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Tucker Carlson & Hunter Biden Have an Absurd New Laptop Theory · 3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.
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  Speaker 2: Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America
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  Speaker 2: and Jim Garritty of National Review.
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  Speaker 1: Free Martini's coming up.
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  Speaker 3: So glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of
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  Speaker 3: the Three Martini Lunch. As we said yesterday, big primary
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  Speaker 3: days in several different states, most of the focus on Wisconsin, Minnesota,
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  Speaker 3: and South Carolina, and that's where we will camp out
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  Speaker 3: here in the first Martini and Jim, just as we
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  Speaker 3: said last week, that's why they actually hold the primaries
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  Speaker 3: despite what the polls say. We said just the other day,
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  Speaker 3: I think we said even on Monday at Francesca Hong
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  Speaker 3: and the average of the last three poles had forty
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  Speaker 3: two percent and David Crowley at fourteen. Now, the polling
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  Speaker 3: was pretty close on Francesca Hong. She was at and
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  Speaker 3: still is at thirty nine point four percent at last check,
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  Speaker 3: but she lost. David Crowley is going to win thirty
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  Speaker 3: nine point eight percent to thirty nine point four. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, we had kind of been joking and scoffing
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  Speaker 3: a little little bit at Tony Evers and his last ditch,
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  Speaker 3: frantic effort to scramble the voters to, hey, this person
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  Speaker 3: can't win, and it worked. It worked, It barely worked,
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  Speaker 3: but it worked. And David Crowley is going to now
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  Speaker 3: be facing Tom Tiffany for government of Wisconsin, which give
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats much better odds unfortunately of holding that seat.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get to the other states in just a second.
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  Speaker 3: But what you take on Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 4: So Greg I had jokingly thought about a potential headline
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  Speaker 4: for Today's Morning joelt Tony evers political juggernaut. So there's
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  Speaker 4: one possibility. One one is just the primary electorates, because
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  Speaker 4: they're smaller, are harder to pull, harder to get a
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  Speaker 4: good accurate reading. Sometimes there are some late shifts. Clearly
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  Speaker 4: there was consolidation around Crowley. But between abdulah say Ed
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  Speaker 4: looking like he had a really solid lead in the
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  Speaker 4: Michigan Senate Democratic primary and then kind of winning by
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  Speaker 4: the skin of his teeth and this case with Hong,
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  Speaker 4: there's now a case where you know, twice we've seen
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  Speaker 4: big name DSA, socialist Darling candidates go into election day
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  Speaker 4: and drastically underperform or, in the case of Hong, lose
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  Speaker 4: their race despite the polling lead. There have been centrist
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  Speaker 4: Democrats who have said, I don't know if I trust
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  Speaker 4: all these polls that come out that show the socialist
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  Speaker 4: candidate way ahead a lot of these firms of democratic firms.
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  Speaker 4: How do we know if these firms aren't boosting the
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  Speaker 4: candidate that they prefer to see win. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if that's what's going on here, but there now definitely
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  Speaker 4: seems to be a pattern. The thing arguing against it
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  Speaker 4: would be that there are multiple pollsters, so it's not
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  Speaker 4: just one or two that are, you know, putting their
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  Speaker 4: thumb on the scale in favor of the socialist candidate.
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  Speaker 4: The other thing which I think is intriguing about this,
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  Speaker 4: and this is another thing I tought it we're about
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  Speaker 4: in Today's Morning joelt but asked directly both Bernie Sanders
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  Speaker 4: and Alexandria Ocassio Cortez. Were you said, people, oh, you
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  Speaker 4: haven't endorsed in the governor's race in Wisconsin? Are you
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  Speaker 4: going to endorse? What do you think of Francesca Hong?
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  Speaker 4: And Sanders like, well, she's very, very nice, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: not going to endorse in this racec was on ABC
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  Speaker 4: News this Week last Sunday and she said she, now
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  Speaker 4: it's interesting if Francesca Hong looked like a safe bet
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  Speaker 4: to not just win the primary because she was ahead
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  Speaker 4: in the polls considerably, but to win the general election,
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  Speaker 4: and if she were seen as a real asset to
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  Speaker 4: the socialist movement, Greg, do you think Sanders and AOC
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  Speaker 4: would have hesitated?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 4: Right, I mean, like this is, you know, so the
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  Speaker 4: question is did they see something in her, either the
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  Speaker 4: kookie I don't like Thanksgiving stuff or other previous statements.
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  Speaker 4: As I mentioned in today's reille. I don't know how
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  Speaker 4: relevant it is that Francesca Hang as a teenager had
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  Speaker 4: very serious mental health issues. She seems to be in
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  Speaker 4: a better place now, but I think it's safe to
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  Speaker 4: say that, Like, you know, we joke about presidential various
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  Speaker 4: candidates being crazy, sometimes people have real mental health issues
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  Speaker 4: and that, you know, you kind of wonder, does that
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  Speaker 4: something that's entirely in her past? Or is this something
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  Speaker 4: you know that gave people concern? Whatever it was, folks
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  Speaker 4: who you would think would be endorsing her and who
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  Speaker 4: would be supporting her, We're hesitant. Did not go out
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  Speaker 4: on that branch, did not go out on that limb.
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  Speaker 4: I see that, you know, Hassan Piker's uncle jenk Unger
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  Speaker 4: says it's the media's fault. She got clobbered by the
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  Speaker 4: national media that clabbering he's lamenting Greg consisted of quoting her.
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  Speaker 3: So that's true. However, if she had been the nominee
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  Speaker 3: and then those Thanksgiving tweets came out, most of the
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  Speaker 3: mainstream media would have ignored it.
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  Speaker 4: We all hate Thanksgiving, aren't we, you know, like, yes,
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  Speaker 4: here's the thing. If she'd been running in Michigan, Detroit
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  Speaker 4: Lions fans could say, yes, Thanksgiving is one of the
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  Speaker 4: saddest days of the year since they alway seem to
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  Speaker 4: lose that Thanksgiving taking.
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  Speaker 3: And actually most of the lefties are the ones who
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  Speaker 3: are like, oh, it was so sad what we did
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  Speaker 3: to the indigenous population after that thanks Maybe Thanksgiving shouldn't
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  Speaker 3: be celebrated so much. So, you know, they're not that
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  Speaker 3: far away from where Francesco Hang was. But let's move
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  Speaker 3: on quickly next door to Minnesota. Things I would say
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  Speaker 3: broke almost exactly as Michelle to Foy would like. I
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  Speaker 3: say she won three things to happen last I'd say
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  Speaker 3: she got two and a half. First of all, she
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  Speaker 3: dominated her primary, winning fifty two to twenty four against
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  Speaker 3: the next closest candidate that was called pretty early. Secondly,
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  Speaker 3: Lisa Damouth wins the Governor's primary over Mike Lindell. I
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  Speaker 3: think Mike Lindell on the Governor's line probably would have
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  Speaker 3: been too much for Michelle de Foy to overcome in November.
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  Speaker 3: And the next thing she needed was the crazy person
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  Speaker 3: to win the Democratic primary by a razor thin margin. Well,
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  Speaker 3: she got the crazy person, but unfortunately Peggy Flanagan Antie
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  Speaker 3: Craig by twenty Most of those poles were razor thin,
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  Speaker 3: like two three points, and it turns out to be
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  Speaker 3: twenty points. So it looks like the Democrats are pretty
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  Speaker 3: happy with Peggy Flanagin, who literally wore a T shirt
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  Speaker 3: at one point that said protect trans kids with a
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  Speaker 3: huge knife on it. I don't know if that means
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  Speaker 3: she's going to attack the people who don't like the
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  Speaker 3: transagenda or she's going to do the transurgeries herself. But nonetheless,
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  Speaker 3: Peggy flann against crazy, but the size of that victory
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  Speaker 3: is a little bit concerning.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Greg, we know with that knife, she's not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be cutting budgets or waste her squad.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you know, I rarely get to say this.
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  Speaker 4: Minnesota Republicans chef's kiss. Good job you did. You understood
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  Speaker 4: the assignment, you executed the assignment. You did not nominate
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  Speaker 4: Mike Lindell. At least you can rest easy on his pillows.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you and I, for obvious reasons, are big
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  Speaker 4: fans of Michelle Tafoya. We also think that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: between of the options, Lisa to Mouth was a much
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  Speaker 4: more likely to be competitive. This means that the race
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  Speaker 4: is not going to be about all the crazy things
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  Speaker 4: that Mike Lindell had said. Look, it's still Minnesota. It's
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  Speaker 4: never an easy state for Republicans to win. This does
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  Speaker 4: not look like a great year for Republicans. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: as I like to say, you want your best players
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  Speaker 4: on the field, and Michelle Tafoya and Lisa Demuth are
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  Speaker 4: the best two options for that. Peggy Flanning it, like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, was also seen as the more leftward of
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  Speaker 4: the two candidates. And besides our you know, comments about
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  Speaker 4: her T shirt like she's a lieutenant governor, right, so
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  Speaker 4: all of these fraud scandals have occurred on her watch,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, the other alternati would have been like,
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  Speaker 4: oh hey, we're turning the page. We're going in a
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  Speaker 4: new direction. Let's talk about the future, not about the past.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Peggy Flanning and is going to have to
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  Speaker 4: defend and Tim Walls and her role as lieutenant governor there,
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  Speaker 4: and I imagine that's the tougher one. And there's a
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  Speaker 4: reason Tim Walls chose, you know, wanted to run for
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  Speaker 4: a third term, then chose not to in the face
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  Speaker 4: of these scandals. I think that this is like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I don't I don't want to. I don't want to
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  Speaker 4: overstate it. Again, It's Minnesota. It's a generally Democratic leaning state.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, this is this is the lineup you wanted,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, crazier things have happened. There's a chance
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  Speaker 4: I feel better about the gubernatorial race than the senatorial race.
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  Speaker 4: I think probably it's easier to say we have failed
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  Speaker 4: in state government. We deserve better, we want better.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that's already made issue that I think there's
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  Speaker 4: probably least some disgruntled Democrats. Whether that's enough to get
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  Speaker 4: them to pull the lever for a Republican yeah, tough
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  Speaker 4: to see. But you know, again, if you're Minnesota Republicans,
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  Speaker 4: I have no complaints, so as people know I could
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  Speaker 4: usually find things to complain about.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's quickly go to South Carolina. There will
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  Speaker 3: be a runoff between Darley and Graham and Ralph Norman
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  Speaker 3: thirty two point seven percent for Graham, Ralph Norman twenty
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  Speaker 3: four point six, Russell Fry and third at nineteen point six,
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  Speaker 3: and Mark Sandford in fourth at fourteen point nine. Different
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  Speaker 3: arguments you're getting this morning. Some say Darley and Graham
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  Speaker 3: is like Pamela Yvette, Yes she got the most but
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  Speaker 3: not fifty percent like Ivette did in the goominatorial primary,
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  Speaker 3: and that she's everybody else is going to gang up
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  Speaker 3: on her in the runoff. Others are saying, no, she's
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  Speaker 3: got the least amount of distance to make up here.
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  Speaker 3: I think Russell Fry supporters probably go mostly with Ralph Norman.
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  Speaker 3: Sandford might be a little bit of a wild card here,
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  Speaker 3: and Mark Lynch is only six percent, but he ran
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  Speaker 3: against Lindsay in the original primary, so I'm guessing most
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  Speaker 3: of his votes are going probably to Ralph Norman as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean, for you know, former Congressman and
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  Speaker 4: former Governor Sanford more time for hiking, So yeah, he'll
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  Speaker 4: be on a different trail instead of the campaign trail in.
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  Speaker 1: The months ahead. Yeah, I was.
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  Speaker 4: I was kind of surprised by that number by Graham.
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  Speaker 4: I think you're a little unnerve, a little lower than
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  Speaker 4: you probably would expect it. I think we, as we
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  Speaker 4: said yesterday, is likely to end up going to a runoff.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if the two fan bases of the
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  Speaker 4: two Republican congressmen converge to each to form a would,
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  Speaker 4: but I think if you're a Graham, you've got some
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  Speaker 4: work to do. You have to go out and say, look,
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  Speaker 4: I know I've only been your senator for a few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I know you don't know me very well.
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  Speaker 4: This is a good time to go out and do
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  Speaker 4: more interviews. This is a good time to go out
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  Speaker 4: and lay out your positions on more issues, fill in
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  Speaker 4: the blanks, and you know, generally South Carolina Republicans are
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  Speaker 4: like there's a reason incumbents traditionally have the advantage and
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  Speaker 4: foreshadowing a portion of our podcast by saying traditionally and
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  Speaker 4: generally there are plenty of exceptions. But you know, if
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  Speaker 4: you can say, look, I've already been started fighting.
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  Speaker 1: For you, let me finish the job.
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  Speaker 4: That probably should be enough in a runoff, but you know, again,
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  Speaker 4: thirty two point seven is a little bit lower than
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  Speaker 4: I think we expect. I would have guessed, you know,
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  Speaker 4: somewhere around forty just by public sympathy, legacy of her brother,
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  Speaker 4: things like that.
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  Speaker 1: And that that. Yeah, we'll see how things shake out.
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  Speaker 1: But that's that's not terrific for her.
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  Speaker 3: Now she's gonna have to earn it. Norman's got a
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  Speaker 3: record he's running on. I think results versus rhetoric is
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  Speaker 3: his is his praise. So we'll see what happens. Just
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  Speaker 3: two weeks to go in that sprint to the nomination there.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Jim, this story comes to us from Massachusetts,
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  Speaker 3: and it happened a couple of days ago. A number
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  Speaker 3: of US states now, unfortunately allow abortion up to the
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  Speaker 3: moment of birth, anytime, any reason or no reason at all,
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  Speaker 3: and so Massachusetts Governor Mara Healy signing this legislation just
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  Speaker 3: a couple of days ago. Basically, carte blanche on abortion.
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  Speaker 1: Just thrilled.
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  Speaker 3: All these ladies are just thrilled that you can now
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  Speaker 3: terminate pregnancies and abort children up to the forty week mark.
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  Speaker 3: And Jim, the more you think about this, the more
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  Speaker 3: chilling this becomes. First of all, this used to the
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  Speaker 3: Democrat line used to be, oh, this is very serious,
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  Speaker 3: we don't celebrate this at all. It should be they
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  Speaker 3: legal and rare, And now they celebrate. The higher the number,
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  Speaker 3: the better for them. And one of the other things
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  Speaker 3: people have pointed out is that they already had the
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  Speaker 3: abortion legal pretty much for any reason up through the
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  Speaker 3: first two trimesters twenty four weeks. At that point, the
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  Speaker 3: pregnancy is viable sot. If there's any sort of major
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  Speaker 3: medical complication, just deliver the baby. You don't need to
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  Speaker 3: kill the baby. But the left just continues to get
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  Speaker 3: more radical on this issue.
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  Speaker 4: Greg I started the week in the Morning Jolt writing
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  Speaker 4: a long, long, simmering essay about how both parties have
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  Speaker 4: moved to the left compared to ten or twenty years ago.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of people said it was arguing that there's
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  Speaker 4: no difference between the two parties. And that's literally what
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  Speaker 4: I said in the very first sentence is like that,
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  Speaker 4: the arguing that there's no difference between the parties is
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  Speaker 4: overstated and wrong. Nonetheless, you know, you look at where
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  Speaker 4: the Republican Party is. Is the Republican Party still the
• 12:48
  Speaker 4: more pro life of the two parties? Yes, but Planned
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  Speaker 4: Parenthood is receiving federal funding again. You know, the one
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  Speaker 4: year lapse on the one year barring of federal funding
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  Speaker 4: to Planned Parenthood has expired. Trump administration approved a new
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  Speaker 4: generic version of the myth of Pristowe abortion bill. Trump
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  Speaker 4: told Republicans that they have to be flexible on the
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  Speaker 4: High Amendment. And you know, we're still averaging about one
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  Speaker 4: hundred thousand abortions per month, which is about the same
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  Speaker 4: as it was in the Biden years, and it's significantly
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  Speaker 4: more than it was in the Obama years. So as
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  Speaker 4: a pro life I find that all kind of disappointing.
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  Speaker 4: I want to see that, you know, the number of
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  Speaker 4: abortions performed each year go down. However, the Democratic Party,
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  Speaker 4: which is you noted under Bill Clinton, you know, safe
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  Speaker 4: legal and rare. God those last two words are really
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  Speaker 4: important because it was kind of this acknowledgment that you
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  Speaker 4: could be a Democrat and still be morally conflicted about abortion.
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  Speaker 4: You have to you recognize that, Okay, maybe I don't
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  Speaker 4: want to see the consequences of a ban, but we
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  Speaker 4: still wanted to not happen. We still don't see it
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  Speaker 4: as a good thing. And there's been this just you know,
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  Speaker 4: oceanic level shift in Democratic Party thinking sing your abortion,
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  Speaker 4: shout your abortion, that there's nothing wrong with abortion, and almoso,
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  Speaker 4: the implication of abortions are something to be proud of.
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  Speaker 1: It's supposed to be you know, promoted.
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  Speaker 4: No, not at all. I completely vehemently dist agree with that.
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  Speaker 4: When you see this reaction up an abortion which, as
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  Speaker 4: you pointed out, and awfully Aellenia abortion laws to begin with,
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  Speaker 4: you see a vivid.
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  Speaker 1: Illustration of this that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the Republican Party, you can argue, has gotten
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  Speaker 4: more wishy washy on abortion, but the Democratic Party has
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  Speaker 4: become adamant and is absolutely to say right now abortion
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  Speaker 4: should be safe, legal and rare. Would put you on
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  Speaker 4: the right fringe of the Democratic Party, which was the
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  Speaker 4: mainstream position back in the nineteen nineties.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I can't name a single pro life Democrat
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  Speaker 3: or even one who is conflicted, like you said about it.
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  Speaker 3: They ran Dan Lipinski out of Illinois. And there may
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  Speaker 3: have been a couple in the South a few years
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  Speaker 3: ago who were generally pro life blue dogs, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a generation, there were quite a few of them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Henry Quaar maybe I don't even know where he is
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  Speaker 3: on that issue.
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  Speaker 1: He was good in the past.
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  Speaker 4: John Bell Edwards, who used to be governor of Louisiana, Democrat,
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  Speaker 4: he was pretty pro life by party standards.
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  Speaker 1: But he's gone.
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  Speaker 4: That's you know, we're scrounging here and we're pretty you know,
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  Speaker 4: well well verse dog. You know, who has what position
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  Speaker 4: to wear on this type of issue.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty soon you're going to be considered right wing
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  Speaker 3: fringe if the baby's still in the womb, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Ralph Northam's position, and others are probably going to be
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  Speaker 3: I mean, where else can they go then further left
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  Speaker 3: two of your favorite people, Hunter Biden and Tucker Carlson.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: We're on the Tucker Carlson podcast and the issue of
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: the laptop came up. You're gonna hear more than you
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: ever wanted to from either of these people the next
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: few minutes here. But first of all, one of the
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: things we had thought was pretty well established by now Jim,
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: is that yes, it was Hunter Biden's laptop, and no,
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: there's no conspiracy here. It wasn't the Russian disinformation or
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: anything like that. But now Hunter Biden's contending that no,
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: none of this is, none of us is real.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Then the story comes out about how the laptop was left.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: You left a couple of laptops and a laptop repair
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: store in Greenville, Delaware, which I'm a town I'm very
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: familiar with. So and the guy was blind, And I
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: interviewed the guy who seemed to totally believe the story,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: John mcgiaac. I mean, he seemed to be telling the truth,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: but the story did not make sense. Meanwhile, I'm getting
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: we get approached by Israeli's connected to Benjaminenya, who like,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: I know that, who are shopping this stuff to me
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: at Fox News? And I'm like, I don't think that
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: that part of the story. The laptop is real. I
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: thought that from day one, but the way that it
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: entered the bloodstream exactly American media was not real. So
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: I just want to ask you, point blank, did you
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: drop off lap now? And this is the thing that
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: I've said over and over again, I have literally zero
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: recollection or memory of ever dropping off a laptop at
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: John Paul mcg isaac's no. The answer is no.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: I may believe that Hunter Biden has no recollection of that.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: He was into some interesting recreational issues at that time.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: But there's more. You heard Tucker reference the Israelis here.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: He's talking about different parts of that.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Can I just say one thing though, that this is
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: what I experienced during that time, the allegation that there
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: was abusive miners deefen on the laptop that came from
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: the Israelis. I'm just telling you that they came to
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: me with that, so I know that. And one of
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: the things that enraged me about the statement from those
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: sleazy Intel guys is that they blame the Russians. For now,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: maybe the Russians had a hand in it, but it
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: was the Israelis who were pushing that fact.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Fact.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: But they were pushing that so hard, and all the
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: retail guys are like, it's Russia. It's like, you lie,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: you lie, because they called me. I sent one of
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: my producers out to go meet with one of guy
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: connectors in that Yahoo they were behind that, and I
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: felt that everybody in DC knew that, but there was
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: so much pressure never to criticize Israel in any way
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: that they were just like, it's the Russians. It's the Russians.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: They're They're the ones penetrating our political system. It's like,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: why everyone knows what's actually happening. That This was my perspective,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: and it drew me insane. And by the way, I
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: didn't say that on Fox News. I'll admit it. I didn't. Yeah,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I didn't, You're right. I just want to say I
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: was part of the problem also, But I knew.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: It, Jim. It was Joe Biden's people. The Intel community
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: is trying to protect Joe Biden. That we're talking about
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Russian disinformation. It wasn't the right and I don't know
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: there's so many different ways you could go here. What
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: stands out to you?
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: So when your your assertion is it's not true and
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: your next words are, I have no memory of this.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: That is not as exculpatory as you think it is,
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: and in fact you are not. You're roughly as reliable
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: as Leonard Shelby from Memento, the Guy for his memory
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: reset every fifteen minutes.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Why are we trusted you?
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: I do love when Tucker Carlson decides to go down
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: a wrap a hole where you could almost hear Candice
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Owens saying, oh come on, or Alex Jones.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Saying I don't I.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Will say a fact check true. When Tucker Carlson says
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: it drove me insane. Yeah, okay, I believe that part.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: That part makes sense. You know again, I can't take
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: credit for this.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: I believe was Rod Dryer who said I finally figured
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: out how to give me a guest on Tucker Carlson's program,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: and he put up a.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Picture Bigfoot is Israeli. And now you know so.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Hunter Biden very much would like to stay relevant in
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: today's politics. I don't think I need to hear from
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Hunter Biden very much at all One of the rare
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: exceptions would be his update on his father's health, which
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: he said is doing very badly. He said that the
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: stage four prostate cancer has metastastized to his bones and
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: his dad is in debilitating condition. I wrote about that
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: in Today's In this week's Washington Post column, I think
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: we should all be praying for Joe Biden. It cancer
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: is a terrible thing. The point of my column was
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: also that it had Biden managed to get reelected, which
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: was extremely unlikely, but if he had managed to do that,
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: he almost certainly would have had to resign the presidency
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: by now, and a lot of people, like I know,
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: they would have covered it up. It's very very hard
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: to cover cancer treatments, and you know this kind of
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: the conditions of Biden is in right now. So anyway,
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: but Hunter Biden very much wants to stay relevant. Every
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: couple of weeks he'll say something like he's thinking of
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: running for president or some other thing, which is clearly
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: designs like look at me, pay attention to me, Have me,
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: as your guest, considered me relevant to the discussion, because
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: I think a large portion of the of Americans and
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: the American political spectrum are perfectly happy to let Hunter
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Biden go, do something else with your life, Get out
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: of our lives, get out of the spotlight. It's been
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: really bad for you. We're not interested in relitigating the
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Biden legacy, you know, go, and Hunter Biden desperately wants
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: to stay in this. So it's like, who wants to
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: listen to Hunter Biden for like now? Well, it turns
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: out Tucker Carlson wants to listen to Hunter Biden for
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: hours at a time and is willing to believe Ah,
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: the laptop was all a deep bb Net and Yahoo
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: dropped it off at the store and all these other
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: kind of crazy conspiracy theories and stuff. And here's what
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: you'd be like, Well, okay, so you know, Jim Greg,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: where are you talking about Hunter, about Tucker Carlson? Well,
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: I mean, according you know, apparently Marjorie Taylor Green and
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: all these Thomas Massey, all these usual suspects are talking
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: about forming a third party.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: I don't know whether you want to make it the
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: you know, the octopus symbol, the crazy conspiracy theorist Party
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: or something like that, but they very much believe that
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: they are a political force, that they're significant, that they
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: speak for, presumably a chunk of the Republican base, but
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: maybe a chunk of the Democratic base as well, and
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: that they are going places. I wonder what percentage of
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: their audience is watching them because they genuinely follow them,
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: believe them, and what percentage of their audience is just
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: watching them for entertainment. But you know, again the Stucker
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Carlson going off on his you know, crazy pills and
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: telling you that everything you know is wrong, and I
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: know the secret because my producer's met with the Israeli
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: blah blah blah blah blah.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: That's quite the side.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I also know that, you know, Hunter Biden, nothing
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: is ever his fault. I hope he's clean and sober
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: and has been for several years now. I hope that
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: continues for him. But he had decades of excuses and
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: counter blaming and blame shifting, and I don't think that
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: necessarily goes away right away. I mean, it's pretty well established.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: I think his signature is on something right when he
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: dropped that off at this repair shop in Delaware's.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: That and you know, like it's terrible that the Republicans
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: kept putting the crack pipe into his hand. And it's
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: terrible that the Republicans made him leave that gun. That
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: was you know that he lied on the application for
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: and it's like read the biographies of his ex wife
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: and other Biden family members. Hunter Biden is a deeply,
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: deeply troubled individual who has made the wrong decision at
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: almost every single opportunity. I don't know why he's done this,
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: but I think this is a guy who really really
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: needs much more help. And I don't think being a
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: celebrity does anything does any good for anybody's mental health
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: or their decision making as the more fame and fortune
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: they obtained. Remember he attempted to claim tostitutes as a
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: business expense on his taxes.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Just going to ask did the massage shoot these scenes
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: with him and the prostitutes and weighing the crack on
• 24:07
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• 24:08
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  Speaker 3: there was one other bit of news on Primary night
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• 25:30
  Speaker 3: attention to places like Connecticut, but another house incumbent has
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: been defeated, this time fourteen term Democrat John Larson losing
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: badly to former Hartford mayor Luke Bronan fifty four point
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: four percent to thirty two point eight. I don't think
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: most Republicans who know anything about John Larson are going
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: to be very sad to see him go. He's pretty
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: obnoxious guy from a conservative perspective. My theory though, is
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: that whoever replaces these people are usually worse. Don't know
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: anything about Bronan. Hopefully he's better, but my hopes are
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: not high that now, depending on how you count it,
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: either ten or eleven House Republicans who have lost their
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: primaries this year, which is way more than usual. Add
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: on to that fifty nine who didn't even run for
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: reelection something either retired or ran for something else. And then,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: of course two senators also lost their primaries Cornyn and Cassidy. So, Jim,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: this is a lot more than usual. Usually these primaries
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: are pretty perfunctory. Not this year.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: So one of the aspects of life when you're a
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: political journalist, you're constantly getting pitched by campaigns. Ah, you
• 26:31
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• 26:34
  Speaker 4: They're the next big thing. You know, this is why
• 26:37
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• 26:39
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• 26:41
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• 26:45
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• 26:47
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• 26:49
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• 26:51
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• 26:53
  Speaker 4: sometimes they have an interesting life story. But it's also
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: like you're beginning, You're well, you're running against an established incumbent. Okay,
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: this incumbent is gonna have huge advantages in terms of
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: name I D. In terms of fundraising, and in terms
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: of long established ties to interest groups, community groups, stuff
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: like that, Like your opponent is a known quantity. And
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, but they're part of the system. Okay, great,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: But like ninety some percent of incumbents every year get
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: re elected in the primaries.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: It is very, very hard to knock off an incumbent.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Now, the fact that we've seen this many this year
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: is an indicator that, oh, well, there is enough discontent
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: out there it can happen. But as you noted, like
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: a good chunk of them, a lot more are just
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: using to run for Senate, using to run for governor,
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: running for some other office, and some a good portion
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: of retiring. So on the one hand, there are some
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: people out there are like, oh, you know, incumbents are like, eh,
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: I don't know if I want to run for reelection
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: this year. This is water is a looking a little choppy,
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: but still the overwhelming majority of incumbents get re elected,
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: and there's a the phenomenon people say, oh, you know,
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: are you happy with Congress? And Congress usually gets an
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: approval rating of you know, ten fifteen percent or something
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: like that, and then they say, how are you feeling
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: about your congressman? Oh, pretty much, no, much better. This
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: weird disconnect there. We're like, ah, how those other you
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: know guys like there are a bunch of morons, but
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: my guy, my guys, swell, let me tell you.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: But again, it is kind of an indication.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Okay, Like, by the way, if we're seeing this many
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: overturning of incumbents in primaries, I would suspect the number
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: of incumbents who lose reelection bids in the general election
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: is probably gonna be higher than usual. And it's a
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: little tougher to measure when you mentioned all the retirements
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: we've had. But yeah, there's a lot of voter discontent
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: out there, and it's hitting some you know, some House
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Democrats too.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: It's split fairly evenly. I think there are more Democrats
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: that have gone down than Republicans. But it's certainly not
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: just a one party phenomenon. So anyway, Jim, quite a
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: night last night. We'll see what the rest of the
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: week holds for us, and we'll pick it up again tomorrow.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: See then, see tomorrow, Greg, Jim.
• 28:43
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