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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Buck Brief. RFK Junior officially.

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Speaker 1: Endorses Donald Trump. So this is a big move an

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Speaker 1: election that's going to be as tight as I think

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Speaker 2: This makes.

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Speaker 1: Me feel a little bit stronger about Trump's position. I

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Speaker 1: still feel very good overall that Trump will end up winning.

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Speaker 1: And here, oh well, there she is.

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Speaker 2: Here we go.

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Speaker 1: We got a little ginger appearance because it's a fun

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Speaker 1: time in the podcast. Eitherre she goes, She's very cute,

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Speaker 1: She came running into the studio as soon as I

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Speaker 1: started recording. Anyway, RFK Junior's endorsement is a good thing

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Speaker 1: for Trump, that's for sure. But I want to assess

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Speaker 1: it a little bit. I think there's a little more

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Speaker 1: to it than what we've seen so far. First of all,

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Speaker 1: his speech on the Democrat media being completely dishonest and

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Speaker 1: big corporations, big pharma, all of that being a huge problem.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I agree.

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Speaker 1: I thought that his speech laying out the problems of

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Speaker 1: America right now was powerful and very accurate, very incisive.

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Speaker 1: So that was the best part of it for me.

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Speaker 1: I also think that when you have a lifelong Democrat

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Speaker 1: is making a decision to switch and to support a Republican,

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Speaker 1: in this case, Donald Trump, that seems noteworthy to me.

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Speaker 1: It's especially noteworthy because Trump is supposed to be this

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Speaker 1: unique evil, this monster, this threat to the constitution and

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Speaker 1: our democracy and all this other stuff. But notice that

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Speaker 1: when somebody who is a third party candidate and not

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Speaker 1: that situation goes for Donald Trump, doesn't it poke a

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Speaker 1: they want to say. You know, it's not just somebody

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Speaker 1: There's a major Republican crossover endorsement of the same scale

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Speaker 1: as an RFK junior. People say, oh, what about in

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Speaker 1: No one's thought about in twenty years, and certainly not

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Speaker 1: So I do think it's significant in that sense. Is

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Speaker 1: it likely to change the trajectory of the election. Well,

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Speaker 1: the RFK endorsement? Will it be able to change the

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Speaker 1: RFK Junior himself realized, no, I'm hurting Trump by staying in.

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Speaker 2: It struck me as.

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Speaker 1: First off, he said that he's staying in in case

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Speaker 2: It was a little weird.

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Speaker 1: It was a weird thing to say, Okay, And I

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Speaker 2: They'll say, oh, well, what does it matter, he's endorsed Trump.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, he kind of endorsed him cause

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Speaker 1: the lesser of two evils. In my mind, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's maybe too strong. I think he sees some good

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Speaker 1: far as he's made the right move. I also think

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Speaker 1: And that's I mean, any sane person should know that

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Speaker 1: to say that there's all these answers to this, but

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Speaker 1: I understand to run in politics at this level, you

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Speaker 1: just saying and to me, RFK Junior crossed over into

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Speaker 2: Am I the only one who saw it this way?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, And I'm telling you, I'm a Trump guy,

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Speaker 1: so I'm sensitive to Hey, Okay, I'm glad that you're

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Speaker 1: trying to help, but you know, you could have helped

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Speaker 2: But is he a convert? Is he still a liberal

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Speaker 1: I just and I'm somebody who finds COVID to be

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Speaker 1: And I think it's not that I don't read about

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Speaker 1: He wants the war in Ukraine to end, good, me too.

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Speaker 1: There's some crossover. I think he realizes the wide open

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Speaker 2: So there's that. I mean, you know, that's not good.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, overall, very happy that he endorsed and it

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Speaker 1: was the right move. And you know, welcome to the

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Speaker 1: gears here for a second, events in Israel or fluid

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Speaker 1: for vulnerable Israelis trapped in bomb shelters. The website for

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Speaker 1: this is SUPPORTIFCJ dot org. That support IFCJ dot org.

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Speaker 1: All right, everybody, I'm signing off for this week of

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Speaker 1: the Buck Brief. I'm gonna be on vacation next week,

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Speaker 1: but lots more interviews and monos, monologues and other good

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Speaker 2: I will talk to you then. Shield Time