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Speaker 1: to our next guest. Oh, I don't know block block
Speaker 1: and a half. I think we can talk to him
Speaker 1: for five blocks this morning. Charles Gabriel is a three
Speaker 1: decade veteran of the Washington Wars. Mike, I've never seen
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks like it's been. I assume
Speaker 1: Mr Gabriel is not not either with Capital Alpha Partners.
Speaker 1: Chuck Gabriel, Good morning. Uh Ann Selzer is a hugely
Speaker 1: respected person counting voters and in polling out of Des Moines,
Speaker 1: she does bloom Bird Politics polls. And here's ther quote.
Speaker 1: Secretary Clinton's supporters are more enthusiastic than Mr Trump's. I
Speaker 1: was sort of surprised by that. Where's the level of
Speaker 1: enthusiasm as you look at the Washington meter right now? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a great point. Thanks thanks for having me Tom
Speaker 1: the you know, the we were supposed to have a
Speaker 1: motivation mismatch on behalf of Republicans with the cycle, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's a there's an anger management issue that's
Speaker 1: been forced in confronting both parties. Uh and and so
Speaker 1: to the extent that Mrs Clinton is much more of
Speaker 1: an establishment kennidate, you know, there was there was a
Speaker 1: sense that there was going to be less enthusiasm for her,
Speaker 1: but I think as things have going on, um, you know,
Speaker 1: Mr Trump has had a unique reality TV in your face,
Speaker 1: smash mouth way of of sort of creating, you know,
Speaker 1: interest on the on the part of some of the
Speaker 1: constituencies that have made up to the Obama coalition. And
Speaker 1: it's it's certainly you know, that's now the playbook that
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton is advancing me while Republicans are defending the Senate.
Speaker 1: Uh and really are you really are apoplectic about losing
Speaker 1: the opportunity to retake the White House with the Trump bids. So,
Speaker 1: you know, the mixture of the burlock sack full of
Speaker 1: kittens that is the Republican Party at this stage and
Speaker 1: the Democrats, you know, really very excited about the way
Speaker 1: uh that you know that Trump is energizing their constituency
Speaker 1: has led to exactly what you're talking about. Kittens. I
Speaker 1: don't know, kittens are cute. You might need a different
Speaker 1: animal analogy there. Uh, the bluebird pole Tom's referencing has
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton up twelve points over Donald Trump. And what
Speaker 1: I thought was interesting in it is that Hillary Clinton
Speaker 1: is up twelve points. And this poll was taken over
Speaker 1: the you know uh to a certain extent, over the
Speaker 1: time period of the Orlando attack. And the theory had
Speaker 1: been that if you had a terrorist attack, and it
Speaker 1: still hasn't been proven to really have any connection to uh,
Speaker 1: to radical Islam, as Donald Trump would say, but um,
Speaker 1: if you had a terrorist attack, then it would benefit him.
Speaker 1: It did not, right, And this is first poll that
Speaker 1: that overlaps the Orlando you know attacks, so it is.
Speaker 1: It is quite interesting. It certainly doesn't match up with
Speaker 1: a lot of the other polls. So I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not suggesting it's a uh, it's an outlier. Will have
Speaker 1: to see and and you know, certainly a part of
Speaker 1: it would also have to reflect a bit of a
Speaker 1: honeymoon bounce, if you will. After Mrs Clinton, you know,
Speaker 1: was names the historical presumptive nominee. Uh. This this, this
Speaker 1: looked like it might be uh convey a tremendous snap
Speaker 1: back advantage to Trump because it disrupted that that narrative
Speaker 1: about the Mrs Clinton's seizing of the nomination, you know, nineties,
Speaker 1: six years after women were given the right to vote.
Speaker 1: And it should be an issue that really would help
Speaker 1: Trump because he's made such a big, a big deal
Speaker 1: about the administration or the president not even being able
Speaker 1: to say radical Islam, you know, the things he's saying,
Speaker 1: uh certainly resonate with what we would call fo planned.
Speaker 1: But he doesn't seem to have gotten anywhere near the
Speaker 1: kind of bounce that he got after San Bernardino and Paris.
Speaker 1: That seems to have moved on and she actually she
Speaker 1: actually pulls better on the issue of who has seen
Speaker 1: best handling a crisis. So it's interesting that actually has
Speaker 1: played more to her strength based on where Trump has
Speaker 1: painted himself into a corner. Your pull your note rather
Speaker 1: is away from falls is a wonderful set of ideas
Speaker 1: on policy and linking it into our electoral process. Do
Speaker 1: you have any confidence that we can create policy however
Speaker 1: November happens. Yeah? Well, I think you know, our our
Speaker 1: group really thinks that the Senate could be really the
Speaker 1: unremarked important issue here. Uh. And I think our frankly,
Speaker 1: our next note that will go out our electional s repport,
Speaker 1: I think we're going to title it it's the Senate Stupid,
Speaker 1: because you know, there are number of things that point
Speaker 1: to the notion that Donald Trump could lose. It might
Speaker 1: will be a much closer race than people think. But
Speaker 1: the Republicans you might surprise folks by actually holding onto
Speaker 1: the Senate, you know, particularly if they're able to hold
Speaker 1: on to uh, you know, key seats like in Ohio
Speaker 1: with Rob portmund in New Hampshire with Kelly at very
Speaker 1: very important Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania. All of those candidates
Speaker 1: have been either even or just ahead of their competitors.
Speaker 1: They're they're dancing a little bit because they're being you know,
Speaker 1: hit with the Democratic attacks that they haven't embraced the
Speaker 1: Fine steam bill that would suggest anybody who's being uh
Speaker 1: surveilled or investigated as a potential terrorists shouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to buy guns. Amazingly, Republicans have had to resist that
Speaker 1: because they don't think that gives a due process. But
Speaker 1: you know, we would, we would sort of suggest that
Speaker 1: the odds of Mrs Clinton winning, perhaps not surprisingly are rising,
Speaker 1: even though it might still be close, but the Republicans
Speaker 1: holding go onto the Senate are are also potentially doing
Speaker 1: better than expected. In that scenario where she wins and
Speaker 1: you get a Republicans retained narrow Republican Senate and House
Speaker 1: is actually very very good for the markets and actually
Speaker 1: very very good if you want legislation. Let's come back
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Speaker 1: less economics, finance and investment, more policy and what we'll
Speaker 1: see coming forward. Like it's there's such a such a
Speaker 1: not desire but almost need to keep up with the
Speaker 1: tick by tick news of the two candidates. I mean
Speaker 1: it's just social media. You look at the Internet. You go, okay,
Speaker 1: what what Which of these two has given us the
Speaker 1: latest fix of silliness? So well, I don't think there's
Speaker 1: there any question about which one if you're talking about silliness. Um,
Speaker 1: but it's been a remarkable period and it is interesting
Speaker 1: that the public is not responding as we thought they might. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Where's things Stocks higher in the early going after declines
Speaker 1: to the last four sessions. Investors positioning ahead of the
Speaker 1: FED decision this afternoon. Doesn't seem like anything that's gonna
Speaker 1: happen at that meeting, which actually could be taken as
Speaker 1: a positive. People also keeping an eye on bregsit decision
Speaker 1: that is scheduled for next week. I had the economic
Speaker 1: data apps today, data showing the producer price index gained
Speaker 1: four tents of a percent. That was more than Fourecast,
Speaker 1: but a factory production that felt more than projected. For
Speaker 1: the month of May, we have the down Jones and
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Speaker 1: at two thousand eighty one. Has the Composite index four
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Speaker 1: of fifty seven Who checked the markets for you every
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Speaker 1: and Michael and Tom Jen Tucker, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that. Michael, you want to my greatest factor, Mr
Speaker 1: Gambriel when you want Yeah, well he's a uh you
Speaker 1: got check Abriel Courser in the political covernce for Capital
Speaker 1: Alpha Partners didn't doing this for thirty two years, still
Speaker 1: doing it and maybe you need time off. Maybe he
Speaker 1: had he had to stay around for this election. Ye.
Speaker 1: There are some headlines crossing here that bring us back
Speaker 1: to what you were talking about earlier and in the
Speaker 1: issue about the Senate. Harry Reid is on the Senate
Speaker 1: floor now saying Democrats are gonna push gun control at
Speaker 1: every opportunity. Is there any chance they can make an
Speaker 1: issue of this. I realized the numbers are against them
Speaker 1: and trying to get anything through both houses of Congress.
Speaker 1: But can it become a political issue in the fall? Uh?
Speaker 1: You know, doubtfully that would work to the advantage Mike
Speaker 1: of of the Democrats, because again, the polls in the
Speaker 1: in the public, you know, still support gun control. It's
Speaker 1: made to seem kind of silly that that Republicans is
Speaker 1: being supportive of uh, you know, of gun rights, just
Speaker 1: refused to take any losses. So um. And but they
Speaker 1: do still control the Senate. They still you know, the
Speaker 1: rules of the Senate are are are such that Harry
Speaker 1: Reid and the Democratic Minority. Uh, they can you know,
Speaker 1: try to either disrupt debate. They can they can try
Speaker 1: to add amendments to appropriations bills that the Senate sort
Speaker 1: of working its way through, but aren't must pass bills
Speaker 1: because ultimately we're gonna fund the government with a continuing resolution. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're just kind of buying time. But but you know,
Speaker 1: as we talked about earlier, doing a fairly good job
Speaker 1: of finessing this issue. While Mrs Clinton, you know, frankly
Speaker 1: at least initially has seemed to almost turn it to
Speaker 1: her advantage to the Democrats of any other issues, um
Speaker 1: that they can use legislatively to try to build a
Speaker 1: case for a change in Congress, or they've basically given
Speaker 1: the inactivity in Congress along for the ride with whatever
Speaker 1: happens in the presidential race. Well, it's funny, you know,
Speaker 1: Republicans make this very strong point that when Harry Reid
Speaker 1: was Majority leader in two thousand, two thousand fourteen, UH,
Speaker 1: they were only offered allow to offer a very small
Speaker 1: number of amendments because he's so ruthlessly controlled the debate.
Speaker 1: He didn't want his in cycle vulnerable incumbents to have
Speaker 1: to take difficult votes Republicans, you know, to the extent
Speaker 1: that you know, Democrats can make some issues, for instance,
Speaker 1: out of this Orlando issue. It's it's because Republicans now
Speaker 1: have UH and Mitch McConnell really have had a more
Speaker 1: open process. But but frankly, there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: real live issues that are are capturing you know, voters
Speaker 1: attention right now that are on the Senate floor. Tell
Speaker 1: us the agenda for Speaker Ryan as he staggers to
Speaker 1: the convention, I mean within the work of the House,
Speaker 1: and I guess his future prospects, what would you suggest,
Speaker 1: Speaker Ryan will say and critically not say as he
Speaker 1: tries to get to Cleveland one piece. Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: He it's it's you know, it's just it's such a
Speaker 1: metaphor for this tough position he's inherited because he should
Speaker 1: be doing, frankly, a bit of a victor lab because
Speaker 1: he was able to navigate to Puerto Rico debt release
Speaker 1: bill through last week, uh, and not even have to
Speaker 1: you know, do so with the minority of Republican voters.
Speaker 1: So that was frankly a huge triumph. That bill will
Speaker 1: pass in the Senate, you know, by July one, and
Speaker 1: we'll move on. He has a lot of Muslim minority
Speaker 1: voters up in the Upper Midwest, up in Wisconsin, in
Speaker 1: his states, so he has to be very careful on
Speaker 1: this issue and be very judicious. So he's definitely tap
Speaker 1: dancing to try to help his his you know, his party,
Speaker 1: his his caucus you know, have the ability to distance
Speaker 1: themselves somewhat from Trump without you know, disavowing Trump as
Speaker 1: the candidate. So it's he's he's done a good job
Speaker 1: so far, but it's you know the fact that with
Speaker 1: each one of these episodes where an advantage is to
Speaker 1: his turn to sort of a mixed if not disadvantaged
Speaker 1: by Trump. You know, the bloom has come off the
Speaker 1: rose and the party is really you wonder, Mike, how
Speaker 1: many more episodes? I don't have any anything to add.
Speaker 1: I wonder, Chuck, is it likely that we get you know,
Speaker 1: presuming this continues, and we have no reason to think
Speaker 1: it won't that the Republicans get to a point where
Speaker 1: they are better off ditching Trump. Well, I I think
Speaker 1: we might just sort of have a new equilibrium emerge,
Speaker 1: you know, going into and out of the convention where
Speaker 1: and this is this could be an incredible freak show convention.
Speaker 1: So this will be one of the more interesting ones
Speaker 1: that we've seen. And of course it's in Ohio, which
Speaker 1: is very key because if if because I was as
Speaker 1: I was saying earlier, it could be that all the
Speaker 1: money on the conservative side, including in the corporate community,
Speaker 1: really does flow not the Donald Trump and the presidential campaign,
Speaker 1: which often sucks the oxygen, the financial oxygen out of
Speaker 1: the battlefield. Instead it could go to keeping Republicans Senate.
Speaker 1: That could actually be helpful. If Hillary Clinton looks like
Speaker 1: she's going to win big, that could actually be helpful
Speaker 1: because you know, you don't have as much turnout as
Speaker 1: as you think. So there are a number of things
Speaker 1: that could help Republicans Senate and and one of the
Speaker 1: most important races is in Ohio with with Rob Portman.
Speaker 1: So but but I but I think that you know,
Speaker 1: the randomness of Donald Trump, the fact that he's winning
Speaker 1: it is going to lead increasingly, I think to a
Speaker 1: focus on a fallback strategy of focusing resources and energy
Speaker 1: on keeping the Senate and and and you know, and
Speaker 1: holding losses in the House to a minimum. And we'll
Speaker 1: see how that goes. It's been very difficult in the
Speaker 1: past for candidates to uh distance themselves from a you know,
Speaker 1: from a presidential ticket that's that's going down. But it's
Speaker 1: going to be we we still think it's going to
Speaker 1: be closer than people expect, just because Mrs Clinton still
Speaker 1: has their issues and this we still have several months
Speaker 1: ago obviously told November Mike, I just want to point
Speaker 1: out fractionally the German tenure yields move negatively and I
Speaker 1: don't want to overdo that, but we had a higher
Speaker 1: yield on it, and that's reverse itself. You're fractually, Chuck,
Speaker 1: what do you tell your investors, the investors who are
Speaker 1: your clients? Um to do at this point? I mean,
Speaker 1: what's your advice? Well? What near term? We've just warned that, um,
Speaker 1: you know, risks to you know of a Trump victory
Speaker 1: or you know, a sharp diversion from what we think
Speaker 1: is the conventional wisdom of conventional forecast is that Clinton
Speaker 1: will win, probably take along a Democratic Senate. You know,
Speaker 1: when when Trump seemed to be doing fairly well a
Speaker 1: month ago and Poles had him either up slightly or
Speaker 1: down a couple of points, we thought the risk of
Speaker 1: the forecast might be instead of a wipeout, that instead
Speaker 1: that you know, Trump could actually win, or republics that
Speaker 1: keep the Senate. Now I think they're concerns about a
Speaker 1: wipeout again. So uh, and just the randomness of miss
Speaker 1: Trump's comments, and now the re emergence of terrorism, you know,
Speaker 1: with a with a Washington debate in full flower, you
Speaker 1: know this this this will add perhaps another brick and
Speaker 1: a wall of worry that seems to have emerged here
Speaker 1: in June over the Brexit, you know, over the Fed
Speaker 1: the dot plot numbers that will we may see by tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So that's what we've been warning that in your term
Speaker 1: that you know, Washington's uh, you know, maybe we'll add
Speaker 1: to that. We don't think it will drive that because
Speaker 1: we think people assume that Clinton will win. That that's
Speaker 1: that's shown in the polls, uh, and that we assume
Speaker 1: that even if Trump were to win, you know, he
Speaker 1: would moderate. But then beyond that, we just have a
Speaker 1: number of analyzes about red stocks and blue stocks, and
Speaker 1: that's been fairly lopsided for a long time because the
Speaker 1: Democratic Redttoria and Charles Gabriel is with Capital Alpha Partners.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. A little long there, folks, but
Speaker 1: the political discourse is such somehow, I think, Mike, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how much we'll do with this. I really
Speaker 1: can't say how much we'll do with this, but it
Speaker 1: has been amazing. Was interesting to talk to Megan Murphy,
Speaker 1: particularly when I pronounced their name rectly this morning. She
Speaker 1: would like that, yeah, about um Mr Trump banning the
Speaker 1: Washington Post, that was that was for those of you worldwide.
Speaker 1: That was a bit of an uproar among media. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I would just say that it is It
Speaker 1: is our desire, given our show, to get to what
Speaker 1: Mr Gabriel was talking about, the red stocks in the
Speaker 1: blue stocks, who's going to benefit? What you should do,
Speaker 1: what you should think about. But there's so much noise
Speaker 1: between and you can't you can't figure it out. And
Speaker 1: I think you're your phrase and what to think about
Speaker 1: is important. It's not only in this world we live
Speaker 1: in now what to think about it, but it's what
Speaker 1: to push aside. And so when we talked to Chuck
Speaker 1: Gabriel and Greg Villier and Megan Murphy and others, maybe
Speaker 1: they help us say I don't have to read that
Speaker 1: or I don't have to think about that versus what matters.
Speaker 1: And you know again, I think the path is speaker
Speaker 1: Ryan here. In the coming days will be interesting for
Speaker 1: not only supporters of to trumpet supporters of Mrs Clinton
Speaker 1: to think about today the fact are you going to
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