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Sen. Warren Rebukes Rep. Stevens Over Surprise GOP Endorsement in Michigan · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: With the final get out the vote push on the line,
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  Speaker 1: our MSNOW reporters are fanned out all across the country.
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  Speaker 1: Vaughn Hilliard is in Georgia. Chris Janssen joins us from
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  Speaker 1: the campaign trail in Michigan. Laura Barron-Lopez is live in Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: We also have MSNOW senior congressional reporter Ali Vitale standing
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  Speaker 1: by at the big board. So let's get started. Vaughn,
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  Speaker 1: you are in Georgia, one of the states where we're
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  Speaker 1: going to see some of the earliest results after the
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  Speaker 1: polls close 7 p.m. Eastern tomorrow. What's the closing message
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  Speaker 1: in the Senate race there?
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: It's a Senate matchup that was supposed to be the
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  Speaker 3: marquee matchup here in which John Ossoff seeking a second
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  Speaker 3: term was going up against Trump back to Mike Collins.
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  Speaker 3: I want to let you listen to a little sampling
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  Speaker 3: between the two men.
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  Speaker 2: Lives are on the line in Georgia and our country's
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  Speaker 2: future and our Constitution are on the line. I want
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  Speaker 2: to raise my girls in a country. where nobody dies
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  Speaker 2: because they can't afford health care. I want to raise
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  Speaker 2: my girls in a country where our leaders make us
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  Speaker 2: proud and bring us together.
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  Speaker 4: This is a fight for the soul of this country.
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  Speaker 4: And John Ossoff is the leader of that Democrat Socialist
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  Speaker 4: America movement. Tomorrow, we're going to show not just this country,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to show the world that this is not
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  Speaker 4: a blue state, not a purple state. We are a
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  Speaker 4: red state.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Ossoff has been on the trail with fellow Senator
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  Speaker 3: Raphael Warnock again just last night, but also with Keisha
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  Speaker 3: Lance Bottoms, the former Atlanta mayor who is running for
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  Speaker 3: to be the next state governor here. This is both
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  Speaker 3: still competitive matchups here, but one in which Ossoff has
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  Speaker 3: repeatedly gone on the attack against Donald Trump's foreign policy,
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  Speaker 3: almost mocking him for not having rid Iran of its
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  Speaker 3: nuclear program, despite suggesting otherwise. saying that the cost of
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  Speaker 3: tariffs has been continually incurred by Georgians, but then also
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  Speaker 3: focusing on the fact that Brian Kemp here in the
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  Speaker 3: state of Georgia has held up Medicaid expansion. And that
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  Speaker 3: is why it's important not just he, with Warnock, pushed
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  Speaker 3: forward federal legislation to expand health care access in Washington,
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  Speaker 3: but also that voters here in the state of Georgia
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  Speaker 3: elected Democratic governor who would move forward with the expansion
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  Speaker 3: of Medicaid here in the state. As it comes to
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  Speaker 3: Mike Collins, I was here just over a week ago
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  Speaker 3: and caught up with him.
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  Speaker 1: And I asked him.
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  Speaker 3: About some voters, Republican voters, Alicia, that I talked to
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  Speaker 3: here in the state that told me that Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: was damaging all the Republicans down ballot. What would his
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  Speaker 3: message be to them? And he said, we're going to win.
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  Speaker 3: When I followed up, I said, well, what would you
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  Speaker 3: tell them about Donald Trump's Iran policy or tariff policy?
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  Speaker 3: He goes, we have enough voters on our side, but
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  Speaker 3: they have busy lives and we just need to get
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  Speaker 3: them to go out and vote. So Sort of this
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  Speaker 3: reality that Mike Collins is staring at. The longtime conservative
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  Speaker 3: state polling shows him down here. But John Ossoff in
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  Speaker 3: a very comfortable position, at least according to early voting
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  Speaker 3: here in the state of Georgia, which passed its 2022 records.
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  Speaker 3: There's a high number of black voters, Latino voters, young voters.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot moving forward for the Democrat here, but
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  Speaker 3: one that is going to ultimately come down to tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: And we've seen those demos shifting all across the country.
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  Speaker 1: Vaughn Hilliard for us in Georgia. Vaughn, thank you. Now
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  Speaker 1: to Michigan, where Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is reporting
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  Speaker 1: his biggest single-day fundraising haul of this cycle in the
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  Speaker 1: wake of Haley Stevens' shock endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers. Chris,
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  Speaker 1: how is this continuing to unfold there?
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  Speaker 2: $ 2.
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  Speaker 5: 4 million in 24 hours just in the last several weeks,
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  Speaker 5: over $ 11 million. They feel great about that, obviously.
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  Speaker 6: They also said that over the weekend, I talked to the.
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  Speaker 5: Head of the Democratic Party here in Michigan. In the
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  Speaker 5: 25 offices they have set up, and they've never seen
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  Speaker 5: this before, hundreds of people who weren't signed up to
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  Speaker 5: go door knocking or volunteer in some other way.
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  Speaker 6: Just showed up and offered their services.
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  Speaker 5: So they did 100,000 door knocks a day.
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  Speaker 6: And then here at Eastern Michigan University.
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  Speaker 5: Not only was the room behind me full, this just
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  Speaker 5: broke up, but outside, Abdul Al-Sayed started a little late
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  Speaker 5: because he was talking to the scores of people who
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  Speaker 5: couldn't get in.
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  Speaker 6: Now, I talked to a lot of those people online.
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  Speaker 5: They had a lot to say about Haley Stevens using
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  Speaker 5: words like coward. And spoiler, so I asked him on
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  Speaker 5: behalf of those students, what did he think? Like, was
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  Speaker 5: this a net positive or a net negative?
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  Speaker 6: Because those students told me they were nervous. Here's how
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  Speaker 6: we replied.
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  Speaker 7: You know, the sort of huffing about polls and how's
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  Speaker 7: this going to change the race, et cetera, et cetera.
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  Speaker 7: You know, we run like we're 10 points down.
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  Speaker 1: We go everywhere.
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  Speaker 7: We talk to everybody. Politics is not that complicated. It
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  Speaker 7: really is just about having a conversation about who we
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  Speaker 7: are and who we want to be with as many
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  Speaker 7: people as you possibly can. If I ever feel any
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  Speaker 7: anxiety about this thing, I just try to figure out
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  Speaker 7: how to talk to a few more people and make
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  Speaker 7: sure that folks understand what we're running for.
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  Speaker 5: There is a very certain path that he has been following,
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  Speaker 5: and I have been covering him since before he actually
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  Speaker 5: won the primary, and that is he stays on message.
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  Speaker 5: That message is money out of politics, money in your pocket,
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  Speaker 5: Medicare for all. We heard the students shouting it. Students
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  Speaker 5: have been a core group for him. They're a big
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  Speaker 5: reason that he won the primary unexpectedly against.
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  Speaker 6: Much bigger money.
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  Speaker 5: But look, There are a lot of people here who
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  Speaker 5: know that this race has been shaken up in the
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  Speaker 5: last 24 hours. And when I talked to Curtis Hertel,
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  Speaker 5: the head of the Democratic Party here, he told me
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  Speaker 5: this and I want to make sure I get it right.
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  Speaker 6: He said his message to Haley Stevens is this is.
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  Speaker 5: Not a high school party where you're mad because you
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  Speaker 5: don't get invited. Quote, the fate of the free world
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  Speaker 5: is at stake.
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  Speaker 6: That's exactly what we just heard from Elizabeth Warren, who
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  Speaker 6: is going to a couple of stops.
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  Speaker 5: With Abdul El-Sayed today, some of the hundreds of stops
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  Speaker 5: he has made in 125 different cities across the state,
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  Speaker 5: they believe that ultimately that's what's going to make the difference.
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  Speaker 6: Some people who.
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  Speaker 5: Are nervous will suggest, yeah, maybe it's taken him off
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  Speaker 5: his closing message.
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  Speaker 6: Well, maybe it's gotten a lot of publicity, but.
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  Speaker 5: I can tell you, listening to him on that stage
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  Speaker 5: and talking to him afterwards, He is on message and
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  Speaker 5: believes that is the secret sauce that's going to put
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  Speaker 5: him over the.
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  Speaker 6: Top in what is, of course, a toss-up race right now. Alicia?
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  Speaker 1: All right, Chris Jansen for us in Michigan. Chris, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: We go now to Laura in Ohio. Laura, the state
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  Speaker 1: is getting a visit from the vice president today. Republicans
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  Speaker 1: are worried they're about to lose the Senate and governor's races.
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  Speaker 1: What's the mood there? What are voters saying?
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  Speaker 8: Well, we heard from a lot of voters yesterday, Alicia.
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  Speaker 8: We went from Cleveland to Medina, which is at the
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  Speaker 8: heart of a toss-up House district that Max Miller is
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  Speaker 8: running in, the incumbent Republican against Brian Poindexter. But when
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  Speaker 8: it comes to the top of the ticket, when it
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  Speaker 8: comes to that gubernatorial race between Vivek Ramaswamy and Amy Acton,
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  Speaker 8: as well as the Senate race between John Husted, the
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  Speaker 8: Republican incumbent, and the Democratic, Sherrod Brown, look, we heard—
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  Speaker 8: kind of two big themes. One big theme is that
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  Speaker 8: there were some Republicans that were sticking with the party,
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  Speaker 8: even though they used words like disappointed and depressed to
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  Speaker 8: talk about the ticket, to talk about how they felt
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  Speaker 8: about the economy and what President Trump is doing. And
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  Speaker 8: then a second big theme was we did talk to
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  Speaker 8: a number of voters who were swinging their vote. They
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  Speaker 8: were Trump 2024 voters, and they decided that they were
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  Speaker 8: going to Vote for.
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  Speaker 9: Democrats this time around.
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  Speaker 8: And a lot of it had to do, again, with
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  Speaker 8: the economy, with their frustrations that the president is engaged
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  Speaker 8: still in the Iran war, as well as some disappointment
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  Speaker 8: about the immigration policy.
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  Speaker 9: Take a listen to what these voters had to say.
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  Speaker 8: I voted for him and I just I'm not really,
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  Speaker 8: truly happy with what he's been doing.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think he really cares.
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  Speaker 9: Do you regret that vote?
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was a better candidate, especially for business
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  Speaker 2: people like myself.
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  Speaker 9: What do you think about how the president is doing now?
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  Speaker 5: Terrible.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of like Houston, but I also have reservations
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  Speaker 3: about him that he doesn't seem genuine. So I worry
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  Speaker 3: about that.
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  Speaker 6: But I did vote for Houston.
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  Speaker 9: So it was a kind of reluctant vote.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, most of these were reluctant, unfortunately. I think he
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  Speaker 1: could have... done a lot of things differently.
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  Speaker 9: What are some of the things you wish he'd done differently?
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  Speaker 7: Talk.
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  Speaker 9: Talk differently?
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  Speaker 6: I wish he would talk differently.
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  Speaker 8: Another third big theme, and this last one may be
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  Speaker 8: what ultimately decides the races here, Alicia, are the Republicans
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  Speaker 8: or people who consider themselves lifelong conservatives who say that
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  Speaker 8: they are not going to turn out and vote for
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  Speaker 8: the top of the ticket at all. I talked to
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  Speaker 8: two of these Republicans. young voters who said that they
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  Speaker 8: aren't going to vote in the gubernatorial or in the
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  Speaker 8: Senate races. They're just going to focus on their local
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  Speaker 8: races in Medina because they are not happy at all
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  Speaker 8: with the Republicans that are on the ticket or what
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  Speaker 8: President Trump is doing, saying that they believe that the
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  Speaker 8: president is not putting America first at all the way
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  Speaker 8: he promised during the 2024 campaign.
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  Speaker 1: Going to watch that along with those split ticket voters
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  Speaker 1: that you were able to talk to. Laura Barron-Lopez for
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  Speaker 1: us in Ohio. OK, let's go to Ali Vitale, who
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  Speaker 1: is at the big board. Ali, my friend, you've been
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  Speaker 1: mapping out the Senate balance of power. Tell me, what
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  Speaker 1: are you looking for?
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  Speaker 10: So just a good reminder of where where our race
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  Speaker 10: ratings actually are as we get into what my favorite
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  Speaker 10: part of the map at this point, as we're in
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  Speaker 10: the preamble stage of what if, what it might look
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  Speaker 10: like for Republicans to keep the Senate majority or why
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  Speaker 10: it's a steep climb for Democrats to flip it. Look
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  Speaker 10: at the places that we were just talking about on
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  Speaker 10: the map. Laura hit on something in Ohio, the idea,
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  Speaker 10: just like in Texas, that Republicanism is sort of baked
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  Speaker 10: into some of these voters' DNA.
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  Speaker 1: These are red states for a reason.
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  Speaker 10: So when you hear those voters saying, I don't necessarily
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  Speaker 10: like Husted, but I'm voting for him anyway.
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  Speaker 1: There is some of that in the water and it's
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 10: Of what people are banking on in places like Ohio
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  Speaker 10: if they want it to stay red and Texas if
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  Speaker 10: they want it to stay red. And even if they're
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  Speaker 10: able to just keep both of those seats, that's Republicans
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  Speaker 10: with 50 seats right there. That still leaves Maine, Michigan
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  Speaker 10: and Alaska on the table. You'll notice that this map,
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  Speaker 10: for example, bakes in North Carolina as an automatic flip.
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  Speaker 10: Of course, we won't know until we know. But Roy
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  Speaker 10: Cooper looks very poised. to flip that seat for Democrats.
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  Speaker 10: And this is when you start getting into the game
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  Speaker 10: of building margins or a 50-50 Senate, right? Because let's
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  Speaker 10: assume that the rest of these, they are able to
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  Speaker 10: flip Maine, they are able to keep Michigan, and they
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  Speaker 10: were able to flip Alaska. There is your 50-50 Senate
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  Speaker 10: right there. And so it just illustrates for you, for
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  Speaker 10: the viewers who are looking at this map saying, okay,
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  Speaker 10: those New York Times polls look really good. It is
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  Speaker 10: a tough map for Democrats. That's why a year and
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  Speaker 10: a half ago they looked at this with a bit
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  Speaker 10: of dread. Of course, the atmospherics have really caught up
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  Speaker 10: to them. And it's why they're feeling good, for example,
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  Speaker 10: about a place like Kansas. And this, again, goes to
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  Speaker 10: show you how quickly the map can be slippery, because Kansas,
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  Speaker 10: if it flips, that's the Democratic majority right there. Maine,
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  Speaker 10: if it stays with Collins, you're back to 50-50. And
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  Speaker 10: so we're talking about tight margins. We're talking about close races.
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  Speaker 10: The polls are a snapshot. The trends have been in
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  Speaker 10: Democrats' favor. But ultimately, it matters who gets out to vote.
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  Speaker 10: And if those Republicans are coming out saying, I don't
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  Speaker 10: like the candidates, but I'm a Republican and that's what
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  Speaker 10: I do, that is the story of how this map
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  Speaker 10: could stay more red than optimistic Democrats think that it might.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly right. We are now in the turnout portion
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  Speaker 1: of the program. Ali Vitale, what a thrill to be
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  Speaker 1: with you in studio. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, it's Rachel.
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