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Trump shares list of grievances against GOP · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: The midterms are now less than three months away, and
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  Speaker 1: there are some new signs that President Trump might be
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  Speaker 1: in panic mode as voter anger intensifies. There's new polling
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  Speaker 1: that shows that the president is underwater on a number
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  Speaker 1: of key issues, for example, prices and inflation, the economy.
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  Speaker 1: He's even losing steam on immigration and border security, which
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  Speaker 1: are typically signature pieces of his agenda. But Trump says
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  Speaker 1: that this is not his fault.
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  Speaker 2: I inherited a mess in so many ways. The border,
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  Speaker 2: which I solved very quickly. I inherited so many different problems.
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  Speaker 2: This was a bad administration. This was an incompetent administration.
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  Speaker 2: But I inherited high prices. And then from the first day,
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  Speaker 2: they started using the word affordability. They looked at me. Affordability.
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  Speaker 2: It was a new word. Nobody ever heard the word.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not just his predecessor. The president is once
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  Speaker 1: again throwing shade at the very party that he leads. Today,
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  Speaker 1: Trump shared a rant against Republicans from a conservative influencer
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  Speaker 1: who wrote, I don't think the Republicans, the GOP fully
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  Speaker 1: grasped how badly they're effing up right now. It continues
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  Speaker 1: with a warning that the party might be sleepwalking toward
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  Speaker 1: a midterm reckoning. But Trump might have just found a
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  Speaker 1: winning solution to this, and that is to turn the
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  Speaker 1: spotlight right back on himself. Because just a minute later,
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  Speaker 1: he reposted a list of things that he considers to
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  Speaker 1: be his biggest accomplishments. Caroline, The Atlantic is reporting that
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  Speaker 1: Trump's advisers told him that the poor polling reflects the
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  Speaker 1: fact that The voting public still doesn't know many of
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  Speaker 1: his accomplishments. So he suggested that the ad makers mine
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  Speaker 1: his own on-camera statements as building blocks. And he says,
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  Speaker 1: go look at the clips to make the ads. Is
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  Speaker 1: that the right strategy here?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the White House definitely needs to get new talking points.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when the answer to everything is Iran can't
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  Speaker 3: have a nuclear weapon and short-term pain for long-term gain,
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  Speaker 3: people aren't believing the talking points anymore. So you're going
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  Speaker 3: to have to get new material. But then second to that,
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  Speaker 3: the administration does need to do a better job of
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  Speaker 3: getting the accomplishments out there.
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  Speaker 4: And there are many.
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  Speaker 3: There's Trump accounts. There's record low fentanyl deaths. There's been
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  Speaker 3: zero border crossings the last 15 months under Biden. It
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  Speaker 3: was 5,000 a day in the El Paso sector. They
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  Speaker 3: have to know that they're up against a biased media.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, respectfully, this network covered Natalie Harp all last week.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't hear any word about the young mother in
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  Speaker 3: Virginia who was killed by an illegal immigrant from El Salvador.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for having me on so that I can
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  Speaker 3: tell people about that. But the admin has to realize, yes,
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  Speaker 3: they're up against a biased media. So use the other
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  Speaker 3: tools at your disposal. That we used very successfully in 2024.
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  Speaker 3: Go talk to the podcast audience. Use social media. I'm
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  Speaker 3: a big believer that if you don't go talk to people,
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  Speaker 3: they will assume the worst about you. It's why I
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  Speaker 3: appreciate coming on here. And when we were talking to people,
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  Speaker 3: we were going up in the polls.
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  Speaker 1: What about the things that he's actually doing? Because there
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  Speaker 1: are also things he's still doing right now that are
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  Speaker 1: not helping. I mean, there's the tariffs. The whole thing
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  Speaker 1: that he did with beef last week, which infuriated his
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  Speaker 1: own base. I mean, he's got some problems that are
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  Speaker 1: actually within his control, not just talking points, but things
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  Speaker 1: he can actually do.
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  Speaker 5: The talking points aren't the problem. This presidency up until
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  Speaker 5: this point has been a failure. He was elected because
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  Speaker 5: of things like affordability, although he doesn't believe that word
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  Speaker 5: existed prior to him being elected this go around. But
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  Speaker 5: gas prices are still high. Drug prices are still high.
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  Speaker 5: Housing prices are still high. Grocery prices are still high.
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  Speaker 5: We're now at month six in a war in Iran
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  Speaker 5: that he said he was going to bomb his way
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  Speaker 5: out of. People aren't seeing an end result of that.
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  Speaker 5: So gas prices are going up. Fertilizers going up. So
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  Speaker 5: by every metric, this this White House has been a failure.
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  Speaker 5: But what he did last week was he went on
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  Speaker 5: a 30 minute rant showing people the improvements he was
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  Speaker 5: making to the to the White House with with gold
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  Speaker 5: ornaments in Washington, D.C., He's a big time developer. So
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  Speaker 5: that's what he's spending his time and energy on. We
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  Speaker 5: have a billion dollar ballroom we're spending money on that
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  Speaker 5: the taxpayers are putting the bill on. And so, look,
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  Speaker 5: I understand that sometimes, you know, you have a bad
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  Speaker 5: message or you have a bad messenger. But there also
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  Speaker 5: is a point in time you're about to see candidates
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  Speaker 5: begin to do this right now when your president's a failure,
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  Speaker 5: you cut, bait and run. And that's what Republicans are
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  Speaker 5: starting to do around the country.
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  Speaker 3: But would you describe a border where there's been zero
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  Speaker 3: border crossings for 15 months as a failure? Because I
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  Speaker 3: don't define that as a failure. I have my criticisms,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't define that.
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  Speaker 5: As a failure.
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  Speaker 3: Is that a failure?
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  Speaker 5: How about this? No, that's not a failure. The failure
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  Speaker 5: actually was Democrats. The failure actually was Democrats. When we
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  Speaker 5: were running for re-election, acting as if the border and
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  Speaker 5: crime was not a real issue, when people, particularly in
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  Speaker 5: Texas and other places, because we were naive. So this
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  Speaker 5: has been a success. But the reason that the president
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  Speaker 5: was elected... was because people were having issues with their pocketbook.
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  Speaker 5: And so let me tell you what the failure is.
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  Speaker 6: They didn't like 10 million people coming into their country.
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  Speaker 5: And they're glad that that border is closed. So let
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  Speaker 5: me outline the failures of immigration just briefly. The failures
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  Speaker 5: of immigration... or when we see ICE ripping parents away
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  Speaker 5: from children, when we have people, Americans, dead in the street.
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  Speaker 1: Because of violence.
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  Speaker 5: This is what I'm talking about with the biased media.
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  Speaker 3: Because you're not going to talk about the young mom killed.
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  Speaker 5: In Virginia that was killed by an illegal immigrant, but
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  Speaker 5: you're going to.
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  Speaker 4: Talk about that?
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  Speaker 3: The failures are, are you going to articulate?
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  Speaker 5: First of all, everybody around the table, including Democrats, Barack
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  Speaker 5: Obama actually did it well. Everybody says that if you
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  Speaker 5: are illegal in this country, you commit a crime, you
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  Speaker 5: should be deported.
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  Speaker 2: Not everybody.
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  Speaker 6: There's a lot of Democrats who didn't say that. Not
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  Speaker 6: everybody says that. That is not true.
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  Speaker 5: That's been the policy.
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  Speaker 6: My member of Congress is against all deportations.
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  Speaker 3: One second.
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  Speaker 5: One second. One second really quickly because I want to highlight.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of candidates on the Democrats are saying abolish ICE.
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  Speaker 5: That's very far from. I want to go back to
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  Speaker 5: the failures because you did not articulate or understand or
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  Speaker 5: comprehend the failures of this administration. The reason he got elected,
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  Speaker 5: the reason he got elected is because prices are high.
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  Speaker 3: Not just that, it was border security too.
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  Speaker 5: Listen, you can't beat the same drum. How about this?
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  Speaker 5: Has he done anything about affordability? The answer is no.
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  Speaker 6: Hold on a second.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just make this point because I think it's important.
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  Speaker 1: to just note that, yeah, the president closed the border.
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  Speaker 1: And he does get some credit for that, although it's
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  Speaker 1: interesting to see that he's still underwater, even on the
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  Speaker 1: border security issue. And it could just be because it's
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  Speaker 1: not as high on Americans' list anymore. Sometimes you're a
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  Speaker 1: victim of your success. But the number one issue for
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  Speaker 1: Americans is cost of living. He is underwater by 48%.
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  Speaker 1: on that issue. Jobs and the economy, underwater, 27 points. Immigration,
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  Speaker 1: so that's probably capturing some of what Bakari is talking about,
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  Speaker 1: how it's being managed inside the United States. He's underwater
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  Speaker 1: by 15 points. Crime and public safety, underwater by 13 points.
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  Speaker 1: So there's clear evidence here that Americans think he is
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  Speaker 1: not handling anything. Anything.
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  Speaker 6: But I think his point and part of it is
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  Speaker 6: getting in front of people and talking about his successes. So,
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  Speaker 6: for example, if crime, he's underwater. We have record low.
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  Speaker 6: crime rates right now, violent crime rates. That has gone down.
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  Speaker 5: If he's under.
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  Speaker 7: In Democratic cities also.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, as a direct result of policies that the Democrats
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  Speaker 6: introduced and then had to walk back, like defunding the police.
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  Speaker 5: That's absolutely, that's 100% true.
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  Speaker 7: I'm saying the crime is down in Democratic cities.
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  Speaker 6: It's down across the country at the same time that
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  Speaker 6: we actually have a president who's now focused on that issue.
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  Speaker 6: And it's tied directly to immigration as well.
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  Speaker 5: So you're telling me Donald Trump is the reason that
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  Speaker 5: crime in Baltimore and Little Rock are down?
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  Speaker 6: When you deport violent criminals from your country, the violent
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  Speaker 6: crime rate goes down. That is how it works, yes.
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  Speaker 5: That's not how it works.
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  Speaker 6: Did crime go up because of Democrats?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 6: OK, so crime going up in Democrat cities is not
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  Speaker 6: a direct result.
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  Speaker 5: Do you know why crime is going down?
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  Speaker 6: I absolutely do know why crime is going down.
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  Speaker 5: Crime is going down because crime is going down in
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  Speaker 5: places like Gary, Indiana, because Eddie Melton, the mayor there.
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  Speaker 5: or Baltimore because of the mayor there and Brandon Scott,
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  Speaker 5: or Randall Wolfen, or Andre Dickens. Crime is going because
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  Speaker 5: they're taking a holistic approach to actually funding things like
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  Speaker 5: midnight basketball, after-school programs. They're actually pouring money into primary
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  Speaker 5: school education. They weren't getting funded before? No, they weren't.
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  Speaker 5: Not to this rate. So that's why you have 50 years.
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  Speaker 6: What happens when you defund police?
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  Speaker 1: Hold on.
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  Speaker 5: Why did they defund the police?
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  Speaker 1: Again, I think that this conversation is.
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  Speaker 7: Jason.
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  Speaker 1: Respectfully, I think this conversation is actually kind of missing
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  Speaker 1: the point. And maybe this is why Republicans are in
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  Speaker 1: kind of a bad way, is that you can't tell Americans,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry about that economic issue. That shouldn't be as
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  Speaker 1: important to you. Let me just tell you about this
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  Speaker 1: other thing over here. And as important as crime is,
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  Speaker 1: their priorities are their priorities. And you can't gaslight them
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  Speaker 1: into thinking... that they should care about things that are
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  Speaker 1: not as high on their list as the economy.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Caroline and Jason both talked about immigration and crime. And
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  Speaker 4: those are important issues, but not this year. It's not
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  Speaker 4: what voters want to hear about. They could go to
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  Speaker 4: a hip hop concert and start playing disco. That's not
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  Speaker 4: going to land very well.
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  Speaker 7: Trump is hated in this country.
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  Speaker 6: It's just true.
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  Speaker 4: He's at an all-time low. And the economists went through
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  Speaker 4: state by state. The president carried Michigan. He's now 26
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  Speaker 4: points underwater there. He carried Ohio by 12. He's underwater
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  Speaker 4: by 24. He's 30 points underwater in Georgia. He's 22
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  Speaker 4: points underwater in my beloved Texas. This country wants a
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  Speaker 4: brake pedal on Trump because of cost of living. And
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  Speaker 4: anybody who's talking about Trump, on the Republican side, anybody
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  Speaker 4: who's advertising Trump on the Republican side is going to lose.
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  Speaker 4: If the Democrats had the money, we'd buy him another
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  Speaker 4: plane because apparently the one he got from Qatar is
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  Speaker 4: broken or something. We'd buy him another plane on.
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  Speaker 5: The promise he would only campaign in swing states because he's.
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  Speaker 4: About as popular as that cyclospora lettuce that gives you
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  Speaker 4: exploding diarrhea. There's nobody lining up to buy that crap.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he doesn't believe it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but he's an idiot.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Geraldo, do you remember this? This is from a
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  Speaker 1: Punchbowl interview a couple weeks ago.
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  Speaker 5: Listen.
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  Speaker 2: If I don't run, will those people go out and vote?
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  Speaker 2: And that's the one thing I can't tell. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to ask them to. The question is, will they vote?
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  Speaker 2: Because a lot of them are very angry at And.
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  Speaker 5: Republicans, to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 3: Why is that?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, they're angry at Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: But they're not angry at me.
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  Speaker 3: That's an interesting thing.
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 5: They're not angry at me, but they are angry at Republicans.
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  Speaker 7: He's extremely frustrated.
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  Speaker 1: As I often ask, what is going on?
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  Speaker 7: He can't get the prices down. He can't win the
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  Speaker 7: damn war. He can't make China behave. He can't even
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  Speaker 7: make Canada behave until the line and tariffs and so forth.
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  Speaker 5: And he feels like.
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  Speaker 7: Like a Hall of Fame coach who all of a
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  Speaker 7: sudden his team is lousy and he blames the team
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  Speaker 7: rather than himself. I really do believe that he's in
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  Speaker 7: a very tough spot right now.