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Speaker 1: suspect you know the ones on the right, but not

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Speaker 1: you know who Lauren Bobert and Marjorie Taylor Green are

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Speaker 1: Why is it that Colin Alert and Abigail Spanberger are

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Speaker 1: Or Let's talk about Colin Alret for a second. He's

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Speaker 1: running for the US Senate from the state of Texas,

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Speaker 1: and he may well be the general election candidate who

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Speaker 1: Ted Cruz, but whether he does or not doesn't really matter.

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Speaker 1: His character does, though, because there are profound lessons in it.

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Speaker 1: It was my privilege recently to spend some time with

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Speaker 1: Colin Allred on the Warning podcast. Let me tell you

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Speaker 1: a story about him. He never knew his father, He

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Speaker 1: was raised by his mother, but he found his way

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Speaker 1: to Baylor College and onto the football team. Colin Alred

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Speaker 1: says that if not for football, all of the good

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Speaker 1: He played it very, very well and hard. He loved

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Speaker 1: I'm going to law school now. And he did, and

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Speaker 1: then he went on to serve his country in the

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Speaker 1: He's a person of character, pragmatism, common sense. Why don't

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Speaker 1: you know his name? Abigail Spanberger could have done anything

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Speaker 1: you know her name? Why has it she been made

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Speaker 1: a household name by the American media like these two loons.

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Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green is a loon, a nutjob. That's what

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Speaker 1: she would have been thought of, seen as, and called

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Speaker 1: is that these people may do, and wherever they may

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Speaker 1: in Washington by two people, Kevin McCarthy and Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy needed Marjorie Taylor Green because Marjorie Taylor Green.

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Speaker 1: At the moment Kevin McCarthy needed votes, was viewed as

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Speaker 1: siding with Lauren Bobert in their feud. The Freedom Caucus

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Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor or Green should have been laughed at, should

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Speaker 1: have been derided. Any decent, normal person with a position

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Speaker 1: Lassitude it's the word for the type of political indifference,

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Speaker 1: We have a lassitude problem in America. We have an

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Speaker 1: perhaps the most unfit member of Congress in a sea

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Speaker 1: But Marjorie Taylor Green has thrived in this era? How

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Speaker 1: much let's take in this quote. It is astounding. Marjorie

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Speaker 1: Taylor Green is thinking about our future. Will she be

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Speaker 1: it possible that Marjorie Taylor Green will be the vice

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Speaker 1: it is. It's entirely possible that thousands of MAGA Republicans

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Speaker 1: Though Trump is collapsing, whose improval levels are down to

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Speaker 1: thirty five percent, the American people can see through the

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Speaker 1: seeing insanity at hand. The American people know that we

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Speaker 1: The American people understand, though our criminal justice system is

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Speaker 1: though Marjorie Taylor Green is not amongst them. We should

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Speaker 1: never be in favor of broad generalizations, and certainly there's

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Speaker 1: no such thing as collective guilt. Marjorie Taylor Green won

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Speaker 1: that because Donald Trump's numbers are slipping and the people

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Speaker 1: Her time is nearly up. Her fantasies are growing hotter,

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Speaker 1: but understand they're delusional. Like her political views, like her

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Speaker 1: anti Semitic conspiracies, and like her belief that Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: What type of sick society would ever put this woman

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