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Byron Donalds | Florida Congressman & Gubernatorial Candidate Speaks on His Campaign a Week Out of Primary Election Day · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Five states in play today primaries.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Wisconsin, that maniac Kang running for governor. You've
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  Speaker 2: got Minnesota, our friend Mike Lindell running for governor there
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  Speaker 2: today part of a three person primary, South Carolina, Vermont
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  Speaker 2: and Connecticut. But a week from today down in the
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  Speaker 2: great state of Florida, where I lived for sixteen years
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  Speaker 2: in Boca Raton until I got bored and came back
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  Speaker 2: home to New York.
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  Speaker 3: Now can't wait to get the hell out of here. Kidding.
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  Speaker 2: We got the big primary in Florida a week from today,
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  Speaker 2: and all eyes are on my man. I love this
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  Speaker 2: guy in Congress. Had the chance to campaign with him once,
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  Speaker 2: very late, three days before the election for President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. And that is the great Byron Donalds. Byron,
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  Speaker 2: welcome back to Sitton friends in the morning. How are you,
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  Speaker 2: my friend, it's going to be back with you.
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  Speaker 4: You remember that date in King and President.
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  Speaker 1: I do, man, it was funny. You were great.
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  Speaker 2: You came out with your sunglasses on, and you were
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  Speaker 2: actually really really funny that night. You know one thing
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  Speaker 2: on that night that is kind of said though, Byron.
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  Speaker 2: You remember this is.
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  Speaker 1: One of the folks that spoke.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's spoken between you and I no longer
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  Speaker 2: with us as we get set to commemorate twenty five
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  Speaker 2: years of nine to eleven and a couple of.
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  Speaker 3: Weeks here in New York, but not Carrick was there
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  Speaker 3: that night, you remember that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, And actually it was the first time I
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  Speaker 4: got a chance to meet to meet him and you know,
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  Speaker 4: being a former New Yorker, to really thank him for
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  Speaker 4: his service. Great man.
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  Speaker 2: He was a great man, and he did a great
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  Speaker 2: job back then, him and Rudy and Pataki and all
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  Speaker 2: of them. Now he got a bunch of you know,
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  Speaker 2: Jill haters and America haters and retards and George here.
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  Speaker 3: It's terrible.
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  Speaker 2: That's why people like you were so important to us, Byron,
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  Speaker 2: because we need great leaders.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Florida has been pretty good. They've been you know, Governor
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  Speaker 2: Rick Scott when I lived there, Ron DeSantis the last
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  Speaker 2: eight years. But you got a pretty crowded field.
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  Speaker 1: Byron.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're the favorite, but you got what twelve
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  Speaker 2: people running in that primary next Tuesday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the number. But it's fine. Look, there's primary elections.
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  Speaker 4: They happen every time we have an open seat, especially
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  Speaker 4: for a seat as important as governor. But we've been
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  Speaker 4: doing incredibly well, obviously having the full endorsement of President Trump,
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  Speaker 4: former governor, our current Senator Rick Scott. Forty three of
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  Speaker 4: our sheriffs in the state of Florida have backed our
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  Speaker 4: campaign not to mention the congressional delegation, the vast majority
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  Speaker 4: of the state legislature. We've been able to really crisscross
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  Speaker 4: the state and the message has been clear. It's been
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  Speaker 4: about tackling affordability issues, insurance and housing costs in our state,
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  Speaker 4: and taxes and having real plans to fix that for
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  Speaker 4: the people of our state. But the other side of
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  Speaker 4: it is keeping the Florida dream alive and well make
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  Speaker 4: sure we defend that from the radical left. You know,
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  Speaker 4: people come here. It's for a way of life. It's
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  Speaker 4: not just the beaches and the taxes. It's a way
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  Speaker 4: of life. It's common sense, conservative living, and we're going
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  Speaker 4: to protect that here in Florida.
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  Speaker 3: Oh God, you're such a great choice. Firing. Seriously, I'm
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  Speaker 3: so enthusiastic for you, and.
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  Speaker 2: I love that for a long time. As I stated,
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  Speaker 2: when you want to hold and my son Gabriel, my
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  Speaker 2: only son, my second child, he's about to go to
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  Speaker 2: college next year, somewhere in Florida, maybe Gainesville, maybe Tallahassee,
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  Speaker 2: but more likely maybe someplace in South is Boca one
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  Speaker 2: of those schools for Tampa. I don't know, but we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna get a place in Florida again. My wife and
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  Speaker 2: I and spend a lot of time there. So Florida,
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  Speaker 2: where I limp for sixteen years, is back in play
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  Speaker 2: in the Rosenberg household in a couple a couple of months.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, there are some issues you talked about,
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  Speaker 2: for example, do we get a condo? Do we get
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  Speaker 2: a house? I know, insurance down there is brutal. As
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  Speaker 2: great as Florida is, insurance is brutal. Is that it
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  Speaker 2: the Santas problem or a Florida problem.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's much more of a market problem overall. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: insurance in our state have been relatively cheap really for
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  Speaker 4: a long time. When Rick Scott was governor of the
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  Speaker 4: first term of Ronda Santis, it was relatively cheap. What
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  Speaker 4: happened is we had some major lawsuit abuses going on
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  Speaker 4: in our state. Coupled with the fact that replacement costs
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  Speaker 4: really shot up, and the price of that people were
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  Speaker 4: paying and premiums was going up. So Governor DeSantis did
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  Speaker 4: to reform a couple of years ago. It's already starting
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  Speaker 4: to show its effects of stabilizing the insurance cost in
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  Speaker 4: our state. We think we're going to get some premium
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  Speaker 4: reductions this year from the insurance carriers. The other piece
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  Speaker 4: we have to do is reform the regulatory side. That's
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  Speaker 4: what I'm going to do in year one. There's some
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  Speaker 4: structural changes that need to occur in Florida's insurance market
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  Speaker 4: from the state side, which haven't been done quite frankly,
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  Speaker 4: because it used to be insurance wasn't a big problem here,
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  Speaker 4: but it is now, so we have to go in
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  Speaker 4: and make those changes instead. I spent seventeen years of
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  Speaker 4: my career in the financial industry before politics, and I
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  Speaker 4: also chaired the Insurance and Banking Subcommittee in Tallahassee when
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  Speaker 4: I was a member of the state legislature. So these
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  Speaker 4: are issues that are not foreign to me. I know
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  Speaker 4: what needs to be done. We're just going to go
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  Speaker 4: ahead and execute that, and we think we could push
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  Speaker 4: insurance costs down twenty to twenty five percent in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be you Byron Donald dried here who will be
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  Speaker 2: the next governor of Florida. Trust man, He's got a
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  Speaker 2: twelve person primary next week. I will tell you that
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  Speaker 2: one of the people running against you, Byron. Everybody want
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  Speaker 2: to punch him across the face. That's how much I
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  Speaker 2: hate him, really do. You can probably guess his name
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  Speaker 2: is James Fishback. I know he's have a chance of winning,
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  Speaker 2: and he's got legal issues in his past, I believe,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's true. And he's a Jew who hates Jews,
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  Speaker 2: which you know, thank God. Down in Florida, you guys
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  Speaker 2: don't do that. I know Europe pro Israel guy Byron,
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  Speaker 2: But this guy, James Fishback, what a horrible person.
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  Speaker 4: I don't talk about him. I just choose to ignore him.
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  Speaker 4: Look in politics, every now and again, you get you
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  Speaker 4: get a clown and a side show. That's what disappears
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  Speaker 4: to be. But you know, poling has been consistent in
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  Speaker 4: this race for months. If you go to New York
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  Speaker 4: Times or Real Clear Politics or two seventy to win,
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  Speaker 4: our polling average is somewhere around forty seven to forty
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  Speaker 4: eight percent of the vote. Everybody else has been in
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  Speaker 4: single digits. So you know, you know, if you're dealing
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  Speaker 4: with somebody who just wants attention for attention sake. The
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  Speaker 4: best thing you could ever do is ignore that person.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what I've done the entire campaign.
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  Speaker 3: Good for you, that'd be punching down for you.
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  Speaker 1: So how do you feel, Byron?
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  Speaker 2: You know, like you mentioned, you're a former New Yorker
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  Speaker 2: and I did come back here. I was the only
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  Speaker 2: Moron going north on ninety five, millions were going south.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel about a lot of the votes
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  Speaker 2: from here, especially big money folks moving down to Florida?
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  Speaker 2: Or a guy, for example, like Griffin who had a
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  Speaker 2: six billion dollar project here in New York and now
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  Speaker 2: he's taking a lot of his business and his money
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  Speaker 2: Byron down to Miami. Are you happy to see an
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  Speaker 2: implux of all these people from other states? Or you're like, hey, hey, hey, hey,
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  Speaker 2: take it easy. We kind of like it the way
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  Speaker 2: it is down here right now.
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  Speaker 4: What I'm happy about is you're having people who are
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  Speaker 4: leaving these crazy blue states, and they're leaving for a reason.
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  Speaker 4: You know, people down here, obviously in Florida will be
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  Speaker 4: a concern. We don't want somebody coming down with California
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  Speaker 4: still voting the same way they voted out there, still
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  Speaker 4: voting the same way they did in Illinois or New York.
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  Speaker 4: But what we're seeing is that they're running from these places.
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  Speaker 4: They're running from Zorhan Mamdani, They're running from Kathy Hokeel.
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  Speaker 4: And when people have to run from from a crazy
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  Speaker 4: city or a crazy state, when they get to Florida,
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  Speaker 4: they're like, I like this place. I want to make
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  Speaker 4: sure it stays that way. And so that's one of
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  Speaker 4: the reasons why our advantage over the Democrats under the
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  Speaker 4: leadership of Governor Basantis has grown from we used to
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  Speaker 4: be like negative three hundred thousand voters Republicans to Democrats.
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  Speaker 4: The Democrats had a three hundred thousand voter advantage in
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  Speaker 4: our state. We now have a one point five million
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  Speaker 4: voter advantage over the Democrats here in Florida, one point
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  Speaker 4: five million because people have come here and said, I
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  Speaker 4: left crazy, I don't want it in Florida. And so
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  Speaker 4: when people like the Ken Griffin, when other people say,
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  Speaker 4: you know what, I've had enough, I'm leaving, it's not
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  Speaker 4: because of a different a different deal they're trying to
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  Speaker 4: get done for their business or for their future. It's
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  Speaker 4: because they're sick of the crazy. So we've found that
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  Speaker 4: that's made of New Floridians be just as admitted to
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  Speaker 4: conservative principles as the people who've called Florida home for
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  Speaker 4: many generations are us.
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  Speaker 2: So, right, are there any other major issues outside of
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  Speaker 2: insurance byron that because for the most.
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  Speaker 3: Part, Flawda is really a terrific place. Let's be honest.
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  Speaker 1: It's clean, it's safe.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have Prohamas rallies up and down the street
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  Speaker 2: every single day, all that nonsense like you talked about.
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  Speaker 2: You nailed the byron that take place in blue sanctuary
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  Speaker 2: cities and sanctuary states.
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  Speaker 1: You guys don't have that.
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  Speaker 2: So outside of insurance, any of the major issues that
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  Speaker 2: you'd be basing on day one?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, growth And look right, I'm in Tampa right now,
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  Speaker 4: I'm looking at two seventy five and as I'm talking
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  Speaker 4: to you, that's what I'm looking at right now. We
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  Speaker 4: got to manage growth in our state. Obviously, people keep
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  Speaker 4: coming and there's a reason for that, because we're a
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  Speaker 4: great state and people want to live in a great place,
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  Speaker 4: people have the ability to live, have a great way
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  Speaker 4: of life. They're choosing Florida for that. But we're going
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  Speaker 4: to have to manage our growth as people continue to come.
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  Speaker 4: We got to make sure we have the road systems built.
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  Speaker 4: We got to make sure that our public are our
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  Speaker 4: public safe. The officials are emergency responds. People are still
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  Speaker 4: getting paid what they need so that they can make
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  Speaker 4: ends meet. We got to figure out how we're going
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  Speaker 4: to help the young people get into the housing market.
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  Speaker 4: So there's reforms that we got to do on the
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  Speaker 4: government side again, permitting and planning, we got to reform
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  Speaker 4: that make that more streamlined, so we're not having government
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  Speaker 4: raise the cost of construction. Consider government delaying projects and
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  Speaker 4: government having all these different checks. What that also does,
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  Speaker 4: it raises the cost of building out that apartment building,
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  Speaker 4: or building out that single family home, or even building
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  Speaker 4: out that nude road system. Increases cost. So we got
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  Speaker 4: to be mindful of that. In our state. That's a
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  Speaker 4: big one. But by and large, people just want Florida
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  Speaker 4: to continue to be Florida. They wanted to continue to
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  Speaker 4: be the free state of Florida. And so this November,
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  Speaker 4: that's what Floridians are going to have to go back
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  Speaker 4: to the polls and choose once again. And the Democrats,
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  Speaker 4: they're just they're crazy, man. And so they have a
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  Speaker 4: guy down here named David Jolly, a former Republican now
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  Speaker 4: running as a Democrat who's trying to seem moderate. So
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  Speaker 4: we're having to educate Floridians that this guy's a trojan
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  Speaker 4: trojan horse with the Democrats Socialists of America. Yep, he
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  Speaker 4: will bend the knee to the DSA. So we have
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  Speaker 4: to make sure that Democrats do not get a foothold
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  Speaker 4: in Florida.
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  Speaker 3: God, that's true.
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  Speaker 2: One more for you. By the way, my boss owns
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  Speaker 2: the tallest building in South Florida is in Saint Petersburg,
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  Speaker 2: that whole area, clear Water, Tampa and Saint Pete. He's
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  Speaker 2: got these beautiful new building about to open up. I
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  Speaker 2: believe it'll be full by October. So check that place
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  Speaker 2: out byron Katsu Matids. He's got a beautiful building there.
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  Speaker 2: Last one. You know, we're all nervous about losing the
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  Speaker 2: House and Senate come November. So I like Marshall Blackburn,
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  Speaker 2: and she's leaving the Senate in Tennessee to run for governor.
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  Speaker 2: I love you leaving Congress and Florida to run for governor.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of you guys running for governor and we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to win those seats again.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously in a red district down in Florida, so that
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  Speaker 2: does bode well, but it does make Republicans MAGA guys
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  Speaker 2: like me, Trump guys like me very nervous when we
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  Speaker 2: lose great.
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  Speaker 1: People like you. Can you calm me down this morning, Bimen?
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  Speaker 3: What can you say to me?
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  Speaker 4: I would tell you is that there's a whole bunch
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  Speaker 4: of young guys in Congress right now who you've not
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  Speaker 4: really heard much about, but they're going to be phenomenal.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to continue to keep up the America First
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  Speaker 4: MAGA movement in Congress. Don't be concerned about that too.
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  Speaker 4: Even though you know Marsha, myself and others are running
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  Speaker 4: for higher office, that doesn't mean that we're going to
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  Speaker 4: ignore Washington d C. As a governor, you still need
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  Speaker 4: Washington to get some things done. And so with the
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  Speaker 4: Florida delegation, I've already told my colleagues that I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to be working very closely with them, even though my
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  Speaker 4: job is going to be running the state of Florida.
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  Speaker 4: There are gonna be common sense policy solutions that we're
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  Speaker 4: going to need out of Washington, d C. And so
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  Speaker 4: it's about working together making sure that Congress still does
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  Speaker 4: that job supporting President Trump. And you know how this works. Man.
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  Speaker 4: Before you know, we're gonna be right back in another
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  Speaker 4: presidential election and we're gonna have to make sure that
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  Speaker 4: we keep the White House in our hands so that
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  Speaker 4: we can continue to make this country great again one
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  Speaker 4: hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Florida's in great shape. They go from Rick Scott
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  Speaker 2: to Ron Dessantis to Byron Donalds. You're you're a terrific guy.
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  Speaker 2: You really are. Your funny, you're charismatic, you're smart, you're
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  Speaker 2: brilliant actually, and you're gonna win and Florida will remain
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  Speaker 2: in good shape. And I'll see you down there in
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years, if not a couple of months.
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  Speaker 2: So Byron, keep up the great world. Hopefully we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: again before November after you win next week. And you're
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  Speaker 2: just great. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, thanks to take it easy.
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  Speaker 3: I'll bless you.
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  Speaker 2: Byron Donald's right there. What a great guy. He'll be
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  Speaker 2: the next governor down in the state of Florida.
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