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Would Stevens or El-Sayed beat Mike Rogers in a Senate general election · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: One of the most highly anticipated primary elections across the
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  Speaker 1: US is happening tomorrow in battleground Michigan. Congresswoman Hailey Stevens
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  Speaker 1: and former health official Abdul Lsied are competing for the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic nomination for US Senate. Now both spent the weekend
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  Speaker 1: making their final pitches to voters.
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  Speaker 2: I think we make the best electability case on the
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  Speaker 2: notion that we don't need seventy million dollars to get elected,
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  Speaker 2: and that our movement is built on real people and
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  Speaker 2: an enthusiasm money can't really buy.
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  Speaker 3: There's been some inflammatory rhetoric from my opponent throughout this race.
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  Speaker 3: He's made this whole race about Israel and APEC, and
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  Speaker 3: I have made it about Lauren costs for Michiganers, about
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  Speaker 3: standing up for the state that we love.
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  Speaker 1: And the winner of tomorrow's Democratic primary will take on
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  Speaker 1: presumptive Republican nominee and former Congressman Mike Rodgers in November.
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  Speaker 1: Let's bring in Himamura. Justin Wallin Hima formerly served as
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  Speaker 1: the director for the Office of the DNC Chair. He's
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  Speaker 1: now principal for Stone Public Affairs, and Justin is a
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  Speaker 1: Republican polster and the CEO of Jay Wall in opinion
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  Speaker 1: research him a justin thank you both for joining us. Him,
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  Speaker 1: I want to start with you, So, who do you
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  Speaker 1: think is better position to win tomorrow's primary?
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  Speaker 4: And why, Michael, good to see you. Look, I think
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  Speaker 4: we've all seen over the past few months that this
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  Speaker 4: has been a very energetic primary. And look, I'm looking
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  Speaker 4: at a couple of things tomorrow. I think Hailey Stevens,
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  Speaker 4: a congresswoman, has still been well positioned for this race.
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  Speaker 4: But we've seen doctor l Seed really have a lot
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  Speaker 4: of energy among young voters, Palestinian voters, voters, those who
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  Speaker 4: have not traditionally been part of this process. But I
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  Speaker 4: think tomorrow is going to be Wayne County is going
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  Speaker 4: to be really important to see which of these candidates
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  Speaker 4: has a stake in Detroit and who could build on,
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  Speaker 4: build out and go into the suburbs. So I think
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  Speaker 4: Hailey Stevens is looking at the black vote and see
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  Speaker 4: how many older black voters turned out and how Welsh
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  Speaker 4: does there. And doctor Lsid is looking to see how
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  Speaker 4: well he does with young progressive of voters, particularly young
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  Speaker 4: black voters as well.
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  Speaker 1: And justin Mike Rodgers told CBS News he has no
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  Speaker 1: preference on which candidate he faces in November. But shouldn't he,
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  Speaker 1: especially because he's not just going up against the Democrat,
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  Speaker 1: but he's also facing President Trump's lackluster approval ratings.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, he definitely has an opinion about this, and he
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  Speaker 5: certainly prefers L.
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  Speaker 2: Saed.
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  Speaker 5: It would be a difficult race against Stevens. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: this is a state that Trump won, but won very
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  Speaker 5: very very closely, and now President Trump's approval ratings are
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  Speaker 5: by all intents and measures in the tank. So this
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  Speaker 5: is a tight, tight race. If it's between two kind
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  Speaker 5: of like looking folks, I think the bar would go
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  Speaker 5: towards Stevens versus Rogers. But Rogers looks well positioned against L. Saed,
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  Speaker 5: who looks well positioned to win. He's got a double
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  Speaker 5: digit polling advantage over Stevens. I think it's hard to
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  Speaker 5: see him not being victorious tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: There's something else I wanted to discuss. Yesterday, HHS Secretary
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  Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy Junior appeared on CNN to discuss the
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  Speaker 1: COVID nineteen pandemic. Of course, this comes after doctor Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Fauchi's hearing on the Hill last week. I got pretty
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  Speaker 1: contentious let's watch again.
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  Speaker 5: I really want to move on.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, you were saying you are because I part
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  Speaker 1: of the problem. No, I wasn't talking PROBA was absolute
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  Speaker 1: press malpractice.
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  Speaker 3: You were allowing you.
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  Speaker 5: Mister secretary, your job.
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  Speaker 1: Your job is a fear of skepticism, and you weren't
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  Speaker 1: doing that. You My job is also no. Okay, are
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  Speaker 1: you gonna you want to sit here and attack me
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  Speaker 1: or do you want to have conversations? I'm not attacking
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  Speaker 1: you on well, justin look, we're three months out from
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  Speaker 1: the midterms. Is it a mistake for the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: to be re litigating the pandemic which ended years ago?
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  Speaker 5: Not really. It may seem odd, but sometimes you have
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  Speaker 5: to ask people why they why they are angry. And
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  Speaker 5: voters on both sides of the are angry about a
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  Speaker 5: number of things. But voters period in America are angry
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  Speaker 5: with their institutions, and there's reasons for that. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: our institutions failed us during COVID. I mean we know
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  Speaker 5: that now after kind of digging through these records that
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  Speaker 5: our leaders kept, and I think it's worthwhile to keep
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  Speaker 5: in mind that sometimes government isn't well suited to lead us,
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  Speaker 5: and sometimes they make colossal mistakes. I think part of
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  Speaker 5: the problem right now is we're seeing leaders not saying
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  Speaker 5: we made an air and being honest about that. This
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  Speaker 5: is a very difficult situation. It hadn't been seen before.
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  Speaker 5: We made choices, and some of those choices were wrong.
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  Speaker 5: That's not a difficult thing to say, it's not being said.
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  Speaker 1: And Hima, will we ever get to a place where
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic isn't a part of an issue?
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  Speaker 4: Michael, I sure hope. So it doesn't seem like that's
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  Speaker 4: going to happen right now. Look, we're in the middle
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  Speaker 4: of a contentious election season. I think both Democrats and
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  Speaker 4: Republicans are trying to figure out ways to get themselves
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  Speaker 4: back into the conversation. I think the COVID autopsy is
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  Speaker 4: a way for Republicans to revisit have a proxy for
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  Speaker 4: conversations around important political issues, and so I do hope
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  Speaker 4: we get to that place at some point, but I
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  Speaker 4: think right now it's going to be hard to see that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, justin Wallenhaimamore, thank you both for joining us.