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Trump’s Economy Defies Critics plus Polls Show Voters Back POTUS on Crime · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 3: be a disaster for our economy. Well, guess what, the
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  Speaker 3: economy's booming and the statistics are so bad that even
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  Speaker 3: you know the crime wave that's happened in almost every
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  Speaker 3: liberal city in America. Well, Donald Trump is fighting that
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  Speaker 3: crime and the data is now showing the majority of
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  Speaker 3: Americans are in favor of what Donald Trump's doing and
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: The media and the Democrats. Yeah, guess what they lie
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  Speaker 3: to you again? They got it wrong again. They said
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  Speaker 3: that Donald Trump was going to destroy the economy, that
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  Speaker 3: the big beautiful bill was going to send us into
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  Speaker 3: a recession, that the president was out of control. Well,
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  Speaker 3: guess what they lied to you. The US economy is
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  Speaker 3: surging past expectations as spending and investments are soaring. The
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  Speaker 3: US economy expanded faster than initially estimated in the spring
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  Speaker 3: why Americans spent more freely and businesses stepped up investment
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  Speaker 3: in their businesses. According to the revised government data, gross
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  Speaker 3: domestic product rose at three point three percent annualized rate
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  Speaker 3: in the second quarter. That is up from the Commerce
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  Speaker 3: Department's initial three point zero percent estimate and above the
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  Speaker 3: three point one percent pace that economists had forecasts. So
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  Speaker 3: they beat not one, but two expectations. The acceleration followed
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  Speaker 3: modest growth in the first quarter. We're being told as well.
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  Speaker 3: Now the upward revision reflects household spending more on a
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  Speaker 3: couple different things. Er one healthcare, two pharmaceuticals, and three
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  Speaker 3: something completely different than that dining out. So what does
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  Speaker 3: that mean. It means people feel comfortable and confident in
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  Speaker 3: their income right now now. It also shared does something
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  Speaker 3: else with businesses, small businesses, mid sized businesses, and large businesses.
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  Speaker 3: Companies boosted purchases of number one equipment That tells you
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  Speaker 3: they feel good about a growing business structure and intellectual property,
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  Speaker 3: meaning that they're also these businesses are willing to invest
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  Speaker 3: in future expensive intelligence right intellectual property. Business investment was
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  Speaker 3: driven by quote stronger outlays on software, on research and development,
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  Speaker 3: including things like light trucks and commercial structures. So people
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  Speaker 3: are expanding. You don't do these things unless you have
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  Speaker 3: confidence in an economy. We also know that the media
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  Speaker 3: lied to you about Trump's trade wars and the tariffs.
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  Speaker 3: All of this was happening. When they said that things
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  Speaker 3: were going to be stopped, that there was going to
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  Speaker 3: be a retraction in the economy because of the instability
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  Speaker 3: and the insanity as they described it of Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 3: trade wars. Guess what they lied to you again, In fact,
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  Speaker 3: trade flows also contributed to the growth, So they just
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  Speaker 3: lied with pure propaganda that was anti Trump imports, which
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  Speaker 3: subtract from GDP calculations, declined after surging in the first
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  Speaker 3: quarter ahead of the new tariffs on some goods. We
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  Speaker 3: also know the export slip, but not enough to offset
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  Speaker 3: the boom and the booze from fewer foreign goods flowing
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  Speaker 3: into the country, which is exactly what Donald Trump predicted.
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  Speaker 3: A key gauge by the way of underlying domestic demand
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  Speaker 3: and the real final sales to private domestic per which
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  Speaker 3: is an important category excludes trade inventories and government spinning
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  Speaker 3: also rose, so this is like genuine private sector nothing
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  Speaker 3: to do with the government. It rose at one point
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  Speaker 3: nine percent rate, up from one point two percent in
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  Speaker 3: the earlier estimate. So every virtual metric of what the
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  Speaker 3: expectations were, the Trump administration blew them out of the water.
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  Speaker 3: Now price pressures remained in check. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: Personal consumption, expenditure and the price index the Federal Reserves
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  Speaker 3: preferred inflation gauge increase at a two point zero percent
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  Speaker 3: annual rate that was matching the Central Bank's target. Core prices,
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  Speaker 3: which exclude violatile food and energy costs, advanced at a
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  Speaker 3: two point five percent pace as well. Government spinning by
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  Speaker 3: the Way was also revised. I never get to say
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  Speaker 3: this lower. Let me just say that again. Government spending
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  Speaker 3: was revived lower why it was driven by reduced state
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  Speaker 3: and local outlays which tempered some of their well, you know,
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  Speaker 3: hey spending. That is amazing. The income side, also of
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  Speaker 3: national accounts, painted a similar robust picture. Real gross domestic
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  Speaker 3: income climbed at a four point eight percent rate, while
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  Speaker 3: corporate profits rebounded after declining in the first quarter. The
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  Speaker 3: Commerce Department is scheduled by the WAY to release its
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  Speaker 3: third and final estimate of second quarter GDP, along with
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  Speaker 3: annual benchmark revisions to historic data, on September twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 2: Now story number two.
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  Speaker 3: So the DC mayor has had a major change of
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  Speaker 3: her rhetoric when it comes to reversing what crime is
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  Speaker 3: doing in her city. Yes, she's totally reversing course now
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  Speaker 3: admitting that Donald Trump's federal crime crackdown is in fact working.
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  Speaker 3: Mayor Bowser cited an eighty seven percent reduction in carjackings
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  Speaker 3: during the twenty day federal law enforcement deployment. Just take
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  Speaker 3: a listen to the conversation that was had on Fox
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  Speaker 3: News Channel about what she said and also the data.
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  Speaker 4: We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what
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  Speaker 4: MPD has been able to do in this city. Well,
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  Speaker 4: we know it's not working. Is a break and trust
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  Speaker 4: between police and community, especially with new federal partners in
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  Speaker 4: our community. We know having massed ice agents in the
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  Speaker 4: community has not worked.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but let's listen to some residents here.
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  Speaker 5: Navy Yard has kind of been a hot area before
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  Speaker 5: all the additional security. It was a little dice yet,
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  Speaker 5: especially at later times in the hour, I would see
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  Speaker 5: fights break out whenever are just walking home. But now
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  Speaker 5: it's a lot more quiet.
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  Speaker 6: I'm welcome and I think it's a great idea. And
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  Speaker 6: I have noticed that they have been cleaning some of
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  Speaker 6: the graffiti off in some of the areas, like on
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  Speaker 6: the highways and that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 7: What about the fallout of all this, Toh, Well, we
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  Speaker 7: just had a poll come out yesterday the ap poles here,
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  Speaker 7: eighty one percent of people think that crime is a
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  Speaker 7: problem in major, major problem in urban areas. Trump's approval
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  Speaker 7: rating on crime was fifty four percent in that poll,
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  Speaker 7: and the Harvard Harris Pole was fifty one percent, his
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  Speaker 7: highest rating of any of the issues that they questioned
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  Speaker 7: voters about So I think what you saw from the mayor,
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  Speaker 7: which she said, is a bit surprising. I think that's
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  Speaker 7: her responding to her constituents. She's hearing from people who
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  Speaker 7: are saying that, especially in the areas where crime is
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  Speaker 7: the worst, that they feel safer, and that's that's not
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  Speaker 7: a bad thing. Democrats have managed to box themselves in
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  Speaker 7: on another eighty twenty issue and are trying to find
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  Speaker 7: a way out, and I think the mayor has recognized that,
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  Speaker 7: and she's obviously in the middle of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yet again, here Democrats on the wrong side of the issue.
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  Speaker 3: This is an issue where the majority of Americans say
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  Speaker 3: that they want to fill safe. In fact, for decades,
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  Speaker 3: Democrats have been saying this, and now what is happening. Well,
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  Speaker 3: President Donald Trump says, I'm with you. I want to
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  Speaker 3: drive down crime in some of our most dangerous cities.
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  Speaker 3: And Democrats are angry. Why they're coming down once again
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  Speaker 3: on the wrong side of an issue that affects millions
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  Speaker 3: of Americans. And the question you should ask yourself is this,
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  Speaker 3: Why would the leaders of high crime cities like Washington,
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  Speaker 3: DC or Chicago object to the President helping to make
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  Speaker 3: their streets safer. I'll tell you why they're panicked. They're
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  Speaker 3: panic that Donald Trump is succeeding exposing them as inept,
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  Speaker 3: as corrupt, as leaders that really just want to control cities,
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  Speaker 3: even if it means they're filled with crime. For decades,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, Democrats have been struggling to overcome the
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  Speaker 3: accusations on the facts that they were soft on crime.
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  Speaker 3: Go back to nineteen ninety four. Trying to combat that charge,
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  Speaker 3: President Bill Clinton signed a law the most sweeping anti
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  Speaker 3: crime bill at the time in history, and funded actually
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  Speaker 3: the hiring of one hundred thousand new police officers. It
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  Speaker 3: also authorized a construction of new prisons and introduced that
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  Speaker 3: three strikes law mandating lengthy jail terms for repeat offenders.
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  Speaker 3: Now Democrats are furious. They are furious that crime is
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  Speaker 3: actually going down in DC, and they're also even more
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  Speaker 3: angry that the President said this about you know, the
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  Speaker 3: prospect of places like Chicago getting some extra help.
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  Speaker 8: And after we do this, we'll go to another location
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  Speaker 8: and we'll make it safe. Also, we're going to make
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  Speaker 8: our country very safe. We're going to make our cities
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  Speaker 8: very very safe. Chicago's a mess. You have an incompetent
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  Speaker 8: mayor grossly incompetent, and we'll straighten that one out probably next.
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  Speaker 8: That'll be our next one after this, and it won't
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  Speaker 8: even be tough. And the people in Chicago, mister Vice President,
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  Speaker 8: are screaming for us to come there. They're wearing red hats,
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  Speaker 8: just like this one, but they're wearing red hats. African
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  Speaker 8: American ladies, beautiful ladies, are saying, please, President Trump, come
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  Speaker 8: to Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: Please.
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  Speaker 8: I did great with the black vote, as you know,
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  Speaker 8: and they want something to happen. So I think Chicago
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  Speaker 8: will be our next, and then we'll help with New York,
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  Speaker 8: and we're going to help with and I think, really,
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  Speaker 8: I think a lot of and a lot of these
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  Speaker 8: people that you see on television they are, including the
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  Speaker 8: people in this audience. They'll say bad things about me,
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  Speaker 8: and then they'll say, thank god he's here, because half
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  Speaker 8: of them got mugged and they don't want to get
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  Speaker 8: mugged again. But you know, they work for a ladder,
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  Speaker 8: but they work for stupid people at a radical left,
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  Speaker 8: and they're made to do things and say things that
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  Speaker 8: they don't want to be saying.
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  Speaker 3: This goes back to the real problem. And if you
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  Speaker 3: look at the present and what he's saying there, He's
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  Speaker 3: absolutely right. You had Democrats that used to be in
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  Speaker 3: favor of fighting crime and saving black lives. Now they're
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  Speaker 3: soft on crime. Democrats' literal high water mark for cracking
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  Speaker 3: down on crime was in nineteen ninety four. The party leaders,
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  Speaker 3: including former President Joe Biden, are now at a point
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  Speaker 3: where they apologize for being tough on crime. They literally
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  Speaker 3: apologize for the nineteen ninety four crime Bill, and then
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  Speaker 3: post George Floyd and that error, Democrats have adopted policies
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  Speaker 3: as openly we want to defund the police. We want
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  Speaker 3: to have no bail, we want to have prison reform,
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  Speaker 3: we want to shut down prisons. And that's what made
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  Speaker 3: our cities, or especially the cities they run liberal cities,
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  Speaker 3: so dangerous because they favored criminals over their citizens. They
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  Speaker 3: also did this on the issue of i legal immigration,
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  Speaker 3: flooding these cities with criminals. President Trump saying, hey, I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna do this. I'm going to save people's lives. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to reverse course on this. I'm gonna go wherever
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  Speaker 3: I can, and if I can send troops, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to do it for one reason, to stop the violence
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  Speaker 3: and to stop the killing and what a democrat say.
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  Speaker 3: You're a dictator and a tyrant if you do it.
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