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'Make sure people have the facts’ OH Dem House candidate on his new attack ad against his opponent · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: With just 37 days to go until the midterms, Republicans
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  Speaker 1: are facing an uphill battle to hold on to their
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  Speaker 1: majority in the House. Cook Political Report now projects that
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are more likely to gain between 5 and 15 seats,
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  Speaker 1: enough to flip the chamber and give them a 220
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  Speaker 1: to 230 seat majority next year. One closely watched race
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  Speaker 1: is in Ohio's 7th district. Democrat Brian Poindexter is facing
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  Speaker 1: off against Republican incumbent Congressman Max Miller. And now a
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  Speaker 1: new ad by Poindexter's campaign is bringing even more attention
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  Speaker 1: to the race, centering its message on the domestic abuse
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  Speaker 1: allegations against Miller that have embroiled his campaign. Miller has
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  Speaker 1: repeatedly denied the allegations and threatened to sue Ohio stations
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  Speaker 1: if they ran the ad, which his attorney called defamatory.
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  Speaker 1: Joining us now, Brian Poindexter, Democratic nominee for Ohio's 7th
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  Speaker 1: Congressional District. Brian, welcome back to the show. What has
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  Speaker 1: prompted you to run this ad and overall change your
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  Speaker 1: tone a bit on being more aggressive and attacking Congressman
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  Speaker 1: Max Miller for things that reporters here in Washington have
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  Speaker 1: been reporting on for a few months now?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first off, good morning. Happy to be here with
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  Speaker 2: you on this beautiful fall day here in.
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  Speaker 3: The 7th District. Yeah, we haven't changed our tone one bit.
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  Speaker 2: We are still laser focused on putting workers first in
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  Speaker 2: this race. I get asked two questions at the doors. One,
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  Speaker 2: what am I going to do for the cost of
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  Speaker 2: living and how to help in that way? But also,
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  Speaker 2: tell me about your opponent. So we want to make
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  Speaker 2: sure people have the facts. So we're telling the story
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  Speaker 2: of my opponent to make sure people are well informed
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  Speaker 2: when they go into that voting booth on November 3rd. Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Poindexter, you said that when you knock on doors, they
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  Speaker 4: talk to you about two things, one of them being
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  Speaker 4: cost of living. What other things are they talking about?
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  Speaker 4: I'm wondering, are they talking about the war with Iran?
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  Speaker 4: Are they talking about the vanity projects the president seems
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  Speaker 4: to be more focused on here in Washington?
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  Speaker 3: Other issues?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the cost of living consumes a lot of different things.
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  Speaker 2: The war in Iran, definitely top of mind. The blanket
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  Speaker 2: tariffs that have driven up costs for our farmers. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the corruption in Washington. And, you know, my opponent has
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  Speaker 2: supported every single one of those initiatives.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what people are seeing. They're filling it in
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  Speaker 3: their wallets.
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  Speaker 2: And not only is he terrible in his personal life,
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  Speaker 2: but he's also terrible in his public life, being erratic
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  Speaker 2: at times, you know, fully supporting the missions of this president.
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  Speaker 2: The war in Iran is really top of mind for folks, though,
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  Speaker 2: because the cost of gas is hitting everything across the board.
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  Speaker 2: I have Republicans reaching out to me daily. that it's
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  Speaker 2: affecting them, too, and they didn't think it was going
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  Speaker 2: to affect them.
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  Speaker 3: The way it affected everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Brian, you're a union iron worker, and you have been
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  Speaker 5: since 2007. You're one of a very few group of
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  Speaker 5: candidates that's endorsed by both Bernie Sanders and the Blue
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  Speaker 5: Dog Democrats, so you run on a sort of populism— centrist
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  Speaker 5: populism-ish— I wonder if you could talk about how that
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  Speaker 5: is working for you on the trail. And it's a
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  Speaker 5: very interesting district, your district. And you've got it's gone
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  Speaker 5: from sort of a lean R to more, you know,
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  Speaker 5: a lean L. So talk us through that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm not really into labels.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm just a working person coming out of
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  Speaker 2: the workforce, running to fight hard for the working.
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  Speaker 3: Families in my district.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the one thing that this very gerrymandered district
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  Speaker 2: has in common all across the district is everybody works
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  Speaker 2: hard for a living. And, you know, I'm one who's
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  Speaker 2: going to keep the door open for dialogue. Keep the
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  Speaker 2: door open for support. And we've been able to secure
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  Speaker 2: support from the from the farthest reaches of the Democratic
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  Speaker 2: Party all the way deep into the Republican Party because
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  Speaker 2: of the message of bringing people back together, standing together
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  Speaker 2: to fight for workers. And, you know, you can hear
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  Speaker 2: more about that mission if you go to point extra
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  Speaker 2: for Congress dot com and learn more about my background
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  Speaker 2: and what I'm fighting for and jump on board.
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  Speaker 3: The door is open for anybody who wants to help.
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  Speaker 1: Brian, because you are trying to define your opponent for voters,
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  Speaker 1: I'm wondering what you feel is the most offensive or
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  Speaker 1: problematic thing about Congressman Max Miller that has surfaced recently.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, he has a whole host of things
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  Speaker 3: to choose from.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, his personal life, you know, being
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  Speaker 2: accused by three different women of domestic violence, both Republican
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  Speaker 2: senators saying he's unfit for office. You know, the fact
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  Speaker 2: that they hold their breath whenever his child is in custody.
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  Speaker 2: And that's all on his personal side of things. But
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  Speaker 2: in his professional side, I mean, he has more active
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  Speaker 2: lawsuits right now than he has a piece of legislation
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  Speaker 2: with his name on it. People are seeing that he's
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  Speaker 2: willing to fight for himself, and he's not fighting for
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  Speaker 2: the District 7 residents.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, people are waking up to it.
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  Speaker 2: They want somebody who's going to go in there and
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  Speaker 2: fight for them, and that's what I'm going to do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to work hard because I live the same
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  Speaker 2: issues that the average person in the district lives through. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm going to bring real change because I
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  Speaker 2: bring the perspective of the average person from my district.
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  Speaker 4: Real quickly, Brian, one, Congressman Miller has denied the accusations.
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  Speaker 4: But real fast, if you are elected, what's the one
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  Speaker 4: committee you would want to sit on?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think, I mean, I don't want to put
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  Speaker 2: the cart before the horse. I got to win first.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm most focused on. But I think right
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  Speaker 2: off the bat, you know, labor and education I think
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  Speaker 2: would be a good fit because I have a strong
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  Speaker 2: labor background.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm willing to serve wherever I'm needed.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm willing to learn quickly and make sure
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  Speaker 2: that I bring the perspective of the average worker from
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  Speaker 2: my district to whatever committee I serve on.
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  Speaker 5: Brian Poindexter, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thanks for having me again. And again, you
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  Speaker 2: can check out my website, poindexterforcongress.com.
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