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How Virignia Could Have One Leg Up on the 2024 Presidential Election and Gambling...On Elections 9-21-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Darren. All right, well it's September
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  Speaker 1: twenty first. I'm Alex Garrett, and uh, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a pretty incredible anniversary. Twenty three years later. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the Mets hosted the Braves for the first baseball game
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  Speaker 1: in New York City since the September eleventh attacks. And
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  Speaker 1: sure enough, Mike Piazza had this moment twenty three years ago. Tonight,
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  Speaker 1: Bopez wants it away and a chippy to left tenner
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Chance on the lot, this one has a chance.
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  Speaker 1: Tell them Mike Piazza and the next league cree to two.
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  Speaker 1: And that was yes, how we rose on the call.
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  Speaker 1: When he was on the TV side of things on
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  Speaker 1: September twenty first, two thousand and one with Fox Sports
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  Speaker 1: New York. I've played you what Derek Jeter said about
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  Speaker 1: the after math of nine to eleven and what the
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  Speaker 1: role the Yankees played. But this homer by Piazza certainly
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  Speaker 1: took the cake as well. And I'm putting this on
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  Speaker 1: the news feature because it is a news story. The
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  Speaker 1: twenty three years ago, Mike Piazza hit an incredible emotional
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  Speaker 1: home run against the Braves, and we may never forget
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  Speaker 1: that moment either, as it really uplifted the city in
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  Speaker 1: its darkest days following nine to eleven. Now, in a
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  Speaker 1: commitment to news, I do want to say that there's
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  Speaker 1: an interesting new poll out with Harris and Trump on
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  Speaker 1: this day, September twenty first, let me tell you about it.
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  Speaker 1: The New York Post reported that polling shows Virginia could
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  Speaker 1: be a swing state in twenty twenty four. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: a deadlock between both Trump and Harris. Harris had the
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  Speaker 1: support of forty seven percent of old dominion voters compared
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  Speaker 1: to Trump's forty six percent. According to University of Mary
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  Speaker 1: Washington in Virginia and their state is actually doing early
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  Speaker 1: voting if you could believe that it's Optember twenty first
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  Speaker 1: and we're talking about early voting. Harris in this poll
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  Speaker 1: led slightly forty eight to forty six. And this also
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  Speaker 1: included a four percent third party candidate voting polling as well,
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  Speaker 1: and UMW political scientist Stephen J. Farnes says this new
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  Speaker 1: survey suggests Virginia could be getting a much closer look
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  Speaker 1: from both presidential campaigns and may deserve to be treated
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  Speaker 1: as a swing state once again this year and of course,
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  Speaker 1: they thought Virginia was in the bag. The Post rights
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  Speaker 1: and Biden actually won the state by ten points in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty, while Clinton took the state in twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Obama also won Virginia in twenty twelve and oh eight.
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  Speaker 1: The latest polling confirms other surveys that Virginia has become
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  Speaker 1: a nail bier as the race enters the home stretch.
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  Speaker 1: Glenn Youngkin, of course, was the Red Wave leader back
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one when he got elected. And could
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  Speaker 1: that lead to a presidential vote for President Trump in
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  Speaker 1: this election three years later. We'll have to see, but
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  Speaker 1: Virginia is in play. Polling in certain areas are saying
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  Speaker 1: that they're deadlocked. I think that's a lot of America's
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  Speaker 1: feelings right now. They don't know what to do. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna just say this. Don't go to the polls early.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not sure. Go to the polls on November fifth,
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  Speaker 1: election day, so that you can get the full picture.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be pushed into this early voting bull crap, because
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  Speaker 1: that's what it is. Be yourself. Vote who you want
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  Speaker 1: to vote, but do it after you found out everything.
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  Speaker 1: Don't just rush to the polls because early voting is open.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the way elections should be done in this country.
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  Speaker 1: They rush you to the polls and probably rush you
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  Speaker 1: to vote for Kamala Harris with a Democrat. They don't
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  Speaker 1: really rush you to vote Republican ever, So don't rush,
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  Speaker 1: take your time, really make a educated and by listening
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  Speaker 1: to both views too, but really educated vote instead of
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  Speaker 1: this rushing early voting get to the polls now nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: And let's not forget that illegals are voting too. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is not a conspiracy. There is literally a story
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  Speaker 1: today where in Iowa, Attorney General Brenna Byrd announces she
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  Speaker 1: will be prosecuting a non citizen who was arrested in
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  Speaker 1: charge with allegedly registered to vote and illegally voting. So
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  Speaker 1: that being said, we have to be aware that we
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  Speaker 1: have election integrity everywhere, and I don't think early voting
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  Speaker 1: brings us that integrity. I'm just gonna say that here
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast. You could drop my rating down to
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  Speaker 1: two stars. I don't care. We need election integrity and
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  Speaker 1: early voting. On September twenty first, for what now polls
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  Speaker 1: are saying is a swing state. That's a little much.
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  Speaker 1: That is a little much in Virginia. So if you
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  Speaker 1: want to and if you're a Virginian today and you
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  Speaker 1: see AH voting early, you know they get the rock
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  Speaker 1: the vote out and get out the vote type of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: If you see that but you're not ready to vote,
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  Speaker 1: then don't vote. Don't be pressured to early vote. That's
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  Speaker 1: not a good way to catch your vote. It is
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  Speaker 1: a civic duty, it was a it is a privilege,
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  Speaker 1: it is an honor to have a say in our
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  Speaker 1: presidential elections. So don't just rush to it because they
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  Speaker 1: say early voting starts today, Say you know, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: give this some time. I have till November fifth. Let
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  Speaker 1: me give this some time, because clearly it looks like
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  Speaker 1: and sounds like the Harris Trump campaigns have maybe an
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  Speaker 1: even chance at Virginia, which I guess might be a
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  Speaker 1: first in a long time if they've been going blue
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these years. So if it's a swing state,
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  Speaker 1: if it's a deadlock state, then don't rush out to vote.
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  Speaker 1: Let them come to your state and talk to you Virginians.
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  Speaker 1: Let them talk to you face to face in Virginia
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  Speaker 1: before you go out and rush and make a vote
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  Speaker 1: before the early vote. As early voting gets underway, and
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  Speaker 1: I presume that campaigns might make another stop there before election,
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  Speaker 1: Y wouldn't you say at least they should with this
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  Speaker 1: polling coming out specifically, So that's the polling up date.
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  Speaker 1: Virginia is virtually deadlocked, typically blue, but it went read
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  Speaker 1: for Glenn Youngkin could go red for Trump in November.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know yet, but please, Virginians, I know the
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  Speaker 1: polls are open, don't go early if you're not ready.
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  Speaker 1: And that will go for any state who has early voting,
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  Speaker 1: because early voting might mean the easiest choice, make the
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  Speaker 1: harder choice. Go with your conscience, not the advertisements to
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  Speaker 1: early vote today. We have till November fifth. Let's pump
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  Speaker 1: the brakes on any polling results, on any voting now,
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  Speaker 1: because early voting is not really election integrity. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: you disagree, maybe you agree, Alex GWYC dot com. But
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  Speaker 1: you know what's even more wilder than early voting. How
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  Speaker 1: about this? We have sports betting, horse race betting, but
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to elections, let's go gambling. Let's go gambling.
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear about this? Thursday of this week, the
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  Speaker 1: commodity Futures Trading Commission sought to convince a panel of
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  Speaker 1: judges to consider its emergency motion to stay at district's
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  Speaker 1: previously previous ruling against election betting. There's this predictive market
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  Speaker 1: and I've never really done out with any of this
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  Speaker 1: predictive market agent call she who is I kid you
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  Speaker 1: not opening up to allow users to bet on the
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  Speaker 1: outcome of future events, including on the upcoming US elections
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  Speaker 1: and congressional elections in November. Rob Schwartz, the General Council
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  Speaker 1: of the CFTs SEE said at the hearing this week.
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  Speaker 1: The CFTC and ky She had been in a lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: since late last year after the agency that call she
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  Speaker 1: could not offer contracts related to congressional control contracts. Then
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  Speaker 1: last week, a judge for the US Extra Court for
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  Speaker 1: the District of Columbia ruled that the CFTC was actually
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  Speaker 1: exceeding his authority when it pushed back against the predictive
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  Speaker 1: market cal she and I believe this allowed actual bets
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  Speaker 1: to go on for the election. According to the New
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  Speaker 1: York Times and other places, I mean I took a
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  Speaker 1: screenshot of this. Here's the headline in the New York
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  Speaker 1: Post and the New York Times. Should betting on US
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  Speaker 1: elections be legal? The question is before the courts, Sarah
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  Speaker 1: Kessler says in her article this past week, as pundits
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  Speaker 1: were sharing sometimes wildly different takes on Kamala Harris and
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's debate, traders were putting money on which candidate
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  Speaker 1: would win the election on both predicted and polymarket two
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  Speaker 1: prediction markets. The odds were favoring Harris. But then get this.
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  Speaker 1: Within hours of the US District Court judge giving Calls
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  Speaker 1: the greenlight to offer election contracts, the company had posted
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  Speaker 1: one CEO called the first trade on the made on
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  Speaker 1: regulated election markets in nearly a century. So right now
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  Speaker 1: there is a gambling outlet overseas, by the way, that
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  Speaker 1: was briefly allowed to take bets from Americans on November's elections.
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  Speaker 1: This does not help election integrity either. So we've gone
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  Speaker 1: from electioneering too. Let's go gambling. That's right, Let's go gambling.
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  Speaker 1: And I really hope the CEFTC gets this together, because
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  Speaker 1: while it's blocked now, Kessler wrights, a federal appeals court
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  Speaker 1: has since emporarily blocked the bets, but the US District
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  Speaker 1: Court's decision has essentially opened the door for legal gambling
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  Speaker 1: on politics. That will. I have my feelings about players
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  Speaker 1: betting on other sports because it could lead to their
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  Speaker 1: own sports. But if you will allow betting in elections
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  Speaker 1: and allow the presidential election to be bet on, They're
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  Speaker 1: not just going to be your average finance bros betting
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  Speaker 1: on this. There will be campaign advisors, there will be
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  Speaker 1: maybe even poll workers. There will be people who are
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  Speaker 1: influencing every step of the way during this election cycle.
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  Speaker 1: No matter when, if this ever starts, there'll be people
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  Speaker 1: influencing this election cycle every four years who might also
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  Speaker 1: want to put a bet in. And you don't think
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  Speaker 1: as much as their bias against Trump. Now that down
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  Speaker 1: the road, a poll worker who might be, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're nice person, but then all of a sudden they're
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  Speaker 1: hiding votes because they bet on deserted elect candidate to win.
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  Speaker 1: What is this district judge doing even allowing for a
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  Speaker 1: second a bet to be made on our election. It
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  Speaker 1: opens the floodgates. It opens the floodgates for KOLs and
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  Speaker 1: other markets to say, hey, you know what, come on,
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  Speaker 1: gamble on the election. You know, I always feel like
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  Speaker 1: boxers were killed by the mob after they lost. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't throw the match, or they lost or they won,
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  Speaker 1: they were killed for that or maybe g regiously harmed,
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  Speaker 1: but they definitely had stuff done to them if they
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  Speaker 1: did not go the gambler's way. And the threats on
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  Speaker 1: even poll workers to vote to do things if this
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  Speaker 1: comes about, so let's not allow gambling. It's as bad
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  Speaker 1: as electioneering. Now, let's not allow gambling now in a
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  Speaker 1: time where election integrity is at a fever pitch of doubt,
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  Speaker 1: gambling opening the door to gambling would you lead to
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  Speaker 1: even more, wouldn't it. So let's not go gambling with
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  Speaker 1: our elections. Because these people who are running are trying
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  Speaker 1: to run to run the country. We have enough outside
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  Speaker 1: influences who you know, might try and sway certain things,
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  Speaker 1: might be hacking into campaigns like Iran's doing. We don't
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  Speaker 1: need this either, and we don't need poll workers to
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  Speaker 1: be further influenced or other campaign officials to be further influenced,
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  Speaker 1: and election officials to be further influenced to swing the
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  Speaker 1: election a certain way. So shame on the Judge cob
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  Speaker 1: for opening this door for even one day where call
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  Speaker 1: she would start opening up election bids if we don't
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  Speaker 1: like electioneering, then we sure as hell shouldn't like gambling
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  Speaker 1: and the idea of gambling on this. What do you
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  Speaker 1: guys think, alex g NYC one is my Instagram in
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  Speaker 1: ex Alex at alex gnyc dot com. Should we start
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  Speaker 1: gambling on our elections? It's bad enough when pro sports
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  Speaker 1: players are betting on their own sports. Now let's not
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  Speaker 1: let the election cycle be determined by a gambling circuit
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  Speaker 1: because that would really tarnish election integrity. That's my one
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