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"What $70 million Buys These Days" (Wednesday, April 22, 2026, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 2: Coming to you on location live from the Virginia Capital
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  Speaker 2: this morning, as sunrises over the only city in the
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  Speaker 2: eight eight two four to two one seven. That is
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  Speaker 2: Radio at gmail dot com. So much going on here.
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  Speaker 2: It is in the Virginia governance when they are part
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  Speaker 2: time legislator. Legislators come back together to discuss vetos that
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  Speaker 2: the governor has put together. So they're all here. Ran
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  Speaker 2: into the Speaker of the House, Don Scott, the top
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  Speaker 2: Democrat not named Abigail yesterday had never met him. Chatted
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  Speaker 2: in the parking lot a little bit as we were
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  Speaker 2: coming in to get set up last night, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: glowing a little bit over the victory, but even he
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  Speaker 2: saw the chinks in the armor, as it were. And
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  Speaker 2: we're going to get into the victory if you will. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: a win is a win. Fifty one point five percent
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  Speaker 2: is more than forty nine point five percent, and that
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  Speaker 2: was the result in Virginia's redistricting referendum election yesterday, nearly
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  Speaker 2: as many votes cast as there were last November in
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  Speaker 2: the gubernatorial race. I will get into voter turnout as
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  Speaker 2: a little over fifty percent of all the Virginia registered voters,
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  Speaker 2: Which leaves the question, what aren't you hearing If all
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  Speaker 2: these folks come out and they voted for yes, encouraged
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  Speaker 2: by Barack Obama and Eric Holder and folks like that,
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  Speaker 2: what is it the conservatives didn't hear or are conservatives
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  Speaker 2: still of the mind that this is just a oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's just democrats. One Sometimes sometimes democrats win, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's just the way things go. And they don't understand
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  Speaker 2: the Marxist undertones of what's going on, and that today's
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  Speaker 2: left is not the same as yesterday's left. But we
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  Speaker 2: must get into the first things, and yes, that is
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  Speaker 2: part of the news dock at the election in Virginia
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  Speaker 2: yesterday fifty one point five to forty eight point five
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  Speaker 2: in favor of allowing the Democrats and the Virginia General
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  Speaker 2: Assembly to suspend its constitution so it can redraw the districts. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: in Florida, Congressoman Sheila Scherfillis McCormick has resigned, effective immediately.
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  Speaker 2: The resignation came right as the Ethics Committee was about
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  Speaker 2: to debate sanctioning her for violating more than two dozen
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  Speaker 2: House rules and ethical standards over stealing. Yes, there are
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  Speaker 2: standards against stealing in the US House of Representatives. Who
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  Speaker 2: Trump said Tuesday the States had indefinitely extended its ceasefire
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  Speaker 2: with Iran the day before it was supposed to expire.
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  Speaker 2: Iran's semi official Tasnim news agency on Wednesday rejected claims
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  Speaker 2: attributed to the president that Tehran had sought the extension
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  Speaker 2: to this ceasefire. A second ship came under attack Wednesday
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  Speaker 2: in the Strait of Horror moves. The British military said yes,
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  Speaker 2: they're they are now. Just a short time after Iran's
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  Speaker 2: Military United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center did not identify
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  Speaker 2: who shot at the second ship, as suspicion it is Iran.
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  Speaker 2: The Justice Department has withdrawn subpoenas issued into the investigation
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  Speaker 2: of former CIA director John Brennan, officials asking for voluntary
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  Speaker 2: interviews instead of testimony before a grand jury. US Treasury
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  Speaker 2: Department is escalating sanctions against Iran, calling it Project Economic
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  Speaker 2: Fury as they try to push economic pressure on a
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  Speaker 2: state that was already seeing protests in the street over
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  Speaker 1: From Joe Thomas, It's first thing today.
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  Speaker 2: Rules thank you for joining us on this tenn STY morning.
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  Speaker 12: Em over today.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a I don't know if you qualify
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  Speaker 2: this as a political discussion or an economic one. Really
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  Speaker 2: it should be something we should have Scott Bessen involved
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  Speaker 2: in the Treasury Secretary because you know, seventy million dollars
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  Speaker 2: doesn't buy as much as it used to, at least
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  Speaker 2: not in the political marketplace. And I say this completely
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  Speaker 2: acknowledging the realities of the fifty one point five percent
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  Speaker 2: to forty eight point five percent margin in the redistricting referendum.
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  Speaker 2: I will, as my column at Daily Signal dot com
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  Speaker 2: points out, that was purchased with seventy million dollars ninety
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  Speaker 2: seven percent of which and no, I don't. Okay, fine, yo,
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  Speaker 2: everyone's got a fact checker these days. Uh at four
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  Speaker 2: thirty four eight eight two four to two one seven.
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  Speaker 2: So out of seventy million dollars, that's sixty seven point
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  Speaker 2: nine million dollars of it came from outside of Virginia. Happy,
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  Speaker 2: now you've had the exact figure. So sixty seven point
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  Speaker 2: nine percent or sixty seven point nine million dollars of
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  Speaker 2: the seventy million dollars expended on advertising and mailers and
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  Speaker 2: volunteers going door to door. Yes, they pay volunteers. I
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  Speaker 2: know the word doesn't then apply, but they like to
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  Speaker 2: use it because it makes you feel warm and comfortable.
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  Speaker 2: They have volunteers, they must be worthy, even though they
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  Speaker 2: call them volunteers, and then send them a stipend every
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  Speaker 2: day to pay for meals and lodging and travel expenses
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  Speaker 2: and things like that. That's what we used to refer
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  Speaker 2: to back in the old days as an employee, but
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  Speaker 2: volunteer sounds much better on a political landscape. So seventy
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  Speaker 2: million doesn't get you much more on the street today.
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  Speaker 2: Because only five years ago, sixty five percent of Virginians
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  Speaker 2: voted overwhelmingly to take redistricting out of the hands of
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  Speaker 2: the politicians. So what changed. Well in twenty twenty when
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  Speaker 2: they voted to take redistricting out of the hands of politicians,
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump wasn't president. Donald Trump had been vanquished, all
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  Speaker 2: the mystery votes when the lights went out in Georgia
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  Speaker 2: had successfully ousted, and we were in the midst of
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  Speaker 2: arresting up all the folks January sixth, and my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: just the horrors. We don't want people like that having
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  Speaker 2: anything to do with our voting. Then Donald Trump came back,
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  Speaker 2: and don't think two years worth of gas lighting for
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  Speaker 2: free through the media, and there could should be some
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  Speaker 2: accounting on how much free airtime the gas lighting of
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  Speaker 2: America has earned. This campaign to marginalize and eliminate Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Why they've even established beachheads at Tucker Carlson and Candice Owens.
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  Speaker 2: People who feel like Donald Trump has abandoned the things
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  Speaker 2: they wanted. Tucker Carlson is out there doing his mia
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  Speaker 2: culpas to his brother. I'm not sure how all that
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  Speaker 2: works either, but again, I just do media. I'm not media.
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  Speaker 2: So Tucker Carlson says he's sorry for implicitly endorsing Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump for president, but his brother, being the seasoned salty
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  Speaker 2: journalist he is, didn't press him as to what exactly
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  Speaker 2: it was that Tucker Carlson was sorry about. Mostly it's
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  Speaker 2: seems to help Israel must therefore be bad. That's the
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  Speaker 2: world of ones in the You live in this industry
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  Speaker 2: too long, and you don't ever eat at McDonald's, only
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  Speaker 2: eat at Burger King. Why because Burger King paid me
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  Speaker 2: to say that we live in a Petrie dish. That
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  Speaker 2: you can't acknowledge other people other than the people who
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  Speaker 2: have paid your bills, Which is a reasonable thing to
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  Speaker 2: ask somebody to say, Hey, I've paid you money for
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  Speaker 2: this time slot. This is why I don't sell time slots.
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  Speaker 2: dot com and ask him how gold and silver is.
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  Speaker 2: I won't deny that there are other people out there
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  Speaker 2: trying to sell you gold. I'm just going to tell
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  Speaker 12: Vaccine is bad. You can't have it.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be ousted because even suggesting such a
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  Speaker 2: thing might cut into our sponsorship of this segment. Bought
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  Speaker 2: and paid for seventy million dollars doesn't buy you as much.
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  Speaker 2: That buys you about a million votes, but a lot
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  Speaker 2: of those votes were bought for free. This was earned
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  Speaker 2: time and a year and a half. It's worth of
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  Speaker 2: gas lighting over Donald Trump because again, Virginia turned out
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  Speaker 2: about fifty three percent voter turnout overall. And if you
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  Speaker 2: look at the map again, the map is exactly what
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  Speaker 2: you would expect this kind of thing to look like,
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  Speaker 2: because there's the four or five counties around Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 2: Voting in favor of the district and around the University
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  Speaker 2: of Virginia and the capital city of Richmond, and then
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  Speaker 2: everyone else in the state voting against it. So, no,
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  Speaker 2: seventy million dollars doesn't buy you as much as it
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  Speaker 2: used to. It gets you a percentage point or two victory.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to see what that turns out being
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  Speaker 2: when the Virginia Supreme Court convenes. My fear is that
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  Speaker 2: the Virginia Supreme Court will say, well, who are we
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  Speaker 2: to intercede in? The voters will and they're going to
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  Speaker 2: abandon the fact that tangible laws were broken in As
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  Speaker 2: a matter of fact, I had one shown to be
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  Speaker 2: by House Minority Leader Terry Kilgore yesterday that I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: even aware of. Within the procedures, more laws were broken,
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  Speaker 2: even than the ones that I chronicle in my Daily
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  Speaker 2: Signal column at Daily Signal dot com. We're coming up
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  Speaker 2: on the news, but I know we have folks on
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  Speaker 2: the line at four three four eight eight two four
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  Speaker 2: to two one seven, So sit tight, or stand tight,
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  Speaker 2: or do something tightly, and we'll come right to you
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  Speaker 2: after we get out. And we discussed the news of
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  Speaker 2: the day. Ceasefires extended in Iran. Economic fury has now
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  Speaker 2: been brought down on a country whose reale was valued
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  Speaker 2: at one point four million US dollars, So we'll see
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  Speaker 2: what that impact is.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I believe what you're saying that advertising makes a difference,
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  Speaker 1: that's book first thing today by Joe Thomas on the
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  Speaker 1: Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: This Tedsday Morning. What happened to and it really is
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  Speaker 2: it should be like a Molder and Scully thing, the
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  Speaker 2: case of the one point three million missing Virginians. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: how do you make one point? And this text message
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  Speaker 2: on the subject from Jerry says, Joe, of course those
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  Speaker 2: are the Virginians that only vote in presidential elections. Every
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  Speaker 2: state has them. These are the folks who want an
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  Speaker 2: elected king because it gives them that kind of feeling
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  Speaker 2: that they can line up and yell freedom. And he
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  Speaker 2: said his email us a little graphic of mel Gibson
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  Speaker 2: there with the blue face paint on.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know it.
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  Speaker 2: It is really a conundrum to me, because I think
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  Speaker 2: that it's clear enough. And interestingly, the Virginians that and
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  Speaker 2: I think in every state Californians do the same thing,
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  Speaker 2: that only vote in presidential elections break more frequently than
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  Speaker 2: not conservative. And it's very interesting to me because gun
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  Speaker 2: owners also there's a huge portion of gun owners, hunters
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  Speaker 2: especially that are not even registered to vote, never mind
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  Speaker 2: missing you know when the votes are getting cast. And
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of it is a trust issue.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of it is I don't believe in these locals.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of it is they believe that after one
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  Speaker 2: hundred years of being told the federal government uber alas,
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  Speaker 2: they're like, fine, I'm just going to vote for the
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  Speaker 2: president and the rest of them can go jump in
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  Speaker 2: the Potomac. But what you see is party over policy.
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  Speaker 2: And I mentioned at the onset of the program I
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  Speaker 2: got to run in as we are coming to you
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  Speaker 2: on location this morning from the Virginia General Assembly. They're
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  Speaker 2: getting back together today to discuss gubernatorial vetos plus great
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  Speaker 2: pro life march. You've seen the March for Life in Washington,
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  Speaker 2: d C. Virginia's March for Life is today here at
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  Speaker 2: the Virginia Capitol. So important stuff going on beyond the
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  Speaker 2: redistricting vote, though certainly wired into it. The issue with
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  Speaker 2: thinking that just get me the president and that's good enough,
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  Speaker 2: is how we wind up in these wild shifts, and
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  Speaker 2: we wind up with partisan gridlock. And part of the
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  Speaker 2: partisan gridlock is the nineteen twenty nine Act for Permanent Reapportionment,
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  Speaker 2: because it is of all the things that have given
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  Speaker 2: the Republican and Democratic parties this notion in their head
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  Speaker 2: that they are the fourth and fifth branches of the
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  Speaker 2: US government. Of course, unspoken fourth and fifth is that
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  Speaker 2: there are so few congressional districts with so many people
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  Speaker 2: in it that in order to successfully mount a campaign,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to need the resources that a political party has,
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  Speaker 2: especially given that you have automatic ballot placement in most places.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a Republican nominee. And because most people are really,
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  Speaker 2: really busy and are trying to get on with a
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  Speaker 2: day where they have to fix somebody's who's it or
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  Speaker 2: replace somebody's what do you might call it, they don't
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  Speaker 2: get into the minutia. So when they the president says
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to appoint pro life judges or I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to defend your Second Amendment rights, You're like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: that's the guy, and you forget that most of that
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  Speaker 2: happens in Congress, and some of the issues President Trump
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  Speaker 2: has had getting the Republican majority in Congress to do
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  Speaker 2: anything should be indicative of that. So that is part
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  Speaker 2: of why we get where we are. Congress has done
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  Speaker 2: such a bad job of marketing itself. Most people look
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  Speaker 2: at Congress as an impediment to American life rather than
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  Speaker 2: the agent that defends the very things that we are
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be defending. And remember George Mason himself, one
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  Speaker 2: of the founders, the author of the Bill of Rights,
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  Speaker 2: the one thing that still exists from our foundational documents
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  Speaker 2: that still time after time, Republican or Democrat leaning court
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  Speaker 2: will win the day because shall not be infringed. As
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  Speaker 2: a pretty straightforward point when He crafted the Bill of
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  Speaker 2: Rights under the auspices of we need to defend ourselves
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  Speaker 2: against an out of control centralized government. He said, the
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  Speaker 2: most important thing is small congressional districts. The House of
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  Speaker 2: Representatives is going to represent the citizens, and therefore we
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  Speaker 2: need to have those districts small with us. This I
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  Speaker 2: think maximum was fifty thousand people, roughly the amount of
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta Braves fans that filled Nationals Park the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of days in each congressional district. Sorry too soon, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: the Nationals you know, I think pushed back on the
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  Speaker 2: playground bully yesterday pretty badly. But I'm just saying, if
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  Speaker 2: we had smaller congressional districts, we would have more faith
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  Speaker 2: in Congress. And I say that knowing that more congress
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  Speaker 2: people means more chances for them to run astray, but
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  Speaker 2: not as many because they're closer to you. You hold
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  Speaker 2: them closer. A fifty thousand person district or even a
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  Speaker 2: two hundred thousand person district, it's much easier to lose it.
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  Speaker 2: It's much easier to face a challenger. It's much easier
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  Speaker 2: to have the population be fifty to fifty. Then it
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  Speaker 2: is this jerrymandering nonsense that we've started down the path of.
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  Speaker 2: But these Congress people that are eight hundred thousand people
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  Speaker 2: removed from you are the reason these districts leave us thinking,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the only person we can you know, feeling
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  Speaker 2: any confident in is our guy getting into the presidency.
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  Speaker 2: And if we don't like our guy, he's going to lose.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, Jerry, I see your point that the one
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  Speaker 2: point three missing Virginians are the ones who, you know,
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  Speaker 2: think the president can do everything. But this was very
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  Speaker 2: clearly about the president. And that's why I still scratch
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  Speaker 2: my head saying what was it or have they been
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  Speaker 2: so sufficiently gas lit.
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  Speaker 1: Over the idea?
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  Speaker 2: And Virginia is particularly vulnerable to this be given the
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  Speaker 2: three hundred thousand federal workers that we have. That Donald
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