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THE RED WAVE THAT DID NOT HAPPEN. key races — including in Nevada, Georgia, Wisconsin and Arizona to close to call. · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: I'm never gonna lie to you. The red wave was
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Speaker 1: not a red wave as it's been described by several
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Speaker 1: people I know well. It was a low tide. Election
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Speaker 1: night was more of a shock than it was exciting.
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Speaker 1: Republicans are, at least at this point this morning, favored
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Speaker 1: to take the House. The Senate is very very tight.
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Speaker 1: Why Democrats one in Colorado, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Washington State.
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Speaker 1: GOP had good wins in the Senate in North Carolina, Ohio,
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Speaker 1: in Florida. Then there's four states, so this is all
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Speaker 1: going to come down to It's gonna come down to Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada,
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Speaker 1: and Alaska. The Dems are also ahead in Arizona. Let's
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Speaker 1: look at the map when it comes to where we
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Speaker 1: are right now. Republicans are at forty eight seats in
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Speaker 1: the Senate. Democrats are at forty eight seats in the Senate.
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Speaker 1: On the House side, there are sixty four seats left
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Speaker 1: in play. That is of seven o'clock am Central time.
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Speaker 1: These numbers will change, but there are sixty four House
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Speaker 1: seats left in play that the Democrats have one hundred
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Speaker 1: and seventy two seats, Republicans one hundred and ninety nine.
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Speaker 1: So let's look at the takeaway of pickups. In the House.
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Speaker 1: Democrats have flipped three seats from Republican to Democrat. Those
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Speaker 1: mostly are connected to redistricting where there were districts that
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Speaker 1: were changed, and that's why they were able to pick
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Speaker 1: up two of the three, not necessarily upsets. Want to
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Speaker 1: make that clear. Then you have Republicans that so far
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Speaker 1: I have flipped nine different seats in the House side.
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Speaker 1: You need two eighteen for the majority. In the House,
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Speaker 1: we sit at one ninety nine Republicans to one seventy
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Speaker 1: eight Democrats. What's shocking is where we are on the
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Speaker 1: Senate side. You have forty eight seats for the Democrats,
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Speaker 1: forty eight seats to the Republicans, and at this point,
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Speaker 1: the day after election day, right now, Democrats are the
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Speaker 1: ones that actually have picked up a seat in the Senate.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the biggest shock of the night, and
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Speaker 1: I think that's the only way that we can describe
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Speaker 1: what this is. Fetterman winning that race there over, Doctor
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Speaker 1: Oz tells you something significant about this election cycle. It
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Speaker 1: tells you that if you pick a bad candidate, you
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Speaker 1: might be able to get him through the midterms by
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Speaker 1: coming in and really getting people partisan. And what I'm
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Speaker 1: referencing is Donald Trump. Donald Trump wanted fetterman, and he
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Speaker 1: wanted to flex his muscles improve that he can turn
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Speaker 1: a guy that's not even willing to give up his
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Speaker 1: American citizenship unless or excuse me, his citizenship in another
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Speaker 1: country to solely be an American citizen. Unless he won
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Speaker 1: the Senate race, which is a problem. He wanted to
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Speaker 1: prove that he could get him over the finish line
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Speaker 1: in the primary, and he did it. Donald Trump's able
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Speaker 1: to pick candidates in primaries. The problem is he wasn't
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Speaker 1: able to get his candidates over the line in the
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Speaker 1: general election. He went to war with a Republican and
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Speaker 1: Colorado for example there, Yes, that was a problem, and
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Speaker 1: now the Democrats have control of Colorado. But the cautionary tale,
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Speaker 1: the takeaway from the night for me is the Doctor
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Speaker 1: Oz race. Just because you can get a guy to
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Speaker 1: win a primary doesn't mean he's gonna win a general.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Oz was a bad candidate. The other candidate that
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Speaker 1: ran against him in the primary, which barely lost It
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Speaker 1: was down to a handful of votes a thou and
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Speaker 1: votes in the state where there were millions of votes.
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Speaker 1: Casts I think clearly would have overwhelmingly beat Fetterman. But
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Speaker 1: Oz was a guy that did not excite Republicans. Why
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Speaker 1: because they just didn't trust him. They didn't think he
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Speaker 1: was very authentic. They thought he might be wolf in
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Speaker 1: sheep's clothes. The voters had major concerns over Oz because
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Speaker 1: they didn't believe he was a true conservative. Yes, he
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Speaker 1: got through the primary, but the fact that he couldn't
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Speaker 1: beat someone that was clearly mentally mentally incapacitated due to
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Speaker 1: the stroke. A guy that started off a debate by
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Speaker 1: saying goodnight in one maybe not one of the worst
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Speaker 1: debate I have ever seen in my entire life, tells
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Speaker 1: them through a primary with the endorsement Donald Trump, but
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Speaker 1: did they get you to the victory. Another example of
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Speaker 1: that is the Michigan governor's race. You had a very
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Speaker 1: vulnerable whit Whitmer was a governor who locked down kids
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Speaker 1: in school for more than two years. She locked them
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Speaker 1: out of school. I should say she's someone who shut
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Speaker 1: down businesses and destroyed her economy. She's someone that wanted
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Speaker 1: to take away the rights of parental rights, and she's
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Speaker 1: one that wanted to demandate vaccines and masks. The lockdowns
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Speaker 1: with COVID there were really more intense than maybe anywhere
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Speaker 1: else in the country. There was an opportunity in Michigan.
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Speaker 1: This was a big opportunity. Tudor Dixon got through the primary.
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Speaker 1: The problem is she did not get through the general election.
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Speaker 1: In fact, it wasn't even close. This is another example
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Speaker 1: of just how bad candidates election can be. In primaries.
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Speaker 1: You might be able to win a primary, that doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean that you are going to be able to win
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Speaker 1: a general election. It doesn't mean that. Now you look
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Speaker 1: at these takeaways, and again, Fetterman is the one that's
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Speaker 1: rocking the world right now because even Democrats cannot believe
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Speaker 1: that Fetterman was able to defeat the Republican doctor osmany
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Speaker 1: believe was not a real Republican. This was a seat
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Speaker 1: that we held the retiring center Pat Toomey made it
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Speaker 1: easy for Republicans to win. That we screwed it up
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Speaker 1: with our candidates selection. And that's the only way you
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Speaker 1: can look at this now. If you look at where
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Speaker 1: Republicans did well last night, and that there's a roadmap
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Speaker 1: for success You need to look no further than Florida.
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Speaker 1: Florida had their act together. Florida was a place with DeSantis,
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Speaker 1: he was the projected winner very early in the in
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Speaker 1: the night. And the fact that DeSantis was able to
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Speaker 1: pull off what Rhnda Santis was able to do there,
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Speaker 1: and the other Republican candidates that went there very quickly.
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Speaker 1: In Florida, look a look at Marco Rubio's race. Democrats
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Speaker 1: thought they might be able to make in ways there
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Speaker 1: or that race. No, they didn't get even they didn't
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Speaker 1: get close at all. But you look at the federal
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Speaker 1: you look at what happened in Florida, and they picked
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Speaker 1: solid candidates. In Florida, De Santis won by almost almost
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Speaker 1: twenty points fifty nine point four to forty percent over
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Speaker 1: Charlie Chris. That is a massive victory and it went
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Speaker 1: all the way through, all the way down the ballot.
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Speaker 1: You look at Georgia, for example, you had a solid
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Speaker 1: candidate in Kemp, and what happened with Kemp there? The
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Speaker 1: governor there beat the living crap out of Abrams. Abrams
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Speaker 1: had massive amounts of money, folks, mounts of cash that
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Speaker 1: no one could have imagined in that race, and she
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Speaker 1: wasted the donor money. Stacy Abrams wasted over a hundred
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Speaker 1: and five million dollars in donor moneyed in her failed campaign.
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Speaker 1: Good candidates win elections. You look at what's happening, for example,
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Speaker 1: in the election there for the Senate, and it may
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Speaker 1: have literally the weight of the Senate may go to
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Speaker 1: the Republicans of the Democrats. Based on another race in Georgia,
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Speaker 1: that is the race between Warnock, a guy that was
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Speaker 1: extremely vulnerable, and Warnock was up against the guy that
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump also picked. If a football player that had
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Speaker 1: a lot of baggage came down at the end to
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Speaker 1: hurt him that baggage, yeah, you can get him through
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Speaker 1: a primary, but can you get him through a general.
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Speaker 1: We're now headed for what looks like a runoff in
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Speaker 1: Georgia and that could cost us the in it. So
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Speaker 1: just because the Kennett can get through a primary with
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Speaker 1: a big Trump rally doesn't mean that it's the best
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Speaker 1: candidate for the job, and it doesn't mean that in
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Speaker 1: the general election it's going to work. That's the takeaway
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Speaker 1: from last night. Because Stacy Abrams lost again to the
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Speaker 1: Republican Brian Kemp, who did it on his own he
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Speaker 1: didn't have a bunch of backing from the Trump team.
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Speaker 1: She wasted over one hundred million dollars in campaign funds
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Speaker 1: one Georgia. This is the Abrams campaign. Leadership committee brought
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Speaker 1: in a combined one hundred and five million for a
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Speaker 1: campaign big donors from all over the country. One hundred
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Speaker 1: and five million, got a big loss. It was not
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Speaker 1: competitive there for her. The Kemp campaign, for example, they
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Speaker 1: raised eighty one million in their re election cycle. Abrams
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Speaker 1: wrote a dramatic wave of democratic support after her close
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Speaker 1: loss to Kemp in twenty eighteen and became an election
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Speaker 1: denier who refused to say that she lost the race.
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Speaker 1: the takeaway of these midterm elections. We screwed it up
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Speaker 1: with bad candidates. Now we're gonna go to what looks
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Speaker 1: like a runoff in Orgia because you have to have
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Speaker 1: fifty plus one percent in Georgia. And everybody that I know,
13:06
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Speaker 1: are like, all right, now, what happens in Georgia. The
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Speaker 1: Democrats will go all in on Georgia if they're gonna
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Speaker 1: need it, right, if they know that they could this
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Speaker 1: is the balance of power in the Senate, they will
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Speaker 1: jump in. You look at Georgia right now, and neither
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Speaker 1: of the candidates are above the fifty plus percent. They've
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Speaker 1: got ninety six percent of the vote that is in
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Speaker 1: As of seven twenty four am. Warnock is at forty
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Speaker 1: nine point two, Walker forty eight point seven, Oliver the
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Speaker 1: Independent at two point one percent with eighty thou twenty votes,
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Speaker 1: So that that is going to be interesting to see
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Speaker 1: who that breaks for. The other question is going to
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Speaker 1: be turnout right. Warnock had massive wins in the Atlanta area,
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Speaker 1: also around Augustus, Savannah and Columbus. That's where the main
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Speaker 1: part of his voters came from. Walker was in the
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Speaker 1: rest of the state. But you go to Walker and
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Speaker 1: you look at him as a candidate, and we should
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Speaker 1: have easily been able to beat Raphael Warnock, especially because
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Speaker 1: we had all the issues that were at our advantage.
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Speaker 1: The other thing is there are people, and make no
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Speaker 1: mistake about this, all right, because I'm not a cheerleader
14:24
Speaker 1: when I give you the data, all right, I'm this
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Speaker 1: is just the data. You had a governor's race there
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Speaker 1: that looks different than the Senate race. What that means
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Speaker 1: is there were people that pushed a button for the
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Speaker 1: Republican Kemp who did not push the button for Walker.
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Speaker 1: That tells you something about candidate selection, how important it
14:49
Speaker 1: is you go to, for example, Colorado. We had a
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Speaker 1: chance there in Colorado to do something that disappeared because
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Speaker 1: there was a war between O'Day and Donald Trump, and
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Speaker 1: O'Day got beat there badly fifty four to forty two.
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Speaker 1: That was a screw up. You look at what's happening
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Speaker 1: in Arizona. Arizona has had some voting issues, many of you.
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Speaker 1: We talked about that on the show yesterday. Mericoba County,
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Speaker 1: only sixty eight percent of the vote is in as
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Speaker 1: of seven twenty five Central time am on Wednesday morning,
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Speaker 1: and you have a Democrat there who is up fifty
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Speaker 1: one point nine to forty five point nine Overmasters in
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Speaker 1: Arizona car the governor's race, there also another one that's
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Speaker 1: going to be a key indicator there that makes me nervous.
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Speaker 1: Some of the winds that I love. And again I
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Speaker 1: go back to how solid of a campaign they ran
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Speaker 1: in Florida. It was an incredibly solid campaign top to
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Speaker 1: bottom with solid candidates in Florida, top to bottom on
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Speaker 1: the Republican side, and Democrats thought they were gonna be
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Speaker 1: able to come after Rubio. They were wrong. Rubio and
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Speaker 1: a Santists had big victories, Rubio overwhelmingly winning their fifty
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Speaker 1: seven point seven to forty one point three percent. This
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Speaker 1: clearly mimics the governor's numbers there with the Santists is
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Speaker 1: big win. So when you look at what happened and
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Speaker 1: the takeaway, we have to be honest about what happened here.
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Speaker 1: You look at Nevada and the Senate race there eighty
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Speaker 1: percent in right now too close to call. The good
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Speaker 1: news is at this point the Republican lasall is at
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Speaker 1: forty nine point nine and to forty seven point two.
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Speaker 1: That's a twenty two thousand vote lead in Nevada that's
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Speaker 1: a good that's a key race, a very important race
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Speaker 1: that we're gonna need and hopefully that will break our way.
16:53
Speaker 1: We had North Carolina an exciting race there where Bud
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Speaker 1: won that Senate race. There, a good candidate was chosen
17:01
Speaker 1: in a tough race in North Carolina over Beasley. We
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Speaker 1: won fifty point seven to forty seven percent. That is
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Speaker 1: a huge victory for the Republicans that we needed. Let's
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Speaker 1: talk about candidate selection with DJ Vance. Now, this is
17:14
Speaker 1: where DJ Vance was a very good candidate. He was
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Speaker 1: endorsed by Donald Trump. Donald Trump came in, got him
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Speaker 1: through that primary, kept going for him in the general.
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Speaker 1: And Vance, who is a very good candidate, right, he
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Speaker 1: was way better than a Doctor Oz, way better than
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Speaker 1: herschel Walker for example. And DJ Vance was a solid
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Speaker 1: candidate who had backing of the Republican leadership and Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: He was able to win that fifty three forty six.
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Speaker 1: You gotta be a smart candidate, you gotta be a
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Speaker 1: good candidate. The Doctor Oz race is the one that's
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Speaker 1: going to go down in history. Is one of the
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Speaker 1: biggest screw ups in the history of the Republican Party.
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Speaker 1: In the history, I would say of this of this primary,
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Speaker 1: you know, fight right between the Republicans and the Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump faction of the party. Donald Trump came in there.
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Speaker 1: He wanted to prove a point that he could take
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Speaker 1: somebody like Oz who by the way, it was a
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Speaker 1: Democrat who was a TV star, and get behind him
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Speaker 1: and push him through the primary. And he did it.
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Speaker 1: It costs us a Senate seat in Pennsylvania. That's just
18:23
Speaker 1: the truth. We have to learn from these mistakes. You
18:28
Speaker 1: look at Mike Lee in Utah. Mike Lee was able
18:31
Speaker 1: to win that race there. Think goodness. He was behind
18:33
Speaker 1: early on, people started realizing he was behind, they came back.
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Speaker 1: He won overwhelmingly, fifty five to forty one. Thank goodness
18:41
Speaker 1: had happened there. In Washington, we had a chance there
18:46
Speaker 1: and it disappeared quickly, even though the issues were on
18:50
Speaker 1: our side. Murray beating Smiley there fifty six to forty two.
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Speaker 1: And lastly, think goodness. Johnson is up Ron Johnson, who
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Speaker 1: is the incumbent. He is up in Wisconsin fifty point
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Speaker 1: five to forty nine point three with ninety four percent
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Speaker 1: of the the vote in that's a thirty one thousand vote lead. Johnson.
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Speaker 1: I believe we'll hold on to that seat there. That's
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Speaker 1: going to help us tremendously. So was this a red wave? No,
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Speaker 1: I always will tell you the truth, it was not.
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Speaker 1: Was this a disappointment, yes, should we've had bigger wins
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Speaker 1: with all the issues that were on our side in
19:27
Speaker 1: the economy. Yes. Candidate selection, my friends, is everything. Republicans
19:34
Speaker 1: at this point still need two Democratic seats to flip
19:38
Speaker 1: to Republicans to gain control the Senate. And losing that
19:42
Speaker 1: odd seat that Oz election, that is that that could
19:47
Speaker 1: be catastrophic to the Republicans gaining control of the Senate
19:53
Speaker 1: and now having a bad candidate choice in Georgia and
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21:36
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21:43
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21:46
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21:52
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22:06
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Speaker 1: stand and stood on what he believed was right and wrong.
22:54
Speaker 1: During all of the lockdowns and all of the covid
22:58
Speaker 1: Democrats and hire media one to take down to Santis,
23:03
Speaker 1: that didn't happen. Twenty the twenty eight congressional seats in
23:08
Speaker 1: Florida are now Republicans. Both US Senate seats in Florida
23:14
Speaker 1: are now Republican. The entire Florida cabinet, every statewide race
23:21
Speaker 1: went Republican by more than a dozen percentage points. That
23:25
Speaker 1: is unheard of. The candidate selection down there was phenomenal.
23:32
Speaker 1: That is the bright spot for Republicans. Joining me now
23:36
Speaker 1: to talk about where we are when it comes to
23:38
Speaker 1: the Senate is US Senator from Tennessee, Marsha Blackburn, Senator.
23:43
Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on this morning. I think you
23:46
Speaker 1: probably feel like I am. You're a little bit in
23:49
Speaker 1: shock that we're at forty eight. Forty eight as you
23:51
Speaker 1: and I speak this morning, the Democrats were actually able
23:54
Speaker 1: to pick up a seat in the Senate at this point,
23:57
Speaker 1: I am very concerned about the Senate right now. What's
24:00
Speaker 1: your take? Well, I am very concerned about it. And
24:05
Speaker 1: one thing you were just talking about with Florida, let
24:08
Speaker 1: me kind of start there. I think you can look
24:10
Speaker 1: at Florida and say leadership matters and having elected leaders.
24:16
Speaker 1: You're talking about Rhonda Santis, You're talking about Marco, and
24:21
Speaker 1: they have delivered on the issues where the people want
24:24
Speaker 1: to see action. They've told people what they were going
24:28
Speaker 1: to do, they talked them through it while they were
24:30
Speaker 1: doing it. They've shown them what they've done. They've let
24:33
Speaker 1: the results speak and the outcomes speak, and thereby the
24:38
Speaker 1: people have responded. You saw that same thing in Mike
24:44
Speaker 1: Lee's race out in Utah. You've seen it in Wisconsin
24:49
Speaker 1: with Ron Johnson. So leadership does make a difference, and
24:54
Speaker 1: it matters now. I think one of the things we
24:57
Speaker 1: do have to look at with all the talk that
25:00
Speaker 1: there about the red wave, and the media really drove
25:06
Speaker 1: this issue of the red wave, and as I repeatedly said,
25:11
Speaker 1: the red wave could be there, but you've got to
25:14
Speaker 1: make sure it comes to your state, your congressional district,
25:17
Speaker 1: to your state Senate and state house seats. You have
25:22
Speaker 1: to make certain that that red wave arise. And what
25:26
Speaker 1: we had and some of these races was the narrative
25:30
Speaker 1: that was put in place that the candidates could not
25:34
Speaker 1: meet that expectation. So that is a good lesson for Republicans.
25:40
Speaker 1: And then today we have to pick ourselves up. We
25:44
Speaker 1: have to get back to the business of blocking Joe
25:47
Speaker 1: Biden's agenda. We have to make certain that we are
25:52
Speaker 1: going to focus on the issues because the twenty four
25:56
Speaker 1: election cycle begins today. There's no doubt it begins today.
26:03
Speaker 1: Let's talk about these Senate races that are still left
26:07
Speaker 1: I am. I think the most disappointing and shocking for
26:11
Speaker 1: me was obviously the race in Pennsylvania. You know Cannet
26:17
Speaker 1: selection matters. Doctor Oz was rejected by the voters after
26:23
Speaker 1: winning that primary. That primary, as you know, was a
26:26
Speaker 1: very divided, very tight primary there. Doctor Oz clearly was
26:32
Speaker 1: the weaker candidate. I would argue, it's clear that the
26:34
Speaker 1: voters said he was the wrong candidate for the Republican
26:38
Speaker 1: party there. We have to learn from these mistakes. You
26:41
Speaker 1: look at Georgia right now, what looks like we're going
26:43
Speaker 1: to be going into a runoff there. Neither candate Warnox
26:46
Speaker 1: at forty nine point two, Walker is at forty eight
26:49
Speaker 1: point seven, and yet you have a governor's race there
26:53
Speaker 1: overwhelmingly won by a Republican. That means there was people
26:56
Speaker 1: that walked in and voted for the Republican for governor
26:59
Speaker 1: and did not for Walker, maybe didn't even vote in
27:01
Speaker 1: that race altogether. What we're seeing there and now we're
27:05
Speaker 1: going to be heading towards this this runoff, we've got
27:08
Speaker 1: to learn that Cannet's election is so vitally important when
27:13
Speaker 1: looking in these primaries moving forward, well, that is very true.
27:19
Speaker 1: You always want the most I want the most conservative
27:23
Speaker 1: candidate that can win. And what we have to make
27:26
Speaker 1: certain is that we move forward as a United Party,
27:30
Speaker 1: that we are not running against ourselves and the Democrats,
27:35
Speaker 1: that we are united because the environment was right for us.
27:41
Speaker 1: But you know, one of the things that Haley Barber
27:44
Speaker 1: used to say, and I always appreciated this, he would
27:49
Speaker 1: talk about when we focus on personalities, we lose. When
27:53
Speaker 1: we focus on issues and principles, we win. And we
28:00
Speaker 1: remember that we should all remember that. That's an important
28:05
Speaker 1: lesson for us to keep in mind. A look at Arizona,
28:11
Speaker 1: for example, there was so much emphasis there on personalities
28:15
Speaker 1: and that is I think gotten us in some trouble
28:18
Speaker 1: in Arizona right now, those races there with Kelly and Masters,
28:22
Speaker 1: and now you look at the governor's race there that
28:25
Speaker 1: was very much a personality driven race, a lot of press,
28:28
Speaker 1: a lot of national press. But the voters when they
28:31
Speaker 1: went in did that did not play well for us. Well,
28:36
Speaker 1: you're right about that. And what seems to have happened
28:40
Speaker 1: as we're looking at results this morning, is that people
28:44
Speaker 1: that traditionally voted Democrats when these candidates, when these Democrat
28:51
Speaker 1: candidates separated themselves from book White House and started to
28:57
Speaker 1: move to the middle on the issues of inflation, of crime,
29:03
Speaker 1: of the open border, and you can see this. You
29:05
Speaker 1: know Texas and you know South Texas, and you know
29:10
Speaker 1: that a lot of those races you had Democrats moved
29:16
Speaker 1: back and support the Democrats who said, oh no, no, no,
29:19
Speaker 1: I'm not one of those Biden Democrats. I'm going to
29:22
Speaker 1: be a moderate and I'm going to go work with
29:26
Speaker 1: everybody so that we can get things done. And we
29:30
Speaker 1: have to remember when you're in elective office, you are
29:34
Speaker 1: there to represent everybody who has sent you, everybody that
29:40
Speaker 1: is in that district, whether they go to for you
29:42
Speaker 1: or not, whether they're a Democrat, Republican, independent, Green Party,
29:47
Speaker 1: you are there to represent your area senor. We just
29:52
Speaker 1: got some good news and I just got this that
29:55
Speaker 1: the new ballots are just updated in Nevada. Lasal there
30:00
Speaker 1: has just moved up to forty nine point nine. Cortez
30:05
Speaker 1: Amasso is at forty seven point two with eighty percent
30:11
Speaker 1: now in there. That's a twenty two thousand and five
30:14
Speaker 1: hundred ninety five vote lead for the Republican Lacks out
30:19
Speaker 1: there that race, and Nevada is vitally important to the
30:24
Speaker 1: Senate possibly being in control of the Republicans. That's encouraging numbers.
30:32
Speaker 1: Those are encouraging numbers, and I get fully believe when
30:37
Speaker 1: everything is counted that we're going to have that slight
30:40
Speaker 1: majority for Republicans. The lesson is, we have to be
30:46
Speaker 1: focusing on the issues. We have to be holding this
30:50
Speaker 1: administration to account, and we have to deliver for the
30:56
Speaker 1: American people. Yeah, if there's any one exciting piece of news,
31:00
Speaker 1: somebody that you served with, senator for quite some time
31:04
Speaker 1: when you're in the House, if there's any headline now
31:07
Speaker 1: that I think we can all get excited about. It
31:09
Speaker 1: looks like that Nancy Pelosi will no longer be the
31:11
Speaker 1: Speaker of the House and very well may decide to retire.
31:15
Speaker 1: Do you think she'll retire? And how excited are you
31:17
Speaker 1: that at least we are going to be done with
31:18
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosian leadership. I don't know what her plans are.
31:24
Speaker 1: I've seeing some of the press releases. What I am
31:29
Speaker 1: so pleased for is that the Republicans will in the House.
31:34
Speaker 1: We'll be able to take the lead in blocking the
31:38
Speaker 1: Biden agenda. You know, Ben, there some things that Kevin
31:43
Speaker 1: McCarthy is Speaker of the House, needs to immediately do.
31:47
Speaker 1: Number one is to freeze federal spending, federal hiring, and
31:51
Speaker 1: federal employee salaries. That has to be done immediately. And
31:59
Speaker 1: the other thing is to get rid of these eighty
32:01
Speaker 1: seven thousand IRS agents and turn that into on the
32:06
Speaker 1: streets and border security personnel. And the third thing is
32:10
Speaker 1: to push back on the White House so that we
32:13
Speaker 1: moved to energy independence and dominance. We have to go
32:17
Speaker 1: back to drilling in the US, go back to fracting.
32:21
Speaker 1: Those are going to be imperative steps for us in
32:25
Speaker 1: order to get inflation under control. Senator I wish it
32:29
Speaker 1: was more exciting this morning. You and I were hoping
32:31
Speaker 1: for a big red wave. That's not what we're getting.
32:33
Speaker 1: But we do have some victories that are going to
32:35
Speaker 1: be vitally important for the direction of the country and
32:37
Speaker 1: holding this administration accountable. I appreciate you coming on as always,
32:41
Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll start getting some better news today. The
32:45
Speaker 1: Senate is going to be so important. I know you're
32:47
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32:49
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