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IT'S OFFICIAL TRUMP IS RUNNING TO Make America Great Again — Again… Again! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Missiles hid in Poland, as NATO now has to deal
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  Speaker 1: with a bigger question of will they actually defend every
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  Speaker 1: inch of NATO territory and NATO countries. Before we get
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  Speaker 1: to that, there was the big announcement. Donald Trump walked
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  Speaker 1: onto the stage at Marlago and he had this to say,
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen, ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, and my
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  Speaker 1: fellow citizens, America's comeback starts right now. Two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: when I left office, the United States stood ready for
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  Speaker 1: its golden age. Our nation was at the pinnacle of power, prosperity,
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  Speaker 1: short years, everybody was doing great. Men, women, African Americans,
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  Speaker 1: There was never a time like this. We turned the
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  Speaker 1: page on decades of You can hear the President laying
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  Speaker 1: up to the big announcement right by saying, tonight it stops.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make America great again again, as one commentator
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  Speaker 1: put it on TV. And then came the official words
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  Speaker 1: that everybody was hoping to hear, and those are the
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  Speaker 1: words the president sang, I'm gonna run na be Joe.
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  Speaker 1: It's two words American dream. That was not good what
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  Speaker 1: he did. There a lot of bad things, like going
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  Speaker 1: I really love it. In order to make America great
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  Speaker 1: and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for
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  Speaker 1: President of the United States. Thank you, thank you, all
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  Speaker 1: and family here tonight. It's such a beautiful thing. It's
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  Speaker 1: some people say, how do you speak before so many
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  Speaker 1: people all the time? If when there's love in the room,
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  Speaker 1: it's really easy. If you want to know the poll
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  Speaker 1: you love, you ought to try it. Sometime. You will
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  Speaker 1: be taking on the most corrupt forces and entrenched interests imaginable.
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  Speaker 1: Our country is a horrible state. We're in grave trouble.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a task for a politician or a
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  Speaker 1: conventional candidate. There's a task for a great movement that
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  Speaker 1: embodies the courage, confidence, and the spirit of the American people.
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  Speaker 1: This is a movement. This is not for anyone individual.
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  Speaker 1: There's a job for tens of millions of proud people
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  Speaker 1: working together from all across the land and from all
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  Speaker 1: walks of life, young and old, black and white, Hispanic
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  Speaker 1: and Asian, many of whom we have brought together for
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  Speaker 1: the very very first time. If you look at the numbers,
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  Speaker 1: if you look at what's happened with Hispanic, with African American,
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  Speaker 1: with Asian, and just look at what's happening. This is
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  Speaker 1: a party that has become much bigger, much stronger, much
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  Speaker 1: more powerful, can do much more good for our country.
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  Speaker 1: There's a job for grandmothers and construction workers, firefighters, builders,
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  Speaker 1: teach doctors, and farmers who cannot stay quiet any longer.
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  Speaker 1: You can't stay quiet any longer. You're angry about what's
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  Speaker 1: happening to our country. Our country is being destroyed before
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  Speaker 1: your very eyes. It's a job for every aspiring young
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  Speaker 1: person and every hard working parent, for every entrepreneur and
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  Speaker 1: underappreciated police officer who is ready to shout for safety
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  Speaker 1: in America. The police are being treated so badly. These
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  Speaker 1: are great people that can straighten out the crime. They're
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  Speaker 1: the ones that know how to do it. We have
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  Speaker 1: to give them back their respect and their dignity. The President,
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  Speaker 1: going back to the basic hits that made him the
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  Speaker 1: President of the United States of America the first time
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  Speaker 1: saying I am tonight announcing my candidacy for President United
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  Speaker 1: It's America to a backhounts of VIPs and close friends
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  Speaker 1: believes with this announcement he is one the front runner.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump also went back to some of his greatest
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  Speaker 1: hits by mocking as you could hear there right before
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  Speaker 1: he said, I am announcing my candidacy for the presidency,
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  Speaker 1: mocking Joe Biden. You remind me of the classic Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump during the two thousand and sixteen campaign. Even during
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  Speaker 1: the two thousand and twenty campaign. He understands who his
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  Speaker 1: opponent is. It is the Democratic Party and it is
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Now, the chances that Joe Biden is going
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  Speaker 1: to run for reelection obviously went up because of the midterms.
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  Speaker 1: There was not a red wave. It was more of
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  Speaker 1: a mirage. Now, the good news is on the day
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  Speaker 1: that Donald Trump announced, it became official that Republicans did,
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  Speaker 1: by a slim majority take back control of the House.
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  Speaker 1: That is going to allow for investigations to take place
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  Speaker 1: in to Hunter Biden. That's going to take give the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for us to look into a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: finances with Hunter Biden. Not only is it gonna do
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  Speaker 1: that for us, but there's something else that's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna allow for the Republicans to actually have a
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  Speaker 1: say so in what's going on in Washington and be
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  Speaker 1: able to stop the insanity of the Democrat at a party.
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  Speaker 1: We also now know Kevin McCarthy will be the Speaker
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  Speaker 1: of the House. A lot of people are not excited
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  Speaker 1: about that. And the Senate leadership vote taking place today. Officially,
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  Speaker 1: we already know from the arrogant and khaki Mitch McConnell,
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  Speaker 1: who has only a seven percent approval, marating among Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: As he put it, I've got the votes. I have
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  Speaker 1: the votes. So if you think the swamp isn't holding
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  Speaker 1: tight in DC? You're wrong. The swamp is very alive
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  Speaker 1: well and still in control. You bought the Senate election.
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  Speaker 1: You don't give money to in the places where money
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  Speaker 1: needed to be spent when you're Mitch McConnell. And apparently
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't matter anymore because the swamp solidified and stood
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  Speaker 1: behind Mitch McConnell. Sent Holly came out talking about the
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  Speaker 1: election for who's going to be in charge of the
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  Speaker 1: leadership in the Senate. And this is what Senator Holly
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  Speaker 1: had to say about the election of Mitch McConnell. I
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  Speaker 1: think that this election was the funeral for the Republican
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  Speaker 1: parties we know it. The Republican Party as we have
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  Speaker 1: known it is dead, and voters have made that clear.
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  Speaker 1: And in particular, the folks who did not vote for
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  Speaker 1: Republicans in the last election were independent voters, working class
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  Speaker 1: independent voters, Folks who voted for President Obama once upon
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  Speaker 1: a time, Folks who then voted for President Trump but
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  Speaker 1: stayed home this time. We are not a majority party
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  Speaker 1: unless we can appeal to those voters. It's a very
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  Speaker 1: solid point he made, and his assessment what happened for
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  Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell. Oh, no, no no, no, everything's fine, right. I'm
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  Speaker 1: more than happy to talk to senators and have some
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  Speaker 1: sort of conversation right with other senators. But really I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to worry too much because I am the swamp.
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  Speaker 1: I created the swamp. We got three hundred million dollars
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  Speaker 1: mocked everyone who says he's not in control or not powerful. Well,
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  Speaker 1: discussion not only of the election but the way forward.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's pretty obvious we may or may
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  Speaker 1: not be voting tomorrow, but I think the outcome is
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  Speaker 1: pretty clear. I want to repeat again, I have the votes.
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  Speaker 1: I will be elected. The only issue is whether we
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  Speaker 1: do it sooner or later. And I think we'll probably
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  Speaker 1: have another discussion about that tomorrow. I have the votes.
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  Speaker 1: I have the votes. Whether it's sooner or later doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: I have the votes. So how does the guy with
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  Speaker 1: the seven percent approval rating among the Republican Party Republican
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  Speaker 1: voters get to talk that way? Why? Because he's got
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  Speaker 1: the money. Three hundred million dollars is how much money?
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  Speaker 1: As in his ward, Chess is the number one donor
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  Speaker 1: to Senate campaigns, Republican campaigns. And you don't pledge allegiance
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  Speaker 1: to Mitch McConnell, and you don't do what Mitch McConnell
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  Speaker 1: dry and give you nothing when you're running for reelection
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  Speaker 1: when Mitch McConnell had just come out of that meeting,
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  Speaker 1: what actually happened behind the scenes, and it was very
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  Speaker 1: clear that if you screw with Mitch McConnell, he will
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  Speaker 1: screw with you. When Ted Cruz was running against better Rourke,
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  Speaker 1: it was the most expensive Senate race at the time
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  Speaker 1: in the history of the United States of America, and
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  Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell put not a single dollar into that race
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  Speaker 1: against Beto O'Rourke, who was a rising star in the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party and many were talking about him as a
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  Speaker 1: presidential contender or vice presidential candidate. It was important, right
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  Speaker 1: that we beat, very important that we beat Betto. And
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  Speaker 1: the man who is in charge said, uh nah, not
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  Speaker 1: giving you anything. Good luck, do it on your own.
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  Speaker 1: Why because Ted Cruz, the guy that you can't control.
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  Speaker 1: Ted Cruz is not a yes man. Ted Cruze is
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  Speaker 1: gonna ask tough questions sometimes, and that's the type of
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  Speaker 1: person that Mitch McConnell and the other Republican establishment members
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  Speaker 1: don't want around. I truly believe, after looking at this
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  Speaker 1: last midterm election, that Mitch McConnell would rather be in
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  Speaker 1: the minority and have power than be in the majority
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  Speaker 1: and not have that personal power. I believe that Mitch
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  Speaker 1: McConnell would rather be in the minority then have hardcore
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  Speaker 1: conservatives that he has to navigate and serve with that
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  Speaker 1: will actually hold him accountable to the out of control
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  Speaker 1: government spending and corruption of Washington, to the lobbyists controlling
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  Speaker 1: his votes. Because this is about personal power for him.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. That's all this is about. It's about personal power.
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  Speaker 1: And sure enough, as he came out there and said it,
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  Speaker 1: I have the votes, I have the votes. I have
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  Speaker 1: the votes. Not only did he say that, but after
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  Speaker 1: the disaster that was that was the election. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: rip on Democrats, he ripped on Republicans. He blamed you
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  Speaker 1: conservatives for the reason why we lost in the midterms,
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  Speaker 1: not him, not him pulling money out of Arizonner or
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  Speaker 1: picking bad candidates that came in like doctor Oz. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: this is what Mitch McConnell said with him, is that
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  Speaker 1: your decision not to have an agenda to run on
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  Speaker 1: opened up Republican candidates to attacks that they didn't really
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  Speaker 1: stand for anything. What is response to the prison that
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  Speaker 1: you are partically responded to? Every one of our candidates
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  Speaker 1: knew what they before expressed it quite clearly. It's pretty obvious,
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  Speaker 1: and all of you been writing about it. What happened?
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  Speaker 1: We underperformed among independents and moderates because their impression of
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  Speaker 1: many of the people in our party and leadership roles
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  Speaker 1: is that they're in gold in chaos, negativity, excessive attacks,
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  Speaker 1: and it brightened independent and moderate Republican voters and we
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  Speaker 1: saw that, which is why you all recall I never
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  Speaker 1: predicted a red wave. We never saw that in any
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  Speaker 1: of our polling in the states that we were counting
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  Speaker 1: on to win. Isn't it amazing? We never saw a
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  Speaker 1: red wave. So, with all the issues, and you're the leader,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't see the hospect or the possibility or a
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  Speaker 1: pathway to a red wave. You heard Mitch McConnell there,
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  Speaker 1: We never We never saw that. We never said we
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  Speaker 1: saw that. This is a guy that saw a cant
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  Speaker 1: in Arizona, for example, that didn't pledge allegiance to him,
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  Speaker 1: and he pulled the money out, decided to send it
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  Speaker 1: to Alaska. It's a guy that's sitting on three hundred
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  Speaker 1: million dollars in award chest to get Republicans elected, and
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  Speaker 1: what do you do? Nothing to really get it done,
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  Speaker 1: and then says, well, I never predicted a red wave.
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  Speaker 1: If you are, I mean, if you were Mitch McConnell's,
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  Speaker 1: and he's saying, well, don't don't say that. I said
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  Speaker 1: there was a red wave. I never thought we could
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  Speaker 1: take back the Senate. That's what he's saying. So with
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  Speaker 1: all the issues, the way they were as vulnerable as
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  Speaker 1: the president was. As a generic ballot, are you more
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  Speaker 1: likely to represent, you know, vote Republican or Democrat. Republicans
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  Speaker 1: had the advantage with the all time low approval rating
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  Speaker 1: of the president. Knights, It's of America at the time,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Joe Biden, you didn't see an opportunity as he
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  Speaker 1: described it, for a red wave. Really you didn't see
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  Speaker 1: that opportunity. And that's your response, Oh, well, I never
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  Speaker 1: predicted a red wave. Don't don't act like I said
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  Speaker 1: we were gonna win. I have the votes, I will
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  Speaker 1: be elected. The only issue is whether we do it
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  Speaker 1: sooner or later, and I think we'll probably have another
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  Speaker 1: discussion about that tomorrow. Maybe that's because the only thing
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  Speaker 1: that mattered to Mitch was him winning the leadership role,
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  Speaker 1: even if he was in the minority. Maybe that's why
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't have to worry about the red wave. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I never said there was a red wave coming. But
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  Speaker 1: I have the votes. I have the votes. I have
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  Speaker 1: the votes, and I'm going to be in charge of
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  Speaker 1: the Senate Republicans, even in the minority, dependent and modern
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  Speaker 1: Republican voters. And we saw that, which is why you
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  Speaker 1: all recall I never predicted a red wave. We never
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  Speaker 1: saw that in any of our polling in the states
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  Speaker 1: that we were counting off Glean. Yeah, so I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: predicting success. I was predicting failure. Seven percent approval rating.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to know how deep the corruption is
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  Speaker 1: in Washington among Republicans, you'd have a guy who seven
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  Speaker 1: percent approval rating among Republicans and all the Republicans, almost
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  Speaker 1: all of them are like yep, got to vote for
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  Speaker 1: him again, seven percent of approval rating. You had every
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  Speaker 1: single issue on our side, crime, the economy, right, all
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  Speaker 1: of this gas prices, all of it you have sitting
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  Speaker 1: right there waiting for you to win on and he says,
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  Speaker 1: I never predicted a red wave, not once that I
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  Speaker 1: predicted because my polling said no, not gonna happen. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit on this money and not give you
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  Speaker 1: the majority. But I'll still have power. I Mitch McConnell,
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  Speaker 1: I have the votes. I have the votes. I have
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  Speaker 1: the votes. One of the big things about Trump's announcement,
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  Speaker 1: and if you want to know if the media is
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  Speaker 1: terrified that he's running again, the answer is clearly yes.
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  Speaker 1: How do I know this because they're already becoming unhinged
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  Speaker 1: last night, immediately and all morning long, they are finding
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  Speaker 1: every former Trump offisier to go on TV to trash him.
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  Speaker 1: Former Trump Defense secretary Asper saying this about Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: this morning, I wish you wouldn't. I think he's unfit
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  Speaker 1: for office. I thought his remarks are very subdued and uninspiring.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's time for the Republican Party and
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  Speaker 1: frankly both parties to move on to a next generation
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  Speaker 1: of leaders, and particularly new leaders that can unify our
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  Speaker 1: country and get us back to a modern horrible governance
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  Speaker 1: where we treat each other with dignity and respect, and
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  Speaker 1: we work on policy issues and not on personal attacks.
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  Speaker 1: What would you say to any of your former colleagues
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  Speaker 1: who might go work for him again, either in his
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  Speaker 1: campaign or if he is ultimately reelected. Well, my message
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  Speaker 1: to all Republicans has been all along. Look, there were
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  Speaker 1: accomplishments in the Trump administration, better border security, conservative judges,
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  Speaker 1: lower taxes, deregulation. I think that you can get all
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  Speaker 1: those things with a new generation of Republican leaders who
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  Speaker 1: may be your worn line with what I consider myself
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  Speaker 1: a Reagan Republican, who can do so without the baggage
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  Speaker 1: and the personal attacks and the self centeredness of Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: and that can really lead our nation forward, and look
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  Speaker 1: can grow the Republican base as well. The election last
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  Speaker 1: week was an example of Donald Trump is incapable of
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  Speaker 1: winning elections. He's done more to help the Democrats and
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  Speaker 1: he as Republicans, And there's no reason why we shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have a bigger margin in the House, and we should
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  Speaker 1: have taken the Senate, and yet we haven't. And so
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  Speaker 1: I think if you want to govern, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to government consistent with conservative principles, then you have to
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  Speaker 1: win elections and Donald Trump can't win elections. Who you think,
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  Speaker 1: who do you think can win an election? Governor Rond
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  Speaker 1: de Santis? What Republicans do you want to see run?
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  Speaker 1: I think there are a number of candidates out there
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  Speaker 1: who continued to announce, uh, you know DeSantis. Obviously the
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  Speaker 1: top is at the top. You can hear it there.
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  Speaker 1: They are already trying to do everything they can to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that Donald Trump does not win. That's his
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  Speaker 1: former Trump defense secretary Espert saying he's unfit right. He
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  Speaker 1: also went on to say that Donald Trump puts himself
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  Speaker 1: before his country, even though the president made it clear
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  Speaker 1: that when he ran, he ran to make people's lives better.
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  Speaker 1: He did make people's lives better. The lowest unemployment rate
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  Speaker 1: in history among African Americans, Asian American single mothers. The
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  Speaker 1: list goes on and on. We have low gas prices,
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  Speaker 1: we have low interest rates, we had a great economy.
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  Speaker 1: To say that Donald Trump puts himself in front of
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  Speaker 1: the voters is absurd. Yet that's exactly what Mike apt
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  Speaker 1: former defense secretary and the Trump administration, said this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I think there are a number of candidates out there
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  Speaker 1: who continued to announce. You know DeSantis, obviously the top
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  Speaker 1: is at the top that list right now. He did
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  Speaker 1: a great job in Florida. He brought his more Hispanics
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  Speaker 1: on board. So he appears to me to be the
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  Speaker 1: front runner. But I think we need to have a
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  Speaker 1: primary and we need to see who emerges and who
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  Speaker 1: can really again republic rally, Republicans grow the base and
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  Speaker 1: really reach to independence and others out there across the
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  Speaker 1: country and allow Republicans to return to the White House
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. You said you think he's unfit
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  Speaker 1: for office. Way, Oh well, look it's he puts himself
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  Speaker 1: before country. His actions are all about him and not
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  Speaker 1: about not about the country, and we saw last week
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  Speaker 1: it were about him and not about the party. So
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  Speaker 1: to me, that's that's shortcoming number one. And then of
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  Speaker 1: course I believe he is integrity and character issues as well.
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  Speaker 1: Integrity and character issues as well, not the bidens. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: twenty four and Donald Trump again everybody grabbing the anti
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  Speaker 1: Trump people, including his own former vice president, to attack
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  Speaker 1: him as president good morning to you. Good to be
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  Speaker 1: with you all. Good morning. It's good to have you.
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  Speaker 1: And we had snow in Indiana last week. Oh you guys,
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  Speaker 1: don't cancel school. Yeah. Bible says we're not supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be jealous people, but can I be jealous of your snow?
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  Speaker 1: It's coming, mister Vice President. So many Republicans had urged
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  Speaker 1: the former president your running mate wait until after Georgia
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  Speaker 1: because they want that Senate seat in Republican hands. He
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  Speaker 1: did not any idea why. Well, that'd be a good
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  Speaker 1: question for him, Steve, I, I couldn't be more excited
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  Speaker 1: about the fact that House Republicans are gonna secure a majority.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy's going to be the next Speaker of the
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  Speaker 1: House and um and I'm anxious to see herschel Walker.
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  Speaker 1: Although it won't be a majority in the Senate. I'm
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: anxiously to her Sorshiell Walker be elected in that special
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  Speaker 1: election in Georgia. And I think the American people are
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  Speaker 1: really focused there. But it's a free country. The President's
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  Speaker 1: entitled to announce his intentions whenever he desires. But I
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  Speaker 1: honestly believe that we'll have better choices come twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't think anybody donald Trump. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think anyone could have beaten Hillary Clinton other than Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump in twenty sixteen. I write that in my new book.
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  Speaker 1: I learned that on the campaign trail with him in
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen and the record that we created that I
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  Speaker 1: know he reflected on last night. Where we rebuild our military,
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  Speaker 1: revived our economy, secured our border, appointed conservatives to our
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  Speaker 1: courts at every level is something that I'll always be
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  Speaker 1: proud of. But as I've traveled around the country over
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  Speaker 1: the last two years, people have repeatedly come up to
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  Speaker 1: me and said, you know, we want to get back
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  Speaker 1: to the policies of the Trump Hans administration. But I
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  Speaker 1: think there's a genuine desire for leadership that could unite
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  Speaker 1: the country around our highest ideals, and leadership that would reflect,
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  Speaker 1: I think, more of the civility and respect that Americans
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  Speaker 1: show each other every day. You know, I'm out of
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  Speaker 1: politics now, And once you get out of politics and
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  Speaker 1: we moved back to Indiana, is you realize the American
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  Speaker 1: people actually get along pretty well most days, and it's
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  Speaker 1: our politics that's deeply divided. I just think I think
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  Speaker 1: I have a sense the American people want to want
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  Speaker 1: a new style of leadership that'll that'll reflect the way
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  Speaker 1: they deal with one another every day. Did you feel
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: at the time during those four years the president was
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  Speaker 1: being unnecessarily divisive? Again, this is the former Vice president
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  Speaker 1: Mike Penn saying this, I honestly believe that we'll have
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  Speaker 1: better choices come twenty twenty four than Trump. Now, this
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: is obviously self serving interview because Pens I think it's
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: very clear that he's going to run for president. That's
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: what he's going to do here. But you can see
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: it all over the news this morning. They're taking Donald
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Trump very seriously, and they're going back to exactly what
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: they wanted to do, which is to take him down.
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  Speaker 1: George Conway, Kelley and Conway's husband GOP is much more
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: of a personality cult, not a real political party. That's
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  Speaker 1: how they described it with Trump this morning. For this
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  Speaker 1: leadership office, it really doesn't make any sense. And this
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  Speaker 1: is a guy George Conway and Rick Scott running the
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  Speaker 1: senatorial campaign who stood behind all those candidates literally in
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: many cases, standing behind herschel Walker and George are propping
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  Speaker 1: him up other election deniers and saying, yes, these are
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: our candidates, this is the way. And as I said,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: they pulled a very difficult trick, which was to lose
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  Speaker 1: the Senate as the out party in a year with
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: eight percent inflation and a president with forty percent approval ratings.
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  Speaker 1: What do you make of this sort of intra party
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: fight going on right now? No, I think there's a
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: there's a vacuum in the Publican party. It's been a
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  Speaker 1: party that has not functioned as a real political party
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  Speaker 1: for quite some time. It's much more of a personality
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  Speaker 1: called It's a party that didn't have, for example, a
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  Speaker 1: platform in twenty twenty. It's and so now you're the
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  Speaker 1: only thing that was holding it together was loyalty to
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  Speaker 1: Trump and fear of Trump and the fact that Trump could,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: you know, could destroy any number of politicians who stood
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: against him because of his popularity with the base. But
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: now he doesn't have that power anymore, at least they
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: don't think so. And now you're seeing the fishers, the cracks,
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  Speaker 1: as as as the mainstream people in the party who
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: saw how Trump was bad all along and kept their
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  Speaker 1: mouth shut. I are now trying to gain some semblance
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: of control there. It is the whole media freaking out
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: that Donald Trump has officially announced. Do I think that
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump is right now the front runner? Yes? Do
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  Speaker 1: I think he still has a momentum more than anybody else. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And you're gonna watch over the days in the weeks
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: since he has announced. Now they're going to do everything
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  Speaker 1: they can to try to destroy him, the same way
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  Speaker 1: they tried to do it with Russian collusion and the
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: lies there, the same way they tried to spin in
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: his campaign, not to try they did spin in his campaign,
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  Speaker 1: the same way they slandered him and his family with
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: their business dealings. Right, this is all going to happen again,
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  Speaker 1: So you better be ready for it because it's all
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