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RNC in Review · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: What we saw was I think a little bit different
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump.
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Speaker 2: I think that's okay.
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Speaker 1: There have been a lot of people saying Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: looked different night one as he was standing there with
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Speaker 1: Make America Great underneath them Byron Donald's sitting to his
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Speaker 1: left if you're looking at the President, Tucker Carlson as
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Speaker 1: well sitting to his left.
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Speaker 2: To the right jd Vance.
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Speaker 1: To the right of him was the speaker Mike Johnson
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Speaker 1: at the convention. When Donald Trump made his way into
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Speaker 1: the arena, it was also a little bit different. It
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Speaker 1: was not as loud as you traditionally hear at a
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Speaker 1: Trump rally. It was a very somber but I also
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Speaker 1: think serious moment for Donald Trump. He understands, I think
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Speaker 1: better than anybody, as we saw his ear, his right
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Speaker 1: ear bandage, that he is an individual who could easily
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Speaker 1: have died. He is someone whose life could have been
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Speaker 1: taken from him because of this would be assassin and
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Speaker 1: he was shot.
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Speaker 2: I want to say, if you have.
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Speaker 1: Ever been in a shooting, you understand what I'm about
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Speaker 1: to say.
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Speaker 2: Many of you know I've been in a shooting.
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Speaker 1: I had to use a gun to save my life
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Speaker 1: and had two different people pointing a gun at me,
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Speaker 1: one put to the side of my head, and I
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Speaker 1: can tell you that you are different after that, no
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Speaker 1: matter how much you don't want to be different. And
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Speaker 1: what I mean by that is your perspective changes. There's
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Speaker 1: anger that comes in afterwards. We saw instantly Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: be angry when he put his fist up and yelled fight.
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Speaker 1: There's then this realization that you could have died. There
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Speaker 1: is then a significant change and shift to concern that
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Speaker 1: it can happen. And again, I have a massive amount
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Speaker 1: of compassion for our men and women in uniform that
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Speaker 1: have dealt with PTSD. I didn't understand it till after
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Speaker 1: my shooting, and I cannot imagine what men and women
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Speaker 1: that go through that every single day in Afghanistan, Iraq
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Speaker 1: or anywhere else around the world where they're serving, what
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Speaker 1: they dealt with after nine to eleven, for example, when
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Speaker 1: you're there for a couple of years on multiple tours
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Speaker 1: of duties and you're being shot at, and you're shooting,
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Speaker 1: and you're seeing your friends get blown up, and you're
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Speaker 1: seeing your friends get shot, and you're seeing that life
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Speaker 1: can end, not at a time in or a moment
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Speaker 1: of your choosing because of evil. Donald Trump seemed different,
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Speaker 1: and I don't think that's a bad thing. But I'm
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Speaker 1: sure Donald Trump is dealing with the fact that and
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Speaker 1: this is that they call it survivor's guilt for reason,
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Speaker 1: Why am I still alive? And why did an innocent
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Speaker 1: man who was just there to support me die? Why
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Speaker 1: are there others that are fighting and are gonna have
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Speaker 1: lifelong changes in their recovery in the hospital still who
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Speaker 1: were shot? You think about that rally, and Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: is going to be thinking about that rally. It is
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Speaker 1: going to be on his mind because he knows that
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Speaker 1: there was a kind, loving father who saved his daughter
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Speaker 1: and mother's life and it cost him his own as
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Speaker 1: he was shielding them from the bullets. And I'm sure
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Speaker 1: there's moments where he's gonna be thinking, did I have
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Speaker 1: to do that rally? Should we have done it indoors?
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Speaker 1: Should we have done it differently? Should we have changed
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Speaker 1: the way we did things? That is what any person
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Speaker 1: with a soul is going to be thinking in that moment.
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Speaker 1: And not only is the president having to deal with that,
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Speaker 1: but then there's that concern of is it going to
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Speaker 1: happen again?
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Speaker 2: I think you.
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Speaker 1: Also realize and this has got to be the hardest
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Speaker 1: part for President Trump. There is a confidence with the
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Speaker 1: Secret Service around you. I have been inside the bubble
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Speaker 1: in my career several times, many times when I was
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Speaker 1: a saraga on the Bush campaign, and I've been on
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Speaker 1: stage with the President. It's a different level of Secret
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Speaker 1: Service protection when you're sitting duck up there. But there
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Speaker 1: was a feeling of invincibility that made you just focus
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Speaker 1: on what your job was because you're like, I got
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Speaker 1: them right, Like they're around us, We're gonna be fine.
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Speaker 1: I'm not thinking about snipers. I'm not thinking about a
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Speaker 1: lone wolf. I'm not thinking about a shooter in the crowd.
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Speaker 1: And you go up on that stage and you do
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Speaker 1: your job well. I mean, you look at the president
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Speaker 1: last night at the convention, and I mean this he
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Speaker 1: is a little bit different, and that's okay. But I
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Speaker 1: wanted to paint that picture so you understand because while
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Speaker 1: all of this is going on, and when I was
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Speaker 1: involved in my shooting, I think the most frustrating part
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Speaker 1: for me afterwards was the fact that I couldn't control
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Speaker 1: my heart rate when I would be doing things like
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Speaker 1: pumping gas and a car would pull up on the
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Speaker 1: other side of that gas pump, and I couldn't see
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Speaker 1: that person. And there's that concern, is that person about
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Speaker 1: to come around the corner and pull a gun on me,
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Speaker 1: or shoot at me, or try to rob me or
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Speaker 1: carjack me. And it wasn't because paranoid. It was a
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Speaker 1: involuntary thing that would happen. And it took months and
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Speaker 1: months for that to go away until I felt quote
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Speaker 1: normal again. I the way that Donald Trump is dealing
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Speaker 1: with this publicly is unbelievable. But I also want to
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Speaker 1: make it clear we need to make sure we pray
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Speaker 1: for this man. We need to pray for him and
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Speaker 1: his recovery. One tenth of an inch that bullet moves,
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Speaker 1: he doesn't move his head, and those are the things
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Speaker 1: he's thinking about. To look at that prompter again for
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Speaker 1: the statistics, and he would not be with us. And
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Speaker 1: while you're having to deal with all that, and look,
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Speaker 1: there's also the fallout that comes after this with your family.
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Speaker 2: Everybody wants to talk about this shooting. That sees you.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's walking up to you giving you a hug, which
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Speaker 1: is sincere, and saying we're so glad you're alive. But
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Speaker 1: you keep hearing that's a different narrative. It's no longer hey,
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Speaker 1: thank you for fighting for our country. God bless America.
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Speaker 1: It's now we're so thankful you're alive. That is a
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Speaker 1: different conversation. He will have with every single person that
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Speaker 1: he comes in contact with in Milwaukee this week, and
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Speaker 1: it will be.
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Speaker 2: The same thing that has said to him for weeks.
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Speaker 1: And I would argue through election day that narrative is
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Speaker 1: not going to change. But that's a different conversation. I'm
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Speaker 1: glad you're alive. I'm glad you're okay, I'm glad you're alive.
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Speaker 1: Continues to go back to it to remind him that
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Speaker 1: someone tried to kill him. That's a lot to deal
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Speaker 1: with for any person. If there's anybody that can deal
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Speaker 1: with it, it's Donald Trump.
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Speaker 2: He clearly is.
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Speaker 1: But then I want you to think about what's happened
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Speaker 1: since then. The bubble around you and the Secret Service,
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Speaker 1: the protection that you used to have that made you
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Speaker 1: feel confident to be able to go up on that stage,
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Speaker 1: that is gone right now. I don't care what anybody says.
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Speaker 1: In the back of his day, he's like, they didn't
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Speaker 1: get the last one. They could screw it up again.
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Speaker 1: That's gonna change your demeanor a little bit. And then
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Speaker 1: you got to do everything else you're doing right now,
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Speaker 1: right Go to a convention, run a convention.
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Speaker 2: Pick a vice presidential candidate.
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Speaker 1: Jd Vance, by the way, put out an amazing simple tweet.
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Speaker 1: It said, just overwhelmed with gratitude. What an honor it
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Speaker 1: is to run alongside President Donald J.
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Speaker 2: Trump.
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Speaker 1: He delivered peace and prosperity once, and with your help,
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Speaker 1: will do it again.
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Speaker 2: Onward to victory. A very very very very very simple.
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Speaker 1: Okay, A very simple tweet there, A very important tweet.
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Speaker 1: He also tweeted out on the fourteenth, this dude is
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Speaker 1: just built different, and posted the true social post by
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump that said quote, based on yesterday's terrible event,
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Speaker 1: I was going to delay my trip to Wisconsin the
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Speaker 1: Republican National Convention by two days, but have decided that
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Speaker 1: I cannot allow a quote shooter or a potential assassin
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Speaker 1: to force change the scheduling or anything else. Therefore, I
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Speaker 1: will be leaving for Milwaukee's schedule at three point thirty
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Speaker 1: pm today.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Donald J. Trump.
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Speaker 1: And jd Vance wrote this dude is just built different.
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Speaker 1: He absolutely is he is built different. I want to
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Speaker 1: shift for a moment the conversation from what I just
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Speaker 1: described with Donald Trump personally, and I just still think
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Speaker 1: it's incredible what this guy's doing right now.
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Speaker 2: He's built differently.
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about Day two theme at the
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Speaker 1: Republican Convention. The Day two theme is make America Safe Again.
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Speaker 1: That means so many different things, by the way. Right now,
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Speaker 1: it means that we have to focus on the border crisis.
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Speaker 1: We got to focus on crime in this country. And
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Speaker 1: I think there's going to be a lot of praise
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Speaker 1: for Trump for his resilience after this assassination attempt. Day
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Speaker 1: two at the Convention has a different meaning than when
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Speaker 1: they announced last week what the themes of each day
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Speaker 1: were going to be. No one was thinking that it
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Speaker 1: was going to revolve or they would have to include
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Speaker 1: the possibility of an assassination as part of the make
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Speaker 1: America Safe Again theme. It was going to be about crime,
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Speaker 1: it was going to be about the border, it was
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Speaker 1: going to be about now security, and now it's about
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Speaker 1: the idea that there are people that are trying to
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Speaker 1: kill Donald Trump. The Republican National Convention is focusing Day
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Speaker 1: two with a crowded list of events and speakers touching
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Speaker 1: on a broad range with immigration and crime is going
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Speaker 1: to be featured in the most prominent way. And Democrats
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Speaker 1: will not do this that their can. I do think
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Speaker 1: this is also a moment where you compare and contrast
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Speaker 1: the two. You look, now, Trump is formerly the GOP nominee.
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Speaker 1: It's official. That happened day one. You've got his VP candidate.
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Speaker 1: That's official. JD Vance. He's there shaking hands with Tucker
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Speaker 1: Carlson Byron Donald's members of his family, Don Junior, who
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Speaker 1: looked proudly at their father, their friend who nearly lost
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Speaker 1: his life two days ago.
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Speaker 2: Like that's big.
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Speaker 1: There are other attendees that are there that I'm sure
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Speaker 1: are like, Okay, we gotta admit it. Now, this guy's
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Speaker 1: built differently. What do I mean by that? Senate Minority
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Speaker 1: Leader Mitch McConnell. He was dued when he made his appearance.
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Speaker 1: I understand why people feel like he's not done enough. McConnell,
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Speaker 1: by the way, who blamed Trump for January sixth riot
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Speaker 1: in February twenty twenty one, stating the former president was
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Speaker 1: practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that
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Speaker 1: day and you want to know why the guy got
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Speaker 1: boot McConnell booed at the convention. I am glad that
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Speaker 1: he got booed at the convention. I think it stands.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad he got booed because it's proof that people
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Speaker 1: love Trump and can't stand the bureaucrats that run Washington.
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Speaker 1: There is a very clear divide in our party right now.
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Speaker 1: You're either with the Mitch McConnell's of the world that
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Speaker 1: cow down to the Democrats, don't hold them accountable, allow
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Speaker 1: them to use law fair to get rid of their
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Speaker 1: candidates and have gotten us to the point where we
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Speaker 1: had this assassination attempt. Or you're on the side with
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump and hardcore conservatives that understand that there is
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Speaker 1: evil in the world. AP put it this way, hosts
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Speaker 1: of speakers will applaud the former president's strength and resilience
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Speaker 1: after the shooting at Israelly in Pennsylvania Day two, and
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Speaker 1: will remind the country that safety and security are a
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Speaker 1: major major issue. Nicki Hayley, right, we're being told is
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Speaker 1: going to be a part of this. I'm fine with that.
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Speaker 1: Let's go. I don't think she's going to get some
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Speaker 1: massive welcome. By the way, want to make that very
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Speaker 1: very clear as well.
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Speaker 2: So let's talk about last night's speeches.
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Speaker 1: Okay, this is incredible for me and jd.
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Speaker 2: Vance had a speech last night and it was a
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Speaker 2: speech that a lot of kind of criticized this morning.
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Speaker 1: Just so you know, they've criticized this speech because they
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Speaker 1: thought it wasn't a lot of energy. It was one
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Speaker 1: of those speeches that Minie said, Hey, I think this
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Speaker 1: is pretty like bland speech.
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Speaker 2: Giving a speech two days after you've.
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Speaker 1: Been gotting the phone call that you're the vice presidential
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Speaker 1: of Canada is intimidating.
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Speaker 2: And do I think it could have.
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Speaker 1: Been punched up a little bit more being in the
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Speaker 1: room last night. Yes, I think you could see that
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Speaker 1: on Donald Trump's face little bit as well.
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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie to you guys.
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Speaker 1: I'm also not a cheerleader when I see somebody out
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Speaker 1: there that I wanted him to kill it. I think
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Speaker 1: it was a six and a half seven out of ten.
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Speaker 1: Do I think it's going to hurt the ticket?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 2: Do Am I worried about him picking him now or No?
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Speaker 1: I also think he's better in debates than he is
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Speaker 1: at speeches.
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Speaker 2: So all I care about is the VP debate.
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Speaker 1: But there were also some incredible moments in his speech
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Speaker 1: which I if you miss this, I wanted you to
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Speaker 1: hear it because I love the story of Jdvans, I
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Speaker 1: love the history of Jdvans. I love the addiction aspect
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Speaker 1: of the overcoming with his mom and his grandmother raising him.
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Speaker 1: But there was one part in the speech last night
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Speaker 1: that was truly incredible, and that was this moment in.
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Speaker 3: Our movement, ladies and gentlemen, it's about grandparents all across
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Speaker 3: this country who are living on Social Security and raising
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Speaker 3: grandchildren they didn't expect to raise. And while we're on
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Speaker 3: the top of grandparents, let me tell you another mammal story.
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Speaker 3: And my mamma died shortly before I left for Iraq
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Speaker 3: in two thousand and five, and when we went through things,
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Speaker 3: we found nineteen loaded handguns.
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Speaker 2: They were.
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Speaker 3: Now the thing is, they were stashed all over her house,
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Speaker 3: under her bed, in her closet, in the silverware drawer,
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Speaker 3: and we wondered what was going on, and it occurred
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Speaker 3: to us that towards the end of her life, Mamma
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Speaker 3: couldn't get around so well.
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Speaker 2: And so this frail old woman made sure that no
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Speaker 2: matter where she was, she was with an arm's.
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Speaker 3: Lame of whatever she needed to protect her.
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Speaker 2: Family backs who we fight for. That's American scirit.
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Speaker 1: That for me was the highlight jd Vance's speech last night.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was an incredible moment.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was one that made people love him, his.
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Speaker 2: Family, his story.
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Speaker 1: It was one of those moments that I think people
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Speaker 1: will remember. And look, there's some people that may have
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Speaker 1: heard that in thought to themselves, Hey, that's ridiculous. No,
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Speaker 1: that's a grandmother who wanted to protect at all costs
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Speaker 1: her the person that she loved the most, the people
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Speaker 1: that she loved the most. There was also another really
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Speaker 1: cool point of last night, and that was JD Vance's
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Speaker 1: wife coming out on stage. She's not a political person.
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Speaker 1: She is a mother, first has a wife, and she
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Speaker 1: stepped up on the stage. This is not her thing
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Speaker 1: to be a public speaker. And I always feel bad
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Speaker 1: for people that are expected to do amazing things on
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Speaker 1: the stage when it's just not what they do.
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Speaker 2: They do, they're not trained for it.
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Speaker 1: Spouses and politics are treated like they are supposed to
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Speaker 1: be as good as their husband or their wife. And
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Speaker 1: I don't think that's fair, and there were people last
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Speaker 1: night that I hoped she didn't screw this up. I
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Speaker 1: thought that Jade Vance's wife did an amazing job introducing
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Speaker 1: her husband to the world, because there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: people that were going to watch JD for the very,
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Speaker 1: very first time.
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Speaker 2: I want you to hear her introduction.
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Speaker 4: Good evening, Good evening. When I was asked to introduce
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Speaker 4: my husband, Jadie Vance to all of you, I was
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Speaker 4: at a loss. What could I say that hasn't already
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Speaker 4: been said before? After all, the man was already the
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Speaker 4: subject of Ron Howard movie. JD has shared much of
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Speaker 4: life through his own eloquent words in his book He'll
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Speaker 4: Billy Elogy. During his Senate campaign and now as a
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Speaker 4: City United States Senator, it occurred to me that there
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Speaker 4: was only one thing to do to explain from the
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Speaker 4: heart why I love and admire JD and stand here
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Speaker 4: beside him today, and why he will make a great
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Speaker 4: Vice President of the United States. I met JD in
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Speaker 4: law school when he was fresh out of Ohio State,
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Speaker 4: which he attended with the support of the GI Bill.
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Speaker 4: We were friends first, because I mean, who wouldn't want
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Speaker 4: to be friends with JD? He was then as now,
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Speaker 4: the most interesting person I knew, a working class guy
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Speaker 4: who had overcome childhood traumas that I could barely fathom
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Speaker 4: to end up at Yale Loss School, A tough marine
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Speaker 4: who had served in Iraq, but whose idea of a
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Speaker 4: good time was playing with puppies and watching.
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Speaker 2: The movie Babe.
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Speaker 4: The most determined person I knew, with one overriding ambition
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Speaker 4: to become a husband and a father, and to build
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Speaker 4: the kind of tight knit family that he had longed
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Speaker 4: for as a child. My background is very different from Jad's.
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Speaker 4: I grew up in San Diego, in a middle class community,
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Speaker 4: with two loving parents, both immigrants from India, and a
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Speaker 4: wonderful sister that Jadie and I could meet at all,
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Speaker 4: let alone fall in love and Mary is a testament
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Speaker 4: to this great country. It is also a testament to JD,
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Speaker 4: and it tells you something about who he is. When
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Speaker 4: JD met me, he approached our differences with curiosity and enthusiasm.
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Speaker 4: He wanted to know everything about me, where I came from,
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Speaker 4: what my life had been like. Although he's a meat
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Speaker 4: and potatoes kind of guy, he adapted to my vegetarian
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Speaker 4: diet and learned to cook food from my mother Indian food.
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Speaker 4: Before I knew it, he had become an integral part
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Speaker 4: of my family, a person I could not meant could
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Speaker 4: not imagine living without. The JD I knew then is
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Speaker 4: the same JD you see.
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Speaker 2: Today, except for that Beard and.
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Speaker 4: His goals in this new role are the same that
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Speaker 4: he has pursued for our family, to keep people safe,
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Speaker 4: to create opportunities, to build a better life, and to
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Speaker 4: solve problems with an open mind. It's safe to say
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Speaker 4: that neither JD nor I expected.
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Speaker 2: To find ourselves in this position.
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Speaker 4: But it's hard to imagine a more powerful example of
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Speaker 4: the American dream. A boy from Middletown, Ohio.
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Speaker 1: You know, I got to say that I thought that
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Speaker 1: her explaining who he is and explaining what he stands
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Speaker 1: for and where he came from was one of the
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Speaker 1: most powerful moments of the night from someone that's like, look,
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Speaker 1: I married him, I love him, I want to support him,
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Speaker 1: and it was very real.
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Speaker 2: It came across very.
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Speaker 1: Authentic, I think in the hall and I think it
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Speaker 1: translated on TV. It excited me for his family and
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Speaker 1: the story of where he came from is an important one.
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Speaker 1: It's going to relate to many different people, and I
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Speaker 1: got to say that was one of my highlights I
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Speaker 1: think last night in the convention hall was listening to
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Speaker 1: her introduce her husband that she's clearly so proud of
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Speaker 1: and the father of our children so proud of.
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Speaker 2: I love it.
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Speaker 1: These are the type of stories that I think we
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Speaker 1: as conservatives need to just enjoy and be excited at
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Speaker 1: the age of JD.
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Speaker 2: Van's I mean, he's younger than I am, for goodness sakes, and.
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Speaker 1: I never get to say that, and I just I'm
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Speaker 1: rooting for them. I love the fact that he is
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Speaker 1: this type of individual with small kids.
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Speaker 2: It can relate to the family's real issues in.
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Speaker 1: America today, whether it's public education, whether it's just paying
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Speaker 1: for things with kids, what the cost of living. These
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Speaker 1: are things that he brings the ticket because of his
21:59
Speaker 1: age and his wife and their family.
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Speaker 2: That is incredible.
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Speaker 1: Let me first start with just talking about how incredible
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Speaker 1: it was to see Donald Trump on stage and the
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Speaker 1: reception inside of that arena. I was there for what
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Speaker 1: I would refer to as a front row seat to history.
22:26
Speaker 1: I also saw the president in a much smaller setting
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Speaker 1: right before, about an hour and a half before no
22:34
Speaker 1: less than that thirty minutes before the convention started and
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Speaker 1: he went to his seat. And I want to first
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Speaker 1: start by saying, Donald Trump is a different person right now.
22:46
Speaker 1: And I want to be clear, I don't mean that
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Speaker 1: in a bad way. This is something that has happened
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Speaker 1: because of the shooting and its perspective faith, a demeanor
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Speaker 1: that is very different. As I watched him speak to
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Speaker 1: this smaller group in a different tone, in a somber tone,
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Speaker 1: in a focused tone, I leaned over.
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Speaker 2: To Senator Ted Cruz. I said, he's different. This is different.
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Speaker 1: And if you watched the first twenty five minutes of
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Speaker 1: the speech that he gave, he was different. And then
23:26
Speaker 1: he started to get a little bit of his campaign
23:28
Speaker 1: groove back. There were people that criticize the speech last night,
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Speaker 1: y it's too long. And I said this when he
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Speaker 1: gave the speech, or afterwards when I was doing commentary
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Speaker 1: on Fox, and I said, you know, if you got
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Speaker 1: shot five days ago and survived an assassination attempt, you'd
23:50
Speaker 1: have a lot to say too.
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Speaker 2: I think I didn't mind it all.
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Speaker 1: The link of the speech I as it was described
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Speaker 1: to me by one and I thought was a great analogy.
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Speaker 1: The first twenty five to thirty minutes. Was like church
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Speaker 1: on Easter Sunday. It's a sermon that is to the masses.
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Speaker 1: It is a sermon to people that maybe only come
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Speaker 1: to church one time a year and it's a packed house.
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Speaker 1: And then the second part of that speech, the long part,
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Speaker 1: was Sunday School with all the regular attenders. He gave
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Speaker 1: a clear message to the American people about what this
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Speaker 1: administration is going to look like, the Trump administration number one,
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Speaker 1: and why you should take a look at the agenda
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Speaker 1: that he has laid out and look at your life
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Speaker 1: and ask yourself questions about safety in this country, safety abroad,
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Speaker 1: economic issues.
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Speaker 2: These are issues that affect the American people.
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Speaker 1: Many Americans don't feel safe in their towns anymore and
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Speaker 1: the cities they live in. They don't feel like their
24:56
Speaker 1: government has their back on those issues and their prioriti
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Speaker 1: tizing illegal immigrants and criminals ahead of them because of
25:03
Speaker 1: radical das and a wide open southern border. You look
25:07
Speaker 1: at economic issues, it's very clear that many Americans believe
25:10
Speaker 1: that Bidenomics has truly hurt their family. They's destroyed their
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Speaker 1: purchasing power, it has destroyed their ability to really focus
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Speaker 1: on a future that looks brighter, and now it's a
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Speaker 1: future that just looks like it's survival that has changed.
25:31
Speaker 1: And so there were so many people, millions of millions,
25:35
Speaker 1: that were going to tune in, not just because they're
25:38
Speaker 1: maybe willing to give Donald Trump another chance, but also
25:41
Speaker 1: because they wanted to hear what he had to say
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Speaker 1: about the assassination attempt on his life and being shot.
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Speaker 1: I think Donald Trump did an amazing job because most
25:51
Speaker 1: people don't watch the entire speech. That's just the reality
25:55
Speaker 1: of TV viewing habits. A lot of people that tuned
25:59
Speaker 1: in that may wouldn't have normally tuned in. They watched
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Speaker 1: ten minutes, fifteen minutes more than they would have watched normally.
26:06
Speaker 1: They would have gotten the highlights the next day on
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Speaker 1: social media on TikTok, on Instagram, on Facebook, etc.
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Speaker 2: On x they said and listened to.
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Speaker 1: A very somber and a very different president of the
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Speaker 1: United States of America by the name of Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: I think many people that watched this speech were watching
26:28
Speaker 1: out of curiosity to see what he was going to say,
26:31
Speaker 1: how he was going to act, but also because they
26:35
Speaker 1: have seen what's been going on with the Biden campaign
26:40
Speaker 1: day after day now there's a civil war that's broken
26:42
Speaker 1: out the Democratic Party, and that makes people want to
26:46
Speaker 1: watch what the other side is saying and doing. It's
26:49
Speaker 1: human nature. You then start hearing hours before Donald Trump's
26:55
Speaker 1: going to take the stage that Joe Biden's probably not
26:58
Speaker 1: going to be the candidate. More people tune in because
27:02
Speaker 1: now this is like a sporting event. It's like one
27:06
Speaker 1: team screwing up. What's the other team going to do
27:08
Speaker 1: in response? You combine all that together, and I think
27:13
Speaker 1: what Donald Trump said in that first twenty five minutes
27:15
Speaker 1: of a speech was truly the most important speech that
27:19
Speaker 1: he had ever made. And then as many of those
27:25
Speaker 1: people were more than likely tuning out, he started talking
27:29
Speaker 1: to his base. He started talking to the faithful conservative voter,
27:37
Speaker 1: evangelical voter. I think the program last night was phenomenal.
27:43
Speaker 1: I think the convention was unbelievable. It was the best
27:46
Speaker 1: Republican convention I've ever seen with a party that is unified.
27:52
Speaker 1: And I think this is going to be another reason
27:54
Speaker 1: why it's going to be very hard to beat Donald Trump.
27:58
Speaker 2: The other big story.
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Speaker 1: That is going to have massive ramifications on this election
28:08
Speaker 1: is the reality that apparently Joe Biden is starting to
28:13
Speaker 1: understand that he is not going to be the nominee,
28:19
Speaker 1: that they believe that he doesn't have a chance to win,
28:21
Speaker 1: and they are convincing him of that. Reporting coming out
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Speaker 1: now is at the big five families of the Democratic mafia,
28:29
Speaker 1: the Clintons, the Obama's, the Schumer family, the Pelosi family,
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Speaker 1: and the new Jeffrey's family on the House side leadership
28:42
Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party have all coalesced with the media
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Speaker 1: and the donors. So that's seven entities working together to
28:51
Speaker 1: force him out. I've been told by sources that I
28:55
Speaker 1: trust that Joe Biden is still holding on because he
29:00
Speaker 1: wants to make sure that he gets a sweetheart neel,
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Speaker 1: a golden parachute that if he does come out and say,
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna, you know, be the guy. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to finish out this term, but I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: be the guy that what actually would happen then is
29:19
Speaker 1: that whoever gets this job, they're going to agree to
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Speaker 1: give immunity to my family. Hunter Biden's not going to
29:26
Speaker 1: go to jail, My brother's not going to go to jail,
29:30
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to be prosecuted or any other
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Speaker 1: family member. He wants to guarantee from what I've been told,
29:37
Speaker 1: and I believe this to be true, that nobody with
29:41
Speaker 1: the last name Biden is ever going to go to
29:44
Speaker 1: jail because of the actions of the Biden crime family.
29:49
Speaker 1: And he has leverage and the Democratic Party is more
29:52
Speaker 1: than willing to give him that. The question is because
29:57
Speaker 1: there's going to have to be a trust factor. You
30:00
Speaker 1: trust Kamala Harris to not screw you, because if Kamala
30:04
Speaker 1: Harris becomes the president and he decides to step aside
30:10
Speaker 1: and not take the nomination, he's got to trust that
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Speaker 1: a woman in his entire career has been basically documented
30:19
Speaker 1: with screwing the people closest to or no pun intended,
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Speaker 1: is going to be trustworthy enough to take a hit
30:29
Speaker 1: in the polls to protect Joe Biden, because it's not
30:34
Speaker 1: going to help Kamala Harris or any other Democrat that
30:38
Speaker 1: becomes the president. If they did become the president, hypothetically,
30:42
Speaker 1: it's not going to raise their approval rating if they
30:45
Speaker 1: immediately say, oh, and by the way, here's all these
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Speaker 1: convictions against Hunter or Joe or his brother or anybody else,
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Speaker 1: and we're giving a blanket immunity, and they're all going
30:57
Speaker 1: to be all sins of the Biden crime family are forgiven.
31:01
Speaker 1: That is not good politics. So could you promise that
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Speaker 1: and not deliver on it? Absolutely? Do I believe that
31:09
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris could lie to the face of Joe Biden. Yes,
31:17
Speaker 1: I absolutely do, which is the reason why I think
31:19
Speaker 1: he hasn't dropped out yet. It's the reason why the
31:22
Speaker 1: family has isolated him. They have isolated him politically, They've
31:27
Speaker 1: isolated him in the name of COVID. He has gone
31:30
Speaker 1: into complete and utter hibernation from all reality and the
31:36
Speaker 1: Democratic Party they know this, so they've got to sweeten
31:40
Speaker 1: the pot. They've got to figure out a way to
31:43
Speaker 1: convince a senile, paranoid, Alzheimer's dementia ridden individual that they
31:53
Speaker 1: can be trustworthy, trustworthy enough that he can walk away
31:58
Speaker 1: without having the ability to pardon his son, because there's
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Speaker 1: nothing to pardon him for yet, because his son, being
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Speaker 1: an idiot, didn't take, you know, tried to take a
32:09
Speaker 1: deal that was too good and now is fighting in
32:12
Speaker 1: these court cases instead of wrapping them up. I understand
32:16
Speaker 1: how hard it is to deal with someone that has
32:18
Speaker 1: Alzheimer's or dementia. If you've ever dealt with somebody with
32:21
Speaker 1: Alzheimer's dementia.
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Speaker 2: They dig in.
32:23
Speaker 1: They're irrational, they're not willing to usually compromise on things like, hey,
32:29
Speaker 1: I need to take away your car keys. Hey, you
32:32
Speaker 1: don't need to go out alone. Right, you're not going
32:35
Speaker 1: to tell me that I can't go shopping by myself.
32:37
Speaker 1: You're not gonna tell me I can't drive. They dig in.
32:40
Speaker 1: So I think you're also dealing with that aspect of
32:43
Speaker 1: Alzheimer's dementia with this clearly mentally incapacitated individual and that
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Speaker 1: paranoid individual who believes that now his entire party with
32:54
Speaker 1: good reason. By the way, I don't think it's paranoid.
32:56
Speaker 1: I think it's reality has turned on him and thrown
32:59
Speaker 1: him to the wolves. I've never seen anything like this
33:03
Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party, where these mafia style families, the
33:08
Speaker 1: Biden you know, the the Bidens, used to be one
33:12
Speaker 1: of the Big five. They're not anymore. They're on the outs.
33:17
Speaker 1: Democratic Party have no need, no use for the Biden family.
33:20
Speaker 1: In fact, you could argue that if the Biden family
33:23
Speaker 1: went down for all of their corruption, right, all of
33:28
Speaker 1: their corruption, that the Democratic Party would actually benefit from
33:34
Speaker 1: crucifying them. Acting like that's not a part of the
33:37
Speaker 1: Democratic machine. Nancy Pelosi wants to act like she's separate
33:43
Speaker 1: from this corruption. The Clintons and the Obamas won't act
33:46
Speaker 1: like they're separate of the Biden corruption. The Democratic Party
33:50
Speaker 1: in general wants to act like they're separate from the
33:53
Speaker 1: Biden corruption. The members of the House and the Senate
33:56
Speaker 1: and the Democratic Party don't want to be tied to
34:00
Speaker 1: a man who is this corrupt. If it's all coming out,
34:05
Speaker 1: so now you understand why the machine has turned against
34:09
Speaker 1: Joe Biden is in essence, kicking him out of the
34:13
Speaker 1: White House and out of the Democratic monarchy is probably
34:18
Speaker 1: the best way I can describe it. A guy that's
34:20
Speaker 1: been there for forty plus years is now being fed
34:22
Speaker 1: to the political wolves.
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Speaker 2: The media, by the way, they're all on board with this.
34:29
Speaker 1: Every single member of the media in the Democratic you
34:33
Speaker 1: know media, however you want to describe them, every single
34:39
Speaker 1: one of them, every single one of them is throwing
34:44
Speaker 1: Joe Biden under the bus. They want to get rid
34:47
Speaker 1: of him. Even his own cabinet is throwing Joe Biden out.
34:54
Speaker 1: They're leaking everywhere his staffers within the White House, and
35:00
Speaker 1: and they're almost trying to manifest destiny. This I think
35:03
Speaker 1: they think if they say it loud enough, say it
35:05
Speaker 1: often enough, leak it enough times where the fever pitch
35:10
Speaker 1: continues to grow that Joe Biden's going to drop out,
35:12
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's going to drop out, they can somehow turn
35:15
Speaker 1: that leak into a reality, which which is a moment
35:19
Speaker 1: of caution as well.
35:21
Speaker 2: Joe Biden could just say screw all, y'all.
35:23
Speaker 1: None of you are loyal, You're all scum, and if
35:27
Speaker 1: I'm going down, you're all going down with me. In
35:30
Speaker 1: other words, all of you in the party are gonna
35:32
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna hurt all of you while you're
35:35
Speaker 1: hurting me. This is going to be the biggest political
35:40
Speaker 1: story going into the Democratic Convention, and the fact that
35:44
Speaker 1: it's August and we still may not know who Donald
35:49
Speaker 1: Trump's running against is completely and utterly insane. Make sure
35:53
Speaker 1: you share this podcast with your family and friends, please,
35:56
Speaker 1: because a lot of what I just played for you're
35:58
Speaker 1: not gonna hear on the news.
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Speaker 2: And I'll see you're back here tomorrow.