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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics,

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Speaker 1: where we discussed the top political headlines with some of

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Speaker 1: today's best minds and Elon Musk jumped up and down

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Speaker 1: at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Do with that

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Speaker 1: information what you will? We have such a great show

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Speaker 1: for you today. The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson takes the

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Speaker 1: temperature of VP Harris's presidential campaign. Then we'll talk to

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Speaker 1: Laura Gillen, who is running against Congressman Anthony di Esposito

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Speaker 1: in New York's fourth District, a hotly contested race.

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Speaker 2: But first the news.

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Speaker 3: So Mary, Governor Walls did the thing that a lot

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Speaker 3: of people get testy about as he went on Fox News,

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Speaker 3: and I think it went pretty well. Why don't we

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Speaker 3: listen to him real quick? Can you tell us what

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Speaker 4: I want to talk of that abortion too, because this

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Speaker 4: came up at the debate. It's been a winning argument

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Speaker 4: for Democrats on many ballots. But I want to clarify

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Speaker 4: what the law is there in Minnesota. Abortion Finder, a

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Speaker 4: website that helps women find access, says abortion is legal

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Speaker 4: throughout pregnancy in Minnesota. There is no ban or limit

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Speaker 4: on abortion in Minnesota. Based on how far along in

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Speaker 4: a pregnancy you are, you sign the bill that makes

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Speaker 2: All nine months.

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Speaker 4: Is that a position you think Democrats should advocate for nationally?

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Speaker 5: Look, the Vice President, I have been clear the restoration

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Speaker 5: way to make our own the law. The law is

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Speaker 5: very clear. It does not change that that has been

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Speaker 4: Itzy, let what you signed is there's not a single

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Speaker 4: limit through nine months of pregnancy. Row had a trimester

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Speaker 4: framework that did have limits through the pregnancy. The Minnesota

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Speaker 5: This puts This puts the decision with the woman in

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Speaker 5: her healthcare providers. The situation we have is when you

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Speaker 5: don't have the ability of healthcare providers to provide that,

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Speaker 5: This doesn't change anything. It puts the decision back on

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Speaker 5: this is simply something to be brought up.

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Speaker 3: Tis to be very clear.

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Speaker 5: Donald Trump's asking for a nation wide abortion bank, and

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Speaker 5: again we don't see this.

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Speaker 4: She said repeatedly that she will not sign a national

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Speaker 4: abortion band. Are you calling that just it's a flat

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Speaker 5: Yes, of course, and Senator Vance has in the past

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Speaker 5: an election issue. We see it as a right of

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Speaker 5: the states like my state have the ability to put that.

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Speaker 5: In states like Georgia force women to cross the border,

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people have wanted Walls to

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Speaker 1: because honestly, these fucking dishonest Fox News hosts right like,

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Speaker 1: Vance is already numerous times on various podcasts in podcasts

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Speaker 1: And I think he's going to continue to debunk these

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Speaker 1: Nobody is having a last trimester abortion unless the baby

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Speaker 6: Rick Wilson Junk Fast. How are you on this fine day.

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Speaker 1: Well, your day is better than mine because you're in

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Speaker 1: The last couple days, there's been a real vibes based

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Speaker 6: Here's the thing, Mally, Hillary in the last few weeks

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Speaker 6: And look, I just don't see this race right now

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Speaker 6: at the fundamentals level. The vibes level is always going

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Speaker 6: If it was a national race, it would be over

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Speaker 1: Is what happened in Wisconsin, Right, you mean this year, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Liz Cheney talk, yeah.

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Speaker 6: My organization, Our organization is pounding away every single day.

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Speaker 6: Say to Republicans, this is not your values. These people

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Speaker 6: You don't have to do this anymore. You're not stuck

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Speaker 6: Well, let me stay with Donald Trump. Donald Trump's always

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Speaker 6: So right now you have Kamala Harris with very solid

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Speaker 6: that contest that had to head poles matter, they had

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Speaker 6: this thing, Molly. The fundamentals are all in her stack

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Speaker 1: I need you to do two seconds on the jump,

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Speaker 6: of it. He's now bought into it. I don't think

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Speaker 6: that I've ever seen two thirsty your motherfuckers on a

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Speaker 6: stage together I don't know that it means anything beyond

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Speaker 6: inside the red pill works.

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Speaker 1: Right, So let's just for a second talk about the hurricane,

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Speaker 1: because there is a lot of anxiety in the mainstream

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Speaker 1: media that this hurricane could be there's another hurricane.

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Speaker 2: I don't have to tell you. You both live in Florida.

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Speaker 1: There's another hurricane coming that's going to hit just the

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Speaker 1: state weirdly, like they're coming for Desantas.

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Speaker 6: Great to the town I was born in Tampa, Florida,

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Speaker 6: like a freight train right now, it's a Cat three

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Speaker 6: or Cat four on impact. It's already an area that

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Speaker 6: was so super saturated and so flooded just ten days ago.

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Speaker 6: Now that there's a lot of concerns that this could

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Speaker 6: be a truly catastrophic impact on Tampa. And look, this

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Speaker 6: is again, since they control the weather, I don't know

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Speaker 6: why they're going right at a area.

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Speaker 1: I was just I was about to say, like, this

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Speaker 1: is bad for the Jews. We tend not to control

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Speaker 1: hurricanes during yamki Bar, but I just was curious. So,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we have like these this hurricane, the first hurricane,

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Speaker 1: and the second hurricane, the first hurricane. Still the cleanup

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Speaker 1: is not done. There's a disinformation barrage right with Laura Lumer.

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Speaker 1: It's somewhere in the close to the helm, and there

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Speaker 1: are Republicans. Does Tom Tillis ever say like enough is

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Speaker 1: enough here or now?

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Speaker 6: All the Republican governors, Republican governor of Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee,

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Speaker 6: and Virginia, our old buddy Glenn Younkin, all of them said,

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Speaker 6: FEMA's working great, We're doing our best. It's hard work,

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Speaker 6: and look, I'm really angry about it, Moy. For one

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Speaker 6: reason is that I know how many of this emergency

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Speaker 6: operations stuff, how complicated it is, how difficult it is.

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Speaker 6: There are tens of thousands of FEMA workers, National guardsmen,

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Speaker 6: You've got state emergency operations people. You've got volunteers from

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Speaker 6: the Red Cross. You've got people from the rescue organizations

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Speaker 6: like the Cajun Navy and South in Louisiana and Virginia

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Speaker 6: water rescue people. You've got World Central Kitchen. You've got

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Speaker 6: all these folks trying to do a great job down there. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 6: on the MAGA side of this, they are out there

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Speaker 6: lying their asses off and saying, oh, well, they can't

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Speaker 6: be rescued because immigrants took all the money. It is

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Speaker 6: just so crude and stupid, and.

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Speaker 1: It's also totally fascinating, right because Trump used FEMA money

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Speaker 1: for immigrants.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly actly. He used FEMA money to pay for

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Speaker 6: kids in cages and some other immigration stuff during his terms.

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Speaker 6: But Biden has not. And the problem with Elon right

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Speaker 6: now controls the largest social media site in our politics.

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Speaker 6: He's been spreading this misinformation at a level that, as

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Speaker 6: Trump would say, no one's ever seen before. I don't

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Speaker 6: think there's a situation right now where we can do

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Speaker 6: much about it. I mean, they're going to do this.

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Speaker 6: This is feeding the right wing media machine, and they've

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Speaker 6: been desperate to get Trump on a new strategic tack,

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Speaker 6: and this is what they're trying to do it with.

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Speaker 6: I don't think it's going to work. And I'll tell

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Speaker 6: you why. The practical nature of the logistics of western

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Speaker 6: North Carolina and the rescue effort, you know, those folks

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Speaker 6: are those folks are largely going to be offline for

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Speaker 6: the next month. The roads, the comms, the cell service,

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Speaker 6: the power. It's going to be slowly rebuilt. It's not

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Speaker 6: going to be rebuilt because Donald Trump is tweeting stupid shit.

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Speaker 6: It's going to be in trucks in their neighborhood. But

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Speaker 6: government has done a full press on them. I know

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Speaker 6: people from every you know, federal agency are on the

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Speaker 6: ground there trying to make this thing less of a

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Speaker 6: devastating historical event and to repair it quickly. Now, I

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Speaker 6: will say this, in Florida, I'm absolutely fucking livid. I'm

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Speaker 6: furious beyond words that Ron de Santis has once again

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Speaker 6: fucked his own state because we have spent the last

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Speaker 6: three years of his administration in a war on woke

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Speaker 6: And luckily we were lesbian in school, but we highest

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Speaker 6: property insurance rates in the country. We are totally unprepared

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Speaker 6: for another storm of the category that Milton will be

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Speaker 6: hitting one of the largest metro areas in Florida. The

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Speaker 6: current track, it's going to run through Tampa and head

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Speaker 6: over to Orlando. This is not great news. This is

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Speaker 6: a bad thing. And so you know, DeSantis has deployed

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Speaker 6: all these Florida resources up to North Carolina in an

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Speaker 6: effort to play the game of oh Vima won't help

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Speaker 6: them because of the immigrants. But he's now going to

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Speaker 6: be under the gun again. This is a guy who

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Speaker 6: years now has ignored a gigantic red alert issue for

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Speaker 6: the people of Florida. When even Rick Scott and Marco

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Speaker 6: Rubio are separating from Ron DeSantis on this next storm,

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Speaker 6: that's a big deal. That's how incompetent this leadership has

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Speaker 6: been and how completely arrogant he's been to think that

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Speaker 6: the only thing we needed in the state of Florida

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Speaker 6: was to make sure no one said that we're gay

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Speaker 6: in a classroom.

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Speaker 1: Right that it turns out that that does not prevent

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Speaker 1: climate change.

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Speaker 6: Strangely enough, thank you, Rick Wilson. I wanted to give

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Speaker 6: you one more piece of optimistic news right now. In

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Speaker 6: early voting, okay, early voting, and in early ballot requests,

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Speaker 6: the Democrats are running at about a sixty percent to

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Speaker 6: thirty percent ratio over Republican ballot requests and early voting requests.

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Speaker 6: So that is up from twenty twenty two, and it

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Speaker 6: is up by a lot from twenty twenty. The program

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Speaker 6: that's been run by the Harris campaign in that regard

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Speaker 6: to get out the vote early is working. It is

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Speaker 6: that fraction.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that is very good, Rick Wilson, Thank you all.

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Speaker 6: We're welcome.

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Speaker 2: Are you concerned?

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Speaker 1: About Project twenty twenty five and how awful Trump's second

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Speaker 1: term could be. Well, so are we, which is why

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Speaker 1: we teamed up with iHeart to make a limited series

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Speaker 1: with the experts on what a disaster Project twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: five would be for America's future. Right now, we have

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Speaker 1: just released the final episode of this five episode series.

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Speaker 1: They're all available by looking up Molly Jong Fast Project

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five on YouTube, and if you are more

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Speaker 1: of a podcast person and not say a YouTuber, you

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Speaker 1: can hit play and put your phone in the lock

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Speaker 1: screen and it will play back just like a podcast.

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Speaker 1: All five episodes are online now. We need to educate

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Speaker 1: Americans on what Trump's second term would or could due

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Speaker 1: to this.

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Speaker 2: Country, so please watch it and spread the word.

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Speaker 1: Laura Gillon is the Democratic No in New York's fourth district.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Too Fast Politics.

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Speaker 7: Laura, Thank you, Mollie. Excited to be here.

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Speaker 2: You are running for Congress.

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Speaker 1: Tell us what your district is, what it looks like,

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Speaker 1: give us a little sort of two minute explainer on

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Speaker 1: your race.

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Speaker 7: Okay, so my district is New York for it's a

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Speaker 7: district on the island. It's the south shore of NASA County.

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Speaker 7: It is a district that is wonderfully diverse.

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Speaker 2: It's a district I have really deep roots.

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Speaker 7: My Italian immigrant grandfather king with his young family and

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Speaker 7: settled in the district in a town called Baldwin and

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Speaker 7: got a job in the town of Himstead as a

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Speaker 7: sanitation worker and worked on the back of a garbage truck.

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Speaker 7: My mother grew up where there is no money for

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Speaker 7: girls to go to college, so she did not have

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Speaker 7: that opportunity, but do their sacrifices, I was able to

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Speaker 7: go to Georgetown, and in two generations we saw my

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Speaker 7: family go from the back of the garbage truck to

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Speaker 7: the owners CEO's office when I was elected supervisor and

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Speaker 7: CEO of that same town, the town of Hempstead, which

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Speaker 7: is the largest town in America. So my congressional district,

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Speaker 7: District four is largely comprised of the town of Hempstead,

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Speaker 7: with the city of Long Beach added.

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Speaker 2: To it as well. So it's a district that I represented.

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Speaker 1: Already explain to us a little bit about your opponent

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Speaker 1: and his recent scandals.

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Speaker 7: So look, you know, Anthony dis Gazito was just there

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Speaker 7: was just reporting in the New York Times a thorough

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Speaker 7: investigative report that you know, found that you know, as

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Speaker 7: soon as he got into Congress, he put his fiance's

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Speaker 7: daughter on his congressional payroll, which is against nepotism rules.

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Speaker 7: You know, Well, let the Ethics Committee decide. But it

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Speaker 7: appears that it could violate the House rules of ethics.

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Speaker 7: And then kind of inexplicably, but his mistress on the

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Speaker 7: payroll with his fiance's daughter in his district office.

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Speaker 2: There is a rule in.

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Speaker 7: The ethics community that you can't, i think, be having

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Speaker 7: a sexual relationship with someone who's on your role, and

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Speaker 7: so it appears that that would violate the ethics role.

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Speaker 7: But again we'll let the Ethics committee decide whether or

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Speaker 7: not there's a violation there. But it shows a lot

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Speaker 7: about his values. Yeah, I think it shows a lot

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Speaker 7: about his intelligence.

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Speaker 2: It's a sitcom, but not a good sitcom.

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Speaker 7: No. But see, this is the thing, like the taxpayers

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Speaker 7: were left holding the bag west thirty thousand dollars that

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Speaker 7: were paid to these women and all of these those

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Speaker 7: payments stopped, by the way, is because he got caught

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Speaker 7: because the mistress's husband told. And this is what I

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Speaker 7: think what's reported in the new York Times told the

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Speaker 7: son of the fiance, and so that that's what ended

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Speaker 7: the marriage and ended the payments to these women. But

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Speaker 7: the taxpayers shouldn't be paying for this, like this is

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Speaker 7: the kind of nepotism cronyism that I ran to extinguish

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Speaker 7: in the town of Henstead. He was peddling it there.

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Speaker 7: He got reprimanded at a Supreme court for doing this

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Speaker 7: kind of stuff in the town of Hempstead, and he

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Speaker 7: still continued to do it in his commrecial office. Peoples

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Speaker 7: are sick of this stuff. They want epicators who are

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Speaker 7: just going to go and fall problems and start making

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Speaker 7: their lives better instead of finger pointing and carrying on

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Speaker 7: this kind of nonsense in their office.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I am actually very excited to have you on

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Speaker 1: this podcast because I heard you speak at an Emily's

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Speaker 1: List lunch and you were really great, and I actually

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Speaker 1: made the effort to get you because, first of all,

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, Democrats lost a bunch of seats

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Speaker 1: that were in Biden districts or very competitive Swingy districts.

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Speaker 2: And maybe that.

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Speaker 1: Was because of the governor, and maybe it was because

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Speaker 1: of the midterm, but sort of Democrats took their eye

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Speaker 1: off the ball. You are one of those seats, and

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Speaker 1: you have this amazing story of having worked in the

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Speaker 1: district and coming from the district.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yes, I.

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Speaker 7: Mean look in twenty twenty two, I can say in

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Speaker 7: my race it was a couple of things.

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Speaker 2: It was mostly lack of resources.

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Speaker 7: You thought in the race really late because nobody was

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Speaker 7: expecting being combig Democrat Cathleen Rights to retire, so I

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Speaker 7: had a very short runway to raise the resources you

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Speaker 7: need to win an election in the most expensive media market.

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Speaker 7: And then we had redistricting which kicked our primaries to August,

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Speaker 7: so you know, I was I'd spend a lot of

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Speaker 7: money on an expensive primary at the end of August

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Speaker 7: and then start to refill my coffers in September when

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Speaker 7: you're supposed to be kicking into full gear television and

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Speaker 7: try to raise money again. And no one in DC

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Speaker 7: thought took this race seriously. Unfortunately, they thought it was

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Speaker 7: a safe seat. We kept trying to tell them it

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Speaker 7: is not safe. But the news is that has all

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Speaker 7: been corrected this citing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it really has been.

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Speaker 1: The d triple C has been and I think just

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Speaker 1: really putting their foot on the gas. Talk to me

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Speaker 1: about what that looks like for you. Yeah, this has

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Speaker 1: been a totally different race for me. Got in really early,

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Speaker 1: so I'd had that long runway to raise the resources

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Speaker 1: I need to make sure we're on TV communicating with

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Speaker 1: voters telling them what's at stake in this election and

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Speaker 1: how important it is that they come out and vote,

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Speaker 1: and that they come out and vote for me. So

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Speaker 1: we've had great fundraising. We just finished K three with

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Speaker 1: a really amazing number. We raised two point four million

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Speaker 1: in T three, But that money's going right out the door.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's so expensive to run these ads that

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Speaker 1: you see on TV on cable, so researchers are something

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Speaker 1: we always need more of and are happy to accept.

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Speaker 1: But also we have an organizing strategy that has really

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Speaker 1: not been seen in Nasha County other than perhaps for

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Speaker 1: the special election of Tom Swasey in February, which worked, Yes, exactly.

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Speaker 2: It worked.

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Speaker 7: It's constituency driven organizing, making sure we have we are

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Speaker 7: reaching out to all our different ethnic groups, religious groups,

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Speaker 7: and just engaging all these communities and getting them excited

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Speaker 7: about the election and coming out to vote. I think

676
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 7: we knocked ninety thousand doors already, and people are coming

677
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:12,360
Speaker 7: from not just this district but from other places because

678
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,879
Speaker 7: they know how pritically important it is that we win

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Speaker 7: this seat. Because this is a seat we can win.

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Speaker 7: If Democrats come out to vote, we are going to win.

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Speaker 7: We have a registration edge. We just need people to

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Speaker 7: come out to vote. That's what went wrong in twenty

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Speaker 7: twenty two. It's low turnout.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't have.

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Speaker 7: The resources to get people out and had this field organization.

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Speaker 7: On the Republican side, they had Les Delden working this

687
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Speaker 7: area really real hard because he knew the only way

688
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Speaker 7: he could get to that governor's mansion is every like

689
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Speaker 7: mad up person onlinely came out to vote, so.

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Speaker 2: He worked this area hard.

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Speaker 7: They only had midterm drop off on the Republican side

692
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Speaker 7: of thirty thousand voters in this district. On our side,

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Speaker 7: we had drop off of one hundred thousand voters and

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Speaker 7: I only lost by nine seven hundred votes. If ten

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Speaker 7: percent were Democrats showed up, I would be in Congress

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Speaker 7: right now. So we're not letting that happen this cycle.

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Speaker 1: What I think is very interesting about these quote unquote

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Speaker 1: moderate Republicans right like Desposito Lawler, This crew are pretending

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Speaker 1: that they're moderates, but the reality is they go into

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Speaker 1: Congress and they vote for every crazy Mike Johnson thing. Right,

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Speaker 1: So they voted to impeach Biden, they voted to impeach

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Speaker 1: my orcists. All of them have done the same kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff that Trumpers do, right, I mean, they have

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Speaker 1: voting records. Ds Posito has a voting record that's almost

705
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Speaker 1: the same as Marjorie Taylor Green.

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Speaker 7: Right, Yes, and he said he respects Marjorie Taylor Green.

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Speaker 2: Amazing Marjorie Taylor Green.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, but yesterday she

709
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: tweeted about how Jews they could be Jews could not

710
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: be Jews. Sounds like Jews as a Jew, tend to

711
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,280
Speaker 1: feel like she's talking about me can control the weather.

712
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Speaker 1: I mean, so if you're I mean, so you're running

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Speaker 1: against someone who respects her, Yes, said it to Jake Tapper.

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Speaker 1: I believe that's amazing, but it is. I mean, it's like,

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised at how like the mainstream media is so

716
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Speaker 1: desperate to have normal Republicans that they'll put people like

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Speaker 1: ds Posito and Lawler on television when they really are

718
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Speaker 1: not mainstream Republicans not.

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Speaker 7: He has voted and he voted for Mike Johnson to

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Speaker 7: be Speaker of the House. He is as right as

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Speaker 7: you can get. He sponsored the Life at Conception Act

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Speaker 7: of a national abortion Band no exceptions. That the most

723
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Speaker 7: traconian law that you can imagine, no idea he voted

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Speaker 7: for him. I mean, he is so out of line

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Speaker 7: with the values of this district. He even voted for

726
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Speaker 7: that bill to restore Confederate monuments at Arlington Cemetery. Twenty

727
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 7: percent of this district are black and brown people. Right

728
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 7: to restore a Confederate monument. He is not moderate. He

729
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 7: will do whatever what his party bosses telling him to do.

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Speaker 2: That's so crazy.

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Speaker 1: But I think also it's important to realize that if

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Speaker 1: Democrats are able to take back the House, there'll be

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Speaker 1: a check God forbid. You know, you guys will if

734
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Speaker 1: you are elected to Congress, certify the election and if

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Speaker 1: Trump wins, which will be catastrophic for everything from climate

736
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Speaker 1: to democracy. But do you think that you know, at

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Speaker 1: least you guys will be able to provide a check

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Speaker 1: on that, right?

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Speaker 7: Absolutely? I mean that is why this race, and these

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Speaker 7: really top targeted races are so crucial. For our democracy

741
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Speaker 7: because we don't know what's going to happen in the Senate.

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Speaker 2: It's a tough map.

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Speaker 7: We don't know what's going to happen for the White

744
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Speaker 7: House because it looks like it's going to be a

745
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Speaker 7: tight race. We can get the House back if we

746
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Speaker 7: win the seats. These are winnable races as long as

747
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Speaker 7: we have the resources and the people. The body's knocking

748
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Speaker 7: on the doors to get people out to vote, because

749
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Speaker 7: we need to have at least one branch of the

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Speaker 7: government to protect us from whatever might come out of

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Speaker 7: the White House or the Senate.

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Speaker 2: If we lose control of the Senate. Yeah, it's really important.

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Speaker 1: And if Democrats pook the House and Harris wins, which

754
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Speaker 1: is what all of us who believe in democracy would like,

755
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Speaker 1: what will happen is that you guys will be there

756
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Speaker 1: to swear her in and to certify the election. We

757
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 1: won't have to worry about whether or not Mike Johnson

758
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 1: feels like certifying the election, right.

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00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 2: Right, or he's afraid to certify the election. It's such

760
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Speaker 2: a crazy thing.

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Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about what your district looks like,

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Speaker 1: because it's a really interesting district.

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Speaker 7: Yes, it's a wonderfully diverse district. It's about in terms

764
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Speaker 7: of demographics, twenty percent Black, about sixteen percent Latino, roughly

765
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Speaker 7: seven percent AAPI, and then the balance would be white.

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Speaker 7: And we had a lot of different We have the Bytowns,

767
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Speaker 7: which is startably a very large Jewish area of the district.

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Speaker 7: It's become more orthodox now. It's a very compact district.

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Speaker 7: It runs from Garden City, Westberry, down to our beaches,

770
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Speaker 7: from the Queen's Border and out to the Wantass Seaford area.

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Speaker 1: Can you tell us a little bit about what you're

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Speaker 1: doing to win in your district? It's ads, but it's

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Speaker 1: also what events going around, door knocking, What are people

774
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Speaker 1: doing for you and what are you doing?

775
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Speaker 7: Yeah, so we are you know, look, we are hard

776
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Speaker 7: at work. I am in this race to win it.

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Speaker 7: We are knocking on doors. We opened up six offices

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Speaker 7: across the district. We're doing meet and greets, We're doing

779
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Speaker 7: coffee meetings. We're going to start doing train stations. That's

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Speaker 7: a typical way you campaign.

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Speaker 2: On Long Island.

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Speaker 7: You go to Long Island Railroad train station in the

783
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Speaker 7: morning and top on their way to work.

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Speaker 2: So we're going to start that.

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Speaker 7: I think next week, and you know, raising the money

786
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Speaker 7: that we need to pay for these ads and pay

787
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Speaker 7: for the mail because that's a really important tool to

788
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Speaker 7: communicate to voters.

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Speaker 2: What are the concerns that you're hearing?

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Speaker 6: Like?

791
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Speaker 2: What are people?

792
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Speaker 1: I mean, do people understand what a danger trump Ism is?

793
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Speaker 1: Do they remember that? Are you hearing about inflation? What

794
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 1: are you hearing?

795
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Speaker 7: Well, there's definitely one thing that has really resonated, I

796
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 7: think since twenty twenty two, since the Dobbs decision is

797
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 7: the real threat to our reproductive freedom. I think in

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Speaker 7: blue states there is a certain complacency after dob like, Oh,

799
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Speaker 7: we're safe in New York, So I'm not as worried

800
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Speaker 7: about that. Now people are seeing what the aftermath of

801
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Speaker 7: Dobbs is. That Clarence Thomas laid it out in his

802
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 7: concurring opinion that they're not just coming for choice, They're

803
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 7: coming for IVF were contraception, They're going to come for

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Speaker 7: LGBTQ rights. That was just the beginning, and we're seeing

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Speaker 7: this play out in some of the red states now

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Speaker 7: where women are dying because they're not getting health care

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Speaker 7: that they need. And so it's an issue that people know,

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Speaker 7: whatever the Republicans of the fake modern Republicans are saying,

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Speaker 7: now when push comes to shove and get pushed to

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Speaker 7: sign a national abortion bill, if the Republicans are in charge,

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Speaker 7: that is what it's going to happen. They're not fooling

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Speaker 7: people on that issue. So that's an issue that a

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Speaker 7: lot of people are concerned about. I mean, look, they're

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Speaker 7: concerned about the cost of living. This is a really

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Speaker 7: expensive place to live. Losing that state and local tax

816
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Speaker 7: deduction really hurts people. We pay among the highest property taxes.

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Speaker 7: And you know, my opponent, Anthony Dias Canzita said he's

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Speaker 7: going to get us that tax deduction back. He's been

819
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Speaker 7: in the majority for almost two years and he hasn't.

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Speaker 7: So cost of living concerns is a really big issue here.

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Speaker 7: And quite frankly, the border is a really big issue.

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Speaker 7: People are really concerned about it because they saw the

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Speaker 7: forty thousand migrants that were busted to New York City

824
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Speaker 7: by Greg Abbott, a move by the way that my

825
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 7: opponent applauded instead it was a good move to do.

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Speaker 7: And they're concerned about the border. They're concerned about fentanyl

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Speaker 7: coming across the border, and so it's an issue that

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Speaker 7: needs to be tackled. And you know, again, this is

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Speaker 7: typical of my opponent and some of his colleagues. They're

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Speaker 7: talking about it, they're campaigning on it, they're saying it's

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Speaker 7: a crisis, it's a disaster. But they're the ones in power,

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Speaker 7: they are in the majority, and they're not doing anything

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Speaker 7: to fix the problem because they're just trying to campaign

834
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Speaker 7: on it. Two years they've done nothing.

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Speaker 1: When Harris gave her speech at the border, she actually

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Speaker 1: talked in a really detailed way about how to stop

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Speaker 1: the flow of fentanyl, and she explained that there are

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Speaker 1: two cartels that are bringing much of the fentanyl in,

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Speaker 1: and then there are the different components of fentanyl, some

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Speaker 1: of which comes I mean, it just all comes from

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Speaker 1: different places.

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Speaker 2: And how you would do that?

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Speaker 1: Do you think that voters got that message and processed it,

844
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Speaker 1: And do you think that there's enough of a like

845
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Speaker 1: she actually has a plan to stop fentanyl.

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Speaker 2: I think it.

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Speaker 7: Needs to be amplified. I think she needs to put

848
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Speaker 7: it out in more paid communications what her plan is,

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Speaker 7: and you know, and her experience as a prosecutor and

850
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Speaker 7: how she knows how to tackle this problem. I think

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00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 7: I think it would be helpful for her to like

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00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 7: really amplify that message because it is a message that

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Speaker 7: is not just a top issue in my district. I'm

854
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,240
Speaker 7: hearing it from my other candidates and running in other districts.

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Speaker 7: It's it's a real concern and it should be a concern.

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Speaker 7: Our immigration system has been broken for a long time.

857
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Speaker 7: It needs to be fixed. We need people to get

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Speaker 7: the political courage to reach across the aisle because you

859
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 7: no matter who wins, our majorities are not going to

860
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Speaker 7: be like they needs to be in the past because

861
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Speaker 7: the way districts have been gerrymandered and the majority is

862
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 7: not going to be that large. So if you want

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Speaker 7: a comprehensive legislation with the buying of the American people

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Speaker 7: that's going to last and not just be thrown out

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Speaker 7: when you know when the next election happens, you need

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Speaker 7: to have by parties in leadership. We saw that going

867
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Speaker 7: forward in the Senate. Right, we saw that bill. It

868
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Speaker 7: was a hard fought compromise, but Donald Trump wanted to

869
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Speaker 7: campaign on it, so he killed it. Was that ill perfect,

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Speaker 7: probably not perfect. It didn't address certain things that we

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00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 7: wanted to address. It might not have bet on it

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Speaker 7: be aggressive as aggressive that it should have been in

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Speaker 7: some parts, but it was a compromise and it was

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Speaker 7: a step forward. And what we've had then is nothing.

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Speaker 7: So this is something that absolutely must happen in the

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Speaker 7: next Congress, and it must be done in a bipartisan fashion.

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Speaker 7: And that's what we're not seeing from the Republican members

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Speaker 7: of the House. They just sat on their hands and

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Speaker 7: the bill that they did pass had no input from Democrats.

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Speaker 7: Now one Democrats lined off on that bill. So that's

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Speaker 7: performative politics, that's not legislating, right, right, right.

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Speaker 1: What do you think the Harris campaign could be doing

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Speaker 1: better that would help you when in your discher I.

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Speaker 7: Think it's great that she's talking a lot about Project

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Speaker 7: twenty twenty five and some of the dangerous things in there.

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Speaker 7: I think talking about the border and articulating how she's

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Speaker 7: going to work to solve that crisis. I think that

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Speaker 7: and what executive power she will bring to the table

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Speaker 7: to solve to try to help work with Congress to

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Speaker 7: solve the crisis, I think that would be very helpful.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that voters understand that there was a

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Speaker 1: real agreement and Trump killed it or now?

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Speaker 7: I do think that they understand that I think that

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Speaker 7: certain people don't care. I think people who are undecided

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Speaker 7: or more open minded about it can see quite clearly.

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Speaker 7: I mean, this is not just this is not hyperbole,

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Speaker 7: This is information.

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Speaker 2: This is what happened.

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Speaker 7: So and you have Republicans saying like this was one

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Speaker 7: of the most conservative bills that we could have passed ever,

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Speaker 7: and they killed it like their own plan is calling

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Speaker 7: them out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, James Langford from Oklahoma, thank you, thank you, thank you, Laura,

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Speaker 1: thank you so.

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Speaker 3: Much, Noon Rick Wilson, Malla Jeong Fast.

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Speaker 2: Do you want to know what my moment of fakery is?

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Speaker 6: I certainly do.

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Speaker 2: There's a member of the Trump family who.

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Speaker 1: Despises me in a way that I feel Eric should,

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Speaker 1: but I'm just not even on his radar. Do you

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Speaker 1: know who that member the Trump family is.

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Speaker 6: That'd be Cochley von Felsson.

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Speaker 1: It would be fayle Son von felsn Don Junior, who

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Speaker 1: recently tweeted that I was getting my own show. It

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Speaker 1: was not true, but it was so infuriating to him

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Speaker 1: that it captured his imagination anyway. Read a piece in

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Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal by Molly Ball where she says

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Speaker 1: that actually the New gatekeeper of Donald Trump. Well, in

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, it was his beautiful and totally, i want

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Speaker 1: to say, enabling daughter.

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Speaker 6: Definitely not the subject of any bizarre of his incess fantasies.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and also not complicit in all ways that she's

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Speaker 1: now moved on to Miami and trying to make it

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Speaker 1: in high society. Her brother, who is really bubble down

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Speaker 1: on the basist instincts of trump Ism, is now, according

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Speaker 1: to this piece in the Wall Street Journal, his daddy's gatekeeper.

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Speaker 1: You know, I was having a few days where I

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Speaker 1: was like, I'm definitely not going to get MO. I'm

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Speaker 1: not on anyone's radar. I'm not going to get MO.

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Speaker 1: But wow, I'm definitely going to get MO. So that

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Speaker 1: is Donald Trump Junior sending me to Gitmo. Is my

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Speaker 1: moment of fuckery? Rick Wilson, what's your moment of fuckery?

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Speaker 6: Leela Suckery? Is the entire maga right wing media ecosystem

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Speaker 6: right now that are lying their asses off about what's

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Speaker 6: happening in North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, and Florida.

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Speaker 6: These people are sick. They are stoking these insane conspiracy

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Speaker 6: theories that range from Marjorie Taylor Green saying they control

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Speaker 6: the weather, to these lies that immigrants are getting hundreds

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Speaker 6: of thousands of dollars a year but everyone else in

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Speaker 6: the zone of the hurricane is only going to get

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Speaker 6: seven hundred and fifty dollars. All these lies are ratcheting

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Speaker 6: up a sense of despair and these conspiracy for no reason.

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Speaker 6: And you're seeing how thoroughly effective the right wing media

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Speaker 6: ecosystem is at breaking the mental constructs that should underpin

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Speaker 6: people's thoughts about the world and turning them into this

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Speaker 6: bizarro fantasy land. I mean, and I know they don't

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Speaker 6: fucking care. It is horrible for this country what they're doing.

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Speaker 6: It is terrible for this country. And Elon is the

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Speaker 6: chief these rocket fuel for this stuff, and he has

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Speaker 6: been a promulgator of some of the worst and most

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Speaker 6: destructive of these stories. So that's my moment of fuckeray.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Rick Wilson.

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Speaker 6: Yuh.

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