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Nicolle slams hypocritical Trump for ABSURD election lies and attacks · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Hi there, everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Friday. It's four o'clock in New York with just
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  Speaker 2: 60 days, 60 days to go until the midterm. States
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  Speaker 2: are now standing up to Donald Trump's unconstitutional attempts to
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  Speaker 2: seize control of our elections. Despite the president's push to
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  Speaker 2: crack down on mail-in voting, the first midterm ballots are
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  Speaker 2: now in the mail. Today, North Carolina started sending out
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  Speaker 2: ballots ahead of November's elections there. As the New York
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  Speaker 2: Times reports, quote, state election officials said they would send
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  Speaker 2: their first batch of absentee ballots just after midnight Friday
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  Speaker 2: to the more than 46,000 voters who have requested them.
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  Speaker 2: Then next Wednesday, Alabama will start mailing out their absentee ballots.
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  Speaker 2: And by mid-September, all states must send out ballots to
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  Speaker 2: the U.S. troops and other overseas voters. Even as Americans
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  Speaker 2: start casting their ballots, Trump refuses to give up on
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  Speaker 2: his effort to disenfranchise voters and suppress the vote. Just yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: the Justice Department filed another emergency appeal with the Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 2: The Trump administration wants the justices to lift a temporary
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  Speaker 2: order that is right now blocking the Postal Service from
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  Speaker 2: implementing Donald Trump's desired executive order to curb mail-in ballots.
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  Speaker 2: While Trump spreads his unfounded delusions and disinformation about the
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  Speaker 2: threats of voting by mail, it is worth pointing out
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  Speaker 2: at this point that it is Donald Trump's preferred method
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  Speaker 2: of casting a ballot. Just last month, Donald Trump voted
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  Speaker 2: by mail. again in the state of Florida. Meanwhile, MS
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  Speaker 2: Now has new reporting on the Department of Homeland Security's
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  Speaker 2: efforts to amplify Trump's debunked election lies. As we have
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  Speaker 2: covered here during these hours all week, DHS is rapidly
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  Speaker 2: expanding its push to hunt down examples of non-citizens who
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  Speaker 2: appear on the voter rolls. So far, they're only finding
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  Speaker 2: a handful of possible cases to investigate. Quote, across the
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  Speaker 2: nine states reportedly targeted in the surge, Some said they
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  Speaker 2: had yet to hear from Homeland Security about any possible
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  Speaker 2: voter fraud investigations. Others were subpoenaed this week for voting
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  Speaker 2: history on what amounted to a small number of individuals
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  Speaker 2: compared to the state's voting populations. Though more subpoenas could come,
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  Speaker 2: they haven't come close to the tens of thousands of
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  Speaker 2: potential non-citizens the Trump administration claims to have identified on
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  Speaker 2: voter rolls. An unnamed DHS spokesperson telling MSNOW, They won't
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  Speaker 2: comment on active investigations, but they did say this, quote,
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  Speaker 2: they're actively rooting out and investigating election fraud wherever it
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  Speaker 2: can be found, end quote. Trump's attack on our elections
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  Speaker 2: is where we begin again today with the Reverend Al Sharpton.
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  Speaker 2: He's the host of MSNOW's Politics Nation, the founder of
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  Speaker 2: the National Action Network. Also with me on set, MSNOW
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  Speaker 2: legal analyst Andrew Weissman is here. And Ian Bassin joins us.
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  Speaker 2: He's the co-founder and executive director at Protect Democracy. He
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  Speaker 2: served as associate White House counsel to President Barack Obama. Ian,
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  Speaker 2: I start with you.
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  Speaker 3: This is....
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  Speaker 2: One of those stories that we cover as unlikely because
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  Speaker 2: it's both unconstitutional and illegal, but because the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 2: has done so much of Trump's bidding, we do sort
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  Speaker 2: of have this white knuckle approach, or at least I do,
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  Speaker 2: in the same way we did with birthright citizenship, which
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  Speaker 2: was equally unconstitutional and unlawful. What are you watching and
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  Speaker 2: girding for?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think the first thing is the tell on
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  Speaker 3: all of this. As you said, Nicole, when we started,
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  Speaker 3: we're 60 days out from the midterm elections. And you
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  Speaker 3: know what Donald Trump is not talking about? Why voters
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  Speaker 3: should vote for him and his party. What he is
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  Speaker 3: talking about is how he wants to stop people from
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  Speaker 3: being able to vote. And there is kind of the
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  Speaker 3: bottom line summary of what's going on, which is this
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  Speaker 3: is an act of desperation and weakness. Although, obviously, as
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  Speaker 3: you note, it's a dangerous one. But the reason that
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  Speaker 3: they're going to the Supreme Court, and I would note
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  Speaker 3: that they went to the Supreme Court, as you said,
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  Speaker 3: just the other day, before the case that they're asking
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  Speaker 3: the Supreme Court to weigh in on had even been
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  Speaker 3: resolved at the district court level, let alone the circuit
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  Speaker 3: court level. That's another act of desperation. They know they're
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  Speaker 3: losing these cases in the lower courts. They have a
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  Speaker 3: terrible track record. And while the Supreme Court has, as
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  Speaker 3: you note, given Trump way too much ground to cover
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  Speaker 3: and run in in all of his attacks on our democracy,
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  Speaker 3: they haven't quite given him the control over the elections
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  Speaker 3: that he wants, nor has his party in the United
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  Speaker 3: States Senate. So I think he's going to lose these
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  Speaker 3: cases in court. And regardless, what we all need to
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  Speaker 3: know as voters is when someone attacks our right to vote,
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  Speaker 3: Our response is to go out and exercise it, to
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  Speaker 3: exercise it early, to vote early if we're voting by mail,
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  Speaker 3: or to vote in person, but to not let this
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  Speaker 3: intimidate us.
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  Speaker 2: It also feels like there's this thing in that polls
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  Speaker 2: can't pick up. And anyone that works on campaigns, if
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  Speaker 2: you're winning in the polls, you know not to trust
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  Speaker 2: them completely. If you're losing the polls, you maybe overweigh
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  Speaker 2: this thing that doesn't show up in the polls. You say,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we're only losing by less or maybe we're actually winning.
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  Speaker 2: But there is a piece that's unprecedented. And so there
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  Speaker 2: isn't a model for the actual right to vote being
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  Speaker 2: taken away. And when we covered the turnout model in Hungary,
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  Speaker 2: when Viktor Orban is kicked out, it wasn't predicted that
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  Speaker 2: that would be the outcome. I wonder how much just
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  Speaker 2: in terms of your understanding of authoritarian attempts and populations
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  Speaker 2: efforts to reach back for the steering wheel. I wonder
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  Speaker 2: how much you feel is out there that we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to pick up or know about until election night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, I do think that every time
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump does something to attack people's right to vote,
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  Speaker 3: to attack our democracy, our constitutional norms, it does have
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  Speaker 3: a political consequence and a backlash against him. We've seen
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  Speaker 3: that repeatedly. We've seen attacks on the right to vote
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  Speaker 3: in Georgia in recent years, particularly on communities of color
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  Speaker 3: and black voters in Georgia that resulted in a surge
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  Speaker 3: in in voting from those communities, because people don't like
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  Speaker 3: having their rights taken away. And I think there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of irony in what Donald Trump is doing here.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the polling does suggest that the voters who
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  Speaker 3: are more energized to vote are those who oppose Trump's policies.
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  Speaker 3: And the ones who are less energized, the ones who
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  Speaker 3: are sort of more low propensity voters that tend to
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  Speaker 3: come out when Donald Trump is on the ballot, are
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  Speaker 3: those who the Republicans, frankly, need if they hope to
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  Speaker 3: salvage what is looking like a bloodbath in the midterms.
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  Speaker 3: And the irony here is if you make it harder
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  Speaker 3: for people to vote, if you make it harder for
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  Speaker 3: people to vote by mail and otherwise, the people who
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  Speaker 3: are going to actually crawl over broken glass to vote
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  Speaker 3: are the ones who are more energized and the ones
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  Speaker 3: who might give up are the ones Trump most needs.
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  Speaker 3: So I think the thing we might discover on election
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  Speaker 3: night is that all of Trump's machinations actually came back
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  Speaker 3: to kind of bite him in the.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, the history of disenfranchising voters and suppressing
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  Speaker 2: the vote and then this this gray area where they
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  Speaker 2: like to flex the most, just making it more difficult,
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  Speaker 2: getting rid of drop boxes, getting rid of the right
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  Speaker 2: to hand out water in line. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 2: a story as old as time in certain parts of
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  Speaker 2: our country. I wonder what you make of the preparations
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  Speaker 2: to not just resist that, but overcome it with turnout.
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  Speaker 1: I believe there will be huge turnouts. I think that
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  Speaker 1: the fact that Donald Trump's election strategy Is to stop
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  Speaker 1: people from voting.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's it. That's the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Just just stop. I'm not even going to try to win.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, my big candidate in Texas, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about how he can't even dress. I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to sell these guys. My strategy is to stop people
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  Speaker 1: from voting, which makes people vote. My second point is
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  Speaker 1: they have he's not given his people. or the American
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  Speaker 1: public in general, a motivation to vote. They were voting
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  Speaker 1: last time, though I may have disagreed with them, because
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  Speaker 1: they felt that Biden and Harris had not delivered. They
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  Speaker 1: felt they were being excluded. They felt a certain kind
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  Speaker 1: of way that he sold them about the 2020 election,
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  Speaker 1: on and on and on, too much diversity. He's not
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  Speaker 1: even giving them a reason to vote. In fact, he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have one because their gas has gone up, the
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  Speaker 1: inflation is choking them, and you have his people that
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  Speaker 1: have voted for him saying openly, I don't think I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting what I want. And he's in a war that
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  Speaker 1: no one sees how we're getting out of it. And
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  Speaker 1: he's going to have a midweek convention that even Republicans
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  Speaker 1: are openly saying, I'm busy, I can't come. So I
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  Speaker 1: really think For someone who has fought him for years,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really saying he's not even on his game because
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  Speaker 1: he usually by now would have a theme and a
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  Speaker 1: rallying cry. And now you're left with him just saying
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  Speaker 1: we're going to stop and shrink the voters on the
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  Speaker 1: other side by having the Supreme Court give us some rulings.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll send J.D. Vance out there to act like
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  Speaker 1: he really knows what he's talking about.