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Democrats Eat Their Own as Progressives Target Party Veterans · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Democrats are experiencing a falling out in the aftermath of
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Speaker 1: the government shut down. It's now turning into what is
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Speaker 1: an essence, a civil war. How bad is it? Well,
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Speaker 1: here's one headline from the Hill. Is this the end
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Speaker 1: of Chuck Schumer. Democrats have generally been unable to agree
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Speaker 1: on much over the past year, but now they seemingly
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Speaker 1: agree on one thing. That is its time to get
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Speaker 1: rid of the old guard and they must go with
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Speaker 1: the socialist, Communists and Marxist leaders of their future. That
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Speaker 1: is exactly what is happening. Is the fight is continuing
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Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill. Schumer's leadership position is increasingly unattainable as
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Speaker 1: he comes under fire from both moderates and his left
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Speaker 1: crazies that have been allowed to exist in the Democratic
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Speaker 1: Party and now in essence, they've taken over the Hill.
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Speaker 1: Putting it this way, as they described exactly how bad
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Speaker 1: it's gotten for Chuck Schumer, who is one of the
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Speaker 1: most liberal members in the Senate's history, but he's not
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Speaker 1: liberal enough anymore for the Marxists, the socialists in the Communists.
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Speaker 2: Well, AOC challenge the most powerful Senate Democrat. It's become
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Speaker 2: a favorite topic of Washington political chatter as Senemorder leader
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Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer faces an onslaught of attacks over his handling
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Speaker 2: of the government shutdown. It comes as the profile of
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Speaker 2: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez continues to rise, and that's leading to
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Speaker 2: speculation that the two New Yorkers could be heading for
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Speaker 2: a showdown in twenty twenty eight. That's when Schumer is
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Speaker 2: up for reelection, and there are growing signs the five
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Speaker 2: term senator could be vulnerable in a Democratic primary in
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Speaker 2: the Empire State. Schumer will be seventy seven years old
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Speaker 2: on election day twenty twenty eight, and eighty four by
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Speaker 2: the time the term ends. This at a time when
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Speaker 2: many Democrats are pressing for new blood in the party,
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Speaker 2: and Schumer has been the target of rage from many
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Speaker 2: Democrats after eight members of the Senate Caucus broke ranks
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Speaker 2: this week to end government shut down without securing concessions
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Speaker 2: the party sought aoc is a darling of the progressive left.
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Speaker 3: Her reach on social media.
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Speaker 2: Is vast, Her rallies draw large crowds, and she secured
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Speaker 2: a big victory last week when her allies or Hanmamdani,
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Speaker 2: was elected mayor of New York City. Notably, Schumer did
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Speaker 2: not endorse in the race. For his part, Schumer has
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Speaker 2: not announced his intentions for twenty twenty eight. Many Democrats
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Speaker 2: believe he will eventually bow out. Others say he remains
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Speaker 2: a well like figure among New York Democrats and his
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Speaker 2: seniority in the party will play a role in the
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Speaker 2: calculus heading into twenty twenty eight. There's also this Some
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Speaker 2: believe AOC star has grown so bright that she could
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Speaker 2: brush aside a Senate run and instead seek the presidency.
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Speaker 4: I want you to think about what you just heard.
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Speaker 1: AOC could just move past a Senate run goes straight
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Speaker 1: to the presidency. Is that crazy talk? The answer is no.
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Speaker 1: When you have a Democrat that is a five term
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Speaker 1: sin right six times five? Is what do the math
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Speaker 1: on that? And a nine term representative is underscoring just
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Speaker 1: how precarious Schumer's position actually is. You have these eight
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Speaker 1: Democrats that broke with their party to reopen the government.
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Speaker 1: By the way, Schumer voted to keep the government closed,
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Speaker 1: and yet they're still angry at Schumer, and now they
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Speaker 1: have a simple demand, you must resign. He was also
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Speaker 1: accused of trying to quote screw over the party.
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Speaker 4: I'm not joking.
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Speaker 1: Schumer was also held up as another example of why
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Speaker 1: we need quote new leadership. And that's just what Democrats
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Speaker 1: in Congress had to say. None of what I just
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Speaker 1: quoted you from there was from outside of elected members
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Speaker 1: of Congress. Now, the Wall Street Journal is now reporting
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Speaker 1: that at least eleven House Democrats, eleven progressive nonprofits, and
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Speaker 1: six Democratic Senate candidates have called on mister Schumer to
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Speaker 1: step away officially as the minority leader. In other words,
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Speaker 1: Schumer has literally managed to alienate virtually everyone in his
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Speaker 1: own party. Progressives are blaming him for not being quote
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Speaker 1: strong enough to rein in the defectors, while moderates are
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Speaker 1: angry with Schumer and saying he engineered the longest shutdown
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Speaker 1: ever for literally nothing because Democrats got nothing in return.
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Speaker 4: So this is where Schumer is.
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Speaker 1: He's literally caught between the extreme radical left, the Marxist,
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Speaker 1: the socialists, and the communists. And then the moderates of
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Speaker 1: his party are saying, what the hell were you doing?
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Speaker 5: Man?
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Speaker 1: Like you put us in a bad spot going into
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Speaker 1: reelection and you had to shut down and we have
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Speaker 1: nothing to show for anything here with this shutdown, So
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Speaker 1: they're angry too. How do you get out of that?
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Speaker 1: I don't know now courting by the way to see
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Speaker 1: an end uh with. He now has a minus four
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Speaker 1: point favorability among Democratic voters. Schumer is the least popular
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Speaker 1: Democratic Senate leader since the polling began asking the question
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Speaker 1: all the way back in nineteen eighty five. Just to
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Speaker 1: put in perspective for you now, the same poll also
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Speaker 1: suggests that if Schumer were up for election today, and
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Speaker 1: this is obviously where Nancy Pelosi and AOC and all
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Speaker 1: these are fighting over this, the same poll suggests that
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Speaker 1: if Schumer were up for election today, he would likely
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Speaker 1: suffer a quote historic defeat in a primary against AOC
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Speaker 1: who is clearly preparing a Senate run. All right, that's
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Speaker 1: what everyone is talking about right now the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 1: Here's the other thing that's interesting. Among New York Democrats.
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Speaker 1: AOC's net favorability is significantly higher. In fact, it is
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Speaker 1: thirty points higher than Schumer. It is a US forty
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Speaker 1: six points versus plus sixteen. So that confirms the results
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Speaker 1: of a pullback in May that showed that AOC was
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Speaker 1: clearly winning a matchup by twenty one points. It'd be
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Speaker 1: fifty four to thirty three among likely Democratic voters in
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Speaker 1: a primary. Now, I ever wins the primary, he's going
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Speaker 1: to win the general. We all know that because it's
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Speaker 1: New York and so Schumer is not up for reelection,
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Speaker 1: and this is good for him. Until twenty twenty eight,
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Speaker 1: he'll likely be He'll be like week shy. I think
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Speaker 1: of his seventy eighth birthday. And now he's got to
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Speaker 1: deal with a primary challenge, and there's a good chance
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Speaker 1: he may lose his power in the Senate as the
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Speaker 1: leader of the Democratic Party there as well. How did
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Speaker 1: we get to this point, I'll tell you exactly how
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Speaker 1: because of the radical left in the Democrats, and the
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Speaker 1: Democrats did not police them. They have now taken over Senaer. Booker,
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Speaker 1: by the way, is also now calling for new leadership
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Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party. Here's part of that conversation on
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Speaker 1: Fox News Channel as they were describing what is now
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Speaker 1: at civil war.
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Speaker 6: So in terms of who will be leading the Democrats,
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Speaker 6: there's a good chance it might not be Chuck Schumer
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Speaker 6: in the Senate because Corey Booker seems to be leading
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Speaker 6: the charge in terms of wanting new leadership.
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Speaker 5: Listen to what he.
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Speaker 7: Said, Chuck Schumer's generation Nancy Pelosi's generation, John Lewis's generation.
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Speaker 7: They have so much to be proud of. It is time, though,
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Speaker 7: for new leadership the other generations ex. Millennials, Zee, It's
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Speaker 7: time for us to step up. The stage is waiting
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Speaker 7: for us to lead, not just the party but the
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Speaker 7: nation right now?
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Speaker 4: Is it time?
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Speaker 3: I think the Democrats are fishing in the wrong well here.
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Speaker 3: It's not an issue of a just not an issue
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Speaker 3: of generation. It's an issue of the party being way
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Speaker 3: too far left. What the election told us last week
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Speaker 3: is that the economy may be better under the Trump administration,
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Speaker 3: that it wasn't inder the Biden administration.
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Speaker 7: But it's not good enough.
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Speaker 3: Democrats have a lane right here. But what they're doing
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Speaker 3: is they're going to the far left because that's where
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Speaker 3: the social media influencers are. Social media loves conflict, it
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Speaker 3: loves anger, it loves extremism. But that's not where voters are.
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Speaker 3: Seventy percent of American voters are either conservative or moderate,
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Speaker 3: and there is a lane here. There's an opportunity for
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Speaker 3: Democrats to go after those voters, those swing voters that
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Speaker 3: make the difference in the national elections coming up. We
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Speaker 3: haven't seen national Virginia, New Jersey, New York. They were
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Speaker 3: not national elections. You take this progressive socialist show on
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Speaker 3: the road nationally, it's not going to work. If Democrats
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Speaker 3: move to the political center, that's where that's where the
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Speaker 3: sweet part is for them. But they can't do that
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Speaker 3: because they are addicted to the social media left break yea.
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Speaker 6: And when you think about who are the loudest voices
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Speaker 6: in the Democratic Party, it's alexandri or Cassio Cortez, it's
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Speaker 6: Jasmin Crockett, it's Bernie Sanders. But when asked about who
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Speaker 6: the future leaders of the Democratic Party are, listen to
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Speaker 6: what roconnaissan.
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Speaker 8: We have dynamic, young new leaders where some of it.
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Speaker 8: Chris Murphy is a top leader. Cory Booker is a
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Speaker 8: dynamic leader. Brian Schatz is a dynamic leader. Do you
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Speaker 8: think Democrats around the country think that Chuck Schumer should
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Speaker 8: be the face of the future of the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 6: Of course, not interesting that there was not a mention
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Speaker 6: of AOC, Jasbin Crockett or any of the people on
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Speaker 6: the far left.
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Speaker 5: Chris Murphy was about as far as you got.
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Speaker 9: Well, I think Julian had exactly right, and that Democrats
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Speaker 9: are far too worried right now about pronouns as opposed
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Speaker 9: to paychecks or issues that Americans are really concerned about.
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Speaker 9: But I don't think that the solution is the fact
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Speaker 9: that Corey Booker looked around and Senator Spartacus let everyone
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Speaker 9: know that he might be the best person to step
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Speaker 9: up and lead. The fact of the matter is right
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Speaker 9: now is Democrats have two real problems. Number one, not
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Speaker 9: just the ideology, but they don't have a specific set
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Speaker 9: of issues or ideas to tackle those issues that they
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Speaker 9: can lead with. The second thing is when they talk
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Speaker 9: about leaders, Chris Murphy is like watching paint dry. He
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Speaker 9: is very boring. Until Democrats actually have some leaders who
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Speaker 9: can step up, no one's going to grab the attention
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Speaker 9: we're be able to command any sort of audience. Now
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Speaker 9: that said, regardless of the fact of how left the
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Speaker 9: Democrats have gone so far, whoever the Democrats do put
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Speaker 9: forward in twenty eight will be formidable. The country is
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Speaker 9: very much right down the middle of very divided, and
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Speaker 9: so it will be a tough battle. But I don't
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Speaker 9: think Democrats know who they want yet.
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Speaker 1: Yeah the moment, I love how they say there, I
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Speaker 1: don't think they know who they want. Yet, Like, that's
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Speaker 1: the part here that I think is so frustrating is
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Speaker 1: for them as they're like, yeah, of course they do.
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Speaker 4: They know exactly who they want. You know who they want.
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Speaker 1: They want radical socialist Marxist communists, and they want them
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Speaker 1: to run their party. I want you to just pause
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Speaker 1: what you're doing for the next sixty seconds, and I
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Speaker 1: want you to imagine Lucy, a seven year old. Her
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Speaker 1: stomach often aches with hunger, her small hands instead of
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Speaker 1: point that I think is very interesting, and that is
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Speaker 1: how fast the Democratic Party is actually moving to the
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Speaker 1: radical left. You got Mundani that gets elected full blown
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Speaker 1: communists is in. Socialists is in New York City. Cheosay
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Speaker 1: remember that name, all right, chi Osay. It's probably the
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Speaker 1: first time I've ever heard it, but it's a name
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Speaker 1: that you're going to want to remember. Because Chosay has
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Speaker 1: now filed paperwork to challenge Hakeem Jeffries from the left.
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Speaker 1: This is again how crazy the left has become. Now
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Speaker 1: this story gets just insane because you have this New
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Speaker 1: York City council member that filed the paperwork this week
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Speaker 1: to run against the House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's be clear, six months ago, Hakim Jeffries was like
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Speaker 1: AOC of the left. Now apparently he's not left enough
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Speaker 1: for this Brooklyn based congressional seat that just also gave
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Speaker 1: you Mundani. So this is what this dude's saying. All right,
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Speaker 1: and again's New York City council member. We know they're
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Speaker 1: extreme there.
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Speaker 4: Quote.
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Speaker 1: The Democratic Party's leadership is not only failing to effectively
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Speaker 1: fight back against Donald Trump. They have also failed to
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Speaker 1: deliver a vision that we can all believe in. Osei,
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Speaker 1: who recently joined the Democratic Socialists of America, so it's
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Speaker 1: another socialist set. In a statement to Axios, these failures
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Speaker 1: are some of the many reasons why I'm currently exploring
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Speaker 1: a potential run for New York's eighth congressional district.
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Speaker 4: Again, this is a Keeame Jeffries district.
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Speaker 1: This is no longer a Democratic party, that's a socialist party.
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Speaker 4: This is a twenty seven year old, all right.
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Speaker 1: He's also an ally of the New York Mayor Mandani
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Speaker 1: and is known as a left wing voice in the
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Speaker 1: New York City Council. Osei was considering the bid against Jeffries,
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Speaker 1: and now he's saying, well, because the government shutdown, I
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Speaker 1: just got to do it. He filed the FI Federal
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Speaker 1: Election Commission on Monday to run in the Democratic primary
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Speaker 1: for the New York's eighth district, which covers parts of
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Speaker 1: South and East Brooklyn. His team also set up an
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Speaker 1: Act Blue page they're the radical left organization for him
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Speaker 1: to begin fundraising for his run. Jefferies campaign spokesman is
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Speaker 1: not responding.
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Speaker 5: Yet.
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Speaker 1: Asked by Axios in October about a possible primary challenge
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Speaker 1: from this city council member, Jeffries replied, if you ask
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Speaker 1: me a serious question, I'll give you a serious answer.
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Speaker 1: And you know what's not a serious question based on
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Speaker 1: everything coming out of Brooklyn. So he's basically like, this
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Speaker 1: guy's beneath me. Well, guess what, you just got a
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Speaker 1: socialist elected to the mayor's office. There's a very good
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Speaker 1: chance that this kid, twenty seven year old socialists could
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Speaker 1: win against the leader of the Democratic Party in the House,
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Speaker 1: who was an extreme leftist when they elected him. Now,
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Speaker 1: Jeffreys campaign spokesman also said, asked again last week if
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Speaker 1: you had a comment on the reports of New York
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Speaker 1: Times in the New York Posts that Osay was planned
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Speaker 1: to run, Jeffries responded simply no. Despite being a high
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Speaker 1: profile supporter Mundani OSEI will likely run without the incoming
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Speaker 1: mayor's support, at least for now, we're being told, and
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Speaker 1: that may not matter. When you can say, hey, I'm
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Speaker 1: just like the mayor, that'll probably help. When you say
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Speaker 1: you're a socialist, that helps, And when you say you
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Speaker 1: want to give away free stuff that helps. Is this
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Speaker 1: on brand for New York in the Bronx at Brooklyn area. Yes,
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Speaker 1: no doubt.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 1: This is also interesting because this run would be a
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Speaker 1: part of a broader nationwide effort my younger and more
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Speaker 1: progressive Democrats to Alison come into the say as just
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Speaker 1: too old or to establishment oriented in the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 1: Many of those insurgent candidates declined to comment on whether
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Speaker 1: they would even vote or commit to vote for Jeffries
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Speaker 1: as a leader or even a speaker, and many of
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Speaker 1: them said, you know what, no, in general, we would
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Speaker 1: not do this. So this is again enraged Democrats. And
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go to another headline here, and I'm
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Speaker 1: going to read you this headline, and this is what
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Speaker 1: it says. Quote, enraged Democratic candidates turn on their own leaders.
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Speaker 1: When I tell you this, in all how civil war.
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Speaker 1: It is Democratic congressional candidates nationwide, feeding off voter fury,
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Speaker 1: are raging against their leadership and vowing to be ruthless.
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Speaker 4: Quote.
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Speaker 1: I'm not a when they go low, we go high person.
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Speaker 1: I'm not that kind of girl. That is what Texas
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Speaker 1: State Representative Jones, who's running in a November special election
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Speaker 1: for a safely Democratic US House seat, said to Axios
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Speaker 1: dealing with Republicans saying, what if they go lo, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to the gutter. So that is now the mantra
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Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party. Axios interviewed dozens of Democratic congressional candidates,
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Speaker 1: some challenging longtime Democrat incumbents and others running in open
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Speaker 1: primaries in blue or purple seats. What was consistent across
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Speaker 1: many of those interviews, Axio says, was a notion that
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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party establishment has not been met or has
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Speaker 1: not met, I should say, the moment since President Trump
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Speaker 1: re entered the White House in January. So they're saying,
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Speaker 1: you've got to be even more extreme to go up
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Speaker 1: against Trump. And this echoes, by the way, what Democratic
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Speaker 1: elective officials have heard from their constituents, particularly in their
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Speaker 1: liberal grass roots, for the last nine months. It also
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Speaker 1: signals a massive headache for Democratic leadership, which may have
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Speaker 1: to grapple with its own version of the Tea Party
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Speaker 1: wave and re havoc on the GOP leadership back in
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Speaker 1: the day.
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Speaker 4: So here's what you got to know.
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Speaker 1: They left the radical left, the socialist left of the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party says, Look, this is what the American people want.
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Speaker 1: They want to be part of a movement that fights back,
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Speaker 1: they say for their rights. That's what a former Houston
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Speaker 1: City councilwoman, a man Edwards, another leading Canada the Texas
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Speaker 1: special election set.
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Speaker 4: Then you got Donald Trump. What do they say about Trump?
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Speaker 1: She said, quote Trump is willing to go as far
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Speaker 1: as he can possibly go and has no limitations. At
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Speaker 1: what point are we going to be in a position
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Speaker 1: where we are ready to fight back and have a strategy.
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Speaker 1: So she's demanding massive change within the Democratic Party. Now
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Speaker 1: there's also a prominent progressive influencer running in Illinois told
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Speaker 1: Axios his name is Kat You need to show the
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Speaker 1: people that you're angry, and not just that you're angry,
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Speaker 1: that you're going to do something about it.
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Speaker 4: We're on the brink of.
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Speaker 1: A authoritarian coup, is what a former tech entrepreneur in
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Speaker 1: Progressive Operative challenging former Speaker in Ancy Pelosi had to say.
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Speaker 1: A week before Pelosi said I'm not going to run
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Speaker 1: for reelection, she said, people want to see the legislators
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Speaker 1: actually showing up at these courthouses and confronting Ice, something
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Speaker 1: she says Nancy Pelosi didn't do. And now we know
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Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi is not going to run for re election. Now,
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Speaker 1: dozens of Democratic candidates for the US House are refusing
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Speaker 1: to commit or outright declining to vote for House Minority
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Speaker 1: Leader at Keem Jeffers, a speaker or leader.
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Speaker 4: That is again the newest report that's coming out.
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Speaker 1: Democratic leadership has to take a much stronger stand against
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Speaker 1: the Trump administration, is what the Evans Sound Mayor Daniel Biss,
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Speaker 1: another one of the leading candidates in one of those races,
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Speaker 1: said as well. Biss added, we can't be afraid to
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Speaker 1: use our leverage to fight back, and we have to
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Speaker 1: speak out clearly and forcefully about the damaged Trump is
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Speaker 1: doing to our communities. People are angry, they're frustrated, and
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Speaker 1: they're deeply dismayed by what they're seeing, of course by
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Speaker 1: the Trump administration, but honestly, a lot of it is
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Speaker 1: profound disappointment with a Democrat. That is what an attorney
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Speaker 1: by the name of Patrick Roth, a primary challenger to
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Speaker 1: Representative Stephen Lynch, a Democrat Massachusetts, said in another interview. So,
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Speaker 1: if you look away for just a moment and you
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Speaker 1: zoom out from these local races, here's what the takeaway is.
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Speaker 1: Number One, many of the leading Democratic candids and key
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Speaker 1: battleground primaries are Jeffrey loyalists or recruits. It may take
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Speaker 1: only a handful of renegades to frustrate the leadership if
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Speaker 1: he wins a small majority next year. The nearly dozen
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Speaker 1: House Democratics that are retiring or seeking higher off as
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Speaker 1: this cycle have left a slew of crowded Democratic primaries
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Speaker 1: in their wake. That leadership are going to have virtually
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Speaker 1: no control over trying to control the situation right. They
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Speaker 1: would love to hand pick people that ain't going to
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Speaker 1: happen now. That is in addition to the ten older
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Speaker 1: House Democrats who are facing well funded primary challengers as well.
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Speaker 1: And this is another way that Jones house Ken in
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Speaker 1: Texas said it this way quote, I just think that
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Speaker 1: the days of following a playbook are over. There's no
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Speaker 1: way I'm following rules when other people aren't. If you
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Speaker 1: grew up in the hood like me, that's the fastest
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Speaker 1: way literally to be killed. My brother was murdered, my
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Speaker 1: aunt was murdered, my cousin was murdered. My dad blew
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Speaker 1: his brains out. So I come from a different world
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Speaker 1: where everything isn't so pretty like the Democrats want. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: blank is ugly and you've got to be able to
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Speaker 1: fight ugly. So there's a candidate for the Democratic Party
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Speaker 1: saying I'm fighting ugly.
20:38
Speaker 4: I'll go as low as I need to go.
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Speaker 1: The Democrats are now eating their own and the people
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Speaker 1: that used to be the extreme of the Democratic Party
20:46
Speaker 1: literally in the last six months, have become not extreme
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Speaker 1: enough for the Democratic Party. This is truly insane. President
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Speaker 1: Trump going on offense, minding the American people of what
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Speaker 1: America looked like before he became president the second time,
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Speaker 1: and also reminding you what Democrats want to do this
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Speaker 1: country economically, and reminding you about what all has already
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Speaker 1: been accomplished.
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Speaker 4: In the last nine months.
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Speaker 1: As the President described it, we're making big progress on prices,
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Speaker 1: and we'll keep working to make sure everyone benefits, the
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Speaker 1: President making it clear at a summit revolving around McDonald's
21:29
Speaker 1: where one in eight Americans have actually worked that Denald
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Speaker 1: Trump not only inherited an economic mess when he took office,
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Speaker 1: but that was because of years of mismanagement under Joe Biden,
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Speaker 1: his incompetent administration, and Democrats in Congress who also spent
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Speaker 1: years insisting and lying to you claiming that inflation was
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Speaker 1: quote transitory, and then they decided to go out trillions
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Speaker 1: and new spinning and dramatically upscale our government sides. This
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Speaker 1: brought the country the brink of economic ruin, which is
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Speaker 1: mainly why Donald Trump was elected. Now, since day one,
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Speaker 1: the Trump administration has been on a mission to tame
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Speaker 1: Biden's inflation crisis, stop the sky high Biden price increases,
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Speaker 1: and lower costs for everyday families. While it can't happen overnight,
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Speaker 1: the White House says, there is clear evidence that shows
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Speaker 1: the trend is in the right direction now. President Trump
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Speaker 1: had to tame Biden's inflation, and under Biden, inflation average
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Speaker 1: nearly five percent and hitting nine point one percent during
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Speaker 1: the worst inflation crisis in decades, all of it fueled
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Speaker 1: by radical left, out of control government spending. In President
22:44
Speaker 1: Trump's second term, inflation has dropped to an average of
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Speaker 1: just two point seven percent, significantly lower than the four
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Speaker 1: year average of five percent under Biden and nine point
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Speaker 1: one percent of it's all time high, artical first step
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Speaker 1: in reversing the Democrats' cost of living disaster. In fact,
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Speaker 1: under President Trump, Americans have even seen the first overall
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Speaker 1: price declines since twenty twenty In several different categories. Now,
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Speaker 1: Americans have made real wage gains as well, and there's
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Speaker 1: still work to do, The White House says as well,
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Speaker 1: but let's remind you about where we were Under Biden,
23:24
Speaker 1: workers lost more than two thousand, nine hundred dollars in
23:28
Speaker 1: purchasing power, meaning inflation rose faster than wages. In President
23:34
Speaker 1: Trump's second term, even after accounting for higher prices, America's
23:38
Speaker 1: real wages have grown by nearly seven hundred dollars and
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Speaker 1: are on track to increase by nearly one thy two
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Speaker 1: hundred after his first full year in office. And then
23:49
Speaker 1: there's the major prices that we deal with every day.
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Speaker 1: Gas price is a great example. Under Biden, the average
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Speaker 1: gas price was the highest it had ever been during
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Speaker 1: a president of term, reaching its highest ever price even
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Speaker 1: after he drained our strategic oil reserves to artificially decrease
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Speaker 1: pricing before election day. And President Trump's second term, Americans
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Speaker 1: have seen the lowest average gas price in more than
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Speaker 1: four years, and we're on track to spend the lowest
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Speaker 1: amount of their disposable income on gas in the last
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Speaker 1: two decades. As President Trump's energy dominance vision continues to
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Speaker 1: come to fruition, energy prices, they say, we'll fall even further,
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Speaker 1: igniting another price decline that will help all Americans. Now,
24:38
Speaker 1: if you're not happy with the price of the pump,
24:40
Speaker 1: let's talk about Grocery prices and housing prices are trending
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Speaker 1: also in the right directions for American workers. Prices for
24:49
Speaker 1: everyday staples are starting to see declines finally under Donald Trump.
24:54
Speaker 1: Prices for eggs, for butter, ice cream, fresh fruit, cereal, seafood, rice, pasta,
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Speaker 1: and ham have all seen declines, and more help is
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Speaker 1: on the way. Housing costs are also moderating. Under Biden,
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Speaker 1: mortgage rates at their highest in decades. In President Trump's
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Speaker 1: second term, the average thirty year fixed rate mortgage was
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Speaker 1: six point one seven percent at the end of October,
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Speaker 1: twelve percent lower than when he took office. That according
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Speaker 1: to the Consumer Price Index. In fact, the twelve month
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Speaker 1: change in overall shelter costs is at its lowest level
25:35
Speaker 1: in four years as well. Now, there are other efforts
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Speaker 1: to continue driving prices down. The President talked about it tonight,
25:43
Speaker 1: ramping up take home pay and strengthening our economy. President
25:47
Speaker 1: Trump's deregulatory efforts are also saving Americans. A collective one
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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty billion. What does that mean for you?
25:54
Speaker 1: Two than one hundred dollars per family of four? For example,
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Speaker 1: President Trump Hall Burdens and Biden air efficiency standards that
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Speaker 1: jacked up the price of everyday appliances. And President Trump
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Speaker 1: signed into law the largest tax cut in American history.
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Speaker 1: This includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
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Speaker 1: and no tax on Social Security, all of which will
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Speaker 1: save Americans money in their tax returns. The landmark legislation
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Speaker 1: will raise America's take on pay by as much as
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Speaker 1: thirteen thousand, three hundred and wages by as much as
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Speaker 1: eleven thousand, six hundred. So the President decided to take
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Speaker 1: the stage to talk about exactly where we are.
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Speaker 4: And I want you to hear what the President had
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Speaker 4: to say.
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Speaker 10: While Democrats wanted to give Americans the largest tax syke
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Speaker 10: in history, in July, I proudly gave you the largest
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Speaker 10: tax cuts in American history and signed the one Big
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Speaker 10: Beautiful Bill.
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Speaker 5: I caught the great, big beautiful bill into law.
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Speaker 10: That includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
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Speaker 10: and no tax on Social Security.
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Speaker 5: For our great seniors. That is a big deal.
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Speaker 1: It's amazing what the President's accomplished already this year, but
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Speaker 1: the President says I'm not done there, and made a
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Speaker 1: pledge to the American families, no matter if you're rich
27:18
Speaker 1: or poor, conservative or liberal, black or white, or anything
27:21
Speaker 1: else in between. Here's what the present pledged to you.
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Speaker 10: My first term, we built the greatest economy in the
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Speaker 10: history of the world. And now we're doing it again.
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Speaker 10: But this time it really is, as I said, much stronger,
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Speaker 10: much better. I think it's going to be something that
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Speaker 10: nobody has ever seen before. My pledge to every family
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Speaker 10: and every small businesses that I will not rest until
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Speaker 10: you are rich or stronger, more successful, happier, till you've
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Speaker 10: gotten a piece.
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Speaker 5: Of the American dream.
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Speaker 10: Some of you in this room have really gotten a
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Speaker 10: piece of it because you made a great decision to
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Speaker 10: go with a great, great company years ago, and it's
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Speaker 10: really pretty amazing. And that begins with making America.
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Speaker 5: We have to do.
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Speaker 10: The word is affordable, and affordable should be our word,
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Speaker 10: not theirs, because the Democrats got up and took affordability affordable,
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Speaker 10: and they don't say that. They had the worst inflation
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Speaker 10: in history, the highest energy prices in history, everything was
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Speaker 10: the worst.
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Speaker 1: President Trump is bringing jobs and investments back to the
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Speaker 1: US as part of his plan to expand America's economy.
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Speaker 1: In fact, since President Trump took office, companies have invested
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Speaker 1: trillions I want to say that word again, trillions of
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Speaker 1: dollars into their US based operations, on shoring and creating
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Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of new jobs for Americans. President Trump
28:45
Speaker 1: is also reducing the deficit. A combination of spending cuts,
28:50
Speaker 1: interest savings, economic growth, and tariff revenues are expected to
28:56
Speaker 1: reduce the deficit by trillions of dollars, resulting in higher
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Speaker 1: take on pay, lower interest rates in a much stronger
29:04
Speaker 1: American economy. In fact, one point nine million more American
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Speaker 1: born workers are employed today than when President Trump took office.
29:13
Speaker 1: That's one point nine million Americans who are now happily
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Speaker 1: at work with a job right now. The US has
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Speaker 1: more people working now than at any time in the
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Speaker 1: history of our country, and the Trump administration, he says,
29:28
Speaker 1: will not rest until the high prices that resulted from
29:32
Speaker 1: democratic policies are fully rained in.
29:36
Speaker 4: He said.
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Speaker 1: We're making progress, and the best, he says, is yet
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Speaker 1: to come.
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Speaker 5: We're making tremendous progress.
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Speaker 10: One point nine million more American born workers are employed
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Speaker 10: today than when I took off. To think of that,
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Speaker 10: one point nine million more today, and these are American
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Speaker 10: born workers. Nobody thought that was possible. And we have
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Speaker 10: the strongest borders in the history of our country. Nobody
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Speaker 10: comes in unless they come in legally. You see the numbers.
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Speaker 10: Everyone thinks it's impossible a year ago, millions of people
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Speaker 10: with storming our borders. Today they only come in if
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Speaker 10: they come in legally, and wages for hourly workers arising
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Speaker 10: at the fastest pace in sixty years now.
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Speaker 1: The President also made it clear that there's a lot
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Speaker 1: when it comes to trade deals. We're seeing trade deals
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Speaker 1: with Switzerland that have just been announced, and we're modifying
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Speaker 1: tariffs for certain agricultural products. In fact, on Friday, President
30:31
Speaker 1: Trump signed an executive order exempting certain qualifying agricultural products
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Speaker 1: from the reciprocal tariffs that he first announced on April
30:40
Speaker 1: the second. Exemptions are accordingly set to be granted following
30:44
Speaker 1: a spat of new trade deals being inked with some
30:48
Speaker 1: of our biggest allies in the Western Hemisphere. In addition
30:51
Speaker 1: to deals that President Trump has already secured with the EU, Japan,
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Speaker 1: the UK, and other major trading partners.
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Speaker 4: What will this do well.
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Speaker 1: It will give substantial progress in making sure that American
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Speaker 1: workers are able to export at the same level that
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Speaker 1: we're importing. And Donald Trump also made it clear that
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Speaker 1: there are major investments coming into this country and the
31:16
Speaker 1: tariff money is being used to help American workers, something
31:20
Speaker 1: that the left and the media said was impossible.
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Speaker 4: Take a listen about that.
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Speaker 10: And to your leader, who when we met, I said,
31:29
Speaker 10: how are you doing with racist prices are coming down?
31:31
Speaker 10: He said, we were up forty percent because of Biden
31:34
Speaker 10: and inflation, and they're coming down and they're coming down rapidly.
31:37
Speaker 10: So I hope that all continues to go. But we're
31:41
Speaker 10: really doing well as the country. Most importantly, however, I
31:44
Speaker 10: will take big picture. We have over seventeen trillion dollars
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Speaker 10: being invested in our country in nine months. It's now
31:52
Speaker 10: just about ready to crack eighteen, and by the end
31:55
Speaker 10: of one year we will have about twenty to twenty
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Speaker 10: one trillion dollars invested in our country. That's more by
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Speaker 10: ten times the highest amount ever invested in any country
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Speaker 10: ever before, and it's largely because of tariffs, and I
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Speaker 10: think November fifth election, but it's the largest amount. As
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Speaker 10: an example, so if we have twenty year twenty one
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Speaker 10: in one year, twenty one trillion, think of.
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Speaker 5: What that is.
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Speaker 10: That's car factories, that's AI, it's everything. They're all coming
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Speaker 10: back because of the tariffs. They're all coming back because
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Speaker 10: they don't want.
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Speaker 5: To pay fifteen twenty thirty one hundred percent tariff. It
32:34
Speaker 5: wasn't that complicated. People are saying, you know, Trump was right.
32:37
Speaker 5: It really wasn't that complicated. But it's been amazing.
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Speaker 10: As an example, if you take me at twenty for
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Speaker 10: one year, sleepy Joe Biden, you know what, he was
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Speaker 10: less than one for four years, and if they got elected,
32:51
Speaker 10: they would have been at minus ten because people were
32:53
Speaker 10: moving out of the country in record numbers.
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Speaker 1: So I hope you'll take the info that I gave
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33:11
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33:14
Speaker 4: They believe that they are successful.
33:17
Speaker 1: Right now in convincing most Americans that somehow the economy
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Speaker 1: is a disaster. Because of Donald Trump, and that things
33:24
Speaker 1: aren't getting better. In fact, they're getting worse. But if
33:28
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