifty five percent of

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Speaker 3: you know, you put a lot of thought into that

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Speaker 3: after the reckless driving charge, a special prosecutor being put

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Speaker 3: came right after Charlie Kirk's assassination, So I questioned how

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Speaker 3: much the message actually got out you have the factor

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Speaker 3: that a lot of people don't show up for midterms,

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Speaker 3: low provinsity voters showing up within the state, as well

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Speaker 3: was an October surprise came in October first and October third,

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Speaker 1: I do think it was a GOP.

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Speaker 3: Failure due to the fact that we took back the

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Speaker 2: Was there a sense that the Winsome Sears campaign was

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Speaker 2: underperforming what the GOP expectations were for Virginia or was

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Speaker 2: it essentially what was thought to be possible, Like, how

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Speaker 2: would you gauge how that one ended up.

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Speaker 3: I'll be completely honest. I think the excitement behind the

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Speaker 3: candidate was lacking. I think there was a push on

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Speaker 3: the from the presidential side to give an endorsement with Mierez.

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Speaker 3: Sears came later. He didn't name her. It was in

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Speaker 3: a gaggle on Air Force one that that came. It

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Speaker 3: So I think that those two things played a factor.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how much that would have gained for her,

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Speaker 3: but I do think as a candidate, the excitement and

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Speaker 3: then you know, like I said before, the Terry mcculloff

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Speaker 3: that election in my opinion.

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Speaker 1: And that's the thing.

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Speaker 3: Though we saw a debate performance with Abigail Spamber and

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Speaker 3: when some Seers and I mean when some Seers dominated

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Speaker 3: Spamber and that debate performance, it's just I think the

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Speaker 3: question is that early voting and low profensity voter aspect

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Speaker 3: in that state that was very interesting. I think it

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Speaker 3: differed a lot from the New Jersey in New York City,

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Speaker 3: Mary Or elections, and I think that's the one that

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Speaker 3: we Republicans really need to take a hard look at.

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Speaker 2: I would say, well, that's perfect because I want to

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Speaker 2: ask because you're twenty five and you're a woman, and

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Speaker 2: yet my senses, as you work at the Daily Caller,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to need you. I'm going to need you

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Speaker 2: Maybe Ashley Brassfield work. Can everyone go to follow your work?

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Speaker 1: You follow me on x at Field Ashley and Instagram.

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Speaker 2: Brassfield excellent. Thank you,