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#30 - Election Night 2024: A Nation on the Edge · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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All right we are going it is election night
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2024 and it is
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about midnight eastern time almost midnight
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central time looks like there's an update right now happening at
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the harris headquarters cedric richmond
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harris waltz campaign co-chair i don't know if
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it's if they are addressing whether
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the it because right now it looks like trump is
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in the lead there has not been a declared winner right
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now trump at is at depending on which network
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you're listening or watching he is at 232 electoral
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votes and harris is at 216 there's
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still a number of battleground states that have yet to be finalized and declared
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the winner such as the main one pennsylvania that is going to be if if trump
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takes pennsylvania it is it is over and there's also georgia arizona Nevada.
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A couple other ones as well.
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But right now it is not looking too good for the Harris campaign right now.
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It is actually kind of been kind of a somber, slow night.
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And I don't know if it's just, it seems like it's just been slow developing,
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nothing just, I think 2016, everyone was caught off guard and not ready at all for Trump.
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Did not even see that coming. So there was a lot more movement
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happening there was a lot more unexpected events that
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unfolded right now it's just slow methodically
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churning and state by state harris has been kind of taking the ones that were
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expected close call was virginia but other than that mainly trump has been taking
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all the key key states that he's needed so far i don't think there's been one
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crucial loss that he's had,
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And he took Florida pretty quickly at the beginning of the night.
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And right now, if he can just finish off and take Pennsylvania, it would be over.
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A lot of the networks are really holding off because it's like with Wisconsin,
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Michigan, and Pennsylvania, they are like very slim margins.
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Trump has the slight edge in all of them, it looks like.
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Just based on impressions from the networks and the different sides.
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It is looking a lot more like Trump is going to win, but until it's all said and done, it's not over.
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Anything could happen. Definitely anything could happen. From my point of view,
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it's definitely been a lot more somber of a night, not a lot of celebration happening.
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And I think if it was, if Harris was in the lead, I think we would be seeing a lot more celebration.
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And I mean, really, when we got, when we came to this, this evening,
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I don't think anyone knew what to expect.
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I think from both sides, there was anxiety and there was just completely,
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we were stepping into the unknown.
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And we are in the unknown right now because it's still not completely decided.
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But we are definitely getting closer by the minute.
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But based on just impressions from both camps, Harris' campaign is looking like
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they're wanting to close up shop,
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telling their supporters at the headquarters, go home for the evening.
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We will find out in the morning what happens.
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And that is not a good sign. That sounds a lot more like the 2016 when Hillary
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conceded, kind of did not show up for her supporters because it did not look
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like she was going to win.
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Vincent Podesta out there, and then he just kind of gave the news of just kind
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of everyone go home, kind of we'll find out what's going on.
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And then a couple hours later, about two in the morning, we found out that Trump
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was declared the winner.
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Right now, it is Trump is taking a little bit more of a lead. He's at 248.
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So that 270 is that magic number if whoever can get there first.
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Overall, it is definitely looking like Trump is going to take the victory.
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But anything could happen anything could
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happen georgia has just been decided just
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called for president trump and i mean that is a very slim margin very slim margin
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i mean looks like a million more i'm not a million more a hundred thousand more
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that he won by but it's still not fully in but it's just enough that the people
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running the numbers can make the call and say based on.
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Everything else that's expected to come in, it's worth calling.
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It does not seem at all likely, almost nearly impossible, that Kamala Harris
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could make up that ground. So Georgia has been just called.
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So the big one hanging out there is definitely Pennsylvania.
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Pennsylvania is the, that's the one.
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But definitely, it's definitely been a lot more somber night than I've expected it would be.
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And I just I think I sent this
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out I tweeted this out earlier let's not anybody be sore
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losers and let's not anybody be sore
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winners as well and I mean I honestly I do not see that happening I think people
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are going to be sore winners and I don't I don't like that we don't need anybody
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rubbing it in anybody's face again we are all Americans it does not matter whether you are blue or red.
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I think it was Moreno, one of the senators that won, I don't know if it was Ohio,
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but he said a really awesome line that when he, when he took the,
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his, when he won, he said, it's not about blue or red, but it's about the red, white, and blue.
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We are all Americans. And so it's.
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I just we need to just we need to just completely obliterate this two party system.
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I guess you'd call it three party based on independent, you know,
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but it's like I said we all just merge to independence.
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We are let's all merge to independence. You know, let's not have the Republican, have the Democrat.
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I don't know why we started this, why we started our nation on Republican and Democrat.
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And just like, let's just pit our country against each other.
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What i do not understand that at all i do not i
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mean i understand it but it's it's not going to be
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overall good for our nation you know it's like let's
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have one nation and bring ideas to
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the party whoever has the best ideas let that reign let
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that win and let's not just we're not
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on one team against another but we
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are one team and just let the best ideas win
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and let the the people that run the run things
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the best let them win you know and get into politics it
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should be reluctant it shouldn't be something that somebody
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desires and loves and wants all their heart to
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get into as americans more than likely it's better to almost
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get out there and produce and create businesses create create wealth for for
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people and for the citizens of this country and almost politics should almost
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be on the on in the background of your mind it should not be something that
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you just want to get into so much because, I mean.
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It's a service that you provide.
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You know, it's a service that you almost have to have a reluctance to get into
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because if you want to get in there, it just almost becomes just a money-hungry
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crave for power, and that's not going to be good for anyone.
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That's not going to be good for the people that are doing it because it's just
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corruption, just corruption.
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Builds upon corruption and people just want to get more and more power and just
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they just want to make themselves big to make their own name big and make their
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own reach big and how they can influence and affect others lives as opposed
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to just getting in there and doing it for,
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this country doing it for this people you
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know i just that's what it should be it should be
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doing it how are we going to get this country up
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and running get this country just dominant in this world because I mean when
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we're dominant when America is dominant the rest of the world just flourishes
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the rest of the world is going to be in a lot better position and we're not
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just going to be doing it we're not going to be just letting other countries just take over and just.
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Not be the best that they could because I mean we make
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others better and it's like when anyone's in
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crisis when anything's bad happening people call out
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to the United States and I think the only reason they're able to do
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that is because of who we are and the
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good nation that we are i know there's a lot of flaws definitely a lot of flaws
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we can't just whitewash that and just throw that under the rug and all that
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you know but it's it's so we the america is going to i have a lot of hope for
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this nation i mean i there's a lot of uncertainty and still like anything could happen.
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But trump looking like he's going to win the republicans
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taking a lot of the majority and a lot of the house.
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And senate they've taken the senate they're going to
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have that majority there so it's just so we're not in gridlock
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if trump does assume the office
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but uh it's it's looking good
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for the republicans but again let's not
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be blue against red it's just like we don't
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need to have that it's not going to be good for us it's not going to
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be good for the rest of the world if we're at
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each other's throats i think who's who
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can get in there and just actually make this country great
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help everyone is going to be the most effective
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presidency and it's yet to be determined there's still
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a lot of things that could happen but it's looking like it's
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going to go to president trump i know in 2016 it didn't
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happen till the middle of the night that it was called 2020 there
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was it was just it looked like biden was going
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to win going into the evening and then i
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think it wasn't called to that following saturday when biden was
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determined to be the president but this this
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i thought this was going to drag out it's looking more and
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more like trump is going to be able to secure the nomination before
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the evening's over but like i said anything could
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happen i i want them to just just call it as opposed to letting it drag out
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and letting it the heat turn up more than it should there's a there's things
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that need to get going need to get moving and not to just spend time on having
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the temperature in the room go up you know it's.
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I think. But either way, whoever comes out winning, it does look like Trump's going to be it.
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But whoever comes out winning, whether it's Kamala, Kamala, Kamala,
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that is the correct way I found out. That is how you say her name.
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Kamala, whether it's her or Trump, either one.
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Let's all come together as Americans. Let's be together and united in making
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this nation great and helping others, lifting each other up and just bringing wealth to this.
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Nation and because if we are if we are running on
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all cylinders we are going to be helping others we're the
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only nation that's going to that's going to be able to do
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that you know and that's why everyone else in this
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world cries out to the united states when a crisis happens
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because we are the ones that step up to the plate i think
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it's going to be good i think it's going to be good i i have a
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i think as a lot of other people had a lot of anxiety going into
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this i think if we if if it gets settled
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you know we're able to just like i
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mean i was immediately thinking like all the people that said they were going
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to leave the country and i just leave the country
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if trump wins and it's just like i don't want people
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saying hey you're going to leave the country you're going to leave the country and let's call
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people out like let's be you know
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adults let's you know let's come together definitely
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come together just that that same message but with
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action behind it that same message that biden had
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when he became president i mean let's let's have
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that message but let's do it in a way that's actually
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it to take on flesh and to
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be real life and not just words not just talk not just spitting into the air
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saying things that mean nothing let's have like true lasting results and i think
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i think we can do that you know but uh it's getting closer and closer.
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I'm ready for it just to be called.
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I was talking about this earlier. I don't understand why,
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It seems like we knew that the tough battleground states, we knew the ones that
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were going to be the toughest and the most impactful on which whoever wins,
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we're going to have the most impact on this election.
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And it seems like they are the ones that drag their feet the most.
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And I don't know what it is about them.
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I mean, Florida, like, was called in a second, you know, was able to go through
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and they were able to count the votes, get it done.
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But it's just like on some of the states it's just like it gets dragged out and i don't understand,
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i don't know if the networks just don't want to do it because they they need
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they want those eyeballs to be just watching and just be glued in because it
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is non-stop stick keeping our eyes locked on the screen and just locked on our
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phones locked on our devices continually refreshing x I am so used to saying Twitter,
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but continually refreshing X to get that instant information.
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What's the newest thing out there? What's the newest thing? The newest thing
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that's been released? Is there any new news?
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And is that why people, the networks just drag their feet almost to doing it?
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But I just don't get it. It's like we knew Pennsylvania. We knew Wisconsin and Michigan.
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We knew those three were going to be so huge. But it's like the whole East Coast
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and most of the half of the country has been called.
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But it's like those still we don't have the defined answer and the declared
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winner from those states.
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And it's we need to it to be standardized.
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I think that's the word I'm looking for. It needs to be standardized as opposed
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to everyone doing how they want. But maybe that's the state's thing.
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Maybe that's maybe that's what it's supposed to be. I don't know.
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Because I always hear about it needs to be a state's thing. Bring it to the states.
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We are 50 different social experiments happening. and whatever is the doing
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it the best can look at other states and how they're doing it.
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Maybe that's the whole thing with elections. Maybe just other states like Pennsylvania
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and Wisconsin and Michigan, they just need to look at the other states,
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how they're counting their votes.
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And it's like, can we kind of replicate and repeat some of the ways the other states are doing it?
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Because we're obviously doing it a lot slower and not getting the job done quick
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enough. because these elections should be able to be called within the night. They should be.
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I mean, how can one state get done so quickly but another state not? Maybe there is a reason.
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Maybe there's a reason. If you know the reason, and it's a real good reason,
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it's not just something just to say, let me know.
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I would love to know why some are out there and just not able to be as effective
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in counting votes and get into the winner as other states. it's different.
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We shall see how this evening turns out. It's getting close.
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It looks like Pennsylvania's 90% has been counted.
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And Trump is up, it looks about almost 300,000 in votes.
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Things are not being called yet. They just, things are being dragged out as we see.
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And it looks like New York, Kamala, Kamala, I am terrible at saying the right,
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she'll say it the right way, but I'll, I'll get better at that.
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Or it looks like she has taken New York.
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But Trump is, I think he gave her a run for her money in getting close to the vote in New York.
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He was the, he's obviously a
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New York guy. I don't know why he is almost disliked so much in New York.
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But, I mean, he's, I mean, his claim to fame is he is a New York guy.
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He's a New York man, you know.
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And, but I guess some states are just, they're just blue.
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No matter how much, you know, they're just blue. And it's the same way with
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other states. They're just red.
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That's why we need to make every state.
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Let's make I mean that I and I know that goes against the grain and it goes
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against what most people would try for or what what most people would push for and kind of espouse.
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They would say that we need to have these kind of this dividing lines and have red and blue.
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But to me, it's I can't like both parties, let them be red, white and blue.
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That's the only colors you can use. And you have to use all three.
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Let's all be red white and blue and what
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where you stand on issues and you have to clearly say where you stand on issues
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and what your issue is that you are standing on make it clear and understandable
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to everyone who hears if they hurt if they hear you they see what you're saying
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there's no double speak there's no say one thing when you mean you're really
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meaning another you Clear,
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clear espousing of your ideas.
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Clear delineation of your stance on issues.
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And best ideas win. Defend your ideas.
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Talk about them. Open communication. That's why the First Amendment, freedom of speech.
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Let people say what they think, say what they mean.
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And that is such a novel idea. In this world, it is a novel idea.
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We think we've just lived with it our whole lives. and it's just familiarity
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breeds contempt and i think a lot of people have just are just so used to being
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able to say what they think and but you got to be able to take hearing what you don't like,
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you got to be able to take care of what you don't like and if we were just that
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should almost in itself be a course that we teach in school hearing what you
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don't like and i understand that that's that person's freedom to say it you
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know and as long as the lines of communication are still open.
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And we are defending those lines. That is that is one of the biggest reasons
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this this country will stay intact and this country will continue to get stronger
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and better, more wealthy.
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And just because when we rise, we will lift the tide for everyone.
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You know, we have lifted the tides in this world for other of other nations.
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Just the technology and just the wealth that we've generated in our country
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has helped so many other countries.
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That's why everyone reaches out to us. That's why even though some countries
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and some people in other lands, they look at us and they don't like us,
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a lot of times it's just resentful.
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And I don't really know why it is sometimes.
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I think it's just hot. But when I've been out of the country,
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most people love Americans. Most people, they look at America as in America,
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and they just think, oh, and they want to get there.
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And you see that that's why people do everything they can to get them and their
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family to America because it's the land of opportunity.
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And you are not stuck in one class forever, but you have the ability through merit,
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through hard work, hard but you have the opportunity
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to become huge you
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have the opportunity to become make a
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lot of money have the opportunity to build a
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great just name and platform wherever you
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go you it's like it's some people have a
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little bit higher i mean it's there's not have a little bit of
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leg up you know there's no denying that some people have
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a better leg up but even somebody not having
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the best leg up wherever you start from anybody can
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make it in america anybody and there's no you
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can't deny that anyone can make it and sometimes
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when you start out at a lower position almost you
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can have the chance of being even greater because
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you've seen it from that perspective so i
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mean in america it's just america is
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amazing it is amazing and it's like whenever you leave
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the country there's nothing better than coming
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back to america and it's that's that's a
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really thing that's a rare thing you know we always you want to go on
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vacation and you want to cross the ocean and there's
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a lot of amazing countries out there but it's always great to come home it's
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always great to come home and we don't need to spread we don't need to americanize
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other countries we don't need to get into their democratic systems and make
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them democracies like that i think that's That's shown to fail.
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Let other countries be what they want to be, you know, but let's just take care
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of ourselves and be smart on the relationships we have with other countries.
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Be smart with how other countries view us.
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Lead with strength. Lead with strength, and that's what's going to make the difference.
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That's what's going to make the difference and have other countries respect
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us, and it's going to take care of other countries. It's going to help the other
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rest of the world to thrive if America is great.
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This election, it has been crazy.
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It has been crazy from start to finish. There have been so many things that
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have happened, so many things that the whole cycle of it, And I know there are
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so many people out there that are ready for it to be over.
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You talk to anyone, they're just ready for it to be over.
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Because I think as Americans, we don't like conflict.
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We naturally don't like conflict.
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But it's part of it. I don't think that it needs to be.
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That's why I say obliterate the political parties. I say that,
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you know, and I'll stand by that.
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Obliterate them let us all become red white and blue so we'll
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see how this evening turns out we'll see if one of
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the winners is declared it's looking
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like it's going to be president trump but anything could happen
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anything could happen so we will find out i hope i hope we find out soon i hope
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it is not drag drag out but we will see all right ladies and gentlemen it has
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been declared donald trump Trump will be the next president of the United States, number 47.
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He has just taken Pennsylvania. He's been declared the winner.
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It's done. It's official. And like I said, it doesn't need to be something.
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Nobody needs to be no sore winner.
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Nobody needs to rub it in the other's face. We need to pick each other up,
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come together, and come together as a country, like literally,
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and not have this divisive rhetoric, not have this at each other's throats anymore.
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Let's just come together and make this country great.
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And it's a, I see a.
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This can be a launching pad for where we go as a nation, where the sky is the
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limit, even beyond that.
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Sky is the limit, and we can make things amazing for our citizens,
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make things even and lift the rest of the world up, you know, and make a difference.
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Do something in this world. Do something for humanity, especially getting Elon Musk.
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He is going to be a part of the system.
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He's going to be a part of the administration. you know, in some way,
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and he is all about connecting with other planets. Take us to Mars.
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We might get futuristic very fast, you know, very fast, but either way,
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I think we got to come back to the fundamentals, do the things that are just
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going to make our nation run properly.
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You know, if you, I, the economy is going to, it's going to boom.
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It's going to boom. I know it will. I am very confident of that.
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You know, I think either way, if, if Kamala would have won, we would have still
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been, we would have, you know, the United States is going to carry on, is going to continue on.
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But I think having Trump set back into the office, you know,
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forget the man, forget the man, just throw that aside.
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Look at the policy, look at the policy because the man is going to come, the man is going to go.
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Whoever's sitting in the Oval Office is just going to be a name in the,
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in the history books, but it's the policies that he's going to put in place
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that I think it's going to be wonderful for our children and for our grandchildren and beyond that.
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So there, this America is just getting started.
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So everybody get ready and let's come together and let, and let's knock it out of the park.
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Nobody be sore winners and try not to be a sore loser, you know,
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and that's the thing. We don't, there, there is no losers in this, in this outcome.
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There is no losers. There's no losers whatsoever.
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Let's all come together. So it's amazing.
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I'm, I'm thrilled. And I hope you all are too. We are the, these United States
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of America, go red, right, and blue and praise God. Have a good night. Talk to you soon.