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IT IS TIME TO CALL YOUR SENATOR AND SAY NO TO McCONNELL. We must wait until after the GA runoff! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: So is it time to bury the GOP establishment and
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  Speaker 1: start something new. Senator Josh Holly, a Republican from Missouri,
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  Speaker 1: is now calling for the Republican Party to undergo reform
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  Speaker 1: after it was projected the party would not regain control
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  Speaker 1: of the US Senate. The old party is dead. Time
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  Speaker 1: to bury it build something new. That's what Congressman Holly
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  Speaker 1: tweeted following Katherine Cortez Mastos, the Democrat in Nevada's victory
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  Speaker 1: over the Republican Adam Laxall and the Nevada Senate race.
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  Speaker 1: He said, the old party is dead. Time to bury
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  Speaker 1: it and build something new. Obviously, the mainstream Republicans did
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  Speaker 1: not like this message. Now, this comes after several within
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  Speaker 1: the party were hopeful they would regain control of the
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  Speaker 1: Senate since they only needed to ship one seat. However,
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  Speaker 1: as of Saturday night and into Sunday, the GOP is
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  Speaker 1: now at risk of losing one seat in the upper
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  Speaker 1: Chamber depending on the results of the Georgia Senate runoff
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  Speaker 1: in December. The day before the midterm election, Holly indicated
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  Speaker 1: his support for change within the party following his statement
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  Speaker 1: that he would not support Senor Mitch McConnell, Republican from Kentucky,
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  Speaker 1: for the Senate leadership. He said, I don't imagine I will. No,
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  Speaker 1: he said when asked if he would back McConnell, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure if any other Senator will run or not.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's indicated they would, but my view is that we
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  Speaker 1: need new leadership in that position. McConnell now facing even
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  Speaker 1: more criticism, facing intense criticism from within the party after
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  Speaker 1: the Superpack. He is aligned with the Senate Leadership Fund
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  Speaker 1: with Drew Adds spending for Republican candidate Blake Masters and
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  Speaker 1: the Winnable Airs on a Senate race to attack fellow
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  Speaker 1: Republican Kelly a fellow Republican challenger who is allnging McConnell
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  Speaker 1: ally Senator Lisa Murkowski in the Alaska Senate race. The
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  Speaker 1: Missouri Center then joined Senor Marco Rubio and other colleagues
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  Speaker 1: and calling for the GOP Senate leadership vote to be
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  Speaker 1: delayed until the Georgia's Senate runoff results are determined, saying
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  Speaker 1: exactly right, I don't know why Senate GOP would hold
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  Speaker 1: a leadership vote for the next Congress before this election
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  Speaker 1: is finished. We have a runoff in the Georgia's Senate seat.
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  Speaker 1: They are saying that doesn't matter, doesn't disenfranchise herschel Walker,
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  Speaker 1: it absolutely would. Since he was elected in twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: Senator Holly has been one of the few Republicans to
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  Speaker 1: challenge the GOP establishments orthodoxy, which typically prioritizes corporate interest
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  Speaker 1: and foreign inter interventionalism in the past, in favor of
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  Speaker 1: prioritizing working in middle class families. The non orthodox policies
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  Speaker 1: that Holly has voice support for include regulating and breaking
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  Speaker 1: up big tech, giving wage subsidies to low wage workers
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  Speaker 1: employed by small businesses, creating tax credits for working class families,
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  Speaker 1: and calling for the US to withdraw from the wto Now.
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  Speaker 1: There is no doubt that this election was screwed up
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  Speaker 1: by the Republican leadership. The Associated Press has also called
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  Speaker 1: the Washington three race for the Democrat Marie Perez over
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  Speaker 1: the Republican Joe Kent. This is getting worse and worse
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  Speaker 1: as the days go on. There are obviously people that
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  Speaker 1: are very angry, there's people that are very upset. What
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  Speaker 1: I know is, you had every issue on our side
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  Speaker 1: and we still screwed it up. How do we screw
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  Speaker 1: it up because the Washington leadership didn't get behind the
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  Speaker 1: Ben There's also another thing here that people need to understand,
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  Speaker 1: and that's this, when you run bad candidates, you get
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  Speaker 1: bad results. Let me say that again. When you run
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  Speaker 1: bad candidates, you get bad results. Doctor Oz was a
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  Speaker 1: bad candidate, for example, you get bad results. Chris Christie
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  Speaker 1: also not totally wrong with what he said today on TV.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a big Chris Christie fan, but I do
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  Speaker 1: think his response to what has just happened makes a
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  Speaker 1: lot of sense. He said, there's no scenario Republicans can
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  Speaker 1: win twenty twenty four unless they get Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, and to get those can the same Republican
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  Speaker 1: leadership that just screwed up these elections actually figured out
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  Speaker 1: in the next year years. I'm not willing to take
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  Speaker 1: that risk. Take a listen. Look, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: Donna made a really interesting point that Republicans need to
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  Speaker 1: think about Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. There is no scenario
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  Speaker 1: under which Republicans can win the presidency in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: four and lose all three of those states. They just can't.
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  Speaker 1: The electoral math doesn't work, and those candidates lost. In
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  Speaker 1: my view, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania because they were seen as
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  Speaker 1: unstable Trump like candidates in all three of those states
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  Speaker 1: and the governor's races. And so we've got an assessment
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  Speaker 1: to make. Are we the party of me or we
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  Speaker 1: the party of us? Are we going to be the
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  Speaker 1: party of you know, Donald Trump, whatever's good for me,
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  Speaker 1: it's good for all of you, whether you think it
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  Speaker 1: is or it isn't, Or are we gonna be the
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  Speaker 1: party to try to represents the rest of the country.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the huge decision that has to be made
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  Speaker 1: the next two years, and the presidential process will help
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  Speaker 1: to decide that and some other things as well. And
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  Speaker 1: one thing going back to McCarthy and governing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when he's only gonna have one House, if they if
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  Speaker 1: they have the House of Representatives Senates with the Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: you're playing defense. Then it's different than if they had
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  Speaker 1: won the Senate and wanted to put legislation together they
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  Speaker 1: were going to push You're not going to advance legislation anyway, right,
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  Speaker 1: So my point is that eighteen nineteen, twenty twenty one
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  Speaker 1: is less important because all they're really going to be
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  Speaker 1: doing is stopping the Biden agenda. Now they can't advance
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  Speaker 1: their own agenda because Schuber won't advance their agenda in
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  Speaker 1: the Senate. Now, their job is to play defense and
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  Speaker 1: stop Biden from doing some of the things that they
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  Speaker 1: disagree with. That's why I think it doesn't matter as much. George.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't clear about that my first comment. It
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  Speaker 1: is in this instance, there's not a small, medium or
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  Speaker 1: large gavel. Kevin McCarthy, to his credit, four years ago
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  Speaker 1: they were in the minority, they had lost in twenty
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  Speaker 1: eighteen in a wipeout, and four years later he's going
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  Speaker 1: to bring them back to the majority predominantly through his
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  Speaker 1: efforts and his leadership. So I think he deserves some
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  Speaker 1: credit for that, and I think he's not going to
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  Speaker 1: be on defense as a speaker. Here's the other thing
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  Speaker 1: that's interesting about what Chris Christie just said there. He's right,
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  Speaker 1: we ran bad candidates in those three states, and when
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  Speaker 1: you run bad candidates in those three states, you get
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  Speaker 1: bad results. You know. Senator Ron Johnson is very upset,
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  Speaker 1: and he should be because he had an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: investigate Hunter Biden and his dealings with Joe Biden and
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  Speaker 1: James Biden and he said that, you know, the investigations
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  Speaker 1: of Hunter Biden's dealings will continue. The budget was cut
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  Speaker 1: sixty to seventy percent. That's a lot. Take a listen
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  Speaker 1: to what change because we ran some bad candidates like
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  Speaker 1: doctor Oz. Well, let's also talk about what's possible now
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  Speaker 1: that we know it's likely that the Democrats are going
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  Speaker 1: to have the majority in the Senate. Next week, you've
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  Speaker 1: got Christopher Ray testifying in front of the Homeland Security Committee,
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  Speaker 1: and your committee, what are you going to ask him?
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  Speaker 1: And are you going to continue your deep dive investigation
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  Speaker 1: on the DOJ, on the FBI, on the Biden family
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  Speaker 1: influenced pedaling. Well, I've got a number of questions. I
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  Speaker 1: only get seven minutes, probably, so I'll have to pick
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  Speaker 1: in shoes based on where other people who asked him
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  Speaker 1: before me or in the House. But I've got a
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  Speaker 1: long list of oversight letters to the FBI. I've no
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  Speaker 1: answers from them all. Here's the one right here who
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  Speaker 1: directed the briefing to Senator Grassley and I that was
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  Speaker 1: a setup used to smear me. Later on, two years later,
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  Speaker 1: a number of public letters, I still don't know who
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  Speaker 1: directed that FBI briefing which was a complete setup. So
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  Speaker 1: I'll be asking him that for sure, and now that
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  Speaker 1: he's aware of that, he better have an answer for well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, people want to understand when this politicization
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  Speaker 1: in the FBI started. You have been doing this deep
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  Speaker 1: dive and have actually gotten real information about Hunter Biden
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  Speaker 1: and the way the Biden family tries to get money
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  Speaker 1: lining their own pockets. And then Joe Biden has to
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  Speaker 1: make decisions on behalf of America. How's Joe Biden going
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  Speaker 1: to protect America meeting Jijing Ping tomorrow when we know
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  Speaker 1: he's taken in all that money from Chinese officials tied
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  Speaker 1: to the CCPA. By the way, the question that she's
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  Speaker 1: asking here is one that is a question that deserves
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  Speaker 1: to be answered, and that should be answered. It deserves
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  Speaker 1: to be answered, and it should be answered. But unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: Chinese leadership? How can the president adequate adequately ask questions
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  Speaker 1: And of course the FBI is known about this, probably
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  Speaker 1: quite a few years. It needs to be fully exposed.
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  Speaker 1: You know, hopefully I'll have my budget restored and the
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  Speaker 1: ranking member of the Permit Subcommite investigations. Our budget was
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  Speaker 1: and the ranking member, Rob Portman. So hopefully our new
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: ranking member will steal the same chairman, but hopefully the
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  Speaker 1: new ranking member will restore the funds necessary to really
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  Speaker 1: conduct to the type of investigations that the Permit Subcommite
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  Speaker 1: Investigation was designed to do. And you feel that you'll
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: be able to still conduct proper investigations even though you
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  Speaker 1: don't have you won't have subpoena power, right, correct, But
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: we also do have things like Foyer requests, and we've
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  Speaker 1: done quite a bit with that. Remember the four thousand
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  Speaker 1: pages of Fauci emails were foyed. We looked at those.
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  Speaker 1: We identified four hundred of those pages that were heavily
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  Speaker 1: redacted Congresses and subject redactions. So we've pressured HHS. They've
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  Speaker 1: allowed us to see three hundred and fifty of those pages.
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  Speaker 1: It changes to that they will not allow us to
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  Speaker 1: look at fifty of those pages that are still redacted.
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  Speaker 1: I think we know kind of where the real incriminating
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  Speaker 1: evidence is. You think about where we were going into
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  Speaker 1: election day, and you think about where we are now,
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  Speaker 1: and you think about just how frustrating it is. I'm angry.
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  Speaker 1: I assume most of you are angry, and the fact
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  Speaker 1: that not only did we not win back the Senate,
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: but we may be in the exact same spot that
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  Speaker 1: we're in right now is incredibly frustrating. It makes me
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: unbelievably angry. It makes me furious that we are sitting
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  Speaker 1: here having this ridiculous conversation, because it is ridiculous. We
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  Speaker 1: had the issues, and the issues were on our side,
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  Speaker 1: and we picked bad candidates. There was something interesting that
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: happened with Donald Trump and doctor Oz. He understands. I
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: think now just how bad of a candidate doctor Oz was.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he decided to throw his wife under the bus,
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  Speaker 1: Melania Trump, claiming it was her idea that doctor Oz run,
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  Speaker 1: not his. He then came out and apologized for that,
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  Speaker 1: later claiming it was her idea, not his, to run
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  Speaker 1: doctor Oz. And what we learned from Donald Trump is
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  Speaker 1: that Donald Trump can get you through a primary. What
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  Speaker 1: we also learned is that Donald Trump cannot necessarily get
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  Speaker 1: you through a general election. Doctor Oz is a perfect
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  Speaker 1: example of this. Doctor Oz should have never been on
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  Speaker 1: the ballot to begin with. Doctor Oz was a bad candidate.
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  Speaker 1: I did not support him in the primary. I did
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  Speaker 1: not think he was electable. And that's exactly what we
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: found out through all of this. He is not a
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  Speaker 1: candidate that was electable. He also wouldn't give up his
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  Speaker 1: Turkish citizenship, an actual adversary the United States of America,
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  Speaker 1: unless he won the Senate race. He is a spokesperson
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  Speaker 1: for Turkish airlines, putting money ahead of his campaign. Things
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  Speaker 1: like that cost you an election, especially if the election
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  Speaker 1: is tight. It's another example of running a bad candidate.
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  Speaker 1: Look at what's happened in Arizona. Look at what has
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  Speaker 1: happened in Michigan. You know the fact that the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Party was able to elect a dead guy, a guy
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  Speaker 1: that clearly is incapacitated in Fetterman tells you that we
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  Speaker 1: really screwed up. That's the takeaway for me. How do
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  Speaker 1: they screw up this bad? Now you know how they
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  Speaker 1: screwed up this bad and the Republican Party has to
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: decide what we're gonna do moving forward. We should have
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  Speaker 1: picked up, by the way, more house seats. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people now saying, all right, what does this
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  Speaker 1: mean moving forward? Because in Florida, Florida is where we
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  Speaker 1: actually had a legitimate, authentic red wave. Florida and what
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  Speaker 1: happened with Desantists down there was an incredible red wave.
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  Speaker 1: It was unbelievably impressive. They won every single statewide seat
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  Speaker 1: in the state Assembly when it comes to the AG
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  Speaker 1: and things like that. Incredible, every statewide race they won,
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  Speaker 1: the Republicans won. You look at what Desantists did. You
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  Speaker 1: cannot tell me. He didn't run that election perfectly, and
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: he didn't run it the way that it should have
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  Speaker 1: been run. And now there's people saying, all right, you
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: have to look at him as a serious contender and
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: then there's the other problem, and that is we still
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: have people that don't realize just how important it is
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  Speaker 1: to win in Georgia. I spent time in Georgia this
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: past week campaigning for herschel Walker. It is vitally important
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  Speaker 1: that we spend quality time supporting herschel Walker, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: through donations, because if we don't win that seat or
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  Speaker 1: even even more trouble, why because I believe they would
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  Speaker 1: blow up the filibuster and I also believe they would
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  Speaker 1: try to pack the Supreme Court. Democrats right now are
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  Speaker 1: not afraid of changing traditions in our government, and they
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  Speaker 1: certainly don't care about our constitution. So that's why I
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  Speaker 1: think they would do it. That race in Georgia is
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  Speaker 1: going to be unbelievably important moving forward, and if we
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  Speaker 1: lose that, specially that runoff there, Democrats, I believe, will
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  Speaker 1: feel like they have a mandate to an essence, do
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  Speaker 1: whatever they want to do on any issue, including blowing
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  Speaker 1: up the filibuster and packing the Supreme Court with four
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  Speaker 1: more justices. There's other issues that Democrats might do things
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  Speaker 1: that they might tide to move forward and do. One
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: of those examples would be giving statehood to places like
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  Speaker 1: DC are giving statehood to places like Puerto Rico. Why
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  Speaker 1: would they do that because they believe that that would
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  Speaker 1: be at least at bare minimum four more senators that
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  Speaker 1: would be on the Democratic side of things indefinitely. They
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  Speaker 1: believe that in Puerto Rico they would vote for Democrats overwhelmingly.
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  Speaker 1: Based on what we see in the data there. That's
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  Speaker 1: not a bad it's not a bad take on where
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  Speaker 1: they are. It's pretty clear that's where they believe they
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  Speaker 1: can pick up. And then imagine what the Senate would
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  Speaker 1: of the day, there's no reason to beat around the bush.
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  Speaker 1: We got beat. The Democrats had a good mid term.
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  Speaker 1: They want a Senate seat in Pennsylvania which was held
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  Speaker 1: by a Republican because we had a god awful candidate.
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  Speaker 1: And if they hold on to their seat in Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: they will actually end up plus one the Senate, and
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  Speaker 1: if they lose Georgia, they will still keep the majority
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  Speaker 1: with a vice president as the tiebreaker, just as they
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  Speaker 1: did in one hundred and seventeenth Congress. Democrats also gained
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  Speaker 1: one governorship. And as for the US House, that's, unfortunately,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: as I'm talking to you right now, still in play. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it does seem likely that Republicans will control the eighteenth
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  Speaker 1: Congress on the House side, but only by the narrowists
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  Speaker 1: of margins when we should have had a big victory.
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  Speaker 1: So are there any silver linings for Republicans and do
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: they point to Sunnier skies for the GOP and future elections,
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  Speaker 1: including obviously the most important, the presidential elections in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four. Well, let's talk about the enthusiasm gap. In
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty Joe Biden won the popular vote by more
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  Speaker 1: than seven million, eighty one million ballots compared to Donald
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  Speaker 1: trumps seventy four million. Yet this year Republicans beat Democrats
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  Speaker 1: in the total vote for the US House. GOP candidates
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: received fifty two thousand, one hundred and forty two votes
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  Speaker 1: as of right now. That could change over the next
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  Speaker 1: couple hours. Democratic candidates received forty seven thousand, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty seven votes. Now, that is a gap of
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: five million votes more for Republicans and Democrats, and more
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  Speaker 1: of the story is where we ran good candidates, we
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  Speaker 1: had overwhelming support. The margin for the GOP shift from
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: minus seven million last time, granted it was a presidential
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  Speaker 1: election year to plus five million in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: That's a margin shift to twelve million votes. That's significant. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we should be cleared this was a midterm election, it
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  Speaker 1: was not a presidential election. According to data compiled by
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  Speaker 1: US Election Project, the drop off in the last five
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  Speaker 1: decades presidential to mid terms has been about a third.
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  Speaker 1: If the Democrats vote total fell by more than a
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  Speaker 1: third from twenty twenty to twenty twenty two, forty two percent.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, by contrast, Republican vote fell by just twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine percent. Yes, is a bit mysterious as to how
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  Speaker 1: Republican candidates managed to do so poorly relative to voter
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  Speaker 1: or enthusiasm. But I think it's also clear that when
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  Speaker 1: you have a bad candate, you run a bad candiate, well,
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  Speaker 1: then bad things happened. Now, the other question is what
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  Speaker 1: happens with the Republican leadership, What do we do right
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  Speaker 1: with Republican leadership, there's still an opportunity here going into
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the presidential the White House, for example, on November the ninth,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the day after the elections, a reporter asked the President,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden, what in the next two years do you
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  Speaker 1: intend to do differently? The President smiled and answered nothing,
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  Speaker 1: because we're just finding out what we're doing. The more
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: they know about what we're doing, the more support there
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: is referring to the American people. That was the official
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: response from Joe Biden. The good news as it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: see the Democrats learn from the mid term elections either.
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  Speaker 1: Biden's approval rating is about forty and he hasn't been
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  Speaker 1: above fi since August of twenty twenty one. And yet
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: as far as he's concerned, everything is going fine. All
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  Speaker 1: he needs to do, he thinks, is more of the
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  Speaker 1: exact same thing that he's been doing right now. On
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  Speaker 1: November the thirteenth, how Speaker Nancy Pelosi. On Sunday, November thirteenth,
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  Speaker 1: less than a week after election day, Nancy Pelosi told
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  Speaker 1: ABC News that Biden should run again in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: As she put it, he's has been a great president,
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  Speaker 1: and he has a great record to run on. In fact,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: while it's almost certain that the Democrats will lose their
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: House majority this year, there's at least a chance at
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Pelosi eighty two will stay on as a Democratic leader,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: as minority leader, if not Speaker, depending on the total
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  Speaker 1: vote counts. She was, after all, re elected to her
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  Speaker 1: House seat, and she said on November the thirteenth that
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: she has no plans to resign from Congress, basically because
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Democrats did so well on an election day when it
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: was supposed to be a brutal beat down of Nancy Pelosi,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: and we screwed that up as Republicans. So the question
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: is whether or not she would seek the post of
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  Speaker 1: minority leader. Pelosi, born in nineteen forty, has been the
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  Speaker 1: head of the Democrats in the House and the majority
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  Speaker 1: and in the minority since two thousand and three, so
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  Speaker 1: she has all the scars as well as strengths that
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: come from two decades of high profile politics. She clearly
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: relishes the leadership job, and yet for years now, younger
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: House Democrats have been well angry about her long tenure,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: just like many conservative Republicans are about Mitch McConnell. Under
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: pressure from her juniors, in twenty eighteen, she agreed to
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: serve only two more terms as Democratic leader, and she
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: reaffirmed that agreement in twenty twenty. And yet now that
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the time's up, what will she do? Will she stepped down,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: will she break her pledge? No one knows Pelosi, who's
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  Speaker 1: eighty two. If she does stay, what are the other
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: two top Democratic House leaders, Cindy Hoyer and Jim Clyburn,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: They too, by the way, are over eighty. You look
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: at the leadership in this country right now. It's a
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: bunch of eighty year olds. Just so we understand this,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Joe Biden will turn eighty on November the twentieth. So
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: basically the entire country is now being run by older,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: senile individuals. Let's just be honest about that. Which brings
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: me back to Georgia. If Democrats get their way, and
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  Speaker 1: I do believe that the Democrats are going to get
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  Speaker 1: their way, they are going to keep the Senate, as
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I mentioned, and they may even be able to grab
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: this spot, which terrifies me in Georgia. And if we
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: don't back herschel Walker, there's a very good chance they
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: could end the filibuster, and when you end the filibuster,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: they could pack the Supreme Court and they could give
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: statehood to DC in Puerto Rico, which would add four
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: new senators, which means the Democrats believe they get all four.
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  Speaker 1: That's why it's so important in Georgia we win this race.
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  Speaker 1: That's why it's important that every one of us get
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  Speaker 1: campaign teamherschel dot com is his website. I rarely tell
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: people to give to a campaign, but if you can,
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• 28:47
  Speaker 1: your reaction to Mitch McConnell. And also, there was one
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: state that had a real red wave, only one, and
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: that state was Florida. There's a lot of people now
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: believe that the leadership of the Republican Party should be
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: looked at through the eyes of what that man did,
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