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The People Have Spoken! · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Let's get, let's get, let's get to it, time to
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Speaker 1: do it.
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Speaker 2: I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
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Speaker 2: and everybody. You hear that exclusive?
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Speaker 1: You know she don't lie about that, right?
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Speaker 3: Lauren came in hot.
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Speaker 2: Hey y'all, what's up?
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Speaker 4: It's Lauren LaRosa and this is another episode of The
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Speaker 4: Latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily dig on
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Speaker 4: all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all the conversations
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Speaker 4: that shake the room, baby!
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Speaker 2: We are here, the day.
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Speaker 4: After Election Day, the midterm elections, 2026, November 4th. So
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Speaker 4: if you are tuning into this episode on this exact day,
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Speaker 4: you feel the feeling and the.
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Speaker 2: Excitement that I feel as well. If you.
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Speaker 4: I was going to say if you've been paying attention,
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Speaker 4: but it's like you got to be living under a
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Speaker 4: rock to not feel it. So historical wins last night
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Speaker 4: in the midterm election. Checking in behind the scenes of
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Speaker 4: the grind before we get into the latest with some
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Speaker 4: of the election updates and all the stuff. Let me
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Speaker 4: just say that. I've voted several times now. My first
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Speaker 4: time voting wasn't, but I couldn't really remember exactly when,
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Speaker 4: but I do remember voting when President Obama, his second term. And,
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Speaker 4: you know, and just voting since. And again, I told
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Speaker 4: you guys an episode prior to this one that it
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Speaker 4: has been just a part of my, like, like my
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Speaker 4: mom is always big on that.
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Speaker 2: She don't play about calling, making sure we vote and
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Speaker 2: all the things.
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Speaker 4: But this year, I'm going to be honest, I really
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Speaker 4: feel like this year is the first year where I
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Speaker 4: felt the dire, dire need. Like, yo, I don't even
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Speaker 4: know what affordability for me buying a home and all
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Speaker 4: the things I want to do to set myself up
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Speaker 4: to figure out what a level of comfortability in my
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Speaker 4: adult life looks like is going to look like if
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Speaker 4: I don't participate in this election.
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Speaker 2: I was riding yesterday. thinking about the fact that.
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Speaker 4: All the polling places were still open and people were
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Speaker 4: getting out the vote and everybody's talking about it. I'm
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Speaker 4: seeing people posting as they're getting their I voted stickers.
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Speaker 4: And I had some thoughts. So let me play this
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Speaker 4: video for you guys. I recorded it because I was like,
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Speaker 4: I want to get these thoughts.
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Speaker 2: In the moment. Take a listen.
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Speaker 1: It feels good.
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Speaker 2: It feels hopeful. But one thing that I've learned from
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Speaker 2: watching really.
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Speaker 4: Really closely since we did this in D.C. for Kamala
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Speaker 4: is that on the Republican side of things, they're very like,
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Speaker 4: they're not that afraid of anything. They set up all
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Speaker 4: of these things and all of these like, I wouldn't
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Speaker 4: say like traps, but like their strategy that they set up,
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Speaker 4: they're very blatant about it. And even if they're not,
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Speaker 4: they do whatever they need to do to get whatever
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Speaker 4: across the board, regardless of who they have to stand
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Speaker 4: next to. And I was thinking about the Haley Stevens
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Speaker 4: incident and I'm like, man, What does that mean now? Like,
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Speaker 4: all this flipping and back and forth.
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Speaker 2: What happens?
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Speaker 5: Well, I think we saw that in Georgia a few cycles,
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Speaker 5: it was the last cycle, when they ran Hershel Walker.
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Speaker 5: Of all people, Raphael Warnock was running.
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Speaker 1: He's black.
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Speaker 5: They said, let's have a black guy from Texas, a
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Speaker 5: football player who has no connection really to Georgia, except
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Speaker 5: he played.
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Speaker 3: Football there decades ago.
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Speaker 5: Let's make him a candidate, even though he couldn't finish
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Speaker 5: a sentence.
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Speaker 6: Man, this was crazy. I was in Atlanta for that.
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Speaker 3: I watched it.
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Speaker 1: You were there.
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Speaker 3: And this is how they see us.
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Speaker 5: They think you just put any old black person up there,
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Speaker 5: we're going to vote for them, right?
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Speaker 6: That's about the wildest... race I ever seen in my life.
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Speaker 6: So you got a commercial, Hershey Walker vote for me,
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Speaker 6: and the next one is his ex-wife.
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Speaker 3: He put the pistol in my mouth.
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Speaker 6: He just, I mean, this thing was like, we ain't
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Speaker 6: never seen nothing like that in New York.
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Speaker 3: That race there was great. I didn't understand it. I
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Speaker 3: was like, yo, how is this guy? No, this is crazy.
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Speaker 5: But I want to draw the comparison to you again, Andrew,
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Speaker 5: because I keep talking about Florida, to what happened in
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Speaker 5: Georgia with Herschel Walker, to what happened tonight with Brian
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Speaker 5: Byron Donalds, because I feel like this is another situation.
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Speaker 5: Byron Donalds is not Herschel Walker by any stretch. But
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Speaker 5: Byron Donalds is a man who has a criminal record.
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Speaker 5: Nothing against him, but he voted against the George Floyd
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Speaker 5: Justice in Policing Act.
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Speaker 3: So he's somebody who.
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Speaker 7: With a fake Jamaican accent.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
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Speaker 5: And he divorced his black wife and married a white
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Speaker 5: woman and never paid back the money he owed to
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Speaker 5: the black wife.
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Speaker 2: I got it.
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Speaker 3: That's another story. But Byron Donald is.
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Speaker 1: I love your addition of footnotes.
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Speaker 3: Footnote one, two, three, four, five. That's the story.
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Speaker 5: But I'm interested in the Byron Donaldson, because I don't
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Speaker 5: know what you're seeing there. But I want to know
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Speaker 5: what the black vote turnout is for Byron Donaldson. He
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Speaker 5: was shooting for 20 percent, north of 20 percent of
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Speaker 5: the black vote in order to win. And maybe some
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Speaker 5: people at our desk over here can give us some answers.
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Speaker 5: But I want to know how well he performed and
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Speaker 5: how Angie Nixon performed in comparison in that state.
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Speaker 3: To get a sense of whether their black strategy, their
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Speaker 3: black vote strategy is working at all. Because they're not
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Speaker 3: trying to win the black vote.
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Speaker 5: They're just trying to get a few people in the
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Speaker 5: black community not to vote, which is what they were
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Speaker 5: doing when Mike Rogers showed up with Haley Stevens.
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Speaker 4: Now, the reason why I was sitting and I was
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Speaker 4: thinking about, you know, just how grateful I was, or
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Speaker 4: I am currently about a lot of things, about the
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Speaker 4: things that I've been through in life, things that I've experienced,
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Speaker 4: the way that I was raised, is because what I
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Speaker 4: was thinking about yesterday is, You know, there are so
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Speaker 4: many things as a human on this earth. Let's take race, color, religion,
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Speaker 4: all that stuff out of it. As a human, every
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Speaker 4: single day, getting up, going out to work, building life
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Speaker 4: for myself, period. Every single day. There are so many
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Speaker 4: different things that you come up against. And I think,
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Speaker 4: especially in 2026, where.
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Speaker 2: It's now imploded, right?
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Speaker 4: Where it's not even just like the big major things
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Speaker 4: that you may come up against. It's like little small things,
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Speaker 4: literally like being able to afford public transportation to get
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Speaker 4: back and forth to work. And that becoming such a
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Speaker 4: normal thing for people. Like these things that people are
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Speaker 4: experiencing and that we are experiencing right now are not
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Speaker 4: normal daily. These should not be normal daily struggles. They are,
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Speaker 4: but they should not be normal daily struggles. When you
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Speaker 4: live in a place that is generating so much money
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Speaker 4: for things that they choose to And people are working two, three,
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Speaker 4: four jobs and, you know, double overtimes, 40, 60 hours
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Speaker 4: a week.
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Speaker 2: But it's here.
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Speaker 4: And I remember when I was younger, my grandmother always
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Speaker 4: telling me, you got to save for a rainy day.
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Speaker 2: Times are going to get hard.
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Speaker 4: And forever, I always thought that the things that she
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Speaker 4: was saying to me and the way she was talking
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Speaker 4: to me, the things that she did to put in
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Speaker 4: place certain things for me, my mom as well, too.
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Speaker 4: I'm like, that's just, you know, a mother's love or
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Speaker 4: grandmother's love. now I'm in I'm literally in it and
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Speaker 4: I'm seeing how people are so mentally messed up by
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Speaker 4: the world that they're coming up in and I don't
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Speaker 4: want to seem all out and down and downtrodden but
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Speaker 4: like I'm being honest like I mean you got you
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Speaker 4: got younger kids who are going up in a world
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Speaker 4: where that we had the internet don't get me wrong
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Speaker 4: but we was outside too we socialized we we learned
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Speaker 4: how to deal with people to people interaction, people not
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Speaker 4: liking us, emotions, people loving us one day, not liking
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Speaker 4: us the next. And it's still difficult for us with
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Speaker 4: the internet. But the, you know, younger children are not
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Speaker 4: experiencing that full global spectrum of all of that, right?
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Speaker 4: So you got people that don't know how to deal
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Speaker 4: with their emotions and regulate their emotions and they're acting
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Speaker 4: off of that. You have the daily day stressors, the
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Speaker 4: day-to-day stressors of the world already, just as a human
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Speaker 4: getting up and just going through your day. And then
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Speaker 4: on top of that, you have these things that have
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Speaker 4: become normal and Like, you know, am I going to
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Speaker 4: be able to get my medicine? If I'm a caretaker, yo, like,
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Speaker 4: am I going to be able to get my mom
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Speaker 4: to the appointments she needs to get to? Yo, yesterday,
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Speaker 4: literally yesterday, what made me make this video was I
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Speaker 4: had to cancel my mom's, well, they was going to
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Speaker 4: be canceled anyway, my mom's scans. She does her follow-up
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Speaker 4: scans for cancer. She's a stage four lung and brain
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Speaker 4: cancer survivor. And for the last four times we've booked
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Speaker 4: these scans, we've had to Cancel it. Sometimes she's literally
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Speaker 4: been right in the doctor's office and we've had to
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Speaker 4: cancel it and reschedule it because authorizations aren't, you know,
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Speaker 4: going through right away. And things are just so weird
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Speaker 4: with Medicaid and Medicare. And if you depend on the
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Speaker 4: state at all for any type of anything, when it
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Speaker 4: comes to health care, it's really bad out here. So
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Speaker 4: you have things like that where it's like, yo, am
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Speaker 4: I going to be able to make sure she's good
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Speaker 4: while also making sure I'm good?
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Speaker 2: Like these things are driving people crazy.
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Speaker 4: And I had to just stop for a minute in
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Speaker 4: the midst of all that and be like, I was
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Speaker 4: raised in so much love that with all of this
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Speaker 4: going on, I still literally am like, okay, but there's
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Speaker 4: a tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Okay, but there's another generation coming.
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Speaker 4: Okay, I might not understand that, but there's someone smarter
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Speaker 4: than me who does. Okay, but you figured that out
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Speaker 4: last time, Lauren. You can figure it out overly this time.
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Speaker 4: And that is a mindset thing. And that's like a cloth.
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Speaker 2: That's like a It's like in you, not on you.
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Speaker 2: And I am just oh, my God.
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Speaker 4: I was thinking, God, so much yesterday for the people
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Speaker 4: that I come from, not even just my mother, my grandma,
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Speaker 4: but family in general. I mean, the tribe of friends
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Speaker 4: and stuff like that that I have around me as well, too.
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Speaker 4: I was just so thankful because I'm like, man, there's
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Speaker 4: so much that we could be clinging to right now
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Speaker 4: that is not good, that is not the best. I
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Speaker 4: thank God for the feeling of like home and community
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Speaker 4: in all of this. And I got a chance to
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Speaker 4: feel that even more last night because we went and
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Speaker 4: hung out with Angela Rye. Angela Rye has the Native
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Speaker 4: Land podcast with Andrew Gillum and Bakari Sellers. It's on
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Speaker 4: the Black Effect Podcast Network as well. They're our cousins.
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Speaker 4: But also joining us was Fat Joe. We had Keith Boinking,
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Speaker 4: the legendary Ed Gordon. Shout out to Garrison Hayes. There
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Speaker 4: was another gentleman with him. And he's not listed on
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Speaker 4: this flyer, so I don't have his name. But they
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Speaker 4: held it down on the results side of things. So
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Speaker 4: they were giving us in real time updates from the
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Speaker 4: AP about the races and who was winning in which race.
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Speaker 4: locations and You also had Janay Nelson that joined us.
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Speaker 4: We also I mean, there's there's other people that are
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Speaker 4: missing as well, too. But let me tell you, watching
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Speaker 4: the election last night live while also broadcasting and talking
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Speaker 4: about it.
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Speaker 2: I am tired. But oh, wow.
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Speaker 4: It felt so good to be with your people while
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Speaker 4: getting all this good news.
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Speaker 2: Let's get into the good news. Let's get into the latest. Well, y'all, Donald.
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Speaker 4: Trump been screaming at the top of his lungs beside
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Speaker 4: Nicki Minaj and tons of others. Floyd Mayweather, Mike Tyson,
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Speaker 4: tons of other people to act like.
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Speaker 2: He was on the ballot in the midterms.
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Speaker 4: And, baby, that is exactly what the people did because
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Speaker 4: they went out there and they voted completely against him.
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Speaker 4: People are so tired of the things that we're experiencing
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Speaker 4: under the Trump administration. And. I, you know, I opened
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Speaker 4: this with talking about how I feel so personally connected
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Speaker 4: to Lord, if this don't change, I don't know what,
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Speaker 4: what my, yo, like what are my next like five
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Speaker 4: years personally and professionally about to be like, right. People
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Speaker 4: felt that on all walks of life. I mean, it
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Speaker 4: wasn't even like a party thing. It wasn't even about
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Speaker 4: whether you were Republican, Democrat, independent, none of that at all.
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Speaker 4: And I mean, we had already been seeing a lot
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Speaker 4: of signs of this leading up to the midterm elections
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Speaker 4: with a lot of Republican states, you know, saying, yo,
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Speaker 4: we don't we don't fool with Trump. Remember all those
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Speaker 4: months ago, it was literally Republicans, very conservative people showing
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Speaker 4: up to town halls and going off about the things
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Speaker 4: that they were experiencing, going off about everything that a
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Speaker 4: lot of people who were speaking out against Trump being
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Speaker 4: reelected was warning people about. But people had to see
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Speaker 4: it for themselves. And they see it. They feel it.
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Speaker 4: And it worked in our favor. The Democrats have captured
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Speaker 4: full control of Congress. So voters delivered a huge, huge,
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Speaker 4: huge pushback against Trump, Trump's agenda. And I think, you know,
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Speaker 4: this is a really, really, really clear message that.
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Speaker 2: Politics.
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Speaker 4: Are doing a lot for people, but they're not doing
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Speaker 4: what they're supposed to do for people. And there are
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Speaker 4: a lot of people who will.
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Speaker 2: Say like, you know, I'm not really like a political person.
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Speaker 2: I don't understand everything.
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Speaker 4: I'm not the biggest political pundit at all. Like that
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Speaker 4: is not me, but I understand the basis of the
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Speaker 4: government and what it's supposed to do for people, even
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Speaker 4: on the lowest tier. And as a minority, it's crazy
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Speaker 4: because as a minority, we know what it's like to
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Speaker 4: have this huge system, all these rules and these regulations
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Speaker 4: set up And they work for everybody around.
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Speaker 2: You and not you. And you're like, yo, but wait,
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Speaker 2: hold on. What about me over here?
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Speaker 1: I'm here.
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Speaker 2: This is my America too.
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Speaker 4: And now it's not even the minorities, the distant franchise
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Speaker 4: that are feeling it.
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Speaker 2: And unfortunately, I'm.
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Speaker 4: Hoping this is what it took for people to feel
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Speaker 4: that so change can happen. It's unfortunate that people are
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Speaker 4: literally having to choose between taking their kid to school
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Speaker 4: and going to work. People are working from home and
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Speaker 4: or just losing their jobs because they can't afford to
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Speaker 4: do both. It's unfortunate that, you know, food pantries are literally,
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Speaker 4: you know, seeing so even more people coming out. People
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Speaker 4: that are working, working people are coming out because even
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Speaker 4: if you're working, you got to pick between what bills
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Speaker 4: you're paying and what food you about to buy.
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Speaker 2: And people, people are tired of it. They feel it.
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Speaker 4: Now, there was some history that was made last night.
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Speaker 4: with Democrats flipping seven Republican-held seats in Michigan, Maine, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio,
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Speaker 4: North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. Now, some of these states,
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Speaker 4: Democrats had, you know, been talking for a very, very
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Speaker 4: long time about trying to flip them. And when I
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Speaker 4: say flip them, I mean turn them blue, make them,
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Speaker 4: you know, Democratic-won states. But there were some places that
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Speaker 4: were barely even on the radar as of, you know,
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Speaker 4: some time ago. So last night, South Carolina was it
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Speaker 4: was a conversation. We were doing Angela Rice live election
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Speaker 4: night coverage and. Early on, when South Carolina looked like,
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Speaker 4: you know, it was doing what it was doing and
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Speaker 4: it was turning blue, Bakari Sellers, who was from the Carolinas,
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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sitting next to him feeling the emotion.
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Speaker 2: He was speechless. I thought he was going to be
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Speaker 2: in tears. Let's take a listen to that.
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Speaker 1: Well, Results Desk, who's closing? What we got going on?
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Speaker 1: Keep us going. Keep the momentum riding.
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Speaker 9: I will keep it riding with something I think you'll
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Speaker 9: be particularly interested in.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead and get to it. Tell the people what happened.
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Speaker 3: It appears.
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Speaker 9: that the Democrat Andy Andrews in South Carolina will be
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Speaker 9: beating Darlene Graham, which is historic to say the least.
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Speaker 9: It would be the first time we'd have a woman
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Speaker 9: ever in the Senate from South Carolina. So yeah, big
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Speaker 9: news for Democrats.
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Speaker 8: As they continue to win. Not only did she win,
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Speaker 8: but she won by, what is that, four points.
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Speaker 3: It looks like she's up by four points.
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Speaker 8: And the county of Greenville, which you all may not know,
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Speaker 8: is one of the most conservative counties in the entire country.
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Speaker 8: It's the home of Bob Jones University, where they have
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Speaker 8: still banned interracial dating.
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Speaker 1: Random side note.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 1: And she actually won that county.
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Speaker 8: And so as I was telling Congressman Clyburn when he
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Speaker 8: was here earlier, it looked like something was happening in
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Speaker 8: South Carolina. Something did happen. Jermaine Johnson ran a great race.
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Speaker 8: He got defeated by four points for governor. But four
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Speaker 8: points in South Carolina running for governor is a hell
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Speaker 8: of a hell of a hell of a race to
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Speaker 8: put on. But this is history on the East Coast tonight.
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Speaker 1: Before you go to bed, it does look like.
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Speaker 8: Democrats probably teetering around 40, 53, 54 seats as possible.
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Speaker 9: Don't don't want I don't want to get ahead of
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Speaker 9: myself here, but it seems some somewhere in that area.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: You know, and he says it there that, you know,
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Speaker 4: that was a that was a big thing. big sign
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Speaker 4: of what the night was probably going to be like.
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Speaker 4: That was early in our election coverage. And that was
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Speaker 4: an early warning sign that it was going to be
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Speaker 4: a real tough night for the Republicans, you know, what
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Speaker 4: was happening with South Carolina. Because this is a state
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Speaker 4: that a lot of Democrats even thought was, like, out
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Speaker 4: of reach when it came to flipping, you know? Like,
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Speaker 4: Democrats have made— 43 percent of midterm voters surveyed by NBC News,
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Speaker 4: an exit poll, who voted, said that one of the
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Speaker 4: reasons that they voted the way that they did was
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Speaker 4: because they wanted to express opposition to Trump, whose job
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Speaker 4: approval rating is lower than that of any president on
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Speaker 4: Election Day in nearly two decades. Fat Joe was on
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Speaker 4: the panel last night with us when we were doing
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Speaker 4: our live election coverage. And you guys can go and
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Speaker 4: watch that in full. It's on The Breakfast Club's YouTube channel.
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Speaker 4: It's on the Revolt News YouTube channel. I'm going to
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Speaker 4: see if they can sync it to the Lauren La
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Speaker 4: Rosa TV YouTube channel, too, if they can collab me
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Speaker 4: in it. But if not, it's on the Breakfast Club
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Speaker 4: YouTube channel. But, you know, speaking of disapproval ratings, right?
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Speaker 4: Fat Joe is somebody who no matter where he's at,
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Speaker 4: whether he's in New York, Miami, L.A., wherever he is,
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Speaker 4: he's touching the people. So having his perspective there as
17:14
Speaker 4: somebody that is on the ground day to day. I mean,
17:17
Speaker 4: he's giving back food with the food pantry. That's something
17:20
Speaker 4: that him and Charlamagne are super dedicated to. But being
17:23
Speaker 4: out with the people and hearing the conversations in real
17:25
Speaker 4: time and seeing the conversations. switch in a loyalty switch
17:28
Speaker 4: in real time he said the streets the streets is
17:33
Speaker 4: dry right now is what he said and everybody was
17:35
Speaker 4: like oh hold on wait fat joe what what are
17:37
Speaker 4: you talking about hold up slow up because you talking
17:40
Speaker 4: about the drug like what what is happening right now
17:42
Speaker 4: but To my surprise, I'm going to be honest with you.
17:45
Speaker 2: I know Fat Joe is a voice of the people. Duh.
17:50
Speaker 4: I've interviewed him several times. Everything he talks about is
17:53
Speaker 4: very people and experience centered. I did not know he
17:57
Speaker 4: was so... political like he was so focused and again
18:02
Speaker 4: i don't know if he's always been this way or
18:04
Speaker 4: because of the last couple years under this administration you've
18:07
Speaker 4: kind of had to understand politics even on a basic
18:10
Speaker 4: level to prepare yourself for whatever is to come but
18:13
Speaker 4: he was spot on with his take let's take a listen.
18:15
Speaker 6: Don't we crack that joke you on the street you're
18:18
Speaker 6: touching the people on the street it's dry.
18:20
Speaker 7: What what what does that mean in this context The
18:24
Speaker 7: legal way.
18:25
Speaker 3: There's no money in the streets.
18:27
Speaker 6: And so the economy's so horrible right now, there is
18:31
Speaker 6: no money on the streets. I had some brothers, I
18:35
Speaker 6: get my haircut from some Dominican brothers, and they was like, we.
18:38
Speaker 3: Trump, we Trump, we Trump.
18:41
Speaker 6: Now the barbershop is empty because all their customers are
18:44
Speaker 6: scared to get picked up by ICE at the barbershop.
18:47
Speaker 3: And so the streets is dry.
18:50
Speaker 6: And we know that, because we see how people spend money,
18:54
Speaker 6: how people are able to move. And it's pretty much
18:59
Speaker 6: the toughest time I've seen in my lifetime that I
19:03
Speaker 6: could understand, with the gas being so high, inflation, the economy.
19:11
Speaker 3: People are really, really struggling out here.
19:13
Speaker 6: They're really, really doing bad out here.
19:16
Speaker 3: And it's very serious.
19:19
Speaker 6: Out here, and that's part of why we see such
19:21
Speaker 6: a turnout like this, because people are like, yo, we
19:25
Speaker 6: got to turn this around. Now the question I have
19:27
Speaker 6: for the political heads.
19:28
Speaker 3: Is, can you turn it around? So say you have
19:31
Speaker 3: a landslide.
19:33
Speaker 6: Suppose you have a landslide and every law, everything you propose,
19:39
Speaker 6: Donald Trump says no.
19:44
Speaker 3: Now you come two years from now and.
19:45
Speaker 6: You mad that you voted for blue because they couldn't
19:49
Speaker 6: get none done.
19:50
Speaker 3: Because the man said no.
19:52
Speaker 2: Yeah.
19:54
Speaker 1: I'm curious.
19:54
Speaker 7: Has he said political here?
19:58
Speaker 5: I just think that that involves managing expectations. Yes, this
20:03
Speaker 5: is a critically important election, and if Democrats win the
20:07
Speaker 5: House and the Senate, there's gonna be a lot of
20:08
Speaker 5: expectations that they do something. And they can pass all
20:11
Speaker 5: the legislation that they want, you're right, but Trump could
20:14
Speaker 5: veto it all.
20:16
Speaker 3: Or, you know, Trump doesn't really have any fundamental beliefs.
20:18
Speaker 5: He could decide, you know, maybe I'll agree with you
20:19
Speaker 5: on this issue or that issue, piss off some of
20:22
Speaker 5: the Republicans. We don't know exactly how he's going to
20:25
Speaker 5: respond to this. Or he may just say that he
20:26
Speaker 5: doesn't accept the election results at all and claim it's
20:29
Speaker 5: all rigged, and we spend the next two years in
20:30
Speaker 5: that whole debacle. So it's really unclear what happens next.
20:34
Speaker 5: But I think the Democrats still have to at least
20:37
Speaker 5: pass legislation if they control the House and the Senate,
20:39
Speaker 5: and even if it gets vetoed, and at least set
20:41
Speaker 5: up the tea for whoever comes next and say, well,
20:43
Speaker 5: these are all the things that we tried to pass,
20:45
Speaker 5: but we couldn't get past because of your Republican president,
20:48
Speaker 5: and use that as an argument going into 2028.
20:50
Speaker 2: Yeah.
20:51
Speaker 7: Bakari, I'm curious not only about the streets being dry,
20:55
Speaker 7: which is an important point, right? We know that is
20:57
Speaker 7: how things flipped in 24. We were live envy at
21:00
Speaker 7: Howard University, Lauren. Then talking about the many challenges that
21:04
Speaker 7: American people are facing, what do you predict will happen
21:08
Speaker 7: tonight with the United States House, the United States Senate?
21:11
Speaker 2: How many governor seats do we pick up?
21:13
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, I think that the fascinating thing is
21:15
Speaker 8: a lot of the races that we're going to do
21:16
Speaker 8: extremely well and nobody's really talked about. So John Ossoff,
21:19
Speaker 8: you know, has been kind of taken for granted a
21:22
Speaker 8: little bit. Roy Cooper in North Carolina. That race is
21:24
Speaker 8: going to be called in a minute. And it's fascinating
21:27
Speaker 8: to me. I would love to hear Ed Gordon wherever
21:29
Speaker 8: he went because the students at A & T actually
21:31
Speaker 8: kind of kicked this off. The first day of early voting,
21:34
Speaker 8: the students at North Carolina A & T State University,
21:37
Speaker 8: they actually moved their precinct off the campus and moved
21:40
Speaker 8: it down. And the students actually marched. They led a
21:43
Speaker 8: long march on the first day of early voting. And
21:46
Speaker 8: the fascinating part about this, Ed, is that You know,
21:49
Speaker 8: the sit-in movement, it started February 1st, 1960. And so
21:52
Speaker 8: what we're seeing is that there's a new movement. I
21:54
Speaker 8: just wanted to hear your take because you got a
21:56
Speaker 8: little bit grayer hair than I. But it seems like
22:00
Speaker 8: the black votes that we've seen in Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina,
22:03
Speaker 8: Florida are being led by a new generation of millennials
22:06
Speaker 8: and younger.
22:06
Speaker 4: Man, the results came down so heavily last night. Even
22:09
Speaker 4: Trump had to run away. And hide himself and try
22:14
Speaker 4: to make it seem like he had nothing to do
22:15
Speaker 4: with this. Talking about he wasn't on the ballot and
22:18
Speaker 4: that's why Republicans lost. So Trump posted to social media,
22:22
Speaker 4: I was on the ballot. And if I was, we
22:23
Speaker 4: would have won in a landslide. But this whole midterm election,
22:28
Speaker 4: every rally has been vote as if Trump is on
22:31
Speaker 4: the ballot. Vote as if Trump is on the ballot.
22:34
Speaker 4: I know Nicki Minaj was pissed. She put on that $ 6, 000,
22:37
Speaker 4: upwards of $ 6, 000, $ 7, 000 Gucci suit, stood out there in
22:40
Speaker 4: that Michigan rally and said this about Trump prior to
22:43
Speaker 4: the midterm voting day.
22:44
Speaker 2: Let's take a listen.
22:46
Speaker 1: We love Trump. We love Trump.
22:50
Speaker 2: We love Trump.
22:52
Speaker 3: We love Michigan.
22:54
Speaker 2: Make some noise. I said, Michigan, make some noise.
23:06
Speaker 10: I am so honored to be working with this president.
23:10
Speaker 10: He represents resilience. You know, so many people were maybe
23:17
Speaker 10: giving up a little bit, a little bit hopeless. And
23:20
Speaker 10: since he's come back, he's changed the energy of our country.
23:24
Speaker 10: And he's given us hope. a future to look forward to,
23:29
Speaker 10: a brighter future for us and our children. So let's
23:31
Speaker 10: make some noise for this great man. I love him
23:36
Speaker 10: so much. And when I say Mike, you say Rogers.
23:44
Speaker 1: Mike! Mike!
23:47
Speaker 10: When I say John, you say James.
23:51
Speaker 7: John! James!
23:55
Speaker 10: Michigan, God bless you We really need all of these
24:01
Speaker 10: great people to be elected because this is a major
24:04
Speaker 10: turning point for our country. And when you're in major
24:08
Speaker 10: states like Michigan, we need this to be a leader
24:14
Speaker 10: in the movement that's happening right now. We need this
24:17
Speaker 10: place to lead in the movement, right? And we're not
24:21
Speaker 10: going to give up because we want our children... to
24:25
Speaker 10: grow up in a place where we can be proud of.
24:27
Speaker 10: We don't want our children to be bombarded with sex changes, right?
24:32
Speaker 10: We don't want that for our children. We want people
24:34
Speaker 10: to leave the children alone, leave them out of it, right? So,
24:39
Speaker 10: President Trump, it is an honor to stand with you
24:41
Speaker 10: every single time, and I will continue to support you
24:45
Speaker 10: forever and ever. If you run again, I will support
24:49
Speaker 10: you again.
24:53
Speaker 4: All of that to lose being on the wrong side
24:55
Speaker 4: of history is not going to fare well for a
24:57
Speaker 4: lot of people. Like people are literally fighting for survival
25:02
Speaker 4: hood right now. It's not about these, the smaller policies
25:05
Speaker 4: that divide the Republican and democratic party. A lot of times,
25:08
Speaker 4: like it is like as a humanity, we are literally
25:12
Speaker 4: fighting for our lives. And, and, and some people have
25:17
Speaker 4: it worse than others to the point where like, Voting
25:20
Speaker 4: is like the least of their worries because they have
25:23
Speaker 4: so much that they're trying to figure out and they
25:25
Speaker 4: still got up and did it.
25:26
Speaker 2: And you have somebody as blessed and as.
25:29
Speaker 4: Powerful of a voice and as talented and as influential
25:32
Speaker 4: to us as Nicki Minaj doing this.
25:34
Speaker 2: I'm not going to lie.
25:35
Speaker 4: Like I was watching this video, Nicki Minaj. She was
25:39
Speaker 4: in New Hampshire outside of one of the polling places
25:41
Speaker 4: for us. She was out there for a second. Floyd Mayweather.
25:45
Speaker 2: They said Mike Tyson was there. Rob Gronkowski, all these people, right?
25:49
Speaker 2: And she's there. She's taking pictures.
25:51
Speaker 4: And of course, you know, people are happy to see
25:52
Speaker 4: her as Nicki Minaj. And she's been, again, a big
25:54
Speaker 4: voice on the Republican side of things leading up to
25:58
Speaker 4: the midterm election. And I was just wondering, like, you know,
26:02
Speaker 4: I wonder if there will ever be a point where
26:05
Speaker 4: she or any other celebrity who continually backed Donald Trump
26:09
Speaker 4: throughout these current times sit down and say it's not
26:13
Speaker 4: about being black, white, green or yellow, but like people
26:15
Speaker 4: were really hurting. And I was I was I was
26:17
Speaker 4: on the wrong side of history. And if that would
26:20
Speaker 4: even matter, like, you know, like if that would literally
26:22
Speaker 4: even matter. In other news, though, let's get on to
26:27
Speaker 4: the good stuff. Shout out to Keisha Lance Bottoms. Shout
26:31
Speaker 4: out to Keisha Lance Bottoms. Keisha Lance Bottoms, Democratic candidate
26:38
Speaker 4: for Georgia governor, defeated Rick Jackson.
26:45
Speaker 2: Last night and made history.
26:48
Speaker 4: She is now the first black woman ever elected governor
26:52
Speaker 4: of a U.S.
26:53
Speaker 2: State.
26:56
Speaker 4: She defeated Republican health care executive Rick Jackson with approximately
27:00
Speaker 4: 54 percent to 46 percent of the vote, securing a
27:03
Speaker 4: groundbreaking first for the entire United States. She became the
27:07
Speaker 4: first Democrat to win the governor's office in Georgia since 1998.
27:11
Speaker 4: Succeeding term limited Republican Governor Brian Kemp— And, I mean,
27:18
Speaker 4: there was a spending deficit that she fought against. Keisha
27:22
Speaker 4: Lance Bottoms triumphed despite facing a heavily funded opponent as
27:27
Speaker 4: Rick Jackson poured over $ 200 million of his own fortune
27:31
Speaker 4: into the race. Now, we know that now-governor Keisha Lance
27:36
Speaker 4: Bottoms was Mayor Keisha of Atlanta before. from 2018 to 2022.
27:41
Speaker 4: And I remember during that time, you know, cause some
27:44
Speaker 4: of that was the pandemic time. People were just so
27:46
Speaker 4: excited to be able to say, I got a governor.
27:48
Speaker 4: I got governor, go governor, go Keisha Lansbottom. I got
27:51
Speaker 4: a mayor named Keisha. It was just so black. So
27:54
Speaker 4: us so needed, but also I Keisha Lansbottom. I've interviewed
27:59
Speaker 4: her several times at the breakfast club. I interviewed her
28:03
Speaker 4: once as well at my last job when I was
28:05
Speaker 4: at TMZ as well, too. So this was some years ago.
28:07
Speaker 4: She wasn't even in the mayor seat still. She was
28:09
Speaker 4: just working for President Biden during that time when the
28:13
Speaker 4: Biden administration was in office. But I got a chance
28:16
Speaker 4: to spend, you know, some time with her when I
28:19
Speaker 4: was down in Atlanta for Accelerate Her. I covered Accelerate
28:23
Speaker 4: Her and on my time there here on the podcast,
28:25
Speaker 4: the latest with Lauren Rose, you guys can go back.
28:27
Speaker 4: And check out that episode. But the day that I
28:30
Speaker 4: was in Accelerate Her, we were down in Florida. We
28:33
Speaker 4: were down in Miami.
28:35
Speaker 2: Shout out to Miss Kimberly Blackwell and everything that she does. Amazing, amazing.
28:40
Speaker 4: That was the day that Biden came out and endorsed
28:43
Speaker 4: Keisha Lynn's bottoms for governor in her run. And we
28:49
Speaker 4: were there. We were in the conference. It was the
28:51
Speaker 4: ending of the conference. Like the last few days, she
28:53
Speaker 4: was headed out. And I was actually headed back into
28:56
Speaker 4: the conference room. So, you know, she's walking by, heading out,
29:00
Speaker 4: you know, heading to her flight. And just in passing,
29:02
Speaker 4: because I literally just got in the alert that Biden
29:05
Speaker 4: had endorsed her. And I remember in passing, I was
29:15
Speaker 4: just like, congratulate, like, because she was like, hey, good
29:18
Speaker 4: to see you.
29:18
Speaker 2: Like, you know, all this stuff. And I was like, yes,
29:21
Speaker 2: safe travels. Congratulations.
29:22
Speaker 4: I just seen your endorsement. And she stopped for a second.
29:25
Speaker 4: She was like, isn't it crazy? And I was like, no, you.
29:28
Speaker 2: I mean, people love you. You've been really, really good
29:30
Speaker 2: to a lot of people.
29:32
Speaker 4: So, you know, what is happening in the support that
29:34
Speaker 4: you are feeling as governor is no, it's not it's
29:37
Speaker 4: not crazy at all.
29:39
Speaker 8: And.
29:40
Speaker 4: You know, I think that that says a lot about
29:42
Speaker 4: her and the humility that she has and the real
29:45
Speaker 4: commitment to the work. Like when she was mayor, you know,
29:48
Speaker 4: say whatever you want about Mayor Keisha or now Governor
29:51
Speaker 4: Keisha Lance Bottoms. She was putting her life on the
29:55
Speaker 4: line for that job. Like, you know, she was receiving
29:57
Speaker 4: death threats at one point. And I remember, you know,
29:59
Speaker 4: there were stories about her having to, like, secure her
30:03
Speaker 4: home and her family certain ways because there was things
30:06
Speaker 4: coming her way. And she decided to get back out
30:08
Speaker 4: here in these streets again for the people. And I
30:11
Speaker 4: think in a political— in the way that the world is
30:14
Speaker 4: set up right now, in the way that politics are—
30:17
Speaker 4: doing us if we don't do politics you really need
30:19
Speaker 4: people like the keisha lands bottoms of the world the
30:22
Speaker 4: governor westmore's of the world the lisa blunt rochester's delaware
30:26
Speaker 4: shout out to us of the world who actually know
30:29
Speaker 4: what's going on and like you really out here so
30:31
Speaker 4: like if people don't get what they need you feel
30:33
Speaker 4: it too you're not in this bubble and then you
30:35
Speaker 4: ascend down from your bubble and decide to be with
30:38
Speaker 4: the people and and it works because you know how
30:40
Speaker 4: to talk straight to them one of the things that
30:42
Speaker 4: I feel the Democrats have hopefully listened to, but I
30:46
Speaker 4: kind of see it, but I just hope that it
30:47
Speaker 4: lasts throughout.
30:48
Speaker 2: It's like, okay, now y'all are here. Now, once y'all
30:51
Speaker 2: get to work, I hope that this lasts as well too.
30:53
Speaker 2: It's like, This whole.
30:56
Speaker 4: Political game is like it's for everybody.
30:59
Speaker 2: Like it's not for just the educated.
31:01
Speaker 4: It's not for just the experienced, you know, people who've
31:04
Speaker 4: got some political background and who have this degree and
31:07
Speaker 4: that degree.
31:07
Speaker 2: The politics are for everybody.
31:10
Speaker 4: The everyday person, you know, the mom around the way
31:14
Speaker 4: doing whatever she got to do to figure it out.
31:16
Speaker 4: the college student who is on that full ride, the
31:19
Speaker 4: college student who comes from a family who can pay
31:21
Speaker 4: for them to go to college fully and not have
31:23
Speaker 4: to worry about a thing, the college student who is
31:24
Speaker 4: literally busting their behind, who might not even have gas
31:28
Speaker 4: to get to class, and that could be the determining
31:31
Speaker 4: factor between them and a four-year degree. Everybody in the world,
31:36
Speaker 4: no matter where they are right now, we have one
31:38
Speaker 4: thing in common. And that one thing is that we
31:41
Speaker 4: want to be able to be okay and feel okay.
31:45
Speaker 4: When you're putting the work in, and even when we
31:48
Speaker 4: are unable to put the work in, there's a whole
31:51
Speaker 4: system in place that is supposed to help and support
31:53
Speaker 4: us as we pull ourselves up from this bootstrap. People
31:57
Speaker 4: love to tell you, you know, in America, you pull
31:59
Speaker 4: yourself up from the bootstrap and, you know, you become
32:01
Speaker 4: successful and things work for you. No matter if you're
32:04
Speaker 4: able to pull yourself up or not, America and the
32:06
Speaker 4: way that it is set up and the way that
32:07
Speaker 4: our government should be caring about us here at home first,
32:11
Speaker 4: The assistance should be there. The care, the thought should
32:14
Speaker 4: be there. And when you have people like Akisha Lansbottom,
32:18
Speaker 4: you know, who, you know, a lot of the people
32:20
Speaker 4: that won, a lot of the blue that we're seeing
32:23
Speaker 4: across this map now.
32:26
Speaker 2: It matters. And it's not crazy that we're seeing the
32:30
Speaker 2: support that they are getting. Honestly, it's not. Oh, my God.
32:33
Speaker 4: Like, I'm seeing so many conversations about the black faces
32:37
Speaker 4: that were put in these seats following the midterm election
32:39
Speaker 4: night last night. I mean, you know, people still want
32:46
Speaker 4: to mend about Byron Donalds. You know, we don't... Yeah.
32:52
Speaker 2: But I mean, my thing that.
32:53
Speaker 4: What I'm saying to you guys is the people whose
32:55
Speaker 4: policy you believe in, the people whose policy you believe
32:59
Speaker 4: in because they actually understand what you are going through
33:02
Speaker 4: and even if they're not going through it themselves, they
33:05
Speaker 4: empathize in a way that, like, if you're not okay,
33:07
Speaker 4: they're not okay.
33:08
Speaker 2: That's where we are in this. And it's a give
33:10
Speaker 2: and take. I'm asking.
33:13
Speaker 4: For a lot of things, okay? And I'm not afraid
33:16
Speaker 4: to because one of the things that I want to
33:17
Speaker 4: know for a fact, I want to know that, yo,
33:22
Speaker 4: if I am trying to make sure my mom has
33:25
Speaker 4: everything she needs, my grandmother has everything she needs, I'm
33:27
Speaker 4: waking up every morning at 3, 4, 5, 6 o'clock,
33:30
Speaker 4: You know, my niece is getting older. Her parents are
33:34
Speaker 4: figuring out and working and busting their behind, trying to
33:36
Speaker 4: just provide a life for themselves. She's getting older to
33:38
Speaker 4: put where she needs the stability from everybody around her. Shoot,
33:42
Speaker 4: there's so much that is happening right now. I just
33:45
Speaker 4: want to know that all of that is going to
33:46
Speaker 4: mean something. And that's why we saw the election results
33:50
Speaker 4: we did. This has been another episode of The Latest
33:55
Speaker 4: with Lorna Rosa. I tell you guys every single episode.
33:58
Speaker 4: Y'all could be anywhere with any old body, but y'all
34:01
Speaker 4: choose to be right here with me, my lowriders.
34:03
Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys. I'll catch you in my next one.