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DEMS use Biden's Covid to Push him Out plus GOP Unites at Convention · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: I am here in Milwaukee, and I can tell you
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Speaker 1: two things that are a fact. I have never seen
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Speaker 1: the Republican Party as focused as it is right now.
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Speaker 1: I have never seen the Republican Party as united as
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Speaker 1: it is right now. I am also here in Milwaukee,
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Speaker 1: and I can tell you I've never seen the Democratic
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Speaker 1: Party in such disarray. I have never seen the Democratic
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Speaker 1: Party ever be at a point where they're actually trying
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Speaker 1: to figure out how to delay their convention with all
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Speaker 1: the planning that goes into a convention, so they can
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Speaker 1: have more time to convince Joe Biden to get out
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Speaker 1: and say I am no longer going to be the nominee.
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Speaker 2: I have also never seen.
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Speaker 1: The Democratic Party fight so publicly. Usually they fight and
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Speaker 1: decide what's going to happen behind the scenes, and they
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Speaker 1: come out united. The wheels have come off the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 1: I have never seen the Big Five coalesce behind a
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Speaker 1: decision to actually get rid of the President of the
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Speaker 1: United States of America who is a Democrat in their party.
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Speaker 1: The five families we've now been told have been pushing
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Speaker 1: meeting and talking with Joe Biden behind the scenes, and
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Speaker 1: his family telling him he cannot win.
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Speaker 2: He is going to lose, and his.
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Speaker 1: Legacy is going to be that he lost, and he
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Speaker 1: could have stopped this from happening by dropping out of
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Speaker 1: the race and given them a chance.
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Speaker 2: Who are the big five? Nancy Pelosi, the Pelosi.
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Speaker 1: Family, the Schumer family, the Clinton family, the Obama family.
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Speaker 1: Those are the ones that are really in his face
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Speaker 1: right now. Schumer, as you know, the Senate Majority leader,
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Speaker 1: a dear friend and ally to Joe Biden for decades,
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Speaker 1: as they serve together for decades in the Senate.
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Speaker 2: They are friends.
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Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer has come out and made it very clear
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Speaker 1: that there is no way and said this apparently from
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Speaker 1: what we've been told from multiple sources, met with the
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Speaker 1: president and said you cannot win and shared internal polling.
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Speaker 2: Nancy Pelosi has done the same.
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Speaker 1: Hillary and Bill Clinton have done the same, The Obamas
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Speaker 1: have done the same. And now we're being told that
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Speaker 1: the leader of the Democratic Party in the House, Jeffries,
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Speaker 1: has also done this. So the five families of the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party, the most powerful you could argue, five families
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Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party have all organized and coalesced to
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Speaker 1: get rid of the president of the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: That is incredible MSNBC this morning had this report about
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Speaker 1: Democrats are also warning by not only could this be
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Speaker 1: his legacy, but they could actually hurt, could actually hurt
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Speaker 1: the entire day Democratic ticket, begging with him to step down,
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Speaker 1: begging with him to stop, begging with him, begging that
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Speaker 1: he would please not destroy the Democratic Party. And the
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Speaker 1: Democrats have also coalesced to dry up the money.
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Speaker 2: This is all about cash now.
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Speaker 1: They are stopping the funds going into the Biden campaign
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Speaker 1: weeks before the convention, which is incredible, It is shocking,
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Speaker 1: and it is incredible, and they are stopping the money
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Speaker 1: and everything else. I want to go to your phone
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Speaker 1: calls the number five three five nine seven three two
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Speaker 1: five three five nine seven three two.
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Speaker 2: Listen to Morning Joe this morning.
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Speaker 3: Hit us up to datough with what's happening in Milwaukee.
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Speaker 4: Also what you're hearing from the Biden campaign. Yeah, we'll
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Speaker 4: start with the Biden campaign, Joe, And exactly right about
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Speaker 4: the sequencing. So on your I talked about the fact
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Speaker 4: three weeks ago that there was an effort among top
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Speaker 4: Democrats to give President Biden the chance to walk off
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Speaker 4: the stage. They said, he is proud, he's stubborn. We
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Speaker 4: love him, we appreciate him. We want to give him
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Speaker 4: the chance to walk off the stage. President Biden, in
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Speaker 4: the view of these top Democrats, did not take the
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Speaker 4: hint and the way that one top Democrat, someone very
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Speaker 4: close to the West wing, put it to me Sunday
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Speaker 4: as I sat here on the floor of this hall
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Speaker 4: with my laptop doing reporting at the Republican Convention about
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Speaker 4: what was happening in the Democratic Party. They said, we
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Speaker 4: don't want to humiliate him.
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Speaker 2: That was the effort. Then we saw this sequence.
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Speaker 4: Yesterday and is my brilliant colleague Zach Bossu puts it
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Speaker 4: at the top of the axios this morning. President Biden
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Speaker 4: is now self isolating, both medically and politically with COVID.
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Speaker 4: Now he had given the sequences, he had said we
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Speaker 4: could get him out.
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Speaker 5: Of the race.
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Speaker 4: The President had said the Lord Almighty. Then he said
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Speaker 4: data pulling the show that I couldn't win.
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Speaker 2: Then he said health.
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Speaker 4: Then privately is reporting saying that he's being told that
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Speaker 4: Vice President Harris can win. So all his boxes now
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Speaker 4: are checked. One more thing about Vice President Harris, a
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Speaker 4: very specific plan for her to run. Democrats are going
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Speaker 4: to be able to start fast, would be able to
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Speaker 4: start fast with her. If they go that way, one,
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Speaker 4: she instantly makes Row the center of the race. Very
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Speaker 4: important to Democrats, the fall of Row Dobbs versus democracy
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Speaker 4: as they have put it. Second, the way that Democrats
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Speaker 4: cleverly put it is that now age and fitness would
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Speaker 4: become the Republicans problem, the Republicans issue if she were
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Speaker 4: the nominee. And third, they would frame it as prosecutor
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Speaker 4: as she was in my home state of California elected
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Speaker 4: DA San Francisco former attorney general versus convicted fella. But
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Speaker 4: as Ryan Nobles was saying, the president has to choose this.
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Speaker 4: He has the delegates, the statements yesterday from both the
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Speaker 4: campaign and the White House. He is the nominee or
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Speaker 4: soon will be. They can't take it from him. He
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Speaker 4: has to make that choice.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this reporting is rarely do I sit here
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Speaker 1: and not want to interrupt. I didn't want to interrupt
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Speaker 1: any of MSNBC. There they are telling you that they
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Speaker 1: hate Joe Biden and that they have already figured out
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Speaker 1: how Kamala Harris would win and how to make her
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Speaker 1: the nominee, and if he would just step aside and
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Speaker 1: stop being a selfish senile sob that we've been protecting
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Speaker 1: for the last three years. He was the same selfish
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Speaker 1: soob right. It was also c nile that they were
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Speaker 1: trying to hide, telling us that he that no one
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Speaker 1: can keep up with Joe Biden, that Joe Biden's faster
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Speaker 1: and quicker and smarter than everybody else, that Joe Biden
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Speaker 1: is the man, that Joe Biden is a vibrant We
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Speaker 1: all knew it was a lie, and then the entire
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Speaker 1: country and the world saw it during the last debate.
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Speaker 1: But you look at this way they framed it. This
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Speaker 1: is like a something you stick on a tombstone, folks.
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Speaker 1: He's self isolating both medically and politically, is what they
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Speaker 1: said on MSNBC. Like, I mean, I'm waiting for the
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Speaker 1: breaking news banner Joe Biden dead politically, right, Like Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden has died politically, it's they're writing his obituary right
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Speaker 1: now on MSNBC. Both again, Joe Biden is self isolating
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Speaker 1: both medically and politically. Like like if I was Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden and I was I was isolated, and I saw
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Speaker 1: that at MSBC, I actually might wake up from a
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Speaker 1: n app and like call somebody and be angry like that.
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Speaker 2: It might actually get me excited, like I'm not dead yet.
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Speaker 1: Y'all, Like, well, politically you are, sir, like you are politically.
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Speaker 1: I can't you see Joe Scarborough saying that to him,
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Speaker 1: like you're done, You're finished. Like they're losing their minds
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Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party now. I will say this, I've
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Speaker 1: never seen the Republicans as united as we are now
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Speaker 1: at convention. I've never witnessed this in my entire political career.
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Speaker 1: I have never seen the Democratic Party turning the way
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Speaker 1: that they're turning. Representative Joyce Beattie was on NBC and
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Speaker 1: I want you to hear what she had to say
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Speaker 1: about Joe Biden, and she's still trying to defend him.
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Speaker 1: Like the group of people that's willing to go on
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Speaker 1: TV to defend Joe Biden is getting smaller and smaller,
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Speaker 1: not by the day, but by the hour.
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Speaker 2: Listen joining us now.
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Speaker 6: Is the former chair of the Congressional Back Black Caucus,
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Speaker 6: Congressoman Joyce.
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Speaker 2: Beatty of Ohio.
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Speaker 6: She is a national advisory board member for the Biden
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Speaker 6: Harris campaign. And Jonathan Lemire has the first question.
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Speaker 7: Jonathan, Congressman, thanks for joining us this morning. Let me
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Speaker 7: pose the question to you, very similar the one the
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Speaker 7: president just received. We know at least Pole suggests, to
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Speaker 7: this point in the race, black voters have not been
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Speaker 7: there with the same kind of numbers or enthusiasm for
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Speaker 7: Joe Biden as they were four years ago.
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Speaker 2: What can be done?
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Speaker 7: What concrete steps can be done to turn that around?
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Speaker 2: Well, first of.
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Speaker 8: All, let me just say thank you, and I think
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Speaker 8: we're doing that right now. We're telling not just Black America,
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Speaker 8: but we're telling all of America the work that Joe
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Speaker 8: Biden and Kamala Harris have done. You can pick a topic.
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Speaker 8: You can talk about our economy, you can talk about
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Speaker 8: education and health care. They've been leading and for Black Americans.
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Speaker 8: President Biden kept his word on every promise he made.
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Speaker 8: He told us we'd have a black woman on the
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Speaker 8: Supreme Court.
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Speaker 2: He told us that he.
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Speaker 8: Would stand up for education, and he put the most
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Speaker 8: money into HBCUs than.
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Speaker 2: Any other president.
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Speaker 8: We could talk about our children or our seniors. More
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Speaker 8: than fifty percent of our children are now out of poverty,
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Speaker 8: and we're protecting our seniors. If you just look at
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Speaker 8: what he did to cap insulin at thirty five dollars
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Speaker 8: a month or to out of pocket expenses for medical
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Speaker 8: supplies prescriptions to two thousand dollars. He meets with the
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Speaker 8: Congressional Black Caucus. We've done more when you talk about
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Speaker 8: criminal justice and keeping our communities safe with this president.
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Speaker 8: So I think we have to tell our stories and
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Speaker 8: you have to look at it. It's still early in
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Speaker 8: some ways.
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Speaker 2: Voters start really.
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Speaker 8: Coming out in September.
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Speaker 2: In October.
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Speaker 8: We know how many black voters go to the polls
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Speaker 8: on election day.
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Speaker 2: So we're still all in.
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Speaker 8: And I can tell you as a member and char
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Speaker 8: Emerita of the Congressional Black Caucus, I'm all the way
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Speaker 8: with Joe Biden.
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Speaker 2: Now she says she's all in with Joe Biden, and then.
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Speaker 1: She's asked a question. You know what she says, until
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Speaker 1: he tells me otherwise. So you're on his campaign, you're
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Speaker 1: an advisor, you're of the Black Caucus, and you're now
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Speaker 1: changing your line from I'm all into I'm all in
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Speaker 1: with Joe Biden dot dot dot until he tells me otherwise.
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Speaker 1: So even the people that are his advisors on his
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Speaker 1: campaign are now looking at the real possibility that we're
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Speaker 1: gonna get rid of Joe Biden. So let's talk about
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Speaker 1: this strategy by the way by Democrats to delay their convention.
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Speaker 1: The reason why the tactic you need to understand is
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Speaker 1: once they lock in Joe Biden, and Joe Biden officially
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Speaker 1: takes the nomination and the delegates at the convention, then
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Speaker 1: the chances of replacing him drop astronomically. And the options
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Speaker 1: right now and the power structure, and I'll go over
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Speaker 1: this very quickly because it's important to understand how this
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Speaker 1: could work. So the power right now is all the delegates.
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Speaker 1: They have all the power. Okay, the power right now
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Speaker 1: to get a different candidate is in their hands at
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Speaker 1: the convention. But as soon as the convention is over,
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Speaker 1: they have zero power, like not even one percent power,
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Speaker 1: zero power. It gets much more complicated at that point.
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Speaker 1: To get rid of Joe Biden. There's two ways you
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Speaker 1: can do it. One, you could have a twenty fifth
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Speaker 1: amendment that is invoked by the cabinet where they could
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Speaker 1: actually say we believe you're unfit and we're going to
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Speaker 1: take you out. That's option number one. Number two you
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Speaker 1: could have then the people that are members of the
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Speaker 1: Democratic National Committee. Each state has members who could then
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Speaker 1: come together and pick the candidate that would be chaotic.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: I believe, based on the timeline, that the only real
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Speaker 1: person at this moment that can take over is Kamala Harris.
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Speaker 1: I think they could have parachuted in Michelle Obama from
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Speaker 1: what I'm being told, I think she doesn't want any
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Speaker 1: part of this, especially after.
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Speaker 2: The assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: So she doesn't want to be a part of this
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Speaker 1: disaster dumpster fire that the Democratic Party has right now.
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Speaker 1: Could that change, of course, Kamala Harris is a clear choice.
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Speaker 1: I just played for you that MSNBC clip from earlier
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Speaker 1: where they're already talking about like, hey, she's got the money,
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Speaker 1: she's got the staff.
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Speaker 2: She would be an easy fixed on Roe v. Wade.
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Speaker 1: That would be the center point of the campaign, women's rights,
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Speaker 1: as you, she would fire up minority voters. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they're selling it, and the sales pitch is pretty solid.
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Speaker 1: There doesn't seem to be as much as the Democrats
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Speaker 1: really don't like her, any real push for any other
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Speaker 1: candid but Kamala, because I think they under stand she's
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Speaker 1: the only one that has the time and the campaign staff,
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Speaker 1: because she would keep everybody that Biden has on the team.
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Speaker 2: And they would immediately move forward with that.
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Speaker 1: So I believe she is the person at this moment,
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Speaker 1: very very very very very clearly. Okay, like very clearly.
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Speaker 1: That's number one, number two here. Even the Democrats are
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Speaker 1: supposed to be the protectors of Joe Biden are not
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Speaker 1: protecting him. Joyce quote, I'm all in video, who's a
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Speaker 1: black caucus? Okay, I'm all in with Joe Biden until
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Speaker 1: he tells me otherwise. But there's a lot of other
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Speaker 1: Helsman National affairs analysts said this on NBC News about
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Speaker 1: the patients of Democrats waiting on Joe Biden to drop out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and look, Joe, I mean, yes, so yesterday, as
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Speaker 3: you said, all those people ducks in a row, Adam
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Speaker 3: Schiff a close Pelosi ally certainly with her blast thing.
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Speaker 3: First we had heard the elaked thing about how he
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Speaker 3: had a fundraiser over the weekend, has said he thought
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Speaker 3: Biden would lose. That he came out yesterday with the
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Speaker 3: La Times and announced it would be probably the most
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Speaker 3: prominent Democrats so far, almost certain soon to be senator
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Speaker 3: from California, formerhead of the House Intelligence Committee, came out
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Speaker 3: and said that he wanted Biden to step aside. And then,
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Speaker 3: in rapid succession, word coming out that Haakim Jeffries had
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Speaker 3: had a tough meeting with Biden last Friday, that Schumer
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Speaker 3: had had a meeting on Saturday, and then last night
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Speaker 3: again not coincidentally, the almost the moment that Jade Vance
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Speaker 3: finished speaking Abby Phillips, the CNN broke the news that
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Speaker 3: Nancy Pelosi had the same conversation with Biden. I believe
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Speaker 3: it's possible she's had that conversation with Biden more than once,
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Speaker 3: in fact, since last Thursday.
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Speaker 5: And none of this is a coincidence.
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Speaker 3: This is what it looks like when the Democratic leadership
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Speaker 3: still trying to get Joe Biden to do what they
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Speaker 3: believe is the right thing for the party, which is
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Speaker 3: to step aside. Still trying to only go private, go
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Speaker 3: go public in a kind of oblique way, not calling
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Speaker 3: a press conference, not issuing anything formal. But they are
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Speaker 3: their patiences is now exhausted. They have looked at these
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Speaker 3: numbers and then come back to the money Joe. Jeffer
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Speaker 3: Katzenberg has devoted a lot of his professional life to
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Speaker 3: try to get Joe Biden into the White House, to
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Speaker 3: getting Joe Biden. In twenty twenty, he raised more money
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Speaker 3: for Joe Biden. Call told back in twenty twenty than
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Speaker 3: any other person. He's raised more money for Joe Biden collectively,
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Speaker 3: pulling all these people together, the big Hollywood fundraisers, and
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Speaker 3: he's a campaign co chairman.
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Speaker 2: Jeffrey Katzenberg.
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Speaker 3: Okay, he went to Biden yesterday and said the big
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Speaker 3: dollar donors are done effectively I'm paraphrasing, but we can
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Speaker 3: still raise money at the grassroots but that means about
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Speaker 3: half of the money that we were expecting for the
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Speaker 3: fall we are not going to have. Joe Biden has
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Speaker 3: had a significant financial advantage over Donald Trump for the
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Speaker 3: first half of this year, as we all know, and
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Speaker 3: this goes a little bit of our discussion we've been
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Speaker 3: having about polling.
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Speaker 2: They have spent one hundreds.
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Speaker 3: Of millions dollars already in the battleground states. And one
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Speaker 3: of the things that worries again Democrats and some of
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Speaker 3: the president's people is that they've spent a lot of
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Speaker 3: money in those battleground states and have not moved his
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Speaker 3: numbers very much. While the Trump campaign has not had
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Speaker 3: very much money.
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Speaker 1: They're now telling you that money can't save Joe Biden.
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Speaker 2: That's damning, folks, That is damning.
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Speaker 1: One other thing I'll say about this, Van Jones said
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Speaker 1: last night on CNN, quote, a bullet couldn't stop Trump,
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Speaker 1: A virus stopped Joe Biden. They want him gone. So
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Speaker 1: let's talk about last night's speeches. Okay, this is incredible
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Speaker 1: for me and jd Vance had a speech last night
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Speaker 1: and it was a speech.
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Speaker 2: 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
20:09
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. Giving a speech two days
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Speaker 1: after you've been gotting the phone call that you're the
20:25
Speaker 1: vice presidential of Canada is intimidating. And do I think
20:30
Speaker 1: it could have been punched up a little bit more
20:33
Speaker 1: being in the room last night, Yes, I think you
20:36
Speaker 1: could see that on Donald Trump's face a.
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Speaker 2: Little bit as well. 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
20:43
Speaker 1: there that you know, I wanted him to kill it.
20:45
Speaker 1: I think it was a six and a half seven
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Speaker 1: out of ten. Do I think it's going to hurt
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Speaker 1: the ticket?
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Speaker 2: No? Do Am I worried about him picking him now?
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Speaker 4: 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, 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 1: our movement.
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Speaker 9: Ladies and gentlemen, it's about grandparents all across this country
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Speaker 9: who are living on Social Security and raising grandchildren they
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Speaker 9: didn't expect to raise. And while we're on the topic
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Speaker 9: of grandparents, let me tell you another mammal story. And
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Speaker 9: my mamma died shortly before I left for Iraq in
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Speaker 9: two thousand and five. And when we went through things,
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Speaker 9: we found nineteen loaded handguns.
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Speaker 2: They were.
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Speaker 9: Now The thing is, they were stashed all over her house,
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Speaker 9: under her bed, in her closet, in the silverware drawer,
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Speaker 9: and we wondered what was going on. And it occurred
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Speaker 9: to us that towards the end of her life, mamma
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Speaker 9: couldn't get around so well. And so this real old
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Speaker 9: woman made sure that no matter where she was, she
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Speaker 9: was with an arm's length of whatever she needed to
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Speaker 9: protect her family.
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Speaker 2: That's who we fight for.
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Speaker 5: That's American spirit.
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Speaker 1: That for me, was the highlight of JD. Vance's speech
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Speaker 1: last night. I thought it was an incredible moment. I
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Speaker 1: thought it was one that made people love him, his family,
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Speaker 1: his story. It was one of those moments that I
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Speaker 1: think people will remember. And look, there's some people that
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Speaker 1: may have heard that in thought to themselves, Hey, that's ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: No grandmother who wanted to protect at all costs her
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Speaker 1: the person that she loved the most, the people that
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Speaker 1: she loved the most. There was also another really cool
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Speaker 1: point of last night, and that was Jade Vance's wife
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Speaker 1: coming out on stage.
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Speaker 2: She's not a political person.
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Speaker 1: She is a mother firsts a wife, and she stepped
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Speaker 1: up on the stage. This is not her thing to
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Speaker 1: be a public speaker. And I always feel bad for
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Speaker 1: people that are expected to do amazing things on the
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Speaker 1: 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 hope 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, Good.
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Speaker 10: Evening, Good evening. When I was asked to introduce my
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Speaker 10: husband JD vance to all of you, I was at
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Speaker 10: a loss. What could I say that hasn't already been
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Speaker 10: said before? After all, the man was already the subject
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Speaker 10: of Ron Howard movie. JD has shared much of his
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Speaker 10: life through his own eloquent words in his book He'll
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Speaker 10: Billy Elogy. During his Senate campaign and now as a
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Speaker 10: City United States Senator, it occurred to me that there
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Speaker 10: was only one thing to do, to explain from the
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Speaker 10: heart why I love and admire JD and stand here
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Speaker 10: beside him today, and why he will make a great
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Speaker 10: Vice President of the United States. I met JD in
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Speaker 10: law school when he was fresh out of Ohio State,
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Speaker 10: which he attended with the support of the GI Bill.
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Speaker 10: We were friends first, because I mean, who wouldn't want
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Speaker 10: to be friends with JD. He was then as now,
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Speaker 10: the most interesting person I knew, A working class guy
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Speaker 10: who had overcome childhood traumas that I could barely fathom
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Speaker 10: to end up at Yale Law School, a tough marine
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Speaker 10: who had served in Iraq, but whose idea of a
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Speaker 10: good time was playing with puppies. And watching the movie Babe,
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Speaker 10: the most determined person I knew, with one overriding ambition
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Speaker 10: to become a husband and a father, and to build
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Speaker 10: the kind of tight knit family that he had longed
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Speaker 10: for as a child. My background is very different from JD's.
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Speaker 10: I grew up in San Diego, in a middle class community,
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Speaker 10: with two loving parents, both immigrants from India, and a
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Speaker 10: wonderful sister that Jad and I could meet at all,
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Speaker 10: let alone fall in love and Mary is a testament
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Speaker 10: to this great country. It is also a testament to JD,
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Speaker 10: and it tells you something about who he is. When
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Speaker 10: JD met me, he approached our differences with curiosity and enthusiasm.
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Speaker 10: He wanted to know everything about me, where I came from,
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Speaker 10: what my life had been like. Although he's a meat
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Speaker 10: and potatoes kind of guy, he adapted to my vegetarian
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Speaker 10: diet and learned to cook food from my mother Indian food.
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Speaker 10: Before I knew it, he had become an integral part
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Speaker 10: of my family, a person I could not meant could
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Speaker 10: not imagine living without. The JD I knew then is
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Speaker 10: the same JD you see today, except for that beard
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Speaker 10: and his goals in this new role are the same
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Speaker 10: that he has pursued for our family, to keep people safe,
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Speaker 10: to create opportunities, to build a better life, and to
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Speaker 10: solve problems with an open mind. It's safe to say
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Speaker 10: that neither JD nor I expected to find ourselves in
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Speaker 10: this position. But it's hard to imagine a more powerful
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Speaker 10: example of 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. It came across very authentic,
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Speaker 1: I think in the hall, and I think it translated
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Speaker 1: on TV. It excited me for his family and the
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Speaker 1: 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 is 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 and mean, he's younger than I am, for goodness sakes.
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Speaker 1: And I never get to say that, and I just
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Speaker 1: I'm rooting for them. I love the fact that he
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Speaker 1: is this type of individual with small kids that can
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Speaker 1: relate to the family's real issues in America today, whether
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Speaker 1: it's public education, whether it's just paying for things with kids,
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Speaker 1: the cost of living, these are things that he brings
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Speaker 1: the ticket because of his age and his wife and
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Speaker 1: their family.
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Speaker 2: That is incredible.
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