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Please Don't Fall For It Again | Episode 17 · The Augarius Williams Show

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for us, we'd greatly appreciate it. Coming at you today
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with episode seventeen, and I'll be perfectly honest with you, guys,
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I had been going back and forth over the course
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of the past couple days about what I wanted to
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title this episode. But I think I've come to a
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pretty good decision about what this episode is going to
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be entitled. By the time you guys hear this episode,
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this whole conversation would be null and void because you
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guys would have already seen what the title of the
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episode was gonna be prior to listening to what you're
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listening to right now. I decided to name this episode today,
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Please don't fall forward again. The reason why this episode
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is aptly titled that it's because of what happened on
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Tuesday night in the Michigan Senate Democratic primary between Abdul
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i Sayed and Haley Stevens. Before I give you guys
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my thoughts on that race, For those of you that
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are new at the very beginning of these episodes, I
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like to issue a very quick disclaimer.
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Speaker 2: I'm not a Democrat nor a Republican.
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Speaker 1: I am someone who's become fed up with the political
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system in this country. And if you're as fed up
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with this system as I am, I think you're gonna
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like what you're about to hear. So just stick around,
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and I guarantee you at the very end of this
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episode you will not be disappointed about the time you've
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just spent listening.
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Speaker 2: To what I have to say.
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Speaker 1: So, with the disclaimer out of the way, and with
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the background about why this episode is titled what it
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is titled out of the way, let's go ahead and
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dive right into it, shall we. So on Tuesday, several
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primary elections were held throughout the United States. We talked
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about those primary elections on Tuesday's episode of the show.
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The biggest race that people had their attention focused on
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was the Michigan Senate Democratic race between the aforementioned Abdul
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Opsaied and Hailey Stevens. Going into Tuesday, most people had
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already come to the realization that Abdul Lopsayed was going
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to be the Democratic nominee going into the November general
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election against former Congressman and Trump backed candidate on the
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Republican side, Mike Rodgers. But there had been a conversation
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happening throughout the state and throughout the country about a
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possible late Hailey Stevens comeback to shatter the hopes of
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the progressors within the Democratic Party by taking away one
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of the races that they thought was going to be
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for them an easy one to win. So on Tuesday,
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people throughout the state of Michigan went to Poland places
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and when the results were counted, it was Abdul Osayed
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who got the better of Hailey Stevens. Here's the final
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vote breakdown. Osaiyed captured seven hundred and forty two thy
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seventeen votes, which gave him forty eight point four percent
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of the vote. Hailey Stevens garnered seven hundred and twenty
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seven ninety one votes, which gave her forty seven point
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five percent of the vote. So what do the numbers
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tell us about what happened on Tuesday night? The numbers
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tell us that this was not the runaway election that
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the Democratic Socialists thought that it was going to be,
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because many people within that circle thought that Osayed was
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the perfect candidate, so perfect in fact, that he would
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have had absolutely no hard time putting away the aforementioned
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Hailey Stevens. When you go and look at how the
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votes came out, it's very ironic when you see the breakdown.
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Hailey Stevens did well would middle class, working class voters.
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In particular, she did well with African American voters, and
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most of us expected that she would considering the fact
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that osaiy Ed had a hard time really connecting with
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the black voters in the state of Michigan. We talked
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about that on Tuesday's episode as well. In a surprising,
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somewhat surprising, I should say, in a somewhat surprising twist,
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when you look at how Osaiyed did, most of his
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support came from college educated, white suburban voters. Why is
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that so surprising Because if you go and read the
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platform of the Democratic Socialists in this.
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Speaker 2: Country, you would think that their platform.
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Speaker 1: Would appeal to the voters that Hailey Stevens was able
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to garner, not the voters that Osayed was able to garner.
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So you see how this paradigm is working its way out.
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Osaiyed did well with the voters that he was not
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trying to court. Meanwhile, Hailey Stevens did well with the
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voters that Osayed needed to give his movement that he's
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in a little bit more street credibility. So let me
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go ahead and give you guys why this episode referring
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to this election is titled Please Don't Fall for It Again.
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I did some thinking the other night, and I said,
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I really hope that when I do this episode, what
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I'm about to say comes across as clearly and precisely
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as it possibly can. When I think about Osayed, you know,
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he was a former health official in Wayne County. You
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know he ran for governor on the Democratic side in
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twenty eighteen, lost in the primary, and many.
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Speaker 2: People had counted him out.
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Speaker 1: Many people did not envision him being able to do
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what he ultimately did on Tuesday night. His comeback sounds
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very familiar because there is someone who's currently in a
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position of power who can kind of lend some understanding
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to asa Ed, even though they happened to be on
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different sides of the political aisle.
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Speaker 2: And of course, the person that.
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Speaker 1: I'm speaking of is none other than the current president
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of the United States, one Donald J.
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Speaker 2: Trump.
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Speaker 1: Think about when he chose to run for president in
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twenty sixteen, most people didn't think he had a chance
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to win. Most prominent Republicans either entered the race or
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endorsed the candidate's running against him. When he finally did
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capture the nomination, you still had people who were on
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the fence about whether or not they were going to
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lend their support to him. You had plenty of people
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who were willing to open up their checkbooks to do
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everything financially that they possibly could to prevent Donald Trump
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from becoming president. And ultimately what happened, Donald Trump became
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the forty fifth president of the United States. If that's
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not a good enough example, let's jump to twenty twenty four.
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Think of all the legal hurdles that Donald Trump had
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to jump over. Think about what happened on January sixth.
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Think about how people within his own party say, you
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know what, we cannot let this guy get another opportunity
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to be the standard bearer of our party. He was
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written off. People were ready to turn the page from
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the Donald Trump experiment. And what ultimately happened got the
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Republican nomination and defeated Kamala Harris to become the forty
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seventh President of the United States. So a saied is
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very interesting when you compare him and his political resurgency
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to that of Donald Trump. Both were counted out, Both
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really did not have the back of the mainstream of
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their party, and look at what they were ultimately able
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to do. Now, there are still some people who are
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on the fence about oh Sayed going into this general
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election against Mike Rodgers because it was reported that while
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OSIED had a fifteen point lead over Haley Stevens, which
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we seen was not technically true when the votes were counted.
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There is now polling that's come out that's indicated that
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Mike Rodgers has a fifteen point lead over OSIED. So
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can you only imagine what would happen if he's able
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to run the table now that he's in the general
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election and defeat Mike Rodgers in November. This is a
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state that Donald Trump was able to capture in twenty
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twenty four. It was one of the seven swing states
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that everybody talked about then and still continue to talk
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about today. This is a state that has a democratic governor.
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This is a state where prominent Democrats happen to be
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and you have someone who's on the progressive wing of
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your party who's now going to potentially be your senator.
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Speaker 2: Now, the question that you'd have to ask yourself.
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Speaker 1: If you're someone who voted for Hailey Stevens, could you
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envision yourself in November going to the polls to vote.
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Speaker 2: For osa Ed.
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Speaker 1: Can you bring yourself to supporting the things that he supports?
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Or is it so vitally important for a Democrat to
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get into that Senate seat in hopes of flipping the
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Senate back to the Democrats that you're willing to just
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ignore everything that he's about and just vote for him
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just because he has a D beside his name. That's
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the way a lot of Republicans are going to conduct
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themselves in Texas in November. A lot of them voted
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for John Cornyn in the Republican primary, but they're going
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to pull their nose and they're going to vote for
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camp Paxton. Even if they don't agree with the kind
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of person that Kim Paxton happens to be, they're still
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gonna vote for him because he's a Republican. That are
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beside his name is what allows them to feel good
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about what they're about to do.
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Speaker 2: The same could be said in Michigan.
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Speaker 1: And if you're outsi ed, how are you going to
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be able to bring those Hailey Stephens supporters into your camp,
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because it's not like you won this election going away,
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like there were a few thousand votes that had they
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gone the other way, you would have been the one
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conceding and not Hailey Stevens. You would have been the
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one that people would be asking, Hey, are you gonna
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lend your support to her?
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Speaker 2: Going into the fall?
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Speaker 1: A few thousand votes could have turned this thing, and
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it would have been you on the outside looking in.
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Speaker 2: As opposed to her.
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Speaker 1: Now, he's already said that they've spoken and that she's
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committed to supporting him, But in a race like this
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one where she outspent him, more prominent Democrats supported her.
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And you have a guy who's embracing democratic socialism when
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a lot of people are wary about what it can do.
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What are going to be his realistic chances of capturing
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this seat in November, especially if Mike Rodgers can avoid
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doing what Ken Paxton is doing in Texas. Like kem
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Paxton most times is miaight, he's not really out there
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doing as much campaigning as you would like him to
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do if you are a Republican in the state of Texas.
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And yet Republicans wonder why James Tallerco is currently in
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the driver's seat in that election. Now, of course, most
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Republicans will tell you when you give them that little
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stat oh, we don't trust the polls anywhere.
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Speaker 2: Look at how wrong they can be. We think that.
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Speaker 1: When voters finally understand tall Rico's record, they'll reject him
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at the polls. Wishful thinking because of a lot of
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times that usually never turns out to be the case.
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Look at how Kamala tried to get people to look
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at Trump's record.
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Speaker 2: And what ultimately happened.
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Speaker 1: Not only did he win all seven swing states, but
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he became the first Republican president since Bush and o'
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ford to win the popular vote. So it's not always
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going out telling the constituency, hey, look at that guy's record,
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or look at that woman's record.
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Speaker 2: How could you vote for someone who believes in those things?
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Speaker 1: Like I told you guys on Tuesday, why so many
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people are starting to gravitate towards democratic socialism because it
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gives them something to feel good about. They've believed in
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capitalism for a long time, and they really haven't felt
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that that's gotten them anywhere.
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Speaker 2: They believed in both parties. Both parties have failed so.
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Speaker 1: Now they want something to believe in, and they think
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that democratic socialism gives them something appetable to believe in.
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But they will be sorely mistaken once they realize that, hey,
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the democratic socialists are going to get in there and
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do the same thing that regular Democrats are doing. They're
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gonna get in there and do the same thing that
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Republicans are doing. Which is why I urge people, please
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don't fall for it again. Don't fall for an outsider
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trying to tell you that they have your best interest
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at heart. Please don't fall for a politician that's going
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to tell you that he's trying to get all the
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money out of politics back into your pocket and that
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he supports medicare for all. Don't fall for those kind
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of politicians because they're not going to deliver on what
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you want them to deliver on. And it sounds good
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at the outset, but once it's had time to really
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enter into the ecosphere and you realize that it's not
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as good as it was advertised, then you start walking
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away from it saying, man, we were duped. Both political
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parties do a great job of duping their voters, getting
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them to believe that they're the ones that can provide
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what the other cannot. Abduela sieed Michigan citizens believing that
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he could deliver what Hailey Stevens couldn't. But the sad
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reality is that he, if he were to win in November,
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would go to the United States Senate and become the
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very thing that he claims that most politicians in DC
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are corrupt. Most politicians go to DC with good intentions,
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but when that big time money becomes too hard to
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pass up, they become corrupted by the very forces that
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they claimed they were going to DC to fight. Like
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I called out the hypocrisy of some of the leading
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voices in the Democratic socialism movement. Bernie Sanders tells you
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that he's fighting for the working man, and Bernie Sanders
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flies private. Alexandro Casio Cortes tells you that she's fighting
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for families, and yet she doesn't have one of her own.
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Speaker 2: Like, these people will.
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Speaker 1: Tell you that they understand your pain because they understand
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how it feels to not have this, not have that,
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not live in a nice home. And then you gonna
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look at the neighborhoods that they stay in and you say, man,
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you guys really must be feeling it in a different
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way because you're not feeling it the way I am.
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Most of these politicians don't know how it feels to
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lift paycheck to paycheck. Most of these politicians don't know
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how it feels to have to decide whether to fill
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up their gas tanks or their refrigerators. Most of these
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politicians don't understand how it feels to decide. What are
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you gonna do when it comes to trying to find
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money to send children to college? Are you gonna take
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out a second mortgage on the house? Are you gonna
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pull from your fro one k prematurely? What are you
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gonna do? They don't understand that. But yet it seems
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every election cycle you get people that get suckered into
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what these politicians are selling, and then when it turns
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out to not be what you thought it was gonna be,
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then you get mad at the politician, when in earnest,
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you should get mad at yourself because the politician didn't
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put the gun to your head and forced you to
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vote for him.
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Speaker 2: That was a decision that you made on your own.
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Speaker 1: You weren't intoxicated, you weren't under the influence of any narcotics,
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you chose to make that decision to send that person
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to Washington, and they betrayed you in the process. Like
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I said in the previous episode, that's the reason why
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I don't have the sympathy for people like Tucker Carlson,
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for people like Marjora Taylor Green, for people like Candice
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Owens Sean Ryan.
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Speaker 2: I don't have sympathy for them because they're the ones.
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Speaker 1: That sold us on the notion that if Trump got elected,
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he would be much better than what the Democrats were offering.
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And now those same people feel betrayed because Donald Trump
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betrayed them.
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Speaker 2: Go cry somewhere. I don't care.
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Speaker 1: Like you boohooing figuratively in public is not going to
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change the fact that you were the ones out there
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telling us what a difference Donald Trump would make if
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he got into the White House, and in twenty twenty four,
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if he got back into the White House.
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Speaker 2: He pissed you.
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Speaker 1: Off one time, and now you're regretting ever being the
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driving force behind what got him to DC. The same
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way that all of these prominent Democrats are trying to
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tell people in Michigan, hey vote for Osied, He's gonna
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give you what these other politicians have been unable to.
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Just listen to some of the prominent Democrats who've decided
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to jump on the Ohsayed train. Just listen to these names.
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So for Osayed, you have Ed Markey and Elizabeth Woreon,
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both senators from the state of Massachusetts, Bernie Sanders, Tina Smith,
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Chris van Holland, Jamal Bowman, Maxwell Frost, Japaul Rocanna, Ilhan
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omar Ayanna Presley, Keith Ellison, the attorney general over in Minnesota.
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Speaker 2: I mean, just think about some of those prominent people.
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Speaker 1: Hassan Parker, even though he's not a politician, he's a
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political commentator, streamer.
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Speaker 2: Whatever you want to call him.
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Speaker 1: They're the ones telling you that you need to abandon
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everything you think is controversial about is Sayed and vote
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for him because he's gonna deliver for you what these
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others have been unable to. And it's the biggest crop
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of bs that they can spute because they're not worried
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about their own situations because they're already taken care of.
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But they're willing to sell you a bill of damaged
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goods just to get somebody in there that they can control.
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Most people, whether they're a Democrat or Republican, doesn't matter.
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Believe that the majority of people in Congress are controlled
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by one entity Apak, the Israeli lobby. But it seems
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like all of these politicians are controlled by somebody. Think
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of how much money Peter Till gave to Donald Trump,
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how much money Miriam Addelson gave to Donald Trump, Elon Musk.
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All of these politicians have a price tag, which is
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why I don't understand why when they're running, they always
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try to get you and I to believe it.
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Speaker 2: I can't be balked.
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Speaker 1: You know, sometime their slogan is I'm a politician that
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cannot be balked. And then what ultimately ends up happening
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when they get into the office that they're running for,
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they easily become balked because the price is too good
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to refuse. And don't think that I'm sitting here saying
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that Hailey Stevens would have been any better. Like any
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time that you have to get a black politician to
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come and tell black people why you're their candidate, you're
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in trouble. And for so long, Black people, let's talk,
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because we're bad about this. For so long, we've given
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our political allegiance to the Democratic Party, And what have
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we gotten out there? Nothing not saying that if we
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went to the Republican side it would be any different.
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But there are too many black people who still bought
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into the notion that the Democratic Party is the party
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for them, and the Democratic Party is willing to sell
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you out at every single turn while trying to somewhat
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convince you that they have your best interest at heart.
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The only thing they gotta do is trot out Jim Clyburn.
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All they got to do is trot out some of
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these political commentators like a Charlemagne the God, like an
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Angela Raie Andrew Gillen when he's not in legal trouble,
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but Caari sellers Jamail Hill. They throw those people out
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and tell you why you need to stay voting Democrat,
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and you follow you vote Democrat and it's not getting
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any better.
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Speaker 2: And the one bone.
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Speaker 1: That they like to throw at blacks to keep them
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in the Democratic folders, Hey, the first black president was
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a Democrat. Yes, the same black president that most black
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people are upset with in some ways because he really
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didn't do that much for black people. And plus a
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lot of black people kind of look at Obama's side
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eye because Obama isn't fully.
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Speaker 2: Black, half of them is white.
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Speaker 1: So you get all these black politicians going up to
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Michigan trying to tell people why Jimp, why Hayley Stevens
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pardon me, is the best candidate for black people. And yes,
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she did capture a large chunk of the black vote
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up there, but it once again goes to show you
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why black people will never be able to use their
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political leverage to their benefit. Ever. Again, there was a
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point in time in this country where the black vote
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was the determining factor in elections because when white people
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went to vote, their vote usually was split right down
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the middle, and it took black people to put blacks
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and other minorities to put a certain candidate over the top.
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And then we lost the plot because we stopped understanding
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that our vote had power, because we just continuously gave
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it to the Democrats. The Republicans stopped trying to court it.
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And yet when the Republicans stopped trying to court the
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black vote, there are some in the black community who
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are willing to go out and call Republicans racist, while
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the Republicans look at black people and say, hey, we
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tried to go get your vote. But you guys stayed
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stuck in the Democratic mud. So we stopped trying to
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pull you out. You're there, and it doesn't matter how many.
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Speaker 2: Ropes we tied to the back of our truck to
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get you out the mud.
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Speaker 1: You're not gonna come out. And so they stopped trying
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to garner black support. Now, every now and then you'll
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have a Republican politician who tries to get the black vote,
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but they don't make it a priority. Look at what
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happened back in twenty twenty four when Donald Trump went
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to sit down with the National Association of Black Journalists,
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and look at how they jeered.
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Speaker 2: Him in that room.
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Speaker 1: Now, Donald Trump didn't help his calls because Donald Trump,
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you know, was one of those people that went around
24:36
pending the theory that Obama wasn't born in this country.
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He was the one him and his father were suing
24:43
the seventies from not rent to black tenants.
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Speaker 2: And we all understand how that worked. So he didn't
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do himself.
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Speaker 1: Any favors with the track record of things he'd been
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accused of doing in his time prior to occupying the
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nation's highest office.
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Speaker 2: So all that that being.
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Speaker 1: Said, yes, most of us already knew that Abdulah Sayeed
25:08
was gonna win. But it was not the victory that
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the Democratic Socialists of America thought that it was going
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to be, because what we ended up finding out was
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that Hailey Stevens was a more formidable opponent than they
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were willing to give her credit for being. And so
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you're gonna need her support, and you're gonna need her
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to be willing to put aside her personal differences with
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her personal and political differences with is Sayed so she
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can go out there and campaign with him. So that
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way Mike Rogers cannot make it to the United States
25:46
Senate for the Republicans. So interesting race there. And you know,
25:53
if you're the Hassan Pikers and the Elizabeth Warrens and
25:56
the Bernie Sanders and the aocs of the world, you're
25:59
pretty happy with the outcome of Tuesday's race. And if
26:02
you're the moderate Democrats, you suffered yet another setback. And
26:06
it's only a matter of time before the Chuck Schumers
26:10
and the Hakeem Jeffries and you're more moderate Democrats have
26:13
to finally start answering the question if more socialists start
26:18
winning throughout the country in these elections, Will you guys
26:22
change your tune and support them because they're coming, regardless
26:28
if we want them to or not, They're coming.
26:32
Speaker 2: And will it be a pretty situation? Absolutely not.
26:36
Speaker 1: But we've not had a pretty political situation in this
26:38
country for a very long time. And I don't think
26:42
I'm breaking any news to anybody when I say that.
26:48
All right, let's switch topics. I want to talk about
26:51
what happened today during the Senate Homeland Security Committee meeting
27:00
were they decided whether or not to hold doctor Anthony
27:05
Fauci in contempt for his testimony last week when he
27:11
played the fifth one hundred and eleven times. So it
27:14
was a party line vote the Republicans. They're the majority
27:18
on the committee, so of course majority rules. They voted
27:21
to hold doctor Fauci in contempt for his testimony, which
27:25
is now going to probe, which is now going to
27:27
cause the Department of Justice to start an investigation.
27:32
Speaker 2: Not going to spend a lot of time on this.
27:33
Speaker 1: I've already talked that link about this, and my opinion
27:37
still has not changed. Do I think that Anthony Fauci
27:42
dropped the ball when it came to COVID.
27:44
Speaker 2: Absolutely do.
27:45
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of COVID and COVID vaccine
27:48
related deaths are on the hands of doctor Fauci. Absolutely,
27:53
But I think we have to be honest about what
27:56
COVID did, not just to this country, but to the
28:00
entire world. But since Fauci dealt with infectious disease here
28:04
will stick with us. I don't think that we'll ever
28:09
get to a point where we've had a final reckoning
28:13
with everything surrounding the COVID nineteen pandemic, because a lot
28:20
of people that are supposed to still be here today
28:24
are not because of what happened during COVID. A lot
28:27
of people who lost their livelihoods, a lot of people
28:31
who weren't allowed to go to school, who weren't allowed
28:33
to go to work, who weren't allowed to do virtually
28:36
anything because they refuse to take the COVID vaccine. They're
28:40
never gonna let people like doctor Faucier forget what they
28:45
went through. And the sad reality is, it doesn't matter
28:49
how many times the Senate votes to hold Faucia in contempt,
28:53
it doesn't matter how many investigations are opened up into Faucia.
28:56
He will never face true justice, at least here on Earth.
29:02
I talked to you guys on Tuesday about another version
29:05
of justice that Faucia could face one of these days
29:09
in the afterlife. But I wish that we would stop
29:14
acting like it was just Fauci.
29:17
Speaker 2: Who did these things.
29:20
Speaker 1: Think of how many people that trusted Fauci and went
29:24
out and continue to push the same things that he
29:26
was pushing and dug us further and further into a
29:29
hole that, honestly, a lot.
29:31
Speaker 2: Of people haven't gotten out of yet.
29:34
Speaker 1: You know, the hole has been discovered, They've brought an
29:38
excavator in to dig the hole up, and you still
29:42
have people who don't understand that, hey, there is nothing
29:45
over you anymore. The hole has been uncovered. You can
29:49
get out now, and you still have a lot of
29:51
people that are skeptical of getting out of the hole.
29:58
So while it's nice to see that Fauci is finally
30:01
being taken the task for his role in COVID, I'm
30:06
just not gonna be the person that's gonna go out
30:08
and yell they got him, They're finally gonna do it.
30:12
It's worthless to think that it's a very, very big
30:18
waste of time to believe that Fauci is ever going
30:23
to be criminally held responsible.
30:26
Speaker 2: For what happened during COVID.
30:32
Speaker 1: Think of how many families were split due to varying
30:37
stances on the disease and on the vaccine. Think of
30:42
how many people still don't understand the true nature of
30:48
what it was because they're still believing in what's being
30:51
called quote unquote alternative facts. Think of the people who
30:58
are still grieving the life of a loved one because
31:02
they passed away due to COVID. Think of the people
31:05
who didn't get a chance to say goodbye to their
31:07
loved ones because of the restrictions that were placed on
31:11
damn near everything, especially those who were in nursing homes.
31:19
Speaker 2: And think of the.
31:20
Speaker 1: People who thought that if they took the vaccine it
31:23
would make everything better in a faster time. And think
31:27
of how many of those people are now either vaccine injured,
31:31
dealing with long term effects of the vaccine, or those
31:33
people who perished because they took it. Will never get
31:43
to a calm point in this COVID saga. It's just
31:47
never gonna happen, because this will always be discussed. Fifty
31:54
years from now, will still be talking about what happened
31:56
during COVID. It's sad, but it's the reality we're in
32:05
twenty twenty six. Right now, in twenty seventy six, the
32:10
three hundredth anniversary of the United States, people will still
32:14
be talking about what happened during COVID, and it's sad.
32:23
But if we don't continue to talk about what happened
32:28
those who put us in the position of damn near
32:31
doom and in some respects literal doom, they'll scape and
32:36
they'll feel like, Okay, people are forgotten about it. But
32:38
if you keep something like this alive, and if you
32:40
keep the pressure applied on those people, it'll be hard
32:45
for them to escape anything surrounding they're in the furious
32:49
actions during this pandemic. All right, Before I wrap this
32:56
thing up today, I want to talk about something that
32:59
hits home from me. No pun intended. For those of
33:04
you that have been longtime listeners of this podcast, you
33:08
will be the first to know that I reside in
33:12
the state of Mississippi, been here my entire life. Make
33:15
no bones about that whatsoever. I know that there are
33:21
times that when people talk about Mississippi, they always talk
33:25
about it from a negative standpoint. But you really have
33:29
to be in Mississippi to understand Mississippi. And I know
33:35
here recently, when Mississippi has come up nationally, it's not
33:41
been about good things. You at the Nolan Wills situation
33:43
that happened on Horn Island on the fourth of July.
33:46
Earlier this year, you had the situation involving Cohen Willie
33:51
in Senatobia, Mississippi.
33:52
Speaker 2: And every now and then you hear.
33:54
Speaker 1: Something bizarre happening over in the city of Jackson, our
33:58
state capital. Recently, the former mayor, the former district attorney,
34:02
and the former city councilman for Ward six all played
34:06
guilty to bribery and conspiracy charges involving the development of
34:11
a convention center hotel in Jackson. So anytime you hear
34:16
somebody talk about Mississippi, nine times out of ten is
34:18
not positive things that they're talking about involving the state
34:22
that I call home. That being said, Mississippi is going
34:29
to have a very interesting gubernatorial election next year. And
34:35
Mississippi is one of the few states in this country
34:38
where elections are held statewide on off election year cycles.
34:47
In twenty twenty eight, that's when the national elections are
34:50
going to be held.
34:51
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty eight.
34:52
Speaker 1: In January of that year, that's when the new governor
34:54
of this state will be sworn into office.
34:57
Speaker 2: So currently our governor is.
34:59
Speaker 1: Tate Reeves, and people have their polarizing opinions about the
35:02
job that Tate Reeves has done is governor. Some people
35:05
think he's done a great job, some people think he's
35:07
done a bad job. And you have those people in
35:09
the middle who believe that Tate Reeves could have done more.
35:12
But understand that in this state, the governor doesn't have
35:15
as much power as the lieutenant governor, who's also the
35:18
president of the Mississippi State Senate. So this governor's election
35:23
that's gonna take place next year is interesting, not from
35:27
the standpoint of who's gonna be running on the Republican
35:30
side versus who's gonna be run on the Democratic side,
35:32
But most of the attention is going to be focused
35:35
on the Republican side of things, because, let's be honest,
35:39
those of us that live in Mississippi, let's be real
35:41
with ourselves. Our next governor is gonna be a Republican.
35:44
I hate to break it to you, but that's the
35:45
way the cookie crumbles in this state. Mississippi. There was
35:48
a point in time where the governors used to be Democrat.
35:51
Our governor, our next governor is gonna be a Republican.
35:56
Pretty sure, I'm not breaking any news on that front. Currently,
36:02
there are four declared Republicans in the race for Mississippi governor.
36:08
Our current Attorney General Lynn Finch was the latest to
36:10
announce her intentions of running for the office. Andy Gibson,
36:14
who is our Agriculture and Commerce Commissioner, throwing his hat
36:18
into the ring. Philip Gunn, the former speaker of the
36:22
Mississippi House of Representatives, is in the race. And Shad White,
36:26
our state auditor, is in the race. And those are
36:29
just the ones who've declared. There are several on the
36:32
outside looking in. Tommy Duff, who's one of the Duff
36:36
brothers that run Southern Tyre mart he's expressed interest in running.
36:40
You got Delbert Holsman, the lieutenant governor of the state.
36:43
He's expressed some interest in running. You got Greg Harper,
36:46
former Representative, Trent Kelly representative. You got Michael Guest, Well
36:51
not Michael Guests, I'm thinking of Michael Watson. He declined
36:54
he's gonna run for Lieutenant governor, and David McCrae, who's
36:57
our treasurer, has made some particular statements surrounding a possible
37:03
candidacy for the office of governor. Why is this race
37:09
so important on the Republican side because in some ways,
37:14
the Republicans that are vying for the nomination to be
37:17
the governor, they are gonna have to jockey it out
37:22
to determine which one of them is the most Trump
37:27
aligned candidate in the race. Because trust and believe me,
37:31
if the Republicans are able to maintain control of the
37:34
House in the Senate, Donald Trump will carry some sway
37:38
over this election. Now, if the Democrats get control of
37:41
either chamber and make Donald Trump into a lame duck president,
37:45
his endorsement won't necessarily hold a lot of sway over
37:49
this race. So you're gonna have the Lynn Finches, the
37:54
Andy Gibson, Philip Gunns, Shad Whites of the world trying
37:58
to align themselves as the most Trumpiest candidate in the race. Now,
38:04
don't get me wrong, I really don't care who becomes
38:08
the next governor of this state because it's not like
38:12
Mississippi's gonna magically change overnight. As the saying goes. We're
38:18
first on every bad list and we're last on every
38:20
good list, and it seems like that's gonna be that
38:22
way for a long time. It doesn't matter how many
38:24
data centers you built. Mississippi stad has a long way
38:27
to go before we can ever get ourselves out of
38:30
the conversations that we're in that are bad. Yes, I
38:35
call Mississippi home, but I also tell uncomfortable truths about
38:39
the state that I call home.
38:44
Speaker 2: If there's one particular.
38:46
Speaker 1: Person in this race that I really don't have a
38:49
liking for, it would have to be Andy Gibson. I
38:53
just feel like Andy Gibson's whole stick is fictitious. The
38:58
big cowboy had the southern drawl. He seems like the
39:02
kind of person that wants to always lecture you about
39:06
why the good old days were better than the days
39:08
were in He just seems to be this person that's
39:10
willing to do and say anything to garner the support.
39:13
Speaker 2: That he needs. That's just the person that he seems
39:18
like he is.
39:19
Speaker 1: Now. Don't get me wrong, I've never met Andy Gibson.
39:22
I've never met any of these people that's running for governor.
39:25
Speaker 2: Andy Gibson might be a great guy.
39:28
Speaker 1: But truth be told, this race, there's gonna be a
39:33
lot of money thrown into it, There's gonna be a
39:34
lot of mut slinging in it. The endorsements are gonna
39:39
carry a lot of weight. And most importantly, think of
39:44
the various jobs that are gonna be open because Lynn
39:48
Fitch she's running for governor. She can't run for attorney
39:50
general again. Andy Gibson running for governor, can't be agriculture
39:55
commissioner again at least discycle and Shad why running for
40:00
a governor can run for auditor. So think of the
40:03
jobs that they would be giving up those who are
40:07
unable to win the primary.
40:10
Speaker 2: And I do believe that the Republican primary is going
40:12
to go to a runoff.
40:17
Speaker 1: And once again, I do believe that a Republican will
40:20
be the one that would be the next governor to
40:23
follow Tate Reeves in twenty twenty eight. With that being said,
40:28
ladies and gentlemen, that'll wrap up today's edition of the
40:30
Igarius Williams SHOWP want to thank you guys once again
40:33
as always for listening, however and wherever you choose to listen.
40:36
Speaker 2: Until next time, you
40:37
Speaker 1: Guys, continue to enjoy your day stay safetake care, God
40:40
bless we are out peace,