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Speaker 1: The reason that he shouldn't be president again is because,

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Speaker 1: according to Nicky Haley, he's a grumpy old man. That's

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Speaker 1: not what's wrong with Donald Trump, isn't. This is the warning.

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Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, February sixth, twenty twenty four, two hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy three days until the presidential election that will decide

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Speaker 1: the fate of the United States. The race will be

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Speaker 1: between President Biden and the worst president in American history

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Speaker 1: bar none, Donald Trump. Though in early February, hope springs

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Speaker 1: eternal for the Nicky Haley campaign, which according to the media,

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Speaker 1: has been flooded by donations in January. There's a reason

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Speaker 1: that there's old sayings like a day late and a

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Speaker 1: dollar short, because they have meaning. And for Nicki Haley

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Speaker 1: that statement applies because she's too late and all the

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Speaker 1: money in the world won't save her presidential campaign. Presidential

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Speaker 1: campaigns are completely different than senate or governor races. In fact,

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Speaker 1: the difference between running for president and running for governor

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Speaker 1: or the US Senate is like the difference between being

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Speaker 1: an astronaut and a commercial airline pilot. Both activities take

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Speaker 1: place off the ground, but that's about all they have

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Speaker 1: in common. They literally have nothing to do with one another.

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Speaker 1: Presidential campaign is a character test, and Nikki Haley's character

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Speaker 1: is wanting. David Axelrod, Barack Obama's chief strategist, summed it

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Speaker 1: up better than any other person ever has when he

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Speaker 1: said a presidential campaign is like an MRI for the soul.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is a disgrace. He is a convicted sexual

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Speaker 1: abuser who defamed his victim on multiple occasions, leading to

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Speaker 1: an eighty three million dollar judgment against him. Any person

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Speaker 1: who would do such a thing is a person of

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Speaker 1: such loathsome character that it defies articulation in English. Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump has been accused of assaulting dozens of women. He's

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Speaker 1: twice impeached. He's a dishonest crook who stiffed every businessman

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Speaker 1: that he's ever been involved with. Donald Trump shook down

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Speaker 1: the Ukrainian people, the nation, and the president. He was

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Speaker 1: the most dishonest man to ever sit in the Oval office.

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Speaker 1: He has been impeached twice, and in the end he

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Speaker 1: broke his oath and incited an insurrection. He's a pathological

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Speaker 1: liar who told more than thirty five thousand public lies

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Speaker 1: as president of the United States, and all that Nicky

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Speaker 1: Haley can think to say about Donald Trump. The reason

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Speaker 1: that he shouldn't be president again is because, according to

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Speaker 1: Nicky Haley, he's a grumpy old man. We can't be

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Speaker 1: okay with two eighty year olds running for president. Do

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Speaker 1: we really want to have two presidential candidates in their eighties?

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Speaker 1: And that's why Nicky Haley will lose. She lacks guts,

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Speaker 1: she lacks conviction, and she lacks honesty. Because that's not

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Speaker 1: what's wrong with Donald Trump, is it. It's not that

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Speaker 1: he's a grumpy old man. It's that he's a crazy

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Speaker 1: old man. It's that he's a dishonest old man. It's

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Speaker 1: that he's a pathological liar and an old man. He

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Speaker 1: is an old man who seeks to strangle the nation's

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Speaker 1: future by snuffing out its glorious past. He seeks to

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Speaker 1: break tradition and to depart with almost two one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty years of democracy by demanding that power is

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Speaker 1: his birthright, that he deserves to be some sort of

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Speaker 1: American king or emperor because he's the loudest person in

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Speaker 1: the room. Nonsense. What Donald Trump did is despicable, and

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Speaker 1: beyond that, it was a form of treason, He broke

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Speaker 1: his oath, he shattered it. He abused the American people.

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Speaker 1: His incompetence during the COVID crisis killed hundreds of thousands.

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Speaker 1: He added billions of dollars to the debt, He weakened

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Speaker 1: America's position in the world, and he turned the most

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Speaker 1: TV show set well seven years have passed. How's it going?

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Speaker 1: Is really the issue we have with Donald Trump? That

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Speaker 1: he's just a bit too grumpy, a bit too old,

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Speaker 1: Or maybe the problem we have with Donald Trump has

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Speaker 1: been caused by feckless, collaborating principalists, politicians like Nikki Haley

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Speaker 1: who believe in nothing will say anything, look you in

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Speaker 1: And the consequences of that, the accumulation of that, the

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Speaker 1: collapse of trust in every institution in the country wrought

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Speaker 1: by that has led us to the brink of the

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Speaker 1: abyss because it led us to President Donald Trump. Thank

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