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DLHS Hour 3 | Roland Martin Talks Election Day on DLHS · The D.L. Hughley Show

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  Speaker 1: It is the D.L. Hughley Show, your 2026 edition.
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  Speaker 2: This could very well be the last time we broadcast
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  Speaker 2: as a free country.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm laughing, but.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no.
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  Speaker 1: It's gallows humor. It's gallows humor. Yeah, you could be right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But I will say black people, the polls look good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they look very good.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I think that in Keisha Lance Bottoms, I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 2: she has to be above 32 percent of the black
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  Speaker 2: vote to win. I think Henna Hussle in Texas is
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  Speaker 2: probably going to lose 10 percent of the Teller Rico vote.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Just because they're not going to. There are a lot
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  Speaker 2: of men who just can't see it. You know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean?
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  Speaker 1: I do. But I think there are, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm always nervous no matter what around this time because
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  Speaker 4: I feel like, you know, we've been tricked a couple
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  Speaker 4: of times.
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  Speaker 1: We've been tricked a lot.
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  Speaker 3: A lot.
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  Speaker 4: So what I will say, I am hopeful because of
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  Speaker 4: the numbers that they're saying in terms of the early
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  Speaker 4: voter turnout and the percentage of people who are actually
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  Speaker 4: getting out that have not voted before, whether it's young people.
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  Speaker 4: They say the Hispanic vote is through the roof. Black folks,
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  Speaker 4: of course, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you what, I saw DeSantis saying, We saw
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  Speaker 2: that yesterday. He said, if we don't start getting voters
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  Speaker 2: turned out, this is not going to be a good night.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that traditionally what has happened is for
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  Speaker 2: a long time, it was always the right that voted early.
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  Speaker 2: And the fact that that is depressed a little bit
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  Speaker 2: and it surged with younger and black. And I think
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  Speaker 2: that's a good sign. I think a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: are not going to get up. I think their numbers
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  Speaker 2: are going to be down. and if our numbers are
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  Speaker 2: up enough but I also think I think now you
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  Speaker 2: gotta govern if you win and you win big you
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  Speaker 2: gotta govern big and you see what they want like
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  Speaker 2: you said you gotta act like you won.
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  Speaker 1: They want blood though yeah they.
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  Speaker 2: Better All right, coming up this side, we got Roland Martin,
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  Speaker 2: who is no drinking, no weed smoking ass.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Roland, I love him, but he don't do nothing I do.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Not many people do. Y'all golf. Y'all both golf. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's about it. That's it. Well, there's some other things
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  Speaker 1: we do. You ain't heard that from me.
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  Speaker 2: Let's not talk about that. You ain't heard that from me.
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  Speaker 1: All right. We're getting to him. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the show. Be quiet. We have company. Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: We don't fight in front of company. Whatever you do,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you do, Roland, never have a broad named Jasmine.
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  Speaker 2: The only time a broad named Jasmine helps you at
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  Speaker 2: all is at a strip joint. Now, we have company.
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  Speaker 2: We have esteem. Roland, come on with the wild stuff.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't even finished our thing.
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  Speaker 1: Don't jump in.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the police jumping in when it's a domestic situation.
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  Speaker 1: It's Roland Interfering Martin. Put your hands together for a
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  Speaker 1: present show, Roland Martin. How you doing, young man?
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  Speaker 3: Man, doing great. It is election day, and DL, let
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  Speaker 3: me tell you something. Black folks are showing up and
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  Speaker 3: showing out. We did that in early voting. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I was in 12 cities in 15 days, bro. And
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  Speaker 3: it is incredible, but this is what I need black
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  Speaker 3: people to do. Finish the job. Finish them off. If
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  Speaker 3: you've already voted, you should be calling people, texting people,
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  Speaker 3: driving them to the polls. We've got to do everything
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  Speaker 3: that we can. When we look at voter turnout, black
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  Speaker 3: voter turnout, Latino voter turnout in Texas, it's insane. You've
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  Speaker 3: got the opportunity, of course.
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  Speaker 1: The whole of the South, though. The whole of the South, though.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no, no, absolutely. So what you've got in Texas,
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  Speaker 3: you've got Tallarico for U.S. Senate, Gina Hinojosa for governor.
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  Speaker 3: Republicans are like, what the hell has happened? You've got
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  Speaker 3: Republicans who say it is a dead heat with Jamie Davis,
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  Speaker 3: a black farmer in Louisiana who the Democrats totally ignored.
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  Speaker 3: That brother is giving them hell. They were an attack
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  Speaker 3: ass against him last week. You go to Memphis. Excuse me.
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  Speaker 3: You go to Mississippi. Black folks are showing up in
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  Speaker 3: mass today to vote for Scott Colon for United States
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  Speaker 3: Senate in Mississippi. You got Congressman Shamari Figures. His seat
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  Speaker 3: was one of the ones that was stolen at the
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  Speaker 3: Louisiana versus Calais decision. So Alabama is showing up. Florida,
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  Speaker 3: you got State Representative Angie Nixon beating the grass, beating
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  Speaker 3: the ground game against, of.
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  Speaker 1: Course, They didn't think they needed one. They didn't think
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  Speaker 1: they needed one. I said they did not.
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  Speaker 3: Think they needed one. Well, guess what? You got David
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  Speaker 3: Jolly putting that pressure on Byron Donalds. I've made it
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  Speaker 3: clear I don't support any black man who was voted
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  Speaker 3: for anti-black agenda, a MAGA agenda, and that's Byron Donalds. Man,
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  Speaker 3: then you go over to Tennessee. Memphis has been voting
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  Speaker 3: like crazy for Tennessee Rep Justin Pearson running against that racist,
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  Speaker 3: sex freak, MAGA white man there for Congress. Then you
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  Speaker 3: go to Georgia, massive black turnout for Senator John Ossoff.
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  Speaker 3: Keisha Lance Bottoms is going to become the first black
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  Speaker 3: female governor in American history, plus the other down ballot races,
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  Speaker 3: which are critical, Attorney General and others. Then you go
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  Speaker 3: to North Carolina, big black turnout there. Roy Cooper for U.S. Senate,
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  Speaker 3: former governor.
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  Speaker 1: Can I get a word in my own show?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I was trying to run it all down to you.
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  Speaker 3: I know, man.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting it. I get it. OK, because we've got
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  Speaker 1: to take these piece by piece.
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  Speaker 3: So, um.
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  Speaker 1: David Jolly in Florida and Andrew Nixon.
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  Speaker 2: I think that when I heard DeSantis talking, and in Florida,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to just do this state by state, they're
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  Speaker 2: very concerned about turnout because... I really think that Byron
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  Speaker 2: Donalds is going to have, ain't no redneck going to
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  Speaker 2: get up out of the Redneck Riviera and go vote
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  Speaker 2: for a black dude who's unremarkable and he's married to
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  Speaker 2: a white woman. I just don't think that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: I think the numbers.
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  Speaker 3: I can never assume something's not going to happen. The
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  Speaker 3: way that you guarantee that is we turn out in
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  Speaker 3: higher numbers. Democrats had an edge in early voting. Some
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  Speaker 3: estimates said Donalds needed two thirds of all votes. on
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  Speaker 3: election day to win. Again, those are polls. No poll
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  Speaker 3: has ever elected anybody. The final result of what's tonight.
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  Speaker 3: And so my deal is run through the tape. Leave
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  Speaker 3: no doubt.
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  Speaker 2: So for for Keisha Lance Bottoms, the figure that I've
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  Speaker 2: heard banter around is he gets 32 percent of the
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  Speaker 2: black vote. If voting stays where it is right now,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't drop. She's at 32.5, I believe, that she's
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  Speaker 2: the first black governor in the United States of America.
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  Speaker 2: If they keep where they are now.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the deal. I don't want 32 percent. There are
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  Speaker 3: 2.2 million eligible black voters in Georgia. Brian Kitt won
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  Speaker 3: the last election with 2.1 million votes. It was 70%
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  Speaker 3: of eligible black voters in Georgia's vote. That's 1.5 million.
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  Speaker 1: So you're talking about Georgia?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so Georgia. What about Cologne and Mississippi, who I saw?
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  Speaker 3: Same thing.
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  Speaker 2: He was at a Trump rally talking to them. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, man, this dude want to be. He want
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  Speaker 2: to be a senator.
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  Speaker 3: He has run a brilliant race. Part of the problem
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  Speaker 3: is the black guy, the former Democrat, Ty Pinkins.
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  Speaker 1: He won't drop out.
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  Speaker 3: He's running as an independent. He refuses to drop out.
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  Speaker 3: But Scott Cologne, if he can hit 95 percent black
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  Speaker 3: turnout in Maine, if you hear you see the videos
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  Speaker 3: and the photos of lines in Memphis. So if he
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  Speaker 3: does that, they have a very good chance of winning, right?
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  Speaker 3: If he does that and he gets about 35% of
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  Speaker 3: the white vote, then he will be the first African-American
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  Speaker 3: elected statewide in Mississippi since the racist Constitutional Convention in
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  Speaker 3: 1890 that barred black folks from voting.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to have more of that coming up. The
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  Speaker 1: man who needs no internet. Don't invite me to his show.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't that something?
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  Speaker 2: More Roland Martin non-drinking, non-smoking weed ass here.
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  Speaker 1: Here he is. What about Michigan? Where are we at
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  Speaker 1: in Michigan?
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  Speaker 3: You go to Michigan. The Haley Stevens drama, I think,
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  Speaker 3: has backfired against Mike Rogers. They've pissed off black folks
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  Speaker 3: using black folks as a backdrop. So you've got that raid.
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  Speaker 3: Then you've got the government with Al Saeed and Mike
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  Speaker 3: Rogers for the U.S. Senate. Hugely important. Democrats got to
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  Speaker 3: hold that seat. Hey, trust me. I know what it's
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  Speaker 3: like to have a brother that's doing it. I know
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  Speaker 3: what it's like. I know what you're going through, Rowley.
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  Speaker 3: The reason Al Saeed is so important is because if
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  Speaker 3: the Republicans keep the Senate, they are going to replace
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  Speaker 3: Sam Alito and or Clarence Thomas with young 35 to
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  Speaker 3: 40 year old right wing judges, which means that.
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  Speaker 1: The country will look like.
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  Speaker 3: This for the next 50 years. If your daughter is 10,
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  Speaker 3: that court does not have an opportunity to change until
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  Speaker 3: your daughter will be 60.
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  Speaker 1: What about what about South Carolina?
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina, Jermaine Johnson's running for governor. Annie Andrews is
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  Speaker 3: giving Darlene Graham the business. That race is considered a toss-up.
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  Speaker 3: Same thing. Black turnout. This is what I keep saying.
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  Speaker 3: Republicans are disenchanted. Their turnout is down in several states.
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  Speaker 3: If we maximize our turnout.
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  Speaker 1: If we press forward now, we in.
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  Speaker 2: Down.
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  Speaker 3: Bro, I'm telling you, the numbers, we have the numbers.
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  Speaker 3: We've always had the numbers. But if we vote at 42, 45, 48%
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  Speaker 3: of our capacity, that ain't it. We need 65, 70, 75%.
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  Speaker 3: The numbers are there. We have to maximize our numbers.
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  Speaker 3: What about Ohio? Coming as well, Israel's Sherrod Brown has
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  Speaker 3: run a crap campaign targeting black folks, but other folks
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  Speaker 3: invested in there to build it. 503,000 blacks did not
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  Speaker 3: vote in 2022. He can beat John Hussein. So we
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  Speaker 3: need big black turnout in Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, Asheville. Cincinnati, Cleveland. Remember,
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  Speaker 3: the Republicans there are so stupid. They only allow one
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  Speaker 3: early voting location per county. And so that works in
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  Speaker 3: the small rural counties. But you've had three, four hour
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  Speaker 3: lines in the large counties. But again, a big turnout today.
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  Speaker 3: He becomes United States Senator to fill the expiring term
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  Speaker 3: of J.D.
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  Speaker 4: Vance.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so we know that we have.
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  Speaker 3: And don't forget, D.L., you got a black man running
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  Speaker 3: for governor in Wisconsin, David Crowley.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You got a black man, A. Ron Ford, running for
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  Speaker 3: governor in Nevada as well. I was in Texas A &
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  Speaker 3: M with him. He had capital, but he had good bra.
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  Speaker 3: So he could win as well. So you could see today,
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  Speaker 3: you know, three black Democratic governors elected, and you got
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  Speaker 3: two black or even four without Carolina, but you got
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  Speaker 3: the two Republicans running in Michigan and Florida. Don't forget
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  Speaker 3: the sister, Stratton. Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, she's going to
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  Speaker 3: be United States Senator from Illinois as well. Plus, Charles Booker,
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  Speaker 3: the brother, is fighting valiantly for the United States Senate
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  Speaker 3: there in Kentucky.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just say this to you. I think we're
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  Speaker 2: going to get them over. I think we're going to
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  Speaker 2: stand on task. But now we're going to talk. When
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  Speaker 2: we do get it, we need to talk to them
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  Speaker 2: about what we need for this. This can't be. I
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  Speaker 2: think that this is a rare opportunity. So while we're
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  Speaker 2: in there and we're advocating and ringing the alarms, So
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  Speaker 2: that people can't say we didn't say that We're going
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  Speaker 2: to have a subsequent conversation Substantly about what it is
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  Speaker 2: That we need for this participation Because I think Democrats
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  Speaker 2: have to act like they won this time And I
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  Speaker 2: said this earlier The establishment Democrats didn't want half of
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  Speaker 2: these people there They didn't want Angie Nixon They didn't
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  Speaker 2: want El-Sayed The establishment Democrats didn't want any They wanted
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  Speaker 2: the girl that just The Tuesday from Adam's battle They did.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted someone. They didn't want Hinojoso. They wanted other people.
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  Speaker 3: And I think....
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  Speaker 2: It says specifically that now the country is willing to
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  Speaker 2: have a conversation about what contrasts, like socialism isn't as
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  Speaker 2: scary as authoritarianism.
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  Speaker 1: They forget it.
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  Speaker 2: A dude taking me to the doctor is different than
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  Speaker 2: a dude taking me to a concentration camp.
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  Speaker 1: So I think if and when— But here's the other thing.
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  Speaker 3: Corruption is also a major issue. You've never had corruption
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  Speaker 3: as a top four issue of the campaign. It is
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  Speaker 3: this year because Donald Trump is raping and pillaging the country.
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  Speaker 1: And so— Well, Paxton wants to help him. Absolutely. He
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  Speaker 1: picked the right dude.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. I mean, yeah, he's the most corrupt politician ever
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  Speaker 3: to run in Texas. And guess what? That's a long list.
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  Speaker 3: But the bottom line is this here. What we got
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  Speaker 3: to understand is you have to win if you want
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  Speaker 3: to be able to get something. So when people yell tangibles,
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  Speaker 3: I won't vote before, you can't get no tangibles unless
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  Speaker 3: the person wins. And so this is what I say.
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  Speaker 3: Go hard on November 3rd, rest on November 4th, and
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  Speaker 3: then get prepared for your agenda on November 5th.
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  Speaker 1: Man, and that's the album. That'll do it right there.
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  Speaker 1: Look at him.
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  Speaker 2: Now, thank you for joining us, Roland. Now we're going
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  Speaker 2: to get back to this.
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  Speaker 3: I got one more.
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  Speaker 1: I got one more.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get back to our regularly scheduled fighting program.
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  Speaker 1: What were you saying, Roland?
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  Speaker 3: Listen, we got the blackest election night special tonight. So
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  Speaker 3: we're live from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. Man, I
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  Speaker 3: got more than 50 black activists, professors, pollsters who are
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  Speaker 3: going to be on the show. I wasn't invited on this.
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  Speaker 3: It's the blackest you're going to see.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't invited on this, Roland.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because you'll be finished working and you're going to
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  Speaker 3: be smoking weed. So I couldn't call.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, man, don't tell my business like that. Don't tell me.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, Roland?
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  Speaker 4: I love Roland.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, Roland?
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  Speaker 1: That's why we can't get along as a people. You're
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  Speaker 1: just snitching. Just snitching.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: All right. All right, man. Well, I love you.
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  Speaker 2: Keep up the good fight. And when they finish with that,
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  Speaker 2: y'all come over to my party.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to all be high and watch the strippers.
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  Speaker 1: It's great. All right, baby boy.
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  Speaker 3: All right, y'all be well. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Take care. Now it's time for Sybil. What you need
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  Speaker 1: to know with Sybil Wilkes. It's Sybil Wilkes with what
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  Speaker 1: we need to know.
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  Speaker 5: President Trump delivered his closing midterm pitch at the Lincoln
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: Memorial Reflecting Pool Monday, accusing Democrats of pushing a radical
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  Speaker 5: agenda and alleging ballot interference in Alaska while touting record
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  Speaker 5: national employment numbers. Snapchat parent company Snap and social media
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  Speaker 5: giant Meta reached a confidential legal settlement resolving lawsuits claiming
• 14:19
  Speaker 5: their platforms were deliberately engineered to be addictive for youth,
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  Speaker 5: avoiding live CEO courtroom testimony. At the Supreme Court, justices
• 14:29
  Speaker 5: are hearing oral arguments today over Colorado's publicly funded preschool program,
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: weighing First Amendment claims from Catholic schools against state mandates
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  Speaker 5: requiring equal enrollment for same-sex couples. And on the gridiron,
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  Speaker 5: them Chicago Bears closed out week eight of the NFL
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  Speaker 5: season with a decisive 34-17 victory over the Seattle Seahawks.
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  Speaker 5: Monday Night Football powered by three rushing touchdowns from DeAndre Swift.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Sybil Wilkes. Be informed.
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  Speaker 1: Be empowered. Jazz man. What man? Here we come. More
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  Speaker 1: of the DLU show is coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Hush.
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  Speaker 1: More of the DLU show is coming up directly. It's
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  Speaker 1: the DLU show.