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Just What Democrats Needed Before Midterms: Hillary Clinton · 3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.
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  Speaker 2: Grab a stool next to Greg Karambas of Radio America
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  Speaker 2: and Jim Garrity of National Review.
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  Speaker 3: Three martinis coming up. This is 3 Martini Lunch. I
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  Speaker 3: am Craig Colonese.
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  Speaker 2: It is a real last name that I have unfortunately
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  Speaker 2: gone back to because of an investigative journalist who co-hosts
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  Speaker 2: a morning show with me in Houston, Texas. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of information no one on 3 Martini Lunch cares about.
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  Speaker 2: I am here with Jim Garrity, someone people care about
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  Speaker 2: quite a bit more, with lots and lots of things
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  Speaker 2: to discuss. And I got to tell you, Jim, It's
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  Speaker 2: so nice to come from a liberal crazy person yelling
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  Speaker 2: at me on a radio show in the morning to
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  Speaker 2: the clinks of this show and the nice, nice conversations
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  Speaker 2: we'll have.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Craig, we always welcome you as a guest co-host.
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  Speaker 4: And I find the changing of your last name fascinating.
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  Speaker 4: I figure whenever I find out, first of all, a
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  Speaker 4: shocking number of my friends, the name that I know
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  Speaker 4: them by and that everybody knows them by is not
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  Speaker 4: the name on their driver's license. And I just figured
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  Speaker 4: it was an alias. I figured this is your cover identity.
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  Speaker 4: You've been, you know, hopefully spying for one of the
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  Speaker 4: better countries all these years.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see if I get thrown in the who scale
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  Speaker 3: anytime in the near future. Like Ilhan Omar. Who knows
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  Speaker 3: if she'll be thrown in the who scale anytime in
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  Speaker 3: the near future.
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  Speaker 1: Call back to yesterday's show.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. A lot of things to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: One of the bigger ones out there is a pro
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  Speaker 2: Democrat writer for The New York Times who's written an
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  Speaker 2: op ed for The Guardian that you think is pretty interesting.
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  Speaker 3: What do we want to say about this one, Jim?
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  Speaker 4: Sure. Look, Charles Blow is not one of my favorite
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  Speaker 4: writers of all time. Very left of center. Wrote for
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  Speaker 4: the New York Times for many years. And I believe
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  Speaker 4: like every single week in Trump's first term, pretty much
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  Speaker 4: the theme of every single column was Trump bad.
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  Speaker 1: Now, all right, it's the New York Times. You wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: really expect.
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  Speaker 4: But it was like he never broke it up with
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  Speaker 4: writing about here's what I love about my dog or
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  Speaker 4: any other time.
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  Speaker 1: It was just always the same.
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  Speaker 3: Trump is the worst and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So he's now with The Guardian, and he wrote a
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  Speaker 4: column about Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee out in Michigan.
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  Speaker 4: And from the moment El-Sayed won the primary, you heard
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  Speaker 4: Republicans saying, ah, he's going to have trouble with African-Americans.
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  Speaker 4: African-Americans aren't going to vote for him, you know, because
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  Speaker 4: of either out of the Senate. First of all, he
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  Speaker 4: has referred to himself as being African because of his
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  Speaker 4: roots in Egypt. And that does not fly in Detroit.
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  Speaker 4: They don't really see that as the same thing. But
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  Speaker 4: so Charles Blow, who, look, generally is very, very optimistic
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  Speaker 4: about Democrats' rights. A Washington Post-Schar School poll released last
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  Speaker 4: month among likely black voters. 83% said they wanted Democrats
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  Speaker 4: to control the Senate, but only 67% backed El-Sayed. His
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  Speaker 4: campaign representatives attribute some of this gap to a heavily
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  Speaker 4: financed onslaught of negative ads running against him in the primaries,
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  Speaker 4: and they're desperately trying to undo the harm. And one
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  Speaker 4: of the things that Blow observes is that he's not
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  Speaker 4: Al-Sayed is not running on traditional African-American issues. He's running
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  Speaker 4: on his, you know, very left-wing socialist agenda, which is
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  Speaker 4: generally not traditional Democratic, you know, Detroit, big city machine
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  Speaker 4: politics do that. And he's not, you know, and, you know,
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  Speaker 4: denouncing white supremacy and things like that. Same time, Democrats
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  Speaker 4: for Mike Rogers has a new ad, which features a
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  Speaker 4: black voter saying that, look, Abdul Al-Sayed is for Palestine.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Rogers is for Michigan.
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  Speaker 4: Now, it's interesting because I heard people saying down in Texas,
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  Speaker 4: Tallarico was up against.
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  Speaker 1: Paxton.
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  Speaker 4: Jasmine Crockett. And people said, ah, you know, blacks are
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  Speaker 4: not going to vote for him. It looks like, according
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  Speaker 4: to polling, Texas blacks or African-Americans are very likely to vote.
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  Speaker 4: You know, high 80s, 90%. Yeah. There doesn't seem to
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  Speaker 4: be much of an issue. But I'd be surprised if
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  Speaker 4: Michigan Democrats, African-Americans didn't, quote, unquote, come home to the
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  Speaker 4: Democratic Party in the final weeks.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're Mike Rogers, this is a good point
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  Speaker 1: for optimism. You don't necessarily need these folks to vote
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  Speaker 1: for you. It'd be nice if they did. You really
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  Speaker 1: just need them to stay home.
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  Speaker 4: And that could put up a few percentage points short
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  Speaker 4: where he really needs them in what everybody expects to
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  Speaker 4: be a pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Darn close race. I point out.
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  Speaker 4: Larry O'Connor, who I generally like, was on Mark Halperin's show.
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  Speaker 4: He says Mike Rogers is going to win by five points.
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  Speaker 4: That is the most optimistic take I've seen in a while.
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  Speaker 4: If it shakes out that way, I'm going to be
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  Speaker 4: giving Larry O'Connor a lot of credit. If it doesn't,
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  Speaker 4: I'll be like, you might need to go to a
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  Speaker 4: hopium treatment center.
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  Speaker 2: I also like Larry O'Connor because my cousin Vince Colonese
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  Speaker 2: is good friends with him.
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  Speaker 3: And so if that doesn't work out. Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now all the connections.
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  Speaker 2: If that doesn't work out, I'm going to text both
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  Speaker 2: of them and tell them how horribly wrong they were.
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  Speaker 2: I do think it's interesting you referenced Texas real quick.
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  Speaker 2: I will say that for whatever reason, there is a
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  Speaker 2: lot of campaigning here that claims that Tallarica won't reach
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  Speaker 2: the black voter, regardless of the polls you're seeing. And
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if it's that 10% is still significant. Like
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  Speaker 2: if you're reaching 90, but you're not getting 100, like
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  Speaker 2: Jasmine Crockett would have, is there still a reason for
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  Speaker 2: concern within the Democratic Party?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I was going to say, if you are a Democrat, traditionally,
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  Speaker 4: this is like the highest turnout demographic for the Democrats
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  Speaker 4: in most races. So like, yeah, this does matter a bunch. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you look at a lot of these, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I can't point to a democratic win in
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  Speaker 4: Texas because you guys haven't had one of those in
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  Speaker 4: a generation, but in Michigan, you know, traditionally I could
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  Speaker 4: use my, my hand, right. For those watching on video,
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  Speaker 4: it's Detroit and one or two other cities and that's
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  Speaker 4: blue pot and the.
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  Speaker 1: Rest of it is a red mitten. And that's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the way it is in a lot of States. So yeah.
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  Speaker 4: If Detroit folks are not as enthused about Abdul Al-Sayed,
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  Speaker 4: that might just be enough to put Mike Rogers on top.
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  Speaker 4: I believe they have not elected a Republican senator since 1994.
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  Speaker 4: It's been a long.
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  Speaker 1: Time, basically. So keep an eye on this.
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  Speaker 4: The fact that Charles Blow, who's usually... pretty cheery for
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  Speaker 4: the Democrats chose to write about this. I just found
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  Speaker 4: that intriguing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I always find it interesting that people always
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  Speaker 2: reference older black voters. Like they're so much different than
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  Speaker 2: younger black voters. And I don't have a good grasp
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  Speaker 2: on that as a white dude, but I think that
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  Speaker 2: that's probably true.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard that before.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to say an African-American friend of mine
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  Speaker 4: observed most African-Americans who have, you know, accumulated, you know, whether,
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  Speaker 4: even if it's not a fortune, whatever nest egg they have,
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  Speaker 4: they've worked very hard for that.
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  Speaker 1: And they're very cognizant of risks.
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  Speaker 4: And when like, An old white guy from Vermont comes
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  Speaker 4: along and says, don't worry, I'm going to totally change
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  Speaker 4: the economy.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to work out great. They're like, ah, they
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  Speaker 1: reached their wallet. Not this guy.
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  Speaker 4: We've heard white guys giving big promises before. It has
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  Speaker 4: not worked out great for us.
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  Speaker 2: We move on from our good martini to our bad martini,
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  Speaker 2: and this is a significantly bad one for the checkbooks
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  Speaker 2: of so many people on a certain side of the
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  Speaker 2: political aisle, because the money being flooded in to what
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  Speaker 2: were considered safe races. We just mentioned Texas a moment ago.
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  Speaker 2: That's one place, the Texas Senate race. Nebraska is another
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  Speaker 2: of those places where, one, maybe you're not as concerned
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  Speaker 2: about the potential for a Democrat to win a safe
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  Speaker 2: seat in a Republican election. place, which is incorrect to
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  Speaker 2: not fear that. And two, watching this money flow in
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  Speaker 2: even further, I think, pushes the narrative that the, uh,
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  Speaker 2: GOP itself, the establishment, accepts the risk involved in the
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  Speaker 2: next few weeks in this, uh, election season.
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  Speaker 3: What do we say about this one, Jim?
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  Speaker 4: Well, uh, this, you know, is spurred by the news,
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  Speaker 4: the Senate Leadership Fund, which is the main, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: outside group that tries to elect Republicans to the Senate,
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  Speaker 4: announced it's going to spend $ 8 million through Election Day
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  Speaker 4: in the state of Nebraska through, uh, This adds up
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  Speaker 4: to $ 15 million they have spent overall to defend the
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  Speaker 4: Republican-held seat by Pete Ricketts. Now, Craig, like two years ago,
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  Speaker 4: I remember hearing from somebody that Deb Fischer was in
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  Speaker 4: trouble against Ben Osborne. I was very skeptical, and I
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  Speaker 4: couldn't find a lot of reliable polling. The Osborne campaign
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  Speaker 4: released a lot of internal polls that showed it looking
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  Speaker 4: really close. Deb Fischer won by six points. It was
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  Speaker 4: closer than usual, but you add it up, it's like
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  Speaker 4: tens of thousands of votes. It was not super close.
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  Speaker 4: And I think those internal polls were optimistic. But I
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  Speaker 4: would point out the last time Republicans were not spending
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  Speaker 4: much money to help Deb Fischer. $ 15 million. Now, is
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  Speaker 4: that less than down? That's a drop in the bucket
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  Speaker 4: for what you're getting down in Texas. I'm sure you're hearing,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Paxton, Tallarico, and your dreams and stuff like that. But,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Ohio, Iowa, there are other states where they've
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  Speaker 4: spent a lot more.
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  Speaker 1: But again, it's Nebraska. Republicans are not used to spending anything.
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  Speaker 4: And I say to people, If you want to be
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  Speaker 4: skeptical of the polls, fine. You know, response rates are
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  Speaker 4: significantly lower. But if Republicans are spending money someplace, like
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  Speaker 4: this means a Senate leadership fund, which is going on
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  Speaker 4: more than polls, they're going on focus groups, they're going
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  Speaker 4: on data, you know, every conceivable, you know, measurement they
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  Speaker 4: can get their hands on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: They've decided they have to spend money here, which I
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  Speaker 4: think means, you know, does this mean Pete Briggs is.
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  Speaker 1: Going to lose? No.
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  Speaker 4: I looked at this one, a bunch of other states,
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, look, Florida, South Carolina, other people were worried
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  Speaker 4: about Darlene Graham. These are states with a lot of
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  Speaker 4: registered Republicans, not many registered Democrats, and some registered independents.
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  Speaker 4: And if everybody turns out the same amount, which again,
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  Speaker 4: in a lot of these states, you expect more Republicans
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  Speaker 4: to turn out. If it's all even, you got to
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  Speaker 4: win the independents by like three to one. That's a
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  Speaker 4: really tall order. So I don't look at this and say,
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  Speaker 4: oh my goodness, Pete Ricketts is going to lose. But
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  Speaker 4: I do say, oh, they have reason to think that
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  Speaker 4: if they don't do anything, Pete Ricketts is going to lose,
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  Speaker 4: which means it's close, which means the polling is probably
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  Speaker 4: pretty accurate or in the ballpark of being accurate. And
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  Speaker 4: if you're a Republican, like Nebraska is not supposed to
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  Speaker 4: be the kind of state Republicans have to worry about.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the message of what we've chosen isn't working,
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  Speaker 2: we need to flip sides, seems stronger now than it
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  Speaker 2: ever has before on these levels. What's funny to me,
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  Speaker 2: I live in Houston, Texas, Harris County, Democratic for several,
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  Speaker 2: several years now.
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  Speaker 1: Harris County in more ways than one.
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  Speaker 2: Well, like you said, there's these blue pockets in these
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  Speaker 2: big red states. I'm in one of those blue pockets.
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  Speaker 2: And that message doesn't seem to convince people locally to
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  Speaker 2: change the leadership group here. But it seems so powerful,
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  Speaker 2: especially in a midterm election and especially this year, to
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  Speaker 2: convince even the podcasters out there to claim that you've
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  Speaker 2: got to vote for the other side.
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  Speaker 3: Why is that, that you're afraid of in Nebraska?
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  Speaker 2: You're afraid of lack of turnout of all of these
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  Speaker 2: things happening because you just believe the people on the
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  Speaker 2: right are dissatisfied with the conservative message.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Craig, this could be a three-hour conversation, but the
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  Speaker 5: very short version of this is that I kind of
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  Speaker 5: feel like almost every two years our country has been clamoring, oh,
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  Speaker 5: I didn't like what we did last time.
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  Speaker 1: I want change, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Now you can make it, you know, 2024 was definitely
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  Speaker 4: a change election from the Biden administration. 2022 is remembered
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  Speaker 4: as not the backlash to Biden.
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  Speaker 1: That we expected. Republicans still won the House, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You saw it in some places like Florida, so. But 2020,
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  Speaker 4: you know, backlash against Trump. 2018, weird year in that
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  Speaker 4: Democrats won the House, but Republicans won the Senate or
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  Speaker 4: gained seats in the Senate because of, just I think
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  Speaker 4: because of the states that were up. 2018, you know, 2016,
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  Speaker 4: definitely a backlash against the Obama era.
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  Speaker 1: 2014, huge backlash, right? Those were the glory, the Tea
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  Speaker 1: Party years, right? So you can all.
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  Speaker 4: 2002, unless you want to say 2006, 2008, 2000, 2002, 2004.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to go back a while before you see
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  Speaker 4: consecutive cycles where a party does well. So I think
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  Speaker 4: we're just in a time of great dissatisfaction. I think
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  Speaker 4: cost of living was a huge factor for Biden. Biden's
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  Speaker 4: withdrawal from the race and the way 2024 struck out
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  Speaker 4: with the Freudian slip.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's win.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that people look at it. Inflation's been
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  Speaker 4: around 3%. And it's way, while is that better? That's
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  Speaker 4: better than the 9% under Biden in 2022.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: People still feel it. Now you throw in gas prices,
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  Speaker 4: throw in diesel prices. Like people are frustrated with the
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  Speaker 4: state of the country. And I don't think it helps
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  Speaker 4: with the president's talking about Lincoln bedroom and victory arch.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It just, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, that's not the message that's going to deliver.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Go figure. You know, so I, we'll, we'll see how
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  Speaker 1: things shake out.
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  Speaker 4: I do kind of think that like, Whatever happens this year,
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  Speaker 4: it's going to have a very big impact on how
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  Speaker 4: Republicans think about 2028, I suspect.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think how they run their campaign for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Now we go on to the ridiculous. We usually call
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  Speaker 2: this the crazy, but this is full on ridiculous. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm so happy that Jim has sent this to me
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  Speaker 2: because I'm going to talk about this a bunch on
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  Speaker 2: my morning show in Houston, Texas, probably with you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: If anyone's listening to the show, the day it was recorded,
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  Speaker 2: Jim Garrity will be on tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: But Hillary Clinton.
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  Speaker 2: Has decided to resurface at the worst possible time for Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: She loves this time of year. What is she doing now?
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  Speaker 4: Well, Craig, you might be thinking, does the world really
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  Speaker 4: need one more podcast? What kind of loser.
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  Speaker 1: Is talking a podcast?
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, Hillary Clinton is preparing to make her voice heard
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  Speaker 4: on a new podcast series called High Stakes, alongside the
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  Speaker 4: well-known technology journalist Kara Swisher, who also has her own podcast.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to break down the race to control the
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  Speaker 4: House and the Senate in weekly episodes that will run
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  Speaker 4: through mid-November. By the way, Craig, you and I, you've
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  Speaker 4: been guest hosting this week. It's mid-October, and you're doing
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  Speaker 4: it weekly? Until Election Day?
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  Speaker 1: It's like four. If that, really?
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  Speaker 4: Three? Three, yeah. this is like the short unless you
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  Speaker 4: know what maybe they're going to keep doing it for as.
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  Speaker 2: Long as it takes California to count the votes this
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  Speaker 2: is like when Michael Jordan did that one interview that
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  Speaker 2: they then took a whole NBA season to play out
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  Speaker 2: it is interesting to think about Hillary Clinton wanting to
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  Speaker 2: be a center of attention this time of year like
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  Speaker 2: I would love to study her brain just honestly and
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  Speaker 2: see what it is in the back of her mind
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  Speaker 2: that says October needs me they need me right now
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  Speaker 2: to get this done.
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  Speaker 4: It's like the baseball playoffs. You just think Hillary Clinton.
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  Speaker 4: I think what is very likely is, look, we can
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  Speaker 4: see the polling numbers. We talked about Republican spending a
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  Speaker 4: few minutes ago. It's probably going to be a good
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: year for Democrats. If you're the Clintons and the Democrats
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: are thriving and you had nothing to do with it,
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: that really kind of stings. She's probably been sitting there stewing.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: I wonder if she calls up Kamala and they just
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: talk about it like you're the only person who knows
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: what I'm going through. But there's this obvious desire probably to, oh,
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: the people are, you want to run out and you
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: want to lead the parade. And Hillary wants to say,
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: it was my podcast that helped lead Democrats.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: There it is.
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: Also, again, I remember seeing Clinton speak in Chicago in 2024.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: And Craig, you and I are roughly the same age.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: We're used to him being young and virile.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. How you doing? And he looks old.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: He does.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: He does.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Apparently he's vegan now, which, like, do you remember
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: he and Yeltsin, like, used to, like, there was just, like,
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: you know, whole pigs they.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Were just eating, and it was just, you know.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: It's not working.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: The old age comes for us all.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: So, yes, I think Hillary Clinton just, like, she just
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: wants to feel relevant, and I guess she has nothing
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: else going on these days.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: If she did do a show with Kamala Harris, I
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: think they'd both have Herstory shirts on the entire time
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: as we're talking about it.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: That would actually be a fascinating podcast to listen to.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: The two of them.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: Bottle of wine, Chardonnay, and just, you know, yes, that
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: would be interesting. We'll conclude shortly, but first, you know,
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: if your kids aren't studying geography, you're about to learn
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: why it's important to know this.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: There you.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Go.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Now for our chaser topic. This is hilarious.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: GOP ad buys mixed up some locations trying to help
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: out Susan Collins.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: They went to the wrong spot. What do you think
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: about this one, Jim?
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: Well, if you're going to run ads to try to
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: help Susan Collins and you're a GOP ad buyer, remember
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: you want to buy the ads and run them in Portland, Maine,
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: not Portland, Oregon, which is where it ended up spending.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Now the buyer admitted the error, refunded the pack. It happened.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Like on the one hand, I'm.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: Sure there's, there's like, what, isn't there a Springfield in
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: almost every city or every state of the country? It's
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: not surprising this happened, but it's just feels like you
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: should double check these things. Cause like, You know, the, the,
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: the abbreviation OR doesn't look like ME, you know, I don't,
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: I don't know how, you know, like, but nonetheless, I
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: do believe that Susan Collins numbers in Oregon have gone
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: slightly up because of the standby.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, Hey, there you go.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: You know, what's really funny to me. And you're probably
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: not going to know this Jim. There was a video
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: game from like the early nineties that put the Portland
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: trailblazers in a main.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: I don't know why they did it.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: It was like some Japanese game and you'd fly to
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Maine to play the trailblazers. You're like, this doesn't make sense,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: but it's, it's not the first time they're in good company.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: I still occasionally call them the Oakland Raiders. My dad
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: kept calling them the Baltimore Colts for years after they
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: moved to Indianapolis.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Why not?
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: It's hard to keep up.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: But in this case, it is indeed the Portland Trailblazers
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: in Oregon. And if you're going to help Susan Collins,
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: the West Coast is really not the place to do it.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: All right. That's it.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Three Martini Lunch, as always. Had a lot of fun
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: with the gym. We'll talk to you guys next time.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: See you tomorrow. See you tomorrow, bright and early. Yeah.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: And tomorrow on the Three Martini Lunch podcast. There you go.