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“Arizona Gets Double Teamed.” (Live from Portland!) · Pod Save America

• 0:35
  Speaker 1: What's up, Portland?
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm Jon Favreau.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Nagin Farsad.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Tommy Vitor.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Dan Pfeiffer.
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  Speaker 1: Jon Lovett still has COVID, but. He's working through it.
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  Speaker 1: He's okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he was on some Zooms today.
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  Speaker 1: He was on some Zooms.
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  Speaker 4: He's fine.
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  Speaker 6: He was happy but also upset that Thursday's show went well.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted it to go well. He didn't want it
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  Speaker 1: to go too well. We are very lucky to have
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  Speaker 1: the hilarious Nagin Farsad with us, who's... Please subscribe to
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  Speaker 1: her podcast, Fake the Nation, if you haven't already. It
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  Speaker 1: is hilarious. We are also lucky to have with us
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  Speaker 1: tonight your next member of Congress from Oregon's 5th District,
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  Speaker 1: Jamie McLeod Skinner. All right, let's get to some news.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump and Mike Pence, who, there they are right there,
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  Speaker 1: who went from 2020 GOP running mates to president and
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  Speaker 1: vice president, to leader of a violent mob and guy
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  Speaker 1: that the violent mob wanted to hang, to potential 2024 rivals.
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  Speaker 1: These two frenemies campaigned in Arizona on Friday for two
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  Speaker 1: different Republicans running for governor, the same day that their
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  Speaker 1: former campaign manager, podcast legend Stephen K. Bannon, was found
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  Speaker 1: guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress. And now
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  Speaker 1: faces up to two years in prison. All in all,
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  Speaker 1: a banner day for the party of law and order.
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  Speaker 1: It's very good. So, Nagin, let's start with Trump and Pence.
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  Speaker 1: One of Mike Pence's advisors told the Washington Post that
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  Speaker 1: if he runs, the former vice president will make the
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  Speaker 1: point that, quote, Trump is the only person who lost
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  Speaker 1: to Biden. Though the closest he came to criticizing his
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  Speaker 1: former boss in Friday's speech was when he said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: there are those who want to make this election about
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  Speaker 1: the past.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: Very, very pointed. What do you think about Pence's strategy here?
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  Speaker 1: And would you be losing sleep over it if you
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  Speaker 1: were Donald Trump?
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  Speaker 3: Wait, hold on.
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  Speaker 2: Did you say that he said there are those that
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  Speaker 2: want to make this election about the past?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, shit.
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  Speaker 8: I can't believe he said that.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. He really went there.
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  Speaker 1: He went there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That is just, but for the people of Arizona to
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  Speaker 2: have one night where you can either go to a
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  Speaker 2: Pence rally or a Trump rally is sort of like
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  Speaker 2: when you open the refrigerator and you find out that
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  Speaker 2: all you have left is milk that just went sour
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  Speaker 2: or cheese that just went moldy. And to me, you
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  Speaker 2: could take the cheese and then cut off the moldy parts.
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  Speaker 2: And then you have this little nub of cheese. What
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying is that Mike Pence is a little nub
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  Speaker 2: of cheese.
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  Speaker 1: I was wondering who the cheese was.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's like slightly just more edible. But what
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  Speaker 2: I love about Mike Pence's speech is that he also,
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  Speaker 2: he spent a lot of time sort of like praising
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  Speaker 2: the candidate he was there supporting and for being there
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  Speaker 2: for the Pence-Trump ticket, through the Trump-Pence ticket, in 2016
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  Speaker 2: and 2020. So every time he speaks, he kind of
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  Speaker 2: does this thing where.
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  Speaker 3: He's bringing a gift bag to his executioner. You know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Where he's just like, oh my God, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: inviting me to this beheading of me.
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  Speaker 3: I hope you enjoy Pino. And he's just, like, so
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  Speaker 3: embarrassing for himself.
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  Speaker 6: What if Pence won and made Trump his VP? Just to, like,
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  Speaker 6: get his ass back? No one's talked about it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just glad we could all be here the first
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  Speaker 5: time anyone ever said the words, what I loved about
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  Speaker 5: the Mike Pence speech was.
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  Speaker 1: I was just going to say, so, like, Our wonderful
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  Speaker 1: production team at Crooked Media helps us prep for these shows.
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  Speaker 1: And yesterday when we found out that we were so lucky,
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  Speaker 1: blessed by the news gods, to have a Trump rally
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  Speaker 1: and a Pence rally on Friday so we could talk
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  Speaker 1: about it tonight, we were like, could everyone please look
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  Speaker 1: at the Mike Pence rally? And we got an email
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  Speaker 1: last night that said all the things about the Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump rally, and then it just said, we did not
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  Speaker 1: pull any clips from the Mike Pence rally. It was boring.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I can't argue with that.
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  Speaker 1: It was like NA. I can't argue with that. What
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  Speaker 1: do you think, though, about the strategy, the Pence strategy,
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  Speaker 1: saying that, Dan, that Donald Trump is the only one
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  Speaker 1: who lost to Joe Biden?
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  Speaker 5: We have argued on this stage many times that the
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  Speaker 5: best message against Donald Trump is that he is a loser.
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  Speaker 5: And in a Republican primary, I love people cheering for that,
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  Speaker 5: in a Republican primary, the message that Donald Trump lost
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  Speaker 5: to Sleepy Joe is probably a very powerful message. Because
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  Speaker 5: I would like to see one day some Republican, or
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  Speaker 5: see someone try to expose the contradiction between Donald Trump
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  Speaker 5: and the right wing portraying Joe Biden as like the
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  Speaker 5: lead character weekend at Bernie's and as the mastermind of
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  Speaker 5: a global conspiracy to steal an election. But so I
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  Speaker 5: think that is a good message for every single person
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  Speaker 5: walking the planet other than Mike Pence. He was on
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  Speaker 5: the ticket.
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  Speaker 1: It's an awkward one for him.
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  Speaker 5: He lost two. He didn't win anything. I guess he
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  Speaker 5: lost to Kamala Harris.
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  Speaker 4: It's so crazy that they would float that.
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  Speaker 6: He's literally the only Republican on the planet that can't
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  Speaker 6: use that message.
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  Speaker 4: If I'm Ron DeSantis, I'd be like, yeah, motherfucker, you
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  Speaker 4: lost to Kamala. I mean, that's 100%.
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  Speaker 1: It's worse that they didn't just float it. They floated
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  Speaker 1: it in the Washington Post, and then he didn't do it.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't do it.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't do it.
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  Speaker 3: He's a coward.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he had that really intense line about the past.
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  Speaker 4: I love that line.
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  Speaker 6: Which we're all still reeling from. Because you know they
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  Speaker 6: spent dozens of hours poll testing, talking through this line
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  Speaker 6: about the future and the past. And go ahead and
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  Speaker 6: deliver that, Mike Pence, because Donald Trump will be like,
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  Speaker 6: Mike took bribes from the Chinese. General Flynn's got the
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  Speaker 6: receipts on it.
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  Speaker 4: He'll just make up shit. It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: I know. Now, we were going to pull a clip
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  Speaker 1: from the Trump speech, but that was also a lot
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  Speaker 1: of rehash. There was a Trump speech tonight at a
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  Speaker 1: conservative conference where there was just a fantastic clip from
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump that I think we should play.
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  Speaker 9: In fact, as president, I wanted to give myself the
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  Speaker 9: Congressional Medal of Honor, but they wouldn't let me do it.
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  Speaker 9: They wouldn't let me do it. I said, I'm going
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  Speaker 9: to give myself the king. I've always wanted that. But
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  Speaker 9: they wouldn't let me do that. They said that would
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  Speaker 9: be inappropriate.
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  Speaker 5: I said, okay.
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  Speaker 1: I mean....
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  Speaker 6: We debated whether he was kidding, but decided we don't care.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't kid about that. That's dead serious. Dead serious.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 9: Dan.
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  Speaker 1: Friday's event took place in one of the closest swing
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  Speaker 1: states with two of the most competitive midterm races for
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  Speaker 1: both governor and Senate, where Trump has endorsed former TV
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  Speaker 1: newscaster Carrie Lake. And in the Arizona Senate race, he's
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  Speaker 1: endorsed Peter, Peter Thiel, protege Blake Masters. What do we
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  Speaker 1: know about these two candidates and how hard will it
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  Speaker 1: be for the Democratic nominees to beat them in a
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  Speaker 1: general election?
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  Speaker 5: So I think the best way to describe Blake Masters
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  Speaker 5: is a combination of J.D. Vance and the lead character
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  Speaker 5: from American Psycho. And the best way to describe Carrie
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  Speaker 5: Lake is Ron Burgundy meets Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like you're describing dudes I dated in my 20s, just.
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  Speaker 5: For the record.
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  Speaker 3: Keep going.
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  Speaker 5: So Blake Masters is a.
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  Speaker 5: When you say he's a protege of Peter Thiel, he
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  Speaker 5: is a person who as an undergrad at Stanford became
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  Speaker 5: famous by live blogging Peter Thiel's lectures in class, which
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  Speaker 5: then became picked up by the press.
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  Speaker 6: Pause on how lame that is. Imagine live blogging shit
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  Speaker 6: your professor was saying in class.
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  Speaker 5: Come on. And then got hired by Peter Thiel, helped
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  Speaker 5: him write his book. He started out as a libertarian
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  Speaker 5: who wrote lots of crazy, dangerous things in college and
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  Speaker 5: has returned himself into an America-first MAGA candidate. He has
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  Speaker 5: an ad with an AR-15 where he talks about how
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  Speaker 5: it's a weapon for killing people. He wants to impeach
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  Speaker 5: Joe Biden over the border because racism? I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Kerry Lake is a longtime Arizona newscaster who voted for
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  Speaker 5: John Kerry.
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  Speaker 1: Re-registered... I like the random clap there. It was like... Yeah, Kelly!
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  Speaker 10: She.
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  Speaker 5: Was so moved by Barack Obama's victory in the Iowa
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  Speaker 5: caucuses in 2008, she registered as a Democrat the next day. Wow.
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  Speaker 5: Gave to his campaign. About a year ago, she decided
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  Speaker 5: to run for office as a complete election-lie-pushing... She's on Gab.
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  Speaker 5: She hangs out with white supremacists.
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  Speaker 1: She's full of shit.
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  Speaker 5: She's 100% full of shit. But the thing that we
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  Speaker 5: have to always remember is whether these MAGA people are
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  Speaker 5: true believers, like I think Blake Masters might be, or
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  Speaker 5: completely full of shit like Carrie Lake and J.D. Vance are,
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  Speaker 5: they're just as dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And so Arizona.
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  Speaker 5: We have great candidates there. Obviously, Mark Kelly's a great candidate.
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  Speaker 5: We're still waiting to see who wins the Democratic primary,
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  Speaker 5: but it seems like Katie Hobbs, who's the Secretary of State,
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  Speaker 5: is the leader, is the favorite. Carrie Lake does think
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  Speaker 5: Katie Hobbs should go to jail because Joe Biden won
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  Speaker 5: the state in 2020. That's her reason. But those are
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  Speaker 5: going to be really, really tough races. Even in a
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  Speaker 5: great year, Arizona's tough. I don't know if you've looked
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  Speaker 5: out the window recently, but this is not a great year.
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 2: But, I mean, if you ever meet someone in your
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  Speaker 2: life who's making a transition, like Carrie Lake, from an
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  Speaker 2: Obama person to, like, a crazy MAGA person, suggest to
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  Speaker 2: them to, like, get a haircut. Like, that might be enough.
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  Speaker 2: They don't, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Right. It's like.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, go on vacation. I watched the Blake Masters speech. He, uh,
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  Speaker 6: I wrote this down. He, thank you, John.
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  Speaker 4: He attacked Mark Kelly for being an astronaut, which was.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't it like, that's not cool now. That's your opponent's strength.
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  Speaker 5: That's what you should do.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: He said he wanted to prosecute Dr. Fauci, I guess
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  Speaker 6: for being a doctor and then said, if you don't
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  Speaker 6: want your kid to be transgender, Democrats will call you
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  Speaker 6: a domestic terrorist. Which is something I've never heard.
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  Speaker 4: I did not know.
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  Speaker 1: We did that. That was part of the thing.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, everyone's got to help Mark Kelly. Great
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  Speaker 1: senator from Arizona. And then Katie Hobbs wins. Got to
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  Speaker 1: help her because Arizona is going to be very close.
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  Speaker 1: And we could have some very crazy people representing Arizona
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  Speaker 1: if Carrie Lake and Blake Masters win. Tommy, let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about your boy, Steve Bannon. Yeah. Who may have to
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  Speaker 1: take a 24-month hiatus from the War Room podcast. So
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: he celebrated his guilty verdict on Friday by bragging about
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: an Axios story that claims Trump plans to replace all
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: nonpartisan civil servants with MAGA loyalists if he becomes president again.
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  Speaker 1: Can you talk about this? It's called Schedule F and
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  Speaker 1: why this might be a cause for alarm.
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  Speaker 5: So, yes.
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  Speaker 6: I just want to start by saying that we stand
• 12:46
  Speaker 6: by Steve as a podcast.
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  Speaker 4: Ha ha ha!
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  Speaker 6: And that we will not speak into a microphone until
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  Speaker 6: he is free. Dan and I have been planning some
• 12:54
  Speaker 6: sort of weather underground style prison break schemes and whatnot.
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  Speaker 4: So this schedule left thing, it's very nerdy. It's very
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  Speaker 4: in the weeds.
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  Speaker 6: But think back to 2016. Take your brain back to
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  Speaker 6: a simpler time. No one thought Donald Trump was going
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  Speaker 6: to win.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody.
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  Speaker 6: Not even Donald Trump. So they were like, sir, you
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  Speaker 6: have to plan a presidential transition. And they were like, ah,
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  Speaker 6: fuck it. Let Chris Christie do it. So let Chris
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  Speaker 6: Christie do it. And Chris Christie, being a dupe, was like,
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  Speaker 6: let's think of lists of professional Republicans who are qualified
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  Speaker 6: for the job, and they put together a big binder,
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  Speaker 6: and they did this whole process. And then Trump won,
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  Speaker 6: and the next day, I believe, Steve Bannon fired Chris
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  Speaker 6: Christie and performatively threw the binder into the trash can,
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  Speaker 6: literally in the office, and they started from scratch.
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  Speaker 4: That will not happen this time around.
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  Speaker 6: And so the obvious thing that will happen is the
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  Speaker 6: first round of cabinet secretary types will be Devin Nunes
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  Speaker 6: and Jim Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: You clapping for that? The overstock guy.
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  Speaker 4: And Matt Gaetz, the overstock guy, right.
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  Speaker 6: But what Trump figured out during his four years in
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  Speaker 6: the White House is that the lower levels of bureaucracy
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  Speaker 6: can really slow you down. And so what they're planning
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  Speaker 6: on doing is normally when a president takes office, you
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  Speaker 6: get 4,000 so-called political hires across the government they have
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  Speaker 6: figured out through this sort of creative evil way that
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  Speaker 6: they think they can purge basically 50,000 people from the government,
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  Speaker 6: career civil servants, like good people, professionals, serve under Republicans
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  Speaker 6: and Democrats, and do a great job. And so that
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  Speaker 6: might sound sort of like in the weeds and wonky,
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  Speaker 6: but just imagine you have 50,000 Stephen Millers at the EPA,
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  Speaker 6: The FBI, Department.
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  Speaker 1: Of Justice, CIA, like DOD, all these places.
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  Speaker 6: And so, you know, we were not saved in 2017,
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  Speaker 6: but it helped us in 2017 that these guys didn't
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  Speaker 6: know what they were doing and it took them a
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  Speaker 6: while to get up and running. That will not be
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  Speaker 6: the case if Trump wins again. And unfortunately, like your
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  Speaker 6: only avenue to contest it is in the courts. And
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  Speaker 6: now we have a bunch of MAGA judges running around.
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  Speaker 6: So look, it's, maybe not that high on the list
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  Speaker 6: of things we should worry about about Trump winning again.
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  Speaker 1: But it's up there. It's up there. We've got to
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  Speaker 1: save the deep state.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, stand with Steve. Save the deep state.
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  Speaker 1: The deepest state of all. Save the deep state.
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  Speaker 2: Can I just say about Steve Bannon, it's weird for me,
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  Speaker 2: but I sort of miss the simpler days when he
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  Speaker 2: was just like an Islamophobe.
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  Speaker 3: And I say that as a Muslim, right? Like, where
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  Speaker 3: are my Muslims at? Like, that was easier, right?
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  Speaker 2: It was just better when he was just like a
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  Speaker 2: Breitbart Islamophobe.
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  Speaker 3: This sounds so much scarier.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's ripping up the government and installing a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of wackos.
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  Speaker 4: He's an arsonist.
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  Speaker 1: It's not good. But anyway, he'll be in jail for
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: two years.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. All right. We'll be back with more news
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  Speaker 1: in a bit. Now it's time once again to scream
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  Speaker 1: at the news with a game that we call OK Stop.
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  Speaker 1: OK Stop. We're going to narrow that universal plea down
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  Speaker 1: to one hand-selected clip, which we will all get to
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  Speaker 1: watch right now. I'll call the first okay stop, and
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  Speaker 1: then after that, ladies and gentlemen, it's Saturday night, go nuts.
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  Speaker 1: Just to set this up, we are about to watch
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  Speaker 1: an actual Trump blooper reel, aired by the January 6th
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  Speaker 1: committee and expertly curated by Crooked Media's video team. You
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  Speaker 1: guys know this one. And it'll give you a behind-the-scenes
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  Speaker 1: glimpse at the former president's attempt to formulate a response
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  Speaker 1: to the insurrection... This is, of course, different from the
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  Speaker 1: constant Trump blooper reel that we've been watching every day
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  Speaker 1: of our fucking lives since 2015. You guys ready?
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  Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Let's roll.
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  Speaker 5: We have to have law and order.
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  Speaker 10: We have to respect our great people in law and order.
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  Speaker 10: To those who broke the law, you will pay. You
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  Speaker 10: do not represent our movement. You do not represent our country.
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  Speaker 4: And if you broke the law.
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  Speaker 10: Can't say that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, stop. You don't want to get too tough on
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  Speaker 1: those lawbreakers. This is Donald Trump that we're talking about.
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  Speaker 4: Can't say that. Can't say they broke the law.
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  Speaker 5: Especially not if you're planning on pardoning them.
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  Speaker 4: Beating the shit out of cops on TV.
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  Speaker 1: Can't say that. Can't say that.
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  Speaker 5: You already said.
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  Speaker 10: You will pay. The demonstrators who infiltrated the Capitol have defied.
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  Speaker 5: The seat of dust. It's defiled, right?
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  Speaker 10: See, I can't see it very well.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, I can't see it very well.
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  Speaker 3: There's ketchup smeared.
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  Speaker 2: On the screen for some reason.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Donald, we saw it. The QAnon shaman took a
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  Speaker 6: shit in it. We saw the defiling that you somehow missed.
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  Speaker 10: This election is now over. Congress has certified the results.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to say the election's over.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, we know. We are well aware.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Donald Trump, don't worry. At the end of every election,
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: there's a new election.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Don't cry because it's over. Laugh because it happened.
• 18:15
  Speaker 10: To begin by addressing the heinous attack yesterday.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: Yesterday is a hard word for me.
• 18:22
  Speaker 10: Just take it out.
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: The heinous attack.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: Ah, good.
• 18:25
  Speaker 10: Take the word yesterday because it doesn't work with... The
• 18:29
  Speaker 10: heinous attack.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, stop.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: Do you think Mike Pence's attack on the past was
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: a reference to the yesterday gate?
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: He's like acting like yesterday. It's like yesterday. It's not
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: a difficult word.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: He's acting like we're asking him to say like loquacious
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: or impeachment for the incitement of insurrection or.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: It's objectively not a hard word to say.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: He also said it fine. Also, I didn't know until
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I watched this version of it that Ivanka has this
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: genius idea in the back. She's like, take it out.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Take the word yes out.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: He's like, yes. That is by far the most Ivanka
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: thing possible.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Dad, just say the day before today.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I love that her job is running teleprompter.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: That was her job those four years.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Can we give her something to do? No one to
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: be found.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: During the insurrection, but she was right there at the teleprompter.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: You know what's a hard word? Bureaucracy. Spell that fucking thing.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Yesterday. Anyway.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: On our country.
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: Say on our country.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Want to say that?
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: No.
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: My only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote.
• 19:43
  Speaker 10: My only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: So it turns out that he was actually slapping the
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: podium there because the ketchup attracted a lot of ants.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: So that's the backstory.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: But also the word that was tripping him up here
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: was the. The vote, the vote, their vote.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Take out the word the.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: I've literally never said the word integrity before in my life. Ivanka,
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: what does this mean?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Into greedy, into greedy, into what?
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: Into journey.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: This doesn't work well on a podcast, but the snapping
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: wrist motion is so strange.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: It was very like Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Why was he doing that?
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: Very.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Why? Very out of character. I guess not.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Actually, surprised by how much wrist dexterity he had. This
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: is actually one of the positive moments of his presidency.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Maybe he could have reached for the Secret Service.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: That's exactly right.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Now I'm thinking he could have done it.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: That's how he hit that Diet Coke button.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I think that's it. Is that it? That's it. That's okay.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: Stop.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: All right. All right, let's talk some more news. Now
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: that Justice Clarence Thomas and other radical conservatives have made
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: clear that they believe the Supreme Court should reconsider its
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: decisions on the right to marry and the right to
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: use birth control, House Democrats... I know, I know. And
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: that's where we're going to talk about it. House Democrats
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: have held votes on legislation that would guarantee the federal
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: recognition of same-sex marriages and the right to purchase and
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: use contraception without government restriction... Here in the year of
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: our Lord, 2022. So, Tommy, 47 House Republicans voted in
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: favor of the same-sex marriage bill, but so far... Yeah,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: clap for them. That's great. But so far, only five
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Senate Republicans have said they're likely to support it. Many
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: others have said it's, quote, unnecessary. Meanwhile, some Democrats are
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: reluctant to schedule a vote until they know they have
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: at least 10 Republicans on board. Why is this bill necessary,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: and do you think that Chuck Schumer should schedule the
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: vote no matter what?
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: So the vote would help pass a law that would
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: require states and the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: The reason we need to do this is because, as
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: you mentioned at the top, Clarence Thomas said in his
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: dissent on the Dobbs ruling that stripped away abortion rights
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: from half the country that he thinks that Obergefell was
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: wrongly decided and wants to overturn it, which would overturn
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: same-sex marriage. So I think the debate for Chuck Schumer
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: is basically If I put this vote on the floor,
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: will we have enough votes? And if we don't have
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: enough votes, will the Democrats get blamed because we then
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: can't have a plan B and get rid of the
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: filibuster to do this because Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: drive us all crazy?
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Then we're back in the Manchin.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: My argument would be schedule the vote. Maybe we can.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: Maybe we can get something really good done. And if
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: we can't, 70% of the country supports same-sex marriage. So
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: let's make a bunch of Republicans take a really hard vote.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: And the reason we know it's a really hard vote
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: is because Republicans are saying hilariously stupid things in an
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: effort to not respond to the question of whether or
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: not they'll support this vote.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: And I think I think you got to call their
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: bluff because like one of the five Republicans who said
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: that they're likely to support this is Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: And like, yeah. Now, why is Ron Johnson saying he's
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: likely to support it? Because he's in a very competitive
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Senate race in Wisconsin and he knows that this is
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: a very popular thing to do. So, like, I actually
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: think if he puts it on the floor. Some Republicans
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: want to get away with not giving their position right now.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Schumer puts this on the floor. I don't know. What
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: do you think, Dan?
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: If it will pass or not, but it puts people
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: like Ron Johnson, every Republican in the country, to choose
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: between the opinions of the overwhelming majority of Americans and
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: the radical right-wing extremists that control their party. This is
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: why McConnell does not want this to happen. He does
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: not want this to happen because he does not want
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: to have it fail and have 80% of his Republicans
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: vote against it or have it pass and have the
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: radical right wing think he sold out. And so when
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: you are in that position, when you have your opponent
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: in that position, you have to exploit that tension, right?
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: Not walk away from it.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: So, uh, McGee and the, uh, the contraception bill has
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: not fared quite as well. Uh, only eight house Republicans
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: voted for it, including our new queen, Liz Cheney. And
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: the New York Times reports that the contraception bill, they
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: don't think it will get 10 votes in the Senate.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Considering that 90% of the public supports birth control, which
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: is even more than the 70% who support same-sex marriage,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: why do you think Republicans are so opposed to this
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: bill to just guarantee the right to contraception?
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: That's a really good question.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Is it because reckless raw-dogging is part of the Republican platform?
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: I don't... Is it? I mean, it's like a legitimate question.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I think we got an episode title.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Trump is standard bear.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Live from Portland.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: What I love about this bill is.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: That I know that Republican senators were literally standing in
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: line at the pharmacy to get their birth control done.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: While they were reading this bill.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: They're like, sorry, I can't make it to the Senate
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: chambers right now.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: I'm getting my IUD implanted.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: And it's like, you guys, come on.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: At this point, I want us to put.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: everything up for a vote. I want contraception. I want
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: same-sex marriage. I want interracial marriage. I want capri pants.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I want cupcakes.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: I want us to go on record about everything.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: This is confusing to me.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I don't get why there are... Republicans are calling the
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: bill a Trojan horse.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: No pun intended.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: See what you did there, John.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: Get out of here.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: You're fired. Get out of here.
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: I think she.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: I did not think about that.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: I think they're going to call it Schumer's magnum opus.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: It is so funny imagining them voting on this. Chuck
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Raskin's like, erections?
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: This went out of style in the 70s.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: No, I guess they're upset that some of the money
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: in this bill would provide funding or guarantee funding to
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Planned Parenthood. And so they think, even though it would
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: be for Planned Parenthood providing contraception and not abortion, they
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: think it's, they don't want anything close. That's why they're,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: that's why Republicans are against it.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: I mean, it is wild that you can't get 10
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: Republicans to support contraception.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: It's wild.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I was just like, okay, Dan, like, what do you
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: think of the overall political strategy of putting these bills
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: up for a vote, including maybe Capri Pants? You wrote
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: a message box last week about Democrats advancing a freedom
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: agenda and Can you talk about that, and are there
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: other issues that you think Democrats should be holding votes
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: like this on between now and November?
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think ultimately where you want to be in
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: politics always is having the election focus on issues that
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: unite your base and divide theirs. Generally, that is populist
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: economics for Democrats, but the Republicans have gone so far
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: out of the mainstream on these issues that they've created
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: this tremendous opportunity, right? They've sort of been opened up
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: by the Dobbs decisions. And so my argument is we
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: want to have, as Nagin said, all of these votes.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: You want to have them all because we want to
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: do everything we possibly can to focus the electorate's attention
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: on this radical, extreme, right-wing minority that is trying to
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: dictate individual people's personal choices. And so I argued in
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: this message box, this newsletter I write, that we should
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: brand it as a freedom agenda, like our version of
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: the Contract for America, just as a way to get
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: people to pay attention because it's like, you know, this
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: is all happening so fast, right? The House is voting
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: on bills to codify Roe and to allow people to
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: travel within states and they're doing contraception and same-sex marriage
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: and it's all happening so fast. And only like one
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: of the rules of politics is, it's sort of an
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: old adage, which is tell people what you're going to
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: tell them, tell them, then tell them what you told them, right?
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: And so like framing this under an agenda that would
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: allow people to understand what this was. And I argued
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: that we have an opportunity to reclaim freedom as a
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: value in our party because of what the Republicans are doing.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: And you could do it. And it helps solve what
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: I think is one of the challenges for Democrats is
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: we have, it's like a very target-rich environment for Democrats.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: There are a lot of things we can run on,
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: but they sort of feel disconnected from each other. It's like,
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: how do we run against the Republicans for wanting to
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: get rid of Social Security and Medicare and just being
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: sort of corporatists? How do we run against them for
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: trying to, you know, banning abortion, banning books, banning gay marriage?
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: And then also on the other side here, we have
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: them just planning future insurrections.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Don't point at me when you say that kind of shit.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: It was in the general direction of you and Steve
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: Bannon and the war room people over here. And so
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: I thought the one way to do that is you
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: could do a freedom agenda, which would have economic freedom,
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: which you could get to protect Social Security and Medicare,
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: $ 15 minimum wage, personal freedom, which could be abortion, gay marriage, contraception,
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: and then democratic freedom, which could be voting rights, stopping insurrections,
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: ethics reform in Congress, like stopping members of Congress trading.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: It's funny that like Like stopping insurrections just slid right
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: there between voting rights and ethics reform. We used to
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: talk about it for a while. It's like now we
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: have to stop insurrections.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: Well, I didn't want to say electoral count reform because
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: that was really boring. So stopping insurrections gets more attention.
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: This is a tough morning after pill to swallow for
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: Republicans in swing districts.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Don't you think?
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: You guys can leave. No, I know. We've done the
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: terrible job.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: I don't like me either. It's fine.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Before you leave, though, you too can be messengers in
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: this election. It's very important. Everyone, if you haven't already,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: please go to votesaveamerica.com. Sign up for Midterm Madness. We
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: need all the help we can get. It's going to
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: be a very competitive election. And we've got these Republicans
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: out there wanting to take away birth control and overturn
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: same-sex marriage. So we need all the help. Go to votesaveamerica.com.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: And speaking of activism, during this tour, we have been
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: inviting local activists on stage to tell us about the
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: fantastic work that they're doing. Tonight, we are so glad
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: to have Grayson Dempsey from Lilith Clinic here in Portland,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: which provides abortion procedures, is the only independent clinic in
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: the state. Grayson, come on out.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Hi.
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: Thank you so much for having me.
• 31:09
  Speaker 11: Thanks for coming.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I'm so happy to be here.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: My name is Grayson Dempsey, and I am so proud
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: to represent Oregon's only independent abortion clinic, the Lilith Clinic,
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: which is here in downtown Portland. It has been a bleak,
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: bleak few weeks, and it's just an honor to be
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: able to be here talking about the work that we do.
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: First of all, I'm going to assume that everybody knows this,
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: but abortion is still legal in Oregon. And we are
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: going to keep fighting to make sure that it stays
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: that way. We didn't come by these rights by accident.
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: We've been working for years here in Oregon to make
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: sure that we have elected leaders at every level of
• 31:52
  Speaker 8: government who are proactive and passionate about making sure that
• 31:56
  Speaker 8: we advance abortion rights. Five years ago here in Oregon,
• 31:59
  Speaker 8: we passed the Reproductive Health Equity Act. which not only
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: codified the right to legal abortion, but made sure that
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: that right wasn't dependent on your income, on your zip code,
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: on your citizenship status, or on your gender marker. And
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: it's because of efforts like these and people like you
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: that we are now a haven for over half the
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: country who is needing to access abortion care. And I
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: couldn't be frankly prouder to be an Oregonian At the
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: same time, my heart is broken for the state of
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: our country, and I really recognize that the Dobbs decision
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: shows us that no one is safe from the kind
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: of harm that is inflicted by abortion bans. I know
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: you know this, but the political road ahead of us
• 32:42
  Speaker 8: is really long. There's a big fight ahead of us.
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: We don't know when we're going to win that fight.
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: But the thing in the meantime that we need to
• 32:48
  Speaker 8: make sure that we do is make sure that everybody
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: who needs abortion.
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: Care can get it.
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: And so as long as people need abortion care, we're
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: going to be here. We're going to be here providing
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: abortion care because abortion is health care and no one
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: should have to leave their communities or travel hundreds or
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: thousands of miles to get what is basic health care.
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: Clinics like ours across the country are working collectively to
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: ease the burden, but the reality is that many people
• 33:18
  Speaker 8: are going to have to travel. And for those who
• 33:21
  Speaker 8: have to travel, the financial burden can feel insurmountable. At
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: Lilith Clinic, we work closely with local and national abortion
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: funds to try to ease this burden. But no one
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: should have to choose between paying for an abortion or
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: choosing between things like rent and groceries. So tonight, I
• 33:37
  Speaker 8: want to talk to you about something that you can
• 33:38
  Speaker 8: do to directly impact abortion care. At the Lilith Clinic,
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: we wouldn't be able to do what we do without
• 33:44
  Speaker 8: the really brave and amazing physicians at Oregon Health and
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: Science University or OHSU. We're so grateful. who staff our
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: clinic and provide a really important backstop for us to
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: refer the most complex cases to their care. OHSU has
• 34:02
  Speaker 8: set up the Abortion Care and Training, or the ACT Fund,
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: which is specifically there to not only cover the cost
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: of care for abortion patients, and especially those who need
• 34:13
  Speaker 8: more complex care, who may need overnight care, follow-up treatment,
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: and may not be covered by typical abortion funds, but
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: also does something really unique in that it trains, the
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: fund is there to train the next generation of abortion providers.
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: We know, which is incredible, that deserves applause for sure.
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: We know that eventually we are going to flip state
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: houses and we are going to win back the Supreme Court.
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: But if there's nobody there to provide abortions, then that's
• 34:42
  Speaker 8: going to be meaningless. Right now we have a generation
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: of doctors and clinicians who have been training and we
• 34:47
  Speaker 8: need to keep that going. So the ACT Fund is
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: set up to train providers from states where abortion has
• 34:52
  Speaker 8: been banned to give them the essential gynecological skills that
• 34:55
  Speaker 8: they need to not only provide abortion care, but things
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: like miscarriage management and other life-saving skills that are so essential.
• 35:06
  Speaker 8: The last thing I'll say is just that time doesn't
• 35:08
  Speaker 8: wait for political change. There were people needing abortions every
• 35:11
  Speaker 8: single day before the Dobbs decision, and there have been
• 35:13
  Speaker 8: people needing abortions every single day since the Dobbs decision.
• 35:18
  Speaker 8: Everybody here knows and loves somebody who has had an abortion.
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: Everybody here's life has been affected by abortion. Whether or
• 35:26
  Speaker 8: not you've had an abortion or just lived a life
• 35:28
  Speaker 8: with the freedom of knowing that you're not going to
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: be forced into pregnancy or parenting, abortion has touched your life.
• 35:35
  Speaker 8: And our children and our grandchildren are going to need
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: the right to safe abortion. So we need to not
• 35:40
  Speaker 8: only stay committed to the kind of work that we're doing,
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: which is electing people who are committed to to advancing
• 35:46
  Speaker 8: abortion rights, but also making sure that reproductive freedom, reproductive
• 35:50
  Speaker 8: justice is at the center of our political values. We
• 35:52
  Speaker 8: really need to make sure we are building an infrastructure
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: for every single person to get the care that they need.
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  Speaker 8: I was really nervous tonight. You guys are making this
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• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Give it up for Grayson. When we come back Your
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: next Democratic member of Congress from Oregon, Jamie McLeod-Skinner.
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  Speaker 5: Please welcome to the stage the next Congresswoman from the
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: 5th District of Oregon, Jamie McLeod-Skinner. It appears you have
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: some fans here tonight.
• 37:21
  Speaker 11: It's not about me, it's about them. All I do
• 37:23
  Speaker 11: is hold up a mirror. We got some amazing folks
• 37:26
  Speaker 11: in the 5th and throughout Oregon. And folks just want
• 37:29
  Speaker 11: to get it done. So thank you all for being here.
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: So you made the decision to take on a longtime incumbent,
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: backed by the National Party, well-funded. Tell us about how
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: you made that decision and then how you won that race.
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: Well, it all comes down to the why.
• 37:49
  Speaker 11: And for me, when I was eight years old, my
• 37:53
  Speaker 11: mom told me to always leave a place better than
• 37:54
  Speaker 11: I found it. And back then, she was a single
• 37:57
  Speaker 11: mom with two kids. She'd get up early to drive
• 38:00
  Speaker 11: a school bus. She'd teach all day. She drove a
• 38:02
  Speaker 11: school bus home. And the summers, she was a farm worker.
• 38:05
  Speaker 11: She picked fruit to put food on her table.
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: I so admire her. And we see Oregonians like that
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: across the district. People are hurting.
• 38:14
  Speaker 11: These are tough times where our homes are literally burning down.
• 38:18
  Speaker 11: and then also our democracy's at risk. You've been talking
• 38:21
  Speaker 11: about that a lot, and I'm up against an election denier.
• 38:23
  Speaker 11: So that's the work that needs to get done. I
• 38:26
  Speaker 11: began my public service over in Bosnia and Kosovo. I
• 38:30
  Speaker 11: did not serve in uniform. It was back in the day.
• 38:32
  Speaker 11: I had come out as a young adult. As I
• 38:34
  Speaker 11: say in rural areas, that's how God made me. God
• 38:36
  Speaker 11: doesn't make mistakes. But it was back in the day.
• 38:43
  Speaker 11: And so I worked for a humanitarian organization repairing.
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: Schools and hospitals in Bosnia and Kosovo.
• 38:48
  Speaker 11: And so January 6th, which you were talking about, I've
• 38:51
  Speaker 11: seen what happens if that would have succeeded.
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: And so there's so much at stake. And there's that. Also,
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: a lot of people reached out and asked me to run.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: And in the course of that race, it's never easy
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: to be taking on incumbent. Most people who take on
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: incumbents lose. What was key to your strategy to winning?
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: What was the political environment, the issues? How did you
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: approach it?
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: Grassroots right there.
• 39:20
  Speaker 11: Well, it's it's simply show up you listen with respect
• 39:23
  Speaker 11: you hear people are talking about what people are concerned
• 39:25
  Speaker 11: about and Then you do that. I mean, that's what
• 39:28
  Speaker 11: public that's what public service is is. And so I
• 39:31
  Speaker 11: can say, and that was true in the primary when
• 39:33
  Speaker 11: we were talking to Democrats. It's true now as well
• 39:35
  Speaker 11: in the general. You know, regardless of party affiliation, we
• 39:39
  Speaker 11: all want to be able to have a roof over
• 39:40
  Speaker 11: our head and food on our table. We want opportunities
• 39:43
  Speaker 11: for our kids. We want health care for our families
• 39:45
  Speaker 11: when they're sick. We don't want our homes to burn down.
• 39:47
  Speaker 11: We don't want our family farms going under. And those
• 39:49
  Speaker 11: are the basic issues. So whether it was lowering prescription
• 39:52
  Speaker 11: drug prices. Also a shout out to our teachers, because
• 39:58
  Speaker 11: my mom's a retired teacher.
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: Mine too.
• 40:04
  Speaker 11: But it's showing up and addressing the challenges that working families,
• 40:08
  Speaker 11: working people are facing. And in terms of resources, we're
• 40:11
  Speaker 11: heavily outspent. I don't take corporate PAC money, because I
• 40:14
  Speaker 11: believe in accountability to voters. But even in this first quarter,
• 40:21
  Speaker 11: I actually, and I'm running against a MAGA Republican. I
• 40:24
  Speaker 11: out-raised her, and she's heavily self-funded. And 96% of our
• 40:29
  Speaker 11: contributions were low-dollar donations.
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: So it's about working for folks.
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: When people take on and defeat incumbents, it's always a
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: little bit uncomfortable because you've just beaten the colleague of
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: the people who you're now trying to join. How has
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: the national party been, the DCCC, the congressional leadership, to
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: you and your campaign since your victory?
• 40:51
  Speaker 11: They've totally embraced us. And that's because there is so
• 40:54
  Speaker 11: much at stake. I mean, there's some folks in the
• 40:58
  Speaker 11: Democratic Party that I'm more aligned to. Some folks we have.
• 41:03
  Speaker 11: It's really a different approach to the same fundamental things.
• 41:07
  Speaker 11: And it's about showing up and taking care of people.
• 41:09
  Speaker 11: That's why I'm a Democrat. I think that's what the
• 41:11
  Speaker 11: Democratic Party is doing. And that's why we need to
• 41:13
  Speaker 11: elect Democrats, especially this cycle.
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: So your race has received a lot of national coverage.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: It's been a lot of punditry about it. And it
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: is framed in this way of progressive versus centrist. And
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: it's treated in the same category as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victories
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: or Ayanna Pressley's or Cori Bush's. I feel like these
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: national labels from people who write about the race and
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: talk about the race who probably never stepped foot in
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: Oregon during the race doesn't really represent how things really went.
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: Do you define yourself as a progressive? What kind of
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: progressive are you? How do you want people to think
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: of you and your approach to this district?
• 41:58
  Speaker 11: So I have traveled thousands of miles across Oregon. I've
• 42:02
  Speaker 11: met with thousands of folks. And with all due respect
• 42:06
  Speaker 11: to polling, I, the things I'm talking about are things.
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: No one has respect for polling.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 42:14
  Speaker 11: So that's the, that's the, um, the, the diplomat in
• 42:17
  Speaker 11: me saying that you've always got to, like someone once said,
• 42:20
  Speaker 11: you can say anything you want about someone as long
• 42:22
  Speaker 11: as you start with bless their pee pick in the heart.
• 42:25
  Speaker 11: So that's kind of that piece. But you know, I,
• 42:28
  Speaker 11: my platform is based what I've heard from Oregonians. That's
• 42:31
  Speaker 11: what folks need. And, You know, I've met some rural
• 42:34
  Speaker 11: conservative Republicans who would make progressives blush with what they're suggesting.
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: And we've seen that a lot, right?
• 42:40
  Speaker 11: That, you know, you meet folks who hated Obamacare but
• 42:43
  Speaker 11: loved the ACA. So a lot of it comes down
• 42:45
  Speaker 11: to language when we're talking about. Hey, we've all got those.
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: Buttons, I'll say. So, you know, it's true. So it
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: comes down to the basic things.
• 42:53
  Speaker 11: Again, roof over your head, food on your table, opportunities
• 42:57
  Speaker 11: for our kids, and, you know, health care for our families,
• 43:01
  Speaker 11: addressing poverty. So we're talking about wildfire and our farms
• 43:06
  Speaker 11: going under. That's climate change. So in urban areas, we'll
• 43:08
  Speaker 11: talk about addressing the climate crisis. In rural areas, we'll
• 43:11
  Speaker 11: just use different language. We're talking about the same thing.
• 43:14
  Speaker 11: But it's doing those things. And so whatever that is,
• 43:17
  Speaker 11: sign me up. Call me whatever you want. That's what
• 43:19
  Speaker 11: I'm working on.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: So.
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: Not to be like the national pundits that I just
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: cried seconds ago, but I am actually in Oregon, so
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: I guess that's slightly better.
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: But I read that the.
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: Primary was shaped by many hyperlocal issues, including the correct
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: manner for bucking hay. Tell me more about that, and
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: what is the correct way to buck hay? And why
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: was that an issue in this race?
• 43:49
  Speaker 11: That was really, that came up about being, this question
• 43:53
  Speaker 11: about being genuine and being authentic. And as a kid,
• 43:57
  Speaker 11: I bucked hay. You wear gloves when you buck hay,
• 43:59
  Speaker 11: otherwise you rip up your hands. I also shoveled a
• 44:04
  Speaker 11: lot of horse manure. And I've been told that that's
• 44:09
  Speaker 11: a great experience for being in politics. But actually, it
• 44:17
  Speaker 11: was my mom and my father-in-law, who both live in
• 44:21
  Speaker 11: Central Oregon, who saw those flyers that came out and
• 44:24
  Speaker 11: were saying, wait a minute, this is not legit. My
• 44:27
  Speaker 11: wife's family comes from a ranching family in Eastern Oregon.
• 44:31
  Speaker 11: We had about 18 acres that we would hay, and
• 44:35
  Speaker 11: so I bucked hay as a kid. And we also
• 44:38
  Speaker 11: had about 50 head of sheep. My wife and I
• 44:41
  Speaker 11: live in Central Oregon. We've got a couple. Central Oregon,
• 44:44
  Speaker 11: shout out.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: There we go.
• 44:48
  Speaker 11: And this district actually extends from southern Portland, so the
• 44:50
  Speaker 11: Selwood Bridge to Central Oregon to Sun River, for those
• 44:53
  Speaker 11: who know. So, you know, and there's other issues that
• 44:58
  Speaker 11: are national issues, so congressional people stock trading, and, you know, that's.
• 45:03
  Speaker 7: A bipartisan issue.
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: You're against it?
• 45:05
  Speaker 11: I'm against it, but I will say, when we're talking
• 45:07
  Speaker 11: about stock, when I get up in the morning and
• 45:09
  Speaker 11: checking my stocks, I'm going out and checking on my goats.
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: Yes, fair enough. Um, People may be surprised to know
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: that you're in what is rated as a toss-up district,
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: that this is going to be a very competitive race.
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: And obviously, it's not a super optimal political environment right now.
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: Are there things that you would like to see the
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: White House, congressional Democrats do that could maybe improve the
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: political environment, executive actions, bills they could pass, et cetera,
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: as you think about your race?
• 45:43
  Speaker 11: Well, this is a great district because it's very purple.
• 45:46
  Speaker 11: It's got blue and red and purple sections of it.
• 45:49
  Speaker 11: And it's really a microcosm of Oregon and I think
• 45:52
  Speaker 11: a microcosm of our country. And if we can figure
• 45:54
  Speaker 11: out how to do it here and show up, listen
• 45:58
  Speaker 11: with respect, and work together to bridge the divides, the
• 46:01
  Speaker 11: political divide, the urban-rural divide, focus on talking about the
• 46:05
  Speaker 11: challenges that we're facing, and then work on solving those problems,
• 46:08
  Speaker 11: That's really what I think so many Oregonians are hungry for.
• 46:11
  Speaker 11: That's what I think a lot of Americans are hungry
• 46:12
  Speaker 11: for as well. It's getting the job done. And one
• 46:16
  Speaker 11: of the big threats we're facing right now is this
• 46:19
  Speaker 11: extremism that there has been discussion about earlier tonight.
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: Seems like we talk about that every week.
• 46:27
  Speaker 7: Well, it's true.
• 46:29
  Speaker 11: I mean, this is a huge crisis that we're facing.
• 46:32
  Speaker 11: We have to take it seriously because Like I said,
• 46:35
  Speaker 11: I've worked in former war zones, and we were facing
• 46:39
  Speaker 11: that on January 6th. And so those who are elections deniers,
• 46:44
  Speaker 11: like the person I'm running against, the MAGA Republican who's
• 46:46
  Speaker 11: an election denier, they cannot be put in positions of
• 46:49
  Speaker 11: power because it would put our country at risk.
• 46:52
  Speaker 7: And so, yeah.
• 46:58
  Speaker 11: And actually, I'll ask you all, the folks who literally
• 47:01
  Speaker 11: stood on the line for us, the Capitol Police, I'll
• 47:04
  Speaker 11: ask you to give them all a shout out because
• 47:06
  Speaker 11: they protect our democracy. So to just answer your question,
• 47:13
  Speaker 11: simple things like lowering prescription drug prices, that was a
• 47:16
  Speaker 11: huge issue in the primary. It's really simple, but I
• 47:19
  Speaker 11: tell you, I remember talking to a grandfather just a
• 47:22
  Speaker 11: couple months ago who was literally in tears because their family,
• 47:25
  Speaker 11: his grandson, needed, had very dangerous life-threatening allergies, and they.
• 47:30
  Speaker 7: Needed an EpiPen.
• 47:31
  Speaker 11: And those things cost about five bucks to make, and
• 47:33
  Speaker 11: they cost about 600 bucks to buy. That's price gouging. So,
• 47:37
  Speaker 11: you know, lowering prescription drug prices, that's one of those
• 47:40
  Speaker 11: tangible things that we can do. Also, we need to
• 47:42
  Speaker 11: heavily invest in renewable energy and renewable energy grid. There's
• 47:46
  Speaker 11: a lot of steps we can take to help, you know,
• 47:50
  Speaker 11: cover those basic things that we've been talking about.
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: In addition to your opponent being a MAGA election denier,
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: all the people in this audience here are going to
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: go out, they're going to talk to their friends, they're
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: going to talk to the people that they're connected to
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: online about your race and about the upcoming election. What
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: else should they know about your opponent in the stakes
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: in this election?
• 48:11
  Speaker 7: Well, a couple of things.
• 48:13
  Speaker 11: I mentioned before she's trying to buy this race. She
• 48:16
  Speaker 11: has used taxpayer money before to go on junkets and
• 48:19
  Speaker 11: golf carts and stuff like that. She also, when the tax,
• 48:22
  Speaker 11: the Trump, she was a big supporter of the Trump
• 48:26
  Speaker 11: tax cuts that essentially took money that put the middle
• 48:30
  Speaker 11: class at risk and working families at risk by lowering
• 48:34
  Speaker 11: the resource that we had and created tax breaks for
• 48:38
  Speaker 11: for corporations. That's something she celebrated, and she literally said, well,
• 48:41
  Speaker 11: it'll be good for some of us.
• 48:42
  Speaker 7: Well, it's not good for most of us. I mean,
• 48:44
  Speaker 7: so there's no solutions there.
• 48:46
  Speaker 11: So we're facing, you know, rebounding from the COVID economy,
• 48:50
  Speaker 11: challenging times, the climate crisis, challenge, and also protecting our democracy.
• 48:55
  Speaker 11: So we're in a time of crisis, but we're also
• 48:58
  Speaker 11: in a time of hope. And it's not passive hope.
• 49:01
  Speaker 11: It's let's get out there, roll up our sleeves, and
• 49:04
  Speaker 11: get the job done hope. And I'm really proud. The
• 49:06
  Speaker 11: folks who are working as part of my campaign are
• 49:08
  Speaker 11: working really hard to get the job done, to make
• 49:10
  Speaker 11: sure we protect this seat, and that we protect the House.
• 49:13
  Speaker 11: And that's going to be really critical.
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: If you're elected, you would become Oregon's first member of
• 49:18
  Speaker 5: Congress from the LGBTQ community. plus community. Obviously, we are
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: seeing in the Supreme Court and across the country an
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: assault on LGBTQ plus rights around this country. How worried
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: are you about the Supreme Court and what do you
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: want to see Congress do to try to protect them?
• 49:39
  Speaker 11: Well, there's so many attacks right now on our very
• 49:42
  Speaker 11: fundamental personal freedoms. And that's about our abortion rights and
• 49:47
  Speaker 11: rights to make decisions about our own bodies. And Grayson
• 49:49
  Speaker 11: was talking about that earlier. There's also about protecting families
• 49:53
  Speaker 11: like mine. A shout out to my wife who's here.
• 50:00
  Speaker 11: But we used to be able to depend on the
• 50:02
  Speaker 11: Supreme Court to protect our rights.
• 50:04
  Speaker 7: That is no more.
• 50:06
  Speaker 11: And so now it's going to take Congress codifying these
• 50:09
  Speaker 11: rights and then also making sure we have a Supreme
• 50:12
  Speaker 11: Court that gets back to protecting our rights. And I
• 50:15
  Speaker 11: can say that, yeah, I would be the first out
• 50:18
  Speaker 11: member of the LGBTQ community representing the.
• 50:20
  Speaker 7: Great state of Oregon. Really proud of that.
• 50:25
  Speaker 11: But so typically other people bring that up because I
• 50:28
  Speaker 11: just want to get the job done.
• 50:30
  Speaker 7: I just want to get the job done. But it
• 50:32
  Speaker 7: is important.
• 50:33
  Speaker 11: I've literally had conservative Republicans in Eastern Orient come up
• 50:36
  Speaker 11: to me and want to shake my hand and thank
• 50:38
  Speaker 11: me for running this out because they say it's time.
• 50:41
  Speaker 7: One guy said, my son's gay and it's time. Let's
• 50:43
  Speaker 7: just get this done.
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: That's great. That's really great.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: Before we go, please tell our audience here in the
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: venue and listening at home how they can help your campaign.
• 50:56
  Speaker 7: That's been my favorite question so far.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Great question.
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: I would not let you off this stage without asking
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: that question.
• 51:02
  Speaker 11: Well, you know, when we're talking to voters, there's two
• 51:04
  Speaker 11: things that we hear. One is that when people know
• 51:07
  Speaker 11: my background and my experience, wildfire recovery and engineering and
• 51:11
  Speaker 11: all the different things I've done for folks.
• 51:14
  Speaker 7: People trust me to lead and trust me in the seat.
• 51:16
  Speaker 11: The second thing we've heard is there are a lot
• 51:18
  Speaker 11: more folks who need to hear about me so that
• 51:20
  Speaker 11: we can make sure we win this race in November.
• 51:22
  Speaker 7: So there's three things you can do.
• 51:24
  Speaker 11: The first is follow us on social media, and we're
• 51:26
  Speaker 11: on several different platforms. So it's at jamie4oregon. com. The second
• 51:32
  Speaker 11: thing you can do is donate. As I mentioned, I
• 51:35
  Speaker 11: don't take corporate PAC money, and we rely heavily on
• 51:39
  Speaker 11: individual contributions and also membership organizations. So it's jamie4oregon. com. If
• 51:44
  Speaker 11: you can go online and contribute $ 10, $ 20, $ 50, it'll
• 51:49
  Speaker 11: be huge, and that will help us. And we actually
• 51:52
  Speaker 11: outraised our opponent in this last cycle.
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: The third.
• 51:58
  Speaker 7: The third thing you can do is help with voter outreach.
• 52:01
  Speaker 11: So whether you're here in Oregon, whether you're anywhere across
• 52:06
  Speaker 11: the country, you can help with voter engagement, you can
• 52:09
  Speaker 11: help on the phones, you can help with postcards. If
• 52:11
  Speaker 11: you're here in the district, in the area, you can
• 52:13
  Speaker 11: go knock on doors, because that voter contact, that talking
• 52:15
  Speaker 11: about this hope we have for the future is the
• 52:18
  Speaker 11: way we're gonna win this race.
• 52:20
  Speaker 5: There is no math where the Democrats lose this race
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: and keep the majority. So if we wanna keep the
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: majority and keep the gavel out of Kevin McCarthy's hand,
• 52:30
  Speaker 5: we have to elect Jamie. So Jamie, thank you so
• 52:38
  Speaker 5: much for being here. Please give it up for him.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Thank you all.
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: When we come back, we're gonna play a game.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: So, this week, Democrats in Congress tried something that political
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: experts are calling a strategy. They decided to hold a
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: vote on legislation that would protect the federal right to
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: same-sex marriage, and as intended, it's causing Republican politicians to
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: really squirm. After all, most Americans have come to love
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: seeing two sweet PR executives in matching beards and tuxes
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: exchange vows while their lesbian friend sings a Brandi Carlile
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: song she kind of learned the day before. But most
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Republican politicians are still stuck with their lame old position.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: The marriage is meant to be between one man and
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: one woman he talks at over dinner. This has led
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: to some truly pathetic attempts to avoid answering questions on
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: the topic, like when Marco Rubio tried to escape reporters
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: by running into an elevator, only to be trapped in
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: there with the bill's co-sponsor, Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin. Yeah,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: that's tough. Tough for Marco. I would love to know
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: what they think about it. Tough for Marco. So, how's
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: it going? Other Republicans have decided to really let their
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: anti-gay freak flags fly for old time's sake. Let's see
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: if you can tell which way they went in a
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: game that we're calling for better or for potentially much worse.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: All right, we'd love to have some volunteers in the audience,
• 54:29
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Now, who wants to play? Who signed up? Olivia is
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: out there.
• 54:53
  Speaker 5: We will know if you're lying.
• 54:54
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• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like if we don't have enough volunteers for questions.
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  Speaker 5: Look at all the hands that went up.
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  Speaker 1: So many fucking hands up.
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  Speaker 4: Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Olivia, you got someone?
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  Speaker 7: Hello, my name is Tamela.
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  Speaker 1: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: You signed up?
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  Speaker 5: You're good?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 55:22
  Speaker 7: Wait, sorry?
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  Speaker 1: What region have you signed up for?
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: She's like, what are you talking about? What did I
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: sign up for?
• 55:26
  Speaker 7: Oh, northeast.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, good. All right. Okay, cool. That sounded honest.
• 55:31
  Speaker 6: Would have preferred the Midwest as an answer, but that.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: Works for me. I'm from Pennsylvania.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense. That's fine. Yeah, yeah. All right,
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: so here's a question. Before Tammy Baldwin cornered him in
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: that elevator, Marco Rubio deflected questions about the survival of
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: gay marriage in America... by insisting he knows, quote, plenty
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: of gay people in Florida that are pissed off about what?
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: COVID restrictions?
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: Not COVID restrictions. Anyone else? Anyone else want to try again?
• 56:04
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: Gas.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: The answer is gas prices. But if you think at
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: least some of those gay people weren't filling their tanks
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: to drive to a gay wedding, you're out of your mind.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: I get seven invitations on my fridge right now. The
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: whole world is playing Wedding Ketchup. All right, let's get
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: another audience member. Megan?
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: Hi, nice to meet you.
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: Okay, so here's your question.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: Which Alabama senator, whose name sounds like a spunky cartoon
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: potato that plays the trombone, replied the following when asked
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: if he supported gay marriage?
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if that's what you want to do, fine. Oh God,
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: who follows Alabama? Which Alabama senator?
• 56:52
  Speaker 7: Some asshole in Alabama?
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: What did you say?
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: I said some asshole in Alabama.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: That's technically correct.
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: Let's take it.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some asshole in Alabama.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, subtitle Tommy Tuberville, by the way.
• 57:10
  Speaker 9: Who is?
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: An asshole from Alabama.
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: A specific asshole from Alabama.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: So technically 100% correct. Yeah, you nailed that. Absolutely know that.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: All right, who we got? Ryan. Ryan, okay.
• 57:23
  Speaker 6: This is a fill-in-the-blank question. In a statement to CNN
• 57:27
  Speaker 6: this week, Rand Paul claimed... Yeah, I got.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: Some Rand Paul fans here.
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: Rand Paul claimed that he has not had time to
• 57:35
  Speaker 6: look at the gay marriage bill as it heads to
• 57:38
  Speaker 6: the Senate. He's been too busy wrestling with his neighbor.
• 57:42
  Speaker 6: You know how it goes for Rand. So in 2013...
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: Rand Paul said this about the slippery slope.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: Of gay marriage.
• 57:50
  Speaker 6: Quote, I think it's a conundrum. If we have no
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: laws on this, people take it to one extension further.
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: Does gay marriage even have to be between blank?
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: What is the blank?
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: People?
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  Speaker 5: Humans. Yes.
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: You nailed it.
• 58:09
  Speaker 6: But he said it in sort of like a sad,
• 58:12
  Speaker 6: wistful way, adding, Can't a man fall in love with
• 58:15
  Speaker 6: a body pillow shaped like an 18th century Scottish philosopher,
• 58:19
  Speaker 6: Adam Smith? If our relationship isn't real, then why do
• 58:23
  Speaker 6: I cry when we make love?
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: That was just additional information that I thought you should
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: take home. That was vivid.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: 100% accurate quote from Rand Paul. Definitely, we didn't make
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: it up. Scottish philosopher, Adam Smith.
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: Hi, Molly.
• 58:40
  Speaker 5: Hi, Molly. Hi. In what region... Have you signed up
• 58:44
  Speaker 5: for it?
• 58:44
  Speaker 7: I'm going to sign up for the Midwest. I'm from Wisconsin.
• 58:46
  Speaker 5: Okay, that's good. Yes. Okay, this is also a fill-in-the-blank question.
• 58:52
  Speaker 5: Of course we know exactly how Republicans feel about gay
• 58:55
  Speaker 5: marriage because they told us when the Supreme Court decided
• 58:57
  Speaker 5: Obergefell in 2015. In response, GOP congressman and avowed white
• 59:02
  Speaker 5: supremacist Stephen King said, it only requires one human being
• 59:06
  Speaker 5: in this relationship that you could marry your blank with
• 59:09
  Speaker 5: this decision. What piece of lawn equipment did King suggest
• 59:12
  Speaker 5: you could soon ride down the aisle in front of
• 59:14
  Speaker 5: your friends and family?
• 59:17
  Speaker 7: God, there's my Wisconsin hammock. I don't know.
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: The answer is lawnmower. Which is just horrible. Do you
• 59:29
  Speaker 5: know how expensive it would be to feed an entire
• 59:31
  Speaker 5: extended family of lawnmowers plus an open bar? Gas prices
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: are insane right now.
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: I feel like weed whacker is the obvious answer here.
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. You know?
• 59:46
  Speaker 8: No?
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: Tommy. Jesus. Tough crowd.
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: Fucking, sorry, Portland.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: All right, Olivia, who we got? Austin. Austin, what's up?
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Not much, just here. Right on. What region are you
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: signed up for? I will sign up for the Northwest.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 5: Northwest?
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, we just invented a new region.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 4: Made up a region.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 5: Love that, Austin.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: You know what?
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 5: Love that for you.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: We're in Portland. That's fine. Don't worry about it.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 4: Just say West.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: All right. This week, Mitch McConnell said, quote, I'm going
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: to delay announcing anything on that issue until we see
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: what the majority leader wants to put on the floor. However,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: he used to support an anti-gay federal marriage amendment Said McConnell, quote,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: I believe that traditional marriage, the union between a man
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: and a woman, is what? This is multiple choice, don't worry. A,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: the cornerstone of our society. B, the way Jesus and
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: his wife, Mrs. Jesus, intended things to be. C, what
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: I like to watch. Or D, what I like to
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: watch from a closet when no one knows that I'm there.
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  Speaker 4: As much as I wish it was B, it's A.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: You are correct. It is A.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 5: I think D might be correct, too.
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  Speaker 4: God help us.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 5: Jenny.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Jenny.
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  Speaker 4: Hi.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 5: Welcome.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: What region are you from?
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: I'm going to sign up for the Midwest tomorrow. I
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: grew up in Michigan. All right.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: Well, Nagin's got you covered.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: Well, this is a multiple choice question.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: Asked about the bill, Iowa Senator Joni Ernst said she
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: hadn't seen the bill, but is keeping an open mind.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: You know her. She's got such an open mind.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: When asked if she supports marriage equality, though, she actually said,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: I have a good number of very close friends that are, what,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: is it A, real snappy dressers, B, queer as a
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: $ 3 bill, C, bears, and not the kind you see
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: at Yellowstone, hey.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: Or D, same-sex married. Gosh, I really want to say A,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: but I think maybe it's C. Oh, you're nuts!
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 5: It should be C.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: I know, I really wish she just said bears, and
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: then it was like twinks, and she just knew the entire... No,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: the answer is D, same-sex married, but that was so cute,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: what you said.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 5: Because same-sex married is a total normal way to describe that.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: Should have said otters.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: Who we got? Yeah, hey, I'm Brian. Brian, good to
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: meet you. What region we got here? I'm going to
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: go south.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 5: You're a good man, my friend.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: Unbelievable. Is south Lovett?
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: Just defiance. Is Lovett?
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 5: I'm south.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, you're south. Sorry.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: It's like me and Stacey Abrams.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, right, right, right.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: Luminaries. Lovett's northeast.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 6: As recently as 2013, what two groups did Ben Carson
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 6: compare to gay people in Hoping to get marriage equality.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 4: There are multiple choices here.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 6: Al-Qaeda and ISIS, A. B, Nambla and people who engage
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 6: in bestiality. C, drug cartels and human traffickers. D, Barack
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 6: Obama and his second Muslim army.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 4: What's this first?
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 4: We'll find out. I'm going to go B. B?
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Nailed it.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: Nambla... Very good.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: And people who engage in bestiality.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 6: And just a reminder for everyone listening, Ben Carson was
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 6: a neurosurgeon and the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 5: I will say I once tweeted what I thought was
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 5: a very innocuous thing, that Ben Carson gave brain surgeons
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 5: a bad name. You know who does not like that?
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 5: Other brain surgeons.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 5: Very mad at me.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: They disagreed?
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 5: They were very mad.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: They were very upset. Well, I'd say you were right
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: and they were wrong. All right, here we go. Last question.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: Last questioner. Hello. Hi. I'm Katie.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 5: In what region have you signed up for?
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: What do you consider Montana?
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 11: Because I'm going to sign up in the morning, but
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 11: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Is that west or is that midwest? I'm going to
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 5: ask your question. I represent the south. That would be
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 5: one option.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: Okay, I can do the south.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 4: Or the midwest if you want to get with a winner.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 5: Well, you can make your decision later, but we know
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 5: you'll sign up in the morning.
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: And if not, we'll find you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: You have my address.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 5: I've ordered from you a lot. Correct. And finally, lest
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 5: we forget the role Republican standard bearers like Rick Santorum
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 5: played in shaping their party's policy, in 2004, Santorum compared
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 5: Massachusetts' marriage equality decision to what way too recent national tragedy.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 5: Here's a hint. It's a horrible analogy now. It was
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 5: an even worse one in 2004. You're not multiple-choicing me.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 5: It's not a multiple choice. This is straight off the
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 5: dome for you.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 7: Oh, 9-11.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 5: It's a national tragedy around.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: It's 9-11.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 5: That is correct.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: It is 9-11.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 5: This is Santorum's quote. This is an issue just like 9-11.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 5: We didn't decide we wanted to fight the world on
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 5: terrorism because we wanted to. It was brought to us.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 5: And if not now, when? It's sad to... Rick just
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 5: needs one gay friend to tell him to stop wearing
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 5: those sweater vests.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 4: Wow.
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