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Two Examples of Leadership · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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All right. I want to talk about a heroic moment. I don't
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know a lot about this particular person other than what I saw happen at one
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particular moment, and I think this says a lot about this person, what
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she did in this moment. I don't know a whole lot about her other
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than that. Okay, so I'm gonna be very careful about how far we
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go with heaping the praise on other than to say good for her and what
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she did in a very important moment, and it was a sign of real
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leadership. It was a sign of something that we need to see more of
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in our country because quite frankly, we are lacking it right now. And
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real leadership is these kinds of moments when someone gets an opportunity to step up.
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And I think both people involved in this were showing some leadership. So
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let's talk first of all about the govern own of Florida, Rhonda Santis,
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who I think had a slight bump in the polls after the debate. Former
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President Trump had a little bit of a drop. However, the mug shot,
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and we talked about the mug shot a little bit yesterday, but the
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mug shot had a bit of a backfire effect as we predicted. As we
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said yesterday that we really felt like most conservatives, or at least most conservatives
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and Republicans that support Trump, were excited about the mug shot. That the
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mug shot was not going to have a negative impact. It was going to
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have a positive impact, which is not what Democrats were hoping for. And
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the first sign of positive impact is that the former president raised like seven million
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dollars right after the mug shot came out. So that's your first indicator that
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that was not a good idea. Whether or not going to these trials in
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counties, in cities where in circumstances I guess where Democrats feel like they have
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control of what's going on. Then you know whether or not that could actually
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turn into some guilty verdicts and things remains to be seen. But as for
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now, we know that basically they have set at least one trial date.
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Now it's right in the middle of just before Super Tuesday. Intentionally, I'm
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sure it's the Monday before. We'll see if that has an impact on things.
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But let's address the person who's in second place right now, Ron de
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Santis, who did have a slight bump. Trump dropped a few points,
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I think largely because he wasn't there at the debate, but he still has
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such a big lead two points that Ron de Santis one to make up for
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it. I don't know that that's going to make a big difference. And
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I don't know where the points came from. I don't know if they came
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from Trump. I don't know if they came from vivicram Swammy, who he
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himself was strangely enough, and I wouldn't have thought that he would have lost
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points, but he lost a few points based on this particular poll. And
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who knows. We don't know what polls mean. We really don't know what
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polls mean. When they call my house and I'm in the mood just to
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mess with them, I just say, whatever, you know, I'm a
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twenty eight year old black female and I'm voting for Trump or what you know,
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whatever. I could just feel like saying it throws all those stats way
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out of wag And I highly encourage that, because quite frankly, the polls
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haven't been right anyway, and if people aren't going to be sincere and genuine
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with their responses with the polls, we should just all create anarchy with it.
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That's what I think. But anyway, it's already confusing enough, it
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really is. And then you get the day of the elections, and then
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you got people in Fulton County in certain places around the country that you know,
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just basically just sit there and wait until all of the votes are turned
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in, all everybody's reporting, and then they turn in their results, and
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it just always is one of those huh, what are we doing in Fulton
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County? Anyway? Oh? I know what we're doing Fulton County. They're
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prosecuting the former president, something that's never happened before until this president a mug
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shot of a former president, Something's never happened before. But I digress back
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to the guy in second place, Ronda Santis, who has suspended his campaign
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because a we got this hurricane situation, We've got a state of emergency for
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the state of Florida and showing what leadership looks like in a state of emergency
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for a state for which he is responsible. So suspends his campaign, comes
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off the campaign trail, and goes and does what he has done successfully and
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very well during his time as governor, and that's help out people when they
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are in need. There is something else that he had to address, unfortunately
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for everybody involved, and that is this race based shooting that happened over the
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over the weekend. And what happened, and this was Jacksonville. So the
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governor went to Jacksonville and he wanted to speak. This was a vigil that
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was being held about a block from the Dollar General store where the shooting happened.
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And this was on Sunday, and he had folks that brought him in.
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He was going to speak. He stood up to speak, he took
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the microphone, he was introduced, and he got out, we're not going
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to allow these institutions to be targeted by people. And then the jeers got
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started while he was speaking. He was booed as soon as he was announced.
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And then something really magical happened, something that we haven't really seen this
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kind of thing in a while, not that I'm I can think of.
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Jacksonville City council Woman Jacoby Pittman, who is a Democrat, jumped up,
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got a microphone from the podium and started to address the hecklers, and they
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said, She said, they need to put parties aside. She said,
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because it ain't about parties today. A bullet don't know a party, So
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don't get me started. She said. Now, if the governor wanted to
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come here and he's bringing gifts to my community, y'all know I'm taking the
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gifts because we've been through enough already and I don't want to go through no
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more. Now, y'all just be quiet just a minute and let the governor
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say what he's gonna say, and we're gonna get this party started. You
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hear me, Okay, let's do it. The crowd stopped jeering at least
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right away, and then some clapped for this moment of showing leadership. These
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are two people on opposite sides. You have a Republican governor who's a candidate
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for president. You have a Democrat city councilwoman who quickly told this crowd,
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no, we're not doing this today. We're not gonna jeer him, we're
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not gonna boo him, we're not gonna yell out things him. This is
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not what we're not heckling the governor of our state who has come here to
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support this community. That's not what we're going to do now. I do
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think this might have gone a little differently had this been a less grassroots gathering
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of people, because these were people who live there. These were people that
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were from that community, and they certainly have a right to express themselves.
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They have a right to be heard. But we go through this thing where
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when someone is invited to speak and they try to speak, and they they're
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jeered and told that they don't get a chance to speak. Now, some
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of the things that we're yelled, Hey, it's your policies that cause this
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to happen. I don't know specifically which policies anybody's referring to. I think
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there's a lot of confusion about the way government works, period, But I
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do think this would have been different if this was one of those very organized
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community things that came together for the purpose of registering people to vote and having
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a big impact on pushing forward hate, pushing forward the picking of that race
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relations scab that people just don't seem to want to allow to heal because it
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is something that has been used to divide and manipulate us for so long.
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So if this was one of those situations, if these were people that were
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coming in and being bust in from out of town, if these were people
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flying in professional protesters, I don't know that they would have responded quite so
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well to the councilwoman, But kudos to her for quickly getting this in line.
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This is what leadership looks like. I don't know anything about her beyond
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this. I just know that in a moment when she should have done this,
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she did it. And we used to have people in place that did
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this. And kudos to Governor to Santis for doing what he should do,
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suspending his campaign, going to his state, addressing people that are grieving and
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suffering through this tragedy, and what's on the table when it comes to this
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race related shooting that happened. It's easy for so many people. It's easy
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for so many people who want to pick at the race gab to say,
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well, here we go again, it's all about white supremacy. But here's
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a governor who came in and said that targeting people based on their race is
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unacceptable. He said, the guy killed himself rather than face the music and
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responsibility for his actions, so he took the cowards way out. And the
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governor said the gunman was a major league scumbag. He said what he did
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is totally unacceptable in the state of Florida. We are not going to let
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people be targeted based on their race. And that is actually consistent. As
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much as people want to say that DeSantis has been hateful and nasty and done
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all these things, he's been consistent with saying people shouldn't be targeted based on
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race. It's the reason that he's wanted to change what kids are being taught
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in school concerning race. It's the reason that he has pushed to make those
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kinds of changes. It's a horrible horrible shooting that took place, an individual
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who decided to take human lives, who went out they say, purchased a
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gun through legal means and did something horrifying and unthinkable, targeting people based on
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race and having a manifesto or whatever it was. So there you go leadership
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on both and then you got this. It can't help it address more on
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DeSantis's leadership. You have a president who was vacationing, enjoying time at the
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beach while Florida was I'm sorry, well Hawaii was on fire. It's the
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difference between someone doing the right thing and being on call for their people versus
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DeSantis being there for the people of Florida in two circumstances because obviously they have
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a hurricane that has been bearing down on them through all of this, and
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having Santis there to be there with the people of Florida, it's showing leadership
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and something that he's been praised for, even by folks on the left during
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his time as governor. Even President Biden has praised De Santis for being there
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in the work that he's done for his state. And that's in contrast with
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Biden, you know, looking like he's falling asleep at a memorial service and
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cracking jokes and trying to make people feel sad for him because of something that
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happened to his home and affected his car. And these are people that have
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lost loved ones. There are people that are missing, they've lost everything everything,
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and he's trying to compare it to something that he's been through that I
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don't even know if it even happened. We don't even know. When he
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tells a story or an anecdote, we don't have no idea if at every
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really happened. We don't have a clue. He just or he tells it
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and it's real weird and it's about kids rubbing his legs the hair on his
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legs or whatever, and it's just these weird, creepy stories. So we
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don't know. So he gets away from his vacation long enough to do that,
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and he makes jokes about how hot the ground is and the boots that
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people are wearing and whatever. It's just it's not a coincidence, apparently that
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And we'll just follow it up after we talk about this. Signs of leadership
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from two elected officials there, but certainly some concerns Statistically and polling showing that
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the vast majority of Democrat voters believe that Biden is too old for reelection.
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They're stuck with him. They don't know what to do with him. They
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don't know if they can somehow figure out a way to get Gavin Newsom in
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there, find a way to bypass Kamala Harris. If they could figure out
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a way to do it without upsetting so many people, I think they would
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try to make a run at it, especially if Trump is not the candidate
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eventually. So this is the Associated press and what is it? Nork Center
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for Public Affairs Research Paul Sixty nine percent of Democrat voters seventy seven percent of
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American adults believe Biden is too old to serve another four year term as president.
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He would be eighty two on inauguration day if he were to win reelection.
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You notice he turned eighty and there was no talk about it. There
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was no addressing it, there was no celebrating it. The president of the
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United States turned eighty years old, and it was the most low key thing
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ever. For this very reason. Trump not much younger than Biden, I
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mean three years younger, So if age is really a factor, but I
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think It also has to do with cognition, It has to do with the
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ability to do things. Trump certainly seems to be have everything firing in his
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brain right. He seems to be aware of where he is and what's going
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on. Biden does not, so I think that probably plays into it.
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But these are stats coming from Democrats, and I'm just passing along the information
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because you know, says polsters had a word association game. Word association game
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they did with respondents. Words associated with Biden were old, elderly, outdated,
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slow, confused. Trump associated with words corrupt, criminal, dishonest,
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and untrustworthy. So just passing along the info that comes in from this particular
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poll. So there you go. Concerns about age and two examples of leadership
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