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Candidate Clip: Will Lathrop · Crosstabs

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  SPEAKER_01: we're clear to engage time on target five mics out there he is will a trip on the pod how you doing
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  SPEAKER_01: Good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm glad that we finally got people with good haircuts on the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Reagan always gets upset when I wear a hat because, you know, he likes to see my shiny bald bald head.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, boy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, well, thanks for being on the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm not going to give you the obligatory.
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  SPEAKER_01: How's the campaign going?
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to give you a stat that I'm looking at because I'm a number hound.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not really.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm the emotional guy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Reagan's the number guy.
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  SPEAKER_01: But turnout, 328,000 Republicans have voted, 407,000 Democrats voted.
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  SPEAKER_01: 215,000 nonpartisan and then a bunch of others right in there.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the reality is there's only 39% are Democrats that have voted today and the rest aren't,
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  SPEAKER_01: which I would imagine is who you're trying to go
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  SPEAKER_01: get their vote for him as well as probably some democrats too that are kind of
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  SPEAKER_01: tired of stuff but what is i want to start with like what is kind of like what are
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  SPEAKER_01: you going to do between now and like tuesday to make your case like what's on the
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  SPEAKER_01: what's on the strategy what's on the agenda um to make your final closing argument
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  SPEAKER_01: besides coming on the best podcast in oregon but uh
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's a long adventure is coming to an end.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, you know, we're on TV, we'll be on TV throughout.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then we're targeting digital media,
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  SPEAKER_02: people we think are swing or gettable voters on YouTube and all the streaming platforms.
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  SPEAKER_02: So that stuff is already paid for and in play.
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  SPEAKER_02: And right now,
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm doing a lot of ways that don't cost money to try to get votes.
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  SPEAKER_02: We have a text campaign where we're texting people in our constituency and asking
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  SPEAKER_02: them to text a graphic with my platform to as many people as they can.
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  SPEAKER_02: We've had a lot of leaders across the state and influencers across the state agree
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  SPEAKER_02: to send out emails on our behalf to their constituencies,
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  SPEAKER_02: just trying to two becomes four,
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  SPEAKER_02: four becomes eight,
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  SPEAKER_02: eight becomes 16,
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  SPEAKER_02: just trying to build relationships.
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  SPEAKER_02: Build things that way.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm in my phone banking clothes right now.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_02: Normally I'm in a suit and tie.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right, we're not video.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Me too.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: like I just,
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  SPEAKER_02: I caught two minutes before I got on here,
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  SPEAKER_02: I was trying to squeeze one more call in.
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  SPEAKER_02: Cause I just, I think this is what's such low voter turnout.
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  SPEAKER_02: We already knew that this race was really within the margin of error.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's going to be really,
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  SPEAKER_02: really close and I don't want to get to the end and have left any,
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  SPEAKER_02: any fruit on the tree left to pluck.
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  SPEAKER_02: So my team is working really hard at getting our volunteers to phone bank and yeah,
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  SPEAKER_02: just,
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  SPEAKER_02: just voice magnifying across platforms.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's what we're hoping will make the difference.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, we're very excited to be part of the Get Out the Vote Radio Roadshow that you're doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I saw that on your Twitter account.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that was one more.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're going on this podcast and radio, and so I was excited to do this one, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you driving to all those, or are you remoting mostly to make efficient use of your time?
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  SPEAKER_02: Mostly remoting, but I think we are going to go in studio on a few.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, nice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Up there, well, it's raining outside like crazy over in the valley.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just cold over here in my neck of the woods in eastern Oregon.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I've talked to a lot of people.
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  SPEAKER_01: I got a couple races going on in the valley over there, and they're telling me it's just dumping rain.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I think I'm a little concerned for,
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  SPEAKER_01: you know,
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  SPEAKER_01: our friends,
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  SPEAKER_01: the Democrats,
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  SPEAKER_01: with their get out the vote effort this weekend.
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  SPEAKER_01: They might have a hard time.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, the Ducks are number one, and they're on TV Saturday.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, how many people really want to go out –
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  SPEAKER_01: Trying to get the vote, so... Not a great time to be door-knocking, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I would agree, I think.
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  SPEAKER_01: What do you think has been...
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean,
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  SPEAKER_01: and I've heard as well that this race is inside the margin,
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  SPEAKER_01: it's close.
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  SPEAKER_01: What do you think has been, like, the reason?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean,
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  SPEAKER_01: besides the fact that you've been running for,
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  SPEAKER_01: like,
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  SPEAKER_01: a year and a half or something at this point,
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  SPEAKER_01: but...
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  SPEAKER_01: You know,
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  SPEAKER_01: what do you think really is,
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  SPEAKER_01: like,
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  SPEAKER_01: the one or two reasons why this race is so close?
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, I think...
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  SPEAKER_02: Of course,
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  SPEAKER_02: anybody would say it's because I'm awesome and I'm great,
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  SPEAKER_02: but I think it's a law enforcement position.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's a technical position rather than a political position.
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  SPEAKER_02: Traditionally, voters trust, especially moderate voters trust
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  SPEAKER_02: Republicans over Democrats to deal with law enforcement.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's the one area we generally pull higher than the Democrats in.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I also think that crime is indiscriminate, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: Everybody's suffering from crime and addiction and homelessness right now.
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  SPEAKER_02: Everybody's suffering the same.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so there's this unified desire to see some change.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the leadership paradigm in the Democrat Party has not been able to address that.
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  SPEAKER_02: And they still even now are floundering in their rhetoric
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  SPEAKER_02: And I don't think they have the ability to even deliver on their own rhetoric,
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  SPEAKER_02: but they're floundering in their ability to define what they can do about the
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  SPEAKER_02: problems that are,
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  SPEAKER_02: especially in law enforcement,
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  SPEAKER_02: that people are really suffering from.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I would say one other thing is I've just been,
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  SPEAKER_02: I've been so grateful with the patchwork of the support I've gotten from around the state.
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  SPEAKER_02: I've tried to run a really grassroots campaign
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  SPEAKER_02: and just go everywhere and meet everybody I can.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I've gone to all 36 counties.
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  SPEAKER_02: I've spoken in all 36 counties.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I've also gone to countless neighborhood associations in Portland where I'm the
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  SPEAKER_02: only Republican in the room or the only one who is a Republican in the room and try
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  SPEAKER_02: to find commonality in that.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so when I'm doing this Get Out the Vote campaign, I'm not just reaching out to...
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  SPEAKER_02: the Republican supporters,
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  SPEAKER_02: there's been a pretty significant amount of Democrat influencers who have also used
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  SPEAKER_02: their platform to try to get me elected because they see that this is a really
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  SPEAKER_02: nonpartisan position that could be used for good or it could be a political
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  SPEAKER_02: position that can really wreck things if not used appropriately.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do.
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  SPEAKER_00: I did want to let you know that your grassroots campaign has accidentally raised
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  SPEAKER_00: one point six million dollars.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you know that, which is a really good sum.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I I don't know this fact because I didn't go back and check,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I suspect that's the most money raised by a non-governor candidate who is a
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  SPEAKER_00: Republican running statewide.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe ever, but certainly in the last 10 to 15 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe Richardson in 2016 would be the next closest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me see if I can find his real quick.
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  SPEAKER_02: So Sam, Sam's in the room with me.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm not,
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm not sure,
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  SPEAKER_02: but I think,
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  SPEAKER_02: I think we're actually going to come in about 2.2 million is what we'll raise by
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  SPEAKER_02: the end.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I see how it is.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're at 2.1.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I do think,
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  SPEAKER_02: I do think we're probably at about the place Richardson raised or maybe it's been really,
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  SPEAKER_02: and you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: I'll tell you,
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  SPEAKER_02: it's really been,
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  SPEAKER_00: we haven't,
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  SPEAKER_00: it was a 1.6.
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  SPEAKER_00: Richardson was 1.6 in 2016.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you, you will beat that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well,
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  SPEAKER_02: and I'll tell you the thing that I think I'm really grateful for is that I have
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  SPEAKER_02: almost no lobby support and all of my money is from Oregon.
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  SPEAKER_02: 96% of our funds have come from Oregon donors,
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  SPEAKER_02: not from,
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  SPEAKER_02: we haven't had big,
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  SPEAKER_02: big organizations outside jumping money on the campaign.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's been a lot of a hundred dollars and a thousand dollars,
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  SPEAKER_02: $5,000 contributions over the course of the last year and a half.
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  SPEAKER_02: And yeah, it's, it's been truly a grassroots effort.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why, so lobby, are they given to your opponent?
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  SPEAKER_01: Or is this not really a position they don't necessarily,
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean,
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  SPEAKER_01: because obviously the business lobby,
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  SPEAKER_01: I would think that the attorney general's office is an important position for them.
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  SPEAKER_02: There was a lot of lobby interest early in this race.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then I think if my opponent's done something well,
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  SPEAKER_02: Dan is not somebody who's going to grassroots campaign.
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  SPEAKER_02: Dan's probably hasn't gone to a third of the counties in the state.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's not his MO.
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  SPEAKER_02: But one thing he's worked hard at is cutting off the political insiders of lobbying
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  SPEAKER_02: and trying to keep them out of the race.
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  SPEAKER_02: And he's done that pretty effectively.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I've been disappointed by that.
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  SPEAKER_02: But at the same time, I've got the money other ways.
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  SPEAKER_02: I've been able to raise in other ways.
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  SPEAKER_02: At the end of the day,
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  SPEAKER_02: every candidate would rather have their profile be that a lot of Oregonians gave
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  SPEAKER_02: them money rather than the lobby lobbyists gave them money.
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  SPEAKER_02: We'll expect something in return.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, this is true.
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  SPEAKER_01: I would think that you're probably correct there, especially and obviously didn't slow you down.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you still raised over two million dollars is what you said you're going to come in at.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's.
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  SPEAKER_01: That really is incredible.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a testament to your campaign,
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  SPEAKER_01: but it's also,
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  SPEAKER_01: I think,
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  SPEAKER_01: a testament to,
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  SPEAKER_01: one,
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  SPEAKER_01: this office just really hasn't been
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  SPEAKER_01: open or had any real you know credible challenge to it in in decades at this point
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  SPEAKER_01: um so i think it's uh i just find that the messaging like where you stick on the
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: issues that i think this office can really affect and you know rayfield is just
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: focused on he's going to defend abortion which is coming out of every single
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_01: democrat out there it's the same like even
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  SPEAKER_01: Steiner, Senator Steiner put in hers, she's running for treasurer.
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  SPEAKER_01: She put that she's going to invest in abortion access.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't even know what that means.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was like, how do you wedge that in when you're running for treasurer?
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's just crazy to me.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: I wish you the best of luck.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_01: You know that I'm all in and we really want to see you get over the finish line here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Plus, I just want to see statewide challengers actually be
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  SPEAKER_01: And Richardson did it in 2016.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think we just have to put up competent people that can make their case to the public,
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  SPEAKER_01: do the roadshow,
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  SPEAKER_01: raise the money,
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  SPEAKER_01: have the right message.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I think we can fight statewide for these races.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: And we should.
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  SPEAKER_01: We should be able to take everybody to task on these races.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, I agree.
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  SPEAKER_02: And Brian, I should stop to say I'm so thankful for the ways you've supported my campaign and campaign.
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  SPEAKER_02: Representative Reeves Iverson,
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  SPEAKER_02: That's the great part is that this has felt like a team effort.
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  SPEAKER_02: And Reagan, you were one of the first podcasts I ever did on this campaign.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: That was a long time ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was my other podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, Brian.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was my other podcast with representatives.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_01: What's that guy's name?
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: Let me draw him out.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: What's his name?
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: Hold on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Majority Leader Bowman.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, I'm going to get a note from him.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: The title is super important to him.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: He wants to make sure everybody knows.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_01: We had to get him promoted so I could take over his job.
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  SPEAKER_02: regularly say you know we are pulling this or we have raised this because this has
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_02: really felt like a team effort i think people recognize that i've had the right
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_02: heart in the right background to try to do something about this but i didn't have
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_02: any political background at all and so there's people that come around me and and
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  SPEAKER_02: try to give me some jet fuel to make this happen and i think we're really on the
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_02: eve of maybe something really great happening on tuesday
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, that's great.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we'll let you get back to it.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: We just wanted to have you on for 10 or 15 minutes just to say hi and get your finish line going.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_01: Power to the finish, you know, do what we can.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: And all these, you know, Reagan and I do a bunch of the legislative races we're engaged in, involved in.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we're watching numbers.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm definitely watching the statewide stuff and your campaign specifically for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's the one that I've consistently said could be close and we got a shot at winning.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the other ones just,
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  SPEAKER_01: you know,
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  SPEAKER_01: they haven't put the money and the effort really into the effort you have.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's the testament to you and your campaign.
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  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, sir.
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  SPEAKER_02: I really appreciate it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Thank you both for the way you supported me.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm grateful.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Good luck.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_02: Have a great day.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, that was great to have him on.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think it was fun.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_01: And if Rayfield wants to come on and, well, I don't know if we're going to record again before Tuesday.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure we will.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: We might have to have something over the weekend.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: Brian,
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  SPEAKER_00: we might need to figure out how we can do,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you can set up a Zoom and then we both just call in from the parties that we're
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  SPEAKER_00: at and record like 20 minutes.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_00: And then I'll just power it out on the laptop because I think it'd be really fun to
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: give people a podcast episode on election night.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_00: Election day.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, election day, we could probably do something that would be kind of
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: you know,
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  SPEAKER_01: cause usually,
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  SPEAKER_01: you know,
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  SPEAKER_01: come three or four o'clock,
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  SPEAKER_01: you're kind of like,
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  SPEAKER_01: what are you going to do at this point anyways?
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean,
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  SPEAKER_01: isn't that,
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  SPEAKER_01: it tends to be what I,
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  SPEAKER_01: where I'm at on Tuesday at like three o'clock by time of doing all the other things,
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  SPEAKER_01: usually I'm making sure all the bills are paid and all the stuff is done and those
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_01: sorts of things.
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  SPEAKER_01: And yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, and you feel like, well, I, I did the best I could with what I had and
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: And this is what I'm going to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: What I liked about Will is, you know, I mean, he's not going to come on and trash Rayfield and Dan.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: I think he's, you know, they've run.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think he calls him, you know, the politician.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he's trying to make an argument about why he's different and stuff without really just questioning.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: hammering the other side, which I do appreciate that side of it.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I haven't really seen a lot of Dan stuff.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_01: I know that he's kind of pushing into some of the traditional Democrat kind of,
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  SPEAKER_01: uh,
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  SPEAKER_01: talking points,
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  SPEAKER_01: right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like abortion and some of those things, which as attorney general, I think they do probably wait.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean,
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  SPEAKER_01: if you do see a federal scenario that happens in regards to an abortion ban,
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  SPEAKER_01: or we take the Senate and Trump wins,
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  SPEAKER_01: then maybe,
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, something could come of it.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: Uh,
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  SPEAKER_01: So the attorney general probably would engage, I would imagine, if that happened.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's one talking point I'd give him.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: There is a lot of different suits that are both bipartisan and partisan that go
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_00: around all these states in the street.
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  SPEAKER_00: Attorney generals decide if they are going to sign on to those.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I think both for Rayfield and Lathrop—
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_00: whoever wins this attorney general's race are going to have to decide which of
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: these am I going to be on the partisan ones?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or am I just going to be on the bipartisan ones?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or am I just going to file my own suits against the federal government when I think
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: it makes sense for Oregon?
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that that's going to be a huge question.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll be super interested to see how they're going to handle it.