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DLHS Hour 2 | What Surprised you the Most About Election Night · The D.L. Hughley Show

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  Speaker 1: It is the D.L.
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  Speaker 2: Hughley Show, your 2026 edition. So what surprised you the
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  Speaker 2: most about the election last night? I think the pollsters
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  Speaker 2: were shocked. I think that they thought they could win
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  Speaker 2: 255 seats, it looks like. That is almost 100. It
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  Speaker 2: didn't shock me because I'm telling you, I thought it
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  Speaker 2: would be, this is historic. This hasn't happened in decades.
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  Speaker 1: This was definitely historic. Decades.
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  Speaker 2: Kansas ain't never, man. Mississippi has not had a black
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  Speaker 2: senator since Reconstruction. And I say what you want to.
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  Speaker 2: I think our ancestors had a lot to do with that.
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  Speaker 2: I think the ghosts of Cornwall, of Wyoming, I really do.
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  Speaker 2: Now we have a senator, amen. Have the feds look
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  Speaker 2: into what's happening here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. How about that?
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  Speaker 2: And Cindy Hyde, like, find another protein. Well, we got
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  Speaker 2: another you. How about that?
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  Speaker 1: I want to know where all those loud talking black
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  Speaker 1: folks are. Where they at? All the Stephen A's. Stephen A's, man. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: where y'all at? Who was the chew woody that was crying?
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  Speaker 1: He can't be all his own. Where they at now?
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  Speaker 1: What you going to do now? He can't be all
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  Speaker 1: his own. Where do they go? Where do people like that.
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  Speaker 3: Go after this?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I want to know. Where do they go?
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  Speaker 2: We need to know what you think. Let me ask you,
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  Speaker 2: how do you lose when you gerrymandered the districts?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you cheated.
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  Speaker 1: Because you didn't count the peoples. And you know what?
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  Speaker 1: They lost. And everyone they gerrymandered in Florida and Texas,
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  Speaker 1: they lost everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Joe did?
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  Speaker 2: They won in Tennessee, so we got to have a
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  Speaker 2: conversation about Tennessee and Florida.
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  Speaker 1: We got to get that together. They said the ballots
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  Speaker 1: were switching, weren't they? You put in and they were
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  Speaker 1: flipping machines. One thing, we watch our movie tickets. You
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  Speaker 1: know we're going to watch our ballots.
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  Speaker 4: Facts.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if we can get Mississippi together, you can't
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  Speaker 2: tell me we can't get Tennessee together.
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  Speaker 1: I watch Sinners, not Marty Supreme. Pick, pull, rob, and clean.
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  Speaker 1: You know a donkey song? Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, he did.
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  Speaker 1: It was white people. Junius, what shocked you the most? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I was like you. I expected a gap like it
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  Speaker 1: was last night.
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  Speaker 5: Because I think.
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  Speaker 2: What people voted for last night was democracy first and foremost,
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  Speaker 2: because it was some of his supporters, uh, a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot of Hispanics. A lot of rural people, too. Because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for the last two years, we got a
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  Speaker 2: real good dose of autocracy.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And a little smidge of dictatorship. And people do not
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  Speaker 2: like that. I'm telling you, I don't think it was that.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was too much money, too much corruption.
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  Speaker 1: Too much corruption. It all fits in. That's what autocracy is.
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  Speaker 1: It was too much corruption.
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  Speaker 2: They were stealing from us And putting it in their
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  Speaker 2: bank accounts and people finally woke up. You know, it's like, damn,
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  Speaker 2: we've been voting against our own interests all this time. Man,
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  Speaker 2: let me tell you something. They don't want that. Blacks
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  Speaker 2: and Latins and young people. And this is different. This
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  Speaker 2: is different than the coalition Barack put together.
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  Speaker 5: You know why?
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  Speaker 2: Because it's not based on a man. This is not
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  Speaker 2: based on a man. Like, a broad charisma was what
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  Speaker 2: galvanized all these people. This is based on lack. There's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people that ain't got lack. We ain't
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  Speaker 2: had nothing, man. We can't have this no more. We
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  Speaker 2: can't have it. And there's so many things you could
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  Speaker 2: do right now. If you raise the minimum wage to
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  Speaker 2: $ 20 an hour, you can't do anything about prices, but
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  Speaker 2: you can get people more money in their pockets. You
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  Speaker 2: can't do anything about prices, but you can roll back tariffs.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: You can't do anything about prices, but you can stop
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  Speaker 1: this war which lowers prices.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think it's unreasonable for these young people.
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  Speaker 2: Give these young people what they want. And one of
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  Speaker 2: the things they want is the ability to buy a home.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things women want is autonomy of their body.
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  Speaker 2: They want to be treated fairly. Black people want you
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  Speaker 2: to leave our rights alone. Let's stop all this, the
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  Speaker 2: bloodletting of this DEI. Because what won last night was
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  Speaker 2: the very thing they tried to attack, diversity.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, and it was loud. Trump had grand opening, grand closing.
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  Speaker 1: You know what surprised me the most, man? Texas. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the overalls.
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  Speaker 7: You know what?
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  Speaker 1: We knew Tallarico. I wasn't sure, Gina, but I was hoping.
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  Speaker 2: But what surprised me that a Democrat won every single
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  Speaker 2: statewide election from the agriculture.
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  Speaker 1: Dude to the train dude to the everything.
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  Speaker 4: Everything.
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  Speaker 1: They had a sweep of it. And I never thought
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  Speaker 1: that happened in Texas. Lincoln didn't beat the Southlake. I
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  Speaker 1: ain't playing. I'm not playing. Attaboy for the monument.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to go through the series you think. We're
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  Speaker 2: going through the phones.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, boy, the election was beautiful. Blue tsunami. I'm down
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  Speaker 5: here on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi.
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  Speaker 3: This is Brother Daniel.
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  Speaker 5: And we live in large. We're just waiting to see
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  Speaker 5: what this other result going to be. But I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 5: surprised that Abbott left. But I wasn't surprised that Trump
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  Speaker 5: talked about Abbott.
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  Speaker 8: It goes to show you, we're going to see a
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  Speaker 8: lot of books about these people that were scared of
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  Speaker 8: Trump start talking about Trump.
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  Speaker 5: And told them the kid's there next week. Hey, y'all
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  Speaker 5: keep up.
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  Speaker 3: The good work.
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  Speaker 4: So in Ohio, Amy acting as the first female governor,
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  Speaker 4: she beat out Vivek Ramaswamy, and he was so grimy
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  Speaker 4: during the campaign. He put her mother on there and
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  Speaker 4: had her mother saying she was a liar. We just
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  Speaker 4: knew that was going to win him over. He was
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  Speaker 4: endorsed by Trump.
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  Speaker 1: And then Sherrod Brown won.
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  Speaker 4: The Senate seat over John Huston, who was John Huston
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  Speaker 4: was also endorsed by Trump. So we won Democratic in
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  Speaker 4: Ohio too big. First time female governor. And then Sherrod
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  Speaker 4: Brown is back in the Senate.
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  Speaker 3: So we doing good. Yeah, I know the question is
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  Speaker 3: what was I surprised about, but I'm going to change
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  Speaker 3: it and say what I was so proud about, because
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  Speaker 3: I was proud that white people finally woke up and
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  Speaker 3: they literally have.
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  Speaker 5: Figured out that.
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  Speaker 3: You trying to take from me and deny me my
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  Speaker 3: rights to a good life actually hurts you even more
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  Speaker 3: and worse. Because unless you're a billionaire or multimillionaire, you're
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  Speaker 3: not going to survive better than me by denying me
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  Speaker 3: of anything that you want. And that election proved that. Finally,
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  Speaker 3: they get it. And it takes for a Republican to
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  Speaker 3: break the country completely for you to hire the people
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  Speaker 3: that need to be in charge. Just like when Obama
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  Speaker 3: got in there, that was because George Bush Jr. literally
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  Speaker 3: broke the country.
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  Speaker 8: I'm glad Democrats got back in charge.
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  Speaker 5: That's what we needed.
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  Speaker 1: These people needed, these.
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  Speaker 5: Rich white men need to go somewhere because they don't... This.
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  Speaker 8: Is Michael, a truck driver from Houston. But I'm driving
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  Speaker 8: through Florida now. But ironically, I live in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 8: Not Louisiana, because New Orleans, I live in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 8: The rest of that ain't Louisiana. But I am pleasantly
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  Speaker 8: surprised about Texas. I am so proud of my home state.
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  Speaker 8: I am so proud of my home state that they
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  Speaker 8: had the will and the action to get out of
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  Speaker 8: there and vote them people out after 30-plus years. And
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  Speaker 8: the only thing that I ask that the Democrat Party
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  Speaker 8: will do, hold them accountable. Make an example out of MAGA.
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  Speaker 8: The same way they try to make an example out
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  Speaker 8: of us as a quote-unquote determined, there needs to be
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  Speaker 8: an example made out of those people. Somebody needs to
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  Speaker 8: go to jail. For all that corruption, all that do
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  Speaker 8: not play with them, make an example out of them.
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  Speaker 8: That's what I would like for them to do. But
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  Speaker 8: once again, I am so proud of my home state
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  Speaker 8: of Texas. Y'all did it. It's about time. And let's
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  Speaker 8: keep moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, we're going right to the phones. What surprised you
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  Speaker 1: the most?
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  Speaker 6: Oh my goodness. I think the, the aha moment for
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  Speaker 6: me that night was when you had a whole regime
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  Speaker 6: dead set on eliminating DEI and trying to eliminate black folks.
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  Speaker 6: And you had a total flip. It's amazing what God
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  Speaker 6: can do. You take something that seems so harsh and
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  Speaker 6: so heavy and flip it on a dime. And, uh,
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  Speaker 6: It was amazing to watch, and I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 6: what we have coming next.
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  Speaker 5: I was most surprised by New York.
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  Speaker 4: Governor?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it, ladies.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, they did it.
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  Speaker 3: They came out. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I like this race. OMG.
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  Speaker 4: OMG.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what surprised me most about the election, even though
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  Speaker 5: we've won it in great numbers, we're focused on telling
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  Speaker 5: the people that we're going to prosecute Donald Trump. We're
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  Speaker 5: going to prosecute him. We need to. He needs to
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  Speaker 5: go to jail. He needs it right here. But before
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  Speaker 5: this thing is done, let's not concentrate on that. Let's
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  Speaker 5: tell the people what we're going to do to fix it.
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  Speaker 5: everything that he damaged. I think that's what the people
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  Speaker 5: want to hear more so than they want to punt
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  Speaker 5: it down the trunk. They definitely want to hear this
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  Speaker 5: bastard riding hell, but they want to know how can
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  Speaker 5: they be made whole again. So we need to focus
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  Speaker 5: on explaining to them we have the power now to
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  Speaker 5: make them whole again. Once we get them understanding that
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  Speaker 5: we're in office to fix their problems, then we can
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  Speaker 5: concentrate on sending this bastard to hell.
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  Speaker 1: Dos elotes, por favor. Fabuloso. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Stop.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry. And you know what? We got to say this.
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  Speaker 2: People do not realize how integral Stacey Abrams was, not
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  Speaker 2: just to Georgia. She's from Mississippi. She helped them organize Mississippi, too.
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  Speaker 2: So big shout out to Stacey Abrams and Kamala Harris.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt. Without them. Without them, this doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: I was about to say, it's more the big shout
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  Speaker 2: out because without Stacey Abrams, there would not be Akisha.
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  Speaker 1: Lance Bottoms, especially like this, considering that she had to sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: And Kamala, too. Both of them. That's right.
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  Speaker 2: And rather than go somewhere and lick their wounds and
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  Speaker 2: be gone, Stacey said, let me organize.
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  Speaker 1: Take that, Haley Stevens. They did the Moses thing. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't get to the promised land, but you led the
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  Speaker 1: people there. That's right. Moses had to say that he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even go in. They walked in. Hey, Moses, it's
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  Speaker 1: nice in here. See you later. I'll be looking from
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  Speaker 1: up here. Told you not to hit that rock. Hey, Moses,
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  Speaker 1: they got air conditioning. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So it is time for our feature. Welcome to the state.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to spotlight some of the funnest comedians. Some,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and so you don't. Welcome to the state's
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  Speaker 2: Mario Hodge from Oakland. That's a funny tune.
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  Speaker 7: My mother's my friend on Facebook. And I wrote something
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  Speaker 7: on Facebook the other day that she didn't approve of.
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  Speaker 7: She got on there.
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  Speaker 1: She said, hey, you take this down.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't raise you like that. And I'm like, damn,
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  Speaker 7: I'm not going to cuss my mama out. You know,
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  Speaker 7: that's my mama. You know, I can't disrespect my mom,
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  Speaker 7: but I'm smart. I logged out and came back as
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  Speaker 7: a different person. I said, listen here, you old.
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  Speaker 5: Bitch, you need to mind your damn business.
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  Speaker 7: I'm a fan of Mario Hyde. You can kiss my
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  Speaker 7: ass and kiss his ass too. Now, I couldn't leave
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  Speaker 7: it like that because that's.
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  Speaker 1: My mama, man.
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  Speaker 7: So I logged back out. Came back as myself. And
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  Speaker 7: I said, hey, you don't be talking to.
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  Speaker 1: My mama like that. I'll kick your ass.
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  Speaker 7: Better be glad I don't know you stay, fool. Then
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  Speaker 7: my wife got on there. I didn't know she was watching.
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  Speaker 7: She was like, that's my mother-in-law. We'll kick your ass.
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  Speaker 7: I've been wanting to say something to my wife for
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  Speaker 7: a long time.
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  Speaker 5: So I logged out.
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  Speaker 7: Came back as the other dude. I said, first of all,
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  Speaker 7: fat bitch, you need to lose some weight.
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  Speaker 2: Yo fat ass.
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  Speaker 7: And your return said I look like banana pudding. I
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  Speaker 7: don't know how Mario eat that shit. Then my father
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  Speaker 7: got on there. He's like, hey, hey, hey, hey.
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  Speaker 5: I said, enough.
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  Speaker 7: You don't disrespect my family. I said, you ain't never
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  Speaker 7: took care of me, sucker. You a deadbeat dad. But
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  Speaker 7: I forgot to log out.