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Two Different Types of (Possible) Election Interference · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Wednesday morning,
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twenty seventh day of September. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. Knocking
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on the door of October. Knocking on the door of October just that fast,
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and the October means a few things. Obviously, you think about Halloween.
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You think about it's really gonna probably, I don't know, feel cooler.
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I know it's been cooler, but is it finally gonna feel like actually
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seem cooler. Can we get to a point where, you know, you
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might want to wear a hoodie somewhere? Besides, I don't know in the
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Capitol building, just out in public, maybe just put a hoodie on and
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need it to stay warm. Not because I don't know you're a giant monster
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walking the halls of the Capitol. I don't know when we're gonna get to
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that point, but I'm looking forward to hoodie weather. You know, it'd
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be nice just to be able to throw the hoodie on and enjoy it.
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You know, you don't have to have been elected in a really weird election
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to be somebody who I don't know, had clear issues, and then you
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get to be a senator running against someone that the Left helped get nominated to
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be the nominee against you because they felt like that would be a bad candidate,
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or I don't know. The point is October means a few things.
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It means that it means obviously Halloween, as we start thinking ahead to that
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and beginning that downhill slide, These are the fastest three months of the year.
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I think I feel that way, and I know part of it is
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that people don't want to get their Christmas shopping none, they don't want to
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think about that, planning vacations and trips to be with family or whatever goes
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on. All that seems to make it just zip and goes so much faster,
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doesn't it. We also have a few added things that make things seem
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to go faster, as when you're in a year that's leading into an election,
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see by you know, early November next year. It's done in theory,
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assuming that we don't go through more you know, runoff elections and people
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complaining and you know, Hillary Clinton I talked about yesterday. Hillary Clinton has
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already laid the groundwork for the complaints that Russia is going to steal this election
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from Democrats that you know, he badly Vladimir Putin badly wants Donald Trump to
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win in the name of fascism or whatever she trying to say. So I
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feel like we're because we're in the year before the election that that's sort of
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to me, it kind of makes it go a little bit faster. It's
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like a little bit of a just adds a little extra something. I don't
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know. Maybe it's just me, maybe it's being somebody who's worked in media
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that's covered elections and that seems to make it go a little bit faster.
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But all of that is in progress, and we've got something coming up in
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November. Well something today debate, but that's second nature to me. The
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one in November is the really interesting one that I still don't really know.
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I don't I don't really fully understand what it's about. Maybe maybe we can
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understand what it's about by then. But before we get to that, I
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want to mention a few things because one of the things that is coming up,
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I feel like I need to start talking about it now. Just a
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little tease on it, is that, you know, the Nutcracker ballet in
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Columbus. The Columbus Ballet puts it on. This is long standing tradition here
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and for now this will be my fifth year I'll be in the role of
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Mother Ginger in The Nutcracker. So October also means getting started for me,
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at least the rehearsals part of this. I haven't gone in yet. I
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don't know yet, and I don't know. It's not I'm talking like it's
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already October. But I'm just pointing out the fact this we slide through this
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week and get into next week. All of this gets started, right,
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So, uh, just you know, plan it. Plan to be there
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for the Nutcracker Ballet this year at the Columbus Civic Center. And uh,
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just maybe you you've been to see the show with me a part of it,
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uh and and you'd like to come back. I don't I don't know.
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Maybe you'd like to do that. Maybe you've been to the Nutcracker once
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upon a time and you're like, wait a minute, You're you're in the
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show. West, Yes, I'm in the show. And the show dates
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December sixteenth and seventeenth at the at the River Center. So uh, just
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plan accordingly. You know, that's the weekend before Christmas, effectively the sixteen
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and seventeenth, So that's you know, that's technically I guess Festivus is the
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twenty third and Christmas Eve is the twenty fourth, but you know it's it's
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it's that weekend before and I guess that gives the oh, you get kind
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of the long weekend. If your job gives you Christmas Eve, you got
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twenty second through the twenty fifth at least, right it would probably be a
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way that would work anyway, So just put that on your calendar or think
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about it. You don't have to quite put it on the calendar yet,
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but plan to be there and looking forward to getting back up on the stilts.
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I haven't been on the stilts since the last show. I need to
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do that. I need to break him in. Maybe I need to break
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them in again to today. Maybe later today I can find some time to
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get up on the stilts and and break the rust off, as they say.
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Okay, so uh, speaking of the holidays, because somewhere between Thanksgiving
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and Christmas, and I know we we got Republican debate coming up, but
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that second nature to me to this really weird debate that has been scheduled and
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planned and that Fox will be hosting it, Sean Hannity will be the moderator
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of it. And it's two people, two governors a very different states,
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very different states when it comes to their overall mentality, the way that they're
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currently being run, one significantly more successful right now at you know, actually
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running as a state. I know people like to debate and argue and they
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say, well, the success is relative, because if you like the social
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programs of California, then you would call that successful. But most people can't
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run their household the way many Democrats states function. You just can't do it.
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You can't constantly be in the red, you can't constantly be bleeding money.
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You can't fund things that you don't have money for. However, I
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guess that is kind of the model for how a lot of Americans have learned
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to function and live. And people coming into the country without going through all
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the proper channels. I suppose that's one of the ways that they're functioning and
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getting by is they're just you know, asking for hands out, asking for
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more. That's why they're bypassing the actual you know, the refugee strategy.
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What you're supposed to do. You're not supposed to just skip through seven or
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eight countries and come to America. You're supposed to stop at the first one
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that's offering you a better life than the one that you're coming from. If
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you have an actual need to leave your country, you're supposed to stop at
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the very next one that's better, not just blow through it or hop on
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a bus and ride to the southern border of the US and come on in.
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And that's certainly the case. We have a problem. A lot of
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Democrats say, oh, it's just talking points, that's what Republicans want to
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get you fired up about. Well, yeah, yeah, we're in a
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bad place in America right now. We have inflation issues, we have employment
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issues. We have of course, fuel issues. As far as you know,
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once upon a time, we were not dependent on other countries. We
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were actually surplusing our fuel exports as far as we were producing more than we
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needed and we were able to sell some of it or keep reserves of it.
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And we've blown through reserves. Okay, since COVID, we've blown through
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it, and all that has caused prices to go up. We've got a
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number of issues when it comes to inflation, and taxes on corporations. We
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hear all the time about how, oh, these big companies don't want to
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pay their fair share. They don't want to do that, they don't want
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to pay their fair share. We got to get them and trust that they're
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not going to raise prices on you the citizen, which is exactly, of
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course, what they do. You may remember Ronald Reagan once gave a very
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famous speech where he talked about that very thing. Hey, it sounds great,
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It really does sound great to say, hey, we'll make the big
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corporations fund all of our problems and help us with our social programs. But
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that's not how it works. Those corporations are there to make money. And
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if you're a business and you're trying to make money and you're being overly taxed,
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you're going to take it out on your consumers. That's what you're going
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to do. And that's the way it works. That's the way it's always
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worth. So California not running like an efficient house on a budget, right,
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that's not what it's doing. Florida, Yes it is. People are
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leaving California to go to Florida. So these two governors are going to have
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a debate on November thirty. If it's scheduled and it's it's just a little
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strange. I mean this, in a different world, in an alternate timeline,
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these would be the two candidates, you know, these would be the
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two candidates running for president head to head. Most Americans don't want the same
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two that we're in the last election. Most people don't feel that way.
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Most Democrats don't want it to be Biden. There's a mix. Obviously,
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Trump has a huge lead when it comes to Republican support. So DeSantis,
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who many thought, oh wow, he's got a real shot at coming in
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there and taking this thing from Trump and seemed like the one most likely to
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be able to do that. He's not got great numbers right now. I
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don't really trust all the polling. I haven't for a long time. But
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it's an interesting scenario here where you have a guy who many thought at least
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had a chance, who is I don't even know if he's still in second
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place because some of the others have kind of risen up. So and I
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suppose he'll have a chance to, you know, between now and November get
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those numbers up. But he's going to be debating the person that some on
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the left seemed to think should be the Democrat nominee. So what could effectively
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happen if Dysantis ends up stepping into the role as the nominee. If there's
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some scenario that plays out where that happens, is if they wait long enough
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and he keeps telling people that are asking him, no, it's not going
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to happen. That trains left the station. We're all in for Joe Biden.
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There's no doubt that Newsome has his eyes on the White House. At
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some point. He's already done the photo shoot. They took him last year.
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We talked about this on the show. They took him to the White
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House when Biden was not there. They walked him around, he took photos.
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He had the coat over his shoulder, looking real serious, sitting in
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all the chairs, all the important chairs at the important desks, looking very
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presidential. That was the goal was to get the photo shoot, get all
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of the marketing tools ready to go so that he would be ready. And
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there are people that think it should be him. But if they end up
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giving it to him, just know we have a few things that are possibly
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playing out here. If the left effectively does something to keep Donald Trump off
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of the ballot and even one state because of allegations and charges against him,
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if they find a way to convict him in this clear attack on democracy,
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because this is not something that's happened before, not in this country. It's
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happened in other countries. But when you take a candidate for president that the
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left has said they're going to make sure he can't run again, that's what
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they want. They want to prevent American citizens from being able to vote for
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him. That's the goal. So if they do manage to find a way
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to take away your ability to vote for Trump, if that's who you want
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to vote for. We got some other candidates that don't have the amount of
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support that Trump has. If for some reason, Trump has to drop out,
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it'll be a whole different race. Could that then call somebody like Nicky
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Haley or Rhonda Santis or Tim Scott one of these others Vivic Ramaswami Vivek and
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it was Vivic. Could it project one of them into the lead. Obviously,
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if Trump had to drop out, well, one of them would have
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to step up. I don't know who it would be, So one of
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them would have to rise up and then continue to go through the process,
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right, they'd have to go through now By the time potentially all of this
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would take place, it's well in the next year when all of Trump's trials
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are scheduled, all while he wants to be out campaigning like anybody, and
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he's not participating in debates because he doesn't feel like he needs to. So
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far, so good, it's been effective, it's worked. But if the
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Left manages to somehow keep him out of the race, one example of election
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interference that would be one two. And I'm just laying this out there for
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you because i want you to think about this. If they decide on the
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left at some point that they're done with Biden and they're done with Harris,
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and they decide at the last minute to just inject a new candidate, push
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somebody forward like a Gavin Newsom, without going through primaries, without giving voters
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an opportunity to decide, without giving Democrat voters, supporters registered Democrats the opportunity
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to vote if that's who they want the candidate to be effectively bypassing, is
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that not also election interference? Was it not election interference? When Hillary Clinton
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and the Democrat Party pushed Hillary Clinton forward and pushed Bernie Sanders aside. I
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mean, is that not the same kind of thing where they just kind of
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go all in for one candidate. They don't really give anybody else a chance.
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They don't let people decide who they think the candidate should be. I
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mean, would that not be another form of election interference? If they just
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pushed Gavin Newsom forward and these end up being the two candidates, it would
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be two candidates ultimately put into the nominations, if you know, by next
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year, by election day, ultimately all decided by the Justice Department. One
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two Democrats in general, to be able to just say we're gonna hold onto
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this guy, We're gonna bypass any sort of primary, We're gonna just jump
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right past all of that. Because I think this is the scenario. It's
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either going to be a Trump who's been convicted and not on some of the
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state ballots. Maybe he doesn't get a chance to even collect any electoral votes
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in some states. I don't know. I don't know how this works exactly.
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We haven't had a president running for office with his arch rival in the
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White House and doing everything possible through the Justice Department to keep him from being
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able to win. This is all new for all of us. But if
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they can, and there's talk of some states keeping him off the ballot if
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he's convicted in any one of these cases, is it smart for Republicans to
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push forward with Trump? Is that something that they could even contend with?
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Or if you have states, especially any battleground states that don't have him on
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there, is it possible for him to win, well, then it might
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have to be a decision of well, let's go with de Santis, who
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maybe at that time will be the one in the lead, has been in
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the second place, I guess the whole time. So if it's de Santis,
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I don't think there's any chance Democrats are going to stick around with Biden.
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I think the only reason they have Biden is because he beat Trump once
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before. That's their whole qualifications for him to be the nominee. So then
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of course Newsom's the only option. They don't have anybody else. They really
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don't have anyone else, So I guess you go like from you know,
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as they've people joke all the time, two old white guys to two middle
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aged white guys, I guess, I mean, I guess that's the the
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ultimate examples of two cases of potential election interference, all being done by the
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way, not by Republicans. Republicans are the ones always get the accusations.
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Well, they're always trying to keep people from voting. They're trying to stop
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them from voting. That's what they're trying to do, keep them from voting
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for who they want to vote for. Trying to keep them at home,
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asking them to have an ID when they show up to vote, asking them
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not to go on harvesting ballots and tell them just sign your name and we'll
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fill it out for you. You know, Republicans trying to keep people from
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doing that. How is two? It's it's a double whammy of election interference.
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So why is this debate happening if there's not a chance of this And
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you might say, well, Sean Hannity, he's friends with Gavin Newsom.
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He's been friends with Gavin Newsom a while. They don't agree on things politically,
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but they're friends in real life. Probably a good safe person to go
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with for a debate of this kind. I don't expect him to be easy
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onto Santis. But it is a little weird, isn't it. One guy
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who's not even a candidate, the other one not in the lead, not
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the likely candidate. One's not a nominee, one's not even in the race.
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The other one at this point doesn't look like he's got a whole lot
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of chance of winning, not on his own, not at this stage.
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That could still change, It could change by I don't think it's going to
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change by November, is it? Or is it? Is this setting the
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table for something? Is this laying things out, especially if you've got a
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president and a former president that the whole idea of debating isn't really something that
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they feel like doing. Does this is at least give us an option?
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Does it give America a chance to look at two different candidates with fresh eyes?
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Is this potentially laying the groundwork for that election interfere in selection to happen?
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You know, because that's really what it would be, wouldn't it.
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West Carol Morning Show. Right after the break, all right, I was
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talking about all the things that come with this time of the year, and
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of course, one of those things I didn't mention the pumpkin spy stuff,
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but or college football, I guess, or football in general. But the
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Hallmark holiday movies start kicking in here soon, and of course, you know,
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they start running these things and it feels like they just run non stop,
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right just not they're just they kick in and then they just run with
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it. A study that says that both men and women are more interested in
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watching romantic movies in the fall than the rest of the year. They say
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because they provide inner warmth. I don't know that the Hallmark holiday movies necessarily
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or hitting the men in those fields, you know, in general, but
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I guess more likely to watch I don't know. And also you kind of
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get to that phase of the year where people are, you know, they're
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looking for a some sort of person to date, you know, getting into
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the holidays. I think people like that. They enjoy that in the holidays,
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and then afterwards there's that period at the beginning of the year where people
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tend to get dumped, you know. So maybe that's part of it.
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I don't know. All right, So Kraft is introducing some new candies for
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Halloween. They're new a gummy andy flavors, and you know, they like
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to this is a thing they do it with the Oreo cookies, you know,
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and they give you I don't know, like German potato salad flavored Oreo
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cookies or whatever. I don't think that's good at all, And there's always
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somebody those are the best ones. But in this case, Kraft has their
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new gummy flavored candies, and here they are. They all seem to be
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this is a sponsored I guess they're all sponsorship deals or part of the Kraft
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family or whatever. How about the cloths and pickle flavor, okay, the
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Oscar Meyer hot dog flavor, and then Kraft mac and cheese. You know,
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those are all things I like. I like all those things. I
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don't know that I really want a pickle flavored gummy, but it's probably the
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most appealing of those three flavors. I love macaroni cheese. You know.
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I don't know that I want a hot dog flavored gummy, but that is
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something that I guess people are going to be finding in their trigger eat bags
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this year. I don't know, all right. Australia's government has introduced legislation
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that we'll start putting warnings on all cigarettes, not the packs, each individual
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cigarette phrases like calls a stroke, and they say they're also looking at way
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at finding ways to make cigarettes an ugly color. Canada apparently Similarly, they're
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putting individual messages because cigarettes could cause impotence or cigarettes damage your organs. So
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yeah, how about that. I just don't know that. I mean,
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if people are still committed to smoking cigarettes, right, and you may be
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one of them, I don't know. But if people are still committed,
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I don't know that these things are going to stop them. I mean,
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I really don't know what else you can do. An ugly color for the
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cigaret? Is that gonna matter? I mean, is the plain white garrette
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with the I don't know what is that kind of yellowish orange filter tip?
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I mean, is that so appealing? Does that make it look cool?
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I don't I don't think so. So I don't know. I don't know
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that people are I mean, you're setting something on fire and breathing in the
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fumes. I don't know that you care if there's a message on it.
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But I don't know. Whatever, whatever they gotta do if you've gotten a
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tattoo and you got regrets about it, The director of the Juva Juva Skin
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and Laser Center in New York says that having it removed with a laser,
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you're looking at a bill of about two thousand dollars. It says it takes
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several sessions, and you have to treat it the same way that you would
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treat the skin after getting the tattoo. You have to wash it a lot
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with soapy water and ointments like vaseline. And I guess the color of the
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tattoo could have an impact on having it removed and the process for doing that.
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But like two grand to have it taken off, and I talked,
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I don't don't remember it was this podcast or another, but someone had actually
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found him a really small tattoo. They just cut around it, cut the
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skin off, and then just stitched it together. Oh gruesome sight. But
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I guess it worked. But it's better than two grand. I guess.
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I don't know. I'm not advocating cutting. I had an incident over the
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weekend where I cut my finger. I don't advocate intentionally cutting your finger at
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all. So finally, McDonald's bringing back the in certain locations, the spicy
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chicken McNuggets. Remember that was a big thing introduced in twenty twenty for a
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limited time in twenty twenty three. They're bringing them back participating locations. They
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may already be back at participating locations yeah, I guess you got to check
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the app. I don't know you check the app first, I don't know
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if they're gonna or you can call, or you just go to McDonald's and
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you say that like the spicy chicken McNuggets please, and they say, oh,
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we don't have those, and you all right, well to take a
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burger. That's the other option that seems to be the easiest of all the
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options because it takes effort to look these things up. And if you're already
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craving some McDonald's anyway, it's half the battle. Just go. Just go
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ahead and go and get in line, and when you get up to the
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window or the drive through speaker, then you ask them that's what you do,
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all right. That'll do it for this Wednesday edition of the show.
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