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The Base Isn’t Just Loyal — It’s Fired Up in Poll Shocker · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Once again calling on all members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard,
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  Speaker 1: the military, and the police to lay down their arms.
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  Speaker 1: They're only going to be killed perfectly safe, with total immunity,
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  Speaker 1: or you'll face absolutely guaranteed death, and I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to see that.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Friday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got two big
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  Speaker 3: stories for you. First up, Democrats, they're in trouble as
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  Speaker 3: new polling datas shows Donald Trump is in a better
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  Speaker 3: position than other former presidents at this point in his presidency.
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  Speaker 3: So who is he beating? Well, that'll give them even
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  Speaker 3: more nightmares, I'll tell you in just a moment. Also,
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  Speaker 3: Barack Obama comes out advocating for jerrymandering in Virginia. What's
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  Speaker 3: behind the plan that as well? It's the forty seven
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  Speaker 3: Morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one, Well, we've got.
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  Speaker 3: Good news to start with, and that is that President
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  Speaker 3: Trump is more popular, even after the media has tried
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  Speaker 3: to destroy him, than Barack Obama and George Bush at
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  Speaker 3: this point in his presidency. This is a recipe for disaster.
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  Speaker 3: For the midterms for the Democrats. They were hoping that
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump right now would be a week president. They
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  Speaker 3: were hoping that what happened in Minnesota and the backlash
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  Speaker 3: of ICE agents having to shoot people was going to
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  Speaker 3: be the undoing of President Trump. They were hoping that
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  Speaker 3: the Epstein files was also going to be the undoing
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  Speaker 3: of the president United States of America. Neither of those
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  Speaker 3: things have worked. Of course, they're going to keep trying.
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  Speaker 3: But what's happening right now is President Trump is literally
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  Speaker 3: more popular at this point in his presidency than Barack
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  Speaker 3: Obama and George Bush. And the best part about this
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  Speaker 3: is CNN is the one that actually had to report
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  Speaker 3: it after doing their pulling, saying that MAGA and America
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  Speaker 3: First is stronger now than it's ever been.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, Republicans love Donald Trump more than any president's own
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  Speaker 4: party supporters loved him at this particular point. Just take
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  Speaker 4: a look here, okay, own party supporters twenty first century
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  Speaker 4: president's own party approval about at this point the second term,
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  Speaker 4: Bush was at seventy seven percent, Obama was at seventy
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  Speaker 4: seven percent.
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  Speaker 3: Look at this, eighty.
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  Speaker 4: Six percent of Republicans approve of the job that Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump is doing at this point that is higher than
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  Speaker 4: either Obama or Bush had within their own party at
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  Speaker 4: this point. Trump's magic touch has not seen the war
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  Speaker 4: off yet when it comes to the Republican base.
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  Speaker 1: And what kind of approval are we talking about here?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so we're talking about overall approval here, how about
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  Speaker 4: the strongly approved, the strongly approved, not just like but
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  Speaker 4: love love. Okay, we're gonna look at these same presidents again,
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  Speaker 4: strong approval among your own parties base, which is he
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  Speaker 4: heres Trump is He's the only one who gets the
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  Speaker 4: majority at this point in their presidency. Obama was at
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  Speaker 4: forty eight percent. Bush was at forty seven percent. You
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  Speaker 4: see her. Trump at fifty three percent, not as hight
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  Speaker 4: as overall approof of rating, but still getting a majority
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  Speaker 4: of the Republican base at least in the average of
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  Speaker 4: polls to say that they still really really really like him.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, really really really like him. This is coming from CNN. Now,
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  Speaker 3: what's interesting about this is that you have a guy
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  Speaker 3: by the name of Barack Obama that went out there
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  Speaker 3: this week and started talking about how he wanted to
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  Speaker 3: jerry mander the upcoming elections and redraw the lines. Obama
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  Speaker 3: is now coming out because he's seeing these polls and
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  Speaker 3: he's calling on voters to help Democrats do the redistrict kings,
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  Speaker 3: specifically in Virginia ahead of the midterm elections. President Trump
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  Speaker 3: calling on voters in Virginia to support the ballot measure
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  Speaker 3: that's this spring that would change the Commonwealth's constitution and
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  Speaker 3: then cause new congressional district boundaries that would benefit the
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  Speaker 3: Democrats to be used in this falls midterm elections. He
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  Speaker 3: posted a video on social media asking people in Virginia
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  Speaker 3: to please jerry mander the state. Barack Obama understanding how
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  Speaker 3: big of a problem Trump's popularity is. And so this
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  Speaker 3: is what now he's said that has been seen more
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  Speaker 3: than thirty million times already. Obama saying we need quote
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  Speaker 3: free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy,
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  Speaker 3: but right now they're under attack. He's now saying Democrats
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  Speaker 3: that have been masters of jerrymandering, he's now claiming needed
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  Speaker 3: jerry jerry mander in response to Republicans like they've never
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  Speaker 3: been doing it before. Here's Obama in his own words.
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  Speaker 5: Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy,
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  Speaker 5: but right now they are under threat. Over the past
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  Speaker 5: several Republican controlled states have taken the unprecedented step of
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  Speaker 5: redrawing their congressional maps in the middle of the decade,
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  Speaker 5: and they've done it for a simple reason, to give
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  Speaker 5: themselves an unfair advantage in the midterms this fall. In April,
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  Speaker 5: Virginians can respond by making sure your voting power is
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  Speaker 5: not diminished by what Republicans are doing in other states.
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  Speaker 5: This amendment gives you the power to level the playing
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  Speaker 5: field in the mid terms this fall, and voters will
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  Speaker 5: have the final say over what the maps look like.
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  Speaker 5: This is the responsible thing to do. It's also a
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  Speaker 5: temporary measure. After the twenty thirty census, Virginia will go
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  Speaker 5: back to a system that lets a bipartisan redistricted commission
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  Speaker 5: redraw the maps. We can't afford two more years of
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  Speaker 5: unchecked power and zero accountability in Washington. Help us chart
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  Speaker 5: a better path forward. Virginia. Early voting begins on March sixth.
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  Speaker 5: Election day is April twenty first, Oh Yes, Virginia. To
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  Speaker 5: get involved, go to Virginians Forfair Elections dot com.
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  Speaker 3: Now in that ad where clearly the godfather of the
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  Speaker 3: Democratic Party is still in charge, that would be Barack Obama.
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  Speaker 3: When he talked about there can't be two more years
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  Speaker 3: of zero accountability. They show a picture of Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: with his hand in the air when he says we
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  Speaker 3: can't afford two more years of unchecked power. They have
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  Speaker 3: a picture of Donald Trump. This has been seen more
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  Speaker 3: than thirty times, and so it's worth you understanding that.
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  Speaker 3: And again there's something you also need to understand. The
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  Speaker 3: Union that paid for this and everybody that was involved
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  Speaker 3: in this. Virginia for fair elections. Okay, the money coming
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  Speaker 3: in is coming in from very corrupt people. You may
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  Speaker 3: not realize that, but this is coming in. And what
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  Speaker 3: they're trying to do here with Barack Obamas say, look,
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  Speaker 3: we can't allow Donald Trump to have a free and
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  Speaker 3: fair election, so we need a jerrymander to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that there's no way that Donald Trump will hold the House.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give you another example of how bad the jerrymandering's gotten.
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  Speaker 3: Just under half of all New Englanders vote Republican. Do
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  Speaker 3: you want to know how many Republican seats there are
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  Speaker 3: in New England? There are no Republican seats in New England.
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  Speaker 3: None the six New England states. Trump in twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 3: received forty of the vote. Congressional districts, there are twenty
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  Speaker 3: one that are democratic. There are zero that are in
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  Speaker 3: the GOP. Vermont, for example, thirty two of people in
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  Speaker 3: Vermont voted for Donald Trump. Zero Republican seats. New Hampshire
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  Speaker 3: forty eight percent, so almost exactly even voted for Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: There are zero Republican seats. In Maine, forty five percent
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  Speaker 3: of voters voted for Donald Trump in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 3: There are zero Republican seats Massachusetts, Trump got thirty six
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  Speaker 3: percent of the vote. There are zero Republican seats in Congress.
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  Speaker 3: From there, Connecticut, forty two percent of voters voted for
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump. There are zero Republican seats. Rhode Island that
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  Speaker 3: forty two percent of voters there voted for Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: There are zero Republican seats. So you put these six
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  Speaker 3: New England states together and under half of all New
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  Speaker 3: Englanders vote for Republicans. That there's not a single Republican
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  Speaker 3: seat in New England. And then Barack Obama comes out
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  Speaker 3: and says we must jerrymander Virginia because we can't win
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  Speaker 3: in a free and fair election cycle. When it's heads up.
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  Speaker 3: So we got to change the districts to make it
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  Speaker 3: clear that we are going to say to Republicans, you
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  Speaker 3: are not welcome here. You don't belong here, you don't
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  Speaker 3: have a voice here, you don't have a say so here.
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  Speaker 3: There is nothing for you here. Now, part of it
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  Speaker 3: is I think in these states they are telling conservatives
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  Speaker 3: move right, we're going to attach you to death. We're
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  Speaker 3: socialists where Marxists, we're communists. We are going to go
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  Speaker 3: after you, and you are not welcome, right, Like you're
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  Speaker 3: just you're not welcome, Okay, you are just flat out
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  Speaker 3: not welcome here. You won't have representation here, You'll have
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  Speaker 3: no one that you can call that will actually listen
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  Speaker 3: to you when you call. There is nothing here for you.
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  Speaker 3: That is a problem. This is the Democratic Party. And
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  Speaker 3: when Donald Trump is out there fighting for all of us,
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  Speaker 3: notice when things get Democrats go, no, no, we're just gonna
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  Speaker 3: We're gon We're just gonna straight up, we're gonna lie.
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  Speaker 3: Watch like like we're gonna lie. We're gonna just completely
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  Speaker 3: just destroy like that's what we're gonna do. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to destroy all of all, like every single one of you.
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  Speaker 3: You don't exist, we will shut you down. And now
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  Speaker 3: Barack Obama's come out and set it very clearly. If
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  Speaker 3: we can't win, we will cheat, and we will Jerrymander
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  Speaker 3: and every conservative better get ready and fight back because
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  Speaker 3: this is what Donald Trump's up against in the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 3: They are going to steal the House and then they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna use it to weaponize government to go after Trump
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  Speaker 3: and any ally of Donald Trump. Mark my word.
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