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It's about IOWA FIRST GOP gov candidate · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Very good point.
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  Speaker 2: Turning now to this.
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  Speaker 3: Radical Democrat Rob Sand. He's a disaster for government. And
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  Speaker 3: by the way, he wants to raise your taxes by $ 7, 500.
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  Speaker 3: He wants to take away your guns and your Second Amendment.
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  Speaker 3: You need to go vote for a businessman who will
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  Speaker 3: cut your property taxes very substantially, lower your gas prices,
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  Speaker 3: support our police and keep criminals behind bars. Your next governor,
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  Speaker 3: Zach Lane.
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  Speaker 2: Iowa will elect a new governor in just 10 days
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  Speaker 2: in the most expensive race in state history. Over 200,000
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  Speaker 2: early votes have already been cast. Our power rankings have
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  Speaker 2: the race-leaning Democrat as Rob Sand holds a lead over
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  Speaker 2: Republican Zach Lane. But the race is still up for grabs. Now,
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  Speaker 2: diesel prices are over $ 6 a gallon, and they remain
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  Speaker 2: a top concern for farmers in the state. But President
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  Speaker 2: Trump is promising $ 8 billion in relief, and they are
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  Speaker 2: standing by the president.
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  Speaker 4: People have short memories. They look at high fuel prices.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I grew up on a farm.
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  Speaker 1: I'm from a farm family. Every farmer I know supports Trump.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure a lot of them don't like the high
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  Speaker 4: gas prices and whatever, but I look at it like
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  Speaker 4: as soon as we get this war over with, they're
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  Speaker 4: going to go down and it's worth it.
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  Speaker 2: Which party do you think can bring down those high prices?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not worried about the high prices at this point.
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  Speaker 1: I'm more worried about how our kids are getting mishandled
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  Speaker 1: in schools.
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  Speaker 2: Well, joining us now for tonight's big close-up is Iowa
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  Speaker 2: GOP gubernatorial candidate Zach Lane. Thanks so much for being here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is the most expensive race in state history,
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  Speaker 2: and Republicans have held the governor's office in Iowa since 2011.
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  Speaker 2: So what would you say to people who are concerned
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  Speaker 2: that you are down in the polls against your Democratic opponent?
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  Speaker 4: Well, first, I'd say that, you know, my opponent has
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  Speaker 4: been spending more money on this race than anybody in
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  Speaker 4: the history of the state of Iowa for governor's races.
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  Speaker 4: He's from a billionaire family. They're trying to buy this election.
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  Speaker 4: He did the same thing in his last election for
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  Speaker 4: auditor outspent the Republican 30 to one. But I think
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  Speaker 4: that as we go around the state, we've held seven
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  Speaker 4: events in the past two days. We are just full
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  Speaker 4: force going at this for the for November 3rd. We're
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  Speaker 4: seeing more and more consolidation. We're seeing more and more
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  Speaker 4: people come to our team. And we believe that this
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  Speaker 4: is going to be a race that we're going to
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  Speaker 4: win on November 3rd. We truly do.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, kind of piggybacking on that, the Senate
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  Speaker 5: race doesn't seem to be as decidedly red as we
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  Speaker 5: probably thought it was going into this season as well.
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  Speaker 5: So I don't know if you're getting much help there,
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  Speaker 5: if that's something that you're leaning into, going down the ballot,
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  Speaker 5: voting Republican. But how do you separate your message from
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  Speaker 5: maybe the national Republican message? What is it that Iowans
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  Speaker 5: want to hear that you can bring to the table
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  Speaker 5: as governor, kind of irrespective of national policy?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a great point because this is what
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  Speaker 4: our campaign's been about since the very beginning. I've never
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  Speaker 4: ran for office before. I'm not a career politician. I
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  Speaker 4: wasn't planning to run for this office. I saw the
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  Speaker 4: issues that we're facing as a state, and they're serious.
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  Speaker 4: We have the fastest rate of new cancer in the
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  Speaker 4: country in Iowa. We have family farms have died off
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  Speaker 4: at the rate of 10,000 over the past 20 years.
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  Speaker 4: Public education, which you guys probably know, Iowa used to
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  Speaker 4: be number one in the nation. We're now in the
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  Speaker 4: bottom half. and our kids are leaving faster than 46
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  Speaker 4: other states. This has been my message from the very beginning.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we pulled off probably the biggest upset in
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  Speaker 4: the country in the primary, where we actually beat a
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  Speaker 4: Trump-endorsed candidate. We were the first ones to do it.
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  Speaker 4: And the reason we did was because we had the
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  Speaker 4: grassroots ground support, and people saw our message was about
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  Speaker 4: Iowa first. It's what's been since the very beginning, and
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  Speaker 4: we're continuing that.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I know you said that your opponent is
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  Speaker 6: spending a lot of money and this is the most
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  Speaker 6: expensive race going. But in a reliably Republican state, why
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  Speaker 6: do you think you're nine points down right now in
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  Speaker 6: the polls?
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  Speaker 4: Well, first off, I don't think we're nine points down.
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  Speaker 4: Not even close to that. My opponent doesn't think we're
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  Speaker 4: nine points down. You know, Iowa is ranked as the
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  Speaker 4: most difficult state in the country to get Republicans to
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  Speaker 4: take polls. They're just tired of it. They're tired of
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  Speaker 4: all of this. Iowa gets very sick of these things.
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  Speaker 4: And I'll tell you, we are not seeing this on
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  Speaker 4: the ground. But, you know, the big thing that we're
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  Speaker 4: pushing for, we do need— we need the Trump supporters to
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  Speaker 4: get out and vote. And we believe they are. The
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  Speaker 4: early vote numbers show that they are. And we believe
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  Speaker 4: that we are truly going to win this race. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we pulled off the biggest upset in the primary. I'm
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  Speaker 4: the underdog here. I was the underdog then. I'm happy
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  Speaker 4: to pull this off, and we see the excitement building
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  Speaker 4: behind our campaign.
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  Speaker 1: Sir, we're 10 days out at this point. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like we've been counting since, say, 350 days out, but
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  Speaker 1: now this is truly the home stretch. What is your
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  Speaker 1: closing argument with voting beginning next— well, obviously, it's begun already,
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  Speaker 1: but people going to the polls en masse next Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: a week from Tuesday?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think in Iowa, we're seeing the same thing
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  Speaker 4: we see across the country. We have very radically liberal
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  Speaker 4: people running for office in the Democrat Party that are
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  Speaker 4: pretending to be moderates. You know, Talrico in Texas is
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  Speaker 4: doing this. Spanberger did it in Virginia. You know, the
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  Speaker 4: people you just mentioned about the future of the Democratic
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  Speaker 4: Party and how they won't get them out, whether it's
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  Speaker 4: Newsom or Pritzker, these are people who support my opponent.
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  Speaker 4: My opponent is very radical on his views, whether it's,
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  Speaker 4: you know, wanting illegal immigrants to have benefits, amnesty, you know,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's the transgenderism in elementary schools, he supports these things.
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  Speaker 4: And so the message I've been bringing is very different.
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  Speaker 4: We have to protect and defend the culture of the state.
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  Speaker 4: Look what's going on in France, what's happened in Minneapolis,
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  Speaker 4: what's happened in Illinois. Iowa needs to protect the culture,
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  Speaker 4: and that's what I'm fighting for. So, you know, when
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  Speaker 4: you're running against a liberal billionaire, you have to do
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  Speaker 4: everything you can to raise all the funds you need.
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  Speaker 4: And actually, for that point, I need every one of
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  Speaker 4: your listeners, ZachLane.com, jump in, chip in some funds, help
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  Speaker 4: us cross the line here. But it is about protecting
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  Speaker 4: the culture and solving the long-term issues we're facing as
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  Speaker 4: a state. Iowa truly matters in the national stage, and
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  Speaker 4: we are going to fight to keep this seat.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Zach Lane, thank you so much for joining us tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Joey, lots of great stuff there. One of
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  Speaker 2: the last things that he said that I thought was
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  Speaker 2: very true is he talked about how difficult it is
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  Speaker 2: to get Republicans to respond to the polls. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that this is what they're discovering in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these deep red states, whether it's Texas, Iowa, Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: How much do you think that that factors in here?
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  Speaker 5: So I'm not a pollster, but I do kind of
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  Speaker 5: like to analyze things as part of my nature, I guess,
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  Speaker 5: of being a bond tech.
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  Speaker 4: How does that work?
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  Speaker 3: How do you build that?
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  Speaker 5: And if I had a pollster sitting here, I'd say,
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  Speaker 5: are you factoring that in? So do you put some
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  Speaker 5: sort of correction or some sort of handicap to bring
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  Speaker 5: the Republican— vote up knowing that conservatives seem to be less,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, open to some random person texting you
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  Speaker 5: and calling you and asking you your most intimate opinions
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  Speaker 5: on things. I mean, it just feels very intrusive.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to see how many missed calls I have.
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  Speaker 5: It's insane. I mean, it's insane. A lot of my
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  Speaker 5: friends sign me up for Democrat fundraisers. So I'm getting
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  Speaker 5: them from both sides. But with that being said, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I'm not following this race very closely. I
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  Speaker 5: don't live in Iowa, and we're looking at national politics
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  Speaker 5: usually on this show. He kind of comes across like
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  Speaker 5: those Iowa Hawkeyes to me. You know, slow and steady
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  Speaker 5: wins the race, nothing flashy, not throwing big passes, but
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  Speaker 5: carry the ball across the goal line. You know, just
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  Speaker 5: get it there and control the clock. Those types of
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  Speaker 5: grassroots campaigns, I think, are the ones that will be
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  Speaker 5: able to surprise us in a few places across the country.
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  Speaker 5: Because at the end of the day, all the work
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  Speaker 5: that President Trump is doing and all that he's taking,
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  Speaker 5: people at some point have to pay attention to what's
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  Speaker 5: happening around them. And when it comes to their governor
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  Speaker 5: and their state officials, that's important.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and Anita, Zach Lane already did surprise a lot
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  Speaker 2: of Republicans when he beat the Trump-endorsed primary candidate. So
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  Speaker 2: he also has that going for him, that he has
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  Speaker 2: built a grassroots coalition that was able to beat the
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  Speaker 2: president's own candidate.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right. And I was just going to say that,
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  Speaker 6: that he was not the president's choice in the primary.
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  Speaker 6: A fellow by the name of Randy Feenstra was the
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  Speaker 6: Trump-endorsed candidate.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Lane beat him. So he does have that going for him. But,
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  Speaker 6: you know, you wonder, does that have any effect on this?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. He is behind in the polls. But maybe,
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  Speaker 6: you know, maybe there is that hidden vote that the
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  Speaker 6: polls are not picking up. So we're going to have
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  Speaker 6: to see.
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  Speaker 2: And Joe, one of the things that you saw him
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  Speaker 2: try to do was tie his opponent to some of
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  Speaker 2: the other bigger national Democrats who are pushing extreme policies.
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  Speaker 2: But isn't that a good strategy in that shouldn't all
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  Speaker 2: of these individual Democratic candidates be forced to go on
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  Speaker 2: record and explain how they're actually different than the leading
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  Speaker 2: figures of the party right now? Explain how your policies
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  Speaker 2: are different. Do you disagree with people like Abdul El-Sayed?
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  Speaker 1: I think the bumper sticker should have been from the
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  Speaker 1: beginning for every Republican running, regardless of whether you're running
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  Speaker 1: in Iowa against a so-called moderate. Communism versus common sense.
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  Speaker 1: Which do you choose? Communism versus chaos. And if you
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  Speaker 1: could paint the Democratic Party as one that's going off
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  Speaker 1: that cliff, then you could be successful. But when I
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  Speaker 1: hear polls in Iowa, I go back to 2024. I
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  Speaker 1: remember Ann Seltzer.
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  Speaker 4: Kamala by 13.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the gold standard when she said that, yeah, Kamala.
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  Speaker 1: was up in frigging Iowa, all right, which is whiter
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  Speaker 1: than a Hallmark movie. There is no way that that
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  Speaker 1: was going to happen. I even called some bookers here,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just, please put me on the air the
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  Speaker 1: day after the election so I can dunk on that
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  Speaker 1: poll specifically. And she had to retire because Trump won
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  Speaker 1: the state by 13. So again, we talked about Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Trump won by two touchdowns. He won there by 13
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  Speaker 1: points in 2024. If you're telling me that that's suddenly
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  Speaker 1: been erased just because diesel prices are up, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying that it hasn't been certainly bitten into, but I
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  Speaker 1: think this is a neck and neck race, given that
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  Speaker 1: Iowa has always gone red.
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