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Tom Emmer | Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives Recaps RNC Midterm Convention in Dallas Last Week · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: There I was in the Oval Office with the president yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: And the last time I saw the president speak was
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  Speaker 1: in Dallas about a week ago. And a week ago,
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday night. And I looked to my left as the
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  Speaker 1: president enters the stage with Lee Greenwood singing that great song.
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  Speaker 1: And who's standing there? This really handsome guy with white
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  Speaker 1: hair out of the state of Minnesota who I've become very,
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  Speaker 1: very friendly with. I love this guy. Happens to be
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  Speaker 1: the majority whip. And so important to our party, Tom Emmer.
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  Speaker 1: And I had a chance to meet Tom Emmer's lovely
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  Speaker 1: wife that night, too. Put his mic on. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: We're live.
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  Speaker 2: We're live. Yeah. Everybody knows. Everybody loves Jackie. They do.
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  Speaker 2: Just ask the president.
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  Speaker 1: He loves her, too?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. He'll tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, really? Because you know what's funny about that? For
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  Speaker 1: the first time ever, the president met my wife yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Him and I had closed for years. He never met Danielle.
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  Speaker 1: I took her into the Oval Office. He said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, what a pretty wife. What a pretty wife.
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  Speaker 1: And he was so complimentary and so great. And my
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  Speaker 1: wife was a Democrat. And Trump kind of turned her,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So he's like that.
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  Speaker 3: The president gave an invitation. This is a few months
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  Speaker 3: back for dinner. He says, you want to come over
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  Speaker 3: for dinner?
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  Speaker 2: What do you say? Absolutely. Yes, sir. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He says, is Jackie with you? I said, yeah, she is.
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  Speaker 3: He goes, that's great. Bring her with you. Otherwise, don't
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  Speaker 3: bother showing up.
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  Speaker 1: That's him. There you go. Isn't that great?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That is fantastic. And he was terrific that night. How
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  Speaker 1: do you think the whole thing, when I saw you
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  Speaker 1: the next morning walking back and forth doing about 9
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  Speaker 1: million interviews, and I spoke to him that next morning
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  Speaker 1: when you walked by for about an hour, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think last week was fun and glitzy for the party,
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  Speaker 1: or do you think it really helped?
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, people can have different opinions, but this is
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  Speaker 3: the genius of our president. Our president understands that the
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  Speaker 3: result will be based on turnout, Sid. And unfortunately, when
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  Speaker 3: a party is in the White House, they tend to
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  Speaker 3: be happy because they've got Donald Trump sealed the border.
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump has got homicide levels and crime at the
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  Speaker 3: lowest level in 100 years.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, all of.
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  Speaker 3: These successes that Donald Trump is having, the parties, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that the hardcore MAGA world is happy. And what he
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  Speaker 3: was doing last week, with all of us in the
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  Speaker 3: same place was saying, don't rest on your laurels. This
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  Speaker 3: is not over. You got to stand up, you got
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  Speaker 3: to show up and you got to vote. And I
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  Speaker 3: want you to pretend that I'm on the ballot. And I,
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  Speaker 3: from that standpoint, because look, none of these media outlets,
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  Speaker 3: you know, present company excluded, none of the lamestream media
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  Speaker 3: is ever going to do him a favor.
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  Speaker 2: Of celebrating anything that he's done.
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  Speaker 3: Right. Okay. We weren't talking to Democrats. We weren't talking
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  Speaker 3: to independents last week. He was talking to hardcore Republicans,
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  Speaker 3: challenging them to get up and get out and vote.
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  Speaker 1: Now, there are some things that are not going great.
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  Speaker 1: He'll admit that, President Trump. I mean, he knows that
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  Speaker 1: when the Iran conflict is over, he doesn't call it
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  Speaker 1: a war anymore, it's a conflict at this point, that
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  Speaker 1: at that point we'll see gas and oil prices start
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  Speaker 1: to come down. And, you know, I know he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: happy with Kevin Warsh earlier in the week. He handpicked
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  Speaker 1: the guy and he raised interest rates. That's not great.
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  Speaker 1: And I think you'd even admit that goods are still
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  Speaker 1: a little high. Inflation, that's why Walsh did it, is
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  Speaker 1: still a little high. So Trump, while he deserves a
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  Speaker 1: ton of credit because he was left a big bag
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  Speaker 1: of duty, folks, smelly duty by that walking cadaver Joe Biden,
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  Speaker 1: and he's fixed a lot of it, he hasn't fixed
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  Speaker 1: all of it. He knows that. You know that. Is
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  Speaker 1: that fair to say?
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  Speaker 2: Yes and no.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think if we want to play the
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  Speaker 3: game that Democrats and the left-wing media play and just
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  Speaker 3: pick trees in the economy instead of the entire forest, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you, you know, we were having this
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  Speaker 3: argument the other day.
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  Speaker 2: Eggs are down, right?
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  Speaker 3: Eggs are down big. I can talk about all these
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  Speaker 3: things that are good.
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  Speaker 2: Now, look, I come into office and eggs are high, okay?
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  Speaker 1: They start yelling at me, yelling at me. What are
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  Speaker 1: you going to do about eggs, sir? What are you
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  Speaker 1: going to do about eggs? He said, I just took
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  Speaker 1: over an hour ago. He tells that almost, but he's right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, right away, make it fix, make it better
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  Speaker 1: when he does do that. But again, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: The other, no, no, don't be sorry. I think that's great.
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  Speaker 3: So I can pick those trees too, the way they
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  Speaker 3: do on the other side. There's just happens to be
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  Speaker 3: more effective because it's the gas and And people should
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  Speaker 3: just think how crafty this is. We don't fill our
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  Speaker 3: tank every day, just like we don't go into the
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  Speaker 3: grocery store every day. But you know what we do?
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  Speaker 2: We do drive by that sign every day that says $ 3.
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  Speaker 4: 50, $ 3.
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  Speaker 2: 75, $ 4, $ 4.
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  Speaker 3: 25. So, look, the economy, just look at last week.
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  Speaker 3: We had a jobs report that was three times larger
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  Speaker 3: than anything they expected. And Sid, it wasn't gig economy jobs.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't Uber drivers. It wasn't DoorDash. It was high paying,
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  Speaker 3: high tech jobs and manufacturing jobs with benefits, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody seems to want to focus on that. And the
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  Speaker 3: other piece is you realize if you think your country's
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  Speaker 3: not headed in the right direction, Do.
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  Speaker 2: You spend more money?
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  Speaker 1: Usually, no.
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  Speaker 3: You pull the belt tight and you hold on. You
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  Speaker 3: realize consumer spending is up 6% over last year. Look,
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of good in the economy. Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: was handed the absolute biggest mess that anyone could have
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  Speaker 3: had to deal with. Because of Joe Biden's failed policies,
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  Speaker 3: you had inflation, double-digit inflation we hadn't seen in 40 years.
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  Speaker 3: You had all kinds of things that were just out
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  Speaker 3: of reach for the average American. I now under Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 3: he's bringing back investment. He's reshoring manufacturing jobs. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the future is incredibly bright because of what Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: has done.
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  Speaker 2: Are we all the way there? He's had 18 months.
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  Speaker 2: It's like your story about the eggs. I got here
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  Speaker 2: an hour ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, Joe Biden had four years to destroy this.
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  Speaker 2: He did.
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  Speaker 1: And he did destroy it. You know, we talk about
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  Speaker 1: Trump being on the ballot in terms of these midterms.
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  Speaker 1: And people are quick to say he's not on the ballot.
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  Speaker 1: He is. You know, he's said on television a million times.
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  Speaker 1: He said on this show on Friday, he said, Sid,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to 35 states. He goes, Father, you've got
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  Speaker 1: great energy. Maybe you can do five. I'll do 30.
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  Speaker 1: I said, sure. But he's going to go to all
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  Speaker 1: these states and campaign. He was in North Carolina two
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  Speaker 1: days ago for Michael Watley. You're doing the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Emmer.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. You're a great American and a
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  Speaker 1: great patriot and a great Republican. And you're going to
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  Speaker 1: go out and help a bunch of people as well.
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  Speaker 1: So he's going to be out there in all these
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  Speaker 1: states and I don't know. You know, last look, Watley
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  Speaker 1: was getting beat pretty good by Roy Cooper. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure Trump will win every one, but he's got a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good record, pretty damn good record up to this point.
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  Speaker 1: So you got to feel better knowing that President Trump
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  Speaker 1: is going to spend money, maybe a heap of billion dollars,
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  Speaker 1: and at the same time also hit the road. That's
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  Speaker 1: a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, look, Michael Watley, great example.
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  Speaker 3: You on the outside, you look in and you go, boy,
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  Speaker 3: the numbers aren't great with Michael Watley in this Cooper,
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  Speaker 3: but North Carolinian Politico told me the other night he
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  Speaker 3: guaranteed Michael Watley will beat Roy Cooper.
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  Speaker 1: He did.
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  Speaker 3: Very compelling. He said, first off, Cooper has never been exposed.
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  Speaker 3: No one has ever run a campaign against him to
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  Speaker 3: literally lay out the argument as to why this guy
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  Speaker 3: is not qualified to lead. And he said, it's coming.
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  Speaker 3: And when it does, what happens is Cooper's numbers collapse.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, The other thing is, you've got to
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  Speaker 3: look at his numbers now.
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  Speaker 2: He has topped out. He's done. Yeah, he's not going
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  Speaker 2: any bigger.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what I would do if I was Mike Watley,
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  Speaker 1: and I know he worked with Laurie Trump, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: close to Laurie, I may tell her this. You want
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  Speaker 1: to beat Roy Cooper? Here's how you beat him, Tom.
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  Speaker 1: All you've got to do, I mean this, I know
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  Speaker 1: it's horrible, but I mean this, because sometimes you've got
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  Speaker 1: to fight this way. All you've got to do is
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  Speaker 1: show the video of that beautiful, blonde, Ukrainian girl getting
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  Speaker 1: on a train, and some animal behind her slitting her throat,
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  Speaker 1: and you could actually watch the girl die on this video.
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  Speaker 1: And that happened in Roy Cooper's state. And Roy Cooper,
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  Speaker 1: like the people here, has no issue allowing people like
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  Speaker 1: that walk the streets. While he plays that, he wins.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, again, a North Carolinian that has reason to know, guaranteed,
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  Speaker 3: didn't tell me I think he can win.
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  Speaker 3: .
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  Speaker 1: .
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  Speaker 3: People need to understand the other side.
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  Speaker 3: Not only did they not vote for any of this,
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  Speaker 3: they will undo all of it. And it's really about
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  Speaker 3: putting more money in people's pockets, about safety and security.
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump's promises, make America healthy again, make America safe again,
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  Speaker 3: make America prosperous again. You've got to focus on all
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  Speaker 3: those things that we've been doing in just 18 months
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  Speaker 3: that are literally having that impact. And I believe that people...
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  Speaker 3: They are smarter than these political elitists, give them credit.
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  Speaker 1: You think so, right?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Yeah. You're going to go into that voting
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  Speaker 3: booth and you're going to say, ask yourself a very
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  Speaker 3: simple question. Do I feel better about where I'm at
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  Speaker 3: today than I did 18 months ago?
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  Speaker 2: Is it even close?
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  Speaker 1: Unless you watch, what is her name, this idiot, Amy Poehler,
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  Speaker 1: sitting with Robert De Niro two days ago. Did you
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  Speaker 1: see that? I mean, you want to talk about America
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  Speaker 1: falling apart, these two morons who make millions and millions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars?
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  Speaker 2: You know, just move. Just move. You don't like this place.
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  Speaker 2: Just get out.
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  Speaker 1: Get out.
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  Speaker 2: Get the hell out of here.
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  Speaker 1: So these races in New York, Tom, Mike Lawler, I
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  Speaker 1: think he wins. He keeps winning. But I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I keep hearing this. Kate Conley has it. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Lepetri, Long Island. Janine Driscoll out on Long Island.
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  Speaker 1: You keeping an eye on these races?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Because your buddy, Bruce Blakeman, is running a great race
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  Speaker 3: against Kathy Hochul. What a nightmare she is. The only
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  Speaker 3: thing that she can claim is that, what's that line?
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  Speaker 3: She may not be the dumbest person in the world,
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  Speaker 3: but if Tim Walz dies, she could take that over.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. Can I steal that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, please do.
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  Speaker 1: And you can use that with just about anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Any stupid person. Even Kamala Harris.
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  Speaker 1: If Tim Walz dies, you win.
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  Speaker 3: Kamala Harris is a whole new level of stupid. But
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  Speaker 3: Bruce Blakeman, county executive in Nassau County, all of Driscoll's
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  Speaker 3: 4th District and three-quarters of LaPetrie's 3rd District are in
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  Speaker 3: Nassau County.
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're watching. We're watching.
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  Speaker 1: And there's one reason I'm watching your neighborhood, because don't forget,
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  Speaker 1: I did Sports Talk Radio for 16 years, and I
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  Speaker 1: had this lady on my show many, many, many times.
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  Speaker 1: I really like her. The great Michelle Tafoya. How does
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  Speaker 1: she look?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you.
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  Speaker 3: Michelle Tafoya, the professionalism from her career comes out. It
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  Speaker 3: just stands out to begin with.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think anybody expected, especially on the left, her
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  Speaker 3: core values. She is able to express her core values
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  Speaker 3: with that professional broadcasting background. There's a poll that came
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  Speaker 3: out a couple days ago that has Tafoya and Peggy Flanagan,
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  Speaker 3: that creep.
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  Speaker 2: She's a lunatic. She's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, she's also Wall's right-hand gal. She's the
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  Speaker 3: lieutenant governor. She's been overseeing all the fraud with the
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  Speaker 3: fraudster himself. All right, so this poll comes out. It's
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  Speaker 3: got them tied. 43-43.
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  Speaker 2: This is not a push. This is just who do
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  Speaker 2: you like, right? 43-43.
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  Speaker 3: And the undecideds, obviously, there's a healthy number of undecideds.
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  Speaker 3: Think about this, Sid. I think she's doing great because
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  Speaker 3: when you have an informed ballot, She wins by five points.
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  Speaker 3: And even looking at this 43-43 with the undecideds, you
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  Speaker 3: know Peggy Flanagan. You're undecided because you don't know DeFoya.
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  Speaker 3: So the ones that come across, I think the majority
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  Speaker 3: go to DeFoya or they don't vote.
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  Speaker 2: And I will give you one other piece.
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  Speaker 3: Republicans in Minnesota are winning the attorney general's race against
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  Speaker 3: Keith Ellison.
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  Speaker 1: They're all winning that because Ellison's a bad guy, very
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  Speaker 1: bad guy.
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  Speaker 3: Ron Schutz leads in the polling that we've seen so far.
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  Speaker 3: The Secretary of State's race is going to be competitive.
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  Speaker 3: We have something called the state auditor. We've got a
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  Speaker 3: guy named Scott Jensen running in that race.
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  Speaker 2: He's leading.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: So if you look at the other races to compare
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  Speaker 3: with us, people in Washington ask me, can Michelle Tafoya win?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely she can.
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  Speaker 1: You just made a great argument. I had no idea
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  Speaker 1: that many Republicans were that competitive, even winning in the
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  Speaker 1: state of Minnesota. I mean, I'm going to be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you. I watch the Vikings because I love the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: and I liked them against the Packers last week. And
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  Speaker 1: you and I kind of joked around about Kyla Murray.
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  Speaker 1: But outside of that, I've lost a lot of faith
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota. And you're there, and my cousin Norm Coleman,
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  Speaker 1: who I love dearly, he's there. But I've lost a
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  Speaker 1: lot of faith in that state.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, watch out for the governor's race, too.
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  Speaker 3: We've got the current Speaker of the House, Lisa Damuth,
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  Speaker 3: running against Amy Klobuchar. And everybody thinks, oh, well, you
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  Speaker 3: can't beat Amy.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I think.
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  Speaker 1: Look out.
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  Speaker 3: Really? Look, does she have a great brand? She's built
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  Speaker 3: it for years. But Sid, my district and the eighth
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  Speaker 3: district in Minnesota, which is mine is north and east
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  Speaker 3: suburbs of exurbs of Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: The eighth is the Iron Range.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you know in 2018, Amy won my district
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  Speaker 2: and she won the eighth. In 2024, she lost both
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  Speaker 2: of them to Royce White.
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  Speaker 1: Did lose to Royce White.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so, but she's just such a big name. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I get very nervous.
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  Speaker 3: Lisa is very capable. If anybody can pull this off,
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  Speaker 3: Lisa can do it.
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  Speaker 1: So, if we take the worst case scenario, the God
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  Speaker 1: forbid scenario, and they actually do take back the House,
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats, and Trump has said time and time again, look,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how good I do. There's a history
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  Speaker 1: of presidents who do well, and the other party still,
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, takes over. the House, maybe the Senate too.
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  Speaker 1: Worst case scenario, are you worried that every day will
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  Speaker 1: be impeached Trump and it'll be really difficult for President
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  Speaker 1: Trump to get anything done in his final two years
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  Speaker 1: of one of the greatest presidencies in the history of
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  Speaker 1: our country?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm absolutely... Why do you think I'm so motivated? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump ran for four years, not for two. And
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  Speaker 3: we've seen this playbook before. We actually, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if you know this, Sid, but last week we had
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  Speaker 3: to deal with another impeachment move by.
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  Speaker 2: The great Al Green. God, I hope the door hits him.
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  Speaker 1: Me too. He's such a piece of garbage. But a
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  Speaker 1: lot of Democrats voted against it. They did. How about that?
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  Speaker 3: You look at the core, and I should have brought
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  Speaker 3: the list with me. These are people who are worried
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  Speaker 3: about their races. By the way, I just got to
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  Speaker 3: point out, everybody says the party in power, when they're
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  Speaker 3: in the White House, you lose the midterm. Sid, when
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  Speaker 3: did that become the case? One party controlled the House
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  Speaker 3: for a half a century.
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  Speaker 2: Not too long ago.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good point.
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  Speaker 3: We keep talking about 1994. That's a good point. And
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  Speaker 3: we're just equally divided. We've got to run races that
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: target our actual voters. And Donald Trump, God bless him,
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: his whole motivation is to get people engaged and get
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: them out to vote. If our people show up, we're
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: going to be just fine.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: All right. On the way out, you are so terrific, Tom.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: You really are. So the Vikings have bought them off.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: They beat the Packers. They bring in Kyler Murray, the
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: former Arizona Cardinal. He won the Heisman at Oklahoma. And
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: I'm sitting there watching the game going, they can't win
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: with this guy. And I know the backups are Carson
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Wentz and J.J. McCarthy. So Kyler gets hurt. I never
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: want to see anybody get hurt except for Aaron Rodgers.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: And nothing too bad, nothing that will hurt his life,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: but he could be done with the Steelers. I'd be happy.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: So Kyler gets hurt, and I go, you know what?
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: They got a chance now. They could actually beat Green Bay.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: It started off ugly for Carson, but in the third quarter,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: your Vikings went nuts.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I tell you, Kyler is a hell of an athlete.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, this guy's amazing. But what is he? He's
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: like four feet tall. He can't see over the line.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: They've got to open up.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: The line for him to even see who's downfield, which
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: is why you see the poor guy start to run.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: The poor kid starts running all over the place looking
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: to make something happen.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Look, I don't wish anything bad on him either. He's out.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Carson Wentz is the guy.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Carson needs to get some of his confidence back because
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: the tools are there. I mean, the damage that was
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: done in Philadelphia, those fans are not the most forgiving
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: people on the planet.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Most forgiving? They're like Hamas.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Well, and they've got to get better. O'Connell is a
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: quarterback's coach for the Vikings. Yeah. They've got to get
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: better at checking down quicker and then unloading the ball.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: You asked me about J.J.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: McCarthy. I'm a fan.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Me too.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what's going on with J.J.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, he made some bonehead decisions, but he's a kid.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: He's a young quarterback. And I feel bad for Justin Jefferson.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, between him and Addison, your wide receivers are
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: as good as anybody's in the NFL, and these poor
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: guys can't win. I know Justin's got to be pissed, right?
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, he's an amazing man. He's a nice guy.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: He likes Trump.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: He does.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: He donates to Republican causes. And so if you're looking
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: for a guy to root for, folks, Pro Bowl wide receiver,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings from Emory State, Justin Jefferson. Tom, you're beautiful.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I love you. You really are.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Sid.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: You've become a good friend, and I appreciate you a lot.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Right back at you.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Tom Emmer right here, the majority
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: whip and just a wonderful guy. And that's why Republicans,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: that's why we're the better party, folks, because you've got
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: people like Tom Emmer right there running our ship.
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• 18:31
  Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here?