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Randy Fine | Florida District 6 Congressman Speaks from Winner's Circle Following Midterm Massacre of GOP · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Before I hit the stage in New York, I started
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  Speaker 1: getting the Florida results back. And I was so happy
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  Speaker 1: to hear, my dear friend, that we are very, very,
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  Speaker 1: very close. The Hebrew Hammer, the great congressman Randy Fine, win.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll be honest. When I saw that Byron Donalds
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  Speaker 1: barely beat David Jolly, and even more alarming than that,
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  Speaker 1: that Ashley Moody barely beat that lunatic DSA psycho Angie Nixon,
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  Speaker 1: I swear to God, I turned to one of Lawler's people,
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  Speaker 1: 10th and 9th, I go, I don't like what I'm
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  Speaker 1: seeing out of Florida.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like it. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Those two races in particular, if they're that close, that
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  Speaker 1: could be bad for the rest of us. And I
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  Speaker 1: turned out to be right. Anyway, the guy that did win, though,
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  Speaker 1: is the amazing Congressman Randy Fine. And he's on the
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  Speaker 1: phone with me right now this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Randy Fine, congratulations, my friend. Well-deserved.
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  Speaker 3: As you said, it was a great night, and I
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  Speaker 3: was honored. I was the first race in America to
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  Speaker 3: be called. In fact, Decision Desk HQ called my race
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  Speaker 3: before any results came back. And I'm one of, I think,
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  Speaker 3: only two members of Congress, Republican members of Congress, who
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  Speaker 3: had their margin of win increase from their first election
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  Speaker 3: to their second. I won by 19 last night. I
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  Speaker 3: won by 14 in my first election. And that's despite,
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  Speaker 3: you know, $ 20 million being spent to beat me up
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  Speaker 3: over the last two years. So I'm very happy about
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  Speaker 3: how I did. I'm broken hearted, frankly, though, for the
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  Speaker 3: country right now. And I'm struggling to wrap my head
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  Speaker 3: around how these two things happened, how I could win
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  Speaker 3: so decisively, but how America could lose so badly last night.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're great. And right now, America's not.
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  Speaker 1: I know we're the greatest country in the world, but
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  Speaker 1: there's a reason. What about what I just said as
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  Speaker 1: you were preparing to come on? That Ashley Moody, Angie
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  Speaker 1: Nixon race scared the daylights out of me before we
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  Speaker 1: started getting all the terrible results at 9 o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: Did that make sense to you?
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  Speaker 1: It did. It did.
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  Speaker 3: Look, it was not a good night for our side
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  Speaker 3: last night. I don't think you can you can make
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  Speaker 3: any argument that it was is terrible. And and I
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  Speaker 3: think the fact that Florida held its own, we did
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  Speaker 3: not lose any members of Congress. We won every statewide
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  Speaker 3: elected position, showed that we could we could be a
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  Speaker 3: clawback to that wave that came over us. I think
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  Speaker 3: what matters is that they won and we will be
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  Speaker 3: able to keep Florida moving in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: Well, tell me this.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I know you're good friends with Mike Lawler,
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  Speaker 1: very good friends, such a great pro-Israel guy.
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  Speaker 2: And I saw Mike cry last night.
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  Speaker 1: It was really actually very, very sad with his beautiful wife, Dawna,
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  Speaker 1: his children, his lovely mother. So many great candidates and
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  Speaker 1: incumbents that lost last night. And I know people like
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  Speaker 1: me and you are very, very staunch President Trump supporters.
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  Speaker 1: You and I are both, both friends, real life friends
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  Speaker 1: with President Trump. I tweeted this morning, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to stab him in the back. But, but there is
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  Speaker 1: no question we took a beating last night because a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, maybe even now on both sides of
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  Speaker 1: the aisle, hate our president. Bottom line, forget about Iran,
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  Speaker 1: gas prices, oil prices.
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  Speaker 2: They hate him. Can you argue that this morning, Randy Fine?
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  Speaker 3: No, and it's because they don't know him like we
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  Speaker 3: know him. We don't know the good man that he
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  Speaker 3: is and how much he fights every day for this
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  Speaker 3: I guess that our government didn't care about them. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's really what it is. They didn't care about
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  Speaker 3: the problems that they're facing. And maybe that's why my
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  Speaker 3: margin increased, because the people in my district saw me
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  Speaker 3: all the time and they saw how hard I worked.
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  Speaker 3: And so they said, we know you're fighting for us.
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  Speaker 3: We see how hard you're working. We're going to support you.
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  Speaker 3: But but no, again, this was not a good night.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to I'm not going to try to
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  Speaker 3: whitewash it and spin it and say that it was
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't. And look, the real message, God puts us
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  Speaker 3: where he wants us to be. And and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's what I'm struggling with this morning. I know
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  Speaker 3: that he had me win because he knows I've fought
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  Speaker 3: my whole life and I've built been built for a fight.
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  Speaker 3: But God apparently wants to test our country and we
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  Speaker 3: need to wake up and get ready to lean into
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  Speaker 3: that fight. And, you know, I mean, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: I feel a bit of whiplash, happy about my results.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So many people who were good people who lost like Lawler.
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  Speaker 2: Great guy.
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  Speaker 1: So tell me this, the great Florida Congressman Randy Fine,
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  Speaker 1: off a very impressive victory yesterday, which we can't say
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  Speaker 1: about a lot of Republicans across the country. When you
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  Speaker 1: go to work today, nothing changes, right?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing changes.
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  Speaker 1: But come January, when you go to work and the
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  Speaker 1: great Mike Johnson is no longer running the show, now
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  Speaker 1: it's Hakeem Jeffries, and you look to your right and
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  Speaker 1: there's no Mike Lawler, there's a Kate Conley, okay? And
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  Speaker 1: you look to your left And whoever that Democrat is,
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  Speaker 1: no friend of yours, trust me, is standing to your left.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of your daily work, how does all this
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  Speaker 1: change come January 1?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't know the answer to that yet.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't even know at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Come back to me, Randy. Come on. You're doing great.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to hear this answer. Willie Bandit.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to spend the day just trying to figure
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  Speaker 3: out Who won?
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  Speaker 1: Who lost?
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  Speaker 3: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: What I do know is this, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I'm now part of the insurgency. You know, we're not
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  Speaker 3: running the show. We don't get to decide what bills
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  Speaker 3: come on the floor. Democrats will likely be able to
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  Speaker 3: pass just about anything they want out of the house.
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  Speaker 3: And so our challenge will be to explain why those
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  Speaker 3: policies are bad, support the president when he vetoes them,
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  Speaker 3: and build for the future. But it's going to be,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this job wasn't fun for me when we
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  Speaker 3: were in the majority.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: It's certainly not going to be fun in the minority.
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  Speaker 1: But I do want to talk about Johnson because, again,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the last couple of years, Kevin McCarthy, he
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  Speaker 1: got ousted. You know, you guys talk to Jim Jordan,
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  Speaker 1: you talk to Steve Scalise, and eventually Mike Johnson got.
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  Speaker 2: The job, and he just came under fire every day.
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  Speaker 1: People like Trader Marjorie Taylor Greene beat his ass before
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  Speaker 1: they decided to quit.
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  Speaker 2: So his job has been so difficult.
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  Speaker 1: Newt Gingrich says, Mike Johnson, toughest job in America, but
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  Speaker 1: the guy does a tremendous job. What about Mike Johnson
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  Speaker 1: now being demoted, in essence, because now Hakeem Jeffries takes
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  Speaker 1: over as majority? What are your thoughts on the job
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  Speaker 1: that Mike Johnson did?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think from a....
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  Speaker 2: Ah, the phone. Come on, Randy.
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  Speaker 3: Samely small majority, and Democrats didn't agree with anything we
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  Speaker 3: were doing. I think from a political perspective, we can't
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  Speaker 3: say that he did great given the results last night.
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  Speaker 2: So would you place some of the blame on him?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I place the blame on all of us. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you're measured by results. Um, and you know, you, the
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  Speaker 3: results weren't good. So you can't, you can't avoid that. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I mean, look, I think the speaker is
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  Speaker 3: of course he shares. So we all share some of
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  Speaker 3: the blame for what happened last night, even though I
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  Speaker 3: won as decisively as I did, I'm on that team
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  Speaker 3: and that team didn't win. So I fear some of
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  Speaker 3: the blame.
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  Speaker 1: Have you reached out to some of your friends like
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  Speaker 1: Michael or this morning or even late last night and, um, No,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, maybe a couple people, but, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: was just watching the results come in. I got up
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  Speaker 3: not that long ago. I'm not like you. I don't
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  Speaker 3: have to get up in the middle of the night. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I only got up a little while ago and,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just having stayed up till like two o'clock
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  Speaker 3: in the morning watching the results. So no. I'll be
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  Speaker 3: on the phone all day, and I go back to D.C.
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  Speaker 3: in a couple of days, and I told my team,
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  Speaker 3: let's set everything aside. We now have to build a
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  Speaker 3: plan for the future because it's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: different world than we expected it to be.
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  Speaker 1: And on the way out, Randy, if you guys thought
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  Speaker 1: the out-migration from New York to Florida was bad before,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, who's going to stay here? What sane Republican–
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are happy– DSA are happy.
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  Speaker 2: Jew haters are happy. Anti-Americans are happy. Trump haters are happy.
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  Speaker 1: But what sane Republican, God forbid MAGA like me, who's
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  Speaker 1: going to stay here?
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  Speaker 2: They're coming to see you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'd say two things about that. That's why we
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  Speaker 3: don't call you all New Yorkers anymore. We call you
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  Speaker 3: all pre-Floridians. But honestly, when you get back to the
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  Speaker 3: Byron results last night, part of the reason the margin
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  Speaker 3: was small, you know, Byron won overwhelmingly with people who
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  Speaker 3: got here in the last five years. It was people
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  Speaker 3: who've lived in Florida their whole lives who were less happy.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason is, It's more crowded. It's more expensive.
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  Speaker 3: The problem is everyone with a brain wants to move
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  Speaker 3: to Florida. It makes it harder to live in Florida
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  Speaker 3: for those of us who've already lived there. And so
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  Speaker 3: that's the challenge. That's part of Byron's result last night.
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  Speaker 3: Housing's gone up. Everything's gone up because when you put...
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  Speaker 3: millions more people in this state. We're not that big.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to make everything more expensive. But yes, I
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  Speaker 3: do expect to see, because Republicans still rule the day
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  Speaker 3: in Florida. We won every statewide elected. We still have
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  Speaker 3: the House. We still have the Senate. We still have
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  Speaker 3: every member of Congress we did coming in. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're like an island of sane in a world of crazy.
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  Speaker 2: You really are.
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  Speaker 1: Last one, though. Island of sane. How does Debbie Wasserman
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  Speaker 1: Schultz keep winning? I can't explain that one to me.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, remember, like every Democrat won last night. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's not a surprise. But she moved districts to a
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  Speaker 3: very safe Democratic seat. There were always, of our 28
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  Speaker 3: congressional seats, that were four. There were four that were
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  Speaker 3: unwinnable by a Republican. She moved to one of those four.
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  Speaker 3: But we didn't pick up any of the four that
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  Speaker 3: they that they designed for us to pick up. We
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  Speaker 3: started with 20. We ended with 20. And some of
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  Speaker 3: those 20, we barely won.
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  Speaker 1: I know. In fact, the former mayor of Boca Raton
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  Speaker 1: was on with me a couple of times. I like
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  Speaker 1: the guy, Scott Singer. He was telling me he was
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  Speaker 1: beating Jared Moskowitz. He didn't beat Jared Moskowitz. Moskowitz stayed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. He did. All of the Democratic incumbents stayed
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  Speaker 3: as well. So, you know, like I said, it was
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  Speaker 3: a good night for them. It was a good night
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  Speaker 3: for them in Florida. But they didn't increase their place
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  Speaker 3: on the playing field. But Moskowitz won, and Darren Soto won,
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  Speaker 3: Kathy Castor won. Again, there were four seats the Republicans
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  Speaker 3: were targeting in Florida, and we did not win any
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  Speaker 3: of them. But look, the fact of the matter is
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  Speaker 3: the guy who ran the campaigns for the United States
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  Speaker 3: the chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. He lost.
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  Speaker 3: The guy who was in charge of winning lost. So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was a crazy night.
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  Speaker 1: But you won, and we're happy about that because you
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  Speaker 1: really are a tremendous congressman and even a better guy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're one of my all-time favorites.
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  Speaker 1: Randy Fine, congratulations on the victory, and we need you
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  Speaker 1: now more than ever.
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  Speaker 2: So keep fighting, my man. I love you. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much. Thanks, pal.
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  Speaker 3: It's all I know how to do. I'll talk to
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  Speaker 3: you later.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: The Hebrew hammer right there. Randy Pine. And he was
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  Speaker 1: one of the few Republicans that actually won. He got
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  Speaker 1: a big win in the state of Florida yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: What the heck is going on here?