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Speaker 1: Luck and Load from Michael Verie Show is on the air.

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Speaker 1: That American dream is slipping away. I don't have to

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Speaker 1: tell you that you're feeling your lives. You see in

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Speaker 1: your shrinking wages, in the cost of everything from groceries

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Speaker 1: to healthcare, to college to filling.

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Speaker 2: Up your car at the gas station.

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Speaker 1: It keeps going up and up and up, and the

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Speaker 1: future keeps receding further and further and further away. That

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Speaker 1: really speaks to a lot of pessimism here about the

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Speaker 1: American dream. How it feels like it's out of region.

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Speaker 1: You know, home ownership for too many people in our

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Speaker 1: country now is elusive. You know, gone is the day

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Speaker 1: of everyone thinking they could actually live the American dream.

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Speaker 3: I'm here today with a message of hope for all Americans.

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Speaker 3: With your vote in this election, I will end inflation,

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Speaker 3: I will stop the invasion, and I will bring back

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Speaker 3: the American dream.

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Speaker 2: You know me.

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Speaker 1: When you're not starng and I'll me you pray now,

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Speaker 1: help you can. We're winning by a lot.

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Speaker 2: We're leading by a lot, We're leading.

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Speaker 1: In the balls.

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Speaker 3: Every single state looks like we are. And with your

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Speaker 3: supporter November fifth, America will.

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Speaker 2: Be bigger better, boulder, richer, safer, and stronger than ever before.

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Speaker 3: You know me.

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Speaker 1: When you're not small, and I'll be your brain. I'll

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Speaker 1: help you can.

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Speaker 3: For those who abandoned hope, we'll restore hope, and we'll

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Speaker 3: welcome them into a great national crusade to make America

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Speaker 3: great again.

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Speaker 2: And that's why I'm here today, That's why I'm standing

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Speaker 2: before you, because we are going to finish what we start.

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Speaker 2: That we started something that was America. We're going to

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Speaker 2: complete the mission. We're going to see this battle through

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Speaker 2: to ultimate victory.

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Speaker 3: We're going to make America great again.

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Speaker 1: No need somebody.

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Speaker 3: This election is a choice between whether we will have

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Speaker 3: a four think of this.

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Speaker 1: Four more years. I could you stand it. It's four

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Speaker 1: more years of.

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Speaker 3: Incompetence, stupidity, and failure and disaster, or whether we will

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Speaker 3: begin the four greatest years in the history of our country.

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Speaker 1: I think we have a real chair make America great again.

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Speaker 2: And quite simply put, we will very quickly make America

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Speaker 2: great again.

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Speaker 1: We broadcasting as I do from Houston, Texas. We are

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Speaker 1: today a bit the day after the Super Bowl. We

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Speaker 1: had our big primary yesterday, and that means that everybody

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Speaker 1: who does what I do, and every activist, candidate, consultant, operative,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of odors are today a bit beleaguered.

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Speaker 1: We've been in the throes of primary season. It was

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Speaker 1: the first primary of the year Texas, Arkansas, and I

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Speaker 1: think North Carolina had primaries yesterday. A number of races

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Speaker 1: will go to runoffs, and unfortunately those runoffs are way

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Speaker 1: down the road, ten weeks away, and that's, in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: a terrible thing because people lose interest. It also means

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Speaker 1: election year where the most important wins are in November,

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Speaker 1: you spend another two and a half months with two

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Speaker 1: of money. Speaking of money, John Cornyn, who is a

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Speaker 1: four term US Senator, he would end if he's reelected,

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Speaker 1: he would end at eighty years old. He would be

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Speaker 1: in the Senate. And you know, President Trump is seventy nine.

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Speaker 1: But President Trump is a very different seventy nine than

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Speaker 1: John Cornyn. But John Cornyn was on the ballot and

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Speaker 1: he had two challengers, the Attorney General Ken Paxton and

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Speaker 1: Congressman Wesley Hunt, and Cornyn actually surprisingly led going into

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Speaker 1: Wesley Hunt. He made it his campaign. DC made it

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Speaker 1: very personal and very nasty. Now do you think Wesley

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Speaker 1: Hunt is likely to then help Cornyn go back to

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Speaker 1: to witness in the state of Texas, what I would

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Speaker 1: Washington d C just spent more money on John Cornyn,

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Speaker 1: that's money that can't be used in November to beat

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Speaker 1: the National Republican Senatorial Committee diverted all that money where

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Speaker 1: a water hose would have been a fine contribution for

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Speaker 1: them to make for one of their own. He's part

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Speaker 2: But no, no, no.

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Speaker 1: They spent a record amount of money trashing Wesley Hunt

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Speaker 1: And what they ought to do, because now the runoff

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Speaker 1: will be lower turnout, what they ought to do is

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Speaker 1: go all right, The people of Texas don't like Cornyn.

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Speaker 1: We knew that, the people of taxes that they booed

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Speaker 1: He didn't. We're gonna we're not going to put good

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Speaker 1: money after bad. But that's not how they operate. They

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Speaker 1: operate to win. Because remember, this is the important thing

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Speaker 1: you must never forget. And I can tell by your

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Speaker 1: emails that many of you forget this. Politics and government

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Speaker 1: it is about power and money. They will use you

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Speaker 1: do not. Never, never forsake your spotty senses that these

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Speaker 1: John Cornyn. They just have to because they own him

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Speaker 1: and they can't own Ken Paxt Michael Arry Show enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's Gwen Stefani. Okay, it's kind of cute. And

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Speaker 1: there's something to be said for that. So the Iran

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Speaker 1: the average voter. You're far more informed, far more informed

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Speaker 1: listens to top forty station. Right You're There's there's a

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Speaker 1: But the votes will be cast in November by more

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Speaker 1: It is also the case that you're seeing crowds of

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Speaker 1: but not right now. He's going to be very difficult

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Speaker 1: to be and we've got to be on our game

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Speaker 1: in the presence right about it that and the President

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Speaker 1: is looking at that with eyes wide open and a

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Speaker 1: full understanding and appreciation for the opposition. In order for

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Speaker 1: us to beat Tallerrico, we need to get on that

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Speaker 1: sooner rather than later. Number one. Number two, you dragged

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Speaker 1: this thing out for ten weeks. You're going to burn

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Speaker 1: a lot of cash. And it's important to understand that

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Speaker 1: there's only so much cash available. That cash comes from donors,

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Speaker 1: and when you burn all the cash in a primary,

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Speaker 1: you don't have cash for the general and that's a

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Speaker 1: real problem. So you've got a situation where you're burning

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Speaker 1: all this money that you need to beat the Democrat

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Speaker 1: in November, fighting amongst yourselves in April and May for

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Speaker 1: the next ten weeks. Well, you also have the problem

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Speaker 1: that you're going to be hurting the reputation and the

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Speaker 1: brand of whoever the winner of the nomination is, because

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Speaker 1: that's what you do. If you're a twenty four year

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Speaker 1: US senator. You don't have a good record. In Texas,

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Speaker 1: we don't like him. He was against the borderwall, he

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Speaker 1: was against Trump, He's four red flag laws. He's wrong,

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Speaker 1: he's wrong on a number of issues. You can't run

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Speaker 1: on that. So when you can't raise your own positives,

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Speaker 1: which if you've been in the game for a long time,

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Speaker 1: you can't, the traditional strategy as you drive up your

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Speaker 1: opponent's negatives. So the theory goes, people will vote for

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Speaker 1: you not because they like you, but because they dislike

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Speaker 1: you less than your opponent. And that's a real strategy, right.

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Speaker 1: So what the President's trying to do is avoid that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he'll be successful, but I think

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Speaker 1: he can be successful without being successful, by which I

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Speaker 1: mean he's gonna make this before he makes his endorsement

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Speaker 1: he's going to put a lot of pressure on the

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Speaker 1: other person, and I think that's Cornyn. He's not just

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Speaker 1: endorsing Paxton. He's making his endorsement matter. He's affecting things

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Speaker 1: in ways that use his public support. So everybody's going

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Speaker 1: to go yes, and everybody's going to agree, and then

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Speaker 1: when he comes out for Paxton, Corny's like, I don't

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Speaker 1: want to do that. He's also giving Cornyan an exit,

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Speaker 1: an exit ramp, as they say, a way to the

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Speaker 1: dignity exit if he wants to