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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Hugh Hewitt Show.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not Hugh, I'm Kurt Schlichter, senior columnist at townhall.com,
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  Speaker 3: retired United States.
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  Speaker 2: Army Colonel, and.
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  Speaker 3: recovering Los Angeles trial lawyer. I'm going to get right
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  Speaker 3: into it because I know you guys have questions. You
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  Speaker 3: guys have questions about what's happening in the midterms, and
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  Speaker 3: over the next four days, as I guest host for you,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to try and answer them. Where do you
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  Speaker 3: go when you want an answer? You go to the source.
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  Speaker 3: I've got Attorney General of the great state of Texas,
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  Speaker 3: Ken Paxton, on the line. General Paxton, welcome to the
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  Speaker 3: Hugh Hewitt Show.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, thanks for having me on. It's good to be
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  Speaker 4: with you today.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm with you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm here at my Houston house, and I've got to
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  Speaker 3: ask a question that's on everybody's mind.
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  Speaker 2: Who's your favorite drag queen?
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  Speaker 4: That is a question that I would have no answer to.
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  Speaker 4: I'd never even heard of any names until James Tallarico
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  Speaker 4: brought up the name Alyssa Edwards, who apparently, I've discovered
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  Speaker 4: since he said it was his favorite drag queen, he
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  Speaker 4: or she, whatever promotes... child drag shows and has groomed
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  Speaker 4: other children. So it's kind of interesting that he had
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  Speaker 4: his favorite and that's who he chose.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, Attorney General Paxton, I'm a, look, I am
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  Speaker 3: a Californian. I'm coming back here to Houston. I lived
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  Speaker 3: here for four months while I was an infant. I
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  Speaker 3: guess it took hold of me. And, um, I don't
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  Speaker 3: put myself out as a true Texan like you are,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't think that Texans are particularly enamored of
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  Speaker 3: somebody who has a favorite drag queen, somebody who wants
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  Speaker 3: to take our guns, somebody who doesn't like meat, except
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  Speaker 3: when he does, someone who wants to raise taxes.
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  Speaker 2: Someone who, well.
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  Speaker 3: He's got some weird ideas about religion. And frankly, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think Texans are buying that.
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  Speaker 2: Am I off base?
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  Speaker 4: No, no, this is the guy also who voted against
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  Speaker 4: every single bill that was put in front of him
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  Speaker 4: over eight years to secure our border, whether it's to
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  Speaker 4: help law enforcement work with the federal government, whether it
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  Speaker 4: was to help law enforcement work locally, whether it was
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  Speaker 4: to protect citizens. As states work together, he voted against
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  Speaker 4: every ounce of money that would have helped secure our
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  Speaker 4: border and keep our people safe. So, no, Texans just
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  Speaker 4: don't know what he believes. He was in the Texas
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  Speaker 4: House for eight years. No one knew what he accomplished
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  Speaker 4: because he didn't accomplish anything good. He had a lot
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  Speaker 4: of really bad, bad votes that were really antithetical to
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  Speaker 4: what Texans want. But because he made his name on
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  Speaker 4: the Joe Rogan show, no one knows actually what his
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  Speaker 4: views are, so he's running as a moderate Democrat. When
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  Speaker 4: in reality, he's a socialist Democrat and maybe a communist.
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  Speaker 4: I mean we're talking.
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  Speaker 5: About really, really radical.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody has ever run in Texas that fits his description,
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  Speaker 4: that radical, that left, that socialist.
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  Speaker 3: Well, General Paxton, the Hugh Hewitt audience is a pretty
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  Speaker 3: sophisticated one, and they want to know the answer to
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  Speaker 3: the big question.
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  Speaker 2: How are you going to win? Are you going to
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  Speaker 2: have the money to.
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  Speaker 3: Tell the people of Texas exactly who this blasphemous.
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  Speaker 2: Little imp is?
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  Speaker 4: Well, look, we started out behind the eight ball because
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  Speaker 4: I had a runoff for three months where I had
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  Speaker 4: to spend money, a lot of money, and that went
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  Speaker 4: from March 3rd until May 26th. He was able not
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  Speaker 4: to spend money during those three months because he did
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  Speaker 4: not have a runoff. Unfortunately, Texas has a really long runoff.
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  Speaker 4: It's ridiculous, but that's what we have. And so he
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  Speaker 4: was able to go to California and raise half of
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  Speaker 4: his money. I think he raised about $ 30 million total.
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  Speaker 4: Most of his money, more than any other state, came
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  Speaker 4: from the state of California because they're trying to influence
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  Speaker 4: our elections in Texas. So his funding is coming from
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  Speaker 4: mostly out of state. And it's designed to elect a
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  Speaker 4: very liberal senator. So the key here for us is
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  Speaker 4: we're finally– it took us a couple months to start
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  Speaker 4: accumulating enough where we could run ads. He started in July,
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  Speaker 4: like the beginning of July. We just started eight, nine,
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  Speaker 4: ten days ago, and we're already making up ground. We
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  Speaker 4: went from a few points up to a few point downs,
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  Speaker 4: and I think now we're at least even, maybe even
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  Speaker 4: a little better than that.
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  Speaker 5: We're moving in the.
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  Speaker 4: Right direction now that people are actually getting to see,
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  Speaker 4: in his own words, what he actually believes, not what
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  Speaker 4: he's lying to us about, not what he's trying to
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  Speaker 4: cover up, but actually what James Tallarico believes. And I
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  Speaker 4: think the ads I've seen are talking about him pushing
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  Speaker 4: the transgender movement for all Texans and believing that it
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  Speaker 4: was abusive if parents didn't help their kids go in
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  Speaker 4: that direction.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's super creepy. Look, let's put our cards on
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  Speaker 3: the table. You are an anti-establishment candidate. You took out
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  Speaker 3: an incumbent senator, and he got pretty upset about it.
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  Speaker 3: Are you going to be able to count on GOP
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  Speaker 3: establishment money and get out the vote support to do
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  Speaker 3: what you have to do and win the state of
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  Speaker 3: Texas and thereby keep the.
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  Speaker 2: United States Senate?
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  Speaker 4: Look, they spent $ 225 million over the course of a
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  Speaker 4: little over a year. And much of that was negative advertising,
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  Speaker 4: maybe $ 180 million or so. And despite that, I ended
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  Speaker 4: up winning by 28 points. So I would love, we've
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  Speaker 4: tried to reach out to every supporter. John Cornyn, because
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  Speaker 4: we have to unite. Whether John Cornyn makes that decision,
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  Speaker 4: he certainly hasn't so far, but we'd certainly welcome it.
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  Speaker 4: Had I lost the primary, I'd said many times that
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  Speaker 4: I would have been supporting him or anybody else, and
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  Speaker 4: it turned out it would have been him in the runoff.
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  Speaker 4: So I think it's pretty important that we pull every
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  Speaker 4: single Republican vote in, or we're going to end up
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  Speaker 4: with somebody so radical. I get being upset about a primary,
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  Speaker 4: but Look at the overall what's going to happen to
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  Speaker 4: this country if we lose Texas. We will not have
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  Speaker 4: much hope.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, my feelings about John Cornyn are no secret.
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  Speaker 3: And if you want to know them, you can go
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  Speaker 3: read my town hall column today. It's it's rather critical.
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  Speaker 3: But look, this guy has served as a Republican senator for, what,
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  Speaker 3: 30 years, almost 25.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, he hasn't he.
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  Speaker 3: Hasn't come and rallied around the flag after the voters
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  Speaker 3: made a decision.
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  Speaker 2: Have you had a personal.
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  Speaker 3: Phone call with John Cornyn since defeating him in the
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  Speaker 3: primary to talk about him coming and supporting you?
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  Speaker 4: No, I've tried. I've sent text messages. I tried to
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  Speaker 4: call the night of the election after I was told
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  Speaker 4: he would try to call me, although I didn't actually
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  Speaker 4: see the call. So, no, I've not had that opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: I'd certainly welcome it. And I've made efforts to meet
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  Speaker 4: with him in D.C. or here, wherever he chose.
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  Speaker 3: Like all Republican parties, there's an establishment wing and there's
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  Speaker 3: a kind of an insurgent America first kind of Tea
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  Speaker 3: Party wing that I'm now dating myself here in Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Are there other folks in the establishment that maybe can
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  Speaker 3: be prevailed upon to talk a little sense to John Cornyn?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I think some have tried to talk to him
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  Speaker 4: and I think that, um, you know, I'm not saying
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  Speaker 4: it's impossible to, to, to get his help, but we
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  Speaker 4: are down to four weeks from today is early voting. So, um,
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  Speaker 4: if he's going to help us, obviously, you know, now
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  Speaker 4: is a good time. So I, all I can say is,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I'm hopeful. I hope he does. I hope
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  Speaker 4: that we can mend senses and, and, and, and move
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  Speaker 4: in a good direction away from this radical socialism, communism,
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  Speaker 4: whatever you want to call it, uh, obviously John and
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  Speaker 4: I are a lot more alike than we are like,
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  Speaker 4: like James Tallarico. So there should be some commonality here
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  Speaker 4: and we should be able to work together. And I
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  Speaker 4: hope that turns out to be true.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think all the voters do, too.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that would do a lot for John
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  Speaker 3: Cornyn's legacy if he stood up and stuck with the team.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you, the Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: In Texas have a pretty have had a pretty strong
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  Speaker 3: Republican machine. Greg Abbott, the governor, is running for reelection.
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  Speaker 3: Are you working with Greg Abbott? Are you guys within
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  Speaker 3: the bounds of the law coordinating so to maximize the
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  Speaker 3: output for Republicans in Texas? How's that relationship going?
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  Speaker 6: No, I think he and other statewide leaders, this is
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  Speaker 6: probably the closest we've all been in probably talking about
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  Speaker 6: overall strategy and where things are going.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's probably the best I've ever seen it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I give the governor a lot of credit
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  Speaker 4: because he's definitely been pushing that direction and leading in
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  Speaker 4: that direction. So I feel like this is the best
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  Speaker 4: team effort we've ever had since I've run statewide. But
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  Speaker 4: this is my fourth statewide run. So I've done it
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  Speaker 4: for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, James, how are you saying some pretty nasty
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  Speaker 3: things about you? Do you do you think you're going
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  Speaker 3: to beat this guy? We got about 15 seconds.
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  Speaker 5: I have no doubt.
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  Speaker 4: Once we tell people the truth about this radical socialist
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  Speaker 4: and his actual views, and we show how dishonest he
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  Speaker 4: has been, we're going to win the state of Texas.
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  Speaker 4: We're not going to let it go.
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  Speaker 2: What's your website so people can help?
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  Speaker 4: KenPaxson.com. We definitely need people's help, so please go there
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  Speaker 4: and give if you can.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Attorney General Ken Paxton. I'm guest host Kurt Schlichter.
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  Speaker 3: This is The Hugh Hewitt Show.
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  Speaker 2: Stick around. We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show. I'm Curt Schlenker.
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  Speaker 3: He's my pal, Will Chamberlain, the most bitter and sarcastic
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  Speaker 2: Will, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 7: Thank you. That's quite an honor.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, you're carrying a lot of weight out
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  Speaker 3: there for those of us who get tired of engaging
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  Speaker 3: with idiots all the time because you seem— You seem
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  Speaker 3: unperturbed by dealing with and disposing of Nimrod Knucklehead and
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  Speaker 3: nerds of all shapes, manners, and political persuasions.
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  Speaker 2: How do you find the.
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  Speaker 3: Wherewithal to deal with such numbskulls day.
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  Speaker 2: After day after day?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I just find it fun.
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  Speaker 8: Particularly, it's deeply satisfying to get something over on somebody
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  Speaker 8: like Mehdi Hassan. If I can get one over on him,
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  Speaker 8: that's a really good day.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's like tripping a fat kid at a breakdance competition.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's Mehdi Hassan.
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  Speaker 7: It's not too hard, but it is still very fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there's something.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, sure, it's fun, but it's not exactly particle physics.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of not exactly particle physics, I've.
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  Speaker 2: Heard a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: people who are journalismists informing me that it is in
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  Speaker 3: violation of the First Amendment for Donald Trump not to
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  Speaker 3: provide accommodations for CNN, Politico, and what was the other one?
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  Speaker 2: MS Now at the White House anymore.
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  Speaker 3: What's your assessment of the First Amendment implications of Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump having it up to here with these fake news nimrods?
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  Speaker 7: So there is a line of D.C.
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  Speaker 8: Circuit cases that says that they have a right to
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  Speaker 8: go to the press briefings.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 8: Basically, that singling out a single reporter to not be
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  Speaker 8: allowed into the press briefing room if they're like that's
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  Speaker 8: literally their job. If they're the White House correspondent, that's
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  Speaker 8: a violation of their freedom of their First Amendment rights.
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  Speaker 8: But I don't think that covers the right to have
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  Speaker 8: like a permanent station at the White House to do
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  Speaker 8: broadcasting from. And I don't I doubt that those cases
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  Speaker 8: will be extended that far.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 8: That's a you know, that's a convenience provided by the
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  Speaker 8: grace of the White House. And there are only a
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  Speaker 8: scarce number of those sorts of places. And there are
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  Speaker 8: other outlets that would want them. So, you know, not
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  Speaker 8: every outlet gets one of those spots and there's no
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  Speaker 8: entitlement to that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, Will Chamberlain, you know, certainly there are
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  Speaker 3: potential questions that could be raised about the First Amendment
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  Speaker 3: implications of Donald Trump's actions. But my question is, as conservatives,
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  Speaker 3: why the hell.
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  Speaker 2: Would we raise them?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, aren't there about five million other things more
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  Speaker 3: important to us with, oh, I don't know, a midterm
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  Speaker 3: against communists coming up?
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  Speaker 2: That instead of jumping to the defense of our enemies.
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  Speaker 2: Shouldn't we be out there?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know. Defending our friends and our own interests.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't really get why Fox News is doing this.
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  Speaker 8: I don't think much of their decision making here. It's
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  Speaker 8: not like the left has any love for Fox News
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  Speaker 8: or has any habit of standing up for Fox News
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  Speaker 8: when Democrat presidents play stunts with them. So I don't
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  Speaker 8: really think much of, you know, our attempt, anybody's attempt
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  Speaker 8: to come to the rescue, be the knight in shining
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  Speaker 8: armor for Politico. And and that's now of all places.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, I think there are– here's my beef. There
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  Speaker 3: are a lot of knights in pastel armor out there
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  Speaker 3: on the conservative– allegedly conservative side.
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  Speaker 2: Let me throw the air quotes up.
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  Speaker 3: Who get an almost erotic delight– out of informing conservatives
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  Speaker 3: that we're bad and not living up to our principles anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And this is the most important thing there is.
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  Speaker 3: Let's put aside all the stuff about castrating kids and
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  Speaker 3: redistributing the wealth and, you know, keeping America from coming
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  Speaker 3: under Chinese domination. There's an aesthetically displeasing, obscure Republican candidate
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  Speaker 3: for some state office candidate in East Dakota, and we've
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  Speaker 3: all got to focus on that for four days.
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  Speaker 2: I'm tired of it. How about you?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, me too. I don't have much time for this.
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  Speaker 8: It seems like it's not just them. There's a broader
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  Speaker 8: operation going on among conservatives who lost the debate about
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  Speaker 8: the value of a purist libertarian conservatism six or seven
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  Speaker 8: years ago, and they're now trying to wield old clips
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  Speaker 8: against J.D.
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  Speaker 7: Vance and associates to.
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  Speaker 8: Try and prove that like actually he's a fascist or something.
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  Speaker 8: These are these are incredibly silly people, most of whom
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  Speaker 8: probably didn't vote for Trump. And they're just running a
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  Speaker 8: never Trump playbook without calling it that.
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  Speaker 3: Is there any chance these people are going to come in? Look,
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  Speaker 3: Trump's going away. I mean, he'll still be out there
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  Speaker 3: for a few years, but he's going to leave power
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  Speaker 3: and there's going to be a fight for it. Do
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  Speaker 3: you see any chance that these kind of old school
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  Speaker 3: gentlemanly decline Republicans, the submissive Republicans, the Fredo cons, if
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  Speaker 3: you will, will ever take power again?
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  Speaker 7: It's going to be a while.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, people need to understand that even if Trump's
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  Speaker 8: not the president, he still is going to be a
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  Speaker 8: Reagan like figure in our party. He's just so popular
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  Speaker 8: even now. And, you know, with with not like forever
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  Speaker 8: left in his presidency, he's going to be a Reagan
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  Speaker 8: like figure in our party. And so the specter of
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  Speaker 8: Trump will linger over even after he's gone, like literally,
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  Speaker 8: like even after he passes away, the specter of Trump
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  Speaker 8: will linger over the party and people will be proclaiming
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  Speaker 8: themselves as honoring Trump's tradition or Trump's legacy forever. So, no,
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  Speaker 8: I mean, this whole Fredo Khan stuff is not going
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  Speaker 8: to work. It's not going to fly, like especially not
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  Speaker 8: in 2028. I mean, honestly, it's very easy for me
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  Speaker 8: to tell you who's going to be the 2028 presidential nominee.
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  Speaker 8: It's going to be whoever for the Republican Party. It's
• 17:08
  Speaker 8: whoever Donald Trump endorses.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's what.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: To play. Even even Nicole Hannah Jones's kid could do
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: that math.
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah, right.
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: Nicole Hannah Jones's kid could do it. Even even Nicole
• 17:24
  Speaker 8: Hannah Jones herself could do it.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Well, maybe. Maybe.
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: Maybe.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: Let's talk about the midterms. They're coming up. We've got
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: about two minutes left. I've been told that history and
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: the weight of moral judgment are against the Republicans and
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: that we're going to get destroyed in a blue tsunami.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: I think the Democrats are likely to do OK.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: I don't see them taking the Senate. I think we
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: could keep the House. What do you think?
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: I have a similar view. We're in better shape than
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: we were in 2018. You got to remember, 2018 was
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: like the heart of the Mueller investigation. and the heart of,
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: you know, we were in a much worse position electorally
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: because of how much crud Donald Trump was having to
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: deal with in that first term. Everybody, you know, has
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: memory hold that now, but you got to remember all
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: the way back then. Now, I mean, people are mad
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: about Iran, I guess, but it's hard for me. If
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: you actually, here's a really interesting question that I don't
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: see asked, like, what exactly are people mad about right
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: now that's happening vis-a-vis Iran? It's a naval blockade with
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: some airstrikes. Americans aren't dying. What are you so angry about?
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're we're we're eliminating a generational enemy that's killed
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: thousands of Americans.
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: I'm for that.
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: And even if I have to pay a little more gas,
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: I mean, we're losing. We've lost 16 troops. That's I mean, obviously,
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: extraordinary tragedy, each troop that we lose. But that's roughly
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: the number of troops we would lose during peacetime operations.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Well, look, there are 10-yard patches of beach in the
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Pacific and in Europe where we lost more Americans than that.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: And I'm an infantry officer.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I will never downplay the death of an American, but
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: we don't have to be stupid. And, Will, you're doing
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: a lot to tell people you don't have to be stupid.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Article 3 Project, listen to the Counterweight podcast, which he
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: needs to have me on.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: I'm Kurt Schlichter. We'll be right back. We're back on
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: The Hugh Hewitt Show. I'm Guesser's Kurt Schlichter.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: A little psychedelic first for you folks out there. Getting
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: into the 80s, my favorite of decades, the.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: 1980s, back when America was America. Well, I'm biased.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I live in California most of the time. California isn't America.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: If you want America, you need to go to Selena Zito.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: She writes for The Washington Post, The Examiner. My gosh,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: she's got the book Butler out there. about the assassination
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: attempt on President Trump. Best political book of the last
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: few years. Selena, welcome to the show. Always great to
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: talk to you.
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: Oh, it's great to talk to you.
• 20:00
  Speaker 10: And everyone should make sure that they buy Butler because
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: it's being made into a movie right now.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: A movie. That's cool.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: A movie.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man. I know.
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  Speaker 9: Right here in Pennsylvania.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Right here, Miller. Good luck, y'all.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, Pennsylvania has a special, the Pittsburgh area
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  Speaker 3: has a remarkable history of film. It was the site
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: of George Romero, who did Night of the Living Dead
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: and Dawn of the Dead, two of my favorite movies
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  Speaker 3: for Halloween.
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: They're coming for you, Barbara.
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  Speaker 2: They're coming for you, Barbara.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: That's, uh, that's, uh, wow.
• 20:44
  Speaker 10: And Hoffa and the fish that saved Pittsburgh.
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: It was some real good classics.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: The fish that saved Pittsburgh. Boy, Selena, that is a
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: deep cut. Wow.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Well, let's get right into things.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I've been told by all the smart people who never
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: leave Manhattan or the Beltway that the Republicans are due
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: in this election. There's a blue tsunami out there. We're
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: going to get destroyed. Every commie, pinko, and malcontent on
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: the Democratic ticket is going to be taking a Senate seat.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: What say you, someone with her fingers on the pulse
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: of America?
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: Well, you know, first of all, I don't know that
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: we're constructed anymore to have like a huge wave tsunami.
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: Like you saw in 2010.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 21:37
  Speaker 10: When I think it was 63 seats that the Republicans won.
• 21:40
  Speaker 10: If we do have a tsunami, I think it'll be
• 21:43
  Speaker 10: like 20 seats and under, maybe 25.
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: But even then, I'm very concerned.
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: Skittish in saying it's definitely going to happen, much in
• 21:52
  Speaker 10: the way that I said in 2022 that the Republicans
• 21:57
  Speaker 10: are going to have this massive win.
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: For Biden's midterm. There's a lot going on.
• 22:05
  Speaker 10: There's a lot that, you know, people are unwilling to
• 22:09
  Speaker 10: talk to pollsters in a very meaningful way.
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: And so I think the polls are off.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: I'm particularly, you.
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: Know, sort of skeptical of Sherrod Brown winning Ohio.
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: People tend to not go with retreads in the Senate seat.
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: And so and he hasn't done anything to win those
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: voters back who felt as though they should mistrust him.
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: In Pennsylvania, there's four congressional seats that are basically 50-50 split. And,
• 22:46
  Speaker 10: you know, like in presidential elections, Pennsylvania could control who
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: holds the majority come January.
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: And I would keep an eye on those four seats.
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: I sat down with all eight of the candidates, the
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: incumbents and the Democrats, and.
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: I think they could go either way.
• 23:08
  Speaker 10: And I could even give an argument that Republicans may
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: hold at least two, if maybe not all four of them.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: You know, Celia Zito, I know what the polls say, but-
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I also know that every time a poll comes up
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: on my phone, which is fairly often I send it
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: to voicemail.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Or I ignore the text.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: And I don't know any other conservatives who are eager
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: to talk to pollsters. I just think we are is
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: kind of conservative populists are, are so alienated. We don't
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: want to have everything, anything to do with these folks
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: while the kind of, you know, Chardonnay drinking, no Kings, uh,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: you know, pinko people are eager to explain how they're
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: going to go out there and show that darn Trump
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: what for?
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Am I am I off base?
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: No, I mean, Democrats are definitely, definitely enthusiastic.
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: They're very, very excited online and to their friends. We'll
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: see who shows up.
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: Everyone is saying there is a malaise around Republicans and
• 24:23
  Speaker 10: they're not going.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: To show up.
• 24:25
  Speaker 10: I don't think they're willing to go backwards, even if
• 24:29
  Speaker 10: Trump has not fulfilled everything.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: On their wish list.
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: I don't think that they're ready to put their cars.
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: In reverse either because they know what's coming if they
• 24:39
  Speaker 10: don't show up and vote.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't see, you know, if somebody said it's
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: very important that Trump shuts down the border when you
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: vote two years ago.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: OK, shut down the border.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: I'm mad at him because gas prices are slightly higher
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: because we're destroying a generational enemy that's killed thousands of Americans.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: I'm going to vote for the people who will.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Let the entire third world in.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: I'm just not seeing that, Selena Zito.
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I struggle.
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: I mean, yes, people are mad about high gas prices.
• 25:12
  Speaker 10: As someone who drives 60,000 miles a year, sometimes I
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: don't really care for it. But then the answer to
• 25:22
  Speaker 10: the other part of that equation is Iran. And anybody
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: who has any sort of just minor knowledge of history
• 25:31
  Speaker 10: knows knows what Iran has done to our treasure, which
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: is our people, for four decades. And, you know, that's
• 25:41
  Speaker 10: something that people consider and they think about more so
• 25:44
  Speaker 10: than we give them credit for.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Do you think it would help if Donald Trump stays
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: out on the road?
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: We had lots of clips of J.D. in North Carolina.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Make the election about showing up? Pretend I'm on the ballot.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Show up for me. Do you think that's going to work?
• 26:03
  Speaker 9: I mean, nobody sells their.
• 26:06
  Speaker 10: What they want to do and what they accomplish better
• 26:08
  Speaker 10: than President Trump and Vice President Vance. There's no downside
• 26:12
  Speaker 10: for them showing up.
• 26:16
  Speaker 9: It gets people riled up. It reminds them why they
• 26:19
  Speaker 9: did vote for him. It reminds them of the things
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: that are important to them. So I think that's important
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: that they do that.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Well, Salina, you need to go get Butler and get
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: some corn. Everything she does with the Washington Post and
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: the Washington Examiner. I'm Kurt Schlichter.
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  Speaker 9: Funny.
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  Speaker 2: Here I come, dancing for quarters. Now it's your turn, Mr. Congressman.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Hugh Hewitt Show.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have anything to sell.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: I don't have anything.
• 30:10
  Speaker 12: I got to write myself a book or something, Kurt.
• 30:12
  Speaker 12: I don't have anything to sell like you do.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: You mean like American Warlord, available on Amazon, coming out
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: November 3rd?
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: See, some leopards never change their stripes. I knew you'd
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: work something in. Surely you had a sales pitch.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Hey, man, I don't have stripes. I have eagles, baby. Chris.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: It is so weird that I'm going to have like
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: a buddy in Congress because you and I are actual friends.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: We've hung out. At one point we drank together and
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: then you watched me drink.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, we.
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: Like I drink. Yeah, I did very, very well with
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: you for a long time. I couldn't keep up. I
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: had to just submit and say I'm a lesser man.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: You carry on.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: You are not a lesser man. You're a great man.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: And you are and you're stepping up for the 6th
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: District of Missouri.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: My gosh, you're going to be a congressman.
• 31:06
  Speaker 12: You know, Colonel, it's one of those things that I
• 31:08
  Speaker 12: just you're a very, very accomplished attorney. You're a brilliant author, commentator.
• 31:13
  Speaker 12: Your voice is heard by millions all over the country annually,
• 31:17
  Speaker 12: you know, and I did my best for a long
• 31:19
  Speaker 12: while to do that. But my congressman, Sam Graves, who
• 31:23
  Speaker 12: represents the 6th Congressional District, he's been at it for
• 31:25
  Speaker 12: 26 years and done it very well. But I just
• 31:28
  Speaker 12: got to a point where I finally felt like. you know,
• 31:30
  Speaker 12: he's stepping down. It's time for me to step up
• 31:34
  Speaker 12: because I love my home. I moved back to North
• 31:36
  Speaker 12: Missouri because I love this place and my kids live
• 31:38
  Speaker 12: here and my wife lives here and my friends and
• 31:40
  Speaker 12: family live here. And I've talked a big game for
• 31:44
  Speaker 12: 25 years and I just felt like, I know, as
• 31:47
  Speaker 12: Rush used to say, the American left like every square
• 31:50
  Speaker 12: inch of my glorious naked body.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: I know these people. I know how they battle.
• 31:55
  Speaker 12: And we know the issues because you and I have
• 31:57
  Speaker 12: talked about them for years. And I thought to myself, well,
• 31:59
  Speaker 12: if ever there were a time in my life. To
• 32:01
  Speaker 12: step up and serve in the small way that I can,
• 32:06
  Speaker 12: maybe now's the time. Donald Trump didn't need the job.
• 32:08
  Speaker 12: I tell people on the campaign trail, I didn't need
• 32:11
  Speaker 12: the job. I wasn't looking for work. But I think
• 32:14
  Speaker 12: I'm best equipped in 2026 to do this job.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: So here we go.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: See, I mean, it's so crazy that one of your
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: buddies is going to be a congressman. You know, a
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: dude that you, like, text semi-obscene things to.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:29
  Speaker 12: You text them to me just to be clear. If
• 32:31
  Speaker 12: the FBI is monitoring you, you send them to me.
• 32:34
  Speaker 12: I don't send them to you.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: You follow my advice as a as an attorney, which
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: will not disclose here. But but but in a way,
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: I mean, isn't it cool that like a guy, you know.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: can step up and say, I think I have something
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: to say. I think I have some ideas. I think
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: I can do good things for the country. And I'd
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: like to throw my hat.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: In the ring.
• 33:02
  Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, Colonel, I just feel like for too
• 33:07
  Speaker 12: long people have said if you haven't held elected office before,
• 33:13
  Speaker 12: you're disqualified from running. I've had that criticism lobbed at
• 33:17
  Speaker 12: me a couple of times. Well, have you ever held
• 33:19
  Speaker 12: an office before? What do you know about running for office?
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: And I remind folks.
• 33:23
  Speaker 12: This country wasn't founded by people who held an elected office.
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: That shouldn't be the qualifications.
• 33:29
  Speaker 12: In fact, I think, and I've met some folks who
• 33:32
  Speaker 12: are running around the country just like me, neurosurgeons, farmers, veterinarians.
• 33:38
  Speaker 12: You know, some some attorneys, very accomplished people in the
• 33:42
  Speaker 12: private sector who have stepped up and said, I'm going
• 33:45
  Speaker 12: to leave my life for a time. We're not looking
• 33:47
  Speaker 12: for careers. I'm certainly not. I hope someday I'll go
• 33:50
  Speaker 12: back to work doing this. But for a time, I
• 33:53
  Speaker 12: don't know. What does that look like? A decade or whatever?
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I mean, as long as the folks
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: will have me and I like doing the job and
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: do it well.
• 33:59
  Speaker 12: But I'm not going to be one of these people, Kurt, that,
• 34:01
  Speaker 12: you know, you wonder whether he's dead or alive and
• 34:03
  Speaker 12: is being wheeled around it.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: You know, 88 or whatever the hell.
• 34:06
  Speaker 12: Like, I'm going to do this for a while and
• 34:08
  Speaker 12: do it well, and then I'm going to return to
• 34:09
  Speaker 12: my private sector life. And I think that's exactly– our
• 34:12
  Speaker 12: founders designed the system exactly that way.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: There's no other country on earth, and I've lived in
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: several other countries on earth, where– Just a regular guy.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, you were on the radio. That's something.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: But you are, for people who don't know Chris, he
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: is one of the most resolutely normal people I've ever met.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: I like hanging around him because I feel like less weird.
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  Speaker 3: And it is just so great that we have a
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  Speaker 3: country where Regular guys who want to do regular things,
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  Speaker 3: I want to be with my family, I want to
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  Speaker 3: go to church, I want to, you know, just make
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  Speaker 3: my community a little better, can actually get to a
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  Speaker 3: place where they can exercise some power to do that.
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  Speaker 12: And I think what you just said, and I really
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  Speaker 12: appreciate that. I take it as a high compliment. But
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  Speaker 12: the fact of the matter is the vast majority of
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  Speaker 12: this country, and certainly throughout North Missouri, Kurt, are normal
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  Speaker 12: people who really don't want for much. They're not running
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  Speaker 12: around with their hands out. They're not crying for government assistance.
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  Speaker 12: They really just want to be left alone. And every
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  Speaker 12: small and large business owner and operator that I meet,
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  Speaker 12: every farmer that I meet, with almost out of exception–
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  Speaker 12: What they all share in common is an irritation that Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 12: has gotten too big and complicated their regular normal life
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  Speaker 12: that they love and the country than the state that
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  Speaker 12: they love. And so to me, we need more normal
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  Speaker 12: folks who don't aspire to power. We know Democrats do.
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  Speaker 12: They they run to acquire and consolidate power. A true, good,
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  Speaker 12: normal person. And that's most of this country and certainly
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  Speaker 12: in North Missouri. They're good, normal people who want power dispersed.
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  Speaker 12: And the less they hear from Washington and the less
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  Speaker 12: Washington is monkeying around in their lives, the better off
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  Speaker 12: they are.
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  Speaker 5: That's my goal.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, Chris DeGaulle, I've known you for a decade.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the things that I think makes you
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  Speaker 3: super qualified for this job is that behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to whine about it like a little teenage girl.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to constantly complain about it. And that's good.
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  Speaker 2: Because you're not going.
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  Speaker 3: To like a lot of the things that go on.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to strike you as right or good.
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  Speaker 3: And the fact that you could turn it into some
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  Speaker 3: kind of personal aggrandizement will not appeal to you. Luckily,
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  Speaker 3: you're surrounded by people like me and Larry O'Connor and,
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  Speaker 3: of course, your wonderful family who will, you know, if
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  Speaker 3: your head ever starts swelling, we will pierce it with
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  Speaker 3: a pin.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll turn Dennis Miller loose on you again. There's
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  Speaker 2: a story.
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  Speaker 5: Listen, I'll tell you this. You've been to D.C.
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  Speaker 12: Plenty, you know, and I've said this to the team
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  Speaker 12: that's helping me get there, hopefully, and we win this
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  Speaker 12: election in November. I can see when you visit that
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  Speaker 12: place for any amount of time, you get it quickly,
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  Speaker 12: how it becomes a way of life, how people become
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  Speaker 12: very accustomed to it. The trappings of it, the bubble
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  Speaker 12: of it. It's not a real place. D.C. is like
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  Speaker 12: its own planet. People don't they're not aware of the economy.
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  Speaker 12: People are just constantly spending money, dining out, building high
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  Speaker 12: rise condos, paying three and four grand a month for rent.
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  Speaker 12: And it's like it doesn't faze those people. And it's
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  Speaker 12: not money's not real. The economy's not real. And you
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  Speaker 12: realize quickly why people make that their lifestyle there. They
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  Speaker 12: buy homes there and they never return to their home
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  Speaker 12: state or home district. And I have said repeatedly to
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  Speaker 12: everyone I know and love, I'm coming home. I'm getting
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  Speaker 12: on the plane as fast as I can every weekend.
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  Speaker 12: And I'm going to come home and I'm going to
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  Speaker 12: be in my church pew with my wife. I'm going
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  Speaker 12: to be leading my Bible study. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 12: tour and travel my district. Because as long as I'm
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  Speaker 12: doing this, I'm a representative of the 6th Congressional District
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  Speaker 12: of Missouri, not Washington, D.C. And I never want to
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  Speaker 12: get comfortable there. Never.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're going to do our best not to let you. And,
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  Speaker 3: of course, I don't know if it's in your district.
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  Speaker 3: Is Parkville, Missouri in your district?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir. Proud, fighting Platt County. Parkville is right there
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  Speaker 5: in Platt County.
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  Speaker 3: I lived there when I was a kid on Nottoway Drive.
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  Speaker 3: I went to Graydon Elementary.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. And I know those people there.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 12: Well, I was just at their Republican headquarters grand opening
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  Speaker 12: over the weekend there in Platt County. They are one
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  Speaker 12: of our biggest, most populated counties in the 6th Congressional District,
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  Speaker 12: and we're going to keep them red in November.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they are patriotic Americans, lots of veterans, and they
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: are exactly the kind of guy who will love– having
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  Speaker 3: a congressman named Chris Stegall. Chris, congratulations. I know you'll
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  Speaker 3: do great. And don't worry, Larry and I will keep
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  Speaker 3: you honest. I'm Kurt Schlichter. This is the Hugh Hewitt Show.