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Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.

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Speaker 3: Good Friday morning. Nice to have you with us on

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Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got two big

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Speaker 3: new polling datas shows Donald Trump is in a better

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Speaker 3: position than other former presidents at this point in his presidency.

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Speaker 3: So who is he beating? Well, that'll give them even

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Speaker 3: more nightmares, I'll tell you in just a moment. Also,

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Speaker 3: Barack Obama comes out advocating for jerrymandering in Virginia. What's

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Speaker 3: behind the plan that as well? It's the forty seven

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Speaker 2: Story number one, Well, we've got.

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Speaker 3: Good news to start with, and that is that President

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Speaker 3: this point in his presidency. This is a recipe for disaster.

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Speaker 3: For the midterms for the Democrats. They were hoping that

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Speaker 3: But what's happening right now is President Trump is literally

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Speaker 3: it after doing their pulling, saying that MAGA and America

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Speaker 4: Listen, Republicans love Donald Trump more than any president's own

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Speaker 4: Six percent of Republicans approve of the job that Donald

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Speaker 4: this point. Trump's magic touch has not seen the war

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Speaker 1: And what kind of approval are we talking about here?

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Speaker 4: strong approval among your own parties base, which is he

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Speaker 3: what's interesting about this is that you have a guy

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Speaker 5: Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy,

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Speaker 5: This is the responsible thing to do. It's also a

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Speaker 5: back to a system that lets a bipartisan redistricted commission

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Speaker 3: Now in that ad where clearly the godfather of the

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Speaker 3: And again there's something you also need to understand. The

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Speaker 3: in a free and fair election cycle. When it's heads up.

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Speaker 3: So we got to change the districts to make it

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Speaker 3: There is nothing for you here. Now, part of it

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Speaker 3: socialists where Marxists, we're communists. We are going to go

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Speaker 3: not welcome here. You won't have representation here, You'll have

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Speaker 3: That is a problem. This is the Democratic Party. And

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Speaker 3: when Donald Trump is out there fighting for all of us,

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Speaker 3: notice when things get Democrats go, no, no, we're just gonna

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Speaker 3: You don't exist, we will shut you down. And now

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Speaker 3: Barack Obama's come out and set it very clearly. If

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Speaker 3: we can't win, we will cheat, and we will Jerrymander

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Speaker 3: and every conservative better get ready and fight back because

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Speaker 3: this is what Donald Trump's up against in the midterm elections.

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Speaker 3: They are going to steal the House and then they're

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Speaker 3: gonna use it to weaponize government to go after Trump

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Speaker 3: and any ally of Donald Trump. Mark my word.

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