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Turn Blue Dots Red (and Keep Red Dots Red) With Checklist · Check with Chip

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Check with Chip, brought to you by Operation
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  Speaker 1: Blue Dot Red, turning the blue dot red one podcast
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  Speaker 1: at a time. This happens every election cycle. I recently
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  Speaker 1: found myself in a conversation with a person who is
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  Speaker 1: of the highest moral character. This person went off on
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  Speaker 1: President Trump. This person was angry about high gas prices
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  Speaker 1: and said, I'm done with Trump and all of them.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't sure what that meant. All Republicans? All Republicans
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  Speaker 1: and Democrats? All politicians? Does that mean you are voting
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  Speaker 1: Democrat in protest against Trump or not voting? We were
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  Speaker 1: at a party at someone else's home, so I didn't
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  Speaker 1: pursue it because I wasn't sure where the conversation might go.
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  Speaker 1: But as I said, I have had this conversation numerous times,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't blame people for being frustrated with politicians
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  Speaker 1: and politics. I have been able to redirect some folks
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  Speaker 1: by talking policy instead of people or personalities. It goes
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  Speaker 1: like this. Do you want capitalism or socialism? Do you
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  Speaker 1: want smaller government or bigger government? Do you want lower
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  Speaker 1: taxes or higher taxes? Do you want a secure border
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  Speaker 1: or an open border? Do you want to deport or
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  Speaker 1: accommodate illegal immigrants? Do you want pre-born life protected or
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  Speaker 1: do you want abortion? Do you want children protected or
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  Speaker 1: do you want to allow transgender surgeries on them? Do
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  Speaker 1: you want female spaces and athletics protected or do you
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  Speaker 1: want biological males in women's bathrooms and sports? Do you
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  Speaker 1: want a crackdown on billions of social service taxpayer dollars
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  Speaker 1: stolen by fraudsters or Or do you want it to continue?
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  Speaker 1: I don't usually have to go all the way down
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  Speaker 1: the line before the person says, OK, OK, I get it,
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  Speaker 1: and the person grudgingly resolves to vote Republican, despite Trump
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  Speaker 1: or whoever or whatever else is aggravating the person. Even
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  Speaker 1: on high gas prices, do you think you will solve
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  Speaker 1: that problem by voting in the party that drove gas
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  Speaker 1: and oil prices up by more than 20% During the
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  Speaker 1: Biden administration, inflation during the Biden presidency averaged 5% per year.
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  Speaker 1: Inflation during Trump 47 is at about 3.5% and was
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  Speaker 1: under 2% during Trump 45. And when this Iran conflict
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  Speaker 1: finally runs its course, some economists predict gas prices will
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  Speaker 1: drop to half of what they are now. Plus, we
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  Speaker 1: will enjoy a world in which Iran cannot threaten us
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  Speaker 1: and the world, with nuclear weapons. Ideally, we will enjoy
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  Speaker 1: a world in which Iran, under new leadership, is a
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  Speaker 1: friend to us, Israel, its neighbors, and the world. As
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  Speaker 1: for turning the blue dot red, I may have missed it,
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  Speaker 1: but I have not read, heard, or seen a knockout
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  Speaker 1: blow to the opponent or a self-inflicted gaffe or scandal
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  Speaker 1: by either Denise Powell or Brinker Harding. They both generally
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  Speaker 1: have handled themselves well as candidates. So it goes back
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  Speaker 1: to the list I just went through. Powell has said
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  Speaker 1: she would support continuing the 2017 tax cuts for the
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  Speaker 1: middle class, but that leaves open raising taxes on higher
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  Speaker 1: incomes and on all the other issues right down the line.
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  Speaker 1: She and Harding would vote on opposite sides. I won't
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  Speaker 1: subject you to the whole list again, but go back
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  Speaker 1: and review it if you want. I say Harding will
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  Speaker 1: vote for the first thing mentioned in each example and
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  Speaker 1: Powell for the second. I think most Nebraska 2nd District
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  Speaker 1: voters prefer the first thing in each example. That's why,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of what the polls say, I remain confident about
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  Speaker 1: turning the blue dot red. That's Check with Chip. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Chip Maxwell. Thank you for listening.