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Exasperated voters bash Trump who claims they arent mad at him · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: There are now just eighty eight days until election day,
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  Speaker 1: and things keep looking worse and worse for Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: and his Republican Party, and Republicans, well, at least some
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  Speaker 1: of them, they seem to know they're in trouble. The
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  Speaker 1: Hill reports Fox Business host Larry Cudlow, who served as
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  Speaker 1: National Economic Council Director during President Trump's first term, scolded
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  Speaker 1: Senator Tommy Tumberville during an interview Wednesday about the lack
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  Speaker 1: of big Republican accomplishments this year. Quote, the Republicans are
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  Speaker 1: doing nothing. I mean, you got stuff out there. The
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  Speaker 1: polls are lousy, Cudlow declared at the start of the interview.
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  Speaker 2: Damn, but yes, the polls are lousy.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a Republican, you might have already heard some
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  Speaker 1: of these numbers this week, but they bear repeating.
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  Speaker 2: For the first time in a decade, a new.
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  Speaker 1: Roarters poll finds that voters prefer Democrats over Republicans when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to economic issues, and a new Association to
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  Speaker 1: Press poll finds sixty nine percent say the state of
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  Speaker 1: the economy is poor. That's seven out of every ten people.
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  Speaker 1: And Donald Trump's approval rating and poll after poll is
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  Speaker 1: either at or near an all time low for.
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  Speaker 2: His political career.
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  Speaker 1: The one Republican who still seems very much in denial
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  Speaker 1: about the uphill battle Republicans are facing this fall is
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: He's been saying the polls are fake.
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  Speaker 1: Today, in a new interview with punch Bowl News, he
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  Speaker 1: tried out a new line when trying to explain why
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  Speaker 1: voters might reject Republicans in the November midterms.
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  Speaker 3: The question is will they vote because a lot of
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  Speaker 3: them are very angry and Republicans.
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  Speaker 4: To be honest with you, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're angry Republicans, but.
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  Speaker 3: They're not that interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Why they're not angry at me? But they are angry
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  Speaker 2: at republic what me? No, they're not angry at me.
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  Speaker 2: They're just angry at the people doing exactly what I
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  Speaker 2: tell them to do. But they're not angry at me. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: yes they are.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump is living in a fantasy world of his
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  Speaker 1: own making. Because Americans have had it. They've had it
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  Speaker 1: with Donald Trump's war of choice in Iran. They've had
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  Speaker 1: it with gas prices, with inflation and the high cost
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  Speaker 1: of everything. The polls tell us that also Trump voters
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  Speaker 1: are telling us that directly all this week MS Now's
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  Speaker 1: Alex Tabit has been talking to Trump voters, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: let you decide if these people sound happy with their president.
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  Speaker 5: What does it feel like to live with that economic pressure? Stressful,
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  Speaker 5: very stressful because you never know, you know, I can
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  Speaker 5: get laid off tomorrow, then I'm pretty much homeless because
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  Speaker 5: you know, you can't save now. Every dollar you have
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  Speaker 5: has to go to gas, groceries, bills, rent, So there's
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  Speaker 5: no cushion for you to save now like you had
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  Speaker 5: back in the day, where could put money aside and say, okay,
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  Speaker 5: I got money for you know, Okay, something happens now
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  Speaker 5: it's like paycheck to paycheck. You know, I'm getting paid Friday,
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  Speaker 5: and Thursday I'll be broke. I'll be down to ten
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  Speaker 5: dollars maybe fifteen.
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  Speaker 6: Is this how you expected the second Trump term to go?
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  Speaker 7: Nope, not at all. I hoped it was going to
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  Speaker 7: be so much better.
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  Speaker 3: What were you expecting?
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  Speaker 2: Instead?
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  Speaker 7: I was hoping that gas was going to go down
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  Speaker 7: so I could do something. You know, you can't do
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  Speaker 7: anything with gas prices, and you just can't. You can't
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  Speaker 7: afford to breathe at this point. What does it feel
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  Speaker 7: like to be living in these conditions right now, in
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  Speaker 7: these economic conditions right now, hurt, very hurt. I try
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  Speaker 7: you do, Sorry, I cried. I try to do a
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  Speaker 7: lot for my kids, and I can't do much.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump promised knowing new foreign wars.
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  Speaker 7: He promised lower gas prices, He promised to lower food prices.
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  Speaker 4: How do you feel about those campaign promises right now?
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  Speaker 8: He needs to get on them and get it done,
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  Speaker 8: to start thinking of the little people instead of the
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  Speaker 8: rich people.
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  Speaker 3: Are you disappointed in him a little bit right now?
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  Speaker 8: I am? I am, because their campaign promises, that's what
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  Speaker 8: they need to be keeping, and they're not.
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  Speaker 2: What do you make of all these prices right now?
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  Speaker 9: I think that we need to end the war with
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  Speaker 9: our brand and get these grasp prices and all the
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  Speaker 9: stuff that we have to go by them reasonable. I
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  Speaker 9: think everything is kind of all of hand now. I
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  Speaker 9: like Trump, but I wish you quit changing his mind
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  Speaker 9: every other day.
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  Speaker 2: Voters are angry and Democrats know it.
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  Speaker 1: Last night on this program, my colleague Eugene Daniels laid
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  Speaker 1: out some key races the Democrats have turned into true
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  Speaker 1: battleground contests.
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  Speaker 2: In Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Keisha Lance Bottoms has a real shot at retaking that
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  Speaker 1: state's governor's mansion for Democrats for the first time in
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  Speaker 1: more than twenty years, and Georgia Senator John Ossoff is
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  Speaker 1: winning Republicans' support in his fight to keep that critical
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  Speaker 1: US Senate seat. Also helping Democrats in their fight to
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  Speaker 1: retake the United States Senate is Iowa's Josh Turik, who
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  Speaker 1: is statistically tied inside the margin of era in the
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  Speaker 1: latest polling for the US Senate seat now open with.
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  Speaker 2: Republican Senator Joni Ernst.
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  Speaker 1: Retiring a Democratic Senator from Iowa is something no Republican
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  Speaker 1: seriously considered possible when Donald Trump retook the White House
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  Speaker 1: less than two years ago, and yet here we are,
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  Speaker 1: in fact today, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the party's
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  Speaker 1: only committees solely dedicated to electing a Democratic Senate, celebrated
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  Speaker 1: the gains their Senate candidates are making. The organization put
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  Speaker 1: out a press release state in quote. With less than
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  Speaker 1: ninety days to go until the midterm elections, Republicans are
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  Speaker 1: losing ground across the country as Democrats continue to go
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  Speaker 1: on offense in key Senate battleground states, building momentum heading
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  Speaker 1: toward November. Yesterday, analysts that inside elections shifted the Senate
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  Speaker 1: contests in Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, and Texas toward Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: delivering a brutal snapshot of a GOP Senate map collapsing
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  Speaker 1: in the final stretch. And in Michigan tonight, after a
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  Speaker 1: tough primary this week, Democrats showed they remained united rather
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  Speaker 1: than divided at a unity event.
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  Speaker 10: In the spirit of unity, in the spirit of the work,
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  Speaker 10: in the spirit of coming together. I think both of
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  Speaker 10: my colleagues who ran, Haley Stevens and Mallory McMorrow for
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  Speaker 10: an incredible race.
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  Speaker 2: They're incredible public.
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  Speaker 6: Service to the state of Michigan, and I cannot wait
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  Speaker 6: to see what both of them will do next. We
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  Speaker 6: are so blessed to have that caliber a public servant
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  Speaker 6: here in Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: But it isn't just the battleground states where Democrats are
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  Speaker 1: putting up good candidates and forcing Republicans to answer for
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  Speaker 1: them mess their party and its leader in the White
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  Speaker 1: House have created. There are candidates out there doing the work,
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  Speaker 1: knocking on doors, making their case and trying to create
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  Speaker 1: the next political upset. Because you can't pull off a
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  Speaker 1: surprize win if you don't run take Tennessee, not a
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  Speaker 1: state exactly known for sending a lot of Democrats to
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  Speaker 1: Congress these days. That's especially true after Republicans there yet
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  Speaker 1: again Jerry mannered the state's election map this year, trying
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  Speaker 1: to erase deemocratic House seat they can, And something surprising
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  Speaker 1: happened last night. In Tennessee's newly redrawn fifth Congressional district,
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  Speaker 1: Republican Congressman Andy Ogles, who was running for reelection with
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's endorsement, became one of the few incumbents in
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee history to ever be defeated in a primary. So now,
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  Speaker 1: without an incumbent on the ticket, could a Democrat flip
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  Speaker 1: that seat? Leading off our discussion tonight, is the Democrat
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  Speaker 1: looking to do exactly that Columbia Tennessee Mayor Chaz Molder.
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  Speaker 1: He is now the Democratic nominee for Tennessee's fifth congressional district.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Merrin, thank you for coming to the last word.
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  Speaker 1: Let's look at this.
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  Speaker 2: New Jerry manderd map. It's a strange shape.
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  Speaker 1: It includes a sliver of Tennessee's entire western border, including
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  Speaker 1: part of Memphis, which Republicans sliced into three districts.
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  Speaker 2: It then curves up.
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  Speaker 1: In east before going south to include suburbs south of Nashville,
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  Speaker 1: including Columbia where you're now there. That's part for all
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  Speaker 1: of seventeen counties and a lot of different kinds of voters.
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  Speaker 1: Mister mayor, what's your main message to them and what
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  Speaker 1: are the top issues in this campaign?
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  Speaker 4: Well, Jonathan, it's great to be with you, and you
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  Speaker 4: know you mentioned the jerry mandering, and actually I would
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  Speaker 4: call it a dummy mandering. What the legislature did by
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  Speaker 4: changing the maps after the deadlines had already passed, is
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  Speaker 4: created district that was really well suited for a guy
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  Speaker 4: like me. I'm the mayor of my hometown and Columbia,
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  Speaker 4: as you mentioned, But you can go to West Tennessee,
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  Speaker 4: rural West Tennessee, where my wife's family is from and
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  Speaker 4: we've been married for twenty years now, and you go
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  Speaker 4: down to Memphis, which was really the direct target of
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  Speaker 4: this jerry mandering.
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  Speaker 3: Memphis is a community that I know.
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  Speaker 4: I lived in Memphis while in law school, and so
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  Speaker 4: in a lot of ways, this district was created for
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  Speaker 4: a god just like me.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's chosen candidate in this campaign, Commerceman Andy Ogles lost
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  Speaker 1: a primary to the man who is now your opponent,
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Hatcher, the state's former Agriculture commission commissioner and a
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  Speaker 1: dairy farmer. Hatcher made a point to say he supports
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump despite not getting his endorsement. How much of
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  Speaker 1: a factor is Donald Trump going to be in this campaign?
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  Speaker 4: Well, the realities is Andy Ogles was defeated last night
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  Speaker 4: because voters wanted something different. Andy Ogle's policies were on
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  Speaker 4: the ballot last night, the policies that he supported, and
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  Speaker 4: he was defeated. The reality also is is my opponent
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  Speaker 4: supports those same policies that Andy Ogle's supported, and that
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  Speaker 4: includes policies that are driving costs. It's heartbreaking to hear
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  Speaker 4: the stories, the stories that you featured earlier tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I'm seeing and hearing those on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 4: Janthan, we set off on a seventeen county tour today
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  Speaker 4: on the hills of last night's primary win, and we're
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  Speaker 4: hearing those stories daily. But just spoke with a farmer
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  Speaker 4: here in Dresden, Tennessee, where I am tonight, where we
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  Speaker 4: ended our day, who is struggling and who said to
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  Speaker 4: me that he doesn't want a government handout, He just
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  Speaker 4: wants to be a to charge reasonable and fair prices
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  Speaker 4: to the consumer.
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  Speaker 3: So we're hearing that daily.
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  Speaker 4: We know people are hurting, and our messages is we're
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  Speaker 4: here to help and be an adult in the room
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  Speaker 4: on important conversations as a mayor of how a front
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  Speaker 4: row seat to the issues that matter, and those are
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  Speaker 4: the issues is. We're sitting around the kitchen table tonight
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  Speaker 4: and we're talking about kitchen table issues and that's really
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  Speaker 4: resonating with the voters out in this newly jerrymandered fifth
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  Speaker 4: congressional district.